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.o i metnu i ori d W. H. BUCK, - - Editor and Proprietor J. J. HEALY, Local Editor and Busines Manager. The Montreal riots were too wel advertised to pan out. Democratic papers seem incline( to help along the Grant movemen as much as possible. The New York Sun denounce: open back shirts as a fraud Where's Potter's committee. William Cullen Bryant usually elept through the sermons in church, and his days were long in the land. The employes in the Brooklyn Tax Collector's office were promot ed last week. An explosion did it for them. Mrs. Jenks' name "Agnes," sig nifies "the lamb." This will of course suggest to some malicious people that Scriptural passage: "The lyin' and the lamb shall lie," etc. Three men sat in a row in the Massachusetts Senate a few years since. Pond and Chase, two of these Ex-senators, are now in the Penitentiary, and Winslow, the third, is a fugitive for crime. The Duchess of Argyll left $250, 000 to the poor. Wealthy people are continually leaving rich legac ies to the poor, and where do they all go to? The poor can testify that they get very little good of them. There are more than fifty-two thousand sick Russians in thel Balkan peninsula, and one fourth of the recruits raised last year for the Armenian cmpaign are dead. No worder they have quit buying our ships. Beaconfield is afflicted with asth matic gout. It kept him away from the Congress for severa days, which time he was enabled to devote to the Anglo-Tu! kish treaty. It was a mos: seasonable ¬ont. The Philadelphia Times observes that "Ohio has the President of the United States, the General of the Army; the Chief Justice, the Ministership of France, the Sec retary of the Treasury, and Don Cameron for a son in-law." The Rev. Mr. 'purgeobn takes Colonel Bob ingersoll dtwn the bank thus: "I should do nothing to convert such a man as tolonei Ingersoll. He is a green water melon. The more he abounds, the sooner the public will turn from him. According to some agricultural croakers the fruit crop is always a failure, the wheat is ruined by rust, the potatoes are consumed by bugs, and all we want is something to come along and drink all the water when our death by hunger and thirst will be assured. The destruction of an oleomar garine factory by fire at Cam bridge, Mass., reveals to a curious world some of the secrets connect ed with the manufacture of artifi cial butter. Great quantities of stearine, tallow and oil were co.n sumed in that fire; but not a single cow. Jesse Billings, a wealthy citizen of Saratoga County, New York, has been indicted by the grand jury ' for the alleged murder of his wife in a manner which was at once cold-blooded and cowardly. Peo p!e who have kept an eye on the i gallows for years to see a rich or influential man hang ire anxious to 1 see how it turns out with Billings. From the land of the Pharaohs comes up a wail of distress like t that which arose some three thou sand and odd years ago when the a Children of Israel were, compelled a to make brick wiihout straw, and their first-born were torn frqrm the a maternal bosom. Now, a, then, it r is the laboring classes on whom the a burden of war falls. In the olden c era the diict :ihanid of Ood was laid heavily on the heads of those p in bighpi~~iph whC hhadc'c ed thiR wide-spread .ftfering. Even so it will bl e.aureidfy i the end now. ::·:~· :-~ iN ":' ·;- ;,·-f~ r~~-. AS OTHERS SEE US. We have lately had the honor and pleasure of conversing with s many highly intelligent and well informed gentlemen recently ar rived from the States, many of whom are on visits of business or pleasure while others have come to Montana to remain permanent p ly, and we have noted a remarka Sble uniformity in the first impres sions of our Territory as received and expressed by these observing strangers. How is it possible that so small a community can support so many stores, saloons and large mercantile houses, and having such extensive commercial resources why is it the town is so slow of growth ar.d so limited in popula tioli? These and similar que. tions are frequently asked by the inquir ing stranger on landing for the first time at Benton. They are mysteries not easily solved by the uninitiated, yet how readily under stood after a brief sojourn within the limits of the Territory. The natural inference is that the Terri tory outside of Benton is thickly settled and densely populated, but what must be the surprise of these people on learning that the total population of Montana hardly equals that of a single ward in one of the large cities of the States. The cause of commercial activ ity at Benton can be readily ex plained. The leading firms are largely engaged in the northern trade, the fur traffic and river freighting, and nearly all have business houses at other points in Montana and the Northwest Ter ritory, for which Benton is the principal depot of supply. The local trade of Benton is an import ant item and is earnestly competed for by all the business firms, but compared with the heavy business transactions of these houses outside of Benton it seems indeed a very small and unimportant feature. Hence it is evident that the leading business houses are not dependent upon the retail trade of Benton and the necessity for improvements and the encouragement of immigra tion is not so severely felt as It would be under other cir'cum stances and as it probably is ii, other towns of lhe T'erritory. But passing beyond the limits of our little burg, the chiet cause, or rather the real cause, of Montana's limited population is soon discover ed. though perhaps not so easily accounted for. Extensive mines, the poorest of which if located in the States would enrich their owners, immense tracts of land af fording the best possible thcilities for farming and stock raising, large timber tracts and an almost un limited demand for lumber, water power for woolen and paper mills, and in fact advantages for almost any industry that has ever been, tnmade profitable through energy and enterprise--all these are to be seen at every point in this favored land, and the commercial prosper. ity that is also visible everywhere is evidence enough that our people do not lack the necessary intei ligence to appreciate the value of these advantages. But immigra tion is checked, every industry is discouraged, and commerce is corn pelled to labor against almost in. surmountable difficulties through the want of proper transportation facilities. Intelligent strangers soon discover the cause of our slow advancement, and knowing the ne- I cessary capital, enterprise and E energy are not wanting, theyr naturally wonder why the obstacle r was not removed years ago. c It is not so easy to frame an answer t to the latter inquiry without reflect- 1 ing somewhat upon the business people of the Territory, for it is a c fact that cannot well be concealed a that if the merchant or importer I were alone to suffer the losses $ consequent upon the present s.s p temrn of transportation, there would ( soon be a very different :tate of affairs in our Territory. As it is, all the extra cost of importing sup plies is borne by the consumer, li and however great the need of as railroad the want is rsverely feh only by those who hav&e not the capital and influence rto "fro.ure one. But perhaps oui bourinss h people are not altogether ti blai.e. Their tint and capital are devoted tocomnercial pusui an whbil , they i ;4. the etter 't tabl °1 enough under the present sys tem they are, perhaps, justified r in not seriously interesting them h selves in an enterprise which might - enable them to sell goods for less - money, but could hardly increase ºf their profits and would certainly r encourage additional competition. e But the time is not far distant - when self interest will compel our - capitalists to interest them j- selves in this transportation d problem. In spite of all dis advantages the population of the tTerritory is increasing, while the 't the price of labor is every year de e clining, and the people who now . pay the extra cost of transpor s tation, must soon demand lower f rates for goods or restrict them selves to the bare necessities of life. It will then be found advisa ble not only to build railroads, but also to assist the growth of towns and settleeiients by extensive in vestments in real estate improve ments and the encouragement of mechanical and all other indus tries. The "dog star rages." This is past a doubt. Though the alma nacs give the 26th inst. as the date of the commencement of the reign of Sirius, it is evident that the star is now discounting his fer vid favors in advance, and "with out rebate." Everybody admits without hesitation that the weath er is hot, very hot. And the rains which come in this vicinity as a blessing to the thirsty earth only seem to vary the weather from hot and dry to hot and moist. Under the circumstances-over which we have no control-it becomes the human finily to exercise re ason up on the circumstances and condi tions over which they have con trol. These chiefly are found in diet and exposure, so far as body is considered, and in mastery ofl the mind, . o far as mental worry may be subdued. Mark Twain h,.s sent for his pastor, the Rev. Mr. Twichell of E-artford, to join him in a tour through Switzerland and Germany at Mark's expense, and this pas tor, the Reverend Mr. Twichell,I will go. This is the reward held out to the rising generation of American humorists-the success ful comic man will not only be able to afford a pastor, but to take him around Eu ope, and hang the expense. The pastor must, however, be careful that his humorous friend does not use him" as material for' some new "Innocents Abroad," because it night then turn out that the trip was at the pastor's expense after il. People who prophesied a coo summer because we had an opei wirrter did not reason well. A glance at the past shows that r cool summer usually follows a se verely cold winter, and a very warm summer succeeds a mild winter. The reason for this, too, is obvious. A severe winter leaves all the mountains heavily capped with ice and snow to cool the brcezes during the succeeding sum rner months, while an open winter leaves the mountain tops bare and the winds that much less cooling. These reasons can be safely pre sented now, as all will admit that they hold good in the present case. The coinage of standard silver dollars within a period of a little more than fourmonths, has amount ed to about $8,500,000, or an aver age of more than $2,000,000 er month. A demand for small gold coins sprang up in the East, and to meet this demand the Philadel phia mint recently coined for the assistant Treasurer at New York over $200,000 in quarter eagles and $110,000 in $3 gold pieces. During the last two months about $4,000,000 in silver has beon ex ported from San Francisco to China. Sir John Macdonald said in the Canadian Parliament recently "That fellow Smith is the biggest. liar I ever met.' A multitude of Smiths now want to know what Smith he, refers. to, If the deal is the father of Lize, how about Pinkston ? A grt Mexican war, with the Mexi left out, is still being The political status of woman i: as much a matter of dispute is England as in this country, and - bill to enfranchise her and grani her certain other privileges waE lost on its second reading it the House of Commons only only a few weeks ago. '1 he bill is described as one for removing certain disabil ities which it would be impossible now to enforce, and which remain as a relic of the old time, when a woman was treated as an inferior sort of animal, reared only to be the slave of her lord-the man. It is astonishing how nearly the ad vance in the laws relating to women in this country has kept pace with those on the same subject in Eng land. The London Times, speaking of this bill and the laws that have al ready been passed pertaining to the interest of women, says: '"Slowly indeed her social position has been altered. She can sue for a divorce, she can trade for a living, she can possess property of her own. Politically, too, she has a vote for the School Board and the Board of Guardians, and may sit at each Board and also discharge the office of overseer." But when it comes to telling what she can ntot now do, and what disabilities it is proposed to remove by this bill, there is one which strikes us in this country as a little singular. The same article continues: "But. she must not vote for members of Parliament, and, stranger still, she may not sit within the communion rails in our churches. In these two places the supremacy of man is as fiercely upheld as if the exist ence of society depended upon it." n. The right to vote for members n I of Parliament is the same as that y for which female suffragists in this f lcountry clamor. A right to vote y for members of Parliament means a right to exercise the right of franchisel 'qually with the other IS sex. The right of sitting within f the communion rails of the church r is like the other church question of ' Ernglard, one which the people of this country, where Church and j Stutn are so entirely separate. d neither can nor desire to under stand. The London Times, in closing its article on the subject, takes strong grounds in favor of Sthe assae assage of the bill. Its argu ments are worth quoting, as they are just as applicable to this coun try as to England. It says: "Let e woman be as free as man; let her ` be a citizen in the full sense of the t word, so long as she is called upon ' to discharge a citizen's duties. l There are plenty of women house holders who are far more com 1 )etent to vote for a member of Parliament than the men who now iexiercise that right The Baroness Burdett Coutts and Miss Night ingale are of less weight than two petty greengrocers; and if Her Majesty were to leave her throne and become a private lady, she, too, would be excluded from voting at a Parliamentary election, not so muclh by the direct words of any, law as by the judicial interpreta tion of certain words. A woman loses her husband, a tradesman; she takes to his busin ass, carries it on successfully, rears her children virtuously-but she is not entitled to a vote. Surely there is some thing wrong here, We suggest that it is not the business of women to show why they ought to be ad mitted to the full privileges of citizenship, but for her opponents to show why she should be exclud ed. Whether the unmar. fed women who would be enfranchised are many or few, is nothing to the question. Right should be done, if only a score should come forward to exert their rights." "All the world and the rest of mankind" appear to be suffering from hard times. Nearly all the nations of Europe tell the same story of depressed business that is heard in every part of this country. The whole civilized world seems to have had a period of extrava gance in living, over-production in manutacture; and speculation in merchandise and real estate, and at last the- panic came and all tnations are suffering. Local, po- A itt.m:aic d other troubles aggravate the diattes in many places. A& tirtu of Austraian merciutileagents s has just issued a Circular giving an Saccount of the state of affairs there. a It says: "The evil consequences t of the late political crisis are now s being felt throughout the whole of a Victoria. The confidence of capi , talists and others interested in the a permanent welfare of the colony - has been rudely shaken, and as a , necessary consequence money that would, under different circumstan i ces, have been expended here, is - being sent away to other colonies. Therefore it is no wonder we have to report a great falling off in the demand for all descriptions of building materials, and we lear if will take some time before the building trade regains the position of one of the leading industries of the colony. A sensible writer in the July number of Scribner's Monthly says some sensible things regarding the mania for making big papers that affects certain journalists. Re r says. "No one can read one of our great dailies through and digest its contents, and have time or strength left for other duties. He can only pass his eyes ovei and very indistinctly gather and remem ber the leadinlg matters of news. It is a huge jumble, in the main, of unimportant facts-facts that have no relation to his life. Now, any newspaper man knows that tie essential matters in his colums can be crowded into one-tenth of the space that they occupy, and that bIe fills his colums with material that it is a waste of any man's time to read. He must compete with his neighbor, therefore he must give acres of space to trash. Few can, read it, and nobody would miss it, or be the poorer or worse for los ing it. One page of a small paper is enough to furnish a record of any week's news-of every thi:g that is desirable to see or remenm ber." 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