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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-06-23

The following letter from Earl
Chastan to his mother will be read
with interest by REGISTER readers.
1t was kindly loaned for publication.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
The Philippine Proclamation.

Philadelphia Press.
The proclamation issued in Manila Of
fers very remarkable instance Of strong
country which acts after the provocatlon
of a war exactly as it would have done
without one.
The temptation would he strong, with
some countries, after conflict, to impose
harder terms. The United States has not.
The wanton attack made on the American
troops in February proved what every
student Of the Philippines believed, that
there is no native power strong enough to
control the semi-savage tribes, even OF
Luzon. Some superior, paramount force
is needed to preserve order and protect
foreign interests.
The United States must do this, and it
is the only power which can; but, beyond
this. the proclamation issued by the Presi-
dents commission at Manila proposes full
local self.government. Spain drew 81, 0OO,-
600 from the islands. The United States
asks nothing. Spain charged the islands
with military expenditures and the cost OF
the navy on duty in the islands. The
United States pledges local revenue to
local purposes. Spain used island posts as
spoils. The United States pledges itself
to merit appointments. At all points the
Philippine proclamation adopts the best of
English colonial practices and accepts
them, and, going step farther, it has no
vindictive policy.
AS we bring civilization in we desecrate
no tomb, we execute no ''rebels," we pro-
pose no Punishment After war and vic
tory, as before, we pledge ourselves to hold
the Philippines solely for the benefit Of
those who inhabit the archipelago.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
PERSONAL NOTES.

Admiral Dewey's boyhocd hero was
General Taylor, and the lads first ambi-
ton was to be soldier.
The South of England has lost in the
Rev. William Awdry, of Ludgershall,
Wiltshire, its famous sporting parson.
Miss Sybil Thorold, youngest daughter
of the late Bishop of Winchester, Eng
land, has been received into the Roman
Catholic Church.
The new library building recently pre-
sented to Keen, N. H.. by the late Ed
ward Darlington Thayer, was formally
opened the other day,
General Lloyd Wheaton, who cleared
the Pasig River, entered the service as a
sergeant in the Eighth Illinois during the
War of the Rebellion.
While Mr.. Moody pleaded for more
kindness to criminals in San Francisco the
other day thief crept into the building
and stole his overcoat.
Governor w. D. BloXham, of Florida,
has frequently navigated his own yacht
about Cuba, and is now said to have a
knowledge of those waters better than
that of most pilots.
Mrs Leland Stanford is the owner of
one of the finest jewel collections in the
world. 1t is valued at $1,000, 600 and
contains foul sets of diamonds from the
valuables of Queen Isabella Of Spain.
Ex-Secretary Sherman says that his
brother, the General, once replied thus to
a compliment on the honors fallen to the
family: Eyes, John has done well. l do
not complain of fortune. But the biggest
and best of the Shermans was my brother
jim. Ifhe had lived the rest of us would
have been thrown in the sha le.'
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
VENISON GOT AWAY.
Race Between a Deer and a Freight
Train.
Chicago Intcr-Ocean. |

Chicago Intcr-Ocean.
The train crew Of Erie fast freight No.
90 enjoyed deer chase last tuesday al
ternoon while the train was bowling along
at thirty-three miles an hour between
Lackawaxen and King Fishers cut, on the
Delaware division. The engineer was
Otto Schwartz and Jack Hoar was the con-
ductor. AS the deer bounded out from
behind red sandstone rock on one side
of the roadbed to the track fifty yards in
front of the engine, the engineer called out;
"There goes spledid buck, and we're
in for fine race.
eyes" said the fireman, "and he's a
beauty-a four-pronged fellow.
The engineer pulled the throttle out
another notch and the massive "Mother
Hubbard" lungcd forward at increased
speed. The excitement was intense. The
deer was slraining every muscle on one
side. The steep slope down to the Della
ware river afforded the animal no oppor-
tunity to escape without jumping to sure
death, and the almost perpendicular walls
of the mountain on the opposite side shut
off escape there. 1t was race for lie on
one side and for venison steak on the
other.
Patsy Debron, the head brakeman, who
had crawled out on the pilot Of the engine
with about fifty feet of old bell rope, sig
nailed the engineer to go faster, and
shouted:
"Twenty-fve feet more and I'll lasso
the critter"
In the meantime the increased speed OF
the train had brought out Conductor Hoar
and the train crew from the caboose, and
A sharp curve showed them the deer,
"Hurrah for venison steaks!" they
cried.
But just as Debron was about to throw
his lasso and at the moment the engineer
thought his iron horse would strike the
deer, an open spot came to vlew' INTO
which the animal escaped, barely missing
the rush of the train.
Patsy" said the engineer, ''if you had
had little salt you'd adone better, a
bit of it on the deer's tail would have set
tied it."
"I'll be dinged if ever / saw beast
run like that" replied Patsy.
The race had lasted for two and quar-
ter miles, and is the second one of the
kind within a year. The other occurred
last summer on the Hawley branch of the
Ere, between a passenger train and a
deer, and was a run of a mile and a half
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
Late Literary News.

There has been so much reference in the
recent cable news from Europe to the
strong feeling in France against England
and so much significant allusion to the ex'
periments which the French are making
with submarine boats, that the question Of
the possibility of a French military force
ever crossing the English Channel becom.
ing interesting, writer in the April Cos.
mopolitan, "Quatre Etoiles"-evidently q
non de plume-tells an ingenious story Of
the results of the consummation one hun
bred years later of that plan which was
first conceived by Napoleon when he
brought his army to the plains ofBoulogne
in 1904. When every detail of the plan
has been successfully prepared, great
fete on the cliffs of Boulogne brings the
Channel Squadron and the Prince Of Wales
to join in the ceremony. Insult intention.
tionallv and suddenly given by the Presi-
dent Of the French republic, leads to an
immediate declaration of war. The Eng
fish fleet, unsuspicious of its real danger,
moves to engage the battleships and cruig-
ers of the French which merely serve as a
decoy for their more than one thousand
submarine vessels. How these latter ac-
complish their deadly work is told in a
startling way. Then follows the INVASION
of England by three hundred thousand
French troops, all in accordance with plans
carefully arranged in advance-an invasion
which takes place SO quickly that the
French battleships and transports are
landing men at Sandgate almost before the
Foreign Office knows of the declaration OF
hostilites; then follows the occupation Of
London, ct cetera. This class of specula-
ton, while improbable, nevertheless has
some interesting points in view of existing
complications. The subject is evidently
handled by some one familiar with the
military details involved. The non de
plume would seem to indicate French
officer.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
THURSDAY, APRIL IS, 1899.
THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH.

There is no doubt but that the South
has more natural advantages than any sec
ton of the Union. lis lands are fertile,
the climate, generally, is fine, and in most
OF the States there is an abundance OF
mineral wealth. 1t would be a most in
wiling field for the investment Of capital
and rapid growth of manufacturing en-
terprise if it was not for the peculiar condl'
tons that have existed in the South since
the conclusion of the Civil War, and
which the political leaders of this section
seem reluctant to see changed. The pre-
valence of lynch law, which is not only
countenanced, but protected in some OF the
States, has been potential in retarding the
development of the South. Men ofmeans
who would be disposed to take up their
residence in the South and employ Their
capital in erecting and operating industries
that would give employment to numbers
of workingmen, are repealed by the fire.
quent accounts oflynchings that take place
in the South.
There is another reason why capital and
immigrants are kept from the South, anc
that is the unfair election laNsand method:
that are employed by the Democracy tt
keep absolute control Of the States. TIT
"shot gun policy" and ballot boxlstuffins
are not very inviting to men who believe
in orderly elections and an honest ballot
Before the South can ever attain the higl
position it should hold in industrial enter
prise and moral tone there will have to bC
a change in sentiment upon the enforce
ment Of law and the conduct of elections
The greatest enemy the South now pos
sesses is that class of men who for politica
purposes continue to educate the masse
in the belief that lynch law is right AM
election frauds just.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
Democratic Advice to WoIvertOn

The Pittsburg post"
We hope so worthy and able man as
ex-Congressman S. P. Wolverton will hest
tate long or decide promptly not to accept
Governor Stones tender of the Supreme
Court vacancy. 1t would probably impose
on the Democratic State Convention the
disagreeable duty of refusing Mr.. Wolver-
ton the nomination, and he is too good a
man to he subjected to humiliation of
this character. If the Democrats of Penn
sylvania are determined on one thing
more than another it is that Governor
William A. Stone shall not pick out a Su-
preme Court candidate for them. The
secret of Governor Stones desire to APP
point Democratic Judge is to relieve the
Republican State Convention from the
lively dance a Republican appointment
would insure. Ifhe appoints, a row is
certain, and with Stone strategy he thinks
the best place for the row is in the Demo
cratic convention.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13

Mr.. BRYAN has telegraphed E. v
Buster, who is managing the Chicago plat
form jefferson dinner to be given in New
York on the 10Th inst, that he will attend
the dinner. In the telegram MI Bryan
says: "All speakers should be supporters
of the Chicago platform" Mr.. Bryan
thinks, perhaps, that the crowd which at
tends the dinner may be like the old
Dutch magistrate who declined to let the
lawyer representing the defendant in a
case that was being tiled speak, giving as
his reason for the refusal that it always
confused him to hear two sides Of a ques-
ton.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
Deafness Cannot Ce Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There Is
only one way to cure deafness, and that i
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inhamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustacbian Tube.
When this tube gets innamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed deafness is the
result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored toits nor.
NAL condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out of ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars fol
any case Of deafness Caused by catarh
;hat cannot be cured by Halls Catarrl
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
T. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
YANKEE INGENUITY.
A Maine Postmnster's Original Way
of Carrying Out the Depart
ment's Orders.

Isaiah II. Leighton, postmaster at
West Pembroke, received orders from
Washington to transfer the mail service
from the old stage route to the new rail-
road, and to get the exact distance be-
tween the station and the Office in Or
der to determine whether the govern
ment or the railroad company should
carry the mail between those points.
Being something of a mechanical
genius. Mr.. Leighton devised scheme
for making the measurement. He took
an old wagon wheel, and, after measur-
ing its circumference to ascertain the
distance covered by each revolution, ar
ranged the wheel between two poles,
wheelbarrow fashion. Near one of the
spokes he attached a clicker that sound
ed at each complete turn of the wheel,
and thus equipped he started from the
railroad station for the post office, TAX
ing the middle Of the road and carefully
counting the number of clicks
AS he mounted the hill, making good
progress and not missing click, he met
several teams coming at trot, and
they made so much noise that he lost
his count and had to go back to the
starting point. On the second trip he
was bothered by groups of curious peo-
pie who followed him to see what he
was about. The people made so many
foolish remarks and snapped so many
Jokes that when he had reached 234
clicks he again lost the run of things
and once more had to go back. He said
nothing, but It was plain that he was
getting vexed. On the third trip he had
made about half the distance when,
through thinking Of the foolishness OF
his neighbors, he again lost his count,
and then, with remarks more peppery
than polite, he raced back to the sta
ton and made fourth start.
BY this time great crowd had gath
cred, and some of the people began to
shake their heads and drop remarks
concerning mental weakness resulting
from overwork, and the prevalence Of
insanity among inventors and other
men of genius. Mr.. Leighton could not
help hearing some of these remarks,
and he responded with great vigor Of
language, finally, with wrathful looks,
turning his back upon the rabble and
starting for the fourth time up the hill
AS he went along, village boys yelled
encouragement to him: "Now you're
trottin'l" go it, old man, you're q
pacerl" and so Oh. Mr.. Leighton stood
this all right, but at the top of the hill
he met friend who possessed more
curiosity than discretion, and this
friend grabbed him by the arm and bel
lowed:
"Say, Leighton, what in thunder are
you trying to do, anyhow"
Thatsettled it. For a time the air was
blue, and then, the curious friend be-.
ing more than satisfied with the answer
he got, Mr.. Leighton retired with his
wheel to the seclusion of the post office
back yard. Next morning early, before
many of the villagers were out of bed,
the patient postmaster trundled his
wheel over the route in peace, and this
time he didn't miss single click. The
government now knows to an inch how
far it is from the Washington county
railroad station to the post Office at
West Pembroke.-N, Y. Sun.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
Should Promptly Elect Senator.

The Scranton Republican,
The legislators in close districts know
that if they persist in adhering to the
cause of man who cannot be elected and
thus prevent the election of some worthy
Republican, they will have no chance to
90 back 10 the Legislature in 1900. These
considerations are forcing the wedge which
will divide the Quay ranks and bling
about the disintegration of the ex-Sena-
tors forces. Once the work is commenced
the end will come quickly. But it can
come none too soon for the good Of the
Republican party of this State,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13

IT is rare thing now to hear man in
this section advocating the free and un-
limited coinage of silver as so many did in
1896 If the free silver sentiment has
died out in other sections of the county
as it has in this, in 1900 Mr.. Bryan will
have hard time making that issue inter
esting. He will have to look for some
new issue.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13

The Norfolk "Virginian-Pilot," bitter
Bryanite paper, is so incensed by the re-
cent decision of the Supreme Court of APP
peals of Virginia which gave a blackeye to
the government by injunction" plank
of the Chicago platform, it gives ut!erance
to the following. Sin the Democratic
platform of 1900, government by con-
tempt should be denounced side by side
with government by injunction, as there
are many. atrocious abuses under pretence
of contempt that have no connection with
injunction. The Bryanite party is grad
ually drifting to that point where it will
embody in its platform plank which will
express contempt for the courts end law
anc order"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
THE reason certain Democrats in vir-

THE reason certain Democrats in Vir'
ginia are dissatisfied with the present
method of electing United States Senators
is that this state has been placed in con-
troll ola ring which appropriates every
thing to itself. The men who started the
movement for that meeting in Richmond,
OH he 18th of next month, are tired Of
being told that no one need apply if he
does not belong to the "Martir Ring''
If they don't look out Martin will capture
their meeting.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
THE CRIME OF 1906.
An Act of IeffersOn's Which Should
Claim Bryan's Attention.
Florida .Times-Union" Dem)I

Florida .'Times-Union" (Dem.l
The editors that grow desperate over
the crime of demonetizing silver are so
apt to forget that it was not the first OF
the kind in our history that we venture to
furnish them another date for their con-
tentions. 1t has been claimed that the
greatest evil which can befal' nation Is a
change in the standard of value, and also
that the experience of all nations confirms
this view. The gradual change in our
own standard has furnished a text to
many who did not understand the pheno-
menon, and did not appreciate the law
that operated to make the revolution, but
the evil stands confessed and indisputa-
bic.
The act of 1873 recognized condition
so plain that no change was observable
for some years, and then it was marked
that the Populists first confused the cause
with the effect and denounced the recogni-
ton in their belief that it had produced
the evil. The majority Of business men
are conservative and fail to adapt them
selves to changed conditions so that they
are caught mprepared and suffer.
Now, if Jefferson had been our Presi-
dent, what would he have done? In ans
wer to correspondent We quote his own
language under similar conditions. Dur
ing the first year of his second term it was
found that the legal ratio made the silver
dollar worth more as metal than as money,
and the issues were rapidly brought up
and exported. BY this the Government
lost just what the Spectator made, an
jefferson stopped the coinage by the fol
lowing order
department of State, May !, 1906
Robert Patterson, Esq, Director OF the
Mint Sir;-In consequence of a repre-
sentation from the Director of the Bank
of the United States that considerable
purchases have beenmade Of dollars coined
at the Mint for the purpose of exporting
them, and as it Is probable further pur-
chases and expectations will be made, the
President directs that all the silver to be
coined at the Mint shall be Of small de-
nominations, so that the value Of the lar
gest pieces shall not exceed half a dollar.
am, ett.,
GAMES MADISON"
Mr.. Madison fully concurred in the view
OF the President under which the order
was issued, as did Monroe, John Quincy
Adams and Andrew Jackson.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13

THE Emperor of Russia has invited the
other great powers Of Europe to unite
with him in policy of disarmament, but
Russia continues to play its ''grab game"
in China, and if reports are to be credited,
is irving to get up another conflict between
the Bulgarians and Turks. Russia will
never relinqulsh its efforts to get posses
sion of Constantinople. Another war in
the Balkan provinces might furnish the
opportunity Russia has been seeking ever
since the days of "Peter the Great"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13

The election of Carter Harrison for
mayor of Chicago over Altgeld and Car
ter. the Republican candidate, may be ac-
counted for by the understanding that the
National Democratic Committee endorsed
Altgeld. He ran upon the Chicago plat
FORM and no doubt many Republicans
voted for Harrison to be sure of defeating
AItgeld. With his anarchistic views the
law abiding people of Chicago wanted to
take no risks of his election.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
Cheap,

"Why is it that your melancholy
looking neighbor always has so many
troubles2" asked a suburban resident
of another.
Because he can borrow them.
There's o man that will borrow your
paper every day before you are through
reading it, and then get grumpy on
your hands if you quit taking it. You
can bet your life that if hehad to buy
trouble he wouldn't have any."-De-
troit Free Press.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
THE OHIO OUTLOOK.
Some Pertinent Advice for the RepubIi'
cans of That State.
Cincinnati Commercial rep.

Cincinnati Commercial [Rep.l.
There can be no reasonable question Of
Republican success in Ohio this year.
There can be no reasonable question of Re
publican success in Ohio any year, but
this year even more than the usual pro-
nounced victory must be aimed at and &C.
complished. In the result of Ohio's State
contest in 1899 will be forecast the nation
al contest of 1900. This does not need ex
tended demonstration in this connection.
1t is self. evident.
But, aside from any bearing the Ohio
State campaign of this year may have
upon the national campaign of the next, it
is of sufficient Importance in itself to APP
peal to all that is best in the Republican
party. This is great State. 1t occupies
position in the Union second to none.
The man chosen to be governor Of Ohio
must be representative American citizen,
a Republican of unquestionable loyalty.
lie must be q man of unequivocal position,
able, clean, upright, known to the people,
in all respects qualified for the high posi-
ton Of Chief Magistrate of this proud
Commonwealth. He must be man who
will bring honor to the exalted place he
will be honored in having been called upon
to accept.
This is the kind Of man the Republican
party of Ohio must put forward for gov
ernor, and for his running mates there
must be selected other men of like charac.
ter And these men must be selected
by the party, not by boss or faction. In
this matter the people must speak, and
their voices must be heard and needed.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
For Clerk Of Circuit Court.

To the citizens of Tazewell county:
l hereby announce myself candidate
for reelection to the office of clerk of the
circuit court of Tazewell county. | am
profoundly grateful to the people for Their
past friendship and respectfully solicit their
support again, at the election which takes
place on the fourth Thursday i'll May,
1899. Very respectfully,
II. BANE HARTMAN.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
n tho Votorc of Clear Fork District.

To the Voters of Clear Fork District:
At the request of many friends | have
decided to Withdraw as a candidate for
Commissioner Of Revenue and become a
candidate for Supervisor of Clear Fork
District. | hereby announce myself a can,
didate for Supervisor Of that District and
ask the support Of the voters at the
approaching election.
Respectfully,
NJ. i. NEEL.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-04-13
For Sheriff.
q voters of Tazewell county :

To the voters of Tazewell county:
hereby announce myself & candidate
for the Office of Sheriff of Tazewell county,
and earnestly request the support of my
fellow. citizens at the election next May.
If elected Mr.. John w. Crockett will act
as Sheriff of the eastern part of the county.
Respectfully,
JAMES DANDY.