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a , • oo 9 • THE NIADISONIAN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1S741. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year\ ( in advance) .. 22 six Months Three Months \ 1 36 ADVERTISING RATES. MADISONIAN, as an advertising c edilla'', is equal to any paper in Montana. 4 .4 — 1.e ZO ;11, •• le I Inch ..... Inches 3 Inches 4 Inches 6 i n ches 13 i n ches inehr $3 $5 $7 5 8 9 7 9 11 8 11 12 10 12 15 18 2-11 34) 30 401 50 $$ $10 $15 $11 $25 10 1_ 24) 30 40 12 15 37 55 14 17 30 45 70 18 21 38 65 90 34 40 55 90 140 55 65 75 150 250 - f he above scale of prices Is for ordinary sin- xle-celumn, display advertising. Solia and fibular advertisements will be charged at the 'Acta rate for space occupied. LOCAL NOTICES, Fifteen cents per line for ffrst, and ten cents per line for each additional insertion. CARDS, One-half inch, $2 for one insertion ; $3 for two insertions; $8 per quarter; $16 per year. The foregoirg schedule of prices will be strictly adhered to. All advertisements counted in Nonpareil measure. - .1013 Of every description, executed in the best and neatest style. and on reasonable terms. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the Postoffice—whether directed to his name or anotheris, or whether he has subscribed or not -is responsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher ! p a y continue to send it until payment is made, anti cola -et the whole amount, whether the pa- per is taken from the office or not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the postoilice, or removing and leaving them un- ealled for, is prima facia evidence of intention - Al fraud. PROFESSIONAL. G. F. COWAN, ittorno and Counselor at Law. Itattereberee. Montana Territory. HENRI - F. WILL11MS, Atly & Counselor at Law, VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. OFFICE over the Post Officer. .1. E. CALLAWAY, A.ttor - ney and Conn- selov at - 1.1 - 1 - w. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. oFF It' E. adjoining the office of the Secre- tary uf the TerritorY E . W. TOOLE. J. K. TOOLE. TOOLE & TOOLE. .Att0rney:-; at TAIAN - .. HELENA, MONTANA. Will prartice in all the Court6 of 3lontitua. IfilIN T. !../L4)1:1 - .1:. T. J. LOWERY. SHOBER & LOWERY, .A.tto - rneys am (1 eco t-_:eic.irs at HELENA, M. T. Will Practice in all the Courts of Montana. SAMUEL WORD, A.tt ovney r.rtw. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, Attcorme. - and Co - tin- selm- at I_Aa - w- VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Coerts of Montana. R . W. A.tt()Itsney Law, GALLATIN CITY, M. T. W. F. SANDERS, Attorney anti C't)nn- selor at 11 - ,aw. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. C . W . TURNER, IA A - X 7- 17. , 'VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. oFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. M . F. K I R KWOOD, . 4 1 t or 'Ley at Law, VIRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt' s office or Pro- bate Court Rooms. 1% ill practice in all the Courts of the Territory. GEORGE CALLAWAY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M NTANA. OFFICE, at the Law Office of J. E. Calla- way , Esc'. , until further notice. I. C. SMITH. M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Office at the Old Le Beeu Stand, Wallace Street, where he can be fon ael night or day E. T. YAGER, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. win practice in all branches. °Mee one door above the City Drag Store. H. ts. BARKLEY, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. 1 had twenty-one years' experienc in 7 • in his profession—four years of that time -, Irgeon in the Confederate army. lie as pre- Pared to perform all kinds of surgery. .IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- neure is not surpassed by any physician in the Territory. JO THOSE WHO HAVE VENEREAL `.,MIPLAINTS.—Gonorrhea , if called oPon tive days after the first appearance,. he ' 1 1114:aire in seventy-two hours. In Syphilis, tie Wall cure in five - days • treatment is different frnm any PhYsi- Lin an this Territor . Ile is repre d for all • DR. C. S. ELLIS I I .1 VING taken an interest e :trin • 1 the Drug Department of f r e at Silver Star, Montana,can •eund at all times, day and night, at said when not absent, on professional busi- ;less, 1-28tf. Q . B. WHITFORD, M. D., Ph Ysician and Surgeon, 1 ,E Ms./NIA\ A. VOL. 1. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1874. 4 , t../• T'CIIET9Et,\\17. THE FORSAKEN. BY MRS. ESTELLE ANNA LEWIS. It bath been said, for all who die There is a tear; Some pining, bleeding heart to sigh O'er every bier. But in that hour of pain and dread Who will draw near Around my humble couch and shed One farewell tear. Who'd watch life's departing ray In deep despair, And soothe my spirit on its way With holy prayer? What mourner round my bier will come, In weeds of woe, And follow me to my long home, Solemn and slow? When lying on my clayey bed, In icy slep, Who there, by pure affection led, Will come and weep? By the pale moon implant the rose Upon my breast, And bid it cheer my dark repose— My lowly rest? Could I but know, when I am sleeping Low in the ground, One faithful heart would there be keeping Watch all night round, As if Some gem lay enshrined beneath That sod's cold gloom, 'Twould mitigate the pangs of death, And light the tomb. Yes! in that hour, if I could but feel From halls of glee And beauty's presence would steal In secrecy, And come and sit aud weep by me In night's deep noon, CA! I would ask of memory No other boon. Rut, ah! a lonelier fate is m ine— A deeper wue; From all I love, in youth's sweet time, I soon must go; Drawn round me my pale robes of white, In a dark spot To sleep through death' t long, dreamless night, Lone and forgot. YOU KNOW YOtI DO. When some one's step comes up the wall, Your cheeks take on a rosier hue, And though no other hears his knock, You hear it well—you know you do! When \some one\ talks about the grain, And bows to pa, yet looks at you, You see his glauces—ah! 'tis plain— And give them back— you know you do! And when he talks of other girls, Of hateful hate, and Jennie, too, You thug at him your auburn curls, You jealous thing—you know you do! You keep your eye upon the clock, And wish 'twould jump an hour or two, So that your pa would cease to talk, And go to bed—you kuow you do! And when the folks to bed have gone, And left `•sonie one\ alone with you, You wish the clock would atop its tongue, Or you stop it—you know you do! Ile blushes deep, and looks afraid To be thus lett alone with you, But your eyes tell there ne'er was maid But could be wooed—you know you do! You peep at\some one\ 'neath your curls, Until with love you burn him through, And make him hate all other girls— In love for you—you know you do! And when his arm steals round your chair, You give a smothered scream or two, As if you didn't want it there, But, oh! you do—you know you do! You nestle closer up to him, Your head drops on his shoulder, too, You think it nice to have a \Sim You naughty thing—you know you do! You let him kiss your blushing cheeks; Somehow your lips meet his lips, too; You tempt him, silly thing, to speak, You wicked Ihrt—you know you du! And when he timidly cloth press His wish to make a wife of you, You do intend to answer \ Yes,\ You darling girl—you know you do! • SIN THE WORST. Walking along the shore, one morn, A holy man by chance I found, Who by a tiger had been torn And had no salve to heal his wound. Long time he suffered grevious pain, But not the less to the Most High Ile offered thanks. They asked him why. For answer he thanked God again; And then to them: \That I am in No greater peril than you see; That what has overtaken me Is but misfortune—and not sin!\ —R. II. Stoddard. FOR WHAT TO GIVE THANKS. For love, which scarce collective man can till; For patience, sovereign e'er transmitted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's sigual for retreat: These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain, These goods he grants who grants the power to gain. With these celestial wisdom claims the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. —Dr. Johnson. NO AND YES. [Published in the AtlanticMonthly,years ago.] 1 watched her at her spinning, And this was my beginning Of wooing and winning But when a maid opposes, And throws away your roses, You say the case forecloses. Yet sorry wit one uses Who loves and thinks he loses Because a maid refuses. For by her once denying She only means complying Upon a second trying. When first I said in pleading, \Behold my love lies bleeding!\ She heard me half undeeding. When afterward I told her And blamed her growing colder— She dropped upon my shoulder. Had I doubt? That quelled it; Her very look dispelled it ; I caught her hand and held it. Along the lane I led her, And while her cheeks grew redder I sought outright to wed her. Good end from bad beginning! My wooing came to winning - And still.' watched her spinning. —Theodore Tilton. Then she knew not Beecher, Who has since become her teacher, .And—and--oh! the poor creature Has left off her spinning - - Gone to downright sinning, And left TheAore bitterly whining. THE VALUE OF TRUTHFULNESS. A man who stands in the midst of af- fairs, tested, tried, proved to be a man of unswerving integrity, a man of absolute truth, a man that is true, faithful honest honorable, is more valuable than gold, even in a commercial point of view. A man in politics who, though he may be ambitious and partizan, is shown to be faithful, honorable and trustful—even in politics such a man, in the long run, wins. One reason why there are so many mushrooms and puff -balls in society is that men forswear morality. In the great bustle of commerce, in the conflict of af- fairs, in the heated ways of public life, men think it is not only sate but justifia- ble and profitable for them to set aside the fundamental qualities ot true man- hood. That is the reason why, when they are cut down, they never rise again. We honor great men ; but it does not take much to make great men in a com- munity where there are newspapers. Great men have a campaign ; have one term in Congress ; have a five or ten years' career in the State Legislature ; and great men think themselves to be immovably great ; but many great men fall, and, once tidling, never rise again. It does not hurt some things to 1411. The elastic ball, when it falls, springs up again ; the solid metal, when it falls, may not spring up, but it is solid yet; but find an apple that, though fair of skin, is rotten at the core, and let that once fall, and what becomes of it ? How- ever tempting it looks, when the shaking hand once touches it, and it falls, shall it rise again?—Henry Ward Beecher. aes-a--ssa A ROMANCE IN HIGH LIFE. At the gaming table the Duke of Rich- mond incurred a debt of honor to Lord Cadogan, which he was unable to pay, and it was, agreed that his son, a lad of fifteen, who bore the title of Earl of March, should marry the still younger daughter of Lord Cadogan. The boy was sent for from school and the girl from the nursery; a clergymen was In atten- dance, and the children were told that they were to be married upon the spot. The girl had nothing to say ; the boy cried out, \They surely are not going to marry me to that dowdy !\ But married they were. A post -chaise was at the door ; the bridegroom was packed off with his tutor to make the grand tour, and the bride was sent back to her moth- er. Lord March remained abroad for several years, after whieh he returned to London, a well educated, handsome young man, but in no haste to meet his wife whom he had never seen except upon the occasioe of their hasty mar- riage. So he tarried ill London to amuse himself. One night at the opera his at- tention was attracted to a beautiful young lady in the boxes. \Who is that?\ he asked of a gentleman beside him. \You must be a stranger in London,\ was the reply, \not to know the toast of the town, the beautiful Lady March.\ The Earl went straight to the box, an- nounced himself, and claimed his bride. The two fell in love with each other on the spot, and lived long and happily to- gether !, and when the - husband died, she also died ot a broken heart within a few months. ene-40-msit THE VALUE OF AN ICE -HOUSE. After the harvest is over, it will be a good time for every farmer who has no ice -house to build one. In order to save expense, several neighbors can build one together. It need not cost much, and ice during the hot weather is a real luxury, and after one season's use will be consid- ered a necessity. One oppressively hot summer 1 was in attendance upon a friend sick with fever and then learned the great value of ice in sickness. A lump slowly dissolving in the mouth cools the parched tongue and throat, and cooling food and driuk tempt the languid appe- tite. Passing by other uses for ice, I would speak particularly of ice-cream, my \particular wanity.\ With the old- fashioned, NV rist-breaking freezer, it is hard work to make ice-cream, but with a patent five minute freezer it can be made of better quality, and the labor is not worth mentioning. I. know of nothing more agreeable this hot weather than to be invited from the hay-tield to partake of some ice-cream, so superior both as re- gards quantity and quality to that pro- cured in the village saloon. There is a very little cream in that ; but when made from the clear cream of a Jersey cow it is worthy of its name. NEGLECTED EDUCATION. One very important feature in the edu- cation of the average American appears to have suffered neglect of late. Califor- nians, who were young men twenty years ago, were not deficient in the art of pistol -shooting. Back in the days of '49 and '50 we all remember that then the soft note of the pistol meant a funeral. Then a shooting affray always reduced our population one, and sometimes two. Then when two men commenced shoot- ing at each other some one was certain to be hit, and it rarely happened that an outsider—a mere looker on in Venice— was the recipient of the blue pill. The boys were in practice in those days, and it was a comfort to look on at a shooting bout. The only parties who ran the slightest risk were the principals, and their risk was by no means slight. He was counted a poor shot in the good old times who could not spoil the red spot in the ace of hearts, at ten paces, four shots out of five, and an exchange of shots where no one was killed was a dis- grace to the shooters and a subject of ridicule throughout the camp. We are sorry the youth of the present day do not compare with the early gold- diggers in the art of pistol -shooting. We regard a dead shot with a six-shooters a a great moral reformer. Ten to one his victims have lived long enough for the good of the community, and when he too is picked off, by one of his kind who chailces to get the \drop it is a sign that public morals no longer require his presence. But we have a thorough con- tempt for the modern shootist. He never hits one of his kind. and usually kills or wounds an innocent. bystander —a little bov, perhaps, who but for his untimely taking off might have lived to be a good citizen. It is a disgrace to the memory of old, to see a couple of hoodlums empty their six-shooters at each other, with no more harm than killing a passer-by or two. The industrial school should have a pistol gallery, and no inmates of the establishment should be permitted to leave until he could lodge every shot in the body of a De Young at ten paces. Over 1,000 entries for the Western In- diana Fair, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, have already been made. The extravagance of the 13eecheritAs is Eimply an application of the doctrine of infallibility to their pastor. THE EXPEDITION A BLESSING. But the discovery of gold in the Black Hills is of comparatively little importance beside the estiblished fact that this hith- erto unexplored region consists of sich, fertile, agricultural lands. The discov- ery of gold in California served a good purpose in drawing thither speedily a large population. But the wealth of Cal- fornia to -day is not so much in her gold mines as in her rich agricultural lands, and her luxuriant pastures. The preca- rious search for gold in her rugged mountains and her uncertain streams, would never have given California the important position she now holds. But her gold mines stimulated immigration, and hardy settlers soon developed her ag- ricultural resources. The same thing is likely to occur in the Black Hills country, provided gold in paying quantities is dis- covered. Yankee greed of sudden wealth will lead many an adventurous spirit to that country, who, failing to make \his pile\ in the mines, will settle quietly down to raising wheat or corn, or to building up a \cattle ranch.\ In this way the Black Hills expedition may con- fer a great blessing upon the country.— St. Paul Press. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Mr. Samuel B. Ruggles has just pub- lished a pamphlet containing the agri- cultural statistics of the the United States. From it we gather the following items of interest: Of the whole area of the States and Territories, viz., 1,897,055,220 acres, more than 188,912,833 are improved The growth of agricultural production has more than kept pace with thegrowth of population in the last thirty years. In 1840 the population of the United States was 17,069,453; in 1870 it was 38,558,371. The wheat growth in 1840 amounted to 84,811,175 bushels; in 1870 it was 187,745,- 626 bushels. The manufacture of butter and cheese was represented in the for- mer year by 202,410,440 pounds, in the latter by 677,017,095. Between the year 1840 and the year 1870 the yield of hay was almost trebled. In 1850 the cash value of farms, including live stock, im- plements, machinery, was $3,967,343,580; in 1870 it was $11,124,958,747. The pro- duction of hay ways twice as great. The value of animals slaughtered increased from $111,703,192 to $393,756,376; the yield of to-bacco from $199,752,655 to $261,735,341; of wheat, from $100,468,574 to $287,745,626. The yield of the cotton crop in bales was 2,469,003 in 1850; in 1870 it was 3,011,996. The rice and sugar crops show a falling off. The former tell from 215,313,487 to 23,635,021 pounds, and the latter from 267,577 hog,sheads to 107,943. The value of the products of our own manufactures rose from $1,019 - 106,616 to $4,232,325,493. In 1870 the ag- ricultural population amounted to 5,922,- 471 persons. Of these, 5,303,368 were natives of the United States. THE BRITISH LION. [By the Danbury News Man.] I made an attempt to get into Bucking- ham palace, for your gratification, dear reader, through Robert C, Schenck, our minister. I based the application on the information in a guide -book that the pal- ace was open for inspection during the absence of the queen. 1 discovered that the noble building shut up like a. clam at the first approach. I told Bob it did not matter. I think he believes me. The most attractive object to me about the exterior of this four -story -slate -roof palace is the coat of arms over the gate- way. It is the English coat-ot-arms, a lion and a unicorn on their hind legs squaring off at each other. I can't tell the number of hours I have remained planted in tront of that gateway admir- ing those figures, and for nearly an hour this Sunday afternoon I stood leaning against St. James fence in a trance of de- light. The lion has a smile on his face. It is the first lion I ever saw laugh. I have seen thousands of these coats -of - arms, but never saw a sedate lion: he is always laughing, as if it was the funni- est ioke he ever heard of—being matched against a unicorn with a barber.pole be- tween its eyes. And it is absurd, when you come to think of it, for a lion could whip a unicorn around a stump and have its barber -pole in front ofa milliner shop, inside ot nine seconds. You cau't change the English lion. He is the one thing all the time. But you can change an Amen - can eagle—if you are not connected with the press for a living. But I like to see a lion look pleased. I think we were all intended to be happy. A lion that won't laugh is no society for me. As for a unicorn, I am not much that way. I enter heartily into the life sentiment of a lamented friend, who, years ago, went to a better home—which was: \Goldarn a unicorn any way.\ A DEEP MINE. The deepest mine in Cornwall is Dol- coath, now about 720 yards from the sur- face. The workmen descend and as- cend by means of man -engines, and Capt. Josiah Thomas, the manager, as an illus- tration of the healthy condition of the workings, states that one man has been working in the mine tor forty years. During all that time he has lived at Con- nor Downs, a distance of five miles from the miue, so that lie has been walking ten miles per day in addition to his labor, and a calculation which Capt. Thomas has made shows that this man has, dur- ing his forty years' work, walked 120,000 miles, which is equal to a journey five time round the earth, or half the distance to the moon. ass--•--ssa Tne strange old woman, Mrs. Fander, who for many days in day -time, and in Summer and Winter weather, stood on a little board at the crossing of Plum and Longworth streets, Cincinnati, looking for her husband who never came. is still keeping up her vigils. She now, with a handkerchief on her head, stands in the doorway of a house on Fifth street, near Park, where she occupies a little room and works at mantua-makinse. She glan- ces up and down the street without seeing the coining of the one she is boking for. The husband is reported to have been killed in the Mexican war, and is suppos- ed to have been, but the wife hopes that such is not true. The poor woman is said to receive, at regular periods, small sums of money through the Adams Ex- press Company, from whom nobody can tell. The recipient believes it comes from her husband, and that in place of the money he will arrive some day. ass-a-iiss The largest lifting gasometer ever made is now being constructed at Boston. The iron tank for the gas wili be two h in:tired feet in diameter. LIVING ALONE. It may be all very tine to be an angel says the Elmira Gazette, and with the angels stand, but this being a hermit, and living alone, is not quite so fine. At the present writing, we don't know much about this angel business, but as to living alone, we \know how it k our- self.\ For two long, dreary weeks we have been the only soul in the house. We have bad no one to love us, none to ca - imps All alone we went to bed ; not a word to us was said.. We got up in the morning quite as quietly as we retired at night. There wasn't much housework to do, and the barn chores didn't con- sume much time. For the first few days we studied economy, and boarded our- self. We soon got tired of eating the out- side sliee of bread at every meal, and threw the loaf away and bought crack- ers. Remembering the difficulty that Brother Beecher had with his dishcloth, a few years ago—an account of which he gave in his miscellany at the time—we resolved not to wash any dishes, but just put the dirty ones to soak, and use clean ones. As long as the dishes held out we shall get along with that part of house- keeping all right ; but they won't last always as the pile of clean ones is daily growing smaller, and the pile of dirty ones larger. The crisis in this particular is approaching, and, unless the folks come home pretty soon, we shall have to bor- row some dishes. For the first ten days we made the bed up nicely every morn- ing. For the next few days we put it off till night, and for the last few days we haven't made it at all. We were charged particularly to water the house -plants and take care of the bird. The plants have caused us a good deal of trouble, but we left the door of the cage open about the first time we curried that all- mal, and lie hasn't troubled us much since. Of course, we'll \catch it\ when the folks come home, but that is a good deal easier than it is to catch the bird. On the whole, we are free to say that we don't like housekeeping, and if ever we should be \born again\—and according to very good authority, we have all got to undergo that operation—we earnestly hope that we shan't be born a woman, and especially a housekeeping one. We should rather be an angel. PENNS YL VAN I VS WE The wealth of Pennsylvania is im- mense. The development of her mineral resources has contributed greatly to this, but her agricultural interests should not be lost sight of in loolsing for causes for her prosperity. Land, beth improved and tudinproved, is continually apprecia- ting in. every part of the State. This rap- id and continuous growth in the value of real estate is making her land -holders returns of the last census will give something of an idea of the rapid l g s iz t - i t i l e i of wealth in Pennsylvania. In total value of real and persoeal property in this State amounted to $1,416,501,818. In 1870 it had Ham to the enormous fig- ure of $3,808,440.112, or greatly more than double in ten years! At the same ratio, Pennsylvania will be worth in 1880, six years hence, about eight billion of dollars, or more than the whole United States was worth in 1850 ! The progress indicated by these figures is absolutely astonishing, and the amount of wealth here, as indicated by the figures, is almost beyond the power of the mind to grasp and comprehend. That the single State of Pennsylvania should bid lair to be worth RS much six years hence as the United States in 1850, is a fact that should teach us the value of coal and iron. The wealth of this State is so great that, with a debt ot twenty-eight millions, which is being paid off at the rate of over a million a year, she levies myState tax on real es- tate. The Government is carried on, the interest on the debt and the debt itself paid without laying a particle of burden on real estate, privileges. licenses, etc., yielding sufficient 'Or the purpose. THE GREAT MAN. The man whom I account great of soul is he who has not only been gifted with an eye to discern the right, but also with a heart to love it ; a man who cannot be content merely to discover truth, or to paint it, or to sing of it, but who, feeling that he possesses it, feels also that he has a mission to proclaim it. A man who can be satisfied with nothing less than that which is real and right—who is con- tent to count all things loss for the at- tainment of a spiritual aim, and to fight tor it against all enemies—who deems truth the bread of lite, and makes its pur- suit his daily labor—he is a great man. A man who has a nobly cause, and who subordinates, and even sacrifices himself to it—he is a great man. A man who does his duty in despite of all outward contradiction, anti who reverences his conscience so greatly as that to preserve it unharmed he will thee any difficulty and submit to any penalty—he is a great man. Perhaps this kind of greatness can only be realized fully in a man who is a religious man. The man who shall stir immeasurable masses must derive his strength from an alliance with the Al- mighty. The man who shall move a world must have a standing place in the invisible. He can only lift it trom some po p o i i n n t t, w i i s th fa o i t t it h i i t n ; and I believe that only God. But at the very least, before a man can be a great man, it is necessary to be emphatically a man ; to have no littlenesses, no weaknesses. All human qualities must be fully devel- oped in him while some of them must be extraordinarily so. The first elements, then, in the composition ot the character of such a man as I have beeu speaking to you of are to endure and to dare more than other men ; but these are not enough of themselves to constitute a great man. To dare anything and to fear nothing ; to endure calmly and cheerfully, even to die ; to look inevitable evil in the face and not tremble, vea, to seek danger and to love it—this is indeed to be a man, but it is not necessarily to be a great man. For all this may be done by the savage or the selfish, by the foolhardy or the un- thinking. Such qualities as these depend most upon what is physical. not neces- sarily anything at all upon what is spirit- ual ; and the indispensible condition of such greatness as 1 am speaking of is, greatness ot soul—sacrifice of self, and devotion to a cause. The truly noble thing is not simply to endure or to dare, but to do thus for unselfish ends; and when to do otherwise were easier.—Fred- csic Ilyess s THE CALISTOGA. SILVER MINE. The Vallejo Chronicle contains an in- teresting article on the newly -discovered silver mine near Calistoga from which we extract as follows: - The company have now about 400 tons of ore on the dump, and have com- menced the regular hauling to the mills. Of this ore there is one selected pile con- taining 150 tons, which outside, disinter- ested parties say will yield $1,000 a ton, making a total valuation of $150,000 for this one lot. We can say, without exag- eration, that there is hardly a mine on the coast. if there is one, which has open- ed so flatteringly as this. The develop- ments are absolutely astounding in their richness, and, had they been made in a known mining section, such as Nevada, would have aroused the wildest excite- ment. The first work done by the com- pany was to run a hundred -foot tunnel on the ledge, the work developing rich quartz all the way. The last blast put in here developed a streak ofchloride putty, assaying $1,100 per ton. Another tnimel was also run in on a level of seventy feet above, with rich ore the whole way, and, at a distance of 220 feet in, opened up a chimney of extremely valuable quartz. Here they stoped up and also sunk a shaft forty feet deep, taking out in this place the richest ore they have yet found. and a considerable quantity of it. Quite a distance further over on the ledge a. for- ty -five-foot shaft has lately been sunk, which has developed ore that assays $320 to the ton. On that slope where the tun- nels are run the surface of the ledge lies at an angle of forty-five degrees, and the whole width of the ledge from the lower level to the brow ot the hill, a distance of 500 feet, is one continuous, unbroken quarry of rich ore. FIGHTING POISON POISON. As an illustration of the power of one poison to counteract another in the hu- man system, a recent ease in this city fur- ases a highly important and interesting instance. We give the statement as relat- ed to us by Dr. Harris, who was called to the relief of a would-be suicide, and who administered the successful antidote. The person had taken between 40 and 50graius of opium, and was hist dying. He could no longer swallow. His ex- tremities were cold and had turned black. While his respiration only numbered be- tween six and seven to the minute. This last of itself seemed to indicate that all hope was gone, as anything less than eight respirations a minute had hereto- fore been known as a sure precursor of death. As a last resort the doctor deter- mined to try heroic treatment, and he ac- cordingly, with a hypodermic syringe. injected two-thirds of a drain of 1111XVOID- ica, dissolved in a teaspoonlull of water, beneath the skin over the heart, stomach, spine, and on each arm above the elbow and on the calf of each leg. The quanti- ty of nux-vomica would have been the death of any well man in existence, but hi antagonism to the opium it was in this seemingly hopeless chse an agent of life, and in fifteen minutes the man was sitting up in bed. conscious, and rapidly recover- ing.—South Bend, Ind., Tribune. A WEASEL'S STRATEGY. An exchange gives the following ac- count of a weasel's stratagem, with the suspicious remark that it is vouched for by a friend: \A grist mill was infested with large rats, until a weasel came there and destroyed nearly all of them. There was, however, one large rat which he could not conquer. They had several pitched battles, in which the rat whipped the weasel, until, whenever the rat ap- peared, the weasel would seek safety in flight. They were watched for several days, when the weasel was observed to be digging a hole in the earth under a pile oflumber. After he had completed it, he approached the mill, and the rat came after him as usual. He made some show of tight until he had got the rat in- terested, and then ran into his hole. The rat followed. when the weasel was seen to come wit at the other end of the hole and run at the entrance atter the rat. Subsequent examination proved that the weasel had made the hole large enough for the rat to enter, but had contract- ed the other end so that he could not get out. Having thus trapped his antagonist the weasel took him in the rear, and easily conquered him. MIND THE TWO ENDS. This is good advice. A writer in the American Agriculturist enforces it as fel- lows: When a small boy, I was carrying a not very large ladder, when there was a crash. An unlucky movement had brought the rear end of my ladder against a window. Instead of scolding me, my thther ma:le me stop, and said, very qui- etly: -Look here,:my SOD, there is one thing I wish you always to remember; that is, every ladder has two ends.\ I have never forgotten that, though many, many years have gone, and I never see a man carrying a ladder or other long thing. but I remember the two ends. Don't we carry many things besides lad- ders that have two ends? When I see a young man getting \fast\ habits, I think he sees but one end of the ladder, the one pointed toward pleasure, and that he does not know that the other end is wounding his parents' hearts, etc. The art colony in Paris presents many phases of interest, and none are mare in- teresting than that of the large number of ladies who are studyine - under the leading painters. Mrs. Morin, of Boston ; Miss Thompkins, of Washington ; Miss Stevenson Cassatt, Miss Kate Cameron of Chicago; Miss Sartine, of Philadelphia; Miss Corbett of Boston; and Miss Gardi- ner, of New Hampshire, are some of the lady painters who have made great pro- gress in their art, and who in time may be depended upon to pursue their pro- fession with sueoess aud usefulness at kkouie. HOW TO SECURE SOUND SLEEP. Sleeping people—and there are many in America—should court the bright sun. The very worst soporific is I.audanum. and the very best is sunshine. There - tore it is very plain that poor sleepers should pass as many hours of the tiny in sunshine. and as few as possible in the shade. Many women arc martyrs, and yet do not know it. They shut the sun- shine out of their houses and hearts, they wear yells, they carry parasols, they do all that is possible to keep off the subtlest. and yet most potent, influence which is intended to give them strength. and beau- ty, and cheerfulness. It is not time to change all this, anti so get roses and col- or in our pale cheeks, strenplit in our pale cheeks, strength in our weak backs and courage in our timid souls? The women of America are pale 'and delicate. They may be blooming and strong, and the sunlight will be a potent influence in this transformation. Will they but try it a year or two, and oblige thousands of admirers? THE CENTENNIAL. The work of constructing the exposi- tion buildings has begun in earnest, the board of finance having contracted for the erection of the Memorial Hall and the main exhibition builnig. The to foreign nations to participate. authorized by the act of Congress, ap- proved June 5th, 1874, has been commu- nicated by the state department to our representatives abroad, and it is hoped will meet with acceptaece from those governments which have not already sig- nified their intentions. The commission- ers are now turning their attention to the important work of preliminary organiza tion in • the various departments of the ex- hibition. To this end local cooperation is sought throughout the country, to ex- cite general interest in the objects of the exhibition. The several States and Terri- tories have been invited to appoint advi- sory boards to assist in securing a com- plete representation of the industries of their respective districts. A number of such boards have already been organized, and the executive committee recommend that similar action be taken in other states without delay. The boards are to con- sist of a centennial commissioner and al- ternate, and not less than three other per- sons appointed by the director-general with the advice and consent of the state commissioners. The objects of these state boards will be:—to disseminate in- formation regarding the exhibition; to secure the cooperation of industrial, sci- entitk, agricultural, and other associa- tions; to appoint local committees repre- senting the various local industries; to en- courage the production of articles suita- ble for exhibition; and in general to do everything possible to add to the success of the centennial, pecuniary and other- wise. It is desired that the early appli- cations should be made for space in the exhibition building. in order that the commissioners may know what to pro- vide tor and that intending exhibitors may have ample time to furnish the most perfect specimens of their productions. A complete exposition of the representa- tive produicts of every section of the cowl - try is wanted, and the highest standard of excellence in each product. a circular to the press the commis- sioners say:— \It is important that it should be known with the least possible delay what space Nvill be required in each of the de- partments by American exhibitors, hi order that it may be determined what room can be assigned to foreign nations. Manufacturers and others who propose exhibiting- on this occasion therefore make known their intention promptly, and thus avoid the disappointment of finding the roam they desire preoccupi- ed. \It is especially desirable that early provision should be made for the organi- zation of those collective exhibitions of the natural resources and raw materials of different sections of the country, which camiot be made by inlividual exhibitors. The importance of this, as an incentive to immigration and to the investment of foreign capital can not b.! overesti mated, and a liberal provision for the prompt and thorough performance of the work will amply repay those states who under- take it. .••••-•—•as BIRDS 01' P JR iDISE. The birds of Paradise are a small, but renowned eimily. They receive their name from the idea, entertained at one time, that they inhabited the region of the Mosaic paradise. They live in a small locality in Australiasia, including Pavan or New (Aiwa. and a few adjacent is- lands. They are not easily tamed and kept confined; and few have been brouglit alive from their native locality. 3Ir. Beale had one at Macao, China, that had been in captivity niue years; several had been kept at Aboyna, but very few have ever been carried to Europe, although specimens of their skins and prepared birds were taken there more than 300 years ago. Anthony Pigatetta. one of the comp:tnions of Magellan. first import- ed them into Europe in 1522. In form and Sin they somewhat resemble our crow, or bluejay; but some are smaller. They are usually included in the tribe of conebills, though their bills are quite slender tor that group, and a little com- pressed. The bills are covered at the base with downy or velvety feathei s. which extend over the nostrils ; their wings are long and round ; the tail con- sists of ten feathers, two of them. in some species. very long; legs and feet very long, large, and strong; outer toe longer than inner, and joined to the middle one toward the base ; hind toe very long; claws long mid curved. But they are chiefly remarkable for the wonderful de- velopment of various parts of their plum- age and for the metallic splendor of its rich hues. The sides of the body, and sometimes of the head, neck, breast, or tail, are ornamented with lengthened, peculiarly developed, and showy fe4h- ers. Says Wood : \ all the species, the feathers glow with resplendent radiance; in nearly all there is some strange and altogether unique arrangement of the plumage; and in many, the feathers are modined into plumes, ribbons, and streamers. that produce the most surprising effects.\ fhis plumage of the face. breast, and throat is usually the richest in metallic tints, while other parts frequently have very beautiful and brilliant colors.—Pop- Lear Scieace Moatilly for September. - THE MADISONIAN I PUBtiSliEld EVI.R1 TURIPAY —AT— Virginia City, - Montana. THOMAS DEYARMON, Editor and Proprietor. Papers ordered to any address eau be chanced to another address unite option of the sueseriber. Remittance by draft. check. money order or registered let ter may be sent at our risk. THE MADISONIAN is devoted to the advocacy of the principles of the Democratic party add to general and local news. The strongest argument against \State\ universities is to be found in the present condition of :Allies in California. The regents of the university, doubtless acting atter due deliberation and upon good grounds, saw tit to remove one of the professors. In any other than a stale institution the right of the corporation to take such action would have been un- questioned. and the prosperity olthe col- lege wonla not haVe been jeopardized by savage assaults upon its Management. But it happens that the discharged pro- fessor was a granger, and whatever may be his knowledge of agriculture he is ev- idently sound on the goose. and popular with the grange. Hence every ia.‘wspa- per in the state which has a hay -seed constituency is emidenining the univer- sity regents, and insisting upon the su- perior capacities of the ex -professor. This may be a good way to Secure popu- larity with the ignorant rabble, but it is a better way to bring the chief university into disrepute. A coller.‘ whose profes- sors are chosen by poptii..e vote %, - ouild likely to be anything but an instiettion of learning. sne-s-siss If American cotton has railed to estab; lish its claim to tieing the king of general business interests, it still seems to stand at the head or independent of all compe- tition in its line. 1Vith the idea which has been quite extensively held to, that the price of American cotton was de- pressed by the influence of Brazil, Egypt and India upon the market, the New York Evening Post joins issue. With t he exeeption of Egypt and Brazil no coun- try sends cotton to the European market equal to that produced here. In the Eng- lish cotton market, WhOSC rates determine the prevailing price, American middling upland is quoted at about eight and one - quarter pence a pound, while the best In- dia, cotton brings two and three-quarter pence a pound less. It it is accepted as a filet, however, that American production of cotton is regulated by its own laws, the present price of it as compared with ante -war times is hard to accomit for. The price of cotton has risen butt lour - teen per cent. Sinee 1860, while in most other lines ot trade prices have gone up from INventy-tive to thirty per cent. The price of the best cotton was this year more than tour cents a pound less at New York on the 27th of August than last year at the same time. though the stock at all the United States ports was only about 1000 bales in excess of a year ago. The condition of the cotton field has been considered more promising, but it is probable that prices will reach their former figure before the season is over. Ine--41-.0211• A TEX MILLION In south-western Texas there is a cat - tie -raiser Wil0 has lived there twenty years. On going there he picked up a dozen cows, and branded them. He hail no land, but was the possessor of a wife, two or three guns, a few dogs, and two or three horses. He kept watch over lns cows. and lived in a hand-to-mouth Nvay for Feveral years, subsisting his family by the capture of game and the sale of skins. In May, 1S73, he owned 30.000 head of cattle, duly branded, ranging over the plains. lle has a family of nine . children. five of whom are boys. His eld- est child is a ,girl, nineteen years of age. She can rope a steer, kill a wolf with a rifle, or strang,le a dog at ann's length. In the man's house is a until -keg nearly tilled with gold coin, while in tlw pantry is a tlour-barrel almost tilled nith pieces. W he sells cattle it is for coin, which is thurped on the premises. He will not take' the paper money at any rate, but is always ready to sell steers for gold or silver. His boys are all fituniliar with guns, horses, dogs, and caul( a few more years they will have literally cart -loads of money, provided robbers do not make a raid upon them, in which ease, from man, wife, boys. girls, dogs. shotguns, the robbers would be apt to get more bullet -holes than bullion. The house occupied by his prosperous family is low, built of logs, and contains three rootns. The father and mother sleep in the dining -room, the girls sleep in the spare -room. while the boys sleep in the addition. The girls do not understand much about Honiton lace, or the operas hut they understand how to work. THE P SNUFF. Dr. Ludolf eld, chief phy- :: •T EGIatrtoieFnfl eieian in the Bavarian army during the Napoleon wars, tells the following as a - true story : \Once I was gathering plants a small forest near Moison. Suddenly I came upon a man who was lying on the ground, and whom I at once supposed to be dead. On drawing near to him, how- ever, I perceived that he was still alive, but in a fainting state. Vigorously I shook him. At last he opened his eyes, and asked me, in a lamentable and scarce- ly audible voice, whether 1 had any snuff with me. When I gave a negative an- swer he fell back into his former condi s tion. I now went in search of snuff, and Ivas fortunate enough to meet a peasant, who kindly came with me to the fainting man and gave him some pinches of snuff. The man soon recovered, and then he told me that he had to travel a certain distance as messenger, and on starting in the morning had forgotten his simtl-box. As he went along. so violent became his craving for snuff, that he was completely exhausted,and hau fallen down in a swoon at the spot where I tbund him. But for my opportune arrival, he said that he must surely have died. ase-se-em The people of the South-west have a wit all their own, as witness the trick re- cently played upon the authorities of Jefferson, Texas. The policemen had. been without pay for five months, and their wives were at their wits' end to feed the children. A consultation was held, and one lady undertook. if the matter were left to her, to bring the financial de- partment to toe the mark. Her sisters in suffering took her at her word, end the next day she had the whole force arrest- - ed and brought before the magistrate as ti vagrant's,- Without any visible means of support !\ The process was . succes and the men got their moistly. •
