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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-24
FOUNTAIN OF ETERNAL YOUTH


Newark. n. j. Letter
Egg Harbor, this state, claims to
have a fountain of eternal youth. Itsf
chief exhibit is a man of f26 years,
who looks to be so ard acts as If he
were 80 He is Charles Smith and
records of the Masons and Elks prove
that the report of his extraordinary
age is correct. Smith and his friends
all believe in the fountain of youth,
and are firmly convinced that If they
keep on bathing there they can keep
off old age indefinitely. In conse-
quence, ANYBODY can go to the "foun-
tain" any day in the week and no
matter how low the mercury has fall
en-, he will see so to 100 persons wad-
ing around in the water with no more
apparent concern about the weather
than If it were the middle of July.
The fountain consists of a freely run
ming brook that flows through the
dense cedar woods that surround Egg
Harbor. To all appearances the water
Is no different from that in any other
ordinary brook The people who
battle there, however, claim that the
water has a wonderful effect on them.
But whether the water is the actual
cause OF the erect or not, 1t IS
fact that there is surprising number
OF very old people living Whereabouts
many from 70 to 100 years-who
LOOK ~ years younger than their ac-
tual age. Nearly every man and wom-
an In the town seems to have rudy
complexion, ana nearly every citizen
IN tne place takes MS bath IN the
brook more or less regularly.
Snt nid. this 1he most Epnd er=-
lut Oh me ioe' anu ne attriDuces ms
ase ana neaicn 10 the iact tnat ne mas
useqi regularly ior oo years what ronce
ue Leon sought
was not always IN good health
says 9li.n' @ came mere from new
iork broken down IN heaith over hait
a century ago 4 mad retired from all
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-24

The annual statistics relative to the
strength of the Swiss army have Just
been issued, and show thar there are
151,2 53 men in the first class, 81 ,546 in
the second. and 275. 296 In the third,
making grand total of et4. 1896 sol
diers Each man is a properly trained
soldier and marksman at 1000 yards.
Glasgow has a smallpox scare. and
100000 of its 100000 inhabitants have
been vaccinated already.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-24

The ravages Of the foot and mouth
disease in Argentine have resulted in
the loss of 14.OOO,0O0 sheep. The con-
sequent shortage IN the wool clip is
estimated at 7O,0OO.0OO pounds In
view OF the disaster to the sheep own
,ers the Argentine government has re-
duced the export duty on wool one
third.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-24

Take Garfield Tea for constipation;
1t has this to recommend it: It is made
from health-giving herbs and it surely
cures.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-24
TALK OF SPOONER.
WISCONSIN SENATOR MAY BE
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
Said to 10 tho Best Debater in Com
gress-Is Fail of Fire, WIT. aud Elo-
quence-A Forolble and Independsnt
Statesman. ''NtNft


nr washington LetterD antff
The eyes Of some of the political
prophets are on Senator John C.
:Spooner Of Wisconsin,. They think he
is good presidential timber and has
an excellent chance OF succeeding Nc
Kinley Spooner is an interesting fig
ure. He is small of stature. quick and
fiery in debate and one of the most
independent men in the senate. He
has been the ablest and most eloquent
defender of the present administration
in the great crisis of the last few years
and at the same time has shown the
most Independence. He threw down
the gauntlet to Senator Hanna and re-
fused to regard the ship subsidy bill
as party measure.
SOD .li a Powerful Debater.
Spooner is called the little giant of
debate in the senate. He does not
speak often He is reserved for emer-
gencies and when he speaks there is
full senate to hear him. He has all
the attributes of the orator and, coup
led with these, all the methods of
great lawyer. These combined make
him the most inyulnerable debater in
the senate. He has the fire of Tillman
and the culture of Jones, the quiet wit
of Mason and the profundity Of Hoar:
the eloquence of Depew or Foraker and
the exactness of statement of Plat or
Connecticut, or Hale of Maine. In
debate he combines all the qualities
of all the other foreible men in the
senate and with all these attributes he
has more independence than most of
them. When there are differences of
opinion, he holds to his own.
An Unmanagepble Article.
Spooner's one weakness as a presi-
Dental possibility is his unwillingness
TO be managed. Should he ever become
candidate for president his mana
ger would have to possess rare tact,
and allow him to think he was going
his own sweet way when being most
managed If he discovered that he was
not acting on his own Judgment, or
became suspicious that he was playing
a part, he wouldn't play
Spooner is an Indianan by birth, but
has been resident of Wisconsin since
1859 He was educated there, enlisted
in the Union army there carried a
musket in the ranks. and afterwards
Commanded a company in a Wisconsin,,
f.. I. + w was brevetted major at the
4 U Service and became private
and military secretary to Governor
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-24

Too many men like to stand around
and grunt while some other man
lifts.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-24

To have your lace curtains, white skirts
and shirt waists a dainty snow white. use
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-24

Man is the great wonder-H ermes
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-24

The Widows might may be the result
of practical experience
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-24

People who have the least to say usu-
ally have the most to say, Z
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-11-10
THE OLD GARDEN.

I know of a haunted garden where the old
tiEie flowers grow;
There are holyhocks and lilies In a long
ard stately row:
There are lilac trees by the gateway and
roses white and red
And the Southern woods spicy fragrance
follows the careless tread
A memory haunted garden, out of life's
busy way.
Where the spell Of vanished summers lin
gers the livelong day.
The Lands that planted these flowers have
moldered back to dust.
But their hearts are true and steadfast and
they seem to old in trust
The memories of the old-time, and those
whom men forget.
Perhaps for the lilac and lily the dead are
living yet.
Those whom our eyes can see not may tend
them still-who knows
OF the strange, sweet secrets hidden In the
red neart of the rose?
Does grandmother come to gather its pinks
and its pansies still
From the grave which kind hands made her
in the churchyard on the hill?
Does she know when the hlacs blossom
that she planted long ago?
Jhe question must go unanswered, but I
fancy it may be so;
And from the dear old garden not
flower 1 take away,
But leave them all to be gathered by the
hards that are dust to-day.
The National Magazine.
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-11-10
Never quit certainty for hope.
Losers are always in the wrong.
BUY at a market hut sell at hnl

Never quit certainty for hope.
Losers are always in the wrong.
Buy at a market. but sell at home.
The book of Maybes is very broad.
For a flying enemy make a silver bridge.
Who robs a scholar robs the public.
He who has but one coat cannot lend IL.
A good companion makes good company.
Better go about than fall into the ditch.
Better an empty house than an Ill tenant.
Plow or not plow. you must pay your
rent.
A handsome hostess is bad for the purse.
The disease man breads. that he dies Of.
A friend to everybody is a friend of no
body.
Many go out for wool and come home
shorn.
1t avails little TO the unfortunate to be
brave.
He who sows brambles must not so bare
foot.
When a friend asketh, there is no to-mor-
row.
He who eats the meat let him pick the
bone.
Fools make fashions and wise men fol-
low them.
Beware Of enemie, reconciled and meat
twice boiled.
Life without friend. death without a
witness
The submitting TO one wrong brings on
another.
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-11-10

bells are Ginning out for evensong, will
show these interested the tiny girl CHOIR
listers from Grace Day Nursery. They
are the little ones who are left to be
cared for during the day. while the
mothers are at work downtown. This
is the youngest as well as the oldest,
choir of the six. the smallest members
being tots Of 4. while the eldest is but 3.
But the yearly relays have been coming In
for eighteen years. Their little pinafore
gowns and Dutch caps are of spotless
white. When the last deep note Of He
Leadeth Ne has boomed out from the
chimes overhead, the babies. led by the
organst. Miss Bertha Thomas. begin their
professional.
As the curving whiterobed throng de-
voutly bows and chants forth the Gloria
ones inner eye receives a picture to carry
away into the busy street And the de-
scriptive line under the pretty mental scene
is the strain from one Of their own hymns:
Cherubim and seraphim.
Falling down before Thee,
Which vert and art
And eyermore shall be
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-11-10
BABY-GIRL CHOIRS SING in
SIX NEW YORK CHURCHES.

firmary The sound of sweet childish
voices in an anthem of praise-a real an
them too-fioated down the long corri-
dor.
The opened door let out burst of song
as bright flame streams from an unclosed
furnace. pouring gladly from a throng OF
about twenty-one demurely capped and
gowned little maidens. ranging in age
from to IL years. Their leader is Mr..
Alex w Mcclure, who surely possesses the
art of extracting music from children.
sometimes a difficult process. For the nun
like looks of few of them are often but a
cover to occasional outbursts from the
seething mischief within. says tie Home
Magazine.
lightedly-as many were not shut out by
the tragic closed tone door of deafness
from the world of sound into the white
land of silence. These seemed almost to
listen with their eyes. so closely they
watched the sweet little faces.
''Then We have the chapel choir be-
sides" said Miss Hall. which sings at
the Parish House, in Avenue A. on
Tomkins square. They are about the
same ages as these. and except that the
caps are mortar boards. their vestments
are the same"
1t is not so very long ago that vested
choirs in New York were given over ex-
clusively to boys voices. the very evanes-
cence of which gave halo which does
net always belong, musically speaking.
A boy soprano while in its short day OF
perfection is abnormal and therefore in
teresting. like any other fieeting, short
lived thing. as an Indian summer a
butterfly. But they are not invariably
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-11-10
An IDYL OF THE PARK,


Unmindful of who passes;
Around them sparrows chirp and fit
Among the leaves and grasses.
Along the path that skirts their feet
The babies take their airing.
And refugees from dusty street
Stroll chatting, jesting. staring.
Fond lovers they-within his arm
She nesties all securely.
He holds her fast from stress and harm.
She yields to him demurely,
What matters gibe or sneer? Soft skies
OF perfect blue are DER them,
And seen through one another's eyes
The vista opes before them.
No doubt her gown is cheap; perchance
Her hat no French creation;
But naught is lacking to his glance
OF tender alteration.
And II the hand that covers hers
Is calloused. brown. gigantic,
Her pulse beneath its pressure stirs
With thrill no less romantic.
Some urchins scoff; some sparrows chan;
A robin carols sweetly:
A couple turns to look and laugh:
A nursemaid Smiles discreetly,
And l. in noting the embrace,
A sigh would vainly smother,
For 10, defying time and place,
Two hearts have found each other.
Edwin l.. Sabin In Leslie's Weekly.
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-11-10

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- - - .,
ih NC" iilI' "a
1nai
4eii'h S'ieet, '9N1N IN
the 'isi'oi u'u H0' "e ''o'
"aps eNOAs' '"O"sH' io' t"e.
OF tWo' s'iiie 'iii,es i"Oi'i oA o'ue,
just u give pdoNoohe ~ 'ne
won preah oo"n INC 'os ViiO'.9
ooh naNe it d" 'iieir own way ""S ,os
er' IheNr htlie sis'eis are pu'',"s piu'ip
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-11-10

tuneful. And the transition period is not
often melodious-a wingless chrysalis. a
chill November day and a boys changing
voice belong In the same place-evolu-
tinary but frictious Then the work Is
heavy and so the assistance Of the baby
choir Is called in.
THREE YEARS IN SERVICE.
At the Church of the Epiphany, corner
Lexington avenue and Thirty-ffth street.
is another little girl choir which has been
doing duty for three years in the Sunday
school and at extra services. In this
choir few older girls give a firm un-
dertone foundation to the volume of
melody. but most OF the singers average
but or 10 birthdays each. Miss Pegram
is their director.
Only one of these choirs that of st.
Michael ., in Brooklyn. has become dis
organized since Lent. Among its mem
bers is a little colored girl possessed OF
a very full musical contralto voice.
Deaconess Adams has them In charge.
The garb of these girls is rich purple
shade. caps and all.
Much to their great disappointment,
one group of the verJ smallest of these
baby singers not able to be present
at the first girl choir festival ever held
in New York. at st. Marks not long after
Easter this year.
And all on account of a very awesome
unknown thing. a powerful giant called
Quarantine. For St. Barnabas Home, at
No. 30i Mulberry street. had a case of scar
let fever at that time.
But Miss Edith Hopkins. who teaches
them the chanted Magnificats ana
Nenites that seem so big for such tiny
warblers Of or years. found home enter
tainment for them. So the babies were
made happy again, as well as the sturdy
little boys OF and who help in st. Barn.
abas's choir music.
A visit to Grace Church. Broadway and
Tenth street, any day at 4:3l. as the
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-11-10
VALUE OF EDUCATION.

Once upon & time crow sat OH a high
branch of a tree with large bit OF cheese
in his mouth. when an envious and hungry
fox came prowling along and spied the
choice morseI
You are beautiful bird" said the cum
ming fox, ''and yet your great beauty is not
equal to your marvellous voice. which
charms all of the beasts Of the forest. Pray.
Mrs. Crow. do let me hear you sing
The crow turned her head to one side. as
Is the habit with such birds. and looked at
Mr.. Fox. Then she deliberately ate the
cheese. and. after clearing her voice.
spoke.
Thank you for your compliment. Mr.
Fox" she said. If you will wait minute
will sing for you. I never speak or sing
until after dinner. since l have been read
ing ancient fables"
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-11-10
THE FLOWER OF NOVEMBER.

With the waning Of the autumn comes a
radiant. gracious bloom,
The chrysanthemum's rich glory set against
November's gloom.
1t ushers in the winter as the Mayfower
does the spring.
Aromatic ordors of the forest seem to cling
To its ragged. rumpied petals. to its glow
ing heart Of gold;
The rare fragrance of the pine tree distilled
by bitter cold
1t were as though the festal month, the
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-11-10
closing of the year.

OAOoihS VI biit edIs
Waited some burst Of sunshine across her
skies drear:
1t comes-in pearly plnks Of dawn. in GRIM
son OF the west.
In the gold and snow of ermine that might
garb a royal guest.
IT'S the farewell of the autumn. this child
OF frost and fire.
Its brave memory lives till green things
come TO fill the hearts desire
Good Housekeeping
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-11-10

The fox did not wait. but trotted on his
way.
MoraI-A literary education Is not without
value
The St. Louis Republic., 1901-11-10

A blow from frying pan. though it does
not hurt il sullies.
A friar who asks aims for Gods sake asks
for two.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-21
They Do Expect Il.
And Are Not-Ohen
Disappointed.

" Americans who go abroad must
expect to be robbed right and left,D says
the Philadelphia Record. One expects to
be held up for all sorts of tips, but when
the beggarS follow you home you can't help
feeling a sort of admiration tor their inge.
nuity. [ went over on one of Che Red Star
Line boats, and the first thing l did On
landing at Antwerp was to go to the cable
office and sent a message to my mother,
announcing my safe arrival. | paid the
toll and thought no more about it until
got home, when, among my mail, | found
a letter from the Antwerp operator, ad-
dressed in care of my mother, saying that
through an error he had not charged me
enough for my cablegram sent on such aud
such date; that he had been obliged to
pay the difference out of bis own pocket, and
as his salary was very small and he had q
large family and all that sort of thing, he
felt sure / would reimburse him. The
amount was a trfling one, and | did send
him a foreign money order have since
learned from experienced travellers that |
had been made the victim Of a systematic
fern of robbery and that scarcely "a cablegram
is sent from the other side unless it is Of a
business nature, that is not followed by
some such plea from the European OPERATOR
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-21
End d Army Transport Service.
Where the Ships Will
Go Now.

The last army transport to ply between
the United States and Cuba left New York
on Wednesday, June 5. On that date the
Sedgwick, having on board one hundred
horses, few recruits, and cargo of gen.
eTal supplies, left New York for Matanzas,
Havana. Cienfuegos, and Santiago. When
she returns to the Brooklyn navyyard she
will be put out of commission and held to
await orders from Washington, says the
n. Y. Post.
The transport "McClellan,n that lett New
York with general cargo on May % for
San Juan and ports on the east of Cuba,
will return at about the same time and will
be held for orders also.
Officers of the Army Building do not
know what is to be done with the trans
ports that were used between the United
States and Cuba and Porto Rico, but it is
believed that three of them will be retain
ed for the Philippine service. When the
Spanish-Americsn war ended five transports
were retained for the use Of the army in
Cuba and Porto Rico. They we're the
Crook, Sedgacick, McClella1, Roland, and
Mcpherson. 1t is generally understood that
the Roland will be retained for use in the
Navy. The Mcpherson recently ran aground
on the Cuban coast but has now been taken
off. The future of the other three ships is
in doubt.
The army transport service between tht
United States and the Philippines, vii
probably he continued for some time. The
next transport to sail from this port vii
be the ingalls,, which is scheduled to leave
on June % for Manila.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-21

cit takes nine tailors to make man..
Swiggett has more than that number.
1t yoI wish fer up to date clothes go to
Swiggett.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-21

At Rochester, New York combination
of Greater New York and Buffalo veterans
at the Grand Army encampment the same
day elected Charles a. Orr of Buffalo De
parment Commander for New York, over
Horace B. EllswCrt of Canton, 10y vote
of 4Gl TO 2G3. Mr.. Orr is Pension Agent
at Buffalo.
The encampment adopted scathing reso
tions denounCiug Pension Commissioner
Evans course in conducting his department.
Police Commissioner Michael q. Murphy
of New y ork headed the EllsUorth ticlet
as alternate atlarge to the National En-
campment
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-21
New Occupation For Women.

Following are some examples OF the great
variety of occupations engaged in by women
in the United States: In Georgia and
Texas women serve as mal-cariers. In
West Virginia a woman drives locomoti
We engine. ia the neIghborb0od of New
York woman contracts for the removal
of wrecks, owns her own plant and supports
her children on the proceeds and Virgi-
man lady earns her living as a trainer of
saddle horses.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-21

SO They Say.

One ofthe largest combinations of yellow
pine lumber manufacturers attempted in
the Southwest is about to be closed up here.
The deal is to be controlled by syndicate
of Boston capitalists who have long beea
interested in yeIlow-pine timber holdings
IN eastern Texas.
The combine viii not control the yellow
pine market, and does not aim to. The
combination is for the purpose Of economic
management Of kindred interests which
must be antagonistic if operated individual
lly. The new corporation. which will take
in all the properties, will be capitalized for
more than S15000,000, perhaps as much
as 100000, ,000.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-21
More Votes.

1t will take Is more votes to elect the
next President of the United States than it
took last tall The reapportionment increa
ses the membership of the House of Repre-
presentatives and, of course, of the electoral
collage. There will be 476 members of the
next electoral college. One coed result Of
this increase will be, 1t is believed, to rem
owe New York farther from its former posi-.
ton as pivotal state, and thereby distribu
te the excitement of the election more evenly
over the country.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-21
kU
Jacks and Queens Of Hearts.

a summer campaign Of hearts, owing to
the scarcity of men in winthrop, is the way
an attorney, j. X. Berry, explains the trOu-
bles which brouhht about The suit of Miss
Grace Efiler, of Albany, n Y, to recover
$25,000 from Joseph Middleby, Jr., and
Robert Vickery, two busslnes men, for
alleged slauder in accusing her of sending
them letters of an Objectionable pature while
the parties to the suit icere all stopping at
fashionable Winthrop hotel last summer.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-21
To Our Readers.
TIME TABLE
In effect April Ist, 1901

Our columns are ouen to correspondence
on everything affecting the coffee, sugar
and tobacco plantation and farming generally
and we cordially invite criticism and discus
sion. Natural History notes will also be
welcomed, as well as all news OF interest ad
planters. Communications should be to
dressed: The Editor, BOLETIN MER-
CANTIL, 70 Plaza Alfonso, San Juan,
IS
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-21
EncanpnentS Oon0unco Evans.

AT the closing session of the recent En-
campment of the Grand Army Of the Re
public, Department of Pennsylvania, re-
solution was adopted directing the delegates
to the National Encampment to vote for a
resolution requesting President Mckinley
at once to remove H. Clay Evans from the
position of Pension Commissioner con &C
count OF his unfair and unpatriotic actions
towards the comrades Of the war and their
Widows -
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-21
Not Wide ODeD..

The Councilmen of Buffalo by unanim.
GUS vote disapproyed the action of the Al
dermen in permitting concert saloons to
continue business in this city during the
Pan American Exposition. This as during
the Fair. In these places hereafter music,
singing, or dancing may be permitted, but
no two of the forms of entertainment can
be given in the same place at the same
time.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-21
Those ''HOn0rod' Americans.

In the Court Circulars announcement
Of His Majesty's reception Of the American
delegates at Windsor, a graceful departure
from custom is noticeable in t e. omission
Of the usual intimaton that an "honol"
was conferred upon the visitors by the royal
reception.
Commenting upon this omission the
Daily Chronicle says:
awe are Qaite sure the Americans felt
that an honor was done them, and that
they appreciated it all the more for not
being officially Informed of the fact"