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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22

to have a %tarnation sight of fun!"
81 cannot go, Ezra"
For the land sakes, Alice, I shu'd
think you'd be ashamed OF yerself!"
broke in Aunt Hester, Indignantly.
"Arter all the pains Ezra's took to
come way over here, a-purpose to ask
you. Shu'd'nt you think she orghter
be ashamed, Mr.. Ellis?"
perhaps Miss Bond does not care
for parties" said the young man pleas
antly.
But this ere n is goin' to be an
extra affair-two fiddles. an a bass
viol. I tell o it'll be a regular old
~hoe-down! Say, Al"
But the girl had slipped quietly
from the room.
II swan" exclaimed Ezra, rising, his
ford face becoming several tinges
redder, eff that hain't a purity trick
to serve a fellar! There's more gals
than one in the world, howsomever, as
I'll jest show her. I'll ask Alminy
Bindwort to go-she'H jump at the
chance"
La, now don't be hasty, Ezra"
said Aunt Hester, soothingly. "Alice
will go. I'll bring her round tomor-
row. She's only a little odd and ofish.
When you're married it'll be all right
Il don't know as l care about a
balky gal for a wife, exclaimed Ezra,
coarsely. perhaps l won't have her,
arter ALL" And snatching his hat, he
sullenly left the house.
Every moment that Alice could now
snatch from her drudgery she spent
in reading. Before the books which
Mr.. Ellis had first loaned her were
finished he had sent to the city for
more. Nearly every evening, when
Aunt Hester was comfortably doing
in her armchair. Mr.. Ellis would Sc
lect a book, and, going out into the
porch, would read aloud, in his clear
musical voice, to Alice.
Mr.. Ellis had fallen into the habit
of calling her "Allie;" and somehow
she liked it; for now his month had
heightened into three and it seemed tc
| Alice as if they had been together al.
most forever.
Allie" he said, TOMORROW will bt
the first of November, and I am 60
ing away" They were standing by
the meadow bars, in the soft, evening
twilight. The last rays of the setting
SUN were gliding the girls chestnut
hair until it shone like FURNISHED gold
The fringed curtains dropped quickly
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22
PRICES PAID MODERN AUTHORS
Raayard Kipling Leads the Market
Hymns Pay Better Than Novel.

Hymns Pay Better Than Novel.
Rudyard Kipling commands the
highest price of any living author, ae-
cording to the Pail Mall Gazette, which
says that it paid $3.50 for each Of his
'Barrack-Room Ballads" and that
1.-THE Seven Seas brought him SILL.
900. He has received SO cents a word
for a 10,000-word story. Anthony Hope
charges $3.50 for a magazine story, re.
serving the copyright. Mr.. Gladstone's
price for a review is 81, 900. Conan
Doyle received $4,000 for Rodney
Stone" Mrs. Humphrey Ward $40, 0OC
for Robert Elsmere," $50, 900 each fol-
David Grieve" and "Marcella," $751;.
900 for "Sir George Tressady" and
SIS, 900 for Bessie C~ostrell." Ian Mac.
laren has made $4,000 out of "Ths
Bonnie Briar Bush" and "Auld Lana
Syne." Rider Haggard still asks from
$75 to 500 a column of 1900 words
and will not write for less than $40, 900.
The highest price ever paid for a nov.
ell is 100000, which was handed owe
to Alphonse Daudet for his "Sappho.'
Zola's first fourteen books netted him
5000, 900, and in twenty years he has
made at least 1915, coo. Ruskin's sixty.
four books bring him in $40, 900 a year
Swinburne, who writes very little,
makes $4,000 a year by his poems,
Browning, in his later years, drew
$4,000 a year from the sale of his
works, and Tennyson is said to have
received $50, 900 a year from the Mac.
millans during the last years of his
life. Mr.. Moody is believed to have
beaten all others, as more than ST..
$50, 900 has been paid in royalties fol
his hymns.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22
The Wheat King,

The wheat king of the world resides
In Argentina. He is an Italian emf
grant named Guazone, and his broad
acres are situated in the south of the
province of Buenos Ayres. His crop
occupies an area of 66.27O acres. He
numbers his workmen by the thou
sand, and each one receives a certain
share of the profits. When his sea-
sons crop is harvested he fills over
1900 railwty b ucks with the grain.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22
PhotOgraphY and Shontinp,

A miniature Photographic Gamers at
tached to the barrel of a gun is the in
vention of Mr.. Lerchner of Vienna. By
an automatic shutter, working in uni
son with the trigger of the gun, the
sportsman is able to obtain a perfect
photograph of the bird or animal i'm
mediately before the shot or bullet has
reached it.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22
Frost Proof Water-Pipes.

According to English exchanges the
Frostproof Water Pipe syndicate of
Birmingham has been formed to put
on the market a water pipe that will
not burst when the water in it is
frozen. Samples of the pipe can be
had and those portions of the pipe that
were artiicially frozen after being
filed with water and Theoretically
sealed showed no sign of leakage when
tested afterward under heavy pressure.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22
LARGE EGGS TO ORDER.
How they We're Made by an Ingenious
m

A unique salad was invented gome
be3rs ago by an ingenious woman. 1t
col sisted Of slices of hard boiled egg
Ut least four inches in diameter served
aR lettuce leaves. No egg, says The
Galveston News, but an ostrich egg,
was ever so large, but the secret lay in
he fact that it was a composite egg.
Two bags of flannel were made, one
'ound and the other oval, the round
,ne being much the smaller. Into the
FOUND one was dropped at once the
FOLKS of eight eggs, nearly filling the
bag. After the yolks were boiled hard
hey were left until cool, and then the
Hannel was cut off. The whites of the
Eggs were put into the oval bag, and
The ball of yolks carefully slipped in
10 them. When the whites had
cooked and cooled che second bag was
cut away. Experimenting was neces-
sary to find the right size of the bags
for the number of eggs and the proper
Tomato size for the yolk alone and
Inc entire egg. 1t was another nice
point to allow for the second boiling
Of the yolks without getting them too
hard and to locate the yolks in the
middle of the whites. This was most
satisfactorily accomplished by putting
half OF the whites into the bag, then
dropping in the yolks and finishing
with the rest of the whites. The
buoyancy of the whites maintained the
position of the yolk. Afterward the
inventor of the mammoth egg had two
light tin cases made of the proper
shape and dimensions, but there is no
record of her having obtained a patent
Sn her device.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22
Hadn't Thought of That,

"Pd like to know" exclaimed the
enraged client, why l ought to feel
jubilant over the outcome of this
case?" Didn't we obtain a verdict for
$4,000" the lawyer asked. Eyes, but
you got about all of it. What good
does it do me?" my dear sir, the
other fellow feels just as bad as il
every cent of it were going into your
pocket"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22

What did that man want?" asked
the druggist. "a pint of whisky" said
the new clerk, who was on trial for a
week. did he have a prescriptions"
mo" well, what did you do?" 81
wrote one for him." Consider your
self permanently engaged."-Cleveland
Leader.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22
Indiana's Big Tree,

The largest tree in Indiana poplar
was cut down near Madison the 9TH
er day. 1t measured eight feet across
the stump, and was cut into foul saw
logs.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22
Whitening Peach Trees.

The old New England practice OF
whitewashing fruit trees seems likely
to come into vogue again. The Mis-
souri, experiment station in a recent
bulletin says: Even though the pro-
portional difference between the tenn
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22
Grain Moth and Its Destruction.

y h insect in
Maryland and the
South has done so
much damage to
stored wheat and
corn as has the lit
tie insect o as
the grain moth. 1t
is also known as
the white fly"
~"weevil," IS t a C k
f1y," etc, In Mary
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22
ALICE BONDS CASTLE.
BY @. R.

LICE, Alice Bond!"
Eyes, Aunt Hes
ter"
&c o m e in the
house this instant
and scrub the floor.
I v in all my
life, saw such a
lazy, shiftiess girl!
Do you hear me?"
Eyes, aunt"
There 70 go!
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22

He-"Ah, there's no place like home
after ALL" She-"What! Has some
hing disagreeable happened at the
lub?"-Boston Traveller.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22
THE ICELAND PONY.
He is THE CAB, TRAIN AND Ex-
PRESS WAGON.
Ills Strength and Endurance-They Arc
Quite as Marvellous as the Dooility of
h Little Beast-weIl Trained by the
Natives.

F the camel is the
ship of the desert.
the Iceland pony is
the cab, train, m
nibus and tramcar
of the wonderful
country to which
he belongs, says the
London Globe. To
begin with. he is a
misnomer. He is
not a pony, in the
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRlCULTURISTS.

some Cp-to-Date Hints About CuItIva-
tion of the Soil and Yields Thereof
Horticulture, ViticaIture and Flori-
culture.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-01-22

An elephant can carry about three
tons on his ba
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LODGES BILL PASSED.
Great Interest Taken in the Immigra-
tiOn Measure.


The features of Mondays proceedings
in the United States Senate were the
speech delivered by Senator Wolcott of
Colorado, chairman of the bimetalic COM
mission, upon the negotiations with Eu-
ropean countries relative to international
bimetallisin and the passage of the Lodge
bill restricting immigration into the Unit
ed States. The galleries were crowded
at an early hour. Unexpectedly Senator
Hanna appeared at the opening of the scs-
sion. Mr.. Foraker, the senior Senator
from Ohio, presented Mr.. Hanna's ere.
dentials for the remainder of Mr.. Sher
mans term. He escorted his colleague
to the desk, where Vice-President Hobart
administered the oath.
AT the conclusion of the morning bust.
ness Mr.. Wolcott began his address. He
was in fine voice and commanded the
earnest attention of his auditors. AT the
conclusion of the speech Mr.. Wolcott was
instantly surrounded by his Republican
colleagues, desirous of rendering to him
congratulations.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Wolcotts g
speech the immigration bill was taken up
and discussed until 3 o'clock, the hour at
which, by previous agreement, 1t had been
arranged to vote finally upon the amend
ments and the bill. An amendment Offer
ed by Mr.. Spooner of Wisconsin providing
that the ability on the part of the immi-
grant either to read or to write should
be accepted as sufficient test of his lit
eracy was adopted. Another amendment
by Mr.. Spooner providing that the men,
bers of the family accompanying the i'm
migrant rejected under the conditions o.
the bill should be returned to the country
whence they came by the steamship COM
panies was also adopted. Other efforts
were made to amend the measure, but
failed. The bill was then passed by a
vote Of As to %.
The bill as passed provides that all inn
migrants physically capable and over III
years of age shall be able to read or write
the English language or some other Ian
guage; but a person not able to read or
write who is over 80 years of age and is
the parent or grandparent of a qualified
immigrant over p years of age and capa-
BILE of supporting such parent or grand
parent may accompany the immigrant, or
the parent or grandparent may be sent
for and come to join the family; and a
wife or minor child not able to read or
write may accompany or be sent for and
come to join the husband or parent who
is qualified. This act does not apply to
persons coming to the United States from
the island Of Cuba during the continuance
of present disorders there, who have here
tofore been inhabitants of that island.
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GIVES SPAIN WARMING.
President Says American Charity Will
Not BE Delayed.


Not BE Delayed.
Washington dispatch: The President
now knows that Spanish authorities are
hampering Consul General Lee in every
way possible. They do not want Ameri-
cans to succor the starving Cubans. But
President Mckinley has given assurance
that all donations will reach Cubans. He
has given that assurance without any
communication with any representative OF
Spain.
President Mckinley has, after careful
consideration of the complaint that sup
plies sent from Philadelphia to Havana
have not reached Consul General Lee,
given out the statement that all dona-
tions to Cuba will be distributed by Gen.
Lee. When this statement was given out
by Judge Day no assurance of a change
of policy in Havana had come from Gen.
Lee or from Minister de LONE.
The assurance to the American people
that their contributions would be distrib-
uted in Cuba was simply the assurance
of the President of the United States, who
Is conscious of his right and power to see
that 1t Is made good. President McKin-
lev has INDUCED in no threat against
Spain. He has simply assured the Amer
ican people that he will see that their
contributions are distributed to the starv-
ing Cubans. Those who have watched
Developments believe that this will be by
Intervention with force.
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Marshal Bianco has determined to mobil-
ize one-Quarter of the volunteer force and
send IL into the field on active duty. A
much more probable solution Is offered
that the riots were the result of a con-
servative plot in Spain to overthrow the
ministry and Gen. Rlanco, and to enforce
tic return of Gen. Weylef.
There Is no question that the bitterest
feeling against Gen. Blanco and auton-
omy is entertained in conservative circles
and among the volunteers and in the ar
my. The volunteer officers are open in
expressions Of hostility, and the regulars
are no less hostile, but are generally more
guarded in their utterances.
A regular officer said that Gen. Blanco
would have to go, and if the regulars are
ordered to fire on the volunteers or .peo-
pie lie believed they would refuse to
obey.
Several officers and men have notified
Gen. Blanco that il he continues to spend
money to win over rebel chiefs instead of
paying the troops they will take matters
into their own hands. Long arrears OF
pay are still due to the soldiers, and great
dissatisfaction is caused thereby.
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De LONE Fears a Crisis.

Senior Dupuy de LONE, the Spanish
minister, fears the debate in the House of
Representatives may cause crisis.
Thursday he called at the State Depart
ment, and for over an hour was closeted
with Judge Day, the assistant secretary.
He expressed extreme regret over the
speeches made by the Congressman, and
especially that of Mr.. Hit, which, he said,
might infame the Spanish populace to
some overt act, such as driving Minister
Woodford and the United States consuls
from Spain before such demonstrations
could be checked by the Spanish Govern
ment.
Expressing extreme regret" is the dip.
lomatic mode of making protest without
bringing about an international complca-
ton. The Spanish minister was appre-
hensive particularly Of the effect of Mr..
Hits speech, because of the prominent
position he occupied as chairman of the
Committee OH Foreign Affairs. He point
ed out to Judge Day that because Of the
excitement in Spain over the Cuban ques-
ton, the reports of such utterances as
that of Mr.. Hit would have the effect of
further stirring up the people. He also
regretted extremely the unusual activity
in the navy yards. The manufacture Of
guns. ammunition and other utensils of
war is being pushed along more rapidly
than for years, and Senor de LONE told
Judge Day that his people could not re-
gard this activity otherwise than prepara-
tion for war, in anticipation Of some rad
ical move on the part of this Government.
He explained to Judge Day that, while he
personally knew the feeling Of the admin
istration to be friendly, the people Of
his country had to take the talk in Con-
gress and the reports of the activity at the
navy yards at their face value, and that
his information wonld go for nothing with
tborn
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-27
BIG MILL STRIKE IS NOW ON.
Cotton Operatives Refuse to Accept q
Cut in Wages.

Cotton Operatives Refuse to Accept q
Cut in Wages.
A reduction in the wages of 125, 600 op-
eratives employed in nearly $50 cotton
mills in New England, which the manu-
facturers decided upon as temporary
remedy for the depression in the cotton
goods industry of the North, went into
effect Monday morning.
In six of the mill centers, namely, New
Bedford, Biddeford, Saco, Fall River,
Fitchburg and Lewiston, 1915 mill
hands struck. The twenty-five mills OF
the former city, which gave employment
to S,730 hands, were shut down because
the operatives have refused to accept the
reduction, and the strike thus inaugurated
promises to be one of the most protracted
and stubbornly contested i'm the history
of the textile industry. The operatives
are fighting for the abolition of the fining
system, in addition to a restoration Of
wages. There was no violence about the
mill gates, and no large gatherings on the
streets.
The $500 employees at the Laeonia and
Pepperell mills at BiddefOrd refused to
go to work under the new schedule and
it is thought the strike there will not be
settled easily. About 1,6O0 Of the work
ing force at the York mills in Saco went
on strike and those mills will be closed.
The Androscoggin mills at Lewiston and
the King Philip plant in Fall River were
handicapped by a strike of number Of
the hands and the Queen City mills Of
Burlington, VT, are closed on account Of
strike which followed the posting Of
notices Of n reduction. In Fitehburg 225
employees of the Noekege mills struck. and
in the King Philip mills at Fall River
LOO quit. In Burlington 300 are out
and in Lewiston 200 struck.
The mills in Fall River, with the ex-
ception of the Fall River Iron Works and
Durfee & Seaconnett plants, reduced
wages Jan. 3, on the same day a cut down
went into effect at the big Amoskeag cor
poration of Manchester, the Naumkeag
mills mt Salem, the China, Webster and
Pembroke mills at Suncook, N. H., and a
number OF towns in Worcester County.
The Fall River mills employ about 1000,
the Amoskeag 1900, and the others which
adopted the new scale the first of the
year about 5000 hands.
The reduction Monday affected the cot
ton mills of Maine, Rhode Island, COnnec-
ticut, the mills of New Bedford, Lowell
and large number of smaller centers In
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. In
New Bedford alone $22, 100000 capital is
rendered idle by the strike
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BAYONETs BRING CALM.
Military Force Quells the Spirit OF
Revolt in Havana.

Military Force Queils the Spirit of
Revolt in Havana.
Advices say that absolute calm now
reigns in Havana, and II is difficult to
realize that few days ago the city was
apparently on the verge Of revolution.
Although the rioting was practically over
ON Friday night, troops continued to be
poured into the city Sunday. Gen. Bernal
arrived from Pinar del Rio on that morn
ing with force estimated Mt 1000 men
and bivouacked In the railroad yards, in
Prado, where most of the forces still re-
main. About the same time column Of
1000 cavalry rode in and found quarters
In the Quartet de la Fuerza. In Cuba
street, on the artillery wharf, batteries
of field artillery were planted in position
TO rake Cuba and Chacon streets. IL Is
estimated that fully $4,000 were in the
city, in addition to the regular garrison.
There was much speculation as to the
cause OF such extraordinary precautions,
In view of the fact that the city was np-
parently tranquil. The usual parade OF
the volunteer palace guard In the Prado
was permitted, but n Gordon of regulars
kept the crowd at n distance, permitting
no one to approach the volunteers or to
cross the park.
An explanation offered for the concen-
tration of troops far In excess OF the APP
parent gravity OF the situation V that
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CUBAN DEBATE ENDED
DISCUSSION CAUSES AHOTTl
} IN THE HOUSE.
speakerReed and Congressman Bailey
Clash ON veracity-A Attempt TO Spring
the Belligerency Resolution Defeated
-Bayonets Bring Calm In Havana.
Turmoil in the House.

All day Wednesday the question of
granting belligerent rights to the Cuban
insurgents was argued in the House, but
as on the preceding day the minority hurl-
ed itself against q stone wall On the
only vote taken Wednesday, motion de-
signed TO overrule the decision of the
Speaker and direct the Committee on For
eign Affairs to report without further de-
lay the Cuban resolution passed by the
Senate at the last session-the Republi-
cans stood solid and voted to sustain the
chair.
The galleries were banked to the doors,
and there was considerable excitement
throughout the carly part of the session
when the members of the minority were
successfully pressing all sorts of amend
ments bearing on the Cuban question for
the purpose of embarrassing the major
ity. During the general debate Chairman
Hit of the Foreign Affairs Committee
made an impressive speech of less than an
hour, explaining at length the situation
which made action by Congress inadvisa-
BILE. He asserted that the President must
assume the responsibility of any action
which might eventuate in the war ana
appealed to both sides Of the chamber to
patriotically support the executive II
crisis shall come.
A sensational ending marked the third
and hast day of the debate. Speaker
Reed, in unqualified words, stamped as
false an assertion made by Congressman
Bailey, the floor leader of the Democrats,
ind turmoil ensued.
Notice was given Wednesday by Mr..
Williams (dem., Miss.) that at the con-
clusion of the debate Thursday motion
would be made to recommit the diplo-
matte and consular appropriation bill, the
basis of dispute, with instructions. Thurs
day when the motion was made by MT.
Bailey it was ruled out of order by Speak
er Reed. Mr.. Bailey thereupon startled
the House by affirming that he had pri-
vate understanding with the Speaker by
which a vote should be taken directly on
the motion to recommit. This the Speak
er emphatically denied, and these two
leaders of their respective parties in the
House, with white faces and voices shak-
en- by emotion, set their statements each
against the other, while the galleries look
ed on in breathless amazement and the
members were in an uproar. Mr. Smith
of Michigan, who said he was present,
corroborated the Speakers side of the
case.
The result of the Speakers position was
that an appeal was taken from his decis-
ion, and by strict party vote the appeal
was laid on the table-16S to 114-the
Democrats and Populists, as on the two
previous day, voting against the solid
Republican strength.
The debate Thursday was not as inter
esting as on either Of the two preceding
days. The features were a characteristic
speech by Champ Clark of Missouri, q
strong appeal for conservatism from Mr.
Johnson rep, Ind), and a presentation
of the result of his observations in Cuba
during his recent trip to the island from
Mr.. King (dem., Utah).