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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
THE WALLER CASE.
The French Government Begins to Show
signs of Weakening.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-Acting Sec
rotary of State Mr.. Adee authorizes
the statement that information has
been received from Ambassador
Eustis in response to urgent i~nstruc-
ago that h record of proceedings
and evidence in the court-martial OF
Mr.. Waller at Tamatave is expected to
reach Paris toward the end of this
month. Mr.. Eustis also reports that
access to Mr., Waller has been accorded
to him after repeated and urgent re-
quests made on the reiterated orders
of the department of state.
The department not having been adj
vised whether Mr.. Eustis has taken
advantage of this permission to dele
gate a competent deputy to visit the
prison near Clairvaux, where Mr.. Wal.
Ter is now confined, and confer with
him, Mr.. Adee has instructed him by
telegraph that he should do so at once,
If not already done. Mr.. Adee adds that
this result, reached after repeated tele.
graphic instructions. shows the con.
slant activity ct the department in Mr..
Walters case, and it is hoped tina. the
production of the evidence before the
court martial will enable the depart
ment to form 4 Judgment touching the
conviction of Mr.. Waller.
The following is given in official cir
cles as a fair statement of the Wal
Ter case: There is no doubt that
while in a country occupied by the
French Mr.. Waller wrote letters to
the people the French were oppos-
ing. These letters were traced to him
and were made the pretext for his ar
rest. His trial was not fair, and DUR
ing his imprisonment, both before and
after conviction, he was treated with
great h~arshness. He was brought to
France chained to the deck of q
steamer, and, though i'll and suffering,
he was imprisoned without propes
care.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
FRENCH GOSSIP

STEAMERS of 1000 tons can now go
up the Seine to Paris with their own
steam.
AN international conference on the
protection of wild birds useful to agri-
culture was held in Paris in the last
days Of June.
LORD DUFFERIS has been obliged to
discharge all the French servants at
the British embassy in Paris, as they
have repeatedly been discovered tam
pering with dispatch boxes.
CABLES will connect the Eiffel tower
with turrcts of the Trocadero palace,
during the 1900 exhibition, and upon
them light passenger trains will be Il
by gravitatlon.
FRANCE proposes to put an end TIC
racing by ocean greyhounds by enforc-
ing the regulations of 1883, limiting the
speed at sea. A new bill drawn up by
the marine ministry, imposes heavy
penalties for excessive speed.
In France the Budget committee has
decided to remove the taxes on wines,
beer, cider, and other ''hygicnic drinks
and to increase the duty on spirits with
the exception of alcohol used in the
arts. The manufacture of alcohol will
be a state monopoly.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
Where the Trouble Comes In.

Better roads are desired and advo-
Gated by everybody. The farmer needs
them to go to and from his markets:
the man of leisure and means wants
them because they are pleasant to
drive over. The wheelmen want them
that their runs and exercise shall be
taken under the most favorable condi.
lions, There Is no protest against
them from any quarter. Everyone who
uses a turnpike or the common dirt
roads OF the state is williug-complete-
ly and entirely willing-that somebody
else shall pay for the improvement.
Here is the place where the shoe be-
gins to pinch. The farmers are, per-
haps, more nearly concerned than N
other class in the community, but
allege they already pay an undue pro-
portion of the taxes, and, therefore,
are unwilling to saddle themselves
with the expense of building better
roads for the benefit OF others-Farm
and Home.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
THE WORLDS WONDERS.

THE tunnel at Schemmitz, Hungary,
is the longest i'll the world. 1t has a
length of 1927 miles, costing over So
0 $1,000 TO construct. Completed in the
year 1858, it was commenced in the
eighteenth century.
THE smallest city in the world is the
miniature place known as Steward
City, Alaska, L. s., its three inhabit-
ants being, respectively, mayor, chair
man of the board of aldermen and pres
ident of the common council.
THE most remarkable whirlpool is
the maelstrom of the northwest coast
of Norway and southwest Of Mos
kenaesol, the most southerly of the
Lofoden isles. 1t was once supposed
TO be unfathomable, but the depth has
been shown not to exceed twenty
fathoms.
TIE longest bridge In the world is
the Lion bridge, near Saugang, China.
1t extends 81 miles over an arm of the
Yellow sea and it is supported by 800
huge stone arches. The roadway is 20
feet above the water and is lnclosed in
an iron network. A marble lion 81
feet long rests on the crown of every
pillar.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29

0 AND WRITERS.

GABRIELLE D~'ANYUNzIo, the Italian
novelist, is writing a story whose
heroine Is said to be Eleonora Duse.
THE bicycle microbe is working
havoc everywhere. It's latest distin-
Ruishcd victims are Tolstoi and Henri
Rochefort.
PERsIGNY, the most INSCRIPTIONS of
Napoleon Ills agents in bringing
about the coup d'etat. left memoirs
which are to be published soon in
Paris,
CHARLES LEROY, whose Colonel
Ramollot" stories, satirizing the abb
surdities of French officers. led to n
series of plays and books attacking the
abuses prevalent in the French army,
died recently in Paris.
DICKENS Cricket on the Hearth
seems to have suddenly struck the
fancy of French playwrights. Two OPP
cratic versions of lie Grillon du
Foyer" are announced, one of them by
Audran, as well as two plays founded
on the story.
BURGER, who wrote the ballad of
"Lenore,' which had q great influence
on the romantic movement in literature
at the beginning of the century, has
had a monument erected to his memory
ut Gottingen, where he held a profess
sorship for awhile.
PROF. JULIUS ZUPITzA, who died of
~apoplexy recently at Berlin at the age
Of fifty-one, was one of the foremost
scholars of English in Germany. He
brought out editions of the Ramauncc
Of Guy, of Warwick, Of Bcowulf, and
Of Chauccr's Canterbury Tales.
PRoF. MAHAFrY has found out that
Of the two words of farewell at the end
Of the Greek letters found among the
Pctrie papyri, eutuchei is the polite
form corresponding to Your obedicnt
servant" while crroso is more familiar,
like Yours sincerely"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
PREPARING EoR WINTER.
Food Ia the Real source of the Flavor oi
Dairy Products.

Dairy Products.
The dairyman who wants good but
ter next winter should not miss to
grow n bountiful crop Of carrots and
parsnips. says the New York Times.
The excellence of the Jersey cows is
unquestionably due TO The parsnips
which are fed TO them, and for which
the soil and climate Of the Channel
islands are 81 well adapted. These
roots are wholly free from any objec-
tionable quality, and confer a sweet
ness and aromatic flavor on the butter
which are gained by no other food.
II Is ms reasonable To believe that
the food is the source of the flavor OF
the butter as IL is that of the flavor of
the flesh of IN animal. And this, not
withstanding the avowed belief of n
number OF scientific persons-or per-
sons who claim to be scientifc-to the
contrary. II is alleged by these per-
sons that it is the individuality of the
COW hat gives the flavor to the butter.
Common people know better, and
no amount of scientific allegation
will make them believe that when
n COW eats garlic in the pas
ture or cabbages or turnips in the
stable, IL is the individuality of the an
imal and not the strongly-havored food
that contributes the special taste and
color to the milk and butter. And so
il is the food to which the Jersey cow
beer used for hundreds of years.
and by which the milk and butter
been gradually increased until
the large product from the food and
the ability to consume a large quantity
of the richest food have been fixed on
the race and have become an essential
characteristic of IL. 1t is true hat the
COW possesses an individuality
of her own, but this is a consequence
and not m intrinsic natural ability; it
is not an active, but a passive, charac-
teristic, and nothing more nor less
than a result of long training and edu-
fixed by breeding. Any other
has the same possibility if the
means are taken to form it and
the distinct character. Aud
every dairyman should SO manage his
as to develop and fix this inn
proved condition.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
THE OPERATIC A

"LI MAsC," n fve-act comedy in
Pro yer by Alphose Tavan, one OF
the founders of the Felibrige, the So
ciety for the renewal of Provencal poe
try, has been given with great success
at Vancluse.
SAINT SAENs has composed the last
two acts for a grand opera Fredcgondc.
of which his friend Ernest Gueraud
had written the first two at the time of
his death. 1t will be given soon ut the
Grand opera.
ct the Theater Libre next season
operate pieces will be given as well as
plays. A curious performance of King
Lear is also promised with a novel ar
r%angemcnt of scenery hat will make
possible the sudden transformations
necessary to. present the scenes in their
original sequence.
"TANNHAUsER' was given nine times
out of the fourteen performances of
grand opera in Paris during the month
of May, the receipts averaging %, 900
francs a night, 5000 francs more than
the average of the other operas, which
were Faust" ''Sigurd" and samson
and Delilah."
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
ABOUT EuRoPe'S ARISrOCRACY.

WITH the exception of the king of
Denmark, Queen Victoria is the oldest
reigning sovereign Of Europe.
Princess FEoDoRA Of Saxe-Meinin-
ger, the oldest of Queen Victoria's
great-grandchildren, is sixteen, and
has just been confirmed. The queen
may be a MISUNDERSTANDING yet.
PRINCE OSCAR of Prussia, the young
son of the emperor, had his first tooth
pulled the other day. 1t was the birth
day of his English govcrness, and
among other prccc2ts he sent the tooth
to the lady as n gift.
WHILE n train was going at full speed
ear Mollcrsdorf In Austria, q gust OF
wind blew open q carriage door, and
the thrce-year-old son of Prince Alex
under of Solms fell ont, The train was
stopped and the people who ran back
nset the little thing running along the
track without u scratch.
CouNr DE GovEN, a great grandson
of Marshal Clarke, duke OF Feltre, has
just passed, at the age of fifty, his ex-
animation as doctor OF medicine, He
wa formerly a deputy, but on her
deathbcd, five years ago, his wife
begged him TO devote himself TO the
care Of the poor, and he at once began
10 study medicine.
WHEN the empress of Austria takes
her daily walk Of four or five
nilcs, she wears a short black dress
that does not reach the ankles. She
walks straight on wherever she wishes
and her Greek teacher follows close
behind talking Greek or reading TO
her. She has to get a new teacher
every year,
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
Concernl'.: the First Calf.

When a heifer is MS good as three
years old, before her first calf is
dropped, and the sire is a WE'LL bred
and fully-matured animal, the calf is
not to be despised, but in the case of a
two ear-old heifer the situation is al
together altered, and only under ex-
ceptional circumstances should her first
calf be reared. Such an animal, as a
rule, lacks size and constitution, and
in nine cases out of every ten is sadly
deficient in flesh and hair. its desti-
nation should, therefore, be the sham
bles. and when it Is well fattened it's
mother pays her way better than is
possible under any other system N.
Y. World.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
PERSONAL T

FIFTEEN THOUSAND dollars has so far
been subscribed for the testimonial to
DIR. w. G. Grace started by the Daily
Telegraph, OF New York.
Gov. MORRILL,, of Kansas, SAYS he
will never sign q death warrant so long
as the law leaves the matter optional
with him.
Louis VoIssoN, who has been French
consul In Philadelphia for the last ten
years, has had conferred upon him the
o of the Legion of Honor.
MRS, KATE CHASE says that before
the days Of telephones her father used
to go to the window of his committee
room in the senate wing of the capitol
and wave a handkerchief to her as a
signal that he was not coming home to
dinner.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
LITTLE CULllNGS

A NEW restaurant was opened at Ell
linwood, Kan, a few days ago by Mrs.
Feeder.
The color of snuff depends on the ex-
tent to which fermentation has been
allowed to go.
CAMELs arc probably the only ami
mails that cannot swim. Immediately
after they enter the water they turn On
their backs and are drowned.
A PnI.ADELPHIAN who regularly Wis.,
it's n barber shop or Ninth street has a
hirsute horror in the shape of n mus
tache which measures twenty-five
inches from tip to tip.
SEVERAL Georgia w~atermelons weigh
ing more than fifty pounds have been
brought to market this season, but it is
likely the record viii be carried by one
weighing a crile over sseventy-fve
pounds, cut recently on a ThomastoD
farm.
IT is said that cut flowers will keep
very fresh if n small pinch Of nitrate
of potash or common saltpctre is put
in the water in which they stand. The
ends of the stems should be cut off q
little every day to keep open the alb
sorbing pores.
ANTAGONISTS to separate the bones Of
n skull frequently fill it with small
beans and place the whole in n basin
of water. The beans swell and slowly
split the skull. The force which beans
are capable Of exerting under these
conditions is equal to the average press
ure in TIE boiler of n steam engine.
Mas. ZOE MARCoE, aged seventy
years, of Fond du Lac, Wis, has just
brought suit for breach of promise Of
marriage against Francis Pcllant, aged
ciyhty-one years, OF Martinette. Mr..
Pellant AYERS he is and always has
been ready to marry the lady, but there
seems to be some difficulty interposed
by his children.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
FIRE AT
Warehouses on the Dock and Many Freight
Cars Destroyed.


MILWAUKEE. Avg. o3--Tbe ware.
houses on the Union steamboat dock
at the junction of the Milwaukee and
Menominee rivers caught fire in SOM
way at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon
aud were soon a mass of flames, though
three alarms were sent in. The fire
then spread to the warehouse of the
Anchor Line Steamship Co. and the
freight sheds OF the Wisconsin Central
railroad, and some cars began burning
on the tracks in the yard. The ware.
house of the Union steamboat and
Anchor line were all destroyed in an
hour, as were also the freight sheds of
the Wisconsin Central, while the freight
yard was a mass of blazing cars. The
John Pritzlaff Hardware Co.'S house
next caught fire. while steamers and
sailing vessels were moved from the
docks along the West Water street
front. as it was believed hat the fire
would reach the Milwaukee river in
the lower Fourth ward before il
could be checked. The factory OF
the Delaney Oil and Grease Co.
was burned about . o'clock, and
handle, Spencer e Co.'S plumbing fix.
ture establishment was ablaze and
sixty freight ears in the st. Paul yards
were destroyed and the ST. Paul pas.
senger depot was threatened. At z
o'clock the flames were still sweeping
in a northerly direction. A large mum.
Der of frame residences were swept
away. Joseph McManus, aged s. son
of Detective McManus, was run over
by a steam engine and instantly
killed. soon after 5 o'clock the
fire was at least partially under
control and the Britzloff Hard.
ware Co.'S great building was
saved, though badly damaged. Six
hundred freight ears in the st. Paul
yards came nearly being burned.
Between $50 and 500 freight cars,
which were directly in the path of the
flames, and which were at first sup.
posed by officials to have been totally
destroyed, were hurriedly removed to
a place of safety by yard engines,
leaving but forty or fifty cars ac tually
destroyed or damaged. The total loss
was about S400. 600.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
Bees That Make Bad Honey.

Lovers OF the product Of the busy
bee will find it a wise pracaution to
have their honey tested AS To its purity
before they eat it, or use IL in a cult
nary way" Prof. Remington gave a
warning something like this at a re-
cent meeting of pharmacists, and at
the same time told of n German who
was extensively engaged in bee cul-
ture, and who had his apiary close to a
& refinery. A lot of rank molasses
was accessible to the bees, and they
gorged themselves on il. The result
was their honey was equally rank, and
unfit for use. On another occasion the
bees fed on blooming digitalis, and
their honey proved to be poisonous.
Natural honey, therefore, is liable to
vary very much, and occasionally,
when it looks best and is sweetest, il
may be loaded with poison. Unscrupu.
lops bee-farmers are accustomed To
forcing their ices TO increase their out.
put by feeding them sweetened water.
The honey, of course, is scarcely fit for
use.-Philadelphis Record.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
FOREIGN

G~LADsToNE's health is said to be bet
ter than it has been at any time during
the last five years.
A FUND has been started in New
South Wales to erect n memorial over
the grave of Sir John Robertson, who
came cut of the bush to govern the
colony.
For one hundred years Nine. Chevil-
lard, of Villcgarden, France, has lived
on bread, milk, fruit and vegetables.
She has never eaten meat. This month
she celebrated the one hundredth ami
versary of her birth.
Mrs. PLUMTRE, an English woman
has just finished q dictionary for the
blind in Draille type. 1t has occupied
her nearly two and n half years, work
ing at it four, five and often six hours
n day. II fills $500 pages, contains
about 20, 900 words, and will make ff.
cen or sixteen large volumes.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
Salts Of Copper Va, Io,ur,ou..

The scare as to poisoned food which
crops up fitfully has Of late taken for
its object the employment of salts of
copper for the culture of potatoes and
vines, and II has been insinuated that
grapes and tubers grown N this way
were by no means harmless. As gem
orally happens, in such cases, ms soon
as the subject has been thoroughly in
~vestigated its absurdity becomes APP
parent. NJ. Alme Givard has made a
series of chemical analyses, and finds
that there is not the slightest ground
for the supposition hat salts of copper
could impart to the fruit or vegetable
any poisonous qualities. The trace of
copper obtained from the ashes Of the
incinerated grapes and potatoes is toa
small to be OF any Importance
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
NOTES FOR DAIRYMEN.

NEVER keep cream in a damp cellar.
II you do it will rot.
If the butter is bitter, 1t is likely the
cows are eating weeds.
lr there is rag-weed in the pastur es,
look out for bitter butter.
Rory cream is the result of an i'm
perfect physical condition of the cows.
IT is claimed that skim milk for feed
ing calves is worth 20 cents per 100
pounds.
As A rule it is better to sell butter as
fast as it is made. Make n good article
and let her go.
In butter is kept in jars, the jars
should be glazed, rs unglazed jars are
porous and admit air.
SWEET cream should be churned at a
lower temperature than sour cream.
About 80 degrees is proper, Farmers
Voice.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
A

The accuracy of the surveying in an
Gent engineering is marvellous consid-
ering the rudeness of the instruments.
ROME was supplied from twenty-four
large ~aqueducts which brought SO, OOO,.
600 cubic feet Of water daily into the
city.
THE first tunnel for commercial pur-
poses was executed by NJ. Riguet in
the reign Of Louis XIV, at Bezieres,
France.
The famous bridge constructed by
Queen Nitocris at Babylon, and de.
scribed by Diodarus, was Ave furlongs
long.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
TOO MUCH
How Thousands of Fruit Trees Are Ru-
ined Every Year.

How Thousands of Fruit Trees Are Ru-
ined Every Year.
The very best judgment must be
used in pruning trees. There is too
much pruning, and yet pruning is often
necessary. The injuries to fruit trees
and the losses TO fruit growers from
vicious and altogether unnecessary
pruning n be estimated. The
popular idea that trees must be pruned
in order that they should exist, and es-
pecially II fruit bearing trees, SO that
they should bear fruit, is one of the
most persistent Of all prejudices. lie
Is looked upon as u careless fruit grow
err who neglects to visit his orchard at
least once during the year, armed with
knife and chiSel, saw and AK, md to
strew the ground with twigs and
branches is deemed evidence of skillful
treatment by those who, like the OPP
orator, are ignorant of the laws which
govern vegetable growth. Some years
ago there was on the grounds of an ex-
perimeutal station IA pear orchard
which was planted and maintained for
the especial purpose of illustrating the
best methods of management for the
production Of fruit They were all
standard trees, and NJ the time of
planting were deprived of nearly all
the growths of the previous year; they
looked very much like walking canes.
After the summer growth was ma
tured some OF the shoots were cut back
in order to establish n proper DISPOSE
ton OF branches, From that time they
were untouched by the pruning knife.
They commenced TO bear the fourth
year after planting aud continued to
yield heavy crops OF fine fruit until 1t
became necessary to remove them
Farmers Voice.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
SAID ev THE sc,ENrlsTs.

A FRENCH medical authority asserts
that death caused BY n fall from a prca,
height h absolutely painless. The siind
acts very rapidly for a time, then un.
consciousness enSacs.
ALFRED G. LANE writes hat ten
miles above the earth the cold is far
below zero, while ten miles below the
surface everything Is red hot. This lat
ter Is not SO certain. IL is thought by
SOM that the heat of the earth may be
wholly due to absorption from the sun,
and so may decrease after a certain
depth has beer reached.
Music relieves muscular fatigue In
man. says Prof. Tarchanoff. of st. Pc
tersburg, who has been experimenting
on the subject from a purely physiolog-
ical standpoint. II helps TO drive out
carbonic acid in dogs and increases
their consumption of oxygen; it also
makes them perspire. He thinks it may
be regarded as a serious therapeutic
agent
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29
vENrILArIso COVER FOR MILK PALS.

shapes and sizes to fit different vessels
used. The invention is urged as par
ticularly applicable for use in diaries
for covering pans containing milk or
utensils from which customers are
served.
The arrangement represented by Fig.
l consists of a wood or metal rim of
UGH size and shape as to fit closely
upon the top of the pan, and over this
frame is stretched n covering OF wire
gauze, or other suitable material capa-
BILE of keeping out flies and dust with
out retarding proper ventilation or ac-
cess of air to the contents. In the
center of the cover or frame is fixed n
second rim, forming an opening
through which the milk may be served
and which, when not in use for that
purpose, may be closed by a hinged
lid. The idea is applicable to pitchers,
bowls, jam pots and all like vessels.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-08-29

The American Mission at Foo Chow At
tackled by Infuriated Chinese.
HoNG KoSG, Aug. 23.-The American
mission near Foo Chow has been at.
tackled by a large and Infatuated mob
armed with various weapons. The
chapel and school have been wrecked
and four native teachers fatally
wounded, while the foreign teacher,
escaped. There is a strong anti-for.
eign feeling in Foo Chow, which is
spreading among the populace, who
are parading with cries of Drive out
the foreign devils"