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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
A TALLYHO ACCIDENT
The Coach Overturned in a Stream
and Two Persons Were Killed

With toot of horn and laughter and
song tally-ho party set out Wednesday
morning to ride from Lake Hopatcong
to Budd's lake, in. New Jersey. Two
coaches drawn by six horses, driven by
men supposed tc be skillful drivers. In
fact the first tally-Lo rode eighteen
couples. In the other rode twenty.
The route chosen was through coun-
try thick with beech woods, the road
being half hidden by the overhanging
branches.
All went well until the gray and laugh
ing party We're near the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western railroad. The
tracks run through thick underbrusll,
and the road winds along one side of the
tracks, just on the edge OF the steep en-
bankment of a small pond.
The water in soma places is as shall
low as a saucer, but just at the edge,
near the railroad, it is fully twenty feet
deep.
AS the tally-ho swung across the tracks
around curve COW scampered out of
the heavy underbrush. The road was
too narrow for it to turn, and the ami
NAL grew Infatuated and charged full
tilt at the swiftly approaching horses.
The leaders SHE'D, swerved to the Left
and fell down the elnbankm6nt, drag
sing the other team and the tally-ho
and its passen gers along with them. No
one had any time to jump, and # lie
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
SOME LATE NEW THINGS

| In a new incandescent vapor lamp the
oil is first raised to heated tubes to be
changed into gas by air pressure. the
| tubes being heated by the flame of the
lamp, and the gas expanding to force THE
oil into the tubes in place of the air; the
flame is surrounded by hood or mantle
to give white light.
To give an alarm when hat or coat is
removed from hook by any one but the
owner a new hanger is hinged to wall
bracket, and contains spring to force
it upward and close, an electric circuit
and ring bell as soon as the garment is
removed, the owner only being able to
prevent the alarm.
A new water bicycle is composed of
two air-tight tubes with pointed ends
fastened together by cross-braces, on
which is set shaft supporting broad
paddle wheel turned by a chain rum
ming from the pedal shaft, drum cas-
ing partially surrounding the paddles to
prevent the rider from getting wet.
To give warning to a cycler or driver
when he is riding beyond certain speed
bell is attached to one of the wheels.
with a spring arm inside, which forces
increases until it strikes the bell and
gives the alarm, the spring arm being
set for any speed desired by turning
screw.
In a newly patented toy for children
tube is mounted in an angle in a
frame with the under eide of the lower
end cut away, and a spring lever lying
in position to hold a fire cracker in the
tube, the lever being pulled back and
held in place by clamping the fuse of the
cracker so that it will release itself when
| the fuse is almost burned out, the lever
| throwing it in the air in time to explode
| it there.
| To assist the nurse in wheeling the
| baby without the exertion of walking
spring loop is clamped on the tire of the
wheel, to be depressed when the carriage
| is pushed out by the nurse until the wild
est part of the spring rolls between the
| wheel and the ground when the spring
expands and drives the carriage back
again.
| To ignite the gas in the incandescent
| burners now in use new device has a
small tube running up outside the burn
| er to point even with the hood, with
valve near the bottom, the gas flowing
from the tube being always burning
when the lamp is in use by the expansion
of a metal strip by heat to close the
valve, which is opened again by the ac-
ton of putting out the light.
New automatic machine for affixing
stamps on envelopes consists of a re-
volving drum, on which long tape of
| stamps is pivoted, and a felt pad or
| sponge filled with water to moisten the
stamps as they are drawn from the
drum, the envelopes being placed in
row in the machine and sliding into po
sition one at time for the stamp to be
attached by means of a pad which
strikes it at the proper time.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
For a Universal Standard of Time

The French legislature, under the lead
of M. Etiennes, has been considering
the plan of a decimal subdivision of
time for universal adoption, a plan
which differs somewhat from that
which has hitherto engaged the atten-
ton of scientists. 1t is proposed to have
the day divided into ten hours, the
hour into 100 minutes and the minute
into 100 seconds, making 1000 minutes,
of 100000 seconds per day. The hour
hand always points in the direction of
the sun; consequently as the day begins
and ends at midnight, the hour hand
points downward, as also do the minute
| hand and second hands, at the exact
time of the change of day, or 10 o'clock
hence it rises with the sun in it's APP
parent motion around the earth, points
to the zenith at noon, after which it
descends until it reaches it's extreme
| lower point again at midnight. Thus
the hour hand makes but one revolu-
ton around the dial each day; it is then
| the figure x on the dial at which the
hour hand commences and ends each
day, the minute hand each hour and the
second hand each minute. The time
thus indicated by decimal clock is al
ways positive time, and standard time
| is therefore provided for the entire
globe; that is, it Isl proposed to divid;
the terrestrial globe into one thousand
degrees Of longitude, corresponding
with the 1000 minutes of the day, and
by grouping them into twenty sections
Of fifty degrees each, establish standard
time universally.-New York Sun.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
HOW TO EXAMINE A WATCH
Mechanism Full of Meaning to the
Expert Who Understands It

To one who has never studied the
mechanism of a watch, its handspring
or the balance wheel is a mere piece of
metal. He may have looked at the face
Of the watch, and while he admires the
motions Of its hands and the time it
keeps, he may have wondered in idle
Amusement as to the character of the
machinery which is concealed within
Take it to pieces and show him each
part separately-he will recognize
neither design nor adaptation nor rela-
ton between them; but put them to-
gether, set them to work; point out the
offices of each spring, wheel and cog, ex-
plain their movements, and then show
him the result. Now he perceives that
it is all one design--that notwthstand-
ing the number of parts, their diverse
forms and various offices, and the agents
concerned the whole piece is of one
thought, the expression of one idea.
He now rightly concludes that when the
handspring was fashioned and temp
cred its relation to all the other parts
must have been considered; that the
cogs on this wheel are cut and regu-
lated--adapted-to the ratchets on that
ETC.; and his final conclusion will be that
such a piece of mechanism could not
have been produced by any chance, fol
the adaptation of the parts is such as tc
show it to be according to design, and
obedient to the will of one intelligence
Harper's Round Table.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Miss Grace Burroughs was awarded
the junior prize in Hebrew at the re-
cent commencement Of Hartford theo-
logical seminary.
Governor Black of New York, who Is
young man in the forties, was farm
er's son and one of a family of eleven
children, yet he Prepared himself. un-
aided, to enter college at is, and gradu-
ated at Dartmouth at %. He is now an
gular, tall and smooth shaver, and is
often called young Abe Lincoln" His
long, narrow head is covered with dark
hair, and his face is built on squars
lines.
DR.. l.. D. McCabe, whose death oc-
Cured at Delaware, Ohio, a few days
ago, has been connected with the Ohio
Wesleyan university for half century.
He performed the marriage ceremony
of President and Mrs. Hayes, and he
also married Senator and Mrs. Foraker.
His work as a teacher was recognized
and valued all over the country, and
several books which he wrote have ac-
quired wide circulation.
Mrs. Mary Ann Cassidy of CoaIport,
Pa, is now los years of age, hale and
hearty. She was the mother of eighteen
children, thirteen boys and five girls.
OF this number nine are living and nine
dead. She gave birth to four pairs of
twins. Mrs. Cassidy was never known
to be sick and never had a physician.
She never went to dance in her life.
For the past twenty-four years she has
had her second sight" and now does
not need, to wear glasses.
The new governor of Alaska, j. G.
Grady, is about so years old. His first
first visit to Alaska was made as mis-
sionary representing the board Of mis-
sions of Washington. After some ex-
perience with the natives around Sitka
he concluded that the most effective
way to convert them to Christianity
would be to couple religions instruction
with Industrial training. AS governor,
Mr.. Brady will represent the missi onary
rather than the business element. He
is understood to be. in favorsof. entirely
prohibiting the sale Of intoxicating
liquors in that region.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
|NHvrR DO FOR CHIEF MOORE
The Manner in Which Paris Fifemen
Respond to an Alarm

Paris at last has had fire on what
| is distinctively the American plan, and
to those who have heard of the immunity
of the French capital from conflagra-
lions a word of explanation seems time
ly. The strength of the French build
ings, the uninflammable nature of their
partitions their hard wood floorngs and
the scantiness of the furnishings to say
nothing of the comparatively slight use
of fire for household purposes, has kept
Paris quite free from catastrophes due
20 fires, and at the same time have left
the firemen seriously handicapped when
it is a question of dealing with a seri-
Gus confiagration.
An eyewitness to fire in Paris few
years ago relates that while strolling
along one of the principal streets Leading
from the river up to the central line of
bouevards his attention was caught by
commotion in a building just across
the street. Smoke was rolling out of the
windows of the third story, and busy
hands were visible throwing items of
household use out of the windows with
that lack of discretion SO prevalent
among the savers of material at fires.
Chairs and tables, a long-legged stool
and items of bric-a-brac were saved
from the flames only to meet quicker
and more certain destruction on the hard
asphalt pavement In the attic was a
woman screaming, although it proved
afterward she was quite free from actual
danger as if on the sidewalk below. A
small crowd gathered. Some one said:
They have sent for the firemen." The
nouseholo goods were hauleo down IN
desultory way ana the woman au siz-
leme continued ner screams.
tlmed the aHalr py my watch' says
the observer, ana IN JUST Iliteen min
utes the engine arrived. IL was sucii
one as may De seen .ouay at muster
IN new Hampshire II was gently leu
up the street by It's corus anu set IN po-
sltlon peneath tne WINDOW from when
the smoke was stiil SLOWLY coming lortn'
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
The Pilgrims: a Comic History

The Pilgrim Trust company Qimited)
was founded in London, England, July
A. 1918, with a capital of $500000,000 in
gold. One hundred million of this was
in gold coin and bullion, and the balance
in gold certificates ard treasury notes
This is the historical origin of the $780,,
900, 900 gold reserve. This gold was load
ed into the Mayf1ower, and the staunch
little vessel was promptly insured. A
store of provisions and gunpowder was
then placed on board. The remaining
space was filled with furniture.
History does not record the exact size
of the Mayfower, but from the number
of armchairs, spinning wheels, side
boards and other articles of furniture
now in possession of the descendants of
the Pilgrims the Mayfiower bore the
same relation to a Cunarder as these
Wanted steamships do to tugboat. The
one item of furniture alone is sufficient
to indicate the vast wealth of our fore
fathers.
They set sail from London and intend
ed land at New York. This shows the
unerring accuracy of their judgment,
| but it had been willed otherwise, and
| they made port in Boston. This was on
December 81, 1920. Before going ashore
| the directors held meeting in the cabin
and passed resolution pledging the
| colony to honest money and national
honor. Mary Chiffon was the first 10
land. She paid good round sum of
money for the honor.
| AS they came ashore, each man strug-
Cling beneath the weight of canvas bags
| loaded with gold, a stalwart Indian
| came out of the woods and astounded
them with the salutation, welcome,
Englishmen." 1t was Samoset, a friend
| ly Indian, who had met an explorer
named John. Smith, and learned from
| him these two words. 1t was subse-
| quently ascertained that Samoset was
not authorized to speak for his tribe
| New Occasions,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18

site Of the burned structure, at fremont
and Boylston streets. 1t will be steel
framed granite faced, nfne-story build
ing, reaching a height of 125 feet above
the sidewalk-the extreme height al
lowed by the building laws of the city.
1t will have a front of 81 feet on Ire
mont street and 100 feet on Boylston.
A curious shifting of population is
noted by close observers in the south.
and they predict as the result of 1t indus
trial changes of the most important kind.
This movement consists in asteady emil
grafton Of negroes to both the eastern
and the western, portions of the north
and similar influx of white laborers
from the crowded centers of the manu-
featuring states. The change is espec-
tally noticeable in Georgia.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
A GREAT STRIKE IN LONDON
The Contest Between Engineers and
Employers

LONDON, July 1O.-The biggest bat
Britain since the great London lockers
strike twelve years ago is impending.
The lockers We're unprepared for q
struggle then, but now both engineers
and their employers have been calculat-
ing upon this contest for two years
Both sides are ready, both determined
Each declares that before the fight is
ended the other side will be ''bled white. "
By clever management the engineers
have thrown the onus of beginning OPP
erations upon the masters. They ap-
piled for an eight hour working day at
the wages paid now for nine hour day.
The masters, who are federated in a
wealthy corporation for mutual protec-
ton, responded by giving them notice
that they will lock out their employees
unless this demand is withdrawn.
Forty thousand engineers have left
work already, and by Tuesday, when all
the notices given expire, there are to be
from $4,000 to 100000 men on strike
in England, Ireland and Scotland.
The engineers have one of the best
organized, wealthiest trades unions in
the kingdom, and in every previous
strike they have come off victorious
Their officials make no secret of the
facts that trial of Strength between the
society and the employees is inevitable
and that it is best for them that it should
come at this moment, when the weather
is good trade brisk and the eight hour
question is popular.
Already one important firm, the Pc
ninsular and Oriental Steamship COM
pany, has seeded from the Masters
federation, having granted an eight hour
day to it's men in its works on the
Thames. - Gable to the New York
World
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
A Pilgrimage to whittier's Haunts

| Haverhill, Mass-It was a large and
happy gathering which assembled Sat
urday to take a special train at that
hour from the Union station for Haver-
hill, the old farm house, familiar as the
scene of "Snow-b bound" being the OBJ
jective point.
In the party were Samuel T. Pickard,
the biographer of Whittier; Alfred A.
Ordway, president of the Whittier club
of Haverhill; Edwin D. Mead of Boston,
editor of the New England Magazine;
John C. S. Andrew, chairman of the
pilgrimage committee; ]. T. Trowbridge
and more than 500 others, many Of whom
were ladies.
The ride to Haverhill was uneventful,
and the, time was employed by the merry
excursionists in exchanging greetings
discussing the works of Whittier and
famliarizing themselves, through his
charming descriptions, with the places
to be visited. At Haverhill electric cars
were taken for Whittier's birthplace,
three miles away, which had the addi-
tional charm of being the scene of
"Snow-bound." Here a stop of three
hours was made, giving the party an
opportunity to visit the familiar haunts
of the poet. and to partake of lunch
Electric cars were then taken for Ames-
bury, where the poets study and gar
den were found as they were when he
made the pleasantly situated house his
home.
The simple Quaker meeting house was
visited and Powow hill, beside the town,
was climbed. On the return trip a
steamer was taken to go up the Merris
mac ten miles to Haverhill, passing the
scenes of 1.-THE Countess, mabel Mar
tin" and other poems.-Boston Evening
Transcript.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
Cycle Policeman Caught the Triplet

Bicycle Policeman Casey chased a
triplet machine, manned by three fast
riders, one night more than half mile,
and then succeeded in catching two of
the men.
Frank Reynolds 10 years old, and
Henry Wilson, 20 years old, with young
colored man, We're riding along Fifth av-
enue, when they put on squirt. AS they
passed the corner Casey was standing
with his wheel by his side at the curb.
He saw them ard shouted to them that
they were going too fast. Two of the
men turned to him and laughed. At
Mount Morris avenue the triplet turned
down and went as far One Hundred and
Tween ty-third street On they went as
far as Seventh avenue. There the color
ed man looked back and saw that Casey
was less than block behind. He spoke
to the others and then jumpeS to the
pavement. He rolled over and over,
reached the gutter in a heap and struck
on his head with blow that was heard
by the policeman some feet off. He did
not seem to mind 1t, but picked himself
up and darted into the crowd and es-
capped, as the policeman kept after the
triplet.
Casey caught up to the triplet and
shouted to them to stop. The men would
not cease riding, and Casey caught the
handle-bar of the front part of the trip
let. He tried to bring it to standstill,
and did so, but the two men on it were
landed in heap together while the ma
chine was picked up across the street.
Casey saved himself from falling and
. arrested the two men.-New York Her.
aid.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
Bachelors Must Keep Off the Grass

Bachelors and woman-haters cannot
loll on the grass in the West park sys-
tenn. That hot weather amusement has
been reserved for the man and family
and the young man with his girl. Ac-
cording to rule passed three weeks ago
by the commissioners and enforced by
the park policemen, single or in squads,
are not eligible to spaces on the grass
but are required to sit on benches, which
the commissioners have provided. To
this end several hundred new benches
have been purchased, and hereafter any
young man who has no girl, but wishes
to enjoy the privilege of keeping on the
grass must borrow some of the neigrh-
boris children and pose as man of fam
lily
This rule is strictly enforced in Union
park The benches there are lined with
the unfortunates, who sit up in grim
rows like Prussian soldiers on parade,
and enviously eye the happy nurse girl,
with her charges, and the lucky mar
ried man, who lazily stretches himself
out on the cool grass and peacefully
SAUNDERS unmolested by the watchful
copper" To guard against fraud,
those who wish to avail themselves of the
grass privileges may be required to show
their marriage licenses or make aft
davit that they are accompanied by their
very best girl.-Chicago Record.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
Found the Horse in the Hay Loft

Mrs Fannie p. Hill, of Adrian, Mich.
is the proud owner of handsome bay
horse, which Mrs. Hill usually feeds
herself When Mrs. Hill went to the
stable the other morning the horse was
not in his stall.
After search Of some minutes he was
found in the hay loft He undoubtedly
had been seized with the pangs of hun
ger in the course of the night, and,
breaking his halter had assembled flight
Of ordinary narrow barn stairs to the
floor above where he was able to feast
to his hearts content.
Mrs. Hill could not get her steed down
stairs. She sent for veterinary. He
administered big dose of chloroform
and the horse then took slide to the
ground floor on a plank.-New York
Times.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
A MAIDEN'S PROTEST

I'd like to kill the sinner who discovered
electricity.
And relegated to the past the kerosenish
flame,
Who robbed us of the pleasures, aye! the
heavenly felicity,
Which once were golden features Of the
lovely sparkling game.
I'd like to pull his fiendish ears until he
yelled in agony
And incidentally I'll say the same thing
would my beau
All loyal lovers are with him in bitterest
antagony,
Because his light cannot be turned
Away
down
low.
When kerosene was in its prime we'd sit
with due propriety
Until the other folks had climbed the
stairway for the night. &.
Then lovingly each would enjoy the 9TH
er's sweet society
Beneath the old lamps half-suppressed
and dim religious light,
But now that incandescent thing in fend-
ish triumph stares at us
From early in the night until it's time
for him to go.
Just winks its bright electric eye ma
Iiciously and glares at us.
Because it knows 1t can't pc turned
Away
down
low.
Were I queen Of America I'd make Of 1t
a felony
To burn an incandescent light-myself
would frame the law
And If the people kicked I'd tell them all
to 60 to Helena,
Which is located, believe. way down
in ArkanSaw.
I'd re-establish kerosene in every COM
munty,
And all the boys and all the girls would
bless my name know,
For giving them the coveted and longed-
for opportunity
To do their sparkling with the light
Away
down
low.
Denver Post.
The As You Like 1t club has adjourn
cd its meetings until fall,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18
An English Way of Bottling Fruits

An English way of bottling fruit when
it is freshly picked and keeping it with
out any seasoning ard which is novel to
this country is as follows:
Gather it in the middle of the, day il
dry weather and have the bottles ready,
perfectly clean and dry, with wide necks.
Just as you are going to fill the bottles
with fruit, hold them upside down and
with a couple of lighted matches inside
10 exhaust the air. The fruit should be
put in as quickly as possible, while it is
still full Of the smoke. and shaken down
WELL filling as feil as possible. Then
put the corks in the bottles ard fasten
piece of damp bladder over the corks.
When a number Of bottles are thus filled,
place them in large pan filled with cold
water and packed with excelsior or hay,
SO as to keep them apart, place the pan
on the stove and let it come to boil as
slowly as possible, and simmer gently
until the fruit is thoroughly scalded.
Then lift the pan off the stove and set
away to COOL
When the water in the pan is perfectly
cold lift the bottles out of the water,
wipe them dry and put away in the fruit
cellar. Small fruit takes about thirty to
forty minutes to scald thoroughly. The
fruit shrinks and shrivels up so the bot
ties should be filed as full as possible in
the first place,
Absolutely nothing is put into the jar
or bottle in the way of seasoning when
put up in this manner.
French beans may be bottled in the
same manner, except that layer of
salt must be placed in the bottom of the
jar and also sprinkled generously among
the beans, layer for layer, clean to the
top. They will not keep unless well
sailed down. They must also be eaten
as soon as NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Trihuna