Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1909, Page 21

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BFEE: NOVEMBER 28, 1909 l; "Han Wang, the Big New Steel Plant in Heart of the Chinese Empire (Copyright, 1909, by Frank G. Carpenter.) ANKOW, 190.—(Special Corres spondence of The Bee.)-1 write of the biggest steel plant on the mainland of the Asiatic contle nent. It lles here at Hankow, in the interlor of Chipa, 700 miles south of Peking, and as far west of the Pacific as Cleveland is west of the Atlantic. 1t is in the very heart of the empire, accessible by water transportation to & population of over 100,000,000, and at & point where rallroads will eventually cone verge as they do at Chicago. The Yangste Kiang 1s sald to carry one-third of all the commerce of China, and by it the bige gest ocean steamers can come right te theso steel works during the greater part of the year. Boats from half a dozen dife ferent provinces which contaln coal and iron mines each reach it in any month of the twelve and its products can be sent by water to the edge of Thibet or on the Yangtse tributaries down to Yunnan, the great province which borders on Burmah, Hankow, which adjoins Han Yang, ale ready has a trunk line of railroad ta Peking, and others are projected to Nane king and Canton he Chicago of Chinma. Hankow has been called the Chicago of China. It will eventually be the Pittsburg and Birmingham as well. The smoke- stacks of Ita factorles are aiready pol- luting the alr, and it has all the natural resources of & great manufacturing center, It has coal and fron on all sides, and de- posits of lmestone plmost equal to Carrara marble In purity lie in its back yard Take the ore which the steel plant s now using. It comes from a solld moun- tain of iron about sixty miles down the Yangste. The company has something like thirty-five square miles of iron de- posits and upon this are hills 300 feet high. It s estimated that more than 250,000,000 tons are already in sight, and that the mountain which is now being mined con- tains over 150,000,000 tons, The ore fs 68 per cent pure. I am toid it is 10 per cent better than our best Lake Superior and equal to the highest grade of iron of Swe- den The coal which this steel plant uses now comes from about 200 miles up the Yangtse, and its mines are so situated that it can easily be loaded and brought down by water. It makes excellent coke and there are now about 200 ovens on fire at the mines. The present coal output Is abour 1500 tons daily; and, with a little extra ma- chinery, this can be increased to 2,000 tons. Both the coal and iron deposits belong to the steel company, although the iron mines have been mortgaged to Japan by & long- time contract which furnishes so much ore per year at a low price per ton. i ey Chinn's bteel Ofty. But let me tell you about the steel plant itself. 1t lies on the north bank of the Yangtse, in the city of Han Yan, Just west of Hankow, being separated from it by the Han river. There re thres great cities at this point Hankow, where 1 am writing, has a population of over 1,000,000 It is the present terminus of the Hankow- it Is the chief tea shipping clty of China, and is & great industrial center It s wa open port, and has several forelxil corle.ssions inhablted by Europe- ans. On the opposite bank of the Yangtse- Kiang, wh.c I+ here a mile wide, s Mu- chang, apother great Chinese city, This 18 akc half as big as Boston, and covein & much gicater space. It §s the viee regal capital of Hupch and Hunan, two thriviag Industrial statcs, both containing millions Han Yans extcnds far up the 'Yangtse above Hankow, the three sister cities com- bined excecding Chicago In sise The steel plant les on a strip of lowland at the junction of the Man and the Yangtse. Op to & few years ago tho ground on which it stands was a swamp, but the viceroy, Chang Chl Tung, having decided that China ought to bulld fts own raflroads and make its own steel, chose this as the place, He was viceroy of the Hukwang provinces at the time, and his capital eity was Wuchang, which les In plain sight across the Yang- tse-Kiang. He first raised embankments Peking railroad GREAT HAN YANG STEEL WORKS—-THEY ARE SITUATED 600 MILES UP HI YANGTSE. Hongkong, has had a similar experiesce. Chinese will to keep out tHe water, and then filled up the several hundred acres of swamp until he had raised the whole area fourteen feet work the dirt and other materials were carrled in by coolles in little shovel- like baskets slung to the ends of poles on Basket by basket they lald the foundation, and now no one would im- agine that the ground had ever been any- It is covered with These three rank as busl- ness men with the managers of the steel works of the United States. English as fluently newspaper, and understands our books on teel-making. Bach speaks thelr shoulders. introduetion Willlam Martin, absence of managers from Mr. consul at Hankow, and In card was taken thing but solid. factories and smokestacks 160 feet high rising upon it Han Yang reminds me of Pitts- sk gown and heavy cloth boots, I found him dictating diregtions to a s like a cassical smoke, stand out against the sky, huge foundries and blast furnaces can be up and down the Yangtse Altogether the works cover about 120 , including the mines which sup- seen for miles Eugene Ruppert, and asked me through the establishment. %0 a Chinese brought letter In French and Mr. , discussed this in the French lan- they were both born Frenchmen. I doubt not Tsang can speak There are about 4,000 hands in the several thousand more in an armory and gunworks making rifles, artillery and small arms connected Then Han Yang has a smokeless powder factory, & large eleotrio works and « military academy which It takes about three hours' steady walking to go through the various estab- plant_ftself, Tsang and Mr. BIG BLAST FURNACES AT HAN YANG. were casting steel ingots and not far away b camera to show how It looks. A rail which of a test could not has 1000 stu- ySTTAR 48 h er been outside of the empire. tough as wrought iron and can be bent up like a rope without cracking to Sweden. Leaving the offices I went through the departments the technical here for seventeen started In at the beginning with Chang Ohi- of the chief ad- visers and directors of the establishment. 1 shall not attempt to describe the blast the rolling mills and the foun- They are just like those of Pl Chicago and other steel- have the finest Iron Rails for C| went through grent plles of eteel rafls, five pounds to Trunk Line the works welghing elghty- ard, which are making for the Canton-Hankow road. They are belng turned out at the rate of several Owned and Run by Chinese. works are owned and run by Of the 20,000 employes plant and mines, twenty Europeans, and they are merely as foremen and advisory directors. said, the works were originated by Chang Chi Tupg, and that as a government enter- That famous viceroy had memor. falized the throne that it should not be de- pendent upon foreigners, but should buld ite own railroads and make its own ralls. The late emperor, Kwang-8u, and the great to this and directed Chang Chi Tung to go ahead and carry He did so, but it was at a great expense and enormous l0ss. milllons, and was up to his eyes in debt, when the works were turned over to Sheng Kung Pao, China’s multi-millfonaire, Sheny them of the government, though he has nominally given them over 10 & rtock company with a capital of $15,- 000,000 or o, that the most of the ralls for the Chinese will be made at Han- The government is granting all its with the proviso that the roads of the future new concessions, making cltles, bids of foreign chines on the scrap heap when they the qua’lty come worn out or antedated. For insiance, Bessemer plant was put in, and most of the smelting was done was discovered are at least 5 per cent cheaper Worls has Hankow-Peking 750 miles long. dowager consented 1t supplied the from Nanking to contract to furnish those for bublding from Kowloon. opposite Hongkong. doubt but that the Chinese can make their out his ldeas, rails for the was too much coal to get good results and Siemens-Mar- tin furnaces have been There s no among the best of the world. tests which proved its excellence. tests were performed with cold ste fron fish-plates fasten the sieel ralls together as they lie plates are a half-inch thick, three Inches wide and a foot or more in a machine by which they were doub’ed up as though they were India rubber, sign of a crack rails gnd all & on the tles. Th Sheng Kung Pao lives at Shanghal, he has able assistants here In the persons T. Tsang and Wang Rok who have been e United States. During my walk through the rolltng mill I asked Mr Chinese Iron for of V. K. Lee, V. Shan, all business Chines the works. manager, is a native of Euchow, and that without This was done with the around and 3 looked ltke ropes, and sections of cold steel weighing ninety the present generation ¢ shipped cons! Francisco and to | plants of Europe and America, and from there brought back the plans upon which was reorganized. comes from Nanking. here as an ordinary clerk, and has risen to be the vice manager, the commercial director, able plg ron to San to the yard and we have sent gigantic corkscrews without anywhare showing. p a plece of one of these rails about five feet long beside myself and a Chines: Ruppert snap my He began his lite #0 and make mone nt and for vears to co the Chinese demand As for th who comes from BEFL PLANT-MR RUPPERT, THE BE AT RIGHT; V. K. LEE, THE DIRECTOR-IN MANAGERS OF CHINA'S GIAN TECHNICAL CHIEF, IN CENTER; Mt TEANG AT THE LEFT are carried on side by side. The ore Bundays, when they are twenty-four. We comes down from the mines in great work day and night, and have day and barges towed In Ry steam and it Is un- night shifts. On Sunday we change the Joaded by coolies who carry out the lumps shifts, and for that reason they have doubls of iron stone In little rope baskets as big hours. This twelve hours includes one around as a wash basin. A half dozen or hour off for lunch, with double that time more chunks of red ore are piled up In or more on Sunday each basket, and the coolie has two of Do you have many strike theso slung to the ends of a pole which “We have never had one, and have nev rests on his shoulders,’ his load welghing had to shut down on account of labor perhaps 100 pounds. This is dropped into troubles. We treat our men well, and they are attached to us. We have temement cars and is thus carried to the smelting furnaces a half mile farther on, The coolies houses which we rent to them at low rates; who land the ore each recelve 1 cent per 8nd also a first class hospital with Euro- hour. Near where such work was golng bean doctors, We expect to establish a on I saw modern e library and reading rooms, and also a tech- engines lifting great castings and carrying Pical school.” 2 them from one end of the yards to the The Fase K & Hetlait other: and forther on, inside the h0D pugorg leaving the works 1 asked M. traveling cranca handling pleces of 08 O Ruppert to give me an outline story of the fitty tons each. In the same place they ,,n. i g nutshell. Here is the glat of his y: “The Hang Yang works 108 operated by steam the Ingots, blazing hot, were passing ere founded in through one set of rollers after another keep us busy until the erd of 1910, and we r BeoAine W B (o By, TRARE UHi RUEE, . INRIRCOR ¥ oty until they became writhing, flaming boa- piont being ordered through the Chinese aro recclving more every dav. Indeed, It congtrictors, and finally steel rails of the mnistry at London of Bnglish and Belgiun will be a long time before China can KeeP ¢o1q plye color which they have When gine This consisted of three blast fur- pace With her own néeds in such materials. ¢t lala on our railroad tracks. naoss G¥ Bikty MOF OABRAEY SUAT R BAs We are building new furnaces as rapidly as semer plang with two conVesters 68 five We have now In hand enough orders to el Workers. we r-n\n“ avd are alveady increasing our p :J:;nun Ruppert 8 {o the Chinese [OU8 €ach, & Blemens-Martin furnace of capacity. We have a scheme of expansion asked Mr uplp v ”n\-:;l ho Chinese " iing' capacity, twenty puddling fur- which will keep s busy for flve years to as steel workers. He replied: naces with one bloom mill, & plate-and-bar come, and when that is done we shall be “At the start they are not equal to Euro- ™ 0 VL (R f 6,600 horse-power. turning out 1,000 tons of steel per day. peans, but we can train them to be as n .= lialiation were added the foun- Even then we shall have more than we can £00d, man for man, as any of the world. 4. 4,4 fire shops for general repairs. do to supply our own wants." I have been employing Chinese for seven- .qpe' oy were started in 189 and at “What kinds of steel are you making?’ teen years, and have used thousands rlght (). wame time were built an imperial ar- “We make sheets, plates, angles, beams In thgse works. They are quick to learn. ... for making firearms and ammunition, and bar steel, as well as all sorts of strue- All Wwe need to do is to put a trained gp.ihje steel and also a plant for the man- tural steel and steel ralls. We make frogs, Man over each new hand for a couple of yracture of powder and explosives. Until spikes, nuts and bolts, and our rafls run Weeks and after that the amateur can be 57 po(h the arsenal and iron works were from fitty to a hundred pounds to the Telled upon to do the work for himself. ynger one management, and then the iron vard. All this is by the Siemens-Martin This 18 8o even with complicated machin- works went into the hands of his excel- process, and that so well made that it win ery. Take our new electrio travellng jency, Sheng Kung Pao. stand the tests of the British Lloyds, the °ran If 1 have an employe who under- It was under Sheng that the new plant German Lloyds and the British board ot Stands them I can let a Chinese coolle was bullt. Everything was then modern- trade. Indced. we are manufacturing as WOTK WIth him for six days and after that ized and plane were Instituted which will BB SEEN Nn s b ias ROYBURLIC the coolie will handie the machine. All of eventually result in giving us 1,000 tons of et Zar our operations in making every class of finished steel per day. % structural steel are perfected by Chiness. “At present the works comprise two old 'A'.fi"vl\: ::v'.f:;'?r:'m-r«:flfi::'n'nfmtlf."’,' { They do their work honestly and well blast furnaces producing 120 tons per day, on e onine being inataned 1 asked All that 18 necessary fs to have & go0d and two new onés, ous baing bow under o whethar satch of the. Imports seme fOFemAD in charge of each ahop and this\ls construction, edgh of whish will produce chlefly to keep the men from going to fifty tons per d Srom- Amheriny. 5 sleep. We prefer to use forelgners for fore- “The steel works now have three Sle- Not a great deal” sald the technical non anq now have something like eighteen mens-Martin furnaces of thirty tons each, with two more under director. “We use your locomotives In OUr o twenty In our employ as such. They are and one of ten ton yards, and we have some Amerlcan gpie0)y Germans or Belgians.” construction and five under projection. machines in our steel works, but we find —— There is a metal mixer of 150 tons' capac- that we can buy better and cheaper In Low Wnages for Chinese. fty, & rolling mill with Ingot-heating fur- Ergland and Germany, and that the terms *“What kiud of wages do you pay? naces, which has & gogEing mul of 7,600 they offer are ecasier than those of the “Our Chinese mechanics and mil men horse-power; a beam mill of 12,600 horse- United States. As it Is now we have three get from $10 to $% Mexican per month, or power, a plate mill of 7,60 and a rall mill Martin furnaces in operation, two from 3 to $2 per month, or from §1 to $ of 6,0 horse-power, together with several under comstruction and five under projec- gold per week. This Is high in comparison bar-and-speed mills of 150 horse-power each. tion. Our dally output of steel is %0 tons, With the wages throughout the eountry, In addition to this we have a chemical lab- and we shall soon be making 300 tons the common laborer outside recelving only oratory and testing works, large office more about 10 cents a day buildings and all the other appliances ot As we walked about I was surorised at ““What are your hours?” an up-to-date steel-making plant.” how the new and old methods of working “They are twelve, on all days except FRANK G. CARPENTER. Siemens Short Yarns Told on Pertlnent TODICS told that if they got along well with their fall work all of them would be at the pclls Clergyman’s Samples. MINISTER who had been do- ing misslonary work In India recently returned to this coun- try for & visit. He was & guest at a well known hotel, where everything pleased him except the absence of the very torrid sauces and spices to which he had become accustomed in the far east. Fortunately he had brought with him a supply of his favorite condi- fments, and by arranging with the head water these were placed on his table. One day another guest saw the appetizing bot- tle on his neighbor's table and asked the walter to give him some of “that sauce.” “I'm sorry, sir,” sald the waiter, “but it is the private property of this gentleman. The minister, however, overheard the other's request and told the waiter to pass the bottle The stranger poured some of the mixture on his meat and took & lberal mouthful. Aftey a moment he turned with tears in his eyes(to the minister. “'You're a minister of the gospel? “Yes, s “And you preach the doctrine of ever- lasting fire?™ “'Yes," admitted the minister. “Well, you're the first minister I ever met who carried samples.”'—Detroit News. Troubles of a Humorist, Mark Twain once approached a friend, a business man, and confided the fact that gems of thought were forming in his brain with such rapidity that they were even be- and that he §inning to sparkle in bis ey: needed the assistance of a stenographer. ‘I can send you one, fine young fellow,” fend sald. “He came to my office yesterday in search of & position, but I I am sure you will the f didn't have an openin find him all right.” Has he a sense of humor?’ Mark asked cautiously ‘Oh, I am sure he has—in fact, he got off one or two pretty witty things himself the friend hastened to assure yesterday. him. “Sorry, but he won't do, then, sald, with a disappointed shake of his head Why, er, why not?’ was the surprised query \ The wouldbe employer assumed a confi- dential_air I'll tell you,” he said. one o New York Times. —_— Father Might Have Waited. laughing.’ Father was running on the demoecratic ticket for district attorney in Greene county, New York, in the fall of 1904, and his canvass for votes took him to one of the river towns among the farmers. He found in the field, ploughing, & hard work- ing farmer, one of several brothers, who ibject of agriculture than in polities. Father broached the subject of his candidacy to @ farmer, requesting him to come out ‘ election and asked to be remembered. He then spoke about the other boys and was took much more interest in the was known He served with the Shenandoah in the following year discharged ‘90 homs. You're was declared ocourred to father that he had heard that \he boys' father had died a short time be- fore and he sald to the farmer, your father killing too many men.’ ‘I think 1'd better get a féw more, 1d, kind of apologetic ‘you've killed too many 't eall me Gen- Washington Post Washington. drifted back things became 5o bad once that he plated tramping 10 New Bedfor whaing fleet It's slaughter. eral; call me George.' assuming a solemn tone and expression, “‘he died here last summer, we were just National Monthly ping in the in whose life lu a few an important role, young man, as we could A Missourl clergyman flock & member about meeting the contribution basket pastor had thrown out many broad but all to no avail member fell worth hospital years this alien wi was thundering The Mind that Excels. western ery praised a recent address in New York, country mind. “Even In wrong and Ingoble things,” sald even in driving the country mind excels 1 recall a dialogue that store of my street wharp taken to the E clergyman arrived the the pastor bed & wild yell of * across the street tined to make one of the e of his dran big high lights in was delirious. Colonel Harvey, was sitting hard Dbargains, that of the eity. I once heard in the general native Peacham. could have driven such a bargain as 0ld Vermont ruralist achleved in this dia came from > present site ‘the building with . fat-bellicd stove in the Where—where tempted many What Wall “Cal e alm yourself, warmth of that stove boots polished C Batesacs discovered thut “You are still And Colonel Harvey with really excellent " —~Ldppincott’s mimiery repeated: neh's gave want & dollar A Canuntbul The queen of Denmark once paid a visit to the Danish colony of lceland, ®ood old bishop came when a ‘Ye mout throw In bne of them woolen incontinently throat warmers, everything The queen paid many Humiltated worth seelng. pliments to that he was a family man graciously children he *‘Hold on thar, The boots ain't ye a pair of strings.’ quired how last no time.' children is almost identical the Icelandic word for thy bishop promptly answere ; two pair it is.’ Can't ye chuck iIn for §ood mewsure? one of them “T'wo hundred children!" you possibly when a feller buys a don't ye set Look-a-here o' goods offn ye, replied the prelate *‘Gimme two plugs of chewin “In the sum the KForel ner 1 turn them out upon the hill to graze and when the winter comes I kill und eat them. the writer 50 the mother preparations The real origin:of the greatest fake hero Twenty-Two story ever serap book It was a midsummer evening i the anything to be done last minute children said cording to the New York Globe ou see, 1 had ce before with a sense of humor, and it interfered too much with the work. I can't afford to pay & man §2 a day for revolutionary standing before an old bar in W and from the lips of each there fell wond. had done in the frensy old fellow with white whiskers remarked: ‘I was personally acquainted with George Washington, “I was lying behind the breastworks one fair-haired boy immigrant ship at Boston took lodgings in wraps and In the hall the mother rous stories of battle or The landlord assigned a room and changed a 20-franc didn't have time That 20-franc plece was all the money you just this min found a job. bench, became his bed; was natural should seize upon adventure had turned An empty wagon, the sky his blanket the war contagion before 1 ate brushed ‘em 4 the patter of & horse's hoofs behind me. Then came a voice: Mark Twaln's Grelvance Mark Twain was ous robbery back on his home talking about in his beautiful country house. Had I still been living In Hartford, Look here a moment. T looked around and saluted, Washington, recognizing and he said of & Jew father friends would certainly robbing myselt. have accused me of They had & poor opinion of vate dragoon in the by the Best of Modern Jolliers me in that town the landlady of the quaint Stratford inn: where business was transacted and visitors “Marshall Jewett, the ex-governor, used **‘Madam, I am going to glve you & received. Here he was attended by Jim, to take up the collection in our Hartford lesson In astronomy. Have you ever a darky, who has been general factotum to church. They never asked me to take it heard of the great platonic year, when many governors and often had been the up. I fretted a good deal over this MALLEr. eyerything must return to its first con- cause of much fun. ‘Sec here, Jewett,' I sald one day, ‘they gitjon? Listen, madam. In 26000 years On one occasion Mrs. Wilson had walt:d let you take up the collections every Sun- wo ynail all be here again, on the same luncheon for thirty minutes, and she told day, but they would never let me do L' gay 4ng at-the same hour, eating @ din- his excellency that he must come down °Oh, yes, they would' sald Jewell— .. poqieely like this one. Will you give and eat with her “hat 15, with & bellpunch like the BOrme . ooeqis til) then? ‘My dear,” sald Mr. Wilson, “just ag pAv 0gDOLSIONE 4ae I-Boatan Henmld, ‘Gladly,’ the landlady replied. ‘It Is soon as I see that delegation of men down- Sclentist Loses to Landlady. Just 26,000 years since you were here be- stairs I'll ba with you.” An editor was talking about the famous fore, though, and you left without pay- Mrs. Wilson was determined, and sald English astronomer, Sir Robert Ball, who Ing then. Settle the old bill and I'll trust *Jim, go down and tell them to walt has recently declared that' radium proves you with the new.’“—London News. Jim,” frown® the governor, as that the earth to be $00,000000 years old. “Sr worthy started off to obey the mistress of Robert Ball is as full of fun as of learn- The Governor's Gov ansion, “Jim, you know who is Kov- Ing," sald the editor. “Once I din:d with Governor Wilson of KKentucky Imd the ernor, don't you?" him and & half dozen other sclentists at misfortune some time ago to straln a ten- “Yas, sir,”" grinned Jim, with sceming Stratford. At the end of the dinmer Sir don in his leg, neccssitating the temporary Innocence, “yas, sir. I'll go down and tell Robert's eves twinkled and he said to removal of his office to the mansion, the gemmen to walt, sir."—Lippincott's. or. the run neck and neck with the grim visaged rpottes & marks h\)tlul‘ )l"V{l)fl‘l],\lllul usunll Blue Laws of Old Virginia entry of Piymouth Ttock, but the doubttul oh others & that we they (e e, SRS 10 honor 'of being the last to relinquish the yitke TEPOTEER FUR Y It fs ordered that (Continued from Page One.) gentle art of witchcraft persecution Prob- xom women bo requested to shift and dbly belongs to them as well screh her before she goes into y wat The witchbaiters around Salem that khe carry nothing about her to cause oy ceaneq frther suspicion On the afternoon bf July 10, 1706, the court and county officers and populace assembled on John Harper's plantation, for the second offense 0 pounds, and if he be unable to pay, then levy for the fine A shall be made upon the goods of any other throughout New Ingland gene separatist or Quaker then In the commu- 5 3 considerable extent ir punishment nity. For the third offense the offende’ for alleged witeheraft before the elghteenth ' s 7 century, but the Virginlan records show ginia "W ana the arrangements being completed This having put the !id on the disciples the arrest and persecution of Grace Bher- ... g oiwood was carried out to a of Georgs Fox and other undesirables, the Wood of Princess Anne county for witeh- [0SR [ATNES VLl iy phe oftic- law-makers proceeded in 1688 to arrange craft in 1708 g e oy Ay e g A g for & proper spirit of humility In the For six months this YOUNng woman Was uf the story lony inprisoned, belng brought time and again Whereas on complaint of Luke Hill in e 71th of August is hereby appointed before the court in an cffort to conviet her. behal of her Maglaty, that now {s against for a -day of humiliation, fasting p. 8 o actions to jus. Grace Sherwood for'a person suspected and prayer to implore God's merey if ny ¥inding no evidence in her actlons to Jus- ¢ yitcheraft, & having Rad ‘sudrey evi- Dorsan be faund “upon that day saming. *ify the persecution, the attorney gencral dences sworn' against her, Droving manny drinking or working. upon presentment bY cqused the sheriff of the county fo im- Cercumsiances. & which she could not make the chureh wardens, and proof, he shall 7 - ; L an any excuse or little or nothing to say be fined 100 pounds of tobacco. half to the Panel a jury of women to examine Gracs i “ner gwn behalf, only seeming toe rely Intormer and half to the poor of the parish, Sherwood physically and instructed them on what ye court should do, and ther o indicate that she 'vas Upon®consented to be tried fn ye water, Evident’y a little thing like a couple of !0 find sométhing to indicate that she ~vas LPGRCGEEENEG J0e G o1 Geuing’ with ex years in servitude aid not deter the lovers & Witch. This the women failed to do and permints; being tried, and she swimming of pork chops from appropriating their hey were threatened With contempt of Wken therein & bound, contray to eustom and_ye judgements of all ye spectators, nelghbor's swine, for In I679 the assembly court for their failure. A R g il o Rntiant delive ed themselves of the following act: Everything else having falled, it was de- women who have all declared on oath The first offence of hog stealing shall cided to put Miss Sherwood to the water thit she s not like them; all which cercum be punished uccording to the former law: (egt, which consisted in tying her hands stances ye court welghing in their con upon a seccond offence the offender shall slderacon, do therefore order that ye sherift stand for twg hours in the pillory, and and feet and throwing her overboard in take ye said Grace Sherwood into his shail ic gl . eare e or river ne sank she Y & comit her body 1o yecommon shail lose Mis ‘cars. and for tie 'third the nearest lake or river. If she sank s! & omlt hae body to yeesmmon N N iy o D€~ was Innocent, but If by her struggles the Ly jrops, or otherwise there to remain till i 3 managed to keep afloat for a few moments, sich time as he shall bo otherwise directed As the English law of the period usually 1 "aics o Kook RIOSE 107 & Custody, & comit her body to ye common prescribed hanging for a twice convicted ® e :“ v o . pore ) gaol of ye County to be brought to & future felon, 1t Is presumed that the third dose The full account of this trial is pre- (ryall there served by the Virginia Historical society The woman was finally turned free, and justice proved an efficlent remedy. gt e gopd Who may thini *7d the last two court orders in the case thus ended the last legal prosecution for s " 080 “Nn0 WY SN are of Interest as marking the close of witcheraft In the colony. the Virginians were very cefeless with (08 O : thelr tobacco in these early day, it might U0 APASwhoR 35 ‘“"I“‘I" : S ereas Grace Sherwood, being sus be well to suy that from 165 untll the pegted of witeheraft, have a long time A man needs all the senss he is born with ;MT v-'dl ot ;'"" h*‘\'hl-l"'l“" century the wnur;l lltir a Lfl “‘I’D‘Hrluufl) for :‘ further (o offset all the foolishness he picks up’ egal tender of the Virginian colony was examination, by her cobsent & &DPIO- 4 man puls enthusiasm into his politios tobacco, and a ‘aw enactod In 1% making BSSOR o€ Y6 Court, It o ordered WAt e y'Calia Na can's put convictions fnto. it 5 uch convenient assistanc English money the standard of exchanke of poats and men and shall be by him . A8 fast as you can find truth anywhero proved so unpopular and created so much thought fit to meet at Jno. Harpers plan- 10 the world it goes right off and gets lost A Bachelor's Reflections. eonfusion between the planiers and the {acon, In order to take ye Graco Sherwood Hu\x:m il : Vo T gl 3 orthwith, and BUTT her into the water Most everybody 1s always wishing for merch: ts I’t t It was rej Al and 0 e & man's debth & try her how she Something that, it he had it, would make tobacco again assumed its plage &8 swims therein, always having care of her him wish for something else. standard currency life to preserve her from drowning, & as The thing a person likes about slander Mot only in the stringsncy of their laws 5000 88 l!lhg .«.n:.k'.m Allml he request as ;qa!rnll another I8 how he wouldn't lke many antient and knowing women a8 pos- it if it was against himself.—New York 4id the gay cavallers of the Old Dominlon gible he can to serch her carefully for all Press e e