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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-28
CONGRATULATED SCHLEY
COLONEL ROOSEVELT SENT A MES
SAGE TO THE COMMODORE.
1t Was Verbal, but the Bearer of It Is
Still Alive and Is in
the Navy.


New York, December 27.-1he Worlds
special from Philadelphia says Say to
Commodore Schley that Theodore Roose-
welt, until recently assistant secretary Of
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ECZEMA, NO CURE, NO "a, nou.
Your druggist will retona cure Rms
:, pxzo' OINTMENT fails 10 ~. Cu sors|
worm letter, Old Ulcers - ,acs, ID
p pVnI and Blackheada on the i-
ali akin diseases. bOe.
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BUSINESS MATTERS.
New Bank for Alvord.
Especial to The Post)

Washington. December 81 Alvord
National hank OF Alvord has been author.
lied TO begin business with $4,000 capital.
w. r. Thompson, president, John T Car,
ter. cashier.
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cotton Al CopeviIIe.

Copeyile, Texas December 27.-Twenty
seven bales OF cotton aud the Santa L,
platform we're burned; loss $500.
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Physicians, Surgeons and Specialists,
2t4 St. Charles St., New Orleans.
Young, middleaged and old, single anf
ma rled men and all who suffer with Losf
Manhood, Nervous Debility, Spermatorrhe
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Stops the Couch

end Works OF the Cold.
Laxative BromoQulnlne Tablets cure
cold In one day. No cure, no pay. Price
70 eents.
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WEATHER INFORMATION.
Probabilities.

Washington December 21-Eastern Texas
Fair and colder Saturday; Sunday fair
brisk northwest winds on the coast.
Oklahoma and Indian Territory--Fair sud
colder Saturday; Sunday fair northwesterly
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A CLOSED INCIDENT.
MaoIay Is Out OF the Service to
Stay

New York. December - The
Maclay incident is now closed as far
as the Brooklyn navy yard is con
cerned,' said Rear Admiral Albert
Barker in an interview. "Muclay
has been notified Of his removal and
is out of the service"
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Cooking Stoves
C. l.. & THEO. BERlNq
HARDWARE STORE. |

showed 90 per second that being o tne ii 4
est point since the gauge was pe
Waco -. prazos Yiye
and all other Texas rivers viii pe WI
iished in the forthcoming volumes V eoysra
logical survey, published by tne ~
ment
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General Observations.

Observations taken by United States
weather bureau at s p m, 10Th meridian
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| CURE PRIVATE DISEASES.

OF men and women by treatment when
avery possible test and has the most
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-24

implements, and a slave. A vacant
carriage factory in Bethany was Sc
cured and the upper floor converted
into a dormitory. The boys were re-
moved from Bethesda in November and
quartered here until early in 1868, when
new building was erected on the farm
and they were gathered at their new
home. instruction was at first pro-
vided for them at an academy at Beth
any they uniting with the school there
under Mr.. Mallon, who had been en-
gagged to teach them at
Bethesda. The following year
school house was built
on the farm for the boys, thirty-five
OF whom were being cared for and ed
ucated. In 1854 Bethany suffered some
What from Sherman's forcesSin the loss
OF horses and other stock. Fortunately
officers of the army interposed or the
loss to the home might have reached
considerable proportions. AS soon as
peace was established movement was
instituted to re-establish Bethesda.
The keynote to this was sounded by
Hon. Solomon Cohen at the anniver-
sary gathering at NARROW in 1866. How
stands Bethesda?" asked he. TN ruins,
like Rachel of old, weeping for her
children because they are not. Bethesda
is in ruins. Why stand we then idle
here? If there ever was a time when
the voice of charity appealed in clar-
ion tones to the hearts of the good. that
time is now. The fearful desolation OF
the land. swept as it has been by the
besom of destruction, is a perpetual
call for deeds of charity"
Bethesda was in a dilapidated state,
almost in ruins, and was occupied by
recently freed negroes who gave but
little care to the buildings. Under Gen.
Sherman's orders all of the sea islands
had been turned over to the negroes.
While Bethesda was not on a sea ISL
and, being an unused property devoted
to public purposes, it was taken soos-
session of by. the freedmen. After some
legal proceedings the society secured
control of it's property again, made
necessary repairs and in February,
1867. the boys, now twenty-five in
number were once more at the old
homestead. The farm at Bethany was
shortly -afterward sold for $4,000. The
floating debts of the society were paid
within a couple of years and improve
nents made to its properties The
dwellings, on York street had been sold
in, 1858 for $11.620, and the money in
vested in railroad securities. The Way
side Home for soldiers became the
Pavilion Hotel again when men return
ed to peaceful occupations. and the
society found itself confronting the
necessity of large expenditures upon it.
Unable to lay out the money without
Gripping its usefulness at Bethesda, 1t
was decided to accept a proposition to
lease the building to the existing les
see, David c. Noe, for ten years, at
the old rent, $4,000 a year, ne to add
another story to the building
and the property to revert
to the society at the expiration
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-24
j. n. EsrILL, PREsID ENT UNION SOCIETY.
elect ed 1873.

of the lease without cost to the So
ciety for Improvements. In August,
1867, this lease was signed. The So
ciety then found itself, as 1t believed,
assured of an established income for
decade. Unfortunately for 1t, Noe was
unable to fulfill his contract, and in
1872 the hotel was taken from him and
leased to A. Fernandez, the improve
ments made by the former lessee COM
pensating the society for the loss of
rents due by him. In 1880 part of the
hotel lots were leased to G.. Noble and
the hotel was leased at $1,S00 a year.
These arrangements were unsatisfac-
tory in their results and the society
found itself with a large and valuable
property from which it derived but lit
tie income. Plans were laid to erect a
large hotel for tourist travel on the
site. 1t was found that the cost would
be too great and this project was drop
ped. Negotiations had on former oc-
casion been entered into with the
Board of Education. controlling the
other and larger portion of the build
ing, to sell to it the Union Society's
holdings. the city having made the title
fee simple under grants of 1868 and
1885. These negotiations were resumed
and finally in 1887 a sale was consum-
mated, the society receiving $4,000 for
its rights in the property, which was
then converted into a portion of the
academy and has since been used en-
tirely for public school purposes.
Bequests for the Home.
Some time prior to the war Mr.. An
drew Low presented the society with
100 acres of land in Alamakee county,
Iowa. Unfortunately, this bequest
proved a veritable incubus. After pay
ing taxes on it for nearly forty years,
the society willingly sold it in 1894 for
$3.50. Another real estate bequest that
has so far been but a burden was that
of a half interest in Tipperary. a PLAN
tatior. of 704 acres in Bryan county,
under the will of Uriah Cranstou. Mrs.
Ann Bryson had life interest in the
plantation, and on her death IL was
nrovided that it should go in equal
shares to Bethesda and the Barry Male
orphan Asylum, the latter non exist
ing institution. Mrs. Bryson died in
1880 and the half interest of the Barry
Orphanage was presumably vested IN
the Catholic Bishop of Savannah. The
legal questions involved have never
been disposed Of although twen-
10 wears have since pass
I'd. Under an amicable arrangement
hetween the interested parties the
property was put up al public auction
On Ian. /. 1895, and was bid in for the
Union Society at sl.T an acre NO legal
fities have ever been possible, and the
plantation remains as when Mrs. bry-
son died, OF no value 70 the iegatees'
The soeiety is also entitled, under the
state laws. 20 all ungranted lands ~
fsbafham county in excess Of 10000
arros FOR the Chatham Academy, but
although the grant was made over a
bsif century ago no dement's have ac-
.rued 40 II from this source nor does
lt now seem likely that any ever VIII
Ofher donations and hequesfs. though.
have proved ~ more enbsiantlal
rharncier In 1851 the cliy of saf fannah
gfanted the society az an enqg"nieht
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-24

weapons of war Orphans left unpro-
vided for awaited relief that could not
be given because of the absence of
means. no the limit of its powers the
Union Society exerted itself to care
for those whose fathers had fallen In
defence of the South. If it had been a
duty in former years to succor the
orphans it was now felt to be doubtiy
incumbent on it to at least temporar-
lily relieve the children of those who
had died for their State. Weaker men
might have faltered, or even abandon
ed the trust, and felt justified in doing
so under. the pressure of the deplor-
able conditions that arose.
But fortunately for Bethesda ana
those under it's protection the men in
to whose hands it's destinies fell We're
of a more determined and more cour-
ageous mold. They never Tagged In
their labors to support it, and When
circumstances came that called FOR
the abandonment, for the third time in
its history, of Whitefield's old site, they
sought. a refuge elsewhere and there,
when the Union army had swept in
broad devastating column across Geor-
gia and found Savannah an easy prey
they reared the boys on
the. same practical lines, and
with the same endeavor to
prepare than for an honest ana IN
dustrious w manhood. 1t seemed as
though the spirit of whitefield had
descended upon them and Infused into
their souls that aggressive adherence
to noble aims that marked the eVangei-
ist during those many years wnen tne
support of Bethesda rested entlreiy up
on his shoulders; when its fate seemed
TO lie in the hollow of his hand.
Acting President f. w. Sims well
said in his report in 1866. in referrlns
10 the service of the officers or the
society; with difficulties opposing
them which we now can scarcely ap-
preciate, they pushed on their good
work and with the assistance of few
of the faithful carried the society
through it's severe trial" Too much
praise cannot be bestowed on the small
band of earnest laborers who carried
on the society's home during these
five years. They deservedly rank high
among those who have been instrument
tai In preserving Bethesda through the
many vicissitudes that have been It's
lot 10 its long life.
Removal 10 Bethany.
In 1862 Il was decided to remove
the boys from Bethesda and allow its
conversion into military hospital.
The Pavilion Hotel In the city the
property OF the society had already
become the Wayside Home for soldiers.
bethesda was exposed 10 attack az any
une. its crops had been failure,
PROVISIONS were scarce and high IN
savannah, and there WAS little reason
10 hope that conditions would improve,
in october the board OF managers de-
'laed 10 secure suitable location
'FfWhere. A well improved farm Nas
t'pn obtained near Bethany ~ Jeffef'
'NN county i07 miles from savannah
nniaining no acres, gh0ut 10 nrlet
'l which were cleared and Improved,
buildings fhe price being bias
'sYgp Nhilr SEQ wat PAID fof stock,
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-24
BETHESDA'S HISTORY
REMOVAL TO BETHANY DURING
THE CIVIL WAR
HOME ON THE DOWN GRADE.
POOR FINANCES ALMOST LEAD TO
ITS ABANDONMENT.

The Successful Administration of
PRESIDENT Extill Covering Nearly a
Quarter of a Century-Some Large
Bequests and Donations From
Friends of the .orphans-Invesr-
ments in Business Buildings-De-
crease in Membership of the
Union Society and Increase I'm the
Number of Boys mt the Home-A
Grand Opportunity for Future
PhilanthrOpists.
Continued, from Sunday Morning
News. Prepared by Thomas
Gamble. Jr)
Mr.. John NJ. Cooper was president of
the Union Society during the Civil War
and to his devotion to its interests. his
unceasing, energetic and intelligent
efforts in its behalf, was largely due
the continuation uninterrupted of its
charities during that period. 1t was no
easy task that fell to him and to the
few who labored zealously by his side
to maintain Bethesda.
After the first year Of the war the
pressure of its financial necessities be-
came great. The public at large was
suffering from the same causes that
checked the flow of benevolence to the
orphans home. Food of all kinds had
risen greatly in value. the currency in
circulation was steadily depreciating
in purchasing power, business of all
descriptions, was suffering, rernunera-
tive work was growing scarce, the
pinch of poverty was beginning to be
felt in many households. While the
sources from which charitable dona-
tions had in the past been obtained
were daily diminishing, the needs of
such an asylum as Bethesda. were be-
coming more apparent and the. de-
mands upon it more urgent.
Savannah had sent its hundreds of
men to the front. Their ranks had
been decimated by disease and the
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-24
(The End.)

All Through.-The Rev. DR.. Saint
ly: Bobbie, 7 don't see you at Sunday
school any more.
Bobbie: No, sir. There isn't any
thing more for me to learn
The Rev. DR.. Sanity: No more to
learn! What can you mean?
Bobbie (proudly): I've licked every
boy in the cIass.-Town and Country.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-24

Baron Ludivor Moncheur. the new
Belgian Minister. is expected in Wash
ington soon. His marriage to Miss
Clayton. daughter of the United States
Ambassador to Mexico. will take place
in December in the City of Mexico
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-24

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IL and 15 RroughtOn St. west.

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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-01-05
Minor state News.

A fire Mt Nickerson destroyed sew
eral buildings, including damages to
the /. o. o. +. hall.
Judge C b. Graves, OF Emporia,
some years ago sentenced John +.
Pierce to the penitentiary for life.
Last week Pierce sent the judge q
handsome cane which he had spent
six months in making.
The Kansas courts having held that
q school-teacher has right to trounce
a pupil, the old-fashioned father who
licked the teacher for regulating his
offspring in this manner will be get
ting into evidence again.
At the home of o. n. Gray in Jewell
City his boy sat down to his Christ
mas dinner in company with his father
and mother, his two grandfathers
and his two grandmothers, and his
great-grandfather and great-grand-
mother.
Smallpox was taken to the national
soldiers home near Leavenworth by
two negro veterans who spent Christ
mas at Kansas City. A large number,
II not a majority, Of the $500 menu
bers of the home were exposed to the
disease.
A Wichita telegram said that Col.
Montgomery Bryant, United States
army, retired, had two separate
strokes of paralysis last week, and
his condition is serious. He was the
first white man born in Kansas-at
Leavenworth, in 1882.
"Doc" johnson, merchant who
has been I'm business ut Cawker City
for 20 years, left there early In No
yember to visit his farm in Florida.
He was to return in ten days, but
nothing has been heard from him
since his departure.
The census figures show that Kan
sas has the highest percentage OF
school enrolment TO population
e7.s7 per cent.-of any state In the
union.
The legislature will be asked to APP
propriate $1,000 for paint Tor the
soldiers orphans home at Atchison,
and for n new well. There has always
been shortage of water at the home.
II Is likely that the Kansas law
against kidnapping will be abridged
this winter, attorneys and Others be-
| ing Of the opinion that the punishment
provided by the present statute Is not
sufficient for the crime.
A man in Ottawa contemplates Of
fering a reward of $4,000 to anyone
who viii kidnap his boy.
There Is a woman in KANSAS &c
years of age. who spent exactly sc
wears each as maid, wife and widow
The Emporia Gazette notes thai
while Jesse Morrison has been Of
fered jobs on the stage. in the mli'
seums, etc, no one has thought &c
offer her q Job In barber shop.
Senator White, Of the Jeweli-Mitcn,
ell district, will introduce q bill
providing for the election OF ell coun.
ty officers the same year. II would
cave to the state 100000.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-01-05
cIosENEss pERsoNHMD.
Dreamed He Had 20 Fay . Dollar Cor
q Cab and Was Afraid 70 Go
to Sleep Again.

There's good story told Of Q young fel.
low here noted for his closeness He went
to spend the night with q friend. During
the entire night he betrayed much restless:
mesa which kept the host wide awake, and
finally the slumberer betrayed signs Of VIC.
lent emotion. Hes going to have night.
mare" said the friend, "but he always
grumbles 50 when you wake him up that
! hate to disturb him." He waited awhile
longer, sitting up in bed staring at the mis-
cradle sleeper, and, finally becoming
alarmed, be reused him. He sprang up in
bed, glared wildly around and said:
"Where am I? I don't see the stormy,
"Why, here in my ROOM" said his host,
soothinely; "you remember you stayed all
night with me? I beg your pardon for wax:
ing you up, but you carried on so ] had to-
"Beg your pardon" gasped the guest. Il
shall never be grateful enough to you. !
dreamed was out with Miss Bud and ter
rible storm came up, and my shoes were
new, and I was just ordering coupe for
two when you reused me. Old boy, you
have saved me q dollar"
And the host says he was actually afraid
to 20 to sleep again that night for fear the
coupe would come, says the Louisville
Times.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-01-05
W. Wants n Grand jury.

There is movement Mt Wichita
started by the local members of the
W. C. 7. Z. to impanel grand jury
to investigate the conduct of the city
and county officials in permitting the
sale of liquor to continue in Wichita
without opposition. The 16 saloon
keepers of the city are now permitted
to operate by paying monthly fine
to the police judge, which in the ag-
gregate amounts to about $4,000. The
smash-up in the Carey hotel has
aroused tho spirit of the local W. c.
T. u, and they say now that the war
has begun they will fight it to q
finish.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-01-05
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.
CATH, stamp,de In Armourdals.


Four hundred cattle stampeded
through the streets Of Armourdale
the other afternoon, wrecking fences
and terrifying the populace. The herd
was big and the roar IL created was SO
loud that the public was warned in
time, preventing personal injuries.
One steer, not content with explor-
ing lawns and jumping their fences.
rushed pellmell into grocery shop.
BY the time he came out Of the store
II was wrecked. Counters were over
turned, show cases were smashed.
shelving torn down and the doors car
ried Cff their hinges. Twenty-eight
men were with the cattle, but they
lost control OF them. 1t was not un.
Ill four hours had passed that the last
of the affrighted animals was cor
rallied.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-01-05
800 Reward 800.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased
TO learn that there is at least one dreade1
disease that science has been able to cure IN
all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halle
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being o constitutional disease, requires q
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system, thereby DESTROYING the t foundation Da,tna
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its cura;:
tive powers that they offer One, Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails TO cure.
Send for list OF testimonials.
Address F. j. Cheney 4 Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 15c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-01-05
Prefer to breathe FREQ Air.

The recent escape of Z. F. Estelle.
a notorious bank robber and murder
er, from the Kansas penitentiary,
where he was sent n few months ago
to serve n life sentence, revives in-
terest in escapes made by other con-
victs in years past. That many of the
convicts are not exactly satisfied with
prison life and are willing to take
French leave. even Mt the risk OF los
ing their lives. is evidenced by the
fact that over 20 have escaped from
the Kansas prison alone since 1856.
Twenty-six were recaptured. OF the
20 who escaped during the past Is
years. Estelle was probably the worst
criminal.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-01-05
rAs ru.nt,.sA t,.....-

We now stand at the threshold Of ths
eventieth century, and the nineteenth e .
thing Of the past. It viii, however, be
known a. q century Of invention and discov.
cry. and among some Of the greatest OF these,
weean truthfully mention Hostetter's Stom.
ash Bitterst the .oslebrated remedy for all
ailments arising from weak or disordered
stomach, such ~ dyspepsia, Indigestion, fat
ulency. coritipation and biliousness.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-01-05
Best for the Bowels.

No matter what ais you, headache to
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature,
cure you without grippe or pain, produce
easy natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put
stamped on it. Beware Of limitations.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-01-05
Would Please Leavenworsh County.

1t is said that Gov. Stanley will rec
ommend that all insane people sup
ported by counties throughout the
state be placed in asylums. This Is n
reform that meets with favor in Leav-
enworth. There are more than so
persons in Leavenworth county kept
in private asylums or at the home
Of relatives. wherein 80 cents q day
Is drawn from the county and state
for their alleged support. Some OF
the cases are impositions on the tax
payers. In number Of cases the per-
sons alleged to be insane are work
ing and doing more to support their
relatives than the persons who draw
the allowance for them. The SIS a
month is simply sort Of family
pension.