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The Portland daily press., 1900-07-23
sTaLL ALARM.

A dressing case took fire in a room at
1877 Newbury street yesterday forenoon
end truck five was called to extinguish
the fire, which only did small amount
Of damage.
The Portland daily press., 1900-07-23
cAsroR1A

Bears the signature of cHAs H. FLETCHER.
In use for more than thirty years, and
The Kind You Haze Aza0a1s Bought.
cAsToRIA
Bears the signature of cHAs. H. FLETCHER.
In use for more than thirty years, and
The Kind You Haze AzaOays Bought.
cAsToRIA
Bears the signature of cHAs. H. FLETCHER.
In use for more than thirty years, and
The KIND You Haze Ala0ays Bought.
The Portland daily press., 1900-07-23
HALF PRICE.
Re rigerofOrS Marked
DosO1.

Fifteen are al that are left. All
are high grade. We keep no others.
They viii be sold singly at carload
The Portland daily press., 1900-07-23

all the missionaries will be recalled and
the hand of the dial has been set back in
China a generation and perhaps a CEN
fury.
The Portland daily press., 1900-07-23

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TODAY.

j. R. Libby &c,
Oren Hooper's Sons.
Frank NJ. Low & Co.
Owen Moore & Co.
0. c. Elwen.
Geo. II. Grtfen.
For Sale.
City of South Portland.
To Whom 1t May Concern.
Palace Billiard Hall.
FINANCIAL
H. I. Wa.erhouse & Co.
New Wants, For Sale, TO Eet lost Found
and similar advertisements Will be found on
page under appropriate heads
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
An Alaskan Home.

An Alaskan hut is not the worst
Mace in the world-far from 1t. It's
anterior consists of a square floor OF
earth fianked on all sides by two wide
hedges rising one above the other ike
q terrace. On the lower n rest tne
cooking. weaving and fishing utensils
the knives and needles. pots ana pans
On the upper ledge, with mucn uis-
NAV of wonderfully woven blankets
are the beds. In the center OF the
room CLOVIS the fire, the smoke crop
Inc IT'S way out of a hole in the roof
After the days work is done, and the
stomachs of both people and logs are
full. the family gathers around the IRE.
Facing the door sits the father, mex.
s,m the mother: on one hand the
SOILS ana on the other the daughters
even to the third and fourth genera r..
ZION, It may be. Beyond these are the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

Did 1t ever strike you, young people,
to inquire why the cloudless depths of
the sky above us are so decidedly blue?
It isn't that the gas we call air is in
itself blue. So far as We know it is
quite transparent and absolutely color
less. No; the blue comes from the re-
iected light. Air is never pure. You
couldn't live in it If 1t were. Count
less millions of tiny particles, chiefly
Of water, are always suspended in 1t,
and these arrest the free passage of
light. Each particle has a double re-
iection-one internal, the other *
ternal-and so the reflected rays suffer
the usual result of what is called in
reference" and show color. You will
notice that the sky appears much bluer
il you look straight up than If you
look across toward the horizon. The
reason is that, in the first instance,
you are naturally looking through a
much thinner layer Of air than in the
second. If there were no air, and,
consequently, no watery vapor, and
nothing to interfere with the free pas
sage of light, even at midday, the sky
would look perfectly blank. and all
the stars palmer than they do now at
midnight.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
Grandma's Cat Story.

From the Philadelphia Call: The
family group were speaking of cats
and their ways, and the peaceful-look-
ing grandmother was asked to say
something. The old lady smiled, for
she Is not often sighted when in the
company of younger people, and con
sented to tell a story about a kitten she
had when she was a child. You
know" she said, Il had a stepfather,
and he liked to see me working about
the house instead of playing with a kit
ten, SO he ordered me to throw it in
the brook which ran through our
meadow. | was forced to do it, though
| cried a great deal. | threw it in three
times, but the little thing struggled out
each time and finally dragged itself
nome after me. Then | pleaded so
much that | was allowed to keep it.
From that time on it was kind of wild,
not staying in the house, but skulking
around the barn. When it was full
grown it began to kill u chickens, so
my stepfather said it had to go. This
@ANIC - caught IL anu lieu d sIoHo
around it and drowned Ii. After an
hour or two he drew it from the water
and buried it. Now comes the part
that Is stranger than fiction. Two days
after the same old yellow cat dragged
itself up to the barn. We visited the
place where he had buried it and
found it had come to life and rid it
self of the stone. in what way I know
not. and dug itself out. 1t stayed by
the edge of our woods, getting the
milk l set out every now and then, but
disappeared when winter came"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

servants OF slaves. Each has his
place and takes 1t as a matter OF
course. Without, in the darkness, the
aoss clutter around the door and howl.
Inc mysterious end iNplacable sea
Keeps up its thunder. The snow-capped
mountains. with their illimitable gla-
ciers, lie just beyond. The shafts OF
the northern light dart through the
SKY like the harpoons of a titan, with
incredible celebrity. Is it strange that,
amid scenes so wild and fearful, sup
efstltions also wild and fearful spring
INTO existence? Or can one be sur
prised that in an unlettered country
the story tellers are of mighty power
ana tell tales that alright the children
I'LL they scramble to the safe shelter
OF their mothers arms? When the
family sings in strange broken yet
rhythmical measures, the dogs howl
louder than before and the women
sway their squat bodies back and forth
increasingly, keeping their hands oc-
cupled meanwhile at their tasks OF
va VI dIdAuS. Iu6 men carve
their spoons or cut curious figures
from the black slate. The sutton for
the hand of nj of the daughters en-
tiers slyly and takes a seat with the
sons. No protest is made. The father
and mother go on with their little
tasks, the young girls giggle after the
fashion of girls the world over. And
the sutton, thus unrepulsed. contents
himself, thinking his case won. The
Oldest among them chants some old
folk-song, and the father rises. 1t Is
the signal for g~ood-nights. The ashes
are spread owe the fire, and by the
light OF a few fishes tails, dried for
the lighting, the family goes to bed.
forgetful of crashing bergs, of the
mysterious aurora. of the mountains
where the snow lies forever and al
way. So is the home made anywhere
where the spirit of home exists.-Self-
Culture Magazine for November.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

In one of the remote counties Of the
Panhandle of Texas two lawyers Were
trying a case before u justice of the
peace. 1t was sixty miles as the crow
flies to the nearest law book, and the
attorneys differed, of course, as to the
law upon the main issue in the case.
They were trying the case without the
intervention of a jury, and his honor,
who conducted a gambling house in
connection with his hotel, saloon and
livery stable, was in doubt as to what
his decision ought to be. Finally Miller,
the plaintiffs counsel, offered to bet
Hoover, the defendants attorney. $40
that he was right. Hoover did not
happen to have that much of the cir
culating medium concealed about his
person, and was naturally at a loss
how to parry this forcible argument.
The court waited a few moments for
Hoover, and finally said:
well. Mr.. Hoover, the court has
waited long enough. Miller's PROPOSE
tion seems t9 be n fair one, and since
you don't put up l will decide this case
In favor of the plaintiff. Green Bag.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

OF aserted Quarrel.
coolies and Toddles were two little
kittens,
Exactly alike, excepting in name
Around Toodles' neck was a niaca NJ
blue ribbon;
Around Toddles' neck was a niece NJ
the same.
aid Toodles to Toddles: Get out Of
my basket"
said Toddles to Toodles: This
basket is mine"
AND then there ensued a great splitting
and snarling.
iii Toodles espied a small ball of
Irvine.
80 breaking away from his little white
brother,
HE started to run, on a frolic intent:
But Toddles was cute, and divining his
purpose,
To reach the ball first, after Toodles
he went.
DuL, eIuuInS tnelr grasp, the ball rolled
and bounded,
And after it scampered each kitten
in glee;
TIL, quarrel forgotten. they soon were
enjoying
A boisterous romp, quite good-na-
tUredly.
Then old Mother Tab, from her seat on
the hassock,
Said, putting her paw up to hide a
slight cough:
Il really should Judge. from all indica-
tions,
The fight that was brewing can be
declared off"
Selected.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11


Once there was a little boy named
Jimmy. He had always lived in the
city, and the only animals he had ever
seen were horses. dogs and cats. But
he had heard of leopards, because n
of his boy friends had told him all
about them, and how they had spots
on them and they could climb trees
and eat people. Well, n day he went
TO the country, and in course of time
his cousin, who was older than he,
helped him into an apple tree, and then
went into the house to get something
maybe it was an apple. Jimmy was
rather alarmed at being left alone in
the tree, but he managed to stay there.
Suddenly he saw a beast come proving
up the road. 1t was about the size OF
a leopard, as he imagined, and it was
covered with spots even larger thar a
leopard would have, sc it must be
(thought Jimmy a very awful kind
of a leopard. And, to make matters
worse, this leopard had a pair of horns,
and large, Notwithstanding ears, and
every now and then it roared like this:
"Moo-oo, moo-oo!" Jimmy was
frightened half to death. But he had
the slim hope that the animal would
go away without seeing him. Oh, hor-.
rible! The animal came right up to
the tree and put its mead right up
among the branches and began to snl1.
Then it ate an apple. Jimmy was sure
that IL. a moment ii would climb the
tree after him. so he got up TO the top
of the tree, though how he did 1t he
couldn't tell next day. He was weak
and white with fear when he reached
the top branch. The dreadful beast
now came close to the trunk and began
to rub I'D and down. Now he would
spring up into the tree, beyond a
doubt! But just as Jimmy thought he
was crouching for a spring he saw
his uncle come out OF the house, and
he screamed to him, "Oh, Uncle Ed,
save me. save me! This leopard Is go
ing TO eat mel" Now, some uncles
would have thought the matter a huge
Joke. but Uncle Ed vas not that
He knew that to little Jimmy the
horned beast was as bad as the most
terrible leopard that ever roamed the
iungle. and so he went over to the tree
and said, MY boy, you are safe while
am here, because, in the first place.
this kind of leopard can't climb a tree,
and in the second place, it isn't a leo
nard at all, but a COW, and, in the third
Mace, it is Daisy, our pet cow, n IL
Won will take my word for 1t, you can
ride ON her back as If she were a
horse" There was something in I'm
Gle Eds voice that had a very calming
effect on Jimmy. and inside OF two
minutes the dreadful leopard that mad
come to eat him was turned into a
good-natured old COW, and he rode her
all around the place, holding on TO
Uncle Eds hand. Now Jimmy Is grown
I'm and has a Jimmy of his own out
he will never forget the horror OF that
FIVE minutes with a horned leopard.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

Timour, the famous Asiatic chief,
having, on one occasion, taken shelter
from his enemies in a lone building.
saw a little ant trying to carry a grain
of wheat, larger than itself, up a high
wall. Sixty-nine times did Timour see
the grain fall to the ground, but the
next effort the ant carried OF the
prize. II was in despair" said the
chief, but the sight OF the ant gave
me new courage, and l have never for
gotten the noble effort which it taught
me-" There is an old proyerb which
says: Perseverance conquers all
things"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

The readers of this paper will he pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages. and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. CatIrrh being a constitu-
t!onai disease. requires a constitutional treat
ment Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system. thereby destroying the
foundation OF the disease. and giving the patient
strength by building mp the constitution ana
assisting nature In doing its work. The pro-
prietors have so much faith in it's curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for
any case that 1t fails to cure. Send for list Of
Testimonials
Address r. j, CHENEY g. co. Toledo, O
Sold by druggists 7ac.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
PATENTS.
List OF Patents Issued Last Week to
NOrthyestern

John Chial. Lake Park. Mimi. straw
stacker; John n. Christy. Minneapo.
lis, Mimi. shaft tug; David III. Houst-
on, Hunter. n. D.. magazine camera;
Mike M. Jerdee, Dawson, Mimi, har.
row tooth: Chauncey L, Richardson,
Duluth, MINI, seal lock: Herbrand
o. Simle. Marvel, y. D.. thill coupling;
George Wetherby. Duluth. Mimi. APP
paratus for boring and disintegrating
earthly matter.
Merwin.. Lothrop & Johnson. Patent Attor-
neys. ell & ei2 Pioneer Press Bldg, st. Pau!
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

c,o-You are the most exasperating
an On earth. Here ] scold you for
ne an hour and you won't answer.
inv don't you talk.
II never use strong language in
= presence of q lady.-Indianapolis
Ross.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
Observation.

As the west-bound train dashed in
the young hopeful in the Pullman
gazed out upon the animated platform.
what do you see, FrankieI" in
quired the stately by his side.
.Oh, mummy he shouted. II see
the Chicago platform, but | don't see
Bryan."-Chicago News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
CouIdn'f Stand Ii.

.Did you V e get the money that
owed you?
mo He wanted to square accounts
| nointing my house inside and OUT
..WelI. that would have evened
Ines ND. Why didn't you let him."
.T was going to. until / saw one of
! nictures" philadelphia Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
Tit for Tat.

A bright 3-year-old, living on Can
field avenue, induced her mamma to
get down on the floor with her to play
blocks" After the game was fairly
under way Miss Lou picked up a novel,
clambered into a big chair and re-
marked solemnly to her astonished and
highly amused parent:
Now, I'm going to read awhile.
You play a~lone--and see how you like
it,"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

|You will enjoy this publication much
liter If you will get into the habit of
Lading the advertisements; they will
kord a most amusing study, and
I'm prt you in the way OF getting some
Ecailput bargains. our advertisers
e reliable; they send what they alb
srtise.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
killed His Neighbor.

Evansville, Ind, Jan. 9.-James Rut-
ter, a farmer Of Posey county, shot and
killed Frank Spottsville, a neighbor.
Rutter was t~respasslng on SPOTS
ville's farm, and when ordered off drew
his revolver and fired. He tried to
escape across the river to Kentucky,
but was captured by Sheriff Thomas
Just as he reached the river aud is now
In Jail AT Mount Vernon.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

WHEAT, which brings the highest price in the
markets OF the world; thousands of cattle are
fattened for market without being fed grain,
and without q days shelter. Send for informa-
ton and secure a free home in Western Canada.
Write the Superintendent OF immigration, OF
tawa. or address the undersigned, who viii mail
you aliases, pamphlets, etc, free OF cost. w.
II. Rogers. Watertown, s. ID.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
Danger OF Melting.

"Ah, parson, l wish l could take my
gold with me" sad a dying deacon to
his pastor.
1T might melt" was the consoiing
reply.-Ohio State Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
His Status.

Dorothy" said the mistress of the
establishment, happening in just as the
gardener went out, who is that MANI"
only a hoe beau, ma'am." replied
the kitchen maid, blushing rosily.-
Chicago Tribune.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
c., Get Aliens Foot-Ease Free.

Tr,te today to Allen S. Olmsted, lie
n Y. for a free sample OF AL
II, Foot-Ea3e, a powder TO shake into
u shoes. It cures chilblains, sweat
IT, Damn, swollen, aching feet. II
e. new or tight shoes easy. An in
a"t cure for Corns and Bunions. All
rnggists and shoe stores sell 1t, Csc.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
FOR BOYS AND Girls.
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR ot,p
JUNIOR READERS.

Ane with Horns How .umuv
was Caught Up In q Tree-An Alaska,
nome - Grandma's Cat Story An
AVerted Quarrel.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11
Keeps
Thirty Years

Ayers Hair Vigor is eer-
|tsinly the most economical prep
,ntion Of its kind on the market.
A little Of it goes , long way.
And then. what you don't need
nov you can use some other
time Just as we'll.
1t doesn I take much of it to
stop falling of the hair. restore
color to gray hair. cure dandruf.
and keep the hair soft and glossy.
| here great deal of good and
an immense amount Of satisfac-
tlon in every bottle of it.
sLoO a bottle. All druggists.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

Hon. W. n Roach. United States Senator from North Dakota.
Hon. w. n. Roach, United States Senator from North Dakota, per -nallv
endorses Peruna, the great atarrh cure and tonic In a recent letter 20 The
Peruna Medicine Company, at Columbus, Ohio, written from Washington, D. c.,
Senator Roach says:
"Persuaded by a friend, have used Peruna a a tonic, and I an,
glad TO testify thar il has greatly helped me In strength, vgor and
appetite. / have been advised BY friends that ii is remarkably effca-
cious a. a cure for the almost universal complaint of catarrh."
Senator Roachs home address is Larimore North Dakota.
Peruna is lot a guess, O an experiment.; it is an absolute, scientific en-
tainty. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Peruna has N 10 substitutes
no rivals Insist upon having Peruna- Let n 10 n persuade You that SON other
remedy will do nearly as well There is no other systematic remedy for catarrh
but Peruna. Address the Peruua Medicine Company. Columbus Ohio, for a
free book n catarrh, written by DR.. Hartman
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

The man who Is always borrowing
trouble has no trouble in finding plenty
Of lenders.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11

Undeserved praise may often lead
Ms to become really worthy of DraisA.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-11


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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-20
NOTES AND OPINIONS.
IS IT FOR 4 NEW MASTER?
Houston Post.)


The administration trials and dis
tresses seem to multiply with the sue
ceeding days.
Imperialism with its boast and pa
gcantry has not been able to knit the
ravcled sleeve of care"
Asiatic adventure has brought Il
brood of evils that time nor deception
has been all powerful TO conceal or de-
Stroy.
Porto Rico has been made the prey
of the tariff barons and has provided
a startled Republic with its first object
Lesson In the deliberate violation of eX-
ecutive promise; the first abandonment
of the principle that the constitution
belongs to the territory; the initial blow
delivered by the hidden hand of colon
ialsm ut the fundamental theory of the
Republic that free government is inn
possible except that authority shall rest
upon the consent of the governed. Fol
lowing close upon the heels of all these
comes the postal scandals in Cuba
Why not?
The system OF government instituted
in Cuba is somewhat akin to n system
OF government once before put in vogue
by a party mad with conquest and
power, and il brings forth almost iden-
teal results. North and South the
country recalls the regime OF carpet
bagism-thc North with shame; the
South with horror,
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-20

The treasurer of the Virginia Bank
ers Association said in his speech Mt
Richmond; For three Years has the
yellow metal been thrusting itself into
our markets. our vaults, into the pock-
cts OF the people" Well. well, well:
who ever thought before that gold
would make 'beastly nuisance of itself
and go forcing its company upon the
people? If the yellow metal has really
gone to "thrnsting' itself into peoples
pockets and hanging on TO their coat
tails, something should be done about
1t. Free-oorn American citizens should
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-20

that it can use the government to
crafty its greed, Americans know 10
their sorrow and shame.
The people of the United States may
as we'll make up their minds either to
accomplish the destruction of the
Trusts. or to submit to their final con-
troll of the government. and a resultant
state of society more intolerable than
that which obtained under the robber
barons of the middle ages, or the tax
farmers Of Nero himself.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-20
THE SOLDIER AND THE NATIVE,

The Baltimore Herald is disnosed TO
ihduige In ridicule at the expense OF
Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, of Boston
who has Just returned from the Philin-
pine Islands. whittier he went to study
conditions under the American ,erimo
To rdicule Mr.. Garrison is. of course
to carry Goals to New Castle. That
however does not give warrant for
the off hand rejection of what he had
declared to 1e facts, cleaned from first
hand observation in the islands.
The Herald is disposed to lightly dis
miss Mr.. Garrisons assertion that Tho
presence of American soldiers has OK
ercised an unwholesome influence upon
the morals of the inhabitants, that
drunkenness and debauchery" have
Increased among the natives, and that
the worst. not the best features of our
civilization are being impressed upon
the Filipnos." If there were in this
assertion Of Mr.. Garrison's ANYTHING AT
variance with previous experience or
violative Of reasonable probabilities or
contradictory Of the testimony of other
impartial observers. then indeed might
it be lightly dismissed.
Unfortunately. precedent. probability
and the testimony OF other observers
all tend to confirm Mr.. Garrlsons state
ment. Nowhere in the world has the
presence of the white mans army made
easier the laboits of the missionary
among other Deoples Nowhere has
the soldier been a teacher to inferior
races Of those virtues the incubation
OF which has been the excuse for Anglo
Saxon aggression in every quarter of
the world. In Africa. in India, among
our own Indians of the plains, the SOL
der has touched but to defile, the
trader has appeared only to despoil the
native. 1t is easier and temporarily
moro profitable for the trader to culti-