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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-12-17

Rev. Tillman preached an in
teresting sermon Sunday night,
theme, The Message.
IOWA CITY.
Specisl to Iowa Bystander.
Mrs. Mason has moved here
for the purpose Of educating her
children, two Of her daughter are
now in High School.
The colored students in the
University, number more this this
year, than at any time before IN
it's history.
Mr.. s. jos Brown senior colleg-
ale and junior law is one Of lowa's
bright young men and we are
glad to know that he will soon
cap aud gown the insignia Of his
accompl plishment.
Mr.. Jas. :. Dameron who has
been but for the most part several
years has entered Medical depart.
.meut and will also finish his degree
from the collegiate department.
The young people had quite a
nice time at the lath mailing at
the parsonage. ....
Mr.. Ed. Welton who has been
working on the hospitable left for
Oskaloosa. .--
Mr.. VIM. H. Mason arrived
from tour of the east where he
has been employed during the
summer and fall visiting New
York, Philadelphia, Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dameron enter
tanned the formers mother, sister
and brother at dinner Thanksgiv>
ing also few friends.
Miss Mamie Patterson returned
from Peoria where she has been
visiting her son.
Rev: n n n. Pharris has succeed
ed most nobly since 1e mas peer
here, having builts nice parsonay'
which he will occupy in 9 few day
we believe he will have q yer.
successful year in Iowa City.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-12-17
Mrs. Levi Mcdonald is growing
weaker each day.

All communication for publica.
ton must be signed by the writer.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-12-17
MI. Wilson Hughes is quite
sick this week, al his home.
Mrs. W.n. Fletcher is very sick
at her home on 1912 Crocker ST..

VIM. L. Tomlin who has been
very sick for about two weeks is
convalescent.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-12-17

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Miss Ella Drain and Mrs. Steels
left last night for Montgomery
county Miss, whore the latters
sister is lying very low.
The children of tho A. M. E.
s. s. gave a fine concert Dec, It.
at the church.
Mt. Olive Club gave a first
class supper, Thursday evening :.
Rev. Tillman preached an in
teresting sermon Sunday night,
theme, The Message.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
Mexican Railroads.

Charles H. Clark of the Hartford
Courant, now travelling in Mexico,
writes: Zone custom prevails on this
road that The Courant has long urged
for Connecticut. Wherever they kill a
man they put up black cross. You see
them all along the road; here 1, there
B.; at one spot are IA. Take Connecti-
cut, with its LOO grade crossings and
its annual butcheries, and before long
we would have such an array of crosses
that the grade crossing would have to
CO. Here, Of course, the road is the
rarity. No fence pens in the railroad.
If anything is on the track, the engine
removes it. A train hand told me that,
one trip being late, they hurried, and
in consequence killed three steers and
five burros in eight hours. All along
the track are skeletons stripped by the
turkey buzzards and whitened by the
sun. But cattle are as plenty as they
are big down this way"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
French Fishing Vessel Foun-
derS OFT the Coast of
Newfoundland.
OF the Seventy-three Men on
Board Only Four So Far
Heard From.
Survivors Driven Desperate by
Hunger Give Way to
Cannibalism.

ST. JOHNS, N. F., Apr. S6,-The
French fishing vessel Valiant, Cap
tain Pierra, bound from st. Malo for
Miquelon, struck an ICEBERG on the
~G'sand Banks on the 10th inst, and
almost Immediately foundered. She
had 70 fishermen on board and all took
to the boats, but only one of those
boats has thus far been heard from.
When it left the vessel its complement
was seven men. Three of them per-
ished from exposure and hunger. The
bodies of the first two were thrown
overheard, but the survivors, in their
= desperation, were given to cann,baliss~&i;
land ate the third The boat was
picked up by the schooner Victor
Eugene, which has just arrived at St.
Pierre.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
WORK OF. WRECKERS,

Train on the Houston and Texas Central
Derailed.
HOUSTON, Tex, April %. - Train
threw switch at Fairbanks on the
Houston and Texas Central railroad
two piles north of here, and the south
bound passenger train ran into it,, caus-
ing smashup of the forward coaches
and derailment of the others. H. S
Goldberg of Houston was killed and a
dozen others were injured. $ Three at
ztempts at wrecking have been frus-
.trated at this place within the last
year.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29

The Kind That Were In Use a Hundred
Years Arc.


Years Ago.
The horse boats between the cities Of
New York and Brooklyn may be cited
as early attempts to solve the problem
Of transport by water. An interesting
feature of these ealiy constructions was
the use of water wheel 10 feet or SO in
diameter, with "a floats, the latter in
clined slightly to the radius SO as to
avoid the lifting of the water, which is
so troublesome feature CT the radial
float These horse boats appear to have
been of three general designs. In the
first frame, shaned somewhat like the
letter GA" OF an inverted "U," was
mounted to turn around it's vertical
axis. Four of these frames, dividing the
circle into eight parts, made a SORT of
skeleton cone, and this cone was caused
to revolve by eight horses moving in
horizontal circular path about % feet
in diameter. The face gear, Is feet in
diameter, drove three foot pinion
mounted upon the axis on the water
wheel shaft and the wheels were within
the frame in an opening between half
huIls
The second plan was Of c0nical
skeleton frame at an incline Of about
one in two, so that the horses had to
travel up this inclined surface, causing
it to rotate with their weight and trao.
tiCn.
! In the third plaza smaller design
the paddle wheels were brought into
we'll between the two half bulls Of tbs
boat, catamaran fashion, as in the first
arrangement, and the frame was mount
ed above the wheels, and it's rotating
motion was transmitted by intermediate
idle wheels to the water wheel shaft.
Boats of the first and second class seem
to have been about rs feet long
1t is interesting also to observe that
the swinging bridge for ferry boat serv-
ice had been already thought out by
Fulton early in this century, with its
counterweight construction and its
windlass for making the boats fast.
Such boats seen to have drawn little
over two feet of water and to have had
perfectly fiat bottoms like scows. Pro
fessor F. r. Hutton in Casters Maya
zine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
LOSS OF 100000.
Disastrous Fire on the Docks at Newport
News, Va.

Disastrous Fire on the Docks at Newport
News, Va.
NEWPORT News, Va, April 49, "A
fire broke out in the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad company's pier No. 5,
and before the flames were checked
damage to the extent of 1900, 600 had
bee done. Two of the company's i'm
mense piers were destroyed, three ves-
sells burned to the waters edge, tug
boat entirely destroyed and eight per-
sons injured, some seriously. The
flames spread with such rapidity that
it was impossible to make any head
way against them. The vessels de-
stroyed were the British steamship
aClintonia, the Norwegian steamship
vSolveis, the German ship J. d. Bisch-
off and the Chesapeake and Ohio tug
Wanderer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
SHELBY AND THE PRESIDENT
How He Clinched His Appointment as
United States Marshal.

How He Clinched His Appointment as
United States Marshal.
! zone of General Shelby's saving traits
was his ability to say exactly the right
thing to the right man in the right
| place. A heavy fight was made on him
when he was candidate for the mar
shalship. His opponents had told Presi.
dent Cleveland that Shelby had been
concerned in the assassination of the Of
! ficers of Cass county who had issued
some railway bonds against the wishes
Of the people. Shelby prepared himself
with affidavits from leading citizens and
went to Washington. Disdaining assist
ance, he obtained personal interview
with Mr.. Cleveland. When he entered
the executive Office, Representative
Dockery, the banker at Gallatin, one Of
his bitterest opponents, was present.
L have been accused of assassina-
ton, Mr.. President, said General Shell
by, and have been informed that the
appointment to the United States mar
shalship for the western district Of Mis-
souri, hinges upon that charge. In JUS
tice to Democrat I want you to exam
inc these papers at your leisure
"'You have been correctly informed,
General Shelby said the president.
That charge has been made. I will look
at your papers.
Congressman Dockery interjected
remark. Il will bid you good morning,
Mr.. President said the general. There
is nothing that man pointing to Dock
ery-'can say to me in this Office or in
your presence. There are many places
in which he can meet me if he DESIRES
"There was a distinct challenge in
his manner and glance, but it never
came to anything. Within an hour Mr..
Cleveland caused General Shelby to be
informed that he would be given the
appointment The entire business was
settled in less than half day. 1t was
the guiding principle of General Shell
by's life to go straight for any thing that
he wanted and straight against anything
that he didn't like. detroit Free
Press.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
MANY LIVES IMPERlLED,

Flood Situation Grave in the Territory
Adjacent to st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, April 2S.-The flood situa-
ton throughout the neighboring Mis-
sissippi and Missouri river territory is
one of gravest danger. At several
points the swollen streams have over
stepped their banks and burst through
the levees. Already several lives have
been lost and many people are i'm
periled by the rapidly rising waters.
Thousands of acres of farm lands on
both the Illinois and Missouri sides of
the Mississippi river have been mum
dated, or will be soon. Stock has been
drowned and crops destroyed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
Mohanmed,s Mare.

The marc which conveyed Mohammed
from earth to the seventh heaven was
named BoraA. She was milk white, had
the wings Of an eagle and human face,
with horses cheeks. Everv pace she
took was equal to the farthest range of
human sight. This was one Of the ten
animals admitted to the Mohammedan
paradise.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
Qualified announcement.

Young man." said Senator Sorghum
to the protege who had been promised
an appointment, II shall not congratu-
late you, but there is one thing desire
to say"
what Is that?'
IF you display anything like the en-
ergy and anxiety in filling this position
that you showed in getting it you can't
help being brilliant success Wash
ington Star.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
WENT THROUGH A BRIDGE.
Fatal Accident on an Electric Car at
Portland. Or.

Fatal Accident on an Electric Car at
Portland. Or.
PORTLAND, Or, April 2S.-An cleo.
trio car was thrown from the track at
the corner of East Morrison and
Eighth streets during the afternoon
and plunged into a slough Is feet be-
low. -Four persons were drowned and
Is injured.
There were "a people in the car. tt
was running down hill at speed of Is
miles an hour, and on reaching curve
so feet from the bridge left the track.
The momentum the car had gained
carried it about 100 feet upon the
bridge, where the timbers of the struc-
ture gave way and precipitated the car
into the lagoon 20 feet below.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
All He Asked.

''And do you really want to be my
son?' asked the widow Mullins of young
Spudds, who had asked for her daugh-
ter's hand.
81 can't say that do, replied the
truthful sutton. II want to be Helen's
husband"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
Carefully Planned Outrage.

LONDON, April 28.-One of the vic.
Tins of the explosion which occurred
while the train filed with men from
the city was making its usual stop at
Aldersgate station of the underground
railroad is dead. 1t is generally be-
.ieved the affair was a carefully
planned outrage, although it's object is
unknown, unless it, was merely to cre-
ate general havoc.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
Struck an Electric Car.

TAMPA, Fla, April 2S.-A collision
of the Florida Central and Peninsula's
fast mail train with street car loaded
with passengers resulted in three men
being killed. The electric Car was
smashed into splinters and the passen.
gers were strewn promiscuously about
the scene of the accident.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
Not Ready to Withdraw From Gre

Not Ready TO WithdraW Fr0m Cret6.
LONDON, April 2S.-The parliamen.
tary secretary for the foreign office,
Mr.. Curzon, replying in the house of
commons to question of Mr.. Henry
Labouchere, said that no agreement
had been reached relative to the with
.drawal Of the Turkish troops from
Crete. A majority of the powers, he
added, were of the opinion tnat the
Greeks must leave first.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-29
Kentucky Senatorial situation.

FRANKFORT, KY, April 28.-The two
political armies are fighting the fight
as never before The Blackburn peo-
pie, who see the prize slipping from
them and the election of Deboe almost
certain to occur, are making desperate
1fforts to stave off the election.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-05

ness was fostcred by his contemporaries ne
drew Insplration from Jcryis The latter. to be-
gin with was remarkable for the PERFECTION OF
he order and discipline OF his ship. Young
officers" II Is said, used TO be sent on pcad Oh
her to see what a man-ofwar ought to look
like" His strctncss and thorOughneSS mace
him n man after Nelson's own heart, whose own
expedition and severity. when such were needed
may be- judged by his behavior in the Caracci-
olo incident. Must ii not. too, have been spur
To Nelson to work with man OK whom n story
could bc told like that Of Jervis before the Dat
tie Of st. Vincent? AS the Spanish force was
gradually rlade out through the fog II was re-
portcd 10 the Admiral: There are eight sail OF
the lire Sir John Very well. sir. twenty
sail twenty-five twcnty-scven.' Enough
sir said Jcrys. no more az tnat. In" dle Is
,a,, ard II there arc nfty sail VIII 80 through
tb.i,'" II is fair and suggestive parallel
10 Nelson with his mad We taken ten sail. etc
etc That the men OWNED one another We may
ru,s, from v.ha, che captain said when Nelson
and Jcrvis had come together. and In spite Of
Tin. latter's position, proceeded To cooperate
NOR. - EQUALS than as commander and com
rnan,!,d you did just you pleased in LORD
Hoods time. the same in Admiral IIothams
and now again with Sir John Jervis This.
though not altogether accurate. has truth In IL
and 4 Light on the subject 81 Nelson's environ
mont Holman may have yielded from tmdty
,and h. did not always yi"ld. but Hood and
J.ryls knew they could trust their young col
league.
Th.s trust comes out very srikinrly In IN
ou.-l Il. Of the battle of -. Vincent. It is well
known hat Nelson's brilliant achievement upon
that occasion was. after all. unauthorized; an
Illustration. in fact Of his swift inspiratipn
which led him to see an opportunity where most
commauders no matter how distinguished.
would seek FOR Il in vain. The arccdotr concerns
Sir Robert cad IS jealousy ~ Nelson. lie had
been captain Of the fleet to Jcrvis. 1T was said
that ne had urged Jcrvs 10 r,primanl Nelson
for quitting his station in the battle Of 81. Vim
cent and THROWING; his ship In the way Of the
Santis.ma Trinidad; II WAS d!sOhedicncc OF the
fi.,ual True answered Jcrvis. and when you
commit a similar act Of disObcdCnce | Will for
give II. as do this" II IS curious and an in
structivc fact that the best men in the service
wcr. quick t. understand Nelson and To support
him The Incdlucrities. like Calder and Hotharn.
the courageous bat unstable officers like w.
sidney Smith. tie Colorless indv1uatics like
Keith. rarely found him sympathet!c. The big
men Hood. Jorvis. Collngwood. TrOubridge and
their peers were to man loyal and appreclat-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-05

have been in COMPOUNDED scrape. / went on
board Admiral Hotham as soon as our firing
grew slack in the van and the Ca Ira and the
Censeur had struck, to propose to him leaving
cur two crippled ships the two prizes and four
frigates to themselves and to pursue the enemy;
but he, much cooler than myself, said, We mast
be contented we have done very WELL Now
had we taken ten sail and had allowed the
eleventh to escape when 1t had beer possible to
have got az her. could never have called 1t well
done" Nelson's delight can be imagined when
Hotham resigned the plea Of i'll health, but
really because he feared the burden OF his re-
sponsibilitcs and Sir John Jervis arrived to take
command Jervis was. in his way. magnificent
and it is In reading Of him and OF men like him
that the student begins to perceive the interde-
pcndcncc Of Nelson and many OF his colleagues
He was great b. his own right. but his great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-05

ever in some degree be by causes independent
OF a mans intellectual intelligence. IL Is the
effort an hundred times more than the issue of
the effort that is. in my Judgment. credit
He would specialize in SO far as was necessary
to get At truth and proficiency. but his main OBJ
ject was to broaden the mind. and in so doing
TO make the moral nature part and parcel o, the
intellectual This led naturally TO a great = -N.-
bility. Far from training his pupils in narrow
and merely pietistic ways he expanded their
hearts and their lungs together developed their
souls and bodies with tonics so sub:y anu 50
wisely blended that they seemed but one. ana
made his students men. The note " his genius
Is exempliiied In his classical method He hui
manized the studies. At Winchester he hal
revealed in the practice OF reading the whole pas
sage from Greek or Latin into gO,l English, and
"he used 10 enliven the sickbcl OF his sister
Susannah by the readiness with which in the
evenings n would sit by her s.le and translate
book after book OF the hst1-y Of Nerodotus.'
Later at Rugby. In classes Of his own, he Wou'i
encourage this free translation. not permitting
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-05

tiful adventures was lacking in respectaDility'
But his reprobation Of Nelson's ignope cohouct
in the whole affair and especially whefe MS
lawful wife vas concerned, IS not hait vigorous
or explicit enough. For Lady HaHiItoh he "'-'
severity, but here also he IS TOO cold' Inc u'.'
is that the Hamilton episode IN NelSo" VI
ography is neither more nor less IMAM uSo dS''
it gives severe wrench to admiration "a '"e
nan. hr, since his greatness IS firmly fixed 1t
'h. not 20 lao diHicclt TO tell the whole truth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-05

I've It is a point to be dwelt upon at ie"s '''
indicates the true source of British supre"A.y
on the sea, her homogeneous service Inc no w.
in Nelson's time was adorned by so'"e y.
nobest and strongest spirits in Enshsh n.s, eve
Professor Laughton has brought them up '''.,,v
scene with brevity. but with so niue" ,,,h,t
and so much skill that they are see" io'
they are. The book is a portrait gallery, ". t,,,-
ing from beginning to end. the ISL u o.
ties is long. longer than can be traverSeu ~ '.ar
Their detail in this place. But 1t Is mar ., %
tlresome; even the less attractive pcrsonA.'.
whom we have referred are drawn "i'h
and animation; and there is, indeed put IN
side of his subject which the author leaves -
unsatisfactory condition. That is the s'ue WIZ.
deals with Nelson and Lady Hamilton r'oio
sor I.aughton is entirely discreet OF COURSE a"N
conveys the impression that he thinks inc 'e"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-05

ANoIDp OF RTGSY: II, bis ES8ucXTfoN Edited
by J. J. Finday. NJ. A., with an lh Risbon OF
b the Right Kever pp x .hS 81 The
milan Company.
The appearance Of a book like this must NC
great comfort to that numerous class OF reaoe''
to whom the encroachments OF science "po-
other spheres Of knowledge yearly seem iiio'o
determined more successful and more opho"iou~
Yet Il is a book prepared in defence OF sc'eh'e'
tho science of education. The saving grace-"e
sneak from the point Of view OF the feaoe'S
,ort;oned aboye-lies in the peculiar charac'e1
~ Thomas Arnold and in the loyalty OF MS pres"
ort editor to his leading idea That was .ha'
tho aim of education was to turn boy '"'o
Christian and ~ gentleman. How Visiohai' 90
oven romantic that 3ounds IN THIS age Vi "
tifc education! But Is science IKE sisa"
Gradgrind, to ignore everything IN p"p'
those faculties which may be expected 10 'e'p'
n the appeal OF figures, cupes' SaN,'"''
other tangible data? The answer ""ee I
,s,n. co volatile and impressionable as boy IS
concerned must be perfectly oo'o' ~ ,.a.
80 Arno,ds lips instinctivey, and ina. ne va"
right in putting character before scno'a''''''
shown by the glorious history OF Rugby
II must be remembered that preceu.
NOT mean excusiveness. Ihere s'
necessity even for stating this iac'' ou' A..
douhtedly true that in nine cases ou' Va
announcement that a teacher was Pu''''7 ,.,
oo,or before scholarship would be receiver VIZ,
- INDIGNANT nrotest Fears would De e"i'o
H.. .oho,arship was being sacrificed the
..o,,,a ba reminded that the Church couio '""e
.., -, tho ,unil,s SOUL that he came 10 scho'.
=. ID into a scholar All the time careiu'
u 80 Arno,d's methods would simply 10
irving to develop his pupil as crea'u e.,
. ho ,vould be training him not mercy ia
ethics and culture, but In such al eN''
bis faculties as would bring his "hoe ''A'N
,hrorgb making a man Of him as wen do
aaho,o, Knowledge, information, IN ana io'
..r,ealves were almost abhorred at I'us"'
nut, ,o, MT mean that all study was Dur
49, ,,h moral That would have kIiIeu
hoo, IN y wear. What Arnold sought WAS
. ,o,oo how feel that everything he leafheo va"
,.~,.,.or ,,e,ifably delightful in itself-out
link in the chain which was TO Dihd d.. INC
% ,t, nature together in singleness OK
ctr, tho aim being to live. as has Deen sou
above ike a Christian ana se"'i'"','
'n.o,,ao,r,, ocuteness." he used to say. divesteo
nc II is in too many cases or al ''''' 80
ro.,.,,o ord great and good. is 10 me more re-
voI,in, than the most helpless iHpeo"''''
inc n he almost like the spirit Oh '"p
,o,haIas" He never thought less Oh d man "
oauea bo had failed In his university eA'''''
,ior "I believe that / attach quite aS '
,.,rr,o az Is reasonable to university dlstlhc-
,t,,s" h.. said but II would be a grleVous e'n
:, ,h, good of a mans reading for three years
nov. all TO depend upon the result OF Single
examination. affected as that result must