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

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1901 ‘THE OMAHA DAILY Bm] " E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year..$6.00 Daily Bee and sunday, Une Year......... 80 Aliustrated psee, Une Xeal Bunday 1 Une Year, Baturaay bee, Une Year., . Twentieth Century Farmcr, One Year... UFFICES: Umaha: The Bee Bulding. South Umana: City tai Bullding, Twen- 8y uith anu s Streets. ‘Councii biutts: 10 Pearl Street. Chicago: e Unity Bullding. New aork: Tempie Court Washinglon: wi roarteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications reiating to news and edl- torial Iatter sholud be aadressed: Umana Lee, Buiwoial Department, BUSINsS LETTERS. Lusiness loliers and remiitance be addressed: Ahe e Publisning pany, Umnabu. REMITTANCES, Hemit by drait, express or postal order Peravic 10 Ahe Hee Puoushing Lompany. GUL Staimps decepio i piy el Ok laail ACCOUNIN, Fers0lias CHECKS, eXCept ull Vldaha OF mastern excnanges, noL uc copted, LHE LR PUBLIBILNG CUMEANT should com- STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Blate of Nubiaska, Dougias County, 5. George B, Azschuck, secrotary of Ahe Bee Publisiing company, belng duly sworlh Bays Lhal the actuai number ol full and culnplews copies of Th Morniig, Lvening and sunday bev printed dutiug tie month of March, 1wl, was as tollows: 1 1. L80,380 1s. 1v. . a. 2. 2. 2. Total . Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales. ... Net dally average GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK, Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this Ist day of April, A. D, 1901 M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Public. E——————— When it comes to fearless exercise of the veto power Mayor Moores and Gove ernor Dietrich are two of a kind. The first look which the supreme court commissioners took at the filles con- vineed them there would be no difficulty ahout keeping busy for a couple of years at least. It is to be hoped the machinists and their employers will get together. Omaha would like to go through the year with a clean record as to labor difficulties and strikes. The new democratic mayor of Cleve- land favors a 3-cent fare on the street cars, but Is willing to make transporta- tion free in his political wagon, which he has headed for the senate, Denver authorities are to make war on the rats. At the last election the voters cleaned out a corrupt democratic city government, and they propose to clean out oll the pests while in the business. Mr4. Nation told the Kansas City po- lice Judge that goods shipped from Kan- kas City were the cause of all the trouble in Kansas, and the police judge forth- with ordered Carrle shipped to the same destination. — James J. Hill of the Great Northern modestly admits that he has secured a substantlal interest in the Burlington system. This ought to settle all specu- lation as to whether the deal has really gone through. The federal officlals are again after Crazy Snake, who Is fomenting trouble in the Indian Territory. If he is not careful Crazy Snake will be sorry that he made so strenuous an effort to keep his record up to his name, hat Lemars (In.) absconding bank official should be more explicit in regard to his present address. He left a note saying that he was golng “God knows where.” The police are not supposed to be in touch with this source of In- formation, President Schurman's views on Insular affalrs and conditions do not sult the opposition press. The principal trouble is that Schurman has been there and studied the question and knows what he I8 talking about, and the popocratic editors do not. 2 —— The Natfonal Good Roads assoclation has started out from Chicago to show people how it iy done. If the experts can make good roads in that sectlon of the country at this season of the year no excuse will exist for the rest of the world wallowing in the mire, ———— Russia aud Japan, after a season of growling and snapping ut each other, are beginning to quiet down, and the war dogs will be soon Iyiug as quiet as ever. War talk Is as cheap as ever, but actual war is decidedly expensive when the stake I8 not worth the cost to either one of them, The Bee has no disposition to indulge in personalities over the late senatorinl campalgn, but we may be pardoned in remarking that the contortions of the Lincoln Journal foreibly illustrate the fact that gnawing a file 18 not a healthy amusement even for people who wear false teeth, — Chaneellor Elisha Benjamin Andrews has been appointed as one of the dele- gates from Nebraska to the national conference of charities and corrections. The chancellor ought to be able to tell the conference how to transform a state university into an asylum for professors IF ROSEWATER HAS ANYTHING TO 8 The people who think that Dietrich is going to bullhead and pursue a course that will split the republican party in this state wide open are bound to be disappointed It Rosewater has anything to say about it the appointments will all be made to punish the fellows who were not with him this win- ter, but It Is safe to guess that Senators Dietrich and Millard will have more sense than to stir up a row that way.—Lincoln Journal. Nothing would suit the organ of de- feated factionists better than to precip- itate a disagrecment botween Ne- braska's two newly elected republican senators that would prevent them from uniting on any appolutments, The election of two republicans to rep- resent sbraska In the United States senate was such a disappointment to the Journal and those whose sentiments it volces that it finds itself at a loss to ascertain its bearings and naturally turns upon Rosewater as the object upon which to vent its ill-tempe Having malntained all along that Rosewater would play dog-in-the-manger and block the election of anyone unless he were the choice, its great fear now Is that the new senators may listen to advice, That no misapprehension may exist, it may be Just as well to say a few plain words right at this juncture, If Rosewater has anything to say about it, the federal appointments will be made with a view to bullding up in- stead of tearing down the party. If Rosewater has anything to say about It, the distribution of federal patronage will have as its first object, outslde of the efficiency of the public service, the malutenance of the repub- llean supremacy In Nebraska galned at such great expenditure of labor and en- ergy. If Rosewater has anything to say about It, party service will be consid- ered above personal favoritism. If Rosewater has anything to say about it, men who jeopardized the elec- tion of two republican senators by sup- porting fusion legislative candidates will be barred from recognition. If Rosewater has anything to say about it, officeholders who exerted them- selves at home and at Lincoln to per- petuate the deadlock in order to keep the senatorships vacant, will be accorded no consideration. If Rosewater has anything to say about it, no man who has enjoyed four years of federal salary will be conceded an indefeasible title to four years more, but his claim to continuance in office will be made to rest on the service ren- dered and to be rendered to the party. If Rosewater has anything to say about it, no one will be punished except for dishonesty, disloyalty or scandal brought upon the party and no one r warded except for merit, And these principles The Bee will ad- vocate whether Rosewater has anything to say about it or not. S APPRECIATE AMERICAN POLICY. A native of China who is a British nml:lul at Hong Kong has just arrived in this country and in an interview stated that the fecling of the ruling classes” of China toward the United States is extremely cordial. He said that the moderation and consideration shown by the government at Washing- ton in making demands on the empire have already borne good fruit and will be of advantage to America for yi to come. He expressed the opinion that this country will be the favored nation for years to come when China is re- stored to peace—not the favored nation in the sense that laws will be made to that end, but even now China looks to America as an excellent market and the possibilities of enlarging trade are prac- tically limitless, There is no doubt that the feeling of the statesmen of China toward the United States is more friendly than ever before and for the reason that our gov- ernment, from the beginning of the trouble, has shown a disposition and | purpose to treat China fairly and justly. When at the outset of the disturbance some of the governments were treating the Chinese diplomats accredited to them with scant courtesy and in some cases almost with insult, It was the American secrcary of state who kept always before their minds the fact that a state of war did not exist in China and by his maintenance of friendly re- lations with the Chiuese minister at ‘Washington set the pace for the foreign chancellories. It was this wise course which enabled the world to assure itselt of the survival of the legation people after the most alarming reports of their fate had come from various quarters. When the imperial authoritics of China sought a settlement with the western world, they did not look first to the Juropean powers, but to this republic. The response of our government, In the famous note of July 3 to the powers, established the lines to be followed by all the vations in their negotiations thenceforward, It defined a policy so falr and just and reasonable that the powers could not reject it. When it came to announcing the terms on which the governments would treat with China there were many propositions, some of them most exacting in their character. Our government invoked the spirit of moderation, with results now approved by the elvilized world, E United States opposed success- fully the bloodthirsty policy of some of the powers in the matter of punishing those identified with the antl-foreign up- rising and no one will now contend that it was not right in doing this. 1t took a position against any power forelbly or by secret treaty acquiriug Chinese terri- tory and the territorial integrity of tl empire has been preserved. Our govern- ment has urged that the claims of the powers for indemnity should be reason- able and not beyond the ability of China dislodged from other educational insti- tutions, The French government is the latest to send official representatives to this country to study both farming and man- ufacturing methods, It took Europe some time to comprehend that the old world must change its position from that of teacher to pupil, and it is ac- cepting the situation gracefully now that the truth bhas dawned upon it. W In other words, that they should not amouut to robbery and spoll- ation. The latest information Is that the powers are concurring in this view and reducing thele claims. In with- drawing its troops from China the United States has set an example which doubtless will in due time be followed by the other nations, It would be strange tideed if this fair and honorable treatment of China were not appreciated by the ruling classes of that country and we are certainly war ranted in expecting that Chinese friend- ship for the United States in the future will be even more cordial than in the past. THE FRAUDS AT MANILA The secretary of war has called upon General MacArthur for additional in- formation concerning the alleged frauds at Manila. It is somewhat singular that MacArthur hias as yet given the govern- ment no definite statement regarding the frauds sald to have been committed in the commissary department, but it 18 perhaps to be explained by the faet that the investigation has not proceeded far enough to permit of a definite statc- ment. When the matter was first devel- oped General MacArthur reported that the charges w exaggerated, thot nothing of so serious n nature as was alleged had taken place. Possibly sub- sequent investigation has disclosed a worse condition of affalrs than had been supposed and MacArthur has deemed it judicious to walt for further results of the inquiry belng prosecuted before communicating with the War depart- ment, It is a quite natural inference from his silence that this is the case, It should be understood that this 1s strictly an army affair. Whatever frauds have been committed are against the government and do not Involve any injury to the Filipinos. There s this difference between this matter and the postal frauds in Cuba. A thorough in- vestigation will be made of the alleged frauds at Manila and it is needless to say that if they are proved those guilty of them will be adequately punished. The fullest confidence can be felt that General MacArthur will spare no effort to probe the matter to the bottom and that so far as his authority goes he will allow no guilty man to escape. m—— BAD FUR THE SOLDIKRS. The abolition of the sale of beer and wine in army canteens is proving, as was predicted would be the case, bad for the soldiers. There is a return to the conditions at army posts which pre- valled before the canteen was estab- lished. It is stated that information recelved at the War departmeut from every part of the country where troops are stationed is to the effect that in- toxication and riotous conduct among private soldiers have been alarmingly increased by the operation of the law abolishing the sale of beer and light wines in the post canteens, of this 1s furnished at the national capi- tal, a Washington dispatch stating that several new saloons have opened and are doing a flourishing business near Fort M while in the village of Phoebus, Va., adjoining the military reservation, there has been a decided In- crease in the number of saloons. The same thing is noted of the neighborhood of the Presidio, San Francisco. The soldiers who visit the saloous do not confine themselves to beer and wines, such as were sold In the can- teens, but drink cheap whisky and other heavy liquors, and they are led into gambling games and other forms of vice which could vot exist within the Timits of a military post. It was clearly pointed out when the teen was under discussion In congress that this would inevitably be the result of yielding to the demand of the radical temperance people. Al experienced army officers agreed in regard to it. The testimony to the merit of the canteens as a protec- tion against Intemperance in the army was overwhelming. It is now recelving vindication, and with such force as should convince any rational advocate of temperance that the antl-canteen - islatlon was a mistake, Perhaps the next congress will take this view of it and restore the canteen to what it was before the enactment of the present law, The position Mayor Moores has taken on the billboard ordinance should com- mend itself to the general public. The mayor has come to the conclusion that the surest way to secure billboard regu- lation is by signing the ordinance passed by the council and asking the council to modify its severest provisions. Had the mayor interposed a veto the city would have been without any ordinance for the present and no one would be able to tell how soon the council would act on the recommendations for a new ordinance along less radical lines, The council should be given to understand that un- less the proposed modifications are made within a reasonable time the mayor will have the present ordinance enforced. According to our yellow journal con- temporary, the “two little boys” who were compelled to spend Easter in jail for violating the garbage ordinance put the whole police force to flight in an en- counter at arms ten days later. If it Wi not known that these two little hoys were grown men with wives and children, one would imagine they were ut prodigies of the Samson variety, The popocrats are welcome to begin cauvassing for available waterial for candidates on their next state ticket, but when they undertake to suggest the men to be considered by the republicans are going outside of thelr jurisdic- tion, Republicans will be quite able to pick thelr own candidates without wait- ing tor the aid or consent of any other political purty. mem————— The promot of that Ewporla air line seem to be more anxious about a subsidy for locating the terminus at Omaha than about getting down to bus iness on the work of organization aud construction. They might as well as- sure themselves in advauce that no sub- sidy will be fortheoming until after the rond s built, If at all It will be noted that the annual ad- Justment of salaries of postal clerks Is all in the direction of increased pay and promotions and that a number of local postal employes are among the hene- ticluries. Uncle Sam'’s postottice estab- lishment offers the most striking exam- ple of business expansion that the coun- try possesses. ———— Ak-Sar-Ben Is suffering one of the pen- altles of success. The fact that -its street falr last fall not only covered ex- penses, but left a surplus in the treas- ury, 18 acting as a damper on the an- nual contributions from business men. The business interests should remember that Ak-Sar-Ben is a public institution and that the extent and character of its festivities must depend upon the support recelved from them, —_— The transfers of real estate in prepara- tion for the erection of new buildings to accommodate our large retall establish- ments indicate that eastern investors are ready to put money Iuto Omaha property when the conditions insure a reasonable return, With the way opened by these transactions other investments our,ht to follow. Good buildings at de- sicable locations will not stand empty long in Omaha, Sem——— Minister Loomis hastens to deny the accuracy of the interview with him pub- lished in the San Juan papers. The in- terview could be accepted as true only on the theory that Loomis was devoid of seuse or was at least temporarily de- ranged. Men who have served as long as he in the diplomatic service are not likely to talk in that manner, at least not for publication. — Some Other Year, New York Tribune. Tom L. Johnson will not be a presidential candidate this year. He will wait at least until the next presidential campaign. le. This republic sent to Cuba its ultimatum. Cuba’s notion that it was & penultimatum or an ante-penultimatum may or may not abate. The republic can stand the condition or the consequence as long as Cuba can. Labor Pinched by the Trust. Boston Globe. Some forty mills in Fall River, nearly the entire number In the syndicate agreement, will stop thelr machingry this week, which will decrease production by 200,000 pleces, and means a loss in wages of about $100,- 000. Contraction ot labor is only another name for the taxation of labor. A Difterence of Opinion. Indlanapolls News. Senator Platt says this country Is pledged to see that a republican form of govern- ment s established and maintained in Cuba. It 18 pledged to nothing of the kind. This country is pledged to grant the Cu- bans independence, which means that the Kind of government they are to establish 18 thelr business. What Might Have Been, Philadelphla Record. Statements from Manila indicate that Aguinaldo Is treated with the utmost con- sideration by the American authorities. This is becoming to the humanity of a great government. But it Is a pity that the same wite diplomacy was not shown toward Aguinaldo and his native followers in the beginning. ure and domestic sorrow It would have spared! An Improvement on Vene Chicago "Fribune. In an independent Cuba there will be aspiring military chieftains as well as reck- less civillan demagogues, who will look on the property owners as their natural prey. To protect the latter from the former and to assure to Cuba a government republican in substance.as well as in form the United States must have the admitted right to intervene under certaln .contin- gencles which it does,mot possess as re- gards Venezuel, E — Great Problem to Solye, Springfield Republican, The great moral question of fixing the damages China is to pay seems to have become an anxious guessing match as to how much money China has got. It is a problem that blackmailers and extortioners often are obliged to solve. In England the view seems to prevail that trade priv- ileges should be taken jo lieu of cash. This is a singular mistake for a great power which has had so much experience as Eng- land fa the civilizing business. Cash first, territory afterward—that is the game, NEW FIELD FOR DRUMMERS, | American Business Rustlers Working in Forelgn Lands, Chicago Tribune, When the {rust movement was at its height there was much despondent talk about the passing of the commercial trav- eler. The consolidation of rival companies In some cases was avowedly made with a view to reduciug the number of traveling salesmen, and hundreds bave undoubtedly been taken off the road in the United States in the last few yea But the American commercial traveler has recently reap- peared in a new and larger field. He s busily at work in England, France, Ger- many, South Africa, South America, Asla and other foreign markets. Apparently the consolidation of American industries, in- stead of throwing the traveling salesman out of employment, has given him a wider and more lucrative fleld in many depart- wments of trade. European correspondents report com- plaints from all quarters regarding the en- ergy with which American agents are hustling about on that side of the Atlantic and selllog our manufactures in competi- tion with those of European make. The ad- vent of these Yankee salesmen Is resented by the lelsurely rivals whose markets they are invading, but consumers are buying thc American goods whenever these are better or cheaper. American enterprise Is making itself felt In Burope as never before. Hardly A day passes in London without the ap- pearance of a new group of engineers and mercantile agents from the United States. These salesmen are skilled in thelr business and receive good salarles. Young men intending to enter commercial lite will do well to reallze the significance of this change. Heretofore the market for our manufactures has been chiefly domestic, and the commercial salesmen had to deal only with Americans. Now our industries have taken possession of many foreign mar- kets, and manufacturers will pay liberal salaries to agents who can help to hold and enlarge this new fleld. To be a successtul salesman in a foreign country requires a knowledge of the language and customs of the people. To sell goods In continental Europe an agent should be able to talk French, German, Russian, Norweglan or (tallan, according to the country in which he 18 to work. There will be an increasing demand for good salesmen with a knowl- edge of Spanish, who can push American trade in South America and in our new island possessions. Modern languages will be more useful than before o practical Americans. But a mere knowledge of a foreign lan- guage is not enough to Insure success abroad, even for those who have been good salesmen at home. Americans will have to learn to adapt themselves to the customs and business methods of other nations, In Latin countries, for instance, they must pay more attentlon to polite and be less abrupt and hasty in their methods. Our onsuls frequently complain of the unwill- ‘ngne: of Ameri manufacturers and salesmen to try to please tosslen customers on small but essential points. When our ;ommercial travelers shall have fitted them- selves thoroughly for their new fleld they ire likely to bécome still more Important members of the trade world than they wers under the old order of things. What Dblood and treas- | 1 LETS LOOSE T! DOGS OF WAR. Remarks on the Heauty of Salclde as L) 'olitient olley. New York World, Now that Rolla Wells, a gold-standard man and the regular democratic nominee, has been elected mayor of St. Louls, Mr Bryan denounces the democratic triumph as “a disastrous victory for the democracy of St. Louls, Missouri and the nation,” and proclaims a civil war within the party against “‘corporate element which calls itselt democratic,” but “glves its pecuniary and political support fo the republican party” and “is plotting to republicanize the democratic organization.” What does he mean by democratic organization?" His sole objection to Mr. Wells and the Wells kind of democrats is that they, Ilke the overwhelming majority of the American people, like an overwhelming majority of the delegates to the democratic national convention at Kansas City in 1900, are op- posed to the Bryan, populistic, anti-demo- cratic free silver lunacy which, thanks chiefly to Mr. Bryan's leadership, has caused the democratic party to recelve @ serles of rebukes from the people unprece- dented {n number and in severity. Yet for the sake of this unprincipled principle of free siiver, 50-cent dollars, Mr. Bryan de- clares war and calls for a “struggle.”” He announces his fixed determination at any cost to continue the democratic party in its position of folly and hopeless minority. And he carries his frenzy to the point of assailing regular democratic candidates and of going into mourning for democratic vie- tories, After all, is 1t not strictly logical that the man who has so long advocated suicide as & political policy for his party should now be inviting a dose of his own medicine? RECLAIMING republicanize the ARID LANK Can Stockgrowers Afford to Pay for Thelr Redempt Salt Lake Tribu The San Francisco Call makes the sug- gestion, which some of the eastern press is approving, that the arid ranges owned by the government be leased and the rental ap- plied to the distribution of available water, and one learned journal says “‘the stock- | grazer can well afford to pay for the use of the public property on which his herds are pastured free of expense, the more espe- clally s he comes into direct competition with stockgrowers who own land and who are heavily taxed on thelr Investment for the support of the government.” * Most of the lands are already leased, but it takes from sixteen to thirty acres of this arid land to support a big steer through the summer, he taking his chances of dying of exposure and starvation In the winter. How much do our eastern friends think the stock- growers could afford to pay per acre on a leass of that kind, and how many acres would it take to get money enough to turn a stream or build a reservolr? It the gov ernment would turn the streams and build the reservoirs, then it might ask a rental for land that would pay something. It seems impossible for our eastern friends to realize that lands in the arid west are not just as valuable as were the bottom lands in Tlinols. Those were given away or sold to the settlers for $1.25 an acre; but our economical friends in the east are awfully afrald that the government will not realize from $5 to $12.50 for its desert. At the same time they insist that for the govern- ment to spend a million dollars on a streamn in the east that would not float a swan is entirely legitimate, but to use water to con- vert the desert into frultful fields is simply a wholesale robbery of the entire east. When it comes to generosity our eastern triends are ready to repeat the words of the great novellst, “‘We is all poor critters.” THE COMMON SAILOR. Rewarded for Bravery Deaplte Snob- bixh Objections. Chicago Chronicle. Sampson is not the only snob in the navy of the United States. Admiral Crownin- shleld is to be paired with Sampson in snobbishness. Captaln Rockwell of the flagship Chicago recommended one J. H. Helms as worthy a medal for saving the life of a man who had falleu over- board. The man was only of the crew—a cook. Admiral Schley indorsed the rec- ommendation. Crowninshield thought the deed not “brave enough.” How much braver it could be he does not intimate. Had the sinking man been himself instead of a common sallor it s quite likely the de- gree of bravery would appear adequate. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for lis friends," is afirmed by the scripture. Greater brav- ery hath no man than to risk his own life to save another's. The incident accentuates a fact too gen- erally forgotten by the unobserving that your common sailor is a man of uncom- mon bravery. There is no hour of day or night throughout the year that inay not summon him to that supreme test. His morai sense has been shown by his habitual rising to the test to be far above the average, for the average man, however, brave on rare occasion, is not subject to the sailor's vicissitudes. Storles of ship- wreck are rare in which cowardice or treachery is displayed by this category of herole fellows, who, in proportion to thelr deserts, are the least appreciated and the worst rewarded of all brave men. Not only the oceans, but the rivers and lakes are witnesses to their modesty, thelr courage and their unselfishness, Helms got his medal and may he wear it long after the snobs of the navy shall be extirpated. BETTER TINES AHEAD, Germun Emperor Does a Tarn with Buckwhent Cakes, Philadelphia Times, His Imperial majesty of Germany wants to eat the American buckwheat cake, the toothsome flepjack, the seductive Welsh rareblt and other dainties dear to the pal- ates of a majority of the people of the United States. To the end of gratifying a gastronomlic taste, quickened by an ex- perience on board an American steamship, which he prolonged with the express pur- pose of reveling in the wondrous delights of its grill room, the kalser has sent his chief cook over to this country to take lessons. There are those who have hinted, and more than hinted, that William II was beginning to show symptoms of an abso- lute and arbitrary disdaln of the rights of men, and to hold himself as so far above and beyond the sphere of ordinary mortals that direful conscquences to his empire and his people were in store. No one who beileves that the stomach is the point through which the best impulses of our common humanity may be best reached will be inclined to accept these innuendces of a deterlorated mental and moral conception. The monarch who craves such democratic simples as hom- foy pancakes may be fairly expected to hold a decent respect for the opinions and prerogatives of his fellow-men, and every opportunity should be accorded to the imperial chef for the acquirement of knowledge of those secrets of cookery upon which the great republic of the west has thrived. “Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great?” will not be the petulant query of the sturdy Teuton after his sovereign has had a diet indi- cated by his partiality for dishes set be- fore him by the cooks of the American ves- sel and which have moved his better na- ture. Speed the day when Willlam Hohen- zollern learns the delirlous pleasure of Philadelphia scrapple, schnitz and knepy, and the comprebensive hash. | discovery of the archipelago. | from Vigan, Luzon island. | have been economy had he provided him- | His office-holding career began in his NES, | ppenings and I ents of Note |-{ the Land of the Brown Man. | Ever since Senator Beveridge of Indiana | flashed a gold nugget in the senate chamber | as proof of the mineral wealth of the Phil- | lippines, considerable quiet prospecting has | been carried on fn the limited district here. tofore patrolled by United States soldiers. | With the rebellion practically at an end and the natives pacified, a thorough search of the islands will be prosecuted soon, and the extent of their mineral recources dem- | onstrated. | Dr. George F. Becker of the United States Geological Survey reports that pan | mining for gold was one of the anclent in- | dustries of Luzon, and yellow metal was | one of the chief products of the island. ! Dr. Becker says the more {mportant known | ®old flelds are three in number. The most northerly of them lies about Mount Data, | in the country of the Igorrotes. The sec- | ond and best known district s that of | Camarines Norfe, easily accessible by se and about 115 miles to the southeast of | Manila. The only other hopetul reglon is | the northeastern portion ot Mindanao and the adjacent fslands. | The Igorrotes are extraordinar| reti- | cent about their gold mining. An English man of long residence in northern Luzon, who had handled much Igorrote gold com- mercially, informed me that no outsiders of any race were permitted to visit the quartz mines or even to prospect for quartz. The Igorrotes are mot afrald to tackle solid rock, and I presume that their quartz mining, though rude, is tolerably effective, perhaps approaching Mexican work, In the gold district of Camarines Norte there are numerous placer mines, and beach sands are also washed. Of this re- glon Hernando Riquel wrote, in 1 “There are many mines of gold which have been seen by Spaniards, and the natives work them as they work silver mines in New Spain. The mineral presents itselt so plentifully that I do not write about it, lest they should suspect me of exagger- atlon; but it is sufficlent to say that I swear, as a Christian, that there is more ®old in this fsland than there 18 fron in Biscay.' Though this writer was drawing freely upon his imagination, there is no reason to doubt that the placers were orlginally very rich. At the present time, however, the output does not amount to much. The mystery of the unknown still hangs about the Island of Mindanao, and there fs a widespread impression that it is an El Dorado. Copper deposits in the province of Le- panto, near Mount Data, have been worked by the Tgorrotes since before the Spanish “I saw a most singular sight in this town yesterday,” writes a Kansas soldier boy “1 saw 1,000 Fil- ipinos take the oath of allegiance to the United States. And it is an oath that will stick, for it was taken before the army officers and a priest in the church, and the Filipino 1s faithful to anything about his religlon. The Fillpinos came to town early in the morning and lined up in the church, which will hold 5,000 people. They marched to the altar and there placed one hand on the bible and also kissed the crucifix when the oath was taken. This rebellion Is busted beyond any doubt, and the body of the Philippine people are mighty glad of it." In order to be able to feed the soldiers in the Phillppines as they are fed it is neces- sary to keep a kind of procession of “sup- ply ships on the waterways from New York to Manila by way of the Suez canal and across the Pacific from San Francisco, It will not do to store immense volumes of supplies in Manila, for that is a troplcal climate and all food is more or less perish- able in 80 hot a temperature. Therefore ships are going all the time. In an appreciative article about Judge W. H. Taft, the president of the Philippine commission and governor general of the islands, the Washington correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch says: 0 many times has he severed the tie that bound | him to the public pay roll that it would selt with printed blanks for that purpose. tive eity, Cincinnati, the dethroned Queen City of the West, soon after he attained his majority. The good people of that city chose him to be their solicitor. Then they compelled him to give that up by electing him to the bench of the superior court, a tribunal half way between the circuit and common pleas courts. He was about 30 when the late Benjamin Harrison beckoned the young man to take the very responsible position of solicitor general for the United States. No man probably ever held that office while as young as ‘Billy’ Taft, the son of Judge Alphonso Taft, cabinet officer | and minister to Russia. Just before Harri- son went out of office Taft was made a cir- cuit judge of the United States, and for seven years this young man t on the bench with men old enough to be his father at least. This life place, so honorable and satisfylng to a member of the legal fra- ternity, Taft gave up to become president of the Philippine commission—to leave his comfortable home at Cincinnatl and dwell in the hot and semi-civilized Islands, of which he Is soon to become the governor general. 1If the climate does not kill him his resignation of the governor general- ship will be to accept a place on the hench of the supreme court of the United States. Where the Strain Tell Kansas City Star. ‘The Boers are not wholly without their Mns. FRANK CARTER, # Merrill Strest, Amesbury, M; This lettor should carr, and Qonviction t» tho. of all Sick Vomon. « [ suffered with inflammation and falling of the womb and other dis- agreeable female weaknesses. T had bad spells every two weeks that would last from eight to ten days and would have to go to bed. I also had hea: ache and backache most of the tims and such bearing down pains I could hardly walk across the room at tim I doftored nearly all the time for about two years and seemed to grow worse all the time until last September 1 was obliged to take my bed, and the doctors thought an operation was tho only thing that would help me, but this I refused to have done. “Then a friend advised me to try the Pinkham medicine, which 1 did, and after using the first bottle I began to fmprove. I took in all five bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier, four boxes of Lydia B. Pinkham’s Dr Form Compound, three boxes of 1 Pills and used three packages of Sana- tive Wash, and I am as well now as [ ever was. I am more than thankful every day for my cure.” — Mns. Fraxi CARTER, 3 Merrill St., Amesbury, M arts Chicago Tribune: “Uncle,” said the rond reform missionary, “how do you stand cn b 1 roads question | "armer y, howdy stian’ Science 1 want to tell you how Ch d me of the g&rip. Al right, ol man! When through 1 want to tell you how cured me of Christlan Sclence.” you got the grip Catholle Standard man _let me tell swarthy young woman promptly replied Mr. Harduppe, e you tell It to hurry along and de proverbial one-time-only stunt my door. I've been waiting for it all my life.” Philadelphia _Press: “It scems to ma ou're u tritle famil the humorist said, when the footpads held him up. ‘807 Well, here's something that will b more familiar,” replied one of them, stuff~ ing a handkerchief into the vietim's mouth, “IUs an old “WIIL the fine gentle- his fortune?” asked the . Brooklyn Life: Mrs. Bilkl Do have another piece of ¢ J (sWontly) = ke, Cousin CousinJohn iy, really, I've already had two; ‘but it's 5o good I believe 1T will have another, Little Johnnie (excitedly) Ma's a winner! 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