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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-06-07

Kars may be pleasant residence enough
in time of peace, but whenever war breaks
out III. the east, Kars appears to be in every
body's way, and this is the third time it has
been besieged since 1928. An exchange gives
the following description OF the place:
1t is small town with great fortress sur
rounded by Notifications which cover an area
of ten square miles. 1t is one of the gates
between Turkey and Persia, and opens to the
invaders road to the great route to Teheran
on the southeast; toward Erzeroum and the
Euphrates on the southwest; and, most i'm
portant of all, to Trebizonde on the east
which could not long be defended by land,
and which, once invested by the Russians,
could gender effective assistance to the Cars
Black Sea sqadron. Kars is, in fact, the key
to Russian success in Asiatic Turkey, and
the cable will be burdened for weeks and
probably months by fragments of intelligence
.Oncerning the progress of the siege. The
town is on q plain nearly seven thousand feet
above the level of the sea, and is surrounded
on three sides by rugged hills which form
natural bases for defense. A little stream of
the same name flows by on the southeast.
The population is about twelve thousand.
chiefly Armenians, who make scanty living
out of the through trade between the east and
the west The climate is so severe that trav-
elers are glad to get on the road again, and
the surrounding hills furnish hospitality for
so large band of robbers that armed guards
accompany merchants stock to the plains.
The city was the capital of an Armenian
kingdom. but Turkish conquest, Ottoman ad
ministration, and taxation by the Porte have
reduced It TO mere halfway house. Its
stragetical importance has made it one of the
strongest fortresses in Asia, and the Turkish
authorities claim, with what success it re-
mains to be seen. that it cannot be captured
by any invading force, however strong.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-06-07
Helena, Montana, Thursday, June 7, 1877.
A STRANGE CASE.
Narrow EscaDe Of Am Innocent Man from
IgmOmtniOus Death ON the ScadOld.
lSt. Louis Telegram 16th.l

lSt Louis Telegram 16th.l
A narrow escape from ignominious death
was that of Pomdexter Edmondson, who
was to have been hanged at Bloomfield, Stod-
dard county, to-day. The following are the
facts to the remarkable deliverance: Last
summer Edmondson had difficulty with Will
liam Shaw, during which he was struck in
the head with brick, and carried home in
sensible. When Edmondson came to his
senses he swore to be revenged. Edmondson
had half-witted brother, named James
who, on seeing his brothers wound and the
scar after it had healed, became frantic,
swearing the direst vengeance upon Shaw.
Last October, after Poindexter had recovered
James Edmondson disappeared, and shortly
afterwards Shaw was found murdered. Close
upon this event, and before the arrest of
Poindexter, James Edmondson suddenly re-
appeared and told his brother that he had
killed Shaw with knife Strange as it may
appear, the elder Edmondson made the heroic
resolution to suffer death and bear in silence
the shame that he knew must follow for the
sake of saving his weak-minded brothers 8
life. He was tried, convicted and sentenced
to be hanged, the evidence being entirely
circumstantial. A short time since James
Edmondson WAS taken very sick, and upon
his deathbed, few days ago. confessed that
he himself had done the deed for which his
brother was soon to hang. He related all the
particulars before ample witnesses} which
created intense excitement in the town of
Bloomfield. But little time was left to save
the condemned mans life. The citizens held
public meeting and raised a sum of money
to send a man Immediately to the Governor,
at Jefferson City, with statement of the
whole affair. Mr.. H. N. Phillips, the mes
senger, arrived at jefferson City on Sunday
morning, and Governor Phelps, after exam
ing the afidavits, granted the unfortunate
man respite until August 6. Immediately
upon receiving the respite Phillips telegraph
ed the fact to Dexter, the nearest railroad
point to Bloomfield, and instantly left on his
ride for life. reaching therein time to prevent
the hanging.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-06-07
INFLUENCE.

They tell us that each pebble dropped
On Oceans glossy breast,
Must make pulse in boundless deep,
Whose ripples never rest,
But ever sweep through coral caves;
Or break on distaut sands;
Or kiss cold faces which the deep
Holds far from loving hands:
Or eddy round the treasure lost
Which her calm bosom hides,
Yet still forever ebbs and flows
Upon the changing tides.
They tell us that each word we speak,
Though ne'er so softly said,
Shall still be throbbing through the air
Long after we are dead;
And that, although we hear them not,
Around us ever ring
The laugh and sigh of lOng-agO
The shifting breezes bring.
It may be that with mighty word,
Like whirlwinds on the deep,
We stir the hearts of other men,
And rouse them from their sleep.
1t may be that each word we speak,
Like an eCnO on Cne all,
rho Igh scarcely needed when It's said,
Yet leaves its impress there.
Howe'er this be, It's Gods decree
We cannot live alone:
No one can fold his arms and say,
"My life is all my own"
The life of each is bound to all
BY cords we cannot sever,-
A ripple that shall never cease
Upon Times mighty river.
But, like the pulses of the tide,
Or the air which echoes still,
Must the words and deeds of each of US
The lives of others fill.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-06-07
MARY'S LITTLE DOG.

Mary had little dog,
Its hair was white as snow,
But Marys ma was all agog
For tear of hydropho.
She tied the dog up with string
That measured four feet long;
The law required this cruel thing,
Though Mary thought it wrong.
When Mary took her daily walk,
A leading of the pup,
1t made the neighbors laugh and talk
TO see him trip her up.
He ran around peanut stand
That happened to be near,
And Mary took tumble, and
Her stockings did appear.
"What makes the young men laugh so much 2
The neighbors did inquire.
Because puppy's rature's such.'
Said Mary, red as fire.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-06-07
Marri0ge Of Gov. Carroll.
baltimore Telegram /

Gov. John Lee Carroll was married very
privately to-day, at the cathedral, to Miss
Carter Thompson, of Virginia, who has
recently spent some time in Paris and else
where abroad. Only few immediate rela-
tives were present, including the Governor 9
daughters by his first wife and daughter of
Royal Phillips, of New York. The doors OF
the cathedral were locked during the cere-
mony, and no one was admitted except about
a dozen persons comprising the bridal party,
who entered through the archiepiscopal resi-
dence. The newly welded couple went
north on their wedding tour. The bride is
young, beautiful, and accomplished. The
Governor is on the shady side of life, and q
grandson of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-06-07

In his address as President of the Liver.
pool Geological Society, Mr.. T. Mellard
Reade offered some data for calculating the
length of geological periods. He made a
careful estimate of the amount of solid matter
washed down by the Thames per year; the
figures very closely agreeing with those which
Prestwich obtained Similar calculations
were made by Mr.. Reade for other rivers.
The Thames is credited with washing awav
147 tons per square mile every year; the
Rhine, 923 tons; the Rhone, 232 tons the
Danube, 72.7 tons; the Garonne, 142 tons
the Seine, 81 tons. Probably throughout the
world 100 tons of rock material are dissolved
per square mile every year, of which half
may be calcium carbonate, fifth calcium
sulphate, seven tons silica, of magnesium car.
Donate and sulphate and sodium chloride four
IONS each, and six tons of other alkaline care
Donates and sulphates. Taking the solids
removed mechanically at six times those in
solution "a high estimate the total denuda-
ton on the globe would be 600 tons year
per square mile. One-third may be added to
tnls Tor denudation effected by the sea on its
.oasts and for the amount that volcanic erup-
uEns ADD to give stratum. Carrying out this
ejaculation for the sedimentarY crust of the
eart6, estimated at 10 miles in thickness, its
production may have occupied 526, 40, 900
years: This evidently includes the assump-
:ion that the denuding action was as slow in
Instant geological epOchs as at present. 1t
should not be difficult to calculate from such
uala the number of millions of years that
must e!apse before our present continents are
worn down to sea-level. Such deduction
would compel very great modification of
some OF the figures assumed by NJ. de Candol-
.es IN his recent estimates as to the length of
ume M that the earth will be fitted for the abode
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-06-07
POLITICAL PEDIGREES.

There's young Don Cameron, and old Simon Cameron,
Who's young Don Cameron's dad:
And yOurg Don Camerons pretty fair Cameron,
But old Sim. CamerOn's bad.
And there's B. F. Butler and George H. Butler,
Who's nephew of Butler the first;
And B. +. Buffers bad enough Butler,
But George H. Buffers the worst.
T-DetrOit Post.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-06-07

CO., HE E taxation per head in New York is
~ sns C oo IN Chicago $S1 in the whole Uni.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-18
The Centennial Exposition.

At n meeting of the Society of Arts in
London, Professor Archer, the British
executive commissioner TO the Phila-
delphia Exhibition, read paper on the
subject, in which he said
GAS q general rule the American OK
hibits were of such excellent, quality and
so carefully displayed that the exhibi-
tors were evidently alive to the vast i'm
portance of the competition. No one
who had only seen their weak efforts in
the European exhibitions could have ex-
pected such superior manufactures in
metal work, textiles, and especially in
chemicals, which were shown by them.
As to the general success of the exhibi-
ton there could be no doubt. The at
previous exhibition--the total admissions
being Cash admissions, 5000, ,274 free,
1,906, ,692; total, 9,910, 1906; while the
sisitors ut the London exhibition of 1862
numbered 6,211, lob, and of Paris QS67)
100000 Those results proved that in
ternational exhibitions were not played
out, but had still very important part
to perform in advancing commercial
prosperity and the general interest of
civilization. After bearing testimony to
the unbounded hospitality of the Phila-
delphians and to the widespread kindli-
ness of feeling for England and Eng
lishmen, he remarked that he believed
that the effect of the exhibition on
America would be most beneficial. The
great cities had received wholesome
and powerful stimulus to strive in the
race for higher culture and more estheti-
cal feeling, and with the general public
from all parts the effect would have been
to dispel innumerable errors, prejudices
and false estimates. Let them hope that
their American brethren might realize
these and every other possible good from
SO well conceived and splendidly managed
an undertaking as that which they had
lust SO successfully completed"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-18
Men with Tails.

Men with tails are found every now
and then in some obscure corner of
the world, and the sea serpent is fire.
quently seen in some far away sea. by
long-tongued and blear-eyed mariners.
A few weeks ago we had the latest ac-
count OF the sea serpent from captain
who saw it disporting itself near the
banks of Newfoundland. The men with
tails are usually heard of in the center of
Africa, though neither Livingstone, Cam
eron, nor any of the other explorers most
familiar with those regions, has ever told
us of them. We now hear of them in the
Pacific island of New Guinea, and it is
the Rev. George Brown, missionary
there, who gives an account of them to the
New Zealand Weekly NcWs. He him
self did not see them, but he was posi-
lively assured of their existence by the
natives, who say that the caudal append
age is bony and infexible, so that they
have to dig hole in the sand before they
can sit down, as they die at once if it is
broken. They consider man without it
to be so ridiculous that they will not suffer
him to live. The Rev. George Browns
story is lively one, but if he had kept
it to himself till he had caught, bagged,
and brought away with him one of the
kind Of men described by him, he would
have enabled Darwin and the rest of us
to put more implicit faith in it.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-18
Complicated Electoral Machinery.

Mr.. Manley Hopkins writes to the
London Times: In witnessing the strain
ON the American Constitution produced
very much by the guarded method of
election, it is interesting to look back ut
the yet more jealous and complex system
under which the Venetians, in choosing
doge, endeavored to exclude q scintilla
of fraud or private influence. 1t need
not be said that, as love laughs at lock-
smiths, so the intricate maze which was
to hedge in purity Of election, some
times failed in its object, and one who
could not thread its sinuosities might
leap over its quickest walls. From the
grand council thirty electors were select
ed by ballot. These were then reduced to
nine, also by ballot. The nine proceeded
to elect forty, in whom their own powers
merged; but none could be nominated
unless he had minimum of nine balls.
The forty We're then diminished by the
same method to twelve, and this dozen
voted for twenty-five, with a minimum
of NINE balls. The twenty-five were
then reduced by ballot to nine, and
these elected forty-fve, each having a
minimum of seven votes. The forty-fve
were next brought down by ballo! to
eleven. The eleven chose forty-one, the
minimum of balls being again nine and
each of the elective forty-one required to
be confirmed by majority of the grand
council. This final chamber elected the
doge but his election required at least
twenty-five balls. All this can be seen
in Daru. We scarcely know which to
wonder at more in such scheme-its
jealousy OF its childishness.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-18
The Population of tie World.

The London Times published recently
an extract of an account Of the population
OF the world annually prepared by Drs.
Behm and Wagner, and published by
Perthes, from which it appears that the
population in 1876 may be taken at
l, ,423, 917, 900, of whom nearly one-ffth
or 300, 17S, 900, reside III Europe, and
probably 400, 10000 or less than one
third, belong to the European civiliza-
ton. Four-sevenths of the worlds peo-
pie, or S24, 900, 900, reside in Asia, and
half of these are Chinese.
The population OF America, natives in
cluded, in both divisions of the conti-
nent, is only 85,000,000, Of whom we
imagine about half are of pure blooded
European descent The population of
Africa, arrived at, of course, by more or
less careful guessing, is set down at
199, ,900,0 900, of whom scarcely one per
centum can be fairly set down as civil
liked men, and little more than ten per
centum as semi-civilized.
The Turkish empire is estimated at
100000, including 20,000,000 in
Egypt and its dependencies, with Tunis
and Tripoli; but the population i'll Eu-
rope is only 5000, 900, aud in Asia 49,
500, 900. Half the European population
of Turkey at least is Bulgarian, and if
we add the Greeks and Slavs, we shall
find that the dominant caste does not ex-
ceed one-fourth of the whole, to whom
the other three-fouIths are sacrificed.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-18
Pleasure Taking,

Pleasure taking is not nearly as much
provided for among our earnest, intense,
energetic American people as it should
be. We live altogether too much in the
future, too little in the present. We live
poor that We may die rich. We get all
ready to be happy, and when we are
quite ready, intirmity or disease OF death
steps in, and the chance to take comfort
in This short life is gone. If we could
only be content to seize upon the pleas
ures that lie just outside and often within
our daily pathway, they would make a
large sum total at the end of the three
score and ten. Far too many of us scoln
pleasures that are cheap and near and
within our grasp, and complain because
we cannot have such as are costly and
remote and inaccessible.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-18
Vanderbilt's Domestic Life.

To his family the late Commodore
Vanderbilt was kind, without being de-
monstrative. He expected his children
to do well in marriage and life, and
had little patience with those who con-
tinued dependent, as several of them did.
One Of his relatives had passion for
borrowing, and on one occasion obtained
a large sum of money from the late Hor-
ace Greeley, which he was unable to pay,
Mr.. Greeley supposing his connection to
be security enough. But the commodore
was not to be affected by the social or
political consequence of the lads credit
or; he refused to pay the borrowing and
did not do it through years, thereby lead
ing to coolness with the editor of the
Tribune. At Greeley's death, however,
when his family was temporarily embar-
rassed, Vanderbilt said:' Greeley's
girls can have any money they want. "
He is said to have made his word good.
Vanderbilt once fitted this same boy
out with farm aud the young man
promised to make his own way in the
world after that. The commodore had
his misgivings, but hoped for the best.
1t was not long before the boy wrote that
the farm was gone and he had nothing
with which to buy food. Inclosing a
stamp i'll a letter, the old man wrote:
" Inclosed is fifty cents to buy your
breakfast Go to work and earn your
dinner. Your atfectionate father"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-18
A Gorgeous Tomb.

olive Logan describes, in letter from
London, the magnificent mausoleum
which Queen Victoria has erected to the
memory of the Prince Consort. "The
entrance to this sanctuary is so scruplous-
ly guarded that even the queens chill
dren cannot enter there without written
permit. An exception to this rigorous
rule is made on the anniversary of the
princes death-the fourteenth Of Decem-
ber-when, after services held in the
presence of the queen alone, members of
the royal family and certain officers of
the household are admitted. Eye has
not hitherto seen the equal in magnifi-
cence of this mausoleum imagination
can scarcely conceive it words az quite
powerless to describe it. The raj est pic
lures, the choicest statues, the most gor-
geous gems known to our comprehension,
glitter and glow with an almost barbaric
splendor on every hand. 1t has already
cost 60, 900, 900 sterling, and is not yet
finished. Those who have seen the AL
bert memorial in Hyde Park will have
difficulty in understanding how anything
could be grander than that but that
monument to departed greatness is rs a
Delft plate to Sevres vase compared to
the souvenir to her consort which the
queen has erected at Windsor. SO great
is the gorgeousness displayed in this
tribute that one cannot help wondering
what finer or more imposing erection
mortal hands could raise in England over
the body of the queen herself"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-18
He Wanted 1t.

An amusing story is told of the Baron
X, a member of one of the Oldest and
proudest families in France, who had
+" arranged for him " marriage with an
English lady of immense wealth. A few
weeks before the date appointed for the
wedding the lover found out that his be-
trothed, instead of being of a good
family, as had been reported to him, was
the daughter of a quack doctor, her golden
guineas having been derived from the
sale of patent pills. He broke off the
match, whereat his father, Count N,
who CHANGED to be a widower, was sorely
distressed $50 many millions-and al
lost to the family. Rather than that
should occur, he would marry the lady
himself" Which he did forthwith.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-18
COWardly Assaults,

When candidate for high Office is so well
liked and so popular with the masses as to
make his defeat difficult in fair and honora-
BILE fight, mean and cowardly men are not want
ing VINO delight i'll manufacturing lies and
slandering his good name. There are also
those whose selfishness prompt them to prosti-
tute their honor, pervert truth, and ignore
right, for the sake of injuring competitor in
business, whose prosperity they envy and with
whose business sagacity they have not the
talent to successfully compete in an honorable
way. These thoughts are suggested by the
mean, cowardly attacks made upon me and my
medicines, by those who imagine their pecuniary
prospects injured by the great popularity which
my standard medicines have acquired, and the
continued growth of my professional practice.
Narrow-mlnded practitioners of medicine, and
manufacturers of preparations which do not
possess sufficient merit to successfully compete
for popular'favor, have resorted to such cow
ardly strategy as to publish all sorts of ridicu-
lous reports about the composition of my medi-
cines. Almanacs, "receipt books" and other
pamphlets are issued and scattered broadcast
over the land, wherein these contemplate
knaves publish pretended analyses of my medi-
clnes and receipts for making them. Some of
these publications are given high sounding
names pretend to be issued by respectable men
of education and position, for the good of the
peoplo-the more completely to blind the reader
to the real object i'll their circulation, which is
to inlure the sale of my medicines. "The
Popular Health almanac "is the high sounding
name of one of these publications, which con-
tains bogus receipts, without a grain of truth in
them. Not less devoid of truth are those which
have been published by one DR.. L., of Detroit,
in the Mic'iJGn Farmer and by other manu-
fecturers of medicines, in several so-called
Journals of pharmacy. They are all prompted
by jealousy and utterly fail in accomplishing
the object of their authors for, notwithstand-
ing their free circulation, my medicines CON
time to sell more largely than any others
manufactured in this country, and are constant
ly increasing in sale despite the base lies con-
cocted and circulated by such knaves. The
people find that these medicines possess genuine
merit, accomplish what their manufacturer
claims for them, and are not the vile, poisonous
nostrums which jealous, narrow-minded physi-
clans and sneaking compounders of competing
medicines represent them to be. Among the
large number of pretended analysis published,
it is significant fact that no two have been at ali
alike-conclusively proving the dishonesty of
their authors. 1t is enough for the people to
know that while thousands yes, may truth
fully say millions have taken my medicines
and have been cured, no one has ever received
injury from their use.
r. V. Pierce, NJ D.,
Proprietor of DIR. Pierces medicines,
Worlds Dispensary, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-18
The MOther-in-LaW,

T The latest thing out in mothers-in-law
She had succeeded in marrying her
son and naturally undertook the manage
ment of his household
Presently the son died, but she con-
tinued to advise, direct and worry gen.
orally her daughter-in-law.
Then the daughter-in-law married
again, but still the old lady insisted on
bossing things.
A friend essayed to convince her that
she could have no possible right to inter-
fere-that the new husband was nothing
to her.
"Nothing?" she cried; she nothing
to me? Why, am 1 not his stepmother-
in-law on his wife's side ?"