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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19

In his letters to his sister he had spok-
en- of her college as an incubator sew
eral times, and said he wondered when
the chicks would hatch, and if they
would take a postgraduate in a brooder.
His sister didn't care much for that sort
of thing from brother who was only
a freshman himself, albeit Harvard
freshman, nor did the other Bryn Mawr
girls, to whom she repeated his remarks.
On the day of the receipt of a letter
from him, saying he was coming down to
inspect the apparatus" the members of
his sisters class held a meeting in her
room. On his arrival, two days later,
he was ushered with some ceremony into
the reception room.
After waiting twenty minutes girl
came in hurriedly, looked fairly at him
and said "Oh!' Then she left abruptly
In five minutes a second girl rushed in,
saying "Oh!' turned round and walked
out. Five minutes later a third girl did
likewise, and in another five minutes it
happened again. This continued for just
one hour, when all of the twenty girls
that had said 'Oh!' together with about
as many more, all strangers, came in in
body, said ''Oh!'' and filed out
Then the freshman's sister came in,
by which time the youth was ready to
collapse, and asked him how he liked
the chicks, and if he didn't think they
could peep prettily, after which she in
vlted him to a spread in her room with
the chicks, where they demonstrated they
could pick up crumbs as well as peep
New York Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19

''Look here, Bridget" said an indignant
lady. as related by humorist in the
Youths Companion, 81 have missed
things ever since you came to live with
me, and today [ took the liberty of
searching your room, and [ found my
lace handkerchief in your bureau
drawer"
LUX at thot nowr'
''Yes, and | found my lace jabot and
one of my wells in your trunk
did amy one iverv'
"And you had pair of my gloves in
your ROOM"
''Luk at thot agin, now!'
Il have taken all my things to my own
room, and [ want you to leave the house
today"
ooh, but Oil lave fasht enough, for
it's not Oh that wants to wurruk for amy
Teddy thot so far forgits hersilf as to go
pryin' round in a girruPs room! Oh tot
Oh was wurkin for Teddy. but Olive
found out me mistake an Oil lave this
minute!'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19

B.-"'Cause I wanted to ask what you
suppose makes grown-up people so cross
when you just ask a few questions that
don't hurt nobody. "-Brooklyn Life.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19

Commenting on the alleged lack Of
hospitality in England, a Partisan says
that Londoner whom he had been en-
tertaining and lionizing observed as he
departed: "Now, when you come to Lon
don, be sure and call on NEEDN'T for
get-and I'll recommend you to a goot
hotel"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-01-19

Bobbie-" Momma, what makes you so
CROSSE"
Mother Because, my son, you ask so
many questions"
B.-'And won't you be cross if I don't
ask any more?"
M.-"No, my son, that will make me
quite cheerful again."
B. (after a short pause)-"Momma?
M.-"Well, Bobbie, what is it?'
B.-'Are you cheerful yet?'
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-05

boot and shoe manufacturers OF Bos-
ton and Derry, n. H., one of the Ole
est and most prominent boot and shoe
firms in New England, made a volun-
tary assignment. The liabilities are
100000. The amount of assets is not
known.
The will of the late Edward Austin
of Boston bequeaths $1,000,000 TO pub
lie uses. Harvard college will receive
$500, 900, the Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology 100000, Radcliffe col
lege $50, 900, Roanoke college $4,000
and the Tuskegee, Ala, Normal and
Industrial School $4,000.
Arthur A. Brown, shipping clerk tor
the Albion lumber company, is dead at
San Francisco from the effects of q
blow with a club, inflicted by Albert
Bierworth, proprietor of the Globe
lodging house, on Howard street.
Bierworth, who is under arrest, claims
that Brown, who was intoxicated, Gre
ated a disturbance.
In the boxing match before the
Lenox Athletic club in New York be-
tween Corbett and Sharkey, Jas.
j. Corbett's seconds rushed
into the ring in the ninth round, thus
committing a technical foul, and
Sharkey was declared the winner by
the referee. Sharkey had the better
of the fight on its merits
The souvenir committee appointed
by the people of Olympia, Washington,
have made arrangements for the pun
chase of commemorative tablet as
the most suitable memorial for Rear
Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olym
pia The tablet selected is five feet
high and three feet wide in the mar
rowest place, and will be placed ON the
forward turret between the two 8-inch
guns.
Charles C. Rickerson of Chicago,
who has had a number of aliases, was
arrested by a deputy United States
marshal from Chicago at the gate of
the prison at Auburn, N. Y, upon his
release from that institution after
having completed a sentence of ten
months for sending obscene literature
through the mails. He will be taken
to Chicago for trial on the same
charge.
Attorney Gerritt Ten Brock, for
himself and associates, has sued John
w. Gates of Chicago and Elbert H.
Gary for $1,875,0O0 damages. The.
petitioners say they had nearly com
pleted arrangements for wire com
bine when the defendants formed
company of their own and carried out
the original scheme, shutting out the
plaintiffs, who now sue for alleged
damages.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-05
FOREIGN.

London fnanciers are forming a. $3,-
100000 sardine trust.
Madame Dreyfus has been author
Island.
The CHILEAN minister of finance has.
paper money shall be issued by his
department..
Severe storms have done great dam
age in southern France and northern
Italy during the past week.
1t is reported in Berlin that King
Menelik has refused Major Marchand
permission to traverse AbyssiniA.
Rioting occurred in the streets OF
Budapest, and stones were thrown at
Baron Banffy, the Hungarian premier.
Thanksgiving day was observed by
Americans in Havana, Santiago, A,n-
don, Berlin, Paris and other foreign.
cities.
The French government has decided
to make Noumea, capital of the
French colony of New Caledonia, it's
naval headquarters in the Pacific.
Presi ent Faure Of France donneda
miners clothes and descended into a
mine pit at the town of Lens, with g.
view of averting threatened strike
The Mad Mullah, who with 900 men
has been threatening to pass the Swat
frontier, has crossed the Swat river.
and lighting has occurred between his
followers and the Indo-British forces.
The report is current at Paris, and
it is created in diplomatic circles,
that when the evacuation of FashOda
was decided on, only twenty-four
hours remained before a declaration
of war by England.
The president of the municipal
council of Paris has informed Madame
Sara Bernhard that the council has,
accepted her recent offer to take lease
of the Theater Des Nacions, built on
the old Opera Comique.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-05

concealed 81 Mauser rifles, Ia bayo-
nets. A belts of cartridges, 40 boxes OF
cartridges, one sack of cartridges and
three brass cannon. The ship cleared
from Santiago for a small Georgia port
and put into New Orleans in distress
The officials say not only are the ord
nance and arms contraband, but that
they are the property of Spain.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

ence to Texas. Colonel Travis was in
command Of about 1S5 Texas soldiers in
the fort called the Alamo at BeXar.
There he was surrounded by a greatly
superior force under the Mexican die
tatOr. Santa Anna.
on the morning of March G, 1886, the
little garrison of the Alamo capitulated
ON the pledge of the Mexican general
that their lives would be spared. Not
withstanding this pledge, Colonel Ira
Wis and his entire force were massaCred
rs soon as they had surrendered. Their
dead bodies We're gathered together, a
huge pile of wood was heaped upon
them, and they We're burned To ashes,
This act of parbarity stirred the Tex
ans to intense wrath, and implanted in
their breasts a fierce thirst for Venge-
anCe. on April 10, 1895. General HOus-
ton, with about 700 men, gave battle at
san Jacinto to Santa Anna, with near
ly three times the number Of MeXicans
and in spite of the disparity of numbers
Houston's little force swept the Mexi-
cans like chaff before the wind. 1t was
more a slaughter than a battle. Just
| before thegassault Of the Texans was
made on tne army of Santa Anna, ,Hous-
ton addressed his soldiers in a fervid
speech, closing with these words: Re
member the Alamo" These words fell
upon the ears of the Texans with Won
| derful effect. Every soldier in the lit
| tie army at the same instant repeated
the words THE Alamo" until the words
| became a cry for revenge that struck
! terror to the souls of the Mexicans
| When the battle was over it was found
| that only seventy Texans had been
! killed. while $50 MeXiCans were left
| dead on the field.
The answer of Commodore Stockton
to the Mexican governor of California
when we took possession of that coun-
| try is worth recalling.
If you march upon the town CLOS
| Augelesh" threatened the governor.
you will find it the grave of your
men"
Tell the governor" said Stockton,
| "to have the bells ready to toll at 3
| o'clock in the morning. ! shall be there
| at that time"
Commodore Tatnalls Blood is thick
er than water" won grateful recogni-
tion in England in 1859. Seeing the
british admiral, Sir James Hope, in a
tight place under the fire of Chinese
forts, Tatnall gallantly went to his
rescue. In so doing he was guilty of a
breach Of neutrality, but his answer,
BLOOD is thicker than water" had the
eject Of condoning his offence. Farra-
CUTS Damn the torpedoes!" in Mo-
bile Bay, and Craven's after you, pi-
lot when his ship was sinking in that
same bay by torpedo, are two sayings
Of heroes Of the late war that will last
with those Of earlier wars. Perhaps
we shall increase our list in this war
with Spain.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
SHIPS RANGE IN ACTION.
At Two Miles tremendous Damage
viii BE Done.
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
"The pictures in some of the burnt
orange newspapers of battleships in
action are about as funny as the Jap
anese idea of perspective" said a ma
val officer. "These pictures represent
the opposing ships blazing away at
each other with thirteen-inch rifles at
a range of about 100 feet, and the art
lists certainly work up the thing to
make il look terrific enough in all
conscience. It's q wonder to me that
they don't represent the crews of the
opposing ships in the act of using grap-
ping irons, as they did in engagements
at close quarters in the days of the old
seventy-gun frlgates. AS matter Of
fact. if either battleship in an engage
ment between vessels of today goes
within such a range of another, or
anything like it, it would simply be a
matter of the first shot. One big shell
delivered at such a range would leave
only the debris of the struck ship float
ing on the surface of the water.
Modern ships Of war are not devised
to get within any such range Of each
other in action. The nearest that any
of the opposing ships in the great ma
val battle on the Yalu got to each other
was a trifle under two miles, and what
one battleship can do to another at that
range is something beyond calculation.
The naval engagement of this era is
very largely a matter Of manoeuvring
of presenting the smallest possible
target to the guns of the enemy's ships
and OF forcing the enemy to present
their biggest hull to the rangefinders.
When the commander of ship i'm the
coming engagements can contrive to
get in his work on the enemy's Ves-
sci while only pointing with his nose
in their direction-leaving them practi-
Cally only a razor's edge target--he is
liable to eat them un. But while there
is still drill in the United States navy
called 'repellng boarders,' the drill is
only retained in the manual for the
sake of exercising the men, and the
only boarding that will be done i'm the
coming fights will be done by prize
crews, taking possession OF beaten
ships, after the latter have struck their
colors."
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
MERCURY FOR THE NAVY.
The steam Yacht ElIide Can Run
Over Mile in n Minute.
From Brooklyn Citizen.

Now that the speed with which a
vessel can be driven through the water
has become so important a factor in
the intercepting of a hostile fleet, it is
not TO be wondered at that public in
terest should be Centered I'm the swift
marine beauty Ellide, which has been
placed at the disposal of the United
states government by it's owner, F.
Burgess Warren of Philadelphia. The
Elllde is at present being fitted out as
a torpedo boat and dispatch courier.
She VIII be of the most valuable SER
vice TO the navy. She is to be equip
ped with small rapid-firing guns, her
decks strengthened and the handsome
saloons gwen up to the storage Of am
munition.
The Ellide is the fastest steam yacht
atloat She has actually travelled at
the rate of n mile in one minute and
thirty-tve seconds, and on occasions
has even made better time than that
With this speed the usefulness Of the
Ellldc i'm war times can scarcely be
overestimated. She could travel from
Key West to Havana in less than two
hours; could distance any hostile ship
that floats and sound an alarm along
the coast hours ahead of the arrival
OF a hostile ship that the Ellide has
sighted at sea. She could show clean
pair of heels to a vessel to be feared
and overhaul any unarmed boat be-
longing to an enemy's marine, no mat
ter how speedy the craft unlucky
enough to come in her way
Now, while you are thinking about
the speed Of the Ellide, take these facts
into consideration. She is so feet long
and feet inches deep. Her mean
draft is 3 feet inches. Here is a
point that is not to be forgotten as
well. The Ellides planklng is of that
finest material for a boat, double-sk
mahogany, She is a combination of
the pleasure and the second craft. Look
at the engine. 1t is a quadruple ex-
pansion affair, with nine cylinders,
9Nl3XlSX24 inches by a l0-inch stroke.
The Ellide's boiler is water tubed in
a polished brass casing. There are
two steam drums, and Connected to-
gether by great number Of solid
drawn steel tubes, so arranged that
the gases pass twice the length Of the
boiler among the tubes before enter
ing the stack thus practically absorb
ing all the heat from the gases Of COM
bustlon.
A guest Of the Ellide's owner. who
was on board at the time she made her
trial trip, thus describes her remark
able speed: THE most curious fact
Of all was that in spite of her tre-
mendous velocity she seemed to leave
no wake. 1t was a remarkable fact
to see a boat cut through the water
at the rate Of speed at which she was
moving and hardly disturb the element
at all. There was actually no waves
from her passage through the water.
"Those who were aboard of her and
sat by the open windows, well forward,
occasionally got dashes Of spray i'm
their faces, but no solid water. 1t
took far less time to travel from the
start to the finish of the test mile than
it takes TO tell how 1t was done. Be
fore we fairly realized we had started
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

the test was over, and the record had
been broken. I am firmly convinced
that but for one thing the Ellide would
have beaten minute and thirty
seconds. The incident that brought
this about was the misunderstanding
by the engineer of Pilot Packard's or
ders, which We're transmitted to him by
means of bell pulls. His error lay in
stopping the boat before she had fin
ished the mile, and she went the last
one hundred yards of the course simply
by means of the momentum gained
through her previous speed"
A mile in a minute and thirty-five
tseC6nds does NOT seem remarkable
until it is figured out what that means
by the hour. In this instance it means
80 miles, and is the swiftest time ever
made by any craft afloat.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

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The Misses Bells Complexion Tonic has
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
Sunday School Lesson for May %.
The Day of Judgement.
Matt XIV 31-46.
BY j. e. GILBERT, D. D., L. D.,
Secretary of American Society of Religious Education.

sustained? To the great mass lie was
mere historic character. How then could
they have rejected Him in poverty and
trouble? Cvcrse 4D. The answer to their
inquiry was plain, based upon the same
principle as the previous answer (vorse
iG). These had failed to render kindly
service to the followers of Jesus, and
that was taken as a slight to Jesus HIM
self Czech Iii. 81. Her two great truths
are reCognized-first, the unity of Christ
and His people, brought out in the other
case; second, the absence of good deeds
a proof of a bad heart, as the presence
of good deeds is proof Of a good heart
Matt. vii, 1G. 1t Is well to keep this
second truth in mind. A negative man.
one who merely refrains from evil is not
accepted. If there is any goodness in us
1t will come out in action DANES II, 15-i5.
The people of God all have one unfail-
ing mark CJOhn XIV, 81, the absence of
which in any CLASHES them.
FINALITY.--There has been a disposi-
tion on the part of many to tone down
the teaching of Christ up to this point
and thrust in human speculation. The
humanitarian spirit of the time has led
men to think that a good God could not
thus scpartae men and assign them to
eternal punishment That there might
be temporary sentence they admit, but
that I'm case of rCDputanCe i'm the coming
ages any might be restored. they believe.
Hence we have heard much of eternal
hope of restoration, and of ultt-
mate salvation. The closing sem
tcnce of the lesson (verso 46)
CONVEYS TO the Enblish reader, the
idea of finality. The great body of the
church has so urde rstood il as declaring
that the awards of the Judgment. as al
ready described, will never be reversed.
the one class going away into punish-
mont, the other class into life, To AVOID
this evident sense some expositors call at
tention to the fact that the Crock word
translated everlasting Is sometimes used
to denote only a period of time, This is
not denied by any one. But on the other
hand it lis the same word that is applied
to punishment of the wicked and the re-
ward of the righteous. If, therefore, It
has a limited sense in one case, so must
il have in the other and the force of
the verse is DESTROYED.
REFLECTIONS-It is generally be-
lieved that the righteous enter upon their
reward at death. Jesus promised that
the thief on the cross should meet Him in
Paradise duke xviii, 43), and in the para
BILE of the rich man and Lazarus the lat
ter is represented as passing directly into
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

INTERPRETATIONS sentence of
the judge awakened even greater surprise
than the other. The rejected multtudes
had no reason to hope for any welcome
or invitation, afr their separation and
the word spoken to the others. But on
what ground could such an accusation be
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
An Achievement.

1--WE sold that poem on spring at last"
he shouted. II made one slight change.
and II was purchased Immediately"
That shows what n subtle thing art
Is" said the friend "The slightest touch
may make or mar a masterpiece How
did you change your poem?"
Fixed up the last line so as TO work in
the name OF patent medicine Wash
ington Star.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
MEMORABLE SAYINGS
OF NAVAL HEROES
Phrases That Have Become Part oil
American History.

UTTERANCES OF BARRY, DECATUR,
LAWRENCE, PERRY AND HULL
"REMEMBER THE ALAMO" or SAM
HOUSTON, WHO WAS NOT \ SEA
HERO - FARRAGUTs AND GRAY
EMS wORDs-TATNAIL BLOOD
is THICKER THAN WATER"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
SAM HOUSTON.

A war cry that suggested the present
Remember the Maine" was that which
General Sam Houston gave to his corps
at the battle of San Jacinto-the bat
tie which gave freedom and independ-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

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La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-08-24

A recent visitor TO Trinidad from
this city reports the existence OF
iortv cases OF small pox in tina,
city Numerous towns along the
line OF the Santa Fe are taking ex-
ira precautions to prevent the
spread OF the contagion, a city
council IN one instance passing an
ordinance requiring all persons
who have not been vaccina,ed IN
seven wears to be vaccInated with
in fifteen days II would be a
good idea for the school board OF
the city council OF this city to take
some such precautionary measure
before the opening OF the schools
in September Visitors from the
infected districts pass through this
city daily.
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-08-24
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