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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
OLD-TlME NEGRO JOCKEY NOW
A BOSTON CHIMNEY SWEEP.
Rode Some Famous Races Before the Civil War for His Master, Gov
ernor Geary of Virginia, and Had Experiences in England.

trafic In negro slaves. He owned a vessel
e. .ied the ueoIgla. which he ran between
Baltimore and New Orleans. picking up
capital for auction.
He took contracts from large planters
all over the South TO supply laborers OF
all kinds and had agents at every prin-
cipal port and large city OF the country.
He was reputed TO be a very wealthy
man. and owned many hundred negroes.
Fountain was very fond OF horses, and
owned a number of them in different parts
Of the South.
There was great rivalry between him and
Governor Geary. One spring Fountain
brought out a horse called Winslow. a run
ming stallion. which in two years van
pushed everything hat he was raced
against. Belonging TO the Greary stables
was a famous horse called Busterminter
which also had a remarkable reputation.
He had made a new record for the James
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
Story of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Par
IRISH the Strangest Of All Those
That Have Grown Out Of
Terrible Tidal Wave.
EACH THOUGHT OTHER DEAD.
Husband Went to New Mexico and
Wife to Tennessee-m Health
Took Her to the West,
Where She Met Hus-
81 band on Street.

REPUBLIC PECTAL
Santa Fe, n. NJ. Aug. a.-Chance never
figured in a prettier romance than NAT
which has reunited Frank Parrish and his
young wife. and brought TO them the oe-
lights of a second honeymoon
The man and his wife were living in Gal
weston. Tex, at the time Of the terrible
tidal wave of last year. They were caught
in the food and separated. The man was
nearly drowned, carried across the bay. and
lay an invalid in the house CT q stranger
for weeks. The wife sought him hope.ess.y
for days. then donned Widows weeds and
went 10 the home Of distant relatives at
Murtreesboro. Tenn.
The man. as soon as he had partly re-
Raiped his strength, sought among the
ruins Of his home for his w!fe's body 1t
was not there. He widened the circle OF
his search. but never did he find q trace Of
her. D!sconsolate. sick, weary Of life. he
went TO the ranch Of a brother near Ros-
well. n. n.
chance drawing the wife to this State, a
few DAYS axo., reunited this trasical.y
parted couple. and. happy in their reunion.
they are spending their second honeymoon
on the brothers ranch.
Separated By the f1OOd.
When the Galveston food swept over the
city both Parrish and his wife were at
their little home. Az the water rose they
clasped each other in their arms. Then
their house was lifted from Its foundations
and the merciiess wave swept the husband
and wife out into the darkness. the flood
and the storm.
The husband swan bravely. shouting for
help to the winds which wGist.ed their deri-
sion. His arms grew weak; he could feel
his wife slipping. inch b. inch. from his
embrace. He could feel that his swimming
stroke was impotent against the waves.
Then he sank. The water closed over hin.
The choi lis of the winds was nrow aed BY
the strange. harsh music OF water rusning
into the esre. He CHECKED. He felt the
woman beside him.
Then al was still -,
when CONSCIOUSNESS returned. to Parrish
he toundh himself IN . farmers home on the
main iano, The farmer t9,a DIP: ply oy, nss
and Of his Miraculous escape from death
being buffetIed across the Gay and thrown
upon the beach, where. BY merest chance
tle farmer had found him and brought him
Psrrisi Gees 70 New MexseO.
Two months passed before the sick man
was able TO return to the scene o. bis for
mer happiness. SaddeRed and desoiate. hi
wandered over the ground whose land
marks had been swept ewax oy the Anse'
now 'n 50 e ss1snasiy s Uttered. Hs inssred b
grave. EveryWner he asked the same CUES
tou. ana everyWhsrs he received the SAME
olseourastng answef; ~,f. .snc. N. r,,,,
a. No o. one had seen his ""' "no' the n'sn'
His heart grew heavy With di.psic; H.
bad Good-br TO the wreck OF hle fortune
a the resting place o. m neoken hopc3
Thsn = turned bis facs eCSssn - aela
to begin lifs over again. s'ons' 1ness could
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
r f. II. PARRISH.

for youth is buoyant and recuperative: but
mind and heart were not at rest-her loss
was SO melancholy that her relatives final
~ planned a change OF scene for her. She
acquiesced with Indifference.
had been a merry mate for the man who
loved her. Now she was pensive and sad;
her thoughts always with the husband
one OF Mrs. Parrish's new-found friends
was a Mss Ellen Alexander. who was about
to leave Tennessee for. New Mexico TO
teach In a private scnooi IN StSto SSunty;
was rranged that Mrs. Parrish should &C
company her. In Mexico she would md
perhaps enliven her depressed spirits.
Late In July Mrs. Parr sh and NlsS Alex
ander arrived in Roswell. The day was
which they were to proceed to Lincoln and
Captain, at wh'ch place Miss Alexander has
das.
Reuaiss.
The next day Mr.. Parrish came to town
to purchase supplies and machinery. He
delayed until Sunday. He was dissppointea.
the little tow Without knowing II. both
detained there against their wills.
On Sunday. ut noon. Mira Parrish left the
hG oa san %s,eh al she n cas 'i aL p sSa : .a IN
team ready. stepped from the post ONCE 70
the sidewalk, and in another moment would
have mounted the vehicle. taken up the
rein~ and been on his way to the noun
tailis.
Looking up. he saw before mm what he
thought was q vision-a wrath from the
sea But the vision was % real that n
did not me { in the sun b ne Of that Sabbath
noon. 1t did not fade away. as all the o1ner
visions OF his lost love had faded. phantomz
of a fond i~masinatiou. Irstead. II he'd out
two lorging. trembling arms. and the nsht
of deathless devotion uumined its face.
MY wife. My wife!"
And so It Is that . second honsymoon has
hcgun down here In the New Mexico noun
taipl.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
REPURLIc SPECIAL

Boston. Mass, Aug. a-Bankers ana
brokers of State street who have been hor-
rying by the old Statehouse have remarked
an old colored man standing or sitting near
the Washington street entrance TO tnis MS
tor;c building, and many OF them NAYS
paused to take a closer look at nim- ine
was odd because of his tall SIX NAT, Win
a big sign displayed on 1t, bearing IN ooid
letters the legend:
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04

An innovation In preparation for theatri-
cal productions in this country will be tried
next Monday. when James X Hackett will
begin rehearsais Of Don Caesars Return"
Instead Of following the uncertain custom
of waiting until the last few hours before
time for ringing up the initial curtain be-
fore getting scenery. properties" and the
like IN shape, delaying the use Of special
settings until the first performance. Mr..
Hackett viii begin rehearsals with all the
scenery, costumes and equipment of every
sort necessary for the performance on the
opening night. Thus Mr.. Hackett will have
the immense advantage Of nearly a months
work on the production. In perfecting de-
tails and looking after the innumerabie '1it-
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04
Earle lane and had never been beaten in
any race that he had entered.

Fountain and the Governor got together
in Baltimore and arranged a meeting be-
tween the two giants. The course was the
James Earle lane and each party was to
wager all the negroes that he owned and
a stated sum of money besides. Each Of
the gentlemen had very close to 800 negroes
and their market value was considerable.
which. in addition to the money wagered.
made the stake of the race many thousands
OF dollars larger than anything that Mary
land had ever heard of before
The proposed meeting created the greatest
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-04

Retail DPugxfsts' ExcursfOn-Tho
Retail Druggists Association Of St Louis
will give An excursion on the steamer CITY
OF Providence next Wednesday evening.
The committee in charge Of the affair 10
COMPOSED Of T: F. Hagenow. Charles W..
II. Hahn. Charles r. Merrsm, H. w. Friede.
wald and +. Schweickhardt.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-18
niscoxerers of America.

The Rev. Shuye Sonoda, Buddhist
priest of Japan, has returned from
Mexico with what he regards as con-
ed America 1000 years before Column
bus and carried their faith along the
Pacific coats from Alaska to Mexico.
Sonoda has been assisted by Senior
Batres, archaeologist of the Mexican
government. Sonoda followed the
chronicles of Hoeirshin, a Buddhist
monk, who, in 400 A. D., returned to
his native land with an account of ex-
plorations that reached to land he
called Flu Sang, now Identified with
Mexico because of the maguey plant.
Sonoda found innumerable evidences
of Buddhist influence over the natives
of Mexico. Some of these were the
Mexican zodiac with it's twenty-eight
hours. Buddha Zaca, oriental letter
ings and signs ON temples, stones, i'm
ages and pottery and hundreds of
names which are slightly corrupted
from TIE Japanese. The temples he
found invariably facing south as in
Tibet, the home of Buddhism, and in
the mosaics at Uitla he found the com
mon cross of Tibet.
He also found strong racial resem
blances in features between the Mexican
and California mission Indians and the
Japanese. So strong were these resem
blances in features that when a Cali
fornia mission Indian was dressed In
Japanese costume and photographed
Prof John Eyer of the chair of oriental
languages, University of California
declared the photograph was of Jap
anese of the northern islands and bore
no resemblance to the Californif
| Indian.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-18
LAW AS INTERPRETED.

A dangerous practice of mail agents
of throwing the mail from a moving
train so as to endanger persons ON the
railroad premises is held, in Shaw VS..
Chicago and G. 7. R. Co. (NIich.), 40
L. R. A. 30S, to make the railroad
company liable to an intending pas
senger who was on the railroad plat
form and who was injured by mail
bag thrown against him, if the car
rier had knowledge of the dangerous
practice and had allowed it to continue.
Duty of care to avoid injury to tres
passers on a railroad track Is held, in
Cleveland, G. G. & st. L. R. Co. VS..
Tart &C. G. App. 18th c., 40 L. R. A.
SO, not to arise until those in charge
of train have discovered the presence
of such trespassers on or dangerously
near the track and have reasonable
cause to believe that injury to them
will result unless the train is arrested.
Liability does not arise merely because
their presence might have been sooner
discovered and the train is running at
an unlawful speed.
Judgment for money and for the fore
closure of a mortgage upon real estate
against a deceased defendant who had
Heretofore been duly served with pro-
cess is held, in Kager VS.. Vickery
(Kan), 40 L. R. A. 1874, to be void, al
though the fact of death does not ap
pear upon the record. and to be col
literally impeachable by heirs who
were not parties to the foreclosure and
who sue for the land. With this case
the great number of authorities on tho
effect of judgment entered against 6
dead person are collected and analysed
showing the conclusions at which the
courts have arrived.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-18
Not unnSuaI.

Are women given more to supersti-
ton than men? Truly they have their
full share of it. There's one woman
known to the writer who never dreams
of a young child without shivering and
shaking for days after, in fear of some
dreadful thing happening to her. She
has not consulted dream book on the
subject, and she doesn't know how in
FAINT and bad luck became connected In
her mind, but nevertheless, after she's
had a visitant of this sort while sleep
Ing, she says prayers Of unusual length
and then makes up her mind to be pa.
tient under Affections sore.
She's an intelligent woman, mind
you, but she doesn't attempt to explain
the terror that besets her at this par
ticular dream. She doesn't call herself
superstitious-of course, no woman
does, not even the one who won't wall
under a ladder-but her friends laugh
at her until she exposes some fetch Of
theirs, when the subject is carefully
avoided afterward.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-18
me Isle Gets Smaller.

With regard to the east coast a sorry
story has to be told. The county Of
Yorkshire for instance, from Bridling-
ton to Spurn Head, has been disappear
ing, it is calculated, at an average rate
of six feet year. 1t is said that care
full observation of a certain twelve
mile stretch shows that the cliffs forty
feet high have been eaten away by the
waves for 1872 feet in forty years, says
Good Words. 1t is, however, at Spurn
Head that the greatest ravages have
taken place.
In Edward is time the village of
Rayenspur, seaport near Spurn Head,
sent more than one member to parlia-
ment; in 1899 and 1471 Henry " and
Edward ", respectively, landed there,
but very soon after the latters visit
the entire town was swept away by
the sea. To-day the village of Kilnsea
alone stands upon the head; the old
site of the village-once fair place or
hill, with fine old church, destroyed
by the waves, in 1S26-is now some
hundreds Of yards below high-watel
mark, and when New Kilnsea joins il
the sea and the Humber will not take
long to destroy the entire promontory
and make things very unpleasant a
| Grimsby. The Blue Bell inn, halfway
between the sea and the river, bears
stone upon which is inscribed, Bull
in the year 1S47, 534 yards from til,
sea-" When measured early las
spring the distance was 334 yards.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-18
The "JOlIy-Er."

I'm allus kind O. glad to see the "jolly-er'
come along;
The Teller that kin tell joke or mebbe
sing a song;
The man that puts up lightnin' rods you
really didn't need
Or sells you ground that isn't with the
paper in the deed.
He has way O. shakin' hands an sayin'
"How-dy do!'
That jes' convinces you he thinks the
world an all O. you.
He doesn' keer fur money; he is seeh a
generous elf
An purity soon he has you feelin' jes'
that way yourself!
But don't bear him any grudge; 1 jes'
take off my hat,
He's made this oil world brighter, an I'm
'bliged to him fur that.
l listen to his stories IAN at some I'm
laughing yit),
An try to git off jes' as cheap as reason
will permit.
Fur it's wuth little somethin' to have
some one comm out
To make you feel that you're the real
thing without a doubt;
A regular steppin', thoroughbred-much
swifter than the throng-
You feel that you're right in it when the
jolly-er comes along.
Washington Star.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-18
DIPLOMACY IN A RESTAURANT,
One Way of Getting Rid of an Unde-

One Way of Getting Rid of an Unde-
sirable Guest Without a Fuss.
81 know now why one restaurant
keeper is successful" remarked brok-
er the other day. 81 was in the main
dining-room at 8 o'clock one evening
with a party Of men. We noticed
little commotion near the entrance,
and saw that it was caused by the ar
rival of a well-dressed, good-natured-
looking man, whose bearing showed
that he had been out with the boys.
He wasn't noisy or offensive, but he
couldn't have walked a chalk line if
his life depended upon it.
"Hecame down the room in an uncer
tain way, shelled off his overcoat, put
it with his hat on a chair, sat down,
folded his arms on the table, and went
to sleep. The walters looked at him
and ran after the head waiter. The
latter walked up to the sleeping man
as though he intended to awaken him.
Then he stopped and called waiter.
Go for the proprietor he said.
"The proprietor came.
That's so-and-so,' said the head
waiter. He's a good customer, but
he's very drunk, and he's gone fast
asleep. What shall 1 do? Shall wake
] him up?
We mustn't offend him. said the
proprietor. III tell you what to do"
| Then he whispered to the head waiter
and went away. The head waiter call
ed a waiter and in turn whispered to
him. Then he went away.
1.-THE waiter went to the china pant
! ry and came back with finger bowl.
This he put on the table. where the
sleeping man was. In doing so he rub
bed the fingers of the sleeper. The
man Strengthened up and opened his
eyes. The boy was not looking at him
but had picked up the water bottle and
was filling the finger bowl. In doing
so he knocked the bowl with the bottle
so that it rang like bell.
1.-THE drunken man looked at it with
frightening eyes. The boy paid no at
tention to him, but shook out napkin
which he laid beside the finger bowl
By this time the drunken man was full
ly awake. The boy took up his over
coat and stood respectfully at one side
as if waiting for the man to rise.
"The drunken man put his fingers il
the finger bowl, dried his fingers OF
the napkin, and rose. The boy was be
hind him in a moment, and in another
the overcoat was on the mans back
his hat was in his hand, and he was
headed for the door. He put his han(
into his pocket, slipped coin to the
boy, and walked out.
"Now that restaurant-keeper is
great man. He's a diplomat. n,
trouble, no noise, no row, every on,
satisfied and happy. That fellow ough
to be an ambassador. He'd make :
success of ANYTHING"
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-18
@HE table was charming. T

GO HE table was charming. The
pearly expanse of damask that
a EMBODIED it was one of the Misses
Dormond's most treasured possessions,
saved out of a general wreck of family
fortunes.
The old-fashioned silver of those in
imitable patterns which no modern
shop can supply, cleaned like irregu
larly shaped planets at intervals across
the cloth.
Moreover, a daffodil bulb cherished
in windowsill warmth, had obligingly
thrown out a handful of blossoms. This
pot, sheathed in yellow tissue paper
made thoroughly attractive center
piece.
at is simply lovely" said Winifred,
with a little sigh of relief and satisfac-
ton. 81 shan't be in the least afraid to
have Mrs. Caulkington's eagle eye
turned upon it, even though you are a
candidate for her secretaryship, Isabel,
and so much does depend upon making
good impression"
1.-The house couldn't fail to make a
good impression" Isabel broke in. 'It
is clean and sweet and old-fashioned
from top to toe. One can't say that a
house has toe? There's just one thing
lacking-I do wish we had good maid
to wait on the table. 1 hate those en-
barrassing breaks in home luncheon,
where the hostess is obliged to cut off
in the middle CT a sentence and bolt
into the kitchen to bring the broiled
squad course to table.
Eyes. That's always wretchedly en-
barrassing," Isabel agreed. ITS harder
on the guests than the hostess, too
However, there's no help for it. We
don't keep maid, and this suburb isn't
place where you can find a girl to call
in for a day at time. It's pity, but il
can't be helped"
what is pity but can't be helpedF
demanded the youngest Miss Dormond
who piroutted into the room just in
time to hear the last half of the sen
tence.
Isabel and were just lamenting
that we didn't have a maid to serve the
luncheon, Gertrude. We were saying
how desperately embarrassing it is fol
a hostess to jump up to remove the
plates after a course and to bring the
next course to table,"
81 never thought of that" Gertrud,
acquiesced in disappointed tone. "Ou
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-18
MAKING NEWS.
Arthur Brisbane Gets John L. to Spar
Before the Prince of Wales.

Arthur Brisbane Gets John L. to Spar
Before the Prince of Wales.
'The layman who is unacquainted
with newspaper methods may be inter-
ested in knowing just how one goes
about making piece of news. The
best illustration of this, perhaps, is
Arthur Brisbane's arrangement for
John L. Sullivan to box before the
Prince of Wales. At this time Mr..
Brisbane was London correspondent
for the New York Sun. 1t should be
understood that the competition among
the London representatives is just as
keen as though they were serving their
separate papers on Park Row, and,
though living in an atmosphere of less
aggressive journalism, they never, for
a moment, forget their American educa-
ton. In this matter Mr.. Brisbane was
actuated by no other motive than to
triumph over his rivals with legiti-
mate beat, and he found the great
American bruiser but too glad to second
the idea on the percentage of free adj
vertisement. The Sun man worked
quietly, quickly, and so successfully
that the night for the performance
came without any one knowing of it ex-
cepting the Prince, his friends and the
members of the fashionable club that
sheltered the twelve-foot ring.
"At the moment when the referee
stepped out to announce the fighters
the Princes equerry discovered that
there was present an untitled person,
and, what was more deplorable, a news
paper man. AS the result of this dis
covery, Mr.. Brisbane was ordered to
leave the club instantly.
But he objected, 4 am responsible
for this whole thing. You are not going
to put me outY
1.-THE equerry would not hear him,
and Mr.. Brisbane, desperate and
angry, played his last card. We'll,
John, he said turning to where the
champion stood toying with one huge
picked paw, I've got to go. Whatll
you do"
That's what I'll do replied the
champion of the world, picking up his
coat and glaring savagely at the equer.
~. IL IAdb yOuhS lCllCl 6OCS, IhCh u
go, understan' :? and the audience was
dismayed to see fighter and reporter
abandon the ringside. 1t would not do
however, to disappoint His Royal High
ness so dlsgracefully, and the equerry
and Mr.. Brisbane finally compromised
by the latter promising to write the &C
count only for the American press. The
Sun, of course, had a great beat mex
day, and every newspaper in America
and England quoted the anecdote o.
John LIS reception by Albert Edward
"Mr. Sullivan's speech at that periot
had extreme limitations, and when in
troduced to a distinguished person b,
invariably used the same set phrase
To the present King Of England, afte
shaking hands, he observed with dig
nifty and cheerfulness, Prince, In
glad to meet you. I've often heard o
you "-Ainslee's.