THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
W. W. SANDKltS, I'ubtUtier.
NEMAHA, " - " - NEBRASKA,
TOPICS OP THE DAV.
Where Cut Am Worth fUft Hnoh.
Owing to n plaguo of rats unci mioo
cats Hell at $25 apiece In North Yu
kon territory.
Tim IoiinIntloii of UnTvitll.
Out of the population of 100,000 in
Hawuii nearly 00,000 aro Asiatic, CO,
000 being Japanese and 30,000. Chi
nose. There aro also several thou
sand Portorluans.
Vnnn (he WIiikn.
When a girl secures damages in a
lawsuit because tlio jury is said to
bo influenced by her beauty she is
about an near Heaven us it is possible
to get without dying.
Wlmt Morcnn Hitrrlllrncl.
It is hoped King Kdward appre
ciates tlin 30-mInute chat witli J.
Plcrpont Morgan. Mr. Morgan gave
him several million dollars' worth
of hit) time und got nothing in re
turn. By WnltliiK TnreW Moudm.
A year ago the Boera wore offered
$5,000,000 to restore their farms if
they would agree to terms of peace.
By waiting 12 months they obtained
$15,000,000 and a big lot of British
commissary bupplies.
Comfort for (lie I-'?ell Mlnilrd.
It is announced that the British
authorities have introduced ping
pong into imbecile wards of poor
houses for t ho purpose of affording
tho inmates an easy and innocent
amusement at a small cost. Bo it
Bccmu tho game has its value after
all.
Ilniiur for "Wllllnm ami Victoria.
James Haworth, aged 81 years, in
tends to pull tho bell rope- in St.
Paul's cathedral on coronation dny.
He rang tho bells for the death of
William IV., for the accession of
Queen Victoria, the birth of all her
children, and her two jubilacH, and
for the accession of Edward VI f.
Your VhIiio When Ilctul.
A chemist has determined by
painstaking analysis that a human
body of average nlzo contains tlirco
pounds and thirteen ounoes of cal
cium. Tho current quotntion of cal
cium is $300 an ounce, which would
give us caoh a vuluo in tho retort of
118,300, or one-fourth our weight In
gold.
Follow (lie Knitter' Hxiuitplc.
President Roosevelt, who, accord
ing to the story now going tho
rounds of tho American press, in
variably carries his rovolver about
with him, especially when he goes on
his excursions in the suburbs of
Washington, either on horseback or
afoot, follows in this the oxnmplo of
Emperor William, who, for years, has
always gone about armed.
Mnvcrln l'inrli of War.
The magnitude of the war against
tha Boers is strongly shown in tho
statement of the British chancellor
of tho exechequer, that meroly to
wind it up and return tho British
troops to their homes nnd tho sur
viving Boers to their farms will cost
$200,000,000. In comparison with
this the $20,000,000 we paid Spain for
the good-will she did not have in tho
Philippines seems trilling.
AnoOior PuNNtiiK Graft.
The Pullman conductors aro ask
ing for a raise. They can't live on
their salaries and tho tips have fall
en off sadly of late. It took tho
traveling public a long time to ar
rive at the conclusion that tho Pull
man company was fully ablu to pay
its own employes, but this action of
tho conductors would seem to indi
cate that that conclusion had been
readied by a good many people.
Write Two-Third of (ho l,o(orn,
People who speak English write
two-thirds of the letters of tho
world, says Bradstrent's. Tliero are
substantially 500,000,000 persons
speaking colloquially ono or other
of tho 10 or 12 chief modern lan
guages, und of these about 25 per
cent., or 125,000,000 persons, speak
English. About 00,000,000 speak Bus
Bian, 75,000,000 German, 55,000,000
French, 45,000,000 Spanish, 35,000,000
Italian and 12,000,000 Portuguese.
I3x(riiviiKiuice I'revoiidt Mnri-Ino.
President Taylor, of Vnssnr college,
in his baccalaureate sermon to the
seniors declared that the public in
terest In the college woman and mar
riage is a small matter when it Is
noted that society Is doing all that
it possibly can, by its extravagances
in all directions, to deter tho young
people from marrlago. "The whole
future is in poril," ho said, "by this
tendency to pleasure and extrava
gance, for it is tlurt which keeps
young people from getting married."
A. SPECIAL MESSAGE.
President Roosevelt Urges Tariff
Concessions to Cuba.
Prnpoird ((eduction of SO 1'nr Cent., II
IiiiUIii, Will Olvn Dralrad Keller BliU
Will Not A (Tent I'roteotivB
Tariff Hyatain,
Washington, June 14. President
Kooscvclt sent a special message to
congresH yesterday urging tariff
concessions to Cuba. After quoting
extracts from President McKinley's
last message in favor of such action
and his own message of last Decem
ber reiterating President McKinley's
views, lie says:
Yesterday, June 12, I received by cable
from tho Amurlcnn milliliter In Cuba a
moBt earnest appeal from 1'rcsldont 1'al
ma for "IcKlalatlvo relief before It Is too
late and (Ills) country financially ruined."
Tho Brant Iiik of reciprocity with Cuba la
i proportion which stands entirely alone.
Tho reasoiiH for It fur outweigh thoso for
Kiuntlni: reciprocity with any other na
tion, and aro entirely conislstunt with prc
forvlriK Intact the protectlvo system un
der which thin country has thriven ho
mnrvcloiisly. Tho prenent tariff law was
Unsigned to promote the adoption of such
a reciprocity treaty and expressly pro
vided for a reduction not to exceed 20
per cent, upon noods cotnlnp from a par
ticular country, leaving tho tariff rates
on tho name articles unchanged as re
gards all other countries. Objection has
been mndo to tho granting of tho reduc
tion on tho ground that tho substantial
bandit would not go to tha agricultural
producer of sugar, but would lnur to
tha American sugar refiners. In my
ludgment provision enn and should be
mudu which will guarantee as against
this possibility, without having recourse
to doubtful policy, such as a bounty In
the form of a rrbato.
Tho question as to which, If any, of
tho different schedules of tho tariff ought
most properly to bo revised docs not
enter Into this 'matter in any way or
shape. Wo aro concerned with getting
a friendly reciprocal arrangement with
Cuba. This uirangcment applies to all
tho articles that Cuba grows or pro
duces. It is not In our power to deter
mine what these articles shall be', and
any discussion of the tariff as It affects
special schedules or countries other than
Cuba, is wholly aside from the subject
matter to which I call your attention.
Somo of our citizens oppose tho lower
ing of the tariff on Cuban products, Just
as three years ago they opposed tho ad
mission of tho Hawaiian islands, lest
freo Undo with them might ruin certain
of nur Interests here. In tho uctual event
their fears proved baseless as regards
Hawaii, and their apprehensions as to
tho damage to any Industry of our own
because of tho proposed measure of reci
procity with Cuba seem to mo equally
baseloss. In my Judgment no American
Industry will bo hurt, and many Ameri
can Industries will bo benefited by the
proposed uctlon. It Is to our ndvnntago
as n nation that the growing Cuban mar
ket should bo controlled by American
producers.
The events following tho war with
Bpuln, and tho prospective building of
tho Isthmian canal, render it certain,
that wu must take In the futuro a far
greater Intervst than hitherto In what
happons throughout the "West Indies,
Contral America and tho adjacent coasts
and waters. "Wo expect Cuba to treat,
us on an exceptional footing: politically,
and wo should put hrr In the same ex
ceptional position economically. The
proposed action Is in line with the courso
wo have pursued as regards all the Is
lands with which we have been brought
Into relations of varying intimacy by tho
Spnnlsh war. Porto Itlco and Hawaii
huvo been included with our tariff Unas,
to their great benellt as well ns ours,
and without any of the feared detriment
to our own Industries. Tho Philippines,
which stand in a different relation, liavo
been granted substantial tariff conces
sions. Cuba Is an Independent republic, but a
republic which has assumed certnin spe
cial obligations as regards her interna
tional position in compllanco with our
request. I nslc for her certain special
economic concessions In return, these
economic concessions to benellt us ns
well as her. There aro fow brighter
pages In American history than tho pago
which tells of our dealings with Cuba
during the past four years. On her be
half wo waged a war, of which tho main
spring was gonerous Indignation against
oppression, and wo have kept faith ab
solutely. It is earnestly to be hoped
that wo Will complete In tho samo spirit
tho record so well begun, and show In
our dealings with Cuba that sturdy con
tinuity of policy which It is essential
for our nation to establish In foreign
affairs If wo desire, to play well our part
as a world-power.
We aro a wealthy and powerful na
tion; Cuba Is a young republic, still
weak, who owes to us her birth, whoso
whole futuro, whose very life, must de
pend on our attitude toward her. I ask
that wo help her as she struggles up
ward along tho painful nnd dllllcult road
of self-gpvernlng Independence. I ask
this aid for her, because sho is weak,
because she needs It, because wo have
already aided her. I ask that open
hnnded help, of a kind which n self
respecting people can accept, ho given
to Cuba, for the very reason that we
have given her such help In tho past.
Our soldiers fought to give her fropdom;
and for three years our representatives,
civil and military, have tolled unceasing
ly, facing dlseuse of a peculiarly sinister
and fatal typo with patient and uncom
plaining fortitude to teach her how to
use aright her new freedom. Never In
history has any alien country been thus
administered, with such high integrity
of purpose such wise Judgment and such
a single-handed devotion to tho country's
interests. Now I ask that tho Cubans
bo given all possible chance tp use to
the best advantage tho freedom of which
Americans have such right to bo proud,
and for which ho many American lives,
have been sacrificed.
CIiIiwmi Cannot Kntnr Culm.
lliiMinn, .Mine II. Forty-nine Chi
nes"e immigrants urrlwd hero on tliti
Mourner Monterey, but were not lib
lowed to hind. They came from San
Francisco by. tho way of Vancouver.
ThiB action was taken by tho Cuban
jovornmont under the American mili
tary order prohibiting such immigra
SHE HAS NO RECOURSE.
lloime Committee Itnfnuon to Order an In-
ventlgittlnn of the Dlntnlunl of Mini
Itebecea J. Tnylor,
Washington, Juno 17. The house
committee on reform of tho civil
service Monday voted six to two, on
party lines, to table the resolution
calling on the secretary of war for
information as to the dismissal of
Rebecca J. Taylor, a clerk of the
war department. The case has ex
cited somo attention because Miss
Tnylor was dismissed for writing a
letter nppearing in a Washington
newspnper headed "Tho Ping Shall
Stay Put," and criticising tho presi
dent's nttitudo in refcrenco to tho
Philippines. Chairman Gillett pre
sented to the committee all tho cor
respondence touching tho case. This
included a letter from Secretary Boot
to tho chairman stating: "No head
of a department can maintain effect
ive administration if he is obliged to
depend upon the services of clerks
who arc so violently opposed to the
succcbb of the work in which they are
engaged that they aro unable to re
frain from public denunciation of
tho purpose of the work and public
insult to tho president."
WHOSE MONET IS IT?
I'npe nml Filipino Hiillclnn Orilnm Likely
to Dmngree Over Dlipimltloti of 1'ro-
ceedn of Fr iir Lauds.
Bomo, June 17. Tho complete suc
cess of the negotiations between
Judge Tuft, governor of the Philip
pines, and the vntican on the subject
of the friar lands in those islands np
pcars assured, four out of the five
cardinals composing the sub-committee
of cardinals favoring the govern
or's proposals. Cardinal Steinhuber,
a Jesuit, opposes them. After tho
completion of the negotiations an
acute conflict Is expected between
the vntican officials and the Filipino
religious orders regarding the dis
position of the money which tho
United States will pay for the lands.
The vatlean considers that the money
ought to be given to the propaganda
or society of cardinals having
tho care and oversight of foreign
missions.
HIIIh tn Amend l'ernlon Lnu-x.
Washington, June 17. Two bills
were passed to amend tho general
pension lnws, one to provide for the
restoration to the pension rolls of
the widows of soldiers who subse
quently married and werp ngain
widowed, und one to increase the
pension of those who have lost a
limb or were totally disabled while
in the military or naval service. The
latter bill also caricd an importaut
provision to increase the pension of
a soldier under tho dependent act
of 1890 from $12 to $30 per month,
when Btich pensioner requires fre
quent or periodical attendance.
Killed AlUsourl Wlfo-Heater.
Bockport, Mo., June 17. George
Arbuthnot, employed on John S. Bil
by's cattle ranch in Atchison county,
was shot and killed by Daniel Wat
son, foreman of the Middle ranch.
At the time of the tragedy Arbuthnot
was beating his wife because sho
would not give up her place as cook
and leave with him.
Unfnrttinuiit I'rodlcniiieiit of n Itrlde,
Wichita, Kan., Juno 17. Visitors
arrived here yesterday from Atch
ison nnd other places to nttend tho
wedding of II. L. White nnd Miss Liz
zie Stahl. They found the bride
quarantined. She was visiting a
neighbor when tho health board
placed a smallpox quarantine upon
everybody In tho house. All efforts
to get her out have fnilcd.
Honor for Cnpt. Vlnirlim K Clnrk.
Washington, Juno 17. Tho presi
dent Bent tho following nomination
to the senate: Capt. Charles 15.
Clark to be advanced seven numbers
in rank to be a rear admiral in the
nnvy. Capt. Clark formerly com
manded the battleship Oregon.
Tho Curo" Killed the Child,
Muncie, Ind., June 17. Pronin Pritt,
the four-year-old son of a Hunga
rian family, was badly scalded. The
parents, acting on tho advice of
neighbors, burled the child up to its
neck in enrtli in which it remained
several hours, until it died.
Fritud Order IamuuiI.
Washington, Juno 17. The post
master general Issued a fraud order
against tho World's Co-Operntivo
league, of Carrollton, Mo for using
the mails for illegal purposes and to
obtain money under false and fraud
ulent pretenses.
Noah (tiMviiiuu Nominated for CnngreHs,
Port Scott, ICnn., June 17. Tho
joint convention of the democratic
nnd populist parties took an unex
pected turn yesterday evening by
nominating Noah L. Bowman, of Har
nett, for congress in tho Second dis
trict. A Farmer Driiwuod In the lllut (t Ivor.
Marysville, Knn., Juno 17. William
Coekrell, a wealthy farmer of this
county, was drowned while attempt
ing to cross the Blue river in a boat.
The swollen condition of the streum
made it impossible.
TO PEEVENT REVOLT
Secretary of War Tells Why Money
Was Paid to Gen. Gomez.
Gen. Ilronke Ilegnn It, Gen. Wood Kept Ik
Up, Seeretnry Itont Approve It nnd
Congrem lla Known It
Two Your.
Washington, June 17. Secretary
Boot has assumed full responsibility
for tho payment of money to Ocu.
Gomez by Gen. Wood, during the
American occupation of Cuba, and
stands prepared to furnlBli what ho
rcgurds as tho most convincing
proofs that the payments were dic
tated by the wisest statesmanship.
At the war department n high olllcial
stated tho position of the department
In the matter us follows:
"Tho conditions in Cuba two years
ago were precarious. Not a Cuban
believed that the United Stutcs gov
ernment ever would withdraw from
Cuba und the half-famished veterans
of the Cuban army, were in a danger
ous mood and clamoring for their
pay. Gen. Gomez was the head and
front of their army and had served
the revolutionary cuuso as its prin
cipal leader without having received
a cent of pay. Gen. Wood thought,
and Secretary Boot thought after
ward, that Gen. Gomez was enti
tled to consideration; to a home
which was supplied him and in which
he entertained his comrades nnd to
an income, which last might be set
down as a small offset to the money
due Gomez from the Cuban republic.
That the Cubans themselves regard
ed the matter in the same light was
sIiowji by the passage by the pres
ent Cuban congress, among tho very
first of its acts, of a bill providing
a liberal pension for Gen. Gomez. It
is believed that but for this assump
tion of tlie costs of Gomez's living
expenses the conditions in Cuba must
have paralleled those in tho Philip
pines and tho United States govern
ment, nfter fighting Spain to secure
freedom for the Cubans, might have
been obliged to turn on them tho
force of her nrmy.
"The necessity being present, in
Secretary Boot's view, the only other
point was the legality and propriety
of the payments. He soon satisfied
himself that there was not the slight
est doubt on that score. The mili
tary governor was obliged to assume
the responsibility for his disburse
ments and to exercise his discretion.
Gen. Brooke did this and after him
Gen. Wood and Secretary Boot now
fully approves of everything they
did, including tho payments to Go
mez." It is pointed out at the war de
partment as a curious fact that con
gress has been in full possession of
the information that Gomez had
been receiving those payments for
no less than two years past. The
war department that far back sub
mitted to congress the full statement
of nil expenses in Cuba and included
in the list was a statement of the
payments to Gen. Gomez.
HEWN LIMB FROM LIMB.
The JtodleH of HflTou American fSoldlera
Captured by Ludroues Found
Mutllutml.
Manila, June 17. The bodies of
the sergeant, two corporals nnd four
privates of the Fifth cavalry, which
wero captured May :J0 by ladrones
at Binnngonan, Bizal province, this
island, have been recovered. Most of
the bodies had been hewn limb from
limb and it was found impossible to
recognize four of tho dead men. A
number of nrrests in the matter have
been mndc nnd nine men have been
absolutely identified ns belonging to
the band of lndrones which captured
the Americnus. The identified men
included two members of the police
force of Teresa, Morong province.
The American soldiers were buried
yesterday together; it was impossi
ble to make sepnrate interment.
KILLED MANY WOMEN.
At I.n Outtlrit KoYnlutlonlHtH Mndo tin At
tack Whleli Wr Answered by tho
(Jovoriimeiit Forced.
Willemsted, Curncou, Juno 9. Ad
vices received hero announce that
the Venezuelan revolutionists at
tacked LaGuairn, the port of Caracas,
Saturday. The government forces
answered by shelling Maiqnelia, a
suburb of LaGunira. from the forts
ashore, and from the Venezuelan
wnrship Miranda. Many peaceful wo
men were killed.
All the commercial houses wero
closed the day of the bombardment
and tho inhabitants wero panic
stricken. Eventually the revo
lutionists who numbered nbout 400
men were repulsed. They destroyed
tho bridge at Bouqueron, on tho Car
acas (F.nglish) railroad, and stopped
all traffic for 12 hours. They also
cut tho French cable and the tolc
graph wires.
I.m-lmn Tu lie Until of Allitghinan.
Manila, June 17. Gen. Lucban, tho
insurgent leader, who was recently
captured, has taken tho ontli of al
legiance and hus been released.
EATS LUNCH IN COURT.
former Sncnlccr Herd Slinrm tha
Content of Ilia Grlpanck frith
"Wllllnm C. "Whitney.
Thomas Brackctt Peed qualified as
an expert in electricity in the United
States court at Ne-w York the other
day. Taking his lunch with him,
stowed away in a well-worn yellow
gripsack, reminiscent of the dny
when he used to campaign for con
gress up in Maine, he sat nil day long
in a class in higher electricity, drink
ing in the technical terms with much
gusto, and wound up by reading hig
essay from a pink manuscript.
Mr. Beed nppeared as counsel forth
Stanley Electrical company, of Pitts
field, Mnss. Tho WcBtinghouse com
pany asked an. injunction to prevent
the Stanley people from an alleged in
fringement on an electric motor pat
ented by Nikola Tesla. Millions hinga
on the result of the case, the futuro
of the Stanley company, which is now
employing 1,200 men in Tittsfield, de
pending upon what is done in the case.
The big display of electrical machin
ery which filled the courtroom was
there to demonstrate that the Stanley
motor is different from that of Tcsla.
When the court adjourned for re
cess Mr. Beed took his bis? Maine grip
sack nnd, calling his friend, William
C. Whitney, went back to the last
bench of the courtroom, no opened
the big grip nnd exhibited a luncheon
that would have delighted a stevedore.
There were big, brown, old-fashioned
biscuits, sliced open and filled with
ham and chicken. Like two school
boys the big ex-sneaker and his friend
dived into the sandwiches and between
mouth fuls the big Maine man told fun
ny stories.
THE TAG END OF THINGS.
The mandarin duck is one of tho
most beautiful of aquatic birds.
Japan has 150 varieties of rice, many
of which are adapted to American
coil.
The use of Spanish is decreasing, but
it is still a very important language in
commerce.
String beans may be obtained dur
ing the entire summer by planting once
n month for successive supplies.
North America is credited with 20
volcanoes, Central America with 25,
and South America with 37. Many of
these are upon islands.
The number of pieces of Fepnrate
ly ns&essed real estate in New York is
47G.G40 this year 100,802 in Manhat
tan, 89,147 in Queens, 52,095 in Tho
Bronx, 23.7G8 in Bichmond and 204,823
in Brooklyn.
Under a decision of the nppellnte di
vision, just published, the law stands
now in New York btate that a co
respondent who puts in a defense in
a suit for divorce is liable for all the
costs of the case, if he does not suc
ceed in his defense.
The title of "doctor" was invented
in the twentieth century and conferred
for the first time upon Inerius, of the
University of Bologna. The first "doc
tor of medicine" was Gulielmo Gor
ilcnio, who received the honor from the
College of Aosti, also in Italy, in 1220.
Metaphysical Magazine.
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jspecially in the morning.
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iccing nn advertisement of Dodd'sKid
ney Pillsil concluded to try a box.
"I can only say that that one box
llone has done me more good than
anything else ever did.
"I feel ns well now as ever I was.
"I have recommended Dodd's Kidney
Pills to several others who are using
Ihcm with good results."
Mr. Peterson is a highly respected
man and one who would not so posi
tively make a statement unless it was
absolutely true.
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