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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-05-01
Writing az "Arm's End"

A real telegraph has been invented by an
English mechanical engineer. A writer in
London moves his pen, and simultaneously at
Brighton another pen is moved in precisely
similar curves and motions. The writer
writes in London, the Ink marks in Brighton.
The pen at the receiving end has all the ap-
pearance of being guided by spirit hand.
The apparatus is shortly to be made public
before the Society of Telegraphic Engineers.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-05-01
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.

Gas-makers get light pay.
An upstart-Beginning to prosper.
Tramps have Gorgeous times, says Puck.
Is not Lent good season for the loan fish
erman?
How to acquire short-hand-fool around q
buzz-saw.
Trees begin to die at their tops-Men begin
to dye there, too.
Sweet meats-sugar-cured hams.-Cleve-
land Sunday Voice.
Life is a s.Mr."y to a sober man, and q
''mizzer'y to drunkard.-Puck.
Camels hair shawls are probably woven on
heir-loom.-Boston Traveller.
1t takes broth of boy to make an Irish
stew.-New Orleans Picayune.
We can never bridge the Styx with the
span of life.-Turner's Falls Reporter.
II is finally decided that W-ster's dc
tionary is the best. Philadelphia Times
Zone of the lost tarts," said a scholar,
picking up cherry pie in the street.-Steu-
benville Herald.
A thieving boy, who the other day was
apprehended for stealing q pigeon, said he
took it for q lark.
1t is an old sheep that cannot renew bis
youth in the hands of an enterpris!ng butch
er.-Boston Transcript.
A stationary engine Is q common sight, but
did you ever see rolling mill or walking
beam ?-Chicago Tribune.
Market quotations do not affect the price
of liberty, which always remains at eternal
vigilance.-New Orleans Picayune.
Many people who invoke the aid of Divine
Providence want Providence to do the job up
inexpensively.-N. Y Herald.
The wages of sin are not paid in trade dol
lars.-Exchange. Old Nickel pay them in
his own coin.-Cincinnati Commercial.
Now that the thunderstorm season has ar
rived, the reckless small boy will be more
prompt at prayers.-New Orleans Times.
The fashion for ladies' hair has not
changed this spring. They will continue to
wear interrogation marks on their foreheads.
The fall of Adam was not as humiliating
as it might have been. There was nobody
around to say, ''Come here, sonny, and III
pick you up"
NJ. Robert Mitchell, the Bonapartist Dep
uty, called at the Elysee recently and saluting
N. Grevy remarked:
II am very happy to be able to effer you
my congratulations on your accession to the
Presidency"
With smile NJ. Grevy replied:
Il am very happy to be able to accept
them"
The balmy breeze
Thro' budding trees
Here we touched the spring of the trap
dOor.-Vox Humana.
Rheumatism, colds. pneumonia,
Seize upon each living thing;
Now, with true diptse,ial mildness.
Comes the gentle breath OF spring.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-05-01

Sometimes think, the things we see
Are shadow of the things to be;
That what we plan we build;
That every hope that hath been crossed,
And every dream we thought was lost,
In Heaven shall be fulfilled.
That even the children of the brain
Have not been born and died in vain,
Though here unclothed and dumb;
But on some brighter. better shore
They live, embodied evermOre,
And wait for us to come.
-rPhnbe Cary
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-05-01

PROFESSOR GANaRE's scheme to '4reeze
out'' yellow fever has not yet been abandoned.
His latest idea is to put Charles Francis
Adams il command of the projected refrig-
Grating ship and thereby make the assurances
of frigidity in the surrounding atmosphere
doubly sure.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-05-01

A FRENCH physician has performed re-
markable feat in the art of the transportation
of teeth. BE extracted an incisor (projecting
under the tongue) in the lower jaw Of young
woman of 26, and placed II in the upper jaw
in place of q decayed tooth just removed: Ia
feew weeks the tooth was firmly fixed. This
successful experiment opens up new field
for dertists
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-05-01
DAMON Ds, CHERRIES ANuKIssEs

A million little diamonds
Twinkled on the trees,
And all the little maidens said,
IA Jewel, if you please"
But while they held their hands outstretched
To cate h the diamonds gay,
million little sunbeams came
And stole them all away.
-[Marquis of Lorne.
million br ght red cherries
Hanging on the trees,
And all the little urchins said
''Oh, amt they just the cheese? ?'
But while they held their hands Outstretched
To catch the cherries red,
The good old farmers dog appeared
And the little urchins fled
-[New York Evening Express.
A million soft, sweet kisses
Beneath the spreading trees,
And still she whispered softly,
'Go on, DEAR you please"
But while held her hand in mine,
And cla-ped her closer yet,
A policeman stole upon us
And ordered us Ito get"
-[Boston Post
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-11
PROsPERIrY OF soTTnERN NEGROES.

Even our own people sometimes
make mistake; that is to say, looking
at crowds Of negroes about the public
places Of our citie- and towns, they
think and say that the negro don't
work. 1t is mistake. Idle as they
may be in the towns, there is no lack
of yigor or industry in the country.
There was a period of great disorgani-
zation in the labor system of the South.
There was a time when freedom meant
to the negro the right to be idle. But
they have been finding out that it
means freedom to work. In the thir-
teen or fourteen years that have elapsed
since the termination of the war half a
generation has passed. The little boys
Of fourteen years ago are the stalwart
workers of to-day, men who have grown
up accustomed to free labor, r,accustomed
to making contracts for their own la
Dor, and learning gradually to respect
those contracts. They have learned,
too, the value of industry and steadi-
ness as affecting wages. Large mum
bers of negroes own small farms and
cultivate small crops Of cotton; and
many Of these mickles make a muckle
Let us all think before we speak
Raleigh, N. G., Observer
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-11
Tnr KEY no scocrss.
PIoso.

One Of Wellington's chiet sources oi
success was his thorough mystery Of de.
tails. When in Spain he gave precise
dhertions how the soldiers should pre-
aare their food III India, the iniles per
sidy the bullocks should bs driven that
were provided FOR tho army. The
equipments Of his troops were cared lor
in all their minutim. The same exact
ness be introduced in his administration
OF civil affairs. From his earliest
school dnya, IN every transaction, his
trait of tboroughncsB appears. The
confidence and unfaltering devotion he
thus inspired unqnestionably secured
him his many aud decisive victories.
No great commander leaves anything
TO chance, but seeks to anticipate every
emergency and to provide for it. Gray
spent seven years perfectiDg his Eteyy,
which you can retulily read ia seven
minutes. Into Il he generously poured
the very ripest scholarship, an intimate
acvuaintaince with tbs rules Of ryililn,
and an exhaustive study Of the varied
excellencea Of English and Latin clae.
sizes. Every syllable was submitted to
tho closest scrutiny, the cadence Of
the verse was suited 10 tbs character Of
thought, every outline WAS vivid. every
tint toned, every picture perfect, before
be suffered bis poem 70 pass into piiif.
This palace Of thought was no single
nights work Of alave-genii, obcying the
behest Of one holding some magical
lamp Of dHseiia, bat was built up like
coral reef, particle by particle. Aud
this eomplete mastery Of detail was ae
cured only by the most protraeted con-
centration Of effort. BY resoiute..y
claiming bis thought 10 hia theme. com
pletely sarrendering himself to ia g,rid-
auce, the inexorahle laws Il suggestion
irresistibly led him hack l,rough the
past's faded and foreottri. reen,-s ~ the
humble lives Of the fle1nng cytlagers
until the scenery aud Is.rsonugca of ey-
cry picture a. last brishtencd aud
breathed before has mental vision with
all the sharply outlined yivilurss Of
real life TLn Penn 5f0ufbfu
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-11
Az AccoMMopArIxe rAssEyeER.

The other day, says the New Haven
Register, an Irishman evidently not long
a resident of this country walked up to
the ticket office in Union depot, and
said TO Alderman States:
"Give me a ticket for Easthampton. P"
Massachusetts, or Connecticut =
asked the genial dispenser of paste
boards.
.'Naythur, l want ticket to East
hampton"
81 understand, but there are two
Easthamptons, both in this State and
Massachusetts" exclaimed Mr.. States.
"Bedad, an is that sol Which does
it cost the most to go to I" asked the
son of Erin's isle.
Massachusetts," answered the ticket
agent.
'.Well, then, be the powers, Ill take
the cheapest one.
The traveller was accommodated with
ticket to Easthampton, Connecticut
and he got aboard the Air Line tram
apparently quite happy.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-11

THE other day man who has no in
innate acquaintance with the capabili-
tiles Of the telephone, and is particu-
larly ignorant of the microscopic at
tachment which, when the mouth is
placed near it and is used in loud
voice, blurs the sound. the other day
spoke to lady operator over the wire,
and her answer came to him spread out
like dough under rolling-pin. "Good-
ness gracious r said he, turning away
from his instrument and addressing q
bystander in his office, that woman
talks as if she hadn't tooth in hel
head when he was completely demor
allied to hear the telephone scream in
very high and shrill key, eyes,
have, you old brute; and you'd better
mind how you talk about me" Ant
then he withered like fTost-bittez
morning-glory
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Charles May and his brother Robert,
in the Spring Of 1870, offered to pass
10000 railroad ties down the Arkansas
from the mountain source. he says
Our offer WAS accepted, when we
started into the upper entrance Of the
canon with a large skif provided with
six days, provisions and 200 feet Of
rope, with which, by taking running
turn around some firmly planted object,
we could lower our boat hundred feet
ct time. In this way, at the end Of
three days, having set adrift many hun
dred ties, we reached the entrance to
the Royal George. Here we discovered
that an attempt to descend the first
waterfall with two in the boat was GER
tain destruction, and TO return was i'm
possible. Accordingly / determined TO
lower my brother down the fall in the
boat, give him the rope, and let him
take the chance Of the canon fife
seemed more certain in that direction),
while would risk my physical ability
to climb the canon wall, which was
about 1000 fest high.
About 10 o'clock in the morning |
shook hands with my brother, lowered
him in the boat safely to the foot Of the
fall, gave him the rope and saw him no
more. Then throwing aside my coat,
hat, and boots, and stripping the socks
from my feet, commenced my climb
ing way, often reaching the height Of
one or two hundred feet, only to be
compelled to return to try some other
way. At length, about o'clock in the
afternoon, reached height upon the
smooth canon wall Of about thousand
feet. Here my further progress was
arrested by shelving ledge of rock
that jutted out from the canon side q
foot or more. To advance was without
Lope ; to return, certain death. Reach
ing upward and outward, grasped the
rim Of the ledge with one hand and
then with the other, my feet slipped
from the smooth side of the canon, and
my body hung suspended in the air
thousand feet above the roaring waters
Of the Arkansas.
At that moment looked downward
to measure the distance would have
TO fall when the strength of my arms
gave out. A stinging sensation crept
through my hair as my eyes caught the
strong root Of cedar bush that pro
jected out over the ledge little beyond
my reach. Ny grasp upon the rim of
the ledge was fast yielding to the weight
of my person. Then / determined to
make my best effort to raise my BODY
and throw it sideways toward the root
30 as to bring il within my grasp. At
tho moment of commencing my effort /
saw nay mothers face as she leaned out
over the ledge, reached down her hand
and caught me by the hair. Stranger,
my mother died while yet a young
woman, while / and my mother were
small boys. but / remember her face.
/ was successful in making the side
leap Of my arms, when drew myself
upon the ledge and rested for a time.
From here upward my climbing way
was laborious, but less dangerous.
reached the top of the canon Just as
the sun was sinking down behind the
snowy range, and fastened 10 our camp
at the mouth of the canon, where /
found my brother all safe. Charley
said he, have you had .our head in a
flour sack I 1t was then l discovered
that my hair was as white as you see it
now"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-11
srarer vEGErAgl4sIs,l.

4 man wandered down Calhoun
street last night, aud approaching Irey's
grocery store, asked of the proprietor f:
Yon got some greens, don't IT r
"Greensl Yes, sir.
"You got some roofing bakersi7 =
"Rutabagasl Yes, sir; how many
viii you haset'
"Got some little red blates, init green
topsr
"Red plates with green topsl Well,
no, sir suppose you will find them
at the China store, up town"
"Don't got no red blates Guess it
was better of you got some guess you
was liar. Vieh You call dose r.
"Why, those are radishes."
"Red dishes-dot's vot / said. Say,
maybe ! get some letters from you to-
morrow. You got It r.
"I4ettersl There are no letters here
for you you must enquire ut the post
Office.
"Ankwire nit the best-ofiice for let
ters Z Dose vas fine skeems. / vas
up town and vent auf bake shop aud
want some buns, and de man said, Get
out, olt bum, or I'll fire you troo de
door,"
"You should have said buns He
"Bumsl Dots yot / said-bums
and den / comes and want some red
dishes, und you tell me to 60 auf a
china store | want some letters to eat
und you say go NIT de post office. !
ogspect of want some beats you tole
me 10 90 te the station house. l tole
you nat / do-you can 90 to the tyfel.
OF you vas nice man / want some in,
jins and cowcumpers, und blendy
dings, but / guess | 60 to de drugstore
und buy brick and beddels rat pizen
Fort JFay1ae lind. Sentinel.
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unEaithful servants ought to take them
in hand. If there had been no absent
Democratic Senators "Wednesday night,
the Democrats would have bad quo
rum without the Republicans, who ro.
fused 10 vote, and could have forced a
vote on the army bill. Seven Demo-
craiic Senators are ont Of the city.
They have been telegrnphed for, and it
- to lie hoped they will remain till the
session closes, or resign and let better
men take their places.
Buaasu
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-11

Madame Lebrun in her Souvenirs
gives few vivid pictures of life in
France at tie outbreak of tho great
revolution. "The dreadful year" she
says, 'of 1889 began, and fear had
taken hold of the wisest of us" One
evening she invited a few friends to a
concert at her house. They arrived
"with CONSERVATION depicted on their
faces" That morning they had been
to Longchamps, and as they entered
the city on their return the populace
abused them along the road. Rough
men sprang to the carriage steps and
cried out i: Next year you shall be
behind your carriage and we shall be
inside" Ameng this party was Mad
anne de Villette, Voltaire's beauty, who
was the esleast terrified" Madame Le-
bruins former house, in which she had
not lived forthree months, was marked
by the miscreants." They threw sui
phur into her cellars, and when she
stood at her own window 'sbrutal sans
culottas shook their fists" ct her. On
every side she heard all sorts of sinister
rumors, and lived, she says, in con-
tinual state of anxiety and despair.
On the memorable 9th of October, the
day on which the King and Queen were
brought by the armed mob from Yer
sailles to Paris, Madame Lebrun and
her friends took fight to Italy. All
along the road to Lyons men on horse
back approached the diligence and told
them the. King and Queen had been
assassinated and that Paris was on fire.
Among the portraits which Madame
Lebrun painted in Rome was one of the
famous beauty, the Countess Potocka,
leaning against a messy rock with
waterfalls behind it. One day the
Countess called with her husband, and
when be had left them alone the Count
ess said at is my third husband, but
think I shall take up my first again,
who suited me better, although he was
q regular scamp" Pope Plus VI,
whom the artist thought one of the
handsomest men she had seen, wished
her to make his portrait. She greatly
desired to do so, but since it was nee
essary to be veiled while painting Hi
Holiness, and fearing she could not un
der those circumstances do it we'll. shs
felt compelled, she says, to decline th'
honor Before her marriage the Mar
auis de Choiseul was among her ad
mirers, which enraged her, for be ha,
| just married lovely girl-an Amor
lean of sixteen summers 'sand | 4
not believe, she adds, "a prettier cres
ture ever lived"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-11
Hr DIDS'T WANT A corrlx.

AA1 Ihu4B INTO flfG Oatlce Oh w CBt
End undertaken the other day with 4
look of great care on his honest face
His eyes were heavy and slightly blood.
shot, telling Of nightly vigils and loss
Of sleep. His hair was unkempt and
shaggy. The soft-bearted man Of cof.
fms looked upon his visitor with a gaze
full Of pity and thankfulness-pity for
the customers loss and thankfuIness
for his patronage. He was 30 young
to DO burdened by the loss Of dear one
hy death.
The manufacturer Of burial cases nod
ded silent assent and condoling recog-
milton; the young man from the coun-
try said GLOW dye dor Then ensued
a painful silence, broken ut last by the
man Of grove business.
"Can | do anything for you to-day,
'tWell, reckon 80, stranger"
Another silence. Once more the un-
dertaker began by suggesting: "Your
sister"
Young man stared moment, then,
rs q light gradually broke in upon his
perplexed mind, he smiled, more sug-
geAtive of sorrow than happiness, and
replied:
"No-my wife"
SUDDEN
"No-expected sutlium Of the kind
for several months"
"When did it happenf
"Bout four o'clock this morning"
Looks naturall"
Rather" Spoken carefully and
expressive Of some doubt
about what do you want the cost
Of the coffin TO bef'
"D2n't care for expenses; get il up
kinder nice. I'll treat her handsum,
cause she's the first one / ever had"
avery well, my friend; you'll have it
lined with white satin, supposeT'
"JuSt as you say, stranger"
"Silyer headed screws. TOO, sup
posel'
''Y-a-a $, / s'pose so. An, stranger,
just put bully top tot"
"of course; and you'll want glass in
it, also, ] supposed"
"Y-a-a-s-Ob, certainly-you bet.
Git her up sniPtious, you know, old
fellow. None Of your drafted one-hoss
iixins for me- No sir'ee."
''Just no. Silver handlesf
"Ehl What's thet you say stranger
Silver handles! Oh, durn il, now,
won't that he pilin' it on too hefty likel
| kin stand silver screws an sich, but
there's no use maxim the hull tarnation
trap OF silver. Tie thing has to be
moved and must have handles, bat /
ANT quite SO stuck up as thet now-not
quite. stranger"
Very we'll" acquiesced the man Of
obse4nies, "I'll put ordinary handles on
it, then
"Eggsactly-them's 'em mister, now
yer taikin' Ordinary handles'll do.
But say, stranger, make the wheels
glisten like thunder"
"Wh-wh-wheelsl'
"Yes, wheels What's tber matter
with you, anyhow
"But who ever heard Of wheels to a
cofiinl'
"C0tfnF shrieked the dejected-look-
ing young man. ''Cofiinl Now, who
tho dickens said anything about cof-
fms"
..Why, don't you want cofiini'
moo! ! want cradle-a trap to
rock my new baby in"
"And isn't your wife deadi"
Not by iugfull. Don't YOU make
cradles for saleF'
"No, my friend, am an underta-
kerr"
"Undertqker of what"
81 make collins"
"oh, Lord, let me catch that fellow
that sent me herer'
And the grief stricken youth cram
med his hat over his eyes, ran his hands
deep down intossthe pockets of his trous-
ers and pounced out on the street
searching for vengeance.
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nv EaErHLY LovE.
i,Y gasoraicx R. aAsvis.


No dim and gloomy ghost ! sing.
Nor phantom 1aa.jug in the air;
To one who Ireaas tl,s sDlid earth
send alike my sDsg aud praye
To perfect matter strong aad sweet,
The face and firm Of Il = love;
The mstchless sp5sc;i and ;,LIe breath
And eyelld trembling fix iovs
A dove within AIS s4riy nest,
Who hears the o.uinS Of hsr ni4tc,
Or felt the kiss upon her breast.
And chides him that 40 eotnet 80 late
The maschless ~ ~ >, .se sing
The earthly joy of ilsfe and now;
Before no fading gn1st 1 kneel-
Before no distant fasu. = bow.
Go, little song, sEsd se.sk tLe iis,s
OF her who walls t.tes Win 4 AIss;
And fell her, only IA iser arms
Thy poet master drs4.sis Of bliss.
No angel seen by prs,elIss eye,
Nor shaped BY ar wilii fssrie-s gr4se,
With feet that treaI tns a1..se SKY,
And roam tho boandasss ns,jds o. .isa.;s
Is half 20 true or sssetly fair
As one who walks With Ine apart;
I lose me In her shining hair
She Is the goddess Of my Se4rt.
o, Death, 20 like q stormy eioui
Within q gentle SUM .Iisr .,ky,
Thou lonely phantom, sad tO see,
1 will not fear thee, though 1 del
Go, little song, to her arms,
And tell he. death Is III tine air;
II IL his shadow on the world
That makes the present moment fair.
We have one hour Of life and ,ove,
And ages filled with silent sleep
There Is ne time for Faith to pray
Nor time for sulIen Grief 10 weep.
Go, tell her II we loYe not now
The life we live Is only death
And dust that has no joy IN time.
And only feeds on bitter breath
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-11

A lisping boy was out in the
back yard pounding on a tin pan. The
father came up, tired and sullen, and
being disturbed by the noise, cried out,
What is turned loose in the backyard,
a Wild animalga The little fellow re-
Piled. Yeth. tllir, It's . pan, thir'
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RATES or ADv9nrlslso.

Business notices in the T.ocal Columns
20 cents per line.
For legal and transient advertisements
81 90 per square. for the first insertion, and
50 cents per square for each subsequent IN :
sertion.
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Land for Sale.

% - acres one half mile west Of Soda
. O11 vile, 100 in cultivation; all under
fence. Oak Creek affords ii water the year
round. VIII sell at a very Low price one
third down. For further particulars, adj
dress SARAH USHER,
s8n3 Sodaville, Oregon.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-11

A goat, browsing on the greensward,
approached a pig pen and said to its oc-
cupant Why do you stay in that
horrid place when there's such lovely
spot as this handyF" The pen is
nnightier than the sward,D giunted the
pig.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-11

A man can never succeed in holding
two or three dozen pins in his mouth
as woman does, no matter how much
ne practices on shad.