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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
Helena, Montana, Thursday, July %, 1881.
"a Thundering Price for Beans,

Tom Watrous, commercial traveller. stoppe,
OH at the Marshall Mich, eating house sew
eral years ago.
He was not very hungry, and called for ;
plate OF beans, which he received. He in
qu1red the price and was informed that i
was seventy-ive cents
That's laundering price for heans 3" said
Tom.
That's the price," said the proprietor.
The train was just starting Tom paid the
blli: and the coaches carried him and his in
dignation towards Detroit
This was on Saturday. On Monday Gil
more, the eating house man, received tele-
gram, collect on delivery $125, which he
pald, and upon opening it he read, "a thun-
dering price for beans.'
! thirty days from that date neat express
package was handed in to Mr. Gilmore, C. D.
u, VINO PAID ninety cents for the privilege of
opening 1t to discover a lot of sawdust, on
top OF which lay slip Of paper with the
caballstic words, "A laundering price for
BEANS
Two months from this Mr.. Gilmore was
summoned to Chicago to meet a former busi-
hess partner, and the hotel clerk handed him
letter conveying the pleasant information.
"A laundering price for beans"
During GilmOre's absence his son paid two
telegrams and one express package all bear
ing on the subject of seventy-tive cents be-
ing a laundering price for BEANS" Cost of
these articles, $3.50
A genuine telegram from Gilmore's mining
share broker, advising him to sell, was re-
fused, and the loss of it entaled an actual
damage to Gilmore of $500.
A year rolled away. Gilmore ordered a
case OF MacklnaW trout from Detroit. They
came G. O. d. $12.S3 when opened he found
that every fish had been removed from the
Ice and sawdust, and shingle met his eye
marked with a blue lead pencil, "a thunder
ing price for beans"'
Trouble arose between Gilmore and the
Detroit fish house, and they went to law, Gil |.
more winning the suit, $25 damages and all
at cost of the attorneys services of $500. /
Gilmore grew detected Life looked gloomy. /
Letters poured in on every one of his family .
at regular intervals, from all parts of the /
world, bearing the information that it was
"A laundering price for beansw /
At last Gilmore sold the Marshall eating
house and moved to Chicago. He carried
his deep affiiction along with him, gnawing
never ceased. Gilmore dropped, faded, and
finally died. The terribly afflicted family
followed him to his last resting place, and
he widow, with what little money she had
saved from the bogus kilograms and expires :,
packages, erected plain marble slab to the
memory of the tortured Gilmore
The following Sabbath the mourning fam
ly went to the cemetery to plant some vio-
cts on Gilmore's grave. Arriving on the
ground, they observed in silent horror that !
mother legend appeared above the name of
Gilmore on the tombstone It was chalked !
N q small blackboard and read "A thun- !
lering price for beansu' ;
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
Results Of POsitiyism in China.
English Magazine. I


| think we should he neglectino our adj
vantage in living so late in the world if we
refused to see in the history OF China pOsi-
tivism on its trial. Evolution was not scien-
tifically made ont by the Chinese but, from
a speculative point of view, it was accepted
The existence of a personal creator was not
denied; 1T was merely relegated to the limbo
OF uncertainties. Man was accepted as the
highest known manifestation of the world
soul OF productive energies OF nature. Wor-
snip OF the ancestors was the sole religion.
and duty to men was the only duty In fact,
feature by feature the modern philosophy
was represented by the school of Confucius.
And so far as / can see the experiment of a
morality without any higher religion than
filial piety, could never be made in more
favorable circumstances. In Greece the
mOrallsts were not canonized; even the
dramatists, influential and didactic as they
were, cannot be called authoritative. But
the teachings of Confucius have been for
S,OUo years accepted as canOnical, and no
boy has beeen educated without having his
mind lmbued with these teachings. Philoso-
ply had chance in China which it is never
likely to have in any other country. No
population can reasonably be expected to
yield itself so passively and so steadily to
this species of influence. Yet what has been
the result? Ask any man who has lived in
China, read the narratives Of the most i'm
partial travellers, and you find that with one
voice they denounce the Chinese as verv I'M
moral. Positivism has not saved them from
the common fate OF nations. Is it likely to
do any better for Western civilization than
it has for Eastern? We give the Chinese due
credit for their virtues-virtues of substan-
tial and efficacious kind. They set an ex-
ample to the world by their filial piety, their
industry. their contentment to live at peace
with neighboring nations. 1t may be said
that they have had virtue enough to preserve
them as prosperous people for 1000 years.
We make due allowances also for differences
in national standards and customs China
men who have visited Europe and America
are as much astonished that we should COM
pare our moral condition With theirs, as we
are astOnished that they should think them
selves on a level with us in the ordinary
virtues. Still we cannot admit that posi-
tivism as illustrated in their experience
promises any final escape from the common
evils which Oppress, vitiate and decompose
Ill national life. The most that can be
claimed is that it may, under good conditions.
iefer the inevitable end to a cOmparativelv
emOte date.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
Wendell Phillips Domestic Circle.

Wendell Phillips is a rich man, but he
lives ON a very plain street wherein me-
chanics live, in Boston. Everything about
his house is old, much worn. but clean and
never shabby. He has very few pictures,
because even line engraving to suit his
cultivated taste costs considerable money,
and he is unwilling to buy what poor man
could not afford. He is friendly in very
quiet way. He is devoted husband, and
when he is at home always dimes in the room
of his wife, who has been an invalid ever
since she was girl, and who never leaves
that room Garrison once said that he did
not know what Phillips religion was, but
that it must be liberal. Redpath says that
in a crisis in the anti-slavery movement, as
Mr. Phillips was leaving his house to make
a speech his wife said: Don't shilly-shally,
Wendell
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
4 Curious story.

In his eminently interesting work enti-
! tied Jungle Life in lndia,' Mr. Ball had adj
duced good reason for believing that the old
classical story Of the rearing of Romulus
and Remus by a she-wolf may be founded
on fact. This author cites the case of two
lads in an orphanage in Sekandra, near As gra
who had been discovered among wolves, and
in many ways shared the habits of these ami
mails. One of his stories is supported by a
letter from Professor Max Muller. 1t saws !:
"A trooper, sent by native governor of
Chaudanr to demand payment of some rev.
enue, was passing along the banks of the
river about noon, when he saw large female
wolf leave her deD followed by three whelps
and a little boy. The boy went on all fours
and when the trooper tried to catch him he
ran as fast as the whelps and kept up with
the old one They all entered the den, but
were dug out by the people with pickaxes
and the boy secured. He struggled hard to
rush into every hole Or den they came near.
He became alarmed when he saw grown-np
person, but tried to fly at children and bite
them. He rejected cooked meat with dis
gust, but delighted in raw flesh and bones,
putting them under his paws like a dog.
They tried to make him speak, bnt could
get nothing from him but an angry growl or
snarl'
Another instance is quoted as having oc-
cured at Chupra. A Hindoo father and
mother went out to cut their crop in March,
1S43. The women had with her q little bOy,
who had lately been severely burned on the
left knee. While the parents were at work
the child was carried off by wolf Some
time afterward a wolf with three small cubs
was seen about ten miles from Chupra, fol-
lowed nv a 10 ffor
tance, was caught and recognized by
the mark of the burn on his knee He could /
eat nothing but raw flesh, and could never
be brought to speak. He used to mutter
and SNAIL, but never articulated distinctly,
The pan of his knees and the points of his
elbows had become horny from going on all
ours with the wolves. In November, 1850.
his boy escaped again and disappeared in
he jungle. Thus the "she-wolf's litter of
'Iacauly's Lays of ancient Rome may
lave been, after all, no myth.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
ONLY.

only picnic ground
OF mOS~y emerald hue
Grass and flowers around;
Laughter and song are borne on the breese
Birds make praise in the bending trees
Pleasure the whole day through.
Only a ClIstard pie
soft as Zephyrs kiss,
Light as Il maiden's sigh,
Placed on that merry picnic ground
Lovers, like lambs, are straying around,
Lost in Il sea of bliss
Only a pair of pants,
White a. the falling snow
Many Il maid enclants-
Wrought Of Costly fabric fair
Doomed 10 weird and wild despair:
Fated - dcathless woe.
Only a sitting down
Only q .nothered moan
Only pa nful frown-
q snow white pants and custard pie,
Heaven help thy mutual misery,
Since now thy charms be flown.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
EIGH + O'CLOCK.

EiEhi times the clock has struck;
me stars peep out 'erhead.
across the air there comes
4 sound of marching tread.
In city and village and town
Inc children are going to bed.
WITH footsteps swift or slow,
!, WIN faces grave or bright,
by twos and threes they go.
4 rohcd in gowns of white;
Aud each. with backward glance,
'alIs oheerily out Good nightr'
NOV darker grows the sky.
VI - ne stars their watches keep.
hen next the clock shall strike
with hollow voice and deep,
IA city and village and town,
he children will be asleep.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
THE LAND OF SLEEP,

Where the Land of which thy soul would know ~
Beyond the wcaried world, the songless dell,
The purple grape and golden asphodel,
Beyond the zone where streams baptismal fiow
Where lies the land to which thy soul would go?'
There where the unyeNed senses darkling dwell
Where never hunting, hurrying football fell
Nhcrc ton Is not, nor builded hope laid low.
Kest; Rest To thy hushed realm how one by one
od Earth ; tired Ages steal away and weep,
Forgotten or unknown, long duty done.
And God' when death in seeming peace shall steep
i.lie loud turmoil, and Time his race hath run
>ihl. heart Of man at length find rest and Sleep
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
LEFT BEHIND.

VII thou forget me i'll that other sphere
h0u who hast shared my life so long in this
;, ana straight grown dizzy with that greater bliss
fronting heavens splendor strong and full and
clear
No longer hold the old embraces dear
Mheh some sweet seraph crowns thee with kiss
nay Nay surely from that rapture thou wouldst miss
some slight, small thing thou hast cared for here
G9 1l not dream that from those ultimate heights
p. ihoG Wit come back to seek me where bide,
nul follow, patient of thy sights,
ana u stand there. waiting by thy side,
,urely thy heart with soi.le old thrill will stir,
AnU urn Thy face toward ne even from her.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
TIE ELL.

lali. aMd cool the water lies
III the old timc-nonorcd well;
Down deep the bucket flies,
And how often. who can tell
Fer the ~choolboy. hot with play.
For the laborer tied with toll,
For the traveller on his way,
Doth the tire!c~S rope uncoil.
And how oftcn. who can tello
Or. who first the gracious draught
Prev Up from the bOunteous well:
Or, vino sunk the ancient shaft
They are dust, who slaked their thirst
At The little silver fount
Ia the wild woods, where il first
called the hIntsman to dismount
They are dust. the pioneers,
Who the strong armed forest broke.
Where the old well now appears,
Where now curls the village smoke.
80 Shall we within the vale
With our children's children dwell.
But the waters ne'er shall fail
IN the old tinio-honored well.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
NASBY ABROAD.
The Young Man From Chicago Vino
Would Bet.
ID. X. Locke in the Toledo Blade. I

ID. K. Locke III the Toledo Blade.
We had on board, as matter of course
the betting young man from Chicago. Nc
steamer ever sailed that did not have this
young fellow aboard, and there are enough
of them to last the Atlantic for great many
years. He knew everything that everybody
thinks he knows, but does not and his de-
light was to PROFOUND query, and then
when you half answer it to very cody and
exasperately remark:
Bet yer bottle of wine you're wrong
The matter would be so simple and one OF
SO common repute that Immediately you ac-
cepted the wager, only to find that in some
minute particular you were wrong, and that
the knowing one had won.
For instance:
Thompson, do you know how many States
there are in the Unon?" -
Now. any citizen of the United5States who
votes and is eligible to the presidency ought
to know how many States there are in this
beloved country without thinking but how
many are there who can say off hand? And
so poor Thompson answered
What a question Of cOurseI know:
Bet yer bottle We don't"
Done ~
There ARE
And then Thompson would find himself
figuring the very important problem as to
whether Colorado had been admitted, and
Nevada and Oregon, and he would decide
that one had and the other hadn't, and finally
state the number, with great certainty that it
was wrong.
The Chicago mans crowning bet occurred
the last day out. The smoking room was
tolerably full, as were the occupants, and
everybody was bored, as everybody is on the
last day. The Chicago man had been silent
for an hour, when suddenly he broke out:
"Gentlemen-'
"Oh, no more BETS was the exclamation
from the entire party. Give us rest" /
Il don't want to bet, but / can show you
curious" /
"Well?'
Il say it and mean it, can drink glass
If water without its going down my throat
And get it into your stOmach:'
Certainly"
There was silence of considerable more
han {. minute. Every man in the room had
,een victimized by this gatherer of incon-
iderable, trifies, and there was a general.dis
,osition to get the better OF him in some
way if possible. Here was the opportunity.
low could man get & glass of water in his
tomach without it going down his throat? 4,
And so the usual bottle of wine
vas wagered and the Chicago man proceed
d to accomplish the supposed impossible
eat 1t was very easily done. All he did ,
vas to stand upon his head On the seat that
uns around the room and swallow glass of -,
7ater. 1t went to his stomach, but did not !
o down his throat. And so his last triumph .
7as greater than all his previous ones, for 8
very man in the room had been eager to ac- :
ept his wager. From that time out had he {
ffered to wager that he would swallow his ,
wn head he would have got no takers.
The Columbus journal., 1881-07-06
ADOPTION OF PROPOSITION

To vote bonds in the sum of twenty
five thousand dollars to the Omaha,
Niobrara & Black Hills Railroad Com
pany.
Whereas, the Board of County Com
missioners of Platte County, Nebrask ka,
did on the 21st day April, AID, 1881, SUBJ
nit to the qualified electors of Column
bus Precinct, in said Platte County, a
proposition to vote $4,000 in bonds of
said Precinct to aid the Omaha, NiObra-
IA & Black Hills Railroad Company; /;
and the official abstract of the votes cast
at said election duly held in said Pre-
cinct on the 2Sth day of May, 1881,
according to said proposition was laid
before said Board at meeting duly
held on the Goth day of June, 1881, and
said abstract showing that 337 votes
were cast in favor of said proposition
and 20 votes against the same, at said
election being majority of more than
two-thirds of all the votes cast at said
election.
Now notice is hereby given as requir-
ed by law, that the said proposition to
issue and give to the Omaha, Niobrara
& Black Hills Railroad Company twen-
ty five thousand 25,000) dollars in
the bonds of said Columbus Precinct,
i'm said Platte County, to aid said
Company in building a railroad into
said Precinct submitted to the elec-
tors of said Precinct at said election
on the 2Sth day Of May, A. D., 1881,
was adopted by the electors of
said Precinct. by order of the Board
of County Commissioners of Plat te
County, Nebraska, this 10th day of
June, A. D., 1881.
JOHN STAUFFER
5S0-3 County Clerk.
The Columbus journal., 1881-07-06
LEGAL NOTICE.


Ntup! j.
The State of Nebraska, in District Court
for Platte County. In the matter of
the estate Of Edward &. Kavanaugh,
deceased. order for hearing.
THIS MATTER COMING ON To A
Il hearing in open court this ith day
Of June. A. d.. 1881, upon the petition in
due form of Daniel e. Kayanaugh, ad-
ministrator of the estate Of said deeeas-
ed for license 10 sell the real estate Of
said deceased described in said petition
for the purpose Of paying the debts OF
said deceased, his funeral expenses and
the expenses Of administering upon hls
said estate; Albert W. Critics, Esq,
appearing for said petitioner, aud II
appearing to the Court from said petI-
tiOn that there is not sufficient personal
estate in the hands of said administra-
tor to paw said debts. funeral expenses
and expenses Of administration now
outstanding against said deceased, and
that il is necessary To sell the real estate
of said deceased in order to provide for
the payment of said debts, funeral ex-
peuSes and expenses Of administration.
It is therefore ordered by the Court
now here that said petition be heard at
the chambers of the undersigned Judge
of said Court at the city Of York, York
county, Nebraska, on the 10th day OF
July, A. D.. 1881, at one O'Clock In the
afternoon; that all persons Interested IN
the estate of said deceased then and
there show cause, if any they have. why
license should not be granted TO said
administrator to sell said real estate;
and that copy Of this order be pub
liShed for four successive weeks imme-
diately prior to said day set for the
hearing of said petition, in the The CO.
LUMBUs JOURNAL, a weekly newspaper
printed, published and generally eireu-
iating in said county of Platts.
By the Court. GEO. W. Posi-.
ALBERT W. CRITICS. Judge.
Attorney. JtS-J
The Columbus journal., 1881-07-06

THE English railway carriages are
divided into sections or cOmpart-
ments of half dozen seats, and the
doors of these sections are locked
between sections. Several horrible
murders have occurred in this kind
of railroad carriages and that one
which took place the other day of
T. J. Gould by LEROY was in this
kind of car. 1t would be quite i'm
possible for a murderer to escape
from an American car, and certainly
no good place to attempt or commit
a murder.
The Columbus journal., 1881-07-06
The Nations Grief.

Words cannot fifty express the
mingled emotion of grief, pain and
solicitude over the condition of the
republics chief executive, stricken
down by an assassin's bullet last
Saturday morning. Grief, not sim
ply because man, occupying the
highest official position on earth was
brought in moment, by the act of
crazy fool, from the full tide of
manhood to the very verge of the
grave grief, not simply because his
family might lose a undetermined
husband and father, and the nation
one of her bravest protectors, one of
her best sous, and one of her most
respected and best beloved chief
magistrate; not these only, but grief
that it is possible for human nature
and human reason TO be so warped
as to see evil in that which is only
good; so blinded by selfish egotism
as to assume the functions of state
executioner aud murder in cold
blood, without justification of any
sort, without provocation of the
least degree, without even explana-
ton, or inducement unless the inco-
herent nonsense of his etter be Gas
it indeed has been) unjustly distort-
ed into explanation.
Pain, not simply because in SYM
pathy with him who has suffered so
patiently, so heroically, the deed
that may end his brilliant earthly
career, but pain because the public
mind this day writhes in agony,
however calm it may seem, at the
specters which involuntsrily arise of
secret plots, of treason, of the over
throw of government or order, and
with that the reign of anarchy, the
rule of terror, the despotism and
cruelty of fitful faction.
SOlicitude, not only that one life
which has been so useful may soon
be laid low in death, but solicit ude
for the welfare of the country over
which he has presided. 1t is trite to
say that one man more or less makes
little difference, but such is not the
case. Good men, able and faithful
public servants are needed here,
and their loss is to be deeply de-
plored. The death of our good
president would be felt as a public
calamity in every part of the Union,
an irreparable loss. Heaven grant
him yet many years of usefulness to
the country he has loved so well
and served so nobly.
The Columbus journal., 1881-07-06

On the London & Brighton rail-
way line on the 2Sth ult., two men,
Mr.. Gould and Mr.. LEROY, alone
occupied a compartment of a first
class carriage, and while thus trav-
cling LEROY murdered his compan-
ion, robbed him, it is believed, of a
large sum of money, and then threw
his body out of the window into the
tunnel. The struggle in the car had
been severe, and the body of the
dead man had been stabbed in sew
eral places. The supposed murder
er got off the train at Croydon, a
station a few miles out of London.
His face was wounded and bleeding,
and his clothes torn.
The Columbus journal., 1881-07-06
LEGAL NOTICE.

In the District Court in and for Platte
County. in the Fourth Judicial Dis
trict of Nebraska. In the matter Of
the estate OF Maridh Arnold, late of
Platte County, Nebraska, deceased.
TT APPEARING to the satisfaction of
i said Court by the petition Of
Charles Il. Stillman, administrator of
the estate of the said Mariah Arnold,
deceased, that there l. not sufficient
personal estate in the hands of the said
Charles b. Stillman.tO paw the debts out
standing against said deceIsed's estate,
and the expenses of administration. and
thar il is necessary u sell the real es
tate Of said deceased. ~ wit: The west
half Of the southwest quarter of section
number thirteen and the northwest
quarter Of the southeast quarter OF the
northwest quarter of section twenty
four, all in township seventeen north
OF range one west of the sixth principal
meridian in Platte county, Nebraska.
1t is therefore ordered that all persons
interested in said estate appear before
me, George W. Post, Judge of the
.FOu rth Judicial District of Nebraska.
at the court house in the city of York,
in the county of York, and State of Ne
braska, on the 18th day OF July, 1881, at
one O'Clock in the afternoon. to show
cause, if any they have, why license
should not be granted to the said
Charles Il. Stillman, administrator
aforesaid, TO sell the real estate of said
deceased above described for the pur-
pose of paying the debts outstanding
against said deceased's estate, and the
expenses Of administration.
And il is further ordered that 4 copy
of this order be published in The Co
LUMBUS JOURNAL, a weekly newspaper
printed in said Platte county, for at
least four successive weeks previous
to the hearing of said application.
GEO. W. POST.
Judge of the Fourth Judicial District
OF Nebraska. $40
C.. A. SPEICE, Atty.