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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03

MRS. JOS. PULITZER. ond hoor, in the
rear of which the fire originated, and
when aroused by the smoke and flames
her first thought was for her children.
She rushed to where her daughters
Edith and Constance, aged II and II
respectively, were asleep and rousing
them led them through the smoke-tilled
halls to the street, where they We're
taken in charge by others. Then know
ing that r3-year-Old boy, Herbert, was
with his nurse on the third floor. Mrs
Pulitzer fought her way through the
sitting smoke to the nurses room. She
arrived in the nick Of time; for the
nurse, craZed with fear. was about
jumping out of the window with the
baby when Mrs. Pulitzer arrived. Mrs
Pulitzer eagerly seized the little one
and carrying him in her arms guided
the nurse through the binding smoke
to the street.
Unfortunately, however, there per-
ished in the fire two Of the inmates of
the house-the housekeeper, Mrs. Nor
gan Jellett, of Toronto, Ont, and Eliza
beth Montgomery, governess. The fnaE-
cial loss was 100000.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03

childs play beside It, In the Santiago
campaign there were 1900 American
soldiers engaged. During the three
days fighting the American loss in
killed was only OBS, or less than 2 per
cent. Of the total, while the total of
killed, wounded and missing is not more
than 10 per cent. in all. In all the re.
cent English wars the experience has
been that 10 per cent. will cover the
killed and wounded in action, as well
as those who are taken to the hospital
on account of sickness. Even at Gettys-
burg, in which tremendous battle about
100000 troops were engaged, the total
percentage Of loss on both sides, includ-
Ing killed, wounded and missing. was
not greater than that at Bucaramanga,
while the number of killed on the Fed
eral side was less than per cent. of
the forces commanded by Gen. Meade.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
CLEANLINESS WITHOUT SOAP.
That tho Beers Don't Use 1t Doesn't
Prove They're Dirty.

Surely too much Importance Is at.
tached to the scarcity Of soap in the
Beers farmhouses, says the London
Truth. People may be very clean and
use very little soap. The Russians and
Japanese cleanse themselves with vapor
baths, rarely using soap when they do
so. A healthy skin cleanses itself.
Rough inside clothing, which, l pre-.
sumo, the Beers wear, is a great skin
cleanser. l have known of doctors cur
ing skin diseases by insisting on lin
gerle de luxe being cast aside and
coarse undergarments worn instead.
The late emperor of the French hard
ly ever soaped his hands until he went
10 England. have come across paper
found in his desk at the Tuileries. It
contained the instructions Of the King
or Holland to the governor Of his two
elder boys. Among the things forbid
den was for the young princes hands to
be washed with soap. They were to
use bran and a slice Of lemon. The
lemon was to remove ink stains, and in
summer TO keep off gnats and mosqui-
toes. Napoleon, whose hands were good
to model and beautifully white, also
used bran and no soap. unless to shave.
[ never use soap of any kind without
sense of skin discomfort which not
even deluge of quite pure water will
wholly remove.
In England, on account of coal smoke
and smut soap is more needed than in
countries with clear air. The Beers
enjoy, perhaps, the purest atmosphere
In the world, except when there are
lust storms. know French ladies who
have discarded soap for vaseline. They
smear themselves with the latter and
then rub 1t off well with a soft cotton
towel. A doctor tells me that nothing
Is more cleansing, but that he prefers,
as more tonic, plain cold water, fol-
lowed by the same sort of rubbing.
Or. Leyds really should not take to
heart what Sir Henry Stanley said
about the Beers being badly off for
soap.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03

81 1RTH and death are the two
Ia greatest events in the life of man,
Sand in a life filled with great
events death is correspondingly greater.
How great then is the death of Washing
ton, and with what quiet resignation and
calm dignity he meets the final sum
mons! His private secretary, Tobias
Lear, describes his death. He says:
Between 10 and II his breathing be-
came easier. He lay quietly; he with
drew his hand from mine and felt his
own pulse. saw his countenance change
/ spoke to DIR, Craik, who sat by the fire
He came to the bedside. The generals
hand fell from his wrist. ! took it in
mine and pressed it to my bosom. Dr.
Craik put his hand over his eyes and he
expired without struggle or a sigh.
While we were fixed in silent grief
Mrs. Washington, who was sitting at the
foot of the bed asked with a firm aud
collected voice: Is he gomez l could not
speak, but held up my hand as signal
that he was no more. Its well, said
she in the same voice; all is over now.
i shall soon follow him. l have no more
trials to pass through
During his whole illness he spoke but
seldom and with great difficulty and dis
tress and in SO low and broken voice
as at times hardly to be understood. His
patience, fortitude and resignation never
forsook him for a moment. In all his
distress he uttered not sign nor a com
plant; always endeavoring from a sense
of duty, as it appeared, to take what was
offered him and to do as he was desired
by the physicians"
On the third day after his death the
funeral obsequies were held. They were
conducted according to the rites Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church and with
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
Paid In Three Millions.

New York, Feb. 25.-Nearly 100000
was paid into the sub-treasury here by
the Southern Pacific company for the Cen
tral Pacific railroad in liquidation of a
note of the latter company that does not
fall due until August, 1901. The actual
payment was $2,946, l94.79. Checks for
this amount were turned into the sub
treasury and their receipt gave the insti-
tuition a credit balance of $2,346,770 at
the clearing house.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
NELLIE GUSTS WEDDING.
Washington Delighted the Bride by An
pearing In His Old Uniform.


Nellie Gusts occupied no small share OF
Washington's affectionate heart after his
return to Mount Vernon. He had charg-
cd the young girl kindly not to fall in
love with any Invader" of her heart I'M
I'll she had competent knowledge of his
character, especially whether he was a
man of sense, 'for be assured a sensible
woman can never be happy with a fool"
what his walk of life. the extent of his
fortune and, above all, the honesty Of
MS affections. Washington's own wish
seems to have been that Nellie GUSTS
would marry his favorte young nephew,
Lawrence Lewis. and among the last of
the festivities which Washington presid-
ed over at Mount Vernon was the we'd
ding of the couple in February. 1899.
Nellie wanted him to appear in all the
magnihcence of the new uniform, with
gold lace and white plumes, which the
War Department had just designed for
him as a general. The old chieftain was
unwilling to have himself bedecked In
the trappings of his latest military rank.
But when he came into the presence of
the bridal party Nellie had to throw her
arms around his neck, for there he was
in the good old blue and buff of the Con-
tinental Army, with black ribbon cock.
ade and a cooked hat.-Ladies' Home
Journal
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
Transferring Disease.

Zootheraphy consists in transferring
disease from man to some animal. and
Is the converse of the medical theory
that animals convey disease to man.
This system of curing Ills was devised
by Ferapi. a Florentine. He mentions
the case of man suffering from rheu-
matism who made his dog lie across his
bed. The man recovered and the dog
died
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
A BLOODY BATTLE.
Conflict at Bucaramanga Most Des-
perate in Recent Years.


1t has been the custom to laugh at the
frequent revolutions in Central America
as comic opera controversies, with lit
tie danger of loss or serious casualties
on either side. If the reports of the re-
cent battle between rival factions in
Colombia are TO be depended upon, how
ever, the popular opinion must be re-
ivised, and the battle fought at Bucara-
manga will go down into history as one
Of the bloodiest and most desperate
battles of recent years. Out of 10000
men engaged on both sides 1000 or 10
per cent. of the total. were killed out
right. while 1900 or 80 per cent, were
either killed or wounded. The battles
of the Spanish-American war were
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03

York World, is
due the saving Of
the lives of her
b a b V and its
nurse in a disas-
trous fire that
visited the Pu-
residence
on + a s t 55th
street recently.
Mrs. p u re r
slept on the sec
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
VIII Resist with Force.

New York, Feb. PA dispatch from
Pekin says: John Fowler, United States
consul at Cree Foo, announces that 1000
native troops have gathered on the border
route of the new German railway to await
the arrival of German troops The natives
are determined to resist the construction OF
the railroad.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
Gift or oid EGG an Ronor.

The Chinese honor their guests by
placing before them the Oldest eggs OBJ
tain.oie' which are considsSd thsk
greatest dslicaey.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
The Point OF View.

He-Hasn't Miss Hauton a Roman
nose7
She-I think retrousse IL a better
BERN for it-she turns IL up on the
slightest provocstion-.-New York Even.
6k WogA
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
The Art of Art CxiticIsn

"Daubs has painted a dreadtully bad
picture. What shall l say about Nr'
"You can safely say II Is full q IN
acknowledgement Record
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
FROM THE GREAT ELDORE0l
FUEL SCARCE AT CAPE Nou,
they Have Sufficient supply :,
Provisions to Last Throuph
Winter-DieEings Reported n.
ing Very Rich.

Seattle, Feb. 26.-The first news of q
winter from Nome has reached boro :.
Dawson papers, reporting the arrival tbor'
of Carl Won Knobelsdorff and Cbarla. n
Campbell, who left Nome December Ia
and reached the Klondike They reno,
that there is plenty OF food at Nome -
last through the winter and until a.
first steamers arrive there next summor
The only scarce article is wood, which
was selling at 500 cord when they loH
The supply of wood along the beach w.,
consumed for a distance of 10 miles m
and down from Nome city and the nroi
poets were for a practical famine in tb,
fuel before spring. The coal price for sala
was cents a pound, though there wa,
little of it on hand and it was hAino
refused to buyers. The large transnor,
tation companies, however, had enonob
coal on hand to last them, so there wa
not considered much likelihood of suffor.
ing from the cold.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
BRAVE MRS. PULITZER.

Saved at Least Two Lives in Fire in
Her Residence.
To the courage and admirable cool
ness of Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, wife of
the editor and proprietor of the New
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
Cost of Living.

Flour was selling at Sc a sack, bacon
at 30 to 40 cents a pound, ham 45 cents
dried fruit 45 cents, rice 10 cents, oatmeal
20 cents, beans 10 cents, canned meats 81
can, canned fruit rs cents can. fresh
meat 81 to $l.25 pound, baking powder
81, meals 81 to $50, and lodgings 81
to 81 a night. Eggs, fresh potatoes and
onions were out of the market by De.
cember l, when eggs sold for So a dozen
and onions and potatoes SIS for hundred
weight.
Stampedes are reported to have been
OF frequent occurrence during the winter
The latest extreme was above Cape York
and opposite in the interior along the
Anakovik and Linden rivers and their
branches. The York beach sand was be.
heved to be very promising, but the
prospects on the creeks were excellent.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03
Number of Strikes.

Below and southwest of Nome furnished
the best reports in the bonanza district
there having been reported a rich strike
III coarse gold. Outside of Anvil, Glacier
and Dexter creeks and Snow gulch, the
prospecting was only superficial No
below discovery on Anvil creek, trib.
utary OF Snake river, showed $4,000 as
the result OF four months sluicing The
largest nugget was found in this claim,
valued at $4l8. Men were sinking holes
through the ice off the beach in December
to find if there was gold in the bottom
OF the ocean. Cummings took the biggest
nugget pile from the beach a quarter OF
a mile from Nome. He is said to have
realized $4,000 for his seasons rocking.
The rich spot on the beach, the split
within a mile of Snake river above Nome.
was all worked out and the best pay of
the entire beach for a distance of IA miles
was taken out. Little development work
has been done in the tundra, so its value
was unknown.
February 3, 81 teams left Dawson for
Nome and up to noon the next day %
more had started.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-03

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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-14
Objection to Wire Nails.

Strange to say the industry Of
making cut nails from iron and
steel is having great revival. -
The introduction of steel wire
nails made great inroadsupon the
cut nail business, but now the lat
ter shops are adding new machin-
cry and enlarging their facilities.
The increased demand is caused
by the fact that shingles that
have been fastened on barn roofs
for the past ten years with wire
nails are blowing off and farmers
are greatly exercised over the
matter.
The shingles fastened with the
old cut nail remained on the roof
until the shingles rotted, where
as with the steel wire nail, the
shingle blows off after ten years.
The main trouble with the steel
wire nail, says The Evening Post,
is that it cannot stand the wealth
er as the wrought iron nail does.
This is partly caused by the acid
used in annealing the wire before
it is drawn which cannot be thor
oughly cleansed off. THE Water
vliet Arsenal experiments show
that the cut nails have proved to
be 80 per cent. more adhesive
when driven into wood than wire
nails, but the bright and cheaper
wire nails soon succeeded in maxi
ing great difference in the cut
nail trade. The carpenter can
drive wire nails too handily to re-
turn to the cut nails unless speci-
tications actually require it, and
the demands for cut nails are
coming largely from agricultural
sections. "A big steel wire com
bine has had a special nail made
with extraordinary large head
and galvanized all over. These
are guaranteed to outlast any nail
in existence.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-14
His Own White Folks.

One Of the old-time southern
negroes went to Boston to make
his fortune.
After d week of walking up and
down he found himself penniless
and no work in sight.
Then he went from house to
house.
"Ef you please, suh," he be
gan, whom his ring at the front
door was answered, "can't you
give a po' cullud man work ter
do, or sumpin ter eat?"
And the polite answer invari-
ably was, "No, miste-very sorry
but have nothing for you"
Every one who answered his
ring addressed him as "Mr., "but
shut their doorsand heartsagainst
him.
Finally he rang the bell at a
brownstone front.
A gentleman appeared and the
old man began;
"Boss, ] is starvin'. Can't you
gimme some vittles?"
"You darned black iinky head
ed rascal" exclaimed the gentle
man, chow dare you ring the bell
at my front door,? Go round the
backyard way to the kitchen, and
the cook'll give you something
you black --"
But just there the old man fell
on his knees, eXclaiming:
"Thank de Lawd, | foun my
own white folks at las! Thank
de Lawd, | foun emil foun em"
Atlanta Constitution.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-14
Glorious News

Comes from Dr. ID. b. Cargile,
Of Washita, l. n, He writes
'Flectric Bitters has cured Mrs.
Brewer Of scrofula, which had
caused her great suffering fol
years. Terrible sores would
break out on her head and face,
and the best doctors could give
no help; but now her health is ex-
cellent." Electric Bitters is the
best blood purifier known. It's
the supreme remedy for eczema,
letter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils
and running sores. 1t stimulates
liver, kidneys and bowels, eXpels
poisons, helps digestion, builds
up the strength. Only 80 cents.
Sold by w. S. Dickson, Druggist.
Guaranteed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-14
Who the "BoXers" Are.

Editorially the Philadelphia
Times says: Such confusion as
exists as to precisely who and
what the Chinese Boxers" are
is probably due to the rapidity
and frequency with which the
native secret societies of China
change their names when they
desire to continue their organiza-
ton and purposes free from the
surveillance of the government.
When at last an edict of suppress
sion is issued the society simply
takes a new title and goes on as
if nothing had happened.
The society of Boxers is sup
posed to number eleven millions
of men. 1t was originally a sort
of law and order league, organized
for protection against the bandits
with which the province of Shan
Tung was infested. It's name
was then Ia Tao Hwei, which
means "rhe Society of the Great
Sword" "
1t is a law and order league
gone wrong. AS this society be-
came more powerful many dis
honest and designing persons en-
tered it, and in numerous cases
directed it's efforts against per-
sonal enemies whom they repre-
sented to be bandits and lawless
persons. Some Of these victims
looking for help from the perse-
cution of the Great Sword soci-
ETY., turned to the Christian mis-
sionaries, especially, 1t is said, the
German Catholics. They pro
fessed conversion and the mis-.
sionaries sought to protect them.
A series of outrages on Chris
tians followed until, in last Octo-
ber, the Christian nations forced
the government to send force
against the Great Swords. There
was a battle, followed by the re-
port of the governor of the Shang
Tung that the so-called rebels
were honest country folk.
Then the Great Sword society
disappeared, by edict, and in its
place sprang ready-made the
"Universal Society of Boxers,
with the old organization and
purposes and with the added idea
of fighting all foreign influence
missionary or otherwise-and OF
having the government help it.
The operations of the society and
the outrages committed by il
have since continued, and have
constantly become holder.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-14

I would free from the city's rules and
laws,
From its fashions and forms cut loose;
And go where the strawberry grows on
the straw,
And the gooseberry grows on the
goose.
Where the catnip tree is climbed by
the cat,
AS she clutches for her prey
The guileless and unsuspecting rat.
On the rattan bush, at play.
will catch at ease the saffron COW
And the cowlet in their glee,
AS they leap in JOY, from bough to
bough
On the top of the cowslip tree.
I'll list while the partridge drums his
drum,
And the woodchuck chucks his wood,
And the dog devours his dogwood
plum
In the primitive solitude.
o let me drink from the moss-grown
pump,
That was hewn from the pumpkin tree.
Eat mush and milk from u rural stump
From folly and fashion free
New gathered mush, from the mush-
room vine, .
And milk from the milk weed, sweet,
With pine apples from the pine,
From their cool and fragrant retreat
Then to the whitewashed dairy I'll
turn,
Where the dairy-maid fastening hies,
Her ruddy and golden-red butter to
churn
From the milk OF her butterflies.
I'll rise at morn with the earliest bird,
To the fragrant farmyard pass,
And watch while the farmer turns his
herd
OF grass-hoppers out to grass.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-14
THE CORNER

Isaac and Ellsworth
shott, two Of our huStll
ers, spent Friday in Nd
burg, and returned hoI
fine new corn plow,
Mrs. Annie Mellott a
Miss Abbie Mellott, are|
some time visiting i
Franklin county,
Walter Shaw, Of Merd
spent Saturday evening
sister, Miss Daisy, at 4
Mr.. Houston JohnstoI
cersburg, found four q
cattle dead, lying undef
what is known as the
field. They were supp
killed by lightning, as
Il terrible storm paSse(
Valley, ON Thursday
just a few hours before
ston reached the place.
Miss Blanch HoucklI
some time at her honl
place.
Service at theReIormI
was largely attended \
ganist was missed
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-14
A Kansas Ial'

A Pennsylvania man
through Kansas recoDI
a great many tall corn y
thought he would 'eII
them in a letter home
how he did it. "No|
streets are paved, the
corn being used for cooI \
while the cobs are hon!
and used for sewer u
husk, when taken Oh !
stood on end, makes a
for the children TO Pl1
sounds queer to near
man tell the driver to \
en- grains Of horse lg'I g1I
,Jackson's livery S'0O1
were not for soft, deep
I don't see how they Wy
harvest the corn 10 I
would grow up in the \
as a Methodist cll'iv''' 4
However, when the "a. \
heavy their weight Pll
stalk down in the siV'''
average of ninety''D0 a,,I
brings the ear near enO1'
ground to be chopp''
AK.