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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-12-09
INCREASE IN THE NAVY.
President Endorses the Recommendation
If tho

President Endorses the Recommendation
of the Secretary.
The following recommendations of ;
secretary of the navy relative to the in
crease OF the navy have my earnest ap
prevail:
/. Three ea-going and copper-sheathed
battleships of about 1850 tons trial dis
placement, carrying the heaviest armor
and most powerful ordnance for vessels of
their class, and to have the highest prac
ticable sized and greatest radius of action.
Estimated cost, exclusive of armor and
armament $4,000
2. Three sheathed and coppered ar
mored cruisers of about $4,000 tons dis
placement, carrying the heaviest armor
and most powerful ordnance for vessels
of their class, and to have the highest
practicable speed and greatest radius of
action. Estimated cost. exclusive of ar
NOR and armament. 81, OOO, 900 each.
8. Three sheathed and coppered pro-
tected cruisers of about 5000 tons trial
displacement, to have the highest practi-
cable speed and great radius of action and
to carry the most powerful ordnance suit
able for vessels of their class Estimated
cost, exclusive of armor and armament,
e2,15QOO0
4 Six sheathed and coppered cruisers
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paid out in exchange for gold This is an
obvious duty. If the holder of the United
States note prefers the gold and gets it
from the government he should not re-
ceive back from the government United
States note without paying gold in ex-
change for Tor it. The reason for this is
made all the more apparent when the gov
eminent issues an interest bearing debt to
provide gold for the redemption of United
States notes-a non-interest bearing debt.
Surely, it should not pay them out again
except on demand and for gold If they
are put put in any other way they may
return again, to DE followed by another
bond issue to redeem them-another inter-
est-bearing debt to redeem a non-interest
bearing debt"
This recommendation was made in the
belief that such provisions of law would
insure to a great degree the safety of the
present standard, and better protect our
currency from the dangers to which it is
subjected from a disturbance in the gen.
eral business conditions of the country.
In my Judgment the present condition
of the treasury amply justifies the imme-
date enactment of the legislation recon-
mended one year ago, under which por-
ton of the gold holdings should be placed
in trust fund from which greenbacks
should be redeemed upon presentation,
but when once redeemed should not there
after be paid out except for gold. 1t is
not to be inferred that other legislation
relating to our currency is not required;
on the contrary there is an obvious de-
mand for it. 80,
The Importance of adequate provision
which will insure to our future money
standard related to our money standard
now and to that of our commercial rivals
is generally recognized.
The companion proposition that our do
nestle paper currency shall be kept safe
and yet be so related to the needs of our
indurties and international commerce as
to be adequate and responsive to such
needs is a proposition scarcely less impor-
tant The subject in all its parts is COM
mended to the wise consideration of the
congress-
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of about $500 tons trial displace-
ment to have the highest speed
compatible with good cruising qualities
great radious of action and to carry the
most powerful ordnance suited to vessels
of their class. Estimated cost, exclusive
of armament, 81, lac, 800 each.
join with the secretary of the navy in
recommending that the grades of admiral
and vice admiral be temporarily revived
to be filled with officers who have specially
distinguished themselves in the war with
Spain
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-12-09


warfare.
The overtures of Spain for peace through
the French ambassador, the drafting of
the protocol, the suspension of hostilities
and the appointment of the Paris peace
commission are also detailed.
Will Discuss New Possessions Later.
The negotiations have made hopeful
progress, so that I trust soon to be able to
lay definite treaty of peace before the
senate, with a review of the steps leading
to its signature.
l do not discuss at this time the govern
ment or the future of the new possessions
which will come to us as the result of the
war with Spain. Such discussion will be
appropriate after the treaty of peace shall
be ratified. In the meantime and until
the congress has legislated otherwise, it
will be my duty to continue the military
governments which have existed since our
occupation, and government of the people,
security in life and property and encour-
agement under a just and benefcent rule
A Governments for Cuba.
AS soon as we are in possession of Cuba
and have pacifed the island it will be
necessary to give aid and direction to it's
people to form government Tor them
selves. This should be undertaken at the
earliest moment consistent with safety
and assured success. 1t is important that
onr relations with these people shall be of
the most friendly character, and our COM
mercial relations close and reciprocal It
should be our duty to assist in every
proper way to build up the waste places
of the island, encourage the industry of
the people and assist them to form gov
eminent which shall be free and indepen-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18

~ OSSIP in England just at pres
ent is making much ado over
r the so-called Irritation Of the
Duke of York with the young
Princess Pless. The most strik-
ing feature about the whole
matter, from the older gossips' point
Of view, is the fact that twenty years
ago the Prince of Wales, the Duke of
York's father, was very much smitten
with Mrs. CORVALLIS West, mother of
the Princess Pless Mrs. CORVALLIS
West is now the wife or a very wealthy
German nobleman.
Like father, like son." they say, and
wag their gray heads sagely. Like
mother, like daughter" echoes the an
swer.
Is it inherited beauty and inherited
susceptibility that draws these two to
each other? Does the daughter of Mrs.
CORVALLIS West derive from her
mother an indefinable power of fascina-
ton which, exerted once over Albert
Edward, finds equal sway over his son?
It's an interesting question for the
psychologist.
The Duke of York is a rather feeble,
colorless young man. He has not the
qualities which have made his father
admired by the sport-loving public. If
he has any strong inclination it is to-
ward the eternal feminine. 1t Is be-
lieved that he married a naval officer s
daughter before his older brother died,
and was compelled by his family to dis
card her.
When the Duke of Clarence died the
Duke of York became heir to the
throne. He had been educated for the
sea, but in his new position he had to
stay ashore most of the time.
The Duke Of Clarence was engaged to
his cousin, the Princess May of Teclz.
When he died she became engaged to
rangement both convenient and consol-
atory.
The Duchess is not beautiful. Her
looks do not improve with age. She
is said to have a temper of alarming
quality.
Her trouble with her husband began
In this way. Last year the Duke and
Duchess of York paid visit to Ire
land. the British Government wishing
to show that the royal family loved
"our warm hearted and loyal fellow
subjects in the sister isle" as the Tory
newspapers put it. At great recep-
ton given by Earl Cadogan, the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of
York met the Princess Henry of Pless
and was smitten. The Princess spared
no pains to hold her royal admirer. She
1irted with him outrageously. She dis
played her prize too publicly.
The Princess was to have been pres
ent at house parties given by the Duke
of Abercorn and the Marquis of Lon
donderry, but the Duchess Of York pro-
tested so violently to her husband that
O
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w. Chisholm, a capitalist of Chicago
who had been operating in electrical
works, and after much effort finally
succeeded in enlisting him to take hold
of his project. The invention at that
time was in the shape of broad idea
in the mind of Mr.. Hall, but the two
went to work upon it. DR.. Chisholm
spent hundreds of thousands of dollars
before the process was fully evolved
The product was such that the tests
could not be made in a laboratory, but
a regular working plant had to be built
in which to conduct them. The small
est apparatus which Dr. Chisholm ever
used had a capacity of 1000, 900 feet per
day; and one of these he built and
tore down in all nineteen times.
The plant now being erected is on the
site of the old Selby smelter on Beach
street, between Hyde and Leavenworth
streets. The completed plant will cost
81, 100000 and will have a capacity of
100000 cubic feet per day. Gas will
first be furnished to the district of the
city comprising Stockton. Post, Suffer-
and Montgomery streets, and the local
ity generally bounded on the north and
east by the bay of San Francisco on
the west by Van Ness avenue and on
the south by Market street Gas will
be furnished consumers at 81 per 1000
cubic feet. The stock has been pooled
for five years with an agreement not
to increase the price Of gas bevond that
rate
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temperature as low as 45 degrees below
zero and, moreover, gas which costs
in It's manufacture less than 10 cents
per 1000 cubic feet and in places where
fuel is cheap, as low as cents per 1000
cubic feet, which burns with intense
heat, it's heat units being equal to that
of natural gas and greater than those
of water gas, such a gas has at last
been invented and a factory for its
manufacture is at the present time I'M
dergoing construction in San Francisco.
A small and somewhat experimental
plant has for the past ten months been
in existence in Kalamazoo. Michigan,
and has, during that period, been sup
plying that town.
Such a gas, it may be expected, is des-
tined to revolutionize the whole of the
industry. It's appearance in the indus
trial world is without doubt the great
est event since the application of steam
to power uses. For years the gas
world looked for the coming of a gas
which would do away with the use of
coal as fuel; thousands of attempts
were made to solve the problem, but
none succeeding, the belief came to
crystalline that such a gas was not pos
sible of production and that a cheap
gas must, necessarily, be poor gas.
The inventor of this process for MAX
ing gas is Thurston Gordon Hall,
gentleman whose struggle to get his
Idea upon it's feet has been a lifelong
one. Seven years ago he met DR.. J.
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and went to Cowes to participate in the
gayeties of the yachting season.
Immediately the Duke, having given
the Duchess the slip, turned about and
brought the Crescent into Cowes under
full steam. 1t was a brilliant piece Of
seamanship.
The Duke was more de--oted to the
Princess of Pless than ever. Their con-
versations, promenades and firtations
were the talk of everybody during the
yachting week.
Much of the fir .atfons took place on
the deck of her Majesty's warship
Crescent. The turrets, guns and bar
bettes of that gallant ship could tell
some amusing stories if they could talk.
! The Duchess stayed at home, speech
less with rage and jealousy. When the
Princess left Cowes again for Germany
the Duke went to London. At tho same
| time he gave up the Crescent. He was
! tired of it. 1t had lost it's chief at
| traction. His trip cost the taxpayers
! $4,000, and it is doubtful if his naval
education wa greatly advanced.
When he returned to London the
! Duchess took him and the children
away to Copenhagen to visit their
| Duke had an unhappy time when he
returned to the Domestic hearth.
| But once within the charmed vicinity
of the Princess of Pless-the Princess
of Flirts-he has no more power of re-
! sistance than tn. moth against the
! flame.
The Princess Henry of Pless is one
! of the most fascinating women of the
| European aristocracy. By her mother
she is Irish, by her father English, by
| her husband German.
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band carried her away from the gave
ties of the London season and took her
to Germany He thought that the
quiet and seclusion of his vast country
estates would be beneficial to her
health and reputation.
The Duke of York then became very
unhappy. He missed his bright and
and truculent wife appalled, him.
Therefore he concluded that the naval
cruise would be a good thing.
1t was given out that his Royal High
ness would complete his naval educa-
ton. How inspiring it is said the
English papers, Ito see our sailor Prince
! thus devoted to his arduous duties re-
gardless of the delights and comforts
of home"
The Duke was appointed to a cap
| tains rank IN the royal navy and en-
tered on his duties on the first class
| cruiser Crescent. He started out in
! June and was at sea for ten weeks.
The Dukes cruise may be defined as
a series of strategic coastwise maneu-
vers, with the object of evading the
Duchess of York and finding the Prin-
cess of Pless. The Duchess represented
the enemy and the Princess an ally.
The incidents of the cruise were varied.
Sometimes the Duchess scored a sue
cess; sometimes the Princess.
The Duchess with her two children
went from por. to port along the Brit
/ ish Channel to meet the Crescent and
its commander. This was partly to
/ calm public opinion. They were pho
| tographed in domestic groups at the
various ports.
Then the Princess of Pless escaped
! from her husbands castle in Germany
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the Princess was omitted.
Later, in London, the Duke and the
Princess met again, and the filtration
was renewed. The Duchess was fu-
rious. She threatened to leave her
husband. The British public caught a
glimpse of the trouble in the form of
two contradictory official announce
ments. The first stated that the Duke
would visit the British colonies in COM
mand of a naval squadron. 1t was
issued by the Duchess in the hope of
forcing the Princes hand and getting
him out of harms way. The second
came from the Duke, and denied that
he was about to leave England.
AT this point the Prince of Wales
hastily returned from the Continent
and effected a temporary truce. It
was brief. The Duchess, who is not
patient like her mother-in-law, the
Princess of Wales, found cause for
complaint. 1t was rumored that a sep
aration was imminent.
The Prince of Pless, who seems to
have figured hitherto as an impartial
onlooker, then became a factor IN the
situation. When the talk about the
Duke Of York and the Princess of Pless
became unpleasantly general her hus-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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No particular demand for flour.

In a few days he placed part of the
fiour in a large bin and then circulated
the report that he had lost diamond
ring valued at SITS in the flour while
enptying it in the bin. OF course the
agile reporter of the local newspaper
heard about the loss and wrote it up.
The merchant was greatly distressed
over his loss, and for several days con-
tinued to hunt for the ring in the flour
and refused to sell any of it.
Then he concluded that the ring was
hopelessly lost and said he would give
up the hunt and sell the flour, much as
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18
Placed part Of the flour in a large bin

he regretted to do so. The newspaper
man made due announcement of this
fact and then the flour trade took
sudden boom. A large number of per-
sons who had previously said they were
not in need of flour suddenly discovered
a great shortage and insisted on buying
large quantities.
The sad-eyed merchant told of his
grief at losing his valuable diamond
ring, as he ordered more flour and pro-
ceeded to stock up the families in the
neighborhood with enough to last them
until next year. He assured his Gus
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The agile reporter newspaper up ring

lost his diamond ring in the flour bin,
but concealed it for sinister motives,
and that even if he did happen to lose
it in the flour he fished it out right
away, and thu those who are buying
so much flour in the hope of finding a
diamond ring in one of the sacks and
are sitting up ni,elts to sift the -four
in useless search are victims of a
bunko game.
But the enterprising merchant ignores
such thrusts He says that he always
knew the people of Phelps County
would buy their flour where they could
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toners that he knew none of them
was buying flour merely because he had
the misfortune to lose his diamond ring
in the flour bin but for the reason that
all were out and anticipated another
war, with the consequence that flour
would greatly advance in price.
1t is said that when he sold all the
flour he could purchase in the vicinity
he ordered more from abroad, and is
still doing land Office business. Total
strangers who never had been in his
store before now visit him and go away
with numerous sacks Of -four. They
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all tell him that they had heard he
sold the best flour in the country, and
he modestly admits that such is a fact.
All his customers who had been in the
habit of dealing with him express great
sorrow over his loss of the ring and
occasionally he stops figuring up his
profits long enough to wipe away a
tear as he ack lowledges their good
ness of heart in rendering him con-
dolence.
Meantime envious merchants in that
part of the State have commenced in
timating that they do not believe he
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noxide called water gas as
superior and cheaper fuel than coal
gas, there shortly followed a great
change in the gas world upon the sub
ject of the manufacture of this pro-
duct
Professor loves theory was at va
rance with and was a great improve
ment over that of the coal gas;
through it's application there resulted
an entirely new product called water
gas.
One physical characteristic of water
gas, however. is that, under the inf1u-
ence of pressure, friction or low tenn
perature, it will deposit much Of frs
hydrogen In the form of water, and this
has to be pumped out of the "drips"
along the lines by which it is trans
mitted to the consumers. This loss
aggregates about 40 per cent of the to-
tai bulk of the manufactured product.
1t costs the California companies about
IS cents to manufacture gas.
But a gas which is a fixed gas" in
that it is homogeneous, elastic, does
not condense under pressure or friction,
and has successfully stood the test of
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" HERE is man at Edgar
Springs, Phelps County Mo-, en-
gagged in the general merchan-
disc business who will doubt
less make a fortune in a short
lime. The stories that come from there
concerning his methods to make bust
ness boom in dull times are numerous,
and one of them, at least, is worth re-
peating.
Recently he found himself with a
large quantity of flour on hand and
here was no particular demand for it.
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The marks on playing cards are said
to have their origin in a symbolical rep
resentation of four different classes of
society. Hearts represented the clergy;
spades, the nobility, derived from the
Italian word "spads," meaning sword;
clubs, the serfs; and diamonds the citi-
ZenS.
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Over 100000 horses are killed every
year for food in Paris, and there are
scores of restaurants where horse flesh
is regularly served as an article of foou.
The use of this meat has recently ex-
tended to many other cities of Europe.
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The flags to be hoisted at one time in
signaling at sea never exceed four It
is an interesting arithmetical fact that
with eighteen various colored flags and
never more than four at a time no
fewer than 1852 signals can be given.
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One-fourth of the people on the earth
die before the age Of 6, one-half before
the age of 16, and one person in each
hundred born lives to the age of IS.
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(.pRINCE5S HENRY. OF. PLES5

unlike that famous woman, she never
suffered the same public Reproduction.
She was a de 4ghter of Lady Olivia
Fitzpatrick, who in turn was the
daughter of the Marquis of Headfort,
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RNCE George Duke of York. of Prince of Wales and
a
| the OF
CIR to a of
and Immediately warshp
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Her mother, Mrs. CORVALLIS West,
twenty years ago, was the greatest
beauty in British society. She engaged
the attention of the Prince of Wales
at the same time as Mrs. Langtry, but,
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The hump on the back of the dromedary
is an accumulation of a peculiar species
of fat, which is a store OF nour1shment
beneficently provided against. the day of
want. to which the animal Is often ex-
posed The dromedary or camel can exist
for long period upon this hump without
any other food.
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get the best and cheapest brands, and
since they discovered that he kept no
other kind of flour they have been in
hurry to make large purchases before
the stock became exhausted.-St. Louis
Republic.
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Rs LATER STRANGE COINCIDENCE IN THE LOVE AFFAIRS
OF THE PRINCE
OF WALES AND
HIS SON, DUKE
OF YORK.
a great Irish nobleman.

a great Irish nobleman.
Mrs. CORVALLIS West married Colonel
CORVALLIS West, an English landlord,
with vast landed estates chiefly in
North Wales.
1t is said in England that the Prince
of Wales. VIII is very fond of the
Duchess of York, has determined that
the Duke shat cease his attentions
to the Princess of Pless. 1t will be in
teresting TO know how the Prince of
Wales proposes to accomplish this
task. Will he, perhaps. read him a
lesson from the history of his own life?
Will there be art-to-heart talk be-
tween father and son, and, If so,
wouldn't it make interesting reading?
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The Armenians claim to be the most
ancient nation on the earth, and are
doubtless like other Aryan races, of the
line of Japheth They have often been
compared with the Jews, and they ex-
hibit Semitic characteristics.
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CHEHP CHS Is COMING FIST NOW


HEN Professor Thaddeus 8.
c. Lowe, who has since be-
come famous as the builder
of the Pasadena Mountain
Railway. introduced the mo-
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. OSSIP in England just at pres
ent is making much ado over
r the so-called Irritation of the
Duke of York with the young
Princess Pless. The most strik-
ing feature about the whole