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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-23

they Thought He Was a ''Floater"-Going
Overheard in a Storm just for Lark"
Sharks wouldn't Bite Him, but Fled at
His Approach.
At o'clock in the afternoon Of June 81
1859, was in the crows nest or lookout on
board the New England whaler Yankee
Land, and we were bearing up for Valparaiso
from the Juan Fernandez Islands when |
caught sight of a floating human body on the
lee bow, and half mile away. We had
only a light breeze and the sea was scarcely
disturbed, and from my perch aloft l could
see even the fish as they played about us.
/ had scarcely hailed the deck when the
foater raised his head, kicked his feet under
the surface, and, after waving his arm as a
signal, he began swimming down to us. The
sight of a man out at sea, provided with
nothing whatever to float him, was queer
enough. but there was something much more
queer in store for us. l have seen the natives
Of almost every country in the water, but l
never saw anything like the speed this hoater
made as he came down to US. He just
smoked through the water like a yawl with
her sail set to a stiff breeze. All the men
mustered forward to get sight of him, and as
he came alongside he checked his way, took
long survey Of our craft, and cooIly called
out:
what ship is thatT'
THE American whaler, Yankee Land, an
swered the mate.
want any hands9'
Eyes, we'll ship you" replied the captain.
Every well, sir-I'll come aboard"
They threw him a rope and he soon stood
on deck, the only unconcerned person on the
ship. He asked for chew of tobacco, wrung
the water out of his clothes, and when the
cook brought hun some grub he did not ap-
pear over hungry. He refused dry clothes,
saying that he felt better when damp, and
when he had finished eating he explained:
"My name is Tom Finch. quit the Eng
lish brig Saxon two days ago. | can steer a
boat or fasten to whale with the best of
you. Give me lay and let me turn to-"
you quit the Saxon two days agoP'
queried the captain.
Eyes, SIR"
"Where was she?'
"A matter of fifty miles to the northwest,
sir"
"At seaP'
Eyes, SIR"
Glow did you quite"
said good-by TO my watch and jumped
overheard, and have been floating ever
since"
There wasn't a man in the ship who be-
lieved his story. Indeed, what Intelligent
man would believe it9 And yet it was Cos.
pei TRUTH as we discovered when we reached
Valparaiso. The Saxon was there, and half
e dozen Of her crew had seen him go over
board, as stated.
man fish had come aboard of us. There
never was a mermaid, but he certainly was a
norman. He was next to amphibious. He
was with us for sixteen months, and during
that time was the wonder Of our crew and of
every other crew we met. He was q stalwart.
good looking chap of IS, but his interior may
have been built on the fish principle. He
SWAN as swiftly as some kinds Of fish, ana
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-23
4 MAN FISH.
t'E COULD SWIM FOR THREE DAYS
IN THE TOUGHEST OF SEAS.

they Thought He Was a ''Floater''-Going
Overheard in Storm just for a LARK"
Sharks wouldn't Bite Him, but Fled at
His Approach.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-23
OVERWORK THAT KILLS..
A DISEASE THAT is eLIGHTING THE
LIVES OF BUSY MEN.

It Is Incurable. but Men of Small Mental
CALDER Need Not Fear It-women Fur
nish Less Than One Per Cent. of the Cases.
No Other Land So Cursed by It
Few weeks go by now in which the COM
munity is not startled by the intelligence
that some man Of prominence has suddenly
become insane. Some act of sudden and I'M
reasonable violence or the demonstration of
some astounding delusion compels attention
to his condition. Then, friends and relatives
remember he has been for some time "acting
queerly" and the question, How long has
his mind been affectedp is one that Vakens
much excited interest, especially among those
having business relations with him, or con-
cerned in his estate REST and quiet will
speedily restore him." say his friends, and so
physicians profess to hope He is secluded
in an asylum, or in some private rural re-
treat The next that is heard of him is that
experts in cerebral affections have pro
nounced his disease ''paresis." ParesiS! The
horror Of the age; slow death in life;
malady as incurable and inevitably fatal as
leprosy-that is paresis.
Perchance, after a time, the victim may
seem to rally, to regain his mental control,
and hopeful friends will doubt the correct
ness of the physicians diagnosis. But in
few months the reaction comes, darker and
darker the cloud settles down upon the
afflicted mind, more and more feeble grows
the body, slowly and surely life fades out.
How many instances of this fatal progression
might be cited, among men not only locally
prominent, but of national reputation as
playwrights, actors, merchants and fnan-
Ciers, were it desirable to call the painful
ROLL At least three, whose names are known
all over tho Land arc nav in a. Taop Nav
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-23
From Experience.

Author -Those articles l wrote before
was married called "Hints to Husbands"
were SO successful that am almost deter
mined 80 begin new series OF similar ones.
Frend-WhGt will you treat on this timel
Author-Advice to single meu.-Yankee
Rladab
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-23
WHY WOMEN FADE.

Women lose their beauty because
colds undermine their life. DR..
Acker's English Remedy for Con-
sumption is an absolute cure for colds.
IN RAGLAND d Co.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-06-07
The Amendment in Pennsylvania.

We have received circular from
Chairman, T. X Stubs of the
Amendment Committee of Chester
county, urging the friends of the
measure to the very top of their
speed, to use horseman phrase.
The 18th of June will be ushered in
on next Tuesday week, when the
saloon will make its most desperate
fight for victory in the Keystone
State, well knowing that defeat on
that day means utter ruin to the
whiskey and beer traffic in the not
distant future.
The cicu ar of Chairman Stubs is
full of inspiring hope and exhorts
the friends Of tae home to leave
nothing undone to secure victory.
If the Amendment is defeated
Chairman Stubbs may charge the de-
feat to his political party-not the
members ofthe party, but the organ
ization and leaders, which are mainly
in the hands of the saloon. If those
leaders and the organization willed
it, the Amendment would be carried
with a shout. The party papers
would support the measure, as they
would not dare to buck against the
organization.
When the saloon leads captive the
party on the 18th in chains to adorc
its grandest triumphal march, will
the doughty Chairman kneel and
swear allegiance to the conqueror,
and declare that the Republican
party is a temperance party still?
With the organization of both the old
parties dead against temperance leg
islation, with the organs of those
parties all, or nearly all in the pay
OF the saloon, with the election ma
chinery of the State and the nation
in the hands of the creatures of the
saloon, and half million of money
furnished from the saloon treasury
to sustain the liquor cause, how can
you hope to win? The saloon is too
strong to be beaten by these militia
campaigns. Nothing short of dis
ciplined political army composed OF
all temperance men can ever defeat
it. This truth will begin to dawn
upon good many more than ever
heretofore, after the 18th.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-06-07
The Flood ir the Susquehanua.

The Flood in the Susquehanna.
Though one of the greatest spring
floods ever witnessed in the Susque.
hanna, the horrors of the Johnstown
and other Allegheny towns so far
transcends the mere destruction of
property on the Susquehanna and
other eastern rivers, that the latter
are dwarfed into comparative insig-
nficance.
The scenes on the river at Port
Deposit and below is graphically
described by reporter for the Balti-
more Sun.
Port Deposit will experience the
heaviest spring food she has ever
known" was the startling news that
spread over that town on Saturday.
Everybody expected food, but the
announcement that freshet of great
er proportions than that of 1865
filed each inhabitant with conster.
nation. Post haste from Philadel-
delphia came Mr.. Flynn and Mr..
Parrot, who represented the firm of
Green, Stone & Co., with the news
that two hundred and twenty-five
million feet of logs and lumber from
the broken booms at Williamsport,
Lock Haven and every point from
Port Deposit to Clearfeld, were
bearing down towards the Chesapeake
bay with irresistible force. The
flood came. But while Port Deposit
suffered serious inconvenience and
loss, the forewarned citizens proven
ted the havoc that sometimes char
acterizes the ice-gorge floods. At
seven o'clock Saturday morning the
logs and lumber began to drift by,
and from eight up to six O'Clock in
the evening an almost solid mass of
them half mile wide, intermingled
with sheds, roofs, fences, and here
and there a dead horse, cow or pig
were floating down on the Hartford
county side. The supply did not
seem to be in any wise Stacking off |
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-06-07

proves high license to be one Of the
most dismal failure as a temperance
measure, ever invented. Low dives,
run without license, flourish in every
one of these high license places, and
the authorities are completely under
the control of the saloon.
Philadelphia and Pittsburg are
pointed at as some of the admirable
fruits of high license. These cities
owe nothing to high license. Thous-
ands applied for license and were
refused by conscientious prohibition
judges. Look at the balance of the
state. The cities and towns are
black with rum shops,
But high license will be put on
trial in Maryland if the money of
the whiskey ring and her great
dailies" can bride and persuade the
people to elect Legislature to pass
the law. There is to be a race be-
tween the politicians next fall for
the whiskey vote, while the Balti
more daily papers are to advocate
high license as the sovereign tenn
perance remedy with an open hand
to the whiskey ring, as the open
hand of the Pennsylvania dailies is
now extended to receive the bribing
blood money from the saloon for
publishing their lying articles and
sophistry arguments. The daily
papers have with very rare excep-
tions been bought up by the liquor
and beer associations, and have aid.
ed the saloons on all occasions, and
will continue to do so until the hot
indignation of the public cowes them
into respect for decency and truth.
An agent of the distillery and brew
ing associations canvassed Pennsyl,
vania at the opening of the Amend.
meat campaign, and engaged ali the
most influential papers that it was
possible TO purchase to aid in de-
feating the Amendment. Thirteen.
Hundred dollars was assessed on the
saloons in one small town of 1000 in
the state, it has been ascertained,
and an idea may be formed of the
hundreds of thousands raised from
the saloons of the entire state, to
gether with outside assistance, to aid
in defe eating the Amendment The
agent from the same powers, judging
from the tune they sing, has already
visited the newspaper proprietors Of
Mary land in anticipation of coming
events. Hence the earnest coinci :
dence of the Baltimore daiIies in
boosting "high license" the temper
adce fraud of the day.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-06-07
The New Discovery.

You have heard your friends and
neishbors talking about it. You may
yourself be one Of the many who know
from personal experience just how
good thing it is. If you have ever
tried it, you are one of its stomach
friends, because the wonderful thing
about it, that when once given trial,
DR.. Kings New Discovery ever after
holds a place in the house. If you
have never used it and should be afflict.
ed with a cough, cold and give it a
fair trial. 1t is guaranteed every time
or money refunded trial bottles free at
L. r, Kinks drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-06-07
$7O,0OO,OOO is the estimated loss
by the floods in New York, Pennsyl.
vania, Maryland and Va.
Card From Jas. A. DAVIS.

During the excitement of the flood, while Davis
getting his hay. fertilizers, lime, &C.. raised
above the warehouse floor, blocking up with lum-
Der. 1--WE had over 20 strong men at work noticed
three little boys came with some blocking and
said TO them, Boys We have many as we
can work" One of the little boys with his piece
of lumber in his arms looked up and said, "Mr.
Davis We do not want any pay we are only trying
to help you" Even then my heart went out for
the dear good boys, but have no knowledge who
he or they were. but ever since my heart has said
God bless the boys! That boy who spoke for all of
them will make his mark if he lives to be man
of years. 1 cannot refrain from returning thanks
to twoyoung gentlemen of our town. Mr.. Good
fellow and DIR. Hoops. who met me with Mr..
Mcyay our foreman. and Mr.. Kerwin who were
prepared with boat and rope to go from the street
into the rapid, surging waves. on the outer side
of the lumber next the river to make fast what
they could. The two first named quickly got
into the boat and went with the men and
helped them until they finished. some two hours,
without being asked and did good service for u.s.
Young ladies of the community. ii any of you
should get either of these young men you will get
a husband. These men with willing heart and
hands can fill any station in business in life and
should be priced as Goodfellows 4 Co. God bless
them and prosper theml This was Sunday morn
ing when the river was at its highest point.
j. A. DAVIS,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-06-07
Suckers Arnica Salve

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilb!ains
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required
1t is guaranteed to give perfect salts
faction, or money refunded, price 25c.
per box. for sale by L. r. Kirk.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-06-07

at nightfall, Messrs. Flynn and Par.
rott went to Port Deposit to organize
force to build boom to save this
valuable lumber but they found that
they might as we'll try to stop sheet
of tightening, as no one could ven
ture upon the river. Besides this
no one about the locality would have
countenanced the construction of a
boom that would have gorged the
stream as effectually as drift ice,
only to back the water up so high as
to make the inundation complete.
The Williamsport timber boom broke
at 8 a. m. Saturday morning with a
twenty-nine foot rise of water, and
the logs, finished timber and debris
from up country was on Sunday
speeding by at the rate Of eight
miles an hour on a river swollen
fifteen feet above its natural leyel.
THE RISING OF THE WATERS.
The river rose suddenly two feet
just before the first rush of logs, and
from 8 o'clock to p. m. the time OF
high tide, the water rose thirteen
feet more. 1t kept rising until 5 p.
m. The Columbia and Port
Deposits last train went form Port
Deposit to Perryville at 1l.3O O'Clock.
THE TIMBER DRIFTS,
The magnitude of the destruction
created by the floods can be appre-
ciated, though not estimated, by the
character Of the matter that was
floating on the Susquehanna. The
debris told with awful realism the
story of the storm, and the place
where that story was best studied
was high up over the yellow waters
on the Susquchanna bridge of the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
timore Railroad.
Floating trestles, heavy with iron
bolts, showed that some mountain
stream had carried off railroad
bridges like corks. Drowned horses.
pigs and cows, and chicken coops,
corn cribs. sheds and fence rails
said farms had been devastated
Battered structures with shingled
roofs rushing along caused the be
had occurred to the humble dweller
in the wayside cabin, whose bedstead
cradle and chairs were following in
the muddy wake behind A new
buggy was taken out of the water at
Harve de Grace The mass of swim.
ming lumber was absolutely impress
sive. The losses on the river along
by Columbia, Harrisburg, Sunbury,
Williamsport and Clearfeld must
amount to hundreds of thousands of
dollars in timber alone.
The loss of lumber in 1865 is said
to have been 81 100000 feet. 1t was
estimated that the value of the lum.
Der passing yesterday under the
bridge was 81 900 a minute, or $780,.
900 an hour.
Monster logs, from ten to forty
feet long, many thousands of which
would have cut boards two feet wide,
we're in the current. Spruce, oak,
hickory, ash, poplar and pine we're
mingled Unfortunately. Every
unfinished product of wood, from
packages of fence pailings and bun
dies of laths 20 milled boards and
squared timber, were scurrying to
the bay, avoiding the east bank and
tearing through the channel west of
Garrett Island, where the pack drew
towards the center of the river and
passed under the P. W. & B. bridge
near the middle caissons.
At the bridge abutments the logs
and lumber were piled in masses
twenty feet high, and some of the
heaviest logs rested on top of these
drifts.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-06-07

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-06-07
- BROWNS IRON BITTERS

Cures Indigestion, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Mala.
ria, Nervousness, and General Debility. Physi-
clans recommend it, All dealers sell it. Genuine
has trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

Nos. and northern and the softer
grades largely predominant, so that
Minneapolis requires such grades
greatly in excess of the No. hard stuff.
the former grades giving the strength
and color to the flour, and which, if
made OF strictly the latter. would be
dark AID uneven. The fact that so
much more of the softer grades are in
spected at Minneapolis tnan. at Duluth
Keeps the Discrimination" bugabOo be-
fore eyes of people who are always
looking for something to find fault with,
but as a matter of fast. all wheat is
shipped to the point where it is in
greatest demand, and consequently
brings the greatest prices; hence Du-
hth'S immense export and future deliv-
cry business cal! for larger percentage
of No. hard, and she gets it, while
Minneapolis requires Nos. and 2
northern for grinding. and she gets just
what she wants. because she pays
for it,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
First-Class Upholstery.

Housekeepers should look at the stock
of Upholstered Goods at L. Eiswirth q
Sons Closing-Out Sale before buying
elsewhere. In order to close out they
are doing their customary first-class
work at the very lowest prices. 81 West
Seventh street
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
FIFTY MILES AN HOUR.
The First Train of the New Mail
Service starts From Omaha.

The First Train of the New Mail
Service starts From Omaha.
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. l6.-The first
train of the new fast mail service for the
West. under the revised schedule left
Omaha at 6:l5 p. M. this evening,
promptly on time The schedule re-
duces the time between the Missouri
river and coast twelve hours. The
train carried no regular passengers on
its initial trip. but it will in the future.
The route is over the Union Pacific di-
rect from Omaha to San Fra ncisco. and
from thence the Oregon IL California
for Portland, returning over the Oregon
Railway d Navigation and the Oregon
Short line. 1t Will require about ten
days to make the trip. The run to San
Francisco from Omaha will i've made in
sixty-one hours. and to Portland in tif-
ty-eight hours.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

ITO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
l. Some of the ladies and gentlemen that
attended the broommakers' ball Friday even
Ing, Nov. :, at Lucker's hall. are under the
impression that the committee had no music
engaged for their rail-. But such is not the
case, however. as they engaged four men
from me two weeks before their ball. and it
was sickness in two cases that prevented the
men from playing that night, otherwise they.
would have had good music. The broom
makers are to have another dance SOON
however, and will furnish them good music
1t was a great disappointment to them, and 1
was very sory. In the future / will try to
please all Your humble servant. P. Halter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

Sixty-Dollar Suits, made to order, cut
to $50; $40 OvercOats, cut to $50; $40
Pants, cut to SIS. To every suit of
clothes made to order we will give one
dozen frst-class photographs of them
selves, and guarantee the best of salts
faction. Edward Nelson q Co., Mer-
chant Tailors, 34S East Seventh street.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
DIED.

HOPKINS-In St. Paul, Mimi, Nov. Is,
1889, Peter Hopkins, aged sixty-six years.
Funeral from First Baptist church Sunday,
NOV. II, at 3 D. m. Friends invited.
DILLEY-In st. Paul, at 80 Case street, Nov.
IA, Josie, aged fourteen years ten months
and one day, daughter Of j. F. and Mary E.
Dilley.
DOWNS-In st. Paul at family residence.
139 Smith avenue, James. son of Patrick
and Mary Downs, aged twenty-five years
and six months Funeral from residence
Monday morning at S:45. Services at the
cathedral at 9 o'clock. Friends invited to
attend. Winona papers please copy.
ROBERTS-ln st Paul, at l a. m. Friday,
Nov ID, al residence. 557 harrington ave-
nue.. Constantine Roberts, aged sixIy-seven
years. Funeral from above residence at
$50 a. m. Monday. Nov. 1S. Service at
ST. Vincent's church at 9 O'clock.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
WILLING TO COMPROMISE.
hey West CIgarmaSers Surrender
to the strikers.

TO the strikers.
KEY WEST, Fla, Nov. 16.-The cigar
makers strike will probably end soon.
A compromise was effected between
Baker q DuBoise and their employees,
whereby 100 men returned to work
Thursday. This factory is the first TO
reopen, although the last to shut down,
and the prOprietOrs say they will sacri-
fee their entire profits by their conces-
siOns, which must, however. be made
in order to keep their contracts. The
Costello factory has also reOpened.
though it may close at any time. as the
piekers and packers have now made a
demand for increased wages. No ac-
ton will be taken by the proprietors
greatly depressed all branches of bust
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

that would hold
the teeth in their
place under all
ire I'M stances.
Since the intro
ductiOn of tn e
patent gold clasp
all this trouble
can be obviated.
By this new sy
teeth tn the alveOl
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
Please Shut That Door!

The Home Door Spring will do it
every time. See them at st. Paul Hard
ware Company.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
Winter Tourist Tickets

To points in the South are now on sale
via the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway. For particulars apply to the
company's agents in st. Paul and Min
neapoliS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
Auction Sale.

On Nov. 20. at 10 a. M, at 1853 Col
burne street, consisting of Fine Parlor
Goods. Sideboard, Bed Room Sets. Car
pets. Curtains, etc. Jebb & Schauer,
AuctiOneers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
D;stributing the Finds.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 16. The
fourth days session of the Methodist
missionary conference was devoted to
the work of distributing the foreign ap-
preparations, after which the conference
adjourned until Monday.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

Of Fine Furniture. Carpets, Curtains,
etc., mostly new. 1853 Colburne street,
Nov. 20. 10 a. m. Jebb Il Schauer, Auc-
tioneers.