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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
NEED A NAVAL RESERVE.
Secretary Long to Urge It's Estnblish-
ment Instead of the Present
Naval Militia.

Secretary Long, it is said in special
dispatch to the New York Tribune
from Washington, will in his report
urge the establishment of a naval re-
serve TO supplant the existing naval
militia, which is thought to have out
lived it's usefulness, as shown by it's
rapid deterioration since the war with
Spain. The proposed national reserve
is already under consideration in con-
gress, with the Endorsement of all
naval and maritime interests. 1t con-
templates the enrolment of officers
and seamen in the merchant service,
much after the manner of the British
reserve, at an expense far below that
of the naval militia, with the distinct
advantage of making experienced sea-
faring men available for services
aboard fighting ships. 1t will be
shown that in case of war tomorrow
the United States warships now in serv-
ice would require at least 500 officers
and 10000 men for fighting compile
ments. With a national naval reserve
enrolled this force could be secured and
made efficient in few weeks, while on
the other hand the present naval mill
tia could not supply one-tenth the num-
Der in twice the time.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
YALE GAINS BIG SUM.
Treasurer's Report Shows Large In
crease of Funds Last
Year.

The Yale university corporation
treasurer's report and the budget for
the coming year were presented at
the autumn meeting. Both were ap-
proved. Treasurer Morris F. Tyler
says that for the fiscal year ended
July 81, 1900, the permanent funds of
the university were increased by the
sum of $427, 1869; that the general
funds of all departments amount to
$2,372 ,994.42, and the funds and assets
of the university aggregate $5,347,-
7s2.77. The receipts from term bills
and other charges to students were
$4S7,022.19; received as income from
investment. rents. etc. $255 5,967.7O.
The general university funds have
received $21O,99s.5O of the years in
crease noted, the principal additions
being from the estate of the late Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, 100000; from Miss
Caroline Phelps Stokes and Miss
Olivia E. Phelps Stokes, for the erec-
ton of Woodbridge hall. $4,000, and
100000 from William f. Dodge for a
specific course of lectures. OF the re-
mainder of the increase $16,977 IS
comes in the form of gifts to the in
comes of the different departments
and S2OO,6s5.25 in additions to build
ing funds. of which latter sum $780,
IT'S has been paid to the bicentennial
memorial building fund.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
NEED MORE SCHOOLS.
Deplorable State of Illiteracy
Among Porto Rican Children.
Present school system Comprises 500
Teachers and $4,000 Pupils-Those
still without school Facilities
Number 100000.

M. G. Brumbaugh, commissioner of
education for Porto Rico, says the
school system now in operation there
includes 500 teachers and $4,000 pu-
pills. This is only beginning, as
there are 100000 children of school
age without school facilities, most of
whom would enroll if they could.
Commissioner Brumbaugh says the
hope of the island is in the public
schools and that the great illiteracy
in Porto Rico must be reduced. The
schools are not to be compared with
the American systems, but their
transformation must be gradual. The
report says that the present school
law should be wholly abrogated at
the coming session of the insular leg
islature, for many reasons. and new
law passed. A change in the licens-
ing of teachers is needed to protect
good teachers from the competition,
and Vaccinations of worthless teach
ence of politicians" The report
urges closer supervision and quotes
DR.. Croft, formerly acting commits
sioner, as saying that the supervis-
ors Of the school were at first ex-
soldiers, ex-teamsters. ex-packers
and other such men, and they had to
teach English in addition, but now
they are men as qualified as the sal.
ary can command and the supervision
requires their entire time. There are
over 100 American teachers engaged
in the schools and the demand is for
more, provided they know enough
Spanish to instruct the children in
their native tongue. One group of
these American teachers is de-
nounced, "the seekers after novelty
and new experiences, mere adventur-
ers, who imposed upon the admins
tration and the children and who used
the salary and position of teacher
solely to see a new country for a year
and then return. Fortunately these
are gone, and the better teachers re-
main to carry on really helpful and
arduous task. The people of Porto
Rico have patiently borne with these
adventurers, and quietly longed for
their departure"
Thousands of children in this is
land, says the report, are half clothed,
half fed, and half housed. At least
so per cent. of all the people are illit-
crate and the crying need is schools
to reduce the appalling illiteracy.
There are no public school buildings
and no public colleges or universities.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
BOA CONSTRUCTOR CAPTURED.
Two New Jersey Men XIII an Imm n = e
Reptile Fifteen Feet
Long.

The little town of Roselle, on the
line of the Central railroad of New
Jersey, is excited over the capture
the other day of boa constructor Is
feet long and weighing over 55
pounds. 1t was shot and killed by
Blake latham, proprietor of a we'll
known livery stable in Roselle.
He and George Draws, barber, of
the same place. wandered over Union
county for rabbits and other game,
when a yell of terror from latham
startled Draws, who was admonished
not to come near. Draws stood off q
distance and watched latham gesticu-
late and swing his arms in true In
dian fashion. latham motioned to
Draws to look in a little thicket and
there he beheld the boa constructor
lying at full length on the ground
with both eyes partly opened and its
tongue lolling about its mouth.
Both men started to run for their
lives. but shortly came back. The
hunters climbed tree and fired both
barrels of their guns in the coiling
mass at their feet. The shots took
effect and the boa constructor moved.
Fearing the snake would climb the
tree the frightened hunters came
down and ran for dear life for a mile.
Then they came back and poured VOL
ley after volley of shot into the
snakes body.
When assured it was dead they
went to town and got help. A dozen
boys secured poles, and placing them
under the huge reptile with man
dragging the creeping wonder by the
head it was dragged and half carried
into Roselle.
For months past the farmers of
Union and MiddleseX counties have at
various times seen the great serpent
crawling over their farms seizing
young chickens and guinea hens as it
sped along. Where the monster came
from is not known, but it is believed
that it must have escaped from some
circus.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06

Exposure to a sudden climatic
change produces cold in the head and
catarrh is apt to follow. Provided
with Ely's Cream Balm you are arm
ed against Nasal Catarrh. Price so
cents at Druggists, or Ely Brothers,
56 Warren Street, New York, will
mail it. The Balm cures without
pain, does not irritate or cause sneez-
ing. 1t spreads itself over an irritat-
ed and angry surface, relieving i'm
mediately the painful Inflammation,
cleanses and cures. Cream Balm
quickly cures the cold.
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BETTER, HOPE TO-DAY. MY DEAR"
dered at if the mourners sometimes for
get it. The disjointed bits of conver-
sation would seem to imply as much.
"Are you going to the seaside this
month, my dear?"
"No, not until August. We start to-
morrow for our country place, and"
"WeH, as I was saying, the letter fell
into his hands, and that was the cause
of the duel. But it was only a scratch
the merest scratch in the world.
dined with him that evening at the
club, and he won twenty-five"
"Yes, believe the meeting of stock
holders takes place tomorrow, and
they want to make me a director. I
don't know whether I'll accept or not.
I'm very busy now, and"
Scrunch, scrunch! The carriages
have quilted the road and are on the
graveled walks of the cemetery. The
talking ceases. The tomb of the Yer.
teuils is at the extreme left-a mag.
nificent marble structure, where
carven angels in paroxysms of stony
woe weep over the dead and gone Yer.
teuils. The coffin is placed before it,
and the funeral discourse begins.
The count is pictured as a man who,
had he not been cut off in his prime,
would have regenerated the political
condition of his country; man re-
nowned for his private virtues; man
who had encouraged agriculture and
the arts; man who had made study
of political economy and sociology; a
man whose loss was irreparable.
Such is the crowd that it is difficult
for those on the outskirts to catch all
the words. An elderly gentleman, with
his hand to his ear, is listening, with
pursedup lips. to the eulogy. He
catches these words:
"-the qualities of his great and
generous heart. his bountiful-''
"Yes.' he mutters, 81 knew him. He
was clever hypocrite."
The sound waves from this mingle
with those of the priests blessing. The
mourners retire, and soon there are
none left but the workmen, who are
lowering the coffin into the vault. The
cords creak. the oaken coffin gives forth
hollow sound as it strikes the stone
floor.
My lord Count de Verteuil is at
home.-Adapted for the San Francisco
Argonaut from the French.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
FOR AID OF RED CROSS.
Miss Clara barton 10 Direct Arrange-
ments for Holding of Twentieth
Century watch Meetings.

Miss Clara Barton, who has reported
to her associates at New York that she
has entirely recovered from her illness,
is now expected daily to take an active
part in the direction of the organiza-
tion throughout the country of thou
sands of watch meetings that will be
held under the auspices of the Amer
lean. National Red Cross, which has
headquarters at New York, at the
parting of the centuries on the night
of the 31st of the coming December.
The especially organized twentieth
century department of the Red Cross
in charge of the watch meetings has
opened correspondence with governors
and commanders of the state militia
and separate military bodies, with may
ors and chairmen of town committees,
and with the various church and char
ita BILE and social organizations.
The progress and purpose of the
ndertaking are officially outlined in
a communication which says in part:
"The object of these meetings is TO
raise funds for the American National
Red Cross and 70 signalize the dawning
of the new century by giving world
wide prominence to that fraternity be-
tween nations which tends to amelio-
rate the horrors Of war.
'The Red Cross in other countries
has been endowed by various means,
but in the United States 1t has worked
from one national emergency to an
other without an endowment or sus-
tanning fund, and r. Is believed that,
at the dawn of the new century, the
people of the United States will gladly
gather together in mass meetings to
watch the old century out and the new
century in, and at the same time to
aid in the national and interna tional
work which has for its watchword:
Humanity"
The New York watch meeting will
be held in Madison Square garden.
There will be music and speeches and
the reading of greetings.
These are expressions on the prog.
ress of the century from Count Tolstoi,
Joseph Chamberlain, Dreyfus, Zola,
Kruger, Sir Edward Arnold. Hall Caine,
Anthony Hope, Lord Roberts and more
than so others.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06

sician. She cannot bring herself to
tell everything, and the physician is
at a constant disadvantage. This is
why, for the past twenty-five years,
thousands of women have been con-
fiding their troubles to Mrs. Pinkham,
and whose advice has brought happi-
ness and health to countless women in
the United States.
Mrs. Chappell, of Grant Park, H.,
whose portrait we publish, advises all
suffering women to seek Mrs. Pink
hams advice and use Lydia Z. Pink
ham's0Vegetable Compound, as they
cured her of inflammation of the ovaries
and womb ; she, therefore, speaks from
knowledge. and her experience ought
to give others confidence. Mrs Pink
hams address is Lynn. Mass, and her
advice is absolutely free.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
RECLAIMED VOICE WHEN DYING.
Woman Who Had Not spoken for
Thirty Years Talks on Her
Death Bed.

Mrs. Charles Palmer. mute, died
at the room of her invalid mother in
the Park house in Charles City, Ia,
the other day. The disease which
caused her death was quick consump-
ton. Before she died this woman,
who had not spoken for nearly 30
years, summoned up all her strength
and articulated somewhat brokenly
but sufficiently plain to be understood
by her mother, who received the mes
sage from her dying daughter, the
message that all was well with her
and she was ready and willing to die.
Mrs. Palmer has been deaf and dumb
since childhood, when she was left a
mute by severe attack of scarlet
fever. She has been living with her
husband, also mute, at Rochester,
Mimi, until she came to the home of
her mother in Charles City few days
before her death.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06

Bobbs-Too bad about Nobbs. Lost
all of his furniture because of a false
alarm of fire at his house.
Dobbs-But if there was no fire how
could his furniture be destroyed?
swell, you see, Nobbs lives in a SUI
burban town where they have volun-
teer fire department. Baltimore
American
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
Says He Was Tortured.

81 suffered such pain from corns |
could hardly walk" writes H. Robin
son, Hillsborough, Ills, "but Bucklen's
Arnica Salve completely cured them"
Acts like magic on sprains, bruises,
cuts, sores, burns, boils, ulcers. Per-
feet healer of skin diseases and piles.
Cure guaranteed by w. r. Smith &
Co. 25c.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
"The NObleSt Mind

The best contentment has" Yet,
however noble in mind, no man or
woman can have perfect contentment
without physical health. The blood
must be kept pure and the stomach
and digestivs organs in good order.
The best means for this purpose is
Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t promptly
cures all blood humors and eruptions
and tones up the system.
The tavorite cathartic is Hoods
Pills. 25c.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
Helm is needed AT once when . ne,

Help is needed at once when a per-
sons life is in danger. A neglected
cough or cold may soon become seri-
Gus and should be stopped at once.
One Minute Cough Cure quickly cures
coughs and colds and the worst cases
of Group, bronchitis, grippe and other
throat and lung troubles.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06

the mourners at the counts funeral
are not common mourners. The no.
bility, the army, the magistracy, the
senate, the academy-yes, come they
all to Verteul's funeral.
The procession sets out for the
church. The hearse is magnificently
somber; black-plumed, black-draped,
its hangings edged with silver; and
the pall-bearers, too, are magnificent
in their way--a duke, a field-marshal,
a prime minister and an academician.
The black-gloved, black-crevated and
black-coated line files slowly through
the streets. while the busy passers-by
stop and uncover.
And the countess? Well, she is COM
pletely broken down with grief, say
the relatives. The countess is at home.
At the church the ceremony lasts for
nearly two hours. The organ thunders
forth it's lamentations, the singers
wall theirs, while from torches held by
boys the green flames cast sickly pal
lor over the gathering.
SIS not Faure. the celebrated tenor,
going to sing to-day?" asks one mourn-
er of another.
"Yes." says mourner No. 2, an elder
ly beau, who has just been staring
through single eyeglass at pretty
mourner; "yes. 1 believe he is. All, that
is his voice now. What method! What
range! Eh?"
"Yes, indeed" says mourner No. 1.
"Never heard him sing better in my
life. All, it's pity poor verteuil can't
hear him, amt it? He was very fond
of him."
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
WHY MIS-. P;,.KRAM
1s Able to Help Sick Women
When Doctors Fail.

How gladly would men fly to wo-
mans aid did they but understand a
woman's feelings. trials. sensibilities,
and peculiar organic disturbances.
Those things are known only to
women, and the aid man would give
is not at his command
To treat case properly it is neces-
sary to know all about it, and full
information, many times, cannot be
given by woman to her family ply
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06
British Govern Canals.

The British government is the own
er of over $4,000 camels. Several thou
and equipments when the regiments
are changing quarters.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06

Vegetables are usually sold in piles
in Buenos Ayres, so that you have to
measure quantity as well as quality
by the eye; and butchers sell their
neat by the chunk, rather than by
weight.
.-.Ns.urs . WV .sx1u ,a.N
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Medal for the Salvation ARMY.

The Salvation Army has received
gold medal at the Paris exposition for
its American exhibit, showing its
methods in reclaiming the fallen and
outcaSt,
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The official ballot in the Eighth dis
trict of Virginia bore the names of
Is candidates for representative in
congress.
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King Oscar, of Sweden, was report
ed to have had two slight paralytic
strokes.
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The Bluest Blue makes the whitest
white, that's Red Cross Ball Blue. Re-
fuse limitations.
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1t is a beautiful June day. And as the
carriages roll along the route for the
cemetery, the windings Of the road
take the hearse out of sight from time
to time, therefore it is not to be won-
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McKinley's official plurality in Ore
gon was 1927.
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The morning of the funeral the YER
teuil mansion 10 filed with sorrow
ing friends. The son and son-in-law
of the count receive the guests with
the mute politeness Of afiiction. And
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-06

The sick man is growing weaker,
his breath more labored. He knows
he will not see the morning sun. So
this evening, when the countess pays
her habitual visit, he says, with
faint smile:
"It-would-be better-not-to go
out this-evening, my-dear. lam
not-very-well."
The count is considerate even in his
weakness. He would spare her the
gossip of the world, were she seen
abroad the night he died. The
countess appreciates his courtesy. She
stays at home.
The physicians remain in the sick
mans chamber. The countess sends
for the children, Blanche and Ferdi-
nand, and the three install themselves
by the counts bedside. Now the
forms are complied with-the count
can die.
But he struggles to repress himself.
He would avoid a convulsive, vulgar
death-scene. He stiles his rafting
breath. And, when he finds himself
going, he turns to his wife and chill
dren and kisses them. The domestics
are much moved. And then he turns
his face to the wall. When his wife
would speak to him, he motions her
from him with feeble gesture.
The moments pass away. There is
no movement in the silent form with
its face against the wall. One of the
physicians leans toward it.
"All is over" he says, as he closes
the dead mans eyes.
Count de Verteuil has died, as he
wished, alone.
The morning of the funeral the YER
teuil mansion 10 filed with sorrow
ing friends. The son and son-in-law
Of the count receive the guests with
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Miss Mead's Pupils Recital.

The recital given by Miss Lauraine
Mead's pupils last Thursday evening
at her home was recherche affair:
one hundred and twenty invited guests
parents and friends of the pupils,
thronged the parlorS. and other unin-
vited but welcome friends were at
tentive listnerS in front of and about
the house, all of whom would have
been welcome had the capacity of our
home provided room for SO many. 1t
is not vanity or tlattery to say that
the music selected, though of high
classical character was rendered in the
best possible manner, the part of each
being given with the touch and skill
of professional. Last fall Miss Mead
arranged for contest between the
advanced pupils and between the jun
iors, in which all could contest for the
prize. Judges were selected for each
class who were furnished only with a
number for each contestant. The
marking included technique, time,
phraSing expressions, shading and
style. The numbers and the markings
of the three separate contests were
sent to Prof. Perry at West Union to
figure the percentage given to the re-
spective contestants. The prizes were
a gold medal engraved with the pupils
name and date, ''tirSt honors', which
was awarded to Miss Genevieve M.
Dissmore. The second prize with con-
testants name, date and the words
''second honor" was a silver medal
awarded to Miss Kate c. Reed, a third
prize with "honorsn was awarded to
Miss Ruby Watros. In the junior
class the prize, gold medal inscribed
with her name and the word ''honors'
was awarded to Miss Gala Wetherbee
The medals were presented by Mrs
NJ. M. Moon in beautifully wordec
address TO the contestants. Out ot
town people present were Mrs. Wick
ham, Mrs. G. +. Robinson, Misses
Clara Dell Wickham, Ada Robinson
Grace Privat, Florenceville: Mise.
/ Elizabeth Muse, Ella Mae Petit
Messrs Ben. Davis, Dan Davis, Mrs
A. G. McCulloch, Mrs. Allen Nash
Lime Springs; Mrs. House, Brooliings
S. d., Judge A. N. I1obson and wife
West Union; Mrs. Fuller, Miss Hines
Watros Mills, Ohio: Mrs. Burchard
i N. Y. City; Rev. Claiming Richard
son, Evanston, Ill.