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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-16
kemmler S Burial

That portion of Fort Hill Cemetery
in Auburn which faces the poorest and
most desolate part of the city is known
as the ''convicts' burying ground" saws
the New York Sun. Nothing divides IL
from the costly tombs and towering
headstones of marble that mark the
space devoted to the righteous dead
save line of ragged, sicklv grass that
tells where the lawn-mowers stop. The
entrance to the Gods Acre of the con-
Fict dead is on a side street, and is
guarded by pretty cottage in which
lives a grave-digger and his wife.
The mystery attending the burial Of
NllIlam hemmler was only second to
the mystery surrounding the prepara
slons for his death. 1t will be remem-
bered that he was tortured to death bv
electricity early on the morning of Au-
gust 8, and that a few hours later tho
KNIVES OF the surgeons were busy cut
ting the body to pieces There was
some doubt concerning the section of
law relating to the burial of the body.
and when the watchers about the nrison
on the night following the execution
saw no sign Of any funeral it was rpn-
T orally believed that the body had been
covered with quicll-lime and buried be-
meath one of the flagstones of the
prison yard. Late in the after
noon of the next day the grave
digger in charge of the convict bury
ing ground received orders to have
road " q
that night. The grave was dug, and
when ten o'clock came without bringing
the expected body, the grave digger
| turned the light down low in the Sit
tlng-room Of his cottage and went to
sleep in his working clothes. His wife
Jay on Il bed in front of a window keep
ing watch on the street, so that She
might wake her husband when the body
arrived.
Meantime men in charge Of what was
left of the dead murderer's BODY had
placed it in an express wagon at $50
o'clock, and had driven out Of the prison
gate. There was a knot of men on the
sidewalk who Immediately showed
signs of excitement when the wagon an.
peared. 1t was instantly decided that
these men were reporters, and the
driver Of the wagon, in accordance evil
iently with the orders Of Warden Ours
ton to elude the newspaper men, drove
around the block and then back into the
prison yard. No other attempt was
made to dispose Of the body until
eleven o'clock, when the express wagon
again came rafting ont but again there
were men on the sidewalk who seemed
interested in its movements, and once
again the wagon was driven back into
the yard, and the big gates closed on it.
No other effort was made to bury the
body until midnight, when the wagon
came dashing ont as though the driver
was bound to get rid of his burden at all
hazards. lie drove rapidly up the
street, the wagon swaying to and fro
and rafting horribly. The grave digger
led the way into the gloomy cemetery
by the dim light Of lantern Arriving
at the grave he set the lantern at one
end OF 1t, and selling the remains of the
murderer pulled them ont Of the wagon.
1t didn't take long to fill up tho grave,
for the only object to accomplish was to
get the body out Of sight and stamp the
dirt on it.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-16
LOADS IN uNpRESS.
The Novel Way the Frogs Rival Gets Ri
of Needless Covering.

''o ~'O'SA way Ihe frog Rival OebS Flu
of Needless Covering.
1t is safe to say but few people have
ever been fortunate enough to catch a
toad in the act Of changing his skin. A
man who processes to have been an in
terested eyewitness to such a transac-
ton describes the novel operation.
The toad pressed his elbows against
his sides downward. After few smart
rubs his skin began to burst open along
ais back, but he appeared to be uncon-
aerned, and kept on rubbing until he
had worked his skin into folds on his
sides and hips.
Then, grasping one hind leg with his
forelegs, he pulled the skin from the
leg as slick as man would remove a
pair OF pants, then stripped the other
hind leg in the same way. He next took
the cast-otf portion of his cuticle and
pulled it forward between his forelegs
until he could catch it in his mouth.
whereupon he forthwith began to swal-
low 1t; then by raising and lowering his
head, swallowing as the head bent for
ward each time, he stripped off the skin
underneath until it came to his forelegs
AT this stage of the curious proceed
ings he grasped one of the forelegs with
the opposite paw, and by much pulling
stripped off the skin; changing hands
he stripped the other, and by slight
motion of the head, all the time swal-
lowing, he drew it from the neck and
swallowed the whole The entire op-
GRAFTON occupied but few minutes.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-16
the scnool wnen ne was nrteen wears ola

the school wnen ne was nrteen wears ola
The most profitable book ever print,
ed, at least in this country, was Web
Ster's spelling book. More than 5O,OOO,
600 copies of this production have been is
sued, and could DIR. Webster and his heirs
have enjoyed the royalties from it they
would have found it more valuable than
the cave OF Monte Cristo. Yet DR..
Webster wrote it that he might procure
the means to support himself while en-
gagged in other work, notably his die
tionary, which was really an elaboration
of the spelling book.
Paul Du Chaillu, the writer and
traveller, is fifty-two years of age. He
IS under the average height, round
shouldered. and not at all handsome
His face is strong and his forehead COM
handing. He has French blood in his
veins, which is shown by his vivacity OF
manner. He has an inexhaustible fund
of anecdotes, and his conversational
powers are great. He has done a vast
amount Of work. but is in fine health.
His long journeys in African jungles do
not seem to have injured his constitu-
ton at all
i remember that Louisa Alcott once
showed me a card she had just received
inviting her to a distinguished gather
ing of literary celebrities, and adding,
in tlatteriRg foot-note, some such as
surance as that without her presence the
gathering would be lilea ring without
its jewel, says writer in the Common
wealth. ''Do you know how that makes
me feel?" she said. Gas if some one /
knew had died of starvation, and then
bread in plenty had been heaped upon
her grave. The girl in me, to whom
such a letter and such bidding as that
would have been joy like wine, died
long ago. The tired woman who bears
her name g~ieves for her sake that all
his comes too late"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-16
THE ABLE BLACKSNAKE,
He Is Bad Fighter from Away BacI
and Fears Nobody.

Nc AS bau IlBhLer from away BACK
and Fears Nobody.
Ask any of the farmers or hunters in
this part Of Monroe County whether
they are afraid of rattlesnakes, saws
Canadensis pa correspondent of the
New York Sun, and they will answer
promptly that they don't mind them
very much. Ask them if they fear
blac4snakes, and they will yves with
out the slightest hesitation. This fear
of blacksnakes has come down to most
of them from their parents with story
that none Of them is ever tired of tell
ing. They all declare that it is true.
and it is so well known and is told with
so much solemnity and evident fear by
the natives that it is hard to disbelieve
it. The story runs like this
Many years ago well-to-do farmer
lived with his family near the barren
land verging on Pike County His wife
was city bred and unused to many of
the hardships that are a part of the
farming woman's life. She was strong
and hardy, however, with plenty of
nerve and grit enough to make the best
VI GlAlllSo' OIlC ud}F Nlll4c utI uUSDIllU
was working in clearing a good dis
lance from the house, she went down to
the spring for pail of water. As she
stopped over to fill the pail black
snake, that had been lying coiled near
the spring, jumped at her. She screamed
and jumped back, but the snake had
buried its fangs in her dress and before
she could recover herself sufficiently to
shake him off he had wound himself
about her so tightly as to prevent her
from walking Then he began slowly
to crawl upward. The poor woman
struck at the snake with her hands
They were badly bitten, but She was
so overcome with fright that she did not
mind this, and kept on striking at him.
The serpent kept crawling up until his
coils were about her breast. She tried
to tear him loose, but she was not strong
enough. She became nearly paralyzed
by terror. The snake finally coiIed
himself around her neck and choked
her. She started toward the house, but
she had only gone short distance when
she fell. In the evening she was found
by her husband lying dead, with the
snake still coiled about her neck.
This story with the. well-known fact
that blacksnake isever ready and will
ing to fight any thing that lives. makes
the native afraid of him, and the man
who kills blacksnake is thought to
have won greater battle than the slayer
Of dozen rattlesnakes.
you can't brighten blacksnake,"
said one old hunter, 'and the more you
try to the more he amt frightened A
rattlesnake is a coward, and will run if
you give him half a chance If he
doesn't get the chance he will rattle in
fear and then strike in desperation. A
rattlesnake's bite is notnearly so danger
GUS as many people suppose. All that
you have to do to render the wound harm
less is to cut it as deep as the fangs went,
md then go to the nearest brook and wash
thoroughly. A common poultice will
soon heal the wound made by your knife.
But if big blacksnake tackles you, and
you give him the chance to get one coil
about your body, why, then, look out,
for it is your life or his.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-16
TEX him Rtp-NY PRACTICE.
It's rerfoney. He hasehvdl-ChiId
-vLone Star state.

Dishonest college students are much
addicted to the. use Of ''ponies.' But
these ponies" ard translations of the
classics, which the boys stealthily con-
suit, instead Of getting out their lessons
by hard work. Pony practice by the
schOol-children of the Southwestis more
iteral-a good deal more honorable. A
correspondent of the New York World
says: At Manor, Tex, in that sparse
ly settled country along the line of the
Houston and Texas Central railway, l
came to large wood-colored building
surrounded by caravan of horses. l
counted upward Of fifty, all saddled and
each hitched to a tree. Every thing
about the house was as still as death.
cit must be funeral" | said.
Suddenly the scene changed. The
doors of the building burst open and out
broke more than fifty school-children.
schools outr' they shouted, and car
AVIAN of children scrambled for the
horses.
In a moment the youngsters had
mounted and were riding heller SHELTER
over the prairie. The Texas mustangs
seemed to scent the frolic and kicked
up their heels as they gaIloped home
with the school-children. With their
dinner-pails jingling on the pommels Of
the saddles and their dresses and
jackets waving in the wind they looked
like a mad caravan Of Bedouins.
Glow far did you Gomez" I asked a
little tot who sat behind his sister on a
spcclIed mustang.
81 tum dood way-I tum-"
'Why, he's come six miles," inter
rupted his sister. Jimmy is only five
years old. He doesn't know how far he
does come"
81 live eight miles, said little Lord
Fauntleroy on dancing broncho, ''but
[ can ride it in an hour, and have done
it in thirty minutes" Then he spurred
his horse till he leaped away over the
prairie.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-16
Hailed the Presidents Driver.

81 was in Washington, not long ago."
said Chicago man in the foyer of a
theater. Il vas in. the Pennsylvania
depot. A man with a valise in each
hand, followed by woman and three
children, was on the platform. The
man spied well-dressed driver on the
box of fine turnout, and called him to
lrive up and get his family and traps.
The driver disdained to notice him until
5he man began to swear about Wash
,ngton's lack Of accommodations. Then
the driver replied: You may be a mighty
big man where you live, but l want you
to understand that this carriage belongs
to the President of the United States
and you can't get in it. You better git
some other ve-hi-kel."
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-16
WANDERING JEWS. !
Men of the Race Said to Be In Eve
Land on Earth.

Men of the Race Said to Be In Every
Land on Earth.
1t is remarkable that Emin Pasha
should be Jew by birth, and one of his
rescuers, Vita Hassen, a Jew by pro-
fession, says the London Jewish Chron-
icle. But the presence of these Jews in
equatorial Africa does not stand alone.
From the time of Abraham downward
the migratory instinct has been dom
inant in the race. Mesopotami, Canaan,
Egypt, Canaan once more, Assyria,
Babylonia, Persia, Canaan a third time,
and then the world at large-such are
the suggestive stages of Israel's ma
tional migration. The Jews, indeed
have ever been the tribe of the wan
dering foot" In an age when move
ment from one country to another was
rare and hazardous proceeding-in the
twelfth century, to wit-Benjamin, of
Tudela, and Petachia, of Ratisbon,
travelled through a great part of Europe,
Asia and Africa, and were thereby able
to make considerable additions to the
worlds knowledge.
The second Benjamin and Halevy,
who explored the Lelashas, may also be
mentioned. The existence of Jews in
out-of-the-way corners of the globe, the
Felashas and Beni-Israel and the Cochin
Jews has only been made possible by
the migratory tendency of the race. The
four young men who kept last Yom
Kippur in so queer yet so touching
fashion in the wilds Of South Africa
are among the latest illustrations of the
tendency. No doubt the wandering in
stinct has been strengthened by perse-
cution, but now that peace and quiet
aess are his in greater measure the jew
still retains his prediction for travel.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-16
HE MAN WHO sPouTs.
Here Is n Little Tender Guidance for
Amateur Elocutionists.

Amateur Elocutionists.
The mine from which the reciter
draws his material is in itself danger
ously boad and deep-nothing less
than the wide field of English litera-
ture. In it he finds things he is
tempted to recite because he loves
them. But that is one of the worst OIL
reasons for choosing them. They
may or may not gain by recitation.
His personal love for them must nol
cloud his judgment He finds piec
magnificent in drama and scope for
defamation, but the drama may be
purely taken from the literary point
of view, and its very excellence judg.
thence may be faults from the actor
and reciter's points of view.
Or the drama may be impossible for
public audience. One poem may
touch too intimately or penetratingly
some domestic or life sorrow, and an
other may jar on some feeling, pos
sibly even some prejudice, which g
rec.ter may not sym pathize with, but
which he is none the less bound to re-
spect in his listeners And, lastly,
some tiresome incongruity of appear
ance or manner may be the touchstone
that decides his sentence against a
poem, which, if it be poem he par
tlcularly likes and desires to recite, is
more than sufficiently annoying.
A man, for instance, with a cherry
face should not recite THE Dream of
Eugene Aram," ''The Raven" or I'll
Penseroso;" nor should pale, spare
man recite line of Falstaff's or ex-
pect any great success in a scene from
''Pickwick. AS a rule Ga rule with
exceptions, of course,) men should
avoid all pieces written in the first
person singular in which the speaker
is a woman. Shelley's Cloud is
difficult for man because of its ideal
personality. 1t is impossible to re
sist the suspicion of righteousness
when man gravely says:
lam the daughter Of earth and of water
And the nursing of the sky"
Matthew Arnold's "Forsalen Mer-
man" generally fails of its full effect
for the same reason. l once heard
man, remarkable for a gift of plain
ness, recite very well but very vain
ly) Tennyson's Dream of Fair
Women" So an elderly gentleman
declaiming Lewis Morris Psyche"
lady, Tennyson's Revenge" and a
young man Christian Rossetti's "a
Royal Princess" were all equally
undermined in their efforts by direct
physical appropriateness.
| remember the occasion when ]
first gave in public an admirable piece
for recitation which Mrs. Harriet
Child-Pemberton sent me, called
Prince" In the last verse comes
The line
Il was the little chap, curly and brown"
| gave it with conviction, and the an
swer was an audible smile. All such
pathos and drama as had been wrought
by the story were defeated by this
candid assertion to which my appear
ance gave the lie direct. The ,ridicu.
Ious inference tPPU1t time ar
whole til
recitals | altered the liiiiO J'o Ne n :
recitation held its own uncontradicted.
--MurraV'S Mapazina
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-16
a REGULAR CRUSAER.
An Inebriated Passenger Settles the
Teller of n Fish Story.


An Inebriated Passenger Settles the
Teller of n Fish Story.
''Oue of the brightest things I ever
heard a drunken man say" remarked a
Bangor gentleman to News reporter,
occurred on the train as | was coming
down from Portland. The fellow was
in that peculiarly talkative state when
he felt he must converse with every
body and continuously. All kept clear
of him as long as possible, but finally
the train got so well filled that gentle
man was forced to take the seat which
had remained vacant in front of the in
toxicated man. At once the fellow be-
gan:
Shay, Mister, did you ever go fish
ng?' Yes, of course | have, came the
Gruff response.
"'Sbay, bet I've caught more fish'n
y1u ever did, pursued the man. Don't
doubt it, replied the stranger III a
tone meant to stop the conversation.
"I'll bet five dollars I've caught a
bigger fishn You ever did persisted the
loQuacious bacchanal Well, l don't
care 10 talk if you have, said the vic
tim, as he shifted in his seat to show
the drunken man that the conversation
was ended. But the inebriate didn't see
it in that light.
SHAY, he persisted, leaning over
the back of the seat and placing one
hand confidently on the shoulder Of his
unwilling companion. Shay, how big
fish did you ev' catch?' Why replied
The man, in frantic attempt to silence
lis prosecuted, I caught the mammoth
cod on the steamer Empire State last
summer, forty-three pounds Huh
came the response, in disguised tone
IS the drunken man leaned back in his
seat as if plying the weak effort of his
companion. I've used larger bait than
that The laugh which went up from
the passengers in that vicinity, who had
been closely following the conversation,
struck the intoxicated man as quite APP
Dropriate, and he remained silent for
some five minutes, gazing in contempt
uuon his crushed victim.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-16

Henry Shubert, of Peoria, ILL.,, tried to
see how quick he could get married after
being divorced. and accomplished it in
seventeen minutes. 1t, however, took
him two hours 10 get rid of the smell OF
the bushel OF eggs thrown against him
bv his fellow-citizens
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-07-30
Americas Most Wonderful Clock.

The most intricate and complete clock
ever made in this country has just been fin
ished by Tiffany & Co. The timepiece is a
gift presented by the Art Association of the
Union League Club of Philadelphia to the
club. The face of the clock has seven dlals,
one with large second hand indicating the
hour of the day, perpetual almanac, with
the day of the week, month and year. The
time of the rising and setting of the sun is
noted by very pretty arrangement which
sinks behind clouds at night and rises on
the opposite side in the morning. This dial
is novelty and very complete. Another
dial shows the phases of the moon. and yet
another the time at any time of the day at
the different meridians of the globe and
twenty seven of the principal ports of the
world, beginning at the seventy-fifth merid.
ian at Philadelphia, the eastern time of the
United States the ninetieth meridian or
central time at Chicago. the 1O5th meridian
or mountain time at Denver, and the 12Oth
meridian or Pacific time. which is on line
midway between Salt Lake City and San
Francisco. the time being given for both
points. The foreign ports on the dial in
clude London, Berlin, Vienna. st. Peters.
burg, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, and
Sidney and Melbourne, Australia, and St.
Johns. Newfoundland. The clock is per-
feet regulator, with compensation pendu-
lum, and has Westminster chimes of very
rich tone. which strike quarterly, with the
full chimes on the hour. The entire face
of the clock is of silver. richly etched, the
main dial showing picture of old Inde-
pendence Hall. Philadelphia. In the group
ings of the four corners are representations
of the old Liberty Bell. cannon. muskets,
drums and other implements OF war, sur
rounded by laurel and oak leaves. The
case is about nine feet high and is of white
mahogany, richly carved and finished in
Italian renaissance. A thermometer is
placed below the regulator and barometer
in the weight of the pendulum. York
Herald.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-07-30
Dinny and the Sucker.

Dan Graball Catching up with Mr.. Clover
as the bunco man had finished with him):
Aha. me poorty-it's gambling yez have
been, is it!
Mr.. Clover with sinking heart): Fer.
we'll. yes. But it was against my will.
Dan Graball with show of humor): All,
come off. Against tn "bunc." ye mean.
But ye can rest aisy. friend know all
about it. Ye can jest be getting ready to
come down to Headquarters along wild me-
Mr.. Clover Tin despair): Oh. please don't
Please spare me that, kind sir. have
family to look after; and 1 must-Yes. really
must-be getting home.
Dan Graball (seemingly touched): Well.
we'll, my man, l don't fwaDt to be hard on
ye. But as ye know, am detective.
And being wan, / have joOty to PERFORM.
Mr.. Clover utterly at loss): Oh me, Oh
me.
Dan Graball (continuing-still softer:
My avOcatiOn is my bread and butter.
Mr.. Glover: Oh dear, oh dear!
Dan Graball Tin reproachful whisper):
And l, too, have got family to support.
Mr.. Clover (as kindly (?) providence
lets him grasp the hidden purpOrt-eager-
ly): W-would twenty dollars answer? It's
all they left me.
Dan Graball (having first vouchsafed
look of untold gratitude for Mr.. Clover's
ready wit-which obviated any possibility
of his having to commit himself too plain.
ly): Twenty dollars? Wwell, twenty cases
is MT much. But if it's all ye've got, l
guess can-on wan condition. though.
Mr.. Clover: Name it! Name it!
Dan Graball: That ye boord tn first train
out of town-and never breathe to any
man. a wor-rd of tn favor L perfor. rmed
for ye on this day.
Mr.. Glover (weeping tears of joy and
gratitude-and counting out the twenty
dollars) promise. promise. And may
God bless you for a kind-hearted man.
CHARLES LIE FURsT.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-07-30

ment results, he is liable to the bank for
any loss sustained by it. And this is so al
though he may have acted in perfect good
faith.
1t is true that the great mass of bank
checks, constituting an immense volume of
funds. pass through the various channels of
commerce without conflict with legal princi-
pies and restrictions, but it is equally true
that full and thorough understanding of the
legal aspects of this form of contract would
prevent many suits at law which result
from lack of popular knowledge Oh these
subjects. mississippi Valley Lumberman.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-07-30

Said the superintendent of the Texas Pen.
itentiary. at Huntville, to newly arrived
delegate:
"You have the privilege OF working at
any trade you prefer"
Kansas"
Another gentleman in the same institu-
tiOn wanted to be a sailOr.-Texas Siftings.