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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
The Summit of The Earth.
Popular Science Monthly.

Adolphus Scha1ginweit, the immortal
though Tunpronounceable explorer of Central
Asia, calls the highlands of Pamir ''die Welt
Zinne-the roof of the world. On the road
from Punjaub to Yarkand four passes have
to be crossed that are higher than 1880 feet
and for a distance of 2sO miles the halting
ground is not below the height OF Pike s
Peak. On the eastern plateau of the Beloor-
dah there is shelter house near cliff from
whose summit the main chain Of the Hima-
layas with all its giant peaks and immeasure-
able ice fields is in full view from the high
lands of Lassa to the sources of the Indus,
while in the west the headwaters of the Ok
us and Jaxartes can be traced to the borders
of Cabool, where the peaks of the Hindoo-
Koosh lift their crests Of everlasting snow.
In spring the echo of the avalanches resem-
bles the boom of continuous thunder, and in
midwinter when the stormwind sweeps the
table land, whirling pillars of snow .scud
along the ridges, and often seem to dance to-
gether like spectres in their fluttering wind
ing sheets Our "land of the sky in the
Southern Alleghanies must be mere piazza
compared with that top roof of the earth.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
Gen. TOrbet's Way.

Torbet, of cavalry fame, who was lost
at sea with the ill-fated Vera Cruz, was a
good fighter and hard worker. While hav-
ing kindly heart for the trooper who was
always ready for the "boots and saddles" he
hated shirk and had his own way of meet
ing the complaints urged by shirkers to get
rid of duty. Just before breaking camp in
the spring of 1865 the General attended a
sick call to see the state of health in his
command. One after another of the boys
came in for prescriptions. and by and by a
strapping big trooper, who was notorious
shirk, entered the tent with his hands on his
stomach. Torbet took him all in at glance
and then thundered out:
,H.s'What are you here for?" 9d5 ff2iff8it
,fe .Sick, 2 was the faint response. 3d Hsa II
!, What ails you? ?" fIag-su f,,,e r.m
Snake in the stomach"
td How long has it been there e' la' }a2"
~ s5ixtmonths.n Hg @niissgfI 3g9H 9ea1
Surgeon 7 said the General, as he turned
to the officer, call in two men, cut this man
open and remove the snake I'VE are going
ito break camp id ten days, and we haven't
time to coax the reptile upn1' asa3na9 eid
Fifteen minutes after that the man was
oti. on the line grooming his horse, and by
noon he looked well enough to eat his way
through barrel of pork.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
A COngressman's New Version of the
Lords Prayer


Amusing stories have been told Of the ig-
norance or unsophistication of congressman,
perhaps none more SO than the TO flowing
On one occasion question involving some
biblical information came up as a topic of
discussion among part of members of both
Houses One accused the other of not being
posted, which resulted in wager of $40 that
the other did not know the Lords Prayer.
The money was placed in the hands of a
stake holder, rusty old Senator. The Con-
gressional biblical authority unbuttoned his
coat, expanded his lungs, and shaking him
self with sense of becoming reverence and
importance began, Now / lay me down to
sleep" Number two, surprised, exclaimed :
iThats enough. / give up hand him the
money y In passing over the funds, the stake
holder observed !; i SWELL, ! would have gone
$40 better that hi, did not know it, That's
truen said the winner, putting the money in
his pocket, ssbut' you see there's nothing like
the Sunday School. Il What you learn there
you never forget. You see the young mind
grasps better. I learned the Lords Prayer
there, and have carried 1t, with many other
treasures of religious learning, with me
through life. -
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
The Echo Boy.

"A A. little boy once went home to his mother
and said, Mother, sister and / went out in
the garden, and we were calling about, and
there was some boy mocking u.s." How do
you mean, Johnny? ?" said the mother.
''Why," said the child, Il was calling out
HOP and this boy said 'Ho,' So I said to
him who are you p and he said Who are
you p So said, what is your name? ? He
said, What is your name?' And said to
him why don't you show YOURSELF He
said, Show yourself And I jumped over
the ditch, and went into the wood, and
could not find him, and came back and
said, IF you don't come out will punch
your head And he said, will punch your
head -...si:a .tt.# {s..t.. ir --.s. f..t.
So his mother said, All Johnny, Ifyou had
said, Il Jovc you,' he would have said, I love
YOU If you had said, Your voice is sweet,
he would have said Your voice is sweet
Whatever you said to him, he would have
said back to you" And the mother said,
"Now, Johnny, when you get to be a man,
whatever you will say to others, they will by
and by say back to you; and his mother took
him to that old text in the scripture with
what measure We mete, it shall be measured
unto you again"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
Kind Treatment of Horses.
Scientific American. |

1t has been observed by experienced horse
trainers that naturally vicious horses are
rare, and that among those that are properly
trained and kindly treated when colts they
are the exception. ......, ....
It is superfluous to say that gentle and
docile horse is always the more valuable,
other qualities being equal, and it is almost
obvious that gentle treatment tends to de-
velop this admirable quality in the horse as
we'll as in the human species, while harsh
treatment has the contrary tendency. Horses
have been trained so as to be entirely gov
erned by the words Of the driver, and they
will obey and perform their simple but I'M
portant duties with as much alacrity as the
child obeys the direction of the parent.
It is true that all horses are not equally
intelligent and tractable, but it is probable
that there is less difference among them in
this regard than there is among his human
masters, since there are many indictments
and ambitions among men that do not affect
animals.
The horse learns to know and have conf
dence in gentle driver, and soon discovers
how to secure for himself that which he de-
sires and to understand his surroundings and
his duties. The tone, volume, and infection
of his masters voice indicate much, perhaps
more than the words that are spoken. Sooth-
ing tones rather than words calm him If ex-
cited by fear or anger, and angry and excited
tones tend to excite or anger him. In short,
bad masters make bad horses.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04

The vegetation on the southern slope OF
the Eartern Himalayas, 5000 Or 1000 feet
above the sea, though by no means luxuri-
ant, is said to be very agreeable and of much
interest to the botanist. Among the plants
native to these slopes, planted i'll the course
of nature during the preparation of the
earth for man, and left wild with the ele-
phant and the leopard, is a shrub growing
from 20 to 80 feet high, and well worthy to
be selected for pleasant foliage and fine flow
ers. The lanceolate leaves are from two to
six inches long, and the flowers are large and
white. very fragrant, in clusters of two or
three in the axis of the leaves This IS the
tea-plant of the genus Thea, very nearly al
lied to the genus Camellia of which the ia
ponica and other species from China and Ja-
pan are favorite CIVILIZATIONS OF the green
house in Europe and this country. Nowhere
in the world, but on the borders of the Him
alayas and in the wild regions of Asam is
the tea plant found growing uncultivated,
but it was not discovered in this its natural
habitation until the present century. As a
cultivated plant, the Chinese have certainly
had it since the fourth century, and they
claim it to be Indigenous to their own soil
Just as confidently as they claim the parent
age of numerous valuable articles. China
has given tea to the world and has furnished
q favorable home to the plant, which is
nevertheless quite as well suited in its native
land, farther east When it became known
in England that the tea-plant grew native in
the highlands of the Himalayas, English
companies engaged extensively in the Guilt
walton of tea in that region, and finally, after
the correction of notable failures in methods
of culture and cure, it appears that the finest
teas of Asia are those of these mountain
plains and the choicest plants are of variety
Assamico, lately propagated from the wild
shrub of the mountains
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
Taking Time by the Forelock.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press. *t
At the battle of Groveton Stonewall jack
son tried an experiment which nearly fright
ened federal division out of their boots.
Bars of railroad iron were cut up into foot
lengths and fired from some of his heaviest
guns, and the noise these missiles made as
they went sailing through the air was a sort
of cross between the shrek of woman and
the bray of mule The federals listened in
wonder at the first few which banged through
the tree tops, and presently one Of the pieces
fell Just in front of Pennsylvania regi-
ment. A captain stepped forward to inspect
it, and turning it over he rushed to his col
onel with the news
Colonel, these internal rebs are firing rail-
road iron at us"
"Nem
"They are, for fact p -,
Captain, advance your company to that
ridge and deploy, and the minute you find
Jackson is getting ready to fire freight cars
at us send me word. don't propose to have
my regiment mashed into the ground when
it can be just as decently exterminated in
the regular way"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
Wealth in the Senate.
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rPnrtIand ArpuS.

The present Senate contains at least a
score of Senators not one of whom is worth
less than 100000. The richest man in the
Senate is. Of course, Fair, of Nevada, who
probably possesses asmuch as all the other
Senator'S together, .aggsua.c5 at u.5t
|. Next to him in lucre is David Davis, of
Illinois, widower, who is reputed to be the
possessor OF millions n} a". .'f #
It is, somewhat difficult to name the Sena-
| tor whose fortune ranks third in size, but if
Eugene Hale, of Maine has received the
mantle of his father-n-law, Zach Chandler,
with its well-lined pockets, his fortune is
nearly as large as that Of David Davis. The
wife of Senator Hale is the only daughter OF
the late Zach Chandler. IL. ''.s'
! Other very wealthy Senators are Miller, OF
California, Malone, of Virginia, and Sawyer
of Wisconsin, known to be worth more than
a..million EACH Sewell, Of New Jersey, is a
railroad man and is very wealthy. 's5t
Senator John Sherman of Ohio, it is said,
is worth more than S2,000OOO, his property
consisting largely of real estate in Washing
ton. ~ 5f ~ t'H' go '-z' .'''.rii'''" fi't
! Among other Senators who write their for
tunes with seven figures are Cameron, of
Pennsylvania Davis of West Virginia, and
Plumb, of Kansas Senators Hill, of Colo
RADIO, Brown, of Georgia, Groome, of Mary
land, Mcpherson, of New Jersey, and Pen
dleton, of Ohio, are each worth more than
S5O0,00O
/ Many other Senators are comfortably fixed,
possessing little boards of from 900 to
100000. ..,s .....,. -, t.r.,g.t.. q. r,,ra
| Among those who have but little compar-
atively here below, that is, not more than
100000 apiece, are Morrill,, of Vermont, An
thony, of Rhode Island, Rollins, of New
Hampshire, Jones, of Nevada, and Jones, of
Florida, johnson, of Virginia, Beck. of Ken
lucky, Saunders, of Nebraska, Allison, OF
Iowa. and Harrison, of Indiana. 5ae
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
How Sleigh Bells are Made.

1t has no doubt been mystery to many
readers how the iron balls inside of sleigh
bells get there, and it is said to have taken
considerable thought on the part of the dis
coverer before the idea struck him. In ma
king sleigh bells the iron ball is put inside a
sand core just the shape of the inside of the
bell. Then mould is made just the shape
of the outside of the bell. This sand core,
with the jingle inside, is placed in the mould
Of the outside, and the melted metal is
poured in, which fills up the space between
the core and the mould. The hot metal
burns the core so it can be all shaken out,
leaving the ball within the shell. Ball valves
and swivel joints are cast in this manner
also
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
Help the Children Grow Erect.

William Blaikie, the author of "How to
Grow Strong and How to Say so,' spoke be-
fore the Brooklyn Teachers Association re-
Gently on Physical Education ! want"
said he ito see in an informal talk if we can't
hit upon some way in which we can bring
the physical education of school children
down to practical basis, Our Ghildren who
are healthy and buxom when they begin
school work, come out pale, sickly and with
round shoulders. If you require the children
under you to sit far back in chair and to
hold their chins up you will cure them of
being round shouldered, and the lungs and
other vital organs will have free and healthy
play. Another sample plan is to have the
children bend over backwards until they can
see the ceiling. This exercise for few mini
utes each day will work a wonderful trans
formation. If well qualified teacher could
be employed to superintend the physical de-
velopment of the children the best results
would be seen. ,y ....E, ....,r
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
Some Account efROthschiId's $16O 900
Goblet.
Boston Traveller.

Boston Traveler.l
Baron Charles de Rothschild of Frankford
has recently purchased for the enormous sum
of 100000 francs (S16O,OO0), silver gilt cup
by the celebrated Jamitzer, which is said to
be marvellous work of art. The sum accord
ing to the Chronique des arts, is, as faras it
knows, the largest ever paid in modern times
for a single object Of art The work is q CEN
tire piece of table service The foot is COM
posed of a rock entirely covered with grasses
and flowers, on which disport themselves
beetles, little lizards, locusts and snalls.
From this rises the figure of a woman,
emblematizing the earth and bending elo-
quent pose supports on her head and her
hands a tall chalice, decorated by grotesques
and topped by cover, which terminates in
a vase in form Of baluster, from which
springs bunch OF leaves and flowers. The
silver gilt of which the cup is made has orn-
aments in Opaque and translucent enamels.
The goldsmithery of the sixteenth century
is said to offer nothing more finished in ex-
ecution, and which though open to criticism
possibly from the standpoint both of taste
and style has it's weakness counterbalanced
by the wonderful perfections of all its de-
tails. ta-.a. H., r -t.f...t.-. .... "a. .r
A story OF Baron Rothschllds acquisition
of the work is quite curious. 1t formed part
of the estate of the late Nuremburg banker,
Merkel, who died in 1873, and whose heirs,
by common accord, agreed to loan it, togeth-
er with Albert Durer's portrait of Holchurch-
er, to the German Museum at Nuremberg,
of which zer-chief-dGuvre became
one of the greatest treasures. Indeed, the
public during the years it was on exhibition,
thought it belonged to the museum. 1t was
| 50 arranged that the work could not be tax
en- away without joint consent of the heirs
and ministerial authorization. n.
Some months ago this celebrated art work
disappeared from the galleries to the great
astonishment and CONSERVATION of the ~Nur-
emberg and the country in general. After
little while it leaked out that a Frankford
dealer in art objects, the agent of Baron
Rothschild, had appearedwith the necessary
papers from the family and Minister, and the
Director of the Museum had been obliged to
deliver to him the cup. The whole affair
was conducted with great secrecy, and it is
certain that, had it been known that the OBJ
iect was for sale, the Directors of the Nur-
emburg Museum, as we'll as those of many
otherswould have competed with the pur-
chaser for itspossession.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
No. a..
The Doves Mosque.

In the city of Stamboul, the doves Mosque
or the Mosque of Dajazet H., has special
charm. The court entered by gates elabo
rately decorated in arabesque, is exceedingly
beautiful. In the center is a marble tount-
ain under q canopy, and sheltered by a
cluster of fine trees AS you enter the court,
you hear the roar of wings. and for a mo-
ment the air is darkened with the sudden
flight of myriads OF doves These birds, the
offspring of pair purchased from poor
woman by Sultan Bajazent, and presented to
the Mosque are as sacred as the ibis of old.
A grave and reyerand fellow, with huge
turban, sits under the cloister and sells grain
to the faithful and the tickle. The former
feed the doves for charity, and the latter for
fun. While the fountain is knee deep with
swarming BIRDS and the trees clogged with
and all the caves of the cloister lined, and
even the high galleries of the slender nina
rets, not unyisited by these feathered der
vishers, you drop handful of corn into the
court, and like thunder-cloud, the whole
tribe rush upon you with the swOop and
roar of q storm. They crowd one another
and heap themselves together, and stand on
their heads in their eagerness to get morsel
of grain. In a moment some one enters the
court, and the birds take flight, stirring the
wind in the cloister, and filling the air with
soft, floating down. A turbaned graybeard
near by sells rosaries and perfumes, and
there is also fellow by the gate who cries
"Sherbet," and clashes his brazen cups until
they ring like cymbais, and there are loun-
gers from morn till night who drop in to see
the doves of Bajazet plunge into the court
like an avalanche of dusky, impurpled snow
and wheel out of it a winged cloud of smoke!
At the Mosque, on Fridays, there is distri-
button of bread to dogs, and the hungry fel-
lows come from all parts of the city TO get
their portion of the food
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
Our Work.

Whether we are happy in our work or not
depends upon the way in which we do it,
The man who goes to his work reluctantly
like a scourged slave has no enjoyment in
his labor. 1t is, to him, like perpetual
punishment. How slowly, to his eye, the
sun rises to its zenith! How slowly it sinks
to the western horizon! With leaden feet
the hours go by. And he breads the morrow
which is to be but q repetition Of the dreary
to-day. His sluggish pulse does hardly beat.
He seems but half laiye How different it
is with q man who works with will
Whatever he touches becomes at once inter
lestinc to him. He is absorbed In what he is
about. and he exclaims at might, sHoM short
the day has seemed ?" Not an hour has
hung heavily ON his hands.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04
Helena, Montana, Thursday, May 4, 1882.
japanese Gardening.

Judging from a paper read at the last
meeting of the st. Petersburg Society of
Gardening, the japanese must have been al
lowed to have distanced us altogether i'll at
least one branch of education. Enthusiasts
would fain live to see when every household
er will have his plot of garden and will
know how to cultivate it. The universal
spread of such knowledge seems to be al
most as hopeless as the possession of plots
for its exercise in our large towns, But. the
Japanese, NJ Grigorieff tell US, are all taught
gardening in their schools and all have their
little plots of ground. They are instructed
in practical horticulture and in the artistic
arrangements of bouquets, and all classes,
from the palace to the cottage, manifest a
passionate love for such humaniZing and
healthful occupations. Nowhere in Europe,
we are assured, are gardens so numerous, or
the love of Horticulture so extensively de-
veloped. One very curious art they seem to
have brought to great perfection. Their gar
dens often being small, and their taste. lead
ing them to take pride in the possession OF
trees of the bigger species, they have grad
ually developed the art of dwarting them
without in any way sacrificing their general
shape and proportion. Father and son and
grandson will grow in oak, for fifty years or
more, and will take means of preventing ii
ever attaining more than Is inches or 2 feet
in height, though still presenting all the
characteristics Of the full-grown tree in
trunk, branch and foliage. Among their
family treasures to be handed down from
one generation to another may often be
found well arranged garden, established in
some antique specimen of japanese pottery
in the shape of q capacious bowl Within
this receptacle will be walks and trees and
flower beds, with great variety of floral
favorites, all dwarfed to the proper proper
tions., y One further development OF this
odd manipulation of natural objects is the
patient training of the minified trees and
shrubs into the forms of birds and beasts.
or any other object that may strike the
fancy, or may be suggested by the accident
al shape of the plant, refinement of gar
dening which in barbarisn very nearly ap-
proaches eur fashion of clipping shrubs into
plum puddings, or perpetually shipping trees
that might become beautiful into close imi-
tations of German toys.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-05-04

General Remarks About a Very .Es-
thetic Subject.
Laramie Boomerang.

Laramie Boomerang
The tropical bird very seldom wings his
way as far west as Wyoming. He loves the
sea breezes and humid atmosphere of the
Atlantic Ocean and when isolated in this
mountain cline, pines for his native home.
The Goldfish cannot sing, but is priced fol
his beautiful plumage and seductive odor
"a The Goldfish of commerce is devoid of di-
gestive apparatus and is more or less per-
meated with salt.
j.. Goldfish on toast is not as epensive as quail
on toast. s. .r.
The Goldfish ball is made of the shattered
remains of the adult Goldfish mixed with the
tropical Irish potato of commerce.
The Goldfish has great wealth of glad un.
fettered smile. When he laughs at anything
he has that same wide waste of mirth and
back teeth that Mr. Talmadge has. The
Wyoming Goldfish is generally dead. Death
in most cases is the result of exposure and
loss of appetite. No one can look at the cod
fish of commerce and not shed tear. Fal
from home with his system filled with salt
while his eternal economy is gone, there is
an air of sadness and homesickness and briny
hopelessness about him that no one can SEE
unmoved. il1#" @iA .'i.eN .F-'ti "t'.' '4
1t is in our home Iife however, that the
Goldfish makes himself felt and remembered
When he enters our household, we feel his
all prevailing presence, like the perfume
of wood violets or the seductive odor OF a
dead mouse in the piano. ..jrt ffa...,. =.
Friends may visit us and go away to be
forgotten with the advent of a new face, but
the cold, calm, silent corpse of the codfisf
cannot be forgotten Its chastened influence
permeates the entire ranch. It steals into the
parlor like an unbidden guest and favors
the costly curtains and the high priced lam
berquins 1t enters the dark closet and dial
lies lovingly with your swallow-tail coat. II
goes into your sleeping apartment and makes
a home in your glove box and your handker-
chief case.
That is why we say tits solemn thing to
take the life of Goldfish. We would not dc
it. We would pass him by q thousand times
no matter how ferocious he might be rather
than take his life and have our once happy
home haunted. forever.by his unholy pre-.
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