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pv . . . v . i '. y r- C - " - - K- f- f r. ;::- -. I-:. Columbus, -Webr. .. . Entered at the PostofScc, Colnmbue, Nebr., 28 , ' eecond-class mail matter. .' XinciViiawiiyi ty X. X. CTSITCS .C0. . ' Txaxs or subscbiptxon: . One year, by mail, postage prepaid $L50 .. Six months , .75 Three months .40 WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 4. 1899. Soke nations o Europe are endeavor ing to take United measures against an archists. . Gen. Shafteb is to go to his old post, having been assigned to the command of the department of California. The Hastings Recobd is responsible for the report that Mrs. C. H. Van Wyck, now a resident of Washington, is to many S. 3. Alley of Saline county, Ne braska. It is said that in the time of the Mid dle Empire (Egyptian) new medicine and new treatment were adopted by the doctors at the. risk of being put to death if the patient died. Henbt Wattebsox in a leading edito rial Saturday in the Louisville, (Ken tucky) Courier-Journal nominates Admi ral Dewey for president and General Fitzhugh Leo for vice-president. Bachelors, it Is said, can live in lux ury in Porto Rico at small cost. Per haps this explains the appointment of Tom Cook to a government position there. It is the only plausible explan ation suggested to date. Fremont Trib une. Ocb own ships earn only about one dollar of each ten paid for carrying our own commerce. England gets most of the nine. Encourage home production; btop the policy of neglecting our marine. The 8300,000,000 given to foreign ship owners should be earned by Americans. The family of Carl Grunz, residing at Doniphan, Hall county, is quite seriously ill, resulting from the eating of sausage, in the meat of which trichinae has been discovered. Mr. Grunz is a farmer. The sausage from which the sickness resulted was made by the family, from their own pork about four weeks ago. J. J. Kennedy, yardmasterof the Mis souri Pacific Railroad company, was found dead Tuesday evening of last vtI: .at the bottom of a flight of stone steps in an arcaway at 115 North Twelfth street, Omaha. Ho was lying face down ward in a position that indicated he had fallen and slid down the steps head foremost. A gentleman said that the match gamo of ball on our grounds played by the deaf of Iowa and our own, was most interesting. A game, with no swearing, quarreling nor slang, no loud noise nor yelling, was so new nsto be a marked attraction. Ho said if tho boys would advertise and play in Omaha they would make barrels of money. Better try it, boya Nebraska Mute Journal. Justin Ssirrn Mokuili., the senior United States senator from Vermont, died Wednesday morning last of pneu monia, after an illness of less than a week. Ho was not only tho senior mem ber of tho senato in point of service, but its oldest in age, having served continu ously for more than thirty-one years, and was eighty-eight years old on tho 4th of April last. He was a great worker, and commanded universal respect. U. S. Grant, of this county, has shown in the senatorial fight that, unlike so many of his opponents, he is a gentle man. Mr. Grant may not be a Webster when it comes to public speaking, but that he is an honest man and will prove an earnest worker for the interests of the wholo state when a U. S. senator, his most bitter foes will acknowledge after his election which, at this time, seems to be an assured fact. National City (Cal.) Record. CoNGBESsJiAN-EiiECT B. H. Roberts of Utah, being a polygamist, is regarded by some as legally barred from taking his seat in congress. If there is question of his right, he purposes making the strongest possible showing in his own favor. He says polygamy is not adult ery, for, "were it so considered, then Abraham, Jacob and the prophets who practiced it would not be allowed a heritance in tho kingdom of heaven, and if polygamy is not adultery, then it can not be classed as a sin at all." William McDANiELSof Nebraska City "was severely burned while endeavoring to "play" Santa Clans. He had arrayed himself in appropriate costume, being covered with cotton and had put on a false face, and while waiting started to .light a cigarette, when the cotton was ignited and he was at once a mass of flames. He tried to tear off tho cover- ing, badly burning his hands. He was thrown to the floor by his mother and sisters and the fire smothered, but not before he was severely bnrned. It is not thought his eyes are injured. The state board of transportation costs the state of Nebraska seven thous and dollars' worth of au equivalent The question -arises, what is the incoming legislature going to do about it? The question ought not to be difficult to answer. It should be dispensed with in the shortest possible order. The objec tion is raised in some quarters that to abolish the board would remove the only means the people have of securing redresses, but the objection is not a good one for the reason that it has shown neither ability nor power to do that in the past. Abolish it, Kearney Hub. Mr. Bbtan is long on eloquence, but short on strategy. Returning to Lincoln he delivers an imaginative and fervent speech against expansion in Asia. His handling of the question of "hauling down 'the flag' " is admirable; his sono rous periods about the stars, "the stripes of white," ana "the stripes of red" thrill the anti-imperialist's aching soul; but what does it -all amount to? This same orator, who might have been of great service in the cause he pretends to espouse, has fritted away his influence on this question so far as practical results are concerned. The eloquent Mr. Bryan can declaim until the crack of doom against the annexation of the Philippines, but his declamation is mere wwd so long as be advises the United States senate to ratify a treaty that those islands. Springfield The whole duty by the Philippines is and allow no other 0. U by them. XXXKXXXXHXXXXKXKXXXSOOOOOOi Spanish Sovereignty Gone in America. Havana, Jan. 1. Secretary of War, Washington: The flag sent up on Morro castle and the palace at 12:04 p. m., local time. John R. Bbooke, Major General Commanding. Fobtdne is certainly smiling upon the men from Nebraska. Last week they captured a native who was carrying a stolen box of dynamite, thus making quite a reputation for themselves. Last evening they were successful in captur ing a powder thief. While Private Bick of Company C was patroling his beat, along the north side of the river, about 8 o'clock Friday night, he saw a native carrying three sacks upon his shoulder. The sentry promptly stopped the native and proceeded to investigate the sacks. The sacks appeared to contain only black mud but the sentry quickly recog nized it as prismatic powder. He called the corporal of the guard and sent the native to the police station under arrest. The roan gave his name as Celdonia de la Crnz and stated that he picked the three sacks out of the water, but refused to say where he was taking the stuff or what he proposed to do with it. He was turned over to the military police for further investigation and action. r rom Manilla American. From times immemorial the idea has been cultivated that old men for counsel and young men" for war is the proper ar rangement for human activity. What ever may have been the past experience, the recent war with Spain leaves the venerable maxim in a topsy-turvy con dition. Most of the leaders are nearly the age of retirement. Dewey is sixty one and entered the naval academy forty-four years ago. General Joseph Wheeler, on September 10, reached t'ie age of sixty-two. At Santiago he was sick, but refused to go to the rear, Shatter also was indisposed, but man- aired to pull through. Lawton and Merritt are veterans. General Miles, commanding the army, is past fifty-nine Sampson is fifty-eight and Schley nearly fifty-nine. Fitzhugh Lee, the senior of this list, wast sixty-three last month. Old men, at least men near the sixty mark, are the safe warriors if any lesson touching this point is to be extracted from the conflict of 1898 Cnlbertson Era. The forthcoming statement of the gov ernment receipts and expenditures will show that during tho half year ending today the receipts aggregated $245,961, 890. acainst S207.7C0.574 for tho same period last year. According to tho treasury records these receipts are the largest since 180C, when they reached S508,0:J2,3G0for tho entire fiscal year, and 8190.634,010 in 1867. With the exception of these two years, the receipts never ltefore in the history of the country ex ceeded 490,000,000, and only seven times have they ever reached 8400,000,000. The receipts for customs during the six months amounted to 896,045,839, as com pared with S62,825,021 for tho same period last year. For the mouth of December the customs receipts aggre gated S1C,764,325, which was the highest point reached under the present Dingley law and the largest for December since 1888, when it was 816,900,000. The receipts from internal revenue sources amounted during December to 822,621, 319, the largest since the war of the rebellion. The total for December was 841,404.794. IlENitr Wattekson in a recent Louis ville Courier-Journal editorial headed: "Everybody a Free-Trader Now," makes a significant admission of the beneficent results of the protective tariff system. Ho asserts that tho, American manufac turer "having perfected his plants and cheapened his processes." is ready and willing for free trade, in order to have better access to the markets of the world. Following this he says: "Tho star-eyed goddess, a little mateure, a trifle embon point, though still beautiful, is bound to admit that from a collar button to a locomotive there is nothing now pro duced today in America which is not produced cheaper and better than its counterpart in Europe. So much goes to the credit of the protec tive system." Readers of the Omaha World-Herald need not be surprised to find that its editorial opinions are not always in line with the current news, as placed before its readers. As for just one instance. All who read the opposition organ which is held in such high esteem by the triple alliance will recognize in the following trade report of R. G. Dunn & Co., pub lished in the organ of distraction, a bright oasis in the sandy desert: "It is a year beyond parallel, and goes to its close with the biggest volume of busi ness ever seen. Enormous transactions at the stock exchange make some differ ence, but when all the transporting and speculative interests are eliminated there is still a much larger business than in any other month of the year." Things the legislature should do: Take the first steps toward calling a constitutional convention. Abolish the railway commission. Repeal the law providing for the Nebraska national guards. Amend our revenue laws. Repeal a lot of dead letter laws and be very careful not to make any new ones. Not monkey with anti-pass bills, but reduce fares to 2 cents per mile. The house should get its appropriation bills to the front early in the session and insist on them being finally disposed of before the rush of the closing Jays. Fusionists should favor every -good measure of prime importance without regard to its origin. Charles Wooster, in Silver Creek Times. As expert gives it as his opinion that Africa's output of gold this year will reach $100,000,000, an amount far be yond California's high water mark. of the United States to do right by them, nation to do wrong THE PROPOSED BONDS. It seems that tho 837,500 four-per cent bonds of tho city recently author ized for refunding the 935,000 bearing 7 per cent interest, and the $10,000 at 6 per cent, could not be negotiated, and so the proposition is to be re-submitted to the voters of the city, with a change in the rate of interest to 4J per cent. A special election has been called for January 17, between 9 a. m., and 7 p. m., the voting to be at the usual places in the city. The amount asked for is $37,- 500 to bear date March 1, 1899, payable twenty years after date at the fiscal agency of Nebraska in the city of New York, interest payable semi-annually, September 1 and March 1, each year. If anybody knows a single good reason why these bonds sbguld not be voted, at this time, ho should certainly make it known or "forever after hold his peace." The only consideration we see is that to tax-payers it lowers the rate of interest, which is paid annually, and places further in the future the date of pay ment, nnd is to the city what the re newal of a loan secured by a mortgage is to an individual. The columns of TnE Journal are open to remarks. The following paragraph is a neat sample of presenting a subject by con trast, one of the most effective methods to reach the average citizen, and it states the case pretty plainly, from the stand point of the Lincoln Journal: "Two years ago Colonel Bryan thought tho American people were big enough and strong enough to do anything, even to the extreme of changing the money standard of the world. Now he fears that we canuot spare enough national ability to frame a provisional govern ment for a group of children in the Phil ippines. His opinion of the American people seems to have been tremendously changed by a little event occurring in November, 1896." All the survivors of General Morgan's party, who escaped from the Ohio peni tentiary during the war, have been invit ed to Columbus to inspect the recently discovered tunnel through which it is claimed the raiders escaped, and settle for all time the dispute as to whether Morgan and his men escaped through the tunnel, or by the connivance of the officials of the penitentiary. A car load of dirt taken from the tunnel made under tho walls has been found in the air duct under the cells which Morgan's men occupied. After the men made their escape the hole was filled up with lose dirt and the clay around this shows the exact dimensions of the tunnel. Snips, nowadays, are made of steel; steel is made of iron ore and coke and limestone; all of these things exist in great natural abundance in this country; we have a surplus of people eager to mino and quarry the essential materials; we have tho finest skilled labor in the world capable of turning it into steel, and of turning the steel into ships; we have the money in abundance with which to run the ships, and we have a great foreign trado worth nearly two millions of dollars annually to carry what, then, is there to stop us from doing our own carrying once we begin? Wo shall not be able to begin, however, until Congress says the word. A. R. Smith. Tnuncy. Rev. Ludden, at the school board sec tion of the Slate Teachers' association last week, read a paper on "School Board vs. Truancy, in which he stated that "the actual per cent of truancy was 6o large as to be startling. "He called attention to the discrepancy between the figures as givon in the an nual school census in a district and the actual annual enrollment of the same district One remedy suggested was the creation of a school spirit among parents of children. When American parents catch brighter views and clearer com prehension of tho school system the puz zling problem of truancy will be nearer settlement. A second aid, Mr. Ludden thought, was more co-operation between teachers and principals with plans of superin tendents and school boards. It is neces sary to make teachers lovers of the schools. To cope with persistent tru ants Mr. Ludden favored a stringent truancy law. He thought a special tru ant school would be advisable." Those who have had any part in the management of schools, whether as teacher, superintendent or member of school board, have abundant reasons for knowing the evils of truancy, and like wise the difficulties which lie along the path of endeavor to do away with the evils, or measurably to mitigate even their worst features. Compulsory education has been tried. Truancy officers have been appointed. Tax-payers have been told that the mis demeanors and crimes and consequent expenses, resulting directly or indirectly from truancy, have been sufficient to justify the state in exercising the strong est measures at its disposal in sheer self defense. While there is doubtless great im provement in a general way, there is good cause for much anxiety. The truth is that if individuals are properly looked after, the combinations of individuals will look after themselves on the principle of the cents and the dollars. What is taught should be really de sirable, and be made to appear so to the child, either by the parent and teacher or both. If this were thoroughly done, the attraction would be like gravity, every way mutual, and like gravity also, thoroughly useful and practical. The mind-world corresponds to the body-world, and mental sustenance and growth are very clearly illustrated in body-growth preparation of food, masti cation, digestion, eta, the very names of the one fitly characterizing the other, and the most important question with child or man is Of what use to me? A question which must be answered satis factorily before the spirit of truancy will appear as the true genius of pro- .MSB in lunhnA - inrilVulll 1a. relopment along the line of natare's im-1 planted attractions. I Concerning the Soldiers. Five hundred men are to. be recruited for the Twelfth United States infantry, now at Jefferson barracks, Missouri. The regiment will soon start for Manila. The Second and Third battalions of tho Third Nebraska regiment sailed to sea Saturday night last at 9. They broke camp about noon and by 3 o'clock were at the wharves ready to go aboard the transport Michigan, which was tow ed to sea by two tugs. The soldiers marched from Camp Onward, three miles into the city of Savannah, Geor gia, in a drizzling rain, but they were well equipped for it. The Nebraska, Iowa and South Da kota soldier boys who are sweating down in Manila while their friends are burning bard coal in the effort to keep comfortable at home, don't propose to be classed with the have-beens when it comes to remembering their friends and sweethearts on Christmas. Yesterday morning's mail from the west brought in twenty-four big mail pouches filled with holiday gifts for friends in Nebras ka, Iowa and South Dakota. 'Judging from the size of the packages and the manner of wrapping them they contained largely cigars and fancy work for the ladies. Although the packages came many thousand miles they arrived in a good state of preservation. The sack tags convey the information that the postoffice at Manila is a branch office of San Francisco. World-Herald. In a letter home, from August Wag ner, we extract the following' items of general interest to all who have friends or acquaintances among the soldiers at Manila: No man can imagine the effect of the rain and mud in which we slept many a night. Thoro aro more cases of rheuma tism here now than fever. I was laid out one week on muscular rheumatism, and six others in the company complain of tho same trouble. This is Thanks giving day. We had a "swell" dinner, and besides had tables to eat on. After dinner we called on our two lieutenants for toasts and a merry day wasBpent. It is now about 7 o'clock and a gentle rain is falling. The air is very warm, and I perspire as I write. We still dress all in white, and at company drill in brown. The climato is nice at present. Hot weather is predicted for January and February. What is most peculiar to us about this Thanksgiving is the warm weather. , Just think of us walk ing around in white suits, bare-footed! Our work is not hard, but the bossing is awful. Our work will be much light er after this, as our guard duty will be lessened. I am perfectly willing to stay J here for the winter, as I can occupy spare time prontably in study. More troops arrived: no sick ones are sent homo, but will be soon. Only dis abled men will be sent. Manila, Nov. 16. Editor Journal: As you have been publishing my letters which I have written home, I now ask you to publish this one concerning Company K's Thanksgiving dinner in the army at Manila: When the boys filed in to dinner, an agreeable surprise met their gaze. A well-spread table 42 feet long, covered with good things was before us. Our lieutenants were here to take dinner with us, Lieut Jens, commander of company K, and Lieutenant Webber. Our menu was, soup, oysters, pickles, chow-chow, mixed pickles, roast young chicken, oyster dressing, roast beef, mashed potatoes, sugar corn, lima beans, blackberry and strawberry preserves, ginger snaps, assorted cakes, coffee, beer, champagne, cigars. Toast-master Lieut. Webber and the first toast, Our Co. K, was responded to by Lieut. Jens; Onr Recruits by First Serg. Haney; Our absent Captain, by Corporal Hyatt; Boys in the Hospital, by Corporal Killian; Our Cooks, by Serg. Pearsall. Each speaker took his part and did it justice. Three cheers went up as each finished his task. Charles Flynn then made n nice little speech about our troubles, battles and privations, and how our lieutenants have stajedwith us through everything, and again three cheers and a tiger went up, and then we all joined in songs, and again cigars were passed, compliments of Col. Stassenberg. We were all in good spirits, and left the table feeling as if we had had a good dinner at home. Of course we missed Nebraska's little cold snap about Thanksgiving. Extend ing thanks and good wishes of Company K to friends and relatives in Columbus and surrounding country, I remain as ever, Chas. T. Miner. PLACE TO RECUPERATE SOLDIERS. The secretary of war has received a recommendation from Surgeon General Sternberg of the establishment of an army sanitarium at Nagasaki, Japan, for the use of the United States troops at Manila. The recommendation has not been approved, but it is looked upon with much favor owing to the desirabil ity of having such a sanitarium well away from the Philippines and from any possible epidemics which may arise there. It would require the consent of the Jap anese government, but little doubt exists that this would be given. The climato in this Japanese locality is very salubri ous and bracing and it is in every way better than that about Manila, particu larly for the sick and convalescing. Advices from Manila Wednesday say that the insurgents have taken Hoilo. Gen. Otis has full power to act for the United States, and it is supposed he will demand the surrender of Ilolo into his hands, and this demand may at once raise the issue between the insurgents and our own government of possession of the islands. The province of Hoilo is set down in the official directories as having a popu lation of 472,000, and it is the second sea port in importance in the Philippine group. It is located on a river navig able for vessels of fifteen feet draught, so that very few of our gunboats would be available to assist the troops in case it should be necessary to take forcible possession of the city. The Spaniards have chosen a strong place for the concentration of their troops in the town of Zamboanga, which, as the reports here indicate, is strongly fortified and possessed of considerable natural strength from a defensive point of view. It is not doubted that they will be able to maintain themselves for an indefinite period of time against the insurgents, presuming that they are not cut off from obtaining supplies from the sea. The town itself has a population or. ziwu innaoiianM. Manila, P. L Nov. 21, '98. There is still a great deal of sickness in our regiment, though not so many deaths as there were a short time since. The weather is getting a little cooler, bnt it is fully as hot as July in Nebraska. Six of Co. K will leave on the next boat for the United States, with a number of other sick soldiers. I have been on the sick list with malarial fever and rheuma tism. Nothing serious, and I feel better today than for some tima If any of my Nebraska friends think of coming to live in this j.art of the world, tell them that if this becomes United States territory I think there will be a chance for anyone with a little capital, to make plenty of money, as this is a very fertile country and labor is very cheap. A little capital, some up-to-date farming implements, and some Nebraska energy (the more energy the better as energy is a scarce thing here) and I think there is a good chance to get rich raising rice, hemp and sugar. It does not cost more to live in Manila than in any United States city, in fact hardly so much. Rent is low, rice is very cheap, meat is about the same price as at home, though the quality is not so good. Fish, tropical fruit and wines are cheap. Flour is one-third to one-half higher than in Nebraska. Lin en clothes are the only kind worn and they are very cheap. Shoes are cheap. Butter, cheese and canned goods are high, as such stuff is all imported. The United States transports, Sena tor and Valencia, arrived yesterday, bringing moro troops and your letter, which I was glad to get. I am glad you enjoyed the exposition, but if you want to see warships, cannon and all tho apparatus connected with war, this is a good place to see them. The walled city of Manila had 740 cannon on and behind its walls; they were of all sizes from 3 to 12 inch, and of all makes both ancient and modern. The wall sur rounding Old Manila is from 18 to 30 feet high; outside the wall is a deep moat crossed by draw-bridges. The wall is formed of two stone walls 4 feet thick and 28 to 40 feet apart, the space between the two walls is filled with broken stone, concrete and earth making a solid wall wide enough to let oight soldiers ride abreast on top of it, and yet Dewey's 10 inch guns knocked holes through it large enough to drive a load of hay through. The Monterey and the Monadank, the former single turreted and the latter a double-turreted monitor, are with Dew ey's fleet now. I consider the Monitor the most powerful style of fighting ma chine afloat, and as the United States is the only nation that has the right to build them I think it would be wise for Jier to put a couple of them in every harbor, as they are invincible as coast defense boats and do not cost so much as battleships. They are not a success as ocean travellers, as they can only carry coal enough for a 700 mile run, and their decks are so low that they cannot stand rough weather, but either one of them is moro than a match for any battleship afloat, in a harbor or near the coast. It was quite a task to bring them 8,000 miles across the Pacific. Each monitor had a vessel come with it to carry coal, but they got here all right I hope you are enjoying your Thanks giving dinner. This is Tanksgivingday, but there is no thanksgiving for some of the soldiers; I am on duty today, so I have not time to celebrate. We all hoped to get home by spring, but it begins to look as though they were going to hold us two years. Sev eral soldiers have been stabbed while trying to arrest natives. Four of the Minnesota regiment were stabbed last night while trying to stop a riot in a gambling den. One has since died. The soldiers have always refrained from shooting while making arrests, for fear of shooting innocent persons. The na tives are very treacherous. The city is very thickly populated, especially in the Chinese quarter. The sewers and gutters were filled with the filth of a century when we came here, but the U. Si board of health is making them clean up. It will take some time to get the city in good sanitary condi tion. The city is only two feet abovo sea level, so there is only surface sewer age. C. J. Cockson, Corporal Co. K, First Neb THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Geography, Faople aad FrodacU of This Twelve Haadrod lalaad Archipelago. There are more than 1,200 Islands In the Philippine archipelago, but only nine of them are of any considerable size, the others being little more than bars volcanic rooks. They have a popu lation of between 7,000,000 and 8,000, 000 inhabitants. Luzon, the largest of the Philippine group, has an area of 41,121 square miles, being about as large as Cuba, and it has a population of over 4,500,000. Manilla, the capital of Luzon and of the whole Philippine archipelago, is situated at the mouth of the river Pasig, which empties into the bay of Manilla. Including its suburbs it has a popula tion of 175,000, of Vhich about 5,000 are Spaniards, 12,000 are Creoles, or Spanish of mixed caste, and the re mainder are mainly Tagal Malays, mestizos, Chinese and Mohammedans from India, with a few European for eigners. The Philippines are the most norther ly division of the great Indian archi pelago. The bay of Manilla has been called the finest commercial harbor in the world. It is 120 miles around it, and the water over much of its inclosed area is 800 feet deep. All the navies in the world might anchor in the bay at the same time and have room to spare. After entering Manilla bay a vessel still has 28 miles to sail to reach the city. In the Philippines the rainy season lasts from May to November. The heavi est rains fall in July. During the wet monsoons the rainy season the island of Luzon is subject to typhoons which often cause great destruction to the shipping and to wop erty inshore. Like Havana, the Philippines' capital dry is famous for its dgaca The Ma nilla cheroot, highly appreciated in the East Indies and in Europe, is far milder than the heavy Cuban cigars. Malaya of the Tagal and the Bisayan tribes form the bulk of the population of the Philippines. The aboriginal inhabitants, a dark people, called by the Spaniards Negri tos, live in the mountainous parts of the islands.- The Philippines were discovered by Fernando Magalhaens (Magellan) in 1521. He was hilled on one of the islands. vf e gws uutmjm, nv pounos, h in i explosive material ased in the Uaite J States pattern of Whitehead torpedo. Up to 1851 pirates infested the Phil ippine waters. At that date a Spanish expedition against the island of Sulu put an end to their dopredationa The Spanish laws for the Indian are simple and Spanish. Every male in habitant must pay a personal tax and give 40 days' labor annually to the pub lic works department. Besides this,- in Luzon the coolies must cultivate tobac co for the government or pay a money equivalent. A leading production in the Philip pines is hemp. Manilla, as a term for rope, is in use the world over wherever vessels saiL It is probable that balloons will be used effectively by our troops in the con flict with Spain. Volcanoes are numerous and active in Luson and other islands. The city of Albay was destroyed in 1814 by an eruption from Mount Mayon. All Eye Tararil to Lincoln. The Omaha exposition has closed and all eyes are now turned toward Lincoln, the capital city, where tho legislature will soon meet. The istallatioii of new state officers, the election of n United States senator, and other mutters of much importance will make Lincoln the centre of state interests and every Ne braskan will want to read the old, re liable standby, Tho State Journal, dur ing the coming year. As a special in ducement to secure new readers, The Semi-Weekly Journal, printed every Tuesday and Friday, will bo mailed from now until January 1, 1900, for $1.00. This is a mighty long time for tho money and the sooner yon send your dollar the more papers you get. There isn't any other paper in Nebraska that gives so much for the money,. It is twice as good as tho old fashioned weekly. Try it. Address, The State Journal, Lincoln, Neb. ITOEIXA. BftUStM Kgiatu of ,Tto Kind Yw Haw Always BwgM WS& To Chicago and tbe East. Passengers going oast for business, will naturally gravitate to Chicago as tho great commercial center. Passengers re-visiting friends or relatives in the eastern states always desire to "take in" Chicago en route. All clashes of passen gers will find that the "Short Lino" of ,he Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail way, via Omaha and Conncil .Bluffs, affords excellent facilities to reach their destinations in a manner that will be sure to give the utmost satisfaction. A reference to the time tables will in dicate the route to be chosen, nnd, by asking any principal agent west of the Missouri river for a ticket over the Chicago, CouncirBluffs & Omaha Short Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway, you will be cheerfully furnished with the proper passport via Omaha and Chicago. Please note that all of the "Short Line" trains arrivo.in Chicago in ample time to connect with the express trains of all the great through car lines to the principal eastern cities. For additional particulars, time tables, maps, etc., please call on or address F A. Nash, General Agent, Omaha, Neb. Omaha World-Herald That great free silver family newspaper, the Omaha Weekly World-Herald, is sued in semi-weekly sections, will bo sent to now subscribers until January 1, 1900, for only One Dollar, the yearly subscription price, nnd each now sub scriber who cuts out this offer and sends it with his dollar will also receive a highly interesting premium book, en titled, "Lights and Shadows of Our war With Spain," a series of historical sketches, incidents, anecdotes and per sonal experiences, by John R. Musick. This book of 224 pages, in paper cover, is one of tho most attractive and popu lar books that can be offered as a prem ium. No agent's commission nllowed on this offer. Address Weekly World Herald, Omaha, Neb. to 12-15 CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Tli KM Yh Han Always Bngfct Bears the Signature of Weather Report. Review of the weather near Genoa for the month of December, 1898. Mean temperature of the month 23.GI Mean do same month last year ZLW HiKheet daily temperature on 28th 59 Lowest do on tho 31st below zero 15 (Moor days 15 X. ulr UHj IV a 4" Cloudy days II High winds days. 2 jA1U1 tlBJ B sf Itain or snow fell daring portions of days . . 2 Inches of rain or melted snow 0.15 Do of the same month last year 1.41 Inches of snow l.tiO Do of the same month last year 1R.S0 Prevailing winds N. to N. W. Very foggy on 20th. On 23d, light fall of snow accompanied by very high wind and great reduction of temperature. SIHNNIHmHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIU: I A HAPPY I NEW YEAR I to all and many more of them. IW E wish to thank one and all of our many customers I A for their liberal patronage during the past year, as well as the past 42 years, and hope to merit a con tinuance of the same dur ing the coming year. We have made arrangements to present each of our customers with a NOVELTY KNIFE which is of best quality and made to order. This knife will be pre sented absolutely free of charge. Call aid sn vs About it. Truly yours, STILLMAN'S aimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiimiiiniiiiiiiHiiiiiiimiiiirr tvosix. TtaKMYMKaiil Baft Zs&cJ&u Tie Way to go to Califoraia Is in a tourist sleeping car personally conducted via the Burlington Route. You don't change cars. You make fast time. Yon see the finest scenery on the globe. Your car is not so expensively finished nor so fine to look at as a palace sleeper but it is just as clean, just as comforta ble, just as good to ride in, axd xeaklt S20CHXAPZR. The Burlington excursions leave every Thursday, reaching San Francisco Sun day and Los Angeles Monday. 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