davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09
Cnfton seed Min FOR AbiIcne.

Abilene. Texas. September Arrange
ments have been perfected through j r.
Richie Of this place with parties in Little
Rock for the erection OF cotton seed oil
mill.
The mill is 10 have capacity OF thirty
tons per day and Is 10 be ready Cor opera
tioh by December 1. The people have SUBJ
scribed $4,000 as a bonus, 10 be paid afteI
the mill has run thirty daya.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09
The Nashville Expos,sjon.

Nashville. September S.-As is natural
the near approach OF Nashville Day. which
Is TO be observed next Saturday Is the all
absorbing subject OF public comment and
discussion IN connection With the Exposi-
tlon and as the day approaches interest
increases.
Today and tonight large audiences greet
ed The first performances OF Con.ernos
band. which began an engagement today.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09
AN AMERICAN viCrOny.


New York, September s.--A cablogram
from southampton today announced that
The American line steamer st, Louis
Cooked at southampton at go this morn
ing, and that the time of her passage
from Sandy Hook light ship to the Needles
was six days, ten hours and fourteen min
utes This beats the record held by the
Hamburg liner Fuerst Bismarck since Sep
TENDER, 1893. by iorty-one minutes.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09

Chicago. September s.-Eiarlem resul

Chicago September S.-liarlem results
FIVE fnrlongs-1he Ace, Bob Garnet,
Cutter. limo 1:02
lands, Asiph. Time l:l5t..
Mile and a sixteenth Dunois, Moncreith.
David Tcnny. Time 14SA.
Five furorgs-Tom Collins. Prespytera-
an, Forbpsh. Ti9lc l:Oo%.
Mile ara a fnrlong Laureate. Bing
Bineer. Souffe. icne lot.
Six fur cngs-Sin'mons. Tin Cup. DIGS.
rT'iyna IA,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09
Charged with Train Robbery.

Clayton. n. NJ, September s.-The three
pelan brothers arrested at Johnson's mesa
charged with having robbed the Gulf train
last Friday night. were discharged for In
sufficient evidence. The Cowan boys. ar
rested at the same time. were bound over.
Officers are still in pursuit Of the other
parties supposed to have been connected
with the hold-up in the Johnsons mesa
country.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09
Held for Murder.

owensboro. KY, September s.-scott and
Reuben Gray. brothers and noted desper-
ADDE'S. have been captured at Bardwell and
are held for the murder OF j. II. Borden
In March, 1894. Borden was waylaid and
murdered In a most deliberate and brutal
manner. The Gray brothers have been
fugitives from justice for yeats.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09
Winners MT St. Louis.

st. Louis September Stair ground re-
suits:
Peter Hill. John Cortin. Bob Millcan.
Time 1:4SA.
Five and half furlongs-Belle OF Mem
phls. Lady Of the West. Empress jose
phine. Time 100
seven iurlongs-Tom Lily Oninoor,
John V. Mccarthy. Timc :30ia.
Sx furionga-M!ss Verne, Cavalry,
Bridget. Time 1:1t.
Mile and twenty yards--Aryan. Fann-
cite. Parole dor Time l;44.
One m.lc-Gladys III. Practitioner Joc-o-
eot Time l.l3
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09
General James Lonastreet,

I.ongstreet was prevented from getting this
job, and another was promised him. lie is
rs years old but is still waiting for his
Job
The general lives in retirement ut his
country home In Gainesville, He spends
his time in writing and reading. He has
written a book on the civil war that has
won him considerable reputation is
literary man, 4,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09

Lima, Peru, September s.--Advices Just
received here from Bolivia say that ESQ
Paraguayans who recently landed at Port
Pacheco have seized the Bolivian town Of
chlquolos. in the province of Mojos
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09

London. September SIN 5W yards
swimming race for the championship OF
the world at ,Doncaster today, Nnttaii'
The champion of England, defeated Ca
vail, the Australian champion, In tne rec
ord breaking time OF b minutes "a See
ends
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09
loskEY HAS MANY FRIENDS.
fon VIII Probably lie I'm Dali
las Next SeQSnn

'"S NcNt SeuSOD.
texas, September S.-'The Dallas
\ fans have heard OF Manager Nc
successes IN Missouri with con-
r. Measure. McC,csksy is i'm
4 Popular IN Dallas. He IS regard
|he baseball public as one of the
m IN the business. as strictly
ana as orc thoroughly up in his
kM' II Il true hi did not have a
~ iroVed n TOP notcher the past
W. thpt was because he was O
Ne suar.ser in the League and
M M we str, ns',h CT the other teams
pheeting his own.
wants HIM to retain control OF
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09

N s. W, that tho governor OF German
New Guinea had been killed by natives
August 81, It Ia officially announced that
tho German officer killed was Captain Won
Haean, the deputy governor OF German
New Guinea. who was shot and killed Au-
gust 4! last
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09
Miss Ellen Dortch.

the arm of Governor Atkinson, who gave
her away in the absence OF her brother
who is in Texas. General and Mrs. Long
street will spend two weeks at Porter
Springs, Ga, after which they will return
to Atlanta, where Mrs. Longstreet VIII
resume her duties at the State library.
II is understood that she will not retire
from the race for the Guardianship which
she entered several months ago.
A striking coincidence was supplied In
the fact that today is the anniversary OF
the battle OF Molina del Rey, in the Mexl-
can war. where General Longstreet won
his title as major general.
General Longstreet was born In Edge
field district, South Carolina, in 1922. lie
IL now 70 years old. When small boy
his father moved to Alabama, where young
Iongstreet grew 10 manhood. In 1874 Long
street went 10 West Point as a militar,
| cadet. His career at West Point shapeu
| his future life. He went there just one
wear ahead Of General Ulysses s. Grant
ana gra luated just one year before lie
dsad general. Longstreet went from Wes'
Point 10 jefferson barracks, St Louis
which was at that time the great socia
center of the military world. On farn
adjoining the barracks lived Frederick
| Dent the uncle OF Longstreet. The yount
! lieutenant spent the greater part OF hi'
| snare time at his uncle's house. yea
after going to Fort Jelerson Grant arrived
at the same spot. Longstreet carried ~
friend out 10 his unclcs. and there Gran
first met Miss Julia Dent, who afterwarS
became his wife. and made him the COUSIN
of Longstreet by marriage. AZ that TINT
| both -Longstreet and Grant were heu'eh
| ants in the Fourth infantry The Mexican
war broke out ard in the struggle Lou
| men won promotion to the rank oil captain
| After the war the two became separaeeu
Grant going to the Pacific coast ana Long
| street icing sent to the frontier 10 pat
| tie with the Indiana When civil war De
| gan in 1851 Longstreet was stationed a
| Albuquerque, N. NJ. He was commissioner
by the governor OF Alabama. which wa
his state, but he no sooner received III
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09
want the Gold standard.

New York. September s.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Lima. Peru. says: The
special finance commission recently APP
pojnted by the chamber OF deputies has
given a hearing to the merchants. planters,
bankers and miners who appeared TO ad-
yocate the adoption OF the gold standard
in Peru.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09
Deputy Governor Killed.

Berlin, September s.--Referring to tho
news received Monday last from sydney.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-09
SWIF IS
SPECIFIC,

10 far ahead Of any blood remedy on the
market, for 1t does so much more Be-
sides removing impurities, and toning up
the rundown system. IL curcs any blood
disease. 81 matters not how dcep-seated or
obstinate, which other so-cailed blood
remedies fail to reach. II Is real blood
remedy for real blood diseases.
M. Asa Smith, OF Greencastle, Ind.
writes: at had such o bad case OF Sciattc
Rheumatism that became absolutely
helpless unable 10 take my food or handle
myself In any way. l TOOK many pstsns
trouble. One dozen bottles OF 8. =. y.
cured me sound and well. and Il now weigh
no."
Books on blood and skin diseases mailed fr0e
~ Swift Specific Company, Atlanta Ga
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29
THE MORAviAN VIEW OF DEATH.
Beautiful and Impressive Custom
of the MoraVinns.

Beautiful and Impressive Custom
of the Moravinns.
Clifford Howard contributes to the
Ladies' Home Journal an interesting ar
ticle upon the Morayians of Bethlehem,
Pa, and their religious customs:
Upon the death of one of the congre-
CATION" he writes, 1.-THE event is an
nounced, not by the monotonous.
mournful tolling of the bell, but by the
deep-breathing, melodious music Of
trombones, played in the open belfry
steeple of the church by the trombone
choir; and as the deep, sweet notes of
the familiar hymn are borne TO the peo-
pie below they reyerently drop their
work to listen. 'Hark!' they whisper.
the horns are blowing some one has
gone home.' Gone home!'-perhaps
nothing more beautifully exempiifies
the perfect, unquestioning faith of these
devout people than that expressive ut
terance, the sincerity of which is ever
demonstrated by the lack of mourning
at the passing away of q member OF the
household, however dearly beloved; so
true and heartfelt is the Morayian be-
lief that death is but the entrance To
brighter, happier home. The from
bones are also used at the touching
funeral services held at the grave; ami
amid their sad, yet inspiring. strains
the departed one is laid to his eternal
rest. On all occasions, whether OF
death or joy, the trombones lend their
sweet solemnity in fitting breath.
From the steeple they herald the fes-
tival day of each of the choirs, and iii
all open-air services their mellifiuous
tones are ever present.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29
tTirst publication April q, 1870 No3j
~ DRnRAfVE -, rn,-.,,y n.,,,r,

Markham Il Markham, Attys.
for Plaintiff. MAYO
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29
THE FROZEN BREEZE.
A Strange Phenomenon Observed by
Lover of Nature.

A Strange Phenomenon Observed by
Lover of Nature.
Did you ever see a frozen breeze?
You might have seen one if you had
gone with me into the country one win
ter morning, says the Country.
This was the way it came to be
frozen: All night long the air had been
laden with mist. Over the fields, in the
holiOws, all through the woods, even
on top of the hills, the fog hung heav
lily. All that time the wind blew stead
lily. but not fiercely, from some north
ern quarter.
At nightfali the mercury fell below
the freezing point, SO that this mist,
as it drifted through the trees, was
frozen upon their branches and twigs.
The elms, the oaks and the other leaf
less trees took their ice coating quite
evenly, but the thick, impenetrable
masses of the needles of the pine trees
were covered noticeably only upon the
sides toward the north or northwest.
from which the wind came. The strong,
steady breeze bent the branches to lee
ward while it was icing them, and when
the vino came down in the morning
they remained just there, leaning to the
southwark, iced and frozen to i'm
movability, but looking just as if the
wind were still steadily blowing.
Even in the afternoon, when the rain
began to fall and the wind came from
quite another quarter, that north wind
of the night before still remained white
and frozen over the piny woods, the
pale, rigid corpse of thing once keen
lY alive
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29
FREE PILLS.

Send your address to H. L. Buck
len Il Co., Chicago, and get free sam
pie box of DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
A trial will convince you of their
merits. These pills are easy in action
and are particularly effective in the
cure of onCstipation and Sick Head
ache. For Malaria and Liver troubles
they have been proved invaluable.
They are guaranteed to be perfectly
free from every deleterious substance
and to be purely vegetable. They do
not weaken by their action, but by
living tine 10 stomach and bowels
greatly invisorate the system. Regu-
lar size 25c. per box. Sold by Henry
Hinrichs Druggist.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29

RAMS Sons big consignment of
malt for AnnheuserBusch of st. Louis
left this city on Friday morning, two
large locomotives being used to pull
the long train of 30 cars. Each CIR
had fonr large posters. one on each
side of Rahr's Sons and of Annheus-
er Busch The cars were decorated
with flags. Many people witnessed
the passage of the train through the
city. which had to &C at a rushing
pace in order to overcome the grades
and curves. This is the largest train
load of malt ever shipped. 1t requir-
ed two engines on it's entire trip to
st. Louis. The train while on the
side track On tie lake front was pho
tographed. The position was such
that the large plant of Rahr's Sons
was included in the View. This ship
ment is notable event in the indus
trial affairs of Manitowoc.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29
HOW THE GREEKS SLEEP.
FastfdiOus People Find No COnveI
fences at -h~ --~teIs

Fastidious People Find No Conven-
fences at -hc --rteIs
In Greece the hotels of the interior
follow one general type-the Italian.
There is no common sitting room, says
the Atlantic Monthly. Why should
there be? There is no office, but that
does not seem 10 interfere with the
presentation of bills. The ground floor
is given up To Il cafe or restaurant, if
the innkeepr goes into that kind of
business. Very often, however, the
master of the Apollo has only rooms to
let. The sleeping apartments on the
floor above are often approached by
an outside stairway, and, as is to be
expected in southern cline, they are
scantily furnished. Overfurnishing is
a vice anywhere. Under a southern
sky it is a crime OF which the Greeks
are not guilty.
There is usually mirror, though
that tribute to human vanity is some
times lacking, and, like the Turk, the
solitary Turkish towel bears no brother
near his throne. The bedstead is in
'ariably of iron. As in primitive United
States within my memory, single rooms
are rae. Two, three, four, five beds
are put in one room or strung along
the corr idors. 4 fastidious person who
desires to occupya room alone has to pay
tor all the beds therein. In some places
special charges are made for sleeping in
the daytime, and there is fixed ratio
for sleeping on the floor
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29
Prison Sold mt Auction.

The literature of auctioneering is full
OF cleverness and verbal oddities, but
Carlow. England, turns UP with line
of humor which is all the more effective
because it is so unconscious. An adj
Vertlsement recently printed there
stated that ''the old gaol' would be Of
tered in one lot. 1t goes on to particu-
iarlze with enthusiasm and dilate with
Seai concerning female prison of 80
cells, debtors prison. Convict
prison. containing "a cells" house of
correction 'treadmill'' and three
throw pump" There is also "a very
fine cut granite gate entrance" and ..aiI
cells are fitted with double wrought
iron doors, bolts and locks. and fioored
with granite or flags" In fact, .all
modern Improvements" would seem To
be the only additional necessity in the
way Of enticing description.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29
F,rst publication April % 1se71 M

Hchnlltz hirwan, Attys may6
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29
PHENOMENA SEEN IN THE STARS
some Peculinrities Recently Discov-
cred in the Heavenly Ro,fes


some Pec"linrities Recently Discov-
cred In the Heavenly Bodies.
"A late circular issued from the Uar-
ward college observatory includes in its
account of the most important recent
discoveries the spectrum of a star
known as Zeta Puppis, its remarkable
character being unlike that of anv-otb-
er yet obtained, the continuous spec
trum containing three systems of lines
first, the dark hydrogen lines. such as
are found i'm stars OF the first type:
second, two bright bands or lines. which
may be identical with the nd iacent lines
In spectra of the fifth type, and. third.
a series of very faint lines. But the
most important feature of this spec
rum, says the New York Sun, is a new
element, not found oD the earth or in
any other stars. an element which.
though similar to hydrogen. is yet dis
tlnctly different from it; just what it
is or by what name to call it .astroD-
omers are undecided, the marked
popularity being noted that it pro-
duces vibration systematic rather
than accidental, of ree-ten-millionths
OF mIllimeter, and the action of which
can be traced only on a specially-pre-
pared photograph plate Another ex-
traordinery discovery noted is a new
variable star, in the constellation Cr1Iy.
with period of about year.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29

a helpless, motherless babe TO the care of
strangers who have no blood interest in its
welfare. Kind as a Sister of Charity or
nurse may be, they cannot replace the low
Ing ministratious of a mother. This ever
recurring tragedy could be avoided if wo-
men would but learn the vital importance of
caring fus he health and vigor of the deli
cate organs that bear the burdens of inatern-
ity. The woman who neglects weakness and
disease of Il csc organs is untitled for moth
erhood and t only holds ont to her the GER
talnty of ACCOUNTING pain and possible death
A sure, safe, and speedy cure for all weak
ness and disease of the organs distinctly
feminine Is found in Or. Picrces Favorite
Prescription. 1t prepares for motherhood
by making these organs strong healthy and
elastic. Ii taken during the period preced-
ing motherhood il banishes the usual dis
comforts. 1t lnSureS a healthy baby and
makes its advent easy, almost painless Ii
provides ample nourishment for the new
conner, and shortens the mothers period Of
Illness anu debility. 1t is the best of all
known medicines for women and over 90, 900
of them have said so over their signatures
If You want TO know more of it write to its
discoverer. DR.. K. v Pierce. chief consult
ing physician TO the Invalds' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N Y.
good, practical home medical work IS the
best sfiiend and adviser a young wife can
have. DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser is such book II contains 1908
pages and 500 illustrations. Several chap
tiers are devoted to the reproductive phys
iology of women and facts that everv wife
and mother should know Over a million
women possess copies of it. new edition
is ready aud will be given away absolutely
FREE. If you want paper-covered copy
send 81 one-cent stamps to cover the cost
of mailing only, to the Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo. n. Y. Send
81 stamps for cloth bound copy.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29
YOUR BOY WONTLIyE A MONTH

so Mr.. Gilman Brown, of 81 Mill St,
South Gardner, Mass, was told by the
doctors. His son had Lung trouble,
following Typhoid Malaria, and he
spent three hundred and seventy five
dollars with doctors. who finally gave
him up. saying: Your boy won't
live a month" He tried Dr. Kings
New Discovery and few bottles re-
stored him to health and enabled him
to 60 to work a perfectly well man
He says he owes his present good
health to use of DIR. Kings New Dis
oovery, and knows it to be the best in
the world for Lung trouble. Trial
Bottles Free at Henry Hinrich's
Drug Store.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29
indian WISDOM.
Their knowledge of the Cura'
tive Properties Of Herbs
considered remarkable.
4 noted Professor, DR.. C. Won Spiegel Of
Saratoga, n. T., credits them with
many remedies used by him in effect.
Ing difficult cures.
Useful hints to many who suffer, where
they might enjoy the Indians pro-
verbal good health and longevity but
for the prejudice of Ignorance.

The once existing idea that no rossible
good or knowledge could be obtained from
4n Indian is fast disappearing.
When such man as DIR. .. Won Spiegel
OF Saratoga Springs, in an article published
In the daily Saratogian Of Sept. IA, states
that he is indebted, not only to the North
American Indians Kickapoos, Cheyennes,
Arapahoes, Pawnees, Apaches, kiowas, Com
anclles, etc, but t. the many socalled uncivii-
lied nations Of the most remote corners OF
the globe, = for his enormous collection and
the knowledge of their virtues, of roots, herbs,
barks, gums and balsams, by whose use he
has effected the most extraordinary cures IN
innumerable desperate cases, 1t would seem
that the world at large should 10 longer
hesitate to look for help from such simple
but potent agencies no matter their origin
- instead of dragging out miserable lives of
sickness fiat is aggravated by poisonous
mineral drugs
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-04-29

With such words CT praise from a man Of
DR.. Won Spegels standing, regular physi-
clan, a graduate and member of several uni
yersities, man who has built up an enviable
reputation by his many cures, some of which
have been almost miraculous, We are doubly
encouraged to call the attention of suffering
humanity to the merits OF our all-powerful
specifies, The KickapOo Indian Remedies.
The best known of these is kickapoO
Indian Sagwa, that greatest of blood pur-
fers and corrector of all arrangements of the
stomach, kidneys and liver. 1t is purely
vegetable and contains no poisonous ingre-
dents whatever. Thousands are enjoying
healthy, happy, act"e lives today, who but
for its timely use would now be leading the
miserable life of dependent cripple, or filling
a premature grave, the victims of bad
blood, nervousness, consumption, dyspepsia,
rheumatism, dropsy, kidney and liver
complaints.
Each wear 1t becomes better known and
more highly appreciated. Each day hundreds
join the happy ones who have been cured by
its use and sing its praise.
We want sufferers everywhere to give It'll
single trial. You will be convinced of it's
merits and bless the day you first heard of
Sagwa. All druggists sell it.
II you wish medical advice free, write us;
one of our staff of physicians will gladly
give you such information as you may desire.
The kickapoo Indian Medicine Co., New
Haven, Conn.