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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-10-13

Incidentally IT may Be we'll to contrast
this with the very limited area for corn
(maize) In all Europe the area suitable
for maize scarcely equals that OF the
smallest western state - Indiana. In
America the area Of corn growing, with
any good result. Is certainly less than
half that of wheat. In India corn can be
grown, but only under favorable circum.
stances. OF Australia and the Argentine
Republic the same may bo said. Wheat
IL grown with ease and In enormous quan-
Titles, without irrigation, In such regions
rs California, where not u drop of rain
falls from May till October. but corn,
never. In short, it may with confidence
be affirmed that the possible corn lands Of
the world are not one fifth probably not
one.tcnth) the possible wheat lands, and
that the great central belt of American
states, from the line of southern Tennes-
SEQ to TINT of northern Indiana, have in
this an advantage not threatened as aro
tho wheat growers to tho north or tho
cotton growers to the south Of them. The
export of cotton from India has already
reached ,000. 600 bales.
In the hurly bUrly Of American politics.
from the panic of 1873 TO the boom" of
1S19-Sl, and the heated discussions of
soft money" and hard money" no ono
observed the tremendous forces working
In Europe to "help out" tho Americans:
yet 1t is a fact that in those years the Old
World was literally compelled to return
much of tho gold exported during the
civil war, and n moicty OF the bonds OK.
ported after the war, IN payment for food
supplies. II was fact, conclusively proved
before n parliamentary commission, that
the five years of lS73-70, inclusive, were
the worst five years ever known in the
history of British agriculture, and that
England and France together had to i'm
port in that period over 81, 500, 00O, 600
worth of grHinl Sir James Card summar.
ICES tho testimony taken by the commits.
sion very carefully. and demonstrates
that the British farmers lost 800
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-10-13

ONDON has been
more stirred up
by the White.
c chapel murders
than by any crime
C o m m tilted ia
many years. The
fact that so many
women could be
slaughtered, cvi-
IDENTIFY b y { b @
same hand, and
the murderer for
for so long n time
elude tho London
police is a surprise
to Londoners, who
believe that they
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-10-13

A Port Huron, Mich, undertaken has
lad a large tent mads. Whenever he has
q funeral on a rainy day he will place the
tent over the grave SO that the service
may .bc held with but little inconvou.
ituco,--Chicago Herald.
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allied the fact that they no longer hold
the controlling forces in the wheat mar.
kets Of the world. Russia and Hungary
they had long recognized as standing
rivals In the markets of western Europe,
but between 1878 aud 1884 enormous sup.
plies Of the great cereal began TO pour In
from India and Australia, northwestern
Canada and the Argentine Republic OF
all these India excited tho most astonish.
ment. The western world had long looked
upon IL as a worn out land and its people
rs effete; the export OF $4,000 bushels of
wheat one year was noted in the Ameri-
can papers as curiosity, and that Of
10000 bushels in 1873 rs phenome.
non. But the next year Indias export
was 100000 bushels, and then, save in
the famine years of 1S7S-79, it doubled
aud trebled year by year, till in 1882 10
reached the enormous aggregate of 37,-
100000 bushels, completely setting at
naught all the market calculations af the
western world.
!. The American farmer had already had
puzzling experience with wheat. Down
TO 1916 that cereal had followed tho
usual law of being cheap when the crop
was large, and vice versa; and so much
do habits Of mind control most men that
1t has taken forty years experience to
buoW tiidt NDtuL Is II IlnfKtu exception
to that rule. Only one year since 1SiG
has an enormous crop in the United
States conceded with a very low price,
and only once very poor crop with n
very high price; in every other case the
best crop years have been the best price
years. The explanation is simple AS
rule when there is a very favorable sea.
son on one side of the globe, there is n
rather unfavorable one on the other: and
since 1S4G the price Of wheat In western
Europe has fixed the price in America.
OF this paradox, that increased supply
does not decrease prices, n few instances
may be cited. The year 1854 WIS memor.
able In the Ohio valley for the largest
wheat crop ever produced down to that
time and for drought that reduced tho
corn crop below the demand for home
consumption. When. therefore, 81
bushel was offered In the west In July, it
was naturally attributed to tho scarcity Of
corn; but wheat went on rising till it
reached $3.50 in New York city and n
corresponding price In tho Ohio valley.
In 1855 the range In New York was from
$1.9e to g.. 80 and the Crimean war was
populnrly assigned as the sole cause. But
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When Cincinnati husband was asked
In court If he dragged his wfo out Of bed
by the lair he said he couldn't really ro-
member as that was a very busy morn
ing with him.-Detroit Free Press,
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A Clydcsdale colt has been sold for
$4,000, the higEsst price ever paid for a
draught horse,
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MANS CnIEFEST STAFF. :,
PROSPERITY ALWAYS FoRESHAD-
OWED eY BIG WHEAT CROPS.

How tiif Wheat Raising Districts OF the
world Are Distributed Over the Earth's
Surface and How 1t Is Raised In DIFF
ferent IansIs.
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THOMAS 3. BARRY.


Ills Resignation from the Executive Eonrd
of the X. of l..
The resignation of Thomas b. Barry
from the executive board of the Knights
Of Labor, though for some time expected,
Is one of many signs that tho order is
undergoing "A sort of transformation Mr..
Barry has long entertained feelings Of
hostility to General Master Workman
Powdcrly, and in his letter of resignation,
dated Oct, g. at East Saginaw, Mich, ho
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WANTS

hLD BRASS WANTED-THE HIGH
" est cash price paid for old Brass and , op-
pr The finest brass castings Ia ade 10 order
Metal pattern WORK nnisn q AT reasonable
rates. nj. w.fRAIM's Lock Works,
Rear Locher's banking Building,
loTu, ,Thkstfd
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IRA VkLERS GUIDH
PEADIN6 q COLUMBIA r.
Arrangement OF Passenger Trains ON. An
after, SUNDAY. MAY Is, Isss
NORTH W ARR,

Leave
ouarryvilIeat 7l0 a. m.
King Street, Lane. at sos a. m, ana aS H. u
Arriveat
Reading, 10 loa m. ana SIS p. IN
Leave
Heading. at z 70 q. m. ana lp. IN
Arrive Rt
King Street, Lane. at 9 20 q. M, ana anO D. IL
ouarrvvfiie. at 8.Np.m.
Trains cor meet at Reading with trains 10
ana irom philadelphia, PottsviIle, Harr,shurg
Route. ' 'A"' A~ A"0'
q, AZ Columbia, with trains 10 ana from Yorh
more. "S
AZ Marietta junction with trains TO ana
from Ghicbiee.
non.
At Lancaster Junction, with trains to ana
nom Lancaster. Quarry vile, and Chickies.
A. M. WILSON SUPERINTENDENT,
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tThe only trains which run caily. On sun
DAY the Mail train west runs by way OF Col
sss J. Il. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
CHAs. E. PUGd Il. General Manager,
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u N s Y l. v A MA RAILROAD
sCHEDULE.-In effect from June II,
Trains LRAvu LANCASTER ana leave ana ar.
rive at Phiadelphia as fOllORa:
W EST W ARD.

wEsTw ARD.
Pacific Expresst..
News Expresst .....
Way Passenger go.
Mail train viaMt.Joyt
NO Q Mail Traint.....
Niagara Express. go.
Hanover Accom-. ....
fast Lfnet............
Frederick Accom-.
Lancaster Accom-.
Harrisburg Accom-. =.
Columbia Accom-.
Harrisburg Express I
western lxpresst -.
EASTw ARD.
Phila. Expresst. t......
Fast Ifnet............ l.
Harrisburg Nxpresst
Lancn ster Accom-. /.
Columbia Accom-.
Atlantic Fxpresst -.
Seashore Express. -.
Philadelphia Accom-
sunday Mail. .........
Day Exrresst ........
Harrisburg Accom- :.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-20

walls in the hope Of finding some
passage which might lead us to the
surface of the earth.
We found none, but. as ii to assure
us of our fate, an object which we
knew by its shape to be human skull
fell from some shelf or rock with hor-
rlble, crashing echoes at our very feet.
Ious the horrors of the valley of the
shadow of death will not be new exper-
fence. We tasted them a7l-the terror of
that dreadful darkness. the thoughts of
horrible creeping things around Us,
the pangs of hunger. the desire to
throw ourselves into the waters so near
us in the hope OF blessed oblivion, the
awful visions OF delirium, these We're
all ours, but at length, wrapped in each
others arms, came Inconsistencies.
1t was in the latter state that we were
found after a three days absence, by
my husband and Aleck Demplie, who
had after all resolved to bear with
Mans folly, and who, when we were
reported missing, instituted a search,
telegraphed to George, and persevered
until we were found.
Fithian had left Rocky Inlet and was
never heard OF afterwards
We were both very ill, but Nan re-
covered first and helped to nurse me
back to health.
! She was all nentleness and her ,,er.
verse spirit never returned.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-20
Sin'> IutuI Fascination.

When once young man has done a
wrong thing, it has an awful power OF
attracting him and making him hungry
to do it again. Every evil that do
may, indeed, for moment create in
me revulsion Of conscience, but
stronger than that revulsion of con-
science. it exercises fascination over
me which it is hard to resist. 1t is a
great deal easier to find man that
has never done a wrong thing, than to
find a man that has only done it once
If the wall OF the dyke is sound it will
keep the water out, but if there is the
tiniest hole in it, it will all come in
So the evil that you do asserts its
power over you; it has fierce longing
desire after you, and it gets you into
it's clutches.
Beware of the first evils, Tor as sure
IS you are living, the first step taken
will make the second seem to become
necessary. The first drop will be fol-
lowed by bigger second, and the
second, at shorter interval, by more
copious third, until the drops become
shower, and the shower becomes a
deluge. The course Of evil is ever
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-20
The Per,uone"ce Of Rc1iy, ION.

If one mans life could be protracted
through three or four centuries, the
changes which he would witness would
be indeed astonishing; but certain
things, it may be confidently predicted,
would not have changed, for they have
never been other than what they are.
Sin, pain, death, are what they were
in the days Of the Tudors, in the days
of the Crusades, in the days of the
Apostles and evangelists, and in the
days of David. Sin, pain, death, they
are the permanent elements in the life
of human beings and because they are
permanent religion, too, will last.
Only robust faith in the Unseen, only
faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ can relieve the human heart
when face to face with the solemn,
irreversible conditions of our life. So
long as they last the religion of the
crucified will last too. If the sense of
sin could be drugged by a false phi
losophy, if pain could be forgotten, if
chemical science could only arrest the
march of death, then the religion of
Jesus Christ might die; but as matters
stand, it is too intimately associated
with the facts Of human life, it strikes
it's roots too deep in the experiences of
the human heart TO vanish at the bid
ding Of any unbelieyers. So long as
men sin, SO long as men suffer, SO long
as men die, Jesus Christ our Lord will
be believed in, will be worshiped as
the Light OF the World, as the Divine
Master whose teaching and whose
death has made the darkness of human
destiny to be light indeed. Canon
TjT7o,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-20

wider and deeper, and more tumultu-
Gus. The little sins get in at the vim
dow and open the front door for the
big house-breakers. One smooths the
path for the other. All sin has an aw-
full power of perpetuating and increas.
ing itself. AS the prophet says in his
awful vision OF the doleful creatures
that make their sport in the desolate
city, None of them shall want her
mate. The wild beasts of the desert
shall meet with the wild beasts of the
islands. Every sin tells upon the
character, and makes the repetition of
itself more and more easy. "None is
barren among them.' And all sin is
linked together in Shiny tangle, like a
sea-weed. SO that the man once caught
in its oozy fingers is almost sure to
drown,--A. MacLoren.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-20
Christian Education.

Heathendom is waking up to the
fact that even in the matter of educa-
ton Christianity out ranks all others,
and that nothing but the Christian re-
ligion can enthllse mankind with that
necessary ambition that will carry the
student to the highest possible at
tainm .nts. Hence even China, when
she wants the best education for her
youth, she sends them to America.
The result can best be learned from
the following paragraph from the
Canada Presbyterian: "It is said that
Of the 100 Chinese youths who were
sent to American colleges in detach-
ments Of thirty, under the charge of
the Chinese Commission, all but about
a dozen have obtained positions in their
own country in different departments
of the Government, as civil engineers
or naval officers, OF teachers in the
naval schools. OF the few who re-
turned to the States the majority are
Chinese consuls; some are attached to
the Chinese legation. One, Hong Yen
Chang, a graduate of the Columbia
law school, is striving for admission to
the bar in New York"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-20
WEnE NOT PLAYING.

On Kentucky stock farm. Father
(to his boys)-You trihing rascals,
don't you know better than to play on
Sunday? Don't you know that this is
the Lords day? And didn't tell you
that I'd whip you if ever caught you
playing on the Sabbath?
The Leader of the Boys-We want
playin' pap.
Father-What were you doing?
Boy-W'y, we wuz breakin' NV mule
colt, and he flung black Bob, an kicked
yaller Joe, an run agin the fence with
Abe, an tramped on Bill, an bit Harry,
but rid him.
Father with enthusiasm)-You did F.!
Good for you. Rid him, Ell? Wall,
come in, all hands, now and lissen to old
Brother Brentwood pray, and then you
may go out and ride him ag'in. But I
hearn you hollerin' like you was after a
rabbit.
Boy--We tied tin bucket to old
billiards dogs tail, an our dog jumped
on him an chawed him.
Father-Good! Chawed him, ell ?
Haw, haw! Come on in now, boys, an
hear Brother Brentwood an then
ketch the colt. Bet a dollar I can
ride him myself. -Arkna1sa1 Trareler
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-20
THE BOOKS EMEusos rear.

| Books were for the scholars idle
times; at such times Emerson welcomed
them for the stimulents they gave him
ITO make my top spin," as he said,
without much choice, but with an in
clination towards memoirs and books
Astounding in anecdotes Plutarch.
Montague, Spence, Grimm, st. Simon,
Roederer, books about the first Napol-
con; latterly remember his following
Varnhagen Won Ense's voluminous
memoirs, as the volumn came out. He
read the "Vestiges of Creation" with
much interest, and treasured in his
memory from all kinds of sources many
anecdotes and sayings Of men Of
science. In his youth he seems to have
read Berkeley and Hume with atten-
ton, also Coleridge and Lord Bacon;
and he was reader of English poetry
from his early years. After his time of
production began, books occupied him
less; though at Carlyles urging, soon
after his return from Europe, he made
for once something of study of Goe-
the, and read every volumn, even tine
"Theory of Colors."
He was not what one would cal!
a critical reader. His likings and dis
likings were very distinct and persist
ent, but he never troubled himself to
account for them. He could see moth
ing in Shelley Aristophanes, Don
Cuixote. Miss Austen, Dickens; he did
not often read novel, even the famous
ones. Dante was "a man to put in
museum, but not in your hose; another
Zerab Colburn; prodigy of magma
tive function, executive rather than
contemplative or wise. French liter
allure lie did not love, though he was a
reader of SainteBeuve and of George
Sand. On q journey he liked to have
Martial OF treatise of Cicero in his
handling, partly because he did not
read them at home. At home he reaI
no Latin or Greek, though he retained
his knowledge of Greek sufficiently to
be able, in his later years, to compare
the old translation of Plutarch's Morals
Ga favorite book Of his) with the orig
inal. Mystical writings-Swelenbor
Behmen, and the like-came always
we'll recommended to him though they
did not engage him very deeply
James Talbot CABOT
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-20
NOV EL.zz mn H. H.

A western paper tells how genuine
blizzard Originates somewhere in the
region OF the North Pole. and sweeps
across British North America through
sort OF funnel thanked by the Lau-
rentian Mountains on one side and the
Huronians on the other, rising in some
parts 1000 feet, while on the Sague-
nay River the gorges forr, sheer cliffs
800 feet high.
The blizzard strikes against the
western limit Of this rocky barrier. and
is detected so that in Wisconsin, East
ern Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois
its force is broken. From that point
and the Ro kies and Sierras further
south, there is an ,lnbroken plateau to
the Gulf of Mexico, where the blizzard
disports itself unchallenged. South Of
the mountains the arctic currents are
less severe. Manitoba is only q mid
station in its career.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-20
~ EnREIDDEN L4NDx,


Few stories of travel possess so large
an element Of romantic interest as those
of the native explorers who have been
employed by the Indian government for
twenty years past to investigate the
regions north of the Himalayas that
are not accessible to white men. Dis
gulsed as merchants, mendicants, or
monks, they have worked their way
through vast stretches of country by
means of various expediments such as
peddling small wares or reciting pas
sages from Buddhist sacred books. They
have mapped the larger part of the
southern Thibet, and the Pandit,
Ak, in his four and half years
wanderings, travelled over an immense
territory that no white man except
Marco Polo has visited.
The Ihibetans regarded Ak, the
most famous OF these explorers, as a
very devout person. Everywhere he
went they saw him telling the beads of
his Buddhist rosary. This was his
method of measuring distances. During
all his long travels he dropped a bead
at every hundred PAGES. In the PRAYER
barrel that hung from his neck were
the few scientific instruments he could
carry, and the little books in which he
kept his records. In Lhassa, where
the Dalai Lama, the visible incarnation
of Buddha, lives, Ak spent year.
Only three Of our disguised white men
have ever seen the splendid temples of
this sacred city of the Buddhists, and
since Hue and CADET spent ten weeks
there, forty-one years ago, we have
learned little of it except through the
Indian explorers.
These men, two Of whom have re-
ceived the gold medals of the Paris and
Royal Geographical societies, are
seldom known to the world by their
names until after their services as ex-
plorers can no longer be utilized. It
is only by concealing their identity as
servants of the Indian government that
Gl1Cy S1n 10 lhLllC uSclut III tIo lduttS
they visit. None of them is highly ed
ucated. Few Of the wealthy, educated
Indians would care to undergo the
hardships they experience. Ak, in
the last part of his journey, Travelled as
q beggar and in rags, and he served for
months in Thibet as herder of sheep
before he could resume his work.
These men are chosen for their iutelli-
gence, tact, and physical endurance.
They are taught little more than the
elements OF science, so that they can
make the requisite observations and
measurements, keep their field books,
and describe the physical features and
peoples of the places they pass through.
--Ne,r York StM.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-20
POPULAR SCIENCE.

CHEMISTS have just determined bv
careful experiment that man can
barely taste 3-1000ths Of gram of su-
gar, 1-1O00th of a gram Of salt, anG
5-lO, 900, OO0ths of a gram of strychnin..
A WRITER in Science says that while
as yet we have discovered no way of
avoiding contagion which comes to u,
in the air, we are just beginning t.,
find out the extremely important facl
that air does not become contaminated
with bacteria unless they are allowed
to dry. Recent investigations, he adds,
have shown smaller number of bacte-
ria in the air ola well-kept sewer than
in that of poor-ventilated school
room.
HE power of various explosives has
been calculated to be equivalent to the
following pressures, the figures giving
tons Der square inch: Emmensite, a
new explosive for which important ad-
vantages are claimed in addition to
great power, 2S3; nitro-glycerine, 264;
explosive gelatine, 253; forcite, 25O;
oxomite, 249; panclastite, 2O3; gun cot
ton, 1873; dynamite, IA; atlas, 1873;
rackarock, III; roburite, 81; blasting
gunpowder, %.
An electrical heating stove, invented
in France, presents some interesting
points of arrangement and operation.
In it the conducting wires are led
through the apertures in plates of re-
fractory clay and plumbago, and in
which wire bobbins are placed as part
OF the electric circuit. To carry out
this plan the bobbins are heated by the
passage of the current, and in turn
heat the air, which is allowed to pass
freely through the apparatus.
AN English physician, who has IN
vestigated the characteristics and sur
roundings Of centenarians, says he
finds that the average qualities were a
good family history, well-made
frame, Of average stature, spare
rather than stout, robust, with good
health, appetite, and digestion, capable
of exertion, good sleepers, of placid
temperament and good intelligence,
with little need for and little consump-
ton of alcohol and animal food.
The theory is held by Prof Mendel-
leef that petroleum is produced by wa
ter which penetrates the earth's crust,
and comes in contact with glowing car
bides Of metals, especially Of iron.
The water is decomposed into its con-
stituent gases, the oxygen uniting with
the iron while the hydrogen takes up
the carbon, and ascends to higher re-
gion, where part of it is condensed into
mineral oil, and part remains as natural
gas, to escape wherever and whenever
it can find an outlet. If this assump-
ton is correct, and sufficient store Of
metallic carbides is contained in the
earth's interior, petroleum may con-
tinue to be formed almost indefinitely,
and yield a supply of fuel long after
the coal has become exhausted. Prof.
NIendeleef supports his views by pro-
ducing artificial petroleum in manner
similar to that by which he believes til
natural product is made.