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The Grit-advocate., 1900-08-03

bodies OF LnlS lnIectlOn lie in the
hospitals and In the graves, while
their souls are being tossed over into
a lost eternity, an avalanche of horror
and despair! The London plague was
nothing to it. That counted its VIC
Tins by thousands, but this modern
pest has already shoveled its millions
into the charnel house of the morally
dead. The longest rail train that ever
ran over the tracks was not long
enough or large enough to carry the
beastliness and the putrefaction which
have been gathered up in bad books
and newspapers in the last twenty
years.
Now, it is amid such circumstances
that l put question of overmastering
Importance to you and your families.
What books and newspapers shall we
read? You see I group them together.
A newspaper is only a book in
a swifter and more portable shape,
and the same rules which will apply
to book reading will apply to news
paper reading. What shall we read?
Shall our minds be the receptacle Of
everything that an author has a mind
tion between the tree of life and the
tree of death Shall we stoop down and
drink out of the trough which the
wickedness of men has filled with pol
luton and shame? Shall we mire in
1mpurity and chase fantastic will-o'-
&he-wisps across the swamps when
W might walk in the blooming gar
dens Of God? Oh, no! For the sake
OF our present and everlasting welfare
W must make an intelligent and
Christian choice.
Standing, as we do, chin deep in
fictitious literature, the question that
young people are asking is, "Shall we
read novels?" 1 reply. There are nov
els that are pure, good, Christian, ele-
vating to the heart and ennobling to
the life. But have still further to
say that I believe that seventy-five
out OF the 100, novels in this day are
balsful and destructive to the last de-
gree. A pure work of fiction is history
and poetry combined. 1t is history
OF things around us with the licenses
and the assumed names of poetry. The
world can never pay the debt which
1t owes to such writer's of fiction as
Hawthorne and Mckenzie and Landon
and Hunt and Arthur and others
whose names are familiar to all. The
follies of high life were never better
exposed than by Miss Edgeworth.
The memories of the past were never
more faithfully embalmed than in
the writings of Walter Scott. Cooper's
novels are healthfully redolent with
the breath of seaweed and the air of
the American forest. Charles Kings
10y has smitten the morbidity of the
world and led great many to apprs-
ciate the poetry of sound health,
strong muscles and fresh air Thack-
cray did grand work in caricaturing
the pretenders to gentility and high
blood. Dickens has built his own
monument in his books, which are a
plea for the poor and the anathema
Of injustice. and there are score of
novelistic pens today doing mighty
work for God and righteousness.
Ennobiing and Purifying.
Now, l say, books like these, read
at right times and read in right pro-
portion with other books, cannot help
but be ennobling and purifying; but,
alas, for the loathsome and impure
literature that has come in the shape
of novels, like freshet overdowing
4
sense! They are coming from some of
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GOV. TAYLOR DEFIANT.
Declares He will Protect Men Accused
of killing Goebel.


of killing Goebel.
Both houses of the Kentucky Legisla-
ture met in the state house at Frankfort
Monday morning. In anticipation OF
possible attempt by the State troops TO
prevent the meeting quite crowd gath
cred around the state house square, but
the members of the Legislature were al
lowed to meet without molestation.
Secretary Of State Powers and Capt.
Davis were secretly taken from the Lex
ington jail between midnight and day
break and in charge of Sheriff Suter Of
Frankfort were driven overland to Yer
sailles, where they were placed on train
and taken to Louisville. The removal
caused much excitement.
Acting Governor Taylor concluded an
explanation Of his reasons for granting
pardons to all the men, in prison and out,
who are accused of having guilty knowl-
edge Of the assassination Of Governor
elect William Goebel in these words:
Under this state Of affairs, believing
that each one of said persons is innocent
of any completely in said crime, and fur
ther believing that the enormous reward
will secure the conviction of these men,
however innocent, deemed it my solemn
duty to issue pardons to them in order
that these political conspirators might
not be enabled to deprive them of their
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London imports 100000 tons of coal
annually.
There were nearly $4,000 deaths in
London last year.
A factory at Redditch, England, makes
aO,OOO,OOO needles week.
The average progress on the Simplon
tunnel is sixteen feet day.
In Ceylon there are only 5000 Euro
peans against 3,250,000 natives.
The Russian budget estimate for public
education for 1900 is about $24 100000.
The only railway in Corea is equipped
with American material and rolling stock.
In the fashionable thoroughfares Of
London good house rents for $4,000 a
year.
Last years consumption of whisky in
the United Kingdom was the largest on
record.
India has electric railways only in Mad
ras, and company will ask for fran
chise in Bombay.
BY reduction in wages of natives
working in the mines the TransvaaI Gov
eminent will save S7,500,0OO year.
French peasants who live near the sew
age farms or Paris have entered protest
because their wells are contaminated.
At Berlin society has been formed to
combat what the members term 1.-The
neresy of the circulation of the blood
The London News states that Monte
Carlo is the one spot on the continent at
present where everything is done to
please the English and make them COM
Portable, as the Monte Carlo people APP
preciate British patronage and gold.
It has been officially announced at st.
petersburg that the first section of the
Iransbalkan division of the Siberian rail
way has been completed, and by the
middle of the coming summer there viii
De through communication by rail and
steamer between ST. Petersburg and
Vladivostock, distance of 6,372 miles,
Il IS estimated that the run can be made
IN tweGty-four DAYS.
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THE OBJECTIVE POINT OF GENERAL ROBERTS CAMPAIGN.
VIEW IN THE MARKET SQUARE, BLoEMFoNTEIN

their Incorporation in a South African
federation wherein the exclusive rights
still enjoyed by the Dutch shall be non
existent. The latter may have to accept
this fate in the end, but there will be
some more very hard fighting before they
do so.
Paul Kruger, whatever his shortcom-
ings in the way of education may be, is
without doubt one Of the greatest diplo-
mats living. His every diplomatic move
in the proceedings leading up to the out
break of hostilities was eminently wise,
from the point of view of his Govern
ment. In asking for peace now, kru-
ger doubtless is also seeking to make
manifest to the world the fact that the
object of Great Britain is the complete
subjugation of the Transyaal and the
Orange Free State and the incorporation
of those two republics into the territory
of British South Africa. Kruger is will
ing now to surrender all points at issue
providing the independence Of the repub-
lies be conceded. The Beers are not yet
ready for complete surrender. They will
retire and fortify for the last desperate
struggle, and in all probability the most
serious conflict of the entire war is vet
to occur.
President Kruger's peace oTertures nat
urally will have some effect in the diplo-
matte world at large in making it clear
that the contest from now on, so far as
the Beers are concerned is death strug-
gle for independence The influence on
South Africa of the outcome of the peace
overtures may be more marked For the
discomfort of the Dutch residents of Cape
Colony presumably will be increased by
the disclosures of Great Britain's inten-
ton to extend its rule over the Dutch re-
publics. The sympathy of the Beers res
ident in British territory is with those
republics.
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|sOIJTH AFRICAN WAR.
PROBABLE EFFECT OF KRUGER'S
PEACE PROPOSALS.
war Experts See in This shrewd
D;,1omatic Move = Foreign Consuis
Asked to Invite Intervention OF the
Dore-s-Roers Suffer Another Defeat.

disnatch received in London from
Pretoria and censored by the boer Uos
eminent asserts that President Arusel
and President Steyn wired TO Loru oai
ishury peace proposals, on condltlon lna'
tbe Independence of the two repupllcs oe
respected and the rebel colonlais amnes-
tied The foreign consuls, it Is also oe-
clared. were called into conference ana
were requested to invite the lnterven-
tion of the powers they represent III or
dor to nreyent further bloodshed.
The reported oyertures for peace made
bv Kruger. in which he made his own
terms, seems, to some of the war ex-
merits. worthy of credence. The recent
demora1ization of the Boer forces IN the
Orange Free State and the evident olsln-
clination of the burghers IN that localty
to continue the hopeless struggle turnlsn
corroborative testimony that the tederal
allies would be glad to obtain peace upon
an advantageous basis, If that were pos
sible. 1t is not at all likely that the END
of the war will be greatly hasteneu py
the present overtures. 1t is quite prob
able that President Kruger was forced
to make them in order TO satisfy the de-
mands of his Free State allies. 1t is not
to be believed that Kruger himself hoped
even for a moment that Great Britain
would grant peace upon the terms he
names. These terms, it is said, include
provisions for the future independence OF
the two republics and doubtless, the sub
mission to arbitration of the differences
in regard to British suzerainty and the
other matters in dispute. These We're
practically the terms that the Transvaal
insisted upon before the opening OF the
hostilities. If Great Britain would not
accept them then there is not the slight
est possibility that she will accept them
now, at the end of nearly five months of
bloody and expensive war, with the ad-
vantage distinctly on the side of the
British.
That the Beers are ready to accept any
terms of peace which the British Govern
ment is likely to offer them at present is
equally unlikely. The two parties to the
war in South Africa are still too far
apart in their ideas to make any negotia-
tons at this time profitable.
The Beers still believe that they can
achieve their independence, and the Brit
ish, flushed by their recent successes, will
listen to nothing but an absolute surren-
der on the part of the two republics and
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entire first page was given up to this
matter and an attack on war and sa-
looms.
The original typographical style of the
paper was altered, and single-line heads
with two banks used in all so-called
top-head stories. There was an evident
desire to tone down everything and to
give no prominence to anything which
might cause the gentlest soul to feel a
thrill of undue interest.
For six days the Capital continued af-
ter this form with all theatrical, Ordi-
nary sporting and important criminal
news carefully eliminated. Market re-
ports of other than active cash quotations
were consigned to the waste basket, and
the subscriber was for the period of ed
itor Sheldon's incumbency compelled to
seek his information in another paper.
Advertisements of the exclusive and
Christian variety only were permitted
to appear, and all these were overlooked
by Editor Sheldon before gong to the
foreman of the composing room.
How an unframed newspaper man can
run newspaper is a mystery to the men
of the press" remarked a prominent
journalist. ''As novelty it is all very
well; as permanent institution L fear
Mr.. Sheldon's ideas would not prove d
success either financially or from news
point of view. / always remember what
Charles A. Dana used to say that what
ever the Almighty permitted to happen
he was not ashamed to print
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BOERS PUT TO ROUT.
Engage in Stubborn at Dreifonteiu and
Are Defeated

Engage in Stubborn at Dreifonteiu and
Are Defeated.
The British forces under Gen. Roberts
have again put the Beers to rout and
have completed another stage on the road
to Blaemfontein. The battle, which was
unexpected by the British, was fought at
Driefontein, the fighting continuing all
Saturday. At daylight it was found that
the Beers had retired. Losses on both
sides were heavy, Gen. Roberts reporting
more than 100 dead hurghers found on
the field. while an admittedly incomplete
list Of his casualties showed thirteen Of
fcers killed or wounded, indicating a to-
tai of about $50 of the rank and file.
For time it seemed as if the British
had met their match, for the Dutch forces
occupied strong position and were
equipped with artillery superior 70 that
used by their assailants. They also out
Unanswered Roberts generals, frustrat-
ing every attempt to flank their lines.
Superior numbers prevailed, however.
and the Beers got away in safety, leav-
ing little of value behind.
The British reported casualties IN to
this date are as follows: Killed, 2,41S:
wounded, STAT: died Of disease, 1,O29:
missing, 3,4S3; total, 1861.
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liberty or their life. The guilty men
should be punished. but designing men
controlling the courts should not be en-
abled to shed the blood Of innocent men,
and if it is in my power to prevent it l
pledge myself in the name of God and
humanity that it shall not be DONE"
The Governors statement makes clear
the facts back Of the finding of pardons
in the possession of Acting Secretary of
State Caleb Powers and Captain John
w. Davis when they were arrested in
Lexington. Mr.. Taylor charged that the
Democratic leaders are in a conspiracy
to get possession of the State govern
mnnt ~
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-22
A vISlTTO PARIS COSTLY.
High Rates Charged to Travellers in the
French Metropolis.

High Rates Charged to Travellers in the
French Metropolis.
A Chicago newspaper man now in
Paris writes home regarding the expense
of a visit to that city. He says: The
hotels have all raised their rates from 40
to 80 per cent. The board amounts to
about Sc a day, and all meals skinny
same thing every day. You are also
obliged to fee from six to ten people con-
tinually. Next to the hotels as free
hooters come the stores, especially cloth
ing stores, that have put up their prices
quite 40 per cent. Hats and shoes are
so per cent dearer than in 1889; neckties
that range from % cents to 50 cents in
New York, San Francisco and Los An
geles, range from three francs go cents)
to seven francs ($1.4O) here-and this in
the country of silk manufactures! Cot
ton, linen and wooden goods have nearly
all advanced from 20 to so per cent over
what they were in 1889. Canes and UNI
brellas and such from 20 to 40 per cent.
Shirts, handkerchiefs and gloves seem
not to have advanced so much.
Druggists goods have gone diaboli-
cally out of all sight of all grades of po-
lite robbery A prescription that would
cost 25 cents in San Francisco is 81
here. An ounce of castor oil is 60 cents,
a pint OF witch hazel is 90 cents and an
ounce of borax 40 cents. The only thing
cheap in Paris to-day is the cab, which
is still only 80 cents from any one point
TO another in the city, for from one to
three persons, or 40 cents per hour for
same. Scores of Americans who had
come here TO stay for several months are
gcing hack.
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IN STEYN'S CAPITAL.
sRtrISA TROOPS TAKE BLOEM-
FONTElN.
Lord Roberts Cables the London War
Office that General French Has
Reached and Occupied the Head City
of the Orange Free State.

The British war Office received dis
patch Tuesday morning from Lord Rob-
erts announcing that Gen. French reached
Bloemfontein and after hard fight with
the Beers occupied two hills close to
the railway station and commanding the
town. There are 321 men wounded, .
says Roberts dispatch, "and about sixty
or seventy were killed or are missing.
The wounds are, as a rule, more serious
than usual, owing to the expanding bull
Tets which are freely used by the Beers.
A brother of President Steyn was made
a prisoner
Bloemfontein is not naturally strong
position and was made the Orange Free
State capital without regard to military
importance. Or defense. 1t stands on
high plateau, exposed on all sides and
without the shadow of natural barrier
TO the west whence the British were ex-
pected to advance.
All around the town the country is ster-
ile and untitled for agriculture. The soil
is covered with powders, fluffy grass
and low brush, which alone relieve the
otherwise dead monotony of the plain.
The houses of the city are low and white
and obscured by the trees, which have
grown within the town from sprouted
sprouts. Bloemfontein's principal build
ing is the capitol, which supports lofty
tower. This, together with few spired
churches and a few school buildings, is
the only structure that is prominent from
8 distance. Normally, the population OF
the capital is only 1900, rather small
number when the large area the town
covers is taken into consideration.
The only permanent Notifications of
Bloemfontein are those on the east. The
town is protected on that side by long
ridge, which rises 800 feet above the level
of the plain. From this ridge mounts
kopje, or hill, upon which the Free
Skaters erected fort several years ago.
when they were in constant fear of dan
ger. from British aggression. This fort
would not have been of much service
without long range guns, and even these
could not prevent the enemy from she'll
Ing the town on the west.
Early in the execution of Lord Rob
.erts' change of plan, whereby the British
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AMERICAS AID ASKED.

kruger and Steyn Request This Govern
meut to Communicate with Britain.
The first direct effort to aid the Boer
republics to secure the services or the
United States Government in the dlrec-
zion of bringing about peace in South
Africa has been made with some degree
of success. After endeavoring, appar-
emily in vain, to induce the continental
powers to tender to Great Britain their
services as mediators, President Kruger
and presumably President Steyn have
turned to the American Government with
q request of such character that Presl-
dent Mckinley and Secretary Hay found
that they could comply with it without
conflicting with their declarations that
the Government would not mediate be-
tween the belligerents unless Invited to
do so by both.
Through Adelbert S. Hay, the United
States consul at Pretoria, the Boer gov
ernments have asked the Government of
the United States to place before Great
Britain a statement of the terms upon
which the Beers are willing to negotiate
a treaty of peace and TO ascertain terms
which Great Britain may deem it expedl-
emit to offer The United States Govern
for the transmission of communications
between the two belligerents without be-
ing called on to assume the initiative in
any phase of the present aspect of the
situation.
President Mckinley directed that the
communication from Pretoria be trans
mitted to the British Government. The
terms which the Beers have proposed as
- +h. nraf of q
peace treaty are regarded as tentative
and to serve merely as an entering wedge
20 securing Great Britain's consent to dis
cuss general proposition for peace
arrangement or the selection of medi-
ator, which is certain to be the United
States Government.
As the war between Great Britain and
the Boer republics is regarded as pure
iy foreign matter, the President, bound
by the pledge given at The Hague peace
conference, could not, if he desired. take
the initiative in steps to bring the war
TO an end.
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There Is more catarrh in This s.su,
country than all other diseases Dut tOs,,sj
until the last few years was sIlpNssS n
durable. For great many vear nm nm
nounced it a local disease, and presCrs
remedies. and by constantly failing d N
local treatment, pronounced 1t lnCursbs
has proven catarrh to be a constjmtSj
ease. and therefore requires CONSTITUENT
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manutacam
j. Cheney b Co.. Toledo, Ohio, Is Gs|
stitutional cure on the market Jtksi
ternally In doses from 10 drops to t1u|
It acts directly on the blood and mr
faces Of the system. They offer oM
dollars for any case it fails to Curs b
circulars and testimonials. Address
F. j. CHENEY & CO, M
~ Sold by Druggists. 75c. 4
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esfee of Current Events

Prince Hohenlohe said il the Reichstag
that Alsace- Lorraine must still be held
as conquered territory.
Gen. Mercier's paper, the Paris Eclair,
has been shut out of Alsace-Lorraine by
the German Government.
The Rev. DR.. Mackenzie, a Presbyte-
rian minister of San Francisco, has made
a fortune by raising oranges.
During an attack Of desperate melan-
choIia Mrs. Doris Heescher slew her
daughter in cemetery at kiel and then
committed suicide. using q butchers
clearer.
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What Do the Children D,Il

Don't give them tea or COFFEE.
you tried the new food drink
GRAIN-O? 1t is delicious and q
ing, and takes the place Of COFFEE
more Grain-O you give the child
more health you distribute thrOagi
systems. Grain-O is made of punI
and when properly prepared taa
the choice grades of coffee, but
about IA as much. All grocers SELL
and 25c.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-22

opened with a pray
err, written by Bish-
op John H. Vim
cent of the Meth
Church. Following
this came a plea
for the famine suf-
ferers in India, by
the editor, with a
long letter from an
Indian missionary
and an official
statement by Vice
roy Curzon, as. to
Tpdia'c moods The
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-22
Anthracite in North Caroli

Anthracite coal, discovered 4
toric Kings mountain, North
lima, shows an analysis of s. pei
of carbon.
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army was concentrated in the west, the
Beers decided to remove their govern
ment to Winburg. Meanwhile they had
constructed several lines of works out
side of BIoemfontein to the west. The
mature of these works was similar to
those the Beers used in the long invest
yueut of Kimberley.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-22

To Cure a Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Iaaa
druggists refund the money if it taS
25c. E. w. Groves signature is Ona
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Coughing Leafs to Consuml
Kemp's Balsam will stop the CO
once. Go to your druggist to-di!
a sample bottle free. Sold in %
cent bottles. Go at once; delays u
gerOus.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-22

James Mill was the son OF "
and himself for a short time won
the bench.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-22

A common sight in Cape COhn|
herd of ostriches accompanies, h
way train as it speeds on its v,|
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with Lord Methuen, and have thorough
knowledge of the South African country.
The fine scouting they have done has
earned for themselves the names OF the
Ewes and Ears Of the Brigade. LON
don Rlack and White
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-22

He that calls a man ungratefu
up all the evil Of which one
guilty.-Swift.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-22
RlMINdTON's SCOUTS.

R;mington's scouts, or "Rimington .
1,;sers so called from the strip OF ieop-
ards skin worn round their hats, are
picked body of colonial horsemen serving
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-03-22

A man doesn't like to conSq
face a mug" even though De \
of clay.