The times., 1898-08-09

opposed to it, In my opinion. from what
see, the shylocks Will win.
Johu Quincy Adams, OF Massachusetts,,
was Secretary of State under James
Monroe when the Monroe Doctrine had
its origin and PRONUNCIATION between 1877
and 1s25. Secretary Adams. in his in
structions to our minister 10 Spain, wrote
that Cuba and Porto Rico were natural
appendages to our continent ana tnat
Cuba had become an 'object OF trans
cendent Importance to the commerclai
and polftical interests OF our Union. Its
commanding position with reference TO
the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indian
seas; the character of its population; is
situation midway between our Southern
: coast and the island OF Santo Domingo;
its capacious and safe harbor of Havana.
fronting long line of our shores desti-
tU.e of the same advantages; the nature
of it's productions and its wants, furnish
, ing the supplies and meeting the returns
| of a commerce immensely profitable and
! mutually beneficial. give ii an impor-
| tance in the sum Of our national in,er-
| ests with which that of no other foreign
| territory can be compared. and little in
| ferior to that which bind the different
members OF this union together. Such
| indeed are between the interests of tina;
! island and this country the geographical,
| commercial moral and political relations.
| formed by nature, gathering in the pro-
| cess of time and even now verging to
maturity that in looking forward to the
| probable course of events for the short
period Of half Il century ii is scarcely
possible to resisI: the conviction that the
| annexation of Cuba to our Federal Re
| public will be Indispensable 10 the continu-
| ance and integrity of the Union itself.
| illinois is now producing sugar from
milk" said Sidney NJ. Gordon, of that
State at the National last night. "The
great dairy district of the Fox River Val
ley has another and novel method Of dis
| posing of its product A queer looking
! factory is in operation in Marengo. A
barbed wire fence stretched around il
so that the over-curious are kept at a
| distance. The owner is F. w. Patrick
who owns large number of creameries
| throughout the valley. The secret of re-
| fining the sugar is we'll kept, and seems
! TO be in the possession of but one man
| about the premises The cream is sepa-
rated from the milk upon being brought
| to the factory, the former being churned
| into butter. The SKINNED product is
curdied and then dried, after which it is
ground as fine as corn meal and shipped
I away to the East, where ii is converted
into liquid and used for glazing pur.
poses The whey left from the curd is
the substance from which sugar is made
It is boiled down to a syrup and reboileC
until sugar of a dark brown color i.
i formed. 1t is then trucked to the refinery
where 1t is sent through the secret pro
cess, after which 1t Is as fine and as
| light any of the granulated grades pur
chased in the store. Milk sugar is no
destined to compete with the product O.
the beet, because the former is intended
only for medicinal purposes and sells fol
something like 80 cents a pound. The in
dustry is in It's infancy, and it is no
known at present what its manufactur,
will lead to-"
A Maine soldier boy writes to a frien,
that an Arkansas guard who was $alkin:
with Maine sentry reaently said. IS nea
es I ken see ther amt much differenc
between weuns and youns, 'cept thet we
uns reckon and youns guess. - That
! about all, neighbor.'' replied the Main
man, '"cept that we can guess a dar
sight better than you can reckon" AM
the Arkansan trod along in silence, tryin
to reckon who got the better of tn
sally.
The lesson taught by the war tha
smokeless powder is powerful and al
most absolutely necessary factor in mod
ern naval engagements has been follow
edby decision of theNavy Department t
establish a factory for the manufacture @
the material without delay. The none
required is available but the department
was hastened in its action 80 construc
the factory on account of the excellen
| results attained from the use of smoke
| less powder by the cruiser New Orleans
/ which was enabled TO fire with greater ra
| pitiity and accuracy in the several bonn
bardments of Santiagos defenses on ao
count of the exclusive use of the import
ed explosive. The Spanaards also use
smokeless powder. and while their poo
of tn;