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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29

Eve probably had to be created be-
cause she gave Adam such pain in his
side.
The less important a thing a girl gets
a telegram about the more important it
makes her feel.
When baby cries, a woman always
thinks it is hungry and man that
there are pins sticking into it.
The average man won't believe that
he is i'll heaven till he finds that there
are really no fly screens there.
No woman is thought much of among
the other women till she has had at
least three sicknesses when all her hair
came ont.
The women talk lot about being
"wooed. but what they like best is a
man with big club to knock them
down and carry them of. New York
Press
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29
The Finest Train in the World,

The finest train III the world is the
New North Western Limited" which
leaves Minneapolis and st. Paul every
night for Chicago, via the North western
line, This magnificent train, from the
mammoth engine, patterned after the IA
nous "999," to the last car in the train,
is brand new, aud represents the latest
and best ideas for absolute comfort and
luxury while travelling.
Besides the splendid buffet library car
magnificent private compartment sleep
ing car, just the thing for ladies, famil-
les or those desiring privacy, luxuriousiy
appointed standard sleeping cars and the
most comfortable and well-equipped day
coaches ever offered the travelling public.
This "New Limited" train is admitted
by the press as well as by thousands Of
people of Minnesota and states west who
have inspected it, and also by many
others of this western country who have
RECENTLY Iout ol IL, da pcing Nillout any
question the finest tram in the world.
and no extra charge is made for any class
of passengers for its superior accommo-
dations.
Tickets via this popular line may be
secured from agents of the Northern Pa
cific railway, who will also make sleep
ing car reservations; or, apply to Capt.
M. NJ. Wheeler, travelling passenger agt.,
Miles city, Mont, or to T. w. Teasdale
/ G. p. A., st. Paul, Minn.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29
JAPAN WANTS WAR.

The St. James Gazette comment
ing upon the dispatch from Yokoha-
ma saying that feet of nine Japa-
nese warships will leave Japan in
the course of week for Chinese
waters, says: "Japan is preparing
for war. That in a nutshell is the
news from Yokohama. and it is real
ly the first news from Japan since
the beginning of the Chinese crisis.
1t was obvious that the japanese
government had stopped telegraphic
communication, which it never does
except when mobilizing the army or
navy. That is practically what it
has been doing. 1t is understood
that the destination of the fleet is
Wei Hal Wei here, and there is no
doubt that the movement means that
the statu quo in China, so far as
Manchuria and Corea are concerned
shall not be altered by Russia or
any combination of Russian allies, IN
defiance of Great Britain and Japan.
So long as the defenders policy is
equality of opportunity in China,
they are in a position to enforce
their claims"
The it. James Gazette also gives
prominence to list of the ships in
the Japanese navy, pointing out its
immense fighting strength, and says:
Given with Great Britain mere
sympathetic onlooker, it is probable
that Japan could finish off all the
Russian and German warships east
of Suez in short order. Great Brit
ain has not vessel in the North Pa
cific capable of standing in battle
line against these battleshlps Japan
possesses"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29
GENERAL NOTES.

a big snow storm reported alloy
er the central states.
The Great Eastern block is de-
stroyed by fire in Spokane. Sever
al lives lost
Father and son accuse each other
of murder at West Grange, n. J on
New Years eve.
The Mississippi is reported to be
raising and is already near the dang
er line at Memphis.
Two freight trains collide near
Upton, Kentucky. Three killed
and four badly injured.
The House committee on immi-
grafton has decided to report the
bill which passed the Senate.
The latest information from Alas
ka states they have struck gold on
Hunker's creek. Pans ranging from
$3.50 to $3.50 were taken out.
The Georgia populist state con-
vention meets on MARCH, 6 and ma
jority of the delegates already elect
ed favor Thos E. Watson for gov
ernor.
McComas was elected senator
from Maryland Tuesday The
tenth and last ballot taken at noon
was: McComas, G2; German, II;
Shaw ..
The United States battle ship
Maine, commanded by G. d. Rigs
be, arrived at Havana at II on
Tuesday morning and was saluted
by the forts and war vessels
According 10 STATISTICS AT the
treasury department., the value Of
exports by the United states for the
calendar year 1897 aggregated ST.
l00,000,00O, an increasc Of S03, 3,0OO,-
600 over any preceding year.
a bill has been Introduced in the
New York Legislature to set aside
part of the liquor tax as pension
fund for superanunated school teach
ers. AS the Iarge irsaiority of the
school teachers are women, the fund
is not likely to be drawn on largely
by those who have reached the age
limit.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29

C'Boulihan T,oei,..l uith a. ;...s b.

c'Eouliaan f,ocis..@ senh a. ;..,t, Sat
T'aa nr,"i>iy Crny'nce:,.
1t happened this Wy: O'Houlihan
had been filing up at the cafe bar with
considerable native enthusiasm, when
he e=.acd a friend coming in who was
accompanied by man he did not know
The man he did not know wore auburn
whisllers Of a marked character and
walked very erect.
"Hello, 'Houlihan |" said the friend.
"Glad to see you! Let me introduce Mr..
Smith, who, by the way, though he
doesn t look it, is countryman of yours
Mr.. Smith, this is Mr., O'Houlihan. "
But O'Houlihan, instead of shaking
hands or acknowledging i'll any way the
introduction, gazed at Smith with an
air Of alcoholic hostility.
Him Oirish - he suddenly cried with
vehement contempt. Him wild them
pink whiszers! G'wan He's Dootchr'
Whereupon Smith Immediately
knocked him down The bystanders
rushed forward, some eager.to witness
the row, others to stop it, but o Houli-
han rose from the ground and proceeded
to shake hands with Smith i'll a most
hearty and forgiving manner.
"Oi beg yer par rdon, he said With
much humility. "Oi did ycz an injoos-
tice. Yer New York Journal
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29
Terms of Subscription.
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.


The clearest exposition of the
real extent of American commercial
competition in Europe that has ev-
er been presented officially probably
is that given in a report to the state
department from Frank Mason, Uni
ted States Consul General at Frank
fort, and published in the Daily
Consul Report. Mr.. Mason treats
the subject broadly, but naturally he
finds the main points for his theme
directly under his observation in
Germany, where the struggle is
The most bitter.
He recounts the various plans that
have been considered and others
that are now before European gov
ernments looking to CO. operation in
resistance to the encroachments of
American trade and enterprise on
European markets, but concludes
that as to food there can be no sue
cessful combination to make the
cost greater Notwithstanding the
strong agrarian agitation.
In manufactures America has
been making inroads in Europe be-
yond the common knowledge and he
points out some lines in which we
have overwhelmed opposition and
says that in spite of the teachings of
European economists in those lines
the sceptre of economical prod cution
with highest wages has passed from
the Old World to the New.
Shoes, steel and iron in various
forms, mining and electrical machin-
cry, bicycles, sewing machines,
lathes, milling machinery and tools
are named among the various arti-
cles with which this country is sue
cessfully competing with foreign
manufactures and bleached cotton
will soon be added. A hundred
sample cases of these goods have
ust been sent to Manchester and
negotiations are now on foot for the
purchase of large consignments for
the English trade.
Heretofore cotton goods have
boen exported on small scale to
England through New York export
brokers. Now, however, the atten-
ton of British importers has been
drawn to American goods, not only
because they are cheaper, but also
because they are found to be far su-
perior to English manufactures of
the same weight. The American
goods are made of firmer twisted
yarn than the English and are with
out the filling, which, while making
the material smooth and of good ap-
pearance, causes it to wear doubly
and to lack the strength of the
American goods.
The market for bleached cottons
in this country has frequently been
overstocked, and should the present
experiment result in regular ex-
port trade the effect will be to keep
the mills continuously turning and
to prevent the periodical running on
half time aud discharging of mill
workers, which has led to SO much
misery and discomfort.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29

Temperance Manly friend, what l
want you to do is to throw your whisky
bottle into the sea
Old Toper-I did that once, bat the
waves fioated it back to me, and said
to myself if the laws Of nature worked
that way wasn't to blame for taking
the bottle again, and
Temperance Man-Ah, but the bottle
you threw away was emptyl Throw it
into the sea when the bot lie is full Of
whisky, and you'll find the laws Of ma
ture are all right.-New York Weekly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29
logging HI. Memory.

Cazabon of the Marseilles theater re-
lates that he learned in two hours and
played the same evening the part Of
Buridan in "La Tour de Nesle."
"Prodigious!" says q bystander.
"How could you ever do it,
"Ho, just read it carefully and then
I tied knot in my handkerchief to re.
member it by. Figaro.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29

The statement comes from Gilt
Edge that l.. S. Woodbury. has dis
covered two large bodies Of rich ore
in the old Spotted Horse. 1t would
seem that, as predicted some time
ago in the Standard, the mantle Of
Meadow has fallen on Woodbury. s
shoulders, and the Spotted Horse is
again to be ranked among Mon
tana's gold producing mines. Ana
conda Standard
Edward and Robert Kline, the
two Monarch men and brothers who
were bound over The other dav at
Monarch on charge of stealing
sheep, were taken to Great Falls
and lodged in the county Jail. They
have employed the firm of Stanton
u Stanton to defend them and their
case will be heard in the district
court at the March term.
President Mckinley will probably
visit the Pacific coast states during
the coming summer. 1t is under,
stood that he will stop at the Vel.
lowstone park, Butte, Spokane, Seat
tie and Tacoma. The president and
wife, their nieces and probably
Gage, Alger, Bliss, and Gary will
form the presidential party.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29
RAMS HORN WRINKLES.
Beauty needs no patching.

Beauty needs no patching
Some people are dead before they die.
No one climbs high enough to get above
suspicion.
Many churchgoers, like little fish, only
nibbie mt the bait
Cowards are ever dying, but the brave
man never dies till his time comes.
The devil doesn't care how loud a man
prays on Sunday if he can use him the
remaining six days of the week.-Ram's 8
Horn
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has
been making some Investigations
into the subject and it finds an en-
ormous and unprecedented acreage
of wheat has been put into shape
for 1898 by the farmers, They have
actually drilled in corn fields with
with wheat over vast sections of the
West and Northwest, in additions to
their regular planting areas for 1897
Nothing short of universal drought
next season will cut us off from an
immense wheat harvest next summer.
The chances now of a third consecu.
tive season of blighting drought in
Australia, of fourth such in India,
or "A second of ruin to the Argentine
Republic fields, and of third short
season in Russia and the Balkans,
and another shortage in France and
Germany-the chances of such a
combination to help the American
farmers are exceedingly remote
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29

Speaker Reed has made an order
that no speech shall be printed in
the Congressional Record until it
has been delivered in the House.
At the same time he permits no one
to speak in the House unless he first
has notice of the nature Of the
speech which member proposes to
deliver, and if it does not suit him,
he never sees the member or hears
his "Mr. Speaker" This keeps
more than half the members silent in
every session, and while he iustifes
this on the plea that the business of
Congress is to do business, the same
rule enforced a few years ago might
have kept the country in ignorance
of how great man Mr.. Reed him
self is. There are laws and then
again there are equities.-Sat Lake
Tribune
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-29

Terrific thunder and wind storm
kills three persons at St. Louis.
Evening star., 1898-08-20
The Muddy Wafer,

Once more the Potomac presents a yellow
face to view and the chrome tint appears
in the water bottles of unfiltered house
holds and IN the bath tubs of practically
all Washington. The rains that recently
fell with such frequency and force are re-
sponsible- Following this discoloration of
the supply is an outburst of public senti-
ment in favor of filtration. Elsewhere in
today's Star appears q letter from a citi-
zen who voices his righteous indignation
in protest against n continuance of this
state of affairs at the nations city. We
may comfort ourselves however, with the
reflection that there is a reasonable pros
pect of Improvement In the quality of the
water Congress at the last session was
finally persuaded to make a beginning upon
the project of Offering the Potomac water
and the current appropriation bill contains
a provision of 5000 Ito enable tho proper
officer OF the government having charge of
Evening star., 1898-08-20

The lexington railway under the euer-
get1c and capable management of President
Crosby gives promise of pushing ahead i'm
mediately and in good faith with under
ground electric construction on its valuable
Urban trackage and with the installation Of
genuine rapid transit over the whole of its
extensive system.
The community welcomes this ending of
its long struggle against the overhead troll
lev. in which the lexington supplied the
test case. The result is now generally con-
ceded to be most beneficial to the safety
and attractiVeness of the capital, most ad-
vantageOus to the comfort and convenience
II the people directly interested in this
means OF transportation. and most prornis-
ing Of profits to the corporation itself. The
wisdom of the community's vigorous re-
sistance against the trolleyizing process is
thoroughly yindicated.
On the whole the relations between the
semi-publfc corporations and the people of
Washington are at present satisfactory. A
recent attempt, noted by The Star, to re-
yiye the trolley controversy and to put
these corporations in general in the YAM
derbiltian attitude of consigning the public
and its representatives 10 the internal reg
ions has sounded the only discordant note
in this approximate harmony. But it does
not appear that this case is anything more
than that of an individual representing
himself alone in running amuck against
public sentiment.
Sound advice to the semi-public corpora
Jtons suggests that they cut loose entirely
from the old method of procedure in rela-
ton to the public. followed by some of
them. which involved the expenditure of the
stockholders moTey upon the persuasive
lobbyist, the smooth promoter" and the
hug of Hessian Journalism with his
,ludgeon of slander; and that they substi
ute the new method OF getting in touch
md in frank, close ard sympathetic COM
u,union. with the community which fur
dishes their patrons. Instead of pouring
gpon the public contemptuOus abuse. and
Of attempting 10 bribe or beat out of ex-
istence opposition to its WILL the worldly
wise semi-publc corporation now places
itself as far as possible in harmony with
public sentiment, adapts itself to modern
conditions and demands, and finds it uiti-
Hlately profitable even to make considera-
ole expenditures in humoring the public
With improvements in equipment.
Especially in Washington is the old pub
lie be ID policy failure. The capitai's
legislature the Congress of the United
States, in spite of its unavoidable sins of
omission, is far less moulded by powerful
lccal corporation influences and responds
far more readily to the popular demand in
respect to these corporations than the
rouncils OF the ordinary large American
city.
The record furnishes convincing proof OF
this statement. The overhead trolley which
Mastered the councils of so many munich
oaiitiss AID robbed SO many cities OF safety
md attrectiveaess utterly failed in the
fort TO fasten its grip upon Congress
Tha; body. in July. 1855 ordered that after
$eptamber j. no more overhead wires
ShoUt1 be erected In Washington. Tho
NAington railroad, violating the spirit
Evening star., 1898-08-20

though not the letter. of the law, rushed
up it's trolley wires just before the date
last specified. In April, 1880, Congress or
dered the road to take down its overhead
wires before July l. 1893. This date was
afterward extended to July l. 1895. A des-
perate effort to secure a further extension
was defeated. The corporati ton defiad the
will of Congress, and the law of the land
from July l to September Is, 1895. at which
date the courts meanwhile having taken
a hand in the enforcement of law. the
poles went down. Congress has expressed
the will of the American people that their
national capital shall not be defaced and
endangered by the overhead trolley. and
that will is certain to prevail.
Congress has interested itself in the de-
mand for justice made by the gas-con-
sumner. and has decreased the price. and
attempted to improve the quality of that
iiluminant Notwithstanding a powerful
corporations desperate resistance.
Responding to the call for relief by the
telephone users, complaining of exorbitant
charges and annoying and arbitrary exac-
tions and limitations, Congress acted SO
quickly and reduced the price so radically
that the telephone company Is seriously
contendng before the Equity Court that
the rate fixed is less than the actual cost
of the service.
In both cases Congress also gave heed to
the popular demand for regulation of the
existing corporations, rather than the start
ing of new concerns, to tear up the city,
streets unnecessarily.
Congress has taken no definite action with
reference to the terminals and grade cross
ings of the steam railroads. but the steady
pressure of public sentiment has brought
these corporations to the very verge of the
desired improvements. The Pennsylvania
railroad proposes plan of sunken tracks
which a few years ago, when advocated
by citizens, it rejected as impracticable
from the engineering point of view. The
Baltimore and Ohio road proposes to reduce
its urban trackage and to elevate it's tracks
upon a masonry viaduct of the Berlin
type, the use of which was so warmly ad-
vocated by The Star. The relations be-
tween these corporations and the commu-
nifty are better footing and the promise
of wholesome improvements in local rail-
| road conditions upon an equitable basis is
more encouraging than at any previous
time in the past.
These betterments, beneficial both to the
public and to the corporations, have been
and will be due to the existence and ex-
preston OF a sound and enlightened local
public sentiment, which The Star has help
ed to voice and to which both Congress
and the Commissioners have heartily re-
sponded.
There is no going backward in such mat
ters The attempt of one little semi-public
corporation through a newspaper mouth
piece to reverse these conditions, to trans
form itself from the peoples common car
md i,fn Al
abusive master, and to turn aside and null
lify the influence of this wholesome public
sentiment suggests the ridiculous spectacle
of virago Dame Partington sweeping
back with her broom the Atlantic ocean of
public opinion. and in impotent fury hurting
fishwife invective at the incoming. irresist-
ible tide.
Evening star., 1898-08-20

the Washington Aqueduct and the water
supply to the city Of Washington to make
an investigation of the feasibility and pro-
priety of filtering the water supply of
Washington and to submit to Congress
full and detailed report thereon" Thus
the enterprise is inaugurated, though of
course it does not necessarily follow that
the filtration of the water will surely re-
suit for the officer in charge of the inves-
tigation may report adversely upon the
project. The chances are, however, largely
in favor of filtration.
Evening star., 1898-08-20

Right at Last.
From the PHILADELPHIA Press

From The PhiIadelphia Tress.
The naval program which will be present.
ed to Congress has all the elements which
ought to make the American navy of su-
preme excellence. Fast battle ships, fast
armored cruisers, fast protected and armor-
ed cruisers of the second class, with pro-
tected cruisers of great coal capacity are
what we have needed all along but it took
certain heads and even now it is unlikely
there will be any admission by any bureau
that outside clamor had anything to do with
the changes contemplated. This is the case
in England, where agitation for naval
changes, though successful, is in the de-
bates in the house of commons. invariably
repudiated as having had any effect on the
lords of the admiralty
Evening star., 1898-08-20
For IA Larger Naval Expenditure.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The program Of the naval board. which
will be submitted to Congress at its next
session, calls for eighteen new ships of war;
of various classes, at total cost of So, ,o00 =
OJ0. Without undertaking to criticise the
program al this time, it may be pointed out
that this amount is considerably less than
the cost of carrying on the recent war for
one month, and that the same war demon
strated the utility of a strong navy in
shortening the time of hostile operations.
Had it not been for our navy, that war
would not be ended now, nor for many
months to come. Hence it will be seen
that, If We are to have any more wars, the
contemplated expenditure will be in the in
terestS of economy.