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Volume xiii.
Helena, Montana, Thursday, November 6, 1879.
No. 51
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published every Thursday morning.
FISK BROS.,
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R. E. FISK, -
- Editor.
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AT ST. PETER'S GATE.
A Hindoo died ; a happy thing to do,
Who fifty 3 ears united t > a shrew.
Released, tie hopefully for entrance cries
Before the gates of Brahma's paradise.
"Hast thou been through purgatory?" Brahma said.
"I have been married !" And he hung his head.
"Come in ! come in ! and w lcome too, my ton?
Marriage and purgatory are as one !''
in bliss extreme he entered heaven's door,
And knew the bliss he ne'er had known before.
He scarce bad entered in the gardens fair,
Another Hindoo asked admission there.
The self-same question Brahma asked again :
"Hast thou been through purgatory?" "No. What
then ?"
"Thou canst not enter!" did the god reply.
"He who went in was there no more than I."
"All that is true, but he lias married been,
And so on earth for all sin."
"Marri d! - Tis well, for I've been married twice."
"Begone! We'll have no tools in Paradise."
■■ ——4^^ —
ALONE.
She stands beside the cottage door
To watch the dying day;
Her raven hair is sprinkled o'er
With flakes of silvery gray;
And many a line of sadness scars
That pale, yet lovely face.
To mark where slow and silent tears
Have left their lasting trace.
And still her whispered thoughts will tell
Of scenes that are no more,
And scan the once-loved forms that dwelt
On Mem'ry's shadowy shore;
Again the litrle cot to deck
That now so empty stands ;
Again to feel around her
The touch of tiny hands.
How long, the weary spirit cries,
Within tins world of pain,
Ere 'neath ihenever-fa ling skies
I meet them once ag tin ?
And as she views the siiver night,
Slow sweeping to the west,
A murmured prayer in faith takes flight
To Him who giveth rest.
The Mountain and the Squirrel.
The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And th<; tonner called the latter "Little Prig;"
B 1111 replied.
You are doubtless very big;
But. all sorts of things and weather
Must he taken in together
To make a year,
And a sphere.
1 think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
It I'm nut as large as you,
You're not so small as I,
And not halt so spry.
I'll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track.
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
It I cannot cirry forests on iny back,
Neither can vou crack a nut.
For the Flood Mansion.
The Santa Clara Valley Mill and Lumber
Company are now engaged in preparing the
wood work for the finish of James C. Flood's
mansion at Menlo Park. This company se
cured the contract tor the outside and inside
iurnishing, and all this work is being done
in Sau Jose. This has never been done in
this State—work of the same beauty and fin
ish, nor of the same quality. In the spring
Mr. Blaine, the foreman, went East and se
cured the wood to be used, the greater por
tion of which cost at least one dollar per
foot. It consists principally of rosewood,
mahogany, bird'seye-maple, satin, white hol
ly and oak. These woods are cut and pol
ished at the mill, engaged in which task alone
there are over seventy-five men, embracing
the best wood artisans on the coast. All the
woods are highly polished, some so beautiful
and bright that they act in the capacity of a
mirror. As an evidence of the elegance of
the work, a few of the parts of the residence
to be finished are given and the manner and
ftyle in which the work is to be done. The
main floor and stair-cases are to be finished
in bright mahogany, the reception and draw
ing-rooms in polished satin wood, the library
in black and gold cherry, the music room in
rosewood, the diuing-room and billiard-room
in polished black walnut, chambers and
boudoir in bird'seye maple, the rear of the
second story in Prima Veara wood, and
blinds of white holly. There never came in
to this State before such elegant and costly
varieties of woods. All parts of the world
have furnished their contributions. The
work bas to be done slowly and carefully,
entirely completed in the mill so as to be put
up in place as soon as received at the build
ing. It will be five or six months before all
the work is completed .—San Jose Mercury ,
October 4 t'l.
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Denver Tribune: The Utes will probably
never know that they have been victorious in
this memorable Colorado war until they see
Uncle Sams forces packing up and leaving
the country for home. Splendid incentive to
future operations ! ' Encourages assurance
and cultivates the courage of the nation's,
Ward.
Marriage as a l est.
How remarkable it is that whenever an
enthusiast in religion gets new light, auu
adopts what he considers "advanceU views"
he almost invariably begins to tamper with
marriage! In this tampering he always be
trays the charlatan, and sufficiently warns ail
who are tempted to follow him to beware ot
him. There is no better test of a new system
or scheme of life than its relation to Christ
ian marriage, it it tampers with that it is
always bad, and can by no possibility be
good. The Shakers form a community built
011 this rotten foundation. They have no
place lor love, and enter into a determined
and organized fight with the God of Nature,
who, by the strongest passions and impulses
lie has ever implanted in the human soul,
has commanded them to establish homes and
families. Sliakerisui is good for nothing if
it is not good universally. But universal
adoption would be the suicide of a race, and
a race has no more right to commit suicide
than a man. Besides, the damming of one
of the most powerful streams in human nat
ure only sets the water back to cover the
banks it was intended to nourish and drain
It is too late to talk about the superior sancti
ty of the celibate. We have no faith in it
whatever. The vow of chastity simply em
phasizes in the mind the passion it is intend
ed, for spiritual reasons, to suppress, and
fixes ihe attention upon it. The Shaker, in
denying love to himself and all the hallowed
influences that grow out of family and home
gains nothing in holiness, if he does not lose
irretrievably. He is the victim of a shocking
mistake, and he disgraces himself and his
own father and mother by hi 3 gross views of
an institution before whose purity and benefi
cence he and his whole system stand con
demned. Of course we do not need to allude
to the Mormon. His views of marriage—re
vealed, of course—are simply beastly. But
these new schemes of life, religion and phil
osophy are constantly springing up. It is
very difficult for any system of socialism to
establish itself without tampering with mar
riage, and one of the best arguments against
all sorts of communities and phalansteries
and what-nots of that sort, is that the family,
as a unit, is unmanageable with them. Tney
tak* in and organize a miscellaneous mass of
individuals, and provide some sort of a dirty
substitute for marriage, but the family both
ers them. It is a government within a gov
ernment, that they cannot get along with. So
the marriage test is a good one in all cases of
the kind.
Tobacco.
Tobacco, now in almost universal use, and
enjoyed in one form or another by all races
and in all couutries, met with the greatest
opposition when it had been introduced into
the Old World from the New, soon after Col
umbus' discovery of America. At first rec
ommended for its medicinal virtues, which
were greatly exaggerated, tobacco soon be
came au article ot luxury. Several Popes,
Uurban Xll and Innocent XI among them,
launched against it the thunder of the Boman
Church ; the priests and Sultans of Turkey
denounced smoking as a crime, Amuret IV
even going so fur as to decree its punishment
by the most frightful forms of death. Later,
iu that country, the pipes of smokers were
thrust through their noses. All this con
demnation, all these penalties, were vain.
The use of tobacco steadily increased and
has increased ever since. It is now the solace
of rich and poor, of princes and peasants, of
scholars and savages. Albeit not prevalent
in the East until the seventeenth century, the
Turks and Persians exceed all other nations
in smoking. In India, all classes and both
sexes smoke. In China, the practice is uni
versal ; girls from the age of eight or nine,
wearing as appendage to their dress a silken
pocket to hold tobacco and a pipe. Snuff
taking is diminished, and chewing does not
spread materially ; the smoking grows con
tinually. Our aboriginals are believed to
have been the earliest consumers of the plant.
They have used it from time immemorial,
smoking having been, and still being, asso
ciated with religion. It is connected with
all important transactions, as well a9 with
worship. The calumet, or pipe of peace, is
deemed indispensable to the ratification of a
treaty; smoking together has even greater
significance with them than eating together
with civilized nations, and it is beheved to ce
ment friendship. They imagine that the
Great Spirit perceives a sweet savor in the
smoke of the sacred plant as it ascends to
heaven, and that it is particularly acceptable
to the devine senses. It is remarkable that,
though tobacco was first used in the New
World, its use is probably less general here
now than in any other country. The citizens
of the republic chew more, unhapply, than
almost any nation, but they smoke far less
than Spaniards, Portugese, Dutch, Ger
mans, Russians, French, Italians, or even the
English. Perhaps one reason why tobacco is
so relished everywhere is that so much and
so persistent effort has been made to extir
pate the habit. What is unjustly and violent
ly opposed is pretty apt to extend and in time
take deep root.
Stockton Independent : "A banquet does
not seem to be Ihe thing after all. Sharon
expended $40,000 on one, and now the gam
ins of the press say that he received a lot of
hogs who scratched their bald heads a la
fourchette and shoveled in grub with their
knives. Tbe difficulty is that San Francisco
rates respectability according to shekels, and
she must not complain if some of her elite
neither know tbe rules of good breeding, nor
would regard them If they did. It cannot be
doubted that the Bay City contains many men
and women who shine in her "first society,"
but who would never be thought of in con
nection with banquets, but for the fact that
they possess many ducats."
LASSOING A BEAK.
lion a Bold Texan Handled Bruin In a
Mesquite Tbicket.
[Baylor (Texan) Crescent.
II. H. Fancber was trying to catch a horse
and was rapidly riding after him through a
thicket of me&quite, wheu suddenly ho came
upon a huge Dear. A chase at once com
menced, Mr. Faucher attacking with his pis
tol, and bruin probably nearly overcome by
heat, trying to make a successlul retreat. Mr.
Faucher tired five shots without bringing
down his game, and only one charge left,
concluded to change his tactics. Uncoiling
the rope used as a lariat, which was tied to
his saddle, he made a lasso and attempted to
rope the bear. The first attempt was unsuc
cessful, the rope getting into the animal's
mouth. The next proved a successful throw,
the rope getting on the bear's neck. A quick
movement on the part of the bear jerked the
rope out of Mr. Fauch er's hand, and the bear
resumed his retreat, closely followed by his
pursuer on horseback.
Finding it difficult to approach tbe bear
sufficiently near to catch hold of the rope
Mr. Fancher dismounted and commenced the
chase on foot. Seeing this, the bear slacked
his speed, evidently not caring if his pursuer
did come up with him. He occasionall)#8top
ped aud looked back, as if expecting com
pany. Declining a liand-to hand encounter
with a large bear, Mr. Fancher returned to
his horse, and calling to his cousin, Mr. T.
Fancher, resumed the chase. With the aid
of a stick he possessed himself with the end
of the rope, which was about thirty feet in
length, and fastened it to the saddle. Now
commenced the frantic actions of the bear in
his savage efforts to release himself. He
pluDged in every direction, nearly throwing
the horse, and showing evident intention to
release himself at all hazards. But his cap
tor managed to retain his prisoner, and at
the same time kept his horse out of the way
of the savage brute until a shot from the six
shooter of his cousin put the bear hors du
combat.
The fore paw exhibited by Mr. Fafocher,
and left with us, is the largest ever seen in
this section, and indicates, so old hunters tell
us, that the owner, in good condition, would
have weighed 600 pounds.
A Terrible Secret.
There were two old ladies in the Provi
dence and Worcester railway car waiting for
the train to get in motion. Two nice, neat
old ladies, goipg out on a visit, each carry
ing a little, round black basket with their
knitting in it, and such dear old drab bon
nets as they wore ! Little, quaint bonnets,
with ribbed satin near the front, and dove
colored ribbons tied snugly under their slight
ly wrinkled throats. They had been talking
private, innocent little gossip, and often their
softly silvered heads came together in mo
mentous conferences. At last the moment
arrived when the solemnest and sacredest ©f
all secret communications was to be made,
and in this manner it was accomplished :
'•And what do you suppose Purdy told
me?"
"I don't know—do tell."
"She said—and she didn't want anything
said about it for the world—that the new
minister—"
"Yes."
"That the new minister—"
"I'm hearing every word."
"That the new minister keeps a meersham
pipe!"
Wealth oi tbe Empress Eugenic.
A Paris correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times writes :
The ex-Empress of France is said to be
one of the richest widows in England. In
addition to her Hungarian estate she has a
custle in Spam and a nice place in Switzer
land. But hard cash is what comes most use
ful to dethroned sovereigns who hope to re
turn, and of this the Empress has long had
abundance. It is estimated in Paris that she
is worth at least a million sterling. Only re
cently she sold a large block of house property
in the Rue d'Alba, in Paris, and M. Rouher's
house, a well-known political center at the
corner of the Rue de l'Elysee, was hers, in
her own right, and was sold last year for
£15,000. The death of the Prince adds to
her 1 property, since he left her a considerable
amount of landed property in Italy, as well
as the Toulouse property, bequeathed to him
by the grisly General who had been equerry
to the Prince when he toddled about the cor
ridors of the Tuileries nearly three feet high,
and weighted with the miniature uniform of
a Colonel in the Cente Garde. This vast
property was no incumbrance to the Empress
while she had a son to live and scheme for.
It was drained pretty freely by the Bonapart
ist organs of the press in France. The Ordre
and the Pays were lavishly supported by the
Empress, and she also drew handsome checks
in favor of the reduction of the Gaulois. The
need for keeping these fires warm is now
dead. The Empress is not likely to keep
newspapers alive to work for her good cousin
Jerome; she will not, however, find her
riches an embarrassment as long as the priests
have ready access to her. A newspaper sup
plies large outlets for superfluous ca9b, but I
think on the whole the church can hold its
own in rivalry of this character, and a good
churchwoman like the Empress will not find
occasion to distress herself for means of dis
posing of the interest, and eventually the
capital, of a million sterling."
The Colorado papers are demanding the
removal of Agent Stanley of the Uncom
paghre reservation. They call him both "a
fool and a liar," and say that tbe interests of
the State require the appointment of an agent
of fitness for the position, and who will not
grossly calumniate their people.
GREEDY WASHINGTON LAWYERS.
Tbe Experience of Col. Robert Donglas
iu tbe Recovery of a Claim.
[Washington Telegram to N. Y. Times.]
Col. Robert Douglas, son of the late Steph
en A. Douglas, recently had some experience
which illustrates the extraordinary methods
practiced by a class of Washington lawyers
aud claim agents. The sous of Senator
Douglas lately obtained judgment against
the government tor a large amount of money
for cotton taken daring the war from tbe
Lousiana plantation ot their father. John
M. Coutts was the attorney in the case, and,
upon obtaining tbe treasury draft for the
money, refused to surrender it unless he was
paid u fee which Col. Douglas regarded as
exorbitant. Enoch Totten, son-in-law of Sen
ator Howe, of Wisconsin, was employed by
Col. Douglas to bring suit against Coutts for
tbe recovery of the draft, but, pending the
suit, a compromise was made by which Coutts
gave the draft to its lawful owner. Totten
had rendered some service iu the official pro;
ceedings against the government for the re
covery of the value of the captured cotton,
and for his services in both cases demanded
$5,000. Douglas objected to the amount as
excessive, and offered to pay Totten $2,000
It was claimed by Totten that he had been
led to expect $5,000 by Col. Keogh, of North
Carolina, and the matter was held in abey
ance until Keogh, who was expected here in
a few days, should arrive. On Friday last
Totten invited Douglas to dine at his house,
and, duriDg the dinner, asked his guest where
he had deposited the draft. After depositing
tbe draft in a certain bank on Thursday last,
Col. Douglas wa9 induced to withdraw and
deposit in another bank. In reply to Totten's
question, suspecting some sinister design,
Douglas gave his host the name of the
bank in which he had first made the deposit,
but from which it had been subsequently
withdrawn. Yesterday morning Douglas was
served with a summons to answer to a civil
action, brought against him by Totten for
the recovery of $6,000, and an attachment
was served upon the bank from which the
money had been withdrawn. Col. Douglas
has now engaged a third lawyer to defend
him against this second attack, and hopes to get
away from Washington without being forced
to employ tbe entire bar of the District to
save him from the rapacity of some of its
members. He is justly indignant at being
thus treated by Totten while be was sustain
ing the relation of client and guest to him.
Remains of the Apostles.
Catholic authorities state that the remains
of the Apostles of Christ are now in the fol
lowing places : Seven are in Rome; namely,
Peter, Philip, James the Lesser, Jude, Bar
tbolomew, Mathias, and Simon. There are
in the kingdom of Naples, Matthew at Sa
lerno, Andrew at Amalfi, and Thomas at
Ortona. One is in Spain, James the Greater,
whose remains are at St. Jago de Compostel
lo. Of the body of St. John the Evangelist,
the remaining one of 'he twelve, there is no
knowledge. Tbe Evangelists Mark and
Luke are also in Italy—the former at Venice
and the latter at Padua. St. Paul's remains
are also supposed to be in Italy. Peter's are
of course in the church at Rome which is
called after him, as are also those of Simon
and Jude. Those of James the Lesser and
of Philip are in the church of the Holy
Apostles, Bartholowew's in the church on
the island in the Tiber called after him, while
Malhias' are in the Santa Maria Maggiore,
under the great altar of the renowned ba
silica.
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Cbarmlng; Mechanical Emotions.
A dashing American girl now traveling in
Europe would probably say somebody was a
"mean old thing" if she could hear the gos
sips about her. One of them says : "I have
actually seen her blush like a girl, though I
know she had a quarter of an inch of creme
empatrice and velontine on her face. She
can blush when she pleases—she does it some
how by drawing in her breath and holding
it so. I have watched her." "She can make
tears come into her blue eyes in some simi
lar manner," said another, "and she can hold
one diamond tear for five minutes jnst poised
on the edge of her lower lid. I've seen her
do it. When she raises a tear she is econom
ical of it, as if it were a real diamond, and
one who wasn't watching her would natural
ly believe she had shed dozen of tears since
that one rose ."—London Cor. Chicago limes.
A Pipe Conical.
1723, September 5th.—Yesterday at 2
o'clock in the afternoon, was a smoking
match over against the theater in Oxford, a
scaffold being built up for it, just at Fin
more's, an ale-house. The conditions were,
that any one (man or woman) that could
smoke out three ounces of tobacco first, with
out a drink or going off the stage,should have
12s. Many tried, and 'twas thought that a
journeyman tailor of St. Peters in the East,
would have been a victor, he smoking faster
thap, and being many pipes before the rest ;
but at last he was so sick that 'twas thought
he would have died ; and an old man, that
had been a soldier, and smoking gently,
came off conquerer, smoking the three ounces
quite out, and he told one (from whom I had
it) that, after it, he smoked four or five pipes
the same evening.
Salt Lake Tribune: From time immem
orial the notion of a tax upon bachelors has
been a standing jest, but it now appears that
the General Council of the Department of
the Rhone, in France, after serious consider
ation of the subject, has adopted a resolution
in favor of imposing such a tax, the proceeds
of which are to be devoted to the support of
indigent children.
ALE SORTS.
The export of provisions continues to be
immense, not counting missionaries to the
cannibal countries.
If there are any Meeker individuals among
Eastern philanthropists who want to take the
job of Ute-Mwng the Indians there is a good
opening now.
Colonel Edwin L. Drake, who first dis
covered coal oil, is living at South Bethlehem.
He has a pension of $1 500 a year—granted
him by the Pennsylvania Legislature.
Since Saturday last, $4,541,000 in Euro
pean gold has arrived in the United States,
and since August 1st the receipts from the
same source amount to the enormous aggre
gate of $55,000,000.
Miss Whitten, of Damariscotta, Maine,
has probably the longest hair of any woman
in the woild. It i* eight feet in length and
wheu dressed in a French twist passes six
times around her head.
The total of tbe estate left b}* Hopkins,
the California millionaire, was $23.300,000,
including $5,000,000 in bonds and $3,000,000
in gold recently discovered to his credit in
the United States treasury.
An alleged coolness between Mr. Sothern
and the Duke of Beaufort is attributed by a
contemporary to the bad aim ot tbe actor in
throwing a piece of bread at Maud Granger.
The missile hit his grace on the nose and the
ducal dignity was Wounded.
The total valuation of the State of Massa
chusetts, exclusive of seven towns, is $1,
501,112,565, against $1,568,988,210 last year,
the latter figures including the entire 8tate.
Last year the total diminution was $99,238,
572, and the year before $101,082,773.
The New York Mail says tremendous in
crease of business on the Stock Exchange
has raised the value of membership almost
one hundred per cent. Two brokers last
week sold their seats for $15,000 each—one
of them is about to retire from business, and
the other beiDg chiefly engaged in the foreign
exchange business.
Laramie Times, 20th: "The remains of
Major Thornburgh, and those of his little boy
who died at Fort Steele a few months ago,
exhumed for that purpose, were on this
morning's train. They were beiDg conveyed
to Omaha to be permanently buried there.
That place will hereafter be the residence of
Mrs. Thornsburgh."
The New York Star (Democrat) draws
the following portrait of two leading Repub
licans : "Biaine is magnetic and attractive.
John Sherman is cold and repellant. Blaine
stirs tbe blood of his hearers and sets their
pulses throbbing. Sherman chills his audi
ence and turns the dampers on their enthus
iasm. Blaine addresses himself to men's
emotions. 8herman coldly appeals to tbeir
reason. Blaine is like a volcano glowing with
flame. Sherman is like an extinct crater.
The Capitol is being put in condition for
the reassembling of Congress. Large win
dowg and passage-ways have been cut in tbe
south wall of the House of Representatives
to improve the ventilation. The air-holes in
the floor are also increased in number and
size so that more air can be forced up from
below. A computation has been made of the
amount of air required by each member for
a given time, and arrangements made to sup
ply it.
Ohio's canvass was coated with icicles as
compared to the white heat in which the
great political fight in »Virginia is being con
ducted. The other day General William
Mahone, the leading readjuster, and ex-Gov
ernor James L. Kemper, a leading debt-payer,
passed the preliminary courtesies of the code,
and but for the interposition of friends doubt
less would have sent the hot-sbot of the duel
in fact.
Madame Ristori is mentioned by the
Word, of London as having twice saved a
life. The first time was in a Spanish theatre,
when the actress, seeing Marshal Narvaez
softened by her acting, besought him to par
don a soldier, who was to be shot next morn
ing for striking his commanding offioer. Her
next rescue was that of a Spanish-American,
whose life she begged from the President of
the Chillian republic.
The official reports to the Kansas State
Superintendent of Public Schools from thirty
counties show an increase of 15,532 in the
school population over the number reported
from the same counties last year. The State
now has over 300,000 school children between
the ages of five and twenty-one years. On
tbe basis of three persons to one child of
school age, the State has a population of over
§00,000, an increase of 150,000 during the
past year.
Chicago Inter-Ocean, 18th: "Probably
there have been more strangers in Chicago
during the past six weeks than were ever
seen here before in the same length of time.
The crowds upon the streets, on the cars, in
the hotels, *nd in the private houses have
been something unprecedented. And the
strange faces are not made up alone of tran
sient visitors. Many of them have come to
remain, and are seeking homes in various
parts of the city. The demand for houses is
constantly on tbe increase, and threatens to
outrun tbe supply, though buildings are go
i ng up iu every direction. Chicago is mak
ing big strides just now, and increasing in
business and population at a rate that will
tell strongly in the next census."
Confederate Celebration.
Maoon, October 29.—The Confederate
monument wie unveiled to-day with imposing
ceremonies, in the presence of 25,000 people.
The military display was very fine. Col.
Thomas Hardeman, the orator of the day,
was iatrodoced by Governor Colquitt, and de
livered an eloquent ind patriotic address, in
which he counseled peace and fraternity and
tbe burying of all the animosities of the past.
It was received with immense enthusiasm.