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The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
HE SAVED THE BABIES.

But the Story Was Told In Two Widely
 Different Ways.
 Heroism and modesty proverbially go hand in hand, but there are few more striking examples of the combination than that afforded by the captain of a wrecking tug in New York harbor His own account of the affair was thus set down in the tugs log: ''JaR. 30-Left Jersey City a. m. Ice running heavy. Captain Joe stopped leak in ferryboat. MT. F. Hopkinson Smith, in his ''Day at Laguerre's," tells the story more fully.
 The Hoboken ferryboat was stopped, midway of its early passage, by the ice pack. At this juncture an ocean tug boat crashed into her side, cutting V shaped gash below the water line. A panic ensued among passengers and crsw. Just then the wrecking tug Reli- ance ran alongside, and Captain Joe Smith jumped on board.
 He dropped into the engine room, met the engineer half way up the lad der, compelled him to return, dragged tine mattresses from the crew's hunks, stripped of blankets, racks of clothes, overalls, cotton waste and rags of car pet, examining them into the great rent left by the tugs cutwater until the space of each broken plank was replaced except one. Through and over this space the water still combed, deluging the floors and swashing down between the gratings into the hold below.
 Another mattress, quick All gone? A blanket, then - carpet-anythingl Quick. for Gods sake!''
 It was useless. Everything, even to the oil rags, had been used. Little by little the water gained, bursting out below, then on one side, only to be re- calked and only to rush in again.
 Captain Joe stood moment as if un- decided, then deliberately tore down the top wall of calking he had so care fully built up, and before the engineer could protest had forced his own body into the gap, with his arm outside, level with the drifting ice.
 An hour later the disabled ferryboat was lowed into the Hoboken slip with every soul on board. When they lifted Captain Joe from the wreck, he was un- conscious and barely alive. The water had frozen his blood, and the floating ice had torn the flesh from his protrud- ing arn from shoulder to wrist. When the color began to cleep back to his cheeks, he opened his eyes and said to the doctor who was winding the band ages:
 "Was any of them babies hurt?"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
~ZzHu~y
 G01TS

The Roberts Keynote series is to be augmented by Marie c. Balfour's "Maris Stella" and Claude Nicholson's Ugly Idol"
 The complete edition of Kipling is to be in eleven volumes, each with a frontispiece by the authors father, Lockwood Kipling.
 Charles G. D. Roberts, the Canadian scholar and poet, has undertaken to write a school history of Canada. It is sure to be a good one.
 Prof. Woodrow Wilson's sympathetic and dignified magazine articles on George Washington are about to be published in book form.
 The general verdict appears to be that Max Nordau's volume of stories called Soap Bubbles" must have taxed to the utmost his powers of dullness.
 The poems of Johanna Ambrosius, the German peasant poetess over whom the critics have been so wide eyed, are to be published in English. The translation is made by Mary J. Stafford.
 Sir Richard Temples autobiography, 'The Story of My Life," soon to appear in two volumes, covers an active public career of nearly half a century. Sir Richard spent twenty-nine years in administrative work in India, and dur ing his membership in the House of Commons took part in 5000 divisions.
 J. K. Huysmans, who Is to be an il- lustrious member of the new GOncourt Academy of Ten. has about completed a work called La Cathedrale," in which he will continue the train of thought started in "En Route" and eventually to be completed in "EOblat." He prefaces his new book with some fiattering words from MT. Gladstone.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
An Exceptional Case.

"You know old John Goodner" : "Yes." "Never called anything but Honest John for forty years"
 "Um." i County treasurer for twenty-eight years and guardian for half the orphans in the country? Trusted by every body"
 "Yep."
 "Dead three weeks and experts have gone over his books"
 "Wel?"
 .'They found that he was honest in every way"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
Mistress of the Foundry.
ICopyright, 1894, by the Author.l
 CHAPTER I.
By EARL JOsLYN.

lODpyEiGAts AoSts Dy tlo AutHOI'J
 CHAPTER I.
 "Pour offp'
 The molder waited moment by his crucible of glowing, molten metal. Then in a loud deep voice he cried again:
 ''Pour offp'
 Don, the foreman of the foundry, turned with impatience to three young fellows who were sorting metal chips out of a barrel of foundry sweepings, nnd who were all smoking clay pipes. ''Pat, Jack and Mike, wheff you hear molder call pour of, you get to him lively" he said shortly.
 The foreman's eyes sparkled ominous- ly as he watched the trio hustling oy CT copper ingots and piles of zinc, lodging now and then stacks of fasks "Shut the window there, Mike. You'll bust your cylinder, he roared.
 Water" called the molder.
 ''Here, you, Pat, why don't you have the watering pot always full? The flask boards will burn to cinders while you re It, Ou 10 c1 4AC AOAO man turned away disgusted.
 The metal was poured into the small holes prepared for it. Tongues of beau tifully colored flame darted from the beds of sand, and the smoke, full of ashy flakes, rose in pillows. Bang! There was an explosion louder than usual The molder and his helper laugh ed They always liked to hear a good round report. ''That will be fine cyl finder ring" said Don. "Now go help the core boys; they are crowded. And look alive" he added, glancing sharp ly at the three.
 "And what did ye hear at the mis- sion the night, Mike McCoy?" asked Luke Reardon of his benchmate.
 "The mission, Luke? Father Gogar- tvs after askin where the likes of you bees," responded Mike. fLuke's 9 hard one, says Father Gogarty. He's travelled many mile hanging on un
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
A We'll Lighted Street.

Fifth avenue is probably now the best lighted long street in the world. The magnificent new lamps are now i'll po- sition and add to the beauty of the thor
 oughfare. The lamps are foot square, of bronze and gold, while the face IS of white ground glass, with the street names in letters eight inches high ill a deep red or maroon New York Letter.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
Gave Him Away.

Sophy (who had accepted Mir. Charles Fleetwood the night before)-Does MT. Fleetwood strike you as being a sensi- tive man, Pauline?
 Pauline (who doesn't know of the en- gagement)-Gracious, TO! A man who has been rejected by IA girls within six months and gets fat on it cannot be sensitive. Why, Sophie, what's the matter?-Strand Magazine.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
Colors of African Children.

The children of the blackest Africans are born whitish. In month they be- come pale yellow, in year brown, at dirty black, at or 2 glossy black. The change is in the mucous membrane below the cuticle
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
Missed It.

Hands upr' said the footpads as they closed in on Jorkins.
 "Ha, hap shrieked the victim. "What do you expec, D findf My wife repai1s my clothes every night after 1 retire" And he laughed so fiendishly that the footpads fled.-Detroit Free Press.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
SPECIAL OFFER TO GENERAL
 STORES,

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 TURING Co.,, S19 Market St., Rooms g .24,
 San Francisco, Calif.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
DEAFNESS CANNOT RE CURED

by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constil lu- tiOnal remedies. Deafness is caused by all fn- Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inhamed you have a rumblng sound or imperfect hear ing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored tn it's normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine eases out of ten are caused by catarrh. which is nothing but an i, famed condition of the mucous surfaces
 We will give One Hundred rOllars for any case of Deafness (caused by cutarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls CatarTh Cure. Send for circulars; free.
 F. J. CHENEY & CO.,, Toledo, o.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
A New Version.

Little Miss Muffett sat on tuffet Eating ice-cream and cake, While the young man with her was all oi
 a shiver
 TO think of the cash it would take. Law Bulletin.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
Teacher's Saving.

"More pie. Johnny? Why, child, you can't possibly hold another mouthful."
 But, ma, our teacher says there's al- ways room at the top!'-New York Tribune.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28

The great fire of New York took place in 1885. The value of riol elty destroy ed on this occasion was t15, 900. 900.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28

Brown-Does your wife ever threaten to go home to her mother? Jones-No, that's the worst of it! Her mother boards with us.-Puck.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
And ExOenSiVe.

He-What frank, open countenance Miss Murdy has.
 She-Yes. It's eternally open when I'm with her.-Detroit Free Press.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
A TENACIOUS CLUTCH

Is that of dyspepsia. Few remedies do more than pslliate this obstinate complaint. Try
 Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, however, and yon will find that 1t is conquerable, along with it's symptoms. heartburn, hatusence, nervousness, and loss of flesh and vigOr. BiliOusnesS and frequently accompany it. These, besides malarlal, rheumatic and kidney com plaints, are also subduab'e with the BItters.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
SURE CURE FOR PILES

pr. .8O-SAN.ko'S PILE REMEDY. stopsiteh n. SOS. prugsists or paii DR. B0sANKo, Phils., Pc
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28
IT. J' VIII1-'I 'I- T ~ NV'3 IV4ON@Vj U' EE Sold by Druggists Toe

never used so quick cure as Piso's Cure for Consumption. J. B. Palmer, Box III, Seattle, Wash, Nov. 9, 1895.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28

Are you angry, Miss Spitely?" "I'm enraged I'm going to make that mans life miserable if have to marry him to do it."
The St. Johns herald., 1896-11-28

Actions speak louder than words ask your gro- Ger five really mean money back if you don't like ScM- MgS BeSt tea. SchiIIing & Company
 San Francisco S4
The Grenada sentinel., 1896-09-26
MAINE, VOLUNTEERS
Lady to Take the Stump for Mckinley
Foraker, Too.

sdy to Take tho Stump for Mckinley
Foraker, Too.
Egw YORK, Sept. 23.-Speaker Reed
u Senator VIM. P. Frye having at
uded to things in Maine, are ready
ttske the stump in other states now
d labor in the sound money cause.
hey have written to Gen. Powell
hyton. who is in charge of the speak
il for the republican national commit
Offering their services.
Mr.. Reed, in his letter, said he was
lady to devote all his spare time to
Hiking, specifying only that he would
ther do his talking in the so-called
ubtful states. He said he would be-
p work at any time.
Senator Frye said he could not begin
More October H. but once started he
Iould keep at it until election day.
Senator Foraker, too, has slgnitied
4 readiness to get out and work. He
fered his services to the Chicago
adquarters OF the national commit
h some time'ago, and dispatch re-
kived at the headquarters here Tues.
by said. he would speak in Illinois.
etober. and 3, and in: Burlington,
on October 5, and would then go
the Pacific slope to talk until cleo
In Hov
The Grenada sentinel., 1896-09-26
SHEEHAN'S DEMAND.
Thacher Must Retract His Latest Letter
or Get of the Ticket.

New loHk, Sept. 2%;.--Thc Evening
sun says: John {. Sheehan has sent
long telegram to John Boyd Ihach-
er. Sheehan reviews at length the
statements made by Thacher> friends
at buffalo The Tammany leader says
they declared that Thacher would
stand squarelv on the platform. Then
Sheehan cites the candidate ) recent
sounl-moncy letter and tells him that
he must ia Ike some steps to relleve hls
friends of the qualification they are
now under
The telegram is practically de-
mand that the candidate shall retract
his latest letter Or get off the ticket.
Following is Mr.. Shcehan' 5 Telegram III
in full:
John Boyd Thuchtr, Albany, " D.:
When the friends OF the democratic platform
adopted in ButIalo stood in doubt as TO tho
proprlety OF nominating gentleman who had
previously occupied a position adverse to the
leading tenetS OF the party as declared in ma
tional convention, the convention was repeat-
edly assured by your representatives that you
would stand fairly and >Quarely upon the Buf-
falo platform, which most emphatically in
dorsed the one adopted a. Chicago
No man who knows John Boyd Thacher, they
declared again and again, will doubt for one
instant that before permitting his name to be
brought before the convention he had resolved
his doubt as to the expediency OF free silver
and prepared to stand in al fairness upon the
platform this day adopted, copies Of which the
press had placed in Mr., Thacher's hands.
In view OF YOUR letter to the public, feel
sure that you are not aware Of the pledges
then made in your name, and that once in pos
session Of the facts you will take the required
measures to prevent the qualification Of thoss
who pressed your claims upon the convention.
JOHN C. SHEEHAN.
The Grenada sentinel., 1896-09-26
ENORMOUS CROWDS

A a.sem,,le in the City of Isr0therIy Love
10 Hear the Champion OF Free Silver
Discuss tn. Issues Of the Campaign
Thr.. Addresses to Immense Cro"as'
While overflow Meetings Were Ao-
Grsssra by Other speakers.
PHILADELPHIA, sept 23.-flve thou"
sand people, packed closely IN Inc
Acadcm Of music, with seating ca
pacity of :,,2nO. heard William }. Bryan
deliver the first of three addresses
delivered to Philadelphia audiences
last night. Many thousands more
swarmed in the streets outside the
building, and these he addressed when
his indoor speech was concluded.
An enormous crowd remained for
hours outside the Hotel Lafayette
awaiting to get a glimpse Of the CAN
didate. Equally great was the assem-
blage that thronsed Broad and Wharf
ton streets, in front Of the Southwest
ern Democratic club to hear the third
aud last address Of the evening.
Inall of Mr. Rryan's campaign, he
never drew crowds of greater
magnitude. The Academy OF music
was entirely inadequate for the prln-
cipal Bryan demonstration. The doors
had to be closed early in the evening"
for the building would hold no more,
and those inside We're pressed together
as tightly as could be.
But the throng inside the academy
was as nothing in point of numbers
compared to the packed masses IN the
streets. On Broad street, outside the
Hotel Lafayette, great crowds checked
progress for an hour before Mr.. Bryan
left the hotel for the academy. Pas
sage to vehicle! was impossible, and
even the extra squad OF policemen,
who were sent to clear way for Mr..
Bryan at the entrance, found much
difficulty in forcing their way through.
When Mr.. Bryan left his rooms to
enter his carriage several hundred
men, who had been held i'll check in
the lobby and corridors of the hotel,
broke through the line Of guards and
rushed after him pell nell.
With Mr.. Bryan We're Chairman
Curley, of the city executive commit
tee; ex-Congressman Kerr, OF Penn
sylyania; Congressman Sulzer, of New
York and member, of the local COM
mittees. Several of these We're caught
in the rush and failed to keep up with
the candidate. Pieces of furniture
were overturned and crashing Of
glass bore witness to the great rush
that marked Mr.. Bryan's passage
through the hotel.
The candidate was sent flying along
the corridors without regard to dig
nifty, pushed through narrow door
way and raced to hi, carriage by way
of the Sansom-street entrance. thus
eluding the crowd Oh Broad street.
There was another crush at the
academy, but Mr.. Bryan was finally
landed on the stage. looking very
much like the center rush III foot
ball game after attempting the tying
wedge.
Outside the academy was another
mass of humanity. packed deep III
! Broad street and tapping over into the
adjoining thorougnfares. 1t was a
good-natured crowd, and seemed will
ing enough to be entertained by cam
paign orators who spoke from trucks
!, and other conspicuous places.
The Grenada sentinel., 1896-09-26
''cRl|MlE A OF '73."
tier From Senator Sherman
Made Public,
|FlpIAs HIS PAR1Y's Pasl1Ie. ||l'!
1,,d to the Measurable Declares
~. was no Secrecy in the Matter
IA that the Bill was Reprinted
Thirteen Times.

sxc,s,Ar1, Sept. 23.-The Cincinnati
!. and the other Scripps-McRae
~ newspapers publish a letter
senator Sherman, emanating
the National republican cam
y, T. committee, defending the posi-.
hi, party took in the so-called
4;me of '73." Mr.. Sherman declares:
.,I have never been able to see what
Ave could have existed for secrecy
.h;s matter. There was no indica-
wbate yer of ,the5fall Of silver, and
one could foresee that it was
E.tined to rapidly decline in price.
one asked to have the dollar coined,
no one was opposed to its discon-
buapce."
IL proceeded to give facts: ITO
ore that there was no secrecy and
\ leave the matter to argument or
srence, copies of the bill were sent
Es,perts all over the country, asking
n opinion, and answers were re-
led and laid before congress in
nted form, in which the discontinue
. of the silver dollar was thorough
discussed. The bill was reprinted ls
nes and extra copies were printed
rdistribution. 1t was conned over,
rended and debated almost as copi-
,ly as any measure ever considered
congress and no man in either house
,oposed to retain the old silver dollar.
n fact that it was omitted from our
ins was referred to in debate."
chairman Hanna will print in the
bst in few days an official letter of
own advocating Mckinley's cleo.
m. The Democratic national cam
Sirn committee announce they will
,heard in reply to these letters from
i republican headquarters.
The Grenada sentinel., 1896-09-26
A FIREMAN DEAD
As the Result OF an Incendlary Fire-Ths
Alleged Firebug Arrested.

As the Result OF an Incendlary Fire-Ths
Alleged Firebug Arrested.
SAVANNAH, Ca, Sept. ga. B. Hull
& Co. S wholesale grocery was burned.
The stock was valued at $35, ,000, upon
which there is an insurance of $3l, 900
distributed among ten companies. The
building cost $4,000 and is fully COW
cred by insurance. Fireman Frank Nc
Stay is dead, the result of a fall
of 40 feet through an open grating
while at work on the fire, and James
McNally, former employe of the firm,
is under arrest, charged with firing the
building. This is the third time dur
ing the year that Hull Il Co. have
burned out. Each fire has had the
appearance of incendiarism, but the
firm has heretofore been unable to
secure sufficient evidence to warrant
any arrest.
The Grenada sentinel., 1896-09-26
INVITING WRECKS.
fhe Baltimore & Ohio Working Its Train
Men Double Time.

WASHINGTON, Sept. :3-A Cumber.
land tMd.) dispatch says: The Balti-
more 4 Ohio railroad is now doing the
largest freight business in its history.
The Cumberland yards contain as
many as 1000 cars Mt one time.
The motive power OF the company,
Notwithstanding all engines have
been repaired and are in USE,
and engines from the Cumberland
g. Pennsylvania railroad have
been brought into requisition. Train.
men are nearly all on double time.
The company has awarded a contrae,
for strengthening the line between
Tabbs. station and North Mountain.
About $4,000 yards of rock and earth
will be removed at a cost of $4,000.
Men will be employed at the work for
five months. The improvement will
enable the carrying of from five to six
more freight cars in q train between
Cumberland and Martinsburg.
The Grenada sentinel., 1896-09-26
Condition OF the YaZOO River.

The Vicksburg Commercial-Herald
says that Capt. Phinn Starr, by direc-
tion OF Maj. Willard, visited the mouth
of the Yazoo river on the steamer Meigs,
and found the situation there bad but
he hopes for an improvement soon. The
outlet is full OF sand-bars for . long dis
tance, nearly a couple of miles, with
the water tearing through and over
them like 4 mill-race and in depth from
one foot to four. Owing to the current
the sand is washed out until it forms a
bank as high as house on either side
of the stream, from which masses OF
sand as large as Dox-car are falling
into the water at rapid intervals. The
consequence is that nothing like chan
mel could be made at present with any
agency and while he was confident that
he could have forced the Meigs through,
it would have been requisite to return
i'm diately and nothing would have
resulted, as the channel would have re-
turned to its same condition almost at
once. Capt. Starr was disposed to be-
lieve from what he saw that within a
week or two the river would cut itself
. channel.
The Grenada sentinel., 1896-09-26
coRBETT AND SHARKEY

Ars Likely to Como Together ut Ssa
Francisco.
SAN Francisco, Sept. 25.-The Ma
tional club has received q telegram
from Corbett saying that If it. would
deposit SO, 900 for ten-rouud contest
with Sharkey with W. A. M. Law
renee % purse-holder, he would start
1t once for this city and would make
NO terms with any other club. The
National club replied at once that the
slo, 900 would BE- deposited with Mr..
Lawrence, who u news editor Of the
Examiner. .. ..,.r
The Grenada sentinel., 1896-09-26
GEN. CARLOS ROLOFF.
The Alleged Filibuster, Undergoing Pre-
liminsry Examination.

The Alleged Filibuster, Undergoing Pre-
limlnsry Examination.
NEW YORK, Sept. :3.-Gen. Carlos
Roloff, who was arrested last week
charged with having aided and ab%t-
ted a filibustering expedition to Cuea
in August last, appeared for examina-
ton before United States Commits
sioner Alexander yesterday afternoon.
Considerable evidence was introduced
to show that the Laurada had eng aged
in a tilibastering expedition in August
last, and 1t also developed that the
witnesses " sre under pay by either
the British or Spanish governments.
Cross.examination rendered much of
the testimony of doubtful value.
The Grenada sentinel., 1896-09-26
BRlTlsH sovEREi0Ns.

l'vs Hundred Thessaud of Them q -
Turned Into Yankee EsglsA
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3s.-Mint d.
Rsctor Preston II advised that $500
% gold has reached San Francisco
ton Australia and will find its way
20 the treasury. The gold = IN
aslish sovereiGns, and = foreign
pms arc mot = legal tender in the
!nited States the gold will % sent 70
United States mint 1t San Fran.
lseo to be re-coinsd into United Statss
lfles. ..... Z.
The Grenada sentinel., 1896-09-26
1REACHEROUS WEYLER.
His Amnesty Decree Only a Ruse to Get
Victims Into His Hands.

VERA CRUZ, Mex, Sept. a3.-Letters
received here from Santa Clara and
other central Cuban towns assert that
Capt. Gen. Weyler's amnesty decree is
a farce. Rebels surrendering and
expecting the amnesty therein
assured, though received by
the Spanish military outposts with
open arms and temporarily liberated,
are invariably rearrested within a
fortnight as spies or incendiaries, tried
and convicted by a drum.head court
martial and shot. 1t is also alleged
that the majority Of the prisoners Of
war taken iu the field are being un-
tremendously dispatched by the road
side. the Spanish commanders after
ward reporting their fate rs due to at.
tempted escape.
The Grenada sentinel., 1896-09-26
ExseutIvs Appolntnenta. a

WAsHrxaroN, Sept. :3.--The presi-
dent hos made the following appoint.
ments: James A. Keaton. OF Oklahoma,
q be associate justice of the supreme
court 81 the territory Of Oklahoma;
Robert A. Habersham. OF Portland,
ore. TO be suryeyor-general Of Oregon;
John O. Cowis, Of Pennsylvania, 70 oe
msrshsl OF the consular court Of the
United States ~ Tien-T -Tsin. China.