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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-10
STORY OF A DERELICT.
A Dead Man Steered the Schooner
Gen. Siglin.
Hair-Curling Discovery Made By the
Crew of the British Ship Arietis
Horrible Death Struggle
of q Brave Sailor.

TheArietis is British sealing schoon-
er commanded by Capt. Martin. She
had an experience the other day 100
miles west of the Queen Charlotte group
the recollection of which her crew will
carry with them to their dying days.
The weather was good and all was well
aboard the Arietis, when suddenly the
lookout sighted something that made
his eyes start. His nostrils grew tense,
HIS skin frightened about the roots of
his hair and all the eeries tales of the
sea that he had heard since he was q
lad crowded into his mind.
There, see-sawing aimlessly through
the water at the mercy of wind and
wave, q derelict foated low in the water,
stripped Of Inasts and canvas. She had
battled with the sea and the sea had
won, and now she drifted, hither and
thither, as aimlessly as q cork in the
water.
And the skipper sat astern with his
knees drawn up under his chin.
"Hallo!" shouted one Of the sailors
from aloft the Arietis.
But the man astern never answered;
he sat there as indifferently as his boat
rode the waves. and he never answered
the signal.
The men aboard the .Arietis stopped
talking. It made them feel creepy to
see the little bobbling boat and her
crouching skipper; they would have
liked drink of brandy. A fair breeze
soon brought the sealer alongside the
derelict, and they saw that the shippers
face was blue, and that he had been
long dead. tH
AS the Arietis' men < boarded the
schooner she was lying so deep in the
water that they stepped from their
boats to the roof of her cabin. Water
flooded everything; only the taffrail
was dry. The foremost lay across the
bow only few feet from the waves,
and over the scene Of utter desolation
the dead skipper kept watch.
Death had long released the suffer
ings Of the man on watch. In forlorn
hope he had dashed himself to the star
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-10

and additional vast expenditures will
be needed to redeem the failure Of
Weyler.
To make matters worse. between H.
900 and $1,000 Spanish soldiers are in
the hospital and the United States
sanitary inspector in Havana reports
the breaking out OF yellow fever in the
Spanish army. With the wretched
hospital equipment Of the island and
the miserable condition of the Span
ish soldiery the plague will rage un-
checked.
In the light OF the situation depicted
in the reports that escape the censors,
1t is easy to understand the hysterical
tone of the Madrid press and the .rea-
son for the insistent demand for hos
tilities towards the United States. The
Spaniards must choose between the
humiliating abandonment of Cuba and
being drivensout by the United States.
The Cubans will reap the fruits of
their sufferings and sacrifces.-St.
Louis Republic.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-10
WEYLER,S FAILURE.

Friends of the Cuban cause may find
pleasant reading in the Havana dis
patches these days.
General weyler has been completely
outwitted by General Gomez who has
slipped in behind him and mas practi-
cally cut him off from Havana, " hich
is ill-defended. Weyler IT. forced 70
give up his plan of operations on the
east and must face the foe In the rear
General Garcia is on the other side OF
Weyler, ready to harass him when ne
turns about to meet Gomez.
So disastrous is the failure OF Wey-
ler's summer campaign and so critical
is the situation that the Spanish and
loyal Cubans have practically given UP
hope of his success. The bost vicious
pro-Spanish organ in Havana INDUCES
in severe criticism of the Canovas
government and admits the collapse Of
the present war plans. A new army
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-10
GEORGE DIDN'T FINISH.

Mr.. A. G. Thomas, the Arcade hotel
proprietor yesterday engaged George
Alverson to clean the San Pedro ditch
which runs alongside Of his hosiery.
George did most of the work, and then
threw up his job, as the saying goes,
went and filled up on few ''straights,"
yelled few times and landed in the
city bastile where he spent the night.
This morning his little story was
brought to sudden termination by the
recorder who assessed him the usual
five-dollar fine.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-10
FIT. SAM HOUSTON NEWS

Infantry parade took place last night.
The regular Saturday inspection OF
all the troops took place this morning
at 9 o'clock. @
A new carpet has been placed on the
floor of the office Of Post Commander
Lit. Col. whitside and Adjutant and
First Lieutenant Jenkins in post head
quarters. ~
Sergeant Schoenberg and a private
of troop c, Fifth cavalry, who recently
brought a prisoner to this post from
Fort Clark, returned to their station
yesterday.
Schneider, the cyclist and musician
of Company b, will not take part In
Confines Interstate Drill races, as he
Intended doing a while back, owing to
the excessive heat.
1t is aid that a certain member Of the
thunder organization recently opened
his heart and treated a number OF in
innate friends to a chicken fry. Where
the fowls were obtained he does not
say.
The prisoners are doing some good
work, following out the commanding
officers order, in cutting the grass
from the yards about the post. They
all look neat since the grass has been
trimmed.
For the benefit of those not acquaint-
ed with army colors and to offset many
frequent inquiries concerning same,
Light will state that the officers
stripes when red indicate artillery;
white infantry, yellow cavalry and
green hospital corps.
An interesting rumor is going the
I rounds that certain young man of
X troop has taken 1t upon himself to
issue orders to the effect that all en-
listed men must keep their head and
eyes to the front while passing his
premises. What his reasons are no
one seems to know.
At guardmounting this morning the
band rendered the following selec-
lions:
March, "Rosedale". .............Se ltzer
Inspection, I'm Happy Moments" -.
80. 49,. ''...'.'.. ..'''..'''Wd H1ee
Troop, I'm Gay New York.. >. Kerker
Review, ed Regt. 1. N. G.. Weldon
Imediately thereafter the following
three pieces were rendered as con-
cert:
Carnival -. .Hetzel
Overture, Merry Wives Of Windsor"
.................. ......... .Nlcoial
Flirting in the Park" ........ Casey
The fiscal year ending June 80, in
army circles, the various clerks at
post headquarters are very busy at
present compiling all annual reports.
Most of them being very much compli-
Gated and tabulated in form, thus re-
quiring a great deal Of writing, the
clerks time is pretty well occupied.
The quartermaster's department clerks
are quite busy also, as almost all the
men are drawing new outfits for the
beginning of the new year. Therefore
Post Quartermaster Capt Litell and
'Quartermaster Sergeant Waller are
kept very busy. together with their
corps of assistants.
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some mad Importntions.

Englishmen introduced the rabbit
to Australia, where it ruined vast areas
of valuable land. Weasles sent to cor
rect the mistake found ground birds
good eating and let the rabbits alone.
Scotsmen bestowed the thistle upon
New Zealand, and then wished they
hadn't. A pretty water weed of which
Englishmen are fond was plansplanted
to New Zealand, and throye so that il
dams broad rivers. The mongoose
sent to Jamaica to kill off the cane rats
exterminated them and developed q
fine liking for poultry.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-10
A RECKLESS DRIVER.

Zell Adams was arrested yesterday
for reckless driving and was before the
recorder this morning and secured a
continuation of her case until Monday
for witnesses. She is accused of driv-
ing into a buggy belonging to John
Rathmann while the vehicle was
standing on West Commerce street and
damaging it to the extent of s5,75, and
also causing the horse to run away.
This happened last night.
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HAS A NICE NAME.

May Darling, not so very pretty, but
lady with very sweet name. was be-
fore Recorder Lewis this morning on
the charge of being drunk and disor-
derby, having been escorted to the
police station last night by officer
Khouri, and was fined five dollars. She
was cursing and acting in disorderly
manner at the corner of Main avenue
and West Houston streets.
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board stern davit; he knew when his
strength deserted him that he would
be washed from the filling wreck. His
one hope had been that some craft
would rescue him. but the hope failed
him.
Beside the corpse was q box of
tongue, a box or dried apples, bottle
of curry and two medicine bottles,
showing that the man was sick when
he began his desperate watch for a
sail. The arrangement Of several arti-
cles indicated that the seaman had be-
gun his desperate struggles after the
storm began and that he had probably
been abandoned by the rest of the crew.
He was Henry Saunders, 40 years of
age, a master mariner of st. John, N.
B., and q member of the masonic order,
attached to one of the Edinburgh
lodges. From letters it was discovered
that he had wife and children some
where in the east.
The craft was made out to be the
schooner Gen. Siglin, which left San
Francisco for Wood island, Alaska,
March 10, with a crew of six men and
five passengers
The body was removed to the Arietis,
wrapped in canvas and buried accord
ing to the simple service observed at
sea.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-10
ArrtcuIture IN Ru.sia.

Three-fourth of the total population
of Russia are engaged In cultivating
the soil.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-10
NEW SUITS FILED.

p. Gianotte VS.. Jacob Leonhardt, On
account, s459. e.. -5 ~.
p. Giauotte VS.. Thad w. Smith gar
nishee, and Jacob. 1eonharit. cefen-
dant, garnishment.
w. B. Kerr VS.. Hord & Berg. debt,
s1,1z3.so, due for coal extracted from
a mine near Rockdale, TeNas.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-10
PICNIC AND DANCE.

The Garten Verein will have picnic
and dance at Schuh's garden tomorrow
afternoon and evening. Everybody in
Vited. 7-10-2t'
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cooI, SUNDAY PROMISED.

Washington, July g1O.-For Western
Texas: Showers tonight, probably fair
Sunday: cooler in the southern portion
and southerly winds
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But As Denison Was Also Beaten San An
tonic Is Still At The Top Houston
Won Another Game.
BASEBALL BAROMETER.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

At Paris-Paris g.. San Antonio !,
At Denison-Austin 4, Denison 0.
At Dallas-Dallas z. Galveston 3.
At Fort Worth-Houston s, Fort
Worth z.
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TIE loaify 1:iq6t
SATURDAY, JULY 10. 1897.
HE HAD JAUNDlcE
Sufferer Was Also Afflicted with Erup-
TONS on His Skin.

SUFFERER VI as Also Nt'icted with erup-
Cons on His Skin.
" SIy liusbr.iI had the jaundice, and he
We al:laec take Hoods Sarsaparilla
and HoaH's 2I!is. Re began the use of
these M, die .,vs, and they have cured him.
He has a,;ca Heod's Sarsnpa lila for erup-
.tions on rs Nii, and he lies found it an
oe.api,.nLt' ll'a.iEer. We hayerecom-
ncuird .oed's Ss-7''''i ','il to others who
gsave taken -, good results" MRS.
ELY = - 2o.n'J, Texas.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-01-20

given az Mrs. Grants house in the Ma
.tiopal Capital. It is m affair that is
regarded with much pleasing anticipa.
tion, says the Chicago Times Herald,
and Wilt be, no doubt, followed by a
large number Of entertainments in
honor OF the fair debutante. Miss Sar-
toris was born IN London nearly eight
cen years ago. She is pretty bru-
nette, with chestnut hnlr and rich
olive complexion. She is OF medium
height, With tendency to plumpness.
Educated abroad, she is ono OF tho
best informed girls in her set. Her
'mother-Jaeked after Miss Vivien's ed
ucation with her own eyes, and the re-
suit is seen in the womanly character
OF the daughters mind and education.
Miss Sartoris has q voice of good vol
ume and native sweetness, and it has
not lostaaay of its power by on en-
forced cultivation. She will be given
some vocal training during the winter.
Miss SartS,ris speaks perfect French,
but has not studied other languages
than thetand her own. Her sister,
who is iast fifteen, promises to rival
the eldest in. personal attraction. Mrs.
Sartoris-serself looks more like an ell
der sistes with her charming daugh-
ters thanIshe does like their mother.
The portrait of Miss Vivien Sartoris
here sAownis reproduced from pho
tographic Scopv Of Hnllni's T'onaon
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-01-20

VIC lSt ohSoOS "AA'SS
soon became very hard, and then
crackers. I eat very little fruit in the
tropics-the mango and the cocoanut
in the morning and late in The even
ing, but never while the sun is up.
When we found travellers tree 1 in
serted my knife in the fibre between
two leaves and would drink, after
straining. the water which came out.
I found the groo groo worms. c-
grubs, taken between the leaves at the
top of the palm tree, to be delicious
when fried to a crisp. They taste like
the fat of lamb chop with soupcon
OF cocoanut favor.
"My men chopped down young
cabbage palms and ate the heart of the
fruit, uncooked. 1t is white, and
tastes like cabb. ge. The Malagassy
are not squeamisb. They devour egg
shells and chicken bones. At q native
hotel not far from Antsnauarivo | had
for the first course strange, half.
burnt compound of fat, eristle and OK
U6Sn, IOASlSu Hlbu bAO hiuO oho bhAS
ties on. The crust OF the bread had
hair and feathers ID it. The second
course was better, consisting OF wild
pigeon with green PEGS. Money in
Madagascar means French tive.franc
pieces chopped into segments and car
ried in bag. Some OF the segments
are scarcely bigger tlc n pea.
.I started inland with 200 tiye-franc
pieces chopped up in this way. A sim
gle coin is sometimes cut into twenty
five bits. The natives eagerly took
copper and brass wire and eg g-shaped
beads, tin cans and long necked lime
juice bottles, instead of the money,
which is weighed out in light sheet
iron scoops almost rs small as apothe-
carries scales. Every householder,
traveller and vender carries these.
"A'ong the white sands OF tho In.
dian Ocean, on the first days journey,
1 shot many snipe, similar to the
American species. AS We penetrated
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A -Four Dollar Bill.

D. G. McCausland, of Davenport.
Iowa, in looking over some old pupel !
that belonged to his father few weeks
ago, discovered n four dollar bill
bearing date of November %, ITS.
The bill looks more as though it were
made in China than in the United
States. The paper has something OF
the appearance of the Chinese paper,
and the characters look something
like Chinese characters. The bill
reads: "Tis entities bearer to four
Spanish mill dollars, or the value
thereof in gold or silver, according to
resolution OF Congress passed at Phil
adelpbla, November 20, 1875. "--Chi'
cago Tribune.
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sideration coming from the Amazon
River valley. The tree grows to bo
from seventy to 100 feet high. The
bark is smooth and yields milky sap
when tapped. The twigs are some
times spiny anil the leaves are often
six inches broad. The trees are often
cultivated for ornament, from the
West Indies to Brazil. Ii left to ripen
on the tree, the nut explodes with n
sharp report, when each OF its curious
compartments, numbering sometimes
as many as sixteen, flies asunder, so
that its seeds, which somewhat resem-
bes pumpkin seed, drops out. Our
engraving shows tho condition OF the
ruptured cells. The nut has q
dense woody fiber. The nuts
stand exporting, and occasionally
do not explode for several months.
The pieces are thrown several feet
when the explosion takes place. If
the nut is kept in alcohol or water, 1t
can be preserved for years.
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Peculiarities of tho Law.

There are some queer things about
the law. A postof1ice safe was robbed
in Callfornia. Mo-, some time ago. In
such case the department pays $500
each for the conviction of the persons
engaged in The robbery. There were
five persons engaged in the affair, but
the authorities had no clew to the
men. 1t happened that the guilty
persons were in q saloon some time
afterward. One of the crowd got into
dispute with farmer, who killed
him. 1t turned out that the man
killed was the rineleader and had the
bulk of the booty on his person. His
death resulted in proving the COM
plicity in the robbery of the four
other men. The men who captured
the four have been allowed $500. The
farmer made application for 5000, but
the court has decided that he cannot
get it, because the head robber was
peither arrested nor convicted. He
was simply dead-and postoffice rob-
Der has to be taken alive. to win a re-
ward.-Detroit Free Press.
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Mierahes DeYunr Sewage.

A novel disposition of sewage is
made at Exeter, England. The method
consists of four tanks, fourth OF tho
sewage passing into each. Light aud
air are excluded from the tanks; put
r0iacton aud decomposition are rapid:
ly set up; the microbes multiply and
the solid portions of thess sewage aro
consumed and the outflow from the
tanks is nothing but slightly co!ored
water, which, after PASSING through
filters, loses all color and taste. No
chemical is used, and no.attention 10
the tanks of my sort is needed. Each
filter bed automatically clennses itself
by being out Of use for short time.
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he had reached Madagascar he was
casehardened to experiences OF the
ordinary.
"l knew nobody in Tamatave, on
the east coast of Madagascar" he says.
when 1 landed there. 1 called on
John L. Waller, the recently arrived
American Consul; it's the right thing,
Of course, for traveller to pay his re-
spects to the representatives of his
country wherever he finds them. My
own regret has been that American
Cousuls are not, as a rule, up to the
consular standards as set by other
countries. They are not respected, III
my experience, as they should be by
the people among whom they discharge
their duties.
81 found Tamati7e very unimpres.
sive town. Tie single unpaved main
street and the lanes that intersect it
are covered with loose sand. When I
purchased my provisions for the jour
rey up the country to the capital l
gave it out that ! wanted bearers.
The proprietor OF the store was 3
Scotchman, carrying limited stock
of general merchandise. Natives soon
began to offer themselves. / inspect
ed them in groups, rejecting all those
who were feshy or unhealthy looking.
They averaged five feet seven inches in
height, should say. Their tongues
had to be examined to see if their di-
gestion was good; their feet, to see if
they would make good ground gain
ers; their legs. to see if they had been
strained by heavy burdens. Tall,
spare men, who could throw their
shoulders out and their calves back,
we're the ones I looked for. They
must have shoulders free from the
sores SO often found in Malagassy car
riers, who sometimes have to stagger
scores OF miles through the desolate
interior under loads which would tax
@ beast of burden. Of the fifty men
looked over 1 chose twenty-eight.
"Eacn one was to receive the equiv
alent of 50. so in Malagassy money for
each 225 miles traversed with his load,
and two shlllings for rice en- route.
-Four OF them started out with my ill
aDzapa, species OF palanqnin, four
accompanied the fiIapzana as substi
tutes, and the other twenty carried
the boxes and parcels of provisions
and erchandise for traffic, which
the Sec Gilman had put up in suitable
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in private libraries for the volumes
that contain them.

The unfortunate rush of population
from the rural districts to the cities is
commanding increasing attention,
notes the Atlanta Journal. DR..
Reynolds, of Chicago, in recent ad-
dress before The conference of char
ities and corrections at Springfield,
urged that efforts should be made to
stop this drift of population. We all
agree that this ought to be done and
he who will propose some way in
which 1t can be accomplished must be
coasiSerea benefactor OF his race.
DR.. Reynolds did7not- -oasef-GnE practi-
CO! remedy for the evil. His only
suggestion was that statesmen and
sociologists should seek to promote
.'those economic features that best
foster the profit of the farm" and
"make dollar as easy to obtain in
the country as it is in the CITY," Just
how this is to be done DR.. Reynolds
does not attempt to show. The doc
tors intentions are good, but his
address embodies nothing in the di-
rection of practical reform. In spite
of the experience of 80 many young
men and older ones who leave farms
to make their fortunes in town and
accomplish nothing but miserable
failure; in spite of the overcrowdel
condition of every profession, trade
and calling in nearly all our cities,
the trend of population from the
farms to the great centres OF popula-
lion continues, and there is at present
little prospect that it will cease. Bit
ter experience may at last have its due
!. sffect upon this movement, but it is
not probable that it will be checked
by aHy teacher less severe.
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to advantage. Stylishly pointed epau.
lets fall deeply OH the front and back,
extending we'll over the fashionable
sleeves that are mounted upon coat
shaped Innings. At the neck is close
standing band covered with stock OF
ribbon.
The design may be copied in wooden
or cotton fabrics auch MS challis, CASH
uerc, French flannel or figured de-
laine, or developed in China silk,
taGeta or surah for more dressy oc.
casions, the model affording rare op.
portunities for the combination OF
colors. Heliotrope, with quillings OF
white satin ribbon, would be effective
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Ontuut Of C'oal.

In fifteen years the worlds output
of coal has nearly douhlei-r'alns
from 364, 737, 405 tons in 1889, to
62S, sos, 2a9 tons in 1895. The in
crease in Great Britain has been from
164, sos, 73S TO 1880, T25 tons; III
the United States, from Il, 4Sl, 56o to
1913, III, $50 tons; in Germany, from
Ga, ,i77,6 ,634 to lii, 1924, lSG tons; IN
Austria Hungary, from 1G, ,7l3, 600 80
33, ,57O,35S tons; in Belgium, from
1s, GIT, ,5S5 to 22,453,47l tons; in
Russia, from 3,570,4l3 to 8,367,357
tons; and in all other countries, from
1921 ,429 to IA, 50,003 tons.