davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
LITERARY NOTES.

The readers of the October Review of
Reviews, or certainly the eastern read
ers will find its most remarkable fea-
ture in the article on the Irrigation
Idea and its coming Congress. The
writer of this important paper is Will
lam E. Smith, editor of the Irrigation
Age. 1t is safe to say that never be-
fore has appeared any such authorita-
tive treatment of subject which is
practically unknown to dwellers east of
the Mississippi. Very few people will
be prepared to hear that the arid region
of the United States, to which irriga-
ton is necessity, make up two fifths
of our national domain that already,
two years ago, the estimated value of
the irrigated lands was $500, 100000
according to the census. Mr.. Smith
tells US that irrigation raises the value
of land reclaimed from tn truly great
American desert from $50 to 800 per
acre, and the social results of the es-
tablishment of irrigating communities
appear to be scarcely less than the enor-
nous material gain. Such colonies as
Riverside and its like allow their mem
bers practically all the advantages of
an urban life while assuring them the
beauty and freedom of country home.
The irrigation idea is inevitably bring
ing in an era of small farmers, because
it means intensive cultivation of
land, or theprocess of seeking increas-
ed product and a better cultivation of
the same soil instead of extension of
soil area. The Review of Reviews pub
fishes this paper apropos of the Inter
national Irrigation Congress which is
about to be held in Los Angels, Cal.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
The Most Ancient Ruins.

The oldest architectural ruins in the
world are believed to be the rock cut
temples at Ipsambool on the left bank
of the Nile in Nubia. The largest of
these ancieut temples contains ID apart
ments hewn out of solid stone. The
largest single stone used in this work
is one which forms a verandalike pro-
lection along one side of the main tenn
pie. 1t is 81 feet long, SO broad and II
lone account says 19) feet thick. This
colossal stone is supported by two rows
of massive square pillars, four in each
row, and each 30 feet high. To each
of these pillars is attached a colossal
figure of a human being, reaching from
floor to roof. In front of the main
temple are seated still other colossi,
four in number, the two largest being 6
each 65 feet high.
The only hint we have as to the ac-
tual age of these architectural relics is
from Smith, the British Egyptologist,
who says, "The colossi attached to the
columns which support the large stone
mentioned are each painted in gaudy
colors, in kind of stucco, apparently
as brilliant now, after lapse of oyer
1000 years, as when first laid on. "-St.
Louis Republic.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
WHIPS (Iraye.

THAT grave on the right hand of the
path as you go down to the porch door;
that heap of airth with no growth, not
one blade of grass ON it-that's Will
Pooley's grave that was hanged un-
justly"
Indeed But how came such a
shocking deed to be done"
why, you see, sir, they got poor
Will down to Bodmin, all among stran-
gers, and there were bribery and false
swearing, and an unjust judge came
down-and the jury all bad rascles, tin
and copper men-and 80 they all agreed
together, and they hanged poor Will.
But his friends begged the body and
brought the corpse home here to his
own parish, and they turfed the grave,
and they sowed the grass 20 times over,
but twas all no use, nothing would
ever grow-he was hanged unjustly. "
well, but, Tristan, you have not
told me all this while what this man
Peoley was occused of what had he
done ?"
"Done, sir Done Nothing what.
ever but killed the excise man "
R. s. Hawker.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
STATE NEWS.

VIM. Hemphill, a well known farm
or, was arrested at Pulaski, charged
with forgery. He presented a check at
the Citizens Bank for $125. A forged
check for 800, drawn in the same
name had been worked off on the bank
some time ago.
At the last session of the Davidson
County Court the Revenue Commission.
ers reported the result of their investi-
CATION of the shortage in the account is
of h. A. Lassiter, clerk in the County
Judges office. Lassiter was found to
be S9,SO4 shoat.
Governor Turney has pardoned Thos.
Patterson, convicted at the September
term, 1893. of the Circuit Court of An
derson County of involuntary man
slaughter, and sentenced to three years
imprisonment.
Governor Turney has appointed Rich
ard Sanford Coal Oil Inspector at Cow
ington, and A. d. English at Newbern.
The large barn of Jasper Eply, near
Newport, was burned, and while the
family, were trying to save its contents
the house was robbed of 5000 in money
and lot of valuables.
The standing army Of the State was
disbanded a few days ago. 1t has cost
the State in the last two years about
100000.
There are sixteen young men in the
Knox County Jail charged with murder
in the first degree.
Governor Turney has refused to ap-
prove the purchase of 1900 acres of
land in Franklin County recommended
as suitable site for the new penitenti
ary, for the reason, as he claims, that
the amount asked for it is too much.
The corn crop of the State, accord
ing to the State Bureau of Agriculture,
shows decline of about three per cent.
as compared with the reportfor August.
The number of hogs is 1914 per cent of
full crop, and the condition 92.8.
Willie Marlin, twelve year old boy,
was killed near Nashville while hunt
ing walnuts.
Rack Weatherly shot and mortally
wounded negro named Willis San
ders, at Lebanon, while stealing -four.
James 81. Andrews, who killed Liv
Lansdowne in Columbia, has been de-
clared insane.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
A Woman Who Got Along.

The ability of woman to get on
alone in the world is sometimes ques-
toned by her big brothers. But there
are plenty of instances where woman
have been left in circumstances which
would try the powers of the stoutest
man to the utmost and have come out
triumphant. One of these was mem
toned to reporter the other day in
connection with rough side hill farm
in a remote part of an inland town.
"There, said our informant, pointing
to the place, ''lived Aunt Abby S.
when her husband died. She then
had three small children, and another
was born soon after. The farm was in
poor condition and had about all the
mortgage it could bear. Her husband &
old father, feeble and fussy, was left
on her hands.
ibid she send the old man to the
poor farm, think your Not bit of it.
She kept him q year or two, and he
was so fussy she couldn't live with
him. Then she hired a neighbor to
take him, and she paid his board Il
years, when he died. She raised her
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
CHURCH DIRECTORY

Baptist Church-Rev. Jasper Howell, pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at l0.45 a. III. and
1880 pm. Sunday school every Sunday at :l5
a. An M: and at chapel at Up. m. Prayer and
m. Young peoples prayer service every
Sunday evening one hour before church
service. Ladies' Missionary Meeting every
frst Friday in each month at 8 p. m.
pastor. Sunday school 8 a. m. Preaching
1880 a. m. Prayer and social service We'd
nesdays $50 p. IN. Young mems prayer
meeting Sunday p. m. Juvenile Mission
ary Society hrst Sabbath Of each month 8
p. m. Home Mission Band second Sabbath
3p. m. Ladies' Missionary Society first
Friday OF each month p. m. Union serv-
Ice third Sabbath of each month 6.30 D. m
M Church-E H Mclaughlin pastor;
preaching every first Sunday in the First
Presbyterian Church at 1890 am.
The First Presbyterian Church-Rev p
Doggett pastor. Preaching every second
and fourth Sundays at 1890 a. m. Sunday
school every Sunday morning at . o'clock.
Union service every second Sunday at 7.30
p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday
The second Presbyterian Church-Rev G
H. Polhemus, A. NJ, pastor in charge.
Preaching every Sunday 1890 a, m. sun
day school 9a. m. Y. p: SC. f. every sun
Sabbath Of each month 4 p. m. Special
prayer meeting every Sabbath at 1915 a. m.
Weekly prayer meeting Wednesday $3.50 p.
m. Ladies' prayer meeting Friday p m.
Union service fourth Sabbath evening of
each month at 7.30.
THE W. Z. T. u, meets every Thursday in
each month, at o'clock p. M, in the Tenn
perence Hall. Visitors arealways welcome.
union temperance serviceheld every. fifth
Sunday evening.
The JonesbOrO Loyal Temperance Legion
meets the second and fourth Sunday, at
m, In Temperance Hall.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
Mr.. Stead's Idea of Civic Church

The Civic Church is the spiritual
counterpart of the town council, rep
resenting the collective and corporate
responsibility of all the citizens for
the spiritual, moral and social welfare
OF the poorest and most neglected dis.
trlct within their borders. 1t is an at
tempt to organize the conscience of the
community so as to bring the collective
moral sentiment of the whole COM
munity to bear upon the problems
which can only be solved by collective
action. The work which lies before
such federative centre is vast and
varied. Vast and varied though it be,
it is surprising how much of it is
beyond dispute. Men may differ about
original sin, they agree about the
necessity of supplying pure water; they
quarrel over apostolical succession,
but they are at one as to the need for
cleansing cesspools and flushing sewers.
1t is in the fruitful works of right
eousness, in the practical realization
OF humanitarian ideals, that the re-
union OF Christendom, and not of
Christendom only is to be brought
about.-From w. T. Stead's article on
"A Civic Church, :" in October Review
of Reviews.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
81 A YEAR In ADVANCE

for Sunday gatherings at her house
during the season. On one occasion
the guests hidden to the literary feast
were informed upon arrival that they
must enter by side door, as the morn
ing being rainy they would otherwise
track mud over the hall carpet. That
the hostess is not so much respecter
OF persons as of things is further evil
denced by her conduct at an afternoon
reception.
Ihose of her guests hose garments
were ornamented with jet were asked
during their stay to remain in the sec
ond parlor, where the furniture was of
mahogany. This sorting out process
was explained by the frank anounce-
ment that if people would wear sharp
ornaments on their clothes she must
protect her own property by excluding
them from the sacred precincts of the
first parlor SO that the rosewood furni-
ture could not be scratched. ed.-Kate
Fields Washington.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
What a Young Man Did.

A college graduate had hardly re-
ceived his diploma before he was com.
PEELED to face poverty and family dis
grace. His father, who had been re-
puted to be wealthy, was an embezzler
and fugitive from justice. His moth
er and sisters we're entirely dependent
upon his modest earnings in brokers'
office.
He had planned taking an advanced
course of professional study in archi-
lecture. His ideal occupation had to
be abandoned. He was in love with a
charming girl, but ceased to visit her
since marriage was out of the question.
An opportunity for years travel in
Europe at a friends expense was given
up.
Year after year he maintained hard
and bitter struggle to make living at
uncongenial employment for his moth.
er and sisters, to support his father
abroad and to overcome prejudice caus-
ed by the family disgrace. He became
successful business man, but was
prematurely gray at forty. His life
was haunted by the ghosts of hisyouth-
full hopes.
Such lives do not furnish material
for exciting stories. They are dull and
prosaic, but are nevertheless heroic.
To give up all that is dear to youth and
to be loyal to family obligations some
times is crowning triumph of unset
fishness. s.-Youth's Companion.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
The Volume of Niagara.

The amount of water passing over
Niagara falls must, of course, vary
with the season. Prof. w. d. Cunning,
who has spent much time and labor in
making careful estimates, says that
the average amount which tumbles
over the great cataract for every minute
day and night, 'year and year out
is 100000, cubic feet Allowing 62a
pounds to the cubic foot, this would
give total of 562.5OO tons of water
per minute. About two thirds of the
whole passes over that portion known
as the Horseshoe falls. Prof. R. w.
Thornton's estimates put it at 100000,
600, tons per hour for both falls.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
His Silver Cheapened or gold Appre.
ciated?

There Is no greater source of wealth
in the United States than cereal crops.
Statistics will show the farmers of the
country the work they have been doing
in that line, and what they have been
paid for it. 1t will be seen that the
line of value has tended to fall father
and father below that of crop product
ion. For instance, in '78, though the
crop production was fifty per cent.
gather than in 73, it sold for two per
cent. less money. In 'S8, which is the
last year for which statistics are given,
the crop was one hund led and nine per
cent above that of '73, but it sold at an
increase of only forty four per cent.
What has caused the falling away in
the line of value? Think the showing
the gold production of the United States
will explain it. The value of the crop
is the product of the quantity by the
price in gold. With the increasing
scarcity of gold there has necessarily
been diminishingprice. The tempor-
ary increase in gold production during
the years '76, ~ and '7S was probably
owing to the new discoveries at Lead
vile and in the Black Hills, but since
80, the production of gold has each
year been less than in '73. What is
more, this line of gold production does
not truly represent the portion of the
limited supply available for currency
purposes, for each year there is an
increasing amount required in the arts.
The line of silver production, how
ever, tells different story. 1t will be
seen that silver production keeps ap'
proximate pace with the production OF
cereal crops. If our money needs
grow at the same rate as farm produce
then silver and not gold furnishes the
normal supply. There is as much
reason for an outcry against an over
production of cereals as of silver, fol
both increase at the same rate.-Fron
"The Evils of an Appreciating Cur
rency," bv E. B. Howell, in October
Review of Reviews.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
Bricks Made From Sawdust.

Among the many methods of utiliz-
ing waste products may be mentioned
the employment of sawdust in making
building bricks. The dust must be
dried and all coarse products and chips
separated from it, after which it is
mixed in the following proportions:
Two bushels of sawdust, one of cement
and five of sharp sand. When these
ingredients have been well mixed in a
dry state two bushels of Stacked lime
are added and the whole incorporated
and pressed into molds. The product
is said to be satisfactory and cheap.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
Possible Historical Pilgrimages.

Our land is great historical labora,
tory in which our historic wealth has
been too long neglected. In each of
the. thirteen original States, pilgrim
ages could be planned for o study of
its colonization. A week in New Eng.
land will furnish a new insight into
the colonization of the section. The
Swedish, Dutch and English settle
ments of the Middle Atlantic States
could be visited IN little time. Doubt
less the early Southern colonies could
easily be picked out, including visit
to the site of Sir Walter Raleigh's Fort
on Roanoke Island. The French con
quest of the New World could easily
be traced up the st. Lawrence on one
OF Cooks excursions and down the
Mississippi. The stout hearted and
strong muscled Pilgrim could follow
the great lakes down to the city of
Chicago, and then in a canoe, after the
fashion of Mr.. Thwaites, follow the
routes of Fathers Marquette and Hen.
nepin and Du Lhut down the historic
waterways of Wisconsin.
What more romantic and suggestive
Pilgrimage than one for the sake of
understanding how our ever shifting
Western boundary gave us the West,
"the great make weight, as DR.. Wood
row Wilson has called it, for nation
ality! Theodore Roosevelt, who lived
on the frontier for years like front
iersman before he attempted In his
winning of the West" to describe
"the great deeds of the border people, u
regards the Historical Pilgrimage as
mot only unique" but very import
ant" He writes ''It seems to me
you could follow in outline the course
of the Great West quite easily. Start
from Abingdon in Virginia, cross the
cumberland Gap (or follow Boone's
old road) to Boonesboro or Harrods-
boro, Kentucky, visiting the Blue
Licks; thence to Louisville, then
down the Ohio to some point in South
ern Illinois, from which you could
reach Kaskaskia or Cahokia (queer,
quaint old French village to the pres.
ent day. and then if you had time go
to Vincennes. You would thus fol.
low In the wake of Boone's explora.
tions and Clarkes campaigns; you
would see the sites where the first from.
tier towns were founded, and the early
Indian battles fought. From Lyman
P. Powell's article on "The Renais.
sance of the Historical Pilgrimage, in
October Review of Reviews.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
A Useful Hint for Naturalists.

Until recent years alcohol was gen.
orally used for preserving specimens
of fishes by naturalists, but other
things are now taking its place. The
best of these appears to be a solution
of acetate of soda, which is spread on
the fish like salt, each layer of the fish
being covered with it in turn. Prince
Henri d'Orleans used this preservative
during his travels in Indo China and
found it excellent.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
A COAST STORM.
Great Damage to Property by Wind
and Water.

MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 5.-The storm
which visited this city Monday left it
a perfect wreck. At this time the dam
ge can only be conjectured, but it is
sac to estimate it at nearly a million
dollars. The damage to shade trees is
beyond estimate. Several schooners
and small craft were dismantled and
the passenger steamer Crescent City
was wrecked on the bay shore.
So far only two deaths are reported,
but in the gardeners district across the
river dwell twenty three families, the
homes of which can be seen from any
eminence in the city. Only one of
these homes can be seen standing, and
as no news has as yet been received it
Is thought that many lives have been
lost. In the same region it is certain
that three or four hundred head of cat
tie have been lost.
The city last night was in utter dark
ness and no street cars were running.
News from the lower coast is heart rem
ding. At Grand Bay four churches
were destroyed, while at Scranton five
churches suffered like fate. Homes
have been scattered, crops ruined, and
desolation appears on every hand. Be-
tween this city and New Orleans are
twenty miles of bridges, the longest of
which are at Bay st Louis and Biloxi.
All these bridges are washed away and
traffic on the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad is suspended.
The gale came from the southeast,
and had velocity of seventy five
miles an hour. tits conceded to be the
worst storm in the history of Mobile.
Neither written record nor the memory
of the Oldest inhabitant can tell of
severer visitation of the elements. The
sea was driven in on the city until all
the wholesale portion was three feet
uSOP III "oNi ohu OtutI pOIuOuo WeIt
submerged. The business thorough
fares were navigated in boats and men
waded to their armpits in their efforts
to save property.
The storm did much damage in por
tions of Louisiana. Reports of a seri-
GUS accident have been received from
Point a LaHache and vicinity. The
steeple of the court house aud the stee-
pie of the Catholic church were blown
down. Several houses were wrecked
and it is said four persons were killed.
LATER-As time passes the real ex-
tent of the damage done by the storm
is made apparent The property loss is
almost beyond computation. The loss
of life is simply appalling, reaching up
into the hundreds, and possibly thou.
sands. 1t is reported that 145 families
perished on Grand leland, and at one
other place but two houses escaped de-
structiOn. While the storm was most
severe in the neighborhood of Mobile,
it was felt from New Orleans to Pensa-
cola,
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
In Northern Alaska.

Juenau is the most northerly stopping
place on the regular Alaska excursion
route, and while it is not sufficiently
near the pole to meet the midnight sun
there is time during the summer sea-
son Of the year for good deal of light
work.
What most troubles strangers is to
know when to go to bed. The sun is
apparently unwilling to pass and leave
its halo behind. Twilight waits for
dawn, or if there is an interval between
l have not discovered it. 1t is not diff.
ficult to read ordinary print at II
o'clock, and sitting on the deck at mid.
night 1.-THE ship keeps San Francisco
time watching the shadows cast upon
the smooth water and the snowcapped
peaks at few miles distance is not un.
comfortable with an overcoat.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11

you die; if you live, you live." When
at last the tired priest sat down, the
COW was reviving, and it afterward
lived to green old age. Some years
later the priest was at the point of
death with a terrible quinsy, when the
old Irish woman presented herself at
the house and told the doctor she could
cure him. She was laughed to scorn,
but at last had her own way. She in
sisted upon having the dying man Q
bed brought out into the middle of the
floor, and around it she slowly cantered
singing, "If you live, you live, and if
you die you die." The humor of the
situation tickled the suffering priest SO
that a hearty laugh broke the quinsy,
and he also lived-to green old age.
Springfield Homestead.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-11
Local History.

"We teach our children of the glori.
GUS deeds of the Greeks at Thermopy-
lace, of Napoleon at Austerlitz. of Ney
at Waterloo, of Sheridan at Winches-
ter. Why not teach them as we'll OF
the brave deeds of their ancestors here
at home ?" asks Winfield S. Nevins in
the New England Magazine. "Our
school histories tell of Bunker Hill and
Concord and Lexington, and other
home events in the same general way
that they tell of Saratoga and York
town; enough, perhaps, for general
study. But the children of Charles
town should know the story of Bunker
Hill in detail the children of Concord
and Lexington should be taught the de-
tails of that April day in ITS. What
more honorable pages in all our history
than those that tell us of the deeds of
the men of Marblehead, on land and
sea, in ITS, in 1912 and again in 1851
the pages that tell of Mugford and
Gerry and Story, of Phillips and Mar.
tin? Yet how little of this the chill
dren of that town find in their school
histories. We might 60 on with the
story of the first armed resistance to
British aggression at the North Bridge
in Salem, the resistance of the Worces-
ter yeomen to the Mandamus council
ors, the struggles at Ticonderoga and
Crown Point, and other historic cpl
sodes all over New England. There Is
hardly town in New England that is
not the birth place, or has not been the
nome, of some man or woman whose
memory the whole country or perhaps
all the world delights to honor"