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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
SELECT sIFTINGS.

.NHWa 49, W.
The word Arizona mean etymolog&
cally, ''big nose"
A duke during the middle ages W.
an Independent sovereign.
The nsme Ptolemy was adopted 81
title by the later kings Of Egypt.
The oldest New England Church, III
point Of use as q religious edifoe. is
bingham, Mass.
The list of English authors and
their works give the titles Of over 500
poems and essays on Solitude"
italian soldiers are given cigar
every cay, but have to pay for their
underclothing, washing and all toilet
articles. |
New York has the biggest gas tank
in the world. 1t towers high above
the buildings in West Sixty-hfth street
and holds 1000, 900 feet.
GA ~Schoolmaster' wishes to ex-l
change his little daughter, aged
eleven, for a boy of similar age" was
an odd advertisement in the Kentishs
Mercury, England, recently.
When the ostrich is to be Invested
Of its plumage a long hood is placed
on its head, and il is then confined In
a rallied Enclosure about three feet
square. The birds rarely show fight.
A. b. Myers, Of Hanover, Penn,
lost both his hands in an accident
years ago. He was recently marriedS
and signed his marriage certificates
with q pen held in his teeth. Biz
~penmanship is fine.
The register of q country hotel in
Maine one day recently contained
names of Mongolians, Russians. Prus-
slams, Italians, Turks, Greeks, Cam
sdian, French and Germans, each
written in the owners language.
A lake of boiling mud, two miles In
circumference, exists In the island Of
Java, near Solo. Masses of soft, hot
mud continually arise and fall, and
huge mud bubbles explode like bal
looms, with reports like guns, at the
rate of three o minute. 4
A Japanese audience, when they
wish to express disepproval Of q bed
play, do not hiss or boot OF make any
hideous and inconvenient noise; they
merely rise to their feet and turn
their backs to the stage, upon which
the curtain Immediately descends, and
the play is forthwith tabooed.
A cat, imported from Madagascar, Is
in the possession of w. g. Robinson,
of New Castle, Penn. The animal has
no tail and runs like a rabbit. The
cat is O great rabbit hunter, and can
follow Mr.. Bunny into almost any
burrow. Mr.. Robinson claims that il
caught nineteen rabbits n day re-
Gently.
Ancient critics said Homer was Q
plagiarist. Naucrats charged that
Homer stole all his work from q pre-
ceding poem; Aelian mentions one
Syagrus who preceded Homer and
wrote a poem on the siege Of Troy
and Suidas says Homer got his best
passages from a poem by Corrinnus on
the same subject.
The California Indians bow is made
from the white sap of wood Of the
cedar, the outside ofs the tree being
the outer side of the bow. The stick
is scraped and polished with pieces OF
obsidian. Then it is roasted in ashes
and bent into shape. Their arrows
are made Of button willow, twigs Of
the buckeye and canes.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05

A California paper boasts that q
single school district in San Bernar-
dino County of the State is sever
times as large as the State of Rhode
Island, and has coyotes than the
whole of New England. "But we
would wager" comments the Boston
Cultivator, ''that the school children
In Rhode Island are better taught than
the coyotes in that district, or the
coyotes of New England than the
school children of that district"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
Different Tastes in Guns.

In guns the old-style flint looks.
with stocks carved and painted in
colors and witk barrels painted in Pc
culiar hieroglyphics, arc sold to the
Arabs and African tribes in quantities.
The South American takes q dainty
barrel of the smallest gauge, with the
stocks also deliberately carved and
ornamented. The European buys .
gun exquisitely finished and inlaid in
tracings Of gold. -Chieago herald.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05

The San Francisco Examiner thinks
Japan is getting too civilized. The
last steamer brings word that a Know
Nothing society has tried to blow up
the Minister of Finance, while the
Government is accused of turning over
leo, 900 yen from the Secret Service
fund for the election expenses of tie
Liberal Party.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05

The farmers in G Louisiana parish
met and with great unanimity resolved
"that each and every member of the
order hereby obligates himself to use
the most rigid economy until we get
out of debt, and thereby be financially
independent of any man or set of men"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
Seventeen cities in the United States
are each of larger area than Berlin
with its population of 1879, 600.

Fired by the example of DR.. Thiv-
rier, who sits in the French Chamber
in q blouse, another Socialist, a pig
merchant named Deloge, offers himself
for election with the understanding
that, if successful, he will attend the
sessions in blouse and sabots to boot.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05

low ground, and under immen
boulders, although often in shalloE
beds of fine red sand or under q hax
crust of lime. The puzzle here, agaif
is to know how all these gems Gu
thera--Chambers's Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05
A BRAGGART In LOVE.
HE women had 90,

III women had gone
to the drawing
room, and we had
finished first cigars,
when the
tion struck on
m~atrimony. W e
were all married
men explaining how
it happened. The
other guests had
told IL turn their
little story in the
free confidence one
feels at the end of
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05

a perfect dinner. L had related my
romance, and W. now turned to our
host.
Marlin, how did you win your
.wife?"
Its a long story-began on hunt
ing pass in the Arizona desert, crossed
the water, and ended III Colorado.
Light fresh cigars"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-07-05

touched: nevertheless the splintcrs
will pierce the hardest rock, and even
when reduced to the finest powder,
will cut and polish oil other gems,
Until tie discovery of the South
African mines, all diamonds came from
India and Brazil but it was, of course,
the Indian mines which supplied the
Old World; and, strange as it may
seem, to our belief in the superiority
Of modern craftsmen, the jewelers. of
ancient India, and possibly Of Rome
also, had discovered the art of en-
CRAVING and even of piercing the dia-
mond, an art which our modern Jew
elers find most difficult.
Thousands, perhaps millions of
years the diamond has been in exist
ence, yet its origin is still a mystery.
Pure carbon. the chemists call it, but
in what alembic it. is distilled they
know not. Embedded in mud, it re-
NAMED undefled; yet sometimes il
will be found tinted by some chemical
process 80 as to become pink, blue,
yellow, and even black, but it always
remains q diamond, not to be con-
founded with the m crystals
which often bear it company. In the
yaal River diggings it would seem to
have q constant companion in O curl
ousIy streaked pebble, known as the
sbanddoom," which, when q digger
finds, he knows that diamonds are
near. In these diggings the gems are
not found in 'sLlue" ground, az; at
Kimberley, but sometimes ~ 3 depth
Of from tWVnty ~ seventy IN = N
The herald., 1895-10-21

At the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation the first of series of illus
trated addresses on Christ in Art was
given yesterday afternoon by the Rev. c..
I. Douglass of Pasadena. Stere opticon
views of Palestine and its cities and cop
les of many works of art depict ng tn 9
early life of Christ were shown upon the
canvas Next Sunday there will BIO con-
tinuation of the subject. Each Monday
there IS a Bible class in the Y. NJ. ca +.
build ing conducted by Rev. G. S. Mason,
to which all young men are invited.
The herald., 1895-10-21
Etiquette Among Paupers

Anyone anxious to meet sturdy Ill
hammered pauper may be recommended to
apply to William Driscoll, late OF the
city of London Union poorhouse, and
now of one of her majestys jails. While
the inmates of the institution mentioned
were enjoying their Sunday dinner Dris-
coll peremptorily and insolenty ordered
another rate-supported person to pass the
salt. A mild companion in spectacles
on the other side OF the table suggested
that Driscoll should address his fellows
as one gentleman should another, and
say PLEASE pass the salt" This raised
all the native dignity which lurked in
the sturdy saltless individ ual S breast and
he loudly proclaimed that he would
not consent to take Lessons in etiquette
from any psuper, and even threatened
blows. When the la bor-master interfered
Driscoll told him that were it not for
the uniform he wore he would take the
rise'' out of him and altogether behaved
in such an unruly manner that he was
given into custody. He was described as
the terror of the poorhouse and Mr.. Paul
Taylur sent him to prison fol seven days.
If priscoll mad more salt and less
rations he might be a much milder an.
london Telegraph.
The herald., 1895-10-21
The Rev. Mia Turner MAYNARD

Rev. Mia Topper Maynard preached
yesterday morning in Blanchard e. Fitz-
gerald hall, on the subject, Quiet Resting
Places, taking her text from Isaiah, S2-17
and Is: THE work of right men shall be
peace; and the effect of Righteousness
quietness and assurance forever. And
my people shall abide il a peaceable
habltation and in sure dwellings and in
quiet resting places.
I'm the ordinary affairs o! life practical
persons are on the alert for result. They
eek definite tests by which to judge sue
cess. In the moral side of life, while we
may bs as earnest in our purpose'as in
business matters, we are less apt to seek
returns in any specific result. Yet there
is a measure by which we ought to judge.
1t is akin to the tests of physical con-
dition. Health of body brings freedom
from pain-energy and buoyant life.
Health of spirit should yield results akin
to this. Calmness, Joy: harmony these
are tho natural conditions of the soul in
the light life. Disease, unrest gloom
these nave no place in the normal moral
The herald., 1895-10-21
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
It's excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable, and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties Of perfect lax.
alive; effectually cleansing the system
dspelling colds, headaches and feveis
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ming them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in Doc and ST. bottles, but it is man.
ufac.rred by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs
md being we'll informed. you will not
accept any substitute If offered. i,
The herald., 1895-10-21

Therefore their object is to aid and up.
lit their brothers.
"Ordinary men too seldom rise above
the physical plane, but the masters work
on the higher plane-the realm of
causes. They have their great central
lodge, which has existed through count
less ages, and has always been represen ted
through some'ga or other to the outer
world. No movement having for It's OBJ
ject the uplifting of the race b as ever been
inaugurated in which they have not been
concerned and have been the invisible
helpers. They have worked in the
churches. among the Rosiorucians and
the lodges of the Masons. At present
they have founded the Philosophical
society as the channel through which
they can best teach humanity. In all
ages they have given to man as much
spiritual and occult knowledge as he has
been able to receive. So now they have
given through the writings of Fl. P.
Blavatsky. their agent in this great
movement, flood of light, which those
who nave sufficiently developed their
spiritual light may discern and profit by.
Nothing givensin fc rmer times or teach
ings is denied or contradicteo. but much
that is obscure in the Bible and in other
writings is explained and shown to be
logical, consistent and true.
"Theosophic literature Is replete with
knowledge not known to the world prior
to the year 1875, when the socisty was
first founded IN New York. There are
many degrees of adeptship, all the way
from the lower disciple, or chilo, up to
the highest Mahatma. Each has body
according to his particular degree OF
developments. The lower orders have
bodies similar to our own; those more
advanced hava bodies more ethereal,
more spiritualizsd. With these the body
is an instrumnt to be thrown ASIDE at
will. Each has his permanent thought
body" which he can project through any
substance, to any distance.
''In the future of America" the speak
err said. ''there would be great schools
of western occultism and philosophy. in
which the secrets of the ancients and OF
nature would all be retaught. To prepare
for this the theosophical movement has
been started. In its literature is coa-
tanned an epitome of ancient religion.
science and philosophy, condensed and
epitomized systematized by the adopts to
meet the needs OF the present times and
the requirements of the new lines of
evolution"
Next Sundays lecture will be delivered
by Mr.. l.. E. Giesse in Odd Fellows hall,
on Main street. between Second and
Third. Mr.. Clarke will visit Pasadena,
Pomona, Ontario and Riverside and
Santa Barbara before returning to San
ErancISco
The herald., 1895-10-21

experience; they betoken something SER
iously wrong, as does pain in the bouy.
Great souls are those whom we feel
have entered into these sure dwellings,
Many faces otherwise plain are made
beautiful by the quietness and assurance
and the quiet resting place and the peace
lies EN- bedded i'll the verv wrinkles in
their foreheads.
Her face was pale and pinched and
thin,
But splendor struck it from within
eve can all gain these heights where
lie repose, and we should never rest con-
tent with partial victory. This is true for
all, even If still battling with great tenn pta-
ton. The way to cease to be serious
sinner is to begin to bs the most OF
saint that we can conceive. All feel in
their Utmost soul that they belong to
the highest. Yield to these feelings.
Believe only in your goodness: Accept the
Joy OF freedom and the chain of habit
will yield. Let us enter into the con-
fidence and assurance that is our birth
right"
Young women's Christian Association
At the Y. NJ. G. A. meeting the study
of theiinternational Sunday school lesson
one week in advance was begun yester-
day at o'clock This Work is designed
to aid Sunday school teachers in prepar-
alton of their lesson for the following
Sunday and also for all young women not
IN Bible classes elsewhere. The general
secretary led the opening study of the
lesson and DR.. Kate C. Moody gave
very suggestive blackboard outline of tho
work.
1.-The gospel meeting at 3:45swas sd-
dressed by Mrs. l.. A. Ross upon the top
ic Rest ana Unrest. 'She spoke in part as
follows: Jesus came to nation which
was groaning unGer burdens laio upon 1t
by ceremonial laws enacted by the aris-
tocracy and by the Roman government.
He saw the political unrest of the world,
and that its origin was in the individu-
al unrest. He SAID: Come unto Me all
ye that are weary and heavy laden and
will give you rest. My yoke is easy and
My burden is light. Jesus re-
straints are light. Right desires make
light burdens and an easy yoke. One
great cause of unrest was found to be
sensitiveness. The cure for sensitiveness
Is simply to keep covered. Put on the
whole .irmor uf God, that We may be able
to stand against the wiles of the devil
(Eph., 6:l1). We are battle-ground be-
tween God and satan. Such sensitiveness
is a manifestation of self life. If that
which happens around us affects us d.
rectly and not as q thing coming from or
lovingly permitted by Goa for our educa-
ton it is self-evident that lie is not be-
tween us and that which so affects US.
We are not armed or not fully armed
with the armor OF God.
Let us be glad TO let God have His way
with us and know that the unrest of our
hearts Will give way to the peace that
passeth un 1erstanding.' "
fter an earnest prayer service the
meeting closed with the song, Anywhere
With Jesus | Can Safely Go.
The herald., 1895-10-21

W. J. Colville lectured on Inspiration
at Music hall yesterday afternoon and
evening Previous to each lecture Pro-
lessor e. A. Whitelaw rendered exquisite
violin solos. The speaker contended that
the true idea of inspiration was that ex-
pressed by Samuel Longfellow in his
beautiful hymn
God of ages and of nations,
Every race and every cline
Hath received thine inspirations,
Glimpses of thy birth sublime.
Aspiration is the cause, inspiration is
the effect Inspiration invariably pro-
ceeds from whatever sphere or state of
nervousness we are most in harmony
with internally. AS to our infallible rem
dition of truth, all truth when known at
all is known infallibly. and whoever re-
veals the truth is to that extent an infal-
llble teacher. The authority of the true
Thirst IS not personal authority vested
In historic parsonage, for could it be
proved that every word and act attribu-
ted by the four evangelists to the Cali
lean Jesus had been spoken and protested
by teachers who lived thousands of years
before the year 1 of the present era,
this discovery would detraot nothing
whatever from the intrinsic and practical
value of the sermon on the mount or any
other portion of the New Testament.
inspiration comes to all who are pre-
pared for 1t. No secret societies can veil
truth from those who are ready to spon-
taueously discover it, nor can ANY m ste
rious order confer knowledge on any who
have not developed the capacity to COM
Trehcnd. There is valid reason for the
lnferiority OF people getting little fresh
inspiration and this reason Is two-foId,
They desire simply to hear their own
opinions echoed ana they condem. as
false whatever does not jibe with their
| preludices. Spiritual, moral or rsligIo us
truth is only aPprehensible in the same
way that all other phases OF truth can be
| apprehended. The state of mind VIII ;cb
determines to know the truth and is w,ll1
ing to barter everything for truth is alb
solutely sure of receiving not all truth.
Tor truth is infinite ana our capacities are
finite and progressive. but all necessary
ttuth and by this is meant all the truth
The herald., 1895-10-21
The lockwood Table

A teakwood table is boon to the
woman whose ancestefsses have not left
her slender-legged mahogany affairs for
her afternoon tea. 1t gives distin-
guished appearance to a corner where
white and gold, the perpetual oak on
cherry, would merely seem tswdry. An
excellent one may be bought for $40 or
$15.-New York World.
The herald., 1895-10-21
The 1ahatnaS


The seventh and last lecture 'of the ser
ies.givensby. Abbott Clarke was delivered
upon the above subject at lis South
Spring street last night. One of the most
striking features of the meeting was the
stamp of earnest, thinking and intelligent
life which characterized the major part
Of the deeply attentive audience.
The lecturer said: "The study of the
Mahatmas is the study of the evolution
of the soul. The knowledge of Mahatmas
is the knowledge of self and human des
tiny, for they were once men like our
selves. They are now perfected in the
devout part of their nature-are the lead
ers and teachers of the human race-our
elder brothers.
III we believe at all in the laws of eyo.
luton, we must accept them and its logi-
cal outcome. Anyone must realize how alb
surd it would be to assume that any of
ths men now moving in the ordinary
walks OF life have reached a state of
spiritual development as great as it is
possible to attain.
Even Huxley has been led by mater
ialistic science to assert that it is logical
and possible; that there are men evolved
as far beyond us as we are beyond the
black beetle. If material science leads to
this conclusion, which is the only reason-
able one, how much more clearly NAV
these great truths be brought to our
knowledge by the science of soul and
spirit.
ss'These elder brothers have been
known to and acknowledged by The peo-
pie of all lations and all times under var
ious names-as sages. kishis, masters.
adopts. prophets, mahatmas, etc. The
same character has always been ascribed
to them, that of guides, teachers and
helpers of the race. They have reached a
plane where the solidarity OF humanity,
the oneness, the eternal broterh ood
OF man, is no longer theory, but fact.
The herald., 1895-10-21
we need to smDody in our present life

we need to empody in our present life
work.
Inspiration cannot be confined to any
age. 1t belongs to eternity. Neither can
it be circumscri bed by any organization.
for its home is infinlty. God. who is no
respecter of times, persons or places. is
through the making OF immutaoie law
respecter of conditions. Fulhli the con-
ditiuns and you or any one Will ga'n 6ne
prize. The real value OF record OF past
inspirations is to illustrate the operation
of the unchanging law through which 1t
came in DAYS Of old. Whatever exception
may partly be taken to Ingersoll's buff
foonerv, his call Tor a miracle today to
substantiate those of olden date is logi-
cal and rational. There never was an age
OF miracles; therefore it has never ceased.
The mighty WORKS performed by valiant
men and women of old are performable
today by all who will live the superordi-
nary life necessary to their accomplish
ment.
With regard to metaphysical preaching
the lecturer spoke strongly in favor of
testing the claims of all systems which
appealed to the public for countenance,
and he declared that health, Joy. success
and all blessings wero obtainable in a
lawful and orderly manner by all who
undertake to regulate their lives in har-
mony with a discoverable but unalterable
law offering.
At the close of both discourses Mr..
Barney made some interesting remarks
on the subject of spiritual mediumship.
W. J. Colville will deliver eight more
lectures in Music hall, previous to his de-
parture for San Francisco. They will be
given this week, Monday, Thursday and
Saturday at 2:30, and on Tuesday, Thurs
day and Friday at 8 pm, aud Sunday,
October 9th, at 2:30 and 80 pm. Sub
ject tor this afternoon: Mahatmas; Who
and What Are They?
The herald., 1895-10-21

A company producing only one form
of one part of a bicycle, the jointless
rim, covers two acres of ground with its
works at Birmine ham, ENGLAND.