Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 25, 1900, Page 6

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B, TZBCHUCK, Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 15t day of December. A, D. M. B, HUNGATE, ary Publlc, E— e Merry Christmas to you all, Latest market report—Stockings have gone up. Total Less unsold and returned coples The automobile Santa Claus most recent creation of the book makers, 18 the pleture | Uncle Sam's Christmas cornucopia must now be large enough to shake out good things for some 80,000,000 people, If General Kitchener does not have a lively Christmas it will not be the fault of General Dewet and his associates, Remember those who are too poor to provide themsclves with Clristias cheer, Governor Poyuter has the consolation, at any rate, of being the first official tenant of the executive mansion. Governor Pingree s to have a try at a citation for contempt proceedings. No little thing like that, however, can fc Piogree. A A farce-comedy performer has just been sued in the courts by damages. What a farce it would be it Judgment were given, Night Watchman Good of capitol Is not an expert marksman. If the doors and windows had not been tightly closed it is doubtful whether he would bave hit the building. the state The lawyers all favor a supreme court | commission and the higger the better, A commission that would provide berths for all the would-be commissioners would e nearly as many members as there are lawyers, It those who advocate the abolition of the canteen in the army could be forced to take a drink out of what outside saloon keepers call the “Soldier bottle” it might work a change in their opinious, if they ever recovered from the dose, A new political party has been formed in the Philippines. Bryan should hasten | to lay the wires for an endorsement. 1¢ be is ever to be elected president he must have the nomination of at least four more parties than he thus far been able to gather into the fold, The London Times still insists that | England will not and cannot aceept the amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty. It | wust be remembered that the Times is | not & member of the British cabinet and has several times of late hoisted a storm | signal when the weather was clearing. —_— The smaller powers of Europe are get- ting their eyes open. Roumania de- clined a Russian loan, not because it | does not need the moucy, but the great powers huve a habit of foreclosing such loans and levying on the independence of the country as the ouly in siglt. asset —_— Herr Krupp objects to the Turk mak ing the American missionaries preferred creditors and fusists upon the ment of & long overdue bill for modern, high power civilizers furnished the Turkish army. This will probably afford the sultan the opportunity he has been look- g for to defer paywent again, —_— Germany is complaining of the growth of trusts crowding out its smaller in- dustrial establishwents and the same tendency Is manifest in other European countrics, But Bryan and his echioes will continue to explain th outgrowth of the protecti prescribe free trade remedy. trust as an b tarift and as the infallible Heavy purchases in this country of cavalry horses for use by the British in South Africa are again reported and the purchasing agent is quoted as saying that more than 100,000 head of horses and mules have been bought in the United States by the Britlsh gove ment and shipped to the Boer land since the war broke out. If it did not have America to draw on for horses on which to mouut its forces the British would | anthems [ eyes took nto 1 | that | adopted as our rule of conduct, Christ- | there is that thre CHRISTMAS Again, from all th Christendom, the bells are the of the day Christ born chapel and stately the % of of air with Again, in tens of thousands | of happy homes, there ling f and hearts overflowing with while | hand clasps hand i loving g and once fam but grown strange throngh an absence years, The mirthtul laughter, the rarest music earth af fords, ripples through the house and the very is filled with contentment and love, while on every side are the mirth and appropriate to the Chiristmas time. Probably the wish to have f steeples in ringing out on which the Agnin, from hun ithedral, the swe blend with the robed choirs which fill vibrations of turn wils ing notes of organ sweet vol whi th swoeet jolcii frosty the harmon jo 1sp. s Iar W for children's cheer who It would well for a| is no one it otl days a apart cessation from the strenuous life—days In which the unfecling caleulations of the heartless world of business have no part and on which the minds of are ptible to the softening in- fluences which make for a higher and | better manhood and womanhood. We | are too prone to forget, in the burey and | rush of the age in which live, th at truths the Cliristlan religlon | enunciates and the deeds of love and kindness Christ performed, The lesson of the Christmas time can be embodled in a single word—Love, On this is based the works done by the Savior and it will be by virtue of love, | akin, If not equal, to His, that the world will day fted a higher | plane of thought and action, That the | trend of humanity is upward cannot be denfed; that it will continue to seck | the loftiest heights need not be| doubted. The great truth that all men are brothers is coming to be wore 9'||IIA\'I understood with every pussing year, and | it I8 finding its expression in Omaha | this year, at least, in works of charity | that are on a more extensive scale than | ever before in the history of the city. The hungry are fed, the naked clothed, the orphan remembered, and men who have hitherto been too busy to act the part of almoners Lave learned happy experience that it s indeed more blessed to give than to receive,” This morning, as they sit by their own firesides and partake of the joy they have brought Into thelr own homes, they will find an additional pleasure in re membering that they have helped to make Christmas something besides a name to those other children to whom previous Lollday scasons have brought nothing but disappolntment, It this spivit of the Christmastide could be preserved and earried into every day of the year, if we could b ’l more considerate of the feelings of those with whom we come in contact, If we could be led to deal more generously with those upon whom the hand of mils fortune has been laid, it we were less hasty in our judgments—if, in a word, our lives more closely followed that of the Master whose birth we remember today, and if His teachings could rwise, a sot men | SUs¢ we S0 be to by a be mas Day would take on a significance that has never before been given to it and ot be until such a condition is realized, PENDING THE DECISION. There will be no legislation by con- gress of importance in regard to Porto Rico or the Philippines, according to Washington ady pending the de by the supreme court of the 1ses Involving the political status of the islands, It is stated that the ap prehiension that the court may so decide | s cases as to complicate adminis and legislative action has ympted the president and the adminis- | tratlon leaders in congre to agree to postpone all action by congress as to the affairs of the islands, As the supreme court is not expected to render its decision - earlic than February at best, general legislation re- lating to the new possessions will be left for the next cong which pos- sibly may be called in extra session for this purpose. In the meautime there will be more or less conjecture as to the possible nature of the decision, Ac- cording to some of the Washington cor- respondents the consensus of opinion and perhaps four of | the justices will certainly decide against the administration’s position, while two are regarded as doubtful, leaving but three as reasonably sure to be on the | slde of the administration, The ground | for this speeulation as to the attitude of the members of the court is found partly In the questions put to counsel from the beneh and in part to the poli- ties of the judges, though as to the latter it may fairly be doubted it it will exert any great influence. If the political attiliations of the justices could be de- pended upon to control their judgment the chances might reasonably as- sumed to be largely in favor of a de- clsion sustaining the policy of the presi dent, It Is thought to he not unlikely, however, that two and perhaps three of the Justices who were appointed as re publicans will be against the adminis- tration’s position, while Chief Justice Fuller and Justice Peckham, democrats, are counted as doubtful, Should the declsion favorable to the administration’s position no very serious ditliculty - would found in dealing with the new possesslons, Con gress would siuply have provide such government for them as It deemed expedient and also wake such regulu- tlons regarding the tavitf as Amerlcan Interests dictate, A decision adverse to the president’s policy, howe would create a perplexing dilemma, In the latter it would bave to be de- termined whether we should retain the islands, particularly the Philippines, or hold naval stations, If it were declded to retain the entire Philippine archipelago, there would be the very | serlous question of the tariff. By the terms of the Parls treaty Spain Is for a period of ten years to be on an equality, so far as tariff duties are con- sion be he to | case be 1n sore stralts to cope with its enemy. | tentiary on a charge of stealing the $2 | In gold | thry cerned, with the United States fu the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE Philippin decision of the su; there If, therefo ‘e court should require that froe trade between this country archipelago Spain have free trade with the fslands and it not difficult to understand that this ulght result to disadvan also woul our serious Such considerations €how the great nd far-reaching importance of the d cision which will be given by the i judicial tribunal political status of the new and thefr people IS 1T ROBBER The disclosure that nothing in the Nebraska criminal code relating to Kid: naping or child-stealing covers the case the Cudahy abduction geems to have to an inspection of the other of reaching the it apprehended, One sug mes that they might be held 'y of the money procured for possessions le find some nders gestion ¢ for robhe ransom. LEXINGTON, Neb, Dee. To the Editor of The Bee: In one of the edi- torfals in your paper of today you say, in reference to the Cudahy abductors, ‘‘prose- cuting officials would have difficuity in plac- Ing a charge against them that would entall & penitentiary sentence.’ Allow me to suggest that in case they are caught they could be sent to the peni- 000 The gift of the money to them by Cudaby was merely a colorable one ex torted by fear. They had threatened to put out the boys' eyes It he did not give them the money as requested by the letter, ana because of this threat and to get the boy back he left the money by the lantern In other words they compelled him by the threat to do it The law surely would not recognize a con- sent to take the money gotten by such a at. The title to the money remained in Cudahy after he left it by the lantern, ane when the abductors took it from the place where he left it they stole it, and can as ¥ view the matter be sent to the peniten- tlary for seven years, if the court sees fit to fix the maximum sentence. Of course Cudahy consented to their taking the money, but the consent was extorted by. thelt wicked threat to put the boys' eyes out and his fear that they it M, Bishop and other criminal law writers as- sert that a consent, or gift obtained by threats cannot avall a deferidant. Yours truly, G. W. FOX Whether or not a court of law would look at it the same way, this is ingenious piece of reasoning. We P the abductors could also be victed of fmpersonating an ofticer be- cause th pretended to be deputy sherlffs from Sarpy county and possibly subjected to several other charges for various llnks in the chain. That, how- ever, does not in the least mitigate the imperative demand for the enactment of u luw by the coming legislature that WL fit the offense on all fours and leave no loophole for malefactors to crawl out use accused ouly of constructive way 1900, would execute an sup. 1 HOW WILL THEY RE: How the governments and Costa Rica will regard the amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty is a question of hardly less interest and fmportance than that as to the view that will be taken of it by the British goverument, It authoritatively stated that the department has had no intimation from Nicaragua or Costa Rica of a refu: nt to the struction of a canal w of the action of the senate, Those governments approved of the treaty in Its original form, but thelr position respecting the amendments has not heen made known and it Is expected will not be until the British government shall have stated its attitude, We polnted out in a preceding article the possibility that the Central Ameri- can governwents would in the amendments to the treaty a danger to their territorial integrity and that this might prove a serious obstacle to tl nal project. The New York Evening Post says: “In strikiug for the abroga tion of the whole treaty, including even those parts which bind the United States to make no acquisition of territory in Central Ame , the senate has done its best to alarm the republics t south of us, They can see in this but a covert threat to their territoris integrity.” ‘That paper quotes from a communication of Mr. Blaine's to Min- ister Lowell, in 1881, fn which he said that if the United States should seck the annulment of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty “it might give rise to erroncous and mischievous apprehensions among a people with whom this government desires to be on the wost friendly terms,” aud he stated that the United States having taken special occasion to assure the Spanish-American republics to the south of us that it did not jutend 1o cross their borders or in any way disturb their territorial integ rity, “we shall not willingly incur the risk of a misunderstanding by annulling the clauses in the Clayton-Bulwer treaty which forbid such a step with respeet to Central Amer In view of the susceptibility of the countries to the south of us e apprehiensive of Amerlean policy as af- feeting them, it will not be at all sur- prising it Nicaragua and Costa shall object to the senate’s action, Those who contend that the prosperity this country Is enjoying is ouly a part of the general prosperity noted in every countey should study the foreign market reports. English trade shows a falling oft and many industries are in o moralized state. In Germany the trade condition Is acute, especially in tron industry where manufacturers ave not only waiting for new orders which do not come, but are unable to induce purchasers o tuke goods ulrendy ordered, ARD ITY of Niea is 1o ass in vie see or desire to The year's statistical sumia of trattic through the Sault canals at the head of the Great Lakes show a business of 25,643,078 net freight tons, The freight movement increased 2 over 1800 and the passenger teatlic 19 per cent, This does not look as if the development of railroad transit were in any fair way of neutralizing the growth of lake commerc Morocco Cn New York Tribune, Morocco's payment of the just claim of the United States without walting for the arrival of & war ship as a collecting agent pecting the | statutes to | State | Rica | de- | the | TUESDAY, D T |18 & judicious act. The example s carn commended to the considerat iblime Porte | e———— 01l Hend more Americd gree with all the Cleveland, but we both nto the f n | ot Harrison to wel publi nion and them on ought yrum ot dis tnes tn Harmony, | Hobe-Democrat The new century publican party in control of all depart- ments of the government and the greatest gereral prosperity the country has e koown Trouble May Be Avert Chicago Inter Ocean The Philippine laws are to be in English This may put the Filipinos to some tem- porary inconvenience, but the trouble for themsclves by ob code in any languag can erving save the » oan Old R loston Glol Mr. Cleveland rises like one of the old philosophers of Rome before the downfall to explain the plight of the democracy after having gone after false gods. But partie like men, kave to learn in the hard school of experience and history supplies the one consolation that they always learn some- thing in the end a Iphia Ledger. Ergland realizes that the Monroe doc- trine does not run beyond Eastport, Me., and it wastes no expectation on any pro tection for its Canadian possessions through its Influence. It is sending an outft of modern long-range guns to replace anti- quated ones on the defenses of Halifax, though no encmy is in sight. Those guns will not threaten tho United States, as some nervous people will suppose, but they will glve Halifax greater strategical im- portance, until such time as they, in turn may be outclassed Looking Far Bt, Louls Globe-Democr When all the freight trafic has besn ban- | Ished to underground railways and the au tomobile has displaced the horse for suiface vel nearly the entire street between the pavements can be devoted to green turf Citles of the twenticth and the following centuries may be freo from dust and the vile odors arising from the animal traffic The automobile mowing ruachine may be substituted for the sweeping machines, to the great improvement of health and in crease of enjoyment of citivens. Notahle Fam Springfield Kidnaping Omaha calls attc Iy of Busin Men, (Mass.) Republican. of the Cudahy hoy in tion to a rmarkabl family of Irishmen. Years ago there was an Irish laborer employed at the Plankinton plant in Milwaukee. His name was Cudahy and he had four sons, Michael, John, Pat- rick and Edward. Today the four boys represent $15,000,000 of business capital ‘lht',\' employ 6,000 men, own meat-packing plants at Omaha, Milwaukee, Sioux ity Loulsville, Nashville, Wichita and Los Angeles, ate car lines of their ow and possess vast ol properties on the Pa- ciftc They are all powerful men in physique and each is possessed of excep- tional powers in business and finance. tton's Luxurious toston Transcript, King Cotton has resumed his scepter. It has been a great year for the gouth, as well as for the whole country. It was not long ago, not more than two years, that the cotton-growing industry was depressed so much that urgent cries went up through the south for diversifying the planting and re Aueing the acreage of the staple. Now cot- | ton has come up again with emphasis and stands as the most {mporiant factor In our non-manufactured exports of 1 In No- vember alone we exported $41,500,000 worth of cotton and in eleven months $270,000,000. These totals show .ncreases of $15,000,000 for the month and $105,000,000 for the eleven months over 1899, In the month the total of all exports increased but $13,000,000 and for the eleven months $180,000,000. The im- portance of cotton to the whole is seen plainly from these figures. The coast King C Throne, HAS MAN IMPROV Arts und Sciences No Check to War in the Ninete « iry. Philadelphia North Amerfean Is man becoming more civilized? glance backward at the great battles the closlug century 1s likely to convince | one that in progressing in the arts ani sclences man has at least remained sta- tionary in the matter of settling his quar- rels. In the opening years of the nineteenth century Europe was one vast battlefield, and in its closing hours the sound of artillery 1s still echoing in more than one portion of the globe. It is probable that tury, not even that in which gunpowder was invented, has seen so great an advanc in the possibilities of warfare, Eighteen hundred and five was a great year in the annals of war. In it was fought the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon defeated the allled Austrians and Russians. Iu the same year the battle of Trafalgar, in which Nelson sunk the French fleet, took place, and probably no great battle in the history of the world has been more widely celebrated in song, story and art. Seven years later, in 1812, the Russlans burned Moscow In order to entrap the army of Na- poleon. In 1815 came the battle of Water 100, in which Napoleon's defeat was so over- whelming that the very name of the bat le has remained to us a synonym for complete and overwhelming disaster. The next decisive battle was that of varino, which sect the independence of the Greeks. It took place in the year 1827, The Crimean war again found Rus- sia the arena of war. In that vast military drama Great Britain, Sardinia and France were pltted agalnst the Russian forces, and the war lasted through '53, '34 and '55, leav- | ing memories which will be awesomely re- peated 1o many a peasant hut for centuries to come. In 1857, Crimean mutiny, D MUCH? A ot no « two years after the close of the war, occurred the great Indian in which the native soldiers re volted and ruthless massacred English men, women and «children. Again, two years after this national tragedy, occurred the Franco-Austr This was fol- lowed a year later, by the cam- paign of Garibaldl, vesulted in the unification of Italy. Just one year later followed the Ameri- can civil war, beginning in ‘61 and ending four years later, in '6, with the surrender of Les to Grant at Appomattox The Austro-Prussian WAar next occupied the public mind and it was brought to | bloody close by the battle of Sadowa, | July, 1866, Four years of comparative lowed, and then again, in 1570, came decisive battle of the Franco-Prussian that of Sedan. This was followed by federating of the German states in the rman empire. Xt the outbreak | of the Russo-Turkish war, which was de cided by the historle battle of Plevna, in | 1877, Five years later, in 1882, the bom- | bardment of Alexandria by the Dritish was followed by the occupation of Egypt | A general lull in fighting was broken by the Chinese-Japanese war in 1594 1808 came the breaking out of the Spanish American war, with its decisive battles of Manila, May and Santiago, in July Great Britain followed a year later, in 1899, by declaring war against the South African republics, and this, with our wn struggles in the Phillppines and the re- cent events in China, has helped to keep up the bloody record of 1900, lan war. in 1860 which a in peace fol that war will begin with the re- | r | ECEMBER 25, 1900, Able Men Demanded. Blatr prom n Ne ably Hon. Edward Rosewater stands ot tnently as one of the ablest men braska Omaha Bee, unquestic the cleanest and best n or published | between Chieago and the Pacific coast, and The Bee bullding, the largest and finest newspaper bullding in Amer t not the whole world, are strong testimon o his capabilitics and achlovement Rosewater started out in life at the bottom of the ladder. Unalded and alone he grad ually made his way up until now he fs a man of national reputation, enjoying high standing in metropolitan journalism and being a potent factor in the national di- rectorship of the republican party. The facts are recited at this time primarily be cause two United States genators are to ho chosen and Mr. Rosewater is cne of the leading candidates The people of Nebraska have entrusted the republican party with stewardship and the tenure of that stewardship depends en- tirely upon how the party conducts itself. | 1t honesty, economy and wisdom shall pre- | vall the republican party will remain in power for many years. It not, the peopls will swiftly divest it of power. Pernaps the most fmportant task to be performed at this time is the selection of senators On this the party will be on trial and any error made will have its bad effects, It two good, strong, capable men are chisen the party will be strengthened. If, on the contrary, strong men are overlooied cnd mere politiclans chosen for whatever reason, it is rcasonably certaln that fl people will administer swift and condign punishment through the medium of the bal- lot. No political party can commit outrages and hope to remain in power. The masses P ws Pliot f the | done and any pa sure invite The republican party has been reinstated tn Nebraska with the object in view Improving conditions. 1f it shall fail has no reason t clemency. The road to continuous dominancy is clear. The guldeboard fs honesty, cconomy and wisdom fn all things, First of all, wisdom must govern In the selection of senators. And in determining who shall be chosen, safest way to caleulate is to judge what a man can do by what he has done. A drone in private lfe would be a drone in public life. The man who has made his opportunities and achicved success through his own efforts is the kind of material out of which to construct senate That man will be of service. His ju it will be sought and it will exercise influence Nebraska needs much from the fonal government in order that her resources be developed. To sccure righteou recognition in the form of national legls- lation Nebraska's representatives in both branches must be active, alert g found Judgment Judging by what Edward Rosewater accomplisted in his private business lite is safe to say that he could do more f Nebraska, both in securing federal patron- age and in securing such leglslation as is needed to develop natural resources, than any othor man. He fs a s reasoner and would at once take a position of promiuence among the ablest men in that august hody. The republicans of Nebraska will certainly make no mistake and they will strengthen the party and benefit the state if tbey send Mr. Rogewater to the senate ect certain things to be that proves recreant is edy evietion cople exy to 1t own g ar n h HE SHERIDAN OF THE VELD Boston Globe Dewet's feat of breaking [through the British lines that encircled him |ana is one of the most heroic | deeds in the history of military operations. | | Dewet is clearly the | lero of the Doer war. Such a raider ha never beeu seen before. Last August four generals, two of them lords, were close on | Hls trail with 50,000 meu, but after inficting | ou all who essayed to touch | him he ped them easily He was then in the Transvaal, not far from Pretoria. | ince then he has retraversed the Orange | | Free State, zigzagging n the freest man- | ner, covering an enormous extent of terri- tory and is now again moving northeast |after having reached the extreme southern oundary of the state. “aul Ploneer 1 fighting hard one day | British prisoners and turning them loose a few days after, without parole, to rejoin their several commands, may indicate a lotty contempt for the numerical superiority of their adversaries, as well as Boer ina- | | Bility to properly care for any great num- ber of “involu Y Buests It used to be | a rule of warfare that prisoners might be slaughtered if, when their captors found | themsclves unable to hold them, the prison- | ers refused to give their parole. But the | Bocrs seem to have advanced considerably beyond that point in their interpretation of civilized warfare.” Philadelphia Record: If the picturesque story (from Blocmfontein) of Dewet's es- cape be true id there is no reason to doubt its substantial accuracy —the success of the Boer commander in breaking through the British lines must have been due to the military inefiiciency of his adversaries vatker than to his own overpowering strate- gle ability, He had been headed off sure enough, and his dash for liberty over the open veldt, in full view of his enemy, must be regarded as having been a desperate re Under moder conditions war fare a line of pickets, well and | armed with repeating rifl have storped any charge of mounted men. As ustal, however, one important point was left unguarded by the British commande and the Boers rushed through the unpro- tected gap in the British lines without en- countering any opposition worth mention- ing. Their comparatively small losses in the rush show this to have been a facy British blunders have given tne Boers nearly all of their victories AMENDED TREATY, escaping Philadelphia Prese The Boer plan of to capture a lot of i sort. of red could covi ™ Indianapolis Press: The Hay-Pauncetote treaty, as amended, gives us control of our own property. This much good has been accomplished by the agitation for our rights. If England accepts the treaty we can go on with the canal. If it we shall find a way to get along without its consent Chicago Tribune In the treaty as it tands there s nothing which puts the United States in the attitude of throwing down the gauntlet to the whole civilized world. The canal is to be open to the com- merce of all nations on terms of equality. There will be noue of the discriminations in favor of American vessels which some sen- ators favored—perhaps In order to make the treaty specially obnoxlous to the com- mercial nations. Chicago Inter in no way limit does not Oc The amendments the privileges of Gres Britain, except In case that power should be at war with the United States. The amended treaty contains nothing more of- | fensive to England than the original Hay- Puuncefote treaty. Diplomatically there are just as strong reasons for the accept- ance of the amended treaty by England as there were for the acceptance of the or- iginal agreement Washington Star: There Is no just occa slon to severely criticise either the presi- dent or the secretary of state for commit ting themselves to the treaty as orlginally drawn, Theirs was the fnitiative and they | took 1t. They ! exercised thoir best judgment and when the result of the negotlations was announced there were eminent senators in both parties who agroed that upon the whole the actlon taken was wise. But the great majority of | tho senate—a branch of the treaty-making power—insisted upon certain | changes, designed explained more | thoroughly rafeguard American interests in an American enterprise, and those changes have been made. They are not prejudiclul to Great Britain, nor intended to be PERSONAL NOTES, President Catt of the National Woman's Suffrage association predicts that the United States will have a woman for presi- dent before the of the twentieth century, Mark Twain states that he found some sixty-four different religious sects in South Australia. Being fairly well supplied our- we shall not ot these Australian systen Robert G. E | candidate for the place man K. Davis in the senate, is an elogue speaker, very ready and one of the best- known lawyers in Minnesot jor Bates a4 in to studying cer last visiting Boston's co-ordinate as to selves have to import t present the foremost of the late Lieutenant Gove of Mas- and, conditions week created some sachusetts 18 inter | with a view with sengation b policemen, End The art of x own eyes in charge of several Chinatown and North aplug public opinten receives & cruel (hrust from an ungratetul wreteh in Kansas, who has filed am- davit of election expenses contining this noble an | finest | dueteg undes Item: “To subsidizing the papers, $4 It {8 consoling to know nfernal miser was beaten out of his boots, BROKEN B o Obacrva in the Land the Drago “The Chinese have no warlike inst '8 Colonel Webb C. Hayes, who has just from service on the staff of Gen- flee. “They are not a nation of but it they should ever be trained they would make the finest soldlers in the world. They do not know what fear means, and they absolutely disregaril death ate two things they worship—their fathers and tho almighty dollar. You may Kill a man over there and no one thinks any of it unless the dead man his father. They shrug their shoulders and “There are plenty left,” and that is The Chinese are not vindictive. They ket excited now and then and go In for slaughter, and the uext minute they « cool and are drinking tea. Our cavalry made an attack upon a mob of Chinese one day, and they quictly sat down upon th ground and waited the advance of the col umn. They knew they would all be Killed, but did mot seem to care. They struck at the horses with pikes and some- thing that looked ltke forks. The idea of tryiug to disembowel horses and fighting cavalry by sittung upon the ground was something new for modern soldiers to face The Assoclated Press correspondent accompanied the allied ammy, and now in this country, says the most amazing fea- ture of the mvasion of China was the scieu tific, masterly skill shown in looting. The who |allies robbed as though they were prof slorals. Replyltg to the question, “Who were the worst looters™" the correspondent sald: “Well, the British were the most successful because they were most systo- matic. They went about it as a regular plcco of business; sent out men with carts and wagons under command of officers. Their experience in India had made them connolsscurs in things Oriental, and they selected only the best of the silks and em- Urolderies, the rarest of the jade and th of the jewels and lef: the rest for the less expert looters. The Japanese did the least looting and the Americans were {Bext to the Japs in this respect.” Dr. 8. C. Partridge, a missionary bishop of the Episcopal church in Japan, preached it Milwaukeo last Sunday, “Were L" he sald, “to you an anatomical chart made by the Chinaman you would carcely belleve they could bave such crude ideas. They live regardless of sanitary conditions, In their education ther 18 nothing but memory and conceit. Their scholars can- not add single column of figure and if you ask them what the stars are they will declare th are the demons of the alr. They worship the beasts of the field, the insects, the trecs and their roots, and they are sunken to the level of the things they idolize. Were they loyal to Confucius it would be an easy task to lead them into the new life, but they take his words on their 1ips and deny him in their actions.’ Correspondent 1 writing from Pekin to the St. Louis ohe-Democrat, says he removal of the bodies of dead Ameri can soldiers to their homes across the sea will lead (o the breaking up of the sorrow ful little burial plot under the trees in the compound of the Russian legation, wh rest t American marines who fell in the defense of the legations. of their countrymen who came too late to save them falled to go into the little family of mounds and stand uncovered for a mo- ment on the hallowed ground. During the slege the mournful task of burying the American dead 11 to W. E. Bainbridge, second secre y of the American legation. The American compound was small nd there was not sufficlent room to have the burials the The Russian legation, just across th street ssed a very large compound and the Russian minister gen rously gave up a plot of ground. All of the funerals were held at night, for the light of the day meant exposure and death for those who assisted. Midnight was the hour usually chosen, and on more than one slon rain fell to add further gloom and cheerlessness. Despite precaution and darkness of the funerals were con- fire, and several times flying cut sprigs and leaves from the trees overhead. These fell fluttering into the grave onto the bodles—unwel floral offerings. 8ccretary Bainbridge often had the greatest dificulty in securing some of the bodies, for when men fell in an ex posed position the Chinese concentrated their fire on the spot. Once it wa sary to erect & b Bainbridge fac carrying out was highly rad The attended by made fricuds show ew most bullets or Hme rricade to secure a body death & dozen times in mission of charity, and commended by all of his com- burial of Marine Tucher wa stranger He hat with & Russian private, and the two epent thelr spare time together. Nelther was a linguist, but with the aid of signs oud a sort of polyglot dialect they made cxcellent progress. They share their food, and when Russians and Ameri- cans fought together Tucher and the Rus- slan were usually side by side. Tucher's d the rong and logical | There | happens to be | ——— body pound late soldier was was carried into the Russian com At night, just as the Russian coming oft watch. Chineso coolies were at work digging & grave, and the burial party od about the corpse Drawn toward the body by some impulse the Russian leaned down over it and moved the cloth fr the o Recogniziug Tucher he broke Into tears and eried out in Russian, ‘My brother! My brother!' Aris Ing from the body he turned to where the coolles were at work on the gravo and mo tloning thom out of the way began to dig alone. The g had only been st but he rofused all offers of aid, and alone sunk it to the required depth. Then he threw away his shovel and getting on his knees in the bottom of the grave smoothed | down the soll. Hg was making the bed of his dead comrade. Next e put down some | leaves and then with all of the tenderness of a child he alded in lifting the limp form into the grave. He tenderly straightened | out the limbs, folded the hands across the breast and covered the face to shield it | from the carth that was to be tossed I As he leaned over the corpse his tears fell upon it. The burial party stepped back nd silently watched the dramatic scene, They were crying, too, and they could not have spoken had they tried. 1In silenca the grave was filled, and a little mound rounded over it. The Russian was the first to speak. Pointing off in the direc- tion of Tien Tsin he asked: ‘How long WLt be bofore they come? Nobody knew, {ond as the Russian reshouldered his gun he added: “If they don't soon will all be with my broth ' v rted, come 5 ¢ we H BETTER THAN EVER Ord Journal. A little better than usual is the Mustrated Christmas number of The Omaha Bee, 1t is a complete magazine, printed in colors, and the beauty of it fies in the fact that there are no Pifth or unintelligible metropolitan airs about it. It is devoted to Omaha and Nebraska, avenne Geccccsccccccsccscccscce n Dealer: “Pa,” sald the hier of the household, 1 all young Mr. Softleigh he fsn't a jay #eem to be any hope of L Sonpin ton Star ke e young perne mily tree.* answered i miuch ke e o e 100N, Bt Devomtie frall and unsubsthn it o Indianapolis Prese #hae “cletle honrder, mistleto “TtIn 50 callod becuu mark evory t pended anywhere, Washiy “Whit . s family Iss Cayent VOrY SUiRY near more and’ more a8 it branches out T wonder,” sald tha why thiy call it 1 she wees satd the miss'll toe the Dit of 1t wus Cheerful 1aiot Boston casy mark yi Thompso gets an noon Gff every Gime 1o Matter how thin his excuse in Thompson—It does look as thoigh 1 was wlly come over, hut that hoy has & habit of whistling when he is In the offiee Detroft Journal T shnson—~What an That boy he tries The Man Behind the Gun Ia 1 at the Pitiless Leadon Hail Don't laugh!™ clattered” the Pitiless Leaden Haf'. reproachfuily. “You may got fo be old. fushioned i 1f some time iere wits certainly no telling what prog ress the art of war might mauke gl Chicago Post ghe sald toar duck “True,” he admitted “And ‘now you always refer to me wor 1 to marriod, all me 'a * he answere explained. fowl ISTMAS PRAY) hut th Pver nis W, Bood Jude a AC Indlanapolls News Lord, for the lo rt U prdy upart New, for the son « Whom this tomo: Rejoiceth not, O Lord, Hear my weik word sorrow For lives too bitter to be horne, For the tempted and the torn, For the prisoner in the cell, For the shume Iip doth not tell, For the haggard suicide Peace, peace, this Christmastide Inta the desert, tre By the long sick, O G the patient gloom that small room Where lies the child of pa Of all neglected most-—be f: healing, and 2 1 of dny, W and pray those who cannot sleep, teh 1 keep. . let the starvin Be'fed, and fod ag At Thy The t T s Father of My To ple prain n; crve find rest, e chair, Souls, prep v thought's feeble power d this hour For the Wherd Where the Where th aching home nt footsteps come, unseen face looks on, handelasp fs not felt Where the dear ves are gone, Where the portrait on the wall tirs and struggles as to spenk, Where the light breath from the Calls the color to the check Where the volce breaks fn the hymn When the sunset burneth dim, Where the late large tear will start, I n by the broken heart Where the lesson fs to learn live, to grieve, to yearn, How to hear and how’ to bow Oh, the Christmas that fs fled! 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