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FISK BROS.
R. E. FISK,
Publishers.
- Editor
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1888.
THE WEEKLY HERALD.
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1888 .
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$3.50 The Herald and any one of the
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advertisement will be sent for one year.
Prices are stated for The Herald and'one
or the other of the illustrated atlases, which
we have arranged to furnish.
There are plenty of good measures
pending before Congress, and a great show
of industry, but Iff.tle progress.
There are only three years before $230,
544,600 of four and a half per cent, bonds
will fall due, and this will require a yearly
application of about $75,000,000 to meet
the debt. This would leave little margin
for reduction.
The House has been in a deadlock for
three days past over a District tax bill,
the exact nature and merits of which we
do not know. We do know that it is a
deplorable waste of time that can hardly
be justified on good grounds.
In McKinley's minority report the fact
is stated that for one-half the time since
the war closed the Democrats have had
control of the House, where revenue bills
originate, and that during this period of
control the revenues have been reduced
only six millions, while by the Republi
cans they were reduced three hundred and
sixty-two millions, or nearly one-half.
There is a dim speck of war on the
southeast horizon, off the coast of Morocco.
Think of one of our gunboats bombarding
Tangiers! Morocco must be courting
destruction to provoke a broadside from
one of our war ships. We await with
breathless anxiety the announcement of
Sultan Nurley- Hassan 's domestic arrange
ments knocked into pi, and the ingrates
flying harem-scarem into the desert.
Jake Sharpe, the great bribe-giver, has
defeated the vengeance of the land by his
death. He has met at last an antagonist
who would take no bribe. After all, we
do not think Sharpe a whit worse than
tens of thousands of others in New York
City who live honorably and enjoy general
respect. His example and end may serve
the public good better than his Broadway
railroad.
Chauncey M. Depew is as distinguish
ed for good sense as for eloquence. Speak
ing, recently, of the Bnrlington strike, he
said : "I don't like to advise others, hut
my way is to keep my door constantly
open to my employes ; see their commit
tees ; hear their demands and remedy their
grievances when possible to do so and
when the demands are reasonable. The
main elements of success in this world are
good sense, good temper and minding your
own business. That's how we kept out of
the fight in 1877.
Matthew Arnold fills fifteen pages of
the April Nineteenth Century with a dia
tribe on "Civilization in the United States."
As a result of his recent visit [ he pro
nounces civilization in this country a
miserable failure. Mr. Arnold found very
little to his liking in America, and
above all things was disgusted with the
newspaper press. He says there is noth
ing cheap and good in the United States
except oysters and ice. He does bestow
partial praise upon our women for being
natural, but their voices are harsh, he
says. On the whole his comments are
very unfavorable, as much as those of
Dickens. But somehow we survived the
hostility of Dickens and may possibly
live without the good opinion of the great
Matthew Arnold.
The sudden death of Secretary Cutler,
of the Y. M. C. A., following so closely
upon that of Doctor £ckles, and taken in
connection with the proposed early re
moval of Col. Bird, seems a culmination of
misfortunes and for so young an institution
very discouraging. The grand beginning
made by this organization of practical
Christianity must not be allowed to be in
terrupted. It has already achieved great
good, as every one admits. It has taken
hold of the work that Christianity has de
signed to accomplish, but in a more practi
cal and effectual way than the organized
churches operate. The removal of those
who have led in the work calls loudly for
others to come forward to fill their places,
that there may be no halt, but a steady, ag
gressive advance upon the powers of evil
and darkness.
The improvement of the Missippi and
Missouri rivers is a big job, bat it will have
to be done some time. We have little faith
in the patch work and tinkering business
heretofore done. It will only be accom
plished by some general system that will
apply to and be carried out through its
entire length, including an extensive sys
tem of reservoirs for storing the surplus in
freshet times. The channel will have to
be straightened and deepened, and the
country at the mouth will have to be
walled in, as the Dutch have served the
rivers whose surface ie above the surface of
their country. The Dutch have already spent
$1,500,000,000 on a smaller job. The ef
fectual improvement of our Mississippi
would probably cost ten times as much.
It will be done some time in the next cen
tury.
THE MONEY QUESTION.
The Senate, in an incidental way, has
had under discussion the question of
issuing gold and silver certificates upon
the deposit of bullion and endowed with
the legal tender qualities of money. It
is an important matter in which, as a
silver producing State, Montana has a
foremost interest. But the time is not
auspicious and the manner in which it
is brought forward by Stewart and Beck
as an amendment to the bill to author
ize the purchase of bonds, is still more
objectionable. One of the disturbing
elements in the question is the
large outstanding debt, which
was injudiciously made payable in gold.
Tin first thing is to be rid of this dis
turbing element, and that is best done
by paying off the bonds as fast as possi
ble. If no considerable change is made
in our revenue laws, this debt could all
be paid within eight years, and then we
can deal more fully and radically with
the money question. If all the surplus
revenue is applied to the redemption of
bonds, and Farwell's bill allowing the
substitution of state and municipal
bonds is passed to provide a basis for the
continuance of the national banks, it
will fully meet present wants.
It seems to be impossible to consider
more than one great national question
at a time, and the one before the coun
try now is, "protection or free trade."
There is no more important question
that could arise affecting our industrial
interests. Wage earners want to know
if they are to be turned out of employ
ment in the trades they have learned ;
capitalists considering the question of
investment in productive industries
want to know if the government will
protect them or sacrifice the to foreign
competitors.
It is a matter of congratulation to the
friends of silver to observe that the op
position to the further and unlimited
use of that metal has greatly shrunk from
its former proportions. The dangers
predicted from silver coinage have not
occurred. Silver is on the rise in the
world's market. The nations of Europe
are getting deeper in debt every year
and crowding towards the verge of bank
ruptcy.
The vast increase of the volume of
business and the accumulation of wealth
in this country need something more
than a golden yard stick to measure
them. It will crowd the use of both
silver and gold to their utmost to keep
pace with this increase.
We need a solid metal basis for our
paper money, but it need not be coined
metal, gold and silver bars are just as
good. Coinage is a small matter of time
and cost.
The national banks have given us
such good currency that we dislike to
part with them, but it is foolish to main
tain a national debt for their con
venience. Hence we strongly favor the
substitution of State, county and city
bonds, and for the government issues of
paper money we desire to see a basis of
gold and silver in equal proportions,
either coin or bullion.
Honest Enoch Hodson, in his blunt,
direct and fetching way, explodes some of
the recently concocted fictions relating to
the Rocky Fork business, with which the
projector of that melancholy undertaking,
Sammy Word, connected himself in print.
Mr. Hodson, as tie contractor, has had a
woeful experience, aud many thousands of
dollars still represent his unpaid dues.
The load yet carried by the Billings peo
ple on account of the road is in the neigh
borhood of $75,000, and the sums due the
contractors, Mr. Hodson among the num
ber, swell the accounts to a much larger
figure. For months the respon
sibility for this deplorable state
of thing has been shifted from one to an
other of the company, and from the com
pany to the contractors. The latter, left
without means, were unable even to feed
their workmen, and, the denial of Attor
ney Word notwithstanding, they were
thrown upon the charity of Yellowstone
county and became public charges. If the
county has since been paid for the care
and sustenance of those penniless and
starving laborers we have not heard of it,
and to believe it the public must have
other evidence than the word of the Rocky
Fork attorney. Mr. Hodson talks in to
day's Herald.
Writes Louis Bush, a Louisiana sugar
planter: "One-half the capital and one
half the population of Louisiana is em
ployed in sugar culture. A reduction of
the duty 50 per cent would ruin it as com
pletely as a total repeal of the whole duty
The planters might endure a redaction of
10 per cent if assured of stability." In
view of the possibilities of Florida and
Louisiana for cane culture, of beet cultiva
tion in California, and sorghum cultivation
generally, it certainly seems a poor policy
to abandon the attempt to become inde
pendent of all foreign supplies in . the pro
duction of an article of such prime import
ance. It is reasonably certain that the Re
publicans can soon carry Louisiana and
Florida if they will adhere to the protec
tion of sugar.
The State of Florida received twelve
million acres of swamp lands from the
government for the purpose of having
them improved and utilized. In 1881 the
State authorities made a contract with
Hamilton Disston and other cnpitalists of
Philadelphia to give them one-half of this
land to have them drained, and in addi
tion sold four million acres more of its
own moiety for $1,000,000. Disston has
interested English and Dutch capitalists in
the enterprise and they are spending mil
lions in building railroads and digging
canals. They are doing a good work and
deserve success. This whole region under
improvement will make the best of sugar
and cotton land in the country and will
soon be peopled and cultivated.
CHOQ8ING DELEGATES.
The call is out for the members of the
Democratic Territorial Committee to
m|pt and choose the delegates to the
national convention. This is according
to a usage that grew up when popu
lation was much less and more scattered
and when means of travel were lacking.
It grew up, too, when the delegates were
only favored guests and spectators, and
when the prospect of Statehood was re
mote and our people had much less
interest in national politics. All of
these things have passed or changed, and
we submit that it would be vastly more
democratic to have delegates chosen di
rect by the people for a purpose so im
portant, with special instructions. It
may involve a little more expense
and trouble, but the result would
be more satisfactory. A good
many Democrats complain, and
with good reason, that the movement has
the appearance of a cut-and-dried at
tempt to secure a delegation that shall
support Cleveland and his policy to the
sacrifice of the true sentiments and in
terests of the people of Montana. The
question is simply whether Montana
shall be represented or misrepresented.
The election of delegates with votes that
may decide who shall be the presiden
tial candidate is really of more impor
tance than the election of a delegate to
Congress, and the credentials ought to
come fresh from the body of the people.
It is not a little matter, nor are the peo
ple indifferent to the Mills tariff bill, as
ex-Governor Hauser assumes. The day
of indifference has passed.
The Senate took the sensible view of
the matter of granting a right of way for
the Clarke's Fork & Cook City road. If
they had been stockholders or managers of
the Rocky Fork road anything to defeat
the construction of a rival road might
have seemed legitimate, but as representa
tives of public interests they could not
say that those interests would not be bet
ter served by two roads than one. These
roads may run close to one another, but
they are not built to serve the wants of
the intermediate country, but to
reach coal mines and distribute the
coal more widely. If one road is
more than half constructed, it ought to be
an easier matter for it to get the means of
completion than for a new rival to enter
the field and secure the capital necessary
for construction. The general government
has no right to show favoriteism. Is long
as it cannot be Bhown that any interests of
the Indians on the reservation will be in
jured, there is no reason to refuse a right
of way. Besides, the Clarke's Fork road
proposes to go beyond the coal mines, on
to Cooke City, and all public interests con
cur to favor the development of new fields
of production.
John Jarrett says the price of a ton
of bar-iron in this country is $41.44, in
England $31.50. The price of pig-iron in
this country is $18, in England $11. The
labor to convert pig-iron into bar-iron costs
$12.74. To do the same in England, labor
is only paid $4 96. So that the English
manufacturer has a margin of $15 54 for
material, wear and tear, insurance, taxes
and profit, whereas the American manu
facturer has only a margin of $10.70 for
these same items. This is proof positive
that the laborer gets the chief benefit of
protection in this country, and that the
manufacturer and capitalist has one-third
less margin for profit than his English
competitor. Jarrett is the president of the
Iron Workers' Association, and he says the
immense profits" of the manufacturer
spoken of by President Cleveland, exist
only in his imagination, and Jarrett knows
better than Cleveland the truth in this
case, and has no motive to shield the man
ufacturer. __
We are anxious to know what will be
the result of the caucus to-night of the
House Democratic members on the subject
of admitting new states. If it is decided to
oppose admission of any more states this
session it will end our hopes for the pres
ent, and we shall have to look for a new
Congress. It would look like a piece of
folly tor the Democrats to handicap them
selves with the odium of opposing admis
sion on any terms to territories possessed
of all the essential qualifications that
have ever been deemed Hecessary.
Such action would make this one
of the burning issues in the coming presi
dential contest, and would influence many
votes agaiuît the Democracy. As a party
measure it would be the most foolish that
could be conceived. The growth of these
new States is such that admission cannot
long be deferred, and when they do come
in they will remember those who have be
friended them and the party that opposed
their admission cannot expect to find any
favor. We trust no short-sighted, blind,
partisan course will find any favor.
The bill to authorizs the purchase of
bonds with the treasury surplus has been
so recast in the Senate that it bears as little
resemblance to the House bill as the boy's
jack-knife, after having a new handle and
blade. It declares the law already exist
ing as designed sufficient for the . pur
pose, and in addition provides for the ad
ditional coinage of silver to replace na
tional bank notes as they are retired by
the surrender of bonds. We think the
House will pass the amended bill, but we
have our doubts whether the President
will sign it. We doubt whether the Presi
dent wants the surplus redaced, and we
feel very certain that the moneyed influ
ences of New York City, which the President
always consults and obeys, will not favor
the increased coinage of silver. At any
rate it will put the President between two
fires anci compel him to oppose the senti
ment of the Sooth and West or that of
New York, which has heretofore always
been most influential with him. It marks
the steady growth of silver in favor, when
the conservative United States Senate votes
for its farther coinage.
GEN. JOHN R. BROOKE
We note with satisfaction the promotion
of Colonel John R. Brooke, Third infantry,
to be Brigadier General. The Herald,
advised some weeks ago by its Washington
correspondent that the early advancement
of this officer was probable, was first to
spread before the Montana public the wel
come news, and yesterday was first to an
nounce his nomination to the Senate. The
volunteer record of Gen. Brooke was but
briefly alluded to in the press report. He
served from the beginning to the close of
late war from Pennsylvania. Under his
master command it required but a few
months to drill and discipline and make
soldierly proficient the 53d Pennsylvania.
His was already a trained body of men
when the advance upon Manassas
and the Rappahannock was ordered early
in '62. Later in the year, from the Penin
sula, he gallantly led his regiment
from Yorktown to the front of Richmond
The Chickahominy was breasted at its
flood by the Second Army Corps, and first
to emerge out of the wide, swoolen waters
were the dripping boys of the 53d, their
Colonel at the head, pushing to the rescue
of Casey at Seven Pines. Brooke was
among the foremost to stay the route »he
shattered Federal column and reverse the
fortunes of the day. His sturdy men were
in battle line during the night and at the
dawn of June 1st they opened
the sanguinary but victorious bat
tle of Fair Oakes, nor halted in
the fight u ntil the church steeples of the Con
federate capital were in sight. In four hours
Richardson's division of the Second corps
logt 1,400 of its officers and men, the Fifty
third losing largely in killed and wonnded.
Brooke was then and always with his reg
iment. His voice of command, heard
above the rattle of musketry and the roar
of big guns, was un inspiration. Na officer
in all the Peninsula battles was braver or
offener at the front. No regimental com
mander was quite so thoroughly known
from his presence with the battle line and
connection with the fight. The rank and
file cannot forget, even after nearly a quarter
of a century, the brave Pennsylva
nian as he appeared handling his splendid
command at Fair Oaks, at Gaines' Mill, at
Peach Orchard, at Savage's Station, at
White Oak Swamp, at Malvern Hill, and
at Harrison's Landing. In the after cam
paigning, at Spottsylvan ia, at Cold Harbor,
and at other of the Wilderness battles and
in the closing engagements of the war,
Brooke added new garlands to his glorious
chaplet, aud whether maneuvering a brigade
or marshaling a division he was always
where many generals always were not—
here he could see and be seen. This is
the soldier who has jnst been honored
with a Brigadier's star. It is his by right,
by merit. The people of Montana are
right glad he has got it.
Our neighbor very gingerly resents our
advice in the matter of selecting delegates
to the national nominating convention.
The manner in which the advice is re
ceived is an additional reason to consider
that it was needed. We spoke not for our
selves alone, but for some of as good Dem
ocrats as there are in Montana, who are
denied a hearing in the official organ and
who are free to state their belief that the
scheme is being engineered in the interest
of one or two bosses, who wouM not be
the choice of the Montana Democracy if
if any general expression of that choice
could be had. If we took a narrow parti
san view of the case nothing would suit us
better than to see the game played out as
begun. It will bring disorganization and
defeat, and by that we might expect to be
profitted. But on a broader and higher
field, we insist that as Republicans we are
interested in the means, measures and
methods of the Democratic party. Our
interests in most things are in common, as
much as those of husband and wife. If
we are to live under a Democratic adminis
tration, we want the best to be had of that
kind. Especially when the main issue is
one that will affect the industrial and
financial policy we are as much interested
as any Democrat. As between protection
and free trade Democracy, we are for the
protection wing every time, and as between
Cleveland and Hewitt, we should be for
Hewitt, and have no apology to make for
our nose.
It is reported that Prof. Elisha Gray, oi
Chicago, has completed an invention that
will relieve the country of the monopoly
of the telephone. The new instrument of
communication is called the Telautograph.
A person takes a pencil in hand and writes
a message, and another pencil in connec
tion at a distance writes out the message at
the same time. If instead of writing a
picture is drawn, that is reproduced with
the same fidelity. At.what distance it will
work is not positively known, but the in
ventor says it will work at 500 as easily as
miles at ten. A small wire connects the two
pencils bnt does not interfere with the
free use by the writer. It avoids the un
pleasant hallowing, and there is no mis
take when the message is delivered. The
cost of the instrument will not exceed $15
to $20. We most heartily wish success to
the new invention^and hope the telephone
monopoly will be brought to bay, and com
pelled to serve the public at fair rates or
be driven from the field.
The agricultural products of the United
States outside of cotton and tobacco are
estimated to amount to three and a half
billions annually, and the home market
takes all but eight per cent, of this.
Which market is the most important to
the American agriculturist ? The response
is ready. Our own market is worth twelve
times as much to the American farmers as
that of all the rest of the world together.
If we close our factories and send oar raw
material to Europe for manufacture we cut
off entirely one part of the farmers'
market and impoverish the rest. The
means by which we can increase consumers
at home and their ability to pay fair
prices for what they consume is to the
direct interest and advantage of the Amer
ican farmer, and none of any intelligence
can fail to recognize it.
The telegraphic account of the measure
that has passed the Senate is not very clear,
but theextension of the Park is made both to
the south and east, but unless the parallels
and meridians are incorrectly stated, there
can be no addition of twenty-five thousand
square miles. The Park as originally laid
out contained only 3,578 square miles. This
was subsequently reduced so as to exclude
the portion that came within the limits of
Montana. Even if the addition embraces
twenty-five hundred, instead of twenty
five thousand square miles, it would make
the enlarged area about six thousand square
miles, or about the same as that of
Connecticut and Rhode Island together.
The prevailing motive in the enlargement
seems to be to make it a forest and game
reservation, as well as to include the ob
jects of curiosity for which it was origin
ally set apart. We are not aware of any
recent surveys or reports urging this en
largement. It is not a region that includes
much land suited for cultivation or habita
tion, and we presume no objection will be
made to the bill. It is certainly better to
enlarge the borders now than hereafter,
when it might interfere with settlers' claims.
In fact it seems to be only a part of a
scheme, which finds much favor, to reserve
the whole mountainous region from sale
and settlement. This will be a good
policy, provided it does not prevent the
use of timber and prospecting for mines.
We trust that congress will yet recognize
the propriety of either itself constructing
or chartering a railroad through the Park,
so that visitors can see all the principal
points without having to hire other con
veyances. It would do more to make it
accessible to the people than anything else.
The House committee on postoffices has
agreed upon an appropriation of some
thing over sixty millions, very nearly up
to the amount asked for by the Postmaster
General. This increase only fairly repre
sents the growth of the postal
system. The number of postoffices
in the country has more than doubled
since 1860 and, though the rates of postage
have been repeatedly reduced during that
time, the postal revenues have increased
seven fold. So late as 1866 the expendi
tures for the postal service were only about
fifteen millions. They are now four times
as great, but the revenue is nearly equal
to the expenditures. The allowance
for foreign mail service is ridiculously
small and does not look as if we cared to
do much correspondence with the outer
world. While a million is added for in
crease of postmasters'« salaries, only half
that amount is allowed for additional
clerk hire, in which there seems to be the
greatest deficiency at present. The postal
service is the most important to the people
of any department of the public service,
and they would cheerfully approve more
liberal appropriations for increased facili
ties of this service and a still ^ further re
duction of postal rates. Penny postage is
one of the goals toward which public at
tention and demands are tending, and
within ten years we hope to see it achieved.
We trust Senator Teller will be able to
convince his brother Senators of the folly
of including mines and mineral lands
pnder the operation of the Alien Land bill.
In fact, we have very little admiration or
respect for the bill in any of its provisions.
We have no fear of foreigners carrying
away any portion of our country. The
land will be worthless to foreign purchas
ers unless it is colonized and cultivated,
and in that case it will be to our advan
tage in every way. But especially in the
case of our mines, it will work us a very
great injury. These mines are utterly
worthless unless worked and to work them
successfully requires capital and experi
ence. For every dollar that is carried out
of the country we shall be benefitted hun
dreds. It will hasten the settlement of our
wilderness, the construction of railroads
and will furnish markets for our agricul
tural and manufactured products.
A Lynx Killed with a Club.
Joseph Edwards, of Walkerville, has
been losing a good many chickens lately,
says the Inter Mountain. The other night
he heard a commotion among his feathered
flock and his children ran oat to see what
was up. They returned and told their
father that a cayote had been in the yard,
and when it saw them it jumped into a
tree. This seemed a strange proceeding on
the part of a cayote, which is a kind of
small wolf and not given to tree-climbing
any more than a cow is. So Mr. Edwards
picked up two or three sticks of stove
wood and went out to investigate. He
could see the beast np in the tree and let
drive a stick of wood at it. The first throw
missed it, but the second hit it, and the
next thing Mr. Edwards saw was the var
mint coming for him straight through the
air. The jump was fifteen or twenty feet.
Mr. Edwards is a base ball player and a
first class hand at the bat. This knowl
edge stood him in good play, for he still
held one stick of wood in his hand, and as
the animal came sailing at him through
the air, he let it have a whack on the head
with the club that knocked its brains out.
Ou getting a lantern he found he had
killed a big lynx with claws on it like
pruning hooks. He made a present of it
to Sheriff Lloyd, who will have it stuffed
and added to his menagerie.
Toboggan Roller Rinks.
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I St. Paul Gloire. 1
The roller toboggan shoot which has been
fitted np at the Washington rink, Minne
apolis, was given its first test Saturday.
Mayor Ames and a party of friends were
present by the invitation of Archie A.
Niblock, who is responsible for the intro
duction of the latest craze, which, accord
ing to reports, has driven Eastern pleasure
seekers daft with enthusiasm. Tbe slide,
or ran, starts from the roof, and the to
boggans get their impetus from "the
Niagara Falls," a fall of nearly ten feet,
which sends them flying along the track at
li ghtnin g speed, making three circuits of
the riok in fifty-five seconds. The tobog
gans resemble the bodies of Portland
sleighs, and are handsomely upholstered,
so that a party of four can sit in them com
fortably, and the ride ends np on an ele
vator, which palls the toboggan to the
rope again. The mayor was delighted, and
remarked that when the shoot is entirely
ready for nse he would give his certificats
that tho exercise is one which he can con
scientiously recommend as a healthful and
pleasurable exercise.
Children Cry forPitcher's Castoriâ?
REV. WEBB'S LECTURE.
The Theme, "Literature and Re
ligion," Gracefully Handled.
A cultured audience were pleased
listeners to the lecture of Rev. F. T.
Webb at the Baptist church Thursday
evening. The theme, "Literature and Re
ligion," was treated under three heads :
1. The way an age assimilates ideas,
showing onr responsibility for what is bad.
2. The indebtedness of literature for its
best ideas to religion.
3. The inquiry, whether or not literary
culture can outgrow Christianity.
A reader of the generation which came
on since the days of Sartor Resartus finds
that thoughts have no freshness. They
have become the current commonplace
stock of thinker, writer and reader alike,
and the suspicion of both author and book,
if the open antagonism, once keenly felt,
has passed gradually into a settled sense of
indebtedness. Carlisle's ideas, incorporated
into the literature, assimilated completely
by the age, give color to all the thoughts
of the times. Out of this grows the re
sponsibility of people to discriminate in
their reading for themselves and their
children.
The illustrations for the second topic
were drawn from George Eliot. The lec
turer discussed fiction, characterizing that
which might be called good, and then ask
ing how, without a recognition of all the
great essential ideas of religion, of God, of
immortality, of the Cross and example and
teaching of Christ, such fiction could ever
be written. Wherever George Eliot con
formed to this standard, or to something
like it, she owed it to her early training in
the Christian faith. Among all the char
acters she had delineated, there was notone
attractive for its scepticism. She gave up
her adherence to the Christian creed, but
three ideas distinctively Christrian, which
she learned from that . reed, clung to her
to the end. These aro the awful sense of
tbe obligation of duty, the grandeur of
self-sacrifice for the good of others, the
need and value of a motive.
The third topic treated was the
question whether literary cul
ture in any degree can outgrow
Christianity. The illustrations under this
head were drawn from Goethe, because he
has been called the "high priest of cul
ture." A remark of a mathematician after
reading "Paradise Lost" indicated where
the scientific theory is wanting. He com
plained that he could not make out that it
proved anything. Th« mind, the speaker
claimed, was not all of man nor are
facts the sum of life one wants to acquire
not only knowledge, but also to gain wis
dom, to develop a discriminating intel
lect and to cultivate the sensibilities to
nurture strong thoughts, to possess refined
feelings, to understand one's own aims
clearly, and to be able also to judge from
another's standpoint; to attain so flexible a
disposition that it adapts itself to changing
surroundings, and to keep also a purpose
so honorable and steadfast and a conscience
so alive and tender that every experience
so every
is made to serve the harmonious growth of
one's whole nature. How can a person do
this without an aim that was above this
world !o either complete culture without
religion ? The lecture clesed with an ex
hortation to take tho >e views of life, of re
ligion, of duty, of culture, which should
gain peace at laet.
Rev. Kelsey's Lecture.
The March number of The College Mes
senger , speaking of the lecture of Rev. Mr.
Kelsey, delivered before the College of
Montana, says that a good audience filled
the chapel. His theme was "The Demands
of the Different Professions on Young
Men."
"Many young men," said he, "can best
serve the professions by keeping out of
aem." Liberal, education, true manhood
and incessant, Herculean toil were men
tioned as some of the demands common to
all the professions. Upwards of an hour
and a half the audience listened, several
times interrupting the lecturer by rounds
of applause. Rev. Kelsey is an enthusi
astic botanist, and the botany class were
stirred up to new zeal by his talk on the
benefits resulting from a thorough study of
that science.
HANGING TWO KOOTENAIS.
How the Outraged Settlers of Flat
head Valley Meted Out Justice
to Indian Murderers.
A re-ident ot the Flathead country tells
the Missoulian the following particulars of
of the recent Iuaian lynching in that lo
cality : The plans of the settlers to cap
tured the three KooteDai Indians who mur
derej three prospectors on Wolf creek in
June or July last were well laid out. Be
tween forty-five aud fifty of them gathered
at Demereville early in the morning and
proceeded in a body to the Indian lodges,
located between one and two imiles below
town. The lodges were reached while the
Indians were still sleeping soundly. One
lodge after another was searched, and
guards left to prevent an outcry or voice of
warning, until the lodge where two of ihe
murderers were sleeping was found. The
names of these two Kootenais were John
Ninna and Slame. They were forcibly
taken by the settlers, who were well armed
and determined to carry out their plans at
all hazards.
The name of the third mnrderer was
Antley. Antley was not there ; he was in
Smith's valley, several miles distant. As
soon as the settlers left with their prison
ers an Indian jumped upon the fleetest
horse in the camp and dashed wildly away
to Smith's valley. He went to warn Ant
ley of the danger, and his mission was
successful. The fugitive was notified and
he fled in haste, probably toward the
British possessions. It is stated that tbe
settlers of Smith's valley had promised to
arrest Autley, but they failed to Jo so, and
he is probably forever safe from the reach
of the vengeance of the people of Flat
head Lake.
Nina and Slume were taken to Demers
ville. A hasty consultation was had, when
the two murderers were hastened to the
river bank, a skiff was procured, the
savages were rowed across the river, never
to return. The settlers acted cautiously,
quietly, but determinedly. They resolved
to hang the two Indians, instead of turn
ing them over to the law and its uncertain
results. The murderers were informed
that they were going to be hang, and one
of them defiantly retorted, "Hi yn Skoo
knm," which means powerful good. Itissaid
they made no attempt to conceal the mur
der of the prospectors, but even bragged of
their savage instinct and of making the
white man's flesh smoke and quiver in the
flames.
They were taken into the woods lining
the east bank of the Flathead river at that
place, ropes fastened about their necks and
they were swung np to the limb of a tree.
A short time afterwards the bodies were
cat down and buried.
He Suicided.
New York, April 7. —The investigation
made by the coronor to-day shows that Sen
ate r Bob Hart or Rev. James Sutherland,
the evangelist, killed himself. He left a
letter explaining his act and expressing his
innocence of the charge that he criminally
assaulted Stella Brightman, the fifteen
year-old girl who belonged to his church at
Rockville Centre.
AS TO HYPODERMICS.
A Correspondent Endorses Mr. Kel
sey's Remarks on the Use
of Morphine.
Mr. Editor- —The discussion which fol
ows the funeral sermon over the remains
of the lamented Dr. Eckles has failed to
rise above the dignity of a tempest in a
tea-pot. On the part of at least some of
the physicians, it amounts to an arrogant
assumption that no one but a physician
has the right to criticise the almost unlim
ited nse of the hypodermic syringe and the
deadly drag with which it is usually
charged. That it is ai arrogant assump
tion is emphasized by the fact that the
rejoinders ot the profession as published
are lacking in dignity, and in some cases
were coarse, even to the verge of brutality.
The attempt to hide within the garb of
"Presbyterian" is the silliest of the efforts
to over-emoe the almost universal approval
of Mr. Kelsey's well-timed words of cau
tion. Had he condemned with his burn
ing eloquence, instead of cautioning, a dis
criminating public wonld have promptly
responded, "Well done." There was noth
ing said upon that occasion but what was
commendable, aDd nothing which need
necessarially to have disturbed the equa
nimity of a reasonably well-balanced,
self-respected physician. To say that
a minister of the gospel may not
condemn from the pulpit, the indis
crimate use of intoxicants and deadly
poisons is to rob him of the power aud in
fluence he is expected and entitled to exert
in his relations to his fellow man. It
doesn't require a technichal edneation to
enable one to determine that the use of in
toxicants will produce drunkenness and
tbe use of deadly poisons death, and that
the moderate use of either is liable to
create habits to torment its victims and
their friends for a lifetime. Mr. Kel ev, in
the mildest terms possible to employ,
calied attention to these things. Ho did
nothing more, and his efforts in this di
rection are to be commended, not con
demned. D.
THE AUTOPSY.
The
Death of Dr. Eckles
by Disease.
Not Caused
The following is the report of the com
mittee of physicians in the matter of the
autopsy on the body of the late Dr. Eckle3:
We, the undersigned committee, ap
pointed by the chairman at a meeting of
the physicians at the city hall, on the 31st of
March, to make an autopsy upon the body
of the late Dr. Thomas Eckles, report that
we found no pathological lesions sufficient
to cause death.
Thomas H. Pleasants, AI. D.
D. McH. McKay, M. D.
C. S. W. Thompson, M. D.
The unprofessional may he some?, hat
puzzled to interpret the verdict rendered
by the committee. The plain English of
the report is that Dr. Eckles' death was
not occasioned by disease. What, then,
was the cause of death ? Narcotic
poisoning? Did the hypodermic injections
of morphia kill him ? Although the
physicians do not state that in words, we
conclude that to be their judgement, as
it is the judgment which very many of
the unprofessional arrived at in advance of
the autopsy. When by carelessness or
ignorance a life as precious, as valuable, as
that of Dr. Eckles is sacrificed, we want to
hear voices raised in warning, like that of
Mr. Kelsey's—like tbe voices of hundreds
of others of the people of Helena.
Medicus Mauled.
Mr. Editor :—I did not intend to say
more concerning the "morphia" question.
I am charged by "Medicus" in the morn
ing paper with sneaking aronnd the corner
of a building aud throwing a brick. Under
the circumstances consistency demands
that "Medicus" should have signed his
name. Why doesn't he stand up like a
man and defeud the indiscriminate nse of
morphia and alcohol? Why does he in
sult the intelligence of his readers by
classing these things with aconite, bella
douna and other like drags? Complaisance
toward any wrong is complicity in its sup
port.
When he says that my article, condemn
ing, as it does, the too frequent nse of
morphia and alcohol, and defending, as it
does, the right of a Christian minister to
caution his congregation against the terri
ble results which too frequently follow
these these things, shows me to be a
homeopath, he is unwittingly defending
the very principle for which I contend.
This attempt on the part of "Medicus" to
change this discussion to a quarrel be
tween the different schools of medicine
will not win. It would be better for him
if he were to parade some morphine
wretch before the public, and as he does so
descant upon tbe virtues of the drug, not
forgetting at the same time to solemnly
and publicly declare that no minister
while performing the last sad rites over
one of its victims has a right to caution
his hearers against its nse. As "Medicus"
seems to be in the sole possession of the
jewel of consistency upon the morphia
question, and signed his "John Hancock"
to his communication, so I sign mine.
D.
DRUM LUMMON REPORT.
What the Montana Company Did Last
Year—Production and Ex
penses.
We have received from Manager Bayliss
a copy of the report of the directors of the
Montana Company Limited for the halt
vear ending December 31st, 1887. In it
are tables showing the dividends paid, pro
duction and expenses of the great Drum
Lummon mine for that period and years
preceding.
The total output for the year 1887 was
$2,010,674.24 and the total expanses, in
cluding $709.855 23 on revenue account
and $36,766.30 for permanent improve
ments, were $716,621.53.
On December 31st, 1887, it was esti
mated that there were in sight 213,255
tons of ore reserves, including 73,467 tons
of high grade and 139 788 tons of low grade
ore.
Since the formation of tbe company in
January, 1883, dividends have been paid
aggregating £413,307, or over $2.000,000.
The amount paid during the list six
months of 1887 was £82,500. or $412,500.
In concluding his report upon the condi
tion of the mine, Mr. R. T. Bayliss says :
"I am in no way discouraged by the low
grade developments of the past six months,
nor with the present reduced rate of pro
duction. I regard both merely as inci
dents common to all mining enterprises—
unpleasant ones, certainly—bat to me they
act only as an incentive to greater efforts.
Conkling Sick.
New York, April 7.—Koscoe Conkling
passed a comfortable night, and is reported
very mach better to-day. His physicians
are Dre. Barker and Auderson, and he is
attended by a professional nurse.
The Irish Exodus.
London, April 7.—The trans-Atlantic
steamship companies are stopping the
booking of Irish immigrants because the
number of applications for passage is greater
than can be accommodated.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorin