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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
AN UNFINISHED POEM.

I feel inspired this morning. must write.
The poets fervor. with its wild delight,
Its solemn pathos its divine despair"
Lifts me to regions where tread on air.
III write poem whose resembling rhyme
Shall echo down the aisles OF coming time
seize my deathless pen, and rhythm flows
There fell moonless night at summers
close;
The low winds walled in sad and sullen means
The dark sea broke upon its cold, gray
stones;'"
''Mamr a." called Anna, ''please to show me
how
To plat this skirt-rm sure I do not know"
The lesson given, Itake up my pen,
Dip it anew, and then go on again
"a maiden stands upon the lonely shore
With tangled hair that sweeps her bosom
DER
''My dear" says John, please patch up, if you
will,
This pile Of sacks-rve got to go to mill"
The sacks are mended, and try once more.
Where was 1? oh!-"that sweeps her bosom
DER,
Damp with the salt spray falling mistily.
Her hands are clasped, her cry goes out to
sea-"
mamma. there comes peddler with pack,
How can he carry all that on his back?'
He marches to the open door, he calls.
Such Irish linen, and such wondrous shawls!
In spite OF me he scatters out his wares
Over the kitchen floor, and loads the chairs,
And then, to finish all, the wretched sinner
Looks at the clock and wants to stay to dinner.
Dinner is over q am cook myself;
The fragments tucked away upon the shelf,
And all is still-''her cry goes out to sea,
MY lover! when will he come back TO me!
o sea. that breakfast on thy cold, gray stonesl
0 winds that wall Dear mel there's Mrs.
Jones.
She brings her knitting work, and now, ah mel
must desert my maiden by the sea.
She brings, besides, the household skeleton,
And picks the thing to pieces, bone by bone.
I sit in torment; such anatomy
Is good for those who like it-not for me.
She STAYS to tea, OF course-I knew she would
Drinks just four cups OF Hyson, strong and
good
Then leaves me-weary sick, little cross,
And sadly meditating on the loss
Sure to accrue to all posterity-
For still that maiden stands there by the sea.
Ellen P. Allerton, in Lance.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
STRANGE PHENOMENA.
Freaks OF Nature Which Terrified and As
tonished All BehoIders.

Freaks OF Nature Which Terrified and As
tonished All BehoIders.
At Rome, in 1922, it rained dust, mixed
with blood, for three days, and when the
heavy clouds drifted away it looked as
if the sun was swimming in a sea of fire.
Four years later, in 1926, snow fell in
Syria, which presently melted and
flowed in carmine rivers of blood, or
some fluid much resembling it in every
particular. Many of the old writer's
record a three-days' shower of blood-red
rain in the island of Rhades and through
out Southern Italy in 1886. A monk,
writing in 1851, tells of loaf being cut
ont of which blood flowed as freely as
from fresh wound. In 134S there were
many great tempests. Several towns
and thousands of people were swallowed
up and the courses OF rivers changed or
stopped. Some chasms in the earth sent
forth poisonous fluids, as red as carmine
ink, as at Villach, in Austria. Ponder
GUS hailstones fell in many parts OF
Germany the same year, some of them
weighing from twenty to seventy
pounds At Lamech it rained flesh,
dust, comets and meteors; fire.
brands and corruscations were in the
air; mock suns, with fiery tails, sailed
through the skies. Soon after these
terrible scenes at Lamech it began at
Cataya, near the sea- and went sweep
ing throughout Southern Europe. An
igneous vapor or sulphurous fire broke
from the earth at Caahery, Asia, and
utterly consumed men, beasts houses
and trees, so injecting the air that
great plague followed. Young sepents
and millions of venomous insects fell
from the clouds.
In 1861 Burgundy experienced the
novelty of shower of blood-red rain,
which ensanguined every thing it
touched; and in 1868 the Antiura reap
ers found all wheat heads to be as red
as blood. In 1883 bread put in the oven
at Nuremberg was taken out covered
with a bloody sweat Wertemberg had
a shower of birthstone and ashes in
1884. In 1895 Limerick and Tipperary,
ireland, had many showers of soft,
fatty substance resembling butter. 1t
was Of dark yellow color and always
fell at night. The people gathered it
and used it as an ointment, reporting
many astonishing cures.~
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05

denly exclaimed James. I'm going to
call for help"
But nobody will hear u.s." said
George, discouragingly.
The two boys then set up long, loud
shout They repeated it at short inter-
walls until their voices were hoarse. The
snake and alligator no longer slept, but
moved around uneasily as if they dis
liked SO much noise.
AS their last and only resort the boys
kept shouting and screaming, almost
crying, for pains began to shoot up
their legs from their wet feet. No one
seemed to be within calling distance.
The sun slowly sank lower and lower
toward the western horizon, and night
was near at hand.
''Oh, dear, what can we do? Well
get killed if we stay here after dark"
sobbed James. "Help, help, help!' he
then shrieked in desperation.
"Hello-o-o"
The boys started as they heard this
response. Then they answered it with
repeated cries. Some one was coming
to their rescue.
In about fifteen minutes Mr.. Bullock
pushed his way through the hommock
to the strange scene.
whats the matter?" he inquired, in
stern voice.
The boys soon explained the circum-
stances to him.
"Humph, that's it, is it?'
He had brought his gun with him, and
it did not take him long to fill the
RATHER with heavy buckshot The boys
then stepped across the dead body of
their enemy and reached the mainland.
$50 you have had pretty good scare,
1 reckon" said Mr.. Bullock, as he
looked at the two frightened faces.
well, l was going to scare you with a
whip for not obeying me, but l think
you have been punished enough for
your disobedience. You can go home
now while l skin this RATHER"
The two boys hurried through the
hommock, and did not stop until they
reached the house. Their afternoons
experience had taught them a hard les
son, and the next time the brothers
went turkey-hunting they were careful
to first obtain their fathers consent
G. Ethelbert Walsh, in Golden Days.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
cAPRlcIOUS MATILDA
A Nanlnc's story.


Ynassed in morbid mood one day through
place where maniacs dwelt,
And a pensive pleasure while wandering
there foolishly thought felt
And as with thoughtful air stood by pa
tient maudlin mad,
An interval OF lucidity the unfortunate being
had.
A garment they call the straight-jacket was
DER his anatomy slipped
While drops Of water from up above on his
Uranium slowly dripped.
As he raised his lugubrious eyes to mine
experienced feelings queer,
For 1 recognized an old friend and asked:
"Old friend, what do you here?"
-'Tis lurid story, old fellow" he said, with q
dreary doleful smile;
HBut II you are partial TO wild, weird things,
my recital may beguile.
Know then that here in q maniac's cell
bide whatever betide,
Because OF a womans perfdy, which her
name was Matilda Mcbride.
sWhen Matilda and were first engaged I'd
luxuriant beard and hair,
Which were neither remarkably dark, nor
yet extraordinarily fair;
But Matilda dislixed them much and oft be-
sought me in manner fond
To bleach my hair and whiskerS. did, con-
yerting the same to blonde.
At first she admired me thus, but soon her
taste took another tack,
And nothing would do but her lover trle
must dye him somber black.
/ yielded weakly again to please this most
capricious OF iades
And dyed my hair and whiskers rs black as
the ace Of spades.
INext day she thought that a shaver face
would become me exceedingly well;
babe farewell to mustache and beard with
q sorrow no tongue can tell;
Yet still she was quite unsuited, for before q
fortnight fled
"A face so smooth was effeminate,' capricious
Matilda said.
HEre long she wanted my hair done up in
papers to make it curl.
l mildly consented, for / would have gone to
the moon to please that girl
The following day, in her artless way, with
an irresistible smile,
She proposed that wear my curly hair cut
short in States prison style
S'Twas done, but her next caprice was one
that filled me with dire dismay
For she thought I'd certainly look my best
with my hair premature gray.
She set about by her conduct, then, to turn
my hair snowy white,
But human nature could stand no more and
my reason took its flight
"Soif you ask me- old friend, the cause OF my
sitting here all day
In an i'll fitting straight Jacket much too small,
while yon dripping streamlets play,
l answer" The keeper shut the door in q
manner cruel and grim,
And said: THAT there's his delusion, sir
Lor', you mustn't listen to him"
Harry B. Smith, in America
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
MENUS IN ENGLISH.
French Names on Bills of Fare Sound
Queer When AngliciZed.

French Names on Bills of Fare Sound
Queer When Anglicized.
Those persons who object to the
French names of dishes as given on
menus and want them in English would
6e much amused with literal tranSla
zion of them. For instance, puts
d'amour means, literally, fountains OF
love; anis etoile, starry snise-seed; allies
de poularde au soleil, pullets' wings IN
the sun; nufs raurore, eggs blushing
like Aurora; bRuf lecarlate, beef in
scarlet, i. e. rare; sauce en- petit deull,
Jauce in half-mOurning, and harlcots
Yierge3, white virgin beans. French
cooks, too, are ingenious in the new
dishes as well as in the epithets they
attach to them. Thus we have culOttes
la royale, sauce veloute, breaches in
the royal fashion, with velvet sauce;
tendons de veau en- queue de paon.
tendons of veal in peacock's tail, and
epaule de mouton en- balloon, en-
musette, a shoulder of mutton in bal
loon or bag-pipe.
Sometimes their names are so fanciful
as to be totally ncomprehenSible, .es-
pecially if you look for them in die
tionary; such as palais de bnuf en-
cracovie, a palace of beef in Cracovia;
fraises de veau, strawberries of veal;
ris de veau en- amOurette, strawbreads
of calves marrow; flOtte, sauce tomato,
feet with tomato sauce, and 9ufs al
miroir, which is literally eggs in
looking-glass," but means 'poached
eggs" But there are many of their
dishes which are monstrous, and show
strong tendency to cannibalism; for in
stance: Saimi de chasseurS, a hash of
nuntsmen; compete de bons chretiens,
a stew of good Christians; bouchee de
lanes, mouthful of ladies, and quatre
mendiants, four beggars, the -four beg.
gars'' being almonds, raisins, figs and
hlberts.
They like veau ratouffade, liver Of
veal, and poulets rvoire, chickens
like ivory. Other dishes are, on the
contrary, quite shadowy and unsub-
stantial, such as semelles de perdrix,
partridges' sOles; soutfle de rose, 3 SosG
puff, and une jonquills entiere, whole
onquil The French cook, too, has a
way of serving up his dishes which is as
extraordinary as the rest. What should
we think of merlans en- turban, Writings
in turbans; eperlans Ga comets, smelts
in waters; raie bouclee aux capres, a
cook who would be so untidy as to send
to table truffes a la condre, trufties
cooked in ashes?-Chicago News.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05

-ALvon IN. " paper says citizen
- +hat Mace. whose wife persists IN
- -; tering fifteen cents worth OF scraggy
Mln'o at a cost of fifteen dollars
Worth of coal, has asked for a commits commits
zion %o, Of doctors to pass upon thequesaon
OF her sanity.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-08-28

IrOA sALE.--l viii sell my house and lot a.
l. Manchester Genre. House Is nearly new
handsomely inished, main part SO &c. ell l6x y
all two stories, IA rooms good cellar, good ci4
tern aud excellent water in abundance at al
nmes, aud the promises occupy the pleasantesi
locality in the village. | also wish TO sell two
good Dwellings, and out buildings with II acre.
OF land In Barnnmyile at bargain for ttt
purchafer.
JE McNAU6Hr0N.
BsrnumviIle, May 22nd, 1889 23m
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-08-28
Improvements on the Farm.

There is 10 lack Of opportunities for i'm.
prey wing the appearance Of our country
homes. Much has been done and there is
one fact Of great promise. When one farm.
er gets lawn mower; or removes his front
fence or puts up new one; or removes
stones ind rubbish and plows mp the road
side and plants potatoes or beans and ul
reeds them down with grass aud
keeps il cut twice ayear with moving
machine, or when he has nice gravel walks
or roads about the house and barns; or
when be sets out evergreens for screens.
and plants fruit and ornamental trees. and
has few choice II jwers on the lawn on in
the garden. his neighbors are quick to fol.
low bis example, and very sooo the whole
he eLboflood for miles around puts on q
new aspect; aud II sny Of the farms IRE
offered for sale they dad purchasers NJ
much higher rates than equally good land
IN less improved roads.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-08-28

The excellence Of tue butter msde from
the fragrant pasture cap only be preserved
for any length oftime by the best methods
Of churnins aud sailing. Batter that 9th
erwise a. light be cIaesed 81 good is often
reduced 10 sp inferior grade hy the man
ner 10 Which IL il ifeted ut he time Of ssli-
ing. A trs deal u butter Is oyrichurn
ed. by which II is pounded into creamy.
pssiy condition. exactly he opposite Of
wtstit ,bopld be. To get The beet results
from sailing butter the cburning sht uld
step when II has fairly graduated. AZ tbi'
stage ta- buitefmiik should be drawn oh
aud the butter wa.bed with cold water or
cold, weak briae, until IT ru1s N clear.
Then strong clear bring may BE- poured on.
10 remain until the butter has absorbed
enough OF the rslt. or hae, dry sslt--one
ounce TO the pound -shonij be sifted 90
add worked 10 30 that IL will dissolve. Al.
ter this Il bit second working should be
given 10 clear il Of a1y bniiefmilk that
may be drawn out by the ssl,ing. Through
out the entire process the 1imos, care
should be taken not 10 break The ersiD OF
butter.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-08-28

Some one says: 1t takes an extra good
farm and extra good farming to yield six
per cert net on the capital invested. This
is probably true; but is this a fair way 10
put the question? II q business man in
vests $4,000 in business, and out OF il
makes good clean income OF 80, 900. year
after year, which he can use to support
himself and family. be feels pretty well
satisfied. But the farmer who puts $40. :.
600 10 a farm aud, counting interest on
his capital, comes out even aud free from
debt, getting his family through comfor
tsbiy, 10 not satisfied. He thinks he is
making nothing. He wants the support
Of lis family and himself. which he has
taken out Of the proceeds Of the farm as he
goes along, TO count for pough,l He does
not count that any thing but the business
man, who uses the whole income Of bis
business 70 support his family, leaving
bis plant untouched, is rather rejoiced 10
these times. He has not laid up anything
which is more desirable in his case than
In that OF the farmer, because the business
has only Fictitious foundation. but be is
grateful to not TALL behind. Why should
not the farmer who makes q good clean
living during the year and has bis plant
left untouched, be equally rejoiced9 He
is much surer Of doing that same thing
with bis farm 10 the future than the mere
business man is for q sudden turn may
ruin his business at any time, notwith
standing be may be out OF debt Not so
the farm, which endurith to the end OF
time.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-08-28
agriculture.


A Massachusetts farmer gives good 90.
eoani Of hos be 10 trcssias . pasture COW
cred With bushes and bard 10 snbdue. In
the N. u Homestead.
He docs !, with pig. This season he
has 81 10 each Of t~o enclosures. feeds
them svill ADD . little corn and gives
them plenty Of chance TO york for their
living CO pleasure. According to his &C
couni be has bad excellent luck With his
sysiem OF renevsiine. the piss doing nice.
~. and with the bon' a. TO bis land be up.
pesrs 10 be getting double compensaiion
Ter his outlay
The land Tins treated is not kept 10
pasture. bui alter the pigs have r,msiued
on II for Que or two seasons IL 10 eltGred
up flashed and devoted to various crops.
as strs~ beriies peach 'rees, etc, The con
ifasi between the old whoriltberry pasture
aud the siias berry garden and pesch or
chard mus, be vtry satisfactory for the
owner TO contemplate.
This method OF renovating land is not
new. Several years since Mr., Ballard,
" ho run the large hotel at White River
JUNCTION, also had = large farm outside
Of the village. Upon this was quite a
tract covered with brush, logs. etc. II was
good land after being cleared.
He fenced Of portion OF several acres
at time, on which he put . large mum.
Der Of hogs They were fed Whatever Was
necessary and in such q way as TO en-
courage them to forage and root. A hog
has a wonderful penchsnt for roofing, and
gave him a fair harcsand he will over
turn everything that j, possible for him to
move
L. tbis c5sc they upioottd Tie bushes
overturned the logs aud dug up the Tough
sward at most satisfactory rate. while
at the same timo they enriched the land
for future crops. OF course considerable
work was needed TO finish what the swine
got we'll started, but the fnal result was
tiue fields and good crops in place OF .
swamp
There is no doubt that in many cases
SWINE nigh, be employed to good advan
taae in improving pieces OF ground that
are hard to subdue in any other way. The
trouble is that most farmers do not have q
sufficient number Of animals to work on a
large scale. But OF course the number
could be increased 10 such case. and eI
ira feed given, in order to secure the al
vsntsges OF such 3 course OF renovation,
and at the same time make 1t pay for the
labor required for the purpose.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-08-28

The more honest 3 msa Is. the less lie
Affects the sir Of . saint
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-02-25
THE wALLA wALLA.

Departure of the SQUAD Steamer with .
Long Passenger List.
SAN Francisco, Feb. 24.--The following
passengers sailed today on the steamer
Walla Walia:
For Seattle-G. P. Moore, Miss wallen-
berg. +. b. Crickrehell, John H. Briggs. s.
Toby, Miss Toby, w. A. Sims. h. F. Fox.
A. Clark, g. Haisch and wife, NJ. Horton.
C. w. Baums. L. II. Day, T. C. TAYLOR. ].
G. Ashton, J. r. bricks, O. III. Baker. r.
Berke. p. J. Wallace. w. f. Lewis. F. Car
roll, p. Schanz. f. G. Ward, wife and son.
Nellie Forrest. Dollie lie Claire, Maude
Bruce, Pearl Desmond, Mrs. Harris. Nellie
Johnson, Hazel Webster. Helena Mitchell.
Edith Moore, Mrs. G. Ayre, Mrs. Harris.
Ernest @. oyer. g. W. q. oyer. J. A. Ja-
nowski, j. Wallace. wife and child, w. f.
Graves. Miss +. Yates. Mrs. r. Smith.
Mrs. NJ. X. Brown, w. II. Newell, j.
Herchler. d. Morris, II. J. Lipett, A. Ly-
man, r. Link.
For Tacoma--Miss Fitzgerald, c. w.
Cotton. q. 4. smell, Mrs Smell, Miss Min.
G. f. Briner. John Costello. A. w. Moore.
II. L. Clark. Hall Grigeby. T. NJ. Berry,
man, E. T. Keeier, d. n. Loonis, J. NJ.
Martin.
For vancouver-R- Porter, l.. Green
valid. J. Goldberg. Chas. Smith. Grace
Smith, A. C. Harsock and son. Mrs
II. +. Harlock. mother and child. Jacob
Sehl. wife and child. Mrs. Broarick. Mrs
A. Alien. Miss Lille Parks.
For victoria--H. b. Gilbert, d. J, Mann.
G. r. Raymond. Miss T. Gill. Miss II.
Hill. Thos. Bimmy. C. n. Towen. G.
Stuckord, Jas. Canture.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-02-25
rnE LONG HAUL CLAUSE
Fsrnsrs Rina mat IL Does Net Away

Farnsrs Fina That IL Does Net Always
work.
WASHINGTON CrrY. Feb. Ex-senator Pad
dock introduced today in the Senate bin
to amend the interstate commerce bill.
The amendment is intended to provide re-
lief for farmers in the West, who are unable
ct present to market their crops on account
Of the high freight rates prevailing on long
haul and which the railroads claim cannot
Be reduced without demoralixing all short
rates under the interstate act
The bill provides that the long and short
haul clause be amended 90 that IN case OF
investigation Of an infractlon OF that sec
ton, the commission shall be obliged TO
consider the cost Of transportation and facts
and circumstances bearing upon the market
value Of the product. and If it appears that
the product Is one of the necessaries of life.
and upon it justly lower rate is indispen-
sable In order to enable such product to be
transported to market. such transportation
the rate, 90 far - the long haul is con-
cerned. may b considered an exception to
the general rule. The amendment also
provides that the long haul for such pro-
duct within the meaning of the amend
ment shall be 500miles or more by the route
over which the freight is actually trans
ported.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-02-25

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