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The Dolores star., 1906-09-21
REX ACTS As GUIDE FOR HIS
BLIND MASTER.
KNOWS "ALL THE TRADE"
Set Of Signals Enables Canine and
Master to Understand One An
other = Animal Rides on
Trains Like Passengers.

Indianapolis. Ind.-Dogs have been
taught to perform many kinds Of labor.
but so far as is known there Is only
one dog that acts in the capacity Of
. travelling salesman.
Yet this is exactly what Rex does
nearly every working day of his life.
and he does it we'll. He knows every
town where there are customers. and
The Dolores star., 1906-09-21

he a lives well
the and heavily
in debt He a abhors
took drink life and used tobacco
windle5
losses
that of choice the healhe
and happes live"
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to be most formidable feline. par
ticularly after dark.
The lost man took to tree. He
confesses that he heard some blood
curdling scream that Immediately
brought his decision to climb to a
head. Into an old willow tree he
quickly climbed, and there spent the
night in considerable trepidation. To
The Dolores star., 1906-09-21

Statistics gathered by the census bureau tend
to show that insanity is increasing in this cOun-
try at tremendous rate, but there may be ex-
plantations. The statistics just made public have,
at first glance, alarming aspect, which seems
to indicate that insanity in this country has in
creased rapidly in the last quarter of century.
Whether this is remains subject to further
corroboration. for what the figures really show
are the number of insane restrained of their lib
erty and cared for either by the state by their
own relatives in established institutions. In
crease in the number of inmates at these places
may therefore be interpreted from one point Of
view as proof that such unfortunates now
being given more humane attention than hereto
fore. The population of the country has in
creased by leaps and bounds until 1t has passed
the so. .0QO. 900 mark. As the number Of capable
The Dolores star., 1906-09-21


will
for the head OF the nation as the and would be
The Dolores star., 1906-09-21
INCREASE IN INSANITY.


The statistics which the bureau giving the country In
and months must be said with all
nearly historical
Thirteen
ime from
S16
to 2 n the of 1903
The Dolores star., 1906-09-21
From Nations Capital
Figures Regarding Visitor. to the Washnrto, Mo,upe,W De
parment Clerk Saves Nearly All His Sahry-l.aniy - The
Increase.
wASHINGToN-rb,

WASHINGTON.-The Washington moau-
ment is visited by almost every sightseer who
ranoies over the beauty spots of the national
capital. 1t is the highest place erected by
human hands. to be visited anywhere in the coun-
try An official report just made by the superin-
tendent OF the monument tells some Interesting
facts about the tall pile of stone and the persons
who visit 1t.
1t appears that the whole number who went
10 the great monument during the last year was
about the average for the last II years The
usual 30 per cent of the visitors were inoculated
with the lazy bug, while the remaining ten per
cent climbed the long stairway to the top of the
monument. So far good
But when it comes to the classification by
months officials balk at the figures For In the
xaf iaad
The Dolores star., 1906-09-21
LIVES ON TWELVE CENTS A DAY.

Augustus Riley, clerk in the depart
ment, "a years old, declares that he spends less
than IL cents day for his living.
MY average expense every day for five
years past has been less than IL cents" said Mr..
Riley, and have had plenty to eat. The system
requires only much l sleep like a baby and
at leisure go for several miles stroll through
the parks.
Il never get hungry; most people feel that
way when their imagination away with
them. 1 live SAIL month and have an
itemized statement to prove it. My favorite
dishes are apples, eggs and rice ! avoid meats
and indigestible foods They tear the vital
gans up and put them out of use'
Riley saves 95 per cent. of his salary. He
is man of strong personality and is an excel
lent specment of manhood. He is not miser
The Dolores star., 1906-09-21


OF the stairway than
the mark
in tie
Free press., 1906-09-22

lake, on which little yachts steamed
and in which fish darted At her urn-
brella dinner each guest sat under as
costly and rare an umbrella as patient
search on her part and money could Sc
cure. At her peace ball, which repro
duced the famous one held at Mt Yer
non in I7SQ she filled her Newport
house with furniture and decorations OF
the period, spending thousands of dol
lars to give the affair as correct a set
ting as possible.
As a result of her work in connection
with the ball, Mrs. Fish is a recognized
authority on the peace ball and entertain
ment and other things colonial. She
spent weeks in studying up on the sub
ject before she began actual work or
the ball; her thoroughness in this mat
ter is but indicative of her thoroughness
in all things. Therefore, her days are
crowded with work
AS a critic of the Newport set Mrs
Fish IS certainly thorough-going-
refreshing. Probably no one outside the
charmed circle of the -Four Hundred
has spoken or written harsher things
about it She says that the Newport
folk are uniformly stupid" She
ascribes little or no brains to not few
and generally and specifically she de
clares that they are "too crazy about
dukes and such things" Her structures
Free press., 1906-09-22

4 like her earnest look she added, a
moment later; please call her to me" :"
Then, when the young woman had come
up, Mrs. Fish said:
"You are to continue here until you
are ready to take a step upward, and
remember, under no condition are you
to give up your studies until you are
fully equipped for your work.
With that she swept out of the class
room and on her way to a social func-
ton, and had not the man informed the
stupehed and shaking student who her
benefactor was she would probably have
remained ignorant of her identity to this
day, the necessary funds for her art edu-
Free press., 1906-09-22

and haystacks of conventional size were
was a pasture, where two oxen, fresh
from a Rhode Island farm, quietly
grazed. The house itself was stored
with products of the soil; agricultural
implements that had been in daily use
decorated the rooms, Mrs. Fish, repre-
senting the goddess of agriculture, re-
ceived her guests on a dais of plows,
reapers, cultivators and what not. The
broad piazza was made into a grape ar
Dor, the living vines bearing luscious
clusters of fruit; the flower beds and
the stone wall were planted with the
kinds of wild flowers that are to be
found in every countryside.
To obtain the harvest effect desired
Mrs. Fish bought up a goodly portion
of the crops of a small Rhode Island
farm; and its owner also made a second
pretty penny by placing the sheaves of
wheat, the haystacks, the shocks of corn
and other things in traditional manner
She has had an entire theatrical COM
pany, stars and chorus, provide post
midnight vaudeville for house full of
guests She has made over her town
ballroom into small theater, the stage
being complete in every detail She has
had special play written for production
by her.
At dinner the tables centerplece was
Free press., 1906-09-22

cation being supplied through the man
who quite incidentally brought the
young woman's case to the attention of
Mrs Fish.
A rather daring and out-of-the-ordi-
nary way of engaging in philanthropic
work, but in her social life she is even
more daring and ingenious.
Recently she set the tongues of the
country's gossips to wagging when it
was announced that she was to give a
dinner at which the guests were to ap-
pear in bathing suits. Newport has II
that before the season is finally over she
is expected to give a yaching- -party-i11-
doors entertainment, at which, it is
whispered, the guests will be received,
amused and dined in a yacht, in her
great ballroom IN Crossways, a marble
cottage" and one of her three homes.
There is her city house in Seventy-eighth
street, New York, and her third house
is known as "Glenclyffe" 1t is at Gar
risons-on-the-Hudson, opposite West
Point, and is the old home of the Fishes.
At her Harvest Festival some time
ago Mrs. Fish transformed the spacious
lawn of her Newport Cottage" into a
farm. Sheaves of wheat, shocks of corn
Free press., 1906-09-22

money to secure them the necessary COW
eted education. Her fondness for grand
opera and classical music in general has
led her to be the good fairy to quite a
number of girls ambitious to become
prima donnas in time
A story is told of her way of carrying
good messages to those hoping against
hope.
1t seems that a we'll known painter of
portraits was commissioned to paint
Mrs. Fish. At sitting the conversation
turned on art students, and this led the
artist to tell of a certain young woman
in one of his classes who was making
exceptional progress, who seemed to
have what is known among the profes-
sion as the divine fire, but who was
soon to lay down her brush and palette
for the stenorapher's pencil because of
lack of funds. But" added the speaker,
mark my words, she'll be back in the
class as soon as she has managed to rake
and scrape together enough money to
give her another course of instruction" :"
Two nights later Mrs. Fish, unaccom-
panied, Unexpectedly appeared before the
portrait painter as he was busy in the
class room.
''Show me the student you were telling
me of the other day." she commanded.
Free press., 1906-09-22
Mrs. Astor is the Reputed Head,
but it is Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
who Entertains Most LavishIy,
Introduces the Novelties and
Spends the Most Money.

10 come TO the point at once: For all
that Mrs. Astor is the recognized head
of the famous -Four Hundred" Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish, of Newport, New York
and the -Four Hundred" is Americas
leading society parsonage.
She has spent a bigger fortune on So
cial entertainments than any other wo-
man of her day and generation, probably
than any other woman who has lived in
America.
She was one of the summer pioneers
at Newport, and her social life there
has helped most powertilly. - make that
hot weather city by the sea famed on
two continents.
She is the most consistent, most regu-
lar entertainer in this country Mrs
Astor gives one or two big functions in
the course of a twelve month"; Mrs.
StuyTesant Fish does nor average less
than a half dozen a year, and her small
dinners, receptions and other lesser en-
tertainments are several times more num-
erous than the weeks. No other member of
the socially elect is so much the hostess,
and but few of the titled social lights of
Europe, where entertainment is more
heavily gone in for than here, can equal
her record of functions, big and little, of
the past ten or fifteen years.
The various epochal steps in her So
cial career are marked by the most eX-
traordinary entertainments, embracing,
as the alliterative circus press agent
would put it, startling, stupendous,
supplying, stunning innovations.
"Only Mrs Fish would dare to do
such a thing" is a stock comment by
her associates.
In brief, it may be said that it was
she who set the style of entertainment
and amusement that has been in vogue
among the millionaire and multimillion-
aire social devotees of recent years, and
us of little money, too. The cakewalk,
gymhkana, races, society vaudeville, pri-
vate theatricals by professionals on an
elaborate scale. costume and synbolical
dances, and festivals on scale even
more magnificent, and true to times past
to the slightest detail; the engagement
of the worlds most noted and high
est-priced song birds for an afternoon OF
evening of music-all these widely
copied features of present day big 'S
society amusement she either planned
out and introduced, adapted to her uses,
or was instrumental in giving them then
popularity.
Mrs Fish is, in truth. the genius
one may almost say, the brains-of the
-Four Hundred And, strange as 1t
may seem, she is one of its bitterest
critics.
She is easily the, busiest society de-
votee in the country, and yet for all her
ramifying interests in this butterfly sort
of existence she somehow finds a great
deal of time to devote to charitable and
philanthropic work This, however, does
not attract the attention that her I'M
usual modes of entertaining do. and nat
urally, SO that Mrs. Fish could be easily
misjudged by one not familiar with her
except on her social side.
Society counts her one of its most
open-handed members. Many young
woman, now safely launched on busi-
ness career, owes her start to Mrs. Fish.
She is particularly keen to help young
girls with talent for the arts but with no
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1906-01-25

ticieros. En- 90 de Junio de I8o,
un negro, llamadO Norris, esta
ba a punto de ser ejecutado en-
Kansas City por haber asesi-
nado a un mulatO c. n quien tIa-
baiaba. En- ell momento en- que
el REQ ponia Ell pie en- la fatal
plataforma fulguro un relam-
.pagO, sc oy6 un trueno Y el ne
gro Cayo muertO. -. y con la
piel blanca. el verdugo qued0
tan impreSionado pOr el hecho
que renunci0 inmediatamente
a su r1pugnante empleo.
Produce tambien el rayo ra-
ros efeCtos en- los anlmaleS, ar
bOles, metales V cOSaS. Un rayO
|cay6 En- un lago de1a Costa de
Orc, en- Francia, y mat6 a todos
los peces. Otro rayO desCuaja
una encina la vuelve haCia arTl-
ba, hunde las ramas Ell Il suelo,
en- ell sitio de las raices, y dela
que estas floten en- el aire en-
vez de las ramas.
AlgunaS veCeS los rayOS con-
vierten las piedras en- verdade-
ros bloques de cristal Los ca
SOS en- que los rav0s altcran las
brhjulas, paran los reloJes, mag
netizan Hos metaleS y apagan
los fuegos. son frecuentloimoo
Los mas sorpTendentes de todos
los efectos del rayo, sen las
imagenes 'llamadas ceraunIcaa
del griego "Keraunos (ray0)
verdaderas fotograt .a9 dc los
objetoS CirCundantes que >e OBJ
servan a veces sobre las parso-
mas o los objetos her'Hos por el
rayo.
FL "a de Julio de I9c2 ,a1o un
rayo en- la aldea de AdalId, Ell
una palmera, { imprIm" aobre
las hojas t0da la ina. lie los
pinOs proximss, con al mptc-
"a y precision que isf-14 ira
zada por un buril.
En- Platz (Au>tr.a 81 II dc
EnerO de este ano ba CT
pie Junto a una :. blanca
un hombre, mientla. esen-
cadenaba una tenl- ma
t6le un rayo. Y ej II dc Il
victima quedo ma .H n CO
lor obscure Ell la ra'e
E. an
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1906-01-25
Los Capriehos del raye


do Poe y de Hoffman.
Parece que sea un ser sutll
que ocupe un lugar de inter
medic entire la fuerza moons
ciente que vive en- las plantas y
la fuerza consciente que alienta
en- los animales, algo aSi como
un espiritu elemental, aereo,
extraflo, a veces malvado, otras
estupido, otras ciego, dotado en-
ocasiones de voluntad Conscien-
tie Y en- otras indiferente a to-
do. -.
Sc lie We centellear en- el espa-
clio, moverse entire los hombres
con agilidad sorprendente y
aparecer Y desaparecer de un
modo magico. ISe quiere saber
realmente de 10 que es capaZ el
rayo2
Camilo Flammari6n, ese ge-
NAL arti5ta de la ciencia, nos 10
dice en- un libro que acaba de
publican titulado: Los capri
ChOs del rayO.
HaCe notaT Flammar10n que
uno de los mas aSOmbrOsos &C
tos del rayo es de delar a la vic
TINA en- la miSma aCtitud en-
que la muerte le SOrprendi0. A
prop0sito de este Sc han heCho
muchaS ObServaCiOneS CurlOsaS.
Durante una formidable tor
menta, oChO segadoreS que eS-
taban almorzandO bajo una en-
Gina fueron heridos tOdOS pOr la
misma deSCarga Ell e c ctr1 c a =.
Cuando algunos CampeSinOS Sc
acercaron para yer 10 que ha-
bia ocurrido, advirtierOn que
los segadOres, "petrihcados de
pronto por la muerte, parecian
continuar tranquilamente su al
muerzo." Una tenia Ell vase en-
la mano, otro sc llevaba el pan
= la boca, otro tenia la manO en-
el plato.
FL "a de Mayo de 1904, en-
Charolles (Saona Y Loira(, una
senorita esperaba que termlna-
sc una tempestad para salir de
la tienda a donde habia lido a
hacer unas compras. Muchas
personals eotaban sentadas jun
to q ella en- tOlnO de una mesa,
cuando de pronto slntleron una
violenta .conmocl6n y quedaron
ensordecidos pOr un formidable
truenO..
Pasada la emoci0n sc levan-
tarOn tOdoS. Solo la SenOrlta
COntinuaba sentada sin mover
Sc. HabIa qledadO fulmlnada
A veces ei rayO parece que
quiere unicamen4e Juguetear y
CORE entte los nvinbres sin ha-
cerleS nlngun dano nj deJar
Otro reCuerdo de ou paso que un
POGO de terror.
Un dla, nara tlammari0n
un rayo.penetr por la chime
nea en- casa del SenOr Van GeS
tien. pooadero de Bruselas. A
resplandor fulmineo. varlas per
Sonas que eotaban bailandC
quedarOn pctrIhcadaS pOr el te-
rror; perO la Centtlla era dt
buena pasta Y < marCh0 con
forme V nIera, SIN mas que da
un sencillo susto a los danzan
teS.
He aqui otro case curiosisi
mo: Una noche, en- Bayona
mientras Sc deoencadenaba III
huracan viOlentiolmO, un ray
penetr0 en- una alqueria: levar
to dos grandes piedras del he
gar y las transport junto a |
cabeza de un n1no dOrmidO, de
lando una a TN lado y otra
otro, sin slqulera oCaslonar Il
araflazo al nino.
Ella dc SeptIembre de 1893 Ii
rayo encendI0 todas las Tampa
ras electricas de la PIefectur
de Lyon. Hay rayOs que eje1
cen de medlcos, pues dan la vi
ia a los clegos, el dido a los sol
i
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1906-01-25
fieCl0S~. dc fScrsIOPio
Oh VENTa an III p oAgTiN
Buena nOticia

En- el antigua muy acreditado es-
tablecimiento Bazar de ropa hecha y
Sasreria de r. Monies, SO acaba de
recibir un immense surtido de cast
mires ingleses y franceses, los que
ofrece su numerosa clientele y al
p1blico en- general.
En- ropa hecha tambien hay un ex-
tense surtido de elegantes trajes, los
que Sc detallan desde 81 q $I4 Cuen-
Ia tambi6n ell Bazar con I'm Surtido de
abrigos para caballeros y fios, propios
para vj4jes, gorras, camisas, cuellps,
pufios. tirantes cinturones, lgas, cal
zoncilllos. corbatas, medias, y muchos
mas articulos del ramo.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22
Action to Test the Title Laws
McEnemey Act Will
Be Subjected TO
Legal Trial.
Writ of Mandate Filed
in Supreme Court to
Decide the Issue.

v EGAL action was begun yester-
day to test the validity Of the
Il McEherney act. writ of man
date being filed in the Supreme
Court in a case entitled The Title and
Document Restoration Company versus
Frank H. Kerrigan, Judge of the SUI
perior Court of California, in and for
the City and County of San Francisco.
Department TO-" The case is purely
for the purpose of testing the constitu-
tionality of the law and it will prob
ably receive the attention of the Su-
preme Court tomorrow.
The petition was the result of the
refusal of Judge Kerrigan on Friday
to sign an order for the publication of
a notice for the first suit to be begun
under the new law The suit was to
give clear title to some property on
India street. near H, and the refusal to
sign the order was according to pre-
vious agreement with Judge Kerrigan.
From the State Supreme Court the
case will probably go to the Federal
Supreme Court, and every effort will
be made to have the final decision rem
dered at as early a date as possible.
Had there been sufficient number OF
Justices on hand yesterday the writ
would have been taken up for consid-
GRAFTON Immediately.
titles have already been filed with the
County Clerk and every day the num-
Der is increasing AS the law allows
three months for the filing OF an an
swer in such a suit there will be plenty
of time for the test case to be closed
before the other suits can be decided
If you have property or an interest
and wish it protected from being taken
by any other claimant you should file
your name and the location. of your
land with The Call, which will inform
you Immediately if any other person
begins suit to acquire title to it. To do
this fill out the accompanying blank
and send it at once to the title editor
of The Call.
1t is the opinion of attorneys that
practically every piece of land in San
Francisco. whether in the burned or
unburned district, will require a suit
to give title that will stand Such
action might not be necessary to give
possession to the present owner. but
where a transfer of real estate is de-
sired the new owner might require
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22
PACIFIC MAIL BUYS
BRITISH LINERS.
Coptic and Doric of
White Star Line Added
to the Hartman Fleet
Boutwell, KNOWN

The Pacific Mail Company has added
to its fleet two of the best known
steamships on the Pacific. 1t was an
nounced yesterday that the Hartman
corporation had purchased from the
White Star Line of Liverpool, England,
the liners Coptic and Doric. Captain
Smith, present master of the Doric, will
take his departure for England as soon
as he turns over his vessel to the new
owners, Captain Finch, commander of
the Coptic, may remain in the Pacific
Mail service.
When the Coptic left here it was sup
posed that she was making her last
Hongkong she would return to Eng
land. Before she sailed there were
rumors of her possible return. These
rumors are now confirmed and both the
Coptic and Doric will hereafter sail
under the Pacific Mail colors. They
will remain under the British flag, but
crew and officers VIII be subject to the
orders of General Manager R. P.
Schwerin.
Although not new vessels, the Doric
and Coptic are both in first class con-
dition. The Coptic was built in 1881
at Belfast by Harland & Wolff. She is
vessel of 1885 gross registered ton
mage. The Doric is larger than the
Coptic, her gross tonnage being 1880.
She was built at Belfast in 1883.
It is not known how many of the
officers now on these vessels will elect
to serve under the Pacific Mail man
agement. The White Star Line SER
vice is probably the most attractive in
the British Merchant Marine, but the
pay is considerably lower than the
rate ruling on American ships. Under
the Pacific Mail management the off,
GERS wiki be under stricter discipline
l. TO-.
whether they will consider the in
creased remuneration sufficient to COM
pensate for the curtailment OF many
little personal privileges.
The purchase of the Coptic and Doric
by the Pacific Nail Company will leave
the Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Company without a ship and its off,
Gals without an occupation. 1t is I'M
derstood that they will be taken care
of by the Hartman corporation, of
which the Occidental and Oriental Com
pany was merely an adjunct