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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-12-13
SISTERS OFTHE QUAKER STATE.
The Mistake of Arbitrary GeOgrphai-
cal Divisions of the People of
the United States.
IPitt.hurg Telegraph. ]

Pitt-burg Telegraph
There are points In common between our
people in the Keystone State and the people
of Virginia, Georgia and Alabama which
cannot escape the attention of close OBJ
server There is certain sobriety of de-
meanor, deliberation of speech and solidity
of thought and action, if we may so de-
scribe it, that makes a Pennsylvania
feel amongst neighbors in the States men
toned. He would dislike the sWagger
and effusiveness of Kentucky, the sickly
retinements of South Carolina politeness,
and the rampant bravado of Mississippi,
but in Virginia, Georgia and Alabama he
would find his own staid sensible manners
duplicated on every hand, and in the Val
ley of Virginia he would be as much at
home as in Westmoreland or Beaver. The
New Englander is very restless in these
old fashioned Southern States. They vex
him by their conservatism, and their invin-
chile slowness, as he regards it, but he is
equally impatient in Pennsylvania, and
pushes westward, where there is more ex
ternal fuss and ferment.
There is generally in Pennsylvania an
absence Of pretense, fustian and poppinjay
airs, and in considerable part OF rural
Virginia, Georgia and Alabama the same
plain, direct. calm manner, speech and con-
duct characterize the people. Put South
Carolinian of the so-called better class side
by side with Georgian in railway coach,
and it would be like Frenchman and
Hollander travelling together-the one all
animated froth, and the other grave, cir
cumspect and responsible in every utter
ance. Let one of our Pennsylvanians join
the party, and he would enjoy the viva
cious Palmetto rhetoric. but he would rec
ognize the solid Georgian as man of his
own kind, sagacious, deliberate and trust
worthy. These distinctions between the
citizens of the various States are too often
overlooked and people are Unfortunately
classified as Northern and Southern, as if
these two geographical terms explained
everything. Nothing can be wider of the
mark. A Kentuckian would feel more at
home in New York than in Georgia tor the
reasons herein outlined.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-12-13
Helena, Montana, Thursday, December 13, 1883.

Exchange I


Probably no better division Of time has
ever been made than that into three equal
periods Of eight hours each eight hours
given to business, eight to eating and en-
joyment, and the remaining eight to Sleep
The celebrated Alfred divided his time in
this way. I have long thought that the
native american required more sleep than
the average European. For myself | find
that nine or ten hours sleep in single
night will cure me of all the trifling mala-
dies with which, from time to time, may
be afflicted. Some extraordinary advice
has been given by certain distinguished
persons with reference to time devoted to
sleep: but each writer falls into the COM
mon blunder of applying the rule to all
which he finds good in his own case.
Bishop Taylor advises three hours sleep.
Wesley suggests six as the least time that
will answer. He declares that during his
life he never knew any one to retain vigor-
Gus health, even for year, with less
quantity Of sleep than six hours, and he
thought that women required more than
men. Which advises students to 60 to
bed at 8 o'clock and rise at 3 or 4 o'clock in
the morning. Not bad on some accounts,
but liable to injure the eyes. Excess OF
sleep is very bad in its influence, produces
dullness Of mind and body, corpulency,
disposition to apoplexy; hence Galen
calls sleep the brother of death, and says
nothing is more pernicious when carried to
excess Thin Yankees should 60 to bed at
8 o'clock and rise between 5 and 6, l do
not mean to say that circumstances may
never justify their sitting up till midnight,
or later, but I am simply interpreting the
voice of physiology. If the average Ameri-
can, with his narrow chest and small vitali-
ty, would retire at 9 o'clock, he would live
few years longer, and each year would af-
ford him more happiness and ability to
work. But Yankee women most need
change to early hours. Their crazy nerves,
neuralgia and other evidences Of premature
decay would be at once checked and they
would become younger and tairer What
with tight corsets, pastry, candies, furnace
heat and midnight. Yankee girls begin to
fail at 20 and are old women at 4O
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-12-13
FOR LOVES SAKE.

Sometimes ! am tempted to murmuE
That life is fitting away,
With only round of trlfies
Filling each busy day;
busting hooks ana corners,
Making the house look fair,
And p ttiently taking Oh me
The burden of woman's care.
Comforting childish sorrows,
And charming the childish heart
With the simple song and story,
Told with "A mothers art;
Setting the dear home table,
And clearing the meal away,
And going on little errands
In the twilight of the day.
one day is Just like another;
sewing and piecing well
Little Jackets and trousers
so neatly that none can tell
Where are the seams and Jolnlngs-
All! the seamy side of life
i kept ont of sight by the magic
OF many h mother and wife.
And oft when am ready to murmur
That life is fitting away,
With the self-same round of duties
Filling each busy day,
II comes to my spirit sweetly,
With the grace of thought divine;
You are living, toiling for loves sake,
And the loving should never replne.
You are guiding the little footsteps
In the way they ought to walk;
You are dropping word for Jesus
In the midst of your household talk
Living your life for life's sake
Till the homely cares grow sweet
And sacred the self-denial
That is laid at the Masters feet.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-12-13
ETIQUETTE FOR TRAVELLERS.
How to Behave in Pullman ParlOr
Car.
IBy an Old Traveller.

Do not rush in and grab the first seat
you see Enter leisurely and quietly as
you would if the parlor were not on wheels.
Bow pleasantly to the porter and give him
quarter.
Be not over particular about seats, as it
will indicate that you do not travel often.
Say languidly, "Oh, anywhere on the shady
side," and hand the porter half a dollar.
He will give you good seat, depend
upon it.
Unless an experienced traveller, the dis
position of your extra wraps, baggage, etc,
may bother you if you attempt to do it
yourself besides exhibiting your ignorance
to whole car load. Nod at the porter in
familiar sort of way, slip dollar into his
hand, and in jiffy he will have every
thing out of your reach and securely fas-
tened on, in and among all sorts of con-
trivances, which you had not even OBJ
served.
If you are so unfortunate as to need
the presence of cuspadore do not 90
hunting arount the car for one. That is
exceedingly vulgar. Contrive to drop
two-dollar bill into the porter's pocket, and
the cuspadore will be forthcoming
In all probability the car will be as hot
DIS du eQudIOlldl COuSCl ~ SSASldA
ly is. If you attempt to lift a window the
chances are that you will fail, as you are
not familiar with the secret spring which
holds it, Recline lazily on your chair and
watch the porter until you catch his eye,
when with slight movement of your little
finger you can make your wants known.
Enforce the sign With rapid flight of
five-dollar bill from your pocket to his, and
in few seconds you will be enjoying de-
lightful breeze free from dust and cinders.
Should you become thirsty you can 60
to the water cooler and take little with
out extra charge.
When nearing your journeys end the
porter will kindly remind you of that fact,
and stand before you brush in hand. Ac-
company him to an alcOve and add few
bills to his purse, if he can find room for
them. The vigor Of the brushing you re-
ceive will depend entirely on the denomina-
ton of the bills.
1t is no longer considered necessary to
back out of parlor car in order not to Of
tend the porter. Hand him your pocket
book, and he will Immediately take Your
baggage and precede you to the platform,
and most likely will bow politely to You as
the train moves off.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-12-13
Too Much.

On Southern railroad the other day a
passenger complained to the conductor
about the dusty state of the seats and
windows and directly followed it up by
finding fault with the roughness of the
track, and the apparently unsafe condition
of the car. The conductor was very cour-
teous, but entirely non-committal. This
provoked the traveller to continue his COM
plants, and he presently said:
Il fail to see any water cooler in this
car"
"No; we have nOne"
"And the front door won't shut"
"No"
"And the wheels rattle as if worn out"
That's so"7 t4t
And. STRIP exclaimed the provoked pas
senger, Il wouldn't give you twenty five
cents on the dollar for the stock of your
miserable line!" @ af 8sT '3H@
It's onlysquoted at :6fteen," said the
conductor as he rose up to 60 forward.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-12-13
LIFE.

Like meteor bright through prmeval night,
The trackless earth had sweat,
Till marked from he throne of the Great Un-
known,
The path that it since has kept
For u-ons of time in its course sublime
That encircled its parent sun,
guided the speed Of its mighty steed,
TIL its tireless heart was done.
And when chilling rest O er its molten breast
Its rock ribbed mantle threw,
And the vulcan god that had felt my rod
'Gainst the walls of his prison few;
With the earthquakes shock and the Cambrian
rock,
piled u p the mountain chain
And valleys and hills with their hurrying rils
Cast their wealth on the herbless plain.
On on in its race through profoundest space,
Where the distant starligots CLEAN,
Shrouded in mist, lone wandrer, unkissed
BY the amorous sunlights beam;
Till omnific flight from the realms of light.
came to the lab ring world,
When the founts Of the clouds burst their watery
shroudS,
And the ocean Il earth was hurled.
Calmly at rest on its lifeless breast
The trlbelesS ocean slept,
Its companiOnless caves washed by tenantleSs
waves,
In the gloom of its fathomless depth
Till my shining lance DER its silv'ry expanse,
Rent the veil OF the reigning gloom.
And the loves of the light with the curtalned
night,
Ger that thermal flood where my ichthye brood
Their unwieldy pastime ply,
And the saurian race in the suns bright face
Bask their sides meath the newborn sky;
Till my plastic hand in that virgin land
That arose from the slumb ring sea,
Clothed its fields in the sheen of their emerald
green,
And the balm eathing flowers of the lea.
On hill and on dale in the echoing vale,
The air breaheS with anthem and SOng
For We peoped the shades that encircles the
glades
With Deitys minstrels among.
And the turtle doves Groom meath the passion
less moon,
And the nightingale's vesper at eve,
Tell the tale of their love to the Father above
The purest that God can receive.
O sublime discomfort. still my spirit unbent,
Inspired with creation arose
For being like to God from the sea-bOrn clod,
Ny fancy III beauty disclose
On his passionate face grief and JOY hath place,
Love and hatred inclosed III span,
70 laugh and to weep, thine alone for to keep,
D manifold Creature-Man.
quiver and dance in the love-maiden's glance,
And play round the light of her smile,
But the finger of joy writes with griefs sad alloy,
Where the thorn end the rose grew the while.
And thus as their years mid their smiles and
their tears,
Roll away to the gloom of the past
My sunshine and sorrow bid them nope for the
morrow,
To laugh and to weep like the last
Ny home is embraC ed in eternity's waste,
The past and the present are NINE;
lntmtude's womb and eternity - tomb,
My compass. tho strangely, combine.
Nay, my presence embrace both matter ana
space,
In kingdom where death is lie
Laugh at this, then, who may, to the schoolmen
/ say
Cyu Uught that is Ering die?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-12-13
Fortune and Rank.
Salnuel Johnson.


In civilized society we all depend upon
each other, and our happiness is very much
owing to the good opinion of mankind.
vantages make us respected. A man with
a good coat upon his back meets with a
better reception than he who has a bad
one.
Sir, you may analyze this and say, what
is there in it?" but that will avail you
nothing, for it is part of a general system.
Pound st. Pauls church into atoms, and
consider any single atom; it is, to be sure,
good for nothing. But put ali these atoms
together and you have st. Paul's church.
So it is with human felicity, which is made
up of many ingredients, each of which may
be shown to be very insignificant.
In civilized society personal merit will
not serve you SO much as money will. Sir,
you make the experiment. Go into the
street and give one man lecture on mo-
rality and another shilling and see which
will respect you most. Perhaps he who
has large fortune may not be so happy as
he who has small one; but that must
proceed from other causes than from his
having the large fortune, for he who. is rich
IN civilized society must be happier than he
who is poor, as riches, if properly used,
must be productive of the highest advant-
ages. Money, to be sure, of itself, is Of no
use, for its only use is to part with it,
When / was running about town. very
poor fellow, 1 was great arguer for the
advantages of poverty, but l was at the
same time very sorry to be poor. Sir, all
the arguments that are brought to repre-
sent poverty as no evil show it to be evil
IDENTIFY a great evil. You never find people
laboring to convince you that you may live
very happily upon plentiful fortune. So
you hear people talking how miserable
king must be, and yet they all wish to be
in his place.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-12-13
Born Without Breath.
Fort Worth lTex.l Gazette

Fort Worth CTex.) Gazette.
A very interesting case of suspended res
piration occurred at the birth of child in
this city one day last week. A quarter of
an hour after the birth the attention of the
physician was called to it; he saw that it was
very black in appearance 1t seemed to be
dead and was found to have no breath.
The physician asked the mother what she
had been taking, and was told that she
had taken one hundred drops of laudanum
and three doses of opium. AS is well
known opium affects by destroying respira-
tion, but it could not hurt before birth, be-
cause until contact with the air the new
born child has no breath. Yet the in
tiuence of the opium became apparent
after birth and prevented respiration. En-
forced respiration was resorted to, but the
child was worked with for four hours be-
before it breathed easily. It is now doing
we'll and will live.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-12-13
A Remarkable Railway.

The South Carolina Railway is said 20 be
the most remarkable railway in the United
States. "It is the first railway built in the
South, if not in the United States; its
mileage has never been added to or reduced
since its completion; it has never passed
out of the hands or management of its
stockholders, and has always been success
full and profitable From Charleston, S. c.,
to Augusta, Ga, and from Charleston to
Columbia are its lines-t through remark
ably attractive and historically interesting
country-and no tourist can be satisfied
until he has visited the scenes reached by
the South Carolina Railway. There occur
red some of the most stirring events from
the days of the revolution to the present
time
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-12-13
MalaprOpOs.

IHarper's Magazine. December.l
Talking of dinner parties, gentleman
not long since was dining with friend,
and was asked to take down a certain
lady. Now there were two ladies present,
one widow, whose husband had not died
in the odor of sanctity, the other married
woman, whose husband had gone to Cey-
lon. The unfortunate thought he had the
married lady on his arm, but it was the
widow. and turning to her with his most
fascinating smile he said: a.t'
Nice day this has been"
do you think SO? 1t has been so aw-
fully hot!' replied she.
DO you call tkis hot?" said he, archly.
why, it is nothing compared to the place
your husband has gone to-"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-12-13
THE AMATEUR DETECTIVE.
Frightened Into Returning Stolen
Money.
New York Sun.

New York SUM-
Philip Guyer of Paterson, lost large
sum OF money by theft recently. He sus-
pected an old woman of the neighbOrhOOd,
but did not have sufficient evidence to war
rant his making a complaint against her.
What made it the more suspicious was that
the woman called every morning to ask Mr..
Guyer if he had got any trace of the thief.
The fullowing story is told by Paterson
police official: Mr.. Guyer ascertained that
she was very superstitious, and the next
morning, when she called and asked as
usual, if there was any news of the thief,
he replied:
NO. but expect to know who it was to-
night
How ?" asked the woman.
do you see those three nails?" said Mr..
Guyer, showing the woman three very old
and rusty nails well, they came from
coffin that had been buried for hundred
years."
THE Virgin save us" said the woman,
crossing herself.
And do you see that paper?"
II do"
well, that is prayer which just got
from the priest"
those things"
Well" answered Mr.. Guyer, slowly and
impressively, looking the woman in the
face, tonight at IL o'clock am to 60 into
a certain yard where there is pear tree.
am to nail that prayer to the tree with
these three nails. Every time / drive
nail am to repeat that prayer aloud.
When drive the last nail and repeat the
prayer for the last time the person who
stole the money will drop dead"
The woman turned pale, and departed
without saying word. That evening,
about S o'clock, there was a rap at his front
door, He went to the door and there was
no one in sight, but on the sill Ihe found a
small package containing the money that
had been stolen.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-12-13
Mary Anderson In Poetry.
IGalignani's Messenger.

[Galignanis Messenger
Miss Mary Anderson is receiving an ova-
ton in London, and $4,000 of her photo
graphs, taken since her arrival in England
have been sold She is called the "Greclan
Maiden and in late issue Of London
Society the following poem about her is
the latest:
Daughter Of Columbia-Eot SO
Modern in her race;
Only classic times begot so
Classical a face
To us moderns from the city
Of the Violet Crown
Or the Seven Hills, in pity,
She's been handed down.
Can race-students' calculations
Tell how tits contrived
In the youngest of the nations
This old types revived?
Visions seen by artist-dreamer
In trance sublime,
Waited by Atlantic steamer
Ger the seas of time.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-10-10

to the Egyptians themselves to do. Arab
has been expelled, the state trials
conducted; Lord Dunerin has made out
his programme only to DO disorganized
again by the Cholera scare, the courts and
the civil code turned upside down by the
nglish--these in brief, make up the
history of the years rule in Egypt. TIC
Sir Evelyn Barring, who has just assumed
Office as consul general at Cairo, will fall
the task of bringing order out of chaos
for it is to him that England looks to set
in motion the thousand and one reforms
which visiting statesmen" have planned
for the government of the "Land of the
Nile"
O,Donnel's trial attracts the greatest
attention, and the precautions against a
rescue are extraordinary. Newgate and
Millbank are turned into garrisoned
fortresses, and the prison van is driven at
gallop through the streets, surrounded
by mounted police with drawn swords,
and preceded and followed by vehicles full
of armed men. The streets are lined the
whole way with crowds, who cheer and
boot the prisoner, according 10 their SYM
pathies.
HIS GOODNESS and self confidence are
remarkable. He continues to express his
belief that he will be found guilty of man.
slaughter only, and he loses no occasion
of resenting the ingratitude and apathy of
the Irish in Ireland in subscribing nothing
to his defence at his trial.
AUGUST.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-10-10

Two AND Two MAKE FoUR.-Not
three months ago stood by the grave Of
suicide. Men do not kill themselves Tor
nothing. A bullet in the brain is not ike
the precious jewel in the toad head,
When man wants TO get RID OF lie. II
is generally because he is afraid to i've
any longer A rosewood cradle In MS
babyhood and coarse pinewood coffin
at forty. These are impressive facts.
What was the NATTER Logic-stern,
awful logic. Two and two make four;
that was the trouble. That man might
have slept under a monument, instead OF
having nightmare in Il polter's field
His father gave him everything but moral
principle, and he did not give him that
because he had none to spare. The boy
had money and horses and wine, and
fiery impulses and no restraints, and
temptations by the score. The father
lived long enough to see there was
mistake somewhere, but exactly where
it had been made in the education of his
son he never could tell. He only shook
his head sadly, grew little more gray
and possibly little more peevish, than
could be attributed to the passage OF time
merely, and then went to bed one night
and never awoke. The boy-but why
follow him along the Shiny path? He
slipped from filth to filth, until a patrol
man found him in the gutter and carried
him to the morgue, with an ounce OF lead
in his brain. Money and no manliness to
begin with, and neither money nor
manliness to end with. AS / came home
from that doleful service little Jacks
nuastiOn ranU in NV ears HIOes two
and two always make fourP" and men
and houses and clouds and sky seemed to
answer "Always!"-Dr. HepWorh
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-10-10
The verse of Milton,
AUGUST.
peace hath her victories

peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war;"
has Just found a beautiful illustration in
our own land. The poem of SHERIDAN s
Ride" has made one Of the battles o.
Winchester familiar TO every patriotic
American. During the war Winchester,
the KEY to the Shenandoah valley, was
one of the most disloyal and bitter towns
in the whole south. Near here many
battles were fought and many lives lost.
The state of New Hampshire has there
erected Il monument over the common
grave of forty.tive members of the 18th
New Hampshire regiment Recently the
northern soldiers made a pilgrimage TO
Winchester and decorated the monument.
They were met at the depot by the Win
chester light infantry, soldiers who had
fought under jackson and Early, and
other southern troops, all accompanied by
brass bands; they were cordially well
coined by the mayor of Winchester in il
hearty speech and they were royalty
banqueted by the Winchester ladies. In
return, when the graves of the confederate
dead, killed upon the same field of battle,
we're decorated northern chaplain offered
prayer, n northern orator made II speech,
and northern ladies arranged bouquets
from flowers given by the ladies of Win
chester behold how good and how
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell togeth-
er in unity"