davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

No. 374, officially speaking, though Mrs.
DraytOn has been occupying the house all
alone. She left it month ago and is now
in New England, although she has tried
to have it appear that she is in Europe.
Mrs. Drayton after her marriage took up
her abode at No. 354. Her brother rents
a house, No. 5l4. When the lady was
still little girl living at No. $50 she was
noted among milliOnaires' daughters on
account of the little girls of her own age
employed to wait upon her. They were
all dressed like Lilliputian parlor maids
in black and not a few were treated very
imperiously by their young mistress.
When Charlotte Aston was still quite a
little miss she met Lispenard Steward,
then quite little boy. The two were
constant companions They were both
remarkably proficient in the French
langua re and they were in the habit of
conversing together in that tongue. There
are still old residents of this neighbor
hood who can tell you the usual tales of
peoples childhood-how Charlotte was
very democratic and gay with the little
girls of the block, and so on. When she
was 10 she had a Sunday school class,
That was in Rev Morgan DlX's church.
She did not teach her scholars anything
about the Bible, but she had them come
up to her fathers house every Sunday,
and then they stayed to dinner very
% btu. tJuG Jay AIdAlOL-C INV ilNNl Jh0lNG
little girls, all poor and many friendless,
to dine with her at her fathers house.
she had met them through the sewing
society at Trinity church
William Aston was passionately fond of
Charlotte Hence the stories that her
conduct killed him. They were in the
habit Of taking drives together in Central
Park in the seventies. Once, as the
police records of that time will tell you,
their horses ran away and precipitated
millionaire and heiress to the gravel.
Meanwhile Lispenard Stewart had been
fond wooer, and when the Astor heiress
became a young lady William Aston was
willing that the distinguished young man
should be his son-in-law. But it all turned
out another way.
Although Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt
is a naughty person, she is not without
friends among the poor. IL has yet to be
made known that this aristocratic lady
in spite Of pleasure seeking instincts, has
a good deal of blue stocking in her. She
was at one time an honorary member of
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30
MAGNETISM AND HYPNoT1sM.
Counters Waohtmeister Explains
Their Difference 20 the Theosophical
Society.


The rooms of the TheOsophical Society,
on Mt. Vernon street, were crowded last
night with an audience gathered to listen
to the Countess Wachtmeister in her ex-
positisn of the Difference Between Mag
netism and Hypnotism." The lady
showed herself to be deeply versed in the
literature Of her subject and gave many
illustrations drawn from personal obser-
walton.
Magnetism she said, is the universal
fluid towing through the physical body,
while Eypnotism is the dominating in
huencG exerted by a stronger over
weaker will When the magnetiler OPP
crates upon his patient he is careful to
direct his wifi only TO the part diseased
but the Will Of the hypnotiler is di-
rected to the brain Of the person operated
upon.
Whatever the maPnetizcr did with the
astral body was done only with the con
sent of the patient, whereas, the hypnoti-
ger commanded the astral body 10 do his
bidding. There are many dangers con
nected with the practice of hypnotism. 10
suppresses the viii and leaves one at the
mercy Of another u has been claimed
that il is impossible to get patient to
commit q crime, but for this all that Is
needed is a sufficiently strong will; when
the patient refuses TO do any particular
act his refusal IS due to the fears or the
weak will Of the hypnotizer.
1t is quite possible TO cause people to
commit murder in the hypnotic state.
The great evil of coming under hypnotic
influence is that the will is more and
more weakened with every successive act
OF submission TO the operator; and when
patients carry out post-hypnotic sugRes-
tions they blindly imagine that these
have arisen in their own conscious
ness. Hence, if we wish TO be mas
tiers Of ourselves we must rule ourselves
and preserve our will power from hypnotic
influence.
No person, the lecturer said, has a
right TO tamper with another PERSONS
viii without his consent, even TO cure
drunkenness. Hypnotism ought to be
prohibited in this country, as it is already
prohibited in Germany The countess
here gave the details Of several eases
which had come under her own kuOwl-
edge, in which dangerous and injurious
influence had been eXerted over people by
means Of hypnotism.
She said there were gangs Of black
matters in existence, whose members got
a living by hypnotiziug men and women,
and compelling them 10 pay over sums Of
money 10 the operators, making them, at
the same time, afraid to tell their rela-
tives for fear Of being sent 70 lunatic
asylum.
She also gave the example Of young
Frenchman from whom a female nypnO-
tier extracted his fortune by compelling
him to sign a great many checks 10 her
credit. and who was only liberated from
her domination by her death. The lesson
Of the lecture was that we must cultivate
our win power and not surrender it 70
others.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

ment has been WHERE CUPID LEADS.
entered into. II seems that the project
of such an alliance may have been con
sidered. but it would appear to have been
definitely abandoned al present In spite
of the many Gothamite heiresses now
led captive in the chains of love and
borne away from their native city by the
little god, we will still have Miss Ger
trude Vanderbilt for another season or
two.
Quite a wedding however, will be that
of Miss Crimmins, daughter of the mil
lionaire friend of Archbishop Corrigan.
She is 10 wed a Protestant As for the
stories that Miss Anna Gould is to marry
a foreign duke or prince, they nave at
tracted absolutely no attention, because
nobody believes them. However, the an
nounced engagements in Gotham society
have put a good deal of life into the So
cial season, ayd the florists are especially
iubilant If nobody ever died or got sick
or married there would be far fewer roses
and lilies or chrysanthemums seen in
winter.
MRS. DRAYTON's GTRLHOOD.
1t is necessary to 60 back many years to
arrive at the beginning Of the present
Astor miserics. They were the years Of
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

From the Scottish American
The Welsh have many peculiar names
in their nomenclature, or possibly a pc
culiar way Of using names as in the case
of a Welsh storekeeper, who had on his
sign the names John Mary Williams
This is a relic Of the old custom when
Maria was name shared
by both sexes as Jean
Maria Farina. It appeared that a MIR.
Williams, a man OF position, had in his
household d woman by her masters
family name, Williams. When the woman
married she kept the names by which
she was best known, and added to them
her husbands Christian name, John, a
bit Of diplomacy in the way OF trade.
Her husband was always alluded to as
John Mary Williams.
q. In ancient times the Welsh were known
by personal peculiarities as the American
Indians are at the present time, Hook
Nose, Black Beard, Crooked Tooth and
Fast Foot being the only coguomens be-
slowed on them.
There is ii quaint story told By Barrie
Of child named Davy, who maks a brief
appearance in one Of his novels, and takes
much of the interest Of the story with
her when she goes. For Davy is a girl.
And this odd name was an accident at the
NuIlhhIuLAks 4 lit AAlhlobGI iUOhtu bLEEnIY
at the father and said "Thc child's q
roy, is il not2" He had already been
given a paper with the name written upon
it, but when the confused father answered
yes TO the query as TO sex. the dominic
responded "Then / cannot christen him
Margaret, so ! will call him David" The
mother felt very badly, but the only ex-
cuse her husband gave was that he dare
not contradict the minister.
The colorcd people, who once had only
such names as their employees chose to
give them, they being by law entitled to
no others, are fond Of high-hown, high
sounding patronymics, such as George
Washington Henry Clay Daniel Webster
Jefferson Smith, all these heaped upon
one infant, who goes through life BY the
single appellation Of Wash.
Bible names are not always iudiciously
applied. A man out west, named Grace,
had his son endowed with the lOnR-syl-
Tabled handle Of Nebuchaduezzar The
Roman maidcns were generally named
for flowers, and Flora was their goddess
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

THE POLITICAL PRIZES. bishop declined to
invest Father Ducey with the
title of Monsignor. The claim
mat the pope wishes the priest to report
Ihe police Investigations is absolutely re
pudlated by all the wcll-informed Catho-
Acs IN New York. A somewhat acrid
correspondence has been passing between
yne two men. The archbishop wrote to
rather Ducey, saying that the "scurril-
Gus and abusive" language of the latter
Was a source of great diSedldcatlon.
I5,nese are the archbishop's own words.
ne also admonished the pastor to be
careful in his future utUerances.
rather Ducey has further been accused
Vi utilizing the general disgust with Tam
many Tor his own personal ends. But 1t
is difficult to see how this can be true.
certain 1t is that the pastor Of st. Leo's
mas been very instrumental in calling at
IGNITION to the crying restitution among
me poor of New York He has aided all
reform movements, and, while it may be
IHdI he has become political priest ana
.LuFns out at mass meetings, he is for all
.naJ one of the most eloquent orators IN
The metropolis.
All these things show how extraordi-
nary the local political situation in New
iorK mas become. How Tammany is TO
come out of il no one knows. There was
a wild story afloat about Tammany put
Ilng up no candidate at all, but Endorsing
somebody else's ticket Mayor GilrOy
pIouounces this nonsense.
he mayor, by the way, is said to be
contemplating quite a sojourn abroad
"heu his term is ended. His motive may
Oe better surmised than stated. He is a
millionaire, and could afford TO enjoy him
se.t for the rest of his life.
THOSE PICTURE swISDLERs AND MIR. NOR
TON.
A well-known millionaire, whose name
Us almost a household word and whose
political ambitions are greater that his
Ioltical successes. was atrociouslY swim
,Hed Ia Europe last August. He bought
'oE heavy SUN painting which he was
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

BRONSON HOWARD. and nave gone IN
for plays.
William Dean Howells is now at work
urOn a play. Hitherto he has been pro-
ducing farces, and these were so success
full from a literary standpoint that he
was asked by we'll known manager to
produce a play. Mr.. Howells frankly re-
piled that he could not, but it was suC-
gosted to him that ne work in collabora-
ton with practiced writer for the stage,
and this he is said TO be doing Richard
Harding Davis is at work upon play, as
is Boyesen. Edgar Fawcett is engaged
in the same occupation However it is
by no means likely that the fame of
Bronson Howard will suffer by COMPARE
son with the work of these men The
mere assertion that he is the author of q
play is enough to draw a good audience
TO any thcater DAVID WECHsLER
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30
CARRIAGES.

volume Of oil shot up out Of the ground
between q couple Of houses or cabins,
deluging several persons and frightening
everybody by its sudden appearance.
The oil few in q solid column, it is said,
over sixty feet in the air, then falling,
spread over the ground in deluge.
When the people recovered from their
establishment they went 10 work TO dam
up the creeks and ravines in order 10
save as much Of the oil as possible. The
well is reported as having subsidized TO
regular How, but what the production
will prove to be cannot be told.
The people could not explain the
mystery until an old campaigner hap
peued along, who recollected old Capt.
Marshal's Oil we'll
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

But it would APP
pear that Arch
bishop Corrigan
is too astute TO
give the contuma-
ciOus clergyman
this opportunity,
and the priest S
only recourse is to
be as incorrigible
as possible with
out getting too
near the danger
line. All these
proceedings are
represented to be
dictated by re-
vengeful motives,
since the arch
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

the Mobile Ills
torical Society,
and has a de-
cided taste for
BOTANY. To this
day she takes II
great interest in
astronomy, and
is a subscriber
TO the publIca
lions of the
Royal Astro.
nomical Socie-
ty. She has al
ways been in
terested in as
tronomy, a Il d
Possesses won
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30
Jew YORK WEDDINGS.

Itld 1--WE, Wud L
truth there was
in the statement
that his daugh-
ter is to marry
the young Duke
of Marlborough.
He replied, and
the repetition of
his reply indi-
Gates that he
wishes thein
nation gener-
a II Y dissent
mated, that no
S uch engage
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

derful collection Of telescope, and has
more than once been twitted by the few
whom she allows TO be her warm friends
on her penchant for star gazing
The rumor, therefore, that she will i'm
mure herself at Newport may not mean
that she will be deprived Of all amuse-
ment. She is as fond Of retirement and
of books as any society woman can well be.
One Of the finest private libraries in eX-
istence is the property Of Mrs. Wander
bilt. Sho can perhaps find some consola-
tion in them, and should they fail, :here
arc her old friends, the stars which she
can gaze upon, and il there be any faith
in astroogy in her, the information they
impart may relieve some Of her suspense
in regard to the future. IL can be author
itatively stated, however, that Mrs Van
derbilt will not institute proceedings for
a divorce.
DRAMATIC AUTHORS PROFITS.
The attention Of most of the literary
men Of New York has been recently di-
rected TO the great profits Of the SUCCESS
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

"LOttle' AStOr s
girlh God. She
was married hf-
teen years ago
that is, in 1889.
Her life prior to
that time had
been spentat No.
$50 Fifth avenue,
the stately OLD
home Of the late
William A st or.
The Astors chung
To this region OF
Fifth avenue for
some reason or
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30
Tbo Pink L. Pretty, Etc.

From Miss Williams Valdosta Telescope.
We have been thinkinRo Of changing the
color Of our dress but since Editor Shaver
of the Dalton Argus has boldly declared
that he loves pink, pink dress and all. we
are almost persuaded 20 wear IL awhile
longer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

copyright
New York, Sept 29.-The republican
situation with reference to the mayoralty
Of New York has had a slightly humor-
Gus feature incorporated into it as q re
suit of Rev. Thomas j. Ducey's claim that
he is reporting the police investigation
on behalf of the vatican. 1t has been as
serted that the pastor Of st. Leo's Ro-
man Catholic church is anxious to follow
In the footsteps of DIR. Parkhurst, and is
very DESTROYS that Archbishop COrrigan
should depose him from his pastorate,
Thus he would be enabled to pose as a
martyr after the fashion of DR. McGlynn.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

ton that achieves
a run is more than
demonstrated By
the royalties now
being paid TO Bron-
son Howard, who
to-day receives a
fortune annually
for the work he has
done in this line.
Hence the other
workers in the field
of authorship have
stopped writing
stories and DOews
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30
A FORGOTTEN OIL WELL.
After Years OF Idlensss It Suddenly
spurts Sixty Feet in tho Air.

ParkersburR, W. Va, Sept. 2j.-Grcat
excitement was caused Saturday at
Burning Springs the old West Virginia.
oil ded-by the sudden bursting forth Of
o great stic Of oil right in midst Of q
group Of houses.
Early in the sixties Capt Martin, an
old steamboat captain on the Little Kama
VIVA, now dead, sunk a well on tract OF
land near the springs For some reason
the well was plugged ana deserted.
Years elapsed and the well was en-
tirely forgotten and the spot Of ground
near Dy was built over with houses ana
cabins. Yesterday. 10 the astonishment
Of mduy and the terror Of others great
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

ny ulIlAlOudlE0S Is
We ry Apostle.
T h e swindlers,
who are now
working h e
New York mil
lionaires are the
same men who
were driven out
of New York by
S pc rintendent
Byrne $ three
years ago. It is
interesting fO 20
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

The Greeks drew their names from their
surroundings, and the Latins had names
that denoted physical defects. such as
Claudius, lame
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

James Brown Of Bell.ngt0n w. Va. has q
beard which trails on the floor when he
stands up, and he is 6feet and 1 inch In
hi yht.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

Gov Flower OF New York says his determi-
nation not 10 be a candidate for denomination
was first submitted to his wife for ratihca-
lion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

assured was an old master 1t was
forgery
This is an old story, but its reputation
in connection with the purchases made by
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

call that they WHAT MORTON STOPPED
tried to swindle Levi p Morton when he
was minister to France, and he trapped
them by ordering picture which he had
already in his possession. The swindlcrs
said they had it, and, sure enough, they
pestered MIR. Morton with miserable
forgery. The then American minister
Immediately warned all picture buying
cOuntrymen Of his in Paris against these
operators, and was undoubtedly the
means of saving numerous amateurs some
large SUMS. Still there are many colec-
tors in New York who eagerly give a
small fortune for a worthless forgery I'M
der the impression that it is a genuine
gem.
NEW YORK WEDDINGS.
When Cornelius Vanderbilt returned to
New y ork the other day he was asked by
some intimate friends, and by one near
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
The Secret Of the POpG'S Interest in
the Police Investigation.

Mrs. Drayton's Girlhood-Miss Van
derbilt Is Not to Marry the Duke of
Marlborough.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

full playwriters. That there are immense
sums to be made out Of any stage produc-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30
QUEER NAMES.

syme Striking Peculiarities of No
menclature Pointed Out for Com
menT.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-30

other. John Jacob Astor to-day lives AT
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-15
Champion Rat Tran.

Fill small keg with water so that the
top of brick of any size stood on end will
be an inch or so out of water. Next tie a
heavy wrapping paper firmly over the top
of the keg, spread on cheese crumbs,
meat, bones, sunflower seed, etc, etc, ty-
ing piece of cheese or meat fast to cen
ter Of paper Place board against the
keg TO assist the rats in climbing up. Let
stand some four or six days, or longer.
Then cut across in the paper from one side
to another, dividing it into four equal
parts Let the cheese or meat bangle in
center of paper. A rat comes, tries to
reach the meat; the paper gives way, and
the rat falls into the water. 1t at once
perches itself on the brick, The only dry
place. No 2 falls in also, and at once
lively fight begins for the dry place on
top Of the brick. The noise and cries of
the combatants draw every rat within
hearing distance to the scene, and they
have the same fate. AS the number Of
rats in the water increase the noise grows
louder and the fight more hot and lively,
thus drawing more and more to their
fate. Next morning you find a single rat
on the brick while all around him are the
of his drawned and slaughtered
brethren, and you ought to get rid Of him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-15

year The running streams are better
sustained and also less subject to de-
structive foods where the country is well
mbered, than where the land is kept bare
by cultivation and the surface so drained
that the water runs away at once. Heavy
winds are greatly checked, much to the
comfort of man and animals. Crops are pre-
served in various ways from the destruct-
i've influence of air moving too rapidly
Lastly, trees for the ornamentation of the
home area, as we'll as for the wide ex-
panse of the country itself, can never DE
neglected by a people whose cultured
tastes and educated perceptions, give
them pleasure in the beautiful and the
picturesque. To one who has no love for
trees as such. half their value is lost He
who can see nothing but wood for fuel or
for the mandatory in a shady grove,
sees nothing but the dullest and poorest
side of life. While it must be insisted
that the figures presented by theorists as
to the value of timber as a crop are ex-
travagant and by no means proper basis
for business, tree planting for the many
and varied purposes of health, comfort
and pleasure, with financial profit as
subordinate factor. should be studied and
practiced by individuals, communities and
nations"
The bulletin contains some forty pages
and can be obtained by any one interested
in forestry upon writing to the Agricul-
trial Experiment Station, Champaign, Ill.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-15
Experiments in Forest Tree Planting


The Agricultural Experiment Station
of the University of Illinois, at Cham
paign, has published bulletin mo. 26),
giving an account of an experiment in for
est tree planting. The experiment was
begun in the spring of 1871, and. including
some paintings made since that time,
twenty-five varieties have been set.
The plantation covers something over
thirteen acres.
We make the following extract from the
conclusion stated:
Under present circumstances it seems
impossible for forest tree plantations to
be profitable as a farm cropon land fit for
wheat and corn. 1t is idle to talk of grow
ing wood for fuel-except on farms, for
home use-when good bituminous coal can
be had at present prices. The fact
is, in Illinois, though the extent of
the natural forests has been vastly
diminished, the price Of cord wood
does not advance Lands, even though
well timbered, sell at a less price per acre
than adjoining lands of the same quality
that have been cleared, or than prairie
lands of the same productiveness. The
value of the timber in such places is less
than the cost of clearing and bringing
under cultivation. 1t must, however, be
recognized that the value of natural for
worth of artificial plantations. The
former may be mainly composed of what
is in the locality most priced, but it is
usual that small proportion only of the
trees are those commanding the highest
price. In the artificial plantation, Judi
ciously managed, the whole may be high
priced, especially useful material this,
too, may be more readily accessible and
within easy reach of the market.
Let it be clearly understood that in
the foregoing, tree-growing for timber
has been the point discussed. But the
planting of trees has other and higher
claims. Whether or not the actual amount
of rainfall is modified by forests, there is
not the slightest doubt but that the eli
mate is affected. The temperature is
equalized; the extremes of heat and cold
are not so great. The air is modified as
to the amount of moisture, especially in
dry times ia summer The moisture of
the soil is better distributed through the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-15

onestions and communications relative
% sgricultural and horticultural subjects,
4 addressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer n,
M1Iedgeville, Ga, will receive immediate
attention.