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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
EARLY LAW In MICHIGAN.
Cases Settled by a Justice Who Gave
Universal Satisfaction.
Detroit Free Press.


When Gratiot county first began to be dis
turbed by pioneers, and soon after it had its
first Justice of the Peace, a farmer named
Dawson walked three miles to secure a war
rant for the arrest of his neighbor, named
Meacham, for assault and battery. TO save
the constable six-miles' trip, the defendant
walked in with the plaintiff. They encoun-
tered his Honor just leaving his house with a
gun on his shoulder. Dawson hailed him:
"Squar, / want warrant for this man fol
striking me-"
"I'm in an awful hurry come tomorrow
"So'm in hurry, and I'm going to have
a raising tomorrow"
'Meacham, did you hit him.
Eyes"
Dawson, did you strike first?"
mo"
"Meacham, had you rather work for him
three days than 60 to jail?''
II guess so."
"And will that satisfy you, Dawson 2"
"Yes"
Then make tracks for home, and don't
bother me another minute. My son just
come in with the news that an old bear and
three cubs are up in in the same beech down
at the edge of the slashing and I'm going to
have some bear meat if it upsets the Su-
preme Bench of Michigan. Court stands ad-
iOurned ~
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
The Way an Indian Chief PrOcIamates
lNye's Boomerang.


People of my tribe: The past year has
been one of great prosperity to the Ute Ma
ton. We have acquired two yellar dogs and
maroon-colored papooses Fortune has
smiled upon us and our sky has been un-
clOuded. We own a large amount of real
estate and don't have to pay any taxes. The
white father feeds us and the pale faces on
the frontier warns our gizzard with the fire
water of the East
"Our squaws are clothed in the garments
Of the white man and our maidens are
clothed in the soldier pants of the
pale face. The bitter winds of the win
ter do not chill us, for verify the winter is
tempered to the shorn lamb, high, low, jack
and the game.
"Other tribes have lost many of their
numbers by overwork, softening of the brain
and gout, but the Ute Nation is still strong
as the mountain oak. We have multiplied
upon the earth, and while we have increased
the standing army has fallen off. Nine SOL
diers have deserted and three have starved
to death, leaving the rest of his army alone
in his wigwam.
"Let us therefore be joyful. Let US whoop
em up, Liza Jane. Let virtue be your aim.
E pluribus ker plunk, verbenna terra firma
sic semper rutabaga."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
Helena, Montana, Thursday, November 16, 1882.
Employment for Children.

Anna Holyoke Howard, in the Household
says: Nothing is more injurious, not to say
ruinous, than constant saytem OF repres-
sion with children. Don't do this" You
must not 90 there" "You cannot have that, y
etc. 1t is chilling to the youthful enthu-
siasm, cramping and dwarfng to all his IA
culties. Children who daily and hourly lis
| ten to such injunctions, who are checked in
all their efforts and aspirations after what
seems to them as glorious and worthy as
seem to us our higher aims, feel like exclaim-
ing in despair, What may we do?" and if
we do not open to them ways OF pleasant
employment, we are guilty of exercising to-
ward them real cruelty.
Active children are generally healthy and
intelligent. The disposition to incessant
movement, noise, mischief or frolic, which
is often SO trying to weary mothers, is only
the expenditure of superabundant nervous
force in the child, which, if rightly directed,
may in time make him a powerful agent for
good in the world.
But what is to be done? We must have
peace and quiet in the evening OF we shall
be untitled for the duties of the morrow.
Keep them happily employed for little
while and then send them to bed early, and
so take your rest and recreation after they
are asleep.
Some place their bliss IN action, some in ease,
Those call it pleasure. and contentment these,
Children certainly place their bliss in action,
and we who enj oy rest after labor must be
patient with them.
/ know mother who always has a little
play or storytelling or reading with her
children the hour before bedtime. On Sum
day she and their father each devote part of
the day in walking with them and reading
to them in books suited to their entertain
ment and improvement. | need hardly say
they are among the most intelligent and
promising children of my acquaintance.
Give children something pleasant to do or
think about, block house to build, puzzle
to put together, paper to cut, bubbles to
blow, stick to whittle, picture to paint, or
to look at, q top to spin, dough to make into
cakes to bake for themselves, a little broom
to sweep the doorsteps a wheelbarrow and a
little shovel to dig sand, anything to keep
them busy and happy, for busy child is a
happy child, healthy child, and if you
have rightly managed his employments, 4
good child.
Let us not repress any God-given faculties,
but endeavor to turn them into such good
and healthful channels as will enable them
to do best service for God and humanity. 1t
is not waste of time for parents to stop
their work long enough to pet child, to tell
him story, Or play a rollicking game.
When parents take time from worldly
thoughts and plans to cultivate a sympa-
thetic friendship with their children, and
each other, they are doing good work, and
sowing seed that will spring up and bring
forth abundant fruit that will amply repay
the effort, time patience, or seif-sacrifice in
yOlVed
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
CaIifornia's Celestial Prophet.
[San Francisco Call. I

Grass Valley, Cal, claims to have local
prophet in the person of Celestial named
Dr. Wan Kee. His home is in the Joss
House, and it is there that he has his visions.
When the fire at Chinatown took place
Thursday morning, September 2e, DR.. Wan
Kee was forwarned while he was asleep at
his church. He got up at o'clock and told
them to watch for fire. This was done, and
in an hour a woman accidently turned over
lamp and fire was started. The church
was saved. Wau Kee is also weather
sharp. He foretold the weather from
the moons appearace the night the moon had
two tails to it-a lunar rainbow The rain
came as DR.. Wan Kee said it would.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
THE MODERN SCHOOL TEACHER.

Twas Saturday night, and teacher sat
Alone her task pursuing;
She averaged this and she averaged that,
OF all that the class was doing,
She reckoned percentage so many boys,
And so many girls all counted,
And marked all the tardy absentees.
And to what all the absence amounted.
Names and residence wrote III full,
over many columns and pages;
Canadian, Teutonic African, Cclt
And averaged all their ages,
The date Of admission Of every one.
And cases of fagellation,
And prepared list of graduates
For the county examination.
Her W cary head sank low on her book,
And her weary heart still lower;
For some of her pupils had little brains
And she could not furnish more.
She slept, she dreamed; it seemed she died,
And her spirit went to Hades,
And they met her there with question,
State what the per cent. of your grade Is =!
Ages had slowly rolled away,
Leaving but partial traces;
And the teachers spirit walked one day
In the old familiar places.
mound of fossiliZed school reports
Attracted her observation,
As high as the state house dome, and as wide
As Boston since annexation.
She came to the spot where they buried her bones
And the ground was well built over;
But laborers digging threw a skull
Once planted beneath the clover
disciple of Galen, wandering by,
Paused to look at the diggers;
And plucllng the skull up, looked through the eye
And saw it was lined with figures.
Just as thought said the young NJ. D.
How easy it is to kill 'em.
Statistics ossified every fold
Ofcerebrum and cerebellum."
Its great curiosity, sure" SAID Fat,
by the bones you can tell the creature"
oh, nothing strange" said the doctor;
That was nineteenth century teacher.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
BIindfOlded Chess Player.

The blindfolded chess player, Mr.. Black
burn, undertook last month to play eight
games simultaneously with as many menu
bers of the City of London Chess Club. The
team opposed to him was the strongest ne
has vet played in London, none OF them be-
ing what is technically called pawn and
two strength" Mr. Blackburn was not liter
ally blindfolded, but he sat at the Tar end OF
the room with his back toward the play
ers, SO that he could not possibly see the
boards or the men, and he had to depend Tor
the conduct of the games entirely on his
memory. In the result two games were
drawn and Mr.. Blackburn won six
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
PHYSICAL Education.
New York Herald.


The Young Mems Christian Association, of
Brooklyn gave their gymnasium exhibition
last night at the Academy of Music in that
city. The exercises consisted Of four parts !;
the first being operatic selections by the
orchestra, the second and fourth were the
gymnasium exercises proper, and the third a
lecture by Mr.. William Blaikie, showing the
healthful effects of physical training
The gymnasts were composed of some
thirty young men and boys and of twenty
young misses, the latter ranging in age from
six to fourteen years. The young men and
boys exercised with double clubs, on the
vaulting bar, climbing pair of ropes and
rope ladder, and the young ladies with calls
thenic wands, small dumb bells and i'll gym
nastic groupings and marches.
Mr.. Blaikie. in the course of his lecture,
said that there are in this State 100000
school children, for whose instruction S1O,
0OO,OOO yearly are expended. This, the lee
turer said, was for their moral and intellec-
tual education, but for their physical moth
ing was done. ave do not want your chill
dren to be wrestlers," he said, cor what are
generally classed athletes, but we desire that
by proper outdoor exercise and training they
shall have sound and healthful bodies, and
with these sound minds always follow,
The lecturer gave as illustrations what they
had Just witnessed in the muscular develop
ment of the boys and young men, and the
graceful walk and carriage of the young
girls. Mr.. Blaikie said that every man of
ancient times who was distinguished for
bravery and courage had been trained by
outdoor exercise. He cited Alexander and
Sulius Cesar as instances. In later times
Washington, and in our own day Gladstone
and the Queen of England were instances OF
the good effects of exercise. The lecturer
closed by urging his hearers to secure for
their children physical as we'll as intellectual
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
An Election in Dakota.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
In Huron, Dakota Territory, not long since
the citizens assembled to hear the result OF
the election. They were all impatient to
hear the the result of the vote on Probate
Judge. The clerk read the returns for
County Commissioner.
Bother the County Commissioner! We
don't care anything about that. Go on to
the next
Register of Deeds"
go on! 60 on"
For Sheriff"
"No matter about the Sheriff Go on to
Probate Judge Probate Judge! Probate
Judge" cried scores Of voices.
Il am sorry to announce that the vote on
Probate Judge is a tie, and that therefore
there is no election to that Office
Fierce cries of fraud and treachery arose,
and the figures were demanded
Gentlemen" said the clerk, 'there were
2,378 votes cast. There are 2,379 names.
Each received one vote. Every man votes
for himself"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
Rich Public Servants of Days Gone BY.

Speaking of some recent appointments the
Hermit" of the Troy Times writes: There
has been too great disposition to depreciate
the value of rich men simply because of their
wealth, and it may be well to remember that
Washington was the richest man of his day
on the whole continent, while John Hancock,
who was first to sign the Declaration of In
dependence, was one of the most opulent of
Boston merchants. Another signer was Lewis
Morris, who owned what is now called Nor
risania, while Robert Morris, who was also a
signer, was leading capitalist in Philadel-
phia, and founded the first bank ever known
in America. Ben Franklin, too, was ranked
among men of wealth when he entered pub
lie life. Hence the claim which may be
made on our capitalists for public service is
sanctioned by history"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
The New Departure in Hats.
New York Times.

In no article of apparel, apparently, are
the vagaries of fashion more marked than in
the changing styles Of feminine hats The
remarkable Gainsborough, with its vision
eclipsing brim, having at last been discarded,
to the great joy of male theatre goers, an
other wonder appears in the shape of hats
with animal ornaments-a style that possi-
bly, may have been dictated by the laudable
desire of attoning for the long tolerated
nuisance of broad -brimmed hats, by afford
ing menagesie-like view Of the animal
kingdom. The millinery show-windows are
now brilliant with varieties of these distract
ing novelties White mice nestle among the
feathers in some instances, and in others lit
tie chickens and ducks float about the feath-
cry ponds On the crowns Of the curiously
shaped head coverings. These new styles
can at least claim an obvious advantage
over the reprehensible and departed Gains
borough in that, while they may intrude up
on the line of vision, they still afford some
thing to amuse the eye and start train OF
thought in the spectators mind. 1t IS an
open question whether these novelties have
not gone to the extreme, when, in the effort
toward attaining realism in imitation, a
bright-hued serpent is coiled amid the plu-
mage of the female headgear. This thrill
ling fashion was recently displayed in a prom
inent dealers shop-window, along with 9th
er striking types of the "love of bonnet, "
and found admirers.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
A CHILD OF SEVEN,

All the bells of heaven may ring,
All the birds of heaven may sing,
All the wells on earth may spring,
All the winds on earth may bring,
All the sweet sounds together;
Sweeter far than all things heard,
Hand of harper, tone of bird,
Sound of woods at sundown stirred,
yelling waters winsome word,
Wind in warm, wan weather.
One thing there is, that none
Hearing ere its chime be done,
Knows not well the sweetest one,
Heard of man beneath the sun,
Hoped in heaven hereafter;
Soft and strong, ana loud and light,
Very round and very light,
Heard from mornings rosiest helght
When the soul of all delight
Fills child clear laughter.
Golden bells of welcome rolled
Never forth such notes, nor told
Hours so blithe in tones so bold,
And the radiant mouth of gold
Here that rings forth to heaven,
II the golden crested wren
Were nightingale-why, then,
something seen and heard OF men
Might be half as sweet as when
Laughs child of seven.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
No. s..
sold IRONSIDES.'
The Frigate Constitutions to be ToWed
to Portsmouth, N. HITLER History.

The frigate Constitution, "Old Ironsides,'
which has been lying in ordinary at the New
York Navy Yard for some time past, is about
to be removed from her present mooriDgs by
order OF the Secretary of the Navy, and
towed by the Powhatan to Portsmouth, n.
H. Several years ago the Navy Department
concluded to break her up, but the republic
cation at that time of the following lines of
the old poem of Oliver Wendell Holmes
aroused popular feeling Of indignation, and
she was repaired and converted into school
ship:
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced TO see
That banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout
And burst the cannon roar;
The meteor Of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more
The Constitution was one of the largest oil
six trigates whose construction was ordered
by Congress on March 81, 1874. She was
launched in October 1897. She was built III
Boston, of the best live oak, and cost S3O22,-
71S She began her career i'll the Trpolitan
war in 1904, engaging against batteries
mounting 115 guns at Tripoli, and her broad
sides assisted in recapturing 800 American
sailors, who had been captured by the Tri-
politans from on board the frigate Philadel-
pQ1a. III Uuc wal ttSdiuSt OlCtaU bIltall III
1912 she gained her famous victory over the
British frigate Guerriere on August 49, On
December 26, following, the Constitution had
an engagement with the British frigate Java,
and, after hot contest, took her as prize.
The following year, ON a cruise on the coast
of Guiana and among the Windward Islands,
she captured the British sloop-of-war Picton,
a letter of marque, and several merchant
vessels She barely escaped being captured
by British fleet in 1914 by taking refuge in
the harbor of Salem, Mass. On February 20,
1915, during another cruise, she captured,
after an action of forty minutes at night, the
British frigate Cyane and the British sloop
Levant The latter was recaptured by
British squadron off the harbOr of Porto
Praya and Captain Stewart, OF the Constitu-
ton, fearing that the neutrality of the port
would not be observed, ran away with his
other prize. The Cyane arrived at New
York in April, 1915, and the Constitution
month later.
During the administration Of President
Jackson, while the Constitution was moored
in New York harbor, 4 curious incident oc-
cured A figurehead Of President Jackson
had been put on the PROV, and the circum-
stance arousing the indignation of a Lieuten-
ant, he determined that jackson should not
90 before the Constitution" He therefore
beheaded the figure. The head was recov-
cred and replaced by Commodore Elliott. 1t
remained on the prov until the vessel was
repaired for centennial duty, when the effigy
was removed and placed on a pedestal on the
grounds of the Annapolis Naval Academy.
In 1872 the Constitution was for a time laid
up in ordinary, and in 1876 she was docked
and overhauled. Her last previous voyage
was to France, at the time of the Paris Ex-
position.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
A Novel Sight.

One Of the most novel sights, seldom if
ever witnessed in any other country except
California, can now be seen on Dr. Glenn's
Colusa county ranch 1t is said that men
are engaged threshing and sowing grain in
the same field, while q large volunteer crop
is already up two or three inches high and
growing nicely. Here is this years crop of
wheat being put into sacks, ready for ship
ment to the European market; next years
crop being cultivated in summer following
for the next years crop, and growing crop
well advanced for this season of the year.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
TINE AND SEASONS.

". J. Linton, in St. Nicholas for November
There's time-the proverb tells us
For all things under the sun;
Even may be the proper seasons
For good work to be done,
And for good words to be said
in the fear lest | or you
May miss the happy occasions,
Let US here note down a few.
When the trees are heavy with leaves,
When the leaves lie under foot,
When fruit on the board is frequent
And while there is rind or root
When the rain comes down from the heavens,
When the sun comes after rain,
When the autumn fields waving
With the weight of golden grain
When the hills arc purple with heather,
When the fells are black with cold
When the larcheS are gay with their taSseS red,
When nuts are shrivel'd and DID,
Whenever there's growth in the spring time,
Or June close follows May,
And so long as the first OF January
Happens on New Near'S Day;
When mushrooms spring in the meadows,
Or toadstools under the trees,
When the gnats gyrate in the sunshine,
When the oak -boughs strain in the breeze;
In the days of the cuckoo and swallow,
When the sea-gulls flee the foam,
When the nightingale croons in the cleaning,
Or the owl goes silently home:
When the lake is placid mirror.
When the mountains melt in MIST
When the depths of the lake are pillars of gold
On a floor of amethyst
When a rainbow spans the morning,
When the thunder rends the night,
When the snow on the hills is rosy red
With the blush of the Weakening light;
When the soul is heavy with sadness,
When the tears fall drop by drop,
When the heart is glad as the heart OF him
Who climbs to mountain-top;
When youth unrolls like bracxen -frond
When age is grandly gray
he Ia nf a hat * III nd a al
With the storms Of yesterday
Believe that in all of these seasons
Some good may be done or said
And whenever the loving thought and will
Arc loving enough to wed;
And well is it with the happy heart
That hath thoroughly understood
How the time for all things under the sun
is always the time for good
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
Much Wounded Confederate.
Raleigh IN. CO. News

Col. J. Mcleod Turner, who died at Mount
Airy recently, aged As, was wounded at
Newbern, second Manassas, and first Fred
ericksburg and at Gettysburg so badly that
he fell into the enemy's hands. He was pro-
NOTED to Major May 3, 1863, and was again
promoted to be Lieutenant Colonel in 1864,
during his captivity, which confined from
July 3 1863, to June, 1865. He was dread
fully wounded, having altogether been
pierced by eleven balls. He was wounded
through the lungs, through the body, was
shot through the spine, besides lesser
wounds. Both legs were paralyzed, one
arm partially his shoulder was dislocated,
and many of his bones were broken and be-
come diseased. From the day at Gettysburg
he was mere wreck. His continued exist
ence seemed a miracle
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
Napkins Made of Glass.

Spun glass napkins are recent addition
to the supply of luxuries which people who
indulge taste for oddities will probably not
consider too high priced at 500 dozen.
The first one brought to st. Louis is on ex-
hibition in Fourth street store. 1t is pearl
shade, the size of an ordinary breakfast nap
kin, and almost as pliable as silk The
filling consists of minute glass threads,
crossed by silk chain, and the fringe of
glass fibre is about two inches long.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16

Floral paniers are among the newest acces-
sons to ball dresses and are made with alt
sorts of flowers. In white lilac or lines Oh
81 the valley, mounted on white net, tney
look exceedingly well they are placed ON
ooth hips, and finished in front at the poln1 y,
VI the bodice; at the back long spray iails
on the train, the bouquets for the shouioer
tnd ,t. head corresponds. For dinner dresses
niis trimming is made of roses On black het'
"nu iflnged with Jet beads.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-11-16
Savannah Record

The Beaver family, up among the noun
tains, were hard set. One day the young
est of the boys was bitten by rattlesnake,
and the old folks were so scared that they
sent at once for the minister, who knelt
down and prayed: 20, Lord, we thank
Thee for rattlesnakes! We thank Thee that
a rattlesnake bit Jim. We pray Thee to
send one to bite John; send another to bite
Bill, and 0, Lord, send the biggest of Thy
rattlesnakes to bite the old man, for nothing
but rattlesnake will bring the Beaver fam
lily to repentance. Amen"
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-04-28

can't pull the wool over this cOnsta.
ble's eyes BY Cd, Bill Owens. !
heerd 'em read il out'n the book my
self" and of he rode TO Frankfort
with his prisoner, who, by the way,
beat Bob back to Casey's Creek.
Neither Bob, nor the convict himself,
ever understood the technicality by
which the prisoner was restored 10 his
"ancient liberty."