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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-01
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The nineteenth century closes with
the year 1900 Immediately after mid
night, therefore, of December 81, 1900
is when the twentieth century begins.
In other words, it begins with the first
second of the first hour of the first day
of January, 1901 The twentieth cen
fury will open on a Tuesday and close
on Sunday. 1t will have the greatest
number of leap years possible for
century-twenty four. rhe year 1904
Will be the first one then every fourth
year after that, to and including the
year 2000, February will three times
nave five Sundays: in 1920, 19+S ana
1876. The twentieth century will con-
tain 36,525 days, which lacks but one
day of being exactly 521S weeks. fine
middle day of the century will be jan
uary |, 1851. Several announcements
are made of changes to be inaugurated
with the opening of the new century
The first of Importance is that Russia
will adopt the Gregorian calendar.
This will be done by emitting thirteen
days the amount of error that will
have accumulated after the close OF
February, 1900, rhe Russians viii
then write January l. 1901, instead ot
December 10, 1900, or rather, instead Of
both according to the dual system now
in vogue in that country and in Greece
The other important announcement is
that it is not at all unlikely that the
astronomical day, which now begins
at noon of the civil day. will begin
with the civil day. at midnight. The
present method of having the astronn-
mtcal day to begin twelve hours after
the beginning Of the civil day is apt to
be confusing. On the other hand, to
have the former begin at midnight
Just when astronomers are often bus
lest, will be to them somewhat ineon-
venient.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-01
TELEGRAMS in BRIEF.
SPANISH AMERICAN ISLANDS.

Gen. Otis reports that conditions In
the Philippines are improving.
In an interview General Ludlow de-
clares for press censorship in Cuba.
General Shafter said Philippine
garrison would be necessary forever.
Many Cubans regard Woods plan as
a trick to prolong American occupa-
ton.
Three Massachusetts, volunteers were
tortured to death by Filipino insurg-
ents.
The Fillpinos continue to harass
the American garrisons In southern
Luzon.
In the recent election in Porto Rico
the federals were defeated by the re-
publ!cans.
The Spanlards seem likely to hold
the balance of power in the coming
Cuban elections.
General Wood, in his tour OF Cuba,
found the Santiago province recover
Ing rapidly from the war.
Manuel EgoZcue, the newly elected
alcalde OF San Juan, Porto Rico, has
announced his intention OF giving his
salary to charity.
Che president Is said to be worried
because people oppose the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty, the subsidy Dill, and Tree
trade with Porto Rico.
The Cuban suffrage plan provides
that voters must be able to read and
write or own $3.50 worth OF property or
H.,
Sir William Van Horne OF the
Canadian Pacific in n speech at a din
ner ut Havana, spoke in ilattering
terms OF the resources Of the Island.
1t Is announced that there will be a
considerable reduction in the Ameri-
can military force now in Cuba as
soon as warmer weather begins In the
United States.
Fillpinos estimated to number 5000
made q night attack on an American
garrison In convent at Daroga, In
the province Of Albay, Luzon, but
were repulsed
From Santiago the United States
transport Mcpherson left with the
bodies OF 225 United States soldiers,
including elghty-tWo VINO were VICTIMS
Of the yellow fever. Among the bodies
were those OF Major Heatwole and
Glendenln,
Gen. Ludlow, who arrived from
Cuba, says the public schools VIII be
opened In Havana May |. The civil
government will 90 into effect July |.
Gen. Ludlow says he Will recommend
his own retirement as soon as the
Cubans become able to govern them
selves.
The second anniversary OF the de-
struetlon OF the United States battle
ship Maine In Havana harbor was
suitably observed there. Prayers were
offered from the wreck by DR.. McGee
Of the Episcopal church and Father
Jones Of the Catholic church. AT the
church of Mercedes were imposing
memorial services, attended by Gov
ernor General Wood and other civil
and military officers.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-01
BOlGR- BRITISH WAR.

Ladysmith garrison Is eating mule
flesh.
Butler occupied Ilussar hill, east OF
Coenso
A sortic from Mareking was re-
pulsed.
The beers have driven the British
back to Ronsberg.
England Is said to be cnllsting re-
Vrnlts In Russian Poland.
Reports that the beers have invaded
Zululand are confirmed
Brltons attack Il boer fort near Ma
feking but were driven back,
Gen. Butler lnaugurated another en-
gagement along the Tugela,
The European press comedies i'm
portance of Kimberley's relief,
Gen, Roberts occupied Gen. Cronje' s
former headquarters at lacobsdal
Lord Roberts's army began the in
yasion Of the Orange Free state.
Rethuno checked a threatened col
liSon OF beers and Xulus In Hululand.
London military experts expect the
withdrawal OF the beers from Lady
smith,
Mrs Arthur pagel's entertainment
FOR families Of guardsmcn brought In
25,000
The British seized a ship from New
York supposed to contain supplies for
the beers
The house Of commons voted a sup
Elementary army estimate carrying
E1S,000 900
The British evacuated Slingcrsfon-
tein northern Cape Colony, and fell
hack to Ronsbnrg.
Irish members OF parliament pro
tested against the threat to employ
Zulu natives IN war
The queen has given up her holiday
in Italy and will remain near Lon.
don because OF the war.
General Butler has been hombarding
boer force at Blaauwkranz six miles
southeast of Colcnso, Natal
Clements retreated from Rensburp
10 Arundel. rwo companies OF the
Wiltshire regiment were captured by
beers.
The beers are reported to b,
threatening Naauwport, Cape Colony
which might open way to the rear o.
ord Roberts army.
Butler captured the hoer posi-
lons at Monte Cristu and Noun
alangwan, and drove the beers across
the Tugela. Brabant recapturec
DordreCht
George Wyndham announced II
parliament that the government viii
attempt to democrati2e the army b,
making 1t possible for men who ar,
not rich to be officers,
Cronje Is slowly retreating befor,
French and Kelly Kenny Pole-Carev
took Magersfontein without skirm
ish. The railway from Modder rive
to Kimberley Is being constructed.
Ex-Consul Macrum gave out state
ment Of defending his conduct at Pre-
toria and attacking the administration
The government seal on official letter
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-01

to him was broken, he said, by the
British censor.
French with 1000 mounted men re-
lieved Kimberley after 127 days OF
siege. He occupied the five boer camps
south of town, capturing supplies
and ammunition, and Is securing the
country north. Roberts occupied
Jacobsdal recapturing many British
prisoners. Cronje's forces were sur
prised and are supposed to be dis
persed. Kelly-Kenny Is in pursuit of
boer convoy attempting to escape to
a Bloemfontein.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-01
TWO GOOD STORIES.

When a warship goes out for target
practice. it is the custom to place all
glass, chinaware and other fragile
articles in the hold OF the ship. as
close down to the keel as possible. in
order to prevent breakage by the con-
cussion which follows the firing OF the
guns, This led to an amusing incl
dent at Manila. after the destruction
Of the Spanish fleet. relates the San
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-01

Greasy Grimes, WHO was warming
his back against the sunny side of a
cattle pen, had spelled out with much
difficulty the contents Of a scrap q
newspaper be had picked up.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30
ILLNESS PROVES A HEROINB'S
UNDOlNG

Deborah Sampson, who enlisted in
the Continental Army as Robert Shurt-
left, was one of the most dashing and
brave of fighters for the cause Of Liber-
ty. She enlisted in a Massachusetts,
regiment and served three years before
it was known that the brave soldier was
q woman. "She was taken ill in Phila-
delphia," says a writer in the July
Ladies' Home Journal, ''and the hos
pital nurse had pronounced her dead,
but slight gurgling attracted the doc
tors attention; he placed his hand over
her heart, and, finding to his surprise
an inner waistcoat tightly COMPRISING
her breast, ripped it open. She was
Immediately removed to the matron's
apartments. where everything was done
for her comfort. The commanding
officer upon learning that his aid was
woman granted her an honorable dis
charge, anG presented her with a letter
from Washington commencing her ser
vices. The humble soldier stood be.
fore him with shining eyes filed with
tears and thanked him many times,
begging him to ask that her fellow
soldiers be told, and that he ask them
to tell him If she had done aught that
was unbecoming a woman. This was
done and her comrades and officers de-
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30
THE COURIER.

clarsd their. respect for her was un-
bounded. Upon her honorable dis
charge from the army che returned to
her mothers home, striving to escape
the calumny which followed her siI-
gular career. After Genaral Washing
ton became President he wrote a most
cordial letter to Mrs. Gannett Deborah
Sampeon-she having married in the
meantime,) inviting Robert Shurtlsff'
to visit him. She accepted and was
treated with the greatest honors by the
President and residents Of Washington"
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30

A New Railroad to San Francisco.
The newly completed extension of the
Santa Fe Route through the San Joa-
quin Valley to San Francisco will be
opened for passenger business on July 1,
1900.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway has heretofore possessed the
distinction of being the only line with
its own tracks and trains all the way
from Chicago to Los Angeles and San
Diego. San Francisco and the impor-
tant cities Of the San Joaquin Valley
are now added to the vast territory
served by this great transportation sys-
tenn under one management, which ter
ritory also includes large part OF the
region between Denver on the north,
and Galveston on the south.
Stress is laid upon single ownership
and management, which insure uniform
excellence Of service. Overland trains
by this route do not miss connections,
because they run through. The eating
house and dining car service is OF the
same superior quality throughout, un-
der management of Mr.. Fred Harvey.
The best equipment lie provided. En-
ployes are everywhere solicitous and
courteous Responsibility for the COM
fort Of passengers is not divided.
No other transcontinental route Of
fers 30 great number of attractions to
the tourist. Among these are mountain
altitude and scenery, extinct VOLCANOES,
petrified forests, prehistoric ruins, In
dian puebloe, the Yosemite, and the
Grand Canon Of Arizona, which is the
greatest scenic wonder of the world.
Every Characteristic phase Of life in the
West is traversed en- route.
The Santa Fe has long been the ia
vorite route between the East and
Southern California. By virtue OF the
same high grade service and unexcelled
it hopes to win equal favor
with travellers to and from San Fran
cisco and intermediate cities OF the
Golden State.
The service will consist at first of
Pullman and tourist sleepers and chair
cars daily. The early resumption Of the
California Limited is contemplated.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30
q. First Pub. June 1873.

First Pub. June 1873
In the district court of Lancaster county, Ne
braSka.
the estate Of ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
John Iliff, fee
BILE minded.
This cause came on for hearing upon the pc
tition OF Andrew Kroehler, guardian of the per-
son and estate Of John Iliff feeble minded,
praying for license to sell lots three and four 3
and ~, in block sixty-three (63) in
the city of Havelock, Lancaster coun-
ty, Nebraska, or so much thereof as is neces-
sary to pay the debts and support the said John
Hin, feeble minded, there not being sufficient
personal property or income from the said real
estate to pay said debts and support said ward.
1t is therefore ordered that Stella kroehler,
Havelock, Nebraska; Nora Clark Auburn,
Nebr.; Emma Allen, Dawson, Nebr.; j, W. Hin,
Santa Cruz. California; Mary Peck, Patas-
kala, Ohio; ii: G. Iliff, Santa Marie. California;
Clyde John Ilin and leon Tiff minors of Will
said ward, and all persons interested in said
estate, appear before me, at my chambers in
the court house in Lancaster county, Nebraska,
on the 10th day Of July, 1900. at ten o'clock A.
NJ, to show cause why a license should not be
granted said guardian to sell much of the
above described real estate of said ward as shall
be necessary to pay said debts and support said
ward.
1t is further ordered that this order be pub
lshed for three successive weeks in The Cou-
rier, a weekly newspaper published and in gen.
eral circulation in said Lancaster county.
Dated this 18th day of June. 1900
EDWARD p. HOLMES
Judge Of the District Court
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30
IeEGAIe NOTICES

A complete file OF 1.-THE Courier" is
kept in an ABSOLUTELY FIREPRooF build
ing. Another file is kept in this Office
and still another has been deposited
elsewhere. Lawyers may publish LEGAL
NOTICES in 1.-THE Courier" with security
as the FILES are intact and are pre-
served from year to year with great
care.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30

absolutely in such occupant" there
fore be it
Resolved, That we petition the honora-
BILE Mayor and council Of the city Of
Lincoln to take such steps toward the
removal OF these obstructing fences,
and thereby prevent further confisca-
ton OF any portion Of the city streets.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30
City Improvement Society.

The society met on Thursday morn
ing at ten o'clock in the library Of the
Union Commercial Club. Mrs. Taylor,
the president. presided. Mrs. Rich
ardson. the secretary. reported that
twenty-five benches had been put into
the city park. that the trees and flowers
were fourishing. that cinder walks had
been laid. and moro than all that flower
beds had been despoiled but twice by
lswless and unsppreciative children.
Mr.. Van Ripper, the manager Of the
electric light company, on the repre-
sentation Of the officers of the society
has donated three electric lights and
has offered to put up more if these
give inadequate light. The treasurer,
Mrs. FITZGERALD, reported q member
ship Of 1876.
The date Of the opening Of the park
was left to the committee with instruc-
tions to fix the date as soon az the
music can be secured. The secretary
reported that in critical and exhaust
i've study OF plat Of the city she dis
covered five streets with duplicated
names. For instance, there are two
Sumner streets and two Washington
streets with no contra Distinguishing
mark. Mrs. Fitzgerald reported the
arrival snd distribution to the Juvenile
aids, 80 City Improvement Society
badges. The following resolution was
unanimously passed:
Whereas, There are in the city of
Lincoln many fences outside the lot
line, thus enclosing q portion Of the
etreet, and
Whereas. These produce irregular
street lines, destroy the proper con-
tinuity Of side walks. detract from the
beauty Of the streets. and permanently
disfgure them, thereby deprecisting
the value Of adjoining property. and
Whereas. the supreme court has held
that when . person has been in the
actual. visible. exclusive, and uninter-
rupted possession Of . portion Of
street in city under . claim Of right,
for ten years, the title thereto rests
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30
First publication June BOIL
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MAY 81.

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, May 81. 1900.
Notice is hereby given, in compliance with
the requirements of the statutes Of the state of
Nebraska. and particularly in compliance with
section 1856 Of chapter Is thereof, that the
amount of all existing debts of Central Gran
aries company at this date is the sum of
$125 10000.
CENTRAL GRANARIES COMPANY.
By ALEX BERGER,
President.
ALEX BERGER.
F. ID. LEvERING.
i. {. CLIFFORD,
Being Majority of the Board of Directors.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30

Do you get Your Courier regularly 7?
Please compare address. II incorrect,
please send right address to Courier
Office. Do this this week.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30
LITERARY NOTES.

In the July McClure's appears a
sketch Of Bryan, by the we'll known
Kansas journalist, William Allen White,
author Of "Boyville Stories" This is
the first of series Of pen portraits Of
political celebrities by a writer particu-
larry we'll qualified to write Of both their
public and private life. The article con-
tains shrewd estimate of Bryan's po-
litical career and throws much light on
the causes of his popularity.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30

To clubs Of ten taking The Courier the
annual subscription price is seventy five
cents Us cents. Regular Subscription price
one dollar per year.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30

Do you get your Courier regularly
Please compare address. II incorrect,
please send right address to Courier
office. Do this this week.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30
CLUBS.
Continued from Page 81

illuminated the scene. Punch was
served in the dining room throughout
the evening. Later, ices and cakes
were served on the broad porches,
which had been gracefully festooned
with green and white bunting, which
made the loveliest. of al freeco dining
rooms.
A very pleasing musical program,
including a reading, was given. as
follows:
Piano Duet.-Mesdaues Arnup and
Wilson.
Vocal Solo-Miss Marie Hassett.
Piano Solo-Miss Eva Cooper.
Vocal Solo-Miss Marie Crawford.
Resding-Mrs. Lattan.
Quartet Misses Crawford and House.
holder, and Messrs. White and GLEASON.
Mrs. AppersonIs paper on the Mil
waukee biennial was delightfully."- in
formal and full Of many pleasing things
which do not get into regular reports.
The refreshments were served en-
tirely by the Pansy club. The decora-
tons were from the hands OF the Deks
club, and were perfect in detail and
harmonious in effect.
At the annual business meeting Of
the Cozy Club Of Tecumseh. held on
juno the sixth, the following officers
were elected:
Mrs. Florence Harris, President.
Mrs. Sue Sullivan. Vice President.
Miss Ella McCrosky, Secretary.
Mrs. Cslista Bouton, Treasurer.
Mrs. Kate True. Librarian.
This wss the closing meeting Of
very successful years work. The club
will make q study Of France next year.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-06-30
AFTERWARD

Il was a word
Only word that fell as leaves fall down
When the wind blows too hard.
The branches stirred,
The slenaer stem was blown,
The boueh is scanned.
The Leaf blows ON
Never comes back to fill the scar again
Wait and be still, my heart.
The Leaf is gone.
It cannot come again upon the stem
They are apart.
Katharine A. Melick.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-03
SOME ONE TO CRY TO.

Who has not noticed, with a good
deal of amusement, as we'll as sympa-
thy, the haste made by child that has
hurt itself while playing, to get to
some one before it began to cry 1t
win often go with suppressed sobs and
grieved face all over the house or the
garden until it finds one of the family:
but not until then will it burst forth
into it's loud cry Of woe.
A story is told of one little fellow
who was so long in finding his mother
after pinching his finger in the door,
that. in view of certain distractions
encountered in the meanwhile, he was
obliged to falter out: Mother. VIII
what was 1 going to cry about?'
We are all a good deal like children
in our tendency to use the sympathy of
others to augment our own griefs and
pains. How often we go and infiict
the story of our trials upon come
friend. not to get relief and comfort
from him, but to intensity our own
sense of suffering and perhaps ill-treat-
ment through the sympathy which he
cannot readily refuse. 1t is an I'M
wholesome and unreasonable practice,
and we would be vastly better off if We
did not indulge in it-just as children
would get over their grfefs and hurts
more quickly if they did not feel oblig-
ed to hunt up somebody to cry to-"
There is right way and a wrong
way to use human sympathy. The
right way is to make it helpful. The
wrong way is to make it contribute to
and increase our own sense of injury.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-03

with the coarsest colored silk the
needle will carry; and a coarse needle
will carry almost a cord.
Black silk is becoming so fashion
able. Nay, the word is badly chosen
has become fashionable would be bet
ter. In the days when black silke were
worn, my friend Mrs. William Astor,
the leader of New York society, then,
as now. told Mrs. Ward McAllister,
who was then the power behind the
throne" that she numbered her black
silks. BLACK silk No. L." was the old
est of the series; then came BLACK
silk No o. followed by BLACK silk No.
g." and she sometimes got as high as
No. g." The dresses We're all made
from one piece of silk, or from one
grade. But they differed from each
other in newness and in make and
fashion and pattern and trimming. But,
owing to the adaptability of the ma
terial they looked so different that, as
a whole wardrobe, they We're eminently
satisfactory. A black silk looks we'll
upon anybody. For a slim person it is
capable of treatment to produce shape,
such as fulled fronts. epaulettes, yOkes,
vests and pannieTs. For flesher people
it seems the best of all materials; and
for embodiment there is no argument.
Nothing but black should be worn.
A woman dreSSmaker of New York
city who makes her living, not in MAX
ing gowns, but in designing the small
things of the toilette, has been known
to take one we'll made black silk and
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-03
CROSS LEADS TO THE THRONE.

(Anthony Waite)
When ! prayed to be free from afTlictioT
A sweet voice within me spoke
And it asked in measured accents
What would you in place of this yoke
That binds you 20 your Savior,
That leads you to the cross?
All. child, take heed lest your prayers
Be heard 10 your own souls loss"
And a sudden mist fell before me;
And all was dark and so drear,
That my soul was filled with anguish,
And my heart was rent with fear.
For / saw in the mist and the darkness
That my cross was the one to bear.
1t would bring me to my Saviour.
With Him His kingdom TO share.
And, now I am praying no longer
For my cross TO be lifted or light.
But ] ask for Gods love and His guild
ance,
And my heart overflows with delight,
When / know that my cross is e'er lead
ing
Me on and up to the throne.
And thank Thee, my God and my Saw
Jour.
For the pathway Thy goodness hath
shown