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The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
An Editors uara Lot.

There are always those who will kick For instance, if you publish jokes with whiskers on them some will say that you ought to be in ~lunatic joint. If you don print something to smile at, they say you are pessimistic fossil If you spread yourself and write good, original article, they will say it is stolen. If you reprint an article, they say you can't write. If you say de- serving word for a man, you are partial 1; if you compliment the women, the men are jealous, and if you don t the verdict of the women is to the effect that your paper is not fit to use in the co7struc tion of a bustle. If you stay in your office, you are afraid to remain on the streets; if you do you are lazy If you look seedy, you are squandcring your money; if you wear good clothes, you are dude, and don't pay for then, If you play a soci Il game of any kil d and get stuck, you are fish, If you win, you are a tin horn, and so 1t goes through one col tinual round of pie Isant complications --Roslyn (Mich. Senti- nel
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
THE BEAUTY.

Haill Now she speaks. The roses ope their ruddy hearts to list The breezes cease to coax the lily bells To sound their voiceless chime. The nightingale is mute. And when she smiles 'Tis like the break of day Ger Persian valleys faint with odors sweet Or like entrancing melody Coniured by master hand from strings Aglow with heavenly fire. And when she laughs Ah, then, the ripping music of her mirtl Awal1ens sleeping joy, deep toned and full Of love as bells enriched with gold On MoScow's towers swungi
 Ernest Jarrold in Yellow Book.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

There is more Catarrh in thIs section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable For great many years doctors pro- nounced 1t local disease, and prescribed local remedies and by cREEianfly failing to cure with local treatment, Sunced it incurable Science has proven caIArrh to be a constitu- tanal disease, and therefore requires constitu- tiOnal treatment. Halls CataTrh Cure manu- factured byF. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio is the only constitutional cure on the market It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoOnful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars fo- any case it fails to cure Send for circulars and testimonials. Address
 F. J. CHENEY & co, Toledo O Sold by Druggists 75c.
 Halls Family Pills are the best.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
THE GROWTH OF SOCIALISM.

Ii Is argued by deep thinkers that the growth oi socialism Is due to the large standing armies of the world. in which men are often made to enlist against their will, and thus become dis contented with existing conditions. The growth of a stronger race of people is due to the large Sale Of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which is the best medicine for cosIiveness, dyspepsia, fever, ague and all nervous troubles. Try one bottle.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
Cake
made with Schillings Bcst baking powder has no bitter
 taste. 1
Grotesque Spanish Honor.

The Washington Times recalls story about the Duke of Wellington that il- lustrateJ the fantastic idea of honor held by many Spaniards, contrasted with the practical common sense of English men. When the duke was cooperating with the Spanish army iii the peninsula against Napoleon, he was desirous on one occasion during 0 general engage ment that the general commanding the Spanish contingent should execute a cer- tain movement on the field. He con- municated the wish to the Spaniard personally and was somewhat taken aback to be told that the honor of the king of Spain and his army would com pei him to refuse the request unless Wellington, as foreign officer gracious ly permitted to exist and fight on Span ish soil. should present the petition on his knees.
 The old duke often used to tell the story afterward, and he would say, "Now, 1 was extremely anxious to have the movement executed, and didn't care a 'twopenny damn about getting on my knees. so down l pumped P'
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
A verx smaII Plece of Ut.

She-Have you forgotten how you once said you would give the world for me?
 He-What if did?
 "Oh, nothing particularly, but it seems very strange now that you won't even sell that little old suburban lot so that l can have a new wheel I''-In- dianapolis Journal
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
Removing Rust From Iron.

The accumulation of rust on iron ar ticles is SO annoying that any simple process of removing it will be received with great satisfaction by large num- Der of persons. The following directions are given: Attach a piece of ordinary zinc to tho articles and then let them lie in water to which little sulphuric acid is added. They should be left i'm mersed foc several days or a week, until the rust has entirely disappeared, the time depending on how deeply they were rustt,d. If there is much rust, a little sulphuric acid should be added occasionally. The essential part of the process is that the zinc must be i'll good electrical contact with the iron. A good way is to twist an iron wire tightly around tho object and connect this with the zinc, for which remnant of bat tery zinc Is suitable, as it has binding post.
 Besides tho simplicity of this process 1t has the great advantage that the iron itself is nDt attacked ill the least as long as the zin; is ill good electrical contact with it. Delicate pieces of mechanism which have become badly rustcd can be cleaned by wrapping a galvanized wire around them instead of the zinc, in which case the acid should not be too strong. When the rust is all cut off, the articles will appear dark gray or black. They must then be thoroughly washed and oiled It. is we'll to warm them slightly when dry so that the oil may the more easily sink into the surface. Where thore are sharp edges and fine work this process is said to be eminent Iy satisfactory. New York Ledger.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

No household is complete without bottle of the famous Jesse Moore Whiskey. 1t is pure and wholesome stimulHnt receOmmened by all physicians. Don't neglect this necessity.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
Lungren in Century.

Blunders In Songs and Programmes. l suppose all composers have had a laugh over the extraordinary mistakes which sometimes occur in the first proofs of their songs. Iremember, years ago, writing a very sentimental love song in which the line occurred: I've never once regretted the VOW made that
 day.
 My feelings may be imagined when found they had printed I've never once regretted the row made tha,
 day.
 And onco the following amusing mis- take occurred in the programme of one of my own concerts. A well known singer and very good friend of mine was down to sing my two songs, "TC Mary" and Grabbed Age and Youth. '' But the newspaper announced some thing very different. Not content with drawing up a programme of my concert, it drew upa programme of my future for read as follows:
 Mir. Blank
 To Marry Maude Valerie White
 CfLbbed Age and Youth
 -Cornhill Magazine.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

l believe Piso's Cure is the only me5i- cine thal will cure cOnsumI tiOn.-AmIa h Ross, \ hilliamsport, Pa, Nov. lZ, 95.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
OLD MESA LIFE.
Ehe Pueblo Woman Was Always the Head
 of the Household.

the Pueblo Woman Was Always the Head
 of the Household.
 When the men went down to the fields, the pueblo was really in control of its rightful owners, the women. In these old communities the woman was the important partner i'll the household. She was the owner of the house and all it contained She built it and furnished it with its utensils of daily use. The children traced descent through the mother and took her clan name. The mans position, other than mere pro- wider, was that of an honored guest, and if he presumed disagreeably on his position more likely than not he was t ut back f9 lis o-sL home Far from being the general slave and pack animal that IS her sister of the plains tribes, the Pueblo woman S duties were purely domestic, ana ii she ever worked in the field 1t was for the common good, to save the scanty harvest in time of need.
 The grinding of the many colored corn for bread, the weaving and the making of pottery were her principal occupations, and are to this day. The Pueblo Indians are par excellence the pOtters of the southwest, and it will be confessed that they come fairly by the title, as an examination of some of the old time ware will prove, although in this case, as in some others, the evolu- tion has not been for the better
 In the small house cell or in the white sunlight the potter sat, and, with scarcely any tools at all, fashioned such specimens of the potter's art as to chal- lenge admiration from us with all our appliances The use of the potter's wheel was unknown, and the throwing of @ shape by this means out of the ques- tion; but with a hollow bit of basket ware or a piece of broken pot for a SUD- port all the forms from simple food bowl up to the largest and most elabo- rate water jars were built up by coil on coil of clay, snOothcd or modelled in pattern as the vessel grew, and when one examines some of the ancient pieces, notably those excavated by Dr. Fewkes of the Smithsonian institution, one can but marvel.
 Then came the decorating, and in ev- cry case, from the simplest to the most elaborate and intricate symbolic design, one must confess that the Indian uses the truest inceptive and fundamental art principles There never is any waste of energy in "effcct The design al- ways means a concrete thing, which appeals to the understanding of the In dians for whose use the utensils are Through these same pottery forms and their decoration runs one of the stron- gest chains binding the old to the new. Near mo are two iinajas. or water jars. One is many generations, perhaps cen turies, old the other perhaps i've years, al3 yet in shape and general decoration Cney arc much alike and if the newer one was properly 'tonod" they would pass as of the same period
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
Feed Your Nerves

Upon rich, pure, nourishing blood by talk ing Hoods Sarsaparilla, and you will be free from those spells of despair, those sleepless nights and anxious days, those gloomy, deathlike feelings, those sudden starts at mere motbings, those dvspeptic symptoms and biiDding hradaches. Hoods Sarsaparilla has done this for many otners-is '' ,ii ouee ,au.
 HOOD = SARSp 2ARsHA Is America's Greatest Medicine $i. six for 8. HOODS PILLS cure SICK neadacne. zo cents.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

The United Kingdom consumes 600, 900 pounds, or about 1, 0O0, 900 gallons of tea every day, which is as much ns is 1sed by tho rest at Eurono North and S-4-a Al..-rr. hrs-.- .Ht Australia NsAsaDA4.,,,a
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

all-gone feelings, palpita- tion of the heart, bearing-down sensa- tion and painful menstruation. could not stand but few minutes at time.
 When commenced taking your med- icine l could not sit up half day, but before I had used half bottle was up and helped about my work.
 I have taken three bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and used one package of Sanative Wash, and am cured of all my troubles. feel like new woman. can do all kinds of homework and feel stronger thap I ever did in my life. Inovv weigh 1315 5& pounds. Before using your medicine ' weighed only lOs pounds.
 Surely it is the grandest medicine for weak woman that ever was, and my advice to all who are suffering from any female trouble is to try it at once and be we'll. Your medicine has proven blessing to me, and l cannot praise it tenough.-Mrs. LUCY GOODWIN, Holly, w. Va.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

ETC Permanently Cured. No fits or nervous tiAS ness after first days use of Dr. KIines Great Nerve Restorer, Send for FREE &2 .OO trial bottle and treatise. DR. R. H. KLINE, Ltd. s30 Arch St., Philadelphia. Pa.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
MRS. LUCY GOODWIN

Suffered four years with female trou- bles. She now writes to Mrs. Pinkham of her complete recovery. Read her letter:
 DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-I wish you to publish what Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound, Sanative Wash
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
AnIte ItkeIv

Quite Likely "1'll tell you the story in nutshell, P said Fosdick. "Chestnut shell?" asked Keedick. - Detroit Free Press.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

Try schming's Best tea and baking powder
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08
Cheap Irrigation.

The best and cheapest irrigating plant, from to 200 H. r. is the Hercules Gasoline Englng and Pumping Plant, built exclusively by the Hercules Gas Engine Works, 4O5 SansOme Street. San Francisco, the largest builders in the west
 Write for circulars and information concern Plant Hundreds sold this year; just the plant for prompt efficient and economical irrigating service. A plant of this kind may save your crop.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

| AlNCL 4 HIS have done for me.
 I suffered ! for four years
 with womb
 trouble. My I doctor said I falling of
 the womb. 1 also suffered with nervous frof;0n faint
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

at long distance. More than 21,OOO,OOO catalogues are issued annually. There is certainly room for a great extension of this industry in California, which has shown itself to be so we'll adapted to the growing of flowers, and especial ly of garden seeds.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

pau by parents III California at this time, and the comparisons show a say ing of 47 1-3 per cent in favor of the California State series.
 Under the old system a parent moV- ing from one county or district to an- other was forced to discard the school books already purchased and buy new ones, while under the present system the school books purchased in the re- motest district of Modoc county can be used in any district in San Diego coun- ty or elsewhere in California. Our State has a large migratory population. and this unnecessary tax for school books bore heavily upon the people un- til the welcome change made by tho adoption of the State school book sys- tenn.
 The fact that number of other states are showing an inclination to follow California's example in the pub lication of their own school books is an additional motive that impels the combine" to the most desperate efforts to cripple and destroy our State system, so that it may be regarded as a failure, and other states thus deterred from adopting such a system.
 The battle royal between the people, represented by State Printer A. J. Johnston on the one side, and the bOOk-pub isbing monopoly on the other, is now fl full swing, and if the issue is thorou ,hly understood there ought to be no doubt as to the result of the contest.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-08

HOODS PILLS cure SICK neadacne. Za cents.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-02-12

1t would indeed be as interesting to
see Mr.. Mitchell taking the stump for
the single gold standard as it has been
to watch the antics of goat team
starting for Klondike. What ridi-
iculous plight he will be in attempting
to get on gold-standard platform.
He will be not only q goat but a con-
summate ass if he attempts it. and
what d plight he will put his lieuten-
ants in. Mr.. Mitchell, by his speeches
and his votes in the senate, has edu-
Gated his followers to believe that the
gold standard worked a hardship upon
the American producers; that it was
the cause of their past depression, and
that they could not hope for relief
from their bondage until silver was
restored to its rightful heritage.
Now, will he renounce all his former
views for the sake of getting back into
the United States senate? Will he
sacrifice his principle for Office? Will
he worship at the shrine of Hanna and
the Oregonian in order to get their
support in the coming election? If he
does, will his supporters follow his lead
and max. fools of themselves by say
ing "wherever John II. Mitchell leads
there also will follow"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-02-12

been convicted of the crime charged
in the indictment and has been
sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
In Leutgert's case there was no
shadow of an extenuating circum-
stance. His deed could not have been
accomplished under excitement or in
repulsing an assault. II he is guilty
he deliberately planned the murder
and then endeavored to cover up his
crime by destroying the body. His
deed was either -blooded, de-
liberate murder or he was innocent OF
any crime. The jury before whom he
was tried said he was guilty, and
The statues of Illinois provide the
death penalty as the punishment for
murder in the first degree. But
judicial leniency has intervened and
cheated the gallows OF its just fruit.
The mere fact that one murderer
has escaped the gallows is of little i'm
portance, were it not for the effect it
has upon communities. The punish
ment to Leutgert of being confined in
the penitentiary the remainder of his
life may be as great as death, but it
has not the effect to create fear in the
minds of other criminals that his
hanging would have. Such leniency
has the effect to bring the law into
contempt. or to create the impression
that extreme penalties will not be in
fiicted. 1t is case of miscarried
Justice whenever cold blooded
murderer escapes hanging after hav-
ing been convicted.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-02-12
A BIG CONCESSION.
Americans to Control the Entire Livestock
Industry.

Americans to Control the Entire Livestock
Industry.
NEW YORK. Feb. S.-The Herald
says one of the largest concessions
ever obtained by an American from a
foreign government has fallen into the
hands of syndicate of New York cap
italists, who have completed the
organization of a company to control
the expectation and importation OF
cattle and livestock of all descriptions
from and to the republic of Honduras.
The concession is for 25 years.
This concession was granted in
August, 1895, by the governor of Hon.
duras to Mr.. Otto Zurcher, citizen OF
Switzerland. His labors resulted in
the formation a few days ago of the
Honduras-American Cattle, Agricult-
ural and Colonization Co. B. Il. Bar
low, of New York, is president of the
company; Jose Antonio Lopez, OF
Guatemala, vice-president, and Cap
tain J. 81. Imboden, of New York, is
general manager. The company is to
be capitalized at S5,O00,O0O-
The exclusive right to establish and
operate slaughter-houses, refrigera-
tors, canning factories, packing houses
and other establishments of like ma
ture is granted, as is exemption from
all taxation on the company's property
and products. About 100000 acres of
public land will be granted to the
oo1nnanv
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-02-12
PHANIONS OF HOPE.

The newspaper press generally have
clearly shown that in the klondike
misery awaits the many and fortune
the ucry, very few. The evidence is
conclusive, convincing, says the WalIa
Walla Statesman. No one of the
thousands now moving on the Klon-
dixie is ignorant that the chances are
as million to one against him.
Will this demonstration of the folly,
the madness of the adventure stay the
rush?
Not at all. In all probability not a
single one of the thousands who had
their minds made up to 60 will be
changed or even discouraged. The
warning is as vain as would be an at
tempt to end the popularity of lottery
tickets by printing the figures show
ing how many thousands of blanks
there are to every prize.
Human nature is so hopefully con-
stituted that past and prospective
hardships and sufferings seem not
only not discouraging but in a
measure attractive. Also, every indi-
vidual believes in ''luck" in general
and in his own luck in particular.
"Others will fail, suffer, sta"ve. die.
he says, "but 1 shall win and shall
return rich"
1t must rot be forgotten that this
fatuous, hardly sane over-confdence
and hopefulness is the force that has
lifted US from naked gnawers of the
bones of wild beasts to our present
comfortable and luxurious estate.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-02-12
LET US WORK TOGETHER.

During the turmoil of the coming
political campaign The Dalles must
not let interest lag in the various
enterprises that are aow being agita-
ted for the betterment and growth of
the city. However much the citizens
may disagree upon political issues, and
however much they may desire to put
to the front their respective parties or
candidates, they all have a common
interest in the upbuilding of The
Dalles, and thus increase their facili-
ties for accommodating wealth.
From present appearances this
promises to be year of great activity
iu the city in the way of general i'm
proVement and advancement. There
is more general sentiment existing
now than ever before that something
must be done to push The Dalles to
the front in order that it may retain
its prestige as the leading commercial
city of Eastern Oregon. Railroads
leading into the interior are being
considered and manufacturing in
dustries are talked of, and it may we'll
be said that a spirit of enterprise has
sprung up in the community never be-
fore witnessed here.
All that is required to accomplish
good results is for everybody to pull
together, lay aside factional preju-
dices and work for common cause
the advancement of the city. If We
will but do this there is no reason why
hits will not show more advancement
in the city than any previous year of
it's history,
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-02-12
WE SHOULD INTERVENE.

Relations between this government
and Spain begin to assume decidedly
strained appearance again. and that
war may yet result is not improbable.
The Spanish government has once
more positively declined any inter
vention on the part of the United
States to bring about peace between
the home government and Cuba, and
about all that is now left is for this
government to either clear its skirts Of
all responsibility in the matter and al
low Spain to proceed with her system
of quelling the rebellion by means OF
butchery and starvation, or take firm
stand that will result in war.
The tone of Sagasta's declination of
she friendly offers of the United States
is not such as to encourage the belief
that friendly relations can continue in
defnitely. If his answer to Minister
Woodford is correctly reported, it is
one scarcely entitled to the respect of
this notion, for it is not justified nor
sustained by positive and palpable
facts. He is reported as saying in
substance, that there is no occasion
for intervention or arbitration by the
American government, because Spain
does no. yet admit that she cannot sub
due the insurgents. nor that her
scheme of proposed autonomy is
or will be a failure. This is petu-
liant braggadocia. rather than the calm
and considerate language of a states
man in a high, responsible. delicate
and dangerous position. We all know
that Spain's attempt to subdue the
and that autonomy, proposed by one
party and utterly rejected without con-
sideration is not only failure, but a
farce.
1t would be folly for the United
States to longer party with Spain
under these circumstances, and it
would seem that the time is come
when this nation must maintain its
dignity by force of arms or accept the
insults of Spain with the complacency
that we have been meddling with
affairs in which we had no business.
Justice to humanity and selfrespect
for itself should not permit the adop-
tion of the latter course. This gov.
ernment ought to intervene at once,
and if war is the result, let it come.