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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
THE POSTAL CARD.
Nya'S ROOmeraOV

! [Nye's Boomerang.l
No one denies but that postal card is a
great thing, and yet it makes most people
mad to get one. This is because we natur-
ally feel sensitive about having our cores
pondence open to the eyes of the postmaster
and postal clerks. Yet they do not read
them. Postal employees hate postal card as
cordially as anyone does. Ii they were
banshed and had nothing to read but postal
cards and foreign statistics, they would read
the statistics This wild hunger for postal
cards ON the part of postmasters is all a
myth. When the writer doesn't care who
sees his message, that knocks the curiosity
out of those who handle the messages A
man who would read postal-card without
being compelled to by some stringent statute
must be little deranged. When you re
ceive one you say, Here is a message of so
little importance that the writer didn't care
who saw it. don't care much for it my
self"
Then you look it over and lay it away and
forget it.
Do you think that the postmaster is going
to wear out his young life in devouring lit
erature that the sendee doesn't feel proud of
! when he receives it? Nay, nay.
During our official experience we have
been placed where we could have read postal
cards time and again, and no one but the
All-Seeing eye would have detected it; but
we have controlled Ourself and closed our
eyes to the written message, refusing to take
advantage of the confidence reposed in us by
our government and those who have trusted
us with their secrets. All over our great
land every moment of the day or night
these little cards are being silently scattered
breathing loving words inscribed with a
nard lead pencil and shedding information
upon sundered hearts; and they are as safe
as though they had never been breathed."
They are safer in many instances, because
they cannot be read by anybody in the
whole world.
This is why it irritates us to have some
one open up conversation by saying:
"You remember what that fellow wrote me
from Cheyenne on that postal-card of the
Goth, and how he rounded me up for not
sending him those goods? - Now, we can't
keep all those things in our head. 1t re-
quires too much of strain to do it on the
salary we receive. A man with very large
salary and tenacious memory might keep
run of the postal correspondence in small
office, but we cannot do it. We are not ac-
customed to it, and it rattles and excites
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
THE TOMB OF JACKSON.
A Visit to the Hermitage--Jackso
Devotion to his Wife.
Nashville COurier-Journal.


The Hermitage is approached through a
long row of cedars on either hand. Here, in
this quaint old building, main rooms and
shed rooms of brick, with wooden columns
and wooden coping in front, resides Colonel
Andrew Jackson, adopted grandson of the
hero, with his wife and mother and two old
negroes man and wife, about 16 years old
when purchased by Jackson nearly sixty
years ago. Gen. Jackson and wife sleep side by
side in the little garden near the residence
each beneath broad marble slab. Inscribed
in old fashioned Roman letters are the words
on the slab which covers Mrs. Jackson, COM
posed by her devoted husband:
Here lies the remains of Mrs. Rachael
Jackson, wife of President Jackson. who
died the 22d December, 1928"
The old hero had been elected President
his first term, but did not take his seat till
March 4th following. The inscription re-
counts her virtues in words forcible and ten
der, and closes:
"a being so gentle, and yet SO virtuous,
vile slander might wound, but could not dis
honor. Even death, when he tore her from
the arms of her husband. could but transport
her to the bosom of her Cod
The day of the funeral Jackson, feeble and
heart broken, walked slowly behind the
coffin, leaning upon long cane he was ac-
customed at that time to carry about his
farm. AS the friends of the dead gathered
about to look for the last time upon her face,
General Jackson lifted his cane as if appeal
ing to heaven. and by look commanding
silence, said, slowly and painfully and with
n Uoioo full of hilton taarS
I'm the presence of this dear saint, | can
and do forgive all my enemies But the vile
wretches who have slandered her must look
to God for mercy"
One of the most beautiful and redeeming
traits in all this rugged and heroic nature
was the unalterable love and devotion he
bore his wife. For seventeen years after her
death the memory of this noble woman was
cherished, until the summer of 1916, when
he was laid to rest beside the only woman
he ever loved-loved with romantic ten
derness and strength SURPRISING the dream
of fiction.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
Steel Bars SuppIanting Bells.

In some places in Europe, steel bars are
used in preference to bells, supplanting them
altogether, sometimes, in church steeples,
and producing very pure, distinct and me-
lodious sounds. An English writer even ad-
Vocates their general use on the ground that,
while in point OF sonOrousness they are
equal to the common bell, in certain other
respects they are to be preferred to it. Their
weight will be light in comparison to the
ponderous objects they are to replace; they
will not burden the steeple so much, and
consequently will give more scope for archi-
tectural design their winding and hanging
up will not be so difficult, dangerous, and
expensive; they are not liable to crack. as is
the case with bells and are, therefore, adapt
ed for use in any climate; they can alsc be
operated by simple mechanical contriv-
ance. They are also much cheaper than
bells.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
Timber for Railroad Use.

The moisture of the soils in the South
says the National Car Builder, is very de-
structive to woods employed as the beds OF
railway tracks, and managers have been
troubled to know what is the most econom-
ical method for obviating loss resulting from
this cause. Creosoting has been resOIted to.
Several works with large capital have been
established in ST. Lous for the treatment of
wood by the creosote process, and in Texas
the treatment has been applied along the
lines as construction was pushed forward.
This method, however, is considered rather
too expensive Some railway men have con-
cluded that the alianthus and catalpa will
prove to be the cheapest and most durable
wood for tie and bridge timbers. One COM
pany, whose road extends chiefly over prairie
lands, is having large plantation seeded for
these trees in equal proportions. Both the
catalpa.. and alianthus are readily propagated
from the seed pods abundantly. Another
company, whose road enters Texas, is ar
ranging to plant several hundred acres of
these trees in that State, Even the Iron
Mountain Company, that probably owns
more heavily timbered land than any other
in the country, has contracted for the culti-
vation of a catalpa farm near one of its sta
tions in Missouri On this road are catalpa
ties that were laid nearly fifteen years ago
and are apparently as sound as ever. 1t is
authenticated that in Southern Ohio, where
one species of the catalpa, is indigenous,
there are posts and timbers of this wood that
have been in the ground full century, and
yet show no signs of decay. Although the
alianthus is an importation from China, still
it and the catalpa seem to find in the soils of
Missouri, Arkansas and Texas just what they
require to thrive upon.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
A Description of Jesus Christ.

The following beautiful description of the
person of Jesus Christ was found in an
ancient manuscript, sent by Publius Lentu-
lus, President OF Judea. to the Senate of
Rome:
"There lives at this time in Judea a man
of singular character, whose name is Jesus
Christ. The barbarians esteem him prophet,
but his followers adore him as the imme-
diate offspring of the immortal God He is
endowed with such unparalleled virtue as to
call back the dead from their graves, and to
heal every kind of disease with a word or
touch. His person is tall and elegantly
shaped, his aspect amiable, reverend. His
no united colors can match, falling into
graceful curls before his ears and agreeably
couching on his shoulders, and parting on
the sect of the Nazarines. His forehead is
large and smooth his cheeks without spot
save that OF a lovely red his nose and
his beard is thick and suited to the hair of
his head, reaching little below his chin
and parting in the middle like fork his
eyes are bright, clear and serene. He re-
Dukes with majesty, counsels with mildness,
invites with the most tender and persuasive
language-his whole address, whether in
word or deed, being elegant, grave and char
acteristic of so exalted being. No man
has seen him laugh, but the whole world be-
holds him weep frequently. and so persua-
sive are his tears that the multitude cannot
withhold their tears from joining in sympa
thy with him. He is very temperate, mod
est and wise. In short, whatever this phe-
may turn out in the end, he seems
a man, for excellent beauty and perfections,
every way surprising the children of men,"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
Mothers Love.
Burlington Hawkeye.

burlington Hawkeye.
We were at railroad junction one night
last week waiting few hours for train,
in the waiting room, in the only rocking
chair, trying to talk brown-eyed boy to
sleep, who talks great deal when he wants
to keep awake. Presently freight train ar
rived and beautiful little old woman came
in, escorted by great big German, and they
talked in German, he giving her evidently
lots of information about the route she was
going and telling her about her ticket and
her baggage check, and occasionally patting
her on the arm At first our United States
baby, who did not understand German, was
tickled to hear them talk, and he 'snickered'
at the peculiar sound of the language being
spoken The great big man put his hand
up to the good old lady's cheek, and said
something encouraging and great big tear
came into her eye and she looked as happy
as queen. The little brown eyes OF the
boy opened pretty big, and his face sobered
down from its laugh and he said:
Papa, it is his mother
We knew it was, but how should four
year-old sleepy baby, that couldn't speak
German, tell that the lady was the big mans
mother, and we asked him how he knew,
and he said:
"Oh, the big man was so kind to her.
The big man busted out, we gave the rock
ing chair, to the little old woman, and pres
emily the man came in with baggageman,
and to him he spoke English. He said
"This is my mother, and she does not
speak English. She is going to Iowa, and
have to go back on the next train, but l
want you to attend to her baggage and see
her on the right train, the rear car, with
good seat near the centre, and tell the con-
ductor she's my mother. And here's dol
lar for you, and I'll do as much for your
mother some time
The baggageman grasped the dollar with
one hand and grasped the big mans hand
with the other and looked at the little Ger
man woman with an expression that showed
that he had a mother, too, and we almost
know the old lady was well treated. Then
we put the sleeping mind reader on bench
and went out on the platform and got ac-
quainted with the big German, and talked of
horse trading, buying and selling and every
thing that showed he was live business
man, ready for any speculation, from buying
yearling colt to crop Of hops, and that
his life was busy one, and at all times full
of hard work, disappointment, hard roads;
but with all of his hurry and excitement he
was kind to his mother, and we loved him
lust little and when, after few minutes
talk about business, he said, you must ex-
cuse me; must 60 in the depot and see if
my mother wants anything" we felt like
taking his fat red hand and kissing it. Oh!
the love of the mother is the same in any
language, and is good in all languages
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
.JIM'S KIDS.

Jim was Il tisherman-np on the hill
Over the beach lived he an his wife
In a little house-yeu can see 1t still
An their two fair boys upon my life
Nou never seen two likelier kids,
In spite O their antics an tricks an noise,
Than them two boys.
Jim would go out in his boat OH the sea
Just as the rest us fishermen DID
And when he come back at night thar q be
Up to his knees in the surf each kid
A beck min and cheerin to fisherman Jim
He'd hear EN-, you bet, above the roar
OF the waves on the shore.
But one night Jim came sailin' home,
And the little kids weren't on the sands
Jim kinder wondered they hadn't come,
And a tremblin' took holt O. his knees and hands'
And he learnt the worst up on the hill
In the little house, an he bowed his head
THE fever" they said.
Twas An awful time for fisherman Jim
With them darlin's dyn afore his eyes
They kept a calm an beck min him.,
For they kind O. wandered in mind--thelr cries
Were about the waves and fisherman Jim
And the little boat a sailn for shore
Till they spoke no more.
Well, fisherman Jim lived on and on,
And his hair grew white and the wrinkles came,
But he never smiled and his heart seemed gone,
And he never was heard to speak the name
Ofthe little kids who were buried there
Up on the hill in sight o the sea-
Under a willer tree.
One night they came and told me to haste
To the house on the hill, for Jim was sick,
And they said hadn't no time to waste,
For his tide was ebbin' powerful quick,
An he seemed to be wand'rn and crazy ike,
An seein' sights he oughtnt to see
An had called for me.
And fisherman Jim, sez he to me,
Its my last, last cruiSe-yOu understand
I'm a-sailin' a dark and dreadful sea,
But off on the further shore, on the sand,
Are the kids who's a. beck MIN an callln my NAME
Jess as they did-ah, mate, you know
In the long ago"
No, sir; he wasn't afraid to die,
For all that night he seemed to see
His little boys Of the years gone by,
And to hear sweet voices forgot by me;
An Just as the mornin' sun come up
They're holding me by the hands! :! he CRED
An he died
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
Noble Illustration.

Lord Carnarvon, in addressing the people
of Birmingham, used the following illustra-
tion "Travelers tell us that in some of the
Eastern SEAS where those wonderful coral
islands exist, the insects that form the coral,
within the reefs, where they are under the
shelter of projecting rocks, out of the reach
of wind and wave, work quicker, and their
work is apparently sound and good. But on
the other hand, those little workers who
work outside those reefs, in the foam and
dash OF the waves are fortified and harden
ed, and their work is tirmer and more en-
during. And so l believe it is with men,
The more their minds are braced up with
conflict, by the necessity of forming opinions
upon different subjects, the better they will
be qualified to go through the hard wear and
tear of the world, the better they will be
able to hold their own in that conflict of
opinion which after all it is mans duty to
meet"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
TRUE HONORS.

A bard lived, once upon time,
or good and honest name,
Who frequently dropped into rhyme,
Without a thought of fame.
Until one day an agent trim
Appeared before this singer.
And asked if he might name for him
His patent new clothes wringer.
And then he heard that far out West
A nursery man of means
Had called for him his very best
Superior kind Of beans.
Fast fiocked these honors at his feet,
Faster by far than dollars;
And when for him was named sweet
New thing in paper collars.
lie asked, confused by all these brands,
What is there in a manner"
And all the people clapped their hands,
And answered. This is fame"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
Russians Friendship for Americans.

In his book about the Turco-Russian war,
Lieutenant Greene tells of the cOldness OF
the Russians toward him whenever he was
mistaken for British officer, and how COM
pletely their treatment changed as soon as
they found out he was an American. In
deed, their attention was SO marked as to
prove rather embarrassing, since on some
occasions they insisted on sacrificing their
own comfort and convenience to his. The
testimony of Engineer Melville is to the
same effect. In conversation with reporter
the other day. he spoke highly of his treat
ment by the Russian authorities, saying that
even the lower officials distinguished them
selves by their courtesy and refinement. The
feeling for Americans among the Russian
lower Eclasses seemed to be very warm and
far different to that entertained for the Eng
lish
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08

BY MRS. G. = STONE.
With soft little step that the hay scarcely pressed
Lest some one might hear and her secret be CUES
Miss ropknot slipped down from her warm hid
den nest,
Ann not till she stood
In the grass far without
Did she venture to cackle
The glad tidlngS out
"kerr-cut cut-kerr-- -da--cutw ~ AS if she had said
Come on now, all people. For I'm not afraid
10 tell the whole world that an egg I have laid
-cut-cut-kerr-da-cut
'Ts hid from you, mind
-cut-cut-kerr-da-cut
Come, seek till you findn'
They heard Topknot's chalenge,-did Lon, viii
and Dow,
And straight, on the instant they made for the
And scrambled up way; they hardly knew
how.
They peeped in the corners;
Bumped heads at the caves;
Burrowed deep in the corn-stacks;
And tore out their sheaves.
Hair stuck full of spnters, straws fringing their
Hats cray with cobwebs and dust on each nose!
Would their own mothers know them, now,-do
you suppose?
And how would they look
On Fifth Avenue, pray,
If, either transported,
They stood" Right away:
They were hunting Tor eggs. Ana that fafesC de-
light
Would have kept them there, searching, from dawn
until night,
Unless on their prey they should chance to allght.
How they pol<ed with swift fingers
Far down in the bn
Stirring up such scared spiders
AS Glanced to be in
Whilst proud Bddy Topnot stood, down by the
door,
And cack led and cacked as never before,
Seeming only to challenge the seekers the more !.
rr-cut-cut-kerr-da-cut
No,-hunt where you may,
You cant find the egg
That I've hidden away
Soon the children grew frantic, and pried at the
lock
Hoped down in the mangers and climbed up
the box,
That shut on their heads with some horrlole
knocks
And at last. Willy found
On a beam,-in the Sleigh
Miss Topknots great secret
Safe hidden away!
How crest-fall en- then the smart little hen
TO think that her secret had slipped from her
when
Kcrr-cut -cut--kerr-- da-cut -she cried to all men
III never, no never,
Was now her refrain,-
'rll never sing Cut-cut,
Kerr-da-cut again =
And perhaps her resolve may hold fast till next
time .
When down from the loft she shall gingerly climb
And, forgetting her fears and recalling her rhyme,
She'll wait till outside,
As weak little blind,
Then Observation-Disclosures
Come, seek till you find :"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
A Brave Fireman.

The feat of George Hutchins, Boston
fireman, will bring him medal. 1t was
performed at the burning of gun store, de.
scribed the other day by telegraph. 1t was
impossible to keep the people far from the
building, although they were told that il
tanned explosives. The firemen learned just
where the powder was kept. and Hutchins
volunteered to go in after it. He climbed
through a window, got down on his knees
and crept toward the spot to which he had
been directed. The smoke was sitting and
binding His hands touched the huge cop
per box and he carried it out. Again he
went back for the remaining box. The cop
per burned his fingers, and as he sprang out
the flames followed him, but the powder was
safe under powerful stream of water.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
Chickens Hatched by the Hundred.

Dr. G. Morwitz, proprietor OF the German
Democrat, is successfully engaged in hatch
ing chickens by artificial means on his farm
near Bristol. The incubator which he uses
is heated by an ordinary stove, which does
not consume for the purpose of warming the
eggs more than few pounds of coal, at a
cost of about 81 cents, or less than 81 for the
entire time necessary to hatch out box OF
400 eggs. Usually about 80 per cent. OF
these eggs are hatched, which is 80 per cent
more than the results obtained from the
Matching of eggs by the natural process
One of these stoves will answer for four in
cubators, containing 100 eggs each, and as
many as 200 young chickens have been
Matched by this artificial process at one time.
The eggs which are placed in the incubator
and will not hatch on account of want OF
vitality, are taken out after a few days,
cooked hard and fed to the young chickens,
which are very fond of them. Iti curious
fact that such eggs are really good for table
use, even after they have been in the incu-
bator for some time. The young chickens
are cared for in the machine until they are
able to care for themselves in small COW
cred place provided for them to run in, with
the aid of an artificial mother The incuba-
tor used in the experiments is very simple,
and was invented and has been patented by
NJ. Meyers, the superintendent of the farm.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
Hot Milk as a Stimulent.

Of hot milk as a stimulent, the Medical
Record says: Milk heated to much above
Fahrenheit loses degree of its sweetness
and density No one who, fatigued by over
exertion of mind or body, has ever expe-
rienced the reviving influence of a tumbler-
full of this beverage, heated as hot as it can
be slipped, will willingly forego resort
to it because of its being rendered less ac-
ceptable to the palate. The promptness
with which its cordial influence is felt, is
indeed surprising Some portions of it seem
to be digested and appropriated almost inl-
mediately, and many who now fancy they
need alcoholic stimulents when exhausted
by fatigue, will find in this mplessdraught
an equivalent that will be abundantly salts
flying and far more enduring in its effects.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
A Beautiful Idea.

Away among the Alleghanies there is Il
spring, so small that a single OK could drain
it dry on a summer day. 1t steals its unob-
trusive way among the hills till it spreads
out in the beautiful Ohio. Thence it
stretches away thousand miles, leaving on
it's banks more than thousand villages and
cities, and bearing on its bosome more than
half a thousand steamboats,. Then joining
on the Mississippi, it streatches away some
twelve hundred miles more, till it falls into
the great emblem of eternity. 1t is one of
the great tributaries of the ocean, which ,
obedient only to God, shall roll and roar un-
til the angel, with one foot on the sea and
the other on land, shall lift up his hand to
heaven and swear that time snail be no
longer So with moral influence. 1t is the
rill, the rivulet, the ocean, boundless and
fathOmless as eternity.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
HUNTING FOR EGGS.

BY MRS. G. :. STONE.