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u VlP H '7""R A IF T!) WEEKLY EMI TIIK NRH'H. F.HtulilMi.vl Nov.MW.I. .,lSul,datl,,, TIIK HI.KAI.il. KHlulilinhiiU April 10. I MSI. f Loi.solioaic.l Jnn. l, iH'.irt. l'LATTSMOUTH, NEIJ.. MAY f. I8(M. VOL. VIII. NO..VJ. i u hh in T(1 Two More of the ISrave Hoys Give Up Their Lives l our Olhrm Art) Wounded In I lie A miiiii 4tn Situ Friiindo The Name of lltu KhIU-ii Not Yt-t lt mrt !--KHi- Ik Make SI iilloi li Kt Klnlnii- III lt of t'fHV Ovrrtiirm. Manila, May .r, S:2" . m. In spite of the pointful overtures of their com misHioncrs, tho Filipinos vigorously rosixtod (lit; uilv;im;u of General Mttc A rlhur'H division from A pal it toward San Fernando, lighting desperately at loii"" ration, after run nine from trench lo trench when driven out by the American artillery. Tho movement commenced a 5:.'J0 in Ihe morning. General Hale's brigado, consisting of live Catlings, under com mand of Major Young of the Sixth artillery, two battalions of tho Fifty lirst Iowa regiment, tho First Ne braska regiment and the First lakota regiment, advanced along tho road a few milen west of tho railway line. General VVheaton, with Ilotchkiss and Gutling guns, under the command of I,iuuton;int Naylor of tho Utah Light artillery, mounted on handcar-, pushed ahead, tho Twentieth Kansas and First Montana regiments deploy ing to tho right and left when feasible. The country to b traversed proved the worst yet encountered, miles of marshes anil many uufordahlo streams delaying the advance materially. Moth brigades met with resistance simultaneously on approaching tho river near San Toman, which is about eight kilometres from A pal it. Tho center span of the railroad bridgo had dropped into tho river and tho rebels had only left a sin-ill force to chuck Jeneral Wheaton, their main body lining tho strong trenches in front of (Joneral Hale. Although the attacking force poured a very hoavy artillery and musketry li 10 across the river, tho enemy stub bornly resisted for over au hour, ulti mately breaking when Major Young shelled their left Hank and then re treating along tho river i ink under cover. General Wheaton, in the meantime, tried ineffectually to draw tho liro of tho Filipinos in the trenches oast of the track. Ktlx-U I'llMk I'p Heart. So soon as they discovered that the nature of tho country would permit only a few skirmishes on each side of the embankment the rebels regained their courage and fought desperately for three-quarters of an hour In the face of the American volleys and a rapid lire fusillade, until Hanked by the Montana regimont. Then a gen eral scramble ensued, most of the enemy boarding trains that were in readiness and tho others taking the road to San Fernando, after burning the villages of Sam Tomas and Mina lin. About noon General Wheaton crossed the broken bridge, cleared the stragglers out of the villages and ad vanced toward San Fernando. Gen eral Halo effected a crossing simultan eously, after a slight delay necessary to repair a stone bridgo. Our loss up to that hour (noon) was two members of tho Nebraska regi ment and one of tho Montana killed and C iptain Albrecht, three members of the Kansas regiment, two of the Montana, four of the Nebraska and ono of the South Dakota wounded. The enemy's loss was very slight. After a short rest the advance was con tinned, General Wheaton encounter ing tho lirst series of entrenchments near San Fernando. The rebels now opened a hot tire. Colonel Funston of the Twentieth Kansas was wounded; one lieutenant was killed and four were wounded while leading four companies of the Kansas regiment to cutllank the enemy. (Joneral Halo pushed along the road, fl inking the trenches. More than 100 sick and wounded men of General Lawton's brigade were brought to Ma nila from Malolos by last night's train. The heat is unbearable. Fall of San Tomits. 5:50 p. m. Major General MacAr thur has carried San Tomas, after en countering a strong resistance. Brigadier General Hale moved on the enemy's right and Brigadier Gen eral Wheaton attacked the left in a daring charge, in which Colonel Funs ton again distinguished, himself. The Knnsan was wounded in the hand, and several other ofjicers and enlisted men were also wounded. Colonel Summers, with a prt of the Oregon and Minnesota regiments and a gun of the Utah battery, took Moasira on the ri;ht, resting four miles from San Fernando. The Filipinos are re treating toward San Isidro, ar.d it is expected tli -t they will make a stand at Arayat, at which place the whole of the rebel forces in the province of Fanpanga is concentrating. A man who lives in a small town is not satisfied unless he has something he can point to with pride; a man who lives in a big town iseatistied with the success of his neighbors. This is such good advice that you wiil probably not take it: Don't tell your troubles too often. The second time they are told y cease to be interesting. U JII PRESSURE OF COMPRESSED AIR ' Nut tJ renter Thwu 2,000 I'ouiid) to Hi N(U:tre liKli. Comprised air has accomplished much for civilization, but it, too, has Its limitations. Frank Kichards, of the American Machinist, and author of 'Compressed Air," an exhaustive vol ume on the subject, has figured out Its limits in several important divi sions of its sphere of usefulness. "Gen erally considered," he says, "the limit of compressed air is the limit of the force that produces It. Compressed air is merely a conductor with a more or less powerful water wheel or steam en gine behind it. Find the limit of power of the generator, and you have the limit of the compressed air. That ap plies particularly where the compress ed air is used in direct and constant connection with the generating appa ratus in factories and similar fixed in stitutions. "For railroad cars and vehicles, which depend upon such supplies of the compressed air as can be carried about on vehicles, the limits are fixed by the amount of compressed air the vehicles can carry. The- limit for rail road cars, according to recent experi ments, would be, in my judgment, just about enough to carry them twenty miles with recharging. For automo biles, running over smooth and level roads exclusively, the limit of capacity would he slightly greater, say equal to about 2.' miles. "The greater the pressure of the air In the so-ciilled bottles in which it is carried about, the greater is its endur ance. It is compressed often to the ex tent of 2,000 pounds per square inch, and I should place the limit of safe at 2,f00 pounds. 1 understand that it is proposed to supply this particular form of energy through supply pipes at a pressure of 100 pounds per square inch. Whether it can he effective ar so low a pressure is a question." Huiv'h Ttllrt. We offer Olie Hundred Dollars Howard for any case, of Uatitrrh that cannot In; cured by Hull's ':it:irrh Cure. , S. CIIKNKV & CO.. Props., Toledo. O. Ve ' undersigned, have known F.J. Cheney '" the last !." yours, una believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and iinaucin ily able to curry out any obligations made by their firm. Wkst & TaiiAX, Wholesale I irugfrlsts, To- WaV.'iuno. Kinsan-As Mahmn, Wholesale Irui;s;lsts. Toledo. O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally actinu directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 7"c. per bot tle. iSold by all 1 Iriigjrists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. WOMEN MASONS. An Fgt.ibllflhvd I.odpe of the Order Exists la France. It is not generally known that there exists in France a lodge of women Free masons, says the Scientific American. This curious fact, with all that it im plies of masculine complacence and of feminine audacity, is to be explained by the religious situation of France. The Roman Catholic Church forbids its members to he Freemasons; therefore the Freemasons are all revolters from the church. But do not for this jump to the conclusion that the French Ma sons, being Freethinkers, have freely invited women into the order. Such a fact would have made a great noise in the world. The truth is simpler; it is that the same impulse that has gath ered the men into lodges has driven the women into lodges, also the re action from an extreme to another ex treme. The woman Masons also are revolters from the church. The ori gin of the movement dates 50 yeari back. At that time certain Masons, who were also Feminists, proposed to admit women into the lodges, and were overruled by a small majority. In 18S2 a lodge near Paris, called the "Free thinkers." initiated the first woman, Mme. Maria Deraismes, at that time leader of the Feminist movement in France. The high authorities dis solved the offending lodge. Some time passed, and a certain Dr. Henry Mar tin again made a proposition to admit women. Being refused on all sides, the idea came to Dr. Martin that, by founding a new "obedience," it would be possible to organize an exclusively woman's lodge, which in 1894, was done. Seventeen women were sol emnly initiated by Maria Deraismes. Mme. Deraismes remained at the head of the order until her death, when her place as Venerable was taken, and is occupied today.by Mme. Henry Martin, The Paris woman's lodge is called "Le Droit Humain" (Human Right.) These seventeen women have now be come 200, which is to say that the idea makes headway, and they have created other lodges at Lyons, Rouen, Zurich, which adds about 60 more to the number. The meetings are con ducted in all things like those of the men, and there are no Masonic secrets not known to the women. J. D. Bridge, editor and proprietor of the Democrat, Lancaster, X. II., says: k'I would not be without One Minute Cough Cure for my boy. when troubled "with a cough or cold. ?t is the best remedy for crouD I ever used. " F. G. Fricke & Co. Nemnt'i Kleetrlc Lamp. Much interest is expressed both in Germany and this country in the new electric incandescent lamp invented by Prof. Xernst of Gottingen. This lamp dispenses w ith the vacuum bulb of the ordinary incandescent lamp, and in place of the fragile carbon filament Prof. Nernst uses a piece of magnesia. The essence of his discovery is that when magnesium is heated to a very high temperature a weak electric cur rent suffices to make it intensely lum inous. The difficulty in making the lamp commercially useful lies in heat ing the magnesia cheaply. At present this is effected by placing the magnesia at the focus of a reflector which con centrates the heat derived from a spiral of platinum raised to incandes cence by electricity. When you want to smoke a 10-cent cigar try Ot'.o Wurl V'Silver Wreath" union made you cm find no better on the market. 170 1 J II r r Hiram George lioblne Writes Enter tainingly of Ills Regiment. lie I-ktIImh llr-Kkl;i; hii In Culm mxl I be YoyHK" Acromt the V.at-r Thinkx liiere nre No Hardship In Connect Ion With Itfliif; One of 1'iM-le Suin'n Sol tiler Itoyn. To t lie Kditor of Tin- Nl-ws: Camp M cKknzik, A i ofsta, Ca , April"!!. Well, I am still uninjured, and went through tho "war" without a6cratch. 1 will try and jjivo you an account of the repimnt. April 0 wo received orders to break camp tho following- morning', and long beforo sunriso wo had the tents packed and all our different relics, ready to bo, placed aboard the wagons, which were lined up ready for shipment. That morning will always be remem bered by the boys, ns it was one of the longest, hottest m irches we were ever in. Colonel Vifquair:, instead of taking us direct to tho hat bor, drilled us around the outskirts of the city, by the soacoast. Tho wind was blowing a terrific gale, and upon landing at the harbor we did not present a very clean appearance, the s;ind and di.st completely covering us. You can imagine how much baggage the boys had when I sav that it took IGo wagons to carry it. Upon arriv ing1 at tho docks wo stacked guns and waited patiently until tho boxes, tents and provisions were placed aboard. At 4 o'clock wo ' fell in" and boarded tho Logan, tho largjst transport in Uncle Sam's Fervic. Oie hour later we silently passed Moi-ro castle and left Havana in the rear. Saturday morning wo anchored about one mile from Ft. Jeffer.-on, which is on one of the Western Florida keys. It was the intention of the war de partment to put us in this fort, where wo would bo quarantined, but tho sea was too rough, and finally, after lying two long days and nights, we received orders to land at Savannah, (la. Karly Thursday morning of the fol lowing week we landed at Tybe fumi gation station, and were immediately given orders to place all our different clothing in our blankets and tie them up and place them in a boiler, which was closed up and ""!) pounds of steam turned on. In an hour tho different articles were taken out and we went aboard two small tugs and were taken five miles up the Savannah river, near S uth Carolina. Hero we went into camp and were quarantined five days. All the dif ferent regiments that were in Havana were quarantined in tho same camp with us. At the conclusion of the five days we again right shouidered gun and went aboard the large tug S intee and taken to Savannah, Ga. Upon arriving at the docks at Savannah we were ordered to board the c.trs and go to Augusta, Ga., where we p.re now waiting to be mustered out. The day set for the mustering out is May 11, and the ollieers are busily en gaged night and day fixing up the muster rolls. Charles Spencer for the last few days is assisting the captain with his books. Probably you heard that Charles lost his stripes in Havana, but the cap tain has again appointed him sceeant. We ase camped about two miles west of the city of Augu.-ta on a high plateau. Of all the c'ties I ever visited Ibis city beats them all. Broadway street, which is the principal thoroughfare, is the prettiest business street I ever saw. It is about ono and oni-half miles long, and just twice as wide as the Main street at Platismouth. V'hat strikes me about this city is the residences and paiks. They a: e simply elegant, and they also are built on wide streets. The churches (and there are several of them) are elegant buildings, and I have attended two of them the Baptist and Methodist. llev. Warren, who ,was formerly chaoiain of the Third Georgia, preached at the Baptist church. He ii a very young man, but his sermon was one of Ihe mo-t interesting I ever listened lo. lie is on.i of the most earnest speakers that ever graced a pulpit. The Methodist preacher I did uol learn his name devoted most of his time to roasting tho other churches, which I didn't think was quite right. Street cars run out near our c;.mp and all the boys are allowed to leave camp in the evening. They have one of the best street car systems here, and have a double track to the different suburb towns. When we arrived here there were four regiments camped here, but two of them the Second Illinois and The d Georgia huve been dircharged. The; Fourth Illinois will quil us May 2 and we will be next. Yuu ought to ste the fakirs that surround a regiment the day they are mustered out. Every seddier mustered out receives in the neigh borhnod of $100 and non-commissioned officers $125. I will tlraw about $135 when mustered out. The weather is very warm, but we only drill about one hour a d.y, so you can see that we have plenty of lime to rest. I tell you that it is no hardship to be with Uncle Sara, and 1 am not sorry I enlisted. I received word frora home that XT V 17(1 vwnw i mm Mj a mum nil Mill IJ father was failing fast, and conse quently 1 will b iard tho first train for home after I am discharged. I will go over the Burlington via Si. Louis and Kansas City. The faro ii $1 to Omaha to all discharged sol-j dieiH. j Thorn has only been two deaths in j tho regiment since January 1. I (-eo by tho Augusta paper that the war in tho Philippines is quickly coining to a close. II II? AM KOBI.NK. To Dry Shoe. This Is a good season to try the old method of drying the footgear. "When the boys and girls come in from school with their shoes soaked through," says a shoe dealer, "take the shoes off, lace or button them up and fill them full of dry oats and set them away. The oats will absorb the moisture and swell themselves in doing it, and in the morning the shoes will be almost as good as new; not shrunken up and stiffened, as would have been the case had they been thrown in a corner and left to take care of themselves." Try Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder to bo shaken into the -hoes. At this season your feet feel swollen, nervous and hot, ami get tired oasily. If you have smarting fe-t or tight shoes, try Allen's Fool-Hase. It coo's the feet and makes walking easy. Cures swollen and nweating feet, blis ters and callous spots. Uelieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and slue stores for l!"c. Trial p ickago free. Address, Alb-ii S. O'mstea-i, Lnlioy.N. Y. TAKING AN ISLAND. How the Stars ami Slrlpurt Were UiiUel in he l'ucllic. ! Way out in the middle of the Pa- ! cific ocean, half way between the United States and the Philippines, lies Wake island, with its green palm trees nodding to the blue sea. It is a pret- : ty island, but it is so far away from , any place else that nobody lives there, ; and no nation has cared to own it. J Now,1 since the United States has so i many ships that are traveling to Ma- j nila, it was found that this island was j just in the right place for ships to stop : and take on coal, if necessary, and , there were many other good uses to which it could be put. So, on the last ' trip of the Bennington, one of our bat- j tleships, the captain was ordered to take Wake island in the name of the j United States, which he did. First the Bennington anchored out in the har bor as close to shore as it could come, and boat loads of sailors came on land. These sailors set up a strong flagstaff, and then the captain ordered them to fall into two ranks, facing the sea, and called upon them lo witness that the island was owned by ho other nation. Then he declared the island the property of the United States and ordered the flag to be raised, and when Old Glory floated for the first time over Wake island the sailors cheered and the big cannons on the Bennington boomed out 21 time3 in honor of the flag. After the salute from the cannons the flag was nailed fast and a brass plate was screwed to the base of the staff, telling in raised letters that Wake island be longed now to the United States, and the date on which it was taken. Then they all went on board the Bennington and sailed, leaving our new island for a while to the sea fowl and the fishes. But the Stars and Stripes are waving there yet and the island is ours. Three tor $1. Laundered Percale Shirts El.-on, the Clothier. The Way to go to California is in a tourist sleeping car personally conducted ria the Burlington Route. You don't change cars. You make fast time. You see the finest scenery on the globe. Youi" ear i? not so expensively fin ished nor so line to look a as a pnlace sleeper but it is ju-t as clean, just as comfortable, jus as yood to ride in, AND XKAKI.Y $;'0 CilEAl'Ki;. The Burlington excursions leave every Thursday reaching Sun Fran cisco Sunday and Los Angeles Mon day. Porter with each car. Excur sion m-"n;jger with each pnrty. For folder giving full information call at nearest B. & M. R. R. depot or writo J. Francis, General Passenger Agent, Omaha, Neb. Farm loans in the amount of 1,000 and up at 5 per cent, and without ex pense of abstract to borrower. J. M. Ley da, Plattsmouth, Neb. Snakes in India. Snakes are one of the scourges of India. Thousands of people die yearly from their bite. In the last twenty two ye.irs the number of deaths attrib uted to this couse has reached the enormous total of 433,259. Capacity lOO.OOO. The Crystal pilce of London, where the firt word's convention of Chris tian Endeavor will be held in 100, can accommodate 100,000 persons. Preparations are being made for 25.000 delegates. - Don't think you can cure liiat slight attack of dyspepsia by dieting, or that it wiil cur? itself. K0J0I Pypep.-ia Cu-e will cm-e i'; it "digests wh it you eat" and re-t- rt s the oigos- ivc organs to heaUh. F. G. Fricke & Co. A woman is as wretched with a load on her conscience as a man is with an overi urdened stomach If the man could shift his load from his stomach to his conscience, he would fee' better. Paeumonia, la grippe, coughs, colds, croup and whooping-coug'n readily yield to One Minuta Cough Cure. Use this remedy in time and save a doctor's bill or the undertaker's. F. G. Fricke & Co. 4 La E Special All Silk Skirts, $4.98. We have SaiinoUo Skirts from $1.00 up. Mercerised Silk, the best imitation of Silk ever shown. Call and see Iheni. Wo are agents for Plattsmouth for tho Empress Skirl, the L ;St fitting gar ment made. T T ac i r lot i hose lo ; as ((( 1 as 25c (UK'S. IV: 12'c. t lot i I Children's Ivadics" and 15c. Inst black Ginoliams !;:;;::! T.'.c A better Kind. Kc ind. PKNCALKS, sc. 1 lAAll 1 j AW'l niVK Closing out 1 CljjpU v tire li,,., of roods at lest thai merits complete. fist. e-- corsets We sell Corset ; the "Ca'e Down Corsets -all PIIIRT i w broideries AISTS. Laces RTAIN GOODS in 10c up. TtimmiMimmmmmmmiMiimiMmiMtiiiiK .raiu O ISriiiijH Hfli-.f to the crdTee drinker. CoHVc Urinki - a h:bit that is uri i vers.i.11 y inJu!- in and almost as universally injur ious. Have vol; tried ( J ritiii-( H i--ahiK-st like co tfee but tho efl'n."t- are : just the opposite. Coffee isps.-ls the stomach, ruins tho digestion, eiVe-.'l- ; the hear! and disturbs tho whole nor- ; vous system. Grain-O tones up tho ; stomach, aids digestion and strength- j ens the nerves, lo and 2oc. per puck- j igo. ; Da not forget that the Fair stock is being sold at auction. A Ou-iil a I.y. Wichita (Kan.) Spec. New York Press: A baby panther owned by a ! gentleman of this city has completed the task of devouring a quail per day j for CO consecutive days, "i he Utile f.ai- j ma! wliirh somewhat nf a PP.t. did j not seem to object in the least to tV diet apportioned her daily, but to ward the last did not go at her ta.-k with the zest which she displayed i:i the beginning. Considerable money was wagered on the possibiity of the little animal performing the feat. For coc.ehs and colds then: is no medicine so effective as Ballard's Horehou'id Syiup. It is tb 'deal remedy. Price, - cents. F. G. Fricko & Co. Carious l'ostal System. In certain parts of Sweden, where the most absolute confidence is reposed in the honesty of the people, a very t informal postal system is in vogue. As . the mail steamer reaches a landing place a man goes ashore with the let ters, which he places in an unioeked box on the pier. Then the passi r-by who expects a letter opens the box, turns over the letters and selects his own, unquestioned by any one. By allowing the ftceumulrrtion in the bowels to remain, the entire system is poisoned. DeW itt,s Little K-vly risers reu'ates the Vowels. Try there, rvrd you will always use them. F. G. Fricke & Co. Writ f ?ipln!!n tH!S ftd. and ! will send you this beautiful Mandoline j by express, C. O. D. subject to examina Hob. If found" exactly as represented l! you can pay be express apeut our SPEC- IAL OFFEK Drice. 5 00 less ihe ?0 cents, ii (4 or $5.50 and express charjes. This la & : regular l5.c lnstrumCDt, sona rosewoou i body, fancy pearl and ebony checkered?? edre. beautiful tearl tutterfly euard H plat,ro9wood CDfterocardand nickel tail 1 (i Ouitar.BanjoorViolin on tbe same terms. r H Write lor FREE musical Catalogue. n (4 Address, A. 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