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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
VANDERRILT'S HOUSE.
Its Magnificent Dining Room Window

Its Magnificent Dining Room Window
! Philadelphia Telegraph =.
/ | took journey the other day awdNt,
the other side of Paris, to that 1ar-off quar-
| ter where Bouguereau and other great ar
lists abide, to see the magnificent window
in painted glass which is destined for til,
dining-room of Mr. William II. Vanderbilt'
new house in New York This splendi(
work of art, which is the largest one of tht
kind ever executed for a secular building, il
due to the talent OF M Oudnot who is sale
! to be the finest artist in the world in hi.
peculiar line. The subject of the picture i:
the meeting of the kings, Francis /, ant
Henry VIII, on the Field of the Cloth Of
Gold. In the centre of the. foreground the
two young sovereigns, magnificent in dress
and appointments, each mounted on sn-
perb and fiery steed, clasp hands, while al
the right Queen Claude, of France, surround
ed by her attendants, completes the greeting
by the rival monarchs. King Francis rides a
snow-white charger, with trappings of azure
and gold, while Henry's horse is dark bay
\ gaily clad jester holds two hounds in a
leash in the Immediate foreground to the
right, while the rest of the picture is filled
with knights, mobiles, spearsmen, etc. in at
tendance on the two kings. In the back
ground rise the gorgeous tents erected to
shelter the throng Of royal and aristocratic
persOnages. The coloring of the work, which
includes some forty or fifty figures, is very
superb Nothing can be imagined richer in
effect than the velvet carpet OF the dais of
the Queen, its glowing crimson and rich
gold border extending so far oEer the field
that it is tretted by the hoOiS of King
Francis steed, and throws out to advantage
the pure white of the animal and the glitter
ing azure of the silken tassels that adorn his
housings. This immense and gorgeous work
will, if | understand rightly, fill one end of
Mr. Nanderbilt's dining-rOom, while at the
sides of the room will be placed smaller
windows each painted by NJ. Oudinot, and
armOr, banners, panoplies, etc.
each surmounted by the coat OF arms of one
OF the mobiles that took part in the splendid
ceremonies of the Field of the Goth OF Gold
These escutcheOns are all of unquestionably
having been studied by the
artist from the manuscripts and contempo-
rary records of the time preserved in the
National Library. NJ. Oudinot. who is a
genial, courteous and most intelligent gen.
tleman, founds on this elaborate work his
hopes of transatlantic fame, azl1 '1rits bent all
he resources of his energies and his talent .
20 the production of masterpiece.
Whenever [ go among the artists OF Paris .
hear of some new and muniticent order
given by that most mangnificent of modern
Mr.. Vanderbilt. All that is of
highest merit in the world of modern art is
ecured by him, not only to add luster to his
llready famous home, but to enrich the
cantily plenish art treasures of the New
World with peerless and resplendent Jewels
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
The Future of Railroads.

1t was the fortune of Massachusetts to
send to the Atlanta Exhibition two instruc-
tive messages-One ON agriculture through
Commissioner LOring and one on manufac-
lures by Edward Atkinson. The address of
Mr.. Atkinson, says the Springfield Republican,
is that of the first scholar in New England
business life. He looks to see the second
100000 miles of railroad laid in the next SIX
teen years. Hear: "In the last sixteen years
we have overcome the curse of paper money !:
we have restored the specie standard we
have paid more than one-third, nearly one
half of our national debt; we have greatly
increased our population; we have passed
through the most severe commercial criciS
ever known and, most important of ALL we
have surmounted most of the difficulties con-
nected with the industrial revolution in your
Southern States. Is it too much to expect
to average a little over 5000 miles of railroad
year for the next sixteen years? If this is
not over-sanguine, and [ think it is not, for
we are building this year nearer 10000 miles
than 5000 miles, then we shall accomplish
the work. 1t looks, as have said, like very
big job, but l will make it appear a very little
one. 4 fair average cost of mile Ofrailroad is
S35,O0O; that sum of money measures the
service OF every man engaged in it, from the
Presidents of the railroads, the iron works,
and the mines, down through the workers in
the rolling mills, iron mines and mechanic
shops, to the commonist laborer who digs
and delyes on the track. At 81 day aver
age for the whole force, each 100 miles re-
quires the service of 5000 men for one year.
In order that we may build 1000 miles in
sixteen years force of laborers must be con-
tinuously employed during that period of
350,O00 men. 1t looks like large force, but
as [ have said on this chart, while Europe
prepares for war; we prepare for work If
during these sixteen years we should sustain
armies equal to the present armies
of France or Germany in active service in
to the average population of the
period, our standing army would number
100000 men. Can we spare one-half that
force to build our railroads -
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
The Ownership of fWatermelons.
louisville Courier-Journal.

Who ever heard of any one ever being
punished for stealing a watermelon? 1t was
tried once in Tennessee. three or four years
ago. Good old Judge Frazier, OF the David
son and Rutherford Circuit. was presiding
an unlucl1y negro was the prisoner;a a very
young lawyer was defending him; twelve
good men and true were in the box. There
was no doubt that the prisoner had stolen
the melon the proof against him was as
clear as MONDAY His attorney called no
witness whatever, but simply arose and said:
'May it please your Honor and gentlemen of
the Jury my client is charged with stealing
a watermelon He does not deny 1t. But
this is new crime for our courts. | have
stolen watermelons myself; the chances are
that your Honor has stolen watermelons,
and, gentlemen, I'll agree to set 'em up If
there is man on that jury who hasn't
stolen o watermelon" The Judge Jerked up
his head, took off his spectacles and looked
with startled, but smiling stare upon the
young scamp the jurors nudged each other
and snickered the spectators nudged each
other and guffawed, but it is needless to say
that the brief argument for the defendant
was successful one with the honest jury
men.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
Milk Diet in Sickness.

From tirst-rate article in the Christian
Union we take the following: LET me feed
a sick patient, and who will may give the
medicine In an illness far more depends
upon the proper feeding of the sick person
than is generally believed. If the strength
is sustained from the beginning by nourish-
ment judiciously, there is a better prospect
OF its being equal to the demand that must
be made upon the latter. Begin, then, from
the first to give liquid nourishment in small
quantities frequently 1t is more easily
swallowed and digested than solid, however
delicately prepared, and as there is generally
thirst, it is, as rule, readily taken. The
chief reliance must be placed Oh milk. One
pint is equal to full sized mutton chop and
il is incomparably more nourishing than any
animal broth, not excepting beet-tea, which
too long has held q rank to which its merits
are far from emitting it. Boiling meat CO.
agulates the albumen, the principal nutritive
elements, converting it into solid, which is
carefully eliminated when the broth is
strained leaving behind mass of shreds
floating in water. Milk, on the contrary,
contains fourteen per cent. of solid mat
ter, and is rich in the constituents neces-
sary to supply the wants of the system. One
eighth part lime water added to the milk will
prevent it from disagreeing with the most
tastidiOus stomach
When the yOlk of an egg cannot be borne,
the white may be given with perfect i'm
punity. Albumenized milk is prepared by
shaking in wide-mouthed bottle or jar one
pint of milk with the whites of two eggs
These are so thoroughly incorporated by this
process that few would suspect their presence,
and the mixture is much more Dourishing
than the milk alone.
Albumenized water is refreshing and at
the same time nourishing drink It is pre-
pared like the milk, by shaking together the
whites OF two eggs and pint Of cold water,
and favored with lemon juice, slice Of
lemon being left floating in the glass. Cold
toast wafer can be used to make it
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
Made Her HOmesick.

Darling wake up ard stop snoring" said
Detroit woman to her husband.
''Eh? Whazza matt'r now?' he asked, as
he half raised up in bed
won't you please stop snoring? If you
only knew how homesick it made me Pm
sure you would"
'Homesick. How the deuce can my inno-
cent snore make you homesick?"
"Why, you know, darling, that the home
on the coast from which you took me q joy
GUS bride was only half mile from Gov
ernment fog-horn, and every time you snore
it reminds me so of home that | just can't
stand it. Please lay ON your side and have
some little respsct for my feelings"
And then the brute spread himself out on
his back, and in five minutes had her bathed
in tears as visions of the old home crept up
on her.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
House Plants.

The question so otter raised as to whether
it is healthy to keep plants in our living
rooms and sleeping rooms is answered by DR..
J. NJ. Anders in the Philadelphia Medical
Times. Ehe experiments made by him show
the value of plants as natural and perfect
''atomizers' The average rate of transpira-
ton for plants having thin, soft leaves-like
geraniums and lantanas-is found to be an
ounce and half watery vapor per square
foot of leaf surface for twelve diurnal
hours of clear weather At this rate a great
tree like the Washington Elm, at Cambridge,
which has been estimated to have 100000
square feet of surface, would exhale
seven and three-quarter tons of water
in twelve hours. The rate of Transportation
for house plant is at least fifty per cent.
more rapid than for one in the open air. and
it is evident that a number of such plants
must have material influence ON the humid
ity of the air in which they are kept. Ex-
periments made by means of the hygrome-
ter show conclusively that house plants may
properly be classed as therapeutic agents. AS
to their EMBELLISHMENTS because of giving
off carbonic acid gas at night, it has been
shown by experiment that 1T would require
twenty thrifty plants to produce an amount
of gas equivalent to that exhaled by by one
baby sleeper A practical application of the
data gained by experiment is given in the
carefully prepared formula: Given a room
twenty feet long, twenty feet wide and a
ceiling twenty feet high, warmed by dry air
a dozen thrifty plants, with soft, thin leaves
and leaf surface of six feet square each,
would, if well watered and so situated as to
receive the direct rays OF the sun preferably
the morning sum for at least several hours,
raise the proportion of aqueous vapor to
about the health standard 1t is evident,
then, that every house mother can keep the
air of winter rooms moist by having thrifty
plants il them, and there is every reason to
believe that the lives of many persons who
die from pulmonary complaints might be
by this agency at once SO agreeable
and salutary. In many instances consump
tive tendencies have apparently been coun-
teracted by working among plants.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
No.. g..
The Largest Prison in Europe.
'.fftft) b..
London st. James Gazette

London st. James Gazette
The House of Detention. which has lust
been opened in Berlin, and to which all the
prisoners, male and female, who are awaiting
their trial have been removed, is the largest
prison in Europe. There are six different
buildings the mems prison being four stories
high, with 1872 single cells several large
rooms, holding in all 1875 prisoners, forty
rooms for the warders, and sleeping accom-
modations for 11S other employees Each of
the cells has window ten feet high and an
arched roof; the furniture consisting of a
bed and stool fixed to the wall, and wash
ins apparatus There are also an electric
bell, Il cupboard, a closet and a gas burner
placed above a small table The prisoners
can, If they please, read or write all night
long On the ground floor are twenty-six
cells Tor prisoners accused of murder, or
known to belong to the criminal class, and
in these there is Il plank bed. There are
half dozen cells underground for those who
are guilty OF breaches of discipline, and in
the intirmary ring there are nine rooms for
prisoners of good position in society SHOULD
any ever come there, which are furnished
with some approach to luxury There are
also two or three suites of apartments re-
served for persons who are awaiting trial for
political offenses, and who are to be allowed
to furnish them according to their own taste
The kitchens, baths and heating apparatus
are all on the area floor, and the interior of
the building, which is of iron, is so con-
structed as to form large hall in the center.
which reaches right up to the roof. There
is telephone between the prison and the
Assize Court, SO that prisoners can be sent
there without having to wait. The prison
for women contains seventy single cells and
fifteen large dormitories, there being accom-
commodation for 22O women altogether The
dormitories are partitioned off. so that each
occupant can be placed under lock and key
for the night; and there are three or four
large work rooms in which they will be en-
ployed in day time, under the surveillance
Of female warders As in the mems prison.
there is a spacious exercise ground and
separate chapel.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
MISS JONES.

Miss Jones IL dashing coquette
VII" outshone all the girls in her suette
She had dozens of beaux
And she wore striped heauX-
y. shc was a 'stunner, you buette,
She was gddy and vain, you might guess
And she cared for but little save druess;
She would search the town through
For No. > slough,
Her No. 5 foot TO compress.
She loved "A young man in Aux tayes--
\ sailor boy gallant and gayes;
But he drank, it is said.
And was carried to bed
With his boots on, each night by the wapcS.
30 she east him aside for suitor
OF music and dancing tutor
lie waAed his mIlstache,
And was thought quite mache
And his ringlcts-O, what could be cutter:
lie was rather too free with his tongue,
And he waggcd both his ears when he SOngue.
But she gave him her heart,
And she thought he was smeart-
Though few greater fools were nhonguc.
They clopcd on "a clear April night,
When the orchards with blossoms were Wright
Now she cares not for style
she's been married awhyle
And j. cured Of such foolisEneSs, ought.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
THE LORDS STRENGTH.

strong are the mountains, Lord, but stronger Thou
They rise d buwark to the guarded land,
Which foes pass not nor traitors undermine,
For chdren's children's safety they shall stand
And so, Lord, Thou standest unto Thine,
4 mighty guardian, defense divine.
strong are the mountains Lord but stronger Thou
Where beats the tempest on the hither side,
Beneath their shelter bloom the vine and rose;
so do thy chosen ones i'll Thee abide,
Nor fear the storm-wind though it wildly blows,
All undisturbed in their serene rcpose.
Strong the mountains, Lord, but stronger Thou
TheiI far, fair snowy SUBMITS fountains are
Whence fertilizng streams begin their race;
So from thy might of mercy stream afar
The overbrimming rivers of Thy grace,
Gaddening the wilderness and desert place.
Strong are the mountains, Lord. but stronger Thou:
lmmutablr they stand from age to age,
Though the world rock and empires shift and pale;
SO, though the people war and heathen rage,
The safety of Thy promise shall prevail
Nor ever once Thy love and goodness fall.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
Measuring the Light of the st ars.
From the Boston Journal, Oct. Ill

From the Boston Journal, Oct. II.
At q meeting of the Society of Arts at the
Institute of Technology last evening Prof
Edward c. Pickering of Havard College,
read paper and exhibited specimens of in
struments designed to set forth the degrees of
light of the heavenly bodies. He said that
some five years ago it became his duty to
lay out the work on which the telescope at
Harvard University was to be employed, and
he found that the selection of subject for
investigation involved some difficulty He
finally was led to choose the subject of
photometry, or the measurement of the in
tenslty of light. The lecturer presented
specimens OF ofphotometers which had been
devised expressly for his purpose The dis
covery of the satellites ofMars in the autumn
OF 1877 gave q special interest and direction
to the inquiry. In undertaking to ascertain
the intensity of the light of the satellites OF
Mars he had occasion to need an extremely
small hole Among the artisans who essayed
to furnish what was required was one who
had succeeded in making a hole edgewise
through an old fashioned three cent piece.
and another who had pierced a needle
through from end to end 4 hole about the
twenty-five hundredths part Of an inch in
diameter was finally secured. The lecturer
pointed out a tabular statement showing the
relative magnitude and intensity of light of
various planet and the satellites. The light.
he observed, which falls OH the earth from
the satellites OF Mars is about equivalent to
what q mans hand on which the sun shone
at Washington would reflect to Boston. He
also showed how the eclipses of Jupiter,s
satellites were utilized to make further in-
vestigations in the subject of light. The study
OF the variable stars was also indicated, and
spectroscope made with q direct vision
prism to aid in distinguishing the stars from
nebule was exhibited Another instrument
devised for comparing the intensity of the
various stars using the polar star as a stand
ard, was the meridian photometer. By its
means the work of comparing the various
heavenly bodies was carried on more rapidly
than formally. The labor of measuring the
brightness of all the visible stars was begun
two years ago. 1t has since gone on at the
rate of about 10000 year, and would be
completed next autumn.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
The Use of Short Words.

We must not only think in words, but we
must also try to use the best words, and
those which in speech will put what is in
our minds into the minds of others. This is
the great art which those must gain who
wish to teach in the school, the church, at
the bar or through the press To do this in
the right way they should use the short
words which we learn in early lie, and
which have the same sense to all classes OF
men, The English of our Bible is good Now
and then some long words are found and
they always hurt the verses i'll which you
find them. Take that which says 20, ye
generation of vipers, who hath warned you
to flee from the wrath to Gomez" There is
one long word which ought not to be III it,
namely generation" In the old version the
old word brood" is used. Read the verse
again with this term, and you will feel its
full force 20, We viper's brood, who hath
warned you to flee from the wrath to come?n
Crime sometimes does not look like crime
when it is set before us in the many folds of
long word. When man steals and we
call it ''detalcation," it takes us some time
to know Just what we should think of it,
If he docs not tell the truth, and we are told
that it is case of ''prevarication,' we are
at a loss to know whether it is blunder or
falsehood. No man will ever cheat him
self into wrong-dOing, nor will he be at
loss to judge of others if he thinks and
speaks of acts in clear, crisp terms. 1t is
good rule, if one is at q loss to know if an
act is right or wrong, to write it down in
short, straignt-out English Seymour.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
THE CLERGYMAN,

man whom all may criticise,
The old. the young, the foolish, wise
Who always must be keen and bright,
Though dealing with the old and trte;
Who ne'er must show the least displeasure ;
Or grumbe in the slightest measure,
IT, after working all the week,
ON Sunday when he comes to speak
The handful that his preaching draws
Only respond by mods and snores;
Who daily must his visits make,
Though many precious hour il take;
Must visit sick and visit well,
Where live the rich, where paupers dwell :
Must wed his flock their young baptlse,
And say some nice thing when one dies;
A man in whose unwilling ear
Are poured all scandals, far and near;
10 whom all come with cark and care:
Who must his peoples burdens bear;
man whom men folk patronize,
And whom the women idoli2e;
4 man we laugh at when we can
such reader, is the clergyman.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-12-29
Helena, Montana, Thursday, December 20, 1881.
Should Children


New York Evening Post
10 There comes time in the household when
the head thereof must decide the momen-
tous question as to whether the children
shall be allowed to eat between meals or not.
The question may be decided: no matter
how persistent a child may be, this can be
settled, not simply be laid on the table A
woman who has very superficial knowl-
edge ofthe working ofthe stomach can plain
to her child in such away that it will make
strong impression upon his mind. To rep
resent to an imaginative child that the
stomach is like a man, who, when you have
eaten your breakfast goes to work upon it
with all his might and who does not rest
until the food is ground up, and given the
good part to the blood, so feeding each por-
ton of the body, not forgetting the fingers
and toes even, and who rejects all the bad,
keeping you from sickness and pain will
awaken intense interest in the child's mind
and be great aid to obedience Put it be-
fore him, and ask him if it is not unkind and
even cruel to give out another task before
the first is finished and little time for rest
been given 1t will help you greatly in en-
forcing it upon his mind that he must not
eat at irregular intervals. A child's diges-
tive organs may be weak; he may need to
eat more frequently than a grown person,
but it should invariably be at some stated
time When an early breakfast has been
eaten. and children have long walk to
school, they may be allowed simple lunch
to eat at the recess which usually occurs
long enough before dinner to give time for
digestion. A piece of bread and an apple,
or little basket Of berries, or one or two
figs and some fresh crisp crackers make q
wholesome lunch 1t will be eaten with
great relish if the children do not know just
what is in the little basket and hidden by
the neat napkin, and they will open it with
a feeling Of pleased wonder asssto what ma
ma had given them to-day While calling
on lady once, her little daughter of eight
or nine years old, an extremely unhealthy
looking child, with dull eyes and muddy
complexion which tell so plainly of indges-
ton, came into the room and whispered to
her mother that she was hungry. Go right
to the cake jar, love, and help yourself" AS
she turned away, and while still within hear
ing, her mother said: 'She is q delicate
child-is never well, in fact-that | can re-
fuse her nothing [ thought-perhaps in
humanly-that it is pity such a child
should live to become burden to herself
and to those around her, or to perpetuate
the false ideas, or the entire lack Of ideas,
exhibited in her training. This is the sub
ject upon which | feel strongly, for | have
the best interests of childhood at heart and
the amount of ignorance displayed by those
who have the charge Of children is some
thing which partakes of the nature of a
it is inexcusable. 1t is terrible
to think that woman who knows no more
of the human body than size does ofthe COM
position of the sun, has it in her power to
ruin the digestive organs of whole family
Of children.