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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
Some Smart Crows.

In the inn garden | saw a dog eating
a piece of meat in the presence of sew
eral c%ovetous crows. They evidently
said a great deal to each other on the
subject, and now and then one or two
of them tried to pull the meat away
from him, which he resented. At last
a big strong crow succeeded in tear
ing off a piece, with which
he returned to the pine, where
the others were congregated,
and after which earnest speech
they all surrounded the dog, and the
leading bird dextrously dropped the
small piece of meat within reach of
his mouth, when he Immediately
snapped at it, letting go the big piece
unwisely for a second, on which two
of the crows flew away with it to the
pine, and with much futtering and hi
larity the all ate, or rather gorged it,
the deceived dog looking vacant and
bewildered for a moment, after which
he sat under the tree and parked at
them namely. A gentleman told me
that he saw a dog holding a piece of
meat in like manne in the presence
of three crows, which also vainly tried
to tear it from him, and after a con-
sultation they separated, two going as
near as they dared to the meat, while
the third gave the tail a bite sharp
enough to make the dog turn around
with a squeak, on which the other vii
lains seized the meat, and the three
fed triumphantly upon it on the top
of the wall.-Our Animal Friends.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

6-year-old boy, Herbert, was with his
nurse on the third floor, Mrs. Pulitzer
fought her way through the sitting
smoke to the nurses room. She arrived
in the nick of time, for the nurse,
crazed with fear, was about jumping
out of the window with the baby when
Mrs. Pulitzer arrived. Mrs. Pulitzer
eagerly seized the little one and carry
ing him in Ter arms guided the nurse
through the binding smoke to the
street.
Unfortunately, however, there per-
ished in the fire two of the inmates Of
the house-the housekeeper, Mrs. Nor
gan Jellett of Toronto, Ont, and Eliza
beth Montgomery, governess. The
financial loss was $500, 600.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
ONLY a Spider.

A spider was the direct cause Of
most serious loss and injury to the
Dutch nation, at the time of the at
tack upon Holland by France in the
year 1884. A French prisoner at
Utrecht, who had spent some of his
long, lonely hours in studying the
habits of spiders on the walls of his
cell, was able by watching them to
forecast the coming of rain or of
frost. At a time when a sudden thaw
raised the prospects of the Dutch, and
seemed to destroy the prisoners hope
OF rescue by his countrymen, his hum
BILE friends upon the wall gave him
sur signs of a renewal of the frost.
Upon this he managed to send a mes
sage to assure the French generals
within a few days their troops would
be able to pass over the frozen waters,
a prediction that was soon fulfilled,
and so it came to pass that a spider
was responsible for the release Of
Quartermaster Disjonval, and for the
conquest of the Dutch.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

The latest and most ingenious de-
vice of the female shoplifter is a third
arm. Beware of the mi with three
arms. The three-armed woman wears
a cape or shawl. She affects the de-
mure habit of holding her hands-two
of them-clasped in front of her. The
third arm meanwhile is stirring about
deftly among The counters and draw
ing any detachable articles into a vol
luminous pocket in the skirt, or another
in the lining of the cape. The origina-
tor of the device is on her way east
from Denver. The police predict that
her advent will be the signal for an
epidemic of shop thefts. She has a line
of aliases longer than her train. The
extra arm is of "a and it is the deli
cate hand belonging to this arm that
is clasped in the right. The bona tide
left arm is hard at work behind the boz
gus one. 1t behooves all saleswomen
to watch for this active third ARM
New York Journal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
Winter In the City.

We sit within the gaslit room
As evening wears along,
By the steam heaters iron side
We hear it's clanking n
And underneath our gravest word,
Or lightest. laugh that rang,
We hear the heater sizzle.
On we hear the steam go bang!
Gun fathers love to tell us
OF long past nights of mirth.
Nhen chestnuts in the shovel popped
And apples on the hearth.
we BUY our roasted chestnuts now,
And when our apples bake
lis in a gas-stove oven
OF the very latest make.
They tell how when, as now. it SHOWS,
Orchard and field were white,
And fences hudd1ed meath the drift.
That deepened through the night.
we have our drifts as well, for see
Out in the whirling snow
How high upon the fre-escape
The fluffy masses grow.
Ihey tell how, bedtime being come,
They raked the ashes low.
Put on a green log then, and left
The quiet CHEEKY glow.
Each took his candle to depart
And climbed the ancient stair.
FIurn off the heat put out the gas),
what queer old times they weIe.
Florence Il. Pratt.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
,Jaya's Valley of Death.

In the island of Java is an oval
shaped hollow, neal the summit of a
mountain, about thirty-ive feet in
depth. and half a mile wide, which,
from the deadly nature of its atmos-
phere, is known as the Valley of
Death" or the Poison valley" This
atmosphere is loaded with carbonic
acid gas, and although not at once
fatal to human beings, proves so to
either dogs or fowls. The valley has
seldom been explored much beyond it's
borders, as from there it is seen that
the surface of the ground is strewn
with the bones of tigers, pigs, deer and
all kinds of birds, and also of human
beings.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

Grandma could not believe her eyesl
She had herself sewed buttons on Mar
garets n Dorothy's new clothes. And
now here they were, come to have their
little waists and petticoats buttoned
and not a button to be seen! Grandma
was sure they were good buttons, for
she had taken them out of the package
mamma brought home with a lot Of
shopping. The little girls, with laugh
Ing faces, stood in front of her, hold
ing up their little clothes from drop
ping down, watching her astonishment.
Then Dorothy said, I'm going to Tess,
grandma" And |, too" said Mar
garet. I'VE ate the buttons, grand
MAJ" 'Ate buttons! Oh, Margaret,
you'll die! When did you do it? An
swer quickly" "Oh, grandma, they
were candy, and so good" and Mar
garet smacked her rosy lips. Dorothy
Wetted her finger to rub a speck of
black off of one, and it tasted sweet,
and then we bit one, and it was just
like yellow taffy, and we ate them all
up before the thought, and our clothes
fell down, and please won't you for
give us?" Dear, white-haired grand
ma laughed till the tears ran down
her cheeks. For mamma said she had
bought the candy buttons for a Joke,
never dreaming grandma would be
caught.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

To the courage and admirable cool
ness of Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, wife of
the editor and proprietor of the New
York World, is due the saving Of the
lives of her baby and its nurse in a
disastrous fire that visited the Pulitzer
residence in New York the other norm
ing. Mrs. Pulitzer slept on the sec
ond floor, in the rear of which the fire
originated, and when aroused by the
smoke and flames her first thought
was for her children. She rushed to
where her daughters, Edith and Con-
stance, aged II and Il respectively,
were asleep and rousing them led them
through the smokc-flled halls to the
street, where they were taken in charge
by others. Then knowing that her
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
PARIS BEGlARS HIRE BABIES.
Certain Recognized Centers for This
Accountable Traffic.

Abotninable Traffic.
The police have just arrested outside
the fashionable church of La Trinite
several professional beggars, all Of
them accompanied by children OF
whom they were not the parents, says
a Paris correspondent of the Pail Mall
Gazette. There are certain recognized
centers for this abominable traffic and
a regular tariff is in operation at these
child markets. The trade is by far the
busiest in winter. In ordinary times,
when no special holiday is in prog
ress, a child of from 5 to 10 years may
be had cheaply, the current charges be-
ing IS pence a day, or two shillings If
the weather is very cold. Babies in
arms or those who can only just tod
die are more expensive, fetching dou-
Bile and treble this sum-. On Christmas
day and New Years day, when beggars
are practically not interfered with by
the police and reap their richest har-
vests, the prices are much higher. AS
much as a sovereign has to be paid on
these special occasions for a baby only
d lew AlOHIHS olu, anu even ILLS ouhi
is exceeded in the case of the hapless
little creatures who are i'll, and who
are thus likely the more readily to
move the passer-by to pity. Older
children for these holidays may be
hired for eight shillings. If the beg
gar continues at work throughout the
evening he had to supply the child with
a supper. He also has to undertake to
pay for a doctor If his victim should
fall i'll from the exposure.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
GEORGE H. WHITE.

censed to practice in all the courts of
North Carolina. From 1880 to 1884 he
was a member of the state legislature
and for eight years was prosecuting
attorney for his district. He was first
elected to congress in 1896 and was
reelected in 1898. His ability as a
thinker and orator gives him the es-
TEEN of his fellow representatives and
his opinions are eagerly sought.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

the arrest of a murderer three miles
northwest of town. TWO Scotsmen had
trouble with an Irishman. They killed
him and took refuge in their cabin.
Smith volunteered to take two men
and bring in the murderers. When
they came near the cabin one of the
Scotsmen was in the rear %chopping
wood. The other was inside, and he
cut loose with a gun, firing a shot into
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

Smiths breast. The deputies fed, and
Smith leaped into the cabin and had
nearly handcuffed the murderer when
the Scotsman outside came with his
axe, and with a single blow completely
severed Smiths head from his body.
So ended the life of the one who is
said by every one who knew him to
have possessed the most magnificent
courage of any one who mingled win
the varied procession of d~esperadoes
and bad men" that made life on the
plains in the early days of striking in
terest. His murderers met speedy JUS
tice for their deed.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
A Married ChInaman.

The case is mentioned in a Chinese
paper of a native, aged 40, who has
married and divorced 80 wives, and is
now married to the thirty-sixth. He
was first married at is, and the rea-
son assigned for this extraordinary ex-
ample of inconsistency is that he has
a younger sister of extremely jealous
and o disposition, who, from
the moment that a bride enters the
house, institutes a system of persecu-
ton which soon drives the unhappy
woman to ask her husband for a di-
Vorce.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
New Method IF Lighting Tunnels.

A new method of lighting tunnels is
about to be adopted in n constructed
in Paris for an electric road, Electric
lamps will be turned OF automatically
as the train enters the tunnel and cut
off automatically as it energies. The
lights are arranged on each side on a
level with the windows of the cars, SO
that during daytime it will not be nee
ess4rry to turn on the light in the
cars. This mode has been devised by
a French inventor, and doubtless will
be found of great utility.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
ONLY NEGRO IN CONGRESS.

George Henry White, of Tarboro, N.
c., has the distinction of being the
only negro in the present house of
representatives. Mr.. White is AZ years
of age. His education vas obtained in
the public schools of his native state
ton. He studied law and at q was Ii
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

They do queer things in South AT
RIGA. From R%ensburg, in Cape Colony,
comes the news that a train loaded
with supplies, and without any en-
CINE, somehow got started on a down
grade within the British lines and
headed fc. the Boer lines. 1t was seen
to be impossible to stop the train, so
rather than have the supplies reach
the Beers the British gunners directed
their guns on the cars and destroyed
them and their contents.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
Domestic Reminders.

Wife-Do you know what you re-
mind me of? Husband-No, but do
know what you remind me of. Wife
What? Husband-Of every little thing
I forget to attend to that you ask me
about.-Detroit Free Press.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
The Dictionary Habit.

Friend-What queer language your
husband uses. He pronounces every
word a half a dozen different ways.
Wife-Yes, he has a dozen different
dictionaries.-New York Weekly,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

No doubt the sharks mouth is placed
so much beneath the projecting muz-
gle, under which also the nostrils lie,
shat 1t may serve its proper purpose
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

With the prospective retirement of
Mr.. Vest from political life at the end
of his term, the last of the confederate
senators will have gone.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
TO BRAVE TOM SMITH
NEWEST MARSHAL THE WEST
EVER KNEW.

Abilene, Kan, VIII Build a Monument
to the Man Who Single Handed
Ended a Reign of Cowboy Terrors-
Knew No Fear.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.

Rover and the Churn = They Ate the
Buttons Only a Spider, but 1t
Helped the French to Win a Great
Dattle-Dust Baths.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

An expert has discovered that eighty
one species of fish exist in the waters
OF the District~of Columbia,
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
India Rubber.

The vast increase in the use of India
rubber in various other manufactures be-
side boots, shoes and waterproof clothing
may be seen in the fact that our importa-
tons OF the crude rubber were less than
SIS ooo. 900 in the year ending June 80,
1900, and did not reach to $50, ooo, 900
per year until 1893, white we have i'm
ported nearly $50, 900. 900 worth in the
three years ending June 80, 1900, and
nearly $64, 100000 worth in the past two
years. The greater part OF this has come
from South and Central America and
Central Mexico. through the British have
done something to introduce it as crop in
India and southern Africa. and the French
grow il in China and the trees such as
furnish the South American supply are
also found in the West Iudies, while in
Java. Sumatra, Penang, Singapore and
China the sou ce of it gigantic creeper.
perhaps 200 feet long and 3 feet in circum-
ference when FIVE years old, which yields
50 10 90 pounds per year to each plant.
1t is probably unknown TO many that
there are several varieties Of plant which
yield this gum beside the trees in South
America which most of US have often read
Of. These facts suggest that the growing
of such plants may become a important
industry in Cuba. Porto Rico, Hawa and
the PHILIPPINE Islands.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
Sheep and Wool.

The sheep Of the United States are
worth twice as much money today as
they were at the close of the year 1896.
Then their value was S67 100000; now
it is over 1922, 200, 900. What is the
reason for this remarkable change?
In 1892, under the Mckinley protec
tive tariff, the imports Of wool amounted
to but las, 900, 900 pounds and the home
production was 294 100000 pounds,
while the average price for washed Ohio
fleece was 20 cents per pound.
In the fiscal year 1897, the closing
year of the Wilson tariff which admitted
wool free of duty, imports were $780,
900, 900 pounds and the production only
259,0O0,000 pounds, while the average
price In 1896 was 1871 cents.
In 1899, under the Dingley tariff which
thoroughly protected the wool growers
of the United States, the imports fell to
100000 pounds. the production in
creased to 272,000,000 pounds, and the
price increased to IS cents per pound.
1t Is not surprising, then, that the
value Of sheep on American farms fell
from SIG, 200 900 In January, 1892, to
S67 900 900 on January l, 1897, and that
it increas, d under the restoration OF the
protective tariff 10 1922 DOC, 900 on Janu-
arv |, 1900.
OF course the election Of Mr. Bryan
means the restoration of free wool.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

Mr. Aaron Jones OF South Bend, Ind.
the National master of the Patrons OF
Husbandry. is reported as having said
when asked. while on a recent visit to
Maine. what impresses you as the
greatest deficiencies of our farming ?"
''Maine ough, to have five sheep where
there is not one. Your fertility is running
out, and it cannot be kept up by CONNER
cial manures. sheep are the natural restor-
ers OF exhausted land You ought 10
increase your oultry and your farmers
should have hundreds of poultry farms
where there is not one Dairying ought
to be Increased. In Wisconsin there is an
average of one creamery 10 every three
and half square miles of territory all over
the State. You can do anything with
your fine soil, your nearness to great MAJ
kets and your intelligent people which the
farmers of Wisconsin or any other ate
Can do" That is good doctrine to preach
to them, and it is equally good and true OF
the farming sections of Massachusetts, or
any other New England State. or any
where that our paper may circulated. We
have been preaching it, as well as more
bees, more fruit and better gardens for
20 years past. But more cows, sheep and
poultry will furnish the fertilizers to grow
more fruit and garden vegetable, while
more fruit will furnish nectar for more
bees Tile 4MeyicaH Cnkti0af0r.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
Oxen at Small Cost.

at doesn't cost us much to keep these
oxen," said Jim Cough of Hallowell the
veteran Snowman, now well along in the
eighties, as he stood proud as boy over
his team of ten massive oxen at the State
Fair. "You see we pasture them in the
summer, and raise our corn. We don't
buy our meal for them as a good many
do for their cattle. We raise large field
of corn, and grind the ears cob and all for
the meal feed. and then there is the
fodder that goes a good WY in supplying
their barn feed. You see in this way we
don't have to pay out all the oxen are
worth for the corn meal to feed them on "
Here is lesson for the young stock
grower to heed Pasture in summer and
home grown products for the barn supply
leaves the money, when the stock is dis
posed of. in the hands of the grower
This is the way to raise stock at profit
There is grand outlook for the stock
grower who rursues this method.-Mains
Farmer.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
Pasteurized Crea m.

About o5 per cent, of the creameries in
Denmark pasteurze either the cream or
whole milk. This means raising it to a
temperature of r5oo for 80 minutes. 1907
for IS minutes or 100 for 10 minutes.
In butter making no harm will result if a
higher Temperature is reached if it is cool
ed quickly. Cool to so or lower, 10
pasteurizing the milk the havors are
driven off. pleasant as well as others, leav-
ing an absence of flavor to the butter, but
the good flavor and aroma can be restored
by using the right kind OF a starter for
ripening the cream. In separating the
cream, if 1000 pounds of milk per hour
can be run through at 90, 5000 can be
put through at 100, and no more fat be
left in skimmilk. Pasteurizing the whole
milk leaves the skimmik perfectly swee,
tor patrons to feed to calves and pigs II
they cannot have it so, many will skim
their milk at home or have hand separa-
tor. The butter made from pasteurized
cream keeps better than that churned from
raw cream.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
HOMEMADE CORN CUTTER.
A Roughly Built Corn Sled which
Works Satisfactorily.

A corn sled, shown In the cut, was
used last season with satisfactory re-
suits. 1t Is roughly constructed and
was part of an experiment, according
to a Rural New Yorker correspondent,
who gives the following details:
We were so well pleased with 1t that
we shall do no more corn cutting with
hand knives, but will use this device
instead. Two men ride 1t. and any
good, steady loo pound horse will
handle 1t without any Inconvenience.
In making it we use two by oak
scantlings. each 6 feet long, for rum
ners. We found later that the sled
worked better If the forward end were
raised slightly; consequently we made
rial and fastened them to the bottom
Of the first. These additional runners
were chamfered so they were about
two inches in front and tapered to
point at the rear. In view of this
change l would suggest that the run
ner be made of by stuff with the
rear tapering TO four inches. In some
eases Ii may be FOUND advisable TO nail
a inch board to the bottom Of the
runners to act as a shoe. The runners
were placed 80 inches apart, outside
measurement. Across these was nail
ed inch and a foot board Of the
required length At a point about IS
inches back of the front end of the
runner the platform makes an angle
of little less than 10 degrees with the
runner. The platform is built back,
carrying the slant for about three feet.
when it will be about Is inches from
the runner The platform is then
built back squarely for 10 or 1S inches
farther. This platform should be built
of as sound hard lumber as possible.
II Is surprising how the stubble scrap
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

The Chinese are not mentioned
either in the Old or the New Testament.
1t is not known from which of the sons of
Noah they descend. AS a nation they date
several thousand ,ears back.
The theoretical velocity with which
water flows under a given head 10 8 %
times the square root of the head. To
find the pressure in pounds per square
inch Of column of water, multiply the
height of the column in feet by 434
approximately; consider that every loot
elevation is equal to one half pound
pressure per square inch; this allows for
ordinary friction.