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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12
AMONG THE ROMANS.
[From Harper's Magazine

When the G ,od Governor s., who is a
most devout Episcopalian, was the Chief
Magistrate of Kentucky, he was wont to fire.
quenty entertain the members of the Gener-
al Assembly at the Governors mansion. To
one of these levees came, with the member
from his county, an old mountaineer who
had just reached Frankfort with the raft of
logs which he had brought down the Ken
lucky river. The old man who was called
familiarly ''Uncle Johnny" soon became the
centre of an admiring group, to whom his
jean clothes were not at all an improper at
tire for the Governor levee; and, his tongue
being loosened by glass of sherry wine,
which he then tasted for the first time in his
life, he was entertaining his audience with
stories from ''his country" when the Cover
nor approached.
''Uncle Johnny, here is the Governor"
said one of the company and straightway
the old man was silent. for he was over
whelmed by this first vision of the majesty
of the Commonwealth.
$50 on with your story, Uncle Johnny"
said some one; ''the Governor will like to
hear it."
Eyes, go on, Uncle Johnny" said the Gov
ernor, with kindly smile of encouragement;
and the old man thus convinced that even
the Governor was only man, concluded his
narrative.
Then, becoming bolder, he ventured to ad-
dress the Governor, saying, "Guvnor, went
to your meetin' yistiddy, and l seen whar
you SETS"
He had been to the Episcopal Church, and
had been shown the Governors pew.
''Did you. Uncle Johnny?" responded
Governor s., ''And how did you like it ?"
sWell, Guvnor, l never knowed much
what they was doin', but riz and fell with
'em every time"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12
Sentiment and Sense.

knowledge is more than equivalent to
force.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a
child, or children.
That glory is short which is given and re-
ceived from men.
Justice is like glass, which can not be
bent, but easily is broken.
Letters from friends are sunbeams on life's
horizon that cheer our way and tighten labor.
There are men whose presence infuses
gust and reverence; there are others to whom
we have need to carry our trust and rever-
ence ready-made
Often the soul is ripened into fuller good
ness, while age has spread an ugly film, so
that mems glances can never divine the preci-
business of the fruit
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12
Helena, Montana, Thursday, February II, 1880.
DanlpeM the AIR NOW.

We can hardly suggest the importance of
providing ample moisture in all rooms heated
by stoves, furnaces, steam pipes or hot water
plpes There are sound, scientific reasons
for this, as well as in the results of practical
experience. AS stated in ''Short Notes on
Air." every degree of heat added to the at
mosphere of room gives it power of alb
sorhing and secretiDg moisture. The air in
re IN 2Ox20 feet and 10 feet high, at 80 deg,
holds, secretes, about Il pints of water. The
same air heated to 70 deg. secretes upwards
of quarts of water, and unless this is sup
Piled, it is hungry for more water, absorbs it
from every accessible source, from the fur
njture, from our bodies and especially from
the breathing organs-the mouth, throat and
lungs, leaving them dry and husky. There
fore, every time the air in the room is chang
ed by the admission of fresh, cold air, and
heated to 70 degrees, two quarts of water
should be evaporated into the room. The
strong objections some have to warm air heat
ers have arisen mainly from this cause. In
using furnace heaters we always put into the
hOt-air chamber extra water-pans besides any
that are supplied by the manufacturers, and
take good care to have them always filled
with water. In stOve-heated rooms there
should usually be an evaporating surface of
wafer equal tO one square lOUC lOt eVeIy 10
feet square of flooring, and more if the water
is not on hot place enough to keep it rapid
ly exaporating. Plants in a room are mainly
destroyed, or have sickly growth, because
the warm air becomes too dry and sucks out
the very juices of the plants. The ''house
plants ts'-oliye or otherwise-suffer similarly.
In warm room, a large towel, frequently
wet and wrung 80 as not to drip, and hung
over chair back near the stove, will make
a marked difference in the comfortable feel
ing and healthfulnuss of the atmospheric
american Ag1Sculturist.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12

When tree stands so that the shadow can
be measured, its height can he readily ascer-
tanned as follows: Set stick upright-let
it be perpendicular by the plumb line. Meas
ure the length of the shadow of the stick.
As the length of the shadow is to the height
of the stick, 80 is the length of the shadow
OF the tree to its height. For instance: If the
stick is four feet above the ground, and its
shadow is six feet in length. and the shadow
of the tree is ninety feet, its height will be
sixty feet. (6:4 30 :60) In other words,
multiply tine length of the shadow of the tree
by the length of the stick, and divide by the
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12
Final PreOf In Homestead and pre.emp.
tiOn Cases.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIoR,)
GENERAL LAND OFFICE, =
Chinntnn ID q Ian IL 1890 /

Washington, ID. c., JAN II. 1850
Registers and recei0ers, .. S. Land Office.
GENTLEMEN lettering to circular of
April 10, 1879, under act of March g. 1879,
requiring published notice of intention to
make final proof in homestead and pre-emp-
ton cases, you are now instructed to require
claimants in all cases hereafter to specify, in
form No, notice of publcation-ED, the
dag and date on which they will appear with
witnesses for the purpose of making proof,
and in homestead cases, they must give the
official name and residence of the officer be-
fore whom the proof is to be made. You
will also request each claimant to name four
of his neighbors who may be able to testify
as to his compliance with the law, any two
of whom will be competent witnesses when
proof is made. Such a course will prevent
much inconvenience and delay. The post
office address of the witnesses should be CIV
en- in all cases. 1t is not sufficient to give the
county only.
You will see that the foregoing require
ments are incorporated in form No. 2 [notice
for publication so that such notices will
be substantially in the following form, viz:
''Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim
and secure final entry thereof, and that said
proof will be made before the clerk of the
court of Reed county, at the county seat, on
Thursday, the 22d day of April, 1880, viz:
John Doe, homestead entry No. 1874. for n.
E. of section 80, T. 46 N, r. 20 N, and he
names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation of
said tract. viz: John Smith, Thos. Bundy,
Peter Pinder, all of Jay, Reed county, and
Sam'l Small, of Roscoe Reed county"
--, Register.
The object of the law requiring such no
tice is to give to parties having adverse claim
or filings, or to those having knowledge that
the claimant has not complied with the re-
quirements of the statutes, full notice of the
time and place of presenting proof in order
that opportunity may be given them to be
heard prior to the perfection of an entry.
You will use the blanks on hand, making the
necessary alterations, until you receive new
and revised blanks from this Office.
Very respectfully,
J. w. ARMSTRONG,
Acting Commissioner.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12

Naturally we turn to the East for the origin
of most OF our customs, and cannot do bet
ter, think, than begin with the salutatlOns
OF those Eastern nations of whose customs
we have the earliest knowledge. A large, if
not the largest class Of salutations can be
traced to intercession. The deeply religious
character of the Orientals showed itself es-
pecially in their salutations. The Hebrew
word 6araE, ''to bless" had all the meanings
of saluting, welcoming, and bidding adieu,
the person spoken to being in each case COM
mended to God. BLESSED be thou of the
Lord;" 1.-The Lord be with thee;" "And
Jacob blessed Paraoh, and went out before
him." are instances which illustrate the u.s.
age of the word. They are paraleled by the
Arabian ''God grant thee his favors," MAY
God strengthen your morning." 'MaY your
morning be good;" by the Persian, II make
prayers for thy greatness" and by the Otto
man, ''Be under the guard of God" ''My
prayers are for thee" Forget me not in thy
prayers" And we cannot be surprised that
this kind of salutation is found to exist, in
some shape or other, among all national
greetings. Our religion has come from the
East, and some of their religious salutations
still survive, as, for example, in the Esthon-
ian 'God guide you," the ''Adieu," of the
LACbNlI, tAO w WAL oONs ONANA3 "a OPoAA13
and our "God be with thee" corrupted into
"Good bye" And here it may be remarked,
in passing, that the obviously religious phras-
es have been preserved by nations in sense
less distinctly religious than the English,
while they have been lost or changed among
ourselves. Has the closer intimacy of the
continent with Roman Catholicism produced
an effect on outwerd expression, or is the
change due to our greater reverence for sacred
names-a reverence, often of course, merely
pharisaic, but which has led us, as it led the
later Hebrews, to shrink from uttering the
actual name of the Deity, and either corrupt
it, as in ''Good bye," or eliminate it as in
'Mercy me-" Save you sir, while the French
are more lavish with their 'sMon Dieu," and
the Germans with their "MeSn Gott?" if
these suggestions will not hold, perhaps we
may find more rational solution in the uni
versal tendency of the west, and especially
of the English. toward brevity, which ten
dencv would find illustration in our 'Good
day." in the German "Gutea tag," in the
Swedish "GoOd day." and in the French
"BOnj0atr"- COrnltiU Mdgdzsne.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12
Historical Position OF Palestine.

The position Of Palestine on the map OF
the world has fitted 1t and it's successive peo-
pies for remarkable place in history. Here
is little country, with only 5000 square
miles, or 1000 less than Our State Of Vermont
which, if we measure it by the scope of its
history, the remote antiquity of its literature,
and the great forces it has started into ire
sistible movement, we must place among the
foremost in the ancient family of nations. 1t
is practically the meeting place of three
continents-Africa, Asia, and Europe. If
Belgium is the cockpit of Europe" where
many of the chief battles of modern times
have been fought, Palestine holds the same
relation to the ancient world. Her plain of
Erdrglon has been the battle ground of ma
tions and civilizations from Abraham's day
to Napoleon Bonaparte's. This little country
was the pathway of the nations on land,
while on the sea it was her Phenicia which
planted colonies all around the shores of the
Mediterranean, created Carthage, rival of
Rome, and dared to send her ships as far
north as Britain. There is something, too,
akin to magnetism in this wonderful little
land. 1t gave certain measure of historical
importance, and, indeed, of Immortality to
every people and land it touched. Take from
our knowledge of Egyptian history all we
have learned from the Mascic narrative, and
there will be marvellous diminution of the
fund. 1t is Only where Assyria in an early
day came into relations with Syria that we
get something of definite knowledge of that
great oriental power. We find Rawlnson,
in his give Monarchies, and Wilkinson, in
his manners and Customs of the Egyp-
tians," constantly appealing to and leaning
On the scripture history, in order to treat the
subject in hand in consecutive form. 1t is
Palestine that brings all great ancient coun-
tries within our vision. 1t is our best tele-
scope for view of the remote past. We read
the fortunes of other people through her. Of
right she did not possess the Greek language.
1t was foisted upon her through Alexander's
conquest, and yet so carefully did she learn
the new tongue that it became the receptacle
for the new faith from Him of Nazareth and
the medium of its communication to the re-
motest shores known to men. Palestine long
resisted Rome, and finally suffered destruc-
ton through Titus. Her acres and faith were
bartered like piece of merchandise, and
were, in turn, owned by Canaanite, Jew, AS
syrian, Greek, Syrian, Msccabean and Rom
an But in three centuries we find Bethlehem
Rome. Christianity held the
scepter on the Seven Hills, and paganism be-
came thing of the country village, or pagus.
.HdTpers MdgGzsae.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12

ALTHOUGH the approach to the earth of
several comets has been known, the least
distances of only two have ever been deter
mined with any degree of accuracy. On
July 1, ITO, a comet was within 1890, ,OOO
miles of the earth-the closest approach of
one of these bodies of which astronomers
have any certain knowledge. Its apparent
diameter was two and half degrees. or
nearly five times the apparent diameter of
the moon. 1t is not surprising that the ap-
partition of such monster should cause q
panic of terror among unenlightened and su-
perstitious inhabitants of our globe.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12

JERE. BLACK shows his usual sagacity by
warning the Democratic party that if it is
going to sacrifice Tilden it should have care
about the manner in which it does the busi-
ness ''He is not carcass to be hacked by
hounds, but a dish to be carved fit for the
gods. No Democrat can reach the White
House by stepping on the political corpse of
Mr.. Tilden." ALI the rival candidates who
have tiled to crowd Tilden off the track have
discovered this. He has twist" on the
party. Either he must be nominated, or he
must be permitted to name the candidate
This is what the classical Judge Black calls
carving dish for the gods. A more accurate
definition would be ''offering up sacrifice to
the barrel"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12

DURING the month of June next 10000
persons will be engaged in taking the United
States census for 1880. 1t will be the most
complete statistical report ever made in this
country. The law provides for taking the
name, sex, color. birth place, occupation and
ability to read and write, of each person.
Statistics of mines, fisheries and fishing pop
ulation, railroads, fire and life insurance, ex-
press and telegraph companies. 1t will con-
tain full statistics of agriculture and every
branch of mechanical industry
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12

IT is very nice to quote Thomas Jefferson
as an illustrious example of how Democrat
would regard third term. A recent maga-
zine article clearly shows that Jefferson
wanted third term very much. and only
gave up the darling wish when his own Vir-
ginia refused to endorse it, and it was certain
that he would be beaten. His letter, which
valves third term as Caesar did the crown.
was not written till year after it should
have been, to save its authors reputation for
sincerity.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12
THE CNILDREN.'
BY CHARLES DICKENS.

"When the lessons and tasks are all ended,
And the school for the day is dismissed,
And the little ones gather around me,
To bid me good night and be kissed.
Oh, the little white arms that encirCle
MY neck in tender embrace!
Oh, the smiles that are haOs OF heaven,
Shedding sunshine of love on my tace!"
And when they are gone sit dreaming,
Of my childhood too lovely to last;
Of love that my heart will remember
When it wakes to the pulse of the past,
Ere the world and its wiCkedness made me
A partner of sorrow and sin;
When the glory Of God was about me,
And the glory of gladness within.
Oh, my heart grows weak as a woman's,
And fountains of feeling will flow,
When / think of the paths steep and stony
Where the feet of the dear ones must go;
OF the mountains of sin hanging DER them,
Of the tempest of fates blowing wild;
On, there's nothing of earth half 20 holy
AS the innocent heart of child.
They are idols of hearts and of households,
They are angels of God in disguise;
His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses,
His glory still CLEANS in their eyes.
Oh, those truants from home and from heaven,
They have made me more manly and mild,
And know how Jesus could liken
The Kingdom of God to child.
ask not life for the dear ones,
All radiant, as others have done,
But that life may have just enough shadow
To temper the glare of the sun.
would pray God to guard them from evil,
But my prayer would bound back to myself;
All, seraph may pray for sinner,
But sinner must pray for himself.
The twig is 80 easily bended,
have banished the rule and the rod;
/ have taught them the goodness of knowledge,
They have taught me the goodness of God.
My heart is dunjeo of darkness,
Where l shut them from breaking a rule;
My frown is sufficient correction,
My love is the law of the school.
shall leave the old house in the autumn,
To traverse it's threshold no more;
All, how shall sigh for the dear ones
That meet me each morn at the door.
l shall miss the good nights" and the kisses
And the gush of their innocent glee,
The group on the green, and the flowers
That are brought every morning to me.
shall miss them at noon and at eve
Their song in the school and the street;
/ shall miss the low hum of their voices,
And the tramp of their delicate feet.
When the lessons and tasks are all ended,
And Death says, "The school is dismissed!
May the little ones gather around me
TO bid me goodnight and be kissed
The daily gazette., 1880-04-21
BLOOdless Bull Fighting.

PROPOSAL TO GIVE NEW YORK MIMI
CRY OF SPANISH SPORTS.
A collection of Spanish bulls, with at
tendants and bull artists, Is expected to
arrive in New York about the 10th OF
Nav. Senior Angel Fernandez, .he
1as,ilian Barnum, who is now in New
york, making arrangements for grand
reception of the beasts, is in consider
able trouble because of the opposition
by MIR. Bergh's society to bull lighting on
Americin soil. Finding 80 mn"h hos
t. ity to the "sport," Senor Fernandez
decided 10 aboreviate the blood curdlin0
features of the programme by dispensing
daggers. darts and the various devices OF
rortnre calculated 70 inhame bull.
The daily gazette., 1880-04-21

George W. Childs offers to bear the
entire expense of removing and rebuild
ing in its original style in Fairmount
Park the house which William Penn
built for his daughter Leti;ia, in Phi =
adelphia, and in which she lived and
died. 1t 10 soon to be demolished to make
room for new improvements.
Children cry for it. but they stop cry
ing at once, after they have taken a
single dose, as Or. Bulls Baby Syrup
cures all the pains our little ones are
subject to. Price % cents bottle.
The daily gazette., 1880-04-21
NdeLitu ReaU0rded.

"ls there any vacant place in this
bank which 1 could FLIP" was the in
quiry of boy, as with glowing cheek
he stood before the pres dent,
''There is none," was the reply.
"Were you told that you might obtain
suation helep Who recommended
your
"No one recommended me-" was
the answer; 81 only thought would
see."
the manner, an honest determination
in the cOunteDance of the lad which
pleased the man of business, and IN
duced him to continue the conversation.
He said:
"You must have friends who could
aid you in situation have you advised
with them?"
The quick flash of the deep blue eyes
was queDched III the overt aking wave of
sadness, as he said, though half musing-
iy: "My mother said 1t would be use
less TO try without friends" then, recol-
lecting himself, he apologized for the in
terruption, and was about to Withdraw,
when the gentleman detained him, by
asking him why he did not stay at
school another year or two, and then
enter into business lie.
81 have no time," was the instant re-
ply, "but | study at home, and keep up
with the other boys
"Then you have a place alread,2 ?"
said his interrogation, "Why did you
leave it?"
81 have not left it," answered the boy,
quietly.
eyes, but you wish to leave it. What
is the matter?"
For an instant the child hesitated
Z en he replied with half reluctant
frankness: II must do more for my
mother"
Brave words talisman of success any,
where, everywhere. They sank into
the heart of the listener, recalling the
radiant past. Grasping the hand of the
astonished child he said with a quiver-
ing voice: "My good boy; what is your
namep ? You shall I'LL the first vacaacy
that occurs in the bank. If in the
meantime you need friend, come to
me. But now give me your confluence.
Why do you wish to do more for your
mother ?"
Tears filled his eyes as he replied:
"My father is dead, my brothers and
sisters aie dead, and my mother and
are left alone to help each other, but
she is not strong, and want to take
care of her. 1t will please her, sir, that
you have been so kind, aud am much
obliged to you"
SO saying the boy left, little dreaming
that his own nobleness Of character had
been as bright glance of sunshine to
the busy world he had so tremblingly
entered. This was the dawn of his
prosperity.
The daily gazette., 1880-04-21
The First Coffee Raised In the
United States.

Commissioner LIE Due, Of the De-
partment of Agriculture, has received
a pound of coffee from Mrs. Atzeroth,
grown on her plantation on the Indian
River in Florida, from the plants furn-
ished her by the d dpartment. The
berry is fully developed, and the bean
within is equal in appearance and
flavor to the finest imported varieties.
This is the first pound of coffee raised
in the United States, and is the first
realization of the efforts of General
LIE Due to introduce the cultivation
of coffee in the United States.
The daily gazette., 1880-04-21
THE ARTlzANs SAVINGS BANK.

THE ARTlZANS SAVINGS BANK.
5O2 MARKET STREET,
INCORPORATED JANUARY 2Ith, 1861.
Open to receive deposits daily from 8 A
urtlay evenings from7 to 8 clock.
SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND,
regularly made in April and October.
When dividends are not withdraWne
they are accounted as deposits. Thus per-
manent deposits compound their interest
twice In each year.
MANAGERS.
Clement Il. smyth, George w. Bush,
Chas. w. Townsend George s. Capelle,
Nathan'l X. Benson, NJ. l.. Lichen stein,
Henry f. Dure, Edward Darlington,
w. Hastings, Job III. Jackson,
Edward Pusey, VIM. ID. Swift,
Anthony Higgins.
GEO. W. BUSH, President.
EO. 8. CAPELLE, Vice President.
feb2l-ly L. L. TAYLOR. Treasurer.
The daily gazette., 1880-04-21

L,IRST NATIONAL BANk
T. OF WILMINGTON
REPOSITORY OF THE PUBLIC MONEY
FINANCIAL AGENTS OF THE UNI
TED STATES.
EDWARD BELTS, PRESIDENT.
GEO. ID. ARMSTRONG;. CASHIER.
Paid up Capital, S50O,OOO.
Philadelphia. New York and Boston E,.
change furnis h sd to regular DeposiLors
without charge.
Discount days, Mondays and ursda
at $50 A. NJ.
DIRECTORS.
Clement b. Smyth, George W. Bush,
John Ii. Adams, Eli Garrett,
Henry y. McComb, Sam'l bancroft, Jr.
Daniel James, William Tatnall,
Edward Belts. iSnl-1y