San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 205, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 14, 1900 Page: 5 of 8
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SATURDAY. JULY 14 1900.
44 A Miss is As
Good as a Mite/'
If you are not enttrtty <weU you are UI.
Illness does not mean death's door. It is
a sense of •weariness a “ tired feeling.” a
life filled with nameless pains and suffer-
ing. In 901 of cases the blood is to blame.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is Nature's corrective
for disorders of the blood. Remember
WARMING lIP.
POLITICAL MASS MEETING FOR
NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT.
A Call Issued Endorsed By the Coun-
ty Commissioners to Assemble at
Mission Garden.
A political inerting was held yester-
day afternon at which it was decided
to hold a mass meeting next Tuesday
night At Mission garden to outline a
plan of campaign in focal politics for
tbe election next November. Yester-
day’s merting wns presided over by
Judge G. 11. Noonan and Judge J. J.
Sweeney acted as chairman.
The following call foi a mass meet-
ing was drawn up and endorsed by
tin- County Commissioners’ court and
u copy given to a Light reporter:
To the Citizens of Bexar Co. Texas.
Whereas of late years in every re-
curring election there have been is-
sued circulars and petitions of so-cal-
led reformers calling on citizens to
reform matters in our county manage-
ment principally the Commisiosners’
Court.
A call for a mass convention has
been issued in the interest of a select
few who are desirous of obtaining
and controlling the various county
offices and an issue is sought for in
the condemnation of the County Com-
missioners’ count by charging it with
mismanagement of county affairs.
We would therefore request all cit-
izens to assemble at Mislson garden
on Tuesday nigtat July 17 at 8:30
y'dock and discuss the issue in a fair
tpinded way.
One Minute Cough Cure is the only
harmless remedy that produces imme-
diate results. Try it. Wm. C. Kal-
teyer J. A. Burke C. Schasse Wm.
Appmann.
PARK FOR COLORED FOLKS.
This will Be the Outcome of an Or-
gauization.
A mass meeting of colored meh was
held last enight in the Colored Odd
Fellows’ hall and the Young Men's
league was organized with the follow-
ing officers:
11. A. Boyd president: L. Robert-
son secretary: Sam Abrams corre-
sponding secretary; J. M. Shelburn
treasurer.
The Light was extended a vote of
thanks for devoting so much space
to giving the news of the recent Eman-
cipation celebraticu and various com-
mittees were appointed the most im-
portiant of which was one for the se-
lection of a site for a colored folks'
park.
The site will be purchased by tbe
league which will be chartered and
will be used exclusively for colored
celebrations.
—Try the Regular Dinners at Bull
Brothers’ Mount Vernon Restaurant;
the best in the city. 7-9-lt
HIORTUARY.
Leon Douiqouet aged 40 died at the
Ursuline convent of hemorrhage yes-
terday morning. He was in the em-
ploy of that institution. He was a
native of France. The funeral took
place yesterday afternon. Services
were held in St. Mary's Catholic
itiureh anjJ interment was had in St.
Mary's cemetery.
J. E. BroWn. aged 40 died at 204
Oak street laAt night at 9:45 o’clock.
He was a merchant tailor of New Or-
leans and leaves a wife and two child-
ren. The remains were shipped to
New Orleans.
The remains of the late Mrs. Eliza-
beth Heape were laid to rest in St.
Mary's cemetery yesterday afternoon.
Services wre held in St. Mary’s Catho-
lic church and were conducted by
Father Fletcher. Tbe pall bearers
were H. B. Rice Everett G. Graves.
Richard C. Bryant; Mr. Robertson and
George A. McGill.
LICENSE TO WED.
Engelbert Ernst Bruun and Anna
Forkeson.
Cerapia Gaitan and Josefa Urvinn.
DUERLER’S
KbLA-MALT.
TRY IT. IT’S GOOD. 610 tf
CHANGE OF HEADQUAIbTERS.
Chicago. July 14.—A special'to the
Tribune from Indianapolis says: ‘’ln-
dianapolis has been selected as head-
quarters for tbe Middle-of-theßoed
Populist committee. Assprance of
this fact lias been received by officers
of the Populist state committee. At
the. Populist national convention held
in Cincinnati. Chicago was selected
but the national committee has decid-
ded that Indianapolis would be u bet
ter vantage point from which to man-
age the Populist forces which are sit-
noted chiefly in the southern states.
PERUNA A REMEDY FOR FEMALE CATARRH.
Maobudkr York Co. Va.
Dr. 8. B. Hartman Columbus O.:
“I can scarcely find words to express
my gratitude to you for al) your kind-
ness to me. It has robbed the grave of
one victim for I was in a critical condi-
tion when I wrote you before. Thanks
to you however my health is fully re-
stored. I wish every young lady in our
town could read your book. There would
be a great deal less sickness and puny
women.”—Miss Bertha E. Sargent.
• Navasota Tkx.
Dr. 8. B. Hartman Columbus O.:
“I think it is time to let you know
what your treatment has done for me.
I am rid of that terrible trouble I had
when I wrote to you. When I would
itoop over I could not straighten up
without the most severe pain. lam well
>t that and am much better in other
ways.”—Mrs. F. K. F. Gille Box 19. *
Osyka Miss.
Or. 8. B. Hartman Columbns O.:
“I am sure that Pe-ru-na is one of the
jest medicines on the market. I am
GRADING MACHINE.
STREET COMMISSIONER WILL
- SOON HAVE A WONDER.
Will Dig Up Dirt Enough to Fill 900
Wagons Daily—Strew. Work Dis-
cussed.
When the city commences to use up
that $300000 bond issue the dirt will
fly in flue style.
The macadam on streets to be per-
manently paved will be removed and
dumped on various side streets which
will first be substantially graded and
Street Commissioner Scott expects to
fix up about twice as many streets as
were promised the citizens when ttiey
voted on the issue.
He is not gotog to be behind the
times in the manner of grading and
building these streets either as will be
demonstrated when the new elevating
grading machine just ordered by the
city arrives and is get to work.
Mr .Scott muounces that the city has
already selected one of these machines
and will purchase it soon as the bond
issue is sold. By its use enough money
can be saved in work to pay for it in a
few days.
The machine will scrape out a street
elevate the dirt and dump it into a
wagon all at cue and the Same time.
It will require from 12 to 16 mules to
pull it but it can load 800 or 900 wag-
ons per day and is operated by very
few men.
Mr. Scott saw several of these ma-'
clnes in operation while in the clast
and says they are very satisfactory.
Several streets recently ordered
graded by the council are being left
untouched by Mr. Scott for the pres-
cut or until this grader can be se-
cured when they can be finished off in
almost no time. It will be a great
boon to the street commissioner's de-
partment after the streets to be pav-
ed with the proceeds of the bond issue
are finished as the suburban streets
can then be given attention and as the
machine works so rapidly it Van soon
have every street in the city graded
and drained.
LIBRARY PLANS.
Architects Can Now Regki Their
Work.
The city engineer E. G. Trueheart
has completed the prospectus laying
down the rules for the guidance of
architects in the Carnegie library
building competition. The contest is
open to all architects of established
reputation regardless of place of resi-
dence aud will close at 4 o’clock in the
(afternoon of September 10.
The plans to be submitted are to be
as follows:
1. Plat plan showing full size of lot
and location thereon of building and
appurtenances. 2. Basement and
foundation phm. 3. First floor plan.
4. Second floor plan. 5 6 and 7. Ele-
vations. 8. Longitudinal section. 9.
One sheet of illustrative scale details.
10. Perspective of exterior. Typewrit-
ten descriptions are to accompany the
plans.
The cost of the building must come
within $47000 and a competent bid for
the construction of the building within
that amount must be had before the
prize is finally awarded.
The author of the plan adopted will
receive a fee of per cent of the
cost of the building proper. A second
prize of $250 will be awarded to the
author of the plan deemed second best:
$l5O for third best and $lOO for
fourth best with honorable mention
foe fifth best plan. The successful ar-
chitect is to receive a further compen-
sation of 1% per cent for superin-
tending the building should the city
council retain him.
Off the Track means great disaster
when applied to a fast express train.
It is just as bad when it refers to
disordered blood or deranged stom-
ach. Hood's Sarsaparilla puts the
wheels back on the track by curing the
troubles.
Indigestion nausea are cured by
Hood's Pills.
sure that I would
now had I
not used it. I
have told many
others the good
it did me.
Everybody said
that I had con-
sumption and I
knew that I
would have it
unless I got re-
lief. I feel it
my duty to
give praise where it is due. I am and
ever shall lie grateful to the man whe
discovered Pe-ru-na.”—Mrs.B.E.Dicker.
N ew Orleans La.
Dr. S B. Hartman ColumbusO.r
“ I am feeling much better now than 1
have for two years. I find Pe-ru-na to
say that I am looking better now than I
have for years. They want to know
what I have been doing I look so well
I tell them that Pe-ru-na did it. I hope
Dr. Hartman will live many years more
to help others as he did me.”—Mrs. H.
Buthe 1834 Sixth street.
Every woman should have a copy of
“Health and Beauty.” This book con-
tains specific instructions for the treat-
ment and cure of female catarrh. It is
illustrated and contains much informa-
tion. Address Dr. HartmanColumbua»O>
CAPT. ROBERTS RELEASED.
Cables to His Parents—Oilier Milita-
ry News Notes.
The family of Lieutenant Cofopel
Cyrus 8. Roberts received a brief ca-
blegram yesterday morning that
carried joy to their hearts. It was
dated Manila and contained only
these words:
“Paroled Well.
“ROBERTS."
The message was from Col. Roberts'
son. Captain Roberts of the Thlrty-
tifth infantry who on May 29 while
scouting with six men of his commabd
all mounted was taken prisoner with
three men. Three others were killed in
the sharp aonflict. The party was am-
bushed in a very dense bamboo thick-
et only a few miles from their stat-
ion at San Miguel.
John Wrobbel at rhe last rilbment
declined the position which he bad an-
nounced had been offered him in Gal-
veston on receipt of his discharge awl
lais re-enlisted in the battery at the
post. •
Corp. McKay of Light Battery K
First artillery who has received a civ-
il service appointment nt the Fort
Leavenworth military prison was yes-
terday notified of his discharge by the
Secretary of War by tbe • United
States Attorney General. Corp. Mc-
Kay will leave in a few days for his
new station.
Tbe army regulations have been so
amended as to make the furlough
of a soldier serving outside the Uni-
ted States begin when lie lands in this
country. At its expiration he also
only has to be back at the nearest
army post to the post of debarkation.
The Christian Endeavor society will
have a religious service nt the hospi-
tal of Fort Sam Houston tomorrow Tit
:: o’clock. Mrs. .1. H. Erb will speak
to the convalescent soldiers.
A PLEASANT CARD PARTY.
A pleasant card party was given by
Miss Lena and Louise Fest last Wed-
nesday evening at their home 102 Gar-
za street and a most enjoyable time
was had by all. Those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. A. Tolle Mr. and Mrs.
J. Fest. Misses Fest and Annie Boss-
hardt Clara Dietzel Mamie Dietzel
Mattie Hines. Com Homann Item
Krueger. Lizzie Loessberg Edna Rich-
ey Adele Stumberg kla Stumberg
Annie Tengg Mary Tengg Messrs.
Frank Bosshardt Frank Creswell
Louis Dietzel. Adolph Giesecke Paul
Krueger. Max Krueger Adolph
Krisch Frank Melcher Edward Nae-
gelin. Alfred Richey Howard Richey
Herman Stumberg George Stumberg
Thomas Tengg. Ed. Witte and John
Fest Jr.
Prizes were awarded. Miss Mattie
Hines caught first prize a picture and
tbe second prize went to Miss Edna
Richey. It was a comb and brush
tray. Tbe booby prize was won by
Miss Annie Tengg.
Tbe first gentlemen's prize was cap-
tured by Mr. Ed. Wktte. It was n
fountain pen. The second gent's
prize went to Mr. Frank Melcher it
being a pearl handled pocket knife.
Mr. Herman Stumberg was the winer
of the gent's booby prize a pretty
pair of socks.
Refreshments were served and all
left for their homes well pleased will
tbe evening's pleasure.
TO FIND CONGER.
The Chinese Minister and Secretary
Hay Arrange a Message.
Washington D. C. July 14.—The
Chinese minister Mr. Wu has under-
taken to get through a cipher cable
message from Secretary Hay to Uni-
ted States Minister Conger at Pekin
end have an answer brought back if
Conger is alive. The message is pre-
pared by Secretary Hay and its con-
tenth are unknown to any one save
him. It was sent to Shanghai with
explicit instructions from Minister
Wu to spare no efforts to get it into
the hands of Mr. Conger.
“GRANDMA’S TEA.”
Beautifies the complexion purifies
the blood cures constipation. 25 cents
at all druggists who refund the money
tf not satisfied. 0-13-tf.
THE APPETITE OF A GOAT
STREET COMMISSIONER REMOV-
-EDRAILSON FLORES STREET.
Took Up Ties and Rails of South
Florta Street Line Between The
Plaza and Nueva Street.
A block of tbe Sun Antonio Traction
cicupauy's track was taken up yester-
day afternoon. and the company did
not have tbe work drtie.
Street Commissioner Scott took it up.
He says the Traction company refused
to remove the track aud he had to tear
it up in order to pave the street
The track was removed from South
Flores street between Military plaza
and NucVa streets and was done very
quickly. The macadain is being re-
moved from this street to allow it to
be paved with vitrified brick and the
street commissioner by noiti yesterday
announced that he had completed bis
part of the excavation on each side of
tbe track and according to his state-
uienL later notified the street car com-
pany to remove its track mid allow
them to exmvate in the ciutre of the
street.
be the bestjmedi-1
cine for female
complaint and
in all cases ot
extreme weak-
ness I think it is
the best remedy
in the world as
it has done me
1 a great deal ot
1 good. My friends
Mr. Scott says he got a nply that the
work could not be done inside of two
weeks whereupon lie served notice on
the company that he could do it at
once. He then set his men to work
tearing up the track and by 5 o’clock
none of it was left in that block.
Mr. E. 11. Jenkins president of the
San Antonio Car Company walked
down and back again very slowly
whjje the finishing touches to the tear-
ing-up work was to progress. but did
not shy a word to anybody.
To a Light it->>rter he declined to
make a statement later and the mat-
ter thus stands tiie city’s side of the
story public and the company’s side
untold.
The vitrified brick to cover this block
after the excavation is finished and
the concrete foundation Is laid have
already been shipped and will arrive
here in a couple of days. They will
no doubt be laid some time next week.
“If tbe street car company does not
begin laying its tracks at the appointed
time in an approved manner with the
new groove rails like those on Avenue
C and a good concrete foundation un-
der the ties I shall pave the block over
solid without a track on the street”
said Street Commissioner Scott to a
TJght reporter yesterday afternoon on
South Flores street where the work
was in progress.
The city evidently feared trouble
yesterday when it began tearing up
tbe rails as there were three police-
men stationed within tbe block while
the work was in progress.
E. B. Franck sells it fcr less.
NO. 3738.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
Of (the Lockwood National Bank at San
Antonio in the State of Texas at
the c'ose of business June 29 1900.
Loans and discounts $337656.39
Overdrafts gecired and unse-
cured 44241.37
U. S Bonds to secure circula-
tion . 25.000.00
U. S. Bonds on hand 903.00
Stocks securities etc 1384.38
Banking house furniture and
flxtuieg .... |66521.07
Due from National Banks (not
reserve agents) 12190.13
Due from slate banks and
bankers 16.238.42
Due from approved reserve
agents 35455.75
Internal revenue stamps... 774.32
Checks an<l other cash
items ... 2698.35
Notes ot other Nat. banks.. 10546.00
Fractional paper currency.
nickels and cents 47.69
Lawful money reserve in bank
viz:
Specie $ 51693.75
Legal tender notes. 32000.00
83693.75
Redemption fund with U. 9.
Treasurer (sper ct. of cir-
culation 1.245.00
Total $638395.62
Capital stock paid in $100000.00
Surplus fund 33000.00
Undivided profits less expen-
ses and taxes paid 11784.85
National bank notes out stand-
ing 22500.09
Due to other National
banks 17753.69
Due to state banks and bank-
ers 215.31
Individual deposits subject to
checl 443233.77
Demand ceitificates of de-
posit 2335.00
Time certificates of depos-
it 7573.00
Total $638395.62
State of Texas County of Bexarss
I J. S. Lockwood president of the
above named bank do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to
the best of my knowledge and belief.
J. S LOCKWOOD Pres.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 12th day of July 1900.
CHAS. DEUSSEN
Notary Public Bexar Co. Tex.
Correct attest:
S. W. BENNETT
G. A. DUERLER.
Directors.
MOONLIGHT PICNICS.
Notwithstanding the threatening
weather there were several privateipic-
nic parties in San Pedro springs park
last evening among them being one
given by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the
Railway Postal Clerks’ association
and one by the Ladies’ High-Five
club —" -'■•6
AMERICA’S Greatest Medicine is
Hood’s Sarsaparillabecause it pos-
sesses unequalled curative powers and
its record ot ;ures is GREATEST.
TORE UP THE TRACK.
RESOURCES.
L lA3ILITIES
30 & 44 0%
\C4jF is i ast v ear s in ’
crease in the sales
of bottled beer
made by the
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Assn
Their output being the largest in the
world is evidence that quality and
purity secures the deserved reward.
No com is used to cheapen their
products.
a also made by this association is the greatest
invigorator and rejuvenator helps the weak
w’JSSSwj/ invalid and the convalescent.
GLECTRIC ELEVATORS VS. IIY-
DRAULIU
It may be asserted that eletrical ele-
vators arc more economical per se that
a further gate is obtainable by opera-
tion in conjunction with lighting work
and that the generating plant required
is the additional cost of a single gen-
erator unit: also that there is a gen-
eral advantage in the combination of
all services under one character ot
power; finally that the service can be
operated by outside supply without tbe
expense of installing a generating
plant
These assumptions have been the
cause of much disputation and in u
number of cases where Incompletely
studied have led to decisions in favor
of the adaption oi electrical operation
ot elevator machinery. The results of
the use of the electrical high-speed ma-
chines are now before us and can be
briefly summarized as follows;
Without the addition of a storage
battery the high-speed electric ele-
vator is not so economical as the hy-
draulic.
The additional cost of a storage uat-
tery with interest and depreciation
thereon out-weighs any economic
gain obtainable.
Without a battery the service can-
not be combined satisfactorily with
lighting work.
A higher class and greater extent of
labor is necessary with electrical ele-
vator machines.
The cost of maintdance and repairs
is largely in excess of the same items
with hydraulic machines.
Tiie cost of outside electrical supply
is too great to admit of economical
consideration in this class of build-
ing.
Tiie reason for this disappointing re-
sult to my mind is to be found in the
basic fact th'at this service Is u rad-
ically unsuitable application of elec-
tricity.— Reginald Pelham Bolton in
the Engineering Magazine for June.
THE GUIANA PLACERS.
After a careful investigation I am of
the opinion that it is not advisable at
present to invest In Dutch Guiana al-
though unquestionably sooner or
later some rich lodes will be discover-
ed nearer the mountains which at
present it is almost impossible to prns-
pect. Grant that a prospector Is for-
tunate enough to And a rich lode; the
labor in itself is such a serious ques-
tion that 1 am extremely doubtful if
success could be made under present
conditions in the first place it Is nec-
essary to advance two weeks' pay to
the meu and a contract is signed which
apparently binds for an agreed time
but in fact is of little or no value
as upm taking them to the bush if
they claim sickness the employer is
obliged .to send them to Paramaribo at
his own expense. The government
specifies these provisions and the law
favors labor as against the employer.
Wages amount to about sixty cents
American currency per day and their
food tu about forty cents per day.
One American miner can do more work
than four of them so there is really no
economy although on paper it would
seem so.—J. Esdaile Florence In the
Hngineering Magazine for June.
RELIGION HELPS FISH TRADE.
Would be Dean as Dried Herring But
for Catholic Countries.
Cyrus C. Alams in Ainslee’s.
"Though most of the sturdy fisherfolk
of Newfoundland are protestants they
derive the greater part of their living
from the people of Roman Catholic
countries. The fact that in the
course of the year there are many fast
days when millions of Roman Catho-
lics ent little animal foot except fish
has oeen a ged-send to the greatest
fishingg contries which have thus
been provided with certain and reg-
ular markets for their fish. It is well
known that the inhabitants of the
temperate zones are eating less and
less salt fish. It is well known that
pickled herring twenty years ago
was landed to the amount of scores of
thousands of barrels a year at a few
leading northern ports of America and
Europe. Scarcely a barrel of this com-
modity is now to be seen in these
forts unless landed for trans-ship-
ment tc the Roman Catnollcs of sub-
tropical and tropical countries which
are buying more salt fish than ever as
they grow in population. The cod is
commercially the most important of
fishes. The only reason that makes
it so is because salted cod is an ex-
tremely popular article of food in all
Roman Catholic countries on account
of its nutritive quality and cheapness.
Protestant countries eat comparative-
ly little cod and most of that is fresh
instead of cured. When the fisher-
men cf all the nations toss their hand
lines baited for cod over the side of
their little vessels clean and salt the
catch as they haul it aboard and then
after leaching port expose it on rude
platfoimsto tbe sunshine till it is flaky
white and thoroughly dried. It is certain
that they are working for the Roman
Catholic part of the world
COD FISH AND CURED FISH.
“Well cure I cod to be sure is not
to be disdained by any one; neverthe-
less by far the larger part of it is eat-
en by Catholics. It is the fresh cod
of ot’ inland fisheries that has sup-
where that religious element is large
plied most o< our markets while the
s alter] cod of the banks is chiefly sold
either in Catholic countries or in lands
The v ell-knowc ’stockfish' of com-
merce is the dried cod of Norway and
Sweden and is equipped at once for
the southern parts of Europe. These
lands of many fast days also buy the
Scottish dried cod. Wells filled with
salt water in the hold of the English
•od vessels keep the fish alive till it
arrives fresh in the markets; for the
Engl'sh eat very few cured codfish.
France's cod catch is almost as large
as ou.' own and her fishermen are sent
thousands of miles to the banks to
catch and cure the great stores of cod
which this Ca’holic country requires.
“It is not Great Britain but rather
Italy Spain Portugal and Brazil that
are the largest buyers of cured fish
which is the greatest resource of New-
foundland. These countries pay cash
too for they do not send Newfoundland
in commodities one-tenth of the value
cf the fish they buy from Canada's
exports to Italy in 1896 were wholly
fish; to the Spanish iVest Indies sev-
en-ninths fish to Brazil oyer five-
aixths fish; to Spain over one-half
fish. There is no country in the world
in which so much fish is eaten as in
European Russia.and the reason is be-
cause the Grees church has many more
fast days an l ebserves them more
strictly than the Western Catholics.
The use of meat is prohibited or great-
ly restricted on nearly half the days of
the year and the result is to give enor-
mous importance to the prolific home
fisheries in river lake and sea which
supply 961000600 people with fish food."
PRICES FOR ADVERTISING.
Tbe Chicago Evening Press a new
daily established by the Scripps peo-
ple. announces as a cardinal business
principle that it will uot accept more
titan forty Indies of advertising from
any single advertiser for a single issue
and that its rates will be lowest for
small space and highest for large space
—reversing tbe ordinary wholesale
principle that tbe large buyer Is en-
titled to the lowest price. The object
is to keep its paper small says the Dea
Moihea News.
The advertising world is rapidly
drifting toward tbe flat or absolutely
equal rite for all advertisers; but it is
doubtless whether any considerable
headway will ever be milile by this new
idea ‘at’ Chicago. All that the small
advertiser asks is that he have an
equal chance with his large competi-
tor. With that he can continue busi-
ness; without it he must go to the
wall. The Press comes too late to save
the small advertiser in Chicago; he Is
already crushed out of existence.
THE DISAPPEARING GUN CAR-
RI AGE.
The system of dtearpearing carriages
appears to have originated with'Col-
onel Moncrieff. yf England who pat-
ented his invention in that country in
1864 though the details were worked
out by Sir W. G. Armstrong & Co.
Colonel Moncrieff proposed that the
enormous energy of recoil or "kick”
of the guns in tiring—a pressure
amountiug to upwards of 35000
pouuds to the square inch—should be
utilized iu bringing the gun down into
a protected position behind an earth-
work and at the same time lie used
in storing up sufficient energy to raise
the gun into tiring position after it
had been loaded.
The “MoncrTeff" mountings were so
designed that a heavy counterpoise
tended to keep tbe gun in firing posi-
tion. The energy of recoil was absorb-
ed in lifting the counterpoise and a
ratchet and pawl kept the gun iu the
position to which it finally recoiled. In
operation each time it was tired the
gun recoiled to the loading poslticu in
which it was held until loaded when
on releasing the pawl tbe counter-
weignt lifted the gun into the tiring
position or 'as it is termed "in bat-
tery.”—G. H. Powell to the Engineer-
ing Magazine for June. «
PLEASANT AFFAIR.
Banquet Given by the Mystic Circle
Last Evening.
Alamo Ruling No. 385 Fraternal
Mystic Circle gave a banquet iu I. O.
O. F. hall last evening and notwith-
standing the threatening weather a
largo number of persons were pres-
ent.
Many liappy toasts were proposed
aud responded to and merriment
reigned supreme.
The Mystic Circle although compar-
atively newly established in this city
has a membership of something like
600 of the city's best people. It is a
fraternal benevolent ortier.
W. D. Ragsdale is organizer tn this
city being a« deputy of the /upreme
or grand lodge.
TO FIND CONGER.
Washington. D. C„ July ]4.—The
Chinese minister has sent a cablegram
to the Tao Tai of Stian Tung telling
him the American government is ex-
ceedingly anxious as to the fate of
Minister Conger ami requesting him
to cable any information be may. have
on th.it point. This is in addition to
the cablegram lie forwaniod Wed-
nesday at the request of Secretary
JU w ...
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