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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
A Strike in the empty Pocket"

Pwist! here, Rover, we must be going.
Shutdown, and noth hing to eat all day;
Ten miles back to the camp, and blowing.
But what's the odds, when we've struck tn
pay?"
Gloryl Old boy it's hard to quit it,
Even to leave 1t for over night.
Ciinch 1t, porphyry, where we hit 1t,
With hard black fingers stlngy end tlght.
That little seam that means salvation
Hope for me and home for Sue
Fo Il lonely years Of half starvation
Butt their heads into that streak OF blue.
Ugh how the cold snow-fower is sitting
Curse on the wind, that 1t comes just now
Cny my tracks for trail, and driftlng
And fourteen inches is hard to plow.
Hard work ? That's what 1t is, old Rover.
That mile was swelled to four times Its SIZE
Trail plum gone, and the daylight over,
And wind that cuts like steel In the eyes.
Whining, Rover? But that won't mend it.
Come we must take it like men, you Know
One stop here in the cold would END IL;
Our only ,fety is on the go
Think who's praying IN old Peqpawkseet; secnsr Il,
Tomorrow the wires Will tel her, Ooino'
Struck II rich in the Empty Pocket
See her laughing gand-cryipg-weil some
What You won't move? Then on my shoul
der
IN have to pack you. you rascal, you!
Nn-h you're "A load L IN getting coieer'
There's a ton OF lead in either shoe.
EcWnl o, Godl Bu' we've got to make II!
Ah-hl How this pinion keeps on the s'or"
DrOwsy-drowsy-I cEnT OF shake IL
And this is so soft and so warm!
What should life and It's cares be won forT
sleep, the Forgetter, is kindliest.
Come, old dog, we are done Tor
Here-we-wiil-rest.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
SALVINI,
The Greatest of Foreign Tragedians.

Tommaso Salvini is about to begin his
last tour in the United States. After COM
pleting it he will 60 to South America, and
then return home and CLAY no more except
occasionally in Italy. He was born in
Milan, Italy, on New Years Day, 1880. His
parents were both in the theatrical pro-
fession, in which his mother, known by her
stage name as Gugilchuaina Zocchi, had
attained considerable disctinction. He
was placed under the tuition of the emf
nent MOdena, was precociOus pupil, and
had the ability for several parts when only
thirteen years of age. His parents both
died when he was fourteen, and the shock
ended temporarily his studies. After an
interval of rest he placed himself under
Modena the second time, and in due time
became member of the company support
ing Ristori. During the war of 1849 he
fought with his fellow -countrymen against
Austria, and upon the conclusion of the
unfortunate campaign of that year was
rewarded with memorials of his courage
and devotion to his countrv's interests.
Upon the assumption of professional en-
gsgements be was promptly recognized as
the true heir to the mantle of the great
Modena" His triumphs have been won in
many lands. He came to this country the
first time in 1878.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
Columbus Wasn't Much of a Fellow
New York Sun

New York Sun.
"On my last trip through Idaho" said a
New York drummer the other day, three
or four of us put in night at the tavern
in a small. 1t was kept by a dreadfully
innocent looking chap, and in order to guy
him bit the boys put him on that was
Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of
America. The old fellow gave me consid-
erable attention, fixed up the best room in
the house and introduced me to his aged
wife. Next morning as | sat on the veran
da smoking cigar ne came along and
queried:
Let's see. What did you did ?"
Discovered America" soberly replied.
"Oh, yes"
He looked disappointed as he went
away, and in about ten minutes returned
to say:
"I've had it all wrong about you"
"How?"
Why, kinder had it that you was from
Washington, and l was thinking you might
get my boy Sam into some Office"
'No, l am not"
"You are only Christopher Columbus ?"
That's ALL"
"All you ever did was to discover
American"
That's ALL"
"Humph! I'll have to charge you evtra
for them three billed eggs this morning, and
the ole woman thinks she ought to have an
extra quarter for making real coffee for
you. You orter told me last night that
you didn't amount to Duthin'"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
A Plea for Boys.
[Dr. Talmage in New York Observer

DR.. Talmage in New York Observer
1 am sorry to say that boys are not gen.
orally understood. Between and IA
years of age the masculine nature is mix
ture of mischief and sensitiveness, and
spunk, and fun, and trouble, and pugnacity,
which the chemistry of the world fails to
analyze. A little girl is defnable. She
laughs when she is pleased, cries when she
feels badly, pouts when she is cross and
eats when she is hungry. Not so with
boy. He would rather go nutting than
to eat, forgets at the fish pond he has not
had his dinner, often laughs when he feels
badly, and looks submissive to an impo5i-
tion practiced upon him till he gets the
perpetrator alone in the middle of the road
and tumbles him into the dust, till eyes
and mouth and nose are so full that the
fellow imagines that before his time he has
returned to dust, A boy under calm ex
terror may have twenty emotions strug-
Cling for ascendancy. Especially do l feel
for boy who has more fun abroad than he
can master. How well l remember the
country school house where We all had to
sedate, though one nOy would make face
enough to put the whole school in danger
of running over with giggle. 1t is an awful
thing for child DOT to dare to laugh when
the merriment rises and wells up till the
jacket gets tight and The body is ball of
fun, and he knows that if out of one of the
corners of his compressed lips snicker
should escape all the boys would 60 off in
explosion. remember times when l had
at school such responsibility of repression
resting upon me that it proved unfaithful.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
Marriage is q Failure.
springfield Union.l

Springfield Union.l
When either of the parties marries for
money.
When the "lord of creation" pays more
for cigars than his better half does for
hosiery, boots and bonnets.
When one of the parties engages in a
business that is not approved by the other
When both parties persist in arguing
over subject upon which they never have
and never can think alike.
When neither husband nor wife take
vacation.
When the vacations are taken by one
side of the house only.
When a man attempts to tell his wife
what sty lie of bonnet she must wear.
When mans Christmas presents to his
wife consist of bootjacks, shirts and gloves
for himself.
When children are about to clamor for
their rights
When the watchword is: Each for him
self"
When dinner is not ready at dinner
time.
When she" snores the loudest while
"she" kindles the fire.
When "father" takes half of the pie and
leavs the other half for the one that made
it and her eight children.
When the children are given the neck
neck and back of the chicken.
When the money that should 90 for
book goes for what only one side of the
house knows anything about.
When pOliteness, fine manners a. d kind
ly attentions are reserved for company or
visits abroad.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
THE BELL OF THE ANGELS.

There has come to my mind legend, a thing
had half forgot,
And whether read It or dreamed it, ah, well, II
matters not.
1t said that in heaven, at twilight, great bell
softly swings,
And man may listen and harxen to the wonder.
full music that rings.
II he puts from his hearts inner chamber all the
passion, pain and strife,
Hesrtache and weary longing that throb In the
uses of life
If he thrust from his soul all hatred, all thoughts
of wicked things,
He can hear in the holy twilight how the bell of
the angels rings.
And think there lies in this legend, If we open
eyes to see
Somewhat of an inner m aning, my friend, to
you and to me.
Let us look in our hearts and question, can pure
thoughts enter in
To soul if it be already the dwelling of
thoughts of sin?
So, then, let ponder a lttle-iet us look In our
hearts and see
Ifthe twilight bell of the angels could ring for
us-you and me.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
JOHN ID. ROCKEFELLER.
Reputed the Richest Man in the
World.

The president of the Standard Oil Trust,
John D. Rockefellers, was educated in
Cleveland, Ohio, where thirty years ago he
was the proprietor of small refinery.
From this beginning he has achieved his
enormous wealth and power. lie spends a
great part of his time in New York, where
the offices of the company are situated,
and in other places besides Cleveland, but
is still superinte ntendent of the Sunday school
of one of the Baptist churches of that city
attending its sessions whenever he can do
so He has long been an earnest member
of the Baptist denomination, to the inter
ests of which he contributes literally. Mr..
Rockefell,r + has made splendid cOntribu
ton, said to be millions of dollars, to the
Baptist U iversity at Chicago. placing this
institution far beyond the possibility tf its
being pinched for funds. He is quiet, re-
tiring man. domestic in his habits, and the
head of household which is 81 i'd to be
model in its simplicity of life.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
Spiders Webs

A well known naturalist who has been
studing the habits of the spider says that
the insect can get along nicely until cid
age overtakes him. Each spider has the
power of spinning certain quantity of
web. When be has spun himself out he is
in a bad way, not only because he has no
home but because has no chance to obtain
food. The life of 3 spider is as full of luck
as that of a man. If he constructs his web
in an out of the-way place it will last him
long time, but if he happens to spin it
where woman with the broom can reach,
he will, likely soon find himself spun out.
So long as he remains strong he is all
right, for he can overpower the young spi-
ders and steal their webs. When he can
no longer fight he becomes tramp and
dies of starvation.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
"OLD GABRIEL -
One Hundred and Fifty Years.

The accompanying picture of "Old Ca
briel" is from recent photograph courte-
ously placed at our service by the chair
man of the Board of Supervisors, Monterey
county, California, where "Old Gabriel" is
an inmate of the county hospital or poor
house. The exact date is unknown, but
sufficient evidence has been adduced to
prove the truth of his being from 145 to $50
years cid. 1t is we'll authenticated that at
the landing of Junipero Sierra at Monterey
he was grand father, and when the first
chapel was built on the site of the present
Carmelo Mission in 1771-72. be was present
and assisted in erecting the adobe walls.
"Old Gabriel has never used liquor or to-
bacco. His diet has been of the simplest
and plainest food. his habits, including that
of frequent bathing, regular. Probably the
oldest man in the world is an Indian.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
The Accomplished Bride of EmmOns
Blaine.

The young lady of this picture is one Of
the five children of the late Cyrus Nc
Cormick, of Chicago. She is worth
100000, and is pleasing and amiable in
the highest degree. With lovely bride
of twenty three years at his side and every
other social advantage in life, Emmons
Blaine ought to be happy man.
His sweet companion is twenty three
years old. She is tall in figure and grace
ful in movement. Educational advantages
in her case have been supplemented with
much travel. She is accomplished, we'll
informed and of disposition at once gentle
and strong In religion she is Presby-
terian, but is far from being one of the for
bidding type of that stalwart denomina-
tion. The ladies will be pleased to know
that the brides eyes and hair are brown.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
Unmistakable Qualities.

Il confess l am sometimes sorely per-
plexed," said the father, with heavy sigh,
when l think of the future of my boys.
1t is great responsibility to have the
choosing of calling in life for them"
Through the open window came the voices
Of two of the lads at play. Look here"
loudly exclaimed Johnny. "that isn't fair!
You've divided these marbles go as to get
all the best ones in your own bag" did
not have the trouble of dividing em?"
reiterated Willie, hotly. Think Pm going
to spend my time at such jobs for moth
ing?" $50 far as Willie is concerned" re-
sumed the father, after pause, 1.-The task
of choosing vocation is not difficult, l
shall make lawyer of him."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
FORCED TO SURRENDER.
Summer BOarders Who Demanded
Their Rights.
Detroit Free Press.

The autocrat of the seaside resort is not
the man with his millions, but the motel
cook. The clerk in the Office may imagine
that he owns the most of the earth, and the
head waiter may feel that he has war
ranty deed of the remainder, but when you
come right down to the facts the boss of
| the kitchen is the boss Of the ranch. He is
| the unseen power behind the throne, to
| which all bow.
At our hotel the soup had invariably
been seasoned so high with cayenne pepper
that not one out of ten could more than
taste it The same was true of the deviled
CLAIMS. One day l made kick, and in five
minutes had half dozen guest with me.
We interviewed the landlord, and his reply
was:
81 have nothing to say about it. You
must 90 to the chief cook"
We sought an interview with that mag
nate. He was colored man with the dig
nifty of Roman Senator. We made our
complaint and he replied:
IL season dat soup an dem CLAIMS TO suit
my taste"
But it doesn't suit ours"
Cant help dat, sab"
"We want less pepper"
do you refuse to make changer"
81 sartinly do. sab. l lows nobody to
tell me what TO do"
We returned to the veranda and went
into convention. Every minute added to
our numerical strength, and in quarter OF
an hour we mum bered forty men Then it
was unanimously
ResoIUed, That if the cook refuses 10 use
less pepper we seek some other hotel.
Delegates were appointed to wait on the
landlord. and he replied:
Gentlemen, Pm sorry, but l dare not
interfere"
Forty rooms were vacated, forty trunks
were packed, and then mine host wllted.
He called in the cook, and though that IN
dividual attempted to stand On his dignity,
he bad to wilt. By this time the excite
ment was intense, and had the forty gone
they would have been followed by hun
dred more. LESS pepper was the watch
word all over the house, and it meant a
great deal to that landlord. We kicked,
we saw, we conquered, and the next soup
and clans exactly suited the popular taste.
The cook is still the unseen power behind
the throne, but he has skipped cog and
no one is afraid of him any longer.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
Should Wives Work!
Washington Post.

Washington Post.
The question of whether or not wife
should work for money is an interesting
one, but, like many Others, cannot be de-
termined on general principles. Awoman
whether married or single, has moral as
we'll as legal right to earn money. If a
woman's husband is unable through ill
ness to support her, it is her duty, if she
be competent, to earn money for herself
and him. If he is indOlent or stingy, the
necessity certainly justifes the effort.
Considering the question, however, from
the ground of industrial competition, it is
not fair that married women should gene
rally become wage earners. 1t is just
neither TO the men who support families
nor to the single women forced to care for
themselves. Marriage presuppoees the
support of the wife by the husband. Mar
riage is regarded as compact, where
mutual interest makes one the provider
and the other the home maker. When it
does not remove woman from industrial
competition, then, in commercial
sense, marriage is failure. Though
the wives of well-to-do and wealthy men
can earn morey, and in SO doing break no
law on the statute books, they certainly In
fringe upon that larger law relating to the
good OF the many While industry among
women is admirable, and the independence
of the modern girl most praiseworthy, yet
it does not seem fair that wives and daugh-
ters of rich men should absorb the places
needed by poor women and girls
The married woman earning money, who
is partly supported by her husband, the
girl who lives at home and may use her
earnings as she will. can afford TO under
bid the woman wo must work. This re-
duces the wages of working women, and
discriminates against them IN favor Of
those having husbands and fathers. Tax.
ing one consideration with another, 1t
would apparently be more to the genera l
good if marriage were contracted on the
old-fashioued plan. young man should
expect to support his wife. A woman
should marry content with the best her
husband can do for her.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
THE SOUTHERN GIRL.

Her dimpled cheeks are pale;
She's lily of the vale,
Not a rose.
In q muslin or a lawn
She fairer than the dawn
To her beauX.
Her boots are thin and neat;
She Is vain about her feet,
1t Is said.
She smputates her RS,
But her eyes shine like the stars
Overhead.
On balcony at night,
With fleecy cloud of white
Round her hair.
Her grace, ah who could paint?
She would fsscinate a saint,
declare.
'Tis matter of regret
She's bit of a coquette,
Whom | sing.
On her cruel pa tn she goes,
With half a dozen beax
On her string.
But let that all pass by,
And her maiden moments fly
Dew-impearled.
When she marries, on my life
She will make the dearest wife
In he world.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
MISTOOK HIS MEANING.
How a Gawky Country Boy Worked a
Conductor.

memphis Appeal
Not long since an awkward, green coun-
try boy, who had come from somewhere in
Arkansas entered an outgoing passenger
coach in this city to pursue his journey to
some point in the Northwest.
and fell asleep.
Not long afterward the conductor came
hurryi ing through the car and aroused the
sleeper for his ticket.
Tickets, tickets" said he.
"What for?" asked the dsinterested
countryman.
"Tm the conductor, SIR"
"Then you are the man that knocks
down eh?
knocks DOWN."
Yes sir. 1 have heard that all con-
ductors knock down."
do you know what you are talking
about ?"
"Pll show you very quick if you attack
me-"
The ticket puncher for moment putfed
up and tried to conceal his real thoughts.
Then bending toward the complacent
speaker, and nudging him to make room
he planted himself in the same seat with
him
You say you know whereof you speak?"
he opened up.
II should say 1 do, and am not gcing
to be imposed upon either" was the posi-
tive reply.
"Well, young man. you seem to know
something about this thing, and will tell
you the straight of it. A conductors life
is very hard one, and the monotony of
the every day routine has the effect of de-
pressing ones feelings. The salary we are
paid is not over large, and sometimes We do
become little anxious to increase it. We
do this, however, most generally with
some profit to ourselves and no loss to the
company. 1t is frequently the case that
some unfortunate individual boards my
train who has some money, but not enough
to pay his fare to the point he desires to
reach"
"Then do you knock him down"
"WtH, yes, so to speak we take what he
has and let him go on. This money we
don't report, because the company would
fire US for our generosity. We merely
keep it to conceal the kindly act We have
done"
"Is that what you call knocking
DOWN."
why, took it you were posted"
mo, sir; here is my ticket"
The conductor took it, and with quiver-
ing hand, punched the wrong coupon. His
face flushed as he looked with chagrin on
the simple stranger, and looking back he
hurried into the next car
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
The Best Speech.

Business Woman's Journal,I
Rev. Mr.. Perkins, being called upon sud
denly to address a Sunday school, thought
he would get few original ideas from his
young hearers.
"Children," he said, II wart some of you
70 tell me what 1 shall talk to you about
tonight. What shall 1 say?" At first
there was no response THAT bright little
fellow sitting over there" said he, pointing
TO a youngster sitting in one of the back
seats. "What shall say to you to night?'
Tn little piping voice came the answer
7sSay amen, and sit down"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
"In the Swim,' as 'rwere
PHILADELPHIA Press.1

A clergyman who was an ornament to
the pulpit in an exceedingly esthetic regi-
ment of the Lords army was delivering a
series of discourses upon the history of
Jonah. At the opening of one of the dis
courses he said:
"You will remember that in our last dis
cussion we spoke of the fact that Jonah
was three days and three nights in-in the
whales society.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
WHAT THE POET READS.

The eyes of the poet are busy,
And will be everm re,
In reading what nature has written
In her books OF wonderful lore;
Her books of the forest and mountain,
The sea and the wreck -strewn shore.
Now he reads over an idyl
OF peace in the meadow fair
poem set to the music
He hears in the earth and air,
Forgetting tn at ife has trouble
And human hearts have care.
Then he Turns the pages over,
And between them leaves a flower,
vnd rea !s in the mountains epic
Such thous hts of mighty power
That they haunt him with their greatness
For many and many an hour.
He sits down by the ocean,
And reads in the pages there
OF voin regrets and longing7
OF losses and despair,
And of the wearisome burdens
Earth's children have to bear.
Then he sees little flower
That in autumn seems to de,
But lives again in the gladness
OF Aprils air and sky.
And it seems the sweetest poem
That gladdeL the poets eye.
The promise of Heavens springtime,
To all the souls Of men.
Il symboled In this frail flower
That dies to live again;
And his heart like the flower, looks upward
And questions softly, "When?"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10

Emmons Blaine, who at the age of about
thirty three marries wife, is much like
his distinguished father in respect to exec
utive and business talents. He was edu-
Gated for lawyer and went to Chicago to
live. There he was offered desk in the
office of the Northwestern Railroad, which
he accepted He changed his business re-
lations in the course of time, taking the
office of general freight agent under the
Santa Fe road. Mr.. Blaine is resident of
Baltimore. and is now manager of one of
the Southern railways. He marries a
young lady, Miss Anita Mccormick, who
is said to be worth three million dollars.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
Marriage Felicity.
New York Sun.

New York Sun
Lolley-"That seems TO be good rule
which Mr. Gladstone &nd his wife OBJ
serve"
Cumso-"What is it?o
when he insists his wife submits; when
che insists he submits"
"Yes, that's good rule. My wife and
l follow it, too-at least the last of
IL"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-10-10
Here at Last.

Aushed Il the howl of the blazer,
Stilled Is the song of tie sash;
The dudelet has seized his razor
And scraped off his sweet nlus'aeno'
For verify the summer lie ended,
And exc is the harvest passed; ~,
And the dudelet's intended intended
Has ''thook" him for good at last.
Little baby-garden hose
Puts the nozzle to his nose,
Brother turns the water on,
Goodnessl Where has baby gone