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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-15
FARM, RANCHE AND COAL LANDS.

25pl tracts Peters Colony" or T Z, & l.. Co. q,
lands in Montague Clay Archer, Jack. Young,
Palo Pinto, stephens, Eastland Callahan ana
Shaekelfori counties-see county maps va
rious sized tracts in same and other counties.
Lot of coal and farm lands of 1900 acres in
STEPHENS; 2U,OO' acres in Young. A healthy
region: has early promise of several more rail-
roads. Early inspection invited. Come, VIA
n q p. Ry. TO Weatherford For sale by
l.. S. GRAHAM,
Graham. Young, county, Texas.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-15
THURSDAY. DeoE MBER is, 1881,


For the West Gulf States-Fair weather. north
erly winds stationary OF higher temperature
gnd barometer.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-15
Issue of Small Coin

WASHINGTON, December 1.-THE law au-
thorizins the issuance of $4,000 900 in |, .
and cent nickel coins has been approved
by both Houses ofCongress.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
The American school system.
New York Tribune. 4

/ DR.. Fraser, the wise and eloquent Bishop
of Manchester, made some well-deserved
criticisms on, the American school system.
He declared that his experience in this coun-
try had convinced him of the preudicial eff
fects resulting from the introduction of null
tifarious subjects; how children quilted
school with an almost useless smattering of
many subjects, but with complete and accu-
rate knowledge of none. Now that knowl
edge was advancing so rapidly, it was diff
cult to fix a limit but the question would
have to be fought out sooner or later and the
earlier it was decided the better. He trusted
the education of English boys and girls would
be concentrated ON a few subjects. and not
scattered over many Thoughtful minds
were beginning to inquire whether quality
or quantity was BEST whether it was prefer
able that large quantity should be slightly
scratched or a smaller surface thoroughly
cultivated. He did not desire to see the
old curriculum materially changed; and,
while admitting that in some respects it had
been prudently widened, he feared there was
danger of running to extremes by including
too many and varied subjects in the educa-
tiOnal programme.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
Touching Instance of FiIial Devotion.
lCarson New Appeal.

/ carson New Appeal. . a
! Not long ago young man In Carson got
married and started for California with his
young wife AS he boarded the train his
father bade him good-by and gave him the
paternal blessing a~-. " t-1t
"My son" said the aged sire, shaking with
emotion, etc. remember these words if you
never see me again: Never 90 into a place
where you would not take your wife,
The couple settled in Mariposa county,
and last week the old man went down to WIS.,
it them. He proposed bear hunt, and they
were fortunate enough to track q grizzly to
his lair among some of the boulders in the
chapparel.5 AS the two approached the bear
sent forth grOwl of defiance which shook
the trees .,e ..... -..s .lH.H II
Go in there and kill i'm said the old
man excitedly.
The son held back, further acquaintance
with the bear seeming in some respect unde-
sirable. H. ~. lid -u.5.
Count me out" he said.
Have / crossed the seas and settled in
America to raise a coward" shouted the
father, brandishing his gun. =ltnoE r p
Il but recollect your advice when | left
Carson was the reply. How can forget
your sage precepts. Didn't you tell me never
to go where couldn't take my wife? Now,
how would Sal look in there with that bear 2"
The old man clasped his dutiful son to his
bosom, and as the bear issued forth ex-
claimed:
Speaking of Sally, let us hasten home; /;
our prolonged absence might cause her need
less alarm" ..f Ass NF ihaa'' a..t \
In about fifteen minutes they had reached
the ranch, the old man little ahead, and
the distance was about four miles.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
A Rope of WOman's Hair.

In his detail of Indian horrors that came
under his notice, Mr.. Markley, the New
Mexican Indian killer, stated that in 1867
he gave an Indian half dollar for hair
rope ten feet long and about the size of his
little finger. He untwisted the end and
found that it was made of red, auburn and
black hair, which, from the length of each
hair, was evidently that of woman. He
questioned the Indian, who told him the
rope was made from the hair of the women
and girls slain in the Mountain Meadow
massacre, for completely with which murder
John d. Lee, the Mormon, was tried and
shot q few years ago. The place where he
purchased the rope was at Paleronagote,
sixty-five miles from Mountain Meadow
where the most narrowing and brutal mas
sacre of modern times occurred.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
Men of Grit.
New York Witness.


/ Many life has been lost because the left
hand has been neglected The large ma
jority of men do not use tithe of the power
they possess. Their talents are mostly in a
napkin. One of the wealthest men in Wall
street to-day broke down in business a good
many years ago. He went into an office
where he was acquainted and said to the
members of the firm that he had no bread
for his family. I'm ready to 60 messages
for you Or perform any other service He
hung up his coat there and commenced work
around thelowest ring of the ladder. Pre-
viously this mans check was accepted any
where in the street. You may be sure that
such man gradually mounted. Over in
Boston like-minded man fell out. He was
without bread and soon woald be without
shoes unless he wakened up and stirred his
energies. He was bookkeeper, and at one
time earned a handsome salary. What did
he do: This he did He took a cotton hook
and went down to the wharf to load and un-
load cotton at SO much an hour. Behold an
other man of grit. The owners of the cotton
and the ship eyed this hero. Soon the de-
cree went forth. Come up higher. He re-
sumed the quill and laid aside the cotton
hook. Dscouragement never weakened the
Boston boy. Winners, with hanging lips and
chicken-hearts, who cure their troubles with
the bottle or pistol, are pitiful creatures, who
should never have been born.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
Women at Fifty.

/ 1t is absolutely untrue that, under toler-
able fair conditions, a woman is if we may
use that crude phrase) "played OUT when
she has seen fOrty-fve. If all goes well, or
even not very i'll, a woman more frequently
than not takes new departure at fifty. 1t
is preposterOus to assume that woman at
mature age is likely to be behind her grow
! ing daughters, or her growing sons, in etfec-
tveness of intellect, in aptitude for SUBJ
ijects new or old, in general brightness or
susceptibility. In what might be called
quality" in the French sense of the word,
she is is SO much the superior being that if
the daughters, and sons, too, do not feel it,
there is something wrong with them. 1t
must, indeed, be granted that there is love
between husband and wife, and that the
young people are good in harness, and above
all, in themselves but little more is needed
And the battle is to be won all along the
line. A gray hair is gray hair, a crows
foot is crows foot--and these rarely come
to the young, but certainly" as Lord Bacon
says, ''it is no marvel, though persons in
years seem many times more amiable, pulch-
rorum antumus pulcher; for no youth can
be comely but by pardon, and considering
the youth as to make up the comeliness' 1t
is the mistake of giddy adolescence or sand
blind conceit to suppose that woman of
fifty cannot be exquisitely beautiful cannot
command a man throughout the whole range
of his nature; cannot take up all the glad
ness of life, and beautifully radiate it again,
for him and for others. In all this we are,
of course leaving out, with sad heart, the
miserable life of the very poor. But even
with the poor the general rule holds and
among them some of the pleasantest, bright
est, handsomest women are women of ad
vanced maturity, but released from the pres
sure of the cares and tolls which young
children bring. Such women may even be
observed to take fresh start in mental
growth; they read more, and mixing more
with men, pick up general knowledge, and
become more agreeable companions than
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15

Whatever things man sees and hears
and is affected with, these are insinuated as
to ideas and ends into his interior memory
without his being aware oft, and there they
remain, so that not anything perishes. The
interior memory, therefore, is such that there
are inscribed on it all the particular thugs
which he has at any time thought, spoken or
done, even such as have appeared to him as
but shadow, together with the most minute
circumstances, and this from his earliest in
fancy to extreme old age. A man has with
him the memory of all these things when he
comes into the other life, and is brought sue
cessively into recollection of them. This is
the book of his life which is opened in the
other world, and according to which he is
judged. A man can scarcely believe this,
but still it is most true. All his ends, which
are even to himself in obscurity, all that he
had thought, and likewise all he had spoken
and DONE as derived from those ends are, to
the most minute point, in that Book, that is
in the interior MISUNDERSTANDING.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
AN AUTUMN PSALM.

He that goeth forth weeping, bearing precit
seed shall doubtless come again rejoicing, Drli
ing his sheaves with him..
No shawdow DER the silver sea,
That rs in slumber heaves, '.. n
No cloud on the September sky,
No blight OH any leaves, .-...t.- .h
As the reaper comes rejoicing,
Bringing in his sheaves.
Long long and late the spring delayed,
And summer, dank with rain,
Hung trembling Ger her sunless fruit
And her unripened grain ...Frg
And like Il weary, hopeless life,
Sobbed herself out i'll pain. N.
SO the year laid her child to sleep
Her beauty half expressed; ..u-
Then slowly, slowly cleared the skies,
And smoothed the sea to rest, ..-u'
And raised the fields of yellow corn
Ger summers buried breast;
Till autumn counterfeited spring
With such flush of flowers,
His fiery tinctured garlands more
Than Knocked the April bowers.
And airs as sweet as airs of June
Brought on the twilight hours.
O holy twilight, tender, calm!
star above the sea.
4 golden harvest, gathered in
With late solemnity.
And thankful JOY for gifts nigh lost
Which yet SO p-enteous be;
Although the rain-cloud wrapt the mr.
And sudden swoop the leaves,
And the year near his sacred end,
No eye weeps, no heart grleves,
For the reaper comes rejoicing,
Bringing in his sheayes.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
Translated by the Queen.

A good story reaches us from Belgium, the
truth of which is guaranteed. A banking
house of Verviers recently received a letter
from bank at Budah-Pesth. The recipients
knew that it related to matter of the great
est importance; bat, unfortunately they
could not master the contents of the missive
as it was written in the Hungarian language
and there was not soul at Verviers who under
stood that tongue. Accordingly one Of the
partners took a journey to Brussels, expect
ing to find everything he wanted at the cap
ital, but only to be disappointed nobody at
the banks could read Hungarian. There was,
however, still the Austro- Hungarian Emb bassy,
whittier the banker betook himself to learn
that there was an attache who spoke Hun
sea bathing. Almost in despair the hero of
the story called upon the Burgomaster, with
whom he was acquitted, and related his
troubles. After some thought his worship,
striking his forehead, exclaimed: after all
sometimes our most foolish ideas prove the
best" With this enigmatical observation he
volving some millions, and l shall be happy
to pay handsome douceur to the translator
who has enabled me to get at the meaning
of the letter in time to conclude the affair"
II take you at your word, replied the Burgo-
master 'Give me 1O00f for the poor of
Brussels for the translator is none other than
the Queen. She has experienced lively salts
faction in employing her knowledge of the
Hungarian language to oblige her subjects"
The Queen of the Belgians is a daughter of
the Archduke Joseph, whose benefcent rule
of Hungary is still remembered by the peo
pie, and she was born in the capital city dur
ing her fathers palatine.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
DAILY HERALD:
THE LORDS VISIT.

one morn it was whispered about the town
That Christ the Lord would that day come down
TO visit His Church-sy the message read
And sup with His own Oh the wine and bread.
Great was the joy in the churches all
In grand cathedral and chapel small.
Bishop and elder, parson and priest,
Made ready TO sit at the holy feast
They donned their robes of silk and gold
Their gowns of black and vestments old
And while they waited their Lord to greet
They scowled at each other across the street.
In golden cups they poured the wine,
And golden plates held the bread divine,
And music rolled up from organ and choir
As smoke ascends from its heart of fire.
Then as they watched with expected eyes
For Him who should come thro' the opened skie
An humble stranger passed them by,
Clad III the raiment Of poverty.
They saw him not, while he wended his way
TO hut where a stricken beggar lay,
From whose cot contagious all else had fed,
And cup Of water, her only store,
TO keep the wolf from the wretched door.
The stranger entered the squaid room,
And a sudden splendor lit ap its gloom;
And there in this place by suffering sealed
The Lord Of Heaven Himself revealed.
He drank of the cup and ate of the bread,
And with peace their famished souls He fed
Then vanished from sight thro' the spaces DIM
And the soul OF the beggar went out with Him.
Thus did he take of the Sacrament,
And the Church knew not that He came or went.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
A New Motive RnWer.

4 locomotive in which neither wood nol
coal will be burned is now in course of con-
struction at the Grant Locomotive Works
Paterson, N. ]. In reality the fuel to be
used is water, which is decomposed in asso-
citation with carbon, forming readily combus-
tible gases, of which hydrogen is the chief
The method of decomposng water at a COM
paratively low temperature, invented by DR..
Charles Holland, has been turned to practi-
cal use in heaters and in making illuminat-
ing gas. It's first use in motor was in a
common coal burning locomotive ON the Long
Island Railroad year ago, and in May last
at Flatbush. Professor Fl. ST. Clair Deville,
who first succeeded in disassociating water
vapor into its elements, hydrogen and oxy-
gen, estimated the temperature required at
nearly 5000 degrees G..
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
No.. 4
Current Comment.
philadelphia news

philadelphia news
| Texas is the great cotton-g growing State of
the Union, and yet there is no muslin of the
press.-New Jersey Enterprise.
George Law, who started life as hodcar-
rier, was careful never to drop mortar on
passers-by. He died worth ten millions.
The other day Chicago belle threw her
white slippers after bride and the horses
ran away. They mistook them for avalanch-
eS.
1t is said that Tilden reads all the latest
novels. Now we know how to punish him
for trying to steal the presidency. Well
write novel
Every fashionable card receiver must have
III it at least one card of some titled foreigner
and a good many poor but honest printers
are much rejoiced thereat.
Good veal was never so scarce and high
as it is at present, and it will-go still higher
unless the wealthy patrons of caterers refrain
from indulging in so much chicken salad.
At one of the art exhibitions the other day
an amateur connosseur was heard to exclaim.
"The idea of the critic of the-saying that
this picture lacks breath. Why it's yard
wide, if it's foot
Very small evening bonnets made of lace
and ribbon, plush or ostrich tips are worn at
theaters in New York and the dramatic critics
of that city are beginning to write up the
plays quite intelligently.
A high-toned Murray Hill, New York,
family of ten persons, finding that seats for
all of PATHS concert would come to $1OO
got up a Sc lunch, called in a number of
friends and invited Patti to tea. But the
scheme did not work. Patti declined.
The young lover who leaves his girl be-
tween the acts at the theater, to see a man
and gets back in five minutes, is the same
fellow who after marriage goes out just as
on the same errand, but never gets
back until after the curtain has gone up
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
A Petrified Human Body.
Ithaca Journal.


The body of young lady was buried ff-
teen years ago in a cemetery six miles east
of the village of Alton, in Chenango county.
Tt was removed recently to the ceme-
terry in the village. The Enterprise says that
when the coffin was ready to be removed
from the grave it was discovered that the
body was petrifed, and required the united
efforts of four men to raise it, and could not
have weighed less than four hundred pounds,
although in life she could not have weighed
more than one hundred and twenty-five
pounds. The clothing was decayed and re-
sembled veil-like texture over the body.
The hair, which in life was very abundant,
was still in a perfect state of preservation.
The features were little shrunken and the
hands retained their position, folded across
the breast. Another body, which was buried
six years ago in the same cemetery, not fif-
teen feet distant, was removed, but with no
signs of petrifaction.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
THE OTHER WORLD

BY MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
II lies around us like q cloud
A world we do not see;
Yet the sweet closing of an eye
May bring us there to be.
Its gentle breeZes fam our cheek; ... 4.
Amid our world cares
Its gentle voices whisper love,
And minglc with our prayers.
Sweet hearts around us throb and beat, T.
Sweet helping hands are stirred,
And palpitates the veil between ~
With breathing almost heard.
The silence, awful, sweet and calm,
They have no power to break;
For mortal words are not for them
To utter or partake. ~
SO thin, so soft, SO sweet they glide
So near to press they seem ar- H
They seem to lull us to our rest
And melt into our dream.
And in the hush Of rest they bring
'Tis easy now to see, at
How lovely and sweet to pass
The hour of death may be. .'
TO close the eye and close the ear,
Wrapped in a trance Of bliss,
And gently drawn in loving arms, ..
To swoen to that-from this:
Scarce knowing if we wake Or sleep, ,4
Scarce asking where we are,
70 feel all evil sink away, '.
All sorrow and all care. ...-......-.. ....
sweet souls around US watch us still,
Press near to our side, iN raI
Into our thoughts, into our prayers.
With gentle helping glide. " 't..'
Let death between US be at naught,
A dried and vanished dream; r I.
Your jov be the reality,
Our suffering life the dream. '~
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
Music Gone Mad.
Huntington Hawkeye.

1t was Just after the circus had closed its
afternoon performance when the trouble
broke out among the band instruments
EVeryDody had gone to supper, so nobody
knows just how the quarrel began, but the
plccolo was heard asking the drum what he
was growing about.
Somebody hit me on the head" said the
drum, "and believe one of their sticks had
a handle in it."
I'm blowed if they didn't said the cor
net.
"Oh, OH" said the harp, lit was you; |
saw you toot myself
You're Tyre" growled the tuba.
You bass, insulting thing" said the vio-
lin, you ought to be hooted out of the or
chestra"
You viol wretch said the kettle drum,
you talk that way when you get in more
scrapes than any of the family"
You'll get a beating for that tonight, y
said the guitar.
! DRY up you gay lutte" said the castanet
! you are too high strung for this party"
] IF we had hold Of you," said the cymbals,
wed rattle your bones.'
Not you," said the flute; you are mere
cymbals of emptyness. Every time you
come together it annoys me-
I1OoI avn mon, Sdlu tHe Dag pipe, yen
have yer braing blown out if ye come in this
quarrel"
"Oh, don't talk through your nose," said
the clarionet.
and don't you squawk So" put in the
bass.
And you quit your growing" put in the
triangle; you take up more room and make
less music than any three members of the
family"
See here, old dingle dangle,' said the
trombone, you'll get hung by the thumbs
the first thing you know"
Oh, you pull out Of this row and into
yourself and hide" said the accordeon. Il
have got the dead open and shut on all of
you
And then the tambourine said he had a
great mind to "sail in and give the boys
little whirl" himself, but they got the quar-
rel made up somehow, and to hear them in
the balcony serenade and the opening over
ture that evening, children, they were in
such perfect harmony you would never have
thought there was ever a particle Of discord
among them.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
Two Years Engagements Ahead.

The life of a Prince is evidently not one OF
ease A story comes from England that
short time ago a well known Baronet, VINO
represents an important constituency near
London, asked the Prince of Wales to take
the chair at an annual dinner OF big So
ciety. He received courteous reply from
the heir apparent, stating how greatly ne was
interested in the society in question, but re-
gretting his inability to preside at the ban, !,
quet; that he was booked for every day ana
evening for the next two years, but possibly
something could be arranged for the third.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
Why She Was Indignant.
boston Transcript.

Boston Transcript
Mrs Homespun threw down the paper and
pulled off her spectacles with a vi Jious jerk
tits perfectly scandalous !" she exclaimed
"For my part, I don't see how any respect
able woman could ever wear such a thing as
that. When | was a gal we used to wear
low neck and short sleeves but mercy
and here she cast whitening glance at the
paper in her lap before f1inging it on the
floor.
"Why. what is the matter, aunt ?" asked
Cicely, picking up the paper.
Matter matter enough, should say!'
cried the excited old lady. "Just look at
fashion plate there, if you are not ashamed
to look at it. 1t is perfectly scandlous, |
say" m
%Why, aunt" said Cicely, her eyes brim-
ming with fun, athat is only a liver-pad pic
ture."
81 don't care what kind of new-fangled
name they give toit," persisted her aunt,
"it's scandlous and disgraceful, and no
woman that's got spark of modesty about
her would ever be seen in one of Them
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-15
Color Blindness in Clothes.

The Figaro recounts the story. of one of its
contributors who had been inflicted with the
infrmity of color blindness from childhood
without being made aware of it until he lost
his intended bride by going to pay visit in
trousers Of the brightest scarlet The tailor
had sent his book of patterns, among them
those of the cloth destined for liveries, and
the unfortunate suitor had mistaken the
scarlet for pearl gray The tailor, imagining
that the order had been for masquerade,
had executed it to the letter without obser-
walton but the friends of the intended
bride, looking on the wearer as confirmed
lunatic, refused to allow the courtship to
proceed