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GOOD TEMPLARS.

Advances made on furniture and pianos, with
 without removal. J. Noonan. 1017- 1923 Mission
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13
DIED.

Andornetti. Joseph Hermann Julius Antonsen. Nicolaus Heating, Richard Bassett, Elizabeth Latham. Evelyn A. Beebe, Rosanna Lefor Annie Bell, Addie F. McQuaide, Michael Blake. Elizabeth Martin. Isabela c. Bollinger, Nickolas Martin, Robert Breese. Mrs. Mary Mchelsen. Rasmus Cesena, Bubble M. Moon, James Clyne, Matthew R. Mulvihill Thomas Devany, Mary T. Nicholson, Minnie D. Flinn William B. O'Brien, Ann C.. Flannery, Mary l.. Rusteberg, Andrew Calvin, Garrett Senf. Lizzie A. Gaskin, Elizabeth B. Sheehy, Ellen Goodman, Moses A. Shields, Daniel Hanson. Edward A. Smith. Ann E. Hanson, William l.. Swarts, William Hardwick, Thomas Wheeler, John A. Hardy, Mary A. Wolf John W. Hennessy, Katie Yung, Michael
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-08
A Persistent Bride.

A western Judge was approached by
a verdant couple who wanted to be
married. The would-be bridegroom
asked the price of tying the knot, and
was told it was a dollar. Cant you
take beeswax?" inquired the rustic.
"Yes," said the squire. The wax was
brought in, and, upon being weighed,
was found to be worth just 60 cents.
WELL" said the anxious groom, "tie
the knot, an I'll fetch more wax next
week" mo, sir; l don't trust; that
is against the rules of the office" Slow
ly the disappointed youth turned to go
out, saying: Come, Sal, let's CO." 81
say, mister" answered Sal, with a
woman's wit, cant you marry us sas
far as the wax will go?" Yes, can,
and l will" responded the judge,
laughing, and he did.-Detroit Free
Press.
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to whom he explained that the person
named was a child just about 2 years
old, and that, although he possessed
as much judgment as some jurymen,
that point would probably be disputed
by all persons except the fond parents.
OF course, the name was taken off the
list, and inquiry disclosed the fact that
1t got there through the directory. The
name got into the directory through a
statement made to a by a
house servant who wanted to see the
kids name in the book-just for fun.
Some months after the family had
cease dto talk of the matter another
official document came to the house
addressed to the child. This time 1t
was a notice that he had been assessed
for $4,000 personal property. The tax
lists are also made up largely from the
directory, and at the tax Office 1t was
explained that the lame appeared in
the directory.
1.-THE residence given" said the COM
missioner, sis in a good part of the
city and the business named is such
that we were justified in naming the
amount"
Despite the warnings to the jury de-
partment, the boys name has been
drawn again, and his parents say that
the next time it happens they will
send him to the jury room with his
nurse and ask that he be allowed to
serve.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-08
Buttermilk In Demand.

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat says
that buttermilk is in such demand in
the saloons and restaurants of that city
that the dairymen find it difficult to
fill all their orders in this line. 1t has
been shipped in from 100 miles away.
Continuing, that paper says:
But it is a mistake to think that the
saloons buy it all. That they should
buy it at all is merely one Of the queer
features Of the business. Much
buttermilk is sold to restaur-
ants. During the hot season,
sweet milk has been largely
tabooed, iced tea has lost caste, cof-
fee could not be tolerated, lemonade
and soda were not acceptable, and but
termilk was ushered in as a substitute
for all of them. And a most desirable
substitute it has proved itself to be.
Much buttermilk has been sold to fam
lilies, and there. is not an ice cream or
soda water parlor in the city that does
not handle it. AS with the saloons, the
demand began with the hot weather.
AS the temperature rose, the call be-
came greater. Restaurants, saloons
and ice cream parlors have been forced
to keep it, and in large quantities. The
dairy companies recognized the posi-
bilities of the business, and made ar
rangements to handle an immense up
ply. They had placards printed which
called attention to their buttermilk, or
SGT forth it's virtues.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-08

In the county court at Boston, Mass,
d few days ago, a hearing was had on
a petition for a partial distribution Of
the estate left by Almira M. Perham.
The fact that Mrs. Perham left any es-
tate whatever was a surprise to those
who knew the woman. 1t was common
talk that the woman was likely to be
found dead some day from starvation.
A search of her rooms revealed $24,-
900 in bank bills in an old hustle, while
In a dilapidated trunk were bonds and
other securities which bring the value
Of her estate up to $61, 900.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-08

A difficulty encountered in the prep
International exhibition of 1900 is the
character Of the banks of the Seine,
which are formed Of stone and earth
filling, resting on fine sand, easily
washed out during periods Of flood.
The difficulty is being overcome by a
new system, devised by M. Louis Du-
lac Wells, about two and one-hali
feet in diameter, spaced about six fee,
between centers, are sunk to varying
depths down to about fifty feet by
means OF a special pile driver, having
a boring weight of conical form, and
these wells are filled with lime and &C.
ment concrete, which is rammed hard
by a second weight of different form.
This process forms a series of mono
lithic columns anchored into the
ground, the concrete spreading to some
extent into the sides of the wells. In
his first experiments with this system
the inventor vas enabled to construct
buildings exerting a load of nearly foul
tons per square foot on ground that
previously would not carry a tenth as
much, and a later building weighing
about eight tons per square foot was
placed on land where the first fall al
the boring weight had thrown up a
jet of semi-liquid mud to a height OF
thirty feet.
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hardly keeping pace with mechanical
improvement and mental growth. A
great evolution has taken place within
the memory of the youngest dairyman.
First, we remember when dairy
consisted of two or three cows. The
milking was done in the yard, the milk
set In pans in the cellar, the cream
churned in the old stone churn, the
butter worked with bowl and ladle,
packed In jars and traded at the
country store for what it would bring
In the way of provisions for the family.
A little later came the first cooling pro-
cesses, the box or rectangular churn
and wooden packages; soon creameries
began springing up and the Cooley and
Fairlamb ans and the skimming wag-
ons came in vogue, then the separa-
tors, Babcock tests, and all the later
improvements of to-day. But the man
agement of the COWS seems to have
hardly kept pace. In our nineteenth
century haste we have pushed ahead
stralning every nerve to get the most
milk regardless of cost. Cows have
6ioWh Nv DSlOI0 tucll lille NY
ing the year round, and by feeding
more heavy feed than car be properly
assimilated. After two or three sea-
sons of milking, the COW is sold for a
Gamer" and a new n put in her
place at a good stiff price. There are
many dairymen who have made money
In the business, who cannot tell which
of their cows they are keeping at q
loss, or which are profitable; they can
not tell what it costs them to produce
a pound of butter; they have never in
vestigated the relative value of feed
stuffs nor made anything of a thorough
study of breeding, of disease, their
prevention or cure, and are weak in a
thousand other questions that are Of
vital Importance to the dairyman.
They have made their money through
hard knocks, strict economy and fru-
gality. Of course industry and good
management are necessary to success,
but Information regarding the details
OF their profession makes money easier
with less investment, elevates, ennobles
and enriches the industry and raises 1t
to a plane that makes it a desirable
field for the labor of those who have
looked upon it as a life of drudgery
and sorrow. 1t is a life of scientific re-
search and practicability; worthy the
efforts of the brightest and best minds.
We cannot fear to know too much
about our business, and the dairyman
should hail with gladness any new
light that may be shed upon his work
and be proud Of the noble profession
he has chosen.
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Soll liz lCSCiNCl .
attention to the fact that his name
has been drawn as a juror, and that
he must appear to act or show cause
why he should be excused. The aver
age man rebels at the thought and
looks upon jury duty as a hardship
which interferes with business, takes
time and brings no return except a
nominal compensation.
1.-THE idea that the community has
a claim upon him." said the commits
sioner of Jurors, never enters the
mind of many of those who receive
the notices and they proceed at once
to arrange an excuse for not serv-
ing"
OF all the queer excuses presented
at the commissioners office there was
one, some time ago, which was as
amusing as it was unusual. A man
handed a yellow slip over to the clerk
and said: TOO young" The man
wore a full beard, the top of his head
had assumed that condition which ius-
titles him in using the phrase my al
legged hair" and a man with the sensy
Of a machine politician could have
seen that he was of age. The clerk
looked both amused and surprised,
said nothing, but handed the slip back
to the man who had brought it, who
then asked to see the commissioner,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-08
Professional DaIryinp.

1t Is sometimes thought that IL a
man has received a liberal education.
has had more than ordinary advantage
es in the way of self-improvement, thai
he has hidden his talents when he en-
cages in the vocation of farming, saws
a writer in Hebron, ILL.,, Tribune. The
fact is, however, there is no business
In active life where a wide n of
study, research and scientific inyesti-
cation is more profitable or needed
than in dairying. His business entire
Is that of the scientist and chemist.
He is in charge of one of the finest
chemical laboratories. Occasionally.
we see a dairyman who attempts to
conduct a dairy on scientific lines with
out the good sound Judgment that must
enter into the management of all sue
cessful business. His failure is the
cause of much railery at the so-called
h~ook-farming. The axiom that '.In
wisdom there is strength" is Just as
true of farming as anything else. and
b. who best prepares himself for his
life's work, all other things being
equal, will attain greater success. Too
much of the dairying to-day is of the
hts or miss kind. We are too apt to
follow the tradition of ou- fathers,
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dence of Harrison Hall, on the Platte
river late one evening in October. l
was then a boy, but it was not diff
cult to tell at a glance that Mr.. Hlg-
gins was a man with something or a
history. There were several long, deep
scars on his face, and but the thumb
and part of the little finger remained
on his left hand. He was accompanied
by his wife, hen a young woman.
1t was soon evident that Mr.. Hig-
gins was not disposed to talk about
himself. The women of the Hall
household undertook to learn some
thing of the manner in which he re-
ceived SO many injuries, and he told
them that he preferred not to discuss
that matter, further than to state that
he had been wounded in a battle fought
between the Pawnee and the Sioux
Indians some years before, and not
far from the locality where we then
were. I happened to be able to render
Mr.. Higgins a favor the next day, and
from that time on, piece-meal, l pick
ed up considerable of his history.
The battle which SO nearly cost him
his life was fought some thirty years
ago across the river, and several miles
above Grand Island. The Pawnee In
dams were returning from their an
nual fall hunt, and accompanied by
their squaws and papooses they were
camped between two sand hills. About
daylight a large herd of buffaloes were
observed coming toward the camp,
and in spite of the advice of the old
Indians and Mr.. Higgins all the young
braves mounted their ponies and start
ed in pursuit. AS 500 as they were
we'll scattered, a large body of Sioux,
who had driven the buffaloes ahead of
them, dashed down on the camp, while
another body looked after the Paw
nees who were chasing the buffalo.
Meantime, fearing just what happen
ed, Mr.. Higgins and the old Indians
had the camp on the in the di-
rection of the Pawnee reservation,
some twenty-five or thirty miles to the
north, while they prepared to defend
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-08

The department Of agriculture has
recently issued a report on the sub
ject of hams, a product of Isle of
Wight, Surrey, Southampton and
Nansemond counties of Virginia. About
10000 pounds of the annual output,
most of which is exported to Europe.
These hams are pronounced equal If
not superior to the Westphalian. They
are made from what Is called the raz-
or-back hog. During it's youth this ami
NAL is allowed to range the woods
throughout the summer, where it &C
quires the peculiar gamy flavor for
which it's flesh is noted. In the au-
tumn, when the corn crop is gathered,
the hogs are driven into the fields, in
which every other row is planted with
black-eyed peas. On these and the
small corn that remains they fatten
very rapidly. AS a finishing process
the animals are allowed to eat the
small potatoes that are left after the
crop is harvested. The method of cur
ing the hams and bacon is peculiar to
the locality. There are many imita-
lions of the Virginia razor-back ham.
some of which are probably equal to
the genuine, where the same system of
fattening and curing Is employed. To
secure the genuine it is necessary for
individual customers to give their or
ders a year in advance.
Hog Cholera in Iowa.-The Iowa
weather bureau has issued a statement
showing that during the current year
80 per cent of the hogs in the state
have died of cholera. In the northeast
district the loss is IL per cent; north
central, 40 per cent; northwest, % per
cent; central, 81 per cent; south CEN
trail, 30k per cent; west central, 27
per cent; southwest, "a per cent. The
total loss is estimated at 1900, 900 hogs,
and the loss, direct and indirect, at
SIS, 000, 900. The indirect loss includes
the shipment of millions of young
hogs, which the owners feared to keep,
lest they should be attacked by the
disease. 1t is the worst cholera
scourge the state has ever experienced.
The department of agriculture has
been officially notified of the appoint
,ment by New South Wales of a vereri-
nary inspector at San Francisco to ex-
anime and grant certificates of health
for American horses to be shipped TO
Australia from that port. An appoint
ment of a veterinary inspector at New
York in behalf of Australia was
made by New South Wales to facilitate
the shipment of cattle, sheep and swine
to that country from New York only.
The department is further informed
that American-bred merinos are the
premium" sheep in Australia, and
that the breeding and shipping of such
sheep to hat market is becoming more
| and more popular.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-08
STORY or A GHOST.

One at Gravesend That Threw Coal and
Was Otherwise Very Troublesome.
Great excitement was occasioned in
Gravesend recently by the report of an
extraordinary occurrence at rs Wroth-
am road, a street adjoining the Kent
County cricket ground. The house is
occupied by tenement dodgers. A re-
porter who made inquiries in the
neighborhood of Wrotham road heard
a number of stories of a ghost" most
of whose manifestations occurred in
the coal cellar of the house. These
stories were told by Mr.. John Reed, a
ticket collector on the Southeastern
Railway, and Mrs. Beadle, both OF
whom reside in the house. Mrs. Bea-
die stated that as she was sitting In
her room in the evening she sudden
ly saw a "shoal" of cinders fall in front
of her window. Thinking that some
of the children had thrown them, h
went out to them, but they told her
they had done nothing of the sort. AS
she was entering the door again she
was startled considerably by a heavy
/ lump of coal falling at her feet from
upstairs. Becoming alarmed at this
extraordinary state of affairs, Mrs.
Beadle went to see a Deighbor on the
matter. He armed himself with a re-
volver, and accompanied her to the
house. He went upstairs to see If any
coal was kept in the bedroom, n as
he was mounting the first few steps
a lump fell heavily just behind him.
This so startled him that he turned
and fed. Mrs. Beadle then sought the
advice of other persons living in the
n~eighborhood, who suggested that all
the dodgers in the house should leave
before anything else happened. One of
Mr.. Reeds sons, who vas more enter
prising than the rest, said he would try
and find the "ghost." AS soon as he
started to go upstairs, however, he was
pelted with coal, n nut striking him
on the head. Nothing daunted, the lad
called in a couple of companions, but
on opening the door leading to the
stairs the candle he was carrying sud-
denly became extinguished. Reed ad-
dressed the ghost and asked him to
throw the rest of the coal if there was
any more left. Hardly were the words
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the rear. The battle, however, was q
long rout for the Pawnees. The Sioux
were poorly armed, which fact helped
to prevent them from exterminating
the Pawnees.
Mr.. Higgins was well armed, and the
Sioux soon learned to respect his dead
ly rifle. He kept well in the rear, a
hazardous thing to do A party of In
dams attracted his attention by maxi
ing repeated dashes, while a daring
chief crawled up on him through the
grass, and was just in the act of bring
ing his tomahawk down on the whita
mans head, when the latter saw him.
He threw up his left hand to break
the blow, and his fingers were cut off
as the blade descended. With his
right hand he grabbed the tomahawk,
and then followed a desperate strug-
gle for it's possession. The Indian
drew his long knife and slashed Mr..
Higgins across the face three times
and eleven times across the breast,
but still the brave white mar held on
to the tomahawk. Finally he wrench
ed it away from the Indian and knock
ed his brains out with it. He then
climbed on his pony and rode away.
It was a long and desperate ride to
the reservation, and many of the Paw
nees never reached it alive. Badly
wounded as he was, Mr.. Higgins made
the trip and fought all along the bloody
trail.
There was probably a romance con-
nected with his marriage, though I
never learned the facts. 1t seems that
she had come west to do a little mis-
sionary work among the Indians. I
was never informed as to how many
she converted, but she succeeded in
converting one white mar and making
a preacher out of him.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-08
The Tree Clock"

A Glasgow man has in his garden
what he calls a tree clock" Fir
trees are planted in such positions that
one of them will shade a portion OF
the house at every hour of sunlight.
For example, at 9 O'Clock in the morn
ing the 80 o'clock tree" shades the
dining room. while, as the sunlight
changes, the 40 o'clock tree" shades
the room above or the room adjoining
it, and so on through the day. On a
sunny day this tree clock insures a
succession of shady places round the
house.
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TAG


ENDED His Days as an Actor Ought to
Do"
One of the dramatic little stories of
Mr.. F. Frankfort Moore, the London
novelist, turns on the actual stabbing
of a Juliet by a jealous Romeo during a
performance in a German court thea
ter, says Harper's Weekly. Such trag-
ic incidents have not infrequently oc-
CURED in the annals of opera and play
house. In our own city's chief lyric
theater last season we had in what
seemed the lively comedy of an actor
something leading up to his sudden
death, when the unfortunate Castel-
mary, as Sir Tristan Mickleford, was
pursued by a crowd of Richmond Fair
folk in Martha" There are at least
a dozen well-attested suicides that have
been consummated by luckless actors
and singers under cover of the tragic
movement of their part. A more recent
example occurred at the theater in
Arad, Hungary, when a w~ell-known
leading member of the company, Kol-
oman Balla, put a real and loaded re-
the last act of the nights drama. He
fell dead, amid an immense demonstra-
tion of applause from a crowded house
quite of the reality of the ac-
tors emotion and gestures. He was a
man of excellent family and bright in
professional prospects, disappointed in
love, morbid, and, as he grimly wrote
to a friend, determined to end his
days as ar actor ought to do-to the
satisfaction of his public"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-08

A newspaper of Pottsville, Pennsyl-
vania, records that one day recently,
in Judge Bechtel's court, a foreigner
was an applicant for citizenship. Be-
ing an Englishman, he had a most
confident air. The judge asked him
this question: Did you ever attend
school in this country" Yes, sir"
answered the man. What school?'
The naturalization school," was the
reply. To obtain an explanation of
this answer, the judge asked several
more questions, and the fact was de-
veloped that there is in the town a
sort of agency or process. connected
with political headquarters, where for
eigners are regularly instructed or
coached" in the art of obtaining nat
uralization papers.
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out of his mouth when a shower of
coal was hurled at him, one lump strik-
ing him so heavily on the face that he
tainted. The reporter was informed
that although the house had been thor
oughly searched 40 explanation can be
given of the mystery. Many put these
strange manifestations down to prac-
teal joking, but the house is so stu
ated that it is difficult to accord cred
ence to such a m Hundreds of
people visited the place, but order vas
maintained by the police.-English Ex-
change.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-08

A peculiar property Of slang is that
a word which fits a distateful person
may at the same time characterize a
whole obnoxious class. The noun
"faker," for instance, means, accord
ing to the Century Dictionary, a thief,
or a person who deals in worthless
merchandise, OF a hanger-on of the
theatrical profession; and under it's
comprehensive shelter one feels justi-
fed in arraying the cheap tricksters
who flock, sel~f-invited, to agricultural
fairs, to peddle useless wares, exploit
gambling games, or give vulgar tent
shows" 1t is easy to determine the
proper attitude of good citizens to-
ward such persons, who menace order,
insult decency, and corrupt the young
and thOughtless; and the most cheer
ing news we hear from the fairs of the
present season is of an earnest and
general effort to shut the "fakers''
out.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-08

The ever fascinating problem of the
conquest of the air seems somewhat
nearer solution by the experiments
with a soaring machine which have
recently been conducted in England by
Mr.. Percy S. Pitcher. The machine
consists of two large fiat planes, or
wings, made Of bamboo, and covered
with a light textile material, the en-
tire apparatus weighing fifty pounds.
Between these aeroplanes the operator
is suspended, his arms fitting into stiff
sleeves, one on each wing, so that his
whole weight is on his elbows. BY