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OEUVEltA'S MISTAKE. our richest senator. PORTO 1UCAN JAILS.
A Statement by Capt Clark of the
Battleship Oregon.
Tit Spnnlxh Admiral's llent ( hnnce
of Krnpe luU Would llnv
Deem the Time for Hint to
Leave Santiago Harbor.
In. a prrnoiinl Interview, in answer to
a (jueMion by the editor, Ciipt. Clark
gives in the Century the following opin
ion of the Spanish admiral's utiatrv:
"Assuming thnt the Spanish fleet had
to come out (and I for one, hail given
up the hope thnt it would do no), it is
my judgment thnt Admiral t'crvera
should have preferred night to day as
the time for the sortie, notwithstand
ing the (search-light watch so rigidly
maintained ut the entrance. He could
have placed ns guides to the channel,
along the shore, nnd on the smoke
stack or must of the sunken Merrimac,
lights screened toward the sen, so that
we could not have detected them. Ills
best chance would have been to get
tip his anchors and begin to move about
dusk, when he would have had light
enough to see the shore nnd the chan
nel marks, timing the moment so that
he should dash out just ns darkness
fell. We could not then have closed in
upon him without great danger to our
selves. The firing would huve Lad to
be done virtually In the dark, for the
search-lights (even supposing that oth
ers than the one regularly in use had
been turned on) would soon have be
come Ineffective, on account of this
smoke and from the shattering force
of the guns, which probably would have
extinguished them. The direction of
the enemy could thushave been masked,
and as each of our captains would have
been concerned with the risk of his
ship being rammed or torpedoed, our
onslaught would have had a far differ
ent result than it actually had when
full daylight enabled every command
er to see what nil the others (as wW
as the enemy) were doing, and exactly
what was to be done. It was the dif
ference between certainty and uncer
tainty. In the daytime we were able
to choose our distance from the en-
o the I'olltlcilana Refer to Stephen
II. Klkins, the Settlor Lawmaker
from West Vlralala.
Although Stephen B. Elklns, senator
from West Virginia, has long since won
for himself a national reputation as a
politician, little Is known of him as a
business man, nnd only those who have
come In close contact with him rcnlizo
thnt he Is one of the big-rest nnd broad
est men in the United States.
Senator Klkins began life ns a poor
boy with nothing but n college edu
cation, and has worked up to It is pres
ent financial and political environ
ments without aid from any source.
Thty Have Been Vastly Improved
Under American Rule.
A LEADER OF WOMEN.
Mrs
Celln OrkooiI Peterson and Her
Work for Kduentlon In the
State of Colorado.
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STEPlIEN'D. ELK1NS.
(Senior United States Senator from West
Virginia.)
lie is a man of strong personality, is
full of Ideas, and as the late .lames ll.
lllnine used to siiy, "knows more peo
ple than any other man in public life."
Mr. Klkins Is also extremely fond of
literature, lie reads tliu works of the
best uuthors, studies the elastics, uud
Interprets the poets, lie reads Latin,
Greek, nnd Hebrew in the original,
and can quote Tunnyson, Drowning,
Lowell und Longfellow by the hour.
Mr. Klkins is very fond of walking and
takes long tramps daily, ult hough his
stables are stocked with some of the
finest breed.
Ilia country home Is one of the most
beautiful cstntes in West Virginia nnd
is worth hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. It is intdosed by beautiful flower
and vegetable gardens and surrounded
on every side by magnificent views.
Some years ago Mr. Klkins purchased
a mountain which Is near his istato
for fear some ruthless farmer would
destroy one of its views, and mar its
beauty by cutting off the trees, ond
be turned a country road In order to
improve the symmetry of his homestead..
In Washington the Klkins family oc
cupy a pnlatial home and are lavish
entertainers.
Trlsoners Are Well Fed, Hot Com
pelted to Clean the Streets and
Do other rueful Work IMrt
Is No l.nKer Klnar.
To improve the condition of the mu
nicipal jails and the old government
prison has been an important work of
Uen. Guy V. Henry in l'orto Rico. In
October, under Spanish rule, they were
as alive with dirt as with prisoners, and
under absolutely no sanitnry regula
tions. Frequently the Inmates got
neither fresh air nor sunlight, but
shared the Rnme room nnd lived In
Idleness nnd misery. More than oirts
town, indeed, repented the story of
Cuba. I5ut now, although this house
cleaning work Is unfinished still, the
jails of Porto Kico have become more
like the model similar institutions in
the United States.
Like most government buildings, the
Island penitentiary Is at the cnpitaU
San Juan. Here, just outside the south
city wall, 300 convicts eat and sleep,
like n native family, In one big room.
They are not confined in cells, but have
their liberty, nnd go anywhere inside
the ten-foot wnll. Only three prison
ers, who have been sentenced to life
Imprisonment for murder, wear a steel
ball nnd chain. Murder, too, is the
most common crime. Out of the 300
Inmates, more than 200 were convicted
on this charge. Ono prisoner, 24 years
old, whoso sentence is 30 yenrs, killed
three persons. Every twelfth man In
the low row of beds Is a guardian over
Ms fellows, and may be identified by
his yellow stripes nnd a small hand
cane. Yet, as a rule, the convicts live
quietly, moke no attempts to escape
and give the keeper no trouble. Most
of them, who are the half-breed native
population, neither rend nor write.
Only one St. Thomas English negro can
be seen in the prison. Two soldiers,
convicted of robbery, who were admit
ted In December, nre the only Ameri
cans. One yenr Is the shortest term
of confinement.
Back In October nnd November, when
the Americans first reached San Juan,
Mrs. Celln Osgood Peterson, deputy
state superintendent of schools for Col
orado, Is a brillinnt woman, who is de
voted to the cnuse of education and n
writer of note along educational nnd
progressive thought lines. Mrs. I'eter
non wus appointed entirely upon merit,
nnd without liny political pull what
ever, she being u democrat, while tin!
slate superintendent, Mrs. Gre.nfell, is
n republican.
Mrs. Peterson Is nn eastern womnn,
born In Exeter, Me., and brought up lu
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MINISTER TO PORTUGAL.
CAPT. CHARLES E. CLARK.
(Commander of the Oregon. During- the
Battle at Santiago.)
President Confers a High Honor I pon
One of Iowa's Most Popular
Republican Leaders.
emy with relation to the danger of be
ing torpedoed. As all his ships were
supposed to be provided with White
head torpedoes, I determined, unless an
emergency required it, not to go in
side of half a mile, that being the ef
fective torpedo range, since our su
periority in ordnance and armor would
thus have been neutralized.
"Considering the courses that were
open to Cervera, I Bhould probably, in
the circumstances, have done as he did
head to the westward, keeping the
fleet together in the hope of destroying
any vessel which might be able to over
take me. Clcnfuegos was bis nearest
and natural port, and there he would
have been in direct communication with
Havana by rail, and, bo to speak, would
have been in a Spanish environment.
If he had intended to go to Havana, it
would have been better to go westward
than eastward, for, though the dis
tance is somewhat greater, the current
would have favored, and there was no
additional force to be considered like
that at Guaptanamo. To have divided
his fleet, part going eastward and part
westward, would have been to leave
one-half to Admiral Sampson and the
other half to Commodore Schley.
"There remained one other course.
The result of the sortie shows tliut he
might have stood a better chance of
saving one or two or even more of his
ships by the policy of scattering, with
un ultimate rendezvous. Only three of
our vessels were superior in speed to
his vessels, namely, the New York, the
Brooklyu and the Oregon possibly the
Texas. Even if each of these could
have selected nnd pursued n Spanish
ship, it Is possible that not wery one
of them would hnvu been equal to the
task of .'3ssu-v.'ig h!r chosen untagou
IbL The arinorcj i'rulsers, the Brook
lyn and the ."-'-w York, might have
found that they );nd 'caught Tartars.'
They could not have pierced the armor
of the Spanish vessels, while the Span
ish guns could readily huve pierced
theirs. There were no orders to our
vessels for such separate action, for
neither Admiral Sampson nor anyone
else could have anticipated such tac
tics. ' It Is a matter of pure conjecture,
but I am inclined to think that thu
confusion resulting from such a move
went would have strongly favored Cer
vera.
What la In a Watch.
The watch curried by thu average
roan Is composed of 03 pieces, and its
manufacture embraces more than 2,000
distinct and separate operations. Some
of the smallest screws are so minute
that the unaided eyes cunnot distin
guish them from steel filings or specks
of dirt
The president has appointed John
N. Irwin, of Iowa, formerly governor
of Idaho, to be United States minister
to Portugal in succession to Lawrence
Townsend, who has been transferred
to Belgium, where he succeeds Bellamy
Storer, the new minister to Madrid.
W. W. TJoekhill, minister to Greece, has
resigned and Arthur Sherburn Hardy,
of New Hampshire, succeeds him in
Athens. William P. Lord, formerly
governor of Oregon, is appointed to the
post of minister at Teheran, Persia, va
cated by the promotion of Mr. Hardy.
Mr. Irwin, the new minister to Por
tugal, lives in Keokuk, Io., where he
Is very popular. Two years ago he
was mentioned prominently ns a candi
date for governor of Iowa. Although
CEL1A OSGOOD TETERSON.
(Deputy State Superintendent of Schools
for Colorado.)
Med ford, Mass., where she wns grad
uated from the high school in 1 S70 us
valedictorian. Her parents removed
thut ycor to Denver, Col., where she at
tended the high school nnd graduated
from that institution the following
ycor. She began teaching In the fall
of the same yenr, and the following
year wns appointed a tenehcr In tint
Denver public schools, where she has
not missed n year, until, in June, 9S. hhe
resigned to marry Joseph E. Peterson
a merchant of Denver, formerly of Chi
cago,
in addition to her regulnr duties as
tcnoher, she has for the past four years
been instructor in methods In the sum
mer school nnd In institute work of
the stnte. In September, '93, she nc
ccpted the position of tencher of meth
ods and of United States history in the
Denver normal nnd preparatory school,
from which position she was called to
that of deputy superintendent of pub-
lie instruction.
Aside from her interest in educa
tional matters, Mrs. Peterson has taken
an nctlve interest in the Woman's club,
of Denver, one of the largest and most
influential clubs in the United States,
and says thnt she considers it one of
the grentest honors of her life to be
chosen by thorn to represent Colorado
as a speaker at the biennial convention
the Federated Clubs of the United
States, which met in Denver last sum
mer.
HARD ON THE CABBIES.
GEN. GUT V. HENRY.
(Military Governor ef the Island of Porto
Rico.)
JOHN N. IRWIN.
(New United States Minister to Lisbon,
Portugal.)
born and educated in Ohio, Mr. Irwin
hus spent most of his life in Iowa. He
started out in life as a lawyer, but
abandoned that profession for com
merce, in which he has had a long uud
successful career. Business, however,
did not interfere with his active par
ticipation in politics. He hns been
honored by election to the mayoralty
of Keokuk on u citizens' ticket with
out opposition from either pnrtf.
President Arthur appointed him gov
ernor of Idaho. At that time ho won a
national reputation by refusing pay
in that olllce. He was later made gov
ernor of Arizona by President Har
rison. He is SO years old nnd has a
wife and two chnrmlrig daughters.
the old Spanish warden gave his pris
oners an easy life. His 300 inmates
then played ball on the roof, took their
midday nup and let the carpenter and
blacksmith shops get rusty. Then, as
the warden spoke no English, a six
foot St. Thomas negro murderer al
ways welcomed American visitors and
acted as an interpreter. He translated
the explanations and apologies of the
cunulng old keeper and repeated all
questions of the callers. And, at the
end of every trip through the build'
Ings, his visitors wanted to know whut
kind of food tho keeper gave the con
vlcts.
"The gentlemen would like to know
what kind of food the prisoners get,,'
then repeated the negro in Spanish.
"Tell them I give the best of every'
thing," said the smiling warden.
"He says he gives the best of every
thing," translated the negro with a
grin, "but he never does."
However, under the administration
of the new wardeu the negro makes no
complaint. As soon as Maximiliano
Luzunaris, the keeper appointed in
December, took charge, the whole
building and grounds were cleaned,
scrubbed nnd put In a sanitary con
dition. Nor do the inmates now leud
the same shiftless life. In the shop
may be found carpenters, blacksmiths,
tailors, shoemakers, cooks, laundry'
men, and every kind of tradesmen
Thy have made the needed tables,
chairs, keep the white canvas suits in
repair, and run a model prison. Every
day more than a hundred men, un
der a strict police guard, clean the
streets of San Junn. Half that number
have been employed, too, In the sani
tnry work under Capt. L. P. Davidson-
Outside of work hours many prison
ers find time to knit stockings, which
easily sell to visitorH ns a souvenir,
Since January nn evening school ha
given the prisoners Instruction In read
ing and writing. An optional course
In English nlso hns been introduced ri
a Porto Tilcnn Interpreter. In thiB
school work the men seem to take nn
Interest nnd show a desire to learn,
especially In the English clash.
Illvb Living; In Japan.
In Japan a man can live like a gentle
man on $300 a year. This sum will pay
the rant of a house, the wages of two
errant, and supply plenty of food.
Aluminum Five-Cent Pieces.
It Is reported thnt experiments hnve
been carried on at the United States
mint In Philadelphia for nearly a year
with a view of ascertaining the fitness
of aluminum for minor coins. Some
10,000 blanks of the size of the nickel
five-cent piece have been delivered at
the mint for this purpose,' It may be
mentioned thnt congress some time ago
appointed a commission of experts to
investigate nnd report upon this sub
ject, and the experiments above re
f erred to are being carried on under the
direction of its members.
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OLD'MHEAO
The Taxametcr, Recently Introduced
In Europe, Does Away with
Overcharging.
The taxameter cab was bound to
come to London. Other capitals hnve
preceded England's In the employment
of nn instrument wliicn win mnrn xne
revolutions of tho wheel nnd register
the mileage so that the passenger may
read it and reckon his fare accordingly.
The SO cabs whose drivers are pro
claimed by their white beaver hats may
raise a smile from comrades of dingier
headgear; but, even among cabmen,
the laugh is at last with those wno
win the most custom. Already the
taxameter cab has a secured popu
larity; and the experience of its driver
is not a wholly dismal one in the mat
ter of "tips." An exra sixpence is
not always denied him. The truth is
Ask your
Druggist
lor a generous
10 CENT
TRIAWSIZE.
Ely's Cream Balm
contains no cocaine,
mercury nor any
oilier injurious druif.
11 is quicKiy ADSoro-ed.
uives ueiiernionce.
It opens and cleanses
the Nasnl HussiiKes.
AHuvb Id lamination.
Ileals and Protects the Membrane. Restores t"
Senses ot Tnste snd Smell. Full Hlzs 00c.; liiul
Stze H e s nrnirirlsts or nv mnti.
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LIVERITA
THE UP-TO-DATE
LITTLE LIVER PILL
CURES
Biliousness.
Constipation,
Dyspepsia.
Sick-Headache
and Liver
Complaint.
SU&AR COATaD.
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100 PILLS
25 CTS.
Sold by all drag-gtsta
or sent oj mail.
NcrvlU Mctlcal C, CMcifl
Kn. hni contains 15 Dills. Sold by Mover
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Facilitates Business.
Usa tha LOCAL TELEPHONE
and Communicate.
Direct with persons in Berwick, Cata-
wissa, uanvuie, Kiverjiue, Rupert,
Willow Grove, Almedia, Lightstreet,
Lime Ridge, Miffltnville, Millville,
Rohrsbnrg, Nsscopeck, Orangeville,
Stillwater and Benton. Also long
distance lines to nearly all the towns
in the different States. Rates reason
able. Local exchange over Postoffice.
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CRAYONS at
R. B. GROTZ,
Bloomsburg.
The best are
the cheapest.
Indicates
Wonirn Who Blilne Shoes.
In Paris and other lnrfre towns in
France, female bootblacks are increas
ing In number. They wenr a peculiar
piiib, not unlike thut of sisters, of
mercy, which rentiers their appearance
neat nnd attractive. Not a few among
them to attend to their work with
gloved hands.
When Moses Was Pudilllna.
Egyptian bouts more than 4,500 years
old huve been exhumed from the banks
of the Nile In perfectly good condition.
They are of cedar and float as jauntily
as if they biU been paddled but yester-
-
that whereas without a register of dis-
tunce the pessimist pussenger gives
more than his fare in the fcur that he
may otherwise be underpaying and
thus provoking a dispute, the optimist
passenger, who always gives himself
the advantage, minimizes the distance
ond imugines that he is doing the bene
factor when, in fact, he is paying only
what is strictly due. To both these
classes the taxameter will be an in
structor; and the cabman, if he loses
in one case, will gain in another. For
the really needy person who is obliged
to take a cab, and for the country
cousin, the advantage and security
given by the registration of distance
are nn obvious gain; and the cabroifn
will Increase his custom from a cIiibs
whose confidence the taxameter has
come to restore. These are considera
tions which ought to abate the hos
tility with which the Introduction of
the tuxumeter has been greeted by the
uorntn i union.
You can save money on Pianos and Or
gans. ou will always find the largest
stock, best makes and lowest ptices.
PIANOS, From $175.00 and Upwards.
ORGANS, From $50.00 and Upwards
We sell on the installment plan, l'ianos
$25.00 down and $10.00 per month. Or'
oans, 10.00 down. (.00 per month. Lib'
eral discount for cash. Sheet Music, at one'
half price. Musical merchandise of
kinds.
We handle Genuine Singer High Arm
SEWING MACHINES,
$5.00 down and ifi.oo per month. We also
handle the Demorest Sewing Machine, from
V.g.50 and upwards. Sewing Machine
Needles and Oil for all makes of Sewing
Machines, liesl makes of
WASH MACHINES.
FROM $4.00 UP TO $9.00.
J. SALTZER.
tiT Music Rooms No. 115 West Main
St.j below Market, Bloomsburg, Ts. 3ml 1.3
TID-BITS FOR MA' HONEY1
and tender little juicelets for the chil
dren, arc all right, but papa and "the
boys" want' a good, big, juicy steak,
roast or chop when business or school
duties are over, and we can cater to
them all. Our stock of prime treats is
unexcelled for quality, and we send
them home in fine shape.
J. E. KE1FER.
THiOiARKpyrsr"
BLOOMSBURG MARKETS.
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Butter per lb $
Eggs per dozen.
Lard per lb
Ham per pound
Pork, whole, per pound
Beef, quarter, per pound ....
wheat per bushel
Oats " "
Rye " "
Wheat flour per bbl
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Hay per ton 9 to $10
Potatoes per bushel, . ,
Turnips " "
Onions " "
Sweet potatoes per peck
1 allow per lb.
Shoulder " " ,
Side meat " "
Vinegar, per nt. , ,
Uried apples per lb
Dried cherries, pitted
Raspberries
Cow Hides per lb
Steer " "
Calf Skin
Sheep pelts
Shelled corn per bus
Corn meal, cwt
Bran, "
Chon
Middlings " ,
Chickens per lb new
" "old
Turkeys " "
Geese "
Ducks " "
COAL.
No. 6, delivered , , , ,
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