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Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-18
KIDNEY PAINS

~ And that weary, hfeless aIl-gone sensa- z" tlon every present with those of unframed / x4\ kieneys, weak back and loins, aching , <9 nlEs and sides, overworked or worn out oy disease debility dissipation are relieved in one minute and speedily cured by the Cuticura plaster new, original, elegant and in
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BAD BLOOD. ScrOfulOus, Inherited and Con.
 ta2iOuS HumOrs.

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mlfsIe1I e1Ia11en1ls.
DON'T WAIT,
But send to
 FARNEIAM,

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I1SlediCal

Many years ago, while engaged in the genera
 practice of medicine saw the dark and apparently hopeless condition of nearly every sufferer from CHRONIC DISEASES, as well as the utter futity of the methods of relief (relief simply and not cure) employed by the best in the medical frater l nity, and speedily determined my course of ac ton and welded my professional life to the most
 careful analysis and intimate knowledge of the pc cuarities of this class of ailments, bending also my energies to find some
Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-18
One Of the Worst Cases.

We have been selling your Cuticura Remedies for years, and have the first complaint yet to re- ceve from purchaser. One of the worst cases of Scrofula ever saw was cured by the use of five hottIes of Cuticura Resolvent Cuticura and Cuti- cura Soap. The Soap takes the "cake" here as a medicinal soap:
 TAYLOR 6 TAYLOR, Druggists.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

What is so disagreeable as 8 dogday in September2
Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-18
Salt Rheum Cured.

was troubled with Salt Rheum for a number of years so that the skin entirely came off one of my hands from the finger tips to the wrist. tried remedies and doctors prescriptions no purpose. until commenced taking Cuticura Remedies and now am entirely cueed. E. T. PARKER
 379 Northampton street, Boston, Mass
Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-18

The Norwalk Gazette has this to say
 of the Republican candidate for gov ernor: The career of Hon. Phineas c. Lounsbury is significant com mentary on the broad scope of possibili- ties that is ever open to the youth in all sta tions, from the highest to the humblest, in
Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-18

''So there in solem solitude,
 In that sequestered spot, Lies mingled with it's kindred clay The dust of Walter Scott, The glowing dreams of bright romance That, teeming, filled his ample brow; Where is his daring chivalry?
 Where are his visions now? The flashing eye is diD1ned for aye; The stalwart limb is stiff and cold; No longer pours his trumpet note To wake the jousts of old! The generous heart, the open hand, The ruddy cheek. the silver hair, Are meuldering in the silent dust all ia lonely fhara
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
SHOOTING A WE'LL.

The force of the gas is tremendous 1t is
such, that when first struck, it hurls every
thing before it, this blind mad force rushing
towards a venting place. Tools weighing two
or three tons are thrown many feet into the
air. Thus far the stream has always been
struck in a layer Of sand. The illustration
shows the furious sand storm that is raised
when the fluid fuel is reached. Striking the
gas is called shooting a we'll" 1t is more
like well shooting, one would think.
Gas is reached at depth of 1900 to 1900
feet in western Pennsylvania. 1t costs So
foot to bore. At Tolono, Ills, however, the
fluid was struck at a depth of only 100 feet.
AS we rounded hill and looked into val
ley in front we saw Murrysville. Huge
wooden derricks, tapering slim toward the
top filed the landscape, as you see in the
picture of Murrysville. To the right of the
view was the great well that made the 'biz
zing." The gas shoots in a straight line
twenty to thirty feet in the air. We saw
where it issued by the water that poured out
along with it. Water is always struck with
the gas. 1t is salt water. The mineral fire.
quently incrusts the plating of a well till it
chokes the orifice Then the tubing must he
cleaned. Wells have seemed sometimes to
diminish in supply from this cause. When
the incrustation is removed the stream re-
turns to its full quantity,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
Calculating Machine.

The calculating machine invented by
Prof Thomson appenIs to excel, in its in
geniOus adaptation to a variety OF results,
even Babbage's wonderful apparatus. By
means of the mere friction of disk, cylln-
der and a ball, the machine is capable OF
effecting numerous complicated calcula-
tions which occur in the highest applica-
tion of mathematics to physical problems ;
and by its aid an unskilled person may, in
a given time, perform the work of ten ex-
pert methematicians. The machine is
applicable alike in the calculating of tidal,
magnetic, meteorological, and other peri
odic phenomena it will solve ditferentlal
equations of the second or even higher
powers of orders; and through this same
wonderful arrangement of mechanical parts
the problem of finding the free motions of
any number of mutually attracting partl-
cles unrestricted by any of the approx
mate suppositions required in the treat
ment of the lunar and planetary theories.
is done by simply turning handle.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
KITCHEN RANGE.

When gas is common for fuel, cooking
will be as neat work as piano playing. 1t
will be a good deal more fun. At least a
third of the burden of housekeeping will be
lifted in winter Next to Murrysville, the
most prolific of the Pittsburg wells are
found at Tarentum, a village twenty miles
northeast of the city. But there is no telling
where it will or will not be found. 1t may
underlie the whole United States, for all
ANYBODY knows. About the only point that
has been certainly proved in the search for
it is that geologists are ignoramuses As
often as any way, gas is found exactly
where they have staked their scientific repu-
tation that there was none. 1t does not par
ticularly follow the oil fields. 1t has, more
often than otherwise, been struck in regions
where there are clay and limestone layers
above and sand below. In boring, the bit
passes through four strata of sand at the
west Pennsylvania wells. There Is no sign
of diminution in the supply SO far. One
well has been discharging twelve years, and
is as flush as ever. The gas is believed to be
in constant course of formation, and to be
generated by the action of water upon the
subterranean hydro-carbon oils.
At the end, may say that made the 5:49
train, splashed with mud from head to foot.
Mr.. Stewart explained that it was because
sJim," the near trotter, had way of "set
ting his feet down vicious" / can testify to
that, for the splashes came ON my side. As
q swind-up, the flying heels fired one last ter
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
Furnishing Trinkl0.


Trinkle is in trouble. There was = meet
ing of creditors, small tradesmen, called at
his house the other morning, but he didn't
call the meeting. He relates his experiences
somewhat as follows:
The tailor, on account of my breecheS or
faith, took measures to collect and gave me
fits.
The bootmaker's temper got the upper
hand of him. At last 1 waxed angry, too
and in the end, poor sole, gave him the
length of my foot.
The halter was mad, and was brimful Of
impudence; so to crown the whole, or
rather to cap the climax, l halter put him
out.
The wine merchant entered with a rye
face. "What ales you, Madeira sirf' said
he. 81 de-claret's it a shame, this re-portl
What is the horrid-gin of your troubleT
told him that my stock had gone down, and
couldn't faucet up SO he'd better cork up,
which he did.
With my laundress / was in hot water,
and she treated me with sadirony.
Then the carriage maker spoke: said he'd
brought his re-seat with him: that he was
tired giving time since spring to such -,
or to any body else. threw shafts of ridi-
cule at him. He only answered, "Wheel
see."
The baker was naturally crusty, and
sneered at me as being fancy bread, and not
well baked at that; and added how waffle it
was for him to be done so brown
The grocer was spice-y in his remarks; said
he didn't care a fig for me; that l was moth
ing butter fraud to make him weight SO long;
and actually threatened me with assault.
However, when he saw it was fruit-less he
sub-cidered. upon which l said, "Cheese It'll
let us soap for the best"
Then l was bored by the carpenter He
was sharp and cutting; said things didn't
auger well bit, and that | was beneath his
level; THAT | wasn't on the square with him,
and adze that he saw plane-ly that l meant
to chisel him out of his money, but he would
compass me yet.
The butcher tried to fore stall matters,
when he heard my affairs were out of joint,
but he hadn't much at steak, so he went his
weigh.
Even the fishmonger, in his bass-o voice,
called me a scaly fellow that he'd like to fin
ish off.
The milkman, when he heard what had
occurred, said: You have such whey
about you, l think 1 can wait"
Said l: You water"
Trinkle is almost crazy in the midst OF
the holidays, and no wonder. He swears
that if such is the punishment for debt, he
will never 60 there again.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
Helena, Montana, Thursday January 2S, 1886.

are inserted, so rrau wnen the pressure II
greater than certain number of pounds the
valves arc hlowu open and the gas escapes.
The valves, with the weights that hold them
down, are shown in the picture of the gas
sIitIon.
10 separate the gas from the water that
Pours out along with it a powerful tank is
placed at the mouth of WELL Confining the
gas as it escapes is called ''piping off" we'll.
The gas and water are together conducted
into the large tank. The water being
heavy falls to the bottom of the
receiver. The gas rises to the top,
and passes into pipe, which conducts it
away in any desired direction. Connected
with each well is one of the iron ''stand
pipes" mentioned, through which the fluid
escapes when not in use. 1t is ignited at the
top of the tube, so that it may not poison the
atmosphere. The stSnd pipe must be some
distance away from the derrick and build
ings around the mouth of the well, other
wise with every gust of wind it would lap
them in flames and destroy them.
In the view of Murrysville you see such
an escape tube with flaming gas at its
mouth Duff's well was thus on fire during
my visit. The great flame lit the scene with
a lurid red light even in day time. 1t curled
and ducked and changed to weird shapes
that looked alive as the wind drove it hither
and thither.
This fuel gas is not a good illuminant
naturally. At present two sets of gas pipes
are necessary, therefore, in houses-one for
light the other for heat. But the day |
visited the gas wells it was announced that
an inventive genius had discovered way of
treating and enriching it so that it could be
used for Illuminating as well. If this be true,
then the problem will be indeed solved The
Bunsen burner is used for the fuel gas, both
in private houses and factories. The white
hot heat that can thus be produced is some
thing marvellous. A flue must be provided
to carry off the products of combustion,
otherwise they would sOcn poison the air.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
american Women shopping in Paris
Lucy II. Hooper's Letter.

lLucy II. Hoopers Letter.
Now, | do wish that some philanthropic
per son, bent on ameliorating the condition
Of the human race, would found college
for teaching American women how 10 shop.
There have been colleges for general iu-
struction, for art, for music. then why not
for shoppings 1t is a business in which
American ladies engage largely when they
come abroad And it is safe to state that
one-half OF my countrywomen are pro-
foundly versed in the science of how to do
it. In the ir,t place they do not know what
it is that they want, but they want it very
badly In the second place, they do not
want to spend any money for the unknown
object they desire In the third place, if
they are deluded into actually purchasing
anything, they want TO send the article
back the next morning and to get back
their money.
They have an idea that goods in Paris are
given away to the foreign purchaser, with
a gold dollar tied to each object As an in
ducement for it to be taken. They expect
to buy Baccarat or Sevres vases at $6 ths
pair, Vlret bonnets at $40 each, and Worth
dresses at 500 for the richest and most ex-
pensive. They will impose their own styles
and patterns on the dressmakers that origin
ate the fashions for the world. and
then feel cross because the toilet so pro-
duced is lacking in elegance and chic. Ma"
said young laiy in my hearing at Worth'5
the other day. "l think that dress is dread
full dear. You could have bought that
sweet emerald green satin at Hops & Hig-
gins before we left home for just half the
money" Which is very much as if one
would say to B>uyuereau or Cabanel: "Sir,
think your pictures cost a great deal too
much. ] can bny handsome chrome at
home for s. which will answer nv every
purposa" There is no harm in the emerald
green satin or in the chrome either. But
why not buy them without coming to Paris
to make remarks concerning them.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

Even that is not all The natural gas is
practically pure hydrogen and carbon There
is none of the sulphur in it which is always
found in coal and which is so injurious to
iron when melted in the common way. This
is what Mr.. Zug, of the great Sable Iron and
Nail works at Pittsburg tells me. Conse-
quently the gas-made iron is of a better
quality than that manufactured by coal, and
Pittsburg iron and steel will be better than
any other Pittsburg is indeed favored Of
the gods.
But her gain, alas! will be the loss of other
towns all along the Ohio valley. Already
the disaster is felt Already foundrymen,
steelmen and glass manufacturers fOresee
that they are doomed. They must ''go to
pieces or go to Pittsburg."
Yet one other advantage this marvellous
discovery gives Pittsburg.
81 am swart with the smoke of my chimneys." "
The poet represents the town as singing of
herself eighteen years ago. She is so no
longer. Pittsburg is cleaner to-day than Gin
cinnati 1t is the gas that has done it.
Formerly one approaching the American
Birmingham saw nothing but a cloud Of
smoke Now the traveller looks from the car
window thror h a sort of dreamy haze and
sees a rarely picturesque city. Handsome
bridges Ike the fine suspension bridge in the
picture cross the rivers here and there.
Mighty hills rise above the waters, so high
that they give an element of grandeur to the
landscape Over the valley there is a sea OF
machine shop pipes and chimney stacks and a
roar like the rushing wings of the spirit of in
dustry.
1t was before o'clock in the morn
ing when our train reached the out
skirts of the city. The great shops
had not yet started their hum and
roar for the day. We passed close to huge
black mill, with its chimneys standing like
masts of ship. There was one small iron
pipe that had cloud of flame rolling and
tapping about it, changing with every gust
of wind. This was my first sight of natural
gas. The pipe was what is called ''stand
pipe" They are common enough in Pitts
burg. The pressure from the wells is so heavy
that the fluid cannot be shut off and let on at
Will When not in use it must be allowed to
burn or escape in some way, The usual way
is to conduct it off by an extra chimney and
set fire to it at the top, and let it burn all
night. In Pittsburg and vicinity a quantity
equal to 70, 900 bushels of coal thus goes to
waste every day they saw
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
THE HUMMING.BIKD

There is silence in this summer day,
and the sweet soft air no faintest sound
But gentle breeZes passing on their way,
Just stirring phantom branches on the ground;
While in between the softly moving leaves,
Down to the shadows on the grass below,
The brilliant sunshine finds its way and weaves
A thousand patterns, glancing to and fro.
A peace ineffable, a beauty rare
Holds human hearts with touch we know divine,
When, hush "a little tumut in the air;
A rush of tiny wings, a something, fine
And frail, darting in fiery haste all free
In every motion scarce we've seen or heard
Ere it is gone! How can such swiftness be
Incarnate in an atom of a bird
To know this mite instant poised in space,
Scarce tangible, yet seen, then vanishing
From out our ken, leaving no slightest trace
All, whittier gone, you glowing jewelled thing !?
Before you came, the very air seemed stllied;
More silent now because with wonder filled.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
hall have them dead or alive


The days went on. Some mules that had
been In one of the shafts were found alive
That renewed tagging hope But presently
there was trace of fire damp in the low,
shiny tunnel Experienced miners shook
their heads. ''They are choked to death,
God have mercy on their souls! They might
have lived on mule meat good while, but il
the air was cut Oft they died at once"
1t began to look hopeless The terrific
anxiety told on the friends outside. A young
woman, Maggie Sorper, had two brothers,
strong young men, among the lost ones. She
was nervous and excitable, and the shock
killed her. The parents were very old. The
white-hairel father lowered like a ghost
about the ill-fated mine wringing his hands.
1--WE got two as good boys as ever lived
dead in that mine, and as good a girl as a
father ever had lying dead at home, but the
will of God be DONE" he said
1t was very pitifuL The accident occurred
on Friday. Monday another tremendous
culm slide took place. 1t fell into and filled
completely the narrow, painful passage al.
ready cut out. Every way of communicat.
ing with the imprisoned men had been tried,
if, perchance, they were yet alive. An iron
pipe ran through the chambers. The rescuers
tried knocking on this, knowing that the
sound would penetrate to the farthest re.
cesses. But it was never answered. When
the second landslide took place all hop
ended. The men were given up surely
dead The rescuers made rush to escape
with their own lives.
Then they took thought how the bodies
might be obtained. The coal company
offered a reward of $l00 for the first body
discovered.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28

The Philadelphia company is putting IL
pipe connections in factories and private
residences at the rate of forty a day. They
keep 1,500 men constantly employed laying
gas mains The fluid is already used as fuel
in thirty four iron and steel works, sixty-six
glass factories, 800 other manufacturing es-
Establishments and 5000 private residences.
At this time gas is used in such quantity that
it has taken the place of 10000 tons of coal a
day that would be otherwise consumed.
When the work is complete Pittsburg will be
as clean as New York And coal will be so
cheap that dealers can "hardly give it
away.n Then points down the rivers from
Cincinnati to New Orleans will get their re-
venge on the Pittsburg coal merchants. 1t
will be poor sort of revenge though, if they
are robbed of all their manufacturing.
The map showing the gas well region is re-
produced from one published by the Chamber
of Commerce of this city. 1t is probable the
fluid can be struck almost anywhere in west
ern Pennsylvania. But the largest bunch OF
wells are those at Murrysville, twenty-five
miles out. The gas is conveyed by pipes
from here and elsewhere to the city. The
greatest length of these pipes is thirty miles.
There is doubt, they say, whether a line can
be made much longer than that. The prD
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
Rough on Philadelphia.


The New York people have great con-
tempt for the residents of such small towns
as Boston and Philadelphia Mr.. George
Washington Childs was in New York not
long since, and on being introduced to a
gentleman who was born and had lived all
his life on Manhattan Island the latter said:
''Are you still living in-in what is the
name of that little town over in Pennsyl
vania!"
"PhiladelphiaH suggested Mr.. Childs.
''Yes, believe that's the name of the town.
Are you still living there in-what did you
say the name of the place wasp
"Philadelphia"
''Yes, Philadelphia. Are you still living
theref'
Eyes, that is still my home" replied
Childs
''Yes, suppose it must be very still there.
Mr. Childs, | would like to ask you ques-
ton"
''Go ahead"
'Mr. Childs, do you live in Philadelphia
in order to be considered eccentricT
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-28
WHAT 1T LOOKS LIKE NOW.

Seventeen widows and fifty-two orphans
were made by the disaster A subscription
has been started to send the helpless ones
back to the old country. ornce une con-
ditions of life there are far harder than
here, this plan, to a humane person, looks
tolerably tough. What will become of them
thena One of the dead men was a young
Pole who had only been married the Sunday
before the disaster. He had saved 5000 az
his earnings. With this he bought house
and took his bride home to it.
This is one of the saddest mine disasters in
history Even hope of rescuing the bodies
is about abandoned. They must probably
lie beneath the culm bank till the end of
time. Rather strangely the flow Of culm
and debris still continues, in a slow dull
stream, like the current Of lava on Mt We
suvius. Above ground, it has the appearance
of a sink hole in the earth The yawning
opening represented in the illustration is $50
feet wide. 1t is in the center of the culm
pile
What next? The pile of debris is so great
that they say it would take year to exca.
vate the dirt, and then there would be no
certainty of finding the remains. The men
We're known to he at work in a certain
chamber when the vault fell. That chamber
was reached after few days digging, but
they were not there. They must have tried
to escape with the rest and been over.
whelmed and strangled by the deluge OF
black mud in the passage ways.
The company propose to cease digging,
wall in the dangerous mine and erect a
monument on the spot to the memory of
the lost miners Then they viii divide
$4,000 among the bereft families. To con-
tinue digging would certainly cost years
work, and 100000. The rest of the miners
have returned to their other work in the
slopes.
So the tragedy ends, and one of the
darkest leaves of the year 1885 has been
turned down A. j. boutwell,.