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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-05

Mr.. A. c. Wolfe. Of Dundee, Mo-,
who travels for Mansur & Tibbetts,
Implement Co, of st. Louis, gives
travelling men and travellers in general
some good advice. Being knight
Of the Grip" he says, Il have for the
past three years made it rule to keep
myself supplied witt Shamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
and have found numerous occasions
to test its merits, not only on myself,
but on others as we'll. 1 can truly say
that never, in a single instance, have
known 1t to fail. consider it one of
the best remedies travellers can carry
and could relate many instances where
/ have used the remedy on sceptics,
much to their surprise and relief.
hope every travelling man in the U. S.
will carry a bottle Of this remedy in
his grip" For sale by all druggists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-05
For RENT

Building on northeast corner of
Commerce and East streets, 64xS0
feet, two stories and basement, large
hail on second floor. Apply to L.
W0LFS0N. 12-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-05
You'll never have her age.

She fiirts at times, and sometimes bets,
And, though misunderstood,
At length great reward she gets,
Because she's really good.
She never eats and only sips
The very choicest wines,
But yet in abstruse problem dips
And to free-thought inclines.
You'll never find her here below,
However you may look;
Because such creatures do not grow
Except whiting a book.
In the true realm Of fiction there are
beings whom we know and have met
who act and think as we do. There
are also those creatures of the mag
ination, whose original doings we love
to watch when we are tired of gazing
on our own wOrk-a-day world. But
these creatures of spurious romantic
fiction are neither fish nor flesh, ncr
fowl, nor good red-herring. They are
our comrades masking in the guise of
gods and devils in dream distorted
world.
Yet heaven forfend that should say
a single word against books. What
should we do without them, these I'M
complaining friends who never bore
us with their chatter; but are ever
ready to flood us with every variety
of interest and amusement, standing
silent on our shelves, like the key
board of an organ, waiting only the
touch of sympathetic soul, to speak
to us of every passion of JOY or sorrow
that can sway the human heart.
IT'S strange that some who live
among their books should know so lit
tie of their souls as does the house
holder of the family Bible. This,
mighty tome, is in almost every house
and. under the flower pot on the front
table is always conspicuous; but lex
cept when some one wants to know
how old Aunt Jane really isl no one
ever looks within. They may use it
when the music stool is out of order
or they cannot reach anything; but,
as a living friend it might as well be
one of those sham books that vomit
all sorts of things when you take them
down by mistake. So does the book
collector. He gathers and gathers
and then sits down and admires the
symmetry of his stacks, afraid TO dis
turb the golden corn that would have
nourished him.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-05
BIRTHS REPORTED.

Aug. 30-Girl, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Moon, No. 80 East Arsenal street.
Sept. 1-Girl, Adolph and Abel May
er, No. ALP Buena Vista street, Ward
2.
Sept. Girl, Z. L. and Marie Louise
LahOn, No. lob Zavalla street, Ward
3.
Sept. boy, Joseph and Fillmore
Walker. COma1 street, Ward 3.
Sept. 2-Giri, Mr.. and Mrs. Rose, No.
215 Powder House street, Ward Z.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18
New York Markets.

FLOUR-State and western weak and
lower to sell; city mills patents, s5.s0@
6.15; winter patents. s5Q525: city mills
clears. s5.45q5.6O; winter straights. 81. 60
Q475,
WHEAT-No. red opened weak and
declined under bearish cables, better
Argentine crop news and big visible
supply; December, S6Q96asc.; January.
s6&c.
RYE-Quiet No. 2 western, 49c. c. 1.
T.. Buffalo.
CORN-No. opened firm on small
receipts and held steady; December.
NbG3lAc.; May. 34%Q34Ac.
OATS-No. 2 dull. but steady; track.
white. state. 26q3lc. track. white.
western. 2S93lc.
PoRK-Dull; new mess, sS.5O@9.25:
family. 1nQl2.25.
LARD - Steadier: prime western
steam. 34.82a, nominal.
BUTTER-Quiet; state dairy. 100
ioc.: state creamery. 14@23c.
CHEESE-Quiet; large. white. S7sc.:
small. white. 9k@9hc.
EGG6-FtYmer; state and Pennsylva-
MA, ls02ic.; western, 21c.
SUGAR-Raw nominal; fair refining.
3k@s S-lsc.; centrifugal, 96 test. 3%@
1s-1sc.: refined steady; crushed. sac:
powdered. s 2-l6c.
TURPDNTINE-Steady at 3OhQ3lc.
MOIAAe6ES-Quiet; New Orleans, Is
0alc.
RICD-Quiet; domestic. 4x@6Mc.: ia
pan AoSito.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18
big Hotel Rurned by Elrehurs.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. Nov. S-The
Hotel San Marco. one OF the finest and
most capaoious hotel properties In this
city. was burned to the ground by in
cendiaries. entailing a loss of about
s260000 with less than $50. 900 insurance
The blaze not only illuminated the en-
tire city. but could be seen for miles
around. In a few hours the structure
was reduced to embers The owner Of
the san Marco was William Beale. a
real estate dealer in Boston, and was
leased to Mcdowell & Palmer. II would
have been opened next month. Fearing
further incsndiarism. those in charge of
the Hotel Ponce de Leon have ordered
steam up constantly in order to furnish
water pressure at a few moments no.
tice. The citizens OF the city have Of
fered $500 reward for the capture OF the
lncediaries
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18
RECKLESS ROBBERS.
After blowing Open u safe on . Train,
They Wreck the Cars In Collision.


ALBUQUERQUE. n. NJ, Nov. s.-At-
lantic and Pacific passenger train No. .
from the west was held up by four men
near Grants station. 80 miles west of
this city. After blowing open the ex-
press companys safe. the robbers
wrecked the train, which caught fire.
the express. baggage and smoking cars
being totally destroyed.
II Is not yet known whether they
were successful in obtaining booty, but
II Is thought n large amount of money
was carried by the train.
The robbers had boarded the train
at some point farther west and when
near Grants one Of them boarded the
engine and. covering the engineer with
a gun. ordered hiA to stop the train.
The coaches were cut of and left at the
stockyards. The rest OF the train was
then taken out a mile and a half from
the station. where the express safe was
dismantled
After robbing the safe, the robbers re-
versed the engine and made thelr es-
cape. The engine and baggage car ran
nj terrific rate until they struck the
coaches. WHICH were standing near the
Htockyards. The cars were wrecked and
caught fire. four OF them being burned.
Fortunately the passengers had all
left the coaches before the collision.
and none was injured.
A late rumor Is to the effect that the
fireman. Henry Able, who was COM
pelled by the robbers to run the engine
when the coaches We're left. was killed
by the explosion when the safe was
blown open
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18
WITH oRUsoN ruRRErs.


Report That New Yesh aarbsr WIN -
TrssesssA BY rhh HosaiAabls sysssn.
NEW YORK. Nov. As q result OF
II Commerce for additional artillery for
cosst protection, the war department
will erect In the harbor OF New York
the most formidable known system Of
defense in the worid-namely. gruson
turre.s.
An officer Of high standing In ord
nance circles Is authority for the state
ment that the question has been under
serious consideration by the war de-
partment for some time, and that IL
would doubtless have been settled long
ago IL II had not been for the great ex-
pense involved. Now. however. that
the people have taken the matter In
hand the war department officers are OF
the opinion that there will no longer be
trouble In obtaining from congress all
the money that is necessary.
The gruson turret is German de-
vice. controlled at present by the
krupps. 1t comes the nearest to i'm
pregnability of anything known to ar
ullerists OF today So keenly alive has
the war department been to the neces-
sity OF obtaining some such protection
for coast guns that minute particles
have been secured from the German
makers. The Krupps. II Is stated by
ordnance men. have gone 80 far on the
htimation received from this govern
ment as to have arranged with the
bethlehem Iron works of Bethlehem,
Pa, for the fabrication work in the
United States. The negotiations. It is
said. were carried on by Captain A. T..
Plorkowski of the German artillery
corps. who represents the Krupps in
this country
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18
No
|atchWork!

hof the most encouraging features
Re made BY S.S.S. (Swift's Speci6c) J
Spermanency. OF all diseases, II ID
|inown that those of the blood are
lost obstinate. and therefore .he
difficult to cure. The medical
sion, In fact, have virtually ad-
that . real, deepseated blood
is beyond their skill.
tourse, their admission 10 not made
many words, but actions speak
than words, and their inability to
siter months and often years OF
rent, is sufficient evidence that dis
5d the blood cannot be cured by
.. Their mercurial mixtures, al.
b taken faithfully. only cover up
rmptoms of the disease, inducing
.tient to feel that he 10 being cured;
ben he 10 sooner or later seized
Itifi joints, pain in the bones, ETC.,
idence of the doctors patchwork
Elusive. Such results cannot be ex-
from the use of S. S. S. Being
vegetable, containing no harm
neral ingredients, it Is the only
remedy which acts on the true
Die OF forcing the disease from
rstem, building up rather than
down the health. No loss of
% stiff joints, no decrepit mercu-
rcks result from the use of S.S.S.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. Nov. S.
Captain Lilman and Mate Hall OF the
schooner Linmann d. Foster which ar
rived from Honolulu. were arrested bya
deputy United States marshal on Il
warrant sworn out by Able Seaman
Mcdonald. who claims to have been
brutally treated by the captain and the
mate on the voyage United States
Commissioner Swan held hem to appear
before the United States court in the
sum Of $500
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18
WIDOWS s'ApPRAIsRMENTs.-N is here

WIDOWS Observation-Disclosures Is here
w by given that the following Widows Ap-
praisements under tho $500 law. have been filed
with the Clerk OF the or 1ans Court OF Snyder
county for Confirmation on Monday, the 18th
dav OF Dec, 1877.
Appraisement Of Lucetta Sesrs. widow Of VIM.
B. Sesrs, late Of Selinsgreve, Snyder CO., Pa,
decd, elected 70 be taken under the $500 exemp-
tiou law.
Nosh Stetler. late Of Monroe Twp, Snyder Co.
Pa. decd. elected to be taken under the sS0J
exemption law.
Appraisement OF Carrie Brosious, widow Of
Napoleon Brosious, late Of Perry Twp, Snyder
Co.. Ps. decd, elected 10 be taken under the
o8oe exemption law.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18
The Work OF GhOuls.

MILLVILLE, n. j.. Nov. S.-Ghouls
dug up the body of Mrs. Phoebe Tilton,
buried four months ago in Mount Pleas
ant cemetery, dragged 1t some distance
and mutilated 1t by cutting open the
trunk with an ak and removing the
heart There is the usual talk about 1t
being the work of medical students. but
the awkward way in which the deed
was done seems to preclude this theory.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18

Miles Restorative Nervine and the second
night obtained the first nights real sleep In
four weeks. know that DR.. Miles Restor.
ative Nervne saved my life.
DR.. Miles Remedies are sold by all drug
gists under positive guarantee, first bottle
benefits or money refunded. Book on Heart
and Nerves sent free to all applicants.
DIR. MILES MEDICAL CO.. Elkhaft, Ind.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18

and could not sleep
Other complications
peculiar TO my sex set
in and our physician
called another in con-
sultation. They de-
cided l had consump-
tion and must die. l
commenced taking DR.,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18

badger-The theatre is 80 different
FROM what 1t was. It is but feeting
show. so to speak; there's nothing sta
BILE about It.
Widgit-That's too bad. by George.
considering the amount Of horse-play
there is In it.-Boston Transcript.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18
RELIGION A LUXURY.

Dr.. Tai N . 3 .
uses the orch
ards of the Bible
% depict the full
ness of q religious
life.
Il is Wednes-
day morning in
paradise. T b .
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18

(H. L. Myers, of 100 Mulberry street,
h, N. J., made the mistake Of re-
Upon remedies based upon mineral
Vents, and for the hundreds Of
which he invested received only
ointment In return. He says:
iu afflicted with . terrible blood
which WAS in spots at first, but
rds spread all over my body.
pon broke out into sores, and It
to imagine the suffering I en-
Noe became convinced that
Ietors could do no good I had
: hundred dollars, which was
thrown away. I then tried vari.
tent medicines, but they did not
the disease. When I had finished
/ bottle of S.S.S., I was greatly
nd and was delighted With the
The large red splotahes on my
gan to grow paler and smaller,
re long disappeared entirely. I
my lost weight, became strong.
my appetite greatly improved.
bon entirely we'll, and my skin as
. piece Of glass;"
10 q sure cure for all manner
I diseases, and disappointment
results from its use. It is
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-18
Eely Vegetable

thousand dollars will be paid
t that it contains a particle Of
potash, or other mineral. S.S.S.
BY all druggists.
lble books on blood and skin dis
nj be mailed free to all who ad.
NIT Specific Co, Atlanta, Ga.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-11

man who was CAPABLE OF incredible fatuities
and hard-heartcdncss but whose whole charac-
ter was drenched In the atmosphere OF hlS
church Road the narrative OF Captain Roger
Clan. in which he tells how he left England Ior
the colonies Mind, by what have aireaoy eA-
pressed. That II was God that did draw me oy
His Providence out OF my Fathers Family, ana
weaned me from It by degrees: 1t was Zoo pu.
it into my heart to incline to Live aproao' a"u
it was God that made my Father willing. Goo
by His Providence brought me near Mr.. War
ham. and inclined my heart to his Ministry: God
by His Providence moved the Heart Of my Mas
ter Mosgiour TO ask me whether l would so 10
New-England: It was God by His Providence
that made me willing to leave my dear Father
and dear brethren and Sisters. my dear frienos
and Country: 1t was God that made my father
willing upon the first motion made in Person. 10
lie. RE go: 1t was God that sent Mr.. Maverick
that pious Minister to me, who was unknown 10
him. to seek me out that might come hither SO
God brought me out Of Plymouth the 2Oth OF
March in the year 1929. 80. and landed me IN
Health at Nantasl<et, on the 3Oth of May, 1851
being then about the Age OF Twenty-one years
Blessed be God that brought me here :
1t is in gimpses of self-portrature like this. IN
artless fragments of characterization, in anec-
doteS or customs anu HdHHeis' anu /" NO"|i'P
tons at first hand of the events attending the
founding Of our Nation that these books are
rich They are dscursive. on the whole they are
foinless, but enough has been said to indicate
their serviceableness to the reader who wishes
to have personal contact with Columbus. Haw-
kins Sir Walter Raleigh. Cabot, the Pilgrims. the
Dutch the Spanish. the English and the French.
with all those men Of action and of pety VINO
were busy subduing the land to their uses
that they rarely had time to write more than the
brieeest account of their doinss. Brief as they
were they ha6 as has been shown. directness,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-11

sailed in brakes company and wrote an ac-
count Of his mountaineering voyage Describ-
ing brakes marauding expedition along the
South American coast. this Squire Pretty says:
From hence went to a certaine port called
Tarapaca. where being landed. we found by the
seaside Spaniard lying asleepe, who had lying
by him 13 barrels OF silver, which weighed 4oOO
dIcats Spanish; we tooke the silver, and left the
man" That last touch comes near to being
witty. but good Master Pretty is quite uncon-
scious Of any intention to amuse or to be clever
That is what makes him delightful an his
torian
That is what makes his peers in the books at
present under discussion SO sympathetic and 50
diverting. Before turning TO them. however. let
choose more specimen OF Pretty's quaint
simplicity. They were after the Cacafuego. a
Spanish ship full of gold and silver. 1T fortuned
that John Drake. going up into the top. deserted
her about three Of the clocke, and about siXe OF
the clocke came to her and boorded her, ana
shotte at her three peeces Of ordinance, and
stroke down her Mssen. and being entered we
found in her great riches, as jewels and precious
stones thirteene chests full Of royals OF plate
foure score pound weight Of gode and sixe and
twenty TUNE Of silver. The Pilots
name of this Shppe was Francisco
When tnlS fiot oepdrieu HUH No. III" ''' co.. -
thus unto our Generall Captaine, our ship snail
be called no more the Cacafuego (Spitfire), but
the Cacaplata (Spit-treasure), and your shippe
shall be called the Cacafuego; which pretie
speach of the Pilots boy minstrel matter OF
laughter to US, both then and long after The
laughter is there yet. One sees the Sunolk gen
tleman standing the deck. watching the
pilots boy" and chuckling over the tribute 10
his "Generalr' and his ship He is no longer
photographed curiosity. figure OF the text
books an authority" of the popular writer ne
Is a popular historian himself for he is a pict-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-11

uresque writer who what he writes about
ard especially is he a man. How real were these
actors in the drama Of OR early years! We our
selves are Aot more human; in fact, the society OF
the present day Is not TO be compared with
brakes or Sewall's for vvdness and viril-
ity We are accustomed to see the Puritans
a. we see the Elizabethans, more or less in the
atrical or at least conventional guises. Until you
become really acquainted with him there is moth
ing more romantic. more remote or more difficult
to grasp on the human side in the Pilgrim in his
sober garb or in the swashbuckling sea rover
upon his quarterback. But once the veil OF
years is pierced once the reader turns from the
thin outlines Of the modern historian to such
vivid substances as he may get from the con-
temporary records given in any OF these three
hooks, he the difference between the Puri-
tans convention. say. and our own. we are
cynical he not. We seek to deceive the rest
Of the world, the Puritan had a sincerity which
caused him to deceive himself. Hence his big
otry is a different thing from that of the mod
ern man. We not praising it, We merely
point out that beneath his most fantastic and re-
pellent behavior, beneath even such awful errors
as those of the witchcraft frenzy, there flowed
a depth of sincere feeling which is wel-nigh be-
yond our comprehension to-day. DR.. Chamber
lain's hero is good type. Sewall himself
mon the bench during the later days OF the
witchcraft excitement. and had his hand in more
than one case He is to be blamed as much as
many others. But his courage was equal to his
bigotry Once his belief in the old hallucinaton
was shaken he was prepared to make the just
recantation. When the Salem court and its
abettors had been brought to sense OF their
shortcomings and the Legislature appointed
day Of fast in 1861 as penitence in the matter Of
1.-The late tragedy raised among us by Satan and
his instruments, through the awful judgment Of
God" Sewall was Of the most earnest mourn
ers in the parish meeting house. Then and there
he had a petition read-standng up at the read
ing Of it and bowling when f1nished-which pc
tit!on expressed his conviction that he had been
more to blame thar any of his judicial asso-
GATES and his desire that he might take the
blame and shame Of the cruel past
There you have the Puritan at full length, the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-11
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY.
THE QUAiNTNESS AND FORCE OF IT'S
MAKERS AND WRITER'S

AMERICAN HISTORY TOLD BY CoNTEM-
POEAHlES. Volume l: Era of Colonization.
lio2-l5s9 Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart
Octave. PIP xviii, CSC. The Macmillan Company
THE STORY OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS.
loo iG23 A. D.. AS TOLD BY THEMSELVES.
THEIR FRIENDS AND THEIR ENEMIES
Edited from the Original Texts, by Edward
Ar6or, r s A Octave PIP X. GA. Houghton.
Mifllin & Co.
SAMUEL SEWALL AND THE WORLD HE
LIVED IN. BY Rev. y. H. Chamberlain.
Octave. PIP. Kill, S1a. Boston, De Wolfe. FIske
& Co.
These books make strong appeal for what
might be called the popu,a-izaton Of learning.
They all based careful study Of the
sources of American history. and sources" are
commonly supposed to be the exclusive province
of Dryasdusts and similar uninspiring indi-
viduals But our authors have we'll avoided the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-11

vividness, force fexibility and. finally. pro-
found sincerity These three volumes in
sense books Of reference. but all three have the
interest Of a novel all three bring the reader
acquainted with human beings busy about prac-
teal and sometimes heroic things. The rhetoric
may be different from own. the tone may
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-11

Richard Mansfield has written his first book.
1t is called Blown Away" and will soon be
published by Page & Co., Of Boston. The same
house announces the completion OF its fourteen
volume edition Of Lady Jackson's historical
works. The last volumes. just printed, are de-
voted to The Court Of the Tuileries."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-11

Little Brown g. Co. are bringing out shortly
the first volume Of THE History OF the Royal
Navy" an important work upon which several
English specialists have been engaged for some
time At the same time 1t il made known that
Commander Jerrold Kelley's american Navy:
Its Growth and Achievements" Is In press.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-11

seem infinitely quaint. but both are alive and
both touch Enthusiastically some of our iveliest
emotions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-11
TWO AND TWO MAKE FOUR.
THE REMARKABLE DISCOVERY OF THE
BELGIAN SHAKESPEARE

THE TREASURE OF THE HUMBLE. BY Man
rice Maeterlinck. Translated by Alfred Sutro'
with Intr ,duction by A. b. Walkley. OctaVo'
DID. xvi, 2G. Dodd, Mead 6 Co.