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The record-union., 1896-10-26
DAIRYING IN CALIFORNIA.
Bulletin to be Issued by the Depart.
ment of Agriculture.

WASHINGTON, Oct pa bulletin
on dairying in California, by Professor
E. j. Wickson, M. A, of the University
CT California, to be issued by the dairy
division Bureau of Animal Industry of
the United States Department of Agri-
culture, is ready for distribution.
1t briefly describes the condition Of
dairying when California contained
only scattered settlements of pioneers,
and shows how the conditions then pre-
vailing have influenced modern dairy
ing. 1t shows Humboldt County as
the leading dairying county, having
produced almost 100000 pounds of
butter in 1895. The feeds most used in
California and best adapted to that
State are discussed. Other subjects
discussed are winter dairying, cream
cries, dairy markets and organization
and protection.
The record-union., 1896-10-26

ard quotes Congressional resolutions
t. show that authority to issue gold
bonds has twice been refused by Con-
gress. Referring to President Cleve-
lands special message to Congress in
January, 1896, asking the right to is
sue gold bonds, Mr.. Brown says:
This request on the part of the Presi-
dent was referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means, a majority of which
reported in favor of comforting the
right. minority report was drawn
az, presented by w. j. Bryan, Demo-
cratic candidate for the Presidency.
After full discussion and mature de-
liberation the minority report was
adopted and the right to issue gold
bonds was denied
Discussing national honor as an is
sue of the campaign, Mr.. Brown de-
clares it to be his view that national
honor would be equally impaired by
yielding to an unjust demand as it
would in failing to comply with this
decision"
The record-union., 1896-10-26
A QUIET DAY.
The Political Generals All Decline to
Say Anything.

CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-Quietude was
general to-day around the hotel lobbies
" here the political generals assemble
Ten days before the day when the re-
suit of the pending campaign will be
known found those who are directing
the line of battle resting on their oars
Mr.. Hanna spent the day in a quiet
manner, receiving intimate friends and
denying audience to all callers who
came with political questions to sub
init. To reporter for the United-As-
sociated Presses he said that for this
day he asked indulgence from horo-
scopes. but for the time elapsing be-
tween now and election day he consid-
cred himself impressed.
Chairman Hahn of the Speakers Bu-
reau received Governor-elect Lewellyn
of Maine, who arrived in Chicago from a
tour of the Southern District of Mich
igan. The Governor expressed himself
as satisfied that the Republicans would
receive good majority in that State
Tie left tonight for Minnesota, where
he will speak during the coming week.
The Democratic headquarters were
deserted so far as the leading lights
were concerned. Chairman Jones de-
MED himself TO all visitors, and in the
afternoon went for a drive through the
boulevard system of Chicago Hon.
George Washburn, Secretary of the
Populist Campaign Committee. who
went to Nashville to consult with Tom
Watson. returned to the city last night.
To-day he declined to say anything as
to the plan agreed upon, pleading that
Sunday gave him the right to cease
political warfare.
At the National Democratic head
quarters the situation was equally qui-
escent, the few visitors there finding no
one in charge with authority to speak.
The record-union., 1896-10-26
PRESIDENT DOLE RETURNS.
Politics i'm Honolulu Are Extremely
Quiet.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25.-(SpecfaI
correspondence of the United Associated
Presses):
Honolulu, Oct. 19.-President Dole re-
turned this morning from North Hawaii
after a months rustication on that
island spent in hunting, fishing and in
specting tracts of Government lands
proposed for homestead allotments.
Foreign Minister Cooper will sail on
the 26th for the Eastern States, via
Vancouver. His business is mainly pri-
vate. He expects to visit Washington
and confer with Minister Hatch prior to
the opening of the next Congress there.
He will return home about Christmas.
Kilauea volcano is reported to be in
high activity.
Politics in Honolulu are extremely
quiet, in great contrast to previous
years of conspiracy.
The record-union., 1896-10-26
INTERESTING CIRCULAR
Issued by the Department of Agri-
culture on Wheat Production.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-The sec
ton Of foreign markets of the Depart
ment of Agriculture will issue to-mor-
row it's circular number10 on the course
of wheat production and expectation in
the United States, Canada, Argentina.
Uruguay, Russia and British India,
from 1880 to 1895.
1t shows the average annual product
of wheat by quinquiennial periods, and
the very decided increase in the wheat
production of the United States, Can
ada, Argentina and Russia during the
last fifteen years. A similar growth
would also be shown for Uruguay were
the statistics available for the entire pe
riod. India, alone of the six countries.
has suffered a decline.
The record-union., 1896-10-26
CarlisIe's Programme.

LOUISVILLE (Ky), Oct. 25.-Secre-
tary Carlisle left Louisville at $50
o'clock this evening for Owensboro,
where he will speak at 1 o'clock to-mor
row. He will return to Louisville to-
morrow afternoon and remain here un-
I'll Friday, speaking at the Auditorium
Wednesday evening. Friday afternoon
he will speak at Lexington, ending his
engagements. He will then go to Cow
ington and remain until after he has
cast his vote, when he will return direct
to Washington
The record-union., 1896-10-26
TWICE REFUSED.
Congress Has Denied the President
the Right to Issue Gold Bonds.

LINCOLN (Neb.), Oct. 25.-Hon. f..
T.. Brown, a prominent local banker
ard business man, has given out a let
ter in which he strongly indorses the
Chicago platform and candidates. Mr..
Brown was at one time a. Republican
member of the Legislature. Changing
to Democracy last spring, Mr. Brown
acted as Chairman of the silver noti-
fcation meeting in this city early in
September
in his statement Mr. Brown saws
that all of our national bonds are pay
able in coin-Silver as well as gold
The record-union., 1896-10-26
NEBRASKA Is SAFE.
Estimate That 1t Will Give Mckin-
ley About 5000 najOrity.

LINCOLN CNeb.), Oct. 25.-Chairman
George w. Post of the Republican State
central Committee to-day gave out his
first official estimate of the election re-
suit in Nebraska in the following
words:
Nebraska is unquestionably Repub-
lie an, and will on November Sd be
found among the States recording their
verdict on the side of honest money
ard constitutional government. A most
c. nserVative poll of the State just COM
rIeted shows a clear Republican ma
Jority of both State and national tick
cts of not less than 5000"
The record-union., 1896-10-26
Not a Store Left,

DALLAS (Tex.), Oct. 25.-Passengers
on the south-bo afternoon Santa Fe
train report about twenty business
houses burned at Ladonia, Tex, this
morning. One-half the business district
was burned about ten days ago, and to-
days fire leaves the town without q
store. Details have not reached Dallas
The record-union., 1896-10-26
A Fatal Encounter.

TOLEDO co.. Oct. 25.-Martin Me-
Mullen, union bicycle worker Of Cleve-
land, got into a dispute with Edward
May Of this city this morning, and in the
encounter that followed May stabbed
McMullen. McMullen died from his
wounds tonight. May is in JAIL
The record-union., 1896-10-26
En- Route for Canton.

NEWARK On. j., Oct. 25.-Three
hundred Republicans and Democrats
left the Market-street station of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at 6 o'clock this
evening for Canton, O., picking up pill
grims at Elizabeth and Trenton. The
train was made up of four Pullman
sleepers and seven day coaches. The
party will reach Canton at a. m. to-
morrow.
The record-union., 1896-10-26
Ruined City Discovered.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. PA special to a
morning paper from the City of Mexico
says: An unknown ruined city, covering
a space larger than New York City, with
two temples and two great pyramids,
has just been discovered in the mount
aims in the State of Guerrero by William
Niven, the well-known mineralogist of
New York. He has just returned from
a ten weeks trip into that country and
brought back more than 800 photo
graphs of the ruins.
The record-union., 1896-10-26
Burglars lake a Haul.

CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-The wholesale
grocery store of J. Breden, at 614 to
619 West Sixty-third street, was
robbed of $1,000 some time early this
morning. Entrance was gained through
a window at the rear Of the store,
The record-union., 1896-10-26

Christian citizen is debarred from
voting on the principle that he cannot
ASK another what he might not do him
self.
The Christian citizen cannot votet
because the Constitution does not re-
gard Gods qualifications for official
trust Moral qualifications are re-
qu1red in the office bearer"
The. Rev. Mr.. Foster said after the
sermon that none of his congregation
would vote on election day.
The record-union., 1896-10-26

a increase of 1900 arrests for intoxica-
ton in the last three months of the
working of the Raines law over the
three months prior to that law going
into effect in New York City and Brook
Iyn.
The record-union., 1896-10-26
General Hunter Dead.

BLOOMINGTON QndD, Oct. 20
General Morton G. Hunter died this
morning at o'clock from the effects of
stroke of paralysis while attending
divine services last Sunday.
The record-union., 1896-10-26
Big Failure at Cleveland.

CLEVELAND Oct. 25.-Sigmund
Hays e Co., wholesale notions. assigned
yesterday. Liabilities, $4,000; assets,
$50, 600
The record-union., 1896-10-26
BRYAN and HIS WIFE
WENT TO CHURCH.
And the Minister Preached Nothing Con-
Cerning Gold or Silver.
Renews His Acquaintances of Old Col
lege Days.

Large Numbers Turn Out to See Him
at Jacksonville, and He Will Speak
There TO-Day-Waked Up in the
Night to Make Speeches-A Banker
Comes Out for Bryan and Says
Congress Has Twice Refused Au-
thOrity to Issue Gold Bonds.
The record-union., 1896-10-26
MKINLEY ATTENDED
DIVINE SERVICE.
Walked to Church With His Brother
and Dined With q Friend.
Six Delegations Booked to Call on Him
To-Day.

Several Thousand Students Will Come
to See Him on Friday and the
Sound rlOney rlen of New Eng
land Will Come TO-MOrrOw-An
Estimate That Nebraska Will Give
Him IS, 900 Majority-Newark, N.
j., Republicans En- Route for
Canton.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-01-06
THE WOOD DUCKS FIRST SWIM.

How the Mother Gets the Little Onss
From the Nest to the Water.
A few miles from my home there is a
lake that has for years been the abiding
place of colony of wood ducks. have
spent hours along the shores watching
these prettiest of water fowls The wood
duck has one popularity not possessed
by other members of the duck family
it builds its home high up in the cavity
OF some decayed limb, usually one that
juts out over the water
The eggs, from seven to IS in num-
Der, are creamy white in color. House
keeping is begun in May, and the young
are ready to leave the nest early in June
was curious to know how the little
ducks reach the water from their lofty
homes had often seen them, when
hardly clear of their shell, swimming
about with their mother and felt con
WINGED that they never could have left
home unaided
One bright June morning fortune IA
vored me / had rowed along the lake
shore TO pay visit to a houseful of
noisy red wing blackbirds. Ny boat was
lying motionless among the tall cat
tails that fringed the shores of the lake
Suddenly heard loud splash behind
me, and turning TO look / saw on the
water short distance away, Just shak-
ing the spray from her wings, female
wood duck and near her two tiny yellow
balls, SO small that they resembled wa
ter lilies floating ON the surface.
The old bird took wing, hovered and
sNTR 1InN oh L
utes and then few to cavity in a tall
tree, short distance away. In short
time the male bird, arrayed in the hand
soonest OF plumage, Joined his mate.
Then for a few minutes could hear a
soft cooling noise, which reminded me Of
husband and wife discussing some i'm.
portant point relative to the welfare Of
their children.
The cooling soon stopped and the moth
er duck appeared in the doorway of her
home. Then she dropped toward the wa
ter at a slight angle As her breast
struck the surface she immediately
dived, and where her body had been /
was surprised to see two little duckhngs
swimming about as unconcerned as
though they had been travelling in the
water for years.
Tho routine Of flying to the nest was
repeated four times in rapid succession, /
and each time it resulted in eli addition
of two to the family i'll the water, which
kept growing until it numbered IL.
Then the mother duck swan ont in tie
lake, followed by her brood, while the
male bird brought up the rear Of tie
acting. no doabt, as n guard
and protector.-C. s. Shick in Phila-
delphia Times.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-01-06

THE ARDMoREITE is in no way
responsible for, nor will it pay
any debts contracted by any en-
ployee of this office, unless ac-
companied by an order signed by
the business manager.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-01-06
MILD MR.. RoCKEFELLER.
The enub That He Took From A Clerk
without Getting Rufied.

Th@ Gnub That He Took From N Clerk
without Getting Rufied.
never saw a man take life less seri-
ously than John d. Rockefeller, says O
correspondent Of the New York Press
He has an easy way of saying and doing
things that appeal to the aesthetic nature
Nothing worries him, not all his mil
lions. At times have known John to
seem dull have known people to take
him for a soft, slow, stupid fellow, in
stead of the hard, gliding, firm, rocky
fellow that he is He once had an en-
ployee, nervous, irritable young man.
full of his own importance, but withal
a capable clerk. He occupied an Office in
which there was one of those pulling
and lifting machines, and regularly ev-
cry morning about 8, when he was i'm
mersed in figures Of correspondence, n
small, black mustached man, quiet and
diffident in manner, entered, said GOOD
morning." walked on tiptoe to the cor
ner and exercised for a quarter of an
hour. It became bore to the clerk, who
at last, unable to stand it longer, re
marked, with considerable heat and fire.
works, to the inoffensive but annoying
stranger:
"How do you expect me to do my
work properly while you are fooling
with that - machine? I'm getting
tired of it. Why don't you put it where
it won't worry a person to death?"
The stranger replied, with a blush Il
am very sorry if it annoys you. will
have it removed at once
A porter took it away within an hour.
A few days later the clerk was sent for
by Mr.. Flagler, whom he found in ear
nest conversation with the small, black
mustached man. The latter smiled at
seeing him. gave Flagler some instruc-
tions and left the room.
"Will you tell me who that gentle
man is?" the young man asked, light
beginning to break upon him. "That
is Mr.. Rockefeller, was the reply
With gasp for breath, the clerk stag
gered back to his Office to think 1t was
his first acquaintance with the Standard
Oil magnate.
The herald., 1896-11-27
WANTED HIS LEG.

House Sergeant Dougherty sat in the
silent hearing room at the Tenth dis
trict station house Friday night, read
ing a few extracts from Lawyer John
Fow's speech against the placing OF a
citizens ticket column on the official
ballot His occupation, SO perfectly in
keeping with the solemn gloom of the
deserted room, was rudely disturbed by
a wild clatter on the patent pavement
approach to the hearing room door, and
the next instant a ludicrous figure came
unceremoniously into the room. With
out a hat and with coat only on one
arm the man, for such it proved to be,
half dropped half rolled up to the desk.
He was minus leg, and in lieu of that
very useful member employed stout
cane. with which he succeeded in keep
ing up an awful clatter in his efforts
to maintain an upright position. Here,
yelled Dougherty, do you want to wake
up all the sleepers?" Quiet was par
TALLY restored, and then the man blurt-
ed OUT mo, sir I want my leg"
We'll go and get it; I haven't got it,
said Dougherty.
well, l want my leg, anyhow" re-
turned the visitor. Say, do you take
this for a museum?" interjected the
turnkey.
mo; I want my leg, that's ALL"
Where did you lose it?'asked Dough-
erty. I'm the war" 'Well. go back to
the war and hunt it up, and be sure
you take your own" Dougherty said, as
he grinned at his little joke.
The proprietor of the missing limb
was not to be pacified so easily, how
ever. and he became much excited as he
insisted that he must have the leg. FL
nally it was learned that the leg he want
ed was an artificial one, which has sup
piled the place of the real article for
years. Just then he was not wearing
it, because his wife, after little do
mestic infelicity. had captured the ar
titicial limb and locked it up in a bu-
reau drawer The victim of the grim
joke tried force, threats, and persuasion,
all to no avail, and then, hopping from
the house, he sought the aid of the po-
lice. When the full extent of his trou-
BILE became known, Sergeant Dougher-
ty sent policeman famed for his abl-
ity in little affairs of this kind with the
complainant to his home. The three
legged couple presented an odd sight as
they walked away, but their mission
was successful, the wife relenting, and
after exacting many promises handing
over the leg. Once in possession of the
kicker, the little man secured it in place,
and when last seen he was walking ont
Girard avenue with the sworn intention
of reaching Kalamazoo or any other
place where there are no wives to steal
his eg.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The herald., 1896-11-27
REV. MILLER'S DEATH
Was a Case of Suicide, Not of Murder.
Verdict of the Coroner's Jury

DECATUR, ILL.,, Nov. 25.-Suicide is the
verdict of the coroner's jury which held
an inquest on the body of Rev. Joseph
Miller of Bloomington, found in an al
ley on Tuesday morning. 1t is now gen
orally believed that he killed himself,
but the fact Is as great shock to the
community as was the first report of
murder. G. Sponsler, a fire-arm dealer
at Springfield came to Decatur this af-
ternoon and identified the body positive
ly as that of the man to whom he sold a
revolver at a o'clock on Monday at
Springfield. He testified to that effect
before the coroner's jury The position
of the revolver on the ground indicated
that it had been dropped by the dead
hand after firing one shot The watch
is still missing. Mr.. Miller had an acci-
dent policy for $4,000, good for one day,
taken at Bloomington before he left His
friends do not believe that he came here
to make it seem murder for the purpose
of defrauding the insurance company,
but say that in a fit of insanity he killed
himself and afterwards thieves, finding
the body, took the watch and money
pulling the pockets inside out. 1t is we'll
known that DR.. Miller was in the habit
of buying special insurance policies
and has done that for years. No rea-
son for suicide is known.
The herald., 1896-11-27
AT VARIOUS PLACES
All the Colleges, Little and Big, Make
Reports

NEW YORK, Nov. 26-One of the
most interesting games of football that
has ever been played in this vicinity was
that which took place this afternoon on
Manhattan field between teams repre-
senting Brown university and Carlisle
Indian school, and which resulted in a
score of "a to IL for Brown.
There We're many exciting incidents
and although the result was disastrous
to the Indians, their play was excellent.
The Indians We're looked upon by
knowing ones as sure victors, but the
Brown university boys more than held
their own, and, thanks to the brilliant
play of Fultz, Gammons, Hall and Col
by. won.
In the first half they tied the score.
with half a dozen points registered for
each team.
BY a brilliant play the Indians got the
ball within three feet of the Brown S
goal line when the referee called time
for the ending of the first half.
Nothing daunted by the marvellous
work done by the Rhode Island stu
dents, the Indians came up smiling for
the second half, but in this they were
outplayed entirely, owing to the mag
nificent work of Irultz and Gammons,
whose long and sensational runs We're
the features of the game.
The herald., 1896-11-27
A DAKOTA BLIZZARD.
AIR IN THE BONES OF BIRDS.

1t is often said by persons who are no..
well enough acquainted with the science
of ornithology to know whether they speak
the truth or not. that the bones of the tur-
key vulture are hollow air chambers. so
constructed as to admit of continuous
fight with but slight effort on the part of
the bird. OF late years it has become the
general belief that the bones of almost all
varieties of birds are simply air cylinders
and that the lordly turkey vulture and the
condor are not better provided for in that
particular than host of smaller birds. In
order to get some scientific light on the sub
ject. DIR. Crisp dissected fifty-two species
of birds. great and small. but only found
thirteen in which the wing bones were hol-
low. and one. the sparrow hawk, ap-
peared to have the bonv air chambers per-
forated. In thirty-eight others examined
by the doctor there were no signs of air in
the bones. although in the list there were
several birds of long and rapid flight. DR..
Crisp's conclusions are that there are but
few birds which have been provided with
natural air cahmbers. and that in cases
where the provisions is made it is not of
such material benefit as has been generally
supposed.-St. Louis Republic.
The herald., 1896-11-27
GAMBLING IN BELGIUM

Gambling is, it appears. so terribly
on the increase in Belgium that the more
serious minded members of the commu-
nifty are in despair as to the probab BILE
consequences of the epidemic, for such
it, has become. During the season at
Ostend and Spa the gambling carried
on for the last few years has been
scandal. But the profits are so large
that the organizers of these tripots have
been tempted to extend the field of their
operations. Towns like Namur, Thuin
and Dinant all own gambling hells, and
now the little Franco Belgian frontier
village of Erquelinnes boasts of it gam
bling club, the inaugural dinner of which
was presided over recently by well
known burgomaster on whose right sat
an officer of the army wearing the grand
officers cross of the Leopold order
London Leader