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The Job depsrttnent of the PRKSS IS complete •ad iiffurds facilities for doing the best class of Work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO LAW FMNTING. No paper will be discontinued ntll arrear- Kea are paid, except at the option of the pub he r. Papers sent out ot the county must be paid lor in advance. There are old, familiar and well loved names on the new army list. Fred D. Grant, son of the great commander, is a brigadier general. So is Michael V. Sheridan, brother of the dauntless "Lit tle Phil." And Rev. Thomas Sherman, son of the hero of the march to the sea, bf dji aizi.y chaplain. Field telephones and kites are appar ently destined to revolutionize the art «112 war, judging from recent successful experiments. Instead of dashing cou riers, the generals and their aids will learn the details of a battle's projr.-ess through telephone receivers attached to movable wires and portable kites. The length of Mr. Gladstone's political sert ice can be measured by the fact that he entered parliament at a time when Andrew Jackson was president of the United iStates. and retired from it when. Mr. Cleieland began his second term. He held his first cabinet ollice when Daniel Webster was also first serving in a like capacity here. Isaac McLellan, the sportsman poet, celebrated his ninety-second birthday recently in Boston, lie claims the dis tinction of being America's oldest liv ing poet. Mr. McLellan was a school fellow of Longfellow and Whittier. IIV is the oldest surviving member of the Independent cadets of Boston, which company he joined in 1830. Lieut, llobson, the hero of Santiago, is being abused in certain papers be cause he smokes cigarettes. Let him smoke a rope if he wants to. A man who has gone even unto the gates of death for his country ought to er joy the blessed privilege of smoking, drinking and wearing exactly what he pleases without being abused by a lot of cranks. The other day a Denver girl kissed a soldier good-by at the depot, with the remark: "God bless you; stand up for Colorado." Between his sobs he re tilied: "I am from Nebraska, but I'll try to stand up for both states now." I Thereupon she kissed him again for Nebraska. That young man might have reminded her, with entire propriety, that there are 43 other states which he could "stand up for." "You may begin firing whenever you please." Those were the wonis ad dressed by Admiral Dewey to the la mented Capt. Gridley as the latter start ed to lead the fleet into the fight at Ma nila. The dead hero pleased to begin as soon as he got within range and he did not stop shooting until a glorious victory had been won. But his health began to decline from that day and now lie is deaf to the plaudits of a great nation. A man named Tailor, who is post master of Scarva, County Down, Ire land, has held his office for 70 years. lie is now 110 years of age. From the age of 14 to the age of 114 —an even century —he was a habitual user of tobacco; but two years ago he discovered that it wa impairing his health, and he abandonee' it without tapering off. Such inen are object lessons for the youth of the ■world. To err is human, but to persist in error is infamous. American soldiers have fought In dians in the lava beds, and wild animals in the forest, but the skirmishing at Guantanamo is their first experience in chasing human hyenas and gorillas through the brush. This kind of war fare has its disadvantages. It is hard to locate a foe that disguises itself as'a plantain patch, and the weather is so frightfully warm that Uncle Sam's boys are apt to hesitate a long while before firing at a palm leaf fan. The greatest electric searchlight in the world, now being erected at Fort Monroe to guard the entrance to the Chesapeake, has a beam of iight nine feet in diameter. It will illuminate an object 100 miles off and can beseee on the clouds at even a greater distance. The light is gathered into a nine-foot beam, which has an estimated intensity of 90,000.000 candles. The light re volves six times a minute." It was manufactured in France, but American generating apparatus has been substituted for that built abroad. While Americans have for the time being lost practically all interest in the Klondike, our Canadian friends are more active than ever in setting afoot plans for the development of that re gion. The Dominion parliament will be asked to sanction a new enterprise of building a railroad to Hudson bay and thence to Dawson. It is an old plan enlarged to fit present needs, but it does not. necessarily follow that the road will be built immediately. The Canadian system of granting heavy subsidies to new railroads invites schemes of this character. THE BILL FOR WAR REVENUES. Plenty of Money Will lie Hslsetl \\ it lion I I'IUOIIIK a llnrden on the People, The conference committee on the war revenue bill has come to an agreement on the bond provision. The house limi tation on the amount of l>orids which mijfht be sold was 500,000,000. The sen ate reduced it to $300,000,000. The con ference committee has agreed on $400,- 000,000. The senate amendment re quires the secretary of the treasury to sell at least $50,000,000 of one-year three per cent, certificates, whose issue is au thorized, before disposing of any bonds. Secretary Gage objected strenuously to this provision, and the conferees will recommend that the senate recede from it. There is one point regarding which the dispatches are silent. The house bill authorized the secretary of the treasury to borrow money by selling bonds, but does not specify the pur pose. The senate amendment author izes the sale of bonds to get money "to defray the expenditures authorized on account of the existing war (such pro ceeds when received to be used only for the purpose of meeting such war ex penditures)." It has not been stated yet whether this limitation will be ac cepted by the conferees. If no limitation isim posed a part of the proceeds of the money obtained by the sale, at par or above, of those three per cent, bonds, which are payable at the pleasure of the government in ten years and become due in 20 years, can be used to defray the cost of the war. The re mainder can be used to make large ad ditions to the navy, to complete the coast fortifications, to provide the high power guns, toman them, and to lay up ample supplies of powder, shot and shell. Then the country would be ready on short notice for the next war and would not have to make the fran tic haste it did to get ready for the ont with Spain. The committee has compromised on the coinage of the silver bullion. The senate amendment directed the secre tary to coin it at the rate of $4,000,000 a month. The conferees will recommend that that be reduced to a million and a half a month. At that rate it will take five years to coin all the silver. While objecting on principle to this modified proposition, the house may accept it in order not to delay the passage of the revenue bill and the sale of bonds. The treasury is getting short of cash. The conferees ha»ve adopted most of the taxation amendments of the sen ate. Those amendments add mater ally to the revenue producing quali ties of the bill, and thus make it much more effective than it was when it passed the house. In its amended form it will, when fairly in operation, pay a large part of the current military ex penses of the government, and after the war is over will furnish a fund which will extinguish speedily what ever bonded indebtedness may have been contracted. While the taxes levied by this bill will produce a great deal of money, they will not be felt. If the Bryanites had had the framing of the bill it would have been a differ ent affair. They would have imposed onerous and excessive taxes on inter ests which they wish to destroy, and they would not have allowed bonds to be sold. They would have authorized the issue of more legal tender notes to defray government's expenses, with out, however, making provision for the redemption of these notes in gold. They would have inflated the currency and would have rejoiced that that inflation depreciated its value. Happily for the country, the Bryanites were not able to dictate the terms of the new rev enue bill.—Chicago Tribune. DRIFT OF OPINION. gr.in of several republican coi'.- gressmer in Missouri this year is among the political probabilities.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. tTThat Oregon election is a regular Dewey notification to the cheap money senators at Washington to stop their nonsense. —Troy Times. state of Oregon also rounded the cape, completing a safe cruise into the safe seas of republicanism. —Cin- cinnati Commercial Tribune. tT'The populists of the state of Wash ington are very unhappy since they re ceived the election news from Oregon. Populism on the Pacific coast is on its last legs, and the three silver parties are stunned by the republican land slide. —St. Louis Globe-Dmocrat. name Oregon is in good re pute at present. The battleship thus named came around the horn in fine style. Now it is said that the repub licans in Oregon have elected their state ticket and carrk-d tie legislature. Oregon realizes what the national ad ministration is doing for the Pacific ocean and votes aye.—Troy Times. to One Bad Money Rrj-an to present a live eagle to company 1$ of the First Nebraska regi ment, but it fell into the hands of com pany li of the Se«cfi«l, composed of re publicans ar.d goldbugs, who refused to give it up, and after they had got out of the slate christened it McKinley and made it a regimental mascot. With its new baptism there is no doubt that it will roost steadily on the standard of victory.—Chicago Tribune. ICThe republicans won a great vic tory in Oregon, and the late returns show that the party made large gainf ul every county of the state, as com pared with the vote in '{Mi. (ieer has been elected governor by at least 10,00(1 plurality, and the legislature will lie overwhelmingly republican. The sen ate will have 23 republicans oue creeping along under cover and firing' upon the Spaniards from be hind. FOOD PRICES RISE. PEOPLE Wlio Live In Havana Must I'OBKPSH Fat Pockfthnokft or (io Hungry. Key West, June 21. —A vessel ar rived here yesterday from the block ade and brought an officer of the Cu ban army and a pilot, who are carry pig 1 important dispatches to Senor Fstrada I'alma, of Ihe Cuban junta, from tlen. Rodriguez, the insurgent commander of Havana province. The Cubans were taken on board on Saturday from an auxiliary gun boat which had picked them up. The messengers of Cien. Uodriguez give an interesting account of their experi ences. After leaving the insurgent camp they made their way into the city of Havana, spent several days there, proceeded to one of the small inlets in the neighborhood, stole a small boat and rowed out TO sea in the hope of coming across an Ameri can vessel. They were three days in tlx- boat before they were picked up. The Cubans report that there are no supplies of rice, maize, potatoes or eggs in Havana. Flour they say costs 50 cents per pound and the army has been placed on half rations. The messengers class as false the reports that vessels have succeeded in entering Havana with supplies. They assert that since the blockade began only three small fishing - vessels have entered tin- harbor and that no food whatever is received from Cienfuegos. The Cubans also report that lard is selling at 50 cents, rice at 20, beans at £5 and meat at 75 cents per pound and all are scarce, and they say that all horses of private families, stores and livery stables, have been confis cated by order of (ien. Arolas, the military governor of Havana, for the use of tiic troops. There is hardly any traffic in the streets of Havana and groups of more than two persons are not allowed to loiter on street corners. The street railway company, whose ears are drawn by horses, are obliged to run a car every hour in stead of every live minutes as hereto fore, as the horses of the company have been taken by the government. WAR CRAFT NAMED. A Wholesale I'lirlntcnlng Take* I'laee at the Navy Department. Washington, June 21.—There was a wholesale christening at the navy de partment Montltiy when Secretary Long supplied names for 35 war craft. All of these were provided for in the last naval appropriation hill. and while contracts for their construction have not yet been let, the advertise ments have been issued except in the case of the monitors and all the boats will be under way before cold weath er. First in the list of the big battle ships is the Maine, for congress has provided that tlr.it name shall be con tinued in the naval list. The other two big battleships will be called the Missouri and the Ohio. The tirst of the torpedo boats bears the name of the brave young Knsign Bagley, who was killed on the deck of the Winslow under the guns of Cardenas, the first American naval officer to lose his life in the war. Four states have the privilege of giving their names to monitors—Ar kansas, Connecticut, Florida and Wy oming'. The names given to the 16 torpedo boat destroyers are those of America's famous naval heroes—llain bridge, Barry, t nauncey. Dale, Deca tur. Hopkins, Hull, Lawrence, Mac- Donougli, l'aul Jones, Perry, Preble. Stewart, Truxton. Whipple and Wor den. The names applied to the tor pedo boats are those of lesser fame, but still of glorious memory. Besides.; Bagley they are: Barney, likldle. Plakely, l)e Long, Nicholson, O'Brien, Shubrick, Stockton, Thornton, Tingey, Wilkes. There is now only one ves sel, either building or authorized. J*-ft without a name, a gunboat officially known as No. 16. More CIOIKIH tiatlier for Letter, Chicago, J imp 21 More threaten ing clouds are gathering for Lelter. Since the announcement of Leiter's withdrawal from the deal, the price of wheat has declined ten eentsj That means an additional loss of $1,000,000 within a week which the elder heifer apparently will have to pay. Another source of evil to the Leiter prospects is tin* persistent rumor from aaross the w iter that foreigners are refus ing the wheat Leiter sold. Various reasons are assigned for the rejection, but in each case there appears the possibility that Leiter will find hi* v.lieat coining back to him AT DAIQUIRI. Gon. Eliafter's Soldiers Havo Made a Landing. Prntortwl by the Onnn of Ssrapnon'* Squad ron. tlift Advanee C.unrd of tlx' Hoy* In Ulue Set* Foot on Cuban Soil— (jpunlardH Made Very Little Ki-Hlhtance. Washington, June 23.—Official dis patches received last night by both Secretary Alger and Secretary Long indicated that the landing of troops near Santiago was progressing most favorably. The first landing was effected at Daiquiri yesterday morn ing and met with comparatively slight resistance. This was stated in a dispatch received last evening by Secretary Alger. It follows: "Off Daiquiri, Cuba., June 22 Landing at Daiquiri this morning successful. Very little if any resist ance. SHAFTER." Secretary Alger expressed himself as delighted at the expedition with which the landing of the troops was being effected and with the fact that no serious obstacle was being offered by the enemy. He construed the text of Gen. Shaffer's message to mean that the enemy had made merely a nominal and ineffective resistance by firing from the hills at long range. Shortly after Secretary Alger re ceived his dispatch. Secretary Long received a more extended cablegram from Admiral Sampson. It, too. was dated at Playa del Kste, at 6:50 last evening. The dispatch follows: "Landing of the army is progress ing favorably at Daiquiri. There is very little if any resistance. The New Orleans, Detroit. Castine, Wasp and fiuwanee shelled vicinity before the landing. We made a demonstration nt Cabanas to engage the attention of the enemy. The Texas engaged the west battery for some hours. She had one man killed. Ten submarine mines have been recovered from the channel of Gtiantanamo. Communica tion by telegraph has been established at Guantanamo. "SAMPSON." Tn both army and navy circles the information contained in the dis patches of Shafter and Sampson was received with intense satisfaction. The landing of so large a body of troops as Gen. Shafter at present has under his command is a task of im mense proportions. A prominent offi cial of the war department said that the complete debarkation of Ihe troops, animals, field guns and sup plies within a week after their ar rival off the Cuban coast would ba a task well accomplished. It is prob able that only a partial landing of the troops was effected yesterday and that the landing will be continued from day today until completed, ft is not unlikely, too, that the troops will be landed at several places along the coast, within a short distance of the headquarters which Gen. Shafter will establish for himself. Admiral Sampson's dispatch indi cated that he was carrying out his in structions thoroughly to clear a wr1) ht an I Day and Can't Torn then' Out Inx Ennujrh. Washington. .Tune 23.—Every possi ble effort is being' made by the secre tary of the treasury to put into opera tion on July 1 the adhesive stamj tax sections of the war revenue act. Tt is not thought possible, however, to have stamps on sale in all parts of the country on that date, and in conse quence it is expected that for several days at least business embarrassments will be many and in some instances serious. The law declares that it shall be deemed a misdemeanor not to affix a stain]) to any bank check, note, draft, etc.. punishable by a fine not exceeding S2OO. The law further de clares that such unstamped instru ment. document or paper, shall not be competent evidence in any court, in fact void. It is believed that many embarrass ments and even losses cannot be avoided, hence the secretary's re quest for a postponement for 1.1 days. Nevertheless, the force at the bureau of engraving and printing is working every hour of the 24 to get out the stamps, and efforts will be made to reduce to a minimum embarrassment.-- arising out of the new law. About 750,000 stamps were shipped to the Pacific coast yesterday and other shiu ments will follow in rapid succession. The stamps will be sent to collector!? of internal revenue and by them dis tributed to the deputies. National banks in each town will handle the stamps for the benefit of the public until other arrangements can be made for their distribution. R«*i»»forccm»»i»t» for Sh«ftr»r. Washington, .Tune 2.l.—The rein forcement of (1 en. Shafter actually be gan vestcrday by the departure of a regiment and a battalion of 'lie troops at Camp Alger for Santiago They go 1o Newport News and th -n by steamer direct to Santiago. Thes" troops are likely to occupy actually less time in the passage than did the first contingent which left Tampa, notwithstanding the distance is twice as long. Orders were issued placing (Sen. Guy V. Henry in charge of > new division of troops composed of i)ur* field's and Garretson's brigades, which are to form part of the new division. Purified Blood Was Weak and Nervous But Hood'fr Made Him Healthy and Strong. "I WHS feeling very dull and could not! sle< p at night. After I had taken two bottles of Hood's Sarsapariila I felt more, 'like myself and was soon healthy and strong. Hood's Sarsapariila purified my blood and did me much good." HOT M. DALE, Hammond, Minn. Hood's Sarsapariila Is America's Greatest Medicine 11; six for $5- Hood's Pills cure indigestion, biliousness. SHE DIDN'T YELL. When She Found Out That Her Indui> trloua XelKhbor Win VotCom mittinic Suicide. A certain East end man delights in doing odd jobs about his home, lie cuts his grass and trims the walks, and handles a paint brush like an old master. Carpenter tools come handy to him, too, and the sound of his merry saw makes pleasant music for the neighbors, who have no objection to being awakened early. In short, lie is a clever all round workman, and decidedly handy to have about the house. One day not long ago the woman of the house next door happened to coinc out on her back porch. There she casually looked over the low fence into the handy man's yard. What she saw scared her so that she couldn't move hand or foot. The handy man was ly ing prone on his back, his body concealed! beneath his porch, but with his face in strong relief. He was very pale, his hair was dis ordered, and his eyes were rolled up and fixed in a ghastly intcntness. Against his breast he seemed to be pressing some deadly weapon that glistened as a ray of light touched it. The woman on the porch tried to scream, and couldn't. She knew the handy man was committing suicide. He panted, his face grew red, and his form seemed convulsed. The woman on the porch caught her agon ized breath and was about to let out a 40 horse power yell when she heard the sup posed suicide anxiously ask: "Isn't it through yet?" "Yes." said a voice from above, "it been roost through." About this time the woman on the porch understood that the handy man was boring an auger hole through the floor of his porch, that the deadly weapon was an auger, and that the hired girl was on hand to watch the operation. Then the woman on the porch was glad she didn't yell.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. SQUIRE JONES r ECONOMY. He Iluised His Own Tobacco and First Chewed und Then Smoked It. "The most economical person I ever knew," remarked a West side barber as he turned from a patient customer whom he had been torturing with his wise remarks for half an hour to strop his razor, "was an old lady who always declared that she hated to see anything wasted, even the affections." "Did you know old Nancy Jones?" cried the hitherto speechless customer, rising to a full sitting posture. "Must remember her husband, old Squire Jone6?" "Can't say that 1 do," replied the barber, \vho, like all his craft, was a wise man and feared a trap of some sort. "He went the old woman one or two bet ter," continued the customer: "not in words, for lie hadn't the gift of gab like some in this city, but in actions, being closer than a twin brother." "\\ hat did he do that indicated greater eeononiv than the sentiment expressed by 111* wife?" asked the barber, who had recov ered his self-possession. "He was a fearful chewer and used to raise his own tobacco. After he'd got what strength he could out of his quids he would lay them on a shelf and smoke them in a cob pipe of his own manufacture when they got dry." 'He got it all, ' said the barber. "He did, but not when he finished smok ing. Why, that old fellow used to snuff the. ashes. You needn't use any bay rum if it costs five cents extra."—Chicago Chronicle. To Cure n Cold In One liny Take Laxative Hroino Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. What a terrible time people do have try ing to have a good time! —Atchison Globe. 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