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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16
washing a Wild Tiger.

A story copied from La France du
| Nord" illustrates the lengths to which
perfect fearlessness may carry a man.
The famous lion-tamer Pezon hired at
Moscow a poor Cossack, who was as
ignorant Of the French language as OF
fear, to clean the cages of his wild
beasts.
Instructions were given to the man
by means of gestures and dumb show.
and apparently he thoroughly under
stood what he was expected to do.
The next morning he began his new
duties by entering with bucket. sponge
and broom, rot the cage of a tame
beast, but that Of a splendid untamed
tiger, which lay asleep upon the floor.
The fierce animal awoke and fixed his
eyes upon the man, who calmly pro-
ceeded to wet his large sponge, and IN
terrified, to approach the tiger.
At this moment PezCn saw what was
going on, and was struck with horror.
Any sound or motion on his part
would increase the danger of the stu
alton by rousing the beast to fury; so
he quietly waited till the need should
arise to rush to the mans assistance.
The moujik. sponge in hand, ap-
preached the animal, and perfectly
fearless, proceeded to rub him down, as
if he had been a horse or dog. while
the tiger, apparently delighted by the
application of cold water. rolled over
on it's back, stretched out it's paws.
purred and offered every part of its
body to the moujik, who washed him
as complacently as a mother bathes
her infant.
Then he left the cage. and would
have repeated the hazardous expert
ment upon another savage of the des-
ert had not Pezon with difficulty drawn
him off.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16
A MARINE MONOPOLY.
HOW ENGLAND MAINTAINS HER
SEA SUPREMACY.
No American Built Ship Can Obtain
from the British Lioyds a Ciassiica-
tom and Rating as Favorable as Those
Accorded to British Vessels.

Marine insurance as closely follows
the carrier of goods as trade follows
the flag borne by the ship. This is
conclusively shown by the history of
marine underwriting in this country.
In the early days of the republic
when our merchant marine was ade-
quately protected by the imposition Of
discriminating duties, and when, there
by, the American shipbuilding indus
try prospered, American marine under
writing fiourished. There was little
or no competition in the market for
freights; therefore these were ON
paratively high. At the same time
profits on goods were large. and ship
owners could we'll afford to pay full
rates for insurance, while shippers of
goods found no fault with the high
rates Of underwriters who guaranteed
the safe delivery of the cargo.
The marine insurance companies do
ing business in this city in 1858 num-
bered thirteen, having an aggregate
capital of 500, 900, 900. The commerce
of the country was comparatively
large, and it had grown from about
5000, 000, 600 in 1888 to $685., 000, 600
twenty years later. This capital was
ample for the safe conduct CT the bust
ness, and large dividends were paid
by all the companies. These profitable
conditions did not attract competition
OF foreign insurance companies, how
ever, mainly for the reason that there
had not, at that time, been much
competition in the carrying trade,
though foreign carriers were gradually
forcing their way into the oversee field
by means of their iron steamers.
The outbreak of the War Of the Re-
bellion gave the foreigners their long
sought opportunity. American ship
ping was practically driven from the
sea, the ocean-carrying trade was Sc
cured by Europeans, and agencies of
foreign insurance companies followed
the foreign flags to this city and to
other Atlantic ports. Gradually
American underwriters were forced out
of the business, and today there is but
one of the marine insurance compa-
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16
Maintain the American Policy.

The real interest of the nation is not
to change it's policy but to continue it
continue the policy that has made
it great. If it is recognized as keeping
the front place among the greatest ma
tions from now on it will not be due
to its army or its navy; it will be due
to the industrial policy under which
the nation has been developed and it's
military and naval success made pos
sible. 1t is continuance, then, of this
policy which will make the republic
great. 1t will be greater still il it can
turn from this military depression and
resume it's previous industrial policy.
It's previous industrial policy has Civ
en- us our wealth and prosperity; 1t
has given the laborers of this country
something to esteem; as Carl SchurZ
said in his recent article in a Ger
man paper, correcting the ~misconcep-
tions of the Germans regarding Amer
lea, all Germans who have made their
home in this country will fight as
readily for their new fatherland as
they ever would for their old father
land. Nothing has made this possible,
l say, but the industrial policy under
which the material prosperity of the
people has undergone a progress not
witnessed in any other country.-Gun-
tons Magazine for August.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16
Grateful Acknowledgment.

The following letter will be of inter-
est to every Nebraska relative Of the
boys at Manila. as it SLOW in a
measure what the Red Cross society
Is doing there. The ten dollars de-
Quoted from the whole amount sent
by the Beatrice society is the amount
charged for membership fee:
California Red Cross, State Associa-
ton, San Francisco, Aug. 80, 1885,
Mrs. o. n. Wheelock, Treasurer: Your
letter OF August %, enclosing your
very generous donation of SS,ll5, has
just been received and we thank you
most warmly for this splendid contri-
button. we greet the Red Cross of
Beatrice, Neb., most cordially into u
association, and feel assured that your
kind cooperation with us in alleviat-
ing the sufferings of the "boys in blue"
will seem to lessen the distance be-
tween our two states. We WA take
the greatest pleasure in forwarding
the amount, $81.15, to company c..
First Nebraska. l know o will be
gratiied to learn we have a field hos
pital at Manila, with a corps Of trained
male nurses and equipment for 125
beds, and that by both the Arizona
and Scandal, W. have sent every con-
ceivable kind of deiicacy for the sick
in this hospital. We have also fitted
ont a hospital ship for use at Manila
(Which the government provided),
equipped with all those necessaries and
comforts that are so essential to the
sick and wounded. besides providing
it with trained nurses. both men and
women. To day we will direct our f.
nancial agent, o. II. c. Schlott, who is
now in Manila, to expend the value Of
the amount, $S1.15. (Which will prob
ably be double in the coin of the Phil
%ippines), for the boys of Company c.
It is suppred that the Scandal, which
left last Saturday. is the last Of the
transports to go to Manila, so it may
be impossible to forward the box of
books to company c.. If this is the
case, what disposition do you wish
made of them? Very sincerely and
gratefully, LUCIAN X. WALLIS,
Corresponding Secretary,
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16
Some Young Americans.

Whatever may be true of the young
people of America in general, there is
one part of the country concerning
whose young folks it is asserted, on the
best authority that they positively
do not know how to be disrespectful to
those older than themselves. The par
ticular young people referred to are the
children of the Inruit inhabitants of
Alaska. A lady writer in the Outlook
gives a pleasant picture Of these young
Americans, who are now being train
ed in American schools, according to
American principles.
Innuit is the name these people give
Americans call them Eskimos, raw
fish eaters" They are not the stunted
race they are usually supposed to be,
but a tall, well-formed, muscular peo-
pie, many of them standing six feet
and more.
One of their teachers, who lives on
st. Lawrence Island, near the entrance
of Bering Straits, says of his pupils
that they are apt scholars, as we'll
endowed with mental capacity as
American children of the same age,
and that after a winters instruction
they are able to speak, read and write
in English.
They excel in ~penmanship, and have
an astonishing natural talent for draw
ing. At home they have been taught
to carve in ivory the figures of the
walrus, the bear, and other familiar
animals, but in their drawings they
will depict everything-their various
amusements and duties, their hunting
and fishing expeditions, their dogs and
sledges, and the reindeer that are just
being introduced among them. The
drawings are neat, full of detail, and
not without artistic effect.
There is one characteristic of these
Innuit boys and girls that could not
be eXcelled by young Americans in the
more highly favored parts of our broad
land. That characteristic is their ten
der compassion for each other. They
have all learned what famine means,
but let them be ever SO hungry, they
dlWdyS ulFloC ILC SCol judI AdS ueOl
caught with every member of the COM
munity.
During a time when food was scarce
Mr.. Gambell, the teacher referred to,
often gave his school Of thirty or forty
pupils a dinner. On one occasion the
meal consisted of beans. The hungry
scholars had partly eaten their allow
ance when Mr.. Gambell remarked that
the tin cans in which the beans had
come were of no use to him, and
that the boys and girls might
have them. Instantly the guests
stopped eating. popped their re-
naming beans back into the cans.
and carried them home to share with
the rest Of the family.
Patient, merry, good-humored and
Industrious, these Innuit Americans
ought to make good citizens. They
are never idle. In the short summer
they endeavor to lay in enough food
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16
EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES.
Interesting Facts Concerning the Record
Breaking Year just Closed.

Interesting Facts Concerning the Record
Breaking Year just Closed.
While Dur wonderful export trade il
the fiscal year just ended has attracted
much attention, the most interesting
and really wonderful feature of it has
been, in some degree, at least, over
looked. While our expectations Of
agricultural products during the year
have surpassed in value those Of any
preceding year in the history of the
country, and thus attracted universal
attention, the expectation of manufac-
lures is, when considered in detail,
equally interesting in it's bearing up
on the general commerce and pros
perity, both present and future, CT the
nation.
The expectation of domestic n
features in the fiscal year 1898 is SET
down by the records of the bureau or
Statistics of the Treasury Department
at $28S,871 ,449, which is nearly twelve
millions of dollars greater than any
preceding year in the history Of the
country. This is especially interest
ing in view of the fact that the i'm
ports of manufactures during the year
were abnormally small. In addition to
this it is reasonable to suppose that
the purchases Of manufactures by the
people of this country in the pros
porous year just ended were unusually
great, both by reason of their in
creased earnings and the further fact
that during several preceding years
their purchases in these lines had, be-
cause of the financial depression, been
light. For these two reasons, the small
ness of importations of manufactures
and the probable increased consump-
ton of manufactures. by our w peo-
pie, it is reasonable to suppose that
the home demand upon u own manu-
facturers was unusually great, thus re-
ducing, to some great extent, the at
tention which they had formerly been
able to give to an invasion of foreign
markets. In addition to this it had
been feared by some that the In
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16

MES in existence in this city, and only
five, and these of small capital, in
other Atlantic ports.
Almost the entire business OF ma
rine underwriting is 10Y done through
agencies Of foreign companies.
Though the commerce of the country
has enormously increased, being nearly
quadrupled in forty years, yet the capt.
tai Of these foreign companies invest
ed in this country is only about ST.
000, 900, this being the aggregate
amount of the deposits required to be
made with the insurance department
under the state laws. The capitaliza-
ton of the parent companies is I'M
known, no statement Of such capital
being published, and, therefore, these
foreign organizations pay only small
taxes here for the privilege of doing
business in this country. The facili-
ties for instant cabling enable these
foreign agencies to take enormous lines
Of insurance, distributing the lines
among the various parent companies,
and in this way the risks are actually
underwritten abroad.
1t will be seen at a glance that COM
petition by American companies, did
these companies exist in sufficient
number to attempt to compete, would
be almost impossible, and until condi-
lions shall materially change there will
be little incentive for American capt.
tai to engage in marine underwriting.
The spectacle is presented TODAY of
our ocean carrying trade being almost
wholly in the hands of foreigners who
are receiving fully $500, 0O0, 900 annu-
ally for the transportation of cur i'm
ports and exports. Foreigners are also
underwriting almost every ton of the
goods carried, besides taking risks up-
on every ship engaged in the traffic.
They contribute scarcely anything in
the form Of taxes for the privilege OF
conducting their business, and they
vigorously resist every attempt which
is made to require them to bear some
portion of the expense of maintaining
facilities for their shipping.
The remedy for this d~isgraceful con-
dition Of affairs seems to be the i'm
position Of discriminating duties
against goods carried in foreign ships.
If this remedy should prove effective it
would tend to stimulate the growth
Of our American marine. and in that
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16
work on their clothes, nets, nipple.
ments and carving.
What an Indian Has Done.

Many an American boy has obtain
ed his education by overcoming grea:
Obstacles but no American lad has
ever accomplished it by greater per
sistence and determination than a
young man who halls from the far
blooded Indian, whose home Is in tbs
island Of New Metlakahtla, Alaska.
He is a graduate Of the Sitka In
dustrial School, of Marietta College,
o., and of Lane Theological Seminary.
from which he has just graduated. His
name is Edward Marsdsn, and he Is
now on his way back to labor as u
teacher and q missionary among the
Indians Of Alaska.
Very few American students attempt
what this young Indian has mastered.
Aside from the culture received in col
lege and seminary, his requirements
are almost amazingly varied.
B~ricklaying and clock-repairing,
h~ouse-painting and gardening. tim
smithing and steamboat engineering.
AchCSplA6 dlIQ DOOhhCCPihb PH
tuning, Notwithstanding in general
and land-surveying, typewriting and a
few other incidental branches, have in
less Or greater degree been taken up by
him, side by side with ordinary book
learning.
Besides his regular theological
studies, Mr.. Marsden has given a brief
time to study in the law department
of the Cincinnati Young Mems Chris
tan Association, and is a member OF
n Of the classes of the Chautauqua
literary and scientific course. He is
thoroughly conversant with two OF the
three Indian tongues spoken in Alaska.
in both of which he hopes to be use
full to his people.
This is a fairly long list of attain
ments for one who began his career
without the inherited qualities that.
come from a civilized ancestry, or h
advantages and stimulus given by cul-
tured associations in early youth. He
did his first summers work at nine
years old, and gained by it a pair OF
trousers, a sack of potatoes, and three
dollars. Then followed the accom-
plishment of a steady purpose to fit
himself for usefulness among his peo-
pie.
He owes some of his training to
help given by friends in Alaska, who
o. an interest in his career, and
cheered him by their confidence and
encouragement; but his three years
work in the Sitka Industrial School.
the four at the Marietta College. and
the three at Lane Theological Semi
nary, have been secured solely by his
own exertions.
Besides his college training Mr..
Marsden has travelled somewhat in
British Columbia and the United
States. eagerly studying the education
al and mercantile institutions, munich
pal government and social organiza-
tion Of the places he has visited.
If his future career develops in use
fulness as his friends anticipate, be-
cause of the foundations thus laid, his
life will be one of supreme good to his
race. In its large-minded purpose and
unsellsnness it is a manifestation OF
public spirit that every young Ameri-
car should be ambitious to emulate.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16

event insurance would most assuredIy
follow the carrier, successful competi-
ton with foreign underwriters would
soon become possible. and 1t could be
made entirely successful by a system
of taxation which would adequately
protect American capital employed in
underwriting. First of all, however.
an American merchant marine. After
that, innumerable blessings and adj
vantages will follow.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16
Ensign Bag,ey's Last Words.

The Chicago Chronicle says that a
private letter gives a pathetic incident
connected with the death of Ensign
Bagley on board the torpedo boat Win
slow at the engagement off Cardenas.
Bagley had been fearfully wounded
by a shot which practically tore
through his body. He sank over the
rail and was grasped by one OF the en-
listed men named Reagan, who lift
ed Sim up and placed him on the deck.
The young officer, realizing that he
had only a short time to live. allowed
no murmur of complaint or cry Of pain
to escape him. but opened his eyes and
stared at the sailor and simply said:
Thank you. Reagan"
These were the last words he spoke
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16
Notes.

The seventeenth annual Cedar coun-
ty fair will be held at the grounds of
the Harrington Driving Park and Fair
association on September IA, Is and 16.
This promises to be the best fair yer
held in the county on account of the
good premiums and purses offered by
the fair association and the liberal
premiums of the merchants.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16
Heavy Yield of Wheat.

Exeter dispatch: Off of nineteen
and one-half acres P. A. Murphy has
5threshed $40 bushels of wheat and of,
a fine quality, too. Other farmers
around here who thought their wheat
would not amount to much are meeting
with similar surprises and are feeling
a whole lot better than they did two
months ago. Corn is doing well, but
rain is needed badly to settle the dust
and cool off the atmosphere.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16

Many a man is out in the back yard
bemoaning his luck when fortune
knocks at his front door.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16

MES in existence in this city, and only
five, and these of small capital, in
other Atlantic ports.
The herald., 1898-06-07
INDEX
TO TE1EaRAPHIc NEWS

i, Ceryera may surrender his ships or 4
4, he may sink them in the harbor of 4
+ Santiago, but he can never get away. 1
+ For the first time in the history of the 1
+ country, the exports of manufactures 4
4. for the fiscal year will exceed the value 1
4. of manufactures imported. 4
+ Havana defenses being strengthened 4
+ and the cultivation zone much extend 4
4. ed; the people believe that Spains 4
4. fleet Is soon coming to their relief 4
r The war revenue bill sent to the 4
+ house, non-concurred in, and immedi- 1
i. ately sent to conference; the senate 4
4. confirms the appointment Of Col. H. 4
4, G. Otis to be brigadier general. 1
4, Englishmen ask what America has 1
1. to offer in exchange for an Anglo /
r American alliance; when the matter Is !
4. considered it seems that the Briton is 1
r not the fellow who should be afraid 1
4. of making bad trade.
4, News from Dewey relieves anxiety 4
r in the navy department.; the insur- 1
4, gents are winning victories; the moni- 1
+ TOR Monadnock ordered to Manila, 4
1. which, with the Monterey, will enable 1
r Dewey to defy the Cadiz fleet and all 1
+ the other vessels of the Spanish navy. 1
+ Pay day at Camp Merritt did not 4
+ strike the volunteers; prospect that 1
+ the Seventh will go to Manila grows 1
4. darker; slow work on transports and 4
+ monitors. i
+ Naval officials considering the prop 4
+ err recognition of Hobson's services In 4
+ sinking the Merrimac at Santiago. 1
+ Reports from Santiago assert and 4
+ deny the sinking of the torpedo boat 1
4, Terror or Furor; American troops 1
4. have landed and a junction has been 4
+ effected with insurgents under Garcia. 1
+ Senor Moret, Spain's ex-minister for 1
+ thte colonies, paints as black pic 1
+ ture of his country's future as her 1
+ worst enemy could desire; there is no .
+ plan and no policy, and affairs are sim 4
+ ply drifting toward utter ruin. i
+ The national treasury Is running low .
+ and President Mckinley is anxious for .
+ authority to sell bonds for money to .
r carry on the war.
f. Reports from Manila Indicate that .
+ reinforcements for Dewey must be .
r pushed ahead or the admiral will cap
+ ture the place before help arrives. .
r Oregon holds a state election, and .
r the Republicans claim to have carried .
+ about everything in sight.
f. The captain of the collier Merrimac .
+ reaches Key West and pays his trib- .
i. ute of praise to Hobson and his COM .
+ panions, and incidentally to the Span .
+ ish chivalry which stopped the firing
+ when the men were in the water and
+ swimming for life.
+ Troops named for the second Manila
4. expedition under Gen. Greene; M CAL
+ ifornia troops are included.
*ti 4. r RI + + 4. + r + + 1. + + + + Fl
The herald., 1898-06-07
SCHLEY AND CEPVEPA
Antagonists Still Struggling CAIN the Other Retain Possession
Santiago de CubaAnecan Troops Have Landed and Effected
Junction With the Insurgents Under General Garcia

and the
landed they
Santiago until
the
Philippines Porto
henmed helpless
will this and evuatng Cuba without
readily
avoid life and render the
after the fall Porto Rico the
and the attacking Of the Of Spain herself.
The herald., 1898-06-07

The situation at Santiago de Cuta
remains unchanged since the sink
ing of the MerrimaC, by which Ger
vera Is not only bottled, but Is
Corked so securely that he must
either sink his ships or surrender.
A large force of American troops,
together with the insurgents, will
very shortly be in a position to COM
pei the CapituIation of Santiago.
The herald., 1898-06-07
Torpedo Boat Destroyed

KINGSTON Jamaica o-Copyr
confirming yesterday
Spanish torpedo destroyer
bateshp
signals opened
make her
fleet Admiral
concerning
The herald., 1898-06-07
An Advance in Force
Still In Progress
The Signals Which Sent SeCre-
tary Longs Message to Commodore
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SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.

HYrEN great fighting de Cuba
Ghe little bay the The landing Aguadoe a few miles east OF
the Notifications the
indicated that the the American fleet hanmerng
Aguados recently
artillery defens
volunteered the especially request
Santiago the
into the city, bearing conflicting tales
while Spanish
prevails people hudd the
outskirts indicates
is attack
personally direct operations Troops
them
filling with the wounded is
insurgents between Santiago and Guantanamo at
with ten
W wayo Of 81.
landed
believed
that direction
An n
has sounded indicating
from the southeast
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