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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-22
CUR SUPERIOR STRENGTH.
British and American Soldiers Sujdue Three
hundred Allied Foreigners

"nE!tn officer H"pnurn. OF the
II, an,ri 'iuEpr'S:; Of irdia. which has
jus; arrived ~ Vancouver. Il. G.. tells
E! biz street and saloon fight in Hong
%nr". !rtW cen kusSian ard English
sailors. y squad OF Russian sailors
rI'"'d Hr all thr German and French
sailors "n LAND ard declared hoStilitics
against III, Anglo Saxon race. In 80
minutes inO German. I"rvrch ard Rus
sian sailors had lined un ard deGed
INC YANKEES a"G Junniu '.ullS 10 break
th"tr ranks. i'rrin:E th..n iCr towards.
N" Narh"'& #rd iritish""S. 80 strong.
I"t"nCed 10 the charge. shoulder to
81 ui",i. SON crying "'.ail Columbia.
an" sen" GOO S.v' tn queer" They
Ll'N" through IN" mass Of Foreigners.
'rt h"*i.niI"S did vet cras UHuI the
hIli-I ln--- 5 ,.:i-G lmr- liMNll.r.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-22
Creiit Belongs to America.

Lordnn Dali" News says cditnrially
we DO not desire To dItraCt from the
credit that Justly belongs to the pope.
but neither the spiritual nor the tenn
pural machinery of Europe would have
b,"E put in motion to stop the horrors
in cuba except for H." action of the
United States. y Weylcr would he in
valuable in Armenia. There is nothing
selfish in Americas resolve that Cuba
shall be freed from her butchers and
tOrmeHtOrS. VI the pope really desires
peace. he should exert the whole of his
great influence with Spain. Spain would
not suffer humiliation in submitting
to the pnntiff. who has no physical
force behird him."
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-22
Valuab'es Arrive From Cuba.

The barking firm of Muller. SchalI d
Go. Of New York received 100000 in
gold which arrived from Havana on
the steamship OrZaba. 1t was sent
here for safe keeping, and makes ST.
200 of gold thus received by the firm.
Cold. however. is not the only thing
being sent from Cuba to get ii away
from danger from theft and destruction
by bombardment. burning and piilage
in case of war. Every steamship from
Cuba has lately been bringing boxes
containing hcirlOOms. silverWare and
paintings. and these have gone t0sa4a-
deposit vaults or other places OF safe
sroG!n=.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-22
ABLE SPARKS.

Austrian wurshipS hay" E"nn with
drawn ir"n Crete.
'tur"r an powers will k, no further
action ~ !rSari to the Sp"nish-Amrri-
gan crisis.
rw" thousand Dr,vishc% were slain
IL an engagement last week with the
AEGl0- i.%\pt'an fur, cs oA tie anEs nf
the Nile
I'll" french 'aHl company has been
prohibited f:.m t&kiI" messages from
Cuba. exc ut these addressed 40 the
spanish government
y foreign Spanish minister nf ma
riaC nnW admits that 1870 turpcd"cS Wrr,.
plant"h III Havana harbUr by order of
TN" lat" prime minister canuvas.
The liabilities of III" firm uf Roberts
th" English biliardiSt dTnouut to H.
"OD pounds IS 6.5nn), Of which sum no
h,rts' privat" liabilities are G.0oI puuni
i%"u.duu).
The shah "f Persia. MuZanar- d-Din.
has linally determined hc can safely
leave Persia without amy fear Of be-
ing opposed during his absvncr. He
Will shortly maxi" "A tour OF Egypt.
Court circles at Vienna already be-
Il We that Queen Regent christina Of
Sra!l may soon return to her native
land. suitable preparations ar" al
ready making n the palace rf h"I
brother. ArCEdukc Iugrn.
The .lvmcniau patriarch has sent to
in, turkish relief commit = Il list OF 40
cEu"Ch'$ wholly O" partly destroyed
during the recent maSSaCrrS in Ana
iu'i&. lie fixes the number ur orphans
whose parents wcr" Killed AT 10000.
here have been several earthquake
shUCn. in the vicinity of LiblchuwitH.
~ miles southwest of LcitmcrtZ. in
Bohemia. ~. the village uf klaftai
seven houses collapsed and y families
were rendered hO..' "lcSS 'El, diyturI-
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-22
Retired Officers will Serve.

y bill which has official sanction, is
ready for introduction in congress au-
thorizing the president in time Of war
to assign retired officers to duty with
the grade Of their rank->It-is- believed
this will return Lieut.-Gen. Schoffeh
to the command OF the army. or late
the war department in consultation
with Secretary Alger.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-22
Easiest on Record.

on" of the fastest t.ai!S that - \
ran into Washington brought Consul
General Lee and his party To the ma
tiurGl capital Tuesday afternoon. 'Hhn
run from Tampa. Ela.. to Washington
WAS made in - hours and . minutes
tn" fastest long distance run ever made
10y Il train in this country. Th" distance
covered by tn" train VAS l.OG3 miles.
the run being mad" IT I'll" remavkah bic
rMtr " II miles an hnnr.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-22
Failed For a Million.

Justice Hiscock, at Herkimer. New
York, Monday appointed Nicholas Ker-
nan assignee and a. NJ. Mills. of Little
Falls, receiver for Alfred Dodge & Sons
manufacturers. of DolSevile. Herkimer
county. The proceedings were brough.
by Rudolph Doigr, of New York. ~
liabilities az said to b $i25O.OOO
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-22
Steamer Secured IN the Orient.

The United States officials at Hong
Kong have purchased the British
steamer Iafro. The Iafiro Is of 1,0Et
toms gross register. She is brigantins
legged. p" feet I inches long having
feet inches beam. and draws II feet
= inches OF water.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-22

The first battalion OF naval militia
left New York for Philadelphia las,
Tuesday. The organization compuscd
Of officers and % men was i'm high
spirits as 1t was the first military or.
ganiZation in New York to bc called
out since the civil war
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-22

The gossip that the mix men Civ"
heir patrons should be called "Chali'
ralGs.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-22

In the Senate Tuesday Senator Mason
# Illinois made another stirring appeal
or Cuban independence.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-04-22
a Feud Settled.

Henry and Ernest Howard. brrthcrs
and james Murr We're killed by John
and Joe McthcC. father and son and
lh"'nhS Howard received fatal wounds
At knoxvillc. Tenn The McGhccs
heavily armed. tlcd and have not been
.,Al .tMrnh. y lnmilN fnud cnuSnd il
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-19
DIRECT LEGISLATION.
HOW THE PEOPLE MIGHT I'M
PROVE OUR METHODS.
The Objections That Direct Legislation
Would be too Slow and Take too
Long to Change law and laws would
be Made by the Ignorant, Answered.

Objection. 1t will be to slow and
will take too long TO make or change
law.
Answer. We think it will be fast
enough, because it will be as fast as
majority of the voters want the law
changed. Swiss experience proves that
an important law can be make in much
less time than is possible with us un-
der our present system.
With the referendum, when con-
gress or a state legislature enacts an
unjust or foolish law, the voters of the
nation or state, as the case may be,
can repeal it at the ballot box before
it even goes into operation.
Contrast the time and work neces-
sary under the two systems in getting
an important proposal decided on its
merits by the law making body.
Under our representative system
you must first organize national po-
litical party, and run candidates for
all offices.
Second. Convince majority Of the
people, that not only your demand is
just and wise, but that it is the most
important of all questions before the
people.
Third. Select three hundred and
Rfty-six good men to run for congress,
out of about fifteen hundred in the
new party who would like the nomina-
ton, and then elect majority.
Fourth. In the same conventions
select at least four thousand five hun
bred candidates for the various legis-
latures, forty-6ve for governors, and
elect majority in every state where
U. S. senator is to be elected. You
will also have to select not less than
fifteen thousand candidates for other
state and county salaried offices, and
will find sometimes that part of your
legislative ticket has been traded for
sheriff or county clerk IN the interest
of greed.
Fifth. Do it all over again two years
later, and thus get control of the U. S.
senate, and this time be sure you elect
the president If you were fairly sue
cessful before, your difficulties will be
multiplied hundred fold now by the
bountiful crop of Office seekers from
which to select your good men and
true. If you fail in getting a mojority
either in the senate or the house, or do
not elect your president, your work is
in vain for that campaign.
Sixth. Keep your party true to the
same issue on which you started.
When you have done all this your
proposed law will be considered on its
merits by the president and congress
niti L. not talked 70 death by the min
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-19

their honest share of the direct taxes?
1t is we'll known that the majority of
the men who make the laws now are
elected by the purchase of this cor
ruptible one-tenth of the voters and
the buying is done with money fur
nished by the class of men who make
this objection-by those who own
much property and pay as little taxes
as possible.
The class of men who own no prop
erty or only their homes, or the farms
on which they work, are never ac7
cused of buying votes either, at the
ballot-box or in the legislative bodies.
Our city councils in the great cities
are VIGOROUSLY for sale and are bought
by the wealthy men and corporations,
while congress- and the legislatures
have the same reputation. 1t is re-
ported to have cost FIVE hundred thou
sand dollars last winter to buy the in
famous Yerkes Chicago Street Railway
bill through the Illinois legislature,
but that body refused to submit the
question to the voters of Chicago as to
whether the law shoIld take effect or
not.
Neither the men who bought nor the
men who sold that legislature were
ignorant or without property, but they
knew very well that it would be inn
possible to get money enough to buy
that law from the people of Chicago
at the ballot-box, though seven-tenths
of the people of Chicago own no prop
erty and pay no direct taxes.
1t is a notorious fact now that our
elections are controlled by the richest
and most vicious of the people, acting
on the corruptible, poorest and most
ignorant one-tenth of the voters, Far
mers and wage-workers have never
been accused of buying bill through
congress or a legislature, nor of buy
ing a franchise or an ordinance from
city council
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-19

ority in the senate. If it is enacted
your labors may be nearly over. Then
make law doubling the number of
judges of the U, S. supreme court, and
have your president appoint all the
new judges from your party so that
your law shall not be repealed by that
caurt declaring it unconstitutional.
All this and more was done in the
creation of the republican party, with
the war in addition, to settle the chat
tel slavery question.
Under the proposed system of direct
legislation the path is not long.
Suppose a quarter of a million Pc
titioners are required to propose ma
tional law by the initiative. one-half
the number of men you must now
nominate for congress and the legis-
latures, using their leisure hours for
year only, can get the required sign
ers, if your proposed reform has reach
ed the stage of growth where 1T would
be possible to organize political par
ty. The petition is then filed with the
president, aud at the next regular
election the question is decided on its
merits by the highest law-making
power-all the voters at the ballot box
and their vote will be the supreme
law-even above the supreme court
All this need not take two years, nor
cost so much as the various conven-
tions to nominate officers in a single
campaign under the present system.
Its possibilities were recognized by
the republican national committee in
its address in 1857, in which it declar-
ed that if the questions of extending
and continuing chattel slavery in the
United States could be submitted to a
voice of the people, nlneteen'twen-
tieths of the voters of the free states
and large majority in the slave state
would vote mo"
Under direct legislation that issue
might have been settled by the ballot
in one day, instead OF the bullet in
four years.
Objection. Our laws would be made
especially in appropriations in public
money, by the ignorant and corrupt
BILE class who own no property and pay
no taxes.
Answer. 1t is admitted that our cor
ruptible class does not exceed one
tenth of the voters. Laws could not
be made by them, because proposed
law or constitutional amendment,
when submitted to the people is al
most always elected or defeated by a
majority much greater than one-tenth
Of those voting.
The influence of this class today is
almost supreme because the vast ma
jority of the voters who are not for
sale are divided by principle or party
/ prejudice into two large and almost
equal bodies at every election. There
fore the party that succeeds in buying
the greater part of those Salable voting
cattle elects its ticket by handsome
plurality.
Are our laws made now by the pure
in heart who own property and pay
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-19
BOTH SIDES WON.
rho First Land battle Was By No Means
DeoIsIva

rhe First Land Battle Was By No Means
Decisive
KEY WEST, Fla, May IA. The
transport Gussie, which left here
Wednesday with 1000 rifles for the
insurgents, was late yesterday after9
noon still cruising off Cabanas and
Mariel, having been unable to locate
any insurgents or to land her cargo.
In an effort to land Companies +
and G OF the First United States in
fantry, on the shore of Pinar del Rio,
with 500 rifles, 10000 rounds of am
munition and some food supplies for
the insurgents, the first land fight of
the war took place Each may claim
victory, for, if the Spaniards frus.
trated the effort to connect with tho
insurgents, the Americans got decid /.
edly the better of the battle, killing
twelve or.more of the enemy and, on
their own part suffering not wound
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-19

The employees of the Union Pacific
are preparing to resist expected wage
reductions with a gigantic strike.
When the government was operating
the U. P. an attempt was made to trim
the payroll, but the employees appeal
ed the matter to Judge Caldwell, who
ordered that the wages remain as they
were. The Union Pacific, as long as
the government was a factor in ITS af.
fairs, paid the highest wages going.
1t is significant that the air is full Of
general reduction rumors as soon as
private parties assume absolute control.
You see the owners figure that the less
they pay the employees the more there
there will be for dividends. Haven't
heard of the owners of the postofice
wanting to reduce wages in order to
pay interest on MISUNDERSTANDING
Nation.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-19
MAHER KNOCKED OUT.
Goddard stops Peter in Jig Time by
an Accidental blow.

GODDARD stops Peter In Jig Time BY
an Accidental Blow.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May J4.-Pugi-
listic history was made very rapidly
at the Arena last night, when, in one
minute and tifto-one seconds of com
bined sparing and fighting, Joe God
dard, the barrier champion" re-
tired Peter Maher, with a sort
of pivot pnnch which was de-
livered so suddenly that hardly
spectator realized what had
come off. Up to the time he received
his quietus, Maher looked like win
ner. What few punches had been
landed were in his favor. AS mat
ter of fact, Goddard landed the punch
which proved so disastrous to Peter
while trying to escape from one OF
the latter's vigorous onslaughts near
the ropes
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-19

More people over lOO years old are
found in mild climates than in the
higher ATTITUDES. According to the last
census Of the German empire, Of a
population of 55,OOO,OOO only seventy
eight have passed the Tooth year.
France, with a population Of 10000, 900,
has 213 centenarians. In England
there are 146, Ireland SIS, and in Scot
land forty-six Sweden has ten, and
Norway, twenty-three, Belgium FIVE.
Denmark two, Switzerland none. Spain.
with a population Of $4,000 900, has 401
persons over 100 years OF age. OF the
2,250,OOO inhabitants OF Servia SIS per-
sons have passed the century mark.
It is said that the Oldest person living
whose age has been proven is Bruno
Cotrim, born in Africa, and now living
in Rio de Janelro. He is $50 years old.
A coachman Is Moscow hAs lived 40
years
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-19

Ignorance and witchcraft are fast
friends.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-19

If you can't be a sun, don't be q
cloud.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-10-26
Nyhnt RenufntInn VIII DO.

Tho owner of an intelligent dog had
been in the habit of allowing him to
take coin and go to tho market to buy
his own meat The dog would fetch the
meat home, deposit it in the shed and
then when hungry, go and get It,
The household eat found the meat
there and on several occasions stole It.
The dog discovered what was going on,
and would lie in wait for hor near the
meat, and when she approached would
chase her away
AT length he tired Of watching his
dinner and fell into the habit of carry
ing his purchases to the cellar and bury
ing them in tho sand. Ono day the
dogs owner removed tho meat from tho
cellar to SEQ what he would do when he
found it gone.
After a tilno the dog went to the eel
lar and began to dig in the sand where
he had loft his meat 1t was not there
He lay down a minute, us if to think
the matter over, and then suddenly
rushed up the stairs and. spying the
cat, went for her, as tho boy Of tho
family said, and chased her all over the
yard. Christian Leader.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-10-26

Minerva snatched tho remaining sec
ton of the door away, and the young
man slid totteringly out upon tho cellar
floor, with u small avalanche of released
coal.
at was all our fault" cried Minerva.
We ought to have watched that
wretohed coal man and seen that he put
tho cover over the souttle. +"
No. it was my fault, objected tho
young man. Il ought to have had my
eyes about me. had no business to be
walking backward on the street. l.
but, really, Miss
Matthews, interposed Minerva,
noting his questioning hesitation.
Really, Miss Matthews" looking ut
his grimy hands and besmirched linen,
II feel so disreputably dirty that am
going to as< you for tho love Of human.
ity to get mo an old pan or basin TO
wash this stuff Off in"
Come right up stairs, said Minerva
pityingly.
No. no; might encounter somebody
beg your pardon for the seeming in
sinuation. But, you know. had to en-
counter you, and l feel toward you
sense of gratitude for my deliverance
That oyorrides all other feeling. Isn't
there laundry tub or something where
could mako n preliminary toilet"
Minerva led the way into the base
ment laundry, where there were set
tubs, running water and plenty of soap
"Ill run up stairs for towels" she
said, and SO made Il timely escape with
the geyser of laughter that wns gushing
up in her throat. She fled into the
kitchen closet, shut the door tight and
collapsed, with the cooks old wrapper
pressed against her face. ooh, I'm so
glad auntie isn't homo today, or Kath-
erinel" she gasped "What would they
do. tho historical dearsi" She writhed
In n fit of suppressed laughter for "A
minute or two, and then broke forth
and dartod up stairs for tho towels.
Mrs. Matthews met her Mt tho head of
tho stairs.
Don't speak word to me, mother, "
painted Minerva Don't; | shall ex-
plode"
She dashed into the bathroom, caught
up u couple of towels and sped down
cellar again.
Tho laundry was empty. The outside
basement door, standing ajar into tho
little back yard, told the story. The
young man had fled.
Minerva mechanically gathered up
pair of mournful cuffs that had rolled
under the shadow of the tubs Their
jewelry was of tho most modern kind
smoked pearl-but tho linen was fine in
texture and quality. Il guess he must
have been II gentleman as far as he
went. F" unused tho girl. She turned tho
cuffs this way aud that and peered in
side, but there was no name, no olew.
Then. with that wonderfully swift,
prophetic intuition Of u woman, Mi
norva Matthews sighed and exclaimed
under her breath
Poor Miss Anterior I"
1t was Miss Atherton who lived next
door. Portland Transcript
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-10-26

There Is no accounting for tastes.
What suits tho palate Of ono may DO lit
tic esteemed by another. An English
traveller and sportsman had recommend
ed to him when no was in Morocco
variety of game which he would not be
very keen for ut homo. His informant
was IA soldier, for no foreigner il al
lowed to travel in that country without
such attendance:
He began telling marvellous stories Of
the gamo In the neighborhood, of the
sultan's army and Of his own impor.
lance. Ono remark on eooking-for he
was II gourmand-is worth repeating.
There is, )" he said, "only ono kind
Of game worth eating in Morocco
wildcat. It's taste il as the taste Of all
other varieties Of gamo mixed When
once you have tasted wildcat, never will
You eat anything again with pleasure. "
Probably not. | should think it
enough to poison most people, but l
dared not say 30. | merely proposed in
a weak voice that preferred owl stewed
with mustard and sand. He said that
ought to BIO good, too, but he had never
tried it,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-10-26

and important organs that bear the burdens
Of maternity.
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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-10-26

Ole Bull, upon hearing brilliant
young pianist play, remarked to her
"You play beautifully, but you can't do
the great music--no woman eau. 1t
takes the biceps Of II man "
My arm Is strong enough, answer
ed the girl, laughing. Il break my
piano az we'll az II man could and have
to have new one every week.
You see. " responded the Norwegian,
turning to another, chow these people
treat their pianos. They break them,
they beat them. they kick them, they
smash them to pieces, but our fddles,
how we love them !"