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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-18
POLITICAL.

Ex-Governor Altgeld says Bryan will be
the next democratic nominee and that the
issues will be live ones.
Governor PIngree OF Michigan sent In
very warm messages to the legislature
on its closing day.
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the commission are Colonial Secretary
Hon Allison. the speaker OF the assembly,
T, j. Wadson. and a third not named They
viii cooperate with Mr.. Tower, the
British charge, who represents the home
government in these negotiations.
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WIN increase die Iron Output .. ..,.s,,

VIII Increase the iron c,.tar,sa
Chattanooga. Tenn. June i''-.D ss s,sa.
furnace. bought under courl w., .s0.lr.i. u
ern Mining company. is heins MS, .sss Il 81.
WIN be put in blast after an furnaces furnaces q y
eral Years. The mines anu RisDg ~.
Southern Mining company ss az soon "
Ga. will also be put 10 Sa employed
eral hundred men VIII w
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-18

Perrier's misdeeds in regard to the Drey-
fus affair a semi-official note was issued
this afternoon 1t says; Extraordinary
as 1t may seem. NJ, Casimir- Perrier, when
president, was cognizant of only what he
affirmed on oath before the court Of cas-
sation. As regards all rumors current con-
corning his acts, steps and declarations,
he Will give full explanation before the
court martial at Rennes."
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-18
Dewey wn Make No Enaasement.,

multiplicity of stories in the newspapers
referring to Former President Casimir-
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-18

The St. Petersburg correspondent o, the
"e''''hiormed kreuz zeitung claims an
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-18

It now seems certain that the anti-strlke
bin will not find a majority In the reichs-
tag according TO the governments pro-
gramme the bill Will come up next week,
but strong pressure is being exerted on
the government to postpone il until the
autumn, as at present the chances are very
unfavorable.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-18

me highest court of Cassel has decided
'Ha' a clergyman OF denomination not
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
A STORY OF vERETscHAGIN.
Saved the Russian General SKobeleff
From Being Duped.

The famous painter of battle scenes,
Veretschagin, tells story of when he
was in Paris some years ago and what
happened to him and Skobeleff. General
Skobeleff, who wanted to pass a few
days in the French capital with his Adj
jutant Ushakow and the artists of that
city, went with them to the Hotel des
Invalides' to see the tomb Of Napoleon
1. A worthy old warrior a pensioner
of the house, acted as guide to the
Russian party. They stood before the
monument; Skobeleff looked at it long
in silence, and then turned to the old
soldier, asking: Did you know him,
my son?' Il was with him at Moscow,
answered the veteran. Skobeleff put
his hand into his pocket and gave the
old man a piece, saying: Here, my
man, is memento of the Russian gen
eral, Skobe1eff!' Il was at Jena, at
Marengo," began the veteran. Eat Aus
terlitz 1 saw the yramids." Skobeleff
looked at the old man in establishment
and reached in his pocket for another
piece of gold-but here Veretschagin
interrupted: you are fine fellow,
old man! You were with Napoleon
in Egypt-that was in 1899, and now it
is 1881, so you are 102 years old of you
were twenty at that time. You have
certainly taken good care of yourself,
for you don't look over CO." Skobeleff
turned as red as a peony and walked
away without a word.
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across the Seine, which was, in a mo-
ment of hysteria, named after the
car OF Russia. and which will, of
course, have to be renamed in case
the Russian bear snarls at France, is
nearly finished. The builders are
changing their attention from the
framework to the decorations of build
ings, and the railway lines are al
ready beginning to feel the great rush
of freight business which will clog
their lines from now until after the
exposition opens. Almost every hotel
in Paris has rented many, if not most,
of it's best rooms for the first weeks Of
the exposition. The greatest rush will,
of course, be during the first weeks, be-
cause intending visitors, realizing that
after those first weeks are over, the fuzz
will be off the peach to some extent. 1t
would scarcely be fair to say that the
exposition will wear out" so quickly,
but the French show is not being pre-
pared on the scale of broad and brilliant
beauty that was the magnificent char
acteristic of our own Worlds fair in
Chicago The buildings, with two ex-
ceptions only, are of even a more tenn
porary type of construction than were
our flimsiest structures, and their plans
include much work which architects
characterize as ginger bread" This
will be affected by the lapse of time,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
THE GREAT TELEscopE Avn THE PARIS EXPOSITION

a sharp knife might cut white cheese
thereby adding to the dust which per-
vades@ Paris and blows and blows and
blows, until your eyes and your ears
and your mouth are full of it. No
such machine was ever made before.
1t is about seven feet in diameter, and
its saving edge is studded with Bra
lillian diamonds or 'boorts." 1t has
cut stones two feet thick and twelve
or fourteen feet long in a quarter of
an hour The same work would take
three or four days of competent
mans time.
Danger In Politics.
Paris believes the show will be
great success. There is no likelihood
that she will be mistaken if she sue
ceeds in keeping her temper long
enough and fails to have a revolution.
1.-The Dreyfus case" said very inn
portant Frenchman to me the other
day, would have caused a real revolu-
ton long before this, had it not been
for the approaching exposition" This
is probably true. Mere principle would
scarcely keep the mercurial French
people cool-headed through such
crisis: but the hope of gain will make
a Frenchman do anything-eyen keep
quiet The middle class-a I'd that IS
the government Clements hrifty al
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
The Newcomer.
rHarper's Bazar.)

1t was 7:30 in the evening Of a cloud
less summer day, and at exactly eight
cen minutes after the whistle of the.
incoming train had been heard, the ho-
tel stage, coming around turn in the
road, was observed to contain a sOlita-
ry passenger. Immediately all was bus
tie and confusion For two weeks now,
in all that vast aggregation of female
loneliness no man had appeared to
break the dead level of mOnotony
which had hung over them like a pail.
No aimless yacht had cast anchor in
those eye-swept waters. No foreign
prince. duke or lord had wandered into.
that Eve crowded Eden of piaZzas and
board walks, and, indeed, not even the.
humblest American citizen had sill
houetted the sandduned horizon. But
at last one had come. AS the stage
speeded along the highway in a swift
walk, and the form of its solitary oc-
cupant became more clear, 200 hearts
beat high, and as it drew up to the
porch and the stranger got out, it was
feet specimen of manhood which the
accumulated refinement of centuries
had focused under one head. Tail,
broad-shouldered, with a sensitive
mouth partly concealed by a dropping
mustache an intellectual, yet a singu-
larly sympathetic face, dressed fualt-
lessly in the latest fashion-here, at a
glance, was one to suit the most fas-
tidious.
Four minutes later one of the fair
guests. with that careless assumption
of indifference that goes with burning
curiosity, approached the desk where
the newcomer had failed to register
and said to the clerk:
would you mind telling me who
that young man is?'
why, certainly not" said the clerk,
with slight smile; that is the new
barber
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
Lawton,s Plucky Son.

This placed us on better terms with
1.-THE little brown men," and now Law
ton was ready for an aggressive move
A most gifted correspondent of great
New York periodical closed a capital
description of the general with the
information that he was bachelor,
yet the first time Lawton reconnoitered
that ridge a chip of the old block, a
gallant little fellow in his early teens,
followed his fathers movements on
Filipino pony and took his baptism of
fire from the insurgent Mausers far
more coolly, l dare say, than did the
devoted wife and mother three miles
away in Manila the news that her boy
had more than one close shave that
afternoon. 1t was Gods mercy that
spared them both, for the underbrush
down the westward slope was full of
lurking TagalS, and Lawton had only
a squad of troopers to escort him.
A day or two after he rode the old
line with me to get acquainted" as
he said, with the officers of the First
brigade, and after we had reached
Haystack Knoll and the earthworks in
advance of Cemetery Height, what did
he do but dismount, straddle the
trenches and go stalking out over the
rice fields straight towards little
height that had never been without it's
Filipino sharpshooters until our fell
lows got their Krags,. and might still
harbor a batch of them. He got over
ground like a stag-hound, with long,
sprin,gy strides, and, ordering a dozen
Californians to follow and to cover"
the front as quickly as possible, 1
chased after him. He reached the top
without turning a hair and proceeded
to climb and stand erect on a big rock
at the summit-a mark that could be
seen for miles around. / got there
blown and rebukeful. After five
minutes survey he slid down and again
spanned the horizon directly to the
south. Only our scouting parties had
crawled thither before
Flying Bullets Did Not Scare Him.
Our Califernians looked concerned at
his utter neglect of all precaution, as
/ pushed them ahead on the run, but
the trail was narrow and crooked, the
underbrush thick, and they could not
rush ahead as fast IS he could, even on
unobstructed ground. Just as luck
would have it, not a Filipino happened
to be lurking along there that after
noon-yet every sound expected to
hear the crack Of q Mauser or the sud
den rush from their lair of an armed
party bent on our capture Once at
! the top We could see clear over to Ca
vite. across the bay, and the country
| towards Paranaque lay unfolded be-
| fore our eyes. Even as we stood there
( the mellow notes of Filipino bugle
came floating on the breeze from a
clump of bamboo perhaps 1900 yards
away, and there we could begin to
trace long line of intrenchments,
stretching away to the southwest
across Ovenshines front. Far to the
west we could descry the stout little
/ earthworlx built by Hawthorne's gun
ners around beautiful grove on the
extreme right of my line, with the
trenches stretching away to both
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10

the company of engineers when it
sailed in to help the squadron of the
Fourth cavalry that hot day along
the Pasig bluffs, between Pateros and
Paranaque. Quarter Of a century ago
he wore the yellow lace of the same
grade in Paynes troop of the Fifth
cavalry-was the best shot in the regi-
ment and won a name for GOODNESS and
bravery in many a fight. He looked
not a day older in Manila than when
he was hailed as Paddy" Nihill of the
Fifth Horse-and who can say that the
experiences of the Indian campaigns
were not of the utmost value when, as
more than once happened. the Filipino
rifles blazed at them from three sides
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
S BURSTING WAY THROUGH UNDERBRUsH'

fighters, and but few of the men who
led their stalwart detachments in old
Arizona and Wyoming days remain
with them. Death-orother promotion
had long. since removed them from the
rolls. Yet Ovenshine, now colonel of
the Twenty-third, and brigadier gen.
eral of volunteers, was captain in the
fighting Fifth infantry in the days of
its fiercest campaigns. Potter, major
commanding the Fourteenth, was a
graduate in frontier service with the
Seventeenth infantry, and Murphey and
McCammon had served a quarter CEN
fury on the frontier with the Four
teenth.
Big, Brave Lawton.
Then there was another, a veteran,
who wore the chevron of a sergeant in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10

THE MAIN GATEWAY OF EXPOSITION,

AMY EXPOSITION ~

most to the point of meanness, and
has been thoroughly trained in the
gentle art of plucking foreigners. It's
people will spare no effort to preserve
and make perfect so fine a chance as
the exposition will offer. Paris is a
city of small shopkeepers. Napoleon
said dozen times that that fact alone
would save it. It makes the proportion
of nom property holders-those who
have little or nothing to save or lose
comparatively small. Half dozen
mobs have rushed through the Paris
streets during recent months. any one
of which would, in an ordinary year.
have gathered strength and num-
bers enough to have done great
harm. But, with the exposition
in view, the efforts to prevent such
a catastropheto save the life
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
Old Indian Fighters In Philippines
King
Lavt0n'Puck
Household Words Wars With Red Men,

and the light batteries of the Sixth
numbered among their officers in the
Philippines one name, at least, as re-
nowned for daring and devotion in
Indian battle as it became for skill,
courage and ability in action against
the insurgents in front of Manila
Harry Hawthorne-he whose watch
was shot into his system, driven by a
Sioux bullet, at the battle of Wounded
Knee. Only two regiments of regular
infantry were with US when the Fill
pino war broke out-the Fourteenth and
Twenty -third-both famous as Indian
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And so, just as in the old days of
the decade Immediately succeeding the
civil war, we now speak of Lawton
among the Indian fighters at Manila
as foremost, and the only attribute he
seems to have outgrown is caution.
There he is, magnificently tall, athletic
and muscular, gray as a badger, but
alert as terrier. His keen eyes have
lost nothing of their fire and his stride
nothing of it's scope or elasticity. He
can outwalk and outride many a
youngster even now, and to say he is
tireless puts it altogether too mildly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10

Copyright, 1899. by S. S. McClue Coz
Promising only that this is written
at your request 1 gladly send some
particulars as to the men who, having
long since won distinction in the bloody
warfare waged with the Indians on our
western frontier, sought service in the
Philippines and were with US at Manila.
Foremost of all stands Lawton-
facile princeps. Away back in the SOS
and '70s, when our infantry and cav
airy were scattered all over the terri
tories, spending long months of every
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avenues one of the most beautiful in
the world. The stone of which these
superb buildings are being constructed
is taken from the very bowels of Paris.
from the same stratum of underground
France in which the catacombs were
dug. 1t is soft and very easily worked
after exposure to the air. One of the
early wonders of the show is the fam
Gus diamond saw, which is now con-
tinually at work ON the exposition
grounds, and which cuts this rock as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10

of the goose that lays the golden egg
We're not only earnest. They were des-
perate. And so far they have succeed
ed. How completely the government
rallies the danger is shown by the al
most continuous press censorship ex-
ercised on telegraphic dispatches going
out of Paris. President Loubet and
his cabinet know that to brighten the
foreigners at this stage of the game
would be fatal to the show. Fond
mammas have no desire to take their
darlings on streets likely to be mob
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That only two buildings-the great
of the famous French sandstone, is
temporary blessing to all Paris. The
dust omsthis sandstone is so white
and so penetrating that it becomes a
public nuisance. 1t has actually
changed the color of the roadway IN
the Champs Elysee. From the ordi-
nary brown of the average macadam
road, the pavement has become a dirty
gray from the white dust blown and
tracked into it from the neighborhood
Of the art palaces. This has also had
it's effect on the health of the trees
which have helped to make this famous
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
Getting Ready to Reeeipe the Uorld
Paris Exposition Along That Parts the Show
Are Being Arranged Almost
cted-Main Gateway Arranged to Admit

!. Paris. Sept 2.-The exposition of 1905
is assuming form. Exhibitors are be.
ginning to- get their marvels undes
roofs. For the first time in history, an
show will open on time.
The growth of the great white build
ings brings to mind the mushroom ris-
ing of boyhood's circus tents. The
great and little art palaces are almost
completed, and the ugly buildings
which hid them from the ever passing
throngs on the Champs Elysee have
been torn down. The beautiful bridge
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He came to my headquarters the day
after his assignment to the command
of the First division, and we rode out
to the lines together, he on big black
American horse and l on a little runt
of a Filipino pony. The contrast was
so funny the soldiers on guard could
hardly keep from laughing. some of
them didn't-after we had got a few
rods away. The line had been selected
when he had only a small force with
which to hold it, but by the time Law
ton arrived the Twentieth and Twenty
second infantry had been sent to re-
inforce us and the Fourth came with
him, so he decided to push farther
out to where a long and moderately
steep ridge crossed the front from the
Pasig toward Ovenshine's left. The
Filipino camps, we knew, were not far
over that ridge and their outposts could
sweep it with their Mausers from a
dists nee, while my volunteers with
their hard-kicking Springfields could
not reach them. The regulars, how
ever, came with their long-ranged
''Krags,'' and about the first thing
Lawton did was to order the selection
of a dozen crack shots from each COM
pany in the First brigade, and for these
he obtained our latest model of iEaga-
zine rifle.
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Paris In a Dust Storm.

and the brilliant paints which are
everywhere to be used are likely to
grow dingy.
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tanks Ovenshine's brigade manning
those to his right-uiine to his left
and then the Californians came burst
ing their way through the underbrush,
hot, sweating and saying swear words
soto voce over the unwonted speed
and difficulty of their push through the
jungle. Lawton smiled grimly, bpt
said nothing as we studied the ground
through our field glasses.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-27

The extraordinary demand for paper
money, which according to United
States Treasurer Roberts is becoming
absolutely pitcous,' is Il fact In the
monetary situation Of considerable in
tercst. The national treasury is over
running with gold and Mr.. Roberts says
the amount could be increased if there
were small notes to exchange for it.
There is no doubt that for general bust.
ness the public prefers paper to metal
currency, but the widely shown indis-
position to use gold is largely due to
the fact that most of the coins are i'm
large denominations and therefore not
available for retail trade.
The Philadelphia Record states that
two-thirds of all the gold which has
been received at the governments coin
ing mill since the establishment of the
mint in 1892 has been coined into
t~wenty-dOllar pieces and two.thirds of
the remainder into tcn-dollar pieces.
The proportion of f%ive-dOllar pieces and
tW~o-and-a-half dollar pieces struck at
the mints is so small that If Il demand
should be created at once for these coins
for general use they could not be OBJ
tanned. The Record suggests the dis.
continuance for a time of the coinage of
the larger denominations, coming in
stead the smaller denominations, which
would result in gold flowing into cir.
culation and soon finding its proper
level. There seems to be no good
reason why this should not he done.
1t would not give immediate relief, but
the good effects would be felt in Il short
time. Meanwhile the question of more
paper money presses itself upon public
attention and suggests that some legis-
lation should be had looking to an in
crease of the national bank circulation.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-27

While there is no disposition any,
where. so far as we know, to harp upon
the unpleasant StotScnbcrg incident,
yet In the interest of truth the public is
entitled TO the facts without misrcprc.
Scntation or distortion. These facts viii
show that the attempt of the popocratS
through their newspaper organ to hold
republicans responsible for the admitted
injustice done to Colonel Stotscnbcrg
has no foundation.
1t is true that Colonel Stotscnbcrg was
appointed major and colonel of the
First Nebraska 10y Governor Holcomb
and that the original appointment was
criticised at the time. not because of any
question of ability, but because by so
doing other officers were jumped who
had well-founded claims to promotion.
The agitation for the removal of
Colonel StOtscnbcrg from command of
the First Nebraska came from two
sourccs-tirst, from relatives Of enlisted
men who had been stirred up by letters
complaining of hard discipline and rigid
regulations, and second, by people in
A'A'HN'' III NH' blN lllNfliltll VI DlOllO~
tion-sccking subordinatcs.
1t is conceded that both the lcgisla-
turc and the governor were mislcd by
this agitation into an egreglous blum
der. This difference, however, must not
be overlooked. The republican lcgisla-
ture, when its attention was aroused to
the fact that its mistake reflected UNI
justly upon the reputation of Il brave
officer, exhibited manhood enough to
admit the blundcr and to eXpunge from
its records the resolutions of cenSurc
previously adopted. BY %eXpunging these
resolutions from its journals the rcpub-
lican legislature atoned as far as it was
able in Il way that was equivalent to Il
public apology.
But how about Governor POINTER?
same appeals made by The Bee and
taken up by other papers asking the
legislature to rescind its action urged
Governor POyntcr to recall his request
upon the War department for the re-
moval of Colonel ~Stotscnberg. To these
appeals the governor turned a deaf ear,
II at the time of the death of the gal
liant colonel, fighting at the head of his
regiment, the papers were still or file
at the War department at Washington
over the name of the governor of Ne
braska asking the immediate transfer
of Colonel Stotsenberg to his own regl-
ment.
On the day after the death OF Colonel
Stotsenberg the governor, who had de-
landed his removal and who had re-
fused to recall his demand, sent a tele-
gram to the father of the dead officer
concluding with these words: Your
son has added honors to Nebraska and
like a hero" This certainly echoes
the sentiment of the entire people of
Nebraska. But would not justice to the
living soldier have struck a more SYM
pathetic chord han tribute to the dead
hero?