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The suburban citizen., 1900-03-10
Ona British Transport,

At Southampton the Briton and
Garth Castle took them aboard for
Cape Town. On both boats the ac-
commodation is that usually allotted
to third-class passengers, with the ad-
dition Of such fittings as the necessi-
ties of transport call for, 1t is plain,
but airy and comfortable. The space
allotted contrives q double debt to
pay. At night it is dormitory, ham
mocks being slung fIom the deck
above. BY daytime it is a dining
room and general mess room. Tho
men are divided into messes of four
teen, and each will, to q certain ex-
tent, look after itself.
AS one saw the severely plain table
equipment--the rough deal tables,
the tin pannkins for soup and the
horn handled table cutlery-one could
not help specializing as to how some
of the spoilt darlings of the London
clubs who are going out would ac-
commodato themselves to this sort Of
thing. IF, however, the menage is
uncompromisingl plain the food will
be plentiful and good of its kind. The
men will have four meals a day, In
Guiding one substantial hot meal of
meat. When the process of embarka-
ton was completed the vessels cast
off amid thunder of cheers and were
soon on their way down Southampton
water. - London Correspondence
Washington Star.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-10

obliged to make regular weekly ship
ments, and tho demand Is still grow
ing.
The dread OF tho poorhouse passed
away and Miss Sanders became her
own cheerful self Addie is allowed
to have all the candy she wants at any
time, and she and Miss Sanders are
the very best of friends.
II do believe you had more to do
with your Uncle Albert ordering the
candy than you ever told me Of, said
Miss Sanders to Addie one day. "Now,
didn't you?"
And Addie blushed and began to
talk about something else. st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-10
The Humorous Ealtor,. Eaort.

The caller handed the editor a
bundle of manuscript.
"For your humorous column" he
said. "My wife makes fun of my at
tempts at wit, but I think you will
find this about as good as the stuff
you usually print"
The editor took the manuscript and
looked it over.
"Humphr" he calculated. "Your
wife makes fun of your efforts, does
she?"
"Y-yes, sir, general thing"
"She hasn't seen this lot, has she?"
"No, sir"
The editor handed back tho manu-
script.
"Please ask her to make fun on
this. Then you may bring it back
again. Good-day. "--Collier's Weekly.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-10
THE oLD DAoyERREoTYPEs.
ny JOE LINCOLN,


tio tIcI found locked in the cedar chest
folded which brave tho best
jackets and the waiscoats With stripes
They tell orn-outl lushionhese old dRguerreotype
Quaint little folding fastened with tiny hook,
gly made o llf the latch and look,
OF purp velvet, odd little frHmes OF gold,
Circing faded faces brought from the days OF old
Grandpa and grandma taken ago.
Grnndm marvel, grandpa's collar a show;
Mother todder with rings her baby hands
should noticein gterlng glded bands
Auntsa an unce and cousins, starehy and sG array,
blooming wrnked
Out misty glasses they sitting
Opening quaint old with smile that is half
will smile little pictures for heartless in truth,
daylight these ghosts vanished youth
cedar chamber, lavender
And dream mid their ygone the wonderful days that
Saturday Evening Pos
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-10
nEEE.KlLllNo IN MANILA.

Novel and Striking Scenes I'm the Public
Abbatoir Of the Filipino Capital.
A visitor from foreign parts in the
city of Manila, whose sensibilities are
not too acute, will find it worth his
while to "drop in" at tho public
slaughter house, in the place known
as Arroceres. This is on the river
bank to the northeast of Manila, aud
is much-frequented spot, where, be-
sides the slaughter er-house, are located
the tobacco factories, the botanical
garden, a Spanish theatre, and the
Kiosko, designed for public dances.
The proper time to visit the
slaughter house is about midnight,
for this is when the principal business
of the place is done. Owing to the
tropical heat, in which fresh meat be-
comes putrid in an incredibly brief
period, it is necessary that the killing
of animals should be dcne at night
and the meat distributed at once for
immediate use. All this work is done
in the wide-spreading, low building
in the square at Arroceres.
When operations are at their height
the scene is picturesque in the ex.
treme. The great majority of the ami.
mails slaughtered are the large native
cattle, most Of whom are brought here,
to tell the truth, not because Of theiI
being in a specially fat and juicy con.
dition, but because they have outlived
their usefulness elsewhere and are
here to be converted into beef as a
last resort. The killing is done en-.
tirely by natives trained in the bust.
ness until they have become experts.
The cattle are led in from the pens at
the side of the building and are held
by stout ropes over long troughs that
run up and down all through the
structure, and into which the blood
flows when the animals are first struck.
The fatal blow is given with a large,
sharp knife in the spinal cord, just
back of the horns. As a rule one
blow is enough. The animal drops
without a sound and scarcely quiver.
1t sometimes happens, however, that
the thrust miscarries and the beast is
only badly wounded, Then some.
times q terrific and exciting struggle
ersues before the enraged animal is
subdued and the finishing stroke
given.
A specially novel feature OF the pro.
ceedings is the rush made by the
native women and children, who are
always present in great numbers, to
collect the blood as it flows from the
freshly killed animals. This product
of the slaughter house is greatly priced
by the natives and is served up in
various simple forms at their meals.
II costs them nothing except the
struggle to catch it as it drips and
flows in the slaughter r-house, and this
price many OF the poorer class are
willing enough to pay. The scramble
for blood is not attractive to the casual
visitor, for the stuff gets spilled and
streaked around over tho hands and
clothing of the people, and the scene
is grewsome enough. AS soon as th Q
ANIMALS are killed the meat is cut mp
and distributed al once among the
local markets in all parts Of the city.
-Leslie's Weekly.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-10

Dairy, n; 1. The place, room, o.
house where milk is kept, and con-
verte5 into butter and cheese
Q. That department OF farming
which is concerned in the production
Of milk, and in its conversion into
butter and cheese.
8. A dairy farm.
Dairying, n. The business OF CON
Quoting a dairy.
Dairy maid, N. A female servant
whose business is the care OF the
dairy.
Dairy-man, n. A man who keeps,
OF takes care OF q dairy.
Dairy woman, II. A woman who at
tends to a dairy.
Huckster, n; /. A retailer Of
small articles, of provisions, and the
like; peddler; hawker.
2. A meen, trickish fellow.
Huckster, vi, To deAl liz -Naall ar.
ticles or in petty bargains.
Hucksterage, L. The business Of
huckster; small dealings; peddhDg.
Hueksterer, n. A huekster.
HuOkstreSs, n. A female huoaS
lier. q
The Winslow mail., 1900-04-26
"PLAIN DUTY.n
Acktnley's Excuse for Imposing an
Outrageous Tax on the
Porto Ricsns.

Mckinley has said that it is our
plain duty" to give the people of
Porto Rico free trade.
In matter of plain duty" any
thing less than 100 per cent. resolves
1t into plain defiance of duty.
Proposing to tax the Porto Ricans
25 per cent. was defiance of duty.
Shading that robbery down to Is per
cent. does not make this defiance of
duty any the less outrageous.
Making a present to the people of
Porto Rico of 81, 900 is not compli-
anee with duty. 1t is simply shifty
endeavor to smother public criticism
and to give little with one hand
while with the other property and lib
erty are stolen from the people of the
unfortunate island.
When the patriots of the revolution
fought England it was because of tax
alton without representation. That
was one of the grievances which the
forefathers of this nation refused to
endure, and now William Mckinley
is doing exactly what George III. did.
Consistency is not to be expected of
Mckinley, but shrewd political trick
cry is leading trait in his character.
In this matter there appears no par
ticle of consistency and for once there
is absent any evidence of political
shrewdness.
If Mckinley knows anything about
the sentiments of the people he knows
that they are opposed to this high
handed taxation without administra-
ton. His wise advisers know this and
are protesting against the political
suicide contemplated by the repub-
lican president.
Bryan is in luck just now and Nc
Kinley is playing a game which he
cannot fail to lose. The empire is not
yet established, nor is Mckinley
crowned king to play the stupid role
of second George III. Mckinley may
gain the friendship of the trusts, but
he will lose the presidency.-Chicagc
H..
The Winslow mail., 1900-04-26
TRUSTS AND FARMERS.
The Issue That Most Concerns the
Producers of Our Nee
essn-!r3,

That the trusts directly affect the
proaAters of the country, particularly
the farmer, is SO plain that a blind man
can perceive it. This is the way Judge
George w. Beeman, of Indiana, puts
it:
''The farmers of this country are the
people who are most and more directly
affected than any other proportion of
the electors.
''The farmer is affected as producer
and as a consumer. He goes to bed at
night with prices about as follows:
Wheat, 70 cents; corn, 25 cents; pork,
$3.50 per hundred; barb wire, two dol
lars; nails, two dollars per hundred !;
and well pipe 2Hs cents per foot.
HE awakes in the morning with
prices about as follows: Wheat, 65
cents: corn, %; pork, $4.25; barb wire,
five dollars; nails, four dollars; well
pipe, 20 cents.
His house has not been burglarized,
but he has been robbed by trusts which
are a multiple of thieves by robbers
and there is something strange about
the report of prices; if the price OF
wheat goes down it travels by tele-
graph, if the price goes up the report
goes by canal, but the farmer regard
less of party afiliation, if properly ed
ucated as to the effect of trusts on his
interests, will make itpossible to return
to the legislatures and congress ma.
iority of representatives who will be
honest and patriotic enough to enact
laws that will control the trusts anG
we will be safe in leaving the manner OF
control and regulation of trusts in the
hands of such chosen representatives
''Only the blind can fail to realize
what the real issue now is, whether the
trusts and corporations should rule the
government or the government regulat,
and control trusts and corporations"
The Winslow mail., 1900-04-26
PRESIDENTS COLONIAL POLICY
Attitude of the Administ ira t o. N
Towards Our New Pos
sessions.

Mr.. Henry Loomis Nelson is SO well
known as a careful, conscientious and
intelligent journalist that his Inter
pretations' of the presidents ''coloni-
a." policy in the Sunday Post-Dispatch
may be accepted as authoritative. MIR
Mckinley talked freely, wisely choos-
ing this as the best way of getting his
views before the country.
The presidents announcement is the
most important political utterance
since the establishment of the govern
ment, except, perhaps, the emancipa-
tion proclamation. 1t is revolutionary.
''The president believes that congress
has plenary power over Hawaii, Porto
Rico and the Philippines"
That is, in governing the colonies,
congress is not restrained by any con-
stitutional limitations. 1t is absolute.
Further, congress "may refuse to the
natives (of Porto Rico, Hawaii, etc.
and to the American citizens who may
go to our colonies the right of jury
trial, the right of free speech, the
right to bear arms the right of peace
able assemblage and of petition"
The presidents conclusions are not
the result of legal inquiry or judicial
study. They are the product of par
tisan necessity.
4. "Our new possessions must not be
permitted to injure any of our pro-
tected interests"
This doctrine, though revolutionary.
is not new or strange. The Roman re-
public conquered foreign peoples and
governed them for the benefit of Rome
and Romans. Mr.. Mckinley proposes
to do the same thing-to govern the
people of Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Filipinos without reference to their
welfare, but primarily for the CONNER
cial benefit of Americans, and in order
to accomplish this he proposes to re-
pudiate every principle of American
policy and give the lie to every Ameri-
can principle.
What will the people of this country
say to this ?-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Winslow mail., 1900-04-26

past all doubt, l would not try to keep
him if | could. 1 am going away, and
he shall live his life in peace. l have
merely come to ask you what kind of
life 1T is going to be-"
The Woman in White threw herself
back in her chair and raised her beau
tlful arms above her head.
"Oh, you cold-blooded woman," she
cried, clasping her hands above the
shining coil of her hair. "You lev
wives that go your round of what you
call duties, and sew on buttons and
have good dinners and sit at the head
of the table, as interesting as that
Dresden shepherdess, month after
month and year after year, and then
are shocked and outraged when he
meets a f1esh-and-blood woman and
loves her! What kind of life will he
have?- Why, he will learn for the first
time that he is alive, What right have
women like you to talk about lowell
women who give man up the first
time he looks another way! Why,
would make myself the most beautiful
and most attractive creature in the
world to him, so that he could never
even look at another woman-and
then, if he looked, Iwould not go oaway
and leave him-I would kill him!"
She clutched the paper knife in her
right hand-and lifted the left hand
and kissed again the flashing .circlet
on the wrist.
The Woman in Gray looked at her.
and the sight was branded on her mem
ory. When she spoke again, it was in
lower tones. Her eyes were fixed on
ring-a loose, loose ring, that she was
turning around on her finger.
Perhaps we were mistaken about
having loved each other" she said, alb
sently, as though she were talking to
herself. "We~were both so young, and
so ignorant. We were married earlier
than we had acknowledgements my
mother died, and 1 was left alone, and
was such an unprotected child-and so
we were married; and we agreed thai
we were to study together, because
we were both so ambitious-for him.
And perhaps | couldn't have kept pace
with him, at my best; but l had to
take in sewing to help him along, so l
hadn't much time-and in a little while
he was away beyond me. l have never
caught up with him since-but l have
always gone on studying, so that |
wouldn't quite disgrace him when he
became Il distinguished man."
The Woman in Gray stopped to put
a delicate and tremulous hand to her
throat.
"When he was studying law she
went on, presently, "his eyes were
troubling him, and so read aloud to
him for many hours every Cay. Some
The Winslow mail., 1900-04-26
Mast Rread.

In Saxon and medieval times, even
after the introduction of wheat ana
other cereals, there can be little doubt
that acorns were regularly USED Dy
the poorer peasants for the purpose
of making bread, and not only in sea-
sons of scarcity, but as general artl-
Gle of food. Oak trees were then
chiefly valued because of the acorns
which they produced. In the Anglo
Saxon Chronicle for the year 1116,
which is described as very calam-
itous year, the crops being spoiled
by the heavy rains, which came on
just before August and lasted till
Candlemas, it is expressly recorded
as an aggravation of the "heavy
time" that mast was also SO scarce
this year that none was to be heard
of in all this land on in Wales" The
days of mast bread are happily gone
forever; and even barley bread, in
common use during severe winters
not so many years ago, has now
everywhere given place to that of the
finest wheat -four" The fruit of one
member of the same order is, how
ever, highly valued. We refer, OF
course, to the hazel, so abundant i'm
our woods and hedgerows. To go a.
nutting is still as popular pastime as
in former years; but the old customs
in connection with it are as obsolete
as the use of acorn bread. No one will
now be found, with the good Vicar of
Wakefield and his honest neighbors,
to "religiously crack nuts on Michaeli
mas ve."-Longman's Magazine.
The Winslow mail., 1900-04-26
TaE WINTER NIGHTS AT HOME.

A stretch Of hill and valley swathed thick
in robes of white, o
The buildings blots of blsckness, the win
dows gems of light,
A moon, now clear, now hidden, as in It's
head,ong race
The north wind Grags the cloed-wrack
in tatters DER its face;
Mailed twigs that click and clatter upon
the tossing tree,
And, like a giants chanting, the deep
voice of the sea.
AS mid the stranded ice-cakes the burst
ing breakers foam
The old familiar picture, winter night
- at home.
The Old familiar picture-the fireiight rich
and red,
8 The lampnght soft and mellow, the shad-
owed beams o'erheaG: - ~ e
And father with his paper, and mother
calm and sweet, +.-f-,- -tEaF
Mending the red yarn stockings stubbed
through by careless feet;
The little attic bedroom, the window meath
the caves, -
Decked by the Frost Kings brushes with
- sivered sprays and leaves;
The rafting sash which gossipS with idle
gusts that roam
About the ice-fringed gables-the winter
nights at home. ~
What would give to climb them-those
narrow stairs SO steep
And reach that little chamber, and sleep a
boys sweet sleep!
, What would 1 give to view it-that old
house by the sea- rr-
Filled with the dear lost faces who made
it home for mel
The sobbing wind sings softly the song of
= long ago, - TF- r
And in that country churchyard the graves
are draped in snow,
But there, beyond the arches of Heavens
star-jeweled dome,
Perhaps they know I'm dreaming of win
ter nights at home.
Joe Lincoln, in Saturday Evening Post.
The Winslow mail., 1900-04-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

1t was something similar to our
treatment of Porto Rico that led to a
tea party in Boston a great many years
ago.-Rochester Herald.
. IF the protection principle is to
be preserved" why not levy a little
tariff on Hawaiian products just for
an object lesson ?-Indianap News.
Mr.. Hanna doesn't know what to
make of the fuss the republicans are
kicking up over Porto Rico. And, in
point of fact, he doesn't care one way
or the other, so long as he can keep
the senate in line.-Atlanta Constitu
ton.
Between his free-trade Porto
Rican message to congress and his con-
fdential pressure on congressman to
make them vote for Porto Rican tar
iff tax, President Mckinley stands in
a sorry light before the people.-St.
Louis Republic.
TRUSTS, Imperialism, militarism,
national bank notes instead of the
money of the constitution, gold and sill
YER. these are the issues being present
ed to the country by the republican
party. Democracy is ready to meet
them and to beat them. Mammon won
the last time, but it will not be so easy
to do so again.-Kansas City Times.
The next senator from illinois
will not be Shelby NJ. Cullom nor any
other republican. The campaign has
progressed far enough to indicate that
with sufficient clearness. Illinois this
November will be democratic state.
Republicans are working to that END.
The impudent intervention of federal
officeholders in furtherance OF the plan
of their chief indicates as much.-Chl-
cago Chronicle.
1T is to be remarked, by the way
that the republicans these days, with
their subsidy steal scheme, with their
proposition to tax Porto Rico without
representation and to erect tariff be-
tween that island and the rest of the
country, with their pIa n to admit the
unsavory Quay into the senate, in vio-
lation of the precedents of a century,
with their cowardly sop to bimetallism
in the financial bill, and with their neg
lect to take any position on the trust
question, are making lots of capital
for the democrats.-Indianapolis News
0nd.).
1t is sheer nonsense for republic
ans to attempt to excuse their refusal
of free trade to Porto Rico by saying
that if Porto Rico is given free trade
- ,o,,S+ ba Uiven To the Philippines also,
But it is proposed to give Hawai- free
trade: and this does not seem to strike
the republicans as necessltatlng 1ree
trade in the Philippines. The fact is,
the republican excuse is wholly hum.
bug. Under the imperialist theory.
and practice can grant free
trade to one territory and many
different tariffs as it chooses in the
others.-Grand Rapids Democrat =
The Winslow mail., 1900-04-26
IMPERIALISM RAMPANT.
How the Administration PrOpoa ea
to Deal with the Philippine
Acquisitions.

Representative Charles Henry Groa-
venor, of Ohio, is the presidents
particular friend, so close to him in
fact that he is Mr.. McKinley's mouth
piece. This is the way Mr.. Grosvenor
throws overheard the people of the
United States as of no account in the
imperial policy: He spoke in the houss
and it is fair 20 say that he was very
much annoyed at the trend of certain
decisions by the supreme court against
the presidents policy:
eve have got the Philippines OIL our
hands," said he, land 1 will tell you
what we shall tell the people of this
country. We will say we have acquired
title to the Philippines and Porto Rico.
We did not go after them, but they
came to us and we could not help our
selves.
eve have got them and the duty Ia
upon us, and we are going to take car.
of them.
eve are going to make all the money
out of the transaction we can by en-
larging our trade with the Oriental
countries, and we are going to emf. m
the doctrines of the Declaration of In
dependence upon the statute books of
the Philippines Just as quick as we
think the time has come to do it, and
we are not going to do it one minute
before, if all the democrats on Gods
earth go bowling that we have got to
do it now
When Representative Neville, of Ne
braska, asked if the republican party
expected to embalm the Filipinos
along with the Declaration of Inde-
pendence in the Philippines" Mr..
Grosvenor became so mad he had to
sit down.
The Winslow mail., 1900-04-26
A MANUSCRIPT TREASURY.
j. Pierpont Morgan to Provide safe
Place for His Most Variable
Collection.

j. Pierpont Morgan I; month ago
purchased a plot of land in New
York, Thirty-sixth street, just east
of Madison avenue, the site of the
residence of the late James Brown,
for S3o0o0O. 1t was not known un-
til the other day what Mr.. Morgan
intended to do with the property. He
intends to build structure, one story
in height, to cover the entire plot,
rs by 100 feet, and use 1T for store
room for his original manuscripts and
as a library. 1t is said that Mr. Nor
gan has the most valuable collection
of manuscripts owned by any individ-
ual in the world. Some of the manu-
sc,ints are in New York. while others
are locked in safes in London. Whit
ney Warren, the architect, says that
the manuscript-house will follow IN
style that of the Morgan residence.
The Winslow mail., 1900-04-26
STATE OF ONO, CRY OF TOLEDO, 90
T,uCAS COIJNTY. oSs

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of f. j: Cheney
g. Co., doing business in the city of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dol
lars for each and every case of catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of Halls Catarrh
Cure. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. ID.
1886. A. W. GLEASON,
[Seal1 Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonlals,
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Winslow mail., 1900-04-26

The national administration
claims it has not surrendered to Great
Britain, but there are several things
that look as though it had. Great
Britain dictates our financial policy.
She dictates our colonial policy. She
She will not allow US to fortify our
Nicaragua canal, and the administra-
ton agrees to it. There isn't much
else to surrender, but the lovely Brit
ish administration at Washington will
no doubt hasten to surrender every
thing it can md that has not been sur
rcndered.-Joplin (Mo.) Globe.