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Reporters and Printers Errors.

A correspondent sends us some more
reporters errors. Mr. Asquith once re-
ferred to the Government ''pique or
temper; the reporter wrote peacock
temper. speaker at Exeter Hall,
replying to an attack, said it was "a
double lie in the shape of half TRUTH"
which, by the ingenuity of the reporter,
appeared as "a double eye in the shape
of half TOOTH. Lord Russell. the
then Canon of Windsor, had been try
ing, he said, for forty years to cure
drunkards by making them drink in
moderation; the local paper had it that
he had been trying for forty years to
drink in moderation, but had never
once succeeded. Sir James Grant, in a
speech in the Canadian House of Com
mons, once referred to a mans thorax:
when in print it read "a mans pick
AK; and on another occasion his ref
erence to food for the gods" ap-
peared food for the Gods" In setting
up speech of Sir Henry Irving the
compositor made many Journeys in
small boats read weary journeys in
small boots" but this is not to the
credit of the reporter, but the printer
Westminster Gazette.
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1T WILL BE WORTH THE COST.

Some days ago we expressed the be-
lief that one sufficient cause for war
with Spain had never been incorporated
in our grievances against her-namely.
that she has permitted Havana and
Santiago to be the breeding places for
yellow fever, from which points it is
carried into the United States. Spain
nuisances to the injury of her neigh
bors.
We expressed the belief that by driv-
ing the Spanish out Of Cuba, Yankee
sanitarians could largely remove the
causes for yellow fever in Cuba. That
was a broad statement. We were fully
aware that the filth deposits of 400
years are in the harbor of Havana, and
that the Spanish have never even at
tempted to correct the evil. Havana
has no drainage system worthy of the
name, and Santiago none at all. Street
cleaning is of the most primitive order
in both places, and the destruction of
vegetable and animal filth IS something
thal never entered lnIO Spanish tSli-
mates of duty to life and health.
No armies have made any such ad-
vances in this world Of ours as those
of sanitary science and preventive med
Cuban task would mean many years
of labor and vast expenditure Of money,
yet the Record Union" believed the
task to be by no means hopeless. Now
General Sternberg, Surgeon General
of the United States army. says:
Two questions present themselves: /.
Could the Government of the United
States effect the sanitary regeneration
of Havana, if we had possession of that
city? 2. Would the Congress of the
United States appropriate the money
necessary to accomplish this result?
Without attempting to answer the
second question, / may remark that
Congress has not heretofore appropri-
ated money for the sanitary improve
ment of cities within the limits of the
United States, and each municipality
has had unlimited authority to be as
dirty as it pleased. Question relating
to water supply, disposal of sewage,
paving OF streets, ETC., are disposed OF
by each city according to its own good
pleasure and it would be a new de-
parture for the General Government to
appropriate large sums Of money for
these purposes.
That it is practicable to put the city
of Havana in such a sanitary condition
that it would be exempt from yellow
fever / fully believe. But that this is
an undertaking of considerable magni-
tude, involving the expenditure of large
sums of money, and requiring much
time, will be apparent when we have
taken account of the nature Of the
sanitary improvements necessary for
the accomplishment of the desired re-
suit
But, General, would it not be worth
all it costs, even If the figures run up
into the millions?
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Virginia was a less valuable possession
than jamaica, or Massachusetts than
Barbadoes?''
A conclusion which the New York
Commercial Advertiser, with a fine
sarcasm, answers by saying: "This
was written more than fifty years ago.
and is as true now as it was then
They who do not wish to see the United
States decay and diminish in popula-
ton and wealth. in trade and industry,
in national power and in the influence
of higher civilization, as Great Britain
has diminished and decayed since Ma
caulay wrote, may heed the warning"
THE DINGLEY LAW.
San Jose Mercury: Comparing the
Dingley law with the free-trade meas
ure which preceded it, the present law
has saved since it went into effect S25,-
100000 to Americans in cloth and dress
goods alone. We are making at home
goods which under free trade we pur-
chased from European factories, and
thus providing additional labor and
wages for our American workingmen.
THE ULTIMATE.
Stockton Record: There never was,
nor can there ever be, the reciprocity
of feeling between the peoples Of Ger
manic stock and the Latins that is in
separable from their coeval develop
ment We have it illustrated in Cali
fornia, where the Mexican has all but
disappeared; we have it illustrated in
Europe where the lines of political and
social demarkation are sharply drawn,
and we are about to have it illustrated
in Cuba, where, on the part of the
American troops is contempt, and on
the part of the insurgents jealousy and
mstrust Nor shall we be able to con-
ciliate the Philippines unless we closely
study their idiosyncrasies and act ac-
cordingly But that is not the Saxon
nature He believes in his institutions
and in his methods; he is a rank, ag-
gressive egotist, but at the same time
accords to those who will affiliate with
him every privilege that he himself en-
joys. The Indian and the Mexican
might to-day have been an element in
the United States if he would. There
have been no impediments put in his
way But he would not. His ways are
not our ways. 1t is in the breed of him
not to be able to entertain the Saxon
idea 1t may safely be predicted. in
view of the constitutional antagonism
of the two races, that Germanic stock
will one day constitute all but an in
significant portion of the earth's in
habitants Already Germanic stock
dominates, and as surely as trade fol-
lows the flag as surely will the Latins
disappear before the encroachmentS OF
the more self-reliant, vigorous and
combative peoples of the North.
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BRIGADIER GENERAL YOUNG.
Took a Prominent Part in Engage.
ments Before Santiago.

The cavalry in front Of Santiago has
been in command of Brigadier General
Samuel B. M. Young, and it is said he
is soon to be advanced to a Major Cen
eral. He is one of the best known
horsemen in the army.
He was born in Pennsylvania JanI-
ary 8, 1910, and will be subject for re-
tirement in 1904. He commenced his
military life by joining the Twelfth
The record-union., 1898-08-01

A new diagnosis has been made of the
case of Hamlet. This time it is DR.. F.
p. Won Westenholz, who declares that
what Hamlet needed was a treatment in
anti-fat, else why did he mourn about
this too solid flesh," and his mother
speak of him as fiat and scant of
breath? The trouble with the good
Doctors diagnosis is that 1t is not new
Banting originated the idea years and
years ago.
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Pennsylvania Infantry April %, 1861.
In September of that year he was made
a Captain in the Fourth Pennsylvania
Cavalry, and since then has attained
distinction in the horse department Of
the army. He was steadily advanced
during the war for brave and merito-
rious conduct and was breveted Brig
adler General after the war for services
in the war. A few years ago there
was a sensation in army circles when
Young, then a Lieutenant Colonel. re-
quested a court-martial for Colonel
Graham, his superior officer at the Pre-
sidio, San Francisco.
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In this war cable cutting was first at
tempted to any extent. In former wars
there We're few cables to cut and fewer
reasons for cutting them. OF course
the shutting off Of an enemy from
sources of information is valuable
aid in warfare. No blockade can be
said to be complete so long as the en-
emy has a telegraph line by means OF
which he can communicate with the
outer world. A prominent electrician
now asserts that in all future military
training there must be a corps edu-
Gated in the skill Of finding and cut
ting cables. Graphing for and cutting
a cable is by no means simple mat
ter, as we have found to our cost. Every
man-of-war hereafter, says Electric
ity," must be provided with a complete
outfit of instruments for searching out
a cable and for lifting and cutting it.
There must be with each ship one or
two skilled telegraph operators, men
who have the knowledge how to use
instruments for locating cable breaks
and for connecting with and using
lifted cut ends of cables, the mirror
and other instruments.
Then, too, expert divers must be car
ried who know how to sever cables
that may not be lifted, and to connect
the desirable end with the ships buoy.
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[By Permission
CRAVEN.
Mobile Bay. 1864. }

mobile Bay, 1861
Copyright, 1898, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Over the turret, shut in his ironclad
tower,
Craven, was coming his ship through
smoke and flame;
Gun to gun he had battered the fort for
Now was the time for a charge to end
the game.
There lay the narrowing channel, smooth
and grim,
A hundred deaths beneath it, and never
a sign;
There lay the enemy's ships, and sink or
swim
The flag was flying, and he was head
Of the line.
The fleet behind was jamming; the moni-
tor hung
Beating the stream; the roar for mo-
Craven spoke to the pilot; slow she
swung;
Again he spoke, and right for the zoe
she rushed.
Into the narrowing channel, between the
And the sunk torpedoes lying in treach-
erous rank;
She turned but yard too short; muf-
A mountainous wave. and she rolled,
righted and sank.
Over the manhole, up In the ironclad
Pilot and Captain met as they turned
The hundredth part of moment seemed
an hour,
For one could pass tor be saved. and one
must die.
They stood like men in dream; Craven
spoke
Spoke as he lived and fought, with a
After you. Pilot The pilot woke,
Down the ladder he went, and Craven
died.
All men praise the deed and the manner;
but We
We set it apart from the pride that
stoops to the proud,
The strength that is supple to serve the
strong and free,
The grace of the empty hands and prom
ises loud.
Sidney thirsting humber need to slake
Nelson waiting his turn for the sur
geon's hand,
Lucas crushed with chains for COM
rades sake,
Outram coveting right before command
These were paladins, these were Cravens
peers,
These with him shall be crowned in
story and song,
Crowned with the glitter of steel and the
glimmer Of tears,
Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and
strong.
Henry Newbolt, in the August Atlantic.
As It Sometimes Happens.
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said in frank confession that France
by old tradition of diplomatic art knew
how to enforce strict observance of all
obligations of neutrality regardless OF
different sentiments toward belliger-
ents" It added also that ''if France is
incapable of untying the old bonds
which united her to Spain it at least
should not Danish the recollections of
secular friendship which exist between
it and the United States, aroused by the
names of Washington and Lafayette,
or the similarity of institutions with the
solidarity Of the destinies Of the demo-
cratic republics any more than 1t
should ignore the wrongs of the
Cubans."
The Journal des Debats' went so far
that it declared war between England
and France fairly ready to break forth
because of Mr.. Chamberlain's speech,
and lie Matin' echoed the senti-
ment, while the "Republique Francaise'
was fairly insulting TO Chamberlain for
his pronounced sympathy with the
Yankees
And SO we might fill columns. The
truth is, Americans never expected the
French to put aside their old time and
long established relations with Spain.
We never asked that they fawn upon us
or pat our backs. We have no quarrel
with them for plying and sympathiz-
ing with their neighbors in distress.
But we have thought that they might
not have coupled with it hatred of and
insult to their other friend. America.
The whole truth is the French have been
hit in a tender spot, a pocket nerve
center. We are on top and they wish
to get into favor again. Moreover,
they are at enormous expense promot-
ing the greatest worlds exposition, and
the Yankee must not be driven out of
it or be so offended that he will refuse
to exhibit or to come to the show.
The record-union., 1898-08-01

Count Tolstoi has published a book
on art. The reviewers are pretty much
Of mind in saying that he has written
of that of which he knows next TO
nothing. That is not strange. The
old man has passed into his dotage, and
because he has been successful in liter
ature and in benefactions to Russian
take. Besides, he is not the first who
has written Of that of which he knows
nothing.
The record-union., 1898-08-01
BLIND GUIDES.

Blindness is one of the saddest misfort-
nnes that can befall human being. But
there is time when blindness stamps the
blind as criminal That time Is when
the blind man undertakes leadership. I'm
agine the situation.
Weak and suffering women, blind as to
heir own needs, put their hands in conf
The record-union., 1898-08-01

Teacher-Can anybody tell me why
the multiplication table stops with II?
Son of a Superstitious Parent-Cause
ma says it's unlucky to have 13 at table
The record-union., 1898-08-01
FULL OF HEALTHY ENJOYMENT,

life might as we'll end by consumption as
by any other disease. DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery has produced such re-
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Mr.. John G. Born 4o7o Liberty Ave. Pittsburg.
Pa, writes: Some thirty months ago said to
my Tie den e want to kseR IS i.g from o
consump ption.' In December, 1896 commenced
taking DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
could then only speak in whispers; have taken
thirteen bottles, and can say with truth am
greatly benefited. People are surprised to hear
me speak. l can halloo, and my voice has not
been as good in eight years MY stomach was
eat without suffering very much Immediately
after, but now can eat anything. ! am also
greatly Tesysd ostbs of that sD
the shop when another person who overheard
me was greatly surprised that could speak so
loud as, for three years 1 could not speak above
whisper"
Il had bronchitis for eighteen years and was
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writes writ David waPtzenlufs ESQ Of shosmakers-
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seventy -fve'
"As you know, five years ago the doctors had
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Mr.. f. G. Mckinney, of Deepwater, Fayette Co.,
w. Va. II took treatment from Doctor R. v.
Pierce, and am entirely we'll now. have taken
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AN EXPERIENCED EXPERT NEEDED.

all living"
AN EXPERIENCED EXPERT NEEDED.
Let us drop all figures of speech and face
he facts frankly. Here are thousands Of
people suffering from disease of one form
or another The cry of the sufferer ID for
some one to lead him out of this desert Of
disease into the promised land of heath.
Here is DR.. R. v. Pierce, of Buffalo, n. ",
who has record of more than quarter of
million of cases and o8 out of every hum
1red led to perfect health. An experience
Of thirty years as chief consulting physi-
,ian to the Invalids' Hotel and Su13cal
Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y, guarantees him
TO be familiar with every phase and form
Of disease.
But consumption Is that cured too by
DR.. Pierce's n1edicines2 Among the hope
less (so-called) cases were those who Had
the night-sweats, the hectic flush, the hack
ing cough, the racked lungs, and THE ena-
ciated, or wasted body, which are accepted
symptoms of consumption. Their home
physicians said they had CONSUMPTION.
They also said that their days were hum
bered. Yet these same people treated
years ago, have lost the night sweats, lost
the lung pains, lost the cough, have re
gained their normal weight and are living
right along in the hearty enjoyment Of
healthy, happy life. They eat well, sleep
we'll, and enjoy life. Perhaps they are not
cured. Perhaps their days are numbered.
But if the number is three score and ten
and they live life
The record-union., 1898-08-01
A STATESMAN DEAD

Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor OF Ger
many, warrior, statesman, diplomat, is
dead To comment upon his life and
achievements is to reflect upon the in
telligence of modern readers. His
career is written into the history of the
world for the last half century, indeli-
bly, impressed upon the progress and
enlightenment of the age and all men
know of 1t in detail. A stern, shrewd,
unyielding, far seeing, merciless man;
a statesman of profundity and acumen,
a warrior of boldness and vigor to the
very verge of cruelty; a Premier who
held the reins of government with an
iron wrist and nerves Of steel, he was
one of the most noted men of the world,
one Of the foremost of intelligences. Of
the century, which have impressed
themselves indelibly upon the worlds
history.
The record-union., 1898-08-01
AS It Sometimes Happens.

''Who was the best man at your we'd
ding?"
'The man married. Now, who was
the hest man at yours?"
The man i wanted to marry."-Bay
City Chat
The record-union., 1898-08-01

For Northern California-falr MONDAY
excent foggy along the coast at night;
fresh northwest wind on the northern
The record-union., 1898-08-01

A-F'or morning. P-FOr afternoon.
Sunday excepted. monday excepted.
I. II. GOODMAN. Gen. Pas. Agent.
THE Low RATE EAST-PHILLIPS-
Judson Excursion is the only excursion
having the low rate east of Chicago. The
great scenic route. Through managers to
Boston. visit is made to Niagara Falls.
No additional expense for ticket Get
the best. 19 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, or apply to c. J. Ellis, Agent
Southern Pacific Company. Sacramento.
The record-union., 1898-08-01

There clergyman in Long Island village who suf-
fered from dyspepsia such that positively
sometimes though his doctrine however
only stomach trouble and had nothing do with mind
Being convinced of this of his parhioners lady
him with small quantity of Rpans Tabues and the relief he
perenced such that all congregation improve
and although his salary SMALL this clergyman
his wife devote portion of it keeping the medicine closet
stocked with suitable supply of Rpans Tabules Doubtless
there where what has been thought herey
fact nothing less than dyspepsia and Rpans Tabue
dyspepsia. One gives relief
IN A aLA
A
The record-union., 1898-08-01

life might as we'll end by consumption as
by any other disease DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery has produced such re-
suits in thousands of cases
The record-union., 1898-08-01


The Oregonian: There is a celebrated
passage in Lord Macaulay's essay on
the West Indies concerning the disas-
trous influences of colonies. With the
almost irresistible charm of his rhetoric
Macaulay marshals argument and il
lustration in support Of his plea, and
then declares:
Those who maintain that settle
ments SO remote conduce to the mill
tary or maritime power of nations fly
in the face of history. The colonies of
Spain We're far more extensive and pop
ulous than ours. Has Spain at any
time within the last two centuries been
a match for England either by land or
sea? Fifty years ago our colonial do
minions in America were far larger
and more prosperous than those which
we at present possess. Have we since
that time experienced any decay in our
political influence, in our opulence or in
our security? Or shall we say that
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-02-11
Mrs. cIute's Murderer.

San Francisco, Feb. ALBERT hoff,
charged with cthe murder OF Mary
Clute, wife of ex-Collector Clute OF
Salt Lake City, has entered a formal
plea to the charge. The trial will be-
gin in two weeks. Though Hof made
fat denial of guilt, it is already APP
parent that he will rely upon techni-
calities rather than testimony as de-
Tense.
He alleged that the information up
on which he was TO be tried was mop
erative and invalid, because the police
court in which he had been held for
trial was unconstitutional. The le-
gality of the title of Judge Joachimsen
to police court judgeship was ques-
toned on technical grounds.
Judge Cook overruled the objection
without comment. The point that the
police courts presided over by the
San Francisco judges are unconstitu-
tional has been raised in several recent
cases, but as yet has not been passed
on by the supreme court. 1t may be
taken to that tribunal by Hoff.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-02-11
Japs win Invade IxIondike.

San Francisco, Feb. Japan is
going to invade the Klondike. A stand
ing army of 5000 able-bodied laborers
are being got together for the gold
fields and in a month or so they will
make a descent upon Dawson City.
One of the Nippon Yusen Kaishat.
steamers will bring them here. but as.
they will not land on the soil of the
United States there will be no one to
say them nay, unless Great Britain
takes hand in the matter.
One of the Japanese steamers that
has been carrying laborers will be used
to carry the men to their destination.
The japanese will be brought over by
a syndicate, and trouble on the Klon-
dixie is predicted.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-02-11

Washington, Feb. s.-The secretary
OF war invites the attention OF con-
gress TO the desirability Of continuing
the work now in progress under the
board of engineers for deep waterways
during the fiscal year ending June so,
1879.
The commission In 1897 estimated the
cost at not less than 5000, 600. After
careful consideration the board is Of
the opinion that ses5, 900 can be profit.
ably expended on the work during the
year ending June 30, 1899
IL therefore recommends that this
sum be appropriated, and says that If
a smaller sum IS granted. the cost Of
administration and supervision for the
whole work win be increased.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-02-11

st. Petersburg, Feb. IA failure in
the harvest has caused terrible dis
tress among the peasantry of the in
terror provinces and especially in CEN
trail and southeastern Russia. In
some places they are worse off than
during the famine of 1891. The Rus
sian editors have been forbidden to re-
fer to the matter.
Private letters from Tamboff, in the
province of that name, southeast of
Moecoe, say the peasants are feeding
their half-starved cattle with the
matches of their roofs.
Typhus and other diseases are maxi
ing very rapid Roadway among the
people.