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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-02-07
TIL URSDAY. Feb : 1901.

Mrs. Nation promises to Guido Ratchet
George on the 22d OF February. She
will leave no stone unturned to make
her point
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

Mark Hanna does not seem 70
be standing by the Kansas and Ne
braska corn crop like he ought to.
There will be another election there
soon, and that republican prosperity
will be needed.
The sheep shearers of Wyoming
are enjoying the fruits Of their sup
port Of the republican party by re-
duction in the price of shearing sheep
from seven to six cents a head, and
this under the highest wool tariff ever
imposed.
The Hanna soft coal combine
has been formed, with Daniel X. Han
ma, son OF Senator Hanna, as presi-
dent. Democrats and republicans
alike will have to suffer when winter
comes and the trust begins to get in
its work.
The Kansas farmer is in the
midst of republican prosperity. Hays
$50 a ton and corn IS cents bushel,
and he is buying at these golden prices
to keep his stock from starving.
Wheat, OF which he has some to sell,
10 only 60 cents bushel.
The gross earnings OF all the
railroads in the United States for the
past year are estimated at $i,62s. 600,-
0oo--an increase Of nearly S16O,ooo,oOo
over the year previous. This enormous
increase has been mainly brought
about by raising the rates through re-
classification. Ask your dry goods
merchant or grocer and he will tell
you. And yet the railroad combine
says the consultations are not TO
raise rates but reduce expenses. The
octopus seems to catch US going and
soming.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

The Coast IL Not Altogether Clear Ne.
fore Those Favored ~ Pre-.
tectlOn.

Even the protected manufacturers
have their troubles. They have al.
ways taken it for granted that those
who vote for Mckinley and Dingley
tariffs believe in high prices and are
entirely willing to pay them. There.
fore the protected manufacturers
have always had two or more price
lists and have reserved their highest
prices for Americans and the lowest
for the benighted foreigners, who,
presumably. believe in cheapness. Or.
dinarily the American pays about 40
per cent. more than does the foreign.
er for American-made goods.
This method Of selling our goods
was working with the smoothness Of
well-oiled machinery when the Ha.
waiian islands were annexed to this
country. Then the trouble began. A.
the Hawaiian has never voted on the
Mckinley and Dingley bills, how could
our manufacturers tell whether these
Pacific islanders preferred high or
low prices? AS result some manu-
facturers kept on selling goods to the
Hawaiians just as IL they were still
foreigners, while other manufactur.
ers treated the Hawaiians as full.
hedged Americans and entitled to
genuine American prices. Chaos fol.
lowed. AS our western tariff wall
does not stop at the Pacific coast
but has been extended around tho
Hawaiian islands, American goods
sold in Honolulu at low prices were
brought back to San Francisco and
sold at a profit, at less than the
prices fixed by the manufacturers on
the same goods in California. As IL
is contrary to one of the fundamental
laws Of political economy to have the
same goods selling at the same time
and in the same market at two prices,
the CONSERVATION of the manufactur.
ers may be imagined. They began to
blame each other and to apply harsh
names to those who were not prompt
in extending the blessings Of high
prices to all under the folds OF tho
American flag. The discussion OF this
question has been raging among tho
manufacturers for year. One OF
cusson is in the Iron Age Of June
27, 1901, and il signed by Western
Manufacturer" 1t is in part as fol.
lows: at so happens that at present
the price of our goods is about Is
per cent. higher for domestic con-
sumption than the export prices. We
had an inquiry for export prices,
which we quoted. The order now
comes in to be shipped to Honolulu.
Is it fair to consider the Hawaiin 10
lands entitled to export prices?
"Our own opinion is that they have
become part of the United States
and should be considered dome stio
territory as much as Alaska. Also,
we understand our tariff applies to
this territory. so that they are pro-
hibited from buying outside and We
are thus enabled to get domestic
prices"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09
sveedv AUTHORITARIAN.

Nothing pleased me more in the
states than TO go into one OF the
public schools and watch America
Americanizing- The Americans take
hold of the immigrants children and
flatten out whatever may be too un-
American in their mental makeup be-
meath the steam roller of the Eng.
lish language, with the result that no
citizens are more cbuilicntly loyal
than the second generation of aliens.
Nor can it be long before the intro
duction of the American public school
system into Cuba and Porto Rico
drives a stiff wedge into the domin-
ion of Spanish and makes English the
necessary language for an ambitious
colonial. American policy is. and al
ways has been, Of the hardheaded
Bismarckian type, rarely TO be
swayed by sentiment; they believe in
education as we believe in cricket,
and it is no great rashness to proph-
esy that within a few years Spanish
will be leading Mt most a furtive, twi.
light sort OF existence in the high
lands of SPANS ancient colonies, and
that a Cuban or Porto Rican Of the
towns and senports who docs not
speak English will be as rare as q
Welshman who knows only Welsh
Sydney Brooks, in National Re
view.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09
NIAGARA WILL NOT RUN DRY.
For the Reason That There Are
Three New Sources Of Water Sup-
ply for the Great Lakes.

The Sun on the 30th ult. contained
an article with the caption: "Will
Niagara Run Dry?' In reply ] beg
TO say no. Why? writes Francis
Wayland Glen. in the New York Sun.
First-Because when the Georgian
bay and Ottawa river canal is con-
structed with IS feet of water over
the lock slls the waters of Lake
Nippissing. Trout lake and Lake
Talon Will discharge into Georgian
bay and therefore raise the water
level of Lake Huron Trout lake is
30 feet deep. and is fed by the per-
petual snow and ice Of the upper
part of the valley of the Ottawa.
Second-A canal can be cut from
Lake Nipegon TO Lake Superior.
Nipegon is a large and deep lake,
and is also fed from many streams
which rise in the region of perpet-
ual snow and ice.
Third-When a ship canal is con-
structed through Rainy lake and
Rainy river to Lake of the Woods,
another large body of water would
discharge into Lake Superior. These
three sources of supply will more
than counterbalance the discharge of
water through ship canal from
Chicago 20 deep water upon the ILL
nois river.
The Canadian government is pro-
testing against our building the Chi
cago drainage canal, although Lake
Michigan is entirely within United
States territory. If Canada has any
rights in Lake Michigan which we
are bound to respect, then we have
rights in Georgian bay which Canada
is bound to respect.
We have the same right TO protest
against constructing a ship canal
from the Georgian bay to Montreal
for the admission of war vessels into
the upper lakes that she has TO OBJ
ject To our constructing a canal from
Lake Michigan through the Illinois
river for drainage purposes.
Hon. Andrew II. Green, with his
usual foresight, has been urging the
creation Of an international commits
sion for the purpose of dealing with
international waters. and also for the
purpose OF suggesting a continental
system of international deep-sea
canals.
There is no more important ques-
tion for the electors of this republic
than the creation of that commits
Sir1.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

A Yokohama correspondent sends
the following tradesman's card as
showing how the modern Jap assimi-
latcs American methods: "Jewelry-
maker. A finest in town. Whisky-boy.
No. Il Aioicho Itchome. Show this
card TO jinrikshaman. Our shop is
best and obrigng worker that has
every body known and having articles
genuine japanese Crystals and all
kinds Of Curios. Gold or silver plate
in electroplate or plain mending.
Carving In Laid, work own name or
monographs or any design according
to orders we can work how much diff
ficult Job with lowest prices insure,
pleace try. once try. Don't forget
uame hisky."--Chicago Chronicle.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

I'm glad we don't live at the moth
pole!" "Why?- I'VE shouldn't have
any summer vacation there.'-Lus-
tige Welt.
"One Of my uncles lived TO be 90,
and my grandmother died at 95."
THAT'S nothing; my mother-in-law
isn't dead yet-"-Philadclphia Times.
Byssander--"Who struck the man?
His face is all covered with blood"
Bikopp-"He amt hurt. Somebody
hit him with a cherry pie!"-Indian-
apolis News.
That actor-photographer prob
ably thinks he improves on Shake
speare." "How?" by holding the
camera up TO nature."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Heres a story about . surgeon
who amputated his own hand. Do
you believe it?" II suppose it's pos
aible. Perhaps he took ether first
Philadelphia Record.
Hinton-"So your son has gradu-
ated from college. What is he going
ent he is going to sit round and tell
the rest of US all he thinks he knows"
boston Tran script.
she-"I don't believe you're telling
the truth" Hey GU are most an
noying sometimes. 1 suppose you
think you can read me like book"
She-"Oh, no. Like a paragraph, l
should say."-Philadelphia Press.
"Ma." said little four-ycar-old. Il
saw something run across the kitch-
en- floor this morning without any
legs. What do you think il was?'
The mother guessed various legless
worms and things, and then gave it
up, when the little fellow said:
"Why, ma, it was water!"-Cohtem-
porary Review.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09
COMPENSATION.

.lt alone with my heart tonight
Where the gloom Is dark and deep.
Across the portals the shadows fall
And here with my grief weep.
Iut over my sad hearts darkness
steals a radiance rich and rare.
rar long ago. when child at play.
4 hid sunbeam there.
The harp Is silent. the chords are dead
Whose music was all too fleet.
AID listen In vain for the silver strain
That made my life complete;
pui long ago, when a care-free child.
With no thought OF sadder things.
ir.stled a song-bird 10 my breast.
And there II sings and sings.
.Tha rarlands are faded and old and scar.
A.a The laurels that came with the years
II,ye gone with the dreams and the per-
ished hopes
buried them all with tears:
1.ut out In the garden OF my soul
Tha roses bloom so fair.
4 long ago. when little child.
planted a rose tree there.
-Muriel STROBE. In Chicago Evening Post.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

should be so active. The hair of the
ran before him was short, thick, and
black as night, and he had no beard
all.
Meanwhile, the stranger had man
aged to sit up. and was wiping the
u.ani from a bad cut CA his forehead
~ Going so, he discovered the loss of
\ false hair and beard. and met
linrry's eyes fixed wonderingly upon
Him.
Ncll," asked he. fiercely, answer
ln- the boys glance with defiant
~, do you know me?"
No. and don't want to know YOU"
sf Harry. in broken Spanish. rather
Yea at the mans imperious tone.
oppose you're smuggler by your
1's using yourself that way"
YES. ! am" replied the other. with
range smile. "Are You going to
8 'r me mp to the police?'
Not T." cried Harry. "It's not the
t'te Of us Americans to give away
nan who can't stand up for him.
sc'f.~
W, you're an American, Their ."
The smuggler, looking curiously
II nun. well. IL you are willing to
heip me, I'll tell you how you can do
II Give me your arm as far as the
oh0pci Of st. James. about half a mile
NeNn the road-for find I've sprained
!, ankle too badly to walk alone-and
'Hrn I'm all right"
ome along, then" rcjoined Har-
~ iferirg his arm.
forth.
IN The way our hero told his new
''ehd who seemed in too much pain
'alk himself. that he was travelling
trough Spain with his father. that
hau picked up in Mexico what little
,.'lsh he knew; that his tour had
'nerto been provokingly bare OF adj
'ures and that the one thing in
Ae world which be most desired was
" 'all n with gang OF real Spanish
I'M last they reached the chapel. and
"'h' az a peculiar whistle from the
,. i've wild looking hor semen,
.h long guns on their shoulders.
-f'ed out Of the encirclins thickets,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09
Australian Apples.

Parts of Australia are becoming
lively rivals TO Canada and the United
States In the European apple trade.
Tasmania. especially. has been found
a first-class appe-raising country.
There are s.3T3 acres in apple orchard
there and the product in 1899 Was a63.-
az bushels.-N. Y. Sun.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

1T HEY call Spain the land of ad-
venture" muttered Harry
WA''e. as he strolled before breakfast
around the outskirts Of small Span
i.h Town on the southern slope of the
sierra Morena; land I've been in ii
three weeks, and not had one adven-
tarr yet. A man gets no show at an
in travelling nowadays. Hello! here
comes somebody in hurry!"
Vary much in a hurry, certainly,
seemed the sturdy Spanish peasant
vho had just appeared on the top of
The steep ridge above the boys head,
ftr he was leaping from crag to crag
"a rccklessly as wildcat, and at times
e,en swinging himself over some deep
otft by the bough of a tree, as if in
such haste that he had no time TO
tink Of such trihe as the chance of
raken neck.
Sat in this case il was "most haste.
1T speed" for all at once large
Stone gave way beneath the Span
tri's feet. and he came tumbling
hllong down into the road amid a
Nt rlwind Of dust.
Harry whose sympathies were al
ready enlisted in favor Of a man cap
able Of such feats Of strength and
daring few to the spot, feeling as if
h. had really met with something
Ike an "adventure"at last. But when
b reached the fallen man he stopped
short in sheer amazement.
Md well he might. The man whom
; had seen bounding along the ridge
had had long gray hair and beard;
H. was quite sure of that for he re-
numbered wondering that an old man
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

Lucinda Coonley Mokingtcn
an awfnlly selfish.
Eph YaIlerby IIow's dat?
why. TO- de past two weeks he's bin
Begin me 10 make him de happiess
man on earfhl"-Puck.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

-"Cuba is, and of right should be-
free and independent" and yet IL y
said to be the purpose OF the adminis-
tration 10 hold MORO castle, which %
the key to Cube.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

The community of interests"
plan will work very well until one OF
the interests thinks II Is not getting
its full share of the swag or until the
people combine and force congress to
amend the interstate commerce law
so that combinations cannot raise
rates beyond fair tariff.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

The gloating Of the republican
newspapers last year over the super.
abundance Of the crops in the west
ern states as . sign of returned pros
perity will now have to explain how
IL is that Hanna and Mckinley can't
keep the good thing continually GO
ing. Probably they will blame the
drought on the democrats and popu'
lists.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09
BYRON w. HOLT.
F1AscO IN THE PHILIPPINES.
sham Civil Government Gives way
aud Militnrism stu Holds
sway.

The republican party has brought
us to a pretty pass in the Philippines.
On July they set up a sham civil gov
eminent in all but three provinces and
within a month are obliged to with
draw even this semblance of freedom
from nearly all over the island and give
the military full swing again. The
Chaffee reforms and proposed consoli.
dation of troops at three points in the
islands is Obliged to be abandoned.
The reduction of the army there by
one-half. which was announced witha
great flourish, is also now found to be
impracticable and will be impossible
until an indefinite time in the future.
Thus the expense that this country 10
paving to hold the islands is likely to
be prolonged indefinitely, which in
round figures amounts 10 the enor-
NOUS sum of S100,00o,000 year. The
profit on the trade we are now doing
will not pay one-tenth Of one per cent.
on the $40 ,000. 900 we paid Spain to quit
claim the islands to us, let alone the
vast amount being yearly added.
Then we have the future of the re.
public at stake, of which the st. Louis
Republic says: 1T will repay Amer.
leans to contemplate the changed atti-
tude of their country as bearing upon
their own and their children's safety
and liberty. We are on dangerous
ground in a most dangerous frame OF
national thought. We are abandoning
a creed that preserved our own rights
and respected the rights OF others.
The final abandonment Of this creed
means more of calamity to us than
ever to those weaker than uswhom we
may conquer. despoil and forcibly gov
ern. This is due TO the fact that we are
destroying the foundation OF the
fabric Of free government and that IT
is we ourselves who will be crushed by
the collapse of the splendid structure.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

one OF whom led b. the bride a nne
black horse. ON which they at once
mounted the crippled Sranlard. not
without casting more than one pug
z!ed and suspicious look at the Won
dering boy.
flake this for yonr good deed"
said the tall smugglcr. taking a small
silver cross from his neck and giving
i 10 Harry. 1T may be Of use to you
IL ever We meet again. And. as you
seem anxious TO meet with some Span
ish brigands. IL NAV -lease you 10
learn that you have seen half dozen
OF them to-day"
SO saying. he spurred his horse and
vanished into the forest with his grim
comrades, while Harry turned slowly
back TO the town. hardly knowing
whether he was awake or only dream
ing.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-04
ORDER OF BUFfALes..
Rules the Members of the Frater
nitY Must Observe.

AS the new order Of Butfaloes appears
to be all the rage now we publish here
with the rules of the order.
Rule / This order shall be known
as 1.-The Order of the Buf1aloes.'
Rule 2. Every male person of the age
of consent and ability to take drink
shall be eligible to membership.
Rule 3. The object of the order is to
promote the trilogy of ICONS" -Congen-
iality, Convivality and Converse.
Rule 4. The sign of the order shall
be Upon a Tlerce, Amber, the Tender
loin, Gules'
Rule 5. The grip of the order shall be
the grasping of right hands, the index
finger and thumb crossed-the night
hand to be held behind the back, the
left hand at the left ear, the thumb in
the ear, the other fingers twiddled at
pleasures.
Rule 6. The password shall be "Omar,
Imar, Emar, Rum'-spoken quickly in
sequence, then each word repeated al
| ternately forward and backward three
times.
Rule Z. The initiation ceremony shall
consist of the invocation of the Cons"
the cooking of the flesh pots and the
breaking Of the seal Of the magnum.
Rule s. Regular meetings shall be
held every little while-when two or
more Ruttaloes get together.
Rule 8. The dues shall be i cents
annually, collected on the monthly in
stallment plan-if possible; if not, when
ever possible,
Rule 10. Postulants who crook the
right instead Of the left elbow during
the initiation ceremony shall be saluted
with the word "Buy!" Failure to do so
is at the pain Of ex communication from
the thirteen subsequent libations
Rule IL. The lodge rooms shall be
located if possible upon the corners
where highways intersect the byways
or at any other place displaying con-
spicuously, "The sign of the Flagon and
Cask."
Here is the list of questions put to
strange Butfaloes to test their standing
viz:
"Are you Buffalo,"
"Whence came the BUfialoes?'
"Give me the grip of a Buffalo,
"What will you have?"
care you willing to buy il?"
"Wili you have another on the same
terms?''
"And another?''
1t won't pay to get sore if these quer-
les are placed before you twenty times
day, for the Buhaloes have wide lat
iiude.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-04
The Burlington Fast Mail Unsub-
SjdiZed,

1t is we'll known that the Burlington
Route is selected by the government,
and has been for many years, as the
route for it's through mail service be-
tween Chicago and Council Bluffs. The
overland mall and the through mails
from Europe across the continent to
Asia, are sent by the government over
the Burlington. This service is per.
formed in special trains, but there is no
written contract for the service with
the government. Ii simply has selected
and retains the best, quickest and safest
route for Its trans continental mails;
nor is any subsidy paid. The Burling.
ton receives only the same rates In force
by general law for the carriage of all
mails in the country. In Il recent de.
bate IN the House Of Representatives at
Washington, upon the question of pay
ing subsidy to line If railroad be-
tween New York and New Orleans, for
keeping up fast mail service in the
South, Mr.. Loud, of California, chair
man OF the committee on postofiices and
postroads, in giving his reasons f6r vot-
ing against this subsidy to the southern
railroad, paid the following high tribute
to the Burlington. He SAIL:
eff subsidies are propkf, YOU should
not restrict them. If &ere is any rail.
road in the couatryethat earns extra
compensation from the government,
that railroad isthe Chicago, Burlington
y Quincy, rom Chicago TO Omaha,
which runs phenomenally fast trains,
carrylnSrnothing but mail; but that
company does not ask for subsidy"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-04
A Great Newspaper.

The Sunday edition of The st. Louis
Republic is marvel of modern news.
paper enterprise. The organization of
Its news service is world wide, complete
in every department; in fact, superior
to that of any other newspaper.
The magazine section is illustrated in
daintily tinted colors and splendid half.
tone pictures. This section contains
more high-class literary matter than any
OF the monthly magazines. The fashions
illustrated in natural colurs are espe-
clally valuable to the ladies.
The coloied comic section is a genuine
laugh-maker. The funny cartoons are
by the best artists. The humorous
stories are high class, by authors Of
national reputation.
Sheet music, a high-class, popular
song, is furnished free every Sunday in
The Republic.
The price of The sunday Republic by
mail one year is 50 90. For sale by all
news dealers.