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The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

Theyre goin to have from Frlsco twenty pieces $50 the day. Talk the Valley band Why, wouldn't draw handful of picnickers if the woods full of 'em this Fourth"
 That's the worst deal they've give us, 'ceptn' the picnic May day year ago. groaned Johnson, the stage rattled up and he went inside to sort the mail
 es@ g9 G9h a hP%t @ b qp the town t sad Ike coach from his nap of Johnson's I'm peaceable but there's offenses that gun play exclusive, and if I'm any jedge Teller citizens this here's of 'em; be up right by upsart of that everybody knows wasn't nothn' bettern suburb to Pot Luck few year ago"
 Wait till read you this boys!' broke In Johnson, bouncing of his office with letter in hand "Ben' chairman of the Fourth of July committee took the b
 '' TO the Honorable Chairman and Members of Fourth of July Committee and Teller Citizens of Pot in General Greeting: Surmsin' you intend to celebrate this year and knowin the patriotic of your citizens extend you cordial invitation to come down and picnic with (Sgned) The Fourth of
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

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 % 5 ba ae peaea e and SpT nd proeT they
 h sT peffea ha o Dht dictate a
 m aHs ay aRS Rhf De pissaed
 Dead silence prevailed for some tnqne9t sftsT ter Jake parted by his Speech seemed the hSls qHP H Bs R"P that Rqf 5eS 525n 2 ns and % 1@ae sgaspeGed rom numerous in ceiling nodded and clanged in approval like so many b-
 u gsv tx n time in & & & dp e5sy The hot July sun had barely Pusnfd@ M @ s SSg fo fore picnic grove at the Gap with people of aratons for entertaining expected horde from Pot
 big steers instead of six a fat of shgsp IoPi nts9d sresdy smoking over the barbecue pits cheeo while iong rows of tables groaned under
 other the 3 SrSeEs Segs of d tPTy 5fE kets of and such of melons ais only the foot by equal hustle aetiy though p 0hp a0ad tS pines that bright oTRing g whsge their Ike our guns? Of every F nan t a9 a e afn % peacesbe aen and We hun
 eu the gs wood s @ G & 6s bss d @ gettin home; treed by grizzly just because
 1ke iF9nisa1 a t Sa echo the yaey @ and h ar under the sun and headed by the flies s and f a down the winding road between the solemn pines and red ing eoBsiss 5s 9e9g mSs S5 meet them Th banners %eG9m9
 Te Pof LaeSers 9l heard e adTancng with dua
 their leaders and ony by heroic eort on their part
 They're NR' oR to onp game @ B paid ke BIedgoe gall 9Png aB qg 9 his d st as dr gad @ that e6dPa Ess Of oa feP that aob # sf @ 4a take n & to the woods in no time Come o1 boys he sh9pted funkin' now I'm peaceable and don't want to burt
 Without stopping their music breaking the step of 6 e og @ he & % gere $ to he erad 5a9 Tbd file @ seats @ m
 The bar and ehagrn of the Pot fuckers man of lem feel like witn tin down to his boot tops " dis
 de the orator of the day closing his address with these oed % o pr6 % a of 9 % sc bgs bys Ps Pitch in, gentlemen of Pot Luck, and enjoy your welcome you t6 water dasRes down tops from the bosom of the broad Paec f8 asis# ssS sssS s55 S
 of lemonade the Gap toasted % Po Luck and n Pot Luck t0astea toast the Gap and Ike leds9e in response to repeed come of the Gapers tried to make The event will go down in history the time enjoyed The Gap and the occasion which Ikes rhetoric failed him. = h. naesa Isdes and gentlemen M pacn e?erlastay thockede9t @ 6fn5 me as have today and I'm going to own up to like:a Of us but from this day on Pot Luc the best friend The and don't want to harm n9body but if eyer Iheaf Pot spot @ Moren @ that we want to celebrate with you next Foyb one caIs g fr M br 0 eeG R aP ana @ P6aG @ Dutch Bills Gapi and I said before citizen, but lick the says Gapers the handsomest ladies good in all this glorious land of the free and home of the braye Hip! Hip! Hoorayii!" =
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
A. Story the Fourth at Seq

Y:OT cloud relieved the dull blue of the sky, not
 restge of shadow offered shelter from the vertical | rays of the equatorial sun, not solitary seaguii tropic bird could be to break with it's 'caW the death-ike silence of the sthing air, and not
 breath sof revive the exhausted energies of
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20

his yard of pipe to his heart, and so
would end one of the most poetical leg
ends in all sea literature. No; the
phantom could not survive such a
shock.
The fourmaster in taking her place
would, with laundering canvas, thrash
the memory of her out of the sea-
mans mind. But in that seventeenth
century craft in which the profane and
stubborn Dutchman put to sea he is
still to be encountered. Doubt it not.
Nothing to the north of "a degrees
south; but down there, on soft, misty,
moonlit nights, the specter glides into
being; the vision shapes itself into
fabric of star-like poop, and a tall,
pale man with long, white ripping
beard, standing beside the helm, "all
silent and all damned" as Wordsworth
says; or she flies past over mountain
out seas, leaps, as it were, out of some
sudden shrek of storm and wool-white
squall of foam-leaps and dissolyes
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20

one who amounted to anything ever re-
fused to give topping out The best
kind of punches were often provided
for topping OUT though in later years
it ran down to beer.
"In the days when ale was the drink
have known of a barrel of ale being
used at topping OUT besides bar
rel of sandwiches. The day DR.. Hall
topped out his house on c street near
Four-and-one-half street, which, by
the way was the first brown stone
front ever put up in this city, he not
only furnished all the ale and porter
necessary, but used up three baskets
of fried chickens, cakes and other
things. 1t was the talk of the town for
years, especially among mechanics.
There were also a number of other ia
nous topping outs Mayor Berret
topped out his house on H street, be-
tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets, with fine champagne, as did
also Mr.. Calf, the jeweler, who built
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
CONSPIRACY.
Italians Planned to xiii Emperor william
In Cairo-Nine of the Gang Arrested.

Alexandria, Egypt, Oct. 15.-The
Alexandria police have arrested nine
Italian anarchists since Thursday
night and have thereby frustrated a
plot against Emperor William. now on
his way to the Holy Land to be pres
ent at the conservation of the Church
of the Savior at Jerusalem.
The first to be arrested is n cafe
keeper, a well-known anarchist, in
whose house the police discovered two
wire-wound bombs of great strength,
full of bullets. This arrest was made
in consequence of a notification from
the italian consul general at Cairo
that two anarchists had left Cairo for
Port Said. The police investigation
showed that the arrested cafe keeper
had bribed the steward OF a steamer
sailing Friday from Alexandria to
Port Said and Syria to take on board
a box of bombs. Apparently the IN
archists originally intended to use the
bombs at the Palais Abidin at Cairo,
while Emperor William and the kba-
dive were there. When the kaiser de-
cided not to visit Egypt the anarchists
changed their plans and decided to at
tack him in Palestine.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER.
A Stea mer il Wrecked on the Coast OF En-
gland and Out Of 200 People on Board
Orly 81 are Saved.

London, Oct. 15.-The Atlantic
Transport Co.'S steamer Mohegan,
which left London for New York on
Thursday with so passengers and a
crew of $50. is ashore off the Lizard
There has been great loss of life. A
coast guard message reports that the
passengers are ''drowning like rats"
Another account says: Bodies are
washing ashore, one being of a lady,
lashed to n plank.
Particulars as to the disaster are
difficult to obtain. When the Mohe-
gan struck a gale was blowing and
the sea was running high. Life boats
put off from the Lizard and from Fall
mouth, one returning filled with pas
sengers. Several were drowned on the
passage of the life boat to the shore.
Another life boat saved six persons.
The coast at that point is extremely
dangerous and has been the scene OF
numerous wrecks.
Only 81 have been saved. This in
telligence was forwarded from the
coast guard by telephone to Falmouth.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
NO MORE FLYING DUTCHMAN.
There Has Been Nothing Launched In
This Century Which at All
Resembles 1t.

We could not possibly manufacture
the Flying Dutchman out of anything
called to this fact by Clark Russell in
the Pail Mall Magazine. Think of
four-masted ship, says he. with her
dreary black-andred hull, her iron
masts, her metal shrouds, her short
poop or long-flush deck. her bewilder-
ing complications of double yards
think of such a ship luminous with the
seaglow, breasting the surge of the
Cape. Accursed! Impossible! She
could never make Flying Dutchman
in the spiritual meaning of that ter
rife sentence of doom! Vanderde
would refuse command. Hewould jump
overheard in his great boots, clutching
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
TOPPING OUT IN WASHINGTON.
AB Old Custom Among BrickiaSers
In the Capital City which
Is Dying Out.

"What was once very general Gus
tom in this city, topping out as it was
called" remarked an old bricklayer TO
a Washington Star reporter, has near
ly died out, and some of the new gen.
Grafton of bricklayers have never par
ticipated in it. Topping out occurred
the day the last course of bricks was
laid in a house and was to celebrate the
event. On the morRing the topping
was to take place flag was raised on
the building. 1t was also a. signal for
the owner of the building to prepare
lunch and the customary drinkables,
especially the drinka bles, for all hands
engaged on the building. OF course, it
generally wound up in a mild kind OF
spree, but it was the custom, and no
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
PLUCKY MRS. STILES.
She Was the First Female Spy in
the Union Service.
Soted as Confidential Agent and Dis
patch bearer In the Dangerous
Southwest All Through the
Civil War.

In the Woman's Relief Corps home,
at Madison, o., were passed the last
years of Mrs. Elizabeth w. Stiles, a
woman with a brilliant record and a
thrilling and romantic history.
Elizabeth w. Brown, says the Gin
cinnati Commercial, was born in Ash
tabula, o., August 81, 1916. Through
out her girlhood she lived quiet, un-
eventful, though not commonplace,
life. She was the master spirit of the
home and neighborhood. AT the age
of five years she could handle gun
and ride on horse back, in which ac-
complishments she became proficient.
In her teens she had a farreaching
and enviable reputation as an expert
cheesemaker and skillfIl nurse.
At the age Of 21 Miss Brown, who
was an independent, resolute and cap
able woman, of commanding presence
and masterful will, embarked on q
career of self-support in what was then
"far-away" Chicago. There she earned
livelihood as seamstress and teacher
until her marriage to Jacob Stiles,
which occurred in 1916. In 1859 she
and her husband removed to Shawnee
town, Kan, where for time she
taught school. Both were intensely
loyal and patriotic. During the early
years of the war they were surrounded
by southern sympathizers, but were
fearless and outspoken.
At Shawneetown, in 1862, came the
great sorrow of her life, the sudden
and violent death of her husband. It
was beautiful night in October; Mr..
Stiles had retired, when Mrs. Stiles, on
housewifely task intent. heard a tramp
Of many feet, followed by rap at the
door. She opened it and greeted, as
she supposed, band of federal SOL
diers, as they were dressed in United
States uniform. They asked that her
husband get up and direct them to
some place they were seeking. He
complied. AS he stepped a few PAGES
into the yard, in the presence of his
horror-stricken wife, he fell dead,
pierced by bullet from disguised
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20

guerillas, commanded by the infamous
Quantrel. a pistol was pointed at her
head, but she was not further mo.
Tested.
She was forbidden to bury her hus.
band. BY some means she commu.
nicated the tidings of the tragedy to
some federal troops, who came and
buried his body. Threats and men.
aces followed, with the offer of 81 ,OOC
for her head, rendering it unsafe for
her to remain. She left her home and
the results of years of patient toll on
horseback, guarded by union scouts
under command of Lieut.. George H.
Hoyt, and was escorted to Fort Leaven-
worth. When, in 1895, she came to
the w. r. c. home, to their mutual sur.
prise and joy, it was discovered that
the superintendent, Mrs. Clare II. Bur
leigh, was a sister of Lieut.. Hoyt.
Soon after her arrival a Fort Leav
enworth a message from President
Lincoln summoned her to Washington.
After her arrival there an interview
with Gen. Lane resulted in her accept
ing the responsible and arduous po.
=
In this capacity, accompanied by her
adopted daughter, now Mrs. Clara Sea.
mans, of Ashtabula, she rendered eff.
ficient service until the close of the
war.
On one occasion she was arrested at
Jefferson City, Mo-, and sent to Gen,
Price for examination on suspicion Of
being a union spy. With great adroit-
ness she succeeded in convincing the
general that she was a confederate
spy instead. She was equipped with a
finer horse and better firearms, was
bidden a godspeed and sent on her
way.
Again she and her daughter were ar.
rested as suspicious persons and sent
to headquarters. She was suddenly
taken violently i'll, was bedridden for
two weeks, successfully feigning a
most distressing malady. On learning
that federal troops were in the y:cin-
ity convalescence was rapid. Her cap
tives accepted her repeated affir-ma
tion that when arrested she and her
daughter were on their way to the
house Of a friend, and they were al
lowed to pass beyond the confederate
lines.
She retained her mental faculties to
the last, and died July 1s, 1898. At her
request the obsequies consisted of a
service of song and the reading Of the
impressive burial service of the Epis CO.
pal church, of which she was a com
municant.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
A Big Pond Robbery.

Minneapolis, Oct. 15.-It has Just
leaked out that a week ago burglars
broke into the office of the Consoli-
dated Milling and Hardware Co. and,
after breaking open a safe, escaped
with $65.OOO worth of United States
bonds. President Christian few days
later received a letter Offering to re-
turn them if a reward was advertised
in one of the local papers. This was
done and $25 was offered. Another
letter followed saying that this was
too small and that though the bonds
were worthless to their present pos
SCISSORS they were worth a good deal
to Mr.. Christian.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20

Toledo, Oct 15.-Tohn Naole re-
ceived "A dispatch late last night from
the captain of his tug Saugatuck stat
ing that the steamer Colby had col
lided with and sunk the schooner
Nassau at the mouth of the Detroit
river at 10 o'clock. The Colby was
bound up river and the Nassau was
headed for Buffalo with a cargo of
wheat. The crew of the Nassau were
saved by the Saugatuck. The loss will
reach nearly $4,000 on the schooner
and the Colby is badly injured.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
CONTINUOUS OVATION.
st. Louis Honors President Mckinley on
ahe Occasion OF His Visit to that City.

1he OCCASION or HIS Nislt TO that city.
ST. Louis, Oct 15.-President McKin-
ley was the guest of st. Louis yester-
day. He came from Omaha by way
of Galesburg, ILL.,, over the Burlington
route. From the time of his arrival
until II p. m, when he left the city,
he was accorded an almost continuous
ovation. Escorted to the Southern
hotel by civic bodies and regular and
voluteer troops, among which We're
two commands that had gained dis
tinction at FL Caney. President Me-
Kinley was met by the cheers of thou
sands of people.
At the Southern hotel he reviewed
the parade given in his honor and later
held a reception in the parlors. At
noon he addressed a large crowd on
the floor of the Merchants Exchange
and afterwards sat down TO an ella bor-
ate luncheon at which rs persons were
present. A drive through the streets
and parks of the city completed the
daylight programme of entertain
ment
A feature of the drive was the stop
made at the soldiers home, where
President Mckinley met and shook
hands with Jack Haynes, aged III
years. said 10 be the oldest soldier in
the United States.
Last night at the Coliseum the great
est throng of people addressed by
President Mckinley under cover thus
far during his present trip gave him
a magnificent greeting. His speech
was interrupted repeatedly with ap-
plause. The president and party left
at II O'Clock for Terre Haute, Ind.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20

The past lew days have FURNISHED an
experience with mosquitoes in Florida
seldom eQualed and never surpassed.
The vicious insects have come in a
cloud, infe sting every nook and corner
and attacking every living thing from
which a drop of blood could be drawn.
Men have been forced to quit work,
horses and mules have had to lie pro-
tected, dogs had TO be taken into
dwelling houses and poultrr squawked
during the night hours Ike proving
beasts had seized them. All outdoor
worn IS largely suspended.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20

Charleston, s. c., Oct. 15.-W. Fl.
Robertson, colonel commanding the
First regiment, national guards of
South Carolina, was suspended yester-
day by Adit. Gen. Watts. 1t was re-
ported some days ago that Robertson
had pawned seven Springfield rifles
belonging to one of the companies in
the regiment. and when the matter
was investigated the guns were found
in a Charleston pawn shop. This was
sufficient for the suspension. The
national guard is a colored organiza-
tiOn
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
Must stav in Jail Until Trial.

Cincinnati Oct. 15.-After hearing
arguments yesterday on the applca-
ton of w. J. Haldeman. the wealthy
paper manufactures, for bail. court re-
fused the same, but set the trial for
November 81. Haldeman viii be tried
for killing eX-State Senator Richard
son. His friends offer any amount of
bail, but the court holds that first de-
gree murder cases are not baila bic.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20

a house next to him. Many Of the hod-
carriers were given bucketfuls of
cakes, cookies and sandwiches al the
close Of the topping OUT But those
days have passed and when anything
is said to the owners of houses being
built these days, they express ignor-
ance of the custom and decline to oD-
serve it when it is explained TO them
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20

Washington, Oct. 15.-Mrs. sherman,
wife of eX-Secretary Sherman, is still
in critical condition from the effects
of the stroke of paralysis which she
sustained Thursday, but is thought to
be somewhat improved
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20

The term of a prisoner in Mexico Is
divided into three periods. The first
is occupied with penal labor, the Sec
ond is spent in the training school, with
small pay, and the third is preparatory
to freedom, with paid work and many
privileges.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
pInnts Thnt XII Ench Other.

Fancy two plants being so enfriend-
y that the mere neighborhood of one
is death 10 the other! Yet that j. the
ease with two well-known Eng ,ish
plants. These are the thistle and the
rape. If field is infested with thistles.
which come up year after year and
.uin the crops, all you have to do is to
SOW It with rape. The thistle will be
absolutely anuihilated.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
Chinese Interpreters TO Order.

Germany is sending as Interpreters
to its Chinese possessions at Kiao-
Chou graduates from the Berlin sem
mary for oriental languages, WAC have
had three years training in the Chinese
taught Al Berlin.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
Did no. Strike.

Paris, Oct. 1.-THE threatened gen
eral strike of railroad men did not
take place yesterday. Nearly all the
laborers are at work. and the railroad
service is uninterrupted. the railroad
men having apparently ignored the
decision of the committee represent
inc them
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20
An Heir for the MarIboroupbs.

London, Oct. 15.-The Duchess of
Marlborough. formerly Miss Consuelo
Vanderbilt, of New York, gave birth
TO u son on Thursday.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20

In the Bank of England there are
silver bars that have lain there un-
touched for 200 years
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20

New York, Oct 15.-The Seventh
regular infantry left Camp Wi<off yes
terday for forts in the Department of
the Lakes. The Seventh was the last
in camp and its departure brings
Camp Wikof to an end.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-10-20

like the sea-fash swelling from her
bow.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-23

In military prisons an offender is some
times sentenced to carry cannon balls from
one place to another and pile them up all
day long. That is all. Perhaps it does not
seem very terrible but it soon wears his
life out 1t is practically death sentence,
and he knows it; he would rather be shot.
Many a sick man feels the same way about
the burden of disease that he is Juggling
back and forth from day to day. He would
as soon be down with a mortal disease. It
VII come to that sooner or later.
A mans life can be dragged out BY
dyspepsia and liver complaint. The ex-
perience of Mr.. ]. T. Cardwell, of Fall
Greek Depot, Pittsylvania Co., Va, shows
how DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry saves people from consumption by
waking up their nutritive organism and
giving it power to supply pure, healthy
blood, which drives out blood poisons and
dead tissues and builds up sound, whole
some flesh and muscle.
II feel it my duty" writes Mr. Cardwell in a
letter to Dr. Pierce, to write you of the lasting
benefits derived from the use of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery and little Pellets
which bafied the skin Of one Of the best ply,
sicians in my State. 1t ran on and I continu-
ally grew worse until concluded to write to
the Worlds Dispensary Medical Association >
The answer to my Inquiry advised me to use
Golden Medical Discovery and Pellets for
indigestion and liver complaint at this time
two months had passed. In two or three days
after had commenced the use of your medi-
ton was better, my low spirits driven away and
I felt new life and vigor in my whole body"
This marvellous Discovery" makes
nerve force and rugged power. 1t is far
better than oily emulsions; it does not
make fabby fat, it does not increase the
weight of corpulent people.