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The herald., 1897-06-01
SCIENTISTS QUARREL

Isn't there just tinge Of the provin-
cial schoolmaster about the methods
of Professor Holden? The professor
IS the director of the Lick observatory.
His ephere of usefulness is largely ad-
ministrative. Officially subordinate to
him there have been men eminent in
science. The director has had numerous
MISUNDERSTANDING with men of this
class. Perhaps he does not understand
the aspirations of the truly scientific
mind. or possibly he may be disposed to
tread too ruthlessly upon paths that
should be reserved for men differently
endowed. He cannot be considered in
the light of a competitor of such men as
Professor Barnard or his successor.
Professor Hussey. in the direction OF
their speciality, and vet he has quar-
relied with both of these gentlemen as
well as with other astronomers of the
Mount Hamilton observatory. 1t does
not eeem to have ever been officially
decided that the director was right or
that his associates were wrong in those
disagreements The present difficulty
between the director and Professor
Hussey has reached its acute stage,
and the board of regents of the state
university is now engaged in the effort
to throw oil upon the troubled waters.
The cause of the trouble is said to have
originated in the act of director Holden
in seeking to relieve Professor Huesey
from the special duties to which he was
assigned. and in which he has been en-
gagged ever since he became connected
with the observatory. and to assign him
to other and different duties for which
the professor declares himself united
either by training or experience.
In the absence of explanation It GER
tainly seems most injudicious to aesign
a scientific specialist who stands high
in his proper place to sphere of action
that must impair his usefulness In
addition to all this the director should
know that science is a plant that will
not thrive in soil of discord.
The herald., 1897-06-01

land b more valuable. Who made Il
valuable. the corporation or the lessee
The government should take the waters
Of the arid west. put them on the lands,
and allow, say. 10 per cent on the cost
to be paid back every year. Thus in ter
years the government would have its
money back and have happy homes all
over the west. thus relieving the conges-
ton at the city centers.
Let the government appropriate
IS. 000, 900 for the purpose of developing
the arid west, put the fund in the hands
Of a competent commission known to
be deeply interested in that work, and
as fast as 1t is paid back let 1t be used
again for further development. That
would be practical. humane and wise.
1t would bring to the virgin soil of the
west the tired home-seekers of the east
ern cities, and they would soon pass
from renters to owners. thus becoming
better men.
The herald., 1897-06-01
THE GOVERNORS GOOD SENSE

Governor Budd, after patient and
painstaking hearing, has refused to in
terfere with the course of justice in
the case Of Theodore Durrant, who is
under sentence of death for the murder
of Blanche Lamont. By his death Dur
rant will expate double murder, for
it is understood that the authorities have
plenty of evidence to convict him of
the murder of Minnie Williams in the
same place and under very similar cir
cumstances.
1t is not a grateful task to be obliged
to say word in favor Of taking the life
Of any human being, nor do we for a
moment forget the legal maxim that it
is better ten guilty persons should go
free rather than that one innocent man
should suffer. We freely concede that
this maxim of the law is founded on
the deepest and broadest grounds of
abstract right.
But the killing Of these two girls,
lovely in their character and pure in
life, as all testimony goes to show, was
of so brutal, so revolving and cold-blood-
ed nature, that, were the perpetrator
to slip through the meshes of the law
by any miscarriage of justice, it would
be a crime against humanity.
1t is true the evidence fixing the crime
on Durrant was all circumstantial, but
the chain is remarkably strong and un-
broken from end to end. To those who
have studied the case in all it's details
there does not appear a flaw.
Things may seem otherwise to per-
sons who have not heard the testimony
in detail. but as weighed against the
opinion of the court which tried the
case, of the jury which found the YER
dict, and of the governor, lawyer of
acknowledged acumen himself, such
guesses count for nothing.
No stone has been left unturned to
save the neck of the condemned murder
er. His father was rich man on the
day the son was jailed for this crime.
From the outset Justification has been
the resort, and the only resort, Of the
defense.
Nor must the character of Durrant
escape notice. The cool, unshaken
nerve, the hrazen impudence of his de-
meanor, the stolid confidence of the
prisoner that he must go free in the
end, and his equally stolid indifference
to his fate, now that the last hope is
gone, all mark him as man Of no COM
mon type. Conceding his guilt. his
The herald., 1897-06-01
SIGNS

When the twigs begin to rustic
And the birds are all a-bustle
On the bough;
When an azure sky discloses
Promise sweet of June with roses
On her brow;
When the brook that sang so sadly
Welcomes every sunbeam, gladly
Frolicking;
When to wood songs subtle rhyming
Countless echoes soft are Ginning,
Then it's spring.
When your clothes seem dank and clinging
And you cannot hear the singing,
Since a cold
Gave your head that buzz ecstatic,
When you throb with sharp, erratic
Pains untold;
When good-natured folk assure you
That they know just what will cure you,
And you bring
A most narrowing melancholy
'Mongs1 your friends who would be jolly
Then it's spring.
washington Evening Star.
The herald., 1897-06-01
LONELY SPOT IN THE ATLANTIC
Tristan da Cunha Might Almost Be
Classed a. Out Of the World

Anybody who feels an inclination tc
lead a really quiet life should emigrat,
to Tristan da Cunha. an island. or, to be
quite accurate, three islands close to-
gether, In the south Atlantic, so far
away from anywhere that really they
are quite out of the world. The group
was discovered and named by the Por-
tuguese away back in the time when
name on the map. but now, of course. 1t
belongs to England, having been ap-
propriated by her in 1916 one day when
she didn't happen to be busy grabbing
stray bits of land more valuable than
this one. For awhile some soldiers were
kept there, because of a vague suspicion
that Tristan da Cunha might be made
the base of operations in the interest OF
ST. Helenas terrible guest. After Ma
poleon's death the whole garrison de-
parted. except corporal and two COM
panions. who had taste for solitude
and asked to be left behind. Slowly
the population grew. at first from
wrecks and afterward in the ordinary
way, and now there are ninety-four peo-
rle on the island. divided into sixteen
families
According to recently published blue
book the colony is an abode. Of complete
peace and moderate happiness. The
people have no money and no private
property. There are no doctors, law
yers or clergymen on the island, and
yet health, safety and piety prevail,
and such few needs as the soil does not
supply are met by trafficking with an oc-
casional whaler Once a year an Eng
lish warship visits the island. distribut-
ing a few newspapers and letters. and
goes away again. The only serious ca
lamity that ever overlook the islanders
was when, during our civil war; the
Shenandoah landed forty federal prjs-
oners there and left them to be fed or
starved, as the inhabitants saw fit.
This sudden demand on their resources
came near destroying both hosts AMI
guests, but they managed to struggle
through the difficulty. The islanders
are good to shipwrecked mariners and
the only charge brought against them
is that they sell extremely tough poultry
to captains calling there for fresh pro-
visions, and try to get as much cloth for
old geese as for young ones. Peter
G reen, aged 8S, governs the island. his
claim to authority apparently being
based on the fact that nobody is SO. His
only duty is to look wise, and he per-
forms it conscientiously and well-Bus-
falo Courier.
The herald., 1897-06-01
POLITICAL DEBTS

1t cannot be said of the president that
he is disappointing his friends. The cor
porations and trusts that placed him in
office have had all things whatsoever
that their avarice or their ambition
might choose to demand up to the pres
ent time. With subservient house ana
1y any vantage ground to which the
trust interest might not aspire. With
Speaker Reed in charge of the
house that branch of congress is
q confirmed automaton. The SEN
ate. however, has not yet been
debased, and Its manhood is the only
The herald., 1897-06-01
GERMANS A DUELINa PEOPLE
Four Thousand Encounters q Year
Record Of Other Countries


More duels are fought in Germany
than in any other country. Most of them,
however, are student duels, which cul-
inmate In nothing more serious than
slashed cheeks or torn scalps. OF all
German university towns little Jena
and Goettingen are most devoted to the
code. In Goettingen the number Of duels
average one day, year in and year out.
On one day several years ago twelve
duels were fought in Goettingen in
twentyfour hours. In Jena the record
for one day in recent times is twenty
one. Fully 1000 student duels are fought
every year in the German empire. In
addition to these there are the more Sc
rious duels between officers and civilians.
Among Germans of mature years the
annual number of duels is about 100.
Next to Germany France is most given
to the dueling habit. She hasevery year
uncounted meetings, merely to satisfy
honor" that ie, merely to give two men
the opportunity to wipe out insults by
crossing swords or firing pistols in such
way as to preclude the slightest chance
of injury. In the duel statistics these
meetings are not reckoned, as they are
far less perilous than even the German
student duels. OF the serious duels
France can boast fully 1000 from New
Years to New Years. The majority of
these are among army officers. More
than half of these result in wounds;
nearly 20 per cent in serious wounds.
Italy has had 2759 duels in the last
ten years and has lost fifty citizens by
death on the field of honor. Some 2400
of these meetings were consummated
with sabers. 179 with pistols, ninety
with rapiers and one with revolvers.
In 974 cases the insult was given In news
paper articles or in public letters regard
ing literary quarrels. More than 700
pricipals were insulted by word of mouth.
Political discussions led to $50; religious
discussions to twenty nine. Women.
were the cause of 1879. Quarrels at the
gambling table were desponsible for 1S9
A summary shows that, as regards
numbers, the sequence of dueling coun-
tries is: Germany. France. Italy Aus
tria, Russia. AS regards deadlinees Of
duels Italy comee first. Then come
Germany, France, Russia and Austria
in the order named. For the most Sc
rious duels the pistol Is the favorite
weapon in all five countries-New York
Sun.
The herald., 1897-06-01
TUESDAY. JUNE ., 1897.
GOVERNOR AND SENATOR

The esteemed Times yesterday morn
ing succeeded in working itself into
most admired state of excitement about
scheme to make Governor Budd sue
ceseor to Senator White when the lat
ter's term of office shall expire 1t ls'
needless to say to any one at all con-
versant with the trend of Democratic
politics in this state that the scheme is
one dreamed out in the brain Of our
granite -buttressed friends on the cor
ner of Broadway and First street.
The Times sneers at the governor as a
"Httle man." We hardly know in what
respect his diminutiveness appears 1t
is not in avoirdupoie, for the governor of
California ie a remarkably we'll Develop
ed and handsome specimen of American
as politician, as Republicans ought to
know, for he has knocked their schemes
as high as Gilderoy's kite on more than
one memorable occasion.
He is too big in politics to lend himself
to the program marked out by our Re-
publican contemporary. Perhaps that is
where the joke comes in.
1t would be an excellent thing for some
Republicans who may be aspiring to
Senator Whites seat, or to those who
are resting their covetous eyes on Gov
ernor Budd's shoes, to set these two
stalwart Democrats by the ears
Major Harry Patton Is called (rather
unkindly by his friends in the
Times office) "Budd's Henchman." and
Is credited with treachery to Steve White
for the benefit of Jim Budd. Patton has
never been taken for a fiat in politics
by those who know him well. He is on
program to lift Budd into Whites seat
ard those who know Patton best will be-
ueve him most
Democrats are not in so much of
hurry to make programs and hatch up
schemes to secure office as our Republi-
can friends seem to be. It is long
time before Mr. Whites term as senator
or Mr.. Budd's as governor expires
longer than it was between drinks when
the governors of the two Carolinas met.
Meantime, as politics are shaping them
selves al Washington, and as the great
wave Of prosperity is in the role of the
maiden in the moated grange who
sang HE Cometh Not it is not to be
wondered at that Republican politicians
should be anxious as to the next cleo
tons But their agony is likely to in
crease as the time draws nearer, and
the hand of the trusts strangling the
administration becomes palmer.
AS for our own side, we will probably
go on saving wood in the offices we have,
and when the time comes the fears of
our Republican friends that Mr.. Budd
may oust Mr.. White will be allayed.
Our Steve" is young, and he is doing
doughty deeds for his state and party.
He will succeed himself in that seat in
the senate, and the governor will con-
tinue to prove himself so big in the, ad-
ministration of this state, and display so
masterful hand in curbing the extrava-
gance of Republican legislatures and
printing offices that he, too, will re-
reive the commeTdation of his fellow
citizens in being given a well-earned
second term.
The herald., 1897-06-01
The Ruling Passion Strong in Death

Douglas A. Levien. for many years
prominent as an editor. died last week
while in harness. He had been ailing
and knew that death was near. He sent
a messenger boy from his home with an
editorial for the New York Evening
World at II o'clock in the morning. 1t
was highly humorous. filled with the
real genius of kindly fun, beautiful
last work of an honorable man
The World, on learning of its editors
death, signed his name to the edito-
rial and printed close to 1t his obituary
Fourth Estate.
The herald., 1897-06-01

Chris Buckley Of Livermore IL enjoying
life and receiving numerous visitors.
sprinkling carts have been put on in
the Cahuenga to lay the dust kicked up
by the John w. Mitchell club. while the
Jeffersonian society Is considering the
immense bond given by its treasurer.
In the meantime Adolph Ramish. who
enjoys reputation a. politician, is in
San Francisco getting the lay OF this
land. 1t will be interesting to know who
can report the greater measure Of sue
cess-Alford and Buckley in the south,
or Ramish In the north.-Capital.
The herald., 1897-06-01
That Game Of Pedro

That game of pedro between Secre-
tray Alger and Papa Huntington is still
indefinite. but with the accommodating
secretary on his side, Uncle Coils now
holds big and little Pede' and high,
Jack, game, against the lone deuce held
by Senator White and the people of
Southern California. pass the deal and
everybody ante" for the next CAM
paign.-Redondo Breeze.
The herald., 1897-06-01
A Note Of Warning

geles burglar tried it, rifed the safe
and was captured ten feet outside the
pillaged sarctum. If the thief had just
let the girl talk. things might have been
different. Never attempt to stop wo-
man from talking.-San Diego Tribune.
The herald., 1897-06-01
CALIFORNIA OPINION
When Wives Were Scarce

Another pioneer is dead and lady
rurporting to be his widow appears
and claims his estate. 1t would be
strange indeed for an old Californian
to die without at least one woman
claiming his property on the ground
that she was his wife. Considering the
scarcity of women in California in early
days, the pioneer had a remarkable
penchant for accumulating them.-Oak-
land Tribune.
The herald., 1897-06-01
The Best Of All
There's the bicycle girl with the Alpine

There's the bicycle girl with the Alpine
hat,
And the girl with the sailor brim,
There's the girl who rides in derby crown
And the maid with bonnet trim.
There's the girl who loves soft drab felt,
And the one with the cap Of a man.
There's the belle who wears a sweeping
plume,
And the lass who Is clad in tan.
But of all the girls who ride their wheels.
The girls who laugh and banter.
There's none to me like the merry lass
Who wears Tam o'shanter.
New York Journal.
The herald., 1897-06-01
The First NewWheat

The first carload of wheat harvested
this year in California was sold at Stock
ton for SIPS. The warm winds few
weeks ago seriously affected the crop
which will be much lighter than was
anticipated during the favorable win
ter months-San Jose Mercury.
The herald., 1897-06-01

There are students at Harvard who
ought to be publicly spanked and then
sent home in disgrace. The daubing of
the John Howard statue with red paint
indicates that some young men go to
college because they have neither brains
nor common sense
The herald., 1897-06-01

A gauzy story comes over the wires
concerning couple Of German barons
who are beating their way around the
world, the one on foot and the other on
horseback. The fact that the two Eng
lish lords with whom they made their
wager do not exist creates slight dis
crepancy in their yarn.
The herald., 1897-06-01
Fair Exchange No Robbery

Seldom have we seen politics at such
a heat so early in the day as now. Here
we have in Los Angeles Chairman Al
ford Of the Democratic state central
committee holding forth at the Nadeau,
while around at the Van Nuys Farmer
The herald., 1897-06-01

Anarchy still finds am occasional rest
ing place in the United States. as the
arrests at an anarchist picnic near Fits
burg show. 1t cuts no figure generally
speaking, however, and the occasional
individual who proclaims himself an
anarchist is usually as mild hammered
man as never cut throat or threw a
bomb. With such anarchism is merely a
vent hole for relieving the harmless &C.
centricities of mind diseased.
The herald., 1897-06-01

Present progress in the senatorial de-
bate on the tariff bill is described by ad-
miring citizens as "phenomena The
same might be said of the imports into
this country allowed by reason of the de-
lay in passing tariff bill.
The herald., 1897-06-01

A Washington dispatch informs an
anxious public that President Mckinley
will occupy the next ten days in formu-
lating a peaceful solution of the Cuban
question. In the meantime details of
more atrocities and of Weyler's specula-
ton in systematic starvation do not
allay the fear that any offer Of media
tion on the part of the United States will
be Of no avail.
The herald., 1897-06-01
Another Exemplification

Another exemplification of the tidal
wave of prosperity which was to follow
TIE temporary defeat of the free silver
forces, is contained in the news tha.
the cotton factories of Massachusetts,
are to suspend operations.-Sacrament
Bee.
The herald., 1897-06-01

The lead trust is making millions and
declaring IL per cent dividends. Yet
it demands an increase in the duty on
that article. Will it get the increase?
That depends how much it subscribed
to the Republican campaign fund.
The herald., 1897-06-01

Kentucky is mourning the death Of the
oldest mule in the state, but the hardest
kicker in the person of DR.. w. Godfrey
Hunter still remains to torment the
memories of the blue grass Republicans.
The herald., 1897-06-01

The nation has been cursed with four
tariff bills in seven years, and still we
wonder that prosperity does not call and
make itself at home.
The herald., 1897-06-01

Mr.. Havemeyer Gays he is satisfied.
It doesn't matter whether the other
So, 999, 999 American citizens are satisfied
or not.
The herald., 1897-06-01
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-11
AVERAGE YIELD OF THE CROPS.

Figured Out by the Statistician Of tho De-
partment of Agriculture.
Washington, Nov. 1.-THE November
report of the statistician of the depart.
ment Of agriculture gives 237 bushels as
the average yield per acre of corn &C.
cording to the preliminary returns of the
departments correspondents. The aver
age yield in the principal corn states is
as follows: New York, 32.5; Pennsylva-
ria, So; Ohio, 32.5; Indiana, %; Illinois,
SIS; Iowa, 20; Missouri, 25; Kansas, 10:
Nebraska, 20. The average per cent. Of
quality is 1913. as compared with 1874 in
1896 and 1928 in 1895.
The estimated average yield per acre
Of Irish potatoes is 64.6 bushels The
average per cent. of quality isS1.3. The
average yield Of hay is 1.42 tons per acre.
In point Of quality the average is 92.s
per cent. Favorable conditions for the
sowing CT the fall crops are reported
fl om most parts Of Europe and the con-
ditions Of the crops SO far as sown is
likewise favorable. The crop reports
from India continue favorable and on
the whole this is true as to those from
Argentina and Australia, but in all these
| countries the harvest is too remote to
permit any very confident prediction as
to the final outcome
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-11

Tie confession Is sound and true in ev-
cry particular and amply corroborates
the evidence which We already have. All
Of the witnesses will be called that we
expect to use, so as to furnish the cor
roborration OF an dccompliee's testimony
which, the Law requires"
Emmanuel Friend, counsel for Mrs.
Mack. said: Il know from pretty good
sources that Thorn was anxious to avail
himself Of the opportunity Mrs. Mack
has used, and 1t was a sprint between
us. and have come under the wire
first"
Among the witnesses examined after
Mrs. Mack had given her testimony was
Bernard Donna, the owner Of the Wood
eide cottage, where the murder wa,
committed. He identified Thorn and
Mrs. Mack as the two persons who, req.
resenting themselves as Mr.. and Mrs
Braun, hired the cottage from him las,
June.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-11
UAamur APPEALS TO COURT.


win Try to Bring 10 Issue an Attempt -
boycott His Product.
Pittsburg. Nov. lin common pleas
court No. the New York and Cleve-
land Gas Coal company fled a bill in
equity asking the court to restrain the
city Of Pittsburg through the director
of public works from readvertising for
bids for the furnishing Of coal for the
Brilliant pumping station. The COM
plainant also asked for q mandatory
decree compelling the councils Of the city
OF Pittsburg to act on the award Of
Director Bigelow.
The bill in equity recites the manner
In which the bid for coal was awarded
and that it was rejected by the coun-
ellis. 1t states that undue influence was
used, and charges that there is a con-
spiracy to prevent the New York and
Cleveland Gas Coal company from OBJ
tanning the contract. 1t Is asserted that
the rejection Of the bid, although it was
the lowest, was the result of the war
organized labor is making against the
DeArmit mines.
Judge White said he believed the coun-
ellis had a right to reject the bid If II
was done in good faith, but that it was
averred in the bill that the bid was
rejected in bad faith. Judge White
granted a restraining order preventing
Director Bigelow from advertising for
| bids for coal. The hearing in the mat
ter will be held next Wednesday.