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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-30
From Chicago to Tampa. Fla.

A route of travel has been projected by
a number of western business men which
will connect Aspinwall directly with Chi
cago, by way of Tampa, Fla. If a line
were to be drawn through Tampa from
Chicago to Aspinwall, it would be almost
straight, and its length would be 1900
miles At present goods from Cuba, the
West Indies and Central America for
Chicago are shipped by way of New
York, sometimes going to Europe first,
and sometimes being shipped from As
pinwall to New York. The distance
from Aspinwal to Chicago via New York
is $500 miles.
1t is a thousand miles by direct rail
route from Chicago to Tampa When
the railway is constructed, steamers
from the West Indies. Cuba, ETC., will
bring goods to Tampa, which can then
he shipped direct. Beyond doubt Tam
IA has a fair future ns SEAPORT
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-30
a TAME SENSATION.

How AN FnterprlsIng Reporter Was Sold
by Condemned Criminal.
Nearly u score of years ago, when l
was q reporter on St Louis daily, an
atrocious murder was committed in a
locality about two hundred miles
away. A farmer killed his wife,
mother and brother, and then coolly
sat down on the doorsteps and waited
to be arrested. He admitted the crime,
explained his reasons, and in due
course of time was convicted and sem
fenced to be hanged. A few days pre-
vious to the date of execution we got
o sly pointer that the murderer was
going to make q statement or con-
fession of startling interest, and the
city editor bundled me off in a hurry
to get scoop" l found the sheriff
a very good-natured man, and very
soon after my arrival l was permitted
to see the condemned. l explained
why / had come and he replied:
Eyes, am going to make state
ment, but how do 1 know you are
what you represents"
Here is my card"
But that won't go. Any one can
print what he likes on q card. want
certificate from the paper"
telegraphed to the city editor and
he telegraphed me back "charac-
ter" but the prisoner shook his head
and said:
81 can't take any thing of that sort.
Iwant written certificate"
1t took me two days to get it, and
was in a sweat all the time for fear
some other paper would get onto the
case. | lost no time in getting up to
the jail with the paper, and the con-
demned read it carefully, and then OBJ
served:
81 am now quite satisfied that you
are oil right"
"And now for the statement" re-
plied. getting out paper and pencil.
"Well, you can say that after ma
ture reflection l have decided to de-
clare that am innocent of the muir
der of which have been convicted. F."
..But-but-you-
.sThat's the statement. sir, and that's
oil I claim to be an innocent man.
Good night"
had been badly sold. That was
,no sura and substance of the sensa
tion. and indeed all he would say'-N
Y. Sun. -
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-30
Fir Stronger than Oak.

II is generally supposed that oak Is
much stronger than fir. but series of
tests made recently at the car shops
of the Northern Pacific railroad in
Tacoma, Wash. T., show that the re-
verse is actually the case. The tests
were made by actual breaking strain
on sticks 2x4 inches and feet long,
the weight being applied in the middle
of span of feet 8 inches. The re-
suits of five tests were as follows:
First, an old piece of yellow fir, six
years exposed to the weather, broke
at 1902 pounds; second, new. soft
piece or fine grain yellow fir broke at
3,062 pounds; third, an old piece OF
yellow fir. coarse grain and hard,
broke short at 1920 pounds; fourth, a
new piece of fir from the butt OF a
tree, coarse grain, broke with a
stringy fracture of 1855 pounds; fifth
a new piece of Michigan oak broke
nearly short off at a weight OF 2, 42o
pounds. The reflections before break
ing were as follows: The first and
second pieces, half an inch; third
three-eighths of an inch; fourth, tive
eighths of an inch; fifth, the oak
piece. one inch and an elghth.-St-
Paul Pioneer-Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-30
the rElLTALE TELESCOPE.
What It's owner Saw SFhile Playing with
the Powerful Glass.

what Tts owner Saw ahiIe Playing With
the Powerful Glass.
A certain gentleman who has cot
tage upon the beached margin OF the
sea has been by friend presented
with a telescope so powerful that
through it the faces and doings OF I'M
conscious passers on yachts lar out at
sea can be clearly discerned. On
recent afternoon. as he sat amusing
the leisure and idle hour which fol-
lows the completion of the daily duty
of smoking the midday cigar, by look
ing through the glass he saw on a
Yacht far out at sea. miles away from
any thing to give them a notion that
they were likely to be seem FOND
lover pressing to the lips of a lovely
damsel the most ardent OF kisses.
The worst of the matter was that he
recognized the lady as the daughter OF
friend, and he thus found himself in
the very awkward predicament OF
having intruded upon the privacy OF
the lovers and OF having, so to say,
stolen their secret. He continued to
look until the lacking of the yacht
brought the pair from behind the sail
into the sight OF the skipper who was
managing the boat. when OF course
they at once became proper and ceased
to be interesting. He thus forfeited
all claim to the plea OF inadvertence
with which he might have soothed his
conscience had he simply looked and
turned away. He had deliberately
spied, and there was no gainsaying the
fact.
He is now laying the whole blame
upon the giver of the telescope. whom
he charges boldly with being at heart
his enemy, and with having taken this
subtle and cunning method of under
mining his self-respect and manhood
He declares that no gentleman would
give to another an instrument which
can not be used without intruding
upon the privacy Of his neighbors to a
degree wholly incompatible with
good breeding. and he announces that
he has expressed this view to his
friend, the giver of the telescope.
And what reply did he make?' was
asked by one of the household as the
irate master OF the house laid down the
proposition aforesaid.
.Repfyr' echoed the owner of the
telescope. HE wrote back that he
was glad it worked so well, and that
he should come down and try it for
himseln' -BOston Courier.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-30
EMPEROR AND LANCER.
A Story Which Gives a Good Illustration
of Military Red Tape.

of Military Red Tape.
Busy men, accustomed to do BUSH
ness in brisk. common-sense fashion,
find official red tape so vexatious that
it is no wonder they invent stories to
make it ridiculous. The French have
one of these, which is perhaps as good
as any. When Napoleon III. was En-
peror, so the narrative runs. he sat
one day at Longchamps, sleepily re-
viewing his army. Regiment after
regiment passed, but nothing seemed
to stir the Emperor from his lethargy.
At last, however rs regiment OF
dragons rode by, he suddenly fixed
his attention upon the front rank.
What is that lancer doing there
among the dragoons?" he asked his
chief of staff.
The chief of staff looked at the
lancer, and galloped away to the divis-
ion commander, while the Emperor
sunk back into his customary impas-
siveness.
1.-The Emperor demands to know
why that lancer is among the dra-
goons?"
The General looked shocked and
called out sharply to the Colonel OF
the regiment:
Colonel, what have you got that
lancer among your men for?'
The Colonel was dumbfounded, and
appealed to the commandant of the
squadron: whats that lancer doing
here?'
II don't know, SIR" exclaimed the
commandant of the squadron; and he
called the Captain.
Look here, Captain, why have you
got that rascally lancer in your com
panyP"
The Captain pleaded ignorance. IN
ask the Lieutenant" he said.
BY this time the inquiries began to
be garnished with Oaths and abuse.
The Lieutenant, apparently surprised
beyond expression at the presence OF
the lancer, hurled question and impre-
cation all at once at the head of the
orderly sergeant
What in the world is that lancer
here for?"
Then the orderly sergeant rode up
to the lancer himself, as if he were
about to cut him through to his sad
die.
you villain! What are you doing
here among the dragons? The En-
peror is after you. You'll be shot at
the very least"
"But sergeant" the soldier STAN
mered, "you know I've permitted, sir!'
Formulation in the army means
transfer, by authority, from one corps
to another.
"Permuted, ehP" said the sergeant.
well. that won't help you now"
The orderly sergeant went to the
Lieutenant with the report that the
man had permitted; the Lieutenant
told the Captain. and the Captain the
commandant of the squadron, and the
commandant of the squadron the Col
onel. and the Colonel the General, and
the General the Chief of staff, and the
Chief of Staff came to the Emperor.
Sire" he began, the lancer has
permitted"
What lancer?"
The lancer whom your Majesty
noted among the dragons.
''Uh yes! He's permitted, chr said
the Emperor, sleeply. "Well, he
looked like good man. Let him have
a medalr-YOuth's Companion.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-30
Words Of Living Gold.

When Mrs. Hastings, of Carlisle, N.
Y, passed over the dark river, her
husband had an epitaph all ready for
her monument. A ABORTION of it reads:
She never borrowed one single thing
from a neighbor during her thirty
four years of welded life" What no
bier sentiment could be expressed in
the English language.-Detroit Free
Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-30

Joseph G. Parkinson. of Chicago,
is said to be the only deaf and dumb
lawyer in the country. He is asso-
ciated with his twin brother, who does
not share his disabilities. When Mr..
Parkinson was twenty-three years old
he was chief examiner in the Patent
Office at Washington, a place he held
for six years. In 1879 he resigned and
soon afterward was admitted to prac-
tice before the United States Supreme
Court. He now ranks as one of the
most successful patent lawyers in the
country
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-30
-"Jedoe." said the juryman,

-"Jedge." said the juryman' I'm
an old man and have had more expert
ence in court matters than you have
I'm seventy-two years old and have
served on the jury nine terms ana
probably shall never agin' I've got
this much to say to yer, Jedge- we've
kinder taken notice of how yer man
aged things, you bein' new to TINS DuS,
mess and we like yer. We've talked
the thing over and we've voted to stand
hv ver Now. if any of them lawyers
attempt to crowd yer any, ledge. yer
inst give us the word and we'll be
with yer every time. We've taken an
interest in yer and yer can depend Oh
us. That's all. ledge.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-30
Progress of Electricity.

In 1876, only thirteen years ago
only as long as it takes a young miss
to grow into tolerably long dresses
we had but a couple of Gramme ma
chimes and a few lamps of very crude
and unsatisfactory construction and
wonderfully low efficiency at the
Philadelphia Centennial. Just think
of it, seriously, thoughtfully, with
your eyes shut, for one moment, and
then say to yourself there are $780,
000,0 900 to-day invested in the electric
business, with over 337.017 arc and
2.704. 76S glow lamps, and the 100 rail-
ways. with nearly 800 miles of track
and l 200 motor cars in daily service,
and then say, If you can, what the
power is. or the energy is, or the force
is or the whatever you call it is, which
is doing all this work. And, again.
predict if you dare what the next
thirteen years, while that laughing
little miss is growing to be staid
matron, will accomplish with this
same unknown and unknowable
laborer in the world of science, and
art, and the domestic economy Of the
world. Electrical Review.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-30
-"How are you getting along wit t

-"How are you getting along WIN
vour work on the piano?" asked blink
ms of young woman. I'm: very
well; I can see great progress In my
work. "How is that9" "Well' tne
family that lived next door moVeu
away within a week after l commenced
to practice. The next family stayed
month, the next ten weeks, ard the
people there now have remained near
ly six months. n-Washington Capital
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

possible, so they can compete with
rivals favorably situated that it must
give them every chance to live and
prosper in order that they may flourish
and furnish it with freight and passen-
gers This is the correct view, and
it is the justification for the invest
ment of money in numerous short
lines of road which are at first unpro-
ductive. One of the leading railroad
superintendent ofthis section said to
US not long ago: "We can afford to
build a branch over any feasible route
where the business the first year will
pay for running the trains, for the in
crease of traffic resulting from ample
railroad facilities will in a short time
pay other expenses and dividends"
If we apply this to the Stowe case
that road should be built at once, for
it will put new life into the town,
double and treble its business and
give the corporation large amount
of traffic which itdoes not get now. 1t
will create new industries, prosper
those already in existence, carry
thither a great stream of summer
travel and put a market value into a
great deal of property that is now of
little account; and it will provide the
main line with feeder from which it
can draw nourishment continually and
forever.-MjrTor and Farmer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
WE TFIELD.
Geo. R. Hoyt is at home.

Geo. X. dOyU Is at nome.
Mark Stone goes on crutches for afew days.
Nell Wright is visiting her sister, Mrs. S. E,
Miller.
Jesse Buck has returned to his home in
Bristol, Iowa.
The week of prayer is observed this week at
the Cong'l church.
Mr.. and Mrs Pettingill of Derby, were in
town last Sunday.
E. S. Davis and Sophronia Hoyt were mar
ried New Years day.
NJ W. Farman returned to the U. V. NJ, at
Burlington, last Monday.
There was a wedding anniversary at Ed
Todd's New Years evening.
Decon NJ c. Hitchcock returned from his
trip to New York this week.
Chas. Clark and wife of Bloomington are
visiting at Jennison Bailey's.
The A. s. Miller creditors were paid their
dividend this week-43 per cent.
D. A. Winslow went to Boston Wednesday
to spend few weeks with his daughter.
Mrs Electa Brown and Mrs. Sarah Porter
of No. Troy, are visiting Mrs. Geo. HOyt.
The Streeter boys have an apple which is
over a year old and still in good condition.
Owen McGough damned his hand few
days ago and is unable to labor at present.
Rev P n Granger exchanged pulpits last
N. G. Miller has bought the ground the
creamery building stands on of the A. S. Mil
Ter estate.
The young people of the NJ. E. Church hold
a prayer meeting each Saturday evening at
Mrs Orrin Miller's.
Alice Hazelton, Lillian Wright and Ethel
Wright attended the Orleans Co. musical Con-
vention at Newport this week.
Nearly forty of the G. A r. Post met at the
camp fire at Willard Farman's New Years
evening and report a pleasant meeting.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

The Green-mountain State is true
blue every time with its black repub-
licanism. The question at an election
is always one of quantity, the quality
being assured. Such a record as
Vermont has is entitled to recognition,
and if we mistake not, it will receive
the recognition it desires and de-
serves. AT the National Convention
in Chicago the Vermont delegation at
every roll call from the very start,
voiced its sentiments in no uncertain
sound, as the Chairman called out in
stentorian tones Benjamin Harrison
of Indiana" Neither the Chairman
nor any member of the delegation
doubted the wisdom of their choice
and later events have not led them to
change their minds very materially.
The Chairman of this delegation was
Ex-Governor Redfield Proctor, a man
who for political sagacity, business
tact and executive ability has no
superior in the state. As the Presi-
dent Of the Producers Marble Com
pany, with his headquarters at Proc
tor, near Rutland, he controls and
manages the most important industry
of the State and during the past few
years while in the Governors chair
and later as a business man he has
won the esteem and has been the
admiration of the whole State. Little
wonder that he is Vermont's favorite
son and that all Green Mountain
boys are awaiting with eagerness the
announcement of the incoming cabinet
for they are confident, as we are, that
among the list suggested by the wis
dom and good sense of the President
elect who is likely to make his own
selection will be included the name of
Redfeld Proctor Of Vermont.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
The Democratic Party and the
Farmers.

eve have over seven millions O
people in this country engaged ii
planting and farming, and l am safe
in saying that in our entire popula.
ton of the United States no other
class. nor as many more, can be
found who know as little about the
economic questions and the system Of
government taxation as do the farm
ers of America. In the first place
they do not read the daily press. Not
more than so per cent. of them read
their country paper, and when ii
comes TO the study of the principles
of our system of gathering revenues,
there is not 20 per cent. of them that
can tell you from what source the gov
eminent gets its money, and if they
attempt to do so it will be to repeat
what their party speaker said at Jones
school house."
This extraordinary extract from a
letter sent to the Tariff Reform League
at its Friday nights meeting is wor-
thy of more than passing notice. 1t
was written by an individual named
W. J. Hilligoss, Chief of the eastern
division in the pension office, and it
not only stamps him as an offensive
partisan who should very speedily he
gotten rid of. but it also marks him as
man of singular narrowness and
misinformation. The free traders in
the disappointment of their defeat
have complained rather savagely of
the way the agricultural classes fell
behind the free trade expectations,
but Hilligoss makes rather the most
sweeping and unjust accusation of
them all. Considering the closeness
with which the strongholds Of igno-
rance and the strongholds of Democra-
cy coincide over the entire country, a
charge that the farmer vote, which is
so strongly Republican, is an nnin-
formed vote, savors strongly OF lmpu-
dence. 1t is new complaint to
bring against the farmers that they do
not read and do not understand the
principles of their government. In
speaking for New England we can
safely say that no class in our whole
surpasses the farmers in a
thorough knowledge of public affairs
and live political issues. Indeed it is
altogether likely that in these kinds |
If information they stand preeminent
among our entire people. The States
IF the West and Northwest are set
lied largely by men of New England |
origin, who have confessedly given an
impress to the whole great region.
Judging by the persistency with
which the West and Northwest sup
ports the Republican party, we should |
conclude the New Englanders took
heir reading and studying habits to
heir new homes with them, and that
hey have induced their neighbors to
jollow their example and keep thor
0ughly informed on the vital questions
Of the day. Of the Southern farmers
and their habits of thought we are I'M
able to speak with authority. Per-
maps the political affiliations of the
mass of them sufficiently indicate
what their habits are. Mr.. Hilligoss
nay have obtained his ideas of Amer
can farmers from a study of the
armers of that section. But so far as
he Northern farmers are concerned,
he reason that they do not vote the
Democratic ticket is not that they
'ead too little, but that they read too
much.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
RaiIro ad to Stowe, Vermont.

We are informed that the Central
Vermont Railroad has offered-if
assisted by gratuities to the extent of
$4,000, to build a branch from its
station in Waterbury up the valley to
the village of Stowe, where is the Mt.
Mansfield House. We are greatly
interested in Stowe, for it has been
our summer home for several years,
and we do not know where there is a
more charming spot on Gods green
earth or a more fertile one in New
England, and we sincerely trust the
golden opportunity to connect it by
rail with the outside world will be
improved, for the day has gone by
when even a town so blessed with
natural advantages as Stowe can con-
tinue to thrive ten miles from the
main line of railroad. We have seen
in our own State and we see every
where how villages spring up and
prosper around the terminus of rail-
road how they become the centers of
trade, of manufacturing, of education,
culture and material prosperity, and
how the old towns, famous in local
history for their wealth and enterprise
in the days of stage-coach, shrivel
and decay when the railroad passes by
on the other side, and it is the I'M
alterable law of the period that this
shall continue. That Stowe has so
long been able to hold her own, to
attract visitors from far and near
during the summer months and to re-
trim enough of her sons and daughters
to cultivate her broad acres and pre-
vent a serious loss of population is
evidence enough of her attractiveness
and substantial resources, but these
will scarcely avail to save her through
another decade. Situated as she is
she cannot 90 ahead, and any town
that does not do that must retorgrade.
And here is a good place to say a
word about the construction of short
railroad branches in general in New
England. 1t used to be the theory
that a railroad should be built only
where there was business enough to
support it, but a broader policy OBJ
tains now and the sagacious railroad
manager pushes out the arms of his
system to all the points where there is
reasonable promise that it can create
a paying business. Again, it was
formerly held to be poor judgement to
go after patronage which was COM
PEELED to come to a road. To illus
trate, it has been argued all along
that the Central Vermont could not
afford to go up the valley to Stowe
because if it did not, Stowe would go
down the valley to reach it at Water
bury, and it would have the business
just the same; but this idea has also
been abandoned, and it has come to
be generally acknowledged that it is
quite as much for the interest of a
railroad corporation as for its patrons
that it should give them every facility |
for carrying on their enterprises that
it must 90 out from its main line on
sidings and branches to meet them |
and enable them to ship their mer-
chandise as cheaply and easily as