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The times., 1901-05-05
TO SELL THE MINNESOTA.
The Famous Frfgate to Go to the
Highest Bidder.

The famous steam frigate Minnesota.
the last of the noted Tennessee class. IS
to be condemned and offered for sale by
the Navy Department board consist
ing of Capt. G. H. WadIeigh. Commander
G.. r. Kearuey. and Naval Constructor @.
w. Baxter has been appointed 20 appraise
the vessel and she viii be sold 20 the
highest bidder
The Minnesota has been tied up at
wharf at Boston and used as a barracks
by the Massachusetts naval militiamen-
Recently the naval militia organization
informed the Navy Department that II
did not want the vessel any longer. 1t
was then determined TO tow her TO Nor
folk for use as receiving ship for lands
men, but a board of officers reported that
she was unseaworthy and could not be
put in seagOing condition at 20 per cent
of her original cost. the limit Of expendt-
ture for repairs authorized by law on Old
ships. So there was nothing else to do
but to appoint a board to condemn and
appraise the vessel.
The Minnesota was built at Washing
ton. d. c. in 1855. She participated in the
engagement between the Merrtmac and
the Union squadron at Hampton Roads
and was saved by the timely arrival or
the Monitor after she had been badly
damaged. She participated also in the
attack on the Shimonoseki forts.
The times., 1901-05-05
COAL PROPERTY PURCHASED.
The Monongabeia Buys Out the yir.
&inia and Alabama Company.

RICHMOND. Va. May 4.-The property
Of the Virginia and Alabama Coal Com
pany, near Birmingham. Ala, comprising
80 900 acres of coal land, buildings and
mining machinery, has been sold by the
owners here To the Monongahela Coal
Company, of Pittsburg, for $500
The largest owner was formerly j. b.
Pace, of Richmond, but his holdings re
Gently passed to the Virginia Trust Com
pany here, whose representatives will go
TO Pittsburg on Monday TO turn over the
property TO the Monongahela Company.
This is said to be only a small part of
the recent purchases made by the Monon-
gahela, and it is alleged that movement
to control all the available coal deposits
is ON foot by that COMPANY.
The times., 1901-05-05
SUGARS DIETETTC VALUE.
The Interesting Results of Expert
ments by an English Physician.

LONDON, May Am important paper
on the dietetic value of sugar appears in
the British Medical Journal" by DR..
Wilioughby Gardiner. He says that the
worlds consumption of sugar has dou-
bled while that of Great Britain has
trebled per head in the last forty years.
The English and Americans head the list
as sugar eating people
DR.. Gardiner establishes the fact that
sugar Is a potent creator of energy and
maintainer of stamina. This, he contends,
is not only proved by laboratory expert
merits. but by the date-eating Arabs. the
fine health of the sugarcane-eating ne
groes, and the results achieved by Alpine
climbers Arctic explorers, athletes, and
German soldiers, who were fed on this
special diet.
DR. GARDENERS general conclusion is
that the increased height and weight and
the improved health of the English peo-
pie in the last half century has been
largely due to the increased consumption
of sugar. H.
The times., 1901-05-05
TALLFsT MAN IN THE ARMY.
Private McGinen, of the Manila Po-
lice Claims the Honor.

Who is the tallest officer or man IN the
United States Army? Private letters re-
ceiyed here from the Philippines say that
there has been considerable discussion Of
the question out there The honor is
claimed for soldier named McGiffen.
who was transferred from the Sixteenth
Infantry to the Manila police force. The
friends of another man of the Sixteenth
Infantry name NOT given, maintain that
his feet inches top McGinen's height
Naval officers say that the tallest mem
ber of their service, commissioned and
enlisted force included. is Surgeon James
f.. Gardner. who was recently ordered
from duty at Boston to duty at Manila.
Nobody here remembers his exact height
The times., 1901-05-05
The American Hunting Instinct.

As might have been expected, at
fempts have recently been made TO
compare the American and British
armies in the details of their admins
tration. The war with Spain and the
war in South Africa have afforded the
world an opportunity TO see something
OF the way In which the two behave
In the field and to compare their or
ganization in its workings on compare
lively unfamiliar ground. War in In
dia. like Indian wars on Western
plains. has been going on more or less
for twenty-five years, but in fighting
the Boer and the Spaniard the Amer
ican regular and the British Tommy
have each been brought into environ
ments TO a certain extent unfamiliar
TO them and TO their officers.
The resemblance between the two
wars is. Of course. slight and super
fetal. but il establishes one fact at
least: The American Army is, where
scouting is concerned, the superior Of
the British, and as scouting is an i'm
portsnt part Of the work OF an army.
especially one Of invasion this is rather
gratifying. A little reflection viii show
why this Is so. The American has two
centuries and half Of scouting in his
blood. The Englishman. unless he be a
colonial or descended from one of those
families who have given TO the world
mighty hunters and adventurous sol
diers from time immemorial, has moth
ing Of the kind; and even the colonial
Englishman is possessed only OF an
cestors who were pioneers a century
ago al the most
From the time the Jamestown and
Plymouth Colonies were established the
American pioneer has been tracking
The times., 1901-05-05
Juvenile street Merchants.

(from the Chicago Tribune.)
Small children hawking gum or flowers, or
papers in public places late at night constitute
one Of the most indefeEsible sights 10 be found
in great city. Sometimes the sight means that
parents are i'll or involuntarily out of work;
sometimes that they are needlessly exploiting
their children; sometimes that the child has no
home. In any event, however, their trade should
not be encouraged by patronage. Such patronage
betrays the same sort OF cheap and unthinking
sentimentsism which leads one to buy 4 paper
Of the smallest baby who ''holer'' it
the corner rather than from a from
boy of proper age for handling papers.
The times., 1901-05-05
The caure of Cancer.

DR.. Harvey Gaylord, Of Buffalo, has
recently announced that he has discov
cred that cancer is caused by micro
scopic animal parasite. and he is now
searching for a serum containing the
protoZoa Of cancer which he can in
ject into the blood. Vaccina ton re-
duces the danger of catching smallpox.
If it does not absolutely prevent the
spread of the disease; and DIR. Gaylord
The times., 1901-05-05
Hall Holidays.
(From the Chicago Chronicle. }

(Fr0m the Chicago ChrOnlcie.)
The bill in the Legislature TO enforce Satur-
day half holiday in all trades and employments
in this State was very properly Killed. If en-
ployes want half holiday Saturday they can
have il by agreement with their employers. If
EMPLOYERS want 10 shut down their works for
half holiday they can do it by agreement with
their employees. For the Legislature To say that
men shall not work Saturday afternoon ii
they want to work is the same kind OF
despotism as If il should say that they must
work when they do not want TO work
The times., 1901-05-05
Germany and Americn.

(From The FhiladeIphiH TimesI
Certain English journals have been laboring
earnestly 20 set Germany and the United States
by the ears Some official Americans who ought
to know better have followed their cue. The
motive is apparent and do not believe that
Americans generally in the least disturbed
Any Government pick quarrel with any
other if il tries but II Germany wants no quarrel
with the United States il need have The
yaporings of the Lodges and Longs do ne. repre-
sent public opinion here
The times., 1901-05-05
Serving Their Apprenticeship.

(From the Chicago Postl
''How do you happen 20 have so many OF your
neighbors' children hereF'
why the fact Is" replied the little WOMAN.
~Tm away behind the times. I'm pretty likely
to be at home and available to look after the
youngsters while their mothers are attending the
various mothers meetings and discussing the in
tricate problems OF chifd-training
All. but vhen they have mastered il all"
why then the children win have grown up
The times., 1901-05-05
The Time for Tariff Revision.
From the Providence JournaL)

rom FTONIutNCt
With the need of the foreign markets apparent
to everybody who looks around him. the sight OF
France hostile to products Germany Of the
same mind Russia aiming a blow at our iron
and steel. Austria contemplating proiibitive
duties-this sight must convince ali that the
time is ripening FOR reduction of some OF the
profits of the tariff fed trusts and monopolfes
Aessrs. Babcoek and Roberts and other Republic
cans who think with them are right III advocating
tariff revision though their party may not find
it expedient to follow their lead for some time
vat
The times., 1901-05-05
Trade With Our Dependents.
(From the Boston HeraId.)

We cannot treat those living IN our depen-
denotes, or those who are living in countries that
are to some extent dipl0matieally subordinated
10 u.s. as they should be treated, long as our
policy is controlled IL now is by selfish
Industrial interests. Interests of this same char
scter dictat[H the old colonial policy of England
and at the present time dictate the purely ego
tiaic policy of Russia. Germany. and France.
They will dictate unless-what now seems
unlikely radical change is made in method
of permitting corporate and syndieated business
interests to shape the tariff policy of the United
St3tea
The times., 1901-05-05

The Clyde and the Tyne need to look
oat for their pre-eminence in shipbuild-
ing. The great New York banking house
of II. w Poor & Co, has underwritten
a seventy million dollar shipbuilding com
binatiou, and that means competition
from away bach with the yards of the
Old World. England and Scotland will
have TO wake up, or break up, as far
as this industry is concerned.
The times., 1901-05-05

Our amiable adversary. Sir Thomas
Iipton X. e. V. o., has ioated his cup
challenger and will be ready 10 transact
business with the American defender,
Constitution, on schedule time. Sir
Thomas and his countrymen, without ex
ception indulge the fond hope that Sham
rock II will lift the cup. We are unable
to Join in that aspiration; but if the cup
ever should have to go, it could not pass
into more sportsmanlike hands than those
of the amiable and thoroughly jolly
knight of the tea caddy.
The times., 1901-05-05

The London Times" yesterday printed
a despatch from Rome which asserted
that the Pope had made a WIFI naming
his successor. We are not sure that this
would be impossible, but since the prac-
tice of the Church from the time of Greg
ory the Great has been otherwise we are
not inclined TO believe the story. When,
in the providence of God, Leo XIII shall
pass to his reward, it is altogether likely
that the Sacred College viii select the
next Pontin in a free election.
The times., 1901-05-05

As the new week begins President Nc
Kinley is resting a day at El Paso, where
he will attend divine service and help
his feIlow-eitizens there 10 pray for the
poor people of Jacksonville. Presidential
progresses in the past have not always
proved successful or conducive TO the
fame of the chief passenger on the train
That cannot be said of this one. In his
brief colloquiaf talks with the audiences
which have greeted him along the line
he has been remarkably clever and feliei-
tous in HIS utterances. all Of which do
him the greatest credit. Although of an
other household Of political faith, we do
not in the smallest degree grudge him the
applause and personal popularity he is
gaining. We can only express the hope
that he viii use the power public conf
dence viii give him for the good of the
country
The times., 1901-05-05
.opes to effect the same result with

hopes to effect the same result with
cancer.
1t has been known for some time that
predisposition to cancer is hereditary.
and. like most other discoveries relating
to heredity, this one resulted in con-
viction in the minds of many unfor-
tunate people that they were fore
doomed TO die of cancer; that nothing
could save them, because they were
destined for that awful fate from their
very birth 1t is needless to say that
nothing of the kind is true. OF course,
when one inherits the tendency to
disease. he is likely also to inherit the
temperament which favors the condl-
tions of its development. For exam
pie. here is man whose ancestors died
of apoplexy: this man inherits, along
with the possibility of a similar fate,
the physique and tempeTamental bias
which will, If he allows himself to
yield to his uncontrolled impulses,
bring about precisely the state of
health in which he will go to his fathers
by the road they pointed out to him.
Again, here is another man whose an
cestors suffered tortures from gout, due
to high living. That man might escape
gopt if he made up his mind to it, per-
haps, If he lived carefully and avoided
excess; but the very things which are
bad for him happen to be the things
which he ardently desires, and his inn
munity from the curse of his ancestors
depends on whether he has self-con-
troll enough to resist his inclinations
and keep within bounds. If he has not,
his descendants may have to suffer
whether they do right or wrong, the
physique being so strongly marked that
no care can avert evil developments.
and then there Will. be a real family
curse to consider. But cases in which
the hereditary tendency has been de-
veloped thus far are rare.
Cancer, then. is feared most by those
in whose families it is inherited, and
as the mixture OF blood in this coun-
try is general, there being no caste
lines which can wholly prevent it, it
concerns the whole people when a dis
ease so terrible and so difficult to cure
is developed in any considerable num-
Der of families If DR.. Gaylord, or
anyone else. can reduce the ravages of
this malady, the world viii be in his
debt
This is only one of the many discov-
cries made during the last hundred
years. which tend to prove that dis
ease is not. as our fathers thought it,
a necessary and normal evil. but one
developed by unnatural and unhealthy
conditions. and to be combated by nat
ural means There is more and more
disposition to rely upon healthful con-
ditions of life and -common-sense treat
ment of disease, rather than upon
drugs or surgical operations; but the
trouble is, in the former case to get
people to take the medicine. 1t is
the old story of Naaman over again.
The patient is used to abana and phar-
phar-drugs and lancets-and he Won
ders why they are not good enough.
The times., 1901-05-05

Markham Everard Staples died from
heart disease at his home. 142 Magnolia
Avenue. Jersey City, yesterday. He was
a son of John B. Staples. patent lawyer,
and was born in New York in 1850 He
was educated at the Poughkeepsie Mill
tary Institute. AS a railroad man he be-
gan life as brakeman and baggagemas-
ter of the Burlington and Missouri River
Railroad. He became a conductor on the
Erie Railroad in 1872 In 1850 he had be-
come superintendent of tugs and barges
and ighterage for the Erie. Subsequently
ne became general agent in charge OF
Hghterage. He also represented the com
pany in executive matters at Trenton. n.
J.. Jersey City. and Washington He was
a member of the Carteret Club and the
Robert Davis and Denis Mclaughlin As
sociations of Jersey City He was First
Vice President of the National Board OF
Steam Navigation and was one Of the
inspectors OF State prisons of the State OF
New jersey.
The times., 1901-05-05

W j. Footner, Vice President and Gen
eral Manager of the Great Northern E.x-
press Company. died from apOpIexy in st.
Paul yesterday. He was born in Montreal
ifty-five years ago, and went to st. Paul
in 1879. organizing the Northern Pacific
Express Company. He left that company
To organize the Great Northern Express
Company. at the head OF which he re
maiued until his death.
The times., 1901-05-05
OBITUARY.

Col. Henry III. Lyman. State Commits
siOner of Excise, died at his home in Os-
weso. ". z. last night He had been ill
from heart trouble for several weeks.
Colonel Lyman was born in Lorrain. JEFF
ferson County, n. Y, April 10. 1s41- He
spent his bOyhoOd on farm and later at
tended the Pulaski Academy, where he
was graduated. He then became civil
engineer. In 1862 he enlisted as a private
in Company e, 14Ith New York VOiun-
teers He served with distinction during
the war Since then he had taken an ac-
tive part in politics. having held many Of
fees. including that of sheriff and coIIec-
tor of the port of Oswego. He was ap-
pointed State Excise Commissioner by
Governor Black and was few days ago
by Governor Odeu.
The times., 1901-05-05

Mrs. Elvfra Garfield Peabody. the wild
ow of George H Peabody. died on Friday
at her home. 2S Monroe Place Brooklyn.
in her seventy-seventh year The family
lived in Columbus. Ga. until 1856. when
they settled in Brooklyn Mrs. Peabody
leaves three sons George Foster Pea
body. Royal Garfield Peabody and
Charles Jones Peabody.
The times., 1901-05-05

Dr. j. ] Ross, who was Premier of the
Province OF Quebec from 1884 to 1887. died
in Montreal yesterday at the age of sixty
eight He was appointed 90 the Canadian
Senate in 1851. and in 1891 became Speaker
of that body, position he held until
1896 when he Joined the administration OF
Sir Charles Tupper which was defeated
few months ago.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-01-24

A. d. Curtis former Marinette fish
erman, recently made a very lucky strike
in the purchase Of oil lands i'll Texas,
which will Yield him thousands Of dol
lars profit. The land adjoins other prop
erty at Beaumont on which IA recent big
find Of oil was made.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-01-24

The Corn Exchange National bank
and the Bankers National bank of Chi
cage have been approved as reserve
agents for the Citizens National bank Of
Appelton.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-01-24

BY articles Of incorporation La Crosse
Diocese Priests association is formed by
Bishop Schwebacl and his six consuitors
to care for superanuated Roman Catho-
lie priests The association includes the
entire La Crosie diocese There are only
three such associations in the state, the
other two being at Milwaukee and Green
Bay.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-01-24

Miss Daisy Allen Of Madison has been
appointed to a civil service position as
stenographer in the Department Of Agri-
culture
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-01-24
BILLS UP IN
THELEGISLATURE.
ALaw For the Support Of County
Agricultural schools.
To KILL THE SMOKING OF CIGARETTES.
Nayor Anderson of La Crosse 10 Edit
The Chronicle.
THE SMALLPOX SCARE IS DYING OFT.
Women Injured In a SIeighing Party \
Pioneer Of Wisconsin Dies in Shcboy.
gan. Other State News.
To KILL THE SMOKING OF CIGARETTES.

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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-01-24

over and all were thrown ont. Miss
Annie Hunt Of Marinette and a Memo
mipae woman were seriously hurt while
five others We're painfully injured and
many more bruised ard jammed. Ply
sicians had TO be called to attend them.
It is reported that Ida Guyon, the
Chippewa Falls girl whose disappear
auce caused the arrest of her adopted
mother and Sam Davis on a charge Of
murder has been found hiding in the
house of a farmer near Cadott The
girl disappeared Dec. 5 and it was
charged that she had been killed and
her body buried on the farm. Mrs.
Guyon has insisted all the time that the
girl went away Of her own accord
II is stated upon the best authority
that Mayor Anderson Of La Crosse at
the expiration of his term of office will
become editor and owner of The Morn
ing Chronicle, published in that city
and until recently edited by Ellis b.
Usher cx-chairman Of the Democratic
state central committee. Mayor An
dcrson has announced that he will not
seek ~ election, and his ultimatu1n
strengthens the belief that he will en-
bark into journalism. During his ad-
miui-tratipn he has shown a deep in
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-01-24

Thomas jackson u switchman on the
North Western road in Appleton had a
Il narrow escape from drowning He
was on top Of "a freight car which stood
on the high tre-tlo near the papermiIls
Of the Wisconsin Tissue Paper Company.
His feet slipped and he was plunged in
to the icy waters thirty feet below In
commiug to the surface he was able to
cling to floating timber until rescued
by mill employees
The age-herald., 1901-12-01
"FoxY Cutler"

There is fun all of the time that the curtain is up on Foxy QuiIler," the sue cessful De Koven and Smith comic opera. which is now in it's second season under the direction of Kiaw & Erlanger. The organization is called the Klaw & Erlan- ger Opera Company and it is said to be one of the largest comic opera companies in the United States. ~
 The plot opens with the arrival of young sailor who has been promised the hand of his sweetheart if he can scrape up two thousand pounds He saves it out of his wages of three pounds month stage miracle which is seldom dupl- cated in modern life The sailor has the whole sum in his vest pocket when he meets a stroling company of actors of whom one. a Japanese dwarf, is a klep. tomaniac. The dwarf promptly steals the sailors savings. It is then that the fa- nous detective, Foxy Cutler" is called in, and in his Sherlock Holmes deduc- tons there are opportunities for all kinds of fun.
 Quiller goes to Corsica in search of the thief and while in, that country is en- gagged to Corsican to spy upon his enc mics with whom he has vendetta. Then Then Foxy Quiller' is in his glory, for
The age-herald., 1901-12-01
ROAD CONVENTION
 IN MOBILE ENDS
PERMANENT ASSOCIATION IS OR. GANIZED WITH HENRY FONDE
 AS PREsIDENT-eooD ROADS TRAIN OFF FOR MONTGOMERY.
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Mobile, November SC.-Thc good roads convention here adjourned this afternoon and the train leaves early tomorrow morning for Montgomery, where the state convention will be held.
 Addresses today were mace by Bishop Allen, the Rev. Matthews Brewster, Hon. D. P Bestor, Engineer J. N. Haziehurst of the local board of public works: Stat 9 Superintendent of Education J. w. Aber- crombie, Hon. Martin Dodge and R. w.. Richardson, secretary of the good roads train.
 The South Alabama Good Roads Asso- citation was organized with officers as follows: Henry Fonde. president; J. Bes- tor Robertson, secretary: A. s. Lyons, treasurer all of Mobile. Vice presidents were then selected, ten in number, one from each county represented at the meeting.
 A membership of two hundred was had almost before the adjournment was taken.
 Resolutions were adopted asking the government to locate an experiment sta- tion in Mobile County, suggesting that an active movement be undertaken.l look ing to the adoption by the Legislature of bama, and making every newspaper man in Alabaree an honorary member of the associYe3oAN The association will be rep