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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03

heavy swell. About 1 o'clock we were
Oh the quarter deck discussing the trip,
when the second officer rushed to Cap
tain Sherlock on the bridge, and then
both came hurrying back to where we
were sitting.
BEG pardon, SIR" said the captain in
a low voice. second officer reports a
wreck on the starboard quarter
"How far off?' / exclaimed, rushing
for the bridge, followed by my party.
"About u miles, sir, l should judge"
he answered.
| focused my glasses on her. 1t was
a wreck, sure enough.
> Giving orders to the engineer to turn
her up as rapidly as possible, we sped
away for the wreck, ali expectancy. AS
we approached we could make out the
hull of n dismantled brig.
"Peoplc on deck.!" we cried as we
came close enough to make them out
men, a woman, a baby in her arms
nine in all!
The Sycamore was going as she never
had one before, slipping through the
water like a knife, but to us and them
it must have seemed hears.
The swell was running high from the
storm. Now we could see her, and
again she disappeared from view and we
feared she had gone down at the last
moment with the rescuers in sight.
What | said or did l don't know. I re-
member | was smoking a freshly lighted
cigar when Swanson sighted the wreck.
Where that cigar went to is more than
l can tell. Straining hard against the
rail we tried to urge the Sycamore on by
the weight of our bodies and wished to
God we had power to make her fly.
We came within a quarter of a mile.
We could see the seams in her hull as
she heeled TO the pounding waves. She
lay on her side, her masts gone, her rig
ging trailing over the rail like seaweed
i'll a tideway.
We could see through the glass their
haggard faces, the deep lines cut by
suffering and despair, the flame of hope
in their sunken eyes. The boat was
lowered and they were all safely taken
off as we swung leeward of the wreck.
Have you ever seen a woman on her
knees weeping for joy? 1t is something
no man can forget. Brave Mrs. Gordon,
for nine days of horror and nine nights
of anguish, had never lost her self con-
troll.
"God has not forgotten us. He will
not let us die" she kept saying to her
little 4-year-old girl. "God will save
u.s." So she kept the child alive, in
cold and storm and hunger, and was a
lesson and a model for all the crew.
The little girl was the first to come
over the side-IIelen Sylvia Gordon, the
pretty daughter of the captain Her face
was matted with hair stained with tears,
her little pink dress sopping wet. | took
the child in my arms. She buried her
head in my neck and sobbed and sobbed.
l never knew what it was to weep, but
tears stfeamed down my cheeks, and
couldn't stop them.
Then came Mrs. Gordon. When she
reached the deck, she fell on her knees.
All she could say was: God has an
swered my prayer, God has answered
my ~prayer!," repeating it over and over
and over again.
And then the little girl looked up at
me with wide open baby eyes and asked,
Mamma, is this God?"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03

buke the arm which encircled her waist.
move, so tightly did the brawny arm
press her frail form IN restraint.
AS for Tiburcio, he certainly did not
wayer for q moment at Cruz's words,
and he glanced with visible apprehension
at the pinto gelding paving the earth
just outside the garden gate. There was
sense in the girls warning. He gave q
quick glance at her and then at the old
woman blissfully ~slumbering ten steps
away. From these two poweriess pro-
tectors his gaze returned to the passive
form in his arms; thence it swept to the
pinto gelding champing its bit under tbs
palm tree by the gate.
Caramba, would it be possible?
Why not? They were on his trail.
Very we'll. he would give them some.
thing to chase him for. Cruz swooned
away in the old donna's lap at what hap
pened In the next few seconds. She saw
the terrible Palma gather the light form
from the ground, fly with 1t across the
garden and through the gate and lift it
to the horses neck as he himself sprang
into the saddle, And the last of the aw-
fui picture to stamp itself upon her mind
was Tiburcio's evil face smiling back
over his shoulder and laughing and curs-
ing defiance to the whole Castenada fam
lily, Don Emilio, the boys and all, willis
the pinto gelding, with the precions Tonia
across its neck. tore out upon the road
and started furionsly for the mountains
Cruz's shrek as she fell reused old
Donna Maxima. She was just in time
to see the pinto gelding and its load dis
appear up the hne. Ii she was slow to
awake, she was quick to grasp q situa-
ton when it fell upon her. The fate OF
Tonia she took In at a gasp. Calling
loudly to the servants inside the house.
she rose like a giantess to the rescue.
Cruz was turned over to a maid, and
the task Of reaching Don Emilio with a
message was intrusted to a second. The
old don was two miles away, but the girl
got a pon out OF the barn, took a turn
Of the halter around its nose, sprans
upon its bare back and galloped away as
only a ranch girl can when saddles and
brides are scarce.
Apparently everything was lone that
could be done, yet he got away. The
last reported glimpse of him was old
Donna Maxima's view ofithe pinto geld
ing and its two riders as they disappear
ed up the lane by the Castenada garden.
Moving n japanese Town.
The Japanese town of J%eukchan was re-
Gently discovered to be in an ~unsanitary
condition, consequent upon which fire.
quent epidemics occurred.
The Japanese officials selected a spot in
the neighborhood that could be well
drained. Streets and public places were
laid out upon It,. Bulldogs We're erected.
and the entire inhabitants of the city of
Jeukchan, numbering 10000. We're removed
to the new site.
AS the buildings were slight wooden
structures, the scheme was practicable.
The facility with which the movement
was made is creditable to the Japanese
engineers.-London Mail.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
IN PICTURES.
How Chinese Are Infatuated by
Antichristian Cartoons.
BOTH BRUTAL AND BLAsPHEMOUs.
Subtle Efforts to Create Dissentions
Among Different Glasses of For
In the Flowery Kingdom.
The Royal Dispute.

One of the most potent forces in opera
ton to incite the Chinese public against
.foreign devils" says a writer in the
New York Herald, is the publication and
wide but discreet circulation of h%andbills,
placards, posters, pamphlets, n even
books of various sizes. They are not the
work of either ignorant or illiterate men,
and nave been gotten out in all forms to
appeal to all classes. Some of the publ
cations, indeed, are scholarly and in the
mandarin c%olloquial; others in poetry and
prose, with Illustrations and without.
But no matter how faultless the appear
ance or classical the production, the idea
desired to be conveyed is invariably, from
a Christian standpoint, either brutally in
delicate or frightfully blasphemous.
The factor which has been found to
have the greatest effect of late is the car
toon. The u%ncultured Chinaman has no
natural delicacy, and to appeal to him
an illustration must be made in the plain
est possible way. Thus the educated
Chinaman has found that where a cody
would read the most malignant text ever
written with inactive anger his wrath
would bubble over We're the text accom-
panied by a frankly exploratory picture.
Acting upon this, the publishers began
to reduce their long winded Trades and
to elaborate the pictures so that they
might speak for themselves. The result
is a dissemination of a series of the most
wrath provoking Illustrations ever pub
licly placed before the gaze of man.
The publishers of the cartoons have no
thought of making money out of their
circulation. The trade does not keep
them on sale. They cannot be excused
even on the score of filing a popular de-
mand. Certain individuals or political
associations have them printed and them
selves accomplish their circulation by
means of agents, who distribute them d.
rectly among the people or, when prac-
ticable, post them on walls. Naturally
this occasions an expenditure of funds
by no means small, which is met by Off
Gals and gentry interested. In order to
make their effects more sweeping the
blocks from which the pictures are print
ed are duplicated and sent to different
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
THREE IERRORS IN one
A California Town at the Mercy
of a Geyser.
STRANGE NATURAL PHENOMENON.
Earthquake and Volcano Combined
With n Tidal Wave = Sensational
Result of Sinking a Well to Find
Petroleum.

With n Tidal Wave - Sensational
Result of Sinking a Well to Find
Petroleum.
Residents of the town of Whittier and
eicinity have been treated to a natural
phenomenon that combines the horrors of
all in one, says a San Francisco CORE
spondent. A huge eruption has broken
out of the level ground and shot into the
air 800 feet, spouting water and clay in
volumes that threaten to food the ada
cent territory and raise an island Of clay
in the midst of it.
Rancher Myers was boring a well on
his place near Santa Fe Springs when the
miracle occurred. A large 200 pound drill
was being used. Mr.. Myers had already
got a 10 inch pipe partly sum and was
felicitating himself upon the prospect of
an early strike of oil, when suddenly the
great drill sailed skyward and a column
of water and other matter burst from the
10 inch pipe as though a ton of powder
were under it.
The workmen ran for their lives and
were not there when the column reached
Its height and began to shed clay n tor
rents of water upon the surrounding
acres. The. spout is in the midst of a fer
tile. level area, and it is only a question
of time when all will be inundated un-
less Providence stops the flow in time to
avert such disaster. Up to this writing
the mysterious force under ground is
heaving out its venom with undiminished
activity, and no power of mans can check
it. The stones which are hurting out of
the vertical tube would wreck any appli-
ance that might be thrust IN their way.
Besides there are no volunteers at hand
ready to do the thrusting- Everybody
stands at a safe distance and watches the
bombardment of the sky in helpless Won
der.
An eyewitness of this s~trangest of all
geysers describes it al having "the APP
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
-e-o@e-s-s-s
A Chief Executive
Who Seems to
Fear No one.


concerning the return of the Colorado
volunteers from the Philippines, has
long been noted as a man Of rather rad
zeal ideas. He is probably one of the
strongest characters in the political life
Of the west. He first gained widespread
notoriety by signing the prizefight bill
In defiance Of the formal and united
protests of the clergy. Later he has
been prominent as a bitter antitrust ex-
ecutive.
Governor Thomas is picturesque ia
appearance too. He stands over six
feet high, is of a spare build, wears a
pince neg and a frock coat, while his
face alternates from the full bearded to
smooth shaven. giving him a strong re-
semblance in the upper works to the
late Bill Nye. At present and in normal
frame of mind he is recognized as a
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
Facts 4 bout creek sculpture.

Mrs. Albinia Wherry, in a book on
Greek sculpture. calsl attention, says
THE Literary Digest, to the interesting
fact that before the fourth century B. G.,
the expression Of emotion in Greek statu-
airy was confined to representations of the
lower creatures, satyrs, giants and CEN
taurs. The dawn of that Sentiment
which Is the distinguishing feature Of the
fourth century statues first appears in the
for the first time did Greek SCULPTURE III
troduce the expression of emotion into the
minated with the sculptures at Pergamus
in the second century 3. c., before It de-
generated into the vulgar realism of
Greaco-Roman times"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03

A Rome correspondent writes;-Tne
,fIer day a horse and cart. going along q
country lane in the vicinity OF the Ga.a a
scared. greatly TO the CONSERVATION o.
ec.ne iaborers who witnessed the pne-
nomenon and raised an alarm; eftesn feel
saga If the Catacombs. wherein man,
6o7se and cart had got firmly liked
The driver was able e emerge s nsnnE
- The Tsfacombs for about a mile BEFORE
rev came to the main entrance, put Inc
horse Is stiIl underground
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
"MAMMA, is THIS Q .
How a shipwrccIcd Child Deihed
Her Rcscuer.

John II. Hanan, the millionaire shoe
manufac turer of Brooklyn, is abo;t TO
receive a medal from Queen Victoria for
his daring rescue of the crew and Of Cap
tain Lord and his wife and daughter
from the British brig Caspian To miles
off Bermuda. Mr.. Hanan, who was at
tba time of the rescue returning from a
cruise in West Indian waters upon his
yacht Sycamore, told this story Of the
rescue 20 the New York World:
We left Bermuda about 8 o'clock. 1t
was a bright, sunny day, without a sign
of the recent severe storm except a
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
Go1nr,s Toast.

We are all sorry that our great Mr..
Niblick. is leaving US. and all present,
/ am sure. join with me in wishing that
abunkkers'' In the course of life. and may
meet with no hazards" from which he
can't get well OUT" hat he may have
never be down" and always beat his
man, that he may never fail to +snego-
fiafe, the "stimiesy of adversely, and
neTitv and happiness before he TAP
breaches and tiles dead at the 'last
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
Well Fixed.

A woman living in Kansas City sued q
Tan for breach of promise and secured a
Judgment; then she sued a railroad COM
pany for an alleged injury and was sue
cessful and then sued the city for an in
Jury she sustained on a bad sidewalk and
was successful again. She now has
enough to keep her.-Atchison Globe.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03

the eyes OF Cniuurnen- Trv EGGS Of ror-
eigners are Of no use for this purpose;
hence they do not take out the eyes Of
their own people. but only those Of Chi
nesp.v
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
Finish Fight.

4 terrible accident happened at the
great Versailles fair, in Paris. A care
less keeper left the door of the polar
bears cage unfastened, and the animal
puiled up the trap with his paw and
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
THE WHIPPING O S
Experts Declare That 1t Ii a DETER
rent of Crime.

rent of Crime.
At a recent meeting OF experts IN
criminology Judge Simeon Il. Baldwin of
the supreme court of Connecticut said:
II do not hesitate TO ayow my conviction
that whipping would often furnish a
mode of punishment far more appropri-
ate than line or Imprisonment for minor
oHenses and a useful addition to impris-
Dnment for graver ones. While holding
criminal terms of the superior court l
have more than onee had occasion to
sentence culprits to confinement in Jail,
whose case would have been, in my opin-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03

1t is estimated that England's stock
of coal will last 200 years longer and
North Americas 600 years. 1t is not
likely. however. that these supplies will
ever be needed, as It Is probable that
before many decades have passed pow
or will be gained in other ways.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03

A Fighting Scot
who Has Risen
From the Ranks.

battle OF Omdurman, has recently re-
turned from Egypt and has been hon-
lied. He was the guest of honor at a
big banquet in Hotel Cecil, and a fine
Eword was given to him. Since then he
has made a triumphal tour through
Scotland to his old home ip Rosshire.
Fighting Mac" as he is called by his
troops, is what is known in the high
lands as a .'ranker." More than 20
years ago he enlisted as a member of
the Gordons. He did not remain a pri-
vate very long. Up to the time he first
met the Afghans he had reached the
grade of noncommissioned officers. where
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
They Wake.

Teddy (who has just begun to go to
school.) Papa, do YOU now what six
boys and five girls make?r
Yves, answered his father, "a racket
"Harper's Bazar.."
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
c~OLoRsDo'S


Gov e rno
h a e $ s.
Thomas OF Col
orado, who has
been somewhat
prominent OF
late on account
of his alleg-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-03
LONDON'S NEW HERO.

London has
found a new
soldier hero.
Colonel Hec-
tor Macdon-
aid, who COM
manded t h e
Sudanese reg
t - tho
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-07
BIRMINGHAM
WAS VICTORIOUS
Business College Team Defeat
ed Pratt City.
0NE-SIDED SCORE OF IA TO4
Sawyer and Green Did Good Battery
Work for Birmingham-Wi Play
Against the Massey College
Team Next Wednesday
ONE-SIDED SCORE OF IA TO4

The Birmingham Business College club
defeated the Pratt City team at Pratt City
yesterday afternoon by a score of IA to 4.
The game NAas characterized by all
around snappy playing, although in the end
the score was lopsided. Neither side scored
until the fourth inning. Both sides made
two runs each, but after this Pratt City
seemed to go to pieces and the Birmingham
club succeeded in scoring every inning.
The feature of the game was the pitch
ing of Sawyer for Birmingham. Green, the
catcher and Donovan, the short stop for
Birmingham, also did some good work.
Green throws well to second and Nught
several Pratt City players off from pur
Joining the bag.
The business college team is arranging
for a tour of Alabama cities to last proba
bly, three weeks. They will play Massey's
College team next Wednesday afternoon at
North Birmingham park.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-07
OZARK
Naval Stores Manufacturing Company
Blown Up

Ozark, May 6.-(Special.)- large naval
stores manufacturing establishment of D.
c. Carmichael & Co., at Pinckard, was
blown up and burned down yesterday
morning. The explosion occurred little
after o'clock and Jared every building in
the neighborhood for miles around
The burning spirits set fire to the dwell
ing of Mr.. Carmichael, and it was soon in
ashes. Also $50 barrels of spirits and 200
barrels of rosin were consumed. Loss,
$40, 900; no insurance. Origin of the fire is
in doubt, though the negro in attendance
says the still sprang a leak and when he
opened the door the explosion occurred.
James M. Spear, Esq, was assaulted and
beaten nearly to death by Joseph and Arch
Evans and a man named Vann. They were
being tried in his court for default in road
working when they jumped on him with
two-pound scale weights, knives and
sticks and would have killed him but for
the interference of by-standers. Arch
Evans is in Jail, the others. are still at
large.
DR.. Harper and A. D. Wall have pur-
chased the mineral spring six miles south
of town and will make improvements there
at once
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-07
MAGNIFICENT STOCK
Of Pianos and Organs at the Jesse
French Piano Co.

A place of interest to visitors in the city,
and one at which a most cordial welcome
is always extended is the spacious sales
room of the Jesse French Piano and Organ
company, corner OF Second avenue and
Twenty-first street. Here can always be
seen mammoth display of the various
high grade pianos and organs, such as the
famous Jesse French, Starr, Richmond,
Steinway and Chickering. These instru-
ments are known throughout the country
for their excellence of tone and durability.
Their superiority is tested by their use by
the leading musicians and the fact that
they grace hundreds of the handsomest
homes in the south. The rapid growth OF
the business of the Jesse French company
here speaks highly for the merits of its
instruments and is an evidence of the pro-
gressiveness of the Birmingham manager,
Mr.. w. J. Pearce.
A number of secondhand pianos and or
gans were recently exchanged for new ones
sold by the company, and having been re-
turned and renovated, they are now offered
at bargains.
Carnival visitors and home people as well
are invited to make the Jesse French COM
pany headquarters.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-07

tarrh. The discharge from my head
was dreadful. Finally my stomach be-
came affected, and eight months ago I
had to quit work. lost in weight from
1876 pounds to 40. My doctor advised
me to go to the country. I did go for
two months and was taking medicine
all the time, but got no relief. My appe-
tite was gone. I began with heart
trouble and dizzy spells; would get so
bad that I staggered when I walked.
I was completely discouraged. I pro-
cured bottle of Pe-ru-na and had not
taken half the bottle, when, to my joy
and surprise, began feeling better.
My head began to get better; the dis
charge began to dry up. kept on, and
have now taken two bottles. have re-
sumed my work, have good appetite,
no dizziness or heart trouble, and have
not felt better in ten years. am now
80, and thank Pe-ru-na for the way I
feel to-day"
Send for free book on catarrh. Adj
dress The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing
Company, Columbus, Ohio.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-07
PERSONAL.

Miss Julia Smith, of Tuscaloosa, is the
guest of the Misses Lewis.
Miss Matte McDavid is the guest of Miss
Maybelle Stollenwerck during the carnival.
Mr.. ]. H. Holt, of Livingston, is visiting
Mr. and Mrs C. c. Ellis, Jr., at West End.
Mr. and Mrs. James Foster of Sheffield
Ala, are visiting the family of Ned Me-
David.
Mrs. e. M. seabrook, of Columbus. Ca,
is the guest of DR.. Robert Gotten, 1908 Sixth
avenue.
Miss Olive Patton zeigler, of Deatsville.
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. William
James Zeigler.
Tom Garner, DR.. E. A. Smith and Dr. j.
Y. Graham were among the visitors from
Tuscaloosa in the city yesterday.
Mrs. f. Levy, of Demopolis, will be the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. F. Caheen in Park
avenue during carnival week.
Mrs. NJ. E. Whitehead of Livingston, is
visiting her niece, Mrs. w. ]. Willis, cor
ner Avenue l and Twentieth street.
Misses Sue and Gussie Clarkson, of Tus-
kaloosa, are visiting their grandmother,
Mrs. s. w. Jolly at 2409 Sixth avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter 7. Archibald have
returned from their bridal trip, and are at
home at Mr.. B. F. Byrd's, Parker station,
Woodlawn.
President John Abbott, of the Terpsi-
chorean club announces an important
meeting this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and
requests all members to be present.
Miss Jimmie Byrd left yesterday morning
for Atlanta. Miss Byrd has a sweet con-
tralto voice. and will be a member of the
First Methodist church choir of that city.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-07
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Mountain and seashore

AS the heated term approaches one be-
gins to look over the advantages of the
various resorts and make arrangements
for the summer outing. In this connection
the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, which
connects with the Louisville and Nash
vile both at Louisville and Cincinnati, Of
fers to those contemplating a summer
vacation a greater variety of resorts than
any other line. Both the mountain and
sea shore resorts of the Virginias and the
New England coast are reached by the
famous F. F. V.-limited of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway. The trains of this COM
pany, vestibuled throughout, lighted by
electricity, with observation and dining
cars, are unsurpassed in modern equip-
ment. For full information of resorts,
rates, ETC., apply Louisville and Nashville
office, Morris avenue, or address c. B.
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