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OF COMMANDMENTS

Those who talk glibly about lombard
ing citics and wiping such places as
.HavaHa off the map with our big guns,
spcak IN most cases Of that Of which
they have little comprehension. Let
US see In the siege OF Paris, a city then
tenfold the size Of Havana, the Ger
mans from land batteries threw in
10000 shells. But they killed only
.107 people and wounded 209 more, or
one to every $50 shells fired At Bel
fort the Germans threw 100000 shells,
but killed only sixty persons.
The fact is that naval skill is best di-
rected to hitting and knocking out"
the enemy's guns and Notifications 1t
is well known that earthworks can be
and are constructed which will resist
any shot or shell that can be thrown
against them. But no guns are ever
planted that may not be dismounted
by a well-directed fire, and no fortifica-
tions are erected the guns Of which
may not be silenced, great though the
cost may be.
And yet, as the New York Tribune"
pointed out in a detailed review, a pow
erful fleet bombarded the works of
Alexandria all of one day, and until
every magazine in the fleet was empty,
and the ships had to withdraw for fresh
supplies. The men-of-war threw into
the forts and city lightweight shells
from S1-ton guns, 301 from 25-ton
guns, 752 from 1S-ton guns, 224 from
12-ton guns and 1,SO0 from smaller
guns. The forts were silenced and yet
when examination was made it was
found that not great damage had been
done. Only ten out of forty-four guns
had been dismounted by shells. The
others were useless because the Egyp-
tians did not know how to handle them
without breaking them down. The
Egyptians lost 500 men, the fleet five
men killed and eight wounded It won
because Of the incompetency of the
Egyptian gunners.
The gun upon a fixed platform well
manned is always more serviceable
than the gun upon a movable or float
ing platform equally well manned New
ertheless because of ability to shift DO
sition, to keep the ship in motion, and
to withdraw and advance at will. the
armored ship has a special advantage
When, therefore, a fleet suences effect
i've land batteries it accompIishes a
great feat. 1t is probably true, as some
naval expert has said, that it costs as
much to shell a fort to it's destruction as
it does to build and equip it. Much the
same is true Of destroying a city.
But while it is true that earthworks
can be, and are constructed which will
resist any shot or shell that can be
thrown against them, they are reduced
and they may be taken from floating
platforms, and it is favorite way of
assaulting them.
But why should we wish to destroy
Havana? We ought to employ the art
Of war so well that we can capture or
reduce 1t without great destruction of
r life and property. We are out to pac-
ify Cuba, to free it Of Spanish domina-
ton and cruelty. We should desire to
make the task Of irehabilitating the un-
happy island as light as is possible.
In this war we should fight soldiers,
forts and ships, and not non-combat-
ants and the helpless, except dire neces-
sity requires as in a case Of siege and
reduction by blockade and investment
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Here we go again. Another branch
of city government follows the lead of
the Board Of Health and condemns the
water supplied by the municipality, and
for which the people are taxed. The
City Board Of Education has been put
to a heavy expense to furnish clear, de-
cent water for the schoolhouses, be-
cause it is convinced that the hydrant
supply is dangerous to the children.
They propose even to seal the hydrants
that the pupils may not be able to use
the water in any form while in the
schoolhouses and yards. What a mis-
cradle condition of affairs it is, to be
sure, with water pure, clear and flow
ing at our feet beneath the soil at a
depth Of several hundred feet. and not
a drop to drink.
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Dough for the LegisIature.

The following named counties yester-
effected settlements with the State
Controller, and paid into the State
Treasury the last installment of taxes
for 1897, as follows: San Francisco,
$581 900 80; Butte, $19,576 IL Orange,
S1G,499 81, and Santa Barbara; $40
$50 2G
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MRS. PINKHAM'S ADVICE.
What Mrs. Nell Hurst has to Say
About It

DEAR Mrs. PINKEAM:-When I wrote
to you had not been well for five years;
had doctored all the time but got no
better. ] had womb trouble very bad.
My womb pressed backward, causing
piles. l was in such misery l could
situation was irregular and too pro-
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use, was also
,roubled with
.eucorrhea. /
had given up all
hopes of getting
well; everybody
thought I had
consumption.
After taking
five bottles of
Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegeta-
BILE Compound,
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Utterly blocked in their sensational
ism about the operations Of the fleets,
the fake press has been driven, as
last resort to maintain their sensational
character, to forging lies about the bat
tleship Oregon. That story which they
coined out of the base metal, that the
Oregon came near to destruction be-
cause of dynamite bombs hidden in her
coal bunkers, turns out to have been
pure fiction. No, there is some charm
about genuine fiction artistically and
gracefully presented. The dynamite
story was a brutal, blundering and will
full example of yellow journal lying.
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they can be handled. We have come to
realize that even in a defensive war
we must extensively prosecute it when
once it is entered upon.
The record-union., 1898-05-28

The New York Tribune" puts it very
pointedly when it says that a nation
has right to abate a nuisance at its
threshold. It has not been our fortune
to find Canada a nuisance, or Mexico a
nuisance, and, hence, we have no
trouble in those quarters. But Cuba
has been a stencil for fifty years,
cause of war, a nuisance and a fragrant
one, maintained under color of author
ity to our detriment, and against all
humane sentiment. Hence, we propose
to abate it, to clean up the place and
give it a new start in life.
The record-union., 1898-05-28

A good deal having been said and
written about the "bicycle face" leads
the Boston Transcript to remark that
it is as nothing in these war days to
the bulletin face. Well put.
The record-union., 1898-05-28

The French press is somewhat modi-
flying it's tone. 1t has discovered that
it will probably have to eat crow, and
it desires to make the dish as palatable
as is possible.
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Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Cloudy and un-
settled weather Saturday with showers;
fresh southerly, changing to westerly
winds.
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Yvette Guilbert, it appears, stands in
the front rank of the abusive people in
France who are roundly rating the
Americans just now. This precious bit
of doubtful woman is given free rein
in the French press to say:
It (the United States) is incapable of
the least artistic emotion, and with it
all is a matter Of the figures. Don't
forget that all the artists who go there
go not for covering themselves with
glory. but to fill their sacks. Should an
artist, however talented, go there with
out the necessary advertising there
would be no attention paid him. On
the other hand, the Spanish have al
ways seemed to me to be Of the pure
and worthy type, in all the points OF the
mother race that gave birth to the Cid
I wish that a. TIE Deum might be chant
ed at Notre Dame and in all the
churches of France for the glory of the
arms of Spain.
The front rows" which went into &C.
stacies over this shady piece Of fem
ininity and raved about her when she
smiled on Americans, are now in order
to announce readjustment Of their judg-
nents
The record-union., 1898-05-28

The Westminster Gazette" certainly
hits America a. good-natured rap over
the knuckles when it protests against
the charge that the United States has
engaged in war for purposes of loot.
1t says that while Americans have al
most always charged England in every
trouble she has had with a desire to
grab Englishmen should not fall into
the same error with regard to the war
prosecuted by the United States. 1t
thinks that the Maine incident was
enough in itself to justify a declara-
ton Of war by the Americans, and ADDS
that doubtless there will arise a party
in this country that will be inf1amed
by the prospect of annexations. That
however is not the real purpose Of the
American people. "They are no more
land grabbers than we are" And it
winds up with this bit of humor: 1--WE
have hitherto passed by all such Sian
ders with contempt, and it is now
greatly to be hoped that no section of
our press, following the bad example
of the American newspapers, will try
to retort with a schoolboy Tu quoque."
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A SILLY PROPOSITION.

A rumor comes from Germany that
that country will demand to be heard
in the matter of the disposition of the
Philippines. The Record Union" is
opposed to retention of the islands by
the United States, beyond securing a
harbor or two of refuge and supply
there, with sufficient adjacent territory
to make occupancy of the harbors effect
i've. But suppose another policy is de-
cided upon, under what canon of in
ternational law can Germany claim the
right to divide the spoil of the victor?
Under what color of equity can she be-
come a party to the settlement Of the
terms Of peace?
Germany has heard the verdict of
Great Britain upon that question al
ready. Her statesmen have distinctly
announced that no such claim can be
advanced except brutally. The diff
Guilty is between Spain and America
only and no other Power has any right
to a voice in the matter. If there IS
verify in the story then, it is to be said
that the German claim is too gauzy to
be seriously treated. But if there is
the slightest warrant whatever for such
a claim, then we had equally as good
a one for interfering when Germany
snatched up Kiaochau. A great ma
ton such as that over which the En-
peror Of Germany rules must have
some showing of justice to pioneer any
claim it may make under international
law and usage. There is no justice in
the claim it is said she will make. In
fact it is so silly that we are disposed
to believe that the whole story is of
NallnM journal Manufacturing.
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Bin, which I did about the 1st of Octo-
Der, 1894.
He said my trouble was the cancer Of
the stomach. I commenced taking his
medicine Immediately. For the first three
a very little change. After that time
improved very fast and am now able to
do quite a good days work. l have ev-
cry reason to believe he has effected
permanent cure for me.
The record-union., 1898-05-28
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects of Living News
Interest.

Los Angeles Times: The conditions
now existing are extraordinary, and
are such as to warrant some departure
from the general rule. The press CEN
sorship established by the Government
with reference to the publication of
campaign plans is wholly justified by
existing conditions. 1t applies exclu-
sively to the advance publication of
military and naval plans and informa-
tion. In no sense does it contemplate
the censorship or control of press Opin-
ions. It's sole purpose is to prevent
the furnishing of important informa-
ton to the enemy, t the detriment of
our cause. The premature publication
of information which should have been
kept strictly secret has in several in
stances been of benefit to the enemy
although the war is only one month old.
The necessity for placing some restric-
tions upon such publication is therefore
apparent.
The record-union., 1898-05-28
DIR. TOM SHE BIN.

6I5 Kearny Street, between Sacramento
and Commercial Streets,
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL, L. s. A
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My son, nine years of age, utterly pros
was under the explicit care of hospital
doctors but without avail All his body
was declared incurable. I heard the name
of Doctor Tom She Bin, and at once was
induced to see him, and 1 left my son
to his absolute care. Fifteen DAYS after
my son was able to play around the yard
l fully believe Doctor Tom She Bin saved
my sons life
The record-union., 1898-05-28

Fresno Expesitor: Every small-fry
editor in the State thinks he could i'm
prove on the manner in which physical
and mental examinations have resulted
among the officers of the National
Guard. Too many good fellows" seem
to have been sent home and unpopular
fellows appointed in their stead. This
is always the way at the beginning of
war. The unpopular appointee always
becomes quite popular in the course Of
years of campaigning. Good fellows do
not count for any more in the army
than they do in private life.
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1, the undersigned, do recommend Doc
tor Tom She Bin as one of the best doc
tors to cure rheumatism. having been suf-
fering for three years. and also been
under the treatment of six skillful doctors
for four months without feeling any re-
lief. l determined to set myself under
the care of DR.. Tom She Bin, who gave
me immediate relief, and in the course of
five weeks / was enjoying good health.
PANFILO MURRILLO,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11
Imposition on Patriotism.

The republicans in this state in
vented the slogan ''stand up for Kan
sas," but are they doing it with refer
ence to the brave boys who volun-
teered to serve their country?
The Kansas volunteers are not be-
ing sent to the front, but the people
are beginning to thoroughly under
stand the reason. The administra-
ton is accused of keeping them back
On purpose in order to give the re-
publicans chance to criticise the
state administration. The admins
tration is, it is said, not only dis
eliminating against Kansas, but
against every other state in the union
that gave majority for Bryan in
1896 and elected state tfficers on the
Bryan ticket.
Can anyone think of democrat OIL
populist state in the union that has
troops in the Philippines or in Cuba
except in the case of the rough rid
ers?-Chanute Blade.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11
LATEST WAR NEWS.

"War news" will unless all signs
fail, soon be thing of the past 30 far
az the American Spanish EN- broglio
10 concerned.
Spain has sued for peace. The q
8. government has notified her that
che can haye peace on the grounds
that she gives up Cuba, Porto Rico,
M island in Ladrones, and permits
sAs u s. 10 hold Manila and Subig
bay until a commission decides how
much Of the Philippine Islands we
shall keep as war indemnity.
To these terms it appears that Spain
villl agree, and in that event hostil
lties will cease.
The very latest from Manila is to
che effect that force of 3 900 Span
iards attempted to dislodge the Amer
lean forces from their works sur
rounding Manila, on July 31st to
August 3rd, killing IL and wounding
81 U. s. soldiers, with Spanish loss
of upwards of 500. The insurgents
under Aguinaldo, did not take parl
in the battle.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11
NOT LOVE, BUT BUSINESS.
The Practical Conclusion Of a Summer
Filtration.

ElutAOon.
It was over at Piasa Bluffs among
the pines on the hills over which the
moonlight flooded that this little story
had its birth. A young hardware
salesman had been summering there
for two weeks and he had met young
woman who proved pleasant ac-
quaintance.
On the last night that he was there
they walked down to the rivers edge
and strolled along its bank.
"See," exclaimed the girl, picking
up a bit of driftwood and flinging it
into the stream, cit will hurry away
and we will never see it more"
eyes," replied the young drummer,
'sbut somebody else will probably pick
it up somewhere"
"What sadness there is in partingp'
she murmured.
eyes, and that reminds me that I'll
have to leave here tomorrow and go
back to work.
"And then we will forget each
other as we forget that piece of drift
wood"
81 suppose so. At least, you will
forget me. That's how it always goes.
When you are in the social whirl and
other friends make demands upon
you, you will never think of me-"
"You are mistaken" replied she,
ri will never forget you'll"
seDO Won mean IL 20
'Do you doubt me?" she asked in
an injured tone.
'No, of course not. It's downright
good of you. Here's my card.
"Your card?"
eyes, it has the name of the firm
I work for on it. Pm making a first
rate record there as salesman. Last
year l lost two good customers by
flirting with girls in the summer, who
avoided the store all winter. I'm glad
you're not that kind. Come round
whenever you want anything in the
house furnishing line. Then we can
talk over our visit up here on the
Bluffs, and you'll find our goods all
right, both in price and quality. st
Louis Republic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

"AT DIFFERENT times,V remarks
the editor Of the Powhatton Post, as
he sits in the cleaning rejecting of
his past life, "we have resolved to try
the other cheek business, but before
our good resolution got firmly seated
on It's new foundation, some heariless
brother editor without a fear of the
hereafter, threw brick of malice
that knocked it all to smither-
Gems, and we sadly but firmly gather
ed up its shattered remains and
chucked it into tie bowels of the Gus.
pidor and procee0c.i r. hound the sand
out of the offending b Their. For
give your enemies, sounds all right
and is all right, until we ge: a crack
in the neck from some one, and then
we want to thump our enemies to a
finish. The man who can forgive his
enemies is almost too Christlike for
this beautiful world of ours, and the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

Kansas in 1898 goes long ways fur
Their in bringing our people ''pros-
perityw :han all the high tariff. gold-
bug, Tom Reed. and Mark Hanna
"advance agents" will ever accom-
plish. The good Lord and the strong
arms of the husbandmen of our land
should receive thanks for the good
times Kansas people are enjoying,
and not McKinleyism or any other
ism.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11
National Toasts,

The story Is told that Eve men, rep
resenting as many nations, met at 9
banquet and gave vent to thier patri.
otism in the toasts subjoined:
(Tbe Russian.1 Here's to stars and
bars of Russia that were never pulled
down.
{The Turk Here's to the Turkey
whose wings were never clipped.
(Tbe Frenchman.l Here's to the
cock Of France whose feathers were
never picked
THE American.) Here's to the stars
and stripes of the United States OF
America whose defenders were never
licked.
1.-THE Englishman.) Here's to the
ramping roaring lion of Great Britain
that tore down the stars and bars of
Russia. clipped the wing OF Turkey.
picked the feathers off the cock Of
France. and ran like HI from the
stars and stripes of the United States
of America.
The United States is as stong as
Sampson, as SchIey as fox, Miles long
and deserves a great deal of Merritt,
and what more Dewey wantp
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

THE republican party has said much
about international agreement" and
by their pledges to bring about Gin
ternational agreement" on the ques-
ton of the coinage of silver that
party held thousands of men in line
for their presidential ticket in 1896
Of late. however, that party has
dropped international agreement"
aud having adopted England's fnan-
cial system of a single gold standard
the republican party throws down the
mask of professed friendliness to biz
metallism, and will do all things
possible to fix permanently upon us
the London idea of a single gold
standard.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

"A specimen of German archi-
tectural and business solidity is afford
ed by the fact that in Nuremberg
there are houses still in good order
which were erected in 1880, and
that in the same town firm has been
engaged in manufacturing harmon
icas since 1860, 60 years before the
settlement of New England.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

man who tries to throw it into US can
look for pay 10 the same kind of coin.
Forget and forgive is a pretty mot
TO, but we are SORRY to say that but
few of us are built that way"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

WANTED-An issue on which to
MAKE the campaign this fall. ALI the
old issues are played out-worn so
thin that people see right through
them. Liberal reward for something
in the shape of an issue that will fool
the people once more. Address:
CHAIRMAN 6. 0. p. Com.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11
Some Don'ts.

some LON Is.
Don't follow the crowd If you want
to be a leader.
Don't blame a glove for squeezing a
pretty girls hand.
Don't run across an old creditor
when out for spin on your wheel.
Don't believs all who sg.ee with
you; argument tires some people.
Don't undertake to lay another man
out unless you are an undertaken.
Don't think whiskey is drug on the
market because it is sold in drugstores.
Don't feel that You are in duty bound
to break the record, your neck or your
wheel.
Don't think all men who tread the
boards are actors; some Of them work
In lumber yards.
Don't refuse to accept crumbs of
comfort because they are not whole
bakeries of bliss.
Don't think it's any conslation to q
man to know that it's only the female
mosquitoes that bite.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

A man. came into the office the other
day and said he had walked down from
Lacrosse the day before; that out in
the country he met three different
outfits of men peddling bottled beer.
selling 1t to the farmers at So cents
bottle.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

We HAVE licked old Spain without
consulting the wishes of any country
on earth. Why can not this country
arrange her finances with the same
brave, manly, straig ht.forwardness
With which she conducted the war
with Spain? We did not ask for Gin.
ternatlonal agreement" on the war
question.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

In 1895 the republicans warned the
people that if they elected Leedy
governor capital would be driven out of
the state. The same republicans are
now telling about the wonderful prose
banks to loan money to Pennsylvania
corpOratiUDS.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

JAMES B. WEAVER was last week
nominated fer congress in the 9th
Iowa district by the democrats, and
afterwards endorsed by the populists
and free silV er republicans in their
conventions. l. does look as is all
the friends of silver and of labor are
getting together all over the land.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

James Caldwell, sheriff of Scott
equity, was in the city the first of the
week getting acquainted with Barton
county people.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

WHEN Spain began begging for
peace that case of measles and little
Alfonso was forgotten all about
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

WHEN the Western Methodist, pub
lished at Wichita, undertook to de-
fend Stanley and boom him for Office
it loaded up with fight which cost
it its life. 1t has suspended publ
cation.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

Say had you thought about it? Queen
Lii is now citizen of the United States
Of America.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11

Jacob Cell. of near Albert, was .
caller Wednesday, to renew on his
DEMocsAy for another peer.