Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 26, 1901, Page 6

THE THE ©OMAHA DALY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Bunday), One Year. $6.00 Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year PR Illustrated e One Year.. 00 Bunday Bee, One Year Baturaay Be One Year Twentieth Century Farm OFFICES Bee Bullding. City Hall sullding, Twen- Lo 1w One Year. Omaha: The Bouth Omuna ty-Nith and M strects Couscll bluffa: 10 Pearl Btreet, Chicago: 164 Unity Bullding, New York mple Court Washington: 51 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to 1 torial matter should be addressed: Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTIRS lette remittances Pubiishing wa and edi- Omaha whould om- Business be REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or ble to The Bee Publishing ent stamps accepted n necounts. Fersonal checks, except on OF Enstern exchuanges, not accepte THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY postal order, Company payment of STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Blate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss George 1 Tzschiick, secretary of “I'he Bee Publishing company, being duly —sworn Bays that the wctual number of” full and complete copies Daily, Morning, ening and 8 i during the month of follows 20,180 ...26,010 ..20,27 25,750 Lo 20,800 ..20.6156 5,760 25,640 25,770 ..25,700 L..48770 L 26,100 Total Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales Net dally average GEO Subscribed fn my presence before me this 4th day of March, A 1 M N 25,070 SCHUCK, and gworn to 191, B, The time lock on s almost due to open The weather man, having had his little Joke, will hurt nobody's feelings by com- porting bimself with due decorum for a day or two. Nebraska's soil has recelved the thorough xpring sonking needed. Now watch it burst forth with its glorious mantle of green. It §s renlly a hard condition that the legislators must do more work in the Inst week of the session than any other and re pay for it the legislature The Lineoln political pipe will prob- ably burn for the remainder of this week, After the long season of dream ng it will be hard for the correspondents to get back to facts, Carrie fon left a bright streak of phosphorescent talk from Kansas City to Cinelnnati, but her tongue doesn't feem to possess the power to destroy attributed to her hatchet. Fleeing from a river of blazing oil 1s # novel experlence, and one that the New Jersey villagers will hardly care to repeat. It shows the wonderful possi- bilities of life in the United States, how- ever. Apparently that South Omaha library matter 18 to be held fn abeyance, that it may serve to intlate another political | hoom some day. There Is nothing like having something of this sort in re- serve. The amount of advice which the popo “tje papers have donated to the pres ent Keglature borders on the prodigal. The QW y1ity of the tender bas been sue hOWeVGL (hat it has not been aceepted, even ak 4 gipt, QUIte 4 goreible ilustration of the ne of the Do puving bill is being glven Just “"‘Zr Certaln streets which would be imp¥oved under its provisions are mpAssfLG aud naturally teaffic is de- laved §o just that extent. A republicans are getting ready 0¥ one of the busiest campaigns in e history. The only question at Assue, Bowever, Is which of a number of statesmen is to have the big majority the Hawkeye state usually piles up. names fn Unele Sam's naval cata- will be of interest to those who have bemoaned our weakness at seu. In a fow years the navy will be as numerous as any, while even at present no one seriously questions its efficiency. Th logue A Philadelphia paper complains that firemen are in too big a hurry to get to a fire when an alaem sounds, 1t is per- jectly natural thut this complaint should come from Philadelphin. The clatter of hoofs has u tendency to wake pe ple up. Crossfug the Great Salt lake on tr tlework s ouly an incldent in modern vaflroad bullding, but it serves well to fllustrate the ends to which engineers will go to get straight track and mod- erate grades, The race for business was never so keen as it is now, —_— English capitalists are sensitive about Mr, Yerkes talking so much of what he proposes to do in the mutter of rapid transit for London, They do not object to having some who knows how show them up-to-date methods, but it Is galling to have the fact glven out to the world, one Western people ought to stand the storm’s inconvenlence faivly well after learning that the English racing season was opened in the snow and that Aus- trin has just passed through a snow storm of thirty-six lhours’ duration, There are somwe climates worse than ours after all, —_— The verdicts given lu court agalnst the electric light company because of aceldents occastoned by overhead wires ought to be stroug arguments in favor of a system of coudunits. Omaha's THE LE The home now oy #ISL ATIVE HOME STRETUH. | legislature entering upon the streteh of its sesston and from | until the hour adjournment | minute of 1t time will be crowded with the p of different measures competing for its attention The tinal of the are | always taken advantage of by the lobby and by members representing special interests to logroll railrond bills through that could not hope for passage in the steady light of day The watchful vigilance that is neces sary to head off jobs and steals must be redoubled on the legislative home streteh because the unscrupulous lobby | never « but, on the contrary, be-| comes more active with this awalted | opportunity in sight. | e lonest srageons legislator n do more to serve his constituent and the taxpayers of the state ju gen- eral during the coming few days than | through the entire already | passed, | is 0 of ssur days wossion session A SERIOUS SITCATION | he political situation in Kussia has | become very serious and it is the in some quarters that a revolution is| fmminent. While this is fmprobal s @ fact that the govornment is fronted by a conditlon of affairs that will require careful treatment to avert a dangerous popular uprising. The chief sourc the trouble ix the opposition of the students of Russian universities to certain laws which have recently been enacted against them for any dem- onstrations which they might make, The most obnoxious of the is a law which ¢ rs that students arrested in a demonstration shall be foreed to enter the army as private soldicrs, whether they b already served their thoe or uot. Within the last few months numne ests of students have been | maude and so great has been the resent ment by this that, It s said, most of the universities are (e e, A strong popular sentiment in sym pathy with the students has developed and this is very likely to grow if the | government, as seems probuble, con- | tinues the obnoxious laws in force, It has been intimated that even dissensions | in the army are possil Meanwhile prominent officiuls are being threatened and extraordinary precantions are being | taken for safeguarding the lite of the ar. This domestic trouble may yet have an important eff upon Russia’s foreign policy. ous CUBAN COMMERCIAL INTERENTS The commercial interests Cuba, which have been somewhat backward in asserting themselves, appear now to be taking a very active part in the dis- cussion of affairs and us these interests are practically a unit in favor of the closest relutions with the United States their influence iy being effectively ex erted In behalf of the American coudi- tlons. The Cuban planters, property owners and business men cousider the situation from u strictly practicable point of view, which the mere politicians are incupable of doing. The former know that Cuba cannot make progress | and attain prosperity without the most intimate commercial relations with th United States. If Cuba is to grow and develop she must enjoy access under the most favorable conditions to the Amer- jean market. The commercial interests also understand that in order to secure speclal consideration for Cubun products in the Ame arket it is essential that the politic lations between the island and the United States shall be intimate, Calm discussion is producing the de- sired effect upon public opinion in Cuba. It is beginning to be understood that | the conditions proposed by the Ameri-| can congress are not incomputible with Cubun independence, while they offer the best possible security for the peace and stability of a Cuban republic, Men who were at first disposed to vigorous|, resent the American terms have changed their opinton and every duy increases the number of these who are in favo of accepting the terms, The latest in- formation is most reassuring, warrant- ing the belief that an entirely satis factory adjustment of the relatious be- tween Cuba and the United States will be reached at an early day. WHAT SUM CAN CHINA PAY? That is a question which now con- fronts the powers and the effort to d termine which promises to cause no lit- tle controversy and perhaps trouble among them. Our government, it is un derstood, considers $200,000,000 the max- imum that should be levied upon China as indemnity. It is stated to be the oplulon at Washington that this amount sents absolutely the limit of Chi ability to pay. These figures, how- or, do not represent the aggregate of the indemnities claime While the nited States is willing to be moderate in it claims and would place its claim to Indemnity at not to exceed $25,000, 600, it is known that some of the other powers are disposed to ask a sum that | would swell the total to two or three times the amount which in the opinion of our government should be the maxi- mum, A recent Washington dispateh stated, apparently upon good authority, that this government would be willing to abate the 000,000 elaim if the other powers would reduce their claims in the same proportion, even to the extent of reducing the total estimate to $100,000,- 000, if by so dolug the Chinese govern ment could be relieved by having the tax adjusted to its ability to pay. But, it was further said, that although in grave doubt whether China can pay more than $100,000,000, our government feels itself bound to secure compensa tion for Its citizens and itself to the sume extent as is secured by other powers and is especially resolved to do this because of the conviction that a total abandonment of our claims, or ven 4 heavy reduction without corre- sponding action on the part of the other powers, would rather injure than help China by destroylug whatever restrain- {ug influence the State department has downtown streets are almost as fully occupled by wires uow as before the telephoue lives were buried, far been able to exert upon less | contemplated | this matter, such us our government has moderate claim, it will continue esert its fufluence to induce the other powers Iuction in their claims as will bring the total indemnity aske within the ability of China to pay. It is the theory of this government, us set forth in the last annual message of Pres ident MeKinley, that due compensation | may be made by the Chinese govern ment in part by increased guaranties ¢ security for foreign tights and fmmuni ties and by the opening of China to the equal commerce of all the world. A demand upon China for three or (nur; hundred million dollars, as is evidently by of the powe would mean inevitable bankrupte the empire, whatever the conditions of | payment. Contrary to the general opinion | the Chinese government s poor. Its es, chiefly from customs, a large which is pledged, are fpsutficient irrent expenses, To materially 1o crease customs, if that he practicable would he to the disadvanta with China, while any considerat crease in o internal taxation would be very likely to cause domestic trouble. A reasonable degree of moderation in to make such re some urged, would operate to the ultimate advantage of all the powers, SOUTH OMAHA'S GROWTH. When Governor Dictrich issued his proclamation declaring South Omaha to be a city of the first class and entitled to municipal existence under a sep arate and independent charter he per- formed more than a mere executive aet. He gave the formal assent of his hig office to the assumption of dignities thut have been won by the Magie City by dint of commercial achievements, The story of South Omaha's growth reads like a romanee, Americans ar familiar - with stories of the sudden transition of wildernesses into popu lous centers, but they have mainly to do with places where a lucky discovery of treasure trove has proven suff clently attractive to draw together the adventurous In only a few Iustances has the sole attraction of commercial enterprlse been strong cuough to estublish a city within the short spuce of time covered by the growth of South Omal To understund the remarkable devel opment of this packing center one must turn to the figures afforded by the live stock industry. South Omaha at pres- ent stands thivd in the list of the great | pucking centers of the world. In 1884, E nteen years ago, the industry was i its swaddling clothes, so to speak, and the enterprises that have sinee made the name Omaha known the world around were barely experiments, In 1884 the receipts of live stock at the Omaha market were: Cattle, 88,60: hogs, i For the tl a clusses, " ; sheep ¢ To carry out this pmpurison is to waste time. The figures show for themselves the growth of the warket established at South Omaba, and the market avgues its own importance, The development of South Omaha has been in o lurge measure the result of the growth of the west during the last score of years, and yet it has surpassed the efforis of its rivals, The manifold advantages of the market at this point has been appreciated, and the build ing up of the wouderful eity from prac ically nothing in 1884 to the proud position of third place in the popula- tion and pmercial — centers of Ne- braska at present is a tribute to the sugi ind foresight of the men who invested their money in the enterprises thut have contributed to the result. tock yards and packing houses share alike in this, for without each other ueither can exist, The wain fact, however, Is that South Omaha has attained its present propor- tions. In its growth Omaha has v Joiced and prospered. It will not harm the older city to have a sister so nearby enjoying the prestige and advantages that accrue from commercial prosperity and importance, South Omaha s en- titled to all that comes through the governor's proclamation, and will ever find Omaha ready to ald in building up and advancing the Interests of the busy packing town which is now so prominent, The persistent agitation of the Russian students is beginning to alarm the rul- Ing clusses in that country and some concessions must be made them, So long as the dissatisfaction was largely contined: to the lower classes, the czar and his advisers folt capable of crush- ing ont the opposition, but the students and their sympathizers represent too in fluentlal an element to be denied when they are really In earnest. Nebraska bidders ave preparing to make the most of the location of the Indian supply depot at Omaba. Being near the point of production and cou- sumption of these supplies, the state should be materially benefited by the tion of the depot heve. There never was any good reason why eastern spec- ulators should furnish these supplies, which they were compelled to purchase hel Japan has served notice on Russia that attempts to tread on the toes of the Yankees of the Orient is a different matter from coercing the Chinese, In spite of the immense superiority of Rus- sl in point of numbers, the great dis- tance of its military resources from the scene is likely to make the Bear think two or three times before forcing the issue, Paris Is worked up over a Brazilian so clety belle who rides out behind a pair of speedy trotting cows, The story is probably the sequel of the famous trot- ting mule yarn which went the rounds of turf elrcles in this country years ago. Such stories rend well, hut the horse still remains the king of the trotters.” some Before getting stampeded over the re poris of loss of live stock by the recent storm it will be well to awalt actual re- sympathetic powers. Thus, while the United HmT will not relinquish its sults, While the storm has heen s OMAHA DAILY [ ected BEE: TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1901, any such low temperatures as those which in years past have caused serious losses, Who'll Throw Them Down, Washington Stur There is an atmosphere of hauteur about | European monarchs which they may yet come to think they are bigger thun the Standard Oil company, or the steel trust. First Hlood for B Detroit Free i'ress. Hon. J. Sterling Morton has begun the practical work of reorganiziug the demo- cratio party by boltiug & convention in which the unseemly Bryanites had rounded up a majority of the delegate: Concession (6 Cube, Indlanapolis Journal By reducing the rate of single letter post- age between the United States and Cuba from to 2 cents the government places that island on an equality with the states. The concession is one that should be ap- preciated by the commercial classes in Cuba suggests that King's Amended Oath, Chicago Chronicle. Both houses of Parliament have agreed to alteration of the coronation oath, which is long as the moral law and scurrilous as the soliloquy of a fish hag when the tide comes in at Billingsgate. The amended oath will not, however, amend King Edward. For the rest of his reign«he swears officially “not at all.’ Safeguarding the Pension Roll, Buffalo Lxpress. In Secretary Root's order for mustering out volunteers next June provision is made for thorough medical examination with a view to prevent padding of the pension roll. 1In addition the men will he obliged to fill out a blank form describing thelr physical condition. The secretary is to be commended for taking these precautions. Agreed to Talk About Springticld Republican Russia and England have reached the ex- temporary settlement of the great railway siding controversy at Tlen Tain without war. England was the aggressor in the affair, since her reprosentatives at- tempted to build a track on land claimed by the Russiars. Under the temporary set tlement, both nations withdraw their troops from the disputed tract and agree to examine the question of ownership and control at a later day. This, of course, leaves the situation as it was before the clash. The Russian claim is intact, while the British have no sidiag. The bear s on top. A Contrast. Indianapolis Journal. At the recent court reception, which was attonded by many frock-coated moblemen, King Edward turned to a court official and #ald: “This is not a republic. In the future, uniform or court dress must be worn.” At a White House reception some years ago, the staff of the Indiana goveruor, Iswac P. Gray, attended, full uniformed, in a body. Presideat Cleveland turned to a cabinet officer and remarked: “This s no morarchy; those men are rigged out fit to kil The contrast is great—the splendor and blaze of a uniform—the modesty and dig- nity of a frock coat. overnor Dietrich's Vetoes, J. Sterling Morton's Conservative. Spring work has begun at Lincoln. ernor Dietrich has broken up a large area which certain legislators had plotted off for personal pasturage. The vetoes of Governor Dietrich are righteous and strong. They drive away from him all the herds of tax-eaters as the whistle of a locomo- tive scares mules off the rallroad track. The governor can count taxpayers, of all political complexions, in all parts of Ne- braska, his endorsers. He can put down all tax-eaters, his hungry enemlies and an- gered antagonists. A good Rovernor stops all legislative larceny. We hope that Dietrich will prove a very good governor. « » Againat Chin hiladelphia Record, 19 estimated at the State department the claims of American citizens and the government for which China will be asked to pay indemnity will foot up o $25,000,000. This is a rather large sum, and one is not likely to be convinced of its fairness by information as to some of the items included in the list of claims. Thus among the damages alleged to have been suffered by the missionary claimants is the loss of some of their sermons. These writings may have been beyond price, but it is a little dificult to discover the method of computation whereby the authors arrive at their conclusions as to the high money value of their productions. How much would the missionaries have realized had the sermons been delivered? The item of naval expenditures includes the damage to the Oregon. What did the Chinese have to do with running thet battleship on a rock? 1t that of SCHOOL FOR APFRENTICES, Opportunities for Boys Anx Learn a Trade, New York Mall and Express, Mechanical Industry is so largely sub- divided into special branches nowada: and tbe difficulty of learning a trade has been so greatly increased in consequence, that a new department now organizing at the University of Wisconsin is worthy of atteution. It is proposed by the officlals of that institution to establish a summer school for apprentices, in which young men desirous of theoretical and practical tralning in certain trades may receive the necessary iustruction under favorable con- ditions and at nominal cost. To this end a six months' course will be open (o those who want to fit themselves as car- pecters, machinists, metal sheet workers, stationary, marine or locomotive engi- neers, shop foremen, superintendents of waterworks, electric light plants, power stations or managers of large office build- ings in cities, and it is explained that the instruction in each of these branches will cousist partly of lectures and textbook studies and partly of practical work fin shops and laboratories speclally provided for such purposes, This undertaking appears to embody a large measure of relief for young men who want to learn trades and find it dim- cult, if not impossible, to do so. Partly because of the speclalized forms into which many of the trades are passing and partly because of the policy of exclusion which labor organizations enforce against apprentices, the average young man with- out fnfluence has little or no chance of becoming the master of a trade in all its branches, He may become a specialist In some glven department of carpentry, en- gineering or plumbing, but unless he has friends or other means of forcing an opens ing his chances of being taken in as an apprentice and taught the trade in all its ramifications are exceedingly small. The specialization of the mechanical industries is a bar to him and as a rule the influence of organized labor is against him A school, however, like that which is fn process of formation at the University of Wisconsin, 18 likely to be & powerful force for the revival, to some extent, of the old apprentice system. The decline of that system has been a heavy loss to Amer- ican artisans, and its restoration, even in a modified form, would be & great galn for American industry. The Wisconsin ven- ture is a direct response to the growing demand for technical education and pable of the broadest uscfulness 1o indus. vere, it bas not been accowpanied with Ltrial enterpri | Remarkable Estimate by an Oppos ton Southern Newapape Florida Times-Unfon (dem.) Democrats of the south abjured Mr Cleveland because wo suspected that he desired to oppose the organization which elected him; republicans have no such charge to make against Mr. McKinley's past as president. If he has been less than president might be. yet he has gone with his party and stopped when it laid down the law. He has taken the heads of the party into his confidence and treated them as something more than clerks “loyally” bound to echo his wishes—he has made no attempt to create a following outside the | organization or to shape a public opinion | opposed to his party. Here his opponents agree with his friends in their estimate of the retiring president, whose term as his own successor bids fair to copy a past al- together satisfactory to his supporters It fs true that some influential repub- licans take issue with the policy of the ad ministration toward foreign nations and our dependencies, but none of these has broken with the president because of such difference. Some free silver republicans have joined the opposition, but they differed with the organization far more than from the president On the whole we must Judge that Willlam McKinley sought rather to obey the wishes of the people than to blazo out a path in the wilderness of new conditions for him- self. It {s manifestly true thai he has been drawn into measures rather than that he has initiated policies, even where ho is charged with leading us astray. 1e admits that he was opposed to war with Spain, and 14 all in his power to avert it other trou- bles have come upon us because of natural tendencies, some of which were irresist- ible. He might have wasted his strength in struggling against the stream—he could not have checked or diverted the current of events Americans prefer to govern themselves, and they have frequently chosen presidents like Willlam McKinley rather than the Clays and Websters and Calhouns. who would expect us to follow and not to lead McKlinleylsm has made a strong fmpress upon our time, and will be potent to shape our future, but for McKinleyism all have been responsible--democra in no small degree. On leading {ssues republicans have 80 divided that a decided stand against th majority made in determined fashion by the minority would have reversed conclusions. but the opposition refused to stand out, did the republicans against Cleveland. For this faflure the democrats are responsible he who does not oppose accepts and in- dorses, In one sense, the administration was a strictly partisan one, since it had the un- qualified support of a majority of its own party; ft is also true that the president has been personally agreeable and his measures accepted by his opponents as well In a large sense, the policy of the late past has been a national one, since the presi- dent has shown himself truly anxious to obey the wishes of the people, and his temper is such that he would never persist in a course that became unpopular Because he is an opportunlst statesman of the first class, because he has retused to set his own judgment in opposition to his party or the people at large, the president as accomplished much during his past term. He may not have pleased himselt in all things, but it scems that he can fake the voters of this country with him through his second term HAVING A Marine 3 The big naval yacht Mayflower of nearly 2,000 tons burden, which has been at the disposal of the governor of Porto Rico ever since his appointment, was run ashore re- cently while on an officlal trip around that Island. This vessel is in charge of a naval officer, with a crew, all told, of 160 men The Mayflower cost over $500,000, and, with its large crew, is rather an expensive luxury. To provide such a craft for the governor of an outlylng province of the United States {s un-American to a degree The cost of maintaining this vessel s some- thing enormous when weighed against what our sovereign states provide in luxuries for their governors. As an example of a government swallow- ing a $500,000 camel—and apparently en- joying it—while straining at a gnat, we have this incident of the expensive vacht, malntained out of naval appropriations, and the many unsuccessful efforts which have been made to secure an ambulance for the Brooklyn navy yard through an appropria- tion by congress. Unable fo awaken any sympathy at Washington, the medical de- partment in the yard Is now taking up in- dividual subscriptions in the various de- partments, and in this way a fund will be raised to purchase an ambulance, which is 80 frequently nceded when men are in- jured in the yard by accident and some- times killed. One thousand dollars is the sum required for this purpose. It would hardly pay the expenses of the Mayflower for a single day. For our own part, we are of the opinfon that if it 18 necessacy for Governor Allen to make a tour of the island of Porto Rico a relay of automobiles would be much more economical and becoming. PERSONAL NOT) King Edward has selected the American artist, Edwin A. Abbey, to paint his cor- onation scene. Count Tolstol is fast becoming a popular idol {n Russla. Since his excommunication he has always been cheered whenever he appeared in public. Five thousand acres have been planted with sweet peas at San Jose, Cal., to fur- nish incense to the president when he shall make his trip to the state. Among the acting assistant surgeons in the volunteer army service is one named Najlb Takyud-Deen, who has just been or- dered from Washington to the barracks at Columbus, O. In their leisurely Yankee way the people of New Hampshire bave decided to erect in Concord a statue to Franklin Plerce their fellow citizen who became president. Mr. Plerce died October 8, 1860, Congressman Charles B. Landis of Indi- ana describes his early career in these words: I pitched hay as a lad, worked In a gravel pit in my youth and attended col- lege only when I had reached manhood.” Aaron D. Weld of Boston is practically the sole owner bf Ludlow, Mass town of 3,000 inhabitants. Mr. Weld is president of & company which employs nearly all the men in the place and pays nine-tenths of all the taxes One of the strongest labilities and assets Is that Kenyon B. Conger, the Wall tor, who has just filed a ba tion. His liabilities reach 8 his assets are a paltry $1,600 A San Juan paper in noting the arrival of James 8. Harlan, the new attorney gencral of Porto Rico, says he “is a fine specimen of phystcal manhood,” and also informs its readers that he comes “from country where the snow lies four feet deep.’” The four brothers Colt held a unique re. union at Utica, Mo., last week. The young- est of the four is 67 and the oldest 70 Their wives were there One of the brothers has been married fifty years, an other forty-seven and the two others forty The committee which is planning a me- morial to the late Oswald Ottendorfer pro poses to ralse a fund of $20,000 or $25,000 it possible to establish a graduate fellow ship at New York university for the study of the German language and literature. About $11,000 bhas already been ralsed. contrasts between by street opera- kruptey petl 10,000, while presented LANDLORD AND TENANT, Judwe Siabaugh's mended in the & New York Times A new interpretation of the legal rela tions of landlord and tenant comes from the | breezy west, in a definition by Judge Sla baugh of Omaha of the proper procedure for & tenant of a building out of repair. The facts, as we have them, are in effect that the plaintiff in the suit referred to rented a building to be used as a hotel, under a stipulation that the owner, who appears as the defendant, should keep it in repair. This engagement was not fulfilled to the tenant's satisfaction. The furnace flues were out of repair, the gas pipes leaked and the wall paper was hung crooked. In consequence of these defects those who might have patronized the hotel were made uncomfortable and went clsewhere, causing the plaintiff much mortification and entail- ing a tangible pecuniary loss; in conse- quence of which the tenant brought suft against the landlord, claiming substantial damages. Judge Slabaugh held that this procedure was not the one he should have taken and that he was entitled only to nominal damages, if any, since the injury suffered was due to contributory negligence. His views are very clearly stated In the following extract from his charge to the Jury “It a man suffers an injury that he could have avoided by the exercise of prudence he cannot recover damages for that injury. 1f you rent a house and find that the furnace is out of repair it is your duty to got It fixed and if it's 80 bad that it can't be repaired throw it out and put in & new one, charging up the cost to the owner who has contracted to keep the house in proper ape. Don't let your family freeze and then go after your landlord for damages. This sounds like good sense and we shall be surprised if on appeal it {8 mot found 10 be good law as well. Eastern judges are not quite so explanatory as Judge Slabaugh inclines to be and do not usually give advice quite so freely, but pechaps it would be better if they did. Much of the educa- tional value of litigation fe lost because the wise gentlemen on the bench deem it inconsistent with their dignity and duty to tell a litigant what he should have done when he comes into court on an issue he cannot sustain. The precedents fn landlord and tenant cases would fill many volumes, but we do not remember to have seen a Judiclal utterance which put the matter quite o clearly and comprehensibly as this. AMERICAN LOSSES IN CHINA, Irreparable Injury Inflicted by Li Year's Distarbance: New York Tribune. How great the commerclal loases sus- tained through intercference with and sus- pension of legitimate trade in China have been may be estimated from the data given in a recent report of the United States consul at Tien Tsin, dealing with the com- merce of the three great northern parts of China—namely, Tien Tsin, New Chwang and Che Foo I'rom this report it appears that the im- ports of American cotton goods, Including drilis, jeans and sheetings, at those three { ports for the three months of July, August and September, 1900, were only 105,719 pleces, a decrease of 1,127,863 trom the cor- responding period in 1809; the imports of flour, stated in haikwan taels, were 19,225, a decrease of 139,030, and of kerosene ofl 50,000 gallons, a loss of 2,003,100 gallons. These are significant figures, indicating losses of startling magnitude. The losses for the year 1900 in the cotton goods trade alone are estimated by the consul at more than $3,000,000, and in many other lines of goods they were correspondingly great. Other vations, of course, suffered also, though not more than one or two of them could have suffered as heavily as the United States, hecause the United States hag, or had, n far greater commerce with China than any other nation, save only Great Britain and Japan, and in some lines of goods it far outranked even them. Thus in 1899 the three ports named recelved 849,480 pleces of American sheetings and only 12,466 pleces of British. Imports of American kerosene also greatly surpassed those of Russian oil. These statements of American trade losses serve only to indicate the irrepara- ble injury inflicted by last year's dis- turbances; they also remind us of the mag- nitude of American trade interests in China, and especially in that part of China which was disturbed by the Boxer riots. Per- haps most Important of all is their sugges- tion of the permanent loks this country would suffer if the “open door" were closed against it, as {5 now threatened. 1If, as fs proposed, the northern half of the Chinese empire should be placed under Russlan control and administration, a trade which now amounts to many million dollars a year, and which is rapidly increasing, would practically be annihilated. That is the issue with which this country 1s concerned in China THE PHILIPPINE CRUX, Quention of Lahor Up to Civil Rulers for Set ment. San Francisco Call. 1t is to be hoped that the mecessity for military operations, occupancy and govern- ment of the Philippines may soon cease. Until they do this country cannot reach a proper comprehension of the task it has on band in those islands. The crux of that situation is its industrial aspect. Through- out the Malay penimsula, the Stralts Set- tlements and to an extent in Burmah, the native labor is not productive of a surplus. In those tropical countries there are val- uablo resources, but labor s required for thelr development. The natives will not work beyond self-support, and Europeans and Americans cannot work im that cli- mate. The whole Malay peninsula and the Straits Settlements depend entirely on Chi- nese labor, and greatly on Chinese com- mercial enterprise, for their development and profit. Tho iron and tim mines, the gambler, pepper, sago, rice, tobacco, tea, coffeo and cocoa plantations are worked en- tirely by Chinese, and would go back to nature and be disused in one season with- out them. The damar, rattan and other substitutes for timber and the timber for- ests themselves are worked by Chinese. Tho Chiuese merchants and capitalists, driven out of their own country by its con- servatism, are the exploiters of neighbor- ing countries in the Orient and the export- ers thereto of thelr coolie countrymen as laborers. Mr. Blithecote, an American gentleman, reports that Chinese capitalists stand ready to introduce any required number of cooltes into the Philippines it permitted by the United States Chuog Yick Tiog, a rich tin mine owner in the Straits Settlements, says that he bas already discussed the development of the Philippines by coolle labor. Ho says that the islands can be made the garden of gar- dens, but not by white labor, which cannot live there. He advises that our governmest confiscate all property of insurgents who ot lay down thelr arms by a given date and exlle its owners to Guam, creating there a penal colony, and then open the Islands to Chinese labor. He would build a railroad the whole length ot Luzon, following the Rio Grande de C yan, with branches, to be constructed by Coolle labor, and he declares such a road would pay from the running of the first train. This construction would employ thousands of coolies and would give them some funds with which to permanently locate in the country and perform its labor. Other thousands he would import at & cost of $10 per head, with as much more to buy rice until they got started. He says he can take millions of coolies there who have enough money to buy an acre or two Our Working Girls Life to the most favored is not always full of sunshine, but to the average American girl or woman who is obliged to work for her living, and, perhaps to help others at howe, life is often a heavy drag in consequence of illness Women who worlk, especially those who are constantly on their feet, are peculiarly liable to the development of organic troubles, and should par- ticularly heed the first manifestations, such as backaclie, pains in the lower limbs and lower part of the stomach, irregular and painful monthly periods, Miss ErLa Brexyen, B. ROCARATRR, ORTO, faintne: and sleep. The young lady whose portrait we publish herewith had all these symp- toms, and in addition leucorrhoea, and was cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. First, she wrote a letter to Mrs. Pinkham's lab- oratory at Lynn, Mass., describing he trouble, received in reply accurate in- structions what to do to get well, and now wishes her name used to convince others that they may be cured as she was. The same helping hand, free of charge or obligation, is extended, to every ailing woman in America. If you t+~ sick you are foolish not to get this valuable advice, it costs you noth- ing, and she is sure to help you. Don't wait until it is too late — write to-day. —— weakness, loss of appetite new importations. It is his opinion that (he islands will support 25,000,000 Chinese whose product will constitute an enormous export of sugar, tobacco, rice and hemp. Now the sooner this country gets faco (o face with this situation the better. That Mr. Ting is right about native labor and white labor there Is no question, and that he Is right about what may be done there with coolle labor may not questioned But, he says: “You canuol bring labor from your own country to the troples, for your laborers cannmot stand that climate nor live as cheaply as is necessary there It the United States is to be a colonizing power it must change its immigration laws as to the colonies, regardless of what these laws may be in the home country ' This is more than probably true s the next step that must be considered. In the nolse and confusion of military opera 1t of land, tnally to Lecome employers of | 1911 Dave tlons and the impingement of the question upon politics these practical matters which R0 to the value of the whole adventure have not been thought of. Senators Bev- erldge and Carter and others have inflamed the American mind about the vast riches of the archipelago. But they have not quali- fled their Jeweled prospectus by the refle tion that no matter how inexhaustible the wealth human labor is required to trans- mute it for human us In the part of the problem the keen and practical views of Mr. Ting are worth ull the rhetoric in the world. The practical question is, How much labor is to be quired to make the slands worth keeping, and whence 15 it to come? The future peace aud happiness of our own people will ha greatly promoted by reaching and settling these issues as soon as possible ror| A POINT Detroit Journal ‘Do you believe that pity unto love Is Kin, as they say?" “Well, an old-fashioned couutry cousin, perhaps. Washington § selentious n Uncle Eben, don' stan’ no folks, alongsid wants to 18 80 kin' o' hesitatin’ dat b show at all of convinein o' a good llar.” Indianupolis Press 1 day," sald Cordella's can’t turn round.” “Mamma,” Cordelia suggested, “go the corner and then you can tarn round Detrolt ¥ree Press: “Who is with a face full of freckles over yo! “She's a recent importation from Switz land." “Ah, 1 see, am so busy to mamma, “that 1 o Dotted Swiss,” Boston Transeript Mistress—What [ want Is an active girl Applicant—Then I think I'll just sult vou I've moved about good deal of late—been in no less than twelve different places in six months, Cleveland Plain Dealer: “‘President Dinz Qidn’t know he was sick until he happened to see It In the papers “That shows how necessary it everybody to the newspapers 18 for regii- Philadelphia Press: Tess—He's awful handsome, don't you think? Jess—Handome " fs that handsome does He had the impertinence last night to tell me he wak golng to kiss me the first chance he got, and Ters—Weren't you indignant Jews—1 should” say so. He his promise. A CHANCE FOR though? dldn't keep BN Someryille Journal Some day when Mr. Edison Has nothing else to do. And wants to have a little fun, With human good In view, Perhaps he will invent a scheme For keeping bubles still, 8o that they'll never fuss and bawl, Unless, of course, they're 111 in it, it h simple wiy babies sleep. at ‘And laugh and crow all day Fond parents all would pay his price To be relieved from ca And even crabbed bach, Would gladly pay There's money ean night ors all know Mr. Tesla Is Too much enguged just With telling what hLe's To corrugate his brow think of some effective scheme » keep the bubles still Bat maybe Edison could do The trick. We hope he will GOLDEN ROD OIL COMPANY Producera of Fuel Oll in California. Owners of 2000 Acres of Ol Lands. The fleld e garding e Dleted W Jing to do the nearly wired secretary well Bakerstield, Cali,, Feb, 26, 1901 wwell flowed twice vecently; once gome elghty feet over derrick, James G, Cortelyoun.” OUR FROSPECTUS with names of officers and directors, maps and full particulars, will be sent you for the asking. JOHN G. CORTELYOU, Pres. ort St Quaba, Neb,