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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

/ spent forenoon looking into machine
shops, rolling mills, ETC., where the gas is
used as a fuel. 1t gives me pleasure to
acknowledge the kindness and courtesy OF
Messrs. Jones a. Laughlin, of Mr.. Zug, of
the Sable Iron and Nail works, and of Mr..
Hemphill. of the Fort Pitt foundry, in giving
me information. They answered all my
questions shall never forget it. May the
shadow of their big, laundering mills never
grow less am also indebted to the secre-
tary of the Philadelphia Gas company. This
is the great gas fuel company of Pittsburg
Though the price of gas is so low, and though
it has only been working on a large scale
some two years, it receipts are sl,5OO,OOO
annually 1t operates thirty-seven large
wells. There is also another gas fuel COM
pany.
The illustration shows what may be called
the boiler room of the future Instead of
smoke, coal dust and grimy perspiring men
shoveling with might and main, you might
have piano and parlor carpet in the fur
mace room if you liked, it is SO clean. The
Sable works have battery of twelve boilers,
and used to keep four firemen. Now there is
needed only one man to look after the gas.
The floor was clean enough for New Eng
land kitchen N" o"h"~ - -""t no smoke,
no clinkers, no residuum of any kind. Think
of the saving when there is no more ashes to
take out and cart off and dump. What will
people do then for material to fill up their
city lots withs
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

rises from the center of the pile, and is tie
striking feature of the design. The height OF
this tower will be 130 feet, and its four angles
curved into circular turrets, three OF which
will be one foot in diameter and the fourth
eleven feet. From the latter tower-twenty
feet above the others-will float the Stars
and Stripes Attached to this tower are four
Others, which on one side will be seventeen
feet by sixteen and sixty-four feet high,
while on the other side are two towers twen-
tv-three feet by nineteen and fifty feet high.
Two of these are triple towers, connected by
castellated curtain walls, and the other two,
small ones, by semi circular bastion.
There are also several outlying towers,
which form the corners of the structure.
These are connected by castellated wall, as
will be seen from the accompanying cut,
and at each angle of these walls are circular
turrets thirty-six feet high and twelve each
in diameter The main entrance is round
tower, flanked by square turrss, and inside
will be fashioned a commodous skating
rink, to which an initiation fee will be
charged, curling rink being added for the
amusement of devotees of that Ito outsiders
spiritless game. u. + u
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
The Ticking of a Clock.

Slight though the ticking of clock may
he its sudden cessation has a wonderful
influence upon the inmates of a room in
which the timekeeper is located. A dim
realization of something wrong steals over
the senses-a feeling as if something OF
value had been lost, or friend had gone
away perhaps never to return, or, as If come
of the children were sick, until suddenly
some one looks up and exclaims, Why,
the clocks stoppedw And Immediately
the ill-defned forebodings dissipate, the
little shadow of the room melts away, and
as the winding up process is completed,
and the CHEEKY ticking recommences, the
family circle regains its wonted buoyancy
of spirits, and the members wonder what
it was that made them feel so gloomy q
few moments before.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
A British Political Joke.

At a Conservative meeting man was seen
in the hall hawking about basket of pup
pies for sale. Good Conservative puppies"
he cried; ''who IL buy some good Conserva-
tive puppies" A few days after he offered
the same puppies at great Liberal meeting.
''Good Liberal puppies, ne went about cry
ing; who'll buy some excellent Liberal pup
piesf' "Why, you rascal" said gentleman
to him, 81 heard you, the other day, Offering
these as Conservative puppies; what do you
mean by it!" "Ah! true, your honor" he
returned; ''they were blind then, but now
their eyes have been opened"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

One of the memorable experiences of my
life was my visit to the gas wells at Murrys-
vile. 1t was a cold, muddy, snowy, neck
ristno ride hnt-well. would do it again.
1t was 2:30 p. m. when my liverystable-
man drew up alongside the railway station
platform with fine pair of black Kentucky
trotters.
'.Can you get me back here in time for the
$40 train!" l asked.
"With decent roads could, easy, and I'll
try it as it is" he replied.
AS we went along. whenever there was
smooth road and level ground enough to take
long breath, my driver, Mr. R. d. Stewart,
noted points of interest.
"Irwin Station" said he, lis town Of
5000 inhabitants and there aint man in it
who whips his wife,"
Mr. Stewart told me of the desperate
fight that had taken place between rival
claimants to the first well that was utilized
at Murrysville
1.-TWO sets of men were putin down pipes,
Weston's men and Haymakers men. They
got to quarrelin, and, b'gose, they fought a
regular pitched battle, and Haymaker was
killed That was several years ago, and they
amt got through with the law trials yet"
At that moment a strange, steady murmur
struck the ear. AS we proceeded it deepened
into roar 1t sounded like the noise of the
surf in a high sea. 1t sounded like anengine
as big as the United States Capitol building,
at Washington, blowing off steam.
"There she goes" said Stewart. "Do you
hear her! That's the old gas well She goes
a bizzin just that way all the time, bizz, bizz
/ wouldn't like to live around there for a
steady thing"
No more would I. OF calm day, the roar
can be heard nine miles away. At the wells
themselves, when gas is first struck, it is
deafening. The workmen put cotton in their
ears to protect their hearing.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
LOOK UP AND SMILE.

Dear heart, look up-look up and smile,
The worlds enough of sadness;
You cannot from your frowns beguile
One tithe of joy or gladness.
Your clouded eyes no brightness see,
Tho bright the skies are beaming,
AID every gladsome light shall flee
Before your gloomy dreaming.
This life is short at best, then why
With brooding DER each sorrow,
See precious moments glidingby
Ungilded for the morrow?
Ungilded, unmoved by aught;
Dear heart, is this not shining?
Then cast away each gloomy thought
And smile for beginning.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

They found him by the roadside, dead,
A ragged tramp unknown;
His face upturned in mute despair,
His helpless arms outthrown.
The lark above him sang song
OF greeting to the day,
The breezes blew fresh and sweet, and stirred
His hair to wanton play.
They found no clue to home or name,
But tied with ribbon blue
They found package, and 1t held
A baby's tiny shoe.
Half worn and old a button off,
1t seemed a sacred thing;
With reverence they wrapped it close
And tied the faded string.
Amp laid it on the peaceful breast
That kept the secret well;
And God will know and understand
The story it will tell
OF happy times and peaceful home
That dead tramp some time knew,
Whose only relic left him was
The baby's tiny shoe.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
The st. Paul Ice Palace
Special Correspondence


ST PAUL. MIMI, Jan. 12.-We are about
to have an ice palace here that will compare
with anything of the kind ever attempted
1t is being constructed by the architect OF
structures of the same character at Mon
treal carnivals Some idea of the structure
may be gained from the accompanying
sketch of the completed building, but orn'
must see this huge mass of glistening ice to
appreciate it, The building covers a space
OF ground l5Ox160 feet The main tower
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

A boy will eat and boy will drink,
And a boy will play all day;
But a boy won't work and a boy won't think,
Because he amt built that way.
Chicago Ledger.
girl will sing and girl will dance,
and a girl will work crotchet;
But she can't throw a stone and hit a church,
Because she amt built that way.
Lynn Union.
A girl will fiirt and girl will mash,
And ne'er give herself away;
But she can't scratch a match on the seat OF her
pants,
Because she amt built that way.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

DIGGING THE PASSAGE m =
through. More would waste precious time.
They gathered up trowelfulls OF the black
mud and filed buckets with 1t, crouchlng
upon their hands and knees. When bucket
was full it was passed from man to man till
it was carried to the outer passage. Such
work seemed puny child's play, for there
were $50 feet of culm above them. But it
was all that could be done.
Pumps were rugged at once, and set work
ing to get the water out When one squad
Of men were tired, fresh relay took their
places. Night and day they kept at it, IRON
sinewed, determined miners. Bulletins were
sent out constantly to the thousands who
we're gathered about the mouth OF the mine.
''In twenty-four hours we shall reach
them, and we think they are alive"
| Again: "BY to- morrow morning we
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

rife splotch of coal black mud into my
mouth and eyes.
"Jirl, you're the" began his master.
He suddenly checked himself and Redeemed,
looking sheepishly at me.
$50 on" said l. Don't stop on my &C.
count"
In years / have not Struck anything az
interesting as these gas wells. l could write
as much more about them. On the whole
though, will stop. ELIZA ARCHAR
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

mines. They would
not go on and labor
as though nothing
b a d b happened e d.
when twenty-six
brave comrades
might be dead or
dying in agony un-
der ground. One
hundred of the
strongest men went
down to dig out a
passageway. How
they worked you
isee IN the picture.
They sought to
make only a tunnel
SO large as q man
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
THE LOST MINERS.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCENES AT THE
NANTlCOKE COAL MINE.
The Face of Culm Bank-HerOic
Rescuers Digging Upon Their II ands
and Knees-GenerOsity of
the Company.
Especial Correspondence I

Especial Correspondence
WnKKsBARRE, Pa, Jan. 6-There were
more heavy hearts in and about the town of
Nanticoke, Pa, during the past holidays
than perhaps in all the Untei States besides
A prosperous place it is, too. 1t is in the
heart of the anthracite mining district of the
Wyoming valley, nine miles from here. The
underground veins which furnish its industry
are the property of the Pennsylvania Coal
company. This company does not belong to
the coal owners combination but operates
its shafts it. own way. Consequently, when
the general association orders mines to stop
work on account of low prices, the Pennsyl-
vania pays no heed, but continues to blast
out and bring to light its black treasures the
year around without stopping. 1t is a good
company to work for. Cash circulates con-
stantly in Nanticoke; trade is lively, and the
people are happy, as only busy persons can
be. They give work to 600 men and boys
These turn out daily $4,000 tons of coal.
The men employed are of all nationalities,
but mostly of foreign birth, Irish, Welsh,
Poles and Hungarians The scene near the
mouth of No. l slope, the day Of the acci
dent, was like this in the picture.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

The illustration shows what is called the
fan house. The great engine in the fan
| house worked away as though it was a mat
ter of life and DEATH the steampipe outside
puffed merrily, and the great pile of culm
was added to hourly.
And it was culm that caused the accident.
What is it! 1t is the dust and refuse from
coal 1t is piled high about a II the mines.
1t is blown hither and thither by the winds.
the rain vets it, and it sogs down in o grimy
mud, blackening like ink all that touches it.
Day by day it accumulates the longer mines
are worked, until mine owners are at
their wits end what to do with it. 1t
becomes in tine not only an inconven-
ience, but a danger. A man has
invented lately, it is said, a process for max
ing fuel very cheaply out of culm. 1t is
made into a mixture and pressed, and in this
state is said to give out just the steady, in
tense heat that is best adapted for heating
the water in steamboat boilers. If this be
true, then a great nuisance will be got rid Of.
But the Pennsylvania company had found
no way of disposing of their culm. They
had dug coal and shipped it till their refuse
pile was hill 200 feet high and covered
thirty acres. 1t was upon a field of swampy
ground over an abandoned portion of the
mine The water stood in puddles under
the culm, and made channels through it. and
tricl1led into the ground beneath till all be-
came slippery, treacherous mass
At 10 o'clock the day of the accident a
miner was blasting out rock in vein of No.
slope. 1t made tremendous crash, heavier
than usual. Immediately thereafter water
and earth began to pour upon the hapless
miners
''Save yourselves! Run for your lives"
was the word passed.
The miners sprang out in frantic haste, but
the wateg CURED in in torre1's. The main
gangway is called the slope, and it was
this the mi ners aimed to reach. Most of
them escaped and were drawn out, although
the water was up the necks of the last
When the terrified hundreds gathered
above ground, twenty-six hapless souls were
missing. Ten we're Poles and Hungarians:
the others mostly Welsh and Irish One
thought seized every human creature in Nan
ticoke The lost men must be rescued. There
were the Sugar Notch miners buried by a
cave-in in $780, They We're prisoned in a
mine six days, and yet every man of them
was taken out alive. To work, then, to work
with desperate energyl
The company offered every indu cement in
its power. The workmen stopped in all the
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

.LE PICTURES OF oiTTSBUEC )
BOOMING BONANZA.

l.evolution i'm Iron and Steel Manu-
fictures-PittsburG the Coming
City-It Is Clean-One of
Natures Wonders.
The opening OF these nStural gas wells ana
their utilization as fuel generators marks an
era in the Nineteenth century. Even the
tanning and binding of electricity is not more
marvellous. Staid Pittsburgers are fairly
standing on their heads for excitement and
joy. They see their busy, pleasant old town
booming ahead at a rate which paralyzes the
imagination. Fuel gas at their doors at the
cost of not much more than the piping and
valves to bring it into their furnaces! 1t
means iron, glass, steel, copper and a thou
sand manufactured products at a rate so low
that no other city in the Union can compete
with it. Consequently Pittsburg can under
sell the world in those markets.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

= Is lost by friction OF the pipes AZ the .,r.
seven pounds TO the mile. U.lless s,tne
W methods of conducting it are discovered,
herefore, the dreams of line of natural gas
i0l miles long can hardly be realized. Mills
must remain here. But why could not n Ds
pumped!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
[For the Herald.
A CHANGE OF NAME.

Before the Bible Dangers" met
And with much worry, care and fret
The language of the book upset,
This gem, within the mountains set,
Was often called Helena.
But since that noted trysting- place,
Outside the realms of peace and grace,
Has been abolished, and the space
Filled up with love for all the race,
1t is called Shoel-e-na.
Matt W. Anderson.
BoZEMAN, NJ. T., Jan. 10.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
THE ONE LINK TO THE PAST.

BozEMAN, NJ. T., Jan. 10.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-25
"Pillering.r

They were coming down from Saginaw
on the boat. and as a swell rocked the
boat the young lady screamed out, and
crawled around until she seized the young
mans arms.
"Piller yer head right here, Susan he
exclaimed patting his heart with one
hand, and slipping the other around her
waist. when fellow loves girl as
love you, he could take her on his back
and swim eighteen miles in q Decline
and then go home and hoe corn till sun
down. Piller yer head right here, my
love, and if she rains, and halls, and
thunders blue bla2es, don't you squeal one
squeal."
care we safe: she .trembIiugly inquir
ed.
"Safe as cow tied to BRICK wall
eighteen feet thick, my love! Just lean
right over here, shut your pretty eyes,
and feel a contented as if ye set on the
top rail of the pastur fence, waitin for
the tin peddlor to arrove in sight"
She "pillered,n and everybody remark
ed that he looked like a hero.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-25
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.


Make your cake in an earthen dish and
not in tin pan.
Silk vangings now take the place of
gorgeous wallpaper in the most fashiona-
bic houses.
Borax water will take the undesirable
gloCs off a coat collar.
Casters made of leather are new in
vention which will prove very useful
Heavy furniture which must be moved
often for sweeping soon wears bad places
on the floors or carpets, and solid sole
leather castor must prove blessing to
housekeepers
Cracker Jars holding about quart are
among the new articles of tableware.
Gravy ladies of china or granite ware
have gone out of use very largely. A
goodsized spoon takes The place of
ladle, and is lighter and prettier.
The alcove formed by deep windows is
now curtained with large draperies in
stead of hanging small curtains against
each window.
Old cotton flannel is the best cloth for
wiping gilt or bronze picture frames. A
small quantity of salt of tartar, dissolved
in water, is good solution for cleaning
frames.
A badger hair brush is the best for
busting fine bits of china.
The strongest concentrated ammonia
will remove stains from old brass when
all'else fails, The ammonia yapor chang
es the brass during the process Of clean
ing to a bronze color, but the immediate
application of the liquid removes this at
nncp.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-25
The Horse Stable.

None of our domestic animals are more
entitled to the care of the farmer than
the horse, and yet how frequently is it
found to be a fact that the care of valu-
able animals is left almost entirely to the
supervision of the hired help, who too
frequently neglects his charge when his
own convenience is involved. In alusion
to the care of this horse while in the sta
BILE, Mr.. +. +. Roberts, in the Maine
Farmer, offers some hints, that every
owner of horse should give heed to at
this season., He says that an opening di-
rectly above the horses head into the
hayloft makes il extremely and incessant-
ly uncomfortable for the horse in winter.
There is a constant current of air de-
scending through the opening provided
for supplying the rack or manger with
hay; and every particle of air warmed by
the breath or by contact with the horse Is
forced upward, or out of the stall in some
direction by the colder, heavier air of the
stable.
On visiting, last winter, horse barn at
Madison, Wis., | found the horses SILVER
ing in their stall, though well blanketed,
| examined, to learn where the cold air
came from. The walls were excellent and
quite impenetrable, and the doors were
as well fitted as sliding doors can be. |
saw that the stalls were furnished with
iron hay racks placed III the extreme top
of the stall the top of the rack being on
a level with the floor above. | stepped
under the rack, and found there was
strong current of air passing down the
opening and it was no wonder the horses
shiyered. The racks were wide at the top
and slopod to the wall Ii Is impossible
for a horse TO feed at such a rack with
out getting dust and seeds in his foretop.
Such an opening makes n good yentiator
in summer, but it is always Objectionable
to have the ventilation through the hay.
4 stable needs ventilation summer and
winter. and il can be had IN many better
ways.
The old fashioned open manger is al
so Objectionable in moro than one re-
spect. The horse stands continually with
his head over the manger, and Is always
breathing on the hay whether eating or
not. W.T. hay be does not eat immedl-
ately is made very distaseful. and he will
only eat it under compulsion of hunger.
1t is easy TO understood why the hay Is
made distasteful In human respiration
the breath contains 100 parts of carbonic
acid gas in loo. This is sufficient to ex-
tinguish the light OF common kerosene
house lamp, ii expired when the air en-
tiers the burner. the entrance of pure air
to the burner being prevented by cloth
on the opposite side. Even if there i no
larger proportion Of carhonic acid gas III
brute respiration, we can easily compre-
hend why Il Is SO often necessary TO grow
good has ont Of the manger and replen-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-25
Col. Ingcrsoll on Lawyers.
Boston Herald.


THE lawyer Is merely sort of intel
lectual ssrumpet. He is prepared TO re-
ceiye big fees, and make the best of either
side OF the case He is a sort of burglar
in the realm of mentality. It's fortunate
thing for the lawyers that, whenever a
man is created who has the peculiar fac
ulty for legal requirements and controy-
ersy, at the same time enough fools
spring into existence to give him a good
living. II is illustrated in the story of the
man who studied for the ministry and oc-
cupied the pulpit for g number of years
without sgccess, and then studied medicine
apd practiced this profession for num-
Der of years without success, and then
studied law and, entering upon its prac-
tice. made fortune al il. He declared
he had found men more willing to pay for
having their own way than to be guaran-
teed their souls or TO keep their bodies
whole. My ideal of lawyer is that great
English attorney who having accumulated
a fortune of E1,OOO,000, left it all in q will
to make home for the idiots, declaring
that he wanted TO give it back to the peo-
pie from whom he TOOK it,
Your opinion seems TO be more severe
on your eli Jts than ON yourself" | said.
The Colonel laughedlas he said: 'Ineyer
want to know much about my clients.
never want to know whether they are
guilty or not. l do not even care to
know what they can prove. What I want
to know is what the other fellow can
prove When | know that am ready for
business
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-25
American Contractors
Globe-pemocrat

In travelling through Mexico, Central
and South America, and some parts of
Europe, | have been struck by the fact
that United States contractors and specu-
lators always pay American rates of
wages, while Englishmen take advantage
of any local rates which may profit them.
Thus in Mexico contracts are carried out
side, and while American contractors pay
81 and $1.25 day, European bosses pay
fifty cents and seventy-fve cents. 1t is
just the same in the Argentine Republic
on all the public works there. Local
labor is absurdly cheap, and English
contractors pay just as little as they can
while Americans pay decent rates all
through, and in the long run come out
the best, their terms attracting all the
best men