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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
TRIP FOR RED MEN.

Eighteen Minnesota Indians to Visit the
Great Father.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Indian Com
missioner Jones has directed Agent
Sutherland at White Earth to have five
Indians each from White Earth, Leech
Lake, the Red Lake bands, and three
Mile Laos Indians prepare for trip to
Washington. The secretary will I'M
doubtedly grant the necessary authority
and the delegation should start some
time next week. 1t is said that the
principal object of the Indians in COM
ing here at this time is to urge change
in the law requiring the estimation of
their timber before it is sold.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
INDIANS ARE THREATENING
Will Burn Reservation Pine
Unless Cutting Is Stopped.
HAVE ASKED FOR A HEARING
Delegations From the Various Minnesota
Chippewas Likely to Visit Wash
ington Before Long.

WALKER, Mimi, Dec. 31.-Present
timber agitation among the Chippewa
Indians is not against the "dead and
down" law, but against selling the pine
on the reservation on the standing
timber estimate plan" There is a de-
cidedly bitter feeling among the In
dams on this matter, and prominent In
dams openly declare that if the pine is
sold as is now planned they will burn
every stick of timber from the south
line of the Leech lake reservation to the
border.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed bids will be received up to 2
o'clock p. M Jan. II, 1899, for Tue
building of stone culverG in Rapi-
dan, by the town board of Rapidan.
The plans and specifications for the
same can be seen at the office of the
town clerk. The board reserves the
right to reject any aud all bids. AID.
dress all communications to the town
clerk, Rapidan.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
New al silver Certificate.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Samples of
the new 1899 issue of 81 silver certifi-
Gates were shown at the treasury de-
partment during the day. They are
printed from entirely new designs and
are particularly free from the defects of
the old certificate. The numerals are
very large and thus the danger of being
raised is materially reduced.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
APOLOGY is DEMANDED.
Colombia Again Threatened by the Ital-
ION Goyarnmapt

Colombia Again Threatened by the ItaI-
ian Government.
Colon, Colombia, Dec. 31.-The local
press, referring to the report that the
Italian second-class cruiser Fieramosca,
under command of Ammiraglio de Bro
chetti, has been ordered to Colombian
waters to demand satisfaction for al
legged insults offered to Italian naval
officers, says that Colombia should act
with dignity, prudence and forbearance,
so as to attract the nations of the world
to the repeated display of right VS..
might"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
DR.. Downing, President.

Founder of the Charity Health Institute Author
of popular medical works, Health, How to
Retain It - Nervous Debility, Its Cause
and Cure" plain Talks to Men,"
"Woman's Guide to Health and
Beauty ~" " Electricity and
Vital Force" ETC., etc
This eminent expert specialist, we'll and favor
ably known throughout the United States for the
many wonderful cures of Chronic, Nervous and
Special Diseases and Diseases of the Eyes and
Ears, that baffled the skill of other physicians
and specialists, ably sisted by regular faculty
of skilled physicians and expert specialists
whose experience in the largest hospitals of both
Europe and America ena BILE them to successfully
treat obscure and chronic diseases. Their long
experience, remarkable skill and universal sue
entities them to the confidence of the afflicted
everywhere. An honest opinion given in every
case. If your is incurable youwill be frankly
told the truth. Offices are equipped with scien-
tifc instruments costing over SIS, ooo including
powerful X-ray apparatus with which the inner
most organs NAV be readily examined.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
Loss of a Cargo Sent to Porto
Rico the Particular Point
Brought Forward.
REPORT OF MAJOR DAILY
Army's Chief Surgeon Com
planned of the Meat Early
Last September.
Found 1t Contained Chemicals
Believed to. Be Detrimen-
tai to Health.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-As result Of
the issue between General Miles and
General Eagan concerning the quality
of the beef supplied the army, and on
the request of General Eagan, the war
department has issued a special order
for the assem- bling of board of officers
in Washington on Tuesday to inquire
into the general subject of the quality
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
Extended French Concessions.

LONDON, Dec. 31.-The Shanghai cor
respondent of the Daily Chronicle says:
1t is given out here that in spite of the
protests of Sir Claude Macdonald, the
British minister, the Chinese govern
ment consented to the extension of the
French concessions.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
To Raise the Reina Mercedes.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Dec. 81. = The
Merritt & Chapman Wrecking COM
pany's outfit has arrived here to raise
the former Spanish cruiser Reina Mer-
cedes, which was sunk on the edge of
the channel leading to Santiago harbor
during the first bombardment of the
kantiago Notifications by Admiral
SIMPSONS squadron.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
Must Stamp Warehouse Receipts.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3l.-Assistant At
torney General Boyd has rendered an
opinion in which he holds that all re-
ceipts given for goods, merchandise and
property held in storage in a regular
warehouse require the stamps provided
for by the war revenue act.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
NO NEWS FROM ILOlLO.

General Otis Has Not Heard From the
Miller Expedition.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-A cablegram
was received at the war department
during the day from General OTIS. in
command at Manila, but much to the
disappointment of the officials he an
nounced that he had not heard of the
result of the landing of General Miller's
forces at IlOilo.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
STAYED OFF THE CRISIS.
One Effect of the Serious Illness of Sc
nor Sagasta.

MADRID, Dec. 31.-El Liberal pub
fishes AN interview with a minister
whose name is not known, which repre-
sents him as saying that the advent of
the Conservatives to power is only de-
layed by Senior Sagasta's illness.
.'All the ministers" said the person in
question, chad already offered their
designations, but the premier's sudden
illness STAYED off the crisis"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
Dreyfus ON His Way to France.

LONDON, Dec. 81. The Paris CORE
spondent of the Daily News AYERS that
despite all the denials, Dreyfus is on
his way to France.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-01-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
BENEFITS OF A SEMl-CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION

Again Urged Upon the People of Minne-
sota-How 1t Could BE Made a Great
Success Pointed Out by Correspondent
CHARACTERIZATION of Failure of Reel
procity Negotiations-Move to equal
ize'' Representation-M Move for a New
White House-Legislative Notes-Per-
sonal and General.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-06
The Future of Protection

The address of the French minister
of commerce, delivered at the Fourth
of July banquet of the American coll
ony in Paris. contained a thought from
the European point of view which is
of interest in the United States. Com
menting upon the near prospect of a
new treaty of reciprocity between the
French and the American governments,
he said: In addition to the fact that
the extraordinary development attained
by all branches of American industry
demonstrates that an excessive harsh
ness would henceforth be without OBJ
ject, it would seem equitable as much
as polite | think, not to refuse certain
advantages to a nation which, like
France, purchases in the United States
three times more primary material and
merchandise than she sells to the
United States.
The excessive harshness" here re-
ferred to has reference, Of course, to
our high protective tariff. The sched-
ules of this tariff may have seemed
harsh to the producers and exporters
of European goods who have found in
them barriers to control of the Ameri-
can market. Charged as he is with the
solicitous care of French industry and
commerce, Minister Millerand acts in
the line Of his duty and reflects the
natural view of a foreigner when he
protests against the excessive harsh
ness of the American tariff and dis
plays an eagerness to secure for his
couRtrymen better terms from the
United States than they now enjoy
under the ruling customs rates.
But there is more in his reference 70
the extraordinary development" OF
American industry than to the So
called harshness of the American tariff
We have, indeed, under the impetus OF
the protective policy helped by great
natural advantages, developed the ma
jority of our industries TO a point where
they have less need than formerly OF
tariff protection, considered solely as
protection. and where the logic OF
events seems plainly destined to direct
future tariff revisions more with ar
eye to the quick and equitable produc,
tion of revenue and reciprocal advant,
ages in foreign trade than with the
purpose of warding off foreign com,
petition in the home markets. The in
fant" industries. in other words, hav,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-06
KIPLING ON AMERICANS.
From Sea to Sea.

From Sea to Sea.
Let there be no Misunderstanding about
the matter; l love this people, and II
any contemptuous criticism has to be
done / will do 1t myself. My heart has
gone oit to them beyond all other peo-
Piles, ard for the life Of me 1 cannot tell
why They are bleeding-raw at the
edges, almost more conceited than the
English, vulgar with u massive vulgar
ity which is as though the Pyramids were
coated with Christmas cake sugar-works.
Cocksure they are, lawless, and as casu-
al as they are cocksure; but l love
them.
admit everything. Their govern
ment's provisional, their laws the notion
OF the moment; their railways are made
of hairpins and match sticks, and most
of their good luck lives In their woods
and mines and rivers, and not in their
brains; but for all that, they be the big
gest, finest and best people on the sur
face of the globe! Just you walt a hun
dred years and see how they'll behave
when they've had the screw put on them
and have forgotten a few of the patri-
archal teachings of the late Mr.. George
Washington. Wait till the Anglo Ameri-
can-German-Jew man of the future
lis properly equipped. He'll have just
the least little kink in his hair now and
again; he'll carry the English lungs
above the Teuton feet that can walk
forever, and he will wave long, thin,
bony, Yankee hands with the big blue
veins on the wrist from one end of the
| earth to the other.
He'll be the finest writer, poet and
dramatst, specially dramatist that the
world as It recollects itself has ever
seen. By virtue of his Jew blood just a
little, little drop, he'll be a musician and
a painter. too. At present there is too
much balcony and too little Romeo in
the life plays of his fellow citizens.
Later on, when the proportion is adjust
ed and he sees the possibilities of his
land, he will produce things that will
make the effete east stare He will also
be a complex and highly composite ad-
ministrator. There is nothing known to
man that he will not be, and his coun-
try will sway the world with one foot as
a man tilts a seesaw plank! You wait
and see Sixty million people, chiefly Of
English instincts, who are trained from
| youth to believe that nothing Is impossi-
BILE, don't stink through the centuries like
Russian peasantry. They are bound 10
leave their mark somewhere, and don't
| you forget 1t.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-06
SENATOR CHANDLER's JOKE.
w. u. Curtis In Chleago Record.

W. f. Curtis in Chicago Record.
Senator Chandler is a great p'actical
joker, as everybody within the limit
Of his acquaintance is aware, and he
once came very near making an enemy
OF Mr.. Blaine by curious little trick
he played upon him. They had been
intimate, confidential friends, and Mr..
Chandler had acted as a sort of polti-
cal manager for Mr.. Blaine on several
occasions, but even that relation in
Mr.. Blaines opinion did not justify the
liberty which Mr.. Chandler took on the
occasion referred to. For a long time
thereafter Mr.. Blaine showed his re-
sentiment, and, although he was usually
quick to forgive, Mr.. Chandler was
never quite the same TO him again.
Their intimacy and confidential rela-
tions were never renewed.
It happened while Mr.. Blaine was In
the Garfield cabinet that Mr.. Chandler
was called 10 the northern part Of New
Hampshire on some law business The
night was stormy, the village tavern
was lonely and the active mind Of Mr.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-06
TWO SINGERS.

Two singers there were, and one was like
To queen in her royal gown
With stately step, and pride agleam
In the deep of her eyes of brown;
And one was a face with a gentle grace,
And eyes that a heart shone through
Eyes that borrowed the schoolday tint
OF little sunbcnnet of blue.
One was singer of great renown
Now stirring the blood with a note,
Now charming the ear with cultured tones
That came from her shapely throat;
And one was singer of songs of love,
And she knew not the ways of art;
But she sang right on past the ears and
poured
Rich melodies round the heart.
Two tributes Of song-and one was lost
In the deafening volley of cheers;
And one throbbed on when the singer
was gene.
And the answer was silence and tears
All, many the day that has passed since
then,
And the singers who sang are not;
But memory holds to a little song,
And the other-forgot! forgot!
John Howard Todd, in Boston Tran
script.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-06

Chandler groped around for some form
of amusement. Finding nothing better
to do he prepared a practical joke for
Mr.. Blaine. In a letter to his wife
he discussed with great freedom Mr..
Blaine's political position and policy,
his treatment Of certain. Republicans
and his interference with federal ap-
polntments in New York, and expressed
his regret that man of Mr.. Blaine's
strong character and great intellect
should allow himself to be dominated
by a woman like Gail Hamilton. in
whose judgment Mr.. Chandler said he
had no confidence. Adding a few
words about family affairs, Mr.. Chand-
Ter signed the letter, Your affectionate
husband" and put it in an envelope.
which he addressed to james G.
Blaine" secretary of state, Washing
ton, d. c., Personal"
OF course his idea was to make Mr..
Blaine think he had sent him the
wrong letter and expected Mr.. Blaine
to read 1t and forward it to his wife.
He thought such an indirect way of
pointing out the errors of his public
career would be received by Mr.. Blaine
with better grace than If he addressed
him directly. But the contrary was the
case. Mr.. Blaine evidently perceived
Mr.. Chandler's purpose, for he did not
forward the letter to Mrs. Chandler,
nor did he communicate with Mr..
Chandler in any way for months. The
next time they met he was polite, but
not cordial, but made no allusion to
the letter. His conduct gave Mr..
Chandler much concern, and as Mr..
Blaines behavior continued to be cool
and distant he decided to have it out
with him. Mr.. Blaine expressed very
freely his opinion of that kind of jokes,
but made no comment upon Mr.. Chand-
ler's criticism, and. as l have said,
never liked Mr.. Chandler so we'll again.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-06
A MoSLEM EPISODE.

"a party of Bedouin Arabs recently at
tackled convoy of Egyptians. with the
Holy Carpet of Mahomet, between Nee
ca and Medina. ."-London Mail
The bold bad Bedouin set out with sinis-
ter intent,
And pounced upon the pilgrims Who in
grave procession went:
Mahomet's sacred carpet precious relic)
to convey
'Twixt Mecca and Medina in the custom
airy way.
The leader of the robbers to his tent the
carpet took.
His spouse, when she beheld 1t, gave a
long ecstatic look.
"We'll have to get a home" she said,
"and spread It on the floor"
And so he bought a house and lot all
mortgaged DER and DER
She made him beat the carpet till his
good right arm was tired;
He pelted and he pummeled it; he puffed
and he perspired.
The pilgrims Who were lurking near
were frenzied in their fright
They nearly had a spasm at the sacri-
legious sight.
She made him tack 1t down. OF course
the sequel had TO come,
The hammer lost its bearings and II
landed on his thumb.
The pilgrims saw him kneeling as he
rallied and paved the air.
They felt nightly encouraged for they
thought he was at prayer.
In confidence they sought him, since such
piety he showed,
He folded up that carpet saying: Take
II and be bowed"
And now in all the mosques the eager
| penitents are taught
OF the marvellous conversion which Ma
hornets carpet wrought
l-Philander johnson In Washinton Star.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-06
Voluntary Arbitration.

The frank refusal of the German
government to go into any internation-
al agreement Ior compulsory arbitra-
ton is creditable on the score of can
dor, for it puts into words the real in
tentions of all the powers at the peace
congress. Compulsory arbitration
among Independent nations is simply
means a possible fact. Independence
ceases when compulsion begins. There
is no machinery for bringing compul-
sion to bear on an independent state
save in war, which it is the object Of
arbitration to avert To go to war in
order to enforce arbitration would be
to put the cart before the horse; and
no matter what the delegates at The
Hague might say or do, the common
sense of Christendom would reject
such an anomalous and contradictory
arrangement.
Arbitration ought to be voluntary.
1t ought to rest on the free will and
the intelligent judgment of a self-re-
specting public opinion and not on
brute fear. To base it on the coercion
of the weak by the strong, upon the
mere preponderance of numbers or of
guns, would be to perpetuate the very
bullyism which the peace congress
aims to ameliorate. 1t might, it is
true, represent an economy in human
blood but it would still be vicious in
principle, form of tyranny and there
fore unsound. For in such an ar
rangement only the weak powers could
be compelled to accept arbitration of
differences; the strong powers would
continue, in spite of pledge or threat,
to do as they should please; in other
words, their use of arbitration would
be voluntary.
Voluntary arbitration is the civilized
way. Recourse to the courts among
individuals in civil issues is not COM
pulsory. 1t is and it should be volun-
tary. Generally speaking, it signifies
a superior standard of intelligence and
humanity when such cases are set
tied out of court" We use the term
civil issues because they are parallel
to the international issues which it is
proposed at The Hague to include
within the scope of future arbitration
The time has not yet come when in
ternational crimes can be adjudicated
without war or the possibility of war
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-06

The conversion by Ex-Governor
Hogg, of Texas, Of Tammany's care
fully prepared Independence Day din
ner, at which it had been planned to
spring a Van Wyck presidential boom,
into a pandemonium of applause for
William Jennings Bryan is natural
consequence of the prevalent hysteri-
cal condition Of the Democratic party.
Controlled by emotionallsts and with
its nerves wrackCd by the complete
collapse of its former standards issues,
that party stands today in the same
relationship toward public affairs that
a man in the throes of delirium
tremens does toward the weird and fit
full hallucinations which fit before his
disordered brain.
The Democratic party Of today is
not the Democracy Of history standing
for clearly defined principles of gov
ernment and presenting its case with
ability, sincerity and a fair show OF
logic; but a conglomerate thing sway
ed mainly by the ranters Of Populism
a party stalking its all upon the dis
content which it can stir up among
the people and turn to political ac-
count on the day Of election. Natur-
ally such party is easily dominated
by a man like William Jennings Bryan,
who to youth and beauty and per-
sonal magnetism adds the charm of a
natural orator whose phrases exactly
fit the Populistic temper.
This episode of the Tammany dim
ner confirms the previously widespread
belief that Bryan's denomination, bar
ring death or disability, is inevitable
one year nee. The thinking leaders
of Democracy, such as are left, do not
want Bryan. They know that while
he is in the foreground party defeat is
certain. They know that in a serious
matter like the election of a national
administration the presidential candi-
date who wins the votes of a majority
is the ni,.n who, in addition to purely
personal popularity or magnetic at
traction has also firm hold upon the
respect and confidence of the substan-
tial elements of society-upon busi-
ness men and investors, upon the exc
cutive genius of the country. They
know that whirlwind oratory and red
fire do not alone suffice to win the
day on such important occasions; that
underneath all the surface play OF
popular curiosity or enthusiasm there
must be a firm and durable sub
stratum of public confidence in the
candidates judicial ability, prudence
and common sense-qualities which
Mr.. Bryan lacks and which there Is
scant probability OF his ever acquir.
ing.
Under normal conditions the con.
servative leaders of the Democracy
could secure from a Democratic ma
tional convention respectful consider.
alton of these views; but there is nc
hope for them under the conditions
which now exist. The Democratic
party, with honorable individual ex,
ceptions, is at present infected with
the virus of Populism; it is suffering
from the mania of class prejudice anC
social discomfort; and it will like the
delirious patient in the sick room take
no medicine meet for recovery unit
the virulenCe of the socialistic spasn
has been worn down by time.