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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16
Flowers in a Sick Room.

Ye are welcome to my darkened room,
o meek and lonely wildwood fowers!
Ie are welcome, as light amid the gloom
That hangs upon my weary hours.
Here by my lowly couch of languishment
and sorrow
Your station take, that | may from your
presence borrow
Lessons of hope, and lowly trust,
That He whose touch revived your
bloom.
Hath the same power DER this poor lust,
To raise it from the shadowy tomb!
Thanks for your presence! for we bring
Back to the aching heart and eye
Bright visions of the festal Spring,
Its blossoms, birds and azure sky.
Now, far from each green haunt and
sunny nook estranged,
Fading and faint, l lie; yet in my heart
unchanged
CLOVIS the same love for you, fair flow
ers,
AS when my unclaimed footsteps trod
Lightly amidst your forest bowers,
And plucked we from the dewy sod!
And Thou, who gavest these grateful
flowers,
l bless thee for thy thought of mel
And that through long and painful hours
My vigils have been shared by thee.
l bless thee for the blindness and care
which ne'er have faltered,
For the noble, loving heart that through
i'll remains unaltered!
A little while, companion dear,
And cen thy watchful care shall cease:
On, grieve not when the hour draws near,
But thank Heaven that it bringeth
peace!
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16

AT a formal dinner the Chinese talk
very little. 1t is, however, the acme
of good breeding to smack the lips
loudly and make as much noise as pos
sible when eating. This shows appre-
citation of the choice viands the host
ess has provided. A g~rievous breach
of etiquette would be for one to refuse
a dish, in which case the hostess would
consider it the proper rebuff to lean
forward, grip her chopsticks tightly,
and force the rejected morsel into the
mouth of the offender. The first
course Of an elaborate feast is, when
~attainable, bird's-nest soup. This is
almost as great a delicacy as humming
birds tongues. 1t is not, as is often
supposed, the nest of the bird that is
eaten. The soup is made from a muci-
laginous secretion that the bird makes
on the outside of it's nest to hold it to-
gether, which is similar in appearance
and taste to gelatine. These birds are
now becoming rare in China, and be-
fore a high feast, boys are employed
for days to hunt their whereabouts.
The last course is the tea-making. A
hlOot Sldpold Ie performance, JnlS, pOr-
celain of the finest glaze and decora-
ton is brought and placed before the
hostess. She then, in a dainty man
ner, washes and dries each little piece.
When this is done to her satisfaction
she makes an excuse to leave the room.
The guests then arise in turn and ex-
anime the fineness Of the ware, it's
markings, and especially notice if, by
any chance, a f1eck of dust should have
been overlooked. When a sufficient
time has elapsed the hostess returns
and the tea-brewing begins. Five min
utes is required for the making of each
cup. It's delicious aroma appears to
possess a magical effect on the tongues
of the Chinese, for from being morose
lip-smackers they suddenly become gay
and hilarious. The final of
the feast is to throw all the food that
is left under the table, which the dogs
are let in to devour.-Pittsburg Leader.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16

no suitable quarters for the general
hear his majesty, which was scrupu-
lousy looked into in making the Sc
lections. The American minister, the
Russian minister and the British rep
r~esentative all in each instance, came
to the rescue when his majesty had re-
peatedly signified his displeasure at
the purpose OF the usurpers and the
humiliation to which he was being In
necessarily subjected. The usurpers
were for the moment thwarted in their
purpose, but were not completely out
done. The burnt remains of the queen
were in the hands of the usurpers and
there had been talk of their lying N
der a canopy in her old compound dur
ing the long period of mourning GUS
tomary in the case of the death of a
crowned head. There the king and
prince royal and the queens retinue
would, without change of residence,
have been near enough to perform
their part of the rites due on such an
occasion. But, no. A half mile away,
by the communicating streets, was a
very low, damp depression in the pal
ace inclosure-the lowest and by far
the most unhealthy place. This isolat-
ed place was selected and the remains
of the queen were taken there, with
much ceremony; and the king and
crown prince, under memorable rules
of ceremony in this sacred cause, were
obliged to remove there to perform
their sacred functions during the Pc
riod of mourning-during which time
all business of state is habitually sus-
pended, and they and other mourners
are kept quite busy with their weep
ing, wailing and sacrificing.
Within ten or twelve feet of the
building temporarily fitted up for the
king was a one-kang, dirty, dingy
room, with the appearance OF a stable,
which it was said Gen. Dye was to oc-
cupy, because his majesty insisted that
he should be quartered near him. When
the usurpers, to their surprise land
chagrin), learned that he, in order to
comply with his majesty's wishes
would for at least a part of the time
occupy that dingy hole, the guards at
the several gates in the wall surround
ihS IhC SC SOllpOuhu NSIE lho uCL-
ed to suffer no one to pass them going
in or coming out without a pass hav-
ing three or four distinct seals upon
1t; and this pass was refused Gen. Dye.
He did not see the king again until
the latter's escape, in a woman's chair,
some weeks later, to the Russian le-
cation, which feat was engineered by
himself, a female Of his household "a
concubine) and Ye Pom Chin, the re-
cent Corean minister at Washington,
who received his reward in high rar'1
and position that he never could have
hoped to reach without such substan-
tial service.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16
rs FRIEND OF A KING.
;cREA'S AMERICAN VICE MINIS
TER OF WAR.
zen. Dye Returning to the United
States After Eleven Years in Seoul
How He Has Thwarted Numerous Plots
Against the KIng.

Gen. Dye, an American, who has
made his home at Seoul, Corea, for
eleven years, occupying official posi-
ions and reaping high honors, is about
o start for his old home in the United
states. His family lives in Muskegon,
Mich, but his old home is in Wash
ngton, where for many years he was
major of police.
From the time of his arrival in the
country until recently Gen. Dye was
he military adviser of his Corean
majesty and the chief organizer, in
itructor, ETC., of the Corean army,
which in Seoul alone consisted, includ-
ng the gendarmerie of about IL, 900
men, mostly infantry and artillery. AL
though the former class of the country,
which furnishes nearly all the soldiers,
Ire superb riders, there was and is very
little cavalry, because of the diminu-
i've character of the native pony. Soon
after Gen. Dyes arrival in the king
ION he was made vice minister of
war, a young cousin OF the king land
%lueen) occupying the position of min
Ister, his Gen. Dye's) rank being the
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16
A Famous Chair.

In the chapel of Edward the Confess
sor, in Westminster Abbey, there is an
exceedingly plain, dilapidated Hooking
chair. 1t is at least 300 years old, and,
excepting William and Mary, all the
sovereigns of England since the time
of Edward l. have sat in it while be-
ing crowned. So it is "the coronation
chair" and at c~oronations it is moved
into the sacrarium ind covered with a
rich cloth of gold. Edward l. had the
chair made to cover the historical
"Stone of Scone." The stone forms the
seat; it is twenty-five inches in length,
sixteen inches in width, and eleven
inches in thickness, and is fixed into
the oak chair by means of iron clamps
According to tradition, the stone is the
one upon which Jacob had his head
pillowed when he had the beautiful
vision of the ladder and the angels. It
was called the stone of destiny" saws
a Jewish tradition, and was once used
at the coronation of Hebrew kings;
and it served also as a pedestal for the
ark, in the second temple 1t is said.
too, that the prophet jeremiah carried
this stone from Palestine to Egypt and
thence to the Hill of Tara, in Ireland,
where the nam Jacobs Pillar" was
given to it because it was believed to
be the stone that Jacob set up for a
pillar at Bethel. Eventually it was
taken to Scotland for the coronation
of Fergus l. Until the conquest of the
country by the Picts, it was carefully
preserved at Dunstaffnage Castle; from
there it was taken to Scone. There is
a great deal of tradition mixed up with
the history of the stone of Scone,"
but we know that in the thirteenth CEN
fury Edward I. carried the stone to
England as a token of the subjugation
Of the Scottish people, and had the
chair made to which it was fastened;
and that this chair is today known as
the Coronation Chair
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16
Tn claimed Fortunes.

The extraordinary revelation was
made at a recent meeting of the State
Savings Bank association of New York
according to Leslie's Weekly, that
there were in the savings banks of the
Empire state 81, 500, 900 in dormant ac-
counts. The savings banks OF New
York state now hold about $500, O0O, 900
of the peoples money, and the dormant
accounts of 81, 500, 900 remain without
any evidence that their owners will
ever call for them. Some of them have
been dormant for owe fifty years. One
bank in the city of Albany reported
that its unclaimed accounts aggregated
over $4,000. Some of these
have claimants who will appear in due
season. The owner of one of them,
for instance, is that popular American,
Senator Chauncey M. Depew. He had
never presented his passbook to have
his interest entered, though his count
had more than doubled while it Law
dormant. We must indeed be a rich
and prosperous nation when we can
overlook a little item of over 81, 500 900
lying unclaimed in the savings banks
of a single state.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16
Saved by His Horse.

An English officer in the Royal En-
gineers had a horse which ought to
have received the Victoria cross for
%gallantry in action. The officer was
leading a party of Afghanistans, when
they were suddenly attacked by a band
of Ghazis. The fighting was furious
for a few minutes and during the
height of the battle the lieutenant was
speared by a young Ghazi and brought
to the ground. The warrior came up
to finish him, when the faithful horse
turned his heels and dashed out at the
Ghazi every time he approached the
wounded man. This defense was main
tanned and the assailants fled. AS the
horse was not vicious, the officer is
firm in the belief that the horse knew
his master was in danger and saved
him,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16
How a Doll Averted War.

A strange story is told of how a
child's plaything once had a sooth-
ing influence upon a warlike Apache
tribe, and was the means of avoiding
a serious war. 1t happened when Mr.,
bourke was in Arizona with General
Crooke. The general was trying to put
a band of Apaches back on the reserve,
but could not catch them without kill
ing them, and that he did not want to
do. One day his men captured a lit
tie Indian girl and took her to the fort.
She was quiet all day, saying not a
WORD, but her black beads of ewes
watched everything. When night
came, however, she broke down, and
sobbed just as any white child would
have done. They tried in vain to com
fort her, and then Mr.. Bourke had an
idea. From the adjutant's wife he
borrowed a pretty doll that belonged
TO her little daughter, and when the
young Apache was made to understand
mat 1t was hers to keep, her sobs
ceased and she fell asleep. When morn
Ing came the doll was still clasped in
her arms. She played with it all day,
apparently all thought of ever get
ting back to her tribe had left her.
Several days passed, and as no over
lures about the return of the poo
a been made by the tribe, they sent
her, with the doll still in her possess
sion, back to her people. Mr.. Pourke
had no idea of the effect his benevo-
lent act would have upon the Indians.
when the child reached them, with
the pretty doll in its chubby hands, it
made a great sensation among them,
and later on its mother came back to
the post with it. She was kindly re-
ceived and Hospitality treated, and
through her the tribe was soon after
ward persuaded to move back to the
reSerVe.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16
Rebuked.

The officers of the German army, the
captains in particular, are required to
deliver lectures to their men on sub
jects relating to the %latter's duties. A
certain captain quartered in Berlin was
due at 6 O'Clock one morning at the
classroom. Oversleeping himself, and
not arriving until twenty minutes past,
he found, to his dismay and annoy
ance, a young-looking officer attending
to his work and busy at the black
board. On his angry approach the
young officer turned round, and the
captain at once recognized the emperor
in the substitute. Speeches. with as
constituent, he tremblingly received
the textbook which his majesty quiet
ly handed him, with the remark: 1--WE
have got as far as there, captain" and
Immediately left the room without ap-
pearing to hear the officers suffered
excuses. The captain awaited a per-
emptory dismissal, but for weeks there
ZANE no decision of his fate. At last,
after the suspense had become fairly
u~nbearable, for the officer feared the
most unpleasant consequences, he re-
ceived a present from the emperor. 1t
was an alarm clock.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16
How Soldiers Shoot.

How Soldiers Shoot" in Parsons
for July, contains some interesting de-
tai of the process of making crack
army shots, who are expected in war
time to play havoc with the enemy's
officers and men at long range. Doubt
less more successful attention is paid
to such shooting in England and the
United States than in any other
try. Special instruction is given in
our navy and army, and money is not
spared to give the men all the advan-
tages of target practice. Steady, sys-
tematic training makes the accurate
shooting. The greenhorn must be
taught how to hold his rifle first, and
then successfully how to stand, how
to kneel, how to lie, how to aim, how
to fire, and how to take care of his ri
fe and its cartridge magazine, if a
magazine is used. The Lee-Enfield ri
file of the British service weighs nine
pounds and is four feet one inch in
length, the bayonet adding another
foot. 1t is a five-grooved rifle, with a
muzzle velocity of 1000 feet per sec
ond. The bullet is made of copper and
nickel, with a lead core. The recruit
Is taught that the bullet travels
through the air in a curved line called
the trajectory, subject to the explosive
force which starts It, the force of grav-
ity pulling it down, and the resistance
of the air. Such a bullet falls two
feet in 200 yards, travelling 1000 feet
a second. The mean range of the bull
let is $500 yards, with penetrating
power according to the substance
struck. Recruits are taught to fire in
any position. Our army regulations
give the men rules for judging the dis
lance of objects, from thirty yards to
1000 yards. There are moving targets
representing infantry and cavalry to
shoot at. There is practice in rapid
volley firing, independent firing, run
ming and firing. Modern fighting
methods require many changes in fir
ing drill.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16
CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR
THE VETERANS.
Fun at Court-Martial-Flashes of Humor
That Sometimes Disturb the Gus
tomary solemnity-He Fired a Salute
How Soldiers Shoot.
To Autumn.

season of mists and mellow f~ruitfulness!
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and
bless
with the fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage
trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the
core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the
ha~zel-shells
With a sweet kernel: to set pudding
more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm lays will never
cease,
For summer has o'erbrimm'd their
clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy
store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may
find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the %winnowing
wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies,
while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its
twined flowers;
And sometimes like a cleaner hot dost
keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours
by hours.
Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where
are they?
hin not of them, thou hast thy music
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying
day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy
hue;
Then in a waflful choir the small gnats
mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
or sinking as the light wind lives or
dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from
billy bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with
treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden
croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in
the skies.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16
The Glover Crop,

This has been a hard year for the
clover fields, and for that reason some
farmers will need all the encourage
tnent they can receive to prevent them
rom giving up the growing of clover.
Where it is naturally difficult to get a
catch the farmer will argue that the
clover crop is a thing so little to be de-
pended on that it is safer fCaSlim to
put his money and efforts inLo some
more certain crop. But the full value
to the farm of the clover crop should
be considered. Frequently the clover
crop is the only practical means of
providing nitrogen to the soil. We say
practical because to buy commercial
nitrogen in any form for our great
western grain farms is out of the ques-
ton. The dairy farmer will not gem
orally make the mistake of being COM
PEELED to use for feeding his dairy COWS
a less valuable hay than that made
from clover because it can be more
easily grown. The reports from the
new sowings of clover indicate that the
rains of this spring have proved bene-
fetal and we may expect to have a
good stand of new clover this summer
and fall.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16
Woman Finds Wealth.

quartz mine. The vein is from 200 to
600 feet in width and is intersected in
its source by Atlin City. 1t has been
traced over three-quarters of a mile.
Miss Florman's father is a mine expert
and numerous assays of the ore which
(Tacoma, Wash, Cor. Chicago Record)
Miss frankie F1orman, of Black
Hills, S. D., has discovered what Atlin
mining men regard as an immense
he recently made disclosed values run
ming from So to $27 per ton on the sur
face. Mining Expert Frank Baker and
William Partridge have bonded the
property for 5000, 900. Partridge left
here yesterday for London to place it
on the market there.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16

mental universities. On his return b.
came south as a missionary, and dur
ing his stay here he established two
colleges, one church journal and three
conferences. In 1869 he was appoint
ed chaplain Of the United States SEN
ate, an Office he filled for six years.
While in Washington he organized the
Metropolitan Memorial Methodist
church, and was its pastor. In 1874
DR.. Newman revisited Asia, and after
a years s%ojourn in Palestine he re-
turned to his old church in Washing
ton. He was a personal friend of Gen.
eral Grant, and acted as the spiritual
consider of the former president dur
ing the latter's last illness. DIR. New
mans works on the Holy Land are
among the most interesting descrip-
lions of that country extant. He was
70 years old.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16
A Spiders Musical Far.

From DR.. Wier's Dawn Of Reason:
During the entire summer until late
in the autumn a large black hunting
spider (Lycosa) dwelt in my piano.
When l played andante movements
softly she would come out on the mu-
sic rack and seem to listen. Her palpi
would vibrate with almost inconceiva-
BILE rapidity, while every now and then
she would lift her anterior pair of legs
and wave them to and fro and up and
down. Just as soon. however, as
commenced a march or a gallon she
would take to her heels and flee away
to her den somewhere in the interior
of the piano, where she would sulk I'M
til enticed her forth with frau
merei' or Handel's Largo"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-16

Captain Firmin Moindron, a Cali
fornia sailor man, is making unique
preparations for going to Paris to at
tend the big exposition next year. He
is going to travel in a trunk. Not the
ordinary trunk, but the trunk of a
Californian by adoption, he is prompt
ed to his novel adventure by a desire
to show the people Of his native land
as well as the world at large, what
great things in the vegetation line ex-
ist in America. He is going to make
a boat out of the trunk of a huge red
wood. Il will build" he says, "a
schooner from one of the largest trees
in Humboldt county. The hull shall
be one solid piece, simply the trunk of
the tree followed out and hewn into
shape. | figure that it will take me
two or three months t. make it, I
will sail from San Francisco. go
around Cape Horn, or through the
Strait of Magellan, acros the Atlantic.
and down the Seine to Paris. | hone
to be ready to start in time to reach
Cape Horn about the last of December
Of this year, so that | will arrive in
Paris next May. | think of sailing
10000 miles in the trunk of a tree. To
do that and show all the world at the
exposition what wonders California
can produce, l am willing to risklmy
lifeo