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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-26

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan 25.-W. FL.
Brodie, state bank examiner, has
discovered 1929, 1000 of overdrafts in
the Farmers National bank OF
Portsmouth, Ohio, reported closed
few days ago.
GROWERS SORROW PROCLAIMED
LONDON, Jan. 25.-The foreign Of
fee has issued the following Inc
president OF the United states %
America having received tarous sH
Sir Julian Paunceforte, bri'asn
am bassador at Washington, .n !,
m0urnful tidings OF the us@.--
Ioos,lnned On EIehlh Page.l
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10
A THEATRICAL BUDGET
The Present Syndicate Scheme
For Producing Plays.
WILL PRODUCE GOOD RESULTS.

Sydney Rosenfeld's Long Deferred Good
Lucl-An American Actors Hit In Lon
don-Comic Opera Is Still yigorous-A
Promising Ingenue-other Chitchat.
Theatrical syndioates are. all tho rago
just now. There are tho American, with
unlimited capital behind 1t, and tho Sydney
Roscnfold, with $4,000 at its back, be-.
sides another Of which hear, and which,
I understand, Is to attend to overy detail
connected with the production Of a play,
from tho writing down to or up to tho &C.
tual presentation. 1t will also hire actors,
tako orders for scenery, rewrite the efforts
OF ambitious authorial beginners, book
routes, represent theaters and managers
and get engagements for actors out of
work, of whom there Is now lamentably
largo number. do not know whether
this lntest proposed syndicate is "all on
paper or not, but If 1t Is started in tho
right manner, with the right men at tho
head Of 1t and sufficient capital to tide
over the few necessarily dull months at
the beginning, it ought to succeed. There
has long existed need for just such q tho
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10
The Pi6,s Grunt.

The continued granting Of the pig is
OF interest as revealing something Of the
conditions Of life OF his wild ancestors
a herd Of swine scattered in the long
grass or among the brackens Of Euro
pean forest would coon lose sight Of one
another. But the grunts OF each would
still advertise his presence to his neigh
bors, and SO the individual members Of
the herd would not lose touch with the
main body. Then there are grunts and
grunts. If one of my readers will imi-
tate tho ingenious MIR. Garner and take
photograph to the nearest pigsty. he
might get material to make up a book
on the language and grammar Of the
hog. However thick tho jungle, tho
wild pig could, by taking note of the
pitch and emphasis Of the grunts to
right and left of him, tell pretty much
what hie hidden colleagues were think
ing about. North American Review.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10

with tho nnme on their visiting cards. II
1t is necessary to give tho address, 1t Is
written on tho card by hand
Bark and cnrAcul crcpons nro still worn,
and there is an immonso variety of now
woaves in stripes, zigzags and figures
Cropon has had and still has remark
ablo vogue, and its popularity shows no
signs rs yot of diminishing.
Spring promises to DO flowcry season
in tho fashionable rs VOL as tho natural
world. Blossoms will enter largely into
millinery and will continue to form tho
trimming Of many evening gowns Nat
urnl flowers will also DO much worn on
tho bodice. Many women choose some
particular Kind Of flower and always wear
1T. Pink roses are now enjoying wide
popularity.
Persons who are always seeking n nov
city will be pleased with recent idea for
balls, which is to give notice in tho invi-
tations that certain color is to prevail
Tho guests arc Of course expected to dress
accordingly. Tho rooms nre decorated with
tho stipulated tint, and tho scheme OF color
is carried through the whole entertain
ment. At white ball lately given tho
decorations woro of scarlet and white,
which prevented any ohilliness of effect
The cut illustrates a dinner gown of sill
yer gray satin with roso figures Tho
godet skirt i3 adorned by q band of gold
and black pnssemenUerie on eiuner side Of
tho tabller, tho bands terminating in let
and gold pendants. The stretched bodice
has square decolletago framed In a
bertha or collar Of wide passementcrie like
thnt on tho skirt. The elbow sleeves con-
sist of double balloon puff
JUDO CHOLLET.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10
VARIOUS NOTES.
Spring Coats and Capcs-Tho Fashion In
Lainbrequins.

Spring Coats and Capcs-Tho Fashion In
Lainbrequins.
Jackets will DO much worn this spring,
but without worry long basques.
Capos for young girls aro Of gray or
mastio cloth md aro short and not much
orpanontod.
In Franco 81 is tho custom TO glvo the
nurse present whom tho baby cuts Its
first tooth.
NInntel lambroquins aro of various
kinds, but arc chiefly drapcd or straight
now, tho fashion of cutting them into ir-
regular shapes having fallen into deserved
disroputu.
Parisian women do not consider it in
good taste to havo tho address engraved
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10

such facilities as to command admiration
have business intercourse. We are not wal
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10

and Is tho daughter of e. d. Usher, who
Is ono of tho prominent rnilrond officials of
Peoria, Ills. Besides IL large preliminary
experience In amateur theatricals, Miss
Usner played ono season with Daniel Froh-
mans company, doing excellent work rs
Mrs. DePcystcr in "Tho Charity Bali" and
MarRcry Knox in "Mcn and Women. {"
Her next engagement was her present ono.
Although she plays tho page, sho also un-
derstudics tho leading female character,
and if tho opportunity to show what sho
can DO with it should evor occur Miss
usncr Is likely to surprise some people.
She Ia essentially an ingcnuc whom 1t
will pay widc awake managers to watch
closely. OCTAVUs CoupN.
New York.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10
What's the Use Of Waiting ?

They" say things him who waits" but we have not
waiting, propose wait We KNOW prices
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10

machlne, the AUTOMATIC cuttng knlfe Sharp
ener, and tableting appurtenances are on
this floor. The wonderful and powerfv.
electric motor which propels the machines
on all three floors, is also on this floor. Over
in one corner, hardly noticeable, is kept in
readiness, as supplementary power, an
improved Gas Engine, to be attached at
momentary notice, in case of accident TO the
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10

are right, our work AL, and if you don't
bring US work wo viii come aftor it, in one
way or another, either by bringing to your
notice our prices, facilities and quality CT
execution, or personal interviews. We are
not grumbling; far from it. We've had our
share; we arc still getting our share. But we
have placed at your disposal q modern, and
almost ideal, printing establishment, with
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10
A Rising Coincidence.

There is u girl playing the role of nm Eng
fish page hoy in 'Gentlcman Joo'' at the
Bijou theatcr, in this city, who is certain
to make her mark in her chosen profession.
She Is Dorothy Usner a petite, winsomc,
highly educated aud exceedingly pretty
and vivacious ingenuo who can also sing.
She was born in st. Louis 30 years ago,
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30
A HISTORY OF ARBoR DAY,

Secretary Morton has turned a while
away from bugs and birds and crops
and cattle and their feed and diseases.
to have put forth a brochure on Arbor
day, Its history and observance. N.
II. Eggleston, Of the bureau of for
estry, prepares it, apologizing for the
appearance of his chief In its pages by
saying that Mr.. Morton's name is so
intimately associated with the day that
omission was impossible, and, but for
the restraints imposed by an official
publication, he would have made the
mention more frequent. Arbor day Is
so closely connected with forestry pres
ervation and culture that the CONNER
cial value Of the day, as a means of
aiding in the preservation and cultiva-
tion Of our trees, adds to the sentiment
that inspired it its utilitarian aspect.
A few comparisons show the unappre-
ciated value Of our forests. Compared
with the product Of our gold and silver
mines. $7O,922,OOO in 1894, that of our
"O0 was ~A'ooo'ooV,ooU the same year.
1t was nearly double that Of all our
other products Of the under earth. in
cluding gold and silver, whose total
value was $553, ,352, 1896. 1t exceeded in
value the products Of our fields, esti-
mated to be $1,O43, OO7, ,94s, by SIS, ,OOO, 900.
After demonstrating the value of Ar
Dor day as an adjunct Of forestry In
terests, Mr.. Eggleston goes on to give a
history OF the origin of the day. This is
commonly attributed to Mr.. Morton, but
1t is George P. Marsh, at one time
our minister to Italy and Turkey, to
whom this honor is due, although 1t
round an early and a strenuous advo-
cate in Gov. Morton, who gave it a
practical application on the treeless
plains Of Nebraska. It was the board
Of agriculture Of that state that tnau.
gurated the special observance Of a
day by adopting, in 1872, a resolution
offered by Mr.. Morton, setting apart
April 10 for tree planting. This devel
oped into so popular a movement that
the legislature OF that state recognized
Mr.. Morton's prominence by adopting,
In 1885, his birthday, April %, as Arbor
day, and providing for the encourage
ment Of tree planting.
Following the insertion of several ad-
dresses on tree culture and forest pres
ervation, there is given a practical
treatise on tree planting and cultiva-
ton on streets, school grounds and in
parks; the use Of the day as a means of
practical and useful education in the
schools, and suggestion of pro-
grammes for the use of schools on Ar
Dor day. The day passed when the pio-
neer reached the Western prairies in
which the tree was to be regarded as
an obstruction to be removed, an i'm
pediment to prosperity, and with it
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30
M'KINLEY AND CLoUGH.
NJ. j. Bowling Thinks He Has Picked
the Winners

secretary M. ]. Dowiing. of the National
League of Republican clubs, returned to St.
Paul yesterday, on his way from Granite Falls
with Mrs. Bowling to his headquarters at
Chlcago. Mr. Bowling found that Yellow
Meolclne county was rather more In favor
OF Clough than it was q short time ago.
tnlnk, continued Mr.. Bowling talking to
u o o reporter at the Windsor, ''that
Clough is sure of a decided plurality on tha
nrst ballot. The opposition to him at present
is too much divided to injure his prospects.
IL only the anti-Clough men could concen-
trate on single candidate that candidate
| would stand good show Of obtaining the
pastry. I'm told by Hennepin county lead
ers that that county is likely to come out
strong In Clough's favor. The convention
may apply the unit rule, which would helm
all the more by giving him the solid Hem
nepin vote, but the unit rule Is becoming
| more and more unpopular In Republican con-
ventions. 1t stiles Independence OF action.
OF the five other candidates 1t strikes me that
| Clapp is the most dangerous
i've been doing q little figuring too on
Mc<inley's strength at st. Louis find thar
he has already got more than 200 votes pledg-
ed to him, and I think he'll havo o, er 500
on the first ballot. That of course, is mora
than 90 above the number needed to nominate
him, It's curious what a reputation he has
| throughout the South. / travelled all over
that section this last winter and I'd often 60
up to group of poor whites or darkIes In a
| little country town and begin talking about
the next president. They weren't sure about
Cleveland. They rarely recognized the names
| of Reed, Allison and the rest, but they all
knew about Mckinley and had vague idea
that he was likely to win. Yet they were too
Ignorant to read, and they seemed only to
know enough to live.
There's lots of protection Democrats down
there and many Of them told me that if they
were sure that he would maintain the SUI
premacy of the whites in his Southern ap-
pointments they would be glad to vote for
protection president on the Republican ticket.
l found, by the way, seven counties in Ken
lucky ranging from 1900 to $4,000 population
each that had been carried at the last elec-
tion by the Republicans. Yet there wasn't
newspaper in single county," Mr.. Dow
ling looked gratifed as he said this, probably
because he is Republican. ''Pm sending
Northern editors down there to establish ps.
pers in those DISTRICTS
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30

came growing perception Of the mis-
chief being wrought our posterity in the
ruthless denudation Of our forests
Anything that turns back the heredi-
tary feeling of animosity to the trees,
bred Of the encounters Of our sires with
them, and cultivates instead love for
them as things Of life and grace and
beauty, will tends to make better citi-
zens of our boys and girls. more consid-
crate, more humane, less Of the earth
earthly. Lowell, stretching under his
trees at "Elmwood." "sfelt their magic in
fiuence which possessed him and trans
fused thought into something to which
thought is coarse and dull of sense"
myself was lost, 20
Gone from me like an ache, and what re-
mained
Became part of the universal Joys
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30
A THRIFTY DEMAGOGUE.

Senator Stewart is one of those
demagogues who never let senti-
ment interfere with thrift and, on the
contrary, make politics play second
fiddle to gain. He is supreme presi-
dent" of the order of Silver knights Of
America. whose constitution declares
their purpose to be "to encourage and
promote fraternal love, to comfort and
care for the sick, to relieve the dis
tressed, to inculcate patriotism, to teach
correct principles of finance, to elevate
and protect the masses of the American
people, and to champion the cause Of
the free coinage Of silver at sixteen to
one"
In addition to his duties as
senator and as supreme president"
Stewart is also proprietor and editor
Of the 'Silver Knight" the organ Of the
association. While it's editorial offices
are in Washington, it's plant is across
the river In Alexandria, located there
because no typographical union exists
to control wages. and the senator is
free to run a "rat" office and pay such
wages as he pleases. He is thus the
same thrifty man he was when he I'M
loaded the stock of the Emma mine on
English investors; and who now, while
trying to force everyone else to take
silver dollars in payment, is careful
to have notes and mortgages running
to himself stipulate for their payment
'in United States gold coin Of present
weight and f1neness." And still, IN
spite Of these exposures of his duplicity
there are large numbers Of wage earn
ers who remain duped into the belief
that playing into the hands of this old
trickster will bring them prosperity.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30
WITH INTENT TO AMUsE.
"I'm going to let my hair grow"
'Football?"
"No; divine healeic" N

I'm going to let my hair grow
'Football?"
mo; divine healeie" 81
He-So you find the typewriter help?
She-Yes, indeed Why, have been signing
checks with it.-Life.
Hell would kiss youoif thought no one
she-shall I close my eyes9-wOonsocket R
u Reporter. Il
Ethel-You say he, died of yellow fever?
Physician-Yes; he had it twice.
EtheEOh, how dreadful! Which attack
killed him?-Washington Times.
'Haye you fastened the. windows dear?" she
asked as they were ABOUT to retire for the
night
dollar 1 had to buy that hat, and we needn't
fear burglars" =I
But they might sit down on my hat, you
know. Detroit Free Press.
Plenty-''The horn of plenty?" repeated the
colonel, pressing his hand to his brow. THAT
would be difficult to define for any and all cir
cumstances, but should say that five fingers
was good average figure" With which he
did not care if he did.-Detroit Tribune.
Papa-Tommy, did you know your lesson to-
day?
Tommy (hesitadngly)-Yes that is, part of
it.
Papa-What part was that?
Tommy-Well. / could answer the questions
the other boys had.-Harper's Bazar.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30
ROMANCING AGAIN.

Some person, possessed Of a versa
tile imagination, has concocted and
palmed off on papers susceptible to
any story, however gauzy, that makes
for the cause Of free silver, a highly
imaginative yarn about how Dan
Manning, when secretary of the treas
ury, stopped gold raid made by New
York bankers. 1t is narrated that Mr..
Manning went down to New York in
high dudgeon, and called the bankers
together and told them, if they per-
sisted in withdrawing gold from the
treasury, that on the first day he
would pay 10 per cent in silver, the
next day 20 per cent, and so on until
their redemptions were all paid in sill
yer. To the protest that this would be
against the time-honored policy Of the
treasury, Mr.. Manning is represented
as saying to them that the option of
the government was to pay it's obliga-
tions in coin, and that silver was a.
coin thus legalized.
While this Is very pretty story,
it lacks the ingredients Of probability.
There was no raid made on the gold Of
the treasury during Mr.. Cleveland S
first administration. The raids began
in the administration of Mr.. Harrison,
and were continued in the second ad-
ministration of Mr.. Cleveland. An
other fact that demolishes this creation
of some ones fancy is that Senator
Beck, of Kentucky, made exactly the
same charge against Mr. Manning that
Mr.. Crisp row makes against Secre-
tary Carlisle Of being 'unfriendly to sill
yer" because he paid out gold instead
or ladilng out silver dollars. There
is 2 lanaentable tendency on the part
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30

What is there about Republicanism
that plays such havoc with mathemat-
les? We do not refer to the cooking
of statistics but to the confusion Of
percentages. When Col. Kiefer talked
about reducing a tax $50 per cent.
with two-thirds of the original tax re-
naming, or when Senator Hansbrough
assured the world that the German act
had reduced the number Of sheep
in North Dakota 800 per cent, we at
tributed it to defective early education.
But here comes the Milwaukee Senti-
mel, and, speaking of the sale Of book
whose price was at first $3.50, and
which was recently sold for SLIGO, says
this is a decline measured by the fig
ures Of 6S71a per cent" This obliges
us to look somewhere else than to de-
f1ciency in primary instruction, and to
conclude that there must be something
inherent in Republicanism that tends
to mathematical confusion.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30
THEY CAUSE THE MASSACRE OF
EVERY WHITE PERSON IN
FILIBUSI.
CITY OF BULUWAY0 IN PERIL.
NATIVES MAsSING FOR AN AT
TACK ON THE FOREIGNERS
IN THE CITY.
ANXIETY FOR CECIL RHODES.
Troops Rescue Two Score of Pris-
OnerB From the Hostile
Blacks.

BULUWAYO, Matabele. March 29.-
Capt. Clifford, leading a rescue force
left here on Thursday, and succeeded
in rescuing thirty-eight whites who had
gone into laager, at Inseza. This was
not effected until after repelling an at
tack by a force Of we'll armed Mata-
beles, and inf1icting upon them heavy
loss. The loss suffered by Clifford s
forces in the engagement was one
killed and six wounded.
Capt. Spreckley, who repulsed
strong force of Matabeles en- Thursday.
infiicting a heavy loss upon them, has
returned to Buluwayo, bringing with
him large number Of prisoners. He
brings the disastrous intelligence that
all the whites in the Filibusi district
have been massacred by the natives
including Messrs. Bentley, Edkins
Baragwanath and Carpenter. The
corpses of all those killed were hor-
ribly mutilated, and their faces were
burned almost beyond recognition. The
native police, who are known to have
melted the uprising, have been dis
armed. and several Matabele s-.es
have been arrested.
A family of eight persons has been
brutally murdered, and two prospect
ors are missing in the country near
here.
The enemy is reported to be mass
ing only thirty miles distant from here,
and the keenest anxiety is felt at the
outlook, and an attack upon the town
Is now hourly expected.
Hon. Cecil Rhodes, who was expected
to arrive here by this time, has not
yet reported. No anxiety is experienced
for his safety, though his position
travelling in the country, is certain to
become an unpleasant one.
MEEKING, Cape Colony, March 2s.-
Five thousand pounds of arms and
ammunition have been dispatched
from here to Buluwayo, under the es-
cort of the Bechuanland police.
There is the keenest anxiety through
out the Transvaal as to the fate Of
the unprotected Beers and their fam
lilies in Matabeleland. Many burghers
are requesting the government to
grant them permission to go to the
assistance Of their threatened coun-
trymen.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30
TODAY5S WEATHER,

WASHINGTON March 29.-Forecast for
Monday: For Minnesota-Fair; slightly cool
er in eastern portion; northwesterly winds.
For lOwa-Fair and slightly cooler; north
westerly winds.
tion; light northerly winds.
For the Dakotas-Fair weather; westerly
winds.
For Montana-Fair; warmer in western por-
tlons; westerly winds.
I GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
! United States Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau, Washington, March 20, GAS
p, m. Local Time, s p. m. 18th Meridian
Tlme.-Observations taken at the same mo-
ment of time at all stations.
TEMPERATURES.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30
"The Path BIazed Out"

To the Editor of the Globe.
1 earnestly hope that the Democrats OF
Minnesota will give expression to the senti-
ments contained in your editorial entitled
''The Path Blazed Out" A platform framed
in accordance Herewith would be immensely
popular with business men, and would, be-
Heve, SO electrify the nation that the Re-
publican argument Of hard times" will not
prevail. 1t occurs to me that Democrats are
wofully in lack OF organization. There should
be clubs-ciubs to strike the heads of poll
ticians with. The rank and file ought to be
aroused by discussion of policies before the
meeting of the primaries and conventions.
Yours. etc., ID. C. Blashfleld.
st. Paul, March ~.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30

policy they may expect to be able to
most fully recoup their investments.
Such practices Chandler deems corrupt
and corrupting to the party organiza-
ton, but not at all reprehensible from
the point of view that takes in all
political parties and their contests.
Queer ethics this.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30

Mr. Kohlsaat's Times-Herald would
oppose McKinley'sr nomination with
all the force 1t could command" If 1t
"did not believe him to be absolutely
sound on the monetary question" This
logically obliges the Times Herald to
believe that Mr.. Mckinley Is absolutely
unable to express himself in ordinary
English.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30
EPIDEMIC of DUELs.
Three Fought in Berlin Within
the Week

BERLIN, March 29.-Three duels have been
fought in Berlin within a few days past.
One of these presented many features that
made the case very painful one bar
rister named DR.. Zenker challenged Lieut..
Won Kettelholt, of the imperial yacht Hohen-
zollern, whom he accused of alternating his
CZenker's) wife. At the fourth exchange Of
shots DR.. zenker was shot in the lungs and
killed.
Another case was that of an officer Of the
Guards, who severely wounded civilian.
This prevalence of the dueling habit
causes serious comment in Germany. AL
though dueling is illegal, the code of honor,
recognized as binding even, 1t is said, by the
emperor himself, compels military men to
fight. 'H'1.4-'
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30

A crusade against splitting on the
floors of public buildings and con-
veyances has been In progress in East
ern cities for some time. In New York
city the health department has taken
official action and placarded public
conveyances with this noticei
HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
New York City,
Splitting on the floors of public conveyances
is nuisance, is frequently means Of COM
municating disease, and is hereby forbidden.
BY order Of the board Of health.
CHARLES g. WILSON, President.
EMMONS CLARK, Secretary.
In other places the women have hung
cards up inscribed with the social law
that men who expect to rate as gen.
tlemen do not expectorate In public"