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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-05-09
BURSTING OF A BOILER.

Baltimore, May s.-The boiler of an
engine attached to a freight train on the
baltimore and Ohio railroad exploded
Sunday near waterville, Carroll county.
Engineer Burns and Fireman Schillin-
ger were instantly killed. Two freight
cars were derailed and slightly dam
aged, but there was not much DELAY To
traffic. 1t is not known what caused the
explosion
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-05-09

The American legation at Constanti-
nople has received more than 1000 Of
fers of volunteers for the American ma
Wy, chiefly Of Greeks, some of whom
declare themselves ready to pay their
fare to the United States in grateful
remembrance of Americas aid in the
Greek war Of independence. -Philadel
phia Press
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-05-09
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND.

This is the standing OF the clubs of
the National league: Baltimores, Gin
cinnatis, Clevelands. Brooklyns, Chi
cagos Bostons, Pittsburgs, New Yorks.
Philadelphias. Louisvilles, st. Louis and
WashiDgtons.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-05-09
WHAT DO THE CHILDREN DRINK

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you
tried the new food drink called Grain-OY IL
piaos Of coffee. The more Grain-O YOU give
tho children the more nealth YOU distribute
through their systems. Grain-O Is made of
tastes like the choice grades OF coffee but
costs about u as much. All grocers sell it.
and 25c.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-05-09

wyNCLE EZEKIEL OBEAR. assessor and
tax collector. Beverly. Mass. who has
passed the sQth life mile stone. says:
"Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine has done a
great deal Of good. Isunered for years from
sleeplessness and nervous heart trouble.
Would fee. weary and used up in the morn
ing, had no ambition and my work seemed q
burden. A friend recommended DIR. Miles
Ncrvine. and purchased bottle under
protest as had tried so many remedies un-
successfully. thought 1t no uso. But 1t
gave me restful sleep. a good appetite and
restored mo to energetic health. 1t Is a
grand good medicine. and will gladly writo
anynna innuirinr- full narficnl ara of M " anf-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-05-09

Coughs and colds down 10 the very border
land OF consumption. yield to the soothing,
healing Influences OF Or. Woods Norway
Pine Syrup.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-05-09

pangs Of dyspepsia. No need to. Burdock
Blood Bittcrs cures. At any drug store.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-05-09

Impossible to foresee an accident. Not im-
possible TO be prepared for H. DIR. Thomas
Eclectric Oil-Monarch over pain.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-05-09

ehy 'AtO Atf't oAAiibs Ahh
isfactory experience"
DIR. Miles, Remedies
are sold by all drug
gists under a positive
guarantee. first bottle
benefits or money re-
funded. Book on dis
eases OF tho heart and
nerves FREQ. Address,
DIR. MILES MEpICA
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-05-09

Scratch. scratch. scratch: unable to attend
20 business during the day OF sleep durin 9
the night. Itching piles. horrible plague.
Dosr's Ointment cures. Never fails Az any
drug store, 80 cents.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-08-16
--Established 1865
BISHOP 81 90.
BANKERS.

Transact a General Banking
md Exchange Business.
Commercial and Travellers
Letters of Credit issued, avail
able in all the principal cities
of the world.
Interest allowed after July
1, 1898, on fixed deposits 3
months 3 per cent, 6 months
81 per cent, II months A
per cent.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-08-16

This ever popular Rainier beer
is becoming a household word
and "will you have glass OF
Seattle" is more often heard than
anything else. The Criterion
Saloon have the beer on tap or in
bottles.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-08-16
BY AUTHORITY.
School Notice.

The Government Schools throughout
the Hawaiian Islands will open for the
Fall Term on Monday, September 18th,
and will close on Friday, December 23rd.
BY order OF the Department OF Public
Instruction.
c.. ROGERS,
990-3t Secretary.
Arizona republican., 1898-08-11

"The Island of Porto Rico" is the subject of an interesting illustrated ar tiHe by Fred A. Ober in the August Century. MT. Ober says:
 Those early settlers may we'll have deserved their fate; still, one may hardly withhold sympathy from them in their many and varied misfortunes. In 1515 they had visitation of ants which devoured everything before them; and then, soon after the insects had been driven away or destroyed, an epidemic of the small pox decimated their ranks swiftly followed by an- other disease, more insiduous, but scarcely less fatal in it's effects. In 1929 French pirates burned the town of San German, on the south coast; the fierce Carlos ravaged the eastern provinces, carrying off some of their prominent men to be sacrificed at can- nibal repasts; and seventy years later, in 1895, "that great pirate, Don Fran cisco Drake" appeared off San Juan, which city he sacked, the English claim; but to be gloriously repulsed, the Spaniards say. The Notifications of San Juan then mounted seventy pieces of artillery, with thirty-four in the great Castillo del Moro alone. There is no doubt that Dutch attack was repelled in 1915, and another Eng fish attempt defeated in 1878; but in the latter instance the Porto Ricans were aided by a hurricane, which de- Istroyed many Of the ships of war The is,.' nders were wont to point many a moral with this signal instance of di- vine interpositior until fleet of their own was similarly destroyed in TOP, when it seemed to them more rational to ascribe such an event to natural causes
 l During the greater part of the sev- enteenth century the filibusteros and bucaneros, composed of combined Dutch, French, and English renegade adventurers, continually harried the coast and attacked the supply gale ons coming from Spain. At first in- trenched in the island of St. Kits they were driven out by fleet under Don Ferderico Toledo, fitted out ir Porto Rico, when they f1ocked to tht island of Tortuga, north of the coast of Haiti, whence they preyed upor Spanish commerce at their conven. fence.
 The Moro of San Juan, standing we'll out at sea, was a chip on tht Spanish soldier at which passing ships could not resist taking shot ol two The last great attack upon Sar
 Juan previous to the American bonn bardment of this year, was in 1797, b,
 the English, under Abercrombie. wh,
 were compelled to retire after thre,
 days siege.
 During the century that has elapsed since that event the inhabitants of thi
 rock-ribbed fortress town have boastet
 the impregnability of their fortif1ca
 tions, until so rudely disturbed by tn, guns of modern battleships
Arizona republican., 1898-08-11

American officers. They drink to each others health, the bottles pass ing back and forth across the trenches. Our officers have little to offer in the way of refreshments ill return, except their canteens of water, which form a most necessary adjunct to the hot Spanish rum, if one wants to keep actual flame from shooting out of his threat.
 The enlisted men on either side take their cue from their superiorS and draw closer together. They soon be gin to manifest the commercial in- stinct which always follows most ac- lively the track of war. Our boys soon learn that the thing most desired by their erstwhile enemies is food. The Spanish find out coincidently that the thing most wanted by the Americans is drink. Exchanges are quickly eff fected Hardtack and "sow belly" are parsed over the trench and rum is handed back in return. There seems to be nc definite idea of value attached to these transactions. I see one man get a quart bottle of rum for handful of fardtack, while another and appar-
 
 throws in a big can of pork and beans for a bottle of the drink. As they be- g.n to get warmed up by the rum our men become more generous, and soon hegin to throw hardtack over to the hungry soldiers across the way, indif- ferent whether they get anything in return, or not Finally some one throws a whole box of crackers over among the Spaniards, and the grand scramble for the cherished food excites the liveliest humor among our boys. heard only one word which savored of cherished resentment, and that was spoken half in jest, I think. Soon af- ter the Spaniards began coming up to our line one of our soldiers shouted Remember the Maine" But two or three of his comrades hustled him asine and upbraided him for saying such a thing at such a time. It would be impossible to imagine an instance of greater forbearance on the part of victors for the feelings of the men they had met in a fair fight and had conquered. It seemed as if the spirit of Grant at Appomattox inspired the American army at Santiago de Cuba.
 
 officers present there were several who could speak pretty good Spanish, and with their aid a general conversation was carried on with the officers of the surrendered Spanish. They said they were heartily glad the affair was over They had fought against great odds in the matter of the lack of food and sup r:Iies generally. They had had nothing but rice cakes for nearly month, and were weak and hungry. They were in deadly fear of a massacre by the Cubsns, and heartily appreciated the rroteotIng arm Of magnanimous though victorious foe. They told Us the Cubans had cut the throats of their wounded at Fl Caney after the fight of July 1. I tried to verify this statement from cur officers, but they had heard lnothlre and seen nothing of it, though they hsd charged right on to San Juan hill. and paid little attention to anything but the enemy in front.
 Almost the first man I meet when | ! go cut On the line to see the surren- der is Captain P. P. Powell of the Tenth United States cavalry. He Is an ex-confederate soldier, from Lou don county, Va. As we stand and
Arizona republican., 1898-08-11

watch the Spaniards preparing to for mally surrender Captain Powell grows reminiscent. Just to think he re- marks, "thirty-three years ago 1 was at Appomattox, occupying the same position to the old flag that those fel- lows occupy today And, don't you know, they remind me a little of what our boys looked like though they are much better dressed than we were. l got bullet from the side of Old Glory during that war, but this time I was sending bullets the other way"
 Captain Powell company was in the thick of the fighting all the way from Baiquiri to the front line before San tiago
 Just here I wish to say one word for the colored troops, of which the Tenth cavalry is part. They have borne a gallant and noble part throughout this campaign From their white com rades in arms I hear only words of praise for the part they took in tAe hot fighting of July and 2. Wherever the fight was hottest there they seemed to get by natural attraction, and the result was never in doubt when they went in. But there is another phase of the valor of the colored soldier of which I have personal knowledge. The fever broke out at Siboney and men were being carried up to the camp in the hills by the score, and it looked like the army was going to be swept away by the dread scourge. The sup ply of nurses was wholly inadequate to meet the demands of the situation. f0r ho;, the disease, and the transports going north were crowded with terror-strick- en men. The Twenty-fourth infantry had been ordered to Siboney from the front to do police duty. There was a call for nurses. The officers of the called their men up and explained the situation and asked for volunteers. This was not facing death on the battle field, where valor would be recognized, but an invitation l to meet the grim destroyer in that quiet way which is even more trying | to mems nerve. But there was no hes l itation on the part of the colored sol diers. As one man they stepped to the front to face this new and insidu- ous danger as they had faced the dan ger of the battle field. It can be said again of him that the colored soldier has fought nobly None in all the ranks is there entitled to a place of more conspicuous honor on this oc- casion of victory than he.
 The boys of the District regiment took prominent part in the ceremon- ies. AS their band played the nation air Colonel Harries brought the regi- ment to a present arms. and after the hurrahing they sang couple of stan- gas of My Country 'Tis of Thee.'
 As I saw Spaniards who came up to our lines to surrender today and noted their manly bearing and then remem- bered all that had been said of them could not help repeating to myself that fine old poetical apothegm which goes ! I think:
 'In men whom men account as ill>
 find so much of goodness still; In men whom men account divine
 find so much of sin and blot,
 l hesitate to draw the line between
 the two. where God has not"
 Because a man has wheels it does not follow that he is noted for his graceful carriage.-Boston Transcript
Arizona republican., 1898-08-11
Rich A.ian's tea is SeAilllugs Best. It is delicious. !,
UNHAPPY PORTO RICO.

The Spaniards in the Islands Have
 Had Varied List of Misfortunes.
Arizona republican., 1898-08-11

Because a man has wheels it does not follow that he is noted for his graceful carriage-Boston Transcript.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31
Good Advice to Bows.
GEO. N. Moss.

You are learning trade. That is a
good thing to have. 1t is better than
gold. Brings always premium. But
to bring a premium, the trade must be
perfect-no silver plated affair. When
you 60 to learn trade, do so with de-
termination to win. Make up your
mind what you will be, and be it. De
termine in your own mind to be a good
workman.
Have pluck and patience. Look out
for the interests of your employer
thus you will learn to look out for your
own. Do not wait to be told every
thing. Remember. Act as though you
wish to learn. If you have an errand
to do, start off like boy with some
life. Look about you. See how the
best workman in the shop does, and
copy after him. Learn to do things
well. Whatever is worth doing at all
is worth doing well. Never slight your
work. Every job you do is sign. II
you nave uOuS OuC iu lCA HliuutCSi SCC
| if you cannot do the next in nine. Too
many boys spoil lifetime by not hav-
ing patience. They work at trade
until they see about one-half of its
mysteries and than strike for higher
wages. Act as if your own interest
and the interest of your employer were
the same. Good mechanics are the
props of society. They are those who
stick to their trades until they learn
them. People always speak well of a
boy who minds his own business. who
is willing to work and who seems dis
posed to be somebody in time. Learn
the whole of your trade.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31

EDITOR Armstrong of the Beacon
asserts that practically all the business
men. all the professional men, all of
the tax payers of Great Bend who will
vote next Tuesday to endorse the
action of our present city mayor and
council will be sin favor of anarchy,
disloyalty," etc. He, the frenzied
howler who was imported here from
a western county by men who have
since acknowledged that they made a
great blunder II that particular, sets
himself up as judge and jury, as "the
whole thing" to tell the old>timers,
the men and women who have for
years labored to build up our hand
some and prosperous little city, that
they are ''disloyal," are anarchist"
and do not know little bit how to
run a town. He does not own a foot
of property in the city or county. and
does not care whether the taxes are
high or low; he has evolved an idea,
a theory, groundless and fantastic,
aHd is straining every point-even to
the end of misrepresentation and viii
fication-to bring the people to an
adoption of his plans. But it will not
work, deacon. The people of Great
Bend who haye made Great Bend, and
who are interested in seeing Great
Bend prosper. will quietly ignore your
blatherskite mouthings and go on do
ing as they think and know is for the
best interests of all concerned.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31

=
and Congress appropriating fifty million
dollars as an emergency fund. For all
our supplies. vessels etc. we procure
| we can pay cash while Spain would have
to give promissary note.
The Peninsular Kingdom has been
pictured as poverty stricken, its people
ignorant and indolent and its real de-
sire for peace, even at the price OF
national humiliation. But do the facts
warrant this view? Spain has tried to
do what it could to maintain its peace
full relations with us. AT the time of
the demand by Secretary Olney for the
payment of the Mora claim the Madrid
authorities acquiesced very promptly,
being desirous that we should do what
we could to prevent flibustering.
When the Spanish Minister at Wash
ington wrote his insulting letter about
the President the Sagasta Ministry
disavowed his act. And at the time
of the recent Lee incident, Spain re-
ceded as gracefully as possible when
was entirely satisfactory to the United
States. In today's paper l see that
Spain has protested against the as
sembling of our fleets at Key West and
Tortugas, but when told that they will
remain there she will probably back
down. But during the last few weeks
the Madrid government has not been
idle, aud although bankrupt endeavors
| have been made to secure additional
ships and ornaments, gun factories
have been running overtime and the
dispatch of more soldiers to Cuba and
the Philippines have surprised those
who thought Ter resources in men at
least must be drained by this time.
Now the unfortunate natives send a
| fleet of torpedo boats westward. What
are they here forp Are they coming to
show us how we'll provided Spain is in
| this regard, or is it to make friendly"
visit at our principal ports? It is
hardly possible that they are intended
for patrol duty in Cuban waters. They
are for more destructive purpose, and
we are inclined to ask why they are
sent across the Atlantic at this paIticr
ular time.
| There is a general feeling that Spain
would rather be driven out of Cuba by
the United States then by the insur.
gents. The present dynasty would
have great difficulty in maintainin g
itself If Cuba should be freed without
! intervention from US. But a war
against the United States in the vain
effort to save Cuba would rally all
| factions for time. Hatred of the
Americans would take the place of
loyalty to Alfonso, at least until it was
| found that the island was irretrievably
! lost.
These are some of the reasons why
the people down here believe that
little Spain" will fight us. if the issue
is forced upon her, rather than evacu-
ate Cuba without a struggle. But in
case she does fight US there can be but
one result: Cuba will be freed, and
Spain will receive one of the worst
threshings a nation ever got. and one
that she will feel the sting of for years
to come.
| GEO M Moss
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31

If you think the course of our pres
ent city administration, in compelling
the liquor business to be confined to
four places. and in keeping our city
scrip at par value, so that when 8
iaboring man does any work for the
city he is not paid in scrip that be has
TO discount, vote the non-partisan tick
et-ths first one on the ballot.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31

A man is peculiar after change. If q
bad spell Of weather comes along he
wants a change. If he's hard up he's
likely to rob bank or hold up an ex.
press train just because he wants
change. If he gets to the pen, he wants
change still, and If he should go to
Hades he would be so unfortunate as
never get any change. Don't banker
so much after chsnge.-Lyons Breeze
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31
HOW SHALL YOU VOFE2

Ii at ought not to be very hard
question to decide by the men and
WON ell of Great Bend who cast their
ballots for city officers next Tuesday.
By voting the ''Non-partisan0 ticket
they will be voting for a consistent,
sensible, logical issue. They will be
voting for men who will make a
special effort to controll as far As pos
sible under existing conditions of pub.
lie feeling and public demands, By
confning the liquor business of the
city to a small number of places.
This is the logical thing to do, after
all the years that fruitIess efforts haYe
been made to suppress the business.
On the other hand, by voting the
ticket headed ''Loyal" they would be
voting to suspend the present method
of confning the saloon business to a
few places; to encourage jointists and
bootleggers to open up in back rooms,
stables, and other places where the
young men of the city can sneak in
and fill up on the vilest of liquors
without the public knowing anything
about it; to pile up thousands of dol
lars in costs for the tax payers of the
county to pay; to reduce the cash in
the city treasury to a point where city
script would be hawked about at dis.
count; to stop all street improvements.
cut off the electric lights and other
wise give our city a back-set that it
would take years to over come.
Not all of thoEe who advocate the
election of the so-called Loyal
ticket are actuated by desire to do
the city an injury, or to increase the
amount of liquor joints; some of them
are carried away with the mistaken
idea that if the city council would re-
fuse to collect fines from hop tea res
taurants the liquor business could, and
would be suppressed. Why they be.
lieve this way is beyond comprehen-
sion. with the years of experience the
whole state of Kansas has had in the
fruitless attempt. Those we'll mean-
ing people are simply mistaken; they
do not look at the question in prac.
tical manner, and are carried away
by sentiment-know little of reason
and less of existing conditions.
How shall you vote? For a few
saloons, paying revenue of 5000 a
month into the city treasury, or, to
throw the business wide open as it has
been in former years, with the re-
sultant arrests, hung juries, dissmis,
sails, accumulating costs for the men
who have built up the town and coun,
ty to pays
We hope every voter will consider
all these questions, and cast his or her
ballot for the best interests of the city
and its people.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31

The 1898 issue of the Kansas Road
Book Of the L. A. W. League of
American Wheelmen) is out. 1t gives
all the roads through Kansas that are
suitable for bicycling, the best hotels,
and other information of value to those
who desire to travel awheel.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31

A ventilated water proof burial cas-
ket, the invention of DIR. J. ]. Stevens
of Clinton, No., by means of which the
dead when inferred can be preserved
for an indefinite peroid of time, will be
exhibited at the Trans-jMississippi Ex-
position.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31

Yellow and White Dent Seed Corn
Oil Meal, Greeley, Col, tirrigated) and
Kaw Valley Early Ohio Potatoes, al
Winterburg's Feed Store, South Main.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31

A dance was held out at Paul
Schneck's last Saturday night. Some
of the boys from town were out, and
81 won't go home till morning" was
the truthful burden of their song.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31

20, Mammal Why did 1 take off
my winter underclothing?" And then
the thin blocded doodlet lit another
cigaroot and let his brain ooze ayay
through tissue.paper tube.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31

The Great Bend Marble Works are
ready to furnish you anything in the
line cf Monuments. Tombstones, etc.
See J. A. BLAND, Salesman.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-31

A cold north wind set in Satuf
day night, and all Sunday forenoon a
regular mid winter blizzard swept over
this part of the country. Take off
your hat to Mr.. Groundhog.