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The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-03-12
Lying fn He'd.
London Society.l


Let us auafyze this lying in bed little
further. ! maintain that, in lying in bed.
there is something healthy and recupera-
tive to the system, The wheels of life are
oiled and eased. The proper and legiti-
mate purpose Of stoppingin bed is to go to
sleep. The more sleep the brain gets the
better does the brain work. All great
brainHorkers have been great slecpers.
Sir Waiter Scott could never do with less
than ten hours. 4 fool may want eight
hours, as George III said, but philosopher
wants nine. The men who have been the
greatest Generals are the men who sleep
at will. Thus it is with both Wellington
and Napoleon. The greatest speakers i'll
the House Of Commons have been Il 6 men
who 60 to sleep there as much as they like.
This explained the juyenility of the aged
Palmerston. There is a man who has been
Attorney Gelleral, who have seen bury
his face in his hands over his desk and
sleep soundly until his own cause should
come on. ''Sieep, says the Greek proverb,
sis the medicine of every disease If he
sleeps he will do wel.' \ friend told me-
that he treated himself for fever. He
Went to bed with a large pitcher of lemon
ade BY III iitis side He drank and slept him.
self we'll again.
When you take to your bed get all the
sleep you can ont Of Jour bedstead, even,
although, to quote Dick Swiveller's saving,
you have to pay for a double-betlded room,
confessing that you have taken All unreas-
enable amount of sleep out of Il single bed.
You will be banlinga d whole store of recl,-
peratiye energy. Even if you cannot sleep.
still stick to your bed. There is no more
pestilential heresy than that you should
get up directly you are awake. If it is the
early riser who catches the worm, the
worm is a great idiot i'll rising still earlier
in order to be caught. If you do not sleep
by lying in bed, you get rest. You secure
the tallow ground which will hereafter
produce good harvest. Sleeps, Of course,
the proper employment for bed, but If
you don't sleep you can lie still and read.
I don't believe that the man who gets up
early really learns or does more than the
man who lies in bed. If, for moment,
the writer may be egotistical, some of the
hardest work he has ever done has been
from early dawn till after breakfast in bed.
OF all the sleep in the world there is none
so good as what you get, in the way Of
treasure trove, after the usual time of
waking, when, in point of fact, you have
given up the expectation OF getting any
more sleep, AS for ''being called,' as the
saying goes, that is simply Il relic of bar
barism Of our ancestors. / should quarrel
with any man who presumed to "call'' me.
One of the main beauties of an occasional
day in bed is that you get an extra stock of
sleep, which goes to the credit side Of your
sanitary account.
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KILLED With Work
[Christian Woman.l

Many 4 husband has said, SDon't ask
my wife to do anything for the church, or
the missionary society, Or the temperance
cause; she has enough to do at home--shc
is killing herself with work as ii is,'' and
he tells the truth. But if the husband
would look !; little closer into matters he
would find chat his wife was killing her
self by work that was running his children,
cursing the world, and blighting the
church, that she was sacrificing her alto
fashion aud show.
Month after month, and year after year,
theworldly women of the church toll on
for the personal ad0rnment of themselves
and their children, till heart and flesh fail,
and an untimely grave covers them out of
our sight. FMartyrs of fashion" would be
the most truthful and fitting epitaph that
could be put upon ihclr tombstones. Many
a professedly Christian mother has wrap
ped her enfeebled infant in embroidered
muslin and f1anncls into which her child's
life blood has been stitched.
In many Il professedly Christian home
the first lesson a child learns is how to
dress in the prevailing style. 1t leaves its
cradle admiriag its fine clothes, and suffers
hours of torture with curling papers and
! crimping-pins before it has learned to say,
"Now I lay me down to sleep, 1t is not
surprising that the tender twig bent world
ward from the very first, should turn from
the church to the opera, the theatre aud
| the ball room.
When we look about we are grieved to
find that 50 few Of the young men and wo-
men reared in the church are loving work
ing Christians. But it isgnot surprising
If from infancy they are made to feel that
the world and its fayols are better than
the church and its privileges-nore to be
desired than spiritual riches-we ought not
to expect anything else than q lack Of in
.terest and confidence ON their part. If you
want you1. child to be a Christian, make
the beauty and power Of your Christianity
felt at home in the daily life. Work for
Christ and souls, and live. Those who are
killing themselves in their scramble after
the world and its follies, are indeed killing
/ themselves for time and eternitV.
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GLASS Thread

To make fine glass thread, the glass is
brought to a state of fusion, a glass zoI
dipped in it, and thus thread pulled out,
which solidifies first in the thinest parts,
and so causes a thread Of uniform thick
ness to be obtained. IF this thread is
placed over a hot metallic cylinder, and the
latter reyolved, any length Of thread may
ur obtained; the thread may uu obtained
finer by revolving the cylinder more rapid
ly. The heating Of the cylinder has. the
effect annealing the glass to some ex-
tent, while the rapid cooling, if wound on
a cool cylinder, would make it more brit
tie: u. 5".r
A bundle of such threads look like a
bunch Of silk, and it has therefore been
called glass silk. Its usefulness to chem
lists and druggists has lately been brought
to the notice Of the French Societe de
Pharmacie by M. Limousin. 1t is now
largely used in Germany, and especially in
Austria, for tiltering liquors in labratories.
In the microscope, the threads are as fine
as those of silk or fbrillie of cotton; they
break more easily than the latter, but are
excessively supple.
From the unalterability of the substance,
it is very well suited for filtering acid or
alkaline solutions, even concentrated, and
various other substances, such as nitrate OF
silver, albumen, collodion, Pelding's IS
liquor, etc. 1t affords great rapidity of
flow, with good filtration; it does not, like
filters Of paper Or tissue, communicate
organic matter to the liquids, altering and
perhaps giving them disagreeable taste.
It is much preferable to abestos, which,
from the arrangement Of its parallel fibers,
cannot be formed into flexible ball, and
which lets fragments pass that float in the
liquid.
For analysis it is very advantageous,
allowing Of ready determination of insol-
uble matters deposited; also by calcination
and fusion of the glass may be found the
volatile principles fixed in the passage OF
the liquid, unnixed with empyreumatic
products. Notwithstanding the price OF
glass silk is still high, it is no great ex-
pense to use it, as its excessive Eghtness
admits of considerable number Of fitra-
tions being made with small weight of it:
besides, it may serve an indefinite time, il
after each operation it's thoroughly washed
with water and dried in the air.-Buttder' $
Monthly.
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Aa Uncomfortable @aaroszss.
FAlf the Year Round


Two old women lived at Castle Pook, a
rambling old place, once magnificent, and
the scene Of wild revelry so long as its
owners had anything to squander. But
the spendthrift landlords were dead and
gone, and Of the Dennis family only two
members, an aunt and niece, remained.
They were called sst1e ladies" by their
poor neighbors, and were greatly looked
up to on account Of their ancient name
but they had not had any better education
than that which village schoolmaster
could give fifty years ago.
The elder Miss Dennis had small an
nuity, and it was no wonder that Miss
Honor was almost crushed by grief and
selfish anxiety when she became very i'll
and was given up by the doctor. "Come
here, Honor," whispered the dying wo-
man from her pillow. '"There's el0 in
that box; you'll have that, an my clothes
and the furniture, an you'll be sure to
wake me decent an put my fine linen
night gown wild the frills on me. Bring
itout to let me see if it's all right Miss
Honor promised to obey, but miserliness
Dvercame her, and she grudged the corpse
10 fine dress. She happened to have
some black calico covered witl1.white spots,
which she had bought at great bargain
from country peddler, and she made the
shroud Of it, intending to turn the frilled
night gown into money at some future
time The villagers from Clopook who
came to the wake, wondered at Miss Den
nises' 'sdead Dress but nothing was said
about it. The funeral took place, and now
began dreadful visitation for Miss Honor.
AS regularly as darkness fell, Miss Dennis
appeared in her black and white shroud at
her niece's fireside. she pointed to her
dress, and never spoke word. Miss Hon
or could not bear it. On the third night
the coffin was taken up and opened, and
the frilled night gown put upon its tenant
instead of the black and white shr6ud.
The ghost was now appeased; she did not
again appear.
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HRR&Eamce INDIAN Barring.


An instance of what an Apache Indian
will do i'll the way Of cool daring, when
the prize is worth risk, once occurred on
a rancho in Arizona. The owner Of the
ranch was an american. To guard against
the Apaches he had built q block-house.
and, adjoining it, a courtyard and corral,
surrounded by an adobe wall eight feet
high and two feet thick. In the corral the
herd was nightly secured. He had a con-
tract to feed and guard four hundred head
Of cattle belonging to the United States
fort, some thirty miles away. More than
one attempt had been made by Apaches to
capture the herd, while feeding two or
three miles from the block-house. But the
vigilant herdsmen had driven the cattle at
a gallop into the corral before the Indians
could stampede them. One night there
came a fearful storm. \ solitary Apache,
unarmed, and with nothing but a blanket
to protect him from the cold rain, climbed
over the corral wall, crouching in the cor
ner, lie waited for day. Early in the
morning the storm having passed away,
eight hertismen, mounted and armed, wait
ed at the gate OF the corral for the herd to
be turned out The gate was opened; the
stock poured out. Suddenly up sprang the
Apache. Vaulting on the nearest horse,
he clutched his name WITH one fnat1d, 44hslo
with the other he waved his red blanket
and yelled like a demon. III an instant
every hoof made a rush, and the stampede
began. The horse, frightened, darted into
the midst Of the flying cattle. AS in a
frenzy they went through, the gateway,
the Apache clasped his arms around the
horses neck, and, throwing his body on
one side of the animals disappeared from
view. A thousand men ranged in column
could not stop that rush Of the crazed
herd down the valley. The hcrdsmen fired
a vollev which wounded and killed some
of. the cattle Two bands of Apaches,
darting out from opposite sides Of the
valley, closed up from behind the herd.
Four hundred head of cattle were thus cap
tured and run off by the daring and cum
ming Of one Apache.
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EEHE 6aATE4HSqT GUN.
TsEae MOSS Terrible weapon known
to Modern Warfare.

among the many important and valua-
Bile inventions iii firearms, Of which the
present century has been prolific, there il
none that equals the Calling gun in or1gi-
nality ofdesign, rapidity of fire, and effec-
tiyeness. The severest tests and trials,
and its practical use IN warfare; have in
disputably established its high reputation
as the most formidable death-dealing
weapon.
The main features Of the gun may be
summed up as follows: Itis usually five
OF ten barrels, each barrel having its cor
responding lock. The barrels and locks
revolve together; but in addition to this
action the locks have a forward ands1oaek-
ward motion Of their own. The forward
motion places the cartridges III the cham
bers of the barrels, and closes the breech
at the time Of each discharge, while the
backward motion extracts the empty
cartridge cases after firing. The gun can
be fired only when the barrels are III mo-
tion from left to right; thus as long as the
uii 10 iCfoiFSAt Itliu lC1t Nltli Si1 tliNiSto3
the several operations Of loading and
firing and extracting, are carried on auto
maticallE, uniformly and continuously.
The gun is supplied from feed cases con-
tanning forty cartridges each, which fit in
a hopper communicating with the cham
bers; as soon as one case is emptied, an
other takes its place, and thus continuous
firing is kept up at the rate Of over ] 200
shots per minute.
We believe the Gatling is the only fire
arm in the world in which the three secs of
parts, namely, barrels, locks and
inner breceh, all reyolvc. Having the
barrels, locks and inner breech reyolve
enables the gun to be loaded
rapidly and continuously, while under
and without producing recoil
to destroy its accuracy.
That the gun is simple and durable is
eyinced by the facS that 100,000 cartridges
have been fired from it without injury to
any of its parts. The gun has recently
been greatly improved, and also its am1nu-
nition so that now its rate Of fire is over
10000 shots per rminute.-.Sctcntifc 1mari-
can.
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aaza Francisco the GeMte2s.

fRocky Mountain Presbyterian
WeDster's eloquent description of the
British Empire is familiar to every reader,
but we doubt whether it is generally real
lied that we, too. have dominion on which
the sun never. sets. It will hardly be be-
lieved, perhaps, without an examination Of
the maps that San Francisco, instead Of be-
ing at the western limit of this dominion,
is only about midway between our eastern
and western limits; and yet it is fact that
the faEthest Aleution isle acquired in oalr
purchase Of Russian America is aa far to
the west Of that city as Eastport, Maine, is
to the east of it. Between the northwest
ern limit of Washington Territory and the
southeastern limit Of Alaska there is a
break Of a few degrees, but, with the
slightest deduction, our territory extends
through 1877 degrees Of longitude, or II de-
grees more than half way round the globe.
Hence, when the sun is giving its good
night kiss to our Westernmosb isle on the
confines Of Behring' sea il lis already flood
Inc, the fields and forests of Maine with its
morning light, and in the eastern part Of
that State is more than al hour high. At
the very moment when the Aleutian fish
ernla.l, warned BY the approaching shades
of night, is pulling his canoe toward The
shore the wood chopper Of Maine is be
ginning to wake the forest echoes with the
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-03-12
Old Folks
[NewYnrk Tines.-


Dothe young people ever think that they
will be old; that they viii soon feel that
the grasshopper is a burden and fear is in
the way? Only 4 few short years ago that
aged man and feeble Woman were young.
strong and fun Of life; their loving hearts
were gushing with tenderness and care. for
the little ones who now stand in their
places.
Do not jostle that aged couple out of your
pathway, but rather lift them with tender
care over the rough, declining road. You
may have forgotten how carefully they
kept your tender feet from STUN bling, and
with what care they watched your adYaIls.-
ing steps. Bet they have not forgotten.
and the time will come when YoH will be
forcibly reminded of it, by the love you
have for yonr own little oaes. Will they
ever hand you the same bitter emp to drink
that Yaii pour out for that aged father and
stricken nlotllers Verify with Svhat
measure gts meet, ii shall be nleasureit 10
YOU again. Think of the anxious days
aud nights your mother has watched BY
Four sick he'd Fenlennhei her loving care;
/ her patience ail,i long suffering with yon1.
fret tfnlness, and then let the blush of shame
dye your brow. that yoH should be innpss-
lient oil tlalkina to her, aoW tiiats is old.
/ Old folks aFs. such i trial es, they knox
III, theg feel 1T and 50 will yklu be slleh3;a
trial oyatlr children ID the days that will
surely come tsase, and yau will remember.
E+s.F,s S#gS
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Modern Hon sgees.


Robert Lowe, one of the finest classical
scholars ii England, in an address deliy-
cred recently i'll tn. Croydon School Of
Art, urged his hearers to devote their en-
ergies to the requirement Of modern
tongues. He said 81 am told that it il
not to the living languages Fon should
look, but to the dead; that when Solomon
said !: living dog was better than a dead
lion, Solomon knew nothing about it, and
shat=a dead lionis mtIeh better than Il living
log. That IS not my Judgment on the
matter. donot believe that By teaching
man to know the languages that have
long since ceased to be spoken. and which
are the Repositories Of lore very curious
ana beautiful, but no longer of practical
appiieatioi do not believe that 81 t.Ern.
ing q mans mind to# these subjects, and
turning them away from THE snbjieess 81
eIlfeseilt day, yotI are doing the afsest
ftsliIlssit / lisf can Be done fol. him.
editor being asked, hogs T,ay y;
sag ! |. sss.e:st many doaof, They take tic
several years and tflsn have The
send IL marked refused. n
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-03-12
'Ehe Cheapest and best ef 1AHl
Excursions.
tfndianalholis Sentinel.

I
A good way to make Sundays enjoyable
as well as profitable, is to devote few O
their quiet hours to mind excursions-voy
ages Of the fancy, which may be matls
roseate by prudent indulgences of the i'm
| agination. These are not railroad excur.
sIons-no tickets are required. Quicker
than the speed Of locomotive, OF even the
| flight Of the electric spark on its wire
| highways, the mind visits all the hallowed
retreats of memory. Chilihood's home,
with all its endearing surroundings--''th
orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled
wildwood''-the pathways to the Old school
house upon the hill---the trees where the
robins built their nests-the streams that
lulled lis to rest, when weary we laid our
selves down upon the mossy pillows by the
murmuiing cascades, and went to sleep
We are in the old. church, and in the een1-
etery amidst its moss-grown monuments,
where sleep those who guided our youth
full footsteps-caressed 11s-and whose
burning kiss Of affection at parting we still
feel upon our cheek. Ahi but such cx-
cursions are grand, and then it should be
remembered they are cheap. 1t does not
anything to go. 1t is rapid transit on an
elevated route. They pay. Why not get
up to-day a grand excursion to the holy
land, to the sacred mountains, to Jerusa-
lem and the Sea of Gallilee, to Gethsema-
nee? Why not have in fancy picnic on
the banks Of the Jordan! 1t would be re-
freshing. In fancy the baptism Of john
the Baptist might be witnessed, and start
ing out, blind Bartimeus might De heard
beseeching the Master to restore his sight.
The highway might be found on which the
Master rode triumphant into the capital of
the Jews. Indeed, there may be al exeur-
sion to-day to Sinai; to Horeb and Calva-
ry, and at the close Of the day, when twi-
light dcws are falling, the soul may be
freighted with holy memories. If the idea
strikes our readers favorably they may 60,
with the assurance thousands Of pilgrims
will kneel with them at every sacred shrine,
climb with them over every sacred noun
tain, and weep with them over the desola-
tons that time has wrought. Nor are these |
all. The soul may mount still higher.
Earth is not its abiding place. John was
not the only one to have revelations. The |
immortal mind may, from che SUBMITS Of
the delectable mountains, hathed in the
soft light Of the better world, view its
eternal inheritance its mansion with dome /
and turret; the streets Of gold; the jasper /
walls and gates Of pearl; the river and the
trees, and catch glimpse Of the Paradise
in reservation for the wayworn pilgrim, |
Let us take the wings Of the morning to
return when evening shadows are falling,
and then, thankful for the days delights,
.ink into dreamless rest. !
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a DOCTORS DECEPTION.
He Lfvea fer Years a Life OF Deceis,
and Wan EAonered and Respected.

For the past twenty-five years DR.. Johr
Fl. Baldridge has resided in jackson town
ship, enjoyed good practice as physi
clan, was a prominent member Of the
Presbyterian Church, and one Of the lead.
ling citizens in the north part of the coun-
/ ty. 4 short time ago he packed his valise
and left, on the exposure Of certain facts in
his past history, which he could not deny
and which he could not longer conceal.
Recent revelations made known that in
his younger days he was living in peace
with a faithful wife in Ohio; that when
she was confined to her bed, a young and
attractive girl was employed to work about
the house and nurse the sick wife; that
Dr.. Baldridge and the girl became too in
| innate for peaceful relations to exist be-
tween the husband and wife; that he fnal-
| ly ran away with the girl, leaving his
wife, and came to this country, where he
located and passed her off as his wife.
Some ten or twelve years ago, the real
| wife became needy and wrote to the Doctor
pondence was that fear of her exposures
led him to agree to provide for her, with
the stipulation that she should remove to
this county, bury the secret in her own
breast and pass herself OF as the widow Of
his brother. This arrangement was car
ried out-the wife coming into the house
hold where her place had been assumed by
her former hired servant, and there the
two women continue to live in peace, SO
far as the outside world knows. Some
thing over nine years ago, Mr.. 7. I.
Curry, awell-known citizen Of that vicin-
ity, having lost his wife, paid his addresses
to the putative widow, was accepted, and
finally married her, although she was the
wife of DR.. Baldridge, never having been
divorced.
Mr.. Curry died about a year ago and
probably never knew anything as to the
facts about the skeleton in the closet. |
There were no children Of this marriage,
although Mr.. Curry had several BY his
former wife. Or. Baldridge raised large
family of children by both women, those
born to him by lawful wedlock being
raised by the woman he brought with him
to Indiana. How the exposure came to
be made at this late day is more than we
are able to say, except that it is said to
have been limited at and given out by |
peacemeal for probably Il year past. When
the story became known to few the
guilty ones were in constant fear, and we /
learn that the presence Of the Sheriff in
Farmersberg one day was what frightened
the doctor into flight.
His putatiye wife left soon after, but we
learn that she returned few days ago |
During his long residence i'll this country
the Doctor bought and sold many hundreds
Of acres Of land, and all the deeds he made
were signed by the woman he represented
to be his wife. An attorney can readily |
see the complications arising, especially |
if the children of Mr.. Curry propose to
dispossess their step-mother of her interest |
in the Curry estate, and she is led to assert
her rights as the lawful wife Of DIR. Bald !
ridge ge.-Sulliran (Ind.) Democrat.