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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
No. 1
A Travellers Story.

at has been more than 200 years since 1
passed along here the first time,' was the
astonishing statement of a stranger who
was padding down White river, and who
stopped in the shade of the old covered
bridge at Washington street to gossip with
a reporter from the Indianapolis Neacs.
There were no bridges over the stream
then, and no reporters here TO interview
me In fact there is little here 10 remind
me of my first trip. The stream has
drawn into its bed like turtle into its
shell since my early days. 1t used to
swell out through all these lowlands.
There was no bottom to the water and you
couldn't see across when was boy"
Are you sure this is the same stream ?"
There can't be any mistake about it. l
never err in these matters. The course of
streams do not change even if they shrink
from rivers to brooks. l spent several days
in this latitude before, and for a whole
week was laid up against a big hill which
stood out Of the water north of here (now
Crown hill.r
"How often do you make these tours ?"
"Irregularly. l am always on the go,
but can't control my course entirely. /
belong to rowing, restless, irrepressible
and almost indestructable race. One year
| l am in Australia. Another l am up in
the Andes mountains. Now l am up on
the Hudson Bay, anon In Yucatan. My
periods of rest are few, yet never tire.
| Sometimes / am cut off from many of my
tribe, but if / can't reach them one way l
do another. My favorite routes are down
the courses of rivers l never travel oveI-
land, and if lose my way or get off into
with living waters, / bide my time with
the frogs and snake-feeders."
"You mean that you stay with them un-
til frost comes which enables you to sail
out into the waterways"
No. Sometimes that is the case, but if
l get tired of waiting and become weary of
my companions shake the mud off my
feet, put away TERRESTRIAL shape and form,
fade into the invisible, and rising high in
the air, seek friends and congenial climes.
who are you, that you do these
things?"
II am drop of water. Now you can
understand why am old without being
gray; how it is that l travel constantly by
steam or air. range over the wide creation
and sometimes by chance, as fluid or vapor,
make second OF even third trips to the
same place But l must be away. l am
billed to play part in a cloudburst in
Cuba on the 11th of this month"
And the shiny drop ran along drowsy
fisherman's line and dropped on to black
bass's back, and was lost among million
fellow-travelers.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
FX-EMPRESS THERESA.
The Wife of the DepOsed Emperor
Dom Pedro.

Accompanying Dom Pedro in his voyage
to Lisbon is the longtime sharer of his joys
and sorrows, the ex-Empress Theresa, to
whom he was married on September a.,
1s43. Their only surviving child is label,
whom the revolution deposes from her rank
as Crown Princess of Brazil; but they have
two families of grand children, namely, the
sops of label, and those of their deceased
daughter the Princess Leopoldina, who
was the wife of Prince August of SAKE
Coburg, Duke of Saxony, and who died in
the year 1871. The ex-Empress, who Vas
born on March IA, 1922. is the daughter of
the late King Francis l., of the Two Sici-
lies She is most worthy woman, simple
and domestic in her tastes, gentle and SYM
pathetic and much beloved, and was in
full accord as his consort with the pro-
gressive and liberal views of her husband.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
FASHIONABLE TEA.
How the Four Hundred Are Supposed
to Prepare the Genial Cup.
| american Analyst

IAmerican Analyst
A pretty device for making tea Chinese
fashion at the home table and afternoon
teas, and for serving delicate refreshments
to callers, consists of hollow ball of
or silver about the size of q walnut, sus-
pended from finger ring by a slender
chain four or five inches long. The ball
divides in the middle and the
halves are then hinged. 1t is
perforated with innumerable holes. Some
times it is made of gold or silver wire
guaze. The hostess uses it in this wise:
She opens the hollow ball, fills the halves
with dry tea leaves and clasps it shut. She
then slips the ring from which it is sus-
pended upon one of the fingers of the right
hand. Filling a tea cup with hot water,
she let's the ball hang in the cup, and
moves it back and forth and up and down
until the water is colored to the desired
strength. The strength of the tea,
of course, depends upon the length
of time the ball is dwadled in the
cup. The little ceremony is much pleas
anter to the eye than the old way of pour
ing out tea, especially if the hostess be
graceful and have pretty mo eled hand
and wrist. Moreover, it produces an i'm
measurably finer cup of tea than can be
had by an other method. At afternoon
teas the hostess sits upon her divan, with
the trinket suspended from her finger, and
makes the tea at table by her side. The
tea ball. as it is called. is moreover
an encouragement to the custom,
borrowed with it from the Chinese, of serv-
ing tea to callers-an adjunct to entertain
ing methods which lis srapidly becoming
popular. Hot water, of course, is always
at hand, and this easy and graceful way OF
making the tea in the guests presence for
bids the suspicion that the hostess is put
ting herself to inconvenience in providing
it. Besides being refreshing, the tea con-
duces to sociability.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
JOHN M. STONE.
Democratic Governor Elect of Mis-
sissippi.

Cur portrait is of the Governor elect of
Mississippi, State in which the Republi-
cans claim to have a majority of thou
sands if permitted to fairly cast their votes
and have them honestly counted, but
where for obvious reasons the Democrats
are unopposed at the polls. In the late
war Governor Stone served in the Confed-
crate army, attaining the rank of Colonel.
He was participant under Lee in most Of
the battles fought in Virginia and was sew
eral times wounded. A few days after the
Appommatox surrender he was captured at
Salisbury, N. c., in his flight South. In
November, 1867 he was first elected Gov
ernor of Mississippi and served full term
of four years. After eight years of retire
ment he was nominated by the State Dem
ocratic Convention, and elected on the 9Th
of November without opposition. His
term of Office will begin the first Monday
in January, 1890, and will terminate De-
cember 81, 1894.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
Let Us be Thankful.

Thanksgiving Day will soon be here,
How thankful we should be,
We've all been spared another year,
How thankful we should be.
But there are 9th r blessings yet
Whose absence fills us with regret,
Which If we could in some way get,
How thankful we should be.
If women who attend the play,
How thankful we should be,
Would put their Eiffel hats away
How thankful we should be.
Iffate would condescend to choke
The Joker with his ancient joke
And the croaker with his chronic croak
How thankful we should be.
If tongues were all attached to brains,
How thankful we should be,
If f"hogs'' were barred from railway trains
How thankful we should be.
If fads and foibles were tabooed,
If gum were not by ladies chewed,
If death would kindly steal the dude
How thankful we should be.
But let us be to fate resigned,
How thankful we should be,
For Providence is good and kind.
How thankful We should be.
There're many things which we regret
And wish were otherwise, and yet
five a NICE fat turkey get
How thankful we should be.
From the Chicago Herald
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
Bob Owens Bull.


Bob Owens bull was the property of
railroad president and occupies a conspicu-
GUS place in railroad history. Marion Sher-
idan Knowles, of the Savannah, Florida &
Western road. enjoyed personal acquaint-
ance with the leading characters IN this bit
of railroad history, and says he knew the
bull BY sight" He describes the animal as
a magnificent one of the Durham breed, with
a iovian crest, an eye of fire, and bright
scarlet nostrils He was q bull with a
fairly good opinion of himself, and
be didn't care much who knew it.
Bob Ovens president of the Norfolk &
Western road, running between Bristol IN
West Virginia and Norfolk, Va, bought
him in England and installed him as mas
ter of the herd ON a very fine farm which
he owned directly on the road. One OF the
characters on the Norforlk & Northwestern
was an engineer named Alf Whalen, an ex-
cellent man in his business. and with ma
tiopal reputation for nerve and GOODNESS
One bright day when Whalen was running
a freight train down the side of the mount
ain at the base of which was situated
Ovens stock farm, he was trlt1e dlscon-
certed to see in the center of the track, d.
rectly ahead of him, the famous Durham
bull. with his tail standing straight up,
head erect and paving the ground savage
Iy. The train was running at an unusually
rapid rate but Whalen pulled the throttle
open and the engine bounded ahead for all
there was in her. The bull was hit fairly
and lifted over the mountain side In
twinklipg.
The station agent at the farm when
Whalen told him what had happened, tele-
graphed Pre- sident Owens the facts. Wha-
len pulled into the depot at Norfolk two
hours later and was met by Owens. Old
Bot was wild with rage? He spoke with
difficulty.
We'll" said he, "you played ="
"How-how-what do you mean?" asked
poor Whalen.
Killed my bull, you, eh?"
"WeH, now, see here, Mr.. Owens, If you
wanted that bull to run on this road you
should have put him on the schedule. You
see, he was running on my time. The
track and right of way belonged to me, and
1 just took it."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
Retter Than Faith Cure.

There were five men of US and three
women, besides the driver who were stag
ing it between two towns in Kansas. we
set out at o'clock in the morning tor an
all DAYS ride, and had not made over two
miles when the oldest man in the crowd,
who was from the Nutmeg state and built
on Yankee principles, exclaimed:
"By gosh to squash"
whats up?" asked one of the lot.
The toothsche! She hit me in that ere
lower double tooth, and I'm In for bushel
of trouble"
"Just try and not to think of it," sug
gestsd one of the women. Keep your
thoughts on your family"
He tried it for two or three minutes, and
smile of affection came 10 his face. 1t
sudde My died away, however, to be re-
placed by look of ferocity as he yelled
out:
Hang my family, but it don't work.
Has anybody got any camphor?"
Nobody had. We hadn't even drop OF
whisky. Ooe man had some tobacco, but
the Yankee couldn't 90 it. The ache once
started, grew worse, and as he began groan-
ing second woman suggested
"Ive heard say as imagination has all to
do with pains. Suppose you imagine you
are sound asleep and dreaming of angels
and such"
He tried it, and for minute or two the
ache let up. Then it struck him with
lump. and he seized his aw and yelled:
"Jerusha Jackson! but I'll be gaul burned
if hain't goin' to die right here! Driver,
stop the wagon!'
It was stopped, and he wanted to know
how far it was to town. He was told 1T
was twenty miles, and he fetched groan
| a rod long and said:
Its got to be done! Driver, come down
herel"
what do you want?"
you've got to knock it out You are the
biggest man in the lot, and l guess you kin
hit a purity fair blow. Give me litter
right here ON the jaw"
"Do you mean it?"
"Sartin, and don't waste any more time.
Spit on yer hand, haul off, and sock me one
| right on that tooth. l want it knocked
| into a cooked hat"
"But you will 60 with it."
"Cant help. that. Now, imagine that
| I've called you double barrelled liar and
whale away"
The driver drew back and then landed
| on the exact spot, and the Yankee tumbled
head over heels in the grass. He was up
in a moment. however, and he put bis
thumb and finger into his mouth and
pulled out two teeth and shouted:
"Whoop! It's one extra, but that's all
right. Shake. old man, and then drive on
with the band wagon. We-whoop!
Toothache gone--pain gone-happiness
come to stay. Here's dollar, and if you
want to brag about knocking fellow four
| teen feet won't cay q word
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
The Fly Was There.
Utica Observer. !

"a funny thing occurred here the other
day." said a barber, as he was putting the
finishing touches ON Saturday evening
hair cut. "a fellow came to be shaved who
was somewhat under the influence OF in
toxicants. He took his seat in the chair
and all proceeced well till l had shaved one
one side of his face, when he stopped me:
Hold on, I want the thing 'splained.'
II asked him what was the matter, and
de replied: There's fly an my cheek,
and YOU have shaved the lather and whlsker
off. but the fly didn't move. Now, what's
the mazzer with him?'
"I told him there was no fly on him, but
he pointed to the mirror and said; You
think I can't see him. aim so drunk that
l can't see a fly
"All right-what is it?'
II turned to the glass, and there stood the
f1v ON the mirror and in such position
that from my customers range of vision 1t
seemed to be on his cheek. He atterward
said that he felt that fly tickling him all
the time. aud wondered how l could shave
under it and not cut its legs off"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
Helena, Montana, Thursday, December 5, 1889
GOOD SHORTSTORIES
Preparing to Kick.
detroit Free Press.

A we'll known citizen was discovered 60.
ing through some singular motions in one
of the corridors of the city hall yesterday
and an acquaintance who ran against him
cried out:
"What on earth are you up to now?"
"Taking off my diamond pin"
But where's you watch?"
"In coat tail pocket"
"Afraid of being robbed?"
ooh, no. It's business"
"How?"
"Why, the assessors have put me down
for $4 tax on personal property, and Pm
going in to kick"
But you've got horse"
eyes but he wasn't in the day they
called"
And piano."
THAT happened to be at the factory to be
revarnished."
But your bank accountw
"Sh. It's in my wife's name! Keep
quiet. Now, then, Pm ready to 90 in and
tell them that the people are ready to take
up arms to rid themselves of this terrible
burden of high tsxatiOn."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
Brotherly Love and the Law.

Count Leo Tolstoi, the Russian poet, has
almost entirely given up literature, and for
several years has devoted himself to man
ual occupations and the preaching of the
gospel OF temperance, patience and indus
try. The following characteristic incident
lately occurred to him in Moscow:
One day, as he was driving through the
streets, he saw q gorodowoj-constable-
numerically dragging along a peasant for
some offense against the city bylaws. The
Count stopped his carriage. got out and
walked up to the constable, saying:
"Csn you read?"
Certainly"
"Have you read ohe Scriptures"
"Yes."
"Then don't forget that we are COM
manded to love our neighby as ourself."
The policeman stared at the Count In
astonishment. and addressed to him
string of questions in his turn:
"And you, can you read!"
"Yes."
"Have you read the police regulations
"No."
"Well, 60 and read them first and then
preach"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
THE ELoQUENCE OF SILENCE

Tim Doolan and his wife wan night
Were drinkin' ov the crayture,
Nhin something started up hight,
And they wint at it right an tight,
According to their nature.
O'Grady and myself stood near,
Expecting bloody murther,
Says he to me, Lets interfere,
But /, pretending not to hear,
Moved off little further.
Lave off, ye !" says he to Inn,
mo man woSld sthrike lady"
But both the Doolans turned on MIN,
An in a whist the two av thin
Were wallopin' O'Grady.
That night when 1 was home In bed,
Remembering this token,
took the notion in my head
That the wisest word liver said
Was the one that wasn't spoken,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
He Has Explained.
detroit Free Press.

"My wife, Mr.. Perkins" said the hus-
band across the aisle of the street Car.
"Ah Glad to see you, Mrs. Winters.
Why, how you have changed in two
weeksw
Changed! No one else has spoken of
it." she blankly replied.
"Wby, when 1 saw you with your hus-
band at the theatre two weeks ago to-
night you seemed to be girl of about
eighteen"
AT the theater! YOU you
Her husband had been winkiDg and
winking, but near sighted Mr.. Perkins had
seen nothing. The wife settled back, fig
ured it out that she was at home alone,
with the tootbache that night, and the
frozen stare she turned on her husband as
they got off covered the platform with
glare of ice She has asked for explana-
tions ere this.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
our Rustling Representatives.

How deity are our busy b's
securing foreis n gold Win ease
RnffaIo Bin is doing France;
IN London Barnum will advance
WhiIe one in Paris ropes them In,
The others after British tin.
nal,ghted millions will endorse
The cowboys and the woolly horse'
The wild and startling Yankee ies
VIII dazzle unsuspecting eyes,
The bearded lady which abroad
1vtil not be called q bare-faced Irauu'
None win suspect that giris in ssw sTom Cork,
And Indians whose savage air
Is false as are their tan and hsir'
pr, let us warmly thank these men
IS But iS. sbaIl bring back home again
nnr =, r 9old that has been carried aoroa"
Rv e1ery sort Of foreign fraua; .,s
PSa noble dukes, the counts, the eaiS,
me- une hV e,oaI our wealth and win our giris'
N iet ma all their ducats get,
We NAV be even with them yet'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
When Mamma Was a Little Gill.

When Mamma was a little girl
(Or so they say to me),
She never used to romp and run.
Nor shout and scream with noisy fun,
Nor climb an apple-tree.
She always kept her hair In CURL
When Mamma was a little girl.
When Mamma was a little girl
Ut seems to her, you see),
She never used to tumble down,
Nor break her doll, nor tear her gown,
Nor drink her papa's tea.
She learned to knit, plain" "seam," anc
''purl," ~ .
When Mamma was a little girl.
pu, Grandma says,-it must be true,-
"How fast the seasons DER us whirl!
your Mamma, dear, was just like you,,
When she was grandmas little girl!'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
A Great Future Before Him.

The following is an extract from real
composition written by small school boy
in New Jersey:
The subject given by the teacher was the
extensive one of man.
Here's what the small boy wrote:
"Man is a wonderful animal. He has eyes,
ears mouth.
His ears are mostly for catching cold in
and having the earache.
"The nose is to get snffles with.
"a mans body is split half way up, and
he walks on the split ends"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
A French Bull.

1t seems that "Irish bulls" are not con-
fined altogether to the Irish. Max O'Rell
tells of one by French officer that Pat
might be proud of.
A French soldier was ordered by a
corporal to dig pit and bury in it guam
tity of rubbish. He did so, and then dis
covered that there was no room in the pit
for all the earth which had been dug out
to make it. In his trouble he went to the
corporal to ask what he should do.
"You fool" said the corporal, magnifi-
Gently, make the pit larger, of course"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
Something AmphibiOus. A

Teacher-"Whas is an amphibious ami
mal?"
Bright Boy-"Something that's in the
water and out of it at the same time"
Teacher Describe anything amphib-
ious"
Bright Boy-"A gal in the creek when
there's boys on the bank"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
THE UNFINISHED STOCKING.

Lay II aside-her work-no more she sits
r:v open window in the western sun,
Thinking of this and that beloved one
In fence as she knits
Lay It aside the needles In their places;
No more she welcomes at the cottage door
The coming OF her children home once more
With sweet and fearful face.
Iav II aside. her work is done and well;
A generous sympathetic, Christian life;
A faithful mother and a noble wife;
Her influence who can tell?
Law II aside-say not her work Is done;
No deed of love or goodness ever dies,
But in the lives Of others multlphes;
Say It 10 just begunl
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
Julia's Quickness.
TYouths' Companion.

Julia didn't like to 60 to school, and COM
planned a great deal of feeling i'll. Her
mother tried to find out what allied her,
and asked great many questions. There
seemed to be no trouble with her head OF
stomach. "Do you have any pain?" she
asked. "No, mamma" Where do you
feel the worst, dear?" said mamma. In
school," said Julia.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
South American Wealth In London

SOuth AmtT1CdH VtdItH III LUHuoH'
South American millionaiTes are cutting
a wide swath in Lendon. Colonel North,
the Nitrate King, has rival in Mr.. Pan
ford, who mado a vast fortune Beunos
Ayres. Sanford has purchase the old
house of the Duke of Leinster, in Carlton
House Terrace is converting it into palace
of the renaissance style. The marble
stairs, maatels and walls will cost enorm-
Gus sums. A firm of uphelsterers has been
author zed to expend S300,000. Even a
London plumber has been given car to
blanche.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
BY The River.

We were straying by the river
In tie Summer long ago,
And we watched the lilies culver
In the sunny stream beiow;
And YOU olasped my fingers tightly
Ash prayed our lives might run
like the river, ever brightly,
Till the setting of the sun.
A the distant bells were rigging
O'er the meadows bright and gay,
So the little river, singing,
Seemed to hurry on Its way;
II went rippling through the dingle.
II went laughing through the dells,
And it's music seemed to mingle
With the Ginning OF the bells.
am standing by the river.
lam standing here alone,
Rut the lilies only shiver,
And the river seems to moan
lam weeping, broken-hearted,
Enr the summer time is Ger,
And the hands that now are parted
WIN 'N w. Cartwright Newsom
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-05
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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-04-11


Sealed proposals will be received at the
U. S. Land office at North Yakima up to
May 9Th for running, measuring and
marking according to law and instruc-
tons the following described surveys, to-
wit:
Township 80, range "a f. and all ranges
eastward to Colville Indian reservation.
Sub-divisional lines % miles; exterior
lines "a; meander lines "a.
Township 81, N. range % Z. and all
ranges or fractional ranges eastward to
the Colville Indian reservation. Sub
divisional lines so miles; exterior lines Is f.;
meander lines Z.
Township 81, N. range 20 f. and all
ranges or fractional ranges eastward.
Subdivisional lines so miles, exterior lines
10; meander lines z.
Bids must be at stated price per mile
not exceeding Is per mile for sub-divis-
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standard, meridian and meander lines.
The surveys must be completed and re-
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