Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 15, 1900, Page 6

THE pa.L OMAHA DAILY B! EWATER, EVERY MORNING RIPTION One Yoar 800 Editor PUBLISHED —_— TIRRMS OF 81 Dally Bee (without Sunday) Dally Bee and Sunday, One Lllustrated Bee, One Bunday | dn r Baturda ¢, One Yen i Weekly , One Year L . OFFICT Omaha: The Bea FBullding Bouth Omaha: City Hall Bullding, 5 -fifth and N Btroets, Council Blufts; 10 Penrl Strect Chicago: 1640 Unity Bullding ew York: Temple Court Washingtoa: B0l Fourteenth Street. | Sloux Clty: 611 Park Btrect CORRESPONDE? Communications relating editorial matter ghould be addressed Omaha Bes, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS Busineas letters and remittances should ba addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. ¥ to news and REMITTANCES, Remit by dratt, express or postal order PAyable to The Ree Publishing Company Only -cent stamps accepted in payment of mall accoin ersonal checke, except on Omaha or Eastern exchan not mecepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s George B, Teschick, secretary of The Dee Publishing company, being duly sworn, fays that the actual numper of full and fmplete coples of 'The Daily. Mornin Evening and Sunday Bee, printed durin, the month of July, 1900, wis a8 follows 27 8: ..47,670 27,510 27,0080 27,320 ..27,780 26,010 27,040 27 400 27 660 ... 27 560 27,19 .27 480 20,700 27,160 27 520 27,690 27810 27,550 27,620 20,705 27,320 27700 27,680 27,670 27,480 | 27,010 L 27 500 Total , Wit i 880,038 Lews unsold and returned coples 12,278 27,777 27 025 GEO. B, TZ8CHUCK Subscribed and sworn to before ust day of July, 13g " 0 PeroFe me thia B._HUNGATE, M. tary Pubilo. Net total sales. .. Net daily average. PARTIES LEAVING FoR Partiea leavi B ng the eity tor the summer ny have The Heeo aent (o them reo ularly hy fying The Bu in person by ma dress will be chan ed ten an desired. ¥ season of the million-dollar 18 about over. — No comment {s allowable on the fact that the prohibition candidate for pres) dent fell down stairs and broke his shoulder, The latest I that Bryan is delivering his speeches to the phonograph, 1s that not taking a mean advantage? The phonograph cannot get away. e ——— It 18 nothing strange that the only news from the front in China comes from General Chaffee. He is up where the news is being manufactured, Prices of real estate in Omaha and farm lands in Nebraska are going stead ily upward, With big Crops assured prices may be expected to advance still further, Hostilities have again broken out at the Beatrice asylum and unless the trouble is settled soon it may interfere With the encampment ot the guardsmen ut Hastings, The remarkable freedom of Omaba from large fires is another cause for congratulution, The fire insurance com panies are certainly not losing money on their Omaha risks, —_— The War department at Washit having alveady bought 6,000,000 pounds of Nebraska onts, wants 3,000,000 pounds more. The department knows a good thing when it sees it. Not fully convinced that he is running for the presidency, Mr. Bryun must re- ceive two more notifications. His doubts will be still groater after the votes are connted in November, It 1s greatly to be fear ciplent truin robbers not getting much enconragement or inspivation from the _results of experiments in their call ing durlng the last fow weeks, —— Omaba 18 furnishing St. Paul, Minn., with a superintendent of schools, Omaha has the material with which to henor the requisitions of other citlos for leaders in almost any branch of public activity. 4 that in are Fight carloads of small arms ammu nition have been sent to China By the time it is all planted the avernge welght of the inhabitants of the Chinese em pire 18 likely to have heen considerably increased. —— Labor day Is not far off. 1f labor ever Lad good reason to celebrate Labor day it is this year, when the wage-workers of all classes have heen enjoying con- staut employment and better wages and shorter Lours than ever. —_— General Chaffee’s messages are short and to the polnt. His marches are long, but just as polnted. His energy, ably seconded by other officers and tihe men of his command, is justitying the contidence which led to his appoint ment to command in China. Chalrman Butler appears to have os. eaped from the spell of “For Bryan's sake. Mr. Butler's aspirations to suc- ceed himself in the United States sen ate were smothered under democratic votes in the North Carolina eléction and it 1s not strange that he should lose falth in the genuineness of democratic sympathy for populism, Even the carping critics of the ad ministration of President MceKinley ave compelled to admit that the velief force advancing upon the capital of China has heen muking “astonishing progress.” only a few days ago these same critics were complaining about the slowness of the column. It is safe to say that | where CONCERN FOR THE MAN Four years ago Mr. Rryan was grently | concerned about the laboring man. He | wis f sufferer from the gold | It was the “brow of labor h heing the | thorne” It was the laboring | the principal vietim of ¥ powe Throughout th Bryan appealed to the wage carners to rise in thele might and over throw the gold standard, whfch was | erushing them, and restore the free and | unlimited coinage of silver, which would | he Well, most of the laboring men did not heed his ad and we venture to think that none them who voted for opening the mills rather than the mints are now sorry for having done so. They have had constant employment at falr wages for the last three yoars and they know that what Mr. Bryan told them four ars ago was all wrong. Now Mr. Bryan, having pushed aside free silver, sces a menace to the inter ests of the laboring man in “Imperial ' He said in his notifieation ad “The laborfng man will be first to suffer it Oriental subjects seck work in the United States; the first to suffer It American capital leaves our shores to employ Oriental labor in the Philip pines to supply the trade of China and Japun” We do not that any | considerable number of intelligent work ingmen will be Influenced by this There is no danger of Filipinos coming | here in large numbers to seck work. | They are not a migratory people, they | are contented in their own country, | they can subsist without doi much work, and they are not suited t the climate of this country. usibly a | few thousand might come here in the course of years, but it is manifestly ab surd suppose that American labor would suffer from this. A8 to Ameri can capital going to the Philippines and employing the labor there to supply the trade of China and pan, perhiaps this | will be done to some extent, but if so it | will ‘supply so small a trade as not to affect Ame the slightest degree. There is a mis conceptlon as to the amount of labor available in the Philippines and also as to the character of Filipino labor. 1t | 18 unreliable, fnefficient and conse quently unprofitable. The Filipino does not like work and will do only so much as i necessary to mere subsist ence. The Chinese, who are numerous in a part of the archipelago, are good workers, but what their labor could produce would do little more than sup- ply the demand In the islands and we have not had this trade American labor would not be affected. The proposition of those who support the Philippine policy of the adminis- tration is that it will give the United States a position in the far east that will enable it to enormously increase its trade with that quarter of the world, thereby benefiting American lubor. Conslderable as our commerce now is with China and Japan, it is but a frac- tion of what it Is likely to be in the future, particularly with China. With the opening up of that empire to the world's trade—which may proceed rap. idly after the existing disturbance is ended—it is believed the United States will have a distinet advantage by reason of its position in the Orient. Mr, Bryan's present solicitude for the laboring man i prompted by the same motive that actuated him four years ago. He wants the laboring man's vote. Then it was the gold standard that was crushing labor—-a demon- strated fallacy. Now he urges that the interests of lubor are menaced by “im perialism”=—-which i an obvious absurs ity Intelligent men in the ranks of American labor will not allow them welves 1o be frightened by the bugaboo of Oviental competition. LABORING standard upon whi crowin of man who the mone campalgn whs prossed was v blessing to them, vie ism." believe to that | ican labor in re of AIDING THE ENEMY. Advices from Manila report incrensed activity mmong the insurgents and the explanation of this is found in the fol- lowing: “Newspapers containing the national ‘democratic platform have ar rived. The reference therein to P'hil ippine independence and to a protecto rate tends to strengthen the extreme antl-American element In its increasing attitude of delay and obstruction. 1t is belleved that radical steps for a set tlement here will be fmpossible before the election.™ This undoubtedly states the simple truth. The Philippine plank of the Kansas City platform offers encournge. ment to the Filipino insurgents to con tinue hostilities. It tells them in effect to hold on, to keep up the contest, and if the democratie party 's successful next November they will be given their in dependence. Hence the greater activity of the Filipino Insurgents, which will doubtless be still further stimulated when they get Mr. Bryan's notification address and leurn what he proposes to do for them. Is it possible for a patriotic man not to hold in reprobation a political party capable of taking such a position? A PERPLEXING PROBLEM. Our county board 1% enlled upon peri odlcally to meet demands for transport ing public ¢harges who have been un- loaded upon this city by neighboring communitios, An example in point which has just presented itself is that of & man who really belongs in St Louis, but who las been sent here by the authorities at Kausas City with the expectation that he would be helped on from this point to his destination at San Fraucisco, That this is an imposition ou Omuha taxpayers 18 8o palpable that it requives no explanation, and that we would he perpetrating & similar outrage upon some other commuunity by sending him on is equally plain, Yet at the same time what to do with these charges under circumstances where there is no co-operation between the various com munities thus fmposed upon s a wost dificult question to auswer. 1f the prime desire were to stop this pernicions practice the most effective way would be to send the party back to the last the progress made is still wore aston- shing to the Chinese, point from which he hails. At the saoe | will | studiousty avoid. | be silent. | of thousands of American eltiz | suy something on this subjject, but he | tud THE OMAHA DAII on his way without having him venppeat So far as the abuse s only communities of the sam to be possible to reach it by lation dmposing penaltics upon officials | attempting to get ¥id of public 1 this way running the risk of betwr state it oug state logls clinrges | Ro far as It is an lnterstate practice congress alone could deal with | It by fixing the vesponsibility upon the | vailroads which knowingly transport | such helpless people. It that t from year to year and call for radical mepsures tion on the part eities that are made the vietims — AMATTER HE WILL AVOID, The Boston Hernld expresses the hope that someone who can speak with suf ficient authority and yvigor will force from Bryan some expression of opinion about the nullification of the constitu tion in certain states of the south, That is a subject which Mr. Bryan, It can be confidently dicted, will He will go on talking about the violation of the “consent of the governed” principle in the case of the Filipinos, but will utter not a word in regard to its violation and also the nullitication of t on in the cage of colored American citizens in the south. We will not say that Mr. Bryan | approves of negro disfranchisement Possibly he is not in sympathy with it. But in any event he will say nothing | that might not be agreeable to the Tl mans and other promoters of dis franchisement and the “red shirt” demo. crats of North Carolina, while to ap prove their course could hardly fail to e damaging to him. Therefore he will seems Wbuse is growin unless check self and prot count constitu 'S Yet the subject fs ecertainly of suf. ficient importance to merit the atten tion of a candidate for the presiden who professes such profound respect for the constitution and the Declara tion of Independence. It Is a subject that relates to the rights of hundreds s and should be considered as at least of equal importance with the rights of a people thousands of miles away who are re- sisting American authority and Killing | American soldiers, Mr., Bryan ought to will not do so. Vielation of the Decla. ration of Independence and nullitica- | tion of the constitution by democrats of the south do not trouble him, RHETORICAL RHAPSODIES. If rhetorical rhapsody and shrieks for “liberty,” borrowed for the uses of a personal ambition which amounts to maduess for place and power, could pass for statesmanship, and self-asser- tion could be accepted for wisdom, Mr. Bryan would be the next president of the United States by an unlimited ma- jority. Of course, such a result would neces- sarily pre-suppose the existence of ap palling emergencles of peril to a great, ealm, independent nation of people, who stand as “a rock of ages” for order and good government for themselves and their posterity forever. In the perfect knowledge that no such emergencles or peril exist in our country, or are even remotely threatened, rhetorical thap- sodies about “liberty” will soon make the shouting blatberskites who deal in them resemble the scarecrows of the cornfield, suspended so as to be blown by the wind, which never deceives the discerning crows for any great length of time without a radi change of costume, It is in the ready memory of multi- of living men that an armed citi zen soldiery, composed of millions of men, engaged in a bloody civil war in this country which continued for four years, Hundreds of thousands of them emerged from it as loyal to civil order and as true to high ideals of popular freedom as iuspired them to fight In their defense. Thousands of these men survive and the nation containg no guardinns who arve more patriotic or de voted to the institutions of freedom which are the boast of our country and the light of the world. It is simply an insult to American wanhood for men to stand up with attempts to fmpeach the patriotism of the gallant officers and men who are laying down fheir lives in defense of the flag in the Phil ippines, whose purchase My, Bryan him welf dictated in the senate when he car ried the ratification of the treaty of Paris. The veterans of the war who fought in the Philippines ave organizing an as soclation after the model of the Grand Army of the Republic. ‘The boud of dexhip fighting for the stars and stripes will always be as strong with the new veterans as It has been with the old. The association ean accom plish much good if it is kept from de generating fnto & combination for per sonal nzgrandizement, What has given the Grand Army of the Republic the Influen it wields hias been the firm stand it taken for liberal recogui tion of its members, yet against frands of all deseriptions. 1t is now officlally announced that the democrats will claim the seat of tor Thurston and the six-year term in case of a fusion majority in the coming legislature, while the populists will have to be content with the fouryear term. In view of the fact (hat the populists are expected to contribute about four-fifths of the members of the legislature and nine-tenths of the votes to elect them, this generous proposition must strike the average populist as o plece of sublimated seltishness conm Sena The chalrman of the democ committee pretends that he good results for his candidates from the coming visit of Colonel Roosevelt Nebraska. This is whistling to up courage. Nothing would ple mocrats better than to hear that Goy nor Roosevelt had chahged his plans and was not coming to Nehraskn atic st expects The veterans encamped for thelr an nual reunion at Lincoln will huvdly ap preciate the discourtesy of the fusion governor and leutenaut governor in time it would cost no more to speed hiw X B come them o Both of these re-electic umstances thefr oftic il fals are " under ordinary eir | e noexpected selves of that liigel 14 | to have been glad to avail ther But it pl the opportunity is plain the her 1l u fusion cirele 08 of e e in ol ol will hiave s chance te election day comes around nl asized whet e popularity free e fivery is ey the mand for new routes i all parts of the | country, but particularly in the west. No people the world make | such general use of postal facilities those of the United States, be American people stand point of literacy & being hy more in as | the the s highest in Omaha busiicss men’s exeursions to nelghboring cities so far have been di rected exclusively to Nebraska points, whereas this ety has cqual incentive to cultivate the territory in western lowa. | A few oxpeditions to the lown towns anxious to keep close rela tions with Omaha would produce good results, prosperous | Tsl An should not be In such a hurry to move on the approach of the allied army. The white soldier muy not tuke mueh time to make a formal entry, but the celestinl will find him handy fellow to have around if her sub jects should take a notion to be unruly Although nine presidentinl candi are already in the field, two conventions are in slon at Indiangpolis whose members do not appear to be satistied with present nominees or the pla They think the political bill of fare this yeur needs still further expansion, The Omaha Bryanite organ is mu:'llv distressed over the color of the paper on which republican editors are asked to recelpt for subseriptions to the burean of publicity. 1 is evidently very offeusive to the popocratic bull, empress 8¢ forms, aelesn Waste of Breath, 8t Paul Ploneer Press Chinese edicts nowadays carry about as More of Kiyn Eagle. horseless carringes, next? Less scems it o to be Hatless girls, men, what getting more. less ex Abandoned. sbe-Democrat. Once Bryan's great issue was free trade then free silver, and now Le makes a long notification speech without a word about elther. ola T Where LI Would He at Home, Washington Post Li Hung Chang has a fortune of $200,000,- 000. The old heathen might come to_this Christian country and acquire a stack of white chips in the Montana senatorial game, | Abdul's Turn Next Washington Star. When we get through in China our old friend, Abdul Hamid, may have to respond to the cry of “next” iu the international barber shop. He nceds a shave, a hair- cut and a singe, particularly the latter. Mutunl Prosperity. Minneapolls Tribun The banks of Nebraska show a large in- crease in deposits for the quarter ending June 30 over the corresponding period du; ing 1898, there being nearly two and one- half times as much mouey on hand. One gratifying feature of this showing s the fact that Mr. Bryan's increased wealth dur- ing the laet four years of his untiring in- dustry helps to swell the encouraging total. es of the Injunction Habit, Chicago Chronicle. One of the beauties of the injunction system s manifest in the case of the tele- graph company which is enjoiued by one court to cease serving grain quotations and {s enjoined by another court to keep on serving them. The company's officials are likely to get into jall whichever court they obey. This, taken in connection with the fact that anyone with a $5 bill can secure an injunction against anybody doing anything, is calculated to make people think that theré may be something in the talk of “government by injunction’ aftér all, 3 Ph IN ON BIROGANS, Appenl to ebster Da Wasnington Post Ribaldry and jesting from along the po- ltical trall of the Hon. Webster Davis in bygone days have caused us some surprise, | both In persistence and versatility. Al- though a month has passed since the en- trancing pleture of conversion at Kansas City, hooting and derisive antics are still mingled with the Joyous acclaim. We have felt convinced that these unseemly demon- strations did mot come from men among whom his words fell with power in 1806 and 1898, but rather from scoffers and idlers by nature, such as would remain out- side the meeting tent and indulge in levities. But even this consolation prom- ises fo taken read a treatise on Mr. Davis from the editor of the Jackson Sun, an Ohio publication. He says he heard the new apostle of Bryanism it Oak Hill fn 1896 and that in Mr. Davis peroration, which surpassed in eloquence any speech ever heard at Oak Hill within the memory of the oldest inhabitants, there occurred a passage somothing as follows “Aye, my breth-e-ren, when the time comes that I must depart from these scene of mundane strife and vexation—when the sorrows of the world shall gather about me—when night approaches and the sun | goes down—when the clouds open above me and I am lifted into heaven, like Elijah of old—then, my breth-e-ren, the vanishing carth shall behold, written In letters of fire, ac the soles of my shoes, ‘Vote the republican ticket!' First It was the story of Mr. Davis' hat which was punctured by a bullet in a Kan- City alley, and it is his boots Are the wags and the critics going to pick the convert literally to pie and th hold him up to the public gaze? OF I8 it possible that the Jackson editor hus for- | gotten that he did not hear the speech but took an account which brought to him by some cross-roads We think so. But if this kind everywhera it may good work that Mr on to do. What of all his eloquence if the | wags and the jesters and the mimics turn out to fill the benches Instead of hungry for the new dispensation sympathy for the Boers find the hearts of an audience % wondering whether changed the political brogans After all, these things may dences of a deep-laid plan b foes to thwart the usefulness Webster Davis, At any rate, wo are con fident that right will prevail and that no machinations will long cclipse 80 promis- PERORATIC Treenistible atriots by be away, as we a8 now n| person was | mic? | of clatter seriously 18 kept up impede the Davis wus been counted people Can lodgment in when everybody the orater hes inscription on his he only his republi of Ho faillug to keep appointments to wel lng & political lntellects candidates | | pleaded | the POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS, Post n of Mr Eagle: Whother 1900 be free silver ¢ 1004 thi param » bring the or Washington 4. is the bur Brooklyn unt rlalism Come, ye Dis Bryan's song the ue in before onld be h eall atle princiy hia glor how fon wh itaelf democ Mr. Bryan success Ledger great variety by ar. but h The circus Juggling with bat, a lighted Mr. Bry imperialism is Iacks nnzes a performer & us arious latp, all has been He should anarchy in amuse the time, with the same only fuegling add 16 to 1 order to exhibit spectators Minneaj Tribune: Ex-Senator Lee Mantle of Montana has again cast his lot with the republicans, taking his stand on the proposition that free silv is an ploded fallacy and that the prosperity and growth of the country will be better assured by the re-election of President M- Kiuley. It would not bo the greatest sur- prise of campaign results if Montana were to swing back to its early republican moor- ings next fall Philadelphia North i's coy avoldance of 1 v ®ood republican know issue in this cam gn, recalls the of the Highlander who stole sheep in the good old days when the laird had power of life and death over the clansmen. Donald knew what awaited him and bar- ricaded himself in his hut. He refused to open when Laird McKinley clattered with his retinue and rope, and beat upon the door with his sword hilt. “Donald,” the wife, as the uproar outside more insistent, “Donald,” she said laying her hand persuneively upon his shoulder while he sat brocding over the peat fire, “gang oot like a gude man an be hang't, an’' dinna anger ' laird." But Donald Bryan stirred not. his skill and Amerlc Mr. to 1, which as is the para- grow PERSONVAL NOTES, Kentucky is now learning something about expert evidence. 1t will learn something more when the experts' bills come in. A eeat on the New York Stock exchange was sold last week for §: This is a falling off of $6,000 from last year's record. That Itallan inventor who tried to show an infernal machine to the president had a hard time in making it plain that he was on a peace footing. If Li Hung Chang has been appointed pleaipotentiary to the civilized world, he enjoys the largest diplomatic honor ever cenferred upon an individual, The Muir glacler fn Alaska was not de- stroyed by the recent darthquake, but made more beautiful than ever. Now s the time to purchase excursion tickets. Former Congressman Jerry Simpson has set a new pace for Kansas populists. At the county convention at Wichita last week he appeared in an up-to-date shirt waist. He made several speeches while wearing it. The Ninth regiment, which is fighting in China, has on 1t roster one who Is probably richest officer in the army. Second Lieutenant Robert 8. Clarke, formerly of New York City. Mr. Clarke is a grandson and one of the principal heirs of the late Altred Corning Clarke and his wealth is estimated at several millione. The navy recruiting office in Chicago last week sent forty-five apprentices to Mare Island, Cal, and forty landsmen to the Brooklyn navy yard. The recruits are boys, nearly all of whom came from west of the Mississippl. Evidently it is the spirit of adventure, as well s patriotism, that allures them from the prairies and mountains to the &ce President McKinley received the other day a box of a new kind of carnations from tho little daughter of a Louisville, Ky., florist, with the note: “Dear Sir—f read that your favorite flower was the carnation, €0 1 send you these new kind to see how you will like them and to show you that there are plenty of republicans left in this state. Governor Roosevelt was taken hold of hy @ golf enthusiast the other day and was much annoyed by the man’s long exposition of the virtues of the game. *There is one good point about It which you have for- ®otten to mentlon,” he said finally. *“What's that?" asked his persecutor. “One doesn't have to play it if one doesn't want to,” replfed the governor. The novel question whether counsel, In an argument to the jury, has a right to shed tears, has been decided by the supreme court of Tennessee in the case of Ferguson against Moon, the court holding that if the tears are available it is not only proper, but the duty of counsel to shed them on the appropriate occasion. The weeping was done i a breach of promise case by the counsel for the plaintif. At Halstead, Kan., an interesting scries of experiments in wheat growing is being conducted. Last fall about 150 varieties of wheat, selected from all over the world, were sceded and about eighty of these were in good condition during the spring 1t is desired not only to determine which of these forelgn wheats will do well in Kansas and similar climates in this coun- try, but an effort will be made to improve cach varlely by ingrafting and cross-fer- tilization. New varietios will be produced having the better qualities of both parents. It will require several years of propaga- tion in the same soil to determine whether the product is valuable or otherwise, "ALITY, Moral Deawn from the ¢ slon System Boston Trankcript It is not at all strange that the liber- ality of the American pension system should be the wonder of the world. While there are fewer classes to recelve pensions here than in some other countries, the vet- erans of the civil war have, nevertheless, been pald in the last fiscal year 24 per cent, or nearly a quarter of the total rev- enuo of the United Statos. Between July 1, 1865, and June 30, 1900, thero bas been expended n this way $2,612,320,690, or an average of more than §74,000,000 annually. 1t is more than thirty-five years since the pension system was organized and devel oped. That is something over a genera tion and it is naturally supposable that a constunt and rapid reduction would be noticeable; yet there are now on the pen slon rolls 003,620 names, or an increase in the year of over 2,000, This increase is somewhat of a surprise During the year 40,645 original applications were granted and 4,699 names were re . while 33,809 were erased on ac aunt of death, 905 because of remarriages and 6,613 for other There are still pending in the pension burcau over 137,000 claims and the sums paid last year upon the army and navy pension roll mounted to $138.412,172, or nearly twice much as the average for the last thirty years. The high mark wa under President Harrison's ad when nearly $157,000,000 was ingle year exhibits, with publ homes In various parts of the country, show what expenditure has been involved in the aftermath of our great civil struggle. Of course this can not be an indefinite tax unless it is made o0 by wars to come. It is an ever recurring object lesson with 1o the drain which war makes upon national resources not only during continuance, but for long years afterward, and the moral is tha a resort to the sword should never be re- solved on until all other means of adjust ing dificulties bave been exhausted. out five water reached ministration, paid out in a These lands and w colossal its the income tax aind CHINA AND THE CHINES niry and Peopl and the Visit Multitud The first installment of mail advices from Americ correspondents hurried & at the outhreak of the Boxer rebelliol itnish some information overiooked by (b manticists of London and New Probubly considered worth of $1.65 & word fo put on the Yet the news concerus the achievem A wonder in the Orient Amerian by birth and an officeholder by profession. “The first Americans did when we got wshore,” writcs one correspondent, *‘was { et up fo the consulate as quickly could, and there we met, in the person of the consul, one of the most remarkable men you will find in much travel about the Orie He is a cheerful, engaging fellow and he told us in les than five minutes of several of his engagements. It is one of his prous boasts that he has been in China for eleven years and never lost a missionary. It is an other that he is the best man in the con sular service in the far east. It Is another that he bas forescen and predicted all this present trouble for months and monthe. “When a Chicago newspaps man st el by Che Foo last summer, the consul says, he | 41 his best to persuade him to stay over for this war and get the greatest scoop In the world’s history. It is another proud bouss that he has reported all this trouble to the State department long ago as sure to occur It is another boast that he is now report Ing it for a New York yellow journal. It is another bonst that he gets a guinea a tele gram for this work and it is yet another boast that he means to charge 3 gulneas a message. 1t is a special boast that he has held official dispatches—in one case be mentioned twenty-four hours as the time he held a dispatch—in order to give this yellow journal a scoop. These are only some of the boasts of | this remarkable man. If you have tim to hang around for half a day until the first pressure has been relieved you may | be able to switch him off that line and get fn a word or two about business, No wonder they eay in Che Foo that the American consulate is in the Burbling Well road.” : york the pt anghal, t was not ce wir nts of thing we as It has been sald repeatedly in biog raphies that Countess von Waldersee, wife of the German field marshal who is to be | commander-in-chief of the allies in China, was the morganatic wife of the late Prince | Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein. The New York Sun pronounces this statement an error. According to the Sun the facts arc “Prince Frederick fell in love with Miss Mary Lee, an American, and found him- | selt confronted with these conditions: It he retained his royal rank he could not arry Miss Lee, except morganatically, and morganatic marriage Miss Lee would not accept. He thereupon put royalty aside and became Prince Frederick von Noer, and as such he married Miss Lee with full ceremony. Prince Frederick von Noer died the next year. As the widowed Princess von Noer the former New York girl was wooed by Count von Waldersee in 1874 and is now his wife." General Chaffec American forces way about him commander of the in China, has a brusque He was once foned in Mississippi, and while at Osford was quite popular. Golng to Jackson while the yellow fever was raging there, he was stricken with the plague. He and his friends thought the disease would have a fatal termination. An Episcopal minister, Rev. Mr. Carnahan, was sent for to make the dying soldier's peace with the world. The minister read several scriptural passages and then knelt beside the sick officer’s cot in prayer. At that juncture several soldlers outside the tent engaged in a quarrel and became so boisterous that the minister's invocation was interrupted. The supposedly dying soldier raised him- self on one elbow and, ripping out an em- phatic oath, demanded of one of the subal- terns In waiting that he maintain quiet while the parson was praying. Rev. Mr. Carnahan had been scarcely as much as- tonished by the noise outside as he was by the robustness of Chaffee's oath. The minister finished his prayer and, recelv- ing the thanks of Chaffee, left him, ap- parently dying. Put the gallant officer did mot dle. He regained his health and made a host of friends among the best citizens of Missis- slppl by the justice and fairness of his course, There are sald to be no lawyers in China, yet Hong Fu Ling, who was killed during the fighting at Tien Tsin, was a close imitation of one. Hong Fu Ling gained a wide reputation among the foreigners at the Chinese city and was chosen to repre- sent thelr Interests in the courts when- ever occaslon required. He proved him- self capable and faithful and his death cast a gloom over the foreign colony, Although Hong Fu Ling was called a law- yer, he was not really one, for there are, strictly speaking, no lawyers in the vast domain of the kingdom of the sun. There are licensed notaries, who p the mandarin a cortain amount for the privi- lege of drawing ap the complaints and statements of the people who may have business in the court ovar which the mandarin presides. They extort heavy fees from fhose whom they serve and use their influence with the mandarin. By a concession on the part of the wovernment the Catholic priests have a rank which gives them the right to plead a case before a mandarin. It has been sald that this right was abused to such an extent that the people revolted “If & man did anything for which he could he held,” sald a writer on the sub Jeet, “he would go to a Catholle missionary and he converted. In return the missionar: would plead his use his fnfluence and money with the mandarin and the criminal would go free. By that means the number of converts has grown rapidly and the natural hatred of the Chinese fo- ward the forelgners has been Intensified * case, Y OF 7 Irrefutable Evidence Widespread Industry and Theire, Philadelphia Ledger The real prosperity of the country is not represented by the great fortunes of the fow. but by the modest fortunes of the many. There are many signs to indicate many facts to give assurance, that | it be true, as no doubt it is, that the rich are growing richer, it is not true that the poor are growing poorer. To the contrary, the poor are growing less poor. the evidence sustaining this assumption being indisputabl The New York PROS 1 I PEOPLE, un has published a com prehensive analysis of the latest yearly report of the condition of the savings banks of that state. This report should he | | carefully and thoughtfully examined by those pessimistic prophets who assert at socialistic and anarchistio gatherings that while the rich are growing richer the poor are growing or by those patriots und statesmen contend that our na tional financial #o far as It Is founded upon the standard and a dol lar of the value of 100 conts. is all wrong. and that the way to right this wrong is to base financial system upen free silver dollar, of which system Candidate Bryan is the honored exponent The Sun's abstract of the report which the Ledger invites the attention of ity readers aad which an offivi ox | hibit in brief of the condition of the avings banks of New York for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1900, fs as follows poorer who system gold our and | Presidential | cepted and A G0-cent ac we | | erime open ace That (K, the three pereos nts on I8 one every n e ve number m 1,000, 84 umber m | or or but rccounta closed wis the number of new accounts ned was 15,370, an excoss of new over e amoint withdrawn during the Wi $231,0, 180, w that deposited and the total amoint due itors the_1st of Julv reache im S1.508 g of more an 86, amount due om while the T soure incroased The' total ings buiks ure ithurn at §1 voar was A the over the total preceding year banks were of the state's sav- ad by Superintendent i of this groat sum, $1 L reprosents the sutplur of the over and above all {ndebtedness & the vear covered by the 1eport the increased by nearly fiva and a milllons of dollars. The v oSt pald was greater by nearly two milllon dol than that pald in ‘the year ending « 1869, and reachod the large sum of 1,588, 274 When the depositors of these enormous cums withdraw their deposits they will recelve under the financial system which Bryan and his supporters denounce as a against the workingman 100 cents, with interest added, for each and every dol- lar deposited and withdrawn. Each and every dollar repald them will he of equal value to the dollar of gold—-a dollar which passes current at its full face value in every part of the world. It Is a dollar which has no discount upon it; which is of equal value at all places and at all times, Mr. Bryan's silver dollar is uniike the gold dollar in that it is not recognized a8 a standard of monetary valuo anywhere or at any time; that in one country It {s ot ono value and quite a different value in another. If it goes no further from home than Mexico its value is about 50 cents, one American dollar being equal in value to two Mexican dollars. If, there- fore, Mr. Bryan's financial system should become that of the country, the 2,036,017 depositors in the savings banks of the Empire state would receive for their $22 - 081,506, upon withdrawal, about one-halt that great sum. If the intelligent industri ous, frugal and thrifty workingmen and women who so wisely put thelr savings in the savings banks will consider this matter thoughtfully they will ascertain for them- selves that the worst thing which could befall them pecuniarily would be the triumph of Bryan and Bryanism, The exhibits throughout the States present the same proofs prosperity of the representatives of labor. On the last of July, 1803, which was prior to the financial crash of that year, there were 4,830,000 depositors in the savings banks of the country. On July 1, 1900, their number had increased to 5,867,000, From 187 to 1500 alone the increase was 686,000, Among all these millions of frugal folk n uarter United of the | Who put Into the savings banks their hard earned savings, it is unlikely there will ba many who will vote for Bryanism at the risk of having a half of their deposits con- fiscated. “Free silver means a &0-cent dollar and that spells ruin to labor not less than to capital. AY OF THE LIVELY, Boston Transeript: Maude—Uncle George, Why is it golf players wear such bright costumes ? rroncle George 10 Mstinguieh them rom the other green stuff thal grows the links Tt Chicago Record: A lost art ‘Well, there's to0 much talking done by talkative people, and too little talking dons by people who don't talk." Yo you consider con- Indianapolis Journal: Away becausa our ything she did.” “Mre, Rrown moveq neighborhood watched And Mrs she dldn't gef 3 BrRspsuse t attentfon eriough Cloveland Plain Dealer: paramount fssue?"’ “It's the sort of Issue, my positively fsist that the th favor, brcause you can fight “Pop, what's a Doy, n must it the best.* Washington Star: “What you aits eut'n Yol talents ‘pends on how you uses ‘em, sald Uncle Eben. “Many a time a man's KIS o' talkin' ‘docsn’ “complish nothin® cep’ to make hisse'f an' a lot o' yuthuh men folks late foh supper.'’ Catholie Standard finally stated “Hem-m! at him ste support a_family ‘Great heavens!" cried the young man, ave you lost your Job?" : The timid suitor had &irl “Young father man, locking Iy can yoa Washington Star who is impecu working i Like a “Yes. The sultan of About the only creditors sald the man amiable, “I'm Turk Turkey, for exampl exercixe I got s dodging Chicago T'ribune to college, 1 hear,” Y 1 hope dit" He' won't swell supply along.” “You've sent your Loy remarked the nelghbor. he will wcquit himself with need o, somewhat friit him with the begosh! ted h wald Mr. “I'm able ty right stralgnt hiladelphia Press: I had a cessful day shopping,” said Mrs boasttully” 1 manuged to costly and elogant viws." “Indeed ! replied Mrs, Peppre: Heves in ealling a vase a viss you'll Keep it in a glass caw very suce Woodby cure a very 1 who 1. Suppose D persa man nspot Why ' asked Whiffett inappropriate. 1t should be a woman Why? ‘You Know the old proverbh says will tell. Pres g of time i abject the the of o Riiise “rine Chicagn Now The curtain went down on the d act of “Unele Tom's (abln." Lemonade!" shauted ‘the boy with the he woman in the end seat glanesd down, Are you mure that lemonade 1s ool was acrons | went all the ice on the river ‘ort { ) Al back and g CATASTROP A MIDNIGHT Denyer A tomeat sat on a moonlit shed and war- bled w song to the nlght ¢ old slnger of plebeian birth, ) of many a f A winful man i whoss 1o love for harmony dwelt m his bed ar in his red night clothes, volee 10 the rage he felt! K #elzed fn his vengefal hand and hurled it out Into space And a smile peeped out thraith 'the dry war scars of the veteran tomiat's face ‘Never touched me!' he eried in triumphant glee, and u laugh of derision meouwed And the mud-man swore (1 the Stars went outand the moon hid its face in a cloud! Post hut wicked soul Again @id the tomeat raise Its volce in a BONE 10 (15 sweet Maric And the echoes quivered ke current Jell in the (hrill of the melodee And the man in the window cized and it belched forth a ra And the toment sank 1 the th anthe roof of the old woodsh W grunt of triumph the murderer tthe embrace of his conch agaln And the tomeat np 1w shot heid and from it khook ot And wafd: “I've heen slaughier 1've had trouble to beat the shotgin nof load 1gh slightly disfigured and i've Um still in the 1 more 1ives on hand C a0 L CDERT e Boara the The Kind You Hano AlwasaBough. i s of CASTOIMI.A. ars {he Tne Kind You Have Always Bought nature of CAB TCOFRL . There are 129 savings bunks pretty ever distributed in thirty-two of the sixty-one