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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
German Method of Abolishing Pau
perism.

Bismarck's latest efforts are in way pecu-
iarly his own on behalf of the working
classes. He has succeeded in getting
through the Imperial Parliament a politico-
social measure entitled THE Workmen's
Sick Funds Bill" He contends that pre-
vious legislation had not been satisfactory
for the laboring classes as regards provision
in case of accident or Sickness and he there
fore, with something that has resemblance
of blum t harshness, advised te Rel chstag to
compel such people to provide for them
selves. His advice was followed by the leg
islative body, his plan being this: Every
workman in receipt of less than some seventy
cents of our money day-the number OF
his family taken into consideration
subscribe certain amount of his income to
fund reserved for the benefit of his sick, or
otherwise disabled fellows and their families.
The employer, however, pays one-third of
the premium thus raised, and is held respon-
sible for the payment of the whole, recOup-
ing himself from the wages of his en-
ployes. The bill provides for the establish
ment of insurance funds and clubs, and
especially declares that no State aid shall be
rendered. This the Chancellor asserts will
serve to do away with pauperism, while aid
ing towards an economical reform as far as
the Treasury of the State is concerned.
He goes further: Another and accom-
panying measure provides for insurance
against accidents, by which all employers,
at their own expense, shall insure all their
employees against physical disabilities in
CURED while in their actual service. But in
this case the general government, or the
communal administration must contribute
twenty-five per cent. towards the total of the
fund subscriptions. A third measure, sup
Elemental to these, for the special relief of
the aged and infrm belonging to the work
ing classes, was under consideration at latest
dates from Berlin. Here, too, the working
people must support, to specified extent,
their own sick and disabled, although the
government and communals are to render
larger aid than in any other case. The ideas
are all Bismarck's, who, it is said, desires to
see them adopted and put to practical test
before he retires, at length, from public life.
There may be controversies in Germany it.
self as to the practical utility of the bills,
or at least of one of them, but the applica-
ton Of them and the result will be of in
terest tomany beyond the Emperor Williams
dominions.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
CRIMSON FLOWERS.

] swept the dust of withered fow'rs
That, crushed to ashes, scattered lay
Along the aisles of heart and life
| softly swept their dust away.
gasp with suffocating sense;
Their odor fills the place. Oh, much
try to find the same bright heart,
Untarnished by their faded touch.
lift the curtain of the past,
And tear each erumbling leaf away,
To find the subtle, rich perfume
That fills my choking breath to-day.
cry: They are dead, all dead-aye, dust !"
My quvering fingers take them down
With care, again search my heart
For youths own brightness till frown
And gaze again. for in a nook
Still blossoms a crimson passion fiowr
That drops corrosive poison down
And stains my heart-pearls hour by hour.
stand aghast. "Oh, is it true
That bright and baneful flowers bloom,
Bloom in my heart where fires of grace
Have swept each aisle, and nook, and room?
knelt and took between my hands
The crimson fiow'r / crushed and wrung
Its color out then, ruthlessly,
Far, far from me its pale leaves flung.
| closed and locked the outer door
OF my poor heart, to God cried:
Keep, Thou, the key in Thy strong hand,
Purge, Thou, my heart till purified
OF every leaf, of crimson weed
From sickly 1ors floating there,
From dust and ashes-let me read
Thy sweetest message, written there,
And pluck the flowers Thine own hand
Hath planted, watered, nurtured, sure
To blossom meath Thy tender touch,
Cnspotted peerless, fragrant, pure"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
Tact.

People cannot help having been born with
out tact, any more than they can help hav.
ing no ear for music; but there are occasions
when it is almost impossible to be quite
charitable to tactless person. Yet people
who have no tact deserve pity. They are
almost always doing or saying something to
get themselves into disgrace. or which does
them an injury. They make enemies where
they desire friends, and get reputation fol
ill-nature which they do not deserve. They
are also continually doing other people harm
treading on metaphorical corns opening the
cupboards where family skeletons are kept
angering people, shaming people, saying and
doing the most awkward things, and apollo
gizing for them with still more terrible
bluntness. If there is one social boon more
to be desired than another, it is tact; for,
without tact, the career Of the richest and
most beautiful is often utterly ruined.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
What Shall the Boys Do!
lPhiladelphia Times

Philadelphia Times.
Parents are continually confronted with
this question. Many parents answer it
wrongly. The father desires that his sons
shall not undergo the toll and self-denial
that he has undergone, forgetting, or perhaps
not realizing in any proper sense, that it was
that toll and that selfdenial that made him
the man he is. The mother has her foolish
notions about the respectabilityI of certain
grades OF employment which enable those
following them to wear good clothes and ex-
hlblt few of the superficial evidences of
refinement and culture. The boy, with his
inexperience and inability to look below the
surface of things, is easily led to follow the
parents, and commences life by swelling
the list of bookkeepers without ledger,
doctors without patients, lawyers without
clients and genteel clerks without employ
ment
The first thing the parent or teacher should
do is to study carefully the boys aptitudes.
Having done this, he should be taught that
any kind of honest labor is honorable and
that what he could do best should be his
calling, no matter whether it is to make
shoes or carriages, to raise cattle or butcher
them, Many boy who might in time be-
come good farmer, owning farm and
home of his own, becomes an Indifferent
hand-to-mouth salesman in store at salary
that will only barely keep soul and body to-
gether and provide no accumulations for
sickness and age. Many boy who, by
learning the machinist's trade, could some
day be at the head of great mnufactory
remains in obscurity and poverty because
his parents thought the profession Of book
keeper would be more genteel
A little study of the advertising columes
in great daily journal, or an inquiry among
the leading business men of any thriving
town, would cause revelation that should
serve to deter parents from making semi
dudes of their sons by crowding the already
overcrowded positions Of clerks and book
keepers with them. In the city of New
York There are at the present time 5000
bookkeepers out Of employment, and of the
$4,000 who have more or less steady employ
ment in that calling in that city very few
receive over $25 per week, while far great
er number are glad to accept $40 or SIS. A
business man Of the city lately advertised
for a clerk at $40 week and had seven
hundred applications for the place. In view
of these facts the parents of boys should urge
them to learn trades to 60 into the shops or
on the farm, anywhere where honest work
is to be done, and to avoid as they would
the pestilence, the semi-genteel callings,
which are so overcrowded thu the majority
who are dependent on them have no hope of
more than the bare subsistence while they
remain in them.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
What May Happen.
[Demorest's Monthly

Let us take look into the future. Sup
pose the 25O,OO0,OOO of Hindoos should rise
and drive out the foreign invader; suppose
also, which is not impossible that the Chi
nese, with their superior numbers and re-
organized armies, should defeat the French
in the event Of war, ,uight there not follow
a marvellous change in the relations of Asia
to Europe? The Hindoos and Chinese
would haye one common foe left-Russia.
That power now dominates Central Asia,
and menaces both China and Hindostan.
Suppose the people of these two empires
should unite against Russia. Their COM
bined populations comprise about half the
human race why should not their enormous
armies not only conquer Central Asia, but
occupy Siberia, and menace the very exist
ence of Russia? The conquering armies Of
Central Asia have more than once swept
over the Western world. 1t was the Tur-
conan who, in former ages, conquered China
and India and formed the rank and file of
the Mohammedan armies which overthrow
the Eastern Roman Empire, conquering
Spain, and placed the independence of West
ern Europe in peril. Who knows but that
some time during the twentieth century his
tory may repeat itself?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
"Rip' in the Catskiils.

IN. I. star
On Monday last stout, quiet man in g
gray suit and linen duster alighted from a
stage half way up the Catskill Mountains
opposite the rustic Rip Van Winckle House
and gazed curiously at the rock upon which
the village vagabond is said to have perpe
trated his twenty years sleep Thestranger
was Joe Jefferson, the actor, making his first
visit to the scenes in which he has so long
figured on the stage. The party with whom
he was travelling missed him for moment
and then discovered him curled up in his
old posture on the rock upon which he had
so often posed, but never seen. Repeated
calls raised him to his knees, and he cried
out in piteous, heart-melting tones, which
none but he can assume:
"Vere ish mine dog, Schneider?"
The genial host was bustling out to the
stage with several bottles of beer as his rich
voice rang through the mountain passes
He dropped them in surprise, and exclaimed
as he saw the distorted face and wondering
eyes above the bushes:
"I'm tarnally scooped if that amt the old
man himself!'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
Which One?

Johnnie was in the street car recently
with his mother, and next to him sat a very
nice looking young man. After some talk
with his mother, Johnnie turned to the
young man and said, so that everybody
could hear him:
"Am l dude ?"
"Well," replied the young man, you do
not look like one"
"And is that gentleman on the other side
of you dude?"
II suppose not. But why do you want to
know, my little fellow ?"
Nothing; only mamma said that you was
the next thing to dude, and wanted to
know if it was me or the other gentleman
that she meant"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
IngersOll on Money.

Bob Ingersoll has pointed way of putting
things In recent letter on the currency
question, he says: "We are told, however,
that the Government can create money.
This I deny. The Government produces
nothing; it raises no wheat, no corn; it digs
no gold, no silver. 1t is not producer, it is
a consumer. The Government is perpetual
pauper that has to be supported by the peo-
pie. 1t is constantly passing the contribution
plate. The man who passes it, 1 admit, has
musket with him, but at the same time the
Government is supported by these contri-
buttons. You cannot live upon the promise
ofyour own government any more than you
could live upon the notes of your hired man
any more than you can live upon bond
issued by occupants of the county poor
house. You cannot live upon that which
you have to support"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
Hay Bunkers.

San Francisco is said to include within its
limits about 800 vagabonds who rejoice un.
der the appellation of ''hay bunkers." These
men pass their nights on the wharves, max
ing their beds on bales of hay. 1t is claimed
that they live under sort of social organi-
zation which, though elastic in most re-
spects, has at least one inviolable rule
Smoking among the bales of hay is strictly
forbidden, and the member who violates the
order is promptly expelled. Should he at
tempt to sneak back into fellowship he is
thrown into the water and kept there until
nearly drowned. He is then threatened with
another ducking unless he leaves forthwith.
The shay bunkers" are socialists, dividing
the results of thieving and the collections
from stray beer kegs with fraternal impair
tiality
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
Life With an Object.
Boston Transcript.

We heard of a man-indeed, saw him
whose one joy and ambition in life was pride
in the admiration elected by his wife's
beauty. But unfortunately she developed a
tendency to embonpoint whereupon the
anxious husband each day subjected her to
a tape measurement, SO that if she got be-
yond a prescribed limit her alimentary sup
ply would be changed or curtailed We
have often wondered if some people did not
watch their mental and artistic growth in
much the same way.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
How He Made it.

$50 you have found hotel keeping source
of great profit ?" queried New Yorker of a
Colorado man whom he met in Chicago the
other day.
"Well, suppose the hotel has met ex-
penses, though amt sure, was the reply
"But they tell me you have made over
100000"
YES, but you see | have saloon attached
to the hotel, and a silver mine attached to
the saloon, and faro room attached to the
meme, and | act as judge at all harse races
and as umpire at all prize fights. Oh, we
don't expect Western hotel to make a
dollar
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
American Tea.

There grows in the sage brush and desert
lands Of Nevada and Utah shrub called by
the Indians "Tempah," which, when made
into an infusion, cannot be distinguished in
taste from the Chinese tea It is blood
purifier, and Indians and whites use it for
medicine Many of the miners of Eastern
Nevada have acquired taste for it, and pre-
fer it to the tea of the stores. It's effect is a
mild stimulation, about the same as is pro-
duced by tea or coffee, and no harmful or in
furious effects follow its use
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
Why Is 1t?

You never hear one woman invite
another out to dinner, any more than you
hear one man ask another to come and take
tea with him. No. 1t would seem that
women's hearts melted and softened over
the tea cup, and that mems souls flew open
to each other with table knives and forks to
dlg into mans secret nature, whereas the
simple key to the tea-caddy will unlock a
woman's breast at any time
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
The Young Idea Makes an Application

adam was the first man." Syracuse
Sunday school teacher explained, Solomon
was the wise man, and Cain, who killed his
brother, was the first base man." Then the
boy who had ball in his hip pocket and a
bat tucked under the church steps asked :
aaSay, what nine did he play with, and if he
could kill men, why didn't they have him
pitch ?"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-09-27
POOR HAMMER MEATH TIL SILL.
YER FIR.

What am ! weepin' for? Why, her
They've planted meath that silver fir;
All, don't you know kinder b'lieye
The tree from Hammer will receive
sight o nourlshment and show
How fast a tree like that can grow;
An if if it takes from her the vim
That she once had, 'twont be so slim
4 year from now as it's to-day;
But more O life and strength display,
An girth an height.
"A what-great loss?
Wal, now yer talkin solid boss!
Ny Hammers loss | can't compute.
What powder is to them who shoot
What water is to them who go
Down to the sea in ships, pray know
My Hammer was to me, you bet!
Alas! that she should pay the debt,
When only two score years and ten
Ne leavin' 'mong earth's saddened men
When forty wimmin here in town
Might better slumber in the groun'.
She went her gait till she dropped dead,
As tWere III harness
Find her match?
+ did, 'twould he what's called scratch,
No, sir, l don't expect to find
\ match for Hammer. Quite resigned
I'd ben if she'd lived--wal, say
Three years, or four, beyond the day
She up an died; fur then I'd had
The farm all free and clear. by gad,
She worked herself to death, / knowed;
But then, of course, twas duty owed
To him who married her, to be
\ helpmeet, not help-eat-see?
Poor Hammer. / could weed for her
Till grav with age that silver fir,
! yum, ! could
What! Marry! /,
Again? Wal, not till I've run dry
o. sorrer, mister; which won't be,
I'm sartin' sure, afoIe that tree
Has growed up twenty foot or more
Yes, I'll allow it will be hard,
Without a lovin' bosom pard
TO travel through this vale of tears;
But there is Widow Hammer Beers
Same Christian name as she had, there.
Which sorter temps me, declare
| might have her an not half try,
Fur she o. me amt no ways shy.
She amt the worker Hammer was
My Hammer, there-but then, she has
Some property that's snug an clear
O. labor moneys more n the peer.
F / should wed her, 'twont be she
| marry, but her property!
To this my Hanner'd be resigned,
Pm sure, if she could speak her mind.
But ah ] long shall mourn for her
Poor Hammer, meath the silver fir. ~
How long he mourned no one can tell
But this we know, and know full we'll;
That, ere month on wings had sped,
He married Widow Beers and said
Twas COS her name was Hammer"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-25
SALTWATER GLOBULES.

There was large attendance at all the
churches yesterday. Tn day bang pleas
ant many families from the country were
present.
Apple river was visited by quite large
number of people yesterday to witness the
logs running over the falls, which is con-
sidered an interesting sight by many.
Three deaths last week from diphtheria,
and several new cases reported. 1t would
seem that the ravages of this dread scourge
would never be fully checked, no matter
what the season of the year.
There was good attendance at both fairs
on Saturday night, that at Music hall be-
ing much larger than on any previous
night since the opening. The Wigwam
was crowded as usual. Both entertain
ments will be open to the public again this
evening.
The Fourth of July celebration fund
amounts to between $1,000 and S1,400.
The merchants and business men general
| ly, with scarcely an exception, have con-
| tributed thereto. The committee will not
be cramped in their arrangements for the
want of money.
1t may not be generally known that
| speckled trout in considerable numbers
may be found in the st. Croix river. 1t is
supposed that the speckIed beauties were
| first introduced in the river by the giving
way ofsthe dam of the trout pond, three
miles south of Marine, which was over
flowed two or three years ago.
A crook whose finances were in deplor-
able condition who had come to this city
| for the purpose of making a raise. as he
forcibly expressed it, was yesterday morn
ing obliged to make a hasty retreat for
the Wisconsin side. On his entrance into
town the slippery gentleman had confded
the object of his visit to supposed friend
who informed the police. Hence the free
pass over the bridge.
A couple of men employed at the boom
came marching into town yesterday morn
ing in charge of an old man whom they
charged with stealing batteau and some
rigging. After an investigation of the
matter the police refused to lock the old
man up, they being fully satisfied that no
crime had been committed. The old fellow
| was out picking up drift-wood, and having
no boat of his own, had taken one belong
ing to the company, which he had done
several times before.
Considerable excitement was caused
about o'clock on Sunday morning by a
shot fred by the night Waterman at the
Wigwan. The old man states that he was
awakened by the noise made by an attempt
to force an entrance into the building. The
| police were soon on the ground, but the
would-be thieves had made themselves
scarce. The shot is supposed to have
been accidental, the guard not being ex-
actly familiar with the peculiar mechanism
OF the weapon with which he was armed.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-25
ADJUSTMENTS.
Opera House, Monday, June %.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES NIGHT ONLY-"THE
MILLER BROTHERS & MISS MAY LEYTON,''
will hold Grand Spiritualistic Revival, assisted
by other wonderful and newly developed medi-
ums, who invite the closest investigation, per-
forming all the tests on the stage.
The following some of the marvellous
manifestations that usually take place III the
presence of these mediums:
"a large table floats in the air.
NATURALIZATION.
Forms from the Spirit Land appear, while the
mediums are held hand and foot. Sbirit forms
walk out in full view of the audience.
The Wonderful Slate Test.
Messages written by an invisible hand before
the eyes of the audience. Clairvoyance or super
natural vision. A book is opened By a person
chosen by the audience at whatever page he may
see fit, and is read by the medium while on the
stage without seeing the book.
Sealed messages read and answered by the
medium. Musical instruments will float In a
wonderful strange manner playing as they go.
As there are no reserved seats, it will be we'll
to come early to avoid confusion, annoyance
and possible disappointment. Doors open at
Z o'clock. Commence at SO'clock. All are
invited.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-25
MINNETONKA BREEZEs,
The Lafayette orchestra has arrived.

The Lafayette orchestra has arrived.
The hotels are not ''fIled to overfowing'
as ct.
The Georgia excursionists will start from
the lake for home to-day.
Miss Hattie Goodrich, of Chaska, is To-
Gated at Chapman's for the summer.
John S. Blaisdell and family made the
tour of the lake yesterday on the Belle.
Hotel st. Louis will be opened some time
this week, probably on Friday, the 23th.
F. F. jacques and son, of Chicago, and
H. Lowry and Miss Burden, of st. Louis,
are at the Chapman house.
The old propeller MARY is now run
ming in the interests of the Lake Mime
tonka Transportation company, having
been re named the Star
Travel at the lake was not very heavy
yesterday owing to the cool air and cloudy
skies. Both boats carried fair loads, how
ever, the Belle" having the bulk of the
crowd.
The proposed hop at the Lake park did
not "come off, as anticipated, Saturday
evening. The first hop of the season is
now announced for Friday evening, at the
Excelsior house.
Steward Syda has resumed his old posi-
ton on the Belle and is daily adding to
the laurels won last season. Under his di-
lection the dining room of the Belle" is
second to none at the lake.
The diners at the Chapman house yes
terday numbered about sixty. Indica-
ton are that this house will be even more
popular among visitors to Minnetonka
this season than ever before.
party consisting of W. F. Adencourt.
E. E. Case, W. H. Curtis, H. Van Deusen
H. N. Plank, G. Merriam and va Bur-
ton, all of Minneapolis, made the rounds
yesterday on the yacht ''Modesty," dining
at Chapman's.
Hon. E. N. Wilson, W. E. Burnell, Chas
Eustis and A. H. Rand. of Minneapolis.
made up yachting party yesterday and
made the trip from the Highlands to Chap
mans in the prize yacht. Catherine, under
command of Capt. Brooks.
Fishing never was better at Minnetonka
than at the present time. Large and numer-
GUS catches are reported daily and the
GLOBE reporter was yesterday shown sam
plea of Sunday caught pickerel measuring
from fifteen to twenty-eight inches IN
length.
Among the most notable lake tourists
yesterday we're Hon. B. Butterworth of
Cincinnati, G. Fl. Perkins and wife, W. A.
Paten, T. Paten, L. S. Howett, ". 2.
Clouph T. IT O;Dell WASHINGTON d G.
They were the guests of A. Anderson, of
the n. P, who entertained the party at the
Lafayette with a private dinner.
Among the visitors who registered at
Chapman's yesterday were W. W. Ripley,
Columbus, o., Miss. 81. NJ. Nichols, Indian
apolis, G. B. Hardy. Frank Beard, Cincin-
natl, Jas. R. Crane, Cleveland, o., Geo. H.
Russell, Syracuse, n. Y, David R. Tucker,
Baltimore, Nd, F. Baines, Waco, Tex,
H. Il, Critchfeld, Cleveland, O., W. 3.
Sherman, Chicago. A. J. Smith, Balti-
more, Md, and w. Creave. Rochester.