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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-02-09

his works have been read. The
United States possesses a great
commerce--only one-third as great
per capita, however, as Great
Brita1n's. The latter nation has
no such resources upon which to
draw to supply the wants of man
kind the world oyer as we have.
Did the people of Great Britain,
with their commercial and mara
time instinct. possess our resouf-
ces, we may we'll wonder how in-
finiteiy greater even than it is
would her present sea power be.
But it is not for greatness, So
much as for defense, as resource
from which to back up our navy
with able ships and trained len,
that we need merchant shipping
and seamen and flremen. We
now have a foreign commerce
approxinating to two billions of
dollars in vallie, md likely, a de-
cade hence, to be at least half as
large again. We shall then have
more TO defend, and shall 1t be
no more to defend it with than
we now ha e? Shalt we drain
the nation of its gold, or the
equivalent. for the payment CT
freights to foreign ships, or shall
we use our own ships, owned and
manned by our own citizens, and
thus keep our money at home to
employ our own people?
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-02-09

ing its hands off because It is
none of its business, but as pay
ment for our not meddling with
its Chinese grab. It is also a sort
of notice to this government that
if Germany concludes to grab
more Chinese territory we must
keep quiet about 1t or take the
chance Of Germany puttinga fin-
ger in the Philippine pie.
After listening to the usual
lectures, from few members
whose districts will not share in
the appropriations, on the ex-
travagance of such appropria-
tions, the house passed the river
and harbor bill, which appropri-
ates for new work and for the
continuation Of old work $50, $780,
1S7.64.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-02-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Feb. 3. SO.
Are we to have another big
court-martial? Gen. Miles, BY
reiterating his statement tina,
embalmed beef was. furnished the
army and announcing his readi-
ness to prove Il, has seemingly
invited coart-lnartia1s Of himself,
thus forestalling what has been
announced for weeks past as Sec
retary Alger,s, dearest wish. II
fact, the last statement Of Gen.
Miles IS regarded as a dare to the
secretary of war. II would be
wise on the part 5 81 the admins
jtration to give Gen. Miles ar
early OPPORTUNITY to prove his
charge, for it'cadnot be tfntiifully
denied that public opinion, as
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-02-09

stuffs.
5. Largest exports of manufac-
tured goods.
6. Largest aggregate exports
of produce and merchandise.
Z. Largest production of iron
ore.
J 8. Largest production of Zig
iron.
9. Largest production of coal.
10. Largest production of cop
per.
II. Largest production of silver
except that of 1892.
II. Largest production of gold.
13. Largest gold holdings.
IA. Largest per capita circu-
fation of all forms of money.
IS. Largest aggregate bank
clearings.
1o. Largest aggregate railroad
earnings
Il. Largest aggregate sale Of
bonds.
18. Largest aggregate sales 0
stock on New York stock ex-
change since 1882.
Is. Smallest number of failure
and smallest aggregate liabilities
since 1892. st. Paul Mimi "Pio
neer Press. !"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-02-09

Gen. Geo. A. silsby Of Mitchell
has been appointed national
bank examiner. The appoints
nlent meets with the appreciation
of the public.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-02-09

The peace treaty made betwee
the United States and Spain has
been ratified by the y. S. senate
by vote of 81 ayes to II nays.
r. F Pettigrew misrepresented
South Dakota BY voting against
ratification. The late battle Of
Manila would not have taken
place if it had not been for the
hardness in ratifying the treaty.
The action Of Senators Hoars
Hale, Pettigrew and others led
! the F1lipinos TO believe that the
sentiment Of the country was not
back Of President Mckinley in
his plan of.. settlement Of the war.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-02-09

The anti-pass bill was knocked
out in the state senate. Party
lines cut no ice on this measure.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-02-09
lea Power Essential to Greatness.


Capt. A. e. Mahan Of the U. S.
navy, and one of the members OF
bur strategy board IN orr recent
|war with Spain, says in his much
huoted work on Sea Power, which
has given him deservedly world
efninence:
IF sea power be really based
ipon peaceful and extensive COM
neree, aptitude for commercial
pursuits must be a distinguishing
feature Of the nations that have
It one time or another been great
hpon the sea. History, almost
vithout exception, afirrns that
ibis is true. Save the Romans,
here IS no marked instance to the
ontrary.
This uttefance emanates from
man trained all his life in the
avail profession, wonderful OBJ
erver and keen student'of the
reat forces, upon the surface and
nderlying, national power, and
18th 4 felicity of expression that
as carried conyictioa wherever
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-02-09

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
represented by the masses who
are not interested in the welfare
of particular officials, either civil
or military, is at this time in
clined to believe that Gen. Miles
Is right, although it has been
semi-ofhcially stated that the re-
port of the war investigating
commission, which, by the way
was to have been made this week,
but has not been, would declare
| that embalmed beef was not is
|sued to the army. The people
want the truth and the whole
truth, regardless of consequences,
in this business, and sooner or
later they will get it.
/ Although the opponents of the
Il III a.
treaty of peace are still claiming
| 81 votes against it, the general
! impression is that the treaty will
| be ratified when the vote is taken
on Monday, because some of those
who are on the list as opposed to
the, treaty will fear to go on
Irecord against it.
| The president now has the fnd-
ling of rhe Eagan court-martial.
That the sentence of dismissal
from the army will be carried
out, no one in Washington be-
Ilieves, but opinion differs as to
how far the president will modi-
| fv the sentence.
I No speech in favor of the
treaty of peace was more care
Ifallyslistened to than that made.
by Senator Gray, who was one of
the peace commissioners. He
started out by frankly stating
that he went to Paris opposed on
principle to the acquisition of the
Philippines. or any other distant
Territory, by the U. s., and that
circumstances had convinced him
Iof the wisdom Of making an ex-
Iception and signing the treaty,
(which he declared to be a wise
|conclusion of a most delicate aud
diplomatic undertaking. He said
that while he would not retract
/ what he had said as to the unde-
STABILITY of the prlncipie of
| occurring distant territory, there
we're times when nations, as
| we'll as individuals, have to
! shoose between evils. Speaking
ii the future of the Philippines,
lie Said that he had unlimited
/ ,ontidence in the American peo-
lie aud believed that they would
lot only give the natives their
reedotn when they had shown'sa
capacity for taking care of thera-
selves as a nation, but that they
would manage the affairs Of the
islands wisely and we'll while
tthey controlled them, and give
the islanders a fair start id ciyili-
|zatiou before turning them loose
to shift for themselves.
| The bill for the increase of the
re gular army to something. like
100000, after being amended to
give to the president discretion
to keep the number down to So
I0D0 and by the abolishment of the
larmy 'canteen,' and IN other
Emlnor wavs, passed the house by
| a vote of 16S to 125. 1t came
| ry near being a strict partisan
vote, as only five republicans
| Loud of California, Connolly of
! H., Johnson of Ind, McEwan of
n. j. and Wadsworth of N. X. 80
voted against the bill, while four
Idemocrats---Taylor of Ala, Berry
KY, McClellen of N. Y. and Nc
| Aleer of Pa.---and one populist
Skinner of N. C.---voted for the
Ebill. Members of the admins
Itration express confidence that
the bill will get through the sen
fante practically as it is, but
Iothers have doubts.
/ Asreport had beer made to the
II I y
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-28
ANIMAL FASCINATION.
Snakes are Not the Only Creatures
That Exercise It.

Commenting on the instant of appar-
ent fascination in peacock stalked
by a leopard, described in The Specta-
tor of February 18th, a correspondent
says: About five miles from Port
Elizabeth, Natal, when out shooting, L
saw an instance of the complete paraly-
sis of a bird by a snake; and though the
word fascination commonly used for
this kind of effect without contact is
perhaps wrongly employed, the case
was a good example of what is usually
meant by the term. Our attention was
first attracted by something moving on
the branch of a tree, about ten feet
above the ground. We then saw it was
a Cape cobra, of the deadly kind, stand
ing erect with only the lowest coils of
it's tail around the branch, with its
hood expanded, and swaying from side
to side. On going nearer we saw, what
we had not noticed before, pigeon, sit
ting on the branch, about a yard from
the snake. 1t was perfectly motion
less, not crouched on the bough, but
standing up and made not the slightest
attempt to fly away. We shot the snake,
but neither the fall of the creature nor
the report seemed to 'unfreeze' the
pigeon at first. Then it did not fly, but
slowly walked along the bough into the
center of the tree, where L suppose it
remained until it had recovered from
the shock to it's nerves"
The above is authentic, and a very
uncommon instance Of what is gener-
ally understood by the popular belief
in the power of serpentS to exercise this
influence on their prey. But it is posi-
pie, even in this case, that the bird had
been already slightly bitten by the
cobra, and that the paralysis may have
been physical and not nervous. This
idea. did not occur to the witness of the
scene, and he did not wait to see
whether the pigeon ultimately recov-
cred. It's partial recovery when the
snake was shot he did see.
If, as is probable. there are occa-
sional instances of suspension of facul-
ties caused by the sudden appearance
of so deadly a foe as the snake, they
can be accounted for, step by step, by
a natural process of emotion and re-
suits But before endeavoring to trace
the degrees of such suspension of the
natural impulses of flight and escape,
it is we'll to state that cases, even of
apparent fascination, are uncommon,
and confined to a very few creatures
on which snakes feed. The frogs. ducks
and mice on which various serpents at
the Zoo are fed are said usually to
show no fear at all. and duck will
walk over the python's coils and quack
before the creature moves it's head to
seize it Rabbits, which are paralyzed
with fear, and in a sense fascinated"
by the stoat, seem insensible to danger
from the serpent. That, however, may
well be because the rabbits have had
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-28
Travelling With a Nawaub.

Very few of the suite had any ac-
quaintance with Western customs or
the English language. To stuff cabins
with Bombay mangoes and plantains
and let them rot, to lie down anywhere
unturbaned and in the lightest attire,
to have no particular desire for water
except for drinking purposes, to sook
their food in the bedrooms OF foreign
hotels-these and other eccentricities
demanded constant disinfectant powder
and action on my part which was only
political in the sense that sanitary max
inns cannot be enforced or hotel keepers
appeased without a certain amount OF
diplomacy The Captain of the snip
would say, when l urged upon him the
claims of discipline and suggested daily
washing of the decks: My orders are
to make things comfortable for his ex-
cellency; he has taken the whole ship"
His excellency would bid me give any
orders 1 thought necessary, with an
Oriental calm and smile that betokened
milder view of the necessity.
A hotel keeper at Naples, pointing to
discolored walls and holes burnt in bed
room carpets by braziers used for cook
ing, threw up his hands as he excialn
ed: L shall have to repaper and re-
carpet these rooms; no one can be put
in them for some days. Another at
Turin, who had witnessed an Eruption
of Mahometan. servants into his kitchen
and did not grasp their design in wish
ing to see slaughtered in the manner
prescribed by the religion the chickens
to be cooked for their masters, babe me
farewell in these words: Delighted 10
see you on your next visit. Captain, but
come alone, come alone. Never again
never again." he repeated, as I express
ed my regret and tried to explain the
object of Indians being educated by
travel in Europe, winding up with a.
warm shake of the hand and my usual
formula, You must put it down on the
bill" He assured me it was not pos
sible to put it down on the bill.-Mac-
millan's Magzine.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-28
AMERICAN METHODS.
ARE SUPPLANTING SPANISH
IDEAS IN CUBA.
La Lucha" Rebukes Native Ex-
tremists Who Are Painting Sit
uation in Unre1ieved Black.

NEW YORK, April PA dispatch
to the Tribune from Havana says:
Major Charles Fee. chief of staff to
the Governor General, and Senior Des-
vernine, Secretary of the Treasury IN
the Insular Cabinet, returned to-day
from Washington, and their appearance
at Vedado was signalized by the pro-
mitigation of the longlooked-for mort
gage extension decree. The new order
is brief, simply announcing that two
years time from May 1st will be grant
ed for the payment of mortgages on
realty now due or which may become
due within that period. General salts
faction has been expressed with the
Government action in granting two
more years of grace though the land
owners were disposed to ask a greater
extension, and the radical separat1St
politicians are a little exercised over the
| idea that the authorities at Wasnlng-
ton should give any legal or political
guarantee with two full years to run
| Governor General Brooke has not re-
ceived from the Secretary of Justice the
decree he ordered prepared abolishing
the odious legal custom of incommuni-
cado. The decree, when issued, Will go
further than the mere annulment Of
this abuse in the old Spanish criminal
code 1t will eliminate many other Sc
verities now practiced in the criminal
administration and provide for the
submission in open court Of all charges
against a prisoner.
The multiplication of labor strikes
demonstrates the quick root American
ideas are taking in Cuba. A week or
two ago the employees of the United
Railroads in Havana struck for higher
wages, but military exigencies soon
broke the tieup. In Cienfuegos the
stevedores quit work and secured a
| higher rate of wages.
| At all the piers except that used by
the Quartermaster's Department in Ha-
vana there have been half a dozen
minor labor disturbances. which seem
to have eliminated in two new strikes
one by the lcngshoremen at the big
San Jose wharf and the other by the
employees of the Havana Water Works
Company In both cases the strikers
are holding out for a material increase
| in wages
The Cuban mail service is also be-
coming highly Americanized. Letter
trate native efforts to solve their mech
anism. The letter carriers are soon to
don a uniform which rival those of
the Custom House employees and of the
municipal police.
Early in May another innovation is to
be tried-a special mail car, with all the
modern conveniences for collecting and
distributing en- route. AT present the
railway mail clerk has to do his work
on the bench of second-class car.
| 10 Lucha' in it's Spanish edition to-
| day has a timely rebuke for those ma
tive extremists who are now painting
the situation in unrelieved black. No
other people, it says, have suffered a
transformation so absolute and com
plete as have the Cubans. with fewer
disagreeable incidents and fewer dis
orders. A country which, apart from
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-28

the capitals and productive centers has,
since August last, been left practically
to itself, without any other protection
than it's inhabitants could improvise,
has given proof of judgment and mod
Grafton, since the political disorders
which have occurred are nothing COM
pared to what has happened in other
countries in analogous circumstances.
The future of Cuba, la Lucha' con-
cludes, so far from being insecure and
uncertain, appears both hopeful and
f1attering.
Six cases of yellow fever have come
to light in the last ten days, but with
the continuance of cool, dry weather no
serious spread of the disease is antici-
pated The death rate of the city con-
tinueS unusually light
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-28
TO-DAY, APRIL 2S, 9:3OA.M.
Sale of White Ash Soap,
Laundry Wax and Wash Boilers

LOT I'VE have been fortunate in securing
some Cudahy's white ash floating soap at just half
the regular price The manufacturer had it here and
rather than reship it East, sold to us at this spe-
cial price 1t is pure white soap suitable for the
bath or for washing fine wooden goods
Large Size Bars, SC.
Medium Size Bars, Sc.
LOT Wash boilers Of heavy tin with
galvanized bottoms (the most serviceabe kind, as
they do not rust OUT The handles are extra strong
and the covers heavy quality. The boilers are No.
size
To-days Sale Price, 49,
LOT 3-Laundry wax, being a small piece OF
attached to a stick by which it is applied to
the bottom of the hot irons in ironing.
To-day's Sale Price, DC.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-28
Smallpox at Kansas City.

KANSAS CITY, April 21.-Smallpox
has been discovered in a patch of
shanties near the foot of Broadway. Cy
Thompson, negro, was found with a
fully developed case of the disease in a
shanty with half dozen other negroes
and white persons. Thompson, his wife
and child were sent to the pest house
and the Patch is under rigid quaran-
tine. The shanties will be burned as
soon as the smallpox has subsidized.
There are now eight cases of smallpox
at the pesthouse. and six places are
under quarantine
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-28

il would defend itself against a ferret
which is larger than the stoat. 1t is the
remorseless bloodthirst and courage or
the stoat which has won this ascend
ercy-The Spectator
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-28
PICNIC Millinery.

You will find here to-day many dainty picnic
hats, chiefly Leghorns trimmed with flowers, RIB
bons; chiffon, etc., and varying in price from
$50 to SIS.
If we haven't just the thing you wish it can be
trimmed to order in a short time and without ex-
cost
Straw sailor hats and walking hats, including
the rough English straws all suitable for wear
at picnics. No where else in town many choice
styles here.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-11-08

seemingly oblivious to everything but
the mental picture. II like to think
about it; it's restful after all this
trumpery; not that I don't appreciate
my share Of this worlds goods, but
it's things like those that go to the
bottom of a fellows feelings. The
faces of the old people were the best
of all. I wish they had called me "my
son" once. They told me they had a
boy about my age and they hoped he'd
come home Thanksgiving, he went on
calmly cit made me kind Of blue to
think of that other fellow that could
go home there and get mis- sugar out
of the green bowl, and eat pumpkin
pie out of the pantry if he wanted.
1t would mean lot to me to have
that mother put her calloused hand,
all brown and wrinkled, on my head
just once, after the old man had been
down to the station after me with the
white horse. 1 envy that other fell
low, Carleton"
Clarke stopped speaking. The mar
ble clock licked with painful distinct
ness. At last the clerk spoke. The
color had left his face; it was white
and drawn, and his voice sounded
strangely "Clarke," he said, that
boy is going home this Thanksgiving.
and please God he won't wait for an
other before he goes again." Clarke's
eyes were fixed upon the face Of the
clerk, and Carleton, raising his, met
their friendly light. The visitor rose
to his feet; his strong limbs were
shaking, and a great change had come
to his face. He put his right hand
slightly forward and stood looking
down upon it, Then he extended it to
Clarke. 'Will you take it?'' he asked
slowly. Clarke's voice fairly rang
with cordiality. "Gladly," he said.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-11-08
PREPARATION.

1t was evident the moment she en-
tered the parlor that he was angry.
"What do you mean by suing me for
breach of promise?" he demanded. Il
never proposed to you in my life
"Why, of course, you didn't" she an
swered in a conciliatOry tone. ''And
wouldn't have accepted you if you
had. But you know I am going on the
stage, and [ must make some prepare.
ton. "-Chicago Post.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-11-08
NOT HIS STYLE.

ga musician out of work, are you?"
said the housekeeper. "Well, you'll
find a few cords in the woodshed. Sup
pose you favor me with an obligato''
pardon the pronunciation, madam"
replied Peripetetic Padroosky, "but
Chopin is not popular with me-
Catholic Standard and Times.
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