davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
THE JULY MAGAZINES.
Q 0 0 0 0 Q Q DO Q Q 0 b Q Q b b b b Q

The Pail Mall Magazine for July con- tains MT. Perrys Wooing," a very amus- ing short story, by Hal Godfrey; the first of what promises to be a remarkably in- teresting series of articles by Clark Rus sell, 'The Ship; Her Story" sin which he traces the development of the ship from the ''dugout" of prehistoric times down to the modern man-of-war the concluding chapters of Anthony Hopes thrlllng romance, Rupert of Hentzau" part " of c. J. Cutliffe Hyne's series of stories of adventure on the Spanish main, Prince Rupert the Buccaneer'': part II Concluding the series) of the EVolution of Comfort in Railway Trav- cling by Angus Sinclair; a second in stallment of J. Holt Schoolirg's remark able articles on Crime; another of Miss Nesblts charming stories of children en- titled The Divining Rod":. 'Towana hhan i,,n ana His Master" a short story dl- lustrative of British rule in India). by Colonel Alfred Harcourt; "The People That Delight in War; a poem. by Chris tian Burke; After the Honeymoon, 1uli,page IF, plate. by Max Cowper; and whole exquisitely illustrated.
 A rich frontispiece, after painting by van der Velde, accompanies the number
 ScrIbners.
 The war leads the July number of ONiApiiCl 4hcl5 hlC0drQ Harding Davis account of ''The First Shot of the War" and "The First Bombardment" is the graphic picture of what an eye-wit- ness saw when the Buena Ventura was taken and Matanzas was bombarded. How it feels to be on a great warship in action is made vivid. Snapshot photo graphs by MT. Davis add to the sense of reality. "The ship seemed to work and to fight by herself" he says You heard no human voice of command"
 Manila and the Philippines" are de- scribed by Isaac M. Elliott. for three years United States Consul at Manila.
 Captain Mahan (now of the naval strategy board at Washington writes of lution. John Paul Jones'"
 Undergraduate Life at Smith College Is written by a recent graduate. Miss AL ice Katharine Fallows.
 Mir, Wyckoff depicts this month a ''Workingman's Sunday in Chicago" ptIrrttc mo-thtv
 "~roHe+o-o" ard "-rrn Dacaaeroe or ~~~'-'" ~-~ t'>o two leading articles Tn the 'tIant'c for Trlv
 IIroi~~otre
 ''rro-ors pr~ -1~-- To'o,-u-~'ot,t |" hv rr1- -1 Wow 'c Q e,,oo-h -to~1- in +,,a r''lv- '0rt-oo4+ rho o+Ner features are n tho usual s+ardard.
 "co--o--------i r,~-,'-- Nr- iNo rTo- George F. Williams, Is the leader in the Arena this month. It Is an able article,
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

AFL. GROOS,. professor of phil 'osophy in the University of Basel,
 has performed no insignificant feat in "1 he Play of Animals" a translation of which by Elizabeth
 "a -..... .--:ll En ,o1,hlishad Inv
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
.WHI6T RECEPTION AT TRlsT CLUB.

.TFTTIoI oI NLOET ION NI IND NLUD.
 The ladies. of the Trist Duplicate Whist Club gave reception to Colonel J. c. Loper, Major ": s. H: Mathews. Surgeon. and Adjutant Davidson of the Fifty-irst Iowa Volunteers Saturday evening last in the cozy of their club in the Berkshire.
 Mrs. 'Alice Fredericks chairman of the whist committee, assisted by Mrs. GuptiIl, Mrs. Woodward and Mrs Tormey, did the honors. After the gallant colonel and his staff were Introduced to the members of the club the bell rang for play to begin Two hours were spent fin the silent game. Major Mathews and his partner making the best score of the evening nine above the average. Colonel Loper came out with three above, the adjutant just the average.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
I-0I~~~tt' e

''rro-o11 p-~-1o,- T1o,-v-~'o+t " nv r1- --~r1 c Wow 7'11 'c er,,o-h -to--v i,1 +',a r,,1-- ' '-,-t-co4A ri,n ether features are --o n tho usual s+ardard
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
McClure's.

The opening article of McClure's Maga- zine for July portrays the private and official life of President Mckinley from the first dawn of the war crisis down al most to the present moment. Only four of our Presidents have had to conduct a war and how President Mckinley con ducts one is here related. with most ln- teresting wealth of detail The nlustra- tions of the article consist of typical war time scenes in the White House and de- partments, drawn from life, and num- Der of excellent. portraits from recent special photographs.
 Stephen Bonsal, who was himself participant in it, tells the story of The First Fight on Cuban Soil, in our war with Spain, and his article is interestingly illustrated from photographs taken by himself. Cleveland Moffetts account or "The Fastest Vessel Afoat-the Tur- binia,' which easily makes forty miles an hour-is the narrative of. thrilling and unique experience as well as the de- scription of a most remarkable inven- tion.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
TL@ .S---

ttr@ " T~f-~ v Wv 4Nn rTN~ George F. Williams, Is the leader in the Arena this month. It Is an able article
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

is "The Presidents March composed by Victor Herbert and designed 10 pc played as a compliment to the head or Iine ine' nation whenever he appears in pubic. At this time much interest will be taken in the original Declaration of 1ndepen- dence, now guarded from public gaze, which, with the original draft or the reproduced in the July Journal by ar with the State Department.
 Tbe Porlslon.
 The Parisian for July is profusely H. frustrated. It contains representative collection of portraits. etc, of the Paris Salon of this year. There is an interest ing article Qllustrated) on Copenhagen Leon Tolstoi gives vent to some opinions on Wagner's music which will greatly shock the Wagnerites.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
aaaaoooa O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0000 000N0 00
THE BOOK OF TIE WEEK.
The Play of Animals.
o o o o o o o o DO o o o o o o o o Q Q
BY PROFESSOR KARL GRoos.

Mark psvn says pnnHaa captain ns Tour Spanish
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03
Tattooing'pOpular.

The war has brought grist to the
mills of the New York ''professors"
who use the Japanese needle on the
human skin. One of the best known
tattoOers has q "studio'' in Chatham
square, another expert can be found
under the skylight of a Bowery saloon.
There is no better profession for q
young man to adopt, according to the
leading professor, than that of TATTOO
ing, provided, of course, that ths
learner has q gift for the art. He mo-
destly admits that it's q mighty poor
year when he doesn't earn 5000 or
S6, 900. For the benefit of those who
know nothing of tattooing, it may be
said that the prices vary from % cents
to $40. You can get an anchor and
three stars for 30 cents, but Japanese
dragon costs $40. "In Memory of
Mother" The Sailors Return and
Hope" come at about SO apiece. and
are very popular. THE Sinking
Ship" has q certain vogue among the
respondent, but "Hoisting the Flag"
which represent sailor turning the
glorious stars and stripes loose in q gale
OF wind, Ia deservedly the most popular
design. 1t figures on the bosoms of
most American seaman. OF late how
ever, pictures Of the Maine, portraits
OF the naval heroes, eagles and flags
have bad the call. The professor is
himself walking art gallery. He
proudly exhibits ''The Crucifixion," a
battle scene and several other works
OF his beloved tutOr.-Ksnsas City
Journal.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03

But all experience of recent years in
dicates that where nine wounded men
out of ten would have been buried
from q field hospital in the years be-
tween 1861 and 1865, only four would
die in the year 1898, the other six be-
ing eventually discharged safe, whole,
and probably in better health than
they enjoyed before they were wound
ed.
In fact, "dead of Wounds so far as
it applies to the wars of past genera
tions, including our own civil war, real
ly means in most cases that death re-
suits from hospital gangrene, ""hos-
pital fever" or erysipelas. The sur
geOns of those days were quite aware of
these symptoms, but their causes had
not yet been discovered. 1t was sup
posed that the atmosphere of hospi-
tai was inpregnated with subtle, in
pslpsble infection, which could only be
com batted after it had begun to show
it's effect in suppuration. One fluid re-
suit of this infection was even called,
quantity enough, "laudable pus," be-
cause, on the theory that's certain de-
gree of suppuratiOn was unavoida able. it
was regarded as q hopeful sign when
the wound threw off the troublesome
humor, which, if kept in, would pro-
duce fever. 1t was not then known,
perhaps hardly even suspected, that
the surgeon himself was actually in
oculating patient after patient with a
terrible specific disease.
The surgeons Of the civil war would.
doubtless, have been very much sur
prised to hear that their hands, hastily
rinse6 in cold hydrant or spring water,
were busy carrying from wound to
wound hundreds of organisms, the pro-
per name of which was, or was to be,
"streptococcus pyOgenes." Two me-
sense of the word, empirical. the other
resulting from purely scientific inves-
tigation led to the detection apprehen.
sion of this wholesale assassin.
Many surgeon, before the year 1878
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03
old there was all the difference

Ola GQ6ro WIS al bQG
tween prevention and cure.
1t was evident, of course, to Lister and
his followers that they were protect
ing their patients against something
tangible and destructible that could be
made to feel the sting of powerful
aoid. 1t remained for the microscope
and brains of such men as Pasteur,
Koch. Pruden and Surgeon General
George M. Sternberg of the United
States army successfully to investigate
the nature and general ways of that
something. The power of the micrOs-
cope happened to be prodigiously in
creased just about that time by discov-
cries in practical optics, and one of the
first results was the detection and iden-
LITIGATION of "streptococcus pyOgenes.
The name sounds like that of Il By Zan
tine emperor, but it only means little
necklace animal that makes pus," aud
it is q we'll deserved name, for pyORen-
es is the busy maker, first, of that "lau-
dable pus" which is now known to be
an accumulation of the victims preci-
GUS white blood corpuscles, and, later,
of the still more deadly symptoms of
the dark ,glaireous pus.
The way to guard against this deadly
gangrene and fever was, fortuna tely
for humanity, pointed out even while
its cause was only vaguely known. The
general principles of Listers methods
have been thoroughly and systema-
tically applied in our service. Not on
ly are there complete facilities for
aceptic surgery in the field hospitals
which will accompany the United
States soldiers to'Cuba or to the Philip
ines, as we'll as in the sick bays Of
every man-of-war, but in every regi-
ment there are certain mum Der of men
in the ranks, each provided with anti
septic dressing packed Theoretically.
| These are the trained soearers of first
| aid to the wounded. The regulations
allow to their leaving their fighting
positions from time to time to bind up
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03

a way as effectually guard against ''sep-
SIS" or the infection of the supura-
ton.
Less important than the considers
tion of the actual saving OF life for
which one may look to the new surg
cry, but still we'll worth noting, is the
prospect that q much larger number of
those who go into hospitals wounded
will come out not only alive and we'll,
but with their full complement of.limbs.
Talking recently of the outlook for
Uncle Sans soldiers in the present
war. DR.. John q. Girdner. who has
made a special study of gunshot
wounds, said;
"In the old days surgeon would
very often smputate simply to save
man from the danger of gangrene.
Now that gangrene has been provided
against, soldier who goes into the
hospital with two legs, even if bullet
had smashed both of them, may still
hope to walk on two flesh and blood
legs for years after the war"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03

would have been glad to know how it
might be possible to amputate legs and
arms without supuratiOn. Many tried
for solution of the problem, although
most were no doubt content to take
things as they found them, welcome
the appearance of their "laudable
pus," and fight the, to them inevitable
hospital fever 1t was Joseph List
err, whose name is now known in every
surgical ward in the world, who first,
as veteran surgeon, lately expressed
it, started the hounds on the right
scent when they were all at FAULT
This shrewd Scotch surgeon, coming
from Edinburgh to Kings College hos
pital, London. abOuG twenty years ago,
introduced there what has been called
the 'aseptic" method of surgical treat
ment. In this method the whole vici-
nifty of the part to be operated on, cal
led, in the language of the clinic. "the
surgical field" is impregnated with q
spray of carbolic acid by means of an
atomizer. AS soon as the operation is
finished, not only is the air excluded
from wounds by bandages, but these
bandages are STEPPED in solutions OF
germicide carbolic acid, to extermi-
nate.the foe that may. have crept in, as
we'll as to exclude the foe that besets
the wound from without. The instru-
ments and the hands that operate are
also washed in solution of carbOlic
acid.
AS result of this practice it was
found that wounds "healed at the first
Intention There was seldom need
OF treating supurstion, for supuration
never appeared except when the oper-
ator or some of his assistants had been
guilty OF gross carelessness. Bandages
we're left on until the flesh had grown
ton hnn
washing of wounds to be done, nor any
expectation of febrile symptoms IS a
matter of course. The patient was ex-
pected to leave his bed, not wasted
with slow fever, but hale and hearty.
Between the new treatment and the
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03
A Wonderful instrucment.

Since the invention of the kineto-
scope aud kindred instruments we have
become quite accustomed to the idea of
instantaneous photography. Nearly
take picture in the Tooth part of Q
second, yet few persons are aware that
there are in use Photographic shutters
which move with q speed of the ,OOOth
part of q second. Now, however, we
are astonished by the news from Ber-
lin that clockmaker named Lob
ner has invented aninstrument which
can take 2 $3.50 photographs in second,
One of the uses to which the instru-
ment may be put Is the measurement
of the speed Of moving projectiles
or of falling objects, and in scienticfi
experimental off it proves as successful
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03
MODERN SURGERY IN WAR.
1t Reduces The Mortality From
Wounds At Least Fifty Per Cent.

Boston Herald.
In the civil war the proportion of IN
ion soldiers who died of wounds to
those who were killed outright in bat
tie was 43 to 81, or not far from to IL.
These figures are taken from the re-
port Of the adjutant generals Office.
The statistics on the confederate side
are less exact, but it may be assumed
that the proportion there was about the
same AS there would be little chance
of finding out whether man
found dead on the field before medical
assistance had reached him had or had
not been killed instsntaneously, it may
means'died in hospital, the inference
ON the part of surgeons of those days
being that death was the result of the
wounds.
1t is some comfort to know that the
number of deaths from wounds ia not
likely to be as much as 30 per cent as
large, in proportion to the number of
wounds received, as it was either in the
civil war or any other prior to the pres
emit generation. And this in spite of
the more than tenfOld increased des-
tructiveness of latter day weapons.
The reason and ground ofDthis hope
are not in the nature of the Krag-Jor-
gansen and Mauser rifles. used respect
lively in our own and the Spanish arm
les, but in the astounding progr ess in
the last twenty years in the art of sur
gery 1t is not because q man who is
hit by an up-to-date rifle bullet more
often dies on the spot, for that
this is the case is very far from GER
tain. During the first, third and fourth
quarters of a modern nickel.coated
slug's flight it's rending effect is ter
ribly fatal, it is true: but in the second
quarter, or "humsne area, +" of Its range
1t has q tendency to cut . clean hole.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03

protected in this fashion are warmer
In winter and cooler in summer than
those less fortunately constructed, for
sawdust is a nonconduct0r of heat.
Many men gain their entire means of
existense by the sale of sawdust. One
firm in Brooklyn devotes Its energies
solely to the purchase of this bye-pro-
duct on yearly contract with planning
mills, agreeing to buy all they produce.
This firm then sells it Wholesale or re-
tail to smaller dealers, or directly to
the consumer. Some idea of the mag
nitude of their bushes may be gained
from the estimate that their annual
output of sawdust if spread out on
Broadway, New York, to the depth of
one foot would cover that thoroughfare
from curb would cover the Battery to
Thirty-fourth street.
Somewhat later than the sawdust in
dustry. took.i its rise, shsvings came to be
utilized. These shavings are not the
long curls and ribbons of the smaller
carpenter shops, but short chips, about
an inch square. and are largely pro-
duced by box factories and planning
mills. where dressed lumber is prepared.
Shavings are sold in bulk by the wagon
load, IN bags and in large quantity in
bales. Baling is accomplished by
pressing the shavings into compact
form in q press similar to that used in
D0lln& nay. IheSe bales are protected
on the sides and ends from breakage
by laying strips of waste lumber be-
meath the girding wires.
The shaving industry finds its larg-
est customer in the livery and stabl-
ing business, where it is used as bed
ding for horses. In our large citiesit
may be had cheaper than straw, and it
is generally more economical, for the
bed requires renewing less frequently If
it were more generally known by far
mers.thst the manure made;decomposed
shavings cotains more fertilizing pro-
perties than straw manure, they would
be enabled to economic both in cattle
bedding and fertilizers. Straw, on &C.
count of its hard surface and lack of
substance, is capable of absorbing
little of the urine, which is rich in am
monia, but the shavings absorb nearly
all of the liquid, thus making q drier
bedding and richer manure.
Producers of shsvings count on them
for their entire boiler fuel nowadays.
The modern planning mill sucks all of
the shavings, directly they are made,
through huge pipe and q suction
blower into q storage bin, whence they
are drawn, as required, by other blow
ers, and forced upon the hearths below
the boilers, thus dispensing with hand
labor entirely: thus fuel costs little or
nothing in q lumber mill.-New York
Times.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03
UTILIZING WASTE THINGS.
and Shavings No Longer
Are Thrown AWay.

Not very many years ago both saw
dust and shavings were esteemed
disagreeable waste, and were shunted
as quickly as possible into some handy
river or stream, or burned in heaps on
waste ground. Nowadays these good
by products of saving and planning
mills have become considerable source
of revenue } the latter. Sawdust was
the first - creep into general use. Its
availability for the packing and pre-
servation of the ice in icehOuses has
long been public kuowledge: Butch
ers' shops, saloons, and public waiting
rooms of all descriptions buy sawdust in
quantity for use in sweeping, as an alb
sorbent of moisture or dirt of every
kind.
AS machinery became cheaper and
competition in business necessitsted
economies in every department, ma
chimes were constructed for compress
ing sawdust, mixed with glue and like
material, to make the composite mass
as dense and compact as possible.
Briquettes are ma lie OF sawdust and
pitch or coal tar for kindling fires. An
especial quality of light, porous build
ing brick Is prepared by sublectiDg
clay, cement, and sawdust to hydraulic
pressure. All the sawdust from the
hard woods of every variety is reserved
in separate bins for sale to those who
compress into boards for use in the
veneering of cheap furniture, or mold
it under pressure into imitation cary
ing for modern picture frames.
Sawdust is purchased in quantity for
the filtration of crude sugar liquors in
the fartories OF the sugar trust. Asp-
phalt works utilize sawdust in their
factories. Itsservic .abiliy for the pack
ing of bottles and glassware of all kinds
ia familiar to all. So universal Is the
use of sawdust that it is now graded
and sold according to its porosity,
the coarser grades usually commanding
the better prices.
Large quantities of sawdust are used
annually for admixture with artificial
hydroxide of iron for the publication
of Illuminating gas. There ia, of
course, no chemical affinity between
sawdust and impure gas, but in order
that the gas may readily be forced
through the purifying mixture, por-
Gus substance must be mingled with
the heavy powdered oxide of iron, and
sawdust or shavings are utilized be-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03

the instance OF the latter. After a
short term of confinement in Fort
Delaware as q prisoner of war, General
Wheeler was released on parole not
again to bear arms against the United
States
He was the first ex-confederste to Of
fer his services to the government as a
soldier in the existing war, and when
he again took up arms he belted his
sword around blue instead of gray
uniform, and went forth to battle under
the Stars and Stripes.
WHEELER AS AN AUTHOR.
No better evidence of General
Wheeler's intense mental activity and
great industry could be asked than q
volume of some four hundred pages en-
titled "A Revised System of Cavalry
Tactics for the Use of the Cavalry and
Mounted Infantry, G. S. A, by Major
General Joseph Wheeler, G s. A. Mo-
bile: S. II. Gaetzel & Co.. 1862"
This is an elaborate and comprehen-
sive treatise, and when the fact is TAX
en- into consideration that its author
was in constant active and exacting
service in the field during the entire
period of its production the achieve
ment must be regarded as an extraOr-
binary one. The book is printed on
thin grayish paper and bound In coarse
pasteboard covers with q cloth back,
for it was published at place where
fine book paper and binding materials
had become very scarce, even in 1868.
A copy of the book is kept among the
"locked-up" treasures Of the library of
congress. When he handed 1t to the
Tribune correspondent Mr.. Spofford
remarked: 1--WE have good many
books that were published in the south
in war time. This one was picked up
at an auction sale for Is cents. A copy
would cost good many dollars now"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03

the sixty who formed this "forlorn
hope" only thirteen escaped, and three
Of these were badly wounded"
On the third day Of Brsgg's retreat
after the battle Of Missionary Ridge
General Wheeler's cavalry, as usual,
was covering the retreat. It became
necessary to make stand for a short
time, and General "Pat" Cleburne,
with HE division of infantry, was de-
tailed to strengthen the cavalry. OF
course Wheeler was in :the thick of
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03

cause they are comparatively cheap
and plentiful.
When it Is necessary to fill the space
between the outer and inner walls of
houses and other buildings to render
them partially if not wholly fire-proof,
sawdust is pounded into these spaces
by hammers, thus cutting off ali dra-
lights and circulation of air. Buildings
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03
LITTLE JOE" WHEELER.
Some Stories of sthe Career of the
Ex-Confede rate Cavalry Leader.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
Among the prominent actors in the
military operations in Cuba none are
more interesting or picturesque than
Major General Joseph Wheeler. He
10 soldier by instinct, education and
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-03
Pure Hygenie Ice.

Made from distilled water. Ask
your family physician or druggist rs.
70 purity and healthfulness of our ice.
Telephone No. IA.
HI PASo ICE & REFRIGERAToR Co