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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29
Ice 10000 4 ears Old.

The altitude Of the Stevens mine on Mount
Mcclellan is l2,5OO feet. At the depth Of
from 90 10 200 fee. in the crevice matter, con-
sisting of silica, calcite and ore, together with
the surrounding wall rock, is solid frozen
mass Mcclellan Is one Of the highest eastern
spurs of the snowy range; it has the form of
horseshoe, with a bold escarpment Of fel-
spa,hic rock nearly 1000 feet high, which in
some places is nearly perpendicular. Moth
ing unusual occurred until distance of some
80 or 80 feet had been made; then the frozen
territory was reached, and it has continued
for over 200 feet. There are no indications
of a thaw. summer or winter. The whole
frozen territory is surrounded by hard, mas
sive rock, and the lode itself is as hard and
massive as the rock.
The miners, being unable to eXcavate the
frozen material with pick or drill, found that
the only way was to kindle . large wood fire
at night against the back end of the tunnel,
and in the morning take out the disintegrated
ore. This has been the mode of mining for
more than two years. The tunnel is over 900
feet deep, and there is no dimunition of the
frost. There is, SO far IS can be seen, no
op ,ning or channel through which the frost
could possibly have reached such depth
from the surface There are other mines in
the same vicinity in q like frozen state. The
theory is that the rock was laid down in glac-
ial times, when there was cold enough to
freeze the very earth's heart. In that case
the mine is an ice house whose stores have
remained unthawed for at least 8O,000 years!
The phenomenon is not uncommon or mex
plicable when openings can be found through
which current Of air can pass; but cases
which, like the Brandon frozen we'll and the
Stevens mine, show no way for air currents,
are still referred to as imbedded icebergs of
the glacial period
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29
Minnie Sherm8u.FitCh.

Minnie Sherman Fitch has son, and the
son was born June Gath. We get this i'm
portan, fact from George Alfred Townsend,
who gives it to the Graphic, writing from
Jefferson City, Missouri. At the time of the
birth Lieutenant Fitch was in the prison at
the place mentioned, having been sent there
by some party to attend to some legal bust
ness. Townsend tells in his usual graphic
manner how the happy papa received the
news:
Just after Sheriff Myers shook adieu with
Mr.. Fitch and myself, and we had retired to
my room in the Madison Hotel to take breath
before dinner, servant boy came to the door
with dispatch, saying: lis Mr.. Fitch here?"
"Yes," said Fitch. He opened the telegraph.
His black eyes enlarged, and he cried, "Great
God! See here!'
feared to take the dispatch for minute.
read:
Thomas W. Fitch, of St. Louis:
''Minpie has son, and is reported doing
veil W. T. SHERMAN, General"
We both jumped up and shook hands across
ny writing table, and without further remark
proceeded to the bar.
eth please the General" said Fitch. las
IS his first grandchild.
Then he stopped and said:
''lt isn't very creditable that the day nv
son was born his father was in the peniten-
iary at Jefferson City,"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29
A Dangerous Combination.

The following strange story appears in the
New York Sun of the 7th:
''On opening 4 bale of cotton at the mill of
one Of the largest Liverpool spinners the other
day, much surprise was manifested at the dis
covery within it of box of lucifer matches,
bearing the following label; superior Tele-
graph Matches; manufactured by Cupples s.
Marston, St. Louis. Every box warranted.
The matches were of the ordinary kind, and,
on one or two Of them being tried, they were
found to ignite with the greatest readiness
The cotton came to Liverpool from Mobile,
and the most serious consequences might
have resulted had the least amount of
friction been applied to the lucifers during
the voyage or even after the cotton had reach
ed its destination. 1t is fully fifteen years
since the manufacture of the matches referred
to in the above, the firm of Cupples s. Mar
ston having been dissolved this length of
time. Here is fine opportunity for an in
ventive mird to find q reason for the storage
of the lucifers in such dangerous quarters. 1t
was probably done about the beginning of
the war. and there may have been some sim
ister motive connected with the act, though
there is equal reason for believing that it was
purely accidental"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29
Helena, Montana, Thursday, July 29, 1875
The Sewing WOnlan's Life.

IN the room below ME are two worn, faded
out old maids. They have been here In New
York Tor eight years running sewing-ma-
chine. Of hfe's necessaries they purchase
little handfuls; cool at ten cents bucket;
hst-full Of kindling at three cents; everything
else IN proportion. They have never seen
the inside OF a theatre. lccture-room or anY
place of recreation. They know no more of
the Fifth avenue and its fashionable after
noon attractions than they do of the moon.
They are too poor to take q paper OF the
daily life, incident and event of this great
city, they catch only the faintest echoes.
Their life is bounded from years end to years
end within the compass of three blocks. Pre-
sent them with books or theatre tickets? They
have no time to use either. The tritie Of car
hire between their house and the theatre is
for them 2 serious matter. 1t would buy two
large loaves. Money comes very hard. There
are so many roads, too, for their hard-earned
dollar 10 travel. They have one regular caller
the landlords agent. They let a few rooms,
expecting thereby to make their own rent
clear. Risky businesss, SO many lodgers
leave them minus. SO life goes on from year
to hearted to sewing machine, furniture
getting shabbier, carpets more ragged them
selves Older, grayer, more sallow, leaner. The
CUIplCI OK OUC Ntth , DOtuCi anu ptEplcAlt1 10
make both ends meet, succeeded by similar
one the next; every plate and lamp which
breaks, every shoe wearing out, regarded with
dread and heart-sinking, for no means of re-
placement are known. All goes to buy bread,
meat, fuel and pay the rent. The demands
OF these clamorous bodies are inexorabe.
Both ends meet No: they never meet. The
gap between them widens every year. What
q charming, cheering, beautiful world is this
to these people. How they must bless the
Creator for giving them the grass and flowers
they 50 rarely see; the fresh ocean brcezes
Of Sandy Hook, SO few miles away, which
they can never afford to iDhale; the magnifi-
cent scenery Of the Highlands, two hours
sail distant, but which lean purse locks out
from them. AS write / hear these sewing
machines whizzing all around me, propelled
by prisoners and slaves like these, tied to gar
rets and crowded tenemert-houses, always in
dread OF want, toiling fourteen, fifteen, six
teen hours per day, while the happy prisoner
at the Penitentiary works his eight or ten
hours and retires at night with certainty of
food for the morrow, and no landlord dun
ming him for rent.-Prsnticc MulforG.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29

Mr. ThuRLoW WEED has sent check for
500 to the Treasurer of the newly finished
Paxton Hospital, at Utica, with request
that be be made life member of the institu-
ton. The hospital was built 10y MIR. Theo-
dore 8. Faxton for $50, 900 and presented to
the city. In his letter, Mr. Weed gives this
reminiscence: ''1n the winter of 1918, when
Sackett's Harbor WAS threatened by the Bri-
tish, he and volunteered our services in its
defense. In the spring of that year, while |
was journeyman in the Office OF the Herks-
mer american, Mr. Paxton Ohen famiiarly
known by the sobriquet of 'Doric) was driy-
ing stage, Herkimer being one end OF his
route. There we became intimate. His in
tervals of leisure were passed with me in the
printing Office, where, in our conversations,
be came to the conclusion that few months
schooling would add to his chances of success
in the battle of life. In the year 1915, when
l was travelling on foot, with slender means,
from Albany to Herkimer, was fortunate
enough to find my friend 'Doric ut East
Canada Creek, where he paid for my dinner
and invited me to ride free by his side ON the
box to Herkimer. 1t affords me pleasure to
balance this little account 81 years after the
friendly obligation was incurred by a SUBJ
scription to Mr.. Faxton's Hospital"
SAN FRANCISCO consumes one-third more
h4uoY than Chicago.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29
A Queer Matrimonial bargain.

From the Atlanta (Ga) Constitution, June 3Oth-
Some months ago young man and his
wife reached Atlanta from their cid home in
Maryland. intending to cast their lot among
our people. Not succeeding in finding en-
ployment, the husband made up his mind to
try his fortune in the Black Hills, and so told
his wife. She objected most strenuously, with
tears and lamentations, and begged him to
desist, but he argued the case SO earnestly to
her that she finally yielded to his plans. After
it was settled that the parting should be had,
It was agreed that the stipulations should be
reduced to writing. An attorney of this city
was accordingly visited and the sigular docu-
ment drawn up. 1t was made as mutual
bond between them to keep before each their
respective duties. The terms we synopsis as
follows:
/. He is to be absent not more than two
unless by unavoidable causes.
2. The wife is to return to her home in
Maryland and maintain herself from the pro-
ceeds of her own services to her family and
the rents Of piece of property belonging to
her husband.
8. The property of the husband is conveyed
to the wife, in a separate deed of gift, and in
case of death to revert to the husband; in
the event of his death before his return, to be
subject to her disposal.
4. Should their separation exceed the time
Of the statutory laws Of the States where each
may be living wherein an application for di-
vorce on account of desertion or failure to
support to be made, neither is to take advan-
tage OF the fact.
5. He, if successful, is to remit to his wife
all the money over and above his needs at
stated intervals; to keep up as regular cores
pondence rs the mails will allow, and return
at the earliest possible time upon the impera-
tive summons Of his wife, she, also, to go to
him under similar circumstances.
The agreement was signed in triplicate and
duly witnessed. Each Of the parties took a
copy, and the original remains in the hands
Of their attorneys as its custodian. On
Wednesday, all their matters being arranged,
the husband divided their little stock of mon-
ey, giving his wife one-half. He also pur-
chased ticket for her to Baltimore, and she
left for her home. The parting between the
couple was of very distressing character.
He left on Thursday for Sioux City, hoping
from there to reach the Black Hills.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29

THE present financial editor Of the Phila-
delphia Ledger wrote the first ''money arti-
Gle which appeared in that journal on July
l, 1910. aud has remained in charge of the
department ever since. Referring to his la-
bors, he says:
''When our labors began upon the Ledger we
had no lines Of magnetic telegraph, no ocean
steamships, no Photographic pictures, no steam
fire engines, no gun cotton. no nitro glycer-
inc, no electro-plating, no spectroscope, and
few Of those delicate scientific instruments
now SO common and so important. We have
lived TO see in that comparative brief period
the introduction into general use of the mower,
the thresber, the horse rake and the sewing
machine, besides which thousand timid,
hesitating suggestions have ripened into dem
onstrated facts. In the accomplishment of
these results, we scarcely realize the stupen-
dons greatness of this particular epoch. We
talk of it and are pleased, but we fail, utterly
fail, in full realization of its importance :
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29
New Telegraph Enterprise.

San FRANCISCO, July 7.-There has been
incorporated here to-day an association of
our principal capitalists under the name of
the National Telegraph Company, for the
purpose of, as stated in their articles of in
corporation, The construction, conduct and
maintenance Of telegraph lines between the
cities of New York and San Francisco, and
between said cities and all other principal
cities and towns in the United States and in
the Territories thereof, and in the Dominion
of Canada, and to connect by said telegraph
lines the said principal cities and towns with
each other Tho estimated length of the
line is $4,000 miles. The capital is $25, ,O0O,-
coo. of which $7.50O 600 has been subscribed
and 10 per cent. already paidin. The names
of the first Board Of Directors are Michael
Reese, Calvin W. Kellogg. John B. Keene,
Faxon D. Atherton, William Sharon, the new
United States Senator from Nevada; William
Burlng, and Alfred A. Cohen. These gen.
tlemen are among our heaviest moneyed men,
and their aggregate belongings is certainly
NOT less than from $40 1000, 600 to 800, 0,0O0,-
600.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29
Petrifke<l Human Bodies In Maine.
From the Bangor Nhig.

From the Bangor Whig.
A few days ago the graves Of Mr. and Mrs.
Kidder, al Eddinston Pond, were opened for
the purpose of disinterring and removing
their remains to another locality. Mrs. Kid
der had been dead for eighteen years, while
the body of her husband was committed to
the earth forty-three years ago. Owing to the
length of time which had elapsed, it was not
anticipated that anything more than dust or a
few bones, at most. would be found. Greatly
to the surprise of those present, on opening
the grave Of Mrs. Kidder, who was over
eighty years Of age at the time of her decease,
her body was found as perfectly preserved
and the features as natural as on the day of
her burial. Her hair was of considerable
length, but about all Of her gave-clothes had
disappeared. leaving a solid petrifaction not
unlike marble of grayish tint. Proceeding
next to the grave of Mr.. Kidder, by the side
of the other, it was found that, although
nearly half a century has passed since he was
numbered among the living. his body had
also turned to stone, of a deep, rich brown
color; but, more singular still, while all the
clothing had disappeared from the body of
his wife in eighteen years, his body still re-
tanned portions of the cloth in which be was
dressed for the last time, forty three years
ago. In digging for this body no trace Of the
coffin was found, and the petri6ed remains,
of which only the upper part of the skull and
portions Of the feet had disappeared, lay in
several inches of water. When first cached,
the workmen supposed they had struck a
stone Of some kind, and the weight of the
body was so great that three men were re-
Quired to lift it.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29
A Great Piece Of Engineering.

The Virginia City (Nevada) Enterprise
boasts that that city has the best and purest
mountain water in the world, which has been
introduced in spite of great natural obstacles,
it being necessary to cross the Washoe val
ley. The supply is derived from Dall's creek,
up in the Sierras, near Lake Tahoe, brought
in an eighteen-inch tlume four miles long to
spur on the opposite side of the Washoe
Valley, at point which is 2, 40 feet above
the track OF the Virginia and Truckee Rail-
road. Thence it flows easterly along the
crest and crosses the valley at the Lake View
toll-gate. 1t is in conducting the water across
the valley that the great triumph OF the water
company has been achieved. At the spur
above mentioned the water is received into an
iron pipe and conducted along the crest. The
pipe then makes the descent into the valley,
crosses it, ascends the opposite side, and con-
ducts the water to q height of $40 feet above
the railroad at Lake View, where it is again
taken up by another tlume and brought on to
the city. The total length of the inverted
syphon is 400 feet less than seven miles. The
inlet is elevated above the outlet 400 feet.
The supply in this way introduced is equal to
two million gallons per day. BY using the
full head this quantity can be largely in
creased. The leading Of such stream OF
water across SO deep a valley is declared to
have no parallel in the history Of hydraulic
engineering. The pressure on the pipe is
enormous, and has been estimated q: that of
a column of water !, ,72O feet in height The
pipe has an oritice twelve inches in diameter.
At the point where the pressure is greatest it
is five-siAteenths of an inches in thickness,
| and riyeted together with five-eigh,h inch
rivets in double row. As the pressure grows
less the thickness of the material is decreased
gradually until it reaches one-sixteenth of an
inch. The amount of rolled iron used in the
| construction of the pipe was one million one
hundred and fifty thousand pounds. A mil
lion rivets were also consumed It took fifty
thousand pounds of lead to lay the pipes.
Before being used each length of pipe was
heated to the temperature of $50 degrees, and
submerged in bath of asphaltum and coal
tar, which has the effect of preventing it
from corroding. The line of the pipe is COM
PEELED to twist and curve to fit the inequali-
ties of the ground, and crosses thirteen steep
| canyons. AT the bottom of each depression
there is blow-oH cock, for the purpose of
removing any sediment which might accumu-
late. At each elevation is an air-cock also.
The water, when received into the pipe from
the aqueduct, passes through wire screens
and charcoal, so that it is completely purified
and ready for USE
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29
ButtOnhOle Flowers.

The practice of wearing flowers in the but
tonhole, although far more frequent with us
than few years ago, is not in America nearly
80 customary as in Europe. But nowhere is
it carried TO SO great an extent as in London.
1t is rather rule there than otherwise that a
well-dressed man carries flower in his but
tonhole. The preparation of small nosegays
for this purpose is distinct branch of trade,
and the horticultural journals TEEN with pro-
found essays on the selection and arrange
ment of "cOat flowers"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29

Francis GALroS, who has been devoting
much time to the investigation of the matter,
announces that comparing school boys in
town and country at the age of fourteen, the
average rural pupil ia an inch and quarter
taller and seven pounds heavier than those in
cities. In mental and physical stamina, how
ever, no such disparity exists
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29

TIE United States has become the greatest
silver-producing country of the world, taking
precedence even Of Mexico, which has hith
erto been supposed to yield nearly two-thirds
of the worlds supply.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

Where, where are all the birds that sang
A hundred years ago?
The fowcr- tha: ali in beauty sprang
4 hlnircd years ago.
The lips that smiled,
The eyes that wild
IN flashes ahone
soft eyes upon:
Whe-o @ where are lips ana eyes,
The maidens smiles. the lovers >igh-,
That lived go long ago?
Wno peopled all the city streets
A hundred years agoy
VINO filed the church with face. meek
A hundred years ago?
The sneering tale
OF sister frail;
The plot that worked
A brothers hurt:
Where, o where are plots and sneers,
The poor mans hopes, the rich mans fearr,
That lived 50 long ago?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-07-29

SAN FRANCISCO consumes one-third more
h4uoY than Chicago.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
How to get Big Crops.

As a rule, farmers are much more ambitious to get big prices, than big crops. There arc few farms whose average production could not be doubled in a very short time by more capital and la- bor. It is safer to use capital Tn farming that in almost any other business. The credit of the blow IS quite as ,,ood as that of the loom and '..nvil; and the capital will come, if it is called for. Use more manure and get thirty bush els of wheat where you now get fifteen, and eighty bushels of corn where you now get forty. The quantity of grain per acre is main ly question of manure ard til. lage. A big compost-hcap makes . full grain bin. With high ma nuring, the soil needs deeper stir ring and a gradual bringing up of the subsoil to the surface. With the present horse harrows and cultivators, nearly all the cul- tivation can be done by horse power, at . great saving of ex. pense and . great increase of the crops.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
How to Transplant Trees.

HOW 10 ITanSltaut AFCcs.
 Nature indicates that most trees, shrubs, and plants will flourish most satisfactorily, endure longer, and be every way better when they send strong tap root deep into the ground. And this fact is more particularly true when the subsoil is porous, that a long tap root will readily strike downward, as far as the stem grows upward. Were it not a habit of the tree or plant to send down such taproot, it would be advisable to cut it of. But many nurserymen will persist in cutting this root of at all haz ards: because they say ten roots will push out at the end of the stump where the taproot was sev- cred, which will be more service able to the growing plant or tree, than only one taproot.
 Those ten roots, it is true, will be more advantageous in sustain ing the life of tree, for two or three years, long enough for sellers to get trees off their hands, and get the money for them, even by warranting every tree to live one year. Most men think if they can make . tree live one year, the difficulty is over; they may now count on . satisfactory and sue ccssful growth. But there never was principle more erroneous. Every tree needs the advantage of long taproot, to go down deep into the dry earth, and bring up moisture in dry weather, when the surface roots cannot furnish one drop of water to the growing plant. Therefore, when a tree, or bush, or vine is transplanted, make deep and large hole with . long crowbar, four feet deep, put the taproot into it, and fill the vacan- cy with sand. If there is no tap root, bend down lateral root into the hole, and encourage taproot to strike deep into the soil. We are seeing the supcrlstive folly, all over our country, in the failure of trees and vines, of all kinds, of cutting of the taproot.
 Shrcwd nurserymen have hood winked and bamboozled farmers long enough, by making them be- lievc that the taproot should be cut of. Nature is a more reliable guide than the instructions of nurseryman, who can sell more trees and make more money by recommending . practice that is diamctrically opposed to Natures law.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-01-28
Home and Farm
Boys Wanted.

Boys of spirit, boys of will,
 Boys of music, brain, and power, Fit 10 cope with anything
 These are wanted every hour. Not the weak and whining drones, That all trouble magnify Not the watchword of "I can't" But the nobler one, "Til try" Do what'er you have to do
 With . true and earncst zeal; Bend your sinews to the task
 Put your shoulders to the wheel Though your duty may bs hard, Look not on 1t as an i'll; fit be an honest task
 Do it with an honest will. At the anvil or the farm,
 Whatsoever you may be- From your future efforts, boys,
 Comes nations destiny.