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Helena weekly herald., 1886-02-18
of a leading vocal

ist one Sunday, Pauline was called on to
take her place. Her voice astonished every
one who heard it. The principal musicians
in Vienna Immediately took s.eps to enable
her to complete her training Her success
was rapid and without any drawback from
that time. An incident which helped to in
crease her popularity occurred at almost
her first operatic engagement. She was in
suited by one of the female artistes of the
company, who was jealous of her success.
Nine Lucca Immediately informed the man
ager that unless she received an ample apol
ogy from this person that nothing could in
duce her to sing in the same company with
her. The manager threatened her with i'm.
prisonment if she did not fulfill her contract.
She persisted in her resolution, and deliber-
ately went to the prison and gave herself up
She was locked up one whole day. Rather
than lose her services her manager was COM
PEELED to induce the offending lady to apollo
gise to Nine. Lucca Her principal sue
cesses were made at Olmeitz. Prague, Ber-
lin, Vienna and London. In 1865 she mar
red Baron Won Rohden, but he was killed
in the Franco Prussian war of 1870
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,JOauuin MilIer'S Lofty Den.

New York Correspondence Boston Herald
JOAQUIN Miller used to live in an apart
ment house down in Thirty third street. He
had four or five rooms up on the top floor,
and they were fixed up after the style which
he delights to affect. The floors were
covered with skins, and the bed on
which he used 10 stretch his poetic
limbs was also cushioned in hides of
wild beasts. His only servant was a
little boy, and as there was never any sweep
ing, and apparently seldom any washing, it
was difficult to see that the youngster suffered
from overwork. His principal duty was to
trot around town for his master, who used
to spend most of his time lolling about on
the bed or standing over the range clothed
in single brief, and not particularly pic
turesque, garment, cooking his meals |
went up to call on Miller in this lofty
abode one hot summer day. By the time
| reached the roof of the high building
the atmosphere was hotter than the far
corner Of a furnace, and the sight of the
furs which were scattered around the place
was not exactly what you might call reas-
suring But Miller was lying there bathed
in eccentricity, perspiration and happiness
| sat around for a few minutes, my every
pore doing its duty with the utmost ac-
celeration and then Miller got up and
invited me 10 have a glass of claret
There wern't any glasses, and we con-
cluded that we couId drink out of the
bottle Then it was developed that there
was no corkscrew, and SO the bottle was duly
beheaded, about one-third of its contents
finding its final resting place on the floor
aud skins of Mr.. Miller's dwelling. The
whole plafe was rather too much like camp
lie of tin, amateur kind to be particularly
attractive to me.
His Wish Granted.
Merchant TrayelerI
Mr. Jobbeswizzle came in to supper
norose and sullen, and when Mrs. J. twitted
him on some of his shortcomings he snapped
out:
IF there's anything in this world do like
to see its fool"
''Ah. love-" she answered, tenderly, "do
yous My hand glass is right on my dressing
cise and you have my permission to use il
just as you WISH do so love to have my
husband enjoy himself"
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-----ss
President Noah Porter.

In 1871 President Theodore Dwight Wool
sey resigned the presidency of Yale college
because he was getting to be an old man.
He had been at the head of Yale twenty
years, and was 20 years old. He had gradu-
ated there in 1920. He was succeeded in Of
fee by man whose history was very SINH
lar to his own.
Noah Porter, too, graduated at Yale col
lege at an early age. The old institution is
fortunate. in having distinguished men
enough among her OWE alumni to choose a
suitable person to fill her presidential chair
any day.
Noah Porter was born in Connecticut in
1911; consequently he is now 70 years old.
Like President Woolsey, he is d. D. and an
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FRIENDS OLD AND NEW.

Make new friends, but keep the old,
Those are silver, these are gold;
New-made friendships, like new wine,
Age will mellow and refine.
Friendships that have stool the test
Time and change-are surely best;
Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray,
Friendship never knows decay.
For mid old friends, tried and true,
Once more we our youth renew.
But old friends, alas. may die,
New friends must their place supply.
Cherish friendship in your breast,
New is good, but old is best;
Make new friends, but keep the old,
Those are silver, these are gold
w. B. r. in Philadelphia Press.
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4 RETROSPECT

'Ti~ Autumn; the leaves are dry
And rustling on the ground,
And chilly winds go whistling by
With low and pensive sound.
When thought, on memory's rapid wing
Flies backward to those years,
How near. how distant, yet how bright
That kindred group appears.
I see, e'en now. the spot where stood
My fathers oalsen chair
His aged. venerable form,
His smooth and silvery hair.
Ny mother, too, how plain | see
Her seat beside the door;
Her sweet, contented, placid smile,
The very cap she wore.
The sight, who sat around them there
When pride and hope and care
Ny sisters light and social glee,
My brothers manly air
sweet scene and yet l weep, what change
Is wrought by thirty years;
How many happy hours we've known,
How many days of tears.
That home and hearth are desolate,
And those who gathered there
Have left it for another home
A husbands love to share.
Though many | loved have passed away
Yet would | not depart.
SO strangely does the love Of life
Cling to the human heart.
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cooperating 10 rid both countries of these
pests. Two forces, one of Mexicans the
other United States soldiers, hemmed
Geronimo in between them Jan. 10. Geron-
imo and all his force were captured, but the
brave and tireless Capt Crawford was
killed.
He had with him as guides a company OF
friendly Apache Indian scouts. The force
of these was larger than Geronimo's own.
They were the motliest crew that ever
started out soldering. They We're taken
over tie Southern Pacific railway TO a point
as near the scene of hostilities as possible.
They were locked in a car to themselves
with a United States lieutenant.
II suppose you know said the train con-
ductor to a newspaper correspondent, that
to give them red devils drink of whisky all
around would be to turn them into hostiles
in an hour"
The motley warriors had been given high
hats, out of which they had without excep-
tion, torn the crown, so that their hair stood
raggediy out at the top. Some of them
wore six shirts apiece, and one, the envied
of ALL gloried in drapery made of red cot
ton tabecloth.
Geronimo, too, is accustomed to adorn his
ugly person in this style. He wears a hat
draped with lady's sash of bright color.
Now that he has been caught, it will be a
question what to do with him. He and his
band belong to what is called the Chirica-
hua branch of the Apache tribe. The White
Mountain Apaches are friendly.
The Apaches used to be the white mans
frierd and ally. When the truth of history
shall be known it will be found that there
are two sides to the outbreak of 1885 1t
was not for nothing that Geronimo and his
band of scalping savages took the war path.
1t was to take vengeance for wrongs, and
deep wrongs their tribe had suffered at the
hands of the conquering white. Breaches of
faith go down no better with a savage mind
than with q civilized one.
Since Geronimo has been captured let US
hope that even the Apaches may be civilized.
The Sioux were as bad as they less than
twenty-five years ago, and the Sioux are
now among the best of good Indians.
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BRONCHo MULES FROM TEXAS.
A Street Car Driver Relates His Expert
ence with the Intractable Animals.

A Street Car Driver Relates His Expert
ence with the Intractabie Animals.
This road the Jefferson avenue and the
n-Bellefontaine are now using broncho
mules from Texas that are bought by the
lot at about S45 team, and can outlive,
outwork and outkick anything that ever
stood on hoofs. We have been using them
now for more than year and the horses
are gradually giving way to them They
come from the neighborhoo1 of El Paso,
Tex, and are the hardest and meanest ami
mails that human nature has yet had to
tackle. They are so absolutely mean that
they won't let you tire them out; when
they think you are working them too much
they play lazy and won't move, but if any
body goes anywhere near them even in their
apparently exhausted state, they will kick a
hole through him that you could fit stove
pipe into.
Some of them are so very small that they
can not be worked in cars, and remember
in the first lot we got there were six midgets
that we had to sell to the coal companies.
/ often wondered if the miners didn't have
a terrible old time getting those six broncho
mules down shaft After they become
acclimated broncho mules make excellent
street railway stock. They can make three
trips day where horses make two, and
often if they are intractable they are run
cut for two trips in succession. When they
are accustomed to the track nothing can
get them out of it; they go along with their
noses to the ground like pointers dogs, and
if it weren't for the stops could trip it with
out driver If one of them is crippled,
or anything serious happens, all that is nee
essary is to turn the animal loose between
the tracks, and he goes right back to the
stables There is no trouble taking care of
them, because they won't be taken care of.
They won't allow anybody to clean them;
all that can be done is to rub off their
backs. If you try to touch their legs they
let fly and then look out for the pieces
They tried to shoe them at the stables, but
couldn't manage more than one or two a
day, and after one broke his neck kick
ing and another broke a leg they were all
turned over to blacksUith, who throws
them down and hobbies them when shoeing.
After one is shod and allowed to get on his
feet the shop must be cleared to make room
for the lightning that emanates from the
mules heels. We are row using sixty-eight
of them on this road. Some drivers like to
handle them, but am always afraid, be-
cause they are liable to start when some old
woman is getting off or on the platform, and
then there is, of course, an accident. A
horse lasts in this service about five years,
but we haYe one old stager called Whale
bone who has never missed his trip in twelve
years. Whalebone is little under the
weather just now, but he makes his trip, all
the same. We tried mustang ponies, but
they give out too quick.-Car Driver il
Globe-Democrat
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No. II
A BAD Indian.

When bon. Carl Schurz was secretary OF
the interior, in one of his reports he charac-
terizes the Apaches as bad indians" That
was several years ago They have not inn
proved in behavior since. For year and
a half Chief Geronimo and his band OF
Apaches have been terrorizing the south
west. The exact number of braves he had
with him cannot, of course, be exactly
known, but it was between twenty and
thirty. Over tract of country as large as
good-siZed state these redskins have been
roaming, stealing cattle, horses and food,
and numbering and destroying. They knew
the country like fox They were brave,
cunning, remorseless and untiring. After
committing a robbery or a murder they fed
like the wind, and took refuge in some of
the mountain Businesses they knew so well.
If pursued too hotly, a few hours fast and
furious riding took them over the border in
to old Mexico, where they We're safe from
the United States soldiery, at least for the
time They We're well armed and well
mounted For months, years even, they
have been a red vengeance on our border.
1t was the task of the lamented Capt.
Emmet Crawford to pursue and capture
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defense of Burton and Cunningham, accused
of attempting to blow up the tower of Lon
don with dynamite
Mr.. Meany is well on in years now. He is
an Irishman of Irishmen, a native of County
Clare His journalistic career began in 1912,
when he was reporter on The Limerick
Chronicle. He afterwards was employed on
The Dublin Freeman While serving on this
paper he travelled with Daniel OConnell, and
reported lis speeches ia shorthand He
came to this country and became proprietor
of The Toledo Ohio Commercial. Always
throwing up whatever he had on hand to
serve Ireland, it happened that he seldom
remained long on any one paper. He has
been connected as editorial writer aud editor
with many journals, among them The New
York World and Star.
Mr.. Meany is now lying very i'll in u New
York hospital
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A Sad Lack of Refinement.

Oliver Wendell Holmes says somewhere
that it is safe to ask the girl who chews wax,
wears spit curls and calls her sweetheart
her "fellown where she works So it is per-
fectly safe to reckon the young woman vul-
gar who allows her escort to grasp her by
the arm instead of her decorously taking
his as a matter of actual support. So re-
finement is marked by a certain reserve OF
manner between the sexes. Young women
who enter street cars noisily and who allow
young men rough familiarities, are easily
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Lew Wallace, Soldier and Novelist.


1t seems to have bean good deal easier to
light the battles of the rebellion and estab-
ISL the south back in tie Union than it Is to
get She facts of those battles straight after
the war is over No blood, at least no dis
tinguished blood. has been shed n this latter
attempt, but no end of hard feeling has been
engendered, and several great historic ques-
lions have been sprung, which no judge or
eide satisfactorily
That brilliant, versatile and brave man,
Sen Lewis Wallace, of Indiana having set
lied the sultan, has now come home to set his
fellow countrymen by the ears by raising
military questions of the kind namei. Gen.
Wallace declares that Halleck hated Grant
50 much that he would have permitted Wash
ington to be taken when Grant was COM
mander in chief, to vent his spite. Yea he
would even have suffered the sacred, mighty
and lrreplaceable persons of the presidential
cabinet to fall into the hands of the enemy If
thereby he could prove Grant an incapable
general Through the Intervention Of di-
vine providence one of whose instruments
seems to have been Gen Wallace himself,
however this frightful calamity was avert
ed. Our cabinet was &aved This was in
President Lincon's time, 1864.
But no thanks to Gen. Halleck that they
were, Gen. Wallace says Thereupon a whole
menagerie of colonies, generals and scribes
fall upon Gen. Wallace, tooth and nail, and
avow that Hallecll was mo sich pusson."
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able to educate
t b e ir children.
Their name was
Lucas, and they
were of the Jewish
faith, which she
a b a n d one d. A
travelling in G e r
discovered that she
possessed a promis-
ing voice, and he
generously under
took to instruct
her. When Is she
became a member
of the choir of the
K arl kirc b e.
Through the un-
avoidable absence
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LII. d. Like Presi-
dent Woolsey, also,
Noah Port ter has
made a distinguish d
ed figure in the
theological world.
Both have been
eminently conserv-
ative in the course
and their ideas,
Without exactly be-
ing what this ir-
reverent age calls
old fogy, though
the recent action
of the Yale faculty
in refusing a di-
,,1o,,a n, tbp oD1vr
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ONLY A BOY.
Only a boy?

Only boy?
Only healthy and rosy face,
Bearing of pain and grief no trace,
Save at times where the shadows play
Like the light clouds on a summers day.
Only a boy?
Only loving and trusting heart,
That throbs and strains for long lifes start,
That yields in love to the gentle touch
Of one who will chide not over much.
Only a boy:
Only an earnest and longing soul,
Through which wild fancies and wishes roll,
Peering from out those eager eyes
At the untried world that around him lies.
Only boy?
Only the germ of some unknown gain
To world that wavers 'twixt joy and pain;
Tell me of better gift who can,
To give the world than an honest man.
Only boy?
Only a man with a saddened face,
Bearing of grief and sin the trace,
Craving love that might cleanse the stain
Of the old thoughts that will come again.
Only a boy?
Only spirit that scars at last
Ger the chains and blinds of a petty past,
Hardened, but faithful; saddened, but true;
Sayed-but the praise is not for you.
Boston Transcript
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stephen j. Meany.

Conspicuous among Irish patriots, to whom
America serves somewhat in the place of a
kindly stepmother, is Stephen j. Meany. He
is lawyer author and newspaper man. In
all of these fields he has achieved an honor
able reputation, but he is best known by his
devotion to Ireland Whenever he thought
he could serve her in any way by crossing
the water, no matter what his personal in
Helena weekly herald., 1886-02-18
ON THE THRESHOLD.

Ring out, o bells, silvsr-sweet DER hill and moor
and fell.
In mellow echoes let your chimes their hopeful
story tell.
Ring out ring out, all jubilant, this joyous, glad
refrain;
"A bright new year. glad new year, hath come
to us again.
All who say how much of JOY within it
there may be
Stored up for US, who listen now to your sweet
melody?
Good-by, Old Year! Tried, trusty friend, thy
tale at last is told.
New Year, write thou thine for us in lines of
brightest gold.
The flowers of spring must bloom at last, when
gone the winters snow
God grant that after sorrow past, we all some JOY
may know.
Though tempest-tossed our bark a while on
Life's rough waves may be,
There comes day of calm at last, when we the
Haven see.
Then ring, ring on, o pealing bells there's
music in the sound
Ring on, ring on, and still ring on, and wake the
echoes round,
The while we wish both for ourselves and all
whom we hold dear,
That God may gracious be to usl in this the
bright new year
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Pauline Lucca.

One of the song Birds of passage that has
fitted across this country and left none but
kindly memories of her charming voice and
sweet face was Pauline Lucca. 1t will pain
the music loving public the world over to
learn that she has been for some time await
ing death at her home in Europe.
Nine. Lucca was born in Vienna in 1840.
Her parents were so poor that they were un-
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terests were, over
the water he went,
sacrificing every
thing that ordinary
people care most
for. There is the
hero as well as the
patriot in him. A
sketch of his life is
given i'll John Say
ages ''Fenian He
roes and Martyrs.
The last time he was
in the old country
was in the summer
and fall Of 'S5. when
he was in London
,J+noLno,.t - +ba
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dent of the third
republic. The first
pre- id mt was
Thiers, the diplo-
mat and littera-
teur, and the second
MacMahon, the sol
dier. This was the
result, not SO much
Of any special merit
of his past regime
as of the necessity,
under the present
anomaiou condi-
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A WOMAN JOURNALIST.
Her After Dinner Speech at the Sorosis
Banquet.

bdHVUtC.
Especial Correspondence
New YORK, Feb. 3.-Sorosis held its
seventeenth annual dinner, on the evening of
the 22d ult., in Delmonicos elegant parlors.
To these yearly banquets the alleged
''sterner SEX are invited and treated with
f1attering consideration. They are even per-
mitted to have their little say after the din
ner is over. On this occasion the assemblage
was made up of particularly eminent women
and men, and the speeches were extraordi-
narily brilliant Julia Ward Howe and
Moncure d. Conway were unusually happy
in their remarks, but the ''hit" of the even
ing was made by Eliza Archard Connor,
New York journalist, originally from the
west-from that notable and president pro-
ducing state Ohio.
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TO HIS SOUL.

Poor little pretty, futtering thing,
Must we no longer live together?
And dost thou prune thy trembling wing,
To take thy fight thou knowst not
whittier!
Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly
Lie all neglected, all forgot;
And pensive, wavering, melancholy,
Thou dread'st and hop'st thou knowest
not what.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-02-18
THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO ROAD.
Picture of the Cut at Gray's Ferry Road.
Philadelphia.
Special Correspondence.

Philadelphia.
Especial Correspondencel
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27.-The subject still
agitatlng, railroad circles is the entrance OF
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad into New
York city via Staten Island. The only way
of approach seemed heretofore to be through
Jersey City. But it will seem strange fact
to many of our readers that every foot OF
the Jersey City water front is already owned
by railroad companies, which are, of course,
hostile to the entrance of the Baltimore and
Ohio
There are many who will welcome the Bal
timore and Ohio tc New York To get there
it was necessary for this popular road to
build new line from Philadelphia to New
York The picture shows the work at
Gray's Ferry road Philadelphia At the
point named the new line crosses the Schuy /
kill. Here is a long cut, tunneling under
Gray's Ferry road. The cut at its deepest is
thirty feet. The Baltimore and Ohio line
passes under the Pennsylvania Railroad
bridge and through the grounds of the
arsenal and naval asylum. 1t also cuts the
grounds of the old Harmar mansion, where
Thomas Jefferson lived when he was secre-
tary of state In Philadelphia proper another
tunnel leads the road under Twenty fifth
street to Pennsylvania avenue.
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We have no call to
dip into this great
military IN after
further THAI to
give our readers a
picture of the brave
Indisnian who has
raised the row. He
was born in that
state in 1927, and
resides in CIR W
fordsville when he.
IS at home. He is
a lawyer, and was
a boy soldier in the
Mexican war. His
courage TO man
doubts. he was
made n major opn-
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these hendS. Month
after month he fol-
o W e d t h e m
through waterless
deserts, t hr o u g b
sands and cactus
spines into rocky
canyons and over
lava beds, till al
last he ran them
down in Mexico.
Latterly the Mexi-
can and United
States overn :
Helena weekly herald., 1886-02-18

The Baltimore and Ohio company had the
greatest difficulty in getting the right of
way through Philadelphia. Money and in
fuence sought to stop them, and was for
some time successful. The road at length
has become too big a thing to stop, however,
and now it goes through the Quaker City.
In connection with the Staten Island end
of the line, our readers will have noticed the
name of Mr. Erastus Wiman ''bobbing up
serenely' in tie newspapers with consider
able regularity of late. The greatest effort
of his life was his argument before the COM
mittees Of the two houses of congress in
favor of bridging Arthur Kill. This is the
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Humor Tells the World Over.

The French vagabond has a fixed idea
that the soft side of judge is joke. That
is the reason that such critical responses are
given to his questions. The other day the
Judge asked man who was on trial if he
had been condemned before The reply was:
Not that / recollect. Certainly not
during these last five years"
'Why not for five yearsF asked the
judge, puzzled
Because | have been in prison all that
tinien
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name of the strait
between Staten
Island and New
Jersey over which
the drawtridge of
the Baltimore and
Ohio is to pass.
Being a matter be-
tween two states
the consent of the
United States gov
.ernment is neces-
:sary to accomplish
:the scheme. Mr..
'Wiman s argument
was a marvelously
able and brilliant
one and will call
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Largest Dog in the Country.

| The largest dog in the country is said to
| be ST Bernard owned at Glen Cove, Long
Island. He measures feet II inches from
| the end of his nose to the tip of his tail,
stands 25 in, hes high, and weighs 1872 pounds.
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