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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The condition of Mrs Mckinley con-
tinues the same.
The directors of the Anaconda Mining
company have declared a dividend of
1925 a share.
General Macarthur, who recently re-
turned from Manila, says the conditions
in the Philippines are favorable for the
ideas of a republic.
Paul Waldeck and Victoria Czolgosz,
father, brother and sister of Leon Cool
gosz, the assassin of President Mckinley,
were recently granted an interview with
the prisoner in the Erie county Jail.
A great trust in baseball and profess
sional athletics is being organized by
magnates of the National league, headed
by President Hart of the Chicago club
and Andrew Freedman of the New York
club.
The Klondike has been brought into
Geographic communication. The line.
which is 2200 miles long, touches at At
lin, White Horse, Dawson and Fort
Simpson, and connects at the Alaskan
boundary with the projected American
government line from St Michael.
In the international athletic meet the
Americans won the 100 yard dash. throw
ing lG pound hammer, running high
jump, 100 yard hurdle and quarter mile
run. The English won the half mile run
and one mile run. The score is now 8
to 2, with two events yet to be decided.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28
Title of Golf Champion.

Atlantic City, N. j., Sept. 2S,-After
having postponed for week, owing to
the death of the president, the golf match
between Walter j. Travis, the champion.
and Walter Egan of Chicago for the
amateur championship of the United
States Golf association was begun on the
links of the Atlantic City Golf club at
Mortified. A fog hung over the field
during the early morning and the heavy
dew made the links a trife wet The
sun came out strong toward 10 o'clock
and the course was soon dry. Play was
started at $40. The champion mad tn,
honor.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28
Phillips In Business.

Chicago, Sept. 23-The George NJ.
Phillips company" with 100000 capital,
20 per cent paid up was formed here to-
day with the former corn king" as pres
ident. The plan to form a company of
the creditors of the old company was re-
Gently abandoned.
MIR. Phillips owns 25 per cent of the
stock of the new company. He will draw
a salary as president and manager of the
new concern, and stated today that
whatever dividend his stock paid him
would be applied on the debts of the de-
funct company.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28
Trouble Exnected.

Spring Valley, ILL.,, Sept. 23.-TwenV
anarchists armed with double par
relied shotguns and 1000 rounds OF am
munition are standing guard over tns
Office of L'Aurore, the notorious an
archist publication which expressea
joy at the murder of President NC
Kinley and satisfaction over the an
nouncement that Czolgosz was an ar
archist. Meanwhile fully 1000 citizens
of adjoining towns have sent woi'
here to the authorities that they are
anxious to start for this city at mo
ment's notice and assist in extermina'
ing the reds"
The temper of the people here is .
boiling point. The editor is in hioine'
A committee tomorrow will walt ~
the manager of the local coal compap
and insist on the discharge OF w
anarchists in his employ, and the -
archists and their sympathizers' VIZ
number 800, threaten to hold nsss
meeting. II they persist In this p'a-
riot is almost certain to ensue'
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28
REPORT on TRADE.

New -Bradstreet's trade re.
port for last week says:
The sad events of the week have
naturally been depressing features,
even en- days when the sense of ma
t!onal bereavement did not seek ex.
preston in total or partial suspen-
SIGN of all but the absolutely neces-
sary activities. The reduced figures
of sales of products of securities dealt
in speculatively and the lessened vol
ume of bank clearings were among
the most prompt measures of the re-
preston under which the business
world has labored, but the course of
prices of nearly all stocks and staples
shows that repression and not depres-
sion is the word to express the steadi-
ness and confidence with which the
commercial and financial world await
ed and received the change in execu-
tives.
Among the more favorable of the
purely commercial or industrial fea-
lures of the week have been the con-
tinuance of the good demand from
jobbers, the large shipments of goods
with which to fill these demands, the
better call for goods at retail induced
by the arrival of cool fall weather,
and last, but not least, the settle
ment of the steel strike, which re.
stores at least $4,000 men to their
work. The unfaV orable features are
few, the most notable being the ad-
vices of the arrival of heavy frosts in
the corn belt, affecting, however, only
the latest planted products. The
strength of corn has been indeed the
feature of the cereal market. and has
been shared in by other grains, al
though realizing later cut down some
of the gains noted earlier. Cottons
alone, of all the leading staples, show
ed irregularity.
The resumption of work in the
hoop, sheet, tin plate and tube mills
has been feature of the week. Steel
rails are being well taken at the west,
and steel mills are reported sold ahead
to next year. Jobbers in iron and
obSOA civ Dhoy supply ms oilcllA lOto W
bridge over consumers until the mills
recently on strike can come into the
market Pig iron is in better inquiry,
and Bradstreet's Birmingham CORE
spondent reports an advance of %
cents per ton. Export business is
slow. The other metals are without
much change.
Tin is excited, but copper is steady,
despite stock market rumors of heavy
distributors stocks.
Corn exports aggregate 611,52S bush
els, as against 777,S31 last week and
2134,205 last year. July l to date
corn exports are 12,133,204 bush
els, against 3S,5S6,476 last season.
Wheat, including -four exports, for
the week, aggregate 3,S40,574 bushels,
as against 6648,609 last week and
8, 535.857 in this week last year. Wheat
exports July 1 to date az weeks) ag-
gregate 72,182179 bushels, as against
81, 1884 last season.
The boot and shoe industries are in
good shape and shipments compare
excellently with a year ago. Manu-
| facturers are determined to get full
prices for shoes in view of the strength
of heavy leather and hides.
For the week business failures mum
Der 158 as against 1872 last week, 1888
in this week year ago, lat in 1899
and 1872 in 1898. Canadian failures
number %, as against 16 last week,
81 in this week year ago, 13 in 1899,
10 in 1898 and 35 in 1897.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28
The Hearing of Maggie.

Santa Fe, Sept. 23.-The hearing in the
case of Maggie, the anarchist suspected of
completely in the conspiracy to assassi-
nate President Mckinley, has been post.
poned, owing to the absence of his at.
torney, w. B. Childers.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28
LATER

The most important development in
the Czolgosz case is the announce
raent that no poison had been found
on the bullets or the revolver with
V hich the anarchist assassinated
President Mckinley. Chemical and
be chronological examinations were
made
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28
Joseph French johnson.

New York, Sept. 24.-The Tribune
says:
Professor Joseph F. johnson has re-
signed the chair of finance in the Uni
yersity of Pennsylvania and accepted the
call to the chair of political economy and
banking in the New York University
School of Commerce, Accounts and
Finance, which begins its second year oc-
tober /.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28
Eleven Lives Lost.

Tours, France, Sept. 20.-An explosion
caused by a fire in powder factory at
Ripault has resulted in the death of IL
persons and the injury of II others, a
majority of whom will die from their in
juries.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28
Moves to America.

New York, Sept. 24.-William c, Whit
ney confirms the report that he will with
draw his big racing stable from England
and in future confine his racing operations
to the American tracks alone.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28
Big Fire In Toledo.

Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 2S.-The local plant
OF the American Tin Can company was
destroyed by fire. Loss, 1900, 600.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28

Tacoma-Unchanged; blue stem,
552c; club, 54kc.
Portland-Steady; Walla Walla, "a
@54hc; blue stem, 55@56c; valley,
55Q56c.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28

1t is an event in a woman's lire W..
she goes downtown twice in the -
day.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28

No man is strong who is unable to
conquer himself.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21
yyrifar Of Roynl Speeches.

~
From the literary point OF view who
Is responsible for the replies to the va
rious addresses and other ~utterances
with which the progress OF the Duke
OF Cornwall throughout Australasia
has been SO profoundly puBctuated!
II cannot be supposed that the duke
himself, in all cases, was the author OF
his own little illusions. which bore
every mark OF having been prepared
beforehand, seeing that their reduction
would have taken up too much OF his
precious time. Besides. il the king.
his father. gets his speeches from the
throne prepared for him by his Cabi-
net. why should not the duke enjoy
analogous assistancei in the composition
OF his official utterances? These, in
deed, bear internal evidence OF having
emauated In the first instance from
the pen of the dukes private secretary,
sir %. Mackenzie Wallace. whose Pc
culiar style-a triie ponderous and
Johnsonfan-may be inferred from his
books. AT any rate. it was a good
enough style for Lord Dunerin. who.
as is well known. employed the ex-
Times correspondent to write most OF
his important dispatches first from
Egypt and then from India.-London
Chronicle.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21
STOW nai1roa.ls IN Porto Rieo.

There liz great opportunity in Porto
Rico for the railroad promoter" said
d. C. Jennings. g. civil engineer re-
Gently returned from that island.
.sThere are at present only 1873 miles
of railroad there-s2 miles along the
northern coast, 81 miles along the
western coast and % miles on the
southwestern border. That mileage
liz exclusive of an u-mile narrow
gauge road and six miles Of tramroad.
.AI of the vast interior and the
entire eastern portion of the island are
without railroad communication with
any place, and IL the wagon roads
within that area are like the stage
route connecting H~ormigueros, the
southern terminus OF the Aguadilla &
Hormigueros railroad. with Yauco, the
western terminus OF the Yauco g
Ponce railroad. travel on them must
be something that the stranger is ike
" TO remember until he gets to be
very, very old.
ssThe gap between those two rail-
roads liz 20 miles, and the stage coach
PUSHES the traveller across it In from
0 TO 10 hours. The average rate OF
sneed ON the Porto Rico railroads
i'd IN miles an hour.-New York
Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21
Number OF American Colleges.

To-day there are 629 universities
and colleges and forty-three schools Of
technology in the United States. The
total value Of the property possessed
by institutions for higher education
amounts to $342.8s8.361, a gain Of
about Ss1, Oo0,0o over the amount for
the preceding year. The endowment
fund amounts to $151, 10, $50. The to-
tai income of the year. excluding bene-
factions, amounts to $27, 739,154. The
value of gifts and requests during the
years 189S-1S99 amounted to S21,925,-
436. Some $4,000 is invested for each
student who is now enjoying the adj
vantage Of any Of the institutions Of
learning.
Classical courses claim by far the
greater number OF students-35,595
students out of the IA, 164-while 81
$50 were taking the general culture
courses, 955s general science courses,
2593 engineering, 1850 in civil engin-
eering and 2329 in electrical engineer
ing; 1882 students were studying min.
Ing engineering, 627 architecture, 9501
pedagogy and 6698 were taking bust
ness courses.
| The number Of degrees conferred
during the year for work done was
| 1b.087 -10,7.t on men and 1893 on
| women. Thir. r-eight different varie'
! ties of degrees were conferred, and In
| some cases only one candidate received
= degree-musicaI doctor. for example,
| Seven hundred and thirty-6ve honor
ary degrees were eonferred.-Scientife
American.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21
POWER FROM THE SUN.
For Continuous Use of Power the System
Gives But Little Promise.

For Continuous Use of Power the System
Gives But Little Promise.
The uncertainty which the engineer
feels regarding the solar motor is Tue
largely to the difficulties arising from
the fact that the sun Is not always
available, ever by day, and that 1t IS
entirely out of reach for power pur-
poses, for one-haIf of the "a hours, and
he has as yet no idea OF practical
methods Of storage, either OF the heat
or the power, for S during cloudy
periods, hours, days, and weeks even,
when the engine cannot be kept IN
steady operation. 1t is, writes DE-.
Robert H. Thurston, in Casters Mag
aZine for August, of course, possible
that much Improvement may be ef-
fected in the electric storage battery,
and it is even true that great improve
ments in that precious device are ap-
parently already in sight; but even
the ideal and perfect battery, could It
be realized, would probably prove so
costly and SO enormous as a part or
this system Of sun power Utilization as
to make its use practically out OF the
question in temperate regions, where
the sky is overcast SO often that not
over one-half the direct heat Of the
sun is each day, on the average, avail
able, or In the tropics, where the rainy
season makes it unavailable for
months together. Where, as may oc-
casionally be practicable, storage may
be effected by raising water into ex-
tensive and elevated reservoirs pro-
vided by nature, this difficulty may
prove less serious; but such excep-
tional advantages of location cannot
be relied upon for any important aid
in securing general utilization OF the
solar motor.
For necessarily continuous use OF
power 1t Is thus evident this system
gives little promise. and a cotton mill,
for example, that must go into opera
ton only when the sun comes out
from behind a cloud and go out OF &C.
ton the instant it appears again, can
hardly be expected to pay dividends
Water-power must be its reliance
when coal cannot be employed, rather
than either sun power or wind power,
and it's work must be done where a
sufficient amount of fall and flow can
be had to meet it's maximum require
ments, even at the period of minimum
flow.
The availability of sunlight and heat
for the purposes of the engineer diff
fers greatly in different places, anu
with every change of latitude. as vel
as from season to season. This vari-
ability is an enormous handicap where
it is sought to employ this energy
The remark is attributed to Professor
Langley that all the coal deposits Of
| Pennsylvania, if burned a single sec
| end. would not liberate a thousandtf
| part as much heat as does the surface
| OF the sun in that unit of time. YET
| il. is evident that our coal deposits; Sc
long as they last, Ire worth more tx
us than all the available heat OF tbs
sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21
Hapv,v Venture.

Tn small fats the space allotted 10
the kitchen cannot well be spared.
knowing this. q Chicago landlord, IN
building an apartment house, instead
OF q kitchen built q buffet. or cooking
closet, next the dining room. This is
atosat six feet square and contains q
sink, gas range and shelves, and space
enough for the housewife 70 bake .
cook. Next 1t IL the pantry, with re
friseratcr and room to keep supplies.
The landlord made d happy venture.
No sooner was the buffet by
WouId-be-tenants than all other ae-
compartments were as naught. and all
the apartments e rented at once
ana more demanded, 30 that all new
nats in that quarter Of the city are
being uroyided with bu1eta
The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21
-EIecteoplattng wood.

Doors and other wooden articles ara
now actually electroplated with copper
and other metals. They are first treat
ed in such a way as to make them
w~aa%arproof, and to prevent from warp
ing end ahrinkage, by filing the pores
with O proper varnish. They are then
bound with strips Of metal and cover
the electroplate. The articles are then
ed with q metallic leaf that will take
put into the e~lectroplattng vat, and one
pole of the current Is attached to the
binding metal strips, and the other to
the e~lsctrolyte used. So ''bronzed"
doors are made of wood.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21
LITERARY PRErEN1IousNEss.
People Who frequently Discuss Books
Have seldom Read Much.

~~E"~
Have Seldom Read Much.
ssT'here liz one curious thing about the
most famous and best known things
in the literature Of the world" said a
gentleman who keeps in touch with
literary matters, land that is in the
fact that the persons who talk SO
much about the masterpieces have
never read them at all, and, in fact,
whatever knowledge they may have
OF these matters Is gained by reading
popular criticism. They have glanced
at the poem. or the masterpiece In
prose, but they have never had the pa
tience or the inclination even, to plow
through the printed matter. Take
Millions Paradise Lost and just pass
back over your own experience. Now.
I have never read it myself, and while
/ may be a little below the average
among literary people, still my W
case may furnish a basis to figure on.
Not many persons outside Of book
worms and religionists have eve had
the patience to read Paradise Lost
and yet you find many persons who
write and talk deliberately about this
bit Of philosophy POLITICALLY put. The
same thing might be said about other
masterpieces. There is Homer's HAD
for instance. How many men among
the number who write and talk about
'Iliad' have ever read the whole thing
from end to end?
II venture the assertion that very
few have read it, and there are many
persons who have glanced upon
the sIliad' in it's entirety. This same
thing is true about many Of the other
pieces in literature that are talked SC
much about. I knew a man once, a
| young and sturdy fellow, who was
particularly fond Of economic studiess
and he was constantly spouting Adam
Smith, and seemed to know more
about The Wealth OF Nations than
any other man I had aver met. / asked
him one day when he read Smi b, and
was amazed by the frank statement
that he had never even seen a coRF Of
the book. This, of course, Is mere.J
illustrative, and 1t SHOWS just exactly
what I have been saying-that a very
small per cent. of thns Igors who talk
about the heavyy}eights is the litera-
tire Of the world have read the books
they talk about. Really, from my own
experience. ten per cent. is a big es-
innate, and I think I have gone over
the conservative line somewhat in
making it. Among my own acquaint-
ances / am sure that IL I should say
only two OF every 100 had read the
books they talk about-books I mean,
OF the classical kind-I am sure I
would come closer to the truth Of the
matter. There is nothing in the mat
ter to be ashamed of, either, because
they have been able to get a good idea
of the masterpieces by following the
critics, and frequently their views are
much clearer than the views Of men
who have really read the works, sc
far as the essence is concerned New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21
The Fate Of the MOSQUITO.

Thanks to DR.. Hazard and DR.. Doty
and some other scientists we know
a great deal more about the habits
and objects in life of the mosquito
than we used to; not that this knoWl-
edge makes the bite Of this interest
ing insect any less painful or adds
to the delights of living in New Jer-
sey, but exact scientific information
is always priceless. But what crimes
the mosquito is responsible for. VINO
forgets the time when he received let
tiers from the south, letters reeking
with the fumes of sulphur, which, he
was told was necessary to prevent the
contagion of yellow fever? Who can
not recall the shotgun guarantees,
the wholesale destruction Of property
the isolation which was considered
imperative il a yellow fever epidemic
was to be stamped out? And now sci.
ence discovers that instead Of sulphur
we ought to have used kerosene. in
stead Of destroying clothing we ought
to have exterminated the mosquito,
that q few gallons of oil are more eff
cacious than shotguns. For the bacll-
lus Of yellow fever, we learn, does MOI
exist, but to the mosquito, hitherto
regarded as annoying but harmless,
we are indebted for tie spread Of vel
low fever and malaria. Wonderful are
the victories of science, but not less
wonderful the ingrained conservatism
OF the world which makes it cling to
an idea. Tons Of sulphur have been
burned because it was ill smelling and
was believed to have some preventive
properties: and yet for all the good il
did It might as wells have been cast
into the sea or loaded into the guns OF
the quarantine guards.-The Observer
In Harper's Weekly.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21
Disconnected.

Say, Name" said the hello girl,
during a lu1l in the calls, TO her in
innate friend who occupied the next
chair, "is it trut that you have brok-
en- of your engagement"
Sure thing" answered Name, as
she chewed her gum with renewed
vigor.
"Oh, Name, did you really?'
swell / guess!"
"Oh, Name, what WIS the natter"
He heard about my going down the
river with a strange young man
"Oh, Name, did he really"
"Yep. Then he had the nerve to call
me up owe the phone and read the
riot act to me! Said If I was going to
carry ON like that he didn't want me
to be wearing his ring"
"Oh. Name, what did YOU say?
Ring of!"-Detroit Free Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21

An invention which, It is claimed,
wi1l ~supplant petroleum as . motive
newer and will make stopping 70 take
an 4 supply OF electricity unnecessary
for automobiles il the work OF :
French scientist. one 8. North. the
device. according to m English con-
temporary, consists OF an automatic
generator OF electricity which takes
up very little space and makes cleo
tricity as the automobile proceeds on
IT'D Journey. Only a small quantity 81
water il required for generating the
electricity and this can be carried IN
4 bottle. II il stated that the French
government has under consideration
9he adyisability of adopting this new
invention for submarine boats
The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21
Clearly nm InaposteP.

"I am indeed glad to leard," remark.
ed. the stranger, who had secured 8
nights lodging at the home OF tbs
whole-souled Methodist farmer On the
ground of being a member of the sams
church, az am glad to hear, I repeat
that the parish Of this settlement il il
so prosperous condition, temporal,
and spiritually" John Wesley
called out the farmer to his eldest son
saddle the strangers horse. Hell
talking about a Methodist parish.
Good-by, sir. I've got no ill-will agiE
YOU. but you're a fraud."-Chicagc
Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21

~ need Of cutting OF . woTnan's breast or
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re cancer. No need to apply burning pias-
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patism. terrible itching, scabby akin diseases,
~ are all successfully treated and cured by
Rctanic Blood Balm (B. B. b.. Druggists.
ii. Sample Of medicine sent free, also many
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writing Blood Balm Co., Ia Mitchell stxest,
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The Opelousas courier., 1901-12-21
Afr Rrakas en strsst Car..

In the thriving little city Of Column
bia. S. C., the street cars are equipped
with air brakes. making it possible for
a car to be stopped from full speed
within it's own length. A newspaper
man who MAJ been keeping tab on the
matter declares than mot less than 20
lives have been saved" by the power
brakes since their Introduction a year
or so ago.