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The herald., 1897-03-14

It had long been his ambition to round
out full century, and he often declared
he would then be ready to surrender
to the arch-enemy of the race. Dr.
Sprague has the remarkable distinction
of having lived under the administration
of every president. He was born Feb.
ruary 2S 1897, and he consequently lived
several days under the administration
of George Washington before John
Adams, the second president, took up
the reins of office. Though frail in body
his mind is bright and clear, and he has
resaon to hope he will add President
McKinley's administration to his rec
ord. DR.. Sprague was born at Mata,
n. Y Educational opportunities were
limited in that early day, but he fitted
himself for the study of medicine and
graduated from a medical college at
Fairfield, N Y. He practiced at Roch-
ester, and later at Honeoye Falls, n. Y.
He came to Coldwater in 1885, and there
fore has the unusual record of having
lived in one community in Michigan for
sixty-two years In 1886 he was ap-
pointed associate Judge, and subse-
Quently he was elected probate judge.
He was chosen member of the legisla-
ture in 1S45. These are the only politi-
cal offices ne has ever held. DR.. Sprague
is a typical gentleman of the old school.
stately and courteous in manner. He
The herald., 1897-03-14

amount of discussion and controversy
among scientists learned in archaeol-
ogy as to the origin of the Aztecs. While
the belief previously stated. that this
race had it's birth in Asia, was fondly
cherished, there were many who diff
fered from the statement that it was
Immediately from Asia that the Aztecs
came who settled in Mexico. These sci
entists held that no matter where this
people came from in the first place, they
had previously to entering the borders
Of Mexico found residence in other por
tions of the North American continent.
Some declared the Aztecs found their
way to America from Japan. 1t certain
" is true that every year at least one
Japanese junk drifts from a point close
to the shores of Japan to the California
coast. Instances CT this sort have been
known where the japanese fishermen
who composed the crew of the junk
when she started on hex voyage have
lived to tell their strange experience.
Therefore science has held that in some
such manner as this the original Norti
American Aztecs reached these shores
No ono has attempted to explain how
they managed to extend their wander
ings according to what several archae-
ologican discoveries have indicated, but
there seems to be scattered evidence,
The herald., 1897-03-14
BURIED TREASURES

For the things thou can'st not have,
o. my heart!
Thou must look into the grave.
o, my heart! 0, my heart!
Thou wilt find them lying low.
Q, my heart
Underneath their shrouds of snow,
0, my hearth o. my heart!
Folded hands and closed eyes,
o, my heart!
And the brows of constancies,
o, my heart! o, my heart!
There the feet that ran to meet thee.
o, my heart!
There the lips once won't to greet thee,
o, my heart! D, my heart!
There a womans dark hair braided,
o, my heart!
There a girlie's gold unfaded.
o. my heart! o, my heart!
There baby like flower,
o, my heart!
Born to bloom but one short hour,
o, my heart! o. my heart!
What has all this world worth having?
o, my heart!
That can satisfy my craving?
o, my heart. o, my heart!
Craving for these treasures buried.
o, my heart!
Leaving thee a desert arid,
o, my hearti o, my heart!
-Beauregard Torrans.
The herald., 1897-03-14
PRI0KLY FEAR

scribed as a "wriggling monster!" But
with some knowledge of the phenomena
found there these bugaboo stories lose
their charm and the facts take their
stately place with other scientific truths.
Perhaps the first thing that attracts the
attention of an observer on the desert
is that the sun goes down in a glory of
color unknown to other climes, and the
blue vault of heaven seems almost with
in reach, and the mountains revel in
blood red and black and yellow, which
combine before your very eyes into royal
purple. Next morning after such
sunset if you watch you may catch
Dame Nature at her tricSs. She may
weave about you an optical illusion so
weird and fantastic as to deceive the
yery elect, When the sun gets well up,
so that it pours its rays directly upon
the alkali and borax-laden sand, If the
air lies still and the layers do not mix,
the mirage is apt to transform the bar
rem desert into a garden of Eden. 1t
comes when the heat sand rarefes the
lower strata of air, while that above re-
mains condensed, and owing to the still
ness the layers hold together in sepa-
rate sheets. Even while you watch them
a breeze sweeps past, the edges of these
sheets of air begin to culver and throw
inverted reflections of every twig and
bush upon the layer below.
The principle is precisely the one tina.
artists recognize in painting reflections
in water. One ripple throws the reflec-
ton upon the next ripple, and hence We
see in the picture that the reflection is
many times longer than the real object.
if bird chances to fit into the rarefied
air the same thing happens. He ap-
pears as large as an elephant, but only
for moment for the f1utter of his wings
stirs up the air, and the mirage is gone.
1t may be worthy of note that your
little bronco, be he never so thirsty.
does not quicken his pace or prick up
The herald., 1897-03-14
STARBEAMS

A current magazine article entitled
1.-THE Unquiet Sex" doesn't refer to
the men.
Owing to the unusual snowfall in Swift
zerland the chamois have become so
tame in some places that they visit the
stables in search Of food.
There is a church in Kansas City-the
Calvary Baptist-which was erected at
a total cost OF $16S, 900 and was dedicated
without dollar Of debt on 1t.
In London, trimmings" is the term
under which alcoholic drinks are dis
guised in the bills which wealthy Eng
lish women run in the big millinery
stores and department houses.
There is sign In front Of George
town, Md, store that reads as follows:
Born with a brain within a brain can
kure every kind OF misery in a short time
with only the best cribs to be used"
So strong is the desire OF the Polk
county. Oregon, newspapers to do the
public printing that after one had offer
ed to furnish 10000 letter heads for a
of doing the job.
A Brooklyn young man is being sued
for breach Of promise. His defense Is
that he is getting only $40 a week as
clerk in hardware store, but was prom
ised a raise to SIS a week, which his en-
ployer failed to give him.
1t is said Of Hartford City, Ind. man
that the only present he ever made to
his wife was on the twenty-fifth ami
versary Of their wGGding. when he gave
her four yards of cotton cloth with
which to make him a shirt.
Captain Bronaugh of Southern Mis-
souri, Is still circulating the petition for
the pardon of the Youngers from the
Minnesota penitentiary. He expresses
himself as sanguine of success. 1t was
reported few months ago that Senator
s. B. Elkins was going to help. General
10 Shelby was then In st. Louis, and ne
The herald., 1897-03-14
TIE DESERT: ITS M|RAGES AND ITS CACT|

his ears at the sight OF the blue lake
you see in the distance He relies upon
his sense Of smell to- take him to water,
and while men are prone to go off the
main road toward the mirage, the horse
If left to himself will be almost sure to
so toward water hole. In early days,
when parties struck across the desert
led by the mirage, and paid for their
lack of knowledge with their lives.
Especially about Death valley, which
Is a sunken basin, more than 200 feet
below the sea level, and the soil so load
ed with alkali and borax that 1t gives
off a whitish reflection, just suited 10
produce the phenomena in its most de-
lusive form. While all this tract of coun-
try appears exceedingly dry, 1t Is fact
that nearly all of its plants are heavy
sap bearers and can be utilized to ward
off thirst by those who know how to use
them. Cereus gigantus, or what the
Mexicans call Sahuara (No. y Is provided
with a heavy sap-bearing pulp, which is
edible. 1t has a thick skin. almost with
out pores. so that water taken up during
a rain is stored in quantities sufficient
to last through the long, hot summer.
BY cutting off its top and following out
the stump considerable sap can be gath
cred. Or you may peel off its prickly
skin and hold in your hand the watery
pulp The priclxly pear (No. % is another
nutritious cacti; both fruit and stalk
are edible and used extensively by the
old Spaniards. Mesquite is another bush
of considerable value. 1t produces a
spiral pod, which Is good either green or
ripe, and If this bush is tapped near its
roots, it yields gum very similar to
gum arabic. Then there is yucca brevi-
folia (No. 81. 1t has so many good quail
ties that one hardly knows where to be-
gin to tell them. 1t is most noted for
the fine paper which the pulp produces.
1t is an interesting fact that the Daily
London Telegraph was printed some
The herald., 1897-03-14
THE DAWN

Out of the dark the circling sphere
Is rounding onward to the light.
We see not yet the full day here,
But we do see the paling night
And hope, that lights her fadeless fires.
And Faith. that shines heavenly Will,
And Love, that courage reinspires,-
These stars have been above US still.
Oh. sentinels, whose tread we heard
Through long nights when we could not
seei
Pause now, exchange with cheer the word
The unchanging watchword-Lberty.
Lock backward how much has been won!
Look round, how much is yet to win!
The watches of the night are done,
The watches Of the day begin.
o Thou. whose mighty patience holds
The day and night alike in view,
Thy Will our dearest hopes enfolds;
oh, keep US steadfast, patient, true!
IS. Longfellow
The herald., 1897-03-14
|llIECS ONCE [1VED N IOWA.
The Startling Discovery Made
by a Workman
THE ONE AZTEC MANUSCRIPT
d This Country Described by a Famous
Archaeological
& Adds New Facts to History Ancient
Theories controverted-The Oid-Time
Inhabitants of Mexico

"A birchbark manuscript now being
examined by the authorities of the
Smithsonian Institution at Washing
ton is likely to change the entire theory
as to the origin so far as America is
concerned of the Aztecs, held to be the
original inhabitants of Mexico. Pro-
tessor Warren X. Moorehead, archaeol-
The herald., 1897-03-14

vet. And Prof. Davy Of the University
Of California remembers one which put
forth q perfect blossom after having
been strapped with iron bands to floor
for two years. Its scraggy bark makes
1t easily burned, and 1t is a fashion
among the cowboys to touch match TO
1t as they go by. Almost instantly the
blaze leaps to the top. giving few min
utes of illumination, and then black
ened stump stands for years. q monu-
The herald., 1897-03-14

To an old Californian 1t is amusing
to read the stories they print in the east
ern papers about the Mojave desert. Any
day on an overland train you may note
with what horror people who are max
iEg their first trip look toward the
Death valley range of mountains as we
see it in the distance soon after leav-
ing Fort Yuma. Then your travelling
companions begin the gruesome sto-
ries. How poison garres abound and
coyotes howl, and how the water Is
deadly and the heat intolerable. Even
the little lizard, which is as beautiful
and harmless as a butterfly, is de-
The herald., 1897-03-14
PROF. WARREN K. MOOREHEAD,
Archaologist of the Ohio State University

was a familiar figure on the streets OF
Coldwater until within a few years.
He has been out of his house seldom for
several years past.-Chicago Times
Herald.
The herald., 1897-03-14

ment to the thoughtlessness Of those who
do not realize what 1t means to destroy
plant life, LC WHEAT.
The herald., 1897-03-14

Has Lived Under Every Presidents Rule
DR.. William B. Sprague of Coldwater.
Mich. was 100 year of age last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-13

to 40 cents apiece: rabbits. as cents to 81 so
a dozen; wild turkeys, 4 to 10 cents a
pound; quail. S1lo TO 50 dozen; wood
cocks, % to 80 cents apiece.
Negetables-Celery, medium, per doz., %
to-33 cents: common, per doz., 10 to Is
cents; beans per box, 30 to 90 cents: let
tuce, per bbl. 30 cents to 81: potatoes
fancy, new, per bbl., 81 to S225; choice. per
DBL, Sla5 to 81: new, per bush. 60 TO 40
cents; culls, per bbl. 80 to a. cents; pota-
toes, New York, per bush, 60 to 40 cents:
Maryland and Virginia, per bush, 80 to 90
cents; culls, per bush. % to 30 cents: sweet
potatoes, fancy, per bbl., 81: No. l. $1..o to
SI15; culis, 80 to 80 cents; yams and hay
mons, per bbl., ~ cents to 81: tomatoes,
per crate, native, p to 30 cents; beets, per
100 punches, 81 to S1.J0; cabbage, per 100
81 to 81; new, per bbL, 10 cents TO 81; on
ions, yellow. per bbl., S1-l0 to 81; yellow,
per bush, 60 to 60 cents; turnips. per bbl.
% cents to 81; beans, white New York
mediums, S1.20 to S1.35; New York pea,
S1.20 to S1.30; marrow, Sl.2o to 81 30; Nir-
ginia, white. 30 cents to 81: white. mixed.
50 cents; colored, 60 cents; black-eyed peas.
per bush. 60 TO as cents.
Dried fruts-Evaporated apples choice,
4 to cents, apples sliced, fancy 3 cents:
SLICED. bright to 2e cents; quarters.
bright. cents; peaches. choice, q to
cents; fair to good, 3 to cents; halves. un-
peeled. to cents; quarters, unpeeled
TO 8 cents; evaporated, to 10 cents: evap-
GRATED. unpeeled. to cents; cherries.
pittcd, dry, crop o. to 10 cents sugared
and wet to cents: blackberries, per H..
to 3l4 cents; whcrtleberries per H. 3 to
q cents. raspberries. dry, 10 to IL cents
Green fruits and nuts-Apples fancy Ia
Bile. bbl., s. to So; choice per bbl, 81 30;
windfalls. per bbl., a. cents to 81; pears La
Ccnte. $50 to So; Duchess per bbl SlI5
to 81; Sickle. per bbl.. So TO $3.50; California
Bartlett, per box, 81 to sl.50; native per
Dbl. lbs to So; peaches, fancy. free stone,
$l25 to $50; medium. 40 to 90 cents:
peaches. :'ix-basket carriers. s1.J0 to 81; IS
bush. baskets, - to 90 cents: ounces per
bbl., $2.25 to So: walnuts. per 100 lbs, as
cents 10 81; chestnuts, per pound. to
cents; oranges California. $3.50 to $3.50;
lemons. Cicily, per box, s. to 81. Grapes
Concord. lob. basket, Il to IL cents; 5-lb.
basket, t0-S cents; Delaware, 5-lb. basket,
10 to Ii cents; Marthas. 5-lb. basket s
cents: Niagara. 5-lb. basket. 10 to II cents;
Salems, 5-lb. basket, Z to cents; walnut
kernels, II to Is cents; pineapples, s to IS
cents: crab apples. per bbl.. 81 to 500.
Beef and other meats-Cattle, extra per
cwt.. $3.50 to s.; butcher, per cwt.,- 81 80 to
$50; common, per cwt-, $50 to 81; rough
per cwt-- 81; hogs. fair. per cwt.. gross 81:
ordinary, per cwt., net. S3.75; sheep per
cwt-. $3.50 to 50; lambs. spring choice cwx.
"a to $50; medium, s4.2o: common, So to
SS-Jo; calves. prime. per cwt., So to 81; COM
mon. per cwt., s. TO SO: grass. per cwt, s.
to $S5o: cows. prime. each SIS to s35; COM
mon. each so to SIS; old and dry, Sc to IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-13

The Rev. James Boyd Brady. pastor of the Peo-
Pies Temple in Boston. presides the destinies
of the largest Methodist Church in the country.
Big, candid Scotch Irishman that he is Dr.
Brady has built up the Temple financially and
numerically, and today he is the pastor of a flock
Of /, 100.
DR.. Brady devotes himself with unfagging cour-
age to anything he undertakes. The chief char
ncteristic of his ministry has been progress, in
number, financial condition and moral and spiritual
growth. He is a man of plain but vigorous words
So much has been said ard written about DR.
Brady-his work. his progressive methods lis elo-
quence and his power a minister-that the fol-
lowing letter from him viii be convincing and
helpful to many persons besides the large number
who every Sunday Influenced for good by his
powerful preaching. He writes
-" BOSTON. Sept q 1897.
Paine's celery compound, IL widely and wisely
used would relieve nervousness, soothe restless
ness, reduce sickness, strengthen the body, invis-
crate TIE mind and add years OF happiness to life
JAMES BOYD BRADY
Pastor Peoples Temple.
The woman who does not take time to
get well will sooner later have to take time to
be Ill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-13

Many live under the needless infiction of indi-
gestion, nervousness, constipation and general
weakness, and endure the consequent loss of health
without considering how easily the cause Of all
this illness might be remedied.
Neetiful nerve and tissue nourishmeBt is at the
bottom of all permanent building up of the health
Paine's celery compound looks out for the in
sidious weakening OF the nervous system through
malnutrition. 1t gives healthy tone to the stom-
ach increases the blood supply, quiets and equal
lies the irritated nerve action and promptly feeds
the tissues when the bodily vigor is at its lowest
ebb and should not be further taxed
The only cure. therefore, for rheumatism neu-
ragia general debility that is lasting In is tocd
effects must rest radical cleansing of the
blood and a building up of the nervous tissues All
this is best done by Paine's celery compound be-
cause this remarkable remedy begins at the begin
ming wherever there is disease and establishes the
health firmly and beyond any fear OF falling back
The WORKOUT person who cannot sleep should
take Paine's celery compound. 1t is folly TO in-
agine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour
gained. Nothing undermnes health and energy like
loss of sleep The nervous system suffers as much
from lack OF sleep from lack of nourishment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-13

are A. w. Dangerfeld, Jesse Barnes. Glenn
smith, Enoch Colbert, James N. Cephas
Jerry McGruder John Mite iell Frederick
Murdoch and Richard Lewis
During the ten days succeeding the ded-
ication there will be what is known as an
irterdenominational rally, in which the
Following pastors will take part: Monday
evening, Rev. DIR. w. III. Brooks, pastor
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church: Tuesday
evening, Rev. w. B. johnson, DID,, pastor
of Second Baptist Church: Wednesday
evening. Rev. DR.. E. w. S. Peck of Mount
Zion M. E. Church, Thursday evening"
Rev. DIR. 1. L.. Thomas, pastor of Asbury
NJ. E. Church; Friday evening, Rev. DIR.
w. ]. Howard pastor of Zion Baptist
Church. There will be no service Saturday
evening, and Sunday will be observed az
missionary day.
The officiating clergymen at the services
the four ensuing evenings will be, slcces-
sively. Rev. Clinton Dent, pastor of Mount
Moriah Baptist Church: Rev. Moses Lake,
pastor of Simpson NJ. E. Church: Rev. DR..
George w. Lee. pastor of Vermont Avenue
Baptist Church, and Rev. Daniel Wheeler,
pastor of Central M. Z. Church.
Sketch of Pastor Griffin.
Rev. John H. Griffin, the pastor of Eb-
erezer Church, was born III Sandy Spring,
Nd, March Z, 1855. He is one of the first
graduates from Centenary Biblical Insti-
tute, now known as Morgan College, Bal
timore, Nd, of the class of ~. He was
the first colored man elected member OF
the faculty of that college, in which
pacity he served under the following pres
idents: Revs. ]. E. Round, DID,; w. NJ.
Frysinger, DID,. and F. ]. Wagner. DID.
He spent eighteen years a teacher, dur
ing which time he was the principal Of the
grammar school i'm Frederick, Nd, for six
years. He was elected lay delegate to the
general conference of 1892, which convened
in Omaha, Neb. He was licensed TO preach
in April, 1892. by the authority of the quar-
terly conference of Asbury NJ. Z. Church
of Frederick, Nd, Rev. R. p. Lawson,
preacher in charge, and Rev. Benjamin
Brown, presiding elder. He Joined the con-
ference in March, 1893, at Stanton, Va,
under Rev. w. II. Brooks. presiding elder.
He was sent to Harper's Ferry. W. Va.
where he succeeded Rev. NJ w. Clair. and
remained there two years: was ordained
deacon by Bishop w. F. Mallalieu, ID. L.,
at the conference assembled at Richmond.
Va. March 10, 1895; was sent to Bsnnng,
DC, where he remained two years, and
was ordained elder by Bishop J. p. New
man March IA. 1897. He was sent to LIB
enezer to succeed Rev. M. w. Clair. Ph-B.,
who is now presiding elder of the Washing
ton district.
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Both may be supplied and healthy condition In
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The stay and STAFF of sound health is we'll -nour-
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Nervous disorders increase in a sort of compound
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Paine's celery compound must not he COMPOUNDED
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Trinity Church, but which was then known
as Ebenezer, subsequently becoming
changed in name to the Fourth Street
Church, and still more recently, as at
present, being known as Trinity
Among those who were converted during
this revival were Noah Jones and his wife,
Stepney For st. William Wells, Daniel
Simms, Alfred Parry, Josiah Lee and Luz
cinda, his wife, and Nancy Gray. Noah
Jones and his wife were residents of South
Washington. They soon became convinced
that IT was their duty to hold fire.
quent services than had been : rule
heretofore. With the others named they
met weekly, or oftener, suited them, and
alternately at the home of each, and held
class meetings and prayer meetings. 9th
ers were attracted to the services and in
the course of a few months the congrega-
ton was able to secure a little one-story
building, twenty-five by forty feet in di-
mensions. on Capitol Hill. then known as
the Navy Yard, where 1t worshiped for
a number of years. The congregation
about this time was very large, but the at
tendance little later began to decrease,
was thought large audience was present
when there were twenty-five persons at a
Sunday night service.
Washington Conference Formed.
This state Of affairs continued for few
years, when suddenly interest in the old
church began to revive and the member
ship became so influential that in 1884 there
was formed the Washington conference Of
the M E. Church, which is composed ex-
clusively of colored ministers and taeir
congregations. and which now comprises
about $50 preachers.
The organization Of the Washington con-
ference was not accomplished without
much effort on the part Of the people Of
Ebenezer and its friends. A petition was
drawn up by one of the principal members
of Ebenezer and sent to the general con-
ference of the M. e. Church which met in
1854, and after much debate the petition
was granted.
Immediately thereafter Rev. p. Jones was
sent as pastor to Ebenexer. Those who
have succeeded him were Revs. H. H. Rob-
inson, Tillman jackson, c. G. Key. p. G.
Walker. T. A. Davis. c. w. Walker, q. T.
Pfnkney. W. III. Draper A. Dennis. NJ W.
Clair and the incumbent, John H Griffin.
When the Rev. Tillsnan jackson took
charge Of the church he found the building
too small to accommodate the congrega-
ton, but at the same time was utterly un-
able to provide the means for the erection
of another and more commodious struc-
ture. Accordingly Mr.. jackson visited the
various brick yards In the vicinity OF
Washington and from. their owners begged
enough bricks to put UP new house. He
also secured from lumber dealersa large
contribution of material. and 1t il said the
donations received as result Of his efforts
were Tar more In m0ney value than the
church paid him MS saiaEy. He WAS trans