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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-03-01
eIDoIN EMoLIsH IN cnINL

Curious DiaIeoE Which the Celestial
ses-simpllfyiRg the Verbs.
Chinese is very difficult language
TO learn to speak it is considered a
task equal TO learning to speak six
European languages and very few
foreigners. with the exception OF the
missionaries, attempt it. While Eng
fish is not so difficult for the Chinese
as Chinese is for us Harper's Young
People says it is still far from easy
for them, and. OF course. the lower
classes have not much time to give
up to study. SO 'pidgin English" has
been invented, as being simpler than
the real language The meaning Of
the word 'pidgin" is business In
this business English one word is
often made to do duty for a great
many others. Most of you have
studied French or German verbs, and,
/ dare say have found them great
bOthers; so would English verbs be
10 tine Chinese. They have been
made very easy for them, For in
stance instead of learning the trouble.
some verb to be. they learn one
Word-belong-which is used for
every tense of the verb aud also in
the sense in which we use the word
ourselves
Instead of saying to a Chinaman,
How are your l should say
How fashion you belong?" He
would answer: My thankee you.
too muchee. my belong No. l." or
else, My thankee you, just now my
have got little sick. My" means
me as well as my, and No l is very
well frst-c,ass, etc. Why the double
is added TO so many words l cannot
explain. The weather is bad to-
day but l think it will be better to.
morrow. in pidgin would be, To
day weather being bad, my lhinkee
tomorrow belong more better" II
something is pretty good but not quite
irst-class can do" describes it
Top side" means upstairs and
heaven. down side" downstairs and
hell.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-03-01

rage with the artist
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-05-17

zette by his aged father. The personal
description tailed in a measure with
that of his long-lost son, and correspon-
dence followed. But the clouded mind
of the man contained no clear vision of
Van Vert. He remembered wildly
the home Of his boyhood and wrote an
exact description of it as he had last
seen 1t, quarter of n century before
log house and stone chimney. the well
with the long sweep to raise the buck
ct, the high-banked stream that ran
through the farm-all still as he had
left them, for changes are slow in the
homes of plain people of our country.
Then, with many doubts and as many
hopes, he made his way to Van Vert,
in 1887, aud was easily identified by his
family and former comrades. He APP
piled for pension, and the certificate
directing payment % him as the wound
ed and missing Hugh Thompson, of
Chickamauga, was forwarded in due
course of time. This is the story as re-
vealed by the official records of the pe#
sion Office. 1t is wonderful story and
fiction pales before its facts.
She story of Rip Van Wrinkle is thrill
ing to an audience when the old man
pulls from his leathern pouch the old
contract which Diedrich Van Beekman
wanted him to sign, twenty years be-
fore. 1t is paralleled by part of the
evidence of the Identification of Hugh
Thompson. From the day of his wound
and loss of memory, through all his
tyanderipUS ba carried a little TaSta-
ment given him by sister, with an in
scription in rhyme, when he enlisted.
The sister, still living, recognized it at
once when he exhibited il upon his re-
turn. He had kept the Testamenr his
sister had given him; but he had for
gotten the sister. When he saw her,
however, he recognized her and with a
glad cry rushed to her arms, and they
sobbed and cried like children. 1t was
a reunion the like of which was never
depicted upon the mimic stage.
SMITH ID. FRY.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-05-17
GOT THE BACKACHE?
If You Have, Here's the Way to KID
Yourself Of the WEAKNESS and
Pain Attending 1t.

Some people suffer with headaches,
many people are worn out and weary all
the time, many more people have lame
back and backache. Few people under,
stand the real cause OF their aches, ana
fewer vet know how easily they can find
\ cure Just word of explanation before
we prove that what we say is true. The
pack Is the keynote of the kidneys. IL
aches; that's a sign that the kidneys are
not working properly; it is lame; another
sign. the kidneys are out of order. The kid
news. YOU know, are the filters of the blood,
but filters sometimes get clogged up.
This means i'm their case that the blood
courses through the entire system impreg-
mated with poisonous uric acid, bringing
on many n disorder which, if neglected.
means disease perhaps incurable. And
now about the cure Don't take our word
for it; read what others say
Mr.. David G. Oaks is proprietor OF the
well known hardware and paint shop at
900 East Main Street, Kalamazoo. Mr..
Oaks has suffered great deal from kidney
ailments; he described his condition and
cure rs follows: 81 had bad lame back.
which suppose was caused by my kid
news was confined To my bed during bad
attacks. ! might say, from time to time,
have been in that condition for years.
The urinary organism was affected. urine
being scanty, highly colored and difficult
IN passage. | was in bad shape when
/ got box of Doan's Kidney Pills, about
which | had heard. / have used now
two boxes of them, and the pills have
removed all the pain and trouble. There
was marked improvement right frofn
fhe first and it has continued right
along. Doan's Kidney Pills are the right
thing in the right place.
For sale by all dealers = price, 80 cents.
Mailed by Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo
y. Y. sole agents for the Z. 5. Remember
the name, Deans, and take no other.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-05-17

forced TO leave him, evidently dying
from mortal wound. He never re-
joined them. The regimental report of
the adjutant for September, 1868, bears
the note opposite his name: Wounded
and missing in the battle of Chicka-
manga, September 10, 1868" And SO
he disappeared from comrades and
friends and home. one of the unknown
dead, remembered only as an integer
component of the myriads of soldier
boys who gave their young lives for
their country. His father, years after
ward, applied for pension on account
of his service, his mother having died
prior To his enlistment. No doubt was
raised as to his death I'm the army, but
the claim was rejected on the legal
ground that the father was not de-
pendent upon the services of his lost
son.
From September 10, 1868, the day of
the battle, until some time in February,
1870, the history of Hugh Thompson is
blank. He recovered his identity but
partially, as he was tramping through
the snow on a country road near the
village of Cleveland, Ill. He was a
strong. able-bodied man, comfortably
dressed in good working suit, with
pair of new boots on his feet and a
coon-skin cap on his head. He carried
an old-fashioned oil-cloth valise, and
there on the lonely road, in the darken-
ing twilight of that freezing February
evening, Hugh Thompson, the wounded
soldier of Chickamauga, came to him
self" as he expressed it. 1t was just as
if at that moment he had awakened
from a dreamless sleep of seven years
and become conscious of existence.
Who he was, or what he had done, or
where he had been. he knew not. He
knew that his name was Thompson but
called himself Henry instead of Hugh.
What name he had formerly used he
knew not. His mind was clouded, but
the clouds were lifting. Old scenes
came before him as dreams. He knew
he had been in the army. He knew he
had been in a battle and was lying on
the ground while bullets were whizzing;
but everybody told him the war had
long been closed. How he came to be
on that country road he never has
known. 1t was long jump in time,
from the field of Chickamauga in 1868, to
the village of Cleveland in 1870.
From Illinois he went to Kansas, and.
sometime in 1880 or 1881. he became i'm
pressed with the belief that he had been
a soldier in an Ohio regiment. He was
not sure that his name was Thompson,
nor certain that he was an Ohio soldier
boy. The newspapers of Kansas took
up the matter. gave accurate descrip-
tions of him, and the strange history of
the NamelesS Soldier. as he came to be
known. travelled to Ohio and was read
in the columns of the Van Vert Ga
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-05-17
Immense Draught OF Fish.

The biggest haul of fish ever made at
the Point Sauble grounds, near Green
Bay. was taken few days ago. The
single haul of the seine brought up
s,452 pounds of fish, for which the
lucky fisherman received the sum of
s19417. There were $3.50 pounds of
perch, 1925 pounds of yellow pike, ESQ
pounds of suckers and "a pounds of
catfish. Although the ground at Point
Sauble has been seined for over thirty
years, no catch equar to this has ever
been made, and fishermen claim that
it is a conclusive proof that the waters
are not being depopslated of their
fshy inhabitants, as is claimed by the
enemies of seine fishing.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-05-17
SKETCHES CT LINCOLN.
His Attempt to Make a Lawyer
Of Himself.
A BOOK HIS CONSTANT COMPANION.

Why He Loved story-His Deficiency ss "a
Salesrnsn-How lie Kept His Head Above
the Waves of Destitution-A Surveyor
Under Calhoun.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-05-17
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STRANGER THAN FICTION
Me- tings OF Old Soldiers Who
Thought Each Other Dea
How Col. Mussey Found a Long-Lost
Brothsr-The singular and Pathetic
Story of Hugh Thompson,
tho Nameless Soldier.
Especial Washington Letter.

"Hello, Jack Adams! left you dead
on the field thirty years ago! Are you
really alive, or are you a materialized
spirit? Let me pinch you and hug you. y
Yes, it was really Corporal Adams,
very well and very much alive. Col.
Fred ID. Mussey, the veteran Washing
ton correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial-Gazette, was sitting in his
office on Newspaper row. Thousands
of old soldiers were here attending the
national encampment of the Grand
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-05-17

From "The Life of Lincoln" by William ii.
Herndon and Jesse W. Wcik. Copyright. 1888.
by Jesse W. weik. Copyright, 1892, by ID. APP
pleton & Co.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-05-17
+. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.

Jesus was the true King of the Jews.
BY rejecting Him they rejected their
true kingdom, and hope, and glory, to
receive loss and destruction as ma
ton.
Jesus is our true King. To accept
Him as our King is to receive a kingdom
and eternal glory; to reject Him is loss
and death.
There was one simple way for Plate
TO escape a conflict, and that was TO do
his duty fearlessly. All his subter.
fuges were Of no avail. by doing
wrong the very evils came upon him
TO escape which he had done wrong.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-08
How GRAY Gables Looks at Present.

Gray Gables Letter 10 Baltimore Herald.
Entering on the estate on the south side
by Gray Gables depot, one Is at once In ars
oak grove through which on the right
show the bright green meadow lands.
with the white shell road rambling
through the trees, and on the left tha
small circular pond, destined for lilies. It
Is a real Cape Cod country road. stones
and sand with clusters OF dog-tooth vio-
lets beside the banks and stray clusters
of beach plums. now white with flowers,
and gray mosses and young white hirches
with their lIght-yeliowsh leaves, and vag-
abond footpaths TO shorten travel. And
so the road winds and twists itself
through the grove until II brings the visit
or out into the south open, beside tho
broad bayou OF tide water which insin-
yates itself in through the shore hills or
beyond the bayou, the broad fields hecked
here and there with the dark-colored
cedars left for ornament. the ragged tops
of cedar swamps In the hollows. the great
roofs of houses that two Boston bank pres
idents inhabit In the summer time, or far
beyond all the dark blue woods of Wings
Neck, reaching out into the gray silver
waters of the bay toward Marion.
The neighbors. including Mr.. Cleveland.
were ali anxious TO build dixie and water
way In the narrows near the shore and
shut In the waters or the bayou into
lake, both as an addition TO the landscape
and also to- avoid the reek and smell OF
marsh mud under a summers sun. But
somebody some time, had given me en-
terprising oystergnen an oyster grant here.
and, when they were asked 10 sell out.
they declined, unless they We're paid about
as much money as they controlled mud.
IL was no use 10 tell them that oysters
never-yet had thriven there. The mud was
theirs and Mr.. Cleveland. following his
rule never 10 push his will upon the town
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-08
FRANCES QUARREL WITH BRAZIL.
Application of the Monroe Doctrine
Woslld Put an End 10 IL.


Washington City. July The strained
relations between France and Brazil over
the French Guiana boundary appears TO
become more complicated daily. The sub
Ject is analogous TO the British-NeneEuela
trouble. in which the United States has
taken a hand In the opinion Of officials
here. the French contest with Brazil IS
rapidly assuming an aggravated aspect.
which may again call for the attention OF
the United States. as the Monroe doetrine
applies 10 one no less than TO the other.
An armed conflict has occurred in the
disputed territory between French SOL
dfers and Braxilians. The French gov
ernment has demanded redress and the
Brazilian congress has published reSohi-
ton couched in sharp language calling
Tor an explanation from France. A cable
report from Brazil states that the gov
ernment regards the subject as so menac-
ing that a strict censorship has been es-
taohsaed on all information regarding IT,
The armed conflict has merely brought TO
crisis the long contest over the French
Guiana territory. Both countries claim A
large tract of territory extending north
from the Amazon river and equal in ex-
tent TO what is usually designated on the
map as French Guiana. Each country re-
sarus the occupation OF this disputed ter
rltory as unNarranted. The fault for the
recent conflict cannot be placed. French
Gulana Is wanted by France as a convict
colony for the deportation of the worst
classes from the French prisons.
As result the population is a strange
mixture OF French, Arabs, Greeks and tire
rln-raff of Paris, and they are a desperate
and lawless class. A few years ago one
or these adyenturers. a man named Grcs.
attempted 10 set up.an independent eoun-
try. He established a capital and called
his government Independent Guinea"
The boundary dispute has run through
two centuries and has the distinction OF
being an article in the famous treaties OF
Utrecht and Amiens.
Brazil was originally a Portuguese COLI
ony, and Portugal insisted that IL extended
10 the French Guiana boundary now
shown on the maps. France claimed that
her territory ran down 10 the Amazon. In
the treaty at Utrecht the river Nincel-
Pinzoor was fixed as the boundary. Por-
tugal then claimed that this river was the
norsherly stream now marking the bound-
airy, while France claimed that IL was the
stream near the Amazon. so that the
treaty left the dispute far open as ever.
Since the recent armed conflict, French
soldiers have crossed the boundary and
permanently established themselves in the
disputed territory. with the purpose, Ii is
believed, of holding IL by force.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-08
STORM AT LAKE GENEVA. WIS.
six Persons Drowned From n SwaInped
steam Launch.

Lake Geneva. Wis, July "A heavy
storm passed over here this evening
which unrnOfed buildings and demora-
uxed shade trees The hail broke A larra
amount of glass and ruined corn OATS
and what little fruit there vas. Tho
steam launch Dispatch vas chartered
lust before the storm by a IA rty consist
ing of Father Hogan and Miss Hogan %
Harvard III. and man thought 10 be.
Dr Franz of the Elgin, III insane aSy-
lurn his wife and child The boat vas in
charge % John Preston. A relia bic mar
They were caught by the storm and The
boar Swampe.i and al on bcarvi irowne.d
The body of Miss Hogan has been Re
covered
This trip was the t,oat's las, before ,s.
evening trip 10 this city. and this fa-t
ied the exrurstossSts 70 rask the 4Se,-s.
The wind had already stirred llp a }1es,-,-
sea The boat had nos gone haIf a mile
when the hurricane bore down uFsen ne
lake. ard the whtle caps wore dashed ir,.o
ocean hsitows. T'he haN ard rain a .ss,-,
followed the first gust was the mos f.,~t
o.ls ever seen here Z was possFsi. 10 So
sae Httle boat from both landings. ana
she lbcestTnen watched ghe battle TIE
storm Was directly neaiud e. T,s, @-~-
plunge lnto tte water drove me 73.,z. 80
the boat Ear into the waves one t5.-
wave followed auothe~. heating urs-a tb..
k.oat nth great fury Il fzal}y r~,f,..g
over on IS side. tssrDe1 botorn s8.is tss, ma
xank Miss HoGaa's hes3y waz f.s.-.4
about slgi3cwp. vigorous search has
fasfsd % Hu3 trace % tAe 0~se~s. arvt I.
iS fearss3 IA @Gey are NH the halsi hsfs
~ t5le machinery ard engine Acz4ns. rs,..
bottom os tae lake.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-08
Loss of Life on American steamers.

Washington City. July THE records
OF the United States steamboat inspection
service. which during the last nineteen
years has been under the direction OF
Gen. Dumont as Inspector general show
that during the last fiscal year the NUM-
Der of lives lost on steam vessels was APP
proxtmately 36s. This was an increase
over the average for the preceding eigh-
teen years OF lbs. This inc fease was
caused BY the large loss OF life by the
laundering Of the steamship Coi!ma re-
Gently of the Pacific coast. The average
for the past nineteen years Is 247. The
highest previous annual loss was 5s6. in
1873 and the lowest was 1888. In 1896. Not
withstanding the great increase in the
number of vessels since 1870. over 100 per
cent, there have been but TO disasters
to steam vessels with a loss of but 567
lives. The number OF passengers increas-
ed per annnrn from 122. 5S97 1Sp. carried in
1870. 10 not less than SO 000,0Do - 1892. The
average loss of life under the law OF 1852
was one person TO every 30 1sl persons
carried, while under the act of 1s1l which
greatly improved the service. the loss was
only one Efe In each 2.70S 333 passengers
carried. The service consits OF about 175
officers and clerks one supervising in
spe-tor general ten supervising inspect
ors OF districts, under whom are located
inspectors divided among the various Gus
toms collection districts Of the United
States
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-08
ZOO Teachcrs at Denver.

Denver. July "A conservative esu-
mate places the number OF feis4ates 70
the national EDUCATIONAL convention who
have arrived up 70 tonight az between
e0 and seao. as Secretary Shepard. OF
he association, has Information winch
~aEes il certain that 12o9o teachers WIN
ne in attendance al the convention To-
Aav has been devoted 20 short railroad
trips 10 the mountains ard ueign'oring
resorts. fully 1000 spending the day In
Nfaoffou. Pixies Peak and other places
5r tbat vtclnity. while 1903 went on the
famous loop" trip.
The election Of officers - the subject Of
-.,y.gsaaratifn among the more active mem
1,ers 7, Is generally conceded a Western
nan viii Re chosen president and an East
.r,, civ selected for the place OF the next
,.,,...a-,t,nr A movement is being pushed
-. ne colorado Scientific Society. aided
~ prot. Leconte. Of California university.
and other prominent scientists. 70 have
.I.fs,tlee gepartusent added TO the asso-
,ss,,on work. 4 meeting Is to be held TO
eongider the matter.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-08
A STORM HITS Ell RENO. O. T.
A Methodist Church and Several Other
Ruildjngs Blown Down.

Ell Reno o. r. july 7.--After three DAYS
of terrific heat. wind and sand. storm OF
destructive power visited FL Reno tonight
at $50 O'Clock wrecking several houses
and iniuring several people. The North
Methodist African church is a total wreck.
The residences of Fred Hulse and M. w.
Wilson were blown away. The stables and
sheds OF the Texas livery stable were
blown into the yeard next adjoining and
were wrecked. Outbuildings were blown
down. and many roofs and signs carried
away. During the storm il was dark as
night, and people ran into each other n
their flight through the streets.
Mrs J. w. Brewer was blown quite a
distance down the street and was only
saved through the courage OF Dave En-
mons. a marshal. who caught and carried
her TO shelter No fatalities are reported
yet. but many people are injured. The
thermometer for the las, forty-eight hours
has never been below sS even at midnight.
and has reached as high as 100. A harf
rain is now falling.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-08
GREAT VICTORY FOR MACEo.
The Patriot Defeats Force of span.
iards In the Mountains.

fards In the Mountains.
Tampa, Fla, July 7.-Twenty-four hum
dred Spanish troops arrived at Havana
Friday and left for Puerto Principe Sum
day.
Twelve hundred Spanish with cannon at
tackled Gen. Maceo in the mountains few
days since. Maceo entice, them from one
side TO the other until tney were weary
and confused, then made a fierce attack
upon them But 80 of the Spanish return
ed TO the city.
The thirty Cuban Clubs here today elect
ed representatives to the congress 10 be
held July 10 to name Narti's successor
Tomas Estrada Palma is the unanimous
choice here. kilograms from New York
Indicate the same feeling there.
Madrid. July IA dispatch from CUBA
says that the Spanish under Gems. Sal
cedo and Navarro defeated several rebel
bands and many were killed and wounded.
The rebel chief Aramburo was killed.
Havana. July THE news OF the death
of Aramburo, rhe insurgent leader. Is
confirmed. He was pursued by band of
troops. and lost eight killed. IL is rum
ored that about eighty men have landed
near Santa Cruz, commanded by Nene-
zuelan. Fighting Is expected within a
few DAYS between Gen. Gasco's and Gen.
Navarro's troops and Maeeo, who is said
10 be surrounded by them.
New York July About 800 young
Cuban patriots ase making preparations
to leave this city with the expedition
organized by Gen. CalaZzo and tien. Que
seda. says a morning paper. The refu-
gees are beng drilled In squads of ffty
under the direction of Julio Castro Y
Silvia, who figured In the last rebellion.
Drilling will be kept up from to 10 on
two nights of each week until The expe-
dition Is ready 10 start. Many of the
Young men are members OF prominent
families in Havana. and they are en-
thusiastic patriots.