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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-14

Galveston. Texas, September .s--Esti-
mates of the number OF dead are no longer
less than 5000, and It seems sure that hun
dreds OF these will never be known
Every effort is being made at Houston
OF all those dead and missing. and nearly
1000 names were added TO the number
today, making the total thus far kpovn
to be dead 2701. When it is recorded that
nearly 5000 people have left the island,
hundreds of them failing to notify anyone
whether they had friends or relatives
among the dead, 1t will be seen that the
task OF getting every name is an impos-
sible one Five representatives of The
Post are here working night and day to
secure an accurate list of the fatalities,
and 1t is now believed that over 1000
names OF the dead will be recorded in
these columns BY Sunday morning. It
is a heart wringing task that The Post
representatives have undertaken, and as
the grewsome details are developed day
by day the horror OF It all makes one sick
OF mind and body
The Post correspondent asked Mayor
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-14
GALVESTON COMMITTEE.
They Are Doing the Best Posat-
bic Under CircumstanceA.

To the Editor OF Tho Post
Galveston, Texas. September H.
Perhaps 1t Is the imagining Of an
overweight nervous condition. but
II seems to me that there is tone
OF censure IN some OF the news
paper reports OF the Galveston dis
aster-censure, mean, concern
ing the work OF relief and discipline
here. Perhaps the work could have
been done better. ] doubt IT, Ger
tainly it could not have been done
more earnestly or consc. enilously.
Whatever failings are observed may
be attributed to the unspcakablo
proportions OF the ruin and unut-
terable details OF the disaster.
That we are not all cra2ed is a
wonder II we are somewhat de-
morallzed or hysterical II should
not be surprising, | don't believe
history records such state of desc
lation. such heart breaking sor-
row and such utter chaos. But
know our committees have done
well. The men In responsible posi-
tious have scarcely eaten or slept.
They are giving themselves wholly
to the work in hand without thought
of their personal future. And when
the wreck is removed, know, by
the logic of human character, that
these men will rebuild city more
beautiful and more enduring than
that they lost, Galveston VIII
speedily demonstrate that the great
hearted State and the quick-re-
spending world are not doing i'd e
charity, but merely stimulating
brave and deserving people.
Clarence ousiey,
Editor Tribune,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-14
THE POSTS LIST HAS GROWN
Until There Can No Longer Be Doubt that
Five Thousand Perished
Expected that the List of Dead Will Be Sweed to
Four Thousand by Sunday Morning Next.
Every Effort to Obtain Them.

Jones at 2 o'clock this afternoon n he
desired to reduce his estimate of the loss
OF life, which he placed at 5000 He re-
piled most emphatcally that he did not.
The lowest estimate made today by any
one OF prominence was that of George &c.
Horst, who placed IL at 5000
on line running from n and Twenty
Nth to aud Thirty third i24 bodies were
buried Wednesday morning, and they were
found Just ON the edge OF the heap.
The work OF disposing OF tins dead COM
tinued today and is still In progress to-
night Owing to the condition of tho
bodies found today the plan OF taking
them to sea was abandoned. except In few
instances where It was found advisable 20
confidc them to watery graves. About
800 bodies were reported to have been
buried and cremated. Thlrty-two sand
mounds marked with small boards attract
attention on the beach near Twenty-sixth
street and tell the story OF where about
seventy-nve bodies we're laid TO rest. In
the extreme western part Of the city
about sixty bodies we're crdmated in
wreckage Of the homes OF the unfortunate
victims.
The serewmen's Benevolent association
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24
Butterfly Consumption Cure.

Frederick r. Knight, Of Venice,
Fla, is here to carry on experiments in
an alleged consumption cure. The
basis for the cure is the bodies of dead
butterflies pulverized to powder.
Knight says that it has long been
known that the fever weed which flour
ishes in Florida has been great stimu-
liant for malarial and consumption
cases. The thought occurred to some
one that the peculiarly bright butterfly
that In its first stage lives off the fever
weed might be used instead Of the
weed itself. The idea was tested, and
has proved efficacious in many cases.
A company has been formed to manu-
facture the cure.-Denver special to
Chicago Chronicle.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24

and many Of his parishioners-came to
the rescue by Offering to repeat In the
original the first chapter Of Genesis, the
committee meanwhile to follow him
closely and correct any mistakes. He
then began, and recited verse after
verse from beginning to end Of the
chapter. Meanwhile the faces of the
committee presented curious study.
AS the young minister modestly con-
cluded and resumed his seat one Of the
committee was on his feet instantly,
moving that the Hebrew examination
be ended. The AYE" that followed was
heard block away. So the examina-
ton went on, to the continued surprise
Of the xaminers.-Woman's Home
Companion.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24
A Young Preachers Triumph.

An interesting incident occurred at
the time of the ordination Of Dr. Newell
Dwight Hills in his first pastorate. Mr..
Hills had already been examined in
theology and licensed to preach by the
Chicago Presbytery. But the Presby-
terry of Peoria insisted on a second ex-
animation. During the week following
his first sermon the leading clergymen
of that district gathered in his church
and were about to begin the quizzing
process. Hebrew was the first subject
for examination. At the last moment
it was discovered that the Hebrew COM
mittee had forgotten to bring Hebrew
bible. While the dismay thus occa-
stoned was at it's height the young can
didate-who occupied an embarrassing
seat on the platform before the divines
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24

gave judgment for the defendant,
Sheets, amounting to $136.S5. McKin-
ley's client was not satisfied with the
issue Of the case and took an appeal.
During the trial Of the case McKin-
ley had become engaged to marry Ida
SaXton, the belle Of the town of Can
ton, and, while the case was pendinng
between Rostetter and Sheets, McKin-
ley was getting ready for the wedding
tour. He was married in January, 1871.
His interest in this important event Of
his life is shown in letter written a
short time before his marriage to Judge
Amber, of Salem, Ohio, then congress
man from the district. The young
Canton attorney sent a letter Of in
quiry to Congressman Amber at Wash
ington and informing Mr.. Amber of his
approaching marriage.
The visit Of William Mckinley and
his bride to the national capital was an
eyentful occurrence in the young bride
groom's life. Another important event
in the life of Mckinley that caused him
to delay the case Of Rostetter and
Sheets was his canvass for prosecuting
attorney of Stark county. He was
nominated, partly as joke, for the
county had been strongly Democratic.
The opposing candidate was William
A. Lynch. Mckinley won.
Here is another strange thing clus-
tering about this period Of McKinley's
experience. The opposing counsel in
the Rostetter-Sheetsc case was also this
same William A. Lynch. Mckinley
won the election, and his bride; Lynch
won the law case. Two years later
Mckinley and Lynch were again op-
posing candidates for prosecuting at
torney. This was Lynch's turn, and he
defeated Mckinley. The; presiding
judge in the case, the parties to the
suit, and most Of the jurors are dead.
The little house used as a court by JUS
tice Loew still stands near his grocery
stores and serves as small store room.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24
When Fortune FaVOrS
70E was big, awkward fellow,

70E was a big, awkward fellow,
IT working with some patient skill
~ in an old-fashiOned saw-mill, and
living on the far outskirts Of a pretty
village.
His home was gray old farmhouse
where he dWelt with two maiden aunts,
one Of whom was weak, fragile in
valid, quick-tempered and querulous
the other was stout and strong ia body
but idiotlc and silent. Often he was
tempted to go away--to rush out into
the world and leave the old place to go
to the dogs and the old women to the
workhouse, but dOgged sense of duty
held him, so he stayed and worked on.
One Of the handsomest farms in Scott
County had stretched its green fields
about the old house twenty years ago,
but when Ralph Mydack's young wife
died and left her baby boy, the hus-
band, always retcent, had grown posi-
lively gloomy. His two sisters seldom
heard him speak, but one day, when
the little Ralph was 3 years old, his
moody father said, in strange, stern
way:
I'm going to sell the farm. You two
girls can live here in the old house, and
! will deposit enough in the bank to
keep you and the boy until | can send
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24
But an Empty Honor

A member of Parliament tells a
charming and touching story of the
Queen and Lady Roberts. When Lady
Roberts was at Windsor a few weeks
ago the Queen handed her a small par
Gel, saying: Here is something that
have tied up with my own hands. and
that beg you not to open until you get
home" On her return home Lady Rob
erts found that the parcel contained
the Victoria Cross won by her dead
son by his gallantry at the first battle
of Colenso.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24
A Cuban Milkman.

"How many cows there are about
the streets!" somebody eXclaims, and
then he is calmly informed that the
mornings milk is simply being deliv-
cred. A bunch of cattle and their
driver stop before house, and the
portero comes out with cup for the
mornings supply. 1t is seen then that
the cows are being MIXED from door
to door by the dairymen, for this is the
way the acute Cuban housewives have
taken to assure for their tables lac
teal supply which is entirely fresh and
absolutely pure. Otherwise the guile
loving vender might dilute the milk
before delivering 1t to his customers,
and craftily stir into the watery fluid
the juice of the sweet potato to color
1t up to duly rich and creamy cast.
Even with the cows MIXED before the
door one must continue to watch the
milkman, for l have even heard of
their having a rubber bag of water con-
cealed under their loose frocks and
connected with rubber tube running
down the inside of the sleeve, its tin
being concealed in the hollow of the
milking hand. Only gentle pressure
upon the bag of water within is needed
to thus cause both milk and water to
flow into the cup at the same time.
The milk vendors of Italy and India
have also learned their trade to perfec-
tion. for they practice this identical
trick.-Woman's Home Companion.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24
Bound Net to Be Outdone.

When President Kruger was last in
England he received visit from the
Duke of Abercorn, in the course of
which his grace informed Dom Paul
that he himself had been for years
member Of the British lower house,
and that his father had been lord lieu
tenant of Ireland. The president evil
IDENTIFY considered that his guests pres
ent rank was a great rise in life, for
he exclaimed, hastily, "Oh, that Is
nothing; my father was only a shep-
herdw
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24
THE HuRRYlNo HOURS.

How often the thought comes home to
me,
AS the moments hurry away,
of the many things l intend to do
Somehow, some time, some day.
There are promises that have not been
kept,
Though 1 always meant to be true,
But time is too short for all the things
That body intends to do.
j will answer letter, or read book,
L will write bit Of rhyme;
i will do the things that l ought to do
Some day when L have the time.
So look, beyond, as L hope and plan
For the days that are just ahead,
While the day that is here goes into the
grave
With its opportunities dead.
To-day is the only day we have, -.
OF tomorrow we can't be sure;
To seize the chance as it comes along
Is the way to make it secure.
For every year is shorter year,
And this is truth sublime;
A moment misspent is jewel lost
From the treasury Of time.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24

YOU some more. shall go to Australia"
Huldah, the invalid. cried out pite-
Ously, but her brother paid no heed;
hut Hannah, the idiot, stared stonlly
and spoke not.
That day the farm and the mill priv
ilege on the little river were sold to Il
large corporation that had been trying
for some time to buy it, in order to
erect a cotton mill there.
Ralph Mydnck came home and pack
ed his trunk, but his motions were un-
steady, his face pale, and before night
he was sick, very sick.
There was little that two helpless
women could do for him; the farm
hands were dismissed, all but Jared.
who was to take care OF the COW; SO
they sent him of for the doctor but
when he returned Ralph Mydack was
dead.
Ten bitter years dragged slowly by.
The little money in the bank was soon
exhausted. aud partly on charity, part
ly by the few vegetables neighbors
ntIDtu lutHl IUlNt III tlt
the two old women and the awkward,
Sullen hoy lived on.
II was well known that large sum
Of money had been paid to Mr.. Mydack
for his farm. but the corporation had
failed immediately after, so nothing
was done about the cotton mills. and
from the hour of payment, when the
legal papers were signed, all trace of
the money disappeared as etfectually
as though II had been dropped into the
sea of oblivion.
Lawyers searched the old house,
looked over the few papers that Mr..
Mydack had evidently intended to take
with him. searched his wearing apparel,
and gave up In despair.
Little Ralph grew up Il stout, healthy
lad and when he was 10 he asked some
of the neighbors to help him rig the old
saw-mill anew. that he might saw logs,
and thus eke out his scanty support.
Everybod! felt kindly toward him,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24

Laws sakes! that's courtin' now,
amt itT' And as they neither moved
nor spoke she went softly across the
floor and whispered: "Ralphie, boy, are
you gOin' to be marredT
"Yes, auntie," answered Gertrude,
"and we want your blessing"
But you want your money, too, don't
youY
"Yes, certainly; the marriage por-
tion," said Ralph, bitterly, brushing the
tears from his eyes and trying to face
his lonely life once more.
Then come upstairs" she laughed
out, in her queer, wild fashion.
What does she mean?" asked Ger
trude, wOnderingly.
81 do not know" Ralph answered. 81
have not heard her speak so many
words at a time in ten years."
Reckoning them to follow her, she
climbed the worn old stairs up to the
dusty garret, where broken chairs and
long-idle spinning wheels made up the
furniture.
Down behind the big chimney crept
the daft woman and drew out large,
loose bundle of rags, in which was sly
ly hidden rolls Of strong parchment.
They opened them there In the
changeful light that fitted through the
time-stained window.
There was $4,000 in gold-the price Of
the farm lands. Not great fortune,
1t is true, but a fabulous sum for the
young people, who were married ere
long, to the great wonder of the village
| folks.-New York News.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24

was directly instrumental In stopping
murder occurred In the Winter Palace,
when she heard slight noise which
indicated the presence of some s'tiss',.
ger in the Cars study. Without be-
traying the slightest anxiety, she beg
ged her husband to come and speak to
one of the children. He did so. She
locked the door and only gave up the
keys to party of soldiers, who found
that some one had just escaped through
the window.-Tit-Bits.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24
ROMANCE IN A TRIAL.
Mckinley Lost His First Case in Court
but Won Bride.

Mckinley Lost His First Case in Court,
but Won a Bride.
President Mckinley, as a young at
torney, lost his first case in the Com
mon Pleas court of Stark county, as
shown by the records, but he won a
bride. He was elected prosecuting at
torney during the trial. This case was
first heard before Justice Philip Loew,
of Navarro, Stark county, in 1869 Loew
is a rock-ribbed Democrat. He is still
Justice of the peace in the village OF
Navarro, and has held the office in an
unbroken line all these years.
John ROsetter, a farmer of Bethle-
hem township, Stark county, brought
action against Philip Sheets, his ten
ant, to recover damages of $21320. The
farmers had a quarred over some horse
breaking into wheat field. The plain
tiff caused an attachment to be issued
to satisfy his claim, should he win the
suit
Summons was served on Sheets
March Is, 1869. He demanded jury
trial. This was granted, and April 6
was fixed as the time to hear the case.
The parties were not ready, and the
case did not come to trial until May 8.
1t took three days to hear the evidence
and the arguments. The jury finally
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24
A Watchful Wife.

Twice the dowager Empress of Rus
sia has saved her husbands life. One
day, when in the Emperor's dressing
room, she observed that on his dressing
table lay curious-looking jewel case.
Something about its appearance arous-
ed her curiosity, and, taking it up, she
became aware that 1t was extremely
heavy. Without saying word she
went into her room and placed it care
fully in basin of water; then, send
ing for the prefect Of police whose
duties kept him much about the palace,
she begged him to have 1t examined,
and 1t was discovered to be one Of the
most marvellous Internal machines ever
invented by the ingenuity of man. The
second occasion on which the Empress
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24

and season after season, when the wa
ter was high, he would work night and
day among the fragrant pine and hem
lock logs, earning quite an independ
ence.
1t was here that Gertrude Kendennis
found him one day early in June.
He had seen her bright face about
there the year before, but had turned
away from her pleasant words with a
moOdiness that was almost rude. For
what had his weary, toilsome life to do
with beauty or kind words?
What, indeed? And yet she would
not let him be. She went every day and
watched, as by resistless fascination
that pitiless, great saw tearing its slow
way through the logs making them use
full while seeming only to destroy them.
He was 20 years old at last and she
was 10.
She had been fussing about the old
house, making Cruel for Aunt Huldah,
and trying to coax smile on Aunt
Hannah's stolid face, but really only
waiting for Ralph to return from the
village.
He came in soon, and seeing her
standing alone in the clean, poorly fur
nlshed room he went straight to her,
and, taking both her hands in his, he
said:
"Now, Gertrude-Miss Kendennis-
you must not come here in this manner.
People are talking of 1t down in the
village, and II your uncle should hear
of 1t he would send you, to- a nunnery
and kill me outright"
"Oh, you do not want me here" she
said, trying to speak playfully, but
with little moan in her voice.
Il do do" he answered, putting his
arm about her, holding her close, and
touching her hair with Il quick, caress-
ing motion. God knows it is worse
than death to send you away, but, my
darling, see the long, weary life
stretching before me. See the work to
be done here and you lowering like some
bright bird just out of reach. Could
drag you down to share this poor old
nest? No, no, it would not be right.
have served duty too long to dare de
sert her now"
"Butyouare so young" she murmur
ed, leaning her face on his shoulder
he could feel her breath against his
cheek.
His heart beat so fast he thought II
would strangle him, and that moment
of rapture paid him for the suffering OF
years.
80 young and so ambitious-ant
there Is the invention down at the mil
am sure that is going to work WELL"
"Yes; but l have been to the village
to-day for the last time trying to raise
even $50 to pay for the patent, and
can not do it. Nobody has any faith IL
1t; they think 1t is boys scheme, ant
I'm quite discouraged"
"Oh, If only had my money"
"Yes, but you have not, my darling
nor would l touch one penny of it II
you had. No, you must go back to youl
relatives. shall never marry, dear
but shall cherish your memory as my
one blessedest gift. Now, don't fee
badly-don't."
They were both sobbing together by
this time; she put her arm up around
his neck, and their two tear-wet faces
nestled against each other like two
grieved children.
Aunt Hannah put her white, flabby
face in at the door to say that dinnel
was ready, and, seeing the young peo
pie standing together there, she started
nervously and exclaimed:
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24
Opposed to Walking.

Most Chinese mandarins pass the
whole of their lives without taking a
single yard of exercise. The late Nam
king Viceroy Gather Of the Marquis
Tseng) was considered remarkable
character because he always walked
1000 steps day in his private garden.
Under no circumstances whatever is a
mandarin ever seen on foot in his own
jurisdiction.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-08-24

Wise is the man who acts as IL he ex-
pected to live hundred years, but is
to shuttle OF tomorrow.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-10

and with democrats O. both the silver and gold kinds. No one of any shade of belief seriously supposes that Bryan will make even a showing in New York. The governor does not share the general confidence of republicans ir Maryland. The party is torn by fac tions and the defection of Senator Wellington. who has q large following, may be fata! to tlpe republicans. Sim liar conditions in Delaware may lose that state to the republicans and there is compars lively little hope that Ken lucky vii; be kep; on the right side oe the fence.
 Those three states. trough, furnish the only field for democ: atic gains. In diana is regarded as absolutely sure for Mckinley by ai. increased majority over four years ago. Indiana then was a center of sound money senti- ment, whicn has steadily grown since. There is not the slightest doubt any where that Kansas will give the repub- lican ticket a strong and old time ma- jority. Many republican leaders ex- press confidence in Bryan's defeat in Nebraska and there is qualification of republicans and republican newspa- pers in Colorado which leaves little doubt that the Centennial state Wi! swing into the republican column.
 The contest between the national par ties has settled down to free silver The democratic leaders have found it impossible to awaken an interest in imperialism and as 10 trusts, the pao- pie decline to regard the question as an issue at all. It is a matter not yet before the house.