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Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1899-07-27

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Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1899-07-27

Sooo's Yiueu iuirien milbe, aber raid uno
iider auf Die 4eber uuo ben Wa8en, csc.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17

track all the way from Chicago to
Mount Pleasant, a distance of 232 miles.
All the Illinois lines are double-tracked.
and l5j miles in Iowa will be in similar
condition before the end of the summer
Considerable work is being done on
the Illinois and Iowa divisions in the
reduction of grades and elimination of
curves. AT Princeton. Buda, Galva
and Kirkwood; H., grades are being
materially lessened, and curves are
being taken out.
In Chicago between 500 and eco men
are eevating the Burlington tracks, at
q cost of s75o,OOO. Sixteen four-track
steel bridges are being erected, but the
work has been SO well planned that
trains are run without interruption.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17
A Sign of the Times.

A sign Of the times is the large
amount Of money being spent by rail
roads in improvements. One western
road, the Burlington, has appropriated
no less than 81, ,0Oo, 900 for this purpose.
This is exclusive Of the cost Of building
new lines In western Nebraska and
Wyoming. By far the most important
part of the BurlinRton's big repair job
is the completion of the double track be-
tween Omaha and Chicago.
Thirty-ave miles of double track are
being laid between Mount Pleasant and
Batavia, Iowa, and ten miles between
New London and Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
With the exception Of stretch Of
fifteen miles, the road now has a double
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17
EDwARD T. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law.

General practice in all courts and the United
States Land Office.
GLENwooD SPRINGS, COLO.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17

1t isn't worth the space for American
papers to object to the purchase of
Spain's last Pacific islands, but the
press Of Germany is doing some lively
kicking. One Berlin paper said ::
"Germany obtained the remnants which
America, in her superior manner, de-
spised,"; another, under the head, "our
new and worthless colonies" said: "a
prize should be offered to discover which
of the three groups is the most worth
less." and another, "Spain alone derives
any advantage. The islands are of
next to no economical value"
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17
Some Mistakes.

Some newspapers make some funny
mistakes. These occur oftener IN the
city dailies than in the country weeklies,
and is accountable for, in large measure
we believe, to the hurry incidental to
getting out the city daily.
In recent issue, the Denver Times,
in referring to the elevation Of the Rev.
Arthur l.. Williams to the episcopacy.
speaks of him as "the first resident
clergyman to minister to the spiritual
needs Of the Indian tribes on the Ute
reservation. After three years he had
built church for poor Lo in the north
western part Of Colorado, when lie re-
ceived and accepted a call to st. Paul's
church of Denver.S
Mr.. Williams first call was to Meeker,
where he built st James church and
remained with us for over three and a
half years, or until his wife's failing
health compelled him to give up his
charge and remove to Denver. He was
never nearer an Indian reservation, that
we know of, than hundred miles.
He was convert from the Congre-
gatiOnal church and not as the Times
asserts, from Presbyterianism.
Meeker people, regardless Of creed,
take great pride in the marvellous sue
cess of our pioneer minister of the
gospel.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17

If the hot winds of the summer can
be eliminated, it is generally conceded
that there is every indication Of a great
corn crop next fall. Buyers seem to be
willing to take the chance on the hot
winds, and as result there is a grow
ing demand for good feeders, 800 to
1000 pound stuff of choice quality, to
20 into the feed lots. The fed stuff is
moving to market at rapid rate now,
and another month will see about the
end of the cattle that went into the lots
last fall and winter. The number Of
cattle on summer feed is reported lower
than before in several years, and there
is already some conjecture as to where
the supply is coming from during the
rest Of the summer and in the late fall
aud winter. The demand for grass
cattle promises to be stronger than
usual and reports from tho ranges of
the northwest are to the effect that the
run will fall far below the average and
that the cattle will be late coming.
These are few things that the stock
men of the West are discussing and it
is this condition of affairs that makes
so many bulls on the situation.-Den-
yer StOckman.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17

The Burlington always leads. That
peerless railroad has just completed and
is now occupying at Omaha the finest
railway station in the United States
III not in the worldly While not so
large as the famous union stations at
Boston and St. Louis, it surpasses them
both in beauty Of design and elegance
of finish.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17

Senator Hanna says it is rheumatism
that he has been ordered to Europe for,
but others say that the pains he suffers
are the results of too much violent pull
ing OF his leg.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17
Rising Towns.

Tourist ION government lands)-Have
you any of those boom towns out here
that go up in single night2
Boomer-Well, l reckon we have.
stranger. Thar's Comet City; went up
the other evening with a cyclone and
hasn't come down yit.-Chicago News.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17
One Night to st. Louis.

Only one night on the road, Denver to
st. Louis, IL you take the st. Louis
Special, the Burlingtdn,s new and
splendidly-equipped Denver-st. Louis
Aver. Leaves Denver l. 40 p. m.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17
Mountain and Plain Festival.


Mountain and Plain Festival.
THE HERALD is in receipt Of the
following circular which expl aims itself:
The board of direction of the Festival
of Mountain and Plain, which will be
held Mt Denver, September 25th to 30th,
1899, desires to extend to your county a
cordial invitation to be represented
therein. 1t is the intention to hold
throughout the entire Festival week a
state fair and exposition, the main
features of which will be a public eX-
hibiton Of the special resources, manu-
factures, products, &c, of each and
every county of the state, arranged and
placed in such artistic style and taste as
the interested county itself may be
pleased to adopt. The various displays
will be under the supervision and man
agement of the proper bodies, such as
the State Board of Agriculture, the
State Board of Horticulture, &c. The
board of direction of the festival is very
desirous that your county shall be
represented in the exposition and re-
spectfully requests your honorable board
to undertake the matter. Low rates on
all railway lines extending to the
Missouri river, insures a vast throng of
visitors to view display OF the re-
sources of Colorado. The great ad
vantage of placing an exhibit of the
products and resources Of your county
before these throngs of people will be
manifest to you.
In view of the above predominating
features of the week it is also intended
that there shall be queen Of the
festival to reign throughout the entire
event. Each county is respectfully in
vited to select a maid Of honor to at
tend upon the queen. In discussing
this subject the board of direction has
decided that in order to avoid any con-
fusion it Is proper that the manner OF
electing such maids of honor should be
laid down in detail by this board, so
that all counties may elect under the
same rules or regulations. Therefore
our board has adopted the following
plan:
There shall be elected in each county
Of the state of Colorado one maid of
honor to attend upon the Queen Of the
Festival of Mountain and Plain during
the festival of 1899.
The manner of voting for said maid
of honor shall be by newspaper ballot.
Said ballot must be clipped from a
regularly issued newspaper published
anywhere within the limits of the
county. provided that but one such
ballot shall be printed in or upon each
individual paper. Ballots printed in
sheets or columns of ballots. or in
greater numbers than one in each paper
shall be void.
Any person, of any age, may cast as
many ballots as pleasure may dictate.
The lady receiving the highest num-
Der of votes cast shall be declared duly
elected maid OF honor from her county.
The board Of county commissioners
Of each and every county shall act as
judges Of election, and all matters con-
nected with such election shall be re-
ferred to them for final arbitration and
decision.
The county clerk of each county shall
issue in accord with the decision OF the
board of county commissioners GER
tiHcate of election to the winning can
didate, which must be filed with the
=
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17
.HEsHE I. wlLDHAck'
United States Commissioner,
NOTARY and C0NVEYANCER

Attend to Presumption and Desert
Land filings, take and acknowledge an
nual or final proofs on Desert claims as
well as Pre-emptions, institute contests,
etc. Necessary blanks on hand.
MEEKER, COLORADO.
The Meeker herald., 1899-06-17
PRICE. FIVE CENTS,
I11C1 toIOiN EGICO
y. W. HUGus d. COMPANY:
HtrEI)
Dealers in General Merchandise
". c. DAVIS,
Gen'I Manager.
J. ". HUCUS,
President.

An immense stock in every line is
always carried--Prices so low that
goods---We want your business and
offer every inducement.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-12-07
DEFECTIVE HUMAN SENSES.
Impaired Eyesight and Dizziness OF
Hearing Common Among School
Children.

Since 1929, when Massachusetts, es-
tablished in Boston the first American
school for the blind, similarinstitutions
have been founded by 35 other states,
with present aggregate OF $3.50 pupils
There are only "a state schools for the
deaf, with more than 10000 pupils. But
not until recently has public attention
been called to the immense damage in
flicted on human interests by the vast
ly greater number of persons whose
eyesight or hearing is merely defective,
says the Youths Companion.
A new law of Connecticut requires
that the eyes of all children attending
the public schools shall be examined;
and many teachers have noted that de-
fective vision is quite common, and
that it is a serious hindrance to the
pupils progress.
1t has also been reported that dull
ness of hearing is associated with many
cases of backward scholarship.
In Europe an examination showed
that "out of 50 firemen and engine-driv-
ers, only three possessed perfectly nor
NAL hearing" A medical journal sug-
gests that where employees must be
guided by sound signals, dullness OF
hearing may be quite as serious mat
ter as blindness must be in read
ing color signals.
The increasing use of spectacles,
among both children and adults, has
been made a cause of alarm; but who
would infer an increase of the rainfall
from the multiplication of umbrellas?
Yet many cases of defective vision are,
and always have been, due to avoidable
causes. I'm what ways do we abuse our
eyes?" asks the New York Times. In
what ways do we not abuse them?" is
its suggestive reply.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-12-07

fought for independence but only for the
reformation OF abuses. When Spain sank,
her rotten government sank with her, and
the United States appeared instead, offer
ing the people all the home rule they could
Manageable more complete the better it
would suit us-natives to be preferred for
efficers-every penny of their taxes to be
spent at home, and only insisting with
them as it insists with us that the flag which
had brought them freedom ana was to guard
them from the onslaughts of the world
should fly in dignity ard honor there as
here. Is that the way King George treat
ed usp Did our foreiathers rebel because
they were unwilling to renouace the SOW
ere ignity Of Great BRITAIN They were proud
of that sovereignty they recognized it in
every petition they sent across the sea they
shook il of at last with heartbreaking reluc-
lance and only when it had become impos-
sible to secure the rights of Englishmen I'M
der the English crown.
The anti-expansionists entertained great
hope that when Dewey returned the at
mosphere would be clesred-and SO it was.
We do not know just what the admiral
told the president, but we do know that
| within Is minutes afterwards the war
department was called up, and that four
battleships headed for Manila. The ad-
miral may not have shown himself an
expert in real estate transactions, but he is
still very fair authority on the water-rea-
sonably familiar with conditions in that
quarter of the globe--and he, with every
colleague upon board os unusual strength
and sagacity, has made clear and compre-
hensive report upon the case, concluding
that there has never been moment since
the Spanish fleet went down when we
could have retired from those possession,
with safety to til people or honor to our
selves.
The earth is getting smaller every year
our neighbors are drawing closer; the
whole tendency Of the time.spirit is to in
terlock and knit together the interests and
activities of men. To dream that we can
any longer shun the problems Of interna-
tional policy and commerce is to dream
indeed. Every sign assures u, that the
great developments of the coming century
are to be in aud about the shores OF the
Pacific. That noble ocean, silent and sail
less for centuries, It's eastern water.
:" barred southward by the stormy terrors
of Cape Horn and northward by the polar
foes" has come to life at last. OF our own
domain, not mentioning Alaska, 100000
square miles find their outlet on its coast
a region larger, as James G. Blaine
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-12-07
DAVID KENNEDY, M. D.,
OF ROndOut, City Of Kingston, N. Y,
Says:

For over 25 years have constantly been
engaged in the &C i've discharge of my pro-
fession as physician and surgeon. During
that career i have perfected an Alternative
Medicine, the Favorite Remedy, up IN the
value OF which am willing to, and do stake
nv personal and professional reputation"
Favorite Remedy is the greatest discov-
erv DIR Kennedy has ever made"
1t is to-day standard medicine with 80
years OF cures to its credit.
Allow no one to deceive you with their
GROWING efforts, latest achieve ments or bril-
liant fruits, c1unterfeits, limitations or Just as
goHd. They are but experiments and endan-
ger your health.
their services when q family is too pnor to
pay. but 1t occasionally happens that there is
proprietary medicine which does all or
more than ply stefan could do
1--WE know of only one such medicine
n mely, DIR David Kennedv's Favorite Rem
edy" tor "such troubles as Kidney and Blad-
der Complaints, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia,
Liver = mplaint, Constipation and the sick
| nesses peculiar to women.
"Sufferers from these difficulties often
become so DISCOURAGED as to have no heart to
take any more medicine. To all such, Dr.
Kennedy has only to say that if he were per.
sonaily called upon to prescribe at all, he
would prescribe Favorite Remedy
There are other proprietary medicines in
the market, made by person with the same
| l.
reason to believe that the two are often con.
founded in peoples minds, and that the other
articles spoken of have been sub .tituted,
either through accident or design, when the
latter have been asked for, or desired To
avoid this, please ask for DR.. David Ken.
nedy's Favorite Remedy, prepared in Rom
dout, N. r., aud accept nothing else in its
place.
There are two proprietors of similar
names, but they are not connected or associ-
ated in business, or otherwise.
"Those who wish consultation or advice
as to their own special case, can have the
same entirely free of charge Simply direct:
| DIR. David Kennedy, Rondout, City of Kings.
ION, N. Y >" where all communications will
be treated with strictest professional conf
| dence.
"To avoid mistakes, DR.. Kennedy, would
beg to remember that the name of his medi-
cine is Fsvorite Remedy, that it is manufac-
tured at Rondout, N Y, and especially not
to forget the Doctors name, DAVID KEN
NEEDY, NJ. D and address, RoNDoUT, N. Y;
he has no other address"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-12-07
ATTIRE SHOCKS PASTOR.
Thinks n Golf Outfit Has Connection
with Bull-FiEht Until
Enlightened.

A Chicago minister who went out to
Oak Park one Sunday to attend church
was shocked to see one of his former
parishioners attired in most unseemly
garments. The man, who was seated
on the front porch of handsome resi-
dence, was clad in checked knee
brooches and red coat that was faced
in green, says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The minister paused before the gate,
put on his glasses and gazed in silent
establishment before speaking.
Say, Brother Brown, why aren't you
attending service?" he inquired, when
he was sure he had not made a mistake
concerning the identity of the man.
Brother Brown looked up from a
Sunday paper and appeared to be en-
barrassed. He invited the clergyman
in to take a rest, and he made several
incoherent remarks about the weather.
mo, l cannot stop" said the min
lister. "There is only one question /
want to ask. Where did you get that
smoking jacket? 1t looks as if you
were matador or something or other
connected with bull-fight."
The Oak Park man stood up and
turned round so that the cut of the
smoking jacket could be seen. Then
he said;
Smoking jacket! Why, where have
you been? This is my golf coat"
The minister apologized and passed
on to where he was expected to listen to
sermon on Nineteenth Century Prog
ress"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-12-07
DEWEY IN AN EMERGENCY.
He Has Always Been Resourceful and
Prompt in ActiOn-An
Instance.

One striking characteristic of the ad-
every emergency. He is resourceful as
we'll as prompt in action. An illustra-
ton of this occurred during a cruise
which Dewey took after the civil war, in
the Mediterranean on the old ship
Canandaigua, says Leslie's Weekly. The
war fever had died out and the men fire.
quently deserted. On men-of-war, boats
cannot be lowered without an order,
except in case of a man overheard.
Several malcontents in the crew one
night, therefore, raised the "man-over-
board" cry, lowered boat, and scuttled
off into the darkness. Dewey was execu-
tive officer of the ship, and was called
from his berth. Though even then par
ticular as to dress, he didn't care about
uniforms when there was quick work
to be done, and he appeared clad only
in his night shirt.
He rushed up to the quarterback in
half gale of wind and promptly took
command in spite of his curious appear
ance. He knew his men thoroughly,
and acted promptly in spite of the dark
ness. "Come back here, Jim Brown,
Tom Robinson, and the rest of you," he
shouted, and punctuated his remarks
with three shots from his revolver. The
shots, the ghostly figure on the quar-
terdeck, and the sudden use of their
names, startled the men into obedience,
and they came sneaking back to the
ship, while Dewey and his novel uni
form retired once more below.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-12-07

reminded us, larger than the German
empire and the four Latin countries OF
Europe combined. When Yankee brains
the isthmus, the Gulf states and the Allan
tic seaboard will find their outlet there as
well. Two thousand mile, north of San
Francisco lies the main body of Alaska,
bought 80 years ago for seven millions and
a quarter, six times as large as New York
and Pennsylvania ogether, opulent for the
future in lumber, fisheries and mines. Its
most distant island twice as far from San
Francisco as Hawaii, which some people
thought too far away to be worth our while.
What possibilities OF growth! OF those
same Pacific states only about one acre IN
16 lies under cultivation. Our commerce
westward has been but small. San Fran
cisco is the seventh city in the land ; yet in
1896 less than goth OF our foreign trade
passed through the Golden Gate. Nearly
the whole growth of that portion OF our con-
tinent las sprung up in half century, and
it i, but little over decade now Since
the great awakening began. But how it
has beguD Russia appearing IN the far
east, ready perhaps to coalesce with China,
China herself shaking off the sleep of CEN
turtles, France ting up her throne in
Siam and Madagascar, Africa falling to
pieces in the clutch of European powers,
Japan leaping to new life of industry and
thought, both shore, OF the Pacific begin
ming to swarm with men of Saxon blood
these are facts in which we begin to see
the fuIfillment OF Stewards farsighted proph-
ecy, when he said long ago in the United
States senate that as time went by the ac-
tiv,ties and interests of Europe would sink
in importance, .while the Pacific Ocean,
its islands, shores and the vast region be-
yond will become the chief theatre OF
events in the worlds great hereafter"
More than one-half the present popula-
ton of the globe is contained in countries
fronting uoon the Indian and Pacific
Oceans. For the year ending june 30,
1896, these people bought two and one
fourth billions OF the rest OF the world
225O millions. And yet our share In that
vast trade was less than 81 millions. Still
our commerce with China has been grow
inc at an enormous rate, and it is plain to
every student OF affairs that John Barrett
smoke the truth when he said that If our
commercial rights in the Chinese Empire
can be preserved the cotton factories OF
the east and south and the wheat fields OF
the west will ye tfeed and clothe millions
upon millions of her people. Have we no
interest to preserve the integrity OF China!
Even now we hold in our hands one-seventh
of her foreign trade. Shall we allow the
door to be shutP Shall we sit idly by while
Europe cuts up our customer INTO spheres
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-12-07
of influence and forces hostile tariff. against

OF influence and forces hostile tariffs against
our goodsp
Fai'hless indeed the man must be whose
study OF the great ages and examples OF
our race permit him to doubt IN the dawn
OF day like this, whether the guiding is
from above. i believe in the capacity of
the American people to solve every cues
ton their duty brings before them For every
great hour the great man is born. Out of
the Ions OF the nation shall spring every
son OF strength she needs. To 1875 came
Washington. to 1861 came Lincoln, and in
the CRISIS OF the Spani h war-in the per-
picking days that have succeeded-we have
not missed strong and steady hand upon
the helm.
The issues OF the next campaign will be
soon made up-we might almost say they
are even now made up. If the democratic
party sets itself again, as il has SO ten in
the past, again't the patriotic instincts of
the people, making itself once more an OBJ
stacle in the path OF progress and CRYING
out against exp ,nsion, the republican party,
but to ally itself with the faith and intu-
itions OF the people and ride forth to an
other generation of power in the confidence
OF the country as it did forty years ago up
on the issues OF the clvil war. Young men,
it is inspiration to live in time like this
1t is worth the cost OF lite to have part
however humble in the history the coming
years will make.
am republican-not because I wor-
ship any party name or hold any party
creed to be inlallible, not merely because
OF its great services to the nation and te
the cause Of human freedom in the past, bu
because, recognizing in the two great par
ties that divide the suffrages OF the nation
today, the instrumentalities through which
political results must be accomplished,
see in the democratic party that dead
weight Of obstruction criticism and merit,
to be found in every land, and in the re.
publican party that hospitality toward pro.
| gressive ideas and that force and geniu.
tor constructive craftsmanship which be.
lieve will give US wider horiz ,ns as year.
60 on, increase the grandeur and glory o
our country, and bring about those benef
icent reforms for which the patient lovers
OF mankind still work and wait.