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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-22

OLD GREEN Horn.

Hay making i in full blast. the
cheerful sounds q music being
heard on every hand. The crop :
excellent. and the weather jus;
RICH, ior putting j: UP in good con-
dition. Everybody and his vile
are now busy from "Dewy dawn %
duskv eve"
We have been % busy We could
II; take time 70 write . have
given the good people much
needed rest.
You bet old Green Horn" can
run hay rake all right now.
What objection can sage Brush
have 70 our getting an office now
We wonder.
The Fourth ike all earthly things
mas come and gone, and It IS sup
posed that all enjoved themselves,
AZ least we did, and wondered
where all the people came from.
The whole thing in our opinion
was howIing success. We en-.
tered upon a mild course OF dis>i-
pation-invested all our spare
capital in a glass OF peanuts. a
sack OF lemonade and a bunch Of
tire-cyackers, and 90, right in the
swim. Ii is rather late in the day
70 say anything about the Fourth
but for a patriotic demonstration.
il has never been equalied in E.
lensburg but once before and that
wa, when sam Packwood heard
that Mckinley was elected.
1t seems that we were a little
previous in our announcement Of
the matrimonial venture OF jeff
Stantield. We thought our inior-
nation was correct but it seem,
that happy event failed to mater
ialize-one OF Cupid's complica-
tons. Better luck next time jeff,
We hope.
Witt Rogers having secured po-
sition with the geological surveyor
has gone up into the Cascades to
join Mr.. Hyde.
Mrs. J. c. Rogers has gore
across the river to visit friends this
week.
John Filler and several others
have been taking al outing in the
mountains.
Henry Manning and family from
the Wenas have been visiting rela-
tives in this neighborhood.
Joe charlton was over from y e.
natchee last week.
No we did not get full on the
Fourth, but simply overlooking
with patriotism. 1t always effects
Us that way, besides we never drink
only when we are alone or with /
somebody
1t looked to us as il some parties
started in on the fourth with the
deliberate intention OF creating a
liquor famine in Ellensburg but
they only succeeded in getting
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-22

either 0. NJ. Latimer, P. q. Fit
terer, ". H. Peterson, F. Bossong
or W. B. Price. The people OF E.
lensburg are kind and generous
and We know they will do every
thing in their power 10 make the
stay OF the delegates pleasant a
well as profitable.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-22

HERE is 4 bit OF history in 1862 -
one hundred and thirty-six years
ago: 1t took the English with a
feet OF 200 vessels and an army OF
14.OOO men from June 9th until
August 14th TO capture Havana.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-22

WHILE the republican newspap-
ers are insisting tina. the union OF
reform forces in the state is purely
for the "spoils Of Office" will they
kindly inform Us what the repub-
licans are in politics ior OF course
there are no republican Office seek
ers'
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-22

The people can not always be
held responsible ior the laws EN-
acted, because when they elect law
makers they cannot always tell
what laws they will enact, but they
are responsible for not making Ell
forts 10 change this system.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-22

BRADsTREEr's report las, week
said: Cuisines failures for
the week number 241 as against
l73 last week, 213 in the week a
year ago, 21S two years ago: 26t
in 1895 and 225 in 1924"
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-22

The populists, democrats and
free silver republicans, OF California
forme1 a fusion at Sacramento
July y. The populist nominal
ing Congressman Mcclure for gov
ernor.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-22

The three state conventions
Peoples party. Democrat and Silver
Republicans-are called for Sept. s,
at Ellensburg. Good
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-22

FROM the Social Democrat pub.
lished in Chicago, we learn that
the socialists OF Washington will
hold a convention July 3lst.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-22

eri.y,' erily, say unto YOU. ii Won
Wan, me finest line OF bamboo goods in
I l.r market and At prices that will he
satisfactory, 20 70 Scott x Latimer.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-07-22

PROFESSIONAL cARDs-.7rox,,,..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-24
HAUNTED BY A NUMBER.
Figures Scrubbed by Schooiboy Finally
brought Fortune.

"My brother William, who died a few
years ago." said Colonel Andrew Free
man the other night, from his boy
hood days had curious habit of scrib-
bling on every piece OF blank paper he
picked up.
"When he was first able to form fig
urcs with Il pen or pencil, he would
trace the meaningless number 10, 114'
on everything that had blank space Of
sufficient size. On the whitewashed
walls of the little old red sohoolhouse
down i'll my home county i'll the Penny
rilo that boy wrote Is, ia ten thou
sand times or more.
''On the fly leaf of his textbooks, on
the margins of the newspapers my IA
ther was subscriber for, en- the en-
yelopes and on the unused bits of papers
in all Of the letters that came to our
house he traced those figures i'll every
idle moment without being able to tell
why he did so. My father gave the lad
some pretty severe thrashings and count
less reprmands for indulging in the
scnseless habit, but Will never stopped
it for "a day.
"When | was 81 and Will was 20, /
told him one day that was going to
play the numbers he was so devoted to
i'll the Louisiana lottery and if ! drew
anything | would divide up with him.
| had been throwing away u dollar in
the gift enterprise for five or six years
and had never drawn Il cent. | didn't
get the number | wanted that month
bat the next month l got two tenth
tickets number 10, "a. and | struck the
$40, coo capital prize. viii got one-half
of the cash, and till the day of his
death, eight years ago, never quit talk
ing about the luck his hobby brought
me. it was the most remarkable Incl
dent in my life and the most notable
occurrence in the history of our fam
lily. '--Louisville Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-24

The Norfolk Virginian sees future
rival of the Greater New York in the
union of seven towns in its neighbor
hood, with the name Of Virginia, Va.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-24

embassy to this country. 1t was Mid
shipman Schley who made the trip as
lively as possible for the japanese at
tcndants. It was Schley who got rid Of
the monkeys which the ambassadors
bought on the way over. He did it by
greasing their tails in the slush bucket
and then driving them aloft. OF course
their tails slipped from the ropes and
they fell overheard.
When he returned from that cruise,
he found the civil war i'll full swing.
He was promoted to the grade Of master
and assigned to the west gulf blocIad-
ing squadron. He saw considerable serv-
ice in the operations on the Mississippi
river. He was engaged in and success
fully operated with field batteries and
subsequently i'll all engagements which
led up to the capture Of Port Hudson.
He was engaged in several skirmishes
and in cutting out under heavy fire two
schooncrs occupied i'll supplying the
Confedcrates For this he was honora
bly mentioned III special orders.
fIe was commissioned lieutenant in
1862 and served i'll southern waters, do
ing effective service, for which he WAS
honOrablv mentioned, until 1864. From
then until 1866 he was attached to the
steam gunb0at Nateree as executive Of
iicer and served i'll her on the Pacific
station. He suppressed an instruction
among the Chinese coolies il the Chin
chi islands in 1861, and during the rev.
olution III San Salvador a year later
landed 100 men to protect the United
States consulate and the custom house.
He was commissioned lieutenant COM
mander in July, 1866, Oh his return
from the Pacific station, and for the
next three years was assigned t. duty
at the Naval academy He served on the
Asiatic station i'll the Benicia and par
ticipated in the attack upon and the
complete overthrow of tho forces de-
Tending the forts on the Salu river III
Korea IN 1871.
He was commissioned commander in
1874. During the next five years he
served on the north and south Atlantic
stations and the west coast of Africa.
Then he volunteered for the Greedy
relief expedition, which gained him a
gold medal from congress ana promo
ton.
When the cruiser Baltimore was pnt
in commission, Commodore Schley was
placed in command of her 1t was dur
ing this time he carried back to Stock
holm. Sweden, the remains of the late
John Ericsson, the inventor Of the mon
itor. The king of Sweden presented him
with gold medal. He was in command
of the Baltimore during the compllca-
lions and trouble at Valparaiso, Chile,
in 1891, when several American sailors
were stoned by mob. He speedily set
tied the trouble and was thanked by the
navy department,
1t is late in his career that the chance
TO do real fighting with fine fleet at
his command has presented itself, but
the man who was not afraid of icebergs
in 1884 may be depended upon to dis
nose of all the Spaniards he can find in
1898. FRANCIS B. TALBERT.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-24
THE SHIPS RUDDER.
AUS Two Parts and the Difference In tho
Strain That Comes Upon Them.

Strain That Comes Upon Them.
The rudder Of wooden shin is com.
posed of the stalk and the backing.
winch are so joined together as to form
IN effect single piece. The complete
fudder is coppered, to protect it from
worms, and then, besides being practi
oally all in one piece, it has that an.
pearance also.
The stalk is the part to which are at
tached the pintles, or pivots, by which
the rudder is suspended and held in
place, these going through eyes set in
the ships sternpost. The stalk runs up
through the stern of tho ship, and to
It's head is bolted cap to which are at
tached the ropes by means of which the
rudder is controlled. The backing is the
blade part of the rudder.
by far the greatH strain comes on
the stalk, and the greatest strain of all
comes Oh the head of the stalk, the
rudder head, where it is held. The
stalk is made of the wood most likely
to stand the strain, carefully selected,
sound, we'll seasoned oak, while the
backing IS made of spruce or hard pine.
The stalk is of single, solid, massive
piece, stout as an oak tree and indeed
or the dimensions of Il small oak,
something that a man can pin his faith
TO, II he can have faith i'll any wood,
while the backing or blade is, like
many modeSn wooden masts, built up.
1t would be difficult if not impossible
to find trees that would yield planks
big enough for tho purpose i'll single
piece, and the built up backing, made
Of pieces of selected wood, can easily be
made of ample strength to withstand
any strain that will be brought upon it.
AS to the stalk, stout and solid as the
oak may be, the head may be twisted
by the force of tremendous blow from
wave upon the rudder, or, under the
repeated strains of long use, the head
may split, and so make the stalk use
less. Then the rudder is taken out and
fitted with a new stalk. \ suitable stick
is selected and worked down to the
proper size and form, and very probably
the old backing is attached to it, The
life of a rudder stalk would probably
be II to II years. The backing might
last as loug as the ship New York
Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-24

mercial effect of all this patriotic senti-
ment has been to send flag prices sky
high \ week after the battle of Manil-
la the advance in New York was more
than 100 per cent
Even the government has found diff
Guilty i'll getting bunting enough to
equip its newly acquired warships, al
though the two factories which make
all the bunting used in the United States
give Uncle Sans orders first call. The
government makes up its own flags,
however. This work is all done at the
Brooklyn navy yard. One of the build
ings is devoted to this purpose, and
there, hard at work, sit hundreds OF
girls whose busy fingers turn out the
flags.
AS soon as the bunting arrives in the
building it is puv through q series of
testing devices which are very severe
AS the flags viii be subjected to the OK
tremes OF heat and cold, as they will
freeze and thaw, as they will be blown
by every breeze OF every cline and sea,
SO the bunting which makes the flags
must be put through series Of prelimi-
nary tests equal to heat, cold, freeze,
thaw, sea and atmosphere.
Next tho bunting is cut into strips
which are laid aside in great plies ready
for the hands Of the workers. After the
strips are cut they are carried into de-
partment where sit the stripe sewers.
Formerly the work was done by hand,
and then great number of work wom-
en- had to be employed. Now it is done
by machine, and the girls only have to
work the needle through the red and
white, Very soon the government will
have electricity to work the machines
and the girls will only need to guido the
stripes through the electric sewing ma
chine.
The white cotton cloth from which
the stars are cut is folded into about 20
thicknesses- The pattern is then marked
en- it and cut out with sharp knife or
a hammer and chisel Each flag has to
have so stars CAS- on each side, and
these are sewed firmly in place on the
blue field by experienced sewing women.
c. J. BowDEN. !
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-24
WORKING THE TREADMlLL.
Talk of Introducing the English Punish
ment In America.

There is talk Of Introducing the tread
mill, the well known English system Of
punishment, into some of the penal insti-
tutions of America.
In England the trCadmill is regarded by
the conyicts as brutal, " but this is owing
to the misfortunes which overtHkc any one
who fails to keep on trcading, which are
fraught at times with serious conse-
quences, and not on account of the eXer-
else itself, which is very generally pro-
nounccd to be beneficial
If adopted here all brutal features in
connection with the machine would be
obliteratcd and it would partake entirely
of the nature of a gymnastic exercising
machine.
Among the prominent English Grim
inals who OF late years have assisted to pay
the penalty Of their crimes by arduous
work on the treadlnill may be mentioned
Charlie MITCHELL the pugilist, who has
had every opportunity to pronounce on
the merits Of the machine and is convinced
that the exercise is in every way beneficial
cit keeps the muscles hard, to use his
own words. a man can imagine he Is
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FLAGS EVERYWHERE
WE ARE FLYING MORE BUNTING THAN
ANY OTHER NATION.

Interesting Phases OF the American Citi-
zen's Decision to Fling the Starry Ban
Flags Are Made.
More flags are flying in the United
States today than in any other country
Oh the globe Judged by the wealth Of
bunting we have swung to the breeze,
every man is a patriot. Nothing in the
history of this or any other nation ever
equaled the display which we are now
making. The British love to display
their national emblem, the Japanese
are lavish flag fiiers, and the French
are apt to fiaunt their tricolor most lib
orally on occasion, but the American
has outdone them all. He flies so flags
to their one.
In tho big cities the display is the
most noticeable, for there the banners
are massed. The sky line fairly bristles
with staffs from each of which floats
the stars and stripes. Every street pre-
sents flag vista where the tapping
folds of Old Glory jut out from windows
in diminishing sizes down two long per-
spective lines.
Perhaps one of the most striking of
these flag vistas is to be seen in New
York. Looking down Wall street from
its junction with Broadway can be seen
perhaps 200 American flags 1t is not
their number, but their size and the way
in which they almost roof the street,
that makes the scene notable Wall
street is a narrow thoroughfare at best
and hemmed in as it is by tall buildings
seems little more than lane. Then the
flags arc nearly all big ones, most of
them from Is to 20 feet long and swung
from stats which project from the up
per stories of the buildings.
But Of course tho bankers might be
expected to have fine flags You will see
just as big ones though, hoisted on flag
poles above many private residences, for
one OF the new necessities of the Amer
lean householder seems to be a good
sized bunting flag Every day is Fourth
Of July now, and since the Dewey Incl
dent at Manila bay no loyal citizen
wants to be without the means of pub
licly announcing his patriotic JOY
OF course al this has created an i'm
menso demand for flags 1t is said that
within the last month more flags have
been sold than i'll the preceding ten
years. The bunting and flag manufac-
turers were swamped with orders long
ago, and for weeks have been struggling
TO catch up. Every sailmaker in the
country has been making flags early and
late, and i'll many factories where a flag
was never made before big forces of en-
ployees have been set to work turning
out the stars and striNas. Another com
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The Price of Liberty,

The white headed old darby approach
ed one of the northern congressman at
the foot Of the capitol steps removed
his hat and said: lie cum all de way
fun Nottoway county, cap'n, to see
whut yo' kin do fur me. | paid So, 700
fur my liberty, Ell ain heerd nuthin
fun de promises o. de gubberment. y
You mean to say, uncle, that you
bought your liberty::' the congressman
asked i'll surprise, thinking to humor
the old man.
''Its fac, cap'n, Ell twenty seben
hundred wuz de price.
Il thought eternal vigilance was the
price of liberty, uncle:'
Scratching his head for an under
standing. the exslave replied doubt
fully, "Waal, cap'n, dat mout be de
case wild dc white folks, but de pooh
niger has ter pay cash. '-Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-24
HE CAN TAKE A RISK.
WHY COMMODORE SCHLEY COM.
MANDS THE FLYING SQUADRON.
career OF the Prankish NIitislipman Who
sun Likes Joke-HOw He Dashed
Into the Arctic to the Rescue of the
Greedy Expedition.

Int" the Arctic to the Rescue of the
Greedy Expedition.
When Winfield Scott Schley was in
command Of the government expedition
which i'll 1884 was sent to the rescue of
freely and his men, who were diving of
starvation far up toward the north pole,
the good ships Thetis Bear and Alert
were given some of the hardest knocks
that stout oaken hulls ever survived.
Many time on that heroic dash into
the arctics did the men on the relief ex-
petition think that their last hour had
come, but still Schley led them on.
Sometimes it would be into a narrow
passage between towering icebergs and
sometimes into places where no clear
water at all could be seen ahead
DON'T you think it is risky to go in
there?' asked a captain on one of these
occasions.
There are times, sir, when it is
necessary to take risks" said Commo-
dore Schley. "This is one of those
times. "
That is the kind Of man whom the
navy department picked out to command
the flying squadron when it was thought
that the Spanish fleet might appear any
day off our coast. The American people
admire a man who is not afraid to take
a big risk occasionally.
Winfield Scott Schley is a native Of
Maryland, He lacks but one year of be-
ing 60 years old, but you would not
imagine him to be day over 40. He is
tall and straight, not so slim as he used
to be, but still full of vigor His mus
tache and imperial are iron gray and
there are deep crows feet at the corners
OF his eyes, but they are laughter lines,
for Commodore Schley is one Of the best
natured and most joyial officers III the
navy.
Although he still likes a joke he has
Of course outgrown the prankishness
which caused him to be graduated from
Annapolis at the foot Of his class. That
was III 1860. \ month or two later he
made his first cruise With q dozen
other midshipmen he was assigned to
the old frigate Niagara, which was sent
70 take back to Japan the mikado's first
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-24
lie Had Travelled.

CHOW" said the intrepid explorer
after he had shown the guileness native
the inside workings of the brass watch
and had noted his naive wonder at the
mysteries Of the mechanism Il will let
you have one of these for two tusks.
Then you can be the envy Of the tribe. :"
The native gentleman yawned. Then
he said:
81 exchanged secondhand war club
for bushal of those things when | was
in London last summer, and there was
not one of them that went for more than
/ week. Pearson Weekly.
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PHILIPPINE REVENGE.
Native Islanders Maddened by
Centuries of Oppression.
SPANISH POLICY OF MURDER.
uow Political Prisoners Have Been Shot
wholesale without Trial Victims
smothered In Dungeons-Vengean
demanded by u Rugged Race.

Hatred for Spain and all Spaniartis is
The ruling spirit of the natives of the Phil
;,nine islands. Embittered by centuries of
SPANISH crueltics, they are mad for vcngc-
once. and even the invincible Dewey finds
dificulty in curbing their frenzy. The
snanish policy seems to have been the ex
termination of the natives. Prisoners of
uar have been condemned by wholesale
-r;thort the semblance of n trial and shot
For the purpose of shooting down these
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climbing Mont Blanc if he wants or any
other mountain He has only 10 shuo MS
cys,s and go en- climbing. But heaven help
hira if he goes to Sleep!
The famous bogus claimant to the Vaiu-
able Tichborne estate is said TO nave cuo
down his weight one-third during MS m
generation by arduous work on me '1eao-
mill wbilo {. former member OF parma
ment. .Jabcz Spencer Balfour' once 'ne
head of several big companies VINO was
extraditcd from Buenos Ayrcs' Whlt'er liz
had fled as a fugitive from justice l'aSse'l
during his term behind the bars many iohs
and tiresono hours working on the ''e'"-
mill. ,ho ,ras
Another prominent malefaetor VINO W." IA,
sentenced to trciM the path of rectlfuac on Oh
the machine was Oscar Wide anu ii ON
recent reports he seems to be hoii0 '''o
worse for his Gxpcrle!lee
A LONDON log absorbs II per cent o,
the RAYS from an ordinary gas lamp anu
81 per cent of those from lamp with
an lucandescent mantle.
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Deep.

She-Your friend is certainly hand
some fellow and, they say, very deep one.
He-Any man who was shallow could
never hold as much as he does. Detroit
Free Press.
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Proposals for Post Fund Supplies.
Treasurer's Office
ITcdSUTtT 5 UI1lCp,
Eastern Branch, n. II. ID. V. s.
ToGus. Mime. May Y. 1895

Sealed proposals will be received at
this Office until u O'Clock NJ, June list.
1898, for furnishing ana delivery of lager
beer at Eastern Branch, \. II. u. V. s.,
quantity to be increased ten per cent, if
required. during the execution of the con-
tract.
Printed instructions and specifications
and blank proposals will be supplied upon
application to this office Samples pre-
scented by bidders will not be considered
unless same are called for in specilica-
tons. The right is reserved to reject
any or all proposals or to waive any in
formalties therein.
Envelopes containing proposals should
be endorsed, proposals for Lager Beer
n. II. ID. V. g." and addressed to the I'M
dersjgne1.
4. l.. SMITH. Treasurer.
Approved: s. TT. ALLEN, Governor.
mayo, dot 4.