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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-03-11
EPAULETS ON OVERCOAT.
Naval Uniform on Shore Duty Surprises
Some National Gnard nn9cera

Naval Uniform on Shore Duty SURPRISED
Some National Guard Officers.
During the recent convention of the
national guard officers at the Palmer
house several officers appeared wear
ing uniform ~overcoats with the hood
hanging down the back and bright
new shoulder straps glazing on the
shoulders. These officers seemed to
be unconscious of the unusual display.
Landsmen wear insignia OF the sleeves
of their overcoats, narrow festoons of
black silk braid being all that Is need
ed to tell the grade. So as these Of
fcers entered the club room with
shoulder straps outside their over
coats considerable comment followed.
Whats the meaning of that, do you
thlnk?" was the question of one griz-
zled colonel, who has participated In
two wars. "Give it up" his compan-
ion answered. Guess they are afraid
We won't know they are officers. First
thing you know some of these militia
men will wear shoulder straps on their
undershirts." A closer inspection re-
vealed the fact that the officers under
discussion were naval militiamen. The
uniform prescribed for naval officers
on shore duty calls for shoulder straps
on the overcoat, and they were simply
complying with regulations. One of
them expressed his disgust because of
the enforced display and consequent
ridicule from those unacquainted with
the law, but he was powerless.
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lassitude and fatigue continued in a
mllder degree. At times my craving
for morphine returned for an hour or
SO, but coffee and a cigar arleviated
the feeling. l grew better every day.
l gained four pounds of flesh, and took
new hope and an interest in things
about me. I smoked, walked and
slept. Occasionally there was banker
ing for the old-time poison, and my
wife knew the indications by my ner-
vousness. l would probably have
fallen even hen but for the care and
watchfulness over me and the knowl-
edge that no morphine was within 80
miles of us. But gradually the long
ing for morphine wore away. l had
not felt so well in years. The dislike
for morphine has grown into a horror
of the stuff. The doctors tell me that
is a sure symptom of a complete cure.
1t is now over five months since 1 even
saw morphine. 1 have no fear Of go.
Ing back to my old habit.
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such a man upon those to whom he is
described by these comrades in arms.
He looks like a man built for big I'M
dertakings, and he realizes that the
work ahead of him in Cuba Is a big
undertaking. He realizes that even his
feats in arms and his conspicuous
service at Cold Harbor, where he fell
wounded, may be eclipsed by the sue
cessful fa%shioning OF a new Amer
lean government out Of an old one
which had become feverish and tumul-
tuous with revolution from the effects
of the corrupt touch of the Spaniard.
He is a fine officer" Adjutant Cen
eral Corbin is reported to have said,
well equipped in every way, ever for
the novel and arduous duties ahead OF
him; a man of genial heart, knowl-
edge of men and affairs, and should
win the respect and confidence Of all
classes among whom his influence will
be felt"
General Brooke" said General
Miles, belonged to the Second corps.
was a fine soldier, was wounded at
Cold Harbor and served on the from
tier. He will do what is expected of
him"
Colonel Edgar S. Dudley, who, as
Quartermaster, was thrown closely
with General Brooke during his com
mand in the Platte region, spoke of
General Brooke as a man who dis
tinctly insisted on being acquainted
with all the details of the command.
He was not satisfied with commencing
merely, he covered operations for
which he was responsible from the
bottom up. While not a strict disci-
plinarian, he held his staff officers to
strict accountability. And yet, on ac-
count of a strong personal magnet
ism, he was popular with staff officers
as we'll as with those who came to
know him
He is a man who, l believe, will
bring together and adjust and harmo-
nize all the elements of the island Of
Cuba-Spaniards, Cubans and SOL
diers."
And yet General Brooke is not with
out a restrained impulsiveness, carried
to an extreme which, while not leaving
the impression of a ~phlegmatic man,
yet impresses one with a sense of even
~mindedness and common sense.
General Brooke is a soldier by tenn
among boys, and his way has been
gradually and constantly up arApng
men. He was appointed from Penn
~sylvania and retires July 81, 1902. He
was made captain of the Fourth Penn
sylvania infantry on April 20, 1851, be-
ing h%onorably mustered out July 26,
1861. He was made colonel Of the
Fifty-third Pennsylvania Nov. Z, 1861,
and served through the war. On May
IL, 1864, he was made brigadier gen.
eral for specific distinguished service.
He was brevetted major general of
volunteers Aug. 1, 1864, for gallant
and m%eritorious services in the battles
of Tolopotomy and Cold Harbor.
He has had three commissions in the
regular army: Lieutenant colonel,
Thirty-seventh infantry, July %, 1866;
transferred to Third infantry, March
Is, 1869; colonel Thirteenth infantry,
March 20, 1879; transferred to Third
infantry, June IA, 1879; brigadier gen.
eral, April 6, 1888; brevetted colonel,
March 2, 1867. for gallant and merito-
rious services in the battle Of Gettys-
burg, and brigadier general, March 2.
1867. for gallant and meritorious SER
vices in the battle Of Spottsylvania
courthouse.
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Major General Brooke is one OF the
most striking figures in the army. He
Is over 6 feet in height, of massive
build and commanding carriage. His
head Is erect and face stamped with
the bronze and suggestion of enduring
force. He looks go and will be 60 on
the 21st of next July. His hair is
thick and white, with a weather
r~oughened mustache and kindly eye of
blue under brows that are earnest and
heavy. A voice at the first moment
~uninviting by reason Of it's depth and
b~rusqueness, his conversation is ever
withal, with little waste of words.
For he Is a self-made man, and the
hneries of speech have been torn away
in the midst of his fight from the bot
tom up.
Coming from the hardy, " honest
pennsylvania people of the mines, the
lad started out with a stout heart and
a body made to stand storms. And he
has stood them, standing gnarled now,
but with %clean-cut individuality, ro-
business and balance. Officers in the
army who have known General Brooke
for thirty years speak Of him in such
a way as to leave the impression Of
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-03-11
MedicinaI SOan.

The use of soaps containing a disin-
fectant of some kind has become so
general, says the Medical Press, that
observations on the practical value of
such combinations cannot fail to be Of
interest. DR.. Reithoffer has recently
published the results Of some expert
ments carried out by him with various
kinds Of soap, having for object to de-
termine their value as microbicides.
He used the ordinary notified soap,
white almond soap perfumed with no.
~trobenzine, md hard potash soap. He
found that these soaps were very in
imical to the cholera mivrobe, al per
ent solution killing them in a short
space of time, while a 5 per cent solu-
ton of the potash soap killed them in
five minutes. We are, therefore, at
liberty to infer that, as in washing the
hands the strength of the soap solution
is never less than 5, and may go as
high as As, per cent this method Of
disinfecting the hands, as well as the
clothes, ETC., is fully trustworthy. Most
stronger solutions are required, how
ever, to destroy the bacili of typhoid,
the coli-bacillus, etc., not less than 10
per cent being sufficient. None of the
soaps experimental with appear to
have any effect on pyogenic microbe.
The practical result of these investiga-
tons is that it is always preferable
to use soar and water first of all, rims
ing the hands in the disinfectant solu-
ton afterward. This is an important
point, which merits to be generally
made known.
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General Brooke has had an excep-
tionally varied experience as COM
mander Of posts, which, It Is believed.
will add to his natural qualifications
to I'LL the position he is just about to
assume
His services in the regular army
embrace his command Of the post of
Fort Union, N. M, to July, 1868; of
Fort Stanton, from September to No
vember, 1868; of regiment and post at
Fort Dodge, to January, 1871; OF Fort
Lyon. Col, to January, 1873; of Fort
supply, l. T., to July, 1874; at Holly
Springs, Miss. to August, 1874; at New
Orleans, to March, 1878; at Jackson
Barracks, La. commanding regiment
and post, to June, 1876; at Baton
Rouge, to November, 1876; at New Or
leans, commanding battalion of regi-
ment, to April. 1877; at Jackson Bar
racks, La, to May, 1877; at Huntsville,
Ala, and commanding post, to June,
1877; on duty with General Hancock,
to August, 1877; at Helena Barracks,
Mont, commanding regiment and post
and the district of Montana, to June,
1878; at camp on Marias river, Mon
tana, and at Fort Shaw, Mont, COM
handing regiment and district of
Montana, to June, 1881; at Springfield
armory, Mass, and in New York city,
president of magazine gun board, to
October, 1882; at Fort Shaw, Mont,
commanding regiment and post and
district Of Montana, to April, 1888;
commanding department of the Platte,
to March, 1895; department Of Dako-
ia, to April, 1897; department of Mis-
souri,, to April, 1898; commanding pro-
visional army corps at Chickamauga
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outside my cabin, s~olicitously noting
asked me to think of anything I could
eat or drink. 1 revolted at the thought
of food, but / did want black coffee and
lots of it. The coffee was handed me
through the window. Then the indie
scribable craving for morphine came
over me, and l would hurl the coffee
pot, cup and all on the floor, while 1
roared anathemas on those who had
lured me into my death trap.
THE third day 1 was practically in
sane all day. When my doctor friend
came in to see me (for l have since
learned they were for a time afraid l
would not endure the heroic cure) l
was lying on the floor, with my clothes
torn off from me. l have no recollec-
ton of the doctor, but l do recall doZ-
ems of frightful Authorizations that
day. Once l moaned and begged for
help from thousands of cats that had
invaded the cabin. Some were as
large as sheep, and others had brass
hoofs. Then there were a myriad of
boilermakers hammering for all they
were worth all about my cabin, until
my ear drums were split by the hor-
rible din. Then / was in a dissecting
room and a lot of boys in black
blouses were cutting my skull open,
and ripping out my vitals. So the
Authorizations proceeded for a long
time that day. For several hours
that night l begged my brother to
come in and kill me. 1 used all the
eloquence my parched tongue and
cooked brain could muster, and meant
every word of it. l would have gone
~joyously to my execution. l forced cof-
fee and some canned corned beef down
my throat when l saw that my appeals
for death were in vain. 1 remember
watching the sun come up next norm
ing and wondering whether l had
been. there two or three weeks. The
fourth, fifth and sixth days are not so
distinct in my memory that 1 can
discriminate between them.
"My hands were raw for ten days
after from the beating l had given the
boards in my delirious efforts to do
something. The fiery sensation in
my head abided and it caused the
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-03-11
GOOD CROPS IN CANADA.
FARMERS Leave Good Lands In Minneso-
ia for Western Canada


ta for Western Canada.
Delegates representing a number of
neighboring farmers in Clay county,
Minnesota, who visited the Edmonton
district Of Western Canada last sum-
mel are evidently very well satisfied
with the result Of their trip. They
think SO well Of the country that in
addition to the privilege of obtaining
a free homestead of $50 acres of land
they have also purchased land. In a
recent interview on the subject Messrs.
G. e. and A. Hughes of GAINESVILLE,
Clay Co.. say:
I'VE are well pleased with Western
Canada. 1t is far ahead of what we
expected. We find the climate to be
warmer than we expected. AS for the
crops we have never seen anything
that can compete with them. We have
lived in Minnesota and have farmed
some Of what they count the best lands
In the Red River Valley for ten years
and have done very well in that part
Of the country, and have farms there
at present free of all circumference,
but believe that this country (Western
Canada) is SO much better that we
have bought from the Canadian Pa
cifc Railway Company one section of
land northeast of Edmonton in the
Beaver Hill district. We have trav-
eled through that part of the country
and have seen the grain in the gran
aries and the amount of land that it
was taken off and find that they have
grown as much as fifty bushels and
over to the acre, and they say that this
has not been a good year, and very
little if any grain had been touched
by the frost. Hay seems to be plenti-
full, and if you wish to put up log
buildings you can get the logs within
a few miles. Coal can be had at the
mines for rs cents per ton, or you can
dig it yourself. Nearly all kinds of
garden truck can be grown in abund-
ance. We find everything that can be
grown in good demand. The farmers
tell us that they can get four and a
half live weight per hundred for hogs,
and for three ear old steers from fifty
to sixty dollars per head, providing
they are good. We will move into that
part of the country next summer. All
the people in that part of the country
seem satisfied, and we do not see any
reason why they should not be So"
The Messrs. Hughes also stated that
they would be very glad to afford any,
one desiring particulars about the
country they had visited the fullest
information, on receiving enquiries at
GAINESVILLE, Clay Co., before the LIST
of June next. when it is understood
they propose to return to the Edmon-
ton district.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-03-11
BEGGING
How They Are Treated by Helen Gould
and Others.

now Ihey are treated by Helen Gould
and Others.
Rated in accordance with the num-
Der of begging letters received, Miss
Helen Gould would probably be ranked
first among the men and ON of
New York who measure their wealth
by millions, though this was not so,
perhaps, till after she had begun her
remarkable work of relieving the
wants of the soldiers. Miss Gould
treats her begging mail with much
greater respect than do most persons
of large wealth, for, unless unusually
engaged with other matters, she reads
every letter asking for financial aid
on the same day 1t is received, setting
aside a certain part Of each twenty
tour hours for its perusal in company
With her private secretary. Many Of
these letters, most of them, in fact,
are SO %palpably fakes that no serious
attention Is paid to them, yet so sim
cerely courteous and considerate of the
feelings of others is Miss Gould that
a polite answer is sent by the next
post to nearly every letter-writing
ain asker. Miss Gould's begging mail
must call for a preposterous aggregate
OF charity nowadays, for it has almost
doubled within the last six months,
and the total asked for in gifts by let
ter IN the year 1897, as footed up by
her private secretary, was a little more
n 100000 t, or about $2,740 a day.
How much she actually gives out for
charity not wen her private secretary
knows, many benefactions being ex-
tended by Miss Gould in absolute Sc
crecy. Though richer than she by
q goodly number Of millions, her
brother George does not receive near
ly so many begging letters, nor does
he open his hand so freely as she; yet
his begging mail is something enor-
nous, n the number of favorable re-
sponses is greater than is generally
supposed. How the younger of the
two immensely rich Rockefeller
brothers treats his begging mail has
neve leaked out, but John D. Rookie
Teller and his family are known to give
1t a great deal of their personal at
tention. They look after it at break
fast time, when every member Of the
family present takes his share of the
letters asking for ~favors, scans them
and later reads them aloud to the
others. A good proportion of all the
Rockefeller letters are inconsequen-
tial, as a matter of course, and these
receive little discussion. This Is true
also Of the few which add threats to
their pleadings, for the Rockefellers
have long ben case-hardened to this
sort OF epistle, like most other modern
m1llionaires. Letters full of uncon-
sc1ous humor and those in which the
writer's strive to maxi their point by
being purposely humorous are more
common than those of sinister import.
FeWest of all, as might be imagined,
are the letters which seem really
worthy.
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BRAIN-WORKERs PROPER FOOD
Their Diet and Stimulants Are of Great
Importance.


Woodworking men, especially in the
learned professions, are often puzzled
as to the right hours for their meals
and the right diet to be taken at their
meals. The much graver question of
stimulants also interests them person
ally. The fear of a midday meal is
very common among brain-workers. A
good luncheon is apt to interfere with
inspiration, especially if any form OF
alcohol be taken. Tea, very popular
with scholars, is less Objectionable as
to its immediate effects, especially
among scholars, who like w~orkwomen,
nearly always take too much and pre-
fer their tea to be strong, red as
blood" as Garrick Used to say. The
chief danger in taking too light a
midday meal is that the student Is at
his worst, physically, just before din
ner time. Hence, dinner is rendered a
fresh source of dyspepsia, and If he
strolls about before the evening meal
he is apt to take cold.
The special stimulants Of great men
have been recorded in their memoirs.
One Of the most remarkable records of
this kind has come to light in Au-
brey's Brief Lives" founded on notes
taken by the author in the middle Of
the seventeenth century. Few drinks
are more distrusted among BRAIN
workers these days than ale, but
Pyrnne seems to have thought other
wise. He was a voluminous
writer, and his pamphlets lost
him his eyes and endangered
him his head. Aubrey informs
us that about every three hours his
(~Prynne's) man was to bring him a
roll and a pot of ale to refocillate his
wasted spirits. Sc he studied and ate
and drank and munched bread, and
this maintained him till night, when
he ate a good supper. Now, he did well
not to dine, which breaks off ones
fancy, which will not presently be re-
gained" The danger of a priori rea-
soning may be seen from the above
quotation. Those who have forgotten
about Prynne would take him, from
this note of his diet, to be a bohemian
of a w~ell-known old-fashioned type;
yet ne was a stern, uncompromlslng
puritan who suffered mutilation and
the pillory, and had a violent and very
unbohemian prejudice against the
stage. The diet does not then proclaim
the We doubt, however, If the
serious student Of the end of the nine
teenth century would do well to re
f%ocillate his wasted spirits" by drink
ing a pot Of ale every three hours.
Prynne vas perhaps wise not to dine,
which meant to lunch in those days,
and implied a very hearty meal. But
the munching of rolls all day and the
good supper were questionable. His
style was very %caustic, perhaps be-
of the misrule of Charles l., but
possibly, also, through dyspepsia,
which also had so disastrous an inlu-
ence on the literary temper of Thomas
Carlyle.
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A Vast Rice Field.

"There is a vast stretch of fine prai-
RE country between Lake Charles and
Crowley" said A. V. Eastman of Lake
Charles, that is fast being converted
into a fertile rice belt. Pumping plants
are being put in all through that sec
ton, which are converting the place
into one of the richest and most pro-
ductive countries in the south. This
has been a big rice year. The crop
was damaged by the September storm,
but not SO very much. All through
the Lake Arthur region the irrigating
system is being adopted. The planters
are not depending upon Providence
rice any more. They found that it
was too uncertain and they could
not afford to get only one crop out
Of every three or -four. But. with
canals of water penetrating the prai-
ries and powerful pumping plants
scattered here and there for raising
the water, the Louisiana rice belt is
assuming new proportions and new
possibilities."-New Orleans Picayune
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Chinese Telegraphy.

The Chinese, owing to the multiple,
ity Of the characters in their written
language, have solved the problem Of
t%elegraphy by using numbers for trans
mission yer the wire instead of char
acters. The numbers have to be re-
interpreted into characters when re-
ceived. To facilitate the operation,
types are used. On one end of each
type is a character; on the other end
is a number. By reversing and i'm
printing the types upon a sheet Of pa
per the change is readily effected, with
a high degree of accuracy.
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While the subject of an alliance be-
tween Great Britain and the United
A PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL
TROLLEY.


States is being discussed, a very SUBJ
stantial bond of steel has been recent
ly formed between the United States
and the dominion of Canada. An in
ternational trolley line has been put
into operation, running across the Nj
agara river on a new steel arch bridge,
which has been completed but a short
time. The bridge is remarkable in
many particulars, it being, among
other things, the greatest span of
metal ever erected and it's construction
involved many engineering difficulties
which were successfully overcome. The
trolley line consists of a double track,
and the wires are suspended on at
tractively designed poles extending
through the center of the structure.
The first car to cross from American
to Canadian ground was sent over
on a recent evening, about Z o'clock,
and was attended with a great demon
stration, although no such had been
anticipted.
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have me in a place where my cravings
would be denied, and 1 could not pos
sibly get out to get it for myself. I've
seen the time when l would commit
murder to get morphine, and would be
killed before l would give up in my
craze for a squirt of it. One of the
three persons accompanying MI there
had agreed to be always close at hand
to be a help and a cheer. The first
night was not so bad. I went to bed
and my wife came in and babe me a
cheerful goodnight. Ten minutes
later the craving for a hypo began. In
an hour it became tormenting, and in
two hours I was pacing the floor of
the cabin. By morning the craving
had become a craze. My brother came
and asked how l was, and l was so
mad that l would not answer. 1
thought that my head would break
open. I was sure my brains were
cooking. l got up and sat down liter
ally a thousand times an hour.
II cursed my wife and vowed ven
geance on my brother. was raging
with a desire to show them who boss
ed me and that l was not a fool to be
penned up to die like this. Was there
ever such a horror as this my own wife
and brother had perpetrated on me? 1
could have torn my tormentors limb
from limb. Oh, no one can tell the
distress of that day. l knew l was
insane for hours. The second night l
spent in walking back and forth. I
wept and begged to be let out. I
pleaded with my brother by every
thing l could think of to let me out
at least to die OIL the grass outside.
Over and over again I begged for de-
liverance from my horrible prison, I'M
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-03-11
Electric Motor Wagons,

The Automobile Club and some cleo
lric associations in France are occu-
pied in endeavoring to establish cleo
trio charging stations for electric We
hicles. The idea is to arrange with
electric light and power stations to
do the work, so as to make the use Of
electrically propelled carriages posi-
BILE all over France.