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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
The first blow was struck by the

The first blow was struck by the
insurgents. Our kindness war re-
ciprocated with cruelty. our mercy
with a Lauser. The flag Of truce
was invoked only to be dishonored.
Our soldiers yer shot down when
minisiering to the wounded Filipino.
Our humanity was interpreted as
weakness, our fortearance as coward
Use. They ~assailed our sovereignty,
and there will! be no useless pariey-
no pause until the Instruction is
suppressed and American authority
acknowledged and established.
This was rendered doubly effective
by being spoken face to face and
eye to eve with men who in the dis
tant islands of the Pacific had seen
the patience of u army Tested and
its f~orbearance rewarded with deceit
and bloody betrayal.
But the passage of the Presidents
speech that will be remembered
longest, because of its use of bitter
sarcasm, so unusual with him, is
that in which after expressing the
nations charity and pity for the mis-
guided followers in rebellion he said.
AS to the cruel leaders who have
needlessly sacrificed the lives o
thousands of their people, at the cost
OF some of our best blood for thef
qualification of their own ambitious
designs, | will leave to others the
%ungracious task of justification and
eulogy.
This is Presidend McKinle US only
and best reply TO the slurs and sland
ers of the Atkinson and Garrisons.
who are filing the mails daily
landing Agunaldo, calling our
soldiers in the Philippines butchers
and "murderers,' and invoking the
wrath of heaven on Americans arms
and cause.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07

From every section of the country
the heart of the people responds to
the words of the President. Thew
have charity and sympathy for the
misguided dupes of Aguinaldo. But
they have only lothing and contempt
for the men who lend comfort and
support to their couutry's foes.
We believe with the New York
Times that "the people of the United
States are behind the President in
this matter" and what he had done
IN the Antilles and the Philippines
has been a correct as well as a faith
full Interpretation of what the people
of the United States desiled to have
done so far as they knew their own
DESIRE"
In this matter the President speaks
with the will as we'll as with the
voice of the people.-Chicago Times
Herald.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
Politics Should be Left Out.
Huronite.

The question of politics ought in no
way to enter into the efforts being made
to secure funds to bring the boys home.
Neither party will reap any benefits from
the result. 1t is not "a partisan effort but
a peoples effort and it ought not to be
carried on through partisan channels.
Il it is so carried ON it will tail and it
ought to fail. If it is not so carried on it
will succeed as it should succeed. There
are dollars enough in the pockets of the
people of this state to makes sufficiently
large to accomplish the undertaking.
The disposition of the people is all right
If applied to property. Let all unite in
n grand purpose and raise apurse large
enough to meet the demands of the
occasion.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
HI GREEDY CATFISH.
His Eating Capacity ms
as His Hold on Life.

The catfish belongs to an ancient
type not yet fully made into a fish, II
hence those whose paired inns are al
properly fastened To- the head, as his
ore not. hold him In we'll merited
scorn. He has no scales and no bright
colors. His fins are small and his head
and mouth are large. Around his
mouth are eight long "smellers,
leshy f~eelers, that he pushes out as
he crawls along the bottom in search
Of anything that he may eat. AS he
may eat anything, he always finds II.
His appetite is as impartial as hat or
a goat. Anything, from a dead lam
prey or a bunch of sunfish eggs to a
piece of tomato can, is grateful TO
him.
In each of the fms, which represent
his arms, is a long, sharp bone. with
a Shiny surface and a serrated edge.
These are fastened by q ball and sock
ct Joint. and whenever the fish Is
alarmed the cone is whirled over and
set In place; then il sticks out stitdy
ON each side. There is another such
bone In the lin on the back, and when
all Of these are set there is no fish
that can swallow him.
When he takes the hook, which he
surely will do if there is any hook to
be taken, he will swallow it greedily.
AS he is drawn out Of the water he
sets his three spines and laughs to
himself as the boy pricks his fingers
trying to get the hook from his stom-
ach. This the boy is sure TO do, and
because the boy of the Mississippi
valley is always fishing for catfish is
the reason why his fingers are always
sore. The catfish is careless of the
present and sure Of the future. After
he Is strung on a birch branch and
dried in the sun and sprinkled with
dust and has had his stomach dug out
to recover the hook, If he falls into the
brook he will swim away. He holds
no malice and is ready TO bite again
at the first thing In sight.-Popular
Science Monthly.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07

Norwegin Legislators propose that girls
who do not know how to knit, sew, wash,
and cook should be refused permission
to marry. Daughters of wealthy men
are not to be excepted.
The w. q. Il. U. will meet with Mrs.
Scripture on the afternoon Of Sept. 13.
Let all members plan to be present,
To bring up a child in the way he
should go, travel that way yourself.
Mrs. Booth.
The annual state convention of the
South Dakota w. G.. I. u. is now in seq
sion at Madison.
The Arkansas Legislature has enacted
a new law prohibiting the sale of cigar
etts or cigarette papers to minors. 1t
provides for a fine of 800 for each vio-
lation of the law.
According to the provisions of a new
law recently passed BY the Kansas SEN
ate, "a third violation of the prohibitory
law subjects the liquor seller to a term
OF from one TO three years in the peniten-
tiary.
With $4,000 inhabitants, Iceland has
only n policeman. No liquor is allow
ed to be sold except at the capital, where
by express order this policeman is to
arrest such drunken sailors or visitors as
threaten the public peace. Our w. G. T..
L. president in that far away northern
csuntry is editing two papers; one for
women and II for children. In Bildudd
there are one hundred white ribbon
women.
The faculty of the Stanford university
not content with having carried their
for prohibition, are now making a
fieiit against the saloons of the neighbor-
horing town of Mayfield, the evil IN
tiuence of which have been felt by the
students of the university. A protes,
against the granting of licenses in that
has bren presented to the super
visors, and in addition 10 the signature of
the citizens of Mayiield, it also bears the
name of President Jord-n and of all til
professors of the stanford university.
Northwestern Christian Advocate.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
The Fifth Feminine

Until a few days ago | had a..
supposed that there were hr. 0i
ages in a woman's life-the vorr. W.
still young, the well preserves =
the elderly-but a man | know
aided to my knowledge a fifth a.. y
comes In somewhere between ~ =
young and the well preserved
agine. l said to him maliciousIv. I
How old is Mrs. Blank? Is j.
young womanY'
not exactly" he made an,v.
"She's-well, she's at the age VIVA, I
woman always tells you, when ~ |.
PRODUCES her eldest son to Won +.
she was married ridiculously w s.
Washington Post.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07

Perry's Big en-.

Commodore Perry had ~.
trified a grateful nation ma. set els..
mortal message. "we have M. us ID.
envy, and they are ours. ! .ae q.
battle was in progress tho lae Ia
the guns was heard n solad /
about 60 miles away in ! Ss,.sssAI
over the water. The few set sasct u:
were expecting the battle ana = usa
with intense interest. Fln.u us'saa
sounds ceased. They waitad u
newal. None came; the lnll
full. Then they knew the h, vas pal
over; but the result, ah! thai sa
point. Oneeold fellow, who ~. "ss Y
lying fiat with his ear to tba aa oea
soon settled that point. Snr,ns sl0aad
he clapped his hands n 'us p
THANK God! They are r vaoula
They are whippedw uFpee
How do you known tha
inquired. olaeaI
Heard the big guns lastw
Perry's guns were the ho.u
Buckeye.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
Thursday. September z, 1899.
The Presidents Weighty Words at
pittSburg.

Fortified by the popular reception
Of his Ocean Grove declaration of
our policy in the Philippines. and
inspired by the prrsence OF the 10th
Pennsylvania Volunteers, Presi-
dent McKinley's speech OF welcome
1t Pittsburg had the note OF leader
ship and defiance that makes the
bugle the peculiar instrument OF com
mand and victory. 1.-The spoke
than he intended at Ocean Grove 1T
is now evident that his weighty
words as TO the intention of the
United States IN the Philippines
then uttered were the advance
thoughts Of what he was preparing
to say when face TO face with men
who had helped make secure the vic
tory of Dewey.
1t was a speech with such pre-
Jude, but the Pittsburgs speech show
that the president Ind such a mes
sage Of 'cheer and high resolve for
the American people that a few pre-
liminary words could not rob it of
it's fresh vigor aud effectiveness.
His declaration of the meaning and
and the purpose OF the Star and
Stripes in the Philippine, TO the
multitude at Ocean Grow merely
whetted expectation as 10 what he
would say q tile Tenth Prpnsylvan
ia Volunteers and through them to
aie listening nation.
In the presence os men tilo knew
its adherence to the facts resident
Mckinley re.ounied how M. war IN
the Philippines was brpneae about
bv the trrachery and dnrlIcltv OF
the insurgents. He related ia 4 few
words how pending the ratification Of
the treaty, orders { o Washington
forbade any act on ,hr part Of M
army at Manila that might provoke
hostillities. He told how We we're tr,
my % maintain q status quo, wiiI-
RTE trnrr still! he'd untl lls treat,
Was not vet concluded. when:
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
bookkeeping Comes High,

ut makes me tired" said the yoms
man-"these advertisements guaaJ
teeing to teach a person bookkespaI
for So"
"But can't 1t be done" was asked
"Not on your life! Why, | spent Il
months and over 500 to learn the II
and what do you suppose happsua {
the close Of the first Year,
"Got your figures mixedY'
"Well, / should smile! There vHi
discrepancy Of $700 between the aA
book and my ledger. and my father t
to make II good. while ! hunted torn
Dther job!-Brookiyn Citizen.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
Chinese Bound Fec.

The Chinese saying is, "For 81
pair of bound feet there has bean /,
whole kang, OF big bath, full Of ten,
and they say that one girl out n !.
dies OF foot binding or of its after 1
fects. When ! quoted this to the nj
ian mother superior at Hankow u.
has for years been head Of the ~
girl school and founding estabtA
ment there, she said, with tears in h
eyes:
"Oh, no, no! That may be tre 1
the coast towns" | thought she WI
going to say it would be a gross y
aggeration in central China, but to n
horror she went on, But more her.
Intimate China \
Mrs. A. Little.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
Why Beef Prices Ascend.
nringheld Repnhlicnd.

The number of cattle other than mich
lows in the country has declined from
1861, 239 in 1892 to 27,964,225 at the
beginning of this year. These T the
Agricultural departments figures. As
population has meantime increased the
rise in the price of meat appears to have
a very substantial basis.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07

We have used Chamberlains cough
remedy in our home for many years and
bear cheerful testimony to its value as a
medicine which should be In every
family. In coughs and colds we have
found it TO be efficiacious and in Group
and whooping cough in children we
deem it Indispensable III. p. Ritter,
i12 Fairfax ave-, s. Louis Mo. For sale
by f. Ross.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
Kidney or Bladder Troubles.

If you suffer from kidney, bladder or URN.
airy troubles, or from too frequent or scanty
urine, DIR. Fenner's Kidney and Backachs
Cure Is what you want. Bed-wetting by
children is speedily cured by one bottle OF
this powerful remedy. Testimonials are
disregarded. many people doubling the hon.
esty or sincerity OF them, We therefore avoid
giving any here, but furnish them In circular.
Set one OF your dealer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
Mr.. Knaufmant the brewer on meeting

a friend Of ours upon the street the other
dav boasted that his son does not drink
in~toxicants Of any kind. If Mr.. haui-
mans beer is good for other peoples sons
he ought consistently to recommend IL
10 his own. However Ii the above boast
& a truthful one we commend the cohduc
of the boy and recommend it in this re-
spect to all otherl boys:-The American
Issue.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
Those wonderful Jews:
Yankon Gazette.

What a people these Jews are? Two
thousand years without country or gov.
eminent yet as racial as ever in religious
habits characteristics. For two thousand
years despised and abused by ~socalled
christians .yet today Dreyfus, a jew,
moves the hearts and the sympaties OF all
Christian people as no other name moves
christendom except that of the other Jew
Jesus Christ.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07

~ TOPICS. X
c. w
Up to Mischief.
I~roquoirs Chief

IrOquOIrs,Jh
Pettigrew' Lee and Tommy Ayres are
lying awake nights maturing plans 10
catch the soldier vote. 1t don't occur to
these worthless that the boys are entitled
to any consideration excepting from a
political standpoint.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
No more Ton

\. Smith (thor
III shall have t.
Pat tonic the do,
Smith anxious
better?
\ Smith-Oh, J
the bannist
|ng, broken tbe
La Jug and a 10,
feel as if | c
FTit-Bits.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
20 Commodore

Tae
| was ladies d
| and a crusty
\ q crowd and {
|One of the club
board"
of a yacht clubr
b. grin dividing
|ar. Then he pu
N: ",This is a
n we were to tel
ladies's da.
would need a DO
h This one"
grunted Il
he man put the
letter; "wh
r.
sir, the co,
ht as well tell a
/ about it," said
sap.-New York
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
A New

dy-Something
McVe
1dy-Yes; he ar
ent which offer
80 cent,
! which they co,
nuous flesh wit
! He sent the
; the answer h
)sp-fat mani
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
Two Thee

wv he0
a very UNI
to do
|lair and gold
(ok on the mai
published mil
|says we contr
Pln ne pretty nea
some c
Et We're your d
|nomics, of G
In the terrible
pg from the M,
restrict
Pgton Star.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
pleasant, PaIat

N to buy, easy TO tai
lts-Cascarets Can
and intestine
Icac Soc.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
Foxy "

|hnson-My wife
by asking m
n came in, a:
. and the next 2
hour Of my hor
IN the face.
wife
when / came
she figured
between it
\ a way as to p.
lly three hours
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07

I1, ~. winslow's sd
efen %teething, softsi
pain. cure1
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
Like Its 1

dear" sa.
"the baby is tr,
wonderful how
hat was he talk
think it must h
tarted very cali
ties he was as
ace as he could
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
ExactF fa

"
ITS a fine M
III, who had be
new bicy
OF the crank p
ferguson ans
ieet eleven
said eyei
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
Doubtful Inf

doubtful Inf
Virgins I'd
Ie ne was going
of it?" i
Py, | don't KIN
was going
Fwery or to his
Papolis Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
His Little

Ills Little
/, desire to prese
| said the chai
correspondent
gny, now, I'm s
otis, balancir
finger. But /
you know."-Pl
/
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07
Halls Gaia
Institutional cu
Her Oh

/ was a pretty /.
! a fashionable
bidding the
D. a fond adieu ,
house.
pw, dearest, jus
commencing all
|Of ring shall it
}, jack she ;
/, do get me a S
IOnds in it!"-Ju
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-07

doctor said / VIC
for Consumption
pr, Cherry Valley
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1899-03-08
SENATOR REED is NOT
RESPONSIBLE FOR II
G. W. Fulton Explains How the Ennc,
ing Clause Came to BE Omitted from
the Curtis Fish BlI

ASTORIA. March Editor ~ the As
.torian: In Justice to Senator Reed OF
Douglas county. feel that should cor.
rect some statements which Mr. y II.
Welce is reported 10 have made before
the Push club. an account % which &,
published In the Astorian of this morn.
ing II Mr. We.ch ls correctly quoted
In the Astorian. he Is laboring under q
very great Interpretation; he ls mis-
taken largely as 20 the facts and en-
urely In his deductions He says that
the Curtis bill House Bill No ~
passed the house and went 10 the sen
tate, where Il was referred 10 the nsh
cries committee, Of which Senator Reed
was chairman" Thus far Mr. WEIGH $
correct. but In almost every other por-
ton Of his statement he n incorrect He
is reported as having stated that. while
. in the hands of this committee the error
which rendered the measure void oc-
Icurred." Now In Wow Of The fact that
the error consisted in omlttng the en-
acting clause It VIII readily appear 70
anyone who Is familiar with legislation
that the error could not possibly have
| occurred In the senate or before n com.
mlttee Of the senate, no matter what
amendments were reported by the com
mIttee or adopted by the senate When
house bill comes 10 the senate and is
there amended II Is returned to the
house in exactly the same condition Il
/ wag in when received by the senate. the
amendments made by the senate being
/ sent to the house with the bill but unat
| tached, 50 that the house may concur or
not In the amendments. II the house does
concur then the bill. as It passed the
house together with the amendments
adopted by the senate and cOncurrcd In
by the house, are sent TO the house IN
rolling committee.
Mr. WEIGH is quoted az having further
STATED that "Mr. Reeds error occurred
in taking the title from his bin. After
the title came the enacting clause. >
in cutting of the title Of his own
bill, Senator Reed left out that very
necessary line, Cthe enactlng clause and
the measure passed in that form"
Now when it Is remembered that the
amendment offered by Mr.. Reed to the
Curtis bill was. Strike out all after the
enactlng clause and In lieu thereof in
sert the following" (the following be-
ing the Reed bill without the enactlng
clause II will be readily understood that
Mr.. Reed did exactly right in OMITTTNG
from his own bin the cnactng clause.
for his amendment was TO strike out OF
the Curtis bill "all AFTER the enactlng
clause" ! personally know that such
was the amendment reported by Sen
ator Reed for he showed It to me before
he made the report, and saw It after
wards.
Now these reports are made on
printed form, and the proposed amend
ment offered by Senator Reed and
adopted by the senate, was attached to
the report and NOT to the house bill
So It will readily be seen that all the
enrolling committee had to do was to
copy the title and the enactlng clause Of
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1899-03-08

the Curtis bill and then copy tho amend.
mon, adopted In the acpato and con.
cp;red in Ny tho house and I, Is equally
clear ,ha, Mr Reed dld not make any
mistake "ln om,tiing that very necessary
Dnr." namely tho onactng clause " his
own hlg. he properly omitted Il.
I saw the bin and rcport after n was
IN tho hands or tho enrolling committee
" tho house Tho chief rlrrk or tha,
committee broush, /, 10 me and asked
me how 4 should b. enrolled /, was
an Ia proper shape. Jus, a, 70 had passed
the senate. and ! explained 20 him that
he should copy thc TILE and rnacting
clause ONLY ot the Curtis bl. and then
copy the amendments attached tu tho
report of tho senate committee The
error occurred In tho enrolling commit.
tee. and was made no doubt by tho clerk
ur that commi,tcr who ala tho copying
he failed 60 copy tho -nacting clause.
Mr. Reed Is not chagrablo with any
mistake or error whatever. Tho only
place whore the error could by any pos.
Nhlll,y. have occurred. was In tho On
rolling committee. which must be clear
10 every p,rsou when {, Il KEEP. In mind
that the original Custin hill, as d, passed
the house. contained m snneting clause
and tho amendment adopted By tho sen.
a., was to "strSc out all AFTER ihc
eraciiug clause" and when it II also
kept IN mind that amendments made by
ih" senate drc never attached TO ihe
original bill but that tho original bill
IL returned TO the house together with
the amendments unattached. and the
physical work OF Incorporating he
amendments into the original bill and
making the bill read M It should read
with the amendments incorporated Is
entirely the work OF tae enrolling com
mll,ee- g. W. FlLrON
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1899-03-08
BICYCLE COMMISSION
ORGANIZED FOR WORK.
Frank L. Parker Selected as Chairman
and 9. r. Higgins as Clerk and
Treasurer-The Licenses.

The public ways commission met yes.
terday for the first time and perfected
organization by the election Of Frank /.
Parker a. chairman and c. r. Higgins
as clerk and treasurer This is the
bicycle comII ssiOn provided for IN the
new charter, and Its object Is to build
, bicycle paths 70 different parts Of the
county.
After organizing the commission adopt.
ed a set Of bylaws The first bylaw pro.
vides the rules and order Of business OF
the commission, and the place OF meet
ing Will be the council chambers. meet.
ings TO be held on the second Monday 0t
each month at D. m.
Bylaw 80 o. imposing a license upon
all bicycles, tandems quads and like
vehicles In the city Of Astoria, regulating
the manner Of Issuing and collecting such
licenses providing for the issuance OF
bicycle tags and affixing same 10 all
licensed wheels, is the most important
and follows:
Section IA license OF 50 per year Is
hereby imposed and assessed upon and
"7'N''''7t 'fNly Dl'stitt lduutIns QudQ ana
Ike vehicle, owned by any person, firm
or corporation, residing or doing business
in the corporate limits Of the city Of
Astoria, payable on the first day Of
April Of each year. provided that no
license shall be exacted from any BIZ
cycle tandem, quad or Ike vehicle, in
the hands Of dealers, held exclusively for
sale, and which have not been sold, rent
ed, loaned traded or in any manner
previously disposed Of; and, provided,
further, that any nonresident having
paid a state tax imposed by any state
on any such wheel, and having attached
to such wheel a proper tag for the cur
rent year, shall not be required to pay
such license fee.
Section Amy person desiring 10 pro-
cure liCensH for any bicycle. tandem
or quad, or any like vehicle, shall apply
to the clerk Of the Public Ways Com
mission therefor, and shall pay to said
clerk said license fee, giving the name Of
the owner or owners the make and num-
Der Of such wheel, and the year con-
structed, the number Of former license
and such other necessary information as