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The herald., 1894-08-20
THE ERICssON's TRIP.
She Made the inside Passage From Ne
OrIsaue to Phtladelphia.

She Made the inside Passage From New
Orisaue to Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19.--The torpedo
boat Ericsson shot up the Dslsware
river today and attracted general atten-
tion along the wharves. and such boats
as noticed her saluted the newcomer.
She is bound to the Brooklyn navy yard
aud is about completing q trip from st.
Louis down the Mississippi to New
York. The object Of the trip is to test
an inland route as far as possible to the
Brooklyn navy yard. After her arrival
at the mouth of the Mississippi she
made the interior water passage via
Briton, Chandelier, Mississippi sound
and Miant pass to Mobile bay. From
Mobile bay to Pensacola there was an
outeide water route for 30 miles. With
the exception OF the trip around Florida
the boat kept inside all the time.
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MISS nIAKsDEN's MEDALS.

She Will Not Surrender Them, but Will
Bue for Damages.
LONDON, Aug. 10.-Miss Katie Mars.
den OF the Red Gross society does not
propose to remain passive under the
charges made against her. Pastor Fran.
Gle of st. Petersburg few days ago
wrote to the Times, declaring in sub
stance that the committee appointed to
investigate the charges made against
Miss Marsden in England, America and
New Zealand had found the accusations
bad been practically proven and calling
upon Miss Marsden to surrender her
decorations conferred upon her In recog-
milton of her work among the Siberian
lepsrs. Miss Marsden has now decided
to prosecute Pastor Francis.
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British Grain Trade.

LONDON, Aug. 19.--The weather has
baen broken and unfavorable to harvest
work. The market for wheat has been
mainly controlled by American men,
consequencely prices are lower. In
spite Of the bad weather, offers have not
increased, but the demand is poor. The
quantity afoat has decreased, but the
promise of full crops has made the mar
ket sensitive more to weakness than to
strength. Red winter new crop parcels,
prompt delivery, were quoted at 20s Cd.
Spot business was slow.
In flour there was rather more in
quiry for desirable brands. Otherwise
-four WAS quiet and steady.
In maize trade was dull end the tone
easy. Mixed American was not qaoted.
Barley was firm and inactive.
Oats were a shade worse on the week !.
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Co,l,d.d st n Orossinr.

WoRcEsTER, Mass, Aug. 19.-The.
Adams express train over the Boston
and Albany which LETT Boston at l0:4O
last night coilided with the IL 10 p. IN.
accommodation train from Worcester
while the latter was pulling over cross
ing to the Worcester yards. Both en-
pines we're smashed, the forward two
cars badly damaged and George Rose
and a man by tie name OF Ruel Of Bos.
ton were injured. The other trsinmen.
express messengers and postal clerks
were shaken up and bruised.
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SOVEREIGN ELECTED.
The Grand Master Workmsn Has IN
Unpleasant Experiences.

The Grand Mater Workmsn Has IN
Unpleasant Experiences.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19.-District As
aembly No. 8, Knights of Labor, held .
meeting today which is said to have
ended unpleassntly for General Master
Workman Sovereign. The assembly has
been the bone of contention between
the Sovereign and the anti-Sovei eigu
factions for some time past, aud last
nights meeting WAS attended by Sow
ereign. Hayes, Mcclure and Martin of
the executive board in an attempt to
settle the difficulties. The session was
so stormy that Sovereign. it is said,
called in policeman to clear the hall.
Not succeeding in this, it is asserted
that the opposition forcibly elected
Sovereign while his followers took
precpitous leave. Sovereign denies
the iorcible ejectment story.
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Soma of Xetarana

CHICAGO, Aug. 19.-Two hundred dele
gates to the thirteenth annual conven-
ton OF the Sons of Veterans, which con-
venes at Davenport, Ia, tomorrow
morning, left Chicago for that city over
the Rock leland this morning. "We
will have the largest convention in the
history OF the order." said Commander
McCabe. A prominent figure about the
commander-in.chiel's headquarters is
George p. Hurlett OF Belvedere, who is
q candidate for commander-in-ch chief,
backed by the Illinois delegation.
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COXEY'S DUPEs.
Governor Brown Kidding Maryland OF
the Pests.

GOVornor Brown Kidding Maryland OF
the Pests.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 19.-Governor Brown
concluded to rid Maryland OF Coxeyites
by sending 100 OF them to Cincinnati on
a special train today. The others he
will dispatch on special trains to their
homes. He went to the house OF COR
rection last night with pardons for all
those from the west, and rs socn as the
stripes could be changed to their old
clothes, the men were lined up and
marched to the waiting train. They
were glad to get out go easily and said
that they had been deceived by Coxeys
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Ere in tho ROYAL Palace.

LISBON. Aug. 19.-The negligence OF
servants in leaving a lighted brazier
unattended, caused fire to start in the
servants wing OF the palace, occupied
by the Dowager Queen Maria Pia at
Cintra. The flames were only extin-
tingnished with great difficulty. Seflor
Cosata, a member of the chamber OF
deputies. and some firemen were se-
riously injured. The building sustained
considerable damage, but its costly con-
tents were saved. The dowaeer queen
was greatly alarmed by the fire.
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ANGELES

nouncing that Japan had decided to
issue q domestic loan OF $50. .000,0 900.
The dispatch states that q strong out
burst of patriotic feeling has been
evoked by this proposition and the peo-
pie in all parts OF the country are
eagerly subscribing to the loan.
The herald., 1894-08-20
MURDER AND ROBBERY.
A Cold -Blooded Crime Perpetrated In
Texas.

LUFKIN, Tex, Aug. 19.-Yesterdsy
evening while an engine on the Santa
Fe road was running to the coaling sta
ton, about Is miles from here, the en-
gineer observed a pile of ties acros
the track. He reversed his en-
CINE and all on board jumped. Among
the party YVES DR.. Drewney Rusk. AS
he alighted a masked man stepped from
the bush and shot him dead. Holding
the others off with a pistol, he robbed
the body OF the dead doctor. obtaining
500 in cash, check on the First Ma
tional bank of Rusk for s25 and gold
watch and chain. The robbers evidently
thought they were wrecking the pay car
which was to pay off OF the mines. The
country is being secured for the men.
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srRIKINa sPINNERs.
Tho Union VIII Support Thom in Their
Struggle.

BosToN, Aug. 19.-rhe executive
council of the Spinners' union met to-
day. 1t was the sentiment OF the meet
ing that the action of the New Bedford
spinners in striking was just. as was also
that Of the Fall River spinners in voting
to accept the reduction and support
them. 1t was voted to assess all the
spinners in the country so cents week
for four weeks. and at the end OF that
time if the strike was not settled to call
a convention OF male spinners in Boston.
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Enort. 70 K..tor, Pesce.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 19.-It is stated
here that Russia and other powers con-
tinue to endesvor 20 restore peace be-
tween China and Japan.
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Redondo Beach Hotel, Redondo Beach,
CAL; open all the year through: hand
somely furnished rooms; table unsur-
Address Lynch G. Aull, proprietors.
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Tooth brushes. A complete line, and
We sell them at 10, 15 20, 20, SO, 40 and
80 cts.. and guarantee every brneb. Lit
tleboy's pharmacy, I'll s. Spring ct.
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II. A. Getz, liz w. Third street, leads
in fine tailoring at moderate prices.
Large stock woolens.
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A Japanese nom,.tio Loan.

WAsHINGToN, Arg 10 The Japanese
legation has received telegram an
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Dinner Ware

Department.
A dis count through
out, on account Of
coming changes of
tariff.
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Care of. the Ewes.

The eyebalI should be clear, blush
white color. If it has red strsaks in it
there is trouble somewhere. 1t it Is dull
and yellow in color that also is an indIca-
tion of disease. And in most cases the
sea of the trouble is not in the eye itself.
nor the cuIe in eye washes. The stomach,
which is accounta BILE for most things, is
generally accountable for the bright or
lack-luster condition of the eyes. To make
dull eyes shine, therefore. the best thing is
an anti-dyspeptic medicine.
One symptom of sick headache Is the
dancing before the eyes Of innumerable
specks. The proper treatment for this is
a seidiitz powder and a darkened room.
Darkness is the best possible thing for
eyes that have much work 10 do. and
merely to close them for five minutes at a
time produces a rested feeling, which
shows itself in theil renewed brightness.
Bathing tired eyes in water as hot as
can be borne and then closing them for
some time is an excellent daily practice.
But absolutely nothing but water should
ever be allowed to touch the eyes except
by the direction of an oculist.-Philadel-
phia Times.
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HOTEL DE SENS.
An Historical Building
Transformed
INTO A JAM FACTORY.
The House From Which Queen Mar
got Watched the Execution of
Her Young Lover.

PARIS. June g. 1894 French amateurs
and arch8ologists protest in vain against
the destruction of ancient furniture and
historical buildings. Objects of art. pieces
of great historical interest. have been sold
by the Government for nominal sums. TO
crown their carelessness, the Department
Of Public Works has recently sold some
carvings from the Hotel de Sens for sum
so small that it would have been far better
TO have left them in their place. 1t is
strange that this department. willingly de-
strOys what has been respected by the
Commune and ;he march of time.
Yesterday it was the sale of Bernard's
wonderful carvings; to-day it is the Hotel
de Sens; tomorrow it will be the demoli-
tiOn of some other historical relic. The
history of the Hotel de Sens is most inter-
esting. This dilapidated palace. once be-
longing to the Archbishop of Sens, is stu-
ated near the Hotel de Vile, between the
Quai des Celestins and the Rues du
FIguier and Fauconnier. On its facads
we read "Conhtnrerie Saint-James" and
Wastes locaux louer pour Findustrie
ct le commerce"
When Paris was simple branch of the
diocese of Sens atthe end of the fifteenth
century, the Archbishop TrIsiram de SAL
azar built this, the finest edifce in
Paris. Tristram is famous because of the
taste shown in the construction of this pal
ace, rather than for his pious works. Ten
years were spent in its construction, and
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Gated in the Piedmont hills back Of Oak
land, and at least mile straight up in the
air from the nearest car line. The station
is a square two-story house of very COM
mon type. 1t has about eight rooms, and
windows at perfectly regular intervals.
In short 1t has no individuality of its own,
and but for sign that serves it in place of
eyebrows no one would notice it especially
except for its odd perch on the steep hill
side. The sign bears a legend that it is a
United States experimental silk station,
and though this has ceased to be the case
the tablet Is allowed to remain.
Three years ago the national appropri-
alton for fostering silk culture and the
State appropriation were withdrawn al
the came time. This station. which was
one of five in the whole country, immedi.
ately felt the withdrawal of support. The
81 Xteen cres where the house stands were
already owned by the Silk Culture Society
of this city and the use Of the land. with
the mulberry trees on 1t, was given by the
society to the Cover nment When the lat
ter withdrew It's fostering care the house
was sold at auction and the State society
was almost the sole bidder.
In the palmy days of the appropriation s
five counties in California. 1t has died out
in some of them now, but the society is
D OF discouraged. The trouble is now that
there is no filature or place where the
cocoons may be reeled, and without such
a place there is no market for the cocOons.
The three reelD g-machines that belong to
the State Of California are stored in the
basement of the Flood building, going out
of fashion and awaiting the magic touch
of an appropriation. The reels at Wash
ington have alike closed down. AS a con-
sequence of this blockade at the f0un tain
head the culture has languished, for few
people care to take the trouble without
hope of remuneration, and reeling at home
is not satisfactory, as the thread is inyari-
ably uneven.
1t seems rather too bad that the industry
has languished in California. OF all the
five stations established by the Govern.
ment the California station produced the
best silk. raw, spun and woven. and this
was true. not only for this country, but for
the whole world, which was something of
compliment, especially as IL was the
judgment of experts.
Two people, Mr.. and Mrs. Ever, the
former the president of the Women's Silk
Culture Society of California, are enthusi-
astic enough TO devote their summers to
silk culture at the station. The season
only lasts from June until August, and
there is nothing to be done in the winter
but keep the eggs in a cool place. Mrs.
Ever says there Isn't the slightest reason
in the world why silk culture should not
paw 10 California if it was undertaken in
the proper way. But it don't pay when
undertaken on a. large scale. In China,
japan, France and Italy it is a
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home industry. carried on by the
women and children of the family, for it
requires very little labor, and that little
Is easy and fascinating. Every peasant
has few shelves for worms in the corner
of the living-room and a few mulberries In
the garden, and when the cocoons are sold
there is tidy little sum. On larger
scale i. does not seem to pay. though it is
difficult to see just why this should be so.
The climate of California is SO admirably
adapted for mulberries and osage-oranges,
which are used as food. that there is no
difficulty in that direction. There are
5000 mulberries on the farm at Piedmont
and they grow luxuriantly. just at pres
ent they are covered with small red and
black berries. which look like wild black
berries and are rather good to eat. The
5000 trees would support a great many
more women than are now housed at the
station, but one of the objects of the So
ciety is to supply mulberry trees free of
charge to any one who will try the in
dustry.
At the left of the front door as you
enter the building there is a room which
might be a stting-room or a library, but
is instead devoted to the worms. It has a
warm, sunny exposure and the sun pours
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my otel to the palace and the route lies
through the busiest part OF tnls one Oh the
busiest cities of China. Leaving the MOTEL
we went past mountains OF merchandise
stored in bags and lying on wharves along
the Pei-Ho and cut our way through the
narrow streets of Tientsin. We grazed
chairs with mandarins, who with their
retipues and bands pompOusly pushed
their wav along. We stepped over ragged
beorars living on the streets clad only in
c,ffee sacking and exposing their self-made
wounds to our diSgusted eyes. We passed
hundreds, might say thousands, of Chi
nese stores and workshops of all descrip-
tions, and going through wall after wall
and gate after gate, crossing great
bridges which closed to let us GO
over them, until at last we came
to a big one-story building. the front
gate of the wall which surrounds the
hundred odd houses which make the
residence of Earl Ii. These houses are of
one story, and they are built about courts.
The first court is guarded by soldiers. and
By two green wooden lions with hideous
faces, and beyond this there are great
doors on which are painted the Chinese
gods Of war. Before these my chair was
set down, and the Ting Chi went in to an
nounce my coming. My Chinese card. a
strip of red paper six inches long and
three wide. bearing the Chinese characters
"Kow Ping Teh" (Carpenter) and mean
ing, l was told by the man who wrote the
card for me, energetic. bright brilliant. p"
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HOTEL DE SENS.

can see it spinning until the shroud be-
comes too thick.
When the cocoons are finished the larg-
est are selected for reproduction and the
rest are steamed or stif1ed with sulphur
fumes to kill the miller on the inside.
station are perfectly white, are used for
reeling. After about fifteen days
large white millers issue from the othe +
cocoons, eating their way out. This spOils
the cocoons for reeling, but che perforated
shells may be carded and spun like colt on
or wool. Out of these pongee and the in
ferior silks are made. The moths lay from
five TO seven hundred eggs apiece and die
at the end of four days. Literally they
starve to death. for they cannot be induced
to eat after leaving the COCOON, and the
life of summer is ended. Then the whole
game is TO be played over again as soon as
the mulberries give the signal by bursting
into leaf.
The worms that are so busily eating at
Piedmont and Fastening toward the end of
their brief, busy career are Of several
ages. There are twenty-eight trays of
them, each holding perhaps a hundred
worms, aud the largest ones are entering
on the fourth stage. They are about an
inch and half long and gray white in
color, which is the healthy complexion for
a silkworm to have. One would suppose
pale leaves they are so greedily devouring.
The worms produced at Piedmont are also
pure white. There will be over two thou
sand of them this year. as very few moths
are required to lay the eggs for the sue
ceeding season.
On shelf in the wormery are numbers
of specimens. There are bottled worms of
varying ages from day old to the big
white full-grown worm of three inches.
There are also specimens of eggs. half
finished cOcoons and preserved millers. In
fact, the little exhibit shows the whole
evolution of the busy span of life that acts
and reacts itself in that sunny room every
summer.
MIR. and Mrs. Ever have quantities OF
visitors curious to see the worms. They
are only too glad to show the trays of
eaters and spinners, and they are anxious
above all things to revive the interest in
the culture.
The hill with the station at the top is a
hard one to climb. but there Is very curl
Gus ana interesting exhibit at the top which
makes one forget the heat and the dust.
The other day lady who has travelled
abroad rather extensively went into the
close, main wormery. The air is laden
with the peculiar aroma of the mulberry
leaves, and the visitor said it only re-
qured dropping of the eyelids to imag-
inc oneself in peasants cottage in the
South Of France.
There is good field for women In this
work if they care to try it, and they can
make market for the cocoons by creating
a demand for American silk. II is delight
fully easy work, requiring only little
study and daily care. There is no capital
required, and the State Society stands
ready to furnish the few necessary mate
rials Women are looking for new fields
of employment. Here is one already to
hand,
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in on the frames all day. for the worms
need warmth. They can even be forced
in the spinning process like plant by
keeping the room warm at night This
is not done at the station. There is no
cause for hurry and the worms are al
lowed to take their time.
The eggs are spread ON paper and hatch
in few hours al temperature of seventy
degrees. They are about the size of a mus
tard seed and the newborn worms are
lntnitesimal. They are Immediately
placed in frames about two feet square
and given chopped leaves to eat, which are
changed as often as they become hard or
dry, They are given four meals day
during the first age.
Sllkworms have ages-not seven like
man. but four-and these periods of
growth are we'll defined. The boundaries
between each are marked by molting. and
at these stages the worms shed their skins.
They molt the first time when they are
about six days old, and show the approach
OF the stage by losing their appetites and
becoming torpid. The process of shedding
Is so gradual that whole discarded skin
is very seldom found. The molting only
lasts twelve hours and then the abnormal
appetite begins again. When they enter
the third stage the leaves do not have to
be chopped any more. as they are capable
OF eating whole ones, and in the last stage
disappear with marvellous rapidity. The
trays are cleaned daily. which is accom-
pliShed by means of two sheets of paper.
with frequent perforations, large enough
to admit of a lead pencil. being laid on the
tray. When a clean piece OF paper with
fresh leaves is laid on top the intelligent
little weavers crawl through, and the
lower paper with its refuse is thrown
away. The worms are as greedy as pigs
and seem to live for nothing except to eat,
eat, eat When they are from 35 to 40
days old they show a desire to wander
from the trays, where they were always
previously perfectly satisfied TO remain.
This indicates that they are about to be-
gin spinning. and small frames with many
angles are placed in the trays. The
worms crawl up these and soon begin the
cocoon, which is attached to the frame
with silk fibers like a spider-web. The
worm moves its head more than sixty
times minute while the cocoon is being
N ade, the process lasting four days.
The worm is doubled up inside the CO.
coon like horseshoe. and for while you
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of dispatches from all over the empire and
the world on his table as he comes in. He
glances over these, rapidly telling his sec
retaries how they should be disposed of.
Sometimes he jots down note in Chinese
characters upon them, indicating the action
to be taken in regard to them. and al others
calls in the men who have charge of the de-
partments to which they refer, and gives
his orders orally. By IL O'Clock he has
looked through the pile and has passed
upon such others as come in. His private
business now commands his attention for
time. aDd at II o'clock he is ready for his
luncheon. This is sort of Chinese dinner
and it usually comprises about eight
courses. First, there is soup served in
little bowl. Next, some sharks fins, which
he eats with his ivory chopsticks. and fol-
lowing these, other dishes of meats and
vegetables. all cooked so well that they
may be picked apart with the chopsticks,
and so that his teeth have practically moth
ing to do. After dinner he goes again to
his work. at 2 O'Clock he takes his three
electrical shocks. He IS great believer in
electricity, and thinks that this treatment
has saved his life. He next takes his ex-
erclse, and during the day when he wants
to rest his brain he amuses himself In
copying the best specimens of the Chinese
characters. In other words, he writes the
alphabet over and over again. The Chi
nese language, however, contains. all told.
something like 10000 characters. so you
will see he has variety even in his play.
He goes back to bis work after supper,
but spends part Of every evening with
his family. His favorite wife died year
or so ago, but his second wife, a woman OF
about 30, is still living, and | am told he
manifests no disposition to take third.
He has now three sons and two daughters
and about a dozen grandchildren. He is
very fond OF his grandchildren. They
play with him, crawl all over him, pull his
beard aud cue, and tyranniZe over him
lust as do their kind in the hum bIest fami-
lies of the empire. His children have all
had good educations. and they have
been brought up under foreign
tutor, an American. who is grad
brightest of the lot is the younger of the
two boys, Lord Ii Ching Mai, who is still
with his father, but who has been given a
place in the official service Of China by the
Emperor. He is only II years of age. but
he speaks the English language as well as
any American college student, and he has
already good English education. He
takes after his father in his physique and
in his intellectual ways. He is already
nearly feet in height, and l see consider
able resem blance between bis features
and those of the old Viceroy. He is. am
told, possessed of great natural abilities.
and il is predicted that he will do much
for modern progress In the China of the
future.
y re~A< <. Cn4.AA4~
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The first spinning machines were put in
operation in England in 1867.