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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
NEW IDEAS IN SHAVING.
Individual Cups Going Out of Fashion
Men Shave Themselves,

individual Cups Going Out of Fashion
Men Shave Themselves.
you've probably observed that high
class, modern barber shops have of late
years abandoned the practice of deco
rating the walls with shelves holding
uniformly and ornately stamped indi-
vidual shaving cups bearing custom
ers' names,' said a Washington boss
barber to a Star reporter. "a few fair
ly good Washington barber shops still
cling to that old-time custom, but the
thing is out OF date. Several causes
contributed to the giving up of the
individual cup idea. In the first place,
the man of to-day is a great deal more
skeptical in his view of all the affairs
of life than was the average nan when
the individual cup notion came into
general use. so that 1t is not easy to
convince a customer nowadays that an
individual shaving cup left on the shelf
of a barber shop is kept by a barber
inviolate in all It's purity and oneness
of purpose. I'll bet a lot of fellows
get a hack at those cups besides the
men whose names are printed on
them a good many occasional GUS
toners in barber shops remark in es-
adjustments where the individual cups
are still ranged along the shelves. al
though there has never, to my knowl-
edge been any foundation for such a.
charge. Another reason why the indi-
vidual cup and brush scheme has prac-
tically passed is that men nowadays
don't care to have their gilded or red
lettered names staring barber shops
customers in the face from the cup
shelves. Looks to me like the fellow
with one of those private cups is trying
to advertise himself as being cleaner
than the rest of u.s. Is a remark hat I
have often heard. For this reason, even
in the old-fashioned shops, where Gus
toners of long standing still stick to
their cherished individual cups, they
have, in many cases, replaced the cups
with their names stamped on them with
cups bearing no other scroll, device or
legend but a simple number. These
customers are known on the boss bar
lber's books by their numbers, and
when they show up for their shaves
they get their numbered cups. I don't
suppose l ought to own Ut to it," con-
cluded the boss barber, "but the self
shaving habit has been spreading
mighty swiftly in this town for a num-
Der Of years past"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28

pect to pass through this life but once,
any good, therefore, that l can do,
let me do it now; let me not neglect
1t, nor defer it. for I shall not pass
this way again." The greatest happi-
ness of her life is to make Others hap
by. Her charities, however. are as
unostentatious as her life. Miss Gould's
income is over $500, 900 a year, and Of
this she spends twenty times as much
upon charity as upon herself.
Miss Gould is a studious m She
has one of the finest Libraries in the
country, doubly interesting from the
fact that she has chosen every book
in it herself and has arranged them to
suit her own fancy. She is very fond
of poetry. Mrs. Russell Sage is per-
haps her most intimate friend, and Mrs.
Sage is a deep student. These ladies
spend hours together in study and re-
search. Moreover, Miss Gould is a law
student. She has taken a full course
in law in order to be able to under
stand and manage her own affairs. She
is known to have been the favorite Of
her father. She Is today devoted to
his memory, and says to her friends
that he was the best man she ever
knew.
The heiress said to a friend laugh
ingly: "All my beaux are cranks." She
has been annoyed and threatened by
adventures and lunatics. Her life is
so full of affairs of moment she has
no time to consider matrimony. 1t
is a we'll known fact that the Count de
Castellane paid court first to Miss
Helen Gould. Receiving no encour-
agement. he turned to the younger
daughter. Miss Helen is an intensely
patriotic young woman, an American
through and through. Should she
ever marry, ker friends say, it will not
be some foreign nobleman.
Helen Gould is considered far more
attractive than any of her photographs
or portraits. Her face is dainty and
fower-like, her smile swift and rare.
Were she the daughter Of a hundred
earls she could not possess greater
repose of manner or charm. Her voice
is sweet, low and musical. There is
just the suspicion of a lisp. AS a
hostess she is cordial, unaffected and
entertaining. She does not wish 10
talk of herself, but leads the converse
ton to topics of general interest, and
especially to matters of reform or of
any serious nature. And yet there is
nothing solemn or gloomy in this
piously inclined young woman, whose
wealth is equaled by no woman of her
years.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
A Valuable Dog.

Sir Edwin Landseer is accredited
with the following: The sagacity Of
several retriever dogs was being dis
cussed in his presence. Not one yet
mentioned has come up to mine," said
he. Upon a certain occasion, l showed
him a five-pound note of a well-known
country town bank near which l was
residing. l put the note in my pocket
and, walking into the woods, hid it in
a tree, then strolled on for a mile or
so with the dog at my heels.
Back, find and bring, Trover,' 1
said, and the dog was off like a shot.
l waited and waited, and presently he
came, but without the note. He came
close to me and dropped from his
mouth one after the other, five gold
sovereigns. He had not only found the
note, sirs, but he had gone to the bank
and changed it,"
The intelligence of this remarkable
dog eclipsed even that of the celebrated
pointer, once possessed by the re-
nowned Mr.. Jingle. of Pickwickian
fame.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
Damminp the Nile.

For centuries plans for damming the
Nile have been under consideration,
but the khedive of Egypt has now ap-
proved a contract the terms of which
assure that the food waters of the
great river will be held back for use
in the dry season. The company which
proposes to perform this work has
planned to build immense reservoirs,
which, together with dams across the
Nile at Assuan and Assiut, will cost
$25, 900, 900. The main dam will be
nearly 5000 feet across and will be sew
enty-six feet above the river bed at
its lowest point. At present the Nile
becomes a mighty flooding stream ear
ly in the year, covering vast areas of
rice lands; in April it subsidies, and
from then till September the water sup
ply is insufficient for the cotton, sugar
and rice crops.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
Emile Richebourg's Career.

The career of Emile Richebourg,
who died the other day, throws some
light on the chances of authorship in
France. He proved by the success of
his highly respectable feuilletons that
clean writing as we'll as the other
kind could be relied upon to keep an
authors body and soul together. He
earned a fortune of nearly half a mil
lion dollars, and his publishers must
have derived from the profits on his
stories a sum three or four times as
large. To be sure, he was of no con-
sequence as a maker of literature. He
wrote trash. But the trash was, at
any rate, decent.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28

One day when Queen Victoria was
present in her carriage at a military
review, the princess royal, then rather
a wlllful girl of Ii or IA, sitting on
the front seat, seemed disposed to be
rather familiar and coquettish with
some young officers of the escort. Her
majesty gave several ~reproving looks
without avail. At length, in flirting
her handkerchief over the sides of the
carriage, the princess dropped it, too
evidently not accidentally. Instantly
two or three young officers sprang from
their saddles to return it; but the voice
of the queen stayed them.
stop, gentlemen, leave it just where
1t lies" she said; now, my daughter,
get down from the carriage and pick
up our handkerchief" There was no
help for it. The royal footman let
down the steps for the little lady, who
proceeded to lift from the dust the
pretty piece of cambria and lace. She
blushed a good deal as she turned her
head saucily, but was doubtless angry
enough.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
PLEA FOR SILK PETTICOATS.
Modesty and Not Vanity Prompts Their
Wear.

"'Men,' says the young woman, with
a toss of her head, think to settle ev-
cry matter by their dictum. They think
they are so much Yesterday I saw
where one of those animals had been
stuffing some gullible reporter about
the silk petticoats ladies wear" says
the Memphis Scimitar. "He said that
these silk skirts were never raised be-
cause wished to show them.
and he said the custom of wearing silk
understands was started by some fool
ish woman who had money and could
not wear all of this good clothing on
the outside. This is not so at all. The
use of silk u~nderskirts was started by
a modest woman who did not wish to
show her ankles every time she crossed
the street. When white underskirts
were worn dust and dirt showed on
them so readily that as a matter of def
erence the ladies had to raise them.
The dust then settled on the hose of
the fair one. Dust and dirt do not
show on the bright silk skirts, and
these are not raised. 1t just goes to
show that some men always put the
worst construction possible on a thing"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
THAT'S THE


ing himself for a stiff combat. And,
inwardly more determined than ever,
he got his hat and accompanied the
old gentleman.
Mrs. Maj. Doddington lived in a pref
ty mansard-roofed villa just out of
town. There was a fountain in front of
the veranda, and a perspective view Of
blue-silk furnished drawing-rooms
through the open French easements.
Mrs. Maj. Doddington is not at
home" said the little maid in a white
apron and pin%k-ribboned cap, who
came to the door. Would the gentle
man walk in and see Miss Etherege?"
But Mr.. Mopsleigh declined this. He
didn't quite like to face the heiress
without the advantage of Mrs. bod
dington's presence. He handed out his
card, on which he hurriedly penciled
beneath his own name that of his
nephew, and said he would "call
again"
But as they passed the corner of the
house, themselves hidden by a minia-
ture thicket of rhododendrons. thew
had a fine view of one of the blue-silk
rooms, where a slender, pretty young
lady, also in blue, sat writing at a desk
"a young lady with long eye-lashes, an
oval face, and a rose twisted in the
coils of her blue-black hair.
That's she, sir" said Mr.. Mopsleigh.
g~rasping his nephew's arm and gestic-
ulating toward the unconscious note
writer with the forefinger of his dis
engaged hand. That's the heiress!
Look at her! Isn't she a beauty?"
"She is, indeed, sir" said Dick, who
stood transfixed in the middle of the
rhododendrons. But are you sure"
"Of course I'm sure" brusquely in
%terrupted Mr.. Mopsleigh. who else
can it be? Dick, look here! You shall
marry that grill"
81 will, sir!" averred Dick, with
equal sincerity.
Mr.. Mopsleigh's face frightened up.
You're a trump, Dick" said he. Il
knew you'd come back to your senses
after a while. Marry her, Dick. aud
I'll settle my whole fortune on you
"All right, SIR" said Dick.
Hardly had the footsteps of the de-
parting guests died away on the lawn
than another young lady came in from
an adjoining room and bent her pretty
head over the fair letter-writer.
Are you almost through, Clara?"
quite through now, dear"
well, then, Clara, look here!"
And Miss Etherege-the real Miss
Etherege-sat herself down with a
resolute air.
"I've made up my mind to n thing
Clara" said she. you shan't be a
governess any longer. You shall live
with me. You shall be my companion
and I'll pay you twice as much
"But, Clementine-"
Say yes, darling-do say yes!"
And when Richard Avenel called
that evening, in obedience to a little
pencil note from Clara, he found thai
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28

A travelling school belonging to the
Chesapeake g. Ohio Railway company
has been in Lexington, KY, for some
time. This is not a school where chill
dren are taught the three RS" but is
a car in which men are taught how to
use airbrakes. The car cost Slo,Ooo,
and is filled with levers, cylinders, air
chambers, whistles, gauges, valves n
pipes-everything, in fact, that relates
to the use of air pressure about a train.
The pupils have nc books, but gray
headed and bearded railroad men are
given lessons each day from 8 to IL
O'Clock in the morning n from I TO y
O'Clock at night. The men are given
verbal instruction by a professor who
is paid by the railroad company.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28

others by intrinsic likeness. or by the
relation of cause and effect. The
progress of the intellect consists in
the clearer vision of causes, which
overlooks surface differences. To the
poet, to the philosopher, to the saint,
all things are friendly and sacred, all
events profitable, all days holy, all
men divine. For the eye is fastened
to the life and sights the circumstance.
Every chemical substance, every plant,
every animal in it's growth teaches the
unity of cause, the variety of appear
ance.-Emerson.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
SparroMs Riddle a PoIecat.

"You have often heard of the feroc-
ity of birds, no doubt" said William
Anderson, a hardy old woodsman, who
lives OF the lower Ohio, but 1 doubt
If you ever heard of birds attacking
and killing an animal that one would
imagine could whip three or four fierce
ours. While hunting down in the flats
near the mouth of Green river, several
years. ago, l saw a large and fierce
skunk beat an ignominious retreat
after trying in vain to best several
English sparrows, and later, when the
skunk had screwed his courage up to
the sticking point again, 1 saw those
same insignificant looking little birds
tear the animal to shreds. When my at
tention was first attracted the spar
rows were flying from one side of the
thicket to the other, twittering like
mad. When I went to learn the cause
the skunk, badly frightened, was dodg-
ing from one side to the other of a log,
trying to escape the savage attacks Of
the feathereN tribe. The birds didn't
mind me, but kept dashing their little
bills into the skunk's well-punctured
hide. When the skunk started across
an open space to the cover of nearby
driftwood his tormentors bounced upon
him and riddled the poor cats hide
Louisville Post.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28

Every child is given a motto. or
blessing" when old enough to choose
It (by ehance), and is taught to repeat
and sometimes write it, which is all
the education many of the children
ever receive. The girls are very fond
OF their blessing" believing it wards
off many evils, and they frequently
work it into their wearing apparel,
most of them being expert needle-wo-
men.
ST. Eustice was the patron saint OF
the puzzle zairgeth, which was made
on a Palm Sunday just before l O'Clock
a. m. in the first hour of a full moon.
with Mercury the morning star N in
the sign of Libra.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
The Village of Gretna Green.

Inv 'hIage OF Gretna Green.
me lonely little village just across
the border on the Scottish side is still
possessed OF a mysterious charm and
romance Tor travellers in Great Britain.
Not in the long straight street with its
row of simple white houses does the
attraction lie, but in the stories told
of the fugitive lovers who in older DAYS
crowded the border village; the poorer
often being united at the t~oll-gate lust
across the bridge, while the more we'll
TODD betook themselves to the hotel
which, though no longer devoted to
hymeneal uses, still stands at the en-
trance of the village street. The orr
gin of these marriages lies in the wild
habits of distant times when lack of
clergy in the district was, to some ex-
tent, supplied by the administrations
of friars from the adjacent abbeys.
who, in the course of their perambula-
tons, performed the rites of baptism
and marriage. Robert Elliott, author
of "Gretna Green Memoirs" was the
sole parson of this famous resort for
twenty nine years, during which pc
Rod he Is said to have united more
than 5000 couples of all ranks in So
ciety; the greatest number in any me
year being 1913, in the year 1926. The
ceremony was of the simplest, consist
ing Of but two questions: do you
take this woman for your wife?" and
do you take this nan for your hus-
band?" The ring-the certificate-and
the thing was finished. Even now,
provided that M or the other resided
in Scotland for three weeks, marriage
may be performed thus speedily and eff
fectually in the little village of Gretna
Green, as well as elsewhere along the
border.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28

A correspondent in the Edinburgh
Scotsman avers that in the Den of
Cowie, near Stonehaven, in Kincard-
ineshire, there are two twin trees, with
distinct tops and roots, but whose
trunks are joined together in the GU
rious fashion shown in the figure.
81 have climbed the trees" he writes,
when a boy, and sat on the horizontal
piece, which is at a height of between
four and five feet from the ground"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
Aroused the NeiphbOrhood.

Perrywinkle-What were you and
Jane and Mary gazing at so i~ntently at
Swilljug's for when 1 anne up the
street. Has he arrived home drunk,
again? Mrs. Perrywinkle (seriously)-
No, indeed, John; he just went into
the house sober!-Philadelphia North
American.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28

self to the ordinary standards.
1t has been inconceivable that q
young woman who represents $15,-
600, 900 in her w right should
not be a great belle-a fashion
able leader. 1t has been marvellous
that so great an American heiress
should not long ere this have sought
the prestige of a distinguished alliance,
either at home or abroad. But Helen
Gould has neither battered at society's
doors nor battered her millions for a
title.
Still society looks cordially upon her,
and the doors Of its holy Of holes
would swing for her should she signify
her wish to enter therein. But she
does not. On the contrary, she goes
on in the noiseless tenor of her way,
living her studious, benevolent life,
adored by her little waits upon whom
she has showered the sunshine OF her
beautiful presence, idolized by the
younger brother to whom she has been
mother and friend, respected by bust
ness men for her level judgment in
affairs. The world has compared her
with her sister, the gay, the fun-loving
school girl, the dashing young countess
whose marriage set society agog, the
grande dame Of Partisan society. It
has compared her with her sister-in-
law, that brilliant and diplomatic
young matron, whose pretty hands al
most swing open the doors to fashion
able society's holy of holes.
Helen Gould is first of all a sincere,
earnest Christian, believing that this
life is but the threshold of the next.
She is a communicate Of the Presby-
terian church. The creed by which
she regulates her gentle, blameless life
is summed up in these words: "T ex-
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
Aroused the Neighborhood.

Perrywinkle-What were you and
Jane and Mary gazing at so intently at
Swilljug's for when 1 came up the
street. Has he arrived home drunk,
again? Mrs. Perrywinkle Seriously
No, indeed, John; he just went into
the house Observation-Disclosures North
American.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28

Scientists have recently discovered In
Egvpt the tomb of Osiris, n OF the
old Egyptian chiefs, who lived so long
g thai his history is traditional n
he ranks as a god in Egyptian lore.
Osiris, whose tomb was found on the
site of ancient Thebes, in the present
village of Luxor, upper Egypt, is the
chief of the Egyptian gods and the
brother of Isis, herself the principal
goddess of the Egyptian mythology.
Tombs of Egyptian kings have been
discovered that date back to dynasttes
that fourished 10, 900 years ago.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
HELEN GOULD'S / f
LIVES QUIETLY AND STUDIES
DILIGENTLY.
One OF The Most Remarkable Women of
Our Times-A Sincere and Earnest
Christian with None of the Vices of
the Modern Society Rounder,

AY GOULD'S eld-
est daughter, Hell
en-, is described as
a typical American
girl, earnest, brainy
and cultured, yet
very much of a
riddle to the out
side world withal.
h can not be
judged nor does
she conform her
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
A Cool Suicide.

Moritz Kopsa, of New York, fixed a
rubber tube so that it conveyed gas
from the bracket to a big refrigerator.
He then entered and closed the door.
When found he was dead.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28

The difference between men IS in
their principle of association. Som
men classify objects by color and size
and other accidants Of appearance;
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
Wanted a "Nest."

Customer want six all wool sets
underwear. Clerk-What size,
pease? Customer-All sizes, SO one fits
per the other. I'm going to the Kloxs
hkei
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
AIN OST A

A Cyclone Tale Which Is Hard to
Believe.
The cyclone liar blew into the hotel
lobby and Joined a party of friends,
who had exhausted every topic of con-
versation save the weather, says the
Nashville American. Looks like we
are going to have a storm tonight"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28

The man who always does as he
nleases is often d~ispleased with what
he does
Money talks pretty c~onclusively at
times. but occasionally it gets ratified.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28

GA block and a box of
backing, he had succeeded in amass-
ing a fortune Of something over $780,
600. He had never married, because he
had been too busy in his younger days,
n now that his means would admit
OF such a luxury, his hopes and aspira-
lions were all centered in his only
nephew, a fine young fellow, just 81
years of age.
You're all 1 have in the world,
Dick" said he. "And you shall be my
heir, If only you marry to please me-"
Mammon and Cupid are almost in
variably ranged in opposition to one
another in this world-and in full view
of the unparalleled idiocy of such a
proceeding, Dick Avenel fell in love
with a pretty girl who hadn't a penny
to bless herself with. and n day he
sought his Uncle Mopsleigh.
Uncle" said Dick, I'm in love-"
1.-THE deuce you are!" said the old
gentleman.
with the sweetest girl in the
world" averred Dick.
And who, pray, may she be-" de-
manded Mr.. Mopsleigh.
Her name is Clara Cleveland. She's
nursery governess in Mrs. Van Vorst's
family"
Then" said Uncle Mopsleigh,
you'd better get out of love with her
as quick as you can. l want no beg
carly governess in my family! Be
sides, I've already picked out a wife
for you"
"Eh?" said Dick.
Miss Clementina Etherege, the
heiress! Just come to visit her aunt,
Mrs. Maj. Doddington. Worth a quar-
ter Of a million in her own right!
And they tell me she is as pretty as a
pink! That's the sort of a wife for
you, my boy!"
II beg your pardon, SIR" said Mr..
Avenel, with dignity. Were she as
rich as Croesus, and beautiful as
Venus, she would be perfectly indiffer-
ent to mel"
Don't be an asst" said Mr.. Mops-
leigh.
"Sir!" said Dick.
Come with me at once, and call on
Mrs. Maj. Doddington. See for your
self"
"Of course, I will do as you please
about this" said Dick, mentally steel
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
Wanted q Nest"

Customer want six all wool sets
of underwear. Clerk-What size,
please? Customer-All sizes, SO one fits
over the other. I'm going to the Klon-
dikei
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-28
HIS PROMISE.

r. M o P S L EIGH
was an aspiring
man. His motto
was Upward and
Onward" And, to
a certain extent, he
had lived up to it;
for, beginning life
W h no greater
capital than a rag
ged coat, a shoe
block and a box of