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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-11
IN THE LOCAL COLLEGES.
wHxT THE STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS OF
COLUMBIA AND THE UNIVERSITY

ARE DOING.
The trustees OF Columbia have decided to make
the fun for degree in the newly established
School Of Electrical Engineering years partial
course Of year will entttle the student TO
tiicate of proficiency.
The college has received a gift Of 10000 from
Charles T. McKim the architect 10 found travelling
scholarship in the Department Of Architecture IN the
school OF Mines
Considerable interest Is being created at Columbia
in the tug-ofwar teams. number Of candidates are
trying for each Of the class teams and the class tugs
for the championship Will be pulled In few weeks.
From the in the class teams the vacancies In the
Varsity team will be filed. Hart. 80, and Robinson.
80. who pulled in last years Varsity team. which
the intercollegiate championship, will again pull.
Alexander Stevens 81 is coaching the candidates and
the outlook is bright for Columbia, as number OF
powerful men are in training
The trustees OF Columbia at their last meeting
passed resolution giving the basement OF the former
home Of the president the college campus 10 De
used az a gymnasium for the students. They also
made appropriation TO pay for the fixing mp OF the
new gymnasium. and on Tuesday representatives OF
the different athletic and sporting associations Of the
gestiOns TO now the place should be htted out
C. W Culver the fqback Of The football team o hs q
sprained his ankle and {. W. Irppc, VINO mas PIayeu
right end. has been put in his place temporarily.
The annual meeting of the Council Of the University
Of the City Of NewYork was held last Monday evening
The old officers Of the council were ected, ana
Francis A Palmer and George W. vanderbilt were
newly elected 10 membership in the council The an
uual report OF NceChanceuOr MacCracken shower
marked progress IN each department OF The university
in the year. The general endowment fund OF u9
college amounts to S423,l77 80 gain OF 9ll'ooO
over last year.
ViceChanc ellor MacCracken has pleasant custom
of receiving the students at his bone one d ns ne co
wee bov Ea and H. anS his Wife ne are at home to ali
them who choose to call on that evening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-11
STEAMBOATS,.
Jtfumo0u[9.
CATSklLL EVENING LINE.
" Boats leave daily for
Catskili Intermediate landings a. o.
from foot Of Jays North River.

ITO NEW-HAVEN, &C.
i INCLUSION good Q days., 81. %.
Peck slip. Pier 25, e r. p m and II p m. SUNDAYS
excepted, connecting az New Haven with special trains
toI MERIDEN, HARTFORD. SPRINGFIELD. HoLc
ga Broadway. NewYork. and Cour,st. Brooklyn.
NJ ORWlCH LINE-FAV ORITE INSIDE
corresponding reductions all
40 (Of number. North River. Of
=; Desbrosses-sr Ferry. daily
excepted, at 30 Tickets and statefOons secured
principal ticket Offices In New-York and BROOKLYN; az
eompanys once 3I Broadway at Pier "a NorA River,
and on Westc0tts Express viii call for anh
check baggage from hotels and residences
HUDSON AND COXSACKIE.-Steamer
49, AATERsK ELL leaves Pier SSN foot Of Jayss.
IL ESDAYS. THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS at D. m,
connecuns at Hudson with Boston and Albany Railroad
EALL RIVER LINE. Boston, SO,
FOR F1ItST-CLASS LIMITED TICK FITS.
Fares reduced 10 all points. steamers PURITAN an1
PILGRIM leave Pier Is n. r. foot Murray-st az 80
D. N daily SUNDAYS included. Connection By Annex
oo15 I'M, INN ~ ssr9ssyn and jersey City at p m-
- RETURNING. trans connecting with q FAlt
River leave Boston week days at SUNDAYS at ..
steam heat in staeeooms. AN ORCHESTRA each
steamer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
sInEHI4N PRISON.

George KEENAN,, the well-known
traveller. writes in the Century about a
prison in Siberia, visited by him, as fol-
lows:
The Cossack corporal who preceded
us threw open the heavy wooden door
of the first kamera Cl1ah-mer-ah) and
shouted, "Smirno!" (Smeer-no)-"Be
quiet!" the customary warning OF the
guard to the prisoners when an officer
is about to enter the cell. We stepped
across the threshold into room about
q feet long, % feet wide and feet
high, which contained twenty-nine con-
victs. The air here was so much worse
than the air in the corridor that it made
me faint and sick. The room was
lighted by two nearly square, heavily
grated windows with double sashes,
that could not be raised or opened, and
there was not the least apparent pro-
vision anywhere for ventilation. Even
the brick oven, by which the cell was
warmed, drew its air from the corridor.
The walls of the kamera were of squared
logs and had once been whitewashed,
but they had become dark and grimy
from lapse of time and were blotched
in hundreds of places with dull red
blood-stains where the convicts had
crushed bed bugs. The floors was
made Of heavy planlSs and, although it
had recently been swept, it was in
crusted with dry, hardtrodden filth.
Out from the walls on three sides of the
room projected low, sloping, wooden
platforms about six feet wide, upon
which the convicts slept, side by side,
in closely-packed lows, with their heads
to the walls and their feet extended to-
ward the middle of the cell. They had
neither pillows nor blankets, and were
compelled to lie down upon these sleep.
benches at night without removing their
clothing and without other covering
than their coarse gray ovcrcoats. The
cell contained no furniture Of any kind,
except these sleeping platforms, the
brick oven, and large wooden tub.
When the door was locked for the night
each one Of these twentynine prisoners
would have, for eight or ten hours con-
sumption, about as much air as would
be contained in paclingbox five feet
square and five feet high. I could dis
cover no way in which a single cubic
foot OF fresh air could get into that cell
after the doors had been closed for the
EiUIt
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
4 REMEDY FOE SNORING.

Only the man or woman chained to
that rest-destroying angel, a snoring
partner, can appreciate its sinfulness.
The wicked emotions aroused in the
soul of the sufferer against the sleeper
cannot be transferred to paper. Could
man or woman preserve their night
thoughts OF the innocent offender dur
ing the entire "a hours, married life
would be a bleak, treeless, unwatered
waste. For this sort of affection, if
made public, man or woman gets only
the same class of sympathy accorded to
malaria g grinning. "That's TOO bad. !"
There is remedy for ague; quinine
is bitter, but it breaks up chills. There
is remedy for snoring, and that is Bit
ter, too. Scientists have discovered
that snorers are invariably great laugh
ers and takers, who exist principally
with their mouths wide open, thereby
clogging the breathing apparatus with
dust and roughening the delicate cords
by contact with crude air. To these
good-natured and loquacious sleep.
killers science says: shut up; keel
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
EIyIyG or snIpBOlRD.

A writer gives some interesting facts
about the enormous quantity of food con-
sumed in one "trip Of a steamship. The
perishable food only is bought in this
country, and such things as melons.
oysters, cigars, peaches, tomatoes, and
ether articles that are cheaper and bet
ter here than abroad, together with the
necessary supply of coal to carry the
ship across the Atlantic. When yes
sci of the first-class is lying at her dock
in New York in the spring months, with
nearly 1000 people to feed for seven Oh
eight days, she takes in an enormous
quantity OF provisions, which are put in
the ice room.
OF fresh beef the usual quantity is
l2,5oo poands, with 7GO pounds OF
corned beef, $3.50 pounds Of mutton,
$50 pounds OF lamb, $50 pounds of veal,
and the same quantity OF pork, and
about 1000 pounds of fresh fish. These
figures may we'll make the thrifty
IiHosC"4iS SAdle LII Up GU NoutlGI.
What could she do with fifteen tons of
potatoes put aboard every ten days?
The supply OF game is also enormous.
Think of 200 brace Of grouse for sim
gle voyage, with 600 fowls, 800 chick
ems, 100 ducks, so geese, 50 turkeys,
besides 80 hampers Of vegetables, 22@
quarts of ice cream, 1000 quarts OF
milk and 1880 eggs.
The groceries for the round trip in
clude $50 pound, of tea, 1900 pounds
Of coffee, 1,6o0 Of white sugar, 1880 OF
moist sugar, $50 Of pulverized sugar,
1000 Of butter, $500 Of ham, and LOCO
OF bacon. Rough weather is very ex-
pensive to the company, as the record OF
q recent voyage shows among the broker
articles 900 plates, $50 cups, 43S sau.
GERS, 1918 tumblers, 200 wine glasses
81 decanters and So water bottles
NelO York; Star.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
.SI{ .IDE IKEES

The shade trees about our dwellings
have done much to make our wives and
daughters pale, feeble, aud neuralgia.
Trees ought never to stand near enough
to our dwellings to cast a shade upon
them; and if the blinds We're removed,
and nothing but a curtain within to
lesson on the hottest days the intensity
of the heat, it would add greatly to the
tone Of our nerves and our general
vigor. The piazzas which project owe,
the lower story always make that less
healthy than the upper story. especially
for sleeping purposes. 1 am sure /
have cured a great many cases Of
rheumatism by advising patients to
leave bedrooms shaded by trees or
piazzas, and sleep in room and bed
which were constantly dried and puri.
fed by the direct rays Of the sun.-Dr
LeWis, IN st. Louis Magasine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
BROTHER G4RDNER.
He E"sphatica1'y REFUSES to &c a Candidate
for President.

ne E"l''"eeCAtty ke7t*cS 10 &c a t"H'ee""'e
for President.
Il hold heah in my hand, said
Brother Gardner, as the meeting opened
in due form, "a lettah from de Office of
de Mayor of Cincinnati, axing me if L
will be a candydate fur President in
1892, an addin' dat I am called by six
millyun Guild people. De selSretary OF
dis lodge will write him letter in re-
ply. He will write dc word 'Chestnuts! =
sign my name below, an direct it to dis
anxious inquirer. Dat word exactly ex-
presses my feelin's.
I'm de fust place, / ar no mo- fit to
be President of dis United States dan a
possum ar to teach Greek. In de next
place, l hev Earned from sad experience
dat SIGH honeyed words conceal an OBJ
iect. Eight vars ago man in Chicago
announced dat I was de choice of twenty
States fur President. He cum on yere
ten days afterwards an borrowed $40 Of
NE an have nebber seen him since.
Fo' vars ago pusson in Buffalo pre-
dicted dat [ would be nominated on
boaf tickets, and a week later he showed
up heah an boarded Oh me two weeks
al skipped out wild my best suit. 1t
was suggested last var dat l. be nomi-
nate for Guv'nor Of dis State. Dat sug-
gestion cost me SIS. Dis yere individual
il Cincinnati will be sloshing around
els way next week, if he doan't get dat
letter, calkerlatin' to hit me for $40 an
weeks board.
II say to you, my friends, de wust
befo pled man in the kentry am de man
who wants Office. He's everybody's
gam De man who thinks he's got a
political call has made a mistake. What
he takes fur de voice Of de Nashun am
simply de voice Of de fool-hiller. Fit
OF unfit, want no Office, nor will [ &C.
cept of any nomination. If dis yere
Lime-Kiln Club ki1l;;1aad dis kentry on
to fame and glory OATS honor huff fur
any OF us. say yero an now to de peo-
pie at large dat it will be useless to
waste any postage on me, an de man
who soft soaps me agin has got to do it
while | ar asleep
Brother Stepbacz Smith wanted to
inquire if Brother Gardner would not
change his mind in case his nomination
was spontaneous.
mo, sah!' was the vigorous reply.
Oar am no SIGH thing. to begin with.
De people Of this kentry doan' get up
an howl fur any particular man. Oars
too much good timber. Whar' any
howlin' is dun it is paid fur at SO much
per howl. Sot down, Brudder Smith
sot down an feel mo- dan eber deter
mined to wash Yer hands of politics an
what it leads to. "--DetyoH Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
GOOD Work TELLS,

A case Of considerable interest for
miners and mine associations has lust
been decided ct st. Etienne. Three
years ago the coal company of the Loire
gave up twelve pits in the Rive' de
Gier as unproductive. A syndicate Of
working miners took over the PROPERTY,
and by dint Of hard work and patience
succeeded in making it paying con-
Germ. Seeing this the company stepped
in and wanted to claim the mines bs,ck.
but the miners produced a letter of the
director of the association making tie
property over to them. The trbu1dal
decided against the company, which
will appeal, but public opinion is eveAy-
where for the miners, who had toilled
like Philippians for two long Years | in
quest of "black diamonds" and at latst,
by dint of superhuman exertlons and3 at
the cost of many privations, FOUND
them.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
HELEN OF TROY
by OLIVE GREEN.

Helen of Troy bent over long table
in the city Of nativity and ironed,
ironed, lroned, hour after hour, silently
pushing aside with red and swollen
hands the polished white cuffs which
found their way to every part Of the
civilized world
&or the modern Helen was "Trov
Laundry Girl"
Had you told her that the work done
10y her hands was actually sent not only
to every part Of her own land, but to
Europe and the islands of the sea, she
would have stared duly at you without
in fle least compromising the scope of
her work.
For, liz Che curriculum of the school
in which her education had been shaped,
the only geography known was that Of
the streets.
The whole world outside Of Troy was
labeled and set aside as "Unexplored
Territory"
, I5e thoroughfare ON which stood the
tenement in which she was born was Of
that kind common to our older cities III
which the proportions had long since
been lost between the number of in
has,ltants, human, canine, feline, and
the visible supply Of clothing and food
---as' had that also between the christian
graces, and the degradation and filth.
Dahe's alley was, in point of fact, the
Five Points Of thrifty, christian,
modern Troy.
Helen was child of the alley.
Twenty years before our story opens
she had been born the child of thief,
the 1iGst offspring Of a marriage with a
feel'le-minded girl as poor and degraded
as herself.
Mt a parentage calculated to endow
its children Will shining virtues by any
known laws OF hcredity.
For ten Years she had fought and
scratched and sworn her way through
lie IA Dukes alley, and "held her own
with ;1ie best of them" which inter
pre'ad by the outer world would have
read the worst of them"
In the ten years almost as many little
brothers and sisters had successfully
come, walled out for shorter OF longe,
period their feeble protest against the
hard conditions Of their environment
anG gone the silent way.
Only one had survived the struggle
Rhoda, four years younger than Helen.
The neighbors had been known to
say, tits lucky Bills folks young 'uns
dies off, for don't know how they'd
ever raise 'em, m they would not be
good for nothin' if they did raise 'em. -
bills folks" were not held in high
esteem even in Dukes alley.
Don't let 'em lick you, Nell! Let
'em know yere as good as any on em, u
had been the parental counsel.
Bills idea Of good" was not perhaps
that held by his christian and philan-
thropie fellowcitizens in the broade,
and less crowded streets near by.
To Bill its metes and bounds were
grit-muscle.
In the society of the alley, "I'm as
good man as he, freely translated
would have been, Gle can't lick me.
Helen's leanings toward goodness
had been developed solely on this line
Untaught, defiant, stupid, the one
tender spot in her heart was her love
for Rhoda.
Lay hand on Rhoda, n Til scratch
yer eyes out, was an edict frequently
issued against her companions of the
alley, and they knew that safety lay in
obedience.
An epidemic swept over the city, and
Dukes alley was decimated.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
REFORM4TORT.

Penitentiary Visitor-My poor -
how did you come to be in here ~
Prisoner-For selling fraudulent Ss "
and thereby getting money under ~
pretences.
visitox-I hope you'll become H.,
honest man here and be q goou w. =
whan you are released. Wha' '''
employed at by the State? sc
Prisoner-Making warranted out
leather soles for boots and shoes w.
pasteboa1d.- Worlos
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
EI-SECRETlRY WHI1NEY'S pO-
NANCE


The wife of Hon. William G. Whit
ney, recent Secretary Of the Navy, has
proved veritable mascot to him. And
the manner in which he became close
ally of Standard Oil is indicative of the
good fortune which has attended the as
tute politician and fnancier throughout
his career.
When young Whitney was in Yale he
had chum in a contiding classmate,
who is now Rev. Leander Chamberlain,
a brother Of exGov. Daniel Fl. Cham
berlain.
Young Chamberlain, so the story
goes, had won the heart of Miss PAYNE,
of Cleveland, Ohio, and he gave his
classmate glowing accounts of the charm
OF manner, conversational powers, and
other good qualifications of the lady to
young Whitney. On one of his vaca-
tons young Chamberlain invited his
chum to go to Cleveland with him and
make the acquaintance of Miss PAYNE.
The future corporation counsel and
Secretary of the Navy accepted the in
vitation; he made the lady's acquaint-
ance and managed so skillfully to be
stricken with Cupid's oleaginous bow
that ere many moo,s had passed young
Chamberlain had gotten his congo and
his chum, friend, and bosom companion
walked away with the fair prize.
Owing to the devotion of Col Oliver
Payne to his sister, she has proved a
boon to Mr.. Whitney, and the splendid
house at Fifty-seventh street and Fifth
avenue, and large gift, said to be
100000, when the Secretary and his
wife set out to startle Washington with
magnificent entertainments, are gen
orally set down among the good things
which young Whitney's chum lost
through that confding introduction.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09

vour mouth closed; better deprive the
world of your cackle ana cila''el .naa
turn money into gall and make marriage
failure" ~,
Bob Burdettes remedy Tor danarnn Is
the only recourse-chop the head OIL
MnsLjnotO1 critic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
THE Gu0yT or clMERON PISS.

In the summer of 1882 w. G. Hart,
the geologist, and two other enthusiast
tic collectors of specimens were en-
camred near the lava beds between the
head waters of the Cache de la Poudre
River and North Park. Tt was rough,
broken region, and the desolation was
heightened by the proximity OF the
orator of an extinct volcano, while bare
rocks and dead timber were everywhere.
The hope of securing rare formations
for their cabinets attracted the gentle
men to the uncanny spot, for every one
ayerred that Cameron Pass was
haunted by the spirit of an emigrant's
daughter. Joe Shepler, a well-known
mountaineer, who was plotting the
party through the hills had often seen
the ghost, and promised his compan-
ions that they should see the strange
apparation before returning to their
homes. He said the spirit was thief,
and frequently stole food and furniture
from the camps of hunters who ven
tured within her uninviting domain.
At dinner, Aug. II, 1882, Shepler
calmly announced that the Spirit Of
Cameron Pass was approaching, and
pointed to strange being which was
swiftly moving toward the camp. The
marauder came to within 500 yards OF
the men, and selling haunch OF
venison which had been' placed on.
stone ran off with it. Hart picked up
his rifle, and calling one of his comrades
to follow, started in pursuit of the thief.
She-they were sure it was woman
led them lively race directly toward
the lava beds. Being close pressed the
hunted creature dropped the meat and
sped onward to the opening Of cave.
The pursuers entered the cavern on the
heels Of the strange robber and found
the warm body Of dead woman. The
fright and exertion had killed her. The
corpse was that of woman about %
years old. Her only clothing was a
rude gown, fashioned of skins. Her
hair was very long and she was sun
burned and barefooted. The remains
We're buried decentlv.
An exploration of the cave disclosed
the fact that it had for some time been
used as habitatiou by the alleged
spirit. The ground was covered with
bones, and, although there We're cook
ing utensils about, it was evident that
they had never been used. The nfor-
tunate girl had subsisted on slolen
meats, root, and leaves. She had dried
meat for winter use. For several FEARS
she was thought to be spirit. CHI
caaQ HeraId
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
ONE TIME THAT He DIDy,r srop

Uncle Eb," as the boys called him,
was hard drinker. although it seemed
to go down easy enough, too. There
we're many, many years that he never
failed to put in his daily appearance at
the village tavern ard put in his erog
One day he died, and as the funero]
cortege filed slowly by the tavern. .
crony OF the deceased, standing on tbs
steps, remarked: "Ihat's the FIRST time
Uncle Eb. ever went by here without
stopping to get drink" --Teras Sift.
iaas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-09
lie RAN THE NIGHT EXPRESS.
BY FRANK II. srAurrER.


met little girl, one dry.
Beyond the railroad bridge,
With pail of berries she had picked
Along the banks high ridge
"Where do you live my child?" said,
And what may DO your name?"
She locked at mo with eyes askance,
Aud then her answer came:
"'Tlle house upon tho bluff is ours;
They Gull mo Bonnie Bess;
My father is an engineer,
Aud runs the night express."
A eparkle came into her face.
A dimple to her chin
The fnther loved his little girl,
And she was proud of him.
"Ten-forty- nine, on schedule time
{Scarce Ger minute lGte,)
Around the curve his engine comes,
At quite fearful rate
"We watch tho headlight thro' the gloom
Break like tho dawn of day
A roar, a flash, and then tho train
Is miles upon it's way.
81 lamp in mammals window burns,
Placed there alono for him.
His face lights up, for then ho knows
That all is well within.
sometimes fog o'crhnngs tho gorge,
The light he cannot 500,
Then twice he whistles for mamma,
And clanss tho boil for me-"
And you are not afraid asked.
"1hat ne may wreck the train?
That there may DO a sad mishap.
And be no wise to blnme?"
a pal]or crept into hor checks,
Fer red lips curlcd in pain;
They parted, then sorcnely smiled
Her heart was brave again.
God watches ovor us" sho said,
And He knows what is best;
SO we have but to pray and trust,
And leave to Him the rcst."
How great that childish faith of hersi
1t made my own soem weak
l bent my head with throbbing heart,
And kissed her on the check
said to her, in chcory tone,
God bless you. Bonnie Bessl
God bless your mothor and the man
Who runs tho night expross."