Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1900, Page 6

. , } NO ARMISTICE Tie OmAHA Dany BEE | ; Pt - Z | The appeal from T4 Hunz Chang for %. ROBEWATER, Edltor i armistice will he rejected by s government. the determination MORN wecept nothing short of comple TN | phiance with the demands o o whington dis h states One Year 34 AW l‘ ar S0 that the appeal of the venerable vicoroy 3 now representing the imperial author nd a settlement hetween the Chinese ind governments, ix ulmost pa Ming, Twen | yuatic in tone, showing the desperate i1 Eirest trafts to which China has been driven n§ He stated that if the allied forces ad th Street | vaneed to Pekin it wonld shake the ) By fonndation of the empire, hesides caus Camm ini . r ' we and | ing the deepest alarm to the emperor ed tter h 1 ¢t Adresse nd emproess Wil |« ities to litons e o noul . ind emy vager and calamities t BIE 38 LETT | the people pitiness letters and” remiis hould | These appreliensions of Earl Li are Jony ek, = T RubTONIng | indoubtedly well founded, but the de REMITTANCES | termination to push the international Remit by draft express or postal order. | cong oy o Pekin scems to be fully nly =ta wccept 1 ment ‘m-vm.\ by the eircnmstances, T'he BRaNE o0 Dariurn s At & Chinese government has cortainly heen THE BEF Ll G COMPANY given atple oppertunity to comply with & ATEMENT OF CIRCULATION | the falr and reasonable demands m Btate of Nebr u County, ss upon it and having failed to do so, either P R Al TR | rrom inability o unwillingness, no con er of full and | fidence can be felt in any assurances Evening and e, printed during [ 1t may now give, The foreign minis the month was as follow ters have all, in identical terms, in 17 27 470 4 27 'm0 | formed their governments that they can 27,780 | not sately leave Pekin under Chiness 2 | excort, that their only sccurity in de 4 parting from the capital is in a suf aro | 27700 | | stane 27 600 L2781 27,6060 0 27, 850,055 12278 Net. total sal 1T 77T Net dally average 27,025 Gubacribed ana fOEO: B: TZACHUCK ubscribed and sworn to before me thi 81t day of July, 100 it M. B._HUNGATE, Notary PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER, Parties leaving the city for the summer muy have The Dee ment (ot regularly by notifying The Nee Business erson or by mail. changed 0 need of sending Kansas troops over to China—there are no breweries in that ountry to capture, —— Secretary Porter should take a lesson from the wise card player not to tip off his hand too early in the game. _— King Ak-Sar-Ben is indulging in royal Jaunts to bring new lands and subjects under his dominion. The policy of Ak Sar-Ben is for expansion. Bryan will make several speeches on his way from Lincoln to Topeka. The temptation is plainly too great for eve such a great man to resist If the Chinese keep up the present rate of retreat several high officials are likely to lose a few peacock feathers and get their yellow shirts solled. 1f the weather man will give Omal its full quota of storms and rain before the opening of the musical festival next month he will have a vote of thanks just the same, Since the treaty of peace between Dr. Lang and Governor Poynter has not yet become effective, another campaign may be necessary at Beatrice, Strange how susplclous these veformers are of each other. The lowa democrats the form of putting up a s toral ticket. It is only a ever. lowa democrats hav chance of landing as republ Kansas, zoing through ate and elec form, how as much ans in Ar The popocratic organs e stopped trying to deny that prosperity is What they are trying to do now divert attention from prosperity to side shows and bugaboos with which tlhey lope to bamboozle the voters, The popocratic candidate for congress in this district has named a con slonal committee long enough to from Omaha to Papillion, but not quite long enough to reach from Papillion to Washington. here. is to From the way in which the fusion crowd 18 squirming it is evident some thing has stenck them in i tender spot They are sparring wildly in the contest with the middle-of-the-roaders and noth ing but lively footwork can save them, For fear Secrotary Porter Took & point all the state house knocked off work to attend the he on the hallot Public fx a secondary consideration around the wonld over. Iployes aring protest business slate house when polities is on tap The trading stamp controversy re volves simply on the question of the most effective way of advertising. Nothing hus been invented or devised for advertising purposes that equals printers’ ink in a widely read news paper like The Bee Towa democrats are a self-sacrifiving lot. Otherwise it would be impossible to find enough wen to make up a state ticket 1Y v The eampaign has one good feature from their standpoint the candidates are not kept in suspense ve garding the result of the campaign n the outes by which the varions the national grard will be teansported to the annual encampment at Hastings one railvoad heen the bulk under the schedule of general. This is allotment of companies of weems 1o hive awarded of the the fusion accidental husiness adjutant of Montague Leverson writes to his Fili pino friends that the situation in the Philippines is such that it prevents him from sleeping. Had he been a of any country except this and written such a letter he would soon have been placed in a condition in which Lis sleep sould we longer be disturbed, . citizen | ficient foree of the allies to protect them and the other allies. In the only conrse 2o on to these circum: for the to which now e wise powers Pekin the international | very near, if they are not alveady under | the walls of the city. The result may | he to shake the empire to its founda i« to forees must tions, s only itself to Blame, but if so the Chinese government | LIMUTS OF THE The only respect in which the position ot DECLARATION heen governed by the United States ever since its founduation without according them @ part in the government or asking their consent? What about the women who are erned mainly without their consent? What ahout the foreign-born who are ed without their consent for five before their naturalization is com pleted? What about the allens, such as the Chinese, who are governed withont their consent and denfed the privilege of naturalization? What about the illiterate blac the south who, after having been freed from slavery and given the ballot by the republican party, have besn forcibly deprived of their rights and disfran chised by democratic violence and frand? It Mr. Bryan interprets the Decly tion of Tndependence to refer to all men, will he insist if elocted that these ex- cluded clusses now in the United States be accorded the same privileges of par | ticipating in ull functions of government s the fully enfranchised fnhabitants? in THE “LIBERTY CONGRESS" The so-called liberty congress at In dianapolis, which was really a Bryanite assemblage, s not likely to muke a very marked fmpression upon the country It was called ostensibly to promote the cause of “anti-imperialism® by independ ent action, but the men wl the congress announced their intention to support Bryun. Probably the entire congress will do so, but as it contained ddressed of most assiduons efforts to work up in terest in the wovement, they will be a very formidable fuctor in the cam not sachusetts, who declared his belief that Bryan is “honest in his purpose to re deen this country from degradation and its policy of imperialism’ and expressed the hope that next March there will b an innuguration “to be followed by a pol fey which will bring t Philippines.” The asion te ¢ venerd ticlse eran tion of Ben the a | President MeKinley in sending troops to | Clina and said: *Who authorized it Under the coustitution congress alone con declare war, Can the chief magls trate make war in the absence of a | congressional declaration of war | course most intelligent ¢ Kknow that the United tes Is not at war with Mr. Bryan differs from the position of Jet ferson Davis is that Mr. Davis Interpreted the Declaration of Independence to refer exclusively to white men and Mr. Bryan interprets the declaration to refer to alt men.— World-Herald What about the red men who have | only about 300 delegates as the result | paign or the eleciion The leading spirit of the gathering | was Hon, George 8. Boutwell of Mas THE OMAHA DATLY so-called imperfalism, nor does the cry of militarism disturh them, and for the sinple renson that they know there is no sueh danger VISSTATING THE FAUTS Mr. Brgan said in not o specell that o large permanent inerease in ov regular army i lutended by publican leaders and referved to the fa that in !} me e of Decenmboer 180N the president asked for the authority to increase the stapding army to 100, OO0 In 1805 said Mo Bryan, “the ny contained about 25000, Within two years the president asked for four times that many, and a republican house of representatives o A with the re quest after the Spanish treaty lad signed and when 1o country was 1t with the United States teferving to this the Boston ‘Transcript observes that as a matter of fact the inerense of the standing army of the United States wis not to 100000 men, nor was it permanent, ( oss - | thorized the increase of the army to G000 aud the enlistment of 355,000 volunteers e president was given power to maintain this 1, 101, and it is that date next agnin ahont 27, ny until July understood that at ¥ becomes the volunteers being mustered ont As the says, “With than 1000 citizens, it does not look as though vear the art 00 men loss one soldier there I8 at present any grave menace in the standing and to corrected s misstate | fignres easily not to strengthen the demoeratic case against | “mil | | FUTURE OF THE STATE FAIR. Lincoln papers ave appealing to the pride and public spivit of that ety to make the coming State falr a tinancial stiecess, urging that its future depends | targely upon the support it receives at [ the hands of the local merchants and | prople of the community. The iden, however, that the Stute fair can be perpetuated as a purely loeal exhibition is not founded on firm fucts | The only way the State falr can be made a suecess in all respects s to keep it up to the highest standard and fultill | the design of its original promoters, | The State fair should be an exhibit of | the resources of the state and not a col | lection of side shows hitched up to a | horse race. The chief trouble with our faits in the past has been that [t | the system preminms employed pro duees only a partial exhibit representing but a small part of the state instead of of the agriculture, showing my a general commerce and wutacturing interests | throughout the state, The future of the State falr will de- pend not upon fts lo features, but upon its Inhierent value. Unless it can be made to retlect the prosperity of the | entire state and serve its purpose to ad vertise the resources and openings for [investment, attract jmmigration and open the eyes of our own people to their | opportunities, it cannot receive the sup port necessary to keep it nor will [ it have valid elaim greater subsidy from the state treasury. going, any for a | Governor Heckham has fssued u proc | lamation conveuing the Kentucky legls | lature in extra sebel election law. The Goebel law enacted as A democratic par mensure and was upheld by democrats big and little, even to the message of | congratulation from Bryan to Goebel on the effective operation of this legalized traud in accomplishing hix eloction as governor. 1f the democrats could fond the Gocbel law a year ago, session wis why should they want to modify it now. If v and just it was fi when used to aid in seating ( | will expressed by the popular vote, why would it not be equally just in the com ing election? This move on the part of the democrats to modify the Goebel Tnw |is the most severe arraignment of its | anthors that could be mad | The ¥ out of pites have started o new pipe | story Lincoln about the alleged | ineligibility of Wharton Barker | candidate for president tussian government con the title of Lord of St recognition of bec years ago the | ferred on him | Wenceslaus in services | in this countr) T) {vh.n the acceptance of this title without | special anthority from congress would | be a cause of constitutional ineligibilit | "Puis is all in the imagination, loweve Wt forbid a private clitizen accepting honors from but luys its pro lolding ofti The Bryanite because the constitution does | forelgn governments, Libition only on | nnder the United States Dersons to modify the | de- | ranseript | | London | | | ebel contrary to the public | to be « | displays familiarity with the Old Testament, use some | he will remember that the campaigns which | resulted in the conquest troops out of the | Le had performed as its representative |nor need we leave our own country for pretense 18 made | lustrations of titde by purchase. It is | | China, but is shoply employing its sol-| fakivs will have to try again, [ diers in the effort to rescue American | | | ofticials and citizens besieged in Pokin [ The anti-dmperialist convention at n by a revolutionary clement which the | dlunapolis has showed its had in an | Chinese government was unable or un. | nnmistikiable uer. 1t has been gen willing to control. Mr. Boutwell also | erally believed by those who wateh sald that Mr. McKinley is the one per- [ events that its sole object was to em [ son responsible tor what has been done | bareass the present administration un in the Philippines ng the fact | der the gnise of itriotic purpose. | that Mr. Began secured the ratigeation | The condemmation of the government for 1-4 the Pavis treaty which gave the | the course pursued In sending troops to | | United States sovercignty in the Philip- [ China for the protection of Minister Con pines and Jeft the president no alter. | ger and the Ameriean residents uncoy [ native but to assert und defend that [ ers that purpose. No man not a blind | sovereignty. partisan could tuke such a stand. In | A feature of Wednesday's session of | their effurts to aid democriacy the pro | the congross was a letter from Mr. | moters of this convention have over | Bourke Cockran, who suggested that the “'d‘ hed themselves, | congress should not hesitate to support | —— | Bryan “because of impalpable dange Unless Count von Waldersee hurries avising from his opinions on subjects | NS departure from Germuny he is not with which, as president likely to add el to his military ex lie cannot pos Iy de al What are thes subjects | Arve they contained in the Chicago plat form, reafirmed at Kunsas City Four years ago Mr. Cockran denounced that platform in unqualitied te was real danger in it th | Cockran felt ¢ could, ms, I 0wy not now ur years ago that Bryan s president, deal witli the sul the plat vigorously opposed | election Bryan now | firmly by declavation of the Chi sago platform as he did four years ngo | yet Cockran ean see only “impalpable from Bryan's election this year. there | jocts contained in Chiengo | torm, and e Al every stands dunger’ little impression upon the country. The Awerican people are uot alurmed about The ratiocinations of these “anti-im | perialists™ ave very remarkable But as we have said, they will make | pericnce in China. o far events have Justitied the position taken by the United States in urging the advance on Pekin without waiting for the collection of a | vast army. Both In o diplomatie and the that ielals of this country they understand the with whom they than any of their wilitary | have s ay PR conditions and | deal het associntes have t ter fore Chinn's tmperial Anchor, Philadelnhia Record The debt In China, which s | principally held in Europe, amounts to $500 ound fgurcs. In this lies a ntial argument against the partition of empire public 000,000 in | the Balt Amefican He is no American who falls to appreciate the virile spirit of Americans in China. The | we b | Notable Shifting of BEE: FRIDAY, men who Are fighting to reach Pekin and those who are defending themselves in the ty ropresent the Blood, the vigor and the totern on that has made and will keep this nation great Sentiment of Rusiness Men, san Francisco Cal The gold democrat who said he would not vote for the hest man in the country if he stood on the Kansas City platform. nor for Bryan if he stood on the best platform ¢ drawn, has neatly expressed the timente of the business rlements of the | country ither the candidate nor tho| platform could be made acceptable under | any circumstances Sttant Tersely Stated. 8pringfleld Republican Amid the mass of wild and fncoherent news which has come from Pekin it freshing to come upon a calm, phlegmatic message ke that of Sir Robert Hart, who | sends word: “The soener we can be got out of this the better, for it is inconvenient re- for the Chinese government and unsafe | for ourselves.” Sir Robert I8 not a man | who loses his head NOW THE WOR 'S BANKER, the Center of Geavity, Baltimore American fnancial center of gravity has 4 and the United States has become the world's banker. The transaction by which this country was awarded hait of the recent British loan was not a matter of choice with the British government and the Bank of England, but & very pressing necessity. English bankers and newspapers will probably cease to rave and criticise when they realize clearly the situation in The action of American financiers in taking up so much of the British loan has temporarily averted a crisis in Lon- don and if things fall back into their usual ruts it may bring permanent relief. Had the entire loan been taken in England payment would have been made from the Hank of England reserves and the rates for money would have become very nearly prohibitive Twenty-five millions in gold will be a tremendous relief to the bank and the market. Europe at this moment owes the United States $500,000,000, which must soon be returned in one way or another. It was 1 d that a return of even a part of this money in October would bring about a serious crisis and it is not sure yet that this will not occur. The gold paid for the bonds will not go ve far to meet this indcbtedness and the honds themselves should they go to a premium, may be re- turned by the holders shortly after they are received. This may be averted by the fact that they are largely purchased for insurance companies and savings banks as investments, the interest being compara- tively large. The gold to pay for the bonds will prob- ably go from the banks, which hold a large amount of the precious metal, the New York banks alone having $176,000,000. The free gold in the treasury, outside the re- serve fund of $150,000,005, 18 about 000,000. This is more likely to be added | to than to decrease. What a commentary this is upon Mr. Bryan's proposal te de- base the currency and sever connection with all the commercial nations on earth! What a striking object lesson to the American people! Four years have not passed since the United States was plunged into the profoundest depths of financial and industrial depression, mainly because the people of this and other countries feared that the national government was about to pay its obligations in a debased currency. The stmple operation of honest financial laws has wrought the wonderful change and made Europe a suppliant for aid Finane The shif TITLE BY PURCHASE, Paramount ne Light of History, Washington Post (Ind rep.). Mr. Bryan says: “It is impossible to secure title to a people by force or by pur- chase.” “Impossible” means that which cannot be done. We assume that by “title to a people’ Mr. Bryan means soverelgnty over a people. That is not ewnership, as is the case of slaves, but it is the right to| govern. In our case soverelgnty implies the right to govern according to our con- stitution. That is the Post's contention and the democratic contention. Our fathers ured the sovereiguty of this country by force. And while they did not, except in a few Instances, claim or ussert absolute | ownership of the aboriginals as if they were cattle, they subjugated them and took possession of their lands. That has been going on all over the world since the | dawn of history. The Israelites took their | title to the land of Cauaan by a war of extermination, in which neither age nor sex was spared. As Mr. Bryan frequently Bryan's in the of the promised land and the slaughter of its inhabitants were directed by the God of Israel But we need not go into ancient histor: one of the proudest boasts of the greatest of Mr. Bryan's three parties that it has added vast areas to our more than im- perial domains. In achieving those grand results the illustrious democrats of the glorious past did not ask consent of the peoples whom they annexed by purchase In 1803 Thomas Jeflerson acquired the Louisiana territory and its varied assort- ment of inhabitants for $15,000,000. Who asked cared for “the consent of the governed" in that transaction? Is not our title to that vast transmississippi region valid? 1t is cheerfully important respects admitted there that, in some are material dif- ferences between continental expansion and that which was accomplished by the doption of the treaty of Paris. But in this matter of the validity of title by pur chase geography is of no account. The theory that Mr. Bryan enunclates is ap plicable everywhere it anywhere In 1819 this republic purchased Florida and the right to control its heterogen: ous population, paying for the title $5,000,- 000, We did not ask their consent and the administration sent General Jackson with an imposing, sonorous title to govern them. And he did govern them in about as “imperial” a fashion as anything in tha lino that our national history records In 1848 we had another und very consid- erable transaction in real estate, wherehy in consideration of $15,230.000 we acquired title to lands and peoples of New Mexico and California James K, Polk was president and James Buchanan was sec- retary of state. No consent of the people was asked, and they were governed -well and honorably governed-for under the authority in the president as commander-in-chief of the army. Under the administration of Picree, whose secretary of state lam L. Marcy secured, in $10,000,000, a valid title years vested Franklin was Wil 1833, for to southern Arl zona and its population of various colors Again no consent was asked. In 1867 President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State Willlam H. Seward paid $7,200,000 for Alaska, the inhabitants goiug with the land, as usual, and no consent asked or cared for. Each of these transactions was precisely like that which placed the Fili pinos under onr sovereignty. Each was a purchase of sovereignty and all that the term implies And neither (ke United States nor any other power has a more ATUGUST | ruted |1t 15 not Jawful title to any part of its domain than to the Philippin 1 Prestdentinl and State B ne The eyes of the whole nation are on the Nebraska campaign and elections of th fall, partly because Nebraska is Bryan home state and partly because they are anxious to learn whother our republican party will be successful enough to gain its old ascendan, Until ten y ars ago the republican party Nebraska to such an extent that a republican nomination was equal to an election. But its leaders in the meantime had become the obedient tools of the cor poration interests and had committed such &ross blunders that they drove thousands upon thousands over to the populists and allienated especially the German e A decade ago they betrayed the true re publican cause by putting an honest re publican judge of the supreme court, when his term was out, on the shelf for ten long years because the corporations did not like his stubborn and incorruptible independ ence, And some years later they elscted with a great flourish of trumpets one of the most obedient railroad the United States senate. These were a few of their misdeeds and hundreds of similar viclous and stupid blunders had the natural result that every candidate was in bad repute when it was known that he was a favorite of the republican railroad attor neys and other corporation I controlled republivan nominations packed caucuses and packed conventions The downfall and defeat of the repub- lcan party was the outcome of this had and dishonest leadership. If the rank and file of the republicans will be wise and ement tools to by rs who! energatic onaugh to relogate thess leaders rear. if they will present indepandent and popular candidates to the voters and xill show a decent respect to all the oreign clements, there fs hardly a doubt hat the republican party will b success ful. This has special reference to the legislative election, on which the reinforce. | ment of our republican party in the United States senate depends. The presidentinl campaign gives promise of republican success in Nebraska though Bryan makes the ridiculous assertion that not A atate would vote for McKinley and Roosevelt, an assertion great even true, unless he s an idiot brave old soldier, a careful and considerate statesman, whose administration through | protection, wise financial arrangements and | a judicious and energetic war policy has | given us unusual prosperity and excellent business conditions in the midst of war and rebellion, and Reosevelt, the flery warrior and honest political leader, are candidates so far superior to Bryan, the | shoulder «trap colonel and distributor of political errors and false promises, and to his vice presidential mate, that Bryan's home influence will be of comparatively small significance | The same superiority belongs to the ro- publican prineiples. The protective system has set &l the mills to work, has given | many millions of dollars to the laborers, | who under democratic rule had no income | and suffered from hunger unless fed in soup {»mm», And this happy effect of protection farmers and stock ralsers has furnished our Philadelphia North American. The democracy 18 beginuing to resent the “full dinner pail” argument which the re publicans put forward to win the votes of the workingmen What!" orators, ery the democratic organs and “bas the republican party sunk so low in sordidness that it no longer appeals to men's minds and hearts, but to their stomachs? Are the reje=cans not ashamed to ask the workingman to fix his eyes upon his dinner and forget the higher things, such as constitutional liberty for the Inhabitants of the war-won islands and the danger to his own freedom which the creation of a great standing army in the service of fmperfalism involves?" The democrats take the full dinner pail too literally. It means more than plenty to eat for the workingman. It signifies national prosperity, for if the workingman finds himself hungry it is because the mills and factories are closed down and com merce paralyzed, as they were under Cleveland. Moreover, the workingman with a full to think tion of dinner pail intelligently Indep is surely as able about the Declara the constitution ana the perils of a great standing army as if he were harassed by a gone feeling in his dence, midst. If the country happened to be un- dergoing . weason of hard times would our high-souled democratic friends scorn to descend to the sordid level of telling the workingman that a victory for democracy would bring good full dinner pail, in short? The party in power, rightly or wrongly. 1s usually held responsible for business depression and an empty dinner pail when those calamities befall. By the same process of reasoning the party in power gets credit for prosperity and the full din- ner pail. Were the republican party not 1o ask support as the filler of the dinner pail when the pail is full it would be the only party in history to practice such ab- negation and every politiclan, no matter what his badge, would regard it as insane and not it to be trusted to deal with human nature as it is, the times—the POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS, Washington Post: It is unkind fa the Nebraska banks te get stuffed up with meney just at a time whem Mr. Bryan is engagod in exploiting his theory of scarcity. Chicago Tribune: Conceraing the phono graph into which Mr. Bryan talked his Indianapolis speech a day or two ago, it is to be observed that the phonograph couldn't get away. Minneapolis Journal: Webster Davis tells the Assoclated Press that past three wecks he has declined invitations te deliver political mddresses which only proves there are at least 6 places in this great and glorious country that haven't yot found out what a chump Davis is. Portland Oregonian: The howl of “im- perfalism” is raised as a political expedi- ent, o order to induce men to forget the crazy silver schemae of four years ago. But the howl about imperialism is as trrational as the howl was for silver, only s0 dapgerous. 1t is a pity we have a political party that must always play the fool. Globs Democ satd Bryan in “rosting securely stones quarried by within the at: “Behold a republic,’ his notification speech, upon the foundation revolutionary patriots from the mounmtains of eternal truth.” Just so. Behold it paying out 100-cent dollars now as always throughout its his- tory, and imagine &ow it would look with a Jeremy Diddler grin trying to palm off 45 cents for a dollar, Buffalo Express: It is a little bit embar- rassing for Mr. Bryan to have ome of his most prominent supporters, the New York Journal, say his scheme for the treatment of the Philippines question is all wrong. The Journal affirms that “we do not want to give up the Philippines,” but should in- duce the iubabitants to come voluntarily into the union. The Journal evidently does not think imperialism the paramount issue. New York Sun: It must be a joy to democrats to read the list of statesmen who are to take part in the second Bryan | notification show, the one to be held in Topeka. The Hon James B. Weaver of lowa, the Hon. Cyclone Davis of Texas, the Hon. Dabster Wavis of Missourl and the W. J. Brennings movement—these are names to All the democratic heart pride and the democratic eye with happy tears. PERSONAL POIN Chicago has served notice on the census bureau that nothing less than a population of 2,000,000 will be satisfactory The German emperor rman manufacturer (o m tric cars of different shape and design, has commissioned in one of which he intends to travel to the| summer maneuvers in Saxony. President Loubet of France is a musiclan a fact scarcely known even in his own country—and not only plays the piano and violin with remarkable skill, but composs worthy of men so It s said, some music who have given their lifc to that art Seven men have been found on a farm in Schobarie county, New York, who didn't known any had been nominated for president or that in China. Schoharie has long been the New York synonym of ignorance and rusticity Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago tried to run an electric automobile last Thurs- day with results that were almost disastrous one He inadvertently turned on all the power and the wagon dashed away at a terrible speed. Fortunately, however, it brought up safely against a telegraph post before any damage was done A Washington stenographer who is often called in to assist the White House corps ays President MeKinley is the ideal man for a stenographer. He speaks just fast enough, with perfect distinctness and never hesitates for a word. Unlike most men, he evidently knows exactly what he is going to say before he tries to say it General Miles has recelved from soldier in the Philippinesa box of the cigarettes A private native to those islands. Inclosed was the note: “Dear Sir-When you wero riding by in Porte Rico you once overh: me way how much I wanted a smoke, and you im- mediately had an orderly give me several cigars. | now desire to return the com pliment,”" with | ke for him three | ¢ had heen any trouble | N HE LAND OF THE JOSS, Scenes, Incidents nnd People Brought | Into View by the Rumpus. The rapid progress of the allied forees toward Pekin promises to give a new phase 1o the Chinese situation before many days. Events are moving at such a pace over there that today's aspect of affairs may be banished on the morrow and no onme can safely venture a prediction on what may follow when the present task of rescuing the ministers is completed. While the United States looks for a peaceful settle- ment, {t is prepared for any emergency. A summary of the supplies sent to the shipping port of Taku shows a gratifylng state of prepareduess and a determination to provide every necessity for American sol- diers operating there. The list is as fol- lows: Blankets, 16,000 blouses, lined, 16,000; canvas caps, 5,000; fur caps, 4,000; canton drawers, 40,000; fur gauntlets, 10,000 pairs; wool gloves, 00 pairs; campaign hats, 12,000, artillery overcoats, 1,600; cavalry overcoats, 3,000; infantry over- coats, 11,000, overshoes, 16,000 pairs; ponchos, 12,00; shirts, 25,000; shoes, 20,000 pairs; cotton stockings, 44,000 pairs; weolen atockings, 36,000 pairs; kersey trousers, 16,00 woolen coats, pairs; mounted trousers, 3,600 pairs; undershirts, 27,000; canvas over- 1,000; hat cords, 17,400; conical wall supplies were shipped from San Francisco. Complete supplies for 5,000 men were also | shipped from Manila. The extent of the missionary work in China is strikingly shown in an article which the Misslonary Review is to print in Sep- tember. A table, the most complete that has | been complled, shows that at the outbreak of hostilities there were fifty-four Protestant who have been the curse of the party. to which | he himself probably does not believe to be | McKinley, o/ market AL good home them with a splendid prices and has mad pay their debts and dejos money in the banks. Under stances the Bryan infatuation 1sm has been consideratly red q he these and e thust- ud quits a number of his old adherents have already left him. preferring republican prosperity to democratic calamity, and republican promises honestly filled to false dem | cratie prophecies The fusionists of course will make a gre effort, and the republicans ought not to he careless and negligent. If they do their duty they in all probability can gain ths victory Nebraska. The situation is especinlly favorable, as we have In Ne braska five presidential tickets, thres of whom will draw their votes mostly from the | fuston party. But even if Bryan should be | successtul in Nebraska it would help him | very little, as he will he defeated fn most of the other states, even in former silver | states Stmilar good hopes are justified Megarding the republican state ticket, which promises \a good home administration, whila the con- trol of our state affairs under the (wo demo pop administrations has been so faulty and [ viclous that many of their former friends a's greatly disgusted and will not for Poynter again But greatly different is the outlook far the legislative election, which on account of ita important influence on the republican position fn the United States senate this time {8 of greater polftical significance than all the other Nobraska elections. In an other article this situation will be discusssd FRED HEDDE even in vote ! Grand Island, being killed, and a former republican as- soclate of John's cruelly replied “Oh, no danger. You Know don’t Kill anybody but Christians the Chiness China has had fts Joan of Arc. Tradition tells of a malden, Mou Len, who. in the zarb of a man, led the armics of the empire to victory. The position assumed by the empress dowager today in a land where women generally hold an fnferior place is not 8o novel to the Chinese as has usually been supposed THBEY COME A-RUNNING, Stampede of Siiver Rep Their First Love, Chicago Times-Herald Following the example of ex-senator Lea Mantle of Montana, A. M. Stevenson, who represented the Denver district in the re publican convention in 1808 and walked out with Senator Teller when the latter headed the free silver bolt, has now announced bis hiicans (o return to the republican ranks. In a letter Just published he accepts the declaration of the Kansas City platform that fmperfalism 15 the paramount issue, and as th.s relega silver as & paramount issue to the rear, “it may be for years and it muay be forever ' he has no longer any quarrel with the party of Lincoln and McKinley. On the question of expansion Mr. Steven- son says he does not agree with the demo- cratic party. It is becoming daily more evident that be- tween his two paramount stocks, imperialism | and tree silver, Mr. Bryan is in danger ot | Tosing several states which he carried solely bocause of the free silver cry in 1 Colo- rado was a republican state as late as 1885, and Montana gave Harrison a plurality over Cleveland in 18 Let silver republicans once that free silver is not regarde principle of the democratic parly and they will return to their old assoclation by thousands. To the great majority of siiver republicans free silver was the only sav- Ing salt about the party that made it a paramount fssue in 1896, understand as the first POINTED REMARKS, delphin Press: “Hello, Mark." eried | . “glad 1 met you. I'm going to i~ | “Great Scott!" exclaimed E. Z Mark, so | Budden was the shock “A nice, long visit soon | Indianapolis Journal: “Belinda, 1f my salary were raised we could be married to- morrow." | " Al right, Augustus; T'll write your em- | ployer an anonymous letter und “tell him | we both' think e 1s & mean old thing tents for commissary department, 5; hos- | Chicago ‘Tribune: =ivhat :-lnm occup ¢ i asked the warden of the peniten- pital tents for commissary department, 8 | tiary, referring to the lutest arrival wall tents for commissary department, ‘ He hasn't any regular occupation,” said hospital tents for medical department the subordinate. “He is nothing 'but ‘s PUALLIS 180 i ) | wara heeler | asbestos tent rings, 5,000; tent stoves, 1400; | "VAl1 right,” rejolned the warden. *Put tent stovepipe joints, 7,000 eto’ stoves, [ him in the shoemaking department.” 1,000; fire pots with parts, 1,500; axes, i f —_ 1,000; ax helves, 3,000 7 000: o Pittsburg Chronicle: “This weather makes ax helve 0; hatchets, 1,000; camp | ;0 "parapite excessively,” sald the Observ. kettles, 500; mess pans, 1,000; plckaxes,| unt 'Honrder.: 500; pickax helves, 1,000; shovels, 500; | "It makes everybody perspire,” added the 30; tents, 500; conical tents, 500 Boarder. “'We arc all pore tents, 150; wall tents, 200; tent et pins, 18,000; drawe 1,000 pairs. These | Washington Star Me may be a little tedious at times, but his fund of informa- tion is inexhuustible. Yes,'' answered Miss Cayonne, “there's no doubt of it. He takes so much time to tell every little fact that there {s no danger of th supply ever giving out | Pittsburg Chronicle: Mr a hot job toduy Mr. Bloomtieid ust have b Bellefield—1 did If you did anything at all 1 hot: but what did you 1 ordered my winter's sup- ply ¢ misslonary societies operating in China, with 627 ordained and 519 lay workers of Ameri- | Foston -ranscript: At the resort: Min T Butone o 4 nie (writing a letteri~And oh, Annie, there | can or European nationality. There are, or [ Bl (WrIthig A luticri=And oh, ‘Anpic, thers were before the massacres began, 50,000 | very duy communicants and 20,000 day pupils. Of | Nettie—Hut that isn't true, you Know he fifty-f socleties, twenty-three are | W Hiw gnly two the fifty-four socleties, twenty-thr Annfe-—Three, ineluding the scarccrow i American. These have 967 workers | {n' the field. i 4 cuse of this kind, you | (Caucasian and native) and 40,000 converts, | Know, we must take advantuge of all our against sixty-five workers and 10,000 con- | "50UTC verts for the British societies. | Washington st Phat Chinese student - says he enjoys the of George Washing United States Consul General Rounseville | o more thin aiy othor blogrinhic work Wildman at Hong Kong, to whom the Hol | 1ouiiied the story ot in's not helng How missionaries have appealed for an [able to tell a lie us i rilcce of m | American war ship, first came into | dacity prominence as a government agent AUFINE | ool Journal: Observing the managar the early days of the Hispano-American |of the ding departwent. the woman fc war in the Philinnines. He s credited | costed him, in a spirit of badinage huve klentomanin,” she sald with having sent the first official dispatch | b Wive Kigptomanie " »b . *What to the State department telling of the| “The clevitor, by all means!” said the destruction of the Spanish fiee Manila | manager, wittil by the guns of Admiral Dewey. Mr. Wild- | i, N B g rant sk | man, before his appointment to Hong Kong, | prise was editor of the Overland Monthly of San | pe—— vrereet Franclsco and a journalist of note. | RANDY'S PLAVIN® SCAL Portland Orezontan The Italian minister in Pekin, the Marquis | | 3 The sun is sizzlin’ in the sky, and cakin' up alvaggo Raggl, has with him his wife and N 18 siax akin only child, Paris, a boy & years old. He is | The bees (s hummin' down heyant, the fiies a handsome man, about 35 years old, while [ 1s buzzin® ‘roind, The birds I8 chirpin' in the trees, too hot (o [ his wife is beautitul to an unusual degree | Ehabirakdn abixy he [ $he was always called “La Bella Pallavicinl” | 7o liot 1o w o0 hot ta eat, toe hot 1o do a thi before her marriage. She was extremely at he horses standin’ in the street is | veluctant to &6 te Chioa when ber husband | #he " Horses —standint In | was appointed minister in 1895, having al- | An* in the parlor, shet up dark, Mirandy's veady been there when the marquis was| playin' scales [ attache at the legation. Being timid and u hear her go clean up the scale an’ then nervous by disposition, she was in continual | fear because she could not bring herselt to {rust tho natives. She was not with her husband when his appointment was decide | upon and, secing the announcement in the pewspaper, telegraphed: I hope the horrible nows §s not true.” In fact, the new minister left Ialy for China alone, to he greoted on his arrival by the news of his father ath. After that the marchioness Jined him at once This story is told at the expense of United a Consul Goodnow, stationed at hanghal. Goodnow is a Minnesotan and Minnesotans will readily see the point Some one asked the other day It thers was Lreully any dapger of ‘General” Goodnow | An“wonder whi | . bors must be | \ mtate o' mind the nelgh You kind o the heat an' drought go | through you to the core | An” all “the wh o know right well | 7 ane'n play twe TS niore | As wiire as it gets awful hot, it seldom ever Mirindi's sure to get in there an' go to There ain't no way to figure out how soma | things wits to be An' understandin' wo work fur me It she 0 kcales w ) jest as well a Bome things that s, | Btrangest fairy tales it heats me how when its Bot Mivandy wmust pluy scales, ankind is tes much ‘or Jigs or things, it Th =R fur o not tranger nler days than the | An