Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 18, 1901, Page 6

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Tzachiick, secretary of The Tee Futiaing, Twen- Publighing Com- Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sund Tee printed during the month of December, 190, was as follows: 1 27,780 17 27,510 2 27,225 18 3 19 ‘ 1200 20, voiss 5 o INB80 B..iiees [ 27,420 1 27,160 B 27,430 9 ... 20,605 10 27,110 Worsiessrsorss BUING 12 27,140 27,840 1. 27,280 .. 47,240 " 27,728 oves 20,605 1. 27050 Gl 26,070 16.. e 26,005 Total Less unsold and returned coples Not total sales Net dally average GEORGE B Bubscribed i my prescn hefore me this 3ist day of T 1900, M. B. HUNGATE. eal.) stary Public, —_— nd_sworn to smber, A. D County Attorney Shields has nearly renched the point where he must face the facts. Shelby M. Cullom may be getting old, but hils senatorial galt glves no evi- dence of it. Runaway locomotives are uncommon and when they do start they are apt to furnish uncommon results, Judge Fawcett and the Real Estate exchange are now quits. Each has ex pressed an opinlon of the other. That post-mortem on the popoc corpse at Lincoln shows a wide div gence of opinion among the experts as to the cause of death. The postofice at Frogtown, 11, is to be contluued, despite the resignation of the postmaster. Now business may settle down to Its common sway. It's hard enough for the average popo- crat to pay a political assessment after he Is elected; but to pay it after he has been defeated fs more than he can stand. Women are meeting at Kansas City to devise plans for participation in the St. Louls exposition. 1t fs hoped they have arranged for a “sympathetic re- porter.” —_— The Missouri river 18 politely re- quested not to run amuck this spring Just because congress has declined to make an appropriution to keep it within bounds. The guuboat Scorpion has been sent to Venezuelan ports to protect American Interests. The Scorpion is a small ship, but has a lively stinger if it gets into operation, lece men fear a crop failur 1f it does fall it will be the only crop, with the single exception of popocratic votes, which has been short in Nebraska for some time, After all, Edmisten was more of a general than most people thought. He 1s now accused of having made himself whole before he settled other debts of his commltte Medical iconoclasts are sending salt theory to Join the Brow elixic and the blue-glass craze. fountain sought by De T been revealed. The popocratic reports of the meeting of the popocratic state committees sta there were no discordant notes heard. The popocratic ear Is evidently not very delicately attuned. the The populist campalgn fund—or rathe the hole where the fund is ordinarily found—is giving the committee plenty of trouble. It Is charged that $2,000 of the receipts are not accpunted for, Pos sibly it dropped into the same chasm as the popocratic v The Texas men who invit Hill to come to that state and play second fiddle to the late candidate for the the president evidently do not know man. Both may be present, but sage of Wolfert's Roost will be the tral figure on which the eyes country will be focused. —_——— Ingland has had an expe Aaerican. This country I8 not par teularly proud of its train robbers, bhut like everything else must adwit that, which the Ameriean undertakes, it done up In faultless style —_— Having established the principle it has the Board of Education will be moderate in It would be unfair and burdensome in the ex- treme to require full payment at once the I the council, the contended for, it is to he hoped its demand for a settlement, of the judgment it holds against eity. Having subdu on has not yet 1 David B, of the lence with a gennine teain robber and the bolduess with which the job was done convinces them that it must have been done by an is school board can afford to be merciful to the taxpayers, s pendent government, ) | sugar THE WARFARE OF COMMERCE The industrial and commercial joters ests of England have again been warned of the danger that confronts them from the competit of the United States and Germany, this country particularly The earl of Rosebery sees in the great combinations of eapital in the United States and the huge enterprise of the Awerlean people a formidable menace to the trade of Great Britaln which the British cannot afford to disregard. He declared it to be a possible outcome of the Immediate future that a trust of many milllone might compete with any trade in England, selling all its products at considerable loss. Thei good for the warning uttered by Rosebery. Ameri- ean competition has already had a de- elded effect upon British trade and this is likely to become more marked in the future. ‘There are combinations of capital In England as well as here, but P Y renson their operations are still belng con ducted on the old conservative lines, whereas such combinations in this country, on the other hand, look to im- provement in business methods and the expansion of enterprise. We do things here with a vigor that is unknown In Eogland and which the manufacturer or merchant in that country seems in capable of acquiring. We have better machinery, more rapid workers and give | greater attention to the “hustling” prin ciple than In England. It is these con ditions that have enabled American manufacturers to snecessfully compete with those of England for coutracts in which quick delivery was an important requirement Rosebery's warning may serve to arouse the industrial and mmerclal interests of England to greater energy and enterprise, but in order to withstand the competition that is eapturing thelr trade they must cut loose from the old hampering syste and methods and this they cannot readily do. ———— MAKING PROGRESS Late reports from the Philippines are somewhat reassuring. They show that steady if slow progress is being made in suppressing the rebelllon, some time ago ceased to be an organized resistance, and that something is also bheing done in extending clvil govern 18 ment. The volunta surrender of the leader of the insurgents in Hoilo prov ince, with his followers, was an im portant ineident, for, although the forc wias not large, it had given a good deal of trouble and now resistance In that province is bélleved to be at an end Besides, the surrender may Influence other finsurgents to lay down thelr arms. The civil appenrs he industriously devoting itself to the work devolved upon it and to be meet ing with fairly good success. Of course its progress very largely depends upon the results of the military operations and so far as appears these are belng prosecuted with all practicable vigor. Meanwhile, it is said that the natives are getting a better understanding of American intentlons, good work heing done In this direction by the Filipino federal party. These facts tend to dis. credit some of the statements In the appeal sent to congress from professed Filipino friends of the United States as to the feeling and sentiment among the natives generally, There is reason to think that the majority of them are not unfavorable to American soverelgnty. WANT TARIFF CONCENSIONS The agricultural interests of Cubu are seeking to obtain from this government a modification of the duties on sugar and tobacco. Governor General Wood has recelved petitions from eve provinee in the island asking that it be placed upon at least an equal footing with other countries between whom and the United States reciprocity treaties covering sugar and tobacco have been negotiated and are awalting rati- tication, The matter is one of the very greatest importance to the future of the Cuban industries. In his annual report of a year ngo Secretary Root proposed that as soon as the reciprocity treaties of a year ago were acted upon the same terms given to the other nations should mmission to be voluntarily extended to Cuba, It was supposed at that time that the reciprocity treaties would be ratified without much difficnlty and the aduin- istration bhad in mind the fmmediate woditication of the tariff so as to extend to Cuba the benefits to be derived by the countries with which the treaties had been made. No action bas yet been taken upon these conventions, how- ever, and there appears to be little chance of their ratitication, Unless there shall be a modification of the tariff duties on sugar and tobacco those industries in Cuba will certainly suffy but there is no doubt that the nd tobacco interests in the United States will vigorously oppose any maoditication, or such as would be of any naterial benetit 1o the Cuban producers, The opposition that is being made to the Jamaican reciprocity treaty is an in dication of what a proposal to give more favorable terms to Cuban sugar and to baceo would encounte The competi tion of Cuba would much more serlous matter than that of Jamaica, be a which it is urged would work great in jury to the agricultural and sugar In dustries of the south and California. | It Is true that the United States is moye concerned in the indus cial and com merclal development of Cuba than in | that of any other country with which wroclty treaties have been negotl ated. Our exports to the islaud in the Inst fisenl year amounted to $35,000,000, which nearly equalled their value before trade was diminished by the insurrec tion. Thix trade will continue to grow i€ the prosperity of the island increases and this depends very largely if not en tively upon the United States. Nothing Is more certain than that no bigh degree of development and prosperity can be attained by Cub: without the American market for her products. Mis the planters of 1 Island fully understand and therefore most of them are not in favor of an In The obstacle which | | i dustrial of the countr, to obtaining what they desire, in the matter of a moditication of tariff duties, is the sacrifice that Amerlean interests, with which they would compete, might have to suffer That these interests will earnestly oppose such concession as the Cubans want it is entirely safe to predict s NEBRASKA AT BUFFALY. 1 asked to take part in the Panamerican exposition at Buf falo and the legislature should see that arrangements for doing so are expedl tiously made. There is no more effective way of advertising a state's than by participation In these great in xpositions, In this way better than In any other strangers are given an opportunity for investigation and comparison, and Nebraska surely courts both At the tion, Nebraska has | at Transmississippl Exposi held at Omaha during 1898, Ne braska naturally took a leading position, and the sta terial fits from made cannot be that derived great ma the showing then vinsaid. A1l the great according to recent reports from agricultural states of the west made | there The natives are sald to be very displays there, aud if no other advan- | happy on the island of Tutuila, which tage had resulted, the opportunity af-|Great Britain and Germany have traded forded the Nebraska husbandman to compare the results of his labors with those of his fellows from other sections rth the pri only to was we education not was an stranger, who knew little or nothing of | the state, but to the resident who thought he was well acquainted with the resources and possibilities of N braska. Each citizen of the state who made even a cns the dis nl study o plays at the Transmississippl Exposition has felt prouder of his state since then. | New York courteously took part in the | yhe health department reports, with some | | exposition of 1808, making an especial | alarm, that it has greatly increased in effort to give the affair the im-|severity ince the first of the year. The | portance comprehended in its g llrl"pnn,:nm,xyl 50 calls n(lelnllun to lvhn- n..I« | i o otitas iy « | that the disease is contaglous and is casily eral pe. Nebraska now has M| oo inicated, the germ thriving in the first opportunity to return the friendly | mojst air which prevails at present. Its visit from the great Empire state. There Is nothing to be feared and much to be galned from an exhibition of our state's products at Buffalo, The prize fight promoters who ar sounding the governors of the various states to ascertain if there is any place In which such contests can be held with out fear of interference, speedily dis covered that Governor Dietrich proposes to enforce the law, so far as Nebraska I8 concerned. Nebraska is looking for | ward to an tncrease in population, but is not sending out invitations to the pr fight colony to make the state its head quarters—it pre settle The Kansas ot ble f als who are responsi r the failure to protect the negro who was burned at Leavenworth are preparing to make a statement in their own defense and their trump card is proof of the alleged guilt of the vietim. Whether the man was guilty of the crime or not is immaterial. 1t guilty the law provided a punishment. Th is absolutely no excuse for such bru- tality. Sam Lewls, the Loudon pawnbroker, whose exactions from the unfortunates who fell into his cluteh have been th talk of Eungland on many occasions, left $5,000,000 to charity If the money only suceeeds in producing a fraction of the amount of happiness which Its ac- cumulation has caused misery, it must be administered with good judgment. ut to know why the fusion county attorney didn’t want the South Omnha ballots recounted just note the fact that in the first package opened a gain of five for his opponent was shown, | It is not beyond probability that the story of the rotten election in the Magic City will y et be unfolded, The Boston Human oty wants the exportation of Amerlcan mules to South Africa stopped on the ground that the 80 animals are badly treated while ou ship- | board. If the humane soclety will only wait until the mule gets a chance at the Britishers after landing the tears might appropriately be transferred, The fivst Dill passed by the Porto Rican legislature provided for trial by Jury and was signed by Governor Allen, r there is a American and Porto Rico will soon discoy between vast difference Spanish rule. e Good Effected. phia Ledger rd is still operating as a The Cudahy rews preventive of kidnaping, but to no other | @re true, or false, according to the stand- purpose. point from which they are made, or, more | ccurately, according to their application. A Neat wram, From a personal or selfish viewpoint it may Washington Post e Speaking of the wit of the late Senator Davis Senator Hoar utte an epigram which deserves to be remembered spark from him,” said Senator Hoar, “‘was ever a cinder in the eye of his friend Stroggling Cleveland Cateh Up, Leader Engiish manufacturers are now adopiing American mechanical devices as a means of preventing the decadence of the industrial supremacy of their country. Yet even that cunnot save them from the flerce competi- tion of (he inventive Yanke Borrowing Trouble in Advance, Baltimore American The ice trust is gettiog exceediugly ner- vous over the unhappy necessity which may be forced upon it to raise prices the com Ing summer on account of present mild woather. It is needless to say it will fight this necessity to the last ditch in its over- powering love for the poor, dear public 4 of Jeflerson. Philadelphia Record (dem.) On February 12 a Jefferson banquet be held at Columbus, O. will The speakers tor :f:'.‘f‘:‘ x‘lnu'x:rr'“‘ 1‘1‘.“"“"‘:".“:‘"»‘” "l_!r\""- | When, therefore, an old man bemoans the jeorge - IFred Willlams, Senator Towne, | 400,000 rance of stage coaches his grief is Seuntor Pettigrew and John P. Altgeld. | no"yoceusarily imaginary. He preferred This list comprises the ablest as well as v e the most violent opponents of Jeffersonjan views on some Important methods of ad ministration. If Thomas Jefferson be in u cordition of gentlemen to do him birthday honor pe : y terest for them. They are still fighting Will 34 doubt aive Blm & surprise battles which the great majority of their Fight for Trade, Philadelnhia Ledger Perhaps it Is & sign of the sudden growth of the United States as a world power that the European papers are disposed to regard the utterances ously of our statesmen so seri- t them to discussing with more or le: \ pronrees | s o different class of | is “No to take note of anything going on in the United States the Ohio selection | Senator Lodge's recent deliverance on the subject of a possible war with Europs alarm the prospect that the United States will make an attack on them, to thelr | great detriment. Well, it will, but not | with force of arms This country will | make a fight for their trade, their manu- | | factures and the best of their people, but it will do 80 by the peaceful arts of in dustrial competition, not by the old method | | of war A Shot at the Porter. Chicago Chronicle The Colorado solon who has prepared a bill making it a ¢riminal offense to tip a raiiroad porter will deserve better of pos- terity It he widen the penalty to tipping of every kind. The tip is an own cousin of | the official fee. In a democratic country where everybody is as good as anybody else and a great deal better there ought to be a fixed price for every service, not to be in creased by exceptional wealth nor diminished by pareimony or churlishness. Every laborer i3 worthy his hire and ought not to have to look for alms. It Colorado can en- force an anti-tipping law its example will be imitated by every American common- wealth, American Rule in Snmon. Bostoh Transcript The American part of the foreign rule in | Samon seems o be a most successtul ven- | ture, | oft to us, and are the envy of those liviog |on other islands in the group. Business is reported as booming and everythiug gen- | erally is lovely. Government work is go- | Ing on rapldly at Pago-Pago and the whole | beach front is to be given for government | butidings and reservations. The natives, however, expect liberal return for this con- cession and are looking to bullding a church with the money which they think the United States will contribute. In the Clutches of the Grip. Chicago Tribun Reports from many parts of the country show that the grip epidemic is widespread In Chicago the disease is widespread and recommendations that more precautions should be taken to avoid the spread of the grip are greatly needed, for there is & somewhat general inclination to class the disease as less dangerous than annoying. On the contrary, the number of deaths which can be traced directly to grip and its consequences {s oxtremely large, especially with people who are past middle age. Something may he done to stop its sprea by enforcing the ordinance forbidding ex- pectoration in street cars and in other public places and still more by insisting | that street cars and other similar vehicles | be properly ventilated, instead of belng practically sealed up, as is often the case now For the rest one must depend on | keeping one’s feet dry and on taking other precautions to avoid “catching cold,” which so frequently the first stage in the| disease. Do COUNT THE (OST? esent enson Taught Pennlty of Theft. Chicago Tribune Alvord, who was the biggest defaulter in the record of last year, has confessed his crime and has thereby avolded the costs of | a trial and evidently expects to get a more lenlent senteace than he otherwise would | have had. He stole $700,000 of the money of the bank in which he was employed and lived for a tim¥ in clover, enjoying the good things of (he world apparently with- out conslderiig that there must come & day of settlement, for of all crimes em- bezzlement is the most certain to be dis- covered and to be punished. Today Alvord Is in prison and sure to remaiu there a long term of years, notwith- standing his confession. In the meantime | the money which he stole has been spent in riotous living and the innocent wife and children are without means of support. | Unaccustomed to work and ignorant of the methods of work they must atruggle to sup port themselves. His crime has placed him beyond the possibility of helping them for | long years to come. He not alone must suffer punishment himself, but he has im posed a burden upon his family as hard, if not harder, than his own. 1t will always be strange that men who have the ability to fill high financial posi- tions and who betray the trust reposed in them never count the cost of their misdoing or look forward to the time when exposure must come. It s none the less strange that with such an object lesson before them as that of the Alvord case other men in similar positions of trust do not recognize that “‘the way of the transgressor is hard” and that it 18 better to “sow in tears and reap in joy" than the reverse. But the lesson is not likely to be heeded. The risk will continue to be taken, though the odds are always against the taker by the THOSE GOOD ¢ Lamentations of th Modern Con: Baltimore American Expressions of opinion concerning the century which has just come to an end are not all rose-colored. Both in writing and In speech there have been many sighs for the good times gone and predictions that they will never come again. Some of (hese Over entirely true that something has gone out of one’s life or out of the lives of many which will never come back again Take, for instance, soclety as it existed in the early part of the nineteenth century in this country. It was for certaiu classes the pleasantest that can be imagined and it is not likely that there will be a return of it. Those who remember it and who participated in it can say with truth that something has gone out of life so far as | they are concerned. But those who enjoyed those exceptional conditions were few in number, while they were environed by a much larger body of people who had little, it any, enjoyment beyond that which is | common to domestic animals. The sym- pathy between the fortunate and unfortu- nate was stronger than It is now, but mere sympathy does not confer either happiness or the power of enjoyment. The masses of the people during the century developed wonderfully in knowledge and the capacity to enjoy, and, while one may regret that a social life which was so charming for the favored few had to be sacrificed, this, in the minds of judicious persons, must be | swallowed up in the vast advantages which have accrued to the many stage coaches and cannot to modern modes of travel. The procession has passed by and left him. It is the same with some men who fought in the civil war They have never gotten beyond that period | What has happened since possesses no in | ustom himselt | comrades have forgotten or treasur as Indistinct memories. When, the person walls the degeneracy of the times he may be stating accurately his own feel Ings. From his sonal standpoint, which | 15 the only one he is able to assume, he may have a basis for what he says. He is | urfortunate in lacking the capacity to take a broader view of the situation. | may | thetr STATUS OF C(UBAL Washington Post: The supreme court has at least decided that Mr. Neely follows the indictment Indianapolis News: The decision defines | our relations with Cuba o plainly that no one need err. It renews our sense of moral obligations and reminds us that we can have no better safeguard for our own Jiberty than the loyal obligation of its principles in the case of others Chicago Record: Cuba has been deciared by the highest court in the land to be a tree and independent country, as it has been the avowed Intention of this government that ft*should be. That this verdict ex presses the real views of the American people and carries out their manifest pur- pose is not open to serious question. New York Tribume: The supreme court decides that Cuba is not, legally or inter- natlonally, a part of the United States. Yet our flag is there, all over the island, and s legally and properly there. It seems dif- flcult to avoid the conviction, then, that at least In that case the constitution and the flag are not quite as inseparable as the Siamese twins Philadelphia Press: The court plainly de- cides that occupation and control of ter- ritory by the sovereign authority and power of the United States may be exercised in time of absolute peace without necessarily applying the provisions of the constitution over that territory. This sweeps away any doubt of our power to govern Cuba as we are now doing and to continue to do it until a government has been established there satisfactory to congress Clevoland Plain Dealer: The effect of this decision upon public opinion {n Cuba cannot but be great. There has been suspicion as 1o the good faith of the United States gov- ernment, and anxlety for an authoritative expression of its intentlons. Now It has been given by the highest tribunal. Cuba belongs to its own people, and as xoon as a stable government has been established by thelr voluntary action It must be sur rendered them. Judgment has been given Detroit Journal: The decision not foreshadow the decision In the Porto Rico and Philippine cases, depend ing, of course, upon the individual point of view. The conditions are not analogous, but the language of the court certalnly encourages the supporters of the adminis- tration to anticlpate a decision which will confirm the rectitude of the policy that has been followed. The two questions present many fine legal distinctions, but the gen eral trend of the Neely case decision is markedly favorable to the adminlstration's position on the Porto Rico and Philippine cases Globe-Democr There is a chance that the divorce between flag and constitution which this opinion of the court sets forth may have some bearing on the decision which will be reached on the cases involy- ing the right of congress o give different sorts of treatment to the inhabitants of Porto Rico and the Philippines from that which fs accorded to the people of the United States proper. This question was not directly touched, for the relation of Cuba to the United States is widely differ- ent from that between this country and the rest of the islands whose fate was deter mined by the Spanish war. Porto Rico and the Philippines were ceded by Spain to the United States outright, while Spain merely relinquished soverelgnty over Cuba. to may or BRUTALITY T WEST POINT. Baltimore American: Boys in all institu- tions of learning have differences and will quarrel and fight, but in no institution in the land is such brutality practiced as has been proved to be the custom at West Point. Portland Oregonian: The whole theory of hazing fs born of barbaric stupidity. It is a practice that is instinct with cowardice, injustice and petty tyranny. The manly stuff of men in civil life is tested without resort to “scrapping” and bulldog puglilism has no proper place in the training of an army officer Washington Post: In the prize ring men are made to wear gloves and are fnvariably protected against barbarous punishment In the West Point fights the little boys have to meet the big ones with bare knuckles and they are expected to fight until they faint, no matter how hopeless inferiority may be or how certain their cruel punishment. The West Point fights, in fact, are characterized by all the ruthless brutality of the prize ring of the cighteenth century, without presenting one of its humane and manly attributes. It is a case of barbarism and nothing else. San Francisco Chronicle: Most of the colleges of the country have frowned on hazing, as they have put a stop also to the brutalities of the old-time class rushes. Wherever either is now permitted to be carried on it Is in a mild form, which re- duces it to a strictly harmless and un- objectionable proceeding. Hazing at th military academy must be carried on less brutally hereafter or be abolished alto- gether. The management of the academy can unquestionably suppress it and the country will applaud the determination of the congressional committee in declaring that it must cease Washington Times When common, vul- gar pugilists stand up and pound each other with gloves the law in nearly all our states compels them to stop short of brutality. At West Point the fistic system is different. There green, soft boys in thelr first few months in the academy are com- pelled to fight young athletes with two or three years' training with bare knuckles and until the former are pounded into in- sensibility. All the events at West Point to a finish, which is always in sight before the first blow s struck. If anybody can conceive of a thing more contemptible and cowardly we should like to hear of it PERSONAL Edgar B. Stewart {8 the youngest mayor iu West Virginia. He is 20 and is the first republican mayor of Morgantown. ot the NOTE course doctors are wrangling about the merlts of salt as an elixir of lite. Meanwhile, people continue to die J. Ogden Armour, who is now head of the Armour business interests, will be only 37 years old next month, but he was con- nected with the late P. D. Armour for eleven years. Down in Adair county, Kentucky, Colonel Azure Damrot is a candidate for the legis lature. The colonel recently published a book of poems and was compelled to kill a nan who intimated that author and verses belonged to the same family. neral John W. Foster, secretary of state in the Harrison administration, has been elected president of the Americam Bible society, of which he has been tor some vears a iice president. He is active In the Presbyterian denomination and especially intercsted in missionary work The little king of Spain is a great admirer of the prince of Wales, and having read in the continental press about the immi- nent downfall of the British empire, sent a letter recently to the prince to assure him that if he was in dificulties he could count on the king of Spain for support and sym. pathy In the matter of handwritiog it is teresting to know that Michael Davitt lost his right arm in a manufactory when he waw only 10 years of age, wrltes o singularly clear hand, only distinguishable by its superiority from the ordinary writing of people who have both hands, but only use the right for writing. Mr. Davitt teaches his children to write with both right and lefi hands, & custom invariably followed by Japanese schools, in who | | APANSION NEAR AND raRr. omment on Gen Harrison's Stip of the Pen. Chicago Tribune Harrison says in his article the North American Review on “The Status of Annexed Territory” that ‘“‘we have done something out of line with Amer can’ history not in the matter of territorial expansion, but in the character of it Heretofore the regions we bave taken over have been contiguous to us save in the case of Alaska General Harrison attemp(s to glide 1ightly over this Alaskan exception, which plays havoc with his argument, but Alaska is too big, territorially speaking, or taken at a mouthtul, to be ignored. With the acquisi tion of Alaska, the lawfulness of which' no one questions, the United States aban- doned its old practice of acquiring only contiguous territory and laid down a new rula for itself General Harrlson tries to break the force of the Alaska precedent. He says: “Indeed | Alaska Is contiguous in the sense of being | near.”” “Near" fs an Indefinite word. It may mean a mile or a thousend miles. | There aro degrees of nearness, Most people when Alaska was bought looked on it as remote. Many consider it so now. | The men who have voyaged several days to | reach it have not thought it “near.”” Gold hunters who have been stranded on the | inhospitable shores of Alaska and who have found it a slow, laborious task to get back | to civilization have not thought Alaska | “contiguous’” to the United States in any | sense of ‘‘nearness.’’ It General Harrison thinks Alaska is “contiguous” he must think the Hawailan islands are contiguous also. He was eager to annex them. He sent a treaty to the senate for that purpose towards the close of his term. Cannot he stretch his elastic definition of contiguity a little more and let it take in the Philippines? The eminent gentleman from Indiana says further that previously annexed reglons “were also at the time of annexation either unpeopled or sparsely peopled by clvilized men.”” Here again the constitutionality of an acquisition of territory is a question of degree. neral Harrison seems to argue that it the territory is sparsely populated the constitution may be violated, it densely populated it must not be. “There were only a few civilized inhabitants,” General Harrison would say in extenuation of a purchase of territory which s “contiguous in the sense of being near.” It was “such « little one,” safd the nurse maid in “Mid- shipman Easy" in extenuation of her slip. In constitutional questions s in petty legal questions General Harrison s of the opinion that ““de minimis non curat lex.” The territory on this continent acquired by the United States at different times did not have many civilized inhabitants, but had many Indian Inhabitants. Had the aborigines no rights? It they had General Harrison seems to have overlooked the fact. He appears to be keenly alive to the rights of the Filipinos and the alleged dangers that threaten those rights. But he was ready to annex the Sandwich fslands, al- though he knew the majority of their native inhabitants, more civilized than the Filipinos are, were opposed to annexation. Porto Rico, too, which General Harrison wishes to keep, is densely populated and its people are not fit for representation in con- gress. General Harrison's argument is not consistent with itself and does not agree with his practice. POPULARIZING CORN ABROAD, King of Cereals Becoming a Fa- vorite Across the Pond. Harper's Weekly It was over ten years ago that an attempt was made to popularize Amerlcan corn in Europe by teaching foreign nations how to cook and prepare it in various ways, and the consumptive demand has steadily in- creased ever since. The “corn Kitchen' at the Paris exposition last summer was one mere effeotive method of popularizing a cereal which in this country is considered equal to any ralsed. Before the Depart- ment of ' Agriculture sent its first repre- sentative abroad, nearly a dozen years ago, to show Europeans how to prepare corn products, there was a vague idea prevalent in most foreign countries that Indian maize was good enough for pigs and cattle, but not fit for human beings to eat. Even the poorest peasants of northern and south- ern Europe refused to touch the corn, al- though it could be obtained cheaper than the rye and barley which they ate dally in one form or another. It was the testimony of Mr. Murphy, the department's ploneer agent in the interests of corn, that the prejudice against eating our corn was so great that it was almost impossible in some places (o induce the poor people to eat corn products when offered to them free. There was quite a marked contrast be- tween this early reception of our corn and the way the corn dainties which the Pari- sians and visitors ate so eagerly at the ex- position were disposed of last summer. All the corn delicacies that were turnedy out of the “corn kitchen" were devoured readily by eager and appreciative visitors, and plenty more of samples would have met a like fate had it been possible to pre- pare them. American corn products as free food certainly received more than their share of attention, and it is not impossible that thousands of new corn-eating recruits were made by this exhibition. The national food crop of Germany and Russia s rye, while that of France is wheat, that of China rice and that of India millet Corn cannot be said to be our national food crop exactly, for we are heavy raisers and consumers of wheat, 100, but we can raise corn at a cost that enables us to sell it in competition with nearly all the national foods of other countries. Thus from the standpoint of actual nourishment obtalned from the foods we can sell corn in Russia cheaper than the peasants can raise their rye, and In France far cheaper than the farmers can produce their wheat. It is fair under these circumstances to suppose that the more general Introduction of our corn among the poorer classes of Europe will mean A corresponding increase in the de mand for it as human food. At presen we ship our corn to all parts of the worl¢ and the natives of Europe, South America Central America, Australin, Africa, Canda China, Mexico and the West Indies have otundant opportunities to discover it virtues as a human food that the propaganda movement It 1 quite eviden n the In Wi that during the last fi our exports of corn have averaged 173818201 bushels per annum while during the five vears before that date the annual average exports of corn only 4,663 bushels. This shows crease of some 264 per cent LINES TO A LALGH, terests of corn has already borne fruit by are told the statisticlans ve. wert an fne Philadelphia Times that lodger of ours to his wife ‘About what?" “He pays his rent so punctually I'd better raise it on him Homerville nal: When a man has more money than braing he is pretty sure to get acquainted before long with another man who has more brains than money. At a result, things In times are equaliacd I'm thinking abow landiord remarked L thind Philadelphin Press: “Who was Fsau asked the Sunday school teacher, who wi testing the bibical knowledge of her pupila “Eeau,” replied the prompt scholar, “way nan who sold his birthmark for a p massage. Chicago Tribune: “Josiah' said Mra Chugwater, “when one of the big batt shipx runs aground how do they get it off “They pull it off with a tug of war,” an swered Mr. Chugwater. 1 should ‘think vou'd know enough to know that.’ Cleveland Plain_ Dealer Yes, she ak to the editor when she mei Had he offended her?'" 1 whould say he had. His society reporter called her one of the past century’s buds. “Teacher wants ‘e know If there are any cannibals fn China wald the small boy boarde “Of course. Have you never heard of the Manchus?" asked the Cheerful ldiot Star: “I met a very uble man who has some admirable arguments te vindicato your position in that campaige which caused %0 much talk some years ago. Indianapolis Pre Washington g “Tell him not to bother me." Senator Sorghum, *“He 1 don't want to hire dead jssue like that answ wasting h any arguments Chicago Tribune: ““This {s some of your McKinley prowperity, is it?" sald the man in the old slouch hat, as he sat down on n stool at the “penny lunch counter’ and ordered a d-cent meal “You bet!" the man trousers responded heartily, with his moutk full of baked beans. “It's bettor than Cleve. land souphouses. Everybody who comes here has the penny Philadelphia Press: “Beg_pardon, kind lady,” began the poiite beggar, “but I'm badly in need of money." S wonder {f vou deserve the kind woman, susplcionusly glve vou a penny, what with it “Your generosity would overwhelm me, ma'am. 1'd buy u postal card and write you a note of thanks.” in the frazaled help,” sald “1T was to would you do Indianapolis ¥ w60 “How's Lushley do- ing?" wsked the man who had been abrond for a time. “When | knew him, years ngo, he used (o get full oncoe in & while, StIl the 0a] SEPRLL might he gets full ell, no. You might say he gets fu ‘twice h a while' now v o) ¢ K¢ TOBACCO SMOKE. Montague in Portland Oregonlan Foul weed, whose fumes benumb the brain And_wrénch the nerves with many a twist, Why {8 it’ that men vow In vain Thy fancied power to resist? Why do they sit befogged in smoke And reeking with thy smell, instead O1 rising sternly to invoke A curse upon thy wretched head? The noxious pipe, that taints the amblent alr, The rank and stron Extend thejr I Both near and far. The perfume of the flowers and the trees, The breath of fragrant May, Borne in upon the balmy, vernal breeze, They drive away clgar, leful odor everywhere, The man whose dendened nostrils hold Thy smoke, Whose every heaving breath But speeds the day when, lying cold Hie limbs “shall ‘stiffen 'in’ the grasp of death, Recks little of the evil that is wrought, While he s slave unto thy dreadful spell, Nor gives to terror e'en a single thought, When thou dost exercise thy power fell. 1 was thy victim And festoon w head And shoot the circling rings of smoke on high, Al thought of care, all thought of sorrow e But that was ere the changing of the year, Before, deflant of companion’s scoff, Without' a murmur or & parting tear, 1 solemnly swore off, nee; 1 loved to lle aths of haze above my And now 1 make & mock of every charm Thou hast to offer men; And, knowing well thy potency to harm, I ne'er shall smoke again But, soft, upon the mantleplece I find One lorie clgar, left over from the night I smoked my iast—1 think—I've half a mind— ‘Well, after all-just let me get a light. 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