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Elbert County Tribune,
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/ J. B. KINO, PvMUinr.
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Usually the did of might Is a man
who wod'L
There ere some men too stingy to
•ne pay a tribute.
The troubles a man usually tries to
drown aiw those be borrows.
A true fdilloeophsr Is too philosoph
ical to bother about philosophy.
A bachelor says a woman alwayß
means what she says while she is say
ing 4L
Poor reputations wpuld be scarce If
all men were credited with their good
Intentions.
Absence makes the heart grow fond
er—of the bright-faced girl on the
golden coin.
No man ever thinks he has attained
bts proper position In the world nutil
he Is able to look down on somobody.
Some men are so fond of an argu
ment that they will dispute with a
guide board about the distance to the
next lawn.
The average woman would never be
■occeesful In running for office; she
would have to atop too often to boo If
her hat was on straight.
Representatives of Germany and the
United BUtes contemplate a Joint ex
cursion to the south pole. Assuredly
this Is going a long way In friendship.
An Illinois rural preacher rode over
Into an adjoining county on his bicycle
to wed an eloping couple. This Isn’t
the first time Cupid has scored with the
wheel.
Whooping-cough, when once the
acute stage has passed, can often be r*-
. lleved by very simple means. The
paroxysms of coughing are then chief
ly nervous in character, and can often,
like other nervous spasms, be relieved
by anything which distracts the child’s
attention. One of ths best ways of
accomplishing this is to bold a bottle
of ordinary smelling-salts under the
child’s nose, not suddenly, so as to
cause fright, but quietly, with the as
surance that It will help the cough.
W. K. Anderson, United States Con
sul at Hanover, says: that It seems
to be generally admitted that Ger
man beet sugar, when once it
comes Into competition with the Cu
ban product, must go to the wall. In
casting about for some way of saving
the industry from utter destruction,
many plans have been proposed, but
the moet available seems to be to
'lncrease home consumption.’ To this
end, it Is proposed to Issue sugar as
a ration to the soldiers and to en
courage farmers to feed it to stock,
especially to hogs. Of course, this
will necessitate the cheapening of the
article, and the only way this can be
effectually accomplished is to abolish
the taxes now paid on sugar consumed
In Oermany, and roduce or entirely
discontinue sugar bounties.
Oolumbus, Ohio, dispatches state
that accompany Is being organised In
that city to build an electric railroad
according to plans made by a cltlxen
of Middletown. The road Ib to rest
upon a line of single Iron pillars,
which are to be anchored In massive
atone foundations. The cars will run
upon a single traction rail upon n
heavy Iron beam extending between
the pillars and will retain equilibrium
through the agency of a single guard
rail above. The complete structure
Will extend twenty-three feet above
the groand. Experts pronounce the
road perfect from an economical stand
point. A locomotive requires foui
pounds of coal per horse power per
hour, out of which Is obtained a speed
of sixty miles, while these cars will
run with a consumption of one and
one-half pounds of coal per horse pow
er per hour, with an average speed ol
200 miles per hour.
The pardon of Capt. Dreyfus by th<
French government undoubtedly brlngf
to a definite close, so far as Judlcla
proceedings are concerned, all action
on the part of the unfortunate Jew, 01
on the part of his friends. Neither it
any case pending, and probably no cast
can be made up, which will permit th<
taking oLfurther sworn evidence touch
ing the guilt or Innocence of the ac
cused man. He has legally been pro
nounced guilty, but by the pardon h<
is morally pronounced not guilty. Tht
"extenuating circumstances" found b)
the court-martial contradicted tht
formal verdict of the court, for there
can be no circumstances that extenu
ate treason. The government com
pletes the contradiction by pardoning
the man. If he were guilty, his of
fense was so great that a pardon could
not be merited. With a moral vindi
cation Dreyfus must be content. Tht
civilised world believes him Innocent
Presenting Admiral Dewey with n
loving cup. In the name of the city ol
New York, Mayor Van Wyck called
him *‘a man of destiny." He is. What
ever honor the nation can bestow hat
been paid him and he deserves It all
But his unparalleled success and th<
people’s united praise have only awak
ened in the heart of the honest sailoi
a sense of deep humility. His "des
tiny” is to demonstrate tho essential
modesty of true greatness. Admiral
Dewey's most abiding victory haß been
over himself.
Oysters of fine flavor, and sometimes
growing to the length of one foot, are
found at Yeso, one of the northern
islands of Jhpan. Looking to the fu
ture food supply, fifty barrels of these
bivalves will be planted In the tide
waters of Oregon and Washington, by
a private company, acting on a hint
from the national fish commission.
Following the example of diamonds,
beef and otner valuable things, eggs
are now rising rapidly In the scale ol
prices. Can it be possible that a hen
trust has been organised?
To "make a fortune" Is not an un
worthy ambition, provided an employ
er declines to make It by failing to pay
wagea that enable employes to live as
honest men and women. But a heap
of dollars, built up of pennies avarici
ously withheld from persons who live
starved and wretched—possibly vicious
—lives for the want of them—such a
fortune Is a monument to its possess
or’a shame.
No matter how good a man's reputa
tion for veracity may be, his friend?
always douH bis fish stories.
WORN OUT; USELESS.
OBSOLETE DECLARATION OF
CAMPAION ISSUES.
Or at or rata Ira RmOrmlnc tUo Chicago
I’lalfor* of IHUU. In UUrasard of IU
Many AbaardltlM nod lnc«>n«raltlea
—Oat for Brvan and Fro• Sllvor.
It being the fashion of Democratic
date conventions in 1899 to “reaffirm
the Chicago platform of 1896," the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat shrewdly raises
the question whether all or any of
these unanimous reafflrmers have ac
tually read the declaration of princi
ples which they now adopt a* their
own. Probnbly they have not. To
suppose otherwise would !>e to assume
a degree of asinine absurdity quite be
yond that which Is commonly charac
teristic of Democratic platform mak
ing.
Take, for example, the Ohio Demo
cratic Convention of a few dayß ago.
Must one believe that the committee
on resolutions know what It was that
they reaffirmed word for word? In It
possible that In the preaence of condi
tions which give the laugh to calamity
croakers and which show a atate of In
dividual and general prosperity far be
yond any that haa ever been expe
rienced by the people of the United
States, or by any other people on tho
fare of the earth—ls it possible that
the Buckeye Bourbons remembered
that In the Chicago platform of jJB9C
which they reaffirmed It la gravely.as
serted that tho demonetization of sil
ver has resulted In “the prostration of
industry and the Impoverishment of
tho people?” Where are the prostrato
industries and the Impoverished peo
ple? They existed In 1896 at the tlmo
the Chicago platform was promul
gated, aa tho result, almost wholly, of
tree-trade experiments in tariff mak
ing, but they do not exist in 1899, after
two years of Republican tariff-making.
Much has happened since the Chi
cago platform was written which
makes that dismal apologue "look like
thirty cents;" and yet the party which
"never learns and never forgets” keeps
right on reaffirming that platform. It
la asserted, seriously asserted. In these
days of wonderful well-doing, that
monometallism "has locked fast the
prosperity of an Industrial people In
the paralysis of hard times." It Is
such rot do this that Democratic con
ventions aro now "reaffirming.” Well
and truly tho Globe-Democrat remarks
that
"The Chicago platform was made In
tho Inst year of a Democratic adminis
tration, under a chaotic Democratic
tariff law, and In a period of distress
ing Democratic depression. With the
passing away of tho Democratic blight
the clouds vanished. • • • When
the Chicago convention met, that
hybrid absurdity, the Wilson tariff
law, was In force, throwing out of
balanco all forms of American Indus
try, and at the same time producing
Insufficient revenue. Yet the Chicago
platform contains thin clause: ’We
denounce ns disturbing to business the
Republican threat to restore the Mc-
Kinley law." Tho Dlngley law haa
been In operation two years, and tho
people are familiar with Its results.
It has revivified our manufactures
without oppressing any one and as
sisted In bringing about an ora giving
employment to all. The revenue from
tho Dlngley law Is a fourth larger than
that of the Wilson law. Yet the Chi
cago platform said the McKinley law,
upon which tho Dlngjey law Is pat
terned, ’enriched the few at the ex
pense of tho many, restricted trade and
deprived tho producers of the great
American staples of access to their
natural markets.’ Nevertheless, our
foreign trado for the last two years
has been enormously larger than ever
before, in manufactured articles as
well bb the products of agriculture."
Democratic resolution writers would
do well to read up on the platform of
1890, and endeavor to evolve some
thing for present use that Is not abso
lutely ridiculous in the light of known
facts and conditions.
THE FARMER THINKS.
lie It Well NntUllotl with the "Hired
Men" Now In the White Hour*.
Under tho appropriate beading of
"Horse Sense In lowa," the New York
Sun prints the followlng:
“Upon the occasion of a recent visit
to lowa 1 asked a farmer In an Interior
county what the people of lowa In
tended to do at the next presidential
election, and hiß answer was as fol
lows:
" 'Wall, I never argue politics and
never did, but If I give a man a job
and ho does his work well, what’s the
use of turning him off and glttlng a
new man? Now, Mr. McKinley does
his work right up to the handle, and
no man could a done It better, though
I didn’t have no part In putting him
there. So what's the sense in turning
him out and putting a new man In his
place?
" ‘He made a lot of promises about
good times, and I can't see as he over
stated the facts either, for certainly
Ihe times have been thundering good,
there’s no denying that.
" ’Now, BUI Bryan comes nround
here telling the boys If they didn’t
elect him the country would go to hell;
and be quick about it. 'Pears like Bill
■lldn't know what ho was talking
~bout, or was lying, likely tho latter.
Cuess we can spare Bill a spell yet, so
ho can got his picture took. Maybe
he'll learn something if he hangs
round tho house and keeps his head
cool out there In Nehrnßka. If he runs
again you can easy git the fool census
by counting his vote. He reminds mo
of a mule I owned once—the only tlmo
he used his hend was at dinner time
—rest of tho time he was hunting
around to find something to kick at.
McKinley will go back for another
term, leastwise, that's what the neigh
bors say. and I’m likewise.’ ”
—W. C. H.
New York. Sept. 11.
The farmers of the United States are
not saying much übout politics just
now. They are engaged In harvesting
and marketing at good prices one of
the heaviest crops they have ever had,
and their cattle, liorb and sheep are
bringing them more money than for a
good many years past. They have
mostly finished paying off the mort
gages T.-hlch were a part of the bless
ings of free-trade tariff tinkering. 1893-
1897, and are now taking the benefit of
the good times which were promised
by the "advance agent of prosperity.’’
They have stopped thinking about 16
to 1 or flat money, and are not worry
ing much about the trusts. This lowa
farmer is_ a representative type. He
knows what he lost by the triumph of
"tariff reform" In 1892. and he knows
how vastly he Is the gainer by the tri
umph of "McKlnleylem" In 1896. Next
year he will know how to vote.
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Ilnlft'inf An*l Orrrllmr.
Complaints have been made against
the officers of some of the Fall river
mills for hiring women and minors to
verk nigh's as well as days, but on
Investigation it appears that, although
the mills in question are running every
week night until 10 o’clock, they are
not violating the law which forbids
tho employment of women and minora
more than fifty-eight hours In a week.
The fact tmt the question has been
raised nt all presents a situation cu
riously In contrast with that which
existed In former years. There were
no violations of the flfty-elght-hour
restriction of the days of the
Wilson tariff. No complaints were
then heard of over-working wom
en. minors, or any other class
of labor. Tho trouble In that
ghastly period was to keep the mills
running on halftime, to say nothing of
overtime.
REPUBLICAN FINANCIERING.
Contrast of Treasury Conditions Under
( level* nd and McKinley.
Nothing marks more clearly the con
trast between Republican prosperity
and Democratic adversity than the net
gold In the treasury of the United
States under Cleveland and under Mc-
Kinley. That accumulation Is the mer
cury In the business thermometer of
the country. It rises or falls with the
business temperature.
On Thursday, Sept. 7. there was re
ported to be more gold In the treasury
of the United States that day than on
any previous day In the financial his
tory of the government. The net coin
and bullion amounted to $251,618,132,
Including the $100,000,000 reserved for
the redemption of legal tender notes.
When resumption began, In 1879, the
net gold of the treasury was $130,249,-
457, and It never foil below tho hun
dred million mark until 1893. Not
quite a month of Democracy was then
required to bring the net amount be
low the minimum of safety, whero It
stayed, except as the government went
into the market and sold bonds, until
after the era of Democratic rule was
ended by a voto of tho people. Hard
ly had a Democratic president, a Dem
ocratic house and a Democratic senate
come Into power before the mercury In
the treasury department fell below
the froexlng point of $100,000,000. By
the beginning of 1894 It had gone to
$66,650,175, and Jan. 1, 1895, It was
down to $44,705,967. It would have
been wiped out entirely If it had not
been for tho stocks of gold secured by
bond sales, in 1895 the amount real
ized from this source was $111,166,246.
or more than the total net gold in the
treasury cither when tho year began
or when it closed.
When the presidential campaign of
1896 began the amount was about $90.-
000,000, nnd when tho election Itself
occurred It was $115,000,000. Tho nows
that McKinley had been elected, and
with him a Republican houso of rep
resentatives, then went out to the
country, and when tho actual change
of administrations came the net gold
amounted to about $160,000,000. From
that time all fear of the endlosß chain
was forgotten. Tho Increase |has gono
on steadily until tho maximum of over
$250,000,000 has been reached.
With the contrast botwoen Democrat
ic adversity and Republican prosperity
presented In this concote form. It Is
difficult to conceive how any man of
ordinary business sense can fnll to bo
impressed with tho advantage of hav
ing the government conducted on dis
tinctively Republican lines of policy by
an administration which Inspires finan
cial confidence.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Real Cnuaaa of Prosperity.
A former United States senator, In
a speech delivered In Omaha, at
tributed the prosperity which this
country Is now enjoying solely to
natural causes. Ho urges that neither
fiscal policy nor faith has anything to
do with it. Upon his theory, this coun
try should have been most prosperous
in 1897 than ever before or Blnce, for
in that year nature was most prodigal
of her gifts In this country than at
any other time. The crops were tho
largest ever known, and owing to
scarcity abroad, prices were high.
However, these natural causes—
large crops hpre and small ones abroad
—did not make the prosperity that Is
now with us. We had been sending
more money abroad for other articles
than we were receiving from abroad;
hundreds of thousands of men would
have been Idle In spite of tho pros
perity of the farmers, where now there
is a labor famine, nnd nature’s bounty
is liable to bo restricted by the Ina
bility to secure workmen for the harv
vest.
Nature did Us part, to be sure, hut
the Republican administration and
congress did more for the country,
when a protective tariff law was passed
and honest money maintained, than
did nature.
it would have been a hard nnd un
successful task for nature to compete
with free trade and dishonest forty
flve-cent dollars. —Tacoma (Wash.)
Ledger.
An Admiable Fit.
Wo Shall N«• vr Fall Hack.
Mr. Jefferson Seliginnn, the eminent
financier, is a pronounced optimist In
respect to the future which lies be
fore us. He says:
"I am as hopeful ns over of the fu
ture. and can see nothing to stop the
onward march of prosperity. Never
before in the history of tho country
were business conditions on such sta
ble foundations. Good times have
come to stay. Mills nnd factories of
every kind are taxed to their utmost
capacity. Railroad business Is limited
only by the capacity of Its rolling
stock. Each passing week shows some
new high record of earnings. • • •
I do not think that we Bhall ever fall
back to the conditions thut prevailed
a few years ago. The wealth of the
country and the buying power of the
world have become so enormous that
It Is only reasonable to say that old
forms of business havo become obso
lete and a new era has opened."
The one thing most obsolete of all Is
the theory of free trade, which had a
temporary resurrection a few years
ago, nnd which was responsible for the
evil conditions which existed then and
to which Mr. Seligmnn thinks we will
never go back. That Industry destroy
ing policy has no part nor lot in pros
perity. Prosperity has come to stay,
and therefore free trade must of ne
cessity retire Into "Innocuous desue
tude" along with Its most prominent
champion. Free trade and piosperity
cannot exist at one and the same time
in this country. We shall never fall
back into the conditions which pre
vailed a few years ago, because we
shall not fall back Into free trade
again.
WILL HAVE TO GUESS AGAIN.
Mmvmmmjmr nnd IIU Admlrara UonfoorulrU
by the Full.
Our free-trade friends who have so
Jubilantly ecboed Mr. Havemeyer’s dec
laration that the tariff is the mother of
trusts will perhaps be puzzled over the
announcement of a daring trade com
bination In London which proposes to
crush out all competition in the wall
paper business and raise prices 25 per
cent It is said that If the combina
tion succeeds one-third of those en
gaged In the trade will be thrown out
of employment.
The reason why the believers in
Havemeyeq,’s theory will be puzzled Is
that England is a free-trade country,
and they will wonder where this gi
gantic trust gets Its "mother"; also ;
who or what is the dam of tho numer- j
oils other trusts in operation In Greet !
Britain—a swarm more numerous, in
fact. If the successful ones only are !
counted, than the trusts of the United j
States. They certainly must hnve
some tariff. Perhaps, like Topsy, In
"Uncle Tom’s Cabin," they have no
parents, but "Just growed."
This last supposition will be found to
be the actual truth, both in England
and America, and also In other coun
tries. Trusts have no parentage of a
general or universal character. They
grow out of varying economic condi
tions. A combination of capital, ban
died by shrewd men, may take hold of
an Industry and monopolize It for a
time, and It Is Just as likely to take
hold of a nonprotected as a protected
nrtlclo. If the combine Is careful to
furnish an article of good quality at a
fair price, as the Standard OH com
pany usually docs. Its monopoly may
continue for a good while; but If It be
comes too greedy. It will provoke com
petition that will sooner or later break
up Its monopoly. The Standard Oil
company has never had any material
aid from the tariff, and yet it Is tho
most successful trust that has ever
been organized nnd operated in this
country. Mr. llavemeyer and his
echoes will have to guess again. If the
trusts can’t establish a better claim to
parentage than he makes out, they will
havo to remain orphans. —Minneapolis
Tribune.
NEVER AGAIN.
Up to two years ago, as some one has
put It, America was wearing her old
clothes. The American voters volun
tarily cast work and wages away from
them by voting for Cleveland and "tar
iff reform." In consequence of that
tho American people were forced to
fnll hack on what they had bought and
on what they had saved during tho
prior days of McKlnleylsm and pros
perity. A very short period of protec
tion under tho Dlngley law has, how
ever. brought the wherewithal for new
things, and during the past yoar nnd
more the American people have been
buying new clothes, new everything.
No small part of the sales of the past
yenr has been sales of things which
should hnve been bought years before,
and which would have been bought if
the American people had not bartered
their birthright of prosperity for the
mess of pottage offered to them by the
free traders. We are better off than
Esau was, though.. for we have hqd
another chaneo and have got our birth
right back. We won't let It go again.
Our Growing Industries.
A little table has been compiled by
the bureau of statistics with a view to
showing how wonderfully our Indus
tries have grown during the past nine
years. The showing made is remark
able and will eortainly be far from
comforting to tho manufacturers of
Europe. A portion of the table is ap
pended:
Pet.
1899. 1890. Inc.
Iron. tons, consum
ed half year 6,577.307 (.196,854 (6
Cotton, year’s tak
ings. spinners'
holes 3,330.018 2,3(9.478 (2
Wool, pounds, esti
mates of trade ...500,000,000 (00.000,000 25
Silk, Imports, raw.
pounds 9,961,143 5,913,360 63
India rubber,
pounds, Imports.
raw 51,079,258 33.8(2,374 61
Roots nnd shoes,
cases shipped 2,700.877 2,110,109 28
By consulting the census returns of
1890 It Is found that the iron Industry
then employed some 500,000 men; that
the cotton mills furnished work for
somo 150,000, and the boot and shoe
factories employed 182,000, while 60,000
were given work by the silk and rub
ber trade. If tho tabic given above is
correct, aud it is certainly as near cor
rect as such statistics can be, the In
dustries named are now employing
450.000 more people than In 1890, and
Instead of furnishing work for 892,000
people, they are employing 1,342,000.
The United States Is certainly expand
ing in a commercial way as well aa In
the matter of territory, and we believe
that the start has Just been made.
There aro those, however, •who oppose
thia commercial expansion and advo
cate a policy of free trade which would
mako It necessary to add a column
showing the percentage of decrease In
the tablo given above. Nine yenrs of
free trade would 4 tell an entirely di
fferent story.—Des Moines (Iowa)
State Roglster.
Product of Republican Policies.
The Lehl sugar factory started Its
season’s run yesterday, with unusually
rich promise. The season’s product of
sugar there will bo greater than ever,
because of the better quality of the
beets and the satisfactory yield, and
already the plans for next season con
template operations a good deal more
than double those of this season in
magnitude and product. The pioneer
sugar factory is a great institution,
sure enough, and an especially gratify
ing feature of it is that it Is a direct
product of Republican policies.—Salt
Lake City Tribune.
McKinley Is to Blame.
A number of construction concerns
have had to close their works tempora
rily because the Iron and steel mills of
the country are unable to keep up with
their orders. If It wasn’t for the pres
ent administration, the Chicago Post
says, this never would have happened.
The iron and steel mills would have
more material on hand than they
could conveniently dispose of, and, in
cidentally, most of them would be
shut down. Thus it Is plain that this
man McKinley must be defeated at the
next election.—Newaygo (Mich.) Re
publican.
The People Know.
1 lie ■ eopie niiiin,
The disasters In which the Wilson
law involved the country seem to have
been forgotten by Democratic manag
ers. but the people know the difference
between the present era and that of
Democratic depression nnd panic a few
years ago.—St. Lopis Gloho-DemQcrat.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
MANY BRITISH OFFICERS KILLED
llorr Sharpshooters o*l In Their Work
-Thought That Horn May «• Plan
ning a Htratrglc Move.
Jjoadbn, Oct. 21.—Generals White
aiul French attacked Elandslnagte, a
Boer stronghold, Saturday afternoon,
ami idlenccd the enemy** three gun*
and carried their jiOHitlou. British cav
alry are In pursuit of the Boers, who
left their position and retreated.
The victory over the Boors near
Glencoe, Natal, yesterday, was obtain
ed at a fearful cost. The British root
ed the enemy, but they lost eleven
commanding officer* killed, Including
Sir Wiliam Penn Symons, the general
commanding, and twenty-one wound
ed. General Symons died to-dny of
the wound he received yesterday while
leading his men where the fighting was
hottest.
Extremely official news respecting
the battle was given out to-day at the
war office. Up to sp. m. the squadron
of the Eighteenth Ilussars. numbering
400 pursued the Boera after the light.
They have not returned to camp and
It Is feared they were drawn Into a
trap and killed by the enemy.'
Besides these two Itodies of troops
there are thirty-three enlisted men
missing from the various commands
In the light. They are believed to be
either captured or killed.
The battle at Glencoe us even official
reports admit, was no skirmish, but a
battle that lasted eight hours. The
fighting was fierce.
The Boers displayed remarkable
courage when once driven from their
cover by the advance of the British,
who paused neither for shot nor shell,
but kept on and on, merely stopping
for breathing spell or to reform ranks.
The British artillery displayed aston
ishing marksmanship. This soon sl
lenced the Boer guns on the top of Te
la n hill and then the order came to
charge.
The British troops behaved with
great gallantry and at no time were
beyond the control of their officers.
But the slaughter in their ranks was
pitiful. The percentage <»f officers that
fell was f*ts In excess of the enlisted
men. Altout 5 |w*r cent, of the troops
engaged were officers, yet 25 per cent,
of the dead are officers. Among the
wounded they iiumlecr 10 per cent.
In other words, five times ns many
officers were killed as enlisted men, In
proportion to their numbers, and more
than three times ns many wounded.
The explanation Is simple. The offi
cers followed the tradition of the En
glish army ami refusal to take advan
tage of cover, while they ordered their
men to do It. This valiant and In
spiring conduct cost them biller losses
but It helped them win the day. They
stood iNdiind their men when the ranks
were lying down and thus made them
selves targets for Boer sharpshooters,
and they stood In the open while their
men were behind rocks and hits of
fallen timber.
Capo Town. Oct. 22.-11:00 p. m.—lt is
now definitely known that Glencoe
was attacked yesterday by the Boer
main northern column under General
JoiilsTt. Our forces are entrenched In
a good position. The situation there Is
not yet fully cleared up.
10:00 p. in.—A dispatch has just ar
rived announcing that the Boers are
shelling Dundee, east of Glencoe, at
long range, lmt that their lire Is in
effective.
Kimberley. Oct. 20.—(8y dispatch
rider from Orange river.)—This Is the
sixth day of Kimberley's Investment
by the enemy. An armored train went
out yesterday and found the Boers
still In the direction of Spytfonteln.
Their position Is believed to Is* strong.
Two dispatch riders to Mnfcking. Mr.
Stapleton and Mr. Harding, were cap
tured by Boers October I.sth.
The loeal tradesmen are proving their
loyalty by an agreement to keep down
the price of foodstuffs.
Cape Town, Oct. 23.—1 t Is rumored
here (Ids morning that Barkley Went,
northwest, of Kimberley, has been sur
rendered to the Boers without bring a
shot.
More spies have arrived. Two Eng
lishmen who bad lieen Imprisoned by
the Boers esi*n|s*d last evening and
have Just arrived here.
Probably the Boer movement was
curbed by the defeat at Glencoe, but It
seems reasonable to Ixdievc. judging
from the determination and fanaticism
of the llocr forces, that they will soon
er or later, any way lteforo Bailor's
corps take tlie Held, return to the field
with redoubled aggressiveness in a
desperate attempt to break the back
bone of General Willie’s forces, hav
ing previously endeavored to weaken
It by feint and Hank movements.
Such a supposition regarding tlie
Boor plans Is basis! upon the liellef
that Commandant General Joubert's
main objective is to break tip or rout
General White’s command lteforo the
British re I n force mon ts arrive. But it
Is possible the wily Boer general has
carefully concealed strategy which lie
Intends to carry out* in an unexpected
direction ami that tin* attack upon
General White on Friday was merely
Intended to deceive the British as to
the main objective. Bella hie news
front the Boers Is so hard to secure in
Ixmdon that it Is impossible to predict
with any degree of certainty wlint the
next few weeks are likely to bring
forth.
Hundreds Adrift Short of Food.
Port Townsend, Wash., Oct. 22.—The
schooner Hera with 200 passengers
from Cape Nome and St. Michaels, Is
reported as being in distress in lati
tude 40 degrees nnil 7 minutes north
and 120 degrees and 40 minutes west,
or altout six lulu's off Cape Flattery,
for want of water and provisions.
llow long the Hera's passengers and
crew have been without food or water
Is not known. A strong off-shore wind
now blowing will prevent tlie llers
entering the straits and It Is feared
that much suffering will result before
relief readier her. A tugboat wltK
supplies will leave here to-night.
Major Howard Killed.
Omaha, Oct. 22. -A special cable wni
received ben* to-day announcing tlie
deatli in the Philippines, Saturday, of
Major Guy Howard, son of General O.
O. Howard. The cablegram, dated
Saturday, was received by Judge .1. M.
Woodworth, father-in-law of Major
Howanl, and read ns follows:
“Guy Howard killed In action to
day."
Major Howard was well known In
Omaha. being on bis father’s staff
when tlio latter was stationed hen*.
He was married in this city fifteen
years ngo to Miss Woodworth and the
nuptials were n notable society func
tion. Mrs. Howard resides here with
her three children.
Iowa Boys in Port.
San Francisco. Oct. 22.—The Fifty
first regiment of lowa volunteers,
numbering 7G4 men nml '4O officers, un
der the command of Colonel J. C. Lop
er, arrived here to-dny from Manila,
on board the transport Senator. There
was no sickness aboard. The only
death reported Is that of Edward Kiss
lock, Company F. of Osknloosn, lowa,
who died at Nagasaki, of dysentery.
Fears luul lieen expressed that the Sen
ator had foundered In a typhoon.
Holdups Kill Two Men.
Atchison, Kan., Oct. 23.—Two rob
bers last niglit shot and killed one
man and wounded another In n store at
Doniphan, which they later rob lied,
and to-dny ambushed and shot and
kilted u policeman and shot another
man. both members of a posse puusu
lug them. To-night the robbers are
surrounded six miles uorth of Atchison
and an attempt to arrest them will he
made at daylight.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The engagement of Miss Cecelia
Miles, daughter of General and Mrs.
Miles, to Captain Samuel Helper. Unit
ed State* army. I* announced. N‘» date
has been set for the wedding, but It
will probably take place In the coining
season. Captain lieber is a member or
General Miles’ staff, and served in the I
war with Spain as colonel of voluu- j
teer*.
President McKinley will, it
ed. devote considerable attention In his ■
forthcoming annual message to an
other executive branch of the govern
ment. with n Cabinet minister at Its
head, to have charge of Interstate and
foreign commerce. It seems to he'pret
ty well settled that a recommendation
will Is* made for a new department or i
commerce, hut Its full scope 1* * tin a
matter for discussion.
Admiral Dewey will accept no more j
Invitations before next spring. *“ e
following official statement on the sub
ject was made at his office to-day. |
"Acting on tin* advice of his physicians ,
Admiral Dewey finds that It will !>e
necessary to cancel bis engagement* ,
he has entered Into to visit certain clt-,
les and to decline all invitations for the .
present." The invitation* for his |
Philadelphia and Atlanta trips have
been cancelled by telegraph.
Tlie Dewey house committee which .
bas in charge the purchase of a home
for the admiral from the moneys re-1
wired by popular subscription, lias sc- ;
Ice ted house No. 1747 Ithode Island |
avenue, northeast, known ns the Fitch j
house. The house Is one door remov
ed from the eorner of Connecticut ave
nue, In what Is regarded as the most
desirable section of the city. It I* un
derstood that the amount of the |w»p
ulnr subscription was sufficient to
cover the cost of the house. Its furni
ture and all incidental expense**.
Tlie annual report of Major General
Wesley Merritt, commanding the De
partment of the East, headquarters
Governor's Island, New York, has
lieen made public. The report Is a
strong arraignment of the whole situ
ation In the artillery branch of the ser
vice. being particularly directed
against the ordnance bureau, and. In
cidentally. the Quartermaster's De
partment, the latter for failure to fur
nish what General Merritt considers
proper quarters at artillery posts.
Surgeon General Sternberg states that
ample provision had lH*en made by the
War Department for supply troop* In
the Philippines with medical attend
ants. In addition to those now on their
way to Manila, General Sternberg said
ten commissioned medical officers and
twenty-five contract surgeons are un
der orders to n*i>ort to General Otis.
There are to-day In the Philippines
seventy female nurses, ami orders were
given to-day to thirty more to sail
from New York for Manila. There are
1,280 privates of the hospital corps now
In the Philippines and 2UO are under
orders.
Commissioner Hermann of the gen
eral land office has decided In a case
arising in Colorado that It Is unlawful
to take coni from public lands under a
coni declaratory statement, and that
the parties purchasing the coal thus
obtained can lie held n*si»onslble for
the value of tin* same until the govern
ment has recovered full satisfaction
for the amount of the trespass. This
means that claimants have not the
privilege to mine coal for sale or spec
ulation. and that the purpose of a coal
declaratory statement Is to protect the
claimant In a preference right of entry
of mines oiicncd and Improved by him.
Brigadier General Guy V. Henry,
who was for a long period In command
of the American troops In the Island
of Porto Rico, has lieen assigned to
eoinmand of the Department of the
Missouri, with headquarters In New
York City. There are practically no
troojis In the department to which he
has been assigned. General Merriam
having since General Copplnger’s re
tirement commanded It In connection
with the Department of Colorado. It
is probable that General Henry will be
given the command of the Department
of the Lakes, with headquarters at
Chicago, wlieu General Anderson re
tires on January Bub, next.
The monthly statement of the ex
ports and imports of merchandise of
the United States during the month of
September. 1899. together with the In
crease or dwrense as compared with
September, IMPS, Is as follows: Duti
able merchandise imported, $39,425,-
521; increase about $10,000,000. Do
mestic merchandise exported, $101).-
123,047: Increase, $10,800,000. Gold Im
ports. $2,572,028; decrease. $14,300,000.
Gold exports, $1,050,740; dwrense
about $2,000,000, Silver Imports $2,-
010,014; Increase, $40,000. Silver ex
ports, $3,022,147: decrease, $1,500,000.
The exerts of merchandise during the
last nine months are shown to have ex
ceeded tlie Imports by $70,000,787.
The President has ordered to promo
tion to grnde of brigadier general in
the regular army of the following col
onels: Colonel A. C. M. Pennington.
Second artillery; Colonel Royal T.
Frank, First artillery; Colonel Louis
11. Carpenter, Fifth cavalry; Colonel
Samuel Overshine, Twenty-third In
fantry; Colonel Daniel W. Burke, Sev
enteenth Infantry. These officers are
to be placed on the retired list at in
tervals of one day each. The War De
partment was able to make these
changes owing to the retirement of
General Shafter from the regular
army. After they shall all have been
appointed ami retired in order, one va- ’
cancy will be left !n the grade of brig
adier general in tlie regular army, and
It Is the eoinmon Impression that this
place will bo given to either General
Lawton or General MncArthur.
Plans are being secretly formed In
Washington for sending a large Amer
ican expedition to the Transvaal. The
chief promoter of the scheme Is a re
tired army officer. Back of the pro
ject are a number of men of extend
ed military experience, mining experts
and capitalists, whose purpose is to
form a company and ultimately secure
control of a portion of the vast gold
fields of the South African republic.
Agents of the promoters are now work
ins In the West, and to some extent in
the East, with a view of securing re
cruits and a ship for the expedition. It
is proposed, as far as posaUde to have
each recruit to equip himself. The
main body of recruits will Ik* com
posed of harduued frontiersmen, In
dian fighters, cowboys, miners and
daring adventurers, not unlike the
Bough Blders of the Spanish war. It
Is stated that the plans are so far com
pleted as to enable the expedition to
start ui>on comparatively short notice
It is claimed that the United States
government would be powerless to pre
vent the starling of the outfit by reason
of the precautions to be taken to prove
t lmt a filibustering expedition is not
intended.
Twenty thousand pension claims
growing out of the Spanish war have
been presented to tlie pension bureau
up-to-date. Of this number altout 500
have be en granted. “The Spanish war
claims are being taken up In regular
order, along with those coining front
the Civil, Mexican and Indian wars."
said Pension Commissioner Evans
"We are not pushing any one class
ahead of the other. When all the Span
ish war claims are In. wo expect to
throw nut a good many. I learu that n
great many were filed by soldiers who
wont to Cuba and who afterward went
to the Philippines. It stands to reason
that If these hoys were able to pass
the physical examination required for
enlistment In our Oriental aruiv they
are not entitled to pensions for
hilitios sustained in the Spanish war
for they enlisted a second lime. Wc
will find hundreds, perhaps thousands
of these Spanish war claim* concocted
by the over active pension attorneys.
These fellows swarm about every army
iM*st. I have Just returned from the
Pacific coast, and while out there vis
its! the Presidio. The commanding of
ficer told me he has been obliged to
I chase these attorneys away front the
1 camp time and time again. They sneak
1 Into the army hospitals and work upon
I p<M)r sick soldiers; they visit relatives
I of the dead and in the house of grief
; make widows and orphans sign papers.
Is It any wonder the pension list
grow*'/"
In regard to the Alaska houudarj
agreement an official of the State-lie
pnrtment says: The United States lias ,
i yielded at several points on the line of ,
' its contention that the line should be ,
1 teii marine leagues from tide water.
! For Instance, the general distance of
i the line nearest Lynn canal from tUle
; water Is reduced to twenty-two tulles
| instead of ten marine leagues, or thirty
i miles. At another point on the Stlklnc
. river the Ixmnelary Is only fourteen
miles from tidewater. On the other
I hand. Great Britain has consented to
j leave on the American side of the pro
visional line a section of the Porcupine
! district which has always been elalnie I
by the United States. The only grave
' Issues as to the line geographically
I considered, were the fixing of the
marking between White summit and
Chllcoot pass and the point on the
I Dalton trail leading to the Clillkat pass,
i The net result Is: The mountain
! passes are left on the Cauadinn side of
I the lint*, although Chllcoot pnss and
White pass are Included within the
United States const survey map as
printed 111 1887. The tidewaters and in
lets up to the heads of canal nnvlgn
tlon are left on the American side of
the line. The absolute rights and priv
ileges of trade and transportation
through the passes and through the in
lets, rivers and canals remain there
fore. res|M*rtlvely Just ns they were
when the negotiations were com
menced so far as those rights are ef
fected by the provisional boundary
lino.
The Industrial commission on Thurs
day heard the testimony of Mr. Fran
cis Lynde Stetson of New York, fortnet
law partner of ex-l*resldent Cleveland
and Mr. Elbert 11. Gary, president of
the American Steel Company. Mr.
Stetson, speaking on the general ques
tion of corporation management, advo
cated the fullest freedom of compact
on the part of corporations and said
that persons having business with
them should learn to Inquire concern
lug their responsibility Just tin* an me
ns they would in dealing with Individ
uals. He deprecated the tendency to
wards paternalism In such matters
and said that legislation could not
make business men of lunatics and
paupers. Any undue Interference of
law with corporations would Inevita
bly have the effect of doing more harm
than good. Still, lie believed that all
stockholders In any company were en
titled to know who tlielr owners were,
and for all purely public corporations,
such ns railroad and Insurance compa
nies, lie suggested general publicity.
Mr. Gary explained at length the or
ganization of the Federal .Steel Com
pany, which lias an authorised capital
stock of $200,000,000, of which almost
$100,000,000 has lieen issued. In reply
to questions he said the company had
never made any contributions to assist
in political campaigns, and the labor
ers of the various companies were free
to do as they might please In the mat
ter of politics. He said he advocated
the utmost publicity in tin* affairs of
corporations. Referring’ to tlie tariff,
Mr. Gary said that some protection
was necessary, but that It should not
be high enough to give a monopoly to
anyone.
Immediately upon Secretary Hay's
return Tuesday preparations began at
the State Department for the comple
tion of the modus vivgndi relative to
the Alaskan lKiundary. General Fos
ter was hard at work upon the details
of the modus, and the expectation was
that in the course of a day or two the
agreement would he in effect. The ne
gotiations of late have been entirely in
the bands of Secretary Hay and Mr.
Tower, the British charge here. It has
not lieen determined even yet whether
the agreement defining the boundary
temporarily shall take tlie form of a
document signed by both parties, or be
merely n series of notes, but In either
ease It will be Just as effective as a
regular modus vlvendl, binding both
parties to observe the lioundary laid
down temporarily. State Department
officials are confident that Americans
will have no cause to complain that
their rights have been abandoned when
the full scope of the agreement is
made known, while on the other hand
the Canadians cannot claim properly
that they have lost any right that they
have enjoyed. The purpose of this
particular effort at a modus was to
regulate the lioundary line on the west
side of the Linn canal. The two parties
.had placed the line of demnrkntlon on
Chllcoot and White passes right at the
top of the passes, and there has never
lieen the slightest friction at these
points. But because of the fact that
the westernmost of the three passes,
namely Chilcnt pass, was fully forty
miles removed from the sen, the same
rule could not be applied by our rep
resentatives without great loss. There
fore, recourse has been bad to another
expedient, and the line of demnrkn
tiou will run along the Klehana river
and front a point near the Kluckwnn
cross to a mountain peak on the south
west. Tin* effect will he to give to the
United States control of the tide wat
ers. the British being fifteen mile
above: to maintain the American con
trol of the new and important I’oreu
pine country, and lastly, to seave the
rights of all American mines who arc
now on the Canadian side of the line.
Senator Davis of Minnesota is under
stood to believe that the next Congress
will not provide for the ultlmntc dis
position of Cuba and tlie Philippines,
says the eorres|Kiudent of the Chicago
Record. It is understood that tlie
President believes that Culm and tin
Philippines should bo, for tin* present,
left in control of the executive. This
opinion seems to he shared by most of
the administration Republican sena
tors who have had talks with the Pres
idont. This may be said to be the
< hief reason why the administration b
so earnest In securing the support of
the people in its Philippine policy.
The President knows that all of the
Islands will eventually have their fate
settled by Congress. He thinks that
now Is the time for Congress to ileal
with Porto Bleo mul Hawaii. II t
thinks the time has not arrived to deal
with the other islands. With this con
vlet lon he must necessarily go before
the people, seeking their confidence t'c
support the wisdom and ability of the
administration to deni with the re
maining Islands until such time as ii
is be*st for Congress to ae-t. This
would leave* the ultimate government
e»f these* Islands n direct and tangible
issue* in the* uext presidential cam
paigti. Congressmen and preslelrntln)
electors could be* voted on with tin
knowledge that they were for ot
against the bedding of these Islands
I his would give tlie whole poopli* of
the United States a voice In the* mat
ter. If the matter should he* settled
in Congress It would lie done by a
Congress not elected on tills Issue ami
by an executive not specifically In
struct cel by the* whole federal elcctor
ate*. Senator Davis, as chairman of
“VI, Couinilttoo ~n 1.-..n-lpi I!ilatlon».
Will probably introduce the measure
providing for the civil government of
Hawaii nnd Porto Bleo which will
have the* uprpovul e.f the executive In
the main this legislation w 11 follow ihe
legislative precedents tu be* round r
nting to the Louisiana purchase am
the acquisition of California,
Holiday
"SLVrit* I
"Nothing to Ktv WM
On Christmas or nVt«, H
Well. now. lust tkink
Suppose* you 1„. k m , h ,
And pres, nt > .. lir -...ir
Then m«k.- up .1 b„ndl«.
An<l slve th«-m , 1 w.,y
He owns such , L
Where- worn-<>ut u-.rrl.-j.
Just bundle them ~n t „ , h .
And let him lug th.-m a** 4 V
And next give a heart of hoi Mk
To the New Year blithe *5
And then give praise tll !h .■§
In the people > ... J I.e .
*ou may Ik- surprised
You 11 find tf y.,u m h y
And when you «r<- hurt by
Or faults of the folk. Vl ; u
Just toss them a hit ~f
And a word of pity ~r PW, B
-Ella Wheeler \Vih ~x j,
Passing of the Horse.
fio soon as nature- an
ment there**ls a change* nJW
gave* way to eles-tri.-iiy atul thfl
to the automobile-. n,<- fart
tetter's Btomae b Bitter* ha*
for over half a
its value. There* Is nothing to
for stomach or liver trouble V
"That anonymous w-tter
traced to a woman "What mahfl
think a woman »n.i.. p -
date." ' ■
“It is an 111 Wind J
That Blows Nobody
THaI srrull ache or pa tn or ugl
ihe “SI •wind " thut directs
io the necessity of punfytng your
taking Hood's Sarsaparilla.
tvhole body receives good, for fAcfl
blood goes tingling to rr<ery oroafl
the remedy for all ages and both
3fccd<s SaUatxM
Baltimore, Oct. 21.—Should M
ent rate of Increase In the net <9
of the Baltimore & Ohio raUrfl
tlnue, almost the entire ■
charges and the rentals for tfl
year ending June 30. 1900. vfl
been earned by Dec. 31, ISM!
was foreshadowed today wheal
earnings for September wofl
public. The estimated grou ■
were $2,804,293, the largest ■
month In the history of the «
nnd an increase of $210,597 oa
tember, 1898. The net earnfl
September, 1899, were alsc al
breaker, being $1,030,493, an fl
of $271,804 over September, id
net earnings for the first three!
of this fiscal year—July, Ann
I September—aggregate $3,042,!
Increase of $1,174.00.8 over til
months In 1898.—J. H. Maddj!
As Summer Advances.
The poet sings of Join time and!
soms nnd the bees I
And butterflies nnd hummock* !
und breeze nnd trees. ■
Hut In July and August, ah. wel
phrases nice: fl
lie has Joined the mighty chortfl
hollering for tee. ■
Wnshlngjfl
A Remarkable Career.
Jno. M. Smyth, head of tfl
house of Jno. M. Smyth C 0.,!
cago, commenced life in a very!
way, but by dint of hard wal
great business ability has bull!
largest concern of its kind!
world. His name is a sync!
honesty nnd fair dealing. Tfl
guitar bargain shown In aodfl
umn of this paper should be ofl
to those who are musically !
and their mammoth catslfl
everything to eat. wear or ns!
be In the hands of everyone.!
"Mrs. Pnddcrly Insulted on!
dub." H
"In what way?"
"Bhe suggested that this y*M
up the study of ‘manners." g
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