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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-29
FUTURE DAYS.
C. G. SLOAN & CO., AucTs.. 1907 G ST.


CFIANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE RESIDENCE
PROPERTY, BEING PREMISES NO. 11O9
Fol RTEENTH STREET NORTHWEST.
By virtue of decree Of the Supreme Court of
the District Of Columbia, passed in Equity Cause
No. 1885. the undersigned. trustee will offer for
sale, by public auction. on FRIDAY. THE
TIilRTi-FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER. 1897. AT
FOUR O'CLOCK IN. part Of original lot o, in
square "a. beginning for the same at the south
1CO feet; thence north 20 feet: thence east Is
feet; thence north feet: thence west 12s feet
to 14th street. and thence south 20 feet to the
beginning, improved ty brick dwelling house. in
good condition.
Terms: One-third Of the purchase price In cash.
installments, with interest from the day of sale,
the deferred payments TO be secured by deed of
tlust the property sold the purchaser may
pay all cash. A deposit Of $500 will 5e rcauir d
at the time of sale. All conveyancing. &c, at
purchasers cost. If the terms complied
with in fifteen days the right 10 reserved resell
at risk Of defaulting purchaser.
MICHAEL ]. COLBERT, Trustee
de21-dts Ole st. n. W.
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AUCTION SALES.
TOMORROW,
PEREMPTORY SALE OF SUPERIOR
Horses Horses.

uVu SSSs u HUH 49,
AT PUBLIC AUCTION.
WITHIN THE BAZAAR,
NO. $40 LA. AVE.
CLIMBER THIRrIETH. AT TEN O'CLOCK, we
Will sell % head Of frst-class heavy draught and
line driving horses and mares, from 8 to ( years
old: all we'll broke and strictly sound.
N:B.-IHlS WILL BE OUR LAST SALE FOR
THE YEAR 1897, AND AT NO SALE IN THE
MfiOLE YEAR HAVE WE HAD A BETTER
w III oE STOCK no SELL. FOR ANY USE AND
WE INTEND TO SELL EVERY ONE OF THEM
AT THIS SALE. BE SURE TO ATTEND.
II RE\SI\t.Ep Au,t
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de17-d&ds


~ TIE ABOVE SALE is POSTPONED UNTIL,
IN. fspA1 JANUARY SIXTH. 1885, same hour
anu place. BY order OF the trustees. dc2g-dis
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de2S-dts
nATCLIFFE. SUTTON CO.. AUcrIoNEERs

]. TAYLOR EILYSON
CLAIMING NJ. BOLTON
.2S-dtS Trustees
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-07
I. B. JOHNSON
For City Treasurer

Mr.. Thomas B. Johnson of the San
Antonio Light is a candidate for city
treasurer. Mr. Johnson is not on any
of the so-called tickets, but runs in the
independent column.
The office of the city treasurer has
been in the present treasurer's hands
for the past twelve years, and located
in the San Antonio National bank, an
institution that controls the water
works and has dictated, by its power
over the finances of the city, the policy
of the city during all of the Gala
CHAN reign. Mr.. Herff is not only a
servant of the city but he is the SER
want of the National bank. 1t has
been given out that only a banker or
a cashier of a bank can be treasurer,
because Mr.. Herff seems to have filed
a mortgage on the office, but we had
treasurers before his time who were
not bankers, who were efficient, hon
est men-1t is about time Mr.. Herff
was relieved of the cares of the city
treasury. Twelve years is quite long
enough for a treasurer to hold office,
and 1t would be good law that would
make a treasurer incompetent to hold
Office two terms consecutively;n mot on.
ly should the money be counted but
the duties of the Office turned over to
fresh, clean hands, every two years. No
doubt Mr.. Herff would gladly resign
after so long term, but the bank
won't have it. He naturally runs on
the Callaghan ticket-the old Breck-
enridge firm.
Mr.. Johnson's other opponents are
excellent gentlemen who have been
put on their respective tickets as make
weights.
OF Mr. Johnson it can be said that
he is a business man of marked abiIi-
ty; that his newspaper success,in serv-
ing the people valuable evening pa
per, has placed him in the front rank
of our enterprising citizens; he is deep.
ly interested in the welfare of the city
has lived here for eighteen years ant
never held any public position; his pa
per has always been on the side of lib
eral ideas, and for the good of the city
Mr.. Johnson is an early bird at hi
business house, generally before hal
the business men of the scity are on
of bed-when elected. which he evi
IDENTIFY will be, he will make the peopl
faithful public servant-From tn,
National Liquor Dealer.
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CHAPTER Xxx.

HE was your cham, Burn. See to
him. Well keep him till tomorrow.
There may be life in him." said Troll.
lope, rising from the side of the body.
Burn and Hankey raised Masters and
carried him to his cabin. They pulled
a blanket over the corpse, and when
they came out Hankey exclaimed:
Mine Of Us now. What a fool to
forego his whackr'
what did he want to lose his life
over Miss Mansel for?" said Burn, stop
ping at the cuddy table 10 look about
for more champagne. He was that sort
Of man who does a thing like that. A
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TWO BARGAINS.

We have an eight-room house with
all modern Improvements, completely
furnished, one acre of ground, stable,
wood house, and laundry, large chick
en- house, COW stable, shrubbery &C.,
situated in first class neighborhood.
two street car lines. This property
is a sure bargain.
We are offering 1-story hard rock.
six rooms, hall, bath and servants
room, stable, wood house and laun-
dry, beautiful location, gas and water,
car line, closets in each bed room.
This is.a lovely home and very cheap
Call on or write JOHN II. HANDLE
TON & co. "a II
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~ suppose IL must be as you say,
CALDWELL" exclaimed Trollope, eying
Masters with face of cold. oontemptu.
GUS pity.
Masters. turn in, man, and sleep it
off," cried Shannon.
Making no answer, Masters stepped
straight into his cabin, the door Of
which he shut behind him. Shannon
laughed, imagining that the young fell
low meant to carry out his recommen-
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-Germania Lodge 1896, X of L. of
Honor will have their annual masaue
ball Saturday, Feb Goth, Mt the Mis-
sion garden pavilion. Tickets 80
cents; the committee, Mrs. NJ Rupees
burg, Mrs N. ODDermann. Mrs. Fred.
Baermann AIRS. M Pieper Miss Clara
Sewn, Mrs. W. Luck aud Fred. HUI
inert. 4 % 3sun
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This was sudden tragic reality. It
struck into the fumes in the mems
brains and cleared them as blast Of
wind shoots smoke from a room.
"Who says Sam was in love with the
girls" exclaimed Captain Trollope.
"He didn't know her before we sailed,
and he may have spoken to her twice
since"
He mustn't call names, I" said Han
key, looking darkly through his coal
black, bristling whiskers at Masters.
Savage beast is tall language, north or
south.
"a savage, murderous beast" cried
Masters, ito throw a defenseless girl
overheard, you black hearted bastard
/ say, you fellows, think Of it-a young
girl helpless in the grip Of that ruffian.
D'you see the picture, you fellows
Shannon there bowling at the jib boom
end TO make q clear deck for this muir
derer?"
IT say, Trollope," exclaimed Oald-
well, grinding the words out Of his
swollen throat through his teeth, "I'll
not kill this manikin with my hands.
1t shall have a chance. I'll shoot it.
There were two in the job" roared
Davenire in the skylight II was 10th
or, Sampson.
You shall answer for it, you butch
er, when I've done with him, >" answer
ed Masters leveling his fist at Caldwell.
Daveniie, framed 70 the waist by the
skylight, swaysd, hands on hips, with q
sudden roar. as IL he would split his
ssdas
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now, went out, old Juan awaited him at

now, went out, old Juan awaited him at
the prison gates, carrying close-woven
wicker crate, or basket, but neither
extra clothing nor the usual snakes
were visible, and from that day neither
appeared in all that country.
Among the stupendous mountains Of
Peru gold may be had for the seeking,
but death is for the white man who
seeks it. When old Juan went back to
his mountains and some old acquaint-
ances, with another swarthy man who
spoke only as he did and was his friend,
their right of occupancy of hut and
lands was unquestioned, as were their
bartering expeditions to the nearest
seaport. But Juan and Bal Chico did
not always exchange their nuggets for
commodities; oftener, with a wisdom
learned abroad, did they demand coin.
Juan had come home with his old name
of Casma, and Bal Chico had assumed
a new name for his new habitatiopya and
the singular fact became known at the
town bank that Casma and Chira were
thrifty Indian depositors and checked
against their account. Casma explained
that abroad he had been called Juan
Sanchez and Chira had been known as
Diego Bias, and that they had made
debts which demanded the checks
drawn upon them by the Mexican bank
of La Hamidad.
Time passed, and Casma and Chira
prospered and eventually disappeared
from the Peruvian mountains and sea-
port. Their remaining deposits had
been transferred to La Hamidad, and
in time the officials of La Hamidad were
called upon in person by their unknown
patrons, Juan Sanchez and Diego Bias,
whose funds had never been drawn
upon for debt. Juan Sanchez and Diego
Bias were introduced by a resident of
La Hamidad, sailor on the ship that
had brought them from the Peruvian
port, and their money was duly paid:
and a fortune it was for two men of
no more expensive tastes than these
who left the bank, walked away, and
were seen no more in La Hamidad.
In a reputable house in the town
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THE OLD MEN TALKED AND SMOKED.

THE OLD MEN TALKED AND SMOKED.
where Bal Chico had been youth and
been forgotten lived two old men to-
gether-two gray-haired, harmless
looking old men of commonplace names
that you have not heard yet, who tended
their cacti and blooming vines and the
green paroquets that hung among
them in great cage, concocted savory
stews, and lived their simple lives large
ly in sight of their neighbors in the
outrageous garden behind their
houses, and whose only recreation
seemed to be to frequent the plaza.
From their garden they could see the
rear of the house of the high and mighty
Don Pico, which rang with laughter of
manly sons and beautiful daughters,
but the old men were, to all appear
ances, injurious of the doings at the
great house. 1t was known at the plaza,
where everything was known, that Don
Pico's eldest son would shortly cele-
brate his arrival at mans estate and
that the betrothal of his eldest daugh-
ter had been announced. But the day
before the festivities in honor of the
former occasion, the son, Don Manuelo,
had sat in the plaza with Don Jose, his
sisters betrothed, who had left it, it
was easily proved, with merry party
of grandees, Don Manuelo waving them
merry good-by. Passers-by saw him
sitting there alone, sunken down as if
resting, and there he was found some
what later, dead, evidently by strangu-
lation. There was the usual sensation
and more than the usual search for the
murderer, who had left no clew.
Three months after this event, the
little 1nnocencia, the four-year-old
daughter of Don Pico, was found in a
similar condition in the grounds of Don
Perez, the father of the betrothed of
Dona Theresa, Don Pico's eldest daugh-
ter. The residence of Don Perez was
but block from that of Don Pico. AS
in the case of her brother, the police
found positively no clew.
These calamities caused the postpone
ment for one year of the nuptials Of
Done Jose and Dona Theresa; at the end
of which time they were celebrated
with all churchly and social ceremonies.
Upon their return from the wedding
journey, Don Jose and his beautiful
lady took up their residence at the
house of Don Perez. Scarce fortnight
had elapsed when Dona Theresa was
found dead in her bed-likewise her
husbands bed. Marks upon her tender
neck showed that she had been CARROT
ed. All drew two conclusions: Don
Manuelo and little Innocencia had been
garroted and Don Jose was the criminal
His protestations, denials and anguish
availed nothing. He was hurried away
to prison.
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stantly, also headache, and w
was so dizzy. had heart trouble, it
seemed as though my heart was in my
throat at times choking me. could
not walk around and l could not lie
down, for then my heart would beat so
fast would feel as though I was
smothering. I had to sit up in bed
nights in order to breathe. I was SO
weak I could not do anything.
I have now taken several bottles of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and used three packages of
Sanative Wash, and can say I am
perfectly cured. do not think l
could have lived long if Mrs. Pink
hams medicine had not helped me-
MRS. JOSEPH PETERSON, 513 East St.,
Warren, Pa.
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Seen from the Elevated Road.

Riding on the elevated road gives one an
insight into the different modes of existence
of the inhabitants along the line. Here are
some things the writer caught passing
glimpse of one day recently:
A woman cleaning windows and her care.
full and fearful spouse seated on the floor
holding on to her feet to prevent her fall.
ing to the street below.
A man shaving himself, while a little
boy held a highly polished dishpan, which
was officiating as mirror.
Two babies asleep on fire escape, while
their mother was chasing linen up and
down a washboard.
A new colony of colored folk in the once
fashionable brownstone front quarter of
Fifty-third street, between Sixth and Ninth
avenues.
A man and woman, evidently play
actors, thrusting at each other with foils.
a woman learning to ride the wheel on
a bike" suspended in her boudoir.-N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser.
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HIS cREDULOus WIFE.
Why He Taught Her to Believe His
Tough Stories.

rough stories.
"Mary," said Mr.. Bancks to his wife. al
he went out with his friend after supper,
il were you l wouldn't let the children
play out much later"
Why, John, it's not going to rain, is il? ?"
asked Mrs. Brancks.
mo. But this is the season of the year
when the mountain lion and the bald eagle
are about, and they might carry the chill
chats So" said his wife, earnestly. "T
read only yesterday of a case of child that
was carried off by an eagle, but that was in
Italy"
ut doesn't make any difference where it
happened-it might just as we'll have been
here. Eagles fly too high for the naked eve
to discern them until they swoop down, and
then it is too late"
Mrs. Bancks went to the door and yelled
for the children, and Mr.. Bancks walked on
with his friend, who inquired:
"You don't really believe in those yarns
about eagles and mountain lions, do your"
mo. But my wife does. All summer I
have had the sea serpent as an illustration.
but it's getting too late in the season for
that. So | have fallen back on the other
part of the menagerie."
but what is your object? Why do you
want her to believe in such stuff"
"I'll tell you if you'll promise not to give
it away. As long as my wife believes those
stories she'll believe mine when I'm detained
IN town until the cars have stopped running.
See!'-Chicago Times Herald.
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An accident saved his life-the shut

An accident saved his life-the shut
ting of window.
Dona Maria Theresa, the sorely at
ficted wife of Don Pico, had become
the victim of insomnia since these re-
peated family bereavements, and fam
cied strange noises in their apartment
at night. Don Pico gave heed and lis
tened for himself for few nights, but
heard nothing and attributed the noises
to woman's fears. But Dona Maria
Theresa arose one night, because she
heard the noise, and shut the window.
AS she approached the window, hung
with vines, one of the house cats
jumped from the sill to the thick vines
and rustled away among them, and the
lady was treasured and slept-slept all
the longer and more heavily because of
sleepless nights.
When she awoke in the morning, she
looked at Don Pico-but was it Don Pico
beside her, that purple, swollen face
with awful eyes? The lady's reason
fed in that awful look, and her screams
aroused the household. Investigation
seemed at first to offer no clew, but at
length, at the back of the top of large
frame containing an oil painting of
his lady in her youth, was found pow
erful snake whose bright eyes watched
the window and all whose efforts were
toward reaching it, which he never did,
dying as non-resistant as though in a
trance.
Don Jose was liberated.
The old, harmless looking men talked
and smoked next evening and for many
evenings behind their little house, and
sometimes boiled their sardines over
coal fire and looked across at the great
house of Don Pico and talked-as who
did not?
Excitement was gradually depressed
after the source of the mysterious
deaths was indisputable. The snake
had coiled about them all, but Don Pico
had strength to struggle and had been
bitten instead of only strangled. Some
asked why snake should discern only
members of the Pico family, but none
could guess the reason.
And far away in the divine beauty of
Peruvian cordillera. two old men look
aloft toward the manshunning condor
two old, brown men, grown harmless
and with no. uncanny companions
herd with Indian women and brown
babies and drink from rude golden
bowls, and go down to the sea no more.
San Francisco Argonaut.
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Perhaps Andrew. Was to Blame.

The son of a well-known Providence law
yer came home at the end of his first term in
college exulting in the fact that he stood
next to the head of his class, says an ex-
change. His father was less easily satisfied.
What! Next to the head?" he exclaimed.
"What do you mean, sir? I'd like to know
what you think send you to college for!
Next to the head, indeed! Humph! I'd like
to know why you aren't at the head, where
you ought to be-" The young man was nat.
urally crestfallen, but upon his return to
college he went about his work with such
ambition that the end of the term found
him in the coveted place. He went home
very proud, indeed. 1t was great news.
The lawyer contemplated his son for few
moments in silence; then, with shrug OF
his shoulders, he remarked: cat the head
of the class, Ell? Humph That's fine
commentary on Brown university!"-Chi.
cago Tribune.
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QUEEN MARY'S MARRIAGE,
The English SOvereign's Alliance
with Philip of Spain.


Virginia Cabell Gardner contributes
story of old England, entitled "A
Girl of Winchester" 1t is an account
of the reading of Latin poem by a
little girl upon the occasion of the
marriage of Queen Mary and Philip of
Spain. The following is the account
of the wedding ceremony at Win
chester: Master Walton did feel proud
err aan usual Gf that were possible)
Of rs clever little daughter, as she
walked between him and her grand
mother to Winchester cathedral on the
morrow. For Rosamond had obeyed
Ned's behest, and got well; and she was
one of the great concourse of people
who looked on for nearly four hours
while Bishop Gardiner and his assistant
prelates made Philip of Spain and Mary
of England man and wife.
Her father pointed out to her the
principal persons in the royal suite,
and long, long afterward, when Rosa
mond described the scene to her grand
children, she told them how she had
seen the stern duke of Alva, and the
brave Flemish Count Egmont, the VIC
tor of Gravelines, who stood near the
duke, handsome and frank of bearing,
and dreaming not at all of the fatal in
fuence which his neighbor would one
day exercise over his fate.
But naturally, Rosamond, like every
one else, looked most at the royal bride
and bridegroom. phey sat under a
canopy with an altar between them,
and both were respondent in white
satin richly ornamentede with jewels;
but Mary's black velvet mantle, and
the little red slippers which peeped out
from under the skirt of her robe. would
probably be considered very strange in
a bridal costume nowadays.
There was some embarrassment
when it was time to give the bride away,
for, strangely enough, no one had
thought who should do it; but at last
it was settled by the marquis of Win
chester and the earls of Derby and Penn
broke, who stepped forward and gave
her away, in the name OF the English
nation; whereat there way much cheer
ing by the people, and the ceremony
went on.-St. Nicholas.
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Moods pile cure sick headache. Rss
Fine Was RENTED.

Judge Campbell had just heard the evi.
Charged with dis supg the peace
81 think you're guilty, young man." de-
clared the judge. Funds in the treasury are
running low, SO guess I'll have to get in
something toward my salary, as I'm getting
hard up. I'll fine you five dollars"
You've got more money than I have"
pleaded the prisoner
"But l haven't. Show UP what you've
got" and the judge emptied his pockets,
which contained just SO cents in change, on
the desk.
The prisoner turned all of his pockets in
side out and produced 25 cents.
You are worse off than l am" said The
Judge. Zine RENTED. You may go."-San
Francisco Post
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LIFE.

Onward, like the rushing river.
Flows the current of our lives,
Bearing us to unknown portals,
Worlds unseen by mortal eyes.
Sometimes placid as the brooklet.
Murmuring gently on it's way,
And as calm and full of sunshine
As the brightest summer day.
Now and then the storm clouds gather,
Gather darkly Ger our head,
Shutting out the light and brightness,
And our hearts are filled with dread.
But with courage. hope and patience
Let US bravely wend our way,
For the shadows soon will vanish
Into bright and fairest day.
And the morning will seem brighter,
For the dark and cheerless night,
When our hearts so sad and troubled
Longed, but failed to see the light.
ELLA L. Layson. in Western Rural.
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We may, if we choose, make the worst
of one another. Everyone has his weak
points, veryone has his faults. We may
make the worst of these; we may fix
our attention constantly upon these.
But we may also make the best of one
another. We may forgive even as we
may hope to be forgiven. We may
put ourselves in the place of others,
and ask what we should wish to be
done to us, and thought of us, were we
in their place. BY loving whatever is
lovable in those around us, love will
flow back from them to us, and life
will become pleasure instead of a
pain; and earth will become like Heav-
en-; and we shall become not unworthy
followers of Him whose name is Love.
Detroit Free Press.
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"AIaska," Land of Gold and G,,c,.r

This is the most valuable notification v.t
issued by any railway company descriptive
OF our vast northwestern territory. Thu
maps show each days trip between Seattle.
Sltka, Juneau, Dyea and the Glaciers. and
OF the Yukon gold fields. The descriptive
data is OF extreme interest to prospectors.
miners, tourists and students 1t is beauti.
fully illustrated with views reproduc,d
from photographs. It will be sent to any
address for 10 cents in stamps, by r.
Whitney, g. P. & T. A., Great Northsrn
Railway, st. Paul, MINI.
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Helpless.

Mamma-Well, Henry, Laura told me this
morning that Mr.. Logginhalls intended to
call on you to-day for the purpose of asking
you for your hand Did you see him?
Papa-Yes, he called.
and what did you say?"
"What could say? Isn't he one OF the
greatest center rushes in the country? You
didn't expect me to commit suicide, did
?"-Cleyeland Leader,