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The herald., 1898-12-18

In Yesterdays foreign had the statement that
Russia has sold half million obsolete elan rifles China
large price, through the RussoChnese bank The price
given taes per rifle If the rifles any at all
should call them cheap at the price The value of
Chinese tae COS in Shanghai 67.S
Hakwan. That is silver value Reduce gold value
and call ael worth 40 and find that Johnny got
for abo pach
The herald., 1898-12-18

Stad old Massachusetts is stirred the depths
Haverhi will inaugurate avowed Socialist for mayor
January ,. Six members of the municipal legislature
be Socialists This is the first time the Socialists
successful in large this country Haverhi
city population of and valuation
$250O0000 The mayoreect only 2S years old but
friends have great hope that his administration will
olism
The herald., 1898-12-18

The of prohibition meets with grievous backses
Pasadena and Redands vigorous effort has been made
the latter city enforce the prohibition ordinance
amentabe failure is the result conten-
porary The Facts promising prosecution bighted be-
particle of evidence connect
the prisoner with the sale dispensing of liquors and this
after core of business nearly 50 have been dscommod
ed by being forced into venemen, primary
defect in prohibition be its failure to prohibit.
The herald., 1898-12-18

In yesterdays Herald appeared outline of paper
practical Education in the Public Schools, by President
The herald., 1898-12-18

deplorable condition of wickedness in Bernardno is
revealed in connection with the robbery cash the
sum of forty dollars As learn from the report, the loss
fell upon individual who the poker the
of the Reception saloon street. 1t that
time OF the robbery 1.-The crowded. Adspute
there hurry to chip in and wrangle followed in
which the disappeared 1t is painful to learn that such
wckeness exists in with such a reputation San
ernardino has for temperance morality and aaround god
illness.
The herald., 1898-12-18
Political
Exodus

The orange growers Will not get the re-
duction in freight rates that they intend
to ask for, because
Always Ready the railway compan-
to Reduce Rates les take the ground
that such reduction
will not do the producers any good. "The
thing has been tried with wine and beans"
said railway official to me yesterday, 'and
the result was that the middemen simply
sold their wine and beans for the difference
between what they were asking and the re-
duction made to them. 1t would be the
same way in the orange trade. The middle
men would sell the fruit for a quarter or
half cent per pound less, according to the
reduction we made, and it Would not benefit
the growers penny. The railways are
always ready to reduce rates if it will help
the producers, but they feel they might as
well have the money as the mddlemen who
control the trade" That may be good rea-
~oning from general freight agents point
Of view, but the growers will likely enough
think differently. THE GOSSIPER.
The herald., 1898-12-18

There has been clearing out of the prac-
tical politicians for San Francisco. prepar-
The herald., 1898-12-18
He Struck
It Rich

He has an income of probably hundred
thousand a year, and he spends great por-
ton of it doing good. He went into
mine in British Columbia some time ago
and recently sold it for just less than
million. Everything he touches succeeds
and makes money for him, SO that it is only
question of his living long enough to be
one of the millionaires OF the country, with
a reputation for money like the Goulds and
Rockefellers.
The herald., 1898-12-18

Senator R. F. Dell Vale may get thu
building and loan commissionership; thai
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-01
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100000 acres to the irrigated lands of
the state. There remains for develop
ment the enormous desert region of
Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations,
soon to be opened to settlement, and
amply provided with water for reser-
voir storage, the region along the
Grand river, where it is estimated 20O,-
000 acres can be watered from that
one stream, in addition there are thir-
teen reservoir sites surveyed and desig-
mated as such by the government geo
logical survey and now controlled by
the state.
Altogether the activity in the direc-
ton indicated has compensated for the
losses and depression due to the fall in
silver. although it has not affected the
silver sentiment in politics, if recent
elections and expressions of public
opinion may be accepted as Indications.
Chicago Record.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-01
KANSAS QUARANTINE LAW
Upheld by Justice Harlan In the Supreme
Court of the United States

| Upheld by Justice Harlan In the Supreme
Court of the United States.
In the United States Supreme Court
! an opinion was handed down Monday
! by Justice Harlan in the case of the
Missouri, Kansas s, Texas Railway
Company VS.. Charles Haber, affirming
the cOnstitutiOnality and validity of the
state laws Of Kansas prohibiting the
transportation into the state Of cattle
affected with Texas fever and prOvid-
ing for a civil action for damages re
sultiug from an infractiOn of the law.
These laws were attacked on the
ground that they were repugnant to
the constitution Of the United States
and also on the ground that domestic
cattle were sufficiently protected by
federal laws, and by regulations of the
Agricultural Department under the act
establishing the Bureau of Animal In
dustry. Referring to this latter cOnten-
ton Justice Harlan said: THE act
of Congress did not assume to give
any corporation or person the affirma-
tive right TO transport from one state
to another state cattle that were liable
to impart or capable of communicating
contagious of communicable diseases.
1t was also asserted that the local stat
ute was inconsistent with the inter-
state commerce law. On this Justice
Harlan said: '"The statute of Kansas
is not, we think, in the meaning of the
nor any just sense, regu-
lation of the commerce among the 9th
er states. 1t was passed III execution
of a power to protect the people in the
enjoyment of their rights of property
and to provide for the redress Of |
wrongs within its limits"
He also laid down the more general
principle that even if the subject Of |
such regulations made by the state
under this law, be one that may be TAX
en under the exclusive control of Con- |
gress and be reached by national leg
Station, any action taken by the state
hat does directly interfere with rights
secured by the constitution of the Unit
ID States or by some valid act of Con
,ress must be respected until Congress
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-01

The so-called Greek-orthodox popu-
lation of Russia is permeated with
sects of dissenters of all possible de-
nominations. It is estimated that one
third part of that population belongs
in reality to some branch of noncon-
formists. Lutherans, rationalists, sab
batarians, Baptists and Anabaptists are
represented in various ways among
these dissenters, many of whom strive
to return to the principles of primitive
Christianity, or even to still more an
cient forms of society represented in
the old testament. The right of free
Interpretation of the Bible is thus car
ried all over Russia, and there is no
force which could limit it. Every viii
lage has it's own teachers-men ana
women-who interpret the Bible in
their own ways, almost always hostile
to the present state and to the official
church. A powerful religious move
ment is thus growing in Russia. and Il
is also bound to work in a not remote
time as powerful force against au.
tocracy. Outlook.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-01
SUGAR BEET CULTURE.
The Directors of Chamber of Commerce
Issue a List OF Instructions.

The Directors of Chamber of Commerce
Issue List of Instructions.
The directors of the Denver Cham
Der of Commerce, after months of de
bate and consultation of authorities,
has decided upon the following list of
instructions, which will be mailed to
sugar beet growers all over the state:
Seed may be planted as late as June
10Th. The beets will be ready to har-
vest in October.
Break up land twelve inches deep.
Use no dressing of any kind.
Irrigate as soon as planted.
Not over four irrigations should be
given the crop.
Do not irrigate after August Goth,
as from that date the sugar begins to
accumulate in the beet and growing
should stop. Too much water is more
injurious than not water enough.
Plant rows eighteen inches apart.
Thin plants to four, five or six
inches.
Begin thinning and wedding when
plants are two inches above ground.
Use half pound of seed to four rods
of ground.
When beets are harvested call in
three neighbOrs to measure the ground
and weigh the beets and let them al
test by signing their names.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-01
The Lizard Was Too snrr.

While in the country last Sunday th.
editor saw a black snake try to can.
ture a lizard for its dinner The lizard
had the better Of the snake in the con-
test, which took place in a cluster OF
saplings. The lizard would run I'D a
sapling clear to the top and patiently
wait until the snake would slowly wind
its way about half way up the sapling
when the lizard would fling itself from
the tree, both striking the ground about
the same time, but before the snake
could get itself Strengthened out the
lizard, which did not have TO uncoil
would scale up another sapling. when
the snake would repeat its effort 70
procure a dinner. The snake. NOT
being the ready climber the lizard was
was at a great disadvantage in ths
contest, and, after many efforts an.
parently gave it up as a fruitless fob
-Greenup (Ky.) Gazette.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-01

A peculiar disease prevails amone
the cattle of Hall county, Nebraska.
Stockmen of the state are much
alarmed, as the disease is spreading
rapidly. A dozen herds in as many
parts Of this county are infected now.
The federal government has recog-
nized the seriousness of the disease
and has sent veterinarian to Ne
brasl1a. The state officials can do
nothing, as the state has no veteri-
marian. The farmers have termed the
disease "hoof rot" because the hoof
decays rapidly after the animal CON
tracts the disease. Few native cattle
seem subject to the trouble. 1t was
first noticed in Il bunch of Texas cattle
brought to Hall county by George II.
Monroe. About three out Of five ami
mails afflicted die within five DAYS af
ter contracting the plague. Those that
recover rapidly grow new boots and
appear as healthy as ever
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-01
REFUGEES SEEK FOOD.
Floods Drive Thousands from Theiz
Homes in China.

Homes in China.
From the North China Herald:
About 5000 stalwart Kiangpeh refu-
gees, with their women and children,
who have abandoned their villages ow-
ing to the floods and consequent de-
struction of their crops last summer,
have recently poured into Soochow and
! Ch'angchou procedures, penetrating
within the borders at various points
by boat and by land. When this par
ticular army of some 10000 refugees
passed through the territories of Chin
kiang prefecture bound for the north
east the tidings We're at once flashed
across the wires to the high provin-
cial authorities at Soochow, who i'm
mediately sent orders to the numerous
likin barrier stations in Chinkiang and
Yangchou procedures to stop at all
hazards the further progress of these
refugees and force them to remain
where they were and await relief sup
plies from Soochow. But in spite of
all orders for their prevention, even
the troops sent by Governor K'uei
could not stop the invasion Of the ref
ugees into SoochOw or Ch'angchou ter
ritories. They simply overrode the
soldiery, who. being forbidden to use
their firearms, were easily pushed
aside by the mere impetus of the I'M
savory mobs Of ragged men, women
and children, and the mob was soon in
full possession OF the districts of Chin
kuei, belonging to Ch'angchou and
Ch'angshu Of the Soochow procedures,
respectively. It appears that the ref
ugees decided to divide themselves into
two bands in order to relieve the pres
sure, and so as also not to be too Sc
we're a drain upon any one district,
as that would incite the natives to con-
slider the laws Of elf-preservation and
arm themselves en- masse to fight the
refugees, whereas at present it is only
good humored, passive resistance to
the invasion of the Kiangpeh refugees
where pity for their distress is also
felt by the more fortunate jewellers on
the southern banks of the Yangtse. The
refugees appear to follow military
rules in forming an encampment, such
as posting guards, ETC., at various
points. When they arrive at a dis
-rict twO-thirds of the women and chill
dren at once spread themselves over
he fields and pull up by the roots any
hing planted there-at the present
line generally vegetables, beans, etc.
while a strong force of men form a
covering party, armed generally with
,lubs and slaves. The remainder of
he women, children and men in the
meanwhile approach the villages and
beg" for rice or wheat, although in
many cases it is not begging but actual
aking what they can without asking
by your leave" In two hours after
he arrival Of the refugees at a village
hey are able to get rice and vegetables
d libitum and feed themselves to the
Ill. They rarely stay more than for
weight hours at any one place, NOV
lg from village to village and going
/ a northeasterly direction, with the
ltention, they declare, of appealing
ersonally to the governor at Soochow
IT the wherewithal to tide over the
Did weather.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-01

turnips, carrots and potatoes will also
prove acceptable, both raw and cooked
and in moderate quantities may be
proftably fed. Geese are fond of ap-
pies, and when confined in an orchard
will consume the imperfect fruit that
drops from day to day as completely
as sheep or hogs.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-01

An electric plant for the recovery of
the precious metals is being put up at
Bland, New Mexico. Under this sys-
TEN gold, silver and copper are chem.
ically dissolved and subsequently pre-
cipitated by an electric current. 1t is
said that as a result of the process the
gold gathers in one receptacle, the sill
yer in another and the copper in a
third.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-01

Plenty Of light keeps the poultry
house dry. a sunbeam is medicine.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-01
sifted Coal Ashes for the Hens.

In the winter time, when it is i'm
possible to get road dust for the hens.
sifted coal ashes may take their place.
We say nothing about the barrel Of
road dust that may have been pro-
vided from last fall, for we are morally
certain that such barrels are empty and
most of them have always been in that
condition. Give the fowls something
to wash themselves in, for the hen
uses dust in the place of water. She
has no use for water for bathing.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-04-01

Teasing the Teasing of
young animals on the farm should
never be tolerated 1t may be very
funny to see the young things make
use of their tender horns, and stamp
ing of feet. etc, but as they grow
older and learn to know their strength,
they often become vicious, and then
some day in a fit of bad temper they
are liable to injure some member of
the family, or strangers which may
happen to be passing by are very like
ly to be attacked by vicious animals.
Give all animals on the farm kind but
firm treatment. Animals should be
made to both respect and love their
but this cannot be accom-
plished if they are allowed to be
teased.-Farm Journal
Plenty Of light keeps the poultry
house dry. a sunbeam is medicine.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-10-06

81 done reckon des daed, suah," he
said, when the farmer charged him with
killing them.
eff you pay for the chickens, l let
you Co." said the farmer.
81 cayn't pay fo' 'em, sab; de Lo'd
knows cayn't, else wouldn't stoIed
'em in de fust place."
"Set him to saving wood, John,''
couseled the angry housewife.
"He'd run away" said the suspicious
farmer.
'Chain him to a log" said one of the
sons.
Hall objected until he was threatened
with the constable. Then, rather than
be arrested, he agreed to saw wood for
three days. During the day he labors
under the eye of the farmers wife and
at night he is locked in the henhouse
where he can speculate on the sinful
ness of chicken stealing.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-10-06
POETIC JUSTICE

1t has remained for an Illinois farm
er to invent punishment to fit the
crime. TO lock an African chicken -ex-
tractor in an empty henhouse may be
said to be almost inquisitorial refine
ment of cruelty.
John Schintz, Melrose Park farmer,
believes in the law of recompense rath-
er than that of state. That is why a
big negro chained to a log is saving
wood for the farmers kitchen stove.
Early Wednesday morning Schintz
caught Jim Hall, negro, leaving his
henroost with bag full of chickens
and ducks. The whole family turned
out, captured the thief, and locked him
in the building from which he was tax
ing the fowls. In the morning it was
found that Hall had killed number of
the chickens pulling them from the
roOst.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-10-06

A Mario chief who lost $40 through
white storekeeper going through the
bankruptcy court has given the follow
ing lucid exposition of this particular
branch of British jurisprudence: "The
pakeha (white NAM who wants to be-
come pakarapu Gnsolvent goes into
business, and gets lots of goods, and
does not pay for them. He then gets
all the money he can together, say
$4,000, and puts all of it, except e5.
away where no one can find it. With
the e5 he goes to Judge of the court
and tells him he wants to become a
pakarapua. The judge then calls all the
lawyers together, likewise all the men
to whom the pakeha owes money, and
he says: This man is pakarapu, but he
wishes to give you all that he has got,
and so he asked me to divide this e5
among you ALL The Judge thereupon
gave the lawyers "a and the remaining
81 to the other man. Then the pakeha
goes home"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-10-06

1t was a case of aggravated assault,
and a husband appeared before the
bench to answer charge that was pre-
ferred against, him by his wife.
AS is perhaps customary in such in
stances, sympathy generally was on the
side of the woman; and the man, who
was undefended, was, as a matter of
course, having hopelessly bad time.
The witnesses called were positive in
their assertion about the attack which
as they declared, had been made upon
the wife, and they enlarged as oppor-
tunity offered them, upon the extreme
gravity of the offense. But at last
witness made several suspicious pauses
in her evidence, and one of the magis-
trates, an old bachelor, desperately an
tagonistic to the opposite sex, and with
his doubts about the case, leaned over
from his seat and said:
'Do you mean to swear, my good
woman, that at the time of the quarrel
which constitutes the cause of this
action you clearly saw the prisoner
with coal scuttle, making ready to
throw at his wife?"
"Well, sir; not p'rapsexactly" replied
the witness; "but mean to swear that
1 saw the prisoner with the coal scut-
tle."
"Then let us know accurately in
what attitude you really saw the pris-
oner," resumed the relentless justice of
the peace.
"Well, now, sir, since you've asked
I'll tell the truth without word of lie,"
said the woman. "The prisoner was
lying down, with the coal scuttle over
his head, and his wife sitting on the
top of it,
The case was dismissed
Weekly.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-10-06
Terms. Shopper year, in advan, g
Six Months SO cents.

For moment saw the CLEAN of it's
sawn tusk stumps, heard the great
brute breathe, and then-why or where.
fore, is mystery I could never solve
it swung swiftly round and vanished
as spectrally as it had appeared"
'And the lady?" asked a listner, so.
licitously.
"Why, she had only got about fifty
feet away when she dropped to
the earth in a dead faint. When she
came to her senses L and Col. Farley
helped her into my carriage, and, after
congratulating each other on our es-
cape, we continued on our way home.
The next morning we heard that one
of the colonel's elephants had killed it's
keeper the night before, just after dark.
Reno Plaindealer.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-10-06

X
They raise themselves above the mass,
and, in this sickly atmosphere grow up
to become strong men and lovely wom-
en-; and, endowed with noble characters,
firm purposes, and unfinching cour-
age, they go out into the world as lead
ers and living examples to admiring
millions, "fair as the moon, clear as the
sun, terrible as an army with banners -
Such are truly great. The history of
all ages teens with examples of this
class of people,-men who have needed
little for themselves, yet have been i'm
mortaiZed for their services to man.
kind. Consider our Washington. Who
can measure that great man? He nev-
er despaired in the ultimate success of
his undertaking He it was that
brought the long and bloody struggle
of the then infant republic, extending
from Lexington to Yorktown, to
successful termination. He was great
er in misfortune than in success. His
soul, in the hour of darkest gloom,
shone forth from behind the frOWning
clouds with hope and fortitude, and his
prayers were heard at the throne to
which they ascended.
Napoleon, on the other hand, was
great general, genius, but no hero.
He lived for vanity and selfish am
bition, the glory of his victories faded
away like the smoke of his guns.
Alexander is another example of am
bilious men. His desire was to con-
quor the world, not to rule or improve
it. He built an empire upon founda-
ton of vain glory at the expense of
millions of human lives. But behold!
The foundation of this mighty struct-
ture gave way at the death of the build
er, and his whole life-work was but
huge ruin, in mass of unutterable
distress and misery-and we call this
great man.
Those who conquer the world with
the sword are not necessarily great.
10 be an emperor or general is not to
be great. Zoroaster, Aristotle. Luther
and others were thinkers, not emperors,
yet they were both great and famous.
Generals and statesmen are celebrated
and immortalized by writer's in song
and story; to the latter we owe the
memory of their val0r and virtues.
'I'll make thee famous by my pen
And glorious by my sword.
The real worth of man is measured
by his traits of character. Love of the
noble and beautiful, whether found in
the heart that beats beneath the gold
embroided robe of the emperor or un-
der the soiled rags of the pauper indi-
Gates worth of character and beauty of
soul. High aspirations, noble, unselfsh
purposes, pure beautiful thoughts, a
heart full of love for the true and beau
tlful, desire to do right for its own
sake and for the betterment of human
ity, all these combined must be taken
as the standard for the measure of man.
''Were so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span.
must be measured by my soul;
The minds the standard of the man."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-10-06

Harry and Ethel, twins, aged 5, re-
side in Cincinnati, and are descendants
of soldiers grandfather. During the
recent Grand Army encampment held
there banner with the letters e. A. r.
was displayed on the house opposite
their home.
II wonder what those letters stand
for ?" asked Ethel.
"Why," replied Harry, "it means that
gran'pa's all right Philadelphia In
quirer.