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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-01-09

The Grim Reaper IS making heavy in
roads into the ranks Of the pension army.
During the last fiscal year death claimed
l02 widows OF the war Of 1872, and nearly
500 Of the pensioners Of the Mexican war
About $1,000 survivors Of the civil war
Joined the unending bivOuac on the camp
ing ground of fame. Even with the pas
sage Of the service-pensiOn act the pen
sion list grew less. and the amount or
pension money paid out grew smaller.
There was net loss of 1850 pensioners
during the year, and a decrease Of 81, 900,
GO in pensions. High-water mark was
reached in 1905, when there were 1,00i 1856
pensioners. There has been a steady de-
cline each month from January, 1905. to
the present day. The high-water mark
for tie amount Of pensions paid was for
the fiscal year 1898. That was the pen
sion appropriation for a Presidential
year. and the total appropriation was
jumped from 1893, 600. O50 to $751; 900. Al
though the total pensions paid was less
for the past year than COR any preceding
year since 1891, the average pension is
more. The average annual value of each
pension was 1850 in 1907 as compared
with S13S1S in 1905, and S133 49 in 1903
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-01-09

There are three Daughters Of the Rev
oution still drawing pensions. nearly a
century and a quarter after the close
Of that war BY the laws Of proportion
1t may be expected that there will still
be about sixty civil war pensioners in
1896. There are still over $50 widows Of
the war Of 1872 on the rolls, and over
900 widows and survivors Of the Indian
wars. The last widow Of a Revolutionary
soldier died only last year. She was
Esther s Damon. of Plymouth Union. VI
Five years ago there were four of them
on the pension rolls, the other three be-
ing Rebecca Mayo, Of Newbern, Va;
Mary Snead, OF Panksley, Va, and Nancy
Jones, OF Jonesboro. Tenn. The last
survivor Of the Revolution was Daniel L.
Brakeman, who died at Freedom, Z Catta-
raugus County, \. Y. April 5 1859. AT The
age Of 100 years. Hiram Cronk. who died
at Ava, \. Y. 10 1905, aged lO5, was the
last survivor of our second war with
England.
The first pensions in the United States
were paid by the States to their own vet
Grams. In 1853 the Federal government.
by act Of Congress, assumed this Obliga-
ton, and all veterans on the State rolls
we're transferred to the Federal lists.
The idea In its early form was TO provide
relief to the needy. but that idea has
undergone great change. To-day there
are men worth millions on the roll There
have been Cabinet officers, Senators.
Representatives, and governors Of States
drawing pensions. Probably 0ne-half Of
the pensi0ned survivors Of the civil war
are not dependent in the slightest meas
ure upon the bounty Of the government
for support, yet they unhesitatingiy take
every cent to which the law entities
them. Congress has gone 10 unusual
lengths TO protect the pensioner, and
has made his pension free from distraint
Of any kind, and the holding of a pen
sion certificate as collateral for money
advanced is made a misdemeanor with a
heavy fine attached TO it.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-01-09

Many humorous incidents occur in con-
neetion with the pension work Several
years ago a Washington correspondent
read in a country paper a story to the
effect that one Of the two surviving wild
ows of the war OF 1872 died few years
before. He went hot foot 10 the Pension
Office, thinking that he had discovered
good feature for a story When he ex-
planned his mission to the Commissioner
he was told that instead Of there being
but one widow of that war left there were
some 500, and that there were still four
widows Of the Revolution alive But a
few weeks before an application had come
IN for a pension from widow of the
war OF 1872 An examiner was sent 10
look into the case He expected to see
an old and feeble woman with one foot
in the grave. Instead he found in the
drawing-rOom a buxOm widow, on the
sunny side Of forty, who apOlOgized for
keeping him waiting by saying that she
was just arranging to leave for Atlantic
City 20 spend her vacation. She had
married veteran nearly eighty years
old
In another case veteran married a
girl aged seventeen. He lived with her
for fourteen days and then died. She
has been drawing a pension for thirty
years at the rate Of IS q MONTH and is
not an old woman yet she has already
collected nearly 5000 for her fourteen
days of married life. The woman who
married man fifty years after he last
saw service iss just as eligible on the
pension list as the one who kissed her
husband good-by and looked after the
home and the babies during his four
years at the front. No inquiry is made
as to the financial condition of the APP
plicant for a pension If he be a survivor
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-01-09

TO-morrOw-A civil Pension List.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-01-09

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The San Francisco call., 1908-04-12

and il Genoa once holds Tenedos how
shall you ever again sail up the Dar-
danelles?"
Many a time she had heard Michael
Rhangabe say as much to his friends
and she knew ii was wisdom. So did
Zeno and he wondered at the knowl-
edge of his bought slave. So he came
and went, turning over the great ques-
tion in his brain; and she awaited his
coming gladly, because she saw that he
was aroused, and because the longing
for just revenge was uppermost in her
thoughts. Thus were the two drawn to-
gether more and more, fate helping. Yet
he told her nothing of the steps he took
SO quickly after he had made UP his
mind to act.
She no longer asked him what he
meant to do with her; she did not
again send for the secretary to COM
plain that her existence was dull She
went out when she pleased to go in
the beautiful skiff, in charge of ONO
bono, and always with one of the girls,
and she sat in the deep cushioned seat
is the great ladies did when they were
rowed to the Sweet Waters, and as she
had sat many times in the old days,
beside Kyria Agatha Zoe, the adopted
daughter of the Protosparthos, had
gone abroad with uncovered face. but
though that was not the general Gus
tom. And often, as she glided along
in the spring afternoons, she passed
people she had known only year ago,
or little more, who wondered why
she hid her features, or told each other,
as was more or less true, that she was
some handsome white slave whose jeal-
Gus master would not suffer her beauty
to be seen. For 1t was clear that ONO
bono was only respectable elderly
person placed in charge of her
The two generally conversed in Latin,
and the secretary told her of his search
for Kyria Agatha, the children and old
Nectaria. She had never shown him
and she believed that he did not con-
meet her with the ragged girl he had
seen bending over the sick woman s
bed in the beggars quarter.
AS yet the secretary's search had
been fruitless. but he had long ago
made up his mind that Zoe was Kyria
Agathas daughter. The handy legged
sacristan of st. Bacchus had helped him
to this conclusion by informing him
that Gullabi Gulbenkjan had not come
to perform his devotions in the church
for some time; never. in fact, since that
Friday afternoon on which Omobono
had inquired after him.
Zoe wondered whether any of them
missed her. except -Nectaria, now that
they had warm clothes and plenty to
eat. The sacrifice had been very ter
rible at first-it did not seem so now,
and she knew that on that very aft
ernoon when she went home after being
out in the boat she would listen for
Zeno's footstep in the vestibule and
think the time long till he came.
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had dashed the palace of her hopes to
pieces in an instant.
Then she was ashamed of having
even dreamed that he might love her,
since he despised the very cause for
which she had wished to win his love
But this state of mind did not last
long, either. She was too brave to let
such a speech pass as if she agreed
with It,
You are wrong she said, quite for
getting she had set herself to play the
part of the slave. You ought 10 help
him if you can-and you can if you
Will
Zeno looked at her in surprise. There
was something like authority in her
tone, and the two little maids whom
he had forgotten in their corner behind
him, stared in establishment at her
audacity Not a word of the conversa-
tion had escaped them.
i mean" continued Zoe. before he
could find an answer to her plain state
Haent If you are a true Venetian you
should wish TO put down the man whom
the Genoese and the Turks have set on
the throne. Johannes is your friend
and your eountrys friend, though ne
is a weak man and always will be.
Andronicus is an enemy to Venice and
friend to her enemies. He is even now
ready to give the island of Tenedos to
lhem-the Key TO the Daruanelles
"What?" asked Zeno in a loud and
angry tone "Tenedos?"
His manner had changed, and he al
most rose from his seat as he bent for
ward and seized her wrist in his ex-
element She was glad and smiled at
him.
Yes" she answered, 'the Genoese
demand it as the price of their protec-
tion. and they will force him to give it
to them But it may not be easy, for
the governor of the island is loyal to
Johannes.
How do you know these things?
asked Zeno. still holding her wrist and
trying TO look into her eyes.
L know Them" Zoe answered. IF I
am not telling you the. truth. sell me in
the market tomorrow"
BY The evangelist" swore zeno. you
will deserve it,
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woven but fulled like felt; wide hat
of sennet sewn round and round a
small crown Of tarred sailcioth, tapped
over his ears. He angled in the slow
stream with long reed and a short
line.
Zoe looked at him attentively as the
boat passed near him. and she saw
that he was watching her, too, from
under the limp brim of his queer hat.
Her left hand hung over the gunwale
of the skiff, and when she was oppo-
site the fisherman she werted her fin
gers and carelessly raised them to her
lips as if she were tasting the drops
The man instantly replied by waving
his rod over the water thrice as he
cast his short line each time. She had
seen his mouth and chin and scanty
beard below the hanging brim of his
hat, and she had fancied that she rec
ognized him; she had no doubt of 1t
now. The solitary fisherman was Cor
lias Pfetrogliant, the astrologer.
Omobono had scarcely noticed him,
for his own natural curiosity made him
look steadily up at the high windows
on the chance that the imperial pris-
oner might look out just then. He had
seen him once or twice before the revo-
luton and wondered whether he was
much changed by his long confinement.
But instead of the handsome bearded
face the secretary remembered a
woman appeared and looked toward
Pera for a moment and drew back has
tily as she caught sight of the skiff;
she was rather stout woman with red
checks. and she wore the Greek head
dress of the upper classes. So much
Omobono saw at glance, though the
window was fully so feet above him
and she had only remained in sight a
few seconds. He always had good
eyes.
had understood that communication be-
tween the prisoner and the outer world
was carried on through Gorlias and
that by him a message could be sent
directly to the emperor. She did not
speak till the boat had passed the
whole length of the palace and was
turning in the direction of the Sweet
Waters.
That astrologer," she said, do you
remember him? Why has he never
come again.
omobono promised to send for him
the very next day. After that there
slipped along upstream, till the. secre-
tary spoke again to correct what he
had last said.
HE had better not come tomorrow
/ will tell him to come the next morn
ing
.Why?' Zoe asked in some surprise
Tomorrow" said Omobono, 'Messer
Sebastian Polo comes to dine with the
master. There will be confusion in the
house."
Confusion, because one guest comes
to dinner?" Zoe spoke incredulously.
Il believe" said Omobono rather tim
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But Omobono had gathered from the
sacristan such information as the lat
ter possessed about Zoe and Kyria
Agatha, but that was not very much
after ALL They had lived three or four
weeks in the ruined house, or perhaps
six; he could not remember exactly. At
first they all came to the church, but
they had sold their miserable clothes
and their wretched belongings. The last
time the girl had come she had been
alone, and she had worn blanket over
her shoulders to keep her warm. That
had been at dusk. Then Gullabi had
bought her and soon afterward they
must have gone away. No. the woman
had not died. for he would have known
it, When people died they We're buried.
even if they had starved to death in
the beggars quarter.
Zoe thanked Omobono for the infor-
nation and begged him to continue the
search. He wondered why she did not
burst into tears, and concluded that she
was either quite heartless or was in
love with Zeno, or both. Love. he told
himself with all the conviction of mid
die aged experience, was selfish pas
sion. Zoe loved Zeno and did not care
what had become of her mother.
Besides, he knew that she was jeal-
Gus. She had heard of Giustina, and
was determined to see her. She in
sisted that the boat should keep to the
left going up the Golden Horn, and
she made the secretary point out Sc
bastian Polo's dwelling. 1t was small
palace, hundred yards sbelow the
gardens of Blachernae, and it had
marble steps, like those at Zeno's house.
A girl with dyed hair sat in the shade
in an upper balcony; her hair was red
auburn like those of the Venetian
women, and her face was white, but
that was all Zoe could see. She
wished she had hawks eyes. Ono
bono said it might be Ginstina, but as
the latter had many friends it might
also be one of them, for most Venetian
women had hair of that color.
Further up they neared Blachernae,
and came first to the great Amena
tower. Zoe looked up, trying to guess
the height of the upper windows from
the water. but she had no experience
and they were very high.
1t was up there. in the highest story,
that Johannes had been a prisoner
nearly two years The windows needed
no gratings for it would be death to
lean out, and no one could climb up to
get in. The pier below the tower sloped
to the stream, and its base ran out so
far that no man could have jumped
clear of it from above-even If he dared
the desperate risk of striking the
water.
A solitary fisherman was perched on
the edge of the sloping pier, apparent
~ hindered from slipping off by the
very slight projection OF the lowest
course of stones. which was perpen-
dicular HIS brown legs were bare far
above the knee, he wore a brown fish
erman's coat of a woolen stuff. not
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CHAPTER vITI.-Continued

- Eow old do you think am?"
AS II zeno asked
Zoe looked at him quiet
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1908-09-28

COCKTAILS TERAPEUTICOS. Las
prOpiedades alimenticias nutritivas del
Rceite de higadO de bRcalaO depeEden en-
absolute de las grasas que entrRn en- la
composition natural del aceite. Estas gra-
sas son digeridas y asimiladas con muchR
mas fac1lidRd que las Otras, debidO la pre-.
sencia en- ell aceite de bacalaO de ciertOs
cOmpuestOs derivadOs del hfgadO, que per-
miten la prOnta emulsihcaci0n del aceite
pOr los 6uidOs del est6magO y hacen que
su absOrci6n pOr la membrane mucosa Sc
ueve efectO con mas facilidad y con mas
rapidez que la deninguna Otra grasa
Las grasas que ell Rceite de hfgadO de
b8cRlaO COntiene, aparte de gu pOderOsa fa-
cultad de nutriT, no pOseen ningdn valOE
teFap6uticO-y los OtrOs elementOs natura-
les que son parties de su cOmpOsici0n posi-
BILE que n1nguno de eILOs pueda eierceE en-
Ell sistema cuRlquieE efectO terapeUtico.
Es evidente pues-que ell aceite de ba-
calRO es un alimentO y no una medicina y
que tOdas sus ViTtudes RlimentiCiRs estan
en- las grasas que entran en- su cOmpOsiCi0n
y pOr cOnsiguiente tOdRs las preparaciO-
mes que pretenden estar hechas de los prin-
CipiOs aCtiVOs del aceite y que sc Ofrecen
como sus sustitutOs, son pFOductOs fEaudu.
lentOs de Ia especulaci0n mercantil y del
chaElatanismO. DichOs pEeparadOs no con-
tienen ninguna de las pr0piedades nutriti.
bas FecOnstituyentes del Rceite de hfga-
dc de bacalaO, pOrque carecen de Ia gTasa,
que eG Ia p2fGe 0el &cS1g9 que 0uGEe " &14"
menta-su composition tiene muCha SEINE.
ianza con Ia de los COCKTATLS-y su usO
puede en- OcaciOnes Causar peEiutCfOs con-
siderables los enfermOs pOF la gran cam
tidad de alcohol que invaTiablemente con
tienen-y OtTas suDstRnCias narc0ticas, Co
mo eI sulfatO de estFicnina.
Esas preparedness, que ge dicen con
tener los principles actiVOs del aCeite de
hfgadO de baealaO, son espeeialmente Pc
ligTOsas para las criaturas, para los ninOs,
para las I6Venes y sefioFas, quienes por gu
naturaleza delicada y tempeFamentO Bspe-
cial no puedsn resfstir sin grandes que
brantOs para su Balud los efeCtOs deleteriOs
del alcohol, de Ia estEiCnina y OtTas subs
tanciss energicas.
III aceite de h1gado de baealao CD tn-
sustituibIe como alimentO-COmO Nm re-
cOnstituyents pOderOsO de la sangre, de los
teifdOs, de los nerViOs y de los huesos--y
el mOdO mss EaCiOnPl de administTaFIOs
segin 10 ha prObado La expeEiencia demas de
30 amos segdn aOpini0n unIYersalde los
medicOs, es La EMULSION DE SCOTT,
que estd cOmpuesta del aceite mas puEO y
de OtrOs ingTedientes que aumenta COM
slderablemente 10 e6CaCia nutrittVa del
aCaits5
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UN llBRO De MAlTFZAN.
Ia ReplbIiCa DOminiCanS, su eVO.
IaCi6n aDtistiba y IiteTaria.

NuentEo comp, Il sFo On ID pTsnBs 81 l6'
ven y Cult0 lit8rato dominiO0n0 senior Ma
nUel de MatoizGD, RnunCia Ia publication
do nm libFO que, seguEamsntO, gOF6 de YER
dRdeFa impoFtRnCiG.
So titulRFS la obFS. BegGn tsnOm0B en-
t0ndid0, La RepGb1ica DOmiNioGsgG, SW
evOgWo66m GFtistiea y NtsTGriG.
81 tOmR aS, pOF 81 solo, intsRGBante.
81 vOcino pals ofrsCe amplioo hoEiSonte8
al amuno 0studio , & 10 bu0nR CFftiCR que
10 pFopone hGcer 0l BGf1or Matsi86n, del
movimionto IitOFaEio RRtfstio0 ContOm
p0E6ne0.
EBo movimisnto On la FOp6blica dc mi
nioana, Gg notAb'e. FUsra paEts les fgu'
Faa de. .Daligue, (GGst6n F. }, LUgo, Arturo
PelleFano Castro, CsBtero (TuIio M. }, Ma
chado, AndEPiuIio Montolfo, JoR6 r Lo'
PEE otEoB dc rsput8Oi6n "a R!tsm8nto
Cimentad0, Bin Gxoluir al patriaFcR don
Federico HsnFiquas OaEveial, hay i6vaneg
como VAIsntfn Giro, AEfstideB FiRIIo, Fer
nRndo A. PsileFano, lGAbino A. Morales,
Victor NJ. de Castro, y OtsoB muOhoV, que
deCGrRn GA QuigquSya I8 FGpGb!iC8 do Las
IstFBB Y cu0nta que no OlvidamoB a los
Dsuch0mps nj FRbi0 FialIo, Gl dGIiCad0
La CitRdR obTR~ noA dice al Btlior Ma,
teizsn-COntsndF6 mas de 200 gEA b2dou,
entire loo CuslOD fguFar6n loB EetEato1 de
todoB loo literatOV, e8CFitoEeg, pootsB, peEi0'
dilthD, pintoFeI, O1CultoFs8, mdBicoB, etc.,
et"S, naCionRlGg.
Cada fotograbBdO ira aCompOfiAdo de
una bFsvs TeR ma RoOrCR do Jos obEaB , de
lOB FaBgO8 dOminRntO8 do ID vida de Ia
perBonRIidRd que represents, AAf como de
ca reproduction de IR obFa MES notable.
So impEimiE6 On pspOl Batinsdo y On oC'
tavo mayor. Tsndra, apFoximsdRmento,
unAs 400 6 500 p6ginaV. -EncuadoEnada
& lR EdStioA, llevREG uuA atFAy0nt0 poEtads
litogFafHd0.
La obFa ire iluBtFAda, adsmk0, con al.
gunaB dNnERB, walls, paBOdoblO8 y vistAB de
los e1ifcioB mas impoFtantsB del pAiF.
AL 6nAl del libTO, apRF8oeT6 una FapFo
duoCi6n pequtfiB, 8 K II puIgadaU, del
mAps de Ia iBlA do santO DomiGg0, publ
Cado FeOiontemsnie poE eli general OasimirO
N. do MoyB.
IntsrChladRJ en- el texto spOEOcsE6n Wis
tao do Les EuinRg y de l0s paPSieB mas C6.
lsbF68 dc ls sFOp6blicR. (Cpsva dc Santana,
Los tres OiOB) con datoa hiBt6EicO1 Eefeeen'
to8 & Gus ConOtFuCcione8, objsto, etc., =
dGtog t6cnicoB aCerCa de BuB natuTaIen for
mBCi0nag
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1908-09-28
De TEATRO.

Con 0l OonQCidflim0 y fant6gtiCo drama
del gran posta jose z TFiIlO, que llGvA poF
titulo Don Juan TOnori0, 90 de8pidi6 Rno'
che del p6b.ico de San Juan la CompAfifR
del AFtiBtR CRtRIGn Enrique BOrTaS.
No hubo un lIsno como el del s6bRdo,
que 90 EOpEessntAbR la mi1ms obEO, paEo
Hi fu6 baUtRnts numerous = diStiDguidG ls
ConcuFFsnOia.
No hAbE6 qui9n no C0nozoR 0I drama
inv0FOGimil en- gu mayor paEto, que tRnta
fama hs dado & % CsIobFado Rutor tan.
tfaimO dineEo lanlsmprsDGH teAtFaleg.
YO nRdiG ''CauORn pAv0E los gomb!Rn'
t0B 0EqUivdI' p0Equ0 NOS hemoB OCG8tum'
bVadO q vOTloI, = p0E GBO d0jagemOB quieto
t2ZoPEillG para deCiF aIgo de como pEeIent6
~ obrG lA empreBS Gee hoy IAldrG Fara
OubR.
Hay que hOOOF honor al pi1tor enCon6'
gFsfo senior UTg0lI6'.
De las dsC0EaCionOI do los 1istO RctOB
bRHtA dsOiF que guHtHron mas, muoho mas,
que 81 dO8empGfo de lR obRO, diChO gas
con todA fear qUszE.
La pTimeEa TepF0n0nt8 una h0steFiR en-
lG e1quinG de una callG. La pusEtA do
entEada, que RbFO hROiR dOntF0, paF0CfR
que rORlmOnt0 10 C0mponfR do dos hojNB y
hRHtS que 90 movfGD.
Lo miumo cAbe dociE de la ventanR que
I0 quedabR Rl~Iado EI F0utO do IL deco
RRCi6n 1smejR una CRll0 tortUoga dc 8e'
Wills.
La Begund0 decoration representa- una
casa que hRCe eEquiBa. AIlG, ca 81 fondo,
90 ObEsEvR una gOlOEfR que paFeC0 que Oata
& gran diBtanci0. Tel % 10 perspective.
Un GlOFo 6 C0IgNdiBO, 8st6 tan bi0n imi'
tad0, que 90 70 como deSpEOndido do 10
pared de 10 CaaR.
LRS FejRB do lea VentAnR8 90 deBtaCan do
modo mSgiDtF0I.
La terCsr0 decoration % 81 interior del
cOnvantO. La gSlsFis, qu0 oOnduCO al
oTatoFiO, Ismsja Las Columnas, con tel pro-
piedRd, que 10 luna panOtTa On B0ntid0 diS'
gOnRl % not8 una paFtO OOmPlstOmsnt0
0gCuFa, 10 superior, = sl FOatO CON Gg8 ClA'
EidRd BuRv0 que lRE0diR 0l ROtro do 10
noChe.
Con Don Ju0m OBCSla IaB tapiaU del con-
vOntO, 20 Ie We lpRGaE pOr detF6G de GaRn
Columnag.
La cuartR P8 ID casa do Don Juan, &
OTilla8 del GuRda!quiviF, y no cabs pOdiE
mas.
La iIu8i6n 90 polfsCta, aCabRdG.
El panto6n del Ten0Fi0, Ia b6vsdG ,,
psFtiCulaEmento, Loo uGuC08 Olt6n pint8dou
de manO m0OBtra. La sntrRdO 81 BagEado
F0Cinto 90 BobeRbiG. AqueIIR puOEta dc
OntFsdR e8 mBgiOtFNl.
No noa'0gEad6, , BsguFGmentO no Bon
de UTgelleg, l08 m0numOntOB de Dan Con-
sale ? Don Luis J DOfR In6l. VGmOG,