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The San Francisco call., 1897-09-24
ARTIALER1MtN KILLED.

Explosion of antnunttton Un0on
Causes a Fri1htfut disaster.
LONDON, ENG. Sept. pa dispatch
10 the Daily Mail from Bucharest says
that while battery of artillery was pass
Ing through the town of Pilisti, Rou-
mania, sixty five miles northwest of
Bucharest, an ammunition wagon ex-
ploded.
Four men were blown to pieces and
eleven injured so seriously that they have
since died. Eight horses were killed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-08
SUING THE WHOLE TOWN.

Novel Case Growing Out of a Mer-
chants Exchange at shawnee, o.
At the June term of the United States
court at Columbus, o., an extraordinary
case will be tried, in which the United
States is plaintiff and all the leading cit
liens of Shawnee, O., are defendants.
In August, 1895, concern styled the
Merchants exchange was organized at
Shawnee for the purpose of issuing
scrip" on which to do business in lieu
of money, which seems to have been a
scarce article in that town, as else
where. The exchange issued scrip
notes to the amount of about $4,000
during the four months of it's existence,
from August to December /, and about
the last-named date it's officers became
informed that the scrip was subject
to ten per cent. tax, the same as all
other banks of issue. The tax was pay
able to the United States government
and amounted in this case to $139.70.
On learning this the members of the
exchange concluded to wind up the
business of the concern, and, in fact,
did so on short notice. In the mean
time the United States officials were
informed of what had taken place aad
the suit above indicated is the sequel
10 the affair. :.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-08
NELLIE'S KEEN SCENT.
Dog at the Cook County JAN Finds
Noisy Inmates.
Outbreaks Mt Night Promptly Located
by the SagaciOus Animal-Quiet
Now Reigns Where Much
Racket Prevailed.

Rome had its geese, Troy its wooden
horse and Bashan its bull, but the Chi
cago county Jail has it's dog. And this
is no ordinary dog, either, says the Chi
cago Chronicle. There is no other dog
quite like it, either in or out of Jail. At
the start it should be explained that the
dog is not serving out a term for car
rying concealed weapons or violating
the Sunday closing ordinance. Her
servitude is voluntary, as she is the
property of Buff" Calder, the night
jailer. But it is owing to the rare de-
tective qualities Nellie has developed
that she is famous.
Over at the Jail the guests of Jailer
Whitman are not the quietest or best
behaved people one might find. The
early education of many of them was
sadly neglected and their later training
was not calculated to make them ex-
hibit those finer qualities of mind and
graces of manner which distinguish the
gentlepan. They are inclined to be
noisy and loud-mouthed, to shout and
sing at most inopportune times and, in
short, as Lindley Murray used to put it,
they are rough workers.
All this does not suit Jailer Whitman.
he has a desire to enforce a certain
discipline which gals upon his guests.
He wants things fairly quiet and order
ly and the boys in the cells do not take
kindly 10 the idea. But he does not
worry verymuch over hurting their feel
ings and when one of them breaks out
real loud from his cell and sends his
voice echoing through the corridor, a
Jail guard chases along the gallery and
if he can locate the offender there is
trouble. At night more especially does
this happen. Then more than ever the
jailer wants his big bastile quiet, and it
is just then that the unruly spirits want
to break loose and yell things to one
another. They do it principally to tan
talize the guards and watch them fran
tically rushing about the galleries seek
ing the man with the deep voice.
But such are the peculiar acoustic
properties of the old Jail building that
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-08

gallery and along the iron footway to
the cell from which the noise came.
There she stands like pointer until the
guard arrives.
How the little terrier learned this is
a mystery. 1t is, supposed that from
following the guards around at night
she managed to observe that they al
ways sprang up when noise was heard
and at once searched for it. In time
she too became interested in these
noises of the night and evolved some
scheme of her own for locating them.
Now the guards rely upon her solely,
and the old-timers in the Jail are very
quiet at nightfall. If she is awake dur
ing the day and hears cry or yell
from a. cell, an occurrence very common,
she banks loudly, but makes no attempt
to ferret out the offender. Only at
night, when everything is still, does
Nellie show how good detective she
is. If she improves with time she may
be placed on the force and provided
with q star.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-08
Trouble Over a Bnby,s Name.

A report of a queer lawsuit comes
from Eastkill, hamlet in the heart of
the Catsllill mountains. The plaintiff
is Ole Halverson, Swede, who cult
Yates small farm on the mountain
side. He is suing Rev. J. G. Remerton,
a German Lutheran minister, for dam
ages for christening his baby by a
name which was not to his liking. Hell
version is patriotic Swede and wanted
the child named after King Oscar. The
minister claims that he christened the
baby according to the wishes of it's
mother.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-08
POLISH COUNTS SAD LOT.
Forced to End His Days in a Phi1adeI.
phin Charitable Institution.

Forced to End His Days in a Phi1adeI-
phfa Charitable Institution.
Count Cassimer Sofchinski, once an
exile to Siberia, and afterward banished
from his native land, was the other day
taken in an ambulance to the home of
the Little Sisters of the Poor, at Eight
zenith and Jefferson streets, Philadel-
phia, Pa. He is the unfortunate son
of a noble family in Poland and is
named as the beneficiary of bill in
troduced in congress by James Rankin
Young.
Sofchinski is the heir of Gen. Count
Cassimer Pulaski, the Polish nobleman
whose service in the army of Washing
ton is matter of history. His life
has been n sad one. He held vast pos
sessions by heritage in Poland when
the revolution occurred, and he narrow
~ escaped being put to death for his
sympathy with his country. The Rus
sian victor spared him only to send
him to Siberia. There he Remained
seven years. Strong influence was all
the time at work to secure his liberia
tlon, put freedom came to him only
upon the condition that he should leave
Russia never to return.
He came to the United States and
was warmly welcomed by some old
ccmpatriots, exiles like himself. All
of his property had been confscated
and he was penniless, but he did his
best to make living. For time he
prospered. But soon disease captured
his once strong frame. After some
years he drifted to Philadelphia, and
here in the end he could do nothing but
peddle lead pencils. Soon that even
failed him, and he was eventually sent
to the almshouse. Father McEIhone
succeeded in getting the unfortunate
count removed from the poorhouse to
the home of the Little Sisters.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-08
WHITES CREAM vERMIFUGE.

Is the one worm remedy that does ev-
cry possible good without the POSSIBLE
ity of harm. 1t is a purely vegetable
preparation that cannot fail to expel
worms. If your child eats we'll but
fails to frow, if it is dark under the
eyes, if it is fretful or if it sleeps poor
ly, the chances the that the worms are
sapping it's vitality, retarding it's
growth and endangering it's life. You
can use Cream Vermifuge with abso-
lutte certainty of results. Large bot
ties. small dose. Price % cents. SolT
by e. Reuss and G. Schasse. 2
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-08
GATOR GETS LOOSE.
Starts n KindIing Wood Factory Be-
fore Being Captured.


fore Being Captured.
eve were located once for quite a
spell in one place." said the old circus
man, "and we had things fitted up per-
manently. The seats ground the cir
Gus ring were on terfaced platform,
built up like steps. The seats them
selves were not benches, but separate
chairs, ranged along in rows on these
wide rising steps. We had In the me-
nagerie an alligator, big alligator,
about IL feet. long. The alligator got
out of its tank one night and worked it's
way over to the circus arena and
crawled up on the lowest step of the
seats, between the front row of chairs
and the railing around the ring.
"Of course, it's about as important to
keep away from an alligator's tail as it
is to keep away from it's jaws, because
the alligator is O sort of double-ender;
it knocks man down with one end
and swallows him with the other. AS a
matter of fact, a good-sized alligator
can smash almost anything it can bring
it's tail to bear on. OF course we knew
that well enough, and what we set out
to do was to lasso him. Easy enough
to do it was, too. Some of us stood in
the ring, and some on the seats in back
of him, and we drew the moose over his
head without any trouble at all, and
then we dragged him out and back to
the tank. He Topped his tail just once,
as we started with him, that's all, but
when he brought it down he smashed
the four end chairs in that row into
small pieces.
ut made nice kindling wood, but that
kind would have been rather costly for
everyday use, and so we put up an
other rail around the tank.'-N. Y. Sun.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-08

it is very hard to determine just where
sounds come from. Indeed, when a yell
of derision or defiance rings out in the
night the guards cannot tell even from
which gallery it comes, to say nothing
of locating the cell. And it is right
here that Nellie, the little fox terrier,
comes in handy. She has been in the
jail year and a half, sleeping in the
daytime and roaming around at night
with her master, the night jailer. In
that time she has learned that cries and
yells are not the proper thing; that the
guards always try to locate them, and,
more than that, she has learned how to
locate them herself. In this she is al
most infsllible. No sooner does dis
turbance arise than Nellie springs from
the mat on which she may be curled up
and rushes madIy up the stairs to the
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-02

"John, dear, / wish you'd lend me your
knife" she said.
oAnd lust ask Sarah to bring down my
bic apron out the bedroom, and a dust
er, and som parafin, and the wash leath'
cry" ~,
Eyes; Thomas must clear out the yard
and sweep it up a bit. And l shall want
some copper wire and the screw hammer
and that bottle of stuff for %renovating
leather and an old brush" :.
rs that all? Are you going to repair all
the furniture a.,
Don't be silly. | must have some stick
ing plaster and a few bits of rag and a
pail OF water" :,
operation or a second edition OF house
cleaning"
irving to think of thSags. Let me see;
there's nothing else-oh, yes;: must have
a pair of scissors and my garden gloves
and some securing paper
Good heavensi What has happened! !
hope it's nothing seriousy''
s'Bless the man, no! I'm only going to
overhaul my ike."-Pick-Me-Up.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-02
NOTIFICATIONS AT HALIFAX,
Appearance of the Most %StrOnel,
Fortified Hnrbor in America.

A correspondent of a New York pa
per, describing a recent visit to Hall
fax, says; in sailing into a bay
that is said to be the most strongly for
titled harbor IN the American CONT
nent one naturally looks for some great
display of military works-forts, bat
teries, bristling guns, and so on. But
there is no such display in the harbor
of Halifax. Both shores of the harbor
might be hayiields for all that shows
to the contrary, and there il not as
great a display of defensive works as
one may see in entering the harbor of
New York. by close looking, however,
one may see that the works are there,
though they make no show of them
eelves. y y
Half the concealed forts about Hall
fax are the result of military ardor
rather than necessity. Each command
er OF the station must have things to
suit his own ideas, and the work of fort
building goes merrily on. The Halifax
people laugh at this in their sleeves, for
they have none of the bills to pay, and
little do they ARE whether there are
two forts or 200.
1T is easy to see how the Notifications
constantly increase. Here is his might
mess, Prince Tommy, we will say, in
command of the troops at Halifax. He
spends a year or two in arranging the
Notifications to suit his notion. Then
he is transferred and Grand Duke Dick
is put in his place. G. d. Dick SAYS to
himself: i must look into these plans;
Prince Tommy doesn't know ANYTHING
about Notifications; I'll show them
how the thing ought to be DONE and
he finds what he considers a weak spot
here, and an important place unguard-
Ell there, and the wal Office agrees with
him and orders new forts to be built
and the next commander goes through
the same process. The home govern
ment pays the bills and Halifax has
nothing to say ahout /"
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q fuller na.ne than John and they
always alterward referred to him -
Cabin John" His place was located
near the river, at the mouth Of a great
gorge with towering hills surrounding
it. There is until this day no better To-
cation on the upper Potomac for fish
ing and hunting. In those days the
man-was opulent in all that was needed
I for game food. Whether he had a
I fortune concealed about his place or
not nobody knew, and nobody ever
. tried 10 find out, He always had
. money when he came TO town TO buy
supplies. He was on good terms with
the Indians, and he did not fear ma
rauders, because he surrounded him.
self with dogs. who loved him and
watched his place by night and by day
Wen, whoever he was, he died without
revealing his identity, and he is remem'
bered as Cabin john and 50 he will
live IN local history. Time passed ON,
and long after he was gone there grew
up here a city, the capital Of a republic.
Modern improvements came with popu-
latiou. and ii became necessary TO build
. reservoir and aqueduct to supply the
city with water. More than ten miles
west Of Georgetown the civil engineers
went TO build a reservoir; and the wa
ter supply was taken from the Potomac,
near the Great falls. In order to bring
the water to the city it became neces-
sary to build a great bridge across the
immense gorges referred to above, and
the bridge was called Cabin John
bridge" because it spanned and to-day
spans the great %ravine, at whose mouth
the stranger built his cabin and made
his home.
That is the history of the origin OF
the name of the bridge which is the
largest single-arch span in the world.
Its diameter is eco feet, counting it as
the segment of n circle, 1t is a marvel
OF engineering skill. Poor old Cabin
John never dreamed that he would
leave his fictitious name to all future
generations, else he might have given
his real name, unless he had ample rea-
sons for carrying that name to the
grave with him. They say that he used
to spend a great deal of time in coon
hunting, and that during his latter
years he wore no other clothing than
the skin and furs of domestic animals.
There is a prosperous restaurant
close TO the bridge, and thousands of
people go there on pleasure bent. For
many years it was n pleasure drive;
then the bicycles came and young peo-
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-02
OUR NATIONAL e B
II ComparcsFnvornbIy with Those os
Other Leading Nntiops

We are accustomed to regard mr.
l%ntional debt as an appalling oh.
llgatlon, and one that ought to be cot.
ten ria OF as soon as possible. A strono
sentiment in favor of its early liouida.
tion exists all over the country. While
1t must be confessed that the debt is :,
vast one, it affords some satisfaction to
know that it bears favorable compari.
son in amount, with the debt of otbcr
leading countries of the world. Tho
debt of the United States at present
aggregates about GIG million of dollars
while the debt of Great Britain amo,nts
TO nearly 1851 million of dollars
Turkey owes about as much rs we do
and Spain more than twice ms much
Russia has a debt nearly four times rs
great as ours, and Italy considerably
over double as much. France heads tho
list OF national debtors with an obIico-
ton OF about four and a half tbousnnd
million OF dollars. Madagascar has tbe
smallest national debt in the world
amounting to about 81 cents per c,nito
Military Gazette, Chicago.
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Iler to tell of their trials ami trIbnla.

left 10 tell of their trials and tribnia'
tons.
Rig John Underwood, the Roman run
agee, who fled from the foul invader
and for lack of any better t~ransporta-
ton drove n steer in the shafts OF a
one-horse wagon, and for lack OF har-
ness bored a hole through the dash
hoard and drew the steers tail through
and tied the end in a knot, used to tell
me many stories about the Indians.
for he lived among them away back
in the 3Os. He, too, tried to marry an
Indian maiden, but he wasn't a Scotch
man and couldn't shoot the crossbow
nor the long bow and so she wouldn
have him. These Indians had great adj
miration for the archer's skill. l re-
member visiting the wigwam Of an ola
/ Indian on Sawny's mountain, near Gum
ming, Ga. /, too, was then n lad OF IL
wears and got the old mans g~randsons
TO shoot for me and my young cousins
Splitting the upper end of a small
stick that was about three feet long,
| inserted a silver quarter in the spht
and stuck the other end in the ground.
At 30 yards the boys would hit the
quarter with an arrow almost every
time, and, of course, | gave it to them
| How did they ever learn to do this?
| asked the old man, They begin, he
said, almost as soon as they can walk.
First they shoot at a big tree, and then
a smaller one, and then a still smaller
one, and keep on from year to year
until they can knock out Il squirrels
eve. In 1916 | visited an uncle in Smith
| county, Miss, and found a remnant of
the Chickasaws there. They were
friendly and kind and very expert in
killing deer by shining their eyes at
night. My cousins and | went with
them one night, but unhappily they
shined the eyes of a yearling calf that
belonged to one of the neighbors and
shot him. 1t mortified and troubled
them very much, but as they went hunt
ing on our account, we quoted their
fears by paying for the calf the next
day.
| forgot to mention that Elias Boudi-
not, the philanthropist, wrote a very
learned treatise to prove that the In
dams of North America all descended
from the lost tribes of Israel, and his
book made many converts to that be-
lief.
And now the sad news comes that
Gen. Avery is dead-my genial, loving
friend of 40 years-a Ia whom al
ways loved to meet whether | was in
the Office or the c~ounting-room or on
the sidewalk. How full of good, pleas
ant cheer he was. What kind greetings
he always gave. What thoughtful com
ments on men and the events Of the
day. Georgia can i'll afford to lose such
men as Gen. Avery and Judge Clark,
but still the world moves on. CLOSE up,
close up!" is the word from the Great
Commander, and the gaps that death
makes in our ranks are closed and soon
forgotten.-Bill Arp, in Atlanta Consti.
tuition.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-02

The physicians at the city dispeps.rv
are puzzled oyer a new form Of no;son
GUS disease. DR.. Newcomb. assist,n.
%dispcnsary physician, has handled +.
eases, and the patients still continna
to ONE The trouble consists in onah
normal swelling of the face. fect ana
body, the effect, apparently, of insect
oltes. Those who have applied 70 tbs
d~ispensary all tell the same tale sai1
Dr. Newcomb. "They say that divine
tfese hot nights they go to bed an5
sleep without any covering, and whaa
they wake up in the morning thai.
faces are frightfully swollen. rhs;n
hands, too, are affected, and sometimas
their feet. We prescribe hot annlioa'
tons, which generally have tbe efroa.
OF reducing the swelling. We ars ~, -
loss what to call the malady. as th,s
seems to be the first year II bas an
peared. 1t is doubtless the result q ap .
new hot-weather bugs operations."1
st. Louis Republic.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-02
INCUBATION FROM PESTS.
Eject of Mosquito Bites and bee
Stings on the System.


StinEs on the System.
The interesting observations recently
recorded regarding the freedom from
the effects of mosquito bites and bee
stings which may be induced by previ-
GUS injuries of this kind, demand a
word of notice. The idea implied by its
immunity is that previous bites or
stings inoculate the blood with some
principle or toxin" derived from the
poison, which in turn protects the body
from fresh attack. An analogy can be
seen between this naturally produced
immunity and that which is presented
by the treatment of diphtheria with the
anti-toxin of the disease. One writer
told his experiences to the effect that,
being a beekeeper. he had never suf-
fered from the stings after he bad been
once very severely stung by a warm.
Probably his system had become thor.
oughly inoculated by the big dose OF
poison he then received. OF mosquito
bites the same experience has been re.
lated. But what will be OF interest to
biologists is the recital Of yet another
correspondent. that such freedom from
mosquito stiDgs is not invariably met
with as a consequence Of frequent bites.
It is an illustration Of a law / have
never been weary of pointing out when
unreasonable people have argned that
because a process or treatment did moi
act invariably and in all cases in the
same way 1t was therefore Of no value
at all. The law l refer 10 Is that which
teaches us that when we are dealing
with living beings we cannot expect 70
find mathematical certainty In onr re-
suits. Life Is a very different thing. In
I'll It's variability. from mathematical
and exact calculations. - Illustrated
London News.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-02
InE MAYORS BIC STORY.
Idea of His Wife Giving Him Five
Dollars Took the Prize.

Dollars Took the Prize.
There were five Of six of them sitting about
the stove in the drug store, and they had
been telling pretty tall stories. The drug
rist was a man OF some humor and mVen'
ton, and he concocted a mixture OF great
potency and fine flavor, composed OF sp'
frumenti. saccharum alba, corteX llmlohls'
carophyllus aromaticus and aqua, pura q
3. This mixture he proposed to administer
to whomsoeyer should tell the biggest story
and the party at once began TO stretch thelt
inventive powers to the fullest extent, y
toilet soap drummer was appointed !edge,
and the prize mixture, steamine moi, satlu Sl
Eight ounce graduated measure upon the
edge of the stove.
The colonel told a war story OF the Mum
cbausen variety, the squire related a hunt
ing adventure that evinced a decided genus
for eyading the truth. and the postmaster
made a strong bid for the prize with a snake
story big enough to make the sea serpent
Jealous. The others followed in turn, and the
last man. the major, entered the corpeti-
tion. The major had in his mind a remark,
able narrative about a dog that he owned
that did some wonderful things, and he be
gan his story in this way:
Last Wednesday morning got up s
little later than usual and went down 10
breakfast. Most OF You have seen thaS
brown setter OF nine. He's a good osai
smarter than most men. Wen, that dos
was in the %d;nios.room when Went IN.
As | came to the door, my wife, VINO was
awaiting me, SAID:
this morning, | found tins hve-dOllar blll
on the floor. You mus, have dropped It
from your pocket when you undreSsed last
,irL+i 1'nen she handed me the bin. Now,
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ton was ever contemplated, there came
10 the city Of Georgetown a stranger,
whose name the people never knew.
In those days Georgetown was a pros
porous city, located west of Rock creek,
in what is now the District OF Column
liza. Big sailing vessels from all parts
Of the world used to come up the Po-
tomac river and discharge their cargoes
o. the Georgetown wharyes, and re-
ceiye other cargoes there. George
town was at the head OF navigation of
the Potomac, for just above it are the