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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
PILING 1T ON.

Here lie. a man whose crown was won
hy oIo"lis III All e'iip'' -Steubenville Herald.
No sooner in the CUR he blew
Than ND the golden stair he new. , p,,O,,
And met the girl on heavens green
Who lit the fire with kerosene. ., r,rnol
He also saw, astrde stool,
The man wno tampered with mule. r,,,,.oss
Turning around, from sudden whlm,
He saw the boy who couldn sw5il, ,.;,Io Ionrnal
The man who left church before the coilectioh'
lie also saw III u''ei MKeokuk Constitution.
He also saw, feeling mighty s,re. >,
Inc man "ho -Downieville Messenger.
And further ON was the miner, by Joye!
Who thawed his powder wi'hi" '"' The Opinion.
COMPANION to him was the blasted soui
no dr'lie' ou' '"e New York Dispatch.
And there he saw on fiery knoll,
The seat reserved for lngersoii. p;ohr,ord BATON.
The man who tampered with dyhaihi'e
Was also found in wrf5en Henderson III c Gold Leaf.
With red-hot chains on both ms iegs s-ffsl
He saw the man with Easter-eggs;; o,,,,o,d Ration.
Inst here the rhymers, goddess gang, a-os :
Arrived and he'll closed with bang. ;.~-Iournai.
But above the bang were heard the ar,es,;sa er,es
OF the merchant who ne er wouiu az
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
Mother Don't w Ork.
WOman's Journal.


A little boy on his way to build fires and
sweep offices in Boston, while the stars were
yet in the sky, said to the writer:
"My mother gets me up, builds the hre
and gets my breakfast, and sends me otf.
Then she gets, my father up and gets his
breakfast and sends him off. Then she gives
the other children their breakfast and sends
them to school; and then she and the baby
have their breakfast"
"How old is the baby?' [ asked.
ooh, she is most two, but she can talk ana
walk as well as any of us"
Are you well paid 2"
Il get 50 week and my father gets 81
day"
How much does your mother get?"
With bewildered look, he said:
Mother! Why, she don't work for any
body"
ii thought you said she worked for all of
YOU"
'Oh, yes; for us she does. But there amt
any money into it,"
This wife of day labOrer represents a
large class of hard working women. The
compensation of affection, the love OF hus-
band and children, and the nameless and
numberless blessings that come with and be-
long TO the family life, can no more make up
to a wife the loss of all money value for her
service than they would to her husband if
the same poverty of position were thrust
upon him.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15

7 Scientific American.

At the recent Sanitary Convention at Ann
Arbor, Mich, Dr. c. J. Lundy, OF Detroit,
read paper on Hygiene in Relation to the
Eye" which should have the widest circula-
ton, especially among teachers and school
officers. A fruitful source of eye troubles IS
shown to be the excessive strain upon the
muscles and nerves of the eyes due to faulty
educational methods, the ill-planned and in
sufficient lighting of school rooms, poor ink
and fine print in school books and other
causes, which education might correct.
In conclusion DR.. Lundy lays down the
following rules for the better care of the
eyes:
/. Avoid reading and studying by. poor
light
2. Light should come from the side, and
not from the front or from the back.
3. Do not read Or study while suffering
great bodily fatigue or during recovery from
fatigue
4. Do rot read while lying down.
5. Do not use the eyes too long at time
for near work, but give them occasional per-
iods of rest.
6. Reading and study should be done sys-
tematically.
Z. During study avoid a STOPPING position
or whatever tends to produce congestion OF
the head and face
8. Select well printed books.
9. Correct errors of refractiOn with proper
glasses.
TO- Avoid bad hygienic conditions and the
use of alcohol and tobacco.
II. Take sufficient exercise in the open
air.
12 Let the physical keep pace with the
mental culture, for asthenopia is most usually
observed in those who are lacking in physl-
cal development. ..-.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
GOODBYE, OSCAR.
Boston Republic.

Boston RepuDllcl
Oscar farewell it grieves us you are gong
Across the briny unsympathetic,
Whose waves displeased you with their flowing,
They were so uneSthctic.
For our half dollars that you took in payment,
You've told us how to beautity a dado,
And that the man who wears the incest ralnent
Lives out in Colorado.
We're sorry that you find our cups so massive
You cannot drink the mocha they environ,
Nor do we marvel you not impasslve
Before our stoves of iron.
Yet they declare that when you slipped the hyscn
Which Kate Field served you in Manhattan emma
You owned her parlor's decorous horizon
Than London ones was finer.
Although in public you may not have SAID 1t, ,
ReporterS tell us when our drinks you sampled
You gave our Ganymedes exceeding credit
For knowledge uneXampled
Since to your soul Niagara brought pleasure,
At muddy Jersey with you we are Knockers,
And are real glad our tors took your measure
For velvet llnc!zerbockers.
Then good bve Oscar; we are young, but growing
And when again you cross the salty ocean,
We may have other objects worthy showing
i youth of your devotion.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
SIXTE-FIyE YEARS A MINISTER
A Venerable Bishop.
TSt. Louis Globe-Democrat. I

Ht [St. Louis Globe Democrat
There was a touching scene in the Metho-
dist conference at Nashville few days ago,
when the venerable Bishop Paine asked to
be relieved from further active service in the
church. He had been a minister for sixty
five years, and bishop for more than thirty
years, and at the age of nearly ninety he felt
that it was nearly time for him to lay down
his charge and calmly wait ior the great
transition which he was sure was near at
hand. He spoke few words of encourage
ment to those with whom he had been asso-
ciated in the Christian cause, and urged them
all to renewed efforts in the good work. AS
for himself, he said, the longer he had lived
the more thoroughly he had become con-
vinced of the Christion doctrine. His only
regret w:.s that he was worn out, and that he
had so few more years to give to the work of
salvation. This circumstance is worth re-
calling, for the sake of inquiring why it is
that we never find any infidel standing up
in meeting of unbelievers and making a
speech of similar import-that is to say, lay
ing down his charge because of advancing
age, and asking his younger associates to
fight the good fight" when he is gone. We
cannot recall single instance OF an infdel
at forty who was equally an infidel at
seventy-and here is this good old bishop
who is more jealous for Christianity at al
most four and ten than he was at two score.
Franklin and Jefferson, who have been
quoted as the most noted Of American inf
dels of the past became, if not sincere be-
LEVERS at least sincere inquirers before they
died and Voltaire and Paine greatly relaxed
their hostility to the Christian religion in
their declining years. Will some of the So
called "liberal' societies inform US why the
doctrine of infidelity gets so little encourage
ment from those who are nearing the other
shore, and why it has never received kind
word from the death-bed ?"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
BeWiIdering a Barkeeper.
boston Courier.


The story is told of we'll known poll
tician of this city, who had the misfortune
to have one of his legs shorter than the
other. He would never carry a crutch, and
his friends often wondered how he could get
about so we'll without one. One evening,
feeling rather thirsty, he presented himself
at the bar of the fremont House, presided
over at the time by William Pitcher. Rest
ing on his short leg, he ordered his drink,
and while it was being prepared, shifted the
weight of his body to the long one, thus in
creasing his height several inches. Shortly
after having finished his labor with spoon
and bottle, Pitcher placed the delicious bev-
erage which he had been concocting upon
the counter, with bewildered look on his
genial countenance, asked: Where in thun-
der is the little fellow thav ordered this
drink
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
4 Curious Incident.
[Caroline Fox's Memories.

Aunt Charles Fox told us of an American
friend who once felt concern to go some
where. he knew not where He ordered his
gig, the servant asking where he was to drive.
"Up and down the road" said the master.
At last they met funeral. Follow this
funeral" said the master They followed in
the procession until they came to the church
yard While the service was being perform
ed the friend sat in his gig. At its conclusion
he walked to the grave and exclaimed SOL
emnly: THE person now buried is innocent
of the crime laid to her charge" and then
returnd to his gig. An elderly gentleman in
deep mourning came up to him in great agi-
tation and said:
"Sir, what you said surprised me very
much"
II can't help it, can't help it," replied the
other; Il only said what was obliged to
say"
"Well," said the mourner, 'the person just
buried was my wife, who for some years has
lain under the suspicion of infidelity to me.
No one else knew of it, and on her death-bed
she again protested her innocence. and said
that if I would not believe her then a wit
ness to it would be raised up even at her
graveside." -
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
Helena Montana, Thursday, June IS, 1882.
The Use of Ammonia.

The recent discoveries in science and
chemistry are fast revolutionizing our daily
domestic economies. Old methods are giving
way to the methods of modern investigation,
and the habits and methods of our fathers
and mothers are stepping down and out, to
be succeeded by the new ideas, with marvel
GUS rapidity. In no department of science
however, have more rapid strides been made
than in its relations to the preparation and
preservation of human food. Scientists,
having discovered how to traverse space,
furnish heat, and beat time itself, by the ap-
plication of natural forces, and to do hun
dred other things promotive to the happi-
ness of human kind, are naturally turning
their attention to the development of other
agencies and powers that shall add to the
years during which man may enjoy the
blessings set before him.
Among the recent discoveries in this Gi-
rection none is more important than the
uses to which common ammonia can be
properly put as a leavening agent, and which
indicates that this familiar salt is hereafter
to perform an active part in the preparation
of our daily food.
The carbonate Of ammonia is an exceed
ingly violate substance. Place small por-
tion of it upon a knife and hold over flame
and it will almost Immediately be entirely
developed into gas and pass off into the air.
The gas thus formed is a simple composition
of hydrogen. No residue is left from the
ammonia. This gives it its superiority as a
leavening power over soda and cream of tar
tar when used alone, and has induced its use
as supplement to these articles. A small
quantity of ammonia in the dough is effect
i've in producing bread that will be
lighter, sweeter, and more wholesome than
that risen by any other leavening agent.
When it is acted upon by the heat of baking
the leavening gas that raises the dough is
liberated. In this act it uses itself up, as it
were; the ammonia is entirely ditfused,
leaving no trace or residum whatever. The
light, fluffy, tia>y appearance, so desirable in
biscuits, etc, and so sought after by profess
sional cooks, is said to be impaired to them
only by the use of this agent.
The bakers and baking powder manufac-
lures producing the finest goods have been
quick to avail themselves of this useful dis
covery, and the handsomest and best bread
and cake are now largely risen by the aid of
ammonia, combined Of course with other
leavening material.
Ammonia is one of the best known pro-
ducts of the labratory. If, as seems to be
justly claimed for it, the application of its
properties to the purposes Of cooking results
in giving us lighter and more wholesome
bread, biscuit, and cake it will prove a boon
to dyspeptic humanity, and will speedily
force itself into general Use in the new field
to which science has assigned it.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
WHATHE WOULD GIVE UP.

When mamma said, "Now, children dear,
You know that it is Lent,
Some blessing you should sacrifice,
Which heaven to you has sent
Our ten-year- made haste to say,
You promised me dress,
And | say I'll give that up,
Twill be enough, guess
We'll. love sugar in my tea,
Three Jumps and sometimes four,
If agree to go without,
You could not ask for more,
Said number two, with thoughtful face
And wisely nodding head,
While number three was thinking last,
Our rougish little Fred.
Il want to div up somefin big,
Cause | amt very doOd,
But. when my fings was div to me,
touldnt if | would"
And while his bright eyes shone IKE stars
With manners calm and cool,
He said Il find dat | will try
And div up doin to school,"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
A Beautiful Custom.

A beautiful custom prevails among the
simple dwellers of the Swiss Alps AS the
setting sun gilds the summit of the Alps,
the shepherd who inhabits the highest peak
of these mountains takes his horn and cries
with loud voice. Praised be the Lord"
AS soon as the neighboring shepherds hear
him they leave their huts and repeat these
words. The sounds are prolonged many
minutes while the echoes of the mountain
and grottoes repeat the name of God. Imagi-
nation cannot picture anything more solemn
or sublime than such scene. During the
silence that succeeds, the shepherds bend
their knees and pray in the open air, and
then repair to their huts to rest.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
The Salicylic Treatment OF Rhcu-
matiSm.
Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal.

Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal
DR.. Maclagan, of England, who introduced
the salicylic treatment of rheumatism, has
recently published work defending the
treatment and insisting on its advantages
over every other method. OF the thirty
salicylc compounds, but two beside salicylic
are employed-salicylic acid and sallcylate
of soda. After an ample trial, carried
through several years of practice, he con-
cludes that in rheumatism thirty grains Of
salicine should be given every hour until
pain abates, and then every two hours for
few days during the day, and afterwards
gradually withdrawn. He insists on the
large doses as necessary to develop the full
benefits of the medicine. Much complaint
has been made in various quarters of the
failure of the salicylic treatment, and it is
quite probable that this has resulted from
insufficient Doses We ourselves have gen.
orally been content with fifteen or twenty
grain doses every two hours in the form of
salicylate of soda, from which good results
follow in the large proportion of cases.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
A Wonderful Telephone.

Mexican papers contain an account of an
invention by scientific gentleman of that
country of telephone which easily car
ries the sound On the voice to the distance of
fifteen hundred miles. One paper, in COM
menting on an invention which may well
make North American inventors look to their
laurels, says: aUntil now no telephone ap-
paratus has been able, in the regular course
of business, to transmit sound more than
ninety miles. 1t is to be desired that the
Minister of Public Works will boldly profit
by the utilization of so notable and useful
an invention
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
Burst an Eyeball in SneeZing.
indianapolis Times.

. Miss Mary Henrehan met with singular
accident day before yesterday. While riding
on street car she was seized with sudden
fit of sneezing, and burst one of her eyeballs
from which she has since been suffering the
most intense pain. Her physician says that
such an occurrence is very uncommon,
especially when there was no liberation of
the eye or disease of the organs sufficient to
cause it to burst. He says that probably the
sneezing was so rapid that the eye remained
open, and would have greatly increased the
effect of the sudden strain. OF course the
young woman lost the sight of the injured
eye.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
IngersOll's Father.

Bob Ingersolls father was tremendous
preacher. On one occasion he so wildly
portrayed the hours of the judgment day
and the tortures of hell that the whole au-
dience (which came some miles from the
country around) was swayed like trees from
a strong wind; strong men wept, women
walled, and nearly all were upon their knees.
He commenced to preach at l o'clock, and
when the people Left the church the sun was
setting.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
THE RESTLESS BOY IN CHURCH..

How he turns and twists,
And how he persists
In rattling his heels;
How uneasy he feels,
Our wide-awake boy i'll church.
Then, earnest and still,
lie attends with a will,
While the story is told
OF some hero bold,
Our dear thoughtful boy in church!
But our glad surprise
At his thoughtful eyes
l. turned to despair,
A he twitches the hair
OF his little sister III church.
still, each naughty trick flies
At a look from the eyes
OF his mother so dear,
Who thinks best to sit near
Her mischievOus boy III church.
Another trick comes!
Yes His finger he drums,
Or his kerchief is spread
All over his head,
And still we take him TO church!
He's troublesome! Yes,
That I'm bound to confess;
But God made the boys,
With their fun and their noise,
And He surely wants them in church!
such children, you know,
Long, long years ago
Did not trouble the Lord,
Though disciples were bored;
So we still keep them near Him in church.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-06-15
Turpentine as a Remedy for WhOoping
Cough.

DIR. Barely, of Nice, has successfully en-
ployed turpentine vapor in the treatment OF
whooping cough. The drug is allowed to
stand in plates in the room occupied by the
patient, resort to which simple expedient
is believed to greatly lessen the severity and
duration of the malady. DIR. Barely was led
to trail of this remedy by observing the
marked improvement in the case of child
severly affected, who had been allowed to
sleep in a newly painted room redolent with
turnentine OdOr.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
Estate OF Eohraim Stebbins.

Z y : - - SCI z 2 :, Z :, - : r..
bate Court, held at Hyde Park within and for said
District, on the 10Th day of May, a. d. 1882.
sarah III. Stebbins, eXeculriX of the estate
OF Epraim Stebbns, late of Eden, in said district
deceased, makes application to said Court, for
license to sell all of The real estate of said deceas-
ed, to wit: About f.: acre of land with buildings
thereon, near Eden Corners; also part of lot
no. in the 9Th range, supposed to be about nine
acres, and about ten acres in lot, Sth range also
about four acres of land in lot No TO- tenth range
representing that the sale thereof, of the whole or
part of said real estate is necessa ry
for the purpose of paying debts and legacies !;
Whercupon, it is ordered by said Court, that said
application be referred to a session thereof to be
held at the Probate Office, in said Hyde Park
on the 2ND DAY OF JUNE, A. d. 1882,
for hearing and decision thereon; and it is
further ordered, that all persons interested
be notified hereof by publication of notice of said
application and order thereon, three weeks sue
eessivcly in the News Il Citizen, published at
Morrisvile and Hyde Park before said time of
hearing, that they may appear at said time and
place, and, if they see cause, object thereto.
By the Court-Attest
25w3 Russell s. PAGE, Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
POLITICAL.

Reports from Indiana say that Mr..
English's ''barrel' had everything to
do with his sons nomination to Con-
gress. A special train, we'll loaded
with liquor and refreshments, carried
the candidate and his working friends
to the convention, and it is charged
that the affair was bargain and sale.
This the l1nglishes deny.
General Logan has been telling
some stories about Senator Conlino.
Among them was enc indicating his
success III giving otIense. When he
was making his tour of the West in
1880, lie was waited upon while
he was at Cleveland, Ohio, BY a score
or two OF bankers, railroad magnates
and leading citizens. who rendered
him special car and their escort to
Cincinnati, whittier he was about to
go. Strengthening himseli. to his full
est length, with the utmost scornful
curl OF the lip and severest dignity,
ne refused to listen, saying impudeRt-
": "WheH wish to travel with a
menagerie | will let You krow."
Three Southern States are now pat
down among the doub6 ful this fall,
Virginia, Mississippi and North Caro-
lima. With fair yO te there would be
no doubt about Florida. South Caro-
lima and Louisiana.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

All this time the fire is raging, de
vouring house after house; sprinlled
occasionally with water by the fire-en-
Gines, pelted constantly with bricks
and stones from the roofs of neigh
boring houses, but steadily advancing.
In two hours time it destroyed about
fifty houses, and was stopped on one
side by reaching a vacant space; on
a second side by inability to pass a
gap caused by the timely demolition
of house; and on the third side,
strange to say, by the labors of the
fire companies with nothing but cold
water.
The people struggled away home
when the affair was over. The fire.
men remained on the scene with few
soldiers to throw water on the embers,
and to make the night hideous until
daybreak, with their shouts and songs
and war-dances in the desolate gar
dens of the vanished houses.
In the early morning the liremen
visited every house within a half q
mile Of the fire, demanding ''back-
sheeSb." Every house was expected
to pay according to its proximity to
the fire. Some fifty cents, some IL
dollar, and so on up to five dollars,
for the comfort of having the yelling
firemen within hail. OF course this
money was over and above any private
largess given by those who had di-
rectly hired the fremen for specific
work.
After daybreak came the closing
ceremony of the fire. At one point Il
house had been saved by the fire-en-
gines. Such an instance must be
marked by special rejoicings, and so
the owner Of the house, in addition to
their contract price agreed upon with
the fireman, gave them huge sheep
as present. The firemen brought
their engine in front of the house,
nearly filled it with water, and then
butchered the sheep, letting the blood
run into the engine. They then man
ned the pumps, and with ferocious
yells threw the mingled blood and wa
ter over the house which they had
saved, marking it with red biotches
all over. This done, they returned to
a convenient spot and barbaculed their
devouring it entire, with CO.
pious libations of bad whiskey. This
closed the history Of that fire. Forty
or fifty families were turned out oil
doors, with more or less loss and some
A good result OF the fire
was, however, the destruction Of It
nest of low groggeries and the en-
argement of a street formerly ten
FEET wide, to width of twenty-five.
50 goes the work of improvements in
Jonstantinople. Ii. o.. d.