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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-12-21

ern churches in the observance,
and extended the feast from the
18th of December to the 9th Of
January; not that either was
known to be the date of the Sd
yior's birth, for not even the year
of that greatest of all events can
befixed; but the season conceded
with the winter solstice. the time
when nature begins in Levantine
countries to awake out of it's an
nual sleep; and this fact com
ported well with the larger won
der of the event of "the Life
which was the Light of men,"
During the twelve days and
nights between Nativity and Epi-
phany, the slumbering credulity
of the once pagan Kelts and Ger
mans awoke and clothed itself in
the better freedom of faith. Then
it was, according to the new or.
der of their belief, that benign
spirits-it may be their old del.
ties TRANSPORTED - walked the
earth aud wrought wonders on
the land and in the seas; then it
was that strange transits Oc-
Cured amongst the stars; and
moving lights illumined the for
est glades, and the beasts in field
and manger bowed down in obei-
sance and worship. When all
these things passed away, or had
settled down into the common
place of yearly memories, one
thing was found to have re-
mained-the use of Christmas as
a festival of childhood and a
time for the return of the over
hurdened souls of men and We
men to sit awhile amid the limo,
cency and mirth of the seasons
and places Whence they sprang
The record Of Christmas is the
most certain light shining out of
the early Christian centuries, and
everywhere the face on which
that light rails is the race of a
child; and though it were aboard
ed face, it is still child's. Vague
and dream-like are the. stories Of
King Olaf and the mighty beard
ed earls of Norway. Equally
myth-like are the tales of the Sea
Kings of Jutland, Engleland and
sea-girt homes of the later Sagas;
but wherever the faith of Jesus
touched those Northern shores
and the story of the Nativity was
told, a light cleaned forth
through the boreal gloom; and
the Yule-log, burning by ford
and blight, became a beacon to the
memories of nations to be born
of nations through the milleni-
ums of Christendom. England,
greater Europe and America
havelighted their Christmas fires
from these Yule-logs, and tell for
ever the Yule-tide stories told
centuries ago by the children of
a race in its intellectual infancy.
In Iceland the Christmas feast
had a meaning in the earliest
times which it scarcely had else
where, and in the stories and le-
gends of Iceland have been best
preserved the secrets which made
the Northern Christmas, and by
inherit9nce from it, the English
Christmas, so completely the fes-
tiyal and high-day of the Chris
tian child. The Norwegians who,
in the Ninth Century, discovered
and peopled the shores of Iceland
were pagans; they had never
heard the name of Christ; but
they loved freedom and hated the
tyrannies of their King, Harold
Fairhair;and because they would
not stay to be subject to him,
they sailed away to make their
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-12-21
CHRISTMAS CHEER
"PeaCe on Earth; Good Win to
Men,"
through all tie Centuries Has Thrilled the
Hearts Of Men and Urged TO Nohler
Deeds and Higher Aims.

Christian church has made
Christmas, or the feast of the
Nativity Of Jesus, the chiefest
and gladdest Of all its observan.
ces; for twelve hundred years
this festival has been universal
ly celebrated on the 25th day of
December. From the beginning,
Christmas has been dedicated to
the children, as Easter by the
same law of fitness has fallen to
those of maturer years. This law
of fitness, which has determined
the use of Christmas as a festi-
val for the young, rests on two
facts-one psychic, the other his
toric. In the first place, Christ
mas is the memorial of the Child.
Typical, perennial, prophetic
childhood walks in the traditions
of the nature and the nativity of
Jesus. The perfectness and inno-
cency after which the race had so
long struggled were reached in
Jesus at bound. There they are
discerned by the whole world, en-
shrined in his bosom and eX-
pressed in his face. Childhood
knows its own and can best un-
derstandand interpret the speech
and the thought Of childhood. 1t
saw its own in the Nativity, and
found in the Babe and the Day
those things which fix and hold its
affections forever. Better than
'Helmed Cherubim,
Or sworded Seraphim,"
.chill dkaod has read the. tokens of
!, Ne in this vision of th,-
Epiphany. The voices of that
Epiphany find their echoes in the
"Hosannahs" of the little chill.
dren who welcomed the Christ
on his entry into Jerusalem, and
much more in the Christmas
songs of that universal childhood
which has welcomed him into it's
own heart. "Unto us a child is
born; unto us a son is givenw
The manner in which history
has apprehended and appropri.
ated Christmas has emphasized
its dedication to childhood. The
European nations, particularly
those from which we are direct
ly descended-the Germans,
Goths and Kelts-who most dis
tinctively adopt Christmas as q
supreme festival, transferred to
it the nobler ideas of their my
thology and the more human sen.
timents and pastimes of their
home-life. Christmas came to be
a sort of epitome of those ma
tional traits and beliefs which
through the law of selection sur
vived to them from theft old hea-
then life after they had received
the gospel from the missionaries
of Rome. All that thus remained
was of the element and taste OF
childish simplicity, childish faith
and fancy. The infancy of a ma
ton is much the same as the in
fancy of individual life. The Gre
dulity of childhood is the off.
spring Of that instinct which
once moved the whole race. Folk
lore is phylogenetic history pro
jected along the years of spirit
ual and intellectual growth. The
dwarfs, the fairies and the genii
of modern nursery rhymes and
Christmas tales are the surviving
families of the innumerable kin
dreds of satyrs, breads, gnomes
and elves. Latmos and Asgard,
as seats of power, are the perpet
ual rivals of empires and repub
lies. Thus it came about that the
Christianized nations of Europe,
seeking in their new faith a cen
4ar in which to FIX the memories
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-12-21

A waitress may not know a club
from spade, but she can easily
raise tho deuce by simply drop
ping a tray.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
OF INTEREST TO BANKS.
Forged Bond Case Decided By New
York Surname Court

Forged Bond Case Decided By New
York Supreme Court.
New York, May 2S-The case of the
Clinton National bank of Connecticut
against the National Park bank of New
York, just decided in the New York SUI
preme court, is of especial interest to
out-of-town banks. 1t appears that in
July, 1893, the Clinton bank agreed to
loan Quigley & Tuthill, a New York
firm, $1,000 upon its demand note, Sc
cured by seven 81, 900 bonds of Daven-
port City, Ia, and wrote to the Ma
tional Park bank, its agent and CORE
spondent iE New York, requesting it to
deliver the plaintiffs check OF $1,000 to
Quigley 81 Tuthill upon receiving their
note, with the collateral, to send the
note to the Clinton bank and hold the
collateral subject to its order.
Quigley & Tuthill thereupon present.
ed to the loan clerk of the Park bank
their demand note for $1,000. and what
purported to be seven $1,000 bonds of
Davenport City Ia. and received in
return the plaintiffs check for $1,000.
The Park bank deposited the bonds in
its safe and sent the note to the plain
tiff, as requested. Everything seemed
to be right until January. 1895, when an
account appeared in the newspaper
that Quigley & Tuthill had been
charged with depositing forged bonds
on other transactions. and had failed
in business. The officers of the Clinton
bank then came to New York to inves-
tigate the character of the Davenport
City bonds taken by the Park bank as
collateral, and these were discovered
to be forged.
The Clinton bank thereupon sued the
Park National bank in the New York
supreme court to recover the loss. The
jury found for the defendant.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
ST. LOUIS IN AN ENGAGEMENT
CLAIM THAT IT SILENCED San
TIAGO BATTERIES.
Also Asserted That the Auxiliary
Cruiser Cut Some of the Cables,
But Could Not Reach Others.

New York, May 2S.-The auxiliary
cruiser st. Louis arrived at this port
from West Indian waters this morn
ing. The st. Louis has been ordered
to the Cramp shipyards, Philadelphia,
and Will sail Immediately for that
place. 1t is said that she is TO have
her armament increased by six five
inch quick-firing rifles.
The incident of the attempt II sever
cable connection between Cuba and
the rest of the world, which was one OF
the latest objects which engaged the
st. Louis stay in the West Indies, was
told as follows by one who was on
board the cruiser:
Orders were given by Admiral
Sampson to Captain Goodrich on May
10 to take the fleet tender in tow and to
proceed to Santiago de Cuba and cut
the cables at that point. The graphing
implements were secured from the tug
Wampucket on May 16, and at II p. m.
the expedition in the small boats, left
the cruiser for the entrance of San
tiago. 1t was then perfectly dark and
haZy, and the Santiago light was
burning brightly. Moonrise was not I'M
til 3:45 a. m. After the departure of the
cable-cutting party, signals from two
SuIDOdlS were SSSH AZ D d. H., May
II, the expedition returned with part of
one cable, but it had failed to find the
second. which is close under the fort,
and was protected by two patrol boats.
Then start was made to cut the cable
on the other side of the island. AT z
a. m. the st. Louis fired its first gun
at the forts protecting the entrance to
Santiago harbor, and after little time
the fire was returned by one gun,
which must have been a two-pounder.
At a. m. the st. Louis was about
two miles distant from the fort, which
seemed TO be unprotected by modern
guns. After three hours of graphing
in over 500 fathoms, the cable had not
been found. At 12:15 p. m. the guns
of MORO Castle opened fire, followed by
the shore batteries on the Southerly
point, and also the west battery. The
st. Louis kept up a constant fire from
her bow guns and soon succeeded in
silencing the guns of MORO Castle.
The garrison Spaniards could be seen
running in all directions. Most of the
shots from the forts fell short of the
ships. Shells from the mortar battery
went over the cruiser and exploded in
the water quite close to the ST Louis
The mortar battery ceased at 1885,
after fusilade of Al minutes. After
the firing the cable was grappled,
hauled on board and cut.
THE st. Louis crew behaved in a
very cool manner under fire, and Cap
tain Goodrich and Captain w. G. Ran
die, the latter of the American line, at
the close of the engagement, compli-
mented all hands for their bravery"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
Robbed the Crave.

startling incident, of which Mr.
John Oliver of Philadelphia was the
subject, is narrated by him as follows:
was in most dreadful condition.
My skin was almost yellow, eyes
sunken, tongue coated, pain continually
in back and sides, no appetite-gradu-
ally growing weaker day by day. Three
physicians had given me up. FoTtu-
nately, friend advised trying Electric
Bitters; and to my great joy and sur
prise, the first bottle made a decided
Improvement. / continued their use for
three weeks, and am now a well man.
know they saved my life, and robbed
the grave of another victim" No one
should fail to try them. Only soc per
bottle, at z. c. II. I. drug store.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
PATRIOTIC WOMEN. i.
Daughters of Revolution Will Raise
Funds For Needy Families.


Washington, May 2S.- the regular
May meeting of the national board of
management of the National Society Of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, the following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved, That in addition to the
work of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution hospital corps, every
chapter and member at large of our
national society, Daughters of the
American Revolution, be requested TO
unite at once in a general effort to
succor needy families of men who have
gore to the front, and to furnish COM
forts for soldiers and sailors, whether
regular or volunteer.
Resolved, That all members of the
National Society Daughters OF the
American Revolution are strongly urg-
ed TO immediate action for the accu-
mutation of a large sum of money, to
be used in emergency and eXigency
calls of every kind, such as are at
tendant upon the condition of a nation
engaged in warfare, and in the FUR
therance of this purpose we would
recommend that the interest of all pa
triots be invoked in raising this fund,
to be known as the d. A r. war fund
Resolved, That a war committee,
composed of the national board of man
agement, with the addition of Mrs.
George n. Stedenberg and Mrs. Chas.
L. Alden, be formed; that the treas
urer general of the national society Of
=. A r. be directed TO enlarge the war
fund, and that money be under the
authority AID direction OF a sub-com-
mittee: and be it further
Resolved, That we advise the rails
ing OF such an amount as will be COM
me nsurate with the spirit and aims of
the National Society OF the Daughters
of the American Revolution"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
News Was Bearish and Prices Went
Down.

Chicago, May 2S.-At the starting in
wheat today there was more or less COW
ering by shorts In view of the holiday
the market. the trade seemed to be dis
posed to even up. The demand from that
interest was responsible for the early
strength, but when buyers were satisfied
and withdrew trade became sluggish. The
bear news multiplying and the bull in
terest getting no support. the selling rush
became aggressive and vigorous and was
rushed with such energy that everything
was swept before ii. Liquidation soon
became as urgent as the short selling
the market getting demoralized. The i'm
preston became general that Letter had
lost control and was no longer able to
resist the natural course of prices. There
was no Liverpool cables, but the crop
news continued to grow more bearish. ST
Louis reported new wheat alread in that
market. There was considerable reaction
during the last half hour, as the shorts
July closed 212Q3l5 cents lower. and Sep
TENDER lost IL cents. May closed at LIS.
The weather was too wet for the good
of corn and there was some activity on
the part of the bull crowd. When wheat
broke corn went with it, but there was a
complete recovery later. July closed &c
higher.
The fluctuations in corn controlled oats
July opened unchanged and closed 24IsGD
24A, loss of &c.
There was set selling of ribs and pork
through commission houses. Pork was
close. Ribs are cents lower, pork de-
clined q. cents and lard is about I'M
changed from yesterday.
Holiday on board of trade Monday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
Murderer flanagan will HANG.

Atlanta, Ca, May 2S-The jury in
the case of Edward c. Flanagan today
returned a verdict of guilty, and the
murderer was sentenced to be hanged
June q. Flanagan is over 40. and was
in love with the 11-year-old daughter
of f. c. Allen, and possessed of the
idea that the family was prosecuting
him. He opened fire on them while
they were at supper, on Dec 81, 1896.
killing old Mrs. Allen. the grand
mother, and Miss Ruth Slack, a visitor.
Two other members of the family were
wounded. This was the third trial of
the case.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29

Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, May 2S.-The receipts of cattle
this week foot up 90, $50 head. Prices are
10d2O cents lower than a week ago.
Choice to good steers, -4.65d5.20; medium,
4.45Q4.65; stockers and feeders, 4.c0G50 90;
cows and heifers, 3.4Gq4.00; western steers,
4.O0d4.75.
Hogs were 5G10 cents lower than yester-
day and 2Gd25 cents lower than week
ago. Lights, 3.70d415; mixed and
butchers, 5.95q4.30; heavy, 3.95q4.35; pigs,
270d39O
Sheep were steady at the recent ad-
vance. Common to choice sheep, 3.00d
400; exports, 40; fancy yearlings, 40:
clipped lambs, 4.00d525; wooded lambs, so
G6.10; spring lambs, 6.O0G7.00.
Receipts--Cattle, 500; hogs, 1000;
sheep, 1900.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. .
Powerful Light That Will Penetrate
Human Bodies.

Boston, Mass, May ga new and
powerful apparatus has just been COM
pleted by Professor John Trowbridge
of Harvard university for experiments
in electrical force, his principal object
being to test further the penetra ting
power of the X-ray. The apparatus
consists of a series of 120 Franklin
plates or Leyden jars supplied with
power by storage battery containing
10000 Plante cells. The voltage neces-
sary for experiments is 2,500000 Pro-
fessor Trowbridge has already made ex-
periments which prove that an appa-
ratus as powerful as this can make x
rays penetrate not only human flesh,
but also bones and tendons, thus prob
ably making possible still more remark
able attainments in surgery by their
aid.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
Omaha Live Stock.

Omaha, May 2S.-Cattle-Receipts, 1900.
Market steady. Natice beef steers, 1000
Ass; western steers, 3s0G4 40: Texas
steers. 3.50d425; COWS and heifers. 3.sO1
AS; stockers and feeders, 3.s5a5.OO bulls,
stays, etc. 3.75.
Hogs-jeceipts. 1000. Market 10 cents
lower. 4Ieavy, 4.05d415; mixed. 405d4 10;
light 400G410: bulk of sales 405G410
Sheep-Receipts. $500. Market strong
Fair to choice natives 3.75a425; fair to
choice westerns, 3.6OG4.30: common and
stock sheep, 3.00Q4.OO; lambs. 4.25a5.75.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
Coffee and Sugar.

New York, May 2S-Coffee options
closed at unchanged prices to Is points
net higher. Sales. 1880 bags. Spot cof-
fee, Rio, steady. No. Z invoice. 81: No. 7
Jobbing, cents. Mild. steady; Cordova
Sugar-Raw, firm; fair refining, 2%
centrifugal 96-test, Ills: refined firm
mould A. 55s; standard A. 51z9s CONNECTION
ers A, 81; cut loaf. 57s crushed. So:
powdered, SIS; granlated, 57s; cubes. SIX.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
Denver Live Stock

Denver, May -Cattle-Receipts. 1900.
Market steady. Beef steers, 3.5OG465
COWS, 3OOqS5O; feeders. freight paid to
river. 4Ooa4.5O; stockers, freight paid to
river, 4.oO4460: bulls, stays, etc, 2.5OG3. %.
Hogs-Receiprs 100. Market 10 cents
lower, firm. Light packers, 41OG4. Is;
mixed, 4.0504l0; heavy, 400d410
Sheep-Receipts, none. Market I'M
changed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
Imports and Exports.

New York, May 2s-Exports of specie
from this port for the week ending today
aggregated S733. 723. The imports of specie
at New York for the week ending today
were 81, $50 355 in gold and SIS, 22i in silver.
The exports of dry goods and general
merchandise were valued at S7,S27.210 for
the reel
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
Kansas City Live Stock.

Kansas City May 2S.-Cattle- Receipts
100. Market unchanged.
HOgs-Receipts, $500 Market weak to
> cents lower. Bulk of sales, 4.00d4 %:
heavies. 4.10G4.30; packers, 1854. 20
mixed, 5.90q4221a; light. 3.75d4.l0; workers.
4.05G41o; pigs. 300G3.S0.
No sheep.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29

London financial eablegram: The only
feature today was the revival of the &C.
mand of gold for Russia in the LonGon
markets, Notwithstanding the money
ruled at 2M per cent and the French ex-
change was higher.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
81 FRANCIsCo sToCKs.
The Metal Markets.

New York, May 2S.-Pig iron warrants
quiet; southern, 9.75G11.25 northern, 1O.O0a
1l.50
Copper-Quiet; lake brokers', 11M.
Lead-Steady; brokers', $50.
Tin Plates-Quiet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29

Stocks at London.
New York, May 2S.-The Evening Posts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-06

s3.s2sa 2s 81
state OF New York County os New York. ss.: .
WILLIAM H. PERKINS. President and WAtIER N
RENNET Cashier ~ the Bank ~ America. a bank 10
Gated and doing business Nos - and ~ wall street
in the city of New York. In sad County. being duly
sworn each for himself that the foregoing report
true correct in all respects ~ the best 81 M,
knowledge belief and they further that the ufua
business bank has been transacted al the oca
Zion required by the banking Law CHAP 6S?. Laws OF
elsewhere: and that the above report II
made in compliance with Official notice received rom
hs SUPERINTENDENT OF Banks designating the 2ath day 81
September 1895 tho day which such report sha oe
made. MILAN r. 800, rIrnrr'' r..si.r
severay subscribed and sworn 20 by both depon'ns tn
90 II. CHICHESTER
w. 50 Notary Public.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-06
QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE BANK OF

ss.e46, 400 -
c,.,. p, Nev-York County ~ New YORK Is p.J-
H'r 30 4, w TIrFoRD President. and GEORGE D. De-,
yAVX cashier - the Bank NJ New Amstetasn r,nth
49, - 5o,,g business AT Broadway and thirty -
&C., On the CITY Of New York. in ssln ccun.S;
81 s,nrn each FOR himself that the Ioresotns
ou! i,h he schedule accompanying the same Is uue
and correct IN respects N the o .u. hu.iness
a. .S hank has been transacted st the ocauoh
Nv m. banking law CHAP. $50 Laws % issN, romn~
" and that the above report Is name IN
encs with an official notice received from ue pentsmr~r
1898 as the Gay vi WIN" FRANK TILFORD. President.
r. ! PAIMANN Cashier. .
severay subscribed and sworn TO by notn oep"e"S '
81 day Of October lss'' Del HOWARD wILLErT.
Notary Public n. Y. Co. a.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-06
washington Piscs

washington flace
,rhs sooroxirAts amount OF the lien or charge, to
satisfy Witch the above deserted properly Is 70 %
a. $40 90 with interest thereon rom the "a
80 ., ,ns, isps osethss with ard ell5s snces
snmn,inx 90 with interest from the An DAY OF
Az, with the expenses Of the sale
ne eprr0xmAs u taxes assessment. or cther
Hens urtn properly which 70 be ALLOW Cd 70
IN. ~ TIE purchase money or paid by the
referee. . $3.50 and Interest - 49,.
N"''' ioHN J. MccArLEY. j..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-06

proper to state that II Is proposed to consider
surplus hereafter earned over and above oper-
atins expenses and fixed charges for each year
as a basis for dividends for such year. which
dividends Will be regulated by the amount so
earned for that period. hut II Is not contem-
plated to use any OF the accumulated surplus
of the company for the payment Of dividends"
The condensed general balance sheet shows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-06
flnan1ini.
flnanli1i
THE UNION PACIFIC,
DENVER AND GULF
RAILWAY COMPANY.

Pursuant 10 the provisions % the Agreement dated
September IS 1897. made between Grehvhe NJ Dodge
George " Pullman, j. Kennedy Tod, Oliver Ames' Harry
Walters Henry Bulge. Henry Lewis and Criah herr
mann Committee q the first part and such holders OF
the consolidated mortgage bonds Of The Union Paclhc
Denver ana Gulf Railway Company issued under mort
gage dated April J. 1890 should become parties to said
Agreement, therein provided, u the second part
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that the COMMITTEES
constituted under said Agreement has adopted and ap
proved Plan ard Agreement FOR the Reorganization OF
The Union Pacific. Denver and Guf Railway Company.
ard that copy q such Plan and Agreement with the
written adoption and approval thereof endorsed thereon
by majority O: the members a. the Committee. has been
legged with Central Trust Company o. New York. the
Dcpositary under said Agreement Of September ~ 1921
Dated New York Oc,oS>r ?. 1903.
GREyyILIE VI. DODGE.
j. KENNEDY TOD,
HENRY Bulge,
OLIVER AMEs,
HARRY WALTERS,
NORMAN ID. REAN,
HENRY LEWIS,
URIAH HERR,ItNN,
Committee.
!. 7. GRANGER. Secretary.