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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
Close Senators.
philadelphia Press.

Indeed, very few Congressman 'enter-
tain" in the sense in which the term i S
used. David Davis, who was six years in
the Senate and fifteen years on the Supreme
Bench, always lived at second class hotel
here and saved money on his salary. He
is several times millionaire and for many
years before he left Washington, he had no
family. He was without doubt, consider
ing his great wealth, the closest man ever
in public life. He would dispute with the
woman at the pie stand in the hall of the
Senate over the price of an apple. During
the last session of his presidency in the
Senate, however, he branched out little,
and every Saturday night have big dinner
at Welkers. How he must have groaned
in secret over this great expenditure !
Another very close man in the Senate was
poor, great big baby-natured, sweet-tem-
pered McCreary, Of Kentucky, now dead
He lived in the cheapest place he could
find in Georgetown. three or four miles
distant from the capitol, and had pass on
the street cars. On the occasion of a late
session of the Senate, when the street cars
had stopped, he would walk the whole dis.
tance at any time between IL o'clock and
daybreak, no matter how the weather was,
rather than pay fifty cents for carriage
For luncheon he would eat stick of candy,
unless some one asked him to join in some
thing more substantial in the Senate res
taurant At such times his appetite was
most healthy.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
Dismissals from the Army.
Washington Special.l

washington Special
The President has confirmed the dis
missal of Col. Iges and Capt. Hubbard,
and has not confirmed the sentence of It..
Simpson. Ilges, as is well known, was
tried by court martial at st. Paul last
July upon the charge of duplicating his
pay orders. He was found guilty and
sentenced to dismissal from the army.
He stands dismissed, and vii, no longer
occupy place on the roles of the United
States army. He was twice found guilty
before, but because he was not thought to
be deliberate swindler he was excused.
The trouble seemed to be that he never
could remember how often he had hypoth-
ecated his pay order for any given month.
Capt. Hubbard was paymaster, and his
commission was worth to him the returns
from an ordinary business amounting to
100000 year. Nevertheless he found
himself incapable of refraining from period
ical drunken debauches, which would have
caused his arraignment for disorderly con-
duct in police court. He was tried hy
court martial and sentenced to dismissal.
He stands dismissed. Lieut. Simpson
seems not to be liked by some of his
brother officers, and was brought before a
court martial charged with marrying a
woman of ill repute. The court found
him guilty and sentenced him to dismissal.
The President decides that this is Simp-
sons business exclusively, and the army
regulations have nothing to do with it.
The sentence is therefore not confirmed,
and the Lieutenant and his wife still have
an honorable standing in the army.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
Water That IntoXlcateS.

A few days since while skirmishing
around On the northern border of Egypt"
"a name formerly given to Southern H.
linois-I was induced by representations l
had heard from various quarters to make a
visit to the somewhat famous Sailor
Springs" watering place and resort for in
valids, who 60 there to drink the waters.
Leaving the Ohio & Mississippi railroad at
a little station bearing the proud title of
CLAY City," we were at the Springs in one
hour. The chief feature of the place is, of
course the waters, which flow in copious
streams from dozen springs situated with
in radius of perhaps quarter of mile
or less. One of them, known as the "Gas
Spring" is certainly remarkable one, and
for very large class Of complaints has
proved itself to possess extraordinary cura-
tive qualities. The water is strongly dur
etic, and, what is more singular, it is to
many persons quite Intoxicating, making
ones head feel for a few minutes as though
he had taken regular orthodox drink
under the benign provisions of the Scott
law. An immense amount of gas is con-
stantly thrown off from this spring, which
burns with flash much like that produced
by hydrogen gas when ignited Another
spring few rods away is strongly cathart-
ic. Another strange feature of this spot is
that the clay, through which these waters
have soaked for ages, itself possesses quail
ties which in their effect seem almost mi
raculous. 1t is of dark blue color, and,
used as poultice, has effected cures of ex-
ternal injuries of various kinds which had
batf1ed the highest medical and surgical
skill in the land,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
A Warriors Hidden Wealth.

The Chicago Ne,Us tells of long buried
treasure which is supposed to lie under
one edge Of the city, but which anxious
fortune-seekers have never yet been able to
resurrect. The story is this: When Mark
Beaubien sold the lake front for 100000,
and the Indian chief White Feather re-
ceived $4,000 Of this money for relinquish-
ing his claim on the land, another chief,
belonging to a different tribe, earnestly
laid claim to an equal share Of the pro-
ceeds of the sale. 1t was decided, however,
that he was not entitled to any of the
money, whereupon he waxed exceeding
wroth and vowed that he would have
White Feathers money or his life. On
hearing this White Feather gathered about
him few of his braves as body guard
and fed, with his $4,000 in a buckskin
bag. The other chief, with band of in
furiated followers, gave chase. They over
took White Feather and his warriors sew
eral miles southwest of the settlement,
and butchered every one of them in cold
blood. But when they came to secure the
coveted wealth they could not find it. 1t
was not on the body of the dead chief nor
on any of his followers, and as not one of
the hapless band had been spared to tell
the secret of its whereabouts, it may be
imagined that the avaricious fends felt like
kicking themselves all over the prairie for
making such clean sweep with their TOM
ahawks. 1t is bel;eved-and there seems
to be no other plausible theory - that
White Feather sunk the bag of gold in
swamp or slough somewhere in the vicinity
of the present boundary of the city on the
southwest side. Many white man has
spent time and labor in searching for this
lost treasure, but no trace of it has ever
been found.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
A Plea for the Sick Headache.
TJnfer-Ocaan


As there are drinks which exhilerate but
do not inebriate, so this disease sickens but
never kills. No obituary notice ever con-
tanned the statement, "Sick headache at
last proved fatal" 1t never does. On the
contrary, if long life is great boon, happy
the man and thrice happy the woman,
whose malady takes the form of sick head
aches. 1t is way some human systems
have of righting themselves up. So far
from indicating weak digestion, the head
ache is an evidence that the digestive Or
gans are in fighting trim. Instead of
meekly submitting to abuse, the digestion
rises in rebellion. Arrows of poignant
pain are shot into the brain and made to
signal the will that reform is necessary.
Indulge in food that cannot be digested
without struggle is always bad. The de-
luded mortal who fiatters himself that he
is in luck because he is not promptly pun
ished for indiscreet eating is treasuring up
for himself wrath against what may prove
a fatal day of vengeance, while the victim
of sich headache pays as he goes. No long
score is being run up to throw him into
bankruptcy some fine day. He suffers the
pangs of a sick headache for few hours,
and then all is over and gone. The obliga-
ton is discharged. Dame Nature says in
effect wipe off the slate and make no entry
in the ledger of life. Is this not better
than to have the whole reckoning precipi-
tated upon the poor mortal at one time?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
AnnlpS as Food.

Apples have always been used for dessert
Pliny tells Of twenty-five varieties culti-
waited by the Romans, now we possess over
1000 kinds As an article Of food they rank
with the potato, and on account of the va
riety of ways they can be cooked, are pre-
ferred by many to the potato. AS a sub
stitute for pastry they are invaluable, feed
ing the brain as well as f1esh-producing,
preventing constipation and acidity. A
ripe, raw apple is digested in an hour and
halt, while boiled potato takes three
hours. Sweet apples, baked or stewed, are
best used instead of sour varieties. Every
meal should have apples cooked in some
form or other, and children should be al
lowed to eat as many as they want In
stead of using the quack nostrums sold for
the blood, and other patent medicines, use
apples freely as food, and as far as possible
in the place of potatoes, and the testimony
Of the medical profession goes to prove the
healthful qualities of this excellent fruit.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
BILL NYE RESIGNS.
The Government MOurns over Ma
tiOnai Loss.

In the course of an interview at Laramie
the other day Bill Nye was asked:
"You are still postmaster here are you
not?
"Yes; the jig will soon be up, or words
to that effect. My resignation has gone
into Washington. 1t created great deal
of excitement thereabouts. Perhaps you've
noticed that all the dispatches sent out
from the national capitol the last few days
have dreary, listless, funeral-at-2- clock
air about them, as though there was some
thing wrong, at headquarters. My resig-
nation has brought this about. / tell you
candidly things are looking pretty blue
there just now. Old Crash, the Post
master-General, you know, telegraphed
me as soon as he received my little note.
He says: Reconsider your resignation. l
beg Of you, Billy, don't co. answered
the telegram, telling him it was ground
hog case-I had to 60. Then Frank-Frank
Hatton-Frank he wired me: For the
sake of the old love, don't shake us now.
The mail service won't rank any higher
than our navy if you leave it. Cancel re-
signation at once replied that hated to
refuse, but couldn't help myself; like the
pig-tailed persimmons, must CO. Then
.Chet, he telegraphed me. His message was
as tong as his trip across Wyoming to the
park. He said he felt as though three feet
or four cogs in the wheels OF government
had broken, and that unless l consented to
come back into the fold he feared the blam-
ed old machine wouldn't run much longer.
| tell you honestly that was SO affected
by his message that shed few weeps be-
fore 1 mustered up spirit to answer it. l
fn11 h T h,,& ;c+D
my resignation being accepted. l tod him,
however, that if he really needed my assis-
tance / might take the position as Post
master of New York City, and here paus-
ed for reply. have paused ever since"
"Who will succeed you?''
"Well, that's hard question to answer.
AS near as can learn about every man in
town, except one, has applied for the posi-
tion. The one man that l refer to is in
Jail charged with abduction OF youthful
and innocent mule. ! believe, however,
that he also wrote out an application, but
that the jailer suppressed it. l am very
busy just now with my new book. Pc
concluded to try one more dose of my med
icine on the dear people. It's pretty tough
ON the people-I1l admit, but don't
seem to mind it much. believe man
gets hard-hearted IS he grows older, don't
you 2"
Couldn't say about that, Mr.. Nye; but |
what will you call your next production 2"
"Baled Hay"
Great Scott! Did you say 'Baled Hay ?'
Yes odd name, isn't it? You see, Walt |
Whitman wrote book which he calls
Leaves of Grass That's where the idea
comes from. cannot say that like Whit
mans book, though"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
CONSTANCY.
He Said {:

ne SUlQ
And leaned as he spoke on the pasture bars,
That he vowed by the heavens blue
By the silvery moon and the shining stars
To ever prove leal and true.
Men change, It's true he said but oh
Believe me, my own dear love-
Affection, like mine, as time will show
Has strength that no power can move"
She Said:
NO fear or doubts, beloved haveI,
For deep in this heart of mine
Is a love that will never dim and die,
But will last for aye-like timer
He gave her ring and a fond caress,
While her tears like a torrent fell;
AS with falt'ring words and in sore distress,
He bade her long farewell.
But the man in the moon, who had often viewed
such tender scenes, / ween,
Winked knowingly then, as the lovers stood
Beneath, in the silvery sheen:
Two summers with blossom and bud are gone,
Two winters with frost and snow;
And again the man in the moon looked down
On the whirling world below.
And what did he see? Why the lover had won
A widow with wealth galore,
While the maiden had welded, that very morn
The clerk of dry goods store.
Quoth the man in the moon: Its exactly now
AS it was when the world began,
No weaker thing than woman's vow,
Excepting the vows of man.
These things have given the man in the moon
Such cynical views of lite .
That this is the reason he lives alone,
And never has taken a wife,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
Mrs. Loyson and Celibacy.
From a Paris Letter.

Father Hyacinth is not recognized by
the state and marriage solemnized by him
would not be legal. He is going to our
country and will lecture, but the visit will
be short one. He will be accompanied by
his wife. Mrs. Loyson recently said to
visitor: "a priest cannot do his duty thor
oughly unless he be married. 1 have
been told so by priests again and again
even by some of the greatest confessors in
the Catholic church. Men of the saintliest
lives-chaste and upright men-who have
lived purely always, have come to me and
said: 1--WE are walking lies, and our very
lives at times are intolerable to us, so much
do we suffer and so ashamed do we feel at
having to wear mask before our fellow
creatures. Yet we feel conscious of no sin
whatever when we examine our consciences
face to face with God alone" This is the
effect celibacy has upon pure priests. They
are men as well as priests, remember, after
all, and their lives are full of sadness, full
of privatiOn. What homes have they to
go to? Where can they turn for a little
comfort? What temptations continually
assail them And how deeply they stand
in need of helpmate after the hard days
work is done and they have retired to their
lonesome rooms"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
Helena, Montana, Thursday, October 25, 1883
NUMBER THIRTEEN.
A Club That Dimes and Wines at Skies
and Sevens.
New York Herald. ]

New York Herald
The Thirteen Club, numbering about
Alb, whose dinners of thirteen have be-
come an institution in New York, claims
for itself the field of extirpation of the pre-
vaillng feeling on the subject, 1t was on
the 18th that they commenced the new
year of 1882, and it is the number 81, or
13 inverted, that tells the number called
to the first meeting. Curiously enough
only thirteen actually put in an appear
ance
Members of this organization take pleas
ure in telling that on the 18th of January,
1892 the year and day Of their organiza-
ton, train of thirteen cars left Tarry-
town for New York, which had an accident
on the way in which thirteen were injured.
On the same ominous day of this year en-
gine 13 left Tarrytown with thirteen cars
carrying, as they allege, thirteen persons.
Since its organization the club has held
all its monthly meetings and dinners on a
18th. The regulation dining number with
them is thirteen, and should more than
that number come the surplus sits at an
other table.
The only death among the members was
that of Edward Cooper, who sent in his
letter of acceptance on 18th, and died
exactly thirteen weeks thereafter, without,
however, having participated in single
club dinner
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
Public Servants.
PHILADELPHIA Press.


Of course any congressman who is hunt
ing quarters for the coming long session,
thinks that the United States government
does not pay money enough to it's officers.
1t does really seem so. No country in the
world pays its civil officers so badly. Take
England for example. England pays noth-
ing to the members of its lower house of
Congress, which every intelligent person
knows is wrong. But England makes up
IN other ways. Let us look into the sub
Ject for a moment. We pay our minister
to France $17,500. England pays her minis
ter to France $4,000, and gives him
place to live in. We pay our minister to
England S17,5OO. England pays her minis
terto Washington $4,000 year, gives him
great mansion fully equipped and fur
nished and $4,000 a year for entertainments.
England even pays her minister to
Persia S25,OOO a year, and gives
him palace. She even pays
her representatives to the beggerly
court of Greece more than we pay our
highest officers. We pay our chief justice
S1O,5OO year, and our associate justices
$4,000. We are just now making much
of Chief Justice Coleridge. How much,
dear reader, do you think he gets a year in
the way of salary? Forty thousand dol
lars! The eight other judges of his court
get $4,000 year EACH Even the English
consul at New York receives a salary of
$4,000 year. General Sherman gets
something like $4,000 a year. General
Wolseley get about $4,000 The clerk of
the house of representatives receives, be-
lieve, $4,000 year. The clerk of the lower
house of parliament receives about $4,000
a year. All this, mind you, in a smaller
country than ours, a poorer country than
ours, and with less population than ours.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
Hints for the Sick Room.
American Agriculturist. I

American Agriculturist
Sickness is too apt to be synonymous
with sadness, and it is all-important that
the person in charge of patient should
wear bright, hopeful countenance. The
weak look to the strong for support, and
are quick to mark the slightest tokens of
uneasiness or apprehension on the part Of
those about their bedsides, although they
may give no outward expression of their
sense of it at the time. A nurse who COM
bines apparent confidence as to happy
result with the tender attentions necessary
to secure it does but discharge the proper
functions of her calling, save in extreme
cases, of which we are not treating here.
Let the nurse be quiet. Let her dress be
of no stiff or rustling material; her shoes Of
kind that shall in no wise creak or cry.
The modulation Of the voice, too, should
be carefully attended to- We cannot and
should not, forbear attendance upon the
sick because nature has not gifted us with
that rare, blessed boon Of sweet and
musical voice; yet, even more earnestly
than the elocutionist, should the nurse
study to modulate such organs as she does
possess to the utmost gentleness of which
they are capable. For nothing is of greater
Importance, we WOulu assure ueT, ii SQe Qo-
sires to soothe irritated nerves, and quiet
perturbed spirits, than to use habitually
soft and calm speech in all her conversa-
ton, either with the sick or in their pres
ence. 1t is primarily important that an
attendant should give quick heed to the
physicians orders, and obey them exactly.
The hard-headed and opinionated nurse is
one who incurs heavy responsibility, and
in nine cases out of ten brings to grief her
patient as well as herself. Take care that
no disagreeable topic of conversation be
continued, if perchance introduced. Get
more imperative; guard against talking at
all when the patient indicates by his own
silence desire for quiet. If the vote of all
the sick were taken as to that fault in their
nurses, from which they suffer most, we
should not be surprised if, with one voice,
they would say garrulity. 1t is conceded
that truth lies at the foundation of all
popular beliefs, and if SO, then nurses as
class are prone to talk too much. Let so
base vice as gossip no longer degrade one
of the noblest and benefcent Of human
callings-the care of the sick.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
Bill Arp.l

Bill Arp
Mr. Shakespeare says that a man has
seven ages, but to my opinion boy has
about ten of his own. He begins with his
first pair of breeches and stick horse, and
climbs up by degrees to toy guns and fire
crackers and single shot guns and break
ing calves and billy goats, and to sure
enough guns, and the looking-glass age,
when he admires himself and greases his
hair, and feels Of his downy beard, and
then he joins brass band, and toots
horn, and then he reads novels and falls in
love and rides prancing horse and writes
perfumed notes to his girl When his first
love kicks him and begins to run with
another fellow he drops into the age Of
despair and wants to 60 to Texas, or some
other remote region, and sadly sings:
This world is but a aeeting show
Boys are mighty smart now a days. They
know as much at ten years as we used to
know at twenty, and it is right hard for US
to keep ahead of 'em. One of these modern
philanthropists was telling my kinsman
the other day how to raise his boy. Never
whip him." said he, raise him on love and
kindness and reason" and then he appealed
to me for Endorsement. "And when that
boy is about 12 years old" said /, "do you
90 and talk to him and if possible persuade
him not to whip his daddy. Tell him that
it is wrong and unflial and will injure his
reputation in the community"
The modern boy is entirely too bigity.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-10-25
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
The Thanks of Henry Willard Ex-
pressed to the People of the
Northwest.

The following circular letter, conveying
the cordial Acknowledgements of Henry Viii
lard to the people Of the Northern Pacific
country for the honors bestowed on the
occasion of the recent excursion, is issued
from the Presidents Office of the Northern
Pacific Company:
NEW YORK, October ~, 1883.
To the friends of the Northern Pacific in Mime
sofa, Dakota Montana Washington and Ore
gOn:
The memorable journey across the CONT
nent, on the occasion of the opening of our
main line, is ended. Our American and
European guests have returned to their
homes They agree with me that just as
the trans continental excursion never was
and never will be equalled in point of
numbers, character and interest, the de-
monstrations of popular good will, warm
sympathy and genuine joy, to which it
gave rise from the Mississippi to Puget
Sound, can never be surpassed. We rode,
as it were, on rising tide of popular en-
thusiasm from one end Of the road to the
other. Beginning with an extraordinary,
almost overwhelming. outburst in the twin
cities of st. Paul and Minneapolis it ap-
peared to gain in intensity as we moved
westward, until it reached its climax on
the Pacific Coast, in Portland, Tacoma and
Seattle.
perform most gratifying duty in ex-
pressing to the inhabitants of the cities and
towns along the Northern Pacific, and to
the people at large Of Minnesota, Dakota,
Montana, Washington and Oregon official
ly and personally, my most profound
thanks for the great honors bestowed upon
our Company, and for the most generous
hospitality extended to our guests. 1t is
almost painful thought that, where so
much kindness was received everywhere,
it is impossible to render thanks in every
case. AS it is, can only avail myself of
this method to assure all Of our friends
that neither the Northern Pacific Company
nor myself personally, will ever forget
their goodness to us, and that we hope to
prove worthy of the public confidence Of
which the opening excursion elected such
striking evidence.
H. WILLARD, President.