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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15
COL. cocKERILL's WIDOW WEEDS.
Her Poignant Grief Partially AssuseeC
by Another Marriage.

Her Poignant Grief Partially Assuseed
by Another Marriage.
The widow of Col. John A. Cockerill,
who has Just become the wife of Walter
Louis Lienau at New York city, said
that the marriage was the outcome of
a sudden proposal Mr.. Lienau made
while taking a cab ride with her. With
in 20 minutes after the proposal the
ceremony had been performed.
1t is less than three weeks ago that
Col. Cockerilrs body was buried in st.
Louis. He died at Cairo, Egypt, April
IL. His widow was reported to have
been Frustrated on receipt of the news,
and was i'll for several days. The cere-
mony which transformed Mrs. Cocker
ill into Mrs. Lienau was performed by
Justice of the Peace Louis r. McCul-
Tough, of Hoboken, shortly before mid
night Thursday. The justice will al
ways remember the ceremony from the
fact that the bride refused to allow
the word "obey" to be used in his ques-
tions.
"Yes, Mrs. Cockerill and L were mar
lISu, NIL Sdius uhu suppose
the justice gave the fact away. We
wanted to keep the fact of the mar
riage a secret until November, because
we thought it would not look well so
soon after Col. Cockerill's DEATH"
Mrs. Lienau was prior to her mar
rage with Col. Cockerill Miss Leonora
Barner, and lived in Baltimore. She
is daughter of w. I. Barner, and
originally came from Petersburg, Va.
For two or three seasons she was on
the stage. Her first appearance before
the footlights was as a chorus girl.
She afterwards was a member of Bart
ley Campbell's "White Slave" organiza-
ton, and it was while with this or
ganization that she was introduced to
Col. Cockerill by Billy Connor, then
manager for John Mccullough.
Three weeks ago, when Col. Cockerilps
remains lay in state in the parlors of
the New York City Press club, there
was a wreath Of white roses near the
casket, bearing the inscription, From
Johns Wife" Her apparent grief at
the obsequies was intense and excited
expressions of the deepest sympathy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15
More Cretau Mass acres.

ATHENS, Greece, July ia dis
patch received here from the island
Of Crete, says the Turkish suthori-
ties there are gradually entering
the military zone and occupying
new positions daily. Many ex-
cesses are being committed by the
Turks. A party of Christians ven-
tured to enter the so-called mill
tary zone, and were murdered by
Turks,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15
The City of Churches.

Brooklyn may be the city of churches,
but apparently it has ceased to be the
city of church-goers. One clergyman
in that town has found it necessary to
engage military band to givea concert
in his church at each service in order to
attract the people.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15
THE MODERN BEAUTY

Thrives on good food and sunshine
with plenty of exercise in the open
air. Her form glows with health
and her face blooms with its beau
ty. If her system needs the cleans
ing action of q laxative remedy,
she uses the gentle and pleasant
Syrup Of Figs. Made by the Cali
ornia Fig Syrup Company. -
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15

invented a mask which can be instant
ly thrown up and out of the way, like
visor of helmet, and may be as read
lily replaced. The inventor is William
Gray, who long ago conceived the idea
that a mask to protect the catcher's
face would be good thing. His idea
was then laughed at by ball players
and others interested in the game, so
he did nothing with it. Not long after
that Harvard man invented and put
on the market just such mask. Now
every catcher wears one when playing
up under the bat. Some time later Mr..
Gray invented and patented the catch
er's pad, which is now universally used.
He is also the inventor of the Gray
telephone pay station.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15
Another Bolter.

Mr.. Adolph Barlemann, the pop
ular tonsorisl artist of Main plaza,
is the proud and happy father OF q
fine new baby boy who arrived
yesterday, He now has two sons,
but says neither one will vote for
Bryan and Daddy won't either.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15

His latest invention, the improved
mask, is well protected as to patents.
1t is as much of an advance over the
old mask as that was over no covering
at all for the face. AS the picture of
the mask shows, it is attached to the
pad frame by pivot joints. The pad
frame is held firmly on the catcher's
head by the usual arrangement of
straps. When the catcher wants to
cover his face, he lets it down and it is
held in place by spring. If foul
is popped up in the air, touch of the
hand throws the mask instantly up and
back, leaving the catcher's vision free
from interference. The mechanism is
Of the simplest kind, there being moth
ing to get out of order.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15
Now for $40.

For the next 80 days will sell the
ELECTROPOISE for $40 cash. All
suffering humanity, as well as every
family, should now get the great cura-
tive agent.
For 40 page descriptive circular ad-
dress w. s. SWIMMER,
Agent for Texas, New Mexico and
Arizona,
Southwest corner 22d and Strand,
Galveston, Texas.
rs Sun-TueS-Thurs
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15
NEW CATCHER'S MASK.

May Be Thrown Up and Out OF the way
Whom Necessity Demands.
Every attendant at baseball games
has noticed how much a catcher's mask
is in the way when he runs to catch
foul ball. He must first throw the
mask off and then run the chance of
stepping on it or stumbling over it.
Then, when the play is over, there Is
a delay while he readjusts his cap and
mask. A Hartford Comm genius has
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15

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Evening star., 1896-01-18
ZAPOTECS AT HOME.

that (2) he had never been in Africa, and
that (0 according to an intimation of H. H.
Bancroft he did not visit the Militia neighbor-
hood during his Mexican perambulationS.
Can it be that the great Humboldt is
great Humbug-the forerunner and model of
the modern fake-fabricating foreign cor
respondent? Perish the thought. Humboldt
visited President jefferson and Washington
city in 1904 and was warm in his praises
of the beauty of the city's site. A man
who gives such pleasing evidence of good
judgment and discerning taste cannot be
fakir.
Humboldt's statements in his Political
Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain con-
cerning the Tule tree. seen or unseen
which made as if of his own knowledge.
without reference to another as authority
are as follows:
..At the village of Santa Maria del Tule,
three leagues east from the capital, be-
tween Santa Lucia and Tlacocheguaya
there Is an enormous trunc of cupressus
1listicha (sabino) OF thirty-six metres Q1S
feeD in circumference. This ancient tree
is consequently larger than the cypress of
Atlxco of which we have already spoken,
the dragonnier of the Canary Islands and
all the baobabs of Africa"
This tree is as worthy Of admiring study
as any of the ruins which are so thick in
Oaxaca, the site of hundreds Of forgotten
cities of the past. 1t is Mexican antiq-
uity which, instead of crumbling gradually
to dust, adds yearly to it's vast girth and
stature and promises to live and grow for
centuries to come. In ages past 1t was, and
it still is an object of wonder and venera-
ticn to the Indians. 1t is said that CorteS
camped under it in his historic march to
Honduras. If he did, however, he left, to
Evening star., 1896-01-18

and ru-ed through the royal captive, one
of the first of the gifts extorted from him
was the grant to Cortes of vast tract of
land in Oaxaca. So after the conquest
when Spanish emperor occupied Monte
zuma's shoes, this grant was renewed and
confirmed. and Cortes was made Marquis
of the Valley of Oaxaca. The modern In
dian-peopled city of this name is famous
not only as the spot favored by Cortes
but as the birthplace of Juarez and of
I)iaz, as the present terminus of the Mex
lean Southern railroad, and the most south
ern point yet reached in Mexico by the Pan
American route, and finally as the starting
point for drive to the Big Tree of Tule
and the ruins of Militia:
In front of the worse of the two Oaxaca
hotels-any one who has been in either of
them will at once decide that / stayed
where he did-there stood on a balmy day
in last November two vehicles bound for
the ruins of Militia In entire harmony with
their USES and their destination they were
themselves ruins, as unmistakabe as any
left by the AZtecs, Toltecs or Zapotecs.
First came a dilapidated carriage. once
perhaps the showy turnout of a Spanish
viceroy, now a sad relic of departed worth.
broken, scratched, cracked, catered and
torn, worn paintless and threadbare, whose
doors, held in place by dirty bits of string,
Evening star., 1896-01-18

of the commission (of which Commodore
Matthews was the head are locked up in
Secretary HerbertS Office, and he declines
to make them public. But from personal
inspection of the condition of affairs at
Annapolis this week. and from an eXamina-
tion of the plan of Architect Flagg, can
form pretty good idea of what Congress
will be asked to do.
I found Capt Cooper, the superintendent
of the academy, in his office in the library
building. This is. the building. which was
once the governors house, which, strange
to say, is one of the few buildings which
are to be left>standing if the Flagg plan of
reconstruction Is adopted. 1t was built in
the early part of the century, and additions
were made in 1878 and 1888. 1t is two
story brick building, with attic, covered
with a roof of slate and tin. But it was
built with the solidness of the brick struc-
lures Of the early part of the century, and
there is not flaw in it's walls. The library
is down stairs and the superintendent's Of
flee is upstairs. Under the proposed recon-
struction this building is to be remodeled
for superintendents' quarters.
View of the Grounds.
From the windows of the library building
you can get a fair idea Of the lay of the
| land, and from a ground plan which hangs
on Capt. Cooper's Office wall a still more
adequate idea of the way the buildings are
scattered There are about fifty buildings
| in the academy grounds. These are scat
tered all over the government property
| with very little of regular order. About es
much system as is to be found anywhere is
| in the row of buildings used as officers
| quarters, ranging along the straight drive
! way which leads from the entrance of the
grounds to Capt. Coopers Office building.
These quarters were erected in the early
Sixties but they are in pretty fair condition,
and they will probably be left standing
when the academy Is reconstructed
The chapel stands at the end of this row
of buildings just opposite the library build
HvH fkn a-i1 1f \, 1, \
| ing is the parade, running down to the sea
| wall which protects the grounds from the
| Severn river. another sea wall protects the
| grounds from the waters of Annapolis har.
|. Dor, which opens on Chesapeake bay. AT
| the angle made by these walls stands the
gymnasium building, on the site once occu.
Evening star., 1896-01-18

The position Of chief of fire department i'm big
city Ike Minneapolis, with its of valuable
building property, crossed by numerous railroad
lines and dotted with factories where the fires
never 'banked,'' is of the utmost responsible
ity, and can be entrusted only to man Of un-
questioned character and ability.
August II. Runge, who has filled this responsible
position for several years with so much credit to
himself and to the city, was born in New York
in 1852, where he received common school odu-
cation.
What such q man as this has to say scarce
ly fail to carry weight with it:
with the hope that what / say may in some
way be brought to the attention of others who,
like myself, have suffered without any apparent
Cause l feel constrained to recite n brief tale
regarding en- experience which 1 trust may never
be repeated in my case.
"A few months ago, owing doubtless 10 the
exacting nature Of my duties as head of the FIRE
department 1 began TO feel n sort of languor and
listessncss, to disguise which was compelled to
bring into play all the strength of will L could
command. The feeling grew upon me, however,
and In short time it took such possession of me
that it affected my appetite and caused insomnia
l approached my meals with feeling amounting
almost to nausea, and my bed with horror at the
Evening star., 1896-01-18

with the additional Idea, possibly, of con-
serving some ancient monuments himself.
80 .le disappeared also. Within another
half hour the peddlers of antiquities dis
covered that we gresh hands made no pur-
chaseS except upon the advice Of our miss
ing experts SO theyi arranged themselves
in the shadow Of the hedge and patiently
waited, with the exception of one hideous
hag, who became insulted at. our lack Of
appreciation of her offered idol. anathema-
hut. IW
Scenes I'm nm Indian Village.
In another half hour had photographed
numerous Tlacoxsh!tans and their dwell
ings. the patient gfoup Of curio vendors,
the shifting scenes an the village street
section Of the thatehed roof was broken
away. so that it's fsunidation framework of
light poles protruded sskeleton-like, was q
group Of Zapotecs ah Aome cunning moon
faced babies on the. backs Of only slightly
bigger brother and Sister. full-grown men
dressed In white cdtton, with sombrero.
serape and sandalst Here haif-naked
Zapotec with fine muscular development
of the arms and chest labors along the
main street under AM immense, filled, cylin-
drical basket, much larger and heavier
than himself. Here comes riding by a
Zapotec 4maiden; mounted on a donkey,
with basket panniers on either, side, the
damscps eyes shaded from the sun by her
While we were curidusly inspecting pro-
cession Ct horsemen, followed by numer-
GUS heavily laden mules, which we were
told, were bull fighters and their parapher-
MALTA on their way to perform in a neigh
boring village, DR.. Batres appeared, eager
to take his departure, and impatient and
disturbed at the absence of the English
| engineer. who was supposed to be search
| ing for him. After another period Of shout
| ing and waiting and fretting. the English
man came in sight, and as he approached
We saw that his face was radiant with the
| joyful enthusiasm of one who has un-
unearthed long-lost treasure. AS to
| whether he was in fact laden with one or
more precious antiquities deponent sayeth
not. Presumably not, for It is unlawful to
| remove such finds from Mexico, and do
| not believe that the Mexican National Mu-
scum was in any respect richer for our
| trip.
AS darkness gathered at the end Of our
| first days experiences we drove into Tlaco-
| lula, where we were to spend the night.
| THEODORE w. NOYE ES.
Evening star., 1896-01-18

his credit be 1t said, no commemorative
tablet la Humboldt. In brief. the Tule
cypress is possibly the oldest and stoutest
tree in the world.
1 have seen the Mariposa group of big
trees in California, which are world famous
for their girth, but no one of the red
woods begins to be as impressive a spectacle
as the Mexican ahuehuete. The latter Is
not of a height to correspond to the area
covered by its trunk and spreading
branches, and is much shorter than num-
ber of the redwoods, both of the Mariposa
and Calaveras groups. The cypress is not.
however. of a squatty appearance. The
smooth-surfaced trunk of the redwood
shoots upward in a graceful column some
times two hundred feet before it Is broken
by branches, and no great expanse of foil
age adds to it's spectacular effectiveness.
The Iule cypress, on the contrary. sends
up it's vast, gnarled, deeply indented, ven-
erable-loolzing trunk only about twenty
feet before it shoots out branches in every
direction, as thick as large trees at the
junction with the trunk, and stretching
between fifty and a hundred feet from it.
The diameter of the circle of ground space
underneath the trees spreading branches is
141 feet. From the point where the foliage
begins to the tree top is about 40 feet. The
Evening star., 1896-01-18

Batres and the English engineer were ar
dent pursuers of bargains in these antiuui-
ties. And thereby hangs tale the Tlacox-
ahuaja episode. AS we drove slowly up
the main street of the Zapotec town, ac-
companied by our customary reception
committee of yelpins ours, there issued, il
seemed, from every other house Tlacox-
ahuajans Of both sexes and all ages, Offer
ing antiques for our inspection, beads of
jade, idols of stone or clay Of varying sizes
and degrees of dilapidation. but Of un-
varying ugliness. Finally DR.. Batres' bro
ken-backed wagon, which led the way,
stopped, the procession came to a halt
and DR.. Batres disappeared in one of
Tlacoxahuaja's lanes. He was on the track
of a rare treasure, his driver said, and
would re1urn quickly. Meanwhile the crowd
Of curio vendors took possession of us,
When half an hour had passed without
any indication Of DR.. Batres' return the En-
glish engineer. evidently yearning to dis
cover behind the cactus hedges and in the
thatched huts some priceless antiquity, re-
Gently unearthed, could no longed restrain
his uneasiness concerning the missing con-
servator of ancient monuments, and though
he himself could speak not word of "a
potec valiantly volunteered to go upon q
tour Of discovery In search Of the lost one,
Evening star., 1896-01-18

tary Herbert thought it wiser to withhold
the matte: from the consideration of the
House of Representatives until some of the
members Of. the House and Senate could
have an opportunity to go to Annapolis and
see for themselves the condition of affairs
there. This opportunity was afforded this
week, partly through the courtesy of a
New Yorker, Robert NJ. Thompson. Mr..
Thompson was a member of the last board
of visitors to Annapolis, and he was SO
struck with the wretchedness of the condi-
tions there that he undertook to push the
project of remodeling the academy.
At his suggestion, Ernest Flagg, the
architect who designed the new building
for the Corcoran Art Gallery, now under
construction in this city, prepared a gen.
eral and comprehensive plan for the new
academy, and this plan was made part of
the report of the commission appointed by
Secretary Herbert. At the same time, Mr..
Thompson rendered the use of a private
car to take such of the members of the
House and Senate and such naval officers
as desired to visit Annapolis last Wednes-
day for the purpose of seeing for them
selves the need Of the things which the
Secretary Of the Navy win recommend to
Congress shortly. The recommendations
Evening star., 1896-01-18
NON-ANIMAL BOOTS.
A Feature of the Vegetarian Fad In
England.

A Feature of the vegetarian Fad In
Eag1and.
From the New York World
There are vegethrians who deny them
selves flesh food on sanitary grounds only.
while others cling to- the diet on humans
tartan grounds They refuse to eat meat.
because they decline to even remotely
sanction the slaughter of living creature
for any purpose. = ~
This feeling is carried to the point of
a fad in England! and as a result "vege-
tartan boots and shoes are advertised as
for sale in the Londohl papers. The. uppers
are made of "jarnus corium." which, by
the way. is oak tanned leather, but few
people will recognize the fact. This is all
the leather used in the shoe, however.
The soles are of closely waterproofed
fax betting: The yegetarians. in arguing
that the skins of slaughtered animals are
not necessary, say that India rubber, gut
ia percha, steel, iron and brass nails. cash
mere, cotton, elastic webbing, wood, paper
cork straw. silk, jute and wax go to form
the modern mystery of lady's shoe in
which oftentimes no element Of leathe,
enters.
Evening star., 1896-01-18

pied by Fort Severn. In fact, the founda-
ton of this building was the foundation of
the fort, built in 1903 and 1909 of stone. 1t
is circular in shape, and has a superstruc-
ture Of iron and wood with tin roof built
in 1893. This is another of the buildings
well constructed and well adapted to Its
present use.
None of these buildings 1 have ramed is
badly located. But the other forty odd build
ings, with hardly an exception, are placed
at the most inconvenient points in rela tion
to each other, and most of them are ready
to fall down in good storm.
For example, the armory, which the cadets
must visit before going to drill is situated
at the end of the grounds farthest from the
parade ground where the drill is held.
The recitation rooms are scattered over
| the grounds so irregularly that the cadets
after one hour of recitation, must leave one
building and march to another building in
recitation and to another building in still
another place to give the recitations of the
third hour.
Condition of the Buildings.
! And here is the condition of some of the
| buildings, as no doubt it will be reported tc
Congress in the near future:
] The boat house is a brick and corrugated
| iron building with tin roof, built in 1891
There is two-story structure on land witt
| a shed extension over the water used fol
| hoisting boats The lower story of the mair
| the storage of boats, and the upper story
| is furnished for a rigging loft. The founda
| tions of this building are giving way, which
| taken in company with the fact that it /!
| badly placed and entirely inadequate t
| present needs ought to be enough to con
| denim 1t. If there is one practical need evt
dent at a naval academy, it is for goot
| boat house.
| What is known as Stribling row is a row
| of brick buildings with slate roofs, built fo
midshipmen's quarters from 1S49 to 1854
| some Of them two stories high. and som,
/ three stories. with an attic. The founda
| tions Of these buildings have settled, th
| walls are cracked, wooden braces have beel
placedsbetween some of them to keep then
| from falling together, and the buildings ar