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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14
The Wild Horses of America.

AT the time the discovery OF America there
were no horses in any part Of the continent,
though the boundless prairies were admir-
ably fitted for the support of countless herds.
Soon, however, those imported by the settlers
strayed away, and as consequence are to
be met with in enormous numbers, i'll some
cases amounting it is said, to ten thousand
in one troop. They appear to be under the
command of leader, the strongest and bold
est of the herd, whom they implicitly obey.
When threatened with danger, at some signal,
understood by them all, they either close in
to dense mass and trample their enemy to
death, or, placing the mares and toals in the
centre, they form circle and welcome him
with their heels. The leader first faces the
danger, and when prudence requires retreat
all follow his rapid flight. In the thinly in
habited parts of South America according to
Youatt it is dangerous to fall in with any of
these troops The wild horses approach as
near as they dare; they call to the loaded
horse with the greatest eagerness, and if the
rider is not on the alert, and has not con-
siderable strength of arm and sharpness OF
spur, his animal will diyest himself OF his
burden take to his heels, and be gone forever.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14

4 German physician of the very highest
reputation. Dr. Trcichler has recently sound
q note of alarm to the effect that ill-directed
and excessive brain work is inficting serious
injury to school children. In apapcr read be-
fore the German association of natural his
torians and physicians, he claimed that
habitual headache was greatly increased of
late, among boys and girls, and that this
headache not only destroys much Of the
happiness and chcerfulness of life, but that it
produces impoverishment of the blood and
loss of intellectual tone" "Undoubtedly,' he
saws, ''the principal cause of the headache
is intellectual OyertaxatiOn entailng work at
night, and the insisting by parents on the too
earnest taking up of a variety Of subjects,
music among the rest Another case is "a
state of dilation of the bloOd-vessels OF the
brain, by which the removal OF effete mater
ial and the repair Of the nervous tissues are
both seriously impeded." He also says that
"The method of instruction nowadays pur-
sued is not only a cause of disease, but also
perfectly useless, because instead OF lncreas-
ing knowledge it produces mental confusion
and becomes simply a Danaides, or Ike
carving water i'll sieve" Excessive ana
especially nocturnal labor produces state
of exhaustion of the brain in which the mole
cular changes necessary for the reception and
assimilation of learning are not competed; SO
that new ideas cannot be really grasped, and
confusion is produced at night with regard
to subjects which have been learnt in the
day. The Chicago Tribune notes it as little
remarkable that an eminent American physi-
clan, who has long been interested in educa-
tional matters, recently gave expression to
almost identically the same views. As the
same paper suggests, the concurrence OF such
authorities ought to induce educational Off
cials to give this matter serious attention, to
ascertain if we are cramming the brains OF
our children at the expense Of their health.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14
lrishman Against Quaker.

An Irishman, finding his cash at low ebb.
resolved to adopt 'the road" as professional
means of refreshing his eXchequer, and, hav
ing provided himself with Il horse-pistol,
proceeded forthwith to the conventional
lonely common and lay in wait. The no
less conventional farmer, returning from
market with a bag Of money! of course
soon appeared, to whom enter Pat with the
regulation highwayman offer of choice Your
money or your life,' remark fortified by
the simultaneous exhibition OF the firearm
in the usual way. The farmer, who was q
Quaker, essayed to temporize. Il would not
have thee stain thy soul with sin, friend, and
didst thou rob me of my gold, it would be
gold: and didst thou kill me, it would be
murder But hold! A bargain is 10 sin,
but commerce between two honest men.
l will.give thee this bag OF gold for the pis-
tol thou holdest at my ear" The unsuspect
ing amateur Macbeth, yielding perhaps to
the Quakers logic and solicitude for his spir-
itual welfare, made the exchange without a
moments hesitation. "Now friend, cried the
willy Ephraim, ]eveling the weapon, give
me back my gold or | will blow thy brains
out T. Blaze away, thin, darlint," said Pat.
Sure, there's niver dhrop of powther in
it ~ The result was sold Quakcr.-Cham
bPy's Journal
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14
The Lonely First boy.

1t is very difficult, says the Cincinnati
Saturday Night, to conceive Of Adam as a boy,
we admit, owing to the popular superstition
which has painted him coming into the world
full crown, with whiskers and moustache
complete, and the prevailing belief that there
wasn't boy in the world until Eve came
and raised the Old Boy with Adam; yet we
prefer to think of our worthy proienitOr as
having had something of a boyhood, and we
suppose we have as good right to theorize
upon the subject as any one else.
Adam was probably rs mischievOus natur-
ally as boys generally are. In fact, Darwin
says he was a perfect little monkey" which
we believe is a synonym for mischievousness
the world over. But he had no companions
in his gambols. If he staid out after dark
and got to cutting up, it was all by himself.
And what sport could he have ringing door
bells without lot of other boys to scamper
away with? And consider the melancholy
fun of fastening cords across the walk at
night, with nobody to trip over them.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14
A Million Copies a Year.

An interviewer asked Mr.. William III. Ap-
pleton, the head of the great publishing
house in New York, what was the best sell
ing book published by his firm. His answer
was, "Webster's Speller,' and it has the larg-
est sale of any book in the world except the
Bible I'VE sell million copies !; year"
Upon the interviewer expressing his aston
ishment at this statement, Mr.. Appleton
added YES and we have been selling it
at that rate for forty years. The year fol-
lowing the emancipation of slaves, we sold
100000, because every negro i'll the South
thought it only necessary to have Web
ster's Speller to read After that year it fell
back to the original million and has never
varied. We sell them i'll cases of seventy
two dozen, and they are bought by all II
large dry goods houses and supply stores,
and furnished by them to every cross roads
store in the country
1t was in 1888, ninety-seven years ago,
that Noah Webster published the little
work whsch he afterward named spelling
Book He first called it First Part Of IL
Grammatical Institute of the English Lam
guage" He must have soon simplitied this
name because we find Dr. Franklin writing
to him in 1899:
Permit me to make one observation that
| imagine may regard your interest. 1t is
that your Spelling Book is miserably print
cd here PHILADELPHIA so as i'll many places
to be scarcely legiblc, and on wrctched pa
per- If this is not attended to, and the new
one lately advertised as coming out should
be preferable in these respects, it may hurt
the sale of yours"
Mr.. Webster probably acted upon these
hints, for the book, as we see has held its
own to the present day. Noah Webster
lived upon the copyright of his Spelling
Book for nearly half Il century, it is said !;
and was thus enabled to produce his great
dictionary, which yielded him 10 profit at
all, although it has been q valuable estate to
his family
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14
Educating Girls to be Mothers.

We do not know, saws the New York
Nof''", who first used the phrase educating
girls to be mothers, ,"but we fancy it is quite
as capable of explanation as the phrase
"woman's fullest development" Educating
girl to be a mother, we presume, means
very much the same thing as educating a
BOY to be father. A boy is educated to be
father by preparing him to earn living in
some honest calling; or, in other words, to
support family in comfort, and behave well
In all respects as the head of family But
such an education has to have in view the
calling he will probably pursue, and not any
vague thing called his fullest Development ?
Ii boy IS going to be a mechanical engineer.
1t IS not educating him to be father to
occupy large portion of his time in his
learning years with music and the classics
lie would doubtless, Us father, be the bet
ter OF music and the classics, Just as every
hotel waiter would be the better of a univer-
slty education and foreign travel: but in
education as in other things. the limitations
! OF human life, OF human capacity, and of the
! labor market, have to be taken into account
so, also, i'll educating a woman to rear chill
dren and manage household, you educate
her for the calling which eighty per cent. of
her sex follow. 1t may be a small or mean
calling, as most callings are, full of drudgery
and containing little chance for the fullest
Development but it is a tremendous fact
from which there is no escape The truth is
that the passion for development" and i'm
patience OF inevitable daily duties is one of
the greatest causes of the social troubles
through which we are passing. 1t is at the
bottom of the Kearney insanity. If one sifts
his rawlings, one finds that, in so far as he
represents anything, he represents the wide
spread desire to abandon dull labor and be-
gin developing" His way of accomplishing
his object is to sit down and issue ''city
scrip" for the supply of his wants, which is
OF course, childish: but wiser anu more in
telligent people than he are touched by this
madness. The best cure for it is the thorough
indOctrination of the young with the belief
that the prime object of education is prepara-
tion not for an ideal sphere, bnt for the
duties which, in all probability the pupil
will have to perform, however lowly they
may be and no worse injury can be done to
a young person than by sneering at them as
something unworthy of his or her highest
powers.
An English newspaper illustrates the
cheapness of water transportation as COM
pared with railroads. by saying that Ameri-
can farmers are well enabled to undersell
British agriculturists when the rate of freight
on wheat from New York to Liverpool is
S1.2O, while the railroad freight from Liver
pool to Birmingham, about one hundred
miles. Is S3.12 per ton.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14

Dear me! 1t wasn't enough for me to
nurse and raise !, family of my own, but
now when | am old and expected to take Il
little comfort here it is all the time send for
mother" And the dear old soul growls and
grumbles, but dresses herself as fast as she
can Notwithstanding. After you have trotted
her off, and got her safely in your home, and
she flies around administering her remedies
and rebukes by turns, you feel easier 1t is
right now. OF soon will be-mOthers come !!
In sickness, no matter who is there or how
many doctors quarrel over your case, every
thing goes wrong somehow, until You send
for mother.
In trouble, the first thing you think of is
send for mother
But this has its ludicrous Us we'll as its
touching aspect The verdant young couple
to whom the baby's extraordinary grimaces
and alarming yawns, which threaten the dis
location of its chin its sleeps, which it ac
complishes with its eyes half open, and no
perceptible futter of breath On its lips, caus-
ing the young to imagine it's dead this time,
and to shrek out, Send for mother" in
tones Of anguish this young couple, in the
light OF the experience which three or four
babies bring, find that they have been ridic-
ulOus and given mother q good many trOts
for nothing.
Did any one ever send for mother and she
fail to come: Never, unless sickness or the
intirmities of age prevented her AS when,
in your childhood, those willing feet re-
sponded to your call, so they do still, and
will continue to do as long as they are able
And when the summons comes which none
yet disregarded, though it will be Il happy
day for her, it will be a dark and sad one for
you, when God. too. will send for your
mother
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14
.Anti-Fat.

For those people whose embonpotm Is q
matter of solicitude, whether becaase 1t Is
uncomfortable or questionable, the follow
lng diet is proposed by DR.. George Johnson
IN the Practitioner:
May eat Lean mutton and beef, veal ana
lamb, soups not thickened, beef tea ana
broth: poultry, game, fish and eggs bread
IN moderation; greens, cresses lettuce e1c,
green peas. babbage. caulifiower, onions fresh
iruit without sugar.
May not cat-Fat meat, bacon or ham,
butter, cream, sugar, potatoes, carrots, pals
nlps, rice, sago, tapioca, macaronl, custafo
pastry, and pudding, sweet cakes ;,
May drink-Tea, coffee cocoa from nibs
with milk, but no sugar. dry wines IN moo
Grafton, brandy, whisky and gin in modera,
hon without sugar, light, bitter beer SOFA
and seltzer water.
May not drink-Milk except sparingiy
porter and stout, sweet ales, sweet wines As
rule alcoholic liquors should be taken spar
mgly and never without food. H IKE t b
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14

tSanta truZe Courier.

Santa trlZe Courier
Lillian +. Smith, little lady only ten
years old. gave an exhibition on Saturday
evening last at the rink, of her wonderful
skill with the rifle She fired at glass balls
thrown in the air, making good score, but
labored under many difficulties in the way
of light and limited space in which to work.
She fired over her shoulder, taking sight in
a small hand mirror, and broke every ball
out of twelve. She broke balls swinging in
a circle, part to string broke fifteen balls
in one minute, and performed several other
feats worthy the Austns Or DIR. Carver. Miss
Lillian. who resides six or seven miles from
town with her parents and who was accom-
panied by them, is about medium height for
a ten-year-old child, bright as dollar, art
less und natural, and don't seem to think
she can shoot much anyway. She seemed
quite surprised at the hearty applause that
followed her every effort. She holds the rifle
beautifully, and poises herself admirably.
She has most brilliant future before her,
and with proper management can make q
fortune in few years. The idea that lit
tie girl ten years old can perform almost the
same feats with the rife as men who have
practiccd ten or twenty years is {: marvel in
itself
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14
The New England Village.

Judge Lawrence of Chicago at the Nermonter>
Dinner
Villages like those Of New England do not
exist in old England nor in any of the west
rm or southern States. They will come to us
III time, but they are not here yet They have
Il charm peculiarly their own. They have
the same sense OF repose and dignity that
belongs to the ancient elms and naples that
border and bcautify their streets. As
You walk beneath the silent shadows OF
these venerable trees and take note OF the
old h0mcStcadS that are sheltered by them,
you know that within those homes there
flows on quiet life of us much refinement
rs can be found in any city i'll this broad
land. The best literature is within those
walls, the best music the best cultivation OF
manners, and the angelic purity and beauty
ota New England girl-hood, full of bright
intelligence and crowned with all gentleness
and grace There is hardly better society
than may be found in those New England
homes, and nowhere are the Christian VIZ
tues Of life brought to better development.
There is some pride of family, sense OF
having had grandfather, but there Is,
wlthal 50 wide sympathy, so much OF that
kindly feeling toward your neighbors that
comes from having known them, and gone
to church with them from your childhood,
that the idea of purple blood does not mar
the harmony or interfere with the sweet
charities of daily life. fl desire to give a
foreigner the most favorable impression OF
american society and manners, free alike
from prctension on the one hand or servlllty
on the other. as the outhgrowth of American
institutions | would take him to New
England village Of the best class, and Dld
HIM stay there until he had learned the spirit
Of the place and people. If should choose
the place where my children should pass
their childhood and youth, it would be III
such IL Nllagc.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14
How it is Done.

Borrowing money in the East and operat-
ing with it in the West has become quite
business \ correspondent of New York
paper recently made the following statement:
Il know one responsible gentleman who an
nually borrows $4,000 in the East at six per
cent. per annum, and operates it i'll the West
at twelve per cent, thereby making for him
self $4,000 per annum, Or the handsome sal
ary of $3.50 per month He borrows it ON
unproductive property East and loans it ON
good mortgages West, the difference between
Eastern and Western rates of interest being
his nrotitS1
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14
THE STIRIeUP.CUP.

My short and happy day is done;
The long and lonely night comes on,
And at my door the pale horse stands
To carry me to unknown lands.
His wlIinny shrill, his paving hoof,
Sound dreadful a. gathering storm:
And must leave this shelterine roof
And Joys of life so soft and warm.
Tender and warm the joys of life
Good friends the faithful and the true:
Ny rosy children and my wife,
- sweet 10 kiss 50 fair to view.
80 sweet to kiss 50 fair to view:
The night come, on. the lights burn blue :
And at my door the pale horse stands
To hear me forth to unknown lands.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14
An ANGEL IN THE HOUSE.

How sweet il were if without feeble fright,
Or dying Of the dreadful, bcauteous sight,
An angel came to us and could bear
TO see him issue from the silver air,
At evening, in our room, and bend OH ours
III, divine eyes, and bring us from his bowers
News of dear friends and children, who have neve
Been dead. indeed, we shall know forever.
Alas, we think not what we daily see
About our hcarths, Angels that arc to be,
Or may be- if they will, and we prepare
These souls and ours, to meet in happy air
4 child. Il friend, Il wife, whose soft heart sings
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14
OLD TINE CARD.PLAYERS.
Famous Bouts Between s'Dlgby'' an
Judge Petit, of Indiana.
Lafayette lnd. J Times.

Lafayette und. Times.
In the early history OF Layfayette card
playing was more than amusement with a
good many it was business" The founder
of Laytayette, odd" Digby, was for many
years the most noted card-player on the
Wabash There are many anecdotes of him
that have been handed down and are worth
preserving If the old settlers are to be be-
iieved "Old Dig and the late Judge Petit
had many lively tussel at the eard-tabe.
On one occasion the two sat down early in
the forenoon at their tavorite game of 'old
sledge," s. Il game. About o'clock in the
afternoon, when Petit was about $40 winner
he announced to Digby that he must quit
What are you going to quit tor?' inquired
llgby Il want to go and take care of my
horse" replied Petit. In those days every
lawyer kept a horse to ride the circuit. Il
can 90 without my dinner" the Judge con-
tinucd. "but I'm not going to abuse my horse
just to accommodate you at this game Pc
tilt retired with Digbys so in his pocket
The next morning, bright and early, they
were at it again. Digby had big streak OF
luck, and before II o'clock had bagsed S120
of Pettit's money. Raking from the table
the last so put up he announced to Petit
that he was going to quit What are you
going to quit ?" inquired Petit. Why
| must 90 and feed my horse, John" Why
---you,' you haven't got any horse WELL
John, if haven't got any horse" slapping
his hand on his breeches pocket, I've got
the money to buy one" The game was
closed Digby. who was a bachelor, had Il
small, one-story frame house put up on Main
street, close to where the canal now is, an
office and sleeping apartment. After it was
finished, but the plastering not sufficiently
dry to be occupied, Digby and Petit sat
down to play their tavorite game OF old
sledge. Digby's money was soon exhausted,
and Petit declared the game closed. Digby
proposed one more game, stalking his new
house against certain sum OF money.
The game was played, and Petit was the
winner. The next morning he made bar
gain with 4 hOuse-mOver to remove the
house to a lot he owned on the south side OF
Main street, a little east OF the public square.
The wooden wheels were put under. and
that afternoon it was started up Main street,
with a long team of oxen before it, and at
dark it had Just reached the public square.
That night Digby and Petit had another
game, and in the morning there was read
iustment of the wheel, and the house was
started Oh its return toward the river 1t
reached it's proper place in the street, and
was left to be put back in its old position on
the morrow. But the next mrrpiIIs, it was
started up town again. The next day it
took the other direction, and BY this tine the
whole town came to understand it. Finally
it remained in the public square over Sun
day, and on Monday continued its way up
Main street and was wheeled on Pettit's lot.
He soon moved his books into it and for
many years occupied it as a law office.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-14
Thc Spider as IL Balioonist.

ROchcSter Democrat.
In speaking of the intelligence displayed
by birds and beasts, Seth Green argued
strongly in favor of the reasoning power of
insects especially and related from his own
experience the manner i'll which spider
constructs balloon. II you anchor q pole
in body OF water, leaving the pole above
the surface, and put spider upon it, he will
exhibit marvellous intelligence by his plans
to escape. At first he will spin a web sew
eral inches long and hang to one end while
he allows the other to float off in the wind
in the hope that it will strike some object
OF course this plan proves failure, but the
spider is not discouraged He waits until
the wind changes, and then sends another
silken bridge floating off in another direc-
ton. Another failure is followed by several
other similar attempts, until all the points OF
the compass have been tried. But neither the
resources nor the reasoning power of the
spider are exhausted He climbs to the top
of the pole and energetically goes to work
to construct silken balloon. He has no hot
air with which to initiate it, but he has the
power Of making it buoyant. When he gets
his balloon finished he does not 90 off upon
the mere supposition that it will carry him
as men often do but he fastens it to a guy
rope, the other end of which he attaches to
the island pole upon which he is prisoner
He then gets into his aerial vehicle while it
is made fast and tests it to see whether its
dimensions are capable of the work of bear
ing him away He often finds that he has
made it too small, i'll which case he hauls it
down, takes it all apart and constructs it on
a larger and better plan. A spider has been
seen to make three different balloons before
he became satisfied with his experiment
Then he will get in, snap the guy rope and
sail away to land as gracefully and as su-
premely independent of his surroundings as
could well be imagined. Mr.. Green stated
that he had repeatedly witnessed such ac-
tions by spiders, and that he feels convinced
that it is reason, with which the Creator of
all things endowed the animals, that enabled
them to free themselves from their prison.