davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-09
WEALTH OF THE WORLD.
Great Sum of Foreign Securities Held In
England and France.

Great Sum of Foreign Securities Held In
England and France.
The reported valuation Of all proper
ty in the United States by the census
of 1890 was s65, O37, O91, 1877, or 81, O86 per
capita for the entire population. This
enumeration, however, dealt with prop
60 into the question where it Is owned.
If the estimate of Mr.. Robert Giffen is
correct that $4,000, 900, 900 in foreign
capital was invested in this country in
1880, probably an even larger amount is
so invested at the present time. De-
duction should also be made for the
high value put upon waste public
lands in the census, with the net re-
suit that the per capita valuation Of
the United States would be reduced to
about $3.50, or S4,75O for a family of
five. Estimates made by careful econ
omists, who come pretty near agree
ment among themselves, put the valua-
ton of Great Britain about nine years
ago at $50, 600, OOO, 900 and that of France
at $40, 900, OOO, 900. This, says the United
| States Investor, would afford a per
capita valuation of S1,83S for Great
Britain and S1,O61 for France, making
the valuation for family of five $4,000
in Great Britain and 5,4O5 in France.
The figures of France are placed some
what higher by some authors, and the
total in both countries includes careful
estimates of the large holdings of for
eign securities, some of them covering
property located in the United States.
The great holdings of foreign securi-
ties, estimated to amount in Great Brit
ain to about $4,000, 100000, explain
to a large extent the adverse bal
ance of foreign trade constantly shown
by the British statistics Great Britain
would long ago have been denuded Of
her gold and become bankrupt if the
excess of imports over exports shown
! by her trade statistics were a true
measure of her financial condition.
The fact that about $500, 900, 900 is
due her annually in interest charges
upon British capital placed abroad cX-
plains how she can afford to import
several hundred million pounds sterling
of foreign mcrch andiSe in excess of the
domestic merchandise which she ex-
ports. France is estimated to hold S4,-
600, OOO 900 of foreign securities, largely
italian and Spanish, and she also has
been able to show large balance of
imports of merchandise over exports
during the last two decades, while pill
ing up in the vaults of the Bank of
France and distributing through her
monetary circulation larger mass Of
coin than, any other commercial coun-
try.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-09

GOOD FOR THE ENEMY.
The King Of Dahomcy No Longer Likes
Modern Artillery.

Modern Artillery.
The king Of D@hC"aoy received some
Krupp cannon not long ago. and con-
ccivcd the idea Of having them mounted
on elephants backs for use in the field.
With much difficulty this project was
carried out. and at the next military
review the king ordered that one of the
guns be fired Immediately in front of
the royal position, first taking the pre-
caution to place a couple OF Thousand
prisoners where it was calculated the
ball would strike, 50 as to judge of tho
effectiveness of the shot.
When all was ready, says Amusing
Journal, one of the biggest elephants
was backed around and sighted.
Just as the lanyard was jerked, how
ever, the animal turned half round to
reach for a peanut or something, and
the shell took off the prime minister's
head and knocked hole as big as a
sewer through the royal palace His
majesty wouldn't have cared 50 much
If the matter had ended there-as the
minister wasn't very prime and the pal
ace needed ventilation-but it didn't.
On the contrary, the elephant, which
had been stood on its head by the re-
coil, picked itself up in a fury and
started in on the down grade ahead o.
it's ticket. 1t upset the grandstand the
very first rush, slung the grand cham
berlain and the past grand carver of
missionaries into the next street 1t
then jumped into the brass band with
all four feet, and If it hadn't got the
big drum over its head so that 10
couldn't see, It would probably have
cleaned out the entire congregation.
The king was not found until the
next morning, and then he was heard
to remark that there was only one
thing needed to render his new artil-
lery system an entire success-that was
to get the enemy TO adopt it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-09
HIS 800 ANXIOUS WIVES.
Should the Ameer of Afghanistan Die They
Would All BE Shot.

There is a certain village in the Mid
lands where the illness of the ameer of
Afghanistan has been followed with
painful anxiety. The reason is to be
found in the following curious, but, l
believe, perfectly authentic story: Some
years ago an enterprising young tailor
left the village in question and went
abroad to seek his fortune. He eventu-
ally found his sway to kahul. Here great
luck awaited him. He obtained the pat
ronage of royalty and became the poole
of Afghanistan. He had left a sweet
heart behind in England, and. as soon
as he found himself en- the road to for
tune he sent for the damsel to join him.
She came, but here fortune deserted the
tailor His intended bride i'll her turn
obtained the patronage Of royalty, with
the result that she eventually became
one of the 800 wives of Abdurraham.
This, however. is only the first act Of
the tragedy. 1t is understood that, by
the laws of Afghanistan, when the
ameer dies, the whole of his 300 wives
must be shot The laws of the Afghans
are as immutable as thOseO their ancient
neighbOrs, the Modes and Persians, and
the whole of the little Midland village
where the ameer's English wife was
born and where her parents are still liv-
ing has been during the past week or
two in a high state Of excitement over
the possible fate Of the young lady. For
tunatcly the ameer seems better now,
and it is to Nped, if only for the sake
of his wives, whatever their nationali-
ty, that the Improvement may continue
In the meantime cannot diplomacy do
anything for the young woman2 At his
time of life, and with equity habit to
boot, / should have thought Abdurrah
might have been induced to get along
with 900 of them. If, however, he must
have a round number in the family cir
Gle. perhaps an exchange might be ne
gotiated. London Truth.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-09
A SLICK HOTEL BEAT.
As a Schemer He Could Give the Clerk
Points and Not Half Try.

The fellow had no baggage when he
registered first at the Markham House
Saturday, but had very glib tongue
and told such plausible story that he
was permitted to register and given a
room. He was we'll dressed and very
pleasant spoken fellow, and his bill for
extras soon assumed startling proper
lions The hotel people became alarm
ed, and after he had been there several
DAYS a party stopping there tord them
he was a beat. The clerk fixed up a
scheme. and that evening he got into the
fellows room on some prctoxt after he
had retired. and calmly gathering up the
FrIIoNy'S coat ypst and DautS told him
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-09
IIostOn's Latest Fad.

A fad in the shape Of fairy stones -
has come to light in Boston. The stone
seems to be bit of petrifed earth, with
what looks like cross marked upon it,
and is said to come from st. Patrick, in
Virginia, where there is mountain
full of them, supposed to have been
planted there by the fairies as far back
as the days of the crucifxion. Believers
in such things or folks who love to pick
up fads are having those fairy stones
mounted as pins, watch charms, etc. -
Boston Letter
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-09
An American Translator of horace.

General Thomas W. Hyde of Bath,
despite the manifold cares Of his busy
life, has been engaged during his few
leisure hours in translating Horace
odes After reading Gladstone's work
the general was moved to write the
English author upon some details of
tkeir mutual work and recently receiv-
ca the following autographs note in
reply:
DEAR SRI promptly acknowledge your
kindness. and think it a great honor that my
poor effort should be noticed from beyond
she Atlantic by a fellow laborer to whom
wish success more perfect than my own.
Yours very faithful and obedient,
". E. GLADSTONE.
hAwsrden Castle, Dec. l. 1894.
i Augusta (Me.) Journal
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-09
He Hears With His Fingers.

James, the 10-year-old son of John
Hartman, farmer south of this city,
had spinal meningitis one year ago and
was left practically deaf. Several
months ago he happened to place his
hand on his mothers throat while she
was talking and found he could under
stand everything she said. He expert
mented with others and found that the
sense of touch in his case would make
up for the deficiency in hearing. He cul.
tivated it and now is able to hold con-
versation by placing his hand upon tbs
throat of those he is talking with. He
places the ball of the fingers upon the
larynx and understands perfectly. An
derson (Ind. Dispatch.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-09
January Storms.

Meteorologist A. J. de Voc of New
Jersey predicts three destructive storms
for January.
The first will arise in the Pacific and
will play havoc along the California
coast on the Sth, 9th and 10th.
The second will start in the Missis-
sippi valley OH the 10Th, causing snow
blockade on all the western railroads
and gales along the Atlantic coast.
The third storm will strike the east
gulf states ON the 25th and will be &C
companied on the Goth by blizzard
along the Atlantic coast, the mercury
dropping below zero as far south as
Virginia
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-09
Cautious Investors.

Toronto is to have a 1000, 900 no
tel-that is, if the Ontario government
will give site and the city will guar
antee the interest on the greater part OF
the anticipated cost of the building.
Toronto capitalists are evidently run
ming to caution in hotel investments. -
Montreal Gazette.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-09
Progress In Japan.

Twenty years ago the persons of the
emperor and empress of Japan were a-
cred; they were seen by no one save
high court officials, and even to these
the emperor's face must be yelled. The
empress now visits the free hospital of
Toxic, and talks or gives presents to
the patients as freely as in any western
land.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-22
Personal.

The proposed statue to the memory of
FRANKLIN Pierce, at Concord, y. H, Will
pc completed and ready for unwilling, It
IS expected, on the Fourth Of July next.
Mrs. Mary E. Hunt has sued the city
or Nashua, ". H., to recover $1,000 given
by her for a memorial library. The suit
IS brought because the city, after having
the money for four years, cannot agree
on a site.
Pope Leo has permitted the Niontene-
grin Catholics to use the old Slavonic
liturgy. a missal in the old Slavonic
tongue has been printed in Rome at the
press Of the Propaganda. and mass is now
celebrated in that language at Antivari.
Nine. Casimir-Perier has followed the
example of her husband, the ex-president
Of France. and learned to ride on the hi
cycle. She practises daily with Nine. de
Bourqueney, wife of the former intro
Queer of ambassadors"
William Stuart Symington. Jr.. of Bal
timore, who has been elected professor of
the Romance Languages at Amherst, spent
five summers in Paris studying French
literature and philology. He IS a graduate
of Johns Hopkins University where he was
famous athlete as well as a great
scholar.
Bishop Galloway of the Southern
Methodist church is reported to have used
these words in his sermon to the Epworth
League convention in Chattanooga: 4
have nothing but contempt for him who
canonizes the man who goes to Africa
10 save the negro and Ostracises the man
VINO stays in Chattanooga to save the
negro"
There is every reason to apprehend
that the Duke of Orleans will be a cripple
for life, certain tendons, sinews and nerves
having been injured beyond repair At
the very best he will remain as lame as the
Count de Chambord, to whose pretensions
as leader of the roYalist party in France
he has succeeded.
Sir Dyce Duckworth addressed a meet
ing Of clergy in England the other day on
clerical breakdown. He spoke first of
clerical sore throat and then of that line of
breakdown all too common among the
clergy-that of the digestive system. Sir
Dyce Duckworth advised relaxa ton in
cricket, golf or cycling; recomme nded a
little good wine and deprecated excessive
tobacco smoking. Many of his hearers
declared afterward that they had been to-
tai abstainers for many years and had
been the better for n
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-22

A few days ago we published a little par
agraph commenting upon the slOwness
of Charleston in the matter Of electric cars,
which has moved a friend in that city TO
send US this expression Of opinion:
Charleston may be behind In something's.
electric cars for instance. but not IN ev-
erything. In obituary literature the good
old town Is fully up to date. The News
and Courier's column devoted 10 that sad
purpose often contains sentiments which
appeal - the tenderest sympathies of our
nature. a few days since. an obituary no
tice stated that the deceased had fallen
asleep in Jesus and died in summerville.
s. c" We are taught that It is glorious
TO die Christian, but when in addition
to that blessed privilege. one dies in sum
merville or Button. South Carolina, death
must be the acme Of human happiness
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-22
Had Been Lenrninp.

Dear little motheri" said the yonng
man who had been away from home for
six months. according to the Chicago Tri-
bupe, as he opened a letter addressed to
him in the well-known handwriting of
his maternal ancestor, II wish she would
go out into the world more and enjoy her
self She is such a domestic little body
I'll get all the news now about the last
housekeeping and how the cat and the
canary are getting along, and all about
having the kitchen painted and buying
new rugs for the back parlor, and SO
forth"
Then he opened the letter and read:
Dear Harry: l have just returned from
seeing a ball game between our college
nine and the team from Miggsville. Our
boys were all crippled up. Burnham has a
glass arm, Hawkins was almost laid up
with a Charley-horse, and Spicer had a
game foot. One of the stiffs from Ham
kinsburg had spiked him three days be-
fore. But IL would have done you good to
see how they fell on that Miggsville pitch
er They. pasted him all over
the first inning all Of them earned,
and Trick, Jackson made one of the
longest hits ever seen on the grounds. 1t
was corking three-bagger, and II Fud-
dleston had been doing his duty in the
coachers' position it would have been a
home run. In the fourth inning they
knocked the Miggsville twirler out Of the
box" etc
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-22
why He Did It.

The deed was done, says Life. A bright
fash in the CRATE and all was over. Nor
timer Maxwell had burnt his uncle's will
He and his three brothers would inherit
the estate equally.
Why did he do this thing? His uncle
had loved him. and had treated his wild
escapades with leniency. And when the
old man realized that his health was
failing, his heart yearned for the hand
some, hayward youth, and he made a will
leaving his entire fortune to Mortimer
Maxwell.
1t was this document that fell into the
young mans hands. After ne read it he
buried his face in his hands and remained
for some moments in profound thought
Suddenly he started up and cried:
1T must not be! My brothers shall
never have an opportunity to contest this
will and let this princely fortune be de-
voured by the greedy cormorants of the
lawi Nor shall they lay the fiattering
JUNCTION to their souls that they have
bluffed me into an amicable settlement"
And he destroyed the will as above men,
toned
Then he went forth into the air with
the free. glad step of a man who thinks
he has a level head.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-22
An AutomntIc EmnIo,er.

''Since the labor Of human hands and
arms has been. and IS being. replaced
by the labor OF automatic machinery. why
may not the human employer be replaced
by an automatic mechanical employer
It was a great mind that framed this
query; and, as might be supposed. the
mind that was capable OF evolving the
question was capable also OF furnishing
the solution Of Il. The query and so
luton were contained in recent edition
Of a London electrical publication. In
order 10 make things more even between
employer and employee. 10 solve the I'M
employed workingman problem, and 10
eliminate disagrcements between work
ingman and employer upon the question
Of union or non-union labor. the London
genius proposes a mechanical employer,
perfectly automatic in its workings, abso-
lutely impartial as to the antecedents
Of the workingmen and strictly honest
as 10 payments. He would have an cleo
tT1c apparatus that would transmit the
power Of human arms to the dynamo.
which would store up the power for fu-
ture use. The apparatus would be set
up on the streets. II would have ham
died cranks projecting from the sides.
The seeker for employment would turn
the crank a certain number of times,
when the apparatus would automatically
drop a coin. being in amount fair valua-
ton for the power the turner OF the crank
had added to the store OF power in the
apparatus. The power thus stored up
could easily be transmitted 10 mills. fac
tories or elsewhere that it might be
needed.
The automatic employer as can be
readily seen, would remove from the I'M
employed the excuse that work cannot
be obtained. Anybody desiring to earn
money would have only to go and grind
1t out A beggar with only one arm would
be enabled to earn his living by work.
ing upon the box instead of working upon
the people. The poor but proud could
go around the corner after dark and
grind out enough coins TO pay the cur
rent expenses, without their friends be-
ing any the wiser. The unemployed
union and non-unon workingman would
be placed upon precisely the same footing.
The derIsive term. "scab" would disap-
pear from the language. The lockout
would be knocked out, and so would the
strike. The life of the coal supply would
be heightened incalculably, and new in
dustrles would spring up because of the
plenty OF power at hand at all times. In
short, the scheme Is very great. 1t would
be ideal, if the originator had provided
for some Of the labor saving machines
tube arrangement to convey the coins to
the pockets of those who. under the
scheme as 1t stands. would have to turn
the cranks and pick up the coins with
their hands.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-22
The slave in War Times.

When the white men Of the south went
away to the war. they left their house
hold gods. as well as their goods and chat
tells, at the mercy Of the slaves. 1t was
frequently the case that there were in
certain sections Of the south five hundred
or more black men to one white man. The
blacks knew that the success of their mas
tiers In the field meant continued servitude
for them. BY neglecting the fields the
blacks could have starved the soldiers at
the front. By applying the torch they
could have made the south a wilderness of
desolation. BY a few blows they could
have deprived the white men of wives and
children The opportunities for striking
their masters In the most vulnerable spots
were numerous. But the blacks refused to
strike. They remained faithful to the
trust reposed in them. They made sacri-
fees for the families OF their masters. and
labored to sustain them when they could
not sustain themselves. In short, the
slaves of the south in war times acquitted
themselves in manner that will be
glory to the race as long as the war of
secession shall form a part of history.
One of the most eloquent addresses ever
delivered by the late II. W. Grady con-
sisted of tribute to the loyalty of the
southern negroes to the southern whites
during the war and the truth and justice
of his encomiums are admitted by every
southern soldier. and every wife, mother
and child of the south who has personal
recollections of the terrible struggle and
its incidents
1t is pleasing to note that a fitting and
permanent tribute to the slave in the war
is TO be paid, in the town of Fort MIL
S. c., by an ex-confederate soldier, Can't
Samuel L. White: From his private
means he has given orders for the cree
ton of a splendid monument to the south
ern slave. 1t will be tall column of
rough granite, with marble figures carved
in Italy, and an inscription expressing in
living stone the appreciation felt by the
eX-confederate for the fidelity of his hum
BILE friend. On one side of the lofty shaft
will be the figure of a negro woman nurs-
iIg with &Elder care her future master,
IA the other the figure of a negro man
VII some kind of an agricultural imple-
1t is believed this will be the first mon
ument to the southern slave ever erected
But it will not be the last. To make COM
plete the souths tribute TO its defenders
in the war the slave must be popularity
and properly recognized. The slaves
place comes next after that of the con-
federate soldier and the southern woman
IN the war.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-22
Chaplain WiIIey,s sermon.

1 wonder if Chaplain Wiley of the First
Connecticut is still living and, If so, where
he is? says a writer in the New York
York Press. How many of the boys re-
member his famous sermon after the de-
feat Manassas Junction? In anticipation
of a federal victory there Wiley had
spent days and nights preparing a ser
mon for the following Sunday, taking for
a text part Of the seventh verse, sixtieth
Psalm-"And Manasseh is mine" On Sat
urday the fight came off, and the confed-
crates licked the mischief out of us. Our
goons, and among other losses was the
chaplain's satchel, containing the sermon.
He preached the next day. however, from
another text but did not forget to tell
the boys the joke, saying that the enemy
had gotten the victory and the best ser
mon he had ever written. The other side
saw the joke also, and handed the satchel
over to a confederate chaplain, who used
it, with a few minor alterations. After
the war this confederate communicated
with Wiley, and ere long the two were
warm friends.