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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
The Effect of I'm migration.

The unprecedented immigration from for
eign countries this year has caused the pre-
sentation at the East of the other side OF the
question. and points are made that this ma
ton has reached a period in its growth where
its policy should be to preserve its heritage
for coming generations, and not to donate 1t
to all the strangers we can induce to come
among us; that no greater fallacy was ever
launched than the doctrine that the value
of immigration to nation can under all cir
cumstances be measured by money. 1t is
argued with force that the effect of vast and
indiscriminate immigration, is to deprive our
own immediate descendants of the advantage
enjoyed by ourselves, to compel them to
compete with labor thus introduced on un-
coal terms, to concentrate more and more the
wealth in the hands of few, to widen the
gulf already too broad between the workmen
and the capitalist, to reduce the numbers
and importance of the independent yeomanry
that are the real strength of every people,
and to multiply the white slaves OF our great
commercial and manufacturing centers
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
MEMENTO OF HORACE GREELEY.
The Remains of a. SOcialistic Enter
prise Which He Founded.

LACKAwAXEN, Pa, July 29.-Few people
know that within twenty minutes drive Of
this little Delaware valley summer resort are
the ruins of the once famous 'Sylvanian
Home," founded by Horace Greeley. The
lands are now ownerleSs having been offered
for sale by County Treasurer Biddis for accu-
mulated taxes last fall, but no purchaser
could be found.
The lands were originally owned by Man
Ion Cooley, who in 1910 built grist mill
upon the property, and after singing all his
fortune, sold the farm, then embracing some
1000 acres, to Horace Greeley. In 1S43
Greeley founded the Sylvanian Home, large
numbers of people joined the 'stock compa-
NY he had formed, the mills were repaired
and set running, large and well-constructed
houses were built, the main building cover
ering a quarter of an acre and containing a
dancing hall and chapel. -.
About 300 people lived there. All prop
erty was held in common; q cOmmiSsary
elected by the members provided all the
food, which was served three times day at
one large table. On Sundays the chaplain
delivered sermon, and twice week dances
were held. The proceeds of the labor of the
various artisans connected with the society
went into the treasury, and affairs were pro-
crossing to Greeley's satisfaction, when it
was decided to erect temple. The ground
was selected, the foundation for the corner
stone laid with imposing ceremonies, Mr..
Greeley himself delivering the address. This
cornerstone still remains in place, and con-
tains copies of the Tribune, coins and other
articles Shortly after the cornerstone was
laid discussion as to the i"style" of the
building arose among the members of the
society; iealousies followed work ceased,
and in a few weeks the association busted"
The settlers declared the stock worthless,
and returned to the city, and Greeley was
stuck to the tune of about $4,000.
He sold the lands to Thomas House Tay-
lor, then rector of Grace Church, New York
city, who had the timber land cleared, and
after netting several thousand dollars by the
sale of his lumber, the property was sold to
q wealthy gentleman, who went South for
his health, leaving the property in the hands
of rascally agents, who set fire to the build
ings, collected the large insurance moneys,
and left the country. The fields are now
covered with scrub oaks and growing tim
bers, and will in few years become very
valuable again as timber lands. Nearly fifty
miles of splendidly constructed stone walls,
the work of the society, yet remain IN place,
forming the only remaining sign of what
was once q town of nearly 500 inhabitants.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
The Earth's Population.
New York World.

Behm and Wagner in the last edition of
their book on the population of the earth,
estimate the entire population of the inhab
tied globe at 1,456OO0,000 persons. Europe,
without counting Iceland and Nova Zembia,
is believed to have 315, $4,000 inhabitants
On an area of 176,2499 German square miles,
or at the rate of ,791 persons to the German
square mile; Asia is put down as having
S34, ,707 900 inhabitants on sO9,478 square
miles-that is 1031 persons to the square
mile; Africa, as having 05,679,OO0 inhabi-
tants on 542,157 square miles, or 37S persons
to the square mile; America, as having 95,-
495,500 on 697,13s.5 square miles, or 1877 to
the square mile; Australasia, as having
1881 900 ON 162,6O9 square miles-that is
twenty-tour persons to the square mile; the
Arctic regions are assumed to have $4,000
inhabitants OH 82,O91 square miles, or about
one person to every square mile. The sum
total, as observed, is 1, 455,923,5O0 persons ON
2,470903.4 square miles, or at the rate OF
$50 persons to the German square mile. The
German Empire comprises 9,815.6 square
miles, with population in 1873 of 4421O,948
persons
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
THE OLD FASHIONED BIBLE.

How dear to my heart the scenes of my child
hood
That now but in mem'ry | sadly review;
The old meeting house ut the edge of the wild wood
The rail fence, the horses all tethered thereto;
The low soping roof, and the bell in the steeple,
The doves that came fiuttering out overhead,
- il solcmnly gathered the God-fearing people
TO hear the old Bible my grandfather read.
The old fashioned Bible
The dust covered Bible
The leather bound Bible my grandfather read.
The blessed old volume. The face bent above it
As now | recall it's gravely severe,
Though the revercnt eye that droops downwird W
love il,
Makes grander the text through the lens Of tear
And as down his features it trickles and glistens
The cough of the deacon is stilled, and his head
Like Il haloed patriarch leans as he listens
To hear the old Bible my grandfather read
The old fashioned Bible
The dust covered Bible
The leather bound Bible my grandfather read
All! who shall look backward with scorn and
dcrisiOn
And scoff the old book, though il uselcssly lies
In the dust of the past, while this newer revision
Iisps on of n hope and home in the skies?
Shall the voice Of the Master be stted and rlven.
Shall we hear but tthe of the words He has said
When 40 long lie has, listening, leaned out oi
Heaven
TO hear the old Bible my grandfather read?
The old fashioned Bible
The dust covered Bible
The leather bound Bible my grandfather read
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
SWEET EVENING BELLS.

King on ring on! sweet evening bells!
The listening air with music swells,
While red watch fires of sunset burn
70 light the wanderers long return
Ring-o'cr these still, deep waters come
Your we'll known sounds, sweet bells OF home,
IN listening trance once more stand
On threshold of youth morning land
Ring on, sweet Angelus
Ring on tie air more tender CLEANS
With mellow sounds and youth 5 bright dreams
\ fleet from shores of far off times,
Floats buck on wavelets of your chimes.
Chdhood's high voices ring full glad;
In undertone. sweet low and sad,
4 mother sings her lullaby,
q, sounds whose echoes never die
Ring on, sweet Angelus.
King on ring ever, evening bells.
our sound Il swecter music tells
Than wind-harp from the fairy shore;
| fam would listen ever more.
q, do not cease-the sunset zone
Still echoes your fair, mellow tone.
Nor yet the vesper star doth bring
The closing hush of eve. ., ring,
Ring on, sweet Angelus.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
The staff of Life.

Awriter in Nature discusses the compare
tive nutritiyc qualities of white bread, brown
bread and whole meal bread He says: We
shall find it impossible to make by means of
leayen or yeast, a light, spongy loaf from
whole wheat finely ground, the so-called
cerealm of bran inducing chemical changes
which result in moist clammy, dense pro-
duct. Even whole wheat merely crushed
into meal and not ground partakes of the
same defects Fine -four, Oh the other hand
yields bread which is light enough before
mastication, but which, when rasticated,
possesses marked tendency to become COM
pacted into dense Jumps which may never
be penetrated by the gastric and intestinal
Juice, and which are frequent cause of con-
stipation. Whole meal bread cannot be
charged with the defect; indeed it acts med
icinally as a laxative, and by reason of its
mechanical texture is hurried rather too
quickly along the digestive track, so that the
full virtue of such of it's nutrients as are
really soluble becomes in part lost. Yet
there is no doubt that for many persons es-
pecially those who have passed into middle
age and are engaged in sedentary occupations
whole wheaton meal in the form of bread
biscuits, scenes, etc, forms an invaluable diet
If we could reckon all the nitregenous mat
ter in whole meal bread as equally effective
with that contained in white bread, we
should possess in the former far more
perfectly adjusted food for the ratio of flesh
formers to heat-givers is about one to seven
and half in white bread, while it APP
proaches one to four in some samples at least
of whole meal bread Add to this the higher
proportion of phosphates in the latter, and
its chemical superiority over white bread
becomes still more marked. It's flavor, too,
is far richer. Ordinary brown bread is a
poor preparation at the best. BY adding a
dash of rather rough bran to flour we do not
obtain satisfactory or rich product. Analy-
sis demonstrates this fact clearly.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
Laugh More.

Mothers do not laugh enough. The house
keeping is SO onerOus, the children so often
trying to nerves and temper, the servants
most exasperating, and even John, kind,
good husband that he is, cannot understand
all our vexations and discouragements, and
so weared do we often feel that it is too
much for the household to depend on us, in
addition to all our care for social sunshine
as well Yet the household does and must.
Father may be bright and CHEEKY, his laugh
rings out, but if the mothers laugh fails,
even the fathers cheerfulness seems to lose
much of it's infection. In the sad but forcible
lines Of one of Joanna Baillie's dramas:
He, little child had caught the trick of grief,
And sighed amid its playthings
We may catch a glimpse of the stern, re-
pressed life at Boutwell, Manse, where the
repression of all emotion, even the gentlest,
seems to have been the constant lesson"
remember well hearing a lady say, when a
child l used to wish so often that mother
would look cheerful"
Then laugh, mother, even if you do feel
almost too wearied to exert the facial mus
cles, and you have to make pitiful effort
which comes nigh bringing tears instead ola
laugh You will feel better for the effort,
and so will the children. The little ones,
unconscious to you and themselves, are catch
ing the very phases of countenance which
will go far to brighten or cloud some future
home
Then laugh, mother-parlor, nursery and
kitchen all feel the effect of your smile or
frown. The CHEEKY laugh of a mother goes
down through generation, as well as her
frown. And when the mothers eyes are
closed, and lips and hands forever still, there
is no sweeter epitaph which children and
friends can give than, ''She was always bright
and cheerful"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
The Street Car Mule.

Thoughts of street car mule: One hun
dred degrees again, and a good deal hotter
where am What internal foolishness this
street ear business is anyhow! l wonder
why the company doesn't furnish sun UNI
brellas Perhaps they want us to buy them
ourselves. Why don't they refrigerate our
stalls when we turn in? There. Stopped
again in the blazing sun! Some women
three squares off are coming. The driver
must he fool to wait. hate women! Men
can get off and ON without stopping but
after it has stopped I wish that apple had
poisoned Eve! / hope more smokers will
get on. Heard to-day that two men had
been sunstruck while putting broken rocks
along the track Afraid it's a canard, though
too good to be true. Wish the front OF
that platform wasn't iron-Id bust it all to
slivers Heigh no! hee-haw.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25

Rest would cure half the accidents that
horses receive, but people will not give it
them because it costs money. A pet horse of
mine had a very bad sprain consequent to a
groom's disobedience His leg was almost as
useless as though it were broken. He was
seen by many veterinaries and pronounced
incurably injured. 1 was advised to sell
him or kill him. did neither. had his
plates taken off, put him into the largest
loose box have-one eighteen by thirteen
feet-with straw up to his knees, and then
gave him no treatment except cold water
bandages, kept him doing nothing for year,
gently walking him about the soft paths of
my woods when it was fine weather. He
recovered entirely after twelve months rest,
and now he is ready to jump over the moon,
and the only hard task is to make him not
gallon
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
MY CHILDUOOD,S HONE.

The sweet birds sing and the rivulct runs
so chccriy round the spot,
Where the peaceful shades of the heather hills
Fall dim on my mothers cot.
The windows are low, and the thatclI is low,
And the stone walls old and gray;
q, see it-I love it, where'cr go
The old home far away.
I can see my mother before me now,
Asleep in that old chair,
With the sunshine tinGing her wrnkled brow
That was once so smooth and fair;
Her crmped border as white as the snow,
And her dark brown hair turned gray
Oh, | see it-I love it, where'er go
That old home far away.
and there 5 the brown COW on its homcward patl
As il comes 50 quiet along;
And the little maid, with pail i'll her hand,
l. singing that dear old song;
And the fr)csome lambs in that barnyard
Are gathering around to play;
Oh! | see it-l love it, whcrcer go
That old home far away.
The little clock ticks on the kitchen wall,
To tell us the passing hours,
And the woodbne climbing around the cot,
With its sweetly-scentcd flowers;
And the old straw chair, so coscy and low,
Where mother sat knitting each day.
on! | see it-I love it, whereer go
That old home far away.
Not all the pleasures that this world can give,
Or the riches of the sea,
Or the rank wealth Of earth's proud lords,
Can ever estrange from
The roof that covered my dear mothers head,
With its humble floor of clay.
Oh see i'll love it. whcre'er go
That old home far away.
But alasl she is gone where all must go
For We all shall pass away.
Yea even the cot, that loved so well,
Il crumbling to decay,
For this earth is only resting place;
Its ioys are ours for n day
All the pleasures of life now seem to me
That old home far away.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25

Mr.. G. H. Darwin has taken pains to estl-
mate the stresses caused in the interior OF
the earth by the weight of continents and
mountains, and he concludes that either the
materials of the earth have about the
strength Of granite at 1000 miles from the
surface, or that they have much greater
strength nearer to the surface He confirms
Sir William Thornton's theory that the earth
must be solid nearly throughout its whole
mass and he attributes the lava of volcanoes
70 the melting of solid rock which exists at
high temperatures at points where the pres
sure is diminished, or to the existence OF
comparatively small vessicles of molten rock
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
4 Railway Incident.

In one of our sleeping cars in America
there was an old bachelor who was annoyed
by the continued crying of child and the
Intellectual attempts of the father to quiet it.
Pulling aside the curtain and putting out his
head, he said:
Where is the mother of that child? Why
doesn't she stop that nuisance?"
The father said, very quietly: "The mother
is in the baggage car in her coffin; | am
travelling home with the baby. This is the
second night have been with the child, and
the little creature is wearying for its mother.
I am sorry if its plaintive cries disturb any
one i'm this carr
"Waii minute" said the bachelor. He
got up and dressed himself and compelled
the father to lie down and sleep, while he
took the babe himself
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

They pulled, they hauled,
They tugged, they mauled,
IAcy yelled, and then again they hootcd;
They jugged, they tugged,
They shrugged, they mugged.
And III and out they convoluted.
They kicked, they pricked,
They licked. they nicked,
And raised the dust all round the building.
They hit, they bit,
And all ways fit"
They snatched from everything the gliding.
They tore, they swore,
They banged the door,
Ahd still they surged and roared and cramPeo Oh
They rushed they squeezed,
They pushed, they wheezed,
y though the devil had them stamped on
All this for Brad!
How very bad
Alas the member for Northampton
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
Wishing and Willing.

Wishing won't do much for anybody in
this world. There are n great number OF
dreamers and Missionaries, people who put on
the wishing cap" and desire all sorts OF nice
things 70 come to them. They expect gold
and all nice things to drop into their lap.
But they are mistaken Wishing won't do
much good for any one. The only way to get
anything is not to sigh for it with wish, but
to work for it with will. That is the way,
and the only way. The working man knows
that He knows that wishes won't manu-
facture daily bread for him. He goes out to
work with stout heart, and earns day 8
wages with days labor. A scholar does
not expect to excel and get the highest
prize without intense toll. You must work
with will if you would get anything worth
having. But it is astonishing what an earn
est will can do. Poor boys have become
rich men. Ignorant boys have become wise
men. Obscure boys who were known only
in q village, have come out Ill the eye OF the
world and been known far and wide as dis
tinguished men. They might always have
remained in the quiet village but for this
will, which bore them right out of it into
the underworld atmosphere.
I'll tell you a story of one who made
name for himself, and gained great renown
and great possessions by the simple force OF
his character He was dilligent, and the
hand of the dilligent maketh rich; he was
energetic, and energy is like an express train,
it goes ahead. This boys ancestors were
rich and honored, but they lost their inherl-
tance and became poor. When the BOY
knew this he was sad, and ore day as he
wandered alone over the broad lands OF his
forefathers, he resolved that he would work
and struggle with all his might to buy them
back again. He didn't sigh and shed tears,
and say, ooh, how l wish that castle were
once more mine" No, he didn't do that, be-
cause he knew that tears of regret would not
help him in the least. He had his pleasant
dreams, as / have told you, but he set him.
self to work He broOded over his vision,
and it gave strength to his brain, his VIII,
his hand He knew that everything depend
ed on himself, and on himself he relied. lie
went abroad to the East Indies, and he him.
self tells us that during the long voyage tins
one thought of gaining the ancestral lands
possessed him and fired him with purpose
to achieve renown He landed in strange
country. without money, without TRENDS
And how did he get on? What was the re-
suit? He began life as humble clerk ana
rose rapidly in power, and ceased not IN the
ascending scale till he became Governor Cen
eral of all India.
Wishing and willing-you understand the
difference, new, don't you? Wishes BRING
nothing but airy dreams that come and go,
but willing and working bring solid realities
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25

The Roman Ghetto, or Jewish quarter, is
to be abolished and new and stately struc-
lures are to be erected where for ages only
rookeries existed. The Ghetto is very
ancient. Tradition ascribes its origin to King
Herod, who caused an embassadorial palace
to be built in that part of the Eternal City.
In the reign of Augustus $4,000 Jews gath
cred there At first the Ghetto was by
choice the JEWS quarter. Later it became
so by compulsion, lasting down to our own
day It's restrictive character has been abol-
ished within the past ten years. Now it is
to disappear from the path of progress.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
No. 80

PHILADELPHIA Times,

The most extraordinary ratkilling match
probably ever witnessed in this city occurred
in the rear of the Eighth District Police Sta
tion on Friday night There is a slaughter
house adjoining it on the east. The rats had
burrOwed beneath the sidewalk from the
slaughter house to the cellar OF the station,
and thence found their way into the build
ing, defying the able-hodiel tomcats, and
boldly invading the lodging room and nib
bling the toes of the slumberers. The butcher
whose establishment was the banqueting
hall of the rodents, decided to dig up his
pavement, fill up the rat holes and repave
When the lairs were uncovered and the sub
terranean passages, in number sufficiently
labyrinthian to satisfy dozen Sylvanus
Cobbs, were opened up, a stream of rats
poured fourth The butcher, with the quick
ness of a terrier, snatched rat after rat as
they ran bewildered from the holes and
dashed them against the brick walls. He
continued this lightning work until he had
killed 1o5 inside of an hour. He did not re-
ceive a wound while destroying the pests.
Some of the policemen who witnessed the
slaughter offered to match the butcher to
kill rats at an exhibition.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25

The following are few of the articles that
will be analysed by the inspectors appointed
by the present Legislature of New YORK
Butter, beer, baking powders, bakers chem
icals, cocoa, cordials, canned food, confect.
ions cereals cheese, meat extracts, fruit
essences, ether, gelatine, honey, ice cream,
milk, molasses, water, spices, spirits, tea,
wine, etc. The peering into these things IS
expected to create great commotion
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-08-25
Why Wooden Fabrics Shrink.
Manufacturer and Builder. !


The tibrcs of wool and certain kinds Of
hairs are toothed or jagged at the edges, the
teeth Tor imbricatiOns) pointing upward
that is, from the root to the point. When
subjected, therefore, to compression Or fric
tion these fibers, being free to move only in
one direction by reason of these asperities of
surface, have a great tendency to unite and
lock together. This explains the peculiar
capability possessed by wool of ielting. and
also the shrinking of fabrics of wool. In
the latter case the excessive rubbing to which
they are subjected causes a mating or bind
ing together Of the ultimate tibers, which
causes shrinkage; and this is intensified by
changing the goods from hot to cold water,
which is usually practiced, as the contraction
of the fibers which this causes is itself felt
ing process. For washing woolen articles it
is recommended to place them in warm wa
ter, never in cold; and if changed from one
water to another, they should 60 from hot to
hotter. They should be cleansed with as lit
tie and as gentle friction as possible The
fibers Of cotton and linen are straight and
smooth, and possess none of the surface
roughness that characterize the structure of
wool, hence they do not shrink in washing.