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The census continues to furnish food
for thought One Of the notable things
disclosed by the report is the great ad-
vance in population made by Florida,
which has gained As per cent in 10 years
When the civil war ended, the state
had a population of 100, 900, which had
increased in 1870 to 1877, 900. In 1900, it
has $4,000, gain that is abnormally
large. In searching for the causes of
this advance, the true one is soon found.
Florida has offered encouragement to
those seeking homes, and has welcomed
Northern men. Many accepted the in
vitation and a vast amount of northern
capital has been invested there in the
DEVELOPMENT of the horticultural, phos-
pate and lumber interests and other
natural resources. Without this influx
of northern capital and enterprise, it is
admitted that Florida could not have
prospered as she has, and her open door
| policy has brough the state splendid re-
| cOltS
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IF LIVING IS BUT WARFARE.

If living is but warfare, a fierce and vast
campaign,
Let's be good soldiers in our day. the kind
that don't complain;
The cheerful breed that on the march so
steady strides along,
And gathers round the bivouac Of night
with heartening song:
That bears the brunt of battle as braveIy
as may be,
And cultivates laughing eye, the
brighter side to see;
For self respects a steadfast mark to
guide your marching by,
And the world loves it's good soldiers, that
bear them straight and high.
If living is but warfare, let's make it
splendid war,
Till of some noble purpose tells each hon
orable scar:
And vanquishment shall only mean a
worthy deed deferred;
And victory's cry as that Of right trium-
phant shall be heard;
So glorious that when the grand TIE
Deum strains arise
Gods angels shall lift up the chant and
choir it through the skies,
And the trumpets of archangels shall
sound the proud release
That signals to good soldiers Gods ulti-
mate of peace!
Ripley d. Saunders.
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The decision of the family of the late
Senator John J. ingalls, to publish in
book form his more notable speeches and
writing will save to the world many
brilliant utterances. The book is to in
senator after he went to New Mexico in
the hope Of prolongins his life. They are
exhibit a side of Mr. Ingalls, character
with which the world was not familiar.
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THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

Charles Buffers, who, it will be re-
menbered, was a member of the Trans
vaal reform committee at the time of
the Jameson raid, being associated with
John Hays Hammond, has just returned
to the United States. He gives some in
teresting information regarding the real
causes that led up to the war in South
Africa. He says, in the first place, that
it was impossible for England to have
escaped the war had it desired. When Mr..
Kruger saw no escape from the influx
of strangers gathering to the gold field,
he decided to control the country with
out regard to laws. His government
amended the laws SO as to make it i'm
possible for these settlers to become
citizens or to have any voice whatever
in the government. Mr.. Kruger's effort
In brief, was to fix it so that the minor
ity would rule for all time. In attempt
ing to draw any parallel between this
action on the part of the Transvaal and
the conduct of the American patriots
just prior to the revolutionary war, il
should be asked what would have beer
the result had this country, in 1775, ruled
that no one who came here after tn
Declaration of Independence could be
come a citizen Such a ruling, Mr. Rut
ters points out, was made in South AT
rica. The reform committee in realit
wanted to help make stable govern
ment in the Transvaal, but they wer
completely shut out.
Mr. Buffers says that if Mr.. Kruge
had taken the people in, given them wha
they We're clearly entitled to, there woul
today be great republic, established o
solid foundation, in the Transvaal.
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FOR THE BIG CANAL.

Prospects for the isthmian canal grow
enterprise are rapidly being cleared
away. The investiga tions made by the
Walker commission have demonstrated
the feasibility of the project, the Nicar-
aguan route being selected for the water
way that is to connect the two oceans.
Secretary Hay, for the United States.
and Senor Corea, for Nicaragua, have
signed the treaty by which Nicaragua
cedes to this country all of the rights
and privileges necessary to the success
OF the enterprise.
It is generally believed in Washing
ton. according to reports that favorable
action will be taken on the canal bill,
and the treaty between the United States
and Nicaragua is signed IN anticipa
ton Of it. While the terms of the treaty
are not made public, it is known, in
general way, that Nicaragua grants to
4
construct and operate a canal between
the Atlantic and the Pacific across Mica
ragua, including the free use Of the San
Juan River and of Lake Manag qua as part
of the watercourse Nicaragua is also
to rid herself Of any existing treaties
tllat would tend in any way to abridge
the privileges to be acquired by the
that Nicarag qua comedies to the United
States full authority to police the canal.
Nicaragua IS to receive III compensation
a certain smount of the securities of the
canal construction company, and. al
TIL figure given in the treaty. the sum
is believed to approximate $4,000, 900.
The state department already has en-
tered into an agreement, on similar lines
with the republic of Costa Rica. This
claim to the right bank of the san Juan
River, which must of necessity form
about third of the length of the canal.
should the Nicaragua route be selected
and the canal be constructed on the lines
which will be suggested by the Walker
commission.
An understanding has also been reach
ed with the United States Of Colombia
covering the same rights and privileges
for the Panama route as are conveyed
by Nicaragua and Costo Rica in the
case of the Nicaragua route.
1t will be seen therefore, that tht
state department has cleared the va,
Cor such action as congress may see fl
TO take with regard to either of the two
feasible routes.
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DUTIES OF THE RICH,

Andrew Carnegie has added another
interesting contribution to that much
discussed theme, the duties of rich men.
Mr.. Carnegie is not only a very rich
man himself, the owner of one of the
greatest individual fortunes in the world
but he was the architect of it. No por-
tion of his wealth was inherited, and this
gives what he has to say the greater
weight. On the subject of thrift, he
says:
One of the funda mental differences be-
tween savage and civilized life is the alb,
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savings in the ordinary sense of that
word. Men who in Old age strive only
to increase their already too great
boards are usually slaves of the habit
of boarding formed in their youth. A,
first they own the money they have
made and saved. Later in life the money
owns them. and they cannot help them
selves, so overpowering is the force OF
habit. either for good or evil. 1t is the
abuse of the civilized saving instinct
and not its use that produces this class
of men. No one need be afraid Of falling
q victim to this abuse of the habit if he
always bears in mind that whatever sur
plus wealth may come to him is to be re-
garded as sacred trust, which he is
bound to administer for the good of his
fellows. The man should always be mas
ter. He should Keep money in the posi-
tion Of a useful servant, he must never
let it be master ana make q miser OF
him. a mans first duty is to make a
competence and be independent. But his
whole duty does not end here. 1t is his
duty TO do something for his needy
neighbors who, are less favored than
himself. 1t is his duty to contribute to
the general good of the community IN
which he lives. He has been protected
by it's laws; because he has been pro-
tected in his various enterprises he has
been enabled to make money sufficient
for his needs and those of his family.
All beyond this belongs in justice to the
protecting power that has fostered him
and enabled him to win pecunary suc-
cess. To try to make the world in some
way better than you found it is to have
noble motive in life. Your surplus
wealth should contribute to the develop
ment of your own character, and place
you in the ranks of natures noblemen
/ 1t is no less than duty for you to
understand how important it is, and how
clear your duty IS, to form the habit OF
thrift. When you begin to earn, always
save some part of your earnings like a
/ civilized man, instead Of spending ali
| like the poor savage
Daily inter mountain., 1900-12-07

The attempt of the fusion managers to
unseat the republican senator and repre-
sentative elect from Caroon county on
the ground that the fusionists had no
representation on the county election
boards will doubtless fall to the
ground. There seems to be little war;
rant for the allegation made, but if it is
sufficient to throw out the senator and
representative elect from Carbon county,
the delegation from Silver Bow is
clearly disqualified. The republicans
here were not represented on the election
board, some gentlemen known as "Heinze
republicans" taking the positions, While
the republicans who are not classified by
| adjectives We're not represented at all.
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Sir Thomas Upton Will give out
yachtsmen more trouble in defending the
American cup next year than he did last
season. Upton is a royal loser. and finds
lesson in every defeat. 1t he should be
successful in his efforts to lift the cup,
America will at least be glad that such
a thorough sportsman was the victor.
Sir Thomas is just as popular on this side
as he is on the other.
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OUR BATTLE SHIPS.

Chief Constructor Hichborn, of the
navy department. recently read a paper
before the Society of Naval Architects
and Marine Engineers in which he dis
cussed the plans for the five proposed
battleships that have been withheld
until a short time ago. OF the
eight S-inch guns forty-tive cali
bers in length. which will be carried on
each, in the three sheathed vessels four
will be mounted in turrets of the Hieh-
born type, superimposed upon the L
irch turrets above mentioned. and four
in two turrets amidships. the amidship
turrets having an are train of $50 de-
srees and in the two unsheathed vessels
all eight S-inch guns will be mounted IN
four independent turrets. each having
on each side at the ends of the super
structure, thus forming quadrilaterai
In each vessel there will be a broadside
OF twelve 6-inch rapid fire guns, 80 cali
bers in length, mounted six on each
side. on the main deck, each with an arc
of train of 40 degrees. and each will
also have twelve i4-pounders and
twelve 3-pounders, mounted in COM
manding positions and having very
large ares of fire. In the two lower tops
there will be four automatic 1-pounders
and in the upper tops four sinsle-shot
l-pounders.
The vessels of the Pennsylvania class
will have a displacement Of lo,ooo tons
an indicated horse power of $4,000. an es-
timated speed of 10 knots, and will carry
4 complement of 7o3 officers and men;
those of the Virginia class VII be OF 4oo
tons less displacement, but in other re-
spects will be copies of the Pennsyi-
teship, of 140o0 tons displacement. With
Is 900 indicated horse power. The pro-
tectad cruisers Of our California class
will have about 1900 tons displace-
uent as against the $4,000 tons dis
Placement OF the Drake and it's class.
The ST. Louis class of protected cruisers
will not he so large but its armament
will excel in offensive power that Of the
class in the British navy typtied oy the
Monmouth of $500 tons
The paper presented by Admiral
HitchboIn contains some data regard
Ing the crews carried BY battleships
during the past few years that is es-
pecially interesting Ships like the Ore
son cary 495 officers and men, although
the Iowa carries 80. While the, Ken
tucky and Kearsarge carry 553. The
new ships will carry crews of 103 officers
and men each. Vessels of the English
navy of the Venerable class carry $50
officers and men when acting as flag
ships, while French ships of the same
class carry practically the same number
1t will, perhaps, strike the reader that
these are great crews. yet they are very
small as compared with a fighting ships
complement in the past. Lord Nelson's
Victory, which was of but 2164 tons,
carried a crey of 500 men at the battle
! Of Trafalgar. while the ship of the same
name that was wrecked in 1144, had
crew of over 100 men when she went
down. If our ships today carried such
| Iowa would have $500 men aboard. The
| decrease in the crews and the stupend-
! Gus increase in destructive power tells
the story of the development of our
floating fortresses.
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The nomination by President Mckinley
of B. H. Tatem as assayer in charge of
the assay office at Helena is one that will
give general satisfaction. Mr.. Tatem
is thoroughly qualified for the response
BILE position. He is life long republican
and has done valiant work FOR his party
in this state.
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Personals.

The editor of the Fairfax (Mo) Forum
recently made the following announce
ment: wv. Ii. Hambaugh, J. P.-All
kinds of marriages performed while you
wait. Magazines and old books bound
in the best manner. AL long standing
accounts-except those against this pa
per-cOllected in ragtime. Orders for
good printing executed promptly. In
formation on legal matters impaired at
cost. Subscriptions taken for the best
newspaper in the English language. Try
our triple knot marriage ceremonies.
Satisfaction guaranteed"
J. w. Shuts, of Wichita, Kan, some
time ago ground alfalfa into flour, out
of which he made cakes They proved
however, to be too bitter to be palatable,
and so he made fluid extract from the
seeds. which he declares will make every
body fat, and healthy. He is not willing
to take any money for his discovery.
Capt William r. Meredith, the new
director of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, is a printer by trade. On the
outbreak of hostilities in 1861 he was
made assistant commissary- general for
Indiana. and the next year enlisted In
the 18th Indiana regiment, with which
he served until the war closed. having
risen from the ranks of captaincy
The Western Bank Note company, OF
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st. Louis, offered him in 1879 the place
of superintendent Of it's plate printing
department, which he accepted and held
until President Harrison appointed him
chief of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing. He reassumed the place after
his retirement under Pres cleveland.
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How many living people can remember
Sir Walter Scott? One who could died
only the other day. 1t was Scotch
tailor. who. as boy. sang "Scots Wha
Haze 80 Justify at an Abbotsford Hog
manay celebration that Sir Walter gave
him a crown.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-18
She Ate Every Two Hours.

st. Louis Republic: Lady Mary
Saurin, who died in London the 9th
er day, having nearly completed her
hundredth year, had, during her
whole life, an unvarying habit of eat
ing something every two hours. She
never in any circumstances departed
from the custom, and to it she as
cribes her good health and longevity.
When travelling or going about Lon
don she carried iiutlc bag of sand
witches with her, and at the eXpira-
tion of every two hours she would
open her bag and eat one or two.
Up to the end of her life the mind of
this marvellous old lady seemed strong
and active, and her memory was re-
m;frkable. At the time of the battle
of Waterloo her father, Lord Harrow
by, held Office as president of the
council, and his town house was in
Grosyenor square. Lady Mary has
often related the history of events at
that critical moment and recounted
vivid recollections of the reioicings
and Nominations in London when the
news of the great victory was re-
ceived. She would also tell tales Of
Che days of the CNarlists and the Cato
street conspiracy. This was deep
laid plot to assassinate the entire
government of the day, and the blow
was arranged to be struck when the
members of the cabinet We're assem-
bled at dinner at the house of her fa-
ther--Lord Harrowby-in Grosvenor
square.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-18
TIFFANY EnGRAVGRs STRIKE.
High Paid workmen Demand Re
osnition of the Union.

osnition of the Union.
New York. Oct. let became
known yesterday that sixty of the
highest paid workmen in the world
have been on. strike for ten days in
Tiffany & Co. factory at Forest Hill,
n. d., and the entire wedding invita-
ton business of the big jewelry firm
is tied up. The strikers are copper
plate engravers. The managers of the
Tiffany factory declare that half of
them regularly earned from 500 to
500 a week, others $75 a week, and
none of them less than $50 week:
These highly paid workmen lately
became members of the International
Brotherhood of Copper Plate En-
gravers, and are on strike for the rec
ognition of their union, demanding
that Tiffany & Co. adopt the unions
regulations as to apprenticeship.
\ representative of Tiffany q Co.
said that several of the strikers had
been employed by the firm for thirty
years, and nearly all had learned their
trade with the firm. He said that
rather than yield to the demands of
the strikers Tiffany & Co. would en-
tirely abandon that branch of their
business.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-18

One OF the late General Palmer's
experiences which he never tired of
laughing over was the time when he
was mistaken for parsonage higher
even than the president of the United
States, relates the New York Post.
While was military governor of
Kentucky,' said he, "a disturbance
occurred in Some town in the interior.
l was at distance. but was needed
ut the scene There was no train, no
carriage, no buggy to be got; the only
vehicle available was big gilded cir
Gus chariot left by some stranded
show company. l didn't like it, hut
there was nothing else to do, so got
in. You may imagine, | cut great
dash as | drove through small
town. People turned out in droves to
see me pass. When left the town be-
hind and reached the plantations. the
negroes saw me and stared with open
mouths. They followed me at re-
spcctful distance, until presently they
were joined by I'm old white-haired
preacher, who, on seeing me in my
magnificent chariot, raised his eyes
and his arms on high, and, in voice
that stirred all within hearing, cried:
Eress de Lord, de day of Judgment
am cum, an dis gemman am de angel
Babriel Kissed. Bretlren, down on yo'
knees and pray, TO yo' hour am
liyar.'"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-18
iCs MOUNTAIN BREAKS LOOSE.
Grent Window Glucter Slips Into
Arctic Ocean.

Tacoma, WASH. Oct. 12.-Nindom
glacier, at Taku inlet, in Alaska, which
for more than century has been inn
movable, or dead" has Slipped into
the Arctic ocean. Between it and the
sea extended wide, crescent-shaped
sandbar, formed by the glaciers mo-
raine. Two or three weeks ago a Sec
ton of this glacier, extending half
mile along its face, several hundred
feet wide and 500 feet deep, was moved
bodily nearly u mile out to sea. 1t
cut straight through the sandbar,
leaving a deep, wide channel. When it
reached deep water the glacier tum-
bled over and divided into number
of immense bergs, which are now
floating about.
Investigation of the cause of this
upheaval of nature has been made by
George Garside, an engineer of Jul
neau. He found that the river, rush
ing seward beneath Window glacier,
had become choked and backed up for
miles in a mountain canyon. Its pres
sure finally became so great that it
broke loose, cracked the glacial sec
ton off and forced it seward.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-18

Of the human soul. We stood for
progress and Development. Now it is
proposed to get off that high plano
and to get down on the law plane of
brute force and enter into scramble
with the European despotisms. and we
are to insist on being a party to their
quarrel. For 100 years the American
flag has had only one meaning; wher-
ever it waved it told the same story.
All the people of the earth read in its
folds liberty, equality, justice, self
government, progress. Now that flag
is to change it's meaning, and for the
people of Porto Rico and for ten mill
lion Filipinos it is to represent just
the opposite principles. It is to rep
resent despotism. 1t is to represent
just what the Spanish flag represent
ed, and instead of being loved as it
has been during all this time, it is
now to become an object of hatred in
that part of the world.
Not n Partisan Question.
This is not a partisan question. 1t IL
an American question. Snail we preserve
republican institutions or shall we aban-
don them. The principles Of liberty, the
principles of equality, the vigor of liberal
.use1s, nave lrlunpneQ IN every contest
for the last 100 years. Now they are again
IN death struggle, in a struggle with the
spirit Of monopoly at home, and in q
struggle with the spirit of despotism
abroad. Shall we surrender and start on
retrogrude movement? Shall 1t be
written that the sons of revolutionary
sires were incapable of maintaining free
government, and that In one short cen-
roslon Of greed had destroyed their vital
ity; shall the great American republic lie
Down on the dusty plains of despotism to
Young men. life is before you. Two
voices are calling you, one coming from
the swamps of seifishnesss and force,
where success means death, the other
from the hilltops of Justice and progress,
where even failure brings glory. Two
lights are seen on their horizon, one the
fast fading marsh light of power, the 9TH
er the slowly rising sun of human bro-
therhood: Two ways lie open before you,
one leading to an ever lower and lower
plane, where are heard the cries Of de-
spair and the curses Of the poor, where
manhood shrivels and possession rots
down the possessor, the other leading off
to the highlands of the morning. where
are heard the glad shouts of humanity,
and where honest effort is rewarded with
Immortality. AS you SOW you shall reap"
Governor Altgeld was forced to hold an
informal reception before leaving the hall,
He was cheered by the students, who of.
tered up the Yale cheer In his honor,
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-18
THE sCHooL,lA.Ms REPLY.
Marie Corelli Wors,el ia a PassaA
at arma.

at Arms.
New York Herald: A story is told
in london of an amusing passage at
arms between Miss Marie Corelli and
the school mistress of school Just
across from the house where the au-.
thoress had taken up residence. Part
of the school exercises consisted in
the study of music and, agreeable
though this proved to the school chill
dren, it proved particularly Disagree
able to Miss Corelli. She therefore
sent the following note to the school
mistress: Miss Corelli presents her
compliments to Miss and begs
that she will be good enough to ar
range SO that there may be no sing
ing class between the hours of 10 and
i, these being Miss Corelli's working
hours, when distractions are peculiar
ly distasteful." The following came
in reply: miss presents her COM
pli1nents to Miss Corelli and begs to
state that if such IL course were like
ly to prevent the writing of such
books as The Sorrows of Satan she
would rejoice in arranging singing
program for every day from 0 to g."