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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-17
PUBLICATIONS.
Western Methodist

IHE WESTERN METHODIST Is THIS
official organ Of Six Annual Conferences
the Methodist Episcopal Church South, viz:
Memphis, North Mississippi, Arkansas. Little
Rock, White River and Indian Mi n.
omphis is the commercial an goOgraphi-
cal center of the section over viii this paper
circulatea. An average Of
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
The emerald Isle.

Iceland is to every one an object of inter-
est. In an Irishman that interest amounts
almost to enchantment. No word holds him
more spell-bound than Erin, Erin:
Birthplace of poetic dreams,
Mother of romantic streams,
With her lakes and mountains hOary.
Wales renowned in song and story,
Moving woods and fertile plains,
Scenes where virgin beauty reigns
Poor Ireland has long had her troubles.
Non-residence has been to her great curse.
Demagogues have rioted there. Violence has
fearfully prevailed. Her common people,
Fierce in hate though strong in love,
Varying as the clouds above,
have been bewildered; and last, poverty has
been there in her haggard forms. But a
brighter day is dawning. Labor is better re-
warded, because there is not now an excess
of it. Australia, Canada, and the United
States have taken the surplus, and the coal
mines of Scotland are now extensively worked
by Irishmen.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
A BATTLE BALLAD.

A gentleman, who in the late war was
non-commissiened officer Of company E, SD
Pennsylvania Infantry, Brooke's Brigade,
Second Army Corps, sends us from Hot Sui
phur Springs, Meagher County, M. T., the
admirable poem, written by soldier COM
rade, and printed, in connection with our
correspondents letter, below:
To the Editor of the Herald
hear that General John r. Brooke, Lieu
tenant-C Colonel Third Infantry, and formerly
of the Second Corps, Army Of the Potomac,
is in Helena and now in command OF the
Military District of Montana l belonged to
"a regiment in his brigade, and enclose
poem, written by comrade not long after
the Battle of Gettysburg, which think you
will consider of sufficient merit to publish in
the HERALD. This poem has never appeared
in print, but doubt not if it ever meets the
eve of several members of the old SD Penn
sylvania Infantry, who in times past heard it
read, it will be remembered.
Yours, very truly, JAMES MUNoON'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
What Women Should be Taught.

l wish young women could be taught that
it does not add a cubit to the stature of
house to call it residence that church
or even a meeting house is as venerable as
the ''sacred edifice, that it is no more genteel
to say ''retire" than to 60 to bed that the
garment so fondly, slowly covered with side
plaitings, so coldly and quickly frayed out
along the paving stones, is really gown and
not promenade custume, that it need not
bring blush to the cheek of even Mr.. Pods
maps young person to say leg instead of
''limb," when leg is meant; that the supper
at an evening party is not ''the entertain
ment;" and that there are well-founded OBJ
jections to the use of ''nicely' as an adjective
describing the state of ones health. ITO
clothe low creeping with fine language" said
old Fuller, lis not fine fancy, but flat fool
cry" 1t rather loads than raises wren to
fasten the feathers of an ostrich to her wings.
Mrs O.. Runkle.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
The Kind of Weather They Have in
Manitoba.

They have genuine cold weather in Mani
toba, where the thermometer marks 30 degs.
below zero for days together, and frequently
drops to so. A correspondent says that what
is called poudre day is exceedingly danger
GUS for the traveler-not because the tenn
perature is then lowest, but because the air is
filled with fine snow, so that sight is entirely
obscured at distance of few feet. A wind
sifts the snow over the paths, obliteratiDg all
guiding marks, and the chilled traveller is lost.
The almost unconquerable desire to rest is
not the least important part of the danger.
The coolest days are still $50 magically still
that all the usual sounds of nature seem to be
suspended; when the ice cracks miles away
like the report OF cannon; when the break
ing of twig reoches one like the falling OF
tree; when ones own footsteps, clad in soft
moccasins, come back from the yielding snow
like the crunching of an iron heel through
gravel; when every artificial sound is exag-
gerated . hundred fold, and nature seems to,
start at every break in the intense silence
The atmosphere is as clear as crystal, and the
range of vision seems to be unlimited. On
such 4 day a nose freezes with wonderful
Quickness, and it is reckless to- expose that
organ for many minutes. - t 7a tas
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
An Air voyage Near Calcutta.

Mr.. Simmons Lynn made an ascent in a
balloon near Calcutta, on the Doth of Janu-
ary. He descended safely some miles from
the city, after an exciting adventure with a
crocodile. Owing to the density of the gas
supplied for the balloon, MIR. Lynn did not
deem it advisable to take up with him Mr..
L'Estrange (Blondin), who was much disap-
pointed in consequence. The balloon first
moved in the direction of Baliganj, but after
wards shifted toward Dhappa and the Salt
Lakes. Having passed over the Eastern boun-
Diary of Calcutta, Mr.. Lynn found that at
4:4O o'clock it was beginning to move rapidly
toward Tiger Point, in the Sunderbunds.
He descended from his then altitude of 49,
600 feet into the current which was blowing
for a few moments from the southeast In
this current he could not remain, and at 5
o'clock descent into the jungle seemed in
evitable. lie at this time observed that there
was not breath of wind over the surface
of the jungle for 5000 feet in height.
Either he must come down at once or be en-
veloped in darkness, and have no chance of
getting out of the jungle. Even with light
the chance of being extricated seemed small.
While slowly descending, and at an altitude
of 10000 feet in an otherwise perfectly
clear atmosphere, vast plain of intense
white toward the north was open to view.
He could not form any conception as to the
cause of this phenomenon, except that the
rays from the setting sun had come in con-
tact with a cold blast from the snowy range
in the Himalayas. He continued his descent
and very soon the phenomenon was lost, but
although every moments delay increased the
risk in landing, he could not resist the temp
tation of reascending to Try and fathom this
mystery, but did not succeed. At 5:15 he
was within 1000 feet of terra frma, rather
inappropriate name for the locality. A huge
crocodile was moving toward him with an
impressive steadiness, and when he came
down into the mud and rushes he could see
the monsters head level with the bulrushes.
Fortunately there was enough ballast left to
throw overheard just as the monster was
within so yards of the balloon, and this en-
abled MIR. Lynn to rise above the thick jungle
to the length of the graphing rope, about 30
feet. The story that crocodile cannot turn
rapidly was in this case disproved, as this
one ran round the graphing rope. Having
called Justify for help, Mr.. Lynn found some
natives making their way toward him wading
through the thick mud and rushes. AS the
rushing sound was heard on all sides the
crocodile made off, About half dozen
natives were induced, after much persuasion,
to hold the rope, and ultimately the balloon
was waited over the jungle and across creeks
for nearly three miles. until small dry space
was reached.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
A BEAUTIFUL MODEL.
A Palace Car Wrought In Gold and Silver

A correspondent, writing from Washing
ton, describes an exquisite piece of workman
ship on exhibition there which is intended for
the Paris Exposition. 1t is model-about
two and half feet in length and some eight
inches in width-of Pullman drawing-r00m
car, and is made entirely of gold and oxydized
silver. 1t is finished perfectly to the most
minute details; the rails upon which it stands
are silver and the wheels gold. The plat
form at either end is of gold, chased with
crossed lines to represent the uneven surface
of the common platform. The body of the
Car is of oxydized silver, exQuisitely chased,
and the doors of the same, while the knobs
and hinges are of gold. Windows of plate
glass, shaded by silk curtains, alternate with
mirrors in rich frames. The revolving easy
chairs and foot-stools are of silver covered
with silk velvet, and even the inevitable spit
toon, no larger than porcelain button, is
perfectly made in silver. On the floor lies
handsome velvet carpet, and at each door the
accustomed mat. The ceiling is tastefully
frescoed, and tiny but perfect lamps of crys-
tai are suspended thereupon, while the ven
tilators around the top of the car are minute
doors of gold. Looking in at one of the
widows, you see locked securely in its closet
the stove, in silver, which supplies warmth,
and in another window you see that the dres-
sing-room with all it's appointments is not for
gotten. The owner and maker (who has been
exhibiting this with pardonable pride in the
Model-room of the Patent Office for the past
week. says that the roof consists of seventy
plates of gold; that tit cost him between $4, 900
and SIS, 600 to make this model, and its price
is $13. 900. His statement is that it weighs 108
pounds 1t is certainly most complete and
beautiful piece of workmanship, although
somewhat expensive toy.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
Irish HumOr.

Harpers Magazine for May contains the
following:
The Drawer is indebted to a friend in
Colorado tor the following, which was re-
lated to him by Catholic priest, Father H,
who in his mission work in Southern Colo
RADIO and New Mexico met with many extra
ordinary people and incidents. On one Occa-
sion he happened to hold service in q small
out-of-the-way chapel, where the varied duties
of janitor were discharged by gentleman of
Irish descent During the service child was
brought forward for baptism. 1t may not be
generally known that in the Roman Catholic
ritual the priest, before touching the child
with water, puts little salt into the water in
the presence of the congregation. The iani-
tor, however, had prepared the water before
hand, according to his own idea as to the
proportion of the salt, when the priest hav-
ing omitted to place the salt in readiness,
whispered softly to his attendant, "Pat, will
you please to get the salt?' 1e
Pat responded in an audible whisper from
behind his hand, ''Sure, an / put it in al
ready" - 80
Father H, not fully understanding, re-
peated his whispered request igiaai.r 4
Again Pat replied, more audibly than be-
fore, and with slight dudgeon in his tone:
s'Sure an put it il. tell ye."
ssBut the ritual demands that the priest
should perform the ceremony before the con-
gregation," explained Father H. consid-
erably annoyed at the janitor's obstinacy. -
The Irishman procured the salt, and hand
ing it to the priest electrified him, as well as
the congregation, with the remark, delivered
in surly growl: "Here ye are; bedad ye
can make q pickle of it if ye want to! !"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02

From the Chicago Times.

From the Chicago Times.]
Though once in the army, Gen. Banning
had quite forgotten that the regulations do
not prohibit the use of abbrevialions, other
wise he would have been spared ludicrous
blunder. General Macfeely, Commissary
General, was upon the stand, and Banning
glowered on him, questioning:
"'We perceive that the forage the Assis-
tant c. M. General is sent to one Mrs. Car
roll f.. a..
"'Don't know any such lady, said the
Commissary General. -~-..~~-.-----
."'Well, here it is,' said Nh. B., opening a
big bundle of papers, and pointing out in the
column of where delivered Asst. @. NJ
Gen. s forage department at @. Mrs. Carroll
"'Oh! see,' said Gen: NJ, delivered at
the quartermaster's corral
"'What! said Banning
1.-THE corral, where the public horses are
kept said Gen. NJ, with curious twinkle
of his eye. ., 7.. .......l
"'Hush, said Mr.. Banning. My God! I
thought that was Mrs. Carroll; don't let this
get out on me-"
Banning's feelings can be better imagined
than described, as the novelist say.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
Rejection Of u Will.
New York Telegram, April 5th. ]

New York Telegram April 5th.]
The will of George P. Gordon, the inventor
of the Gordon printing press, was rejected
to-day by the Surrogate, because the witness
ses signed it without knowing its contents.
r. Harrington testified to-day that as he was
passing along the street, Mr.. Gordon, who,
up to that time had been an entire stranger to
him, accosted him and asked him to 60 up
stairs and witness document. He did so,
and signed a paper at MIR. Gordon's request,
but he was not told what the paper was and
did not know. This will disposed of property
worth nearly $1,000,O00, and the surrogate's
decision to-day was rendered in the suit of
Mary A. Gordon, daughter of the testator,
who contested the will because under it she
received only 100000. The property will
now be divided as though the testator had
left no will, and Miss Gordon's share will be
much larger than her father intended she
should have.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
Russian Proverbs.

Bread and salt humble even robber.
A full stomach is deaf to instruction.
Love, fire, and a cough cannot be hid.
God is not in haste, but His aim is sure.
If you hunt too hares you will catch neither.
Measure ten times, you can cut only once:
Make friends with bear, but keep hold of
the ak.
A fox sleeps, but counts hens in his
dreams.
Everything is bitter to him who has gall in
his mouth. "'
The wolf asked the goat to dinner ; but the
goat declined.
The wolf changes his hair every year, bat
remains wolf.
Dog, why do you bark? To frighten the
wolves away. Dog, why do you keep your
tail between your legs? am afraid OF the
wolf
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02

Hon. Caleb Gushing has big thing in his
legal practice in the case of Don Joaquin
Garcia de Angarica. Cuban, who died in
New York recently at the age of 50 years.
The Don left Cuba in 1868, on the breaking
out of the revolution, he being with the Gu
bans. He left very great estate, which fell
into the hands of the Spanish government.
MIR. Cushing recovered for de Angarica his
plantations, and receives for his services
$500, 600, and another claim for $2,OOO,O 900
has been made, and, if established, will make
Mr.. Cushing rich man. The claim is one
which can probably be collected, and Mr.
Cushing will profit largely as well as the heirs
to the estate, sw ar 1
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
Absur(litieS Of the Postal Card.

A good writer, who gets things down fine,
eau put several thousand words on postal
card, and the cost is cent, but if he pastes
printed slip containing single word on the
card the expense is six cents; one paid for
the card and the other five collected from the
card receiver; yet if words are printed on
the card itself it is all right. If person
pastes printed slip on a card the size of a
postal card and puts the card and slip in an
open envelope the Government will carry
carry card, slip and envelope for cent, yet
it charges six cents for carrying postal card
and slip without the envelope.-Free Press.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02

O'Leary, the pedestrian, was Chicago
boy, and In view of his late triumph in Eng
land, the journals of that city pat him on
the head, apd allude quite pleasantly to the
fact that it was his mothers cow that kicked
over the lamp that set fire to Chicago. The
Inter- Ocean even does O'Leary up in verse
as follows:
Arrah, now, me deary,
Ne gallant O'Leary,
It's square that ye stood on yer pegs;
BY the sowl OF me dad.
ne'er dreamed that you had
Sich an illigant couple O. legs.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02

A lame man, carrying basket of groceries,
vent quietly down Main street. Cambridge.
Yesterday. when, with the suddenness of
lightning, his hand went up to his eyes and
his basket went rafting to the ground. The
sidewalk was flooded with broken eggs and
maple sugar and the air was burned with
profanity. A boy with q bean-sling in his
hand and the impress of the devil on his
face peered around the corner. and as he lis
tened to the old mans blasphemy he mutter-
ed. tsThat was the boss shot. '-Bost0n Globe.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
No. "a
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.

A neat fOot-A Acow's.-Worcester Press.
A rolling mill-A fight in the gutter.-Utica
Herald.
Mitier than the sword-Cheese.-
Journal.
A fool and his fathers money are soon
parted.-Pic.
England insists that Russia must desist.-
Chicago Journal.
What is home without moth there?-
Whitehall Times.
Still waters run for fifteen cents glass;
N. Y. Commercial
Every dove has cote, and every dog pants.
Whitehall Times.
The equinenoctial line-just behind mule.
-Keokuk Constitution.
A humiliating admission-a dead-head tick
et-N. Y. Commercial.
The Georgia negro now says, ''Get thee to
hennery.-N. Y. Herald.
A man grows beetle browed by hunting for
potato bugs.-N. Y. Herald.
Hereditary point There is often an ass
in lions kin.-Cour er-v ,urnal.
The worst fish story ever told is the one
now before Congress- Post.
Remark by man with a new watch-'l
buyed my time. IN. Y. Commercial.
Exchanges will continue to wear wrappers
with paste ornaments. Observer.
A shoemaker advertises medicinal boots
The virtue is in the heal.-New Haven Jour.
A triple somersault is pronounced well
done because it is so rare.-New Orleans
Picayune.
If horses chewed tobacco there would be
more horse-spittles than there are at present.
Boston Post
How to make barrel of flour go great
way-Send it to the starving Chinese.-Nor-
ristown Herald.
Trees have their time to leave.-Graphic.
And they never leave without a bough.-
Courier-Journal.
England may be ''mistress OF the Is" but
she has never vet been able to fairly master
the Hs.-N. Y. Mail.
Now plant sparrows. Plant them thick
and deep. if you would have rich crop OF
sparrow ass.-Graphic.
81 will be your little volume of shakes
pier," as the locomotive Whlstled TO the
bridge Courier Journal.
Hard up as the people of most European
capitals may be at present, it's always easy to
find V in Vienna.-N. Y Commercial.
'Phew-a-phoo, phieu-aphieugh, fhoo-afew-
felu-,' that is the way few OF you begin
to whistle the Marseillaise Hymn-N. 7.
Herald.
They say that Cincinnati is not musical
metropolis, because you can't make whistle
from the terminus of a swine.-Courler-
Journal.
One of the bravcst of the Sioux tribe is
"Under the Water. ."-Detroit Free Press All
right. Better keep him therein. Y. Com
mercial.
A hard-drinking man who went into the
saloon business, explained that he could make
enough off his own drinks to pay the rent
Fat Contributor. ..,...
A little Florida boy tanned an alligator, and
the ugly reptile learned to like the little fel-
low-not, however, until the little fellow was
all gone-Worcester Press.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
Bleeding at the Nose.

A correspondent of the Scientific american
says: ''The best remedy for bleeding at the
nose, as given by Dr. Gleason in one of his
lectures, is in the vigorous motion of the jaws
as if in the act of mastication. In the case
of a child, a wad of paper should be placed
in its mouth and the child instructed to chew
it hard. 1t is the motion. Of the jaw that
stops the flow of blood. This remedy is so
very simple that many will be inclined to
laugh at it, but it has never been known to-
fail in single instance, even in very severe
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02
Helena, Montana, Thursday, May Z, 1873

Soon sombre night let fall her veil
OF darkness, DER the troubled land;
But silence came not; hill and dale
Re-echOed words of harsh command.
And through the wheat-feld hurrying FAST
Strobe rank on rank stern-tated men,
And levelled, like the northern blast,
The waving mass of yellow grain.
By break of day living hedge
Begirt the fated glebe around;
But meath the trees on yonder ledge,
grayish mist lay on the ground.
Then downward swept the Clouds OF Gray
And dashed upon the Lines of Blue;
At times the clouds seemed gaining sway,
At times the sky shone clearly through
Then deeper grew the carnons boom,
The rafting rifles scattered death;
Bright, darting flames brought sudden doom;
The slayer's shout was his last breath.
The earth was soaked in bloody dew,
The grain was trampled in the mire;
A hurricane of bullets flew,
The mountain sides were wrapt in fire.
For many stood 'the gates ajar,''
Oa that most direful battle-day;
The affairs of the God of War
Were numbered with the Blue and Gray.
There fell poor Cross, and there fell Zook,
And many others by their side;
There, wounded, lay the gallant Brooke,
Who strove in vain to turn the tides
Yet him the Parce kindly spared.
To guard our rear at Cedar Run;
With us the Twelve Days Fight he shared,
When battle lost was battle won.-
Now ever iercer waged the fight,
And denser grew the misty gloom;
But faint the sounds from yonder height,
Where rebel bands played Home, Sweet Home. y
In vain we strove to hold our ground.-
The hostile hosts came surging fast.
And, as dim twilight closed around,
We left the blood-stained field at last
And all night long the cold dead eyes
Stared upward at the starlit sky;
And all night long loud means and cries
Came to US full of agony.
Oh! we'll has Ceres kept her vow,
And Mars obeyed her stern behest,
That field no more shall feel the plow
Where but the dog-grass rears it's crest.
*''The Pennsylvania militia did not fire gun to re-
eve their State from invasion '-Harper's History,
age sos.
**"At the Eleusinian games, ears Of barley, ETC.,
ere the prize OF the victors. ."-Dwights Mythology
age 173.
fSee Dwight's Mythology, page III.
tt'The last day of the festival wine poured on
ground the east and to the west. Prosepina as
oddess of the lower regions. was worshipped under
le name of Hecate."- ."-Dwight's Mythology.
tit considered the greatest proclamation of the
leusinia for any one to come suppllcant to the
,mple with an olive branch."-Dwight, page IT,
both the dog-grass and raven were sacred to Mars
SSwinton, page $50.
T''A Confederate band was playing on the heights
hen the cannonade was at it's height ht"-Frumauth,
age 13l.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-05-02

Although bachelors have often attained q
great age, statistics 60 to prove conclusively
that so far as men between 25 and 80 are
concerned, the married state is more condu-
Give to longevity. In France the mortality
per 1000 is 6.2 in married men between 20
and 80. and 1912 in bachelors of the same
age. Belgium and Holland show similar
statistics.