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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
TO AN OLD COAT.

Poor coat, well loved for many reasons,
Since both of us grow old, be true:
This hand has brushed you for ten seasons,
Fen Socrates no more could do.
Whilst time your thin and white scanned stuff
Keeps on attacking without end,
Wisely, like me, his blows rebuff;
And never let us part, old friend.
That birthday flown, when first wore you.
mind well-memory yet is strong
My friends around to honor bore you,
And poured their welcome forth in song,
Your plight-of which I'm vain
flinders them not an arm to lend,
Ihey'd freely feast us now again;
30 never let us part, old friend.
You're patched behind, an ancient rending;
That, too, recalls a past delight;
One night to run from Jane pretending,
| felt her soft hand clutch me tight,
lore were you, and that frghttul tear,
Il took my Jane two days to mend,
While | was held her captive there,
30 never let us part, old friend.
Have you been stepped in musk and amber,
Which fops sniff, looking in the glass?
or pushed along an ante-chamber?
For swells to sneer at as we pass?
throughout all France my faction rent,
Ribbons and stars fell strife can send
field flower is your ornament;
20 never let us part, old friend.
Fear no more days of idle ranging,
When our two fates became as one,
VI pleasure with plain interchanging,
- vi lntermingled rain and sun.
For the last time soon shall dof
- My clothes. Just wait! and we will wend
together, gently going off;
20 never let us part, old friend.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
MIR. jones' Attempt at Joking.

| Jones was reading the daily paper; sud-
denly he looked up and said:
That's rather sad case about that poor
woman in Crogham street whom the author
tiles refused to bury"
| II should say it was !" exclaimed Mrs
Jones, Indignantly why, what shameful
neglect! l hope they notified the Health
Department Why did they refuse to bury
her?''
''She wasn't dead" answered Jones, gloom
lily. The antiquity of the joke struck cold
chill to her heart, and Mrs. Jones was too
indignant to speak. Mr.. J. kept on reading,
and after while he musingly remarked:
They'll have cold day for the race to-
morrow"
"What race?" asked Mrs. Jones, eagerly
she hadn't heard of any.
The human race" said the miserable pla-
giarist
Mrs. Jones made face Another an
cient witticism,' she said, in tone of con-
tempt.
eyes, acknowledge its antiquity, replied
Mr.. Jones. Its as old as that ancient
conundrum, Where was Moses when the
light went out 2"
There was a long silence, which was at last
broken by Mrs. Jones. "Well, where was
he ?" she asked.
where was who:" inquired Jones, who
had been reading up the political situation.
"Why, MOses-you know-when the light
went out ~
Marie said Mr.. Jones, with a look of
grave concern, your mind must be affected
you will want to know next who was the
father Of Zebedee's children, or why the tail
don't wag the dog, Or what makes more
noise under q fence than pig, or why
chicken three weeks and three days old
crosses the street, or what it is that cats have
that no other animals have, Or"
But Mrs. Jones said she heard the baby
crying and went up stairs, leaving Jones to
himself 1t was but ruse to get a chance
to look into the Bible and read the history
of Moses. She says she is going to find that
passage if she has to borrow a concordance
and Bible dictionary to do it,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
California Stage Driving.
Correspondence Milwaukee Sentinel.

Correspondence Milwaukee Sentinell
The skill Of the drivers in the downward
drives is something wonderful The roads
are continuous SUGGESTIONS of the letter S.
winding in and out about the heads Of
gulches in many places the turns being so
sharp as to let the three teams of horses
form the three sides of it. They are also
rough and rutty at this season of the year,
and at the rapid motion the rough places
must be avoided. The driver on his high
seat with his six lines and long whip in
hand, and one foot on the brake with the
other as brace on the footboard, appears to
have as perfect control of the whole turnout
as If it was puppet. He will throw those
SIX horses from one side of the road to the
other to straddle a rut Or avoid stone, as if
they were one animal. Sometimes the hub
will scrape the bank on the upper side, and
the next instant the wheels will be on the
very verge on the down side When ap-
preaching sharp corner and ones impulse
is to slow down, crack will 20 his whip and
we dash around it like gust of wind. The
reins seem to be nerves, or living tissues,
conveying the drivers thoughts, and their
pulses beat and their hearts throb in unison
An accident seldom happens with those
drivers, for extreme caution, coupled with
absolute control of their team and vehicle,
and perfect knowledge of the laws of stage
motion, governs all their acts. They are
compelled to make rapid progress down hill
to compensate for the slower motion up, and
they have learned by experience all it's safe
guards and practice them. One driver will
make this drive Of seventy-fve miles into
the mountains one day. and back again the
next, every day of his life, until he knows
every turn, and rut, and stone on the line,
and his sinews are as strong as the lash of
his whip. From the snow and mud of the
Upper Sierras to the flowers of the foothills,
md the ripening grain of the valley below.
s only a daylight drive, and we rejoice again
n the presence of early summer.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
The Hot Water Remedy,

In the World of Science q physician ad.
vises people not to take tea or coffee after
dinner or at breakfast. Cocoa is recon-.
mended for breakfast for those who can di-
gest it, but hot water is better Those who
dine late and need diluent drink an hour
or two afterward, and cannot drink tea on
account of being kept awake by it, are also
counseled to use hot water.
Il find," he says, "that dining solidly at
7:3O, and often needing to work from to II,
tumbler of hot water brought into my
labratory is the best drink, and, after few
evenings, will be as much relished as tea.
The hot water assists to complete the di-
gestion of residual food, acts upon the kid
neys, and will be found to wake one up
without injuring the stomach or keeping the
brain awake after bed time. In cold weather
warm water is the best drink at dinner time.
and in hot weather is wholesomer and cool
ing than iced water"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
Where ViOlins are Made.

In one of the mountainous districts of
Bavaria there is town called Mittenwald.
shut in by snow-clad peaks and dense for
ests, in which every yard is crossed by a
labyrinth of ropes and poles on which hun
dreds of violins are hung up to dry. For a
couple of centuries the entire industy of the
town has been violin-making, for which the
surrounding forests produce the best of
materials. Men, women and children all
have their allotted share of the work, and
violins, 'cellos, bass viols, zithers and every
stringed instrument, from copy of some
old and priceless Straduarius, perfect in
form, color and tone, down to the cheapest
banjo, are exported in great quantities, all
handmade. to every quarter of the globe.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19

vided for. We have now in service on the
eastern end ten refrigerator cars and are
building fifteen more, which will be ready
for service by August Some of these will
be specially fitted for fruit and salmon car
riage We have also added to our refrigera-
tor line and have now in use fifty cars for
transporting beer. During the month of
May our ten refrigerator cars carried over
half a million pounds of beer, beef, oysters,
fish and vegetables"
when the gap is closed will your COM
pany seek to do share of the through Cali
fornia business, and, if so, at what rates?"
IF we attempt to do any business at San
Francisco at all it will be done at uniform
rates with other transcontinental lines reach
ing that point. With our fine fleet of Pa
citic coast ships we are in splendid condition
to enter the field for this business but for
the first month or two after the road is
through we will have all we can do to take
care of our own business in Oregon and
Washington Territory"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
sOLnoQUY OF AN OLD MIRROR.

Upon this old and rusty nail
I've nung for many years
All, me. but could tell tale
OF pleasure-yes, and tears.
How many beaming countenance
That in the days gone by
Gave me quick, admiring glance
Now in the churchyard lie!
Wrinkles have grown on faces fair,
Bright eyes their luster lost,
And on the fair heads of glossy hair
Has fallen ages frost;
The manly form, erect and proud,
Has lost its stately grace,
And gray with years and sorrow bowed
Now shuns my truthful face.
The lad who shaved his downy lip
BY my reflected aid,
And made so many cruel slip
With keen-edged razor blade,
Now ha.h "A son, who, now and then,
With comical grimace,
Apes well the ways of older men
And scrapes his beardless face.
A maiden lady, old and spare,
Who mourns her lonely state,
Comes here and combs her scanty hair
In style long out of date;
Then, with affected unconceTn,
She daubs her cheeks with red,
In hopes that she may some day turn
Some single codger's head.
Two lovers came to-day and gaZed
Together in my face
He with enthusiasm praised
The beauty of her face;
Clasped in each others loving arms,
Quite long they gazed in rie-
John looked at Mary's buxom charms,
And Mary-so did she!
There Bobbie with his dreadful ball
Has ended me, | know!
My frame hangs empty on the wall,
My fragments lie below.
All, well, 'twould do but little good
My feelings to express
The stony glances I've withstood
Had weakened me, l guess.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
In Commons Fity-three Years.

The present Father of the House of Com
mons Mr. Christopher Rice Mansell Tai
bot, has sat for the county of Glamorgan,
without interruption, from 1880 down to
this day. Like other Fathers of the
House" who preceded him, he has been dis
tlnguished for brilliant silence rather than
obstructive loquacity. His immediate pre-
decessor, Mr.. Cecil Forester, the present Lord
Forester, sat for Much -Wenlock, from 1928
10 1874, and never broke silence during that
ume, His predecessor, Sir Charles Burreli,
SAT Tor shoreham from 1906 until 1862, and
uurlng that period of nearly sixty years
spoke but once, and that to introduce bill
iofoidding housemaids to be compelled to
elean windows from the outside.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
4 RHYME ABOUT BABIES.

Here and there, here and there
Babies, babies everywhere
COpper-colOred, white and brown,
In the woods and in the town.
Far toward the Northern Pole
Little babies romp and roll
Little baby EsquimauX,
In a world of ice and snow.
Little Chinese babies, too,
Wang Che Chang, and Chu Chung Loo,
Look IN babyish surprise
From their narrow Almond-eyeS
Learn as little babies can
TO hold their chop-sticks, wave their fan,
To eat their plate of snowy rice,
And now and then roast of mice.
In a sunny island home,
Where the great ships go and come,
Babies frolic in the breeze,
Underneath the orange trees.
Where the starry heavens span
Waving palms of Hindostan-
In the land of gems and silk,
Babies sip the cocoa-milk
Play with ivory rings and balls
BY the fearful mountain walls;
Ride with baby merriment
On tall, tame elephant
English babies sweet and fair;
Germans with soft, faXen hair:
Dark Italians with mama
Floating in gondola.
Babies-diamond, pearl and opal,
From Norway down to Constantinople:
Precious jewels every one,
The dearest things beneath the sun.
But which of all that have told
Is sweetest, dearest, just pure gold
Made of many mingled charms?
Why, of course the baby in my arms
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
The Censure of the Press.

Talk about the censure in France: Why,
it is mere nothing compared to what it is
in Russia. A dramatic author who had
adopted the title of the 'Slave of His Pas
sions," for one-act comedy, was summoned
to appear before some General with long
name, ending in off, all booted and armed
and rolling his eyes in terrible rage Are
you not aware, sir" said the General, "that
slavery is abolished in Russia? The mere
mention of the word constitutes an offense
of the first magnitude. You will, therefore,
have to alter the title of you piece" "And
what title shall 1 giveit ?" ''The negro of
his Passions" "Ohw "You can either
take it or leave it alone! You may gon
The author "took it," and "The Negro of
His Passions" had a tremendous success in
st. Petersburg
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
Jenny Lind.
INew York Tribune

New York Tribune.
Nine. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt does not
seem to be growing old gracefully. Now, at
the age of sixty-three, she is described as
possessing from the crown of her bewigged
head to the sole of her No. 5 shoe, not one
line of grace or beauty. Her form is angu-
lar, her face hard, her eyes are dull and
passionless, her features irregular and inhar-
monious. But when she speaks the plain
ness Of her face and form is forgotten, for
her toIes are still those Of the Swedish
nightingale" and her features light up in
sympathy with the music of her voice. She
lives in big house in South Kensington,
surrounded by spacious and well shaded
lawns. She seldom sings now-only occa-
sionally at royal request, or for the Bach
Choir, of which her husband was the
founder
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
Helena, Montana, Thursday, July 10, 1883

consideration molest the Indian reservation
and leave the military reserve with its
present boundaries.
l now pass to the consideration of the
boundaries as described in your bill. They
are not particularly Objectionable except in
that they leave to the Indians a strip of
country about forty miles wide bordering on
the British Line, and, with the exception Of
strip along Milk river, it is very poor
quality of land. think it would be better to
select point on Milk river, say thirty or
forty miles below this post, and, running
south to the Missouri river and north to the
British Line, give the Indians all the land
between that line and line to the eastward
as far as may be thought best. This plan
would have this advantage; that the game
or buffalo country would still be in the
region occupied by the Indians; and as long
as buffalo exist it is the sheerest nonsense to
expect to keep the Indians from pursuing
them wherever they are. The character of
the land is also preferable to that described
in the bill.
In the matter of compensation, / would
amend by giving them $4,000 year for ten
years after that would give them $4,000
a year for ten years more, by which time they
probably would become self-supporting. There
should also be appropriated liberal sum,
say $4,000 year for ten years with which
to purchase cattle, horses, etc also sum of
at least $4,000 to be expended i'll agency
buildings, as those now in use are outside
the line as described by the bill, and as
recommended by me. There should also be
funds appropriated for the building of a saw
mill also for mill for grinding wheat etc,
also for the breaking of land lat least 500
acres); also for building boarding school
house and hospital. A portion of the funds
appropriated for the first ten years should
be used to erect buildings for the Indians,
as fast as they could be utilized.
have briefly herein sketched my views
in regard to the subject of your letter, and
am of the opinion that treaty such as
have endeavored to illustrate can be made
with these Indians, and 1 am most certainly
of the opinion that the sums herein stated
are as little as any fair-minded man could
ask them to accept in return for the vast
area of valuable lands they are asked to re-
inquish. Copy furnished the Hon. Com
missioner Of Indian Affairs.
l am, sir, most respectfully yours,
W. L. LINCOLN,
u. s. Indian Agent
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
An Agreeable Companion.


The most agreeable of all companions is a
simple, frank man, without any high pre-
tentions to an oppressive greatness; one
who loves life, and understands the nse OF
it; obliging; alike at all hours; above ALL
of golden temper, and steadfast as an
anchor. For such a one we gladly exchange
the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit,
the profoundest thinker.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-07-19
RESERVATIONS, INDIAN AND MIL.
ITARY.
The Views of Major W. L. Lincoln, U. s.
Indian Agent.
Complete Text of his Letter to DELEGATE
Maginnis from Which the Indepen.
dent Eliminated Important
Parts.
FORT BELKNAP INDIAN AGENCY.
July 7th, 1883.

FORT BELKNAP INDIAN AGENCY,
July 7th, 1883.
To the Editor of the Herald.
l herewith enclose clippings taken from
the Independent which are part of letter
from me to the Hon. Martin Maginnis in re-
lation to the proposed opening of this In
dian Reservation to settlement. 1 enclose
that portion of my letter that does not ap-
pear in the INDEPENDENT and which l consider
the most vital part Of my objections, for the
reason as stated in my letter that there is no
good reason why so large tract of lands
(25,OOO square miles or thereabout,) should
be retained as military reserve to the ex-
clusion and detriment Of the whole people,
whose rights in the use of this tract of
country ought first to be considered. The
facts are this military reserve covers the best
part of this portion of Montana for grazing
purposes and nearly all that part of Bear
Paw mountains in which are supposed to
exist valuable mineral deposits.
The comments or headings in the Indepen-
dent also tend to mislead the general public
as to my standing in the matter, and | desire
to state publicly that am in favor Of open
ing the reservation, provided the rights of
all the people can be fully subserved and
protected, and the Indians under my charge
can be fairly treated. My letter to Hon. NJ
will indicate what I think would
be fair and just treatment to them.
If you can find room in your journal to
publish my full letter to Mr.. Maginnis and
this communication, l should feel under
many obligations.
am sir, most respectfully yours
w. L. LINCOLN, U. S. Indian Agent.
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LIST OF ADVERTISED LETTERS re

LIST OF ADVERTISED LETTERS re-
naming in the Post Office at Charles
town. jefferson county, W. Va,
March ), 1888:
Miss MoI;ndy 3. Grove, Mrs Nancy
McLanc, Mrs Chas- S. Morgan, Mrs.
john Watkins. Reed Agrcw (coI'd),
Geo f. Beales, s. T. Berry. Il. G..
Dun & Co., Thos- IIaslcIt. Annie GIL.
Moses Parker CD, Dan Riley, H. L
ShefTey-
The above letters, if not called for
within thirty days, will be sent to the
dead letter office. Persons calling
for them VIII please say that they are
advertised.
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BENZ f LEisENRISG, P. NJ

EUnL1C SALEs--Attention is called
TO the following Public Sale advertise
meats, in this paper:
Saturday. March IOM--Pcrsonal
Property, by Charles II. kab!c. Adj
ministratOr.
Saturday, March IOM--SaIe of
Hogs. by G. p. Light.
Saturday, March I7h.-Real Es-
ate, by Emily Marquette, Trustee.
Saturday, -Hurch I1M.-Twclvc
acres of Timber. by ID. B. Lucas.
Thursday. -udrch 22d.-Personal
Property, by j. NJ. Buckley & Son.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1883-03-06

At s meeting OF the Trustees of the
" T. Church South, held at the res
idence of Mr. Beni- Tomlinson, on
Friday night, March I'd, the following
resolution WAS unanimously adopted :
ReaoirecI. That we appreciate the
desire of orr friends to have gas in
.roduced into the Church, and that we
hereby tender them OUR thanks for
their generous contributions to this
object.