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The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
Too SeriOua.

'Do you think his intentions are serious?"
asked her best girl friend.
Altogether too serious was the reply
"He asked me yesterday if | would con.
husband when l married" Spare Mo.
ments.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
The Cornfed philosopher.

"The man who says he would be con-
tented with crust" said the Cornfed Phil
osopher, "kicks mighty hard unless there is
a good proportion Of cake under the crust"
indianapolis Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

Two of Them.-"What is a sphere of in
fuence, John Henry" asked Mrs. Snaggs,
who had been reading about the African
and Asiatic disputes Of the European ma
tions. SIN SUMNER" replied MIR. Snaggs,
"the baseball is the sphere of infiuence,
while in the autumn it is the football. -
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
Ambition.

If you cannot leap or climb,
Deem not life a bitter pill;
Other records are sub. .ima-
Beat the world at sitting stu.
Chicago Record
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
A PrecautiOn.

A good pudding is sometimes made
heavy by cutting with cold knife. To
prevent this, dip the knife in hot water
just before using-drying, of course
Detroit Free Press,
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

When it is announced that woman is
going away her neighbors get up farewell
a man gets is the appearance Of his creditors
with bills.-Atchison Globe.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

Mother-"Now, Ole dear, show uncle how
well you can figure. Twice two is how
little darling. Isn't it wonderful-within
one of being correct. ."-Sondags-N -Nisse.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

Verdict of His Peers.-Newcll Little
"Dulham isn't very brilliant" Newsome
Brilliant! Why, he's considered
q fool even in the smart set!"-Puck.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

''My first wife," said the gentleman from
the lakeside, was remarkably plain-faced.' .
And the second?' asked the other gentle
man. "Was remarkably plains spoken. In.
dianapolis Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

At First Sight.-"Do you believe in love
at first sight?" she asked. That's the
only way It's possible answered the old
bachelor. Second sight would utterly de
stroy it."-Chicago Evening Post.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
The Bakers Premises.

"What would be the technical term for
the premises of this baker"
"Dough-main, guess. s."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

A man can get ready for journey in five
minutes, but a woman is never really pre-
pared for it, even after she has started on
it.-Philadelphia Times,
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

-JimsoD-"rhey say he has been fiat or
his back ever since he married her" Sim
son-"Yes; he slipped up on her money p
Town Topics.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
Our Fans.

Baroness de Rothschild, it is said, owns
the finest collection of fans in Europe In
this country they are generally found at
the baseball parks-Scranton Tribune.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
Too Many.

Hoax-Newed must have been surprised
when the nurse showed him the triplets
Joax-Yes; he could hardly believe his
census.-Philadelphi Record.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal
as a Cough medicine.-F. M. ABBOTT, 1888
Seneca St., Buffalo, N. Y, May 9, 1894.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

"They call clambakes now Dewey break
fasts. "Why so?" Stupid! because they're
eaten between shells. s.1Baltimor Amer
ican.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

The Best Prescription for ChiIls
and Fever is bottle of GROVES TAsTELEss
CHILL Tonic tits simply iron and quinine in
atasteless form. M cure no pay. Price, soc
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

Before resigning your position, remem-
20 pegs trying to get in.-Atchison Globe.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
NATIONS GREETING TO DEWEY.
Features of the Reception to the Manila
Zero in Washington.

Zero in w Washington.
The central idea underlying the grand
welcome to be given Admiral Dewey in
washington the first week in October is
its national character. His arrival at the
CAPITAL will mark his real Homecoming
to the American people. where the officials
of the government will participate, and
the magnifcently jeweled sword voted by
Congress will be presented. To that end
ali the ARRANGEMENTS will be Of simple but
most dignified character. The welcome to
the hero of Manila at the National Cap
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken Internally. Price 75c

The more horse sense a man has the less
he bets on the races.-Chicago Daily News.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money ifit fails to cure. Csc.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

Too many people are troubled with pal
pitation Of the tongue.-Chicago Daily
News
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13

now supplied in the elaborate report of
the intercOntinentaI railway commission,
which in novelty, magnitude, and inter
est outrivals everything of its kind
heretofore attempted since the great
Pacific railway survey of 1858, which
created so memorable an epoch in rail-
road building in the United States. This
intercontinental railway commission,
pan-American organization that grew
out of Mr.. Blaine'S pan-American con-
ference Of 1889, was formed under Presi-
dent Harrison's administration back in
1890, and sent out three surveying par
ties in April, 1891. The last OF these
corps returned from the field in July,
1893, and the time intervening since then
it seems a long time-has been occu-
pied in the unavoidably slow reduction
of field notes and drawing, the prepa-
ration of maps, and the careful super
vision Of the report through the press.
The commissions report, now published
in seven large quarto volumes, demon
strates cOnclusively that a longitudinal
railway, following the axis of the Cor
dilleras and reaching from the lower
border of Mexico down to Cuzco, the
ancient capital of Peru, and connecting
there with a road to Buenos Ayres, is
quite practicable, and that as a mere
piece of engineering it presents no in
surmountable difficulties, but can be
constructed not only without excessive
outlay but really at a moderate aver
age cost per mile. The estimate for pre-
pairing the roadbad to receive the
rails-including grading. cutting, tunnels,
masonry, and bridges-is $174, 29O, 271. The
greater part of this cost would be en-
cOuntered in the Andrean regions Of
Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, where the
mileage, covering 1886 miles, would cost
$126,3G9, 425, whereas the estimated cost of
building all other sections of the trunk
line is only $47,929,S $40. But it should be
understood that the survey was simply
a preliminary and tentative railway
reconnaissance, and many Of the details
of route and expense are subject to
revision and modification in case the
plan should ever be taken up for execu-
ton.
AN ELABORATE PROSPECTUS.
Popular interest is apt to be drawn
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13

in Ponce was indignant because 1 had
among my curios a fan. on one side of
winch was the picture of a bull fight and
on the other the words, Souvenir de
Porto Rico.' She said, and that truly,
that the Porto Ricans do not fight bulls
and she told me that 1 was misrepresent-
Ing the people when 1 carried back such
fan as that to my home in another part
of the United States.
AS to cock fighting, however, nothing
evil is thought of 1t. 1t is so common
that all idea of its being wrong or brutal
mas long since passed away. The only
chickens on the island are game chickens.
some OF them are most carefully cared
for They are of choice breeds, and cocks
winch have proved themselves good fight :?
ers are of considerable value The chick
ems are small, not more than half the size
OF the average Plymouth Rocks They
nave long necks, strong legs and long,
Sharp spurs. A good fighting cock is
worth all the way from 81 up to $780,
Ihere is wealthy old Porto Rican in
romeo who has had 100 game cocks. each
worth from So to $780, For one of his
COCKS ne has refused 5000, and he has
others which he is ready to back against
all corners. This man has his own cock
pit where he holds cock fights every
Sunday and Thursday.
some CT the best cocks of the island are
o"h0u ny d priest OF A1bOnltO. His bless
edress has charge of the cathedral at
that town and fights cocks between pray
ers. He is so successful that the people
are afraid to fight against his chickens.
lie Is bold gambler and is always ready
to bet high. At Aguidilla just north of
MaYaguez, one family owns 400 birds.
whose values are said to aggregate S. 600,
and there are single cocks scattered here
and there over Porto Rico which could
easily be sold almost any day for $50.
THE BOYS FOUGHT THEM.
An American lady recently bought two
Porto Rican game cocks, intending to
present them to a sporting friend Of hers
in the United States. They were ordinary
| birds, for they cost only $40 apiece. She
had them put in two cages and took them
with her when she left. AS soon as she
came On the ship she gave the cocks over
to the steward with the charge that he
feed and water them carefully. Some Of
the cabin boys however, cast covetous
eyes upon the birds and one evening they
opened the cages and took out tho cocks.
They formed a ring on the lower deck,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13

particularly to this project by reason of
the unusually sumptuous and attractive
setting given to the survey In the report.
Four large folio volumes are devoted to
letter press text, and three volumes to
maps and profile drawings, 800 in num-
Der. The text is printed doubly in Eng
lish and Spanish-the latter for the bene-
fit Of the republics to the south of us
and is embellished throughout with
prodigal profusion of charming half-tone
reproductions of original photographs, IL
Illustrating the varied phases of life and
scenery encountered along the route, in
the tropics and among the snow-clad
Andean mountain ranges. And besides
briStling with facts and interesting sta
tistics touching railway possibilities in
South and Central America, the text is
full of live description and incident, thus
combining with the substantial features
Of technical engineering report the at
fractions of a book of travel and adven-
ture.
Aside from the reciprocity treaties ne
gotiated with the SpaniSh-Amerlcan re-
pubiics. this railway survey has all along
been regarded in prospect as calculated
to be the most important achievement of
the Pan-American conference of 1889,
which, in itself, was the elimination
of a long series of conferences with
similar unifying purposes In view,
beginning with the congress call
ed in 1921 by Simon Bolivar. Of Co
lumbia. and embracing the congresses
that met at Panama in 1925, at Lima in
1917 and 1864, at Santiago de Chile in 1856,
and at Montevideo in 1883. The survey was
undertaken in the belief that a railroad
connecting air or majority of the ma
tons represented in the conference would
greatly aid in the material and CONNER
cial development of all concerned, and
the international railway commission
was created to blaze the way for that
work. BY appointments Of their respective
governments the membership of the COM
mission was thus constituted: For Ar
gentina, Messrs. Carlos Agote, Julio
Krause and. Miguel Tejin; for Brazil,
Messrs. Pedro Betim Paes Leme, Fran
cisco de Monfevado and Francisco Leite
Labo Pereira; for Colombia, Messrs.
C. Frederic Parraga, Julio Renf1go and
Climaco Calderon; for Ecuador and Peru,
Mr.. Leffert l.. Buck; for Guetamala, Mr..
Antonio Batres; for Mexico, Mr.. Leandro
Fernandez; for Paraguay. Mr.. John Stew
art; for Salvador, Mr.. Benjamin Milina
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13
OH FOR ARGENTINE
PROPOSITION TO RAILROAD 1T
FROM CHICAGO TO BUEN0S
AYRES
A sTUPENDOUs UNDERTAKING

Brief Outline of Suggested Plans by
which, if Carried Out, Passen-
gers May BE WhisI1ed From Chi
cage to South America Over
Practically One Line Ten Thou
sand Miles In Length.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 1O-A con-
tinuOus line of railroad 10000 miles long
from Chicago to Argentina, in South
America, transporting through passen-
gers, without change, in all the COM
fort and ease of modern parlor coaches,
from Lake Michigan to Buenos Ayres
in two weeks!
The idea is indeed attractive, though
seemingly illusory. But after witness
ing the building of a colossal railroad
across Siberia and the projection of great
railways in China and other far-off
lands, and taking into account the Won
derful era of international trade ex-
pansion in every direction now opening
before us, wideawal1e Americans will
doubtless be better prepared and more
willing than heretofore to consider the
feasibility Of a three-Americas railway
that Will connect by a single trunk line
the United States and Mexico railways
with all the South and Central American
states. Such an enterprise would, it is
believed, go much farther than all other
agencies combined toward realizing that
long cherished dream of our statesmen
the commercial unity of all the republics
of America.
The information necessary for the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13
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floor they rush at each other and begin
their battle.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13

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The reason so many failed to make this
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13
GAMBLING in PORTO
A SPORTING VIEW OF OUR NEW
WEST INDIAN SUBJ
JECTS
HOW MEN AND BOYS BET
On Kites and MaFrbles-A Visit to
Porto RicO's Monte CarIO-The
Games of Monte and Roulette
Cock Fighting and Cock Fighters
Porto Rican Game Cocks Which
Are Worth $500.

Copyrighted, 1899, by F'rabk G. Carpenter.
MAYAGUEZ, Porto RICO, July 20. 1Sss..
From Mayaguez. one Of the best cities
of Uncle Sans new fsland, I write you a
letter about gambling. We have annexed
a large sporting population. The Porto
Ricans surpass the brokers of Wall street
as bettors. Every city and every village
has its games of chance, and the children
begin gambling as soon as they are old
enough to talk. The little-ones pitch cop
pers. I see them playing marbles in the
street, but never without putting Up a
centaVo on every shot. The child who
has not his centavo to risk is out of the
game Men working on the road are to
be seen playing marbles for pennies dur
ing the noon rest.
1t is the same with kites. I was sur
prised when I first came here to see that
both men and boys were flying kites.
They We're gathered together on the hills
about the cities, especially San Juan.
each holding large kite, or the string
attached to one. The different owners
holding the strings of the flying kites
tried to make them move toward one an
other. The strings near the kites had
been soaked with glue, and into this
powdered glass had been busted. Each
man tried to cut the string of his neigh
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13
Midsnmmer EXcnrsinn

Bay. Toronto, Niagara Falls, Thousand
Islands. Lacfine Rapids. Montreal, St
Lawrence River. Quebec. White Noun
tains. Portland, Boston, and haYea3Koye
Aug. 10. Rate, including all expenses.
$1,000 Get itinerary. 500 Line Ticket
Office, 392 Robert st.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13

The most of the money won and lost by
the Porto Ricans themselves is on cock
hght1ng. Almost every man and boy on
the island bets more or less on such con-
tests. Every city and every village has
its cockpit and thousands Of cock fights
go on every week outside the public pit
The people see nothing brutal in it.
They grow very angry if you accuse them
Of bull fighting. A young lady I met
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13
EXTRA ATTRACTIONS,

Lake Shore Park, White Bear Lake,
Sunday, Aug. I3.
Grand balloon ascension by Prof Frans
els. Trapeze performance in midair. Ten
acts of high class vaudeville. The Elec-
trio Military band, 176 instruments in
popular band concerts Boating, bathing,
toboggan slide and water sports. Fare
only 20 cents round trip via st. Paul &
Duluth Railroad.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-02-16

cry, but the individuality of the latter
is more appreciable to every one. One
Of the most bewildered individuals un-
der the new order of things appertain-
ing to country life is the chaperon.
Formerly she had her charges more or
less under her wing and supervision.
IL she took a party Of young people to
a nearby country club for any special
diversion she had them all more or
less together, or, at least, she knew
approximately their whereabouts.
Now, however, scattered over three
mile golf course, she is practically
helpless. What are you doing here all
alone?" said a newly arrived member
to a friend whom she found sitting
alone in solitary state in the recep-
just what l am asking myself" was
the rueful answer. Il was asked by
their parents to chaperon a party OF
girls and young men who wanted to
come out here to play golf, and have
not seen a single one of them for hours,
while certainly. as far as l am con-
cerned, it is not over and above anus
ing to sit and knit here by myself"
Golf is no worse than bicycling" re-
turned her friend Because am fond
of cycling / am in great demand as
chaperon on moonlight nights; and
until the roundup for supper at one
of the houses l never see my charges.
But l am wiser than you are, for l
always see that l have an attendant
squire myself" Well" returned the
golf matron, sit is all farce, any
way, and in my opinion the sooner
Mrs. Grundy allows these up-to-date
and most capable young women to take
care of themselves the better" A
green stretch of elastic turf, vista Of
trees and underground afiame and
purple distances, a crisp invigorating
air that renders exercise pleasure
and game that gives it zest-what
wonder that the golfer is happy in
these autumn days! Nor is his con-
tentment lessened when, after his long
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-02-16
A Use for Liquefied Air.

1t is reported that new use has
been found for liquefied air, the posi-
bilities Of which have been matters Of
discussion among scientific men for
some time. According to the Mining
Reporter, discovery was made recent
ly by which 1t is now practical to use
liquefied air in underground work, such
as mining, driving tunnels and sinking
shafts. 1t is said that under proper
conditions the liberation OF air from
the liquid can be effective in general
ing power with which to run drills un-
der ground, pumps, hoists, ETC., while
cool air can also be supplied in the
deepest mines. The liquid air can al
so be used in freezing soft ground,
making tunnel cutting less hazardous
and tedious. II there is any RELIABLE
ity in this reported discovery. and it's
success can be practically demonstrat-
ed, 1t will make new departure in tho
lines of work named, and once again
make the genius of science the soul OF
industrial progress.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-02-16

Although the Italians as a nation
are rather Indifferent horsemen, the
cavalry of the italian army has during
the last few years cultivated the art Of
riding horseback to a much greater
extent than heretofore. The improve
ment was mainly brought about by
the creation of the high school OF
equitation for officers of the army at
Tor di Quinto. This institute has
achieved remarkably results within
the few years OF its existence. OF
course. it is model riding school, as
only such officers of the army who
are already good riders are allowed to
enter. The number is also limited to
one officer from each regiment, and in
return for his instruction an officer
having passed through the course is
compelled to serve as regimental rid
ing master for one year. In this way
a certain number OF exceedingly eff
cient instructors are secured for the
Italian army, and as matter of fact
the efficiency of the mounted soldiery
has considerably increased within the
last few years.
1t Is a well-known speciality Of the
school at Tor di Quinto to train men
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-02-16

ject, recalling each stroke and playing
the game over again in recollection.
The tea and the huttered toast and the
jam being disposed Of, the coterie
breaks up and members thereof pre-
pare Cor the drive home; the various
traps are ordered to be brought up, and
well muffied in thick jackets and capee'
the happy golfers drive over the coun-
try roads through the now keen and
frosty atmosphere to their respective
homes, with appetites only whetted by
the slight refreshment Of tea and toast
and entirely ready for the late and
substantial dinner that awaits them.