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The times., 1899-10-06
AN ALASKA ADVENTURE.
Prospsstor~ Eat Dog, But Finally
Strike 1t Rich.

CLINTONVILLE, Pa, Oct 5.-FTank
Minister. former well known resident OF
Donegal township. Butler county. who has
been in Alaska for nearly two years, is
visiting his sisters here. In January. 1888.
Mr. Minister accompanied by L. F. Fitz-
gerald, also Of Donegal, left for Alaska.
and has just returned home after a year
and half in the gold and copper fields.
Minister and Fitzgerald went to juneau
and then to Skaguay. and with party OF
about zoe others crossed the big glacier TO
the Alsaee River region The glacier is
about sixty miles across and ffty-one days
were required to transport the supplies
over il. Each man in the party had a
years outfit with him, and as only a small
portion of the supplies could be hauled on
sled at a time, so many back trips had
to be made that. in going the sixty miles.
each man had to travel according to a
mathematician in the party, about 1910
miles.
The trip said Mr.. Minister. did not
prove profitable so my partner and de-
cided TO go down the river TO Yakatak
They secured boat and started down the
rapid Alsace River but when half way to
their destination their boat struck a rock.
was smashed to pieces. and their entire
outfit lost They had dog with them, aud
as soon as they recovered from their bat
tie with the river they started TO walk
200 miles to the nearest settlement After
couple OF days without food. Fitzgerald
suggested that dog meat might relieve the
feelings OF their stomachs. but Minister
could not bring himself to agree with this
proposition. They knew, however. that
without food they would never live to
reach village, SO they decided to build
raft. Logs were dragged to the river
bank, but they had neither nails nor ropes
to bind them together.
Finally it was decided TO make the dog
DO his share. The hide of the animal was
cut into strips and used to bind the logs
together. The raft was launched and the
hungry men, with what was left OF the
dog started down the river. The current
was very swift and in three days they
landed at the settlement. but Mr.. Minister
admits that there was not as much of the
dog at the finish as at the start Fortu-
nately both men had money. and they soon
bought new outfit and started out pros
pecting.
They went to the Porcupine copper re-
gion and located a claim for which S15. 900
was recently offered them by a syndicate
which was buying the copper mines in that
section. AS a railroad into a region is
projected they decline to sell Mr. Minister
describes Juneau and Skaguay as lively and
eEterprising towns. He says the stories
of hardships, sufferings, and overcharges
in the region are very much orerdrawn-
At Juneau he purchased a suit Of clothes
which he now wears, for S22 Meals can
be secured at Juneau for % cents, a glass
Of whisky costs the same and beer is
10 cents a glass. Other necessaries OF life
cost the same prOportiOnate price. Mr.
Minister will return to the Porcupine dis
trict in the spring TO assist Fitzgerald In
looking after their claim
The times., 1899-10-06
Who Were His Partnersf
From the Chicago Journal.)

SFrom the chicago Journal
few weeks ago oberliH NJ. Carter was said
to have declared he would not go to Jail alone.
He meant he would have company in his misery,
and 1t would be the company he had in
his crime. Nothing be more Just. con-
spirator should be permitted to suffer alone.
The Carter case has attracted wide attention In
this country because OF a certain sinister aspect
it bore, aside from the aspect Of simple stealing.
The people were the sufferers through the mis-
appropriation Of Government money. But they
seemed also TO be the sufferers in another way.
The ring OF conspirators appeared TO have friends
in high places who ready to protect them
from punishment for their crimes. The long de-
lay in the execution OF the sentence, the unusual
and apparently excessive precautions against the
possibility of mistake, and the prominence, po-
liticaily, of at least interested in the
prisoner, lent strength TO the general fear that
political corruption Of peculiarly offensive char
acter was involved in the Carter case.
The times., 1899-10-06
French Journalism.
(From Harper's Magazine.)


The degradation of politics and of the
army has been equaled by that of the
press. France has never had a journal
unless we except the Temps" and the
present incarnation of the .Matin"-which
an Algo-Saxon public would call news
paper but then she does not want one.
She has had journals which supply what
she wants-well- considered and elegantly
written essays on the subjects of the day.
Such she still finds in organs like the Fl
garo" and the journal des Debats;" but
in the lower ranks OF the press the fatal
influence of the Dreyfus case has told vile
ly American papers appear TO an En-
glishman free spoken in their attacks on
opponents, but the cheapest rag in New
York would blush for the recklessness.
gullibility and foulness of the baser French
press. Restraints of good taste and de-
cency are quite obsolete You call your
political opponent "a prodigy OF corrup-
ton both in public and in private life;
with thirty years of lies. debauchery.
bribery, defamation, and calumny behind
him." The Prime Minister if you dislike
his policy, you describe as "only half
cleansed Of the murder of Carnot, the
butcher of Madagascar, Hanotaux's accom-
plice in the determination of the Arme
mans" You never speak of General de
Gillifet by name, but as "the assassin of
May" they will know whom you mean.
NJ. Cavaignac. being personally irreproach-
able, it is well to bark back to his ances-
tors, and call him the heir OF two genera
tions of murderers. Never say your op-
ponent published his opinions; say that he
vomited them. You hardly go wrong
in describing anything you dislike as or
dure. With foulness go intimidation. OBJ
tuseness. spiritlessnsss. During the trial
of Zoia many newspapers headed their is
sues for days with the names and addresses
of the Jurors, accompanied by suitable in
stigations to violence. During the second
court-martial on Dreyfus an ingenious lit
tie paper in Rennss ran a serial. giving
the story of an Alsacian spy in 1870 named
Deutscbfus, who seduced an honest girl
and then returned as an uhlan, shot her,
and kidnapped her child. The credulity of
such newspapers equals their violence. and
they readily gulp down the widest stories
and clumsiest forgeries. And when an
occasion comes. like the Fashoda crisis, in
which a strong lead might fifty have been
given TO the nation. nothing was forth
ceming except alternate bluster and pull
ing.
The times., 1899-10-06
A BibIe rrust

(From the Charleston News and Courier)
It is interesting to learn that cut-rate war
now being waged among publishers of the Holy
Scriptures threatens to terminate in Bible trust
Certain dogmatic declarations on the part of one
and another Of the existing religious denomina.
tions have sometimes led us to believe that each
OF them was confident that il had a monopoly
of the truth as it is set forth in the pages of
the Holy Book, but had not anticipated that
an effort would be made in any quarter to corner
the outward and visible form of the Word of
God Since the late Mr., Luther began his men,
orable. agitation in favor of disseminating the
Scriptures as widely possible among the com
mon people, efforts 10 control the publishing
of the Bible have been avoided for the most part
by persons who valued their peace of mind and
ood
The times., 1899-10-06
Extra Politeness.
(Erom the Detroit Free Press.)


After the young man had patted his eye with
cold water for half an hour and then fitted beef
steak cushion it. he went into the front part
of the house to find his father.
Been fghtingI' asked the old gentleman,
sternly, when he recognized his son.
No fight about it. I got a poke in the eye
that was good for fouT-bagger il had been
baseball. That's all there wss 70 it
Must have been some place you shouldn't have
been"
Not at all.'' and he WINGED. az he adjusted the
steak. Il went 10 the hotel to look for that
friend Of Yours. Just as YOU directed
.-He didn't strike you?''
NO; but 1t all came from that internal code
OF etiquette You've been preaching TO me. You
insist that should always tell the truth, and
that any idea Of politeness Inconsistent with that
Is sham and a mockeTy"
That's right; always told you So.'
81 know you did One Of the strangers there
was telling experience that sounded 4 little
tishy. While they all chatting him he turned
to and asked me if l thought he looked ike
who couldn't tell the truth I promptly
said that he did. Then ne wanted 10 know II
meant he had been lying. ] remembered your
training, and said that | did. When I began 70
take notice again l had this" and he tenderly
felt the steak
Served You right; served you right. / say.
Nobody but a BOBBY has 10 call man a liar
in order 10 be polite.
The times., 1899-10-06
REST FOR THE ADMIRAL.
Dewey Spends "a Quiet Day and Re-
ceiyes Callers


Admiral Dewey enjoyed himself last
evening by remaining quietly at home
with the members of his staff and receiving
one or two personal friends who ,alled.
Just before dinner Brigadier General Hey
wood. OF the Marine Corps, with the men,
bers of his staff, called to pay their re-
spects. They spent about thirty minutes
with the Admiral. The morning hours OF
yesterday were spent by the Admiral In
taking walk and calling at the Metropoli-
tan Club. Another walk in the afternoon
filled out the days programme.
Though the excitement his presence in
Washington created has about died out
the Admiral is still being presented with
gifts by his admirers. Yesterday he re-
ceived very handsome cane from Herman
Barghausen, of Washington. 1t is made
from piece of mahogany brought from
Cuba by August G. and John F. Barg-
hausen, sons of the donor, who served with
the First District of Columbia Regiment.
The cane has a solid gold handle on which
are carved dozen microscopic Hkenesses,
one of the Admiral one of the President
and Vice President, and others of promi-
nent naval officers who took part in the
Spanish war.
u. s. j. Dunbar, also OF Washington,
LIDS OutISQ " lTtoSuIcT INOOtItS btOHLc
bust of the Admiral to adorn the new home
to be purchased for Dewey.
Lieutenant Brumby. when seen last
night, said tMat the Admiral was greatly
enjoying his quiet stay in Washington.
He expects to call on the Acting Secretary
of the Navy at IL o'clock this morning.
There are no plans for the rest of the
AdmiraPs visit in Washington. The call
on Secretary Allen will be for the purpose
| of meeting members of the committee
which has in charge the fund for buying
the Admiral home. The committee has
over $4,000 on hand, and expects about
$4,000 to be added to this sum. When he
meets the committee 1t is expected that ii
will be definitely decided whether house
will be. bought or one built to suit the
Admiral's taste. Lieutenant Brumby said
he thought the Admiral would not visit
Princeton. N. j., as has been stated. but
that after his visit to Vermont he would
| return to Washington and begin work in
connection with the Philippine Commis-
sion.
Though the Admiral and his aides
Lieutenant Brumby and Ensign Caldwell
have really been detached from the OIym-
pia for the past week, the official order to
that effect was only just posted at the Navy
Department yesterday.
The times., 1899-10-06
THE DISMAL SWAMP CANAL.
The Improved Waterway About to
Be Formally Opened.

BALTIMORE. Oct. 5.-The old Dismal
Swamp Canal, rehabiitated and enlarged
to meet all the requirements of modern
traffic. will be formally opend at a water
way on Saturday, October IA. President
Walter B. Brooks, jr., OF the Lake Drum
mond Canal and Water Company, which
has acquired the privileges and franchises
of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company. has
issued invitations to the leading merchants
and financiers of Baltimore to witness the
ceremonies incidental 10 the inauguration
of this new inland waterway. There will
also be delegations present from Norfolk,
Newport News, and other Southern cities.
The United States Government VIII send
a torpedo boat through the canal on the
opening day. The work of rehabilitating
the Dismal Swamp Canal was undertaken
and carried out by Baltimoreans
The times., 1899-10-06
AM unpIen.nnt Picture.
From the PhiIadelphia Record }


Philadelphia is the headquarters Of election
knavery in Pennsylvania; in fact, there Is no
other city in the country which compare with
it in the audacity OF crime against the ballot 1t
is the shame of the Commonwealth that the
way has been made erno0th for fraud of this char
acter by legislation intended to make il easy
OF commission and difficult of detection and
punishment Our tax laws, registratif laws, and
election laws are shaped With view TO put the
will OF partisan bosses above the will of the
voters. Under such circumstances the first effort
of honest men of all parties should be bent to
a reform Of the abuses which make election
frauds possible Until -ach reforms shall have
been effected the people of Philadelphia cannot
enjoy self-governnent. The proposition OF the
Municipal League to undertake revision OF the
padded assessment lists. and later 70 put watch
at the polls and detectives at the heels of the
scoundrels who make a business of facilitating
election frauds, is a move which should have
the aid not only OF Mayor Ashbridge and the
police force, but of the whole body of taxpayers
who do not make business of politics. Above
all. the project should have the untiring and
enthusiastic cooperation Of all Democrats.
The times., 1899-10-06

have made out of Spanish war contracts in
should be sufieiency Of available Repub-
lican money in Ohio to pay the 'legiti-
mate" expenses of a local campaign.
Hanna, himself, may be penurious, but he
has ways to extract saccharine matter from
trusts, and should not be in need of out
side help to pay for printing, stationery,
postage stamps, and the services of as
many orators as may be required even in
an emergency
The appeal of the Ohio State committee
will strike the average American voter as
evidence that, in the opinion of the Ad
Nash as Governor, but the general result
in 1900. is jeopardized and that, regardless
of cost. the Presidents home State must
be bought up in November 1t is tanta-
mount to a confession that the party is
in bad way everywhere.
In view of the Hanna Mckinley panic
which induces the manipulators of the
combination to insist that public servants
shall commit moral If not technical
crime; and which is sending the Chief of
State and his official family all over the
Western States like party of hired SPELL
binders; the question naturally suggests
itself: What are the real chances for Re-
publican success in the States that hold
elections this autumn?
1t is too early to answer it with safety.
We can say this, however, and with the
most positive conviction. If the Demo-
cratic leaders in Maryland, Ohio, and Ne
braska had possessed the ordinary COM
mon sense to leave the expansion question
alone. their opponents would be as GER
tainly showed under as the sun is certain
TO rise tomorrow
The times., 1899-10-06
The Paris Tribunal Award
(From the Brooklyn Eagle

tFrom the BROOKLYN Eagle.)
We are free 10 say that we are glad larger
portion of South America than was expected
has been declared to be British possession, with
out violation of the substance and in harmony
with the spirit of the Monroe doctrine. British
possession is better than Venezuelan possession
for soil or men. Even now, just what is the Gov
ernment OF Venezuela is unknown to other ma
tions. The Venezuelan Government which ap-
pointed arbtsators and lawyers to the Paris
tribunal has been overthrown by revolution, with
in month. The new Government will doubt
less confirm the action OF the one which it wiped
out in blood, but frequent revolutions attest the
instability and well nigh the barbarism OF Ven
ezuelan institutions and make any people there.
decreed be under British control, proper sub
iects for the congratulation of mankind
The times., 1899-10-06
No Room for Discussion.
(From the indianapolis News.)

tFrom the Indianapolis NeWs.J
We willing to debate with any man the
question of the future government Of the Philip
pines, That is a subject which men may
differ. But we cannot see that there is any room
for difference debate on the question OF enfore-
ing the rebellous Tagals the acknowledg-
ment Of our authority, and OF the obligation on
our part TO present to the world peaceful gov
ernment in The Philippines The political party
that should draw back oppose this would meet
the overwhelming condemnation of the American
people.
The times., 1899-10-06
The Stubborn Bner.

(From the NashviIIe Banner.)
The demand OF Great Britain is that the Beers
do away with the dynamite monopoly and amend
their laws SO that five years residence of a
person intending To remain citizen will entitle
him TO the rights and suffrsges of citizenship.
The demand is entirely just and fully in accord
with the principles OF popular liberty which all
Anglo-Saxon pc pie profess. England claims the
right to interfere because the maltreated Tit
landers are mostly British; because of the prox-
unity OF British territory TO the Transvaa which
is affected by Boer mismanagement, and be-
cause in the compact which allowed the Boer
Government ali autonomy Great Britain retain
ed a suzerainty the Transvasl. The fact is,
the Boeqs are a stubborn and very provincial
people, who are obdurately and without reason
opposing themselves to all progress in South
Africa.
The times., 1899-10-06

Cape Colony not because their own liber-
ties were restricted, but because England
sternly told them that they should no lon
ger hold the Kafirs in slavery. 1t was TO
enjoy the divine right to own, work, lash,
and murder their fellow-men that these
sister republicans" founded the Transvaal
State. They have a very ardent Christian
faith. which includes the doctrine that
black men are without souls, and, hence,
are intended only to be beasts Of burden
for the Beers.
In Cape Colony and Natal people of Dutch
extraction-cailed Afrikanders-have ex
actly the same rights, privileges, and i'm
munities that are accorded to the British
inhabitants In the South African Repub-
lie only the Beers have rights of any tan
gible kind The Outlanders, including
four thousand American citizens, are not
allowed any voice in the government CT the
state, although they outnumber their
Dutch neighbors. They are not even per-
mitted the least share in the municipal
government of the city of johannesburg,
which they own and inhabit, to the prac-
tical exclusion of all other elements of
population. They are denied the right to
carry or own firearms They are without
the chance Of justice before the courts,
which are absolutely the creatures Of the
legislature at Pretoria, which changes any
law it pleases in an hour.
In this connection it viii be remembered
that, in 1897, President Kruger, by execu-
tive order, suspended the Transvaal Su-
preme Court, because it refused to take the
mining property and plant of an Ameri-
can citizen away from him. These Out
landers, English and American, own three
fourths in value of all the property in the
country and pay seven-tenths of its reve-
nues. In addition to this they are looted
and robbed through the dynamite and
other monopolies, which have made
Kruger worth twenty-five million dollars,
and his family and immediate friends also
enormously rich.
1t is highly edifying to note that the
sympathizers who exploit themselves in
support of these interesting slave-drivers,
oppressors, and thieves, conspicuously in
clude certain Americans who are we'll
~
tortured into any expression of horror
or even objection when the butcher Wey-
Ter was bisecting Cuban babies before the
eyes of their shrieking mothers, and who
vehemently asserted that the hell Of
Spain in the Antilles was no concern of
ours. The names of George F. Edmunds,
]. Sterling Morton, T. De Witt Talmage,
| and others will not fail to awaken recol-
| lections of that sort Edmunds Knows
that the proposed petition is nonsense
from the viewpoint of international law.
1t is like his intellectual sinuosity to ap-
prove of it. Spain did not have more
vigorous apologist nor Cuba a more con-
temptuous enemy than Morton before
the Spanish war. Talmage wept for
Greece, and solicited aid for that king
dom, but declined to say word for the
reconcentrados who were dying daily by
thousands under the starvation order of
Spain's diabolical Captain General. Now
the lot of them burst into tears because
England says that the common human
rights of English and American residents
must and shall be respected and observed
by the Beers in South Africa.
The times., 1899-10-06

The probable occupation today of Ma
iuta Hill by the Beers, and the simulta-
neous evacuation of New Castle by Iajor
General Symons, offer an illustration OF the
conditions on the Natal frontier. The
British are too weak to attack. BY the
time they get strong enough, their enemy
will be so well fortified that offensive
operations will be necessarily arduous and
bloody. Mr.. Chamberlain has had years
in which to prepare for struggle which,
all along, he and his colleagues have
known 20 be inevitable Why have they
delayed? Hundreds of soldier lives will be
sacrificed as a consequence of their un-
readinessi
The times., 1899-10-06
The onence. of Car Conductors.

tfN NfNFS IUIh
The order iss,'ed 10 the employees of the Long
Island Railroad not to take hold of a passenger
except where necessary 10 avoid accident or
when child infirm person is evidently in
conductors habit of grabbing women BY the
arm, clutcbing them by the shoulder, pushing
them in the back, and picking them up bodily
is decidedly offensive to them, and is in most
utterly nexcusable. But it is annoyingly
prevalent.
The times., 1899-10-06
The Erect on Hanna.
fFrom the Cincinnati ENQUIRER !

VIViII EIquIfer.J
Whether the talk about Dewey for President is
serious or not, it is worth more than the space
it occupies to see the cold shivers run down
Mark Hanna's back whenever the Admiral's name
is mentioned. Mr. Hanna thinks that Mr. Nc
Kinley is the only man who ought to be con-
sidered in the Presidential connection. Under the
binding effect of his arrogance he is not able 10
see that he is hurting McKinley's chances every
day.
The times., 1899-10-06
The Hot Spring. Re,.r,a,,on

The superintendent of the Hot Springs
Reservation has submitted his annual re-
port, in which he says visitors to the
springs have greatly increased in number.
The receipts for the past year from baths
were s13,066.40, ami the total number of
baths 55e 265
The times., 1899-10-06

Our sympathy goes out to the oppressed
but normally blood drinking militia of
Canada The provincial government would
not permit the Toronto Highlanders to in
wade New York for the Dewey parade.
Now Sir Wilfrid Laurier decrees that the
martial spirit of the colony shall be
crushed again. No Canuck regiment is to
become easy marks for the Mauser rifles
of the Beers. 1t is very uncomfortable
to be provincial unless one happens to
get Office.
The times., 1899-10-06
A Jenersonian Democrat.
(rror, ,hs po.to, t,s-,I5C

(From the BOSTON HeraId)
Former Governor Pattison Of Pennsylvania. Is
a pretty leveI-headed sort Of Democrat and he
believes that the overwhelming sentiment Of the
country is favorable to the broadest kind OF na-
tonal policy which reaches out for commercial
advantages in the direction OF the Philippines.
The times., 1899-10-06

Chaplain Mcqueen relates a story which
shows how the spirit of enterprise is in
the very air breathed by Otis. He says
that he learned from the books of the Red
Cross Society in California how two pro-
gressive young Americans, one a volun-
agent, stole the supplies of the society,
sold them, and went into business in Ma
ALA with the proceeds. They are now
among the most prosperous and respected
merchants of the Philippine capital-in
the smuggling line.
The times., 1899-10-06

We are pleased to know that the White
House Blue Room has been completely
renovated, redecorated. and disinfected.
The indications are that it will be in great
demand early in November.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-03

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