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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-29
NEW SLAVERY At CAPE TOWN.
Bechuana Prisoners Are Bought by
the Farmers.

the Farmers.
The slave mart" judging from an
article in the Cape Times, appears tc
be definitely established in Cape Town,
says the London Chronicle. The slaves,
of course, are the Bechuana prisoners,
and although there is no suggestion
that these wretched creatures are treat
ed with harshness while in the gov
ernment care, they are clearly consid-
cred and disposed of precisely as If
they were mere bales of goods or cat
tie. Careful watch and ward is kept
over them and the writer says that
sit is not easy to pass the strict guard
at the gate unless you are a farmer
coming to pick your labor. =
Round three sides of the square court
yard men and women are squatting i'm
passively or standing chattering in
knots. They are ill-clad and exceeding
ly ill-favored, but not ill-nourished, like
the first batch of skeletons that came
down to town. A child here and there
is even bonny. There is no very obvi-
Gus detection. The nearest to it is a
moody, passive look"
The farmers, too, quite enter into
the spirit of the "slave mart" They go
round the market scanning the men
and Sorting out those Of the largest
size" as did the walrus and the car
penter with the oysters. The natives
cast expressionless, sidelong glances al
their possible masters while they are
being appraised like goods in a store
Having selected one or two from a
group, the farmer is chagrined at be
ing told by harried official: 1--WE can
not break this lot for you," as If thu
knot of negroes were dinner service
. or suite of bedroom furniture. Bacl
goes the farmer and looks the native
up and down again, and at length de
cides "to take the lot" When the ma
tives are duly indentured for five year
their master unhitches his cart an
mules, outside, bundles his 'labor" il
, and drives his bargain home.
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pains and aches, nearly all the weakness
and sickness and suffering of women Is due
to disorders or disease of the organs dis
tinctly feminine.
"A woman who suffers in this way is un-
fitted for wifehood and motherhood. Ma
ternity is menace of death. Thousands
of women suffer in this way because their
innate modesty will not permit them to
submit to the disgusting examinations and
local treatment insisted upon by the average
physician. These ordeals are unnecessary
DIR. R. V. Pierce, an eminent and skillful
specialist, for thirty years chief consulting
physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgi-
cal Institute, at Buffalo, ". ", has dis
covered wonderful remedy with which
women may treat and speedily cure them
selves in the privacy of their own homes.
This medicine is known as Dr. Pierce's Fa-
voritc Prescription. 1t acts directly on the
delicate and important organs concerned
1t makes them well and strong. 1t allays
inflammation, heals liberation, soothes
pain and rests the tortured nerves. Taken
during the critical period, it banishes the
usual discomforts and makes babys advent
easy and almost painless. Thousands of
women who were once weak, sickly, nerv-
Gus fretful invalids, are now happy, healthy
wives, because of this medicine. 1t is sold
by all good medicine dealers and no honest
dealer will advise substitute.
When commenced using Dr. pierce's med
icines some three years ago" writes Mrs Ella ].
Fox, care Of w. c Fox. Of Eldorado Saline Co.,
Ills. Il was the picture of death. had no heart
to take anything. Weight was Iz5. My husband
had been to see five different doctors about my
trouble fefnale weakness). / commenced taking
DR.. Pierces medicines, also wrote to him for adj
vice. took four bottles of DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, and one vial of his Pleasant Pei
let's and am now a well woman"
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REMARKABLE OFFICER.
Policeman Swings His Club While
He Sleeps Soundly.

Policeman Swings His Club While
he Sleeps soundly.
The Kansas City (Kan.) police force
has always been noted to some extent
for possessing remarkable officers. OF
all the remarkable men who have car
ried club and worn star in the city
across the Kaw, Frank Cogswell, for
merly a member of the Kansas City
(Kan.) force, stands at the head of the
list. Cogswell was brave officer, but
then this is not the most remarkable
thing about officer Frank Cogsweu,
He is the only man who ever served
on the force who could sleep and keep
his club moving at the same time
Capt. Porter. in speaking about the
different men who had worked under
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UNwELcoME SQUIRREL.
II Makes Things Lively I'm MI A. Iii
sons Quiet Home.

J. II. Atkinson, of ca Alden street,
says the Springfield Republican, has an
unwelcome visitor in his house in the
shape of gray squirrel that has taken
up mis- abode between the outer and
inner walls of his house and refuses all
invitations to vacate. Mr.. Atkinson's
son caught the squirrel in the woods,
and, though he was severely bitten by
him, brought him home and shut him
up in box in the garnet. The squirrel
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The Belgian government offers a
Prize of $4,000 20 anyone who will dis
cover q chemical that will take the place
Of white phosphorus in matchmaking.
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WarShipS pS Of the MikadO at
Nagasaki Ready for
Action.
Germany, England and Russia Are
Preparing to Grab Celestial
Territory, and China Has
Become Alarmed.

letter which the Times publishes this
morning from a correspondent at To-
kio a Cabinet crisis occurred In No
Vember, due to the refusal of the Pro-
gresssts to vote an increase in the
land tax, which is necessary, owing to
the deficits caused by the late war.
Parliament would have expired next
June, and the Progresists, with a gen
eral election in sight, did not desire to
risk unpopularity by voting to increase
taxation.
However, Count Okuma, the leader
of the Progressists, left the foreign Of
fee, says the correspondent, with an
enhanced reputation. and next to Mar
quis Ito occupies the largest space in
the field of the nations vision.
The Times, commenting editorially
upon this letter and It's dispatches,
says: The advent of a Cabinet led by
two such statesmen as Marquis Ito
and Count Okuma may be regarded as
an event of great significance by the
other powers.
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CHINA BECOMING
ALARMED At THE
PRESENT SITUATION.
Promise of the FUIfLin1ent of the Forebodings
Connected With the Sun s Eclipse on
Chinese New Years Day.

PEKTNG, Dec 2s.-The German
question is unsettled Chfnas dfm
Guilty is increased owing to the uncer-
tainty of the attitude Of the powers.
Germany's withdrawal from Kiao
Chau bay is said to be conditional upon
her finding a suitable naval station
elsewhere. China is becoming alarmed
at the present situation. The Govern
ment appears to be utterly powerless.
No answer has been received from
Russia concerning the proposed loan.
There are calamitous forebodings con-
nected with the suns eclipse on the
Chinese new years day.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-The Paris corre-
spondent of the Morning Post says:
Russia has been long negotiating to
raise a Chinese loan of 100000 600 in
France, to pay the indemnity and Sc
cure the Japanese evacuation Of Wei
Hai-Wei. The negotiations We're
broken off owing to France insisting
that the Bank of France should issue
the loan and Russia desiring that the
Russo Chinese Bank should take the
lead. A certain GOODNESS now exists be-
tween France and Russia.
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dark. The money stolen belonged in
part to other people, and had been left
with him for safe keeping. Several
thousand dollars of 1t belonged to
women of the town, and $4,000 to Mig
ger" Jim Doughty, who had just sold
his interest in certain claims on Bo-
nanza. The Alaska Commercial Com
pany is said to have cached in the
barracks of the mounted police a
quantity of goods held for reserve as
against starvation conditions antici-
pated later on.
The trail is also made dangerous or
given an added danger through like
cause. 1t is we'll known that gold gath
cred last spring and summer was not
taken out by the transportation COM
panies, as was intended it should be.
1t has been presumed that the owners
of the gold would attempt to have il
taken out over the trail, and great
invitation to highwaymeu is therefore
offered. and they have already gone to
work.
Since the arrival here Of Captain
Constantine, commander of the mount
ed police, the city has been trained
to take from it much of its woolly
character. The gambling and dance
houses have been closed-that Is, they
have been compelled to retire some
what from under the public eye. They
were ordered to close up on the 18th.
and by that date had built partitions
around the games and considered they
had obeyed orders. Above several Of
the tables that had worn them before
still hang the signs, This game never
closes There are eleven saloons in
the city, all of which run games and
two of them public dances every night
One of these latter is the Opera
house." and the dances go on there
only when there is no show on the
stage The dances run on as long as
anybody will dance. The price of
dancing is the purchase of drinks. The
saloons arc comparatively deserted
during the day. but at night they are
crowded.
The two company stores close at 4
o'clock in the afternoon. Nearly all
others engaged in business quit with
the daylight. The three sawmills have
closed down for the winter, because
they can no longer get logs. Three of
the eleven saloons close at night for
lack of light, so that in the evening
everything and everybody converges
toward the saloons that are open and
their games and dance halls The
lamps and candles are not lighted in
these until darkness compels and busi-
ness justifies. but although they hang
about the big log barracks at such dis
vt ms fn hoy
gloom, their flames and smoke weight
the air and lend a halo of indistinct-
ness.
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One searches for familiar faces in
this atmosphere as he would through
heavy fog. All the places of business
are along the water front and are com
prised in distance of about six blocks.
exclusive of the sawmills in the upper
end Of town. The two company stores
and warehouses occupy two blocks and
between there on the north, and the
police barracks on the south, a dis
tance Of four blocks or more. strictly
speaking, within two of these four
blocks is concentrated what is called
life" in this town.
Aside from the saloons, sawmills,
sash factory and company stores, the
business of the place embraces three
real estate and mining brokerage Of
fees, one law and mining. concern, two
watchmakers, one shoemaker, two or
three dealers in secondhand goods. a
cabinetmaker, half-dozen places where
fur caps and mittens and moccasins
are made, two dentists, two barber
shops with baths, several doctors Of
fees, two blacksmith shops and a tin
shop, where the demand for sheet-iron
stoves is partially satisfied. There is
also a small brewery, a man having
brought in few tons of hops, the
doing Of which cost him a fortune, and
out Of which he is making the most
The street along the edge of the
river bank Is still lined with tents the
entire length of the town, and in those,
and in some down-river boats and
barges that have been hauled up there
and covered over either with boards or
doing business. Front street is a busy
place both night and day. There, dur
ing the day, the dog teams are cursed
and beaten and kept moving, as men
transport their belongings from place
to place, and freighters haul merchan-
disc and firewood. Fur-enveloped men
and women move about with the rapid
step of the dogtrot the temperature
enforces, and the steam from the bod
les of the men and animals arises like
mist and turns each hair of whisker
and fur into an icicle
With the sunset this scene changes
here as it does in every city on earth.
The dogs are released to forage and
fight and howl the night through; men
and women crouch for little while
over their tin stoves as they cook their
bacon and beans in their cabins, and
then most of them blow out their can
dies, thus saving them, and go back to
Front street. The seats at the gaming
tables are filled up, the smoke of to-
bacco mingles with that Of the saloon
lamps, little pools of water are formed
by the pressure of boots about the
stove
| Out Of that row Of houses on the
back street. the windows of which are
shrouded day and night in red blinds.
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in boats and on RATS have failed to
get through the whirling mass of
ice to make landing and have passed
on down not so far to be heard of
again. Fragments of broken boats be-
came so common in the stream that
they were no longer remarked.
What or who may have gone down
this wide dark stream during the long
nights past the shrouded face Of the
city to which they had set out and
saw only a brief glimmer of her lights
as they were hurried by God alone
knows. Certainly they do not who
were engaged in the drunken revelry
of the dance isiSlE,. nor do they who
were crowded '-toout the tables where
the game never closes any more
than Go they who were asleep in the
log huts on the hillside And what
ever cry may have come up from the
blackness of the river must have been
drowned in the sob and shrek of half
starved wolf dogs that skulk back and
forth from end to end of the city all
through the night. After the brief in
terval of open river the ice began to
flow again on the 10th of October.
Prior to the Sth of October the ice had
come from the smaller streams that
empty into the big river. The tribu-
taries closed and the river cleared.
Then there came a night or two when
the mercury registered 13 degrees be-
low zero, and the ice that began flow
ing then was of the Yukon's own MAX
ing. Next to a free river one that is
tightly closed is to the well-equipped
old-umer most to be desired, and his
praying for it set the others praying
Also The other day, since freezing
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JAPAN IS NOW
CONSIDERED IN M0ST
WARLlKE MOOD.
Military Party Eager for Action, While
Statesmen Are Trying TO Form
New Cabinet

YOKOHAMA, Dec. 28--Owing to the
failure Of the Premier Marquis Saigo,
to reconstruct the Cabinet, all the
members of that body have resigned.
The newspapers demand the forma-
tion Of a very strong Ministry, capable
of coping with the situation in the
East
A dispatch to the Times from Kobe,
Japan, says the dissolution Of the Diet
has greatly angered the political par
ties. 1t is probable that the Marquis
Ito, former Premier, and Count Oku-
ma, a former Foreign Minister. will
form a coalition ministry, with a Wig
orous foreign policy. The military
party is eager for action, extraordi-
nary activity prevails at the military
and naval depots and warships are as
sembling at Nagasaki.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-The Jana
nese Minister has not yet been ad
vised Of the resignation Of the entire
Cabinet, and he feels that while the
designations may have been rendered
the Emperor will not accept them IN
less it becomes apparent that an en-
tirely new Cabinet under MARQUIS Ito
can be formed. Ito has been in private
life much of the time since his nota-
bic achievements during the China
japanese war, and it is not believed he
is ready to return to the Cabinet. He
is strong with all parties, however.
and has the people behind him, so that
he may again assume the Premier
ship If the emergencies demand it, The
Yokohama dispatch refers to Marquis
Saigo as the present Premier, which
is said at the Legation TO be an mac
curacy, as Minister Matsugata has
been Premier up to this time, with
Marquis Saigo as Minister Of Marine
The reference in the dispatch to the
public sentiment in Japan for a strong
Aninistry capable Of coping with the
Mutation in the East is one of the first
Tntimations direct from Japan that she
may take a hand in the controversy
centering in China. While he has re-
ceived no official advices as to the pur-
pose Of his Government, Mr.. Hoshi ex-
presses the personal conviction that
Japan will not be quick to enter the
controversy, but will maintain an in
dependent attitude for the present.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-According to a
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RUSSIA rs CERTAINLY
THE DOMINANT POWER
IN GREAT KOREA. "
1t Is Now Admitted by Japanese Papers
That the Gar Has Dstanced Japan in
the Struggle for Supremacy There.

TACOMA, Dec. 2S-Russia has be-
come the dominant power in Korea.
Her recent operations in that kingdom,
as detailed in the mail advices receiv-
ed here to-day, leave no room to doubt
that Russia intends eventually to ex-
ercise sovereignty over what the Ko-
rean King is pleased to call Great
Korea"
Japanese papers, which maintain
the Hveliest interest in everything re-
lating to Korea, admit that Russia has
completely distanced Japan in the
struggle for supremacy.
The Japan Times, Japan's great ma
tional paper, says this struggle was
brought to a eliminating point last
February, when Russia caused to be
published in the Official Messenger at
St Petersburg the text of the secret
Russo-Japanese convention. News of
this treaty greatly surprised Korea,
but the japanese Minister at Seoul Sc
cured a temporary advantage by rep
resenting that the treaty was a sue
cessful attempt by Japan to maintain
the balance Of power in Korea and
thus preserve from new dangers the
independence Of the kingdom for which
Japan had so recently poured out her
treasure and blood in war against
China
This representation caused a tenn
porary reaction against Russian as
cendancy, of which the Kings removal
10 his palace from the Russian legation
was the outward sign.
The Russo-JapaneSe convention left
the reorganization of Koreas army to
her own Government, but in July
Japan was completely checkmated the
Times admits, by the arrival from
Vladivostok Of thirteen Russian army
offlcers, who at once proceeded to drill
the Korean army. Three years ago
emma, Japan and Russia coveted
Korea. Japan maintained her right
against China by war The Russian
bear now stretches out his paw and,
! through diplomacy and the strength of
the Russian empire takes the prize
from from Japan. England had
slight influence in Korea. but Russia
| intended to nullify this when McLeavy
Brown was dismissed as adviser to the
imperial customs and NJ. Alexieff. a
Russian, installed as his successor.
Alexieff was preparing three weeks
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JAPAN is
PREPARED
FOR WAR

LONDON, Dec. ga special
dispatch from Shanghai, dated
Tuesday, says: 1t is reported
that a Japanese fleet of war
ships is waiting near Goto Is
land, outside Nagasaki, fully
equipped for war and only
awaiting instructions. This in
cludes the Yashima and the
Fuji, two Of the finest vessels
in the japanese navy, and the
Chen Yuen, that was captured
from China. The Japanese feet,
it IS understood, is acting in
close touch with the British
squadron under Vice-AdmiraI
Sir Alexander Butler, comman-
der-in-chief Of the China sta
ton.
Japan will certainly oppose a
permanent Russian occupation
Of Port Arthur. The sudden
dissolution Of the japanese Diet
was owing to the war spirit.
It is expected that the Japan
ese feet wiz attempt to prevent
the landing of reinforcements
from Odessa for the protection
of the Russian trans-Asiatic
Railway in Manchuria.