davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
SOME FIGURES ON THEIcEMEN
He Handles an Immense Amount oi
 Congealed Water Daily

Congealed Water Daily
 From the Philadelphia Record; How'd you like to be the leenan' Snyder. the calculating barber, was ar tiscally executing a quickstep on the razor-strop when the above little alttF fioated in from the busy thorough fare, causing a smile of contempt to fit across his features. That simply makes me weary" he remarked, as with flourish he daubed the patron $ face. "You hear that latest acqulsl- ton in the way of slang phrases re- peated by men of every station, Just as if the iceman,s lot was an earthly paradise AS matter of fact, the ln- diyidual who embarks on career which involves the marketing of con gealed moisture doesn't have to run around searching for his troubles. How many people do you suppose ever tnlnk of the amount of money that drlps right out of the iceman's hands when the sun beams down on his heavily loaded wagon? Don't amount to much, eh? We'll, you'll change your opin- ion when I bring up a few figures for your consideration Starting out with a ton of ice, I estimate that melting alone causes a dead loss of about 100 pounds to the dealer That doesn't seem much, but when you calculate that about loo wagons day right here in town lose that amount the fig ures are amazing. One hundred thou sand pounds at, say 10 cents per hum dred, runs up the tidy little sum of S100. Three hundred and sixty-fiye times $100 gives us the annual loss locally of $36.500 Takes little nerve, doesn't it, to be an iceman? Then if during the summer these drippings could be collected I figure that they'd supply all the hospitals in town with ice water baths for sunstroke patients. Frozen into a solid lump, tie entire years drippings would make cube as big as a teR-story office building. Then, again, the waste when the cakes are cut is enormous, to say nothing of what vanishes into the air when the ice is whisked clean with brush broom. But, without going into fur ther details, think you'1 agree that the man who peddles ice has enough trouble to worry him into an early grave. Tonfc?9
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
.peluRIs GIsul

p74ubIo Alou! -pIo2ae seM- p9IJ!u!Na Ql!M 93u9I9JIol -uE Aug SunuoA9Id uoqounruI uy 4ods eQ4 uo u9ql 49S 4snu s9Ino qs1M ouM esoQL .n4!s LII u!emaI 4snu qoyuM ssIe4gM snoInopd!W slI Uo 61Igo ol 4qS!I ou pau 6aql 'UeM aql 10 suB1pol -sno eql eI9M pIeoq 9Ql qSnoqlIB lBu3 pIeq dEVspIoI sGH saoupHddg Teols -dns ss9Iesn 10 uoIlo9Uoo g ol slu9luoo s@E peIIeJaId pue 'Te!IouammI auIQ moJJ l9InAII 9ql p9Gocue pgq sIauMo esoQL 'lgoId fIeguno9d LIMO I1eul do5 }! II9s ol peqsIM oqM spdBeq IeooI 9ql qolIu7 o4 IolBM Jo mn4uenb LT9u1 Jo peAlId9p ca O lo9fqo 5ug1ds eul modJ p9J We9Ils eQl Jo sIauMo ugII -eald eq4 esneoaq 6IdmIs ma sMo4 aoeJss eq@ .ioJ suonogI9u9q daq daoY oa oIrs -ep qslIInqo Aug 10 mo eInlxIu s.peI1 -GuEM 10 SuIIQloq eql 4!qIqxe lou DID so!4snf Jo lIaoO q5IH eqL .epeuomsI io deleM epos eH!I 'uondmnsuoo usIa -ioJ pue 0moq IoJ pele4ogl puB peIaloo eq ol-sepIno1 10 olloID eql LII Aug se InJIepuoM sg eaInb sIaMod snorn -oeiItu qlIM paMopus sq ol pasoddns ST qo!QM-u!eaunoJ snomgJ sql 10 IeleM sql MoIIe ol seuIoep pue 'pueIsug ul IteM s.psIJIuIM IS IeAo eoIlsnr 10 ainoO qSIH sql IsAo euIuIe suIlosloId eul uAoIql seq suI6a soIlsnf .IIv
 ps'asaoId sa oa usM s.psIs.u,m .s
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
ANOTHER DESIGN
To Complete the Historical Frieze Around
 the eapltors Rotaaaa.

the GapltoFs Rotunda.
 Washington Special New York Mail and Express.. .Ithas been the ambition of every administration to complete the historical ffieze around the big TO- tunda under the great dome Of the cap itol This fresco illustrates the history of the United States from the landing Of Columbus. It has been com pleted. except one panel or space, and as each administration has come and gone, designs have been submitted to fill that space with some event that occurred during that particular admin istration. The latest suggestion was made during 4Tr. CleyeIand's last term, when it was proposed to fill the vacant space with the scene of the opening of the Worlds Fair at Chicago. This pie ture was to represent Mir. Cleveland touching the electric button and start ing the machinery of the Columbian exposition. Designs were drawn and submitted, but the project did not quite please the congressional commit tee which has charge of the capitol. Within the last few weeks New York artist has come forward with another design to complete the historical frieze, and this time the subject is the free dom of Cuba The artist has treated the subject in an allegorical way, repre- senting President Mckinley as striking the shackles off the arms of female, supposed to represent Cuba. Some have proposed that the artist change his design, and, instead, add other fig ures, representa- Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippi g, as well as Cuba. No doubt, when ress meets the de- sign will be ST to the congress sional comre
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
sIeI0rflt $ Treseu4s.

The preser ts sent to Queen Victoria #on her eightieth birthday almost equal those of the last jubilee. The most magnificent came from Indian princes, who have of late sought every oppor= tunity of exhibiting their loyalty. These include many rich specimens of oriental and lacquer work-so many indeed, as to be almost embarrassing to the officials at Windsor.-New York Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22

When the little family circle Is brots. and we sit sadly looking upon the vacan, chair. we think of the things that perhasa we might have done to keep the loved ass s with us. Why not think of these things now before 1t is too late? Is 1t kind. oy ing and hard working mother who is giv;ns all her strength and efforts for tie fanils well being and happiaess9 Is II 2 delicate fragile sister; or a weak and a1ling wife,3 Try to give her the tender care she needs Do not let her fade away for want of ear nest effort to preserve and restore her
 All Ohio lady, Mrs. Shropshire, living in Ballon Shelby Co., in thoughtful letter 10 Dr R. Y Pierce of Buffalo, N. Y, says; My mother had an ovarian tunor which we thought would rs suit in her death, but we commenced using yopr Favorite Prescription, and before sic had taken three bottles she began to improve: shes living to-day aud 59e have given etssiiyius the credit My mother was sixty-six years el5 when the tufuor commenced to grow s1sh seventy-six now and the tuf1or $ all gone1A Ase had gotten awful large. and her limbs begN5 swell before she began to uss your rnedicine' I value 1t so much that am hardly ever out G 1t in my house.
 This is but one Of many thousands eff in. stances in which this niatchless Prescrip. ton has restored such complete health aud pufihcation to the distinctly feminine organism as to dispel every possible trace of abnormal or dangerous conditions with out resort to surgery or similar ohnoxioas methods. For every form of female weak ness and disease Ii E the supreme speciiC designed for this one purpose and no othe, by an educated skillftIl physician of ex traordinary experience in this partieula, field of practice.
 pr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure eonsti patton. At all medicine stores.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
MORE GLACIERS THAN GOLD.
Scientists Found Many Natural Wonders
 Up fn Alaska.

Up in Alaska.
 Two members of E. H. Harrimans scientific party that has been explor- ing the Alaskan coast for some months past have returned to Vancouver and bring accounts of their cruisAon the steamer Elder. which indicate thai Mr. Hartman and the scientists will return laden with many laurels. They seem to have developed a mania for glaciers, having visited and explored more than thirty some Of which were unknown, except to natives. h one bay. not shown on the maps or charts. they discovered an immense glacier not as large as the giant Muir but much more grand and picturesque. The bay extends inland more than tYentyI miles and at point near tbe glacier al sounding line of forty fathoms did not touch bottom. This inlet they named4 Unknown bay. 1t was here that the Elder maneuTering among the cakes Of ice broke from the glacier, broke ! propeller blade. making it necessary | return to Orca, where repairs we, ' made. At the head of DisenehantmenD bay they found four glaciers which had never been seen before by white men In Icy bay. twenty miles across, op- posite Carroll's glacier, the party dis covered new glacier with front of three-fourths Of a mile. Thist was named Harginan's $ glacier 0bferga- tions taken in the vicinity of Grand Pacific glacier showed that it's ice wall had reeeded three miles during the 20 years that have elapsed since Muir and Reed visited the place and established their survey. The different scientists are having gratifying success in all lines. The botanists have found sew eral new plant species and a collection Of marine species made by the party 1t is said, will be superior to any other in existence. 0rnithologists have had phenomenal success and are able to show new bird specimens.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
QUEER NAMES OF SOME FLATS Do They Affect the Characters of Those
 Who Dwell Within9


 GAS for me-" ventured the man with the wooden head, T can't indorse your views. You lay claim that our apart ment-house-our fiat-nomenclature, as given expression in Chicago, is too airy, too exalted, too fanciful. On the contrary it is not the one nor the other nor the last of these. You say: Here; a man lives in the Santa Maria. | He comes home with a Saturday night tolerance of feeling for all men. He is willing to sleep on the grass in the in Ier court. He is even ready to indorse the views of the janitor-to carry the white mans burden for the off-scour- ing of our social system. Then, you say, into what unhappy contempt does he bring name conveying such ten- l derness as does Santa Maria? My con- tention is that is all wrong with the decency of the man and all right with the name of the apartment building. The Abbotsford, you say. Great Scott! can a man live up to that? Can he dwell always upon the pinnacles of romance while stufing cheese and beer in little back room? Can he live up to the idea of dwelling in the compan- ionship of fatted knights, who rescue distressed maidens when at his daily business he has to haggle over the sale price of a pair of pants and to figure with the girl who brings him his lunch upon the relative merits of corned beef hash and chicken wing puree with rice" While you are right in part you are wrong in most. All of Us admit that the sentimental atmosphere sur rounding man makes for much in his daily conduct. I say that it makes for everything. If live in the Wash lngton' don't you perceive I am going to be higher, decenter, cleaner. more devoted citizen than I would be if I lived in the Aaron Burr?' There is a standard set for me; if am half hon est to my environment I must try to attain it. Don't you suppose that a resident of the John B. Cough flats will pay more taxes in the end than the dweller in 'Bacchante' apartments? Wouldn't your chest expansion be greater on the twelfth floor of the sMastodon' than in the parler suite of the Little Jennie?' Some names, of course, are il chosen and comparative ly meaningless. I do not myself like to see a twenty-foot front. story-and- a-half bit Of brick and mortar called the Pantheon nor nest amid 3 world of downtown stories called the Plaza del Mesa del Virginia but, gen. orally speaking, there is a good deal in a name, in fiat name, Shakes peare notwithstanding.
 Now would you prefer to live in the Otis or the sAguinaldo?' asked one of the carpers. Lest I incriminate myself" said the original speaker. T decline to answer. Come up with me to the House of David and I will see what can be done to remove this dust" Chicago Chronicle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
Remarkable Escape from Death.

D. ". Krider of Wharton, Ohio, a member of the Third regular artillery, who was shot twenty-six times in tpq Filipino outbreak in February, and who received the most terrible wounds in the Manila campaign, still survives. He was shot at 1.30 o'clock in the aft ernoon. and because he was thought to have been killed, was not treated by the surgeon until g o'clock that night
 His escape from death on the field fs one of the most remarkable on record.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
CHINESE HISTORY IS ANCIENT.
Dates Back to the Time When Ninevel
 Was Great Metropolis.

Dates Back to the Time When Nineveh
 Was Great Metropolis.
 The authentic history and biography of China is doubtless the oldest in the world, even antedating that of the Jews. Those familiar with it's chro- nology state that it embraces a period from the year 122 of our era back to the remote period of 2,697 years before Christ The historians of China em- brace a succession of uninterrupted series of more than 2,400 years. The full and continuous history of the en- pfre was compiled in the second cen tury of our era. The great libraries of Pekin contain volumes of books numbered by the hundreds of thou sands Tn the archives of the govern ment are still to be found the ancient predictions of eclipses made with great accuracy, together with works on as= tronomy which show a fair knowledge of that interesting science. Biogra- phies, very suecinctly written, of the emperors of the most ancient dynas- ties still e st, and written wofkS CT learned men are as voIuminous as those of European nations. And all this learning and love of learning has been acquired without help or sugges- ton from any foreign people. If their authentic histories reach back nearly five centuries ago, mythical history reaches still further back into the very night of time. When Nineyeh and Babylon were in the splendor of their might men in China were pre- dieting eclipses, making catalogues and giving names to the stars. But Nineveh and Babylon were mere mounds of earth and rubbish when China was great, and to this date the civilization and life of the empire are the wonder of the world
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22

No man can work well with a tor pid liver or eoustipated bowels. 4 few doses of Prickly Ash Bitters will quickly remove this condition and make work pleasure. Sold bg Walker D ng Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
 Itt,,trn Gpenrd O.ii.

Greek and Roman doors invariably opened outward. A person passing out of the house was therefore obliged to knock on the door before opening it, to avoid collision with a passer-by
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
c A. 9 T Q R z "A. Bears the <s The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature af etzH2zzza<
T. Measure Devotion.

The measure of a woman's devotion is the extent to which she will make herself uncomfortable for you; the measure of a mans is tie effort he will make to have you as comfortable as he proposes to be himself
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
 An frrecUrIcv xroHlI.

h a western city an ingenious elec- trician has sent ont a machine which he calls an "electric goat, to carry away the sticks. paper and debris which gather in the city's streeta This is done by arms which reach out and take up whatever comes within their grasn.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22

Insure your health in PrickIy Ash Bltters. It regulates the system, promotes good appetite, sound sleep and cheerful spirits. soldby Walker Drng Co.,.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
No sunstrokes There.

No matter how hot f is on the deg 4erts of Arizona and Southern CaIifor- nia-and sometimes the thermometer goes up to no and 20 in the shade you never hear of 8 sunstroke.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22

KEEP your blood pure and your
 N stomach and digestive organs in 8 healthy condition by taking Hoods
 Sarsaparilla and you will be WELL.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22

Bloating after eating. indigestion, iiatulence or water brash. may be quickly corrected through the use of Prickly Ash Bltters. It strengthens digestion. eleauses and regulates the bowels Sold hv Walker Drug Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
 " ell Tnforme ed.

Teacher-"Johnny, can you name the chief product of the Philippine is- 1ands?" Johnny-"Yes'm Trouble. ]" Life
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
\ Reauetion@

She-"You are too corpulent. I'd marry you if you were reduced. He Do you take me for bargain-coun- Ser artiele?"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22

Room for 1oo,ooo,ooo Souls. Australia is capable of supporting at least 100, 1000, ,000 inhabitants.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22
The Proverb Applied.

Indignant Citizen-oh, yes, you ar- rest few newsboys for shooting craps for pennies, but you let the big gam blers go unharmed-I almost said un- touched. City Oficial-Have you never heard of the proverb about taking care Of the pennies and letting the dollars take care of themselves s?-Indianapolis Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-22

     
                                                      
   
 Z .
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-07
more in taxes should be paid there

on.
According to q recent map prepared
by Magcffin his reservation and add1-
ton contain 237 lots.
The lots on the opposite side OF the
street are assessed at 1856 each on an
average. Magofin's lots are one third
larger in size than these. AS they
now stand they are assessed at S92
each. At that rate his lots, the size OF
those across the street pay taxes on
valuation of $50 each.
The rate of city taxation is S1.oO on
the hundred. Magoffin pays on each
of his lots S1.08, while his neighbors
pay 1926.
The names of the owners OF the realty
across the street, and the assessed val
uation of the property of each, follow:
J. G. Farnham, 5 lots assessed at 81, :
Waters Davis, 6 at 81 900.
James Allen, IL at 81 $50.
w. S. McCutcheon at 5000.
E. E. Weiche, 2 at $500.
A. w. Wells, at $3.50.
Making an average of S166 and some
odd cents as the assessed valuation OF
each lot.
From the foregoing it will be readily
seen that Magoffin is paying far less
than half the amount of taxes on his
property that his neighbors across the
street are compelled to pay and yet his
second fiddle organ sees cause in this
to congratulate the community.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-07
Texas q Pacific Excursions.

Ell Paso to Dallas: Account
Annual Session of Woman's Home
Missionary Society, M. E. church
south, commencing April 10Th. One
and one third fare for the round trip
Certificate plan. Tickets on sale
April 10th, to 10Th, inclusive; good to
return April 22nd.
Ell Paso to Temple, Texas:
Account meeting of the Dau ghters of
the republic on April Goth. and 21st
One and one third fare for the round
trip. Certificate plan. Tickets on sale
April 10Th. and Goth. Final Limit
April Oath.
Ell Paso to San Antonio: Account
Convention on April
11th. to 18th. S17.55 for the round
trip. Tickets on sale April Sth to
1lth., inclusive; good to return April
10th.
B. f. DARBYSHIRE,
S. w. f. & P. A., III Ell Psso ST.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-07
A QoliCeman'S Duty.

In regard to an article which appear
ed in yesterday mornings Times, Mr..
and Mrs. George v. Long, with whom
MIR. and Mrs. Williams had rooms at
the time the former was taken sick,
called at the HERALD Office and stated
that when they asked at the Times Of
fee for the authority of the article
they were told that acting policeman
Australian Billy Smith, one of Magof-
fms police force, was their authority.
Mr.. and Mrs. Long state that after
Mr.. Williams WAS removed to the
smallpox hospital DR.. Race told them
of house between Ell Paso and Oregon
streets, which had been used for tenn
porarily housing persons who had been
exposed to smallpox. Mr.. Long took
Mrs. Williams and the children to this
place and paid the rent for time.
They had no room vacant at the house
and no pls ace to take care of Mrs. Will
liams and the children at their house,
while the fumigatine WAS going OF
nor did they care to run the risk of
having the disease spread fart1er.
They were not, however, turned out in
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-07
Thin, Pale, Delicate

People get vigorous anG
increase in weight by max
ing trip to Colo~ado-"The Human
Repair Shop of America" The change
in climate, freedom from care, educa
tional surroundings, complete the
change in the human body.
THE DENVER ROAD
provides homelike comforts for it's
passengers. Luxuriant solid trains,
Fort Worth to Denver daily. Pullman
Buffet Sleepers give you that buoy ant
feeling of ease, and charms
those who want luxury, comfort and
recreation. The ride makes q new
man of you, full of energy, new
thoughts, aud higher ideals The
Texas Colorado Chautauqua, at Beau
'iful Boulder" provides the highest
class educational sessions, opening
July 4th, 1899 and continuing six weeks,
Ask for free illustrated literature,
d. B. KELLER, Traffic
Manager, Fit. Worth & Denver CITY
Sy. Fort Worth. Texas.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-07
No Right To UglinesS.

The woman who Is lovely in face,
form and temper will always have
friends, but one who would be attrac.
tive must keep her health. If she is
weak, sickly and all run down, she will
be nervous and irritable. If SIZE has
constipation or kidney trouble, her i'm
pure tloCd will cause pimples. blotch-
es, skin eruptions and wretched COM
plexion. Electric Bitters is the best
medicine in the world to regulate
stomach, liver and kidneys and to puri-
fly the blood. 1t gives strong nerves,
bright eyes, smooth. velvety skin, rich
complexion. 1t will make good
looking, charming woman of a run
down invalid. Only so cents at Irwin
& Co, Drug Store.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-07

returned to Office that he was pay
ing 81 ,128 and some odd cents annually
as taxes on real estate which he holds
in various portions of the city.
Many persons who had never taken
the trouble to investigate the tax rolls
were surprised that the mayors pro-
perty was assessed SO low. Many per-
sons who have bought lots in Magof-
fms orchard, paying three or four
hundred dollars therefor, were surprls-
ed to learn that the mayor had got the
same lots assessed at valuation not
above 800 and pays less than half the
amount of taxes which his neigh bors
pay for property rot more valuable.
The same organ which applauded
the mayor for getting his property as
sessed at half its value also stated that
the Office only paid the incumbent $50
salary per month.
This statement was in line with
many similar assertions it has made re-
Gently and just as far from the truth.
The Office pays S75 per month, which 1s
the same amount earned by John o.
Keeffe at present and found by him
sufficient to support his family.
The insinuation that O'Keeffe would
steal enough out of the public funds to
support himself was based on the false
assertion that the Office would only pay
him $50 each month and that he would
be com PEELED to resort to jobbery of all
kinds in order to live comfortably.
O,Keeffe does not drink or gamble
and it does not require fortune to
meet his every day requirements. He
belongs to the middle class and Is not
q bond holder or banker.
Msgoffin's addition and reservation,
on which he pays taxes, are assessed at
$4,000. 1t contains Is acres all told.
to q reasonable estimate
this property should be assessed at
$1,000 and nearly thousand dollars