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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
spANIsH-AMERIcAN SITUATION.

Aguinaldo in a manifesto says the
corrupt Spanish dominion" in the
Philippines was preferable to that of
the Americans.
It is suspected in Washington that
Admiral Dewey wants the Oregon as
a preventive of foreign interference
In the Philippines.
Reports from the Philippines indi-
cate that the fighting has abated. The
Negritos expressed Willingness to ac-
cept American sovereignty.
Delegates from the island of Negroes
had conference with General Otis at
Manila and put themselves unreserv-
eddy under his authority.
Former Commissary General Eagan,
1t is believed by the auditors of the
treasury department, cannot draw
Philadelphia, who has been appointed
sion.
Ca~lon, with his command and was
urged by Gen Otis to make Manila
with all speed as the situation Is criti-
cal.
It is possible that the senate may
not confirm the brevets awarded by
the president and war department to
army officers who served in the Cuban
campaign.
Additional achievements will be
sent to General Otis at Manila, and
upon their arrival a general move
ment will be made against the insur-
gent forces.
Incenaiary fires in Manila and its
suburbs destroyed thousand dwell
ings OF natives and hundreds of bust.
ness houses. Filipinos are accused o.
starting the fires.
Rear Admiral Dewey, replying Il
an interviewer, declared that he would
Z not accept nomination for the presi
dency, and that he was untitled fol
che Office by training and education.
Ex-Commissary- General Eagan tolC
the court Of inquiry upon the bee
question that he never held any con
situations with the commanders o
United States troops sent to Cuba ant
Porto Rico.
The grea. fires which ragged II
Manila Wednesday night were ex
tinguished early yesterday morning
but several more we're started. Their
was also sharp fighting with the FLIP
mos in the suburbs.
Admiral Schley's friends In tn
senate will offer no opposition to tn
confirmation of Admiral Sampson
nomination. They will propose late
legislation which will make boil
Schley and Sampson vice-admirals.
Dewey is almost certain to be mad
a full admiral and have his term o
service extended ten years. The hous
OF Representatives practically by &C
clamation adopted an amendment t
the naval bill authorizing the reviva
of the grade of admiral and directing
the president to fill the Office by pro
motion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09

prosecute Deputies Deroulede and Ha-
bert, who sought to have troops march
on the Elysee."
Paul Deroulede and other leading
anti-Dreyfusites who attempted to Gre
ate disorder at the Faure funeral were
arrested at Paris.
Baron Paul Julius Reuter-, who es-
tablished the first organization for col
Letting and transmitting telegraph
news, died at Nice.
Emil Welt, the distinguished Swiss
statesman, who was six times elected
president of the Swiss confederation,
died in his seventy-fourth year.
The people of Bermuda gave an ova-
ton to Admiral Sampson and the Off
GERS and men of the warships New
York anu Indiana, who are now there.
Millions of acres of crops are report
ed to have been destroyed in Australia
by drought, and bush fires are raging
over thousands of miles of territory
Thirty Americans, under Col. Aus
burn, formerly of Roosevelt's rough
riders, are serving in the army of Pro-
visional President Reyes in Nicara-
qua.
Word has been received at Bombay
that the sultan of Oman not only re-
pudiated his treaty with France in re-
spouse to British threats, but handed
over the treaty to the British admiral
Sir John Struthers, NJ. D., LII. D.,
/ vi nf 70 ~
| Surgeons, Edinburgh, and examiner in
anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons
is dead in London. He was born in
1923.
General Gaetan de Grimaudet de
Rochebouet, who. was premier and
minister of war under Marshal Mac
Mahon, second president of the third
republic of France, died in his eighty
sixth year.
At Victoria, B. c., the government
has passed to second reading a bill to
send a judge of the supreme court to
Atlin with absolute authority to settle
all disputes arising cut of the location
of claims by the original locaters I'M
der the Nor .nwest Territories laws in
| stead of British Columbia laws.
The parliamentary secretary of the
| foreign Office, VIM. st. John Brodrick
in the house of commons, replying to a
question on the subject said that in
certain questions the Anglo-American
joint commission had MADE progress
towards their settlement, and he add
ed, her majesty's government hoped
that further negotiations would resolve
the questions still in dispute.
The agitation in the Chilean papers
in favor of the Intervention of Chill
in the conflict now in progress in Bo-
livia between President Alonzo's
forces and the federalists, or insur-
gents, is calming down. The govern
ment of Chilli has resolved to remain
neutral, and troops are distributed on
the frontier to prevent an outbreak
The Germans received by the semi
official TEMPO confirm the report ca
bled from Rio Janiero to the effect that
serious disturbances may occur on the
Bolivian frontier.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09
DOMESTIC.

Henry Irving is coming to America
next season.
A million dollar pine sale was made
at Chippewa Falls.
The california bill prohibiting car
toons becomes a law.
Rev. DIR. Alpha J. Kynett, aged 10.
ls dead at Harrisburg. Pa.
Fire destroyed the Minneapolis Tri-
bune building. Loss. S250,000.
Senator Jones of Arkansas is con-
Aned to his bed with lung trouble.
Tns Lake Superior Iron company Is
said 40 have disposed of its property.
The Southern railway has absorbed
the Mobile and Birmingham railroad.
Fire destroyed the entire business
portion of Muscogee, /. 7. Loss.
100000.
A car-manufactuHng combine with
$60.0Qo,0o0 capital was formed in New
Jersey.
Archbishop Ireland writes to the
pope indorsing his encyclical on
Amerlcasism.
DIR. j. w. Bashford has been nomi-
mated for governor of Ohio by the pro-
hibitionists.
w. Bourke Cochran in a speech at
Chicago opposed the suggested Anglo
Saxon alliance.
An attempt is made to drive the
Pennsylvania and another railroad out
OF Ohio for pooling.
Chicago May wheat, 1885 and 7S%c.
Edward f. Scott is dead at Jack
sonville, ILL.,, aged II.
Surgeons at Bellevue Hospital
opened little child's skull to per-
NIT her brain to develop.
Rev. DIR. It. N. Morrison was con-
seorated In Chicago as Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Iowa.
Daniel O'Connell, literteur, poet
and playwright, is dead at his subur-
ban home In Sausallto, Cal.
Mrs. Agnes Gordon Soutter, a ma
tive of Virginia, and mother-in-law of
Rev. DIR. Morgan Dix. died in New
York.
Both of Rudyard Kipling's lungs
are now involved in the inflamma-
ton from which he is suffering in
Agew York.
The Navy Department has asked
congress to appropriate s1,125,000 to
repair the damage by the recent navy
yard fire.
The cruiser Chitose was formally
\ ned over to the japanese govern
ut by the Union iron works at San
DISCO.
nhnT Carson, one of the most
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09
NOT WORTH HER CONSIDERATION
chicago Girl Tells Why Her Sisters
Do Not Marry.

A Chicago girl was recently asked
why girls of the present day don't
marry. Well, she replied laughing
ly, ito tell the truth suppose It's be-
cause we don't want to be poor in the
first place. In the second place, we can
do much better for ourselves than any
man can do for us, and thirdly and
finally and most emphatically, | don't
think any man is worth a girls good
time"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09
HE DIDN'T BULGE.

One time Quaker in carriage met
young man in a buggy driving in
narrow lane, where they couldn't
pass.
Il shan't make way for you,'' said
the young man.
Il am older than thou art" replied
the Quaker, land therefore have a
right to expect thee to give way so that
l can pass"
well, l won't" resumed the young
fellow. Then he pulled out a news
paper and began to read, as he sat still
in his carriage.
The Quaker, observing him, pulled
a pipe and some tobacco from his
pocket, struck a light, and sat and
pulled away very comfortably.
Friend" said he, when thou hast
read that paper l should be very glad
if thou wouldst lend it to me-"
The young man gave up the contest.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09

Washington. March 1.-The compar-
alive statement giving the receipts and
expenditures for February shows that
the receipts aggregated S37,179.000, a
gain compared with February, 1898. of
about. s9,500.00o. The expenditures
were s4S.9S2. 900, leaving a deficit for
February Of about 100000
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09

he said that he would give her the
hardest chase she ever had for any
thing Mrs. Kline declares she is in
the night for keeps. She is a deter
mined young woman and there are
whispers that if any of the men - to
get left it will most likely he Norge
Kline. W
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09

First apitalist-There's money in
that mine.
Second Capitalist-How do you
know?
First Capitalist put $4,000 in it
myself.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-09

Get in a toy shop if you wish to feel
young again.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-24
Social Chat.
EDITED BY AUNT JENNIE. RALEIGH. N. C.

Here is a column for everybody-ladies, gen.
tlemen, boys, girls, fathers and mothers.
Everybody is invited to write on subjects of in
perfect as a writer, give US your thoughts and
we will see that they are in good shape before
they are published.
TIE FARMER is a paper for every
member of the family. and young and old alike
are its patrons and its friends. We hope to
unite these thousands of our friends lin a bond
Of friendship that will be a help and an tnspira-
ton to each one of u.s." The friendship OF each
of our readers, the confidence of the old North
States sturdy sons, and the trust of each of her
daughters, is what this paper aims to win by
helping each one of them to do more, to be more
ana to enjoy more in this beautiful world" We
hope this sOirit will animate each letter, and
breathe through every page. Address letters to
Aunt Jennie . care of TEE PROGRESSIVE FAR
MER. Raleigh. n. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-24
An Old Sweetheart of Mine.
BY JAMES wHITCoMB RILEY

As one who cones at evening DER an album all alone,
And muses. on the faces of the friends that he has known;
90 1 turn the leaves of fancy till in shadowy design
| fnd the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.
The lampGght seems to glimmer with a flicker Of surprise
As I tuned it low to rest me Of the dazze in my eyes,
And Light my pipe in silence, save q eigh that seems to woke
It's fate with my tobacco, and TO vanish in the smoke.
rfs a fragrant retrospection, for the loving thoughts that start
Into being are like perfumes from the blossoms of the heart;
Aud to dream the old dreams over in a luxury divine,
When my truRnt fancy wanders with that old sweetheart OF mine.
Though I hear, beneath my study, like a futtering of wings,
the voice of my children and the mother as she sings,
I feel no twinge of conscience to deny me any theme
When care has cast her anchor in the harbor of q dream.
In feet, to speak in earnest, I believe it odds a charm
FOR I find an extra flavor In memorys mellow vine
That makes me drink the deeper to that old sweetheart Of mine.
A face of lily beauty and a form of airy grace
Floats out of my tobacco as the genius from the vase;
And l thrill beneath the chances of a pair of azure eyes
AS glowing as the summer aud as tender as the skies.
Iee the pink sunbonnet and the little checkered dress
She wore when first / kissed her, and she answered the caress
Grew round the stump she loved me" that old sweetheart or mine.
And again I feel the pressure of her slender little hand
As we used to talk tOgether or the future we hRd pIanneu,
When l should be q poet, with nothing else to do
But TO write the tender verses that she let the muslcO
When we should live together in a cczy little cot
Hid In a nest of roses, with a tiy garden spot,
Where the vices were ever fruitful and the weather ever fine,
And the birds were ever singing Tor GoaG OH "eeInea OIL
When should be her lover forever and a day.,
And abe nv faithful sweetheart till the golden hair was gray;
And we should be 20 happy that when eitnerIs lips were dumb
They should not smile in heaven till the others kiss had gone.
But. ali. my dream is broken by a step upon the stair,
And the door is softly opened and my wife Is standing there,
Vat with eagerness and rapture all nv visions I resign
To meet the living presence of that old sweetheart OF mine.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-24

New Years day has past but 1t
not too late to make good resolves. For
instance, let US not during the year do
anything, which, however much it
| might please us. would cause some one
vim high ideals TO lower them; with
with an earnest desire TO live Alright,
TO turn again TO that which is low, i'm
pure or mean. Let us not for q mo-
ment forget that ''to-day's most trivial
act may hold the seea" not Of our own
future fruitfulness or future death
alone" but the future fruitfulness or
future death" of some other immortal
soul that may come under our IN
fuerc3. Let us then consider u in
fuence over others, and look well to
the liGtle things. Not with a trown, Or
sourly, or solemnly, (tor "a frown draws
hall the sweetness from a good deed
buG smilingly and chee1tully Cor a
smile makes a good deed doubly bless
Ell. For my part l have little faith in
a long faced Christian (O-)How many
of us, then will pause ere the thought
less word is spoken, or the thoughtless
deed is done, to ask ourselves that
MODEST Of all questions: will it cause
my brother to offand9"
Cad to see tina SO many other Chat
tereTs are also bOOkWorms.
In answer to Mossa's question as to
where to find Sirius, or the dog star,
will say if she will look out to night
about 10 o'clock she will find almost
directly overhead the belt of Orion
(5hree bright stars in a row each ex
actly 1 degree apart sparkling MID
way between two other bright stars,
Betelgense and R,gel, Now look TO
che Eastward in the direction pointed
out by the Belg, about 20 degrees, or
20 times the distance from n star in
the Belt to ITS nearest neighbor, and
you will see a magnificent diamond
like star, one Of the brightest in the
heavens. This is Sirius, or the dog
star. The ancient astronomers speak
of it as reddish but this hue has now
entirely disappeared. Il was formerly
regarded with superstiti0us ave,
especially by the Egyptians because
when it was in the ascendency, the
floods Of the Nile came, and with the
fl sod, tevers and other p~sstilences. The
word Sirius comes from q Greek WORD,
which means ~''Scorching."
How many Of the Chatterers like me
love astronomy; love to watch the
same old stars that JOB and the Chal
dean astronomers watched and sung
about ages ago; love to wonder about
what has happened in the ages since
these stars were fashioned by that
mysterious and Almighty Hand and
will happen ere that same Power bids
them shine no more; love to watch
these really great things and ponder
over human %littleness and nothIngness
and ask with the Psalmist, What is
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-24

water stands. four inches high on the
stalks of the rice. When it is ready
for cutting, the water is let off.
There are seminaries in Honolulu for
young girls, and boarding schools for
boys. There are also two colleges
The maj ority OF the native girls are in
the Summaries, but occasionally some
of them u away from the schools,
and get into trouble.
o. November 7th we embarked
again on the steamship Ariz ona, for
that much-heard of and long looked
for Manila. After going on board, we
lay out In the bay for four days wait
ing for the development of any case
of fever. Sure enough about twenty
five were taken off and carried TO the
military hospital at Honolulu. When
we left Honolulu soldiers were dying
with typhoid fever at the rate Of ten q
week.
We didn't have much sickness on
our trip to Manila. The first few days
out we experienced smooth seas and
fair weather, but the latter part of our
trip was very rough, at times being 80
! rough that it was difficult for US to
stay IN our hunks. After we reached
the 1805h meridian we commenced
going east; before we had been going
west. At that place they skip a day"
AS it was Sunday night when we
crossed it, and upon awakening the
folio wing morning, it vas Tuesday in
stead Of Monday.
We passed a burning volcano in the
Pacific, somewhere near the Chinese
Sea. Smoke was issuing from the
north side of it. I think it is M mile
In circumference, one half mile high,
with a cliff on the south eide Of it.
There was some green stuff on one
eide OF it, but as we passed to the
south of it, I suppose nj and a half
miles, we couldn't say whether it was
grass or moss.
On our trip over we had fairly good
treatment. The worst thing we had
was tar water. Tar was put in it so
we wouldn't drink much of it. We
saw many sharks which seemed anx-
ious to get q bite of US. We had salt
water shower baths, Our ship carried
Chinese as cooks and walters, so I
learned some Chinese language.
The Philippines looked picturesque
as we neared them, and when we came
in sight of the sunken Spanish ships, it
was a sight long to be remembered
There were D3Wey's ships stationed at
intervals of one,fourth of a mile, and
a German man-o of war lying In the bay,
looking as if it was ready for action at
any moment. At night when the
German is lighted up all over with cleo
tricity, itlooks very beautiful and with
United States ships signalling by
searchlighEs, the scene is too beautiful
to be soon forgotten.
We arrived here on Friday, and on
Saturday the transport OHIO came in,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-24
A
December 1, 1898

Ny battalion has joined the other
two batallions of my regiment. We
are quartered in an cid Spanish mon
astery, 400 years old. It has thrilling
history. There is human blood on the
walls, where innocent people we're
slain by the priests and there are also
"stocks' in which prisoners were pun
ished. These stocks consist of two
heavy pieces of wood, which have six
holes in them, large enough for the
ankles OF a man to go through; the
prisoners lay on their backs, while the
guards fastened the top piece down.
All building here have high stone
walls around them and are built one
story high on account of the many
earthquakes.
I've seen many FIipinos VINO have
leprosy but are allowed to mingle
with the people everywhere, and no
one seems to IA In plain view OF
where I write is a building which was
struck by a ball during Dewey's IA
nous fight last May.
think by taking extra ARE of u
selves, we a endure this climate,
although, at this time it is 100 degrees
in the shade.
Hoping to receive a copy Of your
valuable paper, 1 beg to remain,
Yours Respectfully.
RANDALL Fl. RUSSELL,
Co. I, IS h Regiment Regular Infantry
. 8 A, Manila, ?. I.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-24
MANILA. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS,
November %, 1898.
EDS. HE PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
Raleigh, N Q.

4NSN~"SO@ ~ wv
EDs. HE PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
Raleigh, N Q.
I take the liberty of writing you
something of my experience in this
war with spain. IenIisted IN the 185h
Regiment Regular Infantry, U. s. a,
at s.. Paul, MINI, on the 23td Of
May, 1898 l, with sixteen others,
was sent from there to Fort McPher-
son, Ga. Stayed there three weeks
when my regiment went to San Fran
cisco. We remained at Camp Merritt
over two months, and during that
time endured many hardsnips, the
worst being the excessive fogs
On Sunday, August 21st, we EN-
b2rked on the steamship Arizona for
Manila, but we're left aG Honolulu,
Hawaiian Isles where we remained ten
weeks. Our stay at Honolulu was
very pleasant, gne weather being good,
win considerable rain. Vale there
We plucked cJcoanuJs from the lofty
trees, ate ptneapples, pluczed fresh
bananas from the beautiful banana
plants, and wondered at the royal
palms whose broad leaves and stately
trunks seemed to glorify heaven.
There is a species of birds on the
hawaiian Islands which makes a
coarse noise, like: I'll tutor you"
1t L called a dove by the Hawaiians.
Paches or apples do not grow in those
Islands. The land is mostly owned
and operated by corporations, and is
very valuable. A man with limited
means mas no business going to the Ha.
Fai-an Isles, unless he makes up bis
mia1 70 work for $15 per month and
board himself as the Chinese, and
Japanese do.
Atlas IS per cent. Of the nativ q
are poor and must work hard to live.
Oainese run all sorts Of stores and
charge a soldier twice as much for
IJs anything as they would charge a
GElz9n Of the city. Th9 Chinese mer
GIANTS have married many Of the
IA 7alian women. The Japanese
keep some stores, selling tea and orna
nsnts. They sell even cheaper than
.1e Chinese.
The Hawaiian women eat raw fsh
aLa raw meats. They make a dish
called poi; it is made from a root which
Is srJHn in water, and looks like a
Sweet potato, but tastes dry and sticky.
" 1en it is cooked the Cinnamon beat
/, With a stone, until it is well mixed;
'-eo It Is left in some cool place until
lse1. l tasted it and found il 0
-lefe Il a kind Of fruit which grows
""d on the Hawaiian isles, which is
~a.Ied the guRVa. Natives make q de
"-lous j9lly from it, the inside being
similar TO figs, IN appearance, but not
'~ taste, as fgs are sweet, but guavas
are sour.
Chinese cultivate hundreds of acres
Il rice. They irrigate all the land, and
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-24

Dear AWnt JennGe:-Wil you admit
a RoOeson county girl into the social
clrcle2 l enjoy the chats ever so much
they are real interesting and instruc
tive; and Aunt Jennie's talks are, l
think highly appreciated by all the
Chetrerers. After reading Hettie
Cross letter I decided that l would
write to help her defend the old maids.
/ am not old enough yet to be called an
old maid but my teacher says that
shall certainly be one. Well, l do not
think that there is any disgrace what
ever ia being an old maid for am sure
that I had rather live and die one than
TO be married to a lazy, good for
nothing" man who only wants a wife
for a slave. Let our girls get an educa
ton and be independent. So many are
dependent upon some one, and take
almost any kind of a chance to marry
for fear they will be left with no one
to support them.
Now, all old maids are not 30 cross
and irrit bic as some accuse them OF
being. l think there is a lot Of good
for them to do.-Annie Lizzie.