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The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-07-22
Aguinaldo Declared Dictator.

Washington, May %. Secretary
Long, of the Navy Department re-
ceived dispatch from Hong Kong
today stating that Aguinaldo had
declared dictatorship and martial
law over all the islands. The peo.
pie expect independence,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-07-22
We have one hundred pairs

We have one hundred pairs of
ladies Oxford ties, chocolate, tan
and black-sizes 2, 81 and 3; widths
C. D and E--worth from two to
three dollars. The price this week
is from seventy-fye cents to one
dollar and fifty cents.
III DELAMAR & O'NEAL.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-07-22
Admiral DeWeY's Report.

Washington, July 22.-The navy
department posted the following
this morning
Cavite, July 2O.-The situation
remains unchanged. Second army
detachment arrived today, All
went on board. The health of the
squadron continues good. No sick
ness whatever.
DEWEY
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-07-22

TIIIn ufTTU We viii marx our watch
IulN WllVes lower than they we're
lIll0 iii Never offered In feNarkana
All goods guaranteed or money eheertully
refunded
LOUIS hEiLBRON.
TeXarkana's Leading Jeweler,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-07-22
Off For Porto Rico.

Washington, July 22.-The war
department posted the following
this morning
Playa del Este, July 22.-Secre-
tary of War, Washington The
Massachusetts,, Dixie, Gloucester,
Cincinatts, Leyden and Wasp go
with the Yale and Columbia. We
expect to sail at three o'clock.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-07-22

ppoN,s MAM10rh JEW
J, ESTABLISHMENT
t,urine Of Watches, Gu ulass'
r. i.1 iI Inc Of silNersar fine Jew
FsHa''''s louis hElLBRON
The Old Reliable
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-07-22
Want our Customers

To know that we have the best
exchange and real estate con-
nection of any concern in the
southern states, receiving and
sending out more mail than
any similar concern south of
the Ohio river. Consign your
stuff to us if you want it sold,
and we will realize on same tor
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-07-22
Peace Prospects.

Madrid, July 22.-The Minister of
Public Instruction, Senor Gamazo,
is authority for the statement that
peace honorable to Spanish army
will shortly be concluded.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-07-22
Want Everybody

Towait for ourSaturday auction
sales. Those that need household
or kitchen furniture, stock or
anything else that we may han
die.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-06
Chalk from England.

One of the few exclusively important
imported British products used in our
country is chalk. 1t comes from the
hanks of the River Thames, being OBJ
tanned nowhere else in large quantities.
In its crude form, remarkable flint fos-
sils are sometimes found, usually the
remains Of fish. The process of manu-
facture from the natural state to that
Of form when it can be utilized is
simple.
When received at the mill the chalk
is put into great machines and ground
in water, then fioated off into watts OF
water, where all the impurities and
foreign substances are precipitated,
the water being afterwards drawn of
by a series of altering operations, and
the soft residuum dried by steam heat
and exposure to the air; the substance
Is then reduced to powder of differ
ent degrees of fineness by grinding in
burr mills and betting. when it is ready
to be packed in barrels and shipped for
use, among the largest consumers be-
ing the rubber goods manufacturers;
rubber in its crude state, being sticky,
unmanageable and available only for
very simple purposes, becomes vulcan
lied and hardened by adding to 1t
chalk while 1t is hot, thus rendering 1t
suitable for the various uses to WHICH
1t Is put.
AS Is also well known, large guam
tity of chalk is employed in the pre-
paration of paint and putty, being
termed whiting when in this form
Boston Transcript.
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Awful Fate Of a Chinese Lad.

The statement that a lad of eleven
years had been arrested at Kinkuel for
accidentally causing the death of his
mother. and that the child had been
cent under custody to Soochow to be
there imprisoned until sentenced to
death in accordance with Chinese law,
has unfortunately been fully corrobo-
rated by a trustworthy foreign resi-
dent of Soochow. Under the draconic
law of China, when a parent has been
killed no circumstances Of intention or
of age are permitted to interfere with
the infection of the penalty, which Is
that of lingch'l, or slicing by the ia
cared knife, followed by decapitaticn
by the executioner's heavy two handed
sword. Any mitigation of this cruel
sentence would be considered by the
Chinese as aiming a blow at the funda-
mental principal of filial duty, which
is supposed to be the groundwork of
their code. No doubt even an appeal
to the Emperor would be In vain for
any attempt to change the law in the
case of this unfortunate youthful
matricide might endanger the dynasty
itself.-North China Herald.
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ably about ave or SIX hundred more
who come there to trade. There sre
only four Chinese women In Philadci-
phia and six in Boston. One China
man in New York invented and pat
ented laundry stove which he manu-
features ii his own foundry. Five
young Cinnamon have been put into
the locomotive works In Philadelphia,
where they are learning the machin-
lists trade. There are very few Chi
csc children in the public schools.
Philadelphia reports hve, st. Louis
none, New York about half-a-dozen.
The latest statistics show that there
are In America 22O schools and insti-
tutions for uplifting these Mongolians,
eleven denominations being repre-
scented in this work. In which the Bap-
lists lead.
A Japanese observer has been bold
enough to find and describe at length
what he considers most lamentable
result Of the rapid civilization OF
which his fellow-countrymen are SO
proud. The adoption of new indus
trial methods, he says, has not inn
proved the condition of japanese work.
ingmen. On the contrary, 1t has re.
duced great numbers of them to COIL
dition in which "wretchedness, misery,
squalor, poverty and hunger, prema-
ture decay, bent and dwarfed forms,
pinched cheeks, sunken eyes, and early
death" are the rewards of their toll.
This is very terrible picture. but 1t Is
painted, we are told, by one who can
not be. charged with national prejudice,
from life-from the life, that Is, which
exists In the great cotton mills OF New
Japan. In these mills some 41,000
women are employed, ranging in age
from nine to forty years. Most OF
them are brought from the country to
the great cities. under five-year con-
tracts that make them practically
slaves, and they work twelve hours a
day for an average wage of 80 sen, or
about five cents. OF this sum they pay
3 cents day for food and lodging in
barracks owned by the companies.
Nothing extra is paid for night work.
The machinery stops only on alternate
Sundays, and even that interruption
is not to give the operatives rest, but
that necessary repairs may be made.
Working under such conditions it Is
small wonder that the women of the
mills are the first to fall victims 60
every epidemic, or that the death rate
among them is enormously high at
times. I'm the face of facts like
these" asks the Japanese writer,
what are we to say of our industrial
civilization" He answers his own
question with the words Complete
failure"
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SANTA CLAUS WAS A REAL MAN.
The Truly. st. Nick and the Le-
gends OF His Life

gends OF His Life.
Some grown-ups and older children
imagine there never was any real
Santa Claus; but they ought to know
better. Nicholas, the patron saint of
Christmastide, was a bishop of the
church in Asia Minor, where he died
in 343. His bones were removed to
Bari, Italy, in 1907, where they now
rest, under the crypt of the church
which bears his name.
| A writer in Chambers's Book of
Days" interestingly describes the cele-
bration of st. Nicholas day at Bari.
On that day the town is thronged with
pilgrims from all the country round.
When they reach the church they show
their devotion by walking around it
If it can be called walking on their
knees. and some of them even do 1t
with their foreheads to the floor, each
being guided by child, who leads the
pilgrim with handkerchief of which
he holds corner in his mouth. Each
pilgrim is entitled to a meal without
cost, and on the especial occasion
described over nine thousand were fed.
Water comes up through the floor of
the crypt over the grave of st. Nicho-
las, and this is supposed to have great
curative powers. 1t Is gathered in
sponges, squeezed into bottles and sold
to the pilgrims. 1t is called the mama
of st. Nicholas.
st. Nicholas was the patron saint of
children, of virgins and of sailors, and
countless stories have come down to
us of his tender and constant protec-
ton of those under his care.
The observance of st. Nicholas day
which connects it with the Christmas
customs of the present era is the an
cient one of filing shoes with little
gifts which were supposed to have been
left there by the saint, says the
Monthly Illustrator" 1t was also the
custom of old in certain converts for
the boarders to leave each silk stock
ing at the door of the abbess on the
eve of st. Nicholas, and these they
would find in the morning filed with
sweetmeats or other trifles to show
that they were held in remembrance.
Children were told that st. Nicholas
threw the presents for them in at the
window, and the main point is clear
enough-that he is the same person
who, as Santa Claus, rides on Christ
mas eve all over every part of the
world where good children live, with
his sledge and his RENDERS, and
comes down the chimneys to fill the
stockings hung up to await him with
all sorts of things to delight childish
hearts, somewhere far up in the Arctic
circle, making toys and boiling sugar
into candy to distribute the next
Christmas
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BLOW fair. sweet wind, upon the dis
tant seas;
Blow fair, and kind.
For many sails sue for favorIng
breeze
Where none they find.
Your grace they court,
For Christmas port.
Some ride the waves with strong and
buoyant PROV,
And canvas white;
Others with straining spars the dark
seas plough
In piteous plight.
Make them your care.
Kind wind, blow fair.
Many are faring home from Ravens far,
After long years;
And eyes are gazing out across the bar
Through gathering tears.
Bring the ship near,
For Christmas cheer
Wherever ships should speed upon the
wave,
Go, friendly breeze;
But when the pillows fiercely rock and
rave,
Lull them to ease.
Let joy abide
At Christmas tide,
ADA NICHOLS MAN, in Harper's
Weekly.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-06
AlandIocked Salmon,

MANY years ago." said Clarence
Pullen, traveller and lecturer, IAN out
of-the-way lake in Maine was secretly
stocked with land-locked salmon. AT
that time 9he nearest railway station
was thirty-eight miles from the lake,
which Is about nine miles long by
three wide. Not much fishing has ever
been done in that sheet Of water; be-
cause 1t is of from the regular lines of
travel, and there are no big hotels
within scores of miles; besides, 1t lis
practically unknown. / was there fish
ing one day, and became tired strug-
Cling with six, eight and ten pound
salmon, decided to stroll up the noun
tain-side to obtain glimpse, of the
snow-capped peak of Mount Washing
ton, over in New Hampshire. In as
cending followed a brook which had
formed many deep pools as 1t leaped
in successive cascades down to its out
let into the lake. It was late in the
season and the brook was nearly
dry. l noticed commotion in one
of the narrow pools near the summit,
and, peering into 1t, discerned a gigan-
tic fish. Wading in I seized the mon
stcr, and carried him struggling to the
shore. 1t was a landlockcd salmon
that weighed thirty-two pounds. 1t
Mad probably leaped up the cascades
from pool to pool until 1t became i'm
rrisoned in one Of the uppermost as
the brook ran dry. II you doubt the
story I'll take you up there some time
and show you the pool "-Philadelphi
Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-06
MistIetoe at YuIetide.

The connection of mistletoe with
Christmas is very curious one and
far from being a general one. Litera-
ture is perhaps mainly responsible for
II in that illusions to a custom in a
great degree purely local, have made a
large number of persons interested in
the plant. It, moreover, seems to me
that the custom of using it in Christ
mas decorations depends on two con-
siderations-first, its evergreen habit,
and, secondly, the veneration In which
1t was held by the Druids. In the or
chards of Herefordshire and Worces-
tershire in England and in those of
Normandy apple trees may be seen
covered with mistletoe to such an ex-
tent that in winter time, when Invested
of their natural leaves. they present a
mass of green in the leaves of their
parasite, says the Philadelphia Press.
The reasons mentioned have no
doubt done much to secure for the mis-
tletoe the place which in recent times
IL has held In Christmas festivities,
but It is not so universally honored at
Yuletide as the holly. In fact, its pop
ularity is purely local, and its use as
an ornament in places where It does
not grow is due rather to an anti
quarian sentiment than to any feeling
that its presence at the rejoicings Of
the season Is necessary. You may have
a very merry Christmas without any
mistletoe at all, but to the majority Of
people Christmas without a sprig or
two of holly would scarcely seem to
be Christmas at all. Even that rare
old plant the Ivy green cannot COM
pete with the holly as necessary part
of domestic adornment for the Christ
mas merry gatherings.
Still, mistletoe has certain amour.
of sentiment attached to 1t, and there
fore the mistletoe bough finds a place
in the farm houses, mansions and cas-
Ties of the districts Of England where
It grows, and in the dwellings Of the
wealthy where II can be purchased.
while here a sprig is bought just for
the sake Of old memorlsA
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-06
NATURAL WALKING STICKS.
Quaint Shapes Formed While the Trees
Are Growing.

Are Growing.
The public has craze for natural
sticks. The pretty markings, the
quaint shapes, must not have been
added in the factory. All this must
be done while the trees are growing.
What is known as the Congo stick has
little indentations, quite close TO-
gether, which give the cane it's charm
ing appearance. They are natural and
at the same time artificial. The
wounds were made by a grower. They
were inflicted with a sharp knife
through the green bark, and afterward
bound with kind of liniment for the
sake of protection. To give a spiral
effect, creeps are trained to grow
round the young saplings. AS for the
twisted thistles that are SO popular as
sticks, they are seized bodily and
twisted in way that one might think
would wrench them from their roots.
They continue to grow like gigantic
corkscrews.
The majority of the sticks may be
said to be raised upside down. The
roots are turned into handles; the tops
become the bottoms. AS they increase
in size their training begins. They ara
twisted this way, they are bent that
way and tied into fantastic shapes with
string. At one time there was a de-
mand for stick with a crooked ham
die, its end bound to the stem by n
lovers knot in ivory. The rings had
IN IN c1tnnal uthi h. v,1o &c
growing, and in this way was created
the curious spectacle of some $500
worth of ivory hanging on the bushes,
guarded night and day by a peasant
armed with thick cudgel.
1t is to the cane family that the most
valuable Of sticks belongs, a stick that
is worth from f10 to ELS for a perfect
specimen. This is the malacca. The
plant itself is as common as the willow
in England, but it is seldom that one
can be found with nodes or points SO
far apart that one length can be made
into a walking stick. One sees, how
ever, many malacca canes in the hands
of people who obviously could not af-
ford to pay Flo for a walking stick.
Certainly they are carrying malaccas.
but IL one knew how to detect 1t one
would find that instead of being made
from one perfect length, they are in
reality composed of two. The tiny
shoulder is shaved down and
the cane painted. But 1t is not hard
to discover when this is done. The
natural enamel Of malacca cane
finishes in a peculiar ridge, which in a
genuine specimen can be easily felt
with the the fingers from the handle
to the ferru)e. Where q joint has been
cut away this ridge must disappear,
and no effort or imitation can repro
duce 1t below.-Pearson's Magazine.
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/ . -.|
"Then twas my brother. |" cried xrs.
Mason. with shining eyes. "Ain't Il
queer. now. how things come about :
You took care o. him. an now we're
goin' to have chance to pay back BY
takin' care o. you when you need It.
I'm 20 glad it's happened 20. Now.
you Jest stop worryin' bout things, an
rest an feel yourself right to home.
Why. James," suddenly. -it's Christ
mas mornin'. amt It? declare, I'd
forgot all about 1t. Merry Christmas
tovyou," and Mrs. Mason kissed Grand
ma Waite's wrinkled cheek and gave
her hug that made her feel warm all
over with the heartiness that was In It.
Merry Christmas, ma'am," said Mr..
Mason. holding out his hand. "Glad
we're goin' to have some comp'ny to
help us eat turkey"
Grandma Waite began to cry softly.
LET her; It'll do her good" said
Mrs. Mason, as she wiped her eyes on
the corner Of her apron again.
Rover came and laid his head on the
arm of the rocking-chair and looked up
iuto HID CoulIduc . lace
He knows all about It," said Grand
ma Waite, IAN he's tryin' to tell me
he's glad, too" Then she put her
arms about the old dogs neck. and
added: Its all right now, Rover;
we're goin' to be took care of, an I'm
goin' to pay our way, an we amt goin'
to be separated. No, no; they amt
goin' to part two old frien's like us,
after ALL"
Then she bent her head and said rev.
erently: Dear God, you know how
glad an thankful we be 'thout our
tellin' you. God bless these kind
frien's an all the world this Christ
mas Day. Amen
And the man and woman who lis
tened to this prayer, that said so little
but meant SO much, said softly after
her, "Amen!"-Ladies' World.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-06

A Frenchman estimates that there
are in the world about 10000 libraries
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-06

poorest and most squalid districts in
London, Is the Rothschild School, tho
largest in the world, educating thirty
five hundred children, belonging
mostly to the poorest foreign Jews,
and having a staff of one hundred
teachers. II was founded fifty-fi We
years ago by Rothschild of that time,
and has always been presided over by
one of the family, the present Baron
Rothschild now performing that Office.
Free breakfasts are given each morn
ing to all the children who wish them,
no questions being asked In April Of
each year, near the Jewish Passover,
there Ia presented to each boy pupil q
suit of clothes and pair of shoes. and
to each girl a frock, with some other
article of costume. In October a Sec
ond pair of shoes is offered to each
one who needs them. Less than 2 per
cent of the pupils decline the free
meals offered. Connected with the
school is a savings-bank department.
admitting minimum deposits Of a
penny. and allowing 10 per cent on all
sums UP to e. for the pupils and ELS
for the teachers.
Recently gathered statistics concern
ing the Chinese In the United States
are given by the Rev. George H. Gut
terson. New England Secretary of the
American Missionary Association The
last census allows 2,64S as the number
of Chinese In New York and Brooklyn,
yet there are supposed to be at the
present time 10000 in the two cities.
Philadelphia reports 1000 but It is the
trading headquarters for about 5000,
who come from all parts of Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey. There are
about 800 in Boston proper. and prob
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-12
A Great Combination, We We will! send send the
the Three Times Week World and the Farm Stock
Home, all year for dollars in advance Trv it,
NOTICE OF Harrington application
~ of John P. Madison for to sell intoxi-

NOTICE OF HEARING ON application
~ of John P. Madison. for to sell intoxi-
eating liquors. i:.
Whereas, there has been fled in my office
an application in writing. signed by John
p: Madison. praying that the village coun-
Gil of the village of Willmar, Minnesota
grant b m license to sell intoxicating Ii
Quors for period OF one year in the said
village of Willmar. The place where said
business is to be carried on is designated as
follows:
In the building situated on north ends of
lots ten (1Ol. eleven (lD and twelve (12>, in
block twenty-eight '2S), in the village Of
Willmar.
Said building is a one story frame build
ing 24X50 18th front entrance ON go street.
has one back entrance, no basement
Now therefore, notice is hereby given tina t
said application will be heard and Consi dered
at at special a;1 meeting of said village council
April 1893. at s O'Clock p. m. at the council
chambers in the engine house of said village
of Willmar.
Given under my hand and the seal of the
village the 18th day of April. A. D. 1898
lsEAL] JOHN 7. OTOS.
Village Recorder
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-12
(Intended for last week, J

Untended for last week.
H. S. Hilleboe returned from Min
neapolis last week.
CO.. Rykken went home to visit his
parents Sunday.
Carl Otos went home for a short stay
last week. He returned Thursday.
There are now about IS students in
attendance at the Seminary.
Lewis Moe from Watson returned
Saturday after weeks visit with his
folks.
Uglem and Hong and Ed. Tisdel in
tend to work Fire and Hail Insurance
during the summer.
N. Ylvisaker and S. Orwall, both
theological students at Robbinsdale,
are visiting with Prof. Omlie.
The Osseo Society had a business
meeting last Saturday. President
Rykken appointed the various COM
mittees that have charge of the literary
work of the Society.
II. ~. 1JOSVOlO Will work Tor the
Deering Harvester Co., the coming
season. His territory will be Kandi.
yohi and adjoining counties, with
headquarters at Willmar.
The F. G. O. A. are having enthusi-
astic meetings every week. At their
last meeting they decided to establish
a colony in Central Africa, with an
office on the banks of the Congo river.
The Boarding Club had business
meeting last Monday. The election of
officers resulted as follows: S. NJ.
Akre, president; G. O. Bornstedt,
secretary; H. Q. Uglem, treasurer;
/. J. Hong, purveyor. - = ~ ~
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-12
Seminary Notes.

Hannah Hong, from Pennock, visit
ed friends at the Seminary Friday.
L. A. Tjosvold is going to Minnea-
polls soon, on business trip.
H. O. Uglem visited friends in the
country last Sunday.
Oscar Frykman went to Pennock
Saturday, intending to return Monday.
There are at present about IS stu
dents at the Seminary.
The boys have organized a baseball
nine and have already challenged the
High School team.
Miss Copeland came all the way
from Washington to attic nd the Semi
nary.
G. J. Rykken made flying trip to
the country Sunday, returning in the
evening.
A number of our young folks we're
out driving Friday and were caught
in rainstOrm.
Another student is to depart for
Norway. This time it is Julia Hagen,
who wants to visit the land of the Mid
night Sun.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-12
Auction Sale.

! will sell at public auction on my
farm in Sec. 6, Town of Dovre, on
SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1898,
At one O'Clock p. M, the following
described property:
6 COWS, 4 calves, horse, l single
buggy, l wagon, set harness, l gold
watch, fur coat, household furniture
and other articles too numerous to
MENTION
TERMS:- All sums under IS. cash:
on sums over that amount, approved
notes on six months with seven per-
cent interest will be taken.
MRS. AMANDA HOGLUND.