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The state chronicle., 1893-05-16

Train on the SCOTLAND Neck Branch Road
leaves Weldon 40 y. m.; Halifax sOJ In.,
srrfve Scotland Seck at :8S . NJ, Green yille
:2S o. m. Kinston 80 IN. Returning leaves
Kinston 10 a. M, Greenville "a O. M, arrlv
ing Haitian at IL :0O II. Weldon IL 20 A. rr
daily except Sunday.
Trains On Washington Branch leave Wash
ington 90 q. m, arrives Psrnele % a m.
Tarboro 3 80; returning leaves Tarboro 80 D
M, Parmele % p. M. arrives Wash lngtgn Z 20
p m. Daily except Sunday. Connects with
trains on Scotland Secl Branch
Trains leave Tarboro. ". c., via Albem arle
and Raleigh II. 4. daily, except Sunday AZ s %
p. M, Sunday 90 p. m; arrives Plymouth -
2. D., 20 p. m. Returning leaves Plymouth
a m.. arrive Tarboro 10 % a. m. and "a - p. m.
Train on Midland y. q. Branch leaves GDlds-
bOry daily. except Sunday. " a m. arriving
Smithfeld 30 a. m Returning leaves Smitnaeld
% a. m. arrive at GoldsborO 9 20 a IN.
JOHN r. DIVINE
Gen'l Supi
I. M: EMERsos, J. Il. KRNLY
TrAuc Manager. Genl Ar.
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Rain on st. swithin's Day.
From the London Daily News.

The old superstition about St. Swithin
and the rain has very generally died out.
There are still, however, good many
who incline to the belief that such a no
tion must have had a basis Of scientific
fact, or 1t could not have obtained as it has
done for centuries. Some years ago the
records of Greenwich observatory were
examined for twenty years with a view to
ascertaining whether as a matter of fact
a rainy July - is usually followed by a
rainy period approximate for forty days.
II was found that the years in which St
Swithin's day had given no rain were
rather wetter during the following forty
days than other years. II was concluded
that the tradition had no meteorological
facts whatever TO support IT, Everybody
has heard the old story about the removal
OF ST Swithin's bones on July Is, and of
the manner In which the saint resented it
by deluging the district It is a curious
fact. but well authenticated, that the
good mans bones were shifted from their
original resting-place in circumstances Of
considerable pomp and splendor, and
without a drop of rain falling The origin
of the superstition was probably terrible
food which in 1913 devastated crops.
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AT GARFIELD BEACH.
Mormon Ladies Bathing In the Salt
Lake.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.


From the Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
Salt Lake City, Aug. 6-Of course you
know that this island sea is salty, but are
you aware that it is seven times saltier
than the ocean2 Why, over one-fifth of
the fluid is salt in ISOLATION. II doesn't
look it, No water was ever brighter In
its blues and greens, or more pellucid to
look into. But you find out there's some
thing peculiar about 1t when you 20 into
it, You float here like cork Eighteen
miles out of Salt Lake is Garfield Beach
and residents and travellers alike go there
to float; you can't call 1t swimming The
girls and women make the spectacle.
Here, as elsewhere, men don't count for
much when 1t comes to slghtlness. At
Garfield Beach yesterday | saw hundreds
of my sex afiOat, The more stylish of the
girls wore iaunty blue costumes, usually
sleeveless, the skirt reaching TO the knees,
and blue stockings. A few did without
hosiery and barred their pedal extremities
from calf to toe. Now, when you go into
the surf at Newport or Long Branch the
submerged part of you is invisible. The
spectator gets view of your full length
only when you are out on the sand.
At Garfield beach it is different. The
water is clear as crystal, and the floating
girls are quite as much in evidence as
buOuBH GllC4 WGGC professional WAFER
queens in an Illuminated tank The
shallow water, underlaid by sand, is
as clear as crystal. There is no surf TO
toss and tumble it into foam. Not so
much as a bubble on the surface obscures
the t1oaters.
They lie lazily on their backs, sides, or
fronts, as though reclining in water ham
mocks. Not the slightest motion is re
quisite to keep from sinking. They can't
sink if they try. All they have to do is
to keep their heads up so as not to get
the water in their mouths, for it is
strangling with It's salt, though very
agreeable to the skin. So you see them
couched in water, lolling luxuriously,
chatting with their companions, pad
ding slowly about, and occasionally sky
larking,
But indolent enjoyment seems to be the
desire of these Salt Lake bathers, and
nothing more utterly abandoned TO pleas
urable inertia can be imagined than yes
terday's scene at Garfield Beach. don't
mean to say that the girls went so far as
to forget themselves in their watery
siesta There was plenty of very careful
carelessness in the poses of the prettier
ones. The common, thoughtless attitude
was comic. 1t consisted of lying on the
back with the head well out of water and
the feet nearly so, while the hips sunk
lower. Thus, as you can easily compre-
bend, the woman was in a half-seated
posture, except that her legs were higher
than her middle. 1t was never graceful.
The hands and arms are used for pad
ding. No kicking is necessary.
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to find how great a man in that gay
capitll their fellow citizen Howells is AS
to Bourget he would have visited New
York last spring had his wifes health
permitted. He declares that he means to
make a study OF life here in order to in
troduce New York scene into his next
book
1T is a pleasure TO have Monsieur Bour-
get among us, am sure, !" declared Chau-
ncey NJ. Depew the other day. DO
YOU know that a city is never so well ad-
yertised as when it is made the scene of
good and popular Dovell Why is so much
romance and interest connected with the
very name of Paris1 Because a galaxy of
literary stars. Hugo, Dumas, Daudet,
About, Bourget and others, have shed
luster upon it in their many books that
millions read. Those readers long to see
the city that is the scene Of 50 many cpl
sodes, even though fictitious. If a
number of great writers were to make
Camden, N. j., for instance the scene Of
nowerful and well sold books, there would
be general move Camdenward on the
part of the travelling public. So say, if
it be true that BOurget means TO write a
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WotAlngmen say Ju~ 4v CITY is
porting to inf1ict its poverty-stricken ele-
ment upon the rest of the country by
working up lot of thoughtless sympa-
tLaly Tor its idle vagabonds and having
Cnenl sent away from her at the general
expense. There has certainly been a
great deal of free railroad riding away
from Chicago by dubious characters
ana Chicago has not even paid for the
transportation II would be as well for
asl VINO wish to subscribe to funds in aid
u Jhe unemployed to remember that one
GlDy mas no right to relieve itself of the
other 'l-
~ Half these fellows who are coming to
NNeWt ork free never lived here" said a
tCouVral Labor union carpenter delegate
" me- II am surprised at the way New
Ga give their money to help out
S"eIS when we never can get a cent. I'm
nol saying word against helping honest
, ,,lgu out OF job, but ! know that the
none, ,LoIeF sent west from here is used simply
p d. ,uiunp the unemployed into New York.
n ,puI we We got unemployed enough, as the
parade will show.
NEW YORK CoLLEGIANs IN UNIFORM.
NJ "Q of the brightest college men in
~" ork are now Columbian guards at
Wy c worlds fair, and many promising
SVs4lE Me- qf.a dofncr 1I1tHr II, the
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A Snake That Climbs Glass Walls.
From the London Pail Mall Gazette.

In the Natural History Museum at Pa
ris there is a snake that climbs up the
polished glass walls of it's cage The pro
cess is described as follows, and IS
vouched for by NJ Leon Valiant, pro
fesseur d'erpetologie." The snake, which
is 30 en-. long, first raises its head some
way against the glass, and proceeds to
disgorge from salivary and lachrymal
glands an adhesive viscous fluid, by the
aid of which il succeeds in drawing its
whole body up the cage A curious fact
is that the end of the tail is kept tightly
curled, so as to afford a broader and more
substantial base Of operations This
phenomenon seems to dispose of the ques-
tion whether snakes are able, asrepOrted,
to climb up walls and penetrate the cell
ings Of houses, -
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Of guards is libClous. We try our best 10
be useful and obliging Every person
who asks for information gets il from us.
We kept a constant lookout for lost
children, and, thanks TO us, pickpockets
and thieves have no chance on the grounds.
Then there are frequent disputes among
exhibitors and their employees. One
thinks another rs encroaching on forbid
den territory. Arguments and disputes
follow, and when the Columbian guard
tries TO preserve order all hands 90 TO the
commissioner of their respective nations
and there is the deuce to pay.
Il am impressed by the great number
of New Workers who come here II
seems that the east is immensely inter-
ested in the fair. I believe the New
Workers who have exhibited will make no
end of money, Judging from sales up to
date. | intend TO speak upon my exper-
fences as COlum bian guard when I
graduate FROM college this winter, and l
know of nearly hundred other fellows
belonging to colleges all over the country
who mean to do the same thing They'll
all have something worth telling"
VICE PRESIDENTIAL POETRY.
Adlai Stevenson's senatorial classicali-
ties III this extra session delight one of
the best known educators in New York,
who has collection of students exami-
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and may have
sprung from the
T n ma n S
great admiration
for Howells' work
expressed again
nd again in
French newspa-
pers. 1t sh0Jll
b G remembered
that in France lit
erary events are
as important as
political on G 5 O..
Nothing surprises
New Workers in
paris more than
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di ;UIuas last week, land l hope it is not
fbsttIay OF local pride on my part to say
ma Ihe directors like the New York
Eron,.1o eSt, Tor they are used to crowds and
coII, m human nature pretty well. OF
WIS, wise the New Workers. will all go home
ro ,ael The fair closes. 1 haven't met
I,-a' among them who would consent to
.,,rl p'e.rlnanently in Chicago
MS talk about insolence on the part
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ter. let them an do Il. Dumas, Nola
Mendes and the rest couldn't have a bet
ter field TO work ia than New York, And
think Of how il would fll up the hotels
and help along the sale Of souvenirs 10
novel readers from all over the world"
DAVID WRCHsIFR
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nate Canadians in
New York, but the
probabilities are
that he will not.
Mr.. Wiman could
have received this
hoRora few years
ago, but did not
wish It, and is
certainly not seek
ing any such dis
tinction now. Al
though a British
subject, Mr.. Wi
man is practically
a New Yorker, but
since his colossal
fprtr1ppvUpe ovuapf
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exposition army.
1t will be seen by
i who pay at
lention TO the mat
ter that these
guards are nearly
all fine looking,
intelligent n n d
well-educated fell
lows, never at a
loss to direct visi-
tors, or act to in
an emergency.
Lots of US are
'om New York, "
.idone of them to
me as l W en- t
4 hroup tn "a
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lege, Danville, KY, =. 81.
and is q fight into Virgin
ian versidcation, Mr.. Stevenson
declares, with creditable degree of
classical elegance, that he would like to
be star. mot such star as, blazing
angrily in the southern sky, is at once en-
blem of warfare and unrest" but "a
clear, cold beamer, giving to men portent
of happy days and content" The little
poem winds up with a couplet in latin
that has no English translation appended
but OF which the purport is: when
peace takes up her abode in the republic
the shepherd guards his flock on the
mountain side and fears not the alarm of
the foe"
The Greek compositions are not so
complex, indicating that Adlai's ac-
quaintance with the tongue of Euripides
was Indifferent. The writer contents
himself with informing US that "Balbus
is building a wall, " that ''it is the priv
lege of wisdom to speak and of folly to
hsten," and ''How sweet it is to die for
our country!n
'All these were written in the eafIy
tifties,' said the pOssessor of the papers
to me, land you can see that young Ste
VensOn was even then quite a classical
scholar They were given to me some
years ago by the widow of the Vice Pres
ident's former professor, not as souvenirs
of Mr.. Stevenson, then almost unknown
to fame, but as relics of old Centre Col
lege, which was deemed one of the most
excellent institutions of its time down
south"
A POSSIBLE NEW YORK KNIGHT
Erastus Wiman may or may not be
about to be knighted, as reported, by the
Queen of England in recognition Of ser
vices rendeC11 by him to MANY unfOrtu-
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Iator W. B. Allen, the populist whom

Nebraska has re-
Gently sent to the
upperhouse of con-
gress, thus spoke
of the metropolis
to me the other
day.
as this the pop
ulist view of it,
Senator :"
1t is the west
crn view. In our
part of the cOun-
try we think the
east too domlneer-
ing. The cOnse-
Quence is that the
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4llH ultu say Jne Ia
Dor market is de-
moralized enough
without h wing
thousands of men
from the Worlds
Fair City to make
matters worse.
When the Central
Labor Unionheard
of the plan by
which Chicago
proposes to dump
its trem en- dous
supply OF surplus
laborers in New
York there was
con sternation
Some intelljUen
Vvry...T.s
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nation papers,
among which are
many Latin and
Greek poems and
compositions by
ourVice President
They were writ
ten during his
salad days and are
accompanied by
English transla.
tiOns in Mr.. Stev-
enson'sown youth
full hand. One O.
the pap ers sc
forth that it is
the production Of
"Adlai Ewing S."
of Center Col
H.. I'M
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THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
What POpuliStS Think Of The Great
City Of New York.

gov workingmen Are Injured-The
KniRhting of a New Yorker-A Fa-
nous Frenchman to Visit Us.
New YORK, Aug. 1s.-'New York has
ceased TO be an American city. 1t is not
N sympathy with the rest of the coun-
senator w B. Allen, the populist whom
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away he has ceased to be the liking of Sta
ten Island" He works hard in his Broad
way Office trying to straighten out his
affairs, and Is succeeding. Mr.. Wiman
has received a f1attering offer to write a
book of advice to young men who wish to
make their way in metropolitan centers,
and he told me he would proba bly, put
such a volume through the press. Mr..
Wiman came to New York himself purely
as the result of chance One night, while
working away in the office of a mercan-
tile agency in canadian town, two
strangers appeared. They were from the
United States, and wished to make pur-
chases of farm products, but their ignor-
ance of the Canadians put them to all
sorts of inconvenience. Young Wiman
piloted them about, and the unfailing
courtesy and good humor that character
ize him, produced such an impression
that one of the Americans said:
young man, think you'd get along in
the States. "
Wiman had never thought of such a
thing, but the upshot of it all was that he
came to New York and carved out one of
the most brilliant and interesting careers
that ever had this metropolis for back
ground Now that misfortune has come
matters are not so bright, but it begins to
look as if he might pull through. There
is one thing that secures many friends
for Mr.. Wiman. His money was never
made out the misfOrtunes of anybody
else, and many former debtors of his owe
their present prosperity to the indulgence
and patience of Erastus Wiman's dispo-
sitton.
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PAUL BOURGET HERE.

William D. Howells is glad that cele-
brated French author, Paul Bourget,
has come to New York. The i'm impress
sion, however, that these two men
are warm friends is hardly we'll founded
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One reason for the projected street
procession here of men out of work is
dread of the influx into New York of
Chicago's unemployed. New York work
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Erastus Wiman may or may not be
about to be knighted, as reported, by the
Queen of England in recognition of ser
vices rendeC2i BY him to MANY nnfortn-
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FLOPIDATRUNK LINE SHoRT Z
GOING SOUTH READ DOWN
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J. TIME GARD NEFFECrJULYs. is8'
HnINa NnRTH- REAn Up
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-05-05
AXES UNOeR HEIR COATS.


San Francisco Police Garry Them to
Smash the Doors of Fan-Tan Dens.
The policemen's sledge hammers and
axes have recently been busy in China
town among the fan-tan gambling
houses, and the Chinese gamblers are in
a state of decentralization, says the San
Francisco Examiner. Nothing remains
of twenty gambling dens but a vast
wreck of doors and furniture Inside
the Mongolians sit most of the time in
gloomy silence, contemplating the
wrechage about them and occasionally
heaping all imaginable anathemas upon
the head of Chief Crowley and his men.
This onslaught of the officers has
caused CONSERVATION throughout the
Chinese quarters and what may come of
it is considered a grave question. The
Chinese hint darlzly at revenge, but on
whom or how it can be wrealxed is
not mentioned. Sergt. Gillin and his
squad have made kindling wood of
gambling tables and apparatus and
have chopped down dozens of massive
iron-bolted oak and Australian iron
wood doors. At present they carry
axes under their coats, always ready
for an emergency in case they should
find fan-tan doors closed against them.
But there is not gamc in operation,
according to reports. A tour of inspec-
ton through the gambling alleys and
houses of Chinatown will yield sur
prises, and the strange sights and cum
ming devices met at every turn are in
teresting. Side doors and trap doors,
passages and halls interminable make
the strongest impression, but the po-
hceman's work of destruction is too
striking reality to be missed. The
doors, although constructed of double
planking studded with bolts have been
hewn in parts or torn from their fasten-
ings by crowbars. All that remains of
the interior furnishings are piles of
broken lumber on the floor. Before
gaining an entrance into many places
the police had to cut through three of
these barricades. There was never be-
fore such a condition of affairs in the
Chinese quarters are now. The Chinese
who conduct these games live and sleep
in back rooms that open on passages
leading to the gambling rooms. AS the
policemen will cut down any door
locked against them in the approaches.
all gambling places must be left open
at night as well as by day, and the re-
suit is clocks and other portable arti-
cles have been stolen. The Chinese,
however, are now keeping watchmen
on the doors all night long, not as look
outs, but to protect the property.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-05-05

A rumor reached this Office last week
that an attempt had been made to poison
VIM. Gibson, who lives in the German
\Butte neighborhood, on the John Day
river. Mr.. Gibson lives alone and does
bis own cooking, and before going out
for the day he prepared some dough so
as to have it ready for baking in the
evening on his return. The same even
ing when he came home he commenced
preparations for supper, but not liking
the appearance of the dough, he threw
it outdoors, and prepared some fresh
dough. Shortly afterwards dog which
ate some of the dough that had been
thrown out died from the effects of it,
and several mice and rats also died after
partaking of the dough. It is therefore
surmised that there must have been
poison in the dough, but how it came
there unless by criminal means, has not
yet been made clear. This is very
serious matter and it is to be hoped that
more light will be thrown upon it,
Moro Observer.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-05-05

A band of poisoners is believed to be
$t work on the railways in the North
west Provinces, says a Bombay paper.
There have been during the past few
months a large number of deaths in
carriages among the native third-class
passengers travelling on the East Indian
railway. The bodies are handed over
by the railway authorities to the police;
who dispose of them as expeditiously as
possible. In most cases there is little or
no property found on the bodies, not
even railway tickets, and generally
they are found in an empty carriage.
These facts do not appear to have
awakened the suspicious of the police,
or perhaps they have recognized their
Incompetence to.prevent or detect such
primes AS, however, the native passen-
gers contribute over ninety per cent. of
coaching receipts, it is high time some
efforts were made to afford them pro-
lection for their life and property.
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Fiske Wins.

The board of examiners for the West
Point cadetship composed of Hon. w.
R. Ellis, member of congress-elect, Troy
Shelley, school superintendent, and H.
S. Wilson, attorney, finished their labors
at 10 o'clock this morning, resulting in
the selection of Harold B. Fiske, a son
of the late DR.. Fiske, who was a member
of the medical college at Salem. FIske
is 21 years of age.-~He was one of the
applicants for the cadetship three years
ago at Salem, and scored second in that
contest. His alternate is E. Neele
Johnston who is son of Col. w. II.
Johnston, formerly pay-master in the
U. S. army. Both young men are fine
scholars and very bright young men.
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The Fish Exhibit.

The closed salmon season has some
what delayed the work of preparing the
fish exhibit to be made by this state at
the worlds fair, but three carloads will
go forward within few days. Presi-
dent George T. Myers, of the Oregon
worlds fair commission, is hard atwork
on this exhibit, with the assistance of
Captain S. S. Douglas, the taxidermist,
who is preparing the exhibit of aquatic
animals. The collection includes a
monster fur bearing seal, weighing 1,500
pounds, which was caught at Tilla-
nook. There is also live crocodile
and hair seal. The preserved salmon
are the largest that could be secured in
the United States, being as long as three
feet and nine inches in diameter. There
will be about so or go salmon in ALL
Telegram.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-05-05
The Chinese Advised.


Telegram reporter in an interview
with Col. Weidler, collector of internal
revenue, asked.
.swhat is the circular of the Six Com
panies?''
''It is circular ordering them to
ignore the law entirely. A translation
of it is as follows:
From the Six Companies to our Chi
nese Brethren in Astoria: You are for
hidden to register with the white off,
cials, or to have anything to do with
them. Our imperial government is
watching this matter and protecting our
people. We have engaged Mr.. Riordan,
the San Francisco lawyer, and another
in San Francisco .one in Washington, the
United States capital, and one in New
York. May 9th four prominent Chi
nese brothers in New York are to be ar
rested by the government for not regis
tering, and their case will be tried
by one of the high courts in the country
May 18th. Our minister has asked the
president of the United States not to
arrest any other Cinnamon in this coun-
try because they do not register until
this case is tried. The American presi-
dent has graciously said: "Let this be
so." You will, therefore, not register
under the heaviest penalties if you dis
obey.