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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30
Manners.

Before you bow to lady in the street, per-
NIT her to decide whether you may do so or
not, by at least look of recognition. ,
Excuse my gloves" is an unnecessary
apology, for the gloves should not be with
drawn to shake hands. @ste. 2#s@wV
When your companion bows to lady, you
should do so also. When gentleman bows
to lady in your company, always bow to
him in return *@a t'..a S~@".-*h .....
A letter must be answered, unless you wish
to intimate to the wriier that he or his subject
are beneath your notice. a, . ......,. ,...s., u,
A visit must be returned in like manner,
even though no intimacy is intended '@'
A smiling countenance is pleasant, bnt ex-
cess of laughter should be avoided, especially
when it is possible for any one to suppose
himself derided by it. '''s'-
Whisperingin company is always offensive,
and often for the reason that persons present
suspect that they are the object of it. as
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30
Henry WINTER Davis, ORATOR.

Correspondence of the Boston Globe ,g,, nav
II will be remembered that q Maryland
Representative, Harris, uttered words in
eulogy of jeff Davis and the Confederacy,
which showed a condition of mental treason
at least. A motion for expulsion was offered,
wild excitement followed, Mr.. Colfax left the
chair in order to sustain It., and did so in q
speech of marked and impetuous power. By
the way, Mr.. Colfax is known to reportorial
memories as the most rapid speaker of his
time. Beck, of Kentucky, is their present
bette noirs in this respect. The motion to
expel failed to obtain, by a few, the necessary
two-thirds vote. Then came one to censure.
On this, debate proceeded for nearly q week:
The whole subject of free speech, and
whether it had or not any limitations, passed
under review With the progress of the de-
bate mems minds became confused. At last
one day, just as the morning hour expired.
Henry Winter Davis came in. Taking his
seat, in a few moments his clear, firm s'Mr.
Speaker" thrilled though the House, and at
once hushed all the turbulent hum. As de-
scribed to me by . master of the picturesque,
who both heard and participated, the scene
that followed must have been striking one
A few swift sentences stated the various po-
sitions assumed by preceding speakers. In a
clear and striking manner he arraigned and
summed them up, and then proceeded to an
alyze the offense of which Mr.. Harris had
been guilty, showing how freedom and
license diverged, and that disloyal utterances
like his were as reasonable in their degree as
the act of war, the raising of rebellion, and
the marshalling of armies As the orator
proceeded the House gathered about, in front
and all around him. The Senate Chamber
was cmptied the galleries above were dark
with the throngs that leanded down with
breathless attention. There was no sound
heard but the music of the speakers voice,
for the hushed breath of the great audience
seemed silence before those tones. His col
league, the one whose offense was under con-
sideration, Southerner even to Qaixotism,
stood close to the orator, nay, almost in front
of him, leaning on some friendly shoulder,
while his face became wrapt study, show
ing evident Inconsistencies of how much he
had to do with the occasion, in the intelec-
tual delight the display gave him. as
At the most caustic part of Davis argument
when everybody was listening with an In
tenseness almost painful, Harris was heard
by the orator and those about him to say in
excited tones, almost audible to the galleries,
s'By G.. old Maryland is ahead yeti" Gould
State pride go further? There is no one now
in the House able to SO electrify a friend, le
alone an Antagonist. #st & lG3ia
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30
Simple Cure sor HEcndache.

If the saying is true that she who causes
two blades of grass TO grow where only one
grew before is public benefactor," how
much more is he who discovers a remedy for
one of the most distressing diseases that poor
human nature is heir TO? Having been
afflicted for many years with neuralgia heatl-
ache, and after trying all the remedies could
hear of without any benefit, / had given up
all hopes of cure, having had an elder
brother die of the disease, and being told by
the doctors there was no cure for it, / hap
PLY thought of trying salt, and IN short
time was delighted to see it had the best re-
suits. 1t is now about two months since /
tried the experiment, and j have not been
troubled with it since. Now / want to let
'the whole world and the rest of mankind I"
know the remedy, and it is so simple any one
can use it. Take pinch CT salt, and snuff
it up your nostrils until you can taste the salt
in your throat. Do not blow your nose for a
considerable time, but, as the water runs,
snuff it up until you can spit il out of your
mouth. In changeable weather, or if you
feel any returns of it, repeat the remedy.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30
LEAP-YEAR ROMANCE.
A Wealthy Widow Captures a Young
'& -''"' New Yorker. -skAstfG5@5'" +
From the New York Sun, April IS.

From the New York Sun; April 1s. 5a*
A romantic marriage was solemnized in
st. Paulis Church, in East One Hundred and
Seventeenth street, last night, the couple
being Mr.. Thomas Pagan and Mrs. j. Read.
1t was the climax of case of love at first
sight. and the raising of a poor young man
to aff1uence. t7 mfE57 @i5,2es,s
Mr.. Thomas Pagan is the son of the late
Jas. T. Pagan, who was Superintendent of
and fast life prior to his fathers death, and
thus naturally incurred the old gentleman's
displeasure He was cut off with shilling.
Thomas then sensibly went to work to earn
an honest living. Being young, of prepos-
sessing address, he soon obtained employ
ment with Patrick Martin, house-painter in
Harlem. fs~ et a.-stz .t,.ge rs sfr.r ...
About this time he was sent by his employer
to brighten up the interior of the lonely
dwelling of the buxum widow of the late
Joseph Read, gentleman who had acquired
q large fortune in Washington market The
widow was decidedly taken with young Eagan
on his first appearance in the house, and
and watched his work with an apparently
deep interest. In fact she followed him from
room to room, scarcely leaving him alone for
a minute. This made Thomas little nervous
and being rather sensitive he imagined the
widow suspected him of dishonesty. The
domicile the closer she watched him. Finally
1t made him so uncomfortable that he resolved
to stand it no longer. @aa tEsa -'.''s
He informed his employer of this state of
affairs, and another man was sent in his
place: This did not suit the widow, and
when the new painter made his appearance
she bade him retnrn to the shop and send
Pagan to do the work, saying that she wanted
him and none other to work for her., Pagan
was accordingly sent to finish the job. While
Pagan was busily at work Mrs. Reed stepped
up to him and asked him whether he was
married. On being answered in the negative,
she said: ''Then am going to take advan-
tage of Leap Year and make you PROPOSE
ton of marriage"
81 But, my dear madam" said the young
man, blushing to the roots of his hair, "you
surely must be joking; we are strangers, and
l am sure you do not mean what you say"
s'lf you think that | am Joking and do not
mean what fsay, Just put on your coat and
so with me to my lawyers and will make
over to you $4,000 worth of property, said
| the bouncing widow. @ s4
Young Pagan, convinced by her manner
that she was in earnest, straightway accom-
| panied her to the lawyer, and q deed was
drawn up giving Pagan $50, 900 worth of
property, which he was to become possessed
of on the day of the marriage. Pagan, after
| the engagement had been made, gave up his
work. He can be seen daily riding through
the city behind fast horse, which draws a
stylish turnout, and he is one of the best
dressed men to be seen on the street. When
ever he meets any of his old chums he halls
him and says, swell, boys, this is better than
painting, eh ?''
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30

AN AMIABLE WIFR. jackson w. Frank
lin, of st. Louis, has sued for a divorce from
his wife. He states that they were married
in Bedford County, Virginia, February 4ta,
1849, and lived together until April l, 1872.
That she treated him in such manner as to
render his condition intolerable; used obscene
and abusive language to him, telling him that
''if hell was raked his match could not be
found;" that he was misery in her sight, and
she wished he would take his clothes and be-
gone. He further says she endangered his
life by making an assault upon him at the
breakfast table, striking him on the head
with a large stick of wood; she also struck
him on the hand and lacerated the flesh; also
stabbing him three times with butcher knife.
All this without any proyocation on his part,
except that he refused to vote as she desired.
On the 10th of March, 1872, she cut him on
| the hand with large knife. That ON the
first of April, while attending funeral, she
came to him in the presence of the dead body
and the people assembled, and seized him by
the throat, striking and beating him with her
fist. He made no resistance, and did not try
to prevent her striking and beating him p He
says he has submitted to her treatment as long
as it was possible for q human being to stand
abuse and ill-treatment, and only consented
to commence this action when he became sat
isfied his life was not safe in company of de-
fendant
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30
Can n woman keep n secret,
From the Nineteenth Century. ei

From the Nineteenth Century. .f % j"
Men say women can't keep secret. 1t is
just the reverse; women can, men can't
Women carry with them to their graves secrets
that would kill any man. Woman never tells;
man always does. The woman suffers and
dies; man blabs and lives. Man cannot keep
q secret; woman cannot make it known.
What is sport to the man is death to the wo-
man. Adam was a sneak. Eve would have
kept the apple a secret. Who ever heard
woman talk about her love ,fascos9 Every
body has heard man gossip. Man delights
in telling of his illicit conquests; woman
would cut her tongue out first, Men are
coarse in their club room talk; women are re-
fined in their parlor conversation. Who ever
heard of a woman telling of her lovers? Who
has not listened 10 the dissipation of the men !?
Men boast, women don't. Women never tell
tales out of school; men are always babbling.
So down with another old adage.3 Woman
can keep secret, and her ability to do SO is
proved by the conduct of a st. Johns New
Foundland) girl, who did not tell her lover
she was worth $4,000,000 in her own right
until after marriage. Hshse a-
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30

PIcKLED EGGs,-At the season of the year
some -four or six dozen to be boiled in ca
pacious saucepan until they become quite
hard. Then. after removing the shells, lay
them carefully in large-mouthed Jars. and
pour over them scafding vinegar wen seasoned
with whole pepper, allspice, few races of
ginger and few cloves of garlic. When
cold they are bunged down close, and in a
month are fit for use. Where eggs are plen-
tiful the above pickle is by no means expen-
siye, and as an accompaniment to cold meat
it cannot be ouirivaled. .-.. ,--5s..4 81, ..-,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30
Unforgottcn anTamy.

The Paris Rtppa relates that the famous
Hungarian General Georgey (who in 1S49
gave the death-blow to the hopes of Hungary
force of much Inferior numbers) was recently
recognized by the populace while passing
through the city of Torda, in Lower Hum
gary. Immediately crowd assembled, cry
ing out, .Down with the traitor! Down
with the coward! Georgey was compelled
to seek refuge in barracks among some SOL
diers, where he remained until nightfall, and
then made his escape in disguise. This is
the first time since 1849 that he has shown
himself in that part of the country which he
had betravpd gT Etszas.4 Ft9E8 '#a
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30

, A wEDDINu took place at Lacrosse, Wis,
recently, at which, according to the Democrat,
'.the bride was given away BY the city, and
the city was mighty glad to get rid of her"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30
Road Etiquette.

Perhaps there is good reason in despsing
some of the rules of etiquette imposed by
fashionable society. If man wishes to eat
his mashed potatoes with his knife. or prefers
to pour his hot coffee into u saucer rather
than burn his throat, we are willing he should
have his liberty. But there are some things
that no man has a right to do, and that no
well-bred man will wish 10 do No man will
wish to put his fork into another mans plate,
or drink from another persons cup. Ii two
men sleep in the same bed, and one of them
crowds the other to the wall, he is called
hog. etgia ,f5 yfla& atti ,tf t54ga.a
Now, there are certain rules of good breed
ing that apply to the road as well as the table
or the fireside. We are not talking now
about any laws Ia regard to the road other
than the laws of common sense and good
breeding When two teams. meet, good
breeding requires that each give half the
road Yet we often meet teamsters who re-
fuse to obey this simple rule, because they
have the advantage at the time. A man with
a heavy lumber wagon has no more right to
crowd light carriage into the rtits or bushes
than a bur1y lubber would have to force his
weaker bed-fellow to sleep on the rail. If
some peculiarity in his load requires him to
keep the track, he can stop his team, and
politely ask for it, and thank the other for
giving it, 10 aa
When one teamster wishes to pass another
on dusty road, he should ask the privilege
of doing so, especially if there is lady in
the forward wagon. When the forward team
finds that his own team travels slower than
the other, he should hold his horses to their
slowest pace till the other passes. A man
has no more right, under these circumstances,
| to whip up his slow team just enough to keep
| the other in the rear, than he has to build a
| fence across the road, or do any other ill
hammered, vulgar thing. s.s,,55 -tfs
| We think little attention on the part of
| teamsters to the simple rules of good breed
| ing, will do as much to prevent accidents and
secure comfort and good feeling on the road
/ as any set of laws that could be enacted.
/ '-'sE'' ,----A4 .s<<Dh - -
A novel document, originating in the New
York Stock Exchange, is in circulation, ad-
dressed to ''sensibly practicable temperance
people," and is in the form of the following
pledge: }A p. 4Ee1- i'zH .-s5
| ."We, the undersigned, deprecating the
/ growing evil of intemperance, and believing
that it is in great degree induced by a mistaken
/ idea of sociability and politeness, therefore,
with view of mitigating this evil in a prac-
teal way we hereby pledge ourselved to pay
only for the liquor which we ourselves drink,
and to abstain from drinking any liquors
i which others pay for. -
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30

MASSACHUSETTS AND THE TELEGRAPH. The
New York Kaat in its notice of Professor
Morse, says; 1t is singular fact tina. Mas
sachusetts can claim as her sons the three
men who have done the most to "harness the
lightning" and make it the servant of man
kind. Of course we mean Franklin, Morse
and Field. What other triumvirate win be
so long honored by mankind or associated
with such boundless additions to the sum of
human happiness, and with such contribu-
ions to the subjugation of the earth to hu-
man uses ~ ~
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30
Vyhsat the Flirt SaId.


II / made you think me yours, =.
1t was only to be kind, n. e..
did not mean 1t.
I'm engaged TO all my wooers,
And if you had not been blind,
You would have seen il.
I'm far too much for one;
So you see / must divide,
And take a dozen.
Now with you what shall be done?
Be twelfth, or else decide - G
To be ''cousin."
Come, don't let my words offend,
And y0t7T angry heart relieve.
Eg And say: HYou flirt, you Y
Take my hand and he my friend,
While l tell you that grieye
My folly hurt you. .
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30
WEEKLY HERALD.
2: 2: " J. risst 5ssk'} FISK BROS, Publishers
Maggie.

.uH.6 u# Maggie. &
Bif 1 ts##E' BIZ II. O. MERvALE. beg tfS "3t "&#
4~ Maggie has the fairest face foe ' ~.
.s ff Ever seen, in form and feature. lr .t5 -.&
Mirrored there Is every grace
t&'~t OF her frank and sunny nature. s.t.'. S
Maggie has the shapeliest head
.a+.. g Ever crowned by summers twenty. e.
Guarded on her Maiden bed, ...,.....g.
BY the prayers of friends in plenty.
Maggie has the brightest hair - -
A Ever twined In cunning tresses 1,..1
.e Clustering in beauty rare -s..s..s.... .,.l-
- Round the white neck 1t caresses
Maggie has the rosiest mouth . -
Ever kissed by happy lover; i'''fE +f
.se Lips-like coral of the South; 4 ,sg tafIe
Eastern pearls-what they discover.
Maggie has the grandest eyes s........-
Ever lit by fancfes tender;
Tho beware the fire that lies .
In their depths, If you offend her.
Maggie has the truest heart
..ul- II Ever lent to earth by heaven; .aN.i.
s.. And, till us the Lender part -..s. d.. ..r....
.ae She TO me that heart hath given.
--C9rnhill Magazine. .aaigt .st. a-.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMs.-The Cincinnati
Commercial one of the most prominent in
dependent journals of the West, says: Grant
cannot be beaten save by candidate to whose
character there is found an unqualified as
surance of devotion to the public safety
through steadfast conservatism of our nation
ality. 1t is not possible to beat Grant, unless
his opponent is known as rafe man. A
candidate against Grant must not be erratic
or Sensational, radical or aggressive; or, if he
is, he must miserably fall. 1t seems to us
that Charles Francis Adams is the man whose
name is a platform; whose character gives
guarantees that the republic would suffer no
determent if he were chosen chief magistrate;
and that the essential thing is to present him
to the people with the slightest possible in
cumhranee in the way of platform literature.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-05-17
Girls, Learn to Work.

lido not live in city, only in country
village, and yet as | look about me, see
but very few girls that are learning to do
anything except dress; perhaps do
little fancy work and practice on the
piano. am happy to say that at the
outside of the town it is different, as
there are some who do work, and with
willing hands, to help earn their living,
and why should it not be so? To be
sure, no one can expect n girl to accom-
plish so much as a boy, and they should
learn to be refined, and ladY-like, but
they can do this and work too.
How many families we see where the
father works hard from morning till
night, taking no rest except in the hours
of darkness, and the mother tires of the
unceasing round of work that must be
done, while the children attend school
part of the time, and the rest is frittered
away in useless amusement, thinking 1t
is beneath them to labor.
Ask a girl to do some work and how
quickly an excuse is fOundi "Oh! l am
so tired.n when they have really been
doing nothing to tire themi or, Il don't
like to do that not thinking that
mother must do things for them fire.
quently that are perhaps quite as disa-
greeable to her; or, Il do not 1eel well,
vet they are so well ihaI tley can Walk
until late in the evening, with the night
dampness on and about them, and if
the mother expostulates with them
sometimes, and thinks it is not proper
/ for them to 90 and denies them the
privilege, what 4 scene ensues, the
mother is accused of "nOt wanting them
to go anywhere, the other girls are all
| gOing,n etc, until, perhaps, at last an
| unwilling consent is given.
Now is this right? Would not these
same girls be happier if they learned,
commencing when they were small, To
do some of the light work to help the
mother, and then when they are larger,
if the family is small so that the mother
does not need their help, let them learn
a trade or do some kind of work that
/ they may earn their own clothes at
| least? The idea that it is not respecta-
BILE for girls to labor is One-Of the most
absurd things in this age of absurdities.
INEZ FORD.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-05-17
A Woman Drunk.

While on the way to our office, yester-
day morning, the writer met upon the
sidewalk a woman, still in the prime of
life, staggering drunk. 1t is not n pleas
ant sight to see drunken man; but
such sights are so common in all large
cities as hardly to attract attention.
Men, somehow, take to brutality more
readily than women. It's the way they
are made, and we sort O. expect it of
them. At least, by instinct and educa-
ton, they naturally lean that way
many of them,-and n large amount of
saving grace is necessary to lift them
out of their low conditions.
We cOncede wOman's right and equal
ity with men in all things except in
this. The right to get drunk is the eX-
elusive prerogative of our sex, in which
we will not consent TO share with wOm-
en-. And just here We offer our protest
against the invasion of our rights by the
woman above alluded.
A woman drunk and Teeling through
the streets! Isn't it shocking? There
is something especially sacred in the
very name of woman. Around it cluster
the dearest memories and the tenderest
associations. 1t is to her gentle care
and loving watchfulness that every
mothers son of US owes an existence.
She is the companion OF our purest joys
and the sharer of our keenest sorrows.
She will stand by us when every other
friend forsakes. Her hand smOothes
our pillow in sickness, and her touching
sympathy strengthens us in our hours
of darkness. She is the tender guardian
of childhood, the constant inspiration
of manhood, and the sweet comforter of
old age. Nearer the angels than we are
l-divinely glorious in her womanhood-
/ isn't it burning shame, and everlasting
pity, that she should ever get drunk =
/ San Jose Mercury.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-05-17

SYMPATHY.-Till we have reflected on
it, we are scarcely aware how much tne
sum of human happiness in the worlu
is indebted to this one feelIngIsy ~ pa pa
thy. We get cheerfulness anu NiHOI,
we scarcely know how or When, from
moro assOciatiOn with our felIoW-menl
onJ from the looks reflected on us OF
gIodness and enjoyment we eaten IN
s,;ration ana p0wer to 60 on, from hu-
-, ,,reseuce and from cheerful looks.
TLe workman works with added energy
from having others by. The full family
aircIe has a strength and life peculiar to
its own. The substantial good and the
affactual relief which men extend to one
il trifIing. 1t is not by these, but by
something far less costly, that the work
is done. God has insured it by much
more simple machinery. He has given
to the weakest and the poorest the
power to contribute largely to the COM
mon stock of gladness. The child's
smile and laugh are mighty powers in
this world. When bereavement has left
YOU desOlate, what substantial benefit is
there which makes coincidence accepta-
ble2 1t cannot replace the loved ones
you have lost. 1t can bestOw upon you
nothing permanent. But warm hand
has touched yours, and its thrill told
you that there was living repOse there
to your emotion. One look, one human
sigh, has done more for you than the
eostliest present could convey.