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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21

hicle,Ian briskly into the entrance and
asked If a stranger had arrived in
room No. CIT. She appeared very much
disconnected when the clerk informed
her that the room was vacant. One
of the hotel servants who passed by
the waiting carriage noticed that it's
occupant was a slight, nervous man
who wore blue glasses. He identified
this man as DR.. Cooke. The doctor
was later joined by the yelled woman,
and the carriage started at a rapid gait
for the house of DR.. Cooke, where the
fatal shot rams out two hours later.
The yelled woman was Miss Harriug-
ton.
After all that has been done to as
certain the true cause Of DR.. Cookies
death, the Boston police say that it is
not at all certain that he died by his
own hand. They believe that the
murder may have been done by the
agents Of some government that is I'M
friendly to Russia. 1t has been dis
covered that DR.. Cooke, during the few
days that preceded his death, was
tracked constantly by dark-visaged
men of impenetrable mein, who never
for a moment allowed their victim to
escape from their sight. Miss Harring-
ton, the late doctors nurse and aman-
uensis, announced hat for a week be-
fore his death the doctor had been
aware of the terrible shadow that was
closing in upon his life. The first in
dication that he had of the coming
fate was the appearance of a tall,
bearded stranger who rang the doc
tors bell a few days previous to the
shooting. The man demanded an in
terview with DR.. Cooke, and after he
had gone the doctors face was blood
less and he appeared much perturbed.
A few hours before the shot was fired
Miss Harrington again saw the mys-
ferrous stranger skulking about the
house.
1t has been learned by the Boston
police that Count Progonoff actually
left Washington for Boston. but all
traces of him have been utterly lost
after his departure from the capital.
An obscure Russian Hebrew. who
lives in the foreign colony in the West
~
End of Boston, and who was formerly
himself a prominent member Of the
Nihilist propaganda, declares that. to
his positive knowledge a party of Nj
hilists, who had wind of the intended
journey of Count Progonoff to Boston,
left that city for the purpose of dis
posing of the titled emissary of the
Russian government, and the fact that
he cannot be found seems to show
that they succeeded well in their de-
sign. DR.. Cooke was born in Ireland
43 years ago He has served the Irish
reVolutionists as agent at st. Peters
burg and came to this country as the
agent of that government. He had
lately been active in this country in
behalf of the Beers. Highly startling
developments are looked for in con
nection with his sudden death.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
HALL AND ONE OF HIS CHAPELs.

forgery. He protested his innocence,
feat.
The wife of the barrister and poll
tician did not survive the stigma of
the exposure. When she died, which
was 16 years ago, Colonel Hall began
to close up, as far as practicable, his
estate. His seven children scattered
to all parts of the world, each with a
sum of money calculated to start him
or her on an honorable business ca
reer. Three settled in various parts
of England, n wen to Australia, and
three came to America.
AS soon as he could do so Colonel
Hall left the scenes of his triumphs
and reverses and emigrated to Texas.
That was IL years ago. His avail
able bank account approached $500, 900,
with landed estates in Essex, London,
and the West Indies. Southwest Tex
as appealed to his fancy, and in the
v~ariegated country hills, dales, and
rolling p~rairies in Kimball county he
settled down for a new life.
A tract of land $4,000 acres in ex-
tent was acquired by him. This he
stocked with cattle that required the
care of GO cowboys and ranch hands.
Then he began the construction of his
country home-a mammoth brownstone
building, covering m acre of ground.
To it he gave the name of Brambletye,
and an architecture in which the an
cient Saxon towers of Brambletye and
Sompting are strangely blended with
Norman castles of later feudal days.
Brambletye, however, appealed to
the benighted denizens of the West
Texas ranches. not in an artistic
sense, but in a philanthropic light.
The cowboy, the farmer, the beggar
from the little out-of-the-way country
places barely observed the moat or
the draw-bridge, nor did the solid old
towers mean more to them than a
momentary subject for surprise. They
knew only that the brownstone walls
inclosed a hundred rooms, in almost
any of which they could find shelter
when they needed it, and food and
medicine from the hands of the queer
old Englishman." All that was re-
quired in exchange was a little light
work on the ranch. In times of drouth
and in the mid-winter months, Bran
bletye was a veritable pauper settle
ment, under the mild but eccentric rule
of this strange man.
The lord of this brownstone man
sion lived like the poorest in his
charge. Not a bedstead was permit
ted in the house, but each room had
a mattress and clean bedding, and
cowboy, master and pauper went from
vespers in the chapel to his respective
room, whiled away an hour or so by
a dim oil light, and then retired to
the couch on the floor.
In his will his first bequest was to
his 60 faithful COW boys, To each he
gave double the entire amount that
each man had received in wages while
in his employ. To his ranch foreman
he bequeathed a 3.500-acre farm and
$500. ~Brambletye and one-half of the
ranch went to his son Fred Hall, now
living on the ranch. His son-in-law,
a Mexican named Morales, fell heir to
$4,000 acres Of the Texas estate.
The last paragraph in the will dealt
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
OCkING BIRD
That Talks as Well as Sings Is the
Wonder of a Georgia Town.

Tha Talks as Well as Sings Is the
Wonder of a Georgia Town.
A hooking bird belonging to Mrs.
William Neill has actually been taught
by her to talk. 1t is very interesting
indeed to hear it utter the words that
have, by persistent and painstaking
efforts, been taught it. This birds
cognomen is Charlie, and it has a rep
utation that is envied by hooking
bird owners. 1t mimics ever noise it
hears if it is repeated a number of
times, and a repeat all the call
whistles that the boys of the various
cliques and clans use as signals.
Mr.. Neill used to own a dog, and
their favorite call for the pet animal
was Hear, hear, hear. hear" and a
short whistle; and repeated. Now the
bird tCharlie can tell that dog as dis
tinctly as any person might. 1t very
clearly say Hear, hear; (whistles);
hear, hear" etc. While living at the
Planters hotel, Mr.. and Mrs. Neill
were frequently treated to a cat SER
enade, and the bird learned to mimic
them to a surprising degree. Now that
they are residing in presumably a cat
less neighborhood they are often fooled
by the bird, who can NEW so much like
a cat that one is loath to believe that
the sounds issue from the birds throat
unless actually standing near the cage.
Augusta (Ga.) Herald.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
Rose Branch In Her Teeth,

A young woman giving the name o.
Helen Gray was found shortly after /
o'clock this morning in a shrubbery
in Golden Gate Park suffering from
the effects of poison she had taken
with suicidal intent. She was taken
to the receiving hospital and the poi
son pumped out. The girl, who was
very well dressed in a tailor-made
gown. refused to say anything except
that her lame was assumed and that
she came from Indianapolis seven
months ago, where her aunt resides.
Everything about her shows that she
has been used to luxury. A peculiar
feature of the young woman's attempt
to end her life was the finding of a
rose branch which was held between
her teeth and bound into it's place as
the bit of a bride might have been,
with the gold chain which had been
attached to her glasses.-San Francisco
Special in Chicago Inter OeeAh.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
TESTING CANNED MEATS.
Experts Can Tell Their Condition by
Tapping Upon the Lids.

Experts Can Tell Their Condition by
Tapping Upon the Lids.
Among the most incomprehensible
proceedings to be observed within the
vast area of Woolwich reserve depot
are the doings of a small party of Off
Gals, n of whom appears to do moth
ing all day long but sit at a table and
tap on the top of tin canisters with a
couple of bits Of stick something after
the manner of a child beating on the
upturned end of his drum. The tins
are passed before him about as fast as
he a tap them and absolutely moth
ing seems to come of the game. To
the unenlightened onlooker it is quite
unintelligible. The tins contain meat
and before they are passed into store
it is, Of course, important to examine
the condition of what is inclosed, and
this, in fact, is the way it is done. The
trained ear of the expert examiner can
tell whether the meat is in a whole
some or a putrid condition by the
sound emitted when raped with the
stick just as the examiner of railway
carriage wheels is supposed to be able
to tell whether the wheel he taps with
his hammer is cracked or not. The
rapidity with which the business is
gone through and the seeming mat
tention Of the performer with the
sticks and his total Indifference to all
sorts of noises about him render the
procedure a very curious one to watch.
The test is said to be practically in
fallible.-London News.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21

Teresa Falciola, a woman of Zuarna,
Italy, recently found out how it feels
to fly. Near her home, which nestles
in a valley, is a high, wooded noun
tain. To it, says the New York Her.
aid, it has been her custom to go for
fire-wood. To carry this wood from
the precipitOus mountain to her cot
tage was quite an arduous task. There
fore she sent it down by means of a
strong metal wire, stretched from the
valley up to the mountain-top. A few
weeks ago she and her two little
daughters assembled the mountain, and
after gathering three goodly bundles
of wood, prepared to SEND them down.
Just as the mother had fastened the
first bundle to the wire, and had
launched it on it's downward course,
her wedding ring caught in the rope
with which the bundle was tied, and
In a flash she was carried off her feet.
Half-paralyzed with fear, her little
daughters watched her as she sped
down the mountain, fully expecting to
find her lying dead at the end of the
wire. And their fear was quite nat
ural, since the mountain-top from
which their mother had been torn is
eight hundred yards above the valley.
But the children found their mother
entirely uninjured. Her fall had been
broken as she was reaching the earth
by some friendly branches The
bundle Of wood, too, was in some
Measure a bulwark against the shock.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
HeIress To s.. nnO. nnn.

Miss Louise Eversole and her sister,
Mabel, two pretty young st. Louis
girls, have been informed by their at
tnrney that they are heirs to S ,OOO,-
900 each in their own right, and that
the money is now ready for their dis
posal. The snug fortunes are part of
the Ludwig Fischer estate in Hol-
land. Fischer died nine years ago,
leaving a large estate. This was con-
verified into money and held by the
government for the heirs until now
it has reached the enormous total of
$4,000, 900. The Eversole family is
II of the three who are direct heirs
to the estate.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
Four Men Stabbed to Death.

An alleged speak-easy in the little
mining town of Windber, Somerset
county, Pa, was the scene of a whole
sale s%tabbing ARRAY and as a result
four men are dead and two are dan
%gerously wounded. The first intima-
ton of trouble was when a man burst
from the door yelling that he had been
cut. He ran along the street for a
short distance and then fell over dead.
He was followed by another, and he by
a third. The fourth man died in the
house. The dead are John Halverson,
Ed P. McCauley. Samuel Shives and
Gust Greyback. Thomas Kipling and
Jack B~uckwaller were wounded. The
man who did the %stabbing was an ltal-
ion
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21

A New York correspondent in the
Pittsburg Dispatch says that a French
in his sleep the other morning, and al
though he may die as a consequence
of his injuries, it might be some con-
ISOLATION to him to know that in Civ
ing his life he has also given to the
world a new verb, ito somnambulate."
1t is employed in a description of the
disaster in one of the evening papers
of this city. Every one must admit
that "somnambulate" is good, ever if
it is unusual.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
FARMER AND GYPSY IN DUEL
Gypsy Told the Farmer to Defend
Himself.

A'hN va" =" 'Ao
Himself.
In the Danbury IN. W City hospital
lies Peter Riley, a gypsy, who was
seriously wounded in a duel with a
young farmer over the queen of a
band of gypsies. All that is known
OF the story was gathered from the
members of the band. Adela, the
queen, and Riley, who was the leader
among the men of the band, were to
be married, but they had a lovers
quarrel. Adela then accepted the at
tentions of a young farmer, who had
followed the band on their journey
east. Adela's coquetry made Riley
jealous. The other day, while the
farmer was walking with the queen,
Riley confronted him. This was the
first time he knew he had a rival.
Defend yourself" cried Riley, as
he threw a revolver at the feet of the
astonished farmer. The country boy
then tried to explain, but the gypsy
would not listen. The farmer picked
up the revolver and fired a fraction
of a second before Riley pressed the
trigger and the gypsy fell.
The queen threw herself upon him
and begged his forgiveness, and pro-
tested that she loved him. She babe
the farmer begone, and told him she
had only played with him. Adela then
drove her wounded lover to the Dan
bury City hospital. and then wanted
to remain with him, but when as
sured that he would get we'll she went
away with the band.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
AT THE
How Cormorants Feed Their Young in
New Zealand.

Along the coast of New Zealand GER
tain rocky islets are the home of vast
breeding colonies of co~rmorants,
termed "shaggeries." One of these is
Rurima Rock, near Auckland; and in
his magnificent work on the ornithol-
ogy of New Zealand, Sir Walter Butler
describes how each of the scores of
great stick-built nests contained two
fi~edglings, each swaying it's head from
side to side and "squirling' at the top
of it's voice. To these impatient young
sters came the old birds up from the
sea, with their flexible pouches be-
meath their bills distended by a weight
Of small fishes. AS soon as a parent,
thus laden, alights upon the edge of
the nest, the young birds, %craning their
necks almost to the point of disloca-
ton, scramble expectantly up beside
her. Then the mother in a loving way
opens wide her mandibles and the
young shay, with an impatient guttur-
al note, thrusts his head right down
the parental throat, and draws forth
from the pouch, after much fumbling
about, the first instalment of his din
ner. No sooner has he swallowed this
than he begins to call for more, re-
sisting his brothers effort to Jake his
turn, and coaXing his mother by ca
ressing her with his big beak in a very
amusing way. AS this sort of thing is
going on in a hundred houses at once,
and all the neighbors' young ones are
squaWling and s%quealing, while the old
ones crow and struggle for new nest
Ing material, or unite to mob some
hated bawler or jaeger, the noise Inc
turmoil are d%eafening, and suggest
something very different from the US
ual notion of domestic bird life.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21

with che political secret that stirred
his native county and took from him
lis hopes and ambitions, and robbed
him Of all the happiness with which
his prestige n power at homo were
fraaght.
Il have sealed and stamped" he
said to his lawyer, IAN envelope adj
dressed to Judge -. l will enclose
it in the will, and you can direct thai
it shall be mailed Immediately upon
my death. l will carry the secret to
the grave, but this letter will tell Eng
land who forged those letters. The
culprit is named right here and the
invalid thumped the sealed envelope.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
NIHILIST PLOT,
REACHED CLIMAX in DEATH OF
DOCTOR COOKE.
Found with a Bullet In His Head and
Police Believe Twas Put There by
Another Hand Than HIs-was Cars
Agent.

What was perhaps one of the deep
est laid and most INSCRIPTIONS politi-
cal plots of the century reached a eli
max the other day when DR.. ]. R.
Cooke, a secret representative Of the
Russian government, was found dead
in an apartment of his house in one of
the most fashionable part Of Boston,
with a bullet hole in his head. Miss
Charlotte Harrington, who was alone
with DR.. Cooke in the house when he
died, told the police that she and DR..
Cooke were in the employ of the secret
intelligence department of the Russian
empire, and that they had received
from Count MuTavieff, the Russian
chancellor, large sums of money which
they applied to the purpose of collect
ing information in behalf of the Rus
sian government upon the movements
of the Nihilist propaganda in this
country. DR.. Cooke was widely known
as a successful scientist and erstwhile
Beau Brummel, and was often termed
the blind surgeon" 1t now appears
that DR.. Cooke and Miss Harrington
had an appointment at the Vendome,
one Of the most ~aristocratic hotels OF
Boston, to meet Count Progonoff, an
emissary of the Russian government,
WHO had left Washington three days
before.
A few hours before the firing of the
shot that ended the romantic career of
DR.. Cooke, a closed carriage drove up
to the steps of the Vendome. A yelled
stepped lightly from the We
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21

Miss Eta Palmatier of New Kings
ton, N. Y, has just been weddea in
a western city to Mr.. w. j.. Hysham,
formerly of Red Oak, Ia. Miss Palma
tier, who is a wealthy real estate own
er, decided not to live a single life any
longer. Looking over the columns Of
a matrimonial paper she saw the ad-
vertisement of Mr.. Hysham, who want
ed a wife. Correspondence opened be-
tween the young woman and the west
erner. He finally paid a visit to New
Kingston and the engagement was
soon announced. The wedding follow
ed closely.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
SHE THREE
Aud as She Pointed a Gun the Burglars
Skinned Ont.

While reading in the third story of
her residence at Philadelphia, Mrs.
Alan D. Wilson, wife of an insurance
broker, heard some on moving about
downstairs. Procuring a business-like
45-caliber Colt revolver Mrs. Wilson
went to the head of the stairs, when
she discovered two burglars in the hall
below. Il will give you until 1 count
three to leave the house," said Mrs.
Wilson, but the burglars only laughed
scofingly at her. AS she counted
three" the burglars caught a glimpse
Of the cleaning revolver in her hand
and hurriedly escaped through a raised
window into the street, leaving a pile
of silverware on the parlor table. Not
a thing had been carried away.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
WOAD AS A DYE.
Blue Is the Usual Extraction, Sometimes
Green.

Green.
Most of us have a slight accuaint-
ance with woad from early childhood,
having been taught that the early Brit
ons smeared themselves with this dye
either for the purpose of terrifying
their enemies or identifying their per-
sons. Curiously enough, the Latin
historians differ as to the color, one
pronouncing it to be blue, another
black, a third green. AS a matter of
fact, they are all correct. Though blue
is the usual extraction, sometimes the
material will come out green, while
the hands of the woadworkers become
as black as negroes hands, and are
only restored to the natural hue with
the change of skin. In the middle of the
sixteenth century came the importa-
ton of indigo, and, in the interests of
the home trade, these attempts were
only partially and temporarily success
full, n eventually indigo superseded
Woad, both being a cheaper and more
brilliant dye. But now a curious thing
happened. 1t looked for all the world
as If woad had been crushed out of ex-
i~stence, and could never raise its head
again. And, indeed, most of the fac
tories had to put up their shutters, so
that nine people out of ten are proba-
bly, ignorant of the fact that woad is
still used by dyers. Experiments,
however, proved that the addition of a
certain percentage of fermented woad
to indigo produced a much faster dive,
and consequently all the best blue ma
~terials, such as policemen's and naval
officers uniforms, are dyed with a mix
ture of woad and Undergraduates and
Queries.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
A Nlsogynist's Suspicion.

During the interval between the sec
ond and third acts at English's last
night the program showed that the Or
chestra would play "The Spider and
the Fly" 1t played Memberships
wedding march. Now, a suspicion
might arise-but, of course, only in
the mind Of a misogynist.-Indianap-
oils News.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
train WOrkers Live Long.

statistics have been published to
show that brain workers are long
lived. Five hundred and thirty emf
hent men and women Of the present
century were taken and their duration
OF life gives an average of sixty-eight
Years and eight months.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
Sheep Have Hydrophobia.

Recently seven sheep belonging to
Mrs. S. R. Dilley, residing near Glen
Gardner, Pa, were bitten by a mad
dog. The animals all went mad and
butted the fence posts until they kill
ed themselves.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21

In Japan handkerchiefs are made
of paper, cords are twisted from it and
limitations Of cordova leather are skill
fully contrived from 1t.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21

In one case S266, 900 has been saved
owing to the establishment of wire
less telegraphy between the East
Goodwin lightship and the South Fore
land.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21
More Deadly Than Bullets.

The British war department is more
deadly to English generals than the
ers.-Louisville Commercial.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21

tuberculosis Infection. Generally
speaking tuberculosis (consumption) is
not inherited. 1t is transmitted in
certain ways. The first way is nv
the animal or person coughing I'D
some of the matter and having it dry
till the particles float in the air. when
1t is breathed in by other beings. The
second way is taking it through a tu-
berculous udder, by which the germs
become scattered through the milk.
The germs while wet cannot he
breathed into the lungs for the reason
that they lie where they fall. Care
must therefore be taken to keep tuber-
culous cows from feeding with other
cows, as their sputa may become the
source of infection for the whole herd.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21

oneepmen are quite generally aban-
don1ng the washing of wool on the
9heep or any other way. The prices
received for washed we unwashed
o is now not enough 10 pay for
the work and for exposing the sheep
TO old from the water. The CEN
trifugal machines that wash the wool
30 quickly and thoroughly are too
keen competitors of the shepherd.
Perhaps the washed wool is really a
little more valuable, but if it is the
buyer is unwilling to make induce
ments in the way of better prices.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-21

forgery. He protested his innocence,
but he went down in ignominious de-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-09
NEW MODERN coTTAGEs.

1900 acres fine timber land In King eoan-
logging.