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The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

Daylight IS surely dawning in New Mexico and Arizona, and be- fore another summer passes the cattlemen of the southwest will see their way clear to regain the vast amount of money lost to them through the drouth of the past five years, and the low prices paid for cattle. During the past four weeks more rain has fallen t.lroughout the ranges of the southwest than in any one year since 1886, and there is no reason to believe that the long drouth that has prevailed will again visit this section for some years.- Stock Grower.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

THE Phoenix Herald puts it in the following manner: New York capitalists and financial manipula- tors have pushed the west a step too far. Before six months the trans Mississippi trade of this country will be gong to New Orleans, Gal weston and San Francisco, and New York, Chicago and the east will learn a costly lesson in the matter of trade.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

DICK HEATH who is charged with killing Louis B. McWhirter some time ago at Fresno, California, and whose trial lasted thirty days re- sulting in a mistrial, still languishes in jail in default of a $75,000 bail bond. He is said to have lost the cheerfulness which he felt the first day or two after the amount of his bail was fixed. It is not thought he can give the bond, although he says he can give bond for $500,- OOO
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17
CocHrsE county is going ahead

CocHIsE county is going ahead, notwithstanding the slump. The Prospector says: The assessment roll has been footed up for the year 1893. It shows total valuation of taxable property of $2,913,O31, a gain of $122,OOO. This showing puts a rest to the croaker yarn about Cochise county having taken steps backward during the past year.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

THE Prescott Courier says: The Bank of Arizona has on exhibition the $500 gold nugget which was found on Big Bug about two years ago. It has a consoling effect on everybody during these dull times and makes a person feel as if he would like to be a genuine gold bug.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17
A RICH vein of gold was recent. discovered in Georgia.

An old adobe building which stands just back of the Albuquer- que foundry contained the first grist mill in the Rio Grande valley. The stones and other remnants of the ancient mill yet remain about the premises. The house should be pre- served as a historical relic.-Albu- Querque Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

THE HERALD is under obligations to NJ. H. De Young, of the San Francisco Chronicle, for a fine lith- ograph of the editors of many of the leading newspapers of the coun- try. But we failed to find the pie ture of a single Arizona editor.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

spend their hours in consideration of the claims of various mining re- gions, and Arizona by reason of her solid qualities and their truthful representation may hope much from her exhibitin Mines Building. It is important that free literature for distribution be secured in abun- dance.
 LAURA B. EVERETT,
 Chicago, August 10, 1893.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

THERE is apprehension that trou- ble may arise between the whites in Southern Florida and the Seminole Indians over the thrashing of one of the chiefs sons, who was caught poaching.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

RESELL, Postmaster General, has decided to issue all postal cards of a uniform size of B by 5 inches, doing away with the lady's size and also the business size,
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

THE prize-fghting business in New Orleans is reported to be de- pressed by the combined influences of warm weather and a stringent money market.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEW spcaks as a business man and not as a pohti- clan when he says that the prevail ing financial scare is absurd, and is wholly unjustified by the general business conditions of the country.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

A RADICAL reorganization of the Coast Survey is contemplated by Secretary Carlisle, Some of the changes may require congressional action.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

ACCORDING to a correspondent in the Phoenix Republican, the north and south road will be completed to Phoenix by next July, and will be continued from there to Gala basas without delay, passing by Tempe, Mesa, Florence and Tucson.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

FROM present indications the country will have fully 400,0O0,000 bushels more of corn and 60,000,- 900 bushels more of oats than were produced last year.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

The assessment shows an increase over last year of about $66,000, not withstanding there is a reduction in the number of cattle of 338 per cent instead of an increase, and that from 30,OO0 to 10000 head of sheep belonging to this county were given in in Graham, Gila and Maricopa counties. Still, THE HERALD be- lieves there is a great deal of prop erty in the cou:ty which pays no tax. There are quite number of persons in the neighborhood of the county seat who own six or eight horses and fifteen to twenty head of cattle-but the assessment roll doesn't show it. Work horses are returned at $50 and $40 per head. Try to buy them and they are held at from $200 to $500 per span. The same rule holds good clear through the list.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

The Southern Pacific railroad, for the first time in it's history, has passed payday. They have ask ed their employees to wait until Aug, 2Oth for their June wages, and the men have granted the request.-Al- buquerque Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

The rains have been general throughout southern Arizona. From everywhere grass an inch high from good rains are reported. The cat. tlemen's woes are ended.-Tucson Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

THE Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution en- dorsing the winter fair at San Francisco and suggesting that a special session of the legislature be called to make an appropriation.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

LOUISIANA has a large prospec- tive sugar crop in sight and she is anxious to know what Congress is going to do with it.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

THE whisky consumed in New York costs the State fifteen times as much as its schools.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

Ar the present rate of attendance at the Worlds Fair the record for the first three months will reach less than 6,750,000 admissions.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

Superintendent Gates has a full force of the prisoners at work get ting the material ready to make the necessary repairs at the prison Yuma Sentinel.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17
AriZ0na'S Mineral Exhibit.

things in a mineral way from Ari. zona, and no one who visits it's dis play in the northeast corner of Mines Building is disappointed. To put it more exactly, every one is delighted and there is nothing in the whole exhibit more wonderful than the petrified woods.
 There they are, bright with every color of the spectrum. Polished sections of tree trunks, from the sapling to the forest monarch three feet in diameter, are displayed. We are so fond of monopoly, It gives new interest to these wonderful shining, many-hued pieces to know they are found no where else in the world.
 Of course petrifed wood is not very rare, California has stores of it and a petrifed forest of her own in Sonoma county. The woods hitherto found, however, lack the brilliant colors of those from Ari zona's wonderful forest. Vegetable matter turned to stone, what ever the process, be it calcified, carbon ized, chalcedonized or opalized, has never before been found containing the brilliant colors shown here. The pieces are varied as the colors each contains, and the explanatory theo- ries of scientists are, somebody says, just like the pieces mo two alike"
 The onyx is one of the beauties of the collection and the beautiful slab seven feet in length occupies slightly place near MT. Sorin's of flee. I am indebted to MT. Sorin for the following statements regard ing the gold and silver showing of the Territory, Of the wonderful copper exhibit I have spoken in a previous letter. Those who see it will not need to be reminded that 1 Arizona stands third among states in its production of copper. The brilliance of the exhibit might per suade us that she leads.
 Of precious metals forty different mines show straight gold proper ties, and many of the silver proper ties exhibited show a very fine per centage of gold. In fact, it is char acteristic of the silver properties of Arizona, as shown by statistics, that where gold has even shown trace on the surface, depth has constant ly increased the gold per centage, and the record of Tombstone dis trict, taken in its entirety, manga nese belt and all, in an output of nearly $27,0OO.OO0 has given an eighteen per cent valuation in gold. In gold properties the Arizona ex- hibit makes an especially strong showing of ores from Yavapai coun- ty, and displays strength in it's line of large samples of working grade character, instead of relying for at- traction on nuggets showing largely the pure metal. This, however, is to be regretted-not that knowing their strength, they have exempli- fled, but that having 1t in their power to place before the public an exhibit of pure nuggets that would have been the pride of the Exposi- ton they have failed to do so. There are no properties extant that are more able to make an exhaus- tive exhibit in this line than the Bonanza of Harqua Hala and the Mammoth of Pinal county, and they would have proven a drawing card, not only to the Arizona space, which even now is daily thronged, but to the Mining Building.
 The effect of this we'll arranged exhibit upon the future develop ment of Arizona's resources will ap. pear in time. Careful investors
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

THE daily cost of operating the Worlds Columbian Exposition is $16,OOO.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17
Apache COunty's Wealth.

The following is an abstract of the roll of Apache county for the year 1893:
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17

PREscoTT is building a three story brick block.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-14

suffering from nervous prostration. but
that he owed me debt he could never
pay. was leaving by an early train
for the west, and he promised to write
to me as soon as news had been heard
Of Mrs. Folgate.
Four days later I got letter saving
that Mrs. Folgate had been released
unframed and that there would be
some reference to the affair in the Lon
don papers that day or the DAY after.
Next morning the newspa pers had an
account of the clever Illustration by
the Vienna police Of daring and gigan-
tic attempt to swindle the banks Of
that city by man calling himself
Count Wolinski, who with half dozen
acconplices was arrested just as they
lad brought their ncfarious scheme to
perfection and were about to put it in
operation.
The plot" said the Vienna dispatch,
twas one of the most daring ever de-
signed, and among other of the means
used by the swindlers to misiead was
the fact that letters for their basis of
operation London) were addressed TO
the mansion o: well-known rich bar
onet whose town house is in cDe of the
most select West End squares"
A few months after received cards
and wedding cake, which assured me
that all had gone well with the young
people, but from that day to this have
not seen Crane or Mrs Crane, who
was Miss Folgate the first Sunday l
spent in London
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-14
THE TERM "YANKEE."
Various Theories Which Have Been Ad
vanced as TO Its Origin.

Various Theories Which Have Been Ad.
vanced as TO Its Origin.
The theories which have been ad.
vanced as to the origin of the name
Yankees are numerous According &c
Thierny, it was corruption OF Jakin,
a diminutive of John, which was a
nickname given by the Dutch colo
nis.s of New York to their neighbors
in the Connecticut settlements
In history of the American war
written by DR.. William Gordon and
published in 1888 was another theory.
Or. Gordon said that il was a cant
word in Cambridge. Mass, as early as
1913. used 20 denote especial excellence
as a Yankee good horse, Yankee
good cider, etc. He supposed that il
was originally byword in the college,
and being taken by the students into
parts OF the country gradually obtained
general currency in New England. and
az length came 20 be taken mp IN other
parts of the country and applied to
New EEglauders as term of slight re-
p-oach-
a1Uuly- al Ing AiSl "lIsef. sd IS ioas
& IS derived from q Cherokee word
eankee-which signifies coward and
slave. This epithet was bestowed upon
the inhabitants Of New England By
the 9irginians for not assisting them
in war with the Cherokees. The
most probable theory. however. is tha,
advanced by Mr.. Heckewel6er-that
the Indians IN endeavoring 70 pro-
nounee the word English. or Anglais.
made i. Yengees or Yangees and this
originated The term
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-14

Cardinal Rampoila, papsi secretary
of state, is one of the Youngest mem
bers of the sacred college. not being
yet fifty years of age. lie is tall.
handsome man, but already begins to
be bent-not with the weight OF years,
but with the weight OF work which thu
pope imposes on him.
AT the recently-held thirtv-ninth
general assembly of the United Pres
byterian church of North America u
was reported tina. there are Gsa young
peoples societies IN the denomination.
which have %, 092 mem bers. these coz
tributed $50. 600 last year ~ the general
work Of the denomination
The Montana university is 20 be 10
Gated al NiSsoula, an agricultural co.
lege at Bozeman, a school II mines a
Butte and normal school at Dillon
Education IS apparently appreciated a
the PARKWAY state. According % re-
cent statistics. Montana pays higher
salaries 10 her lady-teachers than any
state in the Union.
"A step Of great ecclesiastical I'm
portance in the church ~ England was
taken by the appointment Of Res. Ar
thur Hamilton Baynes. vicar Of Christ
church. Greenwich. % the biSaopric OF
Natal The see Of Natal had been re-
parded as extinct since the "deposi-
ton" Of Bishop Colenso IN iSSS, bu,
legally IL had only been vacant since
the death Of that distinguished prolate.
N. y. Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-14

The very bed on which man rscfines
at night affords him consi6ersb bic op-
portunity for reflection. At first sight
it never occurred to him that the great
square object-looking with its cover
ing of mosquito curtains more like 4
huge bird-cage than anything else
was bed He know. better now, and
proceeds TO examine il with interest
before turning in for the night He
finds that the large square mattress is
covered by sheet. but otherwise en-
tirely devoid of bed-clothing. At the
top are two pillows fer the head and
down the center is placed long. round
bolster called Dutch wife. This
scarcely comes up to his notion OF what
: bed should be. but after he has slept
to- tried to Sleep for two or three
nights in the hot. steemy atmosphere
OF Batavia he changes his mind He
finds that bed-clothes are not wanted in
the coast towns OF lava, and in partic-
ular he learns 70 appreciate the relief
which he experiences by throwing arm
or leg over that useful contrivar-ce for
securing GOODNESS. the Dutch wife.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-14
ONE EFFECT OF TRADE UNIONS
The Position o< the American Boy in Re
gard TO American Labor.

The Position o< the American Boy in Re
gard TO American Labor.
Shall American boys be permitted to
learn trades. and, having learned them,
shall they be permitted to work at
them? These are apparently simple
questions. and the answering of them
is an apparently simple matter. Most
persons thus Intercepted would reply
at once: Certainly they should. Why
do YOU ask such unnecessary ques-
tions?" We ask them because under
the present conditions of trade instruc-
ton and employment in this country
the American boy has no rights which
organized la Dor is bound to respect. He
Is denied instruction as an apprentice.
ind if he be taught his trade in trade
school he is refused admission to near
" all the trade unions. and is boycott
ted if he attempts to work as non
union man. The questions of his char
meter and skill enter into the matter
pnly to discriminate against him.
All the trade-unions of the country
are controlled by foreigners. who COM
prise the great ma jority of their mem
bers. While they refuse admission to
the trained American boy, they admit
all foreign applicants with little or no
regard to their training or skill In
fact. the doors of organized labor in
America, which are closed and barred
against American boys, swing open,
wide and free. TO all foreign corners
labor in free America is free to all
save the sons of Americans
These are neither idle nor xsggerat-
cd statements. They are sober. solemn
truths. expressed with studied modera-
ton. So-called American labor to-day
IS complete misnomer, as far as the
trades are concerned. How has II
come about that the United States.
alone among the nations of the earth.
has not merely surrendered possession
of her field OF mechanical labor 20 for.
eisrners. but acquiesces when the for
eign possessors exclude from that field
her own sons?-Century.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-14
LONGEVITY OF MAN.
People Who Have Attained to Remark
able Old Age.

/
| able Old Age.
| 1t was Frof. Hufeland's opinion that
the limit of possible human life may
| be set at two hundred years-this on
the general principle, says the St.
Louis Republic, that the life of nearly
all living creatures is eight times the
years, months or weeks of its period
of growth That which quickly comes
to maturity quickly perishes, and the
earlier complete development is
reached the sooner bodily decay en-
sues. More women reach old age than
men, but more men attain remarkable
longevity than women
Horned animals are shorter lived
than those without horns, fierce longer
than tinid, and amphibious creatures
longer than those which inhabit the
air. The pike will continue to live for
one hundred and fifty or one hundred
and sevecty-five gears, and the COM
mon turtle is good for at least CEN
fury. Passing up the scale of life to
man and dripping the patriarchs we
find many recorded instances OF ex-
traordinsry longevity.
The ancient Egyptians lived three
times as long as the modern lotus eat
ers- Instances of surprising and
authentic longevity among the classic
Greeks AID Romans ere not at all rare.
Phny notes the fact tina. in the reign
OF Emperor Vespasian (73 4. d.
there were l24 men living in limited
area on the River Pc who were 100
years old and upward Three OF these
were 40 and seven others over $50.
Cicero's wife lived 20 be 1o3. and the
Roman actress Luceia played in pub
lie after she had celebrated her one
hundred and twelfth birthday.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-14

getting in through the fan light can
stand on your shoulders Once in. ]
will open the front door. This fog IS
all in our favor"
1t was a long walk, during which he
never could see across the street He
seemed to find his way by instinct He
neser paused or hesitated.
At last he drew up. I'VE are IN Der
by square" he whispered. THE house
is on the south side. No. 81. We will
cross the roadway and stand with oar
backs against the railing of the in
closure We have twenty minutes to
watt
Now" whispered he, when he drew
up, ''we are directly opposite the house.
/ know the spot by this dropping ash
tree" He took off his hat and wiped
his forehead.
At five minutes to one I heard door
open and shut softly then cautious
footsteps stealing away. looked at
Crane He didn't look at me- He did
not move. He kept his eyes fixed on
the dial like one hypnotized. Igazed at
the watch myself; l found / could not
now take my eyes off it. saw the
hand pass the hour; saw it creep one,
two, three minutes beyond the hour.
Had he forgotten, or was he really
hypnotlzed by too intent thought and
gaze?
When the hand touched the fourth
minute, he put the watch in his pocket,
and catching me by the shoulder moved
across the roadway and up TO the door
Of 81
'How will you break the glass? Will
there not De a great noise?" whis-
pered.
''No; the fanlight is stained glass In
lead. Give me back"
In an instant he was up, standing on
my shoulders, apd working at the fan
light could not see, but he must
have wrenched out the pieces with
amazing CELEBRITY and care, for in a few
minutes he whispered: 81 am going to
hang on by my elbows. Take hold of
my feet and push me up"
/ seized his feet and pushed them up
with all my might. In another minute
he scrambled through and dropped into
the hall.
He opened the door. ''Come inside.
Close the door and wait for me. If any
of these men are here and fail, fly.
AL will then be lost. Save your own
life.''
He darted upstairs and for few mo-
ments all was silent. Then I heard a
crash, as though Of a door burst in.
This was followed by the soft, Joyful
cry of woman, and presently two fig
ures ran down the stairs. l opened the
door, and the three of us darted out I
closed the door softly behind Crane
led us across the road back and we set
off at quick pace through the fog in
unbroken silence.
When we were clear Of the square,
Crane stopped, took the girl in his
arms, ard crying: THANK God! my
Aggie!" burst into tears
The instinct which had guided Crane
infallibly earlier in the day now failed
him, and we lost our way hopelessly;
but we did not care. II was five O'clock
when the three Of US got to Weldon's.
The lovers spent that evening in the
drawing-room, and saw little of them.
The peril of Mrs. Fo]eate's position
made absolute secrecy still imperative.
Next morning l met Crane at break
fast. He said there was no use in try
ing to thank me for himself or Miss
Folgate, whom Mrs. Weldon had for
hidden to leave her room, as she was
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-14
A NOTED MISSION IN LONDON.
Founded By Frederick Charrfngtou. who
Did Not Fear to BE Disinheritcd.

The other Sunday night at the Char
rington mission. which IS held in q
long. narrow room. double galleried
all around. the coughing from the fogl
was more ike Fourth of July with con-
glomerate firecrackers, church bells
and cannonading than one would con-
eeive as possible issuing from merely
human assembly, SAYS London CORE
spondent of the Hartford Courant-
,'-st a word about this Charrirgsoa
mission, which IS feature of the east
eaa. Frederick. Cha-rington belongs
% 4 wealthy family OF brewers About
seventeen years ago he began 70 do
sort of street missionary work ia
East London. near his fathers brew
cry. His father threatened 10 Gisin-
herit him, but finally left him .
share though not full Shz-e IA tia
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-14

side Of the isthmus were hundreds of
feet higher than were those on the At
lantic side, and that the great rush Of
water 10 even up the difference in the
level of the two oceans would drown
all Southern America and most of
Mexico and Yucatan. Would-be en-
gineers and sensational editors passed
their opinions or wrote editorials on
the subject II now transpires, as q
result of actual survey, that the Allan
tic and not the Pacific, is the higher Of
the two oceans, and that in place Of
the difference being hundreds Of feet,
as had been affirmed, the surface of
the water on the east side of the 18TH
mus is exactly six and cne-half feet
higher than it is on the western side.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-14
A Curious Grass,

Lemon grass, known only IN Ceylon.
grows 10 q height of six or seven fee.
and ignites spontaneously. At FIRST a
single curl of smoke or bright tongue
OF flame viii be noticed Som, how
ever, as the water runs down the stalks
and rningles with the oil and acids
contained In the pith Of the curious
herb. fierce fires burst into view here,
there and every place. soon covering
the whole mountain IL a sheet Of Game.