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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-02-16
TIE r.tRMEE'S SEVENTY YEARS.

All, there lie is, lad at the plow:
lie beats the boys for work,
And whatsoc'C or the task might be
None ever saw him shirk;
And he can laugh, too till his eyes
Run DER with mirthful tears,
Md sing full many an old-tlmc song
In spit" of seventy years.
Good morning. friends! lis u 0 clock:
Time for "A half-hour's rest,
And farmer john took out his lunch
And ate il with Zcst.
a harder task, it is, he said,
Than following up these steers,
or nlcnhnG fences, far for me
70 feel my seventy years.
You ask me why feel so young"
I'm sure, friends, ! can't tell,
l}It think il is my good wite's fault
Who keeps me up so well;
For women such as she are scarce
In this poor vale of tears;
she's given me love, and hope and strength
For more than forty years.
And then my boys have all done well,
As far as they have gone,
Aud that thing warns an old man > blood,
And helps him up and on.
My girls have never caused panG,
Or raised UP anxious fears:
Then wonder not that feel young
And hale at seventy years
why don't my good boys do my work
And let me sit and rest?
th friends, that wouldn't do for me;
like my own way the best.
They have their duty; | have mine,
And till the end appears,
! mean TO smell the soil, my friends,
Said the man of seventy years.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-02-16
The Child's Vision.

He was little fellow, only three years
old, scarcely able to realize the loss OF his
mother, whose latest kiss was implanted on
his baby brow, and whose dying word was a
prayer for the infants soul. They laid her
away tenderly, and the little orphan was
sheltered by loving friends. few days ago
the little one was standing in the door yard
his eyes fixed on the sky with a peculiar
earnestness. So absorbed was he that he
did not notice the approach Of his foster
mother, who touched him and said
"What are you looking at, baby 2"
He struck his little hands petulently to-
gcther, and, with q cry of pain, uttered Go
away see my mamma, and she is smiling.
He remained looking for long time, and to
all questions reiterated his statement, 1
was looking at my mamma
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-02-16

Laramie Boomerang ]

Peter johnson, of Red Butte, one of the
largest sheep owners ON the Laramie plains
met with serious loss the other day, and
gives us the particulars with a view of warn
ing others against like accident. He dip,
ped about 500 head of sheep, using Cooper's
Sheep Dip, and carelessly left package Of
the dip in the corral where they could get al
it, AS soon as they got taste they began
fighting for it, eating it like salt. He took
ii away from them thinking it was poison
GUS, and he was right Over hundred ol
them died. The dip is all right as q dip, hut
people using it should be careful not to leave
any of it where The sheep can get at 1t. ft's
sure death.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-02-16
in THE DESERT.
A BedOuin's Fantastic Appearance
Strange Refraction of Light.
|

keane.
A Bedouin riding past us at full speed,
carrying a long spear, was in sight for more
than an hour and half He took all kinds
of fantastic shapes, and as regards the dis
tance he was off at any moment, the best
range finder ever invented could not have
localized him. AT one time he was split up
into three, with a space of something that
looked like a surface of shimmering water
between each part-the legs of the camel
dancing along over the plain without any
body attached to them, and high over them
the body of the camel and the rider flying
through the air, and above them again the
tuft of feathers surmounting his spear, look
ing like bird in the air.
What added greatly to the dreariness of this
horrid waste was the total absence of animal
life; not fish Jump ruffied the surface of
the CLASSY lakes; not even the proverbial
and familiar pelican of the wilderness was
to be seen by the side of them no wheeling
vultures overhead even the swarms of flies
properly belonging to the caravan deserted.
[ almost fancied that our inside passengers"
were reduced to q policy OF mastery in
activity" for a time. 1t had come to this.
that when you asked man to do anything
he usually told you to wait till he'd done
scratching himself The carcasses of camels
which we passed had the flesh dried Oh to
the bones as hard as wood. | shall never
forget one corpse-that of man-nation-
ality quite indistinguishable. The body had
first distended to about three times its Origi-
nal bulk, and then dried in that form. l
turned it over as it lay ON the sand, and it
was so light l could have lifted it with one
hand 1t made a creaking and drumming
noise as moved it, very like the sound of
shaking rolled up hide of sole leather. :
< I arrived at two con-
clusions in reference to that region. First,
that the refraction of light by the air was SO
remarkable that artillery would be rendered
practically ineffective Second, that would
never go Sabbath days journey into it
again until l could do it on a bicycle, and
have relays of caravans sent on loaded with
lemon -squashes.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-02-16
"THE SWEET BY AND BY"
How the Composer Was Inspired Il
Write the Famous Hymn.
Lancaster PA. Examiner,

Lancaster ia Examiner,
In the year 1861 became resident OF the
village of Elkhorn, Wis, the home of the
composer, J. p. Webster, and shortly after
became associated with him in the produc-
tion OF sheet music (songs) and other music
al works. In the summer or fall of the year
1867 we commenced work on "The Signet
Ring" new Sabbath school music book, af-
terward published by Messrs. Lyon q Healy,
Chicago. The Sweet By and By" was one
of the songs written for that work. Mr..
Webster, like many musicians, was of an ex-
ceedingly nervous and sensitive nature, and
subject to periods of depression, in which he
looked upon the dark side OF all things in
that, on meeting him, could tell at glance
when he was in one of those melancholy
moods and had found that could rouse him
from them by giving him new song or
hymn to work upon. On such an occasion
he came into my place of business, and walk
ing down to the stove turned his back to me
without speaking. / was at my desk writ
ing. Presently turned to him and said
Webster what is the matter now;
1T is no matter" he replied; "it will be
all right by and by"
The idea of hymn came to me like Il
flash of sunlight, and | replied:
THE sweet by and by Why would not
that make a good hymn?'
Maybe it would" he said inditfcrently.
Turning to the desk, penned the lines as
fast as I could write In the meantime two
friends, n H. Carswell and and S. f. Bright,
had come in. | handed the hymn to Mr..
Webster. AS he read it his eye kindled and
his whole demeanor changed. Stepping to
the desk he began to write the notes in a
moment Presently he requested Mr.. Bright
to hand him his violin, and he played the
melody. In few minutes more he had the
air jotted down. l think it was not over
thirty minutes from the time took my pen
to write the words before the two gentlemen
before named, Mr.. Webster and myself, were
singing the hymn in the same form in which
it afterward appeared in the "Signet Ring"
While singing it, Mr.. r. R. Crosby, now
resident OF Richmond, Ill, came in, and after
listening awhile with tears in his eyes, ut
tered the prediction, "That hymn is immor-
tai"
think it was sung i'll public shortly after,
for, within two weeks, almost every child on
the street was singing it.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-02-16

An Incident Related In AIden's ''Life
of COlumbus.''

1t would violate all precedent if the story
of Columbus and the egg were to be spared
the readers of this volume. 1t IS briefly as
follows: Soon after his return to Spain he
dined with Cardinal de Mendoza, an eminent
clergyman with talent for dinners. An OBJ
jectionable young man who was present, and
who had undoubtedly taken more cham
pagne than was good for his fellow diners,
asked the Admiral if he did not think that
if he had not discovered the New World
some one else would have shortly discovered
it. He was unquestionably an impertinent
young man, but he was undoubtedly right
in assuming that sooner or later the Atlantic
would have been crossed even if Columbus
had never been born. Historians tell us that
Columbus, in reply, asked the young man if he
could stand an egg on its little end, and when
the young man, after rudely inquiring what
Columbus was giving him, was constrained
to admit that he could not perform the feat
in question, the great explorer simply flat
tened the little end of the egg by knocking
it against the table, and then easily made it
stand up. The whole company burst into
tears, and exclaimed that Columbus was the
greatest and noblest of mankind. If this
trick of f1attening an egg was really regarded
as q brilliant repartee, by which the imper-
tinent young man ought to have been utterly
withered up, it gives us a melancholy view
of the state of the art of repartee among the
Spaniards The real facts of the case are
probably these: Cardinal Mendoza the din
ner, and the impertinent young man doubt
less existed in the form and manner specified,
and the impertinent young man, in an adj
vanced state of champagne, probably said
something to the Admiral. The latter, dis
claiming to notice the affront by words, and
reluctant to cause any unpleasant scene at
the Cardinals table, merely threw an egg at
the offenders head and pursued the conver-
sation with his host. Subsequent writer's
determined to give q profoundly scientific
character to everything the Admiral did,
built up from this slight basis of fact the
gg-balancing story. In point of fact any
one can balance an egg on its little end by
the exercise of little care and patience, and
it is rather more easy to do this with an egg
that has not been fattened than with one
that has
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-02-16
Currants.

American Garden,
If there is anything living that possesses
the Christian virtue of return good for evil
in higher degree than the currant bush we
should like to know it's name. Neglected
and despised in an out of the way corner,
half smothered under tumbled down gar
den wall, or on rubbish heap.where nothing
else could grow, few currant bushes are fire.
auently tolerated and never thought OF until
the July sun makes our system long for cool
ing and refreshing fruit acids. 1t is then
that we call to mind the patient currant
bushes and become eager to gather-without
blushing- bright clusters, as interest
for the worthlessness of the spot we have
suffered them to occupy. Perhaps the ad-
vent of the currant worm is only blessing
in disguise, sent to teach us more charity
and wisdom, and to compel us to give our
much misused bushes better treatment. Try
for once to give the currants better place in
the garden and cultivate them like any other
shrub or plant which you expect to bear
fruit, and you will soon become convinced
that it pays to give fair play to even cur
rant buSh
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-02-16
A Good Answer.

In primary school, not very long ago, the
teacher undertook to convey to her pupils
an idea of the use of the hyphen. She wrote
on the blackboard "Bird's-nest," and, point
ing to the hyphen, asked the school: What
is that tor?" After short pause, young
son of the Emerald Isle piped out: "Plaze
maam. for the bird to roosht on"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-02-16
The Boys Room.

Let your boys have pleasant, sunny room
to themselves. If each one cannot have a
separate apartment, let him have his own
bureau and specified portion of closet-room.
Let them have substantial furniture, and
don't allow broken chair, faded carpet, a
cracked pitcher OR mirror in their room any
more than you would think of putting them
in the guest chamber, which always looks so
tasteful and neat.
AS regards the decoration of the walls, the
BOYS themselves will soon furnish the pic
lures, if they can be assured there is a place
where they can be kept, and all fear of their
being consigned to the dust box is removed.
They may not be of the highest order of art,
but they indicate taste for the beautiful
which should be encouraged
Again, boys must and will have all sorts
of articles, collected in the different stages of
life, as every mother can testify but even
the most Heterogeneous collection can be made
to have places of their own, so the boy can
have the pleasure of possession and the
mothers pride in her orderly house remain
undisturbed
Then, mothers, let the boys room" be
lust as warm, bright and cheerful as mother
ly love and sisterly ingenuity can make it,
for depend upon it, boys do notice and ap-
preciate little useful ornaments in their
rooms, even if they don't speak of it, and If
the room is full of merry boys drawn there
on account of it's attractiveness, don't fret
either because of the noise made or the con-
fusion that it will take only few extra
touches to straighten, but be thankful that
you have succeeded in making home the best
place for the boys-a place where they and
their companions are always welcome.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-05-13

ticable dependant, il serait
peut-6tre dangereux d'y intro
duire des amemdements par
crainte de Greer une confusion
plus grande encore. Une nou-
velle Constitution serait I'm blen
pour l'Etat a son default, le
gouverneur espere que la Legis-
lature actuelle votera des lois
en harmonic avec nos besoins.
LIE message Sc termine par
quelques paroles de Fluctuations
a l'adresse du President Arthur,
don't le message, au sujet du de-
bordement du Mississippi, a eu
un effet 81 considerable sur la
decision du Congress.
Nous nous bornons anjour-
d'hui a cette analyse seche.
Nous aurons occasion de reve-
mir sur les suggestions du gou-
verneur ct de les discuter cha
cune a son tour.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-05-13
Business Notices.

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A BARGAIN-A ten horse power eDglns. III I'd
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Book Keeping in Blackman's Commerce, =, HI.
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count on application at this otaee. ,.d
The COURIER ought to he in the Ia'si s.ssIs
eyerv intelligent man in the parish. olae n
subscriptions 3d. so in advance; $s@o 49, go
clubs OF five, and $500 in clubs OF zen. .rt
Patronize home enterprise, By havlns Ws
Job work done at the COURIER osnost .ost snd
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prices A fine lot of cards. &e., Juss l0s. ,.,s
Have YOUR bill heads, letter beads, ela0Ih;IIg : h;IIg
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labels, posters. ETC., printed az ing n srisEs
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Manufacture de VOitures.

ETLATTE de Encouragement qui lui etc
4 accorde jusqua present par le public de
cette Paroisse, lie soussgn6 remereie sincere
ment ceux qui FONT ainsi encourage, ct sollicite
en- meme temps la continuation de leur pa
tronage. II sera toujours prat a manufacturer
des buggies, hacks ct autres vehicles sur COM
mande ct de main de maftre Les reparations
aux voitures, tant charronnage que forge,
peinture ou gamiture serout execut6es promp-
tement ct aux prix les plus moderes, pour du
compliant settlement. Dorenavant, tout ou-
vrage qui ne sera pas paye sur livraison, por-
terra 10 pour cent d'augmentation pour les
frais de collecti III Immediate.
LIE soussigne toujours en- mains des hacks,
des buggies &C., neufs ct de seeonde main
quill vendra bon marcK pour du compliant.
81 S. p. CLARK.
Opelousas, 90 Janvier sg77. l9tf.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-05-13
AVIS.

n ES pers onnes r6sidant dams 10 paroisse
EA st. Landry qui doivent des licences sur
leurs professions, occupations GU meters, en-
vertu de lois existantes, sont par les presentes
notif6es que les dites licences, si elles ne sont
pas pay6s avant Ie Ter Avril proclaim, 1882,
seront coleetees aveo frais par l'avocat spe-
eia1ement d6signe par le Gonverneur Get ef-
fet. G. G. DUSON,
SE8rif ct Colleoteur des Taxes
0pelousaa II Mars, 1882. If
The Opelousas courier., 1882-05-13

Enfn, le sort des malheureux
naufrag6s de la Jeanette nous
est connu. lie commandant
DeLong a 6t6 trouVe mort, ainsi
que ses compagnons, dams les
glaces de pextreme nord. Cette
terrible fin r6serv6e aux hardis
explorateurs do ces regions gla-
Gees mettra-t-elle fin B ces ten
tatives enterprises par le cou-
The Opelousas courier., 1882-05-13

Dams la plupart des paroisse $
visit6es par lie dernier fleau, les
barrieres, 81 cheres aux habitants,
ont etc emport6es par les eaux.
Aujourd'hui les animaux cou-
rent partout; il NY a plus rien
de ce qui les retenait chez leurs
propri6taires. Les moissons el-
les-memes ne sont pas 6pargnees
par eux. II serait temps qu'une
loi de la Legislature foreat les
propri6taires de troupeaux a
yeiller a ce que ces derniers fus-
sent surveilles ct maintenus hors
des champs qui ne leur appar-
tiennent pas.-Abeille.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-05-13
LIE Courier des Opelousas,
Public LIE sAMEDr PAR

45
L'ABoNNEMENT sera de $3.50 par an,
payable d'avance. on trois piastres dams le
courant de l'annee.
LES AVIS Sc paieront cinquante cents par
earre pour la premier re insertion ct vingt-cinq
cents par earre pour chaque insertion subse-
quente. HUT lignes on moins constitueront
un carr6.
Les avis qui seront envoyes pour atre publ
6s seront inser6s en- Franeais ct en- Anglais IA
moins quill men soft antrement ordonne) jus
qua ce que l'6diteur juge propos de les dis
continuer.
Les candidats aux faveurs publiques de-
vront payer quinze piastres d'aVance, s'ils
veulent SO faire annoncer.
Les necrologes, les lettres dc remerciment
les reclames, les communications dun genre
personnel, etc. Sc paieront au taux des avis
Les articles 'nne nature pers0nnelle (quand
tontefois lis serout admissiblesl Sc paieront
vingt cents La hgne et d'avance
The Opelousas courier., 1882-05-13
OPEK4OUSAS:
sAMEDI matin. :13 MAI, 1882

Washington, 6 mai.-Le Pre-
sident relieve le general Fitz
John Porter de la partie de la
sentence qui le privait du droit
de seryir dams l'armee.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-05-13

Lassasinat de Lord Cavendish
ct de son secr6taire Burke (nous
en- avons donn6 les details dams
nos d6peches) est considers COM
me un coup terrible porte a PIN
dependence irlandaise. Les
chefs de la Land League ont
protest6 contre ce crime. Par
nell, Dillon, Michael Dawitt ont
public une adresse dams laquelle
ills maudissent les coupables ct
appellent sur eux toute la Sc
v6rit6 de la justice. Get evene-
ment est commepte par toute la
presse am6ricaine, ct il Y a
unanimit62a le considerer COM
me deyant d6terminer rADgle-
terre, ct surtout M. Gladstone,
d abandonner la Dolitique d'a-
paisement. ct d METRE l'fle en-
there sous la loi martiale. C'est
ainsi que les causes les plus
iustes sont compromises par la
faute de quelques 6nergumenes.
Abeille, 10 mai.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-05-13
NOUVEAU MAGASIN.
LIE "New Orleans Cheap Store. "

Rue Main, ris-6-v -vis te Bureau de Poste,
OPELOUSAS.
HE viens de recevoir 'ltn assortment COM
Cd plet de nouvelles marchandises, telles que
MarchandiSes S6ches, Habulements Con-
fectionnGs. ChauSSWes, Groceries,
Vias, Liquears, Etc, Etc,
Que i'offre aux prix de la Nlle-Or6ans, pour
du compliant. TOUS sout invites venir ex-
aminer mes marchandises ct Sc renseigner sur
mes prix avant de faire leurs achats ailleurs;
celia ne leur cohtera rien, ct Ills pourront 6par-
gner de rarsent Ell ce fasant.
s-g Les plus hauts prix du marche seront
pavGs pour Ia Mousse, Ia Laine ct les PeauX,
ct toute espece de produits du pays.
ETIENNE LATREYTE.
Opelousas, Is Nov. 1880. 6m
The Opelousas courier., 1882-05-13
MR.. FUZELLIER.

u f professeur bien eonnu, informe lie pu-
- bic quill tiendra chez lui, Opelousas,
de a heures du soir. une ecole on il ensei.
gnera math6matiqu physique, chimie, te-
nue. des livres, ct La eonnaissance des lois frau
eases ct americaines. Conditions-$2 90 par
mois, payables d'avance. 70 On demande
une position de teneur de livres. Les NEIL
leurs renseignements seront donnes, s'ils sont
exiges. 28a-3m
The Opelousas courier., 1882-05-13

rage ct la science ct qui ont eu
iusqu'ici de 81 d6plorables result
tats ? II nous semble quill y a
lei une question d'humanite qui
deyrait pr6occuper les autorites.
Sans doute, chacun est libre
de Sc lancer dams ces aventures
mortelles +; mais, 81 le chef de
rexp6dition tient a jouer sa vie
contre la possibiIite dune de-
couverte plus ou moins scienti-
fque, la societ6 n'a-t-elle pas le
droit d'intervenir ct d'exposer,
aux yeux dun 6quipage igno-
rant, les dangers certains vers
lesquels on Pentra1ne ? A nos
yeux, apres de ST cruels exem-
Piles, les enterprises vers lie pole
nord sont coupables.-Abeille, E
mai.
Un vieux cure nomm6 NJ.
Berthe await la singuliere mamie
de ne jamais repondre aux ques-
tions qu'on lui faisait, sans
rimer sa r6ponse avec la de-
mande de son interlocuteur.
L'ev6que de ce bon vieux pr9tre
6tant mort, un autre CONNIE de
.juste, fut nomm6 pour le rem
placer. M. Berthe, on fills SOU
mis-, dut aller a la vile rendre
ses devoirs a son sup6rieur. Or,
le nouvel 6v6que quoique may
ant iamais WI Fable Berthe,
await souvent entendu parler de
cette particularit6. M. Berthe
arrive done, fait annoncer ct
Monseignier Went le recevoir.
-C'est vous qui etes Fable
Berthe?
-Oui certes.
lie grand rimeur
-Oui, Monseigneur.
-Attachez-la votre cheval.
-Monseigneur, gous parlez
NAL.
Comment?
-Parce que mon cheval est
une jument.
Nous trouvons, dams un long
travail de statistique, public par
la Societ6 de temperance de Liy-
erpool, des details fort cnrieux
sur les victimes de l'ivrognerie,
dams les differents Etats civili-
ses.
En- Aagleterre, les exces de
boissofl tuent, chaque aimee,
une moyenne de $4,000 person
nes, don't 10000 femmes.
Went ensuite PAllemagne.
La, les victimes de l'ivrognerie
ne sont que de 10000 individus
par an.
En- Russie, on men compte que
10000; en- Belgique, 1000 en-
France, 1000.
En- Am6rique, d'apres la sta
tistique du docteur Everest, trois
cent mile personnes sont mortes,
aux Etats-Unis, des suites de
l'ivrognerie, dams Pespace de
cinq ann6es.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-05-13
Overture de la Legislature a
Baton Rouge.

Baton Rouge, 8.-Lorateur
Ogden a appel6 Ia Chambre a
Pordre a midi. 81 membres
6taient presents. LIE Pere De-
lacroix, de Baton Rouge, a fait
la priere.
L'orateur Ogden a prononc6
ensuite le discours d'ouverture.
II .rappele quill etait ne a Ba-
ton Rouge, ct quill y await fait
ses debuts CONNIE oratenr a la
Ohambre des Repr6sentants par
un discours en- fayeur de Padop-
ton par rEtat de Tenfant du
Col. Charles Drenx, tue an de-
but de la guerre. II a parle
,aussi des rayages op6r6s par
pinondation.
La legislature, dit-il, a pour
premier devoir de ne rien n6gli-
ger dams les limites du possible,
afin de secourir les Victimes de
l'inondation.
Tn comite est allie faire part
an gouyerneur de Porganisation
de La Chambre.
lie Ssnat a etc appel6 d aPordre
par le colonel Walton, president.
25 membres 6taient presents.
lie gouVerneur a recu notifca-
tion de l'organisation du S6nat
ct le message q etc III.
Les d9tenteurs des bons de-
tat demandent Q p. Q. d'int6r8t
pendant 3 ans ct 4 D. 6. ensuite.