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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
The Desplsed Cactus.
Eureka tNev.) Sentinel |

Eureka New Sentinel.] "
4 friend left bunch of budding cactus
flowers at the Sentinel Office on Thursday.
We placed them in water and yesterday they
began to bloom, throwing out large and
brilliant yellow flower. They would be an
ornament to any garden, and are quite
abundant in the ravines and gulches in
the neighboring hills, where they flourish
almost without moisture They are easily
transplanted and with a little attention
would form an attractive feature among
other shrubs. We have a cactus received
from Arizona nearly three years ago that is
in the shape Of large pine-cone or pine
apple 1t came by express, and the few roots
with which it was endowed seemed as dry a,
sticks when it arrived. Being placed in
pot it soon began to throw out large pink
flowers, and has been blooming ever since by.
tits and starts. At this writing it is again in
bloom, The flowers are about six inches in
diameter and some two and one-half inches
deep. The plant itself looks like big conf
cal chestnut burr, and shows no signs of life
until it throws out its buds and bursts into
flower. .1}taa4 5
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
MUM FOR THIRTY.FIVE YEARS.
A Boy Who Saw a Murder Committed
Says Nothing About 1t.
louisville Courier-Journal.

Mr.. ID. G. Owen, of Ghent, Ky, was il
Madison, Indiana, ON June 13. A correspOn
dent received an introduction to him and ex
pressed the wish that the venerable gentle
mans visit here might be q pleasant one
when he replied:
My visits to Madison are always pleasant
for was brought up here, went to school
with lsom Ross, Jim Hunt, and many other
boys OF this city. know every foot Of ground
in this valley, although there have been great
changes" Speaking further about Madison,
Mr.. Owen said: Il never come here but
recall horrible tragedy-the murder OF
White by Sheets-a case that created more
excitement, perhaps than any murder ever
committed in these parts. 1t was along in
1897, think, that it occurred. was the
only eye witness to the bloody deed, and l
kept it a profound secret for thirty-tivc
years.
Remarkable"
Yes, sir; l didn't tell q living soul that
saw the murder for that length Of time, and
John Sheets, the murderer, was the first one
that [ told it to. | was boy, and l was
skylarking around down near the south end
OF Mulberry street, just after dark. l saw
White come out of an alley with q Yankee
yoke on his shoulders carrying two buckets
of water Sheets came along just then and
he struck White with q cane several times
White snatched the cane from Sheets and
struck him several whacks over the head
with it. Sheets jerked out his knife and
plunged it into White near the heart White
off a few steps, gasping, I am a
dead man" fell upon his face and died in
two minutes. l can remember the heart
rending screams of Whites poor wife when
she learned of his death.
Now here's the reason l dinn't tell what /
saw: My brother-in-law, Will Carpenter,
was prosecuting attorney, and / knew if l
appeared as witness-tne only witness who
saw the murder-Sheets and all who favored
his acquittal would say that Carpenter had
gotten his little boy brother-in-law to swear
10 made up testimony. Sheets was tried,
but the circumstantial evidence was not
strong enough to convict him. When I told
Sheets of my knowledge of the affair thirty
i've years atterward, and convinced him of it
oy describing the encounter, he almost fell
n his tracks and exclaimed: MY God,
freene, your evidence would have hung
no. -
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
Effect of Sugar on the Gastric Juice +.

Sugar has been denounced by modern
chemists as substance, the effects of which
on dyspeptics are deplorable. 4 writer in
The Medicia PrGcticiea. however, does not
partake of these fears. He cites the case of
dyspeptic doctor, who, for twenty years, had
terror of sugar, but who now consumes
three and three-fourths ounces of sugar
daily, without inconvenience. Entering the
field of experiment in this direction, he
found that a dog ate eighty grains Of sugar
with two hundred of other food, and six
hours afterward its stomach showed but lit
tie food; the mucous lining Of the stomach
was red and highly congested, and the con-
gestion Of the liver was notable. An animal
opened after eating two hundred grains of
food and no sugar, showed ninety to one
hundred grains of food nndigested. Sugar,
then, favors the secretion of the gastric
Juice
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
A Wonderful Mining Region in South.
erm California.

The Ward Refer says: j. r. Benfield, a
former resident of Mineral City: writes to
Henry Hip from Calico mining district,
located on the Mohave desert, six miles north
of Mohave river in San Bernardino county
California, and sets it up pretty high. We
make the following extract from the letter:
II have found a deposit Of ore sixty feet
wide in kind of cement looks like plaster
paris that goes 500 up, and | find punches
that will go five and eight ounces to the
pound. We have taken out in nine days
about six hundred pounds OF the latter kind
and about a ton OF $1,000 ore. This streak
of level cement is four miles long and from
fifty to one thousand feet wide, and every
place where it has been tried it has been
found good. 1t is located from one end to
the other, and in some places two or three
deep. The boys who made the first strike
took from the surface twenty tons that
milled $500. The ore is chloride in this
cement. l think it is the groupings of a
large quartz ledge. | am running tunnel
into mound, and in the bottom l dug down
last night and struck kind of honey-combed
quartz that was as full of chloride as it could
stick. l don't know how rich it is, but it
looks like it will 60 up in the thousands.
This is the richest mining camp in the United
States, on the continent, or in the world, l
think. There is no timber nearer than the
Mohave river, and no water nearer than there
except in wells. 1t is pretty hot at times.
There are plenty of scorpions, sidewinders "a
little rattlesnake that throws itself along
sideways,) and all kinds of lizards, from the
Gila monster down to the horned toad"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
THE SPIDER WEB.


Who but a fairy
Ever lived in house so airy?
4 bit of cloud tied fast, as it were.
ind framed of the finest gossamer.
\ wonderful, shining, silky house,
Swaying here in the sweet brier boughS,
Sprte of some kind, queen of the air,
Must needs be the one for a home so fair.
Does she, ] wonder,
stand these pale pink blossoms under,
Dressed in a skirt of vapory blue,
All spangled over with drops of dew"
Does she wear a crown, and in her hand
Carry aloft long gold wand?
Has she wings to fly with, gauZy, green?
And where are the folks she rules as queen"
look and linger.
And touch the web with careful finger;
When-in an eager, crafty way
ont leaps little gnome in gray.
The tiniest ogre that ever safe
And watched for prey at his castle gate,
His eight long arms so strong and bold,
With which TO seize, and strangle, and hold ,
Should he discover
Some truant creature passing over
A bee or fly on tired wing,
Careless and fond of lettering,
| wonder if mimic roar
Would reach its ears from out its door,
Fe. Fl, 70. FUN! fe, Fl, 70. fum
will nave some! will have some.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
FLASHES OF DAKOTA AELOQUENCE
How They Celebrated the Glorious
Fourth out Where the Wind Blows.
From Col. Pat. Donan,s Grafton at Fargo. |

From Col Pat. Donan's Grafton at Fargo.l
No softer moolight bathes in floods of sill
yer sheen the orange groves of Andalusia, OF
lures the gushing gOsling to amatory squash
swamping with his adored and dorable own
est one. No balmier breezes sigh over Araby
the blest, or the gardens Of Gui in her
bloom, than the sweetness ss-surfeited Zephyrs
that linger in loving dalliance amid our
rose-buds and pig-styes, japonica thickets
hOneysuckle-arbOrs and sewerage-soaked
garbgage piles. No bigger mosquitoes were
ever boiled and served in fashionable res
taurants down East as snipe on toast than
those that industriously ply their profes
sion along all our romantic streams and
lakesides.
No sharper, nobler, wide-awaker straight
er Tobacco splitting, more enterprising,
whOle-souled, generous, true-hearted and
public-spirited men ever left their stoga
footprints Oh the golden sands Of time. And
no brighter, dearer, lOyelier creatures ever
fitted through Oriental poets raptest dream
of paradise than our blessed dimity divini-
ties, our homemade calico seraphs, our Da-
kota darrings, wives, mothers-in-law, grand
mothers and mariannes, who are creations
special pets and prides, fitted to bear queen
ship in any realm.
Of this resplendent national fabric, fellow
citizens, our own Dakota is to be no ordinary
part. God and nature have made her, in
many respects, the garden spot of all its i'm
perial domain. Cast your eyes and your i'm
agination over her $4,000 square miles of
area, from the Red River Eden of the North
to the crystal ripples of the Bell Fourche,
from the borders of the romantic Yellow
stone to the pasture land of Yankton and
Nermillion. On all the beauteous pendent
globe, no fairer. richer realm untolds itself
to tempt the angel down. No broader,
grander, golden grain fields ever gladdened
the heart and pocket of sun-browned hus-
with hundred-fold harvests. No
greener pastures ever feasted the frolicsome
mule-colt or fatted the festive gentleman
calf No mightier treasure-houses of royal
)re rear their heads heavenward in any land
)r zone. No bluer skies bend their sapphire
,rch above the far-famed, beggar hemmed
md iea-girt bay of Naples, or the Lake Of
Como on whose enchanted shores lay the
bogus ranch of Claude Melnotte, whom
[ohn Mccullough nightly murders on the
mimic stage.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
4 LULL ABN.

Sleep my child, the shadows fall;
Silent darkness reignS Ger all;
Bird and bloom are lost to sight
In the folded arms of night;
stars will soon from cloud towers peep,
While all nature lies asleep.
Breathe thou softly, Rest is sweet
For tired hearts and aching feet;
No dull care nor toll is thine
Nor sin, thou blessed child of mine;
Tranquil on thy soft couch rest,
With dreams of heaven III thy breast.
Buds are sleeping; close thine eyes;
Waken with a soft SURPRISE
Greet the morning with thy smile,
And sweet prattle without guile,
Scents lie sleeping in the flowers;
Slumber till the daylight hours.
Sleep, Thy Father guards thy rest;
Lay thy head upon His breast;
safer than these arms which hold thee,
His dear love will firm enfold thee;
Higher love than mine shall He
Give beloved one, to thee!
Sleep. The waves have long been sleeping
Angels DER thee watch are keeping;
Ger us both the pale stars shine
With a radiance half divine.
Slumbcr, innocent and light,
Fall from heaven on thee tonight.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
HONEYMOON HOTEL CLERKS.
A Proposition That Governor Sanford
has Under Consideration.
San Francisco Wasp.1

lSan Francisco Wasp.
Governor Sanford" interrogated Bixler il
breathless manner, I'VE must have honey
moon clerk"
A what 2"
4 honeymoon clerk down to the hotel
Monterey, you know. You see, there's brides
comm every day. Dead loads of brides,
lavender brides, NIilpitas brides, Siskiyou
brides, all kinds and colors and previous
conditions, and Schoenwald's no good"
-'Why?"
He don't understand brides; don't catch
on to their ;eelins' Some of 'em are scairt:
new thing, you know; want to 90 home
to their mothers; need man to soothe
EN- kinder; talk to 'em and make things
agreeable
The Governor looked thoughtful
There was case the other night. Oak
land bride. They found the groom out on
the veranda at two in the mornin' cussin'
and smashin' things. Bride had locked the
door Said she couldn't trust him. Had
Schoenwald and two bell boys arguing with
her tor two hours through the door, and then
wouldn't let him in.'
Well
Mother case San Pablo. Didn'tea any
dinner. Went to rooms at 7:30. Half-past
:, gas all over thehouse. Watchman shifted
door sills and located it at San Pueblo party;
woke 'em half suff;ocated; said they blew out
the gas; hadn't noticed anything strange;
sposed it was part Of the gettin married.
Now, if you had a good lively man that un-
derstood his business, a fellow that could talk
to 'em and make 'em better acquainted, warm
up the Astoria kind and keep em supplied
with ice cream--they don't eat anything but
ice cream-why, there would not be bridal
party on the whole coast that would not
take in the hotel, and mighty few from the
East"
DO you know Of such man.
Oh yes. | could get away most any
time
We'll" smiled the Governor III see how
the bride crop is and let you know. Salary
no objebt?'
'Oh no.
But the Governor has not yet made up his
decision.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03

Carl Schurz in Harvard College Address.
As to higher education, such as is or should
be afforded by our colleges and universities,
we cannot possibly have too large concep-
ton of its objects, considering the needs OF
democratic society. 1t goes without saying
that those objects are not exhausted by cram
ming students heads with the knowledge
required for the drudgery of some profession
or other calling and still less by giving
young snObs that veneering which may enable
them to masquerade as superior beings in
the circles of fashionable superficiality. The
same general principle applies to the college
as to the elementary school, only in larger
sense. The college can give its students
more, but after all only little share of the
general store of knowledge. But while Civ
ing them only little of the ore that is in the
mine, it can show them the cleaning veins
of precious treasure, and furnish them the
tools and teach them the use OF those tools
with which to work the lode. This will
quicken their ambition to keep those tools
effectively at work after the college days are
over. That is the way students are formed !:
genuine, thinking students, mean, who will
remain students all their days, whatever
profession or occupation they may embrace
whether they devote themselves in quiet
seclusion to the researches Of science for its
own sake" or whether they engage in the
bustling competitions and contests of life. 1t
is Of the highest importance in this respect
that young men leaving college should take
with them an intelligent and just apprecia-
tiOn not only of what they have learned, but
of what they have not learned. What
student can learn at college he should so
learn that it impress him with profound
sense of his ignorance. The more a man
knows well the more keenly he feels how
little he knows and how much more he ought
to know. Among the noblest and most fruit
ful moments of a mans life are those when a
deep and keen consciousness Of his own
ignorance most seriously disturbs him, Tor
those moments stimulate the healthiest thirst
for knowledge. Nothing is better calculated
to protect young men against the early bank
ruptcy which is apt to overtake those who
rush at once into practical life with the
little they have learned, thinking they have
learned enough, and trying to do large busi-
ness upon very small mental capital.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
Self.Winding Clock.

The self-winding clock invented by NJ
Dardennue has had fair trial at Brus-
sells, and is said to work successfully, keep
ing perfect time. The clock is wound by a,
small thermometer or windmill, which by
reversed train Of multiplying wheels, is con-
stantly drawing an endless chain over a
wheel. The clock weight is supported in one
loop of this chain, between the clock and
this winding machine. and consequently is
always pulling through the clock the slack
chain drawn up by the wind motor.
rachel wheel prevents the motor from turn
ing the wrong way; and when the weight is
wound up to the top it lifts lever which
applies friction brake to the thermometer,
thus checking the motion. When the weight
IS fully raised the clock has power enough to
raise twenty-four pounds.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
Preserving Butter.

The Country Gentleman says: IF well
made, butter will keep almost indefinitely
when packed in air-tight vessels and the top
of the butter kept constantly covered with
saturated brine. Mr.. c. G. Taylor, a well
known dairy correspondent of this paper,
packs butter in jars, covering the top with
strong brine, and setting the jars into boxes
which admit of fine salt being packed around
the jars on all sides. and covering the jars
with earthenware plates, and the whole with
fine salt The butter must in all cases be
thoroughly well made.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
Who Hooked Hooks BuIis
Sacramento Record-Union.l

VIM. Hook advertises that some hooker
hooked his bull He expresses the wish that
the bovine will hook the man who hooked
it. Late last evening Mr.. Hook locked and
securely bolted and hooked his gate. Dur
ing the evening some thief un-
locked the lock, with piece OF wire hooked
from Hooks fence, unlocked the gate and
hooked the bull As soon as Hook heard OF
the hooking OF his property he offered re-
ward for the hooker. Hook wants the
hooker hooked by Hook or crook and VIII
nav a reward to whoever hooks him.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
SUNDAY.

@ day most calm, most bright,
The fruit of this, the next worlds bud,
TIL Endorsement of supreme delight,
Writ by a friend, and with his blood;
The couch Of time, cares balm and bay,
The week were dark but for thy light;
Thy torch doth show the way.
Sundays the pillars are
On which heavens palace arched lies,
The other days will fill up the space
and hollow room with vanities;
They are the fruitful beds and borders
In Gods rich garden: that is bare
Which parts their ranks and orders.
The SUNDAYS of mems life,
Threaded together on life's strings
Make bracelets to adorn the wife
OF the eternal, glorious king.
On Sundays heavens gate stands ope
Blessings are plentiful and rife,
More plentiful than hope,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03

A Maine paper relates that maiden LADY
now residing in the town of Lyman, that
State, at the age of 90, was in her youth en-
gagged to be married to respectable young
man, and was making her wedding dress
Her father, entering the room, forbade the
marriage. She answered. "Weli, fatner,
then you must maintain me as long as L
hye.' She stuck her needle into the unnn-
iShed dress, arose and put it into the drawer,
and there it has remained until the present
nme-seventy-fve years. How long .he
iather survived such treatment Is not toid.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
Intrusive.

The Memphis appeal relates a humorous
incident of the food. A certain boat coming
up the Mississippi the other day lost her
way and bumped up against frame house.
She hadn't more than touched it before an
old darkey rammed his head up through a
hole in the roof where the chimney once
came out and yelled at the Captain:
War is yer gwine wild dat boat? Can't
you see muffin? Fust thing yer knows yer
gwine to turn dis house ober, spill de old
woman an' de chil'en out in de food an
drown 'em. Wat yer doin' out, here in de
country wild yer boat, anyhow? Go on back
yander froo de CON fields and get back into
de ribber where yer b'longs. Amt got no
business sewn miles out in de country fooIin
roun' peoples houses, nohow'
She backed out
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-08-03
.JILTED

HER VERSION.
Who is Ned?" Why, thought that you knew
We once were engaged for year.
Oh. but that was before knew you-
That was ages ago, my dear.
Over cordial Now, Hubby, for shame.
Such nonsense! Yes, that was his wife
nemure little thing-and so tame
Men do make such blunderS in life
Ned was such a good hearted fellow
Devoted ~ of course he was then.
Oh, YOU need not frown and turn yellow,
could have had dozen men.
one thing will say, however,
Hes unhappy, that can sec
Poor fellow. he probably never
quite conquered his passion for me.
Too poor - yes but proud a lord
When you came-Well, you know the rest
Dear, you said you would take me abroad:
Yes, of course, loved you the best
HIS VERSION.
Ned, who is that overdressed lady
You greeted so so warmly to-day?
What lS II you're keeping so shady
What Is she to yOu anyway?
That lady"-the wife of a banker
Thought her toilet remarkably fne)
BY the way, you ought to thank her,
She was once an old flame of mine.
offered my congratulations,
Nothing mOre-to tell you the truth
Our affar-mere infatuation,
In the days of my calow youth
. Was she fond of me-" Well she said SO;
Did lore hero' We spooned for year;
why didn't we nnrry1' Why you know
met Bou, and loved yOu, my dear
OF course, we all knew that he bought her
Youth and beauty exchanged for pelf.
What" IF you weren't rich man s dauShter:'
Ny dear' loved you for yourself'
THE TRUTH ABOUT 1T.
Twas the old, old story repeated;
Two young hearts that once beat as one;
Their twin aspirations defeated.
Two young lives forever undone,
Nou think so You're sadly mistaken,
They each had a-SOmetfing to sell.
Each tancies the other forsaken
And both, yes they both Married Well.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-23
street Pavelnents
The Houston Post thus compares the CO.
of different STYLES of street pavement

The Houston Post thus compares the cost
of different styles of street pavement:
Granite is the most imperishable, but then
it is the most expensive. Four dollars and
half per square yard is quite beyond the un-
dertaking of any but densely populated and
wealthy cities. Thus, the cost of laying down
granite pavement, say on street of 66 feet,
would amount to 500 to the 100 feet front,
or $40 for 50 feet. Asphalt would cost about
S2S4 for the 50 feet front, and wood about
$SI57 for the same. Granite would last for
ever; asphalt is next in degree of permanence,
and wood has nc recommendation save that of
economy. This is an age of cheap things,
and probably wooden pavements will be put
down in Houston, and all our cities, in fact;
but this will only entail the necessity on our
posterity Of taking up our make-shift road
ways and of replacing them by such solid and
permanent material that will outve the civili-
zation Of the people, as the Appian Way has
outived the Roman dynasties.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-23

George Cupples and Laura L. Cupples, by
deed, to Thomas Kearney, land lying on ST.
Mary's street having SO feet 10 inches in front
of St. Mary's or Rincon street; consideration
$3.50.
Jose Flores and Tuana Monies Flores, his
wife, by deed, to E. H. Terrell, lot from on
the west side of Alamo street; consideration
$4,000.
Gertrude Keller, one Of the heirs of Matthias
Becker, deceased, joined by her husband,
Seraphin Keller, by deed, to Mary Becker and
Catherine Keller, all her rights in lots lots No.
I,z,,, a, &. 7 and s, in block 5, on the
San Juan; consideration $3.50.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-23
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed proposals will be received at this
Office until Il m. 18TH inst, for the construc-
ton OF wagon bridge at the "Abatt Cross
ing" of the San Antonio river, IN accordance
with the plans and specifications of the city
engineer on file at his office. As much of the
material from the Main street bridge, recently
removed, as can be used will be furnished by
the city, at stipulated price, to he named in
the bid.
The right is reserved to reject any and all
bids. J. III. FRENCH,
3-23-4t Mayor.