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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-21

taking the form of a lager during lns
Zulu war Ladysmith also has large
government school with an attendance OF
220 pupils. Natal police barracks, and
large reading room and library. Theirs
are three good hotels In the place, and
churches of at least six different denom-
nations, including the Dutch Reformed
Church, which mas a grant Of severn
acres of land from the Natal government,
1t is an important railway center, and
there are large repairing and other worh'
shops connected with the station.
Ladysmith has at least thirteen wen
laid out streets, one of which near inc
railway station, is mainly composed o.
what are known as Arab stores, dirly
premises occupied by Banyan traders VINO
prey upon the guileless country natives
when they venture in 20 purchase piah'
kets, beads and trinkets so dear to me
savage fancy. / may mention that on the
occasion of my last visit to Ladysmltn !
had the privilege of staying with the iocaI
member of Parliament, and we had SONS
excellent shooting-game this time nop
Boers-in the neighborhood. Some as
lance out of the town are marshy uHc.s
known as salt-pans, frequented by WIZ
ducks, spur winged geese, ana ship7t
while wild guinea fowl are frequent ~ 'u'
long coarse grass which covers the plains.
During my stay we rode over to the fafin
of Mr.. Francois Ignatius de WAL On
Modderspruit. where the Beers are now ~
force Mr.. de WAL Is a ]. P. for tns
colony, and takes prominent part
Ladysmith's local amairs, being presden'
of the Kip River Farmers Association
Modderspruit, eight miles out Iun s
through very broken country, K9p5ss
strewn with boulders, eminently suiteu IN.
Boer tactics, and the district teens VIZ WIZ,
Kaffir grads. All Mr.. de Waals cnilu,ess
spoke English, read English, and IKE hy -
of the Dutch In Natal. seemed oy "a
means anxious to perpetuate their TAU
or native "patois." ox.
Ladysmith is 119 miles from the NsA'
English base, Pietermaritzburg
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WHERE THE FIGHTING is.
district Around Ladysmith where
White Is Standing OF the Beers.
From the Pan Mall Gazette.

From the PAN Mall Gazette.
I.adysmith, which is the chief town of
the Kip river division of the Kip river
country In Natal, is 1S9 miles from Dur
han By rail, and is situated on a broad
tongue Of land formed by the Kip river
on the right of The railway, booking north.
Is a high rocky bridge, crowned with the
thorn bush or tlat-tOpped mimosa, which
hears fragrant yellow flowers. Lady
smiths position, surrounded as it IS by a
sheltering semicircle of hisls, reminds one
very much of Pietermaritzbu burg.
Approaching Ladysmih from the SOUTH
The main road runs through fiat and bare
country. with kop5es and broken ground
AWAY to the right in the direction of Mod
derspruit. Then the Kip river Is crossed
before entering the town. "A small SUPER
numerary camp lies, on the south side of
the river, but Gen. Whites main position
is out of the town altogether, on the top
of the hills which overlook Ladysmith
The most conspicuous public building Is
the Town hall, erected at a cost of f6 600
1t is a handsome building in the Doric
STYLE built of blue whlnstone and white
freestone, the common rocks of the dis
trict, with a tower and clock.
The county jail. the colonial engineers.
department offices. and the postal and tel
egraph buildings form part Of what one
may term large compound, or Enclosure,
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haps, to handling, they were Identical
One was worth $50, the other 5000. Now
If paid the latter sum 1t would be on
faith.
The place where most people are TAX
en- IN is at the auction Of private art col
iections When wealthy man becomes in
terested in japanese and Chinese art he
buys his choice pieces oftenest through an
agent who makes his intermediary work
his exclusive business and usually estab-
fishes himself in an office very imposing
in It's surroundings, This man makes the
rounds OF the big importing houses and
selects pieces from $35 10 $50 or perhaps
$125 apiece. He receives Is per cent dis-
count on all his purchases. We cater to
these agents In our purchases abroad He
sells these choice pieces at from 300 10 81 :
COO, and sometimes he gets as high as *
90 for supposedly very cid piece of fine
Workmanship. FINALLY, when these pieces
get into the collection of some prominent
men they are much talked about. and the
history and value of certain ones gain in
age, interest and price as IL circulates
among his friends. When that collection
comes to be auctioned off the antin,test
bring fabulous prices.
Last year when the private art co,lec-
ton of a prominent New Yorker then
dead, was auctioned, an Imarl vase uas
sold for $500 That vase was bought for
$50 here in New York city. 1t was claimed
70 he an antique. How could any one prove
that claim when the date of its manufsc.
ture had never been registered?
Now / will tell you a little secret of
our own trade, from which the agent, ~
broker in antiques gets most of his SIM
plies. You remember I told you the old
artists broke their models after mal,,ng
from them one or two pieces; in the case
Of vases it was usually a pair Our house
does exactly the same thing, and wren
the broker sells these as antioues, he
can conscientiously say that 1t is the onIv
pair of the kind in the world. we MAKE
them especially for him.
In speaking of Chinese business mo
thods the buyer said; When first went
over to purchase large quantities OF goods
comparatively few had yet entered fbjs
field of trade and our transactions passad
off smoothly enough. The demand for
things Japanese and Chinese grew. ana n
brought Others abroad, until the American
buyer was regularly looked for. Then me
native vendors grew more independent
One day gave an order to Chinese for
1000 vases Of a certain form for which
had contracted to pay 81 apiece. When
1t was time for the order to be filed I
went to see him, and he calmly told me he
had sold them to the representative of n
rival house then in the city at s0
apiece"
Concerning the relative merits of the
Chinese and japanese art Of to-day, the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-21

Jacksonville, Fla. Nov. 2O-CIeared,
schooners Gertrude L. Trundy, Dodge,
Baltimore: Georgia L. Dickson, Anderson,
Boston; steamer Cherokee, Mckee New
York and Boston.
Apalachicola. Fla, Nov. 2O.--Entered,
bark Mizpa (Nor), Olsen, West Hartle-
pool.
Fernandina Fla, Nov. 20-Arrived
schooner Laguina, Bayles, Ponce, Porto
Rico.
Key West, Fla, Nov. 2O.-Arr.ved,
steamers Miami Delano, Miami ana sailed
for Havana; Mascotte, Miner. Havana, and
sailed for Port Tampa; tug Foster, Tor
tugas.
Charleston. S. c.. Nov 2O.-Arrived.
steamers Saginaw. Johnson, Boston; Co
manche, Pennington, Jacksonville, and
proceeded to New York.
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OCEAN FREIGHTs.

Cotton - Savannah TO Boston, per
bale H25; to New York. Ter bale.
500; to Philadelphia. per bale. 500; to
Baltimore, per bale Sl.0O; via New York
Bremen. Soc Genoa. soc; Liverpool SC
Reval roc direct. Bremen, 40d4lc; BARGE
Iona, 5sc; Genoa. zoe; Liverpool, 4)c;
Havre, 47c; Reval. via Bremen. 5Sc;
Trieste. SEC Venice sc: Naples, SIC,
Lumber-By Sail-Freight strong. Ss-
vannah 20 Baltimore, per NJ, $3.50; TO Phil
adelphia, $500; to New York 800; TO Bos-
Ton and Portland, $3.50: crossties, "A feet
base, to Baltimore. lie; to Philadelphia,
TIC; to New York, lSc.
BY Steam umber-Savannah TO Baiti-
more, $500; to New York, $500; TO dock
Sc 70: lightered-to Boston, 10 dock, 500
Naval Stores-The market is firm; me-
dunn size vessels. Rosin-Cork for orders
IS per barrel of $40 pounds and per cent
primage. Spirits As 81 per 40 gallons
gross and per cent. primage. Larger
vessels. rosin. Is Cd; spirits, As. Steam, Joe
per 100 pounds on rosin; SOC on spirits
Savannah to Boston, and S1ac on rosin
and SOC on spirits 10 New York
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GRAIN. PROVISIONS, ETC.

New York, Nov. 2O.-F'lour fairly active
and generally firm, especially for winter
wheat product and low grades for spring
Rye -four weak; good to fair, $4,000 49,
Buckwheat flour quiet. Buelwheat
steady. Cornmeal steady. Rye firm No
2, 6211c. Barley quiet; feeding, 40c. Barley
dun.
wheat-Spot, easy; No. 2 red, 76ssc; op-
lions opened firm at about Ac advance on
high cables. disappointing receipts and
conflicting estimates as to the visible sup
ply; covering carried prices Ac higher
but the market was not active, and prices
declined when the official visible supply
statements showed an increase of 1448S, 600
bushels: closed easy al net unchanged
prices to lac advance; March closed 759sc;
December, T2bc.
Corn-Spot. firm: No. 2, 41c; options open
ed firm at Nc advance on cables and small
movement, ruled very steady on 7S2,O0
bushels decrease in visible supply and
closed steady at 1sdi4c net advance; May
closed 39c; December, 3994c.
Oats-Spot firm; No. 2, 29Ac; options
nominal.
Beef firm; mess, 5000; cut meats bare
ly steady; picked bellies. 614d624c; picked
shoulders, 6I9c.
Lard frmer; Western steamed closed
IS S2is; November, S5.521s, nominal; refined
firm.
Pork quiet
Petroleum firm.
Rosin steady; strained. common to good,
S1.sodl.s5.
Turpentine quiet; 511sq52c.
Rice firm
Butter FIRM Western creamery, 2l426c
state dairy. 1S@25c
Cheese firm; finest October. 12@1214c.
Eggs, market steady; state and Pennsyl-
vanla 2315G24c, loss off; Western ungraded
at mark. l4g2oc.
Potatoes firm; New jersey, $1OOd1371s;
New York, 81. 0Oa1 so; Long Island, S112i5G
LIS; New Jersey sweets, $l.50G225; South
, ern sweets 81 .25d15O
Cabbage duh; Long Island. 's2 .Oo@S5O' per
hundred.
Coffee futures opened firm az an advance
of 20d25 points and further improved 10
points on bad news from the crop center.
very bullish cables from European mar
kets, smaller receipts than expected, re-
ports of bubonic plague in Brazil and a
rumor that a steamer had arrived in New
York with plague aboard. Trading was
very active with shorts. bulls. the In
yestment public and Europe figuring con-
spicuously as buyers from opening to
close The market closed steady at a net
gain of 2D0l25 points; sales. 34.5O0 includ-
ing December. 5.5Od5 sc; January, 5,6Od
5.65c; spot Rio firm; No 7. invoice, 6isc;
No. Z Jobbing, &c; mild firm; Cordova, ca
G11%c
Sugar. raw, steady; fair refining. lS-16c
bid; centrifugal, 9s-test. 4lac bid; n1olasses
sugar, Sled; refined steady.
New York, Nov. 20-Cotton seed oil: The
market was stiH In a firm position with
little pressure 10 sell and a moderate de-
mand for small Tots. Prime crude tanks 20
cT21c; prime crude barrels, 25626c prime
summer yellow 2SQ29c; off summer yellow,
2Tia12Sc; butter grades S0tkd31c; prime
winter yellow. SIC; prime white. 29dS)c;
prime meals. 2OQ2lc.
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ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
vessels Arrived Yexterdav.

Steamship City OF Macon, Savage, Bos-
ton, via New York-Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
Steamship Chattahoochee, Lewis, Boston
Ocean Steamship Company.
Steamship Tallahassee. Askins, New
York-Ocean Steamship Company.
Steamship Essex, Dizer, Baltimore-J. ].
Carolan, Agent.
Steamship Hedwig Ger, Yensen
Charleston--A. f. Churchill
Barkentine Stephen @. Hart, Babbldge
New Bedford-Master.
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dorf smokeless powder. 1-pOund cans, NVo'
1O-pound cans. SOC pound.
ShOt-DrOp, S1.6J; b and lorge' $l-e9'
chilled, S1.S5.
Iron-Market very steady swede, $40
base; refined. 800 base.
Nails-Cut, $40 base; wire, $3.50 base.
Barber Wire-A.25 per 100 pounds.
Lime, Calcium, Plaster and Cemeut-Al-
ALBANIA and Georgia lime IN fair demand
and sell at 75e a barrel bulk and carload
lots; special calcined plaster $50 per bar
rel: hair 4G5c Rosedaie's cement, l.l9g
! ~. carload lots special: Portland &C.
ment. retail, S220: carload lots. 800
Lumber. T. o. B., Vessel, savannah
Minimum yard sizes, sl2.50al 400; car sills,
siS5O0l500: difficult sizes, sl6.50Q25.0Oi ship
stock. S25.00a3D00; sawn ties, $40. OQlO9;
hewn ties 35036c
Cotton Bagging-Market steady; 1ute.
2a-pound 7c 2-pound. 6Ac; l%-pound,
6lsc; sea island bagEing, shc.
Cotton Ties-Standard. 45-p0und arrow,
large lots. N.25; small lots, S.S5.
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merchant declared that the Japanese were
killing their own trade through imita-
ton. They copy the French, German and
English ideas, and Intervene them with
their own until the native work loses its
own peculiar character. The Chinese, on
the contrary, he asserted, cling tenacious
ly to their own style and retuse 10 De IN
a.,onnnd hv foreign ideaS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-21
Notice TO ninriners

Pilot charts and all photographic infor-
nation will be furnished masters of YES
sells free of charge in United States hy-
geographic Office in custom house Can
tains are requested to can at the office.
Reports of wrecks and derelicts received
for transmission to the navy department
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The Board of Health Of New yorl, city

The Board OF Health of New York city
has received communication from the
Board of Health I'm Michigan stating that
twenty clerks of that state who We're WORK
ing over old volumes of records were TAX
en- Ill with consumption and died. The
books were examined by a bacteriologist
and we're found 10 be fun Of tubercules
and bacilll and it is thought they became
infected from a clerk who had consump-
tion, and who had the habit of moistenlng
his thumb when turning the pages.
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Per steamship Itasca. for BALTIMORE 100
bales upland cotton. $50 bbls rosln, 165 bbls
turpentine, 152,SA feet lumber, los boxes
oranges, l47 tons pig iron, 101 pkgs mdse.
i49 pkgs domestics and yarns $50 cases
canned goods, So bbls pitch, l6 bales sweep
ings, 81 bales moss.
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IF there is anything l desplse," said
one diplomat, '4t's a practical joke" 81
feel the same way about It," answered the
other, as he laid down his newspaper
"and know what I'm talking about.
was a delegate to the peace conference at
The Hague. "-Washington Star.
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"A Crafty Fellow.-First Girl-There
goes Mrs, Newlywed; her husband is so
careful Of her health that he viii NOT al
low her 70 go shopping on wet day.
second Sirl-Huml He probably fears she
might get near enough 10 the coilnters -
buy something Judge.
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Steamer Clifton. Hinson, from Beaufort
George u. Beach, Manager.
Steamer Doretta, Henry, for Button
II. A. Strobhar Agent.
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Steamship Itasca. Diggs, Baltimore
Ship Ardgowan (GeD Bulling, Hamburg.
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PROCEEDED to hight.


Steamship Gundulic (AusO. Krunojevic
Genoa and Trieste.
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and calmly awaited Developments. / was
not nervous any longer. l was resigned
and merely hoped TO escape with my life.
Finally the crash came Every one was
terribly excited, but l merely mutteTed in
an apathetic sort OF way, I knew IL! 1
knew itl'
Glad when He Lost the Bishop.
II think that one or two of the train
crew were killed on that occasion. The
train started on after the wreck, and
somewhere along the route we lost the
Bishop of Madagascar. 1t was with a great
sigh of relief that | carefully walked
through all the cars and noticed that he
was no longer on board. Poor man! Per-
haps / was unjust in my superstition, and
l am glad that he does not know all the
anxiety and trouble he caused me on that
trip across the continent.
Il was never accused of being hoodoo
but once. That was on a trip from France
a year or SO ago on La Touraine. Among
the passengers on the deck as we left
port was a very pretty American lady who
was promenadlng with her husband As
she caught sight Of me, she turned pale
and said 10 her husband:
+" OH Let's turn back. There Is a priest,
and we viii all be drowned
II overheard the remark, and 1 felt that
I must resent the imputation against my
cloth.
" Madame I said, raising my hat, you
are mistaken about me. l am mascot,
not a hoodoo. / promise you bon voyage
'gThe remark seemed to quiet her fears,
and when l passed her on the deck there
after she evidently overlooked her SUPER
stition, for she treated me with courtesy
All Of the way over the sea was as placid
as a mill pond. Therefore, 1 am certain
that do not bring bad luck, even If other
clergymen do"
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Savannah AImannc.

Sun rises at 6:5s a. m. and sets at 5:O4 p.
m.
High water at Tybee to-day at 1905 a.
m. and 1920 p m. High water at Savan-
nah one hour later.
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Phases of the Moon for November.

New MOON Sd, hours and AZ minutes
morning; first quarter, 10th. z hours and
Sc minutes, morning; full moon, nth, A
hours and 40 minutes. morning; last quar-
ter, 18th, hours and Sc minutes, morning.
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Iasn quoIatohs We're as follows. Flour.
steady; No. spring wheat, 6ld67c; No 2
red 6SlsQ69c; No. 2 yellow corn, 3Sc; No.
2 corn S9c; No 2 oats. 2Ska28s4c; No. 2
white, 261zc; No. 3 white, 25a26c; No. 2
rye, SIC; No. barley S7a43c: No. fax
seed, $.29G1.S0; Northwestern, 81. 29dl. 80;
prime timothy seed, $2.45d255; mess pork.
per barrel, S.60@960; lard, per 100 pounds
$4.9Q50O; short ribs sides Qoose) s4.SOG
BIB; dry salted shoulders (boxed), 59sG5i6e.
short clear sides (boxed). SIS l5db. %.
whisky, distillers' finished goods, per bal
lon S123ih
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a Northa East
from
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be
seeper nd, aso
JR, T. andB oppos ulash
s. D. C. andSc
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w. r. T A West Broad ndI dbertys street
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fomUn corn er and
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haps, to handling, they were Identical.
One was worth $50, the other 5000. Now
If l paid the latter sum 1t would be on
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-21

New York and Baltimore steamships
came in yesterday following each other
closely. The arrivals were the steamships
Chattahoochee, from Boston, the city Of
Macon, from Boston, via New York, the
Tallahassee from New York, and the Es-
sex, from Baltimore. The only coastwise
ship TO sail was the Itasca, for Balti-
more.
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WHEAT OPENED HIGHER.

Chicago, Nov. 20-Wheat to-day opened
higher with Liverpool and predicted small
increase in visible and in local stocks but
declined later on liberal increases to the
visible and to local stocks closing un-
changed TO a shade lower. Corn, Influenced
by the wet weather, closed 1s0Ac better.
Oats closed 1sdAc over Saturday, and pro-
visions 216c up.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Wheat No. p
Dec ......67A 671k 667sa67 66Aa67
May ,71Ad71as 71h@719s II @71A 7i@71h
Corn No. p
Dec ...8l%@s1z s2S 31%asl7k S2Hds24
Jan .......3lh 31ss 31A 31Ss@S15
May -. .s25s933 1914 S2%QSS 80
Oats No. p
Dec ....23 23A q 23ik693K
May -. .AlsG2414 249s 2fsaei14 24KdAs
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Central Meridian Time.
TIME TABLE EFF ECTTVE JUNE II, 1899.
y 40, daily except Sunday.
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The barkentine Stephen c. Hart, Capt.
Babbidge. which arrived yesterday. reports
fair weather on, her voyage down from
New Bedford. On account OF the heavy
fox, which prevented coming into port,
Capt. Babbidge anchored at the bar on his
arrival there Sunday. The vessel is light
She is chartered for a cargo Of lumber by
the Southern Pine Company.
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The German steamship Hedwig, which
arrived yesterday from Charleston, will
load cotton. She is consigned to A. r.
Churchill The vessel was tied up at the
Lower Cotton Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-07
THE RARRlSoAS AT BERLIN.
They VIII Attend the Ball In Honor
of WiIhelmina.
TBy Gable to The Associated Press.

by Cdple TO InS <-SSoStdtS0 < SsSsl
BERLIN, Oct. Z, 1899. General Benja-
min Harrison and Mrs. Harrison, who ar
rived in Berlin last evening from Paris,
viewed the sights of the town today, ac-
companied by United States Ambassador
White While at the United States EN-
bassy. where all the members were pre-
sented including the veteran messenger.
William Knoth. General Harrison, re-
ferring to the latter's dark hair, said he
surely had not been long in the service,
Knoth replied
.sYour Excellency, that Is due to life
at the American Embassy, free of care.
which provoked great laughter
Ambassador White and Mrs. White will
entertain General and Mrs. Harrison at
the opera this evening. On Monday Mrs.
White will present Mrs. Harrison to the
Countess Won Brockdorff, First Lady IN
Waiting; and Emperor William will re-
cefye General Harrison the same day I'M
mediately before the gala Court Concert
at the New Palace, at Potsdam, TO De
given in honor OF Queen Wilhelmina OF
the Netherlands. at which General and
Mrs. Harrison and Ambassador and Mrs.
white will meet the Emperor and En-
press.
On Tuesday Mr.. and Mrs. White Will
given a reception in honor of General
and Mrs Harrison, to which the members
of the American colony are invited. On
the following day the United States Ann
bassador will give dinner to General and
Mrs. Harrison at which the Imperial
Chancellor, Prince Won Hohonlohe, other
members of the Imperial Council, and
the members of the Diplomatic Corps viii
be present.
On Thursday General Harrison will
leave for Brussels and The Hague. from
which point he will return to London, to
san for the United States on October %
by the American Line steamship St. Paul
TO a representative of the Associated
Press General Harrison said today:-"The
Venezuela boundary question is now
buried thank God; and, thereby, one of
the disturbing factors in our relations
with Great Britain is removed"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-07
HOPEFUL SIGNS.
Little Change In Register
George B. Fielder's Con-
dition, but He Rests
Quietly.
FAMILY in CONSTANT ATTENDANCE
Patient Appeared to Recog-
nize His Son This Morn
ing and Spoke Once.

There is no change In the condition of
Register George B. Fielder, who was
stricken yesterday morning with apo
plexy at his home, No. los Summit av-
enue.
DR.. Horace Bowen, who Is attending the
afflicted man, said this morning that he
passed a quiet night, resting easy. He
added that there was no perceptible
change in MIR. Fielder's condition. but
that he hoped for the best. DR.. Bowen
has visited his patient twice this morn
ing and will visit him again at four
O'Clock unless summoned before then.
Mr. Fislder's family are constantly at
his bedside Mrs. Fielder is bearing the
blow with great fortituds. She is with
her husband at all hours anxiously watch
ing for signs of improvement.
A hopeful sign is that he appeared TO
recognize those around him. His son, Mr..
James F. Fielder, bent over him and
said
do you know me- father?
Mr.. Fielder smiled and gently nodded
his head. Once this morning he muir
mured surely"
Mr. Fielder has not been a well man
for some time He has been suffering
from stomach and heart trouble. These
coupled with the last attack have rem
dered his illness very serious