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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-30

H1meF1cun EKprCBB uenerOuBs
Cleveland, Dec. 27.-Every employe
of the American Express company
throughout the country received a
check of. So as a Christmas gift from
the company. 4 circular accompany
ing the checks states that the gift is
made for f~aithfulness in the perform
ance of duty. It is estimated that the
aggregate sun of the gift will reach
100000 or $4,000.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-30
a POOR Printer,s. ramon.

Hudson, Wis, Dec. 81 Frank Davis
wandering printer from Cherokee,
Iowa had both legs cut of while at
tempting to board a. freight train He.
died from the effects Of the shock and
will be buried at county expense.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-30
nl.ck Hill. weather Fre.k

Deadwood, S. D., Dec. 27.-The Bleak
AIMS is still having rain. which is the
most remarkable storm in the history
]of the country. In the past .thirty-six
nous one inch and, a quarter'of rain has
fallen, two feet Of snow melting away
lrapidly.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-30
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Ipswich. s. D., Dec. 27.--J. Tliomp-
sons livery and sale stable, j.. Owens
blacksmith shop and. A. Bochet's res
ltaurant and saloon burned. Incendiar-
ism is suspected. The estimated loss
is S. 5000; insurance, $500. Y
Blue-grass blade., 1899-02-19
To the Readers Of the Blade.

A report has gained circulation to
to the effect that the BLUE GRASS
BLADE will go out OF business, owing
to the Incarceration of It's editor Ia
prison. We desire to say to our
readers that this report is false, and
the BLADE will appear regularly as
usual. Its editorial columns will be
In charge OF able hapSs and it will
continue to expose canting hypocricy
and the infamous liquor traffic.
Those subscribers who owe for
the paper are earnestly requested to
pay up, as 1t takes money TO run Q
paper. Now Is the time to show
your appreciation OF the work being
done by the BLADE.
Address all communications to TIE
BLUE GRASS BLADE, Lexington Ky.
Blue-grass blade., 1899-02-19

Our club rates are bU Genus a year
for or more copies. Send In now
end avoid the rush,
Blue-grass blade., 1899-02-19
HE is AN INFIDEL.

That appears to be Moore's chief
crime, all the way from Rucker to
the penitentiary. That was Paine's s
crime, for which nation he almost
created has condemned him to hate
and iniamy. 1t was the crime of
Copernicus and Calico, and Vanini
and Bruno and Servetus.
I do not know that 1t is so, but
from my close observation of this
trial, I am impressed with the be-
lief that II was q not q fair
one but had the object in view
of suppressing Moore by confin-
ing him. Anyhow believe 1t
Blue-grass blade., 1899-02-19

ranker in quality than any that ever
appeared in the BLUE GRASS BLADE,
or in most any other print for that
matter. We want to know II this
Comstock law Is made for the Infidel
and not for the preacher. We want
to know just what and who 1t covers.
We wart to know and have II settled
whether sacred vulgarity has privil-
ege before the law, that Is not to be
granted to the plain, ordinary kind.
We want to know II an Infidel has
the right to a fair trial. Inddels
furnished the hands and the brains
and the monev when the foundations
OF this country were laid. The whole
Republican principles OF government
as adopted were the outgrowth OF
the teachings of Thomas Paine, an
Infidel. Jefferson, an Inhdel, wrote
its Declaration Of Independence,
Girard, an Infidel, supplied its treas
ury, and Washington, an Infidel,
fought its battles. Christianity is
essentially monarchical. 1t never
had any idea OF government above
the aristocratic. 1t has King at
it's head. 1t expects to live In
Kingdom in the world to come,
where Rucker and all the rest will
wear a crown.
The principles of this government
were not conceived In the head OF q
They were conceived In the
head, the glorious head Of Thomas
Paine. Freethought Is the child Of
that conception. II wants now, to
know whether it has any rights Of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-12
IN FRATERNAL CIRCLES.

| Russell council, No. 65, Knights of | Columbus, installed it's newly elected officers Tuesday evening. The second | degree was worked on twenty-two can didates. District Deputy Sullivan acted as installing officer. The new officers deputy grand knight, John J, Martin; financial secretary, John J. Corbin; re- cording secretary, Edward Muller; warden, Charles Chatfield; inside guard Edward Cooney; outside guard, William i Good; chaplain, John J. Davies; board of trustees for two years, Peter J. Con- lin, Thomas Murray and Frank Me Cabe.
 Hollister Hive, No. ', Ladies of the Maccabees, installed officers Tuesday evening.
 The installation of new officers of Wooster lodge, No. 79, A. F. and A. M., took place in it's lodge rooms last even ing. Judge Lucius P. Deming assisted by Grand Marshal George N. Moses acted as installing officers. After the ceremonies a banquet was served in the big banquetting room to which about 200 sat down, and speeches and re- marks were listened to from the Rev. Watson l.. Phllips,' Lynde Harrison, Mayor Farnsworth, F. Stanley Bradley and retiring Master Richard F. Tyner Following are the new officers: Wor- shipful master, Joseph M. Flannery; senior warden, William Fl. Morrow; junior warden, George W. F, Gillette;
 
 William H. Spock; chaplain, Samuel A. Baesett; SC for deacon, David R. filling; junior deacon, Thomas A. Bassett; sen for steward C. Fred Brown; junior steward, Frederick A. Waldron; tyler, John Mccarthy; marshal, John F. Love- joy
 In the report of the installation of Trumbull lodge, No. 22, A. F. and A. M, which appeared in the Journal and Courier yesterday morning, the name of James R. B. Bolton, worshipful mas ter, one of the officers installed, was in- advertently omitted.
 The annual installation of officers of Momauguin lodge, No. 1. A. O. U. W. was held in it's hall in the Courier building last night. There was an un- usually large attendance considering the codness of the night. Visitors from nearly all the lodges in the city were present and also Grand Overseer Walter Leigh. The installation was conducted by District Deputy Henry B. Evarts After the business of the even ing had been dispensed with refresh ments were served by the following committee: Samuel Loveland, Cornelius J. Hayes, M. H. Shanley, John Waters and Joseph Daly. Speeches were also made by a number of those present. The officers installed were: P. M. w., John F. Waters; M. w., Cornelius J. Hayes; foreman, Daniel B. Horton; overseer, John F. Rafter; recorder, Charles F. Curtis: receiver, Charles w. Gould; financier, Hugh Gibb; guide, John F. Keleher; inside watchman, Joseph r. Daly; outside watchman, Patrick Fin- nerty.
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V/fRJOTiS ITEMS.

Walter c. Mansfield leaves to-day for New York and the west. MT. Mans field is located at Menominee, Mich., as buyer and shipper for F. H. English x Go. wholesale hardwood lumber dealers of this city. He has been In the west for over a year and has been in New Haven for the past month visiting pa rents and friends,
 Judge John M. Hall, vice president Of the Consolidated Railroad company, de- nies any knowledge whatsoever of re- peated reports that his company has purchased control of the Philadelphia, Reading and New England railroad, or has entered into any arrangement with any agent of J. P. Morgan & Co.,, or any other man, with reference to obtaining control of the Philadelphia, Reading and New England railroad.
 The barge Schuylllill which was one of the three large barges that were cut loose and driven on the Long Island shore opposite this locality in the se- we're blizzard in November last, has been brought over to canal dock She was quite badly damaged and she will probably require repairs that will cost in the neghborhoCd of S5,000.
 Frank N. Slayton, the young man who posed in New Haven not long ago as a grandson of Robert E. Lea, was taken to the Middletown insane asy- lum Tuesday. He was acquitted of for gerry on the ground of insanity and was sentenced to- the insane retreat until further order of the court.
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WALlINGFORD HAPPENINGS
POOR PEACH CROP PREDICTED
 FOR NEXT SEASON.

Vital Statistics for December Military
 Enrolment Being Taken-Grange
 Auction Sale To-night-SimpsonH Hook
 and Ladder C0mpany's Annual
 Smoker Tonight.
 The Weeks American minstrels that were booked to appear here last evening failed to materialize, as the company is stranded in Mddletown.
 One of the well known farmers on the west side z. P. Beach, states that there is prospect of a poor peach crop next year. The extreme cold weather of early last week proved disastrous to the buds as fully nine-tenths are ruined Last years crop hereabouts was fail ure owing to the wet weather and lack of sunshine.
 During December there were four marriages, ten deaths and twenty births.
 MT. and Mrs. Fred Markham have a baby boy.
 A. J. Smith has returned from Hart ford where he has had an operation on one of his eyes by Dr. St. John, and has been in the hospital for two or more weeks.
 Mrs. Henry Schamberg of River street is critically i'll. Drs. McGaughey and Wilson were in consultation yesterday in the case.
 The skating on the west side of the lake is very fair and quite we'll patron- ized.
 Zera P Beach is the oldest member of Co. k and in fact a majority of the present members have been born since he joined the company twenty seven years ago.
 The grange will have one of it's auc- tion sales this evening.
 Selectman W. Burr Hall is taking the military enrolment.
 The Simpson Hook and Ladder com- pany will have its annual smoker this evening.
 The mercury was at zero yeserday morning.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-12
MEN AND WOMEN OF sALoNICA.

| MEN AND WOMEN OF SALONICA. ] As for the male population, it con- sists mainly of some fifty thousand re-
 plicas of Sir Henry Irving as Shylock. They have all borrowed his sash, his
 furred gaberdine, and his complete makeup" These are the descendants of Jews who fled from the spanish in-
 quisition, and whether it be the result
 of in-breeding or of some other cause,
 they are all alike. No doubt they know
 one another, and perhaps a practised
 resident can tell them-just as a shep-
 herd can tell his dock-apart. Their WOmenkind wear a remarkable uniform,
 which might have q certain charm if worn by people of a different shape. It may be said to consist chiefly of decol-
 letage-no corset-and green satin
 door r-knocker at the back of the head. Feminine vanity takes the form of com petition in the size of the door-knocker.
 It is not vision of perfect beauty
 but, at any rate, it is better than yashmak,
 The truth is that women of all races and creed in Turkey have given up try ing to wear attractive clothes out of sheer despair at the unapproachable gorgeousness of the cavass. A cavass in full uniform "defies competitions" I happened to be present the other day at Constantnople at the semi official fare we'll of M Cambon, the departing French ambassador. The central figure on the railway platform, towering above ambassadors and putting the mere military into the shade, was a splendid creature in dazzling scarlet. It was the first cavass of the British embassy. Sometimes the cavass affects the Alba nian costume-sh Tt braided jacket, jaunty cap, and stiff white ballet-dancer petticoat. I instinctively looked to see these gentlemen pirouatte on their toes. The cavass is notorious y-and pardonably-vain. It is not only that he is conscious of a costume; he re- members that he was once janissary. Hence he goes armed to the teeth, even though it be only to carry his mistress even though it be only to carry his mistress lap-dog. IT we ever introduce the cavass into London-and why not in the affections of the nursemaids he will prove a formidable rival to Police man X and Dandy Dan the Life Guardsman. And he is as useful as he is ornamental The protection of ca vass gets you through the customs with hardly the opening of hatbox, knocks twenty-five per cent. off the sum by which you are cheated in the bazaars, and even keeps the rrepressible little Jewish shoeblacks from running at your heels. His dignified port though it at first abashes, at last stimulates and for tifies you. You feel that you are taking part in a procession, and that now or never is the time fer your demeanor to be noted by the reporters as 'affable.' This is the cavass frame of mind. And to think that you can enjoy the harm less exaltation for the ridiculous sum of a few iasters!-London Chronicle.
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generals are between fifty-eight and Esixty-tive is almost a confession of com ing defeat. Another fault lies in the tendency or the French officer stationed in Paris to grow fat The English officer never has this ridiculous leaning toward embon- point, but if one were to watch a Datcn of officers enter the Cercle Militaire--l am now speaking of those in the fort es and fifties-one might easily mistake them for aldermen in uniform. rms argues lack of exercise, and would au- gur badly for the drill of the troops were it not that in France, as in Eng land, the bulk of this work depends upon the nOn- n-commiSSioned officers. Luckily for France, her young army of- ficers are in the pink of condition, ready for any emergency, and equal to any demands on their physical and mental systems The new rules laid down at St. Cyr in 1897 must result in an im- provement in the marale of the French commanders of the future. The tyran- ny of mathematics is abolished, and ev- cry effort is to be made to instill into the minds of the students that war is not so much science S an art, which can be best achieved by good sense and inspiration.
 General Maillard, one of the profess sors of tactics at the Ecole Supericure de Guerre, says very wisely: Under the preteXt that the progress of science and industry will be used in the coming fight between the nations it is pro- claimed that the conducting of war must be scientific, and that it will de- mand high mathematical knowledge. Nothing is more opposed to the spirit of war. The rule of three alone, up to the present has sufficed, and will suffice f1r all problems depending on calculation, but to conduct war means that the chiefs must have natural qualities, professional knowledge which must be constantly advancing, a strong, cultured intelligence but, above all. the spirit of reflection, of calculation in word, the philosophical spirit. ."-New Century Review.
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CANTON SASSACUS BALL.

Held in New Music Hall Last Night.
 The seventeenth annual reception giv- en by Grand canton Sassacus, No. 1, P. M., l. o. o. F., was held in New Music hall last night. An excellent pro- gramme was rendered, followed by the grand march, which was led by Com mandant r. E,. Todd and Miss Hattie Todd, followed by about 150 couples A programme of twenty dances was car ried out. Following were the commit tees: Reception committee: Command ant F. F. Todd, chairman, Captain Hor- ace E. Clark Lieutenant J. w. Scobie, Lieutenant W. J. Scobie, Ensign D. H. Bremner, Ensign A. o. Chatfield, Lieu tenant Colonel F. D. Brett, Chevaliers c. R. Hall and G. D. Stevens Floor committee: Robert S. Scobie, chairman; Captain w. c. Gibson, Captain F, l.. Mead, Chevaliers E. F. Cowles, George Nicolari, F. G. Gulnac, O. s. Culver, T. K. Barnes, F. H. Potter, W. H. North wood, A. T. Hyland, H. s. Hanaford, S. L. Doble, c. s. Gibson, William Steitz.
 Among those present were MT. and Mrs. ". H. Northwood, Mr. and Mrs. William Steitz, MT. and Mrs. s, l.. Doble, MT and Mrs. Charles Levere, MT. and Mrs. William Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Christie, Miss Clara Libbie, A. H. Potter, George Lockyer E. H. Gulmac, Philip Winter, MT. and Mrs, William Bean, Mrs. Lyon, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Futile Miss Mabel Futile, MT and Mrs. Hubbard, Mrs. Bristol, James Walsh. I. N. Wadsworth, Miss Doug lass of Forestville. Conn, Mrs. Baldwin, the Misses Nicoiari, and Frank Willis.
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 Hartford R. R.
December 4, 1898.


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CHARLES F. NEUMAN.

Charles F. Neuman, a well known harness maker of this city, died Tues day at his home, 216 Greenwich ave- nue. He was foreman of the shop of l.. Bostwick on Orange street for about twelve years, remaining in that position up to three years ago. Death was due to dropsy. MT. Neuman was a mem- Der of Hiram lodge, No. 1, F, and A. M. He leaves a wife and five children three sons and two daughters. The funeral services will be held at his late residence this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock Rev. H. F. Kastendeick of the Howard avenue M. D. church will officiate. The fune. al will be in charge of Hiram lodge and the interment will be in Evergreen cemetery.
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General Passenger Agent

Runs on fast special schedule via Chicago and Alton, Iron Mountain Route, Texas and Pacific. Southern Pacific Co. Summer route for winter travel For particulars apply to Chicago and Alton, 256 Washington street; Iron Mountain and Texas and Pacific, 192 Washington street. Southern Pacific Co.,, 9 State street, Boston, Mass. dSmo&th3m
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THE FRENCH OFFICERS.
One of the Features That Make the
 French Army Formidable.

One of the Features That Make the
 French Army Formidable
 One of the features which make the French army corps so terrible weapon of attack. when properly handled, is the large number of non- n-commissioned officers who have won minor commits sions such as sous-lieutenant and cap- tain, and if their education is faulty they more than atone for it by superb courage. They hope to win their pro- motion by the sword and not by the book. It is this very class of whom Von Moltke said, in 1870, that while they possess no other instruction than that of the bad primary French instruc- tion, and give evidence of gross ignor- ance, it was precisely these officers who for the greater part, strGve on the bat tlefields of France to wash out, at the cost of their blood faults for which they were in no way responsible" As a class, the French officers are equal to any officers on the continent up to a certain point.
 I have already alluded to the ad- vanced age of the French military chiefs, which makes it impossible for them to cope with hardship and fatigue. The officers between twenty-eight and fifty are at their very best, and any young man who has thoroughly under stood the teaching at St. Cyr might mount horse and lead an army corps, but the absurd reverence for age makes this an impossibility. In our owp day we have seen the magnificent clsar- headedness of youth in three depart- ments--Kitchener in war, Harmsw0rth in journalism and Lasker in chess, all of whom seem to emphasize the great lesson that the coming general must be between the thirties and forties The statement that Frances commanding
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POLO.

Meriden Defeated by New Britain.
 Meriden, Jan. 1.-The polo game to- night between Meriden and New Brit ain was exciting from start to finish. At the end of the first period each team had secured a goal, while New Britain captured one each, also in the second and third periods Both teams played a rough game, and fouls were frequent. F. Farrell was careless in his goal tending and twice he permitted two easy balls to enter the cage. For New Britain Jean and Doherty played a wonderful game The appearance of New Britain here tonight was a sur prise IS Hartford was the scheduled team. Summary: Score, New Britain 8, Meriden 1. Pushes, Warner 5, Rus sell ?. Stops, Burgess 20, Farrell 27. Doherty 1. Fouls, Jean ?, Warner, Hayes. Referee, Lush. Timer, Pagan. Attendance, 400.
 Waterbury, Jan. 1.-The Rough Rid CTS defeated the Springfield polo team in an exceptionally swift game to- night to 3.
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O A 5 TT O 1 T "A. Bears the h The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature ss AxAzzZw
SMALL FIRE.

The fire at o'clock yesterday after noon was in the residence at 105 La fayette street occupied by F. Bern field A lighted candle which was on a shelf in the cupboard set fire to some papers above it. An alarm from box 13 called the departm ent to the scene The less was nominal
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GAS COMPANy OFFTc11Rs

The directors of the New Haven Gas company have reelected officers as fol- lows: President, Andrew w. DeForest; vice president Pierce N. Welch; secre- tary, Gardner J. Morse; treasurer, Isaac J. Wild; superintendent, Freeman c. Sherman.
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ly known and had many friends and ac- quaintances. He was a Free Mason and was member of St. Johns lodge of Bridgeport. He was also an Odd Fellow and belonged to a Bridgeport lodge. The remains will be inferred in PrideeDOrt