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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-30

was evidently smitten from the start. for
on the same day he made her present Of
the 10000 francs he won on the race.
After this he set up magnificent estsb-
ishment for her in Paris and likewise
gave her country residence. equipping
her servants in the livery of his own
household.
That Nettie will be able to grace such
career all who know her will concede, ana
little sketch of her record will be con-
vlncing that she is what's yulgarly known
as a "thOroughbred."
She WAS horn 90 or 80 years ago at
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-30

two years ago. when 1t was currently re-
ported at Newport that Mr.. Vanderbilt
had decided to leave America and reside
abroad and away from Mrs. Vanderbilt.
At that time friend of Mr.. Vanderbilt. in
explaining his determination, said Mrs.
Vanderbilt was too exacting and demanded
too much OF him, and ttAt he did not care
to create scandal if they could not agree.
How the matter was patched up l cannot
say. Colonel William Jay and Mrs. Jay
are depended upon by the Vanderbilt
family to make amicable arrangements.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-30
REACHED HIS POST.

Carpenter Takes Command of the
AsiatiC Squadron.
. WASHINGTON, Aug. ga dispatch
was received at the Navy Department to-
day from Commodore Carpenter at Naga-
sakt. Japan. announcing his arrival at that
port He has just taken command of the
Asiatic squadron, and sailed on the Mo-
nocscy from Nagasaki to Chemulpo to
Join the Baltimore, which will be his flag
Ship.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-30
IN THE TOLLS.
Vanderbilt and His
Millions.
CAUGHT BY A SIREN.
His Wife Leaves Him in
Anger.
ENDURED A GREAT DEAL.
But Nothing She Had Was Held
Sacred.
EVEN HER LvERIES TAKEN
To Please the Vanity of the Woman
Who Had Fascinated Her
Husband.

a great many men have fallen before
William K. Vanderbilt came down with a
moral crash, and great many men will
fall after he is gone. There is nothing so
very remarkable in the going astray of one
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-30
POACHERS III BERING.
1t Is Assumed That All Have Had
a Profitable Season.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29-Letters were
received to-day at the Treasury Depart
ment from Assistant Secretary Hamlin
ana Captain Hooper of the Rush. The
letters, which are dated at ST. Paul Island,
August s, stated that the Assistant Sec
retsry, who has been on a tour of inspec-
tiOn to the Pribyloff Islands, expected to
reach Port Townsend on the 5th of Sep
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-30

ployed in the mills are homeless. and as
the timber contiguous TO the town is
burned the place will never be rebuilt.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23
MRS. eApAaour.
A Woman whose Aim Is to Make Untims-
ly Calls.

ly Calls.
Mrs. Gadabout is type of woman
who hss little to do herself and
whose aim appears to be to prevent
Others from accomplishing any more.
Calls at unseemly hours are her pet
hobby. If sie can only catch room
or a person in confusion, then she is
happy, for it furnishes her with
racy topic Of conversation when she
visits other homes
In a country town she pretends
great friendship, and trading on this
intimacy, generally comes in at the
back door just at the time when a
strangers presence is least appreci-
ated. If cake is a failure, she is
sure to be on hand that day for tea;
if the kitchen is in particular con-
fusion, her face looms up in the door
way, and any family trouble that it
is the heartfelt desire to keep hidden
is sure to be pounced upon by her
during one of her ill-timed visits.
In country and city alike she sur
prises the wife in tears, the husband
in temper, and with poorly con
ceaIed delight endeavors to console
the one or the other, all the time
worming out of them words which
will sound very differently when re-
peated b. her at the next house
II anyone were to accuse her of be-
ing gossip. she would deny il most
emphatically. She is only anxious
for company, that is all. Hers is a
gregariouS nature, and if she happens
in at the wrong time it is her mis-
fortune rather than her intention.
But it is not misfortune at all; it
is her stock in trade. She is happy
when she stumbles on that other
side that is not generally shown, and
Just so long as idle women exist.
Just so long will her type flourish on
the revelations that come TO light in
those moments when one thinks the
doors are locked and hearts barred
against the invasion of strangers
philadelphia Times.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23
They Caught an octopus.

Two boys, Lester Edner and Leslie
Oliver, had highly exciting and des-
perate fight with large octopus or
devil-fish one afternoon lately near the
Point Pinos lighthouse. The boys had
gone to the lighthouse on an abalone
hunt. While busily engaged in look
ing for abslones Edner perceived
something among the sea moss which
appeared to be the tail of an eel. He
grabbed at it, but before he had barely
touched it, the large arm of an oeto-
pus shot out and entwined itself
around the boys arm, and pulled the
boy into the pool.
Before the octopus could get bet
ter hold, the boy succeeded, after a
great deal of hard fighting, in liber-
ating himself. By this time his COM
rade was at his side, and the two en-
deavored to take the large fellow alive !;
but, after futile attempts to get some
sacks around him, the monster scram-
bled over the rocks and made for the
sea.
The boys went back to examine the
cavity from which the octopus came.
They wanted to ascertain what the
devil-fish had been eating, and as soon
as the water was clear, saw at the bot
tom large abalone. They attempted
to draw it ont, but while fishing for
the shell they struck another huge oc-
topus, which became infuriated and
dangled his long snake-like arms right
and left in the air, and churned the
water for several feet around. The
boys we're frightened and retreated-
When it had quieted they wentat their
work of capturing very cautiously and
succeeded in landing the fish. They
brought il to Pacific Greya, where it
has excited much interest = San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23
Ploughs Drawn by Camels,

The experiment of camels drawing
ploughs has been tried in Southern
Russia with remarkable success, it is
said The bad harvest of the last two
years, together with the low prices of
grain, have forced Russian agricultur-
lists to look into the question of reduc-
ing expenses, and one great difficulty
being TO obtain animal power which
would cost less for feeding than horses
and yet be able to do the varying work
of farm, eamels have been introduced
upon an estate not far from Kieff. At
present eighteen camels are at work,
and their keep is found to cost much
less than that of horses, owing to oats
being dispensed with in their feeding.
The price runs between six and seven
pounds per head, inclusive of trans
port from the Government of Oren-
burg to kieff. II New York World.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23

''The oldest known poem, says the
paragrapher of the Chicago Herald,
sis the Song of Miriam. He does
not say what careless preacher told
him so, but he certainly did not get it
from an examination of the Bible.
Old Lamech, who lived before the
food, sang "Ada and Zillah, Hear My
Voice." etc, which passage learned
theological professors are accustomed
to point out to their students as the
first and very perfect specimen OF
regular Hebrew poetry and st, Peter
quotes "Enoch, the Seventh from
Adam, as passage of sublime poetic
beauty, which, if we had it in its ori-
ginal Hebrew, would unquestionably
be found to have regular poetic con
struction. These things the Chicago
man might have found if he had
looked into his Bible. Max Muller,
too, could have told him that the
Sacred Vedas of India, which are all
poem, are probably much older than
Miriam's time. Poetry is not at all a
modern form of composition. II New
Orleans Picayune.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23

81 won't stir a step until you answer
mel"
What shall l say?" hesitated Paul
inc
"5ay yes!'
| ordered the duplicate wedding
ring that very night. Pauline said }.
was too soon, but quoted the ancient
proverb, delays are dangerous. :"
And we are to be married in a month.
And if it hadn't been for the provi-
dental interposition of Wyncotes
wedding-ring, Imighs still have been
shivering on the brink of an unspoken
proposal. BLESSED be wedding
ringsl" say I.-LNew York Ledger.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23

In the geological branch of the
British Museum the visitor is shown a
wonderful specimen of natural imita-
tion in small 'ribbon jasper" This
stone, the material of which is not un-
like that of other banded agates, has
upon its surface a perfect miniature
portrait of the poet Chaucer. Every
detail is startlingly correct. There is
the white face, the pouting lips, the
broad, low forehead, and even the
whites of the slightly upturned eyes.
The attendants say that it is utterly
impossible to convince even some OF
the educated visitors that it is not an
artificial production. st. Louis Re-
,ublic
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23
Married without Their knowing 1t.

Father Then of Wichita was in
town day or two ago and told the
following story:
''You never heard of the time |
married couple before they knew it?
Well, soon after was made a priest,
was engaged to perform a marriage
ceremony. 1t was to be a swell we'd
ding. l arrived at the house rather
early, according to request, and was
taken up stairs at once. There | laid
aside my hat and overcoat, and then
the brides mother knocked at the
door, and said her daughter wished to
see me. OF course, obeyed the sum-
mons, but was surprised to learn that
the couple wanted the marriage cere-
mony performed IN an upstairs room
Immediately | thought it was very
queer, but went through the ceremony,
and married them fast and sure right
there. When the ceremony was over,
the bride said: Now, we will go down
into the parlor and be married.
"'But you are married already, |
exclaimed. Il can't go through the
ceremony again.
"And then I learned that all they
wanted was 'to practice the cere-
mony, so as to go through it properly
when in the midst of their friends.
But there was no help forit, Married
they were, and 1 couldn't repeat the
ceremony, which with us is sacra-
ment. - Kansas City Times.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23
NO. s..
WEALTHY NEGROES.
billions Of Dollars Owned by the Coiored
People Of This Country.


People of This Country.
The amount of wealth owned by
negroes In this country Is not gener-
ally realized, and when IL is said that
this aggregates about $3.50, 900, 600
most people will be greatly surprised.
From carefully culled satisfies it is
an authentic fact that in Louisiana
the colored population pays % per
cent. OF all taxes. In that most
dreaded of all slave States, Georgia,
the former slave class owns ~, 900, 900
Ia real property. Even the satisfies
Of South Carolina reveal SO, 900, 900
Of property in the names Of her form
sr bondsmen. Alabama, which in
eludes the heart Of "the Black Belt"
accredits s12, 900, 900 OF taxable prop
erty to its colored citizens.
The late DR.. p. A. White, a prom
inent druggist of New York, left an
estate valued az So, 600, 900; he used
to do an annual business OF 5000, 900.
In Washington, ID. c., thirty OF forty
colored residents own $1,000, 000 In
Baltimore there are nineteen who are
estimated to be worth $1,000, 900
also. In the City of Brotherly Love
John Mckee is said to own four-hun-
dred houses and other property, worth
In all $500, 900. Isaiah c. Wears, OF
the same city, has a comfortable
bank account, and has for the past
twenty years bought house each
year. Richard Grant and Mrs. John
Jones, OF Chicago, are each worth
$40, 900. These are all Individual
effort, and furnish abundant evil
dence to certify the progress of the
race since emancipation. In the
Savings Bank at Charleston, S. c.,
there is to the credit Of colored de-
positors about 1925, 900. Two color
ed banks in Washington, d. c., have
been able to stand through the late
financial panic. At Pine Bluff, Ark,
the street railroad system is owned
by negro.
In Marysville, CAL, twelve colored
citizens own ranches valued at $780,
900, besides owning the signature
which controls comfortable bank ac-
counts. In San Francisco, a colored
woman owns eight houses, a ranch
near San Mateo and $780, 900 in
government bends. Twenty-seven
colored citizens of Missouri have ac-
cumu ated fortune OF 81, 900, 900,
in amounts ranging from $40 600 to
$780, 200. BY retrieving several severe
financial losses A. G. White, of st.
Lo1is. noted purveyor, has acquired
a capital Of $50 900 In the former
hot-bed Of slavery, Kentucky, negroes
own 200, 900 acres OF land, 5000
town lots and So, head of stock,
the whole valued at s4, 600, 900. Nor
has the requirement Of wealth by
negroes been confined to the late
slaveholding States. In eight eoun-
ties of Iowa, they own property esti-
mated to be worth $3.50, 900, per
eapltaiof 800 as az aiaes. SC ! i..s.., I,
| former slave States.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23

II Vas ienP istuous night on the
Atlanile, and ID great e.aaner with
its precious irei ght Of human lives was
toss'd about like a cocklethell. The
tremendous waves hurled themselves
against the walls Of steel aud dashing
in impotent fury over the decks, shook
the leFlathan from bowsprit to rudder
post. Nc one was visible about the
ship, except such of the crew as neces-
sity compelled TO face the storm, and
they were in imminent danger every
moment The passengers, in mortal
terror, we're huddled together in the
cabin below. Just as a frightful
blast hsd almost thrown the ship on
her bean ends, the officer of the deck
saw passenger stick his frowzled
head np through hatchway.
''Get back there, yelled the officer.
Say, Cap, came an answering yell
lis the roof gone YETI"
"No get back there"
"Have any of the walls give in
yet?n
NO; get back, tell you"
"Has the old woman or children
been blowed out of the second-story
windo@ yet?"
Get back, l tell you; no."
"None Of the neighbors been blowed
in through the shed roof yet?"
''No, no; tell you get back down
that hatChSay, you blamed fool, and
the officer started for the passenger.
Tain't SO bad as l thought it
was, came final yell, and the pas
senger lodged into the depths below
and disappeared.
s'Well, who in thunder was that?"
asked the officer of the pursuer, who
stood by
"He's all right" howled the pur-
ser; 'he comes from the cyclone belt
in Kansas y Detroit Free Press.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23

81 have been called upon in court
frequently to pass upon the age of a
tree, in order to decide as to the date
of land survey, said Dr. j. T. Roth
rock, the State forester, the other day.
''Icannot say that the rings of a tree
are certain indication OF its age, al
though the common belief is that a
tree nakssa ring every year, ! re-
member . very important case in New
Jerssy ,-re slgreat deal depended on
az zfle exact year OF sur
veF te Basest its cask upon inc
fact thatsa section of a tree that had
been clipped at the time of the sur
vey showed il had afterward grown a
certain number Of rings. To show the
fallacy of such argument, Iproduced
a section of another tree chipped dur
ing the same survey which, when cut
in half, had more rings upon one side
than upon the other. | asked why
one-half should be taken any more
than the other to determine the age OF
the tree. 1t had either only made a
half ring or ring and half some
one year. Trees make no rings some
years while in others they may make
two. | have known Of cases in the
tropics where they have made three or
four rings annually" = Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23
A Bejewelled Herring .

Mrs Harriet Condit, colored wo-
man Of State street, bought some her
rings the other day, and upon clean
ing one of them she found embedded
parallel with the backbone gold bar
evidently belonging to a lady's pin.
II IS set with moonstone about one
half inch long in the centre and al
each end large pearl about the size
around of lead pencil 1t is valued
bya local jeweller at about $40.
Hartford Post.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23
SUPPOSIN'

Now, that you could see big stock of seasbr
able goods, and just supposin' that the prize
had been put way down to the very dead lind O
profit, so that none could go lower, would yov
have the sand to buy from a lesser stock IN
pay larger price?
WOULD YOU? WOULD Y9U
WE HAVE SURELY DONE 1T.
The Most Complete Stock. The Lowest Prize
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23

People in Europe who buy Persian
carpets little think of the enormous
labor that has been expended on the
weaving. 1t is done exclusively by
hand, and every stitch in the carpets
is made separately, being afterward
clipped with the scissors and beaten
down. Some idea OF the work may
be formed when il is known that in
good carpet there are ten thousand
stitches to every square foot
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23
Profit Out of a Farm.

"How is Dykins getting along with
the farm he bought?"
pretty we'll. He tells me he saved
money on it last year, "
"How?"
Rented it to another man. =
Washington Star.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-03-23

Constantinople has population of
1000, 900 people, but last year only
5000 arrests were made.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-09
HAS A WILL OF ITS OWN.
Glass Peculiar and Difficult Substance to
Handle In Manufacture.

Glass a Peculiar and Difficult Substance to
Handle In Manufacture.
A writer in The Optical states that
glass is a substance which, as the glass
blower says, has a will of its own 1t
is very often difficult to tell how par
ticular piece is going to act under GER
tain conditions, even after having tested
other pieces of the same batch. ="
When subjected to the heat, one end Of
a tube will sometimes respond different
ly from the other end. This is in a
measure due to unequal chilling, occa-
stoned possibly by a sudden draft Of air
while it is in process of manufacture.
No piece of glass is absolutely reliable.
It's working is therefore at certain stages
most uncertain, and one person may
have entirely different experiences from
another. 1t is chameleonlike, and every
process succeeds better with those who
seem to have knaok which is generally
obtained by long practice.
The cutting of glass heads the list Of
the uncertain processes, for 1t has no
definite cleavage, and its separation is
modified by the surrounding tempera-
ture. The simplest separation is ON fiat
glass in straight line. Here all that
is necessary is deep and regular scratch
with glaciers diamond. a firm and
speedy bend away from the main piece,
and the parts crack along the desired
line. These glaciers diamonds may be
purchased and generally prove satisfao-
tory, but it is more economical to pur-
chase from some diamond cutter small
splinter and insert this into piece of
brass rod having a small hole drilled into
one end The splinter should now be CO
mented with marine glue and the brass
rod filed little upon the side nearest
the ruler to obtain, after trial, the best
cutting angle for the diamond. Another
instrument for cutting glass less oxpen-
sive than the diamond is the glassblow-
er's knife which is piece of thin steel
tempered glass hard by heating it cherry
red, and then plunging it into ice cold
water or mercury. The edge should be
sharpened by rubbing it upon an old,
rough emery grindstone until fine saw
like notches appear. It is then ready
for use and should, if much used, be
sharpened repeatedly.
To tubes carefully scratch at right
angles to the axis a deep notch. either
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-09

WIN the diamond, a triangular file or a
glassblOwer's knife Heat a piece of
brass rod until a small globule appears
ON the end and press this upon the
scratch The glass viii thus be heated
more at this point than any other, an
unequal expansion takes place, the
scratch giving direction to the line of
fracture, and the tube cracks evenly if
its thickness be uniform. In the case of
variable thickness uneven edges result,
and these must be filed down to avoid
sharp cutting splinters. Many recipes
and directions have been given for cut
ting bottles. Wetting an asbestus string
with turpentine and setting it on fire
produces considerable heat in the glass
Immediately underneath it. By quickly
removing the string and plunging the
bottle into cool water the unequal strain
takes place and the parts separate. 1t
is this locating of the heat that causes
the glass to crack as we wish it. The
easiest method, if the means be at hand,
is to employ platinum wire which
should be heated white hot by the pas
sage of a heavy electric current. By
wrapping the wire round heavy bottle
or jar and allowing the current to pass
for 10 or Is seconds the stoutest walled
vessel may be easily separated if touched
on the heated line with cloth dipped
in water
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-09
He TOLD THE TRUTH AT LAST.
Had Not a Nickel to Pay His Fare, but a
Conductor Trusted Him.

Had Not Nickel to Pay His Fare, but
Conductor Trusted Him.
dead broke is a relative term.
Some men are ''dead broke" on SO.
Some don't call it "dead broke" until
they reach nickel. It's pretty dead
broke" when you haven't even the one
nickel for car fare, want to get from
Twenty third to Fulton street, are in a
hurry, couldn't walk for fortune and
know there's money waiting for you at
the other end if you can get there.
This was the case with young man
one day last week, and this is how he
got there. Boarding Broadway car at
Twenty third street among a crowd Of
others, he walked forward and took his
stand beside the gripman. 1t was some
time before the conductor reached him,
when he fumbled for change, as though
he knew he had it in vest and trousers
pockets, finally remarking that since he
couldn't find it he supposed he'd "have
to get off y The conductor saw it in
that light too, and politely made way
for the young man, who by this time
had reached Thirteenth street.
Walking down few blocks, he board
ed the third car following, and this time
the conductor called for his fare. Again
he affected the searching process, and
again the conductor waited patiently,
while the car spun along until at last
the young man anxiously declared that
he must have lost his pocketbook. The
conductor dinged the bell, deciding that
the best thing to be done was to step off
and look for it.
Eighth street was now reached, and
again at Fifth street fresh car was
boarded. Another search after change
was gone through and another kindly
suggestion from a conductor looked for,
but this one said: "Ain't got no money?
How far are you going? FultonP Oh,
no; you'd better get off" And he got
off after three elaborate bits of acting
just 20 blocks below his original point.
81 guess I'll try the truth now, " he
thought to himself, and this time he
stood out on the back platform and
didn't make "a first dive into his pock-
cts. He had got sick of it, and it wasn't
paying either.
Look here, conductor" he said,
"I'm dead broke Haven't nickel.
Will have lots when / get to Fulton
street Will you give me your number
and trust me to ride DOWN."
ride you do, " said the conductor,
and that conductor hasn't regretted it.
He's got more than the fare since, and
the young man who began on the lies
has learned a first rate lesson ON the old
fashioned policy of honesty. New York
Herald.