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The National tribune., 1888-11-29

THE thing that strikes the student of sta
tistics with amazement is how so poor a
country as Italy can maintain SO large a
standing army. She has only 29,699,OOO
people-about half our number-and they
have not one-twentieth our wealth. Yet
they support an army of 10000 on a peace
establishment, which can be increased to
$780, 600 in case of war. But these 1000
only cost the country $41,OOO,0OO a year, OF
about s., 100000 more than our little army
of $4,000 men costs Us. 1t is impossible to
understand how soldiers and officers can
subsist on so little. Small as this pay is to
the soldiers it yet costs every man, woman
and child in Italy an average of $1.44ayeaI
to pay it, which, with their intense poverty
is as much as $40 head would be to Ameri-
cans.
The National tribune., 1888-11-29

GEN. SHERMAN is opposed to annexation.
We have already poor land enough" he
SAYS
The National tribune., 1888-11-29

Iota....-.-. sd9l
This shows an absolute donation to the
Government, for the privilege of serving it,
of least 81 ,209, without taking into account
the dangers and hardships that he assumed
He came out of the army disabled For
% years now of the best period of his life
he has been handicapped by that disability,
and prevented from earning as much as he
would have done but for his service. Let
US say his average earnings per annum would
have been the same that they were before he
enlisted-$G0O, which is a very low figure.
His disability decreased his wage-earning
ability-either by actual loss of strength and
dezterity, or by frequent illness-say, % per
cent. That would make a loss of $3.50 a
year, or 50 ,450 for the % years.
This increases the cash donation to the
Government to $4,659. He now obtains a
pension of, say, s.. The majority of pen
sioners get less than this.
Gen. Black says that the average age OF
these pensioners is now so years. Theil
average age at death is Sc years. Therefore
the average pensioner enjoys his pension
about six years, and gets in all $576. Thi.
would make the money account between tn,
Government and the man who helped say,
II az date Of his death thus:
United States, United States.
DR.. Or.
To money value Of By pensions paid . s57
donation u WagesS s. ,659
The National tribune., 1888-11-29

No one can get anywhere as much and as
good reading as is furnished by THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE for two cents a week. It
is most excellent thing to have in the
family.
The National tribune., 1888-11-29

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The National tribune., 1888-11-29

JUDGE BARRETT, of New York, has de-
cided that witness may choose to either
'swear" or affirm" without dictation !;
that he cannot be made to raise his hand or
kiss the Bible and that any interrogation as
to his religious belief is impertinent.
The National tribune., 1888-11-29

Hare goa done your daty IN getting one more
subscriber for THE NATIONAL TRIBUYEP
You should do this, for 1t Is the best .ray to help
y0ur comrades.
The National tribune., 1888-11-29

To money value Of
donation Of wages ,659
The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-04-24
The Planters Monthly.

This Invaluable periodical is out for
the current month. ''Coffee Gulture'i
is the subject Of an editorial article,
wherein that industry is regarded as
not only a safe but a very promising
investment. A discussion of Customs
statistics contains some points not
touched in the newspapers. In an
other article the Chinese problem is
calmly considered, reaching conclu-
sions in support of a firm policy of re-
striction.
Prof. Van Slyke concludes his paper
No. I'D on 1.-THE Chemistry of Plants
and Some of its Applications There
are Notes from the Hilo District"
and a varied lot of selections, all of
much interest TO tropical agriculturistS.
The editor of the monthly informs
us that when the steamship Zealandia
was in port last on the 9TH inst,
French gentleman, who is in the sugar
business in Paris, and had lately visit
ed India, Ceylon, Java and Australia,
in the interests of his house, called at
the GAZETTE office, and stated that he
had seen a copy of the monthly during
his travels and became so interested in
the Information gathered from il, re-
garding the sugar industry in Hawaii,
that he came to make further in
quiries about it. The result of all he
could learn here and abroad was that
this industry in Hawaii was far in
advance of what is seen elsewhere,
and that any one can learn more about
planting cane and making raw sugars
here than in any other country he
knew of. So pleased was he with the
monthly that he subscribed and paid
for three years. This indicates that
the publication is appreciated by those
living abroad, and who can Judge by
comparison Of the progress made at
these islands.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-04-24
IEDIToRIAL.l
CANADIAN ANNEXATION.

The last mail brings q sensational
account Of the Maritime Provinces OF
the Dominion and the adjacent
Colony Of Newfoundland being
sg7tsted to the point Of confederating
independently Of Canada and then
gong over IN q block 10 the United
States II Is simply ridiculous
yarn got up 10 make telegraphic news
business. People IN those northern
regions are not 50 suddenly swayed
q al that and there are only two pro
nounced snnexauonists IN public life
today n the Dominion-one a mem
Der q the Federal Parliament and
the other belonging 10 Provincial
Legislature. The Federal man made
a speech on Commercial Union with
the United States IN the House of
Commons the other day, IN which he
strongly advocated such a measure
bit entirely disappointed seekers OF
sensation by avoiding any expression
q the annexation sentiments that
gave an editorial IN his paper very
vide currency q few months ago.
Indeed. both the men referred TO were
showed snnexationists twenty years
a. when the newspaper on which
The present writer was employed
nearly ruined itself by advocating
manifest destiny. The cause Is no
more advanced to-day than ii was
then. although il would be difficult to
show that union with the United
States would not be more natural and
Infinitely better for the Maritime
Provinces than their present federal
relations with the Western Provinces.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-04-24
Prohibition.

EDITOR GAZETTE: To be consistent
| must agitate, and so submit the fol
lowing upon the prohibition question.
Anything short of prohibition makes
our protested Christian Government a
partner Of and shareF in, the profits
of one of the most infamous traffics
known among civilized men, democrat
izing and cOrrupting, and the Govern
ment sustaining itself, as the grogshop
man does, out of the profits arising
from the degradation and misery OF
the people.
l worked with the anti-slavery
party in America to make my country
what it profesSed to be-a free and in
dependent country. The thing was
accomplished. Slavery went out.
Now / am equally anxious TO make
this Kingdom what it processes to be,
viz: Christian nation which it
can never be as long as it favOrs and
is q partner in the rum curse. And
anything short of prohibition, the
Government still retains an interest
and receives a profit from the business,
and the rum business is of such q ma
ture that no Christian man or Chris
tan government can follow ii and
honestly retain its claim of "Chris-
tian.'' as it is a Christians duty to do
good, not evil, to all men, and it is
well known fact that the rum traffic,
like Pandora's box, produces evil,
ouIy erH, and as PandOra's box never
afflicted mankind as long as ii was
kept shut, neither could the rum
traffic affiict mankind if ii was kept
shut by prohibition.
Can we call that government
Christian government that consents 10,
encourages, makes a business of and
shares in the profits of a traffic that is
the cause of more sin and suffering in
this world than any other evil that
can be named, whether it be the in
vention of man or Satan? VIII a
Christian government help in the
work of Satan by encouraging the
evils that man may invent, pandering
TO his avarice and ungovemed appe-
tites? We think not.
a government that will willingly do
this has no more right to the name
Christian than a man would have
who practised these evil things, and
we think few Christian churches
would tolerate such man as one of
its members. To be Christian and
entitled TO the name, we must abide
by the teaching of the Great Teacher,
and not deceive ourselves that we
are Christians while willingly doing
Satan's dirty work by injuring and
corrupting cur fellow man.
There are men and women in these
Islands worthy to be called Christians.
God bless them. And we believe our
present Cabinet would throttle this
monster evil with death grip, if they
only had a chance, which our present
legislature should give them at its
next session by passing a Prohibitory
Law and thus assist our Government
to ciailsi by right what it now pro-
fesscs to be-a Christian nation.
JNo. NJ. HoRNER.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-04-24

About two months ago cholera was
spreading at Valparaiso to the extent
Of 90 cases a day. It was attacking
all classes Of people, careful livers as
well as the reckless. Cases in the
rural districts were in every instance
traceable TO eating unripe fruit or
drinking half fermented juice of corn.
From the above it will be gathered
that nature exacts from the wiser por-
ton of a community a share of the
penalty earned by the foolish set.
Government to be good must there
fore take care Of all the people by
looking after those unfit to protect
themselves.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-04-24

A RECOURSE Of the English nobility
to common trade may be q thinning of
coming events IN outline Hon. VIE
liam Frederick John North, the heir
"a Lord North, is one OF the latest
Instances. he having started IN the
butcher business II village near
Banbury, adjoining the family seal
of the Norths.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-04-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A WASHINGTON despatch says that
Assistant Secretary Maynard has In
formed the Collector Of Customs at
San Diego, Cal, that coal imported
from northwestern Canada, for use
by the Spreckels Sugar Refining
Company of San Francisco is shown
upon analysis to be anthracite coal,
and as such is exempt from duty un-
der the provisions of the free list.
THE teeming numbers of bachelors
who have gone to dig out homes for
themselves In the Canadian North
west have but TO say, Barkus is
willin',n and they can have their eyes
rejoiced in life helps meet for them.
An Austrian emigration agent has
written to a Winnipeg immigration
agent offering to furnish 700 eligible
young women for the wives of Mani
toba bachelors if their passage money
was forwarded. This attempt to IN
load a European wife trust on the
New World Is probably the heaviest
leap year deal on record.
THERE may or may not be consola-
tion-~as you like it''-for our coun-
try .'plundered" by English "shy-
locks" in the statement made by Sir
Charles Lewis in the House of Com
mons, that London bankers and
brokers would divide among them
f175,000 as the plumber out of Mr..
Goschen's grand consols conversion
proposal. If the expert fnanciers of
the Imperial Government are liable
to devote their own countrymen to
such spoliation, little wonder that
the Hawaiian taxpayers were so
closely shorn in our little scheme in
the same market.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-04-24

The Bell telephone patents were
sustained by majority opinion of
the United States Supreme Court,
prepared by the late Chief Justice
Waite and read by Justice Blatch-
ford in the absence from illness of
the lamented jurist. Six cases are
covered by the decision-one each
from Massachusetts, and Pennsyl-
vania and four from New York. JUS
tees Bradley, Field and Harlan dis
scented, being of opinion that the evi
dence overwhelmingly shows that
Drawbaugh was the first inventor of
the speaking telephone, although he
was unconscious OF it and was not
aware Of its importance. Justices
Gray and Lamar did not sit in the
case, so that the Bell patents are sus-
tanned by four to three It looks as
if the honors of inventing the tele
phone will be as difficult of placing
positively by posterity as those of the
of printing are at the pres
ent day.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-08
SULPHUR FOR CONSERVATIVES,

The Experiments of Yonkers haven
Lor-Yankec &randmothers yindicn-
ted.
Washington Cor. New York Tribune.
There are @ great many interesting
characters among the inventors who
yearly troop down to Washington to see
about their patents. One of these men,
William Heckert, of Yonkers. talked his
hearers into o state OF enthusiasm over
the medical qualities OF sulphur. Mr.
Hackert says shat in reading the history
of Italy and other volcanic regions, he
found that periods of freedom from
epidemic disease correBponded with
periods of volcanic activity. In COM
pairing labor statistics ne found one trade
in which the oonsumptive was unknown,
that of sulphuric acid making. It occur
red to him that the antiseptic properties
of the sulphur fumes killed the disease
germs in all these caaes. His wife was
helpless consnmptive. He began hav-
ing her inhale continuously the fumes
given off by the bollding of ordinary
Toured Sulphur in water. To his delight
she began to mend, and in time was
completely cured. In other cases, the
names and dates of which are too numer-
ous for repetition, he was successful.
While Mr.. Heckert patents many OF
his ideas he is quite willing that the
|consumptiye public should have the full
benefit of this. His apparatus is simply q
glass retort with spirit lamp beneath
and tube from which the patient may
fill his lungs with the sulphur yRpore. A
solution OF common sulphur and water
boiling in the retort will produce the
necessary vspor. So firmly convinced
OF the feasibility of the remedy has its
disooverer become. that nothing but his
busy life has prevented his urging some
wealthy philanthropist to open q small
hospital for rconsumptiyes where IL may
be given fair public trial.
Many an old custom, remedy or rule
OF health had Its root as firmly bedded
in the truth as the most new tangled oi
modern scientific rnaxims. Probably nc
one of the endless generations OF Yankees
/ whose grandmothers have dossd them
with molasses and birthstone, was eye
convinced that the medicine really die
him any good. In fact nothing more
than Dickens familiar delineations o
the motherly Mrs. Squeers treating he
young charges to this nauseous meas i
needed to render sulphur q diecreditet
remedy. Yet il the word of this simpl
hearted inventor and those OF some VIII
have taken up the study OF the question
are to be accepted, sulphur is the kim
OF panaceas.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-08

An article by George O. Gorham in
the Chicago Times of recent date,
which was reproduced yesterday in
these columns, uncoyers TO the gaze OF
the public great deal of grandeur in
the, character of one OF Americas
grandest men-Roscoe Conkling. No
prominent representative OF the repub-
lie has been more mercilessly misj1dged
than has Roscoe Conkling by portion
OF his party-by whet MIR. Gorham calls
the pirates OF the party the politically
conscienceless element which followed
the trailing banner OF Blaine and
Blaineism and is still feebly vocifera-
ting it's right to again place its gladiator
in the lists in the face OF his own with
drawal from the arena, These misrepre-
sentations Mr.. ConkIing and his politi-
cal allies have patiently and silently
borne through the years of the changing
fortunes of rep1sslisanism, permitting
detraction to run its course and gather
to itself whatever reward might fall at
the feet of the party. Now that Blaine-
ism has persisted as an issue, and the
returning sober sense of the
republican parry recognizes the
potency of its Conkiing,
it is opportune that Mr.. Gorham should
speak through the long silent lips OF
stalWartism and give to the republican
party the plain truths he has preserved
from the records OF its immediate past.
No man who in honor and coincidence
has followed the fortunes of republican
ism and who to-day rises above gseed
and spoils and love Of power and lifts his
eyes with reverence to the banner of his
party because OF the good that IS in it,,
will dispute the record or deny the
truths so ably and convincingly cluster
ed together by Mr. Gorham. It happens
now that the republican party needs
Mr. Conkling. 1t needed him
four years ego, but did not
know it, or would not admit it. Now it
knows its need and admits the knowi-
edge, and if it follows this admission by
widening it's circle sufficiently to give
to him and those who have sat in silence
beside him a place therein it will again
move forward to victory. There is an op-
portunity for the republican party to
retrieve the disasters OF the Blaine epoch.
Conkllng and the stalwarts are still in it
snd ready and willing to aid it. But they
| will hardly eopee unlimited TO The feast
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-08

Prevos. Valentine Layergins, MIR. Mar
cote and l., Burgeois were blown to
pieces. O. Guiedy and his son each had
an arm broken. The youngest child OF
Valentine Layergins was killed. Three
brothers, who were keeping store, lost
their house and their goods were scat
tered for miles. All the members OF the
family. of Louis Bourgeois were injured.
About dozen dwellings were demolished
and in every case the inmates were in
lured and the household effects destroy
cd 49, j.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-08
Prudence! Prudence!

In medication, as in aught else, prudence
should be our guide. Yet thousands cast it to
the winds. Every new nostrum finds its pat
rons. the medical empirioa Of every false
school have their gulls. Every change in the
samut of humbug ID rung successfully a
time at least-the notes being furnished by
the credulous. In happy contrast TO the many
ertised imposturea of the day stands Hos-
tetter 8 Stomach Bitters. -now in its third dec
ade OF popularity approved ard recommended
,,ss fl,ssi:';sssy iadoTsoa by the press OF n1uny
lands, sought aud priced by invalids every
preventive of mdsarial diseases, chronic indi-
gestion. liver coulrl@ipt nnd constipation,
checks the groWth OF rheumaIiam and neurni-I
gia, is peerless inyjgorant aud useful diuretic
Nervous people heneftsd byit
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-08
GROUP, Whooping COUGH and
sbiloh's Cure. Sold by r. M. Ward, drug
IYoaaea.fasI G,.,.ea

w. D.Heyt 6 o., wholesale and retail
druggists Of Rome, Ga, say We have
been selling DIR. King's New Dicoyery
EIectrit Bitters and Bueklen's Arnica
Salve for two years. Have never handled
remedies that sell rs well, or give such
universal satisfaction. There have been
some wonderful cures effected by these
medicines in this city. Several cases OF
pronounced consumption have been en-
tirely cured by use of few bottles Of
DIR. Kings New Discovery, taken in con-
nection with Electric Bitters. We guar
antee them always. Sold by Purdy s.
Brecht, Yankton.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-08
Famous Wsmen.

1t is significant fact that most OF the
women who have achieved fame in art,
literature, or AFFAIRS" have enjoyed
vigorous health. This shows that the
mind is never capable of the severe and
continued application necessary to crea-
tive work, unless the body Is ct itB best.
The woman who aspires to fill an exalt-
ed place among her associates, must be
free from nervous debility and female
weaknesses. DR.. Pieroe's Fayorite Pre-.
scription will Danish taese, and il ID
wsrranted to restore those functional
harnaonies which ere indispensable tc
health. As specific for all those chron.
ic weaknesses and ailments peculiar te
women, il is unequaled.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-08

1t would seem, under the new order of
things, that about the only place left for
the holding of democratic territorial
conventions are Yanktop, Deadwood and
Jauestown-no prohibition in these
cites.-B Bismarck Tribune.
And Yankton is the only place which
can furnish the exhilerating Missouri
river water on the side. Missouri river
water is SAID by the old ones to possess
powerful anti-snake properties.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-08

ground of g community of aboriginal
tramps. It looks as though an amend
msnt TO the bill would become necessary
at the hands Of some subsequent COM
gress, unless the senate will eliminate
the fatal clause before passing upon the
measure.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-08

A telegram from Delegate Clifford
says the house of representatives yes
terday passed the bill for opening to
settlement portion of the great Sioux
reservation in Dakota and that the bill
as passed contains the submission clause.
It willdoubtless go through the senate
without much objection and become
law. The bill provides for the sur
render TO settlemeut of about half of
the Sioux reservation in Dakota, or
eleven million acres. Bus for the sub
mission clause il would be Jan import
ant piece OF legislation and an important
victory for ciyilizationsin Dskota. The
submissloE olsage is clause requiring
the signatures of three-fourths OF the
male adult Indians OF the Sioux nation
to the agreement before the measure
becomes law. Where so many sigma
tutes are required among a barbarous
and unreasoniug people there is strong
liability that the bill will bo vetoed by
the sflvages whose domain 1t proposes
to curtail. Three-fourths of the male
adults means that anywhere from four
thousand to eight thousand names must
be secured expressive OF the willingness
OF the signers to part with moity Of
their possessions for a consideration.
Among the Indians there ia, no astab-
lished definition of male adult. The
| white mans standard is not in vogue
| among them. A male adult may be q
boy of fifteen or less or o man OF forty
or more. Ii he happens to be the head
of bis tepee he is male adult. The
United States legal understanding oil
the term makes male adult male
twenty-one years old or over. AS the
Indians are party to this agreement il
will be found difficult TO reconcile this
difference in customs. Even with the
lquestion amicably settled the task ol
procuring She required signatures is one
which any frontiersman will recognize
as exceedingly difficult, if not impos.
lsible. So it does not appear that tht
passage OF this bill will effect the obiec
airned at-the diminution OF the exten
tsive and useless reservation which cover
the southwest quarter Of the territory o
Dakota and is retained asthe roaming
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-08

The way to meet objections is to an
swer them, instead of berating the OBJ
jsctor. The Press has said that any law
looking towaTd making u change in the
form or mode OF Dskota,s government
would haze TO be such as would pass
muster in the supreme court in order to
be of any force OF effect, and the propo-
sitions made by the Press and Da ota-
ian could not do this, and that therefore
it would be worse than useless to adopt
them.-Siour Falls Press.
1t is not within the province of the
Sioux Falls Press, or any newspaper or
individual, to say what q supreme court
will decide or will not decide IN advance
of any conclusion by judicial tribunal
of that nature. There is this much in
favor of the Press and DakotaIan's side
of the case-thst no supreme court has
ever decided against it, and one supreme
court that Of MichIgan) has decided in
Its favor. So the precedent, as usual, ia
on the side OF the Press and Dakotaian
statehood plan. It Is our endeavor to
meet with answers the objections OF the
Sioux Falls Press. But we cannot say
what supreme court will do. This
seems to be the especial privilege and
prerogative of the Sioux Falle newspaper.
We can say what supreme court has
done; It has sustained the statehood
plan advocated by the Press and Dako-
talan. In the present instance all dia.
cussions of supreme court probabilities
is premature. Itls an excellent rule Of
life not to GROSS river till you get to it