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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
PRESERVE OLD LANDMARKS.
An Item Suggestive to Every Community
in the Land.


The news that Mr.. George NJ. Pull
man has offered to erect a monument to
commemorate the massacre of 1912 at
the point in Chicago where it has been
definitely ascertained that Fort Dear
born stood, should be a suggestive item
to every community in the land. There
are few sections of the country which
have not been the scene of stirring, or
at least interesting historical events.
The Central West is full of locations
where Indian fighting, renowned in his
tory, occurred. These points can now
be readily ascertained and permanently
marked at slight expense. Another
generation will find it difficult to do
this. There were many sites of forts
which figured in the civilization of
the West as prominently as Fort Dear
born. All Western cities of Importance
have grown up around such Notifications
as this. At the East there are points
that can yet be identified upon the bat
tlefields of the revolution, and houses
which are st II standing and known to
have been the headquarters of notable
commanders. There are ruins of forti-
locations, both of 1776 and 1912, which
can be plainly traced at various points
along the Eastern coast. But, in add
dition to those which are still visible,
there are countless spots of most inter
esting and important history which
can readily be found and thoroughly
identified. The mysteries of the
Indian mounds should incite the pres
ent generation to preserve American
history. Until recently these matters
have not attracted much gen
eral attention. They richly deserve
National consideration. The exact To-
calities of great events in which either
the armies of civilization or the armies
which fought our wars took part are
rapidly becoming lost both to sight and
to memory. A very little public spirit
and small amount of research by local
historical societies would at once rescue
from the teeming past the history and
exact position of thousands of spots
which, in all coming years, would in
tereSt and instruct our millions. Those
who have driven over the road from
Boston through Lexington to Concord
will appreciate what can easily be done
to preserve the history of important
localities and make it familiar to all
passers. The granite tablets by the
roadside, which tell of all phases
of those days which show on the birth
places of our independence, add an in
terest to the drive which nothing else
could give it. The brief inscriptions
make it possible to repeople these his
toric spots with the actors of those
patriotic days and scenes which sur
rounded them. 1t would be a work
worthy of any community to thus mark
and permanently preserve the points of
its local history. There will never
come a time when such monuments will
lose their value. In fact, as the years
pass and the Nation grows in extent and
population and power, such monuments
will grow proportionately in interest
and in wOrtE.-Cincinnati Commercial.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
Importance of Water Marks.

Equal Importance exists in the water
mark of the paper on which a postage
stamp is printed. One edition of a Qua
temalan stamps ON paper with no water
mark; another edition of the same stamp
is on paper with star for water mark,
while still another is on paper with a
crown and the letters &C. c." All three
of these are necessary to a proper collec-
ton of Guatemalan stamps. Occasion
ally it happens that the same stamp is
printed at different times from a litho>
graphic stone, a wooden block and
steel plate; a specimen of each is neces-
sary to the collectors happiness. And
so much difference do these distinctions
make that a stamp with one sort of per-
foration or water mark will be worth,
may be, hundreds of dollars, when pre-
cisely the same stamp perforated or wa
teYmarked in another way has selling
value Of only few cents. An other
wise worthless blue Cape of Good Hope
stamp, printed by accident in red,
brought 1922 at auction in New York,
while common one-penny red Of the
same country, printed by accident In
blue, fetched $9O.-Washington Star In
terView
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
HYPNOTlSM IN PARIS.
The Same Process as That Employed for
Sharing Larks.

Sharing Larks.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Graphic gives an account of the sys-
tenn of hypnotizing employed by its
foremost professor in France, DR.. Luys,
director of the Revue de Hypnoogie,
the organ of the science. The process
was suggested to him by one that is
used by bird-ca tchers. 1t is the revolys
ing mirror that DR.. Luys empIoys-the
same as that used in the field for snar>
ing larks-and the effect produced is an
Identical one. The advantage of NV
system" he says, lis that by means of
it one single operator can fascinate at
one and the same time an unlimited
number of patients without trouble to
himself, and with no loss of force. 1t
has also the advantage of absolute infal-
libility. | have never known it to fail
Certainly some patients are less sus-
ceptible to its effects than others; but
none have ever resisted five or six op-
erations. On the other hand, most sue.
cumb the very first time, after q lapse
of from five to thirty minutes.'
The system is as simple as it can be.
In the middle OF a group of patients"
which may be as large or as small as the
operator may determine, is set up on a
stand and on level with the eyes a
revolving apparatus of bits of colored
glass, such as is used for sharing larks.
The patients are instructed to fix their
eyes upon it. THE effect of the revolv-
ing glasses" says D. Luys, SIS exactly
the same on men as it is on the birds
On men the rotation of brilliant sur
faces produces in predisposed subjects a
particular state of the retina, and
subsequently of the whole nerv-
GUS system, accompanied with
an@sthesia, immobility of the mus
cles, uggestionability'- short the
ensemble of phenomena constituting
fascination 1t usually takes the
full period of half an hour to master an
average crowd; some succumb earlier
some later, but the average are master
ed in that time. But in the meantime
what pitiful struggles here and there
This one laughs-he is not going to re-
sign his will to that glittering toy
That one blinks and blinks, and would
have the rest to believe that it is nat
ural sleep that harnesses him. But lit
tie by little sleep comes on the agitated
crowd. One by one they drop off into
immobility. The sleep is different in
cases. Some appear as if actually
asleep, others have the wide-open, star
ing eyes of somnambulists, but II either
case the fascination of the subject is
complete.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
Climb in an hev a liftr
OIIIIU III III utV U IIIJ.
George Horton in Chicago Herald.
How "Assaying" Is Done.

The process of assaying gold and silver
is identical in each case. The metal is
first put through highly heated furnace
and melted, the samples for "assay"
being dipped out while the metal is in a
liquid state. Next, the sample is thrown
into vessel of cold water, when granu-
lation ensues Taken from the cold
bath, it is boiled in sulphuric acid, the
silver dissolving while the gold is pre-
cipitated to the bottom, where it is
caught in proper receptacles. The acid
is now drawn off and the metal placed
in another vessel laid with sheet lead,
the bottom being plates Of copper.
Chemical action now sets in, the acid,
copper and lead being in ferment.
While the gold is being precipitated,
the silver, if there be any in the sample
under test, is being deposited in thin
metallic sheets on what before the fer
mentatiOn Set in were the copper plates,
but which have now been transformed
into blue vitriol or sulphate of copper
After the metals have all been deposited
they are gathered up, and, with the i'm
purities still remaining, pressed into
cakes by hydraulic machine which has
a pressure of 200 tons. Again it is
melted (the gold and silver each in sepa-
rate watts, of course), the pure metal be-
ing again deposited and the impurities,
aided by chemical action, left floating
on the top. The next and last process
runs the metals into ingots ready for the
markets of the world.-St. Louis Repub-
lie
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
HER FIRST GLASS.
How the Farmers Little Daughter Liked
Soda-Water.


Soda-Water.
A lady who was passing the summer
in the country at farm some miles from
town on eday took the little daughter of
farmer in her phaetOn when she had
occasion to drive to village half a
dozen miles away, says the Boston
Courier The o4ild, WAC had never be
fore been there, was at once amazed and
delighted with all the novel sights
which presented themselves to her ewes.
and the lady found not a little anus
ment in the naive comments which the
farmers daughter made.
Before starting for home the lady took
the child into shop and ordered a glass
of saltwater for her. The child, who
had no idea at all what this strange
liquid might be, watched with closest
attention while the attendant made the
strip foam in the glass, and when it was
given to her she bravely set her small
brown nose into the shining froth, al
though she did not seem to find much
satisfaction in the drink until she came
to the sweet sirup at the bottom.
"Well, Araminta," the lady asked, as
the child set down the glass with sigh
Of satisfac ton, chow did you like your
soda-water?'
"Oh, thank you, marm," was the an
swer of the novice; Il liked the soda
water first-rate after got through the
Cu1c
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
Voracfty of the Pike.

A female pike weighing twenty-nine
pounds has been found dead in the lake
at Ewhurst Park, Basingtoke, the seat
OF Lord Alexander Russell. 1t had APP
parently met its death in the vain at
tempt to swallow one of its own species
weighing nine pounds. The two fish
in the position in which they wore
found are being stuffed at Winchester.
As an undoubted instance of pikeish
voracity there is an unusually well-au-
thenticated record of a pike of two
pounds first swallowing trout of one
pound, and shortly afterward, while the
tail of the trout was still in its throat
selling an artificial bait three and a
half inches in length.-St James Ga
zette.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
rae FINISHING Touch.
Various Forms Used by Writers in Closing
Their Letters.

In regard to closings, there are manv
and varied forms, from the heretofore
chilling yours truly" to the many as
surances of loving friends. say here
tofore chilling because forms of s'yours
truly" are now used as formulas denot-
ing great attachment or sincerity,
whereas some years ago this ending
found its chief employment in business
letters
Usage takes on many forms in this
matter of ending. Some would close
with a few appropriate words which
have no connection with what has al
ready preceded; others make a connec-
ton. The words with best wishes"
and with kindest regards" make very
graceful endings, but are fitting only
when the parties exchange few letters
or are not close friends.
Where no connection is made between
the preceding clause and the concluding
phrase, such expressions as: Most af-
fectionately," ever your loving
friend" or ''believe me very much YOUR
friend" make up for any seeming alb
ruptness. One of the chief characteris-
tics of letter is the manner in which it
is closed. The formula have changed.
and are changing not so much in form
as in appliance in late years. Many
which used to indicate only the closest
degrees of friendship are now used on
occasions where there is only slight
acquaintance, and often in a case where
the writer wishes only to show esteem
for his or her correspondent.
Expressions which are used thus in
discriminatory are sincerely yours, :"
very sincerely your friend" ETC., etc.
OF packet of twenty-three letters writ
ten mostly by different persons and
within the last four years, find that
ten use nearly the same forms of sin
cerely yours" l have chosen this packet
because they were not written as
from friends of long standing; where
there are several from one person there
is quite an interval of time between the
several letters. In two of them ''af-
fectionately" was used, and one, a model
of elegance from New York City home,
the words lovingly yours appear.
Such endings used in such connections
indicate not the degree of friendship
existing between the writer and the cor
respondent but the state of mind or sim
certify of the writer, One Of the most
beautiful letters 1 ever received con-
tanned these words, which l had never
seen before that time: 81 am very cor
daily your friend, -"
When very truly" very sincerely"
etc, are used, the words Il am" and Il
remain" are great help in destroying
any abrupt effect, and they give the
letter tone semi-polite, semi-affection-
ate. Now, as to signing the name. In
every case it is best to sign the full
name, by which l mean the Christian
name, initial of middle name and sur
name. Only between relatives and very
intimate friends is any diminutive of
the proper name allowable, and | should
be loath to recommend the practice even
then.-Toronto Globe.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
Brain Workers Safety Valve.

The late Rev. Dr. Enoch Pond, of the
Bangor Theological seminary, did an
immense amount of work in his day
His long life knew few idle moments
He was once asked how he managed to
write so much for religious papers in
addition to his preparation of matter for
volumes, not forgetting his duties in the
lecture room. II have made it a rule, -
he said, ''to stop on the end of each
hours work and take few minutes
recreation. In good weather I take =
turn in my garden."-Bangor CONNER
cial.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
Badness AND ITS CAUSES.
some Claim That Too Frequent Cutting
Is Detrimental to the Hair

9
Is Detrimental to the Hair.
There are many different opinions as
TO the cause Of badness. Some of the
eminent medical authorities state that il
Is caused by form of dandruff. This.
1t Is claimed, has been verified by taking
the hair which has fallen off in such
cases, rubbing it up with vaseline and
after applying the ointment so made to
the fur OF rabbits badness has rapidly
made It's appearance on the parts so
treated. When vaseline alone was used
TINS result did not follow. The same
authority says that the disease is spread
by hair dressers, who employ combs and
brushes on their customers, one after
another, without regard to the cleanli-
ness Of those articles. Women are less
liable to be affected by this form of bald
ness, for the reason that their hair is
usually dressed at home.
On the other hand some claim that too
frequent cutting of the hair is detrimen-
tai. The hair in some respects resemble
tree. Suppose the gardener were to
clip all the limbs from tree, regardless
- NN NN'~'SA VI lilC y car Us hOOn as UEleY
were two or three feet In length. How
long could the tree be expected to survive?
There is fluid substance in each hair
from which the hair gets its nourishment
the same as the tree gets its life, and
growth from the sap which is conducted
from its roots. Break the bark Of a tree
and you will soon see the sap running
down the trunk. The same thing is be-
heyed to take place when hair is cut,
only it is not visible to the naked eye.
A number of the better class of BARRIERS
Is endeavoring to overcome this evil by
smuggling the ends of the hair after cut
ting. This Theoretically seals the ends
and prevents the escape of any fluid.
This operation is performed with the aid
of small wax taper. The hair is raised
from the head with a comb and the
lighted taper passed rapidly across the
ends. The operation is neither tedious
nor unpleasant. Those that practice this
style of treating the hair state that much
good has resulted from the process
Washington Star.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
A $4,000 Necklace.

Gen. William F. Draper, of Hopedale,
Mass, and Miss Susan G. Preston were
united in marriage at Lexington, KY,
May %.
The brides costume was white silk, en-
train, old point lace and diamond orna-
ments-
She wore the groom's present of
$25, 900 diamond necklace.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
JkKE'S DIVERSION,
It Was Awfullv Funny, of Course, But
Not Very Profitable.

It Was Awfullv Funny, of Course, But
Not Very Profitable.
dot boy Shake-dot boy Shake!' he
him if he was no longer in business in
St. Louis.
Jake is your son?"
Eyes, my son; my IDIOT
what did Jake do?"
"Vhell, goes cop to Chicago to see
my sister, who vhas dead. Shake vhas
left to run der store. Peesness yhas a
leedle off, und Shake plans dot he Will
make diversion. belief it vhas a di-
version, but my head aches so hard l
vhas not sure"
eyes, it was probably diversion"
"Vhell, he goes down cellar, and
starts leedle fre-not mooch, but
Shust enough to bring out der engines
und crowd, and smoke up der goods.
1t vhas for a great fire sale, you know
goods slightly damaged-feefteen-dol-
lar suits for five greatest bonanza for
working people eafer known in St.
Louis"
81 see."
''But he gets too much fire, und
AWAY goes der house, der clothing und
der peesnes."
But you were insured?"
$50 help me gracious, but der policies
run oud at noon. und Shake makes DOT
diversion at five o'clock in the after
noon! All vhas gone oop-all except a
determination to go to work and build
oop anew. 1 vhas shust starting in a
small vhay again. May be you like me
to sell you better suit dan you hat on
for four dollars-all wool, we'll made.
indigo dye, and computed to stand in
any climate?"-N. Y. Sun.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
MIDSUMMER NIGHT.

-. ,broueh the field in the fading light
r'r r,iIEmaid goes with her tin pals bright;
t,.ons nv the spring underneath the pines,
90 bushes aside the clustering vines
I,i,,noes them into the bubbling pool,
"a holds them, waiting till drenched and
cool;
Then rises and goes through the long, wet
grass,
Nv the narrow path where the cattle pass,
Cheerily calling, strong and free:
1So-ook-e! So-ookel So-ook-e-ew
Over the hill where the dying sun
fingers q moment when day Is done,
And Pushes the west with q flood OF light,
The plowboy goes in the fragrant night,
singing and whistling right merrily,
For his heart is clean and his soul Is free;
switching the flowers, and taking no heed
How far IN the distance the horses feed;
And they side away with long, slow lope,
When he calls: Cop, FAM Cop, Bill Co'pl
Cop"
Out to the barnyard the farmer goes.
Where the stream steals thro' and sings as It
flows;
YEARLY plodding with soilworn feet,
He yet finds something vaguely sweet
In the low, soft murmur of myriad frogs
And the noisy welcome OF we'll kept hogs;
he counts them-and one is away or lost;
So quick In the trough the food is tossed,
While the farmer calls loudly and anxiously:
SPo-oo-el Po-oo-el Poo-ooeI"
Out to the orchard the housewife goes
Where the dews fall thickly on pansy and rose,
Chases the chickens from roost on the trees
And invites them into the coop, II they please;
Counts and recounts them, but one Is gone,
She searches the orchard, the garden, the
lawn;
Even in the grass that is deep and wet,
She looks for the place where "Speckie'' has
set;
Rafting the wheat. she calls, coaxingly:
"Ch-uck-el Ch-uck-e! Ch-ucke-ei"
In the little white chamber where all is STILL
And the roses peep in at their own sweet will
The young mother sits with a child at her
breast,
Tenderly trying to lull it to rest;
Dimpled hands fondle her bosom Of snow,
And wet lips press kisses-while she sings low
"Ol hush thee, darling, and go to sleep,
There's time enough-time, dearie-left to
weep;
OF hush thee-hush-" she croons, dreamily-
'Hush thee-hush thee-hush thee-e-eI"
Ella Higginson, IN West Shore.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30

different parts of the country. To pre-
serve an accurate account of the weird
incident, he subsequently called on tho
two narrators and put their testimony
in writing, as nearly in their own Ian
guage as circumstances permitted. The
only regret he has to express is that he
Is not authorized to publish the real
names of his informants.-G. w. Weip-
piert, in Detroit Free Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
DEAKlN BROWNS WAY.

Old Deakin Brown lives out FUN town
About four mile or so,
An drives a spankin' team o. bays
Wen he goes to an fro,
An allus wen he overhauls
Some Teller walkin' on the ground,
He stops his team an cramps around,
An calls:
'Hullo,
Git in an hev liftr'
You'll see i'm sit an chaw an spit
And saw upon the lines,
His jolly face so red with pride
1t regular glows and shines;
Them bosses step SO gay an high,
An tear along at sech gait,
You'd scurcely think their owner'd wait
An cry;
"Hullo,
Git in an hev lift"
T. see Of Brown saggin' down
On one e'end o the seat,
An leaning sideways now n ag'in
To watch 'em pick their feet,
You'd think: Here comes a rooral swell {"
But myl How quick your mind 'ud flop
Wen deakin'd make them bosses stop
An yell:
''Hullo
Climb in an hev liftr'
They's folks who ride in all their pride
In Fortunes rig on life's highway;
Us folks who trudge along a-foot
Ken see 'em drive past every day.
They hain't like Deakin Brown ct all;
1t makes no odds how tired We git
Yeu never see them wait bit
An call:
''Hullo,
Climb in an hev liftrn
George Horton in Chicago Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30

Managing Editor-What's the matter.
Funnyman?
FunnJman-I was reading over this
article tor errors.
Managing Editor-Well?
Observation-Disclosures 1 found
the errors, but | can't find the joke now.
Texas Siftings.
GROUND just a Little.
"What's that?" asked man, referring
to a dude whose arm had been crushed
by a wagon.
THAT" was the reply, sis ground
swell. West Shore.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
AS 49,

Whenever the rainbow, with its many
colored bands arches over us, two angels
stand at the ends and hold gold bowls
under them that they may not rest on the
rain soaked earth, and when it vanishes
again the angels leave their cups in the
fields, as they cannot use them twice be-
cause the rainbow would not like it,
Won Schefel's Ekkehard.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30

Mr. Gladstone allows all the people
in the neigh borhood of Hawarden to
freely use his splendid library of 10000
volumes.
-1ne average OF money brought INTO
this country with the thousands of i'm
migrants recently landed at New York,
is said to be about fifteen dollars-jsst
about enough to pay railroad fare over
to the valley Of the Ohio.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
A Modern Creator.

"Times have changed, old boyr" re-
marked Griggs, "since you and 1 were
young"
"True for you, old fellow" returned
Grown. I'm these days the tailor not
only makes the man but the woman
brakes Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
Her Idea

Miss Larcom, in her New England
Girlhood," says that when she used to
hear the minister read the text, ''Cut it
down; why cumbereth it the groundY
she always supposed that he had made a
mistake. He ought to have said, she
thought, why cucumbereth it the
ground?" Strange things go on inside
the heads of children.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
Timely Warning.

Dickie, years old, had a pair of boots.
He cut one of them with Ratchet. The
father became very angry and scolded
necessarily. The little fellow looked his
father in the face and said: "If you don't
stop talking you'll get me mad, too."-
Christian Advocate
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
lust So.

Wife Observation-Disclosures your rheuma-
tism this morning, John?
Husband-Pretty bad, my dear, pretty
bad.
Wife-Why don't you try the mind curei
Husband-There amt anything the matter
with my mind; it's my joints-Boston
Courier,