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The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
3Ist Michigan Banqueted.

1t is probable the 31st Michigan will
always remember Gen. Robt. L. Lees
birthday in the future. Their good
friends of the 1st Georgia have given
the day new feature. At 12 o'clock
on the date of his birth the regiment
sat down, each company by itself, to
tables loaded to their utmost with
every good thing imaginable, All the
Savannah members of the old 1st
Georgia were out at camp in full force.
The friendships made back in Chicka-
manga were renewed and talked over.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
A Bamboo Suspension bridge.

A recent British consular report
from the far east describes a suspen-
sion bridge of 300 feet span, made OF
bamboo. The cane was split up into
fibres and twisted together to form the
cables. Considering It's span. the ma
terial OF the structure is quite remark
able. The old tradition that almost
anything can be made OF bamboo re-
ceives here good illustration In the
field OF engineering.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
Rep. schmidt Holds His Seat.

The election contest, Gardiner
against Schmidt, for the seat in the
state house of representatives held by
the latter, resulted in n victory for
Schmidt, the complete recount of
the city of Saginaw, giving him
a majority Of 81. The original vote as
returned by the election canvassers
gave him l3 majority.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
New Electric Roads.

Five electric railroad projects are
under consideration by Grand Rapids
capitalists, and it is thought that some
of the lines will be built this season.
The projected lines are to Holland.
Kalamazoo, Hastings, Lansing and
Belding, respectively. The Holland
line is furthest advanced, and if salts
factory franchises can be secured, con-
struction will begin in the spring to
have the line ready for the summer re.
sort traffic.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
EVENTS OF THE WEEK
IN OUR GREAT STATE RELATED
IN A BRIEF FORM.
at standish-Members of the 3lst
Michigan Banqueted In Georgia -
New Electric Roads at Grand Rapids.
Exciting Experience With a wildcat.

Exciting Experience With n wildcat.
An exciting fight with wildcat oc-
Cured west of Standish q few days
since. Mrs Foran and her daughter
Tessie were alone at home when they
heard something striking the window.
On investigation they found a large
wildcat looking in. They raised the
window little and tried to push the
animal off the sill, but the beast
showed fight and the women started
upstairs at a lively gait. Mr.. Foran
soon returned home, and taking in the
situation, seized a piece of iron and
made pass at it, but the animal
lodged the the blow and was about
to spring upon Foran when he deliv-
cred second blow which knocked the
wildcat off the window sill. killing it.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
The State Banks O. X.

According to Comptroller of the Cur
rency Dawes, the rs national banks in
the state outside of Detroit had total
resources on Dec. of $50, 0,073, $50, as
compared with S4s, ,s91, ,o2O in Septem-
Der; loans and discounts decreased
from S2s, 1856, 800 to S2s, 322, ,730; reserve
increased from 50, 794, ,O26 to $40, 1o9, ,s79,
of which gold holdings increased from
81, $50. .006 to 81 ,604, 397. Deposits in
creased from So, ,0ss,594 to s33, ,131 1858.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
Sold for One-Third its Value.

The plant of the st. Johns Manufac-
turing Co., located at st. Johns, and
valued at $3.50, 900, was sold under the
hammer by Circuit Court Commissioners
Marshall for $50, 900. Geo. E. Clifford,
president of the Wachusetts National
bank, of Fitchburg, Mass, who repre-
sents about two-thirds of the creditors,
was the purchaser. Creditors will get
about 20 cents on the dollar. The fac
tory will be kept running.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
Buried Under n Load of Logs.

Harrison Blodgett, q we'll known
farmer, living about two miles east of
Belding, was instantly killed by the
upsetting of load of logs. He was
going down hill with a wagon load
Of logs, when the wagon tongue broke
and 1t upset. Blodgett was buried be-
meath the logs, which broke his back
and crushed his skull.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
Bsvarian Pencil Factories.

Bavaria can boast of twenty-eight
pencil factories, which employ 10000
people, including men. women and
children. Together they produce no
fewer than 100000 black and 800 900
colored pencils per week. The total
output last year reached the enormous
quantity of 100000. 900 pencils. in the
manufacture OF which over 1900
acres of cedar we're used.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
A Big Pine Deal.

J. s. Stearns, secretarsy of state, has
closed deal for the last tract Of stand
ing pine on the Pere Marquette river.
The track embraces about $4,000, 900
feet, and was purchased for between
$3.50, 900 and $4,000 1t will be man
ufuctured at Mr.. Stearns' mills in Lud-
ington.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
Saved by the Christian Science Doctrin.

The Christian Science treatment
proved successful at Litchfeld, after
two physicians had given up the case.
The case was one that baf1fed the ply
sicians, from the fact that all medi-
cines administered failed TO allay the
excruuating pains suffered by the pa.
tient, but tho Christian Scientist ban
ished all pain with only one treatment.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31

The navy department has decided to
blow up the hulk of the Merrimac in
Santiago harbor because the cost of
raising her would be more than she is
worth.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31

The publication of official figures re-
garding Germany's exports show that
the exports to the United States last
year amounted to $50, 2,35o,514 against
S97, ,237, ,0ss for 1897. The decrease was
almost wholly in sugar. The German
spirits manufacturers have affected n
pool.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31

Do you like blunt truth or fairy
storiesY The truth is Delevap's drug
store Is one of the prettiest, best stores Id
he city. Call and see.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
Dr. Hussln., Heart Cure.

most reliable remedy for palpItsilon,
heart weakness, irregular action. heart pains
and al heart disorders 25c, varrantsi 20
please or money refunded. For sale By n. d.
Tisdale, Hlllsdale. Mich.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
ROXALsssS*;;"sss
v ABSOLUTELY PURE
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ABSOIUTEY PURE

re-apponung James b. Angel, OF
Michigan, as one of regents of the
Smithsonian Institution.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31
MAY ENTER

Our oolleRe at any time as we have no va
cation. There is at al times dem md for our
pupils. hence any time Ia n good time" 20 be.
gin. We assure positions 20 all graduates.
Teach Shorthand. Bookkeeping, etc. Have
places where pupils earn their board while
IN college. Send FOR catalogue.
MELCHOlR BROS,
TOLEDO, OHIO.
The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-31

Adjournment Sees Another Important
Change I'm the Situation Relative to the
Question of Taxation - Administration
Preparing TO Fight the Dudley Bill to IA
Finish-Unique 'Bill Presented by Rep
resentatiye Taziman.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08
MAxmELL,S posrAh TELEGRApH ELL

MAXWELL'S POSTAL TELEGRAPH Bill L..
Congressman MaXwels postal tele.
graph bill Is measure that should
commend itself to favorable ConSidera-
ton at the hands of congress. The bill
embodies the fundamental idea that the
agencies of communication should be
taken out of the control of private cor.
porations and made part OF the postal
service. In this respect the telegraphS
Of the United States ore at variance
with those of every important nation of
the world.
In the main Congressman MaXwelrs
postal telegraph bill Is sound, Instead
Of following the plan OF the late Gardi
uer Hubbard to create partnership be-
tween the government and so-called
postal telegraph company that would
enjoy the use of postal facilities, in
cluding buildings, clerical force and
letter carriers, the Maxwell bill con
templates the outright purchase Of all
existing telegraph lines except such as
are operated within the private use of
their owners. 1t also includes the pur-
NH'iSc 'llli pDtl'lloh VI iphS
telephone lines.
In the matter of rates the bill is some
what crude, being drawn with the de-
sign to establish one uniform rate ire
spectiye of distance for all parts of the
United States. The question of rates
is however, q minor matter, the main
point being the acquisition of the tele-
graph systems of the country and their
exclusive control and operation by the
government in connection with it's post
office system.
The greatest obstacle to enactment
of such bill is now, as it has always
been, the inflated capitalization of the
existing companies, which makes it
difficult to arrive at fair valuation at
which the government should buy in
the property. Congressman Maxwell's
estimate of S5O,OOO,0OO is much below
what other advocates of the postal tele-
graph have conceded to be Il reasonable
price.
While it is doubtful that the present
congress will give the bill the consid-
GRAFTON it deserves, the subject is one
in which the people of the whole United
States are vitality interested and upon
which congress will sooner or later be
compelled to take decisive action.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08
Chemistry and Army beef.
Chicago Tribune.


Persons who are as ignorant of chemistry
as a Filipino is OF the Australian ballot have
been ransacking the dictionary for adjectives
in which to denounce the alleged use of
borlc and salicylic acid in army beef They
might read with profit the following state
ment made by DR.. Oswald, surgeon Of the
Sixty-ninth New York, which returned home
recently:
III you ask my opinion of the 'em-
balmed beer l should say that II we
got any Of It it was good thing, The ap-
pearance OF the men speaks for it. Salcylic
acid is made from winteIgreen, and both it
end borlc acid will prevent putrefaction
Both are gormicides, and frequently in our
profession they are given for dyspepsia, If
meat supplied TO the army has been bad
putrd-as claimed, then those chemicals
were not in 1t. 1t was my province to pass
upon the food supplied and found no occa-
sion TO condemn any meat whatever, but
only few lots Of potatoes and tomatoes"
Another oficer of the Sixty ninth says
that the men who stuck to the army ration
as q steady diet kept their health.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08
THE BLACK MANS BURDEN.

-4 .ra Chicago Chronicle .u,
Take up the sword and rifle,
Send forth your ships with speed,
To join the nations scramble
And vie with them in greed:
Go find your goods a market
Beyond the western flood,
The heather who withstand you
Shall answer it in blood.
Take up the sword and rifle,
For so does all the world;
There's none shall dare upbraid you
When once your flags unfurled
The race is to the swifteSt,
The battle to the strong;
Success is the criterion,
None cares to count the wrong.
Take up the sword and rife
And know no fear or pause.
What though your hands be bloody,
Who calls ye TO the laws?
The ports Ye wish to enter
The roads ye wish TO tread.
Make them with heather living,
Mark them with heather dead.
Take up the sword and rife,
Rob every savage race,
Annex their lands and harbors,
For this is Christian grace.
Fen though ye slaughter thousands,
Ye still shall count it gain;
If ye extend your commerce,
Who breads the curse of Cain?
Take up the sword and rifle
Still keep your conscience whole
So soon is found an JUNCTION
To soothe a guilty soul.
Go with ii to your Maker,
Find what excuse ye can
Rob for the sake of justice,
Kill for the love of man,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08

Chaplain Turner of the Delaware leg
islature has preached sermon on the
burning question, "Cnn Churches Purify
PoliticsE' The text was undoubtedly Il
timely one and II is not strange that the
members of the legislature did not stay
to the conclusion. That they walked out
in a body just as the reverend gentle.
man was warming up TO the evils OF
bulling the vote market probably had
nothing to do with their own conscience,
but was superinduced wholly 10y the not
unreasonable belief that the church nor
anything else could purify politics as
now practiced in Delaware.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08
wAsHiNGTONS NEW SENATOR.

The prolonged and somewhat bitter
contest in the Legislature of the state of
Washington over the United States sen
atorship terminated in the election of
Mr.. Addison G.. Foster to succeed Sen
ator John l.. Wilson. The fight was one
of locality and Tacoma, the home of Mr.
Foster, is extremely proud of his selec-
ton, judging from the way in which the
Ledger of that city speaks of it,
1t appears that the republicans of the
Washington legislature made no mis-.
take in choosing Mr.. Foster, who is a
very successful business man and has
never taken a consplcuously active part
in politics. The Seattle PostIntelli-
gencer says "he Is known as broad
gauge man and an able one" while the
Tacoma Ledger says he is man of un-
questioned ability and integrity, who
will not be one of the takers of the
senate, but will be found among the CON
structive statesmen whose Judgment Is
relied upon.
More Of such men in the senate would
improve that body. There is never
likely 10 be any lack OF takers there
and the need is for more men in the
senate who will give their time to the
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08
LOR yUN CAPRIVL

The death of Count Won Caprivi Ie-
moves from Europe one of its most
unique figures and deprives Germany of
perhaps it's ablest statesman surviving
Bismarck. Entering the German army
as a subaltern in 1S49 Caprivi rose by
slow degrees and when the war with
Austria came on he entered it as a cap.
tain on the general staff. He partici.
pated in many battles of that war and
bore prominent part at the final battle
of Koeniggratz. During the Franco
Prussian war he rendered valuable serv-
ices to his country, the most prominent
of which was the famous reconnaissance
Of the valley of the Moselle, which en-
abled the Hanoverian troops to appear
Marsha Tour.
After the war he continued in COM
mand of a division until 1882, when the
emperor dumfounded Europe by ap-
pointing him as chief of the admiralty.
However, he justified the faith Of his
sovereign and soon succeeded in intro
ducing into the German navy the same
admirable discipline that he had always
maintained in the army. In fact Ger
many owes many of the best features
now characteristic of it's navy to the
efforts of Caprivi.
About seven years ago, when Bis
marck was dismissed from the chancel-
lorship of Germany, Caprivi was chosen
to fill the place. and, although this was
his first experience in craftsmanship, he
delighted the Reichstag with his affable
manners and wise policies. In politics
he was conservative, but advocated
free trade, removed restrictions against
socialists and propitiated the friendship
of Great Britain. But differences soon
broke out between him and Count
Gutenberg, the president of the Prussian
ministry, and it was owing to this cause
that he resigned the chancelorship in
1894 Since that time he had been living
in retirement.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08
Eccentricities of Patriotism.


The eccentricities of patriotism, as eX-
pressed by the New Yorker, would, II 1t
were worth while, furnish another count in
the long indictment rolling up against the
yellow journalism and it's hysterical, ca
priclous teachings to the mob of the me-
tropols. A few days ago the Sixty mint tn
New York volunteers arrived home, after
several months in camp, and received such
an ovation that the echoes are still ringing
around the facades of the sky-ecrapers and
along the Palisades Wednesday the Sec
ond battalion of the Seventeenth United
States infantry arrived and went aboard
the transport Sherman on their way to Ma
Mia. They came to the city unheralded
and unnoticed, and quietly boarded their
ship, without an invitation to parade and
only bare notice in the papers that they
were here. And yet this same battalion
took part in seven fights in the Cuban cam
pagn and added glory to the records of the
army of which they are part,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08
THE ENEuY'S HEAVY LOSS

The latest report from General Otis
places the loss of the Filipinos in killed,
wounded and prisoners at probably
1900, of which $500 are killed and
wounded. This is heavy loss, when
the circumstances are considered, much
Of the fighting having been done at
night, when the shooting by the Ameri-
can soldiers was more or less at random.
1t is an indication that our troops fought
with their usual steadiness, while the
relatively small loss they suffered marks
the difference between thoroughly dis
ciplined soldiers and unframed troops.
The Filipino soldiers do not give very
much attention to training and there
fore however courageous they may be
they are at a great disadvantage in
fighting such disciplined troops as Gen
eral Otis commands. The war vessels
did severe execution and a considerable
part OF the enemy's killed and wounded
is to be credited to their deadly work.
1t was a severe lesson for the Fill
pinos, but it must not be assumed that
it will discourage or demoralize them,
persistent 1t Is not probable that they
will make many such attacks on the
Americans as that at Manila, but will
| resort to guerrilla warfare and make
the malaria Of the swamps and jungles
their ally. 1t is reported from Wash
| ington to be the intention of the ad-
mlnistration to push hostilities with all
possible vigor and it Is said General
Otis will be directed TO disperse the
Filipino government. if such is the
plan long conflict is probably certain.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08

Whenever the railroads want to side
track some Objectionable measure they
try to divert public attention from it
by setting up an agitation for some
counter scheme to neutralize the forces.
That seems to be the only eXplana-
ton of the renewed agitation for a
viaduct over Twenty-fOurth street be-
fore the clamor for new viaduct to
replace the Sixteenth street ramshackle
wooden bridge has been satisfied,
Omaha certainly needs several new via
duets TO accommodate growing traffic
across railway tracks, but it can only
hope to get them by pushing for one at
time. The Sixteenth street structure
should have right of way first
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08

There would seem no reason why the
pope should not send delegation to the
cars disarmament conference. While
he no longer exercises temporal power
in Italy he wields an influence in the
civilized countries of the world incom-
parable with that which he exercises
over the old papal states and as he has
been the one stunch and unyielding ad-
vocate Of peace on earth and good VIII
to men, the conference will lose some
thing, at least in its moral weight, If
the vatican is not represented.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08

I'V7IV II"I"V1 Nv
Senator Spooner Of Wisconsin uttered the
sound republican and American middle west
opinion on Thursday when he said that he
shrank from the policy OF making part OF
our land tropical islands, thousands OF miles
from our shores a land whose people were
alien, not OF our blood, who were foreign to
our institutions, CT climate in which the
white man cannot work, He was no annex
ationist. 81 am not" he said, thrilled by
the Jingle about not hauling down the flag
when II has once been raised. 1t has been
hauled down in former times. 1t will be
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08

The footings of the sugar business done
in the United States for 1898 show that the
sugar trust in its battle for control of the
trade has lost ground. In 1897 it refined
1,S07,9i0 tons Of sugar, which amounted to
7138 per cent OF the total business In
1898 it refined 1,260,2iS tons, or 67.2 per
cent. The profit in the business was re-
duced by the competition of the independent
reineres from 946 of a cent per pound in
1897 to .73 Of a cent in 1898. To a large
extent what the trust lost the consumers
OF sugar galned-and for this We may all
be duly thankful.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08

1t Is too bad the house should have
killed so unceremoniously the bill intro
duced by Representative Pollard making
default in tax payments bar TO eligi-
bility to office, state and local, in Ne
braska, III such law We're on the
statute book, what an inflow of back
taxes there would be each year just
about the time the people were prepar-
ing TO select candidates 10 run upon the
different party tickets.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08
Room for Retaliation.

indianapolis Journal.
A recent chemical analysis of imported
toys Of German manufacture showed that
eight different kinds were colored or coated
with poisonous paints. AS the toys are of
the kind made for infants or very young
children and apt to be put in their mouths,
they may easily become a source Of dan
ger. If Germany continues to discriminate
against American meats, here is chance
for retaliation.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08
Efficacy of Military Rule.


Let some other American cities thank their
stars that they are not under such military
rule as General Henry is exercising in Porto
Rican communities. He has summarily de-
posed the mayors and councilmen of two
cities, and threatens the same treatment to
a number of others, merely because of "in-
cessant political quarrels and gross official
corruption And all this of his own motion,
without the judicial investigation to which
cities older in Americanism would devote
two or three years.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08

BY getting congress to make the ap-
preparation for immediate completion of
Omaha's new federal building Dave
Mercer will simply be enlarging the
monument to his efficient public service
and at the same time enlarglng the
claim he holds upon the gratitude Of
Omaha people.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08

Spanish scalps for the last 100 years
the conclusions to be drawn are that we
have acquired the Judgment along with
the territory and that this particular
paper, at least, seems to have learned
nothing of our resources from the late
unnlcnsnntness
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08

The United States treasury now con-
tains the snug sum of S95S,O0OOOO in
gold, which is a gain Of $2O6,0O0,OOO
over last year, There is little doubt
but that it will be augmented TO the
$1,000 100000 notch before the year is
gone, which will give us one quarter
of the gold of the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08

1t will require no peace commission to
arrange the terms of settlement with the
Insurgents under Aguinaldo. Dewey
and Otis will be able to act as war COM
missioners and peace commissioners at
one and the same time.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08
Pot and Kettle.

The .ruction between Patty du Clam and
Esterhazy the other day was one of those
things at which the gods grin with utter
glee. We should not dignity it with COM
parison Of it with the row between Satan
and Death at the gate of hell, so must let
it go without a parallel, since there is no
historic instance Of a fight between hyena
and a jackal. AZ.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08

The embalming bill has been laid on
the senatorial shelf. 1t has been resur-
rected from session TO session in n fairly
men pushing it We're as adept in the
practice of their art on cadavers as they
are on legislative bills there could be
no question as to their right TO practice
the profession.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-08

The letters of the soldier boys at
Manila all exhibit anxiety to get out of
the country and back to their homes on
American soil. 1t is safe to say vote
of the troops now there would be al
most unanimous against holding the
islands as an American possession.