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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-07-20
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IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS.
The cream Of the country papers Is found
In Remingson's County Seat Lists Shrewd
advertisers avail themselves Of these lists, q
copy of which can be had Of Remington
Bros. Of New York 4 PittsburE.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-07-20
~IMPERIALIsM .

IMPERIALISM"
Yer Uncle sam = peaceful.
He never sought fray.
he lived most economic
SOS 10 keep the wolf away.
He was model yOungstsr
An he didn't ever care
Fur mixin' into troubles
Which was none OF his affair.
But now thers's lots o. worry
Fur fear he'n go astniy
Cause he's gettiE' collection
Ofsmail islands FAR away.
An he's snvied BY the Others
As they see with gath'rin fears
How he naeherly possesses
What they've wanted all these years
It's them that's 1T 10 WELD 1t
Who at last the power will gain;
An There amt no use o. dOdgin'
Lies successes nor its pain.
Those fertile acquisitions
Mnstn't be misunderstood.
Yer Uncle sam can't stop 'em.
They're his pay fur bein' good.
Washington Star.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-07-20

Meerschaum Is q silicate Of magnesia
and is 20 be found chiefly in Asia Mi
nor, Greece and Madrid.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-07-20

stopit. The only rational interference
for European nations is an interference
with their feeble neighbor in its blind
fight against fate. The sooner spain is
stopped the less she will be damaged.
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al can't get it or my mind" said
Mrs Stickler.
''But you can change your mind,
suggested her husband.-Detrolt Free
Press.
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07
The Man Who Wrote the preambl..

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUs-Sfr: Your recent
editorial article upon Senator Thurston and the La.
fayette monument resolution. or tho preamble
thereto. calls forth in Justice TO tho Senator. who
perhaps Is as Jealous OF his dignity as his worthy
colleagues. an acknowledgment OF guilt.
The writer appears before the bar OF THE Sun and
the public pleading guilty without Indictment rs tho
author of the "toploftical' preamble. 1t is hoped
that IL may be a prophecy Of what will materialize
In the monument itself. Nothing we can do, either
In the way OF Dreamblcs or monuments. can be too
great In connection with Lafayette. THE sun will no
doubt. on reflection. agree that the resolution was wor.
thy OF the preamble, and that had the author known
more Of the senare's idea of a proper resolution than
he did Of rhetoric he would have known better than
to try his rhetoric upon that honorable body. At all
events, It Is believed the whole resolution NAV he
generally read with pront at this time, recIting A. IL
does tho courtesies shown Lafayette. that knight
OF Liberty" by q gracious and thankful people.
The Senate favors the monument. however, and #
will be built. tho fund therefor having already been
guaranteed TO the extent OF $3.50, 900 by a wealthy
and patriotic ChicaEoan. '
Members OF the French Ministry, rs well rs ~orncials
selves upon the subject OF the monument as proposrd
by Mr. ThurstOn's resolution. and they believe the
occasion of the unwilling and dedication thereof will
eclipse In popular Interest anything tho other great
nations may do. ROBERT ]. THOMpsoy
WASHINGTON, March D.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07

Curisus Case That Ha. Reached TIE supreEo
Court OF MliaaonrL.
From the 81. Louts 0,ooe Democrat.

From the 50. Louts Globe. Democrat.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, March 3.-An odd case IL
pending in the Circuit Court hero. A prisoner
was permitted to leave the Jail after serving
almost n year for contempt OF court and spend
a couple OF weeks with his family.
Joseph s. Davis is tho prisoner. He is a we'll
known business man. one Of tho oldest settlers,
q prominent Democratic politician and a
brother OF former State Representative Abe X.
Davis. Perhaps tho queerest feature OF this
queer case is that Davis may have, to, serve the
remainder Of his natural life In Jail IL he refuses
to comply with a mandate Of the court.
When the father OF Joseph =. Davis died sew
oral years ngo he bequeaihed 1000 cash to his
demcnted son Richard. Joseph was named as
brother were placed in his hands. The circum-
stance Of this gift was not generally known
SdjudGed insane by the Probate Court, and his
estate was placed In the hands OF Public Admin
]istratoT Gibson for settlement; That officer lSSr
money was deposited, in one OF the local banks
IN the name OF Joseph =, Davis. He refused to
Withdrew 1t from the, bank. The officer filed
suit against Davis, and J. M. Ford, a prominent
During the absence OF Davis at the trial bis
house was broken into and robbed. The parlor
S Sotps oo %ss Fl9pSs sne ep End ID . taH . sage TSe ST sio ess of
siion. but Judge a; ii. Woodson. before whom
was ordered to produce the 81, 700. He adhered
to the robbery story and declined to do so. On
June 90, 1897. he was committed to Jail until
he should change his mind.
The case passed through its various legal
State. and Judge woodson's verdict was con-
firmed. The court held that Davis had the
$4,000. and that he would have to remain In
Jail until he delivered 1t to the public admins
traitor.
Two weeks ago Judge woodson issued an
order granting Davis q vacation from Jail. The
prisoner. has %joyfully spent the time in. the
bosom OF his family. To-day the f%rrlough eS.
the Supreme Court has tho power to revoke
Judge Woodson's order.
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a Very Interesting Conference.

The seventh annual meeting of the Tus.
kcgee Negro Conference was held at that
town in Alabama last week. 1t is a con-
vention Of colored people, men and women,
from all parts of the South, brought to-
gether for the purpose Of instructing and
interesting them in measures for self
provement, moral and financial. 1t was
started six years ago by Prof. Booker T.
WAsnINGToN, the eloquent negro who has
done so much for his race. Subsidiary local
conferences, many holding regular monthly
meetings, have been established in differ
ent Southern States, the number organized
In Alabama alone during the last year
having been more than fifty.
The attendance at the Tuskegee Confer
ence last week is reported by the Mont
0onleIy .idrrrtiser as having been two
thousand, II great majority being farmers
representative of every Southern State.
As usual at all such gatherings of the
colorcd people, the proceedings were opened
with religious exercises, and a deep re-
lig;ous tone p~ervadcd them throughout.
1t was noticeable, also, that no spirit Of
resentment against the whites was exhib.
ited. though it might have been supposed
that recent and horrible lynchings of ne.
groes would bc sure TO provoke it. So far
as We can discover from the report in the
Montgomery paper, the subject was not
even mentioned. All thoughts seemed to
be absorbed in the question of the means
most likely to produce the improvement of
condition so eagerly desired.
Prof. WASHINGTON laid down four rules of
conduct for the negroes to pursue as essential
tothat end. He counselled them, first, to
get land" not too much. but only as many
acres as they could pay for. Having land,
L~Sexhorted them to remain ON it as a home,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07
The Auxfliar1 Cruisera.

The wisdom OF preparing for war In time
of peace has been illustrated very strik.
ingly by the stock Of reserve batteries
which the Navy Department has ready for
arming the merchant vessels that may be
chartered as cruisers.
The movement really began when tho
Paris and New York were bought and tho
St. Louis and st. Paul built, in consequence
of subsidies conditioned on their liability
to perform war service for the Government.
When this had been done Congress saw that
accordingly made q large appropriation for
the guns needed both for these vessels and
for others that might be chartered. At the
same time Il provided reserve guns for
the regular navy. AS q consequence, we
find scores of rapid fire guns of the 8-inch,
5-inch or 4-inch calibre at the Washington
naval ordnance yard, ready to be sent
wherever they may be needed. and over
thirty of them already forwarded to the
Brooklyn yard. Some of these may 60 to
the Chicago or the Atlanta, taking the place
of guns in their old batteries which do not
nave rapid-flre mounts; but in that case the
discarded guns will be available for the
merchant cruisers.
In short, this is q most conspicuous ex
ample of the value Of that preparation for
possible needs which 10 30 familiar in foreign
armies or ~navies, and so rare here, where
our isolation and the absence Of powerful
n%eighbors tempt us to neglect even ordi-
nary precautions.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07
The Freedom OF the Press.

The manifest purpose of the Republican
leaders OF his State to push through the
Ellsworth press gag bill, In alliance with
Democratic leaders, points ~indisputably to
some sort of understanding between them
which will not bear the discussion Its ulti-
mate exposure will provoke. Consequently,
IL this bill becomes law. with the signature
OF Governor BLACK, It Is likely to furnish
O main issue for the State campaign.
The freedom Of the press, one of the great
pillars Upon which American liberty rest',
Is attacked directly by this measure. I'm
der the p~retence Of Furnishing and prevent
ing newspaper license, the bill subjects all
newspapers to the danger Of malicious In
reference with their liberty Of opinion, so
essential to enlightened public Judgment
concerning public men and measures. Its
prime purpose is not to protect public NOR
ais, but to afford to politicians criticised by
newspapers the means of gagglng the press
without going into court.
The Ellsworth bill is a mad attempt ut
IN astounding and unnatural outrage.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07

for the phrase and that other writers are
against IL, but refrains from giving In
stances Of It's use. Now, DIR. HALL and
his analogies must be thrown out. He
is a man Of prodigious reading, but as a
writer he is one of the most confused, tor
tuous, pedantic bunglers that ever set pen
to paper. Probably he writes from analogy.
One more dictionary, IN unpretentious
and a compact one. "In our midst. in their
midst" &C., says Stormonth. are common
colloquial phrases, which, at the best. are
but of a doubtful propriety." The plan Of
Stormonth's Dictionary excludes quota
tions, but even in the moro p~retentious
works they seem too often taken at random.
It makes a vast difference whether Mr..
THAcKEnAY or Mr.. HALL GAME is the au-
thority for a phrase, but the indulgent gen.
tlemen who make the dictionaries don't
wish to give anybody pain. When the
great dictionary of the English Philo-
logical Society reaches midst" our friend
in Brooklyn will be able to get a chrono-
logical history of the word. Meanwhile
the dictionaries upon which he relies do not
make out even the weakest sort of case for
"in our midst" in any other thar the nat
ural sense. Is 1t in good usef Our oh.
~servation and impression are hat it Is not.
II it is, the common dictionaries, h~aphazard
compilations a they may be, ought to
have made the fact clear.
It 10 q phrase habitually used by bad
writer's. A burlesque and fatuous air has
come to belong to It. Pray you, avoid IL!
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07
Americans well Treated in the KIondike.

rTOW tNe ptctoftu JIuttt COtOntht.
Tit following expostulatory telegram speaks
tho sentiment of hundreds Of Americans who.
in the natural course Of trade. have come to
British Columbia to outfit for the Yukon and
find themselves. confronted with embarrassing
restrictions made or threatened by their own
Government. 1t is from. an old political col.
league. at present in Victoria, of the Senator to
whom 1t is addressed:
The Hon. Senator Mason, Chicago:
have to express the highest appreciation OF the
manner in which l have been treated. and, AZ my
case is similar to that OF many OF my fellow Amer
lean citizens. I think It right that you should be in.
formed about 1t, so that you may do something
toward dispelling the Interpretations that exist
and aid In removing the obstacles that our Govern
ment is placing In the way OF our own people.
i hnd myself treated as II l were q British subject,
having all the privileges extended to me. l receive q
mining license On precisely the same terms. and have
exactly the same rights under It, as q British subject.
The only obstacles placed In my way are from tho
oficials OF our own Government. Icatne here TO buy
goods b cause j can get them moro advantngeously
and save a 80 per cent. duty. l learn that II l should
decide TO go to the In, erior OF Alaska. the Transports.
ton OF my goods purchased in the United Stat 8 will
be facili' ated by the Canadian customs. but that OBJ
stacles will be placed in the way OF my carrying Cana
dian goods into Canada. to be used there. This is
suing a policy toward persons bound north that will
lead TO many OF them being ruined. The rankest
kind Of deception is being practicei in Seattle. and I
am sorry 10 see that the Treasury Department seems
inclined to play into the hands of men there who arc
doing much TO destroy the reputation OF our country
for fair dealing. The rulings OF the Treasury Depart
ment are intended to be in favor OF q few American
s~hipowners. hut are working untold hardships on
many American miners. The restrictions will ulti-
mately ruin commerce on Puget Sound.
PERCY d. WHITEHEAD.
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and TO give up their too frequent habit OF
moving from place TO place. "You do not
live anywhere" he said, but simply stay"
Secondly, he would have them make their
homes decent and attractive, so that a feel
ing Of domestic attachment would be gem
Grated. Thirdly, he advised them ITO raise
something to eat" 30 that instead OF de-
pending on the town for all supplies, they
could carry something thither to sell and
get money with which to buy necessities
and substantial additions to their COM
forts, and not snowy and worthless trink.
cts. Finally, he exhorted them to improve
their schoolhouses, make sacrifices In order
to get an education for their children, to
cultivate the spiritual side OF life" and
to be good Christians"
Many negroes, men and women, related
their experiences in trying to get ahead.
Some told stories of great poverty and
hardship, but generally their condition
was reported as improving. A young
woman graduate of Tuskegee, for instance,
said that last year she rented three acres
of land for $3.50, and raised on it, be-
sides corn and pumpkins. 0 pounds Of
cotton, for which she got $50, giving her
n profit above all expenses of $1,000.
"Pick the hog bone to-day and let your
wife make soup Of It tomorrow" said an
other speaker, "but buy land; :" and he
called the attention of those without
money to "the 100000 acres of Govern.
ment land in Alabama, $4,000 within q
radius OF sixty miles of Montgomery,
10000 within twenty-five miles Of Tuske-
gee, and $4,000 bordering on the Black
Belt" The reports showed generally that
wherever the influence Of the Tuskegee
movement had extended there was con
slant improvement, but that elsewhere the
condition OF tho colored people as to
property, education and morality is "most
unsatisfactory"
The spirit manifested throughout the
conference was most creditable to the
negro people, and afforded good reason for
~hopcfulness as to their progress. They arc
going to work in the right way to get
ahead. They are industrious, and from
Tuskegee and the subsidiary local confer
ences they are receiving lessons in econ
omy and the best expenditure of their
labor, which arc needed by the Southern
people generally, white and black. If the
colored people want money, they must work
for 1t and save it by self.denial; and II
they seek to rise In the social scale, they
must make themselves se~lf-supporting and
independent farmers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07
So Near and Yet So Far.

We give room here to a suggestive letter
from the Dominion of Canada:
"To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-str: I hope you will
In all fairness publish tho inclosed letter from Mr..
WHITEHEAD. an American citizen. to Senator MASON
OF Chicago.
at need not surprise you II some OF the Canadian
newspapers do sometimes contain harsh sentiments
toward the United States. when they see SO many
efforts made by Congress to meet British subjects
with hostile legislation-such as the ALLEN Labor
law hamprring and obstructing our commerce in
northern rivers, the navigation OF which Is secured to
us by treaty; the threats to deprive Canada Of the
bonding system between the two countries; the pre-
vention OF British subjects taking up mining claims
in Alaska.
"In none of these matters has Canada retaliatsd.
1t is true. Q Kind OF alien labor law was enacted in
1897, but never put in operation. United States citi.
zens are allowed to mine and take up land in Klon.
dixie on the same conditions as British subjects. No
restriction is placed on United States commerce in
the British Yukon. Special legislation to treat United
States citizens different from Britishers has not been
attempted. Should IL be. the fault will be with your
people. w. l. MACDONALD. Senator.
1.-THE SENATE. OTTAWA. Canada. March q, 1875"
The letter Of Mr.. WHITEHEAD's, which
Senator MACDONALD mentions, will be
found in another column but the latter
gentleman has not yet set out upon the
right way to remove all causes of friction
between the United States and Canada,
and to establish them for all time upon
the plane of common interests and COM
mon purposes which their origin, their
character and the march of events make
the natural and proper one.
At present Canada is the arm of q trans
atlantic and hostile Government. She is
not Independent, but dependent. She is
not American. but European. She has not
and canno have toward the United States
the friendlincss and sympathy of an AmerI-
can people, but rather the latent mistrust
and opposition of a European people. The
hospitality extended to Americans In the
Klondike cannot wipe out the political
fence which has come down from past times
between Canada and the United States.
If Senator MACDONALD would be an
American statesman worthy of the greater
glorics of the nineteenth century, he will
direct his energy and patriotism to making
Canada what nature intended that she
should be, namely, part of this great North
American republic.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07
Tho Inventor or LarriLiu,

From the Lon'on Daily Chronicle.
The real originator an patentce OF the word "iar.
r!kin' was an Irish reporter named o'Hea. who was
employed on the Melbourne Aryus in the early
seventies. He regularly attended the city police
court. where he had as Il colleague in the
press box Mr. Harold Dominick Bellew. who repre-.
sented the Melbourne Herald. aud who. as Mr.. Kyrle
Bellew. Ia now playing Claude Meino tfe at the Adelphi
Theatre. They were rivals in the art OF picturesque
paragraph writing. and ench was constantly on the
slert for serviceab.e humorous incidents.
Mr.. o'Hca seized upon the elongation by an Irish
Sergeant OF Police Of the familiar word .'IArkinK"
into the three'syllabled "larrikiu." and utilized Il
for a very amusing paragraph. The word did not i'm.
mediatcly catch ON with the general public, but
Mr.. OHca drove IL into circulation by constantly
using Il In his reports as q synonym for the younR
Melbourne street rough. II was gradually accepted
Australian language.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07

ne standn NInnruiiy ana Frankly U,., =.
ChioTiac or Geld Platform,
From the Chdiicoihe DoHv y,,r,

From the ChtNicohe Daily Netps.
Hi Davis. the young. brilliant. and elooro..
Mayor Of Hillsboro. Is always providing 800
new sensation for the dcnlZens Of the Hiehlans
Hills. But In tho last incident the clever mas.
nor in which he turned n trick on his oner,I..
when they had all tho trumps in their nm.
hands has attracted the admiration OF tSo.aa
who know him all oyor the State. The story \.
rs follows. About tho first of February Ds,i..
disappeared from his accustomed hNunts. snss
no one knew whittier he had gone, Finally the the
abouts and published the following note: .
Mayor II. D, wis, whose whereabouts b,, 49,
unknown for the pastltwo weeks, Is in Columbus' n
taking tho Kelley cure. '''
said: ""s
The candor OF the above statement come, /,
refreshing breeEo among the murky vapors Of ~
yearn for the free air OF Hillsboro, where /, a ~ n,
BILE to rcvel in truthfuincss, and where facts az
sketehed In the altogether, In all their natural GLOW
Think OF 1t. "our beloved. levei.headed and IN.
Blank street. Blankvillc. o." |
Ordinarily. such a publication would cond.m,
a politician to the limbo of " has beens. 4" but moi
30 with Davis. He turned II to his own advan.
taRo. aud at tho Same time announced himself
as a candidate for q fourth term. His card n !,
the HiASboro Gazette was as follows:
Upon my return from Columbus, wber, I h.,.
the drink disease, my attention was directed to ~
enough to give publication to an announcem.nste os
my absence; and its reason and purpose.
dium for It's I am taking tho k 4 me
cure, so called. and I am ns proud OF the fact a. Al,
Soro. who have SO earnestly indoraed 0 snd al sus stils
tally supported me through all OF the Year, q
Furthermore. I ask the citizen voters of the rill,,,
Of Hiiissoro. who believe in the purposes and pifS.
samin,Strasion OF munic,p SIo af asES 's so assosa my N,
the honor OF denomination that I may demonstrats
that which is within me under the new order Il
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07
SUNBEAM

-Blaokbirds have remained all winter a Mora
Sherman county. Or.
AT Quincy. Mich, q hen was buried which h,a
reached the age OF almost twenty.
-HaEleton, Ind. disputants went to law over %
cents worth OF chicken, and the litigation cost than
$40.
All tho villages of Daviess county, Ky, arc COZ
nected with each other and the county seat By telp
phone.
"A hen hawk tried to got away with Q woodchop
pers handkerchief which he held in his hand q,
Marshneid. Me.
Some Florida fishermen sent out from Tampa q
story of the finding OF Q pearl as large as an ordinary
marble in an oyster served to the City Auditor.
Morality is proclaimed to be on the increase IN
Anderson county. Tenn. a citizen having paid his
taxes without being sued for the nrst time in his life.
PHO BLUM. Ark. had had no rain for q week
when one day tho people were treated to the sight
unusual under tho circumstances. OF q clear and dis
tinct rainbow in tho east.
Stories are told in Western papers of the finding IN
the neighborhood of Hell's Neck. near Carthage, Mo-
Of q vein OF zinc thirty feet thick, and also indics
tions of oil and natural gas.
There Is q st. Bernard dog at Sparta, Mioh., which
at the ngo Of eighteen months is s7io inches high. III
feet long. and weighs 1876 pounds. Its owner do
clares it's the biggest st. Bernard in the State.
-Phin Clough of Auburn. Me-. has other choice
things to care for besides his name. and has shown
this winter some well preserved apples which he has
kept in . dry cellar since the autumn Of 1895.
"A Springfield (Kan.) woman put on some Of her
husbands clothes to play burglar with her children.
and when she came from q closet her ter. year-old
daughter, who had taken . revolver from its hiding
place. promptly shot at her. Tho bullet just missed
her.
"A Burlingame. Kan. . woman who fears to have
. -,n ahD..t thA I~,.. Ill -. = - .s..t-.