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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10
Roy Trafning.

Why should we teach our boy that he is
to be mere whistling, romping, tearing and
| wearing member of the household, while his
own sister Or wOmen-servants work around
him from weary chime to chime? 1t is not
necessary to define limits, ''thus far shalt
thou 60 and no farther" Every thoughtful
mother can adopt her instructions TO the need.
or to the strength and dizziness Of her boy.
Why should he not make his own bed at
times? Harry, Miss Edgeworth $ Harry, in
Harry and Lucy used to do it, and what
was more. to the best of my recollection, his
father showed him how! A very picture of
a manly boy, he was, growing up evidently
10 be Guy Luss;.c or a Prince Rupert of
our day. Why should the boy leave his
room q bowling wilderness of boots and hats
and inky cket-handkerchiefs IT he be
made occasionally to set it to rights himself.
to get dust-Dan ard sweep up the sticks and
stuff, he will 1T least have an intelligent COM
prehenson, another time, of the cost of the
confusion. Teach him all the little convent
cnces, how to delort himself before his
elders, and the courtesy he owes to ladies,
old and young; but teach him, also. why he
is better fitted to carry home the heavy bas-
ket than Sophy, the servant-maid, and when
he should lend a helping hand to women
young or old. We hear great deal of i'm
perfect sympalhies, nowadays, as Il sort of
bitter drop in the cup of welded life. These
imperfect >ympathies are changed generally,
we believe, to the account Of the masculine
race. Tones of poetry and hecatombs of
bleeding hearts are laid to the charge Of the
new disorder. The disillusion of married
life! Shall we lay al the blame on our
grown-up boys? When the cara sposa dis
covers that the cakes and caramels of court
ship are succeeded by tough butcher bills and
sloppy servant-maids; when, after the days
fret and worry is over, her dear Charles lends
her but an Indifferent ear, and is surprised
that she is 80 very used-up and complaining
we must go back, not only to Clotilde's child
hood, but to that of Charles, rs we'll. She
may, or may not, have the cookbook by
heart; but very sure he is Ignorant as wild
Indian Of the costs Of the home. He may
foot it up, in dollars and in cents it is true;
but of the forces, the physical labor, the
executive energy, the moral balance to keep
all things even, he has not thee motest idea.
Teach him then, O mother of roaming
Charlie, before that possible daughter-in-law
comes upon the scenes, that fine sense of
fitness and order, that intelligent observance
Of the household machinery, that will make
him charitable and hopeful in season, and
sympathetic always Christian Union.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10

We want to believe that story from a
Peoria paper about MIR. Henry Bull, but it is
ha4 very hard, to axcept it with perfect
confidence. Mr.. Bull, it is alleged, was fed
upon calomel and blue pills by the doctors
for a number of years, so that finally he be-
cane absolutely saturated with quicksilver,
The other day, while he was standing by the
side of the house, the sun suddenly came out
bright and warm, and Bull began gradually
to ascend. He stopped at the line Of the sill
of the second story and hung there, suspend
ed in space, until a thunder storm happened
to come up, which cooled the atmosphere,
and then Mr. Bull slowly descended. Now he
has graduated scale marked on the gable
end of his dwelling, and whenever Mrs. Bull
wants to know how warm it is she ties fiat
irons to Henry's leg to hold him down, and
walks him around to the gable end and cuts
him loose and lets him rise to eighty or nine
ty degrees, and when she gets the informa-
ton, she lassoes him with the clothes-line
and hauls him down. We say we aoant to
believe this anecdote, because it makes US
happier to have perfect faith, but it is harder
than believing most lies.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10

Mr. Hoe has completed new ''perfecting
press" which is to ''knock the spots off, the
Walter machine. The new press, which is
now being tried and perfected, prints "a, 900
copies, on both seids, in one hour. The
London Daily Telegraph, is to have the press
as soon as perfected. The circulation of the
Telegraph is really immense. Its daily sale
is never less than ITO, 00O-it has reached on
more than one occasion 270, 900, and even 275,-
600 copies and 230, 900 is its ordinary sale
during the busy season. really don't know
much about the circulation of journals at
home, but if am not mistaken these figures
exceed those of any American daily. Some
very valuable improvements have recently
been made in the rapidity of the process of
stereotyping the plates for newspaper pres
ses. The Edinburgh Scotsman, which is
now printed on two Walter presses at a very
great speed, has it's plates tereotyped for these
presses in the almost incredibly short time of
twelve and a half minutes for the first plate
and two minutes for the subsequent ones
and for its Hoe presses it beats even this
time, turning out the first plate in only eleven
minutes.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10
THE WEEKLY HERALD
. 0w. " t,sx:} l!sk FISK Bros, Publishers
Quildriving Warriors.

From the Providence Journal.
The next Indian war should be fought by
the editors and newspaper correspondents.
4 good many of us could be spared, and no.
body but the immediate sufferers would be
the worse for it. And we hardly open pa
per that does not show US how much better
the war could be carried on by the writer's
than by the men to whose experience and
sagacity it has been entrusted An editor, of
course knows everything. else he would be
an unsuitable person for such a position, but
of all matters on which editorial information
and ability and skill are displayed, an Indian
war is conspicuous. The rough deposits of
lava, which are so difficult to be crossed by
man and beast, offer no impediment to the
editor, and the deadly ambush, the stealthy
attack, the treachery, the cruelty of the saw
ages, are tritles to them. Therefore they
we, for we have doubtless done our share of
it-explain how easy it is to bring an Indian
war to il successful termination, quite omit
ting to take into account the interiority Of
our Generals in ability, in experience, in
skill, and in all the qualifications for military
success. when compared with those of our
iufallible fraternity.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10

The Rev. Mr.. Kendrick, Methodist pas
tor of New York City, has been preaching
sermons in favor of dancing. 1T is the duty
of parents and Christian teachers" he said,
last Sunday evening, ''to consider whether
or not they shall furnish the young with ra-
tional amusements at home, or drive them to
seek them elsewhere. The Christian father
who provides dancing at home does good,
for he furnishes healthy exercise, and gives
young people favorable idea of Christian
ity; but dancing in ball rooms, surrounded
by drunkards and blasphemers, carried into
the late hours of the night, mingling all clas
ses of character together, becomes an evil
and dangerous one. The enjoyment of
dancing, in proper form, at proper hours,
and in proper places, complies with the de-
mands of nature; but the abuse of the amrse.
ment is sinful and dangerous Some ask if
St. Peter, st. Paul, or st. John would have
danced: but there are many things which
are done, to-day, which would have appear
ed very ridiculous in their time, such as Peter
in a swallow-tail coat, or John running with
fire engine. The times have changed, and
with them the people
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10

Ir will be remembered that during the
siege of Paris the dispatches conveyed by
carrier pigeons consisted of photographs,
which, having been reduced to microscopic
dimensions, were afterwards displayed in
a readable size by the solar microscope.
This discovery has been utilized by French
savant, in the study of historical monuments.
He has caused photographs to be taken of
the four faces of the Obelisk at Paris. Each
of the faces are divided into twelve equal
segments, which, appear extremely minute
in the photographs, but are reflected in con-
venient proportions on large screen, by the
help of a magic lantern and powerful solar
microscope. The page of history traced
upon the Obelisk can thus be deciphered 1t
leisure. The toilsome task to which scien-
tic explorers are now condemned, Of taking
down and ascertaining the meaning of ancient
inscriptions on the spot, will be greatly light
ened .by this method, which makes it posi-
BILE to obtain the information lurking beneath
the hieroglyphics Of Egyptian and Assyr.s;n e yrs,;
eating the treasures thus secured when the
hardships and fatigues Of travel are over.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10
A Chinese judge

A recent trial at Shan Ting shows that a
Chinese Judge is nearly as sentimental as the
average French juryman, who finds ''exten-
uating circumstances for the acts of the
worst criminals. The assassin of a high
official. murdered twelve years ago, gave
himself up to the authorities, and when placed
on trial, avowed his act in these words:
''The man" he said, "whom assassinated,
caused, twelve years ago, the death 0f my
father by giving false testimony against him.
Since the day my father was beheaded have
followed everywhere, step by step, the per-
jurer, whom had sworn to kill. If all that
time l delayed taking revenge, it was because,
in the event of my being condemned for MUIR
der, there would be no one to render funeral
honors to my mother, for was her only son.
She died three months ago, and haye killed
my fathers murderer. If l have delayed
surrenderng myself, it was because had
important affairs to arrange" The Judge
did not reproach this candid criminal with
taking the law into his own hands, but much
to the satisfaction Of the spectators. set him
free for "having shown SO much tijal attach
ment"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10
PluCk-A Fable,

The hopelessness Of any ones accomplish
ing anything without pluck, is illustrated by
an old East Indian fable. A mouse that
dwelt near the abode of a great magician was
kept in such constant distress by its fear of q
Cat, that the magician, taking pity on it, turn
ed it into u Cat itself. Immediately it began
to suffer from the fear of dog, so the ma
gician turned it into dog. Then it began to
suffer from. fear of tiger, and the magician
turned it into a tiger. Then it began to suf-
fer from it's fear of huntsmen, and the magi-
clan, in disgust, said: "Be mouse again
AS you.hxve only the heart of mouse, it is
impossible to help you by giving you the
body of a nobler animal" And the poor
creature again became a mouse.
1t is the same with mouse-hearted man.
He may be clothed with the powers, and
placed in the position of brave man, but he
will always act like mouse; and public
opinion is usually the great magician that
finally saws to such persen-''Go back to
your obscurity again. You have only the
heart of a mouse, and it is useless to try to
make lion out of you."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10
lhe Fineness Of SILK Fibre.

The smallest sized specimens of sewing silk
manufactured measure about twenty-five
hundred yards, or over one and one-fourth
miles to the ounce. Even in the construction
of this variety, SO fine and gossamer-like that
it is used only in the most delicate branches
of needle-work, sometimes from 200 to 400
flores of the material, as originally spun by
the silk-worm, are required in order to as
sumo the requisite size. The little vermiform
artists which produce this beautiful material
do not spin threads of uniform size. Per-
haps no two spin exactly alike; therefore
there may be as many different sizes of the
worm fibre produced, and as wide q contrast
in texture and quality, rs appear in the fin
ished article of sewing silk after it has been
subjected to the manipulations of human
skill and ingenuity. The smallest fibre of
silk, as wrought by the worm into the requi-
site structure of its cocoon, is 30 infinitely
minute that every ounce of the manufactured
thread is supposed to contain nearly 1000
miles of this fOss-like strand. and the puny
animal sometime elaborates fibre of such
marvellous tenuity that less than four pounds
of the thread, avoirdupOis, would reach
around the world.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10

You may now pronounce the name Arkan-
saw. The learned men Of that common
wealth have been investigating the matter
lately, and the most of them find that the
final IS" should be silent, and the Ga in the
last syllable receive the broad sound of that
letter, emitting the word to be spoken as if
written Arkansaw It seems that the terri
tory was called Ock-en-sea. The old French
records spell it Akancea. When Mr.. Fill,
more was President of the Senate, he varied
the pronunciation Of Arkansas according to
circumstances. Senator Seivicr said Ar-kan-
sas; Senator Ashley, Arkansaac. Mr.. Fill
more used to recognize Mr.. Seivier as the
''Senator from Arkansas" and Ashley as the
'sSenator from Arkansase" The latter we
are now told is the correct pronunciation:
But no further privileges will be allowed
with the name Colonel Gifts pronunciation
Of .Arkansawer' and Colonel Vesey's of
"Arkansack" will be no longer tolerated in
pOlite society.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10
Catching Reindeer.

In many bleak Northern regions these ami
mails are the sole support Of the people
When liberated from harness they go di-
rectly in pursuit of food-a peculiar species
of nutritious moss, which their instinct en-
abes them to find, deeply covered with
snow. Sometimes as many as one hundred
start off foraging, there being nothing pro-
vided for them by their exacting master.
Like camels under similar circumstances,
when unladened, they stroll off miles in diff
ferent directions. When they are wanted
again, their seal skin clad drivers get around
them in different directions, and by hallooing,
throwing snowballs, and making considera-
ble uproar, the deer are gradually driven into
a smaller circle. The herd is then encircled
by small cord, the men drawing in nearer,
until it strikes against their long legs. They
neither try to leap over nor break it, but
huddle as close IS possible. Finally the two
ends meet, held by one person. while the
others enter under the line and select the
animals they want, seizing them by the
horns, bringing them outside and tying them
to something strong enough to hold them
until they are harnessed to the sledge. The
remainder again scatter in pursuit of moss.
Tall, strong and fleet though the reindeer are,
able with their antlers to NOW down q score
of Northmen, they cover at the voice of
man. Their masters are rude, harsh and un-
kind toward them. Under no circumstances
of oppression or hardship do they evince the
slightest resentment They are so tirnid that
their drivers voice sets them running at such
speed that they will die before halting if the
drivers continue to urge them.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10
Light on the Brain.

Phrenology has been denied position
among the sciences by many eminent men,
though it has not lacked illustrious defend
ers. Recent experiments by Prof. Ferrier,
of King College, London, and DR.. Christian
Brown, of Wakefield, England. conducted at
the latter place, 60 far to show that, while
the phrenologists have been mistaken in
some of their classifications, the principle
which they have maintained is correct. Drs
Ferrier and Brown put numerous dogs, cats,
and other animals under the influence of
chorOfOrnl. and then removed their skulls.
When the brain was uncovered, they applied
an eectrode to it's convolutions. The effect
of this application was the excitement of
the functional activity Of the part touched,
while the object remained insensiblc to pain.
It was shown that each cOnvolution had its
specific work in connection with 4 given
muscle or set of muscles. One, on being
excited, was followed by a wagging of the
animals's tail. Other centers furnished mo-
tive power to the legs, mouth, head, &c, or
aroused pleasurable emotions or provoked
fierce passions. The great centers Of motion
are collected in the front part of the brain !;
the nerves, which move the muscles of the
Jaw, are Just over the ears, where the phren-
ologists have placed alimentiveness.
Contrary to all their deductions, however,
the cerebellum is mainly, if not exclusively,
useful in supplying power to the muscles OF
the eye. 1t is not phrenology alone which
has been illustrated by these experiments.
DR.. Ferrier has discovered why large parts
of the brain may be diseased without interfer-
ing with sanity, and why the slightest inju-
ries to other protions result in epilepsy. He
succeeded in the artificial production of epile-p
tic symptoms in adog, and demonstrated,
what DR.. H. Jackson had conjcctured. that
epilepsy is occasioned by a lesion between
two cerebal convclutions. He was also
equally successful in inducing St. Vitus' dance
and in tracing out its material causes.
The above experiments are only the first
in long series that will undoubtedly be made.
When they are repeated on animals more
closely resembling man, like the larger apes,
more interesting and conclusive results are
likly to follow. The insensibility of animals
to pain, through the liberal use of anasthe-
tics, frees the investigations from the objec-
tons which were made against the cruel yivi-
sections by Magendie and others.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10
No. 80


The goslin is the goose's yung child. They
are yeller all over, and az soft az ball of
worsted. Their foot is wOve whole. and they
kan swim as eazy as drop of kaster oil on
the water.
They are born annually about the 18th of
May, and never wuZ known tew die natrally.
If man should tell me he had saw goose
die natral and square deth, wouldn't be-
lieve him under oath after that, not even if
he swOre he had lied about seeing goose die.
The goose are different in one respect from
the human family, who are said tew grow
weaker but wizer; whereaz goose alwuz
grows tuffer and more phoolish.
have seen goose that they sed wuz 90
years old last June, and he didn't look an
hour older than one that waz II.
The gOslin waddles when he walks, and
paddles when he swims but never dives, like
a duk, out of sight in the water, but only
changes ends.
The food of the goslin is rye, corn, oats,
and barley, sweet apples, hasty pudding, and
billed kabbage, hooked potatoes. raw meat,
and turnips, stale, bred, kold hash, and the
buckwheat kakes that are left over.
They amt so partiklar AS some pholks what
they eat, and won't get mad and quit if they
kant have wet toast and lam chops every
morning for breakfast.
II was gong teW keep Doarders, would
not want any better feeders than an old shee
goose and IL goslins. If l couldn't suit them
should konklude l had mistaken my kallin
Roast goslin is good punishment, if you kan
get enuff ov it, but there amt much waste
meat on goslin, after you have got rid ov
their feathers and dug them out inside.
hay alwus notised when you pas yure
plate up for sumo more baked gosln at
hotel, the colored brother Gums back with an
empty plate and tells: mister, the roast
goslin il no more"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10
Helena, Montana, Thursday, July 10, 1873.
ALost Patient.

A foreign scientific periodical relates this
suggestive story.
Some time since q lady called upon a cele-
brated occulist in order to consult him on
account of her eyes, complaining that their
power of vision had of late considerably dimi-
nished, At glance the doctor saw that she
was lady of rank and wealth. He looked
at her eyes, shook his head, and thought the
treatment would require much time, as there
were reasons to fear amaurOsis in her case.
He must advise her, first for all, that as she
had informed him she was residing consid-
erable distance in the country, she must
move into the city at once, and thus enable
him to see her frequently, if possible daily.
The lady then rented an elegant mansion,
moved into the city, and the physician was
punctual in his attendance He prescribed
this and that, and thus days run into weeks
was still coming. The physician tried to
console her.
One day the patient hit upon curious
eheme, and she waited not long to carry it
into effect.
She procured for herself very old and poor
attire, put hood of tremendous size upon
her head, took an old umbrella and market
basket in her hsnd, and in these habiliments
she visited her physician, selecting for the
purpose a very rainy day. She had 30 well
succeeded in distorting and Disgusting; Herself
that the eye even of lover could scarcely
have recognized her. She was obliged to wait
long time in the ante-room of her physician,
with many others, who, like her, were seek
ing relief. At last her turn came.
''Well my good woman, what have you to
complain of"
Every bad eyes, DOCTOR" she answered
He took her to the light, looked into her
eyes, but failed to recognize his patient
Struggling his shoulders, he said:
Your eyes are well enough"
''Well?" she said.
Eyes; I know what l am saying"
''But / have been told that I was getting
the a-a-forget how it is called
''Amaurosis ~
eyes, that is it., DOCTOR"
''Don't you let them make you believe any
such nonsense. Your eyes are a little weak,
but that is all. Your physician is an asst"
"An--?''
Eyes, an ass! Tell him boldly that said
So"
The lady now arouse. and in her customary
voice said: ''sir, you are my physician; /;
don't you know me?"
The face the sage counselor made is easier
to imagine than to describe.
''Gracious, madame!" he commenced to
stammer an apology, but the lady would not
listen to him, and left him Indignantly. She
never saw the gentleman any more.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-10
Something about Bridges.

An interesting paper by Prof Lowering, of
Harvard, published in the Franklin Institute
Journal, describes the similar phenomena
exhibited in ordinary machinery when the
rates Of vibration are too slow to be perceiv-
ed by the ear as musical sounds. Every
structure has definite rate of vibration, de-
pending on its size, shape and materials,
and as fixed as the fundamental note of a
musical chord. And it will resound to exter-
nal vibrations which happen to be in unison
with it. In this way, as Prof. Lowering
points out, mechanical disturbances, harm
less in their origin. may become troublesome
brook Dale Uhe first iron brige in the world)
was building a fiddler come along and said
to the workmen that he could fiddle their
bridge down. The builders thought this q
fddle-de-dee, and invited the itinerant music
ian to fiddle away to his hearts content.
One note after another was struck upon the
strings, until one was found with which the
bridge was in sympathy. When the bridge
began to shake violently the increduious
workmen were alarmed at the unexpected
result, and ordered the fiddler to STOP" The
trembling of the building at certain deep
notes Qower than the audible musical tones)
of organs; the violent shaking of factories
by the machinery, when run at a certain rate,
and their comparative stability if the rate is
little slower or faster; the great danger to
bridges involved in the regular marching of
infantry oyer them-are cases involving this
principle. 1t is an established rule among
military men to cross bridges at trout step"
without keeping time, least the vibrations of
the bridges should be so intensified as to
casuse its obstruction. The careless neglect
OF this precaution broke the suspension bridge
at Anglers, in France, few years ago. kill
ing nearly three hundred soldiers and wound
ing many more.