The Corvallis gazette., April 11, 1895, Image 4

GBASTLY EXPERIENCE
Tale of a Man Who
Was Buried Alive.
The Awful Sensation of
Sepulture.
A Kansas Man Saved by Disputations
Doctors iVho Wr..Bl U
v: r
the Dissecting: l able.
To be buried alive while sorrowing
friends are standing about the open
mivn. and then come to life in a dis
secting room, is the actual experience
of George Hayward, an Independence
Jeweler. Although years have elapsed
since he was lowered gently into his
erave. the memory of the moment
when the undertaker screwed down
the lid of his coffin, shutting out the
aimiicht. and the sensation he felt as
he was lowered into the grave, while
a funeral dirge was being chanted by
the village choir, still remains 10 mm
as a horrible dream, tie was cou-
scious from the time he was pro
nounced dead until he was snatched
from the grave by the medical rra
ternity and laid on the dissecting ta
ble In the "interest of science.'
Mr. Hayward still retains the grim
recollection of hearing tne oamp
earth falling on the coffin lid, a mourn
ful accompaniment to the sobs of rel
atives. He was unable to help him
self or make a sign, and, knowing
this, his agony was at times intense.
His greatest agony of mind occurred
when the sexton rounded up his grave
on top and the sound of receding foot
steps smote his ear. Mr. Hayward
says that at this moment he fell into
the dreamy sensation peculiar to a
drowning man. How long he remained
In that condition he does not Know,
but his sense of living again came
over him when he heard a scraping
on his coffin lid some little time after
he had been buried.
Mr. Hayward Is a man 69 years of
age. For years he has oeen in ine
Jewelry business at Independence,
and at m-esent. conducts a shop on
South Main street He has the belief
that many people are buried alive,
and his own experience has a tendency
to confirm this belief. To a Journal
representative Mr. Hayward yester
day related his burial and resurrection
with the unconcern of a man who does
not fear death.
"It was in Marshville, England,
countv Gloucestershire, where I was
buried." said Mr. Hayward, very grim-
s ly. "My father had a large family of
boys, and he raised us all on the
farm near the village. I was quite
young, and it was my chief delight to
go to the fields with my older broth
ers. In those days the farmhouses
were surrounded with big yards filled
with straw. This straw was allowed
to rot, and in the fall of the year it
was loaded onto wagons and carted
to the fields as a fertilizer. It was
bright morning when we started for
the fields, and I ran ahead of the
horses. The horses in England are
not driven with reins, but they follow
the command of the voice. After
reaching the field, the pitching of the
straw commenced. -The men used hop
picks, which are fashioned somewhat
after a heavy pitchfork. While stand
ing near one of the hands, by acci
dent I was struck on the head with
one or tne picks, it penetrated my
skull and at the time made me feel
faint and dizzy. My injury was not
.considetred 'serious. After! returning
to the house I was sent into the cellar.
and, much to my surprise, I could see
in tne dark as well as in the light.
Aiier coming irom tne cellar my
strength failed me and I was soon
bedfast Two doctors were called.
One of them insisted that my condi
tlon was due to the blow on the head
the other that I had pleurisy. At any
rate, two weeks elapsed and my eyes
viosea in supposed death.
"It was death as far as my relatives
were concerned. Yet I was painfully
conscious of every movement going
on around me. My eyes were half
closed, and as I was laid out I heard
my elder brother John, walk into the
house. I saw him approach the cot
with tears in his eyes, and sympathiz
ing friends consoled him by asking
mm 10 ury nis tears. "hie is gone,
lucjr nam, ana otner similar expres
sions were used around the bier. Weil-
Known faces would peer down at me
as I lay with mv eves half r Insert
Tears rained on my face as the burial
snroud was wrapped around my body,
As soon as the undertaker arrived 1
knew that I was to be buried niiv
Try as I would, nothing could break
the spell which bound me. Every ac
tion and every word spoken are as
aisnnct to my mind now as then.
"Well the time for the funeral nr.
rived, and the service was preached
over my living but rieid hnriv Th
undertaker approached and the lid of
my utue prison house was fastened
down. Life seemed all hut
this took place, but as I stated, no
ciLuri or mine could oreak the spell,
The coffin was shoved into the wagon
ana tne trundling of the vehicle
sounaea in my ears. I was painfully
conscious of the fact that I was soon
to be lowered Into my grave. Strange
b ii may seem, at times 1 did not feel
fear at my impending fate. The cof
fin was taken out of the wagon and
lowered Into the grave. In those finva
boxes were not used as a receptacle
iur me comn. xne clods of earth fell
heavy on the lid of the casket There
I was being entombed alive, unable to
speak or stay the hands of my friends.
jijr cuun u move proved rutiie, and
the close air of the coffin seemed
stifling to me. Suddenly the shoveling
ceased, and the silence of the tomb
was complete. I did not seem to have
tne rear men mat a person would
naturally expect under such circum
stances. All I remember Is that the
grave is a lonely place, and the silence
or tne tomo was horribly oppressive,
A dreamy sensation came over me,
and a sense of suffocation became
apparent My whole system was oar-
alyzed; were it otherwise my struggles
wouia nave been desperate.
"How long I remained in this con
dition I do not know. The first sense
- of returning life came over me when
I heard the scraping of a spade on
my coffinlid. I felt myself raised and
borne away. I was taken out of my
coffin, not to my home, but to a dis
secting room. I beheld the doctors
who had waited on me at my home,
dressed in long white aprons. In their
hands they had knives. " Through my
half-closed eyes I saw them engaged
in a dispute. They were trying to
decide how to cut me up. One argued
one way, while the other doctor took
another view of the matter. All this
X witnessed through my half-open j
eyes. My sense or hearing was re
markably acute. tfotn approached
the table and opened my mouth to
take out my tongue, when, by super
human effort, my eyelids were slight
ly raised. The next thing I beard
was:
" 'Look out you fool, he Is alive.'
"'He Is dead," rejoined the other
doctor.
'See, he opens his eyes,' continued
the first doctor. The other physician
let his knife drop, .and a short time
after that I commenced to recover
rapidly. Instead of cutting me up
they took me home.. There was great
rejoicing among my relatives. lowed
my lire to tne doctors- dispute as to
what ailed me during my illness. I
suppose I was kept alive for some
purpose," continued Mr. Hayward, as
he finished his grewsome tale, "for
am the father of ten children."
Mr. Hayward has been a resident
of Independence for some years, and
is highly thought of as a citizen, lie
is a member of the Latter Day Saints
church. Kansas City Journal.
THE GREAT WEST.
A St Paul Paper Gives an Interview
of Interest to Ooasit I'eapae.
Robert S. Doublebay (was at the Com-
inorial olub rtMs morning, ana referflng
to the recent Interview In the Dispaltch,
said:
Xt wtas iwiith Some surprise that I
read in the Dispatch (a day or wo since
an interview credited to a St Paul bus
iness man in which, the lartlter is repre
sented o have spoken most disparag-
melv of -tho great western coast coun
try, and inxleea ,t nave pamuea it as
anvthfirog else than wunait it reaiiiy is.
"With utmost respect to tne gentle
man and his opinions, it seems to me
to be the worst possible taste to at
tempt tto fly one's kite by pulling an
other's down. It as mat necessary. To
admit ithe truth concerning the newer
country of (the West does not neces
sarily reflect upon Minnesota any more
than to acknowledge Minnesota to be a
remarkable state in many respects re
flects upon New York.
During "the past year 1 spent many
months traveling tihroiuigfhouit the va
rious sections of Ihe Pacific coast coun
try from Mexico to British Columbia
for Eastern publications. It was my
pleasure as well as my duty to care
fully observe conidflitions, and a-nnei-
pate to some extent the probabilities
based upon resources and natural ad
vantages, for he country mentioned
and the -people it contains. The fact is,
that the coast seomon Is so vast and so
raided in Its resources, Its conditions
and Its possibilities, that it is easy
enough ifco find certain localities in it
that -will answer atocst) any discnp-
tlon. As a whole, (however, it is a
truly marvelous country, teeming with
untouched 'Wealth, wearing at all times
the vandiarvt splendor of marvelous fer
tility, .whale indeed 'many sections are
veflitaible garden spots, elysiums with
wliwh there are none other .to compare
in 'the United (States. I found there lo
calities of iwnicb may be said that
whlidb cannot Ibe started (truthfully of
amy owner section in 'America. Tne
people were afbsoJutely content and the
grumibler was not to be heard.
"It is (true tihalt certain of the larger
coast cities are not growing so rapidly
as tHiey did; HI vat, Indeed, there is no
grelalt activity in them . That was in
e-rt table, and rtfhe cau$e lis obvious
enough. Ninety per cent of ithe people
wlhio (have gone to the coast country
since .the "boom days" of Kansas, Ne
braska and ithe Northwest were over.
were bent: upon being corner lot boom-
era, land sharks, reality speculators,
and Sitting in comfortable offices or
thotel (paoflarS, umaking fortunes by
quick processes, caitohing one another
in reality deals, arid depriving each new
cornier of whatever ready capital he
might bave. As ibooertfing ithe prices
or corner lots, - mere locations values
does not create any real wealfh, this
bubble soon exp'oiedV Had be peo
ple iwiho emigrarr..! mastiw&m (devoted
themselves to the development of the
country, they Might all be oomtf ortaJbJy
crrcumataniead, and (their cities would
have taken care of iih'emselves, as ithey
always will.
"Tile chief grimablers, I may say the
only ones, fo (the Pacific coast, are
those who a few years ago were "mak
ing" a thousand: dollars a week in real
estate transactions, 'but having killed
the igoose that laid the goiden egg are
now obliged to live on the interest of
their suddenly acquired wealth
wealtli which, (by ithe way, they have
secured without giving any Aawgible re
turn 83 rar as I can see and they pro
ceed no loudly 'bewail tnetr rate.
"Of my personal knowledge there are
scores of people .who "have gone there
with oommeradiable purposes, some
judgment, and very limited capital
and are prospering exceedingly. In
deed, contrary instances are compara
tively rare. The poorer people nosi
fliveiy are not suffering; tliere as thev
are farther East and the future of the
Pacific coast twill make one of the
grandest pages in Whe history of Amer
ican prosperity. ,
FIVE ACRES TO THE
DEED HOGS.
HUN-
Talk about not being able to raise
pork in Oregon for want of corn when
all the more expert growers of the
East in the corn regions are abandon
ing corn or using very little. Here
Is what one of the best authorities in
Missouri says. It is President Evans
of the Mo. Hort society, writing to
tne uurai world of St. Louis, he says:
"For twenty-nine years I have raised
my hogs on artichoke Dotatoes. I
have new forty-eight hogs for mar
ket. They were put on two acres of
artichokes last fall and except durinc
the short freezing spell had not one
grain of other food. They are rooting
in tne artichokes yet. In Oct '77 1
raised a hundred head on eight acres
sold them in the spring for pork. It
was an open winter and they never
had a grain of other feed. I could
not farm and raise hogs without arti
choke potatoes. Five acres according
to this will feed one hundred hogs
from October till April. We believe
that a little chopped wheat during the
last month will make more pork."
Here is an experience of twenty-nine
years. This proves that on a few
acres, not over ten, a man can make
an independent living by the most
easy and pleasant methods conceiva
ble. Say three acres in artichokes for
fifty hogs. The animals take care of
themselves, and return at four cents
four hundred dollars. A few good
chickens, a couple of good cows, with
a small garden, and there you have ah
abundant living. You will be almost
sure to have more money at the end
of five years than the man of a great
farm who has toiled and moiled and
fumed and run In debt to pay it all
out for assistance. One bad year puts
him on the brink of insolvency. Mean
while he has had no enjoyment of life.
O for the little farm well tilled,
The little wife well willed.
Every time you send out a good ad
vertisement you "add a brick to -'the
wall that separates you from the spec
tre f business depression. , - -
A New and Wonderful
-
Suggestion
For Providing Climatic
Changes.
A. Pipe Line from the Tropics to the
Arctic, with the United States
a Way Station.
Will man in the future regulate the
seasons, as the Western Irrigator reg
ulates his water supply? Will the
meteorological bureau take control of
the weather and run things to suit the
personal convenience of the greatest
number? Will we make It rain when
we wish rain, bring cooling breezes
from the Arctic circle and balmy
breaths from the sunny South? In
short, is man-directed weather one
day to succeed the caprice of nature,
just as the ocean steamship has suc
ceeded the system of following the
stars?
In a word, so far as man's conven
ience and comfort are concerned, has
science just begun upon the wonderful
things which one day it will work out
for him? Is the edge of the future
still a rosy dawn of unfulfilled prom
ise?
A bold and daring electrical engineer
of London, in an article written for
one of the London technical papers,
has advanced the proposition that a
few years hence making rain by elec
tricity will be regarded as no more
wonderful than the endeavor to sup
ply the motive power for the machin
ery of a half dozen states from Ni
agara is today. Nor does he see any
reason why the climate should not be
modified by the same agency. I
The author of the article. Sidney F.
Walke?, is among the younger and
more daring of English electricians.
He declares that, "judged by the age
of other branches of science, electric
ity is still an Infant,, with all its man
hood s -work yet to accomplish." He
declares that the future of electricity
holds In view, first, the gradual utiliza
tion of the forces of nature known as
wind and water power, to the gradual
displacement of coal. At Irregular
periods the world is startled by the
cry, "What will become of us when
our coal supply fails?" Long before
that period is reached, Mr. Walker
asserts, coal itself will have to fight
for its life as an Industrial product,
just as gas is now doing, the antago
nist being wind and water power, de
livered where required In the shape
of electrical energy.
Concerning Mr. Walkers bold pre
dictions, Professor F. B. Crocker, of
Columbia college, who ranks with the
most eminent electrical scientists of
this country and Europe, in reply to
questions said:
it is difficult ror tne most conserva
tive man to set any bounds to the pos
sibilities of what electricity will one
day accomplish. Of course, there is
one great fallacy in the popular mind,
and that is that we know very little
about electricity. ' On the contrary,
we know a great deal. Electricity is
today one of the most exact of all the
sciences. On the other hand, it is
perfectly fair to say that we have
hardly begun to put this agency to
the various uses which will be made
of it in the future. In a word, while
we know a great deal about it, we
have only just begun to perfect me
chanical devices for applying and
utilizing it.
"I do not know that it would be at
all impossible to make rain by elec
tricity.. The discoveries of Lord Kay
lelgh and Professor Oliver Lodge are
very well known to science, and have
led to many interesting experiments,
For example, a current of electricity
applied to a broken or interrupted jet
of water will make the stream periect-
ly smooth and continuous. One great
difficulty in making rain by this means
would be that of securing an effective
discharge of the fluid. However, It
might be feasible to send up a balloon
from which could 4 be suspended a
large circular ring, with a large num
ber of sharp points sticking outward,
and connected by a fine wire with a
high tension dynamo or influence ma
chine below. Whether this would se
cure the desired end, I am not sure,
as air, you know, is a very bad con
ductor. It is a thing that would have
to be exhaustively tested by actual
experience."
Professor Crocker suggested that,
perhaps, the greatest difficulty to over
come would be that of effecting the
discharges of electricity 'in the proper
places and at the desired altitudes.
"Why not by means of air ships?
Do you regard the successful air ship
as more than ten years off?"
"No; perhaps not," replied Professor
Crocker. "I think it Is entirely prob
able that within another decade we
shall have solved practically the ques
tion of aerial navigation. Not that
this problem Is so very easy. But it
presents no more difficulties than hun
dreds of other similar mechanical
problems have, and there is no more
reason to suppose that we shall not
build a successful air ship than there
was reason to suppose a hundred
years ago that steam could not be ap
plied to the propulsion of a train of
cars along a smooth track or of a ship
across the ocean. Add, of course, if
we get an air ship that can be easily
operated and will carry a considerable
weight, then it will be very easy to
load a ship with storage batteries con
taining a big electrical supply, sail up
into the clouds, and discharge the
electricity wherever we want it. In a
word, if it is found that we can make
rain by an electrical discharge, and
we want to do It, it will not be very
long before we shall find ways and
means of doing it.
"Of course, it would still remain to
be seen whether there is actually
enough moisture in the areas of the
great West to precipitate a considera
ble rainfall.
"I do not know that I clearly under
stand the suggestion as to utilizing
the heat of the tropics to modify the
temperature of colder climes. The
suggestion may be simply to utilize
the heat of the sun's rays by means
of a solar engine for the creation of
electricity. This could be transmitted
long distances. You know in the trop
ics, where the sun's rays are intense,
the solar energy develops a force of
about one horse power to each square
yard of the surface exposed. Inas
much as the sun's action is very near
ly continuous in the day time, and
but a little Interrupted by clouds, this
force is fairly reliable.
"But It seems to me there may be
a much simpler device than thl for
modifying the climate. The simplest
device would be to pump hot air from
the tropical zone and cold air irom
the region of the Arctic circle. It
would not be difficult, nor would it
be very expensive, to construct a steel
tube system: of sumcient diameter to
somewhat modify the climate of the
Eastern seaboard.
For example, a thin steel tube, say
four or five; feet In diameter, would
convey an enormous quantity of air.
One has reallv no Idea or wnat mm
quantity would be until one stops to
flmire it out.
"The Idea Is identical witn tne pipe
line system now in use. Oil Is piped
lone distances from the oil wells of
Pennsylvania, and similarly natural
gas Is piped long distances. Now it
would be just as easy ano just as
feasible to pipe air as oil or gas.
"The distance, too, is not so very
great. I have been surprised to find
how short a line would serve lor tnis
purpose.- if It extended irom wiuun
the tropical zone to witmn tne Arctic
zone it would more than meet the re-
nV,Tf a Rn extend over onlv
an elchth of a circle. It would be only
- 111. 1 I
about three thousand miles long. I do
not think that it would require a pipe
of more than four or five feet in diam
eter, and the pipe could be built of
thin steel and need not be expensive.
Such a line would not be nearly so
costly to build and equip as a railroad
L??t "be The S
of mechanical problems, and the 'right
of way' would not be expensive. I
For motive power some out or tne
wav waterfall could be utilized, so
that the expense of operation need not
be very great. .
"I know all such suggestions as
these are generally looked upon as
coming from a wild eyed lunatic. But
there is really nothing half so daring
in this suggestion as was the Idea of
laying a cable under tne Atlantic.
The difficulties to be overcome were
creator then than any difficulties with
which this enterprise would meet. We
go to a great deal of expense to secure
pure water for use in iNew xorn tjity.
I don't see why It would not be just
as feasible to provide means for fresh
air and at the same time modify the
rigors of our climate. Of course, the
original heat or cold might be losl in
transmission, but the air wouiu ai-
ways produce heat where it Is com-1
pressed and cold where it is expanded.
Professor Jjrocker was asueu wny
his idea could not be Immediately ap
plied on a small scale to bring fresh
air in the summer time from Coney
Island or the seashore. He replied:
It could. It would be a very sim
ple thing to construct a pipe line from
the seashore with vents along Broad
way or any other points .desired, at
intervals through the streets and
make New York quite a seaside resort.
This, however, would afford only
a temporary relief. It would scarcely
be feasible to attempt to seriously con
trol the climate, except over wide
areas. It would have to be done by
national, rather than state of munlci-
pal, action" and would probably re-
quire co-operation between this gov
ernment and the Canadian and Mex
ican governments. Such a pipe line
as I have described would have to ex
tend from some of the very cold reg
ions of the far North clear Into the
tropics. This would enable us at will
to draw cold air from the North and
warm air from the South. In this
way we could probably pretty effect-
ively, ,too, control the rainfall. At
least we could turn on a cold blast
when we needed rain, and a hot blast
when we wanted to keep It away. It
would certainly require a huge sys
tem, something Very much larger than
anything iere outlined,, to stop a
buzzard. :'
"But science today is more- daring
than ever. . It has brushed aside so
many difficulties, so many apparent
obstacles, it has probed so many se-1 household after (this second ddsappoint
crets that it is not likely to stop short I men; but in another itwo years, on July
now. In the sense of possible nhvsd- 1 2L 1892, another baby was born. The
cal achievements, there is no 'bank-
ruptcy of science.' Science and in-
vention have done much to conquer
time and space. They have defied the
wind and the waves. They have
brought most of the forces of nature
under control. Why should they not
one day have control of them all?"
EDISON'S ' NEW KINETOSCOPE.
The Phonograph Combined with the
Kinetoscope Sound and Action.
Tha Mmhlnofinn f n-,
v vuill l.vsu V. 1.11V. IlllClUO-UlC
with the phonograph, upon the perfec-
tlon of which Thomas A. Edison and
hla ncatotin- WilUarr, V T. rtlnL-ann
have been working for several years,
has been made practical, and will be
offered to the public within a short
time in the shape of an instrument
which will show action and give pho-
netic expression svnchronouslv.
The combination, while new to the
public, has been working in the Edi
son laboratory for some time. While
perfecting the kinetoscope experiments
were carried on looking to the harness
ing of the phonograph with the ma
chine, and a plan was finally found by
which it was accomplished. The kine
toscope was then put on the market
singly, and at once caught the popular
fancy. The additional attraction is
now to be Introduced.
The new apparatus Is almost the
same in appearance as the kineto
scope. The addition consists of the
rubber tubes and ear pieces of the
phonograph, which are attached to
the top of the kinetoscope. The
synchronal action of the two instru
ments is attained by a simple -device
in the interior of the box, the connec
tion being made by a belt from . the
drum of one to the drum of the other.
With the offering of the new Inven
tion a change will be made in the
character of the objects and scenes
photographed by the klnetograph.
While the kinetoscope was only opti
cal the desire was to get scenes in
which there was variety of action,
sound, of course, being disregarded.
Therefore such subjects as - prize
fights, dancing, and scenes of violent
action were . in demand. With the
new combination, however, the eye
and Hie ear both being enlisted, the
range of subjects will be largely In
creased, and many things that could
not be portrayed effectively will now
become available. It will now be pos
sible to reproduce an entire opera,
with all the action and music, by the
use of a number of instruments work
ing in succession. The new field
opened is, in fact, practically inex
haustible.! -
NOTES OF THE ; FASHIONS.
Hats with high-pointed crowns,
made of coarse straw, in mixed colors.
are .among the novelties in millinery,
and plaited black lisse Is to be much
used for trimming, it is put on
around the brim and made into bows
and wings, or drawn together in the
form of an aigrette. White hats are
turned up at the back, with flowers
or bows of ribbon under the brim.
Very stylish trimmings for evening
dresses are net flounces, either black
or white, spansiled all ove or trimmed
'cm the edge with beads, - ,
The New Generation
of Croesuses
Don't Differ Materially
from Their Fellows.
No Better, No Sweeter, No Dearer, No
More Useful They Are Simply
Bicher.
A million-dollar baby differs in no
W . hranJdred-dolILar baby.
Weigh thear, one is as heavy as the
other; measure them, they are of equal
ITT jt l 4."U - .
height; touch them, and' the satin soft
skin shows not the sllghlticst difference,
The dimpled biaintdis: and the pudgy little
ffcoes are as ibeaiuitifuBy formed by
jyj Mature for the IMe fellow, who
n his mill-
ions by hard licks, as for the baby
whose gold money bags have been filled
ankj geourely tied up by a doling grand
faither.
There are baby mjiilionaires In the
big duty of New York as well as mill-
kmalires of the grown-up kind, and
many of them have more money spent
upon them than the fuM-fledgied men
spend upon themselves.
The colony of infant Croesuses is a
big one, and is growing in more senses
'than one. It covers a wide range, ex
tending from the ordinary little baby
who has a single mMon to bis credit.
to the tiny aristocrat who will one day
be the master of a hundred millions or
more.
Of the rich Infanite of the metropolis,
the most interesting one is the two-
year-old son of J. Hooker Hamersley.
A Malo of romance hamgs over the mill
ions of this ttiny bit of humanity, and
were he to die a vast estate would be
dismembered and the portions dropped
into the coffers of a score of big' char-
ltaible matitlutions. He wiil celebrate
Ms third birthlday on July 21 next
Tune way the iitrtfle dhiap caime to have
so much money 'is unique. His father
was a cousin of the late Iiouis Ham
ersley, who was tine first husband of
the present Dowager Duchess of Marl
borough. Wlhen Ionus Hamersley died.
about ten years ago, he left a curious
will. He was possessed of a fortune of
six miiiHions, and he 'left the income of
it to his wlidow for life. He had a
great) many relatives, but the favorite
one was his cousin, J. Hooker Haimeirs-
ley. His will provided that if the lat
ter mamed and had male issue his son
I or sons were to inherit the wihole of
the fortune upon the deafih of his
wlidow. Hooker Hamersley was un
married at the time of the death of his
cousin, bult about a couple of years
later he met a handsome Southern
girt. Miss Ohisholm, courted and mar
ried her.
In due time a baby was born, but it
happened to be a girl, and the Ham
ersley family were no nearer gettftng
I hold of the wealth of their eccentric
eoufffm than before. His wild provided
iih-ait in the event Hooker Hamenslev
jhad no male Issue the wihole estate
upon the death of his widow was to
go to a number of charitable lnstitu
htions -- . .. .
Two years after the birth of the little
gird another baby was born to ttie
Hooker Hamersleys, and this time it
was also a girl. There Was Woe in the
event took place at Newport, and the
nrsc mranmamion or lit to New Yorkers
uuiruugm tresnaenii; Williams, of
tha Chemiicai National bank, who is
the principal manager of the Ham
ersley estate.
On the day of .the birth he receive!
a lengthy telegram from the over-joyed
father to this effect:
"Great joy has come to in th
shape of a bouncing boy, who from all
appearances, Has come to stav."
Just ait that time all the other n4n
tives of Louis Hamersley were about
TO COIMeSt M3 Wilil On account. ClT the
I i , .
U uCqUHUui me ronune
to charity In event of no male issue of
jjuuhbt rmunOTSlOT. 'line KlUUtlVeS lUlid
aoo,"K aoanaoneo au nope of the latter
SI0?81 eve a when the
ir0 atmp arrived and put an end to
i""lmru swimin
. H S"? yea oe-
.?le aamersiey oaDy comes In for
tlW fortune, as the Dowager Duchess
of Marlborough is but forty years of
age ano may live a Jong time.
HIS WONDERFUL KINSFOLK!
The only great gmamdchild of Mrs.
w 'U u aim m. VandieTbiit is the two-year-old
boy of Mr. and Mrs. William J.
Sdhieffelin. Mis. ScMieffelin was Miss
Louise Shiepand, wlhose mother was the
eldest daugihiter of Mr. and Mrs. Will
Jam H. Vanderbilit
nnis untile baby Is certain of five
mfltions of the Vawderbiiit money and
ne may come in ror a good deal more.
As hie is the first of a new generation
i varadernaits, He has had a great
juaunjr giuus snoweredi upon Mm by the
many unembers of the family.
A peculiar thing about this infant is
that ha has a step-great-greait-great-gtiandl
mother Hvlne. Old fVirmrwwWo
Oornefflius Vanderbilit, the founder of
the forttone, in the latter years of his
mo married a second time, his choice
Doing miss oraiwatord, a Southern girl.
" uiuuuer, aim, urawcom, a very
pleasan old lady, who likes to talk
about the ante-beHium days In the
South, is still living in a pleasant home
facing Washington square.
Harry Le Grand Cannon famed as
the most expert and Ingenious cotillon
leader in sweldiom, has a three-year-cad
baby girl who will be a great heir
ess some day. The Cannon wealth is
considerable, but the mother is the
richer of the two. She was formerly
Miss Elizabeth Thompson, of Detroit,
and a granddaughter of Brush of elec
trical fame. At the time of her mar
riage it was said that Miss Thompson
would inherit six millions; so that the
Cannon infant can take a front rank
among the baby heiresses.
A rosy-cheeked little lad who will
have one hundred million dollars to
his credit some day is William Vincent
Astor. He is the only son and heir of
John Jacob Astor, the bead of the fa
mous Astor family in America. Will
iam, who looks like hits mother. lovely
Ada Wlfllimg, of PlUHaidelphia, was
three years old the third of last No
vember. He has arrived at the dignity
of kJlts, coats with jackets, leather leg
gins and kid gloves. His affections are
divided between a ttiny little Shetland
pony and a bicycle, wthlich he rides with
a litffle assistance from his nurse. This
Utttle lad is very dear to his father's
noart, and .une miioiion'iui're wran nas
severity ImlHiiloTis finds, tm grolaitest
pleaeura in the grea iunny nursery at
EMneleekH-e-Huiion, playing and
.teaching the little son who is to be, in
ibis turn, the head of the American I
Astors. I
Bdwtin Gould. Jr.. the youngest I
granKJabEd of the late Jay Gould, is
just one year oM. If all goes well he
wM have twenty-five million dollars I it
to do with as he pleases. Jay Gould
left Ms son Edwin, who married Miss at
Sarahi Cawtane Steady, twelve million
dollars, which will probably double it- 682 volunteers took the field In Ore
seif before the little one-year -odd reach-1 g0n to put down that indian disturb-
es mis majority.
He is a handsome little f enow, and
cainra close to Winning the beauty prize
in line tsaiay fonratt HiXiaiEwmon ior tue i The next Indian war ror wmcn pen
benefitt of the Messiah Home for child- sions must be provided if the govern-
ren, which was lately held.
A lucky little boy is Theodore A.
Havemeyer, third grandson of The-
idore Havemeyer, the sugar king, who
is supposed to De worm nrty muuon o
tDuuiiaiiis. jjot mie especial Denent or tne
I. ,1 . ... J. 1 t TTT i 1 t I
itmuy a ujiEugmmwuii. ikoax) in vvesiuuei- l
er countiy has been purchased, andj1851 and xSS2 called out 1265 soldiers.
uuoro uifl umiyy ja,vo ami uue jreuir ivuuu. i
He is as rosy and chubby as any little I
farmhouse baby, for he spends most of -
his waking hours out of doors, and his
week days ail the year round.
PLEA FOR THE PENNY.
The Sunday San Francisco Chronicle I'1.
iiia,.co ciu nuic y.c-. iW iuc uijibcu
sustain its plea, all of which are en
titled to more or less weight. But
we think the argument that the use of
the little coin would cultivate frugal-
ity Is an apt and weighty one. The
French people are the ricnest in tne i
world tnat is tney nave me largesr
average per capita wealth (not the
largest number of millionaires, by any
means, because they are tne most
frueal because they take care of the
centimes and the francs take care of
themselves. But there is the Chron
icle's article:
It is strange that the penny has not
been brought into use on the Tacific
coast, since It would benefit the buyer
and producer and work no injury to I
the seller, except possibly increase the
volume of his business without a pro
portionate addition to his profits, its
direct, benefits would be so great and
widespread and its secondary advan
tages equally so positive and exten
sive in the way of cultivating frugal
itv. that it is Indeed remarkable that
we should be so lnnospitaoie to iub
introduction and use of this small com
"No problem In Euclid can be de-
monstrated more lucidly or unequivo-
cally than that the use of the penny
would add a substantial increase to
the wages or salary of every working
man or clerk. Thus, if a man buys
half a dozen eggs for 8 cents and must
pay 10 because small coins to make
the change are not In use he loses 2
cents or 20 per cent or the purcnase
price. If he spent his wages in small
purchases of that character he would
lose 20 cents in every dollar, and if he
were a wageworker at $1.50 a day
he would lose by the end of the month
$0. The saving of such an amount
would be equivalent to an increase in
his wages of twenty per cent. Of
course all of a man's wages are not
laid out in small purchases, but If one
stops to think, It Is remarkable how
much a man of small means buys in
small Quantities,
"If a man can save in nis purcnases
from five to twenty per cent of his in
come he has just that much more to
expend for other articles, ir tne worn-
man saves 2 cents in tne purcnase or
half a dozen eggs, he has that addi
tional amount to lay out for an apple
or orange. His purchasing power has
been increased and consequently the
man who produces has just so much
greater demand to supply. Thus the
producer is benefitted to the degree of
the Increase in the buying power of
the people.
"It may be said that the seller would
lose this odd change in the transaction
and this is true. Yet, if he could sell
the half-dozen eggs for 8 cents and
thereby get a fair profit, he ought not
to complain because he cannot charge
twenty per cent additional. Further
more, the buyer would probably spend
for some other article the amount he
saved on one purchase, and the seller
would make a profit on that transac
tion.
"A careful study of the daily pur
chases of a workingman with a small
family will show that he loses from
$3 to $8 or $9 a month because he does
not receive exact change from the sell
er. And this amounts to a substantial
and important sum.
"There Is also a secondary benefit be
stowed in the use of small coins which
should by no ' means be despised. It
is the advantage derived from the im
pulse to frugality and economy which
it gives. If a child be given a cent
to spend instead of a nickel, it has
a great deal more respect for the nick
el, and looks upon it as of greater
value than though it were the smallest
com in use. What is true with the
child is true with the man. And these
subtle impressions on the mind have
an unconscious effect upon the opin
ion a man forms of , the value of
money. ,
"It is said that the old Oaliforninn
who used to measure values by the
rude way of weighing gold dust, threw
tne nicKei m tne street when it was
nrst given to him in change. But
who would now give up the nickel, or
who can estimate the benefit its use
has brought to the people? The pen
ny is just as useful, just as beneficial
to the people as the nickel, and Its
coming should be warmly welcomed."
. INDIAN WAR VETERANS.
Cayuse War and Something About
Oregon's Pension Claim.
The last congress did some figuring
to see whether this grateful republic
could afford to put upon the pension
rolls the survivors of certain Indian
wars. The government is already
paying pensions to the survivors of
the wars between 1832 and 1842 the
Blackhawk, Creek, Cherokee and
Seminole hostilities of that period.
But there were other Indian wars,
the survivors of'whlch have not had
recognition. It has been the policy of
the United States to grant pensions
to all survivors of a war when forty
years have elapsed from the close of
the war. This was done for the sur
vivors of the wars of the revolution,
1812, the Mexican war and of the
principal Indian wars. Service pen
sions will be voted to the survivors of
the civir war before long, probably
during the next administration, if the
treasury will stand it. With these
precedents in mind, the last congress
set on foot a movement to pension
survivors of all Indian wars which
were fought more than forty years
ago.
It was found that there are still liv
ing of the C900 who were in the Sem
inole war of 1817 five veterans and
120 widows. The soldiers are 94
years old, and the widows average 92.
The Winnebago war of 1827 called
out the Indian fighters to the number
of 1400, and there are living fourteen
veterans and 107 widows of that cam
paign, at an advance age of 88,
It has been fifty-eight years since
tbe Sabine Indian war, but 221 vet-
lerans 2nd 155 widows are living, at an
average age of 81.
Next comes the Cayuse war. It I
doubtful if a dozen members of con-
gress could have told where the Cay-
use war was fought, much less what
was about. The fact is, another
war was engrossing public attention
the time. It was while the United
states was engaged with Mexico that
ance. Of these volunteers there are
said to be living 114 veterans ana
eighty - two widows.
Iment is going to carry out its policy
Una tim nn fnnsrht In Texas and New
Kiwi from 1849 to 1855. There were
lasts. RifHers encaeed in that period
Indian fighting, and the survivors
number 1448. with 80 widows.
' . . . ...
raMfnma Tnrfi.m dlSturoances in
TOhnm 47f? are now MVing.
T tho Indian unrisines
nra,T, na Orecron there were
, d 7229 BOidlers, and 2399 will
mnip under tbe nroposeu unmnHu,
is4rt widows. '
Altogether the pensioning ot tnehe
Tnriiin mar survivors will PUt 7631
im wiiia At Sft ner month
wni ,iw S450.624. and
tn widows $280,032 yearly.
VS. BULL BUTTER.
Governor Budd is giving all kinds of
nii-rr interests a chance to expountc
t0 htm their views on tha question ot
making bogus butter and nued cneese.
On Wednesday J. H. Hegier repre
sented the filled-cheese Industry, ai-
itorrjy Lilienthal appeared for ma
oleomargarine contingent, and Sena
tors McGowani and McAllister ana
Messrs.Mar.ttin and Hebbron led the
dairy forces in the verbal conflict.
The debate was a spirited one. Two
years ago the same bill passed botni
houses, but Markham was induced to
to veto It Assemblyman Johnson, of
Hnmbolt created some amusement by
gtating that 'the citizens of Humbolt
hanged ex-Govemor Markham in ef-
fi?y when he vetoed the pure-butter
bill. It is held that Gov. Budd will
approve the bill. There ought not -to
be much doubt about ttnat. KgiR
lairy goods are not as fashionable as
they used to be. The Eastern staues
are making life more and more dis
agreeable for them, and they ought to
be shown no mercy out here. We
ought to supply pure butter from hero
I to all Pacific ports. This week one
gteamer took 30,000 pounds 01 burner
for .Tn.Tisin and China. Who can tell
how much of that was bogus 'rni
matter should be pressed. S. F. Ru
ral Press.
Oregon's dairy law needs strict en
'oiwment. We should encourage o;r
growing dairy industry In every pos
sible way. No "bull butter" should be
sold in Oregon markets except as such.
As London papers are advising
Cleveland to hold an extra session, w
may possibly gel it Ex.
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