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The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
RUSSIAN SPIES ARE HERE.
They Are Keeping Watch of NihiIists Who Seek Refuge iA
 America

The Russian secret police are prob ably the most skillful in the world:
 they need to be. In the days of Ma poleon III. the police of France had. that reputation. They haven't it now for the best of reasons. An emperor needs skillful spies in all the world a republic doesn't. Russia has had it's lessons in the death of the late czar and in the many attempts made upon the present ruler. So the chief of po- litical police keeps agents in every great city in the world. New York, where so many Russian nihilists have found refuge; San Francisco and Chi cago are especially favored in this way. Escaped convicts from Siberia sometimes drift to the Pacific coast. while Chicago is watched on general principles. New York. however, is get
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02

drawing threads, for knitting, for crocheting and for sewing. Their de- signs are primitive.
 Thousands of substantial linen gar ments. yellow with age, can be found in a days travel hereabouts if the wis itor is known. The old women would not think of parting or selling with aaything they make. Their handiwork is well preserved and looked over once month, on Sunday while the others are at church.
 The old women do not care so much if they haven't thousands of dollars to bequeath to their heirs, if they have plenty of such garments to devise. In some instances the old women have each article marked with slip of pa per, upon which is written: This is for Mary Ann" ''This is for Jacob" for Sarah Eliza. for little Maggie, for Ma linda Almaretta, and so on. In the case of Mrs. Bashore all her accumulated wearing apparel was willed to her four nieces. Not long ago old Mrs. Swensen died. She left seven drawers filed with linen sheets, pillow cases and large variety of old linen homespun gar ments. When the first drawer was opened a card was found on which was written: "All in this drawer goes to Tillie." Tillie was her daughter. Every drawer contained such card. and one written line showed to owbom it was to go. Yet every heir was specially en- joined by note found in the old lady's Bible that Not stitch is to be sold of what I freely give, because my fingers have made these articles only for you, my dear"
 With few exceptions such articles are rarely used. but are held as keepsakes. Some young housewives can show drawers full of homespun linen which has been handed down from genera ton. Some of the linen is worn through at the folds. The other day aged Re becca Akers died. Each of her three daughters received two drawers of linens. Nearly. all the garments are made on a pattern common century ago. The towels and sheets are coarse homespun, home bleached and wide of hem.
 An oddity are the long gray wool stockings knit by the ofd women in the style in revolutionary days. Some of the hosiery was so large that the stock ings could be worn over the shoes in snowy weather. It is common thing to find linen burial shroud in old women's effects, they having made their grave habiliments with their own hands years ago, including stockings, gloves and cap.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
RAIsIN SEEDING.
and How the Work Is Done.

The public belief that raisin seeds produce appendicitis has created an un- usually large demand for seeded raj sins. Nearly every grocer now carries a large stock, and several houses make this their exclusive business Outside of the houses the work is done on an extensive scale by poor women of the East side. Most of them receive the ralsins from grocers, seed and return them, receiving small amount per pound. Those who can afford it use the ingenious little mechanisms which have been invented for the purpose. while the others rely upon a sharp knife, steel fork, and their own mus cular fingers. A few intelligent toil- CTS employ clumsy inventions of their own, farorite one being screen of wires through which they force the seeds, says the New York Post.
 The work is done in tenement-houses and very often in the cellars. Nothing is allowed to go to waste; the Seeds and the little pulp which is lost with the latter is put aside until the amount is five or ten pounds in weight. They are then placed in barrels, covered with water, and fermented. The fermenta- tion changes the fluid into the popular raisin wine so common on the East side. This time of the year is the harvest season of the trade. The de- mand is but moderate in October, is large in November, and attains the  maximum just before and during the Christmas holidays. The raisins them selves are usually classified according to their size, quality, and the purpose for which they are intended. The best go to the table. where they form a dessert dainty. The second quality is used for wedding-cakes, Christmas and New Years cakes. and the macedoines popular among our foreign citizens. The third and poorest class is used for pies, buildings, cheap cakes, poultry stufing and the making of sauces.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02

for chair-seats, car-sea&s, sounding boards, and piano-cases. A second use is as a constituent of water pulp. Ca seine is snow whote, and, when mixed with wood pulp, straw pulp, and. sim ilar bodies gives a winter and clearer product, and also one that is less brit tie and more durable. This mixed pulp $ made into paper for newspapers, writing-pape wallpaper, and paper boxes. The white boxes which the more enterprising shoe dealers and de- partment stores now affect are the re suits of this industry.
 Caseine mingled with lime makes liquid covering, intermediate between whitewash and paint, which possesses a handsome gloss, and is very much cheaper than the latter. The lime re- acts upon it and makes it both water proof and1 to certain extent, fire proof. As a finish for fine leather goods. it is now employed in at least 50 of the leading works of the country. It is particularly adapted for fine kids, goat-skins, dog-skins, calf and sheep skins. It is also used as finish for the outside of lead pencils, penhOlders and other wooden wares
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02

ting to be more and more the chief object of the solicitous attentions of the czar's people, says the Chicago Chronicle
 The spies who keep tab on nihilists in America always claim to be nihil- ists themselves, exiled for their po- itical views, or escaped suspects. It is their plan to secure adnlittance to some of the many nihilist circles here and keep the police informed of what goes on.
 So long as the nihilists confne themselves to speechmaking nothing is done about it. But if one of them should start for St. Petersburg with such mission as that which took Bresci from Paterson the home au- thorities would be warned and stand reauy to receive him after certnjn well-known precedents. As for the spy, his is dangerous life. If sus- pected he may become at almost any time the hero of mysterious murder case
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
VERY OLD TABLETS.
New Light on the Earliest History
 of the World.
Remarkable Discoveries of pr. HIl- Drecht at Nippur-Evidsnos of Civilization Earlier Than Sup
 pOaed Time of Adam and Eve.

Prof. H. V. Hilprecht. of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, who has been exploring the mountains of ancient Nippur, In Asia Minor, arrived in New York the other morning on the steamer Friedrich der Crosse from Bremen. Prof. Hilprecht brought with him some of the tablets marked with cuneiform inscriptions, which he recently discovered in an old temple on the ruins of Nippur. These tab. lets contain records of civilization which existed as long ago as 5000 E. C.. that is, as long before Abraham as Abraham was before our time.
 Prof. Hilprecht's coming has been awaited anxiously by students inter ested in the remote past, because his discoveries are believed to have re- organized the chronology of Biblical times, extending it back many millen- iums prior to the old time reckoning of the deluge. Therefore he is looked upon as a messenger bearing news of the earliest records of civilization.
 Dr. Hilprecht has been exploring the mounds of ancient Nippur for II years. His campaigns have heretofore been most successful, but during the past year he has made the greatest discoveries of all, the finding of the library of the ancient Temple of Nip pur and the remains of huge pal ace having at least two stories and containing many evidences of what might be called modern conveniences.
 The library tablets throw a strong light on how people lived at Nippur at the time when Adam and Eve were supposed to be living in the Garden of Eden. Some of the tablets are dictionaries, architectural plans, building lists, grammatical exercises, contracts, bills of sale. histories and chronological lists. and not only do they form a complete record of the time, but they indicate that the civ ilization then existing was many thousands of years old. They supply many gaps which are known to exist in Genesis; they turn light on the origin of the Jews and the Jewish re- ligion, and they are wonderfully cor roborative of the facts outlined in the Old Testament.
 ''The chief point to be remarked" said the professor the other morning, ''is that we have found the first Baby lonian temple library that was ever Hitherto we have pos sessed nothing more than knowledge of the probable contents of such a library, from copies found in the royal library of Ashurbanapol, in Nineveh, which was discovered 60 years ago."
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
HoMEspUN LINEN TREASURES
chiefs Preserved by Women in East Pennsylvania.

The distribution to the heirs of old Mrs. Bashore of III frilled night caps, 24 calico sun bonnets, 53 calico and gingham aprons, 27 homespun che mises, 56 calico handkerchiefs and a variety of other articles of female at tire was nothing unusual in the hil1 dis tricts of East Pennsylvania Nearly every elderly woman there takes pride in the handmade garments she ac- cumulates. An elderly resident of Mil lersburg has six large drawers filled with handmade linen garments she had spun out of flax and made up in the last 50 years, says the New York Sun.
 These old women in the hili districts live with their children and have very little to do, All have spinning wheels and they are experts in the manipula- ton of flax. Here and there are ancient looms to weave their linen thread. The old women have nir:ble fingers for
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
PSYCHOLOGISTS MANY NAMES.
Dispatch Announcing Q We6dRng That SOreIy Puzzled 8
 Cable Editor.

4 cable dispatch sent from Vienna recently announced that Arehduehess Maria Raineria had been married iu great state to Duke Robert of Wurten- burg, says the New York Times
 A short while afterward there was wailing and gnashing of teeth i1 every newspaper office in New York It iS usual when a royal parsonage marries for a short note to be printed after the dispatch explaining his or her re- lationship to what are known as the 'crowned heads"
 As no preliminary news of the en- gagement of Archduchess Maria Rain eria" had been sent, the cable editors consulted the Almanach de GOtha- There are ten pages of that famous handbook devoted to the royal house of Austria.
 After considerable labor the foreign expert in one office disinterred the name of Archduchess Maria Immaeu- lata Raineria Josephine Ferdinan6e Theresa Leopoldine eAntoinette Hsnriet- ta Francoise Caroline HelOise Jaruaria Christina Philomene Rosalie as being the nearest approach to. that in the cable dispatch. Then his eye fe,l on the word Immaculate" in brackets. which signifies that the lady is known to her intimate friends and relatives by that designation, and which would have been used in the dispatch He tried again.
 "Ah, have it now" he thought He had found Archduchess Marguerite Raineria Maria Antoinette Blanche Leopoldine Beatrice Anne Josephine Raphaelle Michele StanisIawa I9natie Hieronyma Camina Catherine Pietra Cecilia. But, alasl she was born in 1892, and could not be the princess just married.
 Guess they've got one name wronQ.- he thought, and looked through the Marias. The situation was not inn proved. He had his choice of Arek- duchess Anna Maria Theresa FerGi- nande Josephine Adelaide LeopOIdine Theresa Louisa AntOinette Franeoiss Germana Henrietta Hedwige. Arch duchess Marguerite Marie Albertine Alice Ferdinande Louise Antoinette Leopoldine Roberto Henrietta Theresa Edourdine and Archduchess Germana Maria Theresa Antoinette Leopokine Alice Ferdinande Josephine Louise Caroline Ehrentraut Prota. Then fs gave it up.
 The real name of the archduchess who was married was Elizabeth. The correction came next day.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
ONE HORSE REscUEs ANOTHER
Plunges in and TOws to Land Blia4 Animal Struggling Ia
 Water.

A blind horse was rescued from a Ws- tery grave the other day by another horse The blind horse wandered into 8 mill pond at Mountain Grove. w Va and soon got beyond his depth. when he began swimming around in circle. un- able to land. His distress attracted horse which belongs to Postmaster C. z. Herner to the waters edge. and he tried by neighing to direct tie blind hofse to shore. Failing in this. he plunged into the water aud swan out into the deep pool to the distressed ani- malls relief, which was accomplished in the unique way of seiziEg its fOretop and towing the quadruped safely to terra irma, amid the cheers of up- ward of 100 persons who had bscOns spectators
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
NUTS AND KERNELS.
Nutritious De1icacies from Them Dis covered by Cookery Teach-
 ers' Association.

The citizens of the metropolis do not know the obligations they are under to group of talented profes- sional women who are united in the organiza tion known as the New York Association of Teachers of Cookery. The members are not only excellent chefs. but they are students, and some of them masters of physiology and chemistry. Besides endeavoring to inculcate better culinary methods, they do much toward improving the quality of the food served upon the daily table, says the New York Post.
 The founder of the society, wcm- an, is an expert in physiological chem istry, and has done much toward the creation of nutritious dishes made of various edible nuts and kernels. She believes that these substances have been overlooked and that they are superior to nearly all the vegetable health and enjoyment of life are concerned. In her demonstrations she employs almonds, peanuts, pecan nuts, Brazil nuts, filberts, hickory nuts, walnuts, chestnuts, hazlenuts, chinquapins, peach and cherry pits, and even butternuts She has invent ed recipes for making these into con factions, cakes, puddings.' salads, breads, soups. and side dishes. She was the first to point out that the Chinese custom of eating watermelon seeds, so often laughed at by travel
 CTS, has a sound hygienic basis. and that the contents of these little seeds contained more nutriment than all the watery flesh of the melon. Her latest suggestion is that of the dry
 ing of nuts and kernels. the removal of the thin containing skin which is found inside the shell and the grind- ing of the meat into meal or flour.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
AN AWFUL QUESTION.
When the World Would Come to an Endg

What would be the commercial ef-
 feet of the certain knowledge that tho
 world was coming to an end in 8
 years? We'll, says the Cincinnati En-
 quirer, the first effect would be rather
 social and moral than commercial,
 though, of course, it would react very
 strongly on the business world. Those who in the ordinary course of affairs
 would be dead before 50 years. had passed would be the least affected, and younger people would probably become as resigned to universal death as they are now to the equally certain indivif- ual death. Therefore, at first there would be but little change. People would have to live and therefore they would have to work. while capitalists would have to keep their money in- vested; but as the last year of the world came nearer enterprise and in- dustry would naturally slacken. It would be no use for parents to work for their children, or even for children to be educated for the life they would never live, and so the industrial fabric would gradually crumble away as men ceased to provide for day that would never come. Commercial activity would probably give place to religious frenzy on the one hand and apathy or boundless license on the other. Un- der these circumstances the last few years of the worlds life would be ap. pallipg beyond description.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Wife-"Oh, Harryl You can't talk straight" Husband-"Sphrained my neck, my dearsh, looking up for the (hic) leonids.n Flown Topics.
 Fred-"When you opened your mouth to offer your hand did you put your foot in it?" Frank-"N-no. My heart was in it" it."-Philadelphia Bulle- tin.
 How did Dodds ever become coun- cilman?" Huh; he has the only lawn mower in the neighborhood, an has promised to buy new snow shovel. ."- Indianapolis News.
 ''That newly~rich Ellison carves beau tifully." "Yes, he learned how to do that when they lived in Harlem fiat and he had to make one chicken go round with nine in the family. y."-Cleve- land Pla;n-Dealer.
 "Yes, it's true," boasted Col Bragg. "I've been in innumerable engage ments, and yet I never lost my head" And I've been in hundreds of them" replied the summer girl, land never lost my heart. Philadelphia Press.
 She-"It's strange how the smallest things in life make the biggest difficult ties. He That's so. Last night, for instance, could find the house all right, but for the life of me couldn't find the keyhole. ."-Stray Stories.
 Say" remarked the first boy on the way to school. q just heard the minis ter tel1 another man at my pa was horrible example, Wonder what at is?" II guess" replied the other, The must have lot of fractions in him." Omaha Bee.
 'Now, children" said the school teacher, "can you tell me of greater power than king?" "Yes, ma'am," cried little boy, eagerly. What, Willie?" asked the teacher (expecting the answer: An emperor") benignly. "An ace, ma'am," was the unexpected reply.-Town Talk.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
FORTUNE HUNTER BALKED.
Cousin of Count CasteIIane DesDaArs
 of Getting American Hefres2

Comte Ademar de Castellane, cousin to Comte Boni, who was booked to sail for America on the St. Paul, has decided to remain at Paris. He was bent on marrying an American heiress.
 "I may not go at all to the United States" he said, certainly not for sev- eral months. There has been too much talk about my cousin.
 "Frenchmen of standing will be slow in future to marry American heiresses. What is the good of their being heir esses if the whole family and guard ian to boot must be consulted before one can touch cent of one's wife's money?
 ''The international marriage market has received shock from which it will be slow to recover"
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
Wonderful Teleeraphx.

Two HuRgarians, Messrs. Pollak and Virag, who some little while ago dis covered a system of very rapid teleg- raphy, are now said to have invented system by which 60,00O words per hour can be transmitted and. what is more wonderful, printed in ordinary characters on slip of sensitized pa- per at the receiving end. The slip comes out of the receiving instrument ready to be gummed on to form for delivery.-N. Y. Sun.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
Bagpipe. on Sheep Ranches.

A new use for bagpipes has been found by Scottish Highlander who owns sheep farm in mountainous district of California, and is in the habit almost daily of playing his pipes all over the ground. The skirling has had the happy effect of soaring eagles out of the locality, in which birds of prey had formerly done considerable damage by carrying off lambs, and had even attacked grown sheep.-N. Y. Tribune.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
Locomotives for Rent

Hundreds of locomotives are rented every year. Several corporations make their chief revenue this way. The Baldwins have many a machine out on the rental form of payment. That is, the engines are rented in the same way that you would buy a stove on in- stallments-so much down, so much a month, the payments to apply on the final purchase money. It is seldom, however. that railroad rents locomo- tiveS.-Engineering.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
PLAN YALE BI-cENTENNIAL.
College VIII Hold Elaborate CsIs-
 bRatiOn November 20 to 2S.

President Hadley and the members of the Yale faculty announced the other night that the plans for the bicentennial celebration of Yale on November 20. 21. 22 and 23 were about completed and that Ysle is to have
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
She Haa Nine Lfre..

The announcement of the illness ot the empress of China need occasion Fer friends no alarm, says the Pittsburg5 Times, since woman who has been SO often assassinated. poisoned and burned will easily be able to pull through an ordinary illness
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
Women Hunting the Kangaroo.

Among the black hunters of kanga- roos in western Australia are 27 wom- en. It is a professional business and there are about 125 persons who make it their regular business to hunt and capture the animals.-N. Y. Sun.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02
TIE ST. JOHNS HERALD.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY ?. 1901.
THE SUMMER WIND.

HE SUMMER WltNOs The breezes come, the breezes pass. And up the glen they run, revealed Against an overaowing field Of gleaming undulattng grass. Like benedictions on the earth, Like blessings on the summer day, They make soul more glad than gay, And wake a joy more deep than mirth. The troubles of the town increase: But here there is no stir nor strife, And here tis good to bring life To be persuaded back to peace. wis the year contained day
 When none shall suffer, die or weep; s One rest for all upon the steep, One well for all beside the way. The town is very tired. Alasi
 Its thin smile cannot mask its pain; And they are rich enough who gain Cool breezes and couch of grass. -J. J. Bell. fn Chambers Journal
The St. Johns herald., 1901-02-02

Lake Erie Fisheries. In the Lake Erie fisheries 3,72s men are employed, and s2,719,654 capital Last years catch was valued at s1, ,15O,- 6QO.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-04-17
B0THA RENEWS
NEGOTIATIONS.
Said That Boer General Salts.
fed of DeWet's Irresponsi-
bility, is Willing to
Surrender.

Cape Town, April 10-lt is under
stood here that although Gen DsWet,
at bis recent interview with Gen Botha,
regarding him as irresponsible, under.
takes to negotiate 10 behalf of the
entire Boer forces The British authori-
ties here consider that if Gen Botha
surreoders, DsWet's following can be
easily taken
AS explained here, this action was
determined 10 part by Gen Botba's dis
covery at recent meeting that Gen
DeWet's in,ellecs had awakened, aud
that his Influence with the followers
was diminishing, aud chat a continuance
of the campaign, in view of Gen
DeWet's lrrespousibility rests With
Gen Bosha alone
LoDdop. April II The report snas
Gen Botha has renewed the negotiations
with Lord Kitchener is cot get officially
confirmed, but it is generally credited
and received with satisfaction, except
By the ultrs jiogoes, Who fear that the
government will renew the terms
recently rejected
Regarding Gen DoWet's mental
condition reports have been very con-
Hicting for some time. His recent iuac-
tivisy points to there being some truth
10 the ruuors which sllege that long
continued hardships under the harrass-
iog British pursuit, have uuhinged Els
miud
On the other hand correspondent OF
The Times quite recently acknowledged
the "wonderful foresight and fertility OF
resources" which hatacterizea Gen
DeWet's retreat from Cape Colony
As during the previous sbortive
Dego'is:ioOs the British press again
loudIy insist 90 'uncoudi:ioOal surreD-
der." bat, With the budgssary necessi
ties staring the country 10 she face il
negosiasions are reopened. toe Beers as
The Daily Chronicle remarks editorial
ly, "may reckon 90 fair treatment" ct
the hands of the British.