Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 29, 1903, Page 6

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Fersonal checks, except, oh Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accept: THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY ] 50 CARRIER per copy per_ week.13c £ week. 17 ot 5o por week 6c per 100 0 2% 20 egularities in * delivery o 16 ity Clrculation De- Twen- !TATEMENT OF CIRCU I.AT[ON i Douglas (.ounu LU Blatd of N b Cbaoratary of ihe Bee nml-uln. Company, duly lwornd ways that the actual number of full an complete coples of The Dally Morning, Kvening and SBunday Bee printed during the month of July, 1508, was as follow! 1. EERESREEBRESGE Subscribed In my presence and sworn to beiore me tnis Slsc uay of July, A. 1908, M. B. HUNGUATE, (Seal) Notary rublic. PARTINS LEAVING FOR SUMMER, Pasties leaving the eity for the summer may have The Dee went to them regularly b, solitylng The Bee Bu ofice, in person or by mail. The address will be changed as ofien as desired. .- ————————————"+ What's the matter with Kansas? Too much water. If it takes action to bring Turkey to time, President Roosevelt is the wan of action. Old Vesuvius appears to be reluctant to shut down long enough to take a de- cent vacation. e o—————— It looks as if the man who institutes our election contest in Omaha is hoo- M from the start. iy Y e— A l!'- up” to Charfey Towne to say whether he would accept a democratic nomination for the presidency. The building inspector and his assist- ant can both earn their salaries if they are half way disposed to do so. General Miles regards cavalry as ob- solete. Why then that object lesson of a sixty-mile ride just before his retire- ment? — One flood after another in such quick succession is liable to drive even the confirmed Kansas prohtbitionists to driok, His majesty, the sultan, doubtless re- alizes that the United States is not the kind of a country to be put off with promises. Whepever in the future a drouth is threatened in this vicinity all that we will have to do Is to organize a picnlc for the butchers and grocers. The post of American minister to Con- stantinople has suddenly assumed an fmportance in our diplomatic corps which ‘it never heretofore possessed. e If there were any noupartisanship about the fusion nominee for supreme | judge just put it down that the World- | Herald would never be found support- ing bhim. It anyone has any kick on the selec- tion of Judge Taft to succeed Secretary of War Root, we have yet-to hear of it. This is one choice of the president that meets universal approval The mimic warfure off the Atlantic coast will not be in it with the real thing in Asia Minor waters if it comes to a brush between Uncle Sam's squad- ron and the unspeakable Turk. e Sir Thomas has given up hope, but be has not given up the races. Sir Thomas has also given up a big bunch of money, but as a gawe sport doubt- less feels satisfied with having gotten his money's worth, e Clrcus trains appear to be baving an unusual run of bad luck of late as a result of rallroad accidents. The up- | trusts, is absolutely to-date circus may soon have to arrange to make Its jumps from town to town by automobile propulsion. So————————— The Chicago Great Western is again playing in great luck. Not having inau- gurated its regular train service into Omaba, it has not been under the stress of interrupted traffic when all the othier ‘lines have been flood stalled. The announcement is wired all over the country from New York tiat an actor has broken down Yrom overwork in rebearsals the leading man in .a pew play. The next thing will be the announcement that the press agent has also succumbed to overwork, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY MORE TROUBLE FUR THE TURK. The murder of an American consul by the Turks is an event which unexpect- edly but inevitably draws the United States Into a complication with the dif- ficulties of the Turkish empire, the ultimate results of which are uncertain. Our government very properly kept aloof from the difficuity in which Tur- key is involved in the Balkan troubles. It was very properly realized that so far as the United States is concerned it had nothing to do with the affairs in which only the European powers were concerned. American interests were not even indirectly affected thergby and consequently, whatever interest our people might take in the welfare of the Christlans that were being persecuted by the Turks, we had no right to inter- fere. Now there is a change in the condl- tions. An American consul has fallen a vietim to Turkish brutality, appar- ently for the sole reason that he wasg an American, and the question comes home to our government as to what shall be done in the way of reparation. That question, according to Washington advices, is belng already met by the ordering of war vessels to Turkish waters with a demand for reparation. Obviously this is the correct course. It is demanded by national self-respect and it 18 justified by international law. Our case is absolutely as clear as that of Russia, to whose demands the Turk- ish government has just unqualifiedly ylelded. But will the European powers be as ready to concede the demands of the United States as they were to ac- quiesce in those of Russia? That is a question yet to be determined, and if they should mot be, what then will be the course of our government? There is obviously a possibllity of a complication in this matter that may prove perplexing, but whatever the out- come 'the United States must and will insist upon adequate reparation for the murder of its consul, which according to the reports seems to have been abso- lutely without provocation—a cold- looded assassination simply because he, was an American. % Later advices are to the effect that our consul was not killed, although an attempt at his assassination was made. Should this prove to be ' correct, the gravity of the situation will be some- what relieved, but the necessity for prompt and full reparation will remain the same. LAWYEIES AND THE TRUST PROBLEM. The American people cannot fail to be immensely interested in the report made to the American Bar association in regard to the question of trusts and to derive a great deal of information in respect to the opinion of the leading iawyers of the country respecting this most commanding issue before the peo- ple of this country today. Naturally, the lawyers of the country are the men who should know best as to what is necessary to stop the course of monopoly. They of all men are (h¢ best calculated to present to the counr try the proper course to pursue in order to check the growth of monopoly and put an end to the trust business. Have the great men who compose the American Bar association, supposed to be the most able and brilllant lawyers in the United States, pointed out a way for the solution of the great problem? It can be sald without qualification that they have not, and yet it must be con- fessed that they are in the main In favor of a course that if generally adopted <would go a very far way toward correcting what the general public is fighting against It is not alto- gether the mere incidental and common- place affairs of our industrial and com- mercial life that there is trouble with. The great fight is against those com- binations which in their effect is de- structive of competition, which are in- tentionally designed to wipe out the plain tradesman and give opportunity for the monopolist. It Is against this that the intelligent Jjudgment of the people rebels and will continue to rebel until there is a policy which will do away with such discrimi- nation against the interests of the people. The attitude of the American Bar association, as disclosed in the report of its committee on the laws relating to in accord with the almost universal judgment of the Amer- fean people. A careful reading of the report of that committee, prepared with great care and with every condition of the existing situation fully considered and discussed, must carry the convie- tion that the lawyers who framed it were fully satisfled that the position they asserted was justified by circum- stances and would inevitably commend itself to the best wisdom of the Amer- fcan people. And so, there is no doubt, it will. As that report declares, there must be a check put to monopoly, and the power of the government being adequate for this purpose there is no good reason why the government should not exert ihe authority that belongs to ft. —_— In requiring employes of the govern- ment printing office to subscribe to the same sworn agreement that is exacted of employes generally under civil serv- ice protection should not and probably will not meet with any objection on the part of organized labor. The oath of office can in no way conflict with any legitimate obligation to a trades union or labor organization, and even if it did, the provisions of the laws governing these employments would have to take precedence. At the same time, no dis- crimination should be shown in the en- forcement of this rule, apparently here- tofore neglected, but now brought to notice as a consequence of the book- binders’ incident. The oath of office if desirable in the case of the printers and allied trades is equally applicable to the employes of other departments of the federal government where skilled and unskilled service is rendered by me: apd women likewise in the clntllcz service. The government cannot recog- nize distinctions made by the unions as to members and non-members of their trades organizations, but neither can it in justice to itself make distinctions be- tween different class of trades unfonists in its employ in different departments. FUTCR® OF THE POPULISTS No unbiased observer of the Grand Island convention will be able to see in it anything of encouragement for the future of the populist party in either natlonal or state politics. Aside from the meager attendance, which might possibly have been explained away un- der other circumstances, the meeting disclosed the fact that the populists have no distinctive purpose before them upon which they can agree to unite their efforts. The Denver manifesto, which under- took to set forth the cardinal dogtrines of populism and to outline a plan for their propagation, was practically repu- diated by the convention notwlithstand- ing the assurances of the old wheel horses of the party that it alone offered an opportunity for party salvation. If, therefore, the program mapped out at Denver {8 abandoned, as it now seems it must be, un attempt to hold a popu- list national nominating convention next year is certain to prove abortive. It 18 doubtful if a call for such a con- vention would receive a response from a dozen states in the union, and a na- tional convention representing less than a quarter of the states and territories entitled to representation in it would only emphasize the sorry straits into which the party had fallan and hasten its complete disintegration. ‘Within the state the populists have little if anything more to look forward to. Next year's state campaign will be inextricably interwoven with the na- tional campaign, and continued fusion means only continued subserviency to the democratic machine. The demo- crats might be willing to buy populist support by throwing a few official crumbs as a sop, but the populists who have always objected to trading their birthright for a mess of pottage will find this going against the grain. They will discover that when it comes to effecting reforms through the old par- ties the republicans are much more of a reform party than the democrats. The intelligent populist who went into the third party movement honestly and sin- cerely will soon have to confess that the party has run its career of usefulness and consider a realignment—and when he does that he will realize that the re- publican party is nearer to a people’s party than the opposing democratic party. Judge Berka will have the approval of the whole law-abiding community in meting out severe penalties to wife- beating husbands whose abuse has be- comé intolerable to their familles. Bru- tality in the home is absolutely inde- fensible. A few shining examples in the police court ought to bave a decid- edly repressive influence on the exuber- ant spirits of bruisers who bravely pick out belpless women as their victims. South Omaha is also going into the carnival business and with an eye to the gate receipts has squeezed in its date ahead of Ak-Sar-Ben. South Omaha people, however, will be quite able to recover in time to take in the Omaha carnival as well. It is sald that five sets of lawyers have already been retained to help lo- cate ‘the responsibility in damages for that collapsed building. When the lawyers get through with it the last vestige of the building will have passed beyond the memory of man. Judge Sulllvan is a wonderful non- partisan when he is appealing for votes. It is different when he I8 appointing a fat-salaried clerk of the court or dis- tributing favers to referees. The Old Rellable. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. General Leonard Wood is studying the ‘methods employed by England in pacifying the natives ot Borneo. General Wood will find nothing better than the soap remedy he used in Cuba. Home Grown Fi Minneapolls Times. The Nebraska democratic convention squirted a little dash of happiness into Mr. Bryan's cup by reafirming the Kansas City platform. To have done otherwise would have been an open affront to the state's most distingulshed citizen. vors, Imported Slavery. San Francisco Call. A Chinese of this city has been marked for :death by his fellows because he had the Mongollan effrontery to steal away and marry another coolie's slave girl. The fact is Interesting and perhaps timely as a suggestion that the slave trade Is an institution which should be abolished in San Franeclsco. Popular Promotion. Minneapolis Times. Taft for secretary of war to succeed Root, and Wright to follow Taft is the an- nouncement of the president, and the change will go into effect shortly after the first of the vear, when Secretary Root's resignation will take effect. The appoint- ment of Judge Taft will be espectally pop- ular because of his brilliant record in the Philippines. He 1s well qualified by that service for some of the most difficult of the duties of the post to which he has been called. o me Springfield Republican. Our latest silver commission traveling in Europe has finished its mission, sent a re- port on to Washington, and disbanded. That it has achieved anything in the way of securing International action for estab- Ushing some measure of stabllity in ex- change between gold and silver-using coun- tries there is not the slightest reason for belleving. What it has done, and all that it has done, is to direct attention to the fact that the old siiver question is still far trom having been disposed of. Man's Triumph in the Horse. Springfleld Republican. There never was a trimmer, smoother likeller trotter than Maud B. when she went the mile In 3:08% In front of and old- fashioned high-wheel sulky, eighteen years ago. But breeding, &s well as the me- chanics of invention, tell at last. The chestnut mare Lou Dillon, that bas now gone the mile in two minutes flat, is, per- haps, the most perfect {llustration of man's triumph with the prineipie of artificial se- lection in the breeding of animals known to history. Darwin himself was no sports- man, but he would have enjoyed a sight of this wonderful mare. American breeders, In less than a century, starting with an artificlal gait, have made an artificlal horse, 80 to &pi the consummate em- bodiment of thelr unique work being this beautiful splendidly-developed creature. THE COALITION IN NEBRASKA. “Providence Remains on the Side of ublican Party.” Globe-Democrat. The populists and the democrats in Nebraska have fused on the ticket of minor state offices which has just been nominated, but this will have no effect toward prevent- ing republican vistory. Populist opposition to a coalition with the democrats in that state was strong untll recently. Many of the populist delegates in the convention Just held stood out against fusion strongly, but they were beaten. The pops nominated the candidate for supreme judge, and the democrats endorsed him. This puts all the opposition elements in the state into the same camp. But the republicans have overcome the Nebraska demo-pop combine for several canvasses in succession. The republicans carried that state in 1900 for governor and president, and the man who was the can- didate for president was the state's fusion favorite son, Bryan. The republicans elected the supreme judge in 1%1. They carried the governor in 1%2. In the last- named canvass Bryan was on the stump for the coalition candidate, but this did not avall. PBryan had speclal reasons for wanting to have his candidate for governor in 1802 win, but he falled. He wants the fusion nominee for supreme judge to win this year. Here also he will be defeated. The platform on which the fusionists will make their fight in 1908 indorses the Kansas City proclamation of principles of 150. So did the platform on which the fusion ean- didate for governor in 1802 ran. This satisfactory to the republicans because it shows that the silver folly has many friends In the democratic party of the west still. There Is a chance that it will get a hearing in the national convention of 1804. Bryanism is a vital fad among a powerful ingredient of the democracy west of the Misslssippl. It will have to be reckoned with in the canvass next year. All of which means that Providence remains on the side of the republican party. THE OLEARING-OFF MAN. Spills Sunshine and Cheer Clouds Hangs Low. New York Mail and Expre “He 1s the most encouraging man T ever knew: he always thinks it is going to clear oft.”” That was a remark heard in the crowd on the street as people were hasten- ing to the dock to start for the yacht race. This cheerful person had already cleared the weather so far as the little party who were discussing him were concerned. Thelr faces were radiant with smiles at the mere thought of him. The man who always thinks it is going to clear off is a blessing to any community. He takes a cheerful viow of the weather because he takes a cheerful view of every- thing. He is wise meteorologically because, as a matter of fact, it generally does clear off, and he is wise temperamentally and in the world's sense because continued cheer- fulness, a habitually hopeful view, is re- warded with the world's affection and con- fidence—two things which are worth a great deal more than its money. There are too many good people in the world who make a kind of public calamity of their goodness. We doubt whether a £ood person who thus makes his goodness a cheerless and critical thing comes off as well in the eternal account as the man who, though he may have his little human weak- nesses, makes people smile instead of frown —makes them firmly belfeve that dark skles are going to clear and !nstantly brightens into sympathetic radlance a rather weak and hazy quality of sunshine when It comes. Since beauty I8 truth, the man who makes us belleve in the essential beautifulness of the world must be a good and true man. In any case, with all his faults we love him. When COMMENDABLE ENTERPRISE. Proposed Transformation of the Sand Hills of Nebraska. 8t. Louls Republic. ‘The thdertaking of the United States government to transform the sand hills of Nebraska into a pine forest seems vision- ary. It is proposed that the government plant 100,000,000 trees where now is desert. Scientists are certain that these trees will grow and that the sand hills can nourish a forest. The idea is staggering. At first blush the thing appears impossible, but it may be rational. Gradually the great forests of North America are being destroyed in the interests of the lumber business, Time will come when the supply will fail unless steps are taken to reinforce it from arti- flelal sources. The area to be used in Ne. braska is now a waste of sand. Yet it is declared that & few feet below ground is a rich soil, in which the roots of the bull pine, yellow pine or red cedar can find the nourishment ‘necessary to produce a large tree. Beneath the shade of trees the character of the surface soll would slowly change, until eventually, it is belleved, the entire area would become rich and productive. Ten years will be required to plant 100, 000,000 trees. Many more years must elapse before the forest can become a reality. But if it be true, as the professors of forestry say, that trees will grow on the sand hills, such an artificlal forest will be a great boon to the second or third generation. Try it. POLITICAL DRIFT, Wireless politics should be classed among the iridescent dreams of the time. Friends of Governor Van Sant of Minne- sota think he is just the right size for vice president on the republican ticket. The governor of Texas has elghty colonels on his staff. No wonder the Mexicans are erecting fortii tions along the border. Loulsiana, according to Semator J. D. Fisher, the democratic leader of New Or- leans, is likely to send a Cleveland dele tion to the national convention next year. Nebraska is harvesting political honors in more ways than one. It is the main support of the Omaha and Kansas City pjatforms. Other brands of political timber are also on exhibition. The supreme court of North Carolina has affirmed a lower court's award of $4,500 to Henry F. Seawell for being struck by fif- teen bad eggs while on the premises of the Seaboard Air Line Rallway company during the 1900 campaign. Mr. Seawell was then a candidate for attorney general and was at- tacked by his audience while trying to talk from the train at Shelby. The remnant of General John H. Morga: confederate band held a reunion at Park's Hill, Ky., last week, their firat in twenty- five years. All of the regiments that were at any time under General Morgan's com- mand were represented, but many of their comrades are dead. Many of the sur- vivors left the army pennfless, but are now well-to-do, and Colonel W. C. P. Breckin- ridge said that “hot one of the boys twned out bad." AUGUST 29, 1903 ANALYZES THE BOER WAR| British Becretaries and Generals Bhow Feel- ing Before Royal Commission. BLAME OF FAILURES PASSED AROUND Lord Wolseley Complains of A »- tion of Pawer by War Depart- ment and Lord Kitohener Criticises OMcers. LONDON, Aug. 28.—The evidence given before the royal commission on the South African war fs issued today in the form of three blue books containing over 1,700 pages. Field Marshal Lord Roberts, Lord Kitch- ener, Field Marshal Lord Wolselgy and other generals give various reasons for the faflures of the war. Lord Roberts t was reserved for Nicholas II, fessed philanthropist who sought to bring about the disarma- ment of Europe, to trample under foot the historic to convert the far northern duchy into an- other Poland than wrong which could say in thelr refusal to accept the Russian jur- isdfotion, nggressive, was a constant source of danger to the em- pire, between setting them free and reducing them to & state of hopeless subjection by the ruthless application of superior force. But it was different with the Finns. They were loyal, prosperous, conditions under which they lived and were content to render to the czar, duke, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. the pro- the lover of peace, rights of the Finnish people and In this he had less excuse his predecessors could urge for the they accomplished. They that the Poles were persistent that that they were rebellious and their undying animosity and that there was no alternative they were peaceful, they were they were satifiod with the s thetr grand the homage which was his due. All ihat went for nothing. The Czar Nicholas &ave cepecially lengthy opinions regarding | concefved or allowed himself to be inspired the most important lessons learned from |hy the fdea that it was his mission to the war. He considered the of strategy practically irretrievable. He criticlsed the War office with regard to the general preparations and equipment, the first plan of campalgn, the understand- ing of the enemy and British ignorance as to the geography and extent of the country and the lack of artlilery and mounted infantry. General Sir Redvers Buller sald he was hampered by the fallure of the War office to accept his plans and the fallure on the part of the War office to give him definite instructions and information. Lord Kitchener sald the officers in many cases were not qualified for their work and expressed the opinion that the juniors were better than the seniors. He praised the men, but sald the chief difficulty was the lack of training of reservists and vol- unteers. Lord Wolseley in a memorandum com- plains that the commander-in-chief has become the fifth wheel to the coach and that the secretary of state for war is the actual commander-in-chief. Replying to this criticism, Lord Lans- downe, war secretary during the early part of the South African war, and Mr. Brod- rick, present war secretary and successor of Lord Lansdowne, suggested that Lord Wolseley was fgnorant of many of the powers of a commander-in-chlef or failed to use them. The whole publication teems with evi- dences of mistakes and fallures at home and in the field. REFORMS IN TRAIN SERVICE Paris Committee Suggests Changes as Result of Investigating Tunnel Disaster. initial error PARIS, Aug. 28.—The municipal com- mittee investigating the recent tunnel dis- aster on the Metropolitan railroad has drawn up a report which will be approved by the prefecture, Indicating the reforms which should be immediately made in the underground rallroad systems of Parls. The principal proposals are that a motor at each end of the train should be suppressed; the motors must be capable of fsolation from the train; in case.of the slightest firo the trath must be stopped and the motor tsolated; telephones and speaking tubes must be provided at reasonable intervels along the line; the rumber of employes at the stations must be Increased; the platforms must be cleared of every ob- struction and lighted by an electric cur- rent independent of the currents supplying the traction or the lighting of the tunnels numerous lamps must be placed to Indi- cate the direction of the exit, at which a powerful Inextinguishable iamp must be lighted and an alarm must be sounded if found necessary to clear the station. The report says that it is proposed to insist later on the use of incombustible rolling stock and the construction of refuges in the tunnel walls, SAVED BY MIRACLE IN ALPS American Tourist Hurled to Bottom of but PARIS, Aug. %.—Herbert K. Mainzer, an experienced young American Alpinist, and his gulde have had a remarkable escape near St. Mortis. On the Morteratsch, twenty minutes be- low the summit, while ascending the steep- ent {ce slope, the center suddenly caved in, forming a crevasse more than 150 feet deep. Both were dashed to.the bottom, with masses of ice towering above them. Both guide and tourist lost consclousnes They were missed by a party ahead, who lowered themselves into the cavern and found the American uninjured. The gulde was somewhat hurt by ice blocks. VESUVIUS IS STILL ACTIVE Detonations Inside Indicate a More Violent Eruption Yet to Come. and NAPLES, Aug. %.~The correspondent of the Assoclated Press has just returned ! from spending a night on Mount Vesuvius with the special permission of the authori- ties to pass the proscribed limit. The scene was terrifying, but magnif- | cent. Enormous masses of llquid fire | flowed almost to the correspondent’s feet, forming %great mounds. The eruption continues today, and the volume of lava is acquiring vast propor- tions. Detonations inside the volcano have caused the prediction of & more violent eruption, the and Two Plctures of Roosevelt, BERLIN, Aug. %.—Emperor Willlam met Hans Fechner, the court portrait painter, some days ago, and asked him to make a Mthograph drawing of President Roosevelt, Fechner's lithograph of the emperor hav- ing been most widely circulated in Ger- many. Fechner did so and showed the re- sult to the emperor, who had two copies struck off. One of these will be sent to Mr. Roosevelt. The emperor kept the other one for himself. No more coples will be taken from the original. Postponement is Regretted. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 28.—In conse- quence of the inability of Dr. Lardy, the Bwiss minister at Paris, and Prof. Matz of the Copenhagen university, to serve as arbi- trators at The Hague in the claims of the allied powers for preferential treatment in the settlement with Venezuela, the Forelgn office has requestd th postponement of the date, which was September 1, of the first meeting of the tribunal until other arbl- trators shall be secured. Alleged Duelist Released. BERLIN, Aug. 8.—Dr. Schwartz, manager of the Btate Sick Insurance hospltal at Mulhausen, who was arrested in con- neetion with the death of Dr. Bchloss, who was reported to have been killed by Dr. Schwarts in & duel, has been released, the suspicions of the police mot having been supported by the testimony. Taft's Sou a Passenger. MANILA, Aug. 28.-7:46 p. m.—Governor Taft's son returns to school on board the transport Sherman, which salled & week ago for Ban Franclsce, ward display of wealth— as it is rare. A year or more ago one of the Japaness vernacular papers took the trouble to as- certain and to give a list of the names of some rich men worth $00000 dwelling fn the six most populous cities, and the num- ber In this list Aid not exceed 262, Once again the end of the war in Achin is reported to be in eight. spondent Achinese chiefs who still about to make their formal submission to the Dutch. amalgamate Finland in the Russian em- pire as Poland had been amalgamated be- fore, and during the last five years, with the sanction, blow after another has been leveled at the liberty and the Individuality of the Finnish people. if not at his instance, one The issue of the royal prociamation, bear- ing the name of King Edward VII, repeal- Ing that fssued by his mother in August, 1900, and ammunition to China, has appeared none too soon. the Victorian proclamation was fssued wi enacted by Parllament at the very moment when the foreign legations at Peking were being besieged, and has from the very out- set been honored in the breach, rather than in the observance; in fact, within a very few months after the creation gt the law it was realized that it would be Impo put it into execution, since, even if all the forelgn powers were to combine honestly to prevent the importation of war materi- als Into China the trade would neverthe- less go on, the Chinese being more adept in smuggling than any other race in the world. From the moment that a law cannot be enforced and is openly disobeyed, the best thing to do Is to repeal It, so the remainder of the laws being brought into similar contempt, and that is why this proclamation of King Edward has just ap- peared, repealing the statute of August 7, 1900, terial into China. prohibiting the exportation of arms For the statute under which ible to to avotd prohibiting the exportation of war ma- M. de Lanessan, who was French min- ister of marine in the Waldeck-Rousseau cabinet, upon the position of France with regard to Morocco. of Morocco is powerless to preserve order among the tribes on the Algerian frontier, end that the French are nbliged to de po- lice work on his btehalf to prevent the whole district from lapsing into anarchy, publishes a noteworthy article He points out that the sultan that it would be very bad policy fer France to attempt to do In Morocco what she has done In Tunis, England, he argues, could agree willingly in the occupation of Morocoo by a great naval power, great naval station opposite Gibraltar, is certain, moreover, that in this matter they would have the support of Germany and Italy. wrong to seek to extend her authority over the whole of Morocco as she exerclses it over Tunis, panied by the neutraiization of the coast, that would be inconsistent with the dignity of France, Spain, Germany have in Morocco commercial in- terests which they readily. that country to remain entirely free. This freedom could not be refused, and with it a protectoraté would be futile. Let France construct railways in Moroceo; accord with the sultan, ministration and the army, and create solld commercial and industrial establishments. In a word, in accord with the local authorities, her eivilizing and economio influence. No power could take umbrage at that, be an unwise and dangerous policy to try to convert Morocco into another Tunis, Neither Spain nor Neither could tolerate a It France, therefore, would be As for a protectorat accom- England, Italy and would not sacrifice They wish their relations with let her, In organize the ad- let her introduce pacifically, and But {t would From a western stnadpoint. the absence of wealth and of the luxury attaching to wealth are perhaps among the most strike ing social features of Japan. The pieasures of life and the recreations are, vast majority, of & kind both simple and inexpensive In a land where an ordinary engineer’s wages are some 3 cents per day, where young men are recommended not to become students of a higher grade unless they month, with the and have a clear income of some $10 a to pay for fees, clothing, board lodging, wealth—or at best the out- as unlooked for o According to the Brussels corre- the TLondon Times the two information of of bdue the high-spirited Achiness the Dutch government has expended $300,000,000 and the lives of many thousands of Iits soldlers. The power of the sultan was broken, his fleet of 200 veasels and his 1,00 war elephants were destroyed, his capital was taken, but the Achiness remained unconquered. The nation numbered some 2,000,000, and when organized resistance to the Dutch invasion had broken down the struggle resolved itself into an ap- parently interminable guerrilla warfa Diabolical cruelty is a characteristic of the Achinese, as it s of all the warllke Malays, and their horrible outrages on their more doclle nelghbors, who were content with the overlordship of Holland, gave occasion for numerous punitive ex- peditions. It fs difMcujt, however, to make reprisals on a people whose habitations are afloat; for, owing to the rapld rise ©Of the rivers of Bumatra, the native houses are built on flat boats which are moored to pliings. A Dutch expedition on arriv- ing at its objective would often find that the village to be penalized for the ravages committeed by its fighting men had siipped its moorings and drifted nobody could say whither. At any rate, the identification of the perpertators had tecome impossible. Such methods were caloulated to wear out even the stolld persistency of the Dutch, and for many years the latter Lave con- fined themselves to defensive tactics. A dead line was established between Achin- ®se and Dutch territory, and any member of the former nation found beyond its limits was shot on aight. It would be good news to hear of the termination of thi costly and savage war. There would be neither profit nor glory in the victory for the Dutch, but the miserable episods would | best be closed and buried out of sight. ———— MIRTHFUL REMARKS, ‘‘Yes, my husband is greatly affiicted by tnsomnia.’ ‘What does he do for {t?" ‘Stays out_until 2 o'clock every morning." ~Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tess—He wasn't in our parlor more than ten minutes last night befors he announced m-t he was going to kiss me, Jess—The fdea! You should have had a hatpin to stick him with. Tess—Oh! he didn't need to be spurred on. ~Philadelphia Press. “Notwithstanding what you Bmoothley,” said Goodhart, be a loyal fello with his friends. “He should be kept in with them," snorted Crabbe. “Most of his friends are in jail."—Chicago Tribune. say about “he seems to He appears to keep In gamemnon was spending his elevent x betore Troy. ‘Andwh gcd, his senerals you taxe & little fip? " Yoo Kaow forty miles to Boheractad “Yes,” he muttered grimly. two steps to Paris, “don it's onl “but it is oni! --New York Sun. “Does your husband take your advice? sald the Inquisitive relative " Yes, Indeed.” answered young Mrs. Tor. Kins, 1 told him months ago that he ought fo give up playing the races and he forms me that he has been giving up ever since."—Washington Sta ¥ “0ld Gaffer 'Iggins says as 'ow 'e won't ‘ave 'is 'alr cut huntil Lipton fetches the Hameriea cup 'ome.” &ays one of the habi- tuen of the public house T London. “Blimy!" comments the barmaid. “Gaffer ing In bloomin: well rate Hin sayin: thet R s n hewe—Jndge. Cronnick—He's one of the most stupld bores 1 ever met. Jenks—And yet he has accumulated money. Fortune seems to have knocked at ‘his door. Cronnick—I_don't ball(nvo it. must have broken right in. hllldalbhll Prul. !plfl.lcul wi xhorting the gladiators to “B\lt " they inquired, “‘what brand of bak- |n§ powder shall we use?" ‘ercelvin lha hopelessness of his cas he decid to become an advertisement writer.—New York Sun. . hold out are The war In Achin, a powerful flourishing native sultanate on the island of Sumatra, began in 1573, and has raged intermittently ever since. thereof was the refusal of the sultan to recognize lands. The cause the suzerainty of the Nether- In its hitherto fruitless efforts to HORSE VS, AUTO. Lippincott's Magazine. chk lnd hll llrl ‘l‘ \l‘lt left us; that's them, s Wi luck, for it's surely a royal sparkin’ night. From our double gate to the court house is fourteen mile, exact— A two-hour drive, we call it, when roads are 'good and packed; Bul u.n auto rll contraption of his scoots dow, And Phe says it cull the distance in halt twixt here and t Well, mebbe 1t does; ‘but srems ke be goIn’ at things wrong- on % Right like this he ought to contrive at twice as long! 'Tis part of the age, however, an age of nd run, When unless you're fairly jumpin' you can't be havin' fun, Whm‘n coupls must take their ridin' at allop speed or more, a choo! choo! choo! behind them, and nothin’ at all before, In s T that sen't Dbe' trusted to mind a And rl[l\t in m- midst of matters is llable to explode; 1 reckon m':ulonu feels clever to make the ) But days wheh T was a-sparkin’ the main point was the girl! When I was a-courtin Marthy I hitched up old white Pete, And the only thing I asked him was that he'd kee) r his feet. I wasn't obliged to gulde him; he did the turnin’ out, And he rnlmfl;g all the corners at a mils an hour, about. ‘When Martha was snug beside me that old horse seemed to know The liketleat, Shaded_stretches, whers he had_best go slow. Why, grass and the trees and bushes along the he rru¥ Blow! W e{l on a few ucmlnn‘ we wara't aware he'd stopped That was the style of ridin’ when T was courtin'—see? Nothin' to watch but Marthy, and both hands, bless you, froe, 3 With old Pete joggin’, grazin’, and cockin' t times an eye nar.k at the seat, but sayin', “Don't mind; it's just A 1 wplcion ~r‘\‘»un fun in courtin’ at even Dbreakneck pace And Dick is the boy to do ft—I've read it in her face But rourtin’ by rapid transit on't ‘pear to me 80 Sweel the rambly, d me and ambly courtin’ of Marthy te. “The Store of the Town.” Here are two general propositions, in large type that apply specifically and equally to Browning, King & Co. 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