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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
Pearl-DIver Tells the Story OF His Mar
row Escape from Suffocation.

row Escape IEOn ouhOCALIOhs
The first time struck the bottom
couldn't believe was there. 1t was a;
clear as air, and the fishes swimming
ABOUND might have been taken for birds
landed on a kind of sand hill when
they lowered me, and had to walk
about fifty feet down into valley like
before l struck the shells. They were
all in a bunch, stretched along in 9
ridge, looking like black mark against
the white bottom. 1 was dragging the
hamper and when l got alongside
began to toss them in. l reckon l had
filled half dozen or so, when all al
once saw kind of shadow moving
over all. At first thought it was the
schooner and then, perhaps, some OF
the other divers coming down, and then
it left; but all at once it came again
and grew so dark in a second that
l turned quick and looked up,
and I'm telling you the truth,
master, if my hair hadn't been
held down by a copper CAP
it would have riz right on end. There.
a-movin' over me, was what | took tC
be bird about thirty feet across. Ii
was wheeling round anu round, flap
ping its big wings, just as you've seen
buzzards or eagles do, overhead.
Down it came, lower and lower, and |
a-crouching as flat as l could get. The
nearer it got the bigger it looked, and
as see it was a-settling on ME took
the pike l always carried and as it
wheeled around over me | let drive
Hit it? Well, reckon did. The next
thing knew l was standing on my
head. rolling over and over, then
yankeG sit, ways, half drowned. and
then reckon lost my senses, and when
came To was lyin' on deck and all
hands looking at me.
You see, the critter had given the
water such Il swirl that | was knocked
end for end, and my pipe and line
twisted around and around, so that l
couldn't breathe, and of course that
pulled the line, and the men thought |
had jerked it TO come up, SO they hauled
away for all they were worth, and that S
what saved my life. What was it?
Why, nothin' but one of those sea bats
blanket fish the other men called it
ard they ali said l had q narrow run
for it. That was the way, accordin' to
their say, that the fish goes to work to
get away with mau. They first settle
down on vou like blanket, ard there
you are There wasn't man that
would 90 down after that fer several
days. Cincinnati Commercial Gaxette.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
THE QUEENS YACHT.
The Floating Palace in Which Her Majesty
Makes Occasional Cruises.

The Floating Palace In Which Her Majesty
Makes Occasional Cruises.
The exquisite cleanliness of every
thing strikes one forcibly on board the
Victoria and Albert. The deck is laid
with cork fioor-cloth, over which, when
the Queen is on board. carpet is
placed, and every thing else that is to
be seen is of pure white, with gilded
relief work and silver mountings.
There are very comfortable little sit
ting rooms on the promenade deck, and
behind the paddle wings, and there is
also dining room on the promenade
deck, which has three big windows and
a skylight 1t is furnished in green
morocco, and the ceiling is painted in
white and gold. The state apartments
below are placed on either side of the
corridor, and they are furnished with a
very pretty chintz. The Queens cabins
are on the starboard side, and her Sleep
ing apartment contains large and old
fashioned but very comfortable looking
bedstead with pillars and canopy, and
next is the dressing-rOom, which was
formerly Prince Albert's cabin, and it
remains as he left it, his little writing
table and wardrobe never having been
moved.
Large maps hang on the walls. The
cabin occupied by Princess Beatrice Tor
any Princess who happens to be travel
ing with the Queen) are all of her Ma
jestys quarters, and on the other side
of the corridor are the cabins of the
Princess and large bathroom. The
breakfast room is in the afterpart of the
vessel, and it has very large windows,
and is hung with the portraits of all the
officers who have commanded the royal
yacht.
The drawing-room is forward on the
port side, and it is furnished in birds
eye maple, with a piano and several
beautifully carved side tables. 1t is
hung with portraits of members of the
royal family, and in this room is small
library. The yacht is now lighted with
electricity, except in the Queens own
cabins.-London Truth.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
EARLY AVARtCE.
Vice Which Once Planted in the Charac
ter Grows with Incredible Rapidity.

A Vice which Once Planted i'm the Charac-
ter Grows with Incredible Rapidity.
The newspapers frequently contain
accounts Of old men and women who
live in want while they are boarding
lar &c sums of money Avarice is re-
puisive vice of the aged, but in the
young it is against nature. Yet. if it
is once planted in a childs character,
it grows with incredible rapidity and
strength.
A young woman, the last scion Of
respectable family, lived in one of our
inland towns, supporting herself by
sewing. She occupied one bare cham
Der, in such poverty as to perplex her
friends, who knew that she had twice
inherited large legacies. She became
i'll with an agonizing disease, brought
on, the physician said, by lack of sufli-
cient food, and grew weaker, day by
day, until she could not leave het bed.
Her physician, knowing that she had
money hidden, spoke frankly to her at
last, telling her that her life depended
on her taking tonics and rich. nourish-
ING food. which her poor neighbors
could not buy. If You do not take
this food you will not live a week. he
said. The girl remained thoughtful
and quiet when he was gone. After a
few hours she babe her nurses bring a
chestwhich was in the room near to her
bed 50 that she could reach it. The key
she kept under her pillow. As one day
after another passed, she would occa-
sjonally finger the key and look visit
fully at the chest; but she did not open
it. On the sixth day she died. In the
last struggle with death she held out
he key, motiOning to her nurse to open
he chest. But it was too late. During
all those days she had weighed her gold
against her life. The money was the
learer of the two. Though she knew
she could not carry it with her, she
could not bring herself to spend a dol
lar of it.
A still more horrible example of the
effect of avarice was reported in the
French journals last winter An old
woman, living with her children. mad
possession of sum less than a hundred
dollars. To force her to give it up,
they literally burned her alive.
We all shudder at passion which
can so brutalize human beings. Yet
how many men are moved by it under
some other name. Here is wealthy
woman who fills every closet nj her
house with costly china, ut which she
never looks; or a man who buys vast
tracts OF land which ne neither cult
Yates nor sells. The sole use Of either
money or goods in this world IS to make
some living being wiser or better or
happier. The man who hindcrs this
purpose to crafty lis love of boarding.
IS miser, tbodgh he may give himself
some more honorable tile IOata's
Companion.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-He-"Can you keep secret,
Milly?" She-"Why. have you one you
can't keep"
A young man writes to inquire
docs college education pay?" NO
1t makes the old man pay."-Texas Sift-
ings.
Husband Ito extravagant wife,
'You have succeeded at last in making
something out of me-" Wife-'I knew
would. What is it, dearest?" Husband
"A pauper. Epoch.
First Physician - "Any unusual
symptoms about that last case of yours?''
Second Physician-'Yes: he paid me
fifty dollars on account yesterday
Munsey's Weekly.
"A broad hint: Landlord Ito depart
ing guest)-'I trust l may rely upon
your recommending my establishments
Guest-'I don't happen to have at this
moment mortal enemy in the world. -
-Humoristiche Blaetter
The Medical World says healthy
man changes his brain every two
months. We don't believe it. We have
known some remarkably healthy men
who never change never had any
brains to change, in fact.-Peoria Tran
script.
NO use," exclaimed an impecuni-
Gus debtor to an importunate creditor.
you can't get blood out of turnip."
Il know that" responded the creditor
but unless l get that money I'll have
gore from beat. Press
What is it, little grip" said a gro
Ger to five-year-old miss, as he leaned
over the counter. Little Girl Mamma
sent me for lamp chimney, and she
says she hopes it will be as strong as
that last butter you sent us. Chicago
Tyre.
Mrs. Wickwire -" Why don't you
quit that stupid habit you've got of say
ing BY Jover What do you know about
Jove, anyway" Mr.. Wickwire-'I will
if you will stop saying the idea every
time you are spoken to. What do ycu
know about ideas, anyway - Terre
Haute Express.
-CustOmer-"You sold me, two weeks
ago, one of your combination ten-dOllar
outfits Proprietor-"Well - er we
can't change any thing we've sold, 80,
that's all right. There isn't enough left
of the outfit to return. But the linen
collar was really good, and l thought
I'd stop in and see if it wasn't mis-
take. Smith, Gray & CO. s Monthly.
Il get up at daylight" repeated the
early rising crank, for the 999th time.
81 can't see how any one can want to lie
in bed after they have woke up. Then
I" Get out of the house as soon as
possible, l supposo?" put in the tired
listener, for the sake of saying some
thing. Certainly" What relief it
must be to your family. "-Philadelphia
Inquirer.
A young versifier, upon submitting
one of his productions to his older and
less dreamy roommate, was asked, the
verses having been read with great
care: did you write this stuff p
YES" ''Where will you send it?" ITO
Mr.. Blank. Hes the editor of the
W journal. l send it to him be-
cause he is an old friend of my fathers. "
"All right I'm glad you're going to
send it to Blank. Perhaps, for your
fathers sake, he will decline to print
it.'-Harper's Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
GROWING VANILLA.
An Industry Carried On for the Most Part
by Women and Children.


The vanilla plant of Mexico is a
climber, having numerous adventurous
air rootlets, in which 1t fastens to It's
chosen support. 1t is an ugly, ungai n
ly vine, with all the grotesqueness and
none of the grace usually found in mem
bers of She orchid family. The flowers
are very abundant, but they prove
mostly abortive unless artificial fecunda-
ton is resorted to, which largely in
creases the yield OF pods.
The flowers open in March and April,
and artificial fertilization begins at once,
as each blossom remains open but
twenty-four hours. The buds do not open
simultaneously, hence the ground must
be gone over daily.
The work is done for the most part by
women and children, each of whom is
provided with sharp stick and short
ladder, for convenience in reaching the
flowers. The flower is grasped with the
fingers of the left hand, while the right
displaces the anthers with their pollen
by means of the stick, and conveys them
to the pistil.
If this operation Is dexterously per-
formed the flower dries upon the
ovary in forty-eight hours; if it falls in
less time the manipulations have been
unsuccessful. The fallen blossoms are
used for practice in the art of fertiliza-
ton by beginners, who at the end of a
few DAYS become able to fertilize thou
sand blossoms in a day. If the plants
were not thus treated the yield would be
barely one-tenth of what it is.
The harvest begins properly in De-
cember, when the capsules assume the
yellow hue which indicates that they
have reached their maturity.
The process of curing vanilla is del
icate one. The pods must not merely
be dried. but this must be done in way
to secure several results; the pods must
retain certain softness, they must lose
little in weight, they must develop all
possible fragrance, and the active prip-
ciple must be brought out to coat the
surface in the form of crystals, produc-
ing the effect Familiarity known as the
'-silvering of the vanilla"
In order to effect these several re-
suits the pods are spread in layers upon
gratings of sticks, arranged in tiers for
convenience Of inspection, in dry and
well-ventilated room. After twenty
four hours the pods are picked over and
the poor ones rejected The next day
they are placed in the sun. Before sun
set they are again collected and care
fully arranged in layers upon dry
blankets.
This process is repeated for twenty
or thirty days, the time necessary for
the capitalization to become complete.
Then the vanilla is assorted, tied up in
bundles of fifty pods each, and packed
for shipping In tin cans.-Youth's Com
DanioR-
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
MICHIGAN HEIRESSES.


Two Young Ladies Who VIII Each In
herit Three Million Dollars.
Michigan comes out ahead in the mill
ion-dollar girls it loans to the capital
this season. There will be five Of
them, and the man who sits in Senator
McMillan's dove-colored parlcr can call
himself blessed, for four maids who
will count their millions will talk tC
him.
First of all comes Miss Amy, the only
daughter of the house. Slight, fair and
modest, yet she can vie with Miss
Letter as the heiress of Washington;
s., 600, 600, if cent, is what she will one
day inherit, and possibly half again as
much, as Detroiters vouch for it that
Senator McMillan's fortune is steadily
increasing. Lumber, car wheels and
iron mines are the backbone of this
lump of money which Miss Amy Nc
MILAN will one day share with her
three brothers and the little child OF
her only sister who died last year.
In spite of her wealth, Miss Mcmillan
is modest and unassuming and enjoyed
her first ball the other night as much as
the poorest and prettiest girl present.
She is pretty, too, and fortune-hunters
claim that they pay her the homage OF
forgetting her fortune when they dance
with her.
She is sensible withal, and knows a
thing or two about money. Though
only nineteen, for two years her father
has given her control of some corpulent
bank stock, the interest of which makes
up her yearly allowance She has every
thing she wants. Think of it, but it is
literally true, but her father insists that
she shall know the cooperative values OF
thimble and diamond ring. Although
she has boxes of jewels, she will wear
none of them, and at her first ball she
had not even a diamond 'sticker" pin
tucked away in her corsage.
The second of Michigan's heiresses
who are giving Washington fortune
hunters chance is Miss Alice McMil-
Ian, daughter of the second Of the
wealthy Mcmillan brothers. She is Of
an age with her cousin and has quite a
neat fortune. The two of them repre-
sent Sc, 900, 900 when they ride out Tenal-
lytown way together, as they frequent
lv Washington Letter,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
A WOMAN'S CLUB.
How It's Members Seek to Evade the Re
sp0nsibilities of Office.

How It's Members Seek to Evade the Re-
sponsibiIities of Office.
1t is amusing to observe the manner
In which officers are elected in GER
tain club of this city which does good
work, but whose members belong to the
opposite sex.
Miss l. is elected treasurer" an
nounced the teller.
'Really ladies'" said Miss l., ris-
ing, ''you must excuse me. l am too
busy l am already treasurer of the x.
Y. q. Association and the d. G. F. Club
on Foreign Missions. Really, 1 have
too much to do, and besides 1 might get
the money mixed up"
Miss l. is excused, and after vari-
GUS attempts Mrs. Y is persuaded to
act.
MRS. M is elected secretary, ~
says the teller.
Il am sorry to Decline" remarks Mrs.
M, rising, "but have sick child
at home You must excuse me, ladies, -
with winning smile.
Same procedure as in the case of Miss
M.
tary," continues the treasurer.
Mrs. - leaves her seat and has a
persuasive expression on her face as she
addresses the meeting.
81 feel the honor deeply, ladies'" she
says. Nothing would give me more
pleasure
''Then you will act? interrupted the
president with an equally engaging
facial expression.
81 am afraid l can not My husband
expressly forbade my accepting any
office this afternoon. He says it would
interfere with my preparing his dinners
and"
Mrs. R is excused after the ladies
have INDUCED in several witticisms,
and Mrs. O. Is finally persuaded
Detroit Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
FOR EGG-EATERS.
Hen Fruit Sent to City Markets Which
Have Been Used in IncubatOrs.

Hen Fruit Sent to City Markets Which
Have Been Used in IncubatOrs.
~ want dozen eggs, but l want
eggs as is eggs, and not none o them
as has bin incurberated.
That was the way little old woman
made her wants known in Second
avenue grocery store the other morn
ing, aud reporter who was by, asked
her what she meant by "incurberated
eggs" end was surprised at her an
swer.
wei, EIy boy James lives up to
West Schuyler in Herkimer County.
He's 60. quite smart place up there
and raises chickens. That is he chucks
lot of eggs into kind of box, turns
on the gas, puts thermometer into the
box long with the eggs, and then waits
for 'em TO hatch. The eggs, though,
that he puts in the box are all examined
first. He buys 'em from farmers and
puts EN- IN the box, which ne calls an
incarberator. If after bein' in this in
curberator awhile them eggs don't snow
they are fertile he takes EN- out of the
box and sends 'em to market Now,
them eggs don't want, fer don't be-
Eeve they are good for nothin'."
Inquiries developed the tact that the
old woman was right, and that many
eggs sent to market have been tested in
incubators before they are shipped and
been found lacking in iertility.-M T.
LA! and Egpre>s.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
QUEER AFRICAN CITY.
Nothing More Oriental in the East Than
Tangier Within Sight of Spain.

nothing Moro OTlcntdi III Ine EaNI IMAM
Tangier Within Sight of Spain.
What is there to see in Tangier and
why do American tourists after THE run
through Spain think it quite essential
to visit the Barbary coast? / can answer
for one party. A sagacious friend who
recently went from the straits of Glib
ralter to the Bosporus said to us before
we left home: "YOu will see nothing
more purely oriental than Tangier in al
your proposed Journey" Certainly we
have found the place so completeiy for-
eign to all our ideas that only the old
fashiorLd word ''outlandishp seems ade-
quate tc describ be it. Here Is the most
western of all the seapOrts of northern
Africa, lying within sight of the coast
of Spain and the rock of Gibraltar, a
place of 10, 900 inhabitants, upon whose
ways of life and thought European
Christian civilization has scarcely made
an impression. Yet more than two hun
dred years ago this city for ashOrt period
belonged to the English crown. 1t is
now the residence of the foreign minis
ters who are accredited to the Sultan of
Morocco.
1t is in almost daily communication
with France, Spain and Gibraltar, both
England and Spain maintaining post
offices, with separate bureaus, stamps
and mail-bags. There are newspapers
published here in English and Spanish.
The Hotel Continental is so good that
there is a current mot to the effect that
the best hotel in Europe may be found
in Africa. The English come here at
certain seasons ''for sport, the particu-
lar attraction being the chase of wild
boars, for which manual of ''hog-stick
ing has been deliberately set forth.
Yet, Notwithstanding all this, the
Moors and the Jews go on in their old
fashioned ways as if they were living in
the fifteenth century. Indeed, it is
easy to believe that we see in Tangier
much of the same sort of life which pre-
vailed in Southern Spain four hundred
years ago-before the conquest of Gra-
uada-with one important qualification:
rangier has nothing which suggests the
learning, the science, the arts, or even
the sacredness of the great cities OF
Andalusia when Moorish sway was dom
inant. The Arabic or Mohammedan
dominion, without the Arabic en1ighten-
ment, loses all the charm which is sug-
gested by what is even now to be seen
in Cordova, Granada and Seville.-Cor.
Baltimore Sun
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
RoBlNsoN's MISTAKE.
He Made Merry with Bow-Legged Man
without Calculating Chances.

He Made Merry with Bow-Legged Man
without Calculating Chances.
The stranger was bow-legged to an ex-
tent not often met with, and as conse-
ouence his walk was not as graceful as
gazelle's. When he rolled up to the
crowd Robinson looked at his legs crit
ically for moment and said:
Gents, stand apart, please, and per-
nit this animated horse-collar to pass
through"
The bow-legged man scowled savagely
at Robinson and shuffied on. Robinson
continued. in a tone so that he could be
overheard:
"Now. gents, there is man who could
earn his seventy-five dollars week if he
would consent to stand in museum and
exhibit those callipers OF flesh and blood
which have been bestowed upon him as
legs"
The man was so bow-legged that he
seemed little more than three feet high,
whereas he ought to have been six, and
Robinson thought it very good joke
when he stopped and looked back at him
with something like war in his eyes.
Robinson continued:
"Our bow-legged friend here used to
do great act in circus by jumping
through a hoop and never breaking the
paper pasted over it. He didn't, as a
matter of fact, exactly jump through the
hoop, but simply passed around it's cir
conference, and did it so slick as to
defy detection. If any of you will pro-
duce a hoop will request him to do il
here on the street for our amuse"-
The bow-legged party turned around
much quicker than it was thought posi-
BILE in one who had such eccentric I'M
derpinning, and before any one could
interfere he had buttAd Robinson in the
stomach and followed up the attack with
the most terrific blows and kicks that any
OF us had ever heard tell of. The vigor
and rapidity with which he kicked was
a great surprise and wonderment, par
| ticularlv to Robinson, who in a very
short time was the worst-whipped man
in ten counties. When the bow-legged
man got through he shuf1ed on his way
without word. AS we put Robinson to
bed he volunteered this advice, which
seemed to come from his heart of hearts:
''Boys, take the advice of adying man,
and never fool with fellow who has
! bow-legs IN. Y. World.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
A Neat Apology.

There was brilliant party at the res
idence Of one of the most prominent
State officials at Austin, Tex. Of course,
there was dancing and music. Hostel
ter McGinnis and Miss Esmeralda Long
coffin were also present Neither of
them dancing, they were seated on a
sofa, talking, when suddenly Hostetter
placed his arm around the waist of Miss
Longcollin and gave it a hearty squeeze.
What DO you mean, sir!' exclaimed
the Indignant maiden.
There is no harm in it. can't dance
and don t see why those gentlemen on
the floor can hug the ladies and do
not, TOO"
The apology was accepted. : Texas
SytingS.