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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
The COndessa D'EdIa.

A little over five years age a Spring
field man in Paris found a former
Springfield girl in affluence as the
morganatic wife of Ferdinand II, the
ex-king of Portugal. She received him
kindly and inquired particularly after
several of her former mates in this
city. The story of her life was familiar
to lilly Hayes and his sister, now
travelling in Europe, and while in Lis
bon recently their cards were present
ed to the Condessa d 'Edla, as she is now
known. The countess appointed an
hour for visit, and received her
American friends very cordially, as a
letter states. To quote by permission:
eve enjoyed our visit very much.
The exterior of the house or building
where she lives is not at all PROPOSES,
ing; we would call it shabby; but
they all seemed to be the same.
THE drawing room where she re-
ceived us was handsomely furnished
in modern style She expressed herself
as being rather DESTROYS of returning
to the States to live, and should doubt
less do so after her business matters
are settled here. She says society is
dull, and after the death of her hus-
band she has gone out but little" This
is Elise Hensler, who thirty-fve years
ago was the little daughter of Conrad
Hensler, tailor, whose shop and house
were i'll humble location on Stock
bridge street. She and her sister,
Louise, used to attend the Sunday
school at the South church, then on
Bliss street, and sing in children's en-
tertainments in old Hampden Hall,
along with other little folks who have
grown up ard settled down here as the
heads of families. The Hensler fam
lily moved to Boston for the musical
education of the girls, and Elise went
abroad, where she had career as an
opera singer till her marriage. Louise
is living in Boston Chestnut HilD,
and is the wife of DIR. Slade. Spring
field Repubi an.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
The Unassuminc Toad.

Talk about blue birds and robins
being harbingers of spring, the old
fashioned toad lays over them all He
is modest and unassuming, and doesn't
make anv pretensions to being a
weather prophet, but he gets there
just the same He can't boast any
brilliant plumage, and doesn't fly as
high as his feathered rivals, but when
it comes down to good solid horse sense
he takes the cake. When he tunes his
little pipe and begins his merry-go-
round of melody you can bet your
winter clothes he won't get left. This
lowly child of melody knows a good
thing when he sees it, and never be-
gins operations till spring has been on
hand a couple of weeks. jackson
(Ga.) Herald
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
ARCADIA IN A CANYON.

A Queer Colony of observation-disclosures
Women Members of 1t.
The route from San Diego to the
desert slope on the eastern side of the
county's mountain ranges, which was
partially described in Wednesday s
Sun, stopped midway at Ballena, $3.50
feet above the sea- From this point
the road ascends through a narrow
canyon shaded with ancient oaks,
which soon open out into great valley
of surprising beauty. Turning south a
side road leading to San Vicente runs
down long canyon where some inter
esting people, devotees of the vegeta-
rian cult, have made their homes.
They, too, wandered down from Col
ton, distance of 100 miles or more,
nearl y three years ago.
The party comprised Mr.. LIE Beuf,
his wife, and their ward, Miss Hadley,
all from st Louis, Mo. Mr.. lie
Beuf pushed large wheelbarrow be-
fore him filled with their possessions,
and the women-notable for their
short hair and bloomer dress-trod
cheerfully along beside him. They
were seeking a location for home on
government land, and they chose it in
the widest part of the canyon. Mrs.
LIE Beuf's health had broken down in
kindergarten work at St. Louis. and
for this reason they came to the coast.
The invalid had found the weight of
ordinary clothing intolerabIe, and
both of the women had therefore adopt
ed the bloomer costume, with high
shoes of gray cloth buttoning up the
leg instead of the usual trousers. Mr..
LIE Beuf went to work clearing the
land, and in a short time had stretched
a circular canvas over the saplings for
their dwelling, making it resemble a
bee hive. Linseed oil was rubbed on
the cloth to make it waterproof. Fur
niture was constructed of the natural
woods with their bark and NOSES A
garden was planted and grain sowed.
Then Miss Hadley found a pocket
in the rocks little higher up the can
yon, which pleased her, and she filed
a pre-emption claim to eighty acres.
A canvas dome also arose on her
clearing, which is now a marvel of
productiveness. Miss Cook, another
vegetarian, came out from Missouri to
assist her. These industrious young
women now have one and half acres
in grain, with not weed on the en-
tire place. They make their own -four.
They have sweet peas, onions, lettuce,
celery, etc., with blackberry bushes
and various other small fruits. They
chiseled ten steps in the granite rocks
leading down to spring which breaks
a assure in the rocks. A cellar built
in the bank contains some 200 bottles
of a peculiar grape cordial, which is
their only drink. 1t is boiled down
without being sweetened, and is con
sidered a sort of grape cure.
These resourceful people manufact-
ure all their own garments, including
shoes. LIE Beuf's garments are some
what like bathing suit.
Several years ago a man named
Weidenmiller, also vegetarian, ap-
peared in the canyon, and week before
last he brought Miss Hadley down to
San Diego in the stage, and here they
were married. Miss Cook continues
to reside with them. The two men
work on the ranches whereabouts as
opportunity offers, while the women
devote their leisure to books and the
cultivation of the gardens. San Diego
SIln
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
Runaway Husbands.

Perhaps one of the saddest effects of
the late war which yet remain is the
great number of people who are still
missing from their former homes and
their old friends and relatives. For
instance, | had an uncle who came
home shortly after Appomattox. He
arrived about o'clock one afternoon
at his home in Kentucky, dismounted
and kissed his wife fondly, walked
about the place for an hour with her,
scarcely speaking and very moody.
Then mounting, remarked: Mary,
I'm going off for little while; be good
to yourself and the baby until | come
back, F" and he has never been seen by a
relative since. We have indirectly
heard of him a number of times, but on
going to the point where he had been
seen he had, invariably, just left. We
traced him to a point in Dakota,
finally, where he had established quite
large sheep ranch, but week be-
fore his nephew got there uncle had
sold at a great sacrifice and left.
Southerners can relate hundreds of
such cases from personal knowl-
edge. There are secluded regions in
the Ozark country which are inhabited
only by these broken hearted men, now
hermits, self isolated from soci-
ETY. and their relatives. Their fast
nesses seclude many husband of a
supposed widow, or father of children
who have mourned him as dead for
more than a quarter century.-SL
Louis Globe democrat.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
The Old Man Had an oeset.

The other day we learned the facts
in the experience of an Americas
young man who wooed and lost-five
dollars. He had courted the fair one
all along the winter months, burning
both wood and kerosene freely, and
had had a splendid time He sold the
father Of the young lady COW, and
received all the pay except five dol
lars. In course of time there came
upon the scene another young lady,
whom the young man liked better.
He courted her, proposed, and hardly
was the marriage feast over before he
was in need Of the five dollars He call
ed upon the father Of his old sweetheart
and asked for the money. His request
was refused with the reply: you
burned my wood and my kerosene,
and now I'm going to keep this FIVE
dollars as pay" Sadly the young man
took his departure, and he gets lit
tie mad now when you ask him about
that five dollars. -Americus (Ga.) Re-
publican.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
A BEAR STORY.
Running Down and Staying a Big Old
Grizzly with Hand Sled.


Three of us had a camp on the west.
ern slope Of the Bitter Root noun.
tains. Idaho. and one afternoon |
took the hand sled and went M the
trail TO bring down deer Kennedy
had shot. There was plenty of SNOW
on the ground, with a crust hard
enough to bear up horse, and | had
no trouble in reaching the spot where
the carcass hung The last 100 feet of
the way was a passage not over ten
feet wide, between high walls, and the
pitch was about the same as an ordi.
nary house roof.
As there was no danger from the
Indians, and as | expected to have NV
hands full with the sled. | did not
take my rifle. We hadn't sighted a
bear for four weeks, and | worked
away getting the deer fast on the rude
but stout sled without the slightest
uneasiness. | was about ready to
start when | heard "woofr above
me, and | looked up to see a big criz-
Ely standing on sort of shelf about
seventy-fve feet up the mountain. He
was looking this way and that for a
spot to descend. A second 'woofi'
caused me to wheel about, and ,ioht
below to the far end of the roadway
was Ephraim No. 2. He sat in the
middle of the road, and I'm a prevari
Gator If his countenance didn't wear a
grin.
The bears had put up Job on me-
On my right was a cliff, on nv left n
preclplce. If got down at all it must
be by the road | came up. They were
III no hurry to bring matters to a
crisis, seeming rather to enjoy the
situation, and the lower bear sort o.
wlnked at me, and probably observed ::
Say, old fellow, does your mother
know Of your whereabouts"
My revolver was of no more use
against grizzly than a popgun, and
| did not take it from the holster. In
deed, was too badly ratified to have
madea line shot at an object ten feet
away. l saw that my only chance was
by the roadway, but there sat the bear
waited for the upper one 10 make a
move, and after about ten minutes he
curled up and rolled of the shelf.
jumped for the sled the same instant,
gave a vigorous kick behind, and
down that steep path | went with the
velocity of cannon ball. The sled
struck something-there was a roar
and howl. | seemed to rise into the
air, and opened my eyes to find my
self turning a big bowlder to the
trail. | couldn't swing the sled far
enough, and went down trough the
short scrub, made jump of twenty
feet over tree top, hit the trail at an
elbow, and might have been going
yet if had not smashed into a rock
near our hut
My friends had seen me make part
of the journey, and were on hand to
pick up the pieces. They got their
guns and went up the trail to look
for the bears. They found ore by the
big bowlder, and he was as cad as if
hit with brick house. The her had
left handfuls of his hair clea through
the scrub, but had finally checked his
tumble, and sneaked off.-New York
Sun.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
Highly Accomplished.

After Lucia Zarate, the smallest hv-
ing human being on the face of the
earth, is Pnygn-Fra, who resides at
Shigaken, Osaka. This pocket edition
of human being is but fifteen inches
tall by measurement taken by DR..
Burns in 1887. Americans who have
been in that country twelve to fifteen
years, and who have known the little
wonder ever since their arrival, say
they do not doubt that Pnygn is as old
as he claims-36-as he has been a
man in every particular, except in
height, since the beginning of their
acquaintance with him. The foreign
ers have taken him in hand and edu-
Gated him to a high STANDARDIZED
even for one of ordinary physical Gu
pacity. He is fine linguist, and
writes hand that a teacher would
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
"Mrs. Partington,s" Old Age.

B, P. Shillaber, better known as
Mrs. Darlington, now lives at Chel-
sea, one Of Boston's many suburbs. He
is "a years of age and crippled with
rheumatism. He walks about the
house with a cane and goes out of
doors only in carriage. He has not
been to Boston for seven years. He
began life as printer, entering The
Boston Post IN 1888. He once gave
two or three years of his life to a lee
turing tour, and though he was sue
cessful, he regretted it, feeling him
self not cut out for that line of work
Now, he says, he goes nowhere.
with pen, paper, pipe and pills | sit
here from years end to years end, pa
tent as may be, receive my friends
and wait for better life. "-Pittsburg
Commercial.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
BEAUTIES OF THE GREAT WEST.
The Wonderful Scenery Viewed from an
Artistic Standpoint.

The Wonderful Scenery Viewed from an
Artistic Standpoint.
The beauties of the Great West" of
which poets have sung and artists
raved, is an interesting theme when
described by the painter from the ar
tistic point of view. j. +. Stuart. a
member of this profession, whose
studio is in New York, and who spends
every summer sketching scenery in the
west, was at the Grand Pacific a few
days ago. Every spring finds him
headed toward the wonderful Rocky
mountains.
Last season he spent in Oregon,
Washington territory and British Co
lumbia. To say that he was enrapt-
ured with the marvellous beauties to
be seen there would be giving his feel
ing the mildest forms of expression.
He says the atmosphere is simply raw
ishing, and to one of artistic sensibili-
ties it gives a hue to every scene of
rock or earth or foliage that painter
would give years of life to be able to
copy. From the Dalles to Portland,
on the Columbia river, the scenery is
one grand panorama. The precipitous
walls of basalt rock, from 9, 600 to 8. 600
feet in height and of grayish color,
form most beautiful background for
the fir trees which, at a distance, on ac-
count of the purity of the atmosphere,
present greenish blue tint. Mount
Hood is IL, 700 feet high and can be
seen from many points on the river,
and with exceeding dist .>tmess from
the city of Portland.
THE Puget sound country presents
many attractive scenes, said Mr..
Stuart. Mount Tacoma, rising IA,
444 feet in the air, can be seen at
distance of sixty miles, and is called
the grandest snow peak in America.
Various points on the Canadian Pa
cific afford rare beauties for artists,
and the mountain scenery from Yale
to Bantf Is most gorgeous. On the
summit of the Cascade range of noun
tains is found one of the wonders of
the world in the Mount Crater lake
The surface of the lake is $500 feet
above the sea level and is 800 feet in
diameter. The crater is almost a per-
feet circle, haS ing precipitous wall of
from 1900 to 5000 feet in height,
which is broken into myriads Of fan
tastic pinnacles. Near the center of
the lake is an island, much resembling
mountain. This is but a crater with
in crater, and contains nothing but
snow.
One of the features Of this range is
the sunset, which is so beautiful that
skilled artists have been unable tc
catch the glorious tints. There is
nothing in the wild world like the Vel
lowstone canyon. The colors are ex
ceedingly varied and range from deli
cate cream to deep orange, and there
are also blues, greens and grays, with
yellow always predominating, the
color from which the name IS derived
The great falls in the canyon are one
of the attractive features of this most
attractive place At one point they
make leap of $50 feet. The comb
nation of colors and the sheen on the
water produce some most charming
effects. Chicago Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
Lnck and SuDerstitinn.

Unquestionably the doctrine of por-
tents and luck does still influence con
duct. There are ladies, not overconsci-
entious in the discharge of religious OBJ
servances, who would sooner discon-
cert hostess and throw roomful of
guests into confusion than sit down
with twelve others at the dinner Ia
BILE. The lover will not give his
sweetheart AN opal ring, however
pretty the stone may be; the guest at
the table shudders when he spills the
salt and furtively tries to propitiate
fate by throwing few grains over her
shoulder. Penknives and scissors are
tabooed as presents. Many a man
would choose any day in the week but
Friday for starting on journey, or
beginning some great enterprise. Many
woman dislikes apart from sympa-
thetic sentimenD to meet a funeral,
or encounter black cat.
One can say that the objection to
passing under a ladder is no more
whimsical than is the conviction that
to walk across Regent circus at noon,
with closed eyes, involves risk. Yet
a superstitious motive is assigned for
giving a wider berth to the falling
bricks, while the duty of keeping ones
eyes open in London thoroughfare is
allowed to rest on the prosaic basis of
experience London Standard.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
The Penalty of Vanity.

l am told of a well known young
lady here who is confined to herr room
and in much danger of losing her eye
sight from the use of hair dye. She
was originally tall, handsome bru-
nette, but i'll the past year has under
gone a complete metamorphosis so far
as her hair is concerned, and until
lately appeared as a most pronounced
blonde. 1t is as well known as any
fact can be that these dyes not only
very frequently cause the loss of
sight, but of the mind, and cases are
frequently published of women hay
ing gone mad from the use of them.
Notwithstanding this, a great number
of young women of Louisville are to-
day subjecting themselves to these
terrors for no other reason than that
they are dissatisfied with the hair
nature has given them. And the worst
Of it is the custom is rapidly increas-
ing and there is no telling where it
will end. Louisville Post.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
One of the Great Poets.

William Wordsworth, the popular
English poet, was born April Z, ITO.
His first poems were published in
1898, at which time he was in very
straltened circumstances, and became
a writer on London journal, but
soon after received a legacy which af-
forded him great relief. In 1899
Wordsworth settled at Grasmere and
became known as one of the Lake
poets, the others being Coleridge and
Southey. In 1902 he married Mary
Hutchinson and inherited 1900 from
his father. While his poems did not
pay him financially, he secured a
handsome competence from the office
OF distributor of stamps in 1880. He
succeeded Southey as poet laureate in
in 1913. In 1912 he was regarded as
the greatest Of living English poets
and received a pension of $500 year.
Wordsworth died April %, 1850
Philadelphia Times.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19

Herr Nehring, speaking of the do
nestle animals of the ancient Peru
vians, observed that the subject was
scientifically important, because all
the other peoples of ancient America
were very poor in this kind of prop
erty as compared with the Peruvians
aud b livians and some of the Central
American peoples; and, secondly, be-
cause the influence of domesticatiOn
ON the formation of races could be
better followed on these animals than
on those of the Old World. We are
concerned in Peru especially with the
dog, llama, alpaca and guinea pig.
the speaker had examined eighteen
dog mummies from ancient Peruvian
graves, and had determined that they
belonged to three different races-a
shepherds dog, a dachshund and a
bull dog or pug. He believed that the
''Inca dog" was derived, not from
other South American Canida, but
from the Mexican wolf lupus occi
dentalis), perhaps through the feebler
Texan variety; and that several races
had been formed from it in Peru
through domestication. In this Herr
Nehring dissents from and contradicts
Won Tschudi's opinion that the vari-
cites had arisen from crossing with
European dogs. AS the dog and like
wise the llama and alpaca are undoubt-
eddy of America, SO also, in the speak
er's opinion, is the guinea pig, not
withstanding B. Hensel and other au-
thors believed that it was introduced
from Europe. = Popular Science
Monthly,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
A Great Couinnser.

George Frederick Handel, although a
native OF Germany, being born in Halle,
Saxony, on Feb. "a, 1885, passed the
greater part Of his life in England. Even
in childhood he sacrificed his hours of
play and his meals for the study of
music, and at 10 years of age composed
a set of sonatas that were not without
value. AS a composer, Handel was
great in every style. In his choral works,
he throws at an immeasurable distance
all who preceded and followed him.
Very soon after his arrival in London,
in 1710, Handel attracted the attention
of Queen Anne. A TIE Deum and Jubi-
late, composed to celebrate the treaty of
Utrecht, gained him a pension of e2OO.
Handel died on Good Friday, April 10,
1853, and was buried in Westminster
Abbey. The composer gave a perform
ance of his own compositions in 1749,
by which $500 were realized for the
Founding hospital, which institution re-
ceived $1,000 from the annual repetition
of this performance during the ten fol
lowing years.-Philadelphia Times.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
Pictures in a Kettle.

Recently outlines of trees and shrub
berry appeared in a large kettle be-
longing to Mrs. Goode, of Tocoa, Ga.
Two explanations of what caused them
to appear have been suggested. One
is that the smooth surface of the ket-
tie, from unknown causes, may have
been susceptible to impressions of the
rays of light, the kettle acting as a
camera, and thus the trees and shrub
berry from some distance away were
photographed around the sides of the
kettle. The other suggestion is that
the inside of the kettle may have been
damp, covered by thin film of water
which froze, and in crystallizing the
minute ice spangles shot in the peculiar
form seen in the kettle, Just as win
dow glass covered with many brilliant
and beautiful outlines on frosty morn
ings in mid winter Atlanta Amer
loan
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
A Roston CaIcnIafnr.

An Italian vender of oranges was so
surprised the other day at the reckon
ing of Boston merchant that he has
not yet gotten over his perplexity.
'sHow much are your oranges7" was
asked him as he entered the Office.
'Three for ten" was the answer. II
don't want three I'll take two for five, I"
said the would be purchaser. "Alla
righta, and the oranges were deliv-
cred. Then, with sudden change of
mind, the buyer said, with twinkle
in his eye, ''Tll take two more for
five." This bargain was made, and
then the Italian realized that he had
lost an orange. He is still looking
for that orange. Brooklyn Eagle.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19

One cold day during the war, flu
gitive slave was standing before fire
in Washington warming himself.
Where did you come from, uncles"
asked pro-slavery bystander. From
Culpepper, sah." Leave your mas
teri" Yes, sah." WAS he bad TO
youG" mo, sab; very good, kind
master, sah." Gave you all YOU
wanted to eat and wear, did her
Eyes, sab, never wanted for much of
anything, sah." "Well, don't YOU
think you'd be much better off with
him as slave than grubbing around
Washington for yourself2" ''Well,
sab, the job up dab is open for any one
dat wants it, responded the negro
calmly, and in the laugh that went up
the admirer of slavery disappeared. =
Chicago Mail.