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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
THE STONES or MANHATTAN.

! tread the stones of Manhattan; who have
iourneyed far
From the meadow sward and the moss bank. and
the streaniet's pebbied bar;
L who have wandered hither alured by the
tales they told
OF how the stones OF Manhattan were reeking
with rudy gold
In the dear old mountain woodland. where maple
and birch and pine
We're linked with the swaying reaches Of purple
clustered vine,
Where vioets blue and yellow and crimson lilies
grew
And the hawthorn's bloom in spring time was
studded with starry dew
Over the shelving lodges over the granite floor.
Over the powders and pebbles, chanting its dryad
lore,
Over its stony pathway sang brook with silver
tones
Godi what stranger stream is roaring over Man.
hattan's stones
Dazzled by phantom fortune, / followed that
brooke adown
Where its turbid waters tarried space by the
teeming town.
And on through the dreary lowlands, with deeper
and darker flow.
TIL its dusky waves were lighted with the city's
lurid glow
Till the crystal stream was swallowed In q slug
gish, polluted tide
TIL the echoing forest voices in the babel clamor
died,
TIL swept like leaf on the torrent was whelmed
where the breakers beat,
Where the seething, surging human tide flows
over Manhattan S street
tread the stones Of Manhattan, the stones that
are hard to my feet,
As hard as the hearts around me- as hard as the
faces meet
Hot Is their breath In summer, with fever of self
ish greed,
Cold is their touch in winter, as hearts to the
hand OF need
Ny heel strikes fire from the flint but the spark
Is dead ere it burns,
Strikes fire in my angry striding but Is bruised by
the stone it spurns
And echo scorns with stony voice the cry of a
souls despair,
Breathed out on the thunderous throbbings of the
city's desert air
Oh faithless stones of Manhattan, that tempted
my boyish feet
Away from the clover meadow. from the wind
woven waves of wheat
thought ye golden highway; find ye the path
of shame,
Where souls are sold for silver, and gold is the
price Of famel
But my weary feet must tread thee as slaves on
the quarry floor,
And my aching brain must suffer your pitiless up-
roar
Till the ravtng tide shall sweep above, and care
less feet shall tread
On the fatal stones Of Manhattan, over nv dream
less bed
Willis Fletcher johnson in Open Court.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02

Assistant District Attorney Harry
Macedonia tells story about fight for
copy between a newspaper editor and
a scientist. The occasion was the last
solar eclipse and the Office in which it
occurred was under the management
of Maurice Minton. Telegraph com
munication was established at various
points, but returns came in slowly. A
noted professor of astronomy had
charge. The time for going to press
was approaching, and from the sane
turn in which the astronomer was in
stalled no copy was forthcoming. Fl
nally Mr.. Minton came in and con
templated the professor, seated amid
tones of scientific data, hard at work
on some abstruse calculation,
ANY copy yet, professorf-it's get
ting late. "
my dear sir, l have not been able
to justify this calculation"-
"But," interrupted Minton, 1--WE go
to press pretty soon and must have
some copy"
No answer. The professor was deep
in mis- calculation.
Id uILeen minutes ZIG euiIor bounced
in again. There was no copy. Sew,
eral unopened kilograms lay by the
hand of the professor, who had not
yet justified" his calculation. Gradu-
ally the paper was filled up save the
space for the eclipse stuff. There was
no more time to wait.
Have you any copy, professor2"
foirlu x-allad MinfOn
My dear sir, really, r. Minton
could stand no more. With bound
he seized the kilograms and as fast as
the envelopes dropped to the floor a
reporter grabbed the contents and put
them into shape. Just as the profess
sor awoke from his scientific reverie
he heard Minton yell, send out that
stud head for the eclipse. -
Before the scientist had justified
that astounding order there was a
steady roar downstairs and the paper
had gone to press. Some time after
the paper was on the street the specta-
cled professor laid pile of scientific
data upon Minton's desk. The editor
bowed but the copy didn't move. The
professors opportunity was lost.-New
York Graphic.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
That Was Different.

Sometimes amusing mistakes are
made by actors in regard to their let
ters. Horace Weston, the champion
banjo player of the United States, is
fond of telling an anecdote in point.
Mr.. Weston is a colored gentleman of
distinguished manners and appear
ance.
when l was in England with Jar
ret and Palmer" Mr.. Weston says, II
was constantly in receipt of letters
from women praising my performance
and requesting interviews. / always
took these to Mr. Jarrett, who would
advise me to pay no attention to them
and would throw them into the waste
basket.
Zone day a strange looking letter
reached me, which glanced at hasti
ly, saw that it was a request from a
lady and laid down again. Some days
later l handed it over with lot of
others to Mr.. Jarrett.
Soon | was startled by an excla-
nation from that gentleman. | looked
up. His eyes seemed to be bullying
from his head.
"'Where-where did you get this?'
he gasped, holding out the strange
letter.
'Oh, it's only one of those blame
fool mash letters, l answered.
g sOne OF those blarnei f4-al mash let
tersY cried Mr.. Jarrett, in great excite
ment. For heavens sake, mani it's
an invitation to appear before the
queenp
"And SO in fact it was. 81. r. II.
Victoria Regina, through her secre-
tary, requested my presence at Wind
sor castle at certain date.
Luckily the date was not then
passed, and we succeeded in patching
up the matter without any interna-
tional complications. New York
Herald
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
PRusslAN RECRUITS.
A Lieutenant Says Many Of Them Ar.

A Lieutenant Says Many OF Them Ara
Densely Ignorant ON All Subjects.
The greater proportion of the re.
crults come to the regiment raw in
every respect bodily, morally and
mentally; noinconsiderable number of
them have already been in prison. The
recruit IS, as rule, neither good nor
bad; the greater part of the nation is.
at the age OF twenty years, morally
and Intellectually, at the standard of a
child of educated parents at ten years.
There are even some individuals who
are beneath this. have had recruits
who found great difficulty in pro
nounclng the number thirty-four
asked one OF these to count. His scale
OF numbers went up to eleven; he had
heard of thirteen and seventeen. but
ne did not know what they meant.
This was German; the Slavs of our
tatherland are still more difficult to ed
ucate, since they do not understand
German. They are further accustomed
to an almost incredible amount of
roughness in their intercourse with
their parents and associates.
| l remember a recruit who could only
speak Polish, of whom | as a lieuten.
ant had to undertake the training, and
| who did not understand single word
that said, and stood staring vacantly
before him. told another of the re-
cruits, who could speak German and
Polish, to translate what was saying.
This fellow went up to him and gave
him at once tremendous box on the
ears. When | reproved him for this
hemetme with the startling argument:
'Oh, you must let me do it, lieutenant,
he understands much better now"
The box on the ear in their society
answered the same purpose as do you
hear9" does in Berlin, or as the touch
on the shoulder which many men use
to draw attention to their words.
What patience is required to make
such men understand all that belongs to
their duty in the field, to order, and to
discipline, without even once knock
ing them down, he only can know
whose forbearance has been thus put
to a practical test. From the moral
point of view also many recruits are
as backward as a child 10 years
old. Among many of them no
trace can be found of the feeling
of duty, of religious conscience, Of
patriotism, or of honor, while there
is proportionately small percentage
of them who have any idea of good or
evil. The great mass only know good
from evil from the fact that the latter
is punished. II will not do this or
that, because if l do shall be put in
prison or in the house of correction. :"
Many recruits hear first of duty, honor
or patriotism from their instructor
after they have joined the army.
Many of them, even from parts of the
country where German is spoken,
know nothing of the history of their
fatherland. There is a sort of figure
of speech which we use when some
one has said something which every
body knows: Yes, old Fritz is dead. {"
By means of this l discovered that
many of my men had never heard of
Frederick the Great. | asked one of
then once, and he answered: Yes,
heard that he had died yesterday. -
Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe Ingelfin-
gen.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
A Valuable Collection of Coins.

Loring G. Parmalee, of Boston and a
former resident of Wilmington, VT, has
sold his valuable and unique collection
of American coins to New York persons,
who are to sell them at public auction.
The collection comprises about 1900
pieces, many of which are uncirculated,
and is thought the most valuable single
collection of United States coinage in
the world, and is valued at $75, 900. Mr..
Parmalee has been about twenty years
acquiring this collection, which includes
the rare 1904 dollar, for which he paid
$3.50, though it has since nearly doubled
In value, and specimen of every gold
coin from 1895 down to the present date,
the best assortment known. Some of the
rare pieces of colonial coinage in the
cabinet are valued as high as 81 900 each.
An unsuccessful effort was made to get
thesecoins for the government, it being
a more nearly complete collection than
the one in the Philadelphia Mint.-Coz
Springfield Republican.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
A valuable Electrical Lantern.

By an ingenious combination Of len
ses Professor Stricken, of Vienna, con-
trives to project the magnifed images Of
objects on white screen in their nat
ural colors, so that, for instance, small
pimple On patient can be shown in its
real appearance to an audience of MANY
hundred students. One of the expert
ments will be a demonstration Of the
palpitations of the heart of a small ami
mal.-Exchange
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
A Grand Dukes TracIc Story.

The car of Russia's second brother,
the Grand Duke Alexis, now nearing
his 10th year, is not married and will
probably go unmarried to his grave.
Few persons recollect or realize the
conjugal tragedy that marked the
early years of this intelligent and
handsome prince. He fell in love,
long years ago, with a young lady at
tached to the household of his mother.
and, like an honorable man, he made
the woman that he loved his wife,
The fact of this marriage came to the
knowledge of his father, who at once
caused the young couple to be sepa-
rated by the full exercise of his des-
potic authority. The grand duke was
sent Oft on voyage round the world,
his marriage was annulled and his wife
compelled by threats of Punishment
to Siberia and total separation from
her child, a boy of extraordinary
beauty and engaging qualities, to con-
sent to second union with an obscure
physician. By this measure all posi-
BILE reunion with her royal husband
was rendered impossible. The subse-
quent marriage of Alexander ii to the
Princess Dolgourouki, though only
morganatic one, might, you will think,
have taught him little human feel
ing toward his son, and that sons
wife and offspring In this tragic
story, it is said, is to be found the true
reason why the Grand Duke Alexis,
though legally unmarried, has refused
all negotiations for royal alliance.
After the marriage of his younger
brother, the Grand Duke Paul. he will
be the only single one among the
brothers of the reigning czar.-Paris
Cor. ST. Louis Post Dispatch.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
Death in the Desert.

1t has just come to light that a party
OF Chinese, who attempted to smuggle
themselves into the United States from
lower California, got lost on the desert
and had terrible experience, one of the
party dying of thirst and exposure. They
found the frontier so closely guarded
that they stole march toward the east
ward and got into the desert. Here they
got lost and wandered aimlessly around
for several days, suffering unutterable
agonies
One of the Mongolians was a youth Of
some IA years. He gave out under the
terrible suffering and became crazy. In
his rawlings he imagined the blistering
sands were limpid water and eagerly
filed his parched mouth with the burn
ing particles This only added to his
horrors, and pretty soon he lay down to
die, his companions being in too pitiful
condition to render him any assistance.
Here they heaped a pile of sand upon
him and left him alone to sleep his last
long slumber, while they, with swollen
tongues, aching limbs and heavy hearts,
continued their aimless wanderings-
lost in a trackless desert. It is asserted
that they at last reached the railroad and
soon reached Los Angeles, minus every
thing they had attempted to bring into
the country except the clothes upon
their backs. They had thrown away the
bundles containing the many things the
Chinese hold dear, all of which mark
their track upon the waste of sands.
As the almond eyed ones have a sys-
tenn of spreading information among
themselves, it is quite likely this terrible
experience will prevent any more of
them attempting to invade the United
States via the desert route.-San Diego
Union.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02

Charles Higgins, of Mapleton, Me-,
who is more than 81 years of age, has
been in woochoppers' camp all winter,
where he held up his end in hard work
with the other young fellows. Mr.. Hig-
gins favorite breakfast is pie and pork,
with dozen or SO ''fiapjacks" thrown
in; and to that simple and austere fare
he attributes most of his present vigor.
Human nature is strange puzzle Had
this doughty old patriarch become a
health food crank in early life, the
chances are that he would have died at
50.-New York Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
An Old Chair and Bowl.

Mr.. Joseph H, Clapp, of Augusta,
who is a blood relation of Capt
Reuben Carver, of Pilgrim colony
fame, has an old English chair of oak
and mahogany, which was brought
over to Plymouth from England in
1882 by the ship Lion and presented
to the captain The chair bears en- its
bottom an inscription giving the his
tory of the origin of Thanksgiving
day. Many time" writes Mr. Car
yer, II have sat on my grandfather's
knee in this chair under the noble
old elms which were in front of
the old Province house in Boston,
which joined my grandfather's estate,
and heard him tell the story of the
Boston tea party, of which he was one
of the foremost members p" Another
of Mr.. Clapps possessions is a china
punch bowl brought over by Capt.
Graves in the ship James in 1886.
Mr.. Clapp is in his SD year, but
writes a neat, firm hand. Lewiston
Journal
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
s.,,Ao or r4e BLOODY BROOK
-. ,,.,eu % the story Of brave Lothrop and hi.

=. usten TO the story OF brave Lothrop and his
nov they fought, how they died,
uvAsn thew marched against the redskins In the
autumn days ant then
How they fell in their pride
By Pocomtuck SIDE
WHO win 20 70 DeerHeld meadows and bring the
ripened grainf'
said old Mosely TO his men In array.
TAKE the wagons and the horses and bring IL
back again,
But be sure that no man stray
All the day. on the way
Than the flower OF Essex started, with Lothrop n
their head,
wise and brave, bold and true
he had fought the Pequots long ago. and now to
Mosely said,
BE there many, be there few
will bring the grain TO you"
They gathered all the harvest, and they marched
on the way
Through the woods which blazed like fra
No soldier left the line Of march to wander or 70
stray
TIL the wagons were stalled In the miro,
And the men began to tire
The wagons have all forded the brook as It flows
And then the rear guard stays
To pick the purple grapes that are hanging from
the boughs
When crack TO their amaze
A hundred firelocks blazel
Brave Lothrop he lay dying. but a. he fell be
cried.
Each man to his tree" said ha
LET no one yield an inchT" and so the soldier
died;
And not a man OF all can see
Where the foe can be
And Philip and his devils pour In their shot SC
fast
From behind and before
That man after man Is shot down and breathes
his last;
Every man lies dead in his gore
To fight no more, no morel
Oh weep ye maids Of Essex. for the lads who
have died,
The flower Of Essex theyi
The Bloody Brook still ripples by the black noun
tain side
But never shall they come to see the ocean tide,
And never shall the bridegroom return to his brid
From that dark and cruel day, cruel dayl
Edward Everett Hale
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
June.

All May there has been whispering IN the treesl
or changes that would make this old world new:
Sweet rumors-brought by birds who Hutter
through
The year ahead OF summer-that the breeze
would kiss the buds to odorous mysteries
or may petals and undreamed Of hue
Lo! as June comes (the gossip birds spoke true D
At every step great roses brush her knees.
June is maid whose virgin eyes shine clear
with truth and innocence; who sees her knows
she is nor child nor woman, yet so near
10 both that each might claim the grace she
shows
MOST IKE her dearest flower she doth appear.
A half unfolded. thirty petaled rose.
Ladies Home Journal
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
Professor Huxley on Faith,

may have the most absolute faith
that friend has not committed the
crime of which he is accused. In the
early days of English history, if my
friend could have obtained a few more
compurgators of like robust faith, he
would have been acquitted. At the
present day, if | rendered myself as a
witness on that score, the Judge would
tell me to stand down, and the young
est barrister would smile at nv sim
plicity. Miserable indeed is the man
who has not such faith in some of his
fellow men-only less miserable than
the man who allows himself to forget
that such faith is not, strictly speak
ing, evidence; and when his faith is
disappointed, as will happen now and
again, turns Timon and blames the
universe for his own plumbers. And
so, If man can find friend, the hy-
Postasis of all his hopes, the mirror of
his ethical ideal, in the Jesus of any.
or al, of the Gospels, let him live bv
faith in that ideal. Who shall or can
forbid himl But let him not delude
himself with the notion that his faith
is evidence of the objective reality of
that in which he trusts. Such eyi
dence is to be obtained only by the
use of the methods of science, as ap-
Piled to history and to literature, and
it amounts at present to very little
Professor Thomas H Huxley in Pop
ular Science Monthly.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
A White and Red Robin.

A white and red robin astonishes the
fishermen of Quonochontaug, r. |. 1t
has built its nest in shaggy reach Of
pasture near the laundering ocean break
ers. The birds body is of snowy white,
even to the tip of its tail, excepting its
breast, which is rosy red. A red and
white robin was never heard Of before.
Boston Journal.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
Railway Mysteries.

Railroad Stakeholder Cooking out
of window)-That is superb new car.
Must have cost small fortune.
Railroad Director Qoftily)-That is
car 125, built for the president. Finest
thing on wheels. Cost every cent OF
$50, 600.
Railroad Stakeholder (timidly)-By
the way, what is the prospect of a
dividend2
Railroad Director-No prospect al
all. Meeting this morning decided to
pass the usual dividend. Money earn
ed absolutely needed for betterments
of the road and interest on debt
Pittsburg Bulletin.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02

Florida maintains its -eminence
as the land of flowers. A gardener in
Marion county in that state has raised
cabbage eight feet and three inches
In diameter.
One of the watch dogs at the rail
road station in Portsmouth, Va, was
killed by being run over. His mate
went to the place where he was buried,
dug him up, laid piece OF meat by
his side and then went away.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
How Kentucky Mutton Is Raised.

A few years ago a party Of British
noblemen escaped from their cages
and blew over here. 1t was, if the
recollection is correct, when the Duke
of Sutherland was in America for the
first time with Mrs. Blair. Anyway,
when they got to Washington some
kind heart steered them up against
Col. Dick Wintersmith, who did his
very best to entertain them, and
brought out some of his Oldest and
rarest stories.
The Englishmen warmed and did
their best, and, as all Englishmen do,
came down to Southdown mutton.
How they praised that mutton, and
said there was nothing like it in the
world, told how its peculiar and ex-
quisite flavor was due not alone to the
rich grasses of the Downs, but to the
snails which abounded there, and
which the sheep ate with avidity.
"Snails," said Col. Dick, hoarsely,
as he laid restraining hand upon the
speakers arm. Don't say another
word. Come with me. d"
He led the way to Chamberlain's
and had brief confab with John.
Half an hour later the party were eat
ing some of that Kentucky mutton
which has fame on three continents
The Englishmen were forced 70 ac-
knowledge its superiority in fneness
and flavor.
Gentlemen" said Col Winter
smith, gravely, ''for two months be-
fore our Kentucky mutton is Slaugh-
tered it is fed exclusively on chopped
blue grass and pate de foie gras. p
Washington Post.
The Albuquerque Democrat says:
New Mexico covers a vast lake, and
as wells are being sunk in different
parts of the territory this fact is being
assured. A we'll sunk at Gallup has
penetrated a body of water sixty feet
in depth, and wherever hole is sunk
TO the water it is found to exist in in
exhaustible quantities"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
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How They Settled II.

There are some folks who think that
with a family doctor" book-one of
those common publications which
may be found all over the country
they are capable of curing any dis
ease. An Atlanta youngster, who is
the victim of parents who believe in
such cure-alls, was taken i'll the other
day. The father studied the book and
determined on one line of treatment.
The mother was certain that totally
different treatmelA was necessary.
They discussed and disputed the mat
ter all one evening, and the next day
agreed that both treatments should be
tried. In the morning the child takes
the fathers medicine, in the evening
she takes the mothers dose. And at
last accounts the child was still aliyet
Atlanta American.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
Philadelphia Ladies' Take Il t. Straight"

At a down town restaurant, with
big bar attached, waters may be seen
coming daily TO the bar with cup
and saucer and asking for an Il I.
straight" The cups are handed back
to them containing fluid that very
much resembles tea, but smells OF
something stronger L. I. means
ladies' tipple and It issimply an ingen-
ious way Of serving whisky straight
at table to the many women who call
for it without attracting attention. =
Philadelphia Times - /.