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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-03-26
EXTRA SESSION BEGUN.
Both Branches of the FIfty-Fifth Con-
gress in Order.

gress in Order.
| WAsHNGToN March 16.-The main
interest in the assembling of the Fif-
ty-ffth Congress in extra session to-
| dav under President McKinley's call,
ton and the seat lottery were the
| drawing cards. Great crowds were in
the galleries hours before noon, but
| the general public had small oppor-
tunity to view the proceedings. The
! section opposite the Speakers rostrum
commonly known as the black belt"
which has a seating capacity of 500,
was given up to the public. The other
| galleries were strictly reserved for
| ticket holders.
The most striking feature of the
scene on the floor was the number of
new faces. Figures conspicuous in the
shock of many a parliamentary battle,
had disappeared, and instead were new
and u1tried men. The change in the
| personnel was very great.
| BY IL o'clock the reserve galleries
! with the exception of those for the
diplomatic corps, and the executive
We're crowded, The bright costumes
of the ladies gave light and color to
! the scene.
AS the hands of the clock pointed to
| 12, Major Mcdowell. clerk OF the last
House, raped the members to order
and then the Rev. Mr.. Couden, the
blind chaplain, delivered the invoca-
ton.
The clerk then read the Presidents
proclamation converting Congress and
the roll was called.
Thomas B. Reed of Maine was re-
elected Speaker, the vote standing:
Reed, 199: Bailey OF Texas, III; BE II,
Populist of Colorado, u; Newlands,
Silverite, Nevada, /.
The other Republican caucus nomi-
| nees for the various House Offices We're
then elected. All held similar posi-
tions in the last House.
In the Senate there was an abund-
| ance of flowers on the desks when Mr..
Hobart raped for order, and there
was an exceptionally fall attendance.
! The public galleries were packed and
| the reserved galleries well flied. The
chaplain's opening prayer invoked
divine grace and blessing on the SEN
ators and members now about to tako
I'D the work of the extraordinary SeS-
sion. and upon the President and Vice
President.
The roll call disclosed the presence
of sixty-eight senator's. The new sem
ator from Kansas, W. A. Harris, took
the oath of office.
Mr.. Mcbride of Oregon presented the
credentials of Henry ". Corbett. ap-
pointed by the Governor of Oregon to
| I'LL the vacancy caused by the failure
to elect a successor to Mr.. Mitchell.
| The Governors certificate was read,
| and Mr. Mcbride requested that the
| new senator be sworn in if there were
no objection, but Mr.. Gray of Della
ware said that unusual circumstances
attended the appointment and that the
credentials should be scrutinized. He
moved that they be referred to the
committee on privileges and elections,
and it prevailed by unanimous vote.
Mr. Hoar and Mr.. Cockrell were
named committee to wait on the
President and inform him that Con-
gress was in session and ready to re-
ceive any communication from him,
and the Senate then, at 1920 o'clock,
took recess until o'clock.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-03-26
NO REORGANIZATION.
The Republicans Evolve n Scheme to De-
fer the Fight Untn Winter.

WAsHINGToN, March cot has been
practically determined hy the Repub-
lican steering committee OF the Senate
not to attempt the general reorgan-
ization of the offices or committees of
the Senate until after the passage of
the tariff bill, or rather, until the
regular session next winter. Mr.. Aid
rich, chairman of the committee on
rules, has evolved the idea of permit
ting the holdover members to retain
their committee assignments, the va
cancies created by the Outgolng sena-
tors 10 be filled by the various party
caucuses Under this arrangement.
the new members will receive assign
Iacnts only to those committees in
which vacancies may be created by the
retirement of their predecessors or by
the shifting of old members to more
imnOrtant committees.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-03-26
A New Postal system roy China.

WASHINGTON, March 16.-Official an
nouncement has reached here that the
new postal system of China, which re-
places the crude private courier SER
vice, went into operation February 20.
The new service is based on the British
postal service and is now under the
direction of British official, who has
been designated commissioner of the
imperial Chinese customs.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-03-26
The Public Utilities Bnl Signed.

TOPEKA, Kan, March 16.-Governor
Leedy has signed the public utilities
bill, practically under protest He said
this afternoon: There were a num-
Der of Objectionable features in it. but
there was demand for such iegisla-
ton. therefore | signed the bill"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-03-26
Tb. rra,svaal Reported Aiming.

LONDON, March 16.-The Daily Mail
Capetown correspondent states that
Germany has recently landed
large shipments of munitions of
war at Walfisch bay. circum-
stance which causes suspicion, The
Transvaal is also arming steadily, the
shipments of ammunition, guns and
military supplies from France alone
amounting to 500 tons monthly.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-03-26
A Hank President a For~er.

PADUcAH, KY, March 16.-M. c.
Cope, ex-presldent of the First Ma
tional bank, is missing. He forged
S13. 1000 of negotia ble paper. confessed,
resigned and left town. His bond Is
crnn6
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-03-26
TO RUSH TARIFF BILL.
The House viii WorS All Day and Into
the Night Until March 81.

WASHINGTON. March 9O.-The House,
by the vote of i79 to l22, Democrats
and Populists comprising the minority.
to-day az opted a rule providing for
sessions beginning at 10 o'clock each
day with sessions at night for debate
on the tariff bill pending amendments
ct o'clock March II.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-03-26

Barnum & Bailey Circus company
have bought Madison Square Garden,
New York.
The herald., 1897-11-28
SEARCHING FOR ANDREE

The relief expedition recently fitted out
by the Swedish government to find and
succor that daring aeronaut, Herr An
dree, will receive the "godspeed" of
every lover of scientific adventure and
enterprise the world over. The readers
of The Herald will recall the fact that
Andree ascended in his balloon, the
Eagle, on July 18th last from Spitzber-
gen, 400 miles northwest of the North
Cape of Norway, in a proposed expedi-
ton to the north pole. Nearly four
months have passed since the daring
scientist started on his perilous journey
and 10 reliable nor, indeed, any other
kind, of tidings have been heard from
him up to date.
The relief expedition started on the 1st
inst. from Christiana, under the superin-
tendence of Captain Sverdrup, the brave
commander of the Fran, Dr. Nansens
famous exploring ship, and is thus in
good hands. The interest felt in the
success of not only this relief party but
in the ultimate fate of Andree is world
wide. A correspondent of the London
Chronicle, writing recently to that paper
from St. Petersburg, says: "a hundred
men, prominent in Russian scientific cir
cles, have asked permission to follow
Captain Sverdrup's expedition"
The effect Of heredity is in no modern
instance more apparent than in those
daring efforts of Scandinavian naviga-
tors to add at any cost to the scientific
achievements Of the age. The old Morse
The herald., 1897-11-28
SUNDAY NOVEMBER rs. 1897.
A NEW DEPARTURE

The Herald, pursuing the course of ad
vanced journalism. presents its readers
today with a colored cover. This is a con-
cession to the esthetic tendencies of the
times and does not necessarily imply that
this paper expects to take rank among the
yellow journals
The cover which accompanies this issue
of The Herald is unique in a way. Nothing
like it is published by any newspaper west
of the Rocky mountains. In an artistic
sense it is more acceptable than the most
Of those issued by New York and San
Francisco papers. No attempt is made to
render it loud" or sensational. and we
trust that readers of The Herald will ac-
cept it for what is intended-a sincere ef-
fort to please the patrons of the paper.
The herald., 1897-11-28

human wishes, hopes and passion that
moves the convert to seek consolation in
the truths Of religion-to win that state
OF mind which the dramatic poet attrib-
utes to the great lord cardinal:
A feeling above all earthly dignities,
A serene and quiet conscience.
Strangely enough, in view Of what he
stated anent disappointed love. the
writer asserts that Joy is stimulant
to belief: that a low state of mind.
sorrow, remorse, melancholy, is a field
where doubts grow rank. and hence
such a mental condition is not con-
ducive to belief!
So, also. he states that action nour-
ishes belief while inaction kills it, and
quotes Phillips Brooks's favorite saying:
do something with your religion and
your religion will not die" So is it. he
continues, with all our belief. Though it
Is often bred in our mind by pondering
over things and calling up images until
they become fixtures, belief is often born
and nourished in earnest action. In this
connection he makes the following inter-
esting biographical reference to the
great martyr president:
Lincolns life gives notable example.
In his pioneer days he was a skeptic.
Both Lamon and Herndon say that
up to the time Lincoln went to Wash
ington as president he was not a pro-
Tossing believer in any Christian faith.
But during the days OF the war, when
he bore tremendous burdens Of action
and anxiety, embodying and enforcing
the will OF the nation, he became thor
oughly religious. 1t is told that in 1864
when the tension was at its highest ard
Lincolns life was like the action of the
heart OF the whole people. in that time
the president was found more than once
on his knees a prayer. Lircoln's faith
did not come to him by reasoning, but
in the stress and strain of life. He laid
hold upon certain great truths with the
grip of hungering and thirsting ma
ton. 1t is in this way. I believe, that
the strongest faith is attained.
This paragraph redeems much of the>
doubtful obscurity Of Mr.. Parker's ar
tice. He returns to the psychical COM
of ST. Paul. that faith is
neither the result of a stimulant nor
the offspring of human action, disap-
pointment, JOY or hopeless love, but a
celestial benefaction born Of grace-a
gift of God
The herald., 1897-11-28
RELIGIOUS BELIEF

"What Is the Nature of Belief" is
the subject of an interesting paper by
w. B. Parker in the current number of
the Popular Science Monthly He treats
the question from a somewhat novel
point of view finding in the mental con-
dition in which faith supervenes rather
a physiological than a spiritual causa-
ton. For instance, he asserts belief as
a human function that 'in so far as it
is vital and important it must be sub
ject to the fundamental laws of organ
ISM; and traces the conditions under
which it arises to mental exaltation re-
sulting from stimuants that heighten
vascular and nervous activity and pre-
pare the mind for the function of belief.
Mr.. Parker, further attempting to elu-
cidate this rather abstruse submission
of the question, says that if we ask our
selves how we came to believe such and
such thing we shall find that in almost
every case it was by reason of excite
ment. Continuing Mr.. Parker says:
Did ever girl sit down calmly and
reason to the conclusion that she was
in love? Did ever a man or woman
reason to the conclusion that he or she
was saved? No; belief does not come
in that way. Every orator learns that.
1t is not the close-woven. incontestible
argument that leads to belief 1t may
be good proposition, but often the re-
suit can be gained wholly without it,
and 1 doubt if it is ever Indispensable.
Men and women are moved to believe,
not by argument, but by aroused feel
ing.
Referring to stimulants as factors in
belief, he says that coffee awakens al
most as many doubts as it lays, while
alcohol invariably dispels doubts and
enthrones gertrude. This excursive
flight of Mr.. Parkers mind into the
realm of the unknown serves at least to
show how intensely silent and passive
was the faculty of reason during the ex-
curson.
Touching another phase of the uues-
ton, the effect of sexual feeling upon
religious belief, he treads upon more
tangible ground. On this point he SAYS:
The close relation of love and religion
has been topic for ages. 1t is think,
remarkable how many women disap-
pointed in love turn to religion for con-
ISOLATION. Girls and women who have
never revealed the slightest interest in
church or creed become, under the in
fuence of an unrequted passion, the
most ardent believers. There is no rea-
son in such cases to charge hypocrisy.
They only show how much belief de-
pends upon emotion
Tho conclusion here is somewhat in
the nature of non sequitur. In the in
stances cited emotion is dead, the "stim-
ulant" is lacking and in many such cases
II is not the sexual feeling SO much as
q profound conviction of the vanity OF
The herald., 1897-11-28
Los ANGELES HERALD. SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER Is. 1897

Of congress to do either good or bad
of mine own mind; but what the act
of congress saith that will I speak?
And now, behold, go unto my people;
come, therefore, and I will advertise.
And Balaam rose up and went and re-
turned to his place; and Balak also
went his way"
the San Pedro harbor advertising. He
asserts that he has been misrepresented.
and that unwarranted attacks have
been made upon his department. He
will be credited for what he has done
in the spirit in which he has done It.
That is about as far as the people are
at present warranted in going.
The herald., 1897-11-28
THE ORANGE MARKET

There is no reason why the orange
crop of Southern California-large as it
is-should not be profitably marketed,
if there is not undue haste in trying to
get too much out Of the holiday trade,
and thus overstockirg the markets at
the beginning of the season.
The orange markets Of the United
States will be short this season as COM
pared with the supply several years ago.
Five years ago Florida produced about
100000 boxes of oranges and California
had at the same time nearly 1000, 900
boxes, making a total Of nearly 1000, coo
boxes. This year Florida will have only
about 150, 900 boxes, while California will
market about 3,5Oj,0O boxes, or a total
of only about one-half as many oranges
as were put on the markets five years
ago.
II is true that the Florida crop came
into use little earlier in the season than
the California fruit, but during Decem-
Der, January and February both states
NCIc SiIPPiHS HtdNIly Ills COUlPetl-
ton extended, as rule, we'll into or
through February. and yet the markets
took the fruit fairly well.
At the present time Florida is out of
the business and the California crop is
handled by only few shippers, over
one-half of it going out by the Fruit
Exchange, a cooperative movement of
the growers themselves inaugurated
principally for the purpose of distribut-
ing the orange crop judiciously among
the markets in which it is most needed,
thus preventing a glut and therefore
securing better prices.
If the markets could take 100000
boxes of oranges five years ago, ought
they not to find room this year for half
that amount at good prices, especially
in view of the fact that a cent pound
tariff will have tendency to check i'm
portations, except those of good fruit at
fairly good prices?
What is needed this season is judicious
management at the beginning of the
the demand for the fruit will increase as
the channels of trade will be put in bet
ter running order. If the crop is prop
erly handled the best prices ought to be
received at the close of the season, and
the grower who holds his fruit will get
better prices than he who rushes too
large an amount upon the markets for
the holiday trade, thus breaking prices
and causing purchasers to fear to pay
fair prices thereafter.
If Southern California orange growers
cannot get good prices this season for
their fruit, the future outlook of the
business will not be flattering. During
the past five years prices of oranges
have not been good, even with the light
crop. because the importations of cheap
fruit have been heavy and because the
financial depression which has visited
all portions of the world has prevented
the people from indulging in luxuries,
and oranges have been considered a
luxury. With better times the demand
for oranges will increase and this in
crease will keep up with the increasing
crop Southern California will for years
to come, and probably always, furnish
the oranges for the people of the United
States. With good management the
prices can be maintained.
The herald., 1897-11-28
BALAAM TO BALAK

WASHINGTON Nov. 26. - Orders
were issued today by Secretary Alger
to advertise for proposals for the build
ing Of the breakwater at San Pedro har-
Dor, California.
And Balaam Alger said unto Balak
Huntington: "Spake I not also to thy
messenger which thou sentest unto me,
saying, IF Balak would give me his
house full Of silver ard gold 7 cannct
so beyond the commandment Of the act
The herald., 1897-11-28
Epigrams From "The Vice of Fool!

Epigrans From "The Vice of Fools
Clever women are usually taken in by
men; it is the silly women who take men
in.
Love q women with an intellect if you
want to be wretched; marry one if you
want to be successful.
Matrimony is an unknown land. allur-
ing to strangers, but irksome to it's in
habitants.
In feudal days the aristocracy owned
the money, now the money owns the
aristocracy.
This is the age of persistent parvenues
and perverted peers.
Punctuality is the thief of time.
A sincere man loves, tickle woman
loves to love, and a selfish woman loves
to be loved
The herald., 1897-11-28

spirit seems to live and move and have
Its being in such men as Nansen. Sver-
drup and Andree. only that now, instead
Of fiery warfare and resistless invasion
Of other lands. Of battle, murder and
sudden death" for the glory and the gain
of conquest. the milder but not less self
reliant genius of the modern sons Of
Odin makes the yet undiscovered regions
of science the theater Of their energy
renewing in intellectual pursuits the ad-
ventures OF the valorous vikings whom
no danger could deter, no achievement
in arms this side Of victory could sat
isfy.
The herald., 1897-11-28

The Tariff Commission league Is get
ting more kicks than ha'pence in
it's pretended efforts to take the
tariff out Of politics. The Herald ex-
posed the true inwardness of the bill
fathered by the league several weeks
ago, and now the Times declares that
the measure is not only inexpedient but
unconstitutional. 1t would afford salts
faction to nobody IL it were put into
practice
The herald., 1897-11-28
Rctribution

You may sing to the world, "Al Is we'll.
is WELL"
And see not the cloud afar;
You cannot drive to the depths of hell
And escape without n scar.
You cannot sow to the whirlwnd's breath
And reap the summers sigh:
You cannot drift to the gates of death
And live, and never die.
You cannot breathe the breath of sin
And keep the soul secure:
You cannot rise and hope to win.
And make your life endure.
>-,.,
Oh child of earth. look out afar:
Fear not the cold worlds frown:
Upward shines clear your guiding star
On mountain heights, not down.
Forsake the selfish, beaten way
BY careless mortals trod:
For in the distance. clear as day,
Lie the hills that lead to God.
Think not that good will come to thee.
Or happy days and fair,
If hard and cold thy life shall be.
And thou withhold thy share
The herald., 1897-11-28

The scheme to form all the distilleries
in Kentucky into one vast combine has
fallen through, because the distillers
While no illusions to watered stock are
permissible in speaking Of Kentucky
whisky 1t is evident that the price will
have to be diluted in order to even up
things.
The herald., 1897-11-28
LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD
SWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION

State Of California, County Of Los Ange.
les.-ss.
L. NJ Holt, superintendent Of circulation
OF the Los Angeles Daily Herald. being
first duly sworn. deposes and says: That
for the five months from February l. 1897,
to June 80. 1897 Cnclusive), the tota! circu-
lation of the said Daily Herald was 200 6So
copies, being an average daily circula-
tiOn of S0O4.
That the weekday circulation during the
above time was 1,o715s7. being daily
average of S3OO copies.
That the Sunday circulation during the
above time was 2l9.05s. being an average
for each Sunday of 1O.431.
L. M. HOLT.
Superintendent Of Circulation.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day Of July, 1897.
FRANK ]. COOPER.
Notary Public in and for the County OF
Los Angeles. State Of California
The herald., 1897-11-28

The stock of the Standard Oil company
is said to be watered about four times
over. 1t pays a quarterly dividend of
per cent, or 80 per cent year. This is
leS per cent on the original. unwatered
stock. An investment that will more
than pay for itself in one year is not to
be sneezed at.
The herald., 1897-11-28

About six of the pupils in the Pomona
high school should be spanked and put
to bed without their suppers. They are
getting the wrong kind of education. No
open and persistent mutiny is to I've toll
Grated in the public schools.
The herald., 1897-11-28

The royalists in Hawaii have split over
the question Of choosing a queen. They
take a deal Of useless trouble. All the
royalists from Hawaii to kingdom come
cannot make a queen for the islands.
Liliuokalani will lose her pension if she
is not careful, while Kaiulani would bet
ter get married and settle down to keep
ing house in a plain republican way.
The herald., 1897-11-28
Useful

'I suppose classical music is all right
in it's place. said Maud.
I'm sure it is, replied Mamie.
81 don't care to listen to it myself, but
sometimes you have got to play it III
order to get man to go home. Wash
inGton Evening Star.
The herald., 1897-11-28

OF all that makes this life so blest,
So cheap. and yet SO rare
The gentle word, the well-earned rest,
That brightens every care.
Remember. then, 'tis simple things
That hold your life apart;
The joy you give contentment brings,
And fingers in the heart.
Give to your life its best intent.
The world your kindliest smile,
And happiness and goodness blent
Shall cheer you yet awhile.
AS, drifting toward the evening star,
You catch the favoring gale,
Blest by loved voices from afar
And hopes that never fail.
JULIA SHELDON HOLMES.
The herald., 1897-11-28

General Alger says: II think that
some of the criticisms that have been
warranted" Bless your unsuspicious
soul, general, the criticisms were not di-
rected at the war department, they were
meant for YOU.
The herald., 1897-11-28

Three hundred and five of the AT
the proportion too large, too small, or
about right? 1t would hardly do to put
the question to a vote of the two houses.
The herald., 1897-11-28

If Weyler had been in his old position
while the insurgents were firing on the
palace at Havana, he would have ca
bled the news of great Spanish victory
TO Madrid. Already General Blanco's
typewriter efficiency is called into ques-
The herald., 1897-11-28

Twenty thousand people saw the great
game of football between the Stanford
and Berkeley teams. The game is GER
tainly as popular in California as it is
in the east, even if it has not attained
the same degree of sanguinary ferocity.
The herald., 1897-11-28

Mr.. Platt blames Mr. Low for the out
come OF the Greater New York election
and Mr.. Low hurls it back at Mr.. Platt.
Strange to say the process seems to af-
ford satisfaction to neither.
The herald., 1897-11-28
Indisputable

IT don't know about the feasibilityof
the single tax" a9
"Why. man, 1t covers the who'll
ground" Journal.
The herald., 1897-11-28

If the members Of the Austrian reichs-
rath would only kill few of themselves
and have done with it, the remainder
might have some excuse for living.
The herald., 1897-11-28
New Inventions Wanted

Duplicate heads-for the people who
close their heads at critical moments.
A stump -puller-for people who sud
denly become "rooted to the spot"
A brace-for the use Of "weak-kneed'
persons in the hour Of danger.
An anchor-for holding people VINO
are frequently transported with de-
light"
A grindstone-for persons who grind
their teeth in a moment Of anger.
Insulators-for the use Of prudish peo-