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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-03-07

A City Boys Letter from the Country.
DEAR JlMMY:-Ask your mother to bring
you up here right off. It's gay. There's fish
ing here, and lots of worms to catch them
with. You stick the hook in them, and they
wriggle bully. Fishing's funnier when you
don't catch the hook in the seat of your pam
falcons, so you can't sit down and catch fish
and Mr.. Jenkyns, Cousin Laura's beau, asked
lpe If was sole or heel. Suppose he thot
he was going to be funny, but didn't see It,
Bimeby, saw him cut piece out of Cousin
Laura's hair, where her hook caught it, and
kiss it, like great baby, and put It into his
pocket. So told on 'em at tea, and every
body laft. They have COWS here, and ] go to
see them milked. They don't pump it out
with their tails, like you and I thought they
on purpose, suppose. | MIXED the other
night Itwas very hard to squeeze, and it
would not go into the pail. Some went into
my eyes, and the rest went up my sleeve. l
don't like milking. don't like turkey cocks
neither. They rutfie themselves up and run
at you. They are pherocious bird, and dis
agreeable to live with. Chickens are nicer.
We eat EN-. They put them under barril
at night, and Bill and kill them in the morn-
ing. We have bully fun wringing their necks.
You'd better come here right off, and bring q
shotgun, for there are bears here-anyhow
we saw fox-and candy, because we can't
get any here, and pop-gun, and some bows
and arrows and things. Perhaps we can
shoot a deer. l think Mr.. Jenkins is blamed
fool. He mademe believe he had found deers
track the other day, and when looked at it,
it was only the mark of Laura's boot. don't
see what makes him so happy about girls.
We won't, will we? Tide be ashamed. I am
going to ride old Sam tomorrow. He's a
horse. You ride him BAREBACK, and it's very
hard to stick on him, he feels so squirmy.
Give my love to all the boys, and tell them
I'm having a bully time, and hate old Jen-
kyns. No more at present from ~ t'si"
71 ' '1' Yours truly, ROBBIE.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-03-07

MAYOR Fox, of Philadelphia, in instance
of the high character of the police force APP
pointed by him, asserts that 229 were honora-
bly, discharged soldiers of the late war, and
"a were similarly discharged from the navy,
3 had attained the rank of General in the
army. that of Major, II that of Captain, Ia
that of Sergeant and II that of Lieutenant.
During three years, two members of the force
ties, 16 manned for life and many others have
received severe wounds, of whom two may
not recover. %: " s'2 ss's+ .s .s .-
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-03-07

IA Ar Newbury, England, a gentleman made
a wager of $1,000 that at O'clock on par
ticular evening he would sit down to dinner
in well-woven, well-dyed, well-made suit of
clothes, the wool of which formed the fleece
on the sleeps back at five o'clock that same
morning. The sheep were shorn, the wool
washed, carded, stubbed, roved, spun and
ments were made. HIT quarter past six he
sat down to a dinner at the head of his guests
in complete damson-c -colored suit-thus win
ming his wager, with one hour and three
quarters to spare
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-03-07

SIOUX CRY, February 28.-Reports of the
discovery of rich deposits of gold in the Black
Hills continue to reach here. and causes great
excitement. A gentleman Just arrived from
Spotted Tails reservation, brings rich speci-
mems Of quartz, and says the e. Indians !, have
serted that these mines will prove by far the
richest ever discovered, and there will un-
doubtedly be great rush from here for the
gold fields as soon as navigation opens.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-03-07

London, February 29.-Reports from Mo-
rovia states that the ex>President OF the
Republic was imprisoned for malpractice
and had escaped from custody.
London March 1.-All approaches to the
Bow Street Station are iammed by an inns
mense concourse of people who have gath
cred in the hope of catching q glimpse of
O'Connor, the assallant of the Queen. The
father of the prisoner Is an Irishman, while
the other portion of the family are English,
and belong TO the Protestant Church. o.
Connor's house has been thoroughly searched
by the detectives, but nothing whatever was
found to criminate any one with him in the
dastardly attack. es5f..sa {
The Lancet, a well known medical journal
gives number OF casualties which occur.
red In this city, on Tuesday last. caused BY
falling stands and the moving of the great
mass Of people eoDgrega;ed 10 view the
Thanksgiving demonstrations, r.
Queenstown, March The steamships
Russia and Republic have arrived
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-03-07

b WASHINGTON, February sS.--Schurz pre-
sented to-day numerous memorials from var
ious parts of the United States. with 10, 407
signatures, transmitted from the.city of Bos-
ton, protesting against any amendment to the
Constitution incorporating therein the recog-
milton of God or Jesus Christ, as an attempt
to overthrow the great principles Of religious
liberty, on which this government was origi-
nally founded.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-03-07
p .. ~ ). tTsks 1ssk'} FISK BROS, Publishers
The Rocking Chair.

move il from its resting place,
My kind old FRIEND the rocking chair .-.,, ,..r
And soon within its dear embrace
rocked away world of care: B., q ....lL
And dreaming of my other friends,
Whose lives are spent in chase of bliss, 15n
wish them all chair like this"
And who. of all the friends I've known, -
Have toiled SO hard, so vainly, too, I''.'-H5ii
Through all life's recompenseless ways, .r.,,r
AS mother dear. and father, too. -
Each contest that has vexed my soul, AZ u y -
They've blessed with hand and word and kiss;
Three-score has contests of its own '''--'
And yet they have no chair like this. I,.,e o.,
move 1t to its resting place, - '-. ~ .E5.H
And sadly scaned its seat all worn, .- .
As many a time dear mother viewed .''
Mine own by boyish rompings torn ,fgI4 ,
And even as mother did with me,
robed il In garment fair, ' ..t ...
1t looked as fresh as did once
How could keep that rocking chair
Dear father lean upon its arm,
So would have thee lean on mine: '#
, "Tis firm and strong, its grasp IL warm
And so to me has oft been thine!
Dear mother, in its kind embrace
Forget how far apart we be,
And let the old chair take my place -r
Till can clasp my arms round thee!
Dear rocking chair, 60 farther West,
No more youll know this busy town,
For these the peace, for these the rest
I'll take the burden they lay down.
And don't invade with dreams of ''stock" .,.,
Dear Pappy's doze at twilight dim,
But softly bend and gently rock;
And say that you were sent by
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-03-07

BERLIN, February 29.-The extension of
the fortifications of Metz and Strasborrs las
been decreed.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-03-07

PARIS, February 29.-The Assembly has
resolved to adjourn on the Goth of March. t
Count de Chambord has left Dordrecht for
Bredau.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-03-07


DR. Franklin described the farmers condi-
ton in 1776 as follows: ..
Farmer at the plow, ~
Wife milking COW;
Daughters spinning yarn,
Boys threshng in the barn ..
All happy to a charm. 49,. 80.
Another gives the account of 1871 as fol-
lows:
The farmer gone to show, -.'
His daughter at the piano; '.- ~
Madam gaiy dressed in satin ;-
All the boys are learning Latin, ..
With mortgage on the farm.
THE VIZ o tho WSsp, an English paper,
satirical and conservative, has this picture of
Europe:
Russia covets, ~ ~
-- Turkey fears; ... - 3..1
g.. Austria ponders, 3d.. ....
Italia cheers.
Northumberland H. ...-,
.s Wait in dread; ra.. .I. :.
Deanark's palsied, . ...
Spain Is dead
. France is bleeding, q
3D., ...-. Prussia scars;
Brttania shuts her eyes
ID. And-ss,eres!! #..
The Van Buren press., 1872-07-16

axle, whatever it was, executed its rear
full errand. There Is rumhling thud, a
corner Of the cal touches the earth; II
breaks up and fills the way; others fore
cd along are piled on 1t, until at last both
tracks are numbered with the wreck.
Frank Dec is all alert 1t 10 a place
where accidents have been in times past,
and he looks carefully out for the small
est signal Of danger, but all is well, white
lights stream through the moonlight air,
and on he goes
Suddenly, like a edhot ball shot frem
a cannon's m Juth in time OF peace comes
a blood red glare upon the track. The
engineers hand few to the lever, the
whistle sounded for the brakes, and a
voice cried out from the rear, "Jump,
Frank, Jump" But something held the
engine driver to his post, and no man
kno weth, or dreamsth, or imagineth, how
he passed into that angelhood OF which
he thought but span OF time ago. Down
below the cold black waters, we know
that angel hands minstersd to brave
Frank Dee, and caught his expiring
thoughts from the wreck Of ruin, even as
he. with his human hands, had caught
the fair. haired child from the crush of
death that day.
In tho little house up town there is
such sorrow M God alone can still. We
dare not go near it with word or thought
Only this one thing we know, Tor sor-
rows self taught the truth, that as the
days go on and the wife and children
live out their time, sweet and sweeter
will grow the thought that the engine
driver went into the Future through the
gateway Of duty.
The Van Buren press., 1872-07-16
POETRY.
The Bridegroom Comsth.

The Bridegroom Comsth.
Behold the Bridegroom cemets: 90 We out to ND
him. +"
Behold the Bridegroom comethl"
1t is the warning cry;
Are your lamps trimmed and burning
To greet His watchfu sye'
Can ye go with willing footsteps.
To meet the coming guest,
Without one shade Of dSv BIT or fear.
Within your peaceful breastf
.'Be' old the Bridegroom oometh IL
Itis the welcome home,
To those who to the threshold,
With burning lights have come;
The wedding robes are ready,
The marriage feast is spread.
And by the B ideGroom', loving hand.
They to his board are lei.
Oh ye who standing idly.
Neglect your lamps to Trim.
No oil within your vessels,
And lights but burning dim;
How will ye meet the summons,
When lfe's last hour 10 Ger,
Or enter to his presence bright,
When once is closed the door,
Oh ye who always ready,
Stand with your tapers bright,
A radiance all around you.
Illmining the night
How blest shall be your welcome.
To peace. and joy. and home,
When through the Eternal gates Of morn,
Ye see the Bridegroom come.
July 1872. RUTH.
The Van Buren press., 1872-07-16

EE A young man found mysterious
bunch Of newspapers. old hose, defanes
petticoats, stair. carpets. DC. &c.,-and
supposing it disjointed fragment OF a
young lady who had just passed, over
took her and offered her the deor's'' Sns
sharply retorted, 1T is not mine, SIR;
YOU insult me-" The kind man drop
ped tho package, remarking, "Oh, well;
il YOU can get your backup without it, all
right"
The Van Buren press., 1872-07-16

~. The following occurs in report
Of the New York Free Trade Conference
Parke Godwin--May asa the gentleman
a question? Mr., Pillsbury-Certainly.
Mr. Godwin-I heartily agree with ali the
gentleman has said against centralizatiou.
but ask him If it is not true that Mr.
Greeley has approved Of these sentralis'
ing measurss2 Mr.. Pillsbury - The
Christian world never quotes from 81.
Paul previous to bis conversion.
The Van Buren press., 1872-07-16

~ Tn. ohsrPion reapsr-ad-srs'''
The Van Buren press., 1872-07-16
Col, WIN. T.. BOURNE.

Formerly Of Fort Smith, Arkansas, VIII as
sist me In the duties OF my Agency ., am
n,enared to make cash advances on all ship
nieflts of Cotton TO the House Of Messrs. F. l.
BRAUNs 4 Co, Baltimore. and will personal.
" guarantee to shippers as much per pound,
nei. al they would receive by, shipping to
New Orleans or New York markets.
q. A. MEYER.
Aren't for Baltimore and Arkanidi
The Van Buren press., 1872-07-16
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Ad lress all letters and communications to
J. S. DUNHAM. Editor and Proprietor.
The Van Buren press., 1872-07-16

DIpN'r LIKE MUTToS A good story
is told OF the recent excellent perform.
ance OF Handers Messiah at the
Broadway Baptist church. A farmer
took his wife to hear the grand music so
splendidly rendered on that occasion,
and, after listening with apparent enjoy
ment, the pair became suddenly interest
ed in one OF tho grand ohofusss--" We
all like sheep. have gone astrsy."
First. a sharp soprano voice exclaim'
sd, "We all, like sheep"
Next, a deep bass voice uttered In the
most earnest tones 1--WE oil, like
sheep?
Then, all the singers at once asserted
ave all, like sheep"
"Darn'd il do !" exclaimed old rusti
Gus to his partner. ~ like beef and ba-
con, but can't bear sheep meat"
There was an audible litter Ia that vi.
cinity, but the splendid music attracted
attention from the pair. and they quietly
slipped .-Louispiiie Courier Journal
The Van Buren press., 1872-07-16

" Behold the Bridegroom ccmets; 90 We on, to meet
him. !"
The Van Buren press., 1872-07-16

Cure FOR CANCER Eight years ago .
cancer came on my nose 1t grew slow
for several years. The last two years It
grew very fast; it became frightful; It
had begun to cat out my left eye. ! had
paid hundreds Of dollars, and tried doc
tors far and near, without finding rsl.sf
Last summer drank wild tea, putting
the tea grounds on my cancer every
night as a poultice, and in six weeks my
cancer was cured. / am now sixty-two
years old. gave this remedy to sever
al persons who had cancer, and know two
who have been cured since. / believe
wild tea grows over the country gener-
ally, always on high land.
CHARLES YARpLEY.
al po
The New York herald., 1872-08-29

be good penman), and will never use
the bold, angular style, or initiate the sigma
ture Of John Hancock man whose character is
definitely formed wiifhavs a sameness In his writ
ing, or n ne writes two or more "hands" in each
variety Of style, which last 70 often modned by the
uses to which his writing s put. minister OF the
Gospel, for instance, will very frequentIy indeed
write Ia the style Of the letter published herewith
to-day and signed David Livingstone, but very in
frequently will he write In the style OF Henry" The
round clear characters used In the Livingstone let
ter are very dinerent indeed nom the semi-Gothic
ones OF the Stanley epstle. The former or about
equal diameter when measured In either horizon
tai or q perpendicular direction, and the inter-
stices are very clear and open, while the heaviness
OF the line Is the at all points. In the letter
from Henry" very few OF the 'e's" can be dis
tingushcd from "t's," and exhibit no opening In
the CENTRE In the original OF the letter from "Henry"
too, the upper portion OF the letters and the
up strokes are not Of the same heavy character as
the lower portions and the down strokes, as IL
would appear from the printed copy. "Henry"
tends always towards clongatlng his characters.
The New York herald., 1872-08-29

writing OF men. All who write much stamp the
impress OF their individuality not alone in the sepa-
rate characters as they are formed. but the en-
Tire bross, page as It Hes spread before them. So
geology opens out tie leaves Of the worlds
history before the eye, that he whe
has mastered the mystery Of naturer trsc-
.nes NAV unhesitatiugiy read her history
SO phys,egnomy, physiology and phrenolosy inc-
cate character broadly. 1t is only when We place
TOO much reliance ON details that We are led away.
A careIess,y written manuscript tells its own story
OF authorship so that not few have lived who
ceuid readily determine the manner OF man their
correspondent might be By simply glancing at his
open letter in their hand. II one stops to reason
the steps are simple. There are bread principles to
commence With, and It only requires perseverance,
70 proceed. There are very few who cannot tell
the nne handwriting OF . man from that OF woman
and st fewer who cannot discern sex In the large
running hand stlIl taught in some fashionable
boarding schools. strong mans handwriting
will contain vigor and weak mans will lack that
element. A retiring, tmid man will write in small
characters tRenerally q round hand II he
The New York herald., 1872-08-29

while In the Livingstone letter circu-
lar sweep 10 given to the pen. The
general uniformity and clearness or the
Livingstone letter also marx broadly the
uniikeness 10 the other, which is with
out fixed style, where the letters are
formed at all angles, and are widely
dlrerent IN relative lengths and
To enter into minute analysis OF the
letters to exhibit their difference would
he much like writing an essay to prove
that the moon Is essentially unlike
cheese. There are some points, how.
ever, the peculiarities born Of o lifetime,
In rapid formation OF letters that may
be briefly alluded TO. Informing such
letters az 'b'' and "r' the Doctor
always begins by making o hook bend
ing upwards and to the right, while
Henry" simply uses q downward
stroke. In the portions OF letters below
the line In the Livingstone letter there
10 thu carno radical di6oronno of onacao
The New York herald., 1872-08-29
LIVINGSTONE Or STANLEY
Comments Upon a Comparison Of
Chirographies.
Dlssnm.IA IN s1MuIBUs.

In making critical examination and comparison
Of handwriting. o. In critcisng picture one first
takes into consideration the general effect and
spirit Of the work executed. Details are passed BY
vnbeeded, and the tout eaxm6,e Is only sought to
- grsspcd. A work Of art has generally certain
clements characteristic OF the artist In broader
sense than are the pccuarities Of touch, color or
drawing. The individuality Of the man
makes itself apparent nrst In the gen.
eral result, and not till afterwards
do we look for the manipulation Of means by which
that result s reached II this is true Of the artist
St Il more remarkably characteristic OF the hand.
The New York herald., 1872-08-29

ten by Livingstone. There is an undeniAbld
similarity between the two--so much so that the
sun assumes that the same hand must have written
both. l.
We do not, however, recognize 20 clear case on
identity in the handwriting. Moreover, the letter.
which purports to have been written by StanleE
was dated the 1st Of January, 1905 Isit conceiv-
able that at that time, four years ago and long
before IL entered Into Mr.. BENEFITS head to senp
an expedition aftcr Livingstone, Stanley should
have begun to initiate Livingstonc's hand writing
II is notorious that the assumed Livingstone letters
have been carefully examined by members Of tha
Doctors family, by Old friends, spy experts In
the Foreign once and BY Earl Grx4elile and other
eminent ofncials. Undoubtedly they have been
scrutinlzed by thousands. After all this, the dsH
/. cusson Of their genulnencss has almost wholly
ceased in England. 80
Now what inference Is TO be drawn from thd
similarity between the assumed letter or stanlex
and that Of Livingstone, published In the Sun
DID Stanley begin to initiate Livngstone's style Of
writing over four years ago from Q prophetic In
stinct that the HERALD would send out an sxpcdi-
tion after Livingstone; that he would be put i'm
charge OF 1t, and that he might win shorNlived
glory by pretending 10 furnish letters from LIVING
stone II u Only necessary 70 state such propo>
sition. r
Now this assumed letter OF Stanley's IL addressed
70 n Lewis H. Noe, q hitherto unknown youth Of
Long Island, who charges Stanley with all manner
OF atrocities In some OF which hc Noe, admits that
he was q participant Among other things Noe
acknowledges that he was q dcscrter from the
army and perjurer, and that nc was the comradd
OF stanley in Iawicss expedition. lie now wants
to discredit his old companion and brings forth thd
letter, dated January I, 1868, to prove that tho
handwriting OF Stanley at that time was exactly
like that Of Livingstone now-for that Is what ID
amounts to In the end.
The result OF this nconceivablc biundcr must b4
to convince every one that Noe is an impostor and
that he has initiated the handwriting OF the Lving4
stone letter which was autographed for the HHRAIn
and produced the letter which Is autographed
for the sun The latter paper b unouestionably slpf
The New York herald., 1872-08-29
A Caustic Criticism.

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
have been carefully looking at the Livingstone
Stanley Jdcstmtles published In the sun OF to-day;
and, with some little experience in chirography,
Notwithstanding the assertion that they are smi-
lar In appearance must confess my inability to dis
cover any resemblance Whatever. There are 90
many characteristic points Of difference that II Is
only necessary to call attention TO few. In the
Stanley letters notice the capital L. the final ys,
the presence Of commas, the Invariable stroke TO
the right In crossing t's when they crossed at
aD. the absence Of tying the pronoun to the follow
ing word, the invariable straight stroke OF the {
when commencing word; the up-stroke Of the f.
which never forms hook; the correct spelling &C.
Notice the same points In the Livingstone letter,
the regular curl to the left ofvys gs the hooking
The New York herald., 1872-08-29

In the one case and only density In the other. And
80 on through every point In the construction o.
each character, which invariably marks q diver
gence, till one can only wonder that even crazed
man could see in these two specimens q fractional
point In common.
The New York herald., 1872-08-29
who IL the Impostor.

From the New York Evening Mail Of yestcrday.l
The question Of the genuineness OF the Living.
stone letters seems to be pretty nearly at rest In
England, where Stanley Is dined daily and treated
with tie utmost consideration by no end OF scien-
tl1c and noble folk. But on this side OF the water
the controversy seems far from settled. This
morning the sun publishes side BY side ac-sfnsfes
of two letters-one purporting to be written by
Stanley and the other purportinG to be writ