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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
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BYRON,S LAMENT.

Though the day of my destinys over,
And the star OF my faith hath declined,
The soft heart refused to discover
The faults which so many could hnd;
Though thy soul with my grief was acquaiI ted
II s6runk not to share it with me,
And the love which my spirit hath painted
II never hath found but in thee.
Then when nature around me is smiling,
The last smile which answers to mine,
7 40 not believe it beguillng,
Reoause il reminds me OF thine;
knd when winds are at war with the ocean.
A. the breasts believed in with me,
n their pillows excite an emotion,
II is that they bear me from thee.
rbouVh the wreck OF my last hope is shivered,
And its fragments are sunk in the wave,
Though feel that my soul Is delivered
To Dain-it shall ne: be its slave.
There il MANY pang 20 pursue me;
Tbey NAV crush, bet they shall not contems2-
,rbav NAV torture, but shall not subdue me
MS Of thee that thnk-not of them.
rhough human, thou didst not deceive me
Th0uph a woman, thou didst not forsake,
Though loved thou fOrborest to grleve me.
Th1npb slandered thou never couldst shake
Though trusted thou didst not disclaim me,
Tbougb parted il was not to fly,
Tbougb Watchfll twas not to detame me,
SOrmute that the world might not belle.
Ye blame not the world nor despise it,
Nor the war of the many with one
fyly soul was not fitted TO prize it,
Twas folly not sooner to shun;
And if dearly that error hath cost me,
And more than once could foresee
/ have found that whatever Il lost me,
II could not deprive me of thee.
From the wreck of the past, which hath perished
Thus much at least may recall
IL hath taught me that which most cherished
Des rived to be dearest of all
In the desert fountain is spriBging,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
AMI a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
The Use of Coffee in Brazil.

According to the statement Of the Vice
Director of the Rio Janeiro Faculty of
Medicine, it appears that in Brazil, where
great quantities of coffee are used, and
where all the inhabitants take it many
times day, alcoholism is completely un-
known. 1t is further stated that the i'm
migrants arriving in that country, though
beset with the passion for alcohol, contract
little by little, the habits of the Brazilians,
acquiring their fOndness for drinking cOf-
fee and their aversion for liquors and, as
the children of these immigrants, brought
up with coffee from their early years. never
contract the fatal habits known to their
parents, it would seem that the number of
drunkards in the country is in inverse
ratio to the amount of coffee consumed.
A South American correspondent of the
Medical Times confirms the above state
ments, asserting that the number of cafes
in the large cities of Brazil-where multi
tudes of persons, from the highest down to
the lowest classes, go in to take a cup of
that delicious beverage which none but
Brazilians know how to make properly-is
enormous; while drinking saloons and bars
are very few, and their patrons fewer still.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
An Ants Brain.
ILongman's MagaZine.1

Well may Darwin speak of the brain of
an ant as one of the most wondrous par
ticles of matter in the world. We are apt
to think that it is impossible for so mi
mute piece of matter to possess the ne
cessary complexity. required for the dis
charge of such elaborate functions. The
microscope will no doubt show some details
in the ants brain, but these fall hOpelessly
short of revealing the refinement which
the ants brain must really have. The mi
croscope is not adequate to show us the
texture of the matter 1t has been one of
the greatest discoveries of modern times to
enable us to form some numerical estimate
of the exquisite .delicacy of the fabric
which we know as inert matter. Water,
or air, or iron may be divided and sub
divided, but the process cannot be carried
on indefinitely, There is well defined
limit We are even able to make some ap-
Proclamation to the number of molecules
in given mass of matter. Sir w. ThOm
son has estimated that the number of
atoms in cubic inch of air is to be ex-
pressed by figure 3, followed by no less
than twenty ciphers. The brain of the ant
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
Small Talk.
IHarper's Bazaar.

There are people who have no other
talent, whom we never call clever, but who
do possess this instinct and who can talk
most emphatically, while knowing scarcely
anything about the individual addressed.
There are others who are deficient in this
gift, who can only say, Really" and In
deed" These Really" and Indeed" and
"Oh" people are the despair of the dinner
giver. The gay, chatty, light-hearted peo-
pie who can glide into a conversation
easily are the best Of dinner table com
panions, even if they do sometimes talk
too much about the weather and such COM
monplaces.
1t is a good plan for a shy Young person,
who has no confidence in her own powers
of conversation, to fortify herself with
several topics OF general interest, such as
the last new novel, the last opera the best
and newest gallery of pictures, or the
flower in fashion and to invent a formula,
if words are wanting in her organization,
as to how these subjects should be intro
duced and handled. Many ideas will oc-
cur to her, and she can silently arrange
them. Then she may keep these as re-
serve force, using them only when the con-
versation drops or she is Unexpectedly
brought to the necessity of keeping up the
ball alone. Some people use this power
rather unfairly, leading the conversation
up to the point where they wish to enter;
but these are not the people who need help
they can take care of themselves. After
talking awhile in perfunctory manner
many a shy young person has been as
tonished by sudden rush of brilliant ideas,
and finds herself talking naturally and
well without effort. The best way to learn
how to talk is, of course, to learn how to
think from full wells one brings up buck
etsful of clear water, but there can be
small talk without much thought. The
fact remains that brilliant thinkers and
scholars are not always good takers, and
there is no harm in the cultivation of the
art of conversation. no harm in little
"cramming," if person is afraid that Ian
guage is not his strong point. The merest
trife generally suffices to start the flow of
small talk, and the person who can use
this agreeable weapon of society is always
popular and very much cOurted.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
Democratic Legislation in Ohio.
[Tolede Blade. |


The Democratic Legislature, which has
just adjourned, has left trail of corrup-
tion and partisanship at every step. Let
us run over the roll of its chief acts:
1. Standard Oil Company secures the
election of Payne.
2. State gerrymandered so as to give the
Republicans five and the Democrats six
teen Congressman.
3. All the Capitol employees, from police
men to scrub wOmen-mOst of them ex-
soldiers, or ex-soldiers' widows, discharged
by special acts, to give place to hungry
Democrats.
A. Dayton's Water-wOrks Trustees legis-
lated out of Office to make place for Demo
cratic politicians.
5. The same thing done to the Spring
field Police Commissioners to make room
for BOokwalters strikers.
6. l.. H. Pike, given .judgeship, by a
strictly partisan vote, though he had
clearly twenty-five votes less than his COM
petitor
Z. The State is gerrymandered again, so
as to give the Republicans but one of the
seven new Circuits. This will make eigh
teen of the twenty-one new Circuit Judges
Democrats.
s. Whenever it was possible to legislate
a Republican out of office and a Democrat
in it was done.
8. The Penitentiary was wholly ''reor
ganized" into Democratic political ma
chine, and where it has been paying all its
expenses, with handsome surplus, in
future it will have to be supported by the
taxpayers.
10. The Democratic majority was too
cowardly to repeal the Scott law, but it
repealed that much of it which enabled
any community to rid itself of the rum
curse, by prohibiting the sale of liquor
inside the corporate limits
II. The session wound up in most dis
graceful way, by the Standard Oil Com
pany strangling a bill to authorize the
construction of a competing pipe line
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
Opera Singers Who Eat.
From a New York Letter. I

Speaking of an italian opera company i
am reminded of the fact that nearly all
Italian singers are enormous eaters. Cam
panini eats twice as much as an ordinary
man, and is at it all time when he is not
singing or asleep. l once travelled part of
the way from Chicago to ST. Louis on a
special train employed to transport Col
Maplesons opera company, and Campanini
spent great portion of his time in eating
a kind of sausage that he had brought over
from Italy. His wife also partook largely
of it. There was so much garlic about it
that it perfumed the car from one end to
the other and made one think of anything
else in the world but the pretty lovers
parts that the great tenor takes upon the
stage. Brignoli is worse than Campanini
He is not to be tolerated at respectable
table, and there are hotels in the United
States and Canada that will not take him
He has been known to devour thirty-four
lamb chops at one sitting by actual count
On another occasion he consumed whole
duck, then two large portions of roast beef,
either large enough for an ordinary person,
and then took another whole duck, this
besides soup, fish and desert. One is chief
ly amazed at the physical capacity of the
man to hold such quantity.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
SOME FASHIONS IN NAMES.
How Society Follows European Gus
toms in Other Matters than Dress.
cleveland Herald.

Cleveland Herald.
1t would seem that fashions in signing
ones name would be superhuous; that if
one had name that was the thing to
sign, that and nothing but that. But
alas ones simple name is not sufficient.
Some time ago certain young men of social
aspirations started the fashion of repre-
senting their first names merely by an
initial letter, while the middle names,
often improved upon or invented for the
purpose, are spelled out in full. The nov
city of this has worn off somewhat. and
we are not unduly impressed by a card
bearing the name, -. Fortescue Brown" or
rs. de Smythe Jones'" But now that
women have come to using the same fash
ion, we are little surprised. That it is
not simply ripple upon the sea of fash
ion is shown in the fact that several we'd
ding invitations have gone out with the
brides name similarly engraved, both in
this city and Philadelphia.
A later custom than this is being in
troduced at present-that Of signing the
entire name in full, and also that of join :
ing two names as surname. The first
comes from England, from whence we are
SCGlAuS cO A1dAy Va OuA lSSoAlOuo INV
English women and men sign Mary Eliza
beth Jones, or Herbert Lionel Brown, as a
mere matter of course, and if he or she
were given as many more names, would
use them all, for, why are names given
them if not for use? And do not three or
four names look more important than one
with initials?
The second, that of joining two names
with a surname, comes from France, where
it is customary to use the name of the
wife as well as the husband. There is
much more reason for this latter custom
than the former. This usage makes it an
easy matter to give a woman place among
her own or her husbands family. Mrs.
Jones is indefinite. There are so many
Mrs. Joneses that we cannot tell, unless we
know her well, which Mrs. Jones it is we
know. But Mrs. John Hamilton Jones
tells US at once that Miss Hamilton mar
ried Mr.. John Jones, and that Mr.. John
Jones married one of the Hamilton girls.
In the case of a widow who has married
again, it is quite customary to see cards
engraved Mrs. J. Frances-English," Fran
ces being the first husbands name. This
custom obtains more generally among wo-
men who have attained something of a
reputation, socially, artistically, or other
wise which they do not wish to lose by
hiding their identity under new name.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
Lost in a Fog.
| Boston Post.


Some English scientists have been trying
to explain why it is that persons who be-
come lost in fog, or who are, for any rea-
son, unable to see their way: usually walk
in circle instead of following straight
line Mr. W. Larden thinks that the cause
may be found in the strength of the legs,
the stronger of the two outwalking the
other when not controlled by the will. In
confirmation of this view Mr.. C. H. Darwin
recounts some experiments in which several
schoolboys were blindfolded and told to
walk straight ahead, when the right
legged" ones circled to the left and the
''left-legged" ones to the right, exactly as
they should do if the theory is correct;
while one boy, who seemed to be neither
right-legged nor left-leggeG, but to use the
two limbs with about equal facility, walk
ed irregularly, but deviated much less
from a straight course than any of the
others. Another writer, Mr.. Thomas
Hawksley, supposes that few persons have
both legs of equal length, in which case
the longer limb must have a tendency to
outstrip the other in walking.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
Didn't Want Any.
Detroit Free Press.


A cOlOred man who had slight ac-
quaintance with one of the stall-keepeIs
at the Central Market hung around for halt
an hour the other day before saying:
"See year, boss, / wants to ask We a
queshun or two"
''All right"
II kin git my household furnicher in
sured for $40O?"
"Yesn
"An' it won't cost but S3?"
"Well?p
"Wall, 'spose l had dat furnicher insured
an de house should catch fab an cherry
ting burn up?"
Il that case, my colored brother, you'd
be jerked into jai, so quick that your head
wouldn't have time to swim, and from the
Jail you'd 90 to State prison for at least ten
years"
what fur"
why, for setting the fire"
"Am dat possible? Wall, LIE very
much obleeged to yer, an lie made up my
mind to save de So an let de $4OO CO."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08

IN sight of their happy homes in the Bitter
Root valley.
Having also visited the Wallace min
ing district" where the main ledge may
be compared to Barnrm's Jumbo | am
now surprised to know that the mineral
indications surrounding Missoula don't re-
ceive more attention. If the Helena busi-
ness men were located here, Missoula
would soon become the most progressive
and aggressive city in Montana. With
their beautiful and productive valleys of
He'll Gate and Bitter Root, producing an
average of IS bushels of oats, SO bushels of
wheat, 200 bushels of potatoes, q tons of
hay and everything else in proportion !;
with their mountains replete with fine tim
Der, and the most splendid in
dications Of large bodies Of mineral,
what more should the business men Of
Missoula require in the way of invigorat-
ing incentives to an honorable and aggres-
sive rivalship with the business giants of
Helena and Butte? 1t does seem ito me, if
they were worthy of these vast surround
ings, they would. without loss of time
procrastination, gentlemen, is the thief Of
time-organize for the construction of a
narrow gauge railroad up the Bitter Root
valley. 1t could be entirely built for about
$4,000 per mile. After completion, it would
pay per cent. the first year 6per cent.
the second year-and, with the increase of
resources of the country, fully 10 per cent.
thereafter. So that it would ever prove the
Keystone of this community, it should be
built and controlled by the citizens thereof
If they would take time by its forelock,
thereby forecasting the final outcome, Mis-
sOula would instantaneously become the
centre of speculative excitement.
JOHN MCCAFFERTY.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
Helena, Montana, Thursday, May 8, 1884.

doubtless contains more atoms than an
equal volume of air; but even if we sup
pose them to be the same, and if we take
the size of an ants brain to be little
globe one-thousandth of an inch in dame
ter, we are able to form some estimate of
the number of atoms it must contain. The
number is to be expressed by writing down
6, and following it by eleven ciphers We
can imagine these atoms grouped in so
many various ways that even the complex
ity of the ants brain may be ineligible
when we have so many units to deal with.
An illustration will perhaps make the ar
gument clearer Take a million and a
halfoflittle black marks, put them in a GER
tain order, and we have awonderful result
Darwin's Descent of Man." This book
merely consists of about 1 100000 letters,
placed one after the other in a certain or
der Whatever be the complexity of the
ants brain, it is still hard to believe that
it could not be fully described in 900
volumes, each as large as Darwins work.
Yet the number of molecules in the ants
brain is at least 100000 times as great as
the number of letters in the memorable
volume in question.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
BREATH OF SUMNER.
81 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

There through the long, long summer hours
The golden light should lie,
And thick young herbs and groups of flowe
Stanc in their beauty by.
The oriole should build and tell
His love-tale close beside my cell.
The id'e butterfly
should rest him there and there be heard
The hOusewife-bee and humming bird.
And what, if cheerful shouts, at neon.
Come, from the village sent,
Or songs Of maids, beneath the moon,
With fairy laughter blent?
And what it, in the evening light,
3etrothed lovers walk in sight
OF my low monument?
would the lovely scene around
Night know no Sadder sight nor sound.
know, know, l should not see
The seasons glorious show,
Nor would its brightness shine for me,
Nor its wild music flow;
But i around my place of sleep,
The friends love should come to weep,
They might not haste to go.
Soft airs and song, and light and bloom,
Should keep them lingering by my tomb.
These to their softened hearts should bear
The thought of what has been,
And speak of one who cannot share
The gladness of the scene;
Whose part in all the pomp that fills
The circuit of the summer hills,
ls-that his grave is green
And deeply would their hearts rejoice
10 hear again his living voice.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
THE ORIGIN OF SCANDAL.

Said Mrs. A.
To Mrs. j.,
inquite confidential way,
1T seems to me
That Mrs. B.
lakes too much-something, in her tea.
And Mrs. J.
To Mrs. X.
That night was overheard to say,
She grieved to touch
Upon it much,
hut Mrs. b. took-such and such"
Then Mrs. X.
Went straight away
and told friend, the self-same day.
Twas sad to think y
Here came a wink
hat Mrs. b. was fond of drink"
The friends disgust
Was such she must
Inform lady which she nussed."
That Mrs. b.,
At half-past three,
Was that far gone she couldn't see.'
This day we
Have me ntioned, she
"aVe needlework TO Mrs. b.,
And at such news
Could scarcely choose
bui further needlework refuse.
Then Mrs Il.
As you'll agree,
Suite properly-she said, said she,
That she wtuld track
The scandal back
Ln those who made her look so black.
Through Mrs. X.
And Mrs. j.
she gOt at last to Mrs. A.,
And asked her why,
With cruel lie,
9he painted her so deep a dye?
Said Mrs. A.,
In some dismay.
no such thing could ever say.
] said that you
Much stouter grew
'h 100 much sugar-which you do!'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
Washington Monument.

WASHINGTON, April 3O-The joint reso-
luton relating to the Washington Monu-
ment dedication ceremonies has passed the
Senate. 1t appropriates $4,000 to defray
the expenses of the celebration.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08

Il transpires that the late election in
louisiana was the worst fraud or farce
S'er perpearated; that in truth and
.o'' lhe regular Democratic ticket was
D'ef"helmingly defeated, and that the re-
'urnS made have no reference to the votes
S' lhe present Mayor of New Or
80 sSns' himself a Democrat, is out in an
sudfess ,ud @ denouncing the wholesale frauds
nv Inv Violence that stihed the voice of all
ros ,re honest people of that city. A can
%sS Is |. being made to show how the neo-
6tSoiaI S aid vote, so as to compare with the
| h Irlal W. !, returns. If things are permitted
CO., ~ mus, 1t will be just as well for tho
| 10 uus nor, 70 issue certificates of election as
nominate officers. 'A DIS
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-05-08
RE. -lSk D. W FISK, a. J. tlSh,

PU6IiSherS and IrOpr1etOrs
Laraast Circulation Of any Paper in Montana
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-23
Fresh roasted RIonosa coffee.
Pure Powder.

Since the frat package OF Silver
Loaf Baking found it's way to the
home of a consumer II has grown IN
popular favor with a rapidity IN
known in the history OF any baking
powder yet offered the public. That
1t rose triumphant over every OPP
posing obstacle and took position
side by side with the leading brands
in the market, evidences the merit
claimed for IL by the manufacturer
Why this unprecedented popularity
Of this new brand of baking powder Is
a legitimate question, and the answer
10 found in the guarantee of ]. Ii.
Brown that every package Is chem
lCGliy pure.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-23
Eor SAD.

About 10000 acres OF land In the
choicest grazing district of Texas. All
under fence ard In solid body. The
Concho river runs through the entire
length OF tho pasture. Grass and
shelter abundant. A splendid oppor-
tuuity for fine stock farm. Offered
for short time at bargain. Terms
about half cash, balance In Ave wears
at 10 per cent, interest. For price and
further particulars, apply TO
JNo HARRIS,
Mgr United Trading Co., Colorado
City, Texas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-23
rho ANlnlnnnd NIeetInr.


Present; The mayor and all the al
dermen.
After the meeting had been called to
order Mr.. A oNeil was called upon
for the names OF the bondsmen which
he proposed to furnish to guarantee
the faithful performance OF the con.
tract, He stated that MIR. Daggett,
who was in New Mexico, had prom
Used TO attach his name TO his bonu,
and Mr.. II, T.. Maddox was sick He
thought that matters might be ar
ranged If he had more time,
The bond o, G. McHam for 5000 to
the city of Fort Worth, who WAS
granted permission TO operate variety
theater, corner Twelfth and Main
streets, where Intoxicating liquors are
sold under certain conditions, binding
himsels 20 pay salary 10 special Of
ticer TO maintain order, and to keep an
orderly house and To prevent minors
from frequenting the place, was &C.
cented and approved. j. w. Duke, j.
II Moore, J. w Rontb, w. ]. Wood
and q, ] Swasey We're the sureties.
The following huslness In relating To
the completion of the sewer contract
1 was tAlNA iiAiSaNASQs MI ~ ANlfi nOl
having made his bond TO the city for
the performance OF his contract II
granted him, Alderman Askew pre-
scented the following resolution.
Resolved, that all the bids for the
completion of the sewer system be re.
! iected and the committee on sewers be
/ instructed TO adv rise for new bids,
the work to be done by the linea fool
and the work 10 be paid for IN bonds
| Of the city at par
! Alderman Andrews offered a suhstt
tute 60 this resolution. that the con,
tract be given To the lowest and best
/ bidder Of the bids recently received
Aldermen Field and Hughes spoke
upon the substitute. Alderman Field
said that the sewer committee wished
To do the best they could for the city,
and he thought that by advertising foi
fresh bids better terms could bl
made; that on the bids recently 70
celyed the city had the right TO reject
any and all bids, aud he thought tina
It would be for It's best interest TO do 40
MIR. Andrews withdrew his substl