Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 22, 1900, Page 6

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Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted. | THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION of Nobraska, Douglas County, 9. orge B Tzschiick, secrotary of The Dee ublishing Company, being duly sworn, eays that the actual number of full and mplete copl The Dally, Moening, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1600, wus as follows 16.. 17 18 19 Editor, Twen- t. RS ittances Publishing eheuld Com- ment of except on Bta 28,410 27,970 27,020 27,710 27,770 27,5505 25,450 12,0088 28,550 Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales » 21 Net daily average, 30,447 GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK, Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of December. A, D., 19000, M. B H AT otary Publie. -_— ith Is often stranger than the most fantastic tiction. Ohristmas season and Christmas phi lanthropy should go together. Never mind. Children of poor parents need have no fear of gold-kecking child stealers. feneral Roberts should have told his friend Kitchener the South African gun was loaded when he turned it over to him, Thi awny pinch awake, e watchman who drove s should sure he is state how those treasury loo himself and moke It is mighty Idom a boy is found who can truthfully boast he is worth his weight in gold because that sum was paid for him. Senator Tillman and Colonel Bryan will be the star performers at the Jack sonian banquet. Pitehforks and hay rakes should be the souvenirs. iator Allen objects to the lobby casting his vote for him., The senator has a few more chances to vote left and he desires to enjoy the privilege himself, The senatorial candidate factory Is still working overtime. s only a short time remaius in which to market the product the fakirs are forced to violate the eight-hour law. No necessity for telllng the postman that Christmas is approaching. The load of packages he takes out every day is a reminder which he would like to overlook, but it is piled too high. State Labor Commissioner Kent now wants the office he occuples divorced from polities. He forgot to advocate this highly patriotic principle, howeve until he was within sight of the expira- tion of his term, The river and harbor bill has been pruned to the extent of $20,000,000, but s it still carries $60,000,000 there s every probubility that Squash creek and Mud Turtle harbor will recelve a fairly liberal allowance, The senate was liberal in the matter of Christmas presents in the shape of | contirmations of men appointed to office, but a large number of stockings still re- main which the owners hope will at- tract the attention of the president. up the year without k of all the publie To clos ing overlaps is the ti officlaly, for city, county and school dis- trict. The taxpayers never complain when there is n surplus turned back from an appropriation. With such a chief of police s Miles Mitehell It simply passes understanding the brewers and gamblers in South Omaha should have been held up for protection from the | authorities there as they have testitied in court. consclentious how One of Bryan's ardent admirers as- gerts that Bryan can poll twice many votes as any other man in the democratic party. If that is true any- thing which would eliminate Bryan would not leave enough of the party hold an Inquest over. as J. Ham Lewis will be one of the spenkers at the Jacksonian banquet. . Ham may be able to fllumine his sub Ject with the ald of his iridescent whiskers, but his reputation as a prophet has suffered materially since the result of the election became known, Congressman Stark wants Nebraska's quota In congress cut down because an apportionment ratio low enough to leave Nebraska's representation undiminished would increase the strength of the gold standard states as against those he eclasses in the column for 16 to 1 free silver. Mr. Stark’s devotion to the sil- ver barons seems to have overcome his | Tnt THE The advo tralization won a dects ratification of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and the historie policy of the United States in regard to an isthmian canal between the Atlantic and Pacitic ns sustalned. The amendments to the treaty, some of them hostile to neutralization, were rejected by large mujorities, only the foreign re lations committee helng adopted The most mportant change from the original draft of the treaty is what is known as the Davis amendment which provides that the United States may such measures as it shall deem essary “for securing by its forces the defense of the United States and the maintenance of public order.” This has been construed as ve serving to the United States the right to close the canal to its enemies, The treaty supersedes the Clayton Bulwer convention, It provides that inal to counect the Atlantic and Pa eifie oceans may be constructed under the auspices of the United States, such canal to be free and open, In time of war and in time of peace, to the vessels of commerce and the ships of war of all terins of entive equality. The canal shall never be blockaded and 1o Fight of war nor any act of hostility shall be committed within it. Rules are preseribed as to the rights of war ves sely belligerent power passing through the canal No fortitication commanding the canal or the waters ad Jacent to it shall but the States shall be at liberty to po- lice the nal with such military forces a8 may be necessary to protect it against lawlessness and disorder. Exchange of ratitications are to be made by the two governments within six wonths, The treaty will be returned to president and it is presumed that soon as possible it will be submitted to the British government. How it will regarded by that government s problematical. It it be assumed that the London newspapers volce official sentiment it appears probable that the government will decline to aceept the treaty as amended. In that event it would, of course, fail, leaving the Clay- ton-Bulwer convention in fore But the London press dovs not alw o f officlal opinion. 1t did not do so in the Venezueln arbiteation contro- versy and it may not do so now. The British government is most dosirous to maintain friendly relations with the United States, 1t will do nothing likely i these relations unless it shall conclude that rights of vital importance to Great Britain are disregarded or vio lated by the treaty. Even in that case the British government would probably not summarily refuse to accept the ty, but would propose a compro- tiise There is no reason TREATY RATIFIED, es of the principle of new vietory in the oce wis various amendments take i own nations on be erected, the as for the assertion that the treaty Is a surrender to Great Britain, The truth is that it was sought by our government aud negotiated en tively in our behalf, the British gov ernment making concessions aud ap parently yielding all asked, The gnition of the prineiple of neutral- wits 1ot 4 coucession on our but simply adherence to what | we had advocated for more than sixty | years, or since the question of ‘ai in teroceanic canal was first considered, APPLYING THE LAWS OF WAR, The decision of General MacArthur to apiy the laws of war to noncom batauts as well us to those engaged in hostilities in the Philippines is fully Justified by the conditions. The i surgent leaders utterly disregard the laws of war. Perhaps thix may I due to ignorance of them, but at any rate they should be given to under stand that they caunot go on violating those laws without suffering the conse- quences and being classed and if can tured treated as fugitive eriminals, As to those who pretend to noncom- batants and yet give ald to the insur gents at every opportunity, there is no reason why they should not be re- garded as traitors aud dealt with ac- cordingly. It would doubtless have been well if this policy bad been adopted sooner. The lives of many Awmerican soldier lost through the t Lie of Filipinos who professed to riendly to the United States, might have been saved theough an earlier application of the laws of war to these alleged “awmigos. Now that it has been decided to adopt | the policy it should be rigorously and steruly enforced. Insurgent leaders who outrage every principle of civil fzed warfare, as in ordering those un- der them to Kidnap and assassinate residents of towns oceupied by Amer- ican troops, are entitled to no mercy and should receive none, Equally those who, professing fricudship for the Americans, lose no opportunity to betray the confidence reposed in them | and ald the enemy, should be t | as the laws of war prescribe in cuses, There is no doubt that the leniency shown by the United States has been wistake. Not only has it failed to fmpress the Lostile Filipinos with the desive of this government to deal with them as magnanimously as a condition we be ‘e such | of war would permit, but it would seem to have been regarded by them as an evidence of weakness, At all events it has failed to produce the results that were hoped for from it aud there- it necessary, indeed an jm- perative duty, to adopt radical meas u ng iu this rvespect to the full extent warranted by the laws of war as recognized by all civilized nations, We shall not adopt Spanish methods, but on the other hand the military authorities in the Philippines will not continue Jeopardize the lives of Ameriean soldiers by tolerating their betrayal by professed friends. Sum wary punishment in such cases can hardly fail to huve a salutary effect, Military operations in Luzon appenr not to have yet become as active as was promised s month ago, but it is safe to assume that General MaecAr- thur's preparations are of a nature to produce good results. As to the work fore is loyalty to his Nebraska constituents, 1 | of the commission, it would secm that fME OMAHIA DAIL toward to the no doubt effort imposed on fact that no dis little headway 18 being made accomplishing what it was sent do, but ther making an The task difficult one and the shonld canse slands t that that it progross direction it arnest in i« a ie slow conragement THE CUDAHY CASE While the startling story of the kid naping of the son of Edward Cudahy of this ety aiti his ransom for $25.000 in gold almost overtaxes the credulity of intelligent people who can hardly be lieve such @ bold stroke could be played successfully in these , it revenls w sacrifices a fond parent will make when convineed his child i In danger, That the plot was skillfully laid and shrewdly executed evidenced by every detail which the Kidnapers had %o carefully worked out in advance and whether they would or would not have carried out their hellish threats of per sonal violence to their vietim had their demands been dgnored will of course never be known, What is to be apprebended now is that the story of the Cudaliy ransom will give rise to lmitations in all parts of the country. This has been already foreshiadowed by the comment of one of the Chicago police officials, to the effect that It sets a most dangerous precedent likely to lead to a series of sensational child-stealing adventures and that if Kidnapers get the idea they can successfully hold children for ran som rich men will have to employ serv ants act bodyguards for theiy young ones, On this account as much as for any other it is to be hoped the perpetrators of the deed will be sy Identitied and brought to justic Strange as It may seem, It transpires that nothing in the Nebraska eriminal code prescribes a penalty adequate to this particular erime and that the prose cuting officials would have dificulty in placing a charge against them that would entail a penitenti \tence, This defect the law should and doubtless will be cured by the coming gislature, In the meanwhile g stands out as one of the most sational and remarkable master. pleces of erime of the closing century. a the Cudaby kid The Bee eannot refrain from acknowl edging publicly the congratulations that are being paid to it for its prompt presentation of the real facts about the Cudahy Kidoaping. The Bee has been s0 far aliead of its alleged competitors that no comparison is possible. T'he full det of the thrilling incidents sur- rounding the payment of the ransom and the reseue of the abducted boy were to be found only in The Bee, whose accounts were brazenly copied into later editions of other newspapers. 8o strange and weird a story naturally prompted many an inquiry whether The Bee had embarked on the sea of yellow Journalism, but as the successive de- velopments of the case were unfolded it was seen that The Bee's traditional policy of accuracy and conservatism had been rigidly adhered to by avoiding everything of the nature of a fake, In all the important and essential ele- ments of the case The Bee had a sue cession of complete scoops, impressing the public more than ever that it is the only paper published in this section that an be depended on to print the news promptly and reliably. On top of the troubles in the Philip | pines and Ching and the war in South | Africa comes a renewal of the stori outrages upon Christians in - Turkey. Without question more Christians have been butehered In Turkey within the lust score of years than ever in China, outside of the treaty ports. Because of the jealousies of European powers and | the fact that Turkey owes large sums, the payment of which is dependent upon the political integrity of the country, these outrages have been allowed to| continue, to the disgrace of civilization. Henry W. Howgate Is another of those ize that the wages of sin ure paid and that pleasures bought | ewith ure dead sea fruit, Twenty | years ago he was the gayest of the gay | in Washington and had a good time | while he was spending woney | ing to the government. Exposure was followed by fifteen years of wandering and then five years in prison. Now he is free, but is an old wan, broken in health, without means, and the sup- posed friends who helped him spend the money bave forsaken him, belong- All the ministers have either signea | reat enough with the elements which have | was 1,547 .Y _BEE: SATURDAY, D The Presid Philadelp) The official vote of Michigan having been declared and the corrected vote of Texas reported, it is possible to give for the first time the complete vote cast for McKinley and Bryan in the presidential election of st month. This is now found to be of whick McKinley re ved and Bryan 6,360,754, leaving a plu- rality for the former of 852,238 This is a plurality 202,063 larger than McKinley re- eived in 1896, Mr. McKinley polled 1 109 more votes than he did four years ago, While Mr. Bryan's vote fell off 156,653, With the full poll of the two leading candidates in it is interesting to compare the vote s cast in the four sections or groups of states into which the country waturally divides itself. These groups are the eastern, central western, far western and ot thern, eastern group cons aing the six New England states and New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, nine states in all. The central western group onsisis of seven states—Illinois, Indiana, fowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohlo and Wis- onsin. The far western group contains all the states lying west of a line drawn north and south along the eastern border f Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas, in All thirteen states, and the southern group consists of the wsixteen states usual known as the south and in which slavery exiated previous to the war for the union The following table gives the vote cast in these four groups of states for McKinley and Bryan last month and compares it with the vote cast for the same candidates in 1806 m 038 13,3 13 Bastern n. woest Far west... Southern 1,4 Al 2 6, 07 aking these fo »ups one by one it is found in the first, « n, group that the republican vote fell off and the democratic Totals 7,242, CEMB 1900, ential Vote hia Press increased as compared with the poll of 1896, The republican plurality in this sec- tion was 093,416, or 320,636 below the plu rality of four years ago central western, group of states the repub lican vote increased and the democratic vote fell off, McKinley's plurality standing at 595,381, an increase over the plurality of 1896 of 107 In the third, or far western, group of states the vote showed its largest gain and the demo- cratic plurality was completely wiped out In this section McKinley received 235,180 more votes last month than he did in No vember, 1806, and Bryan received 101, fewer votes. The democratic plurality of 266,806 of four years ago in this section was turned into a republican plurality this year of 86,692 And in the last, or south ern, group of states the vote of both parties fell off, th than twice the reduction the republican votg did. The democratic plurality in the sixteen southern states dropped from 641,- 1 51 in the election of 1900 The republicans carried three of thesc groups of states and the democrats carried only one group. The sum total of the vote cast for McKinley and Bryan this vear is 2 smaller than the vote cast for the same two candidates in 1806, Comparing the vote state by state with the vote cast four years ago it is found that the repub lican vote increased in twenty-five states and fell off in twenty states, while the democratic vote gained in fifteen states and fell off in thirty states. The plurality glven President McKinley 18 almost exactly 000 larger than the phenomenal plurality glven General Grant in 187 it owiil probably stand a landn presi- dential pluralities for some years to come. Had the New England states the plurality they gave in 1895 the repub- lican plurality this year would have ex- ceeded 1,000,000 However, it Is enough. 1t will do vote and ark in to arbitrarily control the domestic market for their wares. They will sell their steel plates at $28 per ton in this country. In forelgn countries they will compete; in this country they combine. The Millennium, Philadelphia Ledger. When copgress succeeds in making a sat- isfactory and permanent adjustment of the relations of labor and capital the name of this country will be changed to the United States of Arcadia. ¥ niled Om, Chlca News, London has wisely postponed that thanks- glving service at St. Paul's, scheduled to take place at Roberts’ return, until the war I8 over. Recent news from South Atrica indicates that the service may have to be held oft several years. At least that is a proper inference from Lord Salisbury's speech. A Bad Indianip: In placing Representatly retired list of the navy, congress has estab- lished a pr dent that will be cited in future cases and probably lead eventually to the pensioning of every member of con- gress who becomes permanently disabled during his term. This is only a step further than the wrong practice of voting a year's salary in advance to the widow of a con- gressman who dies. Boutelle on the werihen n Fe ocratic Put Philadelphia. North American. -President Cleveland announces that the democratic party must be reorganized and reclaimed from its wandering after strange gods. He does mot specify the changes of policy and principles which, he deems of paramount importance, but says in general terms that the party must return to its old-time doctrines The “old-time" doctrines which he has in mind undoubtedly are those enunciated by himselt during his second term and rejected by the Bryanized democracy be- cavse of the difficulty found by the average democrat in distinguishing them from the party. Republicans naturally regard those party. Republicans naturall regard those doctrines as less dangerous to the welfare of the country than the avowed purposes ot the conglomerate opposition which holsted the democratic standard in the last cam- paign, and they would like to see the de- mceracy reorganized under the leadership of the eminently safe and judiclous Mr. Cleveland, but we fear there is no possi- bility of such a thing. The drift of the party now bearing the name of the de- mocracy is away from Clevelandism and toward more pronounced radicalism, and the influence of the ex-president is not glven the party that tendency to reverse the current or even to check its velocity, There was & time when an expression of opinion from Mr. Cleveland was equivalent to an oficial declaration of the purpose of his party, but that was before Mr. Bryan's day. To know now what the democratic party intends or is likely to do, or what form its reorganization may take, we shall have to awalt the appearance of Mr. Bryan's Commoner. ¥ TICAL DRI The total for the several vote cast in New ndidates for York state president Cleveland's heart-to-heart talks with the late democratic party are as edifying as culogies of the deceased at a “wake." or been fustructed by thelr governments to sign the note setting forth the terms | on which the powers willing to settle with China. The terms may be a littie drastic, but as they have the | same kind of backing the farmer had | when he persuaded Mark Twain to buy | the mule, China will in all probability aceept. are Another thing that will distinguish the lust year of the century for Omaba will be the phenomenal record made City Treasurer Henniugs in collecting in unpaid back city taxes, The various city funds are not likely to encounter another such windfall for several decades to com And Bother, To Indianapolis News When Dewey sailed into Manila bay he made history Slow In Some Philadelphia Ledger an all-American cable across the should be had as soon as possible too clear for argument British cables girdle the world, and a British line to run the whole length of the Pacific is in preparation. We should be as enterprising In these matters as the British are, but ap- parently we are not st Combine, Philadelphia Record, The reported combination of fourteen of the largest steel manufacturing corpora- tions in the United States to divide up the country between them and to fix a set price at which their products shall be disposed of in the home market is a new and start- ling manifestation of the disposition and the power of these tariff-made monopolies Pacific seems Tammany rule costs every man, woman and child in New York 2 a year. The police calls for $2.61 per citizen, and the per capita of debt Is 1 The Boston Globe figures that 6,500,000 citizens failed to go to the polls last No- vember. It finds Nebraska shy 63,132 votes, but where the Globe found them would puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer Governor Pingree's farewell feast to the judges and lawmakers of Michigan went off with great eclat. The attendance was somewhat short, consequently the feasters had no dificulty in drawing from thres kirds of wine to a full. Fourteen councilmen of Scranton, Pa, belug of a thrifty turn of mind, forced: themeelves on the pay roll of a local fran- chise corporation at the rate of $15 mouth, and now stand a good chance of b coming penitentiary boarders. Warrants are out for fifteen men at Crawfordsville, Ind., charging them with rclliug their votes. Indiana cast the high est per cent of votes to population of any state in the union, which warrants the conclusion that extra inducements were offered to call out a full vote. The recent leap of voting machines in popular estimation prompts the patentees to take time by the topknot and form a combine, for the public good, of course Sheuld it follow in the beaten path of com- bines, It Is probable the present method of voting will continue long enough to produce ice fn the combine factory 8 | 16,000 ballots shall be printed for each The election law of Missouri provides that | W, punces Congressman Amos J. Cummings of New York, who did the spelibinding act in Ne- braska in the interest of the fusion ticket, says a few tearful words of farewell in advance of the parting with Senators Allen and Pettigrew and incidentally calls at- tention to the bolos they hold in reserve for Senator Hanna In a letter to the Washington Post the congressman writes “Another senato apparently mortally wounded is Richard F. Pettigrew of South Dakota. In more senses than one he s just now the most interesting character in the north wing of the capitol. He wears the senatorial toga as though it was a Navajo blanket. Nor is he overawed by the dignity of the office. Ancient precedents and customs divert him from the object sought. When he wants a thing he takes the most direct way to secure it, despite senatorial courtes and imaginary legislative boundaries. Fortunately for ngland Mr. Pettigrew is not a member of Parliament. An unwritten constitution would be to him a mere filament. He abides by the written letter of the law and by nothing else. Intense in his con- victions, he abates not a jot or tittle of them, however great the emerger I has announced his undying enmit ship subsidy, the army and other bills said to be of vital importance to the interests of the nation and avers that he shall tako advantage of every opportunity to defeat them. They may be ked to death and delayed in a hundred almost inconceivable ways. With Willlam V. Allen of Nebraska and Marion Butler of North Carolina beniad him Pettigrew’s threat is by no means idle, oy never Alreaay the party leaders are alarmed They are threatening cloture. The popu- lists in the senate hold the same position as the Parnellites held in the English Parliament twenty years ago, when cloture was applied there. It &h to snap the legislative handeuffs upon their wrists at that time, but it will not be so easy to repeat the operation in an Amer: can legislative body. The presiding officer of the senate has to throw senatorial dlgnity to the winds and violate all p dents before even a start can be made. Wil not do to accomplish it by The necessity would not justify th The senator from South Dakota the leaders to att eusy er It trick means, y drive mpt cloture, but whether it would be acceptable or not is a grave Question. It works to the satistaction of the majority of the members of the present house &f representatives under the rules of the Fifty-fourth congress, yet it Is well to remember that what is sauce for the goose Is not always sauce for the gander. Under cloture, with a Tom Reed in the chair, scenes In the senate might be far more exciting than exhilarating. Although a General Dewet in legislation, Mr. Pettigrew Is hardly an expert in parliamentary war- fare. But it should not be forgotten that the populists in the senate are as few com- paratively as the Boers in the Transvaal Like Dewet, however, the general from South Dakota is nerved by the desperation of defeat and there is no knowing what he may accomplish, backed as he is by Gen- eral Botha in the personality of William V Allen and by President Steyn, alias Marion Butler. a “By a singular coincidence both Butler and Allen are in the list of killed and wounded. Indeed, the populists in the ate have dwindled perceptibly in numbers since the days of hirsuit Peffer. Allen, But- ler and Pettigrew are the retiring rear guard. Allen s the most conspicuous of the three. He has the physique and endurance of a Hercules and the voice of his notable prototype from Ohlo, “Fog Horn William." He can talk longer but not quite so fast as the late Henry U. Johnson of Indiana He Is credited with speaking thirteen hours in succession without eating. It was dur ing the fight over the repeal of the silver purchasing clause. Whenever the senatorial veterans cvinced a retiring disposition Le raised the point of no quorum and they were routed out of the cloak rooms to answer to roll call, while Allen had a breathing spell. They yawned and stretched all night long, utterly impervious to his melting eloquence, and finally were about to abandon themselves to despair when Allen closed his argument. A more pleturesque figure than the senator from Nebraska rarely seen. He has a strong American face, a heart like an ox and the vim and energy of an old Corliss engine. You can almost fancy that he spends his winters in logging camps. There is a steadiness and @ breeziness about him in discussion that reminds you of pine forests and roaring creeks. And he handles himself like a wood chopper. The ohips fly right and left and the grave and reverend scnators are kept busy dodging them. 1f the people had champloned his cause as earnestly as he | has tried to champion theirs Allen might have remained in the senate for life. ivity Alarming, Springticld Republican. The Boer war t y day more ecomes ey | purty voted for iu each county. At the late election in Lafayette county the prohibi- tion ticket received only fifty votes, the pecple’s twenty-four, the social democratic twenty-one and the social labor five. the casting of these 100 votes It had been necessary to provide 60,000 ballots, in the preparation of 50.900 of which the taxpay- | ers’ money ad been absolutely wasted. | date, about $520,0 | vaded Cape Calony fr of @ triumph of British statesmanship—to 47,000 men and half a million of horses and mules spent. And on Saturday a column of Boe ain in- m across the Orange | river, carrying the war back to a region | which has been practically free from it since Roberts captured Bloemfontein in | March last, democratic vote showing more | ntained | - In the second, or | republican | |led to an increase of consumption | portation HER LANDS THAN OURS, The scarcity and consequent high price of | coal are becoming serious matters In Ger many, and the minister of commerce and Herr Brefield, was called upon in the Reichstag the other day wh the government fntended to do to ® present relief and to prevent the recurre of %0 Intolerable a situation, He said that the government had no control wyn Qlcates or the ¢ middlemen and retail dealers. | industry vel ™ of Euglish, Saxon and Bohemian coal, a matter of fact coal had increased last tons, The middleman polnt of usury newspapers people an periods for year by and us to had for long Al this 1t had been shown by carefu! Investigations that the mines and the wholesale dealers did not ralse prices Immoderately. Various remedies, he said, had been made, such as Testriction of the export and retail trade. the establishment of control over dlemen. at meetings lay up store fear of a coal famine the mid He must opvose any veto on ex- Middlemen, he added, were in- to production, but the direct conveyance of coal into the hands of the consumer, so far as it was possible, certainly a thing to be desired. That might be reached by th tomers' associations, organized, of the dealers, digpensable was end like those He practically admitted that he not clearly see any way out of the trouble, but the minister of works © Thielen, expressed the conviction that (he crisis would soon pass away. He gave 1o reason, however, for this belief According to the recently published statistics for the year 1899, the birth-rate in France continues to decrease alarmingly There were in that year about did excess of births over 000 only, of a total of $17,627 births it is rememberad that, at most of three children horn grow up and repro duce thetr kind, it will n that the total births of the past year in France were about 260,000 short of the number re quired merely to maintain the present popu lation. In the year 1895 the births many were 1,943,731, number in France for th thirteen years the was wome 3 When two out be &e in more than twice the m For ast, this ratio ha and in seven years more, at th rate. Germany, approximately the equal of Franc at the time of the Franco-Pruss.an war, will have double the population of her wes neighbor. held me In the movement for the disruption of the social and pclitical system of Finland the Russian officials have used methods similar to those w they finally effected the conquest of Poland. They made a study of the local conditions and ascertained the weak features of the existing regime. Thus, it appears that In Finland there is consid- erable dissatisfaction with some of the features of the local government as it was conducted prior to the introduction of tne new condition of things. The land laws and the judiclal system have in particular been « source of discontent. In the northeastern part of Finland all the tribesmen are land- less, while as all the costs of a judiclal procedure, whether civil or criminal, are placed upon the plaintiff or prosecutor, Justice is in effect denied to a larg ment of the community. There are other elements of the situation which have caused dissatisfaction, and (he Russian officials, with characteristic diplomacy, are taking advantage of all these to reconcile the masses of the people to the change. But admitting that the Finnish government was In some respects faulty, that docs not Justify its abolition. It might have been amended. It is rather curious that the czar, who is inspired by such noble senti- ments, does not more closely conform his actions to his words. That may be because he is a weakling or because he is a hypo- crite; but it must be for one reason or another. Had he died the Finns would have had a warm friend in the next heir throne, the Grand Duke George, h is why it Is reasonable to suppose the news of the czar’s recovery has caused less joy in Finland than it elsewhere The official fikures of the strikes lockouts in United Kingdom in have just been published and contrast v favorably with those of the two preceding years, in which labor disturbances in the engineering and building trades were of an especlally serious and calamitous The total duration of disputes in 1809 in working diys was only 2,616,416, compared with 15,280,478 in 1808 and 10,345,523 in 1897, It the total for 1890 be compared with the average of the previous quinquennial period it shows a falling off of over 70 per cent and fs the lcwest annual total yet re- corded. o far as can be ascertained the present year will show a similar compara- tive freedcm from important disputes. The aggrekate duration of disputes during the first ten months of 1900 has been 2,542,000 working days, compared with 000 for the corresponding period of 1899, and 1899 A rather striking instance of Spanish im- providence and procrastination has just been furnished at Ceuta, where the mili- tary authorities have been in a great state of mind on account of what they took to be signs of an impending insurrection among the Arabs. It appears that the water sup- ply of Ceuta, where there is a population, including the garrison, of 17,000 or 18,000 persons, has been bad and insufficient for a long time and repeated and urgent rep- resentations have been made to Madrid on the subject. At last it was determined to occupy certain wells and positions cede to the Spanish by the sultan of Morocco forty years ago, but never taken. Th Arabs, not unnaturally, discerned a hostile Our Furnishing Departmen who are looking for Holiday Gif Open evenings until Christ Dress Shi Bath Gowns, R. S. 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Yes: onee I stood on the arm of & couch to fix 4 window curtain and the couch she across the room with me [hin Pree leloss creature, 8n't she? Don't you belfeve it Guy-less? much: she has more guys chising ar her than any other girl 1 know Philadel | Buch a gu “Miss Do Mure fs Not 1 w, hark ye, little children children, “too m now 1111 Christmas time everything you do Be just as good ax good can be and wateh | what you're about | Or Santa Claus will miss you 1f you don't watch out! 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