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The herald., 1898-11-18
WAR EXPENSES

Committee Work on an Urgent De-
ficiency Bill
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7-Chairman
Cannon of the appropriation committee of
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-05-06

2 E. Cross Post No. 80, u. A. K.
Meets l. O. O. F. nall first and third SAT-
nights of each month. comrades are c"'ui"'
invited to visit and join.
FRANK MUNSON, 'ALD ELL
Adjutant. toutn"Ao'
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-05-06
Civil Rights During War.

The effect of declaration of war or
OF the tacit recognition of the exist
ence of state of war on the "civil
rights of non-combatants" is a sub
ject OF profound interest to the Amer
lean people at this time. There is Il
vague notion in the public mind that
certain rights and privileges are sus-
pended during war, certain liberties
curta;led even under the most popu-
lar form of government, and the no.
ton is we'll founded. But it is desir-
able to give it greater definiteness and
certainty.
Attorney General Griggs, it is re-
ported has been making an investiga-
ton of this question, and the follow
ing points have been given out by his
department Tor the benefit of the peo-
pie at large.
During the existence of war all in
tercourse between citizens of the bel
ligerents is forbidden. Not only is
trade between them illegal, but an
American citizen may not lawfully
send vessel to the enemy's country
to bring away his own property.
Citizens of the United States are
equally guilty of trading with the en-
emy whether the trade be with sub
Iect or a port of the enemy, or between
the latter and some foreign nation.
In other words, an American could
not lawfully carry on trade between
Spain and Great Britain.
The citizens of one belligerent state
are incapable of contracting with the
citizens of the other belligerent state.
Not only are new contracts not to be
enforced by law, but all existing con-
tracts are suspended. Partnerships
are dissolved between citizens of hos
tile nations.
Every kind of trading or CONNER
cial intercourse, whether by transmits
sion O. money or of goods, or orders
for the delivery of either, between two
countries at war, directly or through
the intervention of third persons, or
by co tracts in any form looking to
such transactions, is absolutely pro-
h1bited.
All these points relate to intercourse
with the citizens or subjects of a hos
tile state. The effect of war on anoth-
er class of civil liberties and rights,
such as the rights of speech, assembly,
press ard criticism, also deserves con-
sideration. Morally, Of course, dec
laration of war should mean an end
to all attacks on the governments
policy, but the law recognizes differ
ences between permissible criticism
and assaults calculated to breed dis
union and denoralization.-
Post.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-05-06

lands of the United States, returned
as non-mine'al by the Government
survey which has been or shall be
made, not reserved and to which no
adverse right or claim shall have at
tached or have been initiated at the
time OF the making of such selection,
lying within any State into or through
which the railway owned by said rail
way company runs, to the extent in
quantity OF the lands so relnquished
or released: Provided, That the tracts
of lands SO to be by said company
selected shall not exceed six hundred
and forty acres in any one body; and
said company shall not be required to
rellnquish any greater amount of land
than it is permitted to select under
this act.
SEC. 3. That upon the filing by the
said railway company, at the local
land office of the land districtin which
any tract OF land selected in pursu-
ance OF this act shall lie, list describ-
ing the tract or tracts selected, and
the payment of the fees prescribed by
law in analogous cases, and the ap,
proval of the Secretary of the Interior,
he shall cause to be executed, in due
form of law, and deliver to said COM
pany q patent of the United States
conveying to it the lands so selected.
In case the land so selected shall at
the time of selection be unsurveyed,
the list filed by the company at the
local land Office shall describe such
tract In such manner as to designate
the same with reasonable degree of
certainty, and within the period of
three months after the lands includ-
ing such tract shall have been survey
ed, and the plats thereof filed in the
local land office, a new selection list
shall be filed by said company, describ-
ing such tract according to such sur
vey; and in case such tract as origin
ally selected and described in the lists
filed in the local land office shall not
precisely conform with the lines of the
official survey, the said company shall
be permitted to describe such tract
anew, so as to produce such conform
ity.
SEC. 4. That this act shall take
effect and be in force from and after
the time of its acceptance by the said
railway company, which must be with
in ninety days from the approval of
this act.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-05-06
Society Cards.

EIRST BAPTIST CHURCH- .>,
REV. F. A. GREGORY. PA~Tot
Preaching services every Sunday at IL, a. M
and 7.30 r. m sunday school at lO p. nj Il
Up T. at $50 p. IN. PRAYER Meeting ever
Thursday evening at oclo, k followed by
G. class All are made welcome ut these services
Corner Fifth and Gotta SITS.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-05-06

DUBY REBEKAH LOD e, MOI
II 100. +.
Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday evening In oud i
Fellows Hall, Shelton. Visiting Dro.hels ini anI
sisters are cordially invited to attehu' oooi"'
session on Third Friday evenings :,
IbA WtUNts Sec MoLLIE SNIDER, n. q
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-05-06

AHAWAMISH LODGE M. 10.
= l. y. u. L -
Meets ever saturday evening at ':oo III .n1
!. 0. o. f Hall. Visiting Members III s"o
standing are made welcome. ,
GEORGE EMMOTr G.. L. ELMER y. iE"' o.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-05-06
1t Makes n Difference.

She was so happy when her engage
ment was announced that her friends
could not refrain from commenting
upon it.
''You used to assert with great
emphasis" they said to her, "that you
gloried in your independence"
eyes" she replied. "That was before
[ had the privilege of being dependent
upon the right kind of man."
There are lots of people who like to
give the opinion that necessity is a.
priyilege.-Chicago Post.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-05-06

edge, and resort to the right remedy.
When a wor.sn feels weak, sick, nervous.
fretful and despondent, and suffers from
pains i'll the back and sides, and burning
and dragging down sensations she is suf-
fering from weakness and disease of the
distinctly feminine organism. Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription is the best of all
medicines for ailing women 1t acts di-
rectly and Only on the delicate and import
ant organs that make maternity possible
1t makes them strong and we'll. It allays
Inflammation, heals liberation, soothes
pain, and tones the nerves. 1t does away
with the usual discomforts of the timorous
period, and makes baby's coming easy and
almost painless. 1t is the discovery of DR..
r. V. Pierce, an eminent and skillful spe-
cialist, for thirty years chief consulting
physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Sur
gical Institute, at Buffalo, N Y. No honest
dealer will urge a substitute for this su-
periOr medicine.
II cannot say too much for DR.. Pierce's Favor
lite Prescription" writes Miss Clara Baird of
Bridgeport, Montgomery Co., Pa. 81 cannot
praise it too highly for the good it did me. If
any one doubts this give them my name and
address"
Send for DR.. Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser. Paper bound, 21 one
cent stamps; cloth bound, ten cents more.
Address DR.. R. v. Pierce. Buffalo, N Y
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-05-06

\ AHElruN LODGE. No. IT,
y y. O. f.
Regular meeting every Wednesday evening
: s0PN in the odd Fellow Hail. Shelton
Wash. All memoers il good standing cordially
invited to attend ,,,.,,
j. f. RILEX L. j = NV "nio"-
& w. oSt.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-05-06

The clouds
have hardly. held
more rain drops
than the tears
which have fallen
from W ON e n S
eyes. There is a
world of truth in
the old song
which said: Man
must work, and
w o M a II m II s {
weep" Women
must weep not
only for the troub-
les and ills of
those they love,
but because of
the physical ag-
ony and suffering
that they them
selves endure in
silence.
Nine-tenths of
the pain and suf-
fering that wo-
men Il II d go
could be avoided
nv a LITTLE tuow1-
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-05-06

,.,ELCOME CHAPTER. No 40.
w ORDER EASTERN STAR.
Meets every saturday after Full moon of each
month All memrerS i'll good stah"hhg are
made welcome. - .
Mrs q, |. BARRON, W. IL. VI A." ELL
Worthy Matron oe''
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-05-06

rlR,T NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. iURCH.-
Preaching every Sabbath al 1870 O'Clock A. VI N
aud 80 7. NJ. sabbath school al Il a. VI
pravar ,naptiny at 7:3vP NJ every THURSDAY
Eyrryholy is invited 20 attend. Seats tree
REV L. J COVlNGTON,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-16

In 1889 the first woman factory in
spector was appointed to act as Sec
rotary to the just created department
OF actory inspection in Pennsylvania.
Since that time six states-Pennsyl-
vania usSs). New York 1880, Massa-
chusetts QSsl), Illinois 1899, Rhode
Island 1888, and Michigan uss7-and
two British provinces-Ontario us9s)
and Quebec QS97)-have appointed wo-
men as inspectors. Connecticut, Maine,
New Jersey, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio.
Minnesota and Wisconsin have men
only. The number In the whole country
is but l3O. and of these but thirty are
women.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-16

Milwaukee is wrestling with a prob
lem of securing adequate compensation
for the renewal of a street railway
franchise, and has laid the foundation
for a profitable deal. The terms agreed
upon between the city and the corpora
ton provides that the corporation shall
pay into the city treasury on the LIST OF
January next $50, 900: on the succeed
ing new year, $780, 900; in 1901, $4,000; in
1902, $50, 900; in 1903, $780, 600, and in 1904,
$500, 600. The latter rate is to con-
tinue each year thereafter until such
time Is the business Of the company
pay to the stockholders 6 per cent,
when the company shall pay to the city
in addition to the 500, 600, one-third Of
the profits earned by the company after
it's dividend Of 6 per cent. The proposed
plan is the most profitable one ever
proposed in any city Of the country. It
e nearly $1,000, 900 for the city dur
ing he life Of the franchise-twenty-
five years.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-16

H0T SUd . Uuol1lcSo. I ID pAoOoOiC
she never did,.
C. H. BAUMBAUGH MISSING.
MCPHERSON, Kan.-Special.)-Since
the developments in the Grant G. Gill
lett failure, inquiries are rife in Nc
Pherson as to the whereabouts of one
c.. H. Baumbaugh. Baumbaugh is a
brother-in-law Of Gillett. and for some
months past has been engaged with
.Gillett in the cattle business. visiting
Mcpherson occasionally in his rounds,
and where he has invested in a house
and lot valued at $1,000 or $1,000. Last
week Baumbaugh was in Mcpherson
and cashed a draft at one of the banks
for $1,000, and reported that he was
going to Texas to purchase more cattle,
and it is since reported that he is now
in Old Mexico.
Prior to engaging in the cattle bust
ness with his brother-in-law Baum
baugh was a clerk in one Of the county
offices at a salary Of $35 per month,
but at the expiration of the term Of
Office Of Hawkinson as county clerk
Baumbaugh lost his job. When in Nc
Pherson last it was noticed that he
very blue, and s%peculated as
to the low price Of cattle, and it is
thought that he had in contemplation
then the coming failure of Gillett. and
Evening star., 1898-10-07
WILL SAIL FOR FRANCE TOMORROW
aSonctiio Leaves Cards for the Nice
President and the Speaker

The Philippine delegate. Agoncino. and
ms Two associates, having concluded their
mission here, will take a steamer at Nev
1ork tomorrow morning for Hayre and
thence TO Paris, where they will seek IN
place the interests and desires of the F'iIini-
nos before the Spanish-American psaco
commission.
Agoncillo says he has received a dlsnatcb
from MS government stating that the ma
tionai assembly has elected as its chairman
DF. faterno, and as its secretary of STATE
Ut. Arallano. ASoncilo regarded Tho &C.
lecllon OF the secretary of state as an in
tefestlnS and important deVelopEeut as
ne Sald, II showed how thoroughly organ.
lzec the legislative and executive branches
OF the new government are. With a secre-
tary OF state the Philippine government is
now IN position TO deal with the outside
world Mr. AgoncillO said his stav in
washington had been satisfactory While
mere ne made calls on all the cabinet Off
GERS, and also left his card for Vice PreSi-
cent Hobart and Speaker Reed He wished
10 talk with members of lne Senate ana
Rouse, feeling that they might have con-
siderable to do in the solution of the Philin-
pine problem. He says he will seek 10 f-st
a nearing before the Paris commission. and
II this is accorded to him he will point out
the utility of continuing Spanish rlIe in
any part OF the Philippine group, and the
capacity of the Filipinos to conduct tbeir
own affairs, as shown by the thorough or
ganizatlon of their national assembly.
Evening star., 1898-10-07
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Receipts for August Over Eleven
Millions More Than in 1897

The monthly statement of the collections
of internal revenue for the month of Au-
gust shows net incre ase over August, 1897,
of s11 ,0o6 235. The receipts from the sew
eral sources of revenue and the increase
or decrease as compared with August, 1897
are given as follows: Spirits, Sc, 1877 ,513; de-
crease. $207 .645; fermented liquors. s7.O53.
66l; increase, s5,41S,S60 oleomargarine
s131,354; increase, $6i,923: special taxes nos
elsewhere enumerated, 81 2S9 1886; miscel-
laneous s303S, $40; increase 81, 3,O72 O36.
The several items from which special
taxes Were received are given as follows:
Bankers, s9I1.934; billiard rooms. sos, ZOO
brokers' stocks, bonds, etc, s1O1 .95s: brok-
ers. commercial, S4S 1913; brokers, custom
house. $2202: brokers. pawn s11 .269: bowl
ing alleys, s11,139; circuses. s6o5S; exhibit
tons not otherwise provided for, $l2. .039
theaters. etc, S19.90S mixed flour. s755: leg
acies, $5.051; documentary and proprietary
stamps, $i.l61 .5l4; playing cards. 81, ,43S
penalties, Sl2,2G6. The net increase for the
last two months over the corresponding
period last year was $40, ,337 ,946
Evening star., 1898-10-07
CHINA'S STEP BACKWARD
Empress Dowagsr Has No Advisers in Sym.
pathy With Progress.
RumOr That the Emperor Still Lives
Guards En- Route to Protect
Foreign Embassies

LONDON, October THE Peking CORE
spondent of the Times, telegraphing or
Tuesday, says:
The restoration of the regency is com
plete. The Empress Dowager receives the
cabinet daily, seated beside the emperor
orenly and no., ... .o-:-icrly, behind a
screen. The government is more retro
grade and reactionary. Yung Lu, one of
bis trusted friends, succeeds the late Prince
kung the chief Manchu, while the vice
roy of the province of Chi LIE is Manchu
Nevertheless, despite assertions to the con-
trary, the balance of power between the
Chinese and Manchus IN high office is I'M
altered in the central government though
there is a small proportional increase of
Ma nchus in provincial posts.
The Tsung Ii Iamen contains no men,
Der cognizant of foreign affairs. Its chief
working member is Hsu Yung vi, the ne
gotiator of the Gerard convention of 1885
Tsung Ii Yamen at the instance of Sir
Nicholas OConor 0hen British minister to
Chna) for breach of faith. but who was
reappointed last month. He says his chief
colleague will be Hsu Ching Chong, former
minister to Russia and now director of the
Transmanchurian railway, who long re-
ceived Russian financial assistance.
THE Russians welcome the change as
exciting cause of the change was the i'm
pending edict ordering officials to abolish
the queue and to adopt foreign dress. A
search of the house of kang Yu Wei, the
reformer, resulted in the discovery of pa
pers proving that he was carrying on a
correspondence with the leaders of the
anti-dynastic movement in southern
China
The Peking correspondent of the Times,
telegraphing Thursday, says:
he ho, -o;I
ingly entreated the foreign legations to
spare China the humiliation of bringing
foreign escorts to the capital, agreed to
the demand of the powers for a special
train to bring the escort from Tieu TSir
tomorrow
Sucn informa ton as has reached the
State Department here respecting the re-
ported death and assassination of the En-
peror of China goes to entirely discredit
the stories that he has been poisoned or
tt at he is dead. It is not possible to say
positively just what sources of informa
ton are available. but 1t is known that
they are regarded as entirely reliable by
the State Department.
Moreover, the situation generally in
China is not believed by the department
officials to be as serious as represented
and signal mark of confidence is the de-
cision not to follow the course of certain
European governments in sending at this
time force of soldiers or marines to
Peking.
Evening star., 1898-10-07
The Trade Mark Commission

The assistant commissioner Of patents
Mr.. A. P. Greeley left Wednesday for
Cmcago to attend the meeting of the COM
mission appointed by the President to re-
Vlse the trade mark law. The other mem
bers of the commission are Mr.. Francis
Forbes, a prominent patent attorney of
New York, ana Judge P. S. Grosscup of the
United States court of Chicago. These gen
tiemen will revise and amend the law ws of
the United States concerning patents trade
marks and trade commercial names The
report VIII be made TO Congress- and be so
made as to indicate any proposed change
IN lhe sIbstGhce of existing Jaw, and shall
De accompanied by notes which shall brief
~ and clearly state the reasons for any
propOSed chaLpe. -
Evening star., 1898-10-07
Pension Examiner Assaulted.

Special Examiner Richard Lowe of the
pension bureau was viciousy assaulted and
seriously injured while in the discharge
OF his official duties at Bloomington, H.,
on the 23d ultimo by James NJ. McCarroll.
alias Dock Carroll reputed son of James
MoCardle, an old soldier, whose deposition
had been taken by the examiner.
McCardle refused to sign his deposition
and cursed and abused the examiner, when
DOCK Carroll, VINO is an experienced boxer,
walked across the street and commenced
vicious assault on Mr.. Lowe, hitting him
a terrific blow in the breast, breaking a
rib and causing a slight hemorrhage Ex-
aminer Lowe has since been confined to
the house but is supposed to be recovering
from his injuries.
Evening star., 1898-10-07
Officers HonorabIy Discharged.

Capt. Jay Cooke, Sd. commissary of SUBJ
sistence, Z. S. v, has been honorably dis
charged the service of the United States.
Other officers similarly mustered out are.
Capt. Abraham Benedict, commissarv of
subsistence, Z. S. v; Lieutenant Colonel A
> heaves, Sd Regiment, L. S. v Infantry:
capt. r A. Bickel Sd New Jersey Infantry.
Major H. c. Lyon, 47th New York Infan,
try; Lieut. c. a. Frier. Sd New Jersey In
fantry; Capt Z. F. Flynn 3D. Connecticut
infantry; Lieut. Charlton Alexander. I'd
Kentucky Infantry; Lieut.. ii. d. Draper
9th Ohio Infantry; Lieut.. A. b. Dentsch
"a Missouri Infantry, and Lieut. j. p
Brouillard, 4th Tennessee Infantry
Evening star., 1898-10-07

| were more efficient because they had larger
experience. In my own command the chlef
| commissary and quartermaster were both
West Pointers, and men OF experience put
we had in the regiment some very efhcient
| commssary officers who We're civilians
when they were appointed"
Gen. Denby: Did you find it necessary
to have regular army quartermasters and
regular army commissary officers detailed
to do duty for the new civilian appointees?
That has been charged
Gen. Lee: II never had such an expert
ence. 1 was very fortunate in getting as
the heads of my departments men who
were educated in the duties they were to
perform, because there are many papers
and matters of detail in these departments
that call for a special knowledge of the
work to be done.
InstructinG Junior Officers
Gen Lee explained that the heads of his
departments made a practice of giving in
structions in their duties to the junior Off
GERS. This, after time, resulted In hav-
ing well-informed officers. AT times, Gen.
Lee said, he had heard of commanders who
were without supplies. He told them that
the quartermaster had said he had the sup
plies they wanted, and when he invesu-
gated the matter he found that no requlSi-
tions for the supplies had been made. In
some cases the officers didnt know that ii
was necessary for them TO make requisi-
tions.
Gen. Lee reverted to the question of the
disposal of camp offal. He said in his COM
mand was the 161st Indiana Regiment of
Volunteers which had a very small amount
of sickness He found that the colonel of
that regiment had bought on his own ac-
count an old engine with smokestack and
he put all his camp offal in the furnace
and burned it every twelve hours. Gen.
Lee thought that precaution was account
able for the small percentage of sickness in
the 161st Indiana. He repeated the state
ment made earlier in the day, to the effect
that the disposal of offal was of the first
Importance in the management of a camp.
General Wilson asked whether the dengue
fever did not pertain to the whole gulf
coast and that it could not be said to ap-
ply specially to camp life.
General Lee said il was general all
through the coast states of the south He
said that there was a good deal of sick
ness in Camp Miami, and that was the
cause, he thought, for it's removal
The surgeons of his command attributed
the sickness at Camp Miami to the water
from the everglades and recommended that
1t be removed.
Ready TO Go to Cuba.
General Dodge-"What is the feeling
among your troops about going to Cuba?'
General Lee-"They are ready TO go.
Some of them want furloughs"
The witness said he had always thought
it would be best, when regiments are muc-
tered out, to allow the men who want 10
stay in the service to go into other regi-
ments, and to muster out such men in these
regiments who did not want to continue In
Evening star., 1898-10-07
The Net Postal Deficiency.

Mr.. Henry A. Castle the auditor for the
Post Office Department in his annual re-
port, shows the net postal deficiency for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1885, was So
2O,905. the smallest in some years. The
reduced deficit is attributed to increased
revenue caused by the expansion of busi-
ness during the year. The postal revenue
for 1898 was sS9O12,6lS, an increase of
&c. ,347, ,156. The expenditures increased
81, ,252, ,236, and the deficit was reduced by
s., ,o94, 800. Auditor Castle calculates the
expenditures in the present fiscal year will
rass the s1Oo. 900 600 mark and the revenues
go beyond $95. 100000.
Evening star., 1898-10-07

Advertising is not an expense.
1t is business investment. Ii
you want to invest your money
proftably you will therefore put
your advertisements in such a
paper as The Evening Star. that
is read regularly and thoroughly
by everybody worth reaching.
The Star is the recognized
household and family journal of
the National Capital, and has
no rival as an advertising med
ium.
Evening star., 1898-10-07

service. In that way both the men who
wanted to stay or to go would be pleaSed
EN-GoNernor Woodbury-"Have your Of
ncers any complaint against the War De
partment Of neglect?''
General Lee-''I haven't any, and : have
heard OF none from any of my officers
rms ended the testimony for the dav.
-tieneral Lee saying there was nothfn., ne
wished TO add to what he had said.