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Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-20
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ST. PAUL. Mimi. Nov. 20.-The ORR
entail Limited. the Great Northern rail
ways pqdafial transcontinental train,
started bn its first trip west. the be.
slnning{o f the service being celebrated
by a reception at the Union stationan
a chriJtenipg ceremony, at which Gen
eral Passenger Agent Cal y. Stone
brokJ the ehampagne bottle
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-20

Him.-What would be the result?
Her-Fewer engagements and more
marriages, | imagine Chicago. Daily
News.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-20
ndoubted

Her-What a pity it is that women
cannot do the proposing instead of the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-20

YaleYard-That's Freshman. They're
trying him for the football team. ]
think he's a coming half~back.
Miss Brynmaure-I wish he'd come
all the way back. I'd like to be intro.
duced to him.-Philadelphia Press.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-20

up.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-08
WHAT SULPHUR DOES
For the Human Body i'm Health and
Disease.

The mention of sulphur will recall
to many of us the early days when
our mothers and grandmothers gave
US our daily dose of sulphur and mo-
lasses every spring and fall
1t was the universal spring and fall
blood purifier" tonic and cure~all
and mind you, this old fashioned rem
edy was not without merit.
The idea was good. but the remedy
was crude and unpalatable, and q
large quantity had to be taken to get
any effect.
Nowadays we get all the beneficial
effects of sulphur in a palatable, con-
centrated form, so that a single grain
is far more effective than a table
spoonful of the crude sulphur.
In recent years. research and eX-
pertinent have proven that the best
sulphur for medicinal use is that OBJ
tanned from Calcium Calcium sui
phide) and sold in drugs stores under
the name of Stuart's Calcium Waters.
They are small chocolate coated pei
lets and contain the active medicinal
principle of sulphur in highly con-
centrated, effective form.
Few people are aware of the value
of this form of sulphur in restoring
and maintaining bodily vigor and
liver, and excretory organs and puri-
fies and enriches the blood by the
prompt elimination of waste material
Our grandmothers knew this when
they dosed us with sulphur and mo-
lasses every spring and fall, but the
crudity and impurity of ordinary flow
er of sulphur were often worse than
| the disease, and cannot compare with
| the modern concentrated preparations
| of sulphur, of which Stuart's Calcium
Waters is undoubtedly the best and
most widely used.
They are the natural antidote for
| liver and kidney troubles and cure
constipation and purify the blood IN
a way that often surprises patient
and physician alike.
DR.. r. NJ. wilkins while experiment
| ing with sulphur remedies soon found
that the sulphur from Calcium was
| superior to any other form. He says:
For liver, kidney and blood troubles,
Especially when resulting from consti-
patton or malaria, I have been sur
prised at the results obtained from
Stuarts Calcium Waters. In patients
suffering from boils and pimples ana
even deep-seated carbuncles, l nave
repeatedly seen them dry up and dis
appear in four or five days, leaving
the skin clear and smooth. Although
Stuart's Calcium Waters is a pro-
prietary article, and sold by druggists
and for that reason tabooed by many
physicians. yet 1 know of nothing so
safe and reliable for constipation, liver
and kidney troubles and especially in
all forms of skin disease as this rem
edy'
At any rate people who are tired
of pills, cathartics and so-called blood
purifiers, will find IN Stuarts Gai-
CHM wa ere a far safer, more palat-
ah1e and effective preparation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-08
WILLIAM Low NDES YANCEY
By Savoyard---In Washington Post.

At this christening were multitudes
of good fairies. One gave him "A
splendid person. one Il glorious voice,
one a commanding intellect, one d
lofty character one a superb courage
mental, moral. physical: one an elo-
quence surprising the elo2uence of
all his fellows-these and other graces
and accomplishments were conferred
upon William Lowndes Yancey. I'm
fortunately there were two hays III
The company. vicious and Malignant
one denied him wisdom; the other
denied him imagination.
He was the author of secession, but
secession would have come, sooner or
later. had Yancey never been born. He
fired the Southern heart. but some
time or other another would have put
the torch to that finder had there
been no Yancey. He staked his life
for a punctilio, and he staked the
South for a principle. He was a ia
natic-haughty, arrogant, majestic
aud would have Serenity gone to the
stake for his cause and joyfully yield
ed his life for mis- country. Judged
by what he accomplished the history
he made. the CONFUSION he occasioned
the storm he conjured, the war he
cnkindled-judged by these, their
magnitude and their momentouS
consequences, William L. Yancey was
the foremost orator of his generation
and the equal of any orator of any
generation. What his heart forged
that his tongue uttered, and he was
as honest a fanatic as ever preached
crusade. And strange as the state
ment appears, incredible as it is to
the entirely misinformed or to that
even more hopeless set, the feebly in
formd, William L. Yancey was d Union
man to the marrow of his bones and
until the election of a sectional Presi-
dent ne never uttered one word nor
did one thing that was not with a
view TO securing "a more perfect
Union"
What ingenious American youth
has no thrilled to the story of the
glorious old ship Constellation and
stout old Tom Truxton, that grim sea
fighter, now in Elysium with Drake
and Won Tromp, Blake and Paul Jones,
Nelson and Farragut, and all the other
naval demigodS who might trace their
origin to the tribe of Dan? On board
the Constellation i'll her heroic actions
with LInSurgente and La Vengeance,
was Benjamin Cudworth Yancey.
Truxton's favorite midshipman, and
he did his devoir as did all the others
of that gallant crew. When Truxton
had his row with the Navy Depart
ment Yancey resigned and entered
upon the study of law in the soffice
of Robert Goodloe Harper, South
Carolinian. as was his pupil. but now
a leader of the Baltimore bar When
the young man came to the bar he
settled in South Carolina, where he
was the friend and intrinsic compan-
ion of John c. Calhoun and William
Lowndes, and was not considered in :
ferior to either of them at the bar.
He died in 1917 at the age of thirty
four, when his son. William Lowndes
Yancey, was three years old.
The boy grew up on Southern
plantation and was prepared for COL
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tDLEy, 4ANEs H-Pres't G. A. GRIMsLEY Sec.

in 1861 and that Yancey survived him
only two years. Had these two lived
to be threescore and ten years, their
influence might have made moment
Gus changes in our history-one the
first debater and the other the first
orator of his time.
Yapcey was fortunate in his biogra-
pher, Du Bose. 1t is the best life" of
any of our public men. i'll my opinion.
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lege at several academies. He entered
Williams College, MassachusettSs while
yet a youth in his teens and was fin
ished in the institution that suisse
quently sent forth James "A. Garfield
and John James ingalls,. At the age
of nineteen young Yancey entered the
law office of B. f. Perry, afterward
governor of South Carolina. and be-
gan the study of his fathers profess
sion. Like all cultivated Southern
youths he was a politician and stu
dent of political science.
When Yancey came on the scene the
question in South Carolina was Union
VS.. Nuliification, and he was an ar
dent, an intrepid, an able. an eloquent,
brilliant advocate OF Union, opposing
Calhoun, Hayne. McDuffie, and Ham,
ilton. 1t was in that campaign that
McDuffie gave utterance to sentence
that ought to give pause to every be-
lever of paternalism in the land:
when the Roman people sought
bread at the public granary, the null
tiplying villainies of human nature
went on increasing until the empire
was sold at public auction During
that struggle, Yancey, but nineteen
years of age, was the editor of the
Greenville Mountaineer, and he proved
himself as formidable with the pen
as he was eloquent with the ton
que.
Subsequently Yancey went West
and settled in Alabama, where he en-
gagged in planting, but he continued
10 take an active part in politics. and
served in both branches of the Legis-
lature. William r. King and Dixon
III. Lewis were the political leaders
Of the State, the first named jack
son man, the other follower of Cal
houn. 1t is worthy of note that Mr..
King refused the Austrian mission
when it was rendered him by Presi-
dent Van Buren, because he had been
an active supporter of the President
when he sought the Democratic NOM
nation, Apply that principle to the
present administration and the gov
ernmont would have to stop for lack
of officials to administer it. We got
bravely over that long ago. When Will
liam Lowndes, then the first man in
public life, measured by abilities and
character, adventured on the sea voy-
age in search of health, and from
which he never returned, he first re-
signed his seat in Congress. He re-
fused to be a public servant if he
could not discharge his public duties.
And that, too, is old fashioned, anti
quated and obsolete. When Howell
Cobb, then Secretary of the Treasury,
invited a party of friends to be his
guests on board a revenue cutter and
go on a junket down the Potomac,
Mr. Buchanan, then President, caused
Mr.. Cobb to be notified that one OF
them-the President or the Secretary
would have to reimburse the gov
eminent the expense of the trip. Mr.
Cobb paid it. They order such things
differently in these roseate times OF
progress and reckless times of uncon-
stitutionality.
L., vannorr M nrrcd To Net1iina :
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sas, soon TO be followed by war, in
volving every inhabitant of the coun-
try.
Yancey served but three years in
Congress, and then voluntarily retired.
Over the protest of Calhoun he voted
for the Mexican war. With Calhoun,
| he opposed the election of Cass, IN
1913; but refused to take Calhoun's
advice to support Taylor. He de-
cIined to vote for Pierce in 1852 but
said if he thought his vote would be
decisive of the result he would give
it to Pierce rather than to Scott.
At the bar Yancey was a wonder,
His partner was a gentleman of the
name of Elmore, one of the greatest
lawyers of a State celebrated for the
learning of it's bar. 1t was said that
after Yancey had consulted with his
partner for two hours he was equipped
to contend against the ablest lawyers
of Alabama in the trial of any cause
in which the firm had been retained
He was the greatest advocate in The
State, and juries loved to give him
verdicts. But he gave more time to
politics than to the law. He was a
| free lancer, pleading for the Union
as he conceived it under the Consti-
|
| Union of Roger Sherman, of Connect
| cut who saw all the reason for re-
| turning a runaway negro to his mas
| ter there was to restore an estrayed
| horse to it's owner. Yancey thought
| Kansas as much the property of the
South as it was of the North. and il
the Northern man could take his
horse there a Southern man should
have the right to take his slave
there
| The Supreme court said Yancey was
right. The North nullified the Su-
| preme Courts adjudication. Yancey
said that was disunion; that the Con-
stitution, the bond of union no longer
bound the stronger section, and tina
| the Union of the fathers was no Ion
ger in existence. He therefore ADVISED
| the formation of Southern Confed-
eracv. and his advice was taken. The
| Confederacy was formed, and 1t did q
very unwise thing. 1t made war OF
| the stronger section. instead of wait
| ing to be assailed. It was fatal mis-
| take-united the North. divided the
South. If the Confederacy had stooc
| pat on secession, The more than 500
| 600 white soldiers from the South that
wore the blue would have worn the
| gray.
| Yancey became Senator in the
Confederate Congress. a body tina. was
torn by faction, and 1t is quite likely
that the Confederacy would nave died
of faction if the Federal authorities
had never attempted coercion. Indeed
there is little doubt that the seeded
States would have sought to re-entcr
the Union before the expiration OF
ten years if their independence had
been acknowledged.
Yancey died in July, 1868, at the
age of fortvyeicI1t He was yet YOUNG
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Yancey died in July, 1858, at the
age of forty-eight. He was yet young
man, and it was mystery OF Provi-
dence that none OF us can understand
that Stephen 4 Douglas was cut off
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-08

In 1910 Yancey moved to Wetump-
ka and became the editor of the Ar
gus He was a brilliant and forcible
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North had looked on the thing with
the wisdom of Douglas and Tilden, #
would have answered him. VERY
WELL, take your negroes and settle in
Kansas, and may~ you and they live
long and prosper" Precious few
slaves would have been taken to Ran
cas Instead of that. the North met
Yancey's punctilious fanaticism with
the Cut-throat fanaticsm of John
Brown and the dilettante fanaticism
of Theodore Parker and that Boston
gang. The result was murder in Kan
sas soon TO be followed by war, in
volving every inhabitant of the coun-
try.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-24
John f. Webster, a Clerk in
Anglo Californian Bank.
Turns Tables Oh Highway
man and Aids in Capture
R0BBER MAKES VAIN
ATTEMPT TO MURDER
Street Car Men See Hold-Up
and With Father of Young
Man Tie Bandit Hand and
Foot Until Police Arrive

John r. Webster, a clerk in the An
glO-Californian Bank, turned the tables
on Otto Mitchell, alias Charles Colby II,
vicious hold-up man, who attempted
10 rob him last night at Ashbury and
Hayes streets. Webster grappled with
the thug and held him until assistance
came. The rObber fired a shot at The
young man, but the ball went wild.
Webster was on his way to his home
II 2Ie Ashbury street and dismounted
from Hayes-street car at HOS p. m.
As he proceeded toward his home, the
robber jumped out of a doorway and,
leveling q huge revolver at Webster's
head, demanded his money. Keeping
his victim covered. Mitchell went
through his pockets. getting 81 and a
gold watch and fob. A. this juncture a
Hayes-street car, Outward bound
stopped at the corner. Gripman F. T.
JeWett saw Webster with his hands in
the air. and calling TO his conductor,
"A. J. Christensen, jumped from the
car and started toward the scene Of the
hold-up.
AS soon as the car stopped the thug
slipped his pistol into his pocket and
started 10 make his getaway" No
sooner had Mitchell placed the revolver
in his pocket that Webster sprang upon
him. The thief turned on Webster,
and, in the struggle that ensued, drew
his revolver again and fired at the bank
clerk The bullet few wide. In an in
stant JeWett and Christensen were upon
the robber. and the three got him down
and held him.
Webster's father heard the shot and
rushed from his home to the scene of
the robbery. A rope was procured and
the elder Webster bound the thug hand
snd foot. The whole neighborhood was
aroused and several police whistles
were blown. Sergeant Harry O'Day
and Policeman Beiner and Berry re-
sponded and the robber was relieved of
his pistol and taken TO the park police
station, where he was booked an
charge Of robbery.
On the prisoner were found two hats.
one dark and one light. Colby claims
TO have just arrived from Los Ange-
les. and says that he is but 20 years OF
age. although he looks %. He is small
Of stature. but his captors say t;<I he
put up q strong fight. The police be-
lieve that they have a man with a
record.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-24
INDICTED MAN
STILL AT DESK

In spite of the fact that Frank A
Maestretti, president of the Board or
Public Works, was indicted by the
Grand Jury on charge of subornation
of perjury. he still holds his Office. Yes
terday he was at his desk bright and
early. He remained at his post all day
long aand did not appear worried
about the future.
Mayor Schmitz has taken no steps
toward removing the president of the
Board of Public Works from office. 1t
was thought by some that the CHIEF ex-
ecutive would suspend Maestretti pend
ing the investigation of his case. but
such was not the situation. The Mayor
says he has no power to remove the
indicted officer, and it is likely that
Maestretti will continue to act as pres
ident of the board, as II nothing had
happened.
Maestretti greeted his friends and the
Office force cordially when he entered
the office yesterday morning. He did
not appear to be in the least disturbed
over the situation, and went ahead
with the business of the Office without
interruption.
Maestretti was visibly amused when
he heard that the names of five MEM
mentioned in connection with the gas
company scandal.
well, / am not the only official who
is having his troubles" laughed the
president of the Works Board. 1T be-
gins to look interesting for some of the
others and il may be serious. / have
nothing in particular to say about my
case. l will repeat that / have been
wronged and made the victim of
conspiracy. There is no evidence
against me- and 1 am fully convinced
I can prove my innocence when the
case comes up for its hearing in the
Superior Court"
The Grand Jury did not meet yester-
day, consequently nothing more Of the
sensational order was sprung in the
indictment case. Both sides will make
a strong fight, and 1t Is expected that
the trial will cause not little excite
ment in political circles. Judge Lawlor
has the case on his calendar for to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-24
Burglars Ransack Rooms.

Miss Nellie Siddons. S28 Sutter
street. reported to the police yesterday
that her house had been entered
Wednesday night by thieves and the
about $40 worth Of cheap jewelry had
been stolen. O'Connor Bros, grocers.
ZAP Sixth street, reported that their
store had been entered and cheese,
four bottles Of whisky and twenty
four cans of oysters stolen. Fred
Deutsch, dealer in engines, reported
that his premises at 121 Shipley street
had been entered and two sets Of brass
bearings and four dozen machine oil
ers stolen.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-24
HUNGRY SOLDIER
D|SORDERLY.
Settles for 500 appetite
BY JAMES c. CRAWFORD.

compromise was effected on that basis.
| and Private Meagher was released
| after he had deposited 81 80 on the
clerks desk.
Service in the Philippines seems to
be an excellent appetizer remarked
the Judge to the soldier.
| 1T is that" was the response. II
have been in the army thirty-one years,
but never knew what longing to feed
meant until 1 went to the islands.
Who knows said his Honor, that
Manila may. not yet become a mecca
for American dyspeptics?"
Frank A. Meyer, accused of attempt
ing to rob a Third-street saloon
keeper, volubly ratified off the history
of his life to Judge Cabaniss.
Il was a brand plucked from the
/ burning he said, when the rum
demon recaptured me and this is the
result. Drink caused my discharge
from the United States navy, where I
was rated yeoman, and Secretary
Mccoy of the Young Mems Christian
Association took me in hand and gave
me charge of the dining-room in the
associations hall. In an evil moment
met an old shipmate, now aboard
the battleship Ohio, and we cemented
our reunion with liquor. 1 have no
recollection of committing the offense
here charged against me-"
John Thompson, the saloon man, tes-
tilted that at o'clock yesterday morn
ing he was closing up his place of
business at 236 Third street, and,
while reaching up to turn out gas
light, he was struck on the jaw by
the defendant, who then grabbed his
watch chain and ran. Patrolman
j. j. Cameron overlook and arrested
the fugitive, who pretended to be more
drunk than his speed as sprinter had
, indicated.
The case was continued until Secre-
tary Mccoy could be communicated
with.
Philip Kratz was stealing out of the
rear entrance Of a dwelling on Mission
street, between Sixth and Seventh,
when Patrolmen P. o. Driscoll and j.
T. Rooney saw him and concluded it
was their duty to investigate. They did
so, and were rewarded by finding the
| lower section of his face covered by a
misfit beard. apparently of home man
ufacture. 1t was Svengali-like in both
! shape and color, and attached to his
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-24

commodate the rich viands his spirit
craved. he devoted an afternoon to
training them for the reception, delug-
ing them with bitters and other liquids
warranted TO promote hunger, and oc-
casionally partaking of tidbits from the
free lunches spread so abundantly in
the downtown saloons.
Ere the day closed he felt himself
fit for the feasting. and at II o'clock
p. m. his legs We're stretched beneath
mahogany in Martin Ivanovich' s
grill room. in the California market.
Placing 500 on the table he informed
Mr.. Ivanovich that he desired to eat
as large a hole in the golden pile as
nature would allow. Then he began
ordering, and when he had eaten and
drunk until the inner man was salts
fed he sat back in his chair and with a
sigh Of contentment called for his bill.
This is what the waiter handed to him:
One family porterhouse steak one English
tenderloin of sole, eighteen large Eastern
oysters eighteen eggs Gried) fifteen pint bot
ties Of beer: total cost. Sc.
He pronounced the demand exorbi-
tant, and to emphasize his protest de-
iberately smashed 81 worth of dishes,
thus provoking arrest and incarcera-
tion on the charge of defrauding an
innkeeper.
Did he consume all he ordered?'
Police Judge Mogan asked the COM
planning restaurateur.
Never in all my days did 1 see a
man eat so rapidly or so much" was
the answer. Why, he kept a cook and
waiter so busy filling his orders that
they could not attend to anything
else"
How about that" said his Honor
to the defendant.
''T ordered the erllh all right re-
piled Private Meagher, Strengthening
up his tall figure and saluting the
bench a la militaire, but l didn't ex-
pect to be charged so much for it. I
offered him So but he wouldn't take it.
That offer still goes"
Mr.. Ivanovich declared that one of
the demolished dishes alone had cost
him s. so, and by taking IS he would
be giving away money. Then the Judge
suggested that the difference be split.
and after some demur by both sides a
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-24

Schiller's Song of the Bell will be
rendered tonight at the German
Methodist Church by the members of
the German Evangelical st. Johns
Church choir. This will be the first
time the song will be heard in this
city The music will be under the di-
rection of Father Koehnke, who has
drilled the choir. Father Koehnke
himself is A musician Of some note.
The proceeds of the concert will be for
the German Methodist Episcopal
CHURCH.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-24

Private James Meagher, Ninth Bat
terry, United States Field Artillery, ar
rived last Thursday from the Philip
pines, where hard service and unpal-
atable rations equipped him with an
appetite that any gourmet would yearn
to acquire. SO, when he received his
back pay, amounting TO more than
one hundred dollars, he Systematically
set out to indulge in epicureau revel'
Fearful that his long-pinched CASTRO
nomic organs might not be able to ac-
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-24

was even discussed by the Afro-Amer-
lean contingent at Emeryville. where
it finally reached the ears and aroused
the wrath of Mr.. West. 1t was with a
view to preventing actual scandal that
Mr.. West crossed. the bay and visited
Miss Payne on the evening of the al
legged assault. She says that after
chiding her frailty he smote her be-
tween the eyes with. clenched fist.
He will be sentenced for both bat
terry and vagrancy.