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Arizona republican., 1899-07-28

ever as a principle ne believes 5nat
mineral lands On all Indian 1esarva-
lions ought TO be thrown open 10
entry; not vast and continuous areas,
but those sections in which mineral
exists in paying quantities and which
might be entered upon for actual min
ing operations. The mines are OF no
use to the Indians
Regarding outbreaks, Mr.. Mcconnell
says that there is no danger of trouble
among the Indians of San Carlos
Arizona republican., 1899-07-28
BRICK MAKERS STRIKE.

Chicago. July 27.-TwO thousand
brick makers struck today, rying up
about 40 of the brickyards of the city.
The men say tine object is to aid the
union men in several of the north side
yards who have had trouble with EN-
ployes. Should the strike continue
long it will paralyze building opera
tons in Chicago and vicinity.
Arizona republican., 1899-07-28
Phoenix. July 27.
SUNKEN SEA GULL.

San Francisco, July 27.-The stern
wheel steamer Sea Gull, laden with
salt, turned turtle and sank at Spear
street dock this morning. No lives
were lost.
Arizona republican., 1899-07-28

Let US give you prices on your bill
when you go camping.
Our regular cut rate prices will con-
tinue throughout this week. We have
given over 200 useful and beautiful
presents to our customers in the last
sixty days. Every customer gets a
present of your own choice at the
house that's always busy and has free
electric fans for everybody.
Arizona republican., 1899-07-28
THE BOYS LOST.

Pittsburg. July 27.-The strike of
messengers ended today. The boys
went back without an increase OF
wages.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
RuyfnS Birds to Free Them.

Miss Marie Dalroyde, the London
actress, who recently inherited a large
fortune, created a sensation on thor
oughfare of that city last week. While
passing a stall where a bird dealer had
a large stock of wild birds in cages
she purchased a dozen linnets, opened
the doors of their cages and let them
fly away.
Finding she had not money enough
in her purse to procure freedom for all
the warblers, she returned home for
more, and, revisiting the man, pur-
chased and liberated every wild bird
in his stock. An immense crowd of
people gathered, and many of them
warmly commended her kindly act.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
PuSiIisffc Truat.

voted to things pugilistic, the Coney Is
land, Broadway and Lenox Athletic
clubs of New York, have formed a COM
bination. Besides promoting all the
fighting which takes place in Greater
New York they have control of the lead
ing fighters in this country. William A
Brady of the Coney Island Athletic club
manages James J. Jeffries, the heavy
weight champion; Martin Julian of the
Coney Island club looks after the in
terests of Robert Fitzsimmons; George F..
Considine, the new manager of the Broad
way club, is James j. Corbett's manager
as well, while Tom Sharkey is managed
by Tom O'Rourke, who is supreme in
matters pertaining to the Lenox A. c..
In addition to this quartet of big fellows,
these three clubs have signed all the
prominent boxers in every class.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
Women GOldsmiths.

An interesting commission has been
given by the French government to q
lady art worker in gold for a necklace
designed as a gift to the empress of
Russia. 1t consists of II medallions in
gold, each bearing the portrait of a
Frenchwoman celebrated in political,
literary or social history. The series
begins with the first Christian queen of
France and ends prior to the great rev
olution. The art work of the gold
smith was declared at the recent WON
ans congress in London to be peculiar
ly suitable for women.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
For NIilady's Desk.

Blotters in the fashion of a garden
roller, with silver handles, are a late
addition to the paraphernalia of the
up to date writing desk. The days
when a leaf of the kitchen table, a
sheet of foolscap, goose quill pen and
sitter of plotting sand sufficed for
the expression of the most eloquent
and voluminous muse are long past,
and before the divine affiatus can find
reception now there must be such a
wealth Of fitments as would have him
dered We ancient Pegasus in his aerial
fight. A Dresden clock and candle
sticks, calendars innumerable, wonder
full receptacles for pens and penhold-
ers, paper knives and letter openers,
pens and penholders galore, inkwells of
wondrous construction, paperweights,
a letter scale, stationery specially suit
ed to each and every occasion, pen
wipers and blotters, mucilage pots and
stamp receptacles, rulers and erasers-
all these and many more go today to
make up the appointments of milady's
desk.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

"Few trades are so overcrowded as
that of stenography, because 20 girls
can be found for each position offer
ed" writes Frances e. Lanigan in The
Ladies' Home Journal. "A new branch
of regular stenography is that of the
typewriter stenographer who works by
the piece. She visits her customers
each morning, takes notes and does
her work upon her own typewriter,
returning the letters promptly for sig
nature. She also does copying. To
business men who have not sufficient
work nor office roc IN sufficient to share
with typewriter, she is invaluable.
She is also a valued assistant to wom-
en- who are busy with club work, an
swering their letters, copying rules
and regulations and filing away their
business papers"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

There lives in Rolvenden, village
in Kent, England Mrs. Barbara Moon,
now an old woman of SO, who has a
particularly interesting history, for she
was present, as child, at the battles
of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. Her
father was a color sergeant in the
Third battalion rifle brigade. She was
born at Gibraltar in 1911, christened
at Malta, and when her father, after
the peninsula war, went with his regi-
ment to Waterloo the child and her
mother accompanied him. An eXtraor-
binary thing is that up to the age of
20 Mrs. Moon could not even tell one
letter from another, but she then be-
gan to learn at a Bible class and can
now read with facility. She still re-
tains possession of all her faculties,
has a good memory and often refers to
the day when she left Waterloo in a
baggage wagon.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

| pieces shall be successful, they must play
| to very heavy receipts, and as they have
| been so successful i'll England that they
| have later come to this co1ntry, where
| they have universally done well. Mr.. Ra-
| ieigh's bank account must be Il good deal
! larger than it was FIVE years ago.
Mr.. Raleigh does not believe in telling
every newspaper reporter that comes
along just how he manages to evolve mel
odramas from his inner consciousness. He
does not care fig for high art or for
public opinion except in so far as 1T af-
fects the box office, and he delights in
putting into each of his plays at least one
Supersensational scene.
That there is a strong demand for his
work is evidenced by the fact that the
American rights for most of his pieces
have been sold before they were even
tried on the other side of the water. His
latest play, Hearts Are Trumps," was
secured under similar circumstances for
this country by Charles Frohman short
time ago. 1t will probably be put on in
this city little after the beginning of
the new year.
1t is possible that, as you do not live in
New York city, you may not have noticed
how persistently the called dramatic
critics of certain of our newspapers do
presswork for the managers to whose in
terests they have, as it were, plighted
their troth. That condition has prevailed
so long that it no longer eXcites comment
in this city, and it would not be spoken
of at this time were it not for series of
amusing blunders made by this precious
coterie of "critics.'' all of whom in this
particular instance evidently understood
differently the hint as to what to say.
The most humorous screed of the lot,
however, was supplied by a writer who
prides himself on the virility of his style,
which in reality is little else than black
guardism. This fellow, in writing of
an attraction of which his friend is the
proprietor, sought to demonstrate that
the show had not suffered in the slightest
degree by the detection of the man and
woman who had created the principal
roles and whose names We're prominently
identified with the piece In order to il
lustrate how absurd it was to suppose
that these two prominent players had
had anything to do with the success of
the play, he mentioned the fact that the
receipts in some city this year were heav-
Ter the opening night than they were
last season when the original company
visited the place.
Isn't that funny as well as ingenious?
Would it be possible to pay greater
compliment to the two artists whose
work this supposed critic sought to be-
little?
If the performance given by the orig
inal company had not been of the very
best quality, the cheaper organization
would not have drawn a corporaPs guard
to the theater on the occasion of its visit
year later. The reputation of the piece
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
Better Than Flowers

A recent number of the Paris Jour-
nal des Missions Evangeliques con-
tains the following paragraph: "In the
list of last months gifts one sees with
emotion the mention of sum Of !, 1897
francs (more than 1870 received, ac-
cording to the wish of Elizabeth Wen
nagel, instead of flowers for her grave.
Our young sister, before her end, wish
ed that no one might send any flowers,
but that the cost of those which might
have been bought could be given to
missions. The news of this desire
spread among her friends, and they
all deferred to it. Her parents know
that they have our fraternal sympathy.
They have only consented to the publ
cation of these lines in the hope that
such an example might inspire other
children of God upon their bed of
DEATH
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
MRS. WILLIAM F. DRAPER.

the north and south-between the
Diapers of New England and the Pres
tons of the Blue Grass State. All the
Draper brothers-sisters and cousins
and sons and daughters-fel in love
with Preston sons and daughters, and
marriage after marriage followed.
The two families are now absolutely
Joined in double relationship, equaled
only by royal matches. Yet they were
in no way related before the weddings,
and it is now a new union of north and
south.
Mrs. Draper, after a series of social
triumphs in Boston and New York,
went abroad to the court of Humbert.
Here she made the most striking
success.
At the first reception, the queen, so
the story runs, hearing of the Ameri-
can beauty and learning by accident
of the wealth of her jewels, brought
out the entire jewel case in order to at
to outshine her.
Mrs. Draper, knowing nothing of
this, gowned herself as for any very
elegant occasion. She wore her mar
velous strings of pearls, her pendant
Oh diamonds, her TIARA, her bracelets
and her splendid rings.
When Marguerite saw these she was
astonished and then and there gave up
all attempts to impress the wife of the
American ambassador, who uninten-
tionally had far outshone the court
jewels. In beauty, too, she eXcelled
the queen, being younger and much
more regular in feature, though Mar
guerite is wonderful in her loveliness.-
Philadelphia Press.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
COlOred ClubWOm en-.

OF the many national conventions OF
kf1is summer one of the most interest
ing was that of the colored women's
clubs organized as the National AsSO-
citation of Colored Women's Clubs and
| which held its annual convention in
Chicago. In this organization are near
ly 200 clubs and societies, representing
nearly every state in the Union. The
organization is modelled closely after
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, to which many of its clubs be-
long. Its motto is Lifting as We
Climb and it has been an inspiration
to the members who have sought to in
terpret its significance.
One of the leading clubs in the FEEDER
alton of Colored Women'S Clubs is the
Woman's Era club of Boston, of which
Mrs. Josephine st. Pierre Ruffin is
founder and president. Mrs. Ruffin has
been a clubwoman for many years, be-
ing member of the New England
WOman's Press associat ton and having
been lately made a member of the
board of directors of the Massachusetts
State Federation. Indeed, Mrs. Rufhn
may be looked upon as the founder Of
the National Organization of Colored
WOmens Clubs, for it was she who
sent out the call for these clubs to meet
in Boston in 1S95.-Boston Herald.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
A woman's Club In Iceland.

Iceland has wOmanS club, known as
the ThOwaldsen society. Remote as it
is from modern methods of clubdom, it
has virtues and performs works of
which local organizations will be glad
to learn. In a way it is a health pro-
tective association. Women of Reyk-
jaick are banded together to look after
the poor, conduct a sewing school,
visit the hospital and carry on other
philanthropic enterprises. Certain of
the Reykjaick women have invited all
the women of the island into an asSO-
citation to raise money to found a nat
ural university. AS rule the women
of Iceland are well educated, and they
spend a varied and useful existence. If
the club programme has imbibed the
American ideas as to the social cup
of beverage, it is coffee that is served
instead of tea. One is led to infer this
difference between Icelandic clubwo-
men and our own, and that is that
the former are living comfortably from
day to day and not rushing through
their allotted hours at the American
rate of activity.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

change they were beginning to talk base
ball. All agreed that the batting had i'm
proved this year and that there would be
more 300 per cent hitters on President
Youngs list when he issues the averages
later on than had been the case for many
years. 1t was not plain to the majority
that the hitters We're hitting better, ex-
actly, but that many of the veteran pitch
ers had lost their speed this year. Many
of the old time twirlers of the Nichols,
Meekin, Kennedy and Young class have
been banged around without much ceremo-
ny this season. Then the youngsters who
try to take the places of the veterans are
erratic at times. and this gives the base
hit makers just the opportunity they need
to fatten up their batting averages.
There are those who believe that Bos-
ton will not be a positive factor in base
ball next season unless the management
shows much more of progressive spirit
than it has done this season. There is a
CLIQUE in the team at present which seems
determined that Duffy, Bergen and Long
must walk the plank. Now, these are
three of BoStons most valued players,
and if the kickers are allowed to have
their way the management at the Hub
might as well go out of the business.
There a similar clique in the New
York club several years ago, and they
tried to run Van Haltren out of the team.
Van stuck, and he has considerable
amusement looking over the roster of
the club and finding that every one of his
old enemies is getting his meal tickets
elsewhere. He survived them all. The
average manager can break up a clique
in a few days. All that he needs is nerve.
To those who do not know him Fred
Tenney, the best first baseman of them
all, is a pretty tough proposition when
he assumes one of his characteristic
poses around first base. Tenney is
hustler the field, and he has turned
out to be one of Selee's luckiest finds.
He reminds one great deal of Beckley,
although Jake in his prime never covered
the same ground that Tenney does today.
Tenney is graduate of Brown univer-
sity, and he played baseball in his col
lege team with the same abandon and
brilliancy that he does today. 1 have
heard many college graduates say that
they could not play for money as they
played for their colleges and that nobody
else could do it. Tenney does.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

The danger of predicating an opinion
as to the probable success or failure of
play upon a perusal of the work IN man
uscript form never better exempt
fed than in the case of "A Stranger In
a Strange Land" by Sidney Wilmer and
Walter Vincent, which is the current at
traction at the Manhattan theater in
this city. 1t is presented under the man
agement of William A. Brady, one Of
the proprietors of the Manhattan theater,
and Joseph K. Grismer, an excellent
actor, who, believe, is a sort of general
stage manager for Mr.. Brady.
Any one who has seen "A Stranger In
Strange Land which is described on
the play bills as new Anglo-American
farce in three acts" will readily under
stand how manager might have been
carried away by a perusal Of the play in
manuscript form.
1t is not by any means intended to con-
vey the impression that "a Stranger In
Strange Land is a failure, for, while
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

They had been in New York to witness
the Dewey celebration and had decided
to remain in the metropolis for ten days
longer and to all the sights. They
were all veteran baseball enthusiasts,
and they see every game during the sum-
mer and talk baseball all winter. Base
ball generally is the one relaxation and
pleasure of enthusiasts of this sort, and
anything that hurts the game sticks in
their craw and can't be loOsened. They
love the game for the game itself and
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
First Baby In 200 Years.

One day in the recent herring fishing
season, in the Shetland islands, a WON
an hailing from the mainland near by
gave birth to fine, healthy boy in one
of the wooden huts belonging to a cur
ing station on Balta island. For 200
years previously no baby had been
born on this faraway island. The baby
has been christened Balta Geddes Poi
son, and the laird of the island has Civ
en- to the mother a check for EDS.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

"Three Louisville girls came out Of
school a dozen years ago. said @. G..
Crawford of that place, land resolved,
as young men sometimes do, to achieve
fame and fortune or at least to make
something more than usual of their
lives. They formed a sort of club for
mutual encouragement. One of them,
a daughter of DR.. Yandall, one of the
most famous of Kentucky's physicians,
is now regarded as a master sculptor.
Her design for fountain has been sue
cessful over those of the leading Amer
lean sculptors. Another, daughter of
General Basil Duke, is a violin vir-
tuoso, who has been heard as a soloist
in many grand concerts. The third, a
daughter of Muldoon, who has the or
der for the mausoleum for young
Mackay, to be placed in Greenwood
cemetery, is singer of great power.
These girls have shown that, beautiful
as the Louisville women are, they have
brains also."-Chicago Times-Herald.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
SHE OUTSHONE A QUEEN.
Handsome Mrs. Draper and Her Cas-
ket of Rich Jewels.

Mrs. Draper, wife of our ambassador
to Italy, the woman of whom there
has been more gossip than about any
other woman of the foreign diplomatic
corps, was born Miss Preston of Ken
lucky.
Always a pretty girl, she developed
into a remarkably striking woman,
and when she met General Draper of
massachusetts,, then widOwer of
some years, he fell in love with her.
The marriage was the beginning of a
series of brilliant weddings between
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

had been made at the first appearance,
and, entirely apart from the merits of
the present case, it was a tribute to the
absent stars, and not to the present or
ganiZation, that the company did well
this season in that particular city.
These are the methods which prevail
in the show business to n great extent,
and so long as they do prevail there will
be no chance of rescuing it from the dis
repute into which it has fallen and which
causes shrewd men, inclined to take a
chance on almost any fairly promising
proposition, to steer clear of the per
fesh.'
New York
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
Indoor Athletics.

Boxing, wrestling and fencing will all
attract more than usual attention this
winter at the athletic clubs whose mem
bers have found that the exercise de-
manded by any Of the three is amply
rewarded by the benefits accruing.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

Flanagan's New Record.
In throwing the Is pound hammer 167
feet inches John Flanagan established
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

1t may be only a press agent story, but
there are many persons who implicitly
believe in the accuracy of the little para
graph recently published in English
paper to the effect that Cecil Raleigh's
income is greater than that of any other
playwright in the world At first this
seems absolutely absurd, but upon refiec-
ton it will be seen that there is no reason
to doubt that Mr.. Raleigh's royalties ev-
cry year must be enormous. For a long
time now he has been supplying the melo-
dramas for the famous Drury Lane thea
ter of London, either wholly or as CO.
author. Inasmuch as, in order that these
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
CHECKERS AND CHESS.

Checker Problem No. 54s.
Black.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-18
RARE COLLECTION OF CANES.
Two Hundred. With Histories attached, Owned BY
a fhadelphan.

There is one young man in Phila-
delphia who has been devoting all his
spare cash and time for the past five
years 10 securing n collection OF canes.
He started into the fad modestly
enough, and now ne has grown so at
tached to the idea that nothing can
turn him aside from IL. The collection
already comprises nearly two hundred
sticks, and they vary i'm value from
Few odd pennies To many dollars The
odd thing about the assortment Is the
fact that each cane has attached To il
an interesting history. or else 1t Is val
liable intrisincally OF on historic
grounds. None of them IL saved sim
ply 10 swell the total number
Probably the most valuable stick Is
one that came from an island near Ja-
nan. The claim is made that IL was
carved by u native, and the work took
several years. There are nearly two
thousand figures of humans, beasts,
birds and reptiles, and battle scene
on land and one on sen. The wood is
n beautiful piece OF bamboo, nearly
three inches i'm diameter and seasoned
uutil il is as hard as ivory. The ham
die is formed by u snake ana tiger IN
deadly combat Another cane came
from the most distant portion OF Alas
ka. and the historic figures are said TO
illustrate the entire history OF GER
tain tribe now almost extinct. There
are several sticks made from wood
taken from famous old battleships and
one historic bit of blackthorn is said 20
have once been the property OF Tom
Moore, the great Irish poet.