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Madison Street; CHICAGO Write for ".pecjat Catalogue on Mattresses; also special Catalojftie on Furniture, Carpets, Stoves, etc. Schley's Protest (Continued from Page One.) Commodore Schley during the prog ress of the investigation, namely, that be did not mask his movements in' de parting from in front of the port of Cienfue'gos, but In using ardois sig nals he revealed the destination of his squadron to the enemy on shore.' de spite tie fact that by overwhelming weight of testimony this charge ' was entirely disproved. " . t 11. The majority of the. court havt based their opinioa in reference to the retrosrade movement "upon a state ment made in their report of 'facts that Commodore Schley, before sailing from Cienfuezos, received, reliable Informa t'on that ships could be coaled in the vicinity of Cape . Cruz and Gonalves cliannel. and it is now respectfully denied that there was any such posi tive testimony, in this case. Every wit ness, with one exception, who was ex amined on the subject disavowed all knowledge in reference thereto, and the uncontradicted testimony of Cap tain F. E. Cook establishes the fact that the ocial charts, with which the flagship Brooklyn was - supplied, and upon which Commodore Schley was compelled to rely for information.; showed coalingx at Cape Cruz to.be neither feasible nor practicable, and the records clearly show that not un til the 27th of May, three days after leaving Cienfuegos, when Captain Charles S. Cotton visited the. flagship, Brooklyn, did Commodore Schley re-' ceive definite information concerning the feasibility or practicability of coal ing ships from a collier in Gonalves channel,' all of which facts have been wholly, ignored by the majority of tin court in formulating their said report of facts. . 12. .The majority of the court in stating in its report of fact3 that Com modore Schley received no positive in formation from the scout ships as to the presence of the enemy's fleet in the harbor of Santiago utterly ignores the overwhelming testimony In proof of the fact that Captain C. D. Sigsbee did actually report to Commodore Schley, and to others, that the Spanish fleet was not in the harbor of Santiago. 13. The opinion of the majority of the court and th report of facts is en tirely silent on the subject of the prov en and admitted failure of Captains Wise and Jewell to communicate the information they had received in ref erence to the presence of the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago to Com modore Schley. 14. That the report of facts sub mitted by the court states that the con dition of wind, sea and weather from nron o May 26 to June 1 were fa v. orafc?e.foi taking coal from a collier at sea off Santiago, when this statement has been directly controverted by the evidence cf the witnesses for the gov ernment. 15. The tables prepared by govern ment e-perts and admitted in evidence before the court, showing the coal sup ply of the vessels of the flying squad ron, with reference jto their chasing crpscity, proceeding at full speed with forced draught, have not even been adverted to In the report of facts'. 16. There has ndt been the' slight est reference made by the majority of the court to the orders of the honor able secretary of the navy, offered and proved in evidence, forbidding the hazarding of American ships against, shore batteries, and the court has de cided against the applicant upon the seventh specification of the precept, without, in . the slightest degree, re ferring to this important evidence. , ;17. The majority or the court have entirely failed to give any opinion as to the character of the blockade of Santiago, although; the same was in cluded in the 2 eighth-specification of the precept,, and - by specific direction the court 5 was . obligated , to give an opinion thereupon. , . . , -' . 18.. The majority opinion of the court that. Commodore Schley should have endeavored to' capture or destroy the Spanish vessels'at anchor near the entrance of Santiago harbof on May 29 and 30 and that he did not do b'.fr utmost with the force under his cora man J to capture or destroy the Colon j and otLcr vessels of the enemy. on May ders under which. Commodore Schley was acting before .Santiago, said or ders, as is attested by No. 8. dated May 21, 1898, and sent by Admiral Samp son to Commodore Schley, restricting his operation 'to the establishment and maintenance of a' blockade of the por4. of Santiago ' if the enemy should be found therein; and also said opinion is utterly and absolutely , at variance, with the o yerwhel jn ing .weight , of tes timony, which , .clearly established the fact that .the affair of May 31 was pre determined upon and executed. as a r connoiscance and "not as a formal at tack x upon the ' Spanish ' vessels, nor upon the land batteries at the entrance to the harbor ; of; Santiago. 19. The majority opinion: 'of the court is ambiguous' and indeterminate; in that the court holds the turn pf the Brooklyn to starboard ; was made to avoid getting her into dangerous pr6x imity to the Spanish vessels, without stating whether .evasion of. such dan gerous, proxirnity was due to the per sonal fears of Commodore Schley or to a desire on his part' to preserve the ship intact, and ready for further work' in, the effort to win a victory from the enemy. . - r r, . ' . 20. - The majority of the court have entirely ignored the, overwhelming tes timony submitted,, Jn the case in arriv: ing at the opinion , that ..Commodore Schley erred in commencing the en gagement oh July 3, with the port bat tery, the evidence in the case clearly ' establishing the fact that in-the execu tion of the standing order to "close in and attack in harbor entrance'' it was impossible for' the Brooklyn, without turning away from the enemy; to open the engagement except with her port battery, and the evidence also clearly establishes the, fact .that , the turning of the Brooklyn in the manner and direction in which she dd turn, 'du! not cause her to lose either distance or position with the Spanish vessels, the contrary opinion of the court upon this subject being arrived at only by disregarding all of the evidence of fered in behalf of Commodore Schley.' 21. The majority opinion of the court is ambiguous and Indeterminate In that, while stating that the Brook lyn's turning caused the Texas to stop and "to back her engines to avoid pos sible collision," said opinion . does, not state whether the danger of such col lision, as comprehended by the ninth specification of the precept was' real or- imaginary, whereas the overwhelming weight of testimony clearly established the fact that at no, time was there danger of collision between the Brook lyn and the Texas? ' " 22. The testimony of Captain F. E. Cook, a witness called by the judge Halrd Oil Finish RNlRti New discoveries are being mude each year, whereby the products of manufacturing'are cheapened. The old must give way fqr the new. The TRUST adds much to the selling price of goods of all kinds. The usual price of hard-oil-varnish is from 51.40 to $2.00 per gallon, at all retail stores. tt P Our varnish will not rub off. ' It will not crack. -;It will not fade. vIt will not scale. It will riot burn with ordinary, heat. 1 It is clear and brightens wood 'finishing3. '- It can. be washed with hot water and kept brighti . ; It is always bright and glossy. We believe that there is no other varnish that equals it in any point; No varnish is guaranteed to withstand hot water but ours! We will send samples of our varnish upon application. We, will deliver this varnish at your station for f 1.40 per gallon. . Freignt prepaid 5 to 50 gallons; ,. less than 5 gallons 8L50 per gallon, one half cash with order, remainder pay able on receiving goods. Goods delivered in 30days of order. f Thjs of fer remains open to Feb. 15 only. Order at once. These prices are 50 per cent under trust prices, regardless of quality. Address ' N . . .- ' . ' - ' " ' I, advocate,' in reference to the' proximity of-the Brooklyn to the Texas at the time of the Brooklyn's turning, has been ignored, and not even adverted to in tie statement ' of pertinent facts. ' 23. The majority of the court have assumed that the testimony of Lieu tenant Commander A. C. Hodgson, not withstanding its repeated contradiction in : reference to the alleged conversa tion regarding the proximity i. of. the Texas at , the time of the Brooklyn's turning, is true, and have entirely ig nored the testimony of Commodore Schley and .Captain F.. E. Cook to the contrary, without even referring to it in their statement of pertinent facts; -: 24. The majority opinion of the court that Commodore Schley's con duct in connection with the events of the Santiago campaign, prior to June x, 1898, was characterized by vacilla tion, dilatoriness and lack of enter prise, is in no wise justified by the evidence submitted in the case and could, only have been arrived at by the action of the court in wholly ignoring all of the evidence of Commodore Schley, all of the evidence of witnesses summoned in his behalf and all thi.t portion of the evidence of witnesses called by the judge advocate- which was favorable to the said Commander 3chley. , 25. The majority opinion of the court is inconclusive in that it is en tirely silent upon a charge preferred by the 'judge advocate during the course of the public investigation and claimed by him to come within the purview of the first specification, to--syit: That the said Commodore Schley was derelict in the discharge of his duty and unmindful of the regulations for the government of the navy of the United States in that he did not pre scribe and promulgate anticipatory or ders, of battle. . . 26. The' majority of the court have entirely failed to determine as to who was In command of the American navarforces engaged In the battle of Santiago, the finding of which fact was absolutely necessary in order to de termine properly the first specification of.-the precept as to the conduct of. Commodore S,chley in connection with the events of the Santiago campaign. . 27. The majority of thte court have rejected the whole of the testimony of fered on behalf of the applicant and have not adverted to such testimony, and have entirely ignored the testi-, mony of -the applicant himself, who was on the stand for many hours and subjected to. the. most searching exam ination, and by so doing they have per verted the ends : of justice. That if this testimony was all false they should have so announced, and if all or any part of it was true the said ap plicant was entitled to the benefit of it; and by declining to consider or pass upon it they have deprived him of his common law and constitutional rights. 28. That the majority of the court have found the applicant guilty upon specifications which were substantially abandoned by the judge advocate, as will appear from the argument in the case. 29. That the whole - proceedings' show that the majority of the court, in the . opinion and report of facts ren dered, have selected the testimony of a few hostile witnesses, and upon that testimony have based the said opinion and report of facts; discarding all the other testimonv in the case, without making the slightest reference to it, as they were directed by the precept to do. . ' 30. The applicant, besides the rea sons herein given, hopes to be able, during the further investigation of this inquiry, to adduce serious and im portant reasons why the majority opin ion of the court should not be ap proved. 31. The applicant Is prepared to show that, the whole proceedings upoti the part of the majority of the court have been entirely irregular;: that hia rights have ': been prejudiced ani ig nored; that his testimony in many more particulars than have been here in cited has not been considered, and that the evidence is absolutely insuf ficient to sustain the opinion which has been rendered by the majority of the court. That a grave injustice has been committed, which would become irre parable a.nd be perpetuated unless this opinion of the majority of the court should be disapproved. Wherefore, the said applicant most respectfully prays that approval of the opinion of the majority of said court of inquiry be withheld, and that said opinion be disapproved arid that he may.be afforded the opportunity to have the testimony of record of him self and his witnesses properly con sidered and passed upon, and that the proceedings ne remitted to'. the:. court for that purpose, and that he be given such other and further relief as he i? entitled to in the premises. W. S. SCHLEY, Read Admiral, U. S.'N. (Retired). isidor rayner, james parker; Counsel for the Applicant. Five to Four Decision - (Continued from Page One.) storm of indignation. It helped t6 pro duce a new alignment of parties. Tlie republican party was then struggling for- existency, and this decision at. once made the party a power. It at once broke 'the old democratic party into two wings, those who followed the majority of . the judges of the supreme court and those who would not.1- ''' In 1856 we had what might be called a five-to-four opinion which was soon changed. -:r,' . - - . ' . ; ..' Are-we now at a point where the nve judges of the supreme court .wi,ll soou find themselves in a minority as the majority judges, under the leadership of Chief Justice Taney found them selves, when Abraham Lincoln and bis followers came into power in the White house and in congress? J Turn whichever way we will, Tariff vs. Free Trade Is the overshadowing issue, of the hour. It is, now up to congress Next .year, unless wisely decided by' the pr esent congress, it will be up tb the people in the elec tion of the next congress, and if not wisely decided by the next congress, it will be before the people in the 'elec tion of a president in 1904. v , J NO. L. DE HARS. New York City. Divided We Fall ; "Fusion" is not the right word. "Co-operation" and "proportional rep resentation" would be better. It is hard to give up or "fuse" honest con victions. United we win. Divided we. lose. So it looks to a very humble SUBSCRIBER. Brownsdale, Minn.- , few days most of. the stock was sub scribed. The shares are sold on guar antee at par, 10 cents a share and non assessable. ' '.'V --. -'-v " The fiscal agents of the comnanv are Hyons & Starry Youngerman Build- Ipg, Des Moines, from whom we have received a circular containing full in- formation. Bow Are Your Kidney ' Dr. Holb'8par?rusPinRcura'l kidney tils. Sa' fio free. Ada. btcriing liouieUj O .Chicago or 21. . An Astonished Jap Marauis Ito, the Japanese statesman, said while in' St.v Paul recently that of all ."the American customs that im pressed him as peculiar the free trans portation extended by the railroads u this country seemed most odd. "Why," said he, "should a railroad give away tickets? Every bit of mile age to them is the same as . a piece 3f cloth to a dry goods firm. In Japan every one has to pay for his transpor tation. I never rode on a Japanese railroad for nothing in my life." When the marquis and party decided to proceed east from St. Paul over the Milwaukee line the officials of the roal extended to the .distinguished Japanese and his companions the courtesy of the line and informed Mr. Ito's private sec retary that the, tickets and the private car vould cost. nothing. The secretary was visibly -embarrassed and shook his head dubiouslyfas he left the office of the company to convey the startling information to his master. Shortly afterward Marquis Ito appeared at the railroad office, and insisted on paying for the tickets and the use of the spe cial car. : s : "I have no claim i on your esteemed company' said the oriental "I should not feel right in traveling over your most excellent road without paying for the great pleasure." , And so the Milwaukee officials were obliged to cflrry,the marquis and his party over their lin.e in the same way as if they were, just plain, every-day Americans. ; Late Oil Hews From Texas (NOTE In -compliance with re quests we have received, we publish some of the latest news from the Beau- mont field, in thi3 column. There is unquestionably a deep interest in this subject, especially among persons who have been considering investments In oil stocks. No doubt such items wilJ be of interest to the general public.) iiliiiii i c'Vi:4 ,!"'.' ."'i.l llllillli 1 9 laillllill :i'il!ill8aiw6fJ: Ilplii n::f:iH;,3!i wzmm fmmam iiiiplsiinflliliiiii!;" .:;!:; t SPSS r llllillli ....'!.! ..' I r. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF A SPIN DLE TOP (BEAUMONT) GUSHER NOTES AND COMMENT. The St. Louis" exposition manage ment have given Texas oil a big boost by deciding to use it as ful during the exposition. It is pretty safe not ,to buy stock in any company., unless its incorporators are well known for business integrity and sagacity, and unless they are will ing to back up with a plain positive guarantee. . - - The small stockholder! should know exactly what he Is buyiflg and should lot part witfr his money until he gets it. ' . Nueces county, Texajfc, . is attracting wide attention fr.om eitperts, as a cer tain i producer of a hgh grade of lu bricating oil, with yliluable by-prod icts. ; . ; ; . : By securing both aBBeaumont gusher md a few hundred iacres of . land ' In Nfueces county, a cnpany would b pretty sure to get thl cream of the oil usiness. .., . . . . The fairest propomion we have seen n '..oil stocks is mae by a company in ")es Moines, coinfposed of a lot of trong. clean menM In fact, it is so at tractive and straightforward that in a ft V To those who have' idle money we would strongly, advise to put In sur face or ground tanks capable of hold ing from 100,00 to 500,000 barrels and fill tip with Spindle Top oil. Every barrel that comes out of the hill is worth a gold dollar. The Beaumont oil does not "die" like Pennsylvania oil and needs no Vliveling up." There never .Was such a chance for money to make the returns that is offered by the Beaumont oil field today. The shipments December 13 of 169 cars, or 1,098,500 gallons of oil, part having been 'shipped by water made a record-breaker. It has Arrived at that stage of business that' only shipping, facilities are, needed, not orders for oil and investors in our local oil stocks now see they -were wise : in placing their money in same. . There are still a great many opportunities to get in on the ground floor, as all stacks are advancing rapidly. ;We have per sonally looked over, the books of sev eral companies that could easily pay from 6 to 11 per cent monthly on their capitalization. In a word, we would advise our readers to buy, and that quickly. Beaumont Oil Bulletin. Educate Your Bowels. Your bowels can be trained as well as your, muscles or your brain. Cas carets Candy Cathartic train your bowels to do right.. Genuine tablets stamped C. C. C. ; Never sold . in bulk. All druggists,' i oc. ..:-'v:' : - Coming . to Their Own Little by' little and .day by day, 'i Labor is slowly winning its wsiy.-' - From the . depths of slavery in the past- .'' ' -. " . ' ''" .' -It has risen, until it can see at last The dawn sublime Of the better time That will break o'er the night of 'greed and crime ; When every throne Has been outgrown , " And the toilers have come into their own. The world has waited Its coming long Through the drear, dark centuries of wrong. . . - It has been the dream of the cringing slave, When scourged through life to a wel come grave; . It has been foretold v. By the seers of old, To whom, as the scrool of Time un rolled, - ; Appeared the light Of the Age of Right 4 As it troke afar on the Future'? height. ''' ' " - , ' ' Anii. now -at last, it is drawing near. The promised signs in the - East ap .. . pear. ;".;, -;; . ; .,(i ; ': . 'r Upon the hills is a graying tinge And under' the clouds is a golden fringe. . There is seen afar A yellow star, That shines above the horizon's bar, And a morning breeze Curls over the seas, To break in laughter amid the trees. There are tremors that through the valleys run, . Like news of the yet unrisen sun. ' There's a radiance seen on the moun tain snows, ; Like the first, faint' blush of a blowing - ' roce. '-.-.: ' There are signs of hope Where the dawn-gates ope And a dash of light on the grassy slope; While clear and strong Comes a burst of song, ; For tlfe birds are passing the word along. They say to the world: "Awake, awake, For the dawn of ages is soon ; to break." '' v ' - .' 'Tis .coming, 'tis coming, the longed- "-for day,:'""' - - . : - When the" reign of evil shall pass away. ' " : ' "' :: " V '' Lift up your eyes - , And with glad surprise Behold the signs of the new sunrise. Foretold on the page Of the seer and sage As the harbinger of the Golden Ag7. Send out the word to the hosts of lieht: Let all the children of truth unite. Let the trumpets' sound and the battle waee Till the toilers come to their heritage; Till the world is freed From the tyrant. Greed, And his daughters, Ignorance, Crime and Need; Till each man shall be, As God meant him, free, Erect in the sunlight of .Liberty. , J, A. Edgerton. Senator Teller Without printing a word that Sena tor Teller said in defense of his posi tion or, giving one of the reasons as signed by him for voting against tne ratification of the last Hay-Pauncefote treaty,' the hiding editors of plutoc racy all over the country are pour ing out their bitterness upon him. Sea ator Teller took the same view of this matter that The Independent has from the beginning. Broadly speaking that view Ms -that the United States should not enter . into a treaty with Great Britain or with any . other European nation in regard to what we should or should notdo on the Isthmus of Pan ama. His opinion was that the United States ought; to abrogate the Clayton Bulwer treaty, thus removing th'j British claim to interfere in any way in the affairs of the Isthmus, and en ter into no new agreement or obliga tions of any1 kind. . We .should then be in a position to . buna tne canai where we nleased arid as we pleased and to pay for it and run It, subject only to friendly; agreement with1-the Central American countries. In a word, he wanted to exclude Great Britain from even nominal participation In the agreement concerning the building of the canal. The senator voted against the treaty knowing very well that his vote would not defeat it and merely a3 a matter of principle. An attempt to place him in an attitude of opposi tion to the canal Is unfair. - lit -XT' CJ Thk rifrut Vmitk a4 tbuA- m. thalm for 11.09. Lok m wll u4 kMvt M rood M u tl8 00 iltwr th- Out thl nl ua mtA tt u u4 will wad th. WATCH AND CHAIft t 7 T ofm. 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A deputy collector ask ed impressively: ' "Did you-", purchase any article abroad, and, if so, how much did you pay for it?" - "I did." replied Mr. Leffkofsky. 'l bopght a. cork leg, for which I paid $11 in Berlin." Down went "one . cork leg" on . the declaration. When the, ship reached her pier, a customs inspector was wait ing to perform his duty, but relented. "Hold on a minute." stammered the Inspector. - "Maybe I shan't have to ex amine your leg." The law was consulted, with the de cision that cork legs are "family sup plies" and tariff free. Leffkofsky was happy. 1 "I went away with $3,000 and have only $3 left." said he; "might have had to send my leg in bond to the public stores." NEW WAY TO CALL PAGES. Electr- Buttons Supplant Old House Custom of Hanilclapplng. 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Merrill, Harvard, 04, who ate three steaks,, two mutton chops and two dishes of peas and drank two pints of apolllnarls water and two cups of coffee the other night for a three dollar wager. Is dwarfed in the estimation of the other students and the residents of New Haven by the recent feat of J. A.' Whitehead, a student at Yale, In climbing the) East rock, a granite cliff nearly 400 feet high.' In front of which stands the Soldiers' monument., says the New . York Evening-Telegram. The rock is a sheer precipice Jtnd for a hundred feet offers only the slight est' bold for foot or hand, but White head climbed to the top of It, where he fell almost exhausted, white the shouts of several hundred students and oth ers who had gathered to watch his perilous ascent rang indistinctly In his ears. . :,. , ;. f .. ,. Whitehead risked his life In climb ing the face of the precipice, for a mis step at any stage of his upward prog ress after he had gone twenty feet would undoubtedly mean death. lie f regarded as a hero by his classmates and Is looked upon wonderlpgly by the townspeople. Whitehead does not seem to think he has done anything very remarkable and Is diffident about telling of his experience. An odd feature of the- performance is that It was accomplished at night, when young Whitehead did not care to have too large a crowd watching hlia. He was prompted to try the ascent of the cliff by hearing other students tell ing of the Impossibility of doing It. Whitehead was with a party lit V city that had been at a restaurtiat where , liquid refreshments were Im bibed freely. On the way. home, as the party passed the Soldier's monument, lie student remarked: . "I'd like to see the man who could climb that rock," pointing to East rock. "Would you?" said young Whitehead. "Well, I'lf gratify your desire." He thereupon approached the side of the cliff and began a laborious ascent. It Is understood that he had Intended to perform the feat before, but wanted to make It more remarkable by pretend ing It was Impromptu. y Some of the students tried to dis suade Whitehead, from making the as cent, but he only laughed at their warnings. 3 '-'r U Slowly. Inch by Inch, the plucky stu dent climbed. He would rest at every new foothold he got. Before he got up very ' far his Angers were torn and bruised, by the . rock but be. couldn't turn back even If he bad, wanted to, , which he didn't. . It was a weird picture, his tall form apparently -glued to the side of the precipice and the. crowd below watch ing with breathless Interest made la the dark. The men watching White bead were almost afraid to move or talk, fearing that the slightest commo tion would cause the student to lose his grasp on the naked rock. Gradually the plucky young fellow forged hU way. up. Fifty feet he got. and the crowd could hardly repress & cheer. Seventy-five feet he laboriously climbed, and then Ina 'short time, which seemed an age to the watcher.' he reached the top and fell exhausted, while the shouts of the crowd below awakened the echoes of the, night and drew many others to the scene." t i His was the first performance, ac-1 cording to the oldest Inhabitants. Oth- crs In years gone have tried It. and Ii at least one Instance the attempt hat resulted fatally. Mr. Whitehead, whose home Is u London, has come to Yale to prepaf for a course In civil engineering arl will shortly enter the Sheffield Selov tlfic school. He served with the Britlh South, African police during the Brr war. ... ' .'-- ' He said modestly of his climb: . "I went to the summit by the ad last Sunday and climbed down tMce to .familiarize myself with the jice. On Monday I made the ascent The first twenty feet was "really Siffl cult distance, the hardest of the dmb. The rock for that height leans tovard one. and with my fingers I had tfhold on tightly to the ledges and tfci lift myself up. . Half way up ther Is ledge of six inches, width. I satjdown on It and looted down. The senerj was so fine that I felt well repali The remainder of the climb to thesmmU was easier.' - iJ "Twice I almost slipped anqlet go my hold.: 'It was not easy, buff was surprised ..to be told that It hfl - been considered Imix)ii.slble." Mr. Whitehead ; intends to- jttempt the ascent ' of West ' rock,- on tfei other Side of j the, cjty. . which Is sll more difficult to climb. y 4 s f Trlvate" Allen's Latest tory. "Private" John Allen, who not In congress now. went up to tqcapltol the other day and sat In the tjtise lob by for a time, says the Njw York World's.Wasblngtou corresitoglent. "I was walklug aioug the streyesers day.", be said, "and I heard 'negro man andbis wife quarrellngfthe wo man said something partlcul ly exas perating, tit ml thew tna n. shaing with anger, retorted. . 'Don't you alk that way to me, woman, or I'll giash you In the face. If you do. the tman re plied, kin hear you say ti, "Good tnornin. Jedge: ' h i ft