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8 THE NEBRASKA II7DEPEITDENT Sopt. 11,1902 Editorial Notes. WHEN OTHERS FAIL CONSULT As soon as the republicans of the south realized that the negro had been eliminated from the voting population, they discovered that they had no fur ther use for him. They excluded ev ery black man from their state con vention In North Carolina and they are going to do the same thing in Ala bama. Their love tor the negro was a love of the offices that negro votes secured for them. For the first time in nearly fifty years the regular republican nominee for governor in Vermont failed to re ceive a majority and the contest under the laws of that state will have; to be decided by' the legislature. Some other of the New England states are In pret ty much the same fix, or will be when their elections occur. No wonder that Teddy ordered his whole cabinet up there to help stay the tide. There was never a greater outrag? on American workmen than that deal that allows all the great consumers of tin to get it from Wales without pay ing any duty upon it. It has resulted In throwing thousands of American wage-earners out of employment and adding hundreds of thousands of dol lars to the profits of Rockefeller and the meat trust. That is one of the spe cial privileges that Is worth having. It is announced that President Rposevelt has made a -promise to the anti-imperialist leaders, among them ex-Governor Boutwell of Massachu setts, Carl Schurz and Herbert Welsh, that he will give independence to the Filipinos as soon as government can be established on the islands, and the anti-imperialists will now drop their agitation and all vote 'er straight. If Theodore Roosevelt made a specific promise to. that effect, The Indepen dent, believes that he will do his best to keep it, but can he? Beveridge will hardly let him. ' It. would require ac tion . by the senate and it has been shown that the senate was too much for Theodore Roosevelt on several occasions. SEARLES & SEARLES Main Office Lincoln, Heb. SPEC1ALISTS IN J r to u, Chronic and ' Private UlicaMii WEAK MEN All prirste diseases and dis order s o! men. Tretm nt ly mail ;conultauonr. hYn!li tsurvU forllfe. All forms iemtl weak titft nd Diseases of Wo men.. , . v , - ..- Kfu.lt. n tn Pt;rar.(B tn r.urt all C9Sefl Ctirabl oitenr- tiiro-t. t.';e' t. ftmrjacu, liver, blood, shinsi:d ktdn-.y 'llneust. Lot AUnbood, Night Imliuioni, ' H Urocele. Varicocele, Gonorrhea,' Gieet. VIM, 1 ftnia r.ud R eta: Ulcers, Diabetes acd Eikhtt Disease, -. 810O.00 for a case of CAT I.Kjr. KUfclTHA i I Mil, rYSPBFIA ov &i i-" fcS iila we citioot cart, If curable. OFlUlUlB C; btSHIiaettiod witoout pam or eatt'iijr. CwaStstion i ilk.Hi. Treatment by ami Call, or iidlrcs rriti stta? J Mala OKlca Ors. Sinrles & Ssarios I RSKS.a,S5. LUsCOLIS NBBRASKA pel LiQCliiCi! figures to sustain his assumption that an increase In wages would destroy the business. Having previously an nounced that he is God's vicegerent on earth he expects the public to accept his statements as God's truth without asking a question. Baer "let the cat out of the bag" in another statement he made during the week. He said that the anthracite trust. could not market more thin 60 per cent of. its output of coal. ..That is positive proof of the correctness of the position all the time maintained by The Independent that the trust was making immense sums out of the. strike. : The object was to Increase the price of coal and sell the immense stock on. hand.. It would be a tery easy matter for any one of the great dailies of New York to obtain proof of the amount on-hand and designate the places where it Is stored, but they prefer to fill up their space with pic tures of women, columns of criminal news and details of divorce trials. Wheat is selling from 38 to 49 cents at the elevators along the. railroads In northern Nebraska . and-, the , mullet heads don't know what is-the matter. The propriety of the president allow ing his son to be taken in a special car by a railroad president on a hunting expedition may well be doubted. It seems that the farmers resented it and refused to allow the party to come on their fields. . They put up notices to "keep out or look out for buckshot." So the private car of President H. R. McCullough and. Marvin Hughitt had to move on. in the hope of finding a less hostile country. , If . Roosevelt cared a particle for the common proprieties of life he would never have allowed a railroad president to take his son. and make a special trip in a private car over thousands of miles on a hunting trip. Somebody has to pay the costs of the expensive trip. Who is it? The railroad president or the people who pay fare and freight over his road? The Independent from this time on will be an ardent advocate of "reor ganization" of the democratic party. It is fully convinced that that party can never succeed until it is "reorganized" in such a way that the Hills, Whit neys, Hewitts and McLeans can no longer pose before the public as demo crats. The whole crowd 'should be publicly expelled. That they, are not democrats is shown by the action of the McLean followers in Ohio. They could muster but three votes in the democratic state committee and even a smaller percentage in the convention. Now they are openly boasting that they are going to vote the republican ticket because the convention put some anti-republican doctrines into the plat form. The whole crowd has voted the republican ticket for the last six years. What right have they to call them selves democrats? Heave them over the transom. Out in Colorado it seems that very often the office seeks the woman, and especially has that been the case in re gard to Mrs. Grenfell, who has for four "years been state superintendent of public schools. She has done such efficient work that it has received na tional recognition. She has been elected vice president of the National Educational association of which President Eliot of Harvard is president and it was the first time that that office ever sought a woman. At the last election in Colorado she ran 5,000 ahead of the state fusion ticket and even 2,000 ahead of the Bryan electors. So efficient has her work been there is a probability that she will have no op ponent at the coming election, all par ties nominating her. She was given her start in political life by two populist county commissioners who appointed her as a county superintendent to fill a vacancy. Hardy's Column If but one man on the state fusion ticket is to be elected this fall, that man should be the one who was once elected governor, but counted and courted out by republican politicians and rspublican judges, and that man is John Powers. If elected this time a majority of the supreme court will stand for justice and right. President Roosevelt will not be nominated for president; , it will be some dark horse who has not opened his mouth, just as it was with Polk, Pierce, Buchanan and Garfield. What the leading republicans want will be kept hid just as the stoppage of sil ver coinage was. - g'Jd,-and" that was the sale of blood ed stock. There should he at least three auction circles, one for cattle, one for hogs and one for poultry. Stock can be improved that way better than by . only granting premiums. Stock can be taken from the auction circle and kept on exhibit till the close of the fair. he state farm: should be made to produce the best blooded stock in the state and it. should be distributed among the farmers of the 6tate at a reasonable price.' A very little care can bring out the best breeds of poul try next , year and let It be sold at the state fair. ' - We have already had ten days or more of splendid, corn weather, dry, warm and windy. Last year we whined for wet growing weather. So it gees. A little frost now that only nips the leaves will hurry up the late corn. The most of the corn is now out of the way of wind, rain, frost or snow: President Roosevelt thinks that to check the trusts would be like trying to ; dam,r.thev . Mississippi river. We may not $e a6le tip dam the river, but we cati make the .water carry itself to the gulf, so we can take off the tariff and make the trusts carry themselves to. market. The Mississippi gives ev erybody water at. the same price; the trusts make us pay forty per cent more than the people of Europe pay for the same goods of the same American trusts. The official investigation . of Clem Deaver's famous Indian land- sale takes place at O'Neill, September 15. The .peculiar doings of several repub licans will be looked into. It seems that the whole republican outfit in Ne braska is so abominably corrupt that they can't transact an ordinary bit of business wlfhout attempting a steal of some kind. Thre is an immense amount of grumbling done by the farmers at the price they are g-ettiner.for their wheat. They should adopt the trust ' methods and demand pay for four bushels of whet every, time they deliver, one bushel. The trusts demand and col lect Interest on four dollars for every dollar that they invest. The banks have been jtetpns: interest on ten dol lars for every dollar that they, ever Invested. Suppose we even things up and see if we don't get along better. Eleven millions more money was is sued to the national banks last week, and the comptroller, announces, that hundreds , of new banks with small capital are being oreanized . all oyer the country 100 in the state of Texas alone. . All that means more checks, more credit and more gas in the bal loon. , - The Nile dam Is nearly done. It will be completed by January. It is one muie ana a auarter long ana wiu i irrigate thousands of 4 acres of waste land and two crops a year will re sult. The cotton crop will be multi plied by ten. The question of difference between the co?vl strikers and the mine owners is that the working" day shall be re duced to eight hours Instead of ten and the pay the same as for ten hours, and that t'-e union must be recog nized.. That recognition means that the owners of the mines must hot hire or dismiss a man without the consent of the union . ' More and more evidence ibrought to lieht that the republican manage ment of our, state government was one continuous string of corruption. The light between Savage and Rose water brings out the evidence that piles of state money were lost and the losses handed over from one treas urer to another as current funds. It may come out yet how much loss was handed down to .Bartley in that pri vate ctear box. tf the pop party had never been born. Bartley's losses would have been added and handed down. We would not recommend a boy to a-o to a military or naval school or en list In the regular standing army. Coming out of the standing army the man generally stands still and seldom sroes to work with band or head. . It is a splendid machine to make lazy men. " Grape-nut for health food, adver tised f.o charmingly, is nothing more than bread sliced up. baked a second time brown, then pounded or ground. My mother, seventy years ago, used to bake brown' crusts of stale bread, then pound it In a salt mortar and let us eat It in milk. There were no grape vines within forty miles. We called it ru?k and milk. The Commoner never has been charged with retting a subsidy from trusts, corporations or banks, neither has Bryan himself been charged with drawing his t.en-dollsr bills from the hih-p'otected manufacturers. When he speaks on a fair Ground and the rt receipts are doubled the extra money does" not come from the mil lionaires, but fmm those who get what they pay for. H. W. HARDY. News of the Week Plain eating men need not worry about the cost of living in Nebraska." Luxury eaters may complain a little. Wheat, 'potatoes and fruit are at low water mark and western coal and warm clothing are also away down. Corn is; not going to cost more than half a3much as last, year. , We are glad the meat trusts mak the east pay more than reasonable prices be cause the tariff has made the west pay "unreasonable prices for everything they, produce. Justice and trusts make' one hand wash the other lor once in a hundred years. The thing of greatest interest that happened during the week was the statement of President Roosevelt that he would, not penalize the trusts, but reward them. Why Is it not just as fashio-bleto .wear a "short dress as it. is. to wear a long one and then hold it up? ' There was one thing at the state fair that was (, new, but grand and 2 The last statement made by Baer that "you cannot arbitrate a question of wages when an increase will de-: stroy the business and . a decrease would be unacceptable to the work inrrmen." is one sof those Godly lies with which hypocrites have defended themselves throurrh all the ages. In the '.first pRce he assumes a fact as urdlj-pute-A which the other side, and almost the .whole population deny, that an Increase in-wages would de stroy the business, and tells . another Infamous falsehood when he says that a dwfaso in waees would not be ac cepted by the workingmen. They have agreed to accept the decision of an ar bitration board and If that board should decrease wa?es. they would abidQ'.by the -decision. Baer makes no argument and produces . no facts or . The body of -Bartholin, the degen erate who . murdered his. mother: and sweetheart was found on - a wheat shock in Iowa -, where he committed suicide by '. shooting himself -through the head. The. way, the . great .dailies handle the criminal news has. had. a dempnstration, in their report; of this which certainly must attract attention. The , simple fact stated above was spread out in the- Chicago Kecord Herald over a whole page of seven columns. From the trash of the great dailies, good Lord deliver us. '. Some years ago what were called "Police Gazettes" were denounced by almost the whole of society, but the Chicago dallies during the last week, and especially their. Sunday editions, had more criminal matter than the old Police Gazettes could publish in a whole year. They were simply abominable. New England -is a fair example of what exorbitant tariffs will do for a country. ' There is where the tariff was born, ,bred: and then expanded, to its present proportions, and Massachu setts,, and the most of New England outside of the cities, is a barren and desolate wilderness, where a peculiar people linger in ever decreasing num bers and make their living by keeping summer boarders. This season of rain and cold has ' nearly destroyed that business and the papers say great dis tress will be the result. For many years they insisted that they could get rich by taxation. The result has. been that a very few are enormously rich and the remainder, when compared with their illustrious forefathers are simply degenerates. The mullet head can turn on his axis ouicker than a fly-wheel on an engine. When The Independent, and for that matter the whole populist party, said, in discussing the sophistries of the republican newspapers concerning the foreign trade, that "you can't forever A Good Hearted ' ' -Man, or in other words, men with good sound hearts, are not very numerous. The incrc a s i n g number of sudden deaths from heart disease daily chron icled by the ress, is proof of the alarm? ing preva lence of this dangerous complaint, and as no one can foretell iust when a fatal collapse J' A Kreamer. will occur, the danger of neg lecting treatment is certainly a. very risky matter. If you are short of breath, hare pain in left side, smothering spells, pal pitation, unable to lie on side, especially the left, you should begin taking mu' Heart Cure. J. A. Krwner of Arkansas City, Kans says: "My htart wai so bdd it was im possible form to lie down, and I icould neither slee j nor rest. My decline was rapid, and 1 realized I mas get belp soon. I was advised to try Dr. MileaV Heart Cure, which I did, and candidiy believe it saved nay lc" ! Dr. Mile' R.endies are mold br all drtsf ! luarantae. Dr. Mites Medtoad Co., Elkhart, Ind. I it Children's Hats and Gaps IN TWO LOTS. Lot 1 worth 25c, at each 1 7c Lot 2 4O nnd sOc value, at . 29c 4) if u AND 917-921 0, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. 3 Specials in Cotton Blankets 11-4 Cotton Fleeced Blank, ets, $1.00 value, at ... . 89c 1 1-4 Cotton Fleeced Blank- - ets, $1. 35 value, at . . $i,22 2 1-4 Cotton Fleeced, Ex: tra heavy Blankets $2.oo value, at . . . . . . . . $1.69 """ I;' . i i .4 Enormous Purchasing and Extensive Preparations for Fall, coupled with incomparable values and unrivalled qualities - Jackets, Capes, Furs Collarettes & Boas . . Wbigh "we are offering at special prices for this week.'., . . " 27 :,incn Jackets at $3 8. 84 50, $5 40' $8;75i $8 10. $9 00, $11 '25. and- $13 50 $13 5()h 0atS $1 35' $1125, and They come in Black, Brown, Oxford, Castor, BJue and Red. Go iarettes ano noas. Mf Now; and Saye Money. ' Sheard Scarfs and Boas trimmed with tails at 89c, $1.57 $1.95 and $2.25. Sa ble and hare laois "at $2.43. Electric Seal Boas at $3.15. St Martin, Muskrat, Martin Opp, in scarfs and . hoas, at $3.37, $3.60 and Racfobri and Martin scarfs at. ........ . $3 X5 Bear, "extra, long scarf. at. .......... . $7 20 Blue Racooti 'and dyed. Martin....... . $9 OO Marticf boas trimmed with 8 tails.... $10 50 St. MartifcYfcXtra long scarf.. ......... :$10 50 IsabaUa muff -and scarf, per set $19 80 ? :i2!.GHILDRENS' AND MISSES' p S Jackets and Coats dildren's "boats from" $2.95 to. ...... . Misses jackets and long coats from -.$3.95 to. $6 75 $8 10 Underwear We are ready to serve you with any thing in underwear from light fall weight to the very warmest fleece-Kedr-yotirwon't have to go south to keep warm. Child's ribbed vests and pants, good quality, size 16, at 10c; rise 2c each size. . , ' Child's fleece-lined vests and pants superior finish, size 16, 15c; rise 2Y2c each 'size. Ladles' jersey ribbed vests and pants, in white or silver gray, regular price 25c, this week each 50c ladies' fine jersey ribbed vests and " paints, ecru only, sale price.". ...... 40c "camels hair fleeced shirts and - drawers, sale price, each 50c ' men's 1 fleece-lined silver gray . .. shirts . and drawers, sale price .... 22c 43c 34c 43c Outing Flannels UNDER PRICE 6c outing flannels in dark at per yd. . 7c outing flannels, light and dark, at, per yard 10c outing flannels, light and dark, at, per yard ; 11c outing flannels, light and dark, at, per yard 4k0 5c 8?4o' 9o School hoe Sale RIGHT NOW, WHEN THE CHIL DREN ALL WANT SCHOOL SHOES, WE ARE GOING TO HOLD A : : : SIX-DAY SPECIAL SHOE SALE. We have just received a big lot of boys' misses' and children's school shoes that are correct in every detail, and adapted to the rough and tumble wear of school life. ; Child's plump kid button shoe, sizes 6 to 8, regular 60c, this sale Child's navy and kangaroo calf lace and button shoes, sizes 6 to 8, price 75c and SOc, this sale, pair. . Children's lace and button shoes, good , quality of kid and kangaroo calf stock, (sizes 8' to ll.-'price 90c and $1.00, this sale, per pair, . . . ... . . . Children's kid and kangaroo calf lace and button shoes, sizes 8 to 11, price, $1.25, this sale, per pair.... Misses' kid and kangaroo calf lace and button shoes, sizes 11 to 2, price $1.35, this sale. . '. Misses' shoes, lace, and button, vici kid, stock and patent tips, sizes 11 to 2, price $1.50, this sale, per pair A finer grade misses' lace shoes, fine selectfon of vici kid, solid soles, sizes 11 to 2, price $1.75 and $1.85 thi3 sale, per pair.'...... Misses' kid lace shoes, welt sole, a splendid shoe for wear, sells reg ular for $2.00, this sale.. 1 48o 67c 79o 97c $1 18 $1 30 $1'49 V. $1 68 35c. pants, 27c; 60c quality 48o $1.00 quality, 83c; $1.25 quality at. OS Corset Covers Hemstitched front, lace trimmed, hem- stitched yoke and embroidery trimmed, lace front : 35c value, 27c; 50c value, 43c; 60c Value, $48c; $1.00 value........... ....79c ChetnUe Embroidered and lace trimmed and plain. " ' 30c value, $24c; 50c value, $39c; 75c value 59o jwm k - i . ; Dress Goods . AT Economy Prices. lGc 21c Youths' and Boys' Shoes Youths' satin calf bals, all solid, sizes 13 to 2, price $1.35, this sale $1 19 Same as above in sizes 2 to 5, reg ular price $1.50, this sale Youths' kangaroo calf and vici bals, .sizes 12 to 2, regular $1.50, this sale .'. The same in boys' sizes 2 to 5, price $1.75, this sale Try a pair of our Richardson seam less shoes for boys, grain yand badger calf leather, solid as a rock, wear like iron. $1 35 $1 28 $1 58 SPECIALS IN luslin Underwear Gowns 75c gowns, tucked and lace yoke, fine muslin, special price 63 C $1.00 gowns, tucked and embroidered yokes, fine muslin, special price. 85c $1.25 cambric gowns, lace or em broidery trimmed, sale price, each 98c 50c skirts, Skirts with plain hemstitched ruffle, sale price. 43c 75c skirts with embroidered ruffle, sale price $1.00 skirts, with either lace or em broidered ruftte, sale price. 63c 85c Pants With plain hemstitched ruffles, lace or embroidery trimmed. TV 38-inch Cassimere, black only, reg ular 25c, sale price . 38-inch Serge, extra good quality, In gray, brown . and , black, regular 25c, sale price. ... 1 36-inch Granite Poplin, in assorted shades, Ucht and dark, blue, car . dinal, brown, gray, old rose and black, regular price 30c, sale price 26c 38 and 40-inch Brocaded Alpaca, black only, regular 35c and 40c, sale price, per yard............. 28o 40-inch Mohair or Alpaca, In three shades only, brown, blue and gray, regular 50c, sale price 43o 36-inch Melrose, in a very fine quality, comes in assorted colors, gray, tan, green, blue, cardinal and black, regular 50c, - sale price, per yard ...... 44c 50-inch Mohair, 38-inch satin Soliel, 42-inch Granite, 38-inch Satin Ver bor, black only, worth 85c and 90c, now on sale at, per yard........ 73o 38-inch Satin Venetian, 42-inch Mel rose, black only, regular price $1, on sale at........ 89c -A FEW- Specials in Suitings 38-inch Home Spun, Coverts and Hop sacking Cloths, in all new shades, regular 50c, sale price 44o 32-inch Vicrowe and French Novelty Cloths, in brown, blue, gray and black, regular 60 and 65c, sale price, per yard... 54o 56-inch Golf Suiting, in brown and gray only, regular $1, sale price. 89c FLANNEL, SILK AND SATINE Waists TO CLOSE OUT. One lot flannel waists, worth $2.00, now $1 29 One lot flannel waists, worth $3.00. now . $1 98 One lot black satine waists, worth $1.50 , now $1 19 One lot black satine waists, worth $1.75 and $2.00, now.... $1 39 We have a few more of those $3.75 Taffeta Silk Waists in black, red, green and lavender, which are now going at. $2 75 if" rt r i i sell everything and buy nothing," the mullet head turned up his nose and scoffed. He pointed to the "favorable" balance of trade and called those ho did not believe, socialists or anarch ists. When McKinley in his last speech, which the anniversary of his assassination has called to mind, said, "We must not repose in fancied secur ity that we can forever sell everything and buy nothing," they 'turned on the axis and replied most cheerfully: "Yep. That's so." But as soon as the tariff league and the trusts" could get into print and declared that that was trea son to protection, they made! another turn and went back to their old state ments. Every time a trust or a re publican leader takes snuff the mullet heads sneeze. . ... - According 'to the republican editors over in Iowa they have "an era of good feeling" all over that state. - There are two republican parties over there now and nothing worries them. It is true that one of the parties will claim all the offices and emoluments, but nev ertheless there is "an era of good feeling.", There are no political differ ences! between Governor Boies and his followers and Allison, Dolliver, and Cummins. They are all advocating ex actly the same things and why should they not all be happy. One of . the republican country yok els, says: "There is no Nebraska re publican boss." That is true. It is an Iowa boss, and his name is Baldwin. I The enormous imports of pig and structural iron is a puzzle that no one yet has been able to solve. The Lon don papers declare that every steamer from the Clyde and Mersey is taking as much iron to the United States as it can carry. Shipments are made to New York, Baltimore, Pensacola and New Orleans. To say that the United States cannot supply the de mand for iron from its own citizens with inexhaustible supplies of both coal and iron lying almost on the sur face and must import it from coun tries where both materials, are mined at great depths is ridiculous. This sort of thing will change the balance of i trade pretty quick. In the opinion of The Independent, wnen me rem lacta become known it will appear that the steel trust is' accountable for it. It has probably been curtailing production in order to keep up prices.- As no pub licity is allowed in regard to any de partment of its business, no one can t.ll what it has been dpln. When all the industries have been Morganized, such things will constantly occur. Leaving the amount of production of such commodities as steel and iron to the will of one man is a very danger ous thing for the public welfare. Acording to the estimates of the Hungarian .ministry of agriculture, the world's cereal harvests of 1902 are the largest ever known. - Europe's wheat crop is1 placed at 193,120.000 bushels above that of 1901, in which case the outside demand upon the exportable snrnliis of the United States Will not t be such as to support such' prices as nave prevailed m tn psi.iwu i three years. The republicans tell us every day on the street that the hleh prices which farmers have received Is all because Bryan was beaten and the republican party remained in power. With wheat already below 50 cents and a prospect of a further decline they still keep asserting it. If the repub licans produced good crops In this country and short crops In foreign countries and thereby made good times here, and they don't do it again they all ought to be hung. A parliamentary report issued dur ing the week gives the final official re port of the Boer war. There were killed and died of disease 21,946. The total number of British troops sent to South Africa or enlisted there, serving in the war, was 460,961. It took nearly half a million of British troops to ov ercome 30,000 -Dutch fighting for lib erty and independence, and then the contest ended in a compromise so fav orable to the fighting Dutchmen that it astonished the world. The anthracite coal trust has pro duced the same condition that exists in steel and iron. The Philadelphia school board has bought and will im port from Wales 25,000 ton of hard coal. It costs one dollar a ton more than the average price in this coun try for the last few years. That will take another slice off from our "fav orable" balance of trade. The trade union congress held in London last week voted down a resolu tion favoring compulsory- arbitration. The trades union congress held in London last week passed the follow ing resolution: "That this congress of British trade unionists places on record its unqualified disapproval of the war aerainst the Orange Free State and the Transvaal republic, believing that the question of extending the franchise and the protection of in dustry was not, the real cause of the dispute, but the mere shield to cover an unscrupulous conspiracy to grab territory and replace well-paid white labor with unpaid, partially enslaved blacks and Asiatics. Further, thia congress reaffirms its continued hos tility to all wars of foreign aggres sion, which only tend -to enrich the sinister figure of cosmopolitan finance whose main object Is to hold the work ers of all countries in universal so cial and economic servitude." The principles maintained and the legisla- tion advocated by organized labor In this country and the trades unions la England Is practically the same as advocated by the populist party. The above resolution correctly represents the position of the populist party in regard to both the Boer and Philip pine wars. A German war vessel sank a Hay tien gunboat, that is a gunboat be longing to one of the contesting par ties that have been carrying on civil war in the island. There is no doubt that the Germans were entirely in the right about the matter, for. under any construction of international law, the gunboat was a pirate. The Eu ropean papers are trying to create a good deal of excitement over the rait ter, talk about the Monroe doctrine and generally make themselves ridic ulous. At Washington the correspon dents have been talking about annex ing Hayti. There is no telling what further foolishness the imperialist- will attempt, but it is hardly likely that-an attempt to annex that warring lot of half savage blacks would meet with much approbation from the peo ple of these states. V