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The herald., 1898-12-27

1t was not course dinner. There were
no artistic decorations nor "color schemes"
no ropes of smlax hung from the chande-
iers to the corners of the room and none
were arranged about the walls and curtains.
There were no French bows of broad satin
ribbon, no tall vases nor baskets containing
long -stemmed roses; no dainty place cards,
hand painted or engraved with gold, and
the daylight was not excluded and no soft
light was shed from shaded candles in elab-
crate solid silver nor gold candelabra.
The only embellishments the room boasted
were Salvation army notices and passages
of Scripture painted on the bare rough walls
Of the barn-like room and few small bou-
quets OF flowers in pint fruit Jars, set sparse
ly on the long tables as far as they would
reach. The ladies who received were not
richly gowned; they wore the wel[known
Salvation army uniform and stood not hold.
ing fragrant bouquets but big white pitchers
of steaming coffee.
The guests were so numerous, so eager and
hungry; they crowded and jostled and
pushed with such persistence that Staff
Captain Durham was obliged to stand out
on the sidewalk and throw some of them
of into the road to prevent them forcing
their way in and over-crowding the tables.
There was music during the dinner but the
musicians were not screened behind potted
palms nor lattice of smilaX. The musical
numbers rendered were just everyday Sal
vation army hymns by rather discordant
brass band, such as you may hear on the
street any evening in the year.
AN ANXIOUS CROWD
Long before the hour announced for serv-
ing the dinner the guests had crowded
around in front of the big army barracks
at No. 745 Upper Main street, up and down
the sidewalk for half block, extending
across the street and more still coming.
Three tables were spread, extending the en-
tire length of the room and another half
way, on which "covers were laid for four
hundred and fifty. The menu included
bread and butter, roast duck, turkey, beef,
veal, mashed potatoes, baked beans, cram
berry sauce, celery, coffee, pie, apples,
oranges, nuts and bags of candy for the chill
dren. The fowl and meats were cut up and
each plate bountfully supplied, the coffee
poured and everything ready to eat before
the band began to play and the guests were
admitted.
When the doors were opened three men
were required to hold back the crowd, while
two or three stood inside and took the tick
cts of admission with which each applicant
had been provided. The guests were for the
most part very shabbily dressed, some of
them almost ragged. With most there had
been an evident desire to look their best,
for hair was combed, hands and faces clean
and there were two or three neat black suits.
immaculate linen and even white ties, but
others were so eager to eat they forgot to
remove their hats until personally reminded
of the omission.
II was GOOD, wholesome, we'll prepared
The herald., 1898-12-27

good things to eat before her. The plate of
one little fellow was swept clean in less
time than it takes to tell it. Oh you
must not do that" said the lady waiting
on him, that belongs to the other boy"
"Won't You please give me another cup Of
coffee:' said one man; ''it's the best coffee
/ have tasted in years. He was given
all he could drink. II am SO hungry" he
replied, looking up in her face. You can
have all you want" she replied, as she took
his plate to replenish it.
ONE HUNDRED BASKETS FULL
One hundred baskets full were packed up
in addition to many little pals of fragments
and sent out for hungry ones at home. An
old woman who was given a basket of food
in the Saturday distribution said she did
not know what to do; her neighbors were
as poor as herself and she would like to di-
vide her portion with them if the officers
did not object. When told that she could
take basket to them too and keep her own,
she burst into tears and kissed the officials
hands. Staff Captain Dunham scanned the
faces at every table carefully to see thaJ no
one doubled up" on them; that is, that
no one went out the rear door after having
eaten and passed around to the front door
and gained entrance a second time. If any
human stomach could contain two feeds of
such proportions as was set up yesterday
it was needed and should have had it, but
Captain Dunham did not detect any cul-
prits in the act.
HELPING HANDS
Captain and Mrs. Dunham, Captain
Braun, who superntends the Main street
barracks, and dozens of other soldiers, male
and female, old and young, worked assid-
uously to attend to the wants of every guest
and were assisted in their labors by some
good women who came in from the outside
to lend hand. A tall, graceful Spanish
sonora, whose features showed traces of
early beauty, ate her dinner and asked per,
mission to assist in the dishwashing to pay
for it. Some others came in and paid for
their dinner, in order to give the money to
the army, but such cases were few.
WHO PAID FOR 1T
The tin cups distributed through the city
only brought in about S35, but contributions
taken on the corners of the streets by the
soldiers yielded more generous returns. The
tin cup placed in Hollands restaurant con-
tained the largest sum, as was also the case
last year. The Owl drug store was the next
largest. Much of the food was contributed
but most of it was purchased by the army.
The responses this year were not as gener-
Gus as in past seasons.
Were there professional hobos among the
people fed? Perhaps few, but Captain
Dunham, who is familiar with most of the
faces, was OF the opinion that the number
was not worth considering.
Were they all worthy? Probably not,
but they were human beings, brothers and
sisters, if you please, by the tie of COM
mon humanity. They were hungry and
poor, and it was Christmas time
The herald., 1898-12-27
Mr.. Howard Gould in His New Home

Howard Gould gave up his rooms in the
Holland ohuse Thursday and moved into
home on Fifth avenue, which place he has
leased for a season. Mr.. Gould spent the
last few years of his bachelorhood at the
Holland house, and when he returned from
his honeymoon, after his marriage to Miss
katherine Clemmons, he took his bride to
the hotel until the house on Fifth avenue
could be made ready for their occupancy.
The house is a handsome one. The GouIds
have made only few tritling changes in the
interior decorations and furnishings
From New York dispatch.
The herald., 1898-12-27
AT THE THEATER

HOLIDAY ATTRACTIONS the Los
Angeles Willie Collier in The Man from
Mexico" opened on Sunday night and full
report of the performance appeared in
these columns yesterday, highly commencing
its merits. The piece is the same as was
given here about year ago.
AT the Burbank the OFT brothers opened
on Sunday afternoon in "All Aboard" and
Ia full notice OF the performance appeared
in these columns yesterday. The show is
drawing big houses.
At the Orpheum the usual packed audi
ences have been present, and the bill this
week is fully up to the standard of the
house. In addition to Camilla Urso the
celebrated violinist, the bill includes Paul
Batty's acrobatic bears, Ursa Major and
Ursa Minor; George Evans, the tenor; V Vou-
lette and Carlos, acrobats, from Mexico;
Arnesen the equlibrist, Lille Western,
Baker, Selery and Bartlett and Frank La
Mondue, the clown on the clothes line.
Tomorrow the Orpheum will give to those
attending the matinee a novel souvenir of
Nine. Camilla Urso, the violinst, whose en-
gagement closes next Sunday.
The herald., 1898-12-27

to sound so well or to answer to the re-
quirements of the occasion better.
why, no wonder it sounded well,' said
one of the boys. You ought to have seen
what Bob Douglas did to it just before drill
call. Of course it sounded better
And what did he do to it 1? beamingly
inquired the fifer.
"'Oh, he just rubbed it across the, body
OF that dead dog in the hollow, side of the
tent, replied the other fellow. IT,.
"You ought to have seen the book of dis
gust that swept across the face of the fifer
How do you know he did it?' was his next
question. why, saw him do it, was the
answer. So -. ~
"The fifer was so mad that he turned al
most black in the face, and there on the fife
he could smell the truth of the story. Pick
ing up the fife that had Played so well, he
went away in rage to see the colonel. |
don't know just how the matter was fixed
up, but Douglas and the fifer kinder kent
away from each other for a while and we
never heard anything more about the unusual
musical qualities of that fife again. The
dead dog was given an honorable burial
After the laugh had passed around and
Major. Donnell had told some of his own
experiences. Mr.. Williams said: "You ought
to get Mac to tell his male story He has
comnany played it on the men who used to
steal his rations'
The suggestion was promptly taken up and
Mac began again:
"It was old Bill Mcintosh who played that
The herald., 1898-12-27
A HoSS ON HIM
Arthur Cooks Head Trod Upon-B. B.
Trimmer's Nightmare


While Arthur Cook slumbered at High
land Park Sunday night horse broke loose
and stepped upon Cooks head, cutting the
mans right ear and bruising his head be-
sides. Cook applied at the receiving hos
pital yesterday but weakened when DR..
Hagan started to take some stitches in the
injured ear.
Henry Beeson, aged Is years, who resides
at 22l2 Hunter street, was kneeling in the
rear end of wagon yesterday watching a
game of baseball which was in progress at
the corner of Mateo and Eighth streets. The
horse moved unexpectedly and precipitated
the boy to the ground. Beeson sustained u
compound fracture of the left humerus. He
was attended at the receiving hospital by
Dr. Hagan.
B. B. Trimmer ate too heartily of Christ
mas dinner Sunday, and after he retired
found himself riding that midnight hobby,
the nightmare. He tossed and tumbled so
wildly trying to ride the bronco that when
he awoke in the morning it was to discover
that he had dislocated his left shoulder Dr..
Hagan attended him at the receiving hos
pital
The herald., 1898-12-27
Colors in the Ocean

The ocean is not always "true blue" in
cclor The red tracts, which are probably
caused by animals related to the "clio bore
ais" and ''limacinc arteica" (the food of the
whales, are found in the southern Atlantic
where the influence is felt of cold currents
from Cape Horn. 1t is remarkable that no
reference is made in any log to the appear
ance of red tracts in the neighborhood Of
Cape Horn. The yellow tracts are generally
sscribed by captains to pollen of Towering
watering plants.
The herald., 1898-12-27

The recent sale in Boston of the estate of
Jernegan-who organized the company and
engineered the scheme for extracting gold
from sea water-showed that he was not
only thrifty, but imposing" in more ways
than one. 1t is said that a parlor set ap-
parently of inlaid rosewood was but imita-
ton, and that hardly any of the Jernegan
furniture proved to be what it purported
to be.
The herald., 1898-12-27
The Largest fiat and Furnishing
Goods Store In Los Angeles.
a
Leed|e Oud"

NOW IS THE TIME when greed
sometimes oversteps prudence in prof.
1t making; for you to study Silver
woods prices-test them on things
men wear. And when you have looked
through the neckwear. shirts, ETC.,
wander over to the hatlery and take a
look at our celebrated $3.50 and $500
hats. We want to impress upon your
mind that "Silverwood" hats are
made for us, are guaranteed you in
every way by us, and that we stand
ready to give you a new hat free or
your money back If they fail you in
any way. Possibly you don't want
to buy anything but an agency hat.
Why? Because your father always
wore that brand. You don't wear
knee pants because your grandfather
did. do you? Things have changed.
Folks are looking for values nowa-
days, not brands, and If we can sell
them hat for $500 equal in every way
to what they paid $500 for a year or
two ago (and there are stores on earth
still selling them for $500 don't you
think we are entitled to your hat pat
ronage? Business Is business.
The herald., 1898-12-27
beautiful SKIN

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Even the coarsest and most repulsive skin
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$500 Send postpaid and under plain wrap
per on receipt of above amount. Send for
circular. THE PARTISAN DRUG CO., 131
Montgomery ST., San Francisco, Cal.
The herald., 1898-12-27
Notice to Owners "f Property Improved

Under tho Bond hct
The semi-annual interest and one-tetnth
Of all street improvement bonds can now
be paid at my office, and If not paid on or
before anuary 2, 1899, becomes delinquent
and the property is subject to sale aftc-
that date. w. A. HARTWEI,L.
49, City Treasurer.
Los Angeles December II, 1928.
The herald., 1898-12-27

Special bicycles. light, fleet and sure, E.
and up. 1856 North Los Angeles street.
The herald., 1898-12-27

Join the Merchants Cash Premium as
sociat tion.
The herald., 1898-12-27

All prices of wall paper ;ly reduce
A. A. Ecks rom. 3oi South Spring street.
The herald., 1898-12-27
INDEX TO CITY NEWS

Variety Of Christmas casualties re-
ported.
The poor boxes Of st. Paul's church
robbed.
Santa Barbara defeated Pasadena at
football.
A Los Angeles dog captures the big
coursing prize.
Eleven hundred hungry bodies are
ministered to by the Salvation Army.
Scraps Of evidence to be used in de-
Tending Joe Hunter on the charge Of
murder.
The herald., 1898-12-27

Latest styles wall paper at A. A. LEX.
s:rom's. S24 South Spring street.
The herald., 1898-12-27

City council meets-1O a. m.
Police commission meets-1O a. m.
Board of education meets-7:3O
p. m.
Pacific Gospel Unions Christmas
treat to children at 323 East Second
street-2 p. m.
The herald., 1898-12-27
EVENTS OF TODAY

- 0rpheum-Vaudeville.
Burbank-"All Aboard"
Los Angeles-"The Man From
Mexico"
The herald., 1898-12-27
THE WEATHER

TEMPERATURE-Rec Of observations
taken at Los Angeles Dec. 26th. The
barometer Is reduced to sea level.
: Time Bar rh'r. R. H Wind Vel. Weather
Sd. m. 40 16 50 SO N LIT Clear
tp m. ool2 50 @ W 1t Clear
Maximum temperature, 70; minimum .am-
perature So
Forecast
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26-Forecast for
Southern California: Fair Tuesday; light
northerly winds.
The herald., 1898-12-27
Bnkcr & HuniItnu

Los Angeles. December II, 1898.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-12-08
Smiths PardOns.

During III, II months ending
November 30, 1898, Governor
oml'h granted 32 pardons aud 1Ol
dlmlnutions Of sentence in IT,,
cases Of convicts and parties
serving time in some Of The county
jalls of the state. OF the pardors
grant q, 20 re in p'ui'eoli,rN
custs and the balance county jail
cases. For the fiscal wear end d
Nov, mber 30, 1897 81 pardons
wete gran e', of which Governor
onll l,h gran,ei l6. tue balance
brlns made by his predecessor III
ot1i e. l,ur..s ruaL time there
We're 100 dlninutiuus of sentence.
"a of which Governor Richards
gran ed OF the dlminutions OF
Sentence granted ia the last fiscal
year 81 cut down convicts' time 81
Gays, 23 made 10 day red uctions,
Z reduced time 60 days, while tn,
balance Topped of sentences from
10 to 30 days.
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Come Again, Senator.

To the ha-Willy YOU do m
he kindness to inform the Chrpn
tle through he medium OF your
/, per that consider myself ver,
fortunate 10 have escaped aliv,
rom The melee, insteao of sh ,wi q
IS that brilliant sheet hi. il. "haru
use ana 'phA>iquc wrakn S.,
the result of my "arducus work
in q silver precinct. especially
since l enjoye the pleasure Of
having with s,rd This cre< tfaIler
:apor--this 'jay Burd" editor
.0h.-ee~ itvia ana swollen wattles
aud ruffled tail athers, show un.
nis'akaole signs OF recent defeat
the result OF his own politica
aspirations "Shrewd politician
hat he is. Come again, senator
J, A KENNEDY.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-12-08

The season for western range
attic which has Just ended has
beer a satisfactory one in many
respects for the ranchman. The
years receipts were close to
200 600 head, being $4,000 less
han last year and the sn allest
since 1889. Considering the diff
Guilty ranchmen Fave experienced
for few years past in getting
cattle from Texas and the demand
that corn feeders nave made on
their supply of young stock it is
not surprising that the receipts
for the year should show a notice
abe decrease. The range cattle
that came to market this wear
have av ragged better in quality
han usual, due probably to the
good start they got in the cary
spring -Drovers Journal.
The report of the secretary of
the interior shows that Montana
has 7l,697,6l6 ac,es of public
land still u1appropriated and un-
reserved. OF this land only &c.
832, S37 acres have thus far been
surveyed In the recita. of the
vacant land in the various states
the secretary shows that Montana
has 40, O68.O00 acres of grazing
and AMI 22, $50, GIG acres of wood
land and forest land He estimates
that there is available water sup,
ply to reclaim II, 900, 600 acres.
The northern Montana friends
Of Jos. Healy are in receipt of the
announcement of his marriage to
Miss Louise Higenbotham, of New
York Mr.. and Mrs. Heaiy will
make their home in that CITY,
River Press.
This is the time Of year when
five cent desk pads and one cent
calendars come into the news
paper Offices with a request for
several dollars worth of advertis.
ing in exchange for them.
We must insist upon our patrons
paying the amounts due us on
su oscription, advertising and job
printing Otherwise the accounts
will be placed in the hands OF an
agency for collection.
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c. e. Trescott. Publisher.

fhe Great Falls correspondent
of the Anaconda Standard is send i.
ing in to that newspaper columns
and columns of "bo>h" about The
Indians on the B'ackfeet reserva
tion being dissatisfied and maxim q
preparations to go on the war
path, etc. We fail to see what
the Standard expects to gain by
publishing such sensational and
malicious reports. The Indians on
this reservation are as intellig.n,
and prosperous as can oe found
anywhere in the north west, and if
left alone by outside dlsturberS
will never give the whites cause
for any anxiety. T., an inter ste d
observer it looks very mrch a.
though the Standard was using its
best endeavcrs to have Capt.
.uller removed as the agent for
these Indians, and seems to be
willing to 90 to the length of
agi'anrg the indians up to the
point of going to-~s~ WITH the
panpio OF this section to accomplish b
its Object. This is a bad policy
for the Standard to persne, and we
hope they will quit it before it j.
too late.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-12-08
All Ready Fer Work.

Washington, Dec. 4 !. The cur
tain will ring up tomorrow at
noon on the closing session of the
Fifty~tifth congress. Tne war and
the fruits OF the American victory
carry in their wake many problems
which the national legislators
must solve. But though many
questions may press for sol ltion,
the brief space covered by this
session, which expires by iimila.
tion on Ma ch +, pyecludes the
probability of much being accom-
pllshed beyond the passage Of the
regular money budgets, the legis-
iation for the increase of the
regular army, which the adminis- :
tration deems necessary 10 meet
the obligations imposed upon the
nation as a result OF the war, and,
probably, the enactment of law
to give permanent territorial
government to the Hawaiian
islands. This covers all the i'm
portant Legislation which the con
gressional leaders expect to see
enacted at this session. 1t is al ,
most the unanimous sentiment OF
the members that no attempt
should be made TO legisIate con-
corning the possessions acquired
by the war with Spain at this
session.
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Advertised Letters.

The following letters, for the
month ending November 3Oth,
remain uccaled for at the Dupuver
post office.
Otto Luntgren,
Bum Buan,
G H Miles,
Mrs VIM Gillis,
Mrs Josephine Lenbene,
Chas Cartwright.
When calling for same please
say advertised.
CARL HARRIS, Postmaster.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-12-08

President Mckinley's message
to congress, which c"nvened last
Monday. is too long a document TO
printed in full in newspaper
the size of the Acantha, AMI it is
practically impossible to COOL it
down and publish synopsis tia,
would give the reader an intelli
gen, cea of it, 1t is an able
document ani should b. read in
full by e.ePy American citizen.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-12-08
Notice to Taxpayers,

Office of the Treasurer of Tetor
County, Choteau, Montana, Oct. 3
1898. State, County and Specia
Taxes for 1898 are now due ano
payable at this Office. If not paio
onor before 6 p. m. of Monday,
December 5, 1898, a penalty of 10
percent will be added, as required
by law, aud all property upon
which taxes are then unpaid will
he Immediately advertised ant sold
for said taxes and costs.
HARDY f. ENGLAND,
Treasurer of Teton County, Mont
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Dissolution Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the
firm of Cox & Dean. doing business
at Iupuyer Teton county, Mont. >.
is this day dissolved by mutual
consent, E. E. Cox retiring. All
accounts owed by the said firm are
to be paid by said Cox Il Dean.
e. E, Cox,
T ]. Dean.
Dupuyer, Mont, Nov. 3, 1898,
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According to story told by the
Ithaca Journal, one of the fresh
men students in the college IT
agriculture was so impressed with
the progress that science is making
in substituting the artificial for
the rea. that he recently undertook
an experiment OF mixing sawdust
with cornnleaI for chicken feed.
He grad dualIy increased the pro.
portion of saw dust until the hens
and chickens W re feeding on saw
dust alone. Still the hens seemed
to thrive. Finally the young
tist had occasion to uset" a
hen and he placed her on Is eggs
fr IN the sawdust fed hers
Thirteen Of the eggs hatched, bu,
] = ot thu chicks had wooden legs
and The 18Th was woodpecker.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-12-08

Evidently the Chronicle and the
Montanian have pocied issues ana
propose putting in their spare
time misrepresenting the Acantha
Go TO it boys if it affords you any
am use ment. You will find If you
live long enough tn It there is no
use "kicking against the pricks
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-12-08
LIME.

All parties wanting lime can get
the same either at the kiln an
Sheep creek or at Dupuyer. Also
prick chimneys built anG all matcria
furnished and all kinds OF masonrI
gone to order.
PARKER & CAlR.
Dapuysr, Mont.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-12-08

Get your b; ruess oiled at the
Dupuyer harness shop. He
guarantees satisfaction.
If you are in the market to buy,
sell or rent, small ad in our
columns will put you in touch with
some person you can do business
with. We have done it for others
and can do the same for you.
Stray yed- Bay horse branded f
on left hip and vented E l above.
Horse lost from Chalmers ranch,
on the Muddy in July. $500 re-
ward will be paid for ITS return to
J. e. Helms ranch near Dupuyer,
Information as to it's whereabouts
will be suitably rewarded.