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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The Dead Chief of the Dead Con.
federacy.

The portrait is from one of the latest
photographs of the ex-chief of the sx-
confederacy, whose funeral at New Orleans
to-day was conducted with great pomp, and
largely attended by those prominently
connected with him in the war of secession.
Jefferson Davis was born in Kentucky in
the year 18O8 He received a military
education at West Point, and enteret the
regular army. When quite young man
he was elected to the House of Represent
stives at Washington, where he was soon
distinguished for his graceful elOquence
and ability. He was in short time elected
to the United States Senate, but resigned
in order to take part in the Mexican war,
in which he acquired distinction as q SOL
dier. Davis was appointed Secretary of
War by President Pierce in 1853. When
James Buchanan became President, in
1857, Mr. Davis took his seat as one Of the
United States Senators from Mississippi,
which he occupied until he assumed the
leadership of the confederacy. This was
ratified by his election as its President,
February 18, 1861. He was reelected for
six years, in 1862 In 1865 he was cap
tured by federal soldiers, in the attempt to
escape after the fall of Richmond and the
collapse of the confederacy. An imprison-
ment of two years in Fortress Monroe fol-
lowed. He was then released on bail, and
set at berty December 25, 1868, by the
general amnesty of that date.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19

Brazilian Minister to the United
states.

Promptly after the revolution in Brazil
Senior Valente was directed by the Provin-
cial Government to continue to act as Mir
lister from the government at Rio JaneirO
to that at Washington. He is thoroughly
satisfied with the change which has made
the Empire of Brazil into the United States
of Brazil. 1t was only about two months
ago that he became Special Envoy Extraor-
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
United States, and also delegate to the
Pan American Congress
Valente, who is generally known II
Washington as DR. Valente, was born in
the province of Ceara, in the year 1874.
He was educated parity in Brazil and later
in Germany and England. His prepara.
ration for diplomatic work was ended with
q course of reading in international law
and common law. He was appointed to
office in January, 1869, as attache of the
Brazilian legation in Bolivia. Subsequent
ly he held the Office of Secretary of Lega-
tion in Uruguay, and afterwards in Para
quay. Thence he was promoted to Venez-
uela as Charge d'Affaires and from 1881 to
1886 he was Charge d d'Affaires to the United
States, with the exception of three months
on leave of absence. He was next made
Minister Resident to Bolivia, whence he
was sent to Washington. The portrait is
from photograph just taken in Washing
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
MRS. THOS. B REED,

Wife of the Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
The above is portrait of Speaker Reeds
helpmeet She is presiding over modest
household arrangements in apartments at
the Shoreham, huge structure recently
erected at Washington by Vice President
Morton. Mrs. Reed would not care to be
classed among society" women; on the
contrary, she does not like large social
gatherings. Her tastes are quiet and she
is studious, like her husband, finding her
chief happiness at home where he is likeli-
est to be found enjoying her society and
that of an only daughter after the labors
of an arduous Office are over for the day.
Mrs. Reed is q striking contrast to her hus
band in physique. He is giant in stature,
while she is person of small figure. She
was married to her illustriou. husband at
Portland, Maine, in 1870. Her maiden
name was Susan Merrill, and her father
was Congregational minister at Center
Harbor, Maine, when she came into the
world. She is woman eatly beloved,
sincere and warm hearted friend, and ha-
bitually good-natured.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
w. H. MILBURN.
The Blind Chaplain of the House of
Representatives.

William Henry Milburn, who is known
as "the blind man eloquent" was born in
Philadelphia September %, 1928 He was
five years old when he lost completely the
sight of one eye and partially of the other.
Notwithstanding the deprivation under
which he suffered he applied himself to
study with the intention of obtaing thor
ough education. While employed in a
store in Illinois he fitted himself for col
lege. He graduated after a four years
course, and at the age of twenty was re-
ceived into the ministry of the Methodist
Episcopal church. When Mr.. MilbuTn was
twenty-five years of age he was chosen
chaplain to the Congress of the United
States. In 1885 Mr.. Milburn was again
made chaplain to Congress, and the third
time at the opening of the Forty-ninth Con-
gress. Two subsequent elections have con-
tinued him in the office He left the min
istry of the Methodist denomination for a
time, and served as a clergyman of the
Protestant Episcopal church; but he re-
turned to the body in which he had been
educated, and is the second time numbered
among the Methodist clergy. Mr.. Milburn
is an eloquent lecturer, a scholarly and en-
tertaining man, and successful author.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
What is Useful InventiOn?

The patentee of machine by which tin
horses raced one another around q ring re-
GENTLY sought to enjoin an Infringement Of
the patent 1t appears that the only use
to which the patent had been applied was
to place them in saloons, bar-rooms and
other drinking places, where the frequent
ers of such places make wagers as to which
of the toy horses would stop first. Judge
Blodgett, of the circuit court, has decided
in this case (Natiopal Automatic Device
Company against Lloyd that the laws Of
the United States only authorize the issue
of patent for new and useful invention;
that useful invention is one that may be
applied to some beneficial use in society,
in contrsdistinction to an invention which
is injurious to tie morals, health OF good
order of society; that the patent is not a
useful device in that meaning of the word,
its use 80 far having been pernicious and
hurtful; and so the injunction was denied.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
One Word.

Write me an epic" the warrior salo-
'sVictory, yalor and glory wed. :,
"pritbee. a ballad" exclaimed the knigns-
"Prowess, adventure and faith unibe.
"An ode to freedom" the patriot cried
Liberty won and wrong dohed.
.Give me drama" the scholar asked,
"The inner world in the outer masReo.
"Frame me a sonnet" the artist prayed1y
Power and passion in harmony piaSea'
"s,ne me a lyric" the maiden sighedadd ad.n
"a s asrL.note waking the morning VICE.
NAV al, too long," said the busy age
..Wr;,e me line instead OF page
The swift wears spoke, the poet heara'
aYosT aYe sTo poem write in single word"
,oo,-ad IN the maiden's glowing eyes
he mo%en, ,o0xsa Ell glanced at the starlit skies;
49,, ~. ,igbts below to the lights above
From a lrIn,a rne ~ he one-word poem-Love.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
Watches in Card Cases.

Among the latest novelties in the way
of card cases is very dainty little one
made of very finely dressed leather says a
New York Mail writer. In one corner of
the case is set tiny little watch. The ef-
feet of this is very pretty and besides this,
the combination is very useful one.
Ladies are often put to a great deal of
trouble in ia king out their watches when
on the street.
Carrying this little time piece set in
their card case or pocket book saves them
all this trouble, and then. too, when max
ing calls they have little gentle reminder
in their hands that they must not Overstay
their welcome Watches set in this way
in card cases and pocket books are much
more popular than the bracelet watch at
tachment The novelty was imported from
Paris, but is now being manufactured very
largely in this country. The cost of these
card cases and pocket books is from $3.50
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
GILBERT A. PIERCE.
u. ). Senator from North Dakota.

The Senator-elect of North Dakota was
born in New York State. He went to Indi-
ana when sixteen years old, and subse-
quently studied law at the Chicago Uni
versity. After his admission to the bar he
practiced at Valparaiso, Ind, for six months
before the outbreak of the civil war. He
served in the war, and was Colonel Pierce
when he entered Mobile with the victWs.
In 1865 he was elected to the Indiana
Legislature and was chairman Of the COM
mittee on benevolent institutions. He was
appointed one of the financial secretaries
of the United States Senate in 1869. He
resigned this position to accept an editorial
chair on the Chicago Inter Ocean. In 1876
he became managing editor of that paper,
holding the position for several years. In
1883 he became connected with the Chicago
Ne,cs, and was thus engaged when ap-
pointed as Governor Of Dakota He has
written plays and stories as well as many
magazine articles. Mr.. Pierce is married
man and the father of four children.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
OLD SONGS.

Over and over again,
In every time and tongue,
In every style and strain
Have the worlds old songs been sung;
Since the sigh from the soul was stirred,
Since the Deart Of man VS. broken,
Have tt e notes of despair been heard
And the rhythm Of pain been spoken.
The song that you sing to-day,
Sweet on the printed pages,
Was sung in the far away,
In the youth Of the WORKOUT ages;
The charm of your love born tune,
The gems that your lines uncover,
Were set In some savage tune,
By the heart of some pagan lover.
The fancies that fill your rhymes,
The visions that haunt your lays,
Are the speoters of olden times
And the ghosts of forgotten days;
We PLAYERS on notes OF woe,
Ye dreamers of love and sorrow,
There sang in the years ago
The songs you will sing tomorrow.
But what II the rhymes are new,,
And what If the thoughts are old,
II the touch Of the chord be true
And the flight Of the singer bold!
let them come to us still again,
Tomorrow and yet hereafter,
Fresh as a mornings rain,
Old as the sob and the laughter'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
DEODORA DA FONSEOA,
Chief of the Provisional Government
of Brazil.
of characters

Chief OF the ffOV1SIOudI 0OScInmOn
of Brazil.
The head of the provisional government
of Brazil is Deodora da Fonseca. He was
the chief spirit in the military movement
which brought the Imperial regime to an
end. Happily no bloodshed accompanied
the revolution, which seems to have Deen
at all points successful. Fonseca is as COM
mon a name in Brazil as Smith is IN this
country. The Fonseca now at the head of Of
the nroyisional government is soldier, 63
wears old. He fought in the war with
paraguay and was wounded at the battle
as Itoroyo After the war he organized
military club at Rio de Janeiro, and the
tered popularity in the army At one 'ims
the Imperial authorities found u expeaiens fns
t;ms He is now supreme, and every friend
Of o Brazil hopes that he will prove to be
onother Washington, the Father OF pros
porous Republic.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
HOW HAREMS ARE FILLED.
Carrying OFF GOOd.LOOking Armenian
Girls by Force.

The polygamous Turkish beys and agas,
whose hitherto regular supply of Circassian
girls from the Caucasus has been cut of
irom them since the annexation of the
pIovince by Russia, have recourse now to
bold system of rape. They swoop down
upon an Armenian village with their
acoytes and carry off to their harems by
main force as many good-looking girls and
women as they can lay hands on. This is
permitted to them, and the modus operandi
by which she abduction of Armenian
girls is rendered perfectly legal by
the Moslem judges may be summed as fol-
lows: When the relatives present them
selves in court to claim the abducted vic
tim the ravishers are ready with brace OF
Moslem witnesses 200 could be produced
if wante3) who declare on oath that the
kidnapped woman pronounced in their
presence the regular formula of the Mos
lem faith-"There is no God but God and
Mohamned is his prophet" The Judge
thereupon dissmisses the case on the
ground that the stolen and ravished girl
girl has by that profession abiured her
former faith and embraced Mohammedism.
And the verdict of these upright judges is
not to be set aside-NeU ReuieW.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
A Million of Babies.

Take your pencil and follow me, while
we figure on what will happen to the L.
OOO,O 900 of babies that will have been born
in the last million seconds.
1 believe that is about the average-"one
every time the clock ticks"
One year hence, if statistics don't belle
US, we will have lost 10000 of these little
"prides of the household"
A year later $1,000 more will be keeping
company with those who have gone before.
At the end of the third year we find 90
600 more have dropped by the wayside."
The fourth year they have become rug
ged little darlings, not nearly 80 suscepti-
BILE to infantile diseases, only 5000 having
succumbed to the rigors imposed by the
master
By the time they have arrived at the age
of twelve years but paltry few hundred
leave the track each year
After three score years have come and
gone we find less trouble in counting the
army with which we started in the fall of
1889.
Of the 100000 with which we began
our count but 37O,0 900 remain; $40, 900 have
gone the way of all the world, and the re-
naming few have forgotten they ever ex-
listed.
At the end of eighty, or, taking our
mode of reckoning, by the year 1869, A.D.,
there are still $4,000 gray-haired, shak
old grannies and graudfathers, toothless,
hairless and happy.
In the year 1884 our 100000 with
which we started in 1889, will have dwin-
died to an insignificant 223 helpless old
wrecks stranded on the shores OF time"
In 1892 all but II have left this mum
dane sphere forever while the last remain
ing wreck will probably, in seeming
thoughtlessness, watch the sands filter
through the hour glass of time, and die in
the year 1897 at the age of one hundred
and eight
What bounteous supply of food for re-
1ectiop.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
Who Threw the Lantern {?

An old negro walking around the rail-
road curve toward Richmond after dark
was startled by the flash Of the headlight
of the Washington night express, and was
found by his friends about two farms away.
On recovering consciousness his first ques-
ton was: "Fo' God, boss, who frew dat
lantern?n
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
Associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court.


No appointment by President Harrison
has elected more hearty commendation
than that of David Josiah Brewer, of Kan
sas, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. This eminent
lawyer was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor
June 20, 1888, his father being mission
ary to the Greeks in Turkey. Young
Brewer was educated in this country, and
was graduated from Yale college in 1856
After leaving college he studied law in the
Office of David Dudley Field in New York
city, and was graduated from the Albany
Law School in 1858. In the fall of that
year Mr.. Brewer went West, and in 1859
opened law Office at Leavenworth, his
present home. He was appointed United
States Commissioner in 1861, and after
that his advancement was rapid. In 1862
he was elected Judge of the Probate and
Criminal Courts for Leavenworth county,
Judge Of the First Judicial District in
1864, County attorney in 1868, and Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1870
1876 and 1882 In 1884 he was elevated
to the United States Circuit Court bench
Judge Brewers mother was a sister of JUS
tice Stephen j. Field.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
ODDOsed to Experiments.

Doctor Ito Kentuckian)- Yes, you're a
pretty sick man, but there is Lope for you
vet. You want to try a water cure.
Bluegrass Patient eebly)-Never.
don't want to take any of these new
tangled patent medicines. The remedies
of nature are good enough for me. Give
me whisky or give me death.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
Business is Business.
philadelphia IIquirer.1

The Terror you said if I was good
boy all day you'd give me ten cents when
you come home.
Pop-Yes Well, were you good boy
all day?
The Terror L was good boy.
Pop-How was it, then, that mamma had
to whip you in the afternoon?
The Terror WELL l was good mp to then.
That was half the day. You ought to give
me nickel, ANYHOW.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
Abraham LipcOin's Marriage No'i00'

nal hn nr;nted at Springfield, ILL.,, Movemoef % ef
II, 1s42, was added 70 the oo11so Wor Mn. ~
newspapers at the Libby Prison smar "at at tha. that
tfun tima was .' supporting Henry Clay tor ans
PrasiSeney' s @ and his name is cOnsPlc01%hs nc 1%s
at the top Of the column In tine tine
SEegps SoIIeWna marriage notice: Married IN N
s9S w Sitg ggdmards In ESD, by the Rev G: 1.es,
az, abrabam Lincoln. Esq, to Miss May @
Ts,; Tod A danobter Of Robert Tod, Esq, Lex, OK
instou hoa, uaIs RvS This tells story in when a
every I American is interested, and the 10 p~ p..
Der Is believed to be the only copy IN ca
istence M % containing it-Chicago Times
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
CHARLES E. SILs OFT.
The Absconding asher of the L

The AbscOnding Cashier of the House.
The above portrait of the Democratic
cashier of the House of Representatives is
capital likeness af that absconding officer,
who is now in Quebec with large sum of
stolen Government money in his pocket.
Silcott, who was appointed from Youngs-
town, Ohio, is about 48 years old, and
married man with children. Before running
away he paid all his household bills at
Washington and sent his wife 81 200. He
was accompanied in his flight by woman
named Herminie Thibault, who is said to
have shared his finances before she made
up her mind to leave the country with him
and assist him to spend his ill-gotten
gains. Only few days before his flight
he won $4,000 in the pool-rooms at Wash
ington, of which he gave her $500. She
invested this sum in bank, but took it
out before leaving with her paramour. The
bulk of the loss falls primarily on the
retiring sergeant-at-arms, John P. Leedom,
OF Ohio, who has bondsmen. The cash
taken was mainly for payment of salaries
to Representatives in Congress.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
AN ARGUMENT.

WIFE.
think, my dear, ten women go
To heaven to five men;
am quite certain it Is So
1t Is as five to ten.
Temptations do not hedge us in,
From business cares were free,
We're not SO predisposed to sin
Dost not agree with me?
We do not frequent the saloon,
And 'gainst all classes rub,
And we have not-oh what boon y
A hoYrid, sinful club.
I grant all you have said, my dear,
We are sinful sex;
We find temptations ever near,
And many things to vex.
Women are good and pure, l know,
Obedlent and meek;
They nothing care for outside show,
No praise, no fiattery seek.
Yet few to heaven will go. Forsooth,
To go you will not care
There are-my dear, l speak the truth
No sealskin sacques up there.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
THE NEXT BEST THING.

My love has had the Browning craze;
In fact I've felt her precious pulse
Through every stage of all the maze
OF latter-day aesthetic cults.
Altho' her father drives dray
She's been a transcendentalist;
She's gone for art with a big A
Now she's turned Psychologist.
Once she was all for Emerson
Full flooded with the Over Soul
Yet now of that she will have none,
But burrows earthward. like mole.
She loved me WELL till from grim graves
'Bove ground folks brought the Ptolemies
Upon the tapis. Now she raves
OF nothing but antiquities
Had been dead and wrapped In rags
And picked well with precious spice
A thousand years, her love that flags
Would doubtless, dub me, "Oh 80 nice?
little dreamed when first l fell
Before the charm Of that face,
That should hear joys funeral knell
Ring out from some old mummy case.
VOW it seems most monstrous queer
That l. who've tried 80 hard to please
Her, should be cut out with my dear
By that old ruin, Rameses!
But facts are facts No use to stuff,
II you are not ''belted ear, ;"
You'd better he mummy, If
You'd catch bang up Boston girl.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
One Hundred Dollars for a Word.

[Rearney Enterprise.
Dobson-These telegraph companies are
rank monopolies. Only the other day a
friend of mine paid SO for ten words.
Swan-That's nothing; it costs me 500
for single word one day last week.
Dobson-For heavens sake, man, you
don't say so!
Swan-Fact. My wife asked for seal
skin, and / said, "Yes"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19

First Match-You look like blazes.
Second Match-Youd flare up, too, if
you'd been treated as / have.
F. M.-What's the trouble?
s. MA man just struck me.-Nep York
Sun
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19
REV. J. G.. BUTLER,
Elected Chaplain of the U. s. Sena

Elected Chaplain of the U. s. Senate.
Mr. Butler was Chaplain Of the House of
Representatives in the Forty first, Forty
second and Forty-third Congresses, pre-
vious to his appointment to his present
Office. He is native of Cumberland, Nd,
but has been a resident of Washington
ever since his appointment to his first pas
torate, which was in that city. Mr.. Butler
is Lutheran in denomination and prom
inent writer and preacher of that faith. He
was staunch Union man at the period of
the Southern secession, and in April, 1861,
was appointed Chaplain of the Fifth Penn
sylvanie Volunteers. This position he held
until the virtual close of the war, when
General Lee surrendered his army. He
was afterwards made Chaplain of Union
Hospital. Later he filled the same Office
in the Cliffburn and Lincoln hospitals.
When he resumed the duties of the regular
pastorate it was as minister in the Luther
Place Memorial Church. at Washington, of
which he was the founder. He still con-
tinues to preach in that noble ediice, which
was erected in memory of the Restoration
of the Union and the end of slavery in the
United States.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-12-19

The principal legislative ac's sra ~ 'hi his con-
F1mntion nso Of the great charter and OF f,S; MS
charter Of the forest. There are also sh;cb aH%l
tiona1 laws of this king yet extaot WHICH
mach nolished the common law.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-11-10

41SIHA3fH Ez&f1A&t tAtfAfA
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Il one 81 fhe best and salest drinks for any
Fersou. whether ia health or not. IL is
saigAhse Cor ali stomach diseases excellent
iii sickness. III cases at iAuneice. gravel
liver complaint, inflammation OF tie
bnxels and levefs- It i . specific sgainst
wsxms ard akin complaints. The
plppan crushed may Be used with sugar
ana water and tAkem as a drink. Iensen
anaea Il the beet antiscorhutsc remedy
knoun. III n0s oa4y esren the disease hat
prevents II. sailors make daily Use 81 Is
sof shIs parpoae. We asssise every enc 10
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fhsn III healthy condition. The
hss.sls and nail are also kept eaean, white
ss,ls And snpgle Is the daily use Of Icrnnn
Instead az soap IL also prevents ehllhsains.
l.enna i used ia Intermittent feyers
sasae4 With sssong, het black sptsee with
otst sugar. Neuralgia Il i said. nlsay Re
cured IS ruhAine The part affected with a
cut sesn,n. ii IA valuable also % eufe
wngtx ii vii rsFnaTa daFdraH nv
rubbing fke roots 81 the hair with is Il
all allevsass, and finally care. coegns and
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an eainr 10 bed is uses arr manifold.
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"a fexees alta grs8s snecess. and shanRS
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