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The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01
AS a result of recent agitatiC

AS a result of recent agitation
in certain mining regions, says
the Reporter, one of the meas
ures favorably acted upon by
the house committee in behalf
of federal aid to mining, is a bill
establishing federal mining ex-
pertinent stations in each of the
mining states, and providing for
the appointment of a govern
ment geologist at So, 500 a year
and an assayer at 81, 500 in the
respective mining states. These
officers are to furnish assays, is
sue public bulletins and conduct
explorations of mining regions.
In such a service there are the
possibilities of great education
al benefits and material aid to
the general industry, but the ad-
vantages OF such dispensation
remain to be tested by time and
experience.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01
Sayings of Sages.

We seldom find any person of
good sense except those that
are of our opinion. Roche.
To him nothing is possible
who is always dreaming of the
past possibilities. Carlyle.
The whole world is put in
motion by the wish for riches
and the dread of poverty.-Dr.
Johnson.
One should conquer the world
not to enthrone a man, but an
idea; for ideas exist forever
Beaconsfield.
Never fear to bring the sub
limest motive to the smallest
duty, and the most infinite COM
fort to the smallest troubles
Philip Brooks.
Explain it as we may, a mar
tial strain will urge a man into
the front rank of battle sooner
than an argument, and a fine
anthem excite his devotion
more certainly than a logical
discourse. .-Tuckermar.
When | think of talking it is,
of course, with a woman; for,
talking at its best being an in
spiration, it wants CORES
PondingIy divine quality of re-
C0Dt!I0D0EE 1Dd Mb0E0 mil H0D
ceptiveness, and where will YOU
find this but in woman.-O. W.
Holmes.
We must not inquire too cur
i0usly into motives. They are
apt too become feeble in the ut
terance; the aroma is mixed
with the grosser air. We must
keep the terminating grain
away from the light. George
Eliot.
The greatest evils in human
society are such as no law can
come at. AS in the case of in
gratitude, where the manner of
obligation very often leaves the
benefactor without means Of
demanding justice, through that
very circumstance should be
more binding to the person who
has received the benefit
Steele.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01
Remarkable Cure of rheumatism.

Remarkable Cure of rheumatism
From the Vindicator, Rutherfordtown, Va
The editor of the Vindicator
has had occasion to test the
efficacy of Chamberlain's Pain
Balm twice, with the most re-
markable results in each case.
First, with rheumatism in the
shoulder, from which he SUI
fered excruciating pain for ten
DAYS, which was relieved with
two applications of Pain Balm,
rubbing the parts afflicted and
realizing instant benefit and en-
tire relief in a very short time.
Second, in rheumatism in thigh
joint, almost prostratlng MIN
with severe pain, which was re-
lieved by two applications, rub
bing with the linament on re-
firing at night, and getting up
free from pain. For sale by W.
r. Campbell.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01

said: Should Bryan be the dem
ocratic candidate, the populists
of Oregon will certainly vote
for him. This could not be said
of any other man who could re-
ceive the democratic nomina-
ton. Bryan occupies a unique
position. He can get the demo
cratic and populist vote of the
west and south, and no other
man can. The difficulty of the
situation for the republicans lies
in the apparent probability that
manv of the multitude of demo
Gratis that voted for Mckinley
in 1895 may vote for Bryan this
year. The causes are numerous
and complex. They lay partly
in the events of the time and
partly in the general estimate
of the character of Mckinley
and his administration. But
there is no man who can unite
the democrats and populists OF
the west as Bryan can, and it
may prove to be as hard a task
to keep him from carrying Ore
gon as it was four years ago.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01
The entire Boer army numbe-

The entire Boer army numbers
but 64, 900 men, with no reserve
to draw upon, while opposed to
it is a British army of 100000.
The South African war has lost
to the British army their former
prestige as fighters. Although
greatly outnumbering the Beers
they have been checked in every
attempt to advance. Lord Ro-
berts, according to press reports
has Cronje surrounded, with 40, :
900 men under his command, and
the same authority places the
latter's strength at 5000 or 5000
men, and Roberts is still unable
to dislodge him or force him to
surrender.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01
Gold Democrats in 1900.

The Chicago Chronicle, which
IN 1896 was the chief democratic
newspaper in the West, says in
a dOuble-leaded EDITORIAL:
Mark Hanna has parted from
his bogy.
There can be no excuse for
democrats giving aid or counte-
nance to his man Mckinley. It
is now the boast of a republican
correspondent that, the senate
having passed the currency bill
by an overwhelming majority,
the financial question is removed
indefinitely from the political
campaign, because even if the
exponents of free coinage were
to endeavor to undo the work OF
this bill, they would enter upon
a stern chase which obviOuSl y
is a long one. They would not
be able, even with a silver ma
jority in the house of represen-
tatives, to repeal the law for at
least six years. It will be idle,
therefore, on the part of Mark
Hanna to raise the cry, "Wolf!
Wolff" Nobody will heed it and
time viii afford the large mum
Der of gold democrats who elect
49, II ]
0S' 8
ed Mckinley in 1896 to give their
undivided attention to chastis-
ing that gentleman for his man
fold sins.
The democrats who in 1896
made Mckinley S election posi-
BILE are now thoroughly ashamed
of the part they had in elevating
to the chief magistracy a man
with whose general political
sentiments they had SO little in
common and are likely very
gladly to accept the hint of Han
ma that he has no further use for
them.
The currency matter is no lon
ger an issue. Mr.. Mckinley will
come before the country as the
wabbly champion of protection,
so-called, as the particular friend
of British aggression against re-
publics of Dutch origin, as the
friend and defender of trusts
and as the originator of an i'm
perialistic policy which con
demns the declaration of indie
pendence and seeks to give a
new character to the republic OF
North America.
AS such, democrats cannot but
condemn him.
Three years of Mckinley have
demonstrated that to prolong
his term would be undesira BILE,
perhaps fatal.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01
nInstructions at London
[[5Dd4lgIL HPLl DILE[HEgt 9RS7ISS.

OnOer the present ANY lO-
American ton of the
affairs of this country it was
necessary for the newly appoint
ed American Consul Hay, son of
the American Secretary of State,
to call at the British Govern
ment offices in London for final
instructions as to his conduct of
the affairs of the American Con-
sulate at Pretoria, says the St.
Louis Republic.
This fact is vouched for by the
New York Committee to aid the
United Republic of South Africa
in an official sta atement given out
to the American press. There
is little reason to doubt its truth.
Young Hay is unquestlonably
the Joint representative OF Great
Britain and the United States in
the Boer capital. Upon him falls
that burden of serving foreign
government, at the sacrifice OF
the inserests of his own coun-
trymen, which led his predeces-
sor, former Consul Macrum, to
resign his post.
This young man, now fully IN
structed by the British Govern
ment as to the service which
Britain expects of him in South
Africa, stands as the incarnation
of that amazing surrender to
British influence which has led
President Mckinley and Secre-
tarv of State Hay to ally the
United States with Great Britain
in the crushing of the two little
South African Republics. All
his official and moral influence
in Pretoria will be on the side of
the British. It will not matter
to him that the sturdy burghers
of the Transvaal are making the
same fight for liberty that his
forefathers made in 1776 Impe-
rialism forbids him to indulge in
a sentimental devotion to the
cause of freedom.
How do the American people
relish the attitude which their
Government now assumes before
the world? 1t is vital ques-
ton, this of the popular verdict
to be passed upon the rampant
Anglo Americanism of the Nc
Klnley administration. Do we
accept it as the new American
ism?
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01

Indian Agent Nicholson has
stirred up strife with the live
stock owners, whose horses and
cattle run on the reservation.
They have been notified to ap-
pear at the agency on February
10th, to make an accounting. A
charge of 81 per head will be
made against them, which, if
not paid, their stock will be
rounded up and sold. There
are probably 1000 head of stock
from ella county grazing upon
the reservation, mostly horses,
and the owners are in a quand-
ary what to do in the premises.
Our opinion is that if the gov
ernment wishes to exclude stock
from the reservation they had
better fence it in.-Globe Belt.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01
The estimated population

The estimated population of
the United States on October l.,
was 75,561,OOO greater than in
1890. In the meantime the cat
tie have decreased 200,
head. In other words. in 1890
we had 62,S02,000 cattle of all
kinds to supply 81, ,622,ooo peo-
pie with beef and dairy pro
ducts, we now have only 45, 1O4,
900 cattle to supply 76, ,561, ,00C
people with beef and dairy pro
ducts.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01
Rash Judgment.

Clergymen who attend con-
demned murders during their
last days on earth are frequent
ly criticised for that last act of
mercy. Such criticism is gener-
ally thoughtless. The founda-
tion on which it rests is usually
both flippant and unChristian.
The Arizona Graphic, for ex-
ample, takes to task a priest
who recently baptized a con-
victed murderer a few days be-
fore execution at Holbrook, in
that territory. The only rea
son the editor advances for this
is his personal belief that the
doomed wretch was no more OF
Christian when he died than
he had been at any previous
period of his life. No proof or
argument whatever is offered in
support OF this hasty judgment.
"To baptize such a man on
the eve of execution and pro
claim him a convert was but
making a mockery of religion,
and the priest who baptized
him but desecrated his holy
robes.'' This sounds miserably
pharisaical, to say-tte least
Though baptism was administ-
u ] | I
cred only at the last moment,
we happen to know that the
convict who was brought up d
Protestant, had been under con-
slant instruction by the priest
for fully thirty days before he
received the sacrament.
Father Dilly, of Flagstaff,
the priest, who was obliged to
travel one hundred and forty
miles every time he visited the
prisoner, and to pay his own
expenses, cannot be suspected
of having any unworthy utter
ior end in view in the practice
of such zeal. The penitent was
poor and friendless. The afro
cious character of the crime for
which he finally paid the for
felt of his life, deprived him of
the smallest measure OF public
sympathy in the community.
He was literally an outcas
when he came under the priest S
notice. It is certainly not rea-
sonable to suppose that the
latter acted without sufficient
ground for his belief in the sin
cereity of the man S penitence.
Christ Himself created the
precedents for the charity eX-
hibited by His minister in this
case which does not differ from
that displayed by all priests
under similar circumstances
Father Dilly would nave been
faithless to his sacred trust had
he acted otherwise than he did.
To have turned his back upon
the sinner in his extremity
would have been, indeed, to
make a mockery of his holy
calling and prove himself I'M
worthy of his sacred robes.
No priest guarantees the
eternal salvation OF any sinner
protesting eleventh hour re-
nentance. That is a matter
which lies exclusively within
the province of Gods power and
mercy. But to refuse to admin
ister to the spiritual needs of
even the most grevious trans
oressor. on the brink of eternity
would be an act of unspeakable
recreancy to an awfnl trust, an
act for which no true priest
would dare to assume response
bility.-The Monitor, San Fran
cisco, Cal.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01
Cronie asked Lord Roberts for

Cronje asked Lord Roberts for
an armistice of twenty-four
hours, in which to bury his dead,
and was refused. It is custom
ary with all civilized countries
engaged in war, to grant such
requests. But England has new
er exhibited any Of those higher
traits of civilization and hu-
manity when nghting a veal ker
people,
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01

The Oregonian, stalwart re
publican paper, is honest en-
ough to occasionally speak its
candid opinions. In recent is
sue in speaking of the political
outlook for the present year, it
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01
A Good Cough Medicine for Children


II have no hesitancy in rec
ommending Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy" says +. 2.
Moran, a well known and popu-
lar baker of Petersburg, Va.
eve have given it to our child
rem when troubled with bad
coughs, also whooping cough,
and it has always given perfect
satisfaction. It was recommed-
ed to me by a druggist as the
best cough medicine for child
ren as it contained no opium or
other harmful drug" Sold by
w. R. Campbell.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01

Getting up with the sun is
common practice where there is
a teething baby in the house.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01

A man can't make his home
brighter by making light OF MS
wife s trouble.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01
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Imposition is the only posi-
tion some people eyer attain.
The Winslow mail., 1900-03-01

We always criticise; others
find fault.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-22

wires. At 7:35, in obedience to a signal
from the flagship. the fleet Withdrew
from action and all hands went to
breakfast. Steam GOT; revolutions 1914.
From 8 a. m. to MeridIan-W Weather
clear and pleasant. Calm first part.
then light breeze from S. E. At $40
the flagship made general signal 3O9i,
and the commanding officer repaired on
board. At 1880 general 121; ut 1910
general 500. The squadron steamed
ahead at 1915 in column of vessels, the
Baltimore leading. making for cavite
point When OF the point the vessels
steamed parallel to the shore, distant
about 1900 yards. passing in front of
the shore batteries. which were engaged
by, each Ship In turn. this vessel using
starboard battery. firing as quickly as
possible. At end of watch still engaged,
firing ut shore batteries and vessels.
Meridian to p. m.-clear and warm;
Light to gentle breeze from 8. q. AT
beginning of watch on Cavito'p point en-
gagged with batteries. At 1850 the en-
gagement ended, the enemy's fire hay
ing ceased and all his ships being burn
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-22

ranging nearly seven miles. The olym-
pin then advanced to the attack, head
ing the column, the commander in chief
personally directing the movements Of
his flagship and regulating the progress
OF the other vessels by signals.
The fire of the battery was directed
from the coming tower and bridge by
the captain and executive officer. At
5:S5 the order was given to commence
firing at the Spanish feet, and rapid
fire was maintained until the close Of
action. A torpedo boat ran out and
tried to place herself near the track Of
the Olympia, but she was repulSed and
driven ashore by the FIRE Of the sec
ondary batteries, about $40. The speed
maintained was about six knots and
the range varied from $500 yards to
1000 yards from the Spanish line. The
ship turned within 1900 yards Of the
sangley point and canacao batteries,
As the squadron advanced 1t was fred
upon by battery on the mole at the
entrance Of the Paslg river, by heavy
gun on the south bastion Of Manila,
and by battery on the beach at Nal.
ate The Olympia did not return this
fire. Positions were obtained by cross.
bearings taken with the standard COM
pass, and approximate distances taken
charts b. A. No. 975 and s7s The Span
ish guns had range enough to drop
shells alongside the. Olympia up to 5000
yards, but no hit was made by project
lies from their main batteries. Frag-
ments OF shell new on board, cutting
the wire fore and main strands and the
forecastle deck, but no one was injured.
The ship seems to have been hulled
twice by small rapid-fire projectlles,
which failed to penetrate, Tho squad
ron was led across the bay near the
five-fathom course. passing three times
from the eastward and twice from the
westward. at varying distances. The
Spanish squadron was composed Of thu
crulser Rnnn, Christina. bearing the nag
OF Rear Admiral MoHtejo, OF Pasaron;
the cruisers Castillo, Don Antonio dc
Uiloa, Don Juan de Austria, VeIsSco,
Isla dc Cuba, lsla de Luzon; the gun
boats General Lezo. Marquis del DucrC
and the transports Isle dc Mindanao
and the surveying vessel Argos. Sew
eral tugs ana launches we're also lyinG
OF the arsenal. The Spanish admiral
shifted his flag to the Castillo. but soor
returned to the Rclna Crlstina and
made a desperate EFFORT 10 come outside
the line. but was stopped by the con-
centrated FIRE OF our ships. At 1885 thu
Spanish FIRE had slackened and severa
| vessels were seen to be crippled or OF
! frc. The commander In chief directed
the squadron to stand on toward TIT
middle OF the bay. The shore batteries
| in Cavltc and those In tho southern
suburbs OF Manila kept up an inettect
I've nre during the operation. Prepnr
ntlons were made for restowing arnmu
milton and for giving the ships com
pnny breakfast. AZ end Of watch th'
gaundfon was standing on and on Will
Mnniln benrlnE about east and Cavib
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The aolympia.D

100 -, 0,Tyr, TyNyy1VutTNs rSll A INNS
AoS os ,,, at5 , $500 nT,A IS3
EA5sEll $50 ~ -. : ~ 1-. 80 1 r41.4s
gisli'lIl' 80, s,4.+ - , ~.
Aa'uH'sht 20 = ~ ~ .''-t ~
no breezei moon set enout O'CLOCK
No meteorological record Standing up
Manila bay ut speed q FOUR KNOTS ''
during watch with squadron ana re-
serve In double column AZ 4z'1! tne
Raleigh ana Baltimore began lElns,
shots having been flrea from OatIetles
along the south SIDE o. tne Gamma.
Our shells were seen to burst on s.tlk-
Ing the cliffS, but It was 700 aafk 70
locate the batteries AZ emu OF w.tch
approaching anchorage on MANIA Hne
battery was manned ana all lights ex-
cept those on battle circuits ana Stern
light for cruising were e1ansuishea
during watch. Served out conee AZ :.
From q m: to 9 a m.-Clear ana
pleasant light air. &eteoroiosica1 rec
ord suspended on account Of action
Stood in TO anchorage west OF the
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the nth stateroom chat Of Ensign
John s. Doddridge), where Is exploded
ana started IRE, which was promptly
extinEulshed. The hole was Immediate
" repaired. A small shell carried away
a portion Of the rail- Of the third cutter,
then entered the hammock rait Just
forward Of the bridge, port Side, and
burst among some hammocks and
hatchhoods, setting FIRE to them. which
fire was promptly extlnguished. A 5
or 8-inch shell through the foremost
from starboard to port, about II feet
from the superstructure deck, cutting
away the third cutter OF the port fore
rigging. A small shell passed through
the superstructure just forward Of the
port after 6-lnch gun on the gun deck.
about five feet above the deck. and
burst inside, hurting no one. A shell
grazed the main topmast Just above
the cap, carrying away the truck light
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commodore,

Last In the line of the six ships that
formed the line Of battle was the Bos-
Loo OF THE UNITED STATES
STEAMER BOSTON, SUNDAY.
MAY /. 1898.
Commences and until n. might
breeze from s. E. Fair and pleasant,
with lightning from N. E. at intervals.
steamIng in column OF vessels in Ma
nlln bay, steering various courses. At
1910: while passing through Boca
Grands, the Aeet was fired on by bat
terry on the southern shore, this single
shot being followed by another after
an Interval Of about six minutes. The
Concord replied with three shots, the
Mocoilooh with three and this ship with
one, signals as per record. Steam 81;
revolutions %.
From 4 to s q. m.-Fair and pleasant
Light breeze from s, Il. steamlng in
column ot,vessels at about four knots
speed approaching Manila FIRST, then
circlIng the east shore OF the bay from
Manila toward Cavlte, where the Span
ish feet was congregated. AZ 5:2b the
forts ut Manila fired on the fleet, which
FIRE the fleet returned while passing,
Soon after the engagement became gen
oral with the spanlsh war vessels ana
ahore batteries ut caVite.
The feet went In action in column Oh
vessels, the aagship leading and the re-
serve tn the bay to the north, out OF
range. Thin action was fought ut an
average range OF 1900 yards. the Meet
ateamlnE twice around IN ocllp5e turn
ing with port helm and engaging the
enemy with both batteries. Arhot ilre
was maintained throughout, and at thu
closs tho enemy, though stlll hShtns
desperately, showed evident signs OF
dlstrezs. This vessel sustained the fol
| lowing injuries. a small armor-piere'ns
shell passed. through the side about =
inuhss above the water line, en1afina