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The state herald., 1892-04-01
THE POISONING PLOT.
Two French Anarchists are Taken Into
Custody.

Two anarchists, named Lcbastard and
Simon, who Il has been ascertained, were ac-
complies Of Rayachol, the anarchist who is
suspected Of being the author OF the st. Ger
main dynamite outrage, have been taken into
custody In connection with the discovery of
the anarchist poisoning plot. Rayachol has
not yet been found, but the police are making
a close search for him not only In Paris, where
he Is thought TO be in hiding, but throughout
the country.
The discovery OF the anarchist plot TO kill
those who they deemed stood In the way of
the anarchist propaganda has caused con-
s,crnat!on In the families who employ men
servants, and 1t is hardly necessary to state
that hereafter the credentials of applicants
for household positions will be subjected to n
scrutiny which hitherto has not been known.
1t Is not believed, though, that the poisoning
scheme Is the plan Of the anarchists as n body,
but rather the ideas OF few miscrcants whose
object was to plumber as well MS to kill. Fur
thcr Developments In the case are looked for
with eager interest.
The state herald., 1892-04-01
A rlneh, Yeunr wennn.

Miss MAY lryaon, pluchy rlrl NJ flclsch.
mans yeast establishment, Chicago prevented
n robbery the other day. shc Il the book
keeper aud was the only cmployc present
whrh n inan entered the office aud fnn Ia the
open safe. Thc boot.kecper wns too auick
for him and slammed the door of the safe.
The robbet seized her by the ihfoa, and
chohcd her ,ieiousiy. Her cries brought as.
slstance but no, In iimc 10 effect The capture
Uf hct nssalian,. Miss Iifyson was counting
some money when the robher appeared She
Immediately dropped the money In the Wnsle
basket aud put the key oi the safe aud money
dr aver up her sleeve,
The state herald., 1892-04-01
Farm Notes.
DcDequc wants a llour mill.

Dcieqnc wants -four mill.
The For, Morgan people are organizing
cooperative creamery aud the stock IA now
nearly all subscribed.
Professor lIlonnt say. that he has planted
i,GO0 of conalrgm roots on the mesa nt the
college farm nj Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Careful analysis of the plants will be made
and much valuable information regarding II
obtained.
John Baker, of Amherst, Phillips County,
had IN twenty acres of wheat that ihrcsh.d
out e0s bu.hci., and eleven acre. Of barley
that ,hrc.hcd out 80 bushc, last year. lie
n biz crop this season.
!. II. FoSvorihy has constructed 4 dam for
the formation of lake near La Jun,a. Water
will bc taken from the otoro canal and con.
Quoted lo the lake A park Il 10 he con.
siruc,ei round the lake and the water not
used for the park will be- carried out upon AL
Joining lands for irrigation purposes. The
dam Required the work of several weeks and
has been built IN q substantial manner.
The Elk Mountain Land and Irrigation
Company with headquarters at Saratoga,
Wyoming, has u great scheme for rcclnimlng
abou, 10000 acres of dcscft land. In nidl'
iion Ia using the cnunls along the Medicine
bow river aud Brush creek they viii convert
the unhppropflaird waters from Medicine
How river W land. IN Carbon county. A. i.
Boutwell, Il it ihr head " the company nnd
has procured M option of 'o,ooo acres Of nnc
lands In the Platte valley
The Irrigation igf gives this advice hbou,
irtirniloni rif., ptcrarc your ground for lt,
fisntlon. Avoid steep grades for fruit stock.
Give preference ,o gentle slopc. irrlFnie
gradually with y moderate stream. Plant
those ihprs which yaulfe ieas, water whcrc
they will get the least. lie careful not To
force your tfrcs into q growth ~ wood that
will not flpcn before the succeeding winter,
Water the young orchard, particularly ~"
young apple trees, quite frequently the iltst
season nnl alan the second AZ rule, WIN.
draw the water IN August from The ofchnit 4
10 H., the seasons growth mature, Don't
spoil ,uii land crops by continuous soaking.
Turn oir the wh,of, npt Into the street, but
back Into The ditch. when fuu ntc through
with H. Wind breaks should be planted ut
UncN
The state herald., 1892-04-01
A QUAR- OH Cndunr.

1ha, mua, hnyc boon qucor old
codger who took out tho first book over
issued by the Nowburyport Institution
for snving.. seventy years ago and
never cared enough about n 10 look
ni,or tho interest which amounted In
'hr, timo TO ssgs on tho original do.
poslt Of $40. No moro deposits wero
over nude by him In addition 10 tho
original $50, II would scom thnt ho
hnd no intcros, In the interest neither
was II hls principle 10 look after tho
principal -fall Rivar NowA
The state herald., 1892-04-01
aa,e the ,,ne,r IN ,,,e,r,c shock.

A sensation wns created nj duiicnhurs
track when the fnct became known that n
Jockey had been detected with m electric bat.
irry concealed beneath his jacket aud which
was connected with the siirrnps by q dnc wire.
The Jockey vns named Coax nnd he fu'ie the
mntr uuldn, owned by n man calling himself
=. Tobln. The jockeys scheme wns 10 give
The horse scfics ~ clrcitlr shocks by iht'
ginr bef In the sides With ils mnenctlsr'i
sp,i.s. The effect on the iipfFt whs great nn'l
made her 20 with all the speed aud energy
she had. llowr,et, the h0ts, wns greatly out
clas.ed and eventually defeated, Trough 10.
fo,e half the journey waa well up.
The state herald., 1892-04-01

READ not books alone. but men; and
nm0ag them, chiefly thyself; II thou
find anything questionable there, use
the commentary o. n severe friend
rather than the gloss OF n sweet.
Tipped hatteror. There is moro profit
in distasteful truth than deceitful
sWeetrcss
The state herald., 1892-04-01
DR.. MUNFoRp DEAD.
The veteran Kansas city Ediior No
More.

DR.. Morrison Munford. for twenty years
editor and owner Of the Kansas CITY T,ms,,
died ON the 9Th The cause of death was
pneumonia, which he contracted .omc i've
weeks aFo. lie wns fi,y years old and had
been actively engaged In the newspaper bust.
meas since 1857 when he established u weekly
paper In Tennessee. Dr. Munfori's connec.
ilon with the TIM, Of Kansas CITY terminated
-four months ago, when the syndicate which
had obtained control OF the stock voted him
out lie ai once fnndc arrangements 10 star,
an evening paper, mud u few days before II
was 10 have appeared he was taken IN. Dr.
Munford Nna at one ,lmc wealthy, bu, died a
bankrupt
The state herald., 1892-04-01
WARD WILL BE LIBERATED.
Tho Famous Financlcr to he Released on
April so.

Ferdinand Ward, the famous but unfortun-
ate iinancler, Is going back TO Brooklyn, after
a residence of six years and eight months at
Sing Sing. On April 30 he will be liberated.
He has, by all reports, been tractab!c and
exemplary prisoner, and did not do anything
amiss to be deprived Of the communication of
three and onc-half years which the law allows
In such cases. Ward was sentenced by Judge
Barrett In the Court of Oyer and Tcrminer,
New York, October 81, 1885, to ten years. i'm
prisonmcnt.
The year 1885 Is memorable as dark year
In the world Of finance. Wards transactions
formed one Of the clouds that cast a gloom
over Wall Street. He was associated with
one OF General Grants sons In Wall Street. 1t
is not probable that Ward will be asked TO
stand trial on other indictments. 1t is said
when Ward is released he will be anything but
poor man.
The state herald., 1892-04-01

PEACE does not dwell in outward
things but within the soul. We may
preserve it in tho midst OF the bit
terest pain II our will remain firm
and submissive. Peace in this life
springs from acquiescence even In
disagreeable things not In an ex-
emption from suffering.
The state herald., 1892-04-01

THE staying power OF superstition is
n puzzle but 1t is fact That 1t still
exists in this country after nearly n
century OF common school education
shows that tho warfare against iGnor-
ance and semi civilized stupidity must
be kept up for another century or two
before the period OF millenaial intel
ligeuce can be hoped for.
The state herald., 1892-04-01

ONE OF the principal attractions Of
university extension work is the fact
that 1t is open to all young and old.
rich and poor learned and ignorant
For even the graduate of Yale or Har-
ward can profit by its spirit and im-
pulse, and TO the clerk or business
man. whose education has bcon almost
solely OF business character, 1t opens
the road TO liberal culture.
The state herald., 1892-04-01

Do NOT be discouraged under any
circumstances. Go steadily forward;
rather consult your own conscience
than the opinion OF men. though the
least are not to be disregarded Bo
industrious, be frugal, be honest; deal
in perfect kindness with all who come
in your way exercising n neighborly
and obliging spirit in your own in
tercourse.
The state herald., 1892-04-01

The immoral man who invadcs an :
others property is justly hanged for
it; and the ill-bred man. who by his
i'll manners invades and disturbs tho
quiet and comforts OF private life, is,
by common consent as justly banished
socioty
The state herald., 1892-04-01

PERHAPS even guilt itself does not
impose upon some minds SO keen n
sonse OF shame and remorse rs mod
est sensitive and inexperienced youth
feels from the consciousness OF having
neglected etiquette or excited ridiculc.
The state herald., 1892-04-01
Apache. Wan, to r,n,,e ,,on.,,

Tho school for tho boys Of tho
Apache tribe at Mount Vernon bar.
racke Alabama, ia success Tho
Apache boys there arc taught TO spcnls
tho English language and TO givo MP
tho ways OF snvegery. they wear white
duck trousers and coats, they even
surrender tho glory OF their ,ribo.
which ID thclr long black hair nnd
some arc sald 10 bo anxious 10 mako
money"
The state herald., 1892-04-01
r,,rrd,,,on treaty viii France.

The csindlilon treaty between the United
States and France, which y Paris dispatch
.ays has been signed b, " nibo,, French
foreign minister, aud Mr. whltrlns Reid. the
American minister, is, II Ia understood, Tlini'
lar to the one recently negotiated with dfcst
u,iiain aud ratified
The state herald., 1892-04-01
rnn nlrl. Klii.a h, The ,,nr..

a terrible nccldcni bcfcll two young girls
In Evansville, lndlnnn, on the .5tl, While
attempting 10 croas the Evansville 4 Trfrr
llnnir trncks nj the John STREET crossing,
Misses Dlmmous aud Singer, aged respect
lively 10 and II, werr run down by switch
engine, The eldest died n few minutes after
The accident mud the other Ia not expected to
recover The fatality occurred owing 10 the
gross negligence " the engineer,
The state herald., 1892-04-01

A French chemist has found ,ha. alum.
mum may he used instead ~ magnesium,
for producing the intense lish, sometime.
required by photographers
The state herald., 1892-04-01
SHORTHAND CLASS.

Tho Pitman System In twelve easy,
lessons. Membership 600. Every nom
Dor receives twelve individual lessons by
mail from Prot. Eldon Moran, the CLASH
Conductor. Remittance should be made.
to Secretary University Extension. Boz
822, st. Louis, Mo.
The state herald., 1892-04-01
Recent diseo,eflc. IN The purprlsc m

Rcccni discoveries IN the Surprise mlpc, ni
tooksu hhyc attracted, and arr attracting NJ.
l.ntlon lfuni ihllihH men everywhere. The
Surprise IL nov the biggest carbonate mine IN
the trriiory, aud ihefu I. hardly any limit 10
IL productive capacity. The mine will prove
n BONANZA TO la owners, ,--Sii,yr Ciiv Enter.
pire.
The state herald., 1892-04-01
HOME INDUSTRIES.
EFFORTS TO DEVELOP THE RE.
SOURCES OF THE STATE.

Work Of the Manufacturers Exchange of
Coiorado-Collection of Minerals from all
Parts OF the Stnte-Intelligent Work by
Secretary Tonge-Beet Sugar Convention
Home eInstitutions-Arbor Day Prepar-
atlons.
The state herald., 1892-04-01

Senator sherman Il reported to favor ratl.
flying the BchrinR Sea treaty.
A long aud strong nght hns been made by
the Democrat. In the scnatc against the con.
frmation of Judge Woods II Indiana, but on
Thursday he was confirmed by y vote Of a
tor.
Although the free coinage hll was glyrn
baelsc, In the House, II will probably come
up nRain u, an early day, and its friends sill
leave no stone un,urnci Ia accomplish their
object
The president signed the commission of tho
nine new olreul, judges on the 18th, aud or.
dcfcd that they be forwarded Ia them nj once
80 that thcrc he no unnecessary delay IN their
entering upon the discharge Of their fdnc.
tiuhs,
The House committee On civil service ~.
form has fnyorably reported n bill to exclude
political influence In the selection of govern.
mcnt employees. II extend, the provision II
Tho clyll service Ia MI employed by the tnipd
States except those Nho are confirmed by The
Nsnntr
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-25
A Sign from Heaven.

"a queer story was related to me
many years ago by Rev. William Simp-
son, then one of the leading lights of the
Methodist church in eastern Iowa and
western Illinois," said Harvey Good.
enough, Hawkeye pioneer, at the La
clede. "While the Mormons We're car
rying things with high hand in west
ern Illinois they converted young
woman, member of Elder Simpsons
flock. A few months spent at Nauvoo
sufficed to disenchant her, and she re-
turned home confirmed skeptic. The
church people labored with her long and
faithfully, but without overcoming her
unbelief. Before her bedroom window
stood q large oak tree. She announced
that she was going to pray the Lord for
a sign-that she would ask him if he
really had an existence to manifest it by
causing the great oak tree to wither, rs
Christ is said to have blasted the un-
fruitful fig tree. She was to prefer her
request for u sign upon which to ground
her faith at 10 o'clock Sunday morning.
Her resolution at once became the
talk of the town, and many visited the
tree and carefully examined it. 1t was
perfectly sound, full of sap and covered
with a profusion of bright green leaves
At sunset every leaf was as brown and
withered as in the depths of winter. The
elder stated that with party of men he
cut the tree down and dug up the stump,
and that it was dead from the topmast
branch to the smallest root. The young
womans prayer had been answered. She
at once re-entered the church and de-
voted her life to missionary work, spend
ing several years in China and Japan"
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-25
In Hawnrden Castle.

The Rev. Henry Drew was an amiable
and congenial guide to the many objects
of engrossing interest in Hawarden
castle. Before leaving the drawing
room had feasted my eyes on many
relics and souvenirs of the life still in
such wonderful preservation. Thereon
is large ightsome one, looking ON to
the grounds. Every nook and corner of
it has some token of love or admiration
from worshipers of the great man who
inhabits this retreat. These were from
allquarters-India, Italy, Ireland, Amer
lea and England.
Hereis huge embossed silver cylinder,
containing tapestry from India, and
there lying alongside great book of
photographs stamped Roma" is an
immense beautifully bound album con-
tanning nothing but the names of Italian
students. The bright face of Lord Rose
berry looks out on you from large silver
frame surmounted with the letter "R,"
while the ascetic countenance of John
Morley is not absent.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-25
Drinking from the Loving Gun,

Every prosperous club has its loving
cup, but how many of the guests who
see it gracing the banquet know its
origin or the graceful ceremonial which
should be observed in drinking from it?
The cup should have two handles and
cover, and is handed to the principal
guest as the toasts begin. The guest
takes it by both handles, and standing
turns to the person nearest, who also
stands, and both bow. Then, while the
second guest removes the lid, the first
one drinks, and with another bow passes
the cup to his neighbor, who replaces
the lid and presents it in turn to the
next guest, and so the ceremony is re-
peated.
In the old days of chivalry and of
treachery, as n man while drinking
from the two handled cup was prac-
tically defenseless, his companion was
required to remove the cover with his
sword hand that he might not take ad-
vantage of the other. 1t is very pretty
ceremony when gracefully performed
New Yorl; Sun.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-25
Vampires In Guiana.

When the West Indies were first dis
covered hogs were put on some of the
islands; these in time increased Won
derfully, so as to become vast herds, af-
fording supply of fresh meat to the
mariner sick of the scurvy. In Guiana,
however, these animals never became
common, but on the contrary required
the greatest of care to preserve them
from the vampires. Domestic animals,
like man, sleep at night, and here the
bats have the advantage of them, while
the wild quadrupeds of the forest range
and feed at the same time as their SAN
culinary enemy. Hence it has followed
that peccaries roam securely and are
quite free from the vampires, while their
domesticated cousins must be housed
and caSed.-Longman's Magazine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-25

Before Watts. the discoverer Of the
present mode of making shot, had his
notable dream, induced by overindul-
gence in stimulants, the manufacture in
question was slow, laborious and con-
sequently costly process. Great bars of
lead had to be pounded into sheets of
a thickness nearly equal to the diameter
of the shots desired These sheets had
then to be cut into little cubes, placed
in a revolving barrel, and there rolled
until, by the constant friction, the edges
wore off from the little cubes and they
became spheroids.
Watts had often racbed his brain try
ing to discover some better and less
costly scheme. but in vain. Finally,
after spending an evening with some
boon companions at an alehouse, he
went home, went to bed and soon fell
asleep. His slumbers, however, were
disturbed by unwelcome dreams, in one
of which he was out with 1.-The boys"
and as they were stumbling home it be-
gan to rain shot-beautiful globules of
polished, shining lead--in such numbers
that he and his companions had to seek
shelter.
In tho morning Watts remembered his
curious dream and it obtruded itself on
his mind all day. He began to wonder
what shape molten lead would assume
in falling through the air, and finally,
to set his mind at rest, he assembled
to the top of the steeple of the church
of st. Mary at Radcliffe and dropped
slowly and regularly ladleful Of
molten lead into the moat below. De-
scending, he took from the bottom of
the shallow pool several handfuls of the
most perfect shot he had ever seen.
Watts fortune was made, for from this
exploit emanated the idea of the shot
tower, which ever since has been the
only means employed in the manufac-
ture Of the little missiles so important in
war and sport.-Boston Commonwealth.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-25

The Voice from the Telephone--I wish
you'd cut of the heads Of enc Mrs. Heb
son Hobbs, one Mrs. Sarah Jones, two
Alpheus Hardys and o Peter Pinkerton,
and send them to my house this evening
in time for dinner.
The Voice at the Transmitter-Great
guns! What?
The Voice from the Telephane-Oh,
excuse me. I've Got the wrong number.
Thought you We're Grubby, the chrys-
anthemum grower. - Chicago News
Record
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-25
Tho N:ixcd Ence Of india.

Eurasia has no boundaries. II lies, a
varying social fact, all over India, thicl,
in the great cities, thickest in Calcutta,
where the conditions of climate and bread
winning are most suitable, and where
moreover, Eurasian charities are most
numerous. Wherever Europeans have
come and gone these people have sprung
up in weedy testimony of them-these
people who do not go, who have received
somewhat in the feeble Inheritance of
their blood that makes it possible for
them to live and die in India. Nothing
will ever exterminate Euraaia; it clings
to the sun and the soil, and is marvel
ously propagatiye within its borders.-
Sara j. Duncan in Popular Science
Monthly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-25
Platinum Mines of Russia,

The platinum beds of the Ural noun
tains are the only ones in the world in
which this metal is found in grains.
Platinum is found in Brazil and in the
Cordilleras in the hard serpentine rocks,
but never in the form of grains. The
platinum beds of the Ural mountains
are found in various districts-in the
north at Besserski, in the government of
Perm, in the district of Knotoursl.i and
in the state properties of Goroblagodat-
ski, where sixty-six mining concessions
have been granted. All the beds of the
northern region are situated in the basin
of the river Touri, in that of the tribu-
tary stream of Taghil and in other trib-
utaries higher up.
On the western declivity of the Ural
mountains there is another platinum
bed near the river Outka, tributary of
the Tchoussoya, and the basins Of the
higher tributaries of the Outlla, near the
Ural river. The platinum found in
these places is in the form of grains. in
sand frequently containing gold. The
weight of these grains is from seventeen
to twenty-one grams to every 1,G4O k;lo-
grams OF sand.--ExchGngo
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-25
The Comets Approach.
MUCH SPECULATION AS TO WHETHER IT
WILL BRUSH TIE EARTH.

Two men running for hole in the
fence through which only one can
pass at time would illustrate the
race now going on between the earth
and the approaching comet.
If both are on time next Sunday
and if the comet is Bicla's comet, as
now seems to be generally believed,
then the comet will pass across the
spot where the courses meet eight
hours ahead OF the earth. 1t is not
yet known, however, whether or not
the comet is on time.
If it is Biela's comet there is every
reason to believe that it is not on
time, because it never yet has met the
expectations of astronomers and is the
most eccentric and unreliable wander
er of the heavens, seeming to follow a
plan of its own rather than running in
track which scientists have laid
down for it.
1t has been shown how this comet
came up one time only to explode in
the heavens; how another year it
smilingly showed lis head above the
horizon a whole day in advance of the
time it was expected; and, then, how
1t finally disappeared in a mysterious
manner, leaving nothing but a shower
of meteors and a gaseous odor behind.
If the record of Biela's comet was
not such an uncertain one, there
would not be the slightest doubt that
it is that fiery monster which is now
heading this way. Its periodicity has
arrived its time is up. November 81,
1892, is the date when it ought to be
nearest the earth. But for several
years astronomers had been compla-
Gently regarding it as "lost," it now
turns up to worry them.
AS regards possible collision. no
astronomer has yet been found who
will say it is impossible. On the con-
trary, nearly all those VINO have been
observing the comet during the past
week have been making approximate
estimates as to the length of time
which will divide the two bodies.
Time, not distar ce, is the fact to take
in consideration in such a matter, for,
Biela's comet only a million miles
away, would, it is said, cause almost
as much or as little damage as if it
swept the earth with its tail.
Bella's comet was thought by the
eminent astronomer Klinkerfues to
have struck the earth in 1872, and he
telegraphed to that effect to Professor
Pogson at Madras. Much as Profes-
sor Klinkerfues was rediculed for this
action when the mistake was subse-
quently discovered, he showed a very
good scientific reason for his belief,
pointing to the fact that the comet
had been coming closer and closer to
the earth for many years.
The extraordinary atmospheric man.
ifestations which occurred in that year
are believed by many scientists to
have resulted from the bursting of one
OF the parts of the comet. In every
instance, however, when Biela's comet
has approached the earth its appear
ance has been accompanied by i'm
mense numbers of falling stars, and
there is every reason to believe that
many meteors will be seen this week.