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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-02

police station In the patrol wagon He
quickly recovered and went horne, refus-
ing 20 discuss the accident or tel! how ii
happened. He was severely bruised.
RED CROSS welcome badges can he
secured az Post-Inteliigencer Business Of
nee Zoe each Every body should wear
one when the boys come back.
DON'T miss masquerade, Ranke hall.
Saturday evening.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20
FREELAND, PA, NOVEMBER 20, 1899
A Bribe- Giving Government.

1.-THE United States pays no gold for
peace" said President Mckinley in his
speech at Fargo, North Dakota, recent
ly. "We never gave bribe for peace
In our history, and we never will"
II Mr.. Mckinley had only qualified
his statement by saying "We never
gave a bribe for peace, prior to my
administration, he would have been
nearer the truth. When he made
the Fargo speech, he probably forgot
the neat little treaty he made through
Mr.. Schurman, sof the Peace Commits
sioners, with the sultan of the Sulus in
the Philippines. Under this treaty
slavery and polygamy are countenanced
and the sultan is to receive an annual
payment (bribery) from Uncle Sam.
OF this treaty Mr.. Schurman said, in
an article recently published by him:
Since returning to the United States
/ have noticed some criticism of the
fact that slavery is permitted Lby the
treaty. to continue in the Suu group.
Slavery is recognized institution
among the Sulus. If we were to take it
away, there's no telling what would
happen. Certainly, it would be to our
disadvantage. So long as peace is
maintained we will do well to let good
enough alone.
II this is not "gving bribe for
peace" what is? And under what dis
graceful circumstances!
Mr.. Mckinley has great Difference
for precedents and history and law and
American principles in his speeches,
but in his acts he is an imperial law
unto himself.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20

Since 1919 the imperial taxation of
Great Britain has been decreased by
nearly two-thirds, while that of poor
Ireland has been doubled.
while the springs of English manu-
featuring have been let loose, the two
chief manufactures of Ireland have
been heavily weighted-distilling and
tobacco making. The cultivation of
tobacco up to 1920 was a valuable in
dustry. Now it is prohibited. The av-
erage income of the Irishman is C rs
per annum; that of the average Eng
lishman SAP. Yet while the Eng
lishman's taxes are reduced, the Irish
mans has been trebled.'
Getting Nearer Home Rule.
The Lord Mayor had all the statis-
tics at his fingers ends, and he quot
ed them impetuously. Figures flowed
from his mouth with every puff of to-
bacco.
And so think we are getting near
er home rule every day. Ireland al
ready has her fair share of represen-
tation in Parliament She has 103
members out of go odd. We don't
want to be separated from England
We don't mind the levying of soldiers
W
declare peace or war, and we dom t
ask hand in colonial affairs. All we
want is to have something to say
about taxing ourselves. We consid-
er ourselves better able to manage
our own affairs than outsiders.
To-day home r!I!e 10 stationary. 1t
is neither advancing nor retrograding
The split in the Irish party is to
blame for this. This prevents us hav'
ing the influence in Parliament that
we ought to have. When we were
a solid party and all voting together
we were occasionally in a position tc
turn out a Minister. This caused
them to legislate more quickly than
they otherwise might. Then, too, II
had a great moral effect. Aud I am
glad to say that there are indications
that the party is coming together
again.
"All England is now looking at the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20
Younq Alfred Vanderbilt.

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt the new
head of the house of Vanderbilts has
Just attained his majority. He gradu-
ated from Yale University last June,
and is the second living son of the
late Cornelius Vanderbilt. The eldest
son died while an undergraduate at
Yale.
Physically Mr.. Vanderbilt is about
five feet eight inches tall and weighs
about $50 pounds. He is well built.
His complexion is dark and rather
pale. His features strongly resemble
those of his father, and he possesses
points of resemblance in expression to
his mother, who was Miss Gwynne, of
Cincinnati.
While in college Mr.. Vanderbilt had,
it is said, formed an attachment which
society believes will soon result in
marriage. Miss Elsie French, daugh-
ter of the late Francis Ormande
French, president of the Manhattan
Trust Company, is the young lady
whom everybody believes will be Mrs.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. She has
fortune in her own right of more
than $5O00,000. She is also very
pretty.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20
"The Magic of Property"

From the Philadelphia North American.
1t is curious how rapidly a franchise
increases in value upon passing into
private hands. Franchises owned by
nothing. Substantial citizens ask for
them as gifts, and think that they are
comforting favor upon the community
in accepting them. They are ferae
naturae, which are not property until
they are caught.
But the moment one of these public
franchises, flung careessly into the air,
is grasped by a private owner, it be-
comes wealth. If another capitalist,
who might have had it from the com
munty for nothing, desires to obtain it
from its new proprietor he has to pay
fortune for it. If the community
wishes to get back its gift it finds that
the thing it threw away has turned into
gold.
Some years ago New York, feeling in
generous mood, scattered franchises
for bridges across the East river to all
comers. Eventually she wanted to
build such bridge herself. 1t cost her
5000, 900 to get permission to do so from
the people to whom she had given the
privilege of forbidding bridge construc-
tion at that point. Now she wants
to build another, and it is thought it
will cost her as much more to buy back
the right to do it, although the fran
chise has only trifle over year to run.
And yet the people who vote in New
York are all over twenty-one years old
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20

In the course of $50 years advertising
has developed into an art, but it doubt
less has many new and surprising feat
ures held in reserve for the future.
Some intelligent people profess
singular ignorance of the nature of an
advertisement, and they are all the
time urging newspapers to publish, free
OF charge, reading matter which plainly
serves the private interests OF those
who hand it in or request its prepara-
tion.
This sort of thing used to make old
Horace Greeley mad and it drew from
him the following pertinent advice:
When you want an article inserted to
subserve some purpose other than the
public good, you should offer to pay for
it, 1t is not just that you should solicit
the use Of columns not your own to
promote your own or your friends pri-
vate interests without offering to pay
for them. The fact that you are a
subscriber gives you no right in this
respect; il the paper is not worth its
price, don't take it. If you wish to use
the columns of any journal to promote
your own or some other persons private
interests, offer to pay for it; there is no
other honest way.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20

effects Of the Local Government act.
It has been in operation only a few
months and yet IL is succeeding well.
1t gives us larger measure of free
dom and allows us to manage our own
roads, drainage and the like, and to
elect our own county officers. But we
haven't the power to refuse tax i'm
posed upon us by England, but it is
coming some day. Redmond John
Dillon and Healy are working togeth.
er for Home Rule, and we will win
yet"
The Lord Mayor thinks New York
Is great place He admits frankly
that he thought it couldn't hold a
candle to London, but now says Lon
don isn't anything in comparison. He
uses a green silk handkerchief He
thinks the Irish a wonderful race
"An Irishman," said he, '1s quick
impulsive, generous. He is more in
telligent than an Englishman and
quick to understand. A thing enters
an Irishman's head as quick as light
ming and leaves it as quick But it
takes long time to get anything into
the brains of an Englishman; once
there it sticks forever"
His Lordship was getting enthusias-
tic now. He declared that the Irish
man is cleverer, quicker, wittier, more
lovable than anybody else in the
world.
Are the Irish a handsome people?"
asked the reporter.
"Ah," whispered His Lordship, you
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20
THE DANGEROUS AGE.
Time at Which Men and Women Get
Entangled in Matrimony.

The most dangerous age for a bach
elor is under 26la, to be accurate, 26.-
80, as the registrar general dryly puts
it in his statistical return just issued,
says the st. Louis Republic. The
most joyous and delightful age for a
woman is something over 241a-24.50.
That is to say, that it was at those pre-
else ages that the average bachelor
of last year and the average maid be-
came one.
The bachelor, however, becomes
more wary year by year. He was older
in 1898 than in 1897, when he fell in
to the tolls The average bachelor was
married in 1897 at 26.30 years of age,
quite .05 less. The girl, too, has to wait
longer now than she used to. She was
.05 of year younger in 1897 when she
became a wife than in 1898. AS for the
people who marry as minors, they are
rapidly becoming a vanishing number,
among men, at least; eightyfour out
of every 1000 husbands In 1874 were
married under the age of 21, and so
were 227 out of every 1000 women.
The boy husband has come down to
fifty-one per | 900 now; the girl wives
have dropped to 10 per 1000. There
have not been so few boy and girl
marriages at any time since 1861.
OF the total marriages in 1898, Az
751 persons We're minors. OF these
there were 2 girls IA years; 10, 49,
1853, Is, five boys, 16; 664 boys, IT, L.
1876 girls, II, and 3,303 boys and 6,294
girls, IS; over Is the girl-wives run in
to tens of thousands, and actually
nearly 10000 youths of 20 were mar
ried.
There has been a decided slump in
widowers and widows of late. In 1871
1913 husbands and 100 wives in every
1000 were widowers and widows re-
spectively. Things have changed since
then; there were but SO widowers and
$50 widows in every 1000 in 1898. The
widower, by the way, is obviously
more dangerous to the susceptible
heart of the opposite sex than the
widow. 1t is to be noted, however
that when the widow selects a bache
Dor as her husband she takes man
nearly two years her junior; when
she chooses a widower her husband is
nearly five years older than herself
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20

ought to go to the Horse Fair in Dub
lin if you want to see fine specimens
of the human race"
The Lord Mayor is man of per-
haps fifty. He is rather short and
thickset. When not in state dress
he wears his Lord Mayors gold chain
inside his waistcoat. He smokes a
pipe constantly and knows what good
whiskey is He is the most popular
man in Dublin and is serving his
fourth term, though no Lord Mayor has
ever before served more than one
term. The poor reverence him; the
rich respect him. He takes a mid
die ground, seeking neither to antag-
onize England nor to gloss over the
wrongs which he believes Ireland has
suffered.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20
No Runaways in Russia.

Runaway horses are unknown in
Russia No one drives there without
having a thin cord with a running
moose around the neck of the animal.
When an animal bolts the cord is
pulled and the horse stops as soon as
he feels the pressure on the windpipe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20
Sexes Politically Euual.

In Iceland men and women are in
every respect political equals. The
nation, which numbers about 10000
people, is governed by representatives
elected by men and women together.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20

o brave old world take heart!
Each day, each wrong is cursed;
And the Evil look askance
For who shall bravely speak
The word defiant, just,
Man loves his fellow man.
Carroll Austin.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20

A Chicago paper having kept rec
ord of crime for ten years declares
that the saloon business of the United
States is directly chargeahle with a
total of 53,436 murders during that
time,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16
sHor Rfayor.l

Acting upon what have been led to be- ieye is the wish of majority of the citizen tax-bayers of this city. l hereby announce myself as a candidate for reelection to tie office of Mayor, at the ensuing municipal election, April f. 1S09 Douglas C' Befi.sa
 We are authorized to announce MT. ". E. Alexander as i candidate for Mayor of the city of Pine Bluff at the ensuing city elee-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16
s25O.OOo for One Word.

What would yot think if you could make $250,000 by speaking a single word? Hon. William M. Evarets, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, once received the enormous fee of S250,- 900 for a legal opinion he expressed in just one word of three letters.
 A great corporation desired a legal opinion on matter involving millions of dollars. for upon it practically de- pended that corporations very exist ence. They decided to refer the ques- ton, which was wholly one of the cor sect interpretation of law, to William M Eyarts, and to be guided wholly by his opinion. Their lawyer stated their case to the Senator, and asked him the important question. Eyarts' reputa- tion and success are wholly Gae, not as a cross-examiner OF conductor of cases, but simply to his remarkable knowledge of law and his power, which seems almost like intuition, of deter mining just how the Supreme Court will decide any question of law.
 When the attorney for the great cor poration put his question, so vftally important to that corporations exist enee, Evarts sat buried in thought for a minute, and then answered in one word, Yes" His bill for the one word was $25o,000, and the corporation paid it without a murmur Eyarts' answer proved to be correct.
 Wnlie 1ne weaalng servlce Is pro. eeeding in Japan the bride kindles q torch and the bridegroom lights a fire from it and burns the wife's play tEs@-a
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16
A JOKE ON THE POLICEMAN

How French Policeman Got Reinforce
 ments to Capture a Supposed Thief.
 Mile. Jeanne Granier, the we'll known French actress, once met with an amusing adventure. It happened at Marseilles. In one of the little pieces she plays by herself she has for access sory the lay figure of a man, skilfully articulated and dressed in a travelling suit, with which she dances. The figure during her voyage was enve1oped in a tight fitting covering.
 On reaching Marseilles it was left in the luggage room with other things. The curiosity of two railway employees being aroused at the sight of it, they took off the covering and resolved to play a joke on thair comrades. They placed the figure i4 an arm chair at the desk of the cashier and shut the door. When the emp1oyes on night service came they opened the door and were surprised to see man sitting down before the cash bog. They immediate ly closed and locked the door and raa for assistance.
 A policeman arrived, revolver in hand, believing, like the employees, that he had to deal with a dangerous thief. He called an the figure to sur render and follow him to the sta tion. As it did not obey the summons, the policemen shut the door and went in search of endorsements to sur round the place, ard thereby to prevent the culprit from escaping. The door was again opened, the armed force entered, and it was not until they had suddenly bounced on the poor lay rob- Der that they discovered the joke.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16

The announcement of MT. J. M. Higt tower as a candidate for re- election as Alderman from the Fourth ward will be found ID the proper column. MT. Hightower has served several terms in the Council and has made the people Q very faithful and efficient public servant.
 Should be be reelected the people can rest assured that in Alderman Hightower they have a very reliable ard worthy "city dad.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16

We acknowledge the receipt of the Brin kley Daily Times, of which Mr. ". H. Oakley is editor and manager and MT. Edgar Brown, formerly of this city, is city editor. Itis a neat and spicy 6-eolumn folio and is al- together a credit to Brinkley. We hope to see the new enterprise sue. ceed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16

PINE BLUFF, ARK. MAR. 15, 1899,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16
Tor PoIlee Jndge.

We ara authorized to announce MR. T HfTE BROWN as a candidate for reelection aa Police Judge of the city of Pine Bluff a the ensuing municipal election.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16
A Good Paynaster Starts Nof Al
 Assurances.

There is one good pay- master qvho $ around on time, qfves full VaLue, and neOer fails n lis duty. r $ your prfViIege to select hin1, and lis name $ pure, q0hoLesome blood. This paymaster n1akes tie rounds of t6e body, vfsfts brain, stomach, ktdneys, lf0er, heart and head alike. Hoods SarsapanIIa acts as ] gpafan- tee tfaf tlis payn1aSter qUiH do lis daty.
 If the blood is impure, it cannot do it's 1uty, and you are the sufferer, K but you need not be. Hoods sarsaparilla purifes, vitalizes and enriehes the blood. IL aerer disappojnts.
 Poor HeaIt7-"I never saw anything beat the way Hoods Sarsaparilla lifted me up. It S1dfpeneu my dppetlte ana gave me a new lease of life. I can work every day" FREEMAN N. BIxBY, Meredith, N. H.
 scrofuia Sores Y" Ny baby at two months had scrofuIa sores on cheek and arm. Local applications and physicians medicine did little or no good. Hoods sar- saparilla cured him permanently He is now four, with smooth fair skin.a MRS. $. s. WRoTEN, Pennington, Del
 Weakness bless the day I heard of Hoods Sarsaparilla as it cured me of extreme weakness after grip, built my husband up after pneumonia, cured eczema and blood poisoning in our children MRS. NJ. A. DmwoRTH, Box 1, Embreeville, Pa.
 Head and Back - $ For one year pains iH my back and head prevented my house. hold duties. Itook Hoods oarsaparilla and am well woman. It also cured the grip in our family" MRS. MATTE HENDERSON, Cor. First and Franklin Ave, Columbus, Ind.
 Rheumatism v" Myself and friend both suffered from severe attacks of rheu- matism. Hoods SarsapariIla cured both. We would not be without it." WM. H. LESTER, 65 Leonard St., Fall River, Mass.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16
The Railroad Commission.

If there was ever any other belief than that the Railroad Commission would be fasco, there can be none now since Gov. Jones has made his appointments. There is not a practical railroad man on the com, mission; all are ex-of1ce holders and politicians who know as m jch about freight schedules probably as the man in the moon. The commission Is headed by Gen. Robt. Neill, of Batesville, a9former Congressman, who is more distinguished as a good judge of liquor than for any quality of statesmanship; Henry ". Wells, of Monticello, the second member on the commission, was prosecuting attorney of that district for a num- Der O. years, but is utterly without any experience in railroad affairs. The same is also to be said of Judge J. 0. Wallace, Of RusselIville, the third member of the commission, who has been circuit judge of his district for a number of years and was candidate for Congress against Terry in the last campaign but was defeated. So we have a Railroad Commission composed of politicians, yisionaries and men utterly without experience is railroad affairs. If the Governor had any regard for eff. iciency in office he would have ap- pointed a commission composed of an experienced railroad man, a prac- tioal business man and a good law. yer, but the Governors only desire at tho present time, judging from his present and past appointments, seems to be to load down tue public service with incompetent politi- clans.
 The new Railroad Commission be- gins its career without a man on it who can make out schedule.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16
AS TO CIRCULATION.

The Ladg GRAPHIC has nearly double the oi9suiatioH 5f any other Pine Bluff daily newspaper, and the Daily and semi-Weekly GRAPHIC have combined circulation larger than that of any othar Pine Bluff daily or elsIy newspaper A ivertisements accept d on thiE guarantee.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16

Entered at the Post-ofiice at Pine rk..assecoad-elassmailmatter
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16
COTTON MARKET

New York, \. Y. March l6 - Spots dull, 1-16 higher; sales none. middling 63S.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16
For Aid srmap.

We are authorized to announce Judge J.. ". Owen as Il candidate for reelection as Alderman from the Third Ward of the city Of Pine Bluff at the ensuing city election.
 We are authorized to announce MT. J. M. H Iehtower as il candidate for reelection as A lderman from the Fourth Ward.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16
Ii. FOWLER
x BROKER cottsn. Stocks. or61n provisions
DIRECT PRIVATE WIRE 10

New York, Ghica 70, St. Louis
 Kansas City, New Orleans
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-16
ANNOUNCEM ENTo.
For City Treasurer.

The Graphic is authorized to announce MR. WRD M TONEY as a candidate for City Treasurer at the ensuing municipal election MT. Hugh F Westbfook as a candidate for reelection to the office of City Treasurer. at the ensuing municipal election, Tuesday. April I,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-15
COCOON.

A car load of sheep was brought to
Coggon Tuesday.
Jim Freeman has returned to Oregon.
He left here Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Ed. Grassfeld and baby, of Man
chester, were visiting relatives in Cog
gon last Friday.
Mrs. N. B. Richardson has been en-
tertaining her aunt, Mrs. Emma Cook
of Hazel Green, for the past two weeks.
G. G. Blanch has sold his 200 acre
farm to Mr.. Geo. Laclare for $3.50
per acre. This is one of the finest
farms in Boulder township, or even in
Linn county, for its Size. 1t is very
pleasant place, nice surroundings, q
large residence, fine barn, we'll watered,
and Mr.. Lacore may consider himself
lucky in getting it at the figures he did.
The time is coming when the farm will
sell for great deal more money.
During the past two weeks we have
repeatedly heard of those little twins
out at John Fields, and have heard
several say that he tells about how cute
they are every time he comes to town.
John is friend of ours and we expect
ed him in any day with the smokes
but as he did not show up with the
Havanas we inquired of one of his
neighbors what he thought was the
reason John did NOT coma in and tin
the printer on such an occasion as that
20" he says, "all that fuss he is making
is over a pair of twin lambs Chss
Boone gave him.'-Monitor.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-15
THORPE.

1t is with sadness we report the
death of Mrs. Frank Schomock, who
passed away early Friday morning.
Mrs. Schamock, who had been an inva.
lid for several years bore her suf-
fering with spirit which only chris
tian could. The funeral was held at
her late home st II O'Clock Sunday, in
terment at the Union Cemetery, one
mile west of here. A husband, 10
year old son. mother and two brothers
survive her.
Grandma Blair, mother of Judge A.
S. Blair and N. E. Blair, is very sick at
the residence of the latter.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S Express Auditor
was looking into matters along the line
Wednesday. "This Office acknowledges
a pleasant call'-to borrow an editors
expression.
Fred Frentress and wife were visit
ing relatives in Illinois this week.
F. N. Beacon, the Manchester dealer,
is having his line of buggies shipped to
this station and then taken to Manches-
ter by team.
Geo. Parkinson was buying horses in
this vicinity Friday.
Dick Frentress had business in Du-
buque Thursday and Friday.
Peter Esch, the Dyersville brewer.
was doing business in our town Tues
day.
Jim Robertson delivered fifty head
of cattle for Nell Richmond Tuesday
and eighty head for Chas. Barr, Thurs
day.