Bloomington Telephone, Volume 13, Number 33, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 March 1889 — Page 2

TEMPTATION.

Snr OKOBGE CBOtTCH. Ym might as well say to tbe bee, As he lights on the lip of a flowet, Its beauty you're welcome to sea. But he honey must stay and gat sour." Do yon think he wonld list to yon long, With the treasure just un6r Ms eyes? Ifo. He'd find the temptation to) strong, And make a bold dash for the prize. Cr, tmpposing a bird on a tree, ' Where cherries are rosy and sweet, Arsd yon told him to let them all be, For you thought them too pretty to eat, Do yon think your command he'd obey, And with feasting his eyes be content? No. "To let Fuch fruit spoil," he would gay, "Was never Dame Nature's intent." So do not be cruel and eold, And ask me to promise in vain ; For when pretty lips open to scold They but tempt one to trespass again.

A LAWYER'S EXPERIENCE. BY AN ENGLISH KAKKISTEg. I had been called to the Bar not quite a year, and was seated "with my friend Armitage in our chambers in the Temple. Frank had been "called" on the same day as myself, and we had agreed to snake our professional start together. To that end we had become joint possessors of a set of chambers at No. 99, Fig-tree Court, and of a boy named Blobbs, who was known as our "clerk," though his tender years and seedy garments made the dignified appellation sound almost ironical. At the outset of our career we had agreed that everything of an unprofessional character in our belongings should be rigidly tabooed. In particular, we had decided that our breakfast should always be over, and its remains cleared away before 9 a. m., and that smoking should not on any account be permitted in the room destined for the reception of clients. We were (or I should rather say we had been) always to be found by half -past nine, each seated in the rigidest of arm-chairs, perusing ponderous law-books, and making copious notes with the assistance of a gigantic pewter

inkstand, polished to a positively dazzling brightness. . But this halcyon state of affairs was too good to last. Not having been troubled with that rush of clients which we had originally expected, we had become less particular in our habits. The law-books were left unopened, the hour of breakfast had become gradually later and later, and short pipes and tweed jackets had become the order of the day until luncheon, and sometimes even till dinner-time. In order, however, to keep up the pleasant fiction that we still expected to hve clients some day, we had made a bet. Each of us had backed himself for five pounds to get the first brief, with the proviso that (if ever the bet should te decided) the winner was to stand a dinner to the loser. Imagine our emotion, therefore, when, one day, soon after 10 a..m., a heavy step was heard to ascend the staircase, and pause at our door; and when Blobbs, our juvenile clerk, rushed in, and, in a hoarse whisper, said, frantic with excitement, A gentleman for Mister Browne! And he've got a bundle o' paper.

Xnrost sav tnat Annitatre s benavior

did him credit. In the most magnaniinou8W&y, he exclaimed, "Good for you, old man! Go in and win. Ill hook it into the next room, and leave the coast dear for youT And he bolted accordingly into his bedroom. I had only just time to pitch my cigar in the fire, open one of the big law-books (upside-down, as I afterwards discovered), and to compose my features into the most professional expression compatible with a flannel jacket and carpet slippers, when the visitor entered. He was a puffy little man, middle-aged, and of a goxi-natnred, unintellectual cast of countenance. He wore a shabby white hat and greasy black gloves, and his trousers were shorter and his umbrella fatter than is gene:Ally considered desirable; but there w& &n air of smug respectability about him, sand the bundle of papers which he carried had an eminently business-like appearance. He began: "I must apologize for disturbing you at this hearly hour, Mr. Browne" (he was evidently not a high-class practitioner) ; "but I have come to beg your assistance ki a very urgent case." I tried to look as if very urgent cases were matters of the most ordinary occurravje in my professional experience. Ah I Baid, "quite so. Take a seat, Mr Ward, sir; Gibbons & Ward, of High street, Bloomsbory. You have heard the name, I daresay. Gibbons is dead been dead some years; but we keep up (he old name, you know." I didn't know in the least, but it would never do to say so. "Oh, yes; Gibbons & Ward, a most eminent firm! I am delighted to have the pleasure of making you acquaintance, Mr. Ward." "You are very kind, sir. Well, as I was saying, or rather, as I was about to say, I have become connected with a case, a very peculiar case, indeed, a most peculiar case; and hearing of you from my old friend Mr. Wiggins, I thought that, though I'm a stranger to you myself, I might venture to call and ask you to assist me in it." "Dear me," I thought, "whoever would have thought of old Wiggins" (my hairdresser) "sending me a client!" And on the principle that one good turn deserves another, I mentally resolved to go and have my haircut the very next day. I replied: "I shall be, very happy, Mr. Ward. Have you the particulars in writting? No, sir; but 111 tell you in half-a-dozen words the state of the case. The party I represent is a Mrs. ledgers; andycn11 agree with me that she has been very badly used. She was the daughter of an old f el ow named Glubb, in the oil and color trade, a man reputed to be worth a mint of money. When she married Podgers, who was a pork-butcher in a small way of business, Podgers naturally wanted to know what the" old man would do for them. A little ready money would le very acceptable; and as Susan (that's Mrs. Podgers) was the only daughter, and would naturally come in for all the old man's mobsy at his death, they didn't see why he shouldn't give 'em a little at once, oa account like. But old Glubb

wasn't to be had in that way. 'No he says; 'if you marry Susan, when I die, you'll hav all I've got, which may be ten thousand or it may be twentv; but I'm not going to undress before I go to bod, as the saying is!' So upon that, and quite relying on it that the old chap would keep his word, Podgers goes and marries. They all knew the old man couldn't last very long, and on the strength of his expectations, Podgers puts in a new shop-window, and starts a pony-trap. Trade was bad, and

Podgers found himself outrunning tbe constable a bit ; but he didn't mind, feeling sure it would be all right when the old man went off the hooks." I begaa to see my way. Podgers had married on the strength of the old gtantleman's promise, and the old gentleman had subsequently changed his mind. Here was au opportunity of impressing Mr. Ward. "Excuse my interrupting you one moment, Mr. Ward." I rang the bell. Blobbs entered. " Blobbs, give me 'Chitty on Contracts" Blobbs handed me the book in question, which, in point of fact, was on the mantelpiece immediately behind me. I referred to the index, murmuring audibly, " Consideration good valuable marriage page 18. 99 Then turning to the passage, I silently pursued it with much attention. "Pray proceed Mr. Ward." He resumed apologetically, "I'm giving you a deal of trouble, Mr. Browne." "Not at all, Mr. Ward, I assure you. I always like to make sure, from the outset, as to the broad principles applicable.' "Quite so, sir; but I am afraid there is a little misunderstanding. n "I think not. I have followed you with great attention. A marries B's daughter C, on the faith of an undertaking by B that he will, on his death, leave C the whole of his property; B (that's Glubb, you know) dies, and he doesn't leave the property to C (that's Mrs. Podgers) but to somebody else. Isn't that your case?"

"Just exactly so, sir. If you d been one of the family yourself you couldn't

have got it more pat. They all went on as comfortable as possible till one gentleman dined with the Podgerses, and he found a caterpillar in' the vegetables. He would have it they did it on purpose. He went home at once, tore up his will, and made ar lather, leaving every penny of his money to the Asylum for Incurable Clearstarchers. The excitement brought on an apoplectic fit, and he lied the very same night. Personalty sworn under 25,000; and Podgers all but in the Gazette." "Ah, just as I thought." I tried to look as if I had anticipated every detiiil of the case, even to the caterpillar. "Well, now the question is, what evidence have we, first of a distinct agreement on the part of B (otherwise Glubb) to leave all his property to his

daughter ; and secondly, that A (otherwise Podgers) mamed on the faith of that promise. Mere assertion won't do, you know ; we must have evidence." "Well, as to evidence, Pm afraid there isn't much. Mr. Cocksure has advised upon the case, and he says that we haven't any evidence; in fact,

that we haven t a leg to stand upon. It was flattering and at the same time a little alarming, to be consulted in a case in which Mr. Cocksure had already expressed an adverse opinion. I had better be cautious. " "You will have uphill work before you, Pm afraid ; and I should recommend you, Mr. Ward, to see your way very clear as to your costs out of pocket. The Incurable Clearstarclters will fight hard, you may depend on it." "Oh dear yes, sir; no doubt they would. But we've quite made up our minds not, to go to law about the matter. It would only be throwing, good money after bad; leastways, it would if there was any to throw; but there isn't. Podgers ran away to America last Monday ; and his poor wife and live young children are this moment living in a two-pair back in Camden Town, sustaining a miserable existence on the scanty remains of tbe stock-in-trade." A horrible misgiving crossed my mind, and I shut up Chitty. "I thought I mean to say I supposed I really don't quite see, then, in what way I can be of service in the case, Mr. Ward "Well, fyou see, sir, Mr. Wiggins told me you was an uncommon kindhearted gentleman, so I made bold to call and &sk if you wonlda't put down your name for a trifle for the widow and orphans. Not that Mrs. P. is precisely a widow, nor yet the children exactly orphans; but rather worse if anything, in my opinion, and another expected almost immediately sir!" I was fairly caught. Not for worlds would I have let Mr. Ward know tbat I had bee.i laboring under a misapprehension, and had been mentally welcoming him as my first chcut. On the other hand, after the extreme interest I had exhibited in the case, I could not do less than give him a handsome donation. Smiling amiably, but inwardly breathing the most awful imprecations against Wiggins (and very nearly vowiag, on the spur of the moment, never to have my hair cut again as long as I lived), I expressed my extreme, gratification at having the opportunity of contributing a sovereign to the necessities of tbe Podgors family. Mr. Ward beamed with delight, and pressed on my acceptance his caxd, assuring me that, if I should at any time require anything in his line, it would be his

most earnest endeavor these words, bv I the way, he apparently sjelt with an j

'h to give me satisfaction. He insisted : on shaking hands at parting, and ap- i peared to find considerable difficulty in j tearing Limself away. At last however, j he departed, leaviog mo still holding! his card, whereon I read : I Gntnotfs A Ward, i Greengrocer K1") Hljrh Streot, Bloomsbory. . Evening parties attendod. My one absorbing thoi.ght, as soon as I could think a all, wes how on earth to conceal the facts from Armitage what fiction to i nvent which should save j my dignity from the exposure of the j

horrible truth. What dreadful falsehood I might ultimately have given birth to, I cannot say ; for I was saved from the ordeal by hearing a burst, or rather a succession of bursts of frantic

daughter from .the room to which Armitage had retired. I pushed the door, which yielded to my touch. My worst fears were realized! He knew all ! He Avas lying upon the bed, his :feet considerably above his head, cramming a pocket-handkerchief into his mouth, and every now and then breaking out afresh into a peal of maniac daughter. "Well, Browne, old boy, I hop you've given tbo new client a good sound legal opinion. Oh, dear, my poor sides 'Where shall we have the dinner, eh, old man ?" "Come, Prank," I said, addressing him more in sorrow than in anger, "don't add insult to injury. You've had the door ajar, you scoundrel ; so I needn't tell you any particulars. But, at any rate, promise me to keep tbe secret. " "That 111 be hanged if I do, old boy; the joke i& a great deal too good to keep to myself. How about Chitty on Contracts? Oh, you old impostor! I'll be hanged if don't tell the story to every fellow I meet." So, for fear that the facts should be misrepresented, I determined to tell it myself. Flintlock tinns Who Use Them Now! It is difficult to believe, says the St. James' Gazette, that in these days of repeating and magazine rifles, when a flintlock gun or pistol commands a fair price as a curiosity, there should bo actually existing in England a considerable industry in the manufacture o.t gun flints ; and when Ave add to this a largish business in strike-a-ligkts or tinder-box flints, the fact is still more remarkable. The chief center, if not the only remaining center of this man-

rufacture, is the picturesque little town

of Bradon, in Suffolk, which has been engaged in this line of business from immemorial time. Not only did the chief supply of gun flints and tinder-box flints come from this spot during the long period when Englishmen lighted their candles and fought their battles

with flint and steel, but long, very long before before guns and candles and iron, and even bronze, were known to the inhabitants of these islands, Bradon was celebrated for its superior quality of flint, as it is to-day, and there is abundant evidence to show that from the prehistoric period down to the pres- : ent day there has hardly been a break in the gathering and preparing flint for the wants of man at this spot. It will be, no doubt, asked who uses gu;a flints now,? The answer is, the natives of Africa, to whom we have philanthrope ically traded our obsolete flintlock mus- : kets and rifles, to enable them to kill each other and occasionally ourselves more commodiously. The fine flints quarried and shaped at Brandon are packed in kegs and exported to the various ports on the east and west coasts of Africa, whence they find their way

into the in tenor for barter with the natives,

Queer Cure for Pneumonia. Attention has lately been directed to the benefit derivable, in cases of pneumonia, where there is great embarrassment of breathing from accumulated secretion in the bronchial tubes,fby inverting the patient and having him cough violently while in such position. It is easily accomplished by a strong assistant standing on the patient's bed, seizing the sick man's ankles, turning him face downward and then lifting his feet four or five feet above the level of tbe mattress. If the patient, with his face over the edges of the bed and his legs thus held sloft, will cough vigorously two or thru times he will get rid of much expectoration that exhaustive efforts at coughing failed to dislodge when ";t thus aided. Life has been saved uy repeated performances of this maneuver in pneumonia accompanied with great cyanosis, due to inundation of the bronchial tubes with mucous secretion. It, of course, will have no effect on" the exudus in the vesicles. In a similar way gravity is of value in emptying the lungs of mucus during etherization. N. Y, Tribune.

MONTANA'S ABUNDANCE. A MAGNIFICENT CLIMATE AND A SOJLL OF UNSURPASSED INUTILITY.

A Telegraph of the Eighteenth Century. A work was published in Frankfort-on-the-Main , 1774, which treated of curious and wonderful things, majiy of which were purely fabulous, and some, facts. Among the latter was described a telegraph apparatus. This consisted of two round boxes, "each of which is inscribed with the alphabet, and made with such art that when the indicator on one points to A or B, the indicator on the other box, which is connected with the first, but situated at another place, some distance from the first, immediately designates the same, latter, so that one can talk to anybody at a distance without speaking or writing. n Unfortunately the name of the inventor is not given, nor the mechanism of this apparatus explained. It was apparently looked upon only as a curiosity and put to no practical use, since it has been completely forgotten. DemoresL Katural and Artificial Honey. Worthington G. Smith, the eminent microscopist, finds that genuine honey can be readily distinguished from manufactured honey by the microscope. The former has few or no sugar crystals and abounds with pollen grains, while the imitations have little else than these crystal, with scarcely a trace of these pollen grains. The honeyed taste of the manufactured article, he thinks, may come from honeycomb or beeswax being mashed up with the article used in the manufacture. Each class of plants has its own specific form of pollen grain, and Mr. Smith says that any one conversant with this branch of botany could tell from what part of the world the honey came by studying the pollen grains that it might contain. A Fair Average. Frior.d Allow me to congratulate you. I hear that your daughter ha married a foreign nobleman. Mr. Goldbug Yes; it's pretty tc&gh

on mo, but by a streak of good luck her sister has eloped with a steady streetcar driver, eo the affliction is somewhat mitigated. This is a world of compensation, and I can't expect all my girls to do as well as the one who morrioi the street-car driver. Texaa SiJtvyiQi

Sesom's Graphic ItUr Descriptive oT tho Northwest, Particularly of Montana "Interesting acts Gained by Actual Investigation. Great'Falls, Montana, Feb. 18, 1889. A man need not bo very old to remember when Chicago was hi the far Wesr, and a journey boyond the Mississippi was like go ing into a far country- Now a dozen railroads runCto the Rocky Mountains, and tho Pacific coast is separated from K'ew York as Monday is from Saturday. Lewis and Clarke, whose wonderful trip in the early years of tha century gave the world lirst knowledge of this vast region, wero over a year iu reaching this locality, rowing, polinc;. and pushing: their canoes for nearly 3,000 miles against the swift current of the Missouri. Now it tukes a day or two in a Manitoba palace car or a freo-coloniet sleeper to reach here, and no danger or privation and three pood meals a day. Most people have been so accustomed to loolt.upon this part of the continent as so Sr north, so cold, so snowy, so far away ula lot ofother so-so's that it would probably ne ver bo a flt abode for mankind; but the facts show to tho contrary. Why. hundreds of miles north of hero there is a country with winters no more severe than those of tho north New England States, and summers more suitable to the gro?ingof grains. "We are separated lrom ihn.t region by tho fortyninth parallel, an imaginary political boundary which n'atnie will not take into account when adjusting affairs in the future. The interminglinjpof people of tho same blood, speech, religion, ideas, and ambitions will obliterate it. Statesmen have foretold it and business interests will .hasten it. Those who think Dakota and Montana are sections of the arctic region slipped down out of place should look to the east Tno south line of Dakota is the foity-third parallel of north latitude. Follow this linJfcacross the Atluntic and much of Europe will be four.d lying north of it. Ali of Britain and Norway and Sweden lie a full degree above the northorn boundary of our two great Territories. Edinburgh, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, and Christiana, in the midst of a swarming po pulation, are on the

parallel of Sitka, Alaska. And Sitka is as

arfroni Groat Palls as the Gulf of Mexico. nsdand"and the north of Europe are made

labitabie by the influence of the Gulf

Stream. The Kuro-Siwo the Black Ocean river of the Asiatic "coast or the Japan Current, gives to this northwestern region the same mildness of climate that the Gulf Stream does to Northern Europe, and why should not 'this country, like that, be flllod wit.ii lif nrd indnfttrv? Wnter hntri nff

the coast of Southern Asia sweops 'across

tho Paoinc Ocean andtempers the climate of our western coast nearly up to the Arctic Circle. This river of warmth gives to British Columbia, Washington, and Ore

gon winters so mua mat ice is a

scarce arucle. oven m JMt&a, wn:ie rosrs bloom in the gardens along the coast at Christmas time. Imparting its heat to the air. which, ascending, passes over t!ie Kooky Mountains much loweihere than in the south, it affects Hhe climate of a re jiDn larger than the original Unitod States. Comparisons of temperature made with the Atlantic coast are most favorable to Montana. The rivers ofcMontana close later and open earlier thai:, those oi States far south of this parallel. Tho Missouri hive inhere is clear of ice a mouth earlier than it'is at Omaha. In the light of existing knowledge who will say that up to the COth parallel in this northwest is not as capable of being settled as Russia ani Norway and Sweden south of that line? Glance at the physical feattires of this portion of the continent and one will see a great plain sloping northward. It is the latitude of the continental water system. 'Nowhere else in the world is there such a succession oflakes and navigablejfvers; no other country possesses suchaa area of agricultural land so Intersected by fresh water. Within a raIius of 1,000 miles is half the fresh water of the globe. At Grand Forks, Dakota, tt& Bed Biver is less than 1,000 feet above tlje sea. Follow the river to its mouih. Lake Winnepeg, and it has descended 300 feet and in a boat one can steam west ward on tho Saskatchewan mere than 1,000 miles, Aid then double thedistanee on other rivers. Follow i:he Bed Biver to its source in Lake Traverse, and in high wawr a boat can reach Big Storm Lake, the source of the Minnesota. andvthenc'3 pass to the Mississippi; th'us joining Hudson's Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, Two hundred miles to the oast is Lake Superior and a water way to the Atlantic. Three hundred miles to the west the Missouri can b'e reached, and the traveler be borne into, the shadow of the Bocky Mountains, from whose western side another mighty river springs the Columbia and leaps to a different sea. After the1 Mississippi and Missouri the Columbia draws the largest basin in the republic. From Lake Superior along the northern boundary of the republic to tho Pacific Oc an the average altitude is less than 2,000 feet above the eea. It is the only line oh which connected agricultural settlement can be made across the continent. It is the ce

real belt, and history shows that mankind9

gathers in larger numbers where fooci is most abundant and cheapest Sonth of hero is the roof of the continent; the jilainti of Colorado are almost as high as the mountains of Montana; Denver, surrounded by productive farms, is a half-mile higher tlan the average of Montana's valley and plarns. Between Omaha and Sacramento there is a continuous elevation of quite 4,000 fet Ascending every 300 feet makes a difference of one degree in temperature. Of the twenty- two .States and Territories west of tho Mississippi, each one is laiger than all of New England, while Dakota and Montana each possess area double tbat of the Now England States. Montana, scarcely known 'by name in England, is larger than all of Great Britain, and is riotfest" per capita of all American commonwealths. Single counties of Montana are larger thar. fair-sized Eastern States. The counties of Qhoteau and Dawson; in North Montana, contain more acres than thtf State of Iowa. ' With the exception of a few mountains and high buttes, the wbole of the two counties is described as a rolling prairie, covered with grafts and Jllied with running streams. The main rivers are the Missouri, Mi:k. Marias, Bun," and Teton, a total of 1,200 mik'S of waterways, not to speak of numerous tributaries, all flowing through valleys of generous width and of great dpth and richness ol! soil. Here the story of the buffalo was closed. Strange that the American people, usually sagacious, so long considered this Wostern land as sterilo and worthless, regardless of the fact that it gave support to countless heads of untamed cattle. It Is no doubt true that animal lift? hai its origin in the warmer olimates, but it is also tme that the colder cUmates have developed t!ae" most sturdy, energetic and brainy races of men as well as the be breeds of domestic animals. Frost aud health linos seem to be synonymous. The races of the frost climes are the most vigorous; it is the lesson of historyrthat Northern nations have always been more successful in Avar and progressive in peace than their Houthern neighbors. The material and moral, conquest of the world belousrs to the races of tho frost lands; they have been the most energetic "explorers and pioneers the most adventurous -1 colonizers, the most active merchants. the benj founders of governments, and the wisest of rulers. Sanitary statistics prove the hoalthfulness of the Northwest lor bonh mankind and animal lifo. Thore is more sunshine here than in tho East and invalids begin to come and find health under the genial skies. Tho conditions, too, are most favorabio to the stock industry. There is an abundance of grass, the most nutritious of fo -d, the elimato is invigorating and henthful, water is abundant, and everything favors the conversion of the Eroduofs of field and pasture into tho finest eef. mutton and pork, into symmetrical and enduring horseUo&h, into wool, and into that most; usolnl of all domestic animals,

the mil3h cow. Sheep do remarkablyj

well, anl tho business has assumed such magnitndo that the fiock-masterahave a Territorial organization and supjwrt a monthly culled tie MoVma Wool Gioutr.

published at Fort Benton, and wool Bhloments annually run into millions of pounds. Sheep pel to and oaw hides have taken the place of buffalo hides and ftys whfch formerly gave prominence to this region. Horses do quite as well us sheep, and every yeaj increases the' demand for Montana hotrses. Tho mounted poMceof the British Dominion draw their supplies from this Territory, and in a recent call for the purchase of cavalry horses for the U nited States army the Quartermaster General expressed c, preference for Montana stock. Tho possibilities oj the country, however, are not confined to stock raising alone; the soil is exceedingly rich, and wherever cultivated yields prolific crops. The first settlers gavo little attention to agriculture, and it has only boon in rectyit years that, they found out what the country is capable of in this direction. Sixty bushels of wheat to the acre is not uncommon, and other gnains in proportion. Potatoes, onions and other root crops and vegetables are easily produced and the yield is o!ten enormous. Tho demand for iarm produce among the mineirsi and stock raisers has so far kept prices at high figures, eggs and butter in particular bringing about double tho prices of the States. The coming of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad has given great impetus to aflalrs in Norftt Montana, and tho next few years will witness a marvelous grownh. No transcontinental road pass3s through a region of linen varied wealth as lies between the mgfyaiains and the Mississippi Xiveti Passing through the granary of Dakota the valleys of tho lied and .the Mouse the vast pasture fields and valleys of Montana, It taps the granite vaults of tho great hillu, filled with gold and silver and Copper, but guarded with tt tno locks, to be fully opened now by the advent of competitive railway facilities. A rough mountain is Valueless, for agricultural purposes, but when full'of rich ores a single acre as a wealth producer compensate for thousands or acres of arable land. Montana is tho richest mineral bearing district in the United States; the output of precious metals last your led all tho ether States and Territories, tho total being nearly onefourth of the entire production of the coun-1 try. The dream of tho alchemist has been realized; the ..aborer of yesterday is the millionaire of to-day. The mo jntuins are not only lined with veins of prec iousmetals. but iroa. load, coal, and building stone exist in limitless quantities. Coal is scattered over the entire Territory, in North' Montana cropping out in many places along the Missouri "and other rivers. North of the Missouri Biver. along the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad, tho coal is of the conch shell formation, bh.ck and shiny, and burns to' a red ash, while the variety south of the river is known as the Peacock coal, on .account of its chromatic coloring,and leaves a white ash. The coal of the plains, eastward into Dakota, is lignite, but the mountain coal is bituminous. The other day I went into a coal mine, eight miles from Grcat'FalU. in which the vein was ten feet thick the entrance being in the side of a hi H under a heavy roof of rock. It could not have been more conveniently planned by man. This mine is reached by a branohof tha Manitoba. The. extension of the Manitoba road. the rapid and solid construction of which was one of the mechanical feats or the'age, has opened up a large area of bsth agricultural and mining territory, and the wise and practicable courseof the compaey in dealing with tho publiofwill soon result in large -settlement and great prosperity to the entire country traversed Near when the Sun Rivor enters the Missouri is the city of Great Falls, from whence I write. It is 100 miles from Helena and 40 miles from Fort Benton. From here to the Gulf, as tho river runs, it is farther than from Chicagcflo London. To St, Paul it iu 1,073 miles. Tnere are live distinct ranges of mountains in sight from the city, and none nearer than 35 miles, yet a person not familiar with this air would declare it an

.after-supper walk to reach any of them.

Thp valleys ana plains leadimar up to these mountains are covered with grass. As far as the eye can reach, and thousand t mes further, not an acre is valueless, and in t .me will be covered with farms and stoek ra nches. Much of it is still government land and free, to settlers. Th grandeur is not all in sky pictures, lofty mountains, winding rivers and grassy plains, but jiear by s a cataract second only to Niagara, with an accompaniment of other falls, iriint springs and cascades a combined fall of over 600 feet which must; make this a leading Northwestern resort; Henceforth the great river will not bo allowed to idle away its time in rushing and leaning, year in and year out, over., tho rocks. It is biMng put to work for th?i good of the human raoe, grinding wheat and corn,, weaving: cloth, crushing ores, sawing lumber, aid in making this a great man of industry a city of homes, of comfort and prosperity. Already the most perfectly ar ranged smel:er in the countryfor handling gdld and silver ores is in operation, with n daily capacity of 250 tons, and so construct odthat enlargement can be inadete lO0O tons without an increase oi buildings o;r machinery. A roller flour-mill, the llrst in dustry inaugurated, is the only one for l.OOiJt miles along the upper Missouri. A greaV grain region is already a tributary and sooner or later a railroad from hero will penetrate tho wheat-fleldstf and pasture 1 lands of the Snskatcuawaiw far t'o the north ; even now' the project is being formulated.' Beaclers of thle will live t see ,a railroad to Asia and Europe bp way of Alaska and Bearing Strait. Iron an !

steelworks, woolen lactones, an,d other industries are contemplated at Great Fills and not a tiths of the river's strength is.yvfc laid ojat; thoro is power enough to-build u j a Minneapolis and a Lowell combined.. Witlx wide streets, spacious business blocks, fin a residences, churches, and school-houses, a city is being reared by men bora in the East bat developed in the West. Barely ia its thirds year, it supports two bright daily papers. Nature could not have made a more suitable site for a city, and one laid out on a scale commensurate with iv,a mighty surrcujidings. There are already three "railroads, the St. Paul. MinneApol s: and Manitoba, the Montana Central. an$ the Neihart Vailev. The former, ih connew tion with the Union Pacific at Butte, give -a from St. Paul a through line to Washington Territory. Oregon, and California. Sesok. People Who f tet. One of tbe most striking examples of this large class of unfortunate beings is tbe great Oarljle the nkan of noble heart and grat mind, capable of graq ing great subjects and giving wiio words of admonition regarding then, and yet so lfficnlt to live with codifortaMy, because he "wan easily disturbed by trifles and gave free vent so an oral expression of the annoyances he felt. There is a touch of the ridic alous, but much more thai i 9 pathetic, in the story of Carlyle's lebavior on JaiS return home after an absence, during which hisO loved Jennie Mrs. Oariyle worked with loving industry to make her j husband's home-coming an especially happy one. The study was made immaculately neat, the new furniture arranged in the most pleasing order, and a dainty tdhch hero and there to make all homelike. The" task completed, Mrs. Ci'.rlyle awaited in happy expectancy tao returuof the master of the house. What did Garlyle do to show his

'appreciation of this loving service so ii . i t 3 n t v

wuiingiy mnuereur i-uane express iiis satisfaction in words, or even by a lpk of pleased surprise? Not he. Shi veyxng the room with critical eyes, he walked to a 'window, discovered that the sash rattled, and vented his dis

pleasure in unmistakable languai je

This one small flaw blinded him to UX the rest of the order and pleasant arrangements of the room. Eveni ag Wisco7isin. A ropk'i end ahoulil. never be uue except in a cose oi extremity

IACTS AND FIGDUES.

The production of lead in the United States for 1888 was 189,000 tono against 160,700 tons in 1887. The consumption of sugar in the United States last year Mas 1,362,000 tons of refined, and 106,500 tons of raw. Architectural construction in Chicago last year resulted in the building of 4,985 edifices, coating $20,360,800., and having a frontage of 110f41J feet, or more than 22 miles. The entire potato product of the country in 1888 was 230,000,000 bushels, an increase of 90,000,000 bushels over the crop of 1887. The principal groat potato producing States are New York, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, and Dakota. The window glass consumption for the last six months of 1888 was the largest ever known, and there were 200,000 more boxes produced than the year previous. The imports were also heavy. The number of pots were increased during the year from 700, to 1,200. The United States possesses the largest vault, and the largest deposit of money in it, of aiiY Government in tho world. It can hold $100,000,000, but the prospects ni'e favorable for a call for increased storage of silver. There are about $20,000,000 in half dollars that do not budge. The total imports at New York, ex elusive of specie, were $55,874,020 for the past year, against $-161,54,595 for the previous year. The returns show a falling off in the imports of produce and merchandise of only $5,t60,575, which is much less than was anticipated considering the general depression of trade. It is semi-officially stated that tho price of silver during lo33 averaged 9iHc per ounce, as against $1 01 in 1887. The decline in the price, it is claimed, caused a direct loss to Colorado mines of $1,456,738, or the return was that sum less than they would have received for the same ounces of silver during the previous year. The da.Vy interests of the United States represent more than $3,000,000,000. The number of milk cows is estimated at 21,000,000, which give an aggregate milk production of 7,350,000,000 gallons. Pour billion gallons are used for butter, 700,000,000 for cheese and the balance for general purposes. The annual production of butter is 1,350,000,000 pounds and 6,500,000 pounds of cheese. This immense diriry herd requires 100,000,000 acres of pasture land to support it. State Secrets. Who in these days kills gout by Dr. John Hunter's most unheroic but elf ect ual remedy? Do you demand by what? I reply, apples! That natural antidote to so many of the ills the ile'sh is heir to; that fruit so full of vegetable acids; that enemy to torpidity of the liver and indigestion; that tonic with such an affluence of phosphorus. "Why, even the giants of mythology, we are told, eat them to keep off old age. But do you inquire what sort ? Any sort all sorts. How eaten ? As the schoolboy eats them when robbing: an orchard skin, core, every part. Won't cider do? Just the sort of question some country school boards would put in their omniscient knowno thingness. No, cider would not only not do, but undo. Malic acid in cider produces gout; malic acid in apples, whence cider comes, prevents nay, extirpates pout. One of England's sagacious Premiers, Palmerston, who knew most ..things in his day on earth, and a great deal under it, seeing he knew Nicholas of Russia to whom any other Nicholas was a greenhorn Palmerston was acquainted with Dr. Hunter; but either didn't hear of the apple cure or else didn't believe in it. Yet Palmerton was a martvr to

j the gout; would sit at a dinner table i and partake of a dish though he was aware that the cost was gout in less j than twenty-four hours. Tho great an- ! cestor or Palmerston Sir Yilliam ! Temple, patron of Dean Swift kept j the gout at bay with oranges. The ciotl rie acid thereof exorcised that terrible

concurrence of spasms. Gufciry, a comic genius in an age of wits, dx&w such a sketch of the "Gout-demon that sufferers found in it a reproduction adding to their agony. Picture a ncdll-ion-ianged reptile gnawing at every fiber of human anatomy with teeth of red-hot brass and an eye of fire in every tooth that made Victor Hugo's devilfish a cooing dore in comparison. Poor Gillary, in a paroxism ot the anguish his pencil had so terribly delineated, dashed out his brains. How little is known of this chronic sadness of the seemingly light-hearted, to so many of whom a familiar spirit is the third of De Quincey's "Three sisters of Sorrow the Lady of Darkness--who sit: in compauion&hip with suicides! It waa of a phrase such as this that Emerson remarks, "Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive." Ancient Coks. In an old Roman household, tradition tells us, the head-oook was a highsalaried officer of oourse, your quick thoughts revert to the genius who presided over one famous dinner that Mark Antony gave to Cleopatra and that w;as so sumptuous that it actually drew praise from that haughty dame, which unuttual appreciation so delighted the infatuated Antony that be summoned the cook and gave him an entire city as a recompense. But it was no extraordinary thing for Koman cooks to command salaries of $4,000 a year. Tbe kitchen was a vast apartment separated from the house and was governed by tho w Archimagiras," or chief cook, who held the most string ent rules. These supreme officers were the recipients of no set salaries, they cirew ample reward from their artistio fame; "Above all men," they were wont to say "we are intrusted bv the rends with the secret of human happiness;" and they asked for no higher recognition of their services. The Sicilians, however, rarked as the beat cooks in olden timet and although the Romans many times offered them incredible sums for their services they were obdurate a id nver deserted their poate, Belle Blmctuxrd. in XaMf Talk.