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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1899-09-01
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1899-09-01
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tdgltb 700 MbenD4
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Semer bammernoc sfopfi@uer.

iuirb Sic balb berlaiien, tuenn sic Or.
&inss ,,0etu 2ife 9ills" benusen. Eau.
ienbe BON 2eioeuben baben Die 8ortreffs
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unb @isrdue beitdtist. sic reiniaen
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bauen bic @eiunbbeit aui. Man pers
iu1e iie. Nur 25 Gents. Das @elo
piro 5uriideritattet, iuenn feline Seiluns
erfulst. 8u baben In Der Gpptbete
usn s. &alteper & Con.
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- aus Bremen mirb eeinriebeu :
Die omeritaniibe 8ntter fdnet an, aui
benz biefigen Marft cine bebeutenbe
RolIe 30 fpielen. Su Der perfoHeueu
Wo6e famen grobe Seubunsen aus
ben Ser. 6taaten. Gieie Butter IN
DON elmer 10 ausge3eidneten Qnolitdi,
baB He baS pfunb um 20 pfsnnigs
pber 5 Gents tbeurer beriauft ipurbe,
als bic beuii&e.
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Nad Stodoale, tdsli9, aussMommen
SDnrta9S. S........... $500 Born.
Gnfunft.
Bon Stodbale, tdsli9, aussenommen
Sonntaas. s.......... $500 Na9m.
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VDsttber,s 4actitc &aba.
Nbfa hrt.

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neiton tGsfi9 1910 Mittags iinh
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ytab @alifornien ...... .4:45 Na1m.
Nnfunft.
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ueiton tdgli9 7:25 Wurm. unb 4:25
Na6nt. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Bon galiforniem &C.. II: 80 Borm.
Bon gaste YaB unb Merieo ZOO
MoenDS. .................
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6erfr6ni, bat BON ber DIRECTION bes
t6ntglt9en Operubauies In Berlin bic
Muhoroerung erbalten. im nd9fteu
Winter tn suei aonaerten su Rneen.
tpofttr ibr $4,000 anseboten tuurben.
@s III febr BITE Grose. ob He baramf eiu.
eeben tptrb, benu in 2onbon erbdIt Re
tttr eineu Mbenb $4,000 unb In New
Dort gar $4,000.
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Gifeubabu Tabr %lau.
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Nbfahrt.

Nbfabrf.
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yta1 Searne td9li1 IS :OO Moraens.
TAD 2arebo. 1000 Worm.
Gntunft.
}on ct. Souls, Sron Wountain & M.
&. & z. T..............S $3.50 Born.
Bon ct. Souls, Sron Mountain & M.
s.. u Z. ............3:55 Na1m.
Bon Searne tdsli9. .10:2O Mbenbs.
Bon 2areoo. eoo...........12:25 Na1m.
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N. g. & =. 0abn.
Gbfahrt.

Na9 @aco, Sort Wortb, Dallas, Ram
ias Gitp, ct. Souls unb gbicaso tds.
LID 100 Mor9ens unb $3.50 Nbenba.
Nnfunft.
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Dallas, Slrt @ortb unb @aeo, tde.
lid s. 80 Born,. iinb 10 30 Nbenbs.
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Srant IS. gbenep.
NbmirQl Deuebs ssIaao1f

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nod Gibraltar abgebampft, mo Demsp
bermutbliG bis 3um IL. September
bleibeu mirb. CT bat mieberbolt er.
tldrt, bab er R9 Dor bem gmpfange In
Nem Oort ssrabe3u far9te.
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Staat Obio, StabtgoIebo,
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Staot Eoleb0, tn obensenanntem gountp
tbut, nno baB beiaste Sirnta bic Slmme
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Sau bon &atarrb bebablen tuirb. Der our9
ben @ebraud BON SalI's &atarrbs
g ur ni4t gebeiIt tueroen fam.
Srent s. ghenep.
(@) Beihtupren ner mir unb unter-
1 Sie9el iebrteben in n,einer @esentuart
l@@J am 6. Geptember ". $. 1886,
U. @. @leaion, bffentlitber Notar.
6au's Ratarrb BUR tpirb innerlih ae,
.tommen, unb pirft birect auf bas Blut
Mno bic irhleimigeu Cberfldhen bes Sp.
items. 2aBt gub uuliouit 8euenifie
tomnen.
5.S. gbenes & Co.. Eolebo o.
s@ 8ertauft uon allen Mpotbefern,
rs Gents.
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81 nfunft

Bon galifornien, Dienftas uno Greiz
tag. ...............3. Is NtorgenS.
Bon Stem Orleans, 0ienitag unb Greis
tag... .................2.00 Ea1m.
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Gamiet 3iutiteo.
VI bfahrt.

Na9 galiiornien, Greitags 3.35 Mors.
Nad Getp Orleans, Dienfas uub Greiz
tog. 2,20 WaGmt,
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81 Seoermauus 9ieuiten,
obHe oaB man sd iparten brandt.

aRema ,itan baS Selepbpn anf lauae
Gmtfermtsm8 8ebraudbt, brandt man
nitbt 80 iuartem. 3eine Ners18erMns
betiit Gtaptamg, bmrM bic Mbibrift
sstb bic g(bliefermn8 ner Mfelonng.
Ste 0(mtipprt erfpIgt fpfprt. 9as tit
eS, mas Sieiem 9tenft 10 pDpnlar
unadbt amf ben reri@iebeuen Stnten.
Weam telepbnmire att oen Wfamager,
Der alIe Gtm5elbettem erfldren fnirb.
THE SOUTHWESTERN TELE-
GRAPH & TELEPHON co.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

Alexander the Great gave away so
much spoil that one general asked him
what was left for himself. my hopes"
was the prompt reply. In his last an
nual report, the president of Harvard
cites the like generosity Of modern
Alexander. In the last twenty-five
years. DR.. Alexander Agassiz has ex-
pended from his private purse three
quarters Of million dollars on the
Museum Of Comparative Zoology,
without making any Communication
on the subject to the president Thus
are the hopes of one of Americas
greatest scientists being realized
through his son.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

Professor Adolf DIR, an accom-
plished German scholar and linguist.
has invented a system of shorthand
symbols which will enable stenogra-
piers to report in any one or all the
chief European languages as readily
and correctly as they can in their re-
spective mother tongues. This sys-
TEN. upon which Professor Dirr has
been engaged for a long time, is ex-
planned in a volume which will prob
ably be issued in few weeks by a
Paris publisher. Professor DIR is
master Of some thirty languages.
oriental included. His system has
nothing whatever to do with "voIa-
puk." dismal fad, which also was
made in Germany, but which the pro-
fessor has ridiculed. He has advised
all people in search of universal
Language" to learn English, and he has
given his reasons. English literature
is the richest and greatest In the
world. English is more generally
spoken than any other language since
the mishap at Babel. 1t is the uniyer-
sal language Of commerce.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

The Hebrew Zionists, who recently
held at Basle, Switzerland, third an
nual council, have for their object the
purchase OF Palestine and its repeo-
pling with Jews. Influential Zionists
privately assert that sufficient money
Is already in hand for the purchase,
and that the sultan would gladly sell.
The serious bar to the plan is the fam
atheism Of the Turkish people. who re-
gard Jerusalem as only second among
holy places. Whatever may be the out
come. marked change in some por-
tions of the landscape of Palestine has
already been effected by Jewish colon
lists. Lord Amherst, of the English ex-
ploration society, affirms that places
which in 1870 he saw as desert land
have been converted into gardens,
vineyards and olive groves, and that
quite generally Christians and Moham-
medans are following the Jewish COL
onists' methods of agriculture.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

Lieut.. Gilmore's party Is still in Fill
ip!no bondage. An American naval Of
ficer writes from Manila that the cap
tives are in n pitiable condition. destI-
tute OF clothing. without shoes Of hats.
and forced to provide for themselves
out OF the miserable allowance of four
cents day. Spanish accounts say that
the Lieutenant and fifteen American
soldiers are guarded by 200 Filipinos.
II 1t needs so many of Aguinaldo's men
To guard these starved and sick Ameri-
cans. the capture OF few more might
seriously cripple the insurgent forcea
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

Surgery deals with unfavorable con-
ditions, when it cannot secure the
proper environment, with the same
courage that it exhibits under favoring
conditions. A city patient is tenderly
borne to hospital operating room,
where every precaution known to mod
ern science favors the case. Lieut.,
Peary. with frostbitten feet, is Iashed
to sled and hauled to his ship. Am
putation follows, under primitive con-
dttions, and speedy recovery concludes
= remarkable experience. Here, as in
many another instance, the man un-
der the knife, as well as the man be-
hind the knife, is an important factor
in making surgery successful.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

Germany and Great Britain are in
harmony. The kaiser has painted
three sea pieces for Queen victoria's
yacht.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

1t Is great privilege to meet some
men-where they are unable to mono
police the conversation.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

Admiral Dewey is reported resting
quietly on farm, with nothing to dis
turb the quiet but bands and bonfires
and excited throngs of country people.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

Be sure your sins will find you out
ana SO will your wife.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

The American savage on the war
path was Just about as bad as he was
painted.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

Nat Goodwin is under contract to
play in America and England at the
same time. Has Nat imbibed the ex-
pansion idea?
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

Sometimes mans will is broker
after his demise and sometimes afte
his marriage.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

1t is easier for a man to forgive hi:
enemies than it is to forgive his
friends.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

A girl pulls the wool over a mans
eyes and then laughs at him because
he looks sheepish.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

1t Is only a waste of time to call a
liar a liar.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

Spend and the world is with you.
sponge and 1t can't get away too quick.
Gilpin observer., 1899-11-02

Paradoxical though it may b
spoiled children are usually fresh.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-15
J.SMITH, MILLIONAIRE

n was typical autumn London
night, the streets flowing with greasy
mud. the air yellow with smoky fog,
and a cold, sleety drizzle falling, as
Hllda Smith arrived at Paddington sta
ton.
1t was her first experience OF the
great metropolis, but she had received
her instructions, and selecting her port
manteau she had 1t removed to a cab,
and, jumping in, ordered the man to
drive to the Ballarat mansions in Vic
toria street, Westminster.
Hilda was not little anxious be-
cause she had arrived in town day
ahead of her invitation, and she was
not certain whether her bachelor
brother, with whom she was going to
stay for a month or six weeks, would
be ready to receive her.
The door was opened by hard-faced
looking woman of the charwoman type,
who stood gazing at her without NOV
ing away from the entrance.
"Is this Mr.. Smith's?" asked Hilda.
iCo, iuioo, Ieplicu Tie WoLhdh, WAeA-
out offering to let her in. however.
as he at homer"
mo, he amt, and don't know when
he will be-
But did he not expect me? He is
my brother, and l have come to stay
with him."
"Oh, indeed, miss. Well, he didn't
say nothing to me about it," answered
the woman. "But suppose you'd bet
ter have the spare room." and she step
ped aside with a grudging air as she al
lowed the fair girl to enter
Turning on the electric light, she
showed Hilda into handsomely fur
nished bedroom, whose white and gold
paint and blue satin furniture caused
her to open her eyes in wonder, for her
brother was not supposed at home to
be in luxurious circumstances, and by
the time she had washed her face and
hands the housekeeper brought her a
cup of tea and some bread and butter,
after which she retired to rest, and did
not wake until late the following morn
Ing.
"Mr. Smith came home late last
night, miss" eaid the housekeeper,
when she aroused her with the hot
water, land told me to say that he
would join you at breakfast"
The breakfast table was picture to
the eyes of the frugally brought up
country girl, for it was covered with
every dellcacy in or out of season, and
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-15
HOLY CARPET STOLEN.
Especial letter.


The "holy carpet" or kiswa, wnich
has been stolen by Bedouin Arabs en-
route for Mecca, consists CT :. series OF
oblong strips VI black brocade richly
embroidered in gold and silver with
Arabic inscriptions from the koran. II
serves the purpose of Identifying the
exterior of the ka'aba. The sacred
shrine within the precincts of the
mosque at Mecca. 1t is renewed and
sent every year at the expense Of the
sultan from Constantinople via Cairo,
where, with its escort Of Bashi Egyp-
tian caravan, the most important OF
the many which annually converge
toward Mecca Having done duty for
a year, it is cut up and the pieces sold
as relics to wealthy pilgrims. The il
lustration represents a portion of the
carpet being carried on mems Shout
ders through the streets of Cairo, dur
ing the festival preceding its departure.
The intrinsic value of the holy carpet
is some $4,000, and its capture by a
tribe of marauding Bedouins, between
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-15
Medina and Mecca, is a matter to
arouse the pious indignation of tho
whole Moslem world.
An English Girls Long Swim.

Miss Mary Livingstone, Scotland
champion lady swimmer, recently at
tempted to swim from Greenock to
Rothesay, distance of fifteen miles.
A Glasgow correspondent Of the Lon
don Leader says she took the water at
11:40 o'clock, the temperature being in
the region of 48 degrees. She showed
splendid form and no signs Of fatigue.
After leaving Gourock some refresh
ment was administered and her hands
were rubbed. She passed Clock light
house at 1880, the distance up to this
point being six miles, and the time &C.
cupied two hours and ten minutes, the
tide and river aiding her greatly. Miss
Livingstone began to show signs of ex-
haustion shortly after passing the
Lighthouse, and as the sea had turned a
trifle rough it was evident she would
not succeed in her object. When op.
posite Wemyss Castle, about eight
miles from Grenock, the doctors de-
cided TO take her on board, the swim
to this point taking three hours and
forty minutes. She pleaded to be al
lowed to float and finish the feat.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-15
AT THE NORTH POLE.
Canadian Who Claims to Have Beer
There.


Gustav Bertrand of st. Madeleine
Quebec, Canada, who is at the PerraulI
house, at Lestershire, one Of Bingham
toms suburbs claims to be the discov-
erer of the north pole. He Is poor
man, and, being rather ignorant of the
higher arts of ceamanship, in his story
Oh the discovery can be given only the
outlines of his adventures. He is about
So years old, and is at present prac.
tically on the charity of the residents
OF the village. A local physician says
he is sane. He is unwilling to talk for
publication, saying that he will not
be believed. Bertrand's story is to
the effect that while on Bale Isle
fishing smack afar up tn Bay OF
Biffan he became estranged from his
companions, being in small boat by
himself A storm came and drove him
from his course, and, after going with
out food for some time, he met an
Esquimaux, who gave him food, and
told him of white mans party fur
Their up the coast" He wandered
along, not finding the white men, and
upon the wrecking of his boat, he was
obliged to live with the natives, al
ways getting nearer the pole. About a
year afterward he arrived at warmer
part, and going still further north,
found the north pole. This country
he describes as being an island sur
rounded by ice. 1t has one or two
small mountains. A small tribe OF
large-built people, not Esquimaux,
H1e6 there, and he stayed there for
some Nr2e. The manner of living Is
similar to that of the Esquimaux, and
he experienced many hardships. There
are two seasons, he says. mild and
cold. In the mild weather lichens grow
there. He tells only of life of hard
ship among savage people, and says
he marvels how he every survived to
tell the story. He returned By work
ing his way down to Ellesmere. and
then, by the aid of kindly officers. got
to northern Alaska. He went gold
prospecting, got caught by the Cana
dian authorities in some unsavory
affair, so he says, and was sent to
prison at Toronto, Canada He was re-
leased from there several months ago
He is evidently q man badly broken
In health by hardships, and as his
otory seems to bear the stamp of truth
in one or two relics of life among the
natives of the north pole, opinionl
among the villagers is somewhat di.
vided as to the veracity Of his state
ments.-New York Sun.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-15
BACK FROM ICY LANDS
WALTER WELLMAN AND PARTY
FAILED. r,A
They Discovered Some New Tlants of
Interest Observation-Disclosures of the
latest Arctic Expeditlon-Start Made
In June, 1898.

Walter Wellman and the survivors
OF the Polar expedition led by him, ar
rived in Europe Aug. II on the steamer
Capella, having successfully completed
their explorations in Franz Josef Land.
Mr. Wellman discovered important new
lands and many islands The expedi-
ton brings grim story of arctic trag-
edy. In the autumn OF 1898. an out
post called Fort Mckinley was estab-
lished in latitude 81 degrees. 1t was
q house built of rocks and rooted over
with walrus hide. Two Norwegians,
Paul Bjorvig and Bert Bentsen, the lat
ter Of whom was with hansen on the
Fran, remained there. The main par
ty wintered in a canvas covered hut
called Harmsworth house, at Cape
Tegethoff, on the southern point of
Halls island, latitude 80. About the
middle of February, before the rise OF
the sun to its winter height, Mr. Well
man. with three Norwegians and for
ty-flve dogs, started north. 1t was the
earliest sledge journey on record in
that high latitude. On reaching Fort
Mckinley Mr.. Wellman found Bent
sen dead, and Bjorvig, according to
promise, had kept the body in the
house, sleeping beside it through two
months of arctic darkness. Notwith
standing his terrible experience the
survivor was safe and cheerful. Push
ing northward through rough ice and
severe storms, with continuous tenn
perature for ten days between 40 and
so degrees below zero, the party found
new lands north of Freedom island,
where hansen landed in 1895. BY the
middle of March all hands were conf
dent Of reaching latitude 81 or SO, If
not the pole itself. Then began sue
cession OF disasters. Mr.. Wellman,
while leading the party, fell into
snow covered crevasse, seriously injur-
'Rg one of his legs and compelling re-
nat. Two days later the party was
aroused at midnight by an icequake
under them, due to pressure. In few
moments many dogs were crushed and
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would most probably find "the othei
Mr.. Smith" at home to lunch.
Hilda hurried away to put her hat
on, and the more she looked al tho ex.
quisitely furnished room. with its cut
glass perfume bottles, chased silver
powder boxes, and all the hundred and
one little additions that go toward
making a woman happy, the more she
wondered who it had been prepared
for.
Fortunately, when they arrived at s
Ballarat mansions, they found "the
other Mr.. Smith at home on the top
floor. and Hilda could not help noticing
how wonderfully civil he was to her
host, and how eagerly he accepted his
offer to dine on the following evening
for himself and sister.
After he had gone, however, the mat
ter was explained.
THAT is John Smith, the millionaire,
said her brother, impressively, "and ha
is the managing director of the com"
pany l work for
The dinner was followed by inca
ter and a supper, and so it went on,
until the night before she should have
gone home Mr. Smith asked her II she
would change her appellation from
Miss to Mrs. Smith.
Hilda has always had an overwhelm-
ing desire to penetrate the mystery OF
the spare room, but all the information
she could obtain from her husband was,
that he kept it fitted up in that man.
ner in order that he might be able to
entertain an angel If one called upon
him unawares, and he always added:
"And if it had not been for that pre-
caution, my dear, should not have
had the dearest and sweetest little wife
in the world."-Ally Sloper.