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SUCH' IS THE CLAIM MADE BY I
'.'. MRS. ANGELL, OF ROUSE'S
y-r- . POINT, N. Y. '
A BOY AND GIRL AFFAIR.
i
THE GREAT ,* FINANCIER REING '
BIT SEVENTEEN YEARS
OLD.
THEY WERE NEVER DIVORCED.
Sensational Story "Which May
Sensational Story AVhich May
Slake Complications for the
Gould Heirs. •
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.— morning
paper prints a long article setting '
forth the alleged claim of Mrs. John j
Angell, of Rouse's Point, this state, j
on the vast fortune left by the late i
Jay Gould. Mrs. Angell claims to !
have been married to Gould when he i
was only seventeen years old, and j
declares that evidence to prove her j
allegation is now in the hands of re
putable lawyers in this city. Not |
v .,..*. MRS. JOHN ANGELL. A^Z;- XyX^ZX^Z^f
only .would the establishment of |
such a claim illegitimatize those who j
have for so many years been recog
nized as the heirs of Jay Gould, it !
would upset the entire estate and i
throw into inextricable tangle the j
vast millions of the late millionaire. |
More than all this, if Mrs. Angell es- I
tablishes her claim, every title, deed '
• and conveyance made by Jay Gould
is vitiated, according to the law of
the state. It is well known that the
late millionaire's real name was Ja-
son Gould, and it is hinted that Mrs.
Angell's strange story discloses the
reason why his name was changed |
to Jay. Perhaps more interesting
even than this is the claim of a
daughter of this first wife. This
young woman, who is now married,
is living in a Western state, and is
a party to the claim against the
Gould estate. She is represented by
a separate law firm, one of whose
members has recently been here in
her- interest. The well-known law
firm of Amasa J. Parker and Amasa.
J. Parker Jr., of Albany, has been
retained by Mrs. Angell. and Lawyer
Steam, of Rouse's Point, is her local
attorney. Other specialists on testa-
mentary law have been retained and j
taken into consultation. If the case
comes to trial there will be arrayed
a most extraordinary number of dis
tinguished jurists in behalf of the !
plaintiffs. A feature of the extraor- j
dinary claim which tends very much !
to discredit and one without a j
parallel in previous cases of a sim- ''
ilar nature— is the complete mystery
which has been maintained for so
many years by the plaintiff in regard
to the identity of her former hus-
band. The astonishing claim that she
Is the first, and hence the only, wife
of Jay Gould was, it is believed, ab-
soltely new to the members of the
Gould family up to a very few
months ago.
ALLEGED MARRIAGE AT CHAM-
PLAIN.
Mrs. Angell says she was married
to Gould by Rev. Dr. Clayton at Chain-
plain, N. V., when she was but fif-
teen years old, he then being only two
years her senior. The story as printed
goes on to say that Mrs. Angell, dread-
ing to "raise a fuss," had not told the
facts to anybody In the neighborhood
of Rouse's Point, where she had lived
nearly ail. her life, and was hoping
that the secret would descend with her
to the grave, when unexpectedly a
strange woman came in upon her and
said she hud ferreted out her history
and persuaded her to seek the estab
lishment of her rights. This strange
woman was Mrs. Cody, who is at pres
ent stopping at the Massachusetts
house in Rouse's Point and who has
been largely Instrumental in procuring
tho evidence which has been thus far
collected. Mrs. Cody has also been in
communication with the daughter in
tho West, from whom it is believed
she received the, first knowledge of the
astonishing facts which are now en-
deavored to be established.
There are, by the way, many per-
cons in and about the neighborhood of
Rouse's Point who remember the
young Jay Gould, or Jason Gould, as
he was then called, who, fresh from
the academy, at Roxbury, was mak-
ing railroad surveys and constructing
maps in that region in the early '50s,
and not a few recall the mystery of
"Mary Brown" and her little daughter
following upon his departure.
Mrs. Angell lives about a mile out-
side the town of Rouse's Point in a
little frame house, and her husband,
John Angell, cultivates a farm in the
neighborhood.
MRS. ANGELL NOT A BEAUTY.
Mrs. Angell is a large and rather
THOUSANDS OF WOMEN SSSS'*
■* — — Miseries.
BRADFIELD'S
Funis Regulator,
ACTS AS A SPECIFIC
By Arousing to Healthy Action ail her Organs.
It CniwpH Health to Bloom, and Joy to .
Itelgn Throughout the Entire Frame.
IT NEVER FAILS TO REGULATE.
"My wife has been under treatment of leading phy
sicians three years, without benefit. After using
three bottles 'of hkahfiixd'S kkmai.e REGCLATOU she
can do her own cooking, milking and washing."
> • -■; : '-S. S. BRYAN, Henderson, Ala.
BRiDFIELD BEGCLATOU CO., ATLANTA, GA.
. t3T Sold by druggists at 11. per bottle. ■ '
portly woman, with •yellowish-white
hair and a light complexion. She has
a large face, with very dark eyes set
close together and a -small-r etrousse
nose. Mrs. Angell, admitted that after
the departure of Jay- -Gould, from
Rouse's Point she mad?, no effort to
communicate with him and followed
his career with *j but languid j interest.
At the time of her; marriage to the
young engineer, as related by John An
gell in the presence of his : wife, she
was Mary Brown, aged fifteen, and
one of a large family living in .the
neighborhood. : V -•■.;.
It was in 1852, one year previous, and
when the young financier was but six
teen years of age, that he retired from
the tinware business and started out
on his career . as a surveyor. In . the
course of this work he personally vis- ,
ited nearly every section of the stats
of New York, and he conceived a com
prehensive' scheme of making a con
tract to survey thi entire state, en
deavoring, to secure the co-operation
&f the legislature in prosecuting the
work. ' The latter effort failed, and Jay
Gould prosecuted his surveys on an in
dependent basis. In this undertaking
young Gould was assisted by young
surveyors, and at the age of seventeen,
when he turned up in the Champlain
country, he was an employer of skilled
labor on an extensive scale.
Their alleged marriage was performed
not at Rouse's Point, but at Champlain.
a little village four miles distant, and
the circumstances attending it strong
ly corroborate her statement that it
was secret, and was intended to be
kept secret.
"The ceremony was performed by
"The ceremony was performed by,
Rev. Dr. Clayton, at Champlain," said
; Mrs. Angell, "in the little parlor of
; his house. Mr. Gould had taken no
i witnesses along, and when it was nec
: essary to secure a witness a servant
employed by Dr. Clayton was called
! In." :
This servant, by the. way, has been
found in a small Canadian town not
far from the New York state border,
and, according to the statement of Mr.
Angell, is ready to be produced. V y :
THE CLERGYMAN STILL ALIVE.
"Rev. Dr. Clayton is alive today,"
said Mr. Angell, "in Pennsylvania. Sev
| eral letters have been received from
I him, and during the last few days he
I has writtrn that be is making a thor
ough search among, his papers for his
private memoranda of the ceremony
which he then performed. It seems
from what he says that the law of
the state at that time in regard to the
registration of marriages was vague
and but indifferently enforced. This
was especially so in small rural com-
munities. Of course Dr. Clayton, when
he married Jay Gould to my wife, filled
out and gave to the bride a regular
marriage certificate." •<.-
Just at present the fate of this cer
tificate is a mystery. Mrs. Angell says
it was destroyed and this is corrobo-
rated by her husband, although he did
i not witness the alleged act of destruc-
I tion. Jay Gould, some months after
the alleged marriage, left Rouse's
Point. It does not appear that the
young couple lived together for any
considerable length of time, and about
the time of the wedding she sparated
from her own family and was em-
ployed as a domestic in another house-
hold. It was a surprise to the elder
i-rown when Mary, one of the young-
est of the family, came home with a
I little daughter. V ,',... VV.s'~:y
"The family was already a large
one," said Mr. Angell, in the presence
: of his wife, "and Jay Gould left the
country. Old man, Brown fired up
when his daughter came home with
her little child and without the father,
and he appeared to become only the
more Indignant as. the particulars of
the wedding were tearfully related to
him. He asked for the proof . of the
wedding, and my wife then produced
the marriage certificate which Dr.
j Clayton had filled out and given her.
In a fit, of rage he tore this up and
i threw it in the fire. Its loss, however,
; under the present circumstances is not
] material, ait the clergyman who filled
j it out is living and will testify to the
; facts on the stand, as also the sub
' scribing witness, his servant, who was
I also called in and was present at the
j ceremony." " V";;- V ijXZ:Z.
i There are, however, those who dis
j believe this story of the fate of the
marriage certificate, which is said, to
be given out by the Angells at the
present time as part of the policy of
mystery they have been obliged to
■ maintain by those who are conducting
I the case. One story has it that the
j alleged original marriage certificate
j between Jay Gould and Mary Brown
is at present in existence and will play
an important part in the pending pro-
ceedings. Another story is that im-
mediately after its destruction a dupli
cate was issued, and that this can be
produced. ' ...
THE PRESENT HUSBAND.
John Angell has resided about
Rouse's Point all his life, and is now
over seventy years of age, although
j hale and hearty, and much above the
j average in intelligence and ability. He
; is a shrewd, observing man, and just
j at present he seems to take even more
j interest in the prosecution of his wife's
: claim than she does herself. He is
j stoop-shouldered after the manner or
: many elderly farmers, has long gray
j ish-dark whiskers and a shrewd.
I energetic way of making remarks*
• about men and things. Even at the
present day, after many consultations
I with her lawyers and others interested
in the case, it is probably a fact that
j Old John Angell, as he is called, has
i a much more accurate knowledge of
j the position which Jay Gould occu-
I pied in the world than has his wife,
and he has followed every step in the
case with the deepest interest.
The daughter in the West, It is
alleged, is the first child of Jay Gould
the issue of a legitimate marriage
contracted by him at the age of seven-
teen, which, if.it can be legally es
tablished, will invalidate his subse
quent marriage with. Miss Ellen Miller
in 1862, and throw one of the greates»
estates in America into inextricable
confusion. This daughter is now over
forty years of age, and she has for
many years been. residing in the West,
where she is happily married.
"I have not seen my daughter in fif-
teen years." said Mrs. Angell. "She
recently wrote to me saying she was
coming on East and we were to have
consulted about our interests In this
case. This letter from my daughter
was followed up some time later by _
telegram which arrived,: saying sin-
was on her way here. I was- very J
anxious to see her, and Mrs. Cody,
who is living at Rouse's. Point, prom-
ised that she would bring her out to :
our house. But since that telegram ar-
rived I have never heard from her,
THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12, 1895.
and all Mrs. Cody has said is that she*
is not coming yet." V ' _J
. The daughter, . whose > father is . now
stated to ■ have ; been Jay Gould, was
born and brought up about: Rouse's'
Point.- Mrs. Angell said that she was
a pretty little girl,; and she had ■ kept
her always . with her. *
: "After Mr. Gould went away, leaving
me with my child, I knew not where
to find him, and resolved to keep her
always;. with me, or until she was
grown up to womanhood." '.'■-:
Therefore it was that Mrs. Angell, in
all the long years that followed- the:
disappearance of her. husband, and
when she was known as Mary Brown,
was always accompanied by her child.
The father was supposed to have been
dead. : No word came from him. He
never wrote asking about his wife or
little girl, who appear to have passed
completely out of his life. -.;
TOM MOORE'S SWEETHEART;
She Lies Buried in a Nameless
Grave in Greenwood Cenietery.\
Grave in Greenwood Cemetery.
Ladles' Home Journal.
Ladies' Home Journal.
Only those who are thoroughly con
versant with the Innumerable high
ways and byways of Greenwood
tery in Brooklyn know of a. teflon
called "The Hill of Graves." The sec
tion derives its name from the iact
that nearly 40,000 unfortunates are n,.r
led there In rows of fifty. One would
never think of looking lor a spot of
interest in that locality. To find any
particular grave hi this public burying
ground one needs the aid of a ceme
tery guide. And even such, a j.-, ide
has difficulty, since the graves aro
known only by nn .nlu-rs. Upon Keck
ing at the records of the cemetery it
was found that th* special grave le
eired in this instance was in public lot
No. 8.999, and that the Cumber of the
mound was cOS. When fie grave was
found it was not .mlike the thousands
around it. The mound was sunken
and neglected; the grass, once green
upon It, is long since dead. A small
white marble stone stands at the head.
upon which is inscribed: "Mother and
Grandmother." Nothing is there to in
dicate the fact that underneath that
sunken mound lies all that is mortal of
beautiful Mary Duff, to whom the poet
Thomas Moore offered his hand and
heart, whose beauty he immortalized
In hf.s verse, and who, in the maturity
of her career, won the applause of
thousands upon thousands of people
whom her name attracted to all the
great theaters of Europe and America,
as one of the most gifted of actresses.
Milesian Mood in His Veins.
Milesian lllood in His Veins.
A French provincial mayor recently
A French provincial mayor recently
issued the following startling an
nouncement in connection with the na
tional fete: "In case the weather
should be unfavorable the 14th of July
will be postponed until the following
Sunday." ________ -
MERCHANT AND MILLIONAIRE.
Career of John E. Hnrst, Demo-
Career of John E. Hurst, Demo-
cratic Candidate for Governor
cratic Candidate for Governor
of Maryland.
of Maryland.
John Edward Hurst, the Democratic
John Edward Hurst, the Democratic
candidate for governor of Maryland,
Is one of the largest wholesale dry
goods merchants in the South, and is
also one of the richest men in Balti
more. He was born at Ware Neck
Farm, near Cambridge, Dorchester
county, Maryland,* Oct. 21, 1832, and
was a son of Stephen Hurst, whose
father, Samuel Hurst, came from Eng
land In 1765, and settled in Dorchester
county, where he erected a family
mansion in the English style and of
imported English materials. The olel
mansion was called Ware Neck Farm
and was the birthplace of John E.
Hurst. XZ{XyA.
When Hurst was fourteen years, of
age, his father died, and in-lS47"the
present candidate and his mother, re
moved to Cambridge, where young
Hurst attended the Cambridge acad
emy for two years. At the age of
seventeen he went to Baltimore to
seek his fortune and entered the dry
goods trade In the humble capacity
of a clerk. . From the retail business^
he changed to the wholesale . trade,
JOHN E. BURST
and he is now the senior partner in a
well-known and prosperous firm .
which has been in existence in one
form or another for nearly forty years.
Candidate Hurst is also an ex-presi-
dent and one of the founders of the
Merchants and Manufacturers* asso
ciation, a director in the Baltimore
board of trade, vice president of the
National Exchange bank, a member of
the Baltimore water board, a trustee
of the Samuel Ready asylum and of
Johns Hopkins university and a direc-
tor in numerous financial institutions.
He has a $75,000 mansion in Baltimore
and during the summer resides at his
country seat, Hurstleigh, six miles
from the city. He is a vestryman in
St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal
church, and is an intimate friend of
United States' Senator Gorman. Mr.
Hurst's wife was Miss Mary R. Bell,
a daughter of Dr. Ephriam Bell, and
one of his daughters is the wife of
Lieut, W. Alfredo Cappellinl, of the
Italian navy. : r:--
BUILT OF OYSTER SHELLS.
Houses in Texas That Prove Both
Durable and Comfortable.
Philadelphia Record.
"Houses built of oyster shells can
be seen in a large number of Texas
towns," said G. A. Holland, a well-
known newspaper man of Dallas, re-
cently. "The state was at one time
undoubtedly a part of the bed of
the Gulf of Mexico. How many
years ago geologists do not know,
and natural historians are puzzled
at the forms of life, so different are
they from any to be found else-
where." Mr. Holland then pro-
ceeded to unfold a remarkable story.
Running across the state from north
to south, he said, is an immense
ledge or sheet of rock formed of
oyster shells. "This ledge averages
about twenty feet in thickness and
is used for "building purposes in
some places, while in others " ' it
is ground up and placed upon the
ground as a fertilizer. There is a
large quarry near Henrietta, in the
.northern part of the sate, and a
number of handsome blocks have
been constructed from it. When
first taken out of the earth it is
white and soft, but when exposed to
the air it becomes hard and turns to
a beautiful buff color. It was for-
merly used for foundations only, but
during the past few years a great
many handsome blocks " and. resi
dences have been built of it."
Take Your Choice! ■
The Chicago Great Western railway
(Maple Leaf Route) will sell tickets to
Denver, Colorado Springs, Manitou and-
Pueblo and return for $25.90. Why not
start on your summer i vacation Aug.
11th or 12th and .- make arrangements ,
for your transportation" at : the Maple
Leaf Ticket Office, Fifth and Robert
streets? Vvy.-v ,---_.*-.-.. .." :..,._.--• :
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VOICES OF IfISEGTS
FAMILIAR SOUNDS TO IIE . HEARD
FAMILIAR SOUNDS TO BE HEARD
IN SIMMER AND
SPRING.
_^_B__MM i
THE MUSICAL MOSQUITO
THE MUSICAL MOSQUITO^
NOT THE \ LEAST OF THE PEIU
NOT THE LEAST OF THE PER-
"" FORMERS IN THE WOOD- ';
LAND ORCHESTRA. :
1 .. , ' ... y."y
FIDDLERS AND DRUMMERS
FIDDLERS AND DRUMMERS
In Tills Miniature Band— Filers
Iv This Miniature Band— Fifers
' Who Lead in the
Fray.
Spring was a long time in coming
Spring was a long time in coming
, this year, but when the sun could
pierce the snow-laden clouds and the
air became genial we were not with-
out signs that it was approaching,
says the -. Philadelphia Press. On
one such day I was tempted to make
a tour of investigation, and I found
that, although the snow birds were
still very plentiful all 'around, the
red squirrels and chipmunks had
felt the warmth and were flirting in
the -fences, uttering their peculiar
cries; the- nuthatch was humming
away at the ash tree, as if his very
life depended upon it, and the
I downy woodpecker, generally so si-
lent during the winter, was flitting
from tree to tree with its unmis
takable- call. ."-'-■ ?l ZA:'A
V I walked up to the lilac bush to
see how the buds were getting along,
and I saw such undoubted. signs of
swelling- that I began to hope that
ere long spring would be here. Sud
denly hope became certainty, for I
heard a noise which made me look
around, and there was a solitary hive
bee which had mistaken the sunny
day in a wintry March for one in
the middle of April, whose "showers
bring forth the May flowers." I re-
alized at once the truth of the ex-
pression "The voices of insects," and
I felt how plainly they can convey a
message. The phrase is not one of
my coining, for it has already been
used, and the only explanation neces
sary is that it means the sounds
produced by insects, no matter what
origin is used.
Have you ever thought about the
subject as you have been taking a
country walk? If not, you may
find it worth while to prepare for a
new pleasure in your summer and
autumn rambles. It will add much
to the interest of a stroll through a
country lane, or even a city park, as
the year runs along, to recognize the
sounds we hear, and to separate
j them one from another, so that in
j the mind's eye we can see the very
| insect which produces each. " For-
I get, therefore, for a time the sweet
• voice of the human singer and the
warbling of the' bird, which are the
most perfect specimens of "voice,"
and connect sound with insects.' We
shall assuredly find much that is in-
teresting. -.'.:■" V ..,
FAMILIAR SOUNDS.
FAMILIAR SOUNDS.
We allknow the gentle hum of the
We all know the gentle hum of the
hive bee, and the louder sound made
by its relative, the bumble, or, rather,
humble bee; only let us remember
that the last-named is connected
with "hum, "and not with "humility!"
Then, again, we have the beetle's
"drowsy hum, "rightly, indeed, called
"drowsy," for the large beetles which
produce the sound rise from the
earth, at dusk and fly in the twilight
at night time, and the low lullaby,
added to the influence of "the hour,
soothed the poet's mind. Of a dif
ferent nature and associated with
different ideas is the sound called
"the death watch," a ticking like
that of a watch, heard behind old
wainscots, and superstitiously
thought to be the harbinger of death.
It is produced by at least two
species of wood-boring beetles of the
genius Anobium, which tap the
wood with their heads and mandi
bles. ■ - - -'
You much have started up as you
sat on the porch at evening time,-
or even after you had settled yourself
for sleep at night at the "sissing,"
"hum," or whatever you call it, of
the truculent mosquito or gnat, and
there is no need to repeat New Jer
sey stories about brass bands in
connection with it, for the actual
sound is enough in itself. The drone
of the blue-bottle, sonorous as Ital
ian bagpipes, is familiar, and com-
miseration is due to the philosopher
who is endeavoring to formulate a
new recipe for keeping one's temper,
if this enemy of thrifty housewives
is sounding its own praises in the
library. In the boarding house din-
ing room, when the screen door has
"inadvertently" been left open, one
may well wish that we could dine
without the accompaniment of the
buzz of the flies. What must it be
in Egypt, still famous for this plague .
at least, or on the banks of the
Amazon, where Wallace tells us they
hum in thousands all day long.
The cockroaches,' cicadas, locusts,
grasshoppers and crickets bring us
to the very conservatory of insect mv-
sic. The "giant cockroach" plays the
castanets in the cupboard or behind the
panels of the sitting room, and makes
the children look at each other with
questioning eyes, as memory r calls up
some story of ""'spooks.'- As we ram-
ble on the outskirts of the woods on a
broiling summiv's day we suddenly
hear a whir and buzz which startle us.
A black object darts from a tree.. We
follow its, flight, and swiftly run to
the snot where it alighted. Out bursts
the sound again, like a battery, of fife
and drum corps, and a quick eye will
soon catch sight of the single musician
—a cicada— commonly called a locust—
who is fifing away as If his sole busi-
ness in life was to lead a regiment in
the last great charge of battle.
; LOCUST AND CRICKET.
You may be walking by the roadside
when with a click like the cocking of
a gun up starts a creature with green-
ish-brown upper wings and yellowish
underwings, and legs stretched out be-
hind. It drops a little distance. away,
and off goes the sound like the cracky
ing of distant musketry. It is a true
locust." As you pass through the fields
brown with withered - grass, | hundreds
of. dusky " yellowish-brown ■ grasshop
pers spring up with a snap, and then
settle down to a '.'tattoo." So wonder-
fully confused are these sounds of the
fields that you had better wait until
evening. Then you may hear a low
piping sound like the sharpening. of a
saw.. It is a cricket. Only an ear ac-
customed to detect differences in tune
and tone, like that of the conductor of
an "orchestra^ can ' catch it • when jj the
grasshoppers are in full -chorus;. but in
- the evening" you I can . hear .-" It clearly.
A little later, also, you can. if you will,-
sympathize with the melancholy mole-
cricket, who complains of his" sad lot
* : ':.-:: ..." -. •--:•■••--. ■-;■•;.. -.- .
on one lugubrious note, unlike Pagani-
ni, who 2 could '" stir multitudes by . his
torrents of sounds from a single string.
*'"- If, however, we desire to hear a "
j cricket's tune to 'perfection we must
■ -go to some old farm house kitchen, sit
; .by the great hearth with its fire lof
i •lpfes, lie back ." in the arm chair and
> "study- the shadows in the ruddy .-. half
j light. '•■.. You ■ will then : understand . how -
; the cricket sang for -"Dot" on Christ-
I mas eve, as related by Dickens In 'The
: ""Cricket. On. the Hearth." "
.'. puring the latter part of August or
the ■ beginning of September,, let ;us
stroll through the garden just as the
• darkness falls. There comes -across
from the shubbery or the grove a note
'with a cadence. Never mind that, for
It .'is only a tree * cricket, although it
.j would be all very well if we were
j not listening for , something better.
'Wait and listen. There it is almost as
-eTear as If you yourself had said it—
' ■"'.'Katy-dld-it^Katy did." You may re-
ly upon it that if you could see the in-
sect you would find it to be a large,
green, .soft-bodied grasshopper, with
.iniist beautiful gauze-like wings, and
4d»g. translucent feelers.
** THE DEATH'S HEAD SQUEAK. .
" Doubtless you have admired the bril- .
liant butterflies dancing over the flow-
ers, so lightly, so silently, and have
watched the moths glide by like ghosts
on midsummer eve. Did you ever con-
nect them with sound ? And yet some
of these can produce sounds. I was
or.cc. with a well-known . entomologist
in his library late at night. Intent on
examining a case of beetles from Cen- .
tral America, we did not notice a
death's head moth which had flown
in at the open window, doubtless at-
tracted by the light, until we heard a
sound like the creaking of a., door.
It did not take long to see the im
mense moth and to close the window.
As soon as the creature settled and we
marked its beauty and perfection .of
plumage its fate was sealed,, and it
was doomed to become "a specimen."
I covered it with the first handy thing
—a bell-glass, and it began to squeak,
as we both agreed, like: one of the
rubber toys which infants delight in.
Henry Edwards has recorded in "In-
sect Life," the publication of the.
United States department of agricul
ture, how he found in Australia a black
and orange moth humming like a bee.
; Darwin tells how; in the orange
i groves of Rio de Janeiro, he heard the
j click of the butterfly twenty yards off,
as a male and female chased each
j other through the air. Another spe-
j cies of lepidoptera found on St. Cath
. erine's island on the coast of Brazil,
j produces a sound which may be com-
j pared to a rattle. And only within the
j last few years two lovely species of the |
j genus of Vanessa among butterflies
j have been put on record as sound pro-
ducers.
Investigations into the way in which
, the human voice, the lion's roar," the
! dog's bark, the bird's song or the bull-
i frog's croak is produced must neces-
j sarily be very abstruse. Similarly any !
j Inquiry into the methods by which va
rious insects produce sounds must pre- j
| sent difficulty. . .Vy^V.'-yV'v
Putting" aside the tapping of the |
j death watch and sounds of a kindred j
j nature, it would appear that we may I
I divide the insect performers, in the j
j "Toy Symphony" of the spring, sum- J
| mer and autumn fields into fiddlers i
j and drummers. Some produce their !
. 1 music by rubbing the protecting veins I
| of the wing covers and the wings j
themselves across each other, as the
I violinist does the bow across the
string. This applies certainly .to
crickets, grasshoppers, moths and but-
terflies. Others are provided with.
drums, as in the case of the katydid/""
"The taborets are formed by a thin I
and transparent membrane, "stretched" j
in a strong, half-oval frame in the !
! overlapping portion of each wingl coy-
er. When the male wishes to sound
,his cell, he" opens and shuts the wing
covers so that the frames of the tabor-
ets rub rapidly- and violently against
each. other." The mechanism of the ta-
borets and the concavity, of the .wing
covers reverberate and increase the
.sound to such a degree that it may be
heard in the stillness of the night at
the- distance; of a: quarter of a mile.
The music of the katydid is certainly
remarkable considering how it is pro-
duced. It consists of two- or three
distinct notes, almost exactly resemb-
ling articulated sounds. These corres-
. pond, to the rapidity with which the I
wing covers are shifted across each
other, and the note produced is very !
well expressed in the popular name of
i the Insect." McCook. „:*;
CAUSED BY THE WINGS. ;
The "hum" and "buzz", produced by
so many insects comes from the vibra
tion of the wings, and it will be read-
ily seen that here we can get indica-
tions' of the mental state of the per-
former from the pitch of the hum,
just as we can generally tell the state
of mind of a human being by the pitch
of - the voice. A bumble bee who is
"going for" the schoolboy who has
struck it with his cap makes a very
different sound to what it does when
it. is lazily visiting the flowers.
"Landois, calculating the rapidity of
the vibrations by the sound produced
thereby, states that the fly, which pro-
duces the sound of F, vibrates its
wings 352 times a second, and the bee,
which makes the sound of A, 440 times
a second. On the contrary, a tired
bee hums on E, and therefore vibrates
its wings only 330 times a second.
This . difference is probably involun
tary, but «he change of tone is cvi-
dently under the command of the will,
and thus offers another point of simi
larity to the true 'voice.' A bee in
pursuit of honey hums continuously
and contentedly on A, but if it is ex-
cited or angry it produces a very dif
ferent note. Thus, then, the sounds
of insects do not merely serve to
bring the sexes together; they . are
not merely 'love songs,' but also serve,
like any true language, to express the
feelings.". These words of Sir John
Lubbock indicate a line of study which
could not fail to be full of interest.
Space forbids us to enlarge upon the
difference often found In the respective
endowment of male and female with
the. power of producing sounds. It is
trite} that it is the female mosquito
which gives a musical overture before
using her dagger for such a dire pur-
pose, but then again it is the male
Insect ■ which is everlastingly telling
tales out of school by saying that
j'Katy- did-it, Katy-did;" and who so
base -as a tale-bearer! Whether the
balance Is held' fairly between the
sexes in this matters not. V:V
j The sounds made by insects may not
technically be "voices," but. we have
a right to call them so, if it is lawful
to "find tongues . In trees, books in
running brooks, sermons in stones and
good In everything."
Kr Through Car.
[ ""Through car service is appreciated
on long journeys. If you have- de-
cided to send your wife and little ones
to the White Mountains, to the sum-
mer' resorts of the St. Lawrence, . to
Portland, Bar Harbor, or points on the j
coast of Maine, the through car service
of the Soo Line from St. Paul to Bos-
ton will be appreciated. Call and see
the agents In reference to the low ex-
cursion rate in effect Aug. 19 to 24, in-
elusive. W. S. Thorn, 398 Robert
street.
Beyond Doubt.
Beyond Doubt.
Cleveland Plain Dealer..
:: New Woman what is learned
by this great talking match: between
Harvey and -Horr?- - "" -.->--.
- Old, Man— What is lamed? Why,
don't you know, or do you, madam,
that they have established, beyond per- .
adventure, the— the— ...
.! "The what?" „y ■-'•:.. -y. V .■-. V
: ' "The — the . '. monetary - system — —
• of—" ...: .--V. yy :. : ;
j 'Well, of what?" V..
V "Of - the fifteenth century, don't you
know anything?" . . - v, -
:! "Indeed! How did they establish it?"
! "Each on* for himself ; , .V
KIRK'S
Great Fight in St. Paul
Great Fight in St. Paul
Against Dirt and the
v Drudgery of Wash
Day.
516 Persons Who Obtained a Free
516 Persons .Who Obtained a Free
Sample Package at the News-
T, paper Offices in St. Paul
". ; on Monday and Tues-
day Last Already _
Heard From.
V,V ■; ' ' '.' -,
■
Who Testify to the Merits
Who Testify to the Merits
of Their New Prepa-
r; . . ration.
EOS (Elixir of Soap)
EOS (Elixir of Soap)
That already so many people have
That already so many people have
voluntarily come forward and testified
to the merits of Kirk's Eos since th€
free distribution made at the newspa-
per offices on Monday and - Tuesday
last, shows conclusively that the pub-
lie is appreciating the efforts made by
Jas. S. Kirk & Co. to produce an en-
tirely harmless preparation that
should lessen the drudgery of wash
day and the wear and tear of clothes
heretofore subject to the usual man-
ncr of washing.
One lady reports that after washing
with Kirk's Eos (Elixir of Soap) her
hands were as soft and smooth as a
child's. She said: "No, I don't care
to have you publish my name, but I
shall do all in my power to get my
friends to use Eos. Surely the women
of this country should be most grate
j ful to Messrs. Jas. S. Kirk & Co. for
this great boon to womankind.".
KIRK'S EOS (Elixir of Soap)
The many purposes lor which It
was designed: V'-V
- was designed to be a perfect
soap powder.a powder that would do the
family washing better than it had ever
been done before, with less labor and
without the use of a particle of soap.
To accomplish such wonderful results
the best equipped laboratory in the
United States has been bending every
effort for years past.
We believe the public of St. Paul are
fully aware that when a piece of goods
passes the' crucial test or the chemist
in charge of this extensive laboratory
and the preparation emerges from the
factory bearing the name and trade
mark of Jas. S. Kirk & Co. that it
must; be as near perfect as modern
science can make it.
Among the other advantages Eos has
over any other washing powder on the
world's market today are: That a
little Eos In the water makes it soft
and velvety. . ... Any one putting their
hands in water. prepared with Eos will
almost- immediately exclaim: "My,
this water feels like satin!" ~ "."■
In washing printed goods a prepara
tion should be used that will prevent
colors from running. We guarantee
Eos, if 'used according to directions,
will accomplish this.
We also guarantee that Eos will pre-
vent flannels and woolens from shrink-
ing a particle and that if you wash
your flannels in water In which Eos is
used that they wiill come out of the
wash soft, fleesy and white. Fcr all
scouring and cleaning purposes Eos oc
cupies a pre-eminently first position.
Use Eos in doing your family wash-
ing!
Use Eos to prevent the colors in your
printed cotton goods from running!
Use Ees to wash your dishes and for
general kitchen work!*
Use Eos to scour your milk pans! '
Use Eos to clean your paint!
Use Eos when you scrub your floor,
and we again. repeat that your work
will be done better than it has ever
been done heretofore at half the labor
and expense. :;.-:--*
Kirk's Eos is for sale by all grocers
—a large package for 5 cents. Try a
package and you will never be with-
out It.
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Scuttled by Sword Fish.
Scuttled by Sword Fish.
Mackerel -fishing schooner Centen
nial, of Gloucester, at Vineyard Ha-
yen, reportr-j while the vessel was hove
to the other night on Cox's ledge;
southeast from Block island, awaiting
daylight, it was discovered that the
large seine\ boat which was being
towed astern, and had contained the
mackerel seine, which was valued at
$1,000, was lost overboard. After right-
ing the boat it was ascertained that
a huge Gwordfish had attacked it,
running its sword through the bottom
planking, causing it to fill and cap-
size. •;. ".:■• -
A WOMAN'S BARGAIN.
You will love me? Ah, I know,
As men love— no better, dear.
Worship? Yes, a month or so.
. Tenderness? Perhaps a year.
After that, the quiet sense
After that, the quiet sense
Of possession, careless care,
And the calm indifference
That all married lovers wear.
Blame you, dearest? Not at all.
Blame you, dearest? Not at all.
As Fate made you, so you stand;
As Fate made you, so you fall,
Far below Love's high demand.
Yet how strange is Love's deep law!
Yet how strange is Love's deep law!
I can look you through and through,
Tracing plainly Nature's flaw
In the heart she gave to you;
j Knowing all my heart must stake,
Knowing all my heart must stake,
All the danger, all the fear,
And yet glad, even so, to make
This, my losing bargain, dear!
' -' —Madeline S. Bridges.
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act* powerfully and quickly. Cures when
til others fail. Young men will regain their
lost strength and old men will recover tiieir |
youthful vigor by using VITALIS. It
quickly and surely restores Lost Vitality,
Lost Power, Failing M emery, etc., and is a
positive cure for Nervousness, Wasting Dis-
eases, and all effects of indiscretion. Ward*
off Insanity and Consumption. . Insist on
hr.ving VITALIS, no other. Can be car- .
ried in. vest pocket. By mail, $1.00 per
package, or six for $5.00, with » Positive
Written. Guarantee to Cure or Eafund th»
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Best Ofiice Rooms in the City.
'Best : .Office Rooms in tlie City.
Also Houses, Stores, Flats All Parts of the City.
Rents to Suit the Times.
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Ta lor' s Renting Agency-
Room 16, Globs. J. W. Taylor, Mgr.
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DR. FELLER,
180 E. Seventh St., St. Paul Minn \
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Speedily cures all private, nervous, !
chronic and blood and skin diseases of ■
both sexes, without the use of mercury j
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and all old, lingering cases where the i
blood has become poisoned, causing ul- jeers,
cers, blotches, sore throat and mouth,
pains in the head and bones, and all I
diseases of the kidneys and bladder are j
cured for life. Men of all ages who are !
suffering from the result of youthful ,'
indiscretion or excesses '■- of mature i
ears, producing nervousness, indiges- |
tion, constipation, "loss of memory, etc.,
are thoroughly and permanently cured.
Dr. Feller, who has had many years'
of experience in this specialty, is a
graduate from one of the leading mcd- !
ical colleges of the country. He has I
never failed in curing any cases that j
he has undertaken. Cases and corre
spondence sacredly confidential. Call
or write for list of questions. Mcdi-
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where free from risk and exposure.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.!
Sealed proposals will be received by
the Board of County Commissioners I
until 10 o'clock a. m., Monday, Aug. |
19, 1595, . for filling marsh on Rice
street, beyond the city limits, accord- i
ing to plans and specifications in the
office of the county surveyor. j
■Bids must be addressed to Robert A.
Smith, Chairman of the Board, and
Indorsed "Bids for Pilling Marsh on
Rice Street," and accompanied by a
bond In an amount not less than 20
per cent of the bid. •
The Board of County Commissioners
reserve the right' to reject any and all
bids. By order of the Board,
D. M. SULLIVAN. Secretary.
j£F\ RUPTURE
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m&m CURED no°Ay
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ffj/ks 'tjlJ^No Detention From Business
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W. **__*__! IB_ ing, ST. PAUL. MINN.
>^^^^ TICKET UFFICES
,-<g^^^^7?N_]ii- Cor. Robert
\^^^^^ 'Phone 480,
\MJ&ifflS& 'Phone 480,
Ss^^^wg^" and Union
'mmmsi Depot.
Leave I THKO'TRAINS. I A "
leave. I+Ex. Sun: ♦Daily | Arrive.
sjilfiiftfioiiiHil
+10:5."> am . Duluth, Superior.* *u:r>oani
•11:00 pm (..Ashland, Bayfield., f V>:sopm
+8:40 am ..Omaha, Kansas City *7::„ am
+8:40 am Su City. Su Falls.Pipest'e +6:10 pm"
tl2 Mankato. N. Ulm, Tracy +lo:4_> am '
+12:25 pm Waterto'n.nuron, Pierre +0:10 pm I
•.".•IS pm Su City. Omaha, Kau.C'v *7:35 am
•8:15 pm'Black Hills. PactficCoas't •7:33 am '
Z/^^^^_\h Trains leaveSt.Pftut 12:35
JpilyMM p'm% nnd 6:50 p* m-daii-v
■ Trains leaveSt.Paul 12:35
p. m. and 6:50 p. m. daily
for Milwaukee, Chicago
/^SjllSig^ and intermediate points.
|^_ffi?j|f&*fliii Arrive from Chicago 8:25
\ggggg3§pi' a. m. and 3:45 p. m. daily.
"^^p^" Dining car servi«e "a la
carte" oa all trains. City ticket office,
373 Kobert Street. - ' a _-.
&_¥f9fiPff&&££*sM Trains . leave Union
_J__i___L_B_ -™ Depot. City Office, 30-4
' HBr_*%___B _? Hubert '- Street,- Corner
SK_n!li'l__^@ Fifth. Telephone 100. j ,
BsßrVyiffiLsSß ■ Vestibuled Compart-
S_H_ 1 1 £>"! I. >} 'I! mem Sleepers. Dining
""MM ' *^l * "J.IMI Cars a la carte.
•Daily. tDaily Ex. Sun. ' j Leave.: - hit.
Chit-ago. Dubuque KtohtKx. j *7 :30 pm *3:30 pm
Chicago, Dubuque, Kan- i 1 '.-,,:. - r
lasCily, St. - Joseph,' D«s (I +S'oonm +lf)-'i(i„„
t Waterloo. Cedar Fails.. > j '* pm ' r?* *<**» t
vudg. UuiM Local. „; -- >A j ♦S-^5 #10:10 am',
i Z:.^;--:y' v. XA:->y;-:,Ayr.::V
.£**£££. STEAMER /
SIDNEY
*H ill leave for St. Louis and intermediate '
■Will leave for St. Louis and intermediate/
landings "Holiday, Aug. 12. at 10 a.m.
. Foi full information regarding passenger j
I and freight rates address U. H. BKOCKWAY.
i General Agent.
| Office foot of Sibley street, opposite Unioa
Depot, St. Paul. Telephone call, 93. "1
; . I
NORTHERN PACIFIC!:
j NORTHERN PAClFlcl)
; The Dining Car Line to Fargo, Winnipeg;
Helena. Butte and the Pacific Northwest. . i
Dining Cars on Winnipeg and p*h Pns';-./
. Pacific Coast Trains-. 'nul' Pa ul
' - • [ Lye. Arr.
Pacific Mail (Daily) tor Fargo, i
Jamestown, Livingston, Hel- 1
ena. Butte, Missoula, SpoSane. 4:15 5:55'
Tacoma, Seattle and Portland, p. m. p. m
Dakota and Manitoba Express J
(Daily) for Fergus Falls. Wah- . . ' !
peton,Croouston,Urand Forks. . i
Grafton, Winnipeg, Moorhead 8:00 7:10
and Pargo p.m. p.m!
Fargo Local '.Daily except Sun-
day) for St. Cloud, Brainerd 9:00 5:30
and Fargo. I a. m. | p. m >
Pullman Sleepers Daily between St. Paul;
and Grand Forks, Grafton, Winnipeg, Fer
gus Falls. Wahpetou, Fargo. Helena, Butto
aud Spokane. - : i
Pullman First-Class and Tourist Sleepers, ''
also Free Colonist Sleepers are run daily on
through Pacific Coast Trains. j
C. E. STONE, City Ticket Agent, IG2 East
Third Street. St. Paul.
_. I Trains leave for Montana and
GrEAT „|i Pacific Coast *7:45 p. m.; Win-
.T„oTHE° y '"Peg. •7:45 p.m.; Breckenridgo
No«.iiWA"*f Division and branches, *8:05 a.
HAll m. ; Fergus Falls Division and
_ | branches *3:30 a. m.; Osseo
Line, +4:00 p. m.; Hutchinson Line. +4:30
p.m.; Willmar Local, +1:50 p. m. Amplo
service to Minnesota and Dakota points.
Frequent trains to and from Minnetonka
Beach. -- V-yv
♦Daily. +Except Sunday.
♦Daily. +Except Sunday.
Trains arrive from Pacific Const and Mon-
tana points. *15:0J p. m. : from Winnipeg, "
Fergus Falls Division and branches, *7:15
a.m.; Breckenridge Division and branches,
*7:COp. m. ; Osseo Line, til £s a. m. ; Hutch-
inson Line, +11:55 a. m. ; Willmar Local,
+9:30 a.' m.
Tickets, 103 East Third Street and Union,
Depot. " yy;
EASTERN MINNESOTA BT. TO
DULUTH and WEST SI'fGUIOR.
Via Anoka, Elk Hirer and Hinckley, leave
Union Depot. aS:SJ am and 11:55 pm
Butfet I'atlor Car days, Sleeper nistuts.
Tickets: 199 East Third Street aud Union
Dspot aDaily except Sunday.
Northern Steamship Company. -
Sailings from Duluth: "North- Weal,"
Mondays; "North-Land," Fridays, at 3 p.
m., in connection with Eastern Minnesota
trains. To the Soo, Mackinac. Detroit,
Cleveland, Buffalo and East. Tickets and
reservations. 190 East Third Street.
SOO __IKTE
ST. PAIL UNION JU_l_>or. - V ZZ.
Daily as follow*:
Boston, New York and New \ 1 ." -'-*/•
England points. Dining car
attached *C:00 p. m.
Vancouver, Portland and Pa-
cific Coast points *9:05 a. m.
Wisconsin Division L0ca1. "...|9:05 a. m.
Glenwood Local from Minne
apolis Soo Line Dep0t.....:. ,6:05 p. at.
St. Croix Falls Local from
Broadway Depot .. .. ..|G:3O p. m.
. •Daily. -1 Except Sunday.
Ticket office, 398 Robert street. Hotel
Ityan. - " „:■ - y V
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Lv— St. Paul— Ar. ' i
Chicago "Day"' Express.. +*:«.>G am *10:45 pm
Chicago "Atlantic*' Ex... *2 :55 pm *i 1:55 am
Chicago "Fast Mai1"..... *ii:sspm *2'oOpm
Chicago "Vestibule" *3:lopm *7 :50 am
Chicago via Dubuque ... t4:lopm +11:00 am
Dubuque via La Crosse... +8:05 am +10:45 pm
St. Louis & Kansas City.. »^:3j am *J:25 pm
Milbank and Way." ...... |-S:'Joa_ +3:30 pm
Milbank and Aberdeen. . '3:15 pm *8:10 am
♦Daily, +Ex. Sun., *Ex. Sat.. ',Xx Mon.'
For lull information call at ticket office.
I down-river points 7:30
I M ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 " I*l ill a* m* -Arrives-^ from Chi--.-
SS^J^^tj^SSlJ Sunday. Leaves Union
P^illitair__3! Depot for Chicago and St.
-V- . I ' ■ I .i'rS&fia Depot for Chicago and St.
_J__JlA_VliSffirl kouis 7:40 p. m; - Arr>res " V
XSB&£&Ssp&3t%iiE£.\ from same tioint»7:4s sua,
■ ifff^vSnwS -t Crorn same vn>intj":4s a.m<
dailjfc
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