The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923, May 01, 1903, Page 6, Image 6
pfrpy i ZZT-viy'wws immwimmiwk ty i f ip WWWgf 6 The Commoner, VOLUME 3, NUMBER ir WMWMWMI CURR6NT 53 Wmmimmmmmmmimmmmmmf " --- MMtMa- mvn .. . i - i " ""ri-'n i""-""1 '-' . - . -... f I "5 fV-l -.S-" ;S::: tsr- A SUMMARY OP THE COMMERCE OP THE Philippine islands for threo years, the period oC American occupation, has been published by tho Manila Review of Trade, and is referred to by a writor in tho Now York Tribune. It is said by tho Tribune writer that although tho resources of tho islands aro handicapped by tho lack of labor saving machinery, transportation facilities and skilled labor, tho report shows a commercial in crease to which tho Philippine partisans may point with pride. Tho imports in 1900 amounted to $29,601,420, and In 1902 they were valued at $32,141,842. Of theso imports ?1,G57,701 camo from tho United States in 1900, while in 1902 tho United States sent $4,035,243, exclusive of tho goods sent to tho various military departments. Tho exports from tho Philippines In 1900 amounted to $19, 7G1,0G8, and tho amount was Increased in 1902 to $23,927,079. Tho shipments to tho' United States showed tho greatest increase. In 1900 they wore valued at $3,522,160, and in 1902 at $7, 091,743. Tho latter figure represents more than 33 per cont of tho total exports of tho islands. Musa toxtills Manila heinp figures as tho chief nrticlo of oxport, and tho increaso in product from $11,398,943 in 1900 to $14,453,110 in 1901 and $16, S41.31G in 1902 shows that tho American occupa tion has had a stimulating ofTect on tho hemp growing industry. THE IRON FLOORING IN THE REFINING room In tho assay office of tho United States treasury department is to bo removed, tho dust will bo collected and tho gold dust found on tho floor will bo molted down. It Is related by the Washington correspondent of tho New York World that during ono day's work tho brooms swept up from $1,600 to $2,000 in little flecks of gold. It is explained that much gold escapes with tho fumos from tho refining furnaces and goes up through tho chimney, falling upon tho roof o tho building. Tho roof has been swept o the dust that has collected for a year. Tho big chimney Is J nod with steol and In sections. Each ono of theso sections will bo removed, tho dirt and ac- cumulations scraped from it and put into tho melt ing pot It will then bo repined. Tho dust has boon collected from tho roof of tho sub-treasury sfreet buIld'2s:'uajoInlnS tn assay office in Pino HTHE PEOPLE OF THE DUTCH TOWN Otf J. Brook in Holland claim that their commun ity deserves tho title of "tho spotless town." Tho correspondent for tho Washington Times, refer ring to Brook says: "Tho place is painfully neat In Brook godliness is next to cleanliness. Tho town has a population of 2700, and it is only re cently that horses hnvo been allowed in tho streets. Any ono throwing scraps of paper or fll,i Jy Bort in.the streets is arrested and fined. But tho most striking thing about the town is its spring house-cleaning. One ay a dvory houso in tho town is visited by a band of municipal house-cleaners, who scrub it and scour it inside and out, without cost .to the occupant Just now, unless tho strikes have interfered tho whole town is in tho process of being cleansed .and smells abominably of yellow soap?'2 Clean8ed HP HE UNITED STATES BOARD OP GEO- 40klnS"'a?H n,ame3 has formally declared that Poking is tho proper manner in which to speii the name of China's capital. Tho Washington correspondent for the Now York World says that In making this decision, tho board has reversed p2 ? IS Plalno this correspondent that Poking has a ways been spoiled with a "g f torn thp flro8t,atie3 ot 1858and 18G0 down to Feb ruary 3, 1897, when tho board of geographic names "Fekin" Tond? th t?,Xt SSSSSC i-eian. Tho decision, attracted no comment or attention until during tho summer of 190 tho Boxor outbreak and tho siogo of Peking legations gave tho government bureaus more ocewton to use tho word than ever before. Tho war denart ment scrupulously followed the board's deeffin and the government printing office was rigorous in clipping tho "g from Peking whVo?er it appeared, so that tho whole flood of public docu ments, reports, correspondence and mans relating to affairs In North China is marked with the Can " uuu lor -.reKing." it appeari that there was none for "Pekin." The board finally brought tho subject to a vote, and, revers ing its decision of February, 1897, put tho govern ment in lino with the world's best usage again The war department is now somewhat embarrassed by this, since its connection with the expedition to China involved a mass of printed reports and maps, in which tho most important names were misspelled, according to tho latest decision. The board was organized in 1890 to procure uniform usage in regard to geographic names and orthog raphy throughout tho executive departments of tho government, and all "unsettled questions" were to be referred to it THE AMERICAN SHIP "ARYAN" IS' AT tracting considerable attention theso days bocause of the fact that It is the last wooden ship built in America, A writer in the San Francisco Call says that "to lovers of the once popular Yan kee clipper, this example of a famous but disap pearing type is held in peculiar interest. Driven gradually to obsolescence by the less artistic but more economical fore-and-after, the clipper typo of sailing vessel is every year becoming rarer. Other things being equal and barring shipwreck or conversion, the Aryan will one day be the sole survivor of the kind of ship that once made the American merchant marine the marvel of the world. The Ayran, however, has many voyages to make before vessels like the Shenandoah, Sus quehanna, and Roanoke, leave her as sole repre sentative of tho American wooden clipper ship. Ike Ayran was built in 1893 at Pipsburg, Me., and no expense was spared to make her outside lines in accord with tho yachting traditions of her wooden sister and to equip her cabins with as many homo comforts as can be installed in tho atterpart of the roomy windjammer. Her gross register is 2,124 tons. She is 248.6 feet long, 42.2 feet in beam, and 26.3 feet deep. She came from Baltimore in 186 days. Her cargo consisted of 3,054 tons of coal, of which Captain Pendelton tooxv Buch caro that at no time during the voyage I ?il, on temneature of tho cargo register more JSi. i?;, Sno was favored with fine reafAn l Atlantic and fair winds helped her around tho Horn. In the Pacific she met with some heavy weather, but nothing to hurt her, and feTc'ondi?!"111 fairly gd " and AN OFFICIAL DEATH MAP HAS BEEN PRE mn d unde,r t0 direction of the census bu ri TThe Washington correspondent for the Chi cago Inter-Ocean says that thismap shows that the causes f death aro largely a matter of geog raphy and the twenty-ono districts into which the country is divided mark the limits of different regions where various diseases are most ravag ,&iiThe nst sensational deaths occur in the Pacific coast district region, in the state of Wash! Ington. This, is the only district in which Sn- dea hW0Har?flrep0rte1 as a Pvalent cause of death. Heart disease, suicide, and apoplexy show oIsmW Zmber ? Ttimsd e re? ora is new for the greatest number of deaths from alcoholism. Lung troubles appeaTs to be YoviZTiTJl0nG AtlantIc cSTromNew from J r??Ia an? alonS th0 Mississippi river ton SEwJX I ' mcmg these fayored spots are arSrS to obtain. Cancer, heart disease, andnonlexv ar more to be expected in mounta nous parts of til country than in the level districts. In eight of the twenty-ono districts rheumatism reans a inrSf harvest of death, noticeably in th? thX JffiS SftS ?Tl llQ inaante a?o Ztsed to tho .sudden changes of tho weathm- " nnfS peaking, it appear! that "Sft S?teSta in the country are caused by climatic tihih while those in the cities are caUsS by SSS'S? ditions The farmer on the Dakot praiHe for" example needs to guard against rheumatism but not against malaria or heart disease.- CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION HAS BEEN .?rawto,the numerous suicides in England recently. The London correspondent of tho CW . cago Inter-Ocean says that statistics show that there has been great increase- iP the number of cases of self-destruction in the last twenty or thirty years in nearly all tho countries. The pro portion in France during tho last twenty-five 1L ?creasTed from 157 to 224 per million of JnS p.0? IGermany was about the same, and Belgium showed only a somewhat less' pro portion. In Russia there was no Increase. Aus tria increased by 39 per million, Hungary by 27 Australia by 25, Ireland by 8, Scotland by 18 and England by 15 in the same period. In Engl land there has been a steady increase for fifty ?airQQP lS J86,0 the numDer ot suicides was 1,357. Zn!l , fcrrbQad reaChed 2'639' of whom 1.M1 were men and 668 women. In all countries the suicides nave been more common among men than women. M5"??? W2,men t0 men ls neatest in America and Spain. England comes next, with 2G women out of every 100 suicides. In the ten years between 1887 and 1897,there were over 400 suiddel SesllG'wereS.9113 15 yeai'S f -age' 0Z X? ST THE LARGEST RESERVOIR IN THE WORLD ornJ,8 ,?,e built in ArlzDa. The federal gov ?n S I W " 1kcon1struct a dam of solid masonry JEf ?i ba?,In site rt is sald that this will create in the valleys of the Upper Salt river and lonto creek the largest artificial late In the world. T r?ID THAT THB PROMISE OF THE 4 v BVtish home office to release Mrs. Florence Maybrick was secured largely through a Colorado precedent in which the United States as a special 52.1? jommity permitted an English earl in tho penitentiary at Canon City to return to England in order that the estates to which he was tho SIS ?E ?Is5J nTot lai)se The Denver correspon SwnS e St Louis Post-Dispatch says: "Tho rnrSnHw Was, a Pf180 1878, and was in SSS mwS111?8 e aPPeared England he Eld w611.08 t0 his estates- He appealed to ?orS?? mri?' ?n,d Bhe Instructed the British foreign office to take up the matter. It did so, r?m rteqU8St the forei office the sec fnia 7 8t,ate secured from the Colorado author nSLl Pard0n as ? specIal mark of favor to the Mrs LvhHof me,nt The home offlcG nas notified thrf Vf nf 1 ' S lawyers tnat thy could now use reason fnr ROGr prosPecUve release -next year as a of h S5UrlS? ?e Postponement of the trial terests in iaring on the prisoners in v2ialSVn Kentucky, Virginia and West ThJ Fi5 hG was able t0 testify in person. BB!nCflmeft,from the home offlce had been ?S ofySCrd eve 8lnco the assent on tho posed the Htl n,,d'Tard wh0' is .believed, op SS nil iJ teiaV.een s views of the case, and who wwrted S bnelleV the woman innocent It is do? Hedber?minaAaUthe?tIc source that Ambassa this maftr 01 nMVe.r been called uPon to act in Mrs MavnHPif? thii tnls final deion to free BritetaVThS?n,Bi0ntiro17 duo t0 efforts Great that Hom?S7h ar in a posItIon to know say great cZrtifrtary Ais-Douglass has shown SinrinTme?ica!neCti0n Wlth the Suits noW TowS vT V? NORTHERN DISTRICT B"erved th ??nifVJrgJni.a' John L- Jackson, haa loS than anv on Sta,te? in a judiclai capacity 1861. He , Sq ?S? niGd t0 the uench August 3, years. Nevt LthTerf orei 8erved nearly forty-two Bervice or I id a JaclfSon in Point of long wSkens0h,?ndJstri?t bench are Judges James FebrW'l of Florida, appointed appointed March5 i?yLH' vheeler' of Vermont, Colorado , ifmESf -r187'' and Moses Hallett, of 5 Hamm'oadPnf iGd ianuary 12, 1877. Judge Eli wa? anS?p,i Tth0 Western district of Tennessee, Bunn nS ??h ? w T 17' ,1878' and Jud 'Romanzo ber 30 1877 WeBtiiTn' diBtrIcf of 'Wisconsin Octo- i 1 ,i.