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In Commemoration of the Independence of these United States
and the Battle of Manila Bay. '
COSV1E OWE, COME
Grand Parade, Bas et Picnic, Speeches, Music by the Bands; Games, and
festivities will conclude with a Grand Display of Fire Works in the evening.
The Weekly Gto oniele.
The only Republican Daily Neietpapei in
Watco County.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge. Robt Mays
Sheriff. T. J. Driver
Clerk A M. Keliay
Treasurer C. L. Phillips
, . (A. S. Blowers
Commissioners D Kimsev
Assessor .... W. II. Whipple
Surveyor J. B. ;oit
Superintendent of Public School. . -C. L. Gilbert
Coroner VV. H. Butts
HOW THE WAR WILL HELP.
This war will benefit the country
in other ways than those which are
ordinarily considered, says the Globes
' Democrat. It will forever prevent
die recurrence of the condition of un
readiness in which the present con
flict found as. Two war balloons,
it is reported, have just been bought
in France, will be in readiness for
active use in a few days, and ' will be
sent to the army which is about to
invade Cuba. A supply of smoke,
less powder, it is learned from an
other source, is being gathered as
rapidly as possible, to be used in
stead of the older kind still em
ployed in the navy. The factories
which manufacture the Krag-Jorgen-on
rifle, the gun which is used by
the infantry of the regular army, are
being rushed to such an extent that
if the war should last ten or twelve
months lonser enough of these guns
would be on hand to supply all the
volunteers with it, as well as all the
. insurgents who are likely to be
- found.
Aside altogether from the settle
ment of the Cuban problem forever,
and from the acquisition of the Phil
ippines and Porlo Rico, which the
war will bring, it will . show us what
e lack in the way of national de
fense, and will incite us to supply it
for the future. The country was
- very far from being ready for war
when war came. The men, in con
gress and out of it, who shouted
earliest, longest and loudest for war,
were the men who howled down all
attempts urged by patriotic and sa-
' gacious persons to make adequate
preparation for war if it should
come. These men opposed every
addition which has been made to the
navy, and prevented many additions
which were urged, and which, if
tnade, would have enabled iis to
faave sent Spain out of Cuba without
the firing of a shot on our side, or to
have ended the war in two weeks if
Spain refused to get out peaceably.
The defeated, right along until the
war actually came, all endeavors to
increase the regular army to a figure
which would insure national safety.
The trivial increase of the army
which the spur of actual, war extorted
from them was accompanied by a
stipulation which leeks to reduce the
army to its old line after the war
ends. -
All this will be prevented In the
future. The blindness, cowardice
and folly which ker t the navy down
near that of bankrupt Spain and held
the army far below the level ,cf that
of little Switzerland, will end now.
One of the arguments of the oppo
nents of an adequate army and navy
- has been that such things are enre
publican and . a menace to. liberty.
.Another argument equally childish is
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lhat a country with 70,000,000 of in
habitants and over S70,000,000.000
of wealth, as the United States has,
needed neither standing army nor
navy. These big figures ot popula
tion and national resources would,
they contended, protect it from
assault.
Neither of these idiocies will have
any standing in the court of public
opinion hereafter. The present war,
though against fin antagonistic con
temptibly weak, has shown that great
population and immense wealth, un
less when they are transmuted into
fighting shifts and fighting men,
would leave a nation as powerless ns
the giant China proved to be when
assailed by the pygmy Japan.
WAR CORRESPONDENTS AND
SOLDIERS.
' A correspondent of the London
Times describes the uniform of the
American soldier as the ugliest on
resord. He states, with a good deal
of positiveness, that the dress uni
form was the work of tailors and pol
iticians at Washington, and is better
suited to the comic-opera stage than
to the army.
Jn making this comment the cor
respondent pays a fine compliment
to the discipline and fighting quali
ties of officers and men of our army.
He believes that the discipline of our
volunteer regiments answers the ob
jection of the German military writ
ers to the effect that American armies
never can be as efficient as European
armies because the men cannot be
made into machines.
The correspondent ot the London
Times finds that the American sol
diers are the better for not being
mere machines, that they act with
intelligence as well as precision, and
be believes that this war with Spain
may have great influence in convinc
ing European governments that the
best soldiers are not mere machines,
but those who, like the American
troops, act with intelligence, courage
and purpose.
This tribute to the American sol
dier as he stands will make amends
tor the harsh criticism of the uni
form. The truth is that the service
uniform of the American soldier is
one of the best, if not the best, in
the world. There is nothing tawdry
about it, no artificiality ; but it is
simple, in good taste, and well suited
to operations in the field. There is
no finer, military figure than the
Amerionn officer or private in bis
service uniform of blue. The dress
or parade uniform was changed after
the civil war, not by tailors and pol
iticians, but by army officers who
bad studied the picturesque features
of uniforms in France and Germany.
The present uniform was adopted
under regulations of 1881, and modi
fied by general orders up to and in
cluding those of May 5, 1888. It
may not be as soldierly as the service
uniform no dress uniform is but
it was certainly built upon military
models in vogue in Europe. That is
probably the worst thing that can be
said against it.
The fact ' that English. . German
and French papers have sent corres
pondents, or at least representatives,
into : the field with the American
troops, and that most of these are
fair-minded, is encouraging. They
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will inform Europe i as to a good
many points that have hitherto re
ceived very little attention. The
genuine army correspondent will
write of men and events much as the
great war correspondents wrote of
the battles of our civil war and of
the Franco-Prussian war.
There will be in the field, hundreds
who never will become war corre
spondents, with comprehension of
military movements or appreciation
of fighting qualities and courageTft
But the people will soon lean which
correspondents have a capacity
rightly to describe strategic or other
movements in the field.
The correspondents from Europe
are men ho have been in the Habit
of writing about English or German
or French armies, and we may ex
pect some little show of prejudice;
! but in the end the instincts of the
war correspondent will compel recog
nition of generalship and soldierly
quality.
OUR FIGHTING POWER
The London Spectator does not
agree with the European critics who
believe lhat the United States has
lost prestige by slowness in the war
against Spain. "The effect of Ihe
slowness of the war," says the Spec
tator, "if it is to be n slow one, will
be an immense increase of Ameri
can fighting power, especially as re
gards the armaments ' which can be
used at ence." This will. be the ef
fect of the war, whether it be short
or long. The necessity for a strong
navy has been demonstrated, and the
measures before congress contemplate
a great increase of our fighting
power on the sea. Our manufac
tories and armories have 'struck the
war gait, and are now turning out
farms and ammunition at a rate thtt
will keep our armies in the field fully
supplied.
The question of armament was a
serious one a few months ago, but
he people could not be made to see
it in that . light. It is less- serious
now because the people have been
brought to sec the matter in the
right light. They know that a mere
call for 125,000 volunteers does not
make an army. The' realize what
it is to be without arms or equip
ments for men ready to enter tte
field, and they realize as they never
realized j be fore the folly ' of a
false economy that leaves a nation,
that ought to be strong . in peace or
war, wholly, unprepared for war.
Not all the evils of unpreparedness
are found in the army and navy.
People unused to preparations for
war have no comprehension of what
preparation means, and are liable to
become impatient under the lashings
of self-appointed . critics who know
less than the people themselves.
Such critics, posing as the friends of
suffering soldiers, or as correspond
ents eager to give the people infor
mation, may become mischief-makers,
doing the country and the cause
as much injury as the enemy's spies
or paid agents. What shall be said,
for example, of a correspondent who
reports that the blockade of Cuban
reports is so ineffective that ships
loaded with provisions pass into
Havana harbor without being mo
lested by the blockading fleet? That
is a point that Spain is straining
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every nerve to establish, and here
comes an American giving aid to
the enemy on a most important
point. Any man with any com pre
hension of war or of the gravity of
the situation would not make such a
mistake.
But the new generation is learn
ing, and fortunately there are in
every community, North and South,
many who have not forgotten the
lessons of war learned two genera-
ions ago. The inevitable outcome
of the war will be, as the London
Spectator says, "an immense increase
of American fijjhting power."
Our esteemed contemporary, .the
St. Petersburg Novosti, demanding
the termination of the war, says lhat
"America must voluntarily submit
her pretensions to a tribunal of the
powers." "Must" and "voluntarily"
are words which do not exist in the
English language. The Novosti
should not confound the United
States with Japan. We do not fight
wars here for "the powers" to settle,
and we betray no secret when we in
form our excited St. Petersburg con
temporary tuat, while we may be
sadly looking in awe of that high
scunding phrase, we do not care a
continental for "the powers."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Admiral Sampson has provided a
good harbor for tbe army transports
when tbey' arrive, thirty miles east
of Santiago, in addition to several
landing' places' near the besieged
city. Tbe admiral, is a man of ex
cellent foresight.
Geographers say that tbe summer
climate of Cuba is better than is gen
erally supposed in the United States.
The opinion usually held is based on
tbe bad sanitary condition of Ha
vana, Matanzas and some other o
the seaports.
' A Serious Knnaway.
Saturday morning about 10 o'clock
Mrs. William Crawford and her dangh-ter-in-law,
MrB. N. W. Crawford, and a
little girl were coming to Tbe Dalles in a
back. In driving down a hilt about one
half mile from tha river something went
wrong and the team- became frightened
and started to ran. All three were
thrown ont in a pile of rocks and the
ladies sustained severe injuries. They
were brought to Tbe Dalles and taken to
Dr. Doane's office, where Drs. Suther
land, Logan and Doane attended them.
It was found that tbe elder Mrs. Craw
ford's arm was broken jast above the
wriet and she was considerably brnieed
about tbe head and body. Ibe yonng
ladies sustained a dislocation of the
shoulder and was otherwise painfully
bruised.. .The little girl was not injured
in the least. Tbey will remain in tbeir
room in the Chapman block for a few
days before tbey are removed borne.
Weather Korean Keport. ' .
The temperature is normal or above
over tbe entire Colombia river basin.
With these temperature conditions the
upper rivers will cease V rise. ' These
facta show that tbe snow is melted from
the mountains except on tbe higher ele
vations and that a farther rise will not
occar. .-'
The river above the Cascades will re
main nearly stationary or fall slightly
for tbe next twenty-four hours, wben
the fall will be quite steady. West of
the Cascades the fall will begin on Mon
day and Tuesday. The Willamette at
Portland will rise probably -3 ot a foot
more wben the fall will begin. For the
next seven days tbe fall will be slight,
after which it will probably be more
rapid. . .
invitation is extended to the residents of the Inland
Empire to join in the celebration.
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everj thing to make you happy,
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A Suffering
Soldier.
This veteran fought for his country; suffered un
told hardships, and returned with health shattered.
Many a brave soldier has tlie same history. To-day
this one rejoices in a new-found strength and tells his
experience to benefit others.
No man is -better known and liked in
that rich tier of Illinois counties, of which
Peoria is the centre, than genial Chester S.
Harrington, of Princeville, 111.
Mr. Harrington is a veteran of the late
war. Like many another brave soldier, he
suffered not only during that service, but
for years afterwards from diseases con
tracted then.
For years his health was shattered; his
sufferings increased. He was unable to
gain relief, but now be tells a story which
is of profit to many t
MI served three years in the 124th Illi
nois, enlisting at Kewanee, UL," said he.
"I was in Libby Prison and. suffered like
many another Northern soldier.
"The strain of army life did its work in
n(twminng ay health, although the col
lapse did not ome for sometime after.
"For fifteen years I suffered from general
debility and nervousness so badly that I
could not sleep. Indigestion resulted and
my misery increased.
"My eyes began to fail, and as my body
lost vitality my mind seemed to give wayi
I could scarcely remember events that hap
pened but a few weeks before.
For two years I was unfitted for busi
ness; I was just able to creep around dur
ing part of this time, and there were many
times when I could not get up.
uKy brother is a doctor, but all his
efforts to help me failed to give any relief.
"I tried a number of remedies without
A Box Social.
A box social, under the auspices of
Naneene school, was conducted by C. R.
Deems, late of Pennsylvania, for tbe
purpoeS of raiaing .funds to' seen re a
library for the school. Tbe entertain
ment was a euccess, both socially and
financially. First a program was well
rendered by the school, after which was
the sale of the boxes, and in each box
was lunch for two. There was $15 50'
realized by tbe sale of tbe boxes.
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Dosnell, Druggist.
A little boy aeked tor a bottle'of "get
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the druggist recognized a household
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