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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25
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and il is said the reason was the applica-
ton for its return 10 its former owners.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25

Thomas c. lie Valley, the first of the
New York naval reserves to die in the
war, was the descendant of Huguenot
family that in this country sent sons to
the revolutionary, Mexican and civil wars
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

The war campaigns are likely to
prove to be extensive schools of cook
cry. Every private soldier is sup
posed to learn the rudiments of cook
cry. Of course, the style is hardly
that of Delmonico, nor is it practi-
cable for the campaigner to carry
library of cook books in his knapsack.
One effect of the war will probably be
to train the men at the front to eat al
most anything. And when they come
back, there may be as result less
criticism of the wife's cooking in fa-
vor of the mothers. There is moth
ing like season of adversity or hard
ship for knocking the critical nonsense
out Of man.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Transparent leather is made In
France.
There are 10000 camels at work in
Australia.
Savages, on the whole, live longer
than civilized people.
AS rulA mans hair turns gray
five years sooner than woman's.
The most wonderful bridge in the
world is one of solid agate in Arizona.
A pen carrying small electric lamp
to prevent shadows when writing has
been patented in Germany.
1t is estimated that since the begin
ming of the historical era l3, 900, 900
persons have perished in earthquakes.
The Tartars have quaint custom
of taking guest by the ear when in
viting him to eat or drink with them.
Under the laws of China the man
who loses his temper in discussion
is sent to Jail for five days to cool
down.
Chileans never enter or leave q
coach, street car or other public vehi-
Gle without bowing to all its occu-
pants.
Ornithologists have discovered that
crows have no less than twenty-seven
cries, each distinctly referable to a
different action.
The nests of the termites, or white
ant, are, proportioned to the size and
weight of the builders, the greatest
structures in the world.
In Sweden there are floating can
neries. They are small vessels, which
follow fishing fleets, and men on them
can the fish while they are fresh.
1t was once customary in France
when q guest had remained too long
for the host to serve cold shoulder
of mutton instead of hot roast. This
was the origin of the phrase ''to give
the cold shoulder. .
Cats can swim if they only care to
exert themselves sufficiently. The
ancient Egyptians used to fish with
th I'm on the Nile, according to the
representations on walls and so forth
that have come down to us.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

So, having surrendered, he was cast
loose and carried to hut, where he
| lay for week between life and death;
and when three weeks had passed he
came again upon parade, hollow
checked, sunken-eyed wreck, hardly
able to stand.
Next day some of the soldiers went,
as was their daily custom, to bathe in
the river, and while there they were sur
prised by body of Mandingoes, who
killed ten or twelve of them before
help could arrive. There was a fort
just outside the village, and the gar
rison, 20 in all, had rushed ont to the
rescue; but they, tod, were SO far out
numbered that they could only show a
bold front and retreat to their fortress
with the rescued men in their midst
By the time they had reached their
mud fort they were almost surrounded
by ferocious horde, mad with the
lust for blood, and only one person at
time could pass in through the small
door to safety. The fort was pierced
for musketry above the line of the
door, and those who were within fired
down into the black crowd, keeping
them somewhat at bay.
Still the enemy fired and advanced,
and Frenchmen fell dead and wound
ed, aud those who were able to stand
struggled among themselves to gain
access, until at last the inevitable re-
suit arrived, and the door was blocked.
Gaspard never looked at the door,
but faced the foe with calm and res
olute courage that moved the sergeant,
who was near him, to admiration, so
that he cried out words of encourage
ment to him. Every time the foe
made rush he pointed his rife, and
they fell back before the determined
looking soldier and fired sat him in
stead. They were bad enough shots,
those dark-skinned warriors, aud yet
Gaspard was bleeding from half
dozen wounds when the sergeant
shouted to him, you've done your
share, mon brave! Run in.
Gaspard would not move, but stood
there few PAGES in front Of the door
through which the last of his comrades
were retreating until only he and the
sergeant were left.
"Now, Private Meudon, I'll cover
you," cried the sergeant
II wait for you, sergeant, and the
sergeant, seeing how determined he
was, made rush and got through the
door in safety.
Then Gaspard turned his head
toward the door, but in that moment
the enemy rushed in upon him with
yells of triumph, and he was lost to
sight; only struggling mass of black
warriors was to be seen. hacking and
hewing at something in their midst.
Just an hour later reinforcements
came from the village, and the Man
dingoes were driven away with heavy
loss, and then they found what was
Gaspard.
The sergeant took up rife from
the clinched hand of dead native; he
knew it had belonged to Gaspard, and
he looked into the barrel. It was
bright and had not been fired. The
sergeant unused for moment.
''Ah! the poor Ga pard Meudon,"
he said; she was an imbecile, look
you, but he was also man and
brave man!''
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

In the Franco Prussian war France
lost as many as 1876, 900 men, of whom
some 80, 600 died of wounds received
in battle, SO, 900 by sickness, accident,
suicide, ETC., and about 20, 600 in Ger
man prisons. A French statistician
estimates that his countrymen who
were wounded, but who survived,
numbered 1873, 200, those injured on
the march or by accident II, 421, those
who recovered from illness 32S, 900,
making total of ATT, 421 direct suffer-
ers. The German killed numbered
4O,S77; 1926 died on the field and
81, 023 in the ambulances, making 79,-
155 in all. The wounded who sur
vived numbered 1s, 543 men. From
first to last the German field artillery
fred $40, 600 shots and the infantry
20, 100000. The booty of war con-
sisted of 5526 fortress guns, 1915 field
guns and rapid firing cannon, 1O7 ca
giles and flags and S55, 900 rifles, ex-
elusive of what was captured at leis-
ure on abandoned fields.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04
Naval experts are not going to Sc

Naval experts are not going to see
so many disputed questions settled in
the "Yanko-Spanko" war as they
hoped. What modern ships can do
against modern forts, how great role
destroyers will play in naval battles,
will still be debated after all the light
that can be had from the experience
of the present war. 1t is the person
al equation which vitiates the con-
clusions. Spanish gunnery has been
SO bad that it has done little to de-
termine the power of forts to resist
ironclads. Spanish mechanical skill
has been so poor that the Ineffective
ness of torpedoboat destroyers in
Spanish hands proves little or moth
ing.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

A San Francisco newspaper makes
careful estimate of the wealth of
state forest reserves in Bavaria. It
says that at three per cent. interest
rate the net income from them makes
them worth $3.50, 900, 600, OF 500 an
acre, while the land without wood
would not be worth SO. These fig
ares it makes the base of an appeal
for the care and preservation of Amer
lean forests. This is q good way to
go to work in good cause, particu-
larly in the states where vandalism
against trees has been rampant.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

Exports of American corn for the
year ending with June amounted to
more than 200, 100000 bushels, for
which the farmers have received up
ward of $50, 100000. Sixty per cent.
of this grain has been taken by Eng
land and Germany, the latter having
already purchased more than 30,0OO,-
900 bushels, as against less than 1,000,-
900 bushels in 1883. 1he develop
ment of the European demand for
American corn discloses one of the
most promising markets now opening
to the farmers of this country, and
one from which they may confidently
expect steadily increasing profit on
the products of their industry.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

A statistician has recently pub
lished in Paris, France, what purports
to be horse census, and some of his
figures just at this time, when the
government is buying horses, are in
teresting. According to this expert,
Russia leads the world in the number
of horses. Her total is placed at 22,-
900, 900 head, and the United States
comes second with $4,000, 900 head.
The Argentine Republic is third, and
Austro- Hungary and the German En-
pire are tied for fourth place, with
$500, 600 each. France is credited with
1850, 900, and the United Kingdom
with 2,790, 900. This expert says that
England and France have the most
valuable horses, with the United
States and Canada ranking next.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04
Bull-Fighting in France.

Bull fights are now becoming popu-
lar in the north and west, as we'll as
in the south of France. At Alencon,
in the Orne, 1000 people assembled in
order to witness real fight on Span
ish lines between toros and toreadors.
Robert, burly bull-fighter from the
south, was practically crowned with
laurels after he had despatched two
animals by his sword in what was con-
sidered a mastery manner. The po-
lice summoned the organizers of the
show and the toreador. Another fight
was to take place on the following
Sunday, but the prefect of the depart
ment declined to be present at the
spectacle. London Telegraph.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

1t is estimated that the steam pow
er of Great Britain is equal to the
united strength of 1000, 900, 900 men.
The number Of persons employed in
her coal mines is but 200, 900, and Of
these fully two-thirds dig coal for
other uses than for engines, leaving
&c, 666 men to mine the coal necessary
to do the work of 1000, 900, 900. The
engines are made by 10000 men, so
that 1875, 666 men furnish the means
of doing the work of 1000, 600, 900
the strength of each being thus multi
piled nearly 5000 times. This gives
to each man, woman and child of pop
ulation of 30, 900, 900 some thirty will.
ing slaves, born fully grown, exempt
from sickness, needing no clothes,
eating only fire and water, and costing
merely the work of one man in 5000.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

The Austrian government has en-
larged the boundaries of Vienna to
such an extent that the metropolitan
area is now half as large as London,
twice as large as Paris and three times
larger than Berlin.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

What would "Ben'' Franklin, our
first postmaster general, think if he
were to see how our postal service is
making war record nowadays With
special offices in every army camp,
one at Manila, six or eight thousand
miles away, and another with the army
in Santiago de Cuba, all postal records
bid fair to be broken.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

''The Rough Riders battle" says
despatch from the front, sis the
only occasion in which untried volun-
teers ever fought as well as regulars. :"
In the first place, it would be hard to
find an 'untried volunteer" in these
United States, comments the New
York World. We are in business as
a nation chiefly to teach men to think
and act intelligently and courageously,
and to be in all circumstances self-re-
liant and self-respecting. And when
the circumstances are war and battle,
results of GOODNESS and courage are as
natural as leaves on a tree. In the
second place, it is one of the COM
monplaces of our history that our raw
recruits-which is truer phrase than
"untried volunteers" - behave like
regulars. AS far back as Braddock's 8
campaign, when Washington with
Virginia recruits covered the route of
British regulars, or as the Revolution
ary days, when the ''embattled farm
ers'' whipped and chased British reg
ulars, or as the battle of New Orleans,
when Jackson's militia and woodsmen
did the same trick, OF as late as the
fight in the brush near Sevilla, the
American citizen has again and again
proved that democratic training
makes as good soldiers as citizens
that is to say, makes menl
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

In mineral wealth Cuba is capable
of taking high rank. Gold and silver
have not been found in paying guam
titles. Copper was mined at Cobre
by the natives before Columbus dis
covered the island, and there is strong
proof that native copper was carried
across to Florida and used by the
florida Indians hundreds of years
ago. The mound builders of that
state buried with their dead copper
ornaments and utensils hammered
from native copper, which always has
an admixture of more or less foreign
matter. AS no copper ore is found in
Florida, or in that portion of the
United States, and, as that found in
the United States or in Mexico does
not correspond chemically with that
buried in the mounds, it occurred to
Professor r. H. Sanders, of the Acad-
emy of Natural Sciences, in Philadel-
phia, that it was possible that these
mound builders had water communi-
cation with Cuba. In the early part
of the present century some English
capitalists purchased these mines in
Cuba, which are nine miles from San
tiago. From 1928 to 1910 an average
of from 50, 900, 600 to So. 600, 600 worth
of copper ore was shipped annually to
the United States from these mines.
How much was shipped elsewhere is
not known. Large quantities of cop
per still remain unmined in this To-
cality.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04
Notes About the Crusade.

Encourage the boys in the total absti-
nence ranks.
Is not the desire for unearned felicity the
secret Of much of the craze for alcoholic
stimulants?
A total abstainsr is good. A total abstf-
aence society Is better. Little is gained
without organization.
During the summer vacation the neces-
sity of guarding against the use of intoxi-
eating drinks is greater than ever.
Fifty or a hundred men united in the
cause OF temperance can certainly do much
more good than II they tried to work SIM
ply as Individuals.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

1t is said that big trade in Ameri-
can bicycles will soon be opened up
in China. An American bicycle which
sells for 500 here brings 1925 in Chi
nese silver. AS the average China
man makes from 20 to 25 cents a day
it would be interesting to know how
long it will take him to save enough
money to buy bicycle.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

Since the Declaration of IndepeEd-
ence the United States has had six
wars, not counting the little differ
ences with the Indians. These were
the war of the revolution, the war Of
1872, the war with the Barbary states,
the Mexican war and the civil war.
The war with Spain makes the sixth.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

During last year the United States
furnished over one-half of the inn
ports Of our sister republic, while
England and France had one-sixth
and one-ffth respectively; Germany
one-tenth, while degenerate Spain only
had about one-fourteenth.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04
why Turkish soldiers are Effective.

Major-General Nelson A. Miles, in Me-
Clures Magazine, writing of the Turkish
army, says: What l saw of the Turkish
soldiers in Constantinople convinced me
that they are among the most effective in
the world. There are many reasons fol-
this fact. They are all Moslems,
and their religion has three elements
which contribute largely to their soldier
ly qualities. 1t enforces simplicity
Of life and strict temperance
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04
Two Points of View.

In the course of a conversation between
two workingmen's wives, one happened to
remark that her husband always put on a
clean white shirt on Sunday morning.
The other replied: swell, never care so
much about Sundays; but always see that
he has clean shirt every Saturday after
noon, because that's the time he generally
drinks, and IL he should take off his coat
to fight / like him to look clean and de-
cent."-Scottish Reformer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

The flag factories of the United
States find it impossible to keep up
with their orders. This evidence of
accentuated patriotism cannot be very
encouraging to Spain.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04
Intemperate Women.

One of the most pitiful and ruinous
phases of the alcoholic wave that has been
passing over Greenock and Port Glasgow
for some months, says the Greenock Tele.
graph. is the over-indulgence OF women in
strong drink. In this year of plentiful
work and high wages men spend far too
much of their earnings in drink. But they
work, less or more and the great majority
OF them keep their wives and families we'll
1t is when the mother and child-rearer OF
the house gives way to dissipation that
misery, wretchedness, and not infrequently
crime, wreck what otherwise might be
happy homes. There are men in Greenock
and Port-Glasgow making two, and in
many eases three, pounds week, whose
families are about as needy the day before
the pay as if the parents were paupers in
Smithston. Too often the reason is the
feminine drink crave. Many Q married
woman, instead of keeping her fireside
bright and attractive for her husband and
tending his children. setting the latter an
example in sobriety and industry, idles the
time gossipping and dramming-aye, and
pawning-while the father and husband Is
working. How true it is that many work
ingmen are just what their wives make
them. The man who has good wife and
family to be proud Of will hardly ever
descend to the lowest depths. But when
woman goes wrong she is grief to her
husband, misfortune to her family; and
a nuisance to the public.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04
Temperance wins British victory.

An English paper claims the battle of At
bara as great victory for temperance as
we'll as for the English arms. Sir Herbert
Kitchener, at the commencement of the ad-
vance, sent back all the beer that had been
ordered to the front. As a result of this
policy, and OF the excellent discipline main
famed, the health Of the army was superb,
and the wounded are now rapidly recover
In
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

There are pages in memory's volume
Written In tears and sighs,
That gladly we'd fold together,
Way from our aching eyes.
There are pages where blissful moments
Made life seem all completes;
But the lines are dashed with sadness
The bitter mixed with the sweet.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04
m MEMoRY's BOOK.

Fain would we pass them quickly
These records of other years
Seeking some fairer writing,
Undimmed by regretful tears.
But ever the book flies open,
And Memory points again
To scenes we may never Danish,
Though fraugat with bitterest pain.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

At this distance it looks as though
Spain is suffering from q serious inn
pediment IL her pocketbook.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04

In China the expansion Of Imports
of American goods has been over 125
per cent in the past ten years.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-18

passengers by way of Napa Junction, having a haul of 150 miles with three transfers for $1 9.
 The chairman added that MT. Judah had called upon him shortly after having received that letter and told him that owing to the absence of MT. Stubbs an immediate answer could not be framed, but that if there was delay until the early part of this week an answer would be sent. The chairman was of the opin- ion that the company would give a rate of $1 or better
 The committee was complimented on it's diplomacy. and it was suggested that the committee should in the meantime ascertain what arrangements could be made with other companies, should it be decided to hold a barbecue and clambake instead of going to San Jose.
 J. L. Fassett of San Jose stated that if the celebration takes place in. San Jose the Native Sons would be received with as cordial a welcome as they were in 1894, and that an effort would be made stay in their midst even more pleasant than 1t was on the occasion of the pre- Vious visit.
 The committee, after adding to it's membership delegates from Athens, Piedmont, Halcyon and Brooklyn parlors, of Alameda County, adjourned to meet next Friday night to hear the report of the transportation committee.
 On Saturday night the delegates to the Grand Parlor that will meet in Nevada City on the 18th inst. will be the guests ance with an old established custom, pro- vide an ante-Grand Parlor high jinks. A fine programme has been prepared for the occasion.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-18

in Coloma hall in the N. s. building on Saturday night, the committee on trans portation, consisting of w. H. Hazell, D, c. Martin and L. F. Byington, announced through Chairman Hazell that it had called on the officers of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to obtain a rate for excursionists who might wish to go to San Jose on Admission day, should the Native Sons during the session of the Grand Parlor in Nevada City decide to hold the annual celebration in the Garden City. That the reply was that the low est rate the company could fix was s1 25 for the first 5000 tickets sold and s1 10 for each ticket sold over and above that number.
 The chairman read a letter the com mittee framed and sent to the company. This set forth that the Native Sons were diScriminated against, as the company was carrying eXcurSionistS as low as 65 cents for the round trip, and that the guarantee was not over 300 eXcursonists, while the Native Sons would have at 1 least 1000 people from San Francisco. Oakland and Alameda The letter also set forth that the haul from the point named was easy, being short flfty-four miles and without transfer, and reminded
 the company that last year, when the Native Sons patroniZed another line to Santa Rosa, the Southern Pacific. of it's own volition, offered to, and did carry