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Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-08-17
Scarlet Fever
Cured.

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
l testify 20 the most excellent Qualities Of Prof
Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. As disinfectant and
detergent IL Is both Theoretically and practically
superior to any preparation with which am ac-
quainied-N i. LUPros, Prof Chemistry.
Darbys Fluid d Recommended bv
Hon ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS, Of Georgia.
Rev. ChAs, y. DRKMs. DID,, Church Of the
Strangers, N. ":
los. LECoNTE, Columbia, Prof University sc.
Rev. A. J. BATTLE, Prof, Mercer University;
Kew. Ono. y. PIERCE, Bishop NJ. H. Church.
UNDERSTANDABLE TO EVERY HOME
Perfectly harmless. Used Internally or
externally for Man or Beast
The Fluid has been thoroughly tested. and We
nave abundant evidence that il has done everything
Druggist pamphlet or send to the proprie,ors,
j. II. ZEILIN a CO.,
Manufacturing Chemists PHILADELPHIA
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-08-17

The physicians here
use Darbys Fluid very
successfully in the treat
ment q Diphtherii.
a. SroLLuEwERcK,
Greensboro, Ala.
letter dried up,
Cholera prevented.
Ulcers purified and
healed.
In eases ofDeath Il
should he used about
the corpse - Il will
prevent any unpleas-
ant smell
The eminent Ply
stefan, j. MARION
SIMS, NJ ID, New
York, says: II am
convinced Prof Darbys
Prophylaetic Fluid is a
valuable disinfectant. ="
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
Helena, Montana, Thursday August 80, 1883.
Speak Kindly to Mother.

Young man, speak kindly to your mother.
She should be an object OF reverence above
and beyond all others. Her very age should
be her sure passport to courteous con-
sideration. Bear in mind that the aged
mother of grown up family needs no other
certificate of worth, for she is a monument Of
excellence, approved and warranted. She
has fought faithfully the good fight and
came off conqueror and upon her face she
bears the marks of the conflict in all the fur
rowed lines The most grievous of life has
been hers trials untold and unknown only
to her God and herself; and now, in her old
age she is patiently awaiting her appointed
time She stands more truly beautiful than
ever in youth more honorable and deserv-
ing than he who has slain his thousands, or
stood triumphant in the proudest fields of
victory.
Young man, pause, think, reflect for
thoughtlessness is the fruitful parent of blum
ders errors, loss, improvidence, blighted hopes,
regret, and too often crime; for evil comes
from want of thought as well as lack of
sense.
How often are mishaps and disasters due
mainly to our own heedlessness, excused or
bemoaned with reflection. Oh, that had
thought! Youngman, then speak kindly to
your mother, think tenderly of her. But a
little while and you will see her no more for
ever; her eye is dim, her form is bent. Others
may love you when she has passed away
-kind-hearted sisters, perhaps, or she
whom of all the world you chose for part
ner. She may love you warmly, passionate
ly; children may love you fondly, but never
again, never, whilst time is yours, shall the
love of woman be to you as that OF your
old trembling mother has been.
In agony she loved you; through helpless
infancy her throbbing breast was your safe
protection and support in wayward, touchy
boyhood she bore patiently with your
thoughtless ruggedness and nursed you
through a legion of maladies Her hand it
was that bathed your burning brow or moist
ened your parched lip, her eye that lighted up
the darkness of wasting, nightly vigils, watch
ing always in your fitful sleep, sleepless by
your side, as none but her could watch. Oh,
speak not her name lightly, for you can not
live so many years as would suffice to thank
her fully Through reckless and impatient
youth she is your counsellor and solace. Up
to bright manhood she guides your improvi-
dent step, nor even there forsakes or torgets.
Speak gently, then, and reverently of your
mother, and when you, too, shall be old, 1t
shall in some degree tighten the remorse
which shall be yours for other sins, to know
that never have you outraged the respect
due to your old mother, who never leaves
you until the rehearsal of Blessed are the
dead that die in the Lord"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
How Beds Should be Placed.

A German, Baron Reichenbach, has occu-
pied many years in studying the art of bed
making, or bed-placing, and maintains that
improperly placed beds will shorten a mans
life. If mere magnet exercises an infu
ence on sensitive persons, the earth's magnet
ism must certainly make itself felt on
the nervous life of man. In whatever
hemisphere, you may always sleep with your
feet to the equator and let your body lie
"true as needle to the pole" The proper
direction of the body is of the utmost impor-
tance for the proper circulation of the blood,
and many disturbances in the organism
have been cured by simply placing the boil
ster in a different point of the compass from
that it had occupied. Let such as have
hitherto been in the habit of sleeping with
their head where their feet ought to be take to
heart the example of the late DR.. Elschwes-
ter of Magdeburg, who died recently at the
age of 100 years. The most unhealthy posi-
ton, is when the body lies due east and
west. Some observers assure US that the
sleep in such position is tantamount to
committing suicide, and that diseases are
aften aggravated by deviations from the
proper pOstures.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
Blaine and His Book.

Gath Meeting Mr.. Blaines clerk of ff-
teen years, Thomas A. Sherman, Bucksport,
Me boy. he said to me: "Mr. Blaine has at
last begun to dictate on his book, thing
he had too little confidence to do, though
much inclined to for good while. He some
times dictated to me in his orchard at Au-
gusta, whittier he has now gone to work all
summer. He is closely absorbed in the book,
but am glad of it. Intense and preoccu-
pying as such a ong-sustained composition
will be, and he already feels it, it is occupa-
ton for him and not uncongenial. He uses
the only stenographer we have at Augusta
the one who reports for the legislature" !"
.Will this book be illustrated ?' @Yes, with
portraits and groups of men inscribed-fifty
perhaps. 1t is to be published by the Bill
company at Norwich, Conn" How much
of it is composed already ?" Nearly half
of the first volume, suspect. It was hard
work at first to collect the materials for q
short period prior to Mr.. Blaine's advent in
Washington, but that is now done, and he is
on the solid ground of personal experience.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
Webster,s speller still Selling.

When Disraeli wrote Lothian" Mr.. Apple
ton cabled him large offer for his book,
which he accepted at once, and they published
it at $3.50 and sold $4,000 copies. On the
whole however, Mr.. Appleton thought there
was more money to be made in special pub
lications. For instance, he publishes 1,OOO.-
600 copies every year of Webster's spelling
book. There is never any falling off in this
sale. Some dealers order as many as thirty
cases as q time, and each case holds seventy
dozen primers. They are sold principally in
the South and West, and by dealers in Yam
kee notions, and at cross-road stores rather
than at regular book stores. Just after the
war the sales reached 100000. This was
because every darkey in the South thought
that all he had to do to learn to read was to
buy a Webster's primer, but when he found
out that something besides the possession of
book was necessary, he gave it up In de-
spair. After that the sales fell back to their
normal amount, 100000 year.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
Should Women Ride Like Men.
TI,ondOn Lancet

London Lancet.
Such is the question which is being seri-
ously discussed. Perhaps it would be as
we'll to leave the determination of the ques-
tion to those whom it principally concerns.
We fancy they have no wish to change the
custom. AS a matter of fact, although it
may not appear to be the case, the seat
which woman enjoys on a side-saddle is
fully as secure and not nearly so irksome as
that which man has to maintain, unless he
simply balances himself and does not grip
the side of his horse either with the knee or
the side of the leg. 1t is curious to note the
different ways in which the legs of men who
pass much time in the saddle are affected.
Riding with straight leg and long stirrup
almost invariably produces what are popu-
larly called knocked-knees. Nearly all the
mounted soldiers of the British army suffer
from this deformity, as any one who takes
the trouble to notice the men of the Life
Guards and Blues walking may satisfy him.
self. On the other hand, riding with short
stirrup produces bowed-legs. Jockeys,
grooms, and most hunting men who ride
frequently, are more or less bOw-legged. The
long-stirrup rider grips his horse with the
knee, while the short-stirrup rider grips him
with the inner side of the leg below the
knee. The difference of action explains the
difference of result No deformity necessa
rily follows the use of the side-saddle if the
precaution be taken with growing girls to
change sides on alternate days, riding on the
left side one day and the right on the next.
The purpose of this change Is to counteract
the tendency to lean over to the side oppo-
site that on which the leg is swung.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
A Model Girl.
Washington Capital. ]

| saw girl come into a street car the
other day, though, who had, | was ready to
bet, made her own dress, and how nice she
did look. She was one of those clean, trim
girls you see now and then. She was about
18 years old, and, TO begin with, looked we'll
fed, healthy and strong. She looked as
though she had a sensible mother at home.
Her face and neck and ears and her hair
were clean-a absolutely clean. How seldom
you see that There was no powder, no
paint on the smooth, rounded cheek or firm,
dimpled chin; none on the moist, red lips;
none on the she'll tinted, but not too small
ears none on the handsomely set neck
rather broad behind, perhaps, but running
mighty prettily up into the tightly corded
hair. And the hair 1t was Of a light
chestnut-brown, and glistened with specks
of gold as the sun sLone on it, and there was
not smear of Oil or pomatum or cosmetic
on it; there was not spear astray about it,
and not pin to be seen in it. AS the girl
came in and took her seat she cast an easy,
unembarrassed glance around the car from
well-opened gray eye, bright with the inim-
liable light of good condition." such as you
see in some handsome young athletes who
are in training. There were no tags and
ends, fringes, furbelows or auttering ribbons
about her closely fitting but easy suit of
tweed and as she drew off one glove to look
in her purse for small coin for fare, /
noticed that the gloves were not new, but
neither were they old; they were simply
well-kept, like the owner and their owners
hand, which was a solid hand, with plenty
of muscles between the tendons and with
strong but supple fingers. 1t would have
looked equally pretty fashioning pie in
home kitchen or folding a bandage in hos
pital. 1t was a hand that suggested at the
same time womanliness and work. and | was
sorry when it found five-cent piece and had
been regloved. One foot was thrust out
little upon the Stats of the car fioor-a foot
in a good walking boot that might have
FLASHED through a rain storm without fear of
damp stockings-and an eminently sensible
boot on a two and one-half foot, with high
instep, a small round heel and a pretty
broad tread. The girl was picture, from
head to foot, as she sat erect, disdaining the
support of the back Of the seat, but devoid
of all appearance of stiffness. Perhaps the
whole outfit to be seen, from hat to boots,
did not cost $40; but have seen plenty of
outfits costing more than ten times or even
twenty times that which did not look one
tenth or even one-twentieth as well. If our
girls only knew the beauty of mere simplic-
ity, cleanliness and health, and their fascina-
ton!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
Seyenty-Six Years in WedlOck.

A special dispatch to New York paper
from Deposit, n. Y, Of August 10th, says:
Peter Bogart and wife, no doubt the oldest
married couple in the State, if not in the
Union, live at townsville, this county della
ware). They were married nearly seventy
six years ago, and are each nearly So years of
age. They were married in 1903. A sister
of Mr.. Bogart's, aged 79, lives with them,
and, although she was not years old at the
time of the wedding, she remembers the oc-
casion. At the celebration of the 10Th ami
versary of the wedding there We're present
descendants of the venerable couple to the
fifth generation. A daughter lives about a
mile from the homestead. She is 73, and an
invalid. Her mother is so well preserved in
spite of her century of life, that she walks
to see her daughter daily and ministers to
her wants. Mr.. Bogart is feeble. Delaware
county seems to be conducive to longevity.
Aunt Prudence Lakin, of Pease Eddy, died
short time ago aged 107. Cook St. John,
who lived for three-quarters of century in
Walton, on the Delaware, died at 103.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
Daughter Slavery.
New Tork Letter, by Gath" +"


Perhaps the most complete slavery to be
seen in New York is slavery to ones daugh-
ters. The New York wealthy man has a
daughter or two He pays but little atten-
ton to them while they are children, but it
suddenly occurs to him that they are grow
ing beautiful. His wife is sure of this fact
and she begins to dress the girls while they
are still children in all the elegance of prin-
cesses. They are sent to dancing school, to
riding school to the finest seminary, and
put IN the opera box, allowed to know all
that is going on at all the theatres, and car
ried to the watering places, and before they
know anything about their country they are
sent to Europe, where, as my friend, the
Consul, who has just arrived, says he has
seen girls not seventeen years of age pro-
vided with wardrobes of from fifteen to
thirty silk dresses, with hose of variegated
silk, diamonds in their ears, and everything
tion they are satiated with upon the very
threshold With fine food and wine their
compilations become elegant they are sell
teeth fixed; the most cosmopolitan society is
introduced to them, and they look down
with Indifference upon the boys of their own
soon upbraid their husbands for not keep
ing up the luxury their parents spoiled them
with. A friend who has spent many years
in Europe tells me that the freedom allowed
daughters by American girls are known
wherever they appear by their sumptuous
attire on the streets, their delicate shoes, the
alteration paid them by their parents, and
they are beautiful enough and worthless
enough to be at once the temptation and
ruin of any young man who may take them
to his arms.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
What Moles Signify.

A mole spot on the arm pit really promises
wealth and honor. On the ankle the ankle
it bespeaks modesty in men, but courage in
women. When mole is found on the right
breast it is sure sign of honesty. if on the
left it forbodes poverty on the chin it prom
ises ealth, on the right ear respect on the
left ear dishonor. If it is seen in the center
of the forehead it bespeaks treachery, sullen
ness and untidiness. If it is on the right
temple it forshows that you will enjoy the
of the great; on the left temple
it forebodes distress; on the right foot it be-
speaks wisdom; on the left rashness. When
it is on the right side of the heart it denotes
virtue; when on the left side wickedness.
When it is on the knee of man it denotes
that he will have rich wife. When it is
on the left knee of woman she may expect
a large family. A mole on the lip is sign
Of gluttony and talkativeness; on the neck
it promises wealth. A mole on the nose in
1icates that man will be great traveller; on
,he thigh it forebodes poverty and sorrow,
md on the wrist ingenuity. sagGa
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
Some Thoughts About Women.

o, woman thou vert fashion to beguile,
so have all sages said, all poets sung.-Jean
Ingalow.
A man never so beautifully shows his
strength as when he respects a womans soft
ness.-Douglas Jerrold.
A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul,
the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise
of the eyes.-Fontenelle.
The most facinating women are those that
can most enrich the every day moments of
existence.-Leigh Hunt.
A beautiful woman is practical poem,
planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in
all whom she approaches
They govern the world, these sweet-lipped
women, because beauty is the index of a
larger fact than wisdom.-O. W. Holmes.
There are only two beautiful things in the
world, women and roses; and only two
sweet things, women and melons-Malserbe.
It goes far toward reconciling me to being
a woman when I reflect that am thus in
no danger of ever marrying one-Lady
Montague
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
OVER THE ORCHARD FENCE.

It Feared to me ] want no use out in the field
to-day;
somehow, couldn't swing the scythe nor toss the
An so thought I'd Jest sit here among the apple
trees,
To rest awhile beneath their shade an watch the
buzzn bees.
Well, no! Can't say I'm tired, but somehow
wanted rest
TO be away from everything seemed sorter to be
best.
For every time l go around where there is human
kind,
kinder hunger after what know | carnot find.
It's singular how in nature the sweet apple bios
SONS fall,
The breeze it pears to know and pick the purtiest
OF EN- all
It's only rugged ones perhaps, can stand agin the
blast
The frail and delicate are made too beautiful to
last.
there
had nice young apple tree jest startin' out to
bear,
An when the ekinoctial storm come tearin' cross
the farm
1t tore that up, while to the rest it didn't do no
harm.
An so you've been away spell? Well, how is
things in town?
Dare say it's gettin' close an hot. To take it up
an down
| like the country best. I'm glad to see you're
lookin' spry.
No things don't go jest right with me; scarcely
can say why.
Oh, yes the crop is lookin fair I've no right to
complain,
My corn runs well, an L have a purity stahu Oh
My hay is almost made, an-Wel yes! Betsy :?
She never is as hearty she ought to be, you
know.
1rl.n in, H6Qrl lnf nv
the old mill race;
As fine lot Of grass ground as I've got upon, the
place;
It's queer how, when the grass grows up an gifts
to lookin' best,
That then's the time to cut it down. It's SO with
all the rest.
Of fittings in nature, suppose. The harvest comes
for all
Some day, but can't understand Jest why the pest
fruit falls;
The Lord knows best. He fixes things to suit His
wise laws;
An yet it's curious oftentlmes TO ngger out the
Mirandy? Yes, she's doin, WELL she's helpin
About the house, a likely gal to bake or milk a
COW,
An'-Mc! I'm not half the were ten years
ago;
But then, the years will tell upon toe best of u.s.
you know.
Another? Yes; our Lizzie were the best one of
them all;
Our baby, only seventeen, sweet, an fair, an
tall.
Jest like lily; always good yet cheerful, bright
an gay
We laid her in the churchyard, over yender, yes
terday.
That's why felt l WANT no use out in the field
to-day.
l. somehow, couldn't swing the scythe nor toss the
new-mown hay;
An so | thought I'd Jest sit here among the trees
an rest;
These things comes harder when we're old; but
then the Lord knows best.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
A Geographical Puzzle.

\ port on the southern coast of Africa
started out to visit her sister, mountain in
Washington Territory The weather was
pleasant, but looking something like noun
tains in Africa; she wore On her head a
mountain in Oregon, her dress was river
in Texas, her cloak a river in New York,
her shoes a country in Africa, her jewellery
was set with city in Idaho. She had in
her pocket a city in Nevada; she had in her
hand a can filled from spring in Wyoming,
and to save it all she put in the can city
in Ireland. She was great lake in Nevada,
but did not enjoy going through another
lake in Nevada. She had for her sister a
country in Europe, baked, and seasoned with
a river in Dakota and city in Guinea; for
extra favoring she took river in Vermont.
The distance was an island south of Con-
necticut, but she reached her destination just
as the mountains in Africa were rising She
received hearty welcome from her sister
and was refreshed by an export from Brazil
seasoned with an island in st. Mary's river
(Michigan) and a river in Montana. She
stayed until bay east of Central America
began to fly she received several calls from
mountain in New Mexico and a city in
Oregon. On her return trip she was fright
ened by lake in British America; she
screamed and there came TO her assistance
an island in the Irish Sea, who drew from
his belt a river in Dakota and killed it. She
thanked him for his kindness, and arrived
at her home just in time to dress for we'd
ding of city at the west end Of Lake On
tario and the county seat of a county in
Southern Michigan. To any gentleman
who will correctly solve the above the
students of the female seminary of Eaton
county offer as a reward set of crimping
pins If after using them the locks of his
hair do not suit his fastidious taste, they
advise him to dip his head into river in
Wyoming and await the result.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
PLAYING BO-PEEP.

Please, mamma, won't you pay peep with me?
said a baby scarce four years old.
She was sitting the while on her mother knee,
And the darling was being told
TO pray for papa ere to bed she'd go
And her bright eyes closed in sleep.
bod bess papa,' came soft and low;
And mamma, pease pay bo-peep."
Our Father now raise up your little hands"
Our Fader" the darling said.
God bless him while in distant lands
Say this and wel go to bed"
i don't want to go yet, mamma. DEAR
Then pray that angels keep
Your papa in their watchful care"
IF do will you play bo-peep?"
bod bess papa and bring him soon
To puss and me and you.
Mamma, does bod live in the moon,
And is papa up there, too?"
All, baby mine Gods everywhere,
On the land and on the Deep"
Den ask Him pease to dust come here
And ct us pay bo-peep."
So like the child, bo-peep we play
From the cradle to the grave,
Forgetting that on Judgment Day
he II ask you for what He gave;
Where is the seed you have sown,
- The harvest YOU should reap?
lhe seeds have with the four winds blown
Like the baby, we played bo-peep.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-08-30
FOretOld in q Dream.
New York Sun.

The daughter of the late Harvey Jewell
some weeks ago dreamed that she saw an
undertaken drive up to her residence with a
hearse. He was a peculiar-looking man.
His queerly shaped nose, which looked as if
it had been broken and was twisted to one
side, gave his countenance very odd ex-
preston. He came directly toward her, and
as he said, Are you ready ?" she suddenly
awoke Within week the dream was re-
peated, even to the words, "Are you ready?"
While visiting Cincinnati some days after
ward she went to hotel to call upon a
friend, and stepping into an elevator, was
startled to hear the man in charge say, Are
you ready?" She was greatly agitated when,
turning to look at him, she beheld the exact
of the man in her dream. She
to be let out of the elevator at the
first landing. She stepped out and the man
remained. The elevator machinery gave
out; suddenly the car went up and then
down and the man was killed