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Telegram-herald., 1888-02-12
SOLD ERs' BENEFIT.
TIE Generous ODER OF the Mansgers of
Rsdm0nd's Grand.

The following letters are self-explans-
story. and undoubtedly thsatre-goers and
lie ci1izeas generally will assist Ia the
worthy cause commenced by Managers
Brady and Gsrwood for the benefit Of the
destiguts veterans.
GrAND EAFiDs. Mich. Feb. :. 1855.
T. Cs,rnssansI.r of Cko5nplia POST, g. A. T.
--DzAE sra. Desifous ol showing our sp-
preCiatlon of your honorable association IS
a body OF upright and conscientious men.
banded together for the good and rel.ef OF
all old soldiers and their families that NAV
be Ia need OF relsf Ne would respectfully
tender Chsmpln and Custer Posts. g. A. r.,
a joint benefit fer your relief fund, to take
place a. Redm0nd's Grand Opera House,
this city, the sftsruoons OF March . and Z,
upon which occasion Mr.. James Hardie and
Mas sarah Won Leer will produce their ro-
mantle Western dTsms On The Frontier, -
very appropriate piece for Jour senxis-
Hoping II this meets yoar approval you
oil accept IL in the spirit IN y hich Il Is
givso, Ne are.
Yours respectfully.
BsADT 4 GARwooD,
Managers Redmond Gr4nd Opera House.
hessrs Bradg & G0yuood. GENrLrNkx-
Yeur kiad invitation rendering bsnent to
tAe @. A. K. posts OF his CITY has been cor
daily accepted BY both posts. You could
not hsvs rendered a bsnefs 20 q more
worthy object. IS We have zDong as many
honorable veterans Of the &ss var who are
\ destitute circumstances and need the lib
era ha1d Of charity during the severe
Winter ApDrsciatiog your kindness and
hoping the citizeas OF Grand Rapids viii
lend helping baud, and AZ the same time
witness one OF the daes; performances ever
placed on Grand Rapids stage, We remain
Io0ss truly.
SotoN Bkxrxx. for Custer Post.
Esss RIcx. lor Chsmplin Post,
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Extraordinary h2rgsins iI dress goods at
NoIGT HEsPoLsBEIIER & Cos.
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-12

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band AZ whist, DIR. Dumey'
Dunley gracious!yl Certainly, my dear
Mrs. iioh@sou, with pleasure. Anything IN
eass away the tinle.-Ihe Epoch.
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-12

Valentines ready and We are ready TO
serve you. GEo. a. BALL x Co,
&c Honroe-st
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Telegram-herald., 1888-02-12

Salvation Oil will cure your lame back.
1t never fails. Price twenty fiye cents a
bottle.
The infatustion Of the people IL not
strange when DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup is the
subject.
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-12

Miss Marie Wilson has concluded to tske
a limited number OF pupils IN elocution
during her stay in the city. For further
particulars inquire at The Irving, South
Diylsion-st
Telegram-herald., 1888-02-12

INV OUNtLhN.
Charles K Seymour and James D. Muir.
having purchased the interes, OF III. II.
Colsstock. in the late firm Of Colestock &
Seymour, have formed a partnership under
the style of Seymour & Muir. for the pur-
pose of doing a general job printing busi-
ness. Your orders solicited.
81 and 80 Pearl Street.
Teiephone No, IS.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
St. James Budget. |

1t is many years since the traveller, who
was advised to 90 and see India, remarked
that he did not care to do so, as the gov
ernment had abolished hook swinging and
widow burning. But some of the inhabi-
tants of that vast peninsula are still given
to a strange custom. of which little or
nothing are known to Europeans. 1t seems
that in the Nizam's dOminions there is
caste in which this practice prevails. When
any of its members die a flag is attached
to bamboo and the bamboo is given to
man to hold over the corpse of the de-
ceased. Then, having retired to con-
venient distance, the mel of the cast open
fire on the flag, probably by way of show
ing their distress and of helping the soul
of the deceased on its journey to some
other world. But not every body is Will
liam Tell, and sometimes it happens that
the man holding the flag is shot. This
actually occurred on a recent occasion, and
notice was taken of it by the Nizams gov
ernment. In the Iarida, or governmet
gazette, it is made known to all concerned
that no flag held over corpse is to be fired
at in the future.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
How Different People Dance.
London Telegraph.

Englishmen and Frenchmen, Germans
and Russians, Italians and Spaniards of a
certain social circle, dress alike, but do not
dance alike. Broadly speaking, Occiden-
tails do their own dancing, while Orientals
get it done for them. To the Latin race
rythmical motion is a source of exuberant
gayety and passionate enjoyment. When
Italians, Frenchmen, Spaniards and ROu-
manians are dancing they are performing
an exercise in which they take unfeigned
delight, and their faces as we'll as their
movements express the exhilaration that
they unquestionably feel.
Men of Teutonic and Slav origin are
either less susceptible of the pleasures de-
rived from rapid movements to the strains
of music or more expert in concealing their
emotions. Germans are active and assidu
GUS, but as rule serious dancers. Rus
SLAMS, Czechs, Serbs and Croats, dance
heavily and persistently, but unsmilingly.
The average Englishman of society is far
from being a gay or lithsOme dancer.
When told off to saunter through
the lanciers or gyrate with free-going
partner in the giddy waltz, the expression
of his features is often Indicative of settled
and mournful resolve or of agonized despair.
He walks toward the scene of his ap-
preaching ordeal with the gloomy calm of
a religious martyr marching to the stake.
When fairly embarked in the terpsichOrean
enterprise he bears himself stiffiy and re-
luctantly, as though ashamed of the ad
venture to which he stands irretrievably
committed
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
ONE DAY.

Yellow the grain fields, yellow and heavy
Ready are thew,
Waiting the reapers the brown-handed reapers
Now on the way.
Ogecometh slow thro' the gray early morning,
Sinewy strong,
Bright is his SICKLE but unlike a reaper,
Singing no song.
Tell me thy name, o thou dark-browed toiler,
Whence dost thou come?
Why CLEANS thy scythe with such dazzling
splendor,
Why art thou dumb?
Why dost thou pass by the full ripened grain
fields?
Stay now thy feet,
Thrust in thy keen-edged and bright-gleaming
sickle,
Garner the wheat.
Why ,lidst thou not stay where harvests were
waiting?
Why at my side,
Midst the young buds with but half open petals,
Dost thou abide ?"
mot for ripe grain came / down thro' the
morning,
Not for the wheat,
Not for the wage of a sickelman treless
Stay my feet.
This Is my harvest, these young -budded poppies;
/ at breath
Garner my sheaf through the yet early morning.
Lo, am death.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
A Sweet Revenge.

If anecdotes of princes are considered read
able, no matter how mild, why may not tell
one concerning John Jacob Astor the Fourth,
who has just come into society from college.
It is absolutely true, if not thrilling. When
he was an urchin, his mother one evening
was having a swell party at the house. At
at early stage of the proceedings the maternal
mandate went forth: "Now, Johnnie, go
upstairs and stay there. This is no place for
you. Your turn will come by and by, and
then you will have good time of your own"
John was outwardly calm, but inwardly
seething as he tenderly embraced the au-
thoress of his being, and repaired upward.
A half hour later found him sliding down
the banisters on his way to the basement.
Here lay shapely basket of onions. It was
but the work of an instant to bring forth the
trusty jackknife. Ten minutes later various
chunks and layers Of the savory esculent
were frying in their own fat amid the hot air
pipes that lead to the parlor. Whewl What
on eartha And where7 Delicate self control
marked the demeanor of those who "smelt
something" Then came sudden leave TAX
ings A discounted hostess merged into q
wrathy mistress, and servants went with dis
may in the fruitless hunt for the smell
Search high and low was unavailing. The
house smelt to heaven, while young Johnnie
held his robust little stomach with both
hands like the young colera victim. The
gray dawn found him reclining gently on bis
aforesaid stomach for terrific spanking.
Truly, his time had come sooner than was
expected; but he was heard to remark, at the
worst stages, that he was "glad he had his
laugh out first."-New York Letter.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
LOVES TOKEN.

A wild bird over the housetop flew,
And she said: 20, feetwlng. take
A tender message of love for me
To my love for my loves own sake
And the bird flew over the woodland,
Out over the ocean blue;
On his breast was the maiden's mlSslVe,
regalia both warm and true.
Fast few to lover and wanderer
And as fast as the wind the bird,
Till the message was worn and faded,
And ineligible every word.
Yet the bird delivered his burden
One day to the lovers hand,
And said to him: "Truant and rover,
have come from farof land;
Have followed thy course like a tempest
In bearing this word to thee;
II .s worn with the storms of heaven
And washed with the waves of the sea,
TIL the words are all gone, but you know
them.
No storm with its fierce intent
Could wash out the love that was In 1t,
Or the kisses this fair one sent"
And the lover stretched forth with ardOr
The palm of his sunburned hand
And bore to his lips, with blessing,
Which reached from the sea to the land,
This blotted and tender love token,
For as sure as love is known
Il will if not written or spoken,
Find ways of its own to its own.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
An Empress Worth Looking At.
Boston Herald. |

At last we entered the throne, and there,
surrounded by sea of splendOr, stood the
empress, herself moving mass of dia-
monds. She was the most dazzing sight of
all. On her head was crown once worn
by the great Elizabeth. 1t was the first
time that hap seen a real crown on royal
ty, for the diamond tiara worn by Queen
Victoria last summer at her re-
ception was not crown except in
name. Mrs. Astor used to wear as fine
one. But this one on the imperial head
was worthy to adorn the Empress Of all
the Russias. Describe it? No. l only
saw millions of colored rays and white
sparks of light emitted from it at every
motion of the royal person. The necklace
was made from what was left over from
the crown. it reached from her neck to
her waist, and had rubies, saphires and
diamonds enough in it to have supplied
thousand ordinary neck laces. The i'm
perial orders worn on her bre asst contained
all the gems of the East.
They scintillated with light, and that is
all l can say of them. The stuff of her
gown was emerald velvet embroidered with
enough gold to stock mine and bOrdered
with real gold balls. The front of the
gown was ornamented with ropes of linked
pink cord, set in diamonds and fas-
tened at intervals. Never saw l human
being thus arrayed. Solomon might
have put on more but do not believe it.
She was enough of herself to take the
breath out of a body, but surrounded as
she was by grand duchesses. each one
ablaze with jewels worth kingdom, she
was the most wonderful sight ever wit
messed in my life. did not know a NOR
tai could look so magnificent
The position of her sister, the Princess
of Wales, is almost obscured compared to
the peerless destiny of this Empress Of all
the Russias, and, if the war party succeeds,
Empress of Asia as well. The officials in
their semi-barbarous grandeur numbered
hundreds upon hundreds, but l paid no
attention to them. The empress
and the palace were what l went
to see, and the sight has thrown
me into peculiar mental condition. My
less fascinated companion, who had been
to court before, took my breath away from
me by remarkipg that she pitied the poor
woman. Why? Because she will not
find anything new in heaven in the way of
jewels or surroundings How about peace of
mind ? Of that, indeed, think she stands
in great need now, poor thing.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
A New Edible for Commands That is
Yielded by the Sea.
London Morning Post. ]

London Morning Post.l
A new delicacy of marine origin, and
surprising, in the opinion of many South
ern gourmands, the finest oyster, is about
to be introduced into this country. Asup-
ply of the true Mediterranean sea urchins,
in good condition, is to be consigned to our
market, and English epicures will be
asked to try the eggs of the echinidean
after the fashion of Marseilles that is, by
eating them off the shells, raw and un-
cooked. The sea urchin, which scientific
men, with the playful simplicity charac-
teristic of the kind, have agreed to desig-
nate the ylocentrotus, is an article of
food in many parts of the world, as most
people are probably aware. Hence one of
the common namesit bears among fisherfolk
who have no reputation for learning to keep
up, and who call it the sea egg. But all
along the shores of the Mediterranean the
five celled rosette forming the inside of the
prickly creature is esteemed one of the
fastest morsels yielded by the sea. Strsn-
gers visiting the Marseilles fish market
will see basket after basket there filled
with these browny green and violet colored
hedgehogs of the Deep They are deftly
opened by the fshwives, the left hand be-
ing protected against the sharp prickles by
stout cloth wropped around it, the stom-
ach sack is cut out, and the fine orange
colored eggs in the center exposed and
handed upon the shell to the customers
ever ready for the dainty. These eggs are
only to be found in the urchin between the
months of October and May, that is about
the same time rs the oyster is in season.
At other times the eggs are missing and
many worthy people have pronounced the
creature good for nothing because they
happened to capture and open it at the
wrong season of the year. The urchin
fishery, owing to the,great demand for the
crustacean in southern Europe, is one of the
most important in the Mediterranean. The
creatures frequent rocky ground, and
in the form of round Drickly balls,
they are found, hundreds together, few
feet below high water mark in the shoals
of the Spanish, French and italian coasts.
They are captured by means of cleft
stick, with which the fisher pokes about
their haunts. and often, too, by divers In
the Bay of Naples nothing is more anus
ing than to watch the urchin fishers at
work in search of their prey. Rowing to
the spot where they are carrying on opera
tions, one may see some scores OF heads
bobbing about in the water. and probably
an equal plumber Of pairs of legs, all be-
longing to bodies thae are invisible. Sud
denly head will go down and pair of
legs come up; then, as unexpectedly, one
of the pairs of legs will 60 down and a
head bob up. "A puzzling spectacle" says
Mr. R. Jones, who has well described the
fishery, "and constant vicissitude from
heels to heads and from heads to heels"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
PATRIOTIC sENTINENTs.
Platform Adopted by the Vermont
Republicans.

BURLINGTON, April 4.-The platform re-
affirms allegiance to the principles of liberty
and union, which have been cardinal with
the party; declares it fundamental that
elections must be pure and honest; that the
constitution in this respect is nullified by
the Democratic House, and that popular
government is thus seriously imperiled !;
that the only remedy is to restore to power
the party that saved the Union; believes
in protection and favors such taxation
as will yield only the revenue that the
general welfare requires, and such tariff as
will obviate large surplus in the treasury
and protect the producers and artisans
from serious competition with foreign
capital.
The resolutions strongly condemn Presi-
dent Clevelands disregard of civil
service reform and insists upon rectifica-
ton of the fragrant abuse of the system /;
favors the policy of public supervision OF
the great corporations and trusts gratitude
to the soldiers and sailors who saved the
country is warmly expressed and gener-
GUS provision for their comfort is favored !;
that the government should provide means
without invading upon the rights of the
States to educate the illiterate. The saloon
is an unmixed social evil, and the friends
of temperance should work together politi-
cally for the most restricting measures.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
LITTLE All ME- AND LITTLE All
THERE.

Little All Me was a Chinaman
With queue as long as his arm,
Whose spirits seemed constantly under a ban
Tho he never did evil or harm;
But he ever inclined to the darker side
And the pessmistic view,
And his life was a failure, and, when he died,
The mourners were very few.
Little All There was another Chinee,
But one of different sort,
His face was a map of the Land OF Glee,
And worries he made his sport;
He had his failinRs, but he was gay;
He'd many little sin
But he won all hearts with his CHEEKY way,
And they made him madarin.
From little All Me and little All There
The lesson sublime is learned.
That it is better to keep up semblance fair
Till it's time to be inurned
It's seldom a wilmer may reach his goal,
While laughter seldom fails:
Strength breeds itself in a baDtering soul,
While the one that Is hopeless quails
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
NATURE.

Nature Is like a sister to my eyes,
maiden playful, petulant and shy.
Deep in her face deep meanings espy
Which now she fain would hide, as the fair skies
Hide their blue souls by some thin cloud that
flies,
Rendering concealment lovelier. sigh
When gazing on her charms. so quietly
Expressed, and learn her soul by its fair guise.
Sometimes, with folded hands upon her breast,
Alone, apart, like some sweet nun, hear
Her pray. Sometimes she sings to me, and
fear
And Joy alternate rob my mind Of rest
Her dullest ways are full of winsomeness;
Her ssddest moods rich with hopes that
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
Helena, Montana, Thursday, April II, 1888.
THE DRESS COAT.
Another Attack on the Pride of the
Dudes and Walters.
New York Sun, I

New York Sun.
One of the firmly established cOsmopoli-
tan institutions of the world, the dress
coat, has Just received serious blow The
London Telegraph reports that ball re-
Gently took place in Paris, in the Hotel
Continental, under the auspicies of the
paris Tailors and Tailoresses," and de.
scribes it thus:
Most of the men wore dress coats, white
vests and vanished pomps, but others
aimed at originality, and appeared arrayed
in sky-blue CLAW hammers" knee breech-
es of white silk and cerulean stockings.
For years the dress coat has been like
Great Britain's morning drum beat. 1t
has encircled the world. 1t is worn in
every cline, and, as the the Telegraph says,
even in countries where the British bayo-
net never penetrated. The few spasmOdic
and individual efforts that have been made
to alter its cut and color have always
failed. But now such alteration appears
to be countenanced by powerful Organi-
zation intimately concerned in its manu-
facture-the Paris tailors-and if these
respected artists are really in earnest for
the change, the present form of masculine
dress is in iminent danger.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
An Alphabet of Gems.
From Truth.

An alphabet of precious stones has been
formed indeed there are two alphabets-
one for transparent and one for Opaque
Jewels, but of the latter few like tor
quoise, jasper and onyx hardly come under
the head Of precious. The alphabet of
transparent Jewels comprises amethyst,
beryl, chryseburgb, diamond, emerald, fels-
par, garnet, hyacinth, idocrase, kyanite
(more commonly cyanite, blue mineral
lynx-sapphire, milk-opal, natrolite, opal,
pyrope, quartz, ruby, sapphire, topaz,
ursnite, vesuvianite Ia species of garnet)
water-sapphire, xantbite, and zercOn "a
Cingalese stone). 1t is, perhaps, not gen.
orally known that large ruby is of more
value than large diamond. Experts now
value perfect ruby of five carats as being
ten times more valuable than diamond of
the same weight
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
STORY TELLING.
chambers Journal. 7

lCnamDer JOurDal
In all ages and in all lands the art of
narrating a story by word of mouth or by
the ready pen has been practiced, and
few individuals among the rest of man
kind have been gifted with this faculty,
which they have exercised in preparing
food for the fancy of their hearers or
readers in fable, epic or the modern novel.
These few are akin to the artist who differs
from the mere portrait painter. The last
named can produce a resemblance which
may be perfect in light OF shade, and even
in expression; but though this may give
us pleasure, it does not stir in us the ad
miration we award to one who can produce
situation calling forth our emotions. The
faculty which can produce this is much
more rarely met with.
A we'll told tale is as rare as a perfect
day. 1t is the result of happy influences,
and, like a we'll developed man or woman,
requires favorable circumstances for its de-
velopment. 1t owes much of its interest
to the language used in telling it and the
skill with which it is illustrated, as in the
plays of Shakespeare. The plots of many
of these plays are not original, but the way
in which the author has made from what
were originally but phantoms, galleries of
power. A similar effect is often produced
by writers of tales.
To read good story has similar effect
to spending few hours in pleasant COM
pany it cheers and relieves the mind the
small troubles that may have vexed lose
their hold upon US, and when we return to
them we are so refreshed and invigorated
by the action of change that they weigh
but lightly upon US. Sometimes an incl
dent recalls to our memory some of the
pleasures and pains of that brief season of
our early youth of which we all like to
prolOng the remembrance. Stories from
other lands have a great charm for young
people and children; there is for them the
novelty of learning about foreign customs
and seeing that human nature is alike in
its deep experiences under very different
outward was and manners.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
Some Bible Facts.

from Chambers Journal.1
Verses In the Old Testament, 23,241.
Verses in the New Testament, 1853.
The books of the Old Testament, 80.
The books of the New Testament, n.
Words in the Testament, 592, ,43O.
Letters in the New Testament. 03S, $50.
Words in the New Testament, Isl ,253.
Chapters in the Old Testament, 929.
Letters in the Old Testament, 2,728, 100.
Chapters in the New Testament 26O.
The word Jehovah" occurs 6,e65 times.
The middle book Of the Old Testament
is Proverbs.
The middle chapter of the Old Testament
is Job xxx.
The middle verse of the New Testament
is Acts xii, II. r
The shortest verse in the New Testa-
ment is John XII, 35.
The longest verse in the Old Testament
is Esther viii, 8.
The middle book of the New Testament
is Second Thessalonians.
The middle chapter and shortest IN the
Bible is Psalm cxvii.