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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1893-09-12

The Jonadab Fair at Harper's
Ferry had a very successful run of
six nights. The total receipts were
$50, expenses s53, leaving a net
profit of S2SS.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1893-09-12

Hoods Pills act ca silly, yet promptly and
efficiently. on the liver AZ I'd bowels 25c.
Dec. IS. 1s92-1y.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1893-09-12
Hoodle SarsaparIIIa

quickly brought about Z change aud the result
has been & perfect restor alton to health.
The herald., 1893-02-01
Keeping Churches Omen.

"When ! get rich," said business
man, Il am going to give away lot Of
churches, but shall not give anybody
q church unless they will agree to keep
it open on week days as well as Sundays.
There has been in recent years an increase
in the number Of Protestant churches
kept open through the week, but ] would
like to see more Of them. imagine that
ono reason why churches are not more
generally kept open is tho expense at
tending it, and doubtless many persons
think that people are all or nearly all
too busy to spend time in churches on
week days.
SIT seems to me that the expense
should not stand in the way, and l am
inclined to think that the number Of
those who would avail themselves of such
opportunity for rest and meditation is
greater than is generally supposed.
know that have never entered church
in New York on week day without
finding somebody there. I should like
not only to have more Of the churches
kept open on week days, but to have
them open for longer period each day,
and would like to keep some Of them
open all night. It is easy to see that
there might be many objections to this;
still would like to see churches whose
doors would be always open to every
wayfarer. New York Sun.
The herald., 1893-02-01
RAIN REPORTS.
Some Effects of the Storm in Southern
California.

Some Effects OF the Storm in Southern
California.
BAKERSFIELD, CAL, Jan. Silt has
rained here almost necessarily for the
past 4S hours. The weather is warm
The Kern river is running high and a
force of men are out protecting the
levee adjoining the town.
SAN BERNARDNo, Jan. 31.- The heav-
lest rain of the season fell yesterday and
last night. No damage.
CoLToN, Jan. 81 The rain last night
washed out the motor bridge between
Cotton and San Bernardino. The dam
and head gates of the Riverside Water
company were taken out by the high
water, into the Santa Ana river. The
damage is $1,000.
REDoNDo, Jan. 31.-Rail communica-
ton between Santa Monica and Los
Angeles is suspended. The tracks of
the Southern Pacific and Southern Cali
fornia railways are washed out. Re-
dondo has not suffered. Both the
Southern California and Redondo Rail-
way compenies' lines remain intact.
The storm has abated and the weather
is clearing.
SANTA MONICA, CAL, Jan. 31.-Seven
inches of rain fell for this storm and it
is still raining very hard. Both railroads
are washed out, cutting off all railway
communication with the outside world.
This has been the heaviest storm for
wears.
The herald., 1893-02-01
MOST pAR1Ne ROBBERY.
Diamond Thieves DO "a Neat Job in 8
rameutO.

Diamond Thieves DO ~ Neat Job in Sac
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 3l.--At 6 :45 this
evening the boldest robbery committed
here in many years was perpetrated on
] street, near Third. At that hour a
clerk in H. Wachhorst's jewelry store
heard one of the plate glass windows
crash, and on looking up saw q man in
the door covering him with pistol. At
the same instant he saw another man
reach into the show window and
grab three trays of fine diamonds, when
both men dashed off up the street. The
proprietor of the store was at supper up
stairs, and the clerk dared not leave the
window exposed, as it continued many
thousands of dollars worth OF diamonds,
watches, etc. Max Ginsberg, across the
street, saw the window broken and ran
into the street shouting, "stop thief"
as the men ran toward Fourth.
One of the men turned and
took shot at Grinsberg, barely
missing him. The men ran around the
corner and 100 feet more brought them
to dark alley in the rear of Chinatown
into which they ran. They both wore
false boards and it would be difficult to
identify them. The diamonds stolen
are valued at about $4,000 to 10000, be-
ing the largest and finest in the store.
One ring is valued at $500.
The herald., 1893-02-01
NORTHWEST COLD WAVE
FRIGID WEATHER ALONG THE
CANADIAN BORDER.
A HowlIng Blizzard Raging in Mime
sofa and North Dakota-Cold-
est Weather Ever Known
in Montana.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 31.-A blizzard
ragged all over the northwest last night
and today and is still at it. A driving
snow storm broke over St. Paul during
the morning; the wind blew at the rate
of 20 miles per hour, driving clouds of
snow before it. Reports from the north
west are meagre at the weather bureau,
owing to the prostration of wires. Those
received show some peculiar freaks OF
weather. At 8 O'Clock this
morning at Helena it was
4S below zero, while at Missoula, lit
tie over 100 miles north, it was 10 de-
grees above. At the former place there
was high wind from the west. Mis-
soula was simultaneously catching a
small hurricane from the east. All
through Montana, with the exception OF
this one point, the cold was intense.
In Portland it was % degrees above and
in st. Paul Is; in Duluth it was 6
below; Winnipeg. 10, and in
jamestown g.; while at Fergus
Falls, Grant Forks and Fargo it was
fully 20 degrees warmer, with high
wind from different point in each of
the six places. The snowfall in the
northwest was not enough to cause seri-
GUS delays, but the high winds caused
drifts and they made through trains
from three to four hours late. This
evening the storm is more severe in the
Dakotas and Minnesota, and the tenn
perature is already dropping bSlow
zero.
Later reports from many points in
the northwest state that the blizzard is
general and very severe. Allendale, N.
D., reports a Bevere change. at s
O'Clock this morning it was ~ above,
and this evening it was 25 below.
Schools are being closed and business
is at standstill. A terrific blizzard is
raging. 1t is 20 below at Huron, s. D.,
tonight, with 65-mile gale. Water
town, S. D., reports trains abandoned
because of the storm.
HELENA, Mont, Jan. 31.-This state
is now in the throes of the coldest wave
experienced in aeven years. Within
four days 16 inches of snow has fallen.
Stockmen are uneasy. It was 80 degrees
below zero here last evening; at Great
Falls, SO below; at Glasgow, in the
northern part of the state, 40 below.
PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 31.-The snow.
storm ceased in the northwest last
night and the weather turned cold. The
severest fall was in the Puget sound
country, where depth of Is to q
inches was reached. At Spokane the
thermometer is 12 below zero tonight
in this city it is IA above.
The herald., 1893-02-01
FREMONT WAS A RIDER.
He Made Eight Hundred Miles In Six
Days.


He Made Eight Hundred Miles in Six
Days.
John G. Fremont, the pathfinder, dur
ing his occupation OF California, accom-
plished one of the most remarkable
rides of which there is any authentic
record. He rode from Los Angeles to
Monterey and back in eight days, which
included stay of "a hours at Monterey,
nearly two half days at San Luis Obispo
and stops for sleep and meals. He
computed the distance at 800 miles.
Much OF the route was through mount
ainous country, with only trail for a
guide. There was one defile (El Rincon)
Is miles long between a precipitous
mountain and the sea. 1t could only be
passed when the tide was out and the
ocean calm, and in many places the
riders had to ford deep water. Fremont
was accompanied by friend, Don Jesus
Pico of San Luis Obispo. and servant
named Jacob Dodson. They took nine
horses, driving the loose ones before
them and lassoing them when needed
for change.
They left Los Angeles at day break OF
March %, 1S47, and on gallop rode 125
miles to the ranch of Don Thomas Rob.
berries beyond Santa Barbara, passing
San Fernando mountain and Ell Rincon.
The only fatigue complained of was by
the boy Dodson, whose right arm was
tired by throwing the lasso and by
using it as a whip to keep the loose
horses in the trail.
On the second day the party rode an
other 125 miles, passing the formidable
49, II - -. 1,
saw the whitened skeletons of 80 horses
that had perished during the passage of
Fremont's California battalion in
three months before. They supped
reached San Luis Obispo at 8 p. m.
The inhabitants insisted on q public re-
ception to Fremont, and he lost most
of the following forenoon in conse-
quence. Here the riders took eight
fresh horses.
On the third day they made 70 miles
up to p. M, when they left the trail
for side cafion to sleep. Early in the
morning they were awakened by stam-
pede of the horses, which had been
frightened by bears, and they were off
at daylight. They reached Monterey in
the afternoon, having covered 80 miles
that day.
The party started back the following
afternoon, making 80 miles before night
overlook them, and 120 miles the next
day took them to San Luis Obispo, where
the relatives and friends of Don Jesus
insisted on another demonstration.
Here they took their original nine horses
and rode the remainder of the distance
in two days.
The animals used for this trip were
California horses, which wore no shoes
and fed on the grass found along the
way, the only grain fed them being bar
ley at Monterey. Don Jesus, who had
presented Fremont with two native
animals at San Luis Obispo, asked
him to make test of their
endurance. The pathfinder rode the
older of the two for the first 120 miles
of the return trip, and he was Of the
opinion that the noble brute would have
carried him the remaining 80 miles into
San Luis Obispo, if he had made the
attempt.
The herald., 1893-02-01
BANKER HELLMANs START.
How He Earned the First OF His Many
Dollars.

How He Earned the First OF His Many
Dollars.
There are self-made millionaires in
San Francisco.s4I I. W. Hellman, presi-
dent of the Nevada bank, has a con-
spicuous place, says the San Francisco
Examiner.
He told about the making of his first
dollar day or two ago in his handsome
Office, and it was an interesting story.
"I had come over poor boy from
Germany" said the millionaire, land
went to Los Angeles. where 1 had a
cousin then living. got job in q
store to sweep out and act in a capacity
OF general utility. was engaged at the
rate of $25 month and board, or about
95 cents day.
"Never shall I forget the first few
jingling coins that were paid me. The
exultant feeling of independence and the
satisfaction that was doing 80 well put
and kept me in good humor. That to
me was handsome compensation. 1t
was great deal more than boy OF my
age-16 years old-could get at my old
home beyond the ocean. let the money
accumulate till had 5000, and then I
bought an acre of ground with it..
"That acre have today, and my Los
Angeles residence is on it. 1t is just
diagonally across from the Westminster
hotel, near the postoffice, and since then
have been offered, instead of the 5000
originally paid, 100000. I worked
three years for my employer, and during
that time in addition to saving money
right along from my salary paid So q
month and attended night school.
cat the end of the three years had
sand enough to start in small way in a
store OF my own. l stuck to this till
1868, when 1 went into banking. Our
bank was the first one incorporated in
California south of San Francisco. 1t is
about 80 years since I acquired my first
dollar. Its acquisition has afforded me
more satisfaction than any of the sums
acquired since, no matter how large.
II encourage my children, even the
little ones of or 6 years, to save their
pennies, and whenever they got q little
money have opened accounts for them
at the savings banks. The first dollar
is good one to invest properly, and
when it is go invested causes much
pleasure. 1t is good, however, to have
liberality 60 with business discretion.
'No period of my life has been 90
gratifying to me in a financial way as
when was sweeping the store for the
first dollar / ever had, attending the
night school and casting about to see
what 1 should do, not only with the
original dollar, but those which came
along after it at that time"
The herald., 1893-02-01
BLOOD ON THE MOON IN KANSAS
A New Phase of the Legisla-
tive Situation.
Republican Members Arm to Prevent
Ejectment.
The Populists Bent on Breaking Up the
Republican House-Blood May
BE Spilled IL it Is
Attempted.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 81. - Speaker
Dunsmere of the Populist house last
night sent letter to Speaker Douglass
of the Republican house, informing him
that the Republicans had no longer any
excuse for staying outside the fold as
they were doing, and saying they had
better stop it. Their furtbeir refusal to
recognize the Populist house, he said,
would confirm him in the belief that the
railroads are sustaining the Republican
house and paying the expenses in the
hope OF preventing the enactment of
railway legislation, to which the Popu-
lists stand committed.
Speaker Douglass this afternoon laid
this communication before the Republi-
can house, together with his reply, in
which he indignantly repelled the
charges made, and suggests as the best
mode of settlement that both sides make
up case for the highest court at once.
The Populists have not vet replied.
Late tonight the Republicans are
wrought up to high state of excite
ment by rumor that the Populists will
attempt tomorrow to remove them from
the hall by force. Each Republican has
provided himself with revolver, and
says he will use it under certain cir
cumstances. II the governor orders out
the militia to remove them, they will
not resist their authority, but if the
sergeant-at-arms of the Populist house,
with his numerous deputies, tries it,
they will offer arme1 resistance.
The herald., 1893-02-01
The TROUBLES Of Bus Conductors.

An old lady hailed passing omnibus,
which pulled up at her call. "Goodby,
then, my DEAR" said she to female friend
who had accompanied her. "I'll write and
tell you how get on directly I've got
there. You've got my address, haven't
your Nos Why, thought l gave it to
you. It's In this bag, suppose, under
my pocket handkerchief and my key and
packet of sandwiches. Oh, I'll come to it
directly I'd better give 1t to you now.
else when write l may forget to send
it. That's not it, is itf No, that's the
prescription There-there you arel And
you won't forget to writer If you
see Mrs. Brown you must remem-
Der me kindly. She's a sweet woman,
isn't shea And to think she should be
married to such brutel But that's the
way OF the world all over. It's just like
my poor dear sister Maria. She was az
meek as a lamb-never did bad thing OF
said bad word kpf an yRody that ever
heard Of Drat that conductors impu-
denceI II he hasn't gone againl Now
shall have to wait for the next. .'-London
Tit-Bitss
The herald., 1893-02-01

vital importance. Indeed it would seem
that nature has established that group
IL be ultimately occupied as an outpost,
% it were, OF the great republic on ITS
western border, and that the time mas
now come for the fulfllment OF such de-
sign. The group now seeks annexation
TO the United States. The consumms-
tion OF such wish would inure to the
benefit of both peoples, comm erciaily
"Annex the islands and institute
them as territory, and reciprocal trade
will double within 20 years. Let the
'islanders feel that they are once and
forever under the folds of the American
flac a. a part and parcel of the great re-
public. and q new development will at
once take place in the group that will
,surprise its people and the world.
sfNot to take the fruit within our
fprssp and annex the group now begging
"a to take it would be folly in
deed-a mistake Of the gravest nature.
both for the statesmen of today and
for men among us of high commercial
views and great enterprises. Let the
British once get its paw on the group
and Honolulu would soon become one
OF the most important strongholds OF
EGreat Britain's power. Great Britain
Twill undoubtedly propose joint ar
rangement for the government OF the
islands, but we want none Of that-no
entanglirg alliances. We have had
enough of that business at Samoa. We
want no joint protectorate; no joint oc-
Icupation there by any European power;
no Pacific Egypt. We need the group
as a part and parcel of the United
States, and should take what is offered
sus, even at the hazard Of war;"
The herald., 1893-02-01
ENGLAND's ACTION.
NO Ships Ordered to Honolulu and No
Protest Filed.

No ships Ordered to Honolulu and No
Protest Filed.
LONDON, Jan. 31.-The officials at ad-
miralty deny that British war ship has
!been ordered to proceed to Hawaii from
The corvette Garnet, Is guns,
Ileft Acapulco, Mexico. January z for
Honolulu. She had orders to proceed
from Honolulu to Esquimault. These
Iorders have been countermanded and
sent the commander to re-
smain at Honolulu until the trouble there
is settled.
It is learned on excellent authority
that the British government has not in
etructed the British minister to the
United States, Pauncefote, to protest
against American interference in Hawaii,
as Great Britain does not expect the
United States to take any step to which
Great Britain is likely to object.
The Daily Chronicle says in a leader
concerning the Hawaiian revolution !:
s'There are symptoms of plot OF Amer
ican traders in Honolulu, and it will
fail. It is evident that the natives were
awed into submission by American
marines, therefore it will be less an act
of protection than one of piracy for
America to extend her sway over Ha-
Waii.n
The herald., 1893-02-01
Nothing New Under the SUN

81 am beginning to believe that there
is absolutely nothing new under the sun,
but that every thought is a revival or an
imitation or q downright plagiarism of
some one which preceded it years and
years ago." said Calvin S. Southwood as
he warmed his feet against heater in
the rotunda Of the Lindell. "Even
the inventions that appear so brand new
may have existed or their possibility
been suggested away back before the
dawn of history. At any rate this is evil
IDENTIFY true in the realms of literature.
In this line, ifin nothing else, history re-
peats itself and the world runs in cycles.
attended church Sunday-fact, l assure
you--and heard distinguished gentle
man use metaphor as his own which
at once recognized as used once by Oliver
Wendell Holmes, and which in different
form I once ran across in an old book
containing the Canterbury Tales. Yes
terday read in a magazine an article
by writer of national reputation, who
used as his own the expression, Pride
that dimes ON vanity, sups on contempt
"This expression was evidently taken
bodily from the Poor Richards Alma
nae of Benjamin Franklin, and this dis
tinguished philosopher 1 feel sure bor-
rowed it either consciously OF uncon-
sciously from an old German book full
of folklore. Many of these old thoughts
in more recent writer's are unconsciously
reproduced, and in their new dress can
hardly be recognized. "A guilty con-
science needs no accuser' may easily be
recognized in Hamlet's soliloquy. Thus
conscisnce does make towards of us ALL
but 1t appeared far back of that, in the
sacred pages, The wicked flee when no
man pursueth, and no doubt in other
shapes ages before that. No, there's
nothing new under the sun."-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
The herald., 1893-02-01
Endorsed for Office.

I nice looking old gentleman with .
forid complexion approached the ap-
pointment clerk Of the treasury one day
with an application for place, Endorsed
by some letters of recommendation
When the official asked him question
he said: "Please write it down. am SO
deaf that could not hear sound if a
cannon were fred off close to my ear"
General McCauley thought that this
was rather disadvantage for an appli-
can't for employment as clerk, but he
asked the stranger to write his name and
address. The old gentleman shook his
head. "It is impossible" he said. Il
cannot write at all, because my hand is
palsied. Washington Cor. New York
Sun
The herald., 1893-02-01
More Potato.

Renan had great contempt for mere
words, however eloquent. One evening
he met at q sort Of literary dinner M.
Caro-, the philosopher beloved of fine la
dies, who set himself to prove the exist
ence of God. His eloquent assertions did
not seem to interest the sage. In the
middle of one Of his most sonorous pe-
RODS M. Renan attempted to make him
self heard.
But all the ladies were intensely in
terested. They would not have their
pleasure spoiled.
"In moment, M. Renan, we will
listen to you in your turn"
He bowed submissively.
Toward the end of dinner M. Caro-,
out OF breath, stopped with rhetorical
emphasis. AT once every one turned to-
ward the illustrious scholar, hoping that
he would enter the lists, and the hostess,
with an encouraging smile, said;
"Now, NJ. Renan"--
II am afraid, dear lady, that I am now
little behindhand."
"No, mol"
81 wanted to ask for little more po-
tato. ."-Fortnightly Review.
The herald., 1893-02-01
How Typewriters Differ.

The quality of uniformityis is one in which
good typewrters may differ greatly. Some
strike harder with the right hand than
with the left, and thus stamp their work
indeibly. Others occasionally shadow
letters-that is, blur their outlines, by
holding the key down too long or by strik-
ing it sideways. Perhaps the idiosyncra-
sizes of punctuation are the most trust
worthy earmarks of all. The force of
habit impels operators never to vary from
their own practice in given eases. Take
the sentence, when did you go there
MondayS" One man would put question
mark after "there;" another a comma;
still another dash or a semicolon. 4
comma and dash, semicolon and dash
might also be used. A skilled man always
follows his own usage in such cases.-New
York Tribune,
The herald., 1893-02-01
PNEUMATIC GUNS.

The Destroyers of the vesuvtus Work
Satisfactorily.
PoRr ROYAL, S. O., Jan. 31.-The Of
ficial trials of the pneumatic guns of the
dynamite cruiser Vesuvius began this
morning. :. In all IL shots were
fired, six at range of
1000 yards and six at 1900
yards, three guns being fired in success
sion. With the exception OF the first
two shots fred from the starboard gun,
no shot fell more than 20 yards distant
from the required range. and every shot
fred would have struck man-of-war at
the distance designated by the board.
There was no difficulty in working the
air guns, nor in supplying air to the
reservoirs, nor controlling the shell by
wind vanes.