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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-18

London, Jan. 1s.-The following was
received from Roberts, dated Cape
Town today:
Received telegram from Butler
stating one brigade and howtzer bat
terry crossed the Tugela river at Pot
geiter's drift. Five miles further west,
at Trichard's drift. Warren has thrown
a pontoon bridge over the river. BY
this part of his force crossed yesterday.
The remainder is expected by morning
to be on the north bank. Warren hopes
he will be able to turn the enemy'ss spo-
ssition, which is five miles off of his
right. the front being strongly en-
trenched,, !,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-18
T.-R. BJLLE ~
NOTICEABLE News TODAY.

The Went
Iowa-Fair tonight S Friday; mod
crate temperature. 81
Illinois 1'hreate1a1s tonight, with
snow in the northeast and colder in the
extreme south; Friday, cloudy.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
OF CURRENT INTEREST.
Depew Has Rsacnso Iars Goat

Senator Chauncey Depew was in a
reminiscent MOOD one night recently
after dinner at a fayorite New York
cub, and related to few friends how
he had achieved political success after
long years of patient waiting. 1T was
always my ambition said Mr.. Depew,
Ito be a Senator. When / was a little
boy in the village of Peekskil con-
ceived that desire. l had read Plu-
tarch's lives and Roman history. l had
read all the books in the circulating Ii
brary, and the most fascinating vol
umes were those which dealt with the
careers of Senators. William III. Sew
ard was my ideal. / wanted to be like
him. l wanted to be success as a
lawyer. l wanted to be a Senator. Ev-
er kept my eyes fixed on my ideals.
went to Yale with my ideal in my
heart, and l came out of Yale with il
still there. / went to work, and l wor
out as a lawyer. In 1885 / was offered
that Senatorship for which / had LONG
striven, but didn't take it. Why? Be-
cause | was pledged to Evarts. 1 was
urged to take the place, but much as
Il desired it / said no, and stood fol
Eyarts. No, i never despaired of be-
ing a Senator, for / knew my time
would come. Just so sure as a mar
fixes his mind on goal and holds i
there steadfastly, thinking only of thaI
goal. he will ultimately reach it. One
thing, / never worried. You can't wiz
If you worry. Leave that for your op-
ponents No matter what happens
don't worry. Go to bed and go to sleep
When you awaken you will have for
gotten the cares of the preceding day
and you will have strength to overcome
all obstaclesdt Yes.oI shall stay in the
Senate so long, as L may, if only in ad-
miration of Seward 1T is not an ad
miration that may lead one astray."
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
~ No. 1Tis
Always a. Joker.

The informing afters Roland Reed s
most recent operation in st. I4uke's hos
pital, New York. the comedian was
quite certain he was for this. earth but
few hours more. He expressed this
view/to the nurse with such despairing
vehemence that she feared, if he were
not speedily rid of the idea, he might
work himself into a fever which would
delay his recovery a day or two. There
fore, she humored him by calling the
surgeon. It's all over this time,
groaned Reed Justify. Nonsense" said
that worthy, and he winked at the
nurse. mo such luck! You're good to
murder any quantity of defenseless
stage jokes yet" And, to crafty the
actor, he began feeling him over. did
you ever hear of anybody near death
with both legs and feet as warm as
yours?" YES" answered Reed, brac-
ing up enough to get twinkle in his
leye. Lots of EN-" "Who were they
Joan of Arc and the Salem witches"
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25

Each copy OF the Christmas Adver-
tiseri should appear in loose PAM
phlet cover with pictures illustrating
some thoughts suggested by the day
and some of the types of persons and
of scenery familiar to these Islands
In the past and present. The pictures
were prepared for newspaper use by
the art department of this paper, and
may be accepted as a forerunnner of
the magnificent series of Illustrations
which will be among the attractions
of the forthcoming New Year number
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
Budapest's Up-to-Date Service.

A news telephone service hasc been
established at Budapest, the object OF
the scheme being to supply subscribers
with reports of all the important oc-
currences which are ordinarily chron-
icled in the daily papers. The service
has main line 16S miles in length, and
it is connected with private houses
and various public resorts. Between
1880 a. m. and $3.50 p. m. twenty-eight
editions Of news are spoken into the
transmitter by ten leather-lunged in
Idividuals, who works in shifts of two.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
Where the Money Went.

The Boston Medical and Surgical
journal says that Boston physician
was recently called to a family which
he found in such destitute circum-
stances that he gave, in addition to his
prescription, So bill. Happening in
the next day, he discovered that his
gift had been thus spent: Three dollars
TO the priest, which. of course, was all
rlght, and 81 to get another doctor
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
Ho, ses "Dope d. for the Horse Show.

Charges of doping made against
prominent exhibitors at the New York
Horse Show are laughed at by experts,
who say the practices objected to have
always been in vogue among proprie-
tors OF aristocratic stables. That stim-
uiants, such as ammonia preparations,
nave been administered to animals Just
before entering the arena is not de-
MED. They call it 'freshening up a
horse.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
Nearly a Clean Sweep.

Meeting a queer specimen of human
f1otsam from the Galveston flood at the
Hoffman House in New York last week,
Victor Smith inquired how the election
suited him. us people," he replied,
were too much concerned about get
tin things to rights in our town to
think much of the election. We didn't
have no money to bet with, which
might have been a good thing, as mat
ters turned out, for it seems as If every
thing, except hell and Texas, went for
Mckinley. lever see anything like it?
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
Can't Pay a Scent Fare With $40

Some time ago Ida Balk rendered a
street car conductor in Toledo a $40 bill
in payment of one fare. The conductor
refused to accept the bill on the ground
that he did not have change for that
amount and elected the woman from
the car. She brought suit against the
company for damages and the, case
was decided against her. Judge Pugsley
said in deciding the case that it was
unreasonable to expect the street car
conductor to carry that amount of
change
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
Four Out of Five Are Rejected.

out of more than 10000 applicants at
Federal Navy recruiting stations dur
ing the latest Governmental year only
S,l23. were accepted, and of these a
noteworthy percentage were re-enlist-
mentS. Man-o'- wars men nowadays
must possess peculiar qualifications and
knowledge, and in order to acquire
THESE qualifications there must be
schooling in actual service
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25

II the Beers keep on winning vic
tories. a danper will be put on the
enthusiasm over Lord Roberts home
coming. With the Boer commanders
so active. and the spirit Of discomfort
spreading so widely in Cape Colony, 1t
looks as il Lord Roberts date for
leaving South Africa had been a trifie
premature.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
CHRISTIANS THOUGHTS.

The frontispiece OF the Christmas
Advertiser shows at a glance the kind
of holiday weather which may be ex-
pected anywhere in the Hawaiian
group. Here, as Mark Twain has said,
with the Summer seas flashing in. the
sum-" and with "plumy palms browsing
by the Shore" Christmas is a very
different day than that upon which
English literature has centered the
Anglo-Saxon mind. Kriss Kringle is
of the north, northern; the Yule log
blazes to repel the Arctic frosts; the
emblematic tree is the pine OF boreal
solitudes; Santa Claus comes out of
Scandinavian forests wrapped in furs.
It seems needful to have such sur
roundings to make a perfect Christmas
day; and yet Christmas. was not porn
amid storms and bleakness. In Judea,
nineteen hundred years ago, the shep-
herds watched their fiocks under mild
December skies, and the incense OF
spicy forests blooming on the slopes OF
Lebanon, rose to Heaven while the
angels sang of that peace on earth and
good will to man which have Jared so
long upon their way. There, too, were
"balmy airs" and "garlanded craigs,
the "pulsing of the surf-beat,' the
spirit of the woodland solitude" and
the breath of flowers" Surely though
Hawaii, save upon its uttermost peaks
has no touch of frost, it can enter into
the heritage of Christmas, not as a
strange land adopting an alien holiday
but as a place where the Manger might
have held it's holy burden all un-
touched of chill and famed by the
fragrant breath of midnight as gen
tie as the Judean.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
For Local Option in Georgia.

The Georgia Legislature is receiving
win much favor the plan of giving to
the counties local option in respect to
the dispensary system of conducting
the liquor traffic. 1t was in a Georgia
county that this system originated il
is said, and it has worked so well that
strong sentiment exists in favor of a
general application where local opinion
is favorable
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
Pennsylvania Pullman.

NUMBER OF the rich men of Phila-
delphia have been enlisted in a move
ment to establish a model industrial
town at some point on the Delaware
river. From the brief description of
the project given out it would appear
lnat Pullman is to be the pattern to
"nleh the new town will be cut.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25

IL Bryan does not say things in his
weekly that will make him unavailable
as a presidential candidate, he will be
luckier journalist than was Horace
Greeley or Thurlow Weed, or than
whitelaw Reid or Mclean, of Ohio. OF
any other living editor can hope to be
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25

gave. but will realize that the eternal
way was just.
Gods plans like lilies pure and white
unfoid.
We must not tear the close-shut leaves
apart;
Time viii reveal the calyxes of gold
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
They are Everywhere.

DR.. Thomas III. Norton American
oonsul at Harpoot, Turkey, recently
gave a dinner to the members of the
I'M Beta Kappa Society resident in
Pera. Nearly a dozen persons were
present representing Harvard. Prince
Ton, faie, Nassar, Hamilton, Bowdoin.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25

There is always more or less
Christm2s thump ng and bullying, but
1t ought to spare the women and child
rem while there is a handy car driver.
telephone man or electric light faker
around.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25

= The Advertiser wishes all its readers
a Merry Christmas, and as it intends
to have one itself, there will be no
7-paper issued tomorrow morning.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25

n Ii adds to the pleasures of the holi-
day season to have the assurance OF
District Attorney Baird that the
Alumbing trust Is not only going, but
gbne
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
FOR LEASE.

THE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS A
lease for a term of years of that very
desirable parcel of land situate on the
corner Of Hotel and Richards streets,
recently occupied by the Fashion Sta
bles Company. Possession may be Civ
en- on the first day of January next.
For further particulars, apply to
J. o. CARTER,
for Mrs. Mary L.
Brown. 5719
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25

mere are Two conceptions or the
Christ written into the warp and wool
of Scripture. One is that of Him who
came not to bring peace into the
world. bat sword. The other is seen
in the character of the Prince of Peace
Is it possible to unite these ideas into
the harmony which BELTS the Biblical
narrative, or must We dismiss them as
thoughts containing too subtle an
elixir for human natures daily food
Certain 1t is that the wars waged un-
der the dripping banner of the cross
have been the most terrible of all
wars; true, also, it is that Christianity
is the Gospel of forbearance and
brotherly love. How shall these things
be reconciled? All, doubling spirit,
look back across the reeking path of
history and see the gradual but sure
approach of the millennium. Wars
have opened pagan lands as no mere
message of good will could ever have
done, until almost the entire world
Is ready to hear the milder teachings
OF the Word. Wars have made widely
separated races known to each other
and the militant strength of the Chris
tian nations is tempting pagan ma
tons, like Japan, to inquire into the
secrets of the faith Moreover. wars
are now growing shorter and fewer
for with their cost in blood and treas
ure measured by the standards of
human life which the Gospel incul-
Gates, the conviction is forced upon ma
tions whom Christianity has educated,
that wars should cease forever. War
has scattered the seeds of it's own ruin
and that, saving the day of miracles.
Is the plan of the universe. God works
Dy evolution, not by revolution. now !;
he establishes causes and lets the
world wait for effects; and whatever
seems the evil of the moment becomes
In the end factor in universal good
The guns that thunder before tho
scanned old walls of China will soon ba
silent; and after that Peace will,
be planted on the ruins of the tempIes
He who brought the sword into the
world will yet turn it into the pruning
hook; and as men look back from the
vantage ground of the millennium they
will not regret the thorns and sadness
OF the way, seeing the discipline they
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25
TUESDAY DECEMBER IS

fThe toast of the day: May good d.
kestion wait an appetite and health on
both.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25

There is something awe-inspiring in
the thought of what a great fire the
little matter of birth in Bethlehem
nearly two thousand years ago has
kindled in the world. Nothing could
be more commonplace than birth;
and a birth in a manger was the
humblest Of all introductions to our
humanity. Bethlehem was a squalid
place; its villagers were poor, and JOS
eph and Mary were poorer than they.
Around them to the uttermost limits
of the known world spread the pagan
magnificence of the Roman Empire.
What could child Of the Manger do,
with nothing but an olive branch in
his hand, to break the armored super
stitions of the time, to substitute the
Golden Rule for the cruelty and bar
barism of the age? What could his
coming disciples, the Blessed Fisher
men, achieve against the centurions
on the street corner, to say naught o!
the superb triumvirs intrenched in
every provincial capital? And the
Dacians on the frontier and the un-
known anthropophagi beyond them in
the darkness, what of them? But the
spark had been lighted and the fire
must spread; the tree had been plant
ed and 1t must grow; the earthquake
forces had begun to gather and the
world must shake. Before long the
glory that was Greece and the gran
deur that was Rome had passed into
the mists of history; and In their plac-
es arose the Empire Of the Cross. Far
streams the light from the open stable
door; and nobler than any figure OF
Roman paganism or Grecian mythol-
Ogy rises the martyred form of Him
who was crucified and yet is trium-
phaht.
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25

We would like to advise intending
purchasers before buying holiday PRES
ents. to inspect our elegant stock Of
suitable articles, such as
The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-25

Hoods Pills cure liver ills the nonirritatne and
only catharue 70 take with Hoods Sarsaparills-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-18

pamphlets and books, which are used
as advertising mediums. Time was.
years ago, when every road had the
straightest line Con it's map) between
any two or more competitive points
but now the public demands actual
facts and truth-telling maps, and,
again, gets what it requires.
It may interest some OF your readers
to quote few statistics gathered from
recent report of the interstate COM
merce commission:
There are over 1000 railway corpor-
ations in the United States.
The total mileage, in round numbers,
is 1885, 900 miles.
The number of miles Of railroad per
10, 900 inhabitants is 257a.
The number of locomotives in service
is $4,000
The number Of passenger car in
service is $4,000.
The number of passengers carried per
annum, 51O.O00.O00.
The revenue derived from this
number of passengers, $268, 100000.
The number of persons employed in
railway services. about 100000
In a great degree, the influence Of
railway passenger traffic has an effect
in controlling shipments of freight over
lines which are the best advertised and
are the most popular among COM
mercial travellers and merchants.
Trade follows the flag of a first-class
road.
No country in the world furnishes
such luxurious and comfortable rail-
way trains as the United States has
produced at the end of the nineteenth
century, nor are passengers transported
elsewhere at such cheap rate of fare.
The so-called limited trains of to-day
are marvels of beauty. They combine
all the attractions and requirements of
home, office and library, with the ap-
pointments of a first-class hotel. They
are as near perfection as the inventive
genius of to-day can make them, but
who shall say what another decade
may bring forth?
And when Self-Culture has attained
it's twentieth volume, perhaps some
other contributor will review this
article and points out the development
of railway passenger traffic between
now and then, thus carrying this brief
history of events along for the benefit
of those who come after the present
generation of seekers after knowledge
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-18
BITS OF INFORMATION.

Lawyer Charles Allen of Boston has
written a book on the Bacon-Shakes-
pearean controversy in which he says:
Lord Bacon was too learned jurist
to have written plays and poems
showing such ignorance Of legal
knowledge as that displayed by
Shakespeare.
Congressman Charles B. Lands Of
Indiana says of himself: II pitched
hay as a lad worked in a gravel pit in
my youth and attended college only
when | reached manhood
The Orloff, one of the Russian crown
jewels, is the largest in Europe, weigh
ing 1913 carats. 1t was purchased fol
$450O00 and an annuity of $4,000
Thirty thousand women are en-
ployed in theoBritish postal depart
ment. There are $50 head postmis-
tresses and over 5000 sub-postmis-
tresses.
Fiction comprised 81 per cent. of the
books given out from the Joliet prison
library last year. Of the remainder
II per cent were religious works.
One cause of the increase of immi-
grafton into the United States is said
to be the apprehension of a great war
in Europe.
A statue of Gordon is to be erected
in the public garden at Khartum.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-18

80 feet, and the fourth u feet deep
and 80 feet inside diameter All were
provided with stone foundations ~
IL 80 inches in height, with good roofs
and cupolas, and were substantially
built in every way. If we allow the
same cost for the roof of this type of
silos as we have in computing the cost
Of the preceding types, it will be found
that the cost of the walls of these
four -plastered silos was at
the mean rate of 1898 cents per square
foot of outside surface of the wall. The
cost of this type of silo is somewhat
more than that of the stone silo where
the cost of stone is not included.
Where the silo is made inside Of a
barn or if it is built out of doors with
out roof or other weather protection
than the materials needed for strength
and lining, a silo Is feet inside dame
ter and 80 feet deep will cost about
$133, while one 25 feet in diameter will
cost $244. The first silo will hold 70
to so tons, and the last 200 tons, thus
making the cost at the rate of SLIT
and 80 cents per ton Of silage.
Up to the present time more silos
have been built of wood than of any
other material The cost of this type
will vary with the thoroughness of the
manner of making the lining and of
protection against frost. These silos
will keep the silage well and will
have a durability comparable with
that of other wooden farm buildings.
Atwood round silos 80 feet deep cost
about as follows: Size 13 #. inside
diameter No. 1873 for outside construc-
ton $128 for inside; size "a it
1924 for outside and 1925 for inside con-
struction.
One stave silo, 1S #. inside diameter
and "a fit. deep, cost $242.80. Two other
silos built in a barn in 1898, Is feet in
side diameter, of 2x4 slaves, 26 feet
long, beveled and with 10 5-8 inch
round hoops each, cost $1705O for the
two The bottom of these silos extend
s feet into a red clay subsoil and are
cemented directly upon it, only one
course of brick being used above for
the tubs to stand upon.
In localities where both lumber and
masonry are expensive Or cannot be
had, and where the soil is of such a
character that a pit Is to 20 feet
deep may be sunk in the ground, a
good silo may be made in this way.
The most serious objection to such a
silo is the inconvenience of removing
the silage to feed If the soil is of
such character that it will not cave
in the pit may be made circular in
form of the desired size and depth
and then plastered with cement in the
manner of cistern. If there is a lit
tie difficulty in the walls standing the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-18
BEFORE THE AGE OF HOMER.

The excavations carried out by
Arthur Evans and D. G.. Hogarth in
Crete continue to yield results of the
highest interest. On that portion of
the site of ancient Knossos which Mr..
Evans has selected for investigation
(Khephala) Mycenaean palace has
been discovered containing relics Of
extraordinary Importance, by means OF
which the hitherto uncertain question:
of Mycenaean writing has been
finally settled In the chambers of the
buildings have been found whole
series of clay tablets, analogous to
the Babylonian, but with indigenous
Cretan script These tablets are ap-
parently palace archives. On the
south front of the building the en-
trance hall of the megaron has come
to light, and in the adjoining corridor
is a large piece of fresco representing
a full-size figure of a girl in Mycenae-
an costume holding long vase. In
brilliancy of coloring and grace Of
form the figure surpasses anything
hitherto discovered belonging to this
period. The remains belong to the
great Mycenaean age, about 1400 B. C.
1t is believed that important and in
teresting traces have been found Of
civilization anterior to the age of
Homer.-London Times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-18
SHE KEPT THE APPOINTMENT.

Not every governor who falls i'll has
a wife who can keep his appointments
for him, SO Gov. Mount of Indiana
should consider himself an especially
fortunate man, says an Indianapolis
correspondent. The other day he was
taken i'll few hours before he was
due for an address at a farmers in
stitute ten miles from his home, in
indianapolis. When he began worry
ing about it, Mrs. Mount said:
Never mind; I'll take your place."
She boarded an electric car, reached
the institute on time, and delivered an
address of her own on "The mistakes
and possibilities of rural life," which
she had just prepared for publication
in a local paper.
Her audience was delighted with the
change of orator, and gave her a cor
dial invitation to come again
cleveland Leader.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-18
TURKEYS BAD MANNERS.

Turkey has unnecessarily con-
demned our meat. The Philadelphia
Record says of it: "The sultan has
chosen an unfortunate time to set his
seal of condemnation on American
meat It happens that he is in i'm
mediate need of American forbearance,
which is hardly to be expected after
his exhibition of ill-will. AS the
annual importation of our meats into
Turkey does not exceed $13, and as
there has been no reasonable ground
to distrust the character of the i'm
ports, there can be no just cause for
the nominal prohibition