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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02
Live and Dead Ivory.
From the New York sun.


That knife handle is worth twice as
much as the other" said an ivory dealer to
a reporter as he pointed out two handsome
knives in a case They looked exactly
alike, so the reporter asked IN what the
difference lay. We'll, one handle is formed
of live ivory and the other of dead" re-
piled the merchant. by live ivory L
mean ivory taken from an animal recently
killed. That sort of ivory is expensive,
but it is hard to get. 1t is strong because
there is life in it, and it is used for the
handles of the best knives, and where
dead ivory could not be used. When an
elephant loses a tusk that tusk becomes
what we call dead ivory. He sheds the
tusk and it has no strength in It, 1t is
brittle and breaks easily, and can only be
used for the handles of pocket-knives or IN
other forms where the ends are protected.
If they were not the ivory would split and
crack in very short time. The ivory taken
from the tusks of the antediluvian man.
moth buried in the soil of Siberia IS, OF
course, all dead ivory. Its uses are, there
fore, limited. If you ever want to buy
any ivory goods be sure to ascertain
whether it is live or dead ivory before pur-
chasing. If the former it is strong and our
able; if the latter it is brittle and liable to
crack. even where fastened. The same
rule applies to horn. Deerhorn and Duck
horn, SO commonly used, especially IN the
handles of pocket-knives, is much OF 1t
made from the horns shed by the deer, and
of little value. The live horn is more ex-
Densiye
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Both Amsterdam and Rotterdam are cut
up by canals as an American city is by
streets. Their canals are filled by ships and
boats of all sizes and shapes, and the effect is
much more picturesque than that Of Venice,
where the gondola reigns.
Holland, as a whole, is more of foreign
country than any of those of northern Europe.
Its canals and queerly built houses are added
to by the quaint dresses of the poorer classes.
The parlor society of Christendom is about
the same the world over. 1t is in the lower
classes alone that we now find queer costumes
or difference in manners, and even among
the peasants these differences are fast passing
away. The railroad and the telegraph are
cosmopolitanizing the nations of the world
The people are rapidly changing and 100
years from now all Europe will probably be
dressed in the same clothes.
The typical Dutchman of fiction and the
past must even now be looked for outside of
Rotterdam and Amsterdam. His long pipe
his knickerbockers and his baggy form are
found only in the villages of Sunday and
the richer element, such as you see in the
great hotels or at The Hague, the fashionable
capital of Holland, are no different in dress
or manners from the ladies or gentlemen of
the Paris salons or the London drawing room.
Many of the Holland families, and the laborers,
however, hold to the customs of their fathers,
and some of their dresses are quaint, indeed.
Riding in a second class car from Rotterdam
to Leyden, had four comprehensive young
peasant couples who were out for holiday.
They were lovers, | judged, from their ac
tions, and they were not at all abasAed at my
presence. While they cooed and put their
arms about one another and looked love to
eyes that spake again, l took an inventory of
their costumes
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ton is either the most injured man or the
greatest humbug of the age. And of the
latter he is the most persistent and con-
sstent. In 1871, it may be remembered, he
appeared in England as SirRoger Tichborne,
who was said to have been drowned years be-
fore, and as the claimant to immense estates.
He bore the marks and many of the charac-
teristics of Sir Roger sufficient to satisfy Lady
Tichborne that he was her son. He seemed
also to be familiar with the history of the
family. But the remarkable thing on the
other hand against him was that while Sir
Roger was an educated gentleman and Ro-
man Catholic when he left England, the
claimant was scarcely able to read or write,
nor could he make ''the sign of the cross" one
Of the simplest marks of Catholic
His excuse for this deficiency was that he
had forgotten in Australia all that he ever
learned in his youth. He was defeated in his
attempt to oust those already settled on the
estate. Then he was tried and convicted CT
forgery and perjury after one of the most re-
markable trials on record. His sentence was
for fourteen years. He served nearly eleven
years of it.
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keeps his hands in his pocket most of the
time. and he smokes pipe almost as soon as
he is done sucking the bottle.
The Dutch girls are put to work early. l
see girls Of and s years knitting on the
streets, while they stand against the door post
in their clog shoes They take care of smaller
children in clogs. and they always wear little
white caps tied close to the head and short
skirts. Many of them are pretty, and if their
shouts of laughter indicate anything, they
enjoy themselves, as do all children the world
over. FRANK GEORGE CARPENTER.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02

Chicago car wcyks, houses for workmen, and
other improvements at Pullman, Ills, put
among the assets at ST, 800 900. The actual
cost was probably about onehalf this sum.
In the income account is the item-'Elanu-
featuring profits and rentals, $4,000
Pullman has only begun its career as an
industrial city. 1t was planned for popu-
lation of $1,000, and already enterprises are
projected which will give employment to
several thousand persons including many of
the women and some of the children of the
place As an industrial city Pullman de-
bends upon the success of its factories. In
this respect it is on the same level with other
manufacturing towns. But since the first
dweller set up his household here the popula-
ton has steadily grown, and the sharpest-
eyed cannot as yet perceive signs of retro
gyession or failure.
Industrial and superficial Pullman is unique
and promising. OF the even more interest
ing social Fullman-Pullman beneath the
surface-I shall have to speak in another
letter. WALTER WELLMAN.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02

The young men were about % years of age
and the girls about IS and 90 The latter
were quite pretty, and their costumes did not
detract from their beauty. They wore short
black silk skirts, bound With a belt at the
waist Above this was pink silk bodice,
with short sleeves coming down to few
inches of the elbow and SO tight that they
squeezed the flesh of their red arms. Over
the bosom and shoulders was bright colored
handkerchief, which was fastened at the
waist and around their neck was wide band
of eight strands of coral beads, fastened under
the chin and at the back of the neck by great
gold brooches as big as good sized individual
butter plates The head dress was a curious
cap of the whitest of linen, trimmed with
lace and fastened by three separate pins just
at the edge of the forehead above the eyes,
One of these pins had gold ball as big as
pigeons egg for head, and another had a
sharp cornered gold plate as big as a small
visiting card fastened upon it. This plate
stuck out from the eyebrow, and l could
not help thinking that it would form
a dangerous element in case the lover
attempted to kiss her against her will
This cap at the back is fastened by other
gold pins. 1t entirely covers the hair, with
the exception Of a slight roll at the top of
the forehead, and it has great wings or flaps,
which, stiff with starch, stand at each side
of the head.
The men were quite as queer in their dress
as the women. They were smoothly shaved.
as are, indeed, most of the peasantry: and
their hair, thick on the top of the head and
rudely cut at the neck, looked as though they
had been their own BARRIERS and had insured
an even cut by fitting bowl on their heads
and had cut the hair off close up to this
They wore no collars, but had instead gay
handkerchiefs about their necks which were
fastened with gold brooches as big as trade
dollars. Their coats were roundabouts. with
big buttons, and their black velvet trousers
were very full and very short. These
were fastened at the waist by wide belts, the
buckles of which were round silver affairs as
big as the bottom of a pint tin cup. Their
shirts were of gay colors, and they had rings
of gold in their ears.
Both the young men and their sweethearts
were very happy. They chartered in Dutch,
showed their teeth in laughter, and kept up
their love making as long as they were in the
car. Part of the time the men smoked, hay
ing at the same time their arm around their
girls. They were probably farmers of the
better class, and may have been ON wedding
journey for all know.
/ saw afterward many strange heed
dresses in Holland, and all of those of the
peasants had some curious or1hment fasten-
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02

law, and he went into that at Davenport.
From real estate he turned his attention to
banking. He established in Davenport the
first national bank ever chartered in this
country.
He presently felt a call to go east and try
his money making ability there. Eastern
capitalists had loaned large sums of money
through him on Iowa farms, and he already
had all extensive financial acquaintance on
the Atlantic coast. He went to New York in
1865 and has gained steadily Ill wealth and
reputation.
Mr.. Corbin has the prominent nose and
square cut mouth of the money getter. He
would get rich when all around him became
poor. He is the proprietor of the largest ho-
tells and the railroad on Coney Island. He
has so fenced off the land there that it is i'm
possible to get from one of his hotels to an
other without travelling upon his railroad
though the houses aa.s only few minutes
walk apart
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02
How to be Rappy.

An autograph letter that would like to
own was shown me few days ago. "A:
Lincoln" was boldly signed to the end OF
it, and this wisdom was there, paragraphed
in this wise:
Do not worry.
Eat three square meals day.
Say your prayers
Think of your wife.
Be courteous to your creditors.
Keep your digestion good.
Steer clear of the biliousness.
Exercise.
Go slow and 60 easy.
Maybe there are other things that your
special case requires to make you happy,
but, my friend, these, reckon, Will give
you a good lift.
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GODS LOVE AND NINE.

Gods love is like a lighthouse tower.
My love is like the sea;
BY day, by night that faithful tower
Looks patient down on me.
BY day the stately shaft looms high,
BY night its strong lights burn
To warn, TO comfort, and to tell
The way that ] should turn.
Gods love is like a lighthouse tower,
My love is like the sea;
He strong, mistaken as the rock;
chatting restlessly
Gods love and my love. Oh, how swee,
That such should be my joy!
Gods love and mine are one to-day;
No longer doubts annoy.
BY day or night He gazes on
NV bitter, braCkish sea;
Forever tends il with His grace,
Though smooth or rough it be.
So. singing at its base, it rolls
And leaps toward that tower
That all my life eliminates,
And brightens every hour.
Gods love is like lighthouse tower,
My love is like the sea;
!, peevish, changeful, moaning much;
Steadfast, eternal, He.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02

Dorothy Jane Cove, who translated his spirit
from God" Mr.. Cove imagines he is the sa-
vior of the world. He also claims to be a
prophet. He asserts that he is in constant
communication with our government and
keeps it posted on what is going to hap
pen. He charges for the information, bis bill
against the present administration being
something near Sc, 600 900 to date Like many
other unfortunates, less demented than he,
he is happest when he can find an audience
to listen to his rambling speeches and incohe-
rent theories
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02
APolnter for Statesmen.
From the School Journal. J

Demosthenes was asked: What Is the
first requisite to success in public speak
er?n His answer was not as Is usually
given. Action" but The power OF NOV
ing Others He was asked, What IS the
second requisite?" His answer was, "Ihe
power of moving Others" Again ne was
asked, What is the third requisite 2" Stiii
his answer was, "The power OF moving
others Action often repels others from
us. Whether in a teacher or public speaker.
the immortal answer of the greatest o.
Greek orators will stand as the expression
of great truth, that the great secret OF
success is not action, but the power OF moy-
ing others
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02
THE SABBATH CHIME.

Thy way, not mine, o Lord,
However dark it be;
q lead me by thine own right hand
Choose out the path for me.
Smooth let il he or rough,
IT will lie still the BEST
Winding or straight il matters not,
II leads me 10 thy rest.
dare not choose my lot,
/ would not if ! might;
But choose thou for me, . my God,
So shall walk Alright.
The kingdom that seek
Is thine; so let the way
That leads to it. o Lord. be thine,
Else must surely stray.
Take thot my cup, and 1t
With JOY or sorrow fill;
A. ever best to thee may seem,
Choose thou my good and i'll.
Choose thou for me nv friends,
My sickness or my health;
Choose thou my Joys and cares for me-
My poverty or wealth.
Not mine, not mine the choice,
In things or great or small;
BE thou my guide, my guard, my strength,
My wisdom and my all.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02

ing the cap and sticking out at the outside
corner of each eye like horn. They are diff
ferent according to the villages from which
the women come. Some of those of Rotter.
dam wear spiral gold springs to which are
fastened other ornaments, and l give you here
sketch of a gorgeous costume of this kind
which saw at The Hague, where band Of
gold three inches wide went clear around the
back of the head, partially covering the hair
under the cap, and ending at the forehead in
these ornaments. The Dutch girls Of the
lower classes are often pretty. Their COM
plexions are dark and rosy and their fat arms
rather beefy in their redness. They have
often too stout and stocky forms for beauty,
end as they grow older their hard working
lives soon take all the softness out of them.
Scheveningen is the great seaside resort Of
Holland, and it is also fishing village. Here
may be seen sample Of the fisheries of Hol-
Land. They carry their fish in baskets to The
Hague, which is about two miles away. They
have great baskets full of fish, which they
fasten to the ends of board fitted across
their shoulders, and thus carry them to mar
ket. Sometimes they carry the baskets on
the head, and have seen crowds of them,
with great old fashioned straw hats over
their eyes, going along carrying perhaps
100 pounds of fish in this manner. Their
dresses are short. Often they wear wooden
clogs as Shoes and they are, as a rule, very
poor.
The Dutch children of the lower classes are
among the greatest curiosities of Holland
They clatter along in their big clogs with as
much jollity as our American boys and girls
in shoe leather. Little tots of girls 2 or 3
years old dance about and run in wooden
shoes each of which would fill quart meas
ure, and laughed heartily at boy of who
was trying to climb a pole with these heavy
shoes upon his feet. These shoes never wear
out They have no need of copper toes, and
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02

vegetables, wheat end straw end pulled along
by men or by horses In some cases the men
have straps across their breasts, end they lean
forward upon these, straining their every
muscle to drag the boats along. In others
dogs are harlcssed Up and help the men pull,
and in others women and men push along the
boats with long poles which are fastened into
their prows end extend out CT right angles to
the shore. The woman and the boy of the
peasant has hard time I'm Holland saw
one little boy of II in harness, pulling a
great canal boat, while his master or father,
know not which, sat in the boat and lazily
smoked as the boat moved slowly on up the
water.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02

from which hourly PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
trains depart for Chicago, that other
magic, but less perfect city, a dozen
miles away. Wide asphalt boulevards,
studded with flower plots and decked
with fountains. sweep up to the station.
Twenty rods from the station is hotel,
somewhat famous for its cuisine, and archi-
tecturally delightful. Near by is the arcade
building, containing twenty stores, the post,
express and telegraph offices, bank, public
library and theatre of first-class appoint
ments. There are no other mercantile houses
than these in Pullman, and no place but here,
save in the commodious market house hard
by, is trade carried on. Mercantile Pullman
is all under one roof, and an admirable ag
gregation it is, too, with its wide hall, CORE
spending to village street; its prosperous
stores the balcony and offices above, and the
soft light streaming abundantly in from side
and sky lights.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02
The Pumpkins Have an Inning.

The snake story season is in the sere and
yellow leaf, and the pumpkin story season is
at hand. The latter starts out, too, with a
greater promise of success than has marked
its advent for many years. Already we have
three very respectable pumpkin yarns, which
make 4 very good beginning. A California
pumpkin which has been utilized by
vagrant colony of bees as honey storehouse,
was the first to make its appearance. The
insects had found their way into the vege-
table through crack in its side, and when
the owner of the pumpkin made an investi-
cation he found that the bees had accumu-
lated eight pounds of honey. The circum-
stance is being quoted by the California
papers as another result of the glorious
climate of that state, where pumpkins and
honey can be raised on the same vine. Of
different character was pumpkin of
Connecticut. which grew to enormous pro-
portions only to explode when placed in
store window for exhibition and destroy
a valuable pane of plate glass. A New
York pumpkin, though, rather outdis-
tanced its competitors by attaining a
weight Of $50 pounds. This Jumbo of
pumpkins was fed on milk. One of its
roots was allowed to rest in q basin Of milk,
and it drank a pint each day. We do not
think that New Workers generally raise their
pumpkins on milk in this manner, as the pro-
cess is rather too expensive and troublesome
for general adoption, but the story shows
what veracious New York correspondent
can do when he tries. And it must be borne
in mind that the pumpkin story season is
only just opening Chronicle.
"A number of prominent artists and archi-
tects are talking of combining in an effort to
secure copyright for their productions. which
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the S Ii oe IN q X e I
II yer has to be
called in to patch
them. The Dutch
boys all wear caps
with brims which
come down over
the forehead, and
one pair of their
breeches consume
e n ou G h cloth to
make six pairs of
trousers for an
A III eric an boy.
These breeches are
very full at the
seat and short at
the legs. Y our
Dutch h boy, like
the A erican,
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Of course Pullman is profitable invest
ment. The enterprise quickly made rich
city of waste land. The projectors manu-
factured their own brick, built their own
sewers, directly constructed their ] 800 build
ings and did everything by whole
sale. Lumber was purchased by the
train load, house hardware by the car,
nails by the ton. The rentals are doubtless
high enough to give the usual 10 or 12
per cent. returns upon sum equal to the
new value of the land and the amount the
buildings and street improvements would
have cost If constructed in the ordinary man.
ner, and Is or 20 per cent ON the actual cost
to the Pullman company. In the official
financial statement of the company find the
"real estate and plant, sos acres of land.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-02

So divided wa S
public opinion in
the matter and so
on fl dent were
those who side d
with the claimant
that he was the
true Sir Roger that
they would have
sacrificed their for
tunes to see that he
obtained jus tice.
Yet he is now dying
in poverty in New
Work Arthur Or
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PULLMAN'S MODEL CITY.
REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT OF ONE
MANS BRAIN.

The Illinois Town in Which the Worlds
Sleeping Cars are Built-UtOpia Real
ized, Apparently-Gas Works, Water
Works, Theatres, Gardens and Dairy.
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.-If you want to hear ex-
pressions of genuine astonishment go down to
the town of Pullman and accompany one of
the many visitors sure to be found there on a
tour through the magic city of the west.
From the moment the tourist sets foot. in the
place till the hour of his departure an excla-
nation point may be seen glistening upon the
end of his tongue. Cause for wonder Is found
at every turn; it is impossible to lose sight of
the remarkable; and the most astounding fact
of oil is that the industrial and social giant is
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Left.

On every road, since railway trains to turn
their wheels began, at every station you will
see a solitary man. His brow is damp with
beaded sweat, his heart with woe is cleft;
most earnestly he wants to go, the man that's
always left If the train due at one p. m
should wait TIL half-past eight, there'd be one
man come down to go just thirty seconds
late.-R j. Durdette
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AUSTIN CORBlN.
The New President of the Philadelphia
and Reading Road.

and Reading Road.
The coming man in the railroad world ap-
pears now to be Austin Corbin, the newly
elected president of the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad. That road has been before
the public UP and down now for dozen
years as one whose affairs seemed everlast-
ingly entangled. Mr.. Corbin saved the Long
Island railroad when it was in the hands of a
receiver overwhelmed with debt, and in his
own words, consisted only of 1.-TWO streaks of
rust and a right of way" Under his man
agement it changed from this condition i'll
eight months time to a road in good repair
and paying expenses.
Mr.. Corbin's business successes are won by
the shrewd methods of the money lender,
which he learned in his youth He made the
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Of t he eccentric
characters of the
country. Mr.. Cove
does quite q little
business in selling
photo graphs of
himself. On the
back of the pho
tograph from which
our picture is taken
Mr.. Cove has writ
ten his name and
mission in life as
f foil ws: ELIAS
Cove, Emanuel the
Prince of Peace.
who baptized him
self with the aid Of
the Holy Ghost
and ic tho CON of
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foundation OF his
fortune by lending
money on embar-
rassed farms i'll
Iowa. In this way
he came into pos
session of western
lands. He was born
in New Hampshire
nearly sixty years
, ago. He studied
law and went to
Iowa. But he soon
found the real es-
tate business more
profitable than the
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years of it

ORION AND WIFE IN HIS PRESENT QUARTERS
He came to this country some time ago for
the purpose of raising money by lecturing in
order to prosecute his case once more, bring
ing with him his wife as concert singer to
assist him. There were but thirteen persons at
his first lecture. His wife sang and danced for
a time at concert hall. She was also
failure, and now she has to nurse her hus-
bahd. who is suffering from blood poisoning.