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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-19
TELEGRAPHIC.
LATE DISPATCHES BRIEFED AND
BOILED DOWN.
General Summary of the Happenings Of
The Day, in Both Foreign and
Domestic Circles.

The Texas Alamo building at the
Nashville Centennial is finished.
Minister Woodford will ask for in
demnity for the widow of the MUIR
dered DR.. Ruiz.
Italian deputies do not know what to
do with the navy of that country.
William of Germany receives a low
ing cup at Bielfield. 81.
Province of Assam in India devas-
tated by earthquake.
| Cyclone sweeps near Paris and two
French towns are somewhat the worse
for the winds.
Seal Commissioner Foster goes to
Russia first and Great Britain does not
like it.
Wales presides at a banquet given
to the premiers of the several Brit
ish colonies.
Emperor William and his empress
unveil the statue at Cologne.
Transvaal is ready to enter into an
arbitration agreement with Great
Britain.
Switzerland state council favors con-
troll of the railroads in that country by
the government.
Costa Rica and Guatemala join the
Central American Federation of Re-
publics.
The usual bomb was reported found
in Paris yesterday.
One body a day on the average has
been taken from the Thames for the
past three weeks, suicides.
SaUara wind cto,-,,, ranortod n No.
Gle, Indiana and vicinity. Damage
less than $4,000.
Special Commissioner Calhoun is re-
ducing his report to writing, for for
NAL submission.
There will be no currency commits
sion appointed this session of Congress
Internal revenue collections for May
are $647, 59S behind those of last May.
Rivera is to be executed, the prose- |
cutor has asked for formal death |
sentence.
Havana papers denounce lee, dclar- |
ing that he holds his high office un-
Kansas City ships mules and a sad
lie horse for Weyler to Cuba.
Canovas and Teutan in Madrid are
what to do with Rivera.
Testimony in the government land
case VS.. Pacific railroads is taken in
Dallas.
Inquest held on body of Barnato
shows that he died by drowning.
Winds blow down church and large
storage house and does other damage
1T West Burnham, S. c.
The murdered mans father-in-law is
charged with that murder reported
rom Weimar yesterday.
Murder trial of John Oldholdt is on
1t Floresville.
Man charged with assaulting a L
child in Massachusetts, who
died, is bailed in $4,000.
Bridge guard at Ell Paso kills a poor
Mexican because he had not the 2
cents bridge fare.
Mexican mail carrier arrested at Ell
Paso for smuggling chile into Texas.
Lightning strikes the Sedalia power
house and leaves the town in dark
ness.
Heavy electric and wind storms are
in various sections of the
Storm in Logan county, Illinois, does
great damage including five lives lost.
Cotton seed oil mems trust formed
at Chattanooga.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-19

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-19
HOME MADE SHOES

To arrive: The largest shipment of
Ladies Shirt Waists ever brought to
San Antonio by any one retail house at
this time of year. Wait for them.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-17
A British AdmiraI's Coffin.

Many have been the peculiar wishes of
men still in the flesh with regard to the
disposition OF their remains when they
die. A case Of peculiar singularity came
under our notice while going the
rounds" says a Liverpool paper. Seeing
a well-built boat OF immature dimensions
under construction, inquiry elected the
curious information that the boat was
being built to the order Of an undertaken,
at the request Of a living British admiral,
to serve as his final resting place. The
build of the boat is strong, and she is in
all respects constructed on the lines of
an ordinary double ended lite boat, with
out perhaps, quite as much shear as is
usually found in such a craft. She is pro-
vided with a wooden deck or cover. ex-
tending fore and ait, and fitted lid-fash-
ion to go over the gunwale. The boat
coffin is carvel built and seven feet long,
and will be painted. Life lines will be
fixed all around her, and when completed
she will present a very attractive appear
ance. Two oars are to be supplied. and
she will have a rudder and tiller fitted.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-17

Charlestown. AS she is the youngest OF
a family of thirteen children, she has, OF
course, no recollection of her distinguished
relative before he was a man of mature
years.
Her father took great interest in the
lad and predicted for him a successful
career. not because Of any early predilec-
tons for industry, but from the fact that
he once observed literally the Injunction
about killing two birds with one stone, a
feat which he accomplished with one
throw of the little implement with which
the valorous David laid low the mighty
Goliah. When The proud lad picked up
the trophies of his remarkable skill with
the sling, he expressed so much satisfac-
ton as he ever did over his marvellous
feats in the financial world; the results
OF which were so lavishly distributed
among the objects of his bounty. He
not only showed little inclination for
labor, as a lad, but heexhibited a marked
tendency for idleness. and his uncle used
to tell with great glee how he sent the
boy into a field overrun with sumach
with instructions to clean mp. He did so.
but in his own way; for instead OF cut
ting the bushes close to the ground, he
left the stumps as high as his shoulders,
being too indolent, as his uncle believed,
to stoop. He got bravely over this in
clination to shirk before he reached his
fifteenth year, when he left the h%ospitable
roof that had sheltered him during his
years Of helplessness to become a clerk in
a grocery tore.-[Boston Transcript.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-17
Mr.. Todd's Newspaper Fund.

81 regard the ne wspapers as the great
educators OF the present day. Theirinfu-
ence is constantly growing, and | think
the time will soon come when no public
library will be complete withoutits news
paper reading.room." This is what Will
liam c. Todd of Atkinson, who has Just
given $4,000 in a lump to the Boston
Public Library, the interest Of which is
to be applied to the purchase of news
papers Tor that institution, said today
when asked his reason for establishing
such a fund.
Mr.. Todd is nearly 80 years of age,
hale, hearty and active. He is a man of
medium height, erect and compact, his
kindly face set off with silvery hair and a
short-cropped mustache. He is a bache-
lor. He was born and raised in this
quiet New Hampshire village of less than
1000 population, and, with the excep-
tion OF a lew years, when he lived at
Newburyport, Mass, has always had his
home here.
II have always noticed, continued Mr..
Todd, in speaking Of his gift to the Bos.
ton Library, that it is impossible to find
papers from different cities and towns.
unless it be a very few OF great promi-
hence, when outside the territory in
which they circulate, and strangers are
always anxious to get hold of news from
home. used to go to New York and
call at the Cooper Institute. There is a
newspaper room there, and I wanted to
get a look at papers from this way. |
found a crowd was always present.,
sometimes standing three or four deep,
waiting 10 get a look at one particular
paper. 1t set me to thinking. In 1870 |
started a reading-room at Newburyport,
With newspapers a prominent feature. 1t
was a great success, and | arranged for
its continuance.
Then thought Of Boston's need OF
something of the kind in a newspaper
way. Boston is a big city. 1t has Wis.
itors from all over the world. The old
Public Library building had no room for
a department OF newspapers, but when
the new building a opened there was,
and started in to give $4,000 a year to
carry out my idea. After tour years'trial
it was found s o acceptable that two
weeks ago | gave $4,000 to the city
"''"'"S P'oN'siou tHdt INTEREST at Il per
cent be guaranteed. did not put it into
a bank, as banks may tail, but the city
OF Boston never will, and the $4,000 a
year will BE- continued safely after | am
forgotten.
The amount mentioned as available
gives the reading room 800 papers. They
are there from every part of the world.
All the leading dailies Of this country, in
every language, and many weeklies are
kept on file, and the same applies to for
e,ign publications. There is many a good
citizen in Boston, who came from a far
away place, who can go to the library
n see his home paper when he would
not otherwise. Not many men feel as
though they could afford to take more
than the local papers. but if they live in
Boston or visit there they can find al.
most any one they wish."-[New York
Sun.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-17

The calculation for shrinkage is six
one-hundredths of one inch. When
the metal is cold and turned down
to a perfect circle again in a huge
lathe, "hoops" OF steel FIVE or SIX
inches thick and four or five feet wide
are shrunk over the Jacket" rein
forcing the latter in resisting the ex-
plosive force of gunpowder, when the
gun is in actual service.
Other hoops Of steel taper the gun
from the jacket to the muzzle. The
original tube of steel and every addi-
ton whether of jacket or hoop has
to be turned down to a true circle,
otherwise some difficulties may have
to be met. Even with the best of
care The shrinkage is sometimes sufi-
cient to bulge inwards the interior
cylinder. Compute if you can the
force required to force inward five or
more inches of solid steel in cylindri-
cal form. A steel jacket weighing
twenty and a half tons, was hoisted
out of its furnace and put in its place
on a tube in just ten minutes, on the
first day of this month. This was
the ninth 13-inch gun that has been
jacketed at this Navy Yard. Three
months will be required to finish it.,
and many months, let us hope before
it will 60 out on any mission of
death.
The handling of great masses of
metal with the machinery in use is
mere pastime. The largest of the
travelling cranes make easy work of
picking up the largest cannon. a
matter of seventy tons, and carry
ing it to and fro through the length
of the shop, seven hundred feet. tits
precisely as simple an affair as an
engineer controlling his machine, a
triumph of man over matter.
The gigantic lathes are a study,
spanning the width Of the shop, say
a hundred feet. Seven days are nee
essary to cut a half-inch slice from
the interior of the cannon, and many
more days for its riflng. Six weeks
are required to adjust the breech
blocks to a pair Of 13 inch guns, in a
corner of the yard by themselves,
with a portable house built over
them.
One wonders every moment at the
ease with which every portion Of the
work is progressed. Exact measure
ments are as necessary here as in
most machine shops, and nice calcu
lations as to the effects Of strains.
The construction OF gun carriages
is nearly as interesting as the max
ing of the guns; but both processes
are more difficult to describe than to
see, and ore must look at them both
in order to understand how fully
Uncle Sam is providing for our de.
tense. All good Vermonters, which
OF course means all Vermonters, are
heartily welcome to visit 1.-The Gun
Shop" so say the men who have
control. T.
Washington, Dec. 3, 1897.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-17
YATES
Origin of St. Johnsbury.

Is it fact or only a myth that DIR.
Arnold named the towns of St. Johns.
bury, Lyndon, Burke, and B%illymead
(now Sutton) after his son John,
Lyndon, Burke and William? and
that John being dead at the time,
duly sainted him to exc out the name
of St. Jo~hnsbury? Mrs. Hemenway's
history so states. Is it tact or fiction
that brings the same authority to
state that St. Johnsbury was so
named at the instigation Of Ethan
Allen, after Hector st. John Creve-
occur, a sometime French consul at
Boston, who had befriended Allen
and certain Vermont interests while
the struggle for Vermont independ-
ence was going on? 1t is related
that in recognizing the obligation
Allen named or procured to be named
several other towns in the region OF
St. Johnsbury after the names of
French men and French places,-not-
ably D'Anville, and possibly Cabot
and Calais. 1t is clearly evident that
only one of these stroies can be true;
at least it would seem so; and yet it
may be that there is some truth in
both. But not as to St. Johnsbury,
for in that case a dead youth has to
be sainted in order to make things fit ;
while in the other there is a ready
made ST.. John to work upon. Lyn-
don and Burke claim under the Ar
mold title, nor is it disputed so far
as we know; but in that of
the seat of justice in Caledonia
county the work just referred to con-
tradicts itself.
Among all scholars it is admitted
that Canon Isaac Taylor of York ca
thedral, England, is the greatest liv.
ing authority on place names. In his
recently published work on Names
and their Histories he says that St.
Jo%hnsbury, Vermont, was named
after the French official mentioned
above. The source of his informa-
tion is not stated. but was probably
foreign. Yet the statement has
weight, and possibly some Caledo-
MAN well versed in name and lore
can explain satisfactorily.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-17
The Gun Shop,

The name greets you in this prosy
way on the panel of a door opening
into one of the great buildings at the
Navy Yard. The guns are cannon OF
many calibers from three to fifteen
inches, which Uncle Sam, if occasion
requires, intends to use to some pur-
pose. Few places in the world can
offer you better facilities for observ.
ing the cutting OF large masses OF
metal. Metal working on a colossal
scale is here seen to perfection. One
enters, preferably, at a side door,
and from a platform near a nam.
moth Fairbanks scale he chances
from end to end OF the vast building.
He realizes once more the force OF the
Zulu's speech cited often by the late
DR.. Tyler: white men, nothing
conquers you but death"
Cannon nowadays are built up"
as the phrase goes, tor instance,
fourteen separate pieces of metal are
included in the makeup of large
cannon. To begin with, a steel tube
forty feet long, or thereabouts, is
hoisted into place. The Jacket"
another steel tube perhaps a third OF
the length of the first, is heated and
shrunk over one end oil the long tube.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-17
Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY

copyrighted by Dave & Tabor
Right ideas suffer more from wrong
presentation than they do from &C.
tive opposition. Given a nan who
is unwilling to be convinced and you
have less of an opponent in him than
you have in yourself IN your careless
method of approaching him. Intact,
it sometimes seems as though many
good people hold to most excellent
ideas, more to crafty their sense OF
pride at having ideas at all, than to
persuade Others less enlightened. At
any rate there are many who ap.
proach their fellows in such harsh,
unsympathetic ways that they repel
rather than win them. The impress
sion a subject makes depends On the
way it is presented; which is true
whether the one who is striving to
make a point is a moral teacher or
an irate bull. Parleyjng is difficult
when your victim is running away
from you as fast as his legs will carry
him.
1t is told oiBenjamin Franklin that
he ascribed his extraordinary powers
of persuasion to the fact that his
n always showed respect for
the opinion of others. Having Sc
cured his listener, he would gradually
lead up to the telling points by say
ing, Don't you think ?" rather than
Il think" He thus won by leading
his opponents judgment onward to
the point Of convincing itself. What
ever truth there is in this-and | i'm
agine there is a great DEALT is
worthy Of ever more than partial
imitation by every one who attempts
to mould the thoughts of others.
But the difference we show to the
opinion of Others must be really sim
cere-and there is no reason why it
should not be, for not one of us alb.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-17

No wonder Hale's Honey of Horehound and
Tar is praised by its users. Its curative effects
are like magic. Sold by druggists.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one minute.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-17
Memories of George Peabody.

When George Peabody, the eminent
banker and ph,lanthropist, was, by the
death OF his father, left an orphan at the
age OF about ten years. he, his sister, and
their mother were given a home by the
mothers brother, Eliphalet A. Dodge OF
Georgetown, then q part OF Rowlev.
Mass. The daughter of the generous.
hearted brother and uncle, Miss Amanda
Dodge, is now temporarily living in
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-17
Stop! Women,

And consider that in addressing Mrs.
Pinkham you are confding your private
ills to a woman-a woman whose ex-
perience in treating woman's diseases
is greater than that Of any living ply
stefan, male or female.
You can talk freely to a woman when
II is revolving to relate your private
troubles to a man; besides, a man does
not understand, simply because he lisa
man.
MRS. PINKHAM'S STANDING
INVITATION.
Women suffering from any form Of
female weakness are invitedtopromptly
communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. All letters are re-
ceived, opened, read, and answered by
women only. A woman can freely
talk Of her private illness to a woman
Thus has been established the eternal
confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and
the women of America which has never
been broken. Out Of the vast volume
of experience which she has to draw
from, it is more than possible that she
has gained the very knowledge that
will help your case. She asks nothing
in return except your good will, and
her advice has relieved thousands.
Surely anywoman, rich or poor, is very
foolish If she does not take advantage
Of this generous offer Of assistance.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-17

She is built of pine, West African mahogs
ony. oak and elm. The internal fitting
is to be left for the undertaking furnisher.
The builder, who has been in the, boat
building business over forty years in
Liverpool, prior to which he followed
the same trade elsewhere, said that this
was the first order Of the kind he had ex-
ecuted, though he had some remarkable
ones It times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-17

Through Sleeping Cars from New York and
Boston to Cincinnati. indianapolis and
st. Louis, via Boston & Albany r. r.,
New York Central to Buffalo; l..
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Big Four Route to
destination.
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In New York and New England. Ask for
tickets via Big Four Route.
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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-20
RANDOM NOTES.

John Jingle ingalls, has been criti-
cized for consenting 10 act as reporter
of the orbettFitzsimmonS prize fight
fer sensational New York paper. 1t
has been said that the scintillating
Kansan has demeaned himself. There
has been talk about the dignity OF
the United States senate" etc
AS a matter CT fact. the appearance
# ingalls, as a newspaper reporter Oh
yellow journals staff is natural
enough and does not call for any fault
finding. Ingalls, has found the place
he is fitted for, and heaven knows there
are not so many people who get into
the right places that those who do
should be abused. Because an accident
put him into the senate Of the United
States il does not follow that he meas
uTes up &c the traditional stature of a
senator. Calling man senator and
giving him $1,000 a year. with a job
lot of garden seeds. does not make OF
him Calh pun or. Webster or a Clay.
There is no dignity in the office OF
senator except that which the man who
holds the office gives it. ingalls, is a
man CT ability. He can talk like a
triple monograph, and he can scatter
ing with remarkable effect. He never
was a great man. He did not belong
in the senatorial class. He is a good
newspaper man-fOr the new Journal
ism. There is no improperly in his
accepting a position as reporter.
When Ingalls, first began 10 string
words together and fling the pic
turesque product tc the public. some
persons made the mistake OF thinking
that the man frcm Kansas was a great
IN. That was a gross mistake. He
was never anything but a skillful me-
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-20

Odd lots Of Note Paper at
S cents for "a sheets, not
1-3 former price. also an
odd lot Of fine stationery
at 10 cents per Quire, re-
duced from 90 cents
Leming Store, HOG o.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-20

The Courier's musical critic is occa-
sionally blamed for net reporting upon
some concert for which he has received
no tickets and no notice. especially the
former. In such cases the society
which gives the concert is responsible
for its own oblivion. The critic is in
all cases ready to do his duty when the
conventional preliminaries are attend
ed tO.-Ed.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-20

kind are but shadows. and the worst
are no worse IL occasion mend them.
A large crowd was in attendance and
manifested its enjoyment in unmistak-
able fashion. A rather singular feature
of the music was the Midway Plai-
sance type of prelude-which was re-
peated between the acts with little va
riation-and which seemed to suggest
Little Egypt" and the danse du ven-
tire. Nothing of this kind was attempt
ed. however, and my apprehensions
were without foundation. George c.
Boniface as Fan Tan" and Bertha
Waltzinger as Jesse" his wife, car
ried of the honors o. the evening; not
for the same reason, however. The
rest Of the cast do not deserve especial
mention. but Miss Waltzinger was
tuneful and Mr.. Boniface was funny
what more will you have? Surely the
great American public must have its
horse play, and il we dc not like 1t, so
much the verse for us. The stage
settings were adequate. the dances
graceful, the feminine contingent at
tractive. The choruses suffered from
a preponderance of soprano voices, but
this is not a bad fault, and upon the
whole the performance was fairly good
Opera Of any kind is an exotic to be
welcomed in Lincoln. Come again,
gentle De Koven and Smith. We are
glad to hear your original melodies.
even il We have known them all our
lives. j. r.
The Matinee Musicale will give a
recital at the club rooms on Monday
evening at eight O'Clock. Each MEM
Ter will be entitled to bring an escort,
and outsiders will be admitted on the
payment Of a small entrance fee.
The program will consist of Russian
and Polish music from the works of the
following composers: M0szkCwski. Ru-
bernstein, Tschaikowski. Chopin. Pade-
Iewski, Scharwenka. The musicians
t. take part are Mrs. Plank. Miss HaT-
riett Reynolds, Miss Griffith, Mrs. Bell.
Mrs. Jensen, Mrs. Barbour. Miss Rice.
Miss Hoover, Mrs. Mark Woods. Miss
Grace Reynolds. Mrs. II. E. Ward AMI
Miss Eiche. Also Miss Cobb and Mrs.
Sedgwick If York
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-20

Mrs. RichsrlE lloyd ~ Chi az .. II.
has opened m l'inery sto"k 1T ~ 90
10Th street.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-20

For dr. q 'OdS and shoes.
Lincoln Drv Goods Co..
1909 O Strae-.