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0. of _. 'f e...the bowl! though rich aud br.'gkt I DWr sh upon the light, Al rlbces " I~s its deCpths beneath, 'lose ir col ie w-+hose sting is 'death. ,whose AN ESSAYSE t livered before Boulder Star Lodge, 1. 0. G. T., o the vening of its Eighth Anniversary. SISTERS AND FRIENDS :--We. vcoa met to celebrate the Eighth Anniver of our Lodge. TIor a long time after esary otintiono f ;tis lodge, the prophecies t its failure waS legron, but by perseverance nd a humane enldeatvor to do good to our fellow mnI, wh e have been able to nobly maintain our charter, and we sincerely cher ish the hope that it may be perpetual. The objects of this institution is to .dis courage intemperance and rescue our fellow coen from the dangers of the wine glass; to show to fallen men, by our examplg, the folly of dissipation, the inconsistency of their their life, and point out to themn the dangers of suicidal end. There are some of us who have been vast lybenetitted by our connection with this order, and it is within miy exiperience to say that no matter how low a man has fallen he may yet be raised iup and respected of men if he will only listen to the voice of reason and join the Good 'l'emplars, and walk strictly in accordance with the principles taungt tliereill. It is true a few' of onu members have proved too' weak to withstand the snares of the tempter, but their fall is not the end. Sc There is a bar at which the tempter ari' th tenmpted must stand to be judged by a tr'i th bunud higher than ours. be But the object of thle organization adid St perpetuation of our Lodge is to do good and tj try to make the worhl at large feel that the tl Father.of all never intended us to destroy ti our brother man, bat rather -intended us to t( be as one family, each striving for the ad- tl vancement bf others. S4 Intemperancesi s-one of the most destrue- t tire habits the .hiWtian family is addicted to a --destruitive be'tauseit impairs both mind 3 and body.'; It racks the system and shatters t the intellect, and reduces man from noble t and' lofty independence to' beastly indulgence r and paipful servitude. i There is no habit r more certain of its victim, nor more speedy In the destruction Of those who foster the tempting ailurementPfof the wine cup: We are aware that the mind is more ac tive and the perceptive faculties keener after a stmunulous of two' or three moderate drifiks, and if inebriation would stop here no serious calamity might be apprehended, but it is a weakdess in common with all mankind that when a habit is once couitraTted it requires more than an ordinary resolatttn and firm nes- to break flom it. And the exhilarating sensations that inflame the appetite, the de lirious'eflbets of a protracted useoftpiritubus drinks, causing reason to topple, and the wasting f 'every energy and derangement of thewhole system, both intellectual and physical,. renders intemperance one of the most gigantic and'the most dreaded habits of evil that falls€to the lot of man to encounºf ter. Unlike soilte of the lesser evils, it has too many twin vices, too many intoxicating associations, and too-varied pleasures to be easily discarded at will. It is wise to abstain exclusively from the use of ardent spirits. There are scarcely anynmoderate drinkers who, if you admonish them-of their way ward course and the dange'6ft a drunkard's grave, would thank you for '-your timely warning, but'they will, perhaps, with a look of wisdom, a haughty air,· and antssumed deftlance, declare their full control of them selves, and their ability to cease drinking whenever so inclined, which unfortunately, in many cases, never occurs. Their appe ti e increases with every succeeding drink. A luritug, visible shame steals steadily over tlepm, so that they "seek- so avoid good soci ety, and are only at ease when under the intfluence of liquor, and in the companion ship of vioe. Their self-depredation increases at every step, they gradually lose the' force' o" character that marks the upright man1 their courage and self-command become47 weaker, their constitution broken and every palsied, so that a fearful, dooin stares them' im the face if no timely, chastenin agency: intervenes. to .-arrest them in their fa.ial caseer. O-RES-'lt" THE RAILROAD A Letter from Beaverhead Valley. 1 SALISBURY, 3M. T., March 11. ED. IHUSBANDMAN :-As you invite free 2 discussion on the railroad question through tile columns of your valuable paper, I wish to submit a few questions relative to the North and South bill. Now, the bill, if I understand it right, pro vides for the turning over to to the Company bonds in propodttion to the amount issued, short twenty-five per cent. (that is, on the first section of fifty miles), and, in like man ner, for every additional section of twenty five mile,; short fifteen per cent. Now, is this fifteen and twenty-five per cent., held back (iud that out of, as it were, our own money), all the security we have for the fiithful performance of said Company? Again, if I mistake not, they are only re quired to build one hundred miles of road per year, which, if they took the tihfe allot ted, would take two years to reach our Ter ritory. Now, the interest that would accrue on the bonds covering that amount of road (say two hundred miles), would amount in - that time to, something near $100,000. So much for a road through Idaho--can we r stand this? We tax-payers ot to-day will e have it to pay'. We can't expect either cap a ital or emigrioion until the road is well into n our Territory, and would not this extra bur k den put a ptessure on every industry of the s country; afii tend to keep back both capital going to hunt a country heavily taxed. Again, what is there in the North and South bill to prevent the Company, when they near our line, to stop work, and say to the people on the different routes that could be taken, to bid trp if they wanted the road? Section 21 cf this act leaves it in such a shape that that the company have the choosing of their own route; Helena is th'e only point in the Territory they are or would-se pledged a to strike. Now, I - ishYto ask the voters of - the Ruby, Beaverhead, Big Hole and Jeffer- o soin valleys, also those of the West Side, if they ri'bpose to vote over $4,000 per mile to o a sumnufer railroad, and have it go dowli the 1 Madison, leaving the best quartz districts f s the Territory out in the cold? 1 can hardly" e believe you would permit the anxiety for a 'e railroad to get away with your better judg it ment. y Would it not have beehibetter, if: we are 1e determined to aid a railroaitI" nto bur' couh try, to have tendered that aid to a road of - standard gauge, coming more direct, by Br three or four hundred miles, from any point s, East, saving, at the same time, the cost of us reshipping all traffic to and from our coun a try, which, in heavy machinery, is an item. at and quite an undertaking of itself, to say es nothing of the loss oiftime, and at the same n- time opening up to settlement three or four ag hundred miles of what is claimed to be the le- best portion of our territory.? If we are able us to carry the burdent talked of, we are cer he tainly growing out-of intancy; if so, give us .t a full-grown railroad; not but what a nar .nd row gauge would do here in the mountains ,he as a feeder, as they are uised elswhere; ,its 4Mr. Editor, I think there is'a screw loose. uI If 'what is said of Messrs. A- and B- asI is true, they have several Ailent partners. ing I have about come to the conclusion that be the HIusBANDMAN is the only true advocate the-tax-payers have. Stay With us, and you the wii receive your reward. RANCHER; FIR]i NATIONAL BANK' OF' HELENA Designated Depository of the Unite's8t8tes. S. T. HAUSER, - - ic $ldent. - ViceP l ide, t. . CORBtN " - .- .- - - ashier. T. H. ]KLEI.SCHMIDT, - - Ass't. Cashier. We transaeta general Banking bUgness and'bu at the highest rates, GOLD DUST, COIN', -.GOLD AND SILVER BULLI *, And Local fecurities; and sell, Exchange and TeiOgtIpic TraBsfers. SAvallabe . n all parts of the united 'Jtates and Can "aftl, Gret Britain, Ireland andtt Continent. S iecleua, Jinutary 20, 1l7-tt..... - UMMONS. IN THE PROBATE COURT OF MEAGHIER COUNTY, TERRITORY OF MONTANA. CHARLES T. RADER, Plaintrff, vs. " }ss. MAZDON 'FITZ, Defendant. The People of the Tetritory of Montana send greet ihg to Mazdon Fitz; D1)elida 1t. You are' hereby required to zppear in an action broughr against you by the above named Plaintiff in the Probate Court of Meagher ,ouinty, Territory of Muntana, -and- to answer the complaint 11l10t therein, within ten days (exclusive of the day of service) after the service on you of this summons- if served withip "this county; or, it served out of this county, but in t.hs district, within twenty days; otherwise, within fbity days-or judgment by de itult will be tankn atiinst you, according to the prayer of said cil~tlailt. The said action is b doght to recover the sut of Four Hundred and Ninety-Nine Dollars and Thir ty-One Cents, alleged to be due froni you to said s Plaintiff, for money paid laid out and expeldd8d for you, at your instanuc' and request, and for i your behetit, at Helena, "lfdr(tana Territory, be tweeh the 7th day of April, 1876, and the lith ddy of March, 1877. e And you are hereby nadtliec that if you fail to appear and answer the said complaint, as above required, the said Plaintiff will take judgment Sagainst you for the sum of Four Ifundred and Ninety-Nine Dollars .atd Thirty-On'e Cents, with d interest and costs of'sdilt. Given. _dier my band and the Seal of the. Pobate Court of the County of SEAL. Meagher, Territory of Montana, this - 16th day of MaTch in the year of our 1e Lord one tholhMnd eight hundred and sedeity-seven' G. A: HAMPTON, Clerk. 111 ý..ý-- - -----"-- - __---- _ --,- r_ ;o 1877. 1877. HEADQUARTERS P- J atn Wagons, Champion Reaper to and Mowers, Wisner *Tiger" Kr- Self-Operatin Suklky Hay he Rake, and Oliver'&s Chilled Plows. tre VAWTER & CO. IHILENA, MONTANA. BAIN WAGON. The.Bain Wagon, with all its NEw improvements for the season 1877, will do harder work andl stand more real hard knocks, with Less Repairs, thain any other wagon made. The Patent Improved Skein r .Tighteners and Oil Holes in Thimbles are csed exclu sively and only on the Bain Wagon. The Bain Wagon stands without a rival in superiority and workmanshilp, and is the most reliable WagbnVidter I all circumstances now used. The Champion Reaper's and Mowers re are'the acknowledged leading Machine in the world. Over 200,000 now in the hands of Farmers. The sweeping triumphs achieved by the Champion Ma= )f chine daring the past few years have placed them in y the lead, and made them the Standard Machine of t the world. Persons wanting REPAIRSn for the Champion Ma-' chine will send m their orders early to Vawter & 1- Co., Heleni, so there will be no delay when needed. nL The Wisner "Tiger" Self-Operating Sulky Hay Rake Is Self-Dscharging, the horse dumps it, a boy or gidrl hat .al drive can rake with it as well as the stroigest man.' It has a solid wrought iron axle. It is the most simple and easiest working Rake ever The Ofier Chilled Plow Scouir in any place, will work well in hard, dry ground, "o that fall plowing can now be done with ouit irrigating. The success of this plow has been so mai"elotie that those unacquainted with this styl b'~' plow cda hardly'realize its advantages unless they sed ti0eidliver Plow, and theh use the Oliver Piyt ; 1.10i0wel' abld id Ut~th in the season of 1876. A fttll li'ue of Agricultural Implements and Bain Wagons, all sizes, will al*ays be "found ii stoof at the Bain W8aon'Yard. Call and examine our' tock" efo're liuying, and save money. V Tgetts, .m-mch22 HELINA, MONTANA. N OTICE TO MINERS. Unitedltates Land Of c,, Helena, Moitana. March 7, 1877. st Albert J. Stephens, whose, post office address is Camp Baker Meag~her county, Montana Tegritory, has this, day filed his 1pplication to 'enter' as agricitltural land, under the final homes ead laws, the northeast quarter (N E qr) of section .tWnship, No.11 north, range No. 4 east, which lan~d is suspended from entry. Notice is hereby given," that a hearing will be had at this. o .ce, on the seventeenth y' of April A'. D1. .187 at ten o'clock a. m." "to" deter mine as to the mineral or non-mineral character of staid hai4d,and testimopy to be used upou: said hear ing wi )be taken before William Gaa di, a Wotaiiy I'. Camp Balr Mo. 1nta77 Territory, oi thelock 14tt day of April, . at , o'ok n- aa. eIt is that there are no :known at. a ,;'hor mining improvemen ts uraind. J, H. 177 ;, Register. PUBLIC SALE. Notice is hereby given, that in plrsuance of an order of the Probate Court of Meagher .ounty, Montana Territory, made on the 5th day of March, A. D., 1877, in the matter of the estatq of Henry Clapper deceased, the undersigned, the Adminie trator oi said estate, will sell at public aoetion, to the highest bidder, and subject to the confirmation of said Court, on Monday, the second dayof April, A. )., 1877, between the hours ot 9 o'clock a. m., and 5 o'clock p. m.. of said day at the front door of the Cobdst 16uage, in Diamond City, M. T. all the right, title, interebt and estate of the said Hen-. ry Clapper, deceased, at tie time of his death, and all the right, title and 'intei~t that the said deceas ed has, by operation of law or otherwise, acquired since the time of his death in and to the following property, to-wit: An undividel ftone-fifth interest in and to the Hellgate and Avtlnuap ditch and wa ter-right, which conveys the waters of Avalsnche and 1HeIgate'gulobhes to the foot-hills op the north side of Cave gulch; also, an undivided&,que-Afth of. all the ~r6perty, mining claims, placer mining pat ents, tQols, water rights, franchises, ,tenements, ranches, lencing, and all other appurtenances and property belonging to a comn an insslting of J. V. Stafford O. C. Warner It.B. Loomis, Jacob Fisher and said deceased, tbriing a company for mining and other purposes,.' under the name and. style of the Hellgate and Avalanche Ditch Compa ny. The said propfrty is all situated in Meagher county, Montana Territory. Termspaddcoditions of sale: one-half of the purchlse money cash ind hand, and balbnce in three months from date of sale, with gaooTnd approQvei security. J. Ve S'IAFFPORD), Administrator. March 8- -16-4w. S .EIIFF'eS AL." G. Ed. McKerhan, ) vs. James King and Warren C. Gillette.) To be sold at Sheriff's sale, on the S1st day of March, A. D., 1877 at the front door of the Court, House in Diamond City, Meagher county, Montana Territory., between the hours of 9 o'clock a. I., a and 5 o'clock p. m., of said day, all that certain,. lot of "nibing ;ground known as the discovery ground in German district, Contiderate gulch, M legheS d a6ulty MnMbhtsana Territory, lying be een - the head of the King &jtllltte flume and the lower. line of the Linville grogi~ .n re particularly de scribed as follows: AI tha certain pare0e of mia ing ground, being lot No. '47, ,n township No. 10 , northb, ralnge No. 2 east, cont g.lng an ~r of 183 6-100 acres, together with the ned.rok4.fl~e lead ing to said ground, and all the teneimenns, appunte-, nances, franchises and property belo~ingi or in anywise appertaining to said deJori .E pro.~prto . ST.J. FLEM ING, eeriff. March 8,.1877-2-168-w. WALTER W. DJ~LACY' U.S. DEPUTY MINRAL SURVEYOR" HELENA,' MONTANA. A. j*. DAVLDSONY; Manufacturer of and ido J3ar in SADDLERY -AND HARN-ESSi' B1' ID 4 WHIPS HALTE!RB CoT'L.&3S, AntI evpthtng pei4Mnshg to thetado. GENUIN ý""Oý1NCb }bflAitNES8 Alirmys'tu'~lstaek: R e pi a ng Done at Shor t Not% e, And Piccsioor r t n ever lefere cha!ged in thi3 errltory. HIDES, WOOL,"PtLTRIE $ and 'FURS m Bought, bfdr'which' the highes t `Ct Wkswiicb 110.2 iKOLTEBIL'S BLIOC~Ii.HELUNANt. -l~,i~ N ( ext door to Welle, Fago-to.) JuD103, J 1875-*34: - .° -. - OUR' COMBI?4ED CATA toitC 1gOR ii71r, OF EVERYTHING FOR THE BARIIEN Numnberi ii175 jag o, wikth colored plato, .S1ET FREEB To our cutimO'rs of paot Iean i ans, to au p u -r ers of our books, either Gard-nii2rt for Pralt' ?rtoFoa1frle~re, 1 or Gal~rden O fcr~ar'.ýlea~ sa; (Price~ 1160 each, prepaid,'by m40.)' . To others, $dr receipt of $5n. , Plain Plaut orSeed Cstall oe, without plate, fre i to all. P TB RB -EW1EEt35Okiýl & MPA NT, Seedsmen, marrket Garodeners anc4 Ftorfrtr, 35 CIortlanldt St., Nw York. C January 25, 18T77--10-6W. ; j3WIS' RURAIL. ' A ~RACT14IJA 1viEKLWi 1!OI Till JiNX i AND FIRESIDI. SA pro resive Journal, devoted to the interess of k the A gricalturlast and wagluga vigorous war upou a monopoliesandrings. T rlrn1.60* ".o peannuaa. Ad17i1re, raILe06 Nt. U. JdSWR i