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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12

l. Let every youth be taught some useful
art, and be trained to industry and thrift in
some institute of practical education.
2. Let every young man lay aside and
keep intact certain proportion of his earn
ings.
3. Let every one set out in life with fixed
determination to engage in business for him.
self, and let him put this determination into
practice as early in life as possible.
A. Begin in small, safe way, and extend
your business as experience shall teach you
is advantageous.
5. Keep your own books, and know con-
stantly what you are earning and just where
you stand.
6. Do not marry until in receipt of a toler
ably certain income-sufficient to live on
comfortably -4
Z. Never get into debt. A man. who owes
nothing can never fail.
8. Let every man who is able buy farm
on which to bring up his sons. 1t is on the
farm that the best men, Emorally and intel
lectually, are turned out.
8. Bear in mind that your business cannot
be permanently prosperous unless you share
its advantages equally with your customers
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12
Advice to a Young Man.
Burdette in Hawkeye.l


James G. Fair is worth S42,0O0,O0O. And
the whole S42,OO0000 of it, my dear boy,
don't make him as happy as you are with the
dew of youth in your heart, when you hold
the hand of the girl you love, and walk with
her in a path that is only wide enough for
one with the rustling branches whispering
above your head, so happy you cannot speak
with anything but your eyes. IL you envy
him, Telemachus if you with your brown
hands and your bright, young face, with the
down Just shading your lip, with not gray
hair in your head or gnawing care in your
heart, with the morning sun shining upon
your upturned face, with the velvet turf,
under Your feet, and the blue heavens above
your head, with the blood coursing through
your veins like wine, with mirage after mir
age of bright dreams and beautiful illusions
and pleasant vanities making the landscape
beautiful around you if You envy this man
his forty-two millions Of dollars, and his
spectacles, and his gray hair, and his wrink-
les, and his old heart you are fool, my boy !;
and you are scattering ashes on the roses
that grow in the morning There is light
ness in your STEP my son, and color in your
blood. and dreams in your heart, and all the
love and beauty and freshness of the sunrire
the S42,OOOO00 cannot buy, and don't you
forget it. You don't want 2,OOO,O 900, any
how. Telemachus; $2,OO0OOO are plenty, that
will keep both of u.s. And if you want
couple OF millions, why, 20 ahead and get It.
"Seest thou man dligent in his business! !!
He shall stand before kings; he shall not
stand before mean men,"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12
Garfield on his Prospects at Chicago.

Colonel Rockwell, in the January 'Century.'l
Indications were not wanting that his name
might be brought before the convention as a
candidate; and there We're not a few friends
who looked with great confidence to his nom-
nation He did not share this confidence: /:
and, in the light of past events we may now
emphasize the sincerity and earnestness Of
his wish first to round out his legislative
career in the Senate. Whenever referred to
the probability or possibility of his nomna-
ton, while he looked forward with an honest
ambition to the highest honor to be conferred
by his tellow-citizens. he would say: Not
yet / must make my record in the Senate"
| shall not soon forget my last interview with
him in his library, before his departure for
Chicago While he was fully alive 10 the
important results of the great convention, and
his first thoughts were in the direction of the
welfare Of his party and the country, with
the spirit of the gladiator he longed for the
conflict of debate Rising from his chair, he
said. slowly and musingly: well, l 60 to
Chicago" Then drawing himself up, he adj
ded.-"And if any one attempts to bulldoze
that convention, | propose measuring lances
with him.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12
Garfeld's distaste for the Position of an
....ft.n EX-President.

Col. Rockwell in the January Century,
With two or three friends, accompanied
him to Mr. Chittenden's reception, on the
evening after his arrival The conversation
naturally dritted to the personal relations of
General Garfield to the Presidency its bear
ing upon his future, and the bright promises
for the public good that would come from
his administration. The glories of the present
were brilliant and attractive enough: but to
him the future brought q SOLDERING, sadden-
ing prospect -Four years hence" said he,
II shall leave the Presidency, still young
man. with no future before me to become q
political. ..reminiscence- squeezed lemon, to
be thrown away"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12
The Bulk of Silver.

The new vault in the United States sub
treasury, which was prepared for the storage
OF silver dollars, is forty eight feet in length
thirty feet wide, and twelve feet high. II
every available inch should be packed solid
ly with 4129 grain dollars it would not hold
far from forty million dollars. Everyone
knows that silver is bulky, but few persons
are aware how bulky it is. A bag of 200
412R grain dollars weighs SO 3-16 pounds
avordupois. Accordingly, 100000 dollars
weigh not far from three tons. III merchant
or banker having payment of $4,000 to
make, is compelled by circumstances to pay
with silver dollars, he would need vehicle
as strong and as large as an ordinary coal cart
made to carry a ton of coal) to transport
them and if this should be heaped up, no
more than 3d. 900 silver dollars could be
loaded on it. lsBsi .ts4 a 4I
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12
4 NOrseIand Legend.

!, Bjrobert Burdette in Burling gton Hawkeye.l
1t is beautiful legend of the Norseland.
Amelias was the village blacksmith, and un-
der the spreading chestnut treean his village
smithophiken stood He the hot iron ge-
hammered and sjhod horses for 80 cents all
round, please He made tin helmets for the
gjodds and stovepipe trousers for the hjeroes.
Mimir was rival blacksmith. He didn't
90 in very much for defensive armor but he
was lightning on two-edged Bjswords and
cut and slash syrcutlassesssess. He made
cheese-knives for the other gjodds, and he
made the great Bjsvsstnsen and Arkansas
toothpick that would make free incision
clear into the transverse semi-colon of cast
iron ichthyOsaurus and never turn it's edge
That was the kind of Bhjairpid Mimir said
he was.
One day Amilias made an impenetrable
suit of armor for a second-class gjodd. and
put it on himself to test it, and boasttully
inserted card in the Svensefka Norderbjra-
viskjkanaheldjespl orodjdovsakenit,
saying that he was wearing suit of home
made. best-chilled, Norway merino under
wear that would kick the unnumbered saw
teeth in the pot metal cutlery of the iron
mongery over the way. That, Amelias re-
marked to his friend Rjohnn Bjobinson, was
the kind of Bdjuckk he was.
When Mimir spelled out the card next
morning, he said "Biij"' and went to work
with charcoal furnace, cold anvil and A.
T. Hays isomorphic process and in % little
while he came down street with sjvaaard
that glittered like q dollar store diamond, and
met Amilias down by the new opera house.
Amelias buttoned on his new Bjarmor, and
said: IF you have no hereafter use for your
old chvieese KNIFE, strike!"
Mimir spat on his hands, whirled his
sjvaaard above his head, and fetched Amelias
q swipe that seemed to miss everything ex-
cept the empty air through which it softly
whistled Amelias smiled and said, 'Go on"
adding that it seemed to him that he felt
general sense of cold iron somewhere in his
neighborhocd, but he hadn't been hit
Shake yourself" said Mimir.
Amelias shook himself and Immediately
fell into halves the most neatly divided man
that ever went beside himself
"Thats where the boiler maker was away
off in his diagnosis" said Mimir, as he went
back to his shop to put up the price of cut
lery IS per cent. in all lines, with an unlimit-
ed advance On special orders.
Thus do we learn that good action is
never thrown away, and that kind words and
patient love will overcome the hardest ma
lures.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12
Worth Remembering.

The cream of society should be well dashed
in the churn of culture.
Virtue is the soil quartz from which the
fine gold of character is stamped.
If all persons when in company would be
pleasant, many pangs would be averted.
The blooms of health are the gems from
which are produced the flowers of wealth.
Golden words fitly spoken fill many
hearts with hope that would otherwise be
broken.
A dress party creates earthly happiness.
Dressv members of church are abOmlnabie.
When preacher calls on the members oi
his flock accompanied by his wife, the uevil
is sly and fees from that neighborhood.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12
OLD THEATRES.
Play Houses Of the Seventeenth Centu.
ry.-Their Rude Construction.

Theatres Of the seventeenth century, and
even of the eighteenth, were of the rudest
construction being unusually formed by dis
used tennis courts Their shape was oblong.
Benches one above another, were fixed
against the side walls for the more aristocrat-
ic spectators. The inconvenience of these
seats. both for sight and sound, led to the
elite of the audience being accommodated
with chairs upon the stage. The center of
the floor was the parterre, and was without
seats A ring of tallOw candles, formed into
q kind of rude chandelier, such as few
years ago might have been seen in village
circus, suspended over the center Of the stage
was the sole illumination. The stage was
erected in an alcove at one end. Three or
four wooden frames on each side formed the
wings" or entrances, painted curtain in
the background the scenery, and some bands
of blue paper flung from the ceiling repre-
sented sky and root. The change OF scenes
were effected by movable curtains Or rolling
cloths. The play began at 2 o'clock and ter
minated at half-past four. The price of ad
mission to the parterre was four sous. The
great success of LES Preculeses Ridicules"
induced Moliere to raise ten sous, but at the
end of the run it had receded to five. BY
1867, however the price had risen to fifteen
SouS. tttluiCHCS, DOtL SICdU
were as rude as the accommodations. Here
is a picture of the parterre drawn by an eye
witness-"The parterre is very inconvenient
on account of the press there are to be found
there thousand knaves, mingled with the
honest people whom they sometimes wish to
atfront. They made quarrels out of nothing,
drew their swords and interrupt the play.
At their quietest they do not cease talking,
crying and kissing and because they have
paid nothing for their entrance, and that
they have come there only for lack of an
other occupation, they care little to hear
what the actors and actresses say. The be-
haviOr of the aristOcratic portion was a little ,
better. The tops and people of fashion had
their seats upon the stage. The theatre was
what the opera is of the present day, rem
devious, and coquetting and chattering and
loud laughing interrupted the performance
to the indignation of the more respectable
portion of the parterre, which frequently re-
sented it. Sometimes the crowd upon the
stage is so large that there was
room for the actors, and senti-
nels had to be placed at the entrances to
keep the people back. A ludicurous anec-
dote is told of the first representation of 'Se-
miramus." Just in front OF the tomb of Nj
nus the crush was so great that the ghost
could not issue theretrom until the sentinel
had shouted out several times: Make way
for the ghost, gentlemen make way for the
ghost :"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12

Between the green corn and The gold,
Between the dawning and the noon,
Love. that at first was pale and cold,
Waxed ruddy with the summer moon,
And hearts beat high and lips grew bold
Between the green corn and the gold.
The primrose, precious key OF Spring,
Unlocked the casket of the year;
The flowers flew forth on rainbow wing
Ger hill and mead and mere
To woo the new year like the old
Between the green corn and the gold.
Between the gold corn and the green,
Between the midday and the dawn,
The Summer woods have lost their sheen,
The flowers have withered on the lawn
And love lies dead where love hath been,
Between the gold corn and the green.
Love j. not dead; he cannot die,
Although his eyes be veiled with PAIN;
The woods shall waken by-and-by,
The flowers shall blossom once again;
And we-Shall we not wake, my Queen,
Between the gold corn and the green"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12
LAUGHTER AND DEATH.

There is no laughter in the natural worl
OF beast or fish or bird though no sad dou
OF their futurity to them unfurled
Has dared To check the mrth compelling sho
The lion roars his solemn thunder out
TO the sleeping woods. The eagle screams her cry.
Even the lark must strain serious throat
TO hur his biest defiance at the sky.
Fear. anger, jealousy have found a voice.
Loves pain or rapture the brute bosoms swell.
Nature has symbols for her nobier joys,
Her nober sorrows. Who had dared foItell
That only man, by some sad mockery
Should learn TO laugh who learns that he must die "
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12
THE MODERN PRIMER.
Simple Tales for the Pleasure and
Profit Of the Little Children.
Denver Tribune.

This strange looking creature is Billy
Goat He has beard on him that looks like
Papas, and he is a. Stronger Butter than
Mamma uses for Cooking. What is the Billy
Goat doing? He is Eating an Oyster Can.
If you Were to go up and Pull the Billy
Goats beard You Would feel Something
Drop. And it would not be the Billy Goat,
Either
What is This we See? 1t is Razor, and
Papa uses it Every morning to make his Neck
sore. 1t looks Pretty Sharp. Draw it across
yours Fingers and Make it Dull. You could
Cut your Name on the Mantel Piece with the
Razor if you Were to Try. A Razor is q
Handy Thing to have in a House where there
are COrns and Piano Legs to Carve. 1t is al
SO Just the Thing to Cut off the Kittens
Tail with.
This Awkward sheet is our Esteemed Con-
temporary. 1t is Run by an Unhung Felon.
We would not Give him Glass of Water to
Save his Life, but We would Take Beer
with him if we were Properly Approached
Our esteemed Contemporary has no Circula-
tion and its Influence is Correspondingly
Small. 1t cuts Advertising Rates and is So
Mean it would Skin Skunk to save Scent
If we had Our Way, we would Suspend our
Esteemed Contemporary and Put its Editors
and Reporters in Jail where they Belong
Here we Have an Album. 1t is Full of
Pictures for little Children with Dirty Fin
gers to Look at. Here are two Pictures of
Papa This is one of Him before he was
Married to Mamma. He looks like Two
year-old Colt behind Band of Music. Here
is Picture of Papa after he Married Nam
ma. Now he Looks like Government Mule
hauling q Load of Pig Iron. See if you Can
put your finger on the Nose and the Eyes
and the Mouth of Each Picture Turn down
a Leaf when you come to pretty Picture
you Like. The baby is Eating Bread and
Let him Take the Album and
Look at the Pictures, too.
This is a Lamp. 1t is full OF Nice Yellow
Oil. Can you Light the Lamp? If there is
Too much Oil pour Some of it in the Stove.
will not Miss the Oil if you Pour it
in the Stove, but she May miss you. A lit
tie Oil on the Carpet is not Bad thing for
the Carpet and You.
vi.
Do not Make Noise or you will Wake
the Policeman. He is setting on the Door
Step asleep. 1t is very Hard on him to Have
to Sleep out of Doors these Cold Nights.
There is a Bank being Robbed around the
Corner and Woman is being Killed in the
next Block If the Policeman Walked up, he
might Find it out and Arrest somebody.
Some people Believe this is what Policemen
are for, but the Policemen do not Think so.
VII,
Is it Pipe? Yes, it is Papas Pipe and it
Has not been Cleaned out for Four months.
It is full of Ashes and Spit. 1t would not
Hurt the Pipe if you were to Take several
good long Sucks at it.
Mammals Toothbrush is on the Bureau.
Suppose we scrub out the Slop Pail with it.
Then Mamma will wonder what She has
Eaten to give her such Bad Breath. She
will Think the Toothbrush has been Sit
ting up with q Corpse.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12
History of New England Family.

ing old farmer, for whom the old man
worked hard to give them an "eddicashun,' y
which they thought they secured at college.
After which, by their lives, they answered
the following cOnundrums:
Why did the first young man become q
doctor? Because he coveted a "genteel occu-
patton more than from any genuine love of
the healing art So he became a machine
doctor. and poor doctor.
Why did the second brother become q law
yer? Because he, too, coveted some genteel
occupation. So he became machine lawyer,
and very ordinary lawyer.
Why did the third brother become a min
ister? Principally because he also craved
some genteel occupation. So be became a
machine minister and very ordinary sort OF
minister.
Who made the most money? Ishmael, the
fourth brother made the most money. Father
couldn't afford to send him to college. So
he left the plow, became clerk at the vii
lage grocery at fifteen. bought horse and
wagon at eighteen, peddled among the farm
ers, and bought butter, eggs and poultry. sold
out the business at nineteen to another man,
ran the other man out of the same business
at twenty, started commission store in the
city at twenty-ore failed three times before
he was twenty -four, owned a steamboat at
twenty-five. half q railroad ut twenty
seven, married rich at twenty-eight, failed
rich at twenty mine, and is now lone of our
most respected and eminent" "a vestryman
of the Church of the Incorrigible Innocents,"
Lives in q brown stone 'front.'" moves in the
very first circles" is 'high-toned gentle
man." has no 'small vices" and is President
OF bank.
Who did the poorest? Abraham, the fifth
son, He stayed ON the farm, raised cabbages,
turnips and potatoes, sold them for what
he could get, took pride in having the finest
cows and richest milk in the country, i'm
proved his fruit trees, never got in debt,
lived within his means, always gave scrip
ture measure pressed down and running over,
refused to run for Office, gave two barrels of
potatoes to the poor every winter, and mar
ried girl who had only health, good nature
good sense and honesty to give him.
The Largest Steam Hammer.
= The largest steam hammer in the United
States was recently placed in position in the
Black Diamond Steel Works of Park Bros. q
Co., at Pittsburg. The hammer weighs seven
teen tons, while the anvil block under it
weighs 160 tons. With full head ,f steam
it will strike blow of ninety tons, but, as
this tremendous weight is not always neces- /
sary in hammering it can be made to strike
as light as desired 1t has thirty-eight-
inch cylinder and nine foot stroke. The pom
derous blows make the earth shake for rsa-
dius of nearly 200 yards. aE s, 80 se
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-01-12

Mammals Toothbrush is on the Bureau.
Suppose we scrub out the Slop Pail with it.
Then Mamma will wonder what She has
Eaten to give her such Bad Breath. She
will Think the Toothbrush has been Sit
ting up with Corpse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-16

col;o,onbv and illumination. Mr. Ruskin, lndeeu'
some time ago put forth plea to the British pun
lie IN intrust him with funds TO buy at MS own
discretion for his Sheffield museum and perhaps ior
other public institutions. The British pubic mi8h'
do and does. far more with its money, but ha'o
not heard of any response TO Mr.. Ruskins prayer
asked nv French bookseller friend VIVA, he
thought of the Rockford part of the Hanl'oh
Library. "Well," he answered. oousn'
GOO ooo worth Of books out of it," and it presently
appeared that clients OF great NAME actins un'0.
ms advice bought much more than that. But he
n,do one curious remark. The prices, he said
ruled high but only for certain classes OF books
Tho Enolsb bonght very largely, and for very large
sums. hooks of engrayngs and illustrated books
worry many Of very moderate quality. But the ex-
amples of fue and early bindings, in when inc
Rockford collection was rich were allowed TO go TO
foreign BUYERS at low rates This need net surprise
ANYBODY. Bindings whether historical or modern,
are understood in France, and are ltle understood
in ENGLAND In the long list Of English binders
known TO fame-sOme of them through Dbdln'aloo
ish pancgyrics-therc is hardly ono whose place IN
general history OF the art would be Important
Rockford was an Englishman OF Continental taste
and culture-oae of the rarest of the species lis
library contained many bindings of "a very high
order of beauty and not few examples oil extreme
interest and value-I don't mean merely commercial
value. Some of the finest which went to PaIls are
to be reproduced by the process which Daniel,
Lille printer has oiScOvcred-a Kind OF chromo-
Ttborrapnv capable of initiating with surprising
fdelitv not only the colors but the texture OF he
leather. and the sedate splendor Of old gold upon
old morocco: in itself one OF the richest eioctS
that can be seen in color e. W. s.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-16
MINES AND MINING
SUNDAY, Oct IA

SUNDAY, Oct 49,, !.
Further depression was the rule at tba ~,
Stock Exchanges all last week. The ann ,un..a
OF additional assessments on the Comstoek .ha-''a
declared and anticipated-was the occasion -
sharp decline in the San Francisco markets
that reacted upon our own markets, which LEN sp
were suffering from the collapse in prices for ss
properties that before had enjoyed public ." S's
dence in their futures. Robinson Consolidated az
Iron Silver were notable exceptions to tb,s .sa sos
decentralization and actually made adyancesin az.
prices. Aea
Yesterdays markets showed little more .,s, =,
ness than before had prevailed, and there ws,a VI
recoyerIes in price, But the advance was not sne
character hch affords any hopes of lie stsh,,2k
u rather was Eay principally due 10 The eovl,;
2 40, and after decline to 220 closed at 2 az ~. z
Robinson Consolidated was firm at go. aug
The Father de Smet Consolidated Gold W.
Company has declared its dividend mo. On ~ lf
cents per share, payable at the office of LaidlerY
Co., No. ii Wall-st.. New-York, Noyemhs,
Transfer books will close on October 20. Il
sALEs Ar THE MTELN0 E1CHAH1g,