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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21
Algiers' Human Panorama.

Before us. in the Moorish city Of
Algiers, moves constantly changing
procession of representatives from a1
nations and tribes. First comes o
stately Moor, with his white Burnous
wrapped about him, wearing feZ,
boardered with large white, embroid-
cred turban. Then comes the Arab,
cloaked and hooded in voluminous and
ragged wrappings, of a doubtful shade
of white. The jews pass by, chatting
sociably, dressed in dark, rich materials,
and the Kabyles, too, from the near
mountains. Now appear two Moorish
women, who are seldom seen ON the
street except ON Friday, their holy day.
The appearance which these women pre-
sent is at a first glance ludicrous, but
after while it becomes interesting and
even fascinating to watch them. Al
though it is my second winter in Al
giers, find myself turning often TO
gaze after these silent spectres, yelled
and mysteriously hidden in voluminous
folds and draperies Of white. Very
little of their face is visible under the
haik and over the face-cloth, which is
drawn tightly below their beautiful
dark ewes. Their full white trousers,
worn over the house costume, are any
thing but graceful, as they walk slowly
and with difficulty. But we shall look
at these women more closely and study
into their lives at some other time.
Among these people of the flowing
white robes, mingle the French Zouaye
officers, in bright blue jackets and scar
let trousers, and the brilliantly dressed,
but neat little French soldier, elbows
with the negro from the Soudan or
Abyssinia. The French citizen walks
past accompanied by his wife and chill
dren in full Partisan toilet. Now a
couple of moorish soldiers meet, and rs
they stop to kiss each others hand, we
see the inevitable white turban, but dis
tinguish them from Others by their long
red cloaks, worn over the rich cloth cos
tune underneath.
And many couple pass by, clothed
in long straight ulsters and travelling
hats, whom we cannot fail to recognize
as our English cousins. Numerous
Spanish and Swiss are here, and few
Russians, Italians, Swedes, Poles and
Dutch, with good sprinlxling of Amer
leans here and there. Then, Of course,
the sailors whose steamers have touched
at the port for day or two, come from
all parts of the globe.
Here we meet many an invalid, stop.
ping on his morning walk to rest upon
one of the benches, while he luxuriates
in the delicious warmth of this balmy
air and sunshine.-Nec York Observer.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21
A Coal Mine Hero.

At the Coroner's inquest on Thomas
Holm, who was killed a few days ago al
Hammond Colliery, at Pottsville, Penn,
a rare bit of bravery was disclosed.
Patrick Dougherty, Hobin's loader. was
at work at the gangway when Holm
went up into the breast or chamber tc
fire a shot. The hole where the charge
was placed was at the top of an eighteen.
foot plank elevated at an angle Of
seventy-tive degrees. Holm had placed
in the stick of dualin, tamped the hole
and lighted the fuse, when in coming
down he started great mass of coal and
was caught and crushed by an immense
boulder against the wall Of the breast.
Dougherty heard his scream, and
looking up into the dark chamber saw
the sputtering fuse. Not knowing what
had befallen his comrade, but knowing
if the shot went off Holm would surely
be killed, at the great peril of his own
life he climbed the steep plank am
pulled out the fuse within an inch of tho
powder. He found Hobin later with tb
life crushed out of him.
Mine Inspector Stein says that in al
his experience he never saw a drawer ac
nor more presence Of mind, and publicly
at the inquest commended younf
Dougherty, and then turning to the
crowd offered to head a subscription Il
buy him gold watch and chain. The
citizens of Girardville have undertaken
to present the memorial.-Noic York
Telegram.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

time but one in sixty years that the can
didates of two great parties shared as
leading figures in the inaugural event.
Martin Van Buren, rode side by side
with William Henry Harrison at the in
auguration of the latter in 1841, and
Andrew jackson rode with John Quincy
Adams at his first Inauguration in 1929.
In no other instance has the outgoing
President been the defeated candidate
of his party. 1t is noticeable circum-
stance, also that in these two like events
since Jackson's time, the successful men
should be grandfather and grandson
whose names have both been associated
distinctively with the history of the
State of Indiana, while the unsuccessful
men were both New Workers.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

| drudge on his own ACCOUNT.
Withal. he was prosperous IN way
a very humble one, and IN vocalion
not usually chosen by ambitious people.
It was not chosen by Dick, with whoh
necessity supplied the place OF prefer
ence in a good many matters.
He was engaged in the sale oil second,
hand clothing in the great centre OF
that trade. the renowned Baxter street,
of which the surroundings, although
unique, are painfully unromantlc. Inc
store was not the property OF DICK, Du l'
of the Widow Creecy, upon whose uei'i !
it would belong to Dick, his brotner anu
two sisters.
| Dick. however, constituted the man
agement, as the widow was bedrlddeh,
the daughters lazy and the protner
We rthless. >.
I With these conflicting elements IL
was hardly possible to expect an angeiic
disposition of Dick, who, in order to get
the crusts which kept body and soul To-
gether, was shut up eteinaily IN the
grim looking store among the cast-o1
garments, while the others amused
themselves as they liked best ana
abused Dick for variation.
The drudge confined his attention 10
business, and let them go, course ne
had found to be the most profitable ana
had consequently adopted. BY this
mosns he had brought the affairs OF the
family from bankruptcy into the com
Portable condition of thousand dollar
surplus.
The thousand dollars was kept in a
safe in the store, ready to be expended at
any moment when favorable opportu-
nifty presented for sorting up stock.
The sole companion of Dick during
all this long apprenticeship to patience
and thrift and the miscellaneous virtues
which go TO make successful merchant
was a meagre and dilapidated jack
daw.
Between Dick and the jackdaw existed
strong sympathy and something of
resemblance. They both looked Injured
TO hard knocks. The jackdaw was
minus leg and an eye. His survival
was due to the interference OF Dick,
who had purchased him immunity from
further mutilation Mt the hands of his
brother by administering a licking to
him. Since then the bird had devoted
itself to Dick with the gratitude which
the dumb creation invariably shows for
kindness from man. There was even n
similarity in the manner of speech of
the jackdaw and its master, for the bird
could speak huently few sentences
which Dick with some care had taught
il to remember, and the sharp, incisive
style in which it said these things had
been copied unconseiously by Dick.
There was also sagacious and SEN
tentieus manner about the iaekdaw
which Dick, probably from studying it,
had adopted to advantage.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

That large proportion of the seamen
on our men-of-war are foreigners is a
fact unpalatable, but nevertheless true.
How much of menace it may be to the
nation in the event of war remains to
be seen. When the frigate Constitu-
ton made her memorable cruise under
Hull, which resulted in the capture of
the Guerrero, every man was an Amer
lean sailor, the great majority of them
belonging to Marblehead. But to-day
there is no incentive for the average
American youth to adopt the sea as a
profession. There are no ships, no en-
couragement, no prospect, and they drift
into other pursuits. The cruiser Boston
may be taken as sample of the nation
alities making up her crew. The pay
rolls revealed, out of200 men, IA claim
ing American birth. OF the remaining
1875 men, 30 were Irish, Is Germans, II
Swedes, il English, IL japanese, 8 Nor
wegians, 9 Canadians, Danes, g Scotch
men, from the West Indies, 6 Firms, 2
Russians, and each from France, Italy,
Belgium, Greece, Austria, Wales, Aus
tralia, Madeira and the East Indies.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

But If the iackdaw's preference for its
deliverer was marked, its dislike for the
brother who had MANNED it was quite rs
conspicuous. At his approach Jack
would select a dark and secure corner.
from which retreat it would never ven
ture till he had left the place. From
this corner, with the red light of It's eve
cleaning like diabolic fire, it would
watch its enemy with malignant look
terrible to witness even in bird.
Enthusiastically they loathed one an
other, and it was doubtful if the vanity
of the jackdaw could ever have been APP
peased for the loss Of its leg and eye even
if its hatred had been overcome, pride
being such q strong ingredient in its ma
ture.
1t was the custom of Dick to close up
his store at about 10 p. m. and, after
boiling himself securely in, to retire to
a comfortable crib he had made himself
in the back of the store. Sometimes, it
was true, he consoled himself for an
hour with his story paper, but more of
ten being tired, he went straight to bed
The iackdaw, perched ON beam
some ten feet above him, watched over
the slumbers of the young merchant as
If it had been his guardian angel.
1t was some two hours after he had
adjourned to bed, one wet, miserable
Winters night, that Dick was awaken
ed by his friend the jackdaw in the way
it usually awoke him when he oversight
himself in the morning or when suspi-
cious sounds reused the fears of the
watcher.
1t was by peclSing gently at its masters
nose that the lackdaw reused Dick from
his slumbers and brought him, rubbing
his eyes, to his feet.
Dick soon discovered the cause of the
iackdaw's alarm. There was some one
tapping gently on the window. Pulling
on his trousers, Dick went Immediately
to the front of the store and found that
his brother Harry was outside beseech-
ing admittanee. There was not much
love lost between the brothers, as Dick
looked upon Harry as scapeclace.
whose deficiencies he had to make GOOD
by extra labor, and Harry considered
Dick as the worst kind Of a curmudeeon.
SO with some reluctance Dick let the
door drop and his brother walked IN
smelling very strongly of rum and to-
bacco and appearing to be in no good
humor. Dick carefully bolted the door
after him and led the way up the store
to where the stove still burned brightly.
and, pushing a seat toward his brother.
he sat down opposite to him, saving:
well, what is it YOU want with me
now you are insidei"
A drunken smile came over the face
Of the loafer as he blurted ont.
Some OF that stuff as Won have salta5
down, me boy. I'm in a hole. and
want hundred dollars to get me ont Of
it" - ~ y
"a hundred dollarsl" answered D;cL
with amazement and indignation. ssand
what do You think 1 have scraped and
worked early and late for, That vo,,
might 60 offand spend hundred dollars
Of the savings when You thought a. ~
You might have spared yourself the from
bic Of calling me out of he'd. for Won,
certainly won't get nickel here
Listen to de boss. said tba otb.r
with a derisive chuclle. Think ven
bluff me of, do you, mateys Now iool
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

keenly, and mouth that seemed to
have been wrung awry from biting knot
ty crusts, or perhaps by the ravages Of
neuralgia.
Truthfully, Dick mad taken his share
Of crusts with the world, for they seemed
to have been his natural inheritance.
He was put of with crusts when too
small to remons.rate at the Injustice
and every one seemed to have followed
in the track of his parents with their
donations Of crusts, supposing him to be
a receptacle for them This is a way
that the world seems to have. This
stinting and stuntinghad warped Dicks
nature and given him a dry, harsh tone
as it had an unlovely face aud figure.
but he had never budged at his destiny.
taking to the crusts as they came along.
and crunching them, bitter or sweet.
with the logged hope that some day the
people who had been getting the ginger
bread would change places with him.
This was not a nice spirit for q young
man TO cultivate. and some people a
good deal better off that Dick might
criticise it, although they might have
no objection to his eating their crusts.
1t was, therefore, the fortune Of Dick
not to be loved much either by his fam
lily or his neighbors, while against his
greatest neighbor, mankind, he nursed
almost insensibly little well-deserved
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

FIVE years ago Miss Anna Snyder
went to Dakota and located claim in
a dessolate part of the country nine
miles from Woodstock. She built a
snug little shanty and for time sup
ported herself by doing days work in
Woodstock, walking in and out to her
claim. In winter she taught school.
Meantime she improved her farm and
finally gave all her time to farming, in
which she has had success. She has
recently made final proof Of her home
stead and now owns valuable farm.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21
SKrIrroNs In the closets Of rornl fnm

SKELETONS in the closets of royal fam
lies continue 20 rattle. The recent
death of the young Emperor OF Anam
is now looked upon with suspicion. Ac-
cording to DIR. Lagrange, of Bordeaux,
who was formerly employed in the court
of Hue, when the Regency Council re-
solve to get rid OF an unsatisfactory En-
peror they present him with three
dishes, ON one of which there is a dag
ger, on the other silken cord, and on
the third poison. His Imperial Majesty
has only to take his choice.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21
LIFE N rrzEx CREEK.

Colonel whipsaw (of the Rattlesnaks
Ranch, being shown to his room in the
Bad Lands House)-Wh-what does Il
say on that air sign mp there!
landlords saws: Genesis vii
please remove their spurs before retir.
ing"
sBy the North Fork Of the Great
Crooked Bitterrooti Go out to the cor.
raj an git my hoss an I'll moseyl Il
the effete ways Of the wornout East are
sneakin in here like this I shall staIi
furler West tonight. - TEXAS SJtiRes.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

The importation of analine dyes in
Persia during recent years has come
near running the ancient art of carpet
making which has houIished in that
country for centuries, and the govern
ment has finally prohibited their impor-
tation. The introduction of these dyes
was producing serious results, the colors
formerly durable becoming perishable.
The adoption of vulgar European pat
terms of a ford type is also condemned
in the manufacture of Persian carpets.
Old Oriental designs constitute their
true beauty, and these mostly predomi-
nate in Turkoman carpets and in rugs
from SIENNA or Kurdistan.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21
Some Mexican superstiti''''

tits believed that the mlirIs- : d.
has slain his victim with sgoI 4. mo }
ger will escape if the body falls s, Tl. 5
side or back; but if the body " ~,
downward, then the mgrie murder 4 80
soon viii be captured and pus .i ~ rs.s
This belief is said to be 50 i'll -, NJ
among the people of northeasss. siI's y.
co that when 4 murdered man isll / s s Z
his face his SLAYER makes no e t.l,l,,r,sr.
cape, and even sometimes
surrenders himself 10 justice a. n
II a bride, while dressins = b
wedding. is pricked by p. ..,,Be =
the blood flows, great mis'oi''
ponds. = The -
thing at the same tine, : Ia
loosed from purgatorI.-i''
sine.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21
New York leads all States in the Unio

New York leads all States in the Union
in Marine tonnage. She has 1858, yes
sells and tonnage of 1,136, 800 on all
her waters, or nearly as much as the
whole of Norway, and more than the
whole of Germany. Massachusetts
comes next, maine is third and Califor-
mia is fourth, Michigan is fifth and
Pennsylvania is sixth.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE aggregate shipping of the world
still amounts to over 10000, 900 tons,
although there has been decrease of
nearly a quarter Of million tons during
the last year.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

THE report of the Pennsylvania peni-
Tertiary, which gives the moral condi
ton of the criminals confined in that
prison, is startling one, and gives the
National Prison Congress ample subject
for discussion. The first fact brought
out is that nearly all the prisoners are
church members, generally in good re-
pute at the time they We're convicted,
and still continuing, despite their incar-
ceration in tie penitentiary, devout in
their religious duties, only nine, or
barely per cent. being agnostics with
out religious belief. Again, four-fifths
of the prisoners were good readers and
only pew cent. uneducated, while of
trades and professions, nearly all fig
ured, only two being tramps or vaga-
bonds.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

A LIBRARY is to be established in
Paris which only books and writings by
women are to be admitted Carmen
SYLVIA" the poetry writing queen of
Roumania, has accepted the Presidency
of the library.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

IT is estimated that the present popu-
lation of the United States is "a, 900, 900.
The total increase is said to be 100, 900 a
month, exclusive of immigration, and
last year the increase by immigration
was $4,000. At this rate the next
census, which will be taken in July,
1890, will show about 67,000,00
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

THREE brothers in Allen county,
Kentucky, by the name of Read, who
we're all married in 1899, are soon to
celebrate their golden weddings togeth-
er with big family gathering. The
brothers are eighty-one, seventy-five and
seventy-one years old respectively.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21
PRor. SHA1ER. of Harvard COLLEGE,

PRoF. SHALER, of Harvard College,
who has given much thought to scheme
for providing the necessaries OF college
life at the lowest possible price, has,
with some other instructors, organized
the Economic Club" which viii pro
vide board for So. so week, and text
books and other things at low prices.
About 100 students have decided to go
into the scheme.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

The total expense of cultivating an
acre of grapes in California, is $15.
The curing and packing of an acre of
grapes, making "a hundred boxes of
raisins, is $55. And as the average
price of raisins is S1.50 box, there is
net profit of $50 per acre in the
raisin business.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

THE student of peculiarities observed
quite a peculiar thing in the inaugun-
ton. When the retiring President and
the President-elect rode down the av-
enue together to take part in the mo-
mentous transfer Of power from one
great party to smother, it was the frs
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

Few among the phenomena of growth
and development in America are more
startling than those presented by the
census in Brooklyn. When Washington
was inaugurated one hundred years ago
Brooklyn was only a cluster of houses
around the Wallabout Inlet. In 1909 it
had but 2,37S inhabitants. Its growth
in fifty years thereafter was compare
lively slow and did not enable 1t to
boast of more than $1,000. Since, then,
however, it has bounded into the front
rank of American municipalities, null
tiplying its population every decade un-
til now it has over SOC, 600 people within
its boundaries, and Is sure of a round
million before the century closes. This
recrod is truly wonderful.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

PICKING is like no other city in the
world. 1t is essentially different from
the other cities of China, and is the most
Asiapolitan city of Asia. 1t is more like
a great camp than city, and its walls,
fifty feet high and thirty and more feet
thick, make one think of soldiers and
sieges, Of rising and falling empires.
The thousands Of do-nothing mobiles in
gorgeous gowns who gallop through the
vile, filthy streets on ponies, with hun
dreds of soldiers and servants, dressed
in the raggedest of CANDY liveries, carry
out the illusion, and when You ask the
reason of the rags you are told it is not
poverty, but that the mobiles dare not
appear rich for fear the government
would levy a contribution upon them.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

LITTLE wiz
ened- looking
IN n n of
c h u n k Y
build, with a
stubby and
unpr sper-
Gus beard of
! ig h tbs IA
bioMn Color.
a pair of
sharp, sus-
picious ewes
which darted
at your face
n o W an d
again very
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-03-16
Party Calls.

There are certain small things al
girls ought to know about-little
forms of etiquette, the observance 81
which is expected among all well
bred people. Some understand by
instinct. or Inheritance, or by Obser.
walton, but others appear to need Il
hint. A lady once told me that she
was much chagrined at having been
guilty of not making "party CALLS
in . city where she had spent part Of
. winter aud had been invited to . v
eral houses. She was refined and
cultivated. but had never been much
in society in large towns, aud actually
did not know what was expected of
her until it vas too late. She said
that just before returning to her home
she heard a lady in the house where
she was boarding ask another, ''Have
You made your party calls I" The
matter was d puzzle to her.
At the first opportunity she asked a
friend to whom she was not afraid
to betray her ignorance the meaning
Of the expression, and found that by
the etiquette OF society it was the po-
lite and proper thing for her to make
a call at each of the houses where
she had been invited. Imagine her
chagrin on being told what a "party
call" was! She did not wish to be
considered crude or rude, but as crude
or rude those hOstesses must regard
her. In some cases, like hers, it is
Ignorance and in others it is negli-
gence ; but the lady who has invited
you will be likely to set persons down
as under bred or ill bred who fail of
this small courtesy. A good many
instances Rave come to my knowledge
since then Of young girls who have
been honored by invitations to q
choice garden or indoor party, and
never afterward took the trouble to
call. have known even a more dis
crcditablo thing-it is incredible, but
true, that young people have actually
left such a party without taking leave
Of their host and hostess!- Wide
Arake.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-03-16

Conductor Provost Of the Pennsyl-
sania Long Branch road, made .
startling mistake the other day. if q
story in the Mount Holly Herald is cor
rect. 4 woman with three chirdren
boarded his train. Cne of the children
was IN infant, which Conductor Pro-
vost CALAMITY raised in his arms, say
ing: "lll bring it into you, ma'am ;
just step aboard with the rest" The
woman did 90, the signal to start was
given and Provost jumped aboard
with the infant. He walked into the
and deposited the cherub, as he
supposed, in the mothers lap.
"What's this for r. said the female
passenger, excitedly.
"lt's your baby, ma'am," responded
Provost with . smile.
my baby y shouted the now thor
oughly excited passenger, "Why, I'm a
single woman, l never had a baby in
ny lifew
just then the mother of the child
called out: Here l am, bring the baby
Provost at once made q profound
apology, but the Disguised female pas-
senger wouldn't look at him