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The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
COURAGE:
Because hold it sinful to despond,

Because hold it sinful to despond, And will not let the bitterness of life Blind me with burning tears, but look beyond
 Its tumult and strife; Because lift my head above the mist. Where the sun shines and the broad
 breezes blow. By every ray and every raindrop kissed That Gods love doth bestow; Think you l find no bitterness at all: No burden to be borne, like Christians
 pack? Think you there are no ready tears to fall, Because l keep them back? Why should I hug ife's ills with cold re-
 serve, c
 To curse myself and all who love me?
 Nay! A thousand times more good than l de- God gives me every day. And in each one of these rebelliOus tears Kept bravely back he makes a rainbow
 shine; Grateful take his slightest gift; no fears Nor any doubts are mine. Dark skies must clear, and when the
 clouds are past,
 One golden day redeems a weary year; Patient listen, sure that sweet at last Will sound His voice of cheer.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
IN THE ELEVATOR.

AMPERTON stopped at the hotel desk long enough to read the l e tte r W h 1 c h was handed to him with his key: then he start ed for his rooms to dress for his club din- ner.
 But the club dinner was no longer in his mind. The contents of that letter engrOssed his thoughts to the eX-
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

We pay $1O0 if We cannot prove that wt can save you MONEY on everything you buy, We are saving the people of the Pacific Coast thousands of dollars every month. For full particulars, address, Gil bert Clements Sons, 21S California St. San Francisco, Cal, Wholesale and Retailers ot family Supplies.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
THE-weRLp,s SUPPLY OF WHEAT.

An English expert claims that the wheat producing soil of the world is unequal to the strain that will be put upon it. Even now when the food supply is ample, thou sands die because their disordered stOmachs fail to digest the food they take. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters strengthen and tone up the stomach and digestive organs.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

Freddy-My brother George is a head taller than your brother.
 Franky-Yes, but my brother is @ stomach fatter than yours. - Lustige Blaffer
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED

By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion ~ the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in famed condition of the mucous liningsof the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets infaned you have rumbling sound or imperfect hear ing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh. which is nothing but an inhamed condition ci the mucous surfaces.
 We will give One Hundred Dollars for any ease of Deafness lcause by catarrhl that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for cir culars, free.
 J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, O. Sold by Druggist, 75c.
 Halls Family Pills are the best.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

When coming to San Francisco go to Brooklyn Hotel, 208--2l2 Bush Street. Am erican or European plan. Room and board $1.00 to $1.50 per day; rooms 50 cents to $l.O0 per day; single meals 9 cents. Free coach. Chas. Montgomery.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

Snobs in high places assume great airs and are pretentious in all they do. and the higher the elevation the more conspicuous is the incnngrnity of their position, Samuel Smiles.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

Sunday is the day when man spends the morning in lodging his wife's sweeping and dusting, and the afternoon in wishing he hadn't eaten SO much.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
UIcernted Teeth.

Never put hot water bag to an uloerated tooth If the dentist is un- available at the moment. apply an ice bag, which will reduce the swelling and next to the gum lay hot raisin
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

A woman who does all the cooking for a family dreams of no greater pleasure than for the entire family to be invited out to dinner on Sunday.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
HoIrT,s SCHOOL FOR BOYS

Now at Burlingame will remove to it's beau tiful new home at Menlo Park, San MateO Co.,, Cal, and reopen January 16th, 1898. Address, Ira C.. Heitt Ph. D.. MenlO Park,
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

w. A. Towle of San Jose and asso- ciates, who have been prospecting in Alaska the past summer, claim that they have struck great wealth at a point below the rapids on Kelly river, about seventy miles from Resurrection bay. They claim that they took out s25O in a short 1ple, the pay ranging from $1 to $6 to the pan from dirt surface. They say the section is ac- cessible and much warmer climate than Dawson. Claims were located and companies have been formed to work them in the spring. The loca- tiou is on the American side.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

No household is complete without bottle of the famous Jesse Moore Whiskey. It is a pure and wholesome stimulant receommened by all physicians. Don't neglect this necessity.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

What has become of the old-fash- toned woman who Drowned her owa coffeei
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
To Cure a Cold In One Day.
Comparfsons,

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if it fails to cure, 25c
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

HTC Permanently Cured. No nts or nervous tAAS ness after first days use of pr. Kline'E Great Nerve Resterer, Send for FREE S2.O .OO trial bottle and treatise. DR. R. H. KLINE, Ltd eS0 Arch St.. Philadelphia. Pa.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
As the ...nes.ao.n D.indIe..

She-I really ought to have a new hat.
 He-How would it do to stick few feathers in the top crust of one of those pies you baked last week; You would have something that would last then. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
4 sDofled Child.

"What are you crying about now. dearie?" asked the fond mother. "Is there something mamma's sweetest gants?"
 "Yes."
 "What is it?''
 "I-I don't knowi That's what Pm crying about"-Incianapolis Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

believe Piso's Cure is the only medi- cine that will cure cOnsumption.-Ann NJ. Ross, Williamsport, Pa., Nov. 12, 95.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21
A LIVING WITNESS.
Mrs. Hoffman Describes How She Wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for
 Advice, and Is Now Well.

DEAR MRs. PINKH1M.-Before using your Vegetable Compound I was a great sufferer I have been sick for months, was troubled with severe pain in both sides of abdomen, sore feeling
The St. Johns herald., 1899-01-21

 tions. and cannot praise your medicine enough for what it has done for me. Many thanks to you for your advice. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound has cured me, and will recom- mend it to my yfriends.-Mrs. FLORENCE R. HOFFMAN, 512 Roland St., Canton, O.
 The condition described by Mrs. Hoff- man will appeal to many women, yet lots of sick women struggle on with their daily tasks disregarding the urgent warnings until overtaken by actual collapse.
 The present Mrs. Pinkham's experi- ence in treating female ills is unparal- leled, for years she worked side by side with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and for sometimes past has had sole charge of the correspondence department of her great business, treating by letter as many as hundred thousand ailing women during single year.
The Conservative, 1899-05-18
Che Conservative.

piled to the army was the same as is
supplied to the trade, and the recon-
mendation that this subject shall be pur-
sued no farther. Here is the milk in
the cocoanut. The packers must be ex-
onerated at all hazards, and their
truth and honor upheld even if it does
involve giving the lie to several hun.
dreds Of gallant officers and several
thousands of brave soldiers who faced
the dangers of battle, the greater dangers
of climate and the greatest danger of
bad beef, in the service of their coun-
try.-Pittsburgh Dispatch (rep.)
1t is a sad day for the discipline and
the character of the United States army
when four officers Of long experience
and supposed high standing can be
found who will lend themselves to such
an outrage as this report of the beef
court of inquiry. The object of these
officers has been to render a personal
and political service to the president and
the secretary of war-not to bring out
the truth or to vindicate the honor of
the army.-Hartford Times (dem.)
The findings must be regarded as UNI
satisfactory, illogical, and inadequate
by all fair-minded men.-Philadelphia
Bulletin (rep.)
The Conservative, 1899-05-18
A travelling man
brought into The
CONSERVATIVE Of
A POPULIS-
TIC WAIF.

fee a few days since a manuscript of
which the following is a verbatim copy.
If we had the means for producing a fac
simile this would be presented in it's orr
ginal sweetness. AS it is, we give be-
low, verbatim the headline and disquis-
ition so far as completed, when the It'll
nerant commercial man picked it off
from the seat of a Car running between
Kansas City and Nebraska City. But
the manuscript should be seen.
The Conservative, 1899-05-18
despair for the rights and liberties of the
people.

1t is evident that the author of the
foregoing is in a depressed frame of mind.
There is nothing exuberant and virile in
his thought, nothing buoyant in his
style. He seems to regret particularly
the lack of a genuine 'populistic tone in
populist newspapers"
The charge that this pure and patriotic
portion of the press of the United States
should have betrayed anybody is entirely
absurd.
THE CONSERVATIVE regrets hat ''there
is nothing outside of the leading populist
doctrines except darkness and despair"
and trusts that some of the brain work
ing journalists of fusion and confusion
will 500 restore intensity to the zealotry
and fanaticism of that conglomerate
organization. The f~usionists never fire
up to a pressure of one hundred pounds
to the square inch until they mark the
prophetic stage. When a genuine sim
cere and enthusiastic orator begins to
make forecasts of coming calamities,
depict disaster and wreck and ruin as
inevitable and close at hand, there is an
ardor and odor of sainthood about him
which fills the ayes and warns the
hearts of the deluded and discontented.
Let prophecy assume it's power among
populists.
The Conservative, 1899-05-18
is POPULISM DYING?

II ~ 10 l1ERE AM WAL ~ olof LIE
DYING AND GIVE IT INCREAS-
INC LIFE AND HEALTH, AND
VIGOROUS GROWTH?
Editor Nonconformist
1 think the unwelcome truth stares us
in the face that in the present congress
now elected, there is not half as much
populism as there was in the last IN
gress. l think it plain also that for two
two years in number and genuine popu-
listic tone our populist newspapers have
greatly decreased. What is the cause
of all this? The readers accuse the
fusionists of destroying the party by
fusion. But certainly the readers do
not get along as we'll or manifest as
much life as the fusionists. If l am to
say what the real matter is with the
party I must say that it is not dying
because of fusion or roadism, but for
want of life. The leading populist doc
trines are not brought forth in their
strength and purity as formerly. Is
there no help for this? I know that
outside of these leading populist doc
trines there is nothing but darkness and
The Conservative, 1899-05-18
ARMY BEEF.
Press Comment on the Boards Con
illusions.

Lie court ueUeTIlllneu Uue ldctS ny
refusing to heal the testimony. The
only excuse for this extraordinary resort
is that the office of the court, in exoner-
ating the war department., could not
have been fulfilled in any other way
Philadelphia Telegraph (rep.)
The issue was a plain one the court
had to declare against Alger or General
Miles, and it chose the man who cham
pioned the cause Of the men who did
the fighting and to whom the beef was
issued. 1t will be hard to convince the
men who did the fighting that General
Miles did not prove his case. He offered
to bring scores of witnesses to substanti-
ate his charges, but the court would not
hear observation-disclosures American (rep.)
The reflections upon General Miles
are obviously dragged in under official
pressure and are not really germane
to the report and yet they serve not
only to divert attention from the actual
substance Of the report, but by their
evident special pleading to discredit it
entirely and the officers who sign it.
Philadelphia Times ind.)
~"Supposing" that the testimony of
hundreds of regular and volunteer
officers proved that the beef was
unfit for food even for a dog, "what
of it?' The report has been made,
all who were held culpable by the
people are exo%nerated, and only those
who made the charges are censured.
"What of it?"-Boston Traveller (rep)
While the report of the court of
inquiry does not contain as much white
wash as that of the army commission, it
is a disappointment. 1t seems to be ami
mated more by a desire to get even with
. General Miles than it does to get at the
truth of his charges. Nevertheless it is
a distinct and most encouraging i'm
provement upon that of the war COM
mission. Should the subject be investi-
gated again by a congressional commit
tee, as we trust that it will be-, a report
would probably be obtained that would
correspond more nearly with the facts.
Rochester Pos -Express (rep.)
The beef report bears the ear-marks
of Mr.. McKinley's ~harmonizing temper.
1t scatters it's criticism and rebuke all
around, and without pleasing anybody
r%efrains from offending anybody very
seriously and paciies the offended with
the thought he is scolded no worse than
others.-Waterbury American Gnd.)
There has been a studied attempt
from the beginning to cover up an out
rageous scandal, and the report of this
court of inquiry is the last clumsy act
in the farce.-Utica Observer (dem.)
Probably the most significant portion
The Conservative, 1899-05-18
The kindly and
conf ding daily
BIXBY.

o Ill g daily
poet of The State Journal expresses
doubts as to the age of the poem Of
Troubadour Thurston upon which that
meteoric bard rose into luminous and
incandescent eminence. BiXby even
goes further and endeavors to plant in
the young and guileless nature of The
CONSERVATIVE a grain of scepticism
evidently with the hope that it may
grow into a weed of noXious unbelief as
to when the T%roubadour evolved Rose,
Rose, Oh, Rose!
But the pernicious activity of paro-
dists who poetize, more and more, upon
the ravishing rose of the Troubadour
is like the insects of an evening in
summer which fit around big electric
lights to show themselves. These little
bugs do not make the coruscating car
bon visible but the carbon so Eliminates
the air that the eye detects the bugs.
In poetry %Troubadour Thurston is to his
feeble imitators as the largest and most
luminous arc light is to a sputtering
June bug, or as the blazing MONDAY
sun is to a tallow-dip.
When Troubadour Thurston declared
at the Philadelphia symposium that on
the inspiration of a moment, just a day
or two before he had reeled off the
roses in verse, THE CONSERVATIVE be-
lieved him. And now, when he AYERS
that the rosy verses doomed and
blazed in the erotic days of his youth,
The CONSERVATIVE also believes him.
Nebraska soil is inexhaustible. 1t made
corn and potatoes and prairie flowers in
1856. 1t makes them now in 1899.
Nebraska poets are like her fertile soils,
! repeatingly inexhaustible.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-12
Defiant in Defeat.

The outcome of the case against
Roberts of Utah is certain, but this
does not mean that the case will be
settled in a hurry. The special com
mittee would like to make short work
of the matter, and the country at large
wants to see the campaign against the
Utah polyGamist short. sharp and de-
cisive. But the course of Roberts him
self at the opening session of the COM
mittee makes it probable that the
hearing will take the form Of trial
(which may become long and tiresome.
but whose final result cannot be in
doubt In effect Roberts has pleaded
privilege against being up on the wit
ness stand to incriminate himself. This
may mean that witnesses will have to
be brought from Utah, INCLUDING the
wives of the congressman-elect, and
that the inquiry will have to take the
form of trial. The protestants
against lne seating u iADbtII - arr w III
ing to assume the burden Of proof, and
as promptly as circumstances will al
low his guilt will be shown. and he will
be finally excluded from the House.
No unnecessary delay will be allowed.
1t is probable that the defiant atti
tude taken by Roberts will not only
make his own downfall the more en-
phatic. but will also result in a general
investigation of polygamy in Utah.
This will result in declaration by the
House. and perhaps by the Senate also,
that Utah has wilfully violated the
pledge under which she was admitted
to the Union. She may not be allowed
further representation in either body
until she adopts a different course. \
constitutional amendment prohibiting
polygamy is not impossible step in
the near future. The country is thor
oughly aroused in the matter and in
no temper 10 trite with the twin relic
of barbarism which Utah is fostering
in defiance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-12

They are having the fall elections
their first campaign they have fallen
into American ways enough to have Il
hot campaign with two parties we'll
matched. The elections are held in
about 20 cities to select a mayor. coun-
Gil. Judges. and school trustees. All
elections are held under the direct su-
pervision of American army officers
and the Australian ballot system is
used. To vote, a man must be u years
of age. a taxpayer and able to read
and write. a correspondent thus sums
up the position Of the two parties
The Federal party. which claims that
it was through its influence that Spain
granted the island autonomy in 1897.
demands that the United States mill
airy government be done away with.
that the island be given civil govern
ment, with Luis Munoz Rivera. their
leader, as governor. and that Porto
itltanS ne ptaccu at the npdt OF an
departments. 1t accepts and applauds
the annexation of the country to the
United States. demands that Porto
Rico be hereafter territory of the
Union, with all the rights Of state
except the right Of sending senators
and representatives to Congress. and
having. like all other territories. a dele
gate in Congress. 1t desires Tat Port.
Rico shall have tn" right of som" ia ;
becoming a state in the Union with
out any restrictions. The Republican
party endorses President Mckinley ana
pledges 'faithfulncss to adhere to III,
new principles of our new country. ant
have for our aim harmony, unity anC
good government 1t halls with prid,
our annexation to the United States.
asks for free schools. free trade Will
America and relief TO agriculturist.
from taxation. opposes foreign con
tract labor. and demands the Ameri
can sy stem of courts" If their plat
forms are any criterion this countl-
mas nothing to fear from these partie
IN Porto Rico. This island is setting
sood example for the other colonie
ana dependencies Of the I'uitol stat,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-12
Reflections O. a Bachelor.

The man a woman is in love with is al
ways Il nero, even if he is cross-cyc |.
No woman can make Il maa Ncah wtI
cannot first make him tl4!lll H. is strong.
When woman argues politics. it re-
minds you nf an old barhrlD" trying To
tell a cute baby story.
\ man can never understand why gin
will stuttcr around 50 long triag To find
some other way Of saying birth mark. -
y woman may admit thai she was
wrong, nut she won't ever admit that
anybody in her position wouh!a't have
done Just exactly the way Sh. dil
About tn second month after A woman
joins club her husband takes to eating
out At restaurants
It's funny thing that no woman can
see what her husband coul ever have
seen in any other woman.
When Il woman wants something sne
goes and buys 1t. When she wants to
want something She goes op- shopping.
A man can always make his wife mad
whenever NJ wants 10 IN moving the par
Tor furniture around i'll different corners.
Girls always try to act nnwa.llvs to Il
man like they only hung the mistletoe up
luSt tor decoration. ami the. would ~
srwfully mad If he did it.-NcW York
Press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-12

Once or twice year the good house
wife has thorough house cleaning The
house has been swept and busted every
day III the year, but the housewife knows
that III spite of vigilance dust accu1nli-
lates Ill cracks and corners, and is only
to be removed by special effort
It's the same way with the body. You
look after it every day. You take all
the ordinary precautions of cleanliness
and health. Yet the body needs its
special cleaning to rid il of the accumu-
latlons of waste and poisonous matter
which invite disease. Doctor Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, taken regu-
larly once or twice year, would save
many a sickness. 1t purifies the blood,
Strengthens the stomach, and cleanses
the body of poisonous accommodations.
Last spring had a severe attack Of pneu-
mouia which left me with bad cough and
also left my lungs i'll very bad condition. :"
writes John NJ. Russell, Esq, of Brent Cherokee
Nat. Ind. Ter. ri had no appetite and was so
weak l could scarcely walk NV breast was
all sore with running sores. | got two bottles
DIR. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery, which /
believe saved my life cannot express nv
gratitude TO you. l able now to do very
good work.
DR.. Pierce's Medical Adviser, in paper
covers, sent free on receipt Of 81 one
cent stamps to pay cost of mailing 0nly
Address DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-12

The wise men in the city government
of Kansas City are in trouble, and it
is no more than they deserve. In issu-
ing an order that the school teachers of
that city should wear long skirts they
find that they have pushed their heads
into a hornets nest. In their sumptu-
airy edCt they declare that short skirts
whether called golf skirts. bicycle
rli''~. or rainy day 1'-irtr. "ar" not
proper" This is utter nonsense. and
the fate If the Kansas city fathers viii
probably be that of al men who try &"
infringe upon the liberty Of woman 10
dress herself as she see fit As = mat
ter of fact. the short skirts are no.
only proper. but are modest ana be
coming. and what more can he said in
defense Of feminine apparel? Being
made for purposes calling for cas-" Of
movement and unhampcrcd attention
to business. these skirts are cmincntly
proper for school work as we'll as for
recreation on the wheel or on the golf
days. they are the only sensible skirts
to be worn. We shudder at the just
fate which will overtakc those rash
men in Kansas City.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-12
The Universal Language.


EhSilSh H tH' '"liilliS HHudEo q
IN" clNlllzrd world. me universal
t"nEu" VIII not nav" I" y" an drtliclal
one. for tn" irresistible march OF
events is making our own the common
medium of communication between an
fercnt natlunalltlcS. IN interesting
bit OF news bearing upon tins point IS
that sent out from Washington, recent
ly. tina; the new commercial treaty be
tween Mexico and china is written in
English. The vast commerce OF Eng
land and America has been tending II
max" our language I'll" common Ian
guaEe in the commercial world. and
now it seems that il is becoming the
languaE" Of IN" diplomatic world, Il
plac" held by French for several cen
turtles past.
Their" is something; very gratifying
in this, but it is not +" surprising, after
all. when NJ" remember that fully l3"-
600 600 Americans ana Brit"nS speak
the language that they lead the world
in trade. that they ar" great travellers.
and that their lnliu"nc" is felt on the
politics. literature ana fellSi"h' as wen
HI IN ~" business. 81 AT lands Many
continental universities are now paying