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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1901)
" ' ' ' p.gw,, , SwrttwelnnTy?,,.. ., . u 't)'1. tSfctrTH'j!v , r iWttiWlWWWHflWJSWA. (WPWHflWKWWTVSlfiww"'' "" ' - t. - .. -n-i.ui jj. HunWanM Wfflrij jbswiVmit. v.J. . S f 1 k r i fl (fcL jfiiRffijp There arc flvo times an many people la the city of Chicago as there nre In the whole state of" Vermont, says the Chicago Tribune. Perhaps two-thirds aa many pcoplo born in Vermont live outaldo that Rtate aa still reside with in Its borders. Vermont has been des cribed as n state composed chiefly of hills, mountains, rocks, lakes, and stone quarries. Of its farming land 200,000 acres have been abandoned by those who formerly tilled it and can ba bought for (4 or $5 an acre. Since the war tho population of the state has practically stood still. Us sturdy sons lie attt acted by the great er opportu nities to get rich offered by the fer 1 1 1 c West and the large cities of the eotin t r y. They are widely scattered all over the Union. Uut wherever they go the sons and daughters of Ver mont carry with them deep and abiding love for the Green Mountain States. All over tho country may bo found associations nf the Sous and Daughters of Vermont. In the other New England states alone there are eight grout societies of the kind, with an aggregate of 100,000 natives of Vermont who are eligible for member ship. So strong is the affection of the Ver mont man 'for his old homo that prep arations aro now under way for a great and unique celebration in honor of it. In this celebration practically the wholo state of Vermont will take part, and tho state legislature, by spe cial enactment, has set upntt the week of Aug. 11-16 to be given tip to it. In vitations bearing the great beul of the state and the signature of the governor have been sent out to tens of thou sand of natives bidding them come back to the Green Mountains and Join with the stay-at-home population in fitting celebration of "Old Home Week." So general has been the re sponse to these invitations that the plans now under way provide for the entortalnment of more than 100,000 re turning prodigals. Nothiug could fur nish stronger proof of the fact that sentlmont is still one of the ruling forces of the world. From Boston will run at least two special trains loaded with sons and daughters of Vermont. and from al- 5 most every atato word has come that parties are being' formed for' Old Home Week." In tho moan 1 1 m o tho present citi zens of that state aro making most . elaborate plans for the reception of their returning kinsfolk. In more than 100 Vermont towns and cities special and separate celebrations will be held, and every hillside in the atate will echo with the strains of "Home, Sweet Home." No matter In wh' hamlet or on what hlllWdo farm a native Vermonter was born, he will be likely to find his old friends and neighbors gathered together there in - reunion during the week of the Old Home colebratlon. At Burlington, Rutland, and other large townB of the state, which lu com parison with the great cities of the " country are mere villages, local asso ciations havo been formed which will recelvo and entertain as their guests the Vermont associations which are coming from distant states. .Figur atively speaking, a beacon flro of wel come will be lighted on every moun tain top. To the nvorage man the enthusiasm of tho native Vormontcr for tho stony state which gave him birth is hard to understand. But if he asks a Vermont man to give the reasons for tho faith which Is in him he Id likely to be as tonlshcu. , "Did you evor hear of the Green Mountain boys?" he will answer. "Do you remember how Ethan Allen and elghty-threo Vermont farmers sur prUed the great British stronghold of Fort Tlconderoga and forced Its sur render 'in the name of the Great Je hovah and tho Continental Congress' 7 Does Crown Point mean anything to ypuT Have you forgotten Bennington, where General Stark whipped the Hes sians, killing 964 out of 1,500 men, and capturing all their cannon? If you'll go down homo with mo In August and ollmb up to the top of the Benning ton Battlo Monument you'll wonder, Room Still for tho Gerinsn. A German consul In a western city has warned Germany that immigra tion from all parts of the fatherland' to the United States should cease, be cause, ho Bays, tho crafts and trades In these states nre overcrowded, and that no German Inclined to seek new fortunes can hope to. grow rich In America. That consul Is evidently a posslmlat of an exceptionally dolo-i Jrrous bort. Thore Is still plenty of room In this wldo land for additions to tho host of sturdy Germans who I iwi mi - I dC ji)L' kfiC Slilvct J aW V I " - - HOME WIK " viKNdmr as I do, how u Vermont tuau can live In one of these flat prairie states." These Green Mountain boys, who cut such a dashing figure In the revolution, had some practice In fighting befoie that war began. They wnro busy for several years before Lexington In driv ing out tho Immigrants from Now York, who attempts! to seize their lands under a r oy al K v a n t. In 1877, In fact, the people of Vermont got t o g o t h el and declared themselves a free and In dopend e n t btate. with out walling to be taken into the union o r as king the Bennington Monument, commit of anybody. In this exhibition of spunk tho ns of Vermont still glory. In the record of tho state dutlng the rebellion Vermont people And anothor cause for Just, pride. When Sumter was fired on Vermont had 37,000 en rolled militia. Out of this number 35,000 promptly went Into the Union Jinny. .More than 5,000 were killed and ns many more ruined by wounds and disease. No other slate suffered o great n loss In proportion. During the whole war not a single Vermont regi ment gave up Its colors In battle, and what the ermont. man did at Bull Hun, Cedar Creek, the Wilderness, and Gettysburg is a part of history. Ver mont people are jealous of tho lepu tatlon of their state In producing lighting men. If you feel Inclined to pity men born In a btate which Is xtcrile and Inhos pitable you will do well not to waste your sympathy on a Vormontcr. Ho will tell you that Vermont produced 40,000,000 pounds a year of the best butter In the world; that one-third of all the maple sugar In America comes from Vermont groves; that the yearly hay crop of the state Is valued at $12, 000,000, and that three-quarters of all the marble quarried In the United States comes from Its hillsides. He will ask whether the horsemen of the country owe anything to the Morgan, Messenger, and Black Hawk strains, and what we should do for fine wool without Vermont sheep as a founda tion for our flocks. Vermont ns the first state to be ad mitted to membership with the orig inal thirteen, its admission dating from 1791. Until a few years ago nlne tenths of Its population was of Ameri can birth. 'Recently a large number of Canadian French have come Into the atate to work lu the great factories which arc being built up about the water powers for which the state Is f a ni o it h . 1 hoe peo ple are said, ns a race, to be the most prolific t n the world and thero Is an expecta tion that the Mate will, therefore In crease some what more rapidly than It hub In the past. An other effort Is under way to fill up the depopulated farms with emigrants from Sweden, but the fact that more fertile land can be uecured farther west has prevented any great results In this direction. Almost equally with Its history, the Vermont man is boastful of the natural A flS aMaaL- PffrlllBtoMBi' GIGANTIC STONES FALLING. rnlftaiA M ""r ta"awrV" aj I aa KaiaVfti .aBl jiBBjwal aHBJaftj jkU Kf aw ,kJB MKU na IBj I naTBrBBnffBa AjaawvaBjaj lav lavj yll BfABvilrfiH aHM II Jjfy-japaayjg ,aj NAYjT'JHa- lfi.a fllraBlBTBl JBTJaaav ' The great rocks at Stoncbengc, Eng land, which have puzzled archaeolo gists for centuries, are falling and most of them are now on their sides. have prospered so well with us and who ate so devoted and loyal to the spirit of liberty and true democracy which gives the keynote to our most cherUhed Institutions. Thousands of Gennaiila's sons and daughters have crossed the Atlantic and havo accom plished much for the advancement o what Is soundest, strongest and best In the civilization nnd tho advance ment of conditions In this continent. Intelligent Amorlcnns desire that the volume of German Immigration may ho Increased largely. And there Is no awnory of his state. He alludes to tho fact that thero are eighteen mountain peaks more than 3,500 feet In height within the state limits and talks with n pang of remembered ploasuro of the glories of Lake Champlalu, which stretches for 118 miles In length and Is fourteen miles wide. Of all tho New Kugland states Vermont Is tho only one entirely cut off from tho sea, while at the same time Its chief city, Bur lington, on Lake Champtaln, has n maritime comtnorce employing a fleet of 1,000 vessels and amounting In the aggregato to 12,000.000 anuually. Taitln Warntnxt at Ha. Twenty-five years havo elapsed since Prof. Tyndall, at tho Instnnco of the Trinity House corporation, car ried out n series of experiments at the South Foreland, near Dover, England, to determine the value of various sounds ns warnings to the marluor of his approach to dangerous spots In thick weather. The result was a largo Increase lu the number of fog signals nil round the British coast. Much knowledge has been acquired and many new Inventions havo been madu In the Intervening period, and a spe cial committee of the elder brethren of the Trinity House, assisted by Lord Uuylelgh and other eminent scien tists and engineers have been en gaged for some tlmo In making elab orate tests of all the latest Improve ments Jn the different kinds of ap paratus for mnklng cautionary noises. The scone of their opi-.rutlons Is tho Isle of Wight. One of their chief ob jects Is to determine the relative mer its of reeds and sirens as Bound pro ducers. Much attention, .also, has been given to tho trumpet and various modifications of that Instrument. Other cnieful experiments arc to de termine the carrying capacity, In cer tain conditions of notes of different pitch, and the effect on the dissem ination of sound of the conformation of the coast line, etc. Another point to be considered Is the question of the most effective and the most economical utlll7titlnii of power New York Post. Tim I.ftnshlntt Want nf ArabU. The laughing plant Is n native of Central and Eastern Arabia. It gets Its nume, not because the plant laughs, but becaithe It Is the cause of creating laughter In any one enting its seeds. The plant is of moderate sire, with bright yellow flowers In clusters, and soft-, velvety seed pods, each of which contains two or three seeds resembling small black beans, which, if eaten, produce effects analagou.s to those of laughing gas. The flavor of the seeds Is somewhat like that of opium; they taste sweet, while their odor produces a sickening sensation. The seeds are pulverized nnd taken In small doses. Any one taking them begins to laugh loudly and boisterously, and then sings, dances, and cuts all kinds of fantastic caperc. The effects continue for about an hour, and, when the ex cltmcnt ceases, the exhausted Individ ual falls Into a deep sleep, on awaken ing from which he Is utterly uncon scious of any such demonstrations hav ing been made by him when under the influence of the seeds of the laughing plant. rrotnUntt Show 1'rleit Oood Will. A number of Protestant citizens of Toledo. 0 believing that Rev. Edward Hannln, a Catholic priest of that city, had overworked himself In the Inter ests of his parish In the erection of a new church, quietly collected $1,000 and tendered It to defray his expenses on a health trip abroad. Father Han nln declined tho offer on the ground that he cannot this year sever himself from the pariah Interests. To rrciort Trailing: Arbnlui. In an almost 'despairing effort to stay the dreaded extinction of tho fragrant trailing arbutus flower, the Legislature of Connecticut passed a law In 1899 forbidding any person to pull up the plants by tho roots on land owned by another under a penalty of $20. The circle of stones, 100 feet In diame ter, In a ditch have been attributed to the Phoenicians, Belgae, Daurs, Druids and Saxons. luck of space for our German acces sions. That western consul vhb buf fering from indigestion or bllllousness when he sent word to Berlin that Ger mans should stay at home because his purblind vision could seo no open door for newcomers here. We want more Germans. They can help us and wo can help them. Now York Tribune. Rev. John Bancroft Dcvlns of tho editorial staff of the New York Ob server has been given the degreo of Doctor of Divinity of Center college, Danville, " WESTERN WATER FARMINQ. WUooniln't Manr UkM Cll rromlaa of (ire I front. Sciontlsts who make it their busluoss to look nhead into the far future are now busy telling what will happen after all the land In the United States has been put under cultivation. When thero are no more quarter sections up on which the settler can establish him Golf, It Is predicted that wa.ter farm ing will become n general occupation. This Information Is comforting to rcsl dcntK of Wisconsin. No stnfe in the Union has better facilities for water farming than the one famous for tho number and beauty of Its lakes. When the time comes for men to fence off ncrc plots on the crystal waters of the Inland seas Wisconsin will have n iioom worth while waiting for with pa tience. Of course there will be draw backs to water farming, but the In dustry, offers great possibilities. Al though It will be difficult to keep one's crop of fish from being mixed with one's neighbors', thero will be no plow ing or harrowing, no wrestling with stumps, nnd no trouble over Irrigation. After the fish arc planted each season thero will be nothing to do but to wait until harvet time. By n littlo diplo matic advertising water farmera may persuade city men to ppend their va cations on the lakes ns assistants dur ing this harvest season. Houseboats on the water farms would be Ideal places of residence during tho hot months. It Is cMininted that the fish eries of the United States produce food of the value of $40,000,000 every year. Aa soon as tho water farming InditHtry has a good start, Wisconsin will be able to add millions to this amount. If the calamity howler cannot find any thing wotsc to prophesy about than the water farm, this state can pursue daily Its business pursuits without any fore bodliiKU. Milwaukee Sentinel. HOW TO KILL MOSQUITOES. Chinatown Vvlla m Cheat) anil Moil Kf frctlv Oulllarator. It Is the experience of the nvcrage housekeeper In Philadelphia that no matter how thoroughly tho doors nnd windows of u liotiRc arc screened, mos quitoes will get Inside. Many of them do not understand that a Bmall pool of stagnant water In a cellnr or water standing In pitcher plants Is u birth place for thousands of mosquitoes. In flower vases on the table, whero the water Is not frequently changed, mos quito eggs nre found In great numbers. Applications of kerowene oil will stop that. The general question Is how to get the small insect pests out of tho house when once they are In. To per sons of careful habits chlorine gas Is recommended. Pour Into a plato con taining four teaspoonsfuls of chloride of lime about ten drops of crude sul phuric acid. This liberates tho chlorlno gas, which is said to kill the mos quitoes. The plan can be used only In "rooms not temporarily occupied, or In which the gas vapors can bo nllowed to remain for several hours. The burn ing of pyrcthrum powders In n room will also kill them. Tho powder should bo moistened nnd then made Into lit tle cones, which are dried In the oven. When a cono Is lighted at the top It smoulders slowly, em't'Inc an odor .which many persons And pleasant. But a good, simple nnd cheap mosquito killer may be bought In Chinatown. The Chinese use pine or junlpor saw dust, mixed with a umall quantity of brimstone and an ounce of arsenic This mixture is put Into littlo bags In a dry state. Each bag Is colled like a snake and tied tightly with n thread. Tho outer end Is lighted. The. colls sell at 10 cents a hundred and two of them are said to be enough to clear any or dinary room of mosquitoes. Draitle Antl-IJambUag I.awi. Some little time ago the Belgian chamber of deputies passed a some what drastic anti-gambling law. The bill hay reached the upper house, and Is being dtscusaed in a somewhat acrimonious tone, and meeting consid erable opposition. Somo of the sen ators point out that gambling Is In herent to human nature, and that it tho law were can led Into effect It would tend to foster clandestine gambling-houses on an extensive scale. This argument has been put forward before, but where tho shoe really pinches seems to lie in the fact that the fashionable watering place of Os tend would bo the principal sufferer. The casino thero ranks with tho fam ous gambling hull at Monto Carlo, and many of the senators aro said to be financially Interested, and hence their opposition. It Is claimed that if tho casino were abolished the loss to the town would lie between $2,600,000 and $5,000,000, and that most of the public works now In progress would have to be abandoned ns thoy were undertaken on the strength of tho revenues de ll ved from the gaming tables. A tUmarkaUU Vojrag. The arrival at Manila of the squad ron comprising the gunboat Annapolis and tho ocean tugs Frolic, Piscataqua, and Wampatuck, which sailed front Hampton roads early last winter, com pletes a remarkablo voyage. This is tho longest trip ever accomplished by such tiny naval craft and was prqb ably never equaled by similar war ships. The distance covered was near ly two-thirds around tho world, cross ing one ocean, skirting the' southern part of Europe, thonce through the tornado seas of the Indian ocean, down to the Philippines at a season when typhoons are usual. There havo boon trips of small ships across the Atlantic and onco an old monitor wus sent around to San Francisco by the Horn, but no vessels of buc1( light displace ment have yet covered so much dan gerous water area as tho little squud ton of American boats. CRITICISE EDITOR. YOUNO WRITERS WHOSE MANU SCRIPTS ARE REJECTED. I.oiik Upon lit Kdllor ni a Very In eompatant 1'orton Eittrard Bok bliow- Hcmv It It Vary Natural for Thr.ru to Think Ho, Thero Is a popular Impression, n very general one In fact, that tho ed itor of a magazine never reads the manuscripts which are sent to him by unknown writers; that all such manu scripts are returnod unread, or nre thrown Into capacious waste-bnskots. A great many writers bellevo this be cause they want to believe It. And, really, anything becomes platmlblo If one only bollevo's It hard enough and long enough. It would never "do for those who write, nnd whose Writing aro not found acceptable, tp bcllovo anything else; for the braln-chlldron of a writer nre as precious to hint at aro the blood-chtldrcn of a mother to her. Each Is perfect In tho eyes of lis patent. Therefore, tho editor cannor hnve had any acquaintance with these liraln-chlldren. If ho had had they would hnve been Immediately adopted Into the magazine family. So, you see, the case Is perfectly clear nnd easily proven against the editor. Hero and there It Is conceded that the ed itor does occasionally read a manu script. But that lu only when some famous name is attached to It. And some persons go so far as to nay that the editor does not read ov.cn these manuscripts. They prove their ground again by saying that It the editor had read the manuscripts by these famous folk he nover would have printed thorn. So there the editor Is again trapped. The bimple and natural de duction Is, therefore, that he roads no munubcrlpt nt all. If 1 may drift for n moment lntopcrtonal romlnlscencc, I' will recall a case where a consider ate lady, who had ascertained in some occult manner that 1 had n great deal of leisure on my hands, sent mo a manuscript, and said that, as a test of u personal reading, she had left out every "a," "and" nnd "the." nnd It was for me to supply the words wherever missing as proof that I had read the manuscript. It was a brief article of some eleven thousand words! It so happened, unfortunate ly, that at that particular time I was very busy. It wua true that my occu pation was not Important; it was sim ply that I wns preparing a number of tho magazine for my readers! I pre sume I could have put the work off for a week. But 1 didn't, and the manu script went back without the missing words supplied. I see now that It was a mistake. For that particular lady has had me In the pillory In tho pub lic prints a number of times, nnd has clearly proven tho case of an unread manuscript against me. She ban thus far withhold the facts of the missing words, but, of course, that is an un important detail In proving her caso! I remember another instance of a very sweet young lady who Inserted somo pi ber most beauM"! ribbons between the pages ot a mahllsctlpi. it so hap pens that I have no particular taste for ribbons, and as the members of my family do not care for the com bined colors ot bright orange nnd a rose scarlet, I had no special use for the ribbons and so put them back in tho manuscript. Naturally, It was an other case against me. I was caught "red-handed" as It were. With tho knowledge of how it Is done, any one can easily figure out how imposalblo It Is for a young writer to get Into one of the modern maguzlues. " Tills Is 'particularly true ot the young au thor of distinct promise. Tho mora ability he shows In his first manu script the tighter arc the lines drawn to keep him out. And as all tho mag nzlno editors think and act as one man In this particular respect it is easy to seo what a formidable front the young author has to faco. It Is hard on the young author, I allow, but to give way for an instant would mean calamity to the argument of the unknown writer that a writer without fame cannot secure an audience for his wares in tho maguzlncs of to-day. And tho editor must make good the unknown writer's argument. In fact, that is what he Is there for, puro and slmplo. Every publisher of a maga zine employs an editor solely to keep merit and unknown writers out of his periodical! That Is all an editor does! The magazlno editor, In other words, is a man to bo envied! He lives n Ufa of perfect ease and luxury! His per sonal friends write the contents; the compositors act the typo; the printers print tho magazine, and the publisher publishes It. So, what is thero loft for the editor to do? Nothing but to play golf! Edward Bok In Ladles Home Journal, -' Woman Havo UoTrniuent Contract!. There are, In the United States, a number of women who havo contract with the government for work. In Texas a woman has hold a contract to carry the mail from Kolie to Solrnal Hall. To Georgia also has belonged the honor ot having a woman mall contrac tor. This woman not alone dollvercd tho mall on hor littlo black pony over n bloak and sparsely settled region ex tending about forty mllea, triweekly, but she managed a largo farm as well, doing most ot the manual labor her belf, and thus supporting her aged parents and a crippled slBter, all of which this ambitious woman did be fore, sho had reached 30 years of age. - -Homo Magazine. The sting of Poverty Is not always lit Its tala. SMALL HOUSES FOR WAR. Vnj of Hajr caralrr on 111 Charger ! )rr. Tho rocont cxporlonco In Bottth Africa proved to the Intelligent Eng lish mind that, the day of heavy cavalry mounted on slxtoen-hand chargers was almost an much over aa that of the knights ot Aglncourt. I' havo myself moro than onco discoursed) upon this very themo, nnd Insisted on tho necosslty .of producing a war hors capable of moro durablo servlco on worso rations than any now bred In1 England, advocating, too, precisely Sir Walter's plan of breeding from Arab sires. Nevertheless, tho pronounce ment of so high an authority on horao matters ns Is Sir Walter Glllwy Is an ovent of Importance, for thore Is no body the English public listens to more willingly, nor by whom It is more ready to Ije convinced. Tho argument for Binnll horses In war Is one capable of almost mathematical demonstration. In every campaign horses havo neces aarlly to pjit up ,wlth short rations, often with scml-starvatlon, and tho horse that can do with the least and worst food lasts the lougest, andthei longest lasting win, if, then, airmail horse can maintain himself where' a big ono stnrves, doing equal or Jioariy equal work, tho small horso Is demon strably the better. Apart from artil lery nnd transport, whero heavy draught power will always bo necdod, a pony ot 14.2, It properly bred It has been proved In South Africa will do nil the work of a horso ot 16 hands, nnd on equal rations (whero these nro scanty) will last twice as long. The small horse, too, Is easier managed; he Is less troublesome to mount under fire mid to dismount from on the march. This Inst Is no small advan tage when men am weary, The Bedouins on their raids are constantly up and down, on and off thslr mares, running hcsldo them half the night, and so easing and saving them. The small horso, too, Is a smaller tnrgot to tho enemy, Is easier hidden In the folds ot the ground, and Is easier stowed on shipboard. He needs a, Ubs stout rope to tether him, a scantier shelter to screen him In rough weath er. It Is not necessary to have been to tho wars to know this. Nineteenth Century. THE FORTY-DAY PERIOD. roriUUat Uf of Munibar Forty alnco Karl lot Tlino. A man who has done readers and students notable service In collating many of the curiosities of literature, calls attention to the peculiar and per sistent use of tho number forty ever Einco the earliest time. The Deluge lastod for forty days and forty nights; Moses an Elijah fasted forty days; tha Israelites wandered In tho deaert for forty years r the spies Pnt forty days examining the land of Canaan, before making their report; and Jonah, It will be remembered, gavo the In habitants of Nineveh forty days In which to consider his prophecy, and repent. The miraculous fast of Moaes and Elijah Ik reproduced In that of Christ, and tho latter Is now observed by the church In the forty days of Lent. The mysterious. Import of the forty-day perloa has been recognized In the leg islation of France and of England from tho earliest ages. Louis IX., ot France, called Saint Louts, established the King's Quarantine, during which no man could avenge an Injury We use the word quarantine to algnlfy, apecl flcally, an enforced' stoppage of travel to prevent the spread ot contagious diseases, but Ha real meaning is a period of forty daya. William tho Con queror ot England ordained that no man should )w allowed, to rcmajB Ij England longer than forty daya Unleaa he was enrolled In some tithing. The Magna Charta provided that a widow should be allowed to remain In her husband's mansion for forty days af ter his death, during which time her dowry was to be turned over to her. These are only a few limitations of tno use of tho forty-day period. How that uso originated, no one knows. Forty days is not a regular division of time like n week or a month, but is wholly arbitrary. The only pluuslble explanation Is that this period approx imates a division of tho early lunar year by the mystic number 9. Whan Lady rUliot right. Supt. Spencer of tho aquarium, spoke ot tho fighting fishes hohas down there. "Strango to sny, the lady Ash la the hardest fighter to be found. Now, some lady fish ogreo and ure happy togeth er. When they disagree and fight they go at it Just the same ns women. They bite, gouge, and, so to apeak, toar each other's hair out. Tho only difference Is that tho hulr on a fish is Its scales, When a scale Is once torn oft it never grows on again. Angel fish sometimes flgbt. Trout In .some of tho basins start to tight, and we' have to aoparato them. But when it comes down to a rough-and-tumble fight tho lady fish will beat any of a similar size and weight." New York ' Times. Franco to LajrMwra CaMr. The question of an extended iaystem ot French submarine i cablaa, Iwhlcu has been so long Intermltteatlyjoccti pylng tho attention of the geyernnent, now promises to come speedily 'Co an Issue. Ever since December,ytlSW, a special committee has been studying the matter, calling in expert advice to help thopi, nnd thf renult Is a bill; Juit finished, whleh the government ''pro poses shortly to present to the cham ber. This bill outlines? un agreement w(th the French cnblo company .for tho constrttctlpn and earn of un" ex tended network of cables, aggregating nearly 10,000 miles In length and 0, OOft.000 In cost. 1 Kfl ( i B I I Ji It V i IM i t ti; i 8J m "i gg$ f'JIfcfea