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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20

The seven bibles of the world are the kO-
ran of the Mohammedans, the Eddas of the
Scandinavians, the Try Pitikes of the Budd-
hists, the five Kings of the Chinese, the three
Nedas Of the Hindoos, the Iendavesta and
the scriptures of the Christians The Koran
Is the most recent of these seven Bibles, and
not older than the seventh century of our
era. 1t is compound of quotations from
the Old and New Testaments, the Talmud
and the Gospel Of St. Barnabas The Eddas
OF the Scandinavians were first published In
the fourteenth century. The Pitikes OF the
Buddhists contain sublime morals and pure
aspirations, but their author lived and died
IN the sixth century before Christ. The sa-
cred writings of the Chinese are called the
I'VE Kings, king meaning web of cloth, or
the warp that keeps the threads in their
place. They contain the best sayings of the
best sages on the ethico-poltical duties of
life. These sayings cannot be traced to a
higher period than the eleventh century b.
e. The three Vedas are the most ancient
book Of the Hindoos, and it is the opinion of
Max Muller, Wilson, Johnson and our own
Whitney, that they are not older than eleven
centuries B. c. The Zendavesta of the Per-
SLAMS is the grandest of all the sacred books
next to our Bible. Zoroaster, whose sayings
1t contains was born in Batrie in the twelfth
century before Christ Moses lived and
wrote his Pontateuch fifteen centuries b. C.,
and therefore has clear margin OF 300 years
older than the most ancient of the other
sacred writings.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20
Comparing SOn-in-LaWs.

During the Vienna Exhibition an amiable
Hungarian merchant happened to meet in &
railway carriage a gentleman with whom he
proceeded to hold pleasant conversation.
II am going to Vienna" said the merchant
ito see my daughter, who is well married
there My son-in-law deals in paper and
fancy leather work. and has a good trade He
is very prosperous"
IT. ALSO" said the good-natured stranger,
"am going to see my daughter and son-in-
law"
'Ah! is your son-in-law well off 2" asked
the merchant.
'Pretty well; but as he has to carry on his
work all alone it is rather tiresome."
rs your daughter rich p
Not as rich as she'd like to be-
'She likes to spend good deal on her
toilet p -r. ....
NO; but she would like to be able to give
a great deal in charity"
''Shes good woman" said the merchant
heartily, lit is to be hoped that your son-in-
laws business will improve. Goodbye, sir
Come to see us, and bring your daughter; we
shall be happy to make her acquaintance
The train arrived at the station at that
moment, and the traveller whose son-in-law's
business was only pretty good was immedi-
ately surrounded by grand personages in
uniform. After having politely saluted the
amazed merchant, he stepped into the car
riage of the Emperor of Austria. st
n The good father-in-law of the dealer in
paper and fancy leatheg goods had been trav-
eliuu with the Prince Max of Bavaria
father of the Empress Elizabeth. " 4f5a1
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20
Fall Fashions and Fripperies.

India cashmeres wsll be much worn. The
rage for Japanese ornaments is on the in
crease Copper and brickdust shades are as
fashionable as terra Gotta. Quantities OF
bangled bracelets are worn over mousque-
taire gloves. Standing high collars and low
rolling collars are equally fashionable. Small
hats and bonnets begin to appear among i'm
ported shapes Cheviot mixtures in what
are termed heather shades will be much
worn. Even elderly women look well in
white or cream-colored all wool dresses.
Velvet and plush will be the high novelty
dress trimming materials of 1881. Large
collars are worn by children, grown girls,
matrons and elderly women. Basques of
mOire, black and III dark rich colors, will be
worn with skirts Of various kinds Plush
stripes on wool satine grounds are seen among
other novelty trimming materials. Little
owls i'm black metal, with diamond, ruby or
emerald eyes, are favorite ornaments. A
growing fashion is that of independent jack
cts made of stuff that can be worn with any
kind of skirt. Basques and cuffs will be
fastened and draperies looped with fat nails
or spikes, having large heads of gilt silver or
Jet. No boudoir or parl0r is now considered
furnished unless pretty Japanese lantern
or two or more hang in its hooks and cor
ners. Overdresses viii be looped with large
pins similar to those now
used to ornament the hat or hair.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20
Why Dogs Run Sideways.

More than one person has doubtless enter
tanned the speculation. A correspondent OF
the New York SIN explains:
There are several reasons of a scientific
character, as diagonal position of a dogs
body to the line of motion is the most adval-
tageous for the dog in going at trot
He is less liable to be upset Any oblong
body leaning forward on the ground has a
broader bearing when turned athwart or di-
agonally than when going directly endwise.
A dog gains fifty per cent more of base by
thus running so to speak, upon broad gauge
than when going upon narrow gauge, that
is to say, in a direct line of his length. Being
liable to kicks and blows and to be pOunced
upon by other dogs, it is obvious that he is
able to offer greater resistance when moving
diagonally. +
In case dogs safety requires him to run
suddenly and in an opposite direction-as he
is frequently compelled to do-his diagonal
position is the most favorable for him, be-
cause he is partly turned around already, and
his feet are in a position to serve his object
most effectively.
The diagonal position enables him to
throw sideward glance of his eye more
readily, so that he is safer from attack in the
rear.
The nature and habits of dogs are pecul
iarly interesting to mankind, and especially
to young people. Does not their diagonal
trot show in familiar way the wOndrous
faculty of instinct?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20
Value and Use of Bones,

Until the middle of the present century
few of even the most intelligent farmers in
the world knew of the value of bones for en-
riching land. 4 few had noticed the re-
markable growth as well as the wonderful
prOductiveness OF grape vines planted over
the skeleton of an animal, but it did not oc-
cur to these persons to collect bones, reduce
them and apply them land planted to ordi-
nary field and garden crops. The great value
of bones consist in the amount of phosphorus
they contain. This substance is essential to
the growth of the most valuable food plants
which gradually but steadily remove it from
the SOIL 1t is most readily and cheaply re-
stored to the soil by the use of bones. In
addition to phosphorus bones contain lime
and considerable ammonia. Entire bones
remain in the ground long time before they
are composed to such an extent that they
are appropriated by plants. 1t is extremely
difficult to pulveriZe them without the aid
of powerful and expensive machinery. If
they are first burned they may be pounded
up very readily, but the action of heat drives
off ammonia. This ammonia is valuable in
promoting the growth of plants, and it is
also of great use in fastening the decompo-
sition of the bony structure. Bones HAY be
rendered sufficiently soft to be easily reduced
by covering them with fresh horse manure,
and allowing them to remain in it for several
weeks; by placing them in tight vessels and
covering them with wood ashes occasionally
moistened, or by boiling them in strong lye.
The last is the quickest as well as the most
satisfactory method of reducing them, if one
has kettle the capacity of barrel. Treated
in either of these ways, they should be pull
verified and mixed with fine earth or dried
muck before they are applid to the land.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20
TOO AWFULLY UTTER.
A DeadWOOd Mans Interview with a
Brooklyn Girl.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press
WELL" said Deadwood man who had
just been introduced to Brooklyn girl, and
who had been asked by her if they had many
of those lovely frontiersmen out his way
'well, mum, we hev right smart of 'em in
our neck O the woods" .E. ...
and do they wear fringed legs and hunt
those dear, sweet buffalo % asked the girl.
"The stage drivers wear fringe and SIGH
and when a buffaler shines out some one is
pooty apt to hook on -.
| ''How supreme And those gorgeous Indi-
ans in their picturesque wigwams Of wam-
pun, with their blending combinations OF
war paint, do you often see then?'
! ''Oh. once in awhile we get a hack at q
] buck. but mostly they are OH the reserva-
tions," replied the Deadwood man, staring
! "The ydoes comes in occasionally, but we
don't track with them" t...... ......
'The sweet things! And you have such
sunsets out in your mountain Businesses, and
such loves of highwaymen! Do you ever
see those delightful highwaymen?
'Not often, mum. They get in the brush
and. as for sunsets, we get 'em pretty reg'lar
in fair weather" ID" t@2 -rL
Isn't it just too awfully too, exclaimed
the girl, clasping her hands and rolling her
eyes.
Yes, num-" stammered the Deadwood
man, some times its pretty dern, too, least
wise it was the day that Cobbler duffy came
into town on the landslide"
An avalanche! Do you mean an ava
lanche? Oh. can there be anything more
crystally utter than an avalanche"
-l1I l>o
Deadwood man, dropping into his compan-
ions style of expression. The cobbler had
a-a-he had a crystally shaft up the side
of the butte and one day he was-was tooing
around up there, and things slipped out from
under him. -h,.
oh how radiant. How iridescentr
Yes, mum; and he began to radiate to-
wards town at the rate of 1000 miles and
three furlongs minute. We see him "a
uttering down the side of the mountains
ripping up trees and rocks and tooing along,
and his iridescent wife tapped out of her
setback and began to raise a row."
Poor Lilyr' moaned the girl: did she
stop the glorious avalanche =
No, mum, not quite. Duffy fetched up
against his setback all standing and began to
howl like blizzard, cause he'd thought he'd
IOSU IiAS IIlluC. Dut NIlC1I tlCy IppCu tuC
land slide ON one end there was the mine
underneath just as he had left it. So he
could work it right under his winder. That
was pooty considerable too, eh?'' and the
DeadwOod man never winked.
How sublime! How crystalline.
But was going to say we never had a
sunset since" ~.
$50 star like" murmured the girl.
t.Eoc nnct1v cfa Iil-a No,1 coo the land
slide stands there to this day on end, and
they don't dare to turn it over for fear of
filling in the town, so we don't get any sun
after L in the morning.
"a perennial twilight! So feartuIly, ter
ribly, awfully utter
Yes murmured the Deadwood man, its
just about as utter as you get EN-
And she sat and gazed upon him, wrapped
in admiration, while he fell into a reverie,
and wondered at Brooklyn hospitality i'll
not providing sand boxes" for strangers
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20
EMBLEMS OF MOURNING.
The Use OF ColOrs Other than Black in
Different Countries.

Il trust that black will not always remain
the emblem of mourning in this country
said dealer in mourning goods who is q
scholar as well as merchant. "It is not a
suitable emblem, but implies an absence of
light and a want of life, which we certainly
do not wish to convey as our conception of
the state of our departed friends. Mourning
is supposed to be the outward visible sign of
inward grief. The notion of a change, how
ever, would not readily be received, for when
one has to put on the habiliments of woe,
grief is too strong to be overcome by fashion,
What other colors are used in mourning %
In Italy women greve in white garments
and men in brown. In China white is worn
by both sexes. In Turkey, Syria, Cappado-
cia and Armenia, celestial blue is the tint
chosen; in Egypt, yellowish brown, the hue
of the dead leaf, is deemed proper and in
Ethiopia, where men are black, gray is the
emblem of mourning All of these colors
are symbols White symbolizes purity, an
attribute of our dead; celestial blue, that
place of rest where happy souls are at peace !;
the yellow or dead leaf tells that death is the
end of all human hope, and that man falls
as the autumn leaf, and gray whispers of the
earth to which all return. The Lycians con-
sidered mourning for the dead an effeminate
practice, and SO when they grieved they put
On women's clothes as a symbol of weakness
and as shame to them for lack of manli-
ness. The Thracians made feast when one
of their loved ones died, and every method
of joy and delight was employed. This
meant that the dead had passed from state
of misery into one of never-ending felicity
Black was introduced as mourning"by the
queen of Charles VIII Before that the
French queens wore white mourning, and
We're known as white queens
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20
A Crusher.
Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle
Only one week ago steamship was cross
ing the Atlantic Ocean, and O fashionable
American woman at a dinner one day said
to fellow passenger from Washington:
"Mr-, do you know Mrs Garfield?.
II do not know her well, said the gentle
man; II know General Garfields mother"
II am told,' said the female, that Presi-
dent Garield's wife is a very common, vulgar
sort of person"
We'll" said the gentleman, with slight
color in his face, IF to be the only educated
woman who has been for years in the White
House, and the only wife of any President
who can speak French and German and pre-
pare her children in their Latin for college,
and who is an upright woman in every re-
spect. and as modest as she is upright, con
stitute her a common, vulgar woman, that
she must be-"
The fashionable female was slightly con-
fused, but that man was good deal OF
favorite with men and women during the
ract of the trim
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20
Helena, Montana, Thursday, October 20, 1881.
Fine Talk and Refined Talk.

AS to the matter of beauty, the most preiu-
diced and illiberal European observers have
done willing justice to the beauty of Amer
lean women; and indeed, one should have
no eyes at all if he failed to notice the ex-
traordlnary number of pretty faces which
pass him in the stream that floats down any
OF our principal streets On fine afternoon.
Perhaps the popularity which first impresses
stranger in the American woman is her
astonishing fiuency and self-reliance in
speech. New York and Brooklyn society
seems to abound in pretty little petticoated
Gladstones. An English woman of even
more than average culture, when en-
gagged in ordinary conversation, does not give
herself much trouble about the finishing of
a sentence. When she has gone deeply
enough into it to enable her listener to get
the idea she means to convey, she is only too
ready to drop that sentence there midway
and begin another. Most American women
talk habitually with an accuracy which
would bear literal reporting, the language
reading like page copied out of book !;
while at the same time there is huency
which never pauses for word, and never
seems to know the slightest difficulty in ex-
pressing an idea. But having borne 50 will
ingly a tribute to the Incompatible superior
lty OF American women as takers, the ram
bling writer may be allowed to say that he
thinks English women, for the little they
can talk, use a simpler and purer Saxon
English than flows from the lips of Ameri-
can ladies. In England now it is assuredly
mark and proof of culture to adopt this
simplicity of style: in this country it seems
as ii people, especially women, tried hard to
cultivate a fine emphatic jargon. For ex
ample, here it appears to be thought a rude
and coarse sort of thing to speak of a women
Of education and position as woman you
must speak of her always as lady" Mrs.
Brown is charming lady; Miss Black is a
beautiful lady; and so on. In England this
sort OF phraseology is usually relegated to
the layd's maid and the tootman. Educated
and well-bred English people will always
say: Mrs. Brown is charming woman
Miss Black is beautiful woman. One had
rather hear an English woman break into
little word of forcible slang as such women
will do occasionally, than hear her spoil our
pure and noble Saxon speech, SO sweet and
hon1elike in its simple, natural strength, by
over-refinement Of language and the spurious
graces of superficial gentility If the as
tonishing fuency and brilliancy of the Amer
lean woman's talk could only find expression
in the simple Saxon which is now happily
the vernacular of educated people in Eng
land, the charming talker would have just
the one thing needed to place her completely
supreme among the conversationalists of the
modern world-LondoR Letter to Brooklyn
E0Gle. . t. -'-.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20
81 MINER FANCIES.

\ story is told by the wind
\ song is sung by the wave
The glec of slvery serenade
Or psalm tune sweet and grave
And one by one, like q butterfiy's wings
The scented leaves unfold
The scented leaves from the rosebud's heart,
Crimson, and pearl, and gold.
And ever the song goes on,
The chant of sunny sea.
\ murmurouS sweep like plaintive hymn.
Or Il ripling. rising gee.
The fulness Of love is poured
IN the lap OF the wo~shipng earth
EUr the earth is the Lords, and the JOY thereof
From the rose in its budding birth
TO the distant, shadOwed wilderness,
TO the pines OF the barrens lone
From the sheltered bed where the brookiet sing
To the ledgcs of the grey ribbed stone
OF the canyon : awful depth,
Granite crowned, and cold and stern:
and His arm is still outstretched
And His truth shall live and burn
Till the last strayed sheep is found
Till the last proud soul has knelt
ind the skies shall drop sweet wine
And AL the hills shall melt
fle bIoomy light of the dawn
CLOVIS into the gold of day.
And slow, through the still, grey summer eyes
1t filters its life away.
\ strain Of music floats
From the heart of the starry dusk,
and throbs through the sultry atmosphere
With its languorous heat and musk
With its softly odorous gloom,
With the flash of the tircties strown;
And soft sea voices lend sweet words
In Il murn. .urous undertone.
And fieetly the mellow moon
Goes up in the summer night.
and a dusky tracing of shadows
Is fringing the waste of light
And the long vines drip with dew,
And night bird cries alone,
And a sweet, sad tender presence broods
Till the night and its shades have flown.
And all through the summer night,
And all through the summer day,
And OH till the bloomy, golden light
Has filtered its life away,
Forever the song goes OIL
The song of the surging wave,
The glee of IA silvery serenade,
Or a psalm tune sweet and grave.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20
BE Short.

Long visits, long stories, long essays, long
eeAhortations, and long prayers, seldom profit
those who have to do with them. Life is
short. Time is short. Moments are precious.
Learn to condense, abridge, intensity. We
Tan bear things that are dull if they are only
snort. We can endure many an ache and
Ill II it is over soon, while even pleasures
grow insipid, and pain intolerable, if they
are protracted beyond the limits OF reason
ana convenience. Learn to be short. Lop
vi the branches; stick to the main facts in
your case. If you pray, ask for what you
you'd you receive, and get through if you speak,
Sa nll your message and hold your peace; boil
t towh two words into one, and three into
'"o Always learn to be short.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20
New Fire Extinguisher.

Some experiments have lately been made
in London in extinguishing fires with water
and sodium silicate. Two piles OF lumber
each nine feet long, seven feet high and four
feet deep, were filled in with straw, well sat
urated with petroleum and benzine, in equal
Quantities. and ignited After burning for
Ave minutes. operations were commenced by
tbrowino water on one and sodium silicate
On the other. In the course of about one
,,,;n,te the fire treated with the silicate was
axtinouished. while that treated with water
5;d ,,ot Give In till about four minutes. Z A nd
n was further found that about twelve gar
Inns Of the silicate and twenty-five gallons
iof water had been used.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20
Important Decision.

An important decision has recently been
rendered by Roman Catholic prelate on
the subject of the membership of the faith
full in secret societies, which shows that there
is more latitude allowed in this matter than
is generally believed. In response to ques-
tion ON the subject, Archbishop Wood, of
Philadelphia, says that 'the mere observance
of secrecy in relation to the executive busi-
ness of any order whose aims are honorable
and lawful, is not enough to denominate it a
secret organization; that if the obligation
demanded of person becoming member
is specific, and for the simple purpose of con-
cealing from the outside world private busi-
ness, and is not general sweeping oath, COW
ering all of the purposes, acts and intentions
of the organization, he does not consider it
secret society" This opinion is in full ac-
cord with that OF the older members of these
organizations, viz: that a fraternal, benevo-
lent society, although it does transact its
business with closed doors, is not "secret
society" 1t also commends the Chosen
Friends, Order of United Workingmen, and
other insurance and benevolent associations
to those Catholics who have held aloof from
them only on religious scruples. h'''-i'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-10-20

An old experienced farmer says hickory
cut in July or August will not become worm
eaten. Oak, chestnut, walnut, or any timber
cut from the middle of July to, the last of
August will last twice as long as when cut
in winter, White oak cut at this season. if
kept of. the ground, will season through if
two feet in diameter, and remain perfectly
sound. 'f'''' i'f-7-
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-28

By'"This isn't menagerie," sharply
observed an irascble deacon to a man
who was trying to force a passage
through the crowd at the church door
way. "No, presume not" returned
the stranger, cor they wouldn't leave
any of the animals to block up the en-
trance.'
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-28
Showing her the Door.

Thomas was carpenter; but, owing
to dullness in trade, he engaged as foot
man at the "big house" in the village.
On the day of his engagement his mis-
tress, having lady visitor in the draw
ing-room, rang the bell Cor the footman.
''You will show this lady to the front
door, Thomas" she said.
"Yes, men," replied Thomas, and,
bowing to the lady, he requested her to
follow him. On coming to the door he
opened it, and the lady was about to
pass out, when Thomas, tapping her on
the shoulder, remarked, "This is the
door, mem good pitch-pine in it;
framed twa an half inches thick, with
raised moldings; wad cost about twa
poond ten, men,"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-28
A Satisfactory Explanation.

Old Nose and another old darkey were
standing in front of the NeaCs Office dis
cussing matters and things, when Jim
Webster happened to pass.
''Dar am about forty regular chicken
stealers in Galveston, including Jim
Webster, remarked the old man.
Jim overheard the remark, so he came
right up to Nose and threatened to elm
mate him if he did not take it back.
''Dar am forty regular chicken stealels
in Galveston. mot includin Jim Webster,
is yer satisfied nowpr
Jim said, very much affected: "Uncle
Nose, when man 'pologizes, he jess
disarms me right dar. Shake old man.
'Taint often nowadays dat anybody fiat
tiers me as you has jest done.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-28

.D-"They tell me-" said the reformer,
"that you have quit smoking. l am
glad to hear it. Now, tell me, why did
you quit 20 Reformed smoker, feeling
for match. "Cause my cigar went
out"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-28

EgrA year old little boy complained
that his teeth had ''trod on his tongue.v