davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Helena weekly herald., 1888-12-20

Board Of Directors.
st. aAUsER, JOHN @. CURTIN.
4. n. HOTTER. 3. g. HAMILTON.
mo. b. MING, O. P. HIGGINS,
g. W. KNIGHT. A. j. DAVIS,
r. q. KLEINSCHMIDT, HENRY N.PARCHEN
I. O. POWER.
Associated Banks.
FIRST NATIONAL.........For Benton, Montana
MISSCULA NATIONAL..... -Nissoula Montana
General Banking Business Transacted,
NTKREsr PAID ON 1IkK DKPOsITs
Helena weekly herald., 1888-12-20

The tax roll likewise shows a gratifying
increase in the number of taxpayers,
which is this year 1870 against 1880 for
1887.
The licenses collected by the city this
year will reach about 10000, making the
total revenue from these two sources over
S9l, 900,
Helena weekly herald., 1888-12-20

black-heads, red, rough. chapped
JW and oily skin prevented by CUTICURA
Helena weekly herald., 1888-12-20
HOW I SUFFERED

Sevente en- yenrs from n Sk In Disease,
Could not wa OF Il ress myself. A
mass Of disease from head TO
foot. Cuved in eight weeks
by the Cutfcura Remedies.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27
Elegant Autumn NANTES.


Demi-season mantles ere of mate
lasse silk. of sicilienne, of velvet and
of fancy cloth. Both shore mantles
and long cloaks are OF the most unique
shapes. The directoire reve,s, flowing
collars and Jokes of velvet are feaSures
of new garments Shors round mantles
have velvet yoke ehat,leagthens into
a vest in front. and soft. cloth is then
added in great ;plaits that keep their
shape to the end of the wrap. Two
materials appear in most cloaks and In
the shortest garments. The large
buttons of directoire cloaks are OF
colored metals, cut steel, tinted pearl,
and also of velvet. Long cloaks are
of figured cloths, with velvet direetoire
revers, and some have sleeves that
extend to the foot of the. garment,
and are bordered there with velvet or
with. fur. Bears fur and others o.
long fleece that is. almost shaggy are
fashionable trimming for winter eloaks-
The nuns cloak; full and long enough
to cover the ,wearer, and furnished
with hood, is made Of light camels'-
hair stuff, lined Throughout with silk,
for earls wear:-Hazper's Basaf. i il
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27
Healthful Lung Exercise.

The greatest benefits to be derived
from lung exercise are not in the cases
of healthy Individuals but rather in
those whose vital capacity is below
the normal-who are hollOw-chested,
STOPPING and feeble in their breathing.
The imperfect development of their
respiratory functions invite disease:
their lungs ARE vulnerable. Proper
exercise will throw. off this debility
and render them less liable to disease.
In many cases where lung diseases
actually exist breathing exercise is
one of the most valuable elements in
treatment. A physician declares that
he has often been gratifed with the
way a consolidated lung in chronic
pneumonia of long standing and slow
progress would improve under proper
lung exercise. Indeed, in some OF
these cases it has seemed that properly
regulated exercises have rendered
greater service than could be derived
from ordinary drugs.-sN-Y Mail assd
Express. = -
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27
How the Balloon Was Invented.


Exercise is antagonism; at each step
force is used to lift up our bodies and
push back the earth; as the eminent
Joseph Montgolfier said, that when he
saw a company dancing, he mentally
inverted his view and imagined the
earth dancing on the dancers feet,
which it most unquestionably did.
Indeed, his great invention Of balloons
was guessed at by his witnessing. q
mild form of antagonist between heat
and gravitation. He,, being q dutiful
husband, was airing his wife's dresses,
who was going to a ball. He observed
the hot air from the fire inflated the
light materials, which rose up in a sort
of sspheroidal form (you may have
some of you noticed this form in dressD.
This gave him the idea of the fire.
balloon, which, being = large paper
maker at Annonay. he forthwith exi
perimented on, and hence we got aerial
navigation. This anecdote was told
by his nephew M. Seguin, also an emil
nent man.-Sir William r. GroUes t,a
Popular Science Monthly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27
HIGH PRESSURE WORK.

The Inevitable Result OF Too Much Ex.
penditure Of Vital Energy.
Undoubtedly one reason of the Short
ened and constantly shortening dura-
ton sof life, at least among civilized
nations, is found in the great amount
of nerve force expended in a short
time. We crowd into hours the
thoughts, the. recreatiOas and the bust
ness which formerly. if done at all,
occupied years. The inevitable result
of this l"high pressure" rate of work is
given by Houghton in his animal
Mechanics" as follows: When the
same muscle, or group of muscles. is
kept in constant action until fatigue
sets in, the total work done, multiplied
by the rate of work, is constant. Sup
pose a man. walking at his ordinary
pace, does not become tired until he
has gone thirty miles, If he walks
twice as FAST then by this law. he
would be exhausted at the end of fif-
teen miles, having done only half the
walk in quarter of the time; If he
walks three times as fast he will be
tired at the end of ten miles, having
done one-third of the work in one.
ninth of . the time, and !, SO on, the
total work varying as the square
root of the time necessary to produce
fatigue. To illustrate the actual
amount of work done in the various
physical contests which are made from
time to time, DIR. Houghton calculates
as follows: ga good idea may be
formed or the rate in which the muscles
give work In a boat race, by compar-
ing this work with the average daily
work OF q laborer. In many, kinds of
labor there are four hundred foot-tons
of work accomplished In ten hours.
The oarsman performs in one minute
the one hundredth part Of his days
labor, and il he could continue to work
at the same rate. he would finish his
days task in one hour and forty min
utes, instead of the customary ten
hours. The work done, therefore. in
rowing one knot in seven minutes is,
while it lasts, performed at rate
equal to six times that OF the hard
worked laborer" From this method
OF computation it may be seriously
doubted whether the aggregate Of
work done in a short but excessively
active life, is SO great as that accom-
plished in a longer but more moderate
one.-ChrsstiQn ct Work. Vs. .... S.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27
An Anecdote of Gallant General Scott and
s Prof. AHAasia. -

-
General Scott thought it, to be part
ora soldiers duty to know how to
cook, and did not feel above giving
instructions in the culinary art On
his first visit to West Point, he found
the bread at the hotel abominable;. it
was not fit even for dogs to eat, he
declared, and he volunteered to go to
the bake-hOuse and give the cook q
lesson. The next summer he was at
West Point: again, and this time the
hotel-keeper exultingly called his
attention to the bread.
''Yes, yes" said the General, eft is
little better than it was. This would
perhaps do for the kennei.n and he
went to the bake-house again, and gave
the cook a second, lesson. He was
especially fond of fish,, and it :. was
one Of his hobbies to know. the names
of all the edible fishes, not only of this
country, but OF Europe. General
Keyes, his private secretary, relates
an incident which strikingly illustrates
the different points OF view from which
may look at the same subject.
+ Soon after Prof. Agassiz arrived
in America, he went to West Point,
and General Reyes passed an evening in
his company. Naturally enough the
conversation turned upon fishes
peculiar to America, and General Keyes
remarked that the professor would
find the contents OF a seine drawn on
the coast of South Carolina full of in
terest. He proceeded to name, some
of the things which. would no doubt be
included in such a f'eatch. y and, among,
the rest, mentioned the gar-fsh- -...
Prof Agassiz, sprsng out OF his chair,
seized General Reyes by the hand, and
exclaimed: =.
''Have you seen live gar-fsh?"
s.Many Of them, !" said General Keyes.
Swell, never saw a gar-flsh alive,"
said the famous ichthyologist,i ''bnt /
hope to see one soon, a. it is of the.
Oldest fish family alive in the ocean;
its origin is antediluvian." -. /.
.; When this conversation was repeat
ed to General Scott, he remarked that
he didn't know any thing about the an
Gent origin of the gar-fish, but he did
know that gar porridge was the mean
est stuff that ever was YOatth's
Companion. - 49,. s5sla .fz.lS
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27
BUILT ON A SAND-eAR.


Louisville Said TO Rest on the Former Bed
of the Ohio River.
Louisville sits upon a huge sand-bar,
left here by the Ohio river. There
was g. time, many, many years ago,
when all the country situated for miles
around where this great city now
stands was occupied by rowing bands
of Indians OF various tribes, and the
forests inhabited by all kinds of wild
beasts, and as late as 1872, upon both
sides of the river, were found the bones
of human beings, and skeletons of
bears, buffaloes, deer and other wild
animals, and scattered about the banks
OF the river around the falls, hatchets,
-pestles of grain Washers, flint arrow
tips, hearth-stones made of fat rock,
broken shells, fragments of human
bones, charcoal and calcined earth
were found in profusion.
Long after Louisville began to as
sumo the proportions of a city, stone
hatchets and other implements of In
dian warfare were discovered. A few
miles below here, at a depth of forty
feet below the surface of the earth,
near an old antiqusted mound, in close
proximity to an Indian hearthstone,
were found. among other relics and
remnants, charred sticks of wood. In
digging the foundations for the Taras-
con Mill at Shippingport, an immense
tree was chopped down. A few feet
below the surface of the earth and di-
vectly under the center of this tree,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27

Georgia baby. not quite two
years old has fallea over the foot of
the bed one hA6dssd and eleven times
by actual count. besides MASKING both
hands rather badly, and having the
surgeon called about twice week to
sew up cuts in his scalp. =
"A Parisian Duchess has bettered
Sarah Bernhardt's tiger club by adopt
ing real panther as pea She keeps
it in q long cage and gives IL sun and
air on the veranda, .where she feeds ID
herself. stroking it through the bars of
the Gage as she does so.
The s-bird-minderse of Southern
rice plantations have sharp contests
with the rice birds, who are vast con-
sumers of the growing crop. Begin
first formed, they destroy sometimes
as much asren per cent. of tho crop.
$, "A physician briefly, reviewing the
history and progress of medicine Rays
that in the time op the Middle Empire
Of Egypt's history. progress in medical
knowledge was checked on account %
the rule that 4eW medicines and treat
ment could be enRploxsd by . doctor
only @ the sisk Of being put to death
if the patiens died. r. s-i
"A correspondent % an English
magazine alleges. thaa perfect cure
for sleeplAssness isto think of come
dream one has had, Che more recently
the bettess and to begin to g0ovea o.
gain in the mind as nearly as possible
the details Of the dreaAs Sleep comes
he asserts almost inrariably and ofteD
al quickly az the fall o4e curtain.
An Englishmen who was playing
billiards in . public house madea bet
that he would get one Of the ivory
balls into his mouth. Hedie ge& it in
and there it stuck, in spite OF all hia
efforts TO dislodge &c. The surgeon
who was called in extracted the lump
Of ivory, but only after taking out
several Of the .'experimentaaist's" fops
teeth. -.
lit IL said to be a curious sigrs
to watch the little Indian ehildref
when they first come to the HOUSE
of the Good Shepherd, in Denver. tote
educated by the Government WheI
they first reach the institution they &C.
upstairs on their hands and knees
not understanding the use of the stairss
and sleep at night under the bed, from
which they first pull the clothese
"A coin bearing the following
stamp. 'Carolus uI-Dei Gratia
1882" was discovered imbedded in the
coquina from the Anastasia ouarriess
near st. Augustine, Fla Tt II pres
stunned that those Spanish ships which
came to Florida with bullion and sEsrS
scuttled by the great pirate Morgss
are the source whence the coin eaa1z
A number of pieces coming frerp che
same place have from time De &nE
been discovered.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27


! hole In the bank, Inhabited by Mr..
Tomtit. or Mr.. Blackcap. Both these
birds lay a monstrous number of eggs
for their size, and when the young
come out they are the most loving
parents imaginable, for they are never
tired of coming to and fro with
food. I have counted as many 40
fourteen eggs in0 one tomtit's nest,
q nest SO small chat it vies for
golden-crested wren, the smallest of
our English birds. The latter loves
the cedar, the cypress and the pine
and their homestead is hard 10 discove
ere for it is built of green moss and
hangs down underneath che evergreen
branches by four strings of the same
Imaterial whiah is woven into the nest,
and looks as if one or two sprays OF
branches bad dropped The eggs are
very small, not much larger than an
ordinary pea, and have found nine in
one nest;, but usually there are not %
many.
The robin, our most beloved bird, is
one of the first of all birds to set about
building and rearing. He is most often
60 be found in a nest of decayed and
skeleton leaves among the roots of a
large tree in a ditch. His youngsters
are ugly little birds, and do not get
the CHEEKY red breasts for several
months.
Few need be told that the black
bird should be sought for close to the
ground, in laurels, large box, or among
the roots of thorn hedges; and his
rival in song, the thrush, who has a
far prettier egg, builds above him in
the hedgerows. The singing thrush
makes perfect nest of dry grass, and
plasters inside with droppings from
the field, which after a time becomes
hard and water-tight; he matches four
or five eggs. The blackbird has seldom
more than four.
The missel, Or mountain thrush,
matches high in poplar, oak, or ash
trees, but has q great preference for
beech. especially OF the copper order.
His nest is easily found. for il you GO
near where it is he will utter his
harsh chatter, and Fit and fly about
you, and try and draw you on by fly
ing close to you and screaming In an
adjacent tree.
The magpie probably causes the
greatest commotion when one ap.
proaches its nest, built of large BRAN
bles, lined with mud. in larch and fiji
trees. have often been surrounded
by SIX or seven couples of magpies
when climbing to the nest Of one, fol
ala the neighboring birds make com.
mon cause against the intruder.
once found magpie's nest impossible
TO reach, owing to the slenderness Of
the shank Of the tree it was built al
the top of. and, as it was necessary,
for the sake of the cartridges. whose
eggs they suck. to destroy the nest,
tried The efficacy Of q gun; but &c
thickly coated was It inside with mud
that four shots had no effect. for a week
later heard the young birds calling
for food. They had passed through
such hot fire that / allowed them te
remain.-AU the Year Round.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27
THE SUMMER AFTER.

Istood once more on the dear old beach
Where we'd parted the year before,
And sitting there in the self-same spot
saw my love once more.
orhe dress she wore was the one loved,
A simple gown Of white.
and asked myself: when she put it ono
DID she know Z would cometoaight?"
4he moon shone bright as closer drew
2 And knelt at her feet on the sand,
where told her how had loved her long.
And I ventured to take her hand.
with a silvery laugh she raised beg heaas
And then, oh, horrible shockl -
Ssaw that twas only Rosalie's mai6
II Rosalie's last years frockl
-COrneEi0 Redmond, in LIFE
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27
-. THE TRUE ESTIMATE
Life Made Successful By Looking 1'srNess
and Not Backward.

Life Made Successful by Loosfng 9srNexss
and Not Backward.
Most OF AS are so in the habis 81
measuring the success OF our lives -
our external achievements thaS Ee afE
in constant danger of losing che srssE
estimate. A life is successful. aof By
reason Of the external success which
it wins. though this is not without iss
value, but according to the fuTlness
and richness of its Development IhG
only value OF external success L as q
sign of interior spirit. Our successes
ought not to be things which al&
achieved by force Of viii ~ by ski0
of hand simply; they oughs g. be Chs
fruits which the spirit Of spP iEes
bears, as naturally as the sree bears
its appropriate fruit. Ne scally strong
life will miss some foE1a of extegna&
success, though it may aos be . So4E
which the world recognizes BUS iss
real achievement will always be inSe-
fior and spiritual. That life IS truly
successful which unfolds Itself strong
~ and tremendously On mahE Sides
and which has within ITSELF che sss1G
seriousness of having deserved sueces2
whether success comes - II wishheide
In the light OF this truth-aff9 s. is 2
! truth verified by the expEeieace - sic
wise men-how inadequate are Che osls@
mon judgments of SUGGEST The gorl&
is given TO the fallaey of measuring iss
great men. By their ability - =sfrsS
its attention at frequent inseEyales a&G
to- rekindle the admiratioa EhnA aae
oil haay, &aA l.xy 7n,,r$
work. But every naaa enows HithiE
himself whether he & eaacDessfes ~
not, and knows it bacauss he IS eos1
scious of his interior aaEaaos - ssSroe
gression. "a -. = - 'f'5s
7 Life i elwayB enc e. s9i ae2 @
great possibilities cha ssoldeA Age las
before rather. than oehind; there aee
always greataR ehiags - BE doae shaG
have been done. grea%eE victories 90
be won, than have bean wozA ThaS
which has been Cora ho*eBeQ greag
| it may be, is eeve Co q seallg grea9
man&ny thing more shaa a prophecy
of the things zee 90 De achie0edo
Such a man is always Yboking aheado
always anticipating aeW growth, 6le
ways open to new truth, always eoe
pecting the expansios of hie life; and
such a man need never be disappoinee
ed. If success comes earlye and then
seems to ebb, there need come witle
| this experience no @isillusion Go Gh&
| soul that is really strong. The ape
platise of the world, as it dies away,
may leave one with clearer vision
and greater hope in the final suoe
cess Of his = life Nothing Sha3
We achieve satisfies u.s., because
life does not consist in external
achievement simply. but in enlarge
| ment and advance. No matter how
great the victory of to-day there must
be another victory tomorrow. If the
| soul is to be sustained, andif the great
hopes with which we set out are to be
justified. No man is shut out from
this success; no man is debarred from
these great rewards. ~ seFss -
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27
A .cRUEL EXPOSURE.

How an Old Farmer Paralyzed the 1srsdu-
ates OF . Fashionable Seminary.
s.Miss Minnie Bertha Learned, will
now give us some very interesting
experiments In chemistry, showing
the carboniferous character of many
ordinary substances, after which she
will entertain us with a short treatise
On astronomy and an illustration of
the geological formation of certain
substances, closing with q brief essay,
entitled. Philosophy VS.. RATIONAL
ism" Thus. spoke the president Of a
young ladies' seminary on the class
show-day. F
A hard-headed, old-fashionedf farmer
happened to be among the examining
board, and he electrified the whole
faculty and paralyzed Miss Minnie by
asking:
skin Miss Minnie tell me how much
sixteen and three-fourths pounds of
beef would come to at fifteen and q
half cents q pound?"
s'Why, really, II gasped
Miss Minnie. - a.
kin you tell me who is President Of
the United StatesP''
s.Why-II-Mr. Blaine, isn't he?
Or is it"
ssKin NOu tell me In what State Kala-
mazoo is, or where the Mississippy
river rises and sets?"4 &
s1--I-don't-j --know.'' 81 81
I reckoned We didn't. I wonder if
yer teachers know. Blamed if I don t
doubt it! Gimme the good old days
when gals an boys went to- school
to larn sense thine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27

s.My name is johnson, :" said gem
tleman to. a chance acquaintance.
."Will you favor me with your name.
sir?' Certainly" said the other.
my name is Popover.n Hum, don't
you consider that . very unusual
uame?r mo, sir. have been famil
lar with it all my life" -Cicqgo Nea0a
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27
a remarkable sfunerals took place

"A remarkable funerals took place
at Binghamton.. DR.. Wheaton, an
old and influential citizen. a believer
the dogma OF s'good cheer, died, after
having directed that no outward signs
of mourning be assumed at his funeral.
Accordingly the friends of the family,
when they met at the appointed hcur.
were astonished to find the wido1 and
daughters of the deceased atAPed in
the purest white and wearipx bouquets
of flowers. sThe corpse ls 8 on the SOFA
covered by q many-colored robe, and
was not removed to t1e coffin until the
last moment.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27

That the average woman hasn't a
small foot was distinctly proven by a
tour made in the shops by Southern
woman, who wanted 20 get a No. ten.
mis- shoe that was narrow. She was
sesndidly told that she wouldn't End q
shoe 60 fit her in the place; that any
thing from foure to skies were the
aumbers kepS in stock and the woman
ssiah . nsrrow foot and high instep
was quite unknown. The Southern
girl felt SO delighted that, although
she had to wear her shabby shoes, she
Stopped by che. wayside and sang
Way Down South in Dixie. = SeGside
LETTER
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-30
FROM WASHINGTON,

1HE death of MORRISON Remick Waite.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States occurred at his home in Wash
Ing on at seven O'Clock ON the morning of
the 23d of pneumonia after a brief illness
lie was born at Lyme, Conn, November
~, 1916, graduated from Yale in 1887, and
on January q, 1874, was appointed by
PRESIDENT Grant as presiding officer of the
supreme Court He leaves wife. who was
in California at the time of his death, two
sons and one daughter Upon the an
nouncement OF his death the Supreme
Court adjourned, and the President issued q
proclamation ordering that the Government
buildings be draped for three days, and that
fl gs be draped at half-mast on the day of
the funeral
BEFORE the House Agricultural Commit
tee on the 23d W. G. Bartle, an ex-pork-
packer of St Louis, stated in the lard in
yestigation that he had been in the bust
ness for forty years, and knew that cholera
infected hogs were cut up and put upon the
market as good meat
THERE were 212 business failures in the
United States during the seven DAYS ended
on the Esd, against POP the previous seven
days
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 24th aggregated $685.
O5O,762, against $6S3, 6SS, 20S the pre-
vious week AS compared with the cor
responding week of 1887 the decrease
amounted to g. 8 per cent
The President on the Oath signed the
bill fixing the charge for passports at one
dollar
On the Goth the International convention
OF Woman Suffragists began it's sessions in
Washington. The attendance was large,
delegates being present from associations
in France England, Ireland, Finland, Nor
way, India and Canada