davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
MELTING IRON In WATER.
An Electric Experiment Which Opens
Up Large Possibilities.

Electricity: Among recent electri-
cal experiments made on either side of
the Atlantic that of melting bar of
iron immersed in cold water has per-
haps excited more popular interest
than any other
The process is as follows The ap-
paratus used is vessel of glass or
porcelain, provided with sheet lead
electrode, connected to the positive
pole of continuous current generator;
the vessel contains sulphuric acid and
water. A flexible cable from the
negative pole is connected to strong
pair of pliers with insulated handles.
Taking in the pliers piece of metal of
any kind, iron, for instance, and i'm
mersing it in the acidulated water, the
liquid is seen Immediately in ebulition
near the iron rod or plate, which lat
ter is rapidly heated and brought to
dazzling white in few seconds and
soon begins to melt in spark like drops.
The heating is produced SO quickly
locally that neither the water nor the
body of the metal rod have time to be-
come hot.
So rapid an evolution of heat neces-
sarily means tremendously high tenn
perature. In very short time as high
1000 degrees Fahrenheit have been de-
veloped, which is proven by using
carbon rod instead of metal one,
when, in a few moments, amorphous
carbon fragments are seen dropping
off. The inventors claim to have at.
tanned, with large currents, the enor-
mously high temperature of $4,000 de-
grees Fahrenheit, or nearly five times
hotter than molten iron.
The first suggestion for the practi
cal utilization of the discovery was for
welding purposes, to which it is evil
IDENTIFY particularly we'll adapted.
Another application which the expert
ments would seem to lead toward is
the tempering of one edge or one ex-
tremity only of steel cutting tools.
The hardening of the skin surface of
large pieces of metal, such as armor
plates offer another inviting field
Krupp, it is stated, is already trying
this new method of electric heating
for tempering the superficial surface
of large guns.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
Two Girls Who Can Walk.

The Misses Plant, two Michigan
girls, walked into jackson Park re-
Gently, and sitting down in the Michi-
gan building announced that they had
tramped all the way from Muskegon-
22O miles. One is dressmaker and the
other teacher. They are just the
kind of women for the Worlds Fair,
where there is little provision for the
common variety of American women,
whose legs give out on a mile walk
Kate Field 8 Washington.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
Suppose Women Had Acted So!

If that row in the House of Commons
had been made by women, how it
would have been quoted as proof that
''the emotional nature of women units
them for political duties, that they are
Hacking in the qualities that make
statesman" and ~ told you sol" But
the superior sex took it out in giving
each other black ewes and bad names
and then went back to their seats con-
tent with their superiority over women.
But in, fairness it must be said that
they had the grace to apologize for
their bad behavior. Woman's
Journal.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
The Momentum Of an Ocean Steamer

In response to query as to how far
an ocean steamer could go after her
engines had been checked the Inter
Ocean replies Some years ago the
Scientific American took occasion to
interview large number of command
ers of ocean steamers concerning the
momentum of vessels. Suppose, it
asked, "a steam vessel were running at
full speed and the engines were revers-
ed, how far would the vessel run be-
fore it began to gather sternway; that
is, to move backward" The answers
varied between two and four miles, but
the conclusion was reached that if two
vessels were approaching each other
under full head of steam they might,
after hearing the fog horn at distance
of four miles apart, do their best to
stop, and yet come into collision with
each other with serious consequences.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
NOTES.

What is called courtesy in the Senate
is mostly wind,
When the Senate gets through with
the fillibuster it will be as badly run
down as the silver dollar.
An attendance of million week at
the Worlds Fair shows that the people
still have money to spend.
There was more business than cour-
tesy about Sol me of Tom Reed s rules,
and from the standpoint of the present
1t doesn't seen that they were alto
gether bad.
The laxity of the Democratic rules in
governing Congress threatens to impede
Democratic legislation. Nothing can
be accomplished without the consent of
the minority.
The sugar, rice and coal men had
their inning before the Ways and
Means Committee and all protested
against the lowering of duties on those
especirl articles, just as the Western.
silver miners object to the repeal of the
bullion purchase law.
The first printing press, with the ut
most diligence, could be made to print
from twenty to twenty five sheets an
hour on one side only; the printing
presses of today print fiom $4,000 to
10000 in the same time on both sides.
Curved stereotyped plates were in
vented in 1916, but were little use for
half century after that date. Since
1865 they have come into general eH,,,
ployment in every newspaper office in
country whose edition is printed on
fast steam press.
The first almanac was printed in
Hungary in 174O. One medical firm in
this country now prints and circulates
over threee millions year, and is est
mated that the total number printed
annually in this country does not fall
short of 15O, 100000. a..s
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
Encouragement From a Wife.

Captain Magnus Andersen claims
that but for his wife the Viking would
not have been built, and he would not
have sailed it across the Atlantic.
Whenever he was discouraged and
ready to abandon his plan, her faith
and enthusiasm, still undaunted, en-,
couraged him to talk up the plan again.
Half q dozen times he gave 1t up; as
many times she inspired him to begin
again.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
Walter BrOwnlOw for Congress.

The Washington correspondent to the
Chattanooga Times writes:
Walter P. Brownlow, who has spent
number of years here serving the Gov
ernment in various capacities and Incl
dentally looking after numerous mat
ters of private interest to the First Dis
trict people, will very soon turn his back
on the national capital, and resume
his residence at Jonesboro, Tenn.
Mr.. Brownlow has an eye on the
Congressional race for 1894 and is al
ready mending his fences. Politics is
never without interest in the First Dis
trict. The next race will show up many
runners and entries. 1t now looks as
if Mr.. Brownlow would be winner.
His principal feature of strength as
Congressional timber lies in his great
familiarity with departmental matters
and his natural qualifications as hus
tier. He is bold, strong advocate and
often succeeds in his undertakings
where a less venturesome man would
fail.
When a man starts in push a claim
through the tape tangled departments
he needs nerve. No sissy girl or dude
or other species of weakling need un'
dertake the job. The man without in
dustry in his bones is dead failure.
1t takes hard knocks and lots of them
to level the meshes of the dust covered
red tape and win a case before the
average government department.
There is vast difference in Congress
sional districts in regard to their re.
quirements in this particular. Many
districts are totally without claims in
any of the departments. Such is moi
the case in any of the districts within
the borders of the late Confederate
States. 1t is not the least of Con
gresham 3 merits in this territory that
he is well skilled in coping with the ex.
asperating whims of departmental red
tape.
Walter Brownlow has seen consid
erably party service. He served si1
years as chairman of the First distric
Congressional committee and four year
as a member of the State committe,
and four years as a member of the ma
tional committee. He was doorkeepe
of the Forty Seventh Congress and As
sistant Superintendent of the Senat,
folding room during the time from th'
Forty Eighth to the Fifty Third Con
gress. No man who has represente,
the First District since the war brough
to his duties finer ability of a purel,
business order than Mr.. Brownlow.
Mr.. Brownlow is full of hopes for tn
Republican party and with much enthu
siasm predicts its future success. H
argues that the. revision undertaken b
the present administration will wor
disastrously and result in bringing tn
Democracy into disfavor. He ais
thinks the attitude of the administrs
tion against silver will result in th
disruption of the party. A third ell
ment of weakness for the Democrat
party in his opinion is the alleged hol
tility of the party towards the Interest
of the pensioners.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
A Glove Snsnender Need ed.

Some English women keep up their
long gloves by a ribbon garter, buckle
and all. Any woman would pay
fair price for glove suspender which
would be pretty, keep her glove up
and relieve her from the necessity of
continually stretching her arm out and
tidying up the long wrist. No one
knows the discomfort, the nervous,
irritating effect of that always slip
ping glove who has not had to. wear
it.-Exchange.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
Our Public Schools

are the main stay of our republic. In
them are being cultivated the minds
which are to be our future law makers
and leaders in every walk in life. How
essential it is that these minds should
be united TO strong, health bodies. So
many children suffer from impurities
and poisons in the blood that it is a
wonder that they ever grow up to be
men and women. Many parents can
not find words strong enough 70 ex-
press their gratitude to Hood g Sarsapa-
rilla for its good effect upon their chill
dren. Scrofula, salt rheum and other
diseases of the blood are effectually
and permanently cured by this excel
lent medicine, and the whole being is
given strength to resist attacks Of
disease.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OEFICERS.

Sheriff. l Hawkins.
Circuit Court Clerks III l. Cooper.
Chairman County Court-H c Hart.
County Court Clerk-Jacob Leah.
Clerk and Master-W + Young.
Trustee-J A II Bacon. ~
: Register-A NJ Stewart. So
County Surveyer-T Young.
Supt Public SchOOls-F T Watts.
Tax AssessOr-J A Bradshaw.
THE COURTS:
Circuit Court = Judge, A ] Brown; At
torney General, II I Campbell Clerk, 8 II l.
Cooper Meets first Mondays in April,
August and December.
Chancerry Court : Chancellor, John P
Smith; Clerk and Master, w + Young.
Meets first Mondays in January and July.
County Court Chairman, II G Hart;
Clerk, Jacob Leab Meets first Monday In
each month.
Law Court, Johnson City-Same officers
as the Circuit Court and meets -
Chancery Court at johnson City meets
hrst Mondays In June and December.
"- JONESBORO TAXING DISTRICT:
MayOr-James Ii Epps.
Recorders B Keefaufer.
Marshall NJ Campbell.
Aldermen-J II Epps, f E Britton and
A b Cummings.
Council and Court meet when there is any
business to transact.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
SECRET SOCIETIES

Washington Chapter, No. 2, r A M
Meets First Friday in each month. ID. G..
Aiken, II. p; M. II. p. Panhorst, Sec.
RHEA LODGE, No. Al, +. AND A. M.-Meets
Monday on or before each Full Moon. A..
Grand Army of the Republc-Post No.
IS: T p Britton, Commander; II M Slagle,
Adjutant; j A FEBRUARY, Quartermaster.
Meets first Saturday I'm each month.
knights of HonOr-Frankland Lodge No.
535: s ii Anderson, Dictator; A NJ Stuart,
Reporter; H Peoples, Financial Report
knights and Ladies of Honor j M
Fink, Protector; = ii l. Cooper, Secretary.
Meets first and third Friday nights in each
month in knights of Honor Hall.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
See the Worlds Fair for Fifteen Cents.

Upon receipt of your address and fif-
teen cents in postage stamps, we will
mail you prepaid our Souvenir Port
folio of the Worlds Columbian Expo
sition, the regular price is fifteen cents,
but as we want you to have one, we
make the price nominal. You will find
it work of art and thing to be priced,
It contains full page views of the great
buildings, with descriptions of same,
and is executed in highest style of art.
If not satisfied with it, after you get it,
we will refund the stamps and let you
keep the book, Address H. E. Bucklen
& Co., Chicago, Ill.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27

AS general rule, it is best not to
correct costiveness by the use of saline
or drastic medicines. When a purg-
ative is needed, the most prompt, effec-
tive, and beneficial is Ayers Pills.
Their tendency is to restore, and not
weaken, the normal action of the bow
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27
81 A YEAR IN ADVANCE

and that is that it is the work of ma
ture. The light on a favorable night
is seen thirty miles away, and at that
distance still preserves the peculiar
shooting, darting which are seen to
much better advantage from the i'm
mediate vicinity.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27

City Boarder lat farmhouse DO
you still use candles here?
Mr.. Hayseed-No, stree. In the win.
ter we use lamp. Don't need it in
summer, you know. It's bedtime be-
fore it gifts dark.-New York Weekly.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27

The new factory inspection law of
Pennsylvania requires that of the depu-
ty inspectors five shall be women.
They receive salary of $1,000 year.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27

A druggists certificate has been
awarded to Miss Ella G. Nash, gradu-
ate of the Boston College of Pharmacy,
who passed the board of examination.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27

Hundreds of people write TT is i'm
possible to describe the good Hood s
Sarsaparilla has done me-" 1t will be
of equal help to you.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-09-27

After sea diet, to prevent boils and
assist acclimation, use Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-08-18
ADDISON COUNTY FAIR.

The 10Th annual county fair will be
held at Middlebury, Sept. II, II and IL,
and all entries for the races and the live
stock departments ill positively close
on Sept. 1. Sec. 10 of the rules has been
amended so as to read as follows:
Any animal or article removed from the
tair before o'clock p m. the last day, will
forfeit any premiums awarded unless a writ
ten permit Is given by the supe rintendent OF
the department.
No horse entering for the races can
compete in the single-driver class. The
Middebury cornet band, under the lead
ershlp of Joseph Cobb. has been reOr-
ganized and will furnish music for the
occasion. With such n sicians as Cobb,
Campbell, Lovett and Liberty good
music is assured. The usual dance will
be given at the town hall the last night
of the fair
The two-year-old race has been dis
continued and the ? 40 race is now open
to all horses that have never beaten
= $50. There will be bicycle race with
purse of S25. As there are number
of good riders in the county, an exciting
race is expected. There will also be a
peg race with purse of $3.50 to
first, 81 to second. s. to third and So to
fourth. The entrance fee for these
races is only 81 and there must be three
to start. Money is scarce, and it is hard
times, but here is chance to make some
money and help amuse the people as
we'll. The peg race is the first of the
kind to take place in Middebury. Each
man hangs his harness on peg and
holds his horse by the bride when the
word go is given. Then the man no I'M
aided can harness his steed, having every
buckle properly adjusted, and drive one
mile first gets first money. Drivers may
hitch TO any kind of a vehicle from a
stone boat to pneumatic sulky as
suits their fancy. Send in your entries
for the peg and bicycle races. Trotting
purses will be paid in full and all
premiums in floral hall will be paid in
full other premiums pro rata in case of
deficiency. Last year all premiums and
expenses were paid in full and it is ex-
pected that they will be this year.
Married and unmarried ladies can COM
pete in class %. Competition is open to
the world.
There are many fine matched and single
driving horses in the county. Show
them at the fair. For years Vermont
stood next TO Kentucky for fine horses.
/ Let us keep up our reputation, and with
/ Daniel Lambert, Ben Franklin, Thought,
Motion, Gillig, Mack, Leicester and
others or their descendants living in the
State today this may easily be ac.
complshed. If you have a colt or a
steer better than your neighbor's, bring
it to the fair If you can paint a picture
or make a fine TN of biscuit, show then
at the fair. Then the fair will be 4 sue
cess, and we can create boom in Yer
mont agriculture and induce people tt
invest in real estate at home. instead o.
investing so much money in the IVES
and elsewhere. c. ). DANA.
Secretary.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-08-18
ADDISON COUNTY COURT.

The county court has been steadily at
work since our last weeks report. with
an adjournment from Saturday noon to
2 o'clock Monday afternoon. At that
hour the taking of the testimony in the
Conroe will case was resumed. The re-
buttal evidence was completed at 3
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. A large
number of witnesses have been examined
and the testimony put in is, to say it
moderately, somewhat vOluminous.
Mr.. Wilds of Middlebury began the
argument for the proponents, otherwise
known as the wardens, etc., of the First
Episcopal society of Addison county, at
3:l5 Tuesday afternoon and did not
finish until IL 80 a. M. on Wednesday.
Judge Haselton of Burlington then be-
gan for the defendants, and used up the
remainder of the day. He concluded
Thursday forenoon, aud Hon. Joel c.
Baker of Rutland began to talk on the
same side, that IL, for Isaac l.. Eells ct
al. Mr.. Bliss will make the closing
argument for the church side of the
case. The arguments of Mr.. Wllds aud
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-08-18
State l1eps.

Mrs. A. Richardson. the oldest woman
in Barre, died Monday night at the age
of 81 years.
The annual muster of the State militia
began at Camp Fuller, in Rutland, Tues
day, and will continue through the week.
The Vermont Marble Co. paid its help
at Proctor and Rutland between $4,000
and $4,000 Tuesday for work done in
July.
Frosts Sunday night did considerable
damage to corn and vines In the vicinity
of Montpelier, where the thermometer
fell 80 degrees in less than 80 hours.
John Crowley of Rutland, a freight
brakeman on the Boston and Maine rail-
road, was fatally injured while coupling
cars at Wilmington, Mass, Tuesday.
John Towards farm buildings, a
house, two barns and a shed, were burned
ne IT Rutland the other day. The loss is
$4,000 and the insurance half that amount.
Surprise franklin, a stallion owned
by John n. Baxter and j. K. Post OF
Rutland and valued at 5000, died the
other day and was found to have been
poisoned with arsenic.
Prof. j. L. Hills, who has been the
chemist at the State experiment station
at Burlington, has been appointed dl-
rector of the station, to succeed Prot.
w. w. Cooke, resigned.
Mrs. Charles Fuller, wife of Charles
Fuller, a Rutland photographer. WI S
burned to death there last week Thursday
afternoon. Her clothing caught fire
from he explosion Of an oil stove
A destructive wind and rain storm
passed oyer the southern section OF
Windham county Saturday afternoon
doing many thousands of dollars dam
age by prostrating crops, especially
corn and tobacco.
A lack of currency still affects the
granite dealers at Barre. Cutters are
being discharged daily, and some quar-
ries have shut down. Western contract
oTs are paying loca! dealers by sending
currency by express.
Bud Gunshannon, a young man be-
longing in Bennington. was run over by
the cars at North Bennington early Mon
day morning. His right leg was cut of
below the knee and he was otherwise in
jured. He was trying to steal a ride.
DR.. Ira H. Fiske, prominent Mont
pelier doctor, has been arrested by
post-office Inspector on the charge o.
sending a letter through the mail adj
dressed to Arthur c. Pell, telling hin
that he would perform certain crime
for 500.
John Devine, Montpelier shoemaker
in giving his wife some medicine Friday
night. by mistake gave her rat poison
The mistake was discovered in IA few
minutes and physician hurredly sum
moned, who gave the woman emetics
and by prompt work saved her life
But she is still in a critical condition
and may not recover.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-08-18

Malo Haseton are spoken Of in the
highest terms by able LAWYERS not con-
nected with the case who heard them,
and they certainly added to their already
weil-won laurels. Much is also expect
ed of Mr.. Baker, who is getting into the
heart of his argument as ego to press,
as well as of MIR. Bliss, who will per-
haps have the most difficult work in the
case to do in closing the argument and
having to follow up and answer the
points brought out by such lawyers as
Judge Haselton and Mr.. Baker.
The case can hardly be got to the jury
before this afternoon or Saturday fore
noon.
Interest in the trial since the opening
has been confined largely to the parties
interested in the case, az the testimony
has been taken with monotonous regular
ity and the counsel have been nOticeably
courteous to each other. But as soon
as 1t was known that the arguments
were about to be begun the court room
was better filled and on Wednesday and
Thursday there was large number of
ladies present.
There is a good deal of speculation as
to how the case will end; but that re.
mains for the jury to say, and no one
can tell what petit jury will do until
they have done it.