davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The morning times., 1897-02-21
1tis expeeted that both the gross and the

1t is expected that both the gross and the
net earnings of the Bnrlin gton road for jan
uary viii be found in the statement shortly
to be issued to have materially decreased.
However, business In February has been
much better, and people know this. Bur
hngton and Quincy has been nearly earning
its per cent, and If what is expected
happens during 81 it will more than earn
it this year. The Burlington people do not
of course wish to cut their dividend, and
their hestaney in SO doing when it would
perhaps seem that they should, is not
frowned on by investors generally who
know the bright prospects of the road.
The morning times., 1897-02-21

The strong and persistent and quite
remarkable advances that Pneumatic Gun
Carriage has made on the local stock
exchange during the last two months
have received something OF setback
this week. One or two of the brokers are
acquiring large short interests. They are
borrowing the stock to sell, and are even
selling options. These tactics have carried
the prices down from high water mark,
14o, to around 125. 1t may perhaps be
well to warn these gentlemen on the short
side that they may slip up. Selling short
is a remarkably pleasant occupation if
one is enabled to control the market, but
it becomes wearisome and even annoying
when the market goes against one.
1 have heard tile story that there is q
fine prospect that 5000 shares will go
over to New Y ork for investment during
this week. Get another block of Gun Car
riage if YOU can at 125. Mergenthaler
Linotype is regaining the small loss it has
made during the last two weeks. 1t sold
at l24 on the exchange yesterday, but
several sales were made outside, ,fractionaily
above 124, and one at least at 125. The
local stock market generally has been
fairly active during the week, and prices
have ranged no lower. In Some instances
gains have been recorded
The morning times., 1897-02-21

1t will not do to take 1t for granted that
there is going to be a default and re-
organization of Hooking Valley. The COM
pany is paying claims every day, and it is
suggested that there are claims which Of
ficers would not pay. If the company were
goinginto a receivers hands. Itis probable
at least, that nothing definite about the
matter has been decided on as yet,
The morning times., 1897-02-21

Leather Preferred has rallied from its
decline. partly ON the covering OF shorts,
but mostly on speculative purchases based
on the belief that one of the intermittent
dividend distributions made by this COM
pany will occur this month, Leather is like
Tobacco and Sugar. easily manipulated
and really less subject to legitimate causes
In the variations OF its prices than either Of
these stocks. It is believed. however, that
IL good annual reports were TO come out
shortly the permanent range of the stock
would be on higher level.
The morning times., 1897-02-21
Children Give Sc 900.

The school children OF New Orleans are
raising fund of $4,000 to erect monu-
ment TO John McDonougff, who bequeathed
more than ST. 100000 to New Orleans for
educational purposes. The gift has resulted
in the erection of more than thirty public
school buildings. in which $4,000 children
are at present enrolled.
The morning times., 1897-02-21

The interest in spirits seems to have died
out somewhat among the traders. How
ever, well informed people continue to
report purchases by influential interests,
and an advance in prices Is expected. These
people who are buying are doing so most
certainly on the best Of news OF the situa-
ton.
The morning times., 1897-02-21

The curious thing has happened that
sugar, usually the most active stock on
the board, has for the last three or four
days never fluctuated N OF than 5-S from
ia either way. Twice it has reached
ia 5-S and twice 1 13 3-8. There have
been strong attempts to push the stock
down during the week, but they have not
succeeded. 1t has shown remarkable
firmness and there is every reason to
believe that its first decisive movement
will be upward, and that it Will be good
one. 1 look to see sugar reach lis at
least before inauguration.
The morning times., 1897-02-21

What does beautiful tor any other)
woman do when she goes to restaurant
for her luncheon? Nineteen women out
OF twenty call for pastry, then ice cream,
and they wash it down with strong, hot
coffee.
What does the twentieth women order?
She orders beefsteak, baked potatoes, and
apples, salad and hot mot boiled) milk
When this last woman rises TO go out
I recognize her as one of the successful
business women of the city She eats
to live. The others live to eat They
enjoy it for a season, but suffer for it
afterw ards, but though an angel from
heaven told these lovers of good things
the difference between the two luncheons
as beautifiers alone, much as they long for
that beyond expression, they would be
slow to See that beefsteak puts good blood
in the veins, and that baked apples and
potatoes are not only palatable, but good
hygenic foods, and that the salad made
these strengthening foods just one grain
better than they would have been without
it. 1t is in following these simple rules of
right living that you Will best fortify
your beauty.
Young beauty, middle aged beauty, and
the beauty of old age, all fade and pass
away, unless there is something better to
take its place, which makes woman for
ever lovely. There is no known system
whereby 1t can be saved, except through
this better way-beauty OF soul, intelli-
gence, culture, sweetness, Kindness good
ness. These are all cultivabIe beauties
that will last and make every face and
form beautiful through all changes of ad-
versity and prosperity while life lasts.
Every woman has a right to all the
beauty and richness of true living, which
she can compass within her sphere. To no
one VIII these beautiful gifts be denied
If they are sought for as the most de-
sirable gifts of all. AUNT EMILY
The morning times., 1897-02-21

Dow, Jones & Co. say there have been
two causes for the recent decline in Jersey
The first has been an impression that the
operations of Lehigh and WilkesbarTe have
been unprofitable. These figures have not
been made public, but the inferences in the
case have caused selling. The second point
is knowledge that stock has been sold ap-
parently for long account, at opportunities
during the last month.
The morning times., 1897-02-21
The Moody View nf Ii

They say the Rev. Dr. Fourthly has been
leading double life" "Yes, he confessed
to the trustees that he reads the SUM day pa
pers before going to service. From the
Chicago Journal.
The morning times., 1897-02-21
New York Stock Market.

Corrected daily by W. B. Hibbs 4 Co.,
pankers and Brokers. Members of the
y. Y. Stock Exchange. 1921 F street.
The morning times., 1897-02-21
New York Cotton Market.

Chicago Grain and Provision Market
Corrected daily by W. B. Hibbs * Co.,
Bankers and Brokers. Members of the
\. Y. Stock Exchange, 1921 F street.
The morning times., 1897-02-21
Mining Stocks

Cripple Creek Mining Stocks as reported
by Clifford & Co., 1404 g st. NV. The
following are active dividend paying stocks
listed on the Colorado Mining Exchange:
Bid. AskedI Bid Asked.
The morning times., 1897-02-21
Washineton Stock Market.

III "a; Columbia Railroad 6's, 81 900 at
116 "a; Metropolitan Railroad, l at OF;
O. S. Electric Light, 3 at so; Lincoln Fire
so at IL; American GRAPHIC
phone, 100 at 8 Is; Pneumatic Gun Car
riage, 1OO at 1876, 100 at 125, 100 at
] I22; 100 at ii, so at l 20 and 80 at %;
Linotype, 20 at 124
The morning times., 1897-02-21

hair softens the lines of ageing women. and
is badge of honor on a fine-looking mans
head; yet all the hair dye is not used ty
women alone. To the prematurely gray
the bright color and sparkling eyes, with
the fresh complexion ana graceful form,
belle the sign. My friend of twenty-eight
years. with her wealth OF gray hair, is
much handsomer than she would be If her
locks had remained black. And she i s not
lovelorn thing. either. II runs in the
family.
When will people generally get to the ar
tistic standpoint of regarding the signs OF
age as beautiful in their season. as beau
ufUi as the charms OF youth?
The morning times., 1897-02-21

dustry, as well as the general public, win
come to realize it. K. a. MAUPIN.
The morning times., 1897-02-21

I Blemshes of skin are caused by impure
blood, bad digestion, irregular habits,
and. sometimes, by hereditary influences.
To affect cure you will have to go slowly
| and Systematically to work and make your
self over, as it were, hygienically. Bad
air and poor food (by this last mean food
taken to please the appetite. and not blood
purifying and bodybuilding), with con-
tinued bad habits, have caused your blem-
isheS of skin. You will have to turn a
sharp corner, and begin over again. Do
not be afraid of fresh air, nor of night air,
under proper regulations. Only fear air
which has been twice breathed through
your own or another's lungs. And, as you
covet good looks, go out and walk every
day-fair or foul-properly protected, in
/ loose waist, and thick, broad shoes, with
out TaZorto
This physical freedom will set the blood
TO circulating to every part OF the system,
and develop form and strength; but if it is
not enough exercise, use the broom and the
duster about the house. Broom exercise
is good for young women, and not bad for
those who its uses. See what
well-feyeloped Dusts the usual run of house
maids have.
With all this cultivate regularity of all
bodily functions as a habit, for no other
thing is SO debiitating and bad for the
complexion as what ensues from irregular
cleansing Of your physical system. 1t Will
do you good to remember that you are
beautiful piece of human machinery, likely
to get out OF repair if You are not properly
and daily cleansed, within and without
These bodies OF ours are the houses OF our
souls They serve us as a medium of COM
munication, and our five-or is 1t six
senses are the doors Of communication with
the world around us. Why shouldn [ we be
careful and particular ABOUT it? 1t is all
the earthly body we are ever to have,
and we might Just as well use it well,
and keep it long. We ought TO viewit with
the common sense that We apply to other
things; and not expect when some out
ward sign OF inward wrong confronts us
like skin blemishes, blackheads or wrinkles,
that we can whitewash these defects over
with cosmetic, and be just as goodas new.
The morning times., 1897-02-21

And why all these tears about gray hairs?
fhave seen men stand up before glass and
pull every poor whisker that turned gray
out with tweeZers. until they were left alone
for the barber to dye; for it isn't women
alone who sigh over blemishes. Human
nature In masculine bosons gets stirred up
over crows feet and wrinkles. too. We
are all jolly lot or grumblers togetheri
On young head gray hair i s a positive
sdornment. as beauufying as silver po"
der. and women who have rougn reaouie'
during their youth and middle ase eoiiie
times astonislr~ their frienas us .toss"iii-
ing outlRIo a beautiful oio isu' uoou' efay
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-20
ROBBED THE PARSONAGE.

Kansas City, Sept. 20.-Two robbers
masked and armed, looted the parson-
age of the Church of the Sacred Heart,
situated on the outskirts of the city,
compelling Rev. Father Prendergast,
assistant pastor, at the point of a re-
while they ransacked the place. The
robbers secured $40 in money, a set
of silver tableware, a gold watch and
silver chalice, a watch and pistol
and escaped. Prendergast and the
housekeeper were the only persons in
the parsonage. The fact was appar-
ent known to therObbers who went
about their work coolly, taking two
hours in which to complete the job.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-20
PEARSALL POINTERS.

Pearsall, Tex, Sept. 20.-Mrs. Mamie
Donaldson who has ben spending
some days here visiting her parents
returned recently TO her home at Dill
ley.
Col. ID. c. Pryor returned from Mon
terey, Mex, where he had spent a few
days.
A dance was given at the residence
of j. A. Cash on Oklahoma street Fri
day night. a very large crowd of Wis
itors from the neighboring settlement
were in attendance, also many from
Fearsall. The excellent supper and
the genial hospitality of the host en-
abled all to have most pleasant time.
w. w. Ellis, of Cibolo, was in town
yesterday. He said that about forty
bales of cotton had been ginned at
Dilley. He sold some wool in town at
Aid Barton aeturned yesterday from
10 cents per pound today
Aid Barton returned recently from
visit to Cotulla and Garlic Springs.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-20
AIMING THE CRUISERS
Will Ask $5OO,OOO Annual
Appropriation.
IT WOULD TAKE FIFTEEN YEARS
TO ARM AT PRESENT
RATE.
Plan To Arm All Of The Auxiliary
Cruisers Now Enrolled In The
Naval Service The Whole
Amount Required For The
% Batteries Is APPROX
imately $50 100000.

NewYork, Sept. 20.-A special to
the Herald from Washington says:
Congress will be asked at its COM
ing session to make large appropria-
ton for the manufacture of high mod
ern guns, to be installed for service
on board auxiliary cruisers of the
United States navy in time of war.
Capt. Chas. O'Neill, chief Of the bu-
reau of ordnance, proposes to make a
recommendation in his forthcoming
annual report that at least 100000
be appropriated for this purpose. In
the opinion of Capt. O'Neill this sum is
not too large to be authorized at one
time. 1t is estimated that $300,OOO,-
600 will be required to equip with
modern batteries the twenty-eight
steamers now enrolled in the govern
ment service as auxiliary cruisers and,
at the rate which Congress has fol-
lowed for the last two years in drib-
bling out appropriations, fifteen years
must lapse before sufficient money
shall have been obtained to supply
the ships now subsidized with the guns
which their tonnage and structural
strength call for. This period, will,
of course, be greatly reduced if Con-
gress should adopt Capt. ONeilPs re-
commentator and make an appropria-
ton of half a million a year. Under
the laws of the United States, Amer
lean vessels drawing subsidies and
foreign built vessels which have ac-
quired American registers are avail
able for impressment into war service
At the present time the largest num-
Der of subsidized vessels belong to the
third class. There are no auxiliary
cruisers of the second class. The list
of first rate cruisers is composed of
the st. Louis, st. Paul, Paris and New
York. The st. Louis and st. Paul are
sister ships and were built by Cramp
& sons, of Philadelphia. They were
built of steel in 1895 and their gross
tonnage is IL 500 each. The st. Paul
is officially the faster, her speed be-
ing recorded as 22.49 knots per hour,
while that of the st. Louis Is 22.2.
The battery, which each of these
ships will carry in time of war will be
6 six-inch, four four-pounders, and six
machine guns.
The batteries of the Paris and New
York will be heavier. Each of these
ships will be equipped with twelve
6-inch guns. Neither vessel, however,
is as speedy as the st. Louis, the
speed of the Paris being placed official
ly at 20.7 knots an hour, while that OF
the New York is 206 knots. The Paris
was built by an English fire and the
New York was constructed in Scot
land.
The only other cruiser which will
carry 6-inch guns is the City of Sidney
This steamer belongs to the Pacific
Mail Navigation Co., and connects
San Francisco and Panama. She was
built of iron by Roach & Son in 1915
and is of 3,017 tons displacement.
In case of war she would be equipped
with 6-inch guns, tn six Founders and
two machine guns.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-20

thOrity from the government 10 in
quire into the failure of the Peruvian
corporation to fulfill it obligations.
A distinguished lawyer, DR.. Alejan-
dro Arenas, and the minister of fin
ance will be the consulting counsel
Of the commission.
The Peruvian corporation Qimited)
was formed about eight years ago and
took upon itself Peru's national debt
of f40,000,000 in return for control of
the railways of Peru and the guano
deposits which passed into the hands
of Chile. In addition, the Peruvian
government undertook TO pay to the
corporation an annual subsidy OF fl0,-
900 from customs receipts with the
understanding that the corporation
should construct a certain mileage of
new railways. As this obligation re-
manned unfultilled the government
stopped the annuity.
The contract, the corporation and
the Peruvian bondholders, known as
the Grace CONTRACT specifically releas-
ed Peru from her foreign debts, there
fore when the corporation, owing to
decreased railroad receipts and the
practical failure of the guano deposits
found itself unable to meet obligations
Peru was free TO her national debt,
though none Of the railways provided
for had been constructed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-20
INSANE ASYLUM SCANDAL.

Topeka, Kas., Sept. pa scandal
has come to light at the Topeka Insane
asylum and may result in an official
investigation. j. j. Allen, team
ster at the asylum, has resigned his
position because he says that things
are carried on in such high handed
manner at the institution that he does
not care TO besmixed up in it. In an
open letter Allen charges that the Off
Gals spend Sunday in drunken corou-
sails around the asylum, and that fire.
quently members of the board partici-
pated in the festivities. He said it
was not an uncommon thing to find
some of the subordinate officers lying
out in the yard dead drunk at any
hour of the night. Superintendent
Wetmore denies the charges.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-20
A DEAD CONSUL.
An Eyentful Life and a Mysterious
Death.

An Eyentful Life and Mysterious
Death.
New York, Sept. 20.-A dispatch to
the World from London says that
Scotland Yard is now endeavoring to
trace the murderer or murderers of
Wilhelm Won Veltheim, a naturaliZed
American citizen, and from 1893 to
1896 the American consul at Santa
Marta, Colombia.
On August Is the naked body of a
man six feet four inches in height was
found floating in the Thames in the
vicinity of the docks. A strong rope
was tied around his neck and down
the back, tying the hands and then
securely fastened to the ankles. The
body, it was declared, had been in the
water a month, and the doctors af-
firmed that death was caused by
strangulation before immersion.
The police content with the verdict
of the coroner's jury, consigned the
body TO a pauper's grave in llford
cemetery.
About two weeks ago Nine. Won
Veltheim applied to the home secre-
tary for an order to have the body ex-
uuIlltu as sue UGllSStu II " bt ludi
of her husband. She said she had lost
sight of him early in the year and
that soon afterwards he had biga-
mously married young Greek lady
Marie Magrovordato, whom he had
met at Bloomsbury boarding house.
The body was exhumed last Friday
and Nine. Veltheim Immediately
identified it as that of her husband.
Won Veltheim had had remarkable
career. Born in the North of Ger
many, he began life in the German
army and then fought as volunteer
for Bulgaria against Servia. Subse'
quently he tramped across the Austria
Ian continent. He married his first
wife, Miss Yearsley, at Perth, West
Australia in 1886. Afterwards he
went to the United States. There nc
went into the banana trade az Santa
Marta where he was appointed Unit
ed States consul.
Won Veltheim's second wife. discoy-
ering that he had another wife living,
has begun proceedings to nullify her
but they were postponed on
that Won Veltheim had
gone to Madagascar. However, a de-
cree multiplying the marriage was
granted in July. How the body cane
in the river is a complete mystery,
but Il is surmised that Won Veltheim
was thrown overheard from some for
Sign vessel.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-20
THE CIGARETTE LAW.
Coffin Nails VIII Go At Ten Cents a
Pack Today.

Beginning today the retail price of
cigarettes will be raised to 10 cents a
package. This is done TO meet the de-
mands of the cigarette law enacted at
the last session of the Legislature.
The object of the law is to decrease
the consumption of cigarettes by
small boys. FThe tax fixed on cigar
cites is 500 year, SO being thestate
tax. S. Che county and So the city,
which must be paid by the dealers.
The law applies directly to ready
made cigarettes and does not affect to
bacco in any other form. II is we'll
known that cigarettes were formerly
cents package. The package will
remain the same in size as ever.
Many of the saloons and fruit stands
have stopped selling manufactured
cigarettes today because of the law
and because customers will not pay
10 cents for a package of them.
Some of the dealers will continue TO
sell cigarettes at ; cents a package,
while those that will raise the price
will sell two packages for 10 cents.
In Illinois it is penitentiary Offense
to sell cigarettes and in Wisconsin II
is a penitentiary offense TO sell cigar
cites to minors.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-20
BARRIos DON'T GIVE IT UP.

New York, Sept. 20.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Panama, Colombia,
says:
A correspondent in Guatemala states
that President Barrios has formed a
new cabinet. Gen. Gregorio Solares
has been made minister of war; Mar
lano Cruz, minister of public instruc-
ton, and Feliciano Garcia, minister of
public works.
No further news of the progress of
the revolution in Guatemala has been
received here as yet.
A great sensation was caused in
Panama by the report of the attempt-
ed assassination of President DiaZ.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-20
TROUBLE LOOKED FOR.

Hazelton, Pa, Sept. 20.-The strike
situation again assumed an uncertain
phase this morning. An attempt to
resume work was made at the Par
dees-Lattimer mines, but only 300 out
of 1900 miners returned to work.
These were mainly Italians with few
English speaking men. During the
night the Hungarians paraded through
the settlement beating tin cans and
bottles and raising big rackets. The
Thirteenth regiment is keeping close
watch for further trouble.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-20
A KANSAS ATTORNEY.
He Tells The Supreme Court What 1t
Cannot Do.

Cannot DO.
Topeka, Kas., Sept. 20.-The little
city of Erie, in Neosha county, in re-
turn to an alternate writ of man
damus filed in the Supreme court,
suggests that the Supreme court OF
Kansas ought to mind its own bust
ness. Several years ago David VIII
son securd a judgmnt against the
town for $1,000. He was never able to
collect it and when he died c. j.
Phelps, as administrator, endeavored
to collect the amount. Other means
failing, Phelps began a proceeding in
mandamus in the Supreme court to Sc
cure the mayor and the city council
to appropriate the money. The court
issued an. alternative writ and gave
the city until Saturday to pay the
Judgment. Instead City Attorney c.
A. Cox has applied to the Supreme
court alleging that the city has al
ready levied all the taxes allowed by
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-20

law; that it has scarcely enough to
pay its regular expenses and closes
with this remarkable statement
''That the court from which said writ
of mandamus issues has no taxing
powers conferred upon it by law and
can impart none to said defendants,
as mayor and city councilmen of said
city of Erie, and has no jurisdiction to
coerce the levy of taxes specified in
the mandate"