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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-08
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS.
First One Started in Connecticut Half a
Century AGO.

First One Started In Connecticut Half q
Century Ago.
The idea of agricultural schools and
colleges in New England was origi-
mated in the old town of Cornwall, in
Litchfield county, half century ago,
by DR.. Samuel Wadsworth Gold, who
established the first school of the kind
in this country. He associated his son,
Theodore S. Gold, who had been grad
uated from Yale u few years, in the
management of the institution.
The son remained at the head
of the school twenty-four years,
when the enterprise was given
up,and the corps ofteachers disbanded.
1t is an interesting fact that four noted
schools were founded during the period
in question in the region of the Housa-
tonic valley.
Theodore S. Gold, who is now the
venerable secretary of the Connecticut
state board of agriculture, was at the
head of the distinctively agricultural
school. Frederick Gum, who COM
pleted his life-work in the famous Con-
necticut school called "The Gunnery,"
in Washington, was u ncighbor and
co-worker with Principal Gold. Am
brose Rogers, who died in an insane
asylum, and Burton Hart, now OF
New York, were the competitors
of school masters Gold and Gum.
Ambrose Rogers had a meteor
like career, and is still remembered
in Litchfeld county and the Berk-
shires on account of his striking
genius. Schoolmastor Gum was an
angler and hunter, loving the rod and
gun next to his school. He was an
apostle of athletics, and taught his
pupils in the field as well as in the
classroom. Mr.. Gold had the broadcast
ideas with regard to agricultural edu.
cation, and the lads who were sent to
him from all sections OF Connecticut,
were brought up on the farm. Every
boy had garden assigned him, and
spent regular hours in outdoor work.
Prof. Brush, of the Sheffield scientific
school at Yale, was one of the lads
trained under Schoolmaster Gold. The
farm life of the pupils was wholesome
and healthful.- Y. Times.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-08
New Bread Pudding Recipe.

A new recipe for bread pudding Is one
worth adding to the houselzecper's note
book. Soak one pint of fine crumbs in
pint of milk until soft, add three ta-
blespoonfuls of cocoa dissolved in lit
tic water, three weli-beaten eggs, a
half-cupful of granulated sugar, and
another pint of milk. Set the pudding
dish in pan of hot water and bake
one hour. Whipped cream favored
with vanilla is very good with this
pudding, or sauce made from scant
cupful of sugar, tablespoonful of corn
starch and q cupful Of water may be
used. Cook the ingredients in double
boiler ten minutes, and just before serv-
ing AIDA ounce of butter and q half-tea-
spoonful Of vanilla. Louis Republic
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-08
Some Tasteful Now Dojlics

Very pretty doilies are made of fine
japanese linen edged with rope stitch.
Cut the shape of different leaves, the
edge may be in green wash silk. Or
they may be cut to simulate rose and
the edge worked in pink to form petals.
Or decorate with border to represent
an cncircling ribbon tied with ends. Or
they may be made of the shcerest linen
aud decorated with indeliblc ink and a
pen to form any sort of quaint design.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-08
Strained Eyes Mako WRINKLES.

If more women realized that strain
ing the eyes produces wrinkles, moro
would exercise proper care of these
valuable members. BEADING hy dim
or failing light, coming suddenly from
dark room to light one, or vice versa,
ovcrworking the eyes in any way, and
last, but by no means least, wearing
dotted and cross-barrcd veils-thcse
and more taxing of the eYesight are OF
valuable assistance In the wrinkle-mak.
hg process
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-08
ParlOr DIPLOMACY,

81 heard, sir, that you said my piano
playing sounded part of the time as if
were jumping on the keys with both
feet"
Exactly, madam. referred to the
pianissimo passages. Anyone who
would stop to think would know that
such small and delicate feet as yours
could only produce the softest effects" y.
"oh. indianapolis Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-08

keep them in. The foundation is un.
bleached linen, the back is cut 80 inches
deep and 10 inches wide; the front Is
25 inches deep, and s9inches wide. The
front is arranged in two box plaits,
which form the pockets, the top Of each
of which is embroidered with stripe in
crewels or fax thread; shorter stripe
is worked between the pockets. The
edges are sewn together, and q border
of leaves is worked entirely round. The
embroidery will look best worked with
ono color or shades of one color, A
rosctte of ribbon, with pointed strap
between them, is placed at each of the
upper corners, and If the case is to be
hung up loop should be sewn under
each of the rosettes by which to sus-
pend it from hooks on the wall. When
used for travelling the case is rolled up
and tied round with ribbon, fastened
In bow.--St. Louis Republic.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-08
Pie and the Yankees.

Southerner-I understand that You
New Englandcrs have pic for break
fast every morning.
New Englander-It's an infamous
liel We have it for dinner and supper
and that's all.-Roxburg Gazette.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-08
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE cHAPeRoNs DOWNFALL.
How tho Bicycle Has InauEurated m In-
torcstlng Revolution.

HOW tho biCyVlO nus tuNuEur1tou WI Ans
torcstlng Revolution.
The bicycle has new function. It
Is RELOCATING the chaperon to her
proper sphere. 1t is not good-by nor q
long farewell to the dowagers on duty.
They will wag as long us society
swings. But in the last year there has
been tightening of the letters that
fasten society girl to her chaperon's
side, and this, too, in the innermost
circles, the approval of which makes q
custom good form.
This Is how the change was described
by one of tho moving spirits In the po-
tential clique of New Yorls most de-
sirable society.
This white-hnired young matron was
In an aftcr-dinner mode, ready to scin.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-08

Peter the Great was an unspeakable
Door. When at table, II a dish dis
spleased him, he threw It on the floor,
;or sometimes at the head Of enc Of the
attendants.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-08
suE COULDN'T KEEP UP, ANYwA'


gether. Now, those girls are too in.
tent on keeping the pace the young
men set to get into mischief, They arc
going to get to Claremont in the fifty
minutes time limit, and the girl who
keeps up best with the boys is the
favorite. They don't dismount except
for few moments before returning.
1t is the athletic spirit again, and all
very favorable to the release of the
chaperon from many of her duties.
Such thing wouldn't have been heard
of five or six years ago, where we were
ultra English. Then a chaperon was
indispensable, and the proudest boast
of society mother was thath her daugh-
ter had never been left alone moment
from her birth to the time she was
handed over to some young man at
the altar"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-08-08
NEAT PARASOL CASE.

just the Thing for Dressing Room or
Travelling Outfit.
This is very handy case, either to
put umbrellas in while travelling or to
hang on the wall of a dressing-room to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
KANSAS PARAGRAPH4

The newest and strangest sight in
Wellington is mud
Hill City will utilize roads that seldom
get wet by organizing a bicycle club.
A farmer near Peru wants machine
made for pulling wheat, as his is SO
small he can't cut it.
An Atchison man who believes in
keeping up home institutions has adopted
the plan of being drunk all the time.
It an odd thing that Gree Coinage"
is being prepared for the summer races
at Emporia where there are two gold bug
papers.
When some Lawrence officers ran by
chance onto a large "kag" party the
crowd scattered like a smooth bore shot
gun.
The Lawrence fire bell is now being
rung in such a way that people can find
out where the fire is before the lot has
burned.
So many Wichita children know more
than their instructors that the school
board has discharged twelve teachers for
the next year.
A Pratt county farmer left home on
account of the dust and had to go all the
way to town to get something to wash
his throat out.
IN BOm0 paris OF J6WelI county where
the crops are all gone the regular salu-
tation is: Whore are you going and
when do you start?"
The new editor of the Emporia Ga
zette had his feelings hurt the frat thing
because the old friends he met seemed
afraid to swear before him.
A neighborhood feud is raging with
such intensity in Wilson county that
there appears to be no other way to set
tie it than by match game of base
ball
It is thought that the killing of the
COW belonging to the mayor of Altoona
by railroad train can be settled salts
factorily without the consent of Euro
pean powers.
The Baldwin hotel has been fitted up
for the commencement season and will
be used by those young men who stay
out so late with their girls they can't get
in the house whore they are entertained.
The Citizen disposes of the complaint
at Fredonia that the water works water
smells of fish, in this pointed and clear
way: 'If there are dead fish in the
water works well they should be
elected "
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05

J. NJ. E. ATKINSON. kin 81 on, store
keeper for the Oregon Improvement
company, was appointed postmaster Of
Newcastle, Wash, a mining town near
Seattle. His commission stated that he
was to serve until his successor was ap-
pointed, and after vainly waiting ten
years for that belated worthy he wrote
to Washington Offering to resign. The
official who received his almost unprece-
denied proposition probably fell dead
from surprise, for the offer was ignored.
Atkinson wrote again and again and
finally moved to Seattle, but the post
Office still chung to him as tenaciOusly
as the old man Of the sea chung to Sind
bad. During the eight years that have
passed since then Atkinson has 1abored
with untiring zeal to get rid Of the
office He purposely offends politicians
of the opposite party, refuses to accept
his pay when Uncle Sam sends it to
him, lives in Seattle persistently and
does everything he can think Of to pro-
cure his discharge.
Strange to relate, Atkinson was sue
ceeded as storekeeper by Richard D.
Roberts, another man who has a post
Office on his hands and who is also in
despair because he cannot unload it.
Roberts is postmaster of Franklin, and
Atkinson increased his responsibilities
by making him deputy postmaster at
Newcastle. Roberts is now discharging
the duties of postmaster at Newcastle
and is still postmaster Of Franklin. Not
long ago a leading Democratic politi-
clan of Washington wrote Atkinson de-
manding $25 as a campaign cOntribu-
ton. In his reply Atkinson refused to
contribute, but stated that for the last
eight years ne had been conscientiously
but vainly endeavoring to secure his dis
charge as postmaster Of Newcastle, and
that if the politician could secure the
appointment of his successor he would
gladly give him a much larger sum
than S25
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
TO GET WORK FOR THEN.


A Congregational Minister Suggests Plan
for Scranton Miners.
To the Editor of the STATE JOURNAL.
OVERLOOK, Kan, June al read in
your Issue of May 20 an account of the
distress at Scranton. l drove over there
last Saturday and found things as repre-
sentsd BY the JOURNAL have plan
which / believe will give to some very
substantial and desirable relief
1t is to secure some man in each of the
towns of the county who will act as an
employment aNent to secure work for
some of these mS1 on farms, on the roads
and in stone quarfSes during the present
distress. A list OF the names of those
who are needy and who desire work and
have had some experience in such work
will be secured and placed in the hands
of friends who will act as agent between
the EN- ployer and the would be employed.
Notice will be given through the
county papers of this movement, and
farmers and others who wish to hire men
temporarily will be asked to give these
men a chance. VIII you give this plan
a boom in the JOURNAL? l have found
one man a place already in a stone
quarry, and expect to find places for
more. l presented the case to my con-
gregation yesterday and secured sub
striptions for a donation of provisions
which we will send this week.
These donations are necessary, but the
men want to earn a few dollars through
these summer months, and if they are to
get through they must have a chance to
earn il. l talked with one young man
who is supporting a mother and five
brothers and sisters. He said he had
been fortunate enough last week to earn
about So so, but he did not know that he
could get enough work to earn that
much next week. He was very anxious
to get work of any kind in the county
that would help relieve their distress.
Respectfully. E. E Preston,
Pastor Congregational Church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
ABOUT MR.. WALKER.

Something About the Career and Circum-
stances of Il Santa Fe Railroad Receiver.
Receiver Aldace F. Walker of the
Santa Fe. who is in town this week, was
raised in upper Vermont and when a
young man he studied law with United
States Senator Edmunds.
1t was MIR. Walkers acquaintance with
Senator Edmunds which gave him his
first start in life. This was accomplished
when Senator Edmunds secured his ap-
pointment as member of the interstate
commerce commission.
After he retired from the interstate
commission MIR. Walker practiced law in
New York and Chicago, and was later
connected with several railroad traffic
associations in Chicago.
At the time Mr.. Walker was appointed
a receiver of the Santa Fe he was en-
gagged in a general law practice in Chi
cage.
Mr.. Walker lives in Chicago on
North Dearborn street, where he has a
leased house.
Mr.. Walkers family consists of his
wife and young daughter and two sons
who are in school at Amherst, Massa-
chusatts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
A WELL TOO BIG.

Efforts to Control the Artesian outburst
at Chamberlain, S. D., Abandoned.
CHAMBERLAIN, s. D.. June efforts
looking toward the control of the nam
moth Chamberlain artesian we'll have
been abandoned, and this well, con-
queror in the long struggle for its sub
lection, will hereafter be permitted to
flow without molestation or interruption.
This we'll, which has attracted the at
tention of people living in all portions of
the United States by reason of its enor-
nous flow of 4. 762 gallons per minute.
has been an elephant on the hands of its
owner from the first
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
knows.

Eyes must never tire through glasses.
Those who wear them should bear this
in mind. In using glasses they must
feel easy and restful from the very mo.
ment they are put on. If the optician
or oculist tells you, when they tire your
eyes, that you will get used to them, tell
him that Prof Samuels says mo" They
must feel restful at once, otherwise they
will injurs your eyes as we'll as your
health, and if he sends you to some per-
son that he fitted with glasses and that
person tells you that his glasses tired his
eyes at first, but he finally got used to
them, you will know the glasses were
wrong. a person can get used to anything
but how much injury do you think you
will do your eyes during the processf
Your eyes can be strengthened and i'm
proved in the same length of time that it
took to injure them. When your eyes
and head feel tired, you are seeking for
relief aud not for more tired feeling.
Don't take glasses that make you sick in
your stomach. DON'T take glasses that
make you feel like a drunken man, or
feel like the floor is raising. If your
oculist can't give you relief, Prof,
samuels, at the Hotel ThrOop. can.
Don't allow anyone using drugs to ex-
anime your eyes Prot Samuels never
uses them, and he will challenge anyone
in this country for big money, barring
not even the man who gives a piece of
paper to those fellows for $50 and
fCrz
PROT Samuels cures nervous troubles
entirely through the eyes. No charges
made for consultation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05

HENRY CLEws, who is probably as we'll
posted on financial matters as any man
in the world, however little he may know
of the temper of the people in the west
aud south, says plainly that there is not
the remotest possibility of an interna-
tional agreement, or even an information
al conference on the silver question.
England, he SAYS, doesn't want anything
done for silver, and Germany will do
whatever England does in the matter.
The contest in this country. he says, is
between gold recommendation and silver
monometallism. If Henry CIews is right
the people of the west and south will not
be long in making their decision. They
will take silver in theirs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05

again take the high place in English
politics for which his talents fit him.
Many astute observers believe that had
it not been for the scandal of 1885 Sir
Charles would be premier today, and If
he really aspires to a conspicuous place
among British statesmen his struggles
to attain it will be watched with wide
spread interest.
Sir Charles Wentworth Dixie was
born at Chelsea on Sept. 4, I843, and
is a member of distinguished family.
His father was a friend of the prince
consOrt, who made him a baronet and
secured his appointment as ambassador
to St. Petersburg. Sir Charles received
the best education that money could buy
and took high honors in the law. He
then visited America and wrote a very
able book called Greater Britain. - In
1868 he was elected to parliament to
represent Chelsea as Radical He adj
vocated the abolition of royalty, and
Queen Victoria, upon being told that
she had once stroked the rising politi-
clans head when he was a little boy,
remarked that she must have stroked
him the wrong way.
He served in the German ambulance
service during the Franco-Prussian war
and was in Paris during the commune.
About this time he married Miss Kate
She'll, a brilliant and handsome Irish
woman, who was often mobbed with
him by crowds who opposed his repub-
hcan views. When she died, her body
was cremated, and Sir Charles still af-
fectionately preserves her ashes in an
antique vase. Finally friendship for the
Prince of Wales caused him to abandon
his ardent republicanism, and in 1880
be became under secretary for foreign
affairs under Lord Granville. He took
high rank as statesman and was prom
inently mentioned for premier before
the Crawford case ruined him. In 1892
he succeeded in re-entering parliament
despite the opposition Of the Social
Purity association, and since then he
has been working hard to secure great
political influence. His second wife, the
widow of Professor Mark Hopkins, was
a firm believer in his innocence in the
Crawford affair and married him while
the scandal was convulsing British So
| siety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
FAMILIAR KANSAS NAMES.

]. Fred Whiting has sold the Florence
Bulletin to Grant Shaw of Louisville,
Pottawatomie county.
Judge A. II. Ellis of the Sixth district
is reported to be still a consistent advo-
cate of free coinage of silver.
George R. Peck has been selected to
deliver the annual address at the COM
mencement of the University of Vir-
ginia
Ex-Auditor Van B. Prather's son Wal
ter sustained a fracture of one of his
wrists as the result of throwing a stone,
recently.
Mrs M. ". Reynolds will have the re-
mains of kicking Bird" exhumed and
taken to Michigan, where she resides,
for interment
John T. Showalter, who was deputy
bank commissioner under c. F. Johnson.
has turned his attention from politics to
raising chickens.
Professor Vernon L Kellogg, who has
a chair in the University of California, is
home for the summer and will spend
the time with his parents
In addition to his political duties Rail
road Commissioner ]. NJ. Simpson found
time to accumulate 1000 bushels of wheat
which he SOLD on the recent bulge in the
market
Joseph Potter of Atchison county. who
is said to be the man who first introduced
John J. Ingalls, to an audience. was
dragged and injured by a colt recently
resulting in his death.
Down in Chautauqua county ex-Lieu-
tenant Governor Felt Is regarded as 4
mascot He delivered the Decoration
Day address at Sedan this year and his
presence was preceded and followed by
good rain, while it was clear during
the memorial services.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
IN LONG Low ARCHES.
The Prospective Kansas Avenue Bridge
to Be Thing of beauty.

The Prospective Kansas Avenue Bridge
to Be a Thing of beauty.
The county commissioners have agreed
upon at least one thing with reference to
the proposition to build a new bridge
across the Kansas river aud that is that
the bridge shall be, if it is built, made
up of low long arches
There is one obstacle to the plans of
the commissioners; the legislative act
only allows the county to vote $4,000,
and that sum will hardly build a good
arch bridge.
There are three arches which have
been discussed; one is the solid stone
arch which was at once voted too ex-
pensive; another is the Melan concrete
arch submitted by ex-City Engineer VIM.
Tweddale which would also probably
cost more than the county will be able to
pay; the other is a steel arch which was
submitted Dy Leavenworth parties last
week.
1t may be that none of the above
bridges could be built with the money
which would be realized from the sale Of
the bonds, and if that is found 10 be
fact the commissioners will have to alter
their plans.
There is an important change which
will be made which will greatly reduce
the cost of the bridge. The length of
the bridge will only be 700 feet, Instead
of 800 The north span of the bridge is
considered useless, as it does not cover
much of the channel, and it is thong ut it
will not be necessary to extend the bridge
over that part of the river, but to build
the bank out
Instead of the bridge substantial fill
will be made in the space now covered
with the north span. Engineers think
that a channel 100 feet in width can
easily carry all the water which will flow
down the river. even in times of freshets.
The details will not be agreed upon
for some time, but before the proclama-
ton is made they will be arranged. One
thing is certain, the people OF Shawnee
county will be given AN opportunity to
decide this fall whether they care to en-
danger their lives any longer on the ram
shackle affair across the river which is
called g bridge