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Nei York: West, Minneapolis: Baldwin and Palace San Francisco; MoDormott. Butte; Leland Hotel Springfelsd. 111. COME TO HEILENA. An invitation will be extended to th National Educational association ti hold its meeting in the year of grace 1892 in Helena, the capital city of Mon tana. A properly accredited committee of citizens now in Toronto will give al desired information as to the ability o the city to amply provide for the enter tainment cf all guests should the asso ciation honor the great northwest b1 deciding to meet in iti leading city The trip itself would comprise a libera education in American geography, ant open an immense field for observatiot on life in a section known to mod teachers only through the uninspiriting medium of cold type. The meeting would be held under the shadow ol majestic mountains, on the edge of r rich and fertile valley. A few steps from the lecture rooms will bring one to mines that have yielded, and are yielding, millions of precious ores. Ob ject lessons are plentiful to suoplemenl the advantage of the able papers ant lectures of the meeting. Montana is one of the younger genera. tion of sisters in the great national family. On all sides of her are other new oommonwealths, whose school systems, like her own, though excellent, are in the formative stage. The influence of a great representative gathering of educators would be of incalculable ad vantage to the schools of Montana, the Dakotas, Idaho, Wyoming, Washington, Utah and other states and territories. Earnest workers in the field should not slight the cause in young communities. Within the last few years millions of dollars have been invested in school houses, apparatus and wages in the s9rthwest. The people would be en couraged mightily in the further expen diture of vast sums yet needed to fully supply the demand for school advan tages. Then there is the National park, the climax of natural wonders. Butte, the greatest mining camp on earth, is but a short journey distant; Anaconda, with its unrivaled smelters; Missoula, Queen City of the west side; Great Falls, metropolis of the north; Bozeman, the beautiful; Boulder, with the wonderful springs and sanitarium, and other cities and sights that cannot be matched in a year's travel. Then there is the Broadwater, not equaled the world over. Of the other multiplied and varied attractions of Helena it is needless to speak. They must be seen to be appreciated. Accommodations ample and satisfac tory, a trip through Wonderland, a hearty welcome and royal entertainment are offered the National Educational association. Come to Helena. B, EET CULTURE. In a recent article we called attention to the rise and growth of agricultural experiment stations, and expressed the opinion that the cost involved in their establishment was much more than re paid by the benefits they conferred on the farming class. The improvement of the saccharine qualities of the sugar beet on the continent of Europe furnish es additional proof of our assertion. In this special instance, chemical investi gation has built up a great agricultural industry. Nor has the advantage been confined to the producer. Increased production has cheapened for the con sumer a necessary and almosi universal article of consumption. "Book farm ing" can fairly afford to stand on its own merits. The agricultural chemists of France have devoted a large amount of atten tion to the culture of the sugar beet. As the direct result of their labors, the following figures speak for themselves. In 1881-82, the average yield per hectare was somewhere near ,:,830 pounds. The hectare may be roughly set down at about two acres. Four years later, each hectare produced on an average 5,1Gl1 pounds, an increase, in other words, of mnore than 34 per cent. The year 1889-00 showed still further progress. The average yield had then reached (,830 pounds, an increase of some 32 per cent. over the production of 188T5-8t, and al most 80 per cent. above the average yield of 1881-82. The efforts of the experimental chem ist for the benefit of the farmer and the general public have been further pro. moted by the labors of the inventor and the scientist. Improvements in machin ery and manufacturing methods have worked a second revolution in the pro duction of beet sugar. In 1881-2, 38,461 pounds were required for the pro duction of a ton of sugar. Within the last ten years that amount has fallen by fully one-half. Improved methods pro duoe the ton of sugar from 19,174 pounds. The farmer who, in the face oi these result., continues to sneer ea science and scientiflo inquirers, writes himself down a moseback. Within tee years their work has doubled the sugar producing capacity of the beet, and hat reduced by one-half the old extravagani consumption in production of sugar One of the most useful commodities o modern life has fallen in cost fully 71 per cent, and this is solely due to the experiments of the "book-farmer." Sue cess to him! THE AMERICAN HO0. Poor American hogl Long years ol exclusion have accustomed him to the abuse of the wild-eyed foreigner, bul that an American and preacher should turn the vials of his wrath upon him and abuse him for his low associates, violates all the ties of patriotism Nature has divided the American hog into two classes, the one and the other. The one finds his way into Germany and other foreign countries without em bargo, and makes America odious and modest Americans ashamed. Of him the preacher has no word to say. It is the other he attacks, the other, who is reoresented by the original Chester county whites and all respectable breeds. In justice to the other we desire to express our belief that the critic might interview the most prominent physicians of this city-men who have been in practice twenty years or more-and he would fail to find one who had even had a case of trichinim to treat. But,to hear his lamentable plaint, the public might easily imagine a daily funeral in our city and every live city in the country, re sulting from this cause alone. It would seem a matter of the most urgent neces sity to pass an ordinance requesting every pig to be regularly groomed, and at least fortnightly shaved, as prelimin aries of a microscopic inspection by the board of health. No time, it might be imagined, should be lost in praying the honorable congress of the United States to offer a special premium for improved mouse traps and garbage furnaces. As matter of sober fact, the news papers of this country report about one outbreak of trichinosis per year, one family attacked in the vast expanse of the United States. Even then the in frequent story is often sensational, for trichinme are novices at the vendetta. More than that, a Chicago patriot, Dr. Belfield, in the interest of science-for he has no pork packing establishment has investigated and experimented with the hog's associates, to whom the rev erend doctor takes such strong excep tion. The medical man fed a rat on pork infected with trichine. To the satisfaction of Chicago experts, he proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the rat was alive with the para sites and then-ate it. lie still lives. We would suggest to the reverend critic that two channels of safety are open to the pork-eating world. Dr. Bellfield's experiment suggests the one. Cohsume your pork as he did. Rat, by the way, is said to be very like ten der chicken in flavor. The other is this. A temperature of 122 degrees Fahren heit destroys the objectionable parasite. Erect a second natatorium in the vicinity of the Broadwater, and let the city's hogs indulge in a daily swim. Some of the males use the electric cars, as it is. COL. SANDERS 18 credited in an inter view published in the east with saying that he is for Blaine and that the plumed knight can have the Montana delegation if he wants it. Has the firm of Harrison, Carter & Sanders dissolved by mutual consent or stress of circum stances? Or has the cayuse kicked the combination into smithereens? Possibly the long term fraud has not been taken into the association and will actively en gage in the enterprise of electing a legisl ture that will elect a west side republican; or, possibly an east side democrat, in fact anybody rather than W. F. Sanders. We would suggest the HIon. Lee Mantle as a man quite acceptable to Mr. Power, but the fact that the tirst man who will hold title to a seat in the United States senate, credited to Montana, will be a true blue democrat deters us from put ting the esteemed Butte gentleman in the way of standing legitimate campaign expenses to no purpose. Br:RCr.ARs recently raided the cottage in which Pugilist Bob Fitzsimmons lived at White Bear TLake, Wis., as well as the abiding places of some other celeb rities in the fistio arena. The total plunder secured is reported as worth $5,000 or more. A few months since Mr. Fitzsimmons worked his way to this country from his antipodean home by shoveling black diamonds, commonly called bituminous coal, into the fire box of an ocean steamer. And only yesterday he was robbed of something like a quart of genuine sparkloers! And his name in way of praise is on more tongues than B. lfirrison's. What young man know ingly would start out in life to become president? It takes too long and there is too little in it. Bruising offers superior inducements. IIANNr.rAi. IIAMi.iN lived long and earned the consideration of all who knew him or know his record. From an humble beginning, by reason of strength of ime:ntal qualities he rose to eminence in the nation's councils. Hlis life well illustrates the possibil;t!es open to every energetic and ambitious son of America. llis death at the ripe old ago of 82 calls forth temperate comment on his public career and eulogy of his pub lic life and character. lie was one of the conspicuous figures of the nation and his biography will afford profitable study for all young men. Peace to the patriarch. CzAR REED did not go to Russia in his tour of the continent. lie has had all the blowing-up he cares for, and did not desire to tempt the nihilist bomb thrower to practice on his amiple figure against the time when the autocrat of all the Russias might come his way. WIIEN a republican newspaper speaks glowingly of the enormous output of American tin plate plants, the remark is invariably qualified by the words, "will soon be." The fact still holds good that scarce a score of people have been bene ftted by added tax on tin plate, anc sixty-fve millions of citizens have beer taxed to pay the burden. Proteotiol profits probably one man in a hundred and he is, nine times out of ten, the wealthiest one of the lot, A r.AnO delegation of residents of hex majesty's dominion, living in and aboul Lethbridge, visited that fine metropolis of northern Montana, Great Falls, anc participated in the Fourth of July cele bration. The two sections are closely related by the ties of trade and this evidence of entente is calculated to re. dound to the advantage of both. The visitors were treated in true cousinll style and heartily invited to come again COMMODORE POWER has hisear close tc the taffrall and is intantly listening for the echo of the remarks made by thewar horse, as he, unmated, prances in the political fields of the east. The commo dore is a good listener. He is also said to have selected as candidate for the United States senate a well known west side republican whose aspirations will bi warmly supported by the Inter Mountain, of Butte. SvF.RAL of our state exchanges printed an issue in red, white and blue in celebration of the anniversary of free dom's natal day. This phase of patriot ism is a pleasing one, and the press of Montana is nothing if not pleasing. TIE senator from Missouri recently lost all his ready cash at poker, but drew the line at gambling for his shirt. A praiseworthy regard for Vest-ed interests. A CONNECTICUT man has invented an electrical contrivance for the protection of hen roosts. Colored brethren vote the innovation a shocking one. PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE, Secretary Foster is a great fisherman. Beethoven is proved to have been of Flemish blood. Joel Chandler Harris, better known as "Uncle Remus," has red hair. Prof. Wm. S. Tyler has taught Greek at Amherst college for fifty-five years. Senator Vest, of Missouri, wears boots with old fashioned high heels that run down to a point. The Rev. William Walter Webb of Phila delphia has been elected to the professor ship of Exegesis and Hebrew at Nashotah Theological seminary, Wisconsin. The king of Ashantee is allowed 3,333 wives. Many of them are the daughters of the chiefs of tributary tribes over which the king has jurisprudence, and are sent to him as hostages. King Humbert's son, the crown prince, threatens to upset all royal conventionali ties and marry the girl of his heart, the daughter of an English clergyman who is living in Italy. In his book General Butler gives his opinion of the three greatest American lawyers, and he places at the head the name of Jeremiah Mason. Webster and Choate he cites next. The emperor of Austria has for years past found consolation for his trouble in the sympathetic companionship of a for mer well known Viennese actress, Cather ine Schratt, whose counsels are said to have been of the utmost advantage to him in The inheritance of great wealth has not destroyed young Adam Forepaugh's love for the glitter and spangles of the circus. Though his income is now greater than the president's salary, the son of the great showman dons his pink tights at every per- formance and rides in the hurdle race with all the interest of a $10-a-week supe. Young Forepanugh is 30 years old and built like an athlete. He has had something to do about a circus ring since he was a boy of seven. THE ATLANTIC FOR JULY. "The Lady of Fort St. John," the new serial which begins in the July number of the Atlantic Monthly, is a story of one of the lords of Acadia, Charles de la Tour. The novel opens in an Acadian fortress at the month of the river St. John. Within the walls of this fortress, over which Mad ame de la Tour, the lady of Fort St. John, presides, is gathered a curious family-a noblewoman formerly of the English court, a Swiss lieutenant, a dwarf witch-woman, a Dutch gentlewoman and two Jesuit priests. There is a good deal of dramatic interest in the first installment, which ends, as all well regulated serials should, in a situation which piques the curiosity of the reader. Prof. Lanoiani contributes a paper on "Underground Christian Rome," in which he tells of the discovery of the Christianity of an ancient Roman family from the ex cavation of their ancient burial place. It is written in the lively style which made his "Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries" not only a scholarly but a popular book. This is followed by '"The Old Rome and the New," sufficiently de scribed in its title, and by Mr. W. J. Still man. There is nothing better in the whole number, however, than Octave Thanet's paper on "Plantation Life in Arkansas." It is admirably written. The writer ends her paper by a wish, not that progress should be put back-the progress which will spoil the picturesque features of the country- but by a thanksgiving that she was in Ar kansas before progress has arrived. A son net by Phillip Bourke Marston: a paper by Bradford Torrey on the "Male Ruby Throat;" the "Story of a Long Inherit ance," by William M. Davis,which,althouch no one would ever suspect it, is devoted to tornadoes; the "Neutrality of Switzer land," an able paper by W. D. MeCrackan, showing some of the advantages of a neu tral state; Mr. Nathanial SouthgateShaler's paper on "College Examinations," which will excite remark; and an article on "Tin toret, the Shakespeare of l'ainters," by William H. Thayer, are other features of the number. There are two remaining ar ticles, however, which need a word by themrselves. One is Agnes lIepplier's de lightfully amusing criticism of "English Railway Fiction." Miss lhooplier has spent some leisure hours in trying to find out what the English railway public read, and the result of her researches is summun(d up in one of those sly17 satcastic and cleverly written papers which she is in the habit of giving us. "The Finding of Miss (Clemn tine." a short story by Mrs. 'E. W. Bellamy, will also amuse persons who like Hoathern dialect stories. lioughton, Milflin & Co., Boston. lunday Excurnou Ritltee. The Montana Central will sell during the summer tickets from Helena to Alhamibra and Boulder and return at one fare for the round trip. 'J'Tckets will be on sale batur days and Sundays and will be good to re turn until the following Monday. I. II. LANGLEY, General Ticket Agent. HE DEJ\VER BUIbDIPJq, 1 Broadway and Warren St. NOW R.EADY 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 and third floors. APPLY TO WALLACE & THORNBURGH, Agents, At their New Offices, in the Sec ond Floor Denver Building, Broadway and Warren 8t, Helena, Montana Go to The Bee Hive for bargains in every de partment. MONEY AT FIVE PER CENT. Uncle Sam's Remedy for Hard Times for All Comers. Money loaned at five per cent. in any amount, from 25 cents to $25,000, on personal secnrity,at the old and reliable loan office of Uncle Sam. Look at This. Commencing April 5 we will sell all kinds of chewing and smokina tobaccos at factory prices. OPPENHEIMER & ASH, International Hotel Block. Through Sleeper to Toronto. A Pullman sleeping car has been char tered to run through to Toronto, Ont., via the Northern Pacific railroad, leaving Helena on train No. 2, Monday. July 6. Berths can be reserved in this car at the city ticket office. JACQUEMIN &C0. 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Nestable Dinner Pail to every person making a Cash Purchase of $10 or over. HELENA, MONTANA.