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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-11

DRIED MEN WILL EAFItt1 WITH
IN THREE AND A HALF MONTHS,
AND THEY CANNOT, UNDER TILE
LAW. BE RE ENIISTED-NEAR
HALF THE SHIPS NOW IN COM.
MISSION WILL HAVE 10 BE RES
TIRED FROM ACTIVE SERVICE
FOR WANT OF CREWS.
Washington. December 10.--Admiral
Dewey's fleet will be strengthened
shortly by the addition of some SER
vieeable gunboats. The Bennington,
now at Honolulu. has been ordered ia
proceed to Guam in the Ladronc group,
and make survey of the harbor with
view to the establishment thereof Z
naval station. This done she will Join
Dewey's feet By that time or befon
the Helena Will have arrived ut ManilAz
and the Concord and the Petrol, now
cruising around in Chinese waters, will
have returned and altogether the ada
mfral will have sufficient force Of
small vessels under his command to
carry out the Presidents policy re-
specting the Philippines. and to bring
into submission any Spanish prisoner
held in confinement by the insurgents.
The navy department is now convinced
that it will not be practicable to carry
out project 1t had entertained at one
time looking TO considerable reduce
ton of the United States naval force
on the Asiatic station and has settled
tssswn to the conviction that the fleet
must rather be considerably reinforced
if the attempt is to be made to main
tain law and order in the 1900 Phil
ippine islands and still AFFORD proper
protection to the important interests OF
the United States along the great ASH
attic coast line.
The combined naval forces Of Great
Britain and the United States in these
waters win largely exceed those OF any
two other nations In that quarter Tho
necessity for maintaining a strong
force in the East has brought the navy
face to face with grave condition.
Under the law passed to meet the
needs of war the terms of enlistmefV
of about 1900 sailors will expire ilr
three and half months, and the de-
partment is forbidden to re-enlist
them. The immediate result Will be
that nearly half the ships in commits
sion will have to be retired from ac-
tive service for want of crews. Even
at present two naval vessels, the Phil
adelphia and the Yorktown. are chars-
ed with the impossible task OF patrol
ling the whole east coast line OF the
Pacific from Boring Straits to Cape
Horn. Hawaii is suded in their
been made to (e-vavys - -
pror,,iasnt s,,ss 4sss into
to the re-establishment
Atlantic station as ft,Ta
war on the ground thai
States interests are jeopai
present hiatus, but the N
ment finds itself unable to
less Congress enacts the 1es01Nl1uS
urgently requested by Secretary Long
and by Assistant Secretary Allen for
general reformation and strengthening
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-11
Special to the Registe

Special 70 the ReglsteT.
Fairmont, w. Va, December 10
Ward, the supposed murdered of Luth-
er Wiseman, came here and boarded
freight train and was seen on it y
Downs Station. At Warrington the
car was searched and no trace could be
found of him.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-11

w-ASETrNyTOS. D. C.. December To-
For west virginia Western Pennsylvania
ara Oflio-Falr. not 50 cold; southwest
gales, diminishing.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-11
WILLIAM BLACK DEAD.

LONDON, December fo.-The death II
announced OF William Black, the novelist.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-11

Mr.. G. schnepf. the Opera House Drug
>4ss made the following observations Of
TIE senp4rats1re yesterday: 4 m. IS. >
4 m, III IL m. -. . ,. M. -. ,. m, =.
Weather fair.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-11
PARDON GRANTED
BY Governor Atkinson to Aaron Queen
Convicted of Robbery.

Special to the Register.
Charleston, W. Va, December TO-
Governor Atkinson has granted par
don to Aaron Green, who was convicted
in the Circuit Court of Wayne county
of robbery, and at the May term, 1898,
was sentenced to two years confine-
ment in the penitentiary.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-11
HAS MORE SHIPS Than MEN.
Affairs of the Navy Department Ser
iOusly Complicated.

THE TERMS OF ENLISTMENT or
SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUN.
DRIED MEN WILL. EXPIRE WITH
IN THREE AND A HALF MONTHS,
AND THEY CANNOT, UNDER THE
LAW, BE RE ENIISTED-NEAR
HALF THE SHIPS NOW IN CosT>
MISSION WILL HAVE 10 BE RIS
TIRED FROM ACTIVE SERVICE
FOR WANT OF CREWS.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-11

less Congress enacts the IesAeSl1rs'
urgently requested by Secretary Long
and by Assistant Secretary Allen for =
general reformation and strengthening
of the personnel of the navy.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-11

Il advertlaing - ~
pense I CsrtAinly not.
It = : buslness Invest
znent, yielding = PROFIT
big or little. according
to your skill sad judg-
,nent In investing your
money. Tho REGISTER
has no rivals ~ an adj
vertising medium.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-04-08
ESTABLISHED 1869.
E. M. MILLER, Paying Teller.
w. III. BIGELow, Receiving Teller

MONEY TO LOAN AT 6 PER CENT, inter
accept payments on the principle ut or within
SO days of any interestp period; will loan in sums
of $500 to 81 500 on improved farms In Shla-
perty in the city of Owosso, Getty property
must be producing an income). On farm pro.
perty or city property we loan net exceeding AZ
per cent. of actual value. Abstracts OF Tltle
and Fire Insurance required
Drafts drawn on all parts of the world.
Interest Paid on Time Deposits
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-04-08
THE OWOSSO TIMES.

Entered at the Postoffice IN Owosso for
transmission as second-class matter.
Published every Friday noon.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-04-08
Landreth'S
Garden Seeds !!
EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.

They are the most reliable.
No old seeds kept over.
Everything unsold at the
end of the season is de-
stroyed. Every paper of
these seeds is stamped 1898.
We have all kinds in bulk,
several varieties of sweet
peas and all kinds of flower
seeds. We have a few of
these Catalogues left, ask
for one of them.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
The WASH Took in the show.

Cleveland Plain Dealer; lone of the most
comical experiences in the history OF tha
stage" said a local manager the other day,
''befell the Tom Keene company not long ago
in q Northern New York town. The company
was playing Julius Caesar and at the last
moment it found that the property man
had failed to send up the regular throne chaiI
used in the senate scene, and an old rustic
chair was hastily procured from the loft of the
theater, and after being covered with drapings
pressed into service. In the midst OF tne
a large wasp's nest was discovered att
tached to the chair and its Inhabitants becom-
ing indignant at the disturbance they had sur
fered, began to swarm about the stage seeking
revenge upon the Romans in their low-neckeq
and short-sleeved dresses The wasps seemed
to be particularly offend with Caesar, and II
Is doubtful II Caesars death scene was ever
acted with more feeling, for at the moment
he was being pierced by the consprators' dag
gers the wasps were most Industrious In theiI
work.
tps. might almost have doubted its being
dress, but the face no longer the same. In
the last act Brutus had one eye closed. Antony
a swollen lip, Cassius an enlarged chin, Lucius
an inequality in the size of his hands. and
Octavius Caesar a nose that would have done
service as the famous nose of Bardolf In Hen
ry w.
The tragedy came very near becoming q
roaring comedy. when Mr. Ksene, Cassius
said, Antony the posture of blows is YET
unknown, but for yonr woris they rob the
Hybla bees and leave them honeyIess' and MI.
Hanford. as Antony, epl.ed, Not stingless'
too" e 30
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
WHY BURNS Is HoNORED.


In IdeaItyiug the Poet the Scotch
GIorify Their own Traits.
Des Moines Leader: 1t is said that
Scotchmen are fond of clarifying Burns
because, in so doing, they are glorifyins
their own traits. In larger sense 'he
common people everywhere may say .na..
in honoring Burns, they are honoring
themselves. He is one poet who was or
for and by the people. He preserved the
hopes the experiences, the troubles, the
weaknesses, the alleviations of the count
less multitude born to struggle and to
mourn.
1t is not that Burns was plowman
and that the record of his life accords
with the short and simple one of the poor.
Other poets have also been born among
the people. 1t Is not that he sang OF
homely things and homely ways, for since
the dawn of time to other poets these
have been favorite themes. 1t is not
that his verses are in the language OF
the common people, filled with their wit
and their sentiment; for since Dante no
great poet has used a medium of ex-
preston other this his vernacular. While
Burns had all these qualities, he added
another which constitutes his chief claim
upon the attention of posterity, and
which has made him beloved beyond any
son of Parnassus. Other poets saw rural
and common life and idealized 1t. But
-
herdesses creatures of elegant fancy ever
playing upon the lutte and dancing upon
the sward, SO Goldsmith, Wordsworth
and others have made rural life idyllic
and false. And, at the other extreme,
rural common life has been made british
and ugly.
Burns celebrated it, not as he wished II
to be, or as surface glance might show
1t to be, but as 1t was. He pierced to the
heart of 1t and showed that notwithstand-
ing it's tolls and deprivations. notwith-
standing it's hardships and Its rounds OF
petty and monotonous duties common life
as he knew 1t had its real alleviations
and its joys, had its grandeur and its
heroisms, and that while it had its sor-
rows it also had its consultations.
Burns Is acknowledged to be one of the
great poets. He does not appeal to men
of the world and those of varied expe-
riences in life as does Shakespeare; hi
does not reach intellectual religionists al
does Milton: he does not win the contem
plative as does Gray; he Ia not poei
of the ungoverned senses as is Byron
| He reached not the sublime heights o.
| Wordsworth or love and observe physica
nature as did Shelley, he is not instinct
| with the half doubt. half faith of the
| present century like Tennyson; he doe,
| not appeal to the awesome and mystica
| in mans nature as our Poe. But as tn,
] poet of the nobler and truer side of com
mon life, of the better ambitions an(
| emotions which stir the masses. as thu
| delineator of the true inner self Of tn,
| average man, whether of city or country
| Burns has never had an equal.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
IRISH DISCOVERED AMERICA.
Honor Claimed for st. Brendan, Whe
Mnde His Visit Here In SHS

Made His visit Here In 6bS.
Columbus did not discover America
nor can the Scandinavians claim the dis
tinction for Left Erickson. An Irishman
was the first European to visit the new
world, and his visit was made in the
sixth century, long before the dates as
cribed to the rival claimants for the
honor. This new honor for Erin is de-
manded for st. Brendan by Rev. Robert
McLarney, canon of Clonfert. Protestant
Episcopal cathedral, Bonagher, ireland.
He has written a circular in which the
evidence in support of his theory is sum-
married. and this circular he is distribut-
ing broadcast in America, using it as the
basis of an appeal for contributions to
fund for the restoration of the cathedral.
II claim" says Canon McLarney,
that st. Brendan, the founder of my
church. Clonfert cathedral, County Gal
way, Ireland, in the year 55S. not only
colonized America 900 years before Co
lumbus was born, but evangelical a por-
ton of that country at the time. I am
supported in this statement by no less a
parsonage than the bishop of Iowa, and
also by the late Rev. DIR. Haughton
senior fellow of Trinity college, Dublin,
and by many others. ST. Brendan, the
Navigator as he was called, is buried
in my church. When he was dying at
Annaghdown, near Galway. one of his
| last requests was Bury me in my dear
city of Clonfert.' His wish was granted.
| He was buried in the place of honor-in
| the chancel of the cathedral.
1.-THE cathedral of Clonfert has existed
| as a place of worship for 1,340 years.
1t has suffered many vicissitudes during
| that long period. Six times it was burned
between the eighth and eleventh centu-
ries. These depredations were not all
committed by the heather Danes-who
frequently sailed ND the river Shannon
from Limerick and attacked the cathedral
--but at times by the Irish themselves
When an Irish chieftain on one side OF
the Shannon had a quarrel with an Irish
chieftain on the other side of the Shan
non he tried to settle the dispute by i'm
mediately crossing the river and batter
ing down Clonfert. 1t is wonderful thai
anything ancient has remained, so re
peatedly has Clonfert been burned plum
dered or destroyed.
Cionfert cathedral is celebrated for 1t.
magnificent doorway, one of the fines
specimens of Hiberno- Romanesque archi
lecture in existence. 1t dates from tn
year 1166. 1t is also celebrated for it's cas-
window, nearly q thousand Years old
Speaking of the doorway a recent write
says: THE ornamentation resembles tn
intricate and delicate minutiae of the Iris
masterpieces in illumination rather thai
any other fabric of stone Clonfert wa
at one time a city and celebrated for 1t
schools. 1t is now not even a village. Il
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, before Trim
ity college. Dublin was founded it wa
proposed to found the University of Clon
fert In the year 1875, when Roderi
O'Connor king of Ireland, carried on hi
negotiations with Henry II. of England
the abbot of Clonfert was one of tn
ambassadors sent by him to Windsor.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
Good for Jim.

Jim Hamlin, editor of the sterling Blue
Earth City Post, himself gallant OLD
soldier, gets back at the pension-haters in
good shape Jim remarks: 1--WE are aware
that there is a new sort of patriotism
that is known as anti-pension sentiment.
This is q patriotism that is invincible in
time of peace, and invisible In time OF
war. 1t is the worthy heir of the old
stay-at-home, neutrality-suspicious. party
of thirty-five years ago. They are anx-
iously waiting for the last veteran to an
swer the last summons. Now, we gener-
ally try to accommodate our felloW-oe-
ings while journeying through this world
Of pension-haters and delinquent SUD-
scribers, but as an old soldier and Pen
sioner the editor of the Post blankly To-
fused to get off the earth just to accom-
modate pension-haters. The boys are
passing away now at the rate Of 100 per
day, and every year adds largely to me
mortality, but we propose to stay here
lust as long as we see anybody else
breathe, and every three months hirt our
pension money in the face of our sham
patriots, a meaner class of men Than ever
faced us in war. OF course no country
newspaper man needs this beggarly stt'
pend; he only takes it to aggravate MS
enemies-not his enemies of 1881 D. nut OF
1919
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
The MiIk i'm the Coaconut.


National Tribune: We asserted last week
that the New York Sun, which is the organ
Of the New York capitalists, corporations,
syndicates and monopolies, was animated
In It's raid on the pensioners by the VEN
omous greed of those classes for the con-
troll of the money of the country, and
their antipathy to seeing so great sum
as $40, 100000 year of the peoples
money kept in constant free circulation
among the people
It develops that large block of the
Suns stock II not indeed, controlling
interest, is in the hands of the noted j.
Pierpont Morgan, the man who engi-
neered through the IDEAL with President
Cleveland by which the national debt
was increased millions of dollars, and
his syndicate enriched tens Of millions
of dollars by getting United States bonds
at S1.04 and $1.05, which were really
worth in the market from 81, 16 upward.
No one was ever able to figure out Just
how much ]. Pierpont Morgan and his
crowd made out of the deal with the pres
ident and secretary but 1t 10 regarded
by financiers all over the world as one OF
the Every smartest deals made by any
CLIQUE of financiers with government
In long period of years Morgan's nnah-
cial reputation was greatly enhanced by
his shrewd management of the trade.
There was a good deal of talk of i'm
peaching President Cleveland and Secre-
tary Carlisle for permitting the treasury
to be looted by gang of New YORK
money-lenders, but congress was too
subservient at that time to the stuned
prophet" to allow any of his acts to be
seriously questioned.
1t would rebound greatly to ]. Pierpont
Morgan's fame and swell his plethorlc
golfers If he could again work just such
q grapevine twist on the treasury as ne
got few years ago. The main obstacle
to it is that pensions keep up too free a
flow Of money through the hands OF the
| whole people.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
Temperance Points.

At Eau Claire, Wis, recently man
signed the pledge for the first time on his
one hundredth birthday.
The St Petersburg (Russia) Zeitung
says: ''The race which proves unwilling
to be free from alcohol will be mercilessly
trodden under foot"
Mr. Ingtrsolls argument that II our
rivers ran free whisky there would be no
more drunkenness than now, is sustained
by the curious fact that bartenders are
almost invariably either teetotalers or
very light drinkers. Familiarity with
whisky-drinking breeds contempt for 1t.
A West Philadelphian, who has been
patronizing chirpy Germans saloon on
Lancaster avenue for a number OF years,
dropped in the other morning, as usual
The host was leaning up against the bar
looking as cherries as tombstone
Hello Fritz said the visitor, whats
the matter with you?" ''Ah, mein trent. :"
replied the saloonkeeper, with sad shake
of the head 81 never knowed vat vas mis-
fortune yet alretty till now. Dis morning
my wife had twins, and 1 vas refused my
license"
They drank their whisky and beer,
To Bacchus they Bonded the knee,
And often they said with a sneer,
"a lemonade drinker is he"
He never would with them go "round."
He left them to frolic at will:
They're all of them under the ground
He's drinking his lemonade still.
1t is we'll known, says writer in the
Westminster Review, that during the sew
eral expeditions toward the North Pole
those men who abstained from alcohol
bore the extreme cold with less suffering
or Inconvenience than was experienced
by those who took 1t.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
Her Full Name.

New Orleans Times-Democrat: That negro
folks have ford taste in nomenclature Is
well known. The finer the name, the more
certain the dusky mother Is of bestowing 1t on
her offspring. Nancy and Betsy have had their
day, and in their stead appear Lillian, Gladys,
stella and Mabel. However. 1t sometimes hap
pens that the owner of an uncommon name u
not pleased to be thus singled out from the
yulger herd of Johns and James. An uptown
housekeeper has a washerwoman with the queer
Christian name of Damsel. and II once 90
CURED to her To ask this Madonna Of the tubs
for whom or what, she had been called In
reply to the question the washlady saidi
'' Twas a frien' of meh NAV gimme that en-
title; an a mighty ugly one it is. mus say.
But I've got worse names than that. she
added, gloomily; inch full names Queen VIE
toria Daunse Jones'"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15

Household Words: father In Scotland who
wishes to present his infant for baptism 10
expected to pass a slight examination in the
shorter catechisn. One day a collier went to
his minister to bespeak him for the christening
Of his child.
NiHow many commandments hae ye?" asked
the minister.
Twenty" rejoined the collier, who was
forthwith sent back to pursue his studies in
elementary theology. On his way he met a
brother miner. who was going to the minister
on q similar errand.
asked the first
Ten
''Oh, you needn't trouble him wi ten.
offered him twenty the while, but he was ma
satisfied"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
Ills Misfnrtupe.

Pick-Me-Up: He was a successful young
author of psychological novels and char
acter studies, and he was trying to en-
courage the elder men with a few hints
Of The manner of his genius.
II am sinGularly talented that way" ne
told them; Il have vast penetration. i
can tell at a glance, for instance. whaf
people are thinking of me-
Very clever, no doubt" commented one
of the veterans; ''but-you must pass
very miserable existence
And the young man went and leaned
his head against the cool marble mantsi-
piece to help him to think it out
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15

server will say that II 10 too low, rather
4han too high. II pestilence were Dc.
ing this the people would rise up en-
masse and demand of the government
the most vigorous possible measures for
stamping 1t out But as 1t Ii done by
business which is putting millions of dol
lars annually into the pockets Of com,
paratively few unprincipled men. 1t must
be tenderly dealt with by the govern
ment, and any interference with 1t is
bitterly denounced as an interference
with the rights and liberties of the peo-
MI
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
PHILOSOPHICAL View.

Town Topics: Aunt sally-whsts the mat
ter?
Uncle Josh-They say the cars is blocked an
can't go ahead for ten minutes.
Aunt Sally-Well. thank goodness, they can't
run over anybody for while. anyhow.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
Cures RattIe.nake Bites.

The latest cure for a rattlesnake bite II coal
oil When bitten upon the hand. place IL In a
vessel filled with oil and the poison will come
out and rise to the surface Of the liquid.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
Its Victims.

DR.. Norman Kerr. an eminent physi-
cian of England. believing the state
xnent of temperance people to be ex-
travagant that 10000 people died an
nually from the effects of strong drink,
began as early as 1870 a personal in
quiry, in connection with several medi-
cal men and experts, expecting to quick
ly disprove the same. According to their
deductions the latest estimate of deaths
Of adults annually caused through in
temperance is: In Great Britain, 120,-
600; in France. $4,000; in the United
States, $4,000; or nearly a half million
each year in three countries aggregaring
a population of 112,000.000,
This, let it be remembered, is the re-
suit of eighteen years of careful investi-
CATION by able and competent men, II
= frightful record, but any careful OBJ
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-04-15
.PALEFACES'
SQUAW WIVES

A Phase of Domestic Life I'm the In
dian Tel rtory-The Dtscrimfha-
ting Sentiment of the Indian
Wives of White Men Ii That OF
Gratitude-The Children of Mixed
Marrfaxes-Indian Elevated and
Whites DeGraded-SOme have
Handsome Homes.