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The herald., 1894-12-22
A whittier Memorial Club.

AMEsBURY, Mass. Dec. 2l.-A move.
mant is on foot here to form Whittier
Memorial club. Mrs. S. Z. Packard, q
niece of the poet Whittier. announces
that che will leave his library hero in
tact, and It ia Thought it may be posi-
BILE TO aecuro the old honeetead here for
q memorial building.
The herald., 1894-12-22
No Freedom for tho Press.

ROME. Dec. 21.--Three newspaper
were contiscated today for publishing
proceedings OF a meeting of the League
OF Liberty, an anercnlstic society. Nam.
bers of taxpGyers have decided TO refuse
to pay new taxes and will test the valid
ity OF the law.
The herald., 1894-12-22
THROWN SEY HIGH.

Man Killed by Bursted Gas Main
in West Virginia.
New MAaTINsvlLLE. Dec. 2l.-When
Capt. James Clegg. foreman OF the pipe
Ino gang for New Martinsville Natural
GAG company, was caulking pipe under
a 1900 pound direct pressure. the pipe
bursted, throwing Captain Clsgg 100
set into the air, killing him instantly.
,ther workmen were knocked down and
Ieyerely injured.
The herald., 1894-12-22
safa Rlnwara MT wnri..

CHAMPAIGN. Ill.,. Dec. 21.-The safe in
the state bank at Mansfield. H., was
blown open by burglsra last nigt and
completely wrecked. The amount taken
10 probably several Thousand dollars.
The herald., 1894-12-22
Easteru and San FraucIsco Rac.s.

The Metropolitan Turf club. 126 West
Second street. Entrance also on Center
place. Durkee & Fitzzsrald. proprietors.
The New Orleans and San Fraacisco
races are now being posted. Direct wire
to room. Foil description given of each
event and track odds laid. Eastern
races begin at II m. Los Angeles time.
Entries put up every evening. A book
made on all sporting events of import
The herald., 1894-12-22
TRAINS BLoCKED BY SNOW.

DUNsMUIR, Cal, Dsc 2l.-Alterneting
Snow and rain squalls continue. Heavy
snow and rock slides have blocked rail.
road travel both north and south Of
here, eld tho porth.bound express s
held here. Superintendent Cooley is at
Mott working his way north with a
rotary snowplow. There is bare possi.
bility that the south-bounG train may
get through by tomorrow; but the
weather is bad and the conditions are
favorable for blockade OF several days.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
Said by Paderewski.

When | am to appear in public
keep perfectly quiet during the pre-
ceding hours. l practice calisthenics
Immediately after rising every day.
I eat with great appetite, and am not
in the least difficult man to cater
for When my recitals are over / feel
that weight has been lifted off my
mind, and then ] love to join in any
amount of fun. practice atall hours
of the day and night, sometimes all
night, for / have not set rules for
working. ] am never by any chance
without a piano, and very often prac-
tice between the courses at meals or
while am dressing. / suffer from
insomnia consequent to the great
strain on my nerves, and, although it
is not noticeable to the general pub
lie, am q martyr to nervousness.
go through positive tortures when
contemplate playing. | have schooled
myself to absolutely subdue my feel
ings, or they would rise TO such a
pitch as to prevent my having the
least control over my fingers.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
A TOUCH OF NATURE.
Made Brothers and Sisters OF Whole
CoHimunity.

Community.
The other day a o;G-years old baby
boy disappeared from an old-time farm
house on Long Island. The parents
distracted, summoned neighbors and
friends and at once set out in eager
quest OF the wanderer For two miles
or more he was traced by tiny foot
prints in the soft earth of the high
way. Then the trail was lost. .Bunches
of daisies, plucked and thrown away,
showed where the child had paused at
intervals to play or rest. Night COM
ing on, the search was abandoned for
the time, but all through the night
sentinels stood along the road that
any feeble cry OF the little one might
be heard With the morning
dawn the hunt was renewed.
hundreds of farmers and others scour-
ing the woods and fields. Even the
women joined the searchers, one
mother carrying her own baby in her
arms as she tramped back and forth
with the rest. A violent storm set in
late in the afternoon, and continued
during the greater part of the night;
it grew intensely cold, but the search
went steadily on. All the following
day and the next night the woods
were threshed and beaten by eager
feet. But, with the following dawn
many of the searchers became dis
heartened and fell out of the ranks.
Some, however, persisted, and at last,
at the end of eighty hours, the missing
H. -
leaves, motionless as if dead. His
clothing was soaked with rain, and
one little hand was raised as if to
wipe away a tear from the pallid
face. But life was not yet extinct.
Carried swiftly to his home and
tenderly cared for, the child slowly re-
vived, and the desolate hone was
filed with joy over the lamb that had
been lost and was found again.
The world is filed with the jargon
of voices which pirate of the selfish
ness and depravity of human nature;
the voices of cynics and pessimists
who find nothing of beauty or purity
or kindness anywhere among men.
How utterly such an incident as this
we have recorded disproves this mis-
bic and cherries fallacy. The
foulest soul has in it something of the
divine. "One touch of nature makes
the whole world kim The anguish
of the Long Island mother bereft of
her be, touched every heart. Men,
women, children, all responded eagerly
and with tenderest sympathy to the
appeal for help. Self was all forgot
ten in the presence of her sore need.
And as all alike shared her grief, so
allshad part in her JOY when the
lost one was restored to her arms
Thus the world rejoices always when
one beaten by the storms of life and
long time astray, finds his way back
to the anchorage of safety and duty
The dismal voices may preach as they
will the gospel of despair; the evil
forces are not the dominant forces
and the world is not a desert; it has
thousand sweet and healthful foun-
tains which never run dry. There is
much of sin and wretchedness in it,
and there are sad souls everywhere,
and many vicious and depraved. But
in the lives of the worst of men there
are wells of Elm, clear and pure;
GASES, fresh and green, lying under
Shelterlng palm trees
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29

ers who are not Of THE DUCHESS.
imperial birth. She has been with the
little girls at their studies and their
amusements 'alilse. She has drilled
them in drawing, played the piano ac-
compartments to their violin per-
formances, supervised infinitely their
reading and examined them in their
studies at regular intervals. She has
carefully trained their intellects, not
permitting them to neglect the graver
studies for the more frivolous ones,
1t is thought that the third sister Prin
cess Alexandra, will enter the ranks
of matrons next year and that will
leave the uduchess with only Que
daughter at home. This is Beatrice,
a pretty little maid of 10.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
To Expose mohammeaanlsm.

Mr.. Taminosian IS rather hand
some young Syrian from Antioch He
is "a years old, and has been in this
country nine months. sWhen he shall
have added English to the ten Ian
guages he speaks huently, he is going
to write book on Mohammedanism
He says he viii expose its corrupt
beliefs and bad manners" He is a
Christian by birth and belief, and the
story OF how he became a sheilz and
learned what he calls 'dervish prin-
ciple" is romantic tale of adven ture.
He refuses to give the details because
he is reserving them for his book.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
PROF. j. D. DANA.
Scientific Luminary Who Recently Re
tired From Yale College.

In the retirement of her brightest
scientific luminary, Prof. Dana, Yale
loses from it's active rolls one 81 those
names that have been used to con-
jure with, almost time out of mind, by
lovers of the scholastic fame of the
university. There are certain names,
such as Dana, Woolsey, Whitney, Sill
man, Hadley, Dwight, Loomis which
ase almost conterminous with the style
and title of the great university, so
that we scarce think of the one with
out recalling the others They are
the most valid ground of distinction
the institution enjoys, and some trace
of pride in this distinction rings out in
every huzza Of the plentiful cheers
that legitimately of late greet Yale's
successes on all the fields OF athletic
sport.
The leading facts of his life have a
curious unity of plan, all growing out
of an aspiration Of his generous youth;
they embody, too, their bit ofromance.
Born in 1913 at Utica, he was drawn
to Yale by the fame of the elder Sill
man. He became Silliman's assistant;
in time he came to marry his daugh-
ter; he succeeded him as editor of the
Journal of Arts and Sciences; and
finally he was the incumbent OF
the ',Silliman Professorship, found
ed to commemorate that earlier
scientist. Before his marriage, how
ever (from 1893 to 1S42), he was a part
of the Wilkes exploring expedition,
and in the course of it he was ship
wrecked His great labors have been
accomplished upon but small supply
OF physical strength. His temporal
ment would appear to be that Of the
scholarly recluse of the genial sort;
he has never been active in the social
way, even in quiet New Haven. His
personality is picturesque tall, spare,
bronzed, and silvery-hair He is daily
seen passing, with swift foot, along
that most charming of streets, Hill
house avenue, where he has his house.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29

the late George L. Harrison,
son of John the pioneer chemist
of Philadelphia, and is member,
though not actively, Of the great
sugar refining house of Harrison
Havemeyer & Co. In connection with
his brothers, the Messrs Mitchell,
William and Alfred Harrison, he has
lately contributed $50, $50 toward the
endowment of the John Harrison
Chemical Laboratory of the University
Pennsylvania.
He has been for some time chair
man of the ways and means commit
tee of the board of trustees of the uni
versity Mr.. Harrison was born on
May 3. 1914. He entered the academic
department Of the university in 1858,
and was classmate of DR.. William
Pepper, the retiring provost. He won
the highest honors in his class, and
upon graduation in 1862 he was
awarded the Henry Reed prize for
English litera ture
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29

COTToNTCR0P- OF THE WORLD.
each. and the produce more than twice
rs much to the square mile. Circular
diagram No shows the annual cot
ton crop of the world by countries of
production.
The United States manufactures
only about one third Of its own cotton
crop, as is shown by the following
sphere divided into seg,nents indicat-
ing its distribution among the various
countries of the world.
The total cotton crop of the United
States in 1889 was 7,434. 6S7 bales, and
the entire value was about $375, O0O,-
900. In 1892 the crop was the largest
ever raised, reaching total of 9,03s, :
7O7 bales but it's market price per
pound was so much less than that of
1882 that its aggregate value was
smaller. The average value of the
cotton crop is about one tenth that of
our entire agricultural product
The cotton crop of the world is
about 4.G2s, 900, 900 pounds; this is
manufactured in various countries as
follows figures representing
millions of pounds:
Great Britain, 1880; France, 3l0;
germany, 37s: Russia, 1863; Austria
hungary. 235: Italy, 152; Spain, los;
etherlands, "a: Belgium, 80: Switzes'-
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

An artificial honey made of water, sugar,
a small proportion of mineral salts and a
free acid is said to be having ready sale
| in England
The streets of Caracas, the capital of
Venezuela are so narrow that the street
cars that were supported had to be sawed
in two in order to allow them to turn the
corners.
Among the effects offs woman who died
suddenly in Boston recently was found
quite a sum of money, a deed for q burial
lot and receipted bills for q tombstone,
casket and funeral expenses from Il neigh
boring undertaken.
A pastor of Gardner, Me-, who had col
lected fourteen hundred copper cents dur
ing his itinerancy, passed them over to
merchant in that city the other day, and
was surprised soon after TO receive q thou
sand of them back again in the shape of a
wedding fee.
The London Spectator has recently
shown that in England the tendency of
population to the cities is irresistible; that
the young men and women are deserving
the agricultural regions, and that farmers
are unable to get the laborers needed for
cultivating the soil.
n SpOTISIslaH III w llbuI, OTe., QaS
trained two eagles to catch geese. He
weights their bodies SO that they cannot
fly after they have captured the game He
follows them on horseback and takes the
geese from their claws. Once they caught
four geese at one tiIne--one in each claw
Eight years ago II. II. Bowles, of
Chemyfeld, Me-, planted in his garden
a small towering shrub. Near the shrub
grew green gage and cherry tree
Two years ago the shrub put forth cherry
blossoms, but bore no fruit. Last year it
produced luscious fruit of the green gage
variety.
Lake Palmyra is q part of the Missis-
sippi river at high water, but at one time
its bottom was dry, with a thin upper
crust of dry earth and deep lower layer
of soft mud A half-witted negro who
tried to walk across to an island broke
through the crust in one day he sank to
the waist, and III two days to the neck
On the night of the second day he was
pulled out.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29

Green and secluded as 81 cathedral
close, what dream of academic peace
is that street in these June days.
Thither, on the occasion of his s0th
birthday last year, number of his
old associates and neighbors, for the
most part well known like himself,
sent him set of resolutions which for
cordial respect and esteem, for atfec-
Tomato eulogy both of high acquire
ments and admirable personal charac-
ter, have never seen surpassed =
w III. uB.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
ODD AND AGED TWIN SISTERS.
Worked Sixty Years in One Mill and Never
Rode on n Train,

Worked Sixty Years i'm One Mill and Never
Rode on Train.
At Peterboro, n. H., live Elvira
and Elmira Fife. who claim to be and
probably are the Oldest twins living
in that state. They are SO years old.
At the age Of IA they entered the
employ of local manufacturing
company and for sixty years they re-
manned on its pay roll, the maximum
wages earned being ninety-nine
cents per day and the minimum sew
enty-one cents for three days labor.
A Boston Journal reporter recently
visited them.
lis 1t true you have never ridden
on railroad tramp queried he.
1T is, was the reply; land, what
is MORE said both in one voice, 1--WE
never will Although the Boston
and Maine railroad has run cars
within ten rods Of our door since
they built the road into this town
we have never yet entered q car. We
came pretty near it at one time. A
few years ago some Of the towns
people wished US to take a ride in
the cars, and we came so Near it
that we went to the depot, but
backed out before we got aboard. =
Nor have these ladies ever en-
tered theater. and very rarely did
they enter society, and in all their
lives they have been separated but
seventy hours at one interval, and
when Elvira was taken i'll and it was
for a few days thought she could not
recover Elmira was nearly crazy and
threatened to commit suicide II her
sister was taken away.
II don't wish to live if the old wo-
man Gas they always call each
other) is taken away. !"
The strong resemblance between
them is still as noticeable as ever.
One great popularity about these
women IS that although living in the
same house and eating from the same
table, they have always lived sepa-
! rately; that is, each has cooked her
own meal. If one had a boiled dim
| ner the ouher had boiled dinner.
and it was not cooked in the same
pot. either. If one had q turkey the
other would buy little larger one,
and so in everything they We'd with
each other to see who could live the
| best
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
cHARL Es c. HARRISON.
The New Acting Provost of the Penn
sylvaniR University.

The trustees of the University of
Pennsylvania have elected Charles G.
Harrison (present chairman of the
ways and means committee of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania acting
provost. The duties are numerous
and arduous and modesty alone pre-
vents Mr. Harrison from accepting the
office permanently, until he is satisfied
that he is able to discharge these
duties single handed. Although he
refused the election at first he has
accepted it temporarily.
Mr.. Charles G. Harrison is. son of
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
Beds in Russia.

Beds are quite an innovation in
Russia. and many well-to-do houses
are still unprovided with them.
Peasants sleep on top of their ovens;
middle-class people and servants roll
themselves up in sheepskins and lie
down near stoves; soldiers rest upon
wooden cots without bedding; and it
is only within the last few years that
students in schools have been allowed
beds
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29

the price sinks year by year. below
the point of profitable productiveness.
Texas, because of its enormous area.
produces more cotton than any other
state-more, in fact, than any foreign
nation, and nearly as much as all the
world outside the United States
The other Gulf states push it closely
in the amount of cotton grown by
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
BLUEFIELDS.
Something About Place That nas At
taacted Much Attention.

Something About a Place That nas At
taacted Much Attention.
sluefelds, the capital and only
gets its name from a famous old
pirate Of the past, called Bleevelt,
the remains of whose stronghold
an advanced state OF decay-are still
seen on high promontory at the
entrance Of the harbor known as the
'.Bluff. " The town proper lies about
six miles from the sea, and is reached
by crossing large lagoon of such
shallowness that only after much
tugging, pushing and pulling in
small boats of the lightest draft is
the passenger landed at the govern
ment wharf. Seen from the lagoon,
the town presents a pleasant picture,
says the Popular Science Monthly.
Seated upon comparatively high
ground, the luclous green of the lux
uriant vegetation in which it IS
framed runs quite down to the
waters edge while here and there c
stately palm or cocoanut tree. its
leaves nodding lazily in the almost
imperceptible breeze, gives the land
scape that calm. dreamy look SO
characteristic OF tropical life.
There is but one street in town
(King street leading up from the
wharf. On this street are its
few stores and trade shops. The
rest of the setJlement-cover
an area of two square mlles-is scat
tered about. wheresoeve. the house
holder willed it, without plan or ref
erence to streets and lanes. At the
time of my visit the town contained
three horses and two carts or wagons,
SO it is evident that streets would
be of less use for traffic than for the
sake of symmetry. and Sambo ideas
of symmetry is an unknown quantity.
The houses of Blucfields, with the
exception of few native "shacks, =
are built of lumber brought from the
United States, and are similar in
style of architecture to those found
in small American villages. All
buildings are erected on posts, and
raised two or three feet above the
ground. to avoid the wet and mud
of the rainy season. The population.
nun bering about 1900 is composed
principally of the descendants of ia
maica negroes, with a sprinkliug of
cross breed Indians, Spaniards and
negroes these are known as Sam
bos y
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29

but there are much
intelligence a n d
strength of charac-
ter in her express
sion. This Russian
lady has been an
admira BILE wife and
most careful of
mothers, She has
devoted herself to
her young daugh-
tiers more complete
" than most moth
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
Trouble Along the welland.

The announcement that the Cana
dian government intended to class the
ton all along the line. Public meet
ings were held denouncing the ar
engagements and it is though now that
possibly the canal will not be closed.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
"BoUNcED" THROUGH.
An Effective Argument in Breach OF
Promise Case.

An Effective Argument in Breach of
Promise Case.
Mr.. Sergeant Wilkins once de-
Tended each-of-promise case for
a singularly ugly little man. which
he told the defendant. after reading
his brief, must be bounced
through. And the sergeant did
bounce it through in a truly re-
markable manners says the Argonaut,
"Gentlemen of the jury" he said, at
the close of most eloquent speech,
.'you have heard the evidence for
the plaintiff; and. gentlemen Of the
mired that most bewitching plaintiff
herself. Gentlemen, do you believe
that this enchanting, this fascinat-
ing, this captivating, this ac-
complished lady would for one
moment favor the advances or listen
with anything save scorn and
indignation.to the amorous protest.
ations of the wretched and repulsive
homunculus, the deformed and de-
graded defendantp" His client
looked up from the well of the court
and piteously murmured: Mr.. Ser
geant Wilkins! Oh, Mr.. Sergeant
Wilkins.n ..Silence, sir" replied
the sergeant in a wrathful under
tone. Gentlemen, he continued,
bringing his fist down heavily on the
desk before him. ado you think that
this lovely lady. this fair and smil-
ing creature, would ever have per-
mitted an offer of marriage to be
made to her by this miserable atom
Of humanity, this stunted creature.
who would have to stand on g siaee;
of note paper to look over 5wo-
pence9" The jury at once gave 3
verdict for the defendant.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
OUR COTTON CROP.
HOW, 1T is DISTRIBUTED
AMONG NATIONS.
Diagrams Showing How Our NeiEhbors
Are Supplied--Texas Grows More
Than Any Nation and Almost as
Much as the other States.
HEPLANTERS OF

HE PLA NTERS OF
the region south Of
the Potomac and
Ohio seem disin-
clined to resort to
intensive or variety
farming to better
their condition, but
they still continue
to plant cotton as
their almost eX-
o11,ci,-a ornn w hi n
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29

LADY of the house, don't need
any of your burglar alarms. Agent
That's Just what the lady next door
said Lady Of the house ton the alert
Said what? AGent-That it was no
use of me calling here as you wouldn't
need any, because you have nothing
to steal. l. Lady of ire house
(gritting her teethl--t:i7e me- three
Texas Siftings
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29

High living must inevitably take peri
odical dose of hard times blue pills.
Too much turkey to-day may result in q
dinner of feathers tomorrow.
Society tolerates a hideous soul sooner
than bumped back.
It is easier to make new opportunities
than to find lost ones.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
Just the Thing.

Mother What are all these senseless
trinkets forl''
Pretty daughter They are for the grab
bag at the church fair
Mercy There is not one thing that any
human being could want .
Yes: isn't it fortunate2 Everybody
who draws prize will put it back in the
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
Duchess of Edinburgh.

There is not much beauty Of feature
in the face of the Duchess of SAKE
Coburg Gotha Duchess of Edinburgh,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-06-29
Two to One She Did.

The blithe girl laughed 4,
Yes" she prattled, u met him on the
street,
The languid being sighed.
'Did you catch his eyeg' she asked.
sI'll--''
The laugh had died upon her lips.
"--see.n
fastening from the room she closely ex-
amined the prongs of her parasol.