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The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24

An Englishman is inventing flying machine with which to cross the At lantlc But if he really wants to see us he would better come by boat.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24

Flushing is now said to be disease. Apparently the youth of the present generation have been pretty freely vac cinated for it.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24

By the time the various powers get all they want China will be a grand succession of open doorways without the doors.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
Impractical.

"I'm afraid" said the man with the heavy gold watch and chain, "that our friend the inventor will never succeed"
 "But he is very clever and indus trious."
 "Yes. But he insists on getting his machine so that 1t will work before letting me put stock on the market."- Washington Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
Reward of Merit.

Aged Bookkeeper Striking for higher salary)-I have grown old in your ser vice, sir.
 EmplOyer-So you have. so you have. must get younger man in your place New York Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24

The wedding of MT. Vanderbilt and Miss Virginia Fair Is another illustra- ton of the tendency of capital to coalesce.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
Sarcasm of Submerged Tenth.

The Kind Lady-Now, you will net go and get intoxicated with that dime. will you?
 The Rude Recipient-Oh, no, mum. am already intoxicated wit joy at my accession to riches.-Indianapo Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
Showing Credentials.

"Mr. Perkins is a good business man, isn't he, daughter?'
 'I think so, mamma; ten minutes after he was presented to me he told me he was a widower"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY

Paradoxical, but true. Usury pro- duces both wealth and penury.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24

No one has suggested holding Col onel Ingersoll responsible for the prev aIence of political suicide.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
AuticiDatiou

''Now," said the man who had ad- ministered the knockout drops, "we might as we'll relieve him of his watch and chain and diamond pin and his cash.''
 "Yes," replied his companion. "When he wakes up he ought to feel greatly relieved" York World.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
Others Not 90 Slow.

Jack-Am l the first man you ever kissed?
 Ethel-You are the first man who ever waited for me to do the kissing New York Evening Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
Comp1etelx DisabIed.

He (sympathetically)-You have a bad cold.
 She (huskily)-I have. am so hoarse that if you attempted to kiss me I couldn't even scream.-Boston Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
Keeping Up Appearances.

A ''licensed pawnbroker" who does a great deal of work in the west end of London lately gave to the writer par ticulars of a strange sort of pledging that has become common of late and that often defeats men of his kind
 Backing up his statement with actual names and dates, he said:
 "A bailiff and enter a showy flat, say, and my accustomed eye at once falls on handsome or at least pre- tentious piano. I say to myself that this piano will sell for what I require. l go to it, but find that it is locked l ask for the key, and when this is reluc- tantly produced 1 find that there is in reality nothing but case All the in- side of the instrument is gone. The fact is that people in difficulties who still want to keep up appearances can Eor- tow money. while still apparently re- taining their piano. by allowing the lenders to take away the main part, or inside, of the instrument. One man in the west end in particular does con- siderable business by lending money on pianos in this way.
 ''I suppose that when visitors want to play on an instrument of this kind the host pleads that the key is lost. Anyhow have in my own business had quite 50 examples of gutted pianos dur ing the last two years, and 1 never mark a piano down in an inventory now till have closely examined it. ''- London Answers.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
Waiting for Papa to Decide.

Miriam-"Where do you expect to go this summer-to the mountains or the seashore?"
 Fannie-"We haven't decided yet. It will depend on which papa selects. do hope he will say the seashore. That will make mamma take to the noun tains and like them so much better"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
Too Late.

Farmer (with wife and two children How much fer tickets fer the young unS?
 Railway Ticket Seller-Between 5 and F, half fare.
 Farmer-GOsh darn it! Mandy. we'll hey tew wait till to-morrer; it's half past F now!
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
A Very Poor Workman.

oLhderby-Madam, I'm a self-made man, and Pm proud of it.
 Miss Wittily-Really, but you're an awfully poor workman.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24

It takes a genius to compel himself to like the disagrVe cable tasks he has to perform.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24

Mistress-Tve told you never to come at noon, for my husband is at home then.
 Beggar-Why? Is he so jealous?- Unsere Gesellschaft.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-24
AN HONEST ARTIST.
He Would Not Paint a Lie Even For
 Napoleon.

There was no love lost between the Emperor Louis Napoleon and his cousin, Prince Napoleon, whom the Parisians called ''Plon Plon. The prince used to make abusive speeches against the em- peror, which people were only too ready to repeat to him. "Let him alone, |" Louis Napoleon would reply. "He is too we'll known. No one would. turn me out to place him on the throne.
 The emperor was correct, for no one said a good word about ''Plon Plon. He was commonly believed to have shown the white feather in the Crimea and never exposed himself where the lead was falling. An English lady, who in her young days mingled with French society, tells in her Foreign Courts and Foreign Homes a story as discred- itable to Prince Napoleon as it is hon. orable to French artist.
 While the artist was painting the historical picture of the battle of the Alma, which the emperor had ordered, Prince Napoleon called at the painters studio to make known to him the facts On leaving he said he wished the prom inent figure in the battle to be himself mounted on his white charger. He sent the horse to the artist so that he could paint its exact portrait. When the pie ture was finished and invitations were sent out for a ''private view" the white charger was seen, prominent figure in the battle, but without a rider.
 On hearing of this terrible omission the prince sent an aid-de-camp to ask the reason. The honest artist said the horse should remain if the prince wish ed. but no rider would be on it. ''Tell the prince I have never yet painted a lie. The hint was taken. The prince ordered the horse to be rubbed out.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-03-30

The LoudOn marble mill will
soon run nights.
Jackson reports five new cases
of smallpox.
There is an increased demand
for lsborers in the copper mines
at Ducktown
A large still aud 1000 gallons
of beer were destroyed by officers
ia Putnam county.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-03-30
NEWS OF THE STATE.

Snow Is reported in Dickson
county.
Jack son will erect u new s 25,-
600 city hall.
The Martin Mail celebrated it's
twenty-ffth anniversary.
The IIolston PresbyterY will
meet at Jonesboro, April 5
Sample postottice in Hawkins
county has been discontinued.
A new white cap organization
is operating about Lynchburg.
Dog PRISONERS are operating
extensively in Washington cOun,
ty.
Many new poultry farms are
being opened throughout the
state.
Tor, K,r,odv orod tvo,+v
a rattsman, was drowned near
Union City.
Tb. paonlo,s Tolonbona com
pany will open an exchange IN
Morris,own
Bosrs have anneared in Camp>
bell county lately frightening
many PEOPLE.
Ev,.rs;va ,mnr.vamants will
be made on the street car system
in jackson.
Dnr;np Tho r,cont tila sta.m.
boats reached SeyierviIle the first
time in months
Now Century Education istba
name of a new monthly uublica-
ton ut Nashville.
Nancy Murray spvoptv wears
of.,o ro,,r... y.. h,r,od -
death at Memphis.
Bolivar academy DAMAGED nv
tho recent sto,m 81, M,,d;s,n
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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-03-30

a. OdN huudus
A new gas company is not
having such an easy time getting
a toOt~ho!d i'll Nashville as con.
templstcd.
VandaIs have been operating
to the destruction Of property in
New Providence cemetery ut
Mary vile.
Jonerboro has rock crusher
in need Of repairs thai 10 being
given attention by advocates Of
better roads.
Robert Higgins lost his wife
and two children by death at
Chattanooga within few hours
of each other.
Roane county members of the
Sixth regiment, immunes, back
from Porto Rico, may be given u
public reception.
Tie Tennessee Christian En~
deavor state convention meets ut
Memphis, Wednesday, April 5,
and will be in session five days.
Friendo of Hiram Hall, the
wife murderer, sentenced to be
hanged at CrossviIle, April 5,
will make IN effort to have hi.
sentence committed.
The new garnishment bill, vi
loving mans wages TO be seiz,
ed when earned instead of whe,
DIE became a law without the
signature II Governor McMiIiu.
J. j. Marin was recently
found at his barn near jackson
with his throat cut. His death
is mystery, friends not know
Ing whether il was n murder mr.
self destruction.
John Overton Johnson, . Shell
by county farmer md horse trad.
err, met a horrible fate. In The
darkness of the niyht Johnson
and his horse went over the pre-.
cipjtous Hd,, Of a nike ITo fall
face downward into the mud
and there he WIS found twelve
hours later almost compIrter,
buried in the Slime of the slopph
His faithful horse. better able 10
recover from the fail and regaip
solid fuotiug. stood vn.rd ovar
the corpse until morning, when
people came uud cave the assis.
lance that arrived to late to save
the human life
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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-03-30

DR.. W, II. Donlel, ST., died
suddenly at McEwen.
j. d ellis, well known at
shelbyville, is missing.
New barytes mines will be
opened in Bradley county.
The wooden mill at Messy
Creek will soon be started.
Fourteen negro crap shooters
were arrested at Nashville.
Smallpox no longer has any
effect on business at jackson.
Farmers about LynnviIle are
weeks behind with their work.
Fine phosphate bsds have
been discovered near Franklin.
Memphis is rapidly becoming
southern headquarters for pug
lists.
John Ke;ser, sr., died at I'm
Ton City, ninetyrnine years of
age.
The capacity of the Unaka tan
merry at Newport will soon be
doubled
Active work in the Fentress
county oil fields is confined to
one we'll.
Bill johnson, a negro, was
found badly mutiIated at MUIR
freesborO.
J. H. Cooney, of Canada, a
prospoctor, was drowned near
PASSPORT,
Wisconsin capitalists will
start an ak handle factory in
Chattanooga.
Weakly county teachers will
have an institute in Martin next
Saturday,
Adam Dougherey is the new
proprietor of the Snyder hotel OF
ElizabethtOn.
Gallatin has water works and
machinery has bean ordered for
an ice plant.
A decline in the egg market
caused Morrisrown produce deal
ers 81 900 loss.
Bad health caueed an old man
named Davidson to kill himself
in Upton county.
Benton county has an album
of whooping cough, mad dogs
and spotted fever.
The Lebanon Presbytery OF
of the Cumberland church is in
session ut Lebanon.
Emnitt Shull, of Madison
county, had both legs cut of by
a train at Fulton, Ky. :.
Weakly county's wheat crop
was not 80 badly damaged by the
February freeze as reported.
G. Briuloy, a leading citizen
of COokeville, became suddenly
insane without known cause.
The lobe cemetery, near Erwin
is reported,ih danger of being
submerged in a sea OF mud.
A pile of cross ties fell on a
tramp about fifty years of age,
near Martin, killing him instant
ly.
Terrell Naples, a former resi-
dent of Bradley county, died IN
Texas leavinga fortune of $500,
600.
Isaac Roberts, Of Kyles Ford.
became insane aud had to be
placed in the asylum at Kuox-
vile.
Nearly halt million dollars
have been invested the past few
weeks BY new poultry firms IN
the state,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-08
DEWEYS HEALTH is VIGOROUS
surgeon of Olympia Reports that Ru-
mors 10 Contrary Are Wholly
tnfounded.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 7.--On the steam
ship City of Peking, from China and Japan,
was DR.. F.. Page, assistant surgeon. U. s.
n, and surgeon on the flag ship Olympia
for the last year and a half. He makes the
following statement regarding Admiral
Dewey's health:
admiral Dewey is in perfect health. He
has not been more than twenty miles away
from Manila since the first day of last Nav
and he has not felt the necessity of a physl-
clans aid in that time. The reports con
cerning the admirals physical condition
have been grossly exaggerated The eli
mate OF Manila is enervating, OF course, but
the commander OF the fleet has been no
more affected by It than any one else.
The people OF California will be disap-
pointed at not seeing Admiral Dewey. for
he has determined to return to the United
States in the Olympia by way OF the suez
canal"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-08
PETITION FROM PORTO RICO
missioners Lay II Second Memorial
Before the President of the
United states.

WASHINGTON, May 7.-Senores ]. Julio
Henna and Manuel Zeno Gambia, commits
sioners from Porto Rico to the United
States, have presented a second memorial
to the president, reiterating the prayers
of tkeir first petition. They ask the follow
ing concessions:
First-The concession of military govern
ment and the establishment of civil rules
in the island
Second-The establishment of absolute
free trade between Porto Rico and the
United States.
Third-The reduction of American troops
and the enlistment of Porto Ricans.
Fourth-The right of American citizens in
the island.
On the subject of military control, the
commissioners make the point that "the
subject of reforming the Porto Rican system
does not properly belong to the army Of
ficers who now control Porto Rico, or to
the War department, but to the Porto Rican
people themselves"
In contending for free trade relations
with the United States they assert that
economically speaking, the people were bet
ter off under Spanish rule than under the
present military rule by the United States,
ard add that Porto Rico has done moth
ing to deserve to be forbidden admission
to the American markets, or to be starved
to death through high duties under the
tariff promulgated by the War department.
They also assert that neither Cuba nor
Porto Rico will ever be able to make a
step in the road of true progress and hap
piness as long as custom house stands
uron their soil"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-08
PLUM FOR A SOUTH DAKOTAN
Representative Gamble Secures n
Good Consular Position for One
of His Constituents.

WASHINGTON, May 7.-(Special Tele-
gram )-Representative Gamble of South
Dakota left for Chicago today Gamble
said before leaving that the president had
assured him Of the appointment of promi-
nent South Dakotan to a good place in the
consular service. For the present the name
OF the lucky man and the post to which
he will be assigned will not be made public
On his return to South Dakota Mr. Gamble
will take up with his colleague Mr.. Burke,
the appointment of census supervisors
South Dakota has two OF these places and
Director Merriam has requested that rec
concentrations be filed at an early date.
The long contest over the postoffice at
Centerville, Turner county, South Dakota
has been settled during Mr.. CANDLES visit
b. G, Thass is the man selected for the
place. j. Il. Tominson, who was a strong
candidate will be taken care of.
Mr. Gamble has been assured by officials
of the Interior department that no con-
sideration has been given Senator Petit
crews recommendation that the Ssseton
agency be placed in charge of a bonded
superintendent While they say there is no
necessity for an agent at Sisseton, no
change is contemplated at present
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-08
DULUTH STRIKE UNABATED
Strikers Are Destroying, Robbing
Property and Intimidnting Nom
union Employees at VIII.

DULUTH, Mimi, May THE damage
done the rolling stock of the street railway
company by mobs in different parts of the
city tonight was greater than that OF all of
last week. over loo car Windows seie
broken and three persons were injured. Fred
j. Fewings, clerk for the Duluth, Missabe
and Northern, had his head cut by a stone
He will recover. Two women were hurt
one being cut in the face by flying glass and
the other struck in the back by a stone.
Strikers of their sympathizers stole
switch point at West Duluth at O'Clock
In the afternoon, causing a cessation of
operations beyond Twenty-siXth avenue
west. The danger to passengers and the
damage to property was so serious that the
company abandoned all cars at 10 O'Clock.
They announce that they will not run cars
at night any more until they can be af-
forded adequate police protection. The 70
lice made but one arrest. that of a small
boy for throwing a stone at a car.
Strikers are intimidating a widow, Mrs
LeClair with whom the non-union men are
boarding. committee of the ex-employes
OF the company visited the boarding house
and made overtures to buy the new men
oq and get them to leave the employ of the
company Mrs. LeClair's barn was fired
Saturday but no damage was done.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-08

o'clock at night the individuals OF terrific.
rial militia at your order will be founC
united in all of the streets at San Pedro
armed with their bolos and revolvers ol
guns and ammunition II convenient.
Second-Philippine families only will n.
respected; they should not be molested, bul
all other individuals of what race they may
be, will be exterminated without apprise-
ment or compassion after the exterminatior
OF the army of occupation,
Third-The defender of the Philippines In
your command will attack the guard at Bill
bid and liberate the prisoners and "presid-
iarlos," and accomplished this they will be
armed, saying to them: brothers we mus
ayenge ourselves on the Americans and
exterminate them, that we may take our
revenge for the infamy and treachery which
they have committed upon us; have no COM
passion upon them, attack with vigor; all
Filipinos en- masse will second you. Long
live Flipinos independence.
Fourth-The order which will be followed
in the attack will be as follows The sharp
shooters of Tondo and Santana will begin
the attack from without and these shots will
be the signal for the militia of Trozo BIZ
nondo Qulapo and Sampaloc to go out into
the street and do their duty. Those OF Pako
Ermita and Malate, Santa Cruz and San Mi
guel will not start out until 12 o'clock un-
less they see that their companions need
assistance.
Fifth-The militia of Tondo will start out
at 8 o'clock in the morning; IL all do their
duty our revenge will be complete. Brothers,
Europe contemplates us. We know how to
die as men shedding our blood in defense
OF the liberty of our country Death to She
tyrants. War without quarter to the false
Americans who have deceived us, Either
in peace or in death!
The following was DR.. Andrews letter: II
am one of those who believe the American
flag WILL without any change in its historic
creed of liberty, soon fly over every one of
the Philippine islands; that it will never be
hauled down in any of them, and that the
Fiipinos will before long hail its presence
as an unqualified blessing. These views, of
course are debatable; but touching the ma
tion's immediate duty in those islands, to
the Flipinos themselves, to foreign resi-
dents there and to all mankind interested
in Philippine civilization and trade, l should
think there ought to be no difference of
opinion. The simple legal fact is that the
Philippine islands are as truly this minute
United States territory as the state CT 1lli-
nois The president must do his utmost to
create civil order there or break his official
oath. AS a loyal citizen heartily approve
his efforts Our brave army and navy should
be reinforced if necessary and encouraged
to press forward. All the citizen and all
the soldier in me rises in protest when l
hear appeals calculated to breed discomfort,
disobedience and perhaps mutiny among
Otis men. Let the Auditorium meeting
thunder to those men the American peoples
mandate to stay by and do their duty to
the end"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-08
PROCLAMATION BY STEPHENS
Kansas City Commission Men Are Un-
easy About the Executives
Recent Order.

KANSAS CITY, May 7.--(Special Tele-
gram)- proclamation recently issued by
Governor Stephens, in which the rules gov
erning the inspection and admission of
southern cattle into the state are prescribed,
has caused some uneasiness among the live
stock commission men at the stock yards.
Rule one reads as follows.
From the fact that there is a possibility
OF the introduction of splenetic fever from
territory in Texas and Oklahoma lying north
and west of the quarantine line hereinbeforo
described cattle from such territory will
be admitted to this state as native only after
Inspection made by and upon permits Issued
by live stock inspector of this department,
or by the live stock sanitary commission of
the state of Kansas.
The territory Lying north and west OF
the described quarantine line" in Texas is
known as the Panhandle. That part of Ok
lahoma affected by the rule is between the
southern boundary of Kansas and the PAN
handle in Texas This territory annually
produces many thousands of well bred stock
cattle and feeders that have hitherto been
admitted into this state the same as native
cattle.
A. II. Dean, chief Of the bureau OF animal
industry for the government at the stock
yards, after reading Governor stephens
proclamation, said: Section 10 will prove
source of great trouble for the states IL
the rule is enforced. Kansas inspectors, in
the first place, have no business to issue
permits on cattle that originate beyond
their jurisdiction and which are consigned
beyond the state. They are interstate and
not local and in the opinion of some the
owners would be entitled to damages If they
are quarantined or even interfered with"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-08
PRICE OF PRIESTS LIBERTY
French Minister Demands Large In
demnity from China for Lock-
ing Up Missionary.

PEKlN, May THE French minister, NJ.
Tichon, has demanded mining concessions
to the value of 100000 taels in the province
of Szechuan, one of the largest in China
and trayersed by the Yang Use Kiang, as
indemnity for the recent Imprisonment of
a French missionary. The demand is con-
sidered eXorbitant
The Chinese say that the existing condi-
tions of rebellion are not due to any lack
of energy on the part of the government
which has frequently consulted the French
minister regarding the best means of OBJ
tanning the freedom of the priest in ques-
tion.
According to advices from Hankau, cap
ital of the province of Hoo Pc the Rus
SLAMS contemplate taking definite action
with reference to property now owned by
British subjects in the Russian Jadene com
mission. The Russian consul refuses to
recognize the titles of the claimants. The
affair threatens to interfere with the Pekin-
Hankau railway project and the dismissal
of the Russian official is considered to be
the only remedy