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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
Profits of Railroad Building.
Salt Lake Tribune.

The stock holders of the Texas Western
Narrow Gauge Railroad have resolved to
boud the road at $12 900 per mile from Hous-
ton to Presidio del Norte, distance of 900
miles, the bonds to bear per cent. interest,
to be issued on the completion of every ten
miles This road will run over a compara-
lively level and open country, and fully
completed and equipped ought not to cost to
exceed Sc, 5000 per mile If the bonds can be
sold at par, the owners will not only own the
road when completed, but have some 81 ,OOO,- :
600 or more for their reward in superintend-
ing the building More than that, after the
first 200 miles of the road are completed, the
traffic will pay for the construction OF the
rest about as fast as it can be carried on. The
iron for rails costs S36 per ton, fish plates,
spikes, etc, from $50 to 500 per ton, so that
the whole expense for road bed, rails, ties,
ETC., will not cost to exceed $500 per mile.
The rolling stock will cost perhaps $4,000
per mile There is no other expense except
for grading, bridges, depots and right of way,
which through Texas will not amount to
more than than $4,000 per mile. The road
will run through a great agricultural cOun-
try for hundreds of miles. When we think
of what the u. P. and c. p roads are draw
ing from the people for their local trade
alone we can form an idea of what this little
road ought to do With the road fully COM
pleted it will have to pay net only about
$732, 600 per annum to meet its interest ac-
count, or about one-twelfth the amount per
mile which these big bruisers that run
through the desert are able to lay up.
Building and operating railroads is a cheer
ful business
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
ROMANTIC.
A Pretty Story About a Bold Hunter Of
the Sangre de Christie.
Denver News.

Denver News.
Among those who drifted hither in $50,
during the Pixies Peak excitement, and who
have remained as hunters or prospectors, is
Moccasin Bill, still living in his cabin in the
Sangre de Crsto Mountains. At the age of
so wears. this man is as straight and active
as st 20, and when he mingles with the other
men-a rare occurrence-he towers above
them tike giant among lilliputians. His
long hair falls over his shoulders and de-
scends nearly to his waist in natural curls,
now slightly tinged with gray, while beard
that has known no razor for nearly thirty
sweeps his breast. Many years ago he estab-
lished a hunting camp III the GunnisOn cOun-
try. Having excavated a hole in the side of
q hill, he was prepared to pass the winter
and brave the perils of that season of the
year He had located series of traps, and
daily he plodded through the snow to secure
any animals that might have been captured,
and to replenish his larder by bringing down
such game as might be obtainable. AS the
winter advanced the snow became deeper
and spread over the mountains and valleys
to the depth of many feet
While making his daily round one day,
and while staggering along with bundle OF
furs on his back, and his rifle on his shoulder,
he heard cry, faint and weak, yet still
call for help. With true frontier courage he
responded to the appeal, and ere long found
half buried in the snow and nearly perished
an Indian. With infinite difficulty he con-
veyed the savage to his cabin, and there
nourished him back to strength. This In
dian had secreted himself upon the trail of
the hunter with the avowed purpose of kill
ing him, but had succumbed to the cold, and
was rescued by the man he had sought to
slay.
Before leaving his benefactor he unbosom
ed himself, and while relating his story
pleaded for pardon. His benefactor knew
full well the object the one he had rescued
had in view, but had nobly saved him from
a horrible fate. The savage and would-be
murderer departed from the cabin of his
benefactor with changed heart, and re-
turned to his tribe, where he related his ad-
venture. From that day the hunter was
honored by the Indians, and many days were
spent in their wigwams by the one whom
they sought to destroy. His traps were
never molested, and when he left for the set
Elements he carried with him the love of his
savage neighbors.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
4 SPRING MADRIGAL.
III. H., in The Century for April.

H.
The tree tops arc writing all over the sky,
An hegh no!
There's bird now and then fitting faster by,
An hegh no!
The buds are rounder and some red
On the places where last years leaves were dead
An q hcigh ho an heiSh.
There's change in every bush in the hedge;
An a heigh no!
The down has all gone from the last years sedge
An heiGh no!
The nests have blown out of the apple-trees;
The birds that coming can build where they
please;
An "a heig gh no, an heigh.
The aged man goes with iirmer gait;
An heigh no!
The young man is counting his hours to wait;
An q hegh no.
Mothers are spinning and daughters are gay,
And the sun hurries up with his heightened day;
An hegh ho, an heigh!
The signs may be counted till days are done:
An heigh ho!
And watchers can listen while waters run;
An hcigh no!
old men in sunshine may skip and tarry,
Young men and maidens can joy and marry.
An heigh no, an a heigh!
But there's something uncounted, unseen, tha
comes,
An hcgh ho.
Ifyou leave it out you can't prove your sums;
An hegh no.
And this is the way to say il. or sing;
'Oh, Spring is the loveiest thing in SPRING.
An a heigh no, an heigh!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
Clever Man.

''Oh, mammal exclaimed little girl,
running into the house, "while we girls were
skipping out on the pavement real nice
man came up and gave us some candy and
told us to keep right ON as hard as ever we
could, and he said that if any of us would
skip 740 times he would give her parents
nice, pretty rosewood box, all lined with
satin, with glass cover and silver handles,
and the little girls name on silver plate
So I'm going to try and get it for you, mann
ma; and he said when any little girl had
skipped 74O times for her papa to call around
to his Office and let him know. Goodbye,
mamma" mercy on me, child, come back
The undertaken has gone to the country"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
Helena, Montana, Thursday, April 6, 1882.
FAIR OAkES.
The Death that met Fifteen Hundre,

w. NJ. Runkle in Philadelphia Times
We were driven back at Seven Pines the
first day, but on the second we gave them a
little 'Hail Columbia" and drove them back
in return about half a mile from where OuI
outside line was established on the first day
1t was q most terrible fight. had never
seen anything like it, and as / have never
seen an account OF a rebel charge made that
day, will undertake briefly to describe it
On q wooden eminence short distance be-
low where our first line had been established
two or three batteries of artillery were sta
toned by Heintzelmen. One section of two
pieces was drawn out from the wood and
placed in the clear cornfield beyond. 1t was
rather a dangerous position for a battery to
be in without support. The section had
scarcely unlimbered when from the woods in
their front there debouched four lines of
Confederates (Cheathams brigade), who in
regimental front and four lines deep, came
pouring down upon the devoted section.
Fire with canister ~ commanded the weak
little voice Of the young lieutenant who
commanded the section, and the Conteder-
ates seemed to laugh at the two little six
Founders opposing them. Double shot with
cannisterr' said the commander of the
masked guns in the woods, and still the
enemy came Oh and on, as if on parade. Not
a musket was used, and the section kept
booming away with terrible rapidity. l had
thought the lieutenant and his section would
turn tail to the foe, but he did not, but stood
there and worked his guns with the GOODNESS
of brave man. All at once with yell,
the enemy started on double quick, and in
q moment more the section was captured and
the lieutenant was a mangled corpse. Now
came the most terrible carnage l had ever
seen. The capture of the section had evil
IDENTIFY greatly encouraged the foe, and his
lines swept on and up the hill within about
100 yards of the Union cannon. 1t was q
magnificent sight The lines had not broken
yet, but kept on forward as if marching for
review 'Firew rang out from the woods,
and at least dozen cannon belched forth
their storm of death | can see it even now.
Men in all the agOnies of death piled like
fence rails one upon another, with their more
fortunate comrades climbing over their man
gled bodies to reach the guns. The magnifi-
cent lines of moment before wavered then
stood still, and then faded away like snow
beneath a summers sun. The charge was
ended, and but few, if any, lived to return.
The field where the enemy had advanced
was perfect slaughter pen, indeed. The
dead and wounded lay in all directions, and
not one of the men who had advanced got
back again. Ii was a gallant charge, and to
thc noble and brave lieutenant who COM
manded the section alone in the field, and
who gave up his life to duty, was the credit
of winning the battle due. The enemy lost
about 800 men in killed, wounded and
prisoners. Our loss was eight men killed
and sixteen wounded
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
Origin of Names.
TWa:la Walla Statesman. |

'The trading post of the Hudson Bay
Company, located on the Columbia river, a
short distance above Kettle Falls, was named
after Mr. Colville an officer of said company.
the photography of the post was written
Fort Colville. During MANY years Archl-
bald Mcdonald had charge of said post. He
was familiar with the early doings of the
Hudson Bay Company in the Columbia river
country From full knowledge, he made a
statement to me relating to the first trading
post built by the Hudson Bay Company
west of the Rocky Mountains in 1911, at the
junction of the two Spokane rivers"
By word of mouth, in this fort Mcdonald
said to me that their early traders observed
that the Indians designated CGur d'Alene
were sharp in trading. To one another it
was said Be careful or those Indians i'll
trade will pierce you, thus implying they
had a disposition to cheat, to prick, had
heart like an awl. That, said my informant,
was the origin of the word CGur d'Alene.
The Indians residing near the Pen d'Oreille
wore large ear drops of bone, hence by the
traders, who used French language, they
were Pendant d'Oreille or by contraction
Pen d. Oreille
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06

A gentleman of Cincinnati who had be-
come very wealthy through his commercial
business, thus speaks his views on advertis-
ing II have cast my minds eye hurriedly
back over my experience in Cincinnati, and
am fully convinced that in fifteen years,
with the advertising l have done, | have
pushed my business to a standing that it
would have taken thirty years to reach with
out advertising. In truth, it is doubtful if /
could at all attain the results have with
out the aid of newspapers Certainly the
newspapers are the cheapest medium for
making your trade known to the greatest
number of people. Printed circulars may
possibly reach thousad persons whose
names you know-y0ur old customers. Your
announcement in a leading journal will reach
q hundred thousand whom you never heard
Of New dealers coming into the field will
see your name and business, and know where
to find you. Your standing advertisement
is standing notification to buyers that. you
are alive and there. 1t is perpetual letter
of introduction. Exchange.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
DAILY HERALD:


Mary Mapcs Dodge: St. Nicholas for Apr
The girl that is born OH an April day
Has IA right to be merry, lightsome, gay;
And that is the reason | dance and play
And friSk like q mote in sunny ray
Wouldn't you
DO it, too,
If you had been born on an April day"
The girl that is born on an April day
Has also right to cry, they say;
And So / sometimes do give way
When things get crooked or all astray,--
Wouldn't you
DO it, too,
IL YOU had been born on an April day"
The girls of March love noise and fray;
And sweet as blossoms are girls of May:
But | belong to the time midway
And SO / rejoice i'll a sunny spray
OF smiles and tears and hap-a-day,-
Wouldn't you
Do it, too,
If YOU had been born on an April day"
Heigho! and hurrah! for an April day,
Its cloud, it's sparkle, its skip and stay
/ mean 10 be happy whenever l may.
And cry when must for that's my way.
Wouldn't you
Do it, too,
If YOU had been born on an April day:
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
AST'RAY.
ny THEODORE TILTON.

| travelled forbidden road
Which first appeared SO fiowery fair
That onward eagerly strobe
Till-to my horror and despair
All buds and blossoms blooming there,
All tender boughs and twigs of green
stood changed to burrs and nettles keen.
Whose angry points my garments tore.
And pricked my hands till they were sore.
Bewildcred at the wondrous change,
That should have warned me from the place
kept my course with swifter pace,
And saw a marvel still more strange;
For cruel fiints sprang through the ground
To meet my feet at every bound,
With cash on cash they made them bleed.
Then time it was that | should heed.
Just at the moment of my need
A shining man stood at my side
Whose luster fell on all around,
And spread a glory far and wide:
And who art thou: ?" trembling cried
Give ear he said, ito what say;
| am the guide of all that stray,
To point them back to virtues path,
The guardian of thy erring way;
And step by stcp-in love, not wrath
These angry flints and briars strew,
TO warn thy feet from wandering so.
knelt and kissed his garments hem,
And cried "Oh, angel sent from heaven
Make sharper yet each thorny stem
Increase the fiints to seven times seven.
| will endure and not complain
lie fed. and with deep remorsc
Turned back from my forbidden course
But, OH how many weary hOurs
| Travelled ere those blighted bowers
Rebloomed with all their former fowerS.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
4 House Mistress.

Most young wives desire to have q home
of their own, and, though the mother is 10th
to lose her darling, she cannot deny her the
privilege of following her mate, as the moth
er did before her. Indeed, it is considered
an undesirable thing by most mothers to
have a house full of "old maids But it is
fact, in spite of this feeling, that many
mothers do not prepare their daughters for
happy marriages. They neglect to teach
them the commOnest duties of a hOusekeep-
er, under mistaken idea which they hold,
Of love and tenderness, that they do not
want their daughters to have so hard a life
as they have. But if they are not properly
educated their life will be even harder. Be-
side having a knowledge of cookery, the
young woman needs to know how to fashion
and make garments for ordinary wear, for
we rarely find an average family in our
country communities that is able to hire all
the necessary cutting, fitting and sewing,
without seriously clipping its resources for
other needs. One need not, in order to be
thrifty and economical always be her own
dressmaker or her good mans tailor; for
there is often real economy in getting these
heavy jobs off ones hands, thus leaving the
wife reader and stronger for the many du-
ties constantly arising, which no one else
can do so well. But the plain sewing can be
most neatly and savingly done at home, un-
der the careful, instructive eye of the house
mother" even though she can afford to hire
assistance
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
DRAWING.ROOM MALARIA.
How the Disease is Produced and How
it May be Prevented.
London Globe.

London Globe.
We live in an age in which health seems
to be assailed by more subtle enemies than
our ancestors had to fear, and thus to need
more and more cunning disciples of Hscu-
lapius to keep pace with the growing num-
bers of our foes. Medical science has done
much to protect us, and cleanliness still
more. We no longer have much cause to
fear the "black deaths" and sweating sick
neSses' which decimated whole towns or
provinces in the middle ages, but then, on
the other hand, we have surrounded our
selves with dangers unknown in less civil
lized community. One of these is an insidi-
Gus disease lately made known to physicians
and best described as drawing-room malaria.
The atmosphere of hot room in which
many living plants are kept has quite re-
Gently been found to be impregnated with a
moist vapor arising from the earth in which
these plants are rooted. The soil from which
these plants derive their sustenance is gen.
orally rich in organic matter, which is drawn
out by the heat and difftlses itself into the
close air imprisoned in the apartment. That
sort of low fever might be generated in
this way is theory which was enunciated
in 1870 by the learned Professors Klebs and
Crudeli, but it is only more lately that their
view has been confirmed by positive expert
ence.
The required proof has come from that
part of the world which might be expected
to furnish it, that is to say, from Russia,
where the sitting-rooms in winter are kept
habitually at very high temperature with
little ventilation. Professor Won Eichwald
was consulted as to the health Of lady,
who, though living in healthy spot, exhibit
ted all the symptoms observable in those
who inhabit marshy places The usual RENE
dies, consisting chiefly of quinine, were ap-
piled with success but as often as the lady,
after recovering from all attack, yentured in
to her drawing-room the same symptoms
persstently reappeared 1t was then that
the doctor, remembering the new theory,
ordered the removal of the numerous ferns
and plants which filled the drawing room,
and the complaint which had been so obsti-
nate was found to disappear at once 1t is
possible that good many headaches and in
dispositions in London might be traced to a
similar cause, operating with more or less
violence in proportion to the number of
the flowers or plants kept and the heat of
the room in which they grow.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
SISSY'S WALK.

The wind it is roaring,
The rain it is pouring,
And Sissy and have been out for a walk;
But isn't it lucky,
We both plucky,
ann her big brother
(She hasn't another,)
And she's all the sister that ever had,
No girl could be nearer,
Or sweeter or dearer;
She's my little lassie I'm her little lad.
IL was in December
I'VE both can remember)
drew her about DER the snow on my SLED
But all fun won't be going,
For though it's not showing,
There's rain TO be kept from my wee Sissy's hand
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
Had Him There.

ILabouchere in London Times.
A young friend of mine was dining with
his father few nights ago.
George" said the fond parent when they
next met, "you took my overcoat instead of
your own, and | regret to say found the
pockets of your coat full of cirgarettes and
matches"
Il discovered my mistake, father" replied
the son, directly got outside, for l found
the pockets of the coat | had ON contained
chocolate creams and three pairs of ladies'
gloves"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
Important Information Under Difficult
ties


ties.
Detroit Free Press.I
1t was on street car coming up from the
Union depot yesterday. A man with very
hoarse voice looked across the aisle at a man
with country satchel between his feet and
said:
"Wintry day, isn't it 2"
"Hey? 2" called the other, as he put his hand
to his ear.
Seems like winter, doesn't it?' shouted
the man with hoarse voice.
"Hey? hey ?" asked the deaf man.
''He says" began man who was standing
UP, she says it seems like winter"
At this moment the hoarse voiced man
rose up and slid out of the car. As he did
so the deaf man rose up, laid two parcels ON
the seat, and called out:
Speak louder; Pm deaf?"
"He says it seems like winter" bawled
out the man standing up.
who says SOP"
He turned around to the hOarse voiced
man, but that person had skipped
"Who says SOP" demanded the deaf man.
"I-I-why, say So"
''Well, what of ii? Haven't sense enough
to know that it is winter weather? Don't
try any of your guys on me or I'll knock the
top of your head Off! -
Then the deaf man sat down and the
"middleman" sneaked out and dropped Oft
the car, and said he would spend the rest of
his life looking for the hOarse man.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
"HEHIND HER FAM

Behind her fam of downy fluff,
Sewed on soft saffron satin stuff,
With peacock feathers purple eyed,
Caught daintily on either side,
The gay coquette displays puff
Two blue eyes peep above the bun;
Two pinky, pouting lips-enough!
That cough means surely come and hide
Behind her fan.
The barque of Hope is trim and tough,
SO out venture on the rough,
Uncertain sea of girlish pride.
A breeze! / tack against the tide t
Capture kiss and catch cuff rt
Behind her fan.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
She Preferred a Carriage.
IN. Y. Herald.

IN. Y. Herald.)
Jaw, my DEAR" said young man of ;ees-
thetic mien and close fitting garments to a
pretty young lady who leaned conddingly on
his arm, as she stepped from train at the
Grand Central Depot last evening, isn't this
nice ?" pointing to the Fourth avenue cars
standing inside the depot, ito have the caws
run in undah the she'd" Do you mind that
in Hawtford we had to 60 out into the mud
dy road to get on the caws ?'
"Oh, yes" was the response, lit is very nice
to have the cars come in here, but do you
know my DEAR" she said, giving his arm an
extra squeeze, that like to ride in carri-
age much better than in those horrid cars?
am always afraid of catching some horrid
disease" -.-e--
Jaw, my DEAR, he said, hesitating, 4 Won
der where we can get carrirge heah q
"Cab?0 "Cab?" "Carriage?" "Cab? ?'
Coupe % ''Carriage?" ''Cab?" Cab %
want cab ?p "Cab?" "Cab ?" Carriage ?"
was the next sound that greeted their ears.
"Right out here, my DEAR" the young lady
said, half pulling the incredulous young man
toward the front of the depot.
The young couple went off in cab, the
young lady beaming with smiles.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
Married Seventy-two Years.
[News.l

John Barnhardt Scheiay and his wife, Mary
Barbara Scheify, the oldest couple in Mont
gomery county, are still in the enjoyment
of health, at their home, at Limerick Square,
Pa. They were born in Wurtemberg Ger
many, the husband on February 21, 1871 and
the wife on November 6, 1871. They have
been married about seyenty-two years, and
they came to this country in 1911.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-04-06
SNOW.

Scientifically Water solidifed in stel-
late crystals, variOusly modified and floating
in the atmosphere.
Esthetically: Beautiful. Covering the
earth with infinite purity, filling the air
with utterly consummate beauty.
Practically: A heavy, damp, cold mass
reposing in tantalizing drifts upon sidewalks,
in the deep cuts of railroads, and piled up
in front of barn doors. A delayer Of travel
and traffic aud complete developer of the
shoveling muscles.
Socially: Formed and spread about for
the express purpose of taking your best girl
on sleigh ride, when the jingle of the bells
adds apicquancy to the charming conversation
appropriate to such delightful occasion.
Scientifically, an interesting study; esthet-
ically, feast for the eyes, when properly shad-
ed with smoked glasses; practically, dead
weight upon business; socially, the enlivener
of Winter society.