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The herald., 1898-12-23
Suns or new ENGLAND
OBSERVE FoREFArHERs' DAY BY
DINNERS
MERRITT SPEAKS AT NEW YORK
Expressing the Opinion That We Have
outgrown the Constitution-Other
Men Think Otherwise
Associated Press Special Wire


NEW YORK. Dec 22-Over four hun
dred sons of New England sat down tonight
at the ninety-third annual dinner OF the
New England society at the Waldorf-As-
toria.
President Rowland presided. The guests
included many men prominent IN pubic
and private life, among them being Brayton
Ives. Elihu Root, j. p Morgan, Joseph ii.
Choate, General Hamilton Hawkins, Gen
eral w. R. Shafter, General Elisha Dyer oil
Rhode Island, Admiral w. L. Sampson,
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, General Joseph
Wheeler, General Wesley Merritt, former
Governor r. p Flower, c. p. Huntington
and former Vice-President Levi p. Morton.
Governorelect Roosevelt was greeted
with loud cheers when he rose to respond
to "The State of New York
General Merritt in the course of short
speech, said: 1--WE have great work before
US. What we have done and what the ad-
ministration has done has been in the inter
est of the country. There is good deal
that approaches us from every side in the
tropics. We can extend our commerce there
and we can extend the trade OF America,
which is now three-fourths of it limited to
the tropics, to an enormous extent. "A great
many people have insisted that the constitu-
ton forbids it. To those / have said, We
have outgrown the constitution 1t is not
worth while to discuss it. We are here, and
we are here to stay. What may be the re-
suit | do not care to prognosticate, but l
am satisfied that Americans will find a So
luton for the matter, however difficult it
may be-
General Shafter spoke. on "The Army"
paying warm tribute to the regular army.
MajorGeneral Wheeler was the next
speaker He was dressed in the full uniform
of brigadier-general in the regular army,
and was received with cheers. He paid a
tribute to Colonel Roosevelt and told of the
campaign in Cuba. He referred to expan-
sion, and said that while he would not dis
cuss that question, yet this country could
not back down from the task imposed upon
it by providence. In conclusion he spoke Of
the recent trip of President Mckinley and
his colleagues in the south, which, he said,
would do more to cement the north and
south than anything else since the war.
The herald., 1898-12-23
SIX MONTHS VACATION
Given to Naval Constructor John F,
Hanscom

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The secretary
OF the navy today made public the findings
of the court-martial in the case of Naval
Constructor John F. Hanscom, in charge
of the construction department at League
island. He was charged with various of
fenses in connection with overpayment of
the men employed at the navy yard there.
The court-martial acquitted the accused Of
ficer of three of the charges, namely, pre-.
pairing a fraudulent voucher. inefficiency
and making fraudulent reports, but convict
ed him of violating lawful regulation in
failing to repor. fraudulent entries in time
books. He was sentenced to suspension
from duty for six months on waiting or
ders. The secretary has not yet approved
the sentence
The herald., 1898-12-23
Will Stop SMUGGLING

VICTORIA, b. c., Dec. 22-H. M. s
Imperieuse has reported 10 the local agent
of the department of marine and fish
cries that Maple Spit beacon on Raynes
sound has been swept away by recent
storms. The government has decided upon
the suppression of smuggling along the
coast. A number of protective stations
will be established, three in inland waters
and three along the west coast. Officers
will have power to seize any vessel found
smuggling or otherwise breaking the Gus.
toms laws.
The herald., 1898-12-23
Merchants Monthly Bulletin

The Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation has issued the first number Of its new
publication, the Monthly Bulletin. The
sautatory says: ITO cement the interests of
the merchants and to promote in every way
he walfare Of Los Angeles the Monthly Bul-
,et.n is issued. y committee consisting OF
Directors Marshutz. Heron and Stuart has
general supervision and management of the
paper with the secretary, I. J. Zeehandelaar.
as editor" 1t is a neat three-column quarto,
destined to fill fully the purpose for which
it was established.
The herald., 1898-12-23
Lived a Century

SAN FRANCISCO Dee. 22.-Herman
Grunbere died tonight at the Pacific He
brew home, aged l02 years Nineteen years
ago he bought coffin and had a shroud
made and selected his pail bearers He
will be buried in the casket he kept for so
long, but he survived all but three of the
men chosen to bear his remains to the
grave
The herald., 1898-12-23
On the Mat

CINCINNATI. Dec. 22.-After the regu.
ar performance at the People theater, Hall
Adali, the Turk. and Charles Wittmer of
this city wrestled Graeco- Roman for the
best two out OF three for a purse of $500 and
$3.50 side. The Turk threw Wittmer in
the first bout in % minutes 40 seconds, but
it required one hour and 25 minutes for
him to throw Wittmer in the second bout.
The herald., 1898-12-23
A Freight Wreck

MEDFORD. Ore. Dec. 22.-The no5h-
bound freight train. No. %, was bakly
wrecked In the Medford yard this morHng
about 4 o'clock. The train broke in Two
about SIX miles south Of where there Is
down grade. Tho engine. with several chrs.
had just pulled into the station and stopped
when the loose cars, together with thf ca
boose, came crashing into them. demdish-
Ing several of them. No one was hut.
The herald., 1898-12-23
A Pension Ruling

CHILLICOTHE, o.. Dec. 22.-Johi w.
Kelley, a veteran of the civil war. received
notice from the pension gureau today that
his pension of S12 per month, 17sufd fou
general disability. has been s;oppfd be-
cause he did service in the war withEpain.
Kelley first offered to enter the service as
a soldier. but was rejected on disability,
and then secured z place as mule diver.
The herald., 1898-12-23
nothing definite can Be- learned rsear'
the Burldngton's intentionb,
"a aiel,antic Trust

PITTsBURG. Dec. pa gigantic col
solidation of the local gas. light and hed
ing companies was contaminated today
The capital Invested exceeds $26. 10000 An
idea of the Incorporation Of the combite
will be appreciated when 1t is stated tmt
one company will In the future control to
gas, light and heating supply of Pittsbua
and Allegheny, and will, have absoAte
power to make, raise or lower the pricesto
all consumers
The herald., 1898-12-23

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22.-Tomasso
Killini, who shot and killed Mrs. Louise
Parker, alias Louisa Spain, on the 9th OF
last month, was tried on charge Of murder
in Judge Wallhce's court today. The evi-
dence showed the woman was killed while
she was in saloon drinking with man
named George Speen. The defense was that
Killini shot the woman accidentally while
defending himself against an attack hv
Speen. The jury failed to agree and were
locked up for the night.
The herald., 1898-12-23
A Rubber Combine

NEW YORK, Dec. PA new combinn-
ton of some of the leading rubber firms In
the Uni: eG States is now in process of form
alton, and it is expected to be complete
In about a week II Is understood that the
organization VIII have a capital CT $50. 900
oto, SIS, ,0oO. 600 to be preferred stock, and The
other 900 to be common stock. Il
is understood that Charles B. Flint has
charge of the organization.
The herald., 1898-12-23
Pacific Coast Pioneers

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Charles g, Mar
tin. California pioneer of 1S49 and for
merly sealer of weights and measures at
San Francisco, Is dead at his home in Mount
Vernon, N. Y, aged S4 years.
Seattle-Andrew b. Young, pioneer of
the Pacific coast, died in this city today
aged 76 Mr.. Young came to California
from Maine in 1916. In 1855 he settled on
Puget sound
The herald., 1898-12-23
An En- glish Mill

BIRMINGHAM, Eng, Dec. 22-At the
Olympic club this evening in twenty
round glove contest between Mike Sears
of Boston and Wright of Plymouth, Eng,
the American was defeated in the fifteenth
round.
The herald., 1898-12-23
ms UNRfOUITtD LOVE
DRIVES A SAN JAc1NTo xAN
INSANE 4
Indian Trailers Employed to Find and
Bring Him Home From the
Mountains

RIVERSIDE, Dec. 22.-So far no traces at
Bert Farmer the San Jacnto missing man,
have been found. Farmer left home several
days ago, took to the hills in an insane con-
dition and has not been seen since. Indian
trailers have been employed to search for
him. 1t is feared that death has oveftaken
him from hunger and exposure, as snow lies
on the mountains where he is supposed to be.
Unrequited love is said to be the reason for
Farmers sudden insane freak.
Thomas Il. Stibbens will leave for Sacra-
mento Saturday to get ready to take charge
of the work assigned him. which is watch
man in the state treasury.
Sheriff johnson, whose term OF Office ex-
pires with the present month, will engage in
the mining business In Lower California.
A regular north wind and dust storm has
prevailed here for a couple of days, and to-
day the wind is about as strong as any that
has Visited this section this year. 80 far no
damage has been done. G4
Copies of the petition asking the railroad
companies to grant lower rates OF freight
east on orange shipments, adopted by the
meeting OF orange growers at Los Angeles
yesterday, have been received here and are
bng circulated for signatures. The petitions
will receive the signatures of growers gener.
ally as they fell that reduction of freight
charges is the only. hope Of the business OF
orange production.
The first meeting Of the new board of su-
pervisors promises to be one of the liveliest
sessions ever held by board in this county
for the reason that a new horticultural COM
mission is to be named and there are some
thing like dozen applicants for the three
positions. Indications are that w. +. Bud
long is the only one who will get reappoint-
ment. The commissionership is worth 500
a month.
The herald., 1898-12-23
At Cincinnati

CINCINNATI, Dec. 22-Forefathers' day
was celebrated here today in all the public
schools with historical exercises. At the New
England banquet at the Grand Hotel tonight
Major General Nelson A. Miles and Inspec
tor General j. c. Breckenridge, who arrived
today from Washington, were the guests of
honor and responded respectively to .'rhe
Spirit of New England and "Santiagos S
Duty"
The herald., 1898-12-23
A Steamer Ashore

steamer Andes OF the Atlas line went ashore
here to-day The high winds and heavy seas
prevailing will probably oau.c the Andes to
be total loss if the tugs fail OF pull her off
The herald., 1898-12-23
Bliss, Successor

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22-Secretary Bliss
stated today that Mr.. Hitchcock, his sue
cessor in the cabinet, will sell for this
country on January 6th. and that the
change of office would take piate just prior
to February lst
The herald., 1898-12-23
Dreyfus Disorder

TOULOUSE. France, Dec. 22.+Serious
street disorders occurred here this evening
between the promoters Of pro-Dr$'fus and
anti-Dreyfus meetings Several persons
were seriously injured and the windows
Of number of Jewish shops weresma shed.
The herald., 1898-12-23
Undelivered Telerr.ma

There are undelivefed ,telegrams at the
office of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany for Mrs. A. Godbe, IEhas. Waterman,
Mr.. S. L. Graham and c. S. French.
The herald., 1898-12-23
Tired Of POVERTY

SAN JOSE, Dec. 22-Mrs. james Sutcliffe.
aged 80. attempted to comhit suicide to-
night by shooting herself tTice in the abb
domen. She is insa precarbus condition.
Poverty is supposed, to be the cause.
The herald., 1898-12-23
The British Navy

LONDON, Dec. 22.-The British ad-
miralty 1t Is reported, has just placed or
ders for four warships with shipbuilders on
he Clyda. -.
The herald., 1898-12-23

Sir Edwin Arnold, the other day; praised
Kipling for his Recessional. eyes" said
Kipling, "it was just at the right time,
and that's all the battle. It's not what you
write, but when.' And in this Mr.. Kip
ling only adds emphasis to what Mr.. Doo-
lev has said of him already,
The herald., 1898-12-23

Cressey Mfr. Mathuss has a good'rccor as a
business man and as Grand Army member,
/ and seems, to think he has sufficient back
| ing to make the race.
The herald., 1898-12-23

Man Missing

crowd of boys followed him down to the
elevated station, cheering all the way.
The Press., 1898-01-06
Flow Cold Metals Sometimes MIX.

Professor Roberts Austen's discov-
cries ON the subject of the jnterdiffusi.
bility of metals is most interesting
reading. The facts have been to some
extent known to savants before the
meeting of the Royal society, at which
more public attention was drawn, but
on that occasion the results were made
more clear 1t was then shown that
solid metals may be made to mix them
selves as if the atoms were living crea-
lures.
Professor Roberts Austen has, in fact.
discovered pieces of metal engaged in
the very act of mixing tbs mselves up
one with the other. OF course the inter
est of this is that the interdiffusion of
which we speak has been found to take
place when the metals were cold, and,
though this property in metals. to be
capable of attaching themselves one to
the other when cold, has been talked
about before, nothing SO clearly proved
has hitherto been at the service OF
metallurgists and chemists as the facts
adduced by Professor Roberts Austen.
He shows that when clean surfaces of
lead and gold are held together in the
absence of air at temperature of 40
degrees for four days they unite firmly
and can only be separated by force
equal to one third of the breaking
strain of the lead The professor has
also proved that if plate of gold be
laid under one of lead about three
tenths of an inch thick IN three days
gold will have risen and diffused itself
to the top of the other metal in very
appreciate quantity -Colliery Guar
dian
The Press., 1898-01-06
TOMMY ATKINS VANITY.
Curls His Bangs and Pads His Chest, Sc
This Writer Ayers.

Curls His Bangs and Pads His Chest, So
This Writer Ayers.
You'd hardly credit the vanity of
some soldiers, said a sergeant major
of the guards. THAT perfect curl W hich
you see on Tommy's forehead is more
often than net the result Ct an hours
persuasion with hair Oil and pair of
curling tongs. Nearly all soldiers are
dandies in this way They use expen-
sive hair oils ard pomaCes-very often
curriers', the same as those used by
women,
"When they have oiled and brushed
and brushed and oiled, the curling
tongs put the final shape on. Any sol
der who is a clever curl maker-and
who cares to do so-can earn a few
shillings extra weekly by putting his
services at the disposal of these fastid
ious young men.
Tommy is not quite so particular
over his boots, but very nearly SO. The
fastidious soldier does not demur at Is.
Sd. pound for fresh butter, nor an &C.
casional 2 sbillings for a deer's bone, to
tone down the leather with
"Most Tommies wrathfully declare
shat chest padding is fabrication, but
can assure you that it is done. Cav
alrymen i'll many crack regiments are
much more vain than women. Their
mustaches are trained, many of them
use face powder, and SO perfect and
beautiful do their trousers fit that they
dare not sit down or bend the body
without extreme caution. To add a
,harm to their walk the steel rowels
are taken out of their spurs and sawed
sixpences inserted instead, the result of
which is lively musical jingle. -
London Answers
The Press., 1898-01-06
Painful Ernbarrassment.

Two of the smallest men III the city
were standing at the curbstone waiting
for car. Their conversation had been
about the traditional feminine tendency
to extravaganza and the difficulty they
had in keeping their domestic expendi-
lures down to what they considered q
reasonable limit. ...
"There they are now," exclaimed
one of them.
"Who?"
"Our wives. And I'll bet they've
been shopping"
HThey seem to be talking very ear
nestly about spending something"
''I'll bet ! can tell what my wife is
talking about. y
Are you a mind reader?''
ono. But can make guess on that
subject. I'll bet you dinner can any
how. "
"I'll take it. -
"All right. She's talking about
spending money. Well go up behind
them and overhear what they are say
ing to prove it. -
They crossed the street, and the origi-
nator Of the idea smiled knowingly as
his wife opened her purse and peered
into it. 'My DEAR" she said to her
companion, ''have you any changer
"Yes, little. y
"Well, would you mind lending me q
penny to buy postal card?'
Certainly, if / have one. Oh, yes.
Here it is -
THANK you ever SO much. have 8
cents, but hate to use it. A nickel al
ways seems to go SO fast after you once
break it.
The man who offered the wager had
won it, but for some reason he didn't
seem proud. Washington Star.
The Press., 1898-01-06
WOMAN'S LETTER TO WOMEN.
Written as Only One Woman
Can Write to Another.
Men Write From the Head, But
Women From the Heart.
That is Why All Women Will Be I'm
pressed By This Letter.

We publish an interesting letter from
Mrs. Anna B. Miller, of GAO West Main
ST., Ionia, Mich, with her portrait so
that our readers can see just how she looks
and almost, as it were, hear her speak.
" For forty years." she says, 81 have
suffered from falling of the womb and
female weakness, which caused constipa-
ton and a complete obstruction of the
bowels at times. In May, 1894, an abscess
formed. l lay at the point of death for
days, given up, not only by my attending
physician, but by two others that were
called in. They said that ii l did recover
from that attack, it would only be to be
helpless invalid the rest of my life.
During that time I suffered with sleepless-
ness, was nervous and weak and was los
ing my memory. also had heart trouble.
Death would have been welcome release
TO me from all NV troubles
The Press., 1898-01-06
txUEER WEDDING BANQUET.
Where the Unbidden Guests Scrambled
For Bits From the Table.

For Bits From the Table.
was married in India, writes Phil
Robinson, the author and traveller. 1 en-
gagged for our honeymoon little house
lie miles or so from any other habita-
ton of white man-that stood on the
steep white cliff of the Nebudda river,
which here flows through a canyon of
pure white marble. Close beside our
house was a little hut, where a holy
man lived in charge of an adjoining
shrine, earning money for himself and
for the shrine by polishing little pieces
of marble as mementos for visitors. It
was a wonderful place altogether, and
while my wife went in. to change her
dress the servants laid breakfast on the
veranda overlooking the river. At the
first clatter of the plates there began to
come down from the big tree that over
Swallowed the house, and up the trees
that grew in the ravine behind it, from
the house roof itself-from everywhere
"a multitude Of solemn monkeys. They
came up singly and in couples and in
famili and took their places without
noise or fuss ON the veranda and sat
there, like an audience waiting for an
entertainment to commence. And when
everything was ready, the breakfast all
laid, the monkeys all seated, l went in
to call my wife.
Breakfast is ready, and they are all
waiting" / said.
"Who ar 2 waiting?' she asked in dis
may. 81 thought we were going to be
alone, and l was just coming out in my
dressing gown. "
''Never mind" said. THE people
about here are not very fashionably
dressed themselves They wear pretty
much the same things all the year
round
And so my wife came out. Imagine,
then, her establishment. In the middle
of the veranda stood her breakfast table,
and all the rest of the space, as we'll as
the ratings and the steps, was covered
with monkeys as grave as possible and
as motionless and silent as if they were
stuffed Only their eyes kept blinking
and their little round ears kept twitch-
ing. Laughing heartily-at which the
monkeys only looked all the graver-
my wife sat down.
'Will they eat anything?" asked she.
"Try them, said.
So she picked up biscuit and threw
it among the company. And the RESULT
About 800 monkeys jumped up in the
air like one, and just for one instant
there was a riot that defies description.
The next instant every monkey was sit
ting in its place as solemn and serious
as if it had never moved. Only their
eyes winked and their ears twitched.
My wife threw them another biscuit,
and again the riot, and then another
and another and another. But at length
we had given all that we had to give
and got up to go The monkeys at once
rose, every monkey ON the veranda, and
advancing gravely to the steps walked
down them in solemn procession, old
and young together, and dispersed for
the day S occupations. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Press., 1898-01-06

Pliny says that the saw was first in
vented by D9dalus, but, according to
Apollodorus, it was the invention of
Talus, who used the jawbone Of a croco-
die to cut through a piece of wood and
then made all iron instrument in imita-
ton of it. The saw is represented on
the monuments of Egypt from $500 to
5000 B. G. AS early as A. D. 1922
sawmills driven by water power were i'll
operation at Augsburg, and, it is be-
heved, before this they were in opera
ton in Paris, driven by the current Of
the Seine. The first sawmill erected in
the Norway pineries was in 1880. Saw
mills were numerous in Italy in the six
teenth century. They were not intro
duced into England until 1868, when a
native of Holland built one, but was
compelled to abandon it by the opposi-
ton of the populace, carpenters and
other artisans who saw no good in such
a new tangled continuance.
The Press., 1898-01-06
WOMAN AND MUSIC.
The Two Are Bound Together In All Up
to Date Education.

to Date Education.
If a few years ago music had been de-
clared to be as necessary in education
as in mathematics or physics, the state
ment would have been received with
amazement, if not with derisiOn. The
early aim of common school education
was the making of practical men and
women, and by practical" was meant
preparation for the ordinary bread
winning affairs of life, Net that the
moral side of education was ignored,
but it was believed that the three RS
and the hard and fast sciences, together
with a general Endorsement of religion
and good ethics, were sufficient factors
in character building and all that the
schools should supply. Music, litera-
ture and drawing, if they found any
place in the curriculum, were merely
incidents that were rot sufficiently
practical to lie requisites, nor was their
more subtle and potent influence on the
character and the higher development
of the mind appreciated or perceived.
Ornamental they might be, but they
were not believed to be useful. Only a
visionary sentin entaJity considered
these arts as necessary to public educa-
ton. Today art, in bread sense, occu-
pies far higher place in the regard of
every educator of note and of every
man who is alive to the interests of
well balanced and symmetrical educa
ton. In fact, the art influence in edu-
cation is coming to be adequately ap-
preciated, and art is no longer considered
an incident in life, but rather the real
ity itself
We are not attempting to detract
from the nobility of labor. That educa-
ton which Pounds industries, which
adds to the comfort of mankind, which
makes possible the cultivation of the
arts, we must recognize, uphold and ad
mire, but that education which tells
us we are not altogether commercial
machines; that to love something for its
innate beauty and not for its pecuniary
worth is wise and good; that by loving
harmony of sound we may come to
love harmony of deeds; that tones
which speak to us of others sorrows,
making us forget self, may be of more
worth in the end than much positive
science-such education we are begin
ming to revere and to see in it the most
practical method of developing sweeter
women and nobler men. PHILADELPHIA
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