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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15
MANILA's GAYETY.
Driving on the caIsada to the Music
OF spanish band.

In the Sixteenth Century, writes Rosall
Kaufman in the sSt. Nicholas" during a
battle with one of the Philippine tribes,
Magellan, the greeat Spanish explorer.
was killed. He discovered the Islands, and
tried to land. but was prevented by the
Indians. A few months later, Legaspi,
a Spaniard, was more fortunate, and. with
half a dozen monks, landed on the Island
Of Luzon and founded the city of Manila.
Manila is built on both s.des of the Pasig
River, which is spanned by massive stone
bridges.
In the old town of Manila proper there
are some fine public buildings. but no
shops; consequently there is a constant
stream Of people and vehicles over the
bridges to and from Binondo. where all
the business is carried on. In this quar-
ter there are rows of shops, kept, for the
most part, by Chinese. though some are
owned by Europeans and Americans. They
are low framed structures, with heavy
awnings to the edge of the sidewalk as
as a protection against the sun; and they
are so small that one has to stay out
side, n goods are shown over the coun-
ter, which extends across the doorway.
Among the lower classes in the islands an
entire family will live in a hut containing
Just one room. The furniture consists Of
a mat and a mosquito netting.
But the wealthy people rave attractive
homes. Many of these are on the banks
of the river; and all have gardens filed
with luxuriant vines, trees
and gorgeous flowers. These gardens ex-
tend to the water, where there are land
places for small boats. The houses
are raised several feet from the ground,
on thick blocks Of stone or wood. which
makes them cooler and at the same time
drier. especially where the soil is marshy.
have no glass windows, because the
light would be too glaring, but sliding
frames with thin she'll panes temper the
light and admit plenty of fresh air. One
is struck by the order and cleanliness Of
these houses. Even the floors shine like
mirrors. for they are rubbed twice a day
with plantain leaves. These are the
dwellings Of the mestizos. who are part
and part Spanish.
One Of the ~favorife amusements of the
people is driving on the Calsade. During
the day this fashionable promenade is
deserted. because the heat is so intense
that only working people ever venture
aut etwee eight O'Clock ia the morning
and four in the afternoon. But in the
evening all is gayety and fun on the Cal
sada. where a fine band of Spanish musl-
clans used to play as the carriages horse
men and pedestrians moved along. nod
ding ana chatting. and frequently halting
TO listen to the music. Sometimes the la
dies stroll about wearing gaudy colors and
fau-na~ THEIR fhfpk n}ack fafrs
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15
LONG FIGH7 TOR LITE.
Story Of the Wreck of the Ship
Loeb 5loy.
THREE WEEKS OF ACUTE TORTURE.

Women Climbed to the Rigging
When the Ship WAS Doomed and
Chung to the Masts ms the Wreck
Plunged Into the Sea.
It was in January that the Loeb
Sloy sailed from Glasgow in command Of
Captain Nichol, with a crew of 5 APP
prentices, II able seamen, 2 sailmakers,
a cook, a carpenter and a boy. Mrs.
Nichol accompanied her husband, and
the ether passengers Were Mrs. Car.
fridge, Captain and Mrs. Leicester, John
Lamb, Walter Logan and James Kirk
patrick.
Ill luck pursued the ship from the
start, says a correspondent of the Neg
York World. Storms alternated with
appalling seasons of fog and were fol-
lowed by leakages and a train of mis-
haps. When Kangaroo island was sight
ed the ships people set up a shout Of
joy. Had the island been sighted a few
hours sooner the wreck could have been
avoided. The lack Of a lighthouse was
the chief cause Of the disaster.
1t was in the middle Of the mates
watch on the morning Of May 5.
LAND ho!'' shouted the lookout.
The crew were summing themselves UNI
der the lee rail, enjoying a.cup of coffee
after the hard work of the storm. The
ship was going like a race horse. Break
ers loomed up ahead amid the eddying
seas.
ssrPost shjpt, shoufod tbe cantaiu. and
all hands jumped for $The halyards. The
helm was thrown hard a-port, but it was
too late. The ship bumped heavily,
ripped open, and before a boat could he
east loose she was among the breakers
and swept clean by the wicked waters
every moment.
She had struck against a ~treaeherous
reef.
The knowledge that the ship was DOOM
ed and that all lives were in danger
spread over the ship with mysterious
swiftness. Passengers and crew, silent
and white faced. struggled to save them
selves by climbing the rigging.
The. women. trembling with the horror
of it all, climbed to the mizzentop. The
mates, seven of the crew and the three
passengers followed when they could.
Others clambered to the mainmast and
foremost.
In three minutes the mainmast fell with
a crash over tie weather side. Those
who had been cwlging to it were plunged
into the sea. Wave after wave ate away
the good ships strength till her supports
cruinbled and gave way. The foremost
toppled and fell. A few minutes later the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15

PRINCE MoLFETTA FIGHTING A BEAHt
devoured by the beast. Many persons who
have witnessed bull fights in Spain, IN
Cuba and in Mexico, the writer among
them. have confessed that there is a jon
in seeing a man in the arena killed by &
bull that is delirious in comparison with
that rather tame excitement Of seeing
the man kill the bull. In all so called
sports, such as bull fighting and bear
fighting. the element OF danger to tha
men in the arena is what excites the joys
GUS emotions Of the spectators in the ans
phltheater.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15

DfpI8Ht lfbHt
the retirement of private life and put
into a cabinet in which he is a political
misft for the purpose of keeping the
army in line while the Dreyfus case Is
passing through its closing scenes. CASTOR
Alexandra Auguste Marquis de Gallifet
is his full name and title. He has been
a soldier for just half a century. In his
youth he won distinction and promotion
in the Crimea, and during the four AL
gerian expeditions he captured more hon
ors. His regiment of African ehasserrs,
with their splendid action, elected I'M
stinted admiration from the Prussian
king himself during the Franco-P russian
war. At the siege of Paris he command
ed a brigade in Versailles. lie fought in
Mexico and was almost cut to pieces on
the field Of Pucbla.
Later be took a most active part in
suppressing the Paris It was
this latter service which gained him the
reputation of being an aristocrat, for
which he has been cordially and unjustly
hated for many years.
Yet General de Gallifet is far from
aristocratic. He still declares that he is
sat the service OF the majority, the con-
stitution and the law He is for ia
patrie,v and to him ia patrie' means
the government, whether monarchy or
republic. When President Theirs tender
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15

JACKS FIGHT WITH CATTLE DRIVERS.
Daniel G. Cummings and John G. Wilson
occurred, which led to Davis arrest and
conviction on a charge Of murder. Re-
markable as it may seem, Davis believed
himself to be the slayer of Cummings
and Wilson until after his conviction.
The circumstances which seemed to war
rant that belief were dramatic in the ok
treme, and it was not until they saw that
an innocent man, as they said, was about
to suffer for their deeds that JEFF d.
Gray and James E. Bower, two well
known men in southern Idaho, confessed
that they did the killing, the actual
shooting being done by Gray. Bower is
a brother-in-law of John Sparks, the mill
lionaire cattle king.
Before the trial Diamond Field Jack"
had boosted that it was his hand that
put Cummings and Wilson out of the
way, and though his statement was not
admitted in evidence before the jury it
must have had some effect on the out
come, since all the circumstances Of the
affair were SO thoroughly discussed
throughout Idaho that nobody was left in
ignorance of the facts so far as they
were publicly known.
Jack Davis had some foundation for
his belief that the bullets which caused
the death of Cummings and Wilson were
from his pistol, for he had engaged in a
shooting ARRAY with unknown antago-
nists near a place called Dunn's Camp,
on Deep creek, on the night of Feb. 2,
1896. whereas the actual killing occurred
two DAYS later and Is miles from the
scene of Davis shooting scrape. 1t was
q sudden encounter between Jack and his
antagonists, such as could occur only on
the frontier between reckless or cesper-
ate men. or between adverse classes. such
as are the cattle drovers and the sheep
herders of that country.
1t was after nightfall when Davis was
approaching Dunn's Camp, and he was
startled by the sudden onslaught of a
~ bis borse Drs1,;ne bic n;stol bo shot
Of the doc and almost instantlv be hoard
+ba cracL ~ : yy;,,ehostor lido ond a
brllet rvbistlad Nv b;s bea.1 Tban fol
la1ro5 . dual in 40 dsrt ~ which Tact
go . va;rd daser;nt;an no said.
81 fool baar;nes on tbe enot whore T
saw tbe aasb md blazed awav ne ouick
as co,,;d Tben T nlanted nv snn,.s /,
nv borsa's s;das and fairy sro;sad' him
ost ~ b;s tracks 50 ae "a cbanea nv no
s;t;on in tbe event. ~ INV an+ayen;st nm
ing hack with another shot he came back
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15

-. -, - -
coBRAs fkllNG ~ hAt hAoh oihhE.
dia, says the fhiiaoeiphia Times iney
are Of the KIN known 10 the naturals.
as the Naia pungafa, sometimes cameo
o~pheophagus. when means snake eat
er." lhey are found largely IN lndla,
though sand superintendent Brown
they abound IN Luzon and are propapiy
one of the best known products OF ouR
new colonial possessions. What the say
age of the Pacific islands IS to his fellow
man the cobra is to other a But
unlike the cannibal, he will eat nothing
else than snakes. This was lnstaaced In
the voyage over.
In the cage in which the ZOOS snakes
Travelled were II other snakes, all eobrass
some small, some large. The sailor whc
tended the cage was instructed to give
their snakeships fresh chicken or rabbit
each day. The third day out he noticed
there were four snakes missing. He said
nothing to the captain, however, fearing
be should be accused of neglect. lie ex-
amined the cage carefully. but could find
no sign Of a hole by which they might
have escaped. The fourth day there were
five less in the cage, and, becoming thor
oughly alarmed, he told the captain, who
instituted a search throughout the ship,
but the missing snakes were not found.
The next morning, on going to feed the
reptiles, the sailor was just in time to see
the tail of one of them disappear down
the throat Of the largest cobra. There
were but five left in the cage.
To save these all from extinction the
two large ones were separated from the
rest. and there seemed to be harmony in
both camps for the rest of the voyage.
When. however. the big ones were re-
moved from their cage upon their arrival
here. one of them struck viciously at Mr..
Carson. the assistant Superintendent, who
was standing near. and he narrowly es-
caned death Since their arrival both
snakes have refused to eat. even dcclin-
ing n ternntinr nine snake which was Of
fared tharn THOR ,iasirc spea.s to ba
that one should overcome the other. and
+ l. thought that had sneh bcen the re-
sniff 81 the hattle there would now
no b,,t ono cohpo in tha 700
Tha tas.rer cobr,, las n history T.ast
fall Contain lawrence ST Lore. Of tbe
Eirhth Roval f,,silec-s was m ut Mac
mn ! toxro about 35o miles from Caleuf-
e. shootino with n Marty az friends. Ono
H. ~ n.r+r hated o+. . Iittla VILLAGE
81 fo,,nd No p,t;vos +, q ~,o,t ctota of
alc;4nnaan+ IN ;nm,;.v he found that Z
la,re sor,ent md taken nossession Of !
hit oftar dr;v;np ont he ovvnors. and
49, = bad st,,,cL ,,,;tb Fatal MIN I child
49, a raa,s ia mo bodv ~ tho child
nsa,7 - +. h,,+ 800 Nv ard tbo
n,athar was fra,tio r.;tb gr;of Canta;n
g. Taaar q ma, ~ snoytsmanl;Ea M
So asnaroa X ;daa faf cantrrinr 10
~ant;la and odd;ng tho st,,fred slim n his
aoi,aet;on Ho ls,d so,ne d;f;c,ltv IN car.
Sas4 ~ s1aas baa.nsa, g. +ha ~.
$50 saa;a,.a. sn;th saar M aoa from
~ na;shhashood 80 tba b,t ma could
hasais p ;na,1aoJ y a;ra ass;s+anoo III
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15
TIPS FROM CROOKS.


All sorts OF odd incidents occur in Eng
lands banking circles, where strictest
measures are taken to protect treasure
from the robbers and burglars, says the
New York Press. Some of the institu-
tons pay cash for information of and in
some cases from the criminals them
selves. The Bank OF EngIand's yearly
budget always contains an expense item
due to such outlays. The first experiment
of the kind dates back to 1850, when the
directors of the bank listened to a star
tling proposition made BY a ditch dig
ger
The Iaborer told the directors that he
had discovered a new and unsupported
method of getting into the cellar vaults,
where the gold and silver bars were kept,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15
SILK spun by sbelIf.b.

Al shellfish known as the pianna. In the
Mediterranean. has the curious power of
spinning a yiscid silk, which is made in
Italy into a regular fabric. The silk is
spun by the sheaihsh, Ia the first place,
for the purpose Of attaching itself to the
rocks. IT is able to guide the delicate fill
aments to the proper place and then glue
them fast. and If they are cut away it
can reproduce them The material when
washed In soap and water. dried and
Strengthened. one pound Of the coarse fila
ment yielding three ounces OF the fine
thread, which. when spun. is Of q lovely
burnlshed golden brown color.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15

thusiastic concessionaire are carried out,
a gigantic buffalo, which will stand SYM
boIic Of the exposition city and furnish
visitors.
The buffalo builder proposes to make
his imitation monarch Of the plains 200
feet high and to provide him with pow
erful searchlight eyes which at night can
bore into the blackness of Canada, across
the border.
In that section Of the animal where the
brains ought to be the prospective builder
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15
HANDLES A GREAT FORTUNE
Something About the Man Now at the
Head of the Plant System.


Robert G. Erwin, the newly elected
president of the Plant system and head
of all the great properties left by the late
Henry B. Plant, is a,man who has grown
up with the Plant fortune. He first be-
come connected with Mr.. Plant in the
capacity Of railroad counsel, and for the
last nine years has acted as his legal and
confidential adviser, holding the Office Of
vice president Of the investment COM
pany.
The recent death of Mr.. Plant made
necessary a reorganization of the Plant
system, which includes railroads, steam
boat lines and hotel prSnerty in Florida.
By the terms of his wiz the property is
nearly all left in trust for Mr.. Plants
youngest grandson. now 4 years old.
Mr.. Erwin formerly lived in Atlanta,
but since his marriage he has made his
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15

According to one Of the English
papers one A. II. Erba. a clerk. claims -
have Just written the sma1leet letter ever
posted. II was addressed and posted "a
MS daughter.
The note paper measured 2 inches By II
lnSfeS3 Of the REVERSE
3fr. Erba managed 10 crowd n W6FG4
on both side Or the n~ote-pap<<< 4x1 ~
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15

ICAN EXPOSITION.
would place a restaurant Of more than or
binary beauty. and in the body of the ami
NAL the contemplation is to place a yaude-
vile theater with a seating capacity of
1000. In two of the legs winding stair
cases are to be erected, and in the other
legs electric elevators will make constant
trips.
Another idea, which was born in the
brain of a man of Biblical mold, is that
of the Jonah theater, and the submit
ted plan calls for the construction of a
mammoth whale Of iron and steel, which
is to lie unanchored in shallow water near
the banks of the exposition. Dainty fer
ryboats are to ply between the shore and
the mouth of the great whale, and those
cheerful mes who love to enjoy them
selves in strange ways are to be ferried
from the shore to the tongue of the
foater.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15
~DIAMOND FIELD JACK

John Wilson Believes He Killed a Man
Whom Others Confess to Have MUIR
dered-Living Ia the Shadow Of the
GaEl0Ws.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15
FRENCH WAR MINISTER.

~ 10
A grizzled.
SCARED old vet
ersn of many
battles Is GEN
eral de Gallifet,
the new French
war minister.
He has been
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15

The snakes are two of 16 which were
recently brought to this country from In
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15

Women Climbed to the Rigging
when the Ship WAS Doomed and
Chung to the Masts ms the Wreck
Plunged Into the Sea.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-07
PHYSICIANS EXAMINATION.
Board of Health Will Examine
Applicants This Month.

To whom it may concern:
This board will hold an examina-
ton for certificates to practice med
icine in Kentucky who are graduates
from three-year-schools, whose
course of study does not meet the
minimum requirements ofthe Board,
at the hall of the University of Louis
vile, in the City OF Louisville, be-
ginning on Tuesday, April Is, 1899,
according to the following schedule:
Anatomy, Tuesday, 9 to 1880 a.
m.
Physiology, Chemistry and Hy-
giene, Tuesday, ? to 4:30 p. NJ.
Obstetrics andGynaecology, We'd
nesday, 9 to 11:30 a. m.
Meteria Medica and Therapeutics,
Wednesday ? to 4:30 p. m.
Surgery and Diseasesof the Gent
to-Urinary Organs, Thursday, 9 to
ll'oU d. III.
Histology and Pathology, Thurs
day, ? to 4:30 p. m.
The examination will be in writ
ing, no fee will be charged for it,
and a grade of 20 will be required
to pass. 1t will be comprehensive,
but entirely fair in every respect,
and within the reach of any recent
graduate qualified to practice medi-
cine with safety to our people.
Very respectfully,
]. M. MATHEWS, NJ. D.,
President.
]. n. Mccormack, M. ID.
Secretary.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-07

Mr. Editor you are a member Of
the Committee which madethis mis-.
take. Of course you are not to I'M
derstand me as imputing to you or
the Committee any sinister motive
for their action, but in the interest
of my party | certainly condemn i
none the less positively.
Don't do it again, It's contrary
to the fundamental principles OF
Democracy, which demand that
these questions go as nearly into
the houses of the people as possible.
A political trust is as much a
trust and as mean a trust, as any
of the numerous brood Matched out
by the present administration.
GEO. Il. GARY.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-07
A Catamaran.

Having read to her pupils discrip,
ton of the sinking of the Merrimac,
the teacher some days ago asked her
pupils what the word "catamaran"
then used meant. These are some OF
the answers: A catamaran is a
savage officer in the Fillipose Islands
A catamaran carries clubs in gold
game.
A catamaran is the place in Chica-
go where the cat show was held.
Tho catamaran was a convention
hall prize.
The catamaran is the proper name
for catboat and war ram together
like the Catadin.
Hobson obtained a catamaran from
the Spanish officers, which was al
he had to eat.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-07

) If those of our readers who reside in
the most highly favored sections of this
country, where the climate is healthy
! and invigorating, with a dry and tonic
atmosphere, will look about them, they
will see a greater or less number of their
| friends and neighbors dying of con-
sumption, while many others have
already been carried off by that dread
malady.
These deaths have occurred from time
| to time amid the refreshing prairie
breezes of summer; in the fair and mel
low days of autumn, and also IN the dry
aud sunny seasons of a southern winter.
WSuch deaths amid such favorable sur
roundings afford positive and convinc-
| ing proof that climate alone will not
cure consumption; that neither pine
laden breezes nor bracing mountain air
will restore weak lungs or build up a
constitution that is being undermined
and broken down by the insidious germs
of fatal disease.
But, on the other hand, many thou
sands of testimonials from grateful peo-
| pie all over this country, who have been
cured by the Dr. Slocum System of
| Treatment, and are today in the enjoy
ment of perfectly restored health and
strength, afford the most convincing
evidence that this ire mt, aided by
| favorable climatic co ons and sur
roundings, is a posi- cure for Con-
sumption and all other chronic diseases
of the Throat, Chest and Lungs.
| Therefore, those who go to the noun
| tains, the seashore or to southern eli
mates, as well as those who already
reside in such favored localities, should
| not fail to take the DR.. Slocum System
of Treatment if they wish to derive the
| full benefits of favorable climatic condi-
tons and scientific medication.
The DIR. Slocum System OF Treatment
| consisting of Four Preparations) is both
medicine and food. The medicines used
in it allay the cough and lung irritation,
heal the soreness and subdue the pains
| in the throat, overcome shortness of
breath, improve the appetite and diges-
ton, and bring comfort. rest and re-
freshing sleep, while its food properties
are building up the constitution, enrich
ing the blood and infusing the sufferer
| with new life and vigor.
No single remedy will accomplish all
| this, but the Four Remedies embodied
| in the Dr. Slocum System of Treatment
will. More than quarter of century
has been devoted 10 perfectiDg this
| System of Treatment; every indication,
| every symptom in Consumption and
| other diseases of the Throat and Lungs,
| has been carefully studied in the devel-
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-07
THEY EARN THEIR LIVING.
Queer Occupations of Modern Women in
London and Paris.

The dinner faster" is the latest ex-
ample of the ''ultra" type of Partisan
refinement. The Partisan palate, you
know, is the one thing worth living
for, according to the idea of certain
class of people whose pleasure in life
depends upon the enjoyment of the
senses.
This "dinner faster" makes it her
business to visit the fine houses and
taste the dishes intended for dinner.
She suggests improvements, and
shows the cook new ways of prepar-
ing dishes. That the business is a
profitable one may be judged by the
fact that she invariably rides in cab.
In the East end of London lucra-
tive trade is followed by some score or
so of women. The pawnbrokers there
are very numerous and never lack for
clients. Among the latter, however,
are some who do not relish the idea of
being brought into personal contact
with "uncle."
1t is for the special benefit Of these
that the pawnbroker's agent exists.
She goes several times a day to the
pawnshop with articles belonging to
the bashful ones, for whom she gets
the highest sum procurable on the
items pledged.
For her services she receives per-
centage on the amount obtained.
ranging from halfpenny in the shil-
ling, but her commission seldom
comes to more than twopence on a
single transaction.
Another enterprising London wom-
an has hit on a capital, although prob
ably painful, business. She earns a
profitable living by "breaking in
boots for members of the upper cir
Giles. She wears them for few days,
until they become easy and comfort
able to their owners.
In three or four days they are suf-
ficiently tanned" and she only wears
a pair two hours each day. She works
hard, seeing that she sometimes wears
36 different pairs in week. Half a
crown pair is the professional fee
| n. Y. Journal