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VOL, 1, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA TERRITORYJ SATURDAY, APRIL 10, I886. NO.48
MIDNIGHT WALK,
Written for the Ti.ats.
My friend Dr. Horatio Woodwa
and myself were enjoying ourselv
to an extent alost unlimited, in t
very heart of the Rocky Mfountai
J last summer. Both of us were foi
of Diana's sylvan sport as well as a
ject devotees to the creed and creel
good old Isaac Walton. The doct
considered himself a first rate natu
alist, while I was equally proud
my botanical abilities. I was at th:
time particularly in search of all kint
medicinal plants, and kept my weath,
eye open for plants not known to tl
medical world, but which had bee
found of value by the Indians, mines
and travellers. Up to the time m
story commences I had had great sut
cess and had discovered quite a nunr
ber of specimens entirely new t
science. Among the many medics
herbs I had found was one of peculia
interest, inasmuch that the plant a
a whole had a peculiar and odd ap
pearance and possessed marvelou
curative properities. Its leave
were thick, green and pointed at boti
ends. They were sparingly covere,
upon the upper surface with rathe:
coarse hairs, and at the base of eacl
hair was a gland from which a little
resin dot exuded. These leaves upor
being chewed gave at first a spicy
aromatic flavor, but afterwards prov
ed to be acrid and bitter, parching the
mouth and throat unmercifully. The
plant evidently conlaine.d itrýng alka
loid, :- ; *T .I- , . : -.,: .
L' l~~':-: : :- :.:on..·:
seemed to ;top tih i,,, ,.;:.., .
  most immediately. At first. the effeci
they produced was a smarting,burning
sensation but soon followed by a cool
and soothing feeling in the injured
parts. Well, one day we struck camp,
packing everything on our pack ani
mals, and securing all by a carefully
adjusted diamond-hitch, we journeyed
still further into the silent solitudes
of those mighty mountains. We
travelled all day, toiling wearily over
windfalls and rough masses of rock,
ever and anon fording this mountain
torrrent or that, until at last night
overtook us at the base of a towering
precipice. The wind sighed sadly in
the tree tops overhead, the night
birds came forth, adding their dismal
notes to the desert air, and the little
stream at our feet foamed, splashed
and eddied in impish fantasy, ever
keeping up its wierd murmer, while
the moon half hid by the riftod clouds
looked down upon the scene with a
wistful, pitying eye. Our pitch pine
camp fire brightly blazed, casting a
lurid glow upon the surrounding veg
etation. My companion was inclined
to be merry as he smoked his pipe by
the warm rays of the fire, but I was
silent. An inexpressable solemnity
crept into my heart. I felt as if some
thing was happening or about to hap
pen. At last Woodward turned in
and was soon in the land of dreams.
Still I sat by the fire, deeply ponder
ing. Presently I arose and wandered
away, thinking of many things con
nected with my past. Here was I, in
the bosom of the wilderness, where
naught but nature reigned supreme,
thinking ofithe many dear ones left
behind in the heart of civilization.
What were they doing now? Did
they ever think of me? Did thoe
miss me? Just at that moment I en
tered a grove of stately pines (Pinus
ponderosa); their thick trunks stand
ing rigid and erect like the grim sen
tinels we read of in stories of the days
of chivalry. Or like monster pillars
supporting the dome of some vast
temple, and truly they might be so
considered, for on that particular
night they reared their lofty columns
heavenward. The dime they support
ed was the half-frowning firmament
above me, studded with prec
ious stones, some green, some purple,
some red; some blue and some golden,
all emitting starlike brilliancies and
all twinikling down and saying, "How
mrn!tai int.. far t~eicu t
wvle was that !-,f natare. , didiealn
o the Sublime Oanipotance of the
Supreme Being.
Ah! What was that I saw? No
hing. 'Twas only a night bird dis
urbed and afrighted by my obtrusive
less. Just as I had so concluded
here rang out on the midnight air
n sorrowful note the following
byme-- -
a
rarewell, farewell, my friend farewell b
Our time of parting now is nigh.
!ith sad'ning hart my breast doth swell,
Tears of sorrow bedim mine eye,
'ogether we labored side by side al
In the days that are past and gone, ti
Jttle thought we how months did glide a
Nor how soon this parting must come.
Happy hours together we spent
In those hurrying days of yore,
Our paths are now divergent bent,
rd Mavhap my friend we'll meet no more.
es Life is naught but a fitful dream
se That soon shall be past forever,
ns God grant we meet beyond Deaths' stream t]
id Eternally happy together.
b- I stood still, transfixed as it were. is
of The voice of the singer was well p
,r known to me. It was the voice of a b
r- beloved friend and co-worker in the w
:f cause of science whom I had left a tl
It few weeks before alive and well in his oi
is eastern home. Atlht I saw the vocal- it
tr er and advanced, calling him by name. o1
e As I went forward he silently receded; w
n when he passed between a tree and p
Sime I could see the tree through his as
y body. Again I cried out, calling upon in
my sriend to speak if he loved me- m
The only answer was given in sorrow
o ful chant.- la
.1 "Farewell, farewell, my friend fare- N
r well" and as the words were given pc
s back with all the receding modulation pc
of a mountain echo, the phantom dis- CE
s appeared in the darkness. I returned ev
s to camp with those words ringing in an
I my ears. The fire was low, my friend th;
I was snoring, and the moon hid behind TI
a peak, so I turned in. My sleep was an
I feverish. In it I saw spirits, ghosts prA
and hob-goblins without end. All, to
all repeated the words I had heard in any
the forest. ha
Shortly after the occurance we re- cot
turned to the haunts of man, I found the
awaiting me from the east a letter fig]
edged with black. It contained the the
news~ that my friend whose voice I ma
;! hL·ird and whose form I had seen con
:r! ti . in ,utain forest had died. Just Ea
a fr i th died he became delerious, po`
;:g wiidly for me. His last words reu
S-- ~Th;
"God grant we meet beyond Death's by
stream ly i
Eternally happy together." refs
I tell you my dear reader that those tha
things had a lasting effect upon me. con
Since that time I have thought of the its e
vanity of life. Turn where you will, it P
everything is vanitn s. ,Life is very obj
short. Few realize how short, yet con
they strive and toil for fame and for- the
tune, things that in themselves the
are of worth, but worthless when ifo:
striven for to the neglect of the soul, tor.
which surely is immortal. Ter
GILBERT DEBOYCE. hun
(iILBEnT DEBOYCE.
Our Wards
Outside of Alaska, we have 260,000
Indians, and every buck, squaw and
papoose, be he, she or it, full-blood or
half-breed, possesses in the average
500 acres; and yet the government
feeds the last one of them-a few in
the Indian territory except-at a large
expense. Last year it cost $6,500,000
to feed and blanket the noble red
man. Three years ago we expended
upon these people nearly double that
sum. But as it is impossible to say
how much clung to the fingers of the
Indian agents, a per capita calcula
tion would only be approximate.
Since 1815 we have expended $225,
000,000 in taking care of the Indians,
and probably as much more in various
efforts to subdue or exterminate the
pesky creatures.
Beef vs. Hog.
An alleged packer of forty years'
experience, says: "The quantity of
grain that will make a pound of beef,
will make more than a pound of
pork, and a pound of pork is general
ly worth more than a pound of beef."
The statement is not correct in either
particular. The ox does not perfect
ly digest ear- corn, as usually fed.
Hogs do the gleaning, and save all.
Again, the price of fully fat beef .on
the hoof, and hogs on foot, is general
ly inm favor of beef. And as the hog
turns out more meat per live weight
than beef, the price of pork is re
duced still further.-Chicago Tribune.
Nevada's Salt Hills.
In Lincoln county, on the Rio Vir- 1
?in is one of the most remarkable de
posits of rock salt on the continent.
Et is found in hills 500 feet above the
evel of the valley, chemically pure. 1
Blocks of it over a foot square are so
"ruH sparent that one may read a pa- I
,cr thr. .igh them. So solid is this F
:ilt that it must he blasted out the E
ame as if it were rock. -
Indian Boy Printers.
Two Indian boys at St. Ignatius s
•ission, fifteen or sixteen years of t
ge, are becoming quite practical t
rinters, and are able to do pamphlet l
rinting as well as more difficult f
rork They have a job printing office
t the mission. The boys are full ti
ooded Indians.
Sheep.
The Argentine Repulblic b4 more b
xeep tha any .ther na.io t gh h
eir wool prod.cts is dtbo valuable
3 that of Anstralia, owing topr
uality and lightness octlip. A
TILE MONTANA CENTRAL.
Has Montana the Right to a Comrn
ire. peting Line of Railroad fo the
East?
The attitude assumed by the Nor
im thern Pacific railroad company, to
ward the Montana Central enterprise,
re. is calling forth the indignation of the
eli people, and if that corporation is to
a be moved by public sentiment, they
he will let go, and forthwith call off
a those who are acting in the capacity
is of mouth-pieces for them. "Helena"
1- in a number of letters to the Heraid,
ie. of which the following is one, voices,
d; we believe, the sentiment of the peo
id ple of Northern Montana, the same
is as it would anyone, either directly or
n indirectly interested in its develop
e. ment. Following is the letter:
V- The evidence continues to accumu
late, that the "powerful ally" off the
e- Northern Pacific, acting with that
a powerful corporation, proposes, if
n possible, to choke off the Montana
;- Central, and if necessary to parallel
d every line it proposes to construct,
n and make a fight for the right of way
d through the Prickly Pear Canyon.
d This magnanimous (?) conduct toward
,s an independent organization which
,s propose to do all that lies in its power
1, to build up this section of the country,
Q and Helena in particular, seems to
have secured official sanction and re
congnition. Interviews published in
I the St. Paul papers indicate that a
r fight is to be made upon Mr. Hill, of
the Manitoba, to prevent the consum
mation of his project to give us a
competing line of railroad to the
East. Upon what basis is the pro
posed fight to be made? But one
reason has as yet been given, viz:
That he is invading territory claimed
by the Northern Pacific as exclusive
ly its own. In one of the interviews
referred to the "powerful ally" admits
that the Northern Pacific cannot
conduct these operations under
its present charter, and alleges that
it proposes to accomplish its ultimate
object by the organization of other
companies with its "powerful ally" at
the head, to operate in the interest of
the N. P. When and where has the
Montana Central invaded the terri
tory of the Northern Pacific? Is this t
Territory, containing more than one
hundred and forty-six thousand '
square miles, to be given over entire
ly to one corporation? Away with t
such nonsense. Even official (?) C
interference will fail to subject us to C
the tyranny involved in the proposi- t
tion that the Montana Central, or any
other independent company propos
ing to construct railroads, are to be
fought because they are invading the
territory of the Northern Pacific. If a
any such territory exists let us have b
a proclamation issued, that it be b
designated by boundary fences, to b
the erection of which all good people "
should be invited, a
We have heard enough of the as- I
sumption that the territory of the e'
Northern Pacific is being invaded.
The people are not prepared to re- a
ceive any such doctrine and will have sI
none of it. b'
As a orse Country. g,,
As a Horse Country. ,,
The man who has a ranch, range I
and a few good mares in this country
is in a fair way to be wealthy. It is
now realized throughout the entire
country that the high grazing regions I
of the west are capable of producing q
better bone and muscle than any other s
country, and all Montana horsemen t,
have to do to create a strong standing b
demand for their horses is to be zeal- I
ous in the propagation of good stock. si
We are so far from markets capable o
of relieving us of large numbers of k
horses that it will not pay-not so well sI
at least- to raise anything but valu- k
able animals, as it costs about as much h
to market a $40 pony as it does a so
$1,000 thoroughbred.
It seems that there ought even now
to be a large profit in transferring
horses from this country to places tl
where the prices are much higher. ai
It is a fact that a horse that could fi
be bought for $40 to $50 here isworth v(
$75 to $100 in Texas and other coun- fr
tries, and there is a prospect that ev- m
ery man who has a good horse for er
sale can dispose of him easily and at to
handsome figures to drivers and ship- of
pers.
There is every prospect, also, that
so far as the horse trade is concerned,
the movement of stock from the south Ui
to the north will be reversed, and that $3
large numbers of Montana horses will ti(
find their way to southern markets. an
Just as Montana grass and air- mu- ti
Lures beeves better and makes them pe
more valuable than those marketed
from other ranges, just as these same
feed and climatic conditions impart
better msclese, sinews and bones int
horses and make. thi the. es. horse .e
ountry on earth., ste
Montanais thsnmoder Arabia, and res
itute wi speak f the cal
horses of ancient Arabia in compari
son with those of this country.
m- The horseman who realizes that this
is the best country for his business in
America, who stays with his business
or- and uses good judgment in the selec
to- tion of good animals to breed from,
e, and displays business ability in the
he management of his affairs, will be the
to rich man of the future.-Stockgrow
ey ers' Journal.
ity Montana's Exhibit.
a" A correspondent writing from New
id, Orleans to th! S:lt Lake Tribune, has
es, the following to say of our exhibit at
so- the exposition:
ne The Montana exhibit lacks to some
or extent the feature of variety possess
p ed by other displays, but to the intel
ligent observer, to the man after facts
u- and figures, it represents the grandest
as mining country in the world. The
at Anaconda, Parrot, Moulton, Hleca,
if Granite-Mountain and Drum Lum
ia mon are mines which are not duplicat
el ed elsewhere. They and the other
:t, great dividend payers of Montana are
ly represented here by the largest and
a. richest specimens in the Government
*d quilding, and are a feast to the eye of
h capital. A score of large and hand
sr somely framed photographic views of
, mills and smelters in Butte and vici
o nity, confirm and supplement the
. statements of the Commissioner in
n charge in reference to the vast enter
a prises of the Territory, its great re
f sources and business activity. For
persons not interested in mining,
a abundant and accurate information is
e supplied orally concerning the agri
cultural results and possibilities of
a Montana, its coal and timber, its pub
lic institutions and the million and a
1 half of cattle that roam and fatten on
its broad area.
A Murder That Did Not "Out." b
The skeleton of a man was found t
in the rocks on the reservation, near P
Boise, Idaho, by men hauling rock a
therefrom. The verdict of the coro- tl
ner's jury was that the bones were f
those of a white man, that he was tl
thirty years old, five feet, seven or ti
eight inches high, and that he had h
been dead ten or twelve years, and W
that he came to his death by causes it
unknown to the jury. In the hole T
where the bones were taken out were so
found a piece of flannel, a piece of cot
ton cloth, thought to be part of a part h:
of a pair of overhauls, and two rifle w
or musket balls. No clue to his iden ax
tity or how he came to his death could nE
be determined.
- -- Fno
Defense of Employers.
A movement is on foot in Chicago
af nd letters are being sent out quietly
'e to arrange for a national meeting of
e business men and manufacturers, to
o be held this month, to take action to
e wards devising some means of defenes
against the power of organized labor.
There is nothing definite yet arrang
e ed about the porposed meeting, but
the opinion of business men is being
asked in confidential circulars which
e speak of "outrageous demands" now
being made by workingmen, and sug
gests action to meet these demands
and put employers in a position to
a withstand them.
Knights of Labor in St. Paul.
SSt. Paul Globe: The work of the
s Knights of Labor is comparatively
( quiet and their influence essentially
r secret. A leading St. Paul hatter
i tells me that he cannot sell a Stetson
hat because of the boycott upon them.
- He displayed, also, a letter from Stet
son, in which the latter complained
of the boycott, and attributed a direct
loss of $100,000 in trade to it. This
same hatter says that if the labor men
knew that he sold a Stetson hat from
his store he would come under the
same boycott.
Another Railroad Wanted.
Coeur d'Alene wants a railroad from
the Northern Pacific at Rathdrum
and engineers are said to be in the
field now making a preliminary sur
vey for a railroad up the South Fork
from the Mission landing to the Tiger
mine. iere there is claimed to be
enough ore already for shipment from
two mines to pay considerable part
of the cost of building such a road.
Expensive Wards.
Every American Indian dsts the
United States Government nearly
$3000 a year. This is on the .presamp
tion that there are 260,00 Jidinean
and that t1A appropaiao..ouange '
thje neighborhod of $7,000,000. &~!--i
pensive wards.
The Rabbit Pest.
The rabbit pest in Nevada which
bas assumed ch 'prortions as to I
e daner t :se tcakf a s o that '
reslt otd oing the wd
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HANNAH..
Have you heard of Hannah, she whcr
mastered the piano, and was thoroughly
conversant with the thingness of the
here
She could dance the polka mazes and'
discourse in learned phrases in a most
peculiar language that was starting to
my ear;
And she had a great devotion to the fam
ed aesthetic notion, wearing lilies on:
her garments, and she moved with.
languid grace,
And when she and I were walking, why,
the way she kept on talking, made me.
feel so densely common that a blush!
came to my face;
She had gained her wondrous knowledge
at a famous eastern college, and she
was a head and shoulders up above the
common herd; -
And the way we talked of weather when
,plain people came together seemed to
her, at least she said so, most ungrate-
ful and absurd.
In the ball room she was queenly and"
she moved along serenely, with a
haughty way of snubbing people who.
were not so learned.
Though I tried her heart to soften yet`
she snubbed me hard and often and a
raging thirst for vengeance in, my:
manly bosom burned.
Years passed on-at last I found her.
with a dozen people 'round her, but
their looks were not admiring and no
praises from them fell,
4nd I was interested, linformation I
requested, when they told me she was
waiter in a second-class hotel.
Thus was my revenge complete.-St..
Louis Whip.
Tenderfeet as Cowboys.
It were well for the foreman of' a
arge outfit at present if he should
lot be known. On his arrival in town
toe is besieged on all sides by men and
joys of various ages desirous of ob- -
aining work at the earliest date. So
>opular does this method of gaining
living seem to be, that each year
he ranks of the cow boys are rein
orced by a number of recruits from
he east, whose one idea and ambit
ion is to get a position an a cattle,
orse or sheep ranch. Anything that ,
rill give them a chance of experienc
ig the wild, free life of the prairie.
'he boy from the east usually has a
)mewhat difficult time in obtaining
uployment, unless he chances to
ave friends who are well acquainted
ith the various ranches, and who
re themselves old hands at the busi-.
ass.
iden are themselves old hands at the busi- .
could ness.
In the first case his general ap
pearance will in ninety-nine cases out
of a hundred proclaim the fact that
icago he is a tenderfoot, as such he is in all
tietly cases not a desirable acquisition, men
ºg of of experience being what are particu
s, to larly needed. The fact that living is
n to- so cheap in the far east," and also the
Eenes facility afforded for getting there in
abor. the fall of the year when beef ship
ang- ping is going on, has enabled a num
but ber of boys who intend to lay off for
ieing the winter, to spend part of their
'hich time in the east. On their arrival
now there they are naturally regarded as
sug- curiosities, and they are soon the cen
ands ter of attraction of an admiring crowd
a to anxious to hear the actual truth re
garding the free life in the west and
the increased opportunities for mak
ing money. In such a situation as
the this can the object of attraction be
vely blamed for exaggeration? Somewhat
ially bewildered, perhaps, by theintricacies
otter of a large city, and prompted by the
tson very apparent ignorance of his listen
lem. ers regarding anything western, he of
itet- course becomes anxious to gratify their
ined desire, and does so, as a rule, to the
rect fullest extent. In this way many a
This boy, together with the able assistance
men of the dime novel, is deluded into
rom coming west, only to find that al
the though wages are high and the life
wild and free to a certain extent, yet
there is nothing to compensate for
the entire lack of the luxuries of a
rom home life. He always has the rough
eum eat work, that which an experienced
the man is not expected l.,. a after
ur- the novelty has worn 4 th ambition
ork for cow boy life becomes- dimmed.
ger However, after he has becomine a
be quaiuted with his suaoundings and
am learned the ways of the life, in many
art eases, there is something attractive
L about it that causes iim to stiek to it,
and to return to the '3again would.
be almost obnojiogs to him.-Yelow-
the stone Journal,
p- Ho .H To Kia f y &e B tush e
as T i'rais a very simple way tocheck
' in thegrowth of sagew bruof h d also of
h- cactu, on the l*ains iJn ts reiop of
country, which is no rb o
to all, but which i z r h
ich ean-blet in oyw tie laze , ia
tat so s it wll kill ,the a _s
': wlr