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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-23
MISSOURI VALLEY, IOWA, THURSDAY, MARCH %, 1S99
A SIGNIFICANT EVENT.
ship Grant for the Phillip
pine Islands.

AN unwonted event took place In
New York harbor lately. A great
steamship, belonging to the United
States government, had been trans
formed into model troopship, that it
might be used permanently as mill
tary transport. 1t was laden heavily
with soldiers of the regular army, who
were to be carried, by it to the Medi-
terranean sea, en- route to the Philip
pine islands, says Youths Companion
This ship-renamed the Grant-bore,
besides her 1900 troops and crew, Gen
Lawton and staff of officers. Be-
fore she left on her long ocean voy:
age she steamed up the North river
to . point opposite the tomb of6en
Grant. There she fred salute of 81
guns, end her bands slowly and SOL
emnay played the national anthem.
No circumstance Of pomp, no empha.
sis of official recognition, were omitted
in the dispatch of this ship. The Sec
rotary of war stood on her deck when
she fred her farewell guns at the base
Of the great generals tomb. The sol
dders were in uniform as on dress pa
rade, and the huge ship and its crowd
ed decks was an Impressive representa-
tive Of national power. Not without
similar ostentation Is she to steam
over watens once plowed by the gal.
leys Of Roman and Carthaginian sol
diers. She carries large guns with
which to fire salutes and exact them
in return. Her significance is not to
escape observation.
Behind her on the great Saxon high
ships OF like character, the Sherman
and the Sheridan, both model trans
ports. each bearing, as she does. nearly
1000 American soldiers, and guns to
awaken the echoes of the Mediterra-
mean and the Red seas.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-23
PHOTOS IN BICYCLES.
up-to-Date Girl. Have q New Place
for Pictures Of Their
ADMIRERS.

screens decorated with photo
graphs, by common consent. were rele-
gated long since to the dusty obscurity
Of the garrett or the widowed isolation
Of the cellar" says the photographer
who studies fads; ''but photographs
will accumulate, and women fnd it nee
cessary to exhibit some Of them at
least. So there has risen a fertile
genius with q fad for displaying photo
graphs on the boudoir wall gracefully
distributed between the spokes Of BIZ
cycle wheel, says the New York Press.
''Not an ordinary bicycle wheel, how
ever, will suffice. 1fitis q young wom-
an with matrimonial prospects, more
or less immediate. or maiden in the
first throes Of hope, she must show her
pictures in a. wheel from her best
young mans bicycle. 1fshe is married,
then she must use wheel which has
revolved in century runs. This ia IN
effective ornament and permits the ex-
hibition of 30 or more favorite pie
lures.
Another fad has brought 1t about
that many young men who last year
were wearing boards have faces as
smooth as eggs this year. Their adorn-
ments have been sacrificed to the fad
in question. The end Of the century
young woman must have three photo
graphs Of her swain. Picture No. must
show him in oil the splendor and dig
nifty OF full beard. Picture No. 2 re-
veals his manly beauty polished off
only by mustache. Picture No. pre-
sents him entirely Invested Of all whis-
kers.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-23
EDUCATION IN SPAIN.
From tho Following Account I
Would Seem It's Chief Feature
IL Its Absence.

II contributor to the Revue Inter
rationale de Ilcnseignement describes
In few pages the farciol system Of Sec
ondary educationin Spain. The schools
in question are the so-called provincial
institutes, where boys between the ages
of ten and sixteen are Instructed and
examined In IS subjects, seven of which
have been added to the list by recent
decree Of the minister of education
viz: Political economy, common law,
history OF Spain, literature, history Of
art. bookkeeping, and industrial and
agricultural technics. The minister
also recommends vista to the museums,
but, as the writer remarks, in nine
times out Of ten. where the institutes
arc situated. the only museums are the
churches with their wax images. The
boys work from three to four and half
hours a day, and the newspapers are in
rage over such outrageous disregard
for the life and health Of the Spanish
youth. The deplorable condition Of ele-
mentary education in the Kingdom may
be inferred from the status Of the com
mon school teachers as depicted in a
recent number of the Padagogische Eel
tung. Out Of $4,000 teachers, in round
numbers, included in the last census,
nearly 1900 were receiving $50 or less
annually, 5000 were paid from $50 to
500, and the salary Of only 1000
amounted to more than $3.50. But the
worst of 1t is that thousands of these
poor men and women were not even
paid the pittance to which their con-
tracts entitled them.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-23
Russ1A's sEAs1cK NAVY.
The Men Are Big Eno.xh, But They
Are Unable t. Navigate In
Rough Weather.

Any man who believes in the Russian
navy should keep his eyes OF the Rus
sian bluejacket. A real sailornsn has
fingers bent up like ishhooks, from the
lifelong habit of gripping thing. The
Russian sailor carries his hands xke
soldier and cannot possibly be "hsn.
dy." A sailors gait ashore has slight
roll. This arises from the need at sea
Of keeping up the windward side Of
. rolling ship. And the rolling gait
marks one of sailors finest qualities
-balance. Unless the body poises and
balances to meet every motion Of
ship the result is seasickness. says
London Answers.
Now, the Russian bluejacket does
not roll in his gait ashore, butmarches.
Neither has he any sense Of balancing
at sea, and seasiokness in the Russian
feetis q source Of actual weakness and
danger. The Black see squadron can
only be put to sea in the three calmest
months of summer, and the so-called
maneuvers takes place ashore on the
Kenai peninsula, consisting merely Of
battalion drill.
One moro trait OF the real sailor Is
his self-reliance, which makes him At
for facing emergencies single handed.
But the Russian bluejacket has none Of
this. He Is not machine in himself,
but only little bit Of q machine which
cannot work without the other bits.
He is huge in stature-a giant COM
pared with our men-but in his winter
overcoat 1t is impossible to distinguish
him from soldier. Unhandy. seasick
and reliant only on drill discipline, he
is utterly unfit for active service.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-23

Otto Grossman has constructed
pair of shoes with which he sue
cessfully walked on the surface of
German rivers, to the great aston
ishment of tn boatmen. Grosr-
mans water shoes consist of two
air-tight cylinders. On the other
side of the cylinders are pivoted
five square flaps. When one cy-
Under moves through the water
the flaps move rearwardly and
then lie fat against the shoe: the
flaps on the other shoe, which at
the same time is stationary, are in
a vertical position, and hence Of
fer certain resistance. The
water walker glides much after
the fashion of a skater, with the
difference, however, that while
one foot is moving forward the
other moves resrwardly TO a
slight degree. The feet are secure
ed in the upper part of the shoe
by means of straps. When in
motion the water-walker uses a
short oar to assist him in his
movements.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-23
Seneitivo ClOCk.

A Lewiston (Me.) merchant he. In
his store an old-fashioned clock which
is peculiarly sensitive. It sometimes
stops, and II anyone steps into the store
or goes by, II will start again, and II q
horse steps on Q certain spot In the
street 1t will start. A man who hap
pened to notice 1t, aud who had one like
1t himself. said that his would not run
after he had started his furnace in the
fall. In the spring, after he ceased to
keep fire, II would run all right.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-23
sittin~ DuIl,n Crave.

A broken wooden headboard and a
neglected mound of earth in the Fort
Yates (N. d. military cemetery mark
the resting place of Sitting Bull, the
great Sioux medicine man whose willy
brain planned the deathtrap of the Lit
tie Big Horn into which Gen. Clusters
command fell. On the broken head
board is written: mo. 81. Sitting
Bull, Indian" Relic hunters have cut
most of the headboard away.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-23
HULL THINKS NOT.
Believes Uncle Sam Won't
Give the Boys an Excur-
sion Party.


sion Party.
Capt. John A. 7. Hull, of Des
Moines, member of congress from
the Seventh Iowa district, and
chairman of the military commit
tee of the house, in recent in
terview expressed the opinion that
the Fifty-first Iowa would not be
brought home by way of the Suez
canal.
"The 17ifty-frst will do we'll to
get back to Des Moines by Sep
tember. 1t was one of the last sent
to the Philippines and for that
reason will be one of the last must
cred out, as the government means
to follow as near as possible this
order in returning the regiments
from the islands. 1t may be that
they will get home earlier than
the date that l have named, but [
can hardly expect it.
There is no likelihood what
ever that the regiment will be re-
turned by way of the Suez canal
and the Atlantic seaboard. This
would mean an expense to the
government of at least $4,000 adj
ditional per regiment so returned.
The distance is 1000 miles further
than the Pacific route. Then the
tolls for the passage through the
Suez canal would greatly enhance
the expense. Further than that,
the government has transports
plenty and to spare on the Atlantic
seaboard, and scarcely any at ell
on the Pacific. 1t has sent ships
to Manila by way of the Suez can
al in order to get them to San
Francisco and so avoid the trip
around Cape Horn. While the
"trip around the globe would be q
most pleasant one to the volun.
teers, it cannot be expected that
the government would go to this
greatly increased expense simply
to give the troops sightseeing
tour. The boys will be brough,
home as rapidly as possible, but
they will come by way of Ss1
Francisco"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-23
A Great Satisfaction

A Great Satisfaction
IN getting just what you want, at the
time you want it, is blessing indeed,
and if you will call on us when you
want anything in the way of groceries.
We will guarantee satisfaction, every
thing in the way of table luxuries at
prices to suit everyone.
G. w. SNYDER.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-23
spai.,s ONLY NavaI Victor.

Only once in their history al ma
ton have the spaniards achieved
naval victory. That was at the battle
of Lepanto. in 1874, when, v Oh the aid
Of venetians and Genoess ip,tey an
INFLATED The Tpsdss asedsn s :.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-23

Jerusalem's Fall from Glory.
Jerusalem is nownothing but a shad-
ow Of the magnificent city of ancient
times. It is about three miles in cir
cpmference, and is situated on rock
mountain.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-23

The best line of carpets in til.
city. Call and see samples.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-08
INSURES
PURE

We have it prepared in quantities to
supply any or all demands. We will
deliver to your home, if within the city
limits, a trial bottle at % cents. Don't
neglect TO order a bottle at once.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-08
DREYFUS.

BREST, June 27-Dreyfus will ar
rive here Friday night, and will be i'm
mediately taken to Rennes for his
court martial. The president OF the
Western Railway has been notified 10
make necessary arrangements for a
special train to convey the prisoner
at that time. No explanation is given
for the delay of lie cruiser Sfax, which
was expected 10 arrive several days
ago. Every imaginable suppoSition
and rumor are advanced. The Govern
ment officials refuse to give the slight
est information. Newspaper CORE
spondents from all parts of Europe,
and a number from America, are here
awaiting the arrival OF the noted prls-
Oner.
This afternoon a lighthouse tender
put TO sea at an unusual hour. and i'm.
mediately there was an excited reyiy-
al of public interest. this vessel beinG
supposed to meet the SfaX and convey
Dreyfus to shore.
There was no demonstration today
the city being quiet and orderly. as
the noted prisoner is not expected now
until Friday. The Government has
! made elaborate public and secret ar
rangements for his safe conduct. The
whole district between Brest and Rem
mes is under close surveillance OF Sc
cret agents. While no great showing
of military is made, a large number
of troops is in readiness for any emer-
! gency
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-08
ITALIAN LADORERS.

1t seems strange to those who are
acquainted with the relations which
exist between Italy and the Argentine
Republic, that laborers from Italy are
willing to emigrate to these Islands.
The Advertiser published, several
weeks ago, some statistics on the sub
ject which show large Italian popu-
lation in Argentina, and the induce
ments offered to Italian laborers. AS
land is cheap in that Republic, and
the cost of transportation from Italy
is extremely low, and the emigrating
5abOrers meet their own countrymen
and obtain an abundance OF land, the
question naturally arises, Why will
they emigrate to this distant territory,
and why do they emigrate to the
Mainland?
The explanation is this. After the
entirely to vast speculation and in
ffated values in Argentina, which the
Earrings supported, there was a reac-
1ion and commercial depression which
reduced the business interests to a
condition of bankruptcy. The recov-
cry from that condition has been
slow, and is by no means complete.
Aside from financial causes, there has
been constant Encouragement of i'm
migration owing to the invasions of
the locusts, floods, hailstorms and
drOughts. Profits have been small,
and the rate of wages low. Emigrants
have, therefore, turned to the United
States, where profitable labor could
be readily obtained. AS the condition
of agriculture improves there will be
an increase of immigration from Italy
to that Republic.
During the present year there will
be, it is estimated, an export of TO-
000, 900 bushels of wheat, and 10000
900 of corn. Viticulture is also eX-
tending, and over 10000 acres of land
are under cultivation in two prov
inces.
1t us, itherefore, probable, that until
there is a large demand for Italian
emigrants from Argentina, laborerS
may be obtained for these Islands
But Argentina will be the first choice
of the emigrantS.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-08
TEA CUPS VS.. THE OTHER CUPS

The Church Army" has establish
ed in Allen street, New York city,
tea house, where a good cup OF tea
may be had for two cents. The calls
for tea average one in every minute
from a. m. to II p. m. The theory
of the establishment is that many
men use alcoholic liquor because they
are thirsty, and the tea will take the
place of the liquor if furnished when
ever wanted
The candid and thoughtful tOpers Of
all nations agree in the belief that 1t
is the "fuddle" in alcoholic drinks
that makes them acceptable to man
kind Why topers of every nation,
every cline, should agree on this
proposition, without international
conventions as a basis of agreement,
cannot be easily explained. 1t is pos
sibly an idea based on a thirst inner
tied from Adam, who, after the unfor-
tunate Fall gathered up the re-
manning apples that the serpent had
overlooked, made hard cider out OF
them, and discovered the joyous ''fud-
de- in it-a discovery which he did
not restrict to one race, but distribu-
ted equally to all races.
There is the strongest evidence Civ
en- by medical men that tea drinking
does much harm to women who in
dulge in it freely. 1t is said that II
acts as a slow and quiet poison, With
out these external manifestations OF
maudlin foolishness which the use OF
alcoholic liquors presents.
The widespread desire for 'fuddle
y due in a large measure, it is now
admitted, to social causes, the depres-
sion Of spirits caused by poverty, ano
the wearing nature of the game OF civ
Iized life, in which the average bust
ness man is flying like shuttlecocl
between prosperity and bankruptcy.
Whether the use of tea will remove
or modify this desire for ''fuddle' !:
a question which only experience viii
settle. The proposition is in the IA
ture of a ''short cut to reform ans
Providence. in it's dealings with he
world, does not seem to favor shor
cuts Those who drop a nickel in tn
slot of Reform, and expect to draw tn
Millennium out of the machine, do no
get the encouragement they desire.
The fact that the tea house is pat
ronized is proof that it fills some Ion
felt want" whatever it may be, and
will serve as a side attraction unit
there is an attack on the real cause
OF intemperance.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-08

ed it, because, he believed, it touched
the feelings of the criminal as no
other form of punishment did. The
prejudice against the use of the lash
has arisen because there has been an
abuse of it, and it has been applied
indiscriminately.
Closer studies of penology show that
there is a class of men who do not
dislike the hospitality of jails, but
they fear the whips. Prison life, in
tary quarters, fair treatment. healthy
occupation. But the lash interferes
with personal comfort
The late Marshal of the Hawaiian
Kingdom, w. G. Parke. often said that
the prison had no terrors for the ma
tive Hawaiians as a rule. Punishment
by Imprisonment was regarded by
them as an accident of life, misfOr
tune like that of being thrown from a
wagon. 1t was common custom for
the friends of a native criminal TO
meet him at the Jail on the day of his
| delivery, to take him at once to a
luau, cover him with leis, and cele-
| brate his restoration TO society. The
| effect of prison diet and discipline on
| the native criminal resembled that of
summer watering place on a person
! in poor health. The criminal returned
to his friends in the best of health and
| spirits, and he, with his friends, con-
| sidered his offense to be merely a tri-
fling accident, which might happen TO
any respectable citizen.
The penologists incline to the belief
| that a certain class of men fall to that
| level of degradation, where only the
lash will restrain them. But expert
| enced men only can distinguish this
class, and to them should be commit
ted the authority of using the whip
AS the darkey farmer said to his mule
when yo' gifts to thinkin' back ards
l rex n fire under yo' belly kind o
helps yO to gittin' sense
That convention of prison reform
ers should now discuss the question o
renewing the use of the lash, is evil
dence of the wiser and more discrim
mating views which are prevailing re
garding the nature of criminals.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-08
Hoods Sarsaparilia
Hoods SarsapariIIa

Sold by all druggists. 81; six for 5. Pre-
pared only by c. /. Hood n Co, ApOthc-
carries, Lowell, Mass.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-08
THE LASH.

Some people, whose opinions are
entitled to consideration, are adyocat-
ing the revival of the use Of the lash
as one method of punishment for
crime. A closer study of the criminal
class is forcing the opinion that 1t
has good uses. The late Governor
Biggs, of Delaware, refused to consent
to the repeal of the law which requir-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-08

NEW BILL at ORPHEUM THE
ATER tonight.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-08
DISlNFECTINE

With the heat of summer comes the
the cesspool, vault and cellar. You
must DE on your guard against the &C
emulation of trash, garbage, etc.; IL
is dangerous TO have around.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-08

Everyone enjoys it; your health de-
ponds upon it. You can just as we'll
have it as your prudent neighbor. Old
and young alike endorse il.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-08

Hood,= Dill are the only pills g. take
hhooSi - hiiS with Hood SarsatArillz.-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-08-26

Resolved, That permission be n Is
hereby granted to the following namso
persons to erect signs. etc, over the slas-
walk in front Of the premises ~designatsu,
in accordance with the rules of TINS Boaro
governing such matters 49,.
Patrick Byrne, sign, 50 BrunsWlek
street.
Patrick OsHara. sign. 319 First street.
Henry Ewald, sign. 533 Newark aVenuS.
p. Tumulty, barber pole, % BruhswicN
n. Glblin, barber pole, sos Monmouth
street
Resolved, That one special improvement
certificate for one hundred and eagnlsr
two and 07-1G0 dollars be drawn IN favor
of p. H. Flaherty. Jrs g Co, retained
percentage for work done done ana ma.
ferials furnished on account Of eonIracn
No. LOCI. for Improvement or FopiaI
street. from Central avenue 70 TUCSON
Boulevard.
Resolved, That one special Improvement
certiticate for five hundred dollars pe
drawn III favor OF Thomas w. Conley'
for work done and materials farnishsd q
account Of contract No, 1.0V, supple
mental. for construction Of 4 sever II
Noble street, Hudson Boulevard ana