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nudge him IN the ribs and congratulate
him ON the mistakes that the Republi-
cans are making.
Mr.. Mills is not so badly OF. There
arc lots Of new employees in the House,
however, and once in a while enc Of
them urges him 70 do something for him
under the impression that he is chair
man OF the committee on accounts. Mills
laaghingly promises to do what he can
when tho matter comes up, and Colonel
Spooner gets the benefit OF ii.
Messrs. Walker and Stone, of Mis-
souri,, pnIxle the new members. They
look alike when apart but are readily
dishng when toTether. Both
are remarkably reserved and inclined 20
be taciturn- John Tarsney, Of Kansas
City, tells good story concerning
Walker. Tarsney says that ono OF tho
new Democratic mombers of Congress
took Walker to task for Mr.. Stones
speech against q pension bill Mr..
Walker did not understand exactly
what he was driving 1T and assured
him that he vas in favor of paying all
pensions honestly due.
We'll, then, don't mako any moro
speeches like the last ono, II you are, -
the Democrat replied. Northern Dem
ocrats havo hard enough work to get
back TO Congress ss 1t is now without
overlooking them with sntipcnsion
talk"
Mr.. Tsrsney says that the Northern
Democrat afterwards discovered his mis-
take and made a handsome apology 10
Mr. Walker. He blushed like a school
girl when no received IL
There arc two men on the Republican
side Of the House who look enough alike
80 be twin brothers They are Louis T.
McCOmas Of HaZerstown. Nd, and
William y. Owen. Of Logansport Ind
McConas ia sharp shrcvd lawyer. and
Owen has been a minister Of the C1ris-
tisn church Tho former is a member
q The committee on appropriations aud
tho latter is chairman ot tho committee
on immi grafton and naturalization.
The District of Columbia appropriation
bin vss tho 6rst Appropriation bill
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House With lightninr-liko spced Il is
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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
Fatality.

President Harrison's cabinet meetings
this winter are melancholy enough. A
strange fatality seems to have attended
his appointments-seve of them. One
of the earliest of them was that of Allen
Thorndike Rice, strong, brilliant young
man, as minister to Russia Rice died
before he left his native soil. In Deem
Der Mrs. Harrison's beloved sister, Mrs
Scott Lord, died after a painful illness.
Mrs. Harrison shrank from the gayeties
Of society, but generously resolved that
her grief should not check the enjoy
ment of others So she mourned in
silence, and after little time took her
place at dinners and receptions.
But what can be done now? In seven
weeks in january and December Mr..
Harrison's secretary of state lost four
members of his family, his brother, his
wife's sister and his son and daughter.
Alice Coppinger was Blaine's favorite
.ckild, and Walker Blaine was the only
son on whom he had placed his hopes.
F"Walker Blaine was always courteous
and kindly, and always ready to listen
to those who came to the state Office"
vegretfully say those who had dealings
with that Office. 1t seems hardly posi-
BILE that the secretary can recover from
two such blows soon. 1t is to be recalled
that the wife and daughter of Cleve-
lands secretary of state, AIr. Bayard,
died during his administration.
To the Harrison administration came
next the awful death of the wife and
laughter Of the naval secretary and the
sacretary's own narrow escape from
death. There will be no more gay sea-
son in Washington this winter.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
Corn Foods.

It is hard to believe that the benighted
peoples of Europe know not of corn
mullins or fapjacks, nothing of sweet
and delicious hoe cakes, or, heaven help
theml nothing of golden brown, crisp
fried mush and maple strip. Yet such
is the fact. They do not even have prac-
teal knowledge of our national dish Of
hog and hominy.
There is prejudice hard to overcome
against articles of food made from corn.
During the Irish famine many barrels of
meal were shipped to the starving people
| by benevolent Americans. The peasants,
hungry as they were, took an invincible
dislike to the corn bread. declaring they
could starve more easily than to eat the
"yaller male"
An exhibition of American corn foods
will be held in Edinburgh next May. The
object of the display will be to show Wis
itors to the exhibition the merits of
Indian corn as food. 1t is said the lord
provost of Edinburgh takes lively in
terest in the exhibit. If Indian corn
foods can be popularized in Europe it
will give cheaper bread to the poor. To
this end dishes made of corn will be pre-
pared in attractive shape and set before
the people.
The foreigners will then learn for the
first time ho-v appetizing are cornstarch
pudding. sucCotash, and corn on the cob.
Pitiable indeed is the lot of that man
who has never tasted these things. One
point Americans must not forget, and
that is to have an old colored aunty from
the south to show all the world how to
make corn bread. Nobody in the north
knows how to make it properly, unless it
be some one who learned from southern
cook
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
A Noble .;in.

At the close of 1889 the Joliet Stee!
company, of Joliet, His, presented to its
employees a gift which showed its appre-
citation of those who make its prosperity.
The Joliet Steel company employed
1000 men. This year they will spend
their evenings and leisure time in club
house as handsome as any in which
millionaires amuse themselves. The
house is a beautiful stone structure, three
stories high. 1t contains hall for large
meetings and dancing, reception parlors,
a gymnasium, art gallery and lunch
rooms.
There is also commodious swimming
tank. in which 800 steel workers may
en- ioy plunge at once. There is hand
some library, already containing 2,000
volumes, and 1900 more volumes are to
be added during the year. Facilities
for amusements are ample. The billiard
room has six tables. The employees may
hold parties and receptions in the build
ing, with their families. They may use
it for lecture room or opera house, or
for ordinary social entertainment. The
house is heated by steam and lighted by
electricity, at the company's expense
They also pay for keeping it clean.
The company were generous enough
not to shackle their gift with restrictions
which would make it ungracious. Once
given to the employees, it is theirs. The
board of directors are chosen by them
selves from among themselves. They
have full control and management. The
conditions accompanying the magnifi-
cent gift are few and simple. They are
that no Intoxicating liquors shall be sold
on the premises, that no betting or gam
bling shall be allowed within its walls
that the members shall behave with pro-
priety and not injure the property, and
finally that no political or religious
meetings shall ever be held within the
building. That club house is neutral in
politics and religion.
May not this beautiful home for the
steel workers be prophecy of the time
when employers and employees shall no
longer look on each other as natural en-
emies? In his presentation address the
vice president of the company said:
1--WE say to you in conclusion, be men
We put you on your honor; think, speak,
act as mon in this club You will find
no signs up in the rooms with the word
don't in them; no notice to Use the
spittoons,' wipe your boots take off
your hat, and SO forth.
"We look to you to acquit yourselves
like men, and to be honest with us and
with each other in the use of all your
privileges and thereby justify the conf
dence we repose in you"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
Good Resolutions.

It is quite likely that by the end OF
this week nine-tenths of all the good
resolutions made on New Years day will
be broken.
Men usually resolve to quit smoking
or drinking about New Years day.
Women are rather apt to take vow
that they viii get up early or that they
won't talk about their neighbors.
Hardly one of these vows is kept by
either sex till the last week in January Is
ended. And because they have broken
them once, men and women are there
fore discouraged, and slip back into the
old way, and think no more about it till
next New Years day.
But the good resolution is not there
fore lost. Even if they honestly tried
to keep it for day, that attempt counts,
After they had broken it once, if they
would pick up courage and go on again,
trying to keep it longer next time, they
would find that next time they probably
could keep it longer. Every honest eff
fort strengthens the will, even if it con-
tinues no more than ten minutes. The
ones who really gain strength are those
who, though they break their resolution
a thousand times, yet adhere steadily to
the intention to try to keep it. AT length,
in course of a period longer or shorter,
they will be able to keep it altogether.
The best of all the resolutions one can
make is that he will try faithfully for
one year of his life to do exactly as he
would be done by.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19

twill be good stroke for our govern
ment to have it understood that she Will
stand by Great Britain in the trouble
with Portugal. Our four new cruisers,
"the squadron of evolution" are now at
Lisbon in company with number OF
vessels of the English navy. The unity
of interests of all the English speaking
peoples of the globe is an ideal whose
practicabiIity cannot be too much in
sisted on. The Pail Mall Gazette says of
the proposed agreement Of the United
States to stand by Great Britain in the
Portuguese matter: Everything which
reminds the world that the republic and
the empire regard the English speaking
race as one entity, with common inter
ests and common objects, is good" The
entity of the English speaking race is, in
fact, the most splendid dream of modern
times.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
The Race Problem Again,

The shooting to pieces Of eight negroes
by mob of 300 masked men in South
Carolina does not look as though the
race problem was near being solved yet.
In fact, the truth must be confessed that
it is far from being solved. In collec-
lions of prison statistics there is one
thing that cannot easily be explained,
and that is the relatively large number
of colored convicts in the state prisons,
even of the north. What that implies,
what is the reason of it, no one can as
yet explain.
In the muddle, a few points seem clear
to those who wish to examine the negro
question without prejudice and with a
sincere desire to do justice to both black
and white. 1t is certain the south is
overloaded with a negro population.
They are poor and must live by working
for others. There is not work enough
to so around, consequently swarms of
them are idle, a constant menace to
civilization in the southern cities.
To remedy this deplorable state, Sena-
tor Butler has introduced the negro emil
grafton bill. 1t proposes that the blacks
shall be assisted by government to scat
ter out among the northern states and
western territories, thus giving them
work and relieving the south. Senator
Call introduced a resolution that we
purchase Cuba, and deport our negro
population thither. Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, wants them to go to the great
free state of Congo, in Africa, and help
civilize the natives.
1t has been proposed that one or more
of the southern states of the Union, in
which the blacks already preponderate,
be given up to them exclusively, white
people moving out. 1t is said by those
who claim to be informed that there is
today far less miscegenation between
the two races than there was in slave
times, and that the tendency of both
black and white to keep to their own
race becomes more pronounced the
longer the negro remains free.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
A Great Project.

The greatest transportation project OF
modern times is now in process of de-
velopment. 1t is q railway and steam
ship system which will bring all parts OF
North and South America within easy
reach of each other.
Many thousand miles Of railway which
will connect different parts of the sys-
tenn arc already finished A road 8 400
miles long, connecting the cities of Bo-
gotta and Buenos Ayres, is in construc-
ton. More than / 800 miles of this road
are already finished. Cross roads from
ports On the Pacific viii tap the main
line and feed it from all the states of
South America. Some of these are al
ready completed, others are finishing
rapidly.
The great trunk road will pass through
the heart of the ancient kingdom of the
Incas. 1t is popularity believed in Peru
and Bolivia that there are mines and
treasures of fabulous richness hidden
away somewhere in the heart of the
Andes. and that the secret of their To-
cality is guarded by descendants of the
fncas to this day, who live with few
faithful Indian attendants in forests and
caves safe enough from the eye of the
white man. Such is the tradition.
Be that as it may, it is certain that the
mountains Of Peru and Bolivia contain
immensely rich mines, hitherto unde-
veloped by reason of the obstacles nature
has placed in the way to them. These
obstacles the white man now at last is
surrounding. One of the cross railroads
mentioned leads from Valparaiso, in
Chill, across the Andes to Mendoza, in
the Argentine Republic. 1t traverses
the mountains by tunnel over six miles
long.
To complete the great system in north
ern South America, the Colombia Rail-
way and Navigation company has been
Incorporated in the United States. From
a port at the mouth of the Magdalena
river. on the northern coast of Colombia,
railroads will be completed to points in
Peru. All win connect with the trunk
line at Bogota or elsewhere along the
route. From the port at the mouth of
the Magdalena powerful steamers will
carry freight and passengers with speed
and safety to New Orleans and the south
ern point Of Florida, thence all over
! North America they viii go by rail.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19

The decision at the Berlin competitive
exhibition between Edison's photograph
and the German grammophone, that the
grammophone is superior to the Ame,i-
can invention, fortunately does not make
it the fact. The grammophone is an in
strument similar to the monograph, but
of clumsier construction and requiring
more machinery to work it. For practi-
cal work and commercial purposes the
American photograph stands still with
out rival, German patriotism to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19

The contest between the french and
English Canadians grows more bitter
and the outcome is watched with greal
interest. A bill has been introduced into
the Dominion parliament to repeal the
act permitting the use of French as an
official language in the Northwest terri
tories. This naturally enraged the French
Canadian members, who are almost pre-
pared to give up their lives before their
language, although it is very bad
French indeed. 1t is not impossible that
the result Of the i'll feeling between the
two factions may result in an attempt at
separation. Will scenes be enacted in
the Canadian parliament such as oc-
CURED in the American congress of 1859
Go? Should there be split, one or both
the factions would naturally turn to the
United States for consolation and an
nexation.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
What Speaker Reed Did.

1t is provided in parliamentary bodies
that a quorum shall be necessary to
transact business, and the number neces-
sary to constitute quorum is named.
With some parliamentary bodies two
thirds of the members form quorum.
In the national house a simple majority
of the members are entitled constitu-
tionaliy to transact business.
A simple majority is therefore suffi-
cient to control minority almost as
large as itself. In such case, to hinder
! measures obnoxious to it from being
passed, the minority party resorts to
every parliamentary device to prevent
votes being taken, and wins for itself the
name of obstructionists. A favorite way
is to refrain from voting. Then, though
the members of the house might all be
in their seats, the record would show
that there was not a majority of the
members voting. consequently the point
could be made that no quorum was pres
ent. Time and again both Republican
and Democratic minorities have resorted
to this method of obstructing legislation,
when bill they opposed would other
wise have passed. For hundred years
it has been a recognized parliamentary
method of defeating legislation.
Speaker Reed made an innovation.
No rules for the government of the house
had as yet been adopted in the Fifty-frs
congress. In the absence of such rules
he declared that he had the right to
make such parliamentary rulings as he
chose. In the Smith-Jackson contested
election case, the Democratic minority
refrained from voting, so thatno quorum
could be counted.
But Speaker Reed refused to recognize
the time honored expedient. He di-
rected the clerk to count in as quorum
those present but not voting. That in
brief is what raised the excitement. In
fact, there followed this ruling such a
scene Of excitement as even the national
house of representatives has seldom wit
messed. Gray haired members sprang
from their seats and passed down the
aisle towards the speakers desk, shaking
their fists at him and denouncing him az
q Jyrant and revolutiOnist.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
Is srotestantfsm Chaneine2

UtteranceS of distinguished Protestant
divines lately, not only in the Episcopal
church but in other denominations, are
to be taken as a mild though full in.
dorsement of the idea that prayers for
the dead may be of use to them much the
same as prayers for the living may helE
them. Yet not many years ago this be-
lief was held to be rank heresy by the
majority of Protestant denominations.
So distinguished churchman as Glad
stone rather favors confession.
The presbyteries of New York and
Chicago have both voted by heavy ma
lorities to revise the Westminster creed
and catechism. These are two of the
most important presbyteries in the
Union, and the debates on the question
Of revision at times waxed hot and Bit
ter. Rev. DR.. Briggs was one of the
principal advocates of revision in the
New York presby terry. He said the re-
vision as proposed did not suit him ex-
actly, but every good thing was a COM
promise, The Westminster catechism
itself had been in its time a compromise.
{ But there were five things on which the
cevisionists would insist. They would
blot from the confession the five fol-
lowing points:
Reproduction.
The damnation of infants.
The damnation of the heather.
The classification of Roman Catholics
Is idolators.
The statement that the pope is anti
! christ.
. The doctrine that the Almighty has
{ From the foundation of the world chosen
lpart of the race to be reprobates eter-
llaily is the article of faith which troub-
les believers most. The next great
stumbling block is acceptance of the
statement that infants are damned be-
Tore they are born. Many Presbyterians
l.,eem to find a relief in ceasing to think
/; that Roman Catholics are idolators and
The pope is antichrist. Rev. Mr.. Strong,
of the Madison Avenue (New York;
Presbyterian church, declared it to be
MS private belief that the pope was anti
christ, but he did not know whether a
declaration to that effect was necessary
There are in America traces of kind
+; Ter feeling growing up between Protest
ants and Catholics. There are even
races that in some points Of belief the
orotestants are tending toward the Ro-
nan faith, notably the growing belief
u the efficacy of prayers for the dead.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19

Mohammedan politeness is peculiar.
Only for it our National museum would
be enriched by the rare and costly dec
orations the sultan of Turkey presented
to S. S. Cox. Mrs. Cox intended to
give the decorations to the museum.
But in Turkey, when expensive jew
els are presented, it is the custom
on the death of the recipient to re-
turn them to the donor. Consequent
ly Mr.. Cox's curiously interesting deco
rations must now go back to Turkey,
where they can be given to some one
else.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
lima Marc.

Two German explorers, DR.. Hans
Meyer and Professor Purtscheller. have
had the thrilling experience Of a climb
to the topmost peak of KiIima Marc, the
great snow mountain of Africa, almost
under the equator.
The mountain is volcanic in origin
About the foot of it is plateau IA, $50
feet above the sea level (nearly three
niles. Even at this height the snow
line was not visible. Nearly half a mile
further climbing brought them in sight
of the first snow in the sheltered crevices
of the rocks, 16,500 feet above the sea-
The mountain side is rugged and savage
Three miles above the sea level at one
point is what is called the valley of gla-
ciers, full Of peaks and fields Of ice.
with tremendous clefts and assures in
them. When Africa is civilized, here
will be a fortune to some enterprising
American company-supplying ice from
Kilima Marc to the whole Dark Cont
nent.
Oct. 5 the two explorers "bivouacked
in the Lava cave" Is, 20Ofeet above their
fellow men. Next day they climbed the
topmost peak of Kilima Marc, 1860
feet high, and there planted the German
flag. DR.. Meyer proposes to call the
point Kaiser Wilhelm peak, From this
height the explorers looked into a vast
volcanic crater girdled by a belt of ice
The description sounds like Rider Hag-
CARDS novels. The Kibs crater, as it is
called, is GEO feet deep, and in the center
rises perfect volcanic cone, 800 feet
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