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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
PANToMIME AUDIENCE.


any catastrophe occurring to the Police
Always Hailed With Delight.
If there is one thing more amusing
than an English pantomime, it is the
English audience that go to see it.
Men, women and children who are intel
ligent enough on ordinary occasions
seem, under the influence of this potent
spell, to lose all control of themselves.
Before the curtain rose the faces in front
were expressive and even thoughtful
But when the entertainment was in full
swing all sense of prOpriety was thrown
off.
The audience were carried away and
delighted beyond measure, and swallow
ed the most idiotic nonsense with one
broad grin that seemed to mantle the
face of the whole house. Shout after shout
went up when the clown sat on the baby;
and as the cockney swell appeared, ex
travagantly conscious of his own dignity
and charmed by the effect of his person
al appearance, the heartless public sat
in eager expectancy, we'll knowing that
some disaster was about to befall him;
and when a half-barrel of -four was
poured upon his devoted head they would
burst forth in the most boisterous man
ner. Any catastrophe that occurred to
the police was always hailed with de-
light. Why is it that these guardians
of our safety are held in such contempt
theatrically? When dOuble-dyed viii
lain gets his quietus, and the innocent
heroine is restored to the arms of the
first walking gentleman, we applaud
with delight. Surely under these cir
cumstances one would suppose it to be
our duty to resent any atfront offered to
the force" but no, the slightest indig-
nifty bestowed upon a virtuous police
man, such as the emptying of bucket
of water over his helmet, seems to give
US joy-Joseph Jefferson, in Century.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
AMERICANS ARE GALLANT.
Kate Field Testifies to the Fact, and II
Can Not He Gainanid

h@Co riold Iestlnes to the Fact, and 1t
Can Not BE Gansaid.
The swinish propensities of the HUI
man race are confined to no nationality,
sect or color. | have met with them in
England, France and Germany quite as
often as in America. Indeed, | am far
from sure that, take him with all his
faults, the American has not a larger
share of the generous virtues than the
man Of any othercountry. l remember
once returning from an extended tour
abroad, during which had seen women
sickened with cigarette smoke in close
railway carriages; standing on the
decks of the Rhine steamers while their
welded lords enjoyed the scenery and
the Bauer bier on the few chairs in
sight; and wading through seas of mud
at street crossings, while a gallant
Gaul, perched on the only dry spot,
barred his head in Difference to the fair
sex as they passed by.
The day l landed in New York l rode
once down and up Broadway in an
omnibus to see how the city had changed
in my absence. The street was in a
vile condition, as usual Next me sat
an elderly woman of the middle class,
very plainly but respectfully clad. She
was evidently a visitor from out of
town; and, when the stage stopped for
her to alight at her destination, she
looked timidly this way and that as if
fearful she might lose her footing on
the slippery stone pavements and be
run down in the crush of moving We
hicles. In an instant young man who
had been reading his newspaper alight-
ed, held open the door and helped the
old woman down, escorted her to the
sidewalk in safety, ran after the stage
and caught it, jumped aboard again and
resumed his reading as if he had done
the most natural thing in the world. A
thrill went through me as felt that l
was once more in the country where,
even though polish of manner was
sometimes lacking, the real essence of
politeness was deeply seated in the Ma
tional heart Oh, yes, we do have the
great human hog here-nobody denies
that-but he's the exception, not the
rule.-Kate Fields Washington.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
INDIANS AT SCHOOL.
What They Les.z In the Great Govern.
ment School Mt Carlisle, Pa.


ment School ut Carlisle, Pa.
With seventy-six Sioux children from
Dakota and ffty-one from tribes in the
Indian Territory the great Indian train
ing school at Carlisle, Pa, was opened
November l, 1879. 1t has now enrolled,
representing fifty different tribes. and
the graduating class this year num-
bered forty-three. In the early wears
the school was obliged to breast a fierce
opposition from many quarters, but year
by year the school grew. The name
of Carlisle is now known in every In
dian camp, and there are few reserva-
tions east of the Sierras which have
not in them returned Carlisle students.
The course of study pursued COM
prises ten years. training in the ordi-
nary English branches and at the end
of the ten-year period the Indian child
is graduated. He is still two years be-
low the grade of the high-school grad
uaCe in the public schools, but he can
read, write and figure his way along
side the average boy.
The children upon entering the school
are filthy, unframed to habits Of cleanli-
ness, welded to the vices of the savage.
and accoutred in the habiliments of the
wigwam. Their hair is long and the
comb and brush are strangers.
The school work proper at Carlisle is
supplemented and made all the moro
useful by systematic industrial training.
Many of the boys are apprenticed to
trades, at which they are obliged to
labor part of every day Those who
have no aptitude for the trades are as
signed to farm work and employed in
the dairy. Hundreds of boys have been
sent out to farmers and dairymen and
others to tradesmen and mechanics,
where they can learn not only to work,
but learn also how white people live.
The girls are likewise taught house
duties, gardening, dairying, etc. Every
pupil, male or female, at Carlisle works
every day except holidays and when Ill.
AS consequence, every pupil returns
home knowing how to do something
and do it well, whether he uses his
knowledge or otherwise.
There are shops in which blacksmith
ing, printing, carpentering, shoemak
ing, harnessmaking, tailoring, tin work
and wagonmaking are skillfully done
and taught The pupils of Carlisle
make their own clothing, boots and
shoes, and do nearly all the mechanical
work about the large establishment.
They successfully manage a large
farm and dairy. They made last year
$12, 600 for themselves. besides produc-
ing great deal of food and making
numerous articles for the school. This
school furnishes the Indian service
harness, wagons and tinware 1t is an
immense workshop, and all the labor is
performed by Indians, the white en-
ployes directing them.
And at the commencement these same
lads and lassies, who work half the time
with their hands, showed that they put
in the other half to good advantage
with their books. Their essays ora
tons, declarations and songs would
compare favorably with those of any
white high school. Omaha World.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
RoCKEFELLER'S HORSES.
Something About the Standard OIL Kings
Fast TrOtters.

Fast Trotters.
John D. Rockefeller, the president Of
the Standard Oil Company, is quite we'll
known in Buffalo. He is one of the
wealthiest men in the country, is an en-
thusiastic road-rider, and owns number
of fast trotters.
Mr.. Rockefeller is a man above the
average height, dresses plainly and in
good taste, making no display of his
riches, and invariably wears derby hat.
His heavy mustache, tinged with gray,
shows that time has been slipping
through his fingers while the millions
were being recorded in his treasure
house. Being modest and retiring, and
fond Of home life, John d. Rockefeller
is seldom seen on the clubhouse steps
at Fleetwood Park, n. Y, or in public
gatherings, and no one who meets that
unassuming and impertubable gentle
man behind his favorite pair of blacks,
Midnight and Flash, both of which have
record better than 2:2O, would imagine
for a moment that his resources gave
him more power than that enjoyed by
many European monarch, and that he
owes it all to his own energies. With
brain that condenses mountains to MOLE
hills, perception that reads the good
and bad qualities of his associates at
glance, with foresight that con-
ceives and will to act instantly and to
the point, John D. Rockefeller has risen
from the ranks to the height that few
men dream of, much less reach. In his
comfortable stable on West Fifty-fifth
street, two doors from the roof that shell +
tiers Maud ). and Rarus, John ID. Rookie
Teller, during the spring and autumn
months, sees his equine pets in the pink
of health under the care of Alex Nc
Lean. Their box stalls, with their I
agreeable-looking bedding of straw, con- I
tain in addition to Flash and Midnight
the big brown mare Katie Clark, which
Mr.. Rockefeller drove mile to wagon
below 2:20. He also has Trife, fast
gelding, and did own Annie W., 2:2O, Z
until last fall, when he traded her for Z
daughter of Matte Hunter, 2:12Z. Mr..
Rockefeller also breeds few colts, and
has had his mares in the court of Phal-
las and Pancoast- John d. ROckefeller's
friendship, like that of all retiring men,
wears we'll, time making the bonds
stronger and adversely or success show
ing its worth. All those who have been /.
associated with him are now million
aires, and while his wealth is enormous,
he uses it in works that will make his
name a fixture after the sentinel Of life
has made his last round.-Bufalo Com
merciaL
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE.
A Generation on the March From Child
hood to Old Age.

CON w oAu <Akcs
A generation on the march from the
cradle to the grave is an instructive
spectacle, and we have it carefully pre-
scented to us in a report of DR.. Farr.
Let US trace the physical fortune which
any million of US may reasonably ex-
pect. The number, to begin with, is
made up of 511. 745 boys and 4SS, 255
girls, dispropertion which, by and by,
will be redressed by the undue mortali-
ty of the boys, and will be reversed be-
fore the close of this strange, eventful
history. More than quarter of these
children will die before they are FIVE
years old-in exact numbers, 141, 9S7
boys and 121, 1875 girls The two sexes
are now nearly on a level The next
five years will be much less fatal. In
the succeeding five years-from ten to
ffteen-the mortality will be still fur
Their reduced. Indeed, for both sexes,
this is the most healthy period of life;
the death rate, however, is lower for
boys than girls. There will be some
advance in death in the next five wears.
and still more in the five that follow;
W" Will enLSE on VDelr
twenty-sixth year. Before the next
ten years are at an end two-thirds of
the women will have married. The
deaths during that period will be o.
O52, and of these no fewer than 27,134
will be caused by consumption. Be-
tween th1rty-tve and torty-nve a suII
larger ''death-toll' will be paid, and
little more than half the original band
in exact numbers 500, 915-will enter
on their forty-sixth year. Each sue
ceeding decade, up to seventy five, will
now become more fatal, and the num-
bers will shrink terribly. At seventy
five only 161, 1874 will remain to
be struck down, and of these 1872, $50
will have persisted by the eighty-fifth
year of the march. The 80, sos that re-
main will soon lay down their burdens;
but 2, 153 of them will struggle on to
ninety-fve, and 22S to be 100 years old.
Finally, in the 1OSth year, the last life
will flicker out. Such is the average
lot of million men and women.-Lon-
don Wit and Wisdom.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
WIT AND WISDOM.

Experience is good if not bought
too dear.-Herburt.
"A man never forgets how good he is
to others.-Atchison Globe.
The Cornerstone of Philosophy
If you can't have what you want, don't
want it-Puck. Il
Blessed is the RAN sA1o at 40 has tho
fire of 20 and the peace of 20 together in
his soul Brooks.
Mrs, Grundy: One of these days the
real ''old family servant" will be exhib-
tied at the dime museum.
No one need expect to prevent
earthquakes by building cities in the
neighborhOod of volcanoes.-Go
HAS your girl keen sense of the
Fidiculous?" Eyes, she laughs all the
time l am with her."-Detroit Free
Press.
There is field for scientific inquiry
in the fact that the more brains a man
has the lasger his head sn't-Washing-
ton Post
-She-But you must have some dis
advantages at Harvard! He-No; the
faculty has just been abolished. -Har-
ward Lampoon.
Papa" said a talkative little girl,
sam ! made of dust?" mo, my child.
If you were you would dry up once in a
while. Exchange.
If there is any thing more interest
ing in life than doing nothing, it is
watching another person hard at work
Boston Transcript.
Yet he who means nobleness, tho he
misses his chosen aim, can not fail to
bring down precious quarry from the
clouds. -Margare Fuller Ossoli.
Going camping out this year?"
''No. camped out last year" "Why
don't you camp out this year?" 81 just
told you! / camped out last year!"-
Lowell Citizen.
Polite Passenger-Pardon me, sir!
Can sit down in this seat? Our Sour
boy-Well, presume you can if you try
hard enough. I didn't have any trouble.
Boston Times
Must you go out again tonight"
asked the Sand Flat Yes, / must"
answered the Tide; land when l come
in I'll be full. See?" High sea-" was
the sad answer.-Puck.
1T was the next thing to railroad
accident that deprived me of my lover"
said Miss Antic. my back hair fell of
and he knew that l had deceived him."
''Those misplaced switches are dreadful
things. Epoch.
Not day passes over the earth but
men and women of no note do
great deeds, speak great words
and suffer noble sorrows. OF these
obscure heroes, philosophers and mar
tyrs, the great part will never be known
bill that hour when many that were
great shall be small, and the small
great.
Life is periodic. 1t is made up of
cycles, Of grand currents that sweep all
around and then come back again. If
angels go out, it is only that archangels
may come in. There are transient, back
ward eddies in the stream, but the gen.
eral current is onward, if only we our
selves will keep true, and prove stead
fast All who live know life is a con-
fict; it may also be Victory.-Emsr-
son.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
CEYLoN's TREASURES
Primitive Methods Employed by Poo
and DisSolute Miners.

ana absolute Miners.
Ratnapura, the city Of gems, is the
center of district twenty or thirty
miles square, in almost all of which a
stratum of gravel six feet to twenty feet
under the surface exists. Throughout
this area gem pits are to be seen near
the villages, some being worked now.
others being abandoned. The natives
work there in companies of six or eight
and pay rupee per man per month for
the privilege of working a certain alIot-
ment, where they begin by marking off
q square of about ten feet
After removing about three feet of soil
the sounding rod a piece of iron about
half an inch in diameter and six feet
long, is used to sound for the gravel. II
successful the digging is begun in earn.
est till about four feet deep On the
second day gravel is taken out bv bask.
cts handed from one man to another till
all within the square is excavated.
Should the miners find the soil fairly
firm at the bottom of the pit. they tun-
mel all around for about two feet, draw
ing out the gravel and sending it up al
so to be heaped with the rest which
usually completes the work of the sec
ond day, Waterman remaining near il
all night
On the third day the gravel is all
washed in wicker baskets by a circular
jerking motion, which throws out all
the surplus light stone and rubbish till
a good quantity of heavy gravel is left
]
In the bottom, which is carefully exam
lned- There is hardly basketful that
does not contain some gems of inferior
value, which are usually sold by the
pound for about nine rupees. Should no
valuable stones be found another pit is
sunk, and so on until one or two or per-
haps three really valuable gems are I'M
| earth, when the work is stopped and the
whole party goes off to Ratnapdra with
the prizes. If these are worth, saw a
few thousand rupees, they are kept Sc
cret and only shown to one or two men
of money, who make the owners an ad-
vance and look after the custody of the
precious stones.
Then the miners gamble and drink for
some time, till another advance becomes
necessary, and so on until half the
value is obtained. Then the party,
with the mortgage, proceeds to
Colombo, or ltalutara, where rich
Moorish traders are summoned to
purchase, and the gems soon find
their way to London. The general pub
lie knows nothing about these transac-
tions, and valuable gems are never
heard of in Ceylon and never see the light
OF day until they reach Bond street
The natives have great fear of ex-
posing their finds till they are sold,
and they have superstitious ideas about
showing them. This system has been
in vogue for centuries. 1t is only occa-
sionally one hears of native having
enterprise enough to dig few feet be-
low the first gravel to see if second
bed of gravel is within reach, for they
fear the expense of bailing out water
| which increases as the greater depth is
attained, although the second gravel is
we'll known to be much richer than the
irst.-Jewelers' Weekly.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
Drawing a Conclusion Too Hastily.

The eloquent temperance lecturer
paused, wiped his perspiring brow, and
said impressively to the man on the
front seat, who had listened with the
deepest interest to the discourse and
evidently was touched by its pathos
and argument, my friend, it is never
too late to reform. There is hope for
the most hopeless. The past is beyond
your reach, but you can control your
future. You can not call back to your
pocket the enormous sum it probably
mas cost you to paint your nose the color
1t has now, but"
''All it cost me to paint my nose as
you see it," said the man in the front
seat, rising up. was $500, including
railroad hire and boat hire. 1 went
fishing yesterday. My nose will be as
fair as lily in day or two. But go
on with your lecture" he added, sitting
down again, II am very much inter
ested. "-Chicago Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
MY SALAD DAYS.

The youth sings love through all his salad
days."-Old Song.
the thatch upon my mental roof
Is growing rather thin,
And I'm inclined to stand aloof
From prattle's merry din.
I'm fonder of my friend and pipe;
Think I'm more serene;
Men soon, fear, will call me rip%
Although my name is Green.
Miss MabeUhnd Miss Margery now
Declare that I'm a bore;
No sweet smile greets me when bow;
1t was not thus OF yore.
And so 1 view with rapt regret,
More fair through memory's haze,
That pristine period when 1 yet
Was in my salad days."
NV much-beribboned loves I see,
Where are they now, alas?
All, II the dears not welded be,
They sleep beneath the grass.
With maidens fair no more wind
Down shady woodland ways; 1.
fleft romantic strolls behind
In glad old salad days"
We had no gay lawn-tennis then,
Yet we could play love all"
As well as any modern men
Who deftly "serve" the ball.
We drove, we boated, and we danced;
We trod the garden maze;
And, oh, the bright eyes, how they glanced
In happy salad days"'
Gone all the buoyancy and zesti
I'm laid upon the shelf"
My thoughts Of consolation rest
Ingoodly store OF pelf
And yet I'd gladly barter gold,
And pride of place, and praise,
For those blithe-hearted times OF old
In frolic salad days"
-Harper's Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
Women VINO Draw Mems Salaries.

The writer was in downtown busl
ness Office talking to the cashier. Three
women came in, were handed envelopes
containing money, and departed. They
are not employees" said the cashier in
answer to a question. "They are the
wives and daughters of men who are in
eur employ. Why do the women draw
the mems pay? In one case the woman
draws it because she wants to; because
she is the boss and her husband doesn't
dare say his soul is his own. The other
eases are different. The women get the
pay in those cases at the request of the
employees, who admit if they get their
hands on money they could not resist
the temptation to gamble it away. They
are fellows who deserve to do better,
but they can not, so they say, overcome
the disease There is another man
working here who has enough money
withheld from his pay every week to
keep him on good terms with his land
lady, who comes regularly for the sti-
PEND. You see these fellows are honest
They want to pay their way, but so
money-mad are they that they can not
be trusted with a dollar. Chicago
Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04

-Lightkeeper Rogers, of Straits
mouth Island, off Rockport, Mass, re-
ports that while sitting on one of the
headlands one evening recently. he ex-
perienced peculiar sensation. The air
seemed exhausted and he had great diff
f1culty in breathing. There was a rush
ing sound like that made by skyrockets,
and there was shower resem bling mil.
lions of stones falling into the water,
after which Mr.. Rogers noted that the
water was boiling, as if some large,
heated body was submerged therein.
he Is Of the opinion that 1t was me-
seoE,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
An Important Personare,

"You'd better go and get that piece of
ice on your doorstep" remarkedA per-
tectly immense party to the lady OF the
house,. sit is so small am really afraid
1t can not take care of itself"
And who are you?' asked the lady of
the very familiar intruder.
"Ohp' was the impudent reply, don't
worry abont me. I'm the price. "r--
Washington Star,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
How to Make clothes Last Long.

Mr.. Einstein-Jakey, volts de matter
nit you? Vot for you getup so early in
der mornin', Ell?
Jakey-Vy, fader. l got up by seven
o'clock. Dot don't vas so early.
Einstein-Und vot time you 90 to
bed?
Jakey-Halluf past ten
Einstein-Now, after dis you 60 to
led at eight and sleep till nine. De
longer you sleep de longer you can year
dot suit OF clothes ] bought you. Amer.
lea.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
The Seat of Harvard University.

The name of Cambridge, Mass, was
first Newtown, and was changed to its
present name in honor of the English
university at which nearly all the Mas
sachusetts ministers were educated
Harvard university was the first institu-
ton of higher learning established in
America, and it's first president was
Henry Dunston, noted Hebrew scholar.
The first graduating class consisted Of
nine, and received their degrees in 1912.
The first honorary degree, that of D. D.,
was bestowed upon Increase Mather in
1892. Rev. John Harvard, the young
and noble founder, died at Charlestown
in 1888, leaving to the institution his
library and half his estate, about 81, 900,
considered munifcent sum at that
time.-Boston Budget.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
VIII Never Be Understood.

Tramp-Folks don't seem to under.
stand me.
Householder-They never will.
But why can't they, sir?"
1.-THE Scriptures declare that every
man is known by his works, and you
never work, Chicago Globe
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04

Mr.. Jasper Gibson, an Englishman,
has invented new form of bell buoy.
1t will serve for warning both in case
of fog and storm. The buoy" says
Chambers Journal, supports two bells,
one above the other. The lower one be-
ing a fog-bell, and the upper
a storm-bell. The fog-bell is actuated
BY a rod attached to float which moves
up and down with every ripple, and it is
thus in no way dependent upon rough
sea for it's warning note. But the storm
bell requires some thing more than this
r. force it into action.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
Very Close.

sIsn't there some sort of relationship
between Madge and Mr.. Dashing?"
''Oh. yes, indeed. He was the trst
man she was ever engaged to- The
Continent