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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04
MEDICAL REPORT
OF the Southern Pacific System.

The following is the medical report
for the fiscal year ending June ~, 1889,
of the Southern Pacific system. com.
prisipe the Southern Pacific company,
Texas & New Orleans railroad com
pany, Galveston Harrisburg & San An
tonic railway company, New YORK,
Texas & Mexican Railway company
way com pany.
Mum Der of patients treated In San
Antonio, outside of hospital 1916
Number of patients treated at
general hospital. ....: 1o4o
Number of surgical cases treated
at San Antonio, including the
general hospital. 20
Number of deaths OF injured pa
tients treated.
Number of deaths of uninjured pa
tiepts treated at San Antonio
including the general hospital. ~
Percentage of deaths OF injured
patients treated at San An
tonic, including the general
hospital 36-100 of. 49,. p. G.
Percentage of deaths OF unlnJur-
ed patients treated at San An
tonic, including the general
hospital 63-100 Of. p. G.
Nature of diseases of those WHO died:
Atrophy of Liver ...................
Cirrhosis of Liver.
Fractured Spine.
Appendicitis (refused operation)...- z
Tetanus (lock jaw ................ I
Consumption. .'-..'' .
Typhoid Fever. .
Pneumonia. ...--.---..--''
la Grippe. .-..''-'''
Castro Enterltes. -. .........-...''' !
Pernicious Malarial Fever. ........ l
Septicaemia (blood poison. .........
Total ~
Number of patients treated on
line by local surgeons. ....... IO,O43
Grand total Of all cases treated. l5,o5A
Number of patients discharged
FROM hospital as cured. 9o4
Number of patients carried over
from June on July 1st, 1S99.... 59
Aggregate number of days treat
meut for the 1043 patients
treated at the general hospital 19, los
Total amount of disbursements
for account of both the general
hospital and those treated on
the line. ....S3 I, 'z5.4o
Total amount of disbursements
for account of the general hos 90. .,
pital. .....-........ sis, 3o3.37
Total amount paid santa Rosa
Iufrmary for care CT pa, on, 40
tlentS. vA1'o"1' ~
The aggregate mum per OF uaye
service, considered in relation
to the amount OF disbursements
for account of the general hos
pisal. shows an average cost
per ay for the care of each
patient. ''o
Average number of days treat
ment, for each of the 1O43 pa
tients treated at the general
hospital. 10 Gays o1-loo'
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04
FL PAsO DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY AUGUST a. 1899

a concession. The Texsrkana, Shreve-
port and Nstchez will be completed to
Shreveport by the last of August
Houston Post.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-04

Paso Steam Laundry. Phone Al
The daily sentinel., 1899-05-29
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 20. 1899.

81 have the honor to inform you that,
having received information that Am
arican property in the Latogo vicinity
If Laulii, Lotoanun and Solo Solo Is
liable to be invaded this day. l am
here for the purpose OF protecting the
same"
The crews of the two ships stood at
.heir guns for hours, but the German
captain made no attempt to fire upon
the fort. Finally he started on
cruise down the coast, but Capt. Leary
followed him and would not be shaken
off The two ships came at length
into harbor again, and the American
had gained his point OF preventing
the German from firing upon the fort.
Capt. Leary upheld the honor of his
country's flag at time when our gov
ernment seemed to take but half
hearted interest in Samoan affairs. He
was far from cable communication, and
on his own responsibility thus bravely
defied and held in check warship far
superior to his own.
The daily sentinel., 1899-05-29
PROGRAM FOR MEMORIAL DAY.

As Memorial day falls on May 30th, 1t has
been ordered by the Department command
er that all Posts in this department adhere
to the usual custom and attend divine SER
vice on Sunday preceding Memorial day,
which occurs on May 2sth, to be held at the
Opera house at 3 O'Clock p. m, sermon to
be preached by Rev. Downer of the Baptist
church. The following program has been
arranged for Tuesday May 3Oth
STREET PARADE.
Column will form at city hall promptly at
$3.50 o'clock Il. m. All organizations will
meet at their respective halls and march in
a body to the city hall and report to the
marshal of the day, who will assign them a
place in the line which will be as follows:
Mayor and council in oarriuges.
Co. 2nd Regiment c. N. g.
Post No. 30 g. A. r.
Woman's Relief Corps.
Uniform Rank, X. of p.
Woodmen of the World.
Odd Fellows.
Fire Department and all other societies
who report will be assigned a place.
School children will form at school house
Column will move promptly at $3.50 o'clock
a. IN. from city hall to Main, to Sixth to
Grand to Third, to Main To 9th, to Colorado
avenue to Opera house where the following
program will be rendered:
Prayer by Rev. Ward.
Song, "America' by the audience.
Song by Miss Fauss and High School
students.
Twenty little girls of Miss Adams room
will give the flag salute.
Grafton of the day by Rev. Boggess. Aft
er these exercises are over all are invited to
go to the cemetery and decorate the graves
of the old soldiers of the civil war with
flowers and all persons who have convey
ances are requested to have them in readi-
ness in front of the Opera house at II o'clock
n. m. to carry those who wish to go to the
cemetery. J. r. FALLS, Adjutant,
G. w. Steel, Post Comm ander.
The daily sentinel., 1899-05-29
sosr Tobacco Spit and s..oss Your rlre Avs,

To gait tobacco easily and forever, be ma
netic. iull OF ufe nerve and vigor. take No.
bue. tae wonuer worker, that makes weak IN.
strong. All druggists, SOC or 81. Cure guara,
SEQ. Booklet and sample frce Addres
The daily sentinel., 1899-05-29

Ts Cure Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Dromo Quinipe Tablet,
Druggists refund money II Il fsils 10
cure. 36c. 0eppips has L b. @. -
each tablot.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-12-30
Meteor. Prefer Morning.

An interesting and significant fact is
that the average hourly number of me-
teors is only half as great in the even
ing as in the morning and in the even
ing their velocity is lower. The reason
is that at sunset we have before us the
point in the heavens from which we are
moving in our orbital journey around
the sun, while the morning we face the
point toward which we are advancing.
in the evening we are in the rear of the
earth, at sunrise in front. This in
crease in the numbers and speed of the
morning meteors is just what ought to
happen if they are bodies moving indis-
crininately in all directions under the
suns attraction, and with the velocity
(about &c miles second) which a body
would acquire in falling toward the sun
from a distance very great as compared
with the size of our planetary orbits
Prof. c. A. Young, in Lippincott.
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What su.erainty Is.

In speech delivered at Urbroath
Scotland, on September last, John
Morley, the great liberal leader. said /:
"And this brings me to the word suzer-
ainty. 1t is said that we have suzer-
ainty over the South African republic.
Sir Alfred Miner said there is nothing
in this controversy as to whether we
have suzerainty or not-nothing ma
terial. My own view of suzerainty is
that it is word which nobody of
course can define, but it has got flavor
of sovereignty in it, and yet it is not
sovereignty; and that the Beers hate
the word because it has got that flavor
in it, and the war party in the Cape and
in other places like the word because
they hope to impart into it something
or another which may enable them un-
der mask of sovereignty to do things
which think they had better not do. /"
IN. Y. World.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-12-30

The vegetable ivory of Ecuador 10 the
aut of native palm. The experts
amount to 1880 tons per annum, of
which two-thirds go to Germany and
one-sixth to the United States.
The German firm of Krupp are said
to be making trial of some light five-cen-
timeter field pieces which are con-
structed of compressed paper. The
good service of paper in car wheels sug-
gested the experiment.
A Chicago workingman has discov-
cred a process by which plate glass can
be made from Stag, the waste material
in iron and steel manufacture, and the
federal steel trust proposes to build a
plant to turn out the new product.
A glass factory has been started at
ST. Helens, England, in which the whole
system of blowing is replaced by an
automatic arrangement of molds and
blowpipes worked by compressed air.
The output has been much increased.
Press dispatches report the success
full trial of telephone apparatus, with
Ous WINS, AAOih AhO'tht3 tAoiAS, ~ L AOAs
D'Ayar, of Rome, Italy. According to
accounts several trials have been made
on trains running northward from that
city.
One great reason for the popularity
of the automobile is that it can be more
readily managed by women than horse
drawn vehicles. Many women object
to driving horses on account of their
liability to shy or bolt. The automo-
bile offers marked advantages in this
respect, but no lady should try running
an automobile until she thoroughly un-
derstands the mechanism.
AT the southern entrance to the Suez
canal, at Port Tewfik, there is an oil
installation. The oil is stored in vast
quantities in tanks for use either by
ships or in houses. The tanks each
have a capacity of 1000 tons of liquid
fuel for such steamers as may be fitted
to burn it. Special trucks are provided
for sending oil by rail and the wants of
the neighborhood are supplied by small
oil tanks.
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American soldier. pr.,,ed.

The behavior of the American sol.
1iers in the far east has attracted at
tention in all parts of the world. So
recently as just before the outbreak
of the Transvaal war the Daily Mail
of Grahamstown, Cape Colony, in an
appreciative editorial on "The Amer
can Troops in Manila" said: "One les.
son taught by the struggle in the Phil
lippine archipelago is the amazing for
titude of the American troops. Prac-
tically every man in the volunteer
forces has been under fire almost con-
tinuously since February A, and in adj
dition to constant fighting has never
had moments freedom from anxiety
as to possible maneuvers of skulking
willy foes, who know every inch of the
country, and know how to take advan-
tage of its potentialities. The lines have
been SO long that it has been necessary
to keep every regiment to the front.
The regulars have had Almost the same
experience, but not quite as much of it.
If the campaign has demonstrated
nothing else it has shown the marvel
GUS staying powers of Uncle Sans
troops suddenly transferred to the
tropics."-N. Y. Sun.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-12-30
Death of a Carrier pigeon.

Acarrierpigeon met with an untimely
end in midlake off Racine recently, and
its message will never be delivered. AS
the Byron Whitaker steamed up Lake
Michigan Capt. Lewis Elliott noticed a
pigeon which seemed to be tired
out trying to reach the vessel.
The bird was surrounded by flock of
seagulls, which seemed to be bent on
keeping it from reaching the boat.
Finally the bird succeeded in getting
away from its tormentors, and came
toward the Whitaker with great speed.
1t alighted on the top of the smoke
stack, was instantly overcome by the
neat and fell inside. So interested was
Capt. Elliott in his visitor that he had
the breeding of the boiler removed,
but the bird was dead before it was
reached. A message tied to its right
leg had been burned off. On the left leg
was silver ring with the marks SO
55S.'-Chicago Evening News.
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DON'T SPEAK AS THEY PASS
Have Worked Together I'm ST.
lence for Three Years

Like the two De Cadeau brothers.
who are said to have lived for years in
the same chateau in southern France
without even exchanging a word, are
Conductor William Walsh and Motor
man Benjamin Lindsay, who operate
the single car which runs on a spur of
the Suburban railway over Union ave.
nue. to Forest Park.
In the three long years during which
the two street railway men have run
the car they have not been upon speak
ing terms, and although their duties
throw them constantly together, never
word is exchanged between them. 1t
is not because the men are dumb, for
both are good conversationalists. The
cause of the silence is GOODNESS which
has existed between them for three
years. Before that time Bill and Ben
were known as inseparable-in fact,
had been schoolmates together-and
had purposely arranged it so as they
might operate upon the same line.
The primary cause of the estrange-
ment is not known even to the most in
innate friends of the men. 1t is be-
lieved to have been some trivial affair,
which an explanation would easily have
set right. Both, however, felt too much
pride to take that step. The first in
timation that anything was amiss be-
tween the two which their acquaint-
ances and fellow-employes had was
that they were not seen as much to-
gether after working hours and ceased
to visit each other.
1t last, SO it is said by employees of
the road, Walsh reported his erstwhile
friend for some slight fault, and, a
few weeks after Lindsay reported
Walsh for the same error. From that
time on greetings and conversations
were at an end between the two men.
Among the other employees of the
line the two are spoken of as the
"mutes." They furnish much merri-
ment to their fellow-workmen, who
have many wagers up as to which shall
first break the silence.
At noon when it is time for the mo-
torneer to eat his dinner, the conductor
goes to the front platform and touches
him on the shoulder with his finger.
The signal is readily understood. Lind
say leaves his post and while dining
Walsh takes charge of the car. On his
return the conductor takes his leave.
This thing is kept up for 365 days in
the year. Both men have been in the
service of the company for many years,
and the managers say that both stand
high upon the books.-St. Louis Re.
public.
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THE TEMPLE OF FAME.

How far away is the Temple of FameT'
Said youth at the dawn of day;
And he toiled and dreamed of deathless
name;
But the hours went by and the evening
came,
That left him feeble. and old. and lame.
To plod on his cherries way.
For the path to Fame is weary climb
Up mountain steep and high.
There are many who start in their youthful
prime;
But in the battle with fate and time.
For one who reaches those heights sub
lime
Are thousands who fall and die.
The youth who had failed could never guess
The reason his quest was vain;
But he sought no other to help or bless
He followed the glittering prize, Success,
Up the narrow pathway of Se1fishness,
And this had been his bane.
'How far away is the Temple of Good?"
Said youth at the dawn Of day;
And he strove, in spirit Of brotherhood.
To help and succor, as best he could.
The poor and unfortunate multitude
On their hard and dreary way.
He was careless alike of praise or blame;
But, after his work was done,
An anger OF glory from ffeaVen came
And wrote on high his immortal name,
Proclaiming this truth, that the Temple
OF Fame
And Temple of Good are one.
For this is the lesson that history
Has taught since the world began:
That those whose memories never die,
Who shine like stars In our human sky,
And brighter grow as the years roll by,
Are men who have lived for Man.
Denver News.
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"Pathometer, for wheelmen.

OF the inventing of long-felt cycling
wants there seems to be no end. The
latest of these is an instrument by
which it is easy to record automatically
not only the distance travelled by a hi.
cycle, but also the various directions
followed during the journey and the
hills ascend j and descended. The rec
ord of directions is obtained by means
of compass. The needle is suspended
at the top of the "pathometer," as the
apparatus is called, directly above she
tape on which the records are TAKEN
Chicago Chronicle.
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LOSS OF LIFE AT SEA.
erably Lower Than for Pre-
viOus Year.

The annual report of the supervising
Inspector general of steamboats,, which
has just been made public in the form
Of an abstract, contains highly inter-
esting exhibit of the numbers of lives
lost at sea from American vessels dur
ing the last calendar year, together
with other important correlated infor-
nation. 1t appears from this document
that the total number of persons
drowned, or who came to their death in
other ways, was 404, which is consid-
cradle increase over the previous year,
when the aggregate of fatalities was
1913 less. This increase was due to the
laundering of the steamer Portland off
the Massachusetts coast during the
great gale on the night of November "a,
1898. Every one of the 1877 persons on
board persisted.
OF the total of 404 sc fatalities were
chargeable to accidental drowning, 213
persons went down with wrecks, 10
succumbed to fires, 81 were killed in
collisions, "a were the victims of ex-
plosions or of accidental escape of
steam, and in 81 cases miscellaneous
causes were reported.
The chapter on destruction of vessel
property shows that As vessels met with
accidents, seven had fires, 10 were in
collision, eight experienced breaking
OF steam pipes, two had explosions and
IS encountered snags and wrecks or
developed leaks. AS the duty of the
supervising inspector generals office is
to ascertain whether steam vessels have
complied with all the safety require
ments in the matter of live-saving appli-
ances and relative to the condition of
boilers the report may be considered a
favorable exhibit. The destruction of
the Portland was not due to laxness on
the part of inspectors, but to the reck-
lessness of her captain, who insisted on
putting out to sea in the teeth of fierce
storm.
Except for this disaster, the loss of
life would have been comparatively
small. Only two vessels were damaged
by explosions-an excellent record con-
sidering the extent of steam water
traffic.-Baltimore Herald.
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winter in the south.

The season approaches when ones
thoughts turn toward place where the in
conveniences of Northern winter may be
escaped No section OF this country oners
such ideal spots as the Gulf Coast on the
line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
between Mobile and New Orleans. 1t pos
sesses a mild climate, pure air, even temper
AZURE and facilities for hunting and fishing
enjoyed by no other section. Accommoda-
tions for visitors are first-class; and can % Se
secured at moderate prices. The L. q n
r. K. is the only line by which It can oe
reached in through cars from N nj no;nts
in Florida by this line are also perfect
Write for folders, ETC., to Geo. b. Horner'
d. p. A., St. Louis. Mo.
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All clear and blue; but what was that
black speck away off where the prairie
was lost in the sky?
Only speck, but it came rushing on
almost with the speed of a cannon ball,
increasing in size with every instant.
Mary Emma knew what it might be
twice had the town been almost de-
stroyed by cyclone.
What, ON, what should she do with
the baby? The wits which Mary Emma
had been enjoined to keep about her
quite forsook her, as was no wonder.
She never could quite remember what
happened in the next two or three min
utes, only that rushing, roaring noise
deafened her, that the earth and the
sky seemed to come together with a
great shock.
When she came to herself she was
prone on her face under a pile of shingles
and hay-the lighter ruins of the barn
but she could help to extricate her
self; she was almost unhurt.
'Where is the baby?" said Hiram's
voice, hoarse and unnatural.
Mary Emma looked toward the house;
it was still standing. The cyclone,
which had swept the great barn away
like feather, had only brushed the
house in passing, and unroofed the little
ell.
Then Mary Emma looked toward the
well. The woodwork was gone COM
pletely; even the great sweep, that
Hiram's grandfather had made that his
wife might have something to remind
her of her New England home.
Mary Emma shuddered as she looked
toward the well.
II put her somewhere! can't tell
I hadn't time to think! 1t came just
like a FASH" she said, trembling and
sobbing.
Hiram rushed into the house and
ransacked every corner, and came out
again, with his face more dreadful than
ever in its grayish paleness.
A throng of men and women had
gathered. All had their own troubles,
ruined homesteads and harvests-the
cyclone had devastated the Pillsbury
settlement, leaving the rest of the town
untouched-but there had been no lives
lost; no one was missing except Hiram
Pillsbury's baby. What were all other
troubles compared to his?
They searched under great pile of
the heavy timbers of the barn. Poor
Towser's body lay there, stark and stiff,
but not the baby's.
Jonas Farley said there were timbers
of that barn over in Burnt river, and the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-12-30
Mrs. Pinkham's Medicine Made
a New Woman of Mrs. Kuhn.
[IErrrR TO MRS. rIskHAM NO. 64,49sl

I, LETTER TO MRS. rINxHAM NO. 64,4o7]
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM--I think it Is
my duty to write to you expressing
my sincere gratitude for the wonder
full relief have experienced by the use
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. / tried different doctors, also
different kinds of medicine. / would
feel better at times, then would be
as bad as ever.
For eight years was great suf-
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was in such misery at my monthly
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before would have to lie down. Your
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can now work all day and not get
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-MRs. E. E. KUHN, GERMANo, ONO. i
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.


He-"These weddings are a bore!
Don't you think SOP" She-'I don't
know. I've never tried one.'-Town
Topics.
Lawyer-"Do you swear the collision
raised the entire carr" Witness
'Well, it raised everything but the win
dows. Judge.
Mrs. Oatcake (reading newspaper)--
There are $4,000 Poles in Philadel-
phia." Farmer Oatcake-'Gosh! what
place to raise beans!'-Philadelph
Record.
Dismal Dawson-"Oh, well, the pore
man can't choose his lot, as the Teller
says" Everett Wrest-"No; but he
has to take lot he don't choose. In
dianapolis Journal.
City Girl pointing to a wild plant
by the wayside) whats that?" Coun-
try Cousin-"That's milkweed." City
Girl-"Oh, yes; that's what you feed
the cows on."-Ohio State Journal.
Attorney-"When did your husband
first show signs of insanity, MADAME
Wife-"The day he married me.
then discovered he was making only
ten dollars week." Philadelphia
North American.
The Real Thing.-Captaih of Football
Team-"That man Subbs is the best
tackler on the team; we discovered him
in Lonsomehurst only a week ago.
Friend (astounded)-"Why, how did he
get his training?" Captain-"Catching
trains. Freshman.
Took One.-Husband (kindly)-"My
dear, you have nothing decent to wear
have your" Wife with alacrityl-"No
indeed, haven't; not thing. I'd be
ashamed to be seen anywhere. My very
newest party dress has been worn
three times already" Husband-"Yes
that's just what l told Biffkins when
be offered me two tickets for the opera
tonight. l knew that if / took them
they'd only be wasted. So just took
one. Well, 1 must hurry."-St. An
drew's Gazette.