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Volume 7 Helena, Montana, Thursday, August 7, 1873. No. 37

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T H E W E E K L Y H E R A L DPLBUSHKH EVERT THURSDAY MORNING.

W. FISK J. FISK;} FISK BK0S., Publishers

THU ODD FELLOW’S ORPHAN.

One cold and trosty evening There came across the moor,

A little wanderer, sad and cold,Unto the rich man's door.

The good man heard his gentle knock And kindly took his hand,

•‘What brings thee here, my little one, Across this dreary land ?”

••I’m hungry, sir, and weary, too;No place to lay my head ;

Can you. sir, tell me where to go To earn my daily bread ?

Or will you buy this little ring ?Three links on it are graven.

It was tied about my neck the night My mother went to heaven.

Said he—‘‘Where is thy father, child ?Why art thou from him diiven?”

*‘ My parents,” said the little one,•‘ Have both gone home to heaven.

I’d once a frther, kind and good,Who sailed the deep, dark sea,

While in a cottage near the shore Lived my mother, sir, with me.

One night a dreadful letter came.She had but a few words read

When she c la sp ed m e to her bosom, Saying, ‘ C hild, th y father’s dead !’

She called me then an orphan boy.Said she, too. soon must leave

Her darling to the 1 cold, cold world All straage it seemed to me.

She knelt down by my little bed And prayed to one in heaven

To care for me, her orphan boy ;Then one sigh was given.

Hhalaid herself beside me, then;Iter arms did me enfold ;

She held me to her bosom still With arms all stiff and cold.

O, sir, I tried to wake her, then ;She heard not what I said.

In the morn’ a neighbor told me My mother dear was dead.

They laid her In the cold, deep grave ;They left me there alone:

They say I’m now a poor-house boy, And that must be my home.’

As he held the wand’rer's hand,Oh, what leeling did it waken !

Blessing our holy Order, then Said to the one forsaken:

“ Keep, keep this gem, my little one ;A treasure It will prove;

It has opened thee a fountain Of Friendship, Truth and Love.

Mr child, the poor-house never fear;No longer shall thou roam;

I welcome thee, my brother’s child,Aid this shall be thy home.”

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The Excommunictation of Victor Em- manuel.

Tbc* “Arena,” of Verona, reports, June 25, that iu tbe next encyclical letter Pius IX. will read at the consistory, the great excom­munication will be pronounced against King Victor Emmanuel personally, because he has signed the law about religious corpora­tions.

A Homan journal adds to this: This timeit is not an ordinary encyclical letter, but the great excommunication will be read in the Cathedral of St. Peter with the greatest so­lemnity. The Cathedral will be draped in black, and yellow tapers will burn on the alter as in passion week.

A Sea faring man, who war recently mar­ried, gives the following description of the bride and her apparel, which we think will put some of the “society” papers on the blush :

My wife is just as handsomç a craft as «ver left the milinary dry docks, is clipper built, and with a figure head not often seen ou small craft. Her length of keel is five feet eight inches, over all five feet eleven inches, displacing twenty-seven cubic feet of air; of light draught, which, adds to her speed in a ball room ; full in the waist ; spars trim. At the time we were spliced she was newly rigged, fore and aft, with standing rigging of lace and flowers, mainsail part silk, with forestaysails of Valenciennes. Her frame was of the best steel, covered with silk, with whalebone stanchions. The rig­ging is intended for fair weather cruising. Nhe has also a set of storm sails for rough weather, and is rigging out a small set of canvas tor light squalls, which are liable to occur in this latitude sooner or later. Iam lold, in running down the street before the wnni, she answers the helm beautifully, and ['itn turn around iu her own length if a handsomer craft passes her.

. A Compassionate lady passing a child cry- lnS in the street, stopped ana asked him M w , WM? mattc*r. The child replied :

»IVV* * ve l()St a penny mother gave me.”.il .* Wc‘ll never mind,” said the lady, here is another for you,” and proceeded on

jer way ; but had not gone far when she eard the little fellow bellowing more lustily

i b,efore- She tuned back and again a«keu the cause, upon which the little urchin answered :• 'yhy, if J ’adn’t lost the first one 1 should a' e ail two-pence.”

Lout Occupation»«Half a century ago bellows making was a

thriving trade. Eyery house had its pair of bellows, and in every well furnished mansion there was a pair bung by tbe side of every fire place. Ipswich, in Massachusetts, ac quired quite a notoriety all.over New Eng­land for the elegant and substantial articles of the kind it produced. But as stoves and grates took the place of open fire places, and as coal was substituted for wood, the demand for bellows diminished, until the business as a separate trade quite died out.

The same is true of flint cutting. Flints were once necessary, not only for tire arms, but for tinder boxes, and a tinder box was as necessary for every bouse as a gridiron or a skillet. Every one who looks back to childhood of forty odd years ago must re­member the cold winter mornings when the persistent crack, crack of the flint agaiust steel sent up from the kitchen an order of igniting tinder and sulpher which pervaded the house. I have no more idea what became of the flint producers than of the old man of sorrowful memories who, three or four times a week, called at our door with brimstone matebes for sale at a cent the half dozen bunches. Bolh Have as completely vanished from England and New England as have the red Indians aud the Druids.

Then, again, are gone the pin makers, who, though they have been in their graves this quarter of a century, still figure iu lec­tures and essays to illustrate the advantages of division of labor. Instead of a pin tak­ing a dozen men or more to cut, grind, point, head, polish, and what not, as it used to do, pins are now made by neat little machines, at the rate of three thousand a minute, of which machines a single child attends to half a dozen.

Nail making at the forge is another lost industry. Time was, and that in this nine­teenth century, when every nail was made on the anvil. Now, from 100 to 1,000 nails per minute are made by machines. The nailer who works at the forge has but a bad chance iu competing with such antagonists, and he would have no chance at all were it not that his nails are ten fold tougher than the former. As it is, the poor men follow an all but hopeless vocation, and are com­pelled to live in continual handgrips with poverty.

In the days of President Madison and Monroe, and even later, straw bonnet mak­ing was practiced in every middle class house where there were growing families, and straw plaiting formed the staple of domestic leisure work. At ray grandfather’s, around the huge kitchen fireplace Caesar, born a slave, who sat on an oak branch directly un­der the gaping chimney, and we boys who crowded upon the settee, used to pass winter evenings spliting straws, while the lasges were plaiting them. Then,bonnets were bon­nets, covering the head, with a margin of a foot or two to spare, and presenting a sort of conical, shell shaded recess, in which dimpling smiles n.nd witching curls nestled in comfort. The work has vanished, and will never reappear, unless the whirligig of fashion should glide again into the forsaken track.

Success of American Inventions at the Vienna Exposition.

New York, July 29.—The Vienna corres­pondent of the Tribune says the trial of mowers and reapers which took place on the 9th instant was a complete triumph for America. At the last moment the English and French backed out, and there wrere only four Europeon machines on the ground. Fourteen American reapers and fifteen Amer­ican mowers competed. All the American machines did their work well, except one, which broke down at the start, through no fault of the machine, but through the stupid­ity of the driver. The arrangements were stupidly defective. There was no programme, no system, most of the teams were unused to work and gave a good deal of trouble. Some were immense powerful stallions, and others were wretched, rawboned beasts, that could scarcely pull the machines. Then the grain differed greatly in portions of the field. So the trial, with conditions set so unusal, was no test so far as speed is concerned. Dr, Warder, who was entitled to sit as one of the jurors declined, the exhibitors protesting against him on the ground that he was inter­ested in one of the machines, so that Amer ica went unrepresented and the jury was com­posed entirely of foreigners. It is reported that all the American mowers and reapers that took part in the trial will get medals, some for progress and others for merit.

The English papers are giving very flatter­ing accounts of a new method of construct ing buildings for all purposes, by the use of wire and concrete. A frame work is made of wood or iron supports, along which wires are stretched, to which concrete is applied- By this arrangement not only are the walls and floors of the building made, but the doors, stairs, bannisters, partition^ and shelv­ing are formed of the same material. For doors, window and door casing, as well as for thin partitions, some fibrous materials are worked into the concrete in order to pro­duce a strong cohesion and prevent cracking. Buildings made in this manner are absolutely fireproof, and are remarkably cheap. A house made in this way was subjected to a very great heat from fires made on the out­side, and the building not only escaped injury of any kind, but persons remained in the upper story all the while. Even the furn­iture in the room was uninjured. Several large blocks and numerous farm buildings are being Constructed of wire and concrete in the north of England. Houses constructed in this way reouire no lathing, and the flues for carrying off the smoke and fool air are formed in the walls. By using cement of different colors buildings may be made high­ly ornamental. It is quite likely that build­ings o# this Und will soon be erected in this country. I t would seem that this invention would solve the question of how stock shall be sheltered.

A Rich Woman’ll Chunlie»«Mrs. Anson Stokes, of New York, formerly

Miss Phelps, daui^hter and sole heir of the head of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., seems, according to thé New York Sun, to be one of those cheerful givers whom the Lord must love. W ith almost unlimitedfinancial ability to mal» the hearts of the poor leap for joy, she ha- expended her thou­sands judiciously; her charities are all origi­nal, and, as she gives not only money but nearly all her time, everything has the bene­fit of her personal supervision. She has al­ways been liberal in her gifts to asyluml, re­treats, charity schools, etc.; but this summer she has fitted up a boarding house of her own for the children of women working for wages. It is a large, ajiy mansion, situated upon a lofty hill on*Staten Island, away up among the birds; in fact, where everything is green aud fresh and cool. Competent nurses are provided, and the litttle patrons have the best of care and attention. Here those mothers whose duties require them to be separated from their children may place them, at from $G to $8 dollars per month, according to age, with the assurance that they will have as good a time as a baby can, and be “returned in good order.” The institution has a two-fold purpose, however. Aside from boarding the class already mentioned, it is intended as a summer resort for children from the city industrial Écüools, where they can spend a delightful week or two in breathing pure air and generally enjoying themselves. The house is so elegantly fitted up thas the children have almost the luxuries of rich people’s children, and Mrs. Stokes drives over two or three times a week with her hands full of good things. The whole income of $100,000, presented to her on her wedding day by her father, is devoted to this and other charities.

Anxiety About Children.Parents, whose prudent care for their child­

ren we would not diminish, may intermit much of tbe solicitude with which they are apt unnecessarily to worry themselves. The gratutious anxiety often* moreover, defeats its own object. It renders the child, by con­stantly reminding it of the risks to safety, unnaturally timid,and prevents their calmness of miud and development of animal courage essential for tbe prudent avoidauce of and bold resistance to danger. Tbe overwatched children are notoriously those who are the most constantly exposing their health and lives to hazard. They are so accustomed to move at the will of another that their own volition looses its power to a great extent, and becomes hesitating and uncertain. Their muscles, accordingly, act with little precision and render the step faltering and the hold insecure. The child who is left free to run, climb and jump, though he may apparently expose himself to a thousand risks, generally escapes danger by his habitual readiness of exedient and practical precision of move­ment. Tbe freer children have, moreover, the advantage of protecting themselves by various means of security denied to those kept under too close a supervision. Swim­ming, riding, running, leaping, using fire­arms—not to speak of wrestling and fighting —all of which may in their turn become im­portant means of safety, are the ordinary acquisitions of the emancipated boy, but seldom of him who is subjected to an un­ceasing parental control. It is obvious, too, that the greater freedom of tbe one is more favorable to health than the constraint of the other. It is equally advantageous to the moral as to the physical health and develop­ment that the parent should not allow his anxiety about his children^to become too ap­parent, or to interfere too * much with their freedom of conduct. The .pelf-reliance and independence of character which are essen­tial elements of all human excellence are to be acquired only by learning early to act from voluntary motive. If*the parent fixes himself as a finger-post at* every turn, the child will hardly every find the road of his own accord, and must necessarily loose his way when deprived of his habitual gude. Harper's Bazar.

New Yorkers Dwelling on the Hudson.The New Yoik World says : The time

when the seaside from Sandy Hook to Ocean Grove will be marked by continuous line of these private establishments is not far dis tant. Newport, Saratoga, Cape May, and that rendezvous of the Southern aristocracy. White Sulpher Springs, give evidence that their patrons, too, prefer houses of their own, with attendant economy, comfort and free­dom, to sojourning at even the best of the architectural conglomerations that ensnare the visitor at some of these fashionable re­treats. Within a circle of thirty miles from New York, wherever communication is reli­able and frequent, the land offers even fair advantages or the scenery is in the least at tractive, wealthy metropolitants have pur­chased sites and erected summer residences thereon. Westchester, Kings, Queens and Rockland counties, in this State ; and Ocean, Monmouth, Essex and Morris counties, in New Jersey, have all been visited by our citizens, and to-day their residences form a conspicuous feature of nearly every town­ship in the circle. Along the various rail­roads, dotting the valleys, skirting the rivers, and beautifying the fertile hillsides near the ocean, or in the southern portion of New York and Northern New Jersey, boldly built on the mountain slopes or hidden among the forests—whenever aceess id obtainable and tbe surroundings are healthful these villas have sprung up. The eastern shore of the Hudson river has been most favorable by those in search of country homes, and at the

resent writing were any one to drive up roadway for twenty-five or even thirty

miles—long after it has lost the name and is known as the “Old Albany road”—be would scarcely notice a break in this wonderful avenue of summer residences. Every style of architecture, every indication of luxury and comfort, according to the rates and means of the owners, is noticed as the thou­sand houses are passed, and no inquiry ; “Who owns this place or that? Who lives here or there ?’ the visitor is ever surprised to learn that the occupants are the merchants, the artist, the bankers and brokers, and, in short, the men of all vocations whose names and faces are familiar as those of fellowr- citizens.'«it _____

Remarkable Tenacity to Elfe«.William Moyer, the man wbo, on the 20th

of June, was cut through the body with a scythe by an insane man hear Lancaster, Penn., is still alire, and tfè indications are that he will recover u n its inflammation sets in. The Lancaster Btaminer thus de­scribes his wound : “The sçrthe entered the right side about two inches, above the hip, and extended transversely through the body in an upward direction until the point appear­ed in the left side below thq arm-pit. The wound at the entrance was, five and a half inches in length and at the terminus one and a half inches long. Moyer proceeded a short distance with the scythe extending through his body, and then pulled it out, reeking with blood, unaided. The lobe of the right lnng was severed, and it was not expected that he could live more than a few hours. To the surprise of all, his condition is now favorable to bis recovery, and his attending physician, Dr. A. S. Randenbush, of Adams- town, has expressed the hope of being able to save his lire. Moyer has been conscious since the occurrence, speak« distinctly, and . eats and sleeps without difficulty. He is a small man, about thirty-two years of age. and is of a rather delicate appearance.”

Singular Cause of Eire.A singular, but not unprecedented, cause

of fire in a dwelling-house in Connecticut's thus referred to by the Hartford Times : “The residence of Hon. Addison O. Mills, of Canton, narrowly escaped destruction by fire on tbe afternoon of Bunday, June29, from the following curious circumstances : Several new tin milk-pans were lying on a bench on the southwest side of the kitchen, and tiie reflection from the sun actually caused the ceiling to take fire about five feet above them. The fire burned from hence up to tbe eaves of tbe building, through the boards, and deeply charred a post of the houat back of tbe boards, when it was discovered and extinguished. The next day, about the same time, the reflection was again noticed by tbe bright light, and the pans were removed be­fore the boards had ignited again. The boards were painted red, which fact may account for the ignition.”

D r . H a y e s , the Arctic explorer, said in a lecture in New* York, the other evening that lie once saw an iceberg—escaped from the great glaciers—that rose 317 feet above the surface of the sea, and that he computed its Weight at not less than twenty-seven billions of tons. We should like to lay iu a stock of provisions, consisting of such family groce­ries as crushed sugar, cherry, Ièmons, old Robertson, mint, “corn corgil,” nutmegs, old Bourbon, cigars;, Scotch ale, pipes and tobacco, old rye, a box o f . matches, a half pint flask of pure whisky for medical pur­poses, with a few other necessaries of life, and go and spend the summer with a small let of temperance friends on just such an island as that.

Another Intelligent Dog Story«The New York Sun of July 11 says : The

Hon. 8. L. M. Barlow owns a pair of thoroughbred Scotch deer hounds, male and female. Their sinewy limbs, deep chests, slim muzzles, intelligent faces and kindly dispositions make them ornamental additions to a gentleman’s country seat, and assert their claim to lineal desent from tbe stag bound that li res in poetry as the companion of Sir Walter Scott. Being dogs of good education as well as blue blood, they seldom leave their master’s residence, and treat less- favored quadrupeds with lofty contempt. About a week ago tbe male, who wags his tail to the name of Walter, followed the farm cart to a neighbor bouse. A very large and ferocious mastiff possessed prior dog privileges there Instead of receiving his visitor with becoming hospitality, he assaulted him savagely, and in a few minutes injured him so badly that he was carried home in the cart. The mastiff's teeth had in­flicted a bad wound in Walter’s chest, almost perforating it from side to side. He refused to submit to human surgery, but tried a remedy taught him by instinct.* In the moist earth on the border of a fish pond lie dug a hole that just fitted his breast. He chose a shady place for his hospital, aud never left it except for his meals until he was cured. During the tedious hours of convalescence his mate was constant]}* with him. After five days he considered himself well. Then the pair went from the house, and going straight to where the mastiff lived, without warning or giving him any other living show, they set upon him. The fight was short, sharp, and decisive. Before their victim’s owner could render assistance they had torn the mastiff limb from limb. After seeing that their work had been well done, they turned and jogged borne.

^ 'I HP o w e r ©t C o m p r e h e n s i o n .

It was said of Thoreau, we believe, that be could take up any given number of lead pen­cils without counting them. A celebrated trapper once assured us that be could tell how many balls he had in his bullet pouch by placing bis hand upon it, and without stop­ping to count them, and added: “I can tell instantly, without stopping, as you pronounce. a word without spelling it.” Southey was accustomed to take in the substance of a book in turning the leaves over continuously, glanc­ing down the pages. Houdan, the magician, trained himself to quickness of perception, when a boy, by running past a show window at full speed and then trying to tell what was in it. We once met a man on a canal boat who was amusing h imififf bygolng from pas­senger to passenger and telling almost every­one where he had seen him before, on such a train, in such a hotel, in such a street, giv­ing date and place to people with whom he had never exchanged a word. This training of the faculties in particular directions is carried to marvelous extreme by backwoodsmen, trappers, and men who guess tbe weight of animals. Perhaps tbe most remarkable in­stances are the markers who leap from log to log at tbe mouth of a boom, standing on the floating log and translating instantly an old mark into a new one, remembering what equivalent to give for each of a hundred marks, and chopping it upon the log in the time that it floats its length. It is* said that Thoreau knew the relative order of flowering of all the plants in tbe Concord woods, and knew the note of every bird, and a thousand-out-of- the-wny things besides.

The word “quiz,” to makè. fuo of, or poke Ain at a person, was the coinage of a theatri­cal manager in Dublin, who, at a drinking party with his friends, when the conversa­tion turned upon the subject of words, offer­ed to bet the wine that he could then and there coin a word which would be in the mouths of all Dublin next day. The bet be­ing taken the party dispersed, the manager called up his call-boys and runners, gave them pieces of chalk and ordered them to run all over the city, chalking the word “quiz ’ on every door, shutter and fence they come to. This was done, and as a matter of course the new word was in everybody’s mouth the next day.

Wbal the Ll«htninf Did«

The Des Moines (Iowa) Register tells this : “During the big storm last Friday the elec­

tric fluid» appeared in a new role It came imbolmg down through the top of a treè in ralnut township, knocking off a good share

of the upper branches. When about fifteen feet from the earth it carved out the bark in Buch a shape» as to leave on the body of the tree—a large maple—the exact image of a man. One leg, below tbe knee, is the only part lacking. The right hand is thrust into the breeches pocket as naturally as if a con­tribution plate were being passed in front of it ; the left grasps a cane. It’s queer piece of work, and shows considerable skill on the part of the sculptor.”

A Sing ular discovery says the Napa (Cal.) Register of July 19, was made last week by Thomas Johnson, who was starting a bric k­kiln on Dauben speck’s ranch, two miles and a half above St. Helena. He bad occasion to dig a well, and was surprised in not coming to water in about fifteen feet, the usual dis­tance. He kept on and at a depth of seventy feet came upon regular surface oil, with all the indications of the face of an oldrancb- eria, such a« ashes, pine Jpurrs, chunks of wood, etc. Johnson continued on through this, and in seventeen feet farther found the water all fight.

À Largs quantity of magnetic-iron sand, from the ocean beach, says the San Francis­co Alta of July 14. was smelted recently at the Union Iron Works, as an. experiment test. The result appeals tobe satisfactory to the parties who are making an effort to utilize the sand. The first operation is to heat iron until it is at white heat, which process reduces the mass to a condition re? sembling coke. It is then compressed and heated again until it appears in solid bars of metal, which are claimed to be of the very finest quality.. It is not reported yet w’hether the test discloses the practicability of smel­ting this sand for commercial purposes ; the facts and figures are not given.

There is a very simple Way of naturaliz­ing the effect of tobacco when too much has been<taken, or when tried by a debutant —itia tq4rink a strong cup of coffee. The tannin which is contained in the coffee is the ahtidotë tô nieotine. Those who are obliged to try the cigars, and smoke beyond all rea­son, when there taste is spoiled, take coffee and recover immediately that sureness of appreciation which permits them to continue their work. In this the Turks are our teach­ers; they have discovered the means of smoking continually with pleasure, and with­out weariness, by drinking a cup of coffee after each pipe.

Durihg a steam voyage on the stop page, ôf the machinery, considerable alarm took place, especially among the female passen­gers. “ What is the matter? what is the matter ? For God’s sake tell me the worst ?” exclaimed one, more anxious than the rest. After n short pause, a hoarse voice from the deck replied : “Nothing # madam, nothing, oojby the4>oUom of the vessel and the top of the earth struck together.”

r.‘Speaker,” exclaimed a member of the Arkansas Legislature, “ my colleague taunts me with a desire for fame. I scorn tbe imputation, sir. Fame. sir. What is fame? It is a shaved pig with a greased toil,

The loan fund inaugurated by the Board of Church extentirtn of the Methodist Episco­pal Church, under tbe administration of Dr. __________ „ _____A. J. Kynett, is assuming grand proportions. J which slips through the hands of* tho The cash already paid into the treasury, to-J and then is accidentally cau gether with the subscriptions and pledges, *“ ‘ *all of which are reliable and carefully secu­red, amount to nearly ;1400,000. John Per­kins gave $50,000. 1 here are twelve sub­scriptions of $10,000, one of $12,000, and two of $20.000. The bonfrd have iust r^ e - ived notice of a legacy made to the loan Amd of $15,000 by a layman in Michigan.

fellow that happens to hold On’ the greased-tailed quadruped go by me with­out an effort to clutch it, »ir.” a

JVar denies the report I o f the Department of

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