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October 17, looi THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT 5 piniwnjniiffliiiniim iBIanke's Coffees........ fs Represses the prodnst f years of experience. They art rg r the rmlt of the snoet cartful handling and attic, tioa that 2 EE experts eas nestoir. Thsy can't halp but be roodthe BEST. S r A! ICT D1 TZfVirV HIOIl" GRADE COFFEB, g rAUM DLtrsiu jyj'-astsr I Is fact FAUST BLEXD has so aqaal 5 S TpHIS FAMOUS COFFEE la sirred exclusively oo S rs I the Polimaa Dicier asA Buffet Cars; en the elegant ' s Steaship I the Oeaaa Steamship Co., of New York , ' ted Savannah; ca the Dialog cara of the Denver & Rio 25 Gratia, the Baltimore A Ohio, the Wabash, Lake 8hore and - ' 5 New York Central Railroada. 1 C F. BLANEE TEA & COFFEE CO., St. Loois, Mo. I EE Pre ten e kith f s4 ieds Prapr. f the matt complete Coffee Pluit in the world EE C&AXCH HOCSES-N.v Tork.l! E 14th S3 BU. CYics, 4144 . Miehigme ats.; rEE Kmmi City 123 Delaware St. Cur stock cf C F. Blanke & Go's. Coffees is Always Complete. 1 Tucker Bros., Cor. 10th & PSts., Lincoln,Ncb. g iniiUiiHiiiinnnn ' hi$h $t e4e aas Prapre, H 1. . J02KST0X, Af tst ia Ktl. ZZS JUem &AS19 Pee Beill &c. Prettiest Rooeevelt 's Idea seems to be that the facet des-vln republican a a4 the ore teat entitled to bold office La the south 1 a democrat bo ha 14 the republican ticket for at least ve year. If the reputllcaa atate committee acta iIy. It will held a loss and coci. ictlsJ interview with Bartley. before It til the vacancy caused by the force! resignation of Regent Cooli. The Christian Advocate, organ of the Methodist church, atlll stands by Mark Hanna's Ttt. Nebraska speech. Mark declared here In Lincoln. There are no tnute." Now the Christian Advo vate says: "The simple facts are that there are no trusts la the country, and though some concerns or owners are Baited for the aarse purpose, they are tot trusts, cor hTe they by any means all the legal powers that the tresis had." The Independent has doubts about the genuine cf the war between Haeaeyer and Oxnard. This year's crop cf beet sugar Is not on the market and there is nothing to compete with the sugar trust and will not be for ereral weeks to come. This pretend ed attack cn beet sugar will enable Oxaarl to tower the price ha pays for beets. After the beets are all In, the fight will be called off and the price cf augsr will go tip again. Mr. Gcoli rot" eff the ticket la a hurry. His explanation is. when an alysed, that he r.rr got the money from Bartley. If he did get It he has paid half cf It back- That he was chief stockholder, depositor and re relver cf the ttrk that got the money, fret that he ceTer knew anything about !t That Bartley sent the money tbr cs his own motion, and that he. Go&id, has been devoting the last six years of his life to pay back the de positors of this broken tank. A WSZAK irOT Wednesday's Bee indicates that Mr. Ilosewater has at last heard something about that Interview with Bartley and he remarks In discussing Mr. Goold'a rerignatoa and the reasons gtTea for ft thst: "The only weak spot in the state ment Is that tie debt to the state. In the name cf Bartley, should not have been given preference over other cred itors cf the bank, after It became ap parent that the money belonged to the atate school fund. "The Incident emphasizes one point, who lesson should not be over locked: It is the pernicious and inde f entitle practice cf custodians of pub Be fends making deposits of public moneys la their own names. Bartley bad no mere light to deposit state do ro his own came la any bank thaa he had to convert the funds to his wa use. Unforttnately this prac tice has cot yet been stopped That statement la aa acknowledge sect that the present state treasurer ha nearly SSOO.000 cf state money de posited la tanks In his own name ln stad of the came of the state, and that the treasurer having refused to tell where It is. Is guilty cf a -pernicious ssd Indefensible practice.' It aeema to The Independent that that la an other "weak spot. acrraucA!f bkotuxju.t lots The black journalists who have been pouring out their wrath upon all those who have opposed republican policies, denouncing: all opponents for their tftternesa ef speech, bewailing; the Orcenesa of political contests, and declaring that all who did not sup port th. plutocratic system of eon darting public affairs were breeders cf anarchy and that the blood of the preal&ent waa cpen their hands, give great prominence to a little bit of brotherly love exhibited on their side at s recent meeting cf the Martjuette cfzl ia Chicago. While denouncing the TtedletJvesaaa of all opposition in republican plana ia their editorial columns, th&ta black Journalists have taken great pleasure in reprinting from day to day in the different states the bit of statesmanlike logic and calm discussion which Is part of a speech de livered before the club by William Allen White and cheered to the echo by every man present. "Mugwumpery and populism," he aaid. "were distinctively un-American, distinctively eastern, both were fos tered in a robust, bumptious Inefficien cy; each had Its roots In the envy of men who can't and won't do things for the man who does. Mugwumpery believed the government was corrupt; populism was sure of It. Each doc trine spread over the land like an epidemic. The Massachusetts man who went to bed -with the political muligrubs awoke a mugwump moan ing for tariff reform; the Kansas man who lay down with an octopus, a gold bug and a money devil cavorting through his economic Intestines got up screaming for free silver and silk cur rency. "Each of these crazy men looked upon civilization as a conspiracy, each had a temporary softening of the back bone and the inevitable com promises incidental to progress irri tated his highly inflamed conscience. Both mugwumps and the populists moved In that political demimonde wherein virtue In others is regarded only as the signal for a sneer. The mugwumps gave us the placid, restful, soporific delights of a democratic ad ministration and the populists be queathed us anarchy. It may be de monstrated with the nice exactness of an algebraic equation that the man or group of men or party which ignores its own vices and devotes Itself to Inoculating virtue in others will in the end bring only calamity and dis aster in its path." That is the sort of vituperation that has been poured out upon every man ia the United States for the last ten years who has dared to defend the theories of political economy advo cated by John Stuart Mill and all the great students and writers of the past. That was their ot'ense and no other, and yet they have been forced to sub mit to abuse of which the above is a fair sample. For weeks these same black journalists have been engaged In denouncing bitterness and vitupera tion in their opponents, while their own columns were filled with the sort of brotherly love of which the above Is a sample. Health for !0 Cents. A lively liver, pure blood, clean skin, bright eyes, perfect health Cascarets Candy Cathartic will ob tain and secure thera for you. Genu ine tablets stamped C. C C Never sold in bulk. All druggists, ioc. There is no use in trying to match the millionaire party in the use of money. Better depend upon justice and right than upon money anyway. Hardy's Column Bartley and Goo Id Two Rotten Cities Games of Blood and Foolishness Modern Wonders. As things are drifting those noble republicans who' helped Bartley steal the half million state school money better pay it back or they may be sent in to sleep with Bartley the bal ance of his term. According to late court decisions one who borrows pub lic money and does not return It is an embezzler and a candidate for the peni tentiary. One of our two noble re publican university regents was nomi nated by the noble republican party for a second term, but of late he with draws, because it has been published that some of the Bartley stealings still sticks to his pocktts. He will now probably run for rt-gent of the brim stone university. The name of H. L. Goold will be popular in that university. Why do not the republican papers say as much about the Philadelphia Tammany as they do about New York Tammany. And why do not the demo crats say as much about New York as they do about Philadelphia. It Is whitewash our own party and rip open the opposing party. Boss Croker of New York and Etoss Quay of Phila delphia are men of the same stripe. Four years ago the republicans in New York would not fuss to beat Croker and this year the democrats won't fuse to beat Quay. So It is, .money makes politics in these tines. We do not believe in spending so much election money and above all we do not be lieve la running into debt as the fu sion party did last fall, in this state. We remember of reading, sixty years ago, an account of a big duel having been fought down at New Orleans. It was on the platted ground dedicated to the code of honor, which meant duel fighting, with pistols and swords. The ground is located to the northeast, just out of the city corporation limits. Two rows of. trees are planted about forty feet apart and the trees: in the rows are about twenty feet apart. The ground is still there, in tact, a relic of American dark age. Just so, our football grounds will stand, a relic of the. foolish American age. It stated there were hundreds of spectators to witness the conflict. There was no need of a police to keep them from crowding upon the actors, stray bul lets kept them outside of the row of trees. We do not remember the names of the two combatants. One was a col onel, the other a judge; both high in life. They met near the middle between the two rows of trees, each with his best friend, or second, as he was called. They shook hands in a friendly way. Then each second examined the opposing combatant, to see ; whether or not he had on a metalic bullet and sword-proof plate under his shirt. On each side, inside of the trees, was a bullet-proof screen for -each of the seconds to stand in during the shoot ing match. In front of each screen lay two single-barreled flint-lock pis tols and two swords. They then cast lots, by throwing up a chip, with bark on one side, to decide which com batant should have the first choice of weapons. One second threw up the chip and while in the air the t other called out which side up the chip would land. The one who won stepped and chose his pistol and sword and the other followed. They then took their places back to back and at a certain signal marched from each other a cer tain number of trees and halted. An other signal was given and both turned and fired as quick as possible. Both missed. Their pistols were thrown down and they met each other with drawn sword in hand. After - two or three parries one of their swords broke at the. hilt. The combatant threw down the hilt and asked for an other sword. But his antagonist stepped forward and thrust him through and left him to die with nis sword piercing his body. The football code of , honor is a little better, but productive of no more good. Let those who have graduated play, but the un-der-graduates have no room or time, either mentally or physically, to en gage in such exciting sports shovel ling dirt is a much healthier exercise. There is nothing in a ball game to be made use of in afterlife. Such a gath ering brings out all pick-pockets, gamblers , and pimps. Surely such a crowd is not elevating. We will confine modern world won ders to the nineteenth century, and the most of them are discoveries and in ventions, of utility. iThere are, tem ples, bridges, acquiducts, tunnels and monuments much more wonderful to day than any constructed in ancient times, but the more expanded useful wonders are more wonderful. The greatest wonder and the most useful of the present century is the railroad wonder. Up to 1830 the interior of America and the interior of all other countries was of little value. The most of the-population of the world were dwelling in sight, or near by nav igable water, either river, lake or ocean. When the dividing line between the United States and Canada was lo cated on paper the treaty provided that the Canadians should have free use of the Mississippi for commercial purposes. It was then supposed that the head waters of that river was far to the north of the line. A navigable river was of great value in those days. Railroads have opened commerce across desert and plain and over hills and mountains. Turnpikes, canals and rivers have gone out of use in a great measure. The interior of continents now are nearly as valuable" as the ex terior. Railroads embody steam loco motion and steel track. The second world wonder is . the navigation of water by steam.. The power of steam had been , discovered in the previous century, but its appli cation to propelling ships and haul ing railroad cars was reserved for the nineteenth century. Sails . were used, but in rivers oars and push poles were used unless the wind was favorable. Railroads have served to level up con tinents and steam ships have leveled up the world in a great measure. The third world wonder is the use and application of electric power." The telegraph, telephone, electric lights and electric motors, all are great won ders. They had learned many things about electricity, but nothing very wonderful. Franklin discovered that electricity caused lightning and thun der. He did not discover that it was the red hot air that made the light and that it was the air slapping; to gether behind that made the thunder. A wonderful power. But its develop ment has come so gradually that it does not seem so much of a wonder. And what is yet to come may be still more wonderful. ' f ; The fourth world wonder is the dis covery of new and more powerful ex plosives and the invention of guns that bring them into use. The imple ments of war in ancient times were swords, spears, bows and slings. "Gun powder was discovered two or three centuries ago. Guns at first had to be touched off with a brand of fire. Flint locks soon followed and then the per cussion lock. The percussion discov ery is almost as much of a wonder as that of dynamite or smokeless powder. Fire arms of all descriptions are won ders compared with those of a hun dred years ago. The fifth wonder is friction matches. We well remember of having been sent many a time to our nearest neigh bor, nearly halt a mile away, to bor row fire, when ours had gone out. They had two methods of starting fire, one with flint and steel and the other a, fire pump. Punk was placed under the flint and the flint hit with the steel, the sparks dropping onto the punk would set it on fire. The fire pump consisted of a cylinder, open at one end with a close fitting piston. A piece of punk-would be put into the cylinder, the piston forced quickly down, - and quickly withdrawn, the punk would be on fire. Concentrating the air, concentrated the heat, thus firing the punk. - . Inventions have brought forth many a wonder In machinery of all kinds. Improved machinery is doing more' than three-fourths of all the labor in every enlightened country. THE NAVAL CULPRIT HEADACHE E33ilEB 25 Dms 2 Sc. At all drug atom. The Government Witnesses Prove That It Was Sampson A. Miserable Scheme to Degrade Schley Exposed Washington, D. C, Oct. 12, 1901. Editor Independent: Washington is about to resume its normal condition. Tomorrow, the period of mourning for the late lamented president expires, and the city will shed its sombre hue, its black bunting, and the flags will fly once more at - the top-mast. Ofil cially, the mourning is over and the president will launch forth in. a way that is expected of him. The White house receptions will hardly be held until after the opening of the new year, when Miss Alice Roosevelt, the president's eldest daughter, will make her debut into society. Politically, the city is practically dead. Not a sound rises from the arena, where often are enacted great things, save, the demands for apol ogies rendered necessary by the im petuousity of Captain Lemly, judge advocate of- the Schley court of in quiry. The all-absorbing topic in t the newspapers is the Schley controversy. All week, they have been filled with evidence hashed " and re-hashed, and until . today not a point of real im portance has been brought out in the case. We have seen young naval offi cers, summoned as witnesses in the case by the department, disregard all previous maps and charts, and assert that what they said was correct. They have been told that the. log and stado meter reported things different from their statements and when confrontel with these facts, they have still clung to their original statements, and as serted that the stadometers were wrong, because of the fact that they were operated by enlisted men and not by naval graduates. This is some more of Admiral Sampson's kind of logic. But it is just what . should be expected, from department witnesses, for the department itself has often been confronted with " figures an d facts , and there only answer has-been that all except their own. figures lie. The young officers are learning. Verily! At last one point? of the prosecution has. been discovered and dismissed. The fact is that up .to the moment that Schley left Cienfuegos, he had not re ceived a single word of positive infor mation as to the whereabouts of Cer vera's fleet. Sampson had the infor mation on the 19th day of May ac cording to Chief Signal Officer Allen's report, and the admiral's spokesmen admit that the news was positively confirmed on the following day. Yet Sampson did not convey this fact to Schley by any of his messengers until a whole week' had elapsed. It has been proven .by the cross-examination of Lieutenant Commander Staunton that quite a number of officers knew of it, but that not a single word had been told Admiral Schley. Even the dis patches of Sampson sent on May 21 (two days after he had received his information) simply told him that the enemy was probably at Santiago, and left it to Schley to find out whether or not they were at Cienfuegos. This Schley could have, done .at least three days before had Sampson provided him with the code of signals agreed upon for communicating with the Cubans. As it really was, the information seems to have been given to every other offi-, cer, save Schley and the commander of his flagship, while at the same time he was charged to be sure that the enemy was not in Cienfuegos, Samp son withholding the only method Schley could have had to secure the in formation. All. of this time Sampson knew . that the enemy was not there, and was having Schley waste time on a fool's errand. Looks queer eh? .Now this is what Sampson termed "reprehensible conduct" -conduct for which an examination has shown that Sampson was entirely responsible. Schley was left before Cienfuegos, un der Sampson's orders, to make sure that Cervera was not inside the har bor; he knew nothing of the signals agreed upon by Sampson; he knew nothing of the enemy's presence at Santiago, vessels came in and out with officers on board, who knew the signal code, and who knew where Cervera really was; officers wig-wagged to other officers, who in turn did not no tify Schley; . other officers took it for granted that Schley should have known thus the whole roaring farce was enacted. There seems to be no doubt as to the. intentions of those connected to keep Schley in utter ignorance of the enemy's presence. Yet Schley went on record charged with "reprehensible condi.ct" by the man entirely responsible for the delay. These facts have been brought out by Attorney Isador Rayner, counsel for Schley, from the most unwilling sources. Exorted from witnesses like Captain Chadwick, who insisted that he should be allowed to write his an swers and then be allowed - to read them before answering the attorney's questions. The court promptly stopped this. Not a single witness . fT the doense. has been examined, and yet ail has been wrung from the "dopait ment's witnesses" that the ;nan cUai g ing "reprehensible conduct" was most responsible for the delays. Vill the judge advocate be able .o g-H such valuable information froai the wit nesses fa.vorable to Admiral Schiey? ' But there has been a serlo-ccmic side to .-the whole case and that the actions of Captain Lemly, judge advo cate of the court." He has been a verit- J able "Sir John Fallstaft" during the PERUHA CURES CATARRH OF KIDtlEVS EVERY TIME lilfe M MM er - jut n it ii Ik-." illll DANGEROUS KIDIIEY DISEASES CURED Peruna Creating a National Sensation in the Cure of Chronic Ailments of the Kidneys. Mr. John "Vance, of Hartford City, Ind. says: My kidney trouble is much better. I have improved so much that everybody wants to know what medi cine I am using. I recommend Peruna to everybody and some have commenced to use it. The folks all say that if Dr. Hart man's medicine cures me it must be great." , Mr. J. Brake, of Petrolea, Ontario, Canada, writes: -t "Four years ago I had a severe attack of Bright1 's Dis ease, which brought me so low the doctor said nothing wore could be done tor me. t began to to take Peruna and Manatin, and in three months I was a well man, and have continued so ever since." At the appearance of the first symptom of kidney trouble, Peruna should be taken. This remedy strikes at once the very root of the disease. , It at once re lieves the catarrhal kidneys of the stag nant blood, preventing the" escape of serum from the blood. Pe runa stimu lates the kid neys to ex crete from the blood the poison, and thus pre vents the convulsions which are 6ure to follow if the poisons are allowed to remain. It gives great vigor to the heart's action and digestive system, both of which are apt to. fail rapidly in this disease. . Peruna cures catarrh of the kidneys simply because It cures catarrh when ever located. A book on catarrh, written by Dr. Hartman,-will:be cent free to any ad dress by The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus, Ohio. LOOKS AHEAD FOR ViAH .!L-, ri Russia's Great . Preparations oc Land and Sea whole procedure. This fat tn?n has afforded so much real entertainment that it would seem inappreciatfve to refer to him harshly. But with t all his desire to aid Sampson has made him, in his enthusiasm appear to have stepped a little outside the bounds of propriety. However, his enthusiasm, humorous as it may seem, he has cer tainly misunderstood his" bearing as judge advocate of the court. The na val regulations provide: "He summons witnesses, administers oaths or affirmation, records the pro ceedings of the court, puts all ques tions to the several witnesses, and "(e) To assist the court in syste matizing the information it may re ceive, to minute in the proceedings the opinion of the court, if called for, and to render to the court such as sistance as may enable it to lay all the circumstances of the case before the convening authority in a clear and ex plicit manner. "Also to assist in authenticating the proceedings." Lemly has not only disregarded his duty, but has shown himself to be a Sampson partisan pure and simple. A verdict from the court is not ex pected for quite a while. Schley has reached the age limit and has been retired from active service, but this will in no way effect the continuance of the court or the result of the ver dict. It can be plainly seen as the case progresses that partisanship of the navy department. The feeling is that a verdict in favor of Schley would be a distinct rebuke 'to the administration and would result in the immediate resignation of Secretary Long from the cabinet. But whatever the re sult, the case has proven conclusively that the dispatches have been tamp ered with by government officials, and an examination by congress into the navy department and its actions, will undoubtedly result. WILLIAM W. BRIDE. hdoubt if many "anarchists could be found having sufficient faith in the practicability of their .teachings to emi grate voluntarily, to an anarchist Utopia in preference to remaining un der the protection" of the stars and stripes.-1 '" '.. V. . Here let them work out their own salvation or destruction and demon state to a doubting world that man can live In peace and safety without the restraints of governments. ' Let him who is the stronger take the wife and chattels of .his . weaker neigh bor, if he desire them, and let the lat ter suffer the consequences If he at tempt to resist. , ' : How long would it be before neces sity, that mother .of all invention, would compel them in sheer self-pro- tection to form some sort of government?- ""' ' ' ' " . - ' ' If out of this chaos it should be the happy lot of any to survive, we be lieve that their unreasonable anarch istic ideas would be forever eradicated from their minds and that they would be in" a fair way to become eligible for United States citizenship. .j ... w. . . .. D. J. WEISS. College View, Neb. : Practical Education During the last few years a great change, has taken place in the attitude of the farmer upon the subject of agri cultural education. This has been due to two causes. First, agricultural edu cation has become much more practi cal as the schools have realized that the farm boy needed to know how to cultivate the soil, to care for an orch ard, or to feed cattle in the best man ner, or to do some other particular thing. If the farm boy can be taught how to breed or select u good steer for feeding purposes and how to feed him at greater profit, this surely makes his business more profitable. If he can be taught how to handle animals to pre vent disease or to cure the simpler and more common diseases of animals, this certainly is a practical knr education which should be added to a knowledge of arithmetic, geography, etc. Write to the University of Ne braska for information. An. Anarchist Utopia Editor Independent: The anarch ists should be given a chance to carry their teachings Into practice. Let an island of suitable size, fertile soil and favorable climate in our Oriental pos sessions be ret apart for them and let them be deported thither together with all their worldly effects. Let ev erything be done for the undertaking, only let them be guarded in their wave-washed home by some of Uncle Sam's - swift cruisers so that . society will . not be in further danger from the assaults of these disciples of the theory that every - man should be let alone "to do that which is right in his own eyes." It would probably be necessary , to deport them, against their will for we , There are Others This fall republicans feel they can vote a straight ticket with good grace. They'll put a cross in the ring after the word "re publican" at the top of the ballot and let it go at that. Plattsmouth News. Yes, Indeed; and populists will put a cross in the circle after the words "people's independent;" and democrats will put a cross in the circle after the word "democrat!" and prohibitionists will put a cross in the circle after the word "prohibition;" and the socialists will put but it's hard to say what they will do, because Doc Aley is de termined that the Debsites shan't adopt that arm and hammer brand. And when all these crosses are counted it will be found that Conrad Hollenbeck, Fred G. Hawxby and J. H. Bayston lead all the rest. Paragraphic Punches. Denver News: Sir Thomas LIpton should "receive that peerage anyway. Any Englishman who can give a Yan kee as close a chase as that is entitled to the hest the king can give him. New York World: With Kipling and Richard Harding Davis" both against the British war office the Boers can afford "to raise the staggering price. St. Paul Globe: And now Mark Hanna will pose as the sphinx. This is a- new role, - but Mark is versatile. When the matter of trusts is under discussion the role of sphinx will be come Mark well.- - Pittsburg Dispatch: Furthermore, they, have not introduced any evi dence to prove that the Spanish fleet got away. And This Is War. According to British official returns just published in London, 2,345 deaths occurred in the month of August alone among the -137,619 Boer people held in the "concentration camps" in South Africa. This is a death rate of not far from 200 per 1,000 per annum. Ten times the normal average death rate of civ ilized countries! Nearly one-fifth of all Kitchener's "feconcentrados" dying every yearT And yet the same Britons who held up their hands in horror at Weylerlsm in Cuba read with complac ency these appalling "records of the rapid "extermination of Boer non-combatants.- And of August's 2,345 victims 1,878 were children. - And this is "war!" New , York World - BHIPYAED3 ABE ALL BUST) Fttfhtlnsr fltrensrth, ot the Empire o : IfieJtolna la Detnw Coastsuntlr tm ereaaed Soenta CXnah With Japma ' and Propose! to De Xle&dr For Any BmsrssBeri . "J The Russians are getting ready f oi an emergency, which means a war wltb Japan, and are increasing their navj and putting their army in fighting con dltion with great energy and at great expense, says William E. Curtis, writ lng from SW Petersburg to the Chicago Record-Herald. The army has recently been completely reorganized and pro vided, with new equipments. The Rus sians unloaded 1,000,000 rifles of obso lete pattern upon the Chinese govern ment and substituted new ones of long range, high power and. small caliber. Those were Russian guns which thf Boxers fired at the. British embassy la Peking during the recent siege. In numbers and fighting strength ths armies of Russia and Japan are very far apart, but It must be considered that the battleground will be on tht other side of the world from St. Pe tersburg, where Japan will be at home. Last year (1000) the Japanese army on a peace footing consisted of 87,847 men, while that of Russia numbered 1,264,. 200, always under arms. The first re serve of Japan was 76,000 men and that of Russia 760,000. The second reserve of Japan was 238,000 men, making a to tal force on war footing of 402,274. Ths second reserve of Russia numbered 1,476,000, making a total of 3,500.000 soldiers at the command of the czar. But both armies have been 'reorganized since these statistics were issued. The same difference exists in the navy, Russia in 1900 having 370 vessels In commission and Japan 171, Russia 5,073 guns, Japan 1,471. Russia has twenty-two first class bat ships, twelve armored cruisers, eleven first class cruisers and 106 torpedo boats. Japan has six first class battle ships, two armored cruisers, five first class cruisers and sixty-six torpedo boats. But these comparisons are not so significant when the geographical situation Is considered. The lowest estimate of the peace strength of the Russian army under the present reorganization since Jan. 1 Is 42,000 officers and 1,100,000 men and the war footing of 75,000 officers and 4,500,000 men, which is a million more than the present numerical strength. When the vessels now under construc tlon are completed, the Russian navy will be increased by 113 ships of all classes, including twenty-four battle ships, twenty-two cruisers, forty-one gunboats, thirty-five torpedo boat de stroyers and forty-five torpedo boats. Fifty submarine boats are also under construction, but they are experimen tal. The Russian navy estimates are enor mous and show a continuous Increase. The following statement shows tho ap propriations for the last ten years in rubles, which are worth 55 cents in our money: Bubles. RublMk 1S92.... 47,081,233 1807.......... 69, 908. le 9 1523 49,892,893 1S9S 68,056.417 1894 62,492,803 1899 87,834,700 1805 65,100,000 ' 1900 87,546,700 1896 67.966,600 1901 97,097,594 Also a special appropriation ot 45,000,000 rubles to be spread over a period ot seven years. This makes a total of 602,700,178 ru bles, or $330,000,000 In American mon ey. The Russians are not only keeping their own shipyards busy, but are building vessels In France, Italy, Ger many, Denmark and the United States. The Shah as a Connoisseur. ! During the shah's last stay In Paris he paid a visit to the Gobelins, where he showed a most appreciative interest In all that he saw. Before a remarkably fine Persian carpet, given to the muse urn by M. Goupll, he remained for some time, interpreting for himself the sym bolic allusions thickly embroidered up on it, which, however, he declined to translate Into French. A few days since the mystery was cleared up. There ar rived In Paris the manager of the Im perial carpet weaving factory in Tehe ran, who stated that he bad been com missioned by tbe shah to study tho methods of manufacture in use at the Gobelins. - To him the director applied for a solution of the legends of the car pet which bad so captivated the shah. Thereupon the Persian began to read out a running translation: 'A carpet for the ruler of the earth; superiority for his feet; how beautiful It is; it is In his cabinet and knows his secrets. It Is pleasant as paradise and brighter than the academy of Marl (a Persian paint er), for it contains all the colors of Chi na. The nightingale coming to perch upon it cannot tear itself away from its loveliness. Neither winter nor au tumn can ever change the tints of this carpet." This is a good deal for one carpet to signify, but critics say that it is justified in holding a high opinion of Itself. It is about three centuries old. Will Attend Yale Celebration. The Yale Alumni Weekly says: "Mrs. Rowena Eakin Overall, the firstborn of the class of '50, and Miss Caroline Hale Stelnman of Lancaster. Pa., the youn gest child, will be present at the wom en's "reunion Incidental to the forty fifth . anniversary celebration, of the class In October. .Miss Steinman Is a daughter of A. J. Stelnman, president of the Penn Iron company, and Mrs. Overall, the first of her sex to receive the silver cup at Yale. Is a daughter of the late Emmet Eakin of Murf reesboro, 3,enn."':i..u,. ' 't;. v.-,