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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
The New Banner presented TO the Trims.
ers of the Wayout Whanger.

The New Banner presented TO the Trims.
ers of the Wayout Whanger.
Said the editor of the Wayout
Whanger: when our compositors
went out to dinner yesterday we stole
into the composing room, took down
the old towel, which we stood on the
floor and leaned against the wall,
and in its place, hung up from two
nails, brand new one, OF 1899 vintage,
white as the undriven snow, with
beautiful red borders and fringe. and
then hid ourselves to await develop
ments.
"By and by the cCmpOsitors re-
turned and gathered around the Curl
osity What is it. any way? said one,
breaking the silence.
why, replied another, cant you
see that it is banner which some OF
our fair readers have worked for us
with loving hands, to carry in the next
parade?'
"'Oh, what are you giving u.s. re-
turned Pie Sam; that is one of these
wall decorations that the women get
up for fine parlors. He e. you Mig
gins! you keep your hands off o that!
1t was not made to touch, can t you
see?'
Yes, broke in Poogins, that is a
piece of Gobelin tapestry we lately
set up so much stuff about; besides,
didn't the COLLINS certainly hang ii
there?
".What did they hang it on that
dirty wall for?' asked the devilian.
"'Wait a second said the ancient
cOmpositor, putting on his spectacles
and looking closely at the absorbing
object. Boys, by lingo! | believe !
have seen something like that while |
was young, and I'll give my word that
it is a new towel! | can't be mistaken,
surely?'
Here Piggles, who had been sitting
on the old towel that leaned against
the wall, started to give 'hoOray"
t when it broke in two, and, angered at
the loss of the towel they had so long
been familiar with, the boys grabbed
up the two halves and broke them into
little atoms, slapping the offender.
We then went out, stopped the fuss
and assured them it was new towel.
They went to work, and all the
afternoon at intervals was heard the
ejaculation: "A new towel!' and last
night we picked seventeen OF them
out of the proof, which had mcon-
sciously got woven in.
1T Is a little faded to-day; but,
then, we don't care for expenses. -
Yankee Blade
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
A Great Merchants Weakness.

ga pathetic story" says London
exchange, sis told of the late Mr. Ry-
lands, the Wellington of Commerce,
as he was called, whose death has just
been announced. Almost up to the
last the old man, nearing his ninetieth
year, insisted upon personally con-
Quoting the concerns of the great es-
tablishment he fou nded in Manchester
nearly seventy years ago. Every
morning he would be driven to his
Office, and with the kindly cOnnIyance
of his managers and head clerks made
believe to direct affairs as he used to
in former years. One day recently,
when the end was growing very near,
he was driven as usual to the Office.
When he was helped out of the car
riage and looked up at the building,
he turned to re-enter the carriage,
exclaiming pettishly: No, no; l want
to go to my own place. He did not
know the palatial building in which
his later fortunes were cared for, and
his falling mind, suddenly turning
back for sixty years, saw the modest
building, II New High street, Man
chester, in which he had started. That
was his place, and that was where
he insisted that the puzzled cOachman
should take him"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
School AND CHURCH.

The Religious Herald thinks that
1.-THE conscience which knowingly
opposes the clear majority of praying
church needs watching
"A Cedar Rapids, Ia, clergyman
recently took this for text: Can a
man with family work for thirty
dollars month and be Christian"
The King of Siam has recently
donated to the Baptist mission at
Bangkok the lage sum of $240. 00),
nearly quarter of a million, for a
hospital and school.
The Lutheran church is growing
rapidly in the United States. In 1870
the number of communicates in that
denomination was less than 400, ZOO.
Now there are over l,00O,0 600
The rule regarding commence
ment orators at Wesleyan University
has been changed. Hereafter the
commencement orators will be the ten
students having the highest marks in
the rhetorical exercises in the junior
and senior years.
The Female Mission Home at Sgd
ney, Australia, has been in operation
fifteen years, and is managed wholly
by women. Its object is to receive
young women who have fallen or who
are in danger of falling, from virtu-
Gus life, and to help them to retrieve
their position in society.
Hon. Daniel Needham, in one
of his addresses before the Massachu-
| sets Horticultural Society, said:
There is physical energy enough
wasted every season by the students of
Harvard College to cary on truck
garden which would supply very large
ly the vegetable markets of the city of
Boston"
There are 971 UniverSalist par
ishes in this country, a church men,
bership of $3.50, a Sunday-school
membership of 1920, 816 churches
and church property to the value of
| 1915, 756. The denomination sup
ports dozen educational institutions,
with 1,2S4 students and ia teachers
and professors. Christian Union.
Concerning the habit of coughing
in church, the Lancet says; ut repre-
sents to large extent avoidable evils,
bred of habit and thoughtless imita-
ton, and their very desirable reduc-
ton is therefore by no means hopeless
Even where basis of disease under
lies the explosion, little self-c pntroI
could usually do something to lessen
its force or its frequency"
In the church of Christ there is a
danger of overlooking the necessity of
the feeble members, The need of
the stronger ones, no ono will ques-
ton. A ministers success depends
largely upon getting every member of
his charge to work. However feeble
some of the members may be, if they
are truly saved they are a part of
Christs mystical body, and have some
necessary work to perform. DE-.
Werner.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
a TEXAS EPISODE.
Why Self-Appointei Court RecOnsid'
cred One of Its Resolutions.

Why SeIf-ApPointed Court RecOnsid-
cred One of Its Resolutions.
Texas in 1887 had no jails, and had
just cut loose from Mexico, and there
were but three modes of punishment,
small whipping, large whipping and
branding for minor crimes. For muir
der, horse stealing and forgery
| was a soldier in General Houston's
army and recall one instance of horse
stealing where the guilty party was
permitted to escape. 1t was in Mont
gomery County in 1887. The man was
tried, found guilty, put upon the horse
he had stolen, his legs tied under the
horse and he was led out to the edge of
the timber by some twenty or more of
the members of the court" all
mounted and armed. Arriving at the
end of the timberS, all dismOunted
except the prisoner, and set
ting their rifles against the side
of a log. commenced looking around
| for suitable gallows tree. One Of
the party discovered, some three hun
dred yards out in the prairie, such a
tree with a large limb growing at
/ right angles to the trunk, some twenty
feet from the ground. He remarked
that the Lord had planted it there to
/ hang our horse-thief on. Agreed, and
the whole party walked, leaving gum
and horses behind, leading the con-
/ 1emned man still tied to the horse. 1t
/ was found hard to climb the tree. The
| discoverer of it asked for a "bOOst. >
/ Being large, fat man, it took all that
could get around him to give the
boost, but they did it, and he climbed
| to the limb. One end of the rope was
around the prisoner S neck; to get the
! other end fast to the limb was the task
SGT for the man up the tree. After
| several throws he caught the rope
but the limb was so large that it
could not be easily brought around
/ to hand and unless the end
was caught under the rope could
not be tied The big man, lying on
his breast holding the main part of
he rCpe in one hand, with the other
-ried to throw under the limb, but
very time failed to catch the end.
| The committeeman below all had their
yes on him. looking up. The pris
,ner at the other end of the rope was
truck by an idea There was life
nd liberty in it. He drove his heels
,gainst the horses sides. Luckily he
Aad stolen good fast horse, and like
fash away went horse and rider, ane
the alarm Of the cutlery the fat man
Up the tree missed his hold and fell to
he ground, badly hurt, of course. The
lgitive went flying over the prairie,
he rope streaming behind his neck.
The vigilance party's guns and horses
were three hundred yards off. After
the excitement was over meeting of
the court was held to reconsider the
matter of nature having planted that
particular tree to hang that particular
man upon. AMI it was unanimously
carried that it was not.--R. p. Boyce,
in Detroit Free Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
CHINESE SAILORS.
They Work for Fifty Cents Day and
Consider Themselves Well Paid.

They Work for Fifty Cents Day and
Consider Themselves Well Paid.
The Pacific Ocean is vitality differ
ent from the Atlantic, and Pacific
Ocean travel offers almost as many
new things as one of the countries of
Europe. When you step on the deck
of an Atlantic ship you are in England.
As soon as you land your baggage in
the stateroom of a Pacific steamer
you are in China.
The ships are manned entirely by
Cinnamon, with the exception of the
chief officers. and you drop into the
land of the Celestials the moment you
lose sight of San Francisco. The
steerage passengers are all Chinese.
Your food is cooked by Chinese cooks,
and your rooms are cared for by
white-gowned, Acknowledged men in
pigtails. The walters, the sailors and
the coal beavers are Cinnamon, and
the American or European officers do
not number a dozen all told.
These Chinese sailors wear d dress
which is a cross between that of the
American-Chinese washerman and the
pure Celestial. 1t is extremely light,
and consists as rule of but two gar
ments. These are wide shirt-like
gown ard pair of pantaloons which
are as full as those of zouave and
which flap loosely about their yellow
skinned legs.
Some of them wear shoes and some
of them do not and the skin of their
feet is of the dark, rich bronze of their
faces. They have sailors caps which
fit closely down about their almond
eyes, and each one has a big knife,
which he carries in case attached to
the center of the back of his waist
band and resting as it were on the
small of his back.
There chief food is rice and they
use chop-sticks in eating it. They get
fifty cents a day and consider them
selves well paid.-Golden Days.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
Sympathy Well Bestowed.

Gus-So your brother is married Is
his wife pretty?
George-No.
"A domestic, lovable little darling.
perhaps?"
Moo; she is what is called super
ior woman.
"Oh! Poor devil!'-Philadelphia
Record.
Scrub oak ought to be utilized in
the manufacture of brushes and
broom Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Miss Penelope" Before / give
you an answer, Marshall, I want you
to know that | believe the married
state to be simply a reinforced condi-
ton for the better amelioraton of the
wrongs and sufferings of women. Do
YOU understand me?" Mr.. Mallow-
al think do; and, if you will allow
me, I'll hedge little. Won't you be
q sister to me?"-Puck.
Mistress Aren't the eggs boiled
vet. Bideliap" Bidelia (the new cook
from Tralee)-"I dunno, mum.
They've been boiling eight hours,
but, faith, the skin hasn't come off 'em
yet."-Town Topics.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
COMMON-SENSE MAXIMS.
Live Up to Them and You VIII Die Happy, =
Respected and Rich.

Live Up to Them and YOu viii Die Happy,
Respected and Isich.
Let none wish for unearned gold.
Be honest and then be generous,
MOckery never degrades the Just.
Tomorrow may never come 10 us.
The poorest are the most charitable.
One fb is oft the cause of ten more.
A lie is black even if it is white lie.
The post of honor is the post of duty.
Il can't" is humbug and nui-
sance.
1t is not parsiznonious to be econOmi-
cal.
No admittance, here, except on bust
ness.
Wealth nor power can ennoble the
mean.
To-day is all the time we absolutely
have
A single fact is worth a folio of
argument.
1t is not selfish to be correct in your
dealings.
The worth of thing depends on the
want of it.
Let nothing be undone which ought
to be done.
Small profits little risk; large profits
great risk.
The best kind of a picnic is a pick at
at Old Nick.
Something wrong when man is
afraid of himself.
Honesty is better capital than a
sharper cunning.
Whose credit is suspected is not safe
to be trusted.
A true man never frets about his
place in this world.
Conscience dead as a stone is heavy
thing to carry.
Employ no one to do what you can
easily do yourself.
Better to die at the post of duty than
to live elsewhere.
Leave your business unduly and your
business viii leave you.-Good House
keeping.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
A BEAVERS PROTEST.
How the Animal Warns Its Mates of the
Approach of Enemies.

Approach of Enemies.
Until the fall SHOWS carpet the
ground and render ill-hunting"
practicable it is not uncommon for
hunters to patrol the water-cotrses
at night in the hope of surprising
some one Of the deer tribe in or near
the water He who is to do the shoot
ing sits in the bow, while the stern Is
occupied by the paddler, who impels
the canoe IN a manner that is abso-
lutely noiseless. The many sounds
which at night characterize the woods
on the confines of civilization are
wanting IN the forests of the wilder
ness. In the absence of wind the
silence is that of death itself-like
the Egyptian darkness, it seems as
though it could actually be felt. And
so the canoe steals slowly on, as silent
as the shadow of cloud, its occu-
pants, their nerves at the highest ten
sion, straining their ears to detect at
the earliest possible moment the pres
ence of the game they seek. Sudden
", without the slightest warning, the
death-like silence is broken by a
sound, as though the guardian angel
of the deer tribe had hurled a stone
about two feet in diameter into the
water in the immediate vicinity of the
canoe. 1t is the protest of the beaver
against the invasion off its domain.
/ had heard this sound many times,
and it's cause had been explained to
me as often. Still, though long eH-
perience had taught me implicit con-
fidence in my companion and mentor,
/ could yield him in this but half
hearted faith. 1t seemed incredible
that an animal less than three feet long
could make noise the size OF two
story house. But one moonlight night
we stole on a beaver swimming in a
narrow stream. Not till the stem of
the canoe was within five feet OF it
did it detect our presence. Then
down went its head, and, rounding up
it's back, it struck violent blow upon
the water with its tail and vanished.
! was literally shOwered and thor
oughly convinced at one and the same
moment. When excited or alarmed,
a beaver will sometimes continue this
perform ance, easily audible for half a
mile or more, at half-minute intervals,
for ten consecutive minutes. II. z.
Wells, in Harper's Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
The Mother at Home.

The mother is the heart of the
home. She it is who determines its
characteristics and diffuses through it
that subtle atmosphere which every
sensitive person can feel when intro
duced into the home circle, and from
which can quickly be inferred the rul-
ing spirit of the home. There can be
no doubt that the most effective train
ing for children is the training
Of example, and this truth the
mother needs constantly to bear in
mind. How can the impatient,
querulous, fault finding mother teach
patience and kindness and good
temper? How can the vain
mother teach humility? How can
The mother, greatly absorbed in
keeping up with the pomps ana van
tiles of life, eager for place and show,
teach her children the true principles
of a happy life? How can the selfish
mothe teach genero-it:' sr kindness,
or the Disseminated n.y.. teach csa-
tertIaeS NJmi
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
A Precocious Criminal.

A nice little girl is one Celina Doise-
let, for that is the name of the little
monster who has just appeared before
the Assize Court of the Aube, in
France, on the charge Of deliberately
killing two children. She he self is
but child, not yet thirteen years Of
age; but in the spring of last year she
was placed in service by her parents,
her duties being those of a nursemaid
She had two little boys to take charge
of aged respectively three years and
six months, and it seems, from the ev-
idence given, that this youthful criIni-
nal, being of a lazy disposition, did not
like having to take care of them So
as Il means of relieving herself OF her
little charges, she killed them both,
the elder one, Paul, by twisting a pill
loW-case about his head and sitting
upon him till he ceased to breathe, tho
younger one by stufing handkerchief
into his mouth and kneeling on his
chest, Both the children were thus
got rid of the same day. The murder
ess was asked in court whether she re-
GREETED having committed these terri
Bile crimes, and she said she thought
she lid. This precoc Gus criminal ha,
been sent to a house Of correction for
ten years When she comes out it is
to be doubted whether she will get arr
other place as nursemaid -London
Standard
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
THE PLAN FAILED.
Two Tramps Play at Financiering with
DiscOuraging Results.

Two Tramps Play at Financiering with
DiscOuraging Results.
Now, here's the plan,n said one
tramp to another, as they leaned
against fence on Sproat street the
other day. You see that brown
house?"
81 do"
." 1t has for sale sign on it."
Yes"
Go and ring the bell, and tell the
woman you want to buy the house for,
say $4,000. She'll be glad to see you.
In looking about just mention Incl
dentally that if she has any old clothes
to spare you are making up box for
the African heather. It's big scheme
and must work.
The other went over and rang the
bell, and the door opened and he dis
appeared. He soon appeared to view
again, however, and with that sort of
movement which comes to man when
kicked.
Well, what's the matter?" asked
the other.
No go"
Did you see the woman and offer
her S., OO0."
NO. | saw the man and found tlW
the place had been sold for $4,000.
It's no use, Jim. We hain't worth
shucks on finance. We've got to go
back to the destitute family racket. -
Detroit Free Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
WOMEN IN HOTELS.
Loneliness of Their Life Leads Them
FIirt with Strangers.

Loneliness of Their Life Leads Them to
FIirt with Strangers.
1.-The misery which women in hotels
undergo on Sunday" said a promi-
inent hotel clerk, lis the chief cause
of all the hotel scandal and gossip that
finds its way into the newspapers. l
doubt very much if there is any lone
lier spot on earth than a hotel bed
room on Sunday afternoon, and when
the day is warm the women sit at the
windows and stare steadily out into
the street hoping against hope that
something will turn up to interest
them. Something very generally does
turn up about three o clock in the af-
ternoon-a good many things occa-
sionally They are otherwise known
as Washers. They ogle women from
restaurants across the streets, and the
women flirt with them purely through
idleness and loneliness.
Then the Washers make various
efforts to get upstairs, some of them
come to the desk and send up their
card to any one whom they happen to
know in the house, and some of them
bride the porters, but the old-time
FOUNDERS walk in in business-like
way, settle themselves down in the
elevator, alight on the right floor, and
then engage in a still-hunt for the
rooms. Meanwhile the porter is en-
gagged in still-hunt for the masher.
Not Sunday passes that there is not
more or less trouble in every big hotel
in this way; but l can't say that /
blame any of the parties concerned,
1t is lonely enough, even around a
desk, to say nothing of sitting in a
chilly room IN Y Sun.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
FASHIONABLE LIFE.
PrIvatfons TO Which Every Society But'
terfiy Is Subjected.

tertiy Is Subjected.
Fashionable people would never be
objects of envy to undistinguished out
siders if the hardships and privations
of fashionable life we're better under
stood. To receive" five hundred
guests, nine-tenths of whom are total
ly Indifferent to her, must be more
wearisome work to a fine lady than
logging to Maine lumberman. How
glad she must be when the show Is
over. and she can put off her reception
manner, her make up, her lip-deep
smile and artificial courtesy, and be-
come real again. She feels, no doubt,
on such occasions, that the game is
hardly worth the gas.
Sensible men and women, with mo
nonsense about Them" are never more
out of their element than when thrown
by circumstances into fashionable
society. They generally retire from
it at the first convenient opportunity,
with a feeling of pity and commiser-
alton for the human hollow-ware of
which it is principally composed.
And, really, the devOtees of fashion
pay an immense price for their whis-
tie. There is no such thing as solid
comfort or hearty enjoyment in the
Vanity Fair where they play their
trumpery parts.
Grand parties are the dreariest OF
all dreary pageants. When boy, we
thought Quaker meetings rather dull
affairs; but silence is infinitely better
than fashionable small talk, and unOb-
trusive drab than a glare of splendOr
that fatigues the eye and disgusts the
intellect.
The artificial Somebodies Of the
world of fashion of course look down
upon the natural Melodies who are
vulgar enough to enjoy life in home
ly, transformations way, caring not a
fig for show and ceremony; but the
Nobodies have the best of it, after all.
IN. Y. Ledger.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
PUNGEnT PARAGRAPHS.

The confectioner is supposed to
make his candy over a bon-bon fire.
Puck.
What zone is Ireland in?" asked
the teacher, and the class unanimously
replied: The O'Zone. IN. Y. Sun.
Wife" This light is very poor
The gas seems to be lower with every
week. Husband $50 it does; but
the bill is az right. 1t gets higher
every tire. "-2aaker.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09

While we are talking about com
pulsory education, wouldn't it he a
good idea if the teachers, as a rule,
were compelled to know just little
more than their pupils p Chicago
Times
There are a good many editors
giving learned opinions about no
cholera, who do not know enough abou
the disease to tell the difference be-
tween a cholera germ and sugar
cured ham. Iowa State Register.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09

Tommy wouldn't want to be
the preachers little boy" Aunt
"Why?" Tommy-"O. he's got hun
1reds and hundreds of slippers. They
are scattered all over the house. -
Terre Haute Express
in connecticut they find use Tor
almost every thing. An old lady in
that State is collecting all the political
papers she can lay her hands on to
make soap of. She says they are a
"desput sight better than ashes; they
are almost as good as pure lie"
The reason why the Dying Glad
iator is so much admired is-beeause
he keeps his mouth shut. He is very
different from our modern gladiators,
who go all over the country blowing
about what they are going to do as
soon - shSy get into condition. =
Puck.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09

Sir Arthur Helps says. with respect
to the kind of persons to be trusted, it
may be observed that grave, proud men
are very good confdants. Secrecy is
very much matter of habit; and it
may be expected that those who have
ever had to conduct any business in
which secrecy was essential will ac-
quire habit of reserve for all occa-
sions