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R. E. FI8K....... Editor.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 1885.
Ci ex. Gkakt in this week the guest
Mr. G. W. Child, of l'tailadelpbia.
Torwo'rr an oUl gray goose worth forty
cents, claimed by a neighlwr. cost a Ken
tucky litigant forty dollar».
Publishers,
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Ja« on W. Gri hb, Republican, was re
cently elected Mayor of Wheeling. West
Virginia, by 7oU majority—the first Repub
lican in twenty years.
THE Union League club of New 5 ork
Las voted to teuder Senator-elect Kvarts a
reception February 11th Chauncey M
Depew will make an address to the Sena
tor.
THEKE is no prospect t liât there will lie
anv Congress to which Montanas applica
tion for Statehood can be presented betöre
next Decernlier, and we ought with our
application to Ik* able to give our e.-.act
|K>pulation to answer such men as Vest,
who will otherwise go back to the last
census. __
THE will of the late Vice President Col
fax has l>een tiled for probate at South
Bend, Indiana. It leaves to Mrs. Colfax
the family residence w ith contents ami
one half the residue. The rest to Schuyler
Colfax, Jr. The estate is without mcunib
ian< e and is valued at $550,000
There are now forty-nine trading estab
lishments on the Congo, and the trade
within the past 12 years has grow n to he
worth tea millions per annum. There has
been an equal growth ot trade on the
Niger, on which twenty trading steamers
are now running ami trade to the amount
of ten millions annually is carried on.
El M.HIH is described as a negro of
reddish black hue. about 4n years old, tall
and of powerful frame. His real name is
Ahmed Suleiman ami he ha- had a mili
tary training while formerly ir. the Egyp
tian service. After that he went into the
slave trade, and most of his Arab followers
are slave traders, and their zeal in lighting
is inspired by des]>eration at having their
profitable trade stopped
The navigation of the upper Columbia
ts going to assume some temjsirary im
portance agaiu a» a bas; for ojierations on
the Canadian Ratifie, w hich crosses alsmt
180 north of the Washington line by way
of the river. That road, by the way, will
hardly lie finished as early a* it has lieen
announced, if there remains 235 mile of
hard, heavy mountain work yet to com
plete. ______________
Wi: understand that Hon. Win. A.
Clarke, President of the late Constitutional
Convention, has notified the memiiers of
the committee appointed to present the
constitution to Congress to meet in Wash
ington on the Kith of March next for that
pur|Mise. Tnere is some misunderstanding
aliout the matter, for Congress will not
then l»e iu session. Possibly the Senate
may be, but that is not Congress., The
application should not fie made till after a
census is taken next November.
The Inter-Mountain would have its read
ers infer that Mr. Hedges, as Supreme Court
Reporter ami for his owu gain had swelled
the volumes ot Reports by including the
briefs of attorneys at full length instead of |
a
1 t will aid to some id-a of the extent of
Alaska to know that it contains a river
over 2.1 SKI miles long, that is navigable for
giving the mam points in fewest words. It
the writer had cared to do justice or as
certain tbe truth, a single inquiry would
have elicited the fact that the course pur
sued by Mr Hedges was not of his own
wish or suggestion, hut at the unanimous
request of court aud bar, so that the pub
licat'ou of the court decisions might not
Ik* delayed till they lost much of »heir in
terest and value.
stcamlsaits over 1,500 miles ami that it is
in places twenty miles from one l»auk to
the other, at a thousand miles above its
mouth. There are :52,<NMi square miles of
area in the islands of Alaska alone, and no
less than «>1 active volcanoes scattered
through a distance of 1,501) mile«. Alaska
lias glaciers that dwart those ot the Al|»s.
In one of the gulches of Mount Fairweath
er is a glacier 50 miles long that breaks off
at the sea in a {lerjieiidicular wall eight
miles wide and -î*»0 feet thick.
lx spite of all the predictions to the con
trary the Senate, which we are told con
tains only millionaires and corporation at
torneys, has passed the mtei-state com
merce hill. In what shape we cannot say,
fill we will warrant that it is in better
sha|*e to stand liefore the courts. The House
seems to forget at times that this govern
ment is one of law and that even the
houses ot Congress have to act within then i
limited capacity or their acts are null. It
is no service to the |*ople to pass laws in
form, into vv huh the breath of legal life
canuot lie breathed, and that can only re
sult iu delay, e\{tense and disappointment*
Arizona has a jair of Demo» rats—edi
tors of rival {tartv organs—who are con
testing for one ami the same Federal otfice
under the incoming Cleveland administra
tion. Here is a specimen of the compli
ments passing between these Bourbon
worthies. The Ant idole editor is talking:
"The hell-liorn. red-headed, smart Aleck
who makes abortive attempts to edit the
little |>atent outside in Tenderfoot City,
squeals like a stuck pig because we have,
shown up his political aspirations. He
pretcuds to lie horrified Itecause we drink
good liquor and have a red nose, thus hop
mg to throw dust in the eyes of the public. I
But it won t do. The people know that
there is no more to him than there is to a
footles» sock without any leg—(hat is just
nothing. Our nose is our own. and we ]iay
for our liquor in hard money."
The following observatioü onthiaaub*
ject are from an address to the Minne
apolis teachers by Superintendent Tous
ley. for which we are indebted to the
Tribune of that city. I he ideas con
tained are so sensible and jKTtineut that
we wish to bring them to the attention
of every teacher in Montana. There is
one other item in this presentation of
the subject that we would like to g<»
along with it— the duty of preparation
on the part of the teacher. By this we
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do not mean siniplv a close careful study
of the subjects to be taught during the
day, but a physical preparation. Every
teacher should make it a point to enter
the school-room in the morning fr<*sii,
robust and elastic in spirit- I iiis can
not Ik* the case when a teacher «its up
latc at night, perhaps engaged in some
siaial party, eating late supper», or even
by trying, out of school, to carry ou some j
sphinx that coutrouts every generation of
instructors. The nature ol the intellect,
the order of its awakening, the influence of
emotional ami physical conditions, and tbe
relative value of intellectual and moral
education, are questions to tie settled hv
every teacher who tries to do her duty by
the youug minds under her charge. In the
constant stress that in being put upon in
tellectual trainiug. it is well to stop and
inquire whether the intellect shall tie made
a Nicholas I. and all the higher qualities
of the soul Hungarian captives.
"Put w hen the teacher shall have settled
these questions as best she can. the ques
tion of method still remains. To con
struct a method and then apply it regard
less. is to cut a garment and afterwards
take the measure td the person you are to
tit. .School teaching is something that
cannot Ik* done by rule, because no two
child natures which the teacher touches
are susceptible to just the same inHuences.
And after all has lieen said aliout methods,
it remains to lie said that the man is
greater than the method A robust, spirit
ed. well qualified man or woman, steeped
in enthusiasm for his task, w ill-kindle the
nature, moral and intellectual, of any
school. His method is simply his way of
doing it. It was uot the 'Socratio method,'
hut Socrates, that was the mighty power
at Athens. The true teaching requires the
true artist's hand and spirit, without
which no 'method amounts to anything.
"The dispensation of justice aud the exer
cise of authority form a wide aud difficult
held. The teacher s assize is held 200 days
in the year ami the culprits are clamorous
ami often vengeful. There must Ik* an
authority able to commaml obediem-e
which is real obedience, and sub
course of study, under a mistaken sen-e
of duty or economy, which taxes and
exhausts tbe vital energies. A teacher
needs as much as anything, good, sound,
refreshing sleep and good digestion.
Human nature in childhood is the
| own wavs are brusque, your walk slip-shod
which is real obedience, and uot mere sub
mission from neeessity. What our chil
dren greatly ueed is to lie taught to at -
knowledge the right to command and the
obligation to obey ; ami that such submis
sion is honorable ami full ot' personal
dignity.
"The character of the school is a good
index of the charactered the teacher. He
is the soul of the whole apiiaratus of
means, the one part not to lie dispensed
with. Hus success will Ik* as hts know !
edge, virtue ami intelligence. What you
are, tar more than what you know.'de
termines the quality of your teaching. If
the school is disorderly, rough and irrever
ent. indolent, stagnant and tricky the
teacher of tbe school will hardly lie found
to be a reverent, retined. vivacious and
laitbfu! person.
"There is a moral and a professional side
to character. Under the lirst we include
a whole string of virtues w hich are gen
erally summed up under the terms good
disposition and good behavior.' Not one
can be dispensed with. Do you seek to in
culcate reverence for God, subjection to
authority and loyalty to right, wheu your
own lite is full of turbuleui and rebellious
feelings and undisciplined actions? |to
you insist upon good manners, au elegant
carriage and smiling demeanor when your
aud your expression of countenance
funereal? I)o you make your demand for
silvery tones in reading in a sepulchral
voice? I>o you roast upon simplicity and
appropriateness in dress when your own
attire is indicative of fussiness and your
fingers laden with rings? If you do. you
are sure to he disappointed Hut possess
yourself of these qualities which you wish
to inqiart and you are on tbe winning
side."
The professor then spoke of the diffi
culties that lie in the pa» h of the dc
voted teacher—the constant strain, day
after day. upon lier physical and mental
resources, and the ignorant and captious
criticisms to which she is often subject
ed. If he were seeking for the heroes
and heroines of earth, he would look
first in the school rooms.
Ilealing with professional oharacter, he
mentioned five virtues to he cultivated,
namely—simplicity, freshness, tact, enr
thusiasm, and sympathy. Of the second.
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are a burden and an illusion.
he said, that there were teachers who came
ltelore their pupils day afier day with the
wine old facts, not even turned over or
dressed. There were others who brought
all their jtersonal trials and troubles along
with them—things which the children
were not to blame for ami couldn't help
and didn't care particularly aliout—and
who Storni and surveyed the day's work
ahead much as the man eyes the pile of
knotty wood he had taken a contract to
saw. Of the need of tact, he remarked
that in every school there were liorn lead
er», just as there were others who were
seemingly foieordained from the founda
tton of the world to draw the sled up hill;
there leally was a fatality in these mat
ter»—and it was tbe part of tact to win
over the leaders, and, through them, the
whole school.
"Urtil the teacher can catch hold of some
manifold spirit that unites to make the
genuine successful instructor, all her efforts
Hut w hen it
is ouce mastered, a faithful service iu the
work will surely some day entitle her to '
write iu a littlegolden-tiook.'What I know
about being an angel.'
Some philanthropist» in and around Bos
ton have organized to drive Mormonism
out of U tah by a general emigration busi
ness. just as they drove slavery out of
Kansas. There is likely to be some trouble
in the New Kngland colonies findiug rich,
fertile farming lands in Utah. We suspect
I that lt wou,d ** ,oumi that ever y wat «
that it would tie found that
course and every spring in the Territory
was already monopolized to its capacity by
the Mormons. Perhaps there is enough
chance to get a foothold from whence push
ing could tiegin. Anything to clean out
the Mormons would command our approv
al.
TUE » ALL OF KHARTOI *.
! It seem» tolerably well authenticated
that Khartoum has fallen into the hands
0 f the rebels, and that Gordon is either
killed or a captive. ItMooks on its face
like a great disaster, but when the whole
truth is known it may turn out much
less of a disaster and possibly a good
thing. If Gordon is really killed, of
course the expedition lor his relief has
failed of its nominal purpose. Hut it is
possible that his death and the manner
of it may raise such a storm of feeling
j tl Kngland that the government w ill be
compelled to subdue Egypt thoroughly
HU) J hold it permanently. It is known
that Gordon could have got away at any
time w ith little trouble, and he certainly
could have gone w hen he sent his boats
t 0 , lie ei the English advance at Metem
ne h. Whatever may have been Glad
stone s purpose, it is known that it was
j Gordon's purpose that England should
age, and was a hero himself and more
than that. He had an ambition that
Hriiain should rule the land ot the
Pharaohs and l'tolomies aud introduce
civilization aga<n into its most ancient
abode.
It his death can accomplish what his
life was devoted to at'ain, it is just such
a death above all others that Gordon
would have liked.
Take Egypt as a whole, apart from
that comparatively small jiortion that is
covered by the annual overflow of the
Nile, it is one of the poorest patches on
the earth's surface, hardly excepting
Palestine, hut it has a name in history
that possesses a charm and makes it a
jewel for the brightest imperial crown.
If England permanently holds Egypt
and the whole Nile valley, there will lie
railroads, irrigating canals, artesian
wells, prosperous cities and established
order, under which the people and coun
try w ill prosper and the desert be driven
back.
This is what we want to see done, and
if the fall of Khartoum contributes to
this end, we shall perhaps at some future
dav regard it as a fortunate occurence,
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hold Egypt, and that Egypt should hold
the Houilan as the gateway to the whole
iuteiior of Africa about the headwaters
of tbe Mile. Gordon waa a good deal
more than an ordinary Englishman. He
kept a'ive all the traditions of the heroic
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weaJtb of oor K ussian purchase, and in
time there will be a greater population en
in the Alaska tishenn than » now
We are glad to have occasion to say a
good word for Carl Schurz. He is lectur
ing at the South aud takes occasion every
where to disabuse the Southern mind of
the idea that the people of the North
have any feeling of hostility or jealousy
over the material progress or prosperity of
the South. He says squarely that the Re
publicans ot the North rejoice sincerely at
every evidence of returning prosperity to
the Southern States, and will heartily co
operate in any general and legitimate
measure to promote that prosperity. This
is hut tbe simple truth. We are all to
gether lor better or worse, and the weak
ness and poverty at the South is to some
extent a damage to every Northern man
The whole body suffers when any member
sa fiers. Tennessee has nearly the same
area as Pennsylvania. Her mines of iron
and coal are a> rich and extensive as those
of Pennsylvania, and her soil is lietter.
The time will come, and cannot come any
too soon to suit us, when Tennessee will
he as populous and pros|K*rous as Pennsyl
vania We have urged often through these
columns that the men of the ivouth
should turn their attention more to manu
facturing the cotton which they now raise
at so little net profit. We should rejoiee
to see hundreds of cotton mills to every
one there is now. More than that, we have
urged the men at the South to secure if
they can the control of the negro vote by
some fair means, by kindness and by de
serving tbe confidence of tbe blacks. It is
not so much at the fact, as at the means
and methods resorted to iu suppressing the
colored vote, that we complain. When
properly understood the interests of the
white and the black man at the South are
the same, and so too are the interests of
the South and those of the North. It is
our opinion that the Sonth never will pros
{K*r till they turn their attention more to
manufacturing and adopt more economical
methods of disposing of their crops and
purchasing their supplies. The South
ueeds a protective taritf id our opinion
more than the North, aud Sam RandaH's
opinions are very fast spreading at the
South. _
Another exploring expedition, under
Lieut, Geo. M. Stoney, has i»een sent to
Alaska. This is to explore the waters of
Alaska, which are as extensive and valu
able as the laud. There are more than
150 of the Aleutian islands, and though
the islands generally are desolate in ap
pearance. they alvound with all the ele
ments of wealth, aud they fairly swarm
with fish, seal and otter. Exploration is
necessary to advertise the world of the
in the North Atlantic, and the yearly
profits of the fisheries will soon surpass
the whole cost of the country.
Aoookdixg to the annual report of tbe
Commissioner of Patents there were 20.297
new pat ents issued during the year, and
12,301 that expired. It is not necessary to
' suppose that all of these are of great val
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I infancy. Connecticut is still the most pro
litic in inventions.
ue. but it is only reasonablfe to infer that
they represent a vast deal of wealth and
comfort to the world, more probably than
all our rich mines of precious metals. Tbe
records of the patent office go back to 1*37
in which year there were 435 patents
issued. In 1*61 the number issu'd was3,
340. In l-*2 there were more issued to
residents of the State of New York than
in the whole country twenty years before
The numlier issued in 1884 was 1.030
greater than in 18*2. Some think that in
vention has reached its limit. There is
better reason to think that it is only in its
,
There is no good map of Montana ex
tant. Two years ago the Legislature
i adopted a joint resolution to secure such
* i ma P thro «f* Co, ;.' N :^ ;weekly
who waa every way qualified to esecute
the work. The only pecuniar} a i t
ance from the Territorial treasury was
the agreement to take 300 copies at $2
each. The time limited has expired ;
the work, for some reason, was not »lone,
and we are in want of a good map ol
Montana tnore than ever. It is possible
to secure such a map and wt* consider it
fortunate that an offer has been made
by one in every wav competent to exe
cute the work. We were shown this
morning, by Mr. Wm. I*. Snow, of the
Surveyor General's otfice the work that
had been done by himself towards get
ting up a complete map of Montana.
We believe the sight of the work done
would carry the conviction to every ob
server that Mr. Snow was the very man
with w hom to enter into a new arrange
ment similar to that of two years ago.
That Col. DeLacey did not do the work
is proof that there was no possible profit
to him. To get such a map lithographed
would probably cost $800 for
it contains a vast amount ot fine work.
If the Territory would take 400 copies
at #2 each, or enough at that rate to pav
for the lithographing at the liest terms
procurable. Mr. Snow would undertake
the execution of the work, trusting to
get remuneration from the sale of copies
beyond the amount subscrilied for by
the Territory. The offer seems in every
way to be an advantageous one. Mr.
Snow has had experience in the North
ern Pacific railroad land department,
and knows the character of every quar
ter section that has been surveyed. His
connection with the Surveyor General's !
office gives him access to all sources of
the most correct information. Besides
his skill and capacity in the execution
of work to the minutest detail, would
command enthusiastic commendation
from all who would look at his work. It
such a map was essential two years ago,
it is even more so now. When an ac
curate map is once made it serves as a
standard by which all other maps arc
i*orrected, even the cheajiest ones. The j
law ot two years ago proposed to put I
one of these maps in every school room
in Montana. It can hardly be esti
mated what a convenience ami source of
benefit this would he. Every school child
would have early impressed upon the
mind an accurate idea of the physical
features of Montana, and it would go
with him or her through lite.
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We hope the members of the Legisla
turc will give this matter a little atten
tion, ami we believe every member of
both houses will heartily approve to put
it in legal effective shape.
TllK Minnesota press is exultant at se
curing the sweepstake" prize for dairy pro
ducts at New Orleans. In 1-76 Iowa took
the prize at Philadelphia over all the
crack dames of the east, and it is reckoned
that the reputation then woo has been
worth hundreds of thousands of dollars,
Minnesota has scarcely lieen known as a
close competitor in this contest, and many
a surprised dairyman will rub his eyes
with astonishment and wonder what the
"rowdy west" won't claim next. Minne
sota deserves to lie congratulated for its .
success id this new field. It was not well
for its reputation to stand on a single
staple,even though that is the most ini- *
portant of all. It needed even more than
wheat growing and flouring mills to en
sure : .te steady growth in wealth. For
dairy products of the first quality there
will always he a good market, and where
there is attention paid to dairy products
there is always attention t» stock growing
of all kindic_
Wg believe the judiciary committee has
done well to provide foe assignments for
the Irene tit of creditors. It will work, we
believe, both for individual and general
good. It w ill deter suits wheu it is known
that tbe first move will likely result in
assignment, by which all creditors will
h&ve to he content to share alike. It will
do good public service if it prevents the
multiplicity of expensive suits ; the break- !
ing up of business iiu-a as soon as they get !
in a condition where they need forbearance
and help; aud when a man is so badly
broken that he cannot arrange with his
creditors and resume, thepropertv that the 1
debtor has will go to his ereditors and uot
to lawyers and officers. It is a great won
der that we have had no assignment law
before. We should have with this law of
assignment another that should render it j
imjiossible for an honest debtor to tie
broken up by an oppressive attachment
»ait. _
Even if Speaker Randall says that there
are two hundred million dollars in the
treasury without an obligation against
them, it can only be true upon the theory
that the three hundred and fifty millions
in greenltacks are never to be paid in
money, as they purport on their face. We
think if, at the instigation of such men as
Randall, this money in the treasury, that
gives some assurance to tbe holders of
greenbacks that the government will ad
here to its promise, should all be drawn
ont and egfiended for something else, there
would be such a general protest from every
sound tinancrer in the land that even Mr.
Randall would be swept away by it.
The Indiana Supreme Court ias made
important decision in favor of Rosetta Wil
der, of Lafayette, va. the I'enn Mutual Life
Insurance Co. The suit was instituted four
years ago by the plaintiff, the company re
fusing to pay a life policy of £5,000 on her
deceased husband on a technical plea that
in his description he averred that he had
eight brothers and sisters, when he had bat
seven. JudgiQpnt was obtained against
tbe company in the court below. An ap
peal w .18 ts.ken. and alter the usual delay
the final decision was reached to-day, as
above stated. The amount now is about
17.000.
;weekly publication conducted by Charles
F. Wilson, under the auspices of the New
Montana'» Exhibit at the World'» Ex
position.
Tbe («MMinwsrri Jour nut, a handsome
Orleans Exposition, apjsutions a share of
its space to the Territories aud their pro
ducts. The current number devotes a
column to Montana, from which we take
the lollowiog extract : "Near the north
east corner of the Government Building,
surrounded by the Teriitories of Wyoming.
Washington and Idaho, is the exhibit of
Montana. Iu the foreground there are
two pyramids tastefully arranged and
decorated on which rest the massive blocks
of copper, silver and gold ore representing
the mineral wealth of a country that will
soon l»e kicking steady blows at tbe t api
tol at Washington for
by reason of entm'prise,
tiers. On the right is the Hutte pyramid,
showing many of the prominent paying
mines in and tiibutary to that steady, ad
vancing city. What is particularly notice
able is the size of the specimens sent down,
large masses, rich in tbe precious metals,
some weighing nearly a ton, uot so much
to attract the eye by their beauty as to
convince those interested in the mining
industry of the si/e and strength ot the
Montauu ledges. The Drum Lumtnon of
Helena, and the Moulton of Butte, and
other paying mines are represented bv
immense lioulders at opposite corners
of tbe display.
CLIMATE.
A liook might lie written concerning the
climate of Montana. It has all the ad
vantages of pure mountain air combined
with tbe very equitable temperature which
its comparatively low altitude gives it.
Miasma cannot exist iu tbe Territory, and
all diseases peculiar to low and wet coun
issiou as a State
wealth and mini
hie* are unknown. In future nu mtiers we
«hall give some vital statistics which will
be a revelation to Lastern and Southern
readers.
CATTLE AND SHEET.
There are new in the Territory m5o,o»hi
head of cattle worth |30,000,000. These
are all of good grade, a» great care is taken
in selecting blooded balls. The industry
is very profitable, as the cattle roam, sum
mer and winter, upon the oj»en ranges.
Many cattle owners have grown from
poverty to afiu?nce in the cattle business
in the past ten years.
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Twelve years ago the sheep industry
began in Montana Now there are over
800,000 -beep worth $2,000,000 upon the
ranges Moutaua wool now ranks next to
the liest grade in the United States, and
sheep raising is considered by many more
proti table than cattle Conservative
breeders figure a sure profit of from 25 to
35 per cent fier annum u{M>n all capital in- <
vested ; aud all agree that the wool clip
will cover every item of expense, leaving
the increase a net gam. The loss from all
causes is lie tween two and three per cent. ;
The anuual increase of thicks is 18 per
cent., and the increase of 1,000 ewes from
, 2 years old up from ko to 150 per cent,
j Sheep seli from to $3.50 per head. One *
herder can take care of 2,000 head. Sheep- :
raising is the poor man's industry in Mon- j
tana. With $5000 to start with, free* ranges
ami timber at hand, he :s master of the
situation.
MINERALS.
This Territory has a large quantity of
costly specimens of mineral from the sev
eral noted mines located within her l»or
ders. This department of Montana's ex- ;
hibit i* in charge of Prof. W. T. Board- j
man. of Butte City. Montana.
Among many remarkable evidences of
the riches of this Territory is a rock from
the Beil silver and copper mine, and an
other from the Drum Lumnion mine. The
latter mine was sold to an English com
pany for $1.25*i.t* 10. The piece of silver
ore from this mine weighs 1,174 pounds
and is worth about $4* mi. It was taken
from a vein eighty feet w ide. This is ex
celled by samples of ore from tbe Ana
conda mine, from which samples are ex
pected. Samples of lead come from the
Comet mine, and also from the Gregory
Consolidated
A large, fine specimen of gold is from
tbe Cable mine, taken from some consider
able distance from tbe earth s surface, as
are those rueotioned abov e. The sample
shows abrat $3.500 of free gold. Iu this
exhibit are large displays of copper ores
and the stage» of its reduction to copper
ingots.
The taxidermy exhibit of this Territory
is in charge of 1'rof. A. M. Guild. a_d con- J
sists of a display of elk heads, buffalo i
heads. Rocky Mountain lions, beavers. I
birds, etc.
The cereals are also fully rejiresented. as
are the grasses, vegetables and fruits.
This Territory is noted also for its wool
and coal : also for its wild scenery ; the
latter will be exhibited in a series of large
photographs. A large $10,UOO oil painting ;
will overhang its mineral display, as will
"Old Faithful," tbe noted geyser of this
section.
It is doubtless to l>e regretted that ex
travagance has reached such an extreme in
Washington, but men of lofty character
and the rank aud stamp of statesmen could
hardly increese their proper influence by
the presence ot wealth. With the great
majority wealth counts for tbe moat, hut
not with those w ho shape the policy and
lead the thoughts of the country. Some
men of wealth spend more on a single
evening's entertainment than the whole
year's salary of a Cabinet officer. But we
believe any man who would modestly
live within his income, would command
jnst as wide and high respect among those
whose respect was worth considering as if
he had a hundred thousand dollars a year
to spend. It is more than useless to ex
claim against wealth. It is no disgrace to
be rich, if wealth has been honestly ac
quired, and it is no misfortune to be rich
if the person has enough brains so that his
wealth will not make a fool of him. Nei
ther is it necessarily a disgrace or misfor
tune to be poor. The trouble comes when
poor men think they mn&t live and entain
like the rich.
Keported by Locket's Loan and Ab
stract Agency tor the Week End
ing February Ith. IHM.».
January 28.—Lot 7, block 8. Hauser Ad
dition. north and west fronts, 50x150 feet,
on corner of Davis and Jefferson streets,
dated January 24.8.T. Hauser tc Louise E.
Maginnis.
Lot 14 and easterly 20 feet of lot 14,
block 546, Helena, on corner of fifth and
Wake streets, south and east fronts, 62x
100 feet, dated April 11, 187*, J.C. Walker.
Sheriff. to A. H. lieattie ; $900.
Broadway lode, Kroodway. No. 2 hale
,
and Little Emma lode, dated June 30,
18*2, United States to A. H. Beattie.
Parts of lots 48, township 10, north of
range 4 west and lot 43, township 10. north
of range 5 west. Ill.37 "acres of placer in
Blue Cloud gulch, dated October 16,1*79,
J. C. Malker. Sherifi. to A. H. Beattie; |
<
to
$575.03.
Lots 2* and 29, block 3, Helena, south
front, ou Pine street at head of Joliet street.
84xlUU feet, J. C. Walker, Sherifi'. to A. H.
Beattie ; $250.
Four hundred and eighty acres. 25 miles
north of Helena. N. P. R. K. Co. to A. H.
Beattie: $1,500.
I.ots 7, 8 and !>, block 27, Northern Pa
cific addition to Helena, corner of Helena
avenue and Fourth street, north and east
fronts, 75x164 feet, Grand Pacific Hotel.
Geo. M. Cummings, trustee, to A. H. Heat
tie; $2,450.
18x88 feet front on lower Main street,
west front, aliout loo feet south of Eighth
avenue, dated Octolier 6, 1**1, C. Becker
to James Blake ; $1,000.
Lot 6, block 47, Northern Pacific addi
tion. north front, on Gallatin street, 125
feet east of Fourth street, 25x 140 feet, dated
December 17, 1884. Geo. M. Cummings,
trustee, to H. G. Field ; $350.
January 29.—Helena lode, lot 60, T. 10
N. K.. I W., near fndependem-e gulch,
dated January 24, Jurgens A Price to C.
A. Clarke and W. B. Raleigh ; $*,000.
Same as above, James H. Sperling to
W. B. Raleigh and C. A. Clarke: $1.
Undivided one-half interest in above,
dated January 24, C. A. Clarke to S. T.
Hauser . $4,000.
One-fourth interest in above. W. B.
Raleigh to J. C. Curtin and H. M. Pärchen :
$ 2 , 000 .
Lots Rand 7. block 3ft, and lot 5, block
45, Northern Pacific addition, all fronting
ou Lyndale avenue ltetweeu Third and
Filth streets, dated November 21, 18*4,
J. M. Ryan to I. B. Cutler; $700.
Lot 9, Mock *, Sun River, dated January
27, Joseph Mi Knight to John Largent; $50.
January 31—119x118 feet on corner of
Pri«*e and Clore streets, north and west
fronts, dated October 19, 1*83, Lewis A.
Reeder to Helena Steriu Power and Light
!
I
' P a,ent "
ing Co; $5*900.j
19 lots in Central Addition No. 2, about
three-eights of a mile north of Graded
1
School building, dated January 29. C. W.
Cannon to J. M. Ryau : $6,)MMi.
February 2.—Eureka lode, lot 41, town
ship *, north of range 5 w. dated April 29,
1*76, United States to Ten Mile Mining
160 acres west of Florence. M. Y.. dated
June 30, 1***1, United States to P. W.
Leighton m r patent.
February 3.—Lot 15, aud easterly 20 feet
of lot 14, block 546, Helena, south aud east
fronts, on corner of Fifth street aud Blake
street, 62xJ0O feet, dated January 31, F. R.
Shaffer et al. to Frank N Schaefer ; $1.500.
20 lots in Central Addition No. 2, about
three-eights ot a mile north of Graded
School building, dated January 29, J. M.
Ryan to C. W. Cannon ; $5,090.
Johnson lode and mill site, lots 62A and
62B, township 12, north of range 6 west,
dated December 3, 1884, United States to
Thoma»Cruse; patent.
There is a wide variance in the esti
mate of mouey received for gambling
license It is pretty hard to say a word in
defense of gambling. A husinew man.
aliove all, should never gamble. It com
promises his reputation and character as a
business man. A poor man who works
hard for his money and needs all he earns
tor his ow n comfort, certainly ought never
to gamble. It lead» every one to reckless
ness, idleness, dissipation and to crime of
various kinds, the most common of which
are emltezziement and suicide. If there
can be found or created enough public
opinion to sustain a law prohibiting all
forms of gambling, even to the extent of
church rallies, it would lie lietter than to
have teu times the revenue now derived
from gambling. The revenue docs not
recompense one-thousandth part of the
mischief wrought. If we are to have a
law that will not and cannot lie enforced,
it is better to have a license check, than
promiscuous and unaestraiued gambling.
It is not true to say that licensing gaming
lends legal sanction and approval. It is
certainly some check. We can hardly see
why betting on cards is worse than liettii.g
on a horse race or on an election. If the
time has come when public opinion can
stand up to tbe law and wipe out all
gambling, let us have a clean sweep.
Every one could afford to pay some tax
and then be tbe gainer.
We have a suggestion to make to tbe
committee of ways and means of our
Legislature to replete our depleted Terri
torial treasury, that is to introduce a Hill
requiring a license for every man who
drinks intoxicating liquors, graded in price
from those who drink only occasionally to
those who do it regularly, up to those who
get drunk when they get a chance. We
think we could salely guarantee a liberal i
income. If it required a special license of 1
$5 to get drunk, it would bring a large
revenue and at the same time exert a
wholesome restraining influence. If any
further revenue were needed let it take a
special personal license to smoke, and this,
too. could lie graded to rest lightest on •
those who smoke a pipe and heaviest on
those who smoke cigarettes. If part of tbe
money now spent for smoking went for
license, it would be better for the smokers
aud better for the treasury.
There is a measure nendmg i a a* Ohio
Legislature that the State shall print all
tbe text-books used u> the schools of that
State and lurnish them to the school chi]
dren at i-osL Ohio claims the credit of
hav ing adopted the first general in.-or^m
tion act, which has done more to kill the
lobby business than any other one act of
American legislation And perhaps , t
may find the way of deliverance from
these tierce cocthets that are raging all
over the land between competing publish
ing houses. If there i* any way to save
, U) the people the enormous profits that
some of the great publishing house,
ami syndicates
«ire now gathering j*
ought to lie done. Under auy sVste
supply yet tried the cost of Khonnürtü -
much too high. Some at the daily
papers that retail for five «-ents coutau
more matter than some of our scha!
readers that cost a dollar, aud the lui. t
| ence
iu cost is not in pajier, binding and
illustrations by any means. When
the liest method is found out by the older
States, Montana can take advantage of the
discovery.
A i the request of the American Agricul
tural Association, Governor Carpenter ha
ap|K)inted the following representative men
ot the Territory as delegates from Mon
tana to attend the Fifth National Agricul
'rai Convention to lie hebt at Lxposition
Hall, New Orleans, on the 2Dth to £td in
stant : Ex-Governor Benj. T. Potts, Prof.
G. C. Swallow, L.L. D., Hon. Granville
Stuart, Hon. James 1L Mills, I>r. Mussig
brode, Henry Seihen, Esq., of Flat Wil
lows, Robert S. Ford. Esq .Sun River. Bobt.
P. Walker, Esq , Sun River, D. 'v. G Flow»*
ree. Esq., and W. B. S. Higgins, of Eiche
tala. And with a couitesv that nhauld
gratify the delegates as it honors tbe Go.
ernor. each delegate is authorized to select
his own alternate. We hope that all of
these gentlemen will find it convenient to
attend ami every Montanian would have
lull confidence that every side of the gnat
agricultural interests of our Territory
would lie faithfully represented.
Mr. Robert P. Porter, in the Phila
delphia /Vcs», gives the population and in
debtedness of twenty-one of the largest
! cities of Englaml in comparison with
twenty-one of tbe largest cities of the
United States. Ixindon, with a population
of 4.764.312 bas a debt of $96,714.500, while
New York, with a impulatiou of 1,21)6,299.
has a debt of $136,407,434. Philadelphia,
with a {«»{»illation of *47.170, has a debt of
$70,970.042, while Liverpool, with a |s)|»u
lation of 552,424, lia» a «lebt of $22,1*1.9 j».
And the twenty-oue English cities, with .t
total population of *.*6.5,*12, have an ac
gregate indebtedness of $254,51 >*,7A5, aud
the twenty-one American cities have a
I population of 0,30ROOT, and an aggregate
indebtedness of $497.720,41 *. The trouhle
with our American cities is that the men
who vote and spend the taxes are not the
1 ones who pay them, and men are always
more liberal and careless in sjtemimg other
peoples m oney
We are in receipt of the Commimtioutn
Journal at the New Orleans Exposition
through the kindness of Montana's repre
sentatives. Moutana is represented iu its
columns by au account of her display,
from which it may l>e gathered that it is
such an exhibit that we ueed rot I*
be ashamed of it in any respect. The
wealth of our mines of gold, silver and
copper is so well represented that our
reputation is not likely to sutler. As for
our vast stock interests, they have to In
represented chielly by figures that convey
a very feeble impression generally, though
they do not lie. There has a large delega
tion of our citizens started for New Or
leans this morning, which we want our
commissioners to enter as part of tbe ex
hibit Atom Montana, specimens of men.
women and children that we would lie coû
tent to rest our reputation on.
River Tram; Jack Harris returned from
the Teton about noon, lie has been en
gaged with a force of men for the past
week in driving cattle svliich had gathered
in the bottoms of the Missouri and Teton
to tbe bills. He says that tielow the
Marias the cattle are looking well, but on
the Teton they are looking f.oruewhat the
worst for their fast, although he ha» seen
but few dead cattle. The cattle had drill
ed in on the Teton and the amount of
forage which was 'her»* would not liecin
to sustain them. The last few days has
lieen a God send for stock and stock owu
ers: the long continued cold sjiell was 1 k
gming to make the latter feel somewhat
uneasy. Mr. Harris left two men to patrol
the Teton for a numlier of miles and pre
vent tbe cattle driftiog back.
A correspondent from Sun River states
that during a recent biiz/ard in that sec
tion Mr. Frank Farmer, a respected citi
zen of Choteau county, was caught out ou
the prairie and died from exposure au l
cold. His fanerai, at Sun River, was largely
attended, and the services were condm ted
by Rev.W. J. Hunter, of tbe M. E. Church
The correspondent also adds that Rev. .Mr.
Hunter has lieen invited to hold regular
services at Sim River.
The Skating Amphitheatre.
The mishaps and difficulties that hai
pened to a female skatist arequamtly para
phrased in tbe follow ing appropriate versi
One more nnfortuiuUr,
Trusting the fate«
Hastily importunate.
Tried on the skate».
Piek her up tenderly,
IxHMtii the »trap«
Fashioned no slenderly,
rnused to mishap
clli. it waa pitiful
That she should (lop.
Where a whole city full
Must se«* her drop
l*ick her up tenderly,
Smooth out her dress.
Fashioned so slenderly,
Made to caress
* >ut »he «trin k trustfully
äkattug galore.
Dow'u she came Lustfully
On the hard floor.
Pick her up tenderly.
So good and ao true
Fashioned no slenderly.
What could »be do*
Humping inhumanly,
Jolliiig the men,
She ia pure womanly .
And trie« it again.
l*ick Ijer up tenderly
W hat does she care *
Fashioned mi slenderly,
•*o plump and so fair.