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The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26
4 NEEDED PRnTESr

One person in every seventy of the people of this great, glorious and benev- olent country draws a pension from the government. Among those who draw pensions are many women who have married old soldiers for love or specula- ton, or both, and have more or less cheerfully outlived their husbands. The commissioner of pensions has made a stir by recommending the passage of a law providing that no pensions shall be paid to the widows of any soldiers who shall hereafter marry. Under the act of June 27, 1890, the widow of a soldier who married after the passage of that act is not entitled to pension; but a woman who marries a soldier pensioned under the general law can at present make demand upon the government for support. The commissioner thinks that there should be no discrimination shown. He says: "A woman who mar ries a soldier now (thirty-two years since peace was declared) takes him for better or for worse; she was not his wife during the war; experienced none of the hardships, deprivations and anx- ieties incident to the life of wife of soldier, and should not, therefore, be placed on the rolls as such"
 There is more truth and good sense than poetry in this. If a lovely woman wants to marry an old soldier and be good to him in his old age she can do so, and perhaps should be encouraged to do so. But she shouldn't be hired to do so. And if a lovely woman wants to marry an old soldier for what she can make out of him, alive or dead, she should not be encouraged to do so. This country is still paying pensions to six teen widows and daughters of Revolu- tionary soldiers. The War of the Rev. olution closed 115 years ago. We have already paid about two billions in pen sions on account of the War of the Re- bellion, and about two billions more that must be paid are in sight. Mo- body wants to discourage love or de- crease comfort. but isn't it about time to discourage speculation in pensions?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26

that could be done for him, he lay shiv- eriug beneath a covering of warm blankets as the long, weary hours of night passed. One of the soldiers, who was very much attached to the animal carried his own blanket to the shed and wrapped it around the shuddering form, and the tears fell from his eyes as he stood exposed to the cold night wind, watching the sufferings of his favorite. They drenched him with brandy and did everything that could be done to relieve him. but just as the reveille sounded he lifted his head, neighed feebly and then fell over on his side, dead.
 There was deep grief in the regiment over his death, and the boys asked leave to give him a military funeral, which was granted. A detail of men followed the body to it's last resting place-a deep grave had been dug ill the frozen earth at the head of the valley, and there they laid the blanketed form of Black Prince and fired parting sa- lute above his grave.
 Then it was that soldier skilled in such work procured stone, and rude ly carved with the point of a rusty bay onet the following inscriptions:
 BLACK FRINGE,
 January g, 1864.
 The grave remains as a grass-grown mound on the edge of a wheat field, as a pathetic reminder of the war, and the plowmen and the reapers are careful not to disturb the sod that covers the dust of the sWiftest charger in the western army of the confederacy.-At- lanta Correspondence of the New York Evening Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26
THE ORIENT KNows 4 GOOD THING

THE ORIENT KNOWS 4 GOOD THING.
 A systematic investigation of the consumption of flour in China and Japan and the possibility of increasing the demand for the American product in those countries has been undertaken by the United States consuls at the principal points under directions from the home office, and the results are in- teresting. Replies thus far received in- dicate that the superiority of American flour is recognized in the Japanese and Chinese markets, but at the present time there seems to be limited demand for it. Home made flour from native wheat is a very inferior article as compared with the product of this country, yet it satisfies the poorer classes, and it is problematical whether American wheat could be delivered at sufficiently low price in the interior of China to com pete with the home industry. How ever, during the last ten years Amer ican flour has been introduced in many parts of China, and at the treaty ports large quantity is consumed annually.
 It is estimated that the importation of flour into China from this country last year amounted to over 7O,000,0 ,000 pounds. The customs reports of Can ton show that the consumption has more than doubled in the last five years, and the consul-general at Shang- l1ai says that the market is extending constantly. He explains that for the better quality of native pastry and con- fectionery rice four is used, but at the treaty ports and the cities to which foreign influence has extended many forms of sweet cake and biscuit are made of American four. Even for pure ly native varieties of rolls and cakes the American four is now preferred on account of it's whiteness and whole someness. Within a few years past the lmpOrLdIlOl OL AlilSllCeln houL IldS rap idly increased. Ten years ago it was almost unknown away from the treaty ports, but now bags of American flour may be seen in large quantities stack ed in the shops of inland cities. The reports from Tien-Tsin and Chungkin are not so favorable, although in both places the foreign population uses American flour.
 The reports from Japan are universal ly favorable. The natives have not
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each ln- sertlon. Five Cents Word for full week lseven timesl.
 Display advertisements, per inch, one In; sertion S1.2o; each suhsequent insertion; s,a. au one year, $40. ,-
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse, 10 cents per line. Notices of Births, Mar riages, Deaths and Funerals. 50 cents each Local Notices 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to thelr own immediate business (all matter to pc unobjectIonable). and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let. For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26

According to the New England His torio Genealogical Society of Boston, only twenty-nine families that came to New England from Great Britain were entitled to bring armorial bearings with them. Can this be true? Has New Haven been thoroughly searched?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26

Massa chusetts has received this year $441,S from the collateral legacy tax, and there is still more than a month of possibilities for the increase of the sum. Its fourth part of the liquor li- cense fees amounts to $771,941 in the same time.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26

Of the candidates for the British army who fail to pass the tests four out of five are rejected because of defective vision. The 'eyesight" test consists of being able to count correctly with both eyes as well as each eye separately, a number of small black dots exhibited on a card ten feet from the candidate.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26

A Vermont man named Winter has married woman named Frost. It's a cold world.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 10 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, $3 FOR SIX MONTHS, $6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26

Another blow at prohibition has been struck in Maine. The farmers are rais- ing malt barley and are finding 1t profitable. This was the first year of the experiment, carload of seed 1av- ing been distributed last spring to the farmers in Aroostook county. From this about 10000 bushels of excellent barley has been raised, much of which has been sold at forty cents bushel. The average yield for an acre will prob- ably be about forty or fifty bushels, which will give the farmer a. fair re- turn for the time and labor and invest ment, and the crop will have the added advantage of being one which can be at once converted into money. When the proposition to raise malt barley in Aroostock was first announced, a storm of denunciation arose from the prohibi- tory law people. Their protests contin- ue, but they are unavailing in the face of the fact that the barley is more profitable crop than oats or other grains that Maine farmers have been growing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26
COLONIAL
SILVERWARE.

Not all of US are the happy pos sessors of Silver that has been handed down through generation from old Colonial days.
 But in the recent reproductions of the quaint forms and chaste adornments copied from Pau1 Revere and other early American si1versmiths, have been heighte1- cd by the superior workmanship of modern times and methods. THE GEORGE H. FORD
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26

"A window made entirely of stone has just been presented to the cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand. It is yard and a quarter in height and three-quarters of yard in width and fourteenth of an inch thick. The stone is nephrite, found in Siberia, and so beautifully transpar- ent that when placed as it is 1t catches the suns rays and reflects them into the interior of the cathedral in all the exquisitely varied colors of the prism.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26

THE THECARRINGToNPUBLISHING co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26

The Piedmont Virginian says: "The colored people in the neighborhood of Brandy Station had a revival at one of their churches which lasted about five weeks, and on the Thursday before they closed there were two sinners, Thomas Parker and Daniel Somers, converted. On Friday night they stole Richard Nalle's chickens, traded them on Saturday for clothes to be baptized in, were baptized Sunday and were ar- rested and jailed on Monday"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26

AHTlSlldu uuSDdHus when Ilelr Q10- t1er parties turn out failures, are apt to grumble at their wives for the cooks misdemeanors. but they usually abstain from the practical style of rebuking practiced by the Celestials. Recently the Chinese professor at university gave banquet to fellow professors, and was much put out because the cookery was not to his taste. After a time he got up, bowed solemnly and said: "Go lickee wife," and departed. returning presently, smiling as blandly Hs usual, after having administered iu- dicious reinstatement to his better half.
 Ex-Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin, is B dairyman of large resources, the edi- tor of a paper devoted to the dairy in- terests and the president of the Nation al Dairy union. As the sworn foe of oleomargarine, which he says can be produced at cost of seven cents A. pound, he is actively engaged in mak- ing effective prosecutions brought un- der the State laws that interfere with competition in the butter-making trade His union was instrumental, Governor Hoard says, in the passing of laws in Michigan and Illinois last winter for bidding oleomargarine to be colored. Similar laws are to be proposed and carried through in other States. The governor opposes compromise and wants conviction in all cases where these laws are violated.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-30
CANADIAN coPYRIGHT,

Ottawa, Ont, July 30.-A dispatch
has been received by the government
from the British ambassador at Wash
ington, inclosing a note from the
American secretary of State, protesting
against the refusal of the Canadian
government to extend Canadian COPY
right to citizens of the United States.
The American government pressed up
on the British Ambassador the view
that as the United States law now ex-
tended the benefits. of copyright to
the residents of Great Britain and Ire
land, the Canadian dominion, being a
colony of Great Britain, should be
strongly urged to allow American cit
liens to take out Canadian copyright
on the same terms as Canadians them
selves.
The British ambassador accepted the
view and expressed hope that the
Canadian government might see it's
way to regard the arrangement be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain of the nature of copyright
treaty. The matter is now under the
reconsideration of the government
who are inclined to offer to the Amer
lean government the same status for
Americans under our copyright laws
as the copyright law of the United
States confers on Canadians.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-30
AN AMERICAN MURDERER.

New York, July 3O.--A dispatch to
the Herald from Panama says:
Telegraphic advices from Medillin
say that Charles Radford, Of Alabama
has been tried on an appeal and found
guilty there of murder nj the first de-
gree for killing Charles II. Simmonds,
prominent merchant of Cali. Radford
will in all probability be sentenced to
death.
Radford came to Colombia from the
United States about two. years ago
settled in Cali. He had a difficulty
with Mr.. Simmonds over a land claim
and one day walked into his office
when Mr.. Simmonds had his back
turned and shot him dead.
Excitement in Cali ran so high at
the time that the authorities feared
Radford would be lynched IL allowed
to remain in prison until the trial.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-30
poor MANS PARADISE"

New York, July 9O.-Mr. Booth Tuck
er commander of the Salvation army
in the United States, has just returned
from the southwest where he inspected
lands for the purpose of selecting a
location for his proposed poor mans
paradise" The commander hopes to
interest capitalists in his scheme and
II he is successful there soon will be
established in the southwest a colo
~ that is expected viii go far towards
solving the problem of conditions as
they now exist.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-30
Price $500 a Year

by the Turkish government as evil
dence that it thinks fav5rably Of his
scheme. II Turkey should refuse to
give Palestine up he says the Ottoman
empire surely will disintegrate and
then a Jewish company can obtain
Palestine when the Powers divide up
Turkish territory.
II 1t proves impossible to get Pales-
tine, he will turn to Argentine
To confer on this point, congress
will be held at Basic, August 20. The
doctor says there is no doubt that this
congress will be the redeemer of the
Hebrews. There is no intention to fol-
low socialistic lines. He proposes a
limited monarchy like that of Great
Britain.
The capital of the Jewish company
is to be $3.50, 100000.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-30
OVER A PREcIPIcE.
Prof. Mcclure Falls 300 Feet and is
Dashed to Pieces.

Prof. Mcclure Falls 300 Feet and is
Dashed to Pieces.
Tacoma, Wash, July SO.-Prof Edgar
Mcclure, of the Oregon State Univer-
sity, fell over 300 foot precipice while
descending Mount Tacoma in the dark
ness Tuesday night.
His body was found Wednesday at
daylight and was placed in a snow
bank awaiting the arrival of an under
taker.
Dr. DaWtt Connell, of Portland, Ore,
sseClees's travelling companion, says
every bone in the professors body
was broken by the fall. His face was
lacerated and his skull fractured.
Prof. Mcclure was married and
about thirty years of age. He had
charge of the governments scientific
department of the annual mountain
climbing expedition of the Matanzas,
the coast Alpine society. He and his
Nfriends did not go with the regular
party, which numbered fifty, and
which made the ascent and descent
in safety, using life line.
The Mcclure party used no lifeline
and that and recklessness while trav-
cling by night accounts for the acct
dent. In darkness the party lost the
trail on the Muir Glacier. Mcclure
warned his companions to be careful
and started to reach what looked like
a pile of rocks a few feet away. The
rocks were a hundred feet below.
Webster Price, of Pendleton, while
looking over one of the precipices be-
came partly deranged and could not
the mountain. No barometer
has been safely brought down from
Mount Tacoma, and Mcclure on start
ing to descend promised to preserve
his at all hazards.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-30
CUBAN WAR NEWS.

Havana, July S0.-A number of res
idents of Guanabacoa, including sew
eral ladies, who 1t is alleged, are impli-
Gated in the Introduction into the is
land Of contraband of war; have been
arrested and ordered to the Casa Ro-
cojidas to await trial.
The wife and family of the insrugen.
chief, Regime Alfonso, have been re-
leased from the Casa Rocojidas.
The warship Magdalene, which went
ashore at the entrance to Mantanzas
harbor yesterday, has been floated
with the assistance of local tugs. She
is uninjured. Col Marques de Men
digorri, adjutant to Gen. Weyler, will
start for Spain tomorrow to recuperate
his health.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-30
BLOODY SPANISH BRUIES.
Whip Persons Who Are
Unable To Work.
PRESS THE STARVING CREA-
TURES INTO SERVICE WHEN
THEY WERE UNABLE
Then Because They Fall Out They
Are Numerically Lashed With
A Whip = InSurgent Ranks
GrOWiqg-0ther Tele-
graph News.

New York, July 30-The Herald this
morning prints the following from its
correspondent with the insurgent arm
correspondent with the insurgent army
in Cuba:
1 have received the following letter
from Gen. Castillo:, addressed to the
New York Herald:
Our confidence in our final triumph
isl daily greater. During the last
month, with our moderate force, we
had twenty-eight combats with the
enemy. We have applied explosives
to the trains, fought troops. on the
highways, taken towns and our army
has been victorious everywhere"
During the same month twenty
three persons, fully armed, who be-
longed to the Spanish army, have
Joined our forces, counting among
them regulars, guerillas, volunteers
and eleven civilians, therefore I am in
"a position to assure you that our fore
es are more than ever fiourishing and
vigorous.
II was in Matnzas recently and while
there 1 witnessed a scene that remind
ed me of the stories of the treatment
of slaves in Africa. l saw a Spanish
inspector of police lash until they bled,
feeble, tottering reconcentrados in or
der to force them to do government
work"
"Matanzas is full of starving recon
centrados. Every night some of them
die on the steps of the theatre or in
the portals of the church, and except
for private donations, they are abso-
lutely helpless"
ION July IA a ship arrived with a
cargo of tiles to be used for govern
ment purposes. Unloading the Eiles
the police pressed into service a great
number of reconcentrados, they were
too weak to walk, too weak even to,
drag themselves down to the harbor.
Some started to work, but had not
strength enough to carry the tiles.
Then it was that saw police inspec-
tor appear with a heavy whip and
mercilessly, beat men and old wom-
en- for their inability to work"
''The Heralds correspondent with
the rebel army writes that he recently
witnessed the blowing up of a train
with a body of soldiers while crossing
a bridge. This explosion was merely
an experiment, from the insurgents
but was highly successful.
The train was wrecked and several
soldiers were killed.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-30
AN. EXCELLENT SCHEME.

London, July 30.-A banquet was Civ
en- last night at the Hotel Cecil to the
representatives Of the New South
Wales troops. William Broderick,
parliamentary secretary Of the war
Office, announced that colonial secre-
tary, Chamberlain, had written a let
ter to the colonial premier, suggesting
an interchange of forces in the empire.
According to this plan some colonial
regiments would come to England,
English regulars replacing them in the
colonies. The troops should be sim
ilarly armed and should learn to act
together. The troops had closely ex-
amnied the scheme and it is believed
that everybody approved it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-30

body must include in its powers the
right of taxation for imperial purpos-
es.
Therefore, it's membership must be
framed somewhat upon population
basis. which would mean that in few
years the populous colonies would ut
terly swamp the voice Of England,
who would never submit thereto. Sec
ondly, the colonies would never submit
to surrender of their autonomy, nor
would they hand over a large part of
their powers to body thousands of
miles away.
my idea. continued Sir Charles,
sis that framed by the ottawa con-
ference and afterwards supported by
colonial Secretary Chamberlain, Of
preferential trade within the empire.
Under duty on corn and meat, Cana
da could supply England with all she
needs. l believe England would re-
store the duty on corn and that opera
tives would be the most ardent sup
porters of the plan, seeing that there
by they would enjoy to greater ex-
tent the great growing colonial mar
kets. 1 regard Sir Walter Laurier's
preferential tariff as an absurd scheme
altogether misunderstood by the Eng
lish people and press. 1t is not pre-
ferential to England above other
lands and under the present treaties
England cannot accept it. To offer
what they know they cannot accept
seems to me to be rather an insult
than compliment.
"The Canadian ministry's course in
declining to be bound by the Belgian
and German treaties is less than a
declaration of independence. 1t has
been clearly proved that the colonies
are bound by those treaties. Had Sir
Wilfred Laurier offered England pre-
ferential trade on reciprocal terms af-
terN the denunciation of the treaties, l
believe that England would have ac-
cepted. At any rate Sir WilGred would
have kept his pledges and have gained
great kudos."
In conclusion Sir Charles Upper de-
clared that under low tariff Canada
nearly went into bankruptcy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-30
A MONETARY CONFERENCE.
Great Britain VIII Join Us So 1t Is
Announced.

IrSdt brltdln VIII JOIN Us % II is
Announced.
New York, July SO.-A special to the
Herald from Washington says:
Official information just received in
Washington indicates that Great Brit
ain will consent to join in an interna-
| tional monetary conference, to be held
in this city next winter
This Information is a complete con-
firmation of the cable dispatches pub
lished a few days ago which stated
that Great Britain's representatives
had received the proposition of the
United States ENJOYS more favorably
than had been expected.
The statements received here indi-
cate that the mission of Special En-
Yoys Stevenson, Payne and Wolcott
will be so far successful as to insure
the meeting on another international
monetary conference.
7 Though Great Britain has not yet
made an official response to the prop
osition of the United States ENJOYS,
intimation has been given to the rep
resentatives of this government that
England will consent to participate in
an international conference in Wash
ington. This report comes through
official channels, and gives much sat-
isfaction to those who hope an inter
national agreement is possible.
The reports received from the special
ENJOYS also state that their reception
in France was more favorable than the
press reports indicated at the time of
their visit and that France practically
accepted the proposal to join in a con-
ference and abide by its results, pro-
vided Great Britain could be induced
to do likewise.