The Helena independent. [volume], June 21, 1891, Morning, Page 4, Image 4

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HELENA, MONT., JUNE 21. 1891.
.WPMontanians abroad will always find Tau
DAILY 1NnEPNDxN1T en file at their favorite
hotels: Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan. New
York, Weste Minneapolis: Baldwin and Palace,
San Francisco; McDermott, Butte; Leland Hotel,
Springfield. Ill.
THERE is something ominous in a
name. The horse High Tariff dropped
dead yesterday at the three-quarter
pole. That's a horse on McKinley.
SPEAKING of the Ohio situation that
robust republican newspaper, the Now
York Recorder, says, "The farmer only is
the uncertain quantity." Ah yes, that
"only" covers a revolution.
THE business men of Helena should
prepare to send a big representative del
egation on the first excursion to the
ACeur d'Alene country next month.
Helena men and money have played a
conspicuous part in the development of
this region and with close and direct
railroad communication by the opening
of the new line we should command its
rapidly growing trade.
IF Mr, Russell Harrison, who does not o
ive in Montana, is not satisfied with the t
way THE INDEPENDENT'S business is s
conducted we are sorry for it, but he I
must not try to humbug the people by n
pretending that he is the friend of home p
labor. If he persists we will print that s
Boos letter proposing to import "scab" n
labor from Detroit. Mr. Harrison t
should be content with his losses on the p
state printing contract and subside. He lt
ought to know when he has had enough it
of the newspaper business in Helena e
and quit. it
HoNoRs are thickly heaped upon e
blushing Helena. The supreme grand a
lodge of the Ancient Order United
Workmen of the United States, which o
has been in session in Detroit the past a
week, elected our fellow townsman, J. d
W. Ainaley, supreme grand master, ii
and voted to meet in this city in June, c
1892. This is a great and notable order o
and the people of Helena appreciate the p
honor conferred upon this city and will d
give the visitors a royal welcome. The c
A. 0. U. W. in June; the National Edu
cational association in July. Hurrah r
for us! f
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C. H. PAYNE, the republican boss of f
Wisconsin, who conducted the cam- t
paign in the northwestern states for the c
republican national committee in 1888, 6
is visiting in New York and frankly
talks of the party's gloomy prospects: a
"There is one thing I would like to t
impress on republicans in the east," said
Mr. Payne, "and that is that New York r
and Indiana are no longer the only t
doubtful states. Wisconsin is doubtful.
It was made so by fooling with the
school laws. Illinois is doubtful on the
same question. I am not without hope
that the republican party will carry the s
presidential election, but the party
leaders must look the situation in the
face."
WHAT would other merchants think of a
similar scheme to supply their customers
from some other part of the country with
clothing, boots and shoes, hats, furniture. r
carpets and all the necessaries and luxuries
of life-Journal.
What do our tailors think of the
members of the Journal staff who buy
clothes ready made from New Jersey
shops instead of having theii made in
Helena? What do our shoemakers think
of them for purchasing the products of ,
Massachusetts factories that pay their
hands 75 cents a day? What do our
cigarinakers think of them for smoking
cigars from Havana and Key West.
And that's what every han in the es
tablishmnent does except the Prince, who
has his clothes and shoes made to order
in the east.
TAKING the prince of Wales for a text,
.John Russell Young, in the New York
Press, preaches a graceful and forcible
sermon on the times. lie shows that
Wales comes by his vices by natural in.
heritance from the Georges, and in spite
of the general lamentation over the de
cay of morals which we are getting from
British press and pulpit, lie argues that
the ago in which we live is better than
the one we have left behind. "Look
into the memoirs," he says, "road the
old plays and comedies, recall even the
virtuous Addison reeling up and down
the corridors of the Holland house,
heavy with port wine, or the orgies of
Carlton house under the prince regent;
or Byron's nights with Sheridan; rtino
down to the memory of men still in
active life, and, peeping behind the cur
tain as lifted by Groville, see brougham,
Wellington, Palmerston under the rose.
Come even into our own country and
recall a pregnant remark the writer
once heard from Iseo. Sickles, that noth.
ing contributed so much to lire the re
bellion us the frenzy for whisky among
members of the ante-rebellion congress.
Compare all this with the public senti
ment and private manners in our own
day and see how much we have im
proved. Twenty years ago for ii nuan to
be fuddled at his club, or to fall into his
cups et a dinner table, or to be seen un
steady in business hours, was a trifle.
No one especially cared."
And coming down to our own country
Mr. Young pertinently asks:
Does any one suppose that Aaron Burr
would be chosen by any political combina
tion as the president of the United Mtates;
boon tetalue4 Ii thu polIttalel oestBeuee of
a president after the Rleynolds amourl tl at
Franklia would have i4sued that anssbicg
rapy without som5 careful eliatons that
even Jackson, with his Dickinson and other
dueals on his head, could have been made
president? I question it, I would not be
understood as having this generatios.say
"holler than thou" to Hamilton, Franklin
and Jackson, or that in many essential
matters we are worthy to unlace the shoe
latohets of these venerated men. But had
they lived in the atmosphere which now
breathes from our churches, schools and
modern society, they would not have
lacked the moral attributes which
would have added luster to even their illus
trious fame.
Mr. Young might, have added that in
the United States the people to-day
would not even whitewash the prince
of Wales.
SOCIAL LIFE FOR THE POOR.
The new University Settlement society
just organized in New York for the
purpose of interesting college-bred men
in an effort to improve the condition of
the people in crowded city districts is
more than a passing fad. Such men as
Carl Schurz, Seth Low, Dr. Arthur
Brooks, Oswald Ottendorter, ex-Secre
tary Fairchild, and a score of others
equally prominent, do not lightly enlist
in an ill-considered and impractical en
terprise. The society will establish
itself on the foundation laid for it by a
band of earnest women a few years ago
and will invite not only college men, but
others to join it in promoting centers of
social, literary, artistic and musical en
tertainment in ' the most populous
neighborhoods of the city. The society
will "establish and maintain in the ten
ement house districts places of residence
for college men and others desirous of
aiding in the work, with rooms where
the people of the neighborhood may
meet for social and educational pur
poses."
The New York Press says, "The en
couraging feature of it all is the com
parative disappearance of the old notion
if the condescension of the rich toward
the poor, the old patronizing tone and
style of doing things for the masses.
rhere is an increasing tendency to ad
nit that the humblest and poorest peo
ple, as the less fortunate brothers and
sisters of the rest of mankind, have
moral rights to opportunities for cul
bure and pleasure far in excess of the
pittance of rights which the skeleton of
law authorizes for them. These tene
nent house reform and people's palace
anterprises are the according of rights,
iot the doing of favors to the masses.
They are no more than the duty of
ivery person who can contribute either
a dollar or an idea to their furtherance."
Dr. Rainsford, of St. George's church,
on Stuyvesant square, uttered an idea
a few weeks ago which covered a great
deal more of the ground than he applied
it to, when he said he did not believe in
cutting off the masses with mission
chapels in which a weak, scared little
priest and a hoarse, ill-drilled choir con
ducted services with a little old organ
out of tune in a dingy little room with
plain walls and dirty windows. The
masses ought to have the most beauti
ful churches, inside and outside, in
town, the finest music, the most artistic
frescoes and stained glass windows, and
the surpliced choirs following gilded
crosses ought to go through the worst
streets in town singing as the brave and
uncouth Salvation army people do, only
a great deal better. That is the idea
that should move college-bred men to
join in this and other efforts to give the
most numerous element of the popula
tion the best opportunities for enjoy
ment and culture.
The men engaged in the work are all
imbued with Dr. Rainsford's ideas and
will carry them out as far as their re
sources will permit. It is a noble un
dertaking, worthy of the humanitarian
spirit of the nineteenth century.
LOCAL ETCHINGS.
Always having a profound respect and a
reverent admiration for the man or woman
who could so far forget themselves and
their own selfish aims and ambitions (for
they, like the rest of mankind, must have
their pet schemes and visions of worldly
aggrandizement) as to give the best years
of their life toward Christianizing and civ
ilizing the benighted of other lands, that
when I heard there was a real live mission
ary, and a woman at that, among us, my
curiosity was aroused, and I strasghtway
made up my mind to satisfy it.
My mental picture of a missionary had
always been of a most depressing kind. I
thought she must be tall, angular and sal
low, with a sad, solemn and spiritualistic
exuression to her features. That
she would sit with folded honds
and say, "'Resoue the perishing," or words
to that rffect. Instead, I find Miss Buzzell
a sweet, fresh complexioned young lady
with nothing gruesome in her appearance.
She did not wear a sanctified air or sit with
folded hands. I iaked her regarding her
work among the Chinese and she cheerfully
answered my questions.
Three years ago Miss Buzzell graduated
from a missionary school in Chicago. Her
parents are at present doing missionary
work in the state of Nebraska.
"How could you reach the Chinese in an
intelligible way if you did not speak their
language?"
"Shortly after reaching my destination
I engaged a tutor who could not
speak a word of English, and I was
obliged to learn their tongue to makeomyself
understood. The language is a diflicult
one, as they have so many different infle
tions for the sarie word. 'There was no
grammar in the Chinese language so I didn't
have that to contend with."
I inquired as the nature of her work.
"I am engaged in teaching in the schools,
holding readings and working among the
women. The men, who go as mrisslonaries,
are not allowed to see the women and they
can only be found by going to their
homes."
Are there other missionaries at work in
the same field with you?
"Yes. several. I boarded with a family
of them."
"Which had you rather labor among, the
Chinese or Japanese?"
"The Jaipanese. 'Ihey are more cleanly
in their person and in their homes. Are
more intelliget and grasp ideas more quick
ly."
"What portion of China are you at work
in?"
"In the southeastern portion, about 100
miles from Canton, at Chow-king. I have
been among them three years and hope to
r~ti to them sometime in the heal f
"Osa you see good results from Yep1
boseP'
"Yee; the same in the work thern ,
among the 'heathen nearer home,' Su*i
believe snd receive, and so0pe 'st}4' 4#
There is an immense feld tot laboerse rig
but few willing workers."
Zasn't it a continual sacrifice on you
part?"
"I do not look at it in that light ags
would feel badly it I thought I could `no'
again go back to the work."
"Are the Chinese one meets in this coun
try the same as those to be found in their
own land?"
"No, decidedly. They are all of thi
poorer and most ignorant classes. I en
joyed visiting the Chinatowns of Portland
and San Francisco."
Miss Bausell will visit Bozeman, Bilingi
and the Gallatin valley in the interest ol
her work, and may return to Helena and
speak of her labors among the Chinese peo
ple of this city.
"Twenty-nine vears ago to- night," said
James Gourley on Thursday night, as he
leaned back in a handsomely upholstered
chair at the Helena, "I was the only man ir
Helena. I always remember the annivers
ary, and am thinking of starting a Firal
Man club or a Last Man club, whichevet
would be the most appropriate. There wad
no cabin here or settlement 6i
and kind. I was on my way
on horseback from Cottonwood, now Deer
Lodge, to Montana City, where there was
quite a settlement. Night overtook me
here and I decided to camp down the gulch.
It was a lonesome prospect I assure you.
I halted near a clump of bushes where Bach,
Cory & Company's store now stands, threw
my saddle on the ground for a pillow}
pulled my blanket over me and slept the
sleep of the just. I am not an old man yet
and when I walk past these great business
blocks, or drop into this luxurious hotel a
few hundred yards from my camping spot
of 1862, it all seems like a dream."
I saw an excellent crayon portrait the
other day in a Broadway show window of
James Fairweather, the discoverer of Alder
gulch, which turned out the yellow dust in
such quantities in the early days as to make
the place famous throughout the civilized
world. Fairweather has the credit of wash
ing out the first pan of gravel which led to
the discovery of gold in Alder, but there
are other circumstances connected with the
event. Granville Stuart. nuw the state land
agent of Montana, in 1876 pointed out that
the Yellowstone expedition of 1863, corp
manded by his brother, James : tuart, wtas
the direct cause of the discovery of Al4er
gulch and the consequent rapid develop
ment of the territory which followed.
In James Stuart's account of the expedi
tion he mentions a party of six which was
to have joined the expedition at the mouth
of Stinking Water river, but for some
cause failed. Granville Stuart, in prepar
ing his brother's diary of the trip down the
Yellowstone for publication in one of the
volumes of the Montana Historical 'ociety,
added a number of foot notes. It is in
one of them than the account given of the
party which failed to join the expedition.
'Ihis party consisted of Louis Sim,nons,
William Fairweather, George Orr, Thomas
Cover, Barney Hughes and Henry Edgar.
They were detained by not being able to
ind their horses, which had wintered at
Deer Lodge. They arrived at the ap
pointed place of rendezvous some three or
four days after the main party had passed,
and taking their 'trail followed on,
expecting to soon overtake them;
but before they did so they
were met on the upper Yellowstone
by a large party of Crow Indians, who at
)uee proceeded to plunder them, taking
nearly all they had, and giving them miser
able sore-backed ponies in exchange for
their horses, ordered them to return Qn
pain of death. Situated as they were they
could only comply. And yet this vexatious
outrage was the most fortunate thing that
could have occurred for their own interest
and that of the territory, for on their way
back to Bannack City, one day's travel up
the Madison river, Fairweather observed a
point of bare bedrock projecting from the
side of the gulch, and determined to try a
pan of dirt. Ile was astonished by obtain
ing thirty cents in beautiful coarse gold,
and in a few more trials he got $1.75 to the
pan. This was at the point afterwards
famous as Fairweather's discovery claim
in Alder gulch.
The arrest of an amateur detective in
Butte for annoying Mrs. W. J. Penrose
calls to mind'the fact that Helena is full of
them. You pass them on every street cor
ner, touch clbows with them at the bare.
They go about with their hats pulled down
over their wrinkled foreheads, look at every
passer by through half-closed eyelids or out
of the corners of their eyes. just as a de
tective is supposed to do in the yellow
backed novels. The murderers of William
J. Penrose, if there are any of them around,
could spot these sleuth hounds two blocks
off. It is pretty much the same as if they
carried the following banner inscribed: "I
am looking for the murderer of William
J. Penrose, and you want to give me plenty I
of room." Each one has an idea that he
is the possessor of the true and only solu
tion of the mystery, and he is certain to
earn that $4,000 reward. The spectacle of
two mysterious looking gentlemen ebad
owing each other from opposite sides of the
street is no unusual one those nights. They
are both on the same business, but do not
know each other. These man chasers are
getting so thick that it might be ia relief to
inoffensive strangers if the Vidocqs :would
run each other in and give the community
a day off.
California Excursion Rates.
The Union Pacific will sell on the 15th of
next month round trio excursion tickets as
follows: Butte to Han Francisco via Port
land or Ogden, both directions, $75; San
Francisco, going via Portland 1a1 return
inc via Ogden, or vyie vesn, $90; to Los
Angeles, going and returning via Portland,
entering San Francisco in one diiection
either Ruing or returning, $89; to Loi An
geles, going via Portlnd and San Fran
deco and returning via Sacramouto and
Ogden, $¶ft.:.
i The jbovo tickets are good going sixty
(iS) days and good for return passage any
time within six months from date of sale.
Those desiring to take edvantage of these
rates may cal, on or address
01. O. W isiy, F. & P. A.,
28 North Main street.
MonEY T LOANo
1 am prepared to make loans promptly en I l.
P'ROVEl lRttj'OltTY in the
CITY OF HELENA,
-AND-
J ariches in Arontana.I
No delays. Funds always on haind. Corruepend.
Len e solicited.
I II.13. I'ALMER.
B (oom al 15, March ath National Bank Buildine
MORTGAGE NOTES PURCHASED
fl1HE DENVER BUILDIJ Q,.J
Broadway and Warren St.
NOW READY FOR OCCUPANCY!
The DENVER is steam heated throughout, and has
every improvement. Tenants are wanted for ONE
STORE, complete with every convenience. Also for
Offices and Apartments on second p nd third floors.
APPLY TO
VtALLACE & THORNBURGH, Agents,
At their New Offices, in the See
ond Floor Denver Building,
Broadway and Warren St, Helena, Montana
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WATCHES,
SILVERWARE,
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Complicated Watch Repairing,
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Manufactured to Order. Mon
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SPECIALTY !
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2,000 ACRES, well improved
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Also FoR-rv hbORSyus. Cheap
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BARGAINS IN HELENA REAL ESTATE.
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A. G. LOMBARD,
0-v-il Engineer'.
Rooma 43, Montana National Bank Building.
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' have in Ready Made and the ones
made by fashionable merchant '
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,, gets the credit for having made
d those we sell, just as soon as they -
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HELENA, MONTANA.