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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-08-03
A Sincere Utterance.

BY gravy.
I'd like to know where I'm at,
/. William Jenning B..
In this confounded
Harrison Altgeld business.
wonder if they think
I'm the hyphen.
Or what?
may be the Matchless Leader,
But if don't smell birthstone
Tll be scratched.
Altgeld talks to me
Like a Dutch uncle,
And to intents and purposes
Tells me he's IT;
And Carter Harrison smooths me down in front
While the red-headed anarchiet
| is on the other side of ME
| With his foot up.
| And there's Stone!
| The Lord only knows
| How the cats going to jump
| With that man
| If take my eyes off of him
1 A minute.
Willis Jonathan Abbot
| Is my dear brother in aifiiction.
| And the Debonair Delight Of Dedham Mass,
i Is his twin
4 And James Kflenoff Jones!
| Jones, Jones,
4 My cross OF gold for Jones!
What the dickens and Sam Hills cow
Is he doing iii Europe
At such an imminent moment as this?
Can it be that he is false
To his Willie-boy?
John Gilpin Shanklin of Indiana
Is amile long and all Bryan,
And Dan Campau OF Dstroit
/ Is poor. but honest
4 But. by the Bales Of Inspired Hay.
What about them other fellows
That are trying to split me
4 Up the back
As Solomh proposed
To do the baby?
What's iG to II
To this sort OF thing?
What's Trusts to
Treason to the Chicago Platform?
What's Free Silver to
Sacrificing Me?'
What's Harrison?
What's Altgeld?
Rats!
Where's the man who said
Politics Is sheol?
want to shake hands with hint
w. !. L. In New York SUI
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-08-03

The returning soldiers assert
that the rank and file have lost
in Gen. Otis, and COM
plain that he does not push
|things with sufficient energy,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-08-03

The Ninetee n t h eg M e Il t,
which recently sailed for the
philippines from San Francisco,
|contains 1900 men.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-08-03

+ The North Dakota, Wyoming
and Idaho boys are on their way
from the Philippines, and the
South Dakota regiment soon will
[be.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-08-03
was in Washington this week ar
ranging to take charge of the war

department Tuesday, August I,
and he said in reply: 81 have
met Mr.. Root several times in
New York and my slight acquain-
tance with him has been most
pleasant. He is a man of un-
questionable ability, aud there is
no question that he will make an
excellent secretary of war
This weeks cabinet meeting
was a sort of good bye affair all
around. Gen. Alger bade fare
we'll to the president and members
of the cabinet ard there was a
tacit understanding, although no
actual agreement, that the cabi-
net would not meet again until
September, unless called together
by some exigency.
A Chinanlan now enjoys the
distinction of being enrolled
among Uncle Sans pensioners.
His name is All Yu and he served
as a landsman with Dewey, on
the Olympia. He has just been
granted a pension of $50 a month,
for disability caused by consump-
ton.
According to a report just re-
ceived by the department of state
from the u. S. consul at Dawson
City, last years gold product of
the Klondyke region has been
greatly exaggerated. The report
says: Instead of $4,000, 900
which was reported as the proba-
BILE output for this district for the
past twelve months, | am inform
ed that $40, 900, 900 will fully cover
the product. Reports from Alas
ka indicate that more gold will be
found there than will ever come
out of this district. Very little
prospecting was done here last
winter. The miners simply ate
up their grub and waited tor some
one else to report discoveries of
gold. If the indications are good,
they go on stampede, dig a hole
or two, and if they cannot find
pay dirt at once, they say the
creek is no good and return. :"
The report warns everybody that
it is useless to mail papers and
magazines to persons at Dawson
City unless letter postage is paid
on them. Nothing but first-class
mail is carried.
The annual report of the secret
service, just submitted to Secreta-
ry Gage, contains some interest
ing facts. 679 persons were ar
rested for making or passing
counterfeit money, 218 of them
were convicted and 293 are await
ing trial. 433 of those arrested
were native. Americans, which
shows that foreigners do not mo-
nopo1ize the business. SIS, $50 in
counterfeit notes and $40, 77S. 96
in coin was captured. The total
number of plates for counterfeit
ing captured was 267, which in
cluded the Hancock and "Win-
dom" silver certificates, for which
officials have been vainly seeking
for eight years, and the famous
Monroe" S10O silver certificate.
% dies for striking gold and sill
yer coins and 413 molds for spuri.
Gus COINS were also captured, be
ing the largest number ever taket
in single year.
| France managed to get its re
ciprocity treaty signed before ths
time bell, provided by The Ding
ley law, under which it was nego
tiated, was rung, but it was ;
close shave.
The President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley will not return to Wash
ington before September, unles
something unexpected happens, t
compel the president to do SO.
Kate Chase Sprague, daughte
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-08-03
The Nebraska soldier boys are
now in San Francisco.

Yellow fever has made its ap-
|pearance at the the National
Soldiers Home at Hampton, Vir-
ginia.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-21
THE HAVANA POLICE.

The police of Havana will have to have
a number of pretty severe battles before
they will be respected. The people of
that city have not been ia the habit Of
obeying the police, and il Is evident that
they don't intend to obey them unless
compelled by force. The little riot on Sat
urday night. mentioned in our dispatches
yesterday, might have grown into a very
serious affair. AS it was. quite large
number of people were seriously hurt,
some, it is thought fatally.
Such riots viii increase in number I'M
less the people are made to understand
at once that the police are masters Of
the city and are to he obeyed Any other
course would be unjust to the police and
cruel to the peop.e All the talk about
the police interfering with the liberties
of the people is nonsense. There is a great
difference between liberty and license.
Those who talk about the liberties of the
people being interfered with mean THAI
the police object to individuals having
license to do just as they please without
regard to the rights Of others.
The police force of Havana is a large
one, and, in competent hands, can give
ample protection to life and property. But
before IL will be worth a great deal It
will have to give the lawless element a
few lessons. They should be lessons that
would make an impression. To cater in
the least 10 the mob sentiment or the
rowdy element would be the worst kind
of a mistake. When the people under
stand that the police are able to control
the situation, and that they intend to do
it, there will be no further trouble from
those who pretend that their liberties are
interfered with whenever their efforts to
run the Town according to their own no.
tons are summarily checked.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-21
A ShreMd Scheme.

A Boston restaurant keeper was stand
ing in front of his establishment grumbling
at the hard times and lamentng his fate,
says Harper'sf Round Table. Although he
could see people walking up and down the
streets, they all seemed to avoid him. and
even the visitors to the town, who could not
be supposed to know anything about his
place, seemed to avoid it instinctively.
He meditated much on his misfortune, and
racked his brains to devise some scheme
that would improve his business. AT last
an idea occurred TO him.
Going to bronze founder, he ordered
several peculiar tablets of the kind that
are seen in different parts of Boston on
the fronts of houses TO commemorate the
birthplace or boarding house of some one
or another of the city's great men. Fast
enlng these tablets on conspicuous parts
of his building he laid in large supply
of eatables, and awaited the result
Now the great point about these tablets
was that they were utterly unintelhgible
the inscriptions being half obliterated
Latin-but their effect was electrical Ev-
cry true Bostonian glanced at them, took
it for granted that the restaurant was one
of the many with an historic flavor, and
patronized it at once. The strangers that
visited the city looked a. the tablets hope
lessly, then patronized the, house in the
hope that they would find some one who
could explain the strange inscription.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-21
PER SONAL.

A bronze cannon of Spanish make has
been sent from the Philippines to deco
rate the Maine" monument in San Fran
cisco. 1t is the gift of Admiral Dewey
The admiral's closest friend in the navy
is Admiral John @. Walker.
Rev. James Duane, a vicar bishop in
the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
South, is on the way to Cape Town, AT
RIGA, where he expects to start a school
and church for the instruction and re-
demption of the Kafffrs. He is himself a
native Kaffir, and for the first fourteen
years of his life lived as a savage among
his people. The proposed school will be
modelled after the Indian school al Car
Isle. Pa, and the WHEREFORE University,
in Ohio.
Henry Underwood johnson of Indiana,
whose fourth term in Congress ended on
the 4th of this month, has decided to To-
cate in st. Louis and resume the practice
of law Mr.. Johnson, who has always
been a Republican, earned fame and the
undying enmity of administration support
ers by his recent terrific onslaught on
President Mckinley, delivered on the floor
of the House. He was, as has been often
stated in Republican papers a candidate
to succeed himself at the recent election.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-21
MILES AID HIS ENEMIES.

II is apparent that Gen. Miles has enc
mics in the war department Every once
in a while something from the records of
the department not at all complimentary
TO him appears in print Somebody is
hunting up these records and giving them
out for publication. A couple OF letters.
written by Gen. Miles Immediately after
the destruction Of Cervera's fleet off San
tiago. have lately appeared in the news
papers. They are addressed to the 6ecre-
tary Of War and in both of them Gen.
Miles urges that an army be sent at once
10 capture Porto Rico. The inference
from what he says in the letters is that
he favored abandoning Santiago without
attempting to take that city, deeming it Of
no special Importance. In fact, he advo-
Gated sending the army that was at San
tiago to Porto Rico. These letters were
written days before the surrender of San
tiago. Even Gen. Shafter suggested the
abandonment Of Santiago. Both he and
Gen. Miles said that as the object for
which the army had been sent to Santiago
had been accomplished. namely, the des-
"a hNtANAt VI NEA AAINAI AAAIAG was -
use keeping it there any longer.
But there was some one in authority
VINO saw the situation more clearly than
either Gen. Miles or Gen. Shafter did, and
the army didn't go to Porto Rico-that is,
the Santiago army didn't. 1t stayed and
captured Santiago. and brought the war
to an end. Had Gen Miles advice been
taken the war might be still going on,
though that is hardly probable, because
Spain was not financially able to carry on
the war for any considerable length Of
time. The continuance of the war, how
ever, would have been costly for US, and
if hosthlties had lasted for several months
more the danger of complications with one
or more of the nations of Europe would
have been increased.
1t may be that Gen. Miles will have
something to say about these two letters
which have evidently been given out by
the war department He may be able 10
so explain them that it will appear that
ne was not lacking in foresight when he
wrote them; but it is difficult to see how
he can do So
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-21


characteristic incident has been re-
lated of Richard Croker by a New York
correspondent of the Boston Herald. A
man who sought an appointment under
the New York city administration called
at the Democratic Club the other night
Mr. Croker saw him. He said he would
likesa certain position.
Lets see," Mr.. Croker mused 'Didn' I
1 help you to get a certain appointment
eleven years ago."
Eyes. Mr. Croker the caller replied
And 1 haven't seen you since, have I,
until now?'' the Tamfnany leader contin-
ued.
Moo" the aspiring caller stammered;
Il thought you were too busy to be both
ered.'
What district do you live in?" Mr.. Gro
ker demanded
81 don't know.
who's your LEADER"
4 don't remember.
What do you think 1 amp" Mr.. Croker
exclaimed. with great disgust.
This caller went away disappointed. He
didn't know what discipline was. He
didn't know that offices go TO men who
know something about the organization
in their districts. He knows il now, and
he didn't get the appointment he sought.
Mr.. Croker declares that he cannot main
tain Tammany Hall unless the men in it
make it their individual business to look
after Tammany's interests wherever they
are.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-21
Tommy Remembered.

Tommy Williams chief characteristic
was such one as often clings to grown
humans, says the Cleveland Pain Dealer
1t was his forwardness. Though Tommy
was but years of age ne insisted in all
the childish games played. upon being the
whole show or nothing.
And il greved Mrs. Williams deeply. She
wished Tommy TO be such a little boy as
is catalogued under the class heading
nice" and she knew that 10 be such a
little boy Tommy would have to discard
his well-grounded idea that he could not
be happy or content without being, at
every moment Of the day, square in the
focus
One noon, last week, Mrs. Williams
called Tommy TO her side to lay before
him her ideas upon the subject. Now,
Tommy" she said, hereafter when you
are at play with the other children in
the block don't put yourself so much in
evidence. When it is spinning tops don
insist upon spinning yours all Ihe time.
Give the other little boys a chance. And
when it is hop scotch, remember that
Clarence and Hubert and Reginald like TO
hop just as well as you do. Now remem-
Der this, Tommy, and then when you grow
up everyone viii respect&gou for your
modesty just as they do papa. VIII you
remember, Tommy
Tommy looked up and answered in the
affirmative, as he tried to drive the toes
of his right foot through the cap of his
shoe
Tommy did remember-just as long as he
could
Later in the afternoon Mrs. Williams
took her sewing TO the window overlooking
the court and sat down. The yells of the
children below attracted her attention and
she peered through the glass at them.
There were half a dozen at play in the
yard. There were two little girls among
them. These and three little boys were
in unconventional positions, and seemed
to be posing as though for a picture. 1t
was moment before Mrs Williams made
out the tiny form OF Tommy. He was
standing away 10 one side. His shoulders
were thrown back and his arms were fold
ed across his chest. Apparently he was
watching the other children with a well
assumed air of dignity.
That evening at dinner Mrs. Williams
said to him, Tommy, what were the
children playing this afternoon"
Adam an Eve in tn gardin of Ed
en-" was the little fellows reply.
And why didn't you play, Tommy"
went on the mother. when 1 saw you,
you were standing on one side just look
ing on. Why weren't you playing?"
Why mamma, 1 wuth," answered the
little fellow as though surprised.
"Oh, were YOU, went on his mother,
land what were you"
Il with God
Since which time Mrs Williams has Civ
en- up all attempts to curb THE whole
show inclinations' of her offspring.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-21
r.IR1Ess DIsnEGARDED.

The Sampson-Schley controversy ought
TO have been dropped sometime ago be-
cause there is nothing new TO be said on
either side. Instead Of dropping it, how
ever. some OF the newspapers are engaged
as holly in il as ever. And the regrettabie
thing is. that now some Of them are not
seeking the truth. but are publishing
everything they can get hold of that is
favorable TO their side Of the case, even
when there is ground for doubling the
truth of what they publish.
A few days ago it was given out that
Admiral Schey had been ordered to APP
pear before board of navaf officers for
a mental physical and professional exam
nation prior to being promoted by au-
thority of the new law governing promo
tons in the navy. It was at once said by
his champions that the purpose of his enc
mics in the navy department was to have
him pronounced unsound mentally or else
guilty of reprehensible conduct for his fail
ure to comply promptly with the orders
which were given him off Santiago, just
about the time Cervera's fleet was discov-
cred there. and for other alleged short
comings. 1t was alleged that plot had
been Matched to keep him out of the honor
he had earned and to give Admiral Samp-
son the grade which. under the law, Ad
mral Schley has
A moments consideration would have
shown there could not possibly be solid
foundation for such a story. No officer or
set of officers of the navy would be guilty
of taking part in any such plot 1t is true
that Admiral Schley has been ordered to
undergo an examination as to his mental
and physical condition and his professional
qualifications. but Admiral Sampson has
to undergo a similar examination. and so
does every other officer who gets promo
ton. The law makes such an examina-
ton obligatory. There is no plot there
fore to do Admiral Schley injustice His
friends would be kinder to him if they
would cease saying that he has a lot of
enemies in the navy department who do
nothing but plan how his promotion can be
prevented.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-21
Lincoln Carried Her Trunk.

The following letter of a lady of Spring
field, H., published in McClure's Magazine
illustrates Lincoln's kindness of heart. The
incident took place after Mr.. Lincoln had
been to Congress.
The very children knew him, for there
was not one of them for whom he had not
done some kindness. My first impression
of Mr.. Lincoln was made by one of his kind
deeds was going. with a little friend,
for my first trip alone on the railroad cars.
1t was an epoch of my life. l had planned
for it and dreamed of it for weeks
The day came. but as the hour of the
train approached the hackman, through
some neglect, failed to call for my trunk
AS the minutes went on 1 realized, in a
panic of grief, that l should miss the train.
l was standing by the gate, my hat and
gloves on, sobbing as il my heart would
break, when Mr.. Lincoln came by.
why, what's the matter?" he asked.
and poured out all my story.
'How big is the truuk? There's still
time, if 1t isn't too big" and he pushed
through the gate and up to the door.
My mother and l took him up to my
room, where my little old-fashioned trunk
stood locked and tied. "Oh, OH" he
cried, wipe your eyes and come on quick. 9"
And. before knew what he was going
to do he had shouldered the trunk. was
down stairs and striding out of the ward
Down the street he went as fast as his
long legs could carry himI trotting behind.
drying my tears as l went. We reached
the station in time. Mr.. Lincoln put me
on The train, kissed me good-by. and told
me to have a good time. 1t was just like
him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-21
SOME NEW TEsrIuoxv

The court Of inquiry is making a more
thorough investigation of the "embalmed
beef charges than the commission for in
vestigating the conduct of the war did
and ii appears TO be getting more. facts
There are several things it has discovered
recently which do not present the packing
houses in very favorable light. For in
stance, Gen. Eagan testified that il was
his understanding that the contract of the
government with the packers reouired
them to furnish refrigerated beef that
would keep for seventy-two hours after
being taken from the refrigerator but the
packers say that ii was their understand
ing that they guaranteed it to keen for
only twenty-four hours. How could there
have been so great a MISUNDERSTANDING
between Gen. Eagan and the packers about
so important matter? 1t seems also that
what was called canned roast beef was
not roasted a all, but boiled and out of il
much of the nutriment had been
extracted. There is testimony to the ef-
feet that this beef was of a very moor
quality of beef.
Another point that is worth careful con
sideration is the fact that a great deal of
she meat which was accepted by the gov
eminent was not inspected. 1t is al
legged that the demand for il was
so great that there was not time for its in
spection. That may be thought by the
packers to be satisfactory excuse. but
il is doubtful that il will be accepted bv
the court of inquiry. In our dispatches
yesterday the testimony of a witness was
given which seemed TO show that some sort
of a preservative had been used on meat
that was delivered 10 soldiers stationed at
Tampa last summer.
II Is TOO early yet to arrive at the con-
clusion that the charges have been sus-
tanned. But 1t is but fair to saw that
some testimony has been given showing
the existence of a questionable state Of
affairs. which, If not explained, will nut
the packers in a rather unfavorable light
before the country. 1t is but just to the
packers, however. that no opinion as to the
outcome OF the inquiry should be ex
pressed until the investigation is finished