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THE OMAHA DAII/5T HEB : FRIDAY , OtfOVEMHEK 18 , 18JKS. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE K. HOSE WATER , Editor. PUULISIItID EVEIIY MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONJ Dully Dee ( without Sunday ) , On ; Year..JO.00 Dally Bee and Sunday , One Year 8.00 Hlx Mouth * < .w Three Months 2.W HunJny lite. One Year 2.00 Saturday Dec , One Year 1 W Weekly Ue * , Ono Year & > OFFICES. Omaha : The Bee Bulldlntr. _ South Omaha : Singer Block. Corner N and Twcntv-fourth Streets. Council BlurfH : 10 Pearl Street. Chicago Office : Stock Exchange Bid * . Now York : T mnlo Court. Washington : 001 Fourteenth Street. CORRESI'ONDUNCK. All communications relating to news and editorial matter should be nddressel : To the Editor. Editor.BUSINESS LETTERS , All business letters and remittances should b& addressed to The Hce Publishing Company. Omaha. Drafts , checks , express and postofMce money orders to be made payable to the order of the company. TUB PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas Count' S3. : George B. Tzschuck , secretary ot ue Bee Publishing company , being duly sworn , says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally , Morning , Evening and Sunday Bee , printed during the month of October , 1SOS , was as fol lows : 2 1 20,020 ! ! ! " " ! ! ! " , " 3 . 2,410 19 2II.3MO 4 . 23.810 6 6 . . 23i31 JS.V : T4 22 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! . . . 7 . 2.VHM ! 23 23,813 8 . 3Tt2tt : 21 23,117(1 9 . 25.207 23 23-ii5 : 10 . an. 2S 20 23.2ST U . l/ , 7 27 23.4011 12 . a 1,012 13 14 30 a.-miw 15 . StH,7-IO 31 aUU53 is . aunoo _ Total . 8In , 'IW Less unsold end returned papers. . 17,8at : Net total average . 7II7.27B Net dally average . 25,718 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before mo and subscribed In my presence this 31st day of October. 1803. N. P. KEIL , Notary Public. Many men arc Just now trying to figure - ure out where the profit Is In atlixlng a 60-cent revenue stamp to the official bond for a 25-cent olllce. Spain now takes refuge In Its position on the Philippine question "on the high ground of financial probity. " This Is .he first time that Spain has got on that high ground In many years. Traveling opera companies that expect I to get stranded In Kansas City are ad vised to arrange their tours in the future BO is to fix their dates at Omaha ahead of those in the city on the Kaw. The members-elect to the house from Douglas county have selected their seats. And tills time they will hold them without fear of being fraudulently ousted by any popocratlc majority. South Omaha bears the distinction of having a chief of police continuing at the head of the police department while bound over to the criminal court on charges of abetting a fatal prize flght. Senator Stewart may , as he claims , have more than enough votes in the Ne vada legislature to re-elect him. If BO. the general expression of Joy at his defeat - feat was premature , but It was nonetheless - the-less well intended. Omaha opened one new railway pas senger station In time to take care of the travel to the Transmlsslsslppl Exposi tion. It can open a second In time to take care of the travel to the proposed exposition for next year. Public buildings should be devoted only to public uses. There Is no good reason why the city hall should be turned over to the Use of private music teachers any more than It should be turned over to the use of private teach ers of stenography or typewriting. i ! The czar of Russia exhibited the ex tent of nil faith In his disarmament pro posal when he recently ordered twenty- three torpedo boat destroyers. It Is very evident the lion and the lamb are not Ktilng to Ue down together soon unless the lamb Is Inside his bedfellow. If the mayor of .South Omaha declines to do his duty to suspend the chief of police , who Is to stand trial lu the criminal court for abetting a prize light. It may become necessary for the council of South Omaha or for the prosecuting attorney to discipline the lawless mayor. Omaha used to offer bond subsidies as well as other valuable Inducements to get new railroads to enter the city. When a railroad wants to come lu with out a bonus , but , on the contrary , payIng - Ing for whatever concessions It requires , why should obstructions bo placed In Its way ? York county furnishes an Illustration of the Improved financial condition of Nebraska more cogent than any long argument. At n recent sale of flue stock , where tlrno was offered the purchaser , more than five times as much was paid for in cash as wat settled for in notes. Nebraska has lost no time In getting Into the front rank of the prosperity proccs- slon. Omaha can be made n grain market II the railroads can be prevailed on to glrc It as favorable rates as arc given Min neapolis , Kansas City end other west ern points where a grain business line been built up. But the way to secure better grain rates Is to go after them without let-up. The Commercial dull has only to keep on the trail to secure the desired results. There are between 4,000 and 5.00(1 ( paid up stockholders of the exposition and ninety-nine ou.t of every hundred eec no good reason why ? 10,000 of thcli money should be tied up and squandered on an exposition history just'to give a fatv Job to lome favorite. The 'tstock- holder : ) put up the money they sub scribed many of thorn out of their hard earned savings and many others only bj borrowing It on Interest to support ni exposition and not to publish books. AUAtXST KXI'AXlitOX. The opposition In New Liighttid to tor rltorlal expansion Is authoritatively voiced by the Home Market club of'Rod ton , nn organization representing the various Industrial Interests of that sue lion. The practical men who constitute this club sec lu the policy of expansion If it shall Inrolru the annexation of nc quired territory , n menace to the exist Ing economic policy of the United State * and to the IntcrcHts and welfare ol American labor. It Is pointed out thai If the acquired territory shall be made u parr of this country the provisions oj our constitution In respect to duties , 1m- posts and excises will apply to It The new territory , It Is held , must If an- ncxcd be placed In this regard on the same basis as are the states and terri tories of the union. The effect of this would be to open our markets to the free Importation of the products of the acquired territory and us the secretary of the Home Market club said , ' 'expose ' our Industrial population to unrestrained wllh low 111-condl- competition prices and - - tloued and coolie labor. " We think this must bo the Inevitable result of expansion , whether the ac quired territory shall be annexed or held and governed as colonies , If American capital should be very largely' ' 1m ested lu such territory. This capital would persistently clamor for the freedom of the American market and the syndicates and corporations here > . prospntlng It would so make their Influence felt In congress that sooner or later they \ \ mid get what they asked for. Perhaps It would be some years before this could he brought about , but that It would be : irrompllshed In time we think there can be no doubt. What seems strange Is that the labor Interests of the country do not seem to fully realize this danger , for surely If they did so they would tike a more pronounced stand against the expansion policy than they have done. The anti-expansion sentiment of New England Is making Itself heard and we believe Is exerting a widespread Influ ence. Not long since the Boston Mer chants' association adopted a protest against the acquisition of the I'hlltppln 'a utul this is now supplemented by an ex pression of the Home Market club In opposition to expansion. There are very iirnest expansionists In New lOrigland. hut they constitute a small minority and their number Is not Increasing. ITAXTED-A ABIP 1'A.nTT. Former Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton sends greeting to all who share his views concerning the past , present and future of American politics to Join him lu Philadelphia In Independence hall on the coming Fourth of July , 1809 , for the purpose of or ganizing "the national conservative party. " According to Mr. Morton there Is need of a political party In the United States which can live without traditions and promulgate policies and principles with out fear of running amuck with Its own precedents and platforms. It Is Mr. Morton's conviction that a conservative party for the United States' whichcan easily be formed by a realignment of the best elements of existing political organizations would advance civilization and good government by Ignoring all tlui fallacies and follies of the old parties and proclaiming Itself for an honest , frugal and coustltutlon-rcspectlng ad ministration of'national ' affairs. In sup port of the proposed new departure the country Is reminded of the fact that the republican party was organized In 1854. two years later ran John C. Fremont for the presidency and by reason of n divided democracy elected Lincoln n minority president In 18oO. Mr. Morton evidently forgets that new parties cannot be Improvised by resolu tion whether adopted In Independence hall or under the dome of the national capltol. It matters little either whether they are foreordained to be born on the Fourth of July or on Christina * , day. The essential factor for the Incubation of a new party destined to survive Us swaddling clothes Is some all-absorbing Issue lu which the masses are vitally Interested. The conservative party In Great Brit ain was not fabricated at Runnymede or nt Westminster Abbey on any par ticular national anniversary. It was not created by the cd'el ' of any convention , but Is simply the outgrowth of the old tory party , with Its conservative tradi tions. That there Is a considerable nutnbei of men who are not completely In accord with any of the existing parties must bu conceded. But when It Is borne In mind that by 1JXX ) nearly 20,000,000 voters will exercise the suffrage In electing the next president of the United States the diver- slon of 100,000 or even 500,000 votes scattered over forty-five states would scarcely create a ripple upon the po litical sea. ROUSEVELTS TASK. It Is already apparent that Colonel Hoosevelt Is not going to tlnd the tasli of harmonizing the republican factious In New York and of effecting the re forms which are expected of him alto gether simple and easy. He has been In conference with the factional leaden and also with prominent Independent republicans , getting their opinions as ti what should be done to give the state n better administration and satisfy tlu demand for good government. vhlel was doubtless a Judicious proceeding but after all Colonel Hoosnvelt will flm 1t Impossible to satisfy everybody am undoubtedly some of those whom he hat counseled with will be bis most unspnr Ing critics before be has been In oillci thirty days. There Is every reason to believe , how ever , that Roosevelt will honestly am courageously endeavor to Justify tin confidence ; of the people In bis Integrity his desire for good government and hi : solicitude for the welfare of the wholi people. There Is no doubt that he wll act conscientiously and will not penul himself to be controlled by any boss bu he has not full power to effect wha he may deem to be wise and necessary He must have the support of the Icglsla ture nud It remains to bo seen what In flnences may control this body. At a ! events It Is certain that the adiulnlstra I tlon of Governor Roosevelt will every where be watched with extraordinary interest. XO HEtiUCTlUX OF WAll TAXtM. i Tlia statement by Mr. .Dlugley , chair man of the ways nud means committee , that there will be no revision i > t the i coming session of congress of the war ' revenue net , may be accepted ns con clusive. A republican senator has been reported as saying that in the event of an early treaty of peace the present congress should reduce or abolish some of the war taxes , but It will undoubtedly be found that a large majority of the i republicans In both houses arc In ac- I cord with the vlaw of Mr. Dingley that i the government will need for some time all the revenue produced by the war I taxes. As stated by the chairman of the. ways and , means committee , during October the war expenditures exceuded the war revenue by some ifl-l.OOO.tXKJ I and this mouth they will be $10,000,000 ' In excess. Such being the case he thought the war taxes would be needed at least a year longer. > . < They may be necessary for a much more extended period If the policy of acquiring the Philippines Is carried out. Let It be assumed that a treaty of peace will have been concluded witli Spain In the near future surrendering those Islands to the United States , there Is no assurance that our government will'be permitted to take peaceable possession of them. On the contrary It Is quite possible and even probable that 'our assertion of control there and our attempt to exercise au thority would encounter a determined n.'id vigorous opposition from the natives , There are very definite Indications that they are preparing for such n con tingency. In that case the American forces now at Manila will bo entirely inadequate , at least to do more than hold that city and Its harbor. Hewn n any American soldlcra would bo re quired to suppress u Filipino revolt against the authority of our government , or how long a time would be occupied In putting down such resistance , It Is Im possible to say. Possibly It would be necessary to scud there an army of 50,000 and It might take a year or two to fully establish our control. At nil events , having In view the acquisition of all the Philippines , It Is clear that the govern ment cannot safely reduce war taxes. But there would be no dlfticulty about doing so were our government to simply retain possession of a naval sta tion , which would require only a small garrison. In regarel to the tariff there will of course be no revision , because there Is no good reason for it The law Is serv ing Its purpose very well so far as our industries are concerned and is yielding more revenue than was derived from the preceding tariff. Moreover , the re ceipts from customs have been steadily growing. They were larger for the ten months ending with October than for the corresponding period of last year and very much heavier than for the first ten months of 1890 under the demo cratlcatarlff. These who complain that the present tariff dpes not yield sum- clent revenue and advocate revision In the direction of lower rates should re flect that this condition is due to the larger share of the home market which American Industries are now having , while at the same time the tariff Is no obstacle to the enlargement' our ex ports of manufactures. Lowering duties would not necessarily Increase revenue , but could not fall to be more or less Injurious to domestic Industries. To people accustomed to court pro cedure founded on the English common law , the suggestion that Dreyfus may be brought back , to France to save the great cost of examining him by canle In the revision of his trial must come as a peculiar and by no means attractive feature of French criminal Jurispru dence. With us the meanest criminal Is entitled to be present at his trial , not na a privilege or to save cable tolls , but as n right guaranteed him by the law and the constitution. He Is entitled not only to know the charge against him but to be confronted by the witnesses and to have the power of compulsory evidence In his defense. Nothing could so strikingly Illustrate the marked dif ference between criminal procedure hern and abroad than the abandoned proposal to examine Dreyfus In his defense over ocean cable , with the opportunity to operators at either end to garble ques tions and answers. There Is a growing conviction that the course pursued by the exposition with regard to the awards of medals and diplomas Is calculated to bring discredit upon the enterprise as well ns upon the exposition city. The holdup of exhibitors for a large sum of money to be proscnted to the general factotum to whom had been abdicated the sole control of the collection pud Installation of cxulblta and the selection of Juries was counte nanced by thu management Instead of being reprimanded , -rhis scandal has 'since becii supplemented by an exhibi tion of ruuk favoritism to those who contributed liberally to the gift solicit ors and disfavor to those who did not submit to be thus bled. The stolid In difference to which complainants are be ing treated calls for tome action on the part of the exposition management that Will at least convince patrons that they were not decoyed Into a dragnet of blackmailers. The coming session of the legislature will witness another struggle on the part of several Nebraska cities to secure new charters or have the old ones amended. If the legislature would try the experiment once of giving the cities what they want ii stead of having those documents emasculated by people who have no knowledge of the needs or con ditions much legislative time nt future sessions might be saved. Coin Harvey has struck a new lead in financial lines. The country having re jected bis ldea < } of conducting the i finances of the nation , he 1ms conde scended to evolve a plan for raising thu j necessary revenue to enable the demo cratic national committee to continue In business. lte > proposes to have the sup porters of bimetallism sign notes In t which they njcrce , to pay ? 1 a month for the benefit of the cause. The scheme Is all right , but it Is barely posslblt that the committee's bank would not cash very many checks draw'tf against such security. The Boston Home Market club has the wit to see what many Just ns ardent protectionists overlook , and' ' that Is that the annexation of distant Islands with a population of millions of the cheapest of cheap labor Is the hardest blow which protection could receive. A tariff law which throws the American laborer Into competition with the low-priced work man can be repealed , but when the workman Is once Introduced Into our own body politic his Influence on the home labor market Is a permanent factor. Fuslonlst pretensions that they had made the penitentiary self-sustaining ie- celved a rude shock In the drawing of n warrant for over $1,000 from the maintenance fund to pay the running expenses of the hstltutlon for October. No one would be uuklnd enough to sug gest that the drawing of the warrant was purposely delayed until after elcc ; tlon. vrho state otllclals were too busy asserting that it was self-sustaining to make a balance to ascertain the truth of the statement. Cxpannlun of ( he Kucniy'n Country. Chicago Tlmes-Iieruld. After this Mr. Oryan will not have to leave Nebraska In order to flnd ' 'the enemy's country. " A HtrlUltiK Coincidence , Minneapolis Journal. Cat Island Is 'thought to have been the first land Columbus saw. It was a strik ing coincidence that the Teresa went there to lay her bones away. Fever lincKluic Expansion. Globe-Democrat. Two hundred cases of sickness among the American troops at .Honolulu Indicate a weakness somewhere In army sanitation. There has been no such outbreak among American sailors. Oat of Place In tlic Army. New York Herald. A United Stales army ofUcer "of high rank1 ; who witnessed the wrecking of the offlco of the negro newspaper organ by white citizens of Wilmington Is quoted as saying U was the "best managed and orderly m b ho ever saw. " The army officer who can use the word "orderly" In describing the tvork ot a mob ought to seek some other colling. " Hot To tin Grown Wenry. Indianapolis News. . Fashoda abandoned. Dreyfus ( If olive ) to' come home and "be fairly tried , and no fresh downfall of the ministry , no resigna tion of tfoe president , no newspaper suspended and editors arrested , no outbreak f the army , no "man on horseback , " no coup d'etat ! What Is the matter with Paris ? Is that volatile and excitable city becoming dull and commonplace and sensible at last ? A DUnrnntlctl I'ntrlnt. Philadelphia. Ledger. And now , It appears , General Gomez Is disgruntled at the Americans , and Is set ting up opposition to them , because be thinks they will not consent to thn Instant Independence of Cuba. Gomez should be more patient , < The United States to pledged to gtve'-Cu'ba ' on Independent form of'6overnment'nnd hos o wish to do bther- wlse , but It will tkk time to make'such ' a complete charigo In the affairs of the Island and put them on a stable footing. The in surgent chief shculd rather co-operate with tha American authorities than try to an tagonize them. However , If h does noi .vorry them more'than ho did the Spanish , he will not trouble them much. ' No Comparison I'omilbl * . New York Tribune. What twaddle is all this attempting to draw contrasts between the management ot the navy and of the array in the late war. to the discredit of the latter ! Of course , the navy got along better than the army , because It was complete In all Its principal elements at the outset , while the army had chiefly to be Improvised out of volunteer * at short notice. If wo had had a standing army adequate to the needs of the nation In war. as wo had a standing navy , It would doubtless have got through the campaign with no more hitches and mismanagement than the navy had. To expect a hastily or ganized body of , raw recruits to behave as well as a disciplined and experienced body of veterans Is the height ot Injustice and absurdity. The Nebrnnka Sonnlomhlp. J. Sterling Morton's Conservative. Thu rppubllcans may , and In all probabil ity will , have the power to name the next United States senator from Nebraska. And any political organization which has that power ought to feel the great responsibility of rightfully using It for the best Interests and the exaltation of the best citizenship of this growing and prosperous common wealth. Nothing emasculates the reputa tion of a state with such certainty as the promotion of unworthy characters to oc cupy Us high places. The experience of the republican party In Nebraska teaches that nothing can BO speedily convert a ma jority Into a minority oa the election to responsible prsltlons of men who ore men tally and morally Irresponsible. That the coming' election of a United States senator may result In a wise choice and glvo Nebraska a representative In Washington of whom even his opponents may be proud Is a consummation devoutly to be wished. MAXUUHbON'S in.OOO HISTORY. Why HP U * Ho Anxlon * to Sqaauder OtherPeople' * Money. Western Laborer. That $10.000 "history" of the exposition Is a big holdup of the stockholders In the exposition company most of whom bor rowed money to pay their subscriptions. The reason General Manderson U BO lavish In the expenditure of exposition money U because he cannot be In on tbo divide at the 'finish. General Manderton subscribed $1,000 to the exposition and the D. & M. $30,000. About ten months ago at a * meetIng - Ing of the directors General Manderson de clared that exposition stock wag not worth D cents on the dollar , and about that time the t ) . & M. subscription was officially de clared a "donation. " Heine a donation , the B. & M. could not be held liable for the debts of the exposition ; neither can It be In on the divvy If the exposition Is a great j financial success. Mr. Maudcreon has a very I exalted opinion of the prophetic vision of General Manderson , and If the show Is a : great financial ( access you can readily see I where It will leave the general. For that reason the general ta In favor of any old expenditure that will result In permitting biro to ay , " 1 told you eo , " to bis em ployers. The greatest advertisement that could poeulbly-be given to Omaha one that woufj travel .farther and do more good- would bo this : "The Omaha exposition U the only one ever held In America that was a financial aucc'ess. It puld dollar for dollar lar to the stockholders ! " Another reason why the money , > hould bo protected and paid batlc to the .stockholders Is because It be longs to them , and If they are treated hon- j evtly and squarely It will be easy to get money out of them for the next public enI I terprtso that'cbmco up. I A rilESIIIKMTIAl , I'OSSIltlMTY. Senator Allen'n Iofrn nnrt Wlmt Ii Mny Lend To. J. Sterling Morton's Conservative. The defeat of Abraham Lincoln by Stejhoi A. Douglas In the senatorial campaign _ fi ISoSmado Lincoln a presidential candldat ) nnd elected him In 1SCO. Douglas am Lincoln held relatively the same posltlot then In Illinois that Bryan and Allen nou occupy In Nebraska ; one had been for i 1 ng time , pronouncedly , In candidature fo ; the presidency. The other , Mr. Lincoln , hat served one term In congress and was no then nearly as well known as Senator Allci Is today. And Allen's defeat for the senate ma ; make him the most prominent and available as lie Is the moat forceful and able , amonf all the popultstlc candidates yet mentions for that high office. Of course Mr. Brjan nominally a derarcrat , could not and wouli not accept the nomination of a strictly popu lUtlc convention In 1900 any more than Mr Douglas could have taken a ropubllcat nomination away from Mr. Lincoln In 1660 The Conservative still asserts th.it Wil liam Vincent Allen Is the biggest , b.-alnles and most dangerous populistlc candidate fo ; the presidency In the United States. UNGHATUPUL t'lMPI.VOS. Stlrrinit Up Annoyance If Not Trouble for Uncle Sam. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Hero Is another complication In the Philip pines. The Insurgents already hold th < greater part of the Island of Luzon , outsld < the city and bay of Manila , which are In thi possession ot the American land and nava forces. They have set up a government am profess to consider the Americans as allies or as trespassers , according to the attkudi the United Statea assumes toward the al Jegod Filipino "government. " Now comes news of Insurgent successes Ii the Vlsayaa Islands of the archipelago. Thi Insurgents are carrying everything befon them and the Spanish governor Is aaklnf permission from Madrid to turn the nomlna command cf the Islands In his district ovoi to the Americans , so that he can put him self and the other Spaniards unJer America : protection. That may tend to case matters In Paris because If Spain bos lost the Islands to thi Insurgents there Is no excuse for puttlm in a big claim for money compensation It coding them to the United States. Out the situation will not be much bcttei for the United States. If the Insurgents have possession , what claim have we to thi Islands as pan ot the spoils of war wrcatet from Spain ? If the Insurgents have driven out thi Spaniards and assert their Independent ! ! what becomes of our claims as liberator * and what will bo our pce..tlon It we asser ; ownership to Islands that the Filipinos con trol themselves or assume to Eot up t "beneficent rulo" over a people that con sider themselves able to rule themselves ant will have none of our "beneficence ? " The situation would bo somewhat awk ward in that case. PKRSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Governor-elect Roosevelt will take the oath of office on Sunday. That Is a very proper day en which to promise to be good , Frank Hunter Potter , a nephew of the Eplsocpal bishop of New York , Is a grand opera tenor whoso stage name is SIgnoi Fllllpo. Admiral Walker's 'whiskers , which were once the despair of all the navy , are , It Is said , to go down at last before the barber's shears. Emperor William Is going to Spain strictly Incognito , but the Spaniards had better understand that ho Is Emperor Wil liam , Just the same. Olga Neth rsole has resolved to discon tinue the kissing scene lu "Carmen , " be cause she considers U too sensational. Olga ls behind the times. Colonel Edmund Rice of the Sixth Mas sachusetts , which lately returned from Porto Klco , has a unl-iuo distinction. He returned from two wars at the head of Massachusetts regiments. In Atlanta the other dAy a young woman Bald to Israel Zangw-111 : "You are such a surprise. Carlyle said the Jew had no humor. " "Yes. " replied the critic , "but Carlylc was a Scotchman. " Among the sultan's gifts to his Imperial German gueats and their suite were two paintings of the battle ol the Maluna pass and Domoko , In the recent war with Grefco , for the emperor , a magnificent spray ot brilliants for the empress and diamond broochts for each of the ladles In waiting. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Is one of the few wives of political notabilities who shares her husband's enjoyment of cartoons. Mrs. Thomas Platt has said that ehe sometimes fears to open a paper. So , too , Mrs. Russell Sago. Dut Mrs. Roosevelt has made quite a collection of the multitudinous representa tions of the Rough Rider. George W. McNcar In San Francisco is a millionaire , eelf-made , and a man of many enterprises. "They tell me , Mr. McNear , " said a visitor , "that you had no capital to start with. " "You do me too much honor , " courteously replied McNcar , who Is con sciously and pleasantly a little egotistical. "My rivals -In business will tell you that I began with a capital I and that I have never lost 1U Lord Kelvin , now more than 75 years old , has Just taken out a patent on an Improved device for making soundings at sea. AI- th ugh his life work bos been philosophical rather than mechanical , and has related mainly to the theories that underlie physical phenomena , Lord Kelvin Is the author of a number of useful Instruments , among thorn the siphon recorder , for registering cable messages , and the quadranjt electro meter. Piper Flndlater , the hero of Dargal Ridge , who has been appearing In London music halls with his Victoria cross , has been of fered $30 for the decoration by a Birming ham firm , with the ad vice to get rid of It at theee terms and thus eave blmscff and the order further degradation. Along with this come ? the statement that some of the Grena dier Guards who acquitted themselves with glory In the Soudan ore appearing as "su pers" In Mr. Tree's production of the "Mus keteers. " FORMIDABLE JSTEAMS FORTH HURC DrltUli Wnr Ship lu Launched v llli Token of Amity for American * . PORTSMOUTH , England , Nov. 17. Thou sands of people today witnessed the launch of the ram battleship Formidable at the. dockyard here. It Is said to be the largest war ship In the world , being of 15,000 tons displacement. It Is 400 feet long , baa 75 feet beam and draws 26.9 feet of water. It cost over 1COO,000 and Is estimated to steam eighteen knots. The chancellor for the exchequer , Michael Hlcki-Beach ; the first lord of the admiralty , Mr. Goschen and Admiral Michael Culmes Seymour were among these present. A notable feature ot the launch of the battleship was the en twining of the IlrltlBh and American flags on the official stand IlUCYFtlS MAY I1U HKOt'GIIT BACK. Trial by Cable Found to DC nn l'\- pcnilTe Affair. PARIS. Nov. 17. In legal circles here the belief Is expressed that the court of casia- tlon will shortly order the return of Dreyfus to France from bli prison on Devil's Island , off th'e coait of French Guinea , on the ground that It Is Impossible to carry 011 the examination of the prisoner by cable , In view of the cost of euch a proceeding , as well as In view of tbo necessary delay. S OF KXI'ANSUON. Kx-Hcnntnr Rdninniln' Slronn Argu ment Annln t TnUlntt lMilllpiliir | . Hon. George F. Edmunds , the eminent statesman who , for a quarter of a century , represented the state of Vermont In the United States senate , Is strongly opposed to the acquisition of the Philippine Islam- ! by the UnlleU States. Hepljlng to a re quest of Governor Stewart of Vermont tor his view on the subject , Mr. Edmunds wr es as follows , under date of November 7 : "Deforo the war with Spain , I take It that nine-tenths of the intelligent people of the United States would hhve thought It bor dering on madness to have taken tnoso ( Philippine ) Islands Into our domain. Thctr peculation Is almost entirely what may fairly bo called savage , and absolutely in capable of anything that civilization would call self-government. And If their In habitants were as pcaceablo as the beat ol other tropical countries , they would still be ( aa nil experience has proved ) Incapable of governing themselves. Our only motive for their acquisition , thorcf ro , must bo the material advantages supposed by some to now from controlling the products of the Islands and their trade. We get all the products of the Islands now that wo wish for , and on the same- terms that other na tions do. If we take them the cost will be precisely the same , unless wo adopt the ancient colonial policy of Great Britain and some other nations. In controlling their trade exclusively , nnd allow It to bo carried on only In our own ships. In that case re taliation will certainly follow , and our ships and goods will bo excluded , In llko manner , from the colonial p'ssesslons of the great manufacturing and trading pow- eM , which would leave the balance of dis advantages vastly against us. "In a business point of view we must take Into consideration the cost of governing the Islands. This cost cannot , in all human probability , be met by the taxation ot the In habitants to any considerable extent. Nature - turo supplies them with substantially all tho" > f od and clothing they require , and they arc , of course , indisposed to labor cr thrift. If we take them wo mutt govern them by external power , and not through any autonomy of their own. This means a large and expensive civil list , governors , councilors , administrates , officers of Jus tice , and so forth , and so forth , who must , In the main , be paid out of the treasury of the United States. The climate Is , of course , very unwholesome for Americans , and the death rate of our officers there would bo very largo. It will also require an American army of defcnsa and for the preservation of peace and order , of many thousand men , and an American navy of six 'or more ships , and probably 2,000 men , all exposed , like- the civilians , to the con stant hostility of the climate , to sny noth ing of that of the Inhabitants of most , If not all , of the Islands. Are we , under such circumstances , to force a government upon them ? "Tha present condition between ourselves and Spain In regard to the Islands Is , as the protocol of armistice distinctly shows. that wo have n-t obtained this Islands , and that all our rlg-hts that were recognized there were these of holding the bay and city of Manila and their environments until peace should be established. What was to be done with the whole group was left for negotiations , which our commissioners at Paris are now engaged la. If , then , wo are to get them without the cession of Spain , we must do It by force of further war against Spain , and probably by force of arms Against the vast majority of the In habitants , who , BO far ns I know , have shown no disposition to be annexed to the United States. "Aro we , then , to attempt to force civiliza tion and Christian religion upon them , as Mohammed made his proselytes ? This , of course , would be expressly contrary to our Declarallon of Independence , and to the principles upon which the g vernment of the United States rests. How many lives of their sons do Vermont and the other elates of our solid and homogeneous union wish to sacrifice to accomplish M , and how many more annually hereafter In governing these Islands ? Our few months' experience at Manila and In nearby Cuba and Prrto Rico should make us awake to these questions. What 'logic' or what 'humanity' demands or even Uropls us to this sort of 'Imperialism ? ' Lot the advocates of such an entjrprlae f olnt rut definitely what are the grounds tor such a course. Congress has solemnly pledged the national honor and faith that wo had no purpose of territorial aggrandize ment , oven aa to Cuba , only 100 miles from our shores. It Is true , the victor In war Is entitled to Indemnity ; but the victor who has mad ? war for humanity has no right to bo extortionate because ho Is strong. The cession of Porto Rico and one of the Ladronea for a coaling station and refuge on the * way from our western coo3t to Asiatic port's Is ample for every expense of the war that can be measured by money value. Even Porto Rico would be , as a part of the United States , nn Injury to us In the long run but for Its situation In connection with the Nicaragua canal. Already some newspaper writers have opened the question of Its ad mission as a state of the union , with senators having an equal voice In making laws for this country with that of the senators from Vermont or New York or any other state. Tbo soher-mlnded Inhabitants rf each of the states should consider the' enormous danger of Introducing such elements and such a power Into the senate , where all our states stand equal , and whtcn , as John Adams described It , la 'the sheet anchor of the republic , ' and the only security of State Tights. "Porto Rico , like every other tropical country , even If It were not already fully populated , will not admit of North American settlement and development on account ot Its climate. The experience of hundreds of years , nil over the tropical parts ofthe globe , has demonstrated this. So It Is only In view of Its location lu relation to the waterway across the continent that It Is desirable to us. Why , then , should we wisher or bo willing to receive the Philippines ? " A 1'OMTICAb HOUMJtP. llxtent of the neimhllcau Triumph at the Hallot Ilox. Philadelphia Times ( Ind. dem. ) While tbo official vote of many of the states Is yet wanting , cncugh la known to estimate with reasonable accuracy tbe ma jority given In every state of the union at the election on Tuesday last and the result \i \ even more emphatic In support ot the administration and policy of the republican party than has been generally accepted. The republicans have carried twenty-six of the forty-five sta-tctt by majorities ag gregating In round numbers about 700,000 and the democrats , sllverltcs and fuslonlsta have carried nineteen states by majorities aggregating about fiOO.OCO. Tbo mast substantial and Impresilv * gains made by the republicans are In the western states , which were carried by the democrat * two yeara ago by an aggregate majority of 270,000. The same states at the recent election gave an aggregate re publican majority of about 10,000. The democrats and fuslonlsti lost the atates of Kansas , Nevada , Wyoming and Washington , which they carried by considerable ma jorities two years ago , and they bavo re duced the fusion majority in Nebraska fr"m 13,000 to about 2,000 , In Idaho from 10,000 to 4,000 , In Montana from 32,000 to 6,000 and In Utah from 50,000 to 3,000. The most significant feature of the po litical roundup of this off-election year la In the break made In tbe woUcrn atates where free Oliver bad Its birth. All of the Pacific ilope states have become republican and sound money by largo majorities. Kan- cas has swung back Into thu sound money line by some 16,000 majority and there 11J hardly bo a corporal's guard of cheap mousy I representatives In the next popular branch of congress from the stlitcs 'west Vit Mt - sourl. This means thai the free sliver heresy has run Its course nml thnt It cannot - not bo made a hopeful Issue for 1900. Taking thfl stated as they voted last week they give the republicans nn Increased ma jority of eighteen In the electoral collejto at compared with the > otc of 1505. Ths comparison would bo ae follows ! 1S9G. I IMS. Republicans 27l'nepubllcnns ' MO Democrats iToiUcmocrats 167 ncp. majority. . . 95 | Hop. majority. . . 113 Such Is Uio lesson of the political rouudup of 1SSS and none can misunderstand why , la the face of the political disappointments of the new administration , the friends of ths administration have Increased the number of states they control , practically onnlhlUt- I Ing the frco silver theory In the states whcro It was born , and gained eighteen 1 votes In the electoral college. It means that the people of this country arc un changeably devoted to a nound financial policy and that any party that attempts to revive cheap money and repudiation as a national lesuo will bo ground to powder by the sovereign power of the republic. FI.OATIMl MIUT1I. Washington Htur : "Homo men. " said Unclu Kben , "In HO lumy Ida win * unh own horns ilut iloy can't hc > ur do fncl'ry whtala coaxln' 'em to come to work. " Bomervlllo Jourrml : Man Ii very Incon- Blstcnt. Ho admires a dnHh of red in a plrl'B chcekn and laughs at her when it In In her nose. Indianapolis Journal : "I played poker with nn Indian once , " sild the Chwrful Idiot. "lleat iilm ? " asked the unsuspecting shoo clerk boarder. "Ho took my last Chlppcwa , " said th * Cheerful Idiot. Cleveland Plain Dealer : "What platform - form will you choose for your campaign ? " Inquired the friend. "To tell vuu the truth. " answered Sena tor Sorghum , "It Isn't the platform Itself about which I give myself most concern , it keeps me busy looking after the people who are tryingto saw the tlmbcn ) out from under It. " Somcrvlllo Journal : Judge I don't want to see you here again. " Prisoner 1 wish you'd say that to the policeman. Washington Star : "I must congratulate you. " said the v ry Intimate friend , "on the manner In which you guided this cam- paisn. " "Well. " said Senator Sorghum , "to tell you the truth , I didn't guide It much. I simply hung onto the reins and let It run. " Indianapolis Journal : Tommy Paw. what Is the difference between a liar and a prevaricator ? . . Mr. Flgg It Is a difference In weight. Chicago Tribune : "The case niralnst you Is perfectly clear , " said the judge. "You stole a package out of an express wagon. tt was found In your possession. On being opened It was found to contain campaign circulars. The rcntence of the court Is that vou DO confined In the county Jail sixty days. " ' "Your honor , " protested the prisoner , "conslderln1 the value of the goods can't vou make It one day fur stealln1 and fifty- nine days fur beln' a durn fool ? " In Colorado. Denver Post. She dresses In her natty gowns and looks real trim and neat , VIer bearing is just out of sight , her style Is hard to beat , She has a smllo for every man as sunny as can be. And greets her gentlemanly friends with cordiality. * Although of qulto uncertain age , she tries to look her best , A wish to win the favor of the men hums In her breast You'd think she was a spinster on the warpath for a mate , But no ; the winsome creature IB * lady candldat0 LOVU'S MYSTKHV. ' vi " ' riomorvlllo ' 'Jouriia1 ? * ' 1 Why do I love her ? Who can tell ? Bno has never b cn called a b llc. Jlcr eves , indeed , are very bright. And shine with a soft , soulful light. Her hnlr Is just a mesh of gold , And'Fhe Is pleasant to behold. Her skin Is very soft and fair , Althcugh It has no beauty n.re. Her manners , too , are full of grace , And anything but commonplace. She's plump and pleasing to the view ( I llko a p'irtrldgo girl , don't you ? ) , ilut other girls are just as fair. In fact , you see them everywhere. Shs surtly wields no magic spell. And yet you say thnt you will tell Just why I love her ? No. you won't ! You see , In point of fact , I don't ! OUIl DAILY BULLETIN. HAVANA Nov. IS , ISIS. All the Hpanisn guns nnd obsolete ordnance around Havana formications will be. sold today by order-of the United States government. This pro ceeding U due to the wholly usclcra charac ter of the war material thus disposed of by the authorities. ' 'True merit depends not on the time nor on the fashion , " Ctrvantes. Merit is just as much a quaU ity of the choicest suit that we make as it is of that which is highest in price. It is all that is worth while in any garment. There is the same care in the cutting and fitting , and in each case the goods employed are the best that the money can buy. At either the highest or lowest price you may be sure of well constructed -and well fashioned clothing. And back of these assurances stands our guarantse.