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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
Resignation.
Chicago Trlbune.l

A good old deacon in central Illinois, who
lost all his big drove of swine by hog chol-
era, took the matter SO lightly that his wife
felt called upon to reproach him. "Dea-
con-" said she, Il should think you would be
ashamed of yourself. 1t loo',s to me as
though it was judgment sent on you by the
Lord" "My DEAR" said the good old man,
IF the Lord wants to take out his Judgment
in three-cent pork, into which l ould have
to be pouring good thirty-cent corn if they
lived, let US not grumble."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
New Year Resolves.

December comes with bitter blast,
Time swiftly onward steals,
The winter days now follow ia
Upon each others heels.
One day and then another goes,
And those who are alive
VIII shortly look upon the close
OF eighteen eighty five.
When the old year shall take its fight,
The new Wen turn to meet
With resolutions for the right
Young eighty-six we'll greet.
And then we'll all swear off again,
Our hearts with pride aglow,
And keep the pledge like honest men,
For half week or SO.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
A Deal in Apache Scalps.
WALL Street News ]

While New York furrier was in Omaha
the other day he was sought out by stranger
with proposition for trade. Said he,
"Several counties in Arizona are offering
from $50 to 500 each for Indian scalps. I'll
pay you $50 apiece for from 100 to 500. I've
got genuine scalp here, and all you have to
do to initiate it is to scrape calfskin, cut it
into suitable pieces, and pull top-knot
through each one of them. One horses tail
viii make twenty-five Apache top-knots, and
a calfskin will cut seventy-fve scalps. Ehl
Do you tumble?' As there has been no sud-
den increase in the demand for calfskins and
horsetails in this locality, it is probable the
furrier declined the contract.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
A SONG FOR GIRLS.

How dear to my heart is sack made o. sealskin,
A garment adapted to keep out the cold!
'Tis not like the jersey, which fits like an eel
skinl -
'Tis loose, graceful, easy, and fair to behold.
How smooth and glossy Its beauty enchants
me;
What garment lovely when worn by a
BELLE
Both walking and sleeping its poetry haunts me-
The sack made of seaskin that fits me well
The sack made OF sealskn-the smooth, glossy
skin ErN
The beautiful seaskin that fits me so WELL
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
He Held the Sheep. Poor Thing.

Detroit Free Press.
He came into a butcher shop and asked
for half pound of mutton chops. 1t was
unmistakable that his business necessitated
his calling cash" quite frequently. As
the man of the cleaver sawed, cut and chop
ped, the purchaser remarked in a week
kneed voice:
saw, was butcher once myself"
''You a butcher.' said the sausage COM
FOUNDER contemptuously.
Eyes, aw. You see, went into the busi-
ness, aw, and they first told me to hold a
sheep down on the floor, don't you know,
and, gracious, they stuck a knife right into
the poor beasts throat. l, aw, tainted, and,
when l came to, left the hawwid business,
aw, and now l sell dry goods"
Just as he got his purchase the door was
opened and the sudden draft blew him out
on the street.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
THE FERRYMAN,s DAUGHTER.

The ferryman's daughter is young and fair,
With soft blue eyes and dark brown hair,
And a voice that is low and tender;
And often she sits by her fathers side,
As he ferries me over the river wide
In the sunsets golden splendor.
Sometimes from under her bonnet's rim
/ catch her peeing up-at him,
As he sings some shoresman's ditty;
Sometimes she dabbles, as we glide,
With her white fingers in the tide
The mink! She knows she's pretty
The ferryman's daughter is coy and shy,
But, sometimes, l catch her eye
The maiden fla must know it!
Then If there's love behind the lashes,
Though she looks quickly down and FLASHES
Surely her cheeks will show it!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21


Where are you going" he said, quietly.
"Detroitw l yelled. ''G out o my way,
r I'll ride We down."
But your train is not ready he said.
persuasively; 1T doesn' start for nearly
an hour ye-. You should not get so excited.
The baggage master will take care or that
trunk and will call you when the train is
ready. The waiting room is just at that
further end of the station"
Any mans watch Is liable to run down
and sop, bu5 that is no reason why the
people wlo loiter about rail way stations
should be fools There is too much broad.
glarin, publ city about our American rail-
way stations. There should be more privacy.
more exclusiveness. At every railway sta
ton where people OF the upper classes are
liable to be misled as to the standard and
running time OF ina active watches, and thus
be led into somewhat extravagant action.
there should be long, deep, dark hole,
about fifteen miles long. extending under
the nearest range OF mountains, for the citi.
zens OF the upoer classes to retire into until
the coarse hilarity of the vulgar crowd
should have expended ITSELF
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
Economy.
Boston Globe.

Jones-S.nith, You are the LATEST man
ever saw.
Smith-Correct.
Jones-They say you sleep fifteen hours
out of every twenty-four.
Smith-Correct.
Jones-What do you do it for?
Smith-ln order to economics. You see
it costs nothing to sleep, but the moment you
wake uD expenses begin.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
How to Borrow Without Losing Reputa-
ton.
New York Tribune

New YORK 1ribunel
An old editor of Harper's told me once
that just after he came to New York he got
so hard up that he needed hundred dollars
very badly. He did not dare ask Fletcher
Harper, who was great friend of his, for so
small an amount as a hundred dollars,
through fear he might be looked on as a
petty borrower and sort of dead beat. So he
walked in on his friend and said: ''Fletch.
want 500. Can you let me have itg' The
response was, Certainly" He got the
money, put S400 of it in The bank and when
he scraped together the hundred he spent,
he paid it all back. Years afterward he
asked Harper what the latter would have
done if he had asked for the hundred dollars
Fletcher said be should probably have let him
have it. but should have kept out of his way
thereafter. Il thought So" said Seaver and
then he told Harper what he had done"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
Helena, Montana, Thursday, January II, 1886.

The statue stands in the square, opposite
the orphan asylum she helped to build. 1t
represents her. not idealized, like a classic
figure, but far more worShiy, broad, plain
and with the common dress she wore, her arm
encircling one Of the orphans whom sne loved.
And so she died, and so the people set
Amid their heroes-wlth proud consent
This single woman-crowned monument,
And carved thereon the one word Mar
garet. SARAH KING
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21

r..
consumed The improvements in the utilza-
tion of natural gas are so many and so rap
idly overtaking one another that it will not
be great while before it rivals the best
artificial gas in it's Illuminating quality, while
as fuel it already cannot be excelled In
producing light better result can be OBJ
tanned even now by generating steam power
and turning the latter into electric lights
than by burning the product of refined petrO-
leum.
When the history of petroleum comes to
be written, were it faithfully recorded, it
would be appalling in the wretchedness it has
produced This dark side will likely be never
told, but to those who have watched the
whirl of the Oil craze for the last quarter of
a century it is a question whether it has
not been a curse instead of a blessing to
those engaged in it.
The avarice and envy, together with the
gambling spirit which it infused into every
one even in the slightest degree connected
with it, has resulted only in misery and pow
erty in the end. OF course this is misan-
thropic view of it, but it is shared by the
majority of the people in this section that
have followed oil "
We need &c better exc::.rla. cs this tac:
than the history of Colonel z. l.. Drake,
the borer of the first oil WELL He was a
bright, brainy fellow, who, had he contin-
ued at railroading or even in the dry goods
business, in VIII .ch he had been engaged prior
to his venture in the direction of oil, would
have made his mark and retired wealthy.
He was man Of more than average business
capacity; he struck what was consid-
cred one of the ''bOnanzas'' of modern times.
The speculative craze seized him and he died
q beggar.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
IF l WERE YOU.

Why did he look so grave? she asked,
What might the trouble be?
My little maid," he signing said,
Suppose that you were me,
And YOU a weighty secret owned,
Pray tell me what you'd do"
II thirk I'd tell it somebody"
Said she, If were you -
But still he sighed and looked askance,
Despite her sympathy,
''Oh, tell me. little maid, " he said
Again, ''if you were me-,
And you loved a pretty lass,
Oh then, what would you do"
II think I'd go and tell her So"
Said she, IF were you"
My little maid, It's yOu.' he said
Alone are dear to me-"
All, then, she turned away her head,
And neer word said she,
But what he whispered in her head,
And what she answered too
Oh, no, cannot tell you this;
I'd guess, if / were you!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21

ural gas. The ad-
vent OF the ele ctric
light it was expect
ed would injure the
kerosene trade, but
instead of which it
has developed it.
The contrast be-
TIVE en- the { wo
lights has resulted
in an endeavor to
increase the power
of the weaker one,
which can only be
done by increasing
<l0 amount oe ii
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21

The story of brakes first well has been
often told, and is recalled now through the
efforts being made to erect monument to
Drake. 1t is but aquarter of century a go
since petroleum was sold at twenty-five cents
a bottle under the name of ''Seneca Oil' OF
american OIL" To-day it is dear at dol
lar barrel. Its value at that time lay in its
remedial use as a cure for sprains rheuma-
tism, beside the mango and various horse
troubles. 1t ooZed through the ground
and was collected in pits or drains dug to
receive it or was SKINNED in the form of
scum from the surface of the water. A
spring of it was found, from which Oil creek
obtained its namS A company was formed
in 1854, under the name of the Rock Oil COM
pany, to gather this oil and endeavor to re-
fine it and compete with the coal oil, which
had then become an important industry.
The company did not prosper, and the prop
erty fell into the hands of a New Haven con-
Germ, the Seneca Oil company, which sent Col.
Drake, an old railroad conductor, out to ex-
anime the property and report. This was in
1861. In 1858 he conceived the idea of bor-
ing an artesian well, and on Aug. 2S, 1859,
after boring sixty-nine and a half feet, part
of the distance through rock. he struck sand
that he found contained oil. During the
progress of the boring he was troubled with
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
MARGARET Of NEW ORLEANSl
Whose Memory win Be Revered By Or
phans on Christmas Day.

phans on Christmas Day.
Especial Correspondence1
New ORLEANS. Dec. 22-Fancy celebrat-
Sag Pilgrim Fathers day in New Orleansl
1t sounds like the millennium, when the lion
and the lamb shall lie down together, and the
lamb not be inside the lion. either 1t is
enough to make Gen Robert Toombs, rest his
fiery soul! come to life again
But that celebration is just what is going
on here to-day 1t comes about through the
industrial exposition Pilgrim Fathers
day, Dec. p, was set apart for New England
day in the New Orleans exposition.
1t is not of Pilgrim Fathers day in New
Orleans thai l am going to write in this let
ter, though. 1t is Of something corrected
with industries, indeed, but of industries that
will count in the eternities. A friend has
given me picture. 1t is before me now.
Our artist has reproduced it for you here be-
fore your eyes.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21


The rise and fall of Pithole City illustrates
this point. In January, 1865 oil was first
struck there, which promised an unprece-
dented yield. In few months city of
10000 people were gathered there, fairly
crawling over one another in the scramble
for wealth. With these people came banks,
hotels, churches, school houses and the
inevitable saloons During the fall of that
year its post office did the largest business of
any in Pennsy vania outside of Philadelphia
and Pittsburg Within one year its riches
showed signs of giving out and its popula-
tion begau to flee. In two years it was a
deserted settlement and to-day one con
scarce find building of any kind to mark
its site
The accompanying map shows at glance
the lines of pipes through which oil is
pumped through from the wells to the ship
ping points at New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Buffalo and Cleveland These
pipes are owned by the United Pipe lines, a
corporation controlled by the National
Transit company, corporation that under
takes the storage and transportation of oil.
This method of transporting oil in bulk is
carried to this extent that in many Of the
principal cities connected with the oil region
by pipe lines the fluid is retailed to the con-
sumer without ever having been held in
barrel. In New York city and neighbor-
hood it is a common thing to see immense
iron tanks containing kerosene drawn
through the streets from which the con-
sumner buys the oil. This tank has been
filled at the refinery, the crude petroleum be-
ing received there through pipes direct from
the wells. This plan is about to be carried
out in Liverpool and other foreign seaports.
Ocean steamers are being fitted up with i'm.
mense oil tanks, into which the refined oil is
pumped and aptied into tanks on the other
side of the ocean. From them pipe lines
may be constructed to carry it across the
country, thus bringing the labor used in the
handling of tbs product down to the mini
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21

Tor Une New Tears Festival.
u. A Macon in Chicago Ramblerl
I'll git my full-dress razzer out an make heI
glimmer bright,
For wants to boss de table at de festervu
tonight;
nebber dull dis weepin when go to shave
my chin,
But keeps her with shiny aidge an fixed
for sailin in.
always try to keep de peace, an nebbel
fight at all,
An nebber carve up muffin, 'cep' It's 'possum
in de fall,
Or, mebbe, when cut a grisly chicken froe
an froo,
Or scarify de mutton at a summer bobby.
kew;
But It's bes' ter go out forterfed an ready
for fray,
For lots o things may happen as you trabble
long de way
You got to look out sartin when you go tc
break colt,
An de feller fights de pretties' dat gets de
soones' holt
When you start out on cloudy day an hear
de thunderclap
Your obercoat won't hut you eff it shouldn't
rain drap;
lis bes' to hab two galluses, do one i'll hold
your clo'es,
An It's hard TO make too many lcks in chop
PIN out de rows.
Den It's well to be pertickler when you're
walkin' in de night,
An fix yourself for dang'ous things befo' dey
git in sight.
When so to cut de pidgin-wing, or hep 'em
wild a song,
don't forget my manners cause l takes my
weepin long;
But Niger feels his keepin' when he tries
dance or two,
Wild lady hitched onto him and razzer in
his shoe
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
MARGARET HAUGHERY.

It is simply photograph Of plain, stout
old woman. The face is broad, Lit up withal
by an expression both shrewd and kindly.
Margaret Haughery was poor girl Of
| Irish parentage, who could neither read nor
write. Yet she made a fortune of half
million of dollars. That of itself was
enough to make any woman famous. Few
enough of the sex could do it, poor thngsl
But hear what she did with this nobly
earned money
At this time of the year she comes back
to the memory with especial vividness for
now hundreds of orphans will be enjoying
the festive season which she gave them.
Only for her love and labors their Christ
mas, poor fatherless ones, would have been
spent in want and misery. Blessed are they
who make the children happy at Christmas
time
Margaret, the orphans friend, had herself
been a lonely orphan. She began life as a
domestic servant. But she was naturally
drawn to the alleviation of human suffering
She was a devout Roman Catholic, and
under the direction of the sisters of charity
she became hospital nurse. While serving
in this field one of her patients noted what
good care she took of him, and made up his
mind that he would have her all to himself
But the husband died in their first years of
married life. Her only child died, too, and
Margaret was left alone to do her life work
She managed the dairy in an orphan
asylum awhile. Then she opened a little
eating house. But one feature of her career
is singular. With all the money she amassed
she never entered on any enterprise without
benevolent motive at the back She had
noted how the Mississippi steamboat labor
ers 'deck hands, they are called were
swlndled out of their money, and how they
stupefied themselves with whisky and then
lay about booZing kens till they were pushed
out
Margaret thought she could do them some
good So she opened the little shop where
river laborers could get a cup Of good coffee
and a roll for the merest trifle 1t is not on
record that she ever succeeded in reforming
tie deck hands to any great extent, but she
did build up in time a great manufacturing
business. She erected a steam cracker
bakery, a building several stories in height
Her wagons supplied bakers goods to the
city. l have seen them myself On the out
side were the words: 'Margaret's Bread and
Crackers" At first she drove her own bread
cart about the city. Money rolled in, and
she might easily have died millionaire
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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY,
Ihe Transformation That Has Taken
Place in This Fickle Business.
Especial Correspondence.

PITTsBUEG. Dec 30.-The time has not
quite arrived to write the rise and fall of the
petroleum industry, though in the estimation
of the longest heads out Ais way it has seen
its best days and already begun to decline.
There are many causes for it, the most po-
tent probably being the utilization Of nat
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21

Norristown Herald: A rIew jersey weather
prophet says January will be an extremely
cold month" This will be very disappoint-
ing to those persons who hoped that January
would be an extremely hot month, as usual
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
Unusual Quiet.
IPehoboth Sunday Hera

IRehOboth Sunday Herald.l
isn't my photograph excellent" said a
young wife to her husband. ''Wel, my
DEAR" replied he, Il think there is a little
too much repose about the mouth
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-01-21
The Bee Hive
III. C. Dodge, In Goodall's chi ago stnl

.Observe*
- these busy little bees -
- laying up their honey -
{. and try TO be as wise as these -
- by saving all your money. You
. smoke say, five cigars away, and 4.
- drink, say six times daily; cards pool .
- and billiards, too you play, and treat A..
the fellows gayly. In twenty years this =
fun Will cost, according to good scholars :
with interest and time that's lost, just
SH10. But if you count your loss OF +.
health and self-inficted trouble, you'll
find this foolish waste Of wealth will figure
more than double. Then when it's time no
more TO slave, but pleasure take, so sick you VIII
feel because you didn't save you'll want SOM
one TO KICK you. SO initiate these busy bees
ana all your pennies treasure, and then ,whel
older, take your ease, with forty years Of pleasure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-07
PERSUNAL.

Mr. Powderly gets only $1,000 year for dsvotng his
entire attention to the OF the Kngbts Of Labor
The marble tomb In West Laurel Hill Cemetery Phila-
elphs hch receive the body OF tho late Bishop
Simpson 10 now nearly nnisheu.
Senator Payne Is described as one OF tho most care
essy dressed Of congressman He was on recent oc'
caston noticed to wear in the Capitol an unlaundred
collar and ragged black tie pinned thereto ABOUT hat
inch above the upper edge Oh MS coat
Tn. Hon Roswen p. Flower is travelling all over Mex
icn He recently called upou President DlaL, oy whom
he most fayoraDy Impressed
Some Halleiujsh iassos" OF the Salvation Army Wis
tied the Cap tot at Washington the offer day aud Skin
iuished around Representative Tom keeh Tor uhe'
but dill venture to make direct attack upon hm.
His wife Is the only Mr. Gladstone has when his
health ia broken anil he sives himself into her hands
with the docility OF an infant
Mr. Bernard II. Becker the English journalist and lit
terateur, is recovering from serious illness.
The statement that tho Rev. Leonard W. Bacon Will
retire FRO m ministry aud devote himself TO library
work /. denied It's said that he will rem lin IN Phlla
pna Whatever ministerial service no may uhu
" DO. without pay and without Regard 10 Sect
Miss Laura s. Groves the wellknOwn c0ntri;o. is an
nouncrd TO sing at the Good Friday services at Dr. TIL
IMAGES Brooklyn Tabernacle
Mr. Chrstop her Sykes the close friend o. the Prince
OF Wales did not make ais appearance In the House OF
Commons until about fortnight broken leg being
the ming caIse Bus when did appear he startled
the House by of MS usual modest reserve and
boldly Introducing Va
crabs and loDsters
and will presently visit Old Point Comfort for entire
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-07

the conference In session In Brooklyn were discuss
Ing one of the recently elected bishops when an sxcisd
brother from the Interior from his chair Why no
exclaimed, have heard Of Bishop -, on the worry
best authority wouldn't have believed IL, but was
assured by brother whom have the utmost conn'
dence, and who heard II himself The speaker hes-
tat- and his in ths highest state OF OK
pectancy have hard and must believe 1t Is true
that he actually asked members OF the conference I"
vote for him" The sigh Of relef that followed tnis
harmless denoucment only preceded by fraction VI
second lusty shout
Coldcssh-what do ron charge for embaningf
UniertakerfIfty dollars, aud make Tie lato anentco
look Ike blOomin ANGEL
GOlIrash-Weil say. amt that pretty highf
Undertakrr-Not fur hrst-ciass send on.
Coldcash-Wel. VIVA discount would you make TOT
the dcce ased having wooden leg l-Chicago hanoer
Que OF the boulevard Journals defines Paris as capt.
tai for prnvncials aud Foreigners, and Parisans as
Paris There Is some truth in this definition. BY the
way Nsw-Yorg might DO defined as the place where
".tate,men "cspture tho " DOODLE" and New-Yorkers
AZ busy persons time to vote decent men n
Office.
They say Clawence Clawkson is learning to play the
mandolin"
what the deuce Il a Mandolin
~ OF "a outlaw. don't chew know
"Uaw, 10 IT. now Why, bless me soul, dean boy. I've
always haw had an Idraw. don't chew know that "A
'Oh, deah no, IT'S veal music al instrument you play
with Swings aud wIbbon To hold II wound yound
neck It's veal sweet, tssnah yOu You 2wt 10 hcSh
it, you WEAKLY awt."-( own Topics.