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Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-09
What Is ''Tucking 9''
(From the Reno (Nevada) Gazette.

| (From the Reno (Nevada) Gazette]
A bothered-lOoking citizen came into the
Gazette Office yesteday afternoon, and re-
specttuIly asked to be let look at the diction-
ary. He sat down, and rather anxiously
thumbed Webster for while.
''What word are you looking for?" asked
| a reporter, seeing that the stranger had failed
to strike the trail
''Well," said the man in burst of conf
dence, ''you see I've only been married q
short time, and my wife's gone up to Truckee
on visit, and she's written to me to look in
the bottom of the trunk for lot of 'tucking,
and send it to her. Now, what want to
know what in blazes is 'tucking?' 1t amt in
the dictionary"
"Tucking?" said the reporter briskly,
why, tucking is the stuff the girls make by
poking q sort of short-turned fish-hook
through hole and catching the thread and
drawing it back again."
Then the editor spoke up contemptu0usly
and said that a man who was 80 ignorant as
that ought to hold his tongue. What the re-
porter had described was cr0cheting. Every
body ought to know what tucking. was. The
ladies in making it used a little continuance
shaped like mussel, with thread wound
up inside of it. Tucking could be purchased,
he believed, for ten or fifteen cents q yard,
and why intelligent girls should waste q
whole day. in making what they could get
for short bit was more than he could un-
derstand. In answer to question from the
admiring reporter, the editor said he had
been told that tucking was used in trimming
the undergarments of the fair sex, but why
things should be ornamented which fellow
would get licked for trying to look at-or
perhaps shot-was beyond his comprehen.
sion.
The married stranger said the editor was
mistaken; that the article he mentioned was
not tucking-it was tatting. This he knew
for fact.
The editor observed that when man came
to the Gazette Office fer information. the edi-
tor, when he gave it, didn't like to be told he
lied. If the stranger wanted to avoid trouble
he had better get out and 60 to the devil. AS
the editor had grown red in the face and his
eyes were blazing, the married stranger
coughed feebly and skunk down stairs.
In the meantime what Is s. tucking.
Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-09
GHOST SCENE FROM THE NEW JULIUS
CESAR

[Scene, Brutus' Apartment Time, Midnight
Brutus-Let me see let me see. Is not the leaf turne
Where left reading? Here tits. I think,
No, tits not The chambermaid hath been
Ramming around among my books and papers.
And I'm blessed if can find cussed thing
Where left it, I'll speak to the clerk about this.
How i'll this taper burns! wonder to gracious
If they expect me to pay 81 week
For board, and put up with ipht
Like this? If SO, they reckon without their guest
don't want an electric light of course,
But III have better one than this
If have to set fire to the house to get it.
Enter the Ghost of Caesar
Ha! Who comes here? Confound II, thought
told thee not to come till Saturday?
Thy paltry bill is only two dollars and half,
And yet thou mak'st more ado about it
Than would over q million.
All! beg your pardon. took you for another.
What! 1s't the weakness of mine eyes
That shapes this mOnstrous apparition?
1t comes upon me. Art thou anything?
Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil
That mak'st my hair cold and my blood to stare?
Or art thou indeed the agent of my landlord?
Speak to me, what thou art
And whichever way thou answerest
/ am-not-at-home! -(Ol City Derrick.
Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-09

Plans for ats Extension at q Meeting OF
the Directors.
rNew York Tribune Dec. 2O.1

cNew York Tribune Dec. 2O.]
In year the Northern Pacific Railroad
will be in working order to point one
hundred miles west of Bismarck on the Mis-
souri, River. This will give easy access to
the Black Hills region. A meeting of the
directors Of the company was held yesterday
afternoon at its New York Office, No. %
Flfth-ave. Bids for building 2O5 miles of
the road, from the Missouri to the Yellow
stone, were all in on Monday. On Tuesday
they were opened and yesterday the directors
took action on them. There were forty
eight bids, about half being for the first
hundred miles west of the Missouri. These
ranged from about 81, 900 to So, 600 mile,
said by one of the directors to be about one
third less than it has cost to build most West
ern roads. Several of the lowest bids were
accepted for the further formalily of exam
lining into the means and responsibility of the
contractor. 1t was said that a New jersey
contractor and a New York firm were the
lowest bidders, but the names of the proba-
bly, successful contractors are WITHHELD.
After some discussion the directors re-
solved that only one hundred miles of the
Missouri division should be built now. 1t
was reported few days ago that the CON-
pany intended to arrange for the bnilding of
the road for it's Government land. A direc-
tor said yesterday that cash would be paid
for the construction, the money to be raised
on first mortgage bond on the new hun
dred miles of road.
1t was deemed impracticable to build the
remaining los miles of the Missouri Division
without first making better survey. These
105 miles lie across the Sioux country, and
owing to the prejudice of ''Sitting Bull" to
Typographical science. the line was hastily
laid out. During the coming year an instru-
mental survey will be made This year cross
ties, for the first hundred miles, will be cut
on the company's land; the iron will also be
worked and everything put in readiness to
begin grading before the Spring is far advan-
ced
Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-09
Honors 20 Grant In Ireland.

BuBL1N, January 3.-General Grant ar
rived this morning, accompanied by General
Noyes, U. s. Minister to France. The ex-
President was met by the Lord Mayor. There
was no public demonstration. On arriving
at the City Hall Grant was cheered by the
large crowd who had assembled there. The
Mayor, in presenting the freedom of the city
referred to the cordiality always existing be-
tween America and Ireland, and hoped that
in America General Grant would do every
thing he could to help a people who sympa-
thize with every American movement. The
freedom of the city was enclosed in an an.
cient carved bog oak casket.
!. General Grant replied that no ceremony
had given him such satisfaction as the pres
ent one. He was proud to belong to
country containing so many lrishmen.
He said he was not an eloquent speaker. He
could only thank them for the honor done
him. Three cheers were given for General
Grant, and three more for America. Dr..
Rutt made speech highly complimentary to
General Grant. The ex-Presi1ent visited
several places Of interest.
Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-09

BosroN, January 2.-The Police Commis-
sioners here have addressed circular letter
to the police authorities in all the cities of the
Union, designed to perfect an organization to
systematize the police business throughout
the country in preventing and detecting crime.
Among the objects mentioned is speedy,
regular interchange Of police intelligence
between all parts Of the country; increased
vigilance not alone in tracing criminals, but
in watching officers and breaking up the pri-
vate detective business, with its blackmailing
operations and compromises with rogues.
Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-09
Helena, Montana, Thursday, January 9, 1879.
Eyes; and now write me an example,"
He took the nencil and wrote. stDotrnif

"Yes; and now write me an example,"
He took the pencil and wrote: ''Detroit,
Michigan, 1873"
"Your pupil, Mr.. Old Fogy, has answered
my question q hundred times. and YOU see
how he fails when be comes to practice.
Now, children, write, Horses and dogs,
and please tell me which word is q conjunc-
ton 7"
"And!" they cried in chorus.
II gave them like lesson last night for
the first time, Mr.. Old Fogy, while your pu-
pill has had it for years. You have taught
him the theory-I have given him the prac-
tice. If were teacher I'd lock up every
book and begin on the plaster on the walls
and instruct them in the useful of every day
life.'
"Plaster!" he gasped.
Eyes, I'd take that as the very foundation.
Can you, Mr.. Old Fogy, old as you art, tell
me how plaster for lath work is mixed %
I'll won't be talked to in this way, sir"
he exclaimed, as he rose to CO.
We are sending our children to school to
learn theory They look through glass win
dows, and yet have no idea what glass is.
Brick walls enclose them, and they have no
warm their rooms, but they know nothing Of
explains the interesting lesson of atmospheric
changes. They have beautiful lessons in the
engravings of their books, but they see moth
ing but pictures. They read print, but they
know nothing of its value to the world.
Then when our boys come home. and won-
der why frost heaves post out of the ground
or board warps in the sun, we turn round
and say;
"Why, you mutton-head. haven't sent
you to school for ten years?"
M. QUAD.
Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-09

A gay and gallant cattale-raiser of Western
Texas, who had fine ranch. and had many
q time been across the river to firt with Mexi.
can beauties and play monte, thought he
would see New Orleans and be only waited
to sell his stock; so as to have plenty of mon.
ey to see all the fun that was lying around.
He religiously adhered to his buckskiu
breeches, gay waistcoat and parti-colored
scarf, and sported his graceful sombrero ha,
Ia cabalero, SO that the average typical
Southerner blushed with envy at his dashing
appearance He was the best hearted fellow
in the world; always ready to share his last
penny with friend Or give it to the poor,
and, though he had been rather profitable
source Of revenue to the untakers in several
counties-for, of course, he would shoot q
man who was unmannerly enough to refuse
to drink-yet, on the whole, be was regular
good fellow.
Up one street and down another he went,
looking at everything and anybody, until
presently he espied a crowd around an organ
grinder, with monkey taking pennies. The
New Orleans people are, by their creole blood,
peculiar, and always encourage street music
Our Texan looked on for a minute, then put
up penny, which the monkey presently grab.
bed. then another, then dime, quarter. q
half-eagle, dollar. five, while the crowd
stood by admiring the generosity of the hand
some, picturesque-looking stranger. The
monkey became as interested as the crowd
and the organ man, and took in the contribu-
tions with an avidity that indicated q natural
turn for finance, and as fast as he took in the
generous Texan put up more money.
At last he had lost 500, and, with an oath
drew out big wallet. He carefully unwrap-
ped long string, and taking out some bills,
said:
''Look here, gentlemen, I've bucked agin
every game l ever have saw-fsro, three-trick
monte, casino, vantoon and all of 'em-but
durn me if ever did see one where there
was so many chances in favor of the deal,
and before tackle this game any more I'll
just 60 and learn something about it"
Saying which he put up his wallet and
stalked down the street. Washington Capitol
Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-09
Lacked Experience.
New York WOrld.1

iNcW 4OIK WOIlO.J
His bootmaker brought him number five
and quarter boot to 60 on number six and q
half foot, and the process of trying it on con-
vinced him of the tortues he would have to
undergo in what Shakespeare has called ''the
tanning of the shoe"
Too small, he says; ''they hurt.
''Hurt ?" replies the artist, bitterly ''hurt?
They can't hurt. made 'em myself from
measurements took myself, and they must
be roomy fit"
but they do hurt"
''How in Erebus do you know anything
about it? Are you shoemaker? What ex-
perience have you had, anyhow"
Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-09

WHM1NaToN, IN. CO. January 3.-Hon.
Geo. Davis. ex-Attorney General of the Con-
federate States Government, delivered lee
ture here tonight for the benefit of the fam
lily of Lieutenant Benner. The receipts win
be several hundred dollars.
Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-09

WASHINGTON, January Charles Francis
Adams. Jr.,, has resigned as government di-
rector Of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany.
Helena weekly herald., 1879-01-09
Written for the Herald
IN MEMORY OF MRS. w. f. STANLEY.


MRS. wM HYDE.
Oh, friend so fair and sweet-yct dead
And can it be the words are said
That binds thee to earth's narrow bed?
And though above the clay weep,
Can ne'er waken thee from sleep
What seems so peaceful, yet 80 deep?
Ah, friend! it seems but yesterday
We rambled down the old pathway,
And summer DER the landscape, lay.
Your eyes are closed, my friend, and yet
strive to stife vain regret
For earth and heaven in thee are met
But can this be last good-bye?'
And will our love forever die
In that pure land tor which sigh?
And can it be that friends forget
When death seal of silence sets
On pallid lips and life's regrets
Shall not the purer things we knew
Live on, grow grander and more true,
In this life which has come to you?
Dear friend, the mystery would see
The longed for-is reality
To you, but not yet to me.
Content I am to wait till when
My hand shall clasp your hand again.
Farewell farewell, dear friend, till then!
DEER LODGR December 29th 1878
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-06-19
The Coin Reserve.

The argus appeared as hard money
paper yesterday, and repudiated Major
Smiths and Gen. Anderson's plan of using
the coin in the treasury to pay off the public
debt. 1t was temporarily converted to this
Republican view of the matter by strong
letter from Hon. Geo. F. Talbot pointing
out the evils of such course. "To debase
the paper currency" says the argus, ''is to
enhance coin obligations, and in general to
give advantage to money changers at the ex-
pense of the masses of the people, and es-
pecially at. the expense of the laboring
classes
The Argus thinks both these gentlemen
meant to say that they were in favor of
using so much of the coin reserve in pay
ment of the bonds called in as could be done
without causing depreciation of the cur
rency. If so they were very unfortunate in
their method of expressing themselves.
Major Smiths language is as follows:
The keeping of nearly S140,OOO,OC0 of idle
coin in the United States treasury and taxing
an impoverished people TO pay the interest
upon 1t, IS an error so evident that it would
seem tnat no reasonable person could fail to
recognize it. This coin should have been used
in the payment of bonds recently called, and
the interest stopped.
Gen. Anderson wants all the idle money
used to reduce the public debt and stop the
interest. Idle money is the Greenbackers'
favorite phrase for the coin reserve. Ii
seems clear from these quotations that the
Arqus construction of these oentlamen,s 6
views is altogether too charitable. They
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-06-19
Farewell to the Friends.

During the past week our city has been
favored with the presence of members of
the sect of Friends who, for the second time,
have met here for their conference. 1t is
pleasant to think that they found Portland
so agreeable as to wish to return to it this
year-and the presence of the people of
peace in its streets surely does not fail of its
good influence upon the city. The Friends
are rightly so called, for the highest and
simplest principle, of--love ver-snd good Will
toward God and man, prevails in their lives
as in their counsel. Their history as sect
has record unstained by any act of perse-
cution or intolerance, and the simplicity of
their creed with its outcome of pure and
peaGeable practice is attractive to Christians
of other denominations, and satisfying to
its immediate followers. The yea and nag
of a Friend is accepted in courts of justice
as binding as the oath of another man; and
their tender thee and thou, their almost un-
conscious choice of Scriptural forms of
speech, give a charm and dignity to the
language, which is not with them the dis
guise of thought, but its clear and fair ex-
preston. Their continual waiting upon the
Spirit, their service of silence until speech
be sent-must give sense of the nearness
of heaven to earth, and greatly uplift their
faith
The Society of Friends, since its doctrines
were first preached by George Fox in the
seventeenth century, has been the subject
of persecution, opposition and misappre-
hension in various forms; but its peaceful
principles and the consistent course of it's
members have won for it the esteem in
which it is now universally held. Among
the followers of it's doctrines have been
many notable men and women; William
Penn, George Whitehead, Isaac Pennington,
of it's preachers; Elizabeth Fry, whose Won
derful influence over the degraded inmates
of prisons was proof of the power of loving
pity; and John Greenleaf Whittier, whose
face we are privileged sometimes to see in
our streets-the poet who sought peace and
ensued it through the dark ways of war;
who took the slave by the hand in the days
when abolitionism was despised, and who
ceased not to call the nation up to righteous
anger until peace was won with the sword
and his songs might lay aside their stress of
the prophet for the poets sweetness.
The Friends ha We not had so bright and
favorable weather as would have been de-
sirable; the skies have put on the sober gray
garb of our guests, and the rains have been
frequent and copious, but we have been
spared the heat which was the only draw
back to the comfort of the convention
of 1877. The meetings have been
largely attended and of much in
terest. 1t is to be hoped that the Friends
will conclude to visit our city for their next
convention, and that it will become their
fixed habit to do so on each occasion. They
will be sure of sincere welcome; and it is
with regret that we say to them, in their
own kindly phrase, as they leave us-Fare-
we'll
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-06-19
Incipient Financial Institution.

10 the Editor Of the Press:
In your 'leader'' of to-day you refer to
land bank in England. a similar piece of
folly occurred few years later nearer home.
Nearly eight hundred persons of the province
of Massachusetts Bay established what they
called the Land Bank or mandatory
scheme" which went into operation in Boston
in 1740 The stock was paid by mortgages on
real estate-loans were secured by like mort
cages, and were payable in produce and manu-
factures The Provincial governor, Belcher,
discouraged the scheme. BY the charter of
1851, three years were allowed for the Kings
approval or negation of Provincial acts. Dur
ing this time the bank had commenced flour
ishing business, issuing what was called IMAM
ufactory bills"
The disapproyal of the charter by the crown
caused the General Court to pass an act in 1912
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-06-19
A Republican State Convention
WILL BE HELD IN
rnnn1nrna utrr nIHrrnn

NOROMBEGA HALL, BANGOR,
Thursday, J Tune 20, 1879, at 4 o'cpk A. M.
for the purpose of nominating candidtc for Gov
ernor, and for transacting whatever business may
properly come before it.
The basis of representation will be one delegate
for each city, town and plantation, and an addition
al delegate for every seventyve votes cast for the
Republican candidate for Governor in 1876. A
majority fraction will be entitled to a delegate
The State Committee will be in session the evening
preceding and at o'clock the morning of the Con-
vention to receive the credentials of delegates
In selecting the Delegates the Republicans are
urged to assemble in full numbers and to invoke the
aid and cooperation of all voters who willing to
unite with them to the following ends:
1. To maintain the power and prestige of the
Union against all attempts to subvert oppose its
just authority and to insist that the Government of
the United States shall be controlled by loyal men.
2. To dscountenance and reprobate the treason
able and revolutionary course of the Democrats in
Congress, who threaten to cripple and destroy the
functions of the Government if constitutonally pre-
vented from enacting their partisan measures into
law.
3. To uphold the right of the United States to
enforce its own laws wherever they to operate,
heresy of the States Right secessionists who have
already plunged the country into one bloody war
and who attempting to control the Govern
ment of the Union with the same measures that
preceded the rebellion of 1861.
4. To insist upon free elections-not only free
from National military inference, which no de-
sires, but also free from the interference and vio
ence of socalled State militia and the assassns who
with deadly weapons have seized the polls in many
of the Southern States driving innocent and de-
moekery of elections, which upon free suffrage
has been made distinct political issue by every
Democrat in the Senate and House voting against
measure designed to prevent and suppress it.
5. To uphold the financial credit of the Govern
ment and to assure to the people of all sections
sound currency, equivalent to coin at all times and
in all places and redeemable in coin. And to this
end to oppose all distracting, repudatng aud mis-
chievous efforts against the peace welfare and in
dustrial prosperity of the People.
6. In these aims and purposes all citizens of
Maine are invited to unite, that the hands of the
President and of the Republican minority in both
branches of Congress may be strengthened in their
efforts to uphold the honor of the Government and
the just authority of National Law.
By order of the Republican State Committee.
GEORGE c. WING,) s
G. A. BOUTELLE, it. ouu
FRED N. DOW, ooniiii'.eo'
May %, 1879. j. O. SMITH, Secretary,
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want the S140, 100000 in the treasury paid out
on the mistaken notion no doubt that it will
benefit the poor man, and in this desire they
have the support of the great majority of the
Greenback party-a party which the argus
has fondled very lovingly of late and which
we fear will look upon its opinions quoted
above as very severe spank. If it was
possible we should reproduce Mr.. Talbot's
letter in full, but in the crowded condition
of our columns we can only quote one para
graph which contains an unanswerable ar
gument of the necessity of a coin reserve
1t is as follows:
presume Gen Anderson, who considers the
coin reserve in the treasury idle money" is in
the habit of paying all his considerable expen-
diturrs of money by giving checks ON the bank
in which he keeps deposit. Does he there
fore consider his deposit 'idle money!" which
he is using unthriftily? Suppose that, finding
his checks were always available to pay his
bills, that his creditor invariably accepted
them with bows and thanks, and confidently
receipted his accounts without the preliminary
caution OF presenting at the bank, he should
conclude: There, you see a cheek is good
enough currency for me. l will draw out my
deposit and invest it in yacht or in span of
horses and q coupe" How about the checks
afterwards? How long would he find them
available to keep on good terms with the
tailor and grocer? The fact is, he has got only
one money, and that is his reserve in the bank
He cannot, without swindling, use his money
and his check too. The check is an appropri-
alton of his deposit If he has already appro-
priated it to the yacht and the coupe, he cannot
afterward appropriate it to the tailor and grocer
Now this is the exact condition of the United
States treasury. Tt pays out it's checks (its
notes. to its creditors, public officers, contract
ors, holders of the public debt when they
choose to accept them, and it has the gold and
silver to pay such of the checks (notes) as are
presented. 1t has not two funds but only one
The notes are nothing so far as they are not
good to draw out to the last dollar the coin
which is kept to pay them with.