Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1900, Page 6

HA DAILY BEE THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT., AMERICA'S GOLDEN DAYS, The special sesslon of the British Par. llament was opened yesterday with | what was the briefest “queen's speech” ever delivered. It was sufficlent, how ever, since the sole purpose of the ses- sion s to provide money for military operations. As the government has a large majority the money It shall ask for will be voted, but it undoubtedly will be called upon by the opposition to answer numerous questions relating to the war in South Africa and the management of military affairs gen- erally. The recent utterance of the Statist, a leading financlal journal of England, urging the speedy termination of the South African war, volced the feeling of u great many Englishmen, That paper charged military incom petence and proposed that the govern- ment should begin negotintions with the Boer commanders to bring the war to It said: “We are losing in every way, losing in prestige and losing AN EFFECTIVE FACTOR. Crete Vidette The Omaba Bee pays a just tribute to the etficiency of Chair. man Lindsay and his able leu tenants. The Vidette would not withhold one mite of pralse from the vallant services of the state committee, They did their work both ably and grandly. But in our opinfon no factor aid more effective work to achleve the great victory than The Omaha Bee. From the opening to the ciosing of the cam paign its columns teemed with truthful, dignitied editorials that carried conviction to the minds of the conservative reade 1t did not indulge in “stud-horse display sensationalisms,” false statements, nor bragegadocio elalms. It was cool-headed, truthful and dignified. xceedingly gratifying and it is to be | GREATEST o o hoped there will be no unnecessary de Iny on the part of the several govern ments in approving the agreement. It Is belleved there will be no lesitation on the part of the Chi e government In accepting the conditions proposed. Indeed, it has been apparent all along that the imperial authorities are willing !'.. comply with any demand of the | powers short of thelr abdication or the dismemberment of the empire. They are ready to pay any money Indemnity that may be asked, on whatever prac- | tleable terms the powers shall decide | upon, and also to make whatever con cessions may be required of them for the security of peace. It Is for the in- terest of the powers not to make their demands so extreme and extravagant as to practically amount to the spolia- tlon of China. Let her punishment be ample, but not so severe as to be de- structive, THE ©MAHA DAILY BEE. B ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year $6.00 Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year 00 Lllustrated Bee, One Year 2.00 200 160 £ Volume of Trade with Fore tries Rench Amasing | St. Louls (Hobe-Democrat | In an especially direct and emphatic de | &rec these are golden days for the United [States. For the ten months ending with October of the calendar year 1900, which 18 the latest perfod for which official figures bave been furnished, the country exported 600,000,000 more merchandise than it im- ported. This is far ahead of any exc Of the past, and is $130,000,000 in ddvance Of that of the corresponding time in 1599, The tendeucy, to , coutinues to be upward. | For October alone the excess of merchan- dise exports over {mports was slightly above $92,000,000, or almost $3,000,000 for cach day iu the month, Sundays included. The outgo of both agricultural products and manufactures s on the increase, and thoukh the cotton exports of the past two r three months have run the agricultural ftem up to abnorwally high figures, manu- | factures have shown a steadier galn, the €XPOTts of manufactures amounting to 32 |per cent of the total merchandise ship- ments in the ten months of 1900, com- | pared with 30 per cent In the correspond- 3 : ! : ‘ i ‘ 4 Etehings of Life and Color in and About the Nat 1 Capital Although the newspapers of the country were supplied with advance coples of the president’s message in printed form, the decument went to the presiding officer of the senate and house of representatives in manuscript. The task of preparing two coples of the message in neat, legible pen- manship was a laborious task, and was done to the president’s taste by Secretery Pruden and an assistant. The coples con tafned 222 pages of manuscript, as clear a print and without blur or blemish, Spaulding & Co, Chicago. 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He recelved them cordfally, and in a neat littlo speech sald that he was glad to see them, that he was glad to have congress In scsslon again. 1 do not belleve any other president ever made such a remark for Christmas. : i i ! i ! ! { ! ! Our “Suggestion Book” mailed on application, uld m- Business be addressed pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal ordar, ayable to The Bee Publishing Company rily 2-cent stamps accepied in payment of mafl accounts. Personal checks, except on Spaulding & Co., —_— Jackson Boulevard, corner State St., Chicay Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btats of Nebrasku, Dowsus County, us George B, Tzachuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company. being duly sworn ay« that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during (he month of November, 190, wus as follows 30,870 16.... 14,905 1. 81,010 18 28,040 19 81,320 20. ..82,010 7 2., 2 t 2N, 100 48,880 28,870 | | 2,410 L.27,070 27, 2N, 220 28,410 27,960 27,620 27,740 LL4TTT0 ..27,565 26 400 12,008 Net total sales........ V18,421 Net daily average, 30,447 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK v _presence and sworn to day of Decemb M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Public. — e The first contest before the incoming legislature will be the contest over the speakership. Nebraskans at the national capital will Jubilate in due form over the ‘most bril UMant victory of the late campalgn. Bryan's late caudal appendage has by the accldent of death Inherited a six weeks' term in the United States senate, — uj Governor Roosevelt is golng to Colo- | & rado to hunt mountain lions. This would | le appear to be tame sport after the gov- ernor's experlence at Victor, 21,310 t ..110.760 28,460 ..29,200 25 940 28,680 25,5650 J t Ty o Total sosonsusssie Less unsold and returned coples. before me this 1at t t e i t ol t 1 f Congress has been In sesslon almost a week now, yet no resolution has been tntroduced declaring McKinley to be the fivst emperor of North America. i Bryan, In his latest epistle concern- ing the result of the election calls it a “temporary reverse.” How much of an avalanche would be needed to muke a decisive defeat? of The supreme court has dropped about $5,000 into the Christmas stocking of Judge Gordon and the defuncto police Judge will not ¢care a “rap” whether he s refustated or not. —_— Wholesale glass dealers have formed an assoclation for the purpose of fight- Ing the exactions of the trust. A few bricks landed in the proper place are lable to cause a crash. ——— Governor-clect Dietrich {s wrestling with several hundred applications for po sitions ranging all the way from state cuspidor burnisher to adjutant general. Uncasy lies the head that wears a crown. K i t e The men who have made a business of going Into court for the purpose of evading the payment of paving taxes are probably not in favor of a revision of that portion of the city charter. They are perfectly willing the taxpayers at large should pay for improving their property. tl 1 t P l t Towne gets the consolation prize” of the Minnesota senatorship in place of the late Cushman K. Davis. As the job only lasts until the legislature meets in Junuary the late tall to the Sioux Falls ticket will have to hurry to get to Washington in time to be sworn In and collect mileage. t 1 n L t n Afriean po distress and the opinfon ground abroad that we are incapable of | bringing the struggle to a satisfactory pointed out precedent for legislation of this charac te with which we as a sovereign equal servanc mended that for indemuity to the ltallan sufferers in the same form and proportion as here- tofore. in this matter, dent Ha have held, may properly enact the pro- posed legislation, has prevailed. such demand as China can meet, question of grave concern. n lite. We are seeing our South sesstons plunged into greater I8 gaining ermination.” The South African war has cost Great Britain hundreds of millions of dollars and a great loss of life. done enormous injury to British teade It has uterests in South Africa. It lmposes 4 heavy burden of taxation, now to be in nereased, upon the English people. All his I8 causing many to think seriously about the situation and Is creating ap- prehension of dangers ahead. ROV general election and given a safe ma Still the rnment was sustained at the late ority In the House of Commons, hat it Is assured of having the finan- | tal requirements provided and its policy | wrding the war approved. Meanwhile onditlons in South Africa apparently 80 do not improve and the end of the con- flict seems to be still remote, PROTECTION OF FOREIGNERS. The president In his message renewed he recommendations made last year hat congress confer upon the federal ourts Jurisdiction in cases where the itizens of forelgn countries residing in he United States are made the victims f mob violence. He polnted out that e efforts of the federal government | bring to justice the lynchers of tallans at Tallulah, La., had been ruitless and sald: It s incumbent pon us to remedy the statutory oinls fon which has led, and may again | cad, to such untoward results. 1 Lave | the necossity and the . Its enactment is a simple measure | t previsory justice toward the nations | ke treatles requirlug reciprocal ob- The president also recom- congress make provision In 1801 President Harrison expressed the opinion, in Lis message to congress, that it would be entirely competent for ongress to make offenses against the reaty rights of foreigners domiclled in he United States cognizable in the fed- ral courts, and a bill for this purpose was introduced in congress in 1892, but no action was taken, that there ought to be no doubt or ques- It would seem lon as to the duty of the government It congress, us Presi- ison and President McKinley | AGREEMENT AS TO CHINA The forelgn ministers at Pekin have t last reached an agreement as to de- uands to be made upon China, which has been submitted to the home govern- ments, It appears that in regard to he principal questions, punishment and ndemnity, the view of this government This was set forth in he president's message and contem- plates full explation, “within the ra- fonal limits of retributive justice,” for he real culprits, and as to Indemnity On his the message said: “The matter of ndemnity for our wronged cltizens 1s a Measured in money alone, a suticient reparation may prove to be beyond the ability of China All the powers concur in em- phatle disclaimers of &ny purpose of 0 meet. aggrandizement through the dismember- nent of the empire. I am disposed to | tlon of the anti-trust law that they may You will remember how Mr. Cleveland re- Senator Danfel has evolved the finest scheme yet for depriving the negro of his without shutting out the Ignorant portion of the whites fn his own state. The proposed law provide an educational qualification, but mak an exception of anyone who has ever served fn any war. This will let in the ex-confederate soldlers, of whom there are several thousand in Virghiia who would otherwise be disqualified. It the fnventive talent in the south utilized in politics were directed toward the mechanfeal field the Yankee would soon be a back numbe vote s Foreign officlals in China are just be- ginning to discover that instead of hav {ng the effect of terrifylug the Chinese tnto being good and doing as they de- sire the marauding expeditions are hav Ing the opposite tendency as well as| creating a bad impression upon the Chinese which will be lasting. The powers can ask China to deal justly in the present situation by first being just themselves. Practically every position takeu by United States officers, clvil, military and naval, has been proven correct and finally adopted by the others, of 8 e of k d i cf m | b hi The supreme court has afirmed that the salary of a public officer whose office was created by the constitution cannot be diminished during the term for which he was elected or appointed, but there is nothing in the constitution that prevents a constitutional officer from being fmpeached and removed for mlsdeweanors in office. —— The supreme court has served notlce on all foreign corporations doing busi- ness in the state of Nebraska In viola- a a at any time be ousted, concerns incorporated In the state? Can they be forced to move out or compelled to go out of businesy? But how about Tarred with the Same Stick. Indlanapolis News. Iu 18 impossible for President Kruger to divide the nations when they are united for a grine of grab. Let It Go at That. Cinelnnatl Tribune, President McKinley made no suggestion for an appropriation with which to buy a crown. The country is saved Beating Around the Bush, Globe Democrat. It is the precedent of paying a debt, not the money involved, that worries the sultan when the American claims are presented. The Turks fear that if they settle one a count the first downward step will have been taken and a dangerous habit formed. & Down Salt Creek. Kansas City Star, Discouraged and disgusted over the re- sult of the recent election, the populists of Nebraska, headed by the state officers, who will soon be out of jobs, will remove, it l sald, in a body to the Indlan Territory. If Mr. Bryan remains behind he will be com- pelled to become a democrat, Working the Deadly Parallel. Chicago Chronicle. Even royalty, It seems, Is not exempt from the unpleasant experlence of the “‘deadly paraliel.” The French newspapers contrast the present frigid attitude of the German emperor toward Mr. Kruger with his effusive telegram of 1896 and the re- sult is disagreeable. If Kruger was right in 1896 he is right now. There can be no escape from that proposition, Gold in Abundance. Kansas City Journal. The gratifying information comes trom Waehington that the largest stock of gold coin and bullion the United States treasury has ever held 1s now accumulated. The total amount 1s $474,108,3¢6, which Is about | 476,000,000 more than the amount on hand o a 8! & t I gretted Ing day,” says the Washington Post the floral tributes so profuse or so hand- scme. tops of the desks of the senators resembled a huge flower garden, brilliant with all the hues of the red carnation, baskets and bouquets would be to print a 1ist of the senate. from Senator Hanna, the victoriosu leader the flowers were of glgautic size. o lations down one another's throats, mutual scene and exchanging murmured comments, Others stood looking up and down at one determine, and waistcoats in contact bonnets and skirts through it all. least It was highly affecting rose that ceaseless palaver which sounds listen to its sprightly Inarticulations. would be like the tossing up and down of little waves disturbed by vagrant breezes 1n a sunny cove—If waves could talk different quence or exposition which are wont echo from the walls of this chamber when prince with that he “had congress on his and how he preferred to “drive a team of wild horses,”” rather than attempt to mecure needed McKinley's greeting was sincere even if it was unprecedented. legislation. President ever before in the history of an open- “were Looking down from the gallery, the rainbow, from the violet to To specify all who recelved Nobody was overlooked, f his party, to Senator Jones of Arkansas, who was the chairman of the losing side. enator Hanna's chief tribute was an normous tree of American Beauty roses, which obscured everything within ten feet f its wide-spreading branches, while Sena- tor Jones' desk was heaped high with all 1nds of fragrant blossoms. Senator Vest's iminutive form was hidden behind a tow- ering mass of floral beauty, so massive that it required the seryl o8 of two able-bodied ages to carry it in from the lobby. The hrysanthemum seemed to be the favorite nedfum of expressing regard, and some of Senator arter of Montana, who Is entering upon is final three months' service, received a uge basket of these blossoms, to which was attached a large printed card with these words tana." ‘From his friends in Mon- Even Senator Wellington, whose esertion from the republican party is still toplc of conversation, was not neglected. The gift sent to him was yellow." Jullan Hawthorne draws for the Phil- delphia North American a three-color ple- ture of the scene in the house of repre- sentatives just before the guvel fell half-past 11, he writes, * of the chamber was crowded with mem- bers and their friends or sultors, of whom more than half belonged to the gentler sex —gentler, but not therefore necessarily less influential. “AL e whole area This crowd, divided into narrow ections by the lines of the desks, was pushing amiably up and down, to and fro, or collecting #haking groups, or detaching itselt here and there Into duos or trios. evidences of the highest good humor, the most enchanting gaiety, the most caressing affection, the most joyful greeting. friends who had been cutting one another's throats for two years past could hardly bring themselves to relinquish their af- fectionate clasp of one another's elbows, itself into smiling, hand- Everywhere were ol r abstain from pouring friendly congratu- Others in a the at in contiguous seats, entranced semi-embrace, contemplating nother, as their respective statures might with hands clasped in hands And then the It the ight did not dispose one to serfousness, at And above all o pecullar when you close your eyes and It How ot elo- to from the solemn tones he fate of a nation hangs upon the words, and a listening world pricks its ear to atch thelr purport.' PERSONA NTERS, Santa Claus is expected to do his shop- ing on an unusually large scale during the next three wecks. An Indianapolis alderman who went galnst @ decoy lobbylst for $1,000 has been given a two-year vacation in the Northern Iudiana penitentiary. The latest soclety item states that the of Wales looks more Impressive his new glasses, but this may be imply an optical illusion The new delegation to congress from Pennsylvania will consist of twenty-stx re- publicans and four democrats, a republican galu of six members, the present delegation belng comp sed of twenty republicans and en democrats. And when the election friends and enemies alfke scanned ity columns for a truthful state ment of the result. And they got it. It pays to be honest. Srosrsssossssoses R — ATROCITIES OF CIVILIZATION, Philadelphia Times: Frederick and Napoleon used to carry on war upon the principle that the spoils belonged to the victor, but even they did not loot the property of a nation with which they pro- fessed to be at peace. And the modern ideas dlscountenance the whole idea of plunder in war and condemn utterly such barbarism as has been displayed at Pekin Though Americans are ot concerned in it, it 1s shameful to be in such partnership Washington Post: The press reports tell us that France took equal part in this inconcelvable barbarity. Those reports, however, reach us through English chan- nels, and we must keep In mind British hostility to France and British friendship— a thing of recent birth and doubtful con- tinuity—for Germany. If France has really taken part in this wanton desecration, we shall extend to her the condemnation to which the act entitles her. But there must be better evidence than that contalned in statements edited by England in order to secure our confidence. In any case, and without reference to the location of the responsibility, the looting of the Pekin observatory remains a blot upon Christian clvilization and a fresh arraignment of the hypocrisy and cruelty of the allied fnvasion of China Philadelphia Ledger: It is not merely the officers and soidlers of the French and German armies in China that are engaged In stealing everything they can lay thelr hands on, but the governments themselves They have taken valuable government prop- erty from Pekin and transferred it to their own capltals, ostensibly for preservation, but nobody will be so credulous as to be- lieve that the goods will be returned whea the trouble 1s over. The criticlsms which followed Napoleon's transfer of the art treasures of Rome to the French capital have had no effect on his successors. Civilized as they claim to be, thelr rule 1s stili: That they should tal And they should keep who can, Baltimore Sun: Is it strange that the Chinese object to “‘western clvilization,” or that they belleve the vaunted superiority of European morals and culture is merely a myth? Europe has robbed the emplre of territory and now, under the pretense of Avenging an attack upcn the forelgn min- Isters {s appropriating public property The Chinese government has been ar- raigned in bitter terms by the powers for its fallure to check the uprising of the Boxers and to prevent the latter from committing outrages. The government might easily retort that European methods do not appear to be much better than those of the Boxers; that Europeans take humat life on as little provocation as the Chinese and have no more respect for property rights than the Boxers. The looting of Tien Tsin and Pekin and the slaughter of Chinese not engaged in revolt are scarcely surpassed by any of the atrocities charged against the Chinese government, ke who have the power, —— BETTER INDUSTRIAL CONDITION. Material and Moral Welfare of Worke- men Recetving Conside San Franclsco Chroniel It {8 cheering, n view of all that fs sald of the oppression of labor by capital, to note some indications of a dlspositon amon; employers to coslder the material and moral welfare of their operatives, and to assist them to improve their condition and en- vironment. The Novemaber Bulletin of the United States Department of Labor cons talns detailed descriptions of nineteen large establishments—including several of our best known and most rapacious “trust and mention of twenty-two more, in which systematic efforts are made to enable their workmen to make themselves comfortable and prosperous, and improve themselyes worally, socally and mentally. The report slates that no attempt has been made to compilo a complete 1ist of such concerns, but only to describe or refer to such as had been brought to the attention of the de- partment. The measures taken for the accomplish- ment of this end vary greatly In different was over § | ]| more than the present |"ing time in 1809 According to an estimate of the director of the mint at Washington, based on the | figures for the past ten or eleven months, 80 far as they have been obtained, the gold output of tho United States for the calendar year 1900 will be $52,000,000, as compared with $71,000,000 for 1509 and $64,- 000,000 for 1598. The United States stands second among the gold-producing countries this year, Australia belug the only region which 1s ahead of us, and that locality is only $1,000,000 in the advance for 1900. The United Stateg was third in 1899, South Africa, as well as Australla, being ahead cut off the whole African gold supply this year. The United States Is rapldly re- galning the lead it had a few years ago. If the estimato of the director of the mint turns out to be correct we will be fn the advance in 1901, with $94,000,000 of a gold output, as compared with $88,000,000 for Australia and $75,000,000 for Africa. The latter figures, of course, are based on the ssumption that the damage of the war period in that locality will be repaired at once and that mining will be resumed next year on about the scale which was seen before the trouble began. America's gold expansion will be due to the increase in Colorado and in the Cape Nome district chiefly, But tho gold output comprises only a small part of the mineral product of the United States. While, for example, $71,- 000,000 of gold was produced in this coun- try in the calendar year 1899, $256,000,000 of coal was mined, with $245,000,000 of iron and $104,000,000 of copper. Each of these Was far in the lead of gold, while silver, $70,000,000, and petroleum, $64,000,000, were but little below gold in value of output in 1899, The total value of the output of the ccuntry's metallic, non-metallic and other mineral products in 1899 was $376,000,000. Here, too, all records, not only for the United States, but for the world, were broken. This country's aggregate mineral production in 1890 was $619,000,000 and it 69,000,000 in 1850. As it jumped from $697,000,000 fn 1868 to $976,000,000 In 1899 and as the tendency continues to be upward the total will be far above the $1,000,000,000 mark In 1900 or be three times as great as It was twenty years earller. In all the cloments of material greatness this country \s advancing by leaps and bounds. In ag- Eregate wealth the United States fs far fn tho lead of the United Kingdom, which stands second among the natlons in this respect. When the country's wealth for 1900 is reported a few months hence it will undoubtedly be found to be up to or above the $90,000,000,000 mark. This 1s a greater AgEregato of woalth than was in the entire world at the birth of the United States fn 1776, —— “HOW YOU HAVE GROWN.» Great Britain Amazed at the of the United State: London Telegraph, Statistics are frequently merely dull ana repellent hosts of figures; occasionally they striko home upon tho Imagination and leaye @ vivid impression upon the mind, No thoughttul person can fall to realize somo. thing at least of all that is signified by the consus returns of the United States, That mighty nation has been numbered and i 15 found that her population now stands at 76,250,000 In the short space of ten years thero hag been an Increase of nearly 13.- 125,000, which 1s equivalent to mlmost 21 per cent for the decade, or rather more than 2 per cent per annum. When we re- 200 years ago the population Cenn, member that of the states was under 300,000—or ratljer population of Brad- ford—and that 100 years ago it was but little over 4,000,000, it will be seen with what amazing rapidity the young giant among the natlons has bullt up his strength, The {mportant fact is that there are 13,- 000,000 more people owing allegiance to the American constitution than there wers ten years ago. And the growth of population is the infalliblo test of national prosperity and advancement. No nation has ever yet risen to greatness with a dwindling popula- tlon, and probably none ever will. Declin- Ing numbers have been the invarfable con- comitant of national stagnation and de- cadence. The growth of the power of Great Britaln, Germany and Russin bears witness to the truth of this sweeping genoralization, and there {s nothing which gives French publicists more serlous grounds for ajs- of us then, but the war has practically | far-reaching fmportance that all will hope the advantage will continue to rest with the whites. LAMENTATIONS OF THE LEFT. Seeking Solace for the Pain of DI pointed Ambition. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The late democratic candidate for presi- deut would have shown better sense it he had omittea writing that article which ap- peurs in one of the magazines for December, He attributes his defeat to soveral causcs-— the alleged big republican campalgn fund; tho freo passes which he says the ro- publicans furnished their voters who were away from home; the comparison which tha Masses of the people made between the business conditions of 1900 and those which prevailed from 1893 onward until after 1896, the ald which he intimates the trusts fur- nished to tho republican party, and the people's “fear of a chenge.” On every one of those points Bryan shows the demagogy with which his enemies charged him, and which was one of the reasons why the American people phatically refused to make him presid It the imagined big republican campalgn fund changed a minority Into a wmajority then the democratic voters of the present day fn the United States must be the most venal persons whom the world has ever seen. The talk about the efMeacy of the alleged free passes on the railroads must relate to the employes of the departments in Wash- ington who have a residence In some other part of the country. These, as everybody knows, are not numerous enough to hold the balance in any fmportant state even if they were all concentrated In one commonwealth. All the other explanations by Bryan for his defeat are equally shadowy. The trusts, as even Bryan knows, were divided, and had 1o Influence in the cunvass. The talk that tho voters made comparisons between the panic times of 1893-96 and the prosperity of 1900 1, of course, true, but Bryan mis- represents tho situation when he intimater that the comparisons which the voters made wero {llusive. Bryan himself a year or so ago asked several audiences if they had seen general prosperity. He has found this year that the great mass of his countrymen have become acquainted with general prosperity, and that they are grateful to the party which brought it. Bryan's whole screed fur- nishes another fllustration of that cheap and shallow trickiness which the American people detected in him early in his political career, and which has buried him under the heaviest avalanche of votes which ever crushed a presidential aspirant in the entire history of the United States. BREEZY CHATTER, Cleveland Plain Dealer: “What do you think of the plans for that glgantic corner 1 8 "1 ink they are wen 1ata. Chicago Record: “Was watch you lost, madam?" “Valuable!'" "All five of my children cut thelr teeth on it." it & valuable Indfanapolis Journal: Landlady—I rather ko having one dyspeptic at my table. Visltor—How queer! Landiady—Oh, 10 he makes the boarders ashamed (0 ind fault, Indianapolls Press. Tommy—Paw, 18 tact? Mr, Figg-Tact, my eon, Is what & man has not If he talks about his mothers fine cooking just after his wifo has picked up the stovelid lifter by the hot end. other what Chicago Tribune: “That was a daring action of young Swaddleking in putting Pent ping 1 tho chairs of the members ¢ he facu'ty the other morning. They ex- the institution, didn't Tmmeatately—by a rising vote.” Philadelphla Record: “Excuse me, sir, #ald the man In the next seat, “buf yoir clgar 1s burning a hole in your paper.’ That is all Tight,” responded the other; “I am just burning out the price of those electric’ scaly at tomorrow's bargain sile. You see, 1 take this paper home." Philadelphia Press: Tess—May Winsum 18 quite i'l, T belleve. Joss—Yes, sho's developed chronfe hys- terla, Tess—What's the cause of It, do foollshly told her know ? sho looked beautiful when she luughed. pelled " him " from you Jess—Somebody that Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Human quick- ness In taking advantage of an emergency seems to have reached the limit in the northwest.’ How was that Eloven candldates were fn the flold for Benator Davis' seat before he was burled.” at the close of 1899, Of the amount men- tioned, the sum of $230,756,309 1 represonted |y augertion that men over B years of by outstanding certificates; the remalnder, | ago 4o’ not meed exercise. Men callod. out :"‘"“['"l’;"'":‘)"'!‘* ""I“,"::“::I ‘:‘;: “::“r:"":‘m“':‘“ | of bed at unreasonable hours of night and ;08 Sox¢ ol s e D0 morning may be excused for kickin tional banks hold about $197,000,000 in gold n:“‘:‘_‘l""“minw I L c 670,000,000 in ‘l:‘,: IRRNIEE S tA1M] OF AbNE 8170)905,060 ta| Bugenes Debs received more than 5,000 A Chicago doctor breaks into print with | establishments and include the support of | 3U1°tUde s to the future of thelr country clubs, athlatie socletios, lbraries, lectures, | [L00 the evidence of stagnation shown in industrial schools, kindergartens, Sunday their census returns. Amer ans, therefore, schools, musical socleties, games, summor | ©4¥ Do well content with the progress they outinge, sanitary measures, instruction in have made in the last decade. These fg- good housekeeping and the domestic arts, | 'F%5 Afford them amplo reason for pride medical attendance, the cultivation of it | %0 p‘;:':“:::“’;:) e cSnly sreat power of | votes in Chicago for president of the United | by means of savings banks, life fnsurance | otent day which can vie with them estimated that gold coin and bullion held Btates. Woolley’ ”“} prohibitlon cundidate, | and provident associations of various Kinds, | '® BUmbers is Russia, and in wealdh Gl juee Gnaneias iastituions and by 10° oholia a Tealet of Obisaso, AN (0F Whom | eaconfaging . the Sequiremant of homes Lor | SReraY, fn adaptaBillty, | educeieass dividuals make. the pressnt supply of gold| I8 ot S0 HEC S expected by the antl- [aiding thercto, the sala of stock to employes | ' th&t cunning industrial skili which (s 1A IR seuniEy AN aea LuAd 000t | cuptaen it resslven 00 and profit sharing. Probably no single | tN foundation of material prosperity, they tst o & United States has nearly doubled. The gold| Should a bill pass congress for & cabinet | establishment attempts all of theso things, | a7 OULStrip the subjects of the czar think that due compensation way be made in part by increased guaranties of security for forelgn rights and fm- munities, and, most importaut of all, by the opening of China to the equal commerce of all the world.” It is| not to be doubted that if the powers shull proceed in accord with this view the Chinese government will be found | most willing to give any guaranties that | way be required of it for the security | WHEN BESSIE WENT TO VOTE, James Barton Adams in Denver Post When charming Dessle went to vote I asked her if 1 might Fiscort her to the polls and see her exercise her right She graclously assented, talked along the way About the dawn of woman's blessed inde- pendence de | She snid the day ‘was coming when all over this broad land, From Maine's famed w to the Pacific strand Mere sex would cut no lee Now that we have been officially noti- fled that former County Judge Eller has projected himself Into a company for the special relief of people who suffer from the garbage hauling monopoly, we begin to understand the import of the frantic appeals of the World-Herald for & popular uprising. and we B len nutmeg trees Lord Roberts, In his farewell speech at all, ana on leaving South Africa shows that he 18 somewhat of a statesman as well as & soldler. He urged upon his hearers that the best way to pacify the coun try was to forgive und forget instead of increasing present animosities by harsh measures. The victor in such conflicts can always afford to be gen erous. « [ n 0 Benator Thurston has introduced a bill to create the tenth United States cireuit It goes without saying that the people west of the Missourl regardless of party would appreciate the proposed measure, and it may be taken for granted also that the president woald have no diffi culty in finding men competent to dis- charge the judiclal functions devolving on the occupints of the new circult | bench. The queen of England has broken the record for brevity i the shape of mes- sages to leglslative bodles. The ad dress from the throne on the assembling of Parllament comprises not over 200° words and consists solely of a request for more money to pay the expenses of the war In South Africa. England's | acquisition of land fn that part of the | globe 1s about thé largest real estate deal of recent years, and there is still & cloud on the title, the the propositions with tions as to detalls und 1t Is to be pi sumed that these r but th of negotiations. purticipation in any milivary o of forefgn rights and also to mak nost liberal concessions ting com nerce. It 18 stated that on other points the French proposition has formed the basis of the agreement. The French note to powers proposed, besides punlsh uent and equitable indemuities, the con- tinuance of the interdiction against the importation of arms, the organization in Pekin legations, the dismantiing of the forts at of a permanent guard for the Taku and the military occupation of two or three points on the road from Tien Tsin to Pekin. In respouding to the French note our governmeut accepted certaln reserva- servations continue, ¢ are no obstacle to the initlation The president could not, without the authority of congress, muke any permanent engagement for a lega tion guard at Pekin, nor could he com- wit the United States to a permanent upatic It is not necessary to the beginning of uegotiations, however, thut there should be agreement on these points, The acceptance of the reasonable, practical and humane views of. the United States governmeut by the repre- sentatives of the other powers at Pekin officer to be known as secretary of com- | standard 1s secure FAMOUS RUN ON “CABS, Commission Went cago News. it 1s now well known that the United | States did itself proud at the Parls fair One of the most striking proofs of that fact may be found in Commissioner General | Peck's bill for $6,600 for cab hire. Esti- mating the average rate per cab-mile at|! the conservative figure of 1214 cents, it is evident that the commissioner and his staff traveled some 50,000 miles In cabs during the falr, twice circumnavigating the globe. This stupendous and truly American per- |t tormance can harly fail to make a lasting impression upon the European imagination The United States s par excellence the land of travelers and the land of haste Her citizens are not only by nature loco- motory, but they demand speed. No sloth- ful taking root in one spot, no slow pedes trianism, no lumbering omnibuses will do for us. The native Parislan must have been impressed with this national fact ns he beheld the swift and endless procession of the commissioner's cabs. These cabs, in interminable array, must have gone careering around Paris at lightning speed at all hours of the day and night. For celerity and ubiquity they must have far excelled the fabled “Flying Dutchman.” Even at this day the atmosphere of the great capital must be agitated with the rush and stir of their incessant motion 1 the cub drivers had a vote there s no doubt that the commissioner general wonuld ¢ | bave two crosses of the Leglon of Honor, merce and Senator first man to hold the office. of a bill favoring the creation of such a P | requiring courage and endurau dent's message. Urited States on the of Arbitration are | rigon, Chief Justice Fuller of the sujreme the numerous affanced to another, and was glven a resh | sult of tar and feathers. was cruel and excossive. have effected a complete cure by forcing him the Stearns ments to the University of Michigan sent word from Europe that | ments to be added to the collection | these bullt in 1703 by Christofero, the lnveitor of the planoforte, industries it Is thought that Nelson of Minnesota will be the He 1s author osition. Mr. Burnham, the American scou’, who was on the staff of Lord Roberts, recently recelved a mander testifying that, other man could have performed the serv- the Britlsh com- in his opinion, no letter from ces rendered by such Mr. pecullar H There 18 one item of news in the presi- It 1s the announcement the men selected to represent the International Court Former President Har- Burnham, training, “services skill, lat ourt, Attorney General Griggs and Justice Gray of the circuit eourt browsivg on became too a damsel A gay and festive Hooser, banks of the Wabash, in his attention to The punishment The tailors could to masticate and a Wabash ndwich Frederick Stearns of collection aigest Detroit, who gave of musical instru- has is, instru A harpsic where he no he has purchased 200 more 18 a three-keyboard |overatives pay but some do most of them, and while as yet | but few out of the great number of our industrial concerns have adopted the methods there are enough which do so to afford evidence of a stroug tendency in that direction among manufacturing companies. Theee enterprises are not conducted as | clarities, but as a part of what employes are entitled to upon entering the employ- ment. The general principle is that the dues sufMcient to bear a | pertion of the cost and the employers pay the rest. All risks are necessarily taken by | the employers, as the operatives have not the capital from which to pay losses. There is no doubt that the consolidation of com- peting concerns into ‘“trusts’ tends to the lncrease of these efforts to make work- men contented. While there is no reason to doubt that they are to a great extent {uspired by real friendliness to the work- men, it Is also true that these measurcs are belleved to be profitable to the employ- ers, as tending to increase the efficiency of labor. They must also be recognized as an effort to induce a spirit of co-operation among all engaged In the business—em- ployers and employed—as agalnst all the world. It Is probable that this is also felt by the trade unlon leaders, whose object always 18 to create a solidarity among all employes fn an Industry for the purpose of dealing at arm's length with all employ- ers, and who may not feel much enthusiasm over plans of co-operation between Indi- vidual employers and their workmen. But, however this may be, the tendency has to be reckoned with and s one of the forces What the future has In store for the vast and magnificent far beyond anything hitherto witnessed in history, no one can doubt, and there are few Englishmen gratification, owing to the community of raro Ideas and language which lMnks both the heart and brain of the United States with the heart and brain of the British empire. As In England, the urban and manufacturing centers grow much more rapidly than the rural. No one will be sur- prised to find that the Indians are steadily dying out of the land. There are now but 134,000 descendants of the red man, who once' roamed In undisturbed possession of the soll, There is no room for the nomad in the modern scheme of life. He has refused to adapt himselt to altered conditions, and though the result may be deplored, the law is Inexorable. Probably, however, the ques- tlon which will most interest the American 18 the relative numbers of the white and colored population. The theory used to be vory widely held that the colored races in America Increased faster than the white, Statistics, however, prove that the in- ference was not warranted by the actual figures. In 1880 there were 6,500,000 free colored people In the states; in 1850 (here were nearly 7,600,000, The proportion in the former year was about 2 to 13; in the lat- ter it was 2 to What it is at the pres- ent time the published returns do not dis- close, but hitherto, except between 1840 and by which more and more the workman Is gettiug an Increased share of the products of bis labor, 1860, the white American has Increased rather more rapldly than the colored. The raclal problem in the states is one of such United States only the future can disclose, | but that it is something great, something | who | do not welcome the prospect with hearty wouldn't that be good? 1, of course, agreed scheming lover should. Ana with her, as She walked up to the judges with an in- dependent adr, And in° my love-iflumined eyes she never looked more fair Than when she stepped fnside the booth and from my view was hid o scratch the men she didn't like mark the men she did For nearly half an hour sho stayed inside the #acred booth, \ doubt selecting men slie knew wera blest with grace and youth And seratching with determined hand ihe old bald-headed giys With not a charm to w pretty maldens' eyen and No a glance from Then out she came with then paused And once agal boothy molltude She'd thought of some real whom' she had #ome old corpse whose office goose she wanted {0 b cooked At last within the waiting box her ballot had been placed And back toward home again our foot- stops wo retriced, 8he |rl\)u4| and happy in the thought of having such a right, And 1. In ¥poony lover way, shared fn her ®lad delight, pride-1it thoughtful mood, k into fce young man overlooked, face; the Ana The dear had oft e Wis near nineteen And a8 we slowly strofled along—although ‘twas awlul mean 1 asked her it the logal age for voters was not fixed statutes, and | waw Gueen wes vexed! A blush of red carnation hue o'erspread her pretty fae Her eyes weemed sparkling ge 1t set in their pla As sharply ‘she repiied ¢ Fighteous rag ared to me that she By at once the little ms of angry me In sweet and hose judges are far too polite to ask & &irl her age!”