davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
Courtesy at Home.
Our Continent. |

Our Continent.
Good breeding, like charity, should begin
at home. The days are passed when chill
dren used to rise the moment their parents
entered the room where they were and re-
main standing until they had received per-
mission to sit. But the mistake is now made
usually in the other direction Of allowing
to small boys and girls too much license to
disturb the peace of the household. / think
the best way to train children in courtesy
would be to observe toward them a scrurupu-
lous politeness. | would go so far as to say
that we should make it as much point to
listen to children without interrupting them
and to answer them sincerely and respectful
ly as if they were grown up. And indeed
many of their wise, quaint sayings are far
better worth listening to than the sterotyped
commonplaces of most morning callers. OF
course to allow uninterrupted chatter would
be TO surrender the repose of the household,
but it is very easy if children are themselves
scrupulously respected to teach them in turn
scrupulously to respect the convenience of
others, and to know when to talk and when
to be silent.
If child is brought up in the constant
exercise CT courtesy toward brothers and
playmates, as well as towards parents and
uncles and aunts, it will have little left to
learn as it grows older. | know bright
and bewitching little girl who was well in
structed in table etiquette, but who forgot
her lessons sometimes as even older people
do now and then. The arrangement was
made with her that for every solecism of
this sort she was to pay a fine of five cents,
while for every similar carlessness which she
could discover in her elders she was to exact
fine of ten cents, their experience of life
being longer than hers. You may be assured
that Mistress Bright Eyes watched the pro-
ceedings of that table very carefully. No
slightest disregard of the most conventional
etiquette escaped her quick vision, and she
was an infexible creditor and faithful
debtor. 1t was the prettiest sight to see her,
when conscious of some failure On her own
part, go unhesitatingly to her moneybox
and pay cheerfully her little tribute to the
outraged proprieties.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
Diphtheria.
| Food and Health. |


We may clash with many precOnceiyed
opinion in stating our view of the treatment
OF this disease. Formerly caustics were
much employed to the throat, but such
measures are no longer advocated, and elimi-
mating and tonic medicines, detergent gargles
and applications, together with nourishing
diet are approved Of
To us it appears that fresh air is the first
necessity we should allow diphtherial pa
tient to be near an open window. Next, we
should use hot malt vinegar and flannel
wraps around the throat, gargles of the same
diluted with water, and the most tonic diet
possible Neither quinine or mineral tonics,
but hot, strong wines, yolks of eggs beaten
up in strong beef tea feet placed in mustard
water, and flannel wraps soaked in hot vine
gar wraps soaked in hot vinegar around the
stomach.
The juice pressed from raw beet, heated in
farina boiler and given constantly, but
above all hot red wines. Inhalations of the
fumes of vinegar with open mouth and pen
silings of the same within the throat. The
use of lemons is also to be recommended.
Diphtheria is preventable disease, and
when we know more of the conditions un-
der which the health of human life can ex-
ist, and are inclined to listen to it aud act
according to it, we shall have fewer epidem-
les such as those of diphtheria.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
Vaccination.

Many replies have already been made to
Mr.. Henry Bergh's attack on vaccination in
the North american Reriec. He is, in fact,
completely. refuted and overwhelmed by
medical statisticians who show that before
the great discovery of Jenner the smallpox
was one of the most dreadful scourges of the
world, but that since that time it nas ceased
to be a scourge; that the death registers
show that 81 per cent. is the average DEATH
rate of the vaccinated attacked by smallpox,
while the death-rate of the unvaccinated is
35 per cent. Among other authorities quoted
is the superintendent of the royal infirmary
hospital at Manchester, England, who says
that during an experience of fifty years no
nurse or servant in the smallpox wards
who had been vaccinated had ever contract
ed sthe disease, though large numbers of
these persons have constantly been exposed
to infection in its most concentrated form.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
The New Electoral College.
New York Herald

The House Apporti onment bill fixing the
number of Representatives at three hundred
and twenty-five only lacks the signature OF
the President to become law. 1t will en-
large the Electoral College from three hun
dred and sixty mine, of which one hundred
and eighty-five are majority, to four hun
dred and one, of which two hundred and
one will be required to elect. The admission
of Dakota as State would increase the to-
tai electoral vote to four hundred and four
and the majority to two hundred and three.
The only striking thing about the Electoral
College is the disproportionate power of the
small States. In the new College Rhode Is
and will have a vote for every sixty-nine
thousand and Florida one for every sixty
seven thousand inhabitants, while it will
take q hundred and torty-one thousand in
New York and nearly hundred and forty
three thousand in Pennsylvania to represent
an electoral vote This makes every ballot
in Rhode Island and Florida count as much
as two in New York and Pennsylvania. TAX
ing Delaware and Nevada the disparity be-
tween the large and the small states becomes
still greater. With population of hun
dred and forty-six thousand Delaware will
have three electoral votes, or one for every
forty eight thousand inhabitants, and Neva-
da, with only sixty-two thousand people,
will cast three electoral votes, or one
for every twenty thousand inhabitants.
Hence in Presidential election it will take
about three votes in New York or Pennsyl-
vania to offset one in Delaware, and about
seven to count as much as one in Nevada.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
WHERE THE JAM.POT GROWS.

You may talk about your groves,
Where you wander with your loves,
You may talk about your moonlit waves that fall
and flow,
Something fiiirer than these,
| can show you if you please
'Tis the charming little cupboard where the jam
pots grow.
ChoruS.
Where the jam-pots grow,
Where the jam-pots grow,
Where the jelly jolly, jelly jolly jam-pots grow
'ris the dearest spot to me
On the land or on the sea,
l. the charming little cupboard where the jam pots
grow.
There the golden peaches shine,
In their syrup clear and fine;
And the raspberrics are blushing with dusky glow,
And the cherry and the plum
Seem to bcckon me to come
TO the charming little cupboard where the jam
pots grow.
Ch,ruS-Where the jam pots grow, etc.
There the sprightly pickles stand,
With the catsup close at hand,
And the marmalades and jcllies III 2oodly row;
And the ounces ruddy fire
Would an anchorite inspire,
TO seek the little cupboard where the jam pots
grow.
Chorus-Where the jam-pots grow, etc.
Never tell me of your bowers
That full of bugs and flowers.
Never tell me of your meadows where the DreeZes
blow!
But sing me, if you will,
Ofthe house beneath the hill,
And the darling little cupboard where the m-pots
grow.
Chorus--Where the jam-pots grow, etc.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
Nero's Magnificencc.
From the London Quarterly I

1t was to Nero that Tacitus applied the
expression incredibilium cupitor. What he
not only desired but achieved in the way Of
cruelty and vice would be declared incredi-
bic, if Roman history had not already shown
what revolving atrocities may be conceive ed
by diseased imagination and executed by
irresponsible power. After the burning of
the city he gratified his taste, in entire dis
regard OF the prOprietorS, in rebuilding it.
lie at once appropriated a number of the
sites and large portion of the public
grounds for his new palace. The porticOS,
with their ranks of columns were . mile
long. The veStibule was large enough to
contain that colossal statue of him, in silver
and gold, 120 feet high, from which the Co.
losseum got its name. The interior was
gilded throughout and adorned with ivory
and mOther-of-pearl. The ceilings of the
dining-rOOms were formed of movable tab
lets of ivory, which shed flowers and per-
fumes on the company. The principal salon
had a dome which, turning day and night,
initiated the movements of the terrestrial
bodies. When this palace was finished he
exclaimed: "At last am lodged like man.
His diadem was valued at S500,000 His
dresses, which he never wore twice, were
stiff with embroidery and gold. He never
Travelled with less than thousand carriages.
The mules were shod with silver the mule
teers clothed with the finest wool, and the
attendants wore bracelets and necklaces of
gold. Five hundred she asses followed his
wife POpp9a in her progresses, to supply
milk for her bath. He was fond of figuring
in the circus as charioteer, and in the thea
ter as a singer and actor. He prided himself
on being an artist, and when his possible
deposition was limited to him, he said that
artists could never be in want. There was
not vice to which he was not given, nor
crime he did not commit Yet the world,
exclaims Seutonios, endured this monster for
fourteen years, and he was popular with the
multitude, who were dazzled by his magnif-
cence, and mistook his senseless profusion
for liberality. On the anniversary of his
death, during many years, the people crowded
to cover his tomb with flowers
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
A Just Tribute.

A ust tribute is paid to woman in the
well known play "Under the Gaslight," and
it is as true as gospel 1t is worth preserv-
ing and runs in this wise: LET the woman
you look upon be wise or vain, beautiful or
homely, she has but one thing she can give
or. refuse, and that is her heart. Her beauty,
her wit, she may sell you, but her love is the
treasure without money and without price.
She can only ask in return that when you
look upon her your eyes shall speak mute
devotion when you address her your voice
shall be gentle and kind. That you shall
not despise her because size cannot all at
once understand your vigorous thoughts and
ambitious plans, for when misfortune and
evil have defeated your greatest purpose
her love remains to cousole you. You look
upon the tree of strength and grandeur; do
not despise the flowers because their fra
GRANGE is all they have to give. Remember
love is the only thing she can give"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
How to Trim a Lamp.
(Chicago Tribune.

Chicago tribune.
The belief is quite general that to prevent a
lamp wick from fiaring at the corners and
breaking the chimney it must be cut round
ing" to correspond with the cap or cover of
the burner. My experience, however coup
led with close and careful observation, leads
me to the conclusion that the way to trim a
lamp so as to secure the very best results
to get the most and pleasantest light with
the least breakage of chimneys-is to cut
the wick parallel with the top of the tube of
the burner Turn up the wick, and with a
pair of sharp scissors clip it even with the
top of the tube. Be careful not cut or squeeze
the tube with the scissors. See that no lint
or thread remains ON the wick, and that it
has not been pushed out of its perpendicular
position and cut diagonally. Close the cap
over the tube, put the chimney in its place
and the lamp is ready for use. If these di-
rections are strictly followed, it will, when
lighted yield broad, straight-edged flame
without a notch or indentation in it, and
furnish a clear, steady, light. Try it and
Saa
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
MRS. BURGESS PETS.
A Lady Who is on Terms of Friendship
With Fish and Turtles.
Marlboro journal, I

AlarDOrO JOURNAL
Mrs L. II. Burgess lives in Sandwich,
Mass, on the bank of a charming lake. 1t
has been her custom once or twice day for
quite period to feed the fish in this lake
She first splashes the water with her hand,
when in a moment there may be seen ap-
preaching from every direction hundreds of
large sinners, then eels, varying in size from
one to three feet in length. Next, turtles ap-
pear on the surface, ten, twenty-five and
thirty feet away, their necks stretched ap-
apparently to see whether it is friend or foe
who is disturbing the waters. In less than
three minutes these various species collect
directly before her, and as she commences to
feed them the water is fairly alive with them.
They take bread directly from her hands,
and turtles will allow her to take them en-
tirely out of the water, and while she holds
them in one hand they will eat with the
greatest vOracity from the other. But the
eels We're the most amusing. There was one
she called Quinn, measuring about three feet
in length, that repeatedly came to the sur
face and would glide back and forth through
her hands, and several times she lifted him
partially out of the water, but he was care
full to keep his head under. The moment he
saw daylight he would dart back as only an
eel could
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
Guiteau's Trial.

There is great demand for the report of
Guiteau's trial. 1t was taken by the official
reporters at cost of several thousand dol
lars. A resolution is pending in the house
printing committee to have printed five
thousand copies for distribution. The re-
porters, however, want in addition to their
pay for the work, to have monopoly of the
publication, and are using their influence to
keep the resolution from passing. Persons
wanting the verbatim report of the trial
should write to their members of Congress
urging action ON the resolution Under it
each Congressman will have twenty-five
copies to distribute otherwise it will cost
about five dollars
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
AFTER THE OPERA.

We st tlod, one night, on Beacon street,
Before her family mansion,
While in my heart the throbs OF love
Were struggling for expansion;
We had just left the theatre,
Had heard III Trovatore,"
And, on the doorstep, talked about
The music and the story.
She raved about the wondrous voice
OF Signor Campanini,
She praised his acting, his face,
While / stood like ninny-
| wanted to--but why explain,
Il half suspect she knew it,
| hemmed and twisted like a fool,
And hadn't pluck to do it.
l waited long, for some excuse H
My stupid brain perplexing,
And then at length silence fell,
So awkward and SO vexing;
But suddenly she frightened up
This loveliest of misses
Oh, by the way, did you observe
How gracefully he kisses?"
Boston Advertis
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30

"The coach stops half an hour, gentlemen
dinner quite readyw
'Tis delightful sound, and what dinner
What profusion of substantial delicacies
What mighty and s-tinted rounds of beef
What vast and marble-veined ribs! What
gelatinous veal pies! What colossal hams,
and how invigorating is the smell of those
various and variegated pickles. Then the
hustle emulating the plenty the ringing OF
bells, the clash of thoroughfare, the sum-
moning of ubiquitous walters, and the all
peryading feeling of omnipotence, from the
landlord, who can produce and execute eve
rything they can desire. 'Tis wondrous
sight. Why should man go and see the
pyramids and cross the desert, when he has
not travelled in coach?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30

When ice was first offered for sale in AL
bany all the physicians denouncedit, and did
their best to keep people from using it. The
shrewd Esculpians foresaw that the time
would come when companies would force the
price up so high that customers would have
no money left to pay doctors bills.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
JOttings.

Selfreliance is quite distinct from self-as-
sertion.
Peoples intentions can only be decided by
their conduct
Experience is a torch lighted in the ashes
of our hopes and delusions.
Mean souls like poor pictures, are often
found in good-looking frames.
1t is the lot of genius to be opposed, and
to be invigorated by opposition.
1t is human nature to love to make eXper-
iments at the expense of others.
Hope softens sorrow, brightens plain sur
roundings, and eases hard lot.
He who laughs at cruelty sets his heel on
the neck of religion and godliness.
1t is more honorable to acknowledge our
faults than to boast of our merits.
There is nothing that so refnes the face
and mind as the constant presence of good
thoughts.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30

But they rode like victors and lords,
Through the forest of ances and swords.
In the heart of the Russian hordes
They rode. or they stood, at bay,
Struck with the sword-hand and slew,
Down with the bride hand and drew
The foe from the saddle, and threw
Under foot those in the fray;
Ragged like storm, or stood like rock
In the wave of a stormy day,
Till suddenly, shock upon shock,
Staggered the mass from without;
For our men galloped up, with cheer and shout,
And the Russians surged and wayered and reeed,
Up the HILL up the HILL up the hill out of the field,
Over the brow and away.
V.
Glory to each and to all and the charge that they
made,
Glory to all the three hundred, the Heavy Brigade.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
Fashion DEGREES.

SeaIskin is much worn in Paris.
New ruches for the throat initiates Medi-
ci fraise.
Fichus, jabots and collarettes grow in pop
ularity.
Navy blue and scarlet are favorite COM
bination for young girls suits.
Feathers and artificial flowers are general
ly fashionable for trimming ball dresses.
Kilt plated skirts and short tabliers ar
ranged en- panier around the hips are much
worn.
A war between large and small hats RACES
in Paris. The largest hats are worn in Lon
DON
The plush hat turned up a la mousque-
taire is very becoming to very young ladies
and girls.
All fashionable coitfeures are arranged low
in the back. In front they are waved or
cIimped but close to the head.
Underskirts ofplain material will be much
worn with overdresses and basque bOdices of
fowered and figured stuffs.
Satin brocaded flowers of large size on
moire grounds. are the newest features in
silks.
Ladies who have founces of fine old lace
form them into paniers or dresses of satin,
moire or any of the gauzy tissues now worn
The large fowered moire brocaded cloaks
brought out this winter are now being sold
to the most fashionable women.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
FOOLING THE REDS.
The Wonderful Escape of a Wag in the
Wilderness.
lRill NYe's "Xn-change. |

Bill Nye's "X"-change.
Many years ago, when Helena didn't have
an opera house, and the Rocky Mountain
country was the terra incOgnitd OF the world,
there wandered out to the region of Fort
Benton a man named Exbeadler, who made
himself unpopular among the ShOshones by
killing some of their most prominent men
whenever he could catch them away from
home
AS result of this course OF procedure,
Mr. EHbeadler had large private cemetery
and hostilities were declared by the tribe.
Mr.. Exbeadler was speculator, and one
day fortune threw in his way lot of fire
works that didn't meet with ready sale,
and he purchased them more for his own
amusement than anything else. These he
put to one side, and didn't think of them
again until one day there was a council of
war in the ShoshOne tribe, at which it was
resolved to extinguish the light of Mr.. Ex-
beadler and send him across the mysterious
river
They notified him that the intention was
to make him climb the golden stair in about
fifteen minutes. Western time. 1t looked
pretty dubious for the defendant for mo-
ment, and he didn't know exactly what to
do not having time to consult counsel.
1t was dark night in autumn and Mr..
Exbeadler felt that the morrow would be of
very little interest to him.
Like an inspiration however came the rec
objection of his fire works. He rose and said,
Gentlemen of the forest you apparently
have the bulge on me- and l admit that you
are largely in the majority, but you do not
know me. am a medicine man from Mich
igan, and can make it mighty interesting
fhsyc &no for
just say this for your own good, and more in
sorrow than anger If you take out my vitals
and feed them to the vulture I will linger
near you in the spirit and will annoy you
pretty plenty. l am aware that have plant
ed some of your leading men in the cold, cold
ground, but that isn't a marker for what l
will perform when 1 get out of the flesh
where I won't be delayed by the inclemen-
cy of the weather.
II will now proceed to show you few
little amateur efforts of mine as a medicine
man from away back"
Mr. Exbeadler then let ON a new style of
sea serpent from slight elevation. It was
the biggest thing in the line of pyrotechnics
that was ever turned loose west of the Mis-
souri, 1t shot out into the darkness, about
nine feet like a car load of delirium tremens,
and squirm through the inky bosom of night
like an uneasy demon walking in his sleep.
The gathered warriors of the tribe took one
horrid look at the kissing emissary of hell
and lit out. They left all their baggage that
didn't happen to be tied to them, and there
hasn't been Shoshone Indian seen there
since
Mr. Exbeadler picked out the best ponies
belonging to the tribe loaded up the rest of
his fireworks and went home. He lived
many years after and became one of the
most trusted Indian peace commissioners
L lnnwn in Western history
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-30
THE HEAVY BRIGADE.
Alfred Tcnnyson's Last Poem. !

Alfred Tcnnyson's Last Poem.l
Down the hill, down the HILL thousands of Russians
Thousands of horsemen drew to the valley and
stayed
For Scarlet and Scarlet's three hundred rid
ing by
When the points of the Russian lances broke in on
the sky,
And he called, Left wheel into line
And they wheeled and obeyed.
Then he looked at the host that
Had halted, and he knew not why,
And he turned half round,
And he bade his trumpeter sound,
TO the chargen' and he rode on ahead
As he waved his blade,
To the gallant three hundred
Whose glory will never die
Follow and up the hill"
Up the hill up the hill,
Followed the Heavy Brigade
The trumpet, the gallop, the charge,
And the might of the fight,
Down the hill slowly thousands of Russians
Drew to the valley and halted.
At last on the height
With wing pushed out to the left,
And a wing to the right
But Scarlet was far on ahead
And he dashed up alone
Through the gray slope of men,
And he whrled his sabre,
He held his own,
Like an Englishman there and then,
And the three that were nearest him followed with
force,
Wedged themselves in between horse and horse.
Fought for their lives in the narrow gap they had
made
Four amid thousands and up the hill.
Up the hill galloped the gallant three hundred,
The Heavy Brigade
Ill.
Fell like cannon shot.
Burst like thunderbolt.
Crashed like a hurricane,
Broke through the mass from below.
Drove through the midst of the foe,
Plunged up and down, to and fro,
Rode, flashing blow upon blow,
Brave Enniskicns and Grays,
Whirng their sabres in circles of light
And some of us all in maze,
Who were held for a while from the fight,
And were only standing ut gaze
When the darll-muffed Russian crowd
Folded its wings from the left and the right.
And rolled them around like cloud.
oh. mad for the charge and the battle we,
When our own good red-coats sank from sight
Like drops of blood in n dark-g sea,
And we turned to each other, muttering all-dis-
mayed,
Lost the gallant three hundred, the Heavy
Bripndp