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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04
MANILA LIVES ON RICE
CUTTING OFF OF SUPPLIES.
blockade Continues Effective and
the Situation Is Unchanged
Captain Gridley Sick and Ordered
Home.

Washington, May 2s.--The navy de-
partment this afternoon made public the
following dispatch:
"Cavite, May "a, via Hong Kong, May
26.-To the Secretary of the Navy, Wash
ington: No change in the situation The
blockade is effective. 1t is impossible for
the people of Manila to buy any provis-
ions except rice. The captain of the
Olympia (Gridley) has been condemned
by medical survey and is ordered home.
He leaves by the Occidental and Oriental
steamship from Hong Kong on the 2Sth.
Comma nder Lamberton is appointed conf
mander of the Olympia. Dewey"
In Desperate Straits.
New York, May 28.-A dispatch to the
World from Manila via Hong Kong says:
The situation of the besieged inhabitants
OF Manila is growing more and more des-
perate, owing to the cutting off of sup
plies. The blockade by Deweys squad
ron is complete, while the insurgents have
surrounded the city on the land, side, thus
effectually closing the place in.
Dewey has deferred further aggressive
action at this point until;the. arrival of
the cruiser Charleston with coal and am
munition, and of the promised troops for
military occupation of the islands.
Powers Have Agreed.
Berlin, May 2s.-An article in the Post
says
1T is declared semi officially that the
recent rumors as to the transfer of the
Philippine islands to France or to Ger
many or to their partition among the
European powers with interests in the far
east have no foundation whatever. Amer
lea is not yet in possession, it is true,
and it is quite possible that she may not
ever occupy them. But any laying of
hands on the islands at present would
be a hostile act against America, nor
would it be tolerated by the other Europ-
can powers having interests there"
This utterance may be taken as explicit
proof that the continental powers have
come to an agreement on the subject to
await further action by America.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

had just learned in school, while the drum
beat softly and the Stars and Stripes
waved tenderly above the headstone.
After that they marched slowly back.
with little hearts soft and grateful toward
all the brave soldiers in all the brave land.
The flowers kept fresh for several days,
and to the birds sweet songs above the
place, the trees waved a soft reply. Many
passed by and saw the work of loving
hands, while eyes grew moist and voices
trembled as they said that nowhere, on
this Memorial Day, could brave soldier
have been more sweetly remembered than
in this little village by the sea.-Youth's
Companion.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

more history has been made and more pro-
gress marked than in any other era since
the acts of human beings were told in
written annals. Within the next quarter
of century the participants in the great
struggles of the civil war will be known
only in memory, and the bravest army
that defeated the bravest foe will have
disbanded forever. The tragic drama will
be told in song and story. but the actors
in the scenes OF carnage whose charmed
lives detied the whizzing bullets and the
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

mourning nation kneels
hncels 10 pray and scatter blossoms under
meath their measured tread.
And stoops to bless the spectral pale bat
talions of the dead.
Once was weeping In the village, once were
tears Ike winter rain.
When that grand Old army marched away
and came not back again.
There was music in the bugle blast and
music In the air.
But death was In the roar of battle, battle
everywhere;
Mid the thunder Of the cannon and the
shrek of shot and shell.
In the shouting of the bluecoats and the
grewsome rebel yell.
Mid the rattle Of the musketry, their COM
rades' dying cheer.
Glory crowned the war-worn veteran and
eager volunteer.
And now the grim old pensloner, whose
ranks are thinning fast,
Fights all his battles over, from the first
unto the last.
Bull Run to Appomattox. from Atlanta to
Each tells different story, but the stories
all agree,
And we who stand and listen feel our eager
pulses thrill
AS they tell the tales Of slaughter, and we
see them living still.
And our hearts beat fast and faster yet
against a cruel fate.
That for The cause Of war and arms our
souls were born too late.
But the graves are heaped with blossoms
and the pensioners are fed.
For we honor still the living, and cannot for
get the dead.
Edwin ). Hopkins.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

"Ninety-eight per cent. OF genius is
hard work" says Thomas A. Edison.
and he adds: "As for genius being in
spired, inspiration is in most cases an
other word for perspiration." AS the
foremost example in the world of one
type of genius, Mr.. Edison is an author
ity on the subject. and his aphorism
corroborates JOhnson's often-quoted
definition of genius. 1.-THE infinite capa-
city for taking pains"
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

On the walls of Paris to-day are of
fetal placards announcing that an in
quiry is to be held concerning the pro
posed new reservoir ut Charonhe lin
accordance with royal decree dated
Aug. %, 1885" The deere was made
by Louis Philippe in the early part of
his reign, and after lying in allegiance
for more than threescore years. Is now
about to be executed. Since 1t was made
France has been a kingdom. an empire,
and twice a republic, and has passed
through two revolutions and coup
d'etat. Yet the old decree is honored
and held to be in force by the very gov
eminent that has exiled the family of
the king who made it. There could
scarcely be a more striking example at
once of the permanence and the muta-
bility of government.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

1t is curious to note how interest has
died out in topic which was until a
few months ago almost the only one
the gold discoveries in the Klondike.
Now little news is coming out OF the
great Northwest, and nobody seems to
care. Even the destructive avalanche
in ChilkOOt pass barely caused com
ment The Klondike has fizzled out.
Perhaps 1t is as well that it should.
The golden specter has lured more
than one to his death.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

Dismemberment of China stares the
powers in the face. They have their
hands full, to use familiar expression.
Because matters have been going along
without hostile collision does not nee
essarily imply that an outbreak will be
avoided before the end Of the game Of
grab. The yastness of the territory in
volved of itself invests the situation
with the element of indefniteness, both
as to what will be satisfactory to each
nation concerned. and as to what will
satisfy all after the partition or Occupa-
ton schemes are measurably outlined.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

A Boston prisoner arrested for drum
kennes, was summarily discharged
when he said that he was the father of
twenty-four children. And he had been
gone an hour before the court remem-
bered that the prisoner had testified
that he was 30 years old.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

The Buffalo News says: "The aboli-
ton of capital punishment in Ohio has
been defeated by a tie vote. 1t was a
knotty question" Not at all; you
haven't been keeping up with current
events. Ohio's method of legal slaugh-
ter is simply shocking. like New York 5.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

1t Is an evidence of the change which
has come over the public mind in the
South within the last thirty years to see
Julia Ward Howe's magnificent Battle
Hymn of the Republic which stirred
so many hearts during the war of the
rebellion. finding publication in the col
umns of the Southern press in these
days
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

Science triumphs as greatly in pre-
venting waste as in discovering new
supplies. An iron mill in Alabama is
investing a million dollars in works for
the utilization of by products that for
merly were thrown away as worthless
We are finding that there is nothing so
mean and base as to be altogether
worthless.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

The Townsville (Ga.) Enterprise
says that 'in this campaign the One
Eyed Plowboy of Pigeon Roost has de-
cided to tote his own skillet" We new
er cease to wonder at the marvellous re-
sources of the English language.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

Fitzhugh Lee is regarded as Presi-
dental possibility. He's not talked of
in connection with the second place on
the ticket because it's hard to make
him take a back seat.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

New York paper says that 1.-THE ex-
pectation that electricity would destroy
the demand for horses has not yet been
realized" Why, of course not; it is inn
possible to eat an electric battery.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

screaming shell will have obeyed the inn
mutable laws of Father Time, leaving to
their descendants the glorious heritage Of
a yalorous and unsullied name.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

Children, bring your sweetest flowers!
North aud South and East and West,
Bring the flowers you love the best,
Lay them where the soldiers rest.
Children. bring your sweetest fiowersI
In memory Of the gift they gave,
Every noble man and brave
Who sleeps within soldiers gravs.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

The European concert may be good
musical organization, but it doesn't
play successfully to American audi
PncpS.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

A man never knows what he can do
until he tries and then he often regrets
that he has found out
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

The New York Press observes that
patriotic girls are now wearing red.
white and blue stockings" Is that
statement made on information or be-
lief?
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04
Our Fallen Hernes

NO marble shaft It needs, with names en-
grayed.
To tell to whom the floral tribute pay;
A nation recOllects nation saved
Ana knows the mounds Il decOrates tO-dayl
Ger graves OF heroes fallen In the fight.
These howery wreaths that loving hands
here spread.
Like rings Of adamant this day unite
The memory Of the living with the deadl
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04
BATTALIONs OF THE DEAD.

NROLL the tattered
battle flags. bring
out the fife and
drum;
Let the funeral bells
be tolled and let
the voice of hate
be dumb;
Shut the shop and lock
the Office, bid them
5 to y I h e noisy
wheels,
For a ghostly army
ID a : : g \ "A II Il "A
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

A New England gardener says he has
produced an odorless onion" Proba
bly, a little one for scent.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

There is lighthouse TO every IA miles
of coast in England to every "a in Ireland
and to every 80 in Scotland.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

The submarine boat Holland in an
emergency may be relied upon to get
right down to business.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

The bicycle balloon appears to be a
success in London. Here's hoping it will
give the scOrcher a lift.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

While the battleshlps have been
painted varying shades. it's pleasure
to note that none of them have been
painted yellow.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

Just at a time when baseball mines
have got so they can take the field with
out fighting it seems pity for two ma
tons to start in.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04
THE GRAND ARMY.
The Rapid Passing of the Organiza-
ton Is sad Spectacle.

HE passing of the
Grand Army Of the
Republic is a sad spec
tacle in the brilliant
panorama incident to
the close of this electro
glaring nineteenth CEN
fnrr dnrinn ,-hi.h
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

Joseph H. Irwin, of Allegheny City,
Pa, comes to the front with the some
what unique suggestion that the present
cities of New York, Philadelphia and
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

1t seems almost like going back to
ante-telegraph and ante-telephone
times to read of the efforts of the gov
eminent is making to use hOming pig
cons for conveying Information i'm
times of war The experiments. how
ever. that have been made prove that
these birds can deliver message from
a point POO miles out at sea to the shore
some five or six hours sooner than the
fieetest dispatch boat in the service
could bring it. These birds are to be
used on the swift picket boats that will
watch the coast, and on sighting a hos
tile fleet details of its size and dircc-
tion will be sent to the shore by these
pigeons. For this purpose hundreds of
these birds are kept in cages on board
the vessels composing the Atlantic
picket fleet Attached to each bird is
label showing the cote from which it
has been taken, so that the officer can
select one for carrying the message
that is from the place at which he
wishes 1t to be delivered When hos
tile fleet is sighted a message giving
necessary particulars will be attached
TO a pigeon that Will fly to the com
mandant of the naval station the Off
Ger desires to notify, or to several such
If the fleet is a large one When the
bird arrives the orders are that the in
formation it brings shall be at once
telegraphed to the navy department.
which can al once give the proper di-
rectiOns for meeting the apprOa ching
enemy. SO much dependence has been
put upon this means of transmitting in
formation quickly chat naval hOming
pigeon service has been organized.
which has trained the government
birds TO degree of perfection as mes
sengers that is little less than marvel
Gus. for they have shown a rapidity Of
flight that Is more than twice the
speed of the swiftest torpedo or dis
patch boat. In training the birds are
flown singly for distances varying
from ten to ninety miles at time. and
ii has been found that the best results
are obtained by using single birds. as
where several are started at time
they are apt to become confused Tests
have been made for a distance of $50
miles, which the birds have covered at
the rate of from thirty-slX to forty
seven miles an hour. The ocean liners
carry pigeons to be used in giving no.
tice of accident or miShap. In a recent
case the notice of rescue at sea was
sent by one of these birds. The pigeon
did not reach the land, as 1t lighted on
another vessel, but the message reach
ed its destination in time to pre-
vent much anxiety. 1t was to
the effect that the vessel from
which the bird had been sent
had assisted a foreign ship. which had
met with a disaster, and that it would
delay its arrival at the port of destina-
ton. The bird carried its message $50
miles. No one can estimate the posi-
bic value of these messengers. which
have a sense of direction as unerring
upon the water as it is upon the land,
coupled with a rapldity of flight and
powers of endurance that astOnish
those familiar with them.
True friendship, like phosphorus
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

The first steamship constructed for
use in war was the Fulton. designed by
Robert Fulton for the United States
navy; and her destruction by the explo-
sion of her magazine is brought to mind
by the Maine disaster. The design in
cluded an engine to throw hot water
over an enemy's deck and into the port
holes. The scheme was never brought
into practical use. Accounts of the
vessel crossed the ocean and grew on
the way. One description, published in
Scotland. said that the Fulton, 'by
mechanism. brandishes three hundred
cutlasses with the utmost regularity
over her gunwales; works also an equal
number of heavy iron spikes of great
length. darling them from her sides
with prOdigious force. and withdraw
ing them every quarter of minute
All that was pure invention. of course;
but 1t was not more incredible than
would have been a truthful description
of the devices for killing with which
modern war-ships are equipped.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-04

True friendship, like phosphorus
shows up best at the darkest hour.
Evening star., 1898-12-19

Regular 81 cloI. lamps IN beautiful tinted
and fural decorations. wi.h lft-uut tount and
central draft burner, rich gold S.2. AZ
plated base. for ......... ''SD -
Evening star., 1898-12-19
For Christmas Dinner.

Sugars and spices and all things nice
may be classed as necessities for Christmas
time, and they are to be found in endless
array at the mammoth establishment Of ii.
G. Cornwell q Son, 1ll2 and 14l4 Pennsyl-
Vania avenue. Quality first and foremost
is the motto of this old established firm.
its name being sufficient guarantee that
the stock carried is all that could be de-
sired. For the holiday season particularly
attention is called to candies and nuts,
homemade fruit cake, plum pudding
rasns figs in all varieties, liquors, fancy
crackers and cakes, glace fruits and cigars,
a specially being made Of the imported ar
ticle in the lire Of tobacco. Then there are
mineral waters. groceries of all kinds, and,
in fact everything for the dining table.
with the exception perhaps of fresh meats.
Evening star., 1898-12-19
Humanity and Charity.

Il have been asked: What claim has
your university on such an institution
Freedmens Hospital to aid you in your
work of training physicians" Only the
claim of humanity and Christian charity.
Through Howard University the govern
ment makes an effort to give 1.HH,uo0 Of
people help to become good citizens. In
stead of getting income from il We pay
out of our treasury nearly $1,000 a year
toward the support of the medical depart
mcnt. Such men as eX-Commissioner John
Eaton, President L. NJ Gallaudet. DR.. T. :.
Hamin, Rev. DR.. NJ. E Strictly Of New
York are our trustees; such men SEN
atOrs Allison and Hoar, Governor Sayers
and W. w. GrOut on our honorary
board. We do the work these men approve.
Imputation against the fairness of our
dealings with the government have been in
discriminatory thrown out; as, for example
that we want to get the government to pay
for the lighting and heating of the hospital
occupy conjOintly. That was in the
original contract. Legally il is there today.
We have only asked what was denominatel
in the board. AS president of the UniVersi-
ty, | challenge the truth of all such i'm
putations. They must spring from want Of
information, certainly not from malice.
our treatment of the government has been
honorable and generous, as the treatment
of son TO his mother.
Evening star., 1898-12-19

haps. children of the first class. My plea
is that q generous government shall erect
a suitable hospital building or buildings on
the grounds OF the Freedmen'S Hospital
out OF those dead mems bountieS. that thus
may be recognized a sacred but unpaid
debt. that honest men dead may have their
dues. and that honest men and women llN-
ing may De helped to fit themselves as ply
siciaus and surgeons and nurses to care for
thronging millions. who. though Of African
origin, belong to the class of whom the
Great Physician has said: lnasmuch as ye
have done il unto one of the least OF these,
We have done it unto me Give US the mon
ey you will expend on your proposed col
ored ward. And do not pull ont the un-
derpinning of a department which for
generation have tried to rear against
bitter prejudice. which is just as mighty
today as it ever was.
Views of others.
DR.. Reyburn followed DR.. Rankin. say
ing that he is opposed to the bill for one
thing-he believes it would be special legis-
lation He agreed with DR.. Rankin that the
passage of the bill would mean the destruc-
ton of the Medical School of Howard Uni
Versity and thereby seriously endanger the
welfare of the cclored people
DR.. Puryis referred TO what he termed is
an unjust discrimination in the District
against colored physicians. If municipal
hospital be established he asked that in It
the colored physician and the colored stu
dent be placed an equal footing therein
with the white physician and the white stu
Gent. He suggested an amendment to the
bill providing for the establishment of
new Freedmen Hospital by the govern
ment, wherein he promised there would be
no color line drawn. and which would De
no less a municipal hospital than the one
proposed in the bill
The Commissioners suggested that the
opponents of the bill put their objections in
the shape of amendments, when the matter
would, together with statements made at
the hearing, receive their earnest consid-
Grafton
Evening star., 1898-12-19
Fifty-Two chris,.ma. GIFT, a Year.

n Christmas present that comes not ouca
year, but fifty-two times, is a present
well worth receiving, and well worth li,-
ing. Such a present IS supplied by a sub
soription To the Saturday Star 1t comes
every week, and each time brings a wealth
yet # gives vastly more pleasure than a
much greater sum could give if expended in
any other possible way. order il sent to
some out-of-town friend, and you may rest
assured that one, at least, of your Christ
mas gifts Will be thoroughly appreciated
many times. 1t will be Christmas once a
week to the fortunate recipient.
Evening star., 1898-12-19
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Evening star., 1898-12-19

NO CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS TABLE
should be without a hottie of Dr. Siegert's An
gustura Bitters, the world-renowned appetizer Of
Evening star., 1898-12-19

SCEOFUI-A, BLOOD POISON, CANCER ECZE-
ma letter tGnd all other disorders of the blood
permanentl cured and all tain. eliminated from
the system. s. S. s., the greatest purifier.
eu1T-w. t .m.ly
Evening star., 1898-12-19
Those Who Are Interested.

Now, So, 900 citizens of the District are
virtually interested in the welfare of the
medical department Of Howard University:
nay, the seven millions of colored people
in all the land. Not less than 1000 have
graduated in this department and are scat
tered all over the west and southwest 1t
is a department of an institution eSta hliSh-
ed by the government, and now almost en-
tirely sustained by the government. This
is :he ground of our claim. And we appear
to the Shepherd of the people to protect in
terests intrusted TO US by the government,
and to them, our guardians.
A recommendation of the joint COM
turned over to the authorities of Howard
University. Why that has been stricken
out l do not know. Give us one-third less
than You last year expended upon ii and
the university will take it. Much criticism
has been made upon the condition of the
buildings. | believe this is mostly unjust
and even sometimes calumniOuS. But, if
true it only reflects upon the government,
that has leased them of the university for
many years, and has been under con-
tract obligation to keep them in repairs.
They mainly modern structures. But,
they as habitable they have been for
the last fifteen years. They need new
shingling, some of them, and annual paint
ing, and they do wear out. AS compared
with the elegant structures now put up for
hospital purposes. of course they are very
inferior; but they have served a good pur-
pose, and they will do it still.
Evening star., 1898-12-19

We are closing out our Lamp
stock. 10 patterns OF LAMPS at Is
to so per cent discount.
Il w. B. MOSES & SONS