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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05
Olive Harper ON Babies.

The San Francisco Alta of May 1st, pub
fishes an interesting letter from Olive Harper,
relating to her experience on Il trip across the
continent Among other things the follow
ing, touching her views about babies, is wor
thy of reproduction:
t'At Sacramento handsome young Jewess
came on the train, with q beautiful baby, six
months old. I love babies. I hated them
until had one of my own, and ever since l
have loved every baby have seen. | don't
care for dirt or cries, or anything. A baby
to me is the divinest thing On earth, the beau
tiful flower of the rough human plant. The
eyes, and sweet purity that so soon becomes
clouded in older Ones is still in the face of
the infant that can only speak with inarticu-
late murmurs and cooings. The little dim
pied fingers clasps yours so trustingly now,
that so soon will, with the rest of us, grasp
for gold and gain. So this lovely babe
reached out his little pink fingers to me, and
cooed bis pretty pleasure, and dimpled his
cheeks as took him in my arms. The proud
little mother told me the father had never
seen his baby yet, and she was now going to
meet him at Palisades. Then she took him
and laid the waxen cheek on her snowy
breast, and his long black lashes dropped
over the blue eyes, and he slept while her
fond eyes rested on him with such devotion
as only mother can feel.
sat and watched her, and thought Of all
the ties on earth, that of motherhood is the
divinest, the nearest Heaven. Even the little
birds are conscious of his holy bond, as well
as the widest, fiercest beast that blood-thirsty
roams the plain. The very plan of creation,
of birth is divine. From the little ripened
seed that drops from the plant to swell and
grow in beauty and tenderness, to strengthen
maturity, through all classes of bird, beast
fish and plant, and every living thing on earth
or in the water, all are created alike. The
plant gives its ripened seed to the earth, and
with its gift its mission is ended. The bird
rears her young-her mission is finished, and
she is happy; the tigress rears hers with
tenderness born only of motherhood, and she
is gentler and is happy; and there is no un-
reasoning animal on the face of the globe
that does not receive the divine spirit in their
motherhood The woman whose heart does
not respond to infantile tears or smiles, pains
or pleasures-whose heart does not grow ten
der toward the clinging grasp of helpless
baby fingers, is not worthy the name of wo-
man ~
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05
How Conquer the ModCcs.

From the San Francisco Chronicle
How to conquer the Modocs is the question
now agitating the President of the United
States, the War Department., the army and
the press. We have not seen An interior jour
nal nor all Eastern newspaper for the last
thirty days that has not contained ADVICE on
this question We have given ours but, of
course, not expecting that it would be at once
followed, because red tape is like the hoop
snake; it Just rolls on, head and tail together.
Troops have been sent for from across the
Rocky Mountains; General Davis headquar-
ters have been established at Yreka, some
lem from the lava beds, reports to General
Davis at Yreka: General Davis, from Yreka,
reports to General Schoficld at San Fran
cisco; General Schofield, from San Fran
cisco, reports to General Sherman at Wash
ington; General Sherman reports to the Sec
retary of War; the Secretary of War consults
the President, and the President consults
Bishop James and the Rev. Mr.. Newman,
Chaplain of the Senate. The Bishop tells
the Chaplain what he thinks about it; the
Chaplain tells the President; the President
tells the Secretary of War; the Secretary of
War tells Sherman: Sherman tells Schofeld;
Schofield tells Ddvis; Davis tells Gilem Gil
lem tells captain; the captain tells a lieu
tenant; lieutenant tells an orderly sergeant; /;
an orderly sergeant tells private to shoot
the first Indian he meets and exterminate
him. The private does not find an Indian
where he looks for him. When he does find
him he shoots and misses his mark, and the
Indian scalps the private. Whereupon the
squad falls back upon the company; the
company falls back upon the regiment; and
the regiment, intrenching itself, waits for
ammunition and reinforcemcnts to come up
and surround the lava beds and starye the IN
dians out.
If the army will cooperate with the CA,o7a-
ic5e we will undertake to clean the last
Modoc out of the lsfa beds in just thirty days
from date. An Aiarmy swore terribly in
Flanders" if ouDnrmy will only lie, the
thing is done; if tine privates and officers,
the Generals, and especially the commissary
department, will certify to the fact of the dis
covery of rich placer diggings in the lava
beds, the miners will clean out the last Indian
within the time we have named. Let the
Government, then, as reward scatter half
rs many twenty-dollar pieces as it will cost to
carry on an Indian war among the crevices
and rocks of the lava upheaval, and our
miners will tunnel, sluice and ground-wash
the whole hundred square miles, to the utter
determination of the last Indian and the last
grasshopper. ...
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05

Of the thousands of persons who yearly
inspect the Capitol at Washington, but COM
paratively few pause to examine critically
the fresco in the corridors. They are so
wrapped in eternal shadow one needs to re-
main considerable time to accustom the
eyes to the twilight effect. At first it is but
confused mass of half-illumed color gradu-
ally dawning upon the senses like rainbow
web. Look closely in kaleidoscope changes,
figures begin to form into portrait, landscape,
beast, bird, flower, insect and emblematical
designs. Movement, voice given, and the
Congressional Hall itself would be outdone
in diversity of speech and motion. Every
blossom and bird known to America is here
faithfully and artistically depicted. Indi-
vidual pannels tell stories of morning and
evening, the birds bathing at the fountain,
the buds heavy with the dew, and myriads of
tiniest insects studding leaf and bough. There
are but few who know by whom these cor
ridors of our National Palace were decorated.
They pass by, note the endless variety of de-
sign. the minute finish of the smallest worm
upon the leaf, recognize with delight famil-
lar landscape, well-known portrait, stand
amazed before the tender grace of goddess
and cherubs, asking never once ''whO were
the artists" OF, if asking fail to elicit any
satisfactory reply.
They are the works of two young Germans.
Seven long years they worked with straining
eyes, burning in upon these walls their won
derful impressions, until the declining health
of one, and failing eyesight OF the other,
forced them to rest from their labor. One
lies in his prenlatl lre grave, the other stone
blind, weaves baskets for livelihood, in the
city of Hamburg.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05
The Law of Free Passes.

An important decision has recently been
rendered by the United States Supreme Court
concerning the obligations Of railroads in
connection with the dead-head system:
'Heretofore it has been customary with all
railroads to print on free passes of every
kind disclaimer against liability for dam
ages to the person accepting. The Supreme
Court of the United States has, however,
just rendered decision which invalidates
this stipulation, so far as regards that large
class of passes granted on account of freight,
as for instance, drovers tickets to return
home free after having disposed of their cat
tie. In these cases the court held the con-
sideration to be obvious and the exceptions
on the back to be Of no effect The decision
does not include the ordinary complimentary
pass on which no consideration is apparent;
the sum of it being that in all cases where
consideration, of whatever sort. is given for
the ticket, the company is liable for damages.
The opinion is of general public interest
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05
The Yeovil Colonists.

The steamship Egypt of the National line
has brought to this port 100 colonists who
are on the way to Clay county. Mimi, on the
line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The
pioneers of this colony arrived here recently,
and proceeded at once to Clay county to pre-
pare homes for the second party. The sec
ond party of Yeovil colonists are farmers
and mechanics from Yorkshire, England.
They were provided Wednesday with tickets
at reduced rates of transportation, and pro-
ceeded in good spirits to their destination,
under the charge Of the agents of the rail-
road company. The transactions with this
party amounted to about $4O, 600. Many of
them brought their own farming tools and
implements, and will be ready to use them at
once after their arrival.-N. Y. Tribune.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05
Henry Ward Bcecher On the Pleasures
OF Life.


do not make little of the pleasures of life,
but / condemn the regret at losing them. Let
us bow to the storm as the flowers do beneath
the rain, but let us not PROSTATE ourselves,
but straighten up after it is over, refreshed,
washed, stronger. Another thing Mr.. Beecher
wished to condemn was the mourning and
repining Of the old, of those who are finish
ing life, who find fault with everything that
is, and praise everything that was. They
live in the past and do not see that glorious
future so near them. 1t is one of the reasons
why want to be cut off in my health and
strength, when think that may come to
that when l can sec nothing in life but its
past, when everything loses its pleasure; !;
when shall hate little children because they
make a noise. l believe, as the Roman
Catholics do, in a purgatory, because have
seen it; for where is it if not in that house
hold where sits the man who is wasted and
gone, and who is burden to all? You look
away from him when you would think of
him. He is withered, he is not ripened and
full of sweetness and gentleness and loving
kindness. What more wretched than to see
a man on the verge of this life, hanging to
the body, grasping with his gaunt and trena-
bling hands at the things of this life, blind
to the celestial glcries of Immortality just be-
fore him.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05

THE North American Revieao in a recent ar
ticle says that ''Crosses as religious symbols
have been used from the remotest antiquity.
They are to be seen in the rock hewn caves
and temples of Central America; nay, in the
very wilds of India, among groups of cairns,
dolmen and cromlechs, where it is supposed
they were erected by an aboriginal race which
had been deiven there by the first Ayran in
vasion, several thousand years before Christ.
The Egyptians had the cross as symbol of
Immortality. They had crucided God, too;
cruciisd to the tree that represented his
fructifying power. Osiris appears with a
cross in his hand So does Astarte, the Phg-
nician goddess. So does Shingmoo, the Chi
nese Madonna, who is frequently represented
with an infant in her arm. In Buddhist my
thology the cross occurs as an emblem. 1t is
to be found on Etluscan and Pompelian mon
uments, and on the most ancient British,
Gallo and Massilian coins. The Celtic races
had it. The Druids cut trees in cross-shape,
even as the Hebrews seem to have done. The
cross, with circle around or'aboYe 1t, seems
to have been favorite symbol OF many ma
tons. In Kamptschatka, Humboldt found
pre- Christian crosses. In the British museum
there are now some statues from an island pi
the South Pacific which has crosses OF the
simplest form Gn the shape OF T) engraven
on their backs"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05
The English Language in Japan.

The English tongue is fast becoming the
language of the world. In Siam, the king
has just established two English schools for
the education of the sons of his mobiles.
These future Asatic aristocrats are to be able
to converse with and be able to read the liter
ature of the people of England and of the
United States French may remain the Ian
guage of the courts, bCt the commercial
tongue of the world is undoubtedly the Eng
lish, and the knowledge of it is spreading
with every fresh port in Asia and Africa open
to commerce, and with the advent of every
English speaking traveller or settler in Japan,
China and Egypt. In Japan it has already
been adopted as the official language, and q
century hence the people of that country will
be able to read and appreciate the works of
English authors as we'll as if they had been
born in London or Boston.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05

ERAsrUs CoRNlxG, who married Miss Mary
Parker, of Albany, sailed for Europe Satur:
day, and will be absent two years. lie will
do up England, Ireland, Scotland. France,
Spain, Switzerland and the Holy Land, as
cend the Nile to the pyramids, and perhaps
buy one Of the cataracts: The honeymoon
trip win cost $4,000. This may seem q
large sum to some people, and yet it is ,sai only
Erastus Corning is the richest man of his
age in the world. His estate is now valued
at $8, COX, 200, while his income is put down
at $6O0, 900 year, $12,5OO per week, over
81, 600 per working day. s.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05

A SPEAKER on Decoration Day, in Mont
gomery, Ala, predicted that some of those
present "would live to sec reconciliation
between the late warning sections so com.
plete and generous that the descendants OF
COME ierate soldiers will share the govern.
mental benefits that are extended to those OF
the soldiers of the Union; that all nnfriendiy
lerislation will be blotted from the statute
books; that the terms Yankee, rebel,
straitor,' win be used in anger no more; that
the swords of Southern officers, now held as
trophies In Washington, viii be restored TO
their owners to be used as heirlcoms in their
families
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05
No. 28


A,scheme is now on foot for running
tunnel through the Rocky Mountains. This
may seem prodigious enterprise, at first to
the casual reader, but the parties who have
the matter in hand are sanguine of the most
complete success. For some time past gen.
tlemen have been investigating this matter,
and they have arrived at the conclusion that
the project is feasible in every particular.
The idea is to tunnel the mountains from
point about one mile below Black Hawk to
the Middle park, running in northwesterly
direction. The tunnel to be run will, it is
presumed, cut many rich veins of gold and
silver, and thus great mining interest be
developed Money for the prosecution of
the work is furnished by English capitalists,
who are sanguine of the ultimate success of
the enterprise Some idea of the magnitude
of the task may be gathered from the fact
that the tunnel, if completed, will be twelve
miles in length. 1t is intended to make it
large enough to be used for railway purposes,
the Middle Park, it will find its most conve-
nient route to the tunnel.
1t will be called the Sierra Madre Tunnel
Company, and the incorporation papers for
its organization have already been filed.
George W. Heaton, ESQ.,, a gentleman we'll
versed in matters of this kind, will have bu-
siness charge of the operations of the COM
pany.
We hope the company will he successful
in carrying out the great bore. 1t will, un-
doubtedly, be one Of the biggest things in
the world, and, if they can make it work,
will prove that man knows no obstacle in ma
ture Rocky Mountain Neecs, May 21st.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05

Mr.. ANDERSON, of the English House of
Commons, has recently made speech on the
all-important question of finance, in which
he endeavored to show that gold, with its
fluctuations from its commercial losses of all
kinds, can no longer be regarded as stand
ard of values, and that, as such, it has failed
to regulate foreign or even domestic ex-
changes. An exchange says:
I'm view of these facts and continual fluc-
tuations, Mr.. Anderson contemplates the sup
preston of the notes of private banks, and
the establishment of a national bank of issue,
which would give them out to other banks,
in exchange for deposit of government Sc
curities, slightly in excess of the sum drawn.
In other words, Mr.. Anderson recommends
the virtual adoption of our national banking
system, as the best in the world, and as called
for by tho enlarged requirements of British
commerce.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05

A Pennsylvania COLLEGE proposes to es-
tablish department of cookery. A bill is
pending in the Legislature which provides
for an appropriation of $4,000 to build the
general cook-shop as an adjunct to the col
1ege, and the science of cookery will there
fore become part of the curriculum if the
bill passes. The faculty win consist of one
professor of doughnuts, also of pan cakes;
two instructors in meat cooking, one vegeta-
BILE professor, three instructors in hash max
ing, while lectures on the art Of cooking and
eating win be delivered daily, and every stu
dent viii be compelled to prove himself
competent artist in dough before be receives
a diploma, which win be handsomely printed
on piece Of tripe. .s. M
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05

The Dubuque Herald, of the 18th instant,
says the following letter was picked up in
Sioux City recently:
STEAMER MAY LOWRY
Apral 21st, 1878.
My dear Mary, am know on my way to
the mountains. have charge of this bote.
god save me untel return to you. then
will make you my oan.
am very tirde, and will cloas. take gud
care of your self. give my love to the folks.
your love
JAMIE BIRKE
() direct to Jimie birke,
kiss. steamer May Lowry,
~ Sioux iowa.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05
Room for More Sheep

Statistics show that there were in 1871 about
$4,000, 600 sheep in the United States, yield
ing an average of four pounds of wool each,
or 128, ,000, 600 pounds in the aggregate. In
addition, the annual importation Of wool
amounts to about 100000 at a cost of
nearly $1O,000,000. Then we import woolen
goods to the amount of of nearly $44, ,0OO, 900
per annum. There is room, therefore, for an
increase of 100000 more sheep in the
country to supply the the hs home demand for WOOL
and for about 12,0O0,000 to displace the i'm
portatiOn of wooden goods
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05

TIE soil in Nebraska froze to the depth OF
eight feet. The potato bug-oh! where was
he? He was nine feet down, and is now
coming out, gay and lively.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-06-05
THE WEEKLY HERALD
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
.: .: y w. t,sk:} E!sk'} FISK Bros, Publishers
THE BURDENS OF THE DAY.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR.

BY BAYARD TAYLOR.
Who shall rise and cast away,
First, the burdens OF the day?
Vino asserts his place and teach
Lighter labor, nobler speech;
Standing firm, erect and strong,
Proud as freedom, free as song?
LO! we groan beneath the weight
Our own weaknesses create;
Crook the knee and shut the lip,
All the tanner fellowship;
Load our slack compliant clay
With the burdens of the day.
Higher paths there are to tread;
Other flames of sun or star
Flash at hand and lure afar;
Larger manhood might we share,
Surer fortune-did we dare!
In our mills of common thought,
BY the pattern all is wrought;
In our school Of life, the man
Drills to suit the public plan,
And through labor, love and pluy,
Shifts the burdens OF the day.
ROVER Oh I'LL IL lSuI VA NolHC.
Right hath each beneath the sun
10 the breadth and liberal space
OF the independent race
TO the chariot and the steed,
10 the will, desire and deed!
All, the gods of wood and stone
Can single saint dethrone
by the people who shall aid
'Galnst the puppets they have made:
First they teach and then obey,
'T'is the burden of the day.
Thunder shall we never hear
In this ordered atmosphere?
Never this monomy feel
Shattered by trumpet's peal?
Never airs that burst and blow
From eternal SUBMITS. know?
Though no man resent his wrong,
Still is free the poets song;
Still, stag, his thoughts may leap
Ger the herdsd swine and sheep,
And in pastures far away
Lose the burden of the day.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-02
TEfE COLOR Gs-ESsI0

There may be nothing in a name,
but there is undoubtedly something in
a color, at least in the ''trooly ioii' city
of Philadelphia. As everybody knows,
the people of that city are Just now
much exercised about the proposed
Centennial Celebration. The ladies
even become so much interested that
they formed q ''fema'e branch of Cen
tennial Commission and undertook
to solicit subscriptions for the general
fund of the Commission, and have been
going from house to house engaged II
the good work In blocking off the
city for daily work, it appears they
deemed it best to .'confine the colored
committee of the womcn's branch to
those wards which are most thichEy
populated with the people OF their
race" At this restriction the colored
committee took great offense, and
issued a remonstrancc, bitterly COM
planning of the exclusiveness Of the
white portion of the female branch,
and taking the ground that they agreed
to work in common with American
women, not as "COlored Centennial
Women" there being no such body in
existence.
Upon discovering that their ward
was ASST ned them as Il distinctive dele
cation, and that every ward in the city
had it's own ward committee, they i'm
mediately conferred with the secretary,
and reported to the executive COM
mittee their Inwillingness and ina
bility to work i'll any fixed sphere,
being ignored in their respective
wards, and they do protest against
any such injustice because of Ameri-
can prejudice, which ought to have
outlived itself in this hundredth All
niversary."
1t seems that our Northern friends
do not like the taste of the cup they
prepared for their Southern brethren.
The equality and minglinG OF South
ern whites with negroes seems right
enough to the Northern eye, but the
equality and mingling of Northern
whites with negroes presents quite
another and a different aspect. We
frankly confess that We feel little or nC
sympathy when We see these people
caught i'll the snare they set for others
The Northern people forced negro
suffrage and negro equality upon us IL
the South at the point OF the bayonet
thinking that they would never be
troubled with it. They were mistaken
and it matters little to us if they be
forced to driri. the bitter cup to its
dregs.