davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-19
THE END.
MASCULINE ATTIRE.

There is one sensible thing which the
Russian does from Riga on the gulf Of
Livonia to Petropauloski on the north
ern Pacific, and that is to tuck his
trouser into long boot and allow it to
bag a little at the knee. Treated thus,
the trouser loses half it's terrors from
the aesthetic point of view and is in a
twinkle transformed into dashing and
becoming garment. To my mind the
dress of the Russian workman or peas
ant is almost ideal, both from the stand
point of beauty and utility. A tunic OF
vivid shade Of red, belted at the waist,
stout, high boots to the knee, into which
the loose breeches are thrust, and a
round cap of cloth or fur make Of the
moujik most attractive figure. The
dress, indeed, approaches more nearly
the idea of a loose military uniform
than that of any other European peas
ant, and we all know how becoming is
q uniform to man-especially in the
eyes of womankind.
But if am personally incredulous OF
ever beholding row Of burgesses going
cityward in an omnibus with their
trousers bagging over Wellington boots
I would implore my countrymen not to
adopt one of the reforms" which Ouida
dvocates-namely, the workingman' s
blouse. Made in velvet, belted and but
toned with silver, it is garment which
she would like to see OH the shoulders
of our brothers and husbands. do not
think that many Of us will share that
desire. The French artisan, with his
blue blouse and loose trousers, may be
attired correctly from workaday stand.
point but it can never be said that be
looks alluring. DR.. George Birkbeck
Hill, in his recently published "Rossetti
Letters" puts it on record that the late
William Morris, in his youthful days,
FUSED frequently to lunch at Faulkner
house in Queens square, coming in the
French blouse in which he worked from
the business place of the frm-'the
shop, as they called it-close by. Faulk-
ner told me that the servant thought
he was butcher, whom her master. for
some unaccountable reason, had to
lunch. ELLA Hepworth Dixon.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-19
AMERICANS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
The Volunteer Soldiery Has Met With Grea
Hardships.

Advices received by the transport
Newport, dated Manila, June II, are
as follows: The volunteers are great.
ly debilitated in consequence of their
hard campaigning through three
months of the tropic weather. Since
the middle of May no volunteer regi.
ment has had a sick list of less than
20 per cent. ill and few regiments
have less than one-third of their mum.
Der on duty. The Nebraska regiment
has suffered worst. 1t came in from
San Fernando few days ago with less
than 200 men in the ranks. The South
Dakota followed yesterday with 275
men on duty. The Montana and Kan
sas regiments at San Fernando have
not more than 2S0 available men each
The morning after the Washington
troops took Morong week ago only
1853 men responded to roll call. The
Washington men have been engaged
since March - in preventing the in
surgent armies of the north and south
from forming a junction in the region
of Laguna de Bay, often being en-
gagged at the same time with the enc
my in opposite directions.
Twenty -four of the Nebraska otfi
GERS are on the sick list and the Mon.
tana, Kansas, Washington and South
Dako ota regiments show 20 or more
officers in the hospitals or sick in their
quarters. These regiments have borne
the brunt of the fighting. Their losses
in killed and wounded range from l6C
in the Montana to $50 Nebraska men,
The loss of the Kansas regiment is sec'
ond to that of Nebraska men, while
the Washington and South Dakota
re iments follow closely, each with
losses of about 200. The Oregon reg.
iment has also suffered severely.
Of the regulars the Third artillery
is the heaviest loser, its killed and
wounded number 1913.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-19
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
Notable Decrease In the Latter For the
Year Just Ended.


A statement of the imports and ex-
ports of the United States shows that
for the year The total imports of mer-
chandise amounted to $697, OF 1888, of
which over $500, 100000 was free of
duty. For the year the exports of do
mcstlc merchandise amounted to ST.
227 ,433 1926, which is decrease from
last year of s4,OSS,905. For the year
the imports of gold amounted to $685.
954 ,6O3 and the exports to $27 ,522, ,0S6.
The chief reduction in the value Of
exports during the year is in grain, of
which the supply abroad in 1898 was
unusual, causing high prices as well as
a greater demand for the products of
the grain fields of the United States,
the average price per bushel of wheat
exported in the fiscal year, 1898, being
98. 80 cents, against an average of TAFT
cents in the fiscal year just ended.
The reduction in expectations Of grain
is chiefly in price, the quantity of
wheat exported being but about lO,-
100000 bushels less than that of last
year. Indeed the reduction in wheat
exports is more than offset by the in
creased exports of flour, of which the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-19

He poured out q turnblertut u aotre.
me, however, for while / was imprison.
ed my poor mother had died-of grip. I
was told Mercedes had disappeared /;
not even Homobono had been able to
find her. did not give up all hope Of
finding her until a month later, but
then l learned it was all oversize had
died. and insane. "
Eraclio stopped short, but his face
expressed more than any word could
have done. 1t revealed such capacity for
suffering that turned away. To watch
his face seemed an impertinence.
He lighted another cigar presently
and said:
"Senor, | was alone in the world.
poor, dishonored, without ties or obliga-
tions of any kind, and l burned to re.
venge myself. and took for my motto,
AN eye for an eye and tooth for q
tooth.
"There was my weakness, senor. A
greater man would even then have for
gotten personal wrongs and remembered
only nobler purposes, but prison life ex.
erts the most demoralizing influence.
A good man may come out of it as a
good man still, but his goodness is no
longer power 1t is merely latent,
useless quality, not to say weakness.
Even that is the exception rather than
the rule. A strong man usually becomes
bad man, and bad man grows worse
So it was with me. My vitality, my en-
ergy and strength were neither broken
nor impaired, but with only bad influ-
ences around me | became a leader of
bad men. Revenge wa my only
thought, my only dream, my aim and
purpose in life In that prison l Iplanned
my subsequent career and formed the
nucleus of my present band of brigands
"You may have heard of our escape?
1t was dynamite-horrible bloody
that the people realized that family
of human tigers had broken loose, and
that the public safety was endangered.
Still, senor. it was some time before l
began my work of revenge, for did not
feel could rely OH my men in an emer-
gency. AS for myself, was lacking in
coolness, nerve and the practice of
cruelty, which l knew I should need i'll
the future. So for two years | did no
more than rob coaches, raid ranch or
two and fight the soldiers sent out
against US by my former chief. He was
no longer governor when he heard OF
my escape, and knowing that he had a
dangerous foe in me he fled to the cap
ital. When l was ready-not so very
long since-I raided and destroyed his
ranches one after another and in such
quick succession that there was no time
to prepare defenses. killed his men,
drove off his cattle, burned his haci-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-19

exports of 1899 are about 100000
barrels in excess of those of last year,
this increase more than equaling the
reduction in the quantity of wheat ex-
ported. Corn shows a considerable re-
duction in quantity of exports, the
number of bushels for 1899 being about
34, ,OOO,OOO below that of 1898, when
our corn exports were abnormally
large because of the shortage in other
breadstufs abroad.
There has also been a reduction OF
about s2O,OOO,OOO in value of the ex.
ports of cotton, also due largely to the
reduction in price, the average price
per pound of cotton exported in 1898
being 5.9S cents and in 1899 5.55 cents.
The decrease in value of exports OF
breadstufs and cotton is thus nearly
made up by the increased exports OF
manufactured articles which seem like
ly to amount to 1885, 100000 in the
fiscal year 1899, as against 1920, ,697,-
354 in 1898, all increase of about $45,
100000.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-19

alive, and sometimes feel that the best
thing could do would be to shoot my
self in the house Of some poor devil
who needs the money. ] will tell you
how became an outlaw-I have given
you the beginning and end of my story,
but good deal lies between.
"When l came home from Europe, l
applied for a government position, and
was appointed private secretary to the
governor. He was an able man, but
bad-totally unscrupulous-the kind OF
man l might have become if had re-
NAMED at home. He recognized the ad-
vantages of his Office, but not the obll-
cations. He was ostensibly apathetic-
really one of the most violent men l
ever met, as cruel and vindictive a vii
lain as could be found in Mexico. 1t
was our Joint misfortune to fall in love
with the same woman-Mercedes, the
daughter of old Homobono Paral.
"'You are married, I said to him
half joking, one day, and am not. l
have the right on my sideP
"'But might is on mine. he answer
ed, smiling good paturedly, and you
know that in this country might is
right.
"'But it is not lovep I retorted. I
have my right and her love too. So
your might will not help you much in
this case'-fool that l was!
81 remember the quick start that he
gave, and his sarcastic emphasis as he
said very quietly:
"'Ah, Soils, you Mercedes lover. :
Then, suddenly changing the converse.
tion be asked for certain papers and
gave me instructions as to what answers
I should send. Then be left the room.
After he had gone sat down to write,
but our conversation had made too deep
an impression. l began to fear the con-
sequences. wanted to tell Mercedes
herself, so l threw the papers into my
desk, saddled horse and rode of to
Paral's ranch. 1t was not a long ride,
but before it was in sight suddenly my
horse was tripped. Twas bound, gagged,
and that night l was carried to an out
lying prison, where l passed the next
eight months was not inscribed in
my own name, so it will hence be un-
known officially that Eraolio Soils lived
behind bars-a remote satisfaction, to
be sure. 1t was not until long after my
kidnapping that my jailer told me I was
accused of robbing the state treasury
and the governors private safe. My
whereabouts were unknown, but it was
supposed that l had left the country
with the money. Finally / was tried in
secret session of the court. OF course l
was found guilty, and as was sem
fenced by default my mothers estates
were confscated to repay the governor
first and the state afterward out Of what
was left. 1t all mattered very little to
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-19
The CHESTER REUNION.
General C. /. Walker Issues an Important
Circular.

Regarding the Chester reunion,
United Confederate veterans, Com
mander G. I. Walker, of the state d.
vision, on Thursday issued the follow
ing circular:
"At the request of our host, the
good citizens of Chester, each camp
will advise Captain J. w. Reed, chair
man of committee on information,
Chester, S. c., how many delegates
and others will attend the Chester re-
union July 26, and if possible, the
names of those who propose attend
ing. The people of Chester desire to
make every guest comfortable, and it
will materially help them to secure the
above information in advance, and
conduce to the great comfort of visi-
tors.
"Commanders will notify their spon-
sors and maids of honor to report to
the Rev. D. N. MCLAUGHLIN, at the ar
mory, city hall building, Wednesday,
July 26, at IL M, when full informa-
ton as to their movements, and any
Information for their convenience and
comfort, will be given.
"Commander ]. w. Reed, Walker
CASTOR Camp, Chester, S. c., is ap-
pointed chief marshal for the parade,
July 81, and will make all the arrange
ments therefor"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-19
The SIXTH PLAGUE Of EGYPT.

DIR. Sidney l.. Iheard, sanitary OIL
Ger of the New Orleans board of health,
has made study of charbon, the dis
ease which has killed so many mules,
horses and cattle in Louisiana and
southern Mississippi during the spring
just passed, and which still prevails to
an alarming extent. He has reached
the conclusion that the inoculation
with the serum of an immunized ami
NAL is an absolute safeguard against
the disease. He also states that all
parts of the bodies of animals that
have died of charbon are actually poi
sonous, and says cremation of the
bodies is imperative.
Great care must be exercised in
handling animals suffering from the
disease, as there are a number of in
stances of human beings contracting it
in that way. Only the other day a
man died of the poison in Charity hos
pital in New Orleans, and several 9TH
ers similarly afflicted have been sue
cessfully treated there this season.
Nor is the disease confined to the
south. 1t has made its appearance
near Chicago within the last two
months, and reports say it is preva'
lent among the cattle in parts of Iowa
and Wisconsin and in central Illinois.
Charbon has been known under va
rious names from the earliest ages, and
one authority declares that it was the
sixth plague sent upon Egypt as a
punishment for the obstinacy of Pha.
roh in holding the children of Israel in
bondage after he had been command
ed by God to let them 60. 1t is de-
scribed by Homer in the first book Of
the Had, and Ovid gives minute de-
scription of it in the ninth book of
his metamorphosis.
The majority of cases of charbon are
of miasmatic origin that is, the spores
of charbon exist in the soil. The
transmission from soil to animal may
occur by cutaneous inoculation, and
in few hours the germs have multi
piled so rapidly as to throw the afflict-
ed animal into violent fever. 1t be-
gins as a small, dark spot on which
soon appears a pustule or vesicle. 1t
sloughs and spreads rapidly, causing
violent fever and speedy death.
The ravages of the disease in Lou
isiaua especially have been very disas-
trous. Large plantations have been
stripped of every horse and mule
within day or two, and the profits of
years swept away, while small farmers
have been ruined Memphis Evening
Scimetar.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-19
any further attention to the lieutenant.

any further atCentlou 10 Ine lieutenant
he spoke to them.
Friends, he said gently, yet firm
ly, "the time has come, and am more
glad than sorry Perhaps more glad
than any man here Try henceforth to
remember whatever good 1 have done
you and to forget the harm. You are
all sons Of Mexico, and | charge you.
let that be ever uppermost in your
thoughts. Because forgot the duty ev.
cry man owes to his flag, l stand before
YOU now an enemy of my country.
which no man ever loved more than l.
Many of you are my friends, yet l am
your common enemy. The good Of the
country requires that l should die. So
let it be here, at once and at your
hands. do not yield. | command.
Salazar, and you, the five next, step for
wardl Are you ready? Good Now,
when l drop my arm aim low and
steady. This is my last request. "
Eraclio locked up at the pale, hard
sky overhead and across the ragged line
Of cactus brush, so typical Of his coun'
try. Above in the ovenlike dome buz.
zard, the eagle Of Mexico, arched slowly
round and round He followed it with
his eyes, until it alighted on tuna
near by. Beyond the sierra, purple and
blue and white, crowned the horizon,
and while he gazed with faraway look
over their heads the men leaned on their
carbines and waited.
Then the outlaw raised his hat and
the locks clicked-a moment later the
simultaneous bark of the elk oarbines
crashed through the silence. Eraclio
fell. Salazar alone had understood. The
other five with mistaken generosity had
shot wild.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-19
DEFENDS THE TRUSTS.
Pierre Lorillard Says "Drummers" Must
Look Out For Themselves.
Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore Sun.
Mr.. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., has writ
ten a letter defending manufacturing
trusts, in which he says:
"The consolidation of rival manu-
featuring firms in large companies,
wrongly called trusts, has been caused
by the severe competition of the last
few years, which has rendered manu-
featuring Improbable, has effected a
reduction in wages and led to the en-
ployment of an army of drummers and
advertising agents and the payment of
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-17
NEW TRUSTS.

TRENTON On. j May 3.-ArticIes
of incorporation of the Republic Iron
and Steel Company We're fled with the
Secretary of State to-day. The COM
pany has an authorized capital stock
of S55, eco, 900.
A charter was granted by the Secre-
tary of State TO the American Hide and
Leather Company, with an authorized
capital of $4,000, coo.
The Ma ional Light and Power Com
pany of Jersey City, with a capital of
So, 900 900, was also incorporated here
to-day.
CHICAGO, May Representatives
of the twenty-five leading plow ma
nufacturing concerns in the United
States are assembling in Chicago TO
await the result of their committee S
action in New York. If all goes as is
planned the American Plow Company
with capital of $4,000, 900, will take
it's place among the giant combines of
the country.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-17
PHONOGRAPH FOR A KING.

Menelek, King of Abyssinia, has a
photograph. It came to him with a
message from Queen Victoria, and the
King was as pleased as a baby with
new rattle. He had the Queens
message ground out about forty-two
times, listening first with the ear tubes
and then receiving it in the blast from
the big brass trumpet. After he had
heard it over and over again he re-
1apsed into a solemn silence for a
while, then ordered "a royal salute to
be fired, and remained standing res
pectfully during the booming of the
seventeen guns. After the King had
listened until satisfied he sent the
photograph in to his wife's part of the
palace so that she might hear the won
derful thing. 1t was a great day in
AbysSinia.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-17
WERE IN ERROR
Volunteer Surgeons and
Their Fever Guesses.
Treated Typhoid as Malaria, etc - Comment
: of One of the Board of
Investigation.

WASHINGTON.-The session Of the
Association of American Physicians at
the Arlington was marked by an i'm
portant paper on typhoid in the yOlun-
teer camps by DR.. V. c. Vaughn, one
of the board of surgeons appointed by
Surgeon-GeneTal Sternberg last sum-
mer to look into the matter when the
epidemic Of typhoid was prevalent in
the various army camps. The Board
made a very thorough study OF the sub
ject and it's report has been looked for
ward 10 as an authoritative work. The
report is not yet completed, but DR..
Vaughn's paper was in the nature of
an advance statement, with the sane
ton of General Sternberg, who was
present at the meeting.
DR.. Vaughn's paper was a severe ar
raignment of the volunteer surgeons
and incidentally of the officers who
were responsible for the policing of the
great camps at Jacksonville, Chicka-
manga, Camp Alger and Montauk
Point. The Board visited all these
points ana IOunu IHdC HOL Only was
there a great deal more typhoid than
was at first supposed, but that the sur
geonS. mostly of the volunteer class,
were, from ignorance or other motives,
treating and reporting typhoid under
the names of persistent malaria
indigestion. gastric fever and
"typho-malaria.'
Blood examination of many of the
malaria patients failed to show the
presence of malaria bacillus, but there
was every indication of well-marked
typhoid The patients were being treat
ed with quinine, and naturally either
died or had to be sent to city hospitals,
where their disease was properly dag
nosed.
The Board made an extra careful ex-
animation of the water supply of the
various camps, and found that the
prevalence of typhoid could not be laid
to impure water in any large degree.
The explanation, DR.. Vaughn said, was
in the disgustingly filthy condition of
the camps, where the eXcreta OF ty-
phoid patients was strewn broadcast,
with no apparent effort either to steri-
lie it or collect it, so as to prevent 1t
spreading contagiOn to the remainder
of the camp.
DR.. George Dock of the University of
Michigan said that most of the volun-
teer medical officers went to camp with
the expectation of fighting no end OF
malaria In one regiment each man
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-17

was provided with 300 grains of qui-
nine and a three-ounce bottle of pare
goric. The great bulk OF supposed ma
larial cases were not malarial affec-
lions at all, but many of the doctors.
regardless of this, dosed their patients
with thirty 10 forty grains Of quinine
each daV.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-17
FEEDS BOTH
NERVE AND BRAIN
y PICK-ME-UP.
y RESTORATIVE
~ LIFE-PRESERNE Err
Those are three good things which
NAV be found in q bottle of
MINERVA TONIC

This. a phosphorised iron syrup,
containing certain rare reStorativeS of
acknowledged excellence, will, in the
prescribed doses, restore wasted en-
ergy, promote sleep, quicken the ap-
petite, build bone and sinew, make
good, healthy blood, and give a tone
to the whole system.
VERY REV. DIR. O'HARAN, P. s., to
the Cardinal of Sydney.
MR.. HART, F. r. NJ. s., Lecturer,
Bendigo School of Music.
MIR. G.. D. CLARK, Grand Lodge of
Good Templars, Sydney.
MIR. STUTCHBURY, Senior Clerk H.
NJ. Customs, Newcastle,
and thousands of others, pronounce
Minerva a good tonic, and sure in the
results that are claimed for it.
New-York tribune., 1899-01-11
WAR or 1872 DINNER.

The annual mess dinner CT the Veteran Corps OF
Artillery. better known as the Society OF the War
OF 1872 was held last night at Delmonicos. At the
table Of honor with the president and commandant.
the Rev. Or. Morgan Dix were Major-General Roe.
n c. n. Y: Adjutsnt- General Andrews, J. Lind
say Gordon. Captain Jacob W. Miller. OF the Naval
Militia: j. Rufus Tryon. A. w s. Cochrane. How
ard Willis and Colonel c.. ID. Leith Of Scotland.
The members present included the vlce-presdent
and vice.commander. Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner.
Secretary and Adjutant Henry Chauncey, tr.;
Treasurer and Quartermaster c. a. Schermerhorn.
Fordham Morris Commissary Morris Patterson
Ferris Chaplain Frank L. Humphreys. Assistant
Secretary and Paymaster Charles lsham. eX-Mayor
Smith Ely Donald Mclean George Norman Gardi:
ner Rowland Pe, Andrew c. Zabrlskie and Paul
G.. Thebaud.
American flags only were used for decorations
and In the centre OF the room were two stacks or
rifles captured from the Spaniards on San Juan
Hill. -
DR.. Dix opened the speechmak!ng with an inter
esting sketch OF the society's record ana paid Il
high tribute TO tho twelve members OF the corps
who Tough, In the war with Spain. Among them
was CAPTAIN Beebe who was stricken with yellow
fever soon after his appointment to the American
Evacuaton Commission at Havana.
General Roe spoke for The United states or
America" and Adjutant-General Andrews ior ne
Governor OF the State OF New-fork, me other
speakers ard their toasts were: j. Lindsay boruoh.
THE Army OF the United States Gallant ana hon non
ored Defenders OF our County captain M,.et
..Our Navy Whose Brilliant Achievements I'm,
blazon n Page in our countrys Hlslory -, oio"c'
Gardiner The Independent Veteran corps.