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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
How to Have Company.
New York Evening Post.

New York Evening Post
1t is not so very hard to have little COM
pany to tea or to spend the evening II one
only knows how to plan her work and does
not attempt to crowd too much in one day.
If the cake is made the day before it Will be
fresh enough and if you are so unfortunate
as not to be entirely successful in making or
baking. you will have plenty OF time to rem
edy this trouble by trying again. If salad
is to be part of the supper, the chicken may
he prepared in the morning, and then late IN
the afternoon the dressing may be prepared
and the salad mixed When it is in the dish
and ready for the table, wet clean cloth IN
viniger and lay over the top. This VIII keep
il moist and it will not lose its flavor by
standing If you are to have sandwiches
they may be buttered early and damp
cloth laid over them. Have the dishes anc
silver ready and put in convenient place
where YOU can get them with no delay and
trouble in counting. Silver may be rubbed
and tablecloth and napkins laid aside day'
before Above all, after having done these
things do not worry; think over all the time
YOU have been to tea and you will hardly D.
able to recall single time when anything
went very badly. Avoid confusion; II any
one is to help you, be she servant or frleno
/ let her distinctly understand what her duty
is to be, so that you will not interfere witt
each other. A few experiments VIII con
vince YOU of the good sense OF these dlrec
tiOnS
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
Good Manners.

The essence of good manners is kind
of Others The man who goes
to his room in hotel stamping and talking
through the corridor, slamming his door, and
tlincing his boots down upon the floor is
brutally selfish. He is not aware
that he owes duties to other people who will
be affected by his conduct. He does not think
that he rudely awakens some one to whom
sleep is Indispensable, and whom he has no
right to disturb Haydon's picture of the
man in the chop-house waiting for the Times,
which his neighbor has held for an hour, and
is evidently bent on holding until he has
read all the advertisements, is an illustration
of this common selfshness. The talk and con-
duct in the cars are generally signs OF vanity
or morbid self-consciusness A well-bred
man keeps his toothaches and headaches to
himself. and does not assume that strangers
are interested in his digestion. A well-bred
woman keeps her children quiet, and does
not assume that all her fellow travellers must
share her fondness for them. If Mrs. p, with
vivid sense of Mr.. P.'s peculiarities and OF
her fine house and equipage, could only once
know how supremely unimportant any ludl-
yidual is. how well the world Jared before
Mr.. p. arrived, and how unshocked the uni
verse will be by his departure, she would be
a more modest and well-mannered woman
That knowledge, indeed would be general
corrective of manners. A certain kind ofper.
sonaI conceit often accompanies undeniable
superiority. There are men, like Lord Cha
than, who like to have their going and com
ing regarded as events, to move with pom
pous hustle, and to be constantly recognized
as great men, But if they could only know
it. that very taste is constantly accounted t
them for weakness, and their influence il
lust 50 far lessened. i
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
Romeo and Juliet in Mexico.

On our way home past the alameda; de-
serted at this hour, but lovely with It's
checkered pavement of light and shadow, and
glimpses of the shadowless sky OF noon De-
tween the dark columnar tree-boles, we come
unexpectedly upon characteristic bit OF
sentiment-a young girl leanning from pal
conv talking with a young man, whose place
was properly on one of the distant stone
benches, out of reach of all communication
except by the eyes. He was her nor'a be-
trothed), the senorita told me; but what a
scandal. They were actually talking to- to-
gether-he close beneath the balcony, win ~
his dark, pale profile uplifted; she with her
pretty arms crossed upon the iron raiiins
her face not six feet from his From the ex-
preston of the young girls lips and eyes
and the lowering black eyes of the youth, !,
struck me that they had reached, without
! the medium of many words an unpleasant
iuncture in their passionate pilgrimage.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
BREAk! BREAk BREAK !!

> jiJton i. Rogcrs-wrAt4i in Libby Pri."
WIZ :hy breaking never oc-.-e
o Time, on this heart of i!linc'
j. there never a haven of peace,
or gr> ,litc from thee and time"
Wash up The mirc and dirt
With Il yengeful, remorseless hand.
But remember that water j. purcl'
For tllcriHp through the sand
send up the tide Of the past
70 TIE shrine where memory dWe!i-,
And from the mirc and dirt
will gather the tinted shells.
know thou art old and strong,
That thine are the moth and rust:
Thou buildeSt the dust III flesh,
and breakest the flesh to dust.
| know thou wilt grapplc my bones
A. they lie in the silent grave,
But the soul belongs TO God.
And he has promised to save.
WHY need reck or care
For the lows or sorrows of earth"
Death turks at the root of the flower
And decay begins at birth.
In the cradle among the stars
God is rocking us all to sleep;
And if the parents of earth have care,
viii not lie His children keep"
'Tis we'll there's God in Heaven,
To Whom we are but chnd,
And to Whom thou must render the heart
Thou hast riven in hours beguiled.
Break Break! Break
And leave not a spot untried.
Thou canst not find the secret place
Where the golden memories hlde.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
The Human Foot.

professor OF anatomy. who has been de-
voting himself to the study OF the human
foot no connection with its covering, mas ar
rived at the following facts Every aouit
foot is more or less detormed. mat the al
most rectangular triangle in which tac toes
naturally lie is converted into an lsosceles-
ocntc-triangled triangle, and in this the toes
are expected to find room. He strongly op
noses the idea that the shoemaker succeeds
best in making q shoe for n foot already GRIP
led if lie makes it exactly to fit the loot: Inc
fresh theorists on the subject declares TINS IS
a GROSS fallacv, insisting that by so dong the
existing evils are rendered still greater Inc
exclamation is that foot with It's great Toe
living obliQuely is necessarily shorter than II
would he with the toe in its proper position
and if the shoemaker calculates the length
of the sole by that of the measured lengtn ol
tbe foot he makes the shoe too short. II Is
claimed that in such a shoe there Is no posi-
bility of the great toe ever attaining lis true
nosition. but that. on the contrary, 1t IS more
frmly liked in its false direction and wlth
the consequent evils being thus intenslhen
He advances the idea that corns, bunlons ano
cbilIhlains are not the natural inevitable her
;tape of the human family and insists ina
bv proper system of shoemaklng they
night be remeded altogether, system
which he bases upon comphcatlon Oh geo
metric lines and angles which would De
hopeless enigma to the average shoemaker
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
English and Foreign Song-Birds.

John Burroughs in the January Century,
The English birds are more domestic and
familiar than ours more directly and init
mately associated with man not, as a class,
so withdrawn and lost in the great void of
the wild and the unreclaimed. England is
like continent cOncentrated-all the waste
land, the barren stretches, the wilderness
left out The birds are brought near together
and near to man. Wood birds here are house
and garden birds there. They find good
pasturage and protection everywhere. A
land of parks, and gardens, and hedge-rows,
and game preserves, and climate free from
violent extremes-what stage for the birds,
and for enhancing the effect of their songs! :!
How prolific they are, how abundan., If our
songsteIs were hunted and trapped by bird
tanciers and others, as the lark, gold-fnch
and mavis, etc, are in England, the race
would soon become extinct. Then. as rule
it is probably true that the British BIRDS as
a class, have more voice thaf ou--s nave, Ut
certain qualities that make their songs I'ole
striking and conspicuous such as greater VI
vacity and strength. They are less bright IN
plumage. but more animated In voice. Ihey
are not so recently ont of the woods and
their strains have not that eluslveness and
plaintiveness that ours have. They sing
with more confidence and copiOusness, and
as if they, too, had been touched by civlliza-
ton.
Then they sing more hours in the day,
and more days in the year. This IS owing to
the milder and more equable climate. |
heard the sky y-larks singing above the South
Downs in October, apparently with full
sprinp feryor and delight. The wren, the
robin. and the wood lark sing throughout
the winter. and in midsummer there are per-
haps three times as many vocal throats as
here. The heat and blaze OF our midsummer
sun silence most of our birds 7" .
On the other hand, there are certain
aspects in which our songsters appear to ad-
vantage. That surpass the European species
in sweetness, tenderness, and melody have
no doubt. and that our mocking-bird in his
native haunts in the south, surpasses any
bird in the world in compass, variety, and
execution is highly probable. That the total
effect of his strain may be less winning and
persuasive than the nocturne OF the nlght1n-
gale. is the only question in my mind about
the relative merits of the two songsters
Bring our birds together as they are brought
together in England, all our shy wood-birds
like the hermit thrush, the veery, the win
ter wren, the wood wagtail, the water wag
tail. the many warblers, the solitary vlreo
etc. become birds of the groves and or
chards and there would be a burst OF sons
indeed.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
The Robin at His Best.

Tn A paper on "English and American
Song Birds,' in the Century for January, Mr..
John Burroughs says in the robins behalf:
"When the Duke of Argyll, who is lover
of the birds and good ornithologist, was IN
this country, he got the impression that our
song birds were inferior to the British, ana
he refers to others of his countrymen as OF
like opinion. No wonder he thought our
robin inferior in power to the mlssal thrust,
ir variety to the maryls, and IN melody 10
the blackbird. Robin did not and could not
sing to his ears the song he sings to our.
Then it is very likely true that his Grace dlo
not hear the robin in the most opportune
moment and season, or when the contrast OF
his song with the general silence and desc
lation of nature is the most striking and I'M
pressiye The nightingale needs to be hearo
at night. the lark at dawn, rising to meet the
sun: and robin, if you would know the
magic of his voice. should be heard in early
snrino. when, as the sun is setting, he carols
steadily for ten or fifteen minutes, from the
ton of some near tree There is perhaps no
other sound in nature patches OF sno"
linoer here and there; the trees are naked
and the earth is cold and dead, and this con-
! tented. hopeful re-assuring and withal musl-
cal strain. poured out so freely and dellDer.
ately. fills the void with the very breath and
presence of the spring. 1t is simple strain
well suited to the early season; there are nc
intricacies in it, but its honest cheer ana al
rectness, with it's slight plaintive tlnge, IKE
that of the sun gliding the tree-tops, g
straight to the heart. The compass ant
variety of the robins powers are not to pe
despised either. A German who has grea,
skill in the musical education OF blrds tolt
me what | was surprised to hear, namely
that our robin surpasses the European black
bird in CAPABILITIES of voice"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
Why Men Cling to Their Wives.

"Why," asks lie Charivari, do men cling
tn their wives 2" For various reasons.
Through habit, as one likes the cosy arm
chair he is always certain to find in one
place on coming home. Through economy
YOU could not hire servant who would 4
cost you twice as much, and serve you ony
half as well. Through love OF peace: sep
aration would cause so much scandal, and
create so much trouble. Through imitation
everybody else sticks to his wife, so one must
do like the balance. Through decorum ::
it makes man respectable through
philosophy: all women resemble each other.
Through petty vanity: because everybody
saws. "Oh. what splendid woman" Through
remorse of conscience: "Poor little woman,
it is not her fault that am tied to her And
finally, strange to say, a man sometimes.
early in welded lite-clings to his wife
through love!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
COMPARATIVE.

Sam Woodwork wrote aboht a well,
Boz wrote about Weller
How ne'er so well the seamstress fell
She often loves her feller
The prison-house contains CELL
The mansion-house a cellar.
When shaken fruit descends pell-mell.
The first to fall is meller
The painters child sets up yell
When she upset his yeller.
Who tolled the bell for lovely Nell?
'Tis evident--thc kneller.
Whose tricks were Hades-like" And well
They might be. He was Heller.
Who could the wealth of bankers tell,
Unless it were the teller?
Amanda Geraldine's "A belle;
Her sister Isabella,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19

Frank Carpenter Relates an Interesting
Incident in LincOln's Life.

A touching instance of his kindness OF
heart was told to me incidentally by one OF
the servants. A poor woman from Phlil.
delphia had been waiting with baby in her
arms for three days to see the President. Her
husband had furnished q substitute for the
army. but sometime afterwards became in
toxicated while with some companions and
in this state was induced to enlist. Soon
after he deserted the army, thinking that as
he had provided a substitute, the govern
ment was not entitled to his services. Re-
turning home, he was, of course, arrested,
tried. convicted and sentenced to be shot.
The sentence was to be executed on Saturday.
On Monday his wife left her home with her
hsbv to endeavor to see the President. Said
6{d Daniel ''she had been waiting here three
days and there was no chance tor her to get
n Late in the afternoon OF the third day
the President was going through the back
passage to his private rooms to get cup OF
tea and take some rest. This passage way
has since been reconstructed and shuts the
person passing entirely out OF view OF the
occupants of the ante rOOm.) On his way
through he heard the baby cry. He instantly
went back to his Office and rang the bell
Daniel, said he. there is a woman with q
baby in the ante-room. said there was and
if he would allow me to say it, | thought
it was case he ought to see for it was a
matter of life and death. Said he, Send her
to me at once She went in, told her story,
and the President pardoned her husband
As the woman came out from his presence
her eyes were lifted and her lips moving in
prayer. the tears rolling down her cheeks :
Said Daniel, Il went up to her, and pulling
her shawl, said Madam, it was the baby
that done it,"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
Continuous Sleeping Together Injuri'
Gus to Health.
Laws of Health

More quarrels arise between brothers, be-
tween sisters, between hired girls, between
school girls, between clerks in stores, BE-
tween husbands and wives, owing to electrl-
cal changes through their systems by ledg-
ing together night after night under the
same bed clothes, than by any other disturb
ing causes. There is nothing that will SC
derange the nervous system of person who
is elminative in nervous force as to lie all
night in bed with another person who is ab:
sorbant in nervous force. The absorber viii
60 to sleep and rest all night, while the elm
inator will be tumbling and tossing, restless
and nervous. and wake up in the morning
fretful, peevish, fault-fnding and discour
aged. No two persons, no matter who they
are, should habitually sleep together: One
will thrive, the other will loose. This Is
law.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
A Medical Opinion.
IWonlan's Journal

A noted physician states: five repre-
sent state of perfect soundness by 100, the
health of few ladies will be found to rise
above 80 or so, that of the majority will be
* and a large contingent not over 90 or CO.
The same authority states that men have
average good health, their days of sickness
not reaching one in hundred. They can
do their appointed work i'm the world fairly
and women should do the same.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
Prescribing for Child by Telephone

few evenings ago physician at North
Adams Mass, was called by telephone about @
| o'clock at night The call came iton
Brigcsville, about two miles away. A chiio
there was suffering with the Group and IN a
critical condition. The night was dark ana
stormy, and the doctor found nothing pleas
ant in the contemplation OF the trip which
he was asked to make. When preparing TO
20 out into the darkness and ram his miho
conceived a bright thought, which was I'M
mediately followed by acts. He called the
Briggsville house in which the little sufferer
Law. and requested the parents to bring 1t to
the telephone transmitter This was done ION
The child coughed its croupy cough, and the
doctor listened intently to every sound
which came from his patient He prescribed
a remedy, and one of the members of the
family prepared and administered it. The
doctor waited at the telephone until h'
heard of the favorable results of his pre-
scrintion. and then sought again the repos'
of his couch pronouncing blessings on th'
inventor of telephones. '.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
TuELoCOMOTIyE OF lssl-ls9I.

1881
Axles groaning, pistons kissing,
Tearing, wearing, bolts all missing,
Rushing hideous through night air.
Always wanting some repair,
Boisterous, clustering, screaming, sooty'
That's the way he does his duty.
Is9t.
silent, voiccless, quickly speeding,
Coal or water never needing,
As he ushes through the dark,
Showing but "a single Spark; If
Like giow-w orm or FREELY,
OR star twinkling in the sky,
Soundless all his work will be,
Moved by electricity!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-19
A CUTE CELESTIAL.
Sharp Trick of a Nevada Chinamal

Recently in Eureka, where Cinnamon play
at faro good deal, Il mild hammered heathen
slid into faro game, and after losing few
dollars pulled ont little package of gold
dust and laid it on the ace. The ace lost
and the dealer, picking up the package, un-
folded it and weighed out the dust which
was $50 dollars worth. He was about to
cast aside the paper when the Celestial
motioned to it and asked that it might be
given back as it had some washing accounts
on it. The paper was returned and the next
night he was there again betting $50 III gold
dust as before He put his package carefully
on the ace and won. The dealer handed out
$50 and the Cinnamon shook his head.
whats the matter, John:'
You payee alice bet. One bundled fiji
ty dollar
The dealer laughed contemporary, but the
heathen, unrolling the package, showed a
hundred dollar bill laid in between the doub-
le piece of paper which contained the dust.
The dealer looked very cheap, but the
Chinaman never moved a mussle. He acted
as if it was the regular thing to keep a hun
doed dollar greenbaclS folded up in his gold
dust packages
Pay it, said the lookout man, He's got
. us utdu
The same bill was in the paper the night
before, but the dealer had handed it back
thinking it was a wash bill. But of course
this wasn't the Chnamans fault
Garfield,s Reply to Evil FOrebOdings,
! From paper by Col. Rockwell, in the
January Century:
! 1t was during this time that an incident
occurred that recall with no ordinary in
terest, preluding, as it did, the great tragedy
soon to be enacted A prominent citizen Of
! Cleveland had been so greatly impressed
with the circumstantial details of an organi
zed plan for the assassination of President
Garfield that he had driven out to Mentor
by night, to acquaint him with tfle facts. AS
the result of the interview, it was arranged
that the man who made known the existence
Of the alleged plot should visit the General
the next day that he might examine and
cross-question him. Pending his arrival
General Swain and myself were made ac-
quainted with the case, and were advised to
watch the manner and bearing of the man
| with view to the detection Of indications
of insanity. In the course OF the conyersa
ton, the probability of the story and the
necessity of action were discussed. Finally
after musing awhile, Garfield said, some
what sadly and impressively: We'll, if assas
sination is to play its part in the campaign
| and must be the sacrifice, perhaps it is best
1 think / am ready" The examination o.
the following day disclosed enough ofmenta
wrongess in the informer to satisfy us that
! the plot was an hallucination, and the sub
| ject was dropped. '"'.. '-
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-04

The bulletin recently issued by the
Census Bureau IN relation to the native
and foreign-bOrn population of the
several States contains some very inter
esting information. The foreign born
residents of California are a little more
than one-third of the population. aud the
number OF those born in China is 20, 54S;
in Ireland, nearly $4,000; in Germany.
p 900, and in England, $4,000. In
blaine the foreign-bOrn are One-eleventh
Of the total population, and three-ffths
of them came from Canada. In Florida
only one-twenty-seventh Of the pOpula-
lion was born in foreign countries, half
Of those coming from Cuba or the
West Indies. The number of residents
who were born in Europe is about 5000,
out of a total of about 10000 foreign
born. In Georgia there is only one for
sign born resident to l146 natives, and
.our-hfths of the 10, 564 foreigners came
rom Ireland, Germany or England.
The foreign born in Indiana are about
one fourteenth of the whole population,
md fve-ninths Of the foreigners were
)orn in Germany. The proportion of
.oreign born to natives in Kentucky is
lne to twenty-eight, fOur-ffths Of the
oreigners having been born in Germany
,r Ireland. One-seventeenth Of the resi-
Tents Of Louisiana were bern in foreign
Countries. and four-hfths of the foreign
rs came from Germany, Ireland and
france. In Maryland. one-eleventh of
he residents are foreign born, and four
lflhs Of these came from Germany and
Ireland
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-04


Journals of the high protective school
are worried not little at the suggestion
that as a matter of equity tariff should
be put upon foreign immigration, in
order that the American workingmen
be protected from 'the pauper labor of
Europe" 1t is point they cannot well
get over, or under, or across. The BOs-
ton Commercial Bulletin endeavors to
wriggle out of it by simply observing
that this method of protection is con-
trary to the spirit of our institutions. "
Whereupon the New York Commercial
Bulletin says: "Just sol 1t is in per-
feet harmony with the spirit of our in
situations to tax the laborer and artisan
for pretty much everything they con-
sumo, all the way from 20 to 100 per
cent in order to protect vari-
Gus home monopolies; but don't
you see, when the laborer
and the artisan ask a like measure of
protection for the only thing that they
have to sell in the home market, their
labor, it is against the spirit of our in
stitutions.' These writers forget that
the spirit of orr institutions is the spirit
of liberty, and that class legislation and
exclusive privileges are no part of that
spirit The theory of the Constitu-
ton is that all men are equal before the
law. but the protective idea flies right in
the face of that theory, aud by creating
a favored monOpOlist class, it ends by
easy stages to transform our Republican
system into an oligarchy."