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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1898)
li It t L 4 t i i TVJ t thntine fltmonat ROBERT GOOD Editor tnfl Prop VALENTINE -2 -if NEBRASKA Boston Is perfectly patriotic now citn her red brjcbuildiixjjs her white mbway audlier bitfbst5olfigs After si riiaii fias gnawed a good old ashioned hard tack for an hour he is 21 a mood to remember pretty- nearly wything - The St Paul Dispatch says A one trmed athlete has been walking around he earth Well thats an armless sort of amusement isnt it- Why shouldnt Hon Joseph Cham berlain believe in an English alliance Aith America Such an alliance has worked all right in his own case It is said now that the German Em peror designs many of the Empress gowns He Is able to do anything from directing his nations destiny to 3ress mikJug The Denver Post complains because a Colorado poet has made Dewey rhyme with glory Why find fault with that It is a deed to be proud of ow did he do it VSi A Western paper says the tubercu losis has been communicated to dogs ty French bacteriologists The only way a dog can be absolutely safe is to refuse to associate with such persons A contemporary clears up a doubtful natter in the following lucid manner The name of the Spanish admiral at Uontijo and as Montojo It is doubtful 30 Montijo and as Montojo Ho ho Is that so The authorities In Washington per petrated a neat swindle on the Span iards in Cuba Blanco has been in duced to exchange two American news paper correspondents for a Spanish colonel and a physician Om Naval Academy which has vin dicated its existence abundantly in limes past has done it again in the splendid gunnery of our naval officers he theory and practice of which are very thoroughly taught at Annapolis The decadence of Spain is illustrated jy the fact that from having beeu oiice the possessor of much the great est part ofNorth and South America ihe has not now a safe coaling station ud before many months she will have lost those she nominally owns The sense of proportion is a fine thin to cultivate in these times There were heroes before Agamemnon ever though there were no hysterical news papers to declare it Ana Dy the way f everal brave deeds were done in this very country some thirty five years The titles of the King of Spain sug gest a large part of the history of the world He Js King of - Jerusalem which is Turkish of Navarre which is French of Gibraltar which is British ind of the East and West Indies which are largely British Duke of Brabant ind Count of Flanders now the two in dependent kingdoms ofk Hqlland and Belgium and sovereign of numerous other lands long since independent or ander vthe undisputed sway of other powers He bears upon his person Indeed an epitome of the glory and the Jail of Spain An intelligent effort is being made to convince European nations -that v corn read asthe Yankee said of punkin pie is wholesome Vitals Some Headway is being made and since the Cnited States produces more than two billion bushels the export supply may e regarded as equal to any dctnand he corn evangelists -operating In Eu ope can create The royal family of Denmark takes kindly to corn and when fully converted as seems prob ible a European cornrfed aristocracy may be created j In New York the great difficulty of the lot farms committee In previous fears has been the obtaining of suf Scient land for the farms but this fear it has for use during the summer three hundred and twenty acres of nd in Pelham Bay Park This is now die fourth year that the vacant lot arms have been carried on in New YorklCity Each year a small number menhave been so trained in the first principles of agriculture that they iave expressed unwillingness to take positions in the country and some few heads of families have done so Thus the vacant lot farms afford a kind of farm training school China has at last made its first con cession to an American company The Secretary of Statehas received notice hat the American China Development Company has been permitted to build a railroad from Hankow on the River to Canton in the Prov ince of Quong Tung and thence to the Bea The line will be 900 miles long and will run through provinces tribu tary to a population of nearly 90000 D00 people The company now is nego liating for extensions to the main line which it is also believed will be grant ed With a view of enabling the Chi nese ultimately to construct and oper ate railways tee American China De velopment Company is to establish a school of practical instruction in rail ways where Chinese shall be educated In questions relating to railway con struction operation and management All materials and apparatus for the proposed road are to enter the Chinese empire free of duty in a manner simi lar to that adopted in the case of the railway now running west from Tlen Tsln The grafting of this concession serves to emphasize the importance of our recent operations at the Philip pines The conditions at Australia and the Philippines show the differences in the methods of government practiced by Great Britain and Spain In Australia practically the same civilized condi tions exist as in England and every thing that can be done to reform the natives Is being done But there are no cities in Europe that are more fine ly built than Sjdney and Melbourne or which enjoy a higher civilization In the Philippines with the possible ex ception of Manila where the presence of a few English German and Ameri can residents give some signs of civili zation the people are in the same prim itive condition now as when they came under Spanish sway three centuries ago Nothing whatever has been done to develop the vast revenues of the isl ands or to educate and civilize the peo ple All the means of public instruc tion arc in the hands of religious so cieties which use every effort to keep the natives in ignorance that r they may be the more easily dominated and oppressed The people are1 robbed that none may accumulate property enough to send their children away to be edu cated It is through the few that have been sent abroad that the late revolu tions Jiave been encouraged and the natives madeto lealize the tyranny and despotism of Spain The American people lack something of a quality which is certainly good for the general communitythat of tenac ity In the defence of the small individ ual rights which the greater rights are sometimes found to depend on in the end The American is apt to ask him self Will it pay to resist an infringe ment upon his rights If it is not like ly to pay he usually submits to the outrage Englishmen on the other hand are tenacious of their rights as against corporations or public ser vants even at great cost to themselves Frenchmen can also on occasion show a like spirit A good example of it has lately been brought to the public atten tion in Paris A business man forced by a misadventure to wait an hour and a half at a railway station took up the table of rates and charges which the railroad company was required to keep open to the public He found that the advertised fare for the trip he was abont to mate v as twentj nine francs and ninety live centimes whereas the fare usually exacted was thirty francs When he bought his ticket he offered twenty nine francs and ninety five cen times the agent refused to give him a ticket He paid thirty francs under protest and after his return to the city demanded the return of the excess about one cent in our money The company refused to refund It He sued the railroad company for restitu tion and won his case The company appealed and the first decision was w imf Court oiWBlWWirnelnghest court open to Mt Again the decision was in the citizens favor the company was ordered to restore the cent to him and to lower its fare to the prescribed figure The litigation cost the company more than three thousand francs and the citizen about a thousand He had vindicated a principle and ho doubt considered himself well repaid The citizen perhaps1 in oar country be called a kicker but he was kick ing in the service of the and the community owes hfin its sin cere thanks for his self sacrifice The Koreans are exhibiting the wild est delight- over the announcement that their king is about to marry This act on his part means more to those peo ple than is commonly supposed by such as are ignorant of some of the curious customs of that -people The king takes precedence in all matri monial affairs for so long as the king is single no marriage may take place in his domains -among -his subjects All good Koreans therctforejwXooliey the letter of the law religiously and patri otically postpone their weddings until the king has taken a spouse unto him self Among the common people this law is not strictly obeyed but among -the nobility and the better class of people no one would think of- marry ing before the king as such a violation of the law would cause the offender to lose caste But marriages are arranged In Korea without reference to the par ties to it -and falling In love is a thing of which a Korean is never guilty Since the murder of the queen some two years or more ago none of the members of good families have married and the people more than a year since became so impatient for the king to wed that they expressed their discontent openly The kings ad visers made known to him the dissatis faction among his subjects and he be gan the work of hunting up a wife Although he is over GO years of age his choice was the daughter of a noble man who had not reached her sixteenth year His ministers objected to the king making that kind of a fool of him self since it is against the time honored customs of the empire for the king to take a wife so many years his junior The advice of the ministers prevailed but while the king abandoned the maiden he could not be induced to look with favor upon any of the others whom his advisers presented for his selection This set the people again in a rage and finally the king delegated to his advisers the power of selecting a wife for him without his interfer ence This selection has been made and the future queen of Korea is re ported to be very handsome according to Asiatic ideas of beauty and about 30 year of age No man should be proud no man ever lived whose neighbors didnt pity his wife S HOUSE FOR HAWAII CONGRESSMEN ADOPT ANNEXA TION RESOLUTION Eighteen Democrats Join In Making Up the 209 Ycna While Three Re publicans Are in 01 Naya Roll Call on Party Lines Favor an Island State Washington special The Hawaiian debate which continued in the House without interruption from Saturday until Wednesday was one of the most notable in this Gougress Ha waiian annexation being considered of groat commercial and strategic impor tance by its advocates and being looked upon by its opponents as involving -a rad ical departure from the long established policy of the country and likely to be fol lowed by the inauguration of atpronounc ed policy of colonization the abandon ment of the Monroe doctrine and partici pation in international wrangles More than half a hundred members participat ed in the debate From a party standpoint the result was awaited with the keenest interest The Republicans presented practically SsWt 3TEd V COXGPKSSMAX XEWLAXDS Father of the Hawaiian Annexation Resolution mous support to the resolutions only three Republican members voting in opposition In the Democratic ranks the division up on the question was more marked eigh teen voting for annexation Analysis of the Vote TOR ANNEXATION JvCPULKlCilllS 1 1 J LS iO i U 1 1 tt o usioniSLS i Total 200 AGAINST ANNEXATION Democrats 7 Republicans 3 Populists T Pnilnnloto I 4 jl tioiuuioig XGitll DrnocrATS foii Annexation Denner Ta Livingston Ga Berry Ky Marshall Ohio Brucker Mich Norton S C Cochrui Wn Osborne Wyo Cummings N Y Sulzer N Y De Yries Cal Taylor Ala Driggs X Y VehslnegtS Enncntrout Pa KI foTS D- - Griffith In J -Lewis Ga nEruniicANS Against annexation Crimipackcr In Wadsworih N Y Johnson Intj Debate continued seven hours NotsMti speeches were made by Messrs Berry Dem Ky W A Smith Itep Mich and Hepburn Rep Ta for and by Messrs Johnson Rep Ind and Williams Dem Miss against the pending measure The resohitions relate in a preamble the offer of the Hawaiian Republic to cede all of its sovereignty and absolute title to the Government and crown lands and then by resolution accept the cession and de clare the islands annexed The resolu tions provide for a commission of five at least two of whom shall be resident Ha waiians to recommend to Congress such legislation as they may deem advisable The public debt Of Hawaii not to ex ceed 4000000 is assumed Chinese im migration is prohibited All treaties with other poweis are declared null It is provided that until Congress shall pro vide for the government of the islands all civil judicial and military powers now exercise by the officers of the existing government shall be exercised in such manner as the president shall direct and he is given powers to appoint persons to put into effect a provisional government for the islands v--- AS TO IMPORTS AND EXPORTS Comparative Ftatement for the Month cf May Is Made Public The comparative stivtemeiitjOfthe im ports aad cxports of the United States for lKp mnnth nf ffiv iKSiiorl hv tha - j rear of statistics shows Merchandise Exporjs C947S3 increase as compared with May 1S97 about 32400000 imports 53 238S47 of which about 48 per cent is free of duty decrease about 26000000 Gold Exports 109157 decrease about 9300000 imports 13119333 increase about 12500000 Silver Exports 4184432 dpcrease about 150000 imports 4SS568 de crease 250000 For the eleven months of the present fiscal year there was an increase in the amount of domestic merchandise export ed as compared with the same period last year of 15713S821 and a decrease of 42732983 in the imports of domestic merchandise There was also a decrease in the exports of gold amounting to 17 539044 and an increase of 31228775 in the amount of gold imported The amount of silver exported decreased by over 5000000 and there was an of G25S3Jn the silver imports Pauncefote to rel etainecl SirJulian rauncefote the British am bassador has been advised by the British foreign office that he will be retained at Washington for another year Represent ations were made recently by the admin stratlon thiough Ambassador Hay in London that the recall of Sir Julian at his time would be unwise Kniplis of Honor Bar Women The Supreme lodge Knights of Honor in session at Washington by a vote of 34 to 23 decided iut to admit women to aoirLership in the order The ground taken was that an organization number ing 100000 Lad been built up and it would be unsafe to risk any fundamental change The visiting Knights and1 their wives were given a reception by Presi dent McKinley Importers say that a revenue tax of 10 j cents n pound on tea ought net to raise uriee rffS ryg 1 n p HU Jii4 Ui J J ili4 Ui4 w oi a cent uciwoen iu and lo cent articles V of a cent on 25 cent articles and of a cent for each additional 25 cents retail price NOTE Dealers in above enumerated ar ticks must stamp goods In stock at these rates when sold at retail Tennessee Kentucky Ohio is 98 00 OS 03 90 idl Kansas California 10 1 The average condition of springyheat the ahiiostT if not entirely ed one of 1009 as compared with S9G on June 1 1S97 and 925 the average for the last ten years Nearly all the States of principal production report a condition exceeding thatJhdicative of a full normal crop North Dakota reporting 104 South j Dakota 103 Nebraska 103 Iowa 102 Minnosota 100 Oregon 101 and Washing ton 97 GREAT INCREASE Or EXPORTS Fiscal Year 189S Helps Farmer More than Any Prcviouj One The farmers of the United States are drawing upon other parts of the word for more money in the fiscal year which ends with this month than in any preceding year in the history of the country Even the high water mark of 1S92 when our exports of agricultural product amounted to 79932S232 will be surpassed by the record of the year whih closes with this month The prelimiarry reports of May exportations which have reached tlie bu reau of statistics made it quite apparent that the agricultural exports of the year will be considerably iu excess of 800 000000 the total for the year being likely to reach 835000000 Compared with the last fiscal year the increase in exports of agricultural pro ducts will be fully 150000000 In breadstuffs alone the exports of the year will amount to nearly 1000000 for each business day and will be more than 100 000000 in excess of last years exports Of wheat the value of the exports for 1E98 will be more than double those of lc97 whHe the increase in Hour will be nearly 50 per cent and of corn nearly 50 per cent in value Provisions in which term are included beef and hog and dairy products show alst a marked increase the total exports of provipious for the year bein likely to reach 160000000 in value Should it happen the International band wagon plays Yankee Doodle and God Save the Queenin unison the test of ihe world mayas well face tbe music Phila delphia JTjjnes SUMMARY OF THE WAR TAXES 1 Classified List of Licenses Excise and Special Stamp Taxes of the New Law J f yrJ 4itJ H4 lii l J ii4 14 Ui I J jitJ tHJ tSH IaiI J KiA HsU 134 yi3 R new war revenue bill has be come a law President McKinley made it such by affixing his signa ture Monday afternoon and as originally provided the act went into effect on the day succeeding its passage Few branches of industry and commercial Hfeareexempt ed from the operation of the law Busi ness men will therefore find the following classiiied summary of the provisions of the bill not only convenient but invalua ble for constant reference Annual Iic use Taxes BANKERS On capital and surplus o0 on 250000 capital 2 on each additional 1000 liltOKKUS Yearly license tax 0 and stamp tax of 5 cents on each 100 of face value on bonds stocks shares etc and 2 cents on each 100 of face value on each note or memorandum of sale Commercial brokers Yearly license tax of 20 CUSTOM HOUSE BROKERS Yearly license tax of 10 IVSUltANon AGENTS Yearly license tax of 1J ana tuuiy tao3 on life policies of 10 cents on each 100 marine inland Are casualty fidelity and guarantee insurance one half of 1 cent on each 1 premium charged - MANUFACTURERS OF MIXED PLOUR Four cents on each barrel and an rtnnual license tax of 12 PROPRIETORS OF PUBLIC SHOWS Theaters museums concert halls cir cuses 100 All other public entertain ments 10 Bawling alleys billiard rooms 3 for each alley or table This provision regarding theaters and con cert halls applies to cities of over 25000 - PAWNBROKERS Yearly license tax of 20 General Taxes BREWiERS On beer lager ale porter and all ferment ed liquors 2 per barrel of 31 gallons less Vj per cent on stamps purchased for Buch tax CIGARMAKERS Threo dollars and 60 cents on each 1000 cigars weighing more than three pounds 1 per 1000 weighing less than three pounds and an annual tax on sales at the rate of 0 on 100000 cigars 12 on 200000 cigars 24 on more than 200000 cigars CIGARETTE MAKERS Three dollars and GO cents on every 1000 cigarettes weighing more than three pounds 150 on every 1000 weighing less than three pounds IMPORTERS OF TEA Ten cents a pound on all teas SUGAR AND PETROLEUiM REFINERS One quarter of 1 per cent on annual gross receipts in excess of 250000 TOBACCO MANUFACTURERS Twelve cents per pound on all tobacco and snuff and an annual tax based on vearlv sales at the rate of G on 50000 pounds or less 12 on more than 50000 pounds 24 on 100000 pounds Special Stamp Taxeq BROKERS Two cents on each ante or memorandum of sale and 50 annual license tax PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS One cent on every ticket sold for seat or berth SCHEDULE B MANUFACTURERS a Of medicinal proprietary articles and preparations b all urticles made under pat ented right or trademark except food prod ucts Had commercial fertilizers cj per fumery cosmetics etc must pav stamp taxe at the rate of of 1 cent on 5 cent articles U of 1 cent on 10 cent articles 7 v EH a m d Chewing gum 4 cents on each pack age of a retail value of 1 e mixed flour 4 cents on each barrel and an annual license tax of 12 Miscellaneous Stamp Taxes In addition to stamp taxes already enu merated the following are imposed On bonds debentures certineates of In debtedness 5 cents on each 100 of face value On sales or agreements to sell shares or certificates of stock 2 cents on each 100 On sales or agreements of sale of any products or merchandise at any exchange 1 cent on each 100 of value On bank checks drafts certificates of de posit not drawing interest and money or ders of all kinds 2 cents On each bill of exchange Inland draft certificates of deposit drawing Interest promissory note 2 cents on each 100 On each foreign bill of exchange aud letter of credit 4 cents on each 100 On each bill of lading or receipt for ex port 10 cents Oa each bill of lading or manifest for goods sent by freight or express within the United States 1 cent On cadi telephone message costing 15 cents or more 1 cent On each bond of Indemnity 50 cents On eacii co tMcate of pronts of companies and corporations 2 cc nts on each 100 of face value On every document Issued by a port war den 25 cents On certificates of all kinds reqnried by law 10 cents On every charter of a vessel or renewal or transfer of Rime On registered tonnage of 300 ton 3 on registered tonnage of GOO tons 5 on registered tonnage of more than GOO tons 10 On conveyance or deed of more than 100 and less than 500 50 cents and for each additional 500 50 cents On every telegraph message 1 cent On every custom house entry for 100 of value 25 cents for 500 of value 50 cents for more than 500 of value 1 On every withdrawal of goods from cus tom3 banded warehouse 50 cents On every lease for one year 25 cents for three years 50 cents for more than threo years 1 On each manifest for custom house entry or clearance of ships for foreign ports ex cept In British North America On regis tered tonnage of 300 tons SI on reiristered tonnage of 600 tons 3 on registered ton nage of more than GOO tons 5 On mortgages for more than 1000 and less than 91500 25 cents and on each ad ditional 500 25 cents On each passage ticket to a forelso port not In British North America costing 30 1 costing 60 3 coetlng more than SGC 5 - - Powebof attorney 25 cents Proxy for voting at any election of an In corporated company except charitable re ligious or literary societies or public ceme teries 10 cents On protest of note bill of exchange check etc or marine protest 25 cents On receipt for payment of any money or debt exceeding 5 1 cent On warehouse receipts 25 cents On legacies exceeding 10000 and not exceeding 25000 a graded tax of frm 75 cents to 5 on each 100 which graded tax is to be nvultipiied by H on leje iries of more than 25000 and less than 100000 multi plied by 2 where the value of the property does not exceed 500000 multiplied by 2 where the value of the propertv does not exceed 1000000 and multiplied by 3 when in excess of 1000000 Violation of Penalties the act by evasion of tnej stamp act on proprietary and n C T 11 AvasJonVflnlsTaf iiueoi 100 Forging or counter T 3 M iitnir uuip is uuniiiuim uy a line ui 1000 or confinement at hard labor for five years GREAT WHEAT CROP PROMISED LIST OF PRIZES TO BE SOLD Larger Acreapre and Finer Condition than for Many Years Preliminary returns of the spring wheat acreage with the two JDakotas in particu lar subject to revision indicate a total area seeded of 16SOO000 acres which added to the area in winter wheat 2G200 000 acres makes a total of wheat acreage of 43000000 or rather more than 3500 000 acres greater than Inst year There is- an increase of 8 per ceut in Minnesota 22 in Iowa 10 in Nebraska 11 in North Dakota 8 in South Dakota 5 hr Oregon and 20 in Washington The average condition of winter wheat is 908 as compared with 785 at the cor responding date last year and SlG the average for the lost tea -years The prin cipal averages are as follows New York Pennsylvania Maryland Michigan 0 Indiana 05 Missouri W Will Be Offered at Key West to the Hijrhest Bidder The following is a list of the prize ves sels and their cargoes which are to be sold at public auction in the city of Key West to the highest bidder for cash Length Name Net tons feet Steamer Argonauta COO 1S2 Steamer Ambrosia Bolivar 103 118 Bark Carlos F Hoses 521 118 Barkentine Lorenzo 2S1 119 Brig Frisquita 3 2i 101 Schooner CancMta 31 01 Pohooner Matilde G4 71 Schooner Sophia 57 GO Schooner Iinero Ill 89 Schooner Trcs Hermanos 34 53 Schooaer Mascota 120 11G Schooner Engracia 43 53 Schooner Lola 35 4S iSchoouer Antonio y Paco 47 53 Schooner Quatre de Setlcimbre 30 5G Schooner Orient 43 52 Schooner Antonio Suarez 33 Schooner de Dios 51 Schooner Espaua 51 Schooner Femandito 23 Schooner Santiago Apostol 53 Schooner Severitn Ttv4i 40 02 50 33 G3 v Sloon ParnniLta 33 4 Also at the same time and place will be sold thg cargoes of said vessels con sisting of3500 sacks of rice 1416 sacks of flour 373 sacks of beans 100 cases of codfish 1943 sacks of sugar 6S0 cases of sardines 1750 boxes of vermieelli and macaroni 47 cases of cigars Si bundles of steel 51 cases of mineral water 170 cases and barrels of beer 1260 cuses of canned goods 41S bales of paper 7 cases of paper bags 10 hogsheads of wine 30 barrelsof wine 50 cases of wine and 262 cases of chocolate RUSSIA TO EUILD GREAT CANAL Will Connect Black and Baltic Seas and Co t97H0O0O The current issue of the publication by the oflice of naval intelligence preterits a detailed account of an immense canal about to bo undertaken by ltu sla which will connect the E ack and Baltic sens and will enable Ler to concentrate her fleets at either end in less than seven days The canals entire length will be 10S0 miles but by using the rivers the artificial con struction will extend only 125 miles The cost of the entire construction is esti mated at 97009000 Money for a PariB Kxhibit Assistant Secretury of State Cridler who has recently returned from a visit to Paris to study the advisability of an American exhibit at the exposition of 1900 will soon hand his report to the President and will recommend a liberal appropriation Fought a Bnel in France Count Boniface de Casteltone who mar ried Miss Anna Gould of New York en gaged in a duel in Paris with M Henri Turot of the Petite Kepublique Fran caise Three rounds were fought with swords and M Turot was wounded in each round twice slightly and the third time severely in the right forearm thus ending the duel We will have to stop the war long enough to permit the usual announce ments concerning the Jersey and Dela ware peach crops Washington pjst BUYING WAE BONDS SMALL INVESTORS SUBSCRIBE TO THE POPULAR LOAN Results of First ApplicationsIniicate that Small Investors Vill Toko En tire Issue of as First class Securities Loan Js a Success The Government has taken every possi ble step to make the new bond issue in every sense a popular loan While the great banking syndicates of this country and Europe are ready and willing to sub scribe for the entire bond issue the Treas ury Department has decided that individ ual subscriptions will receive attention first and that the smallest amounts asked for will be allotted before the larger ones This means that any private citizen who desires to invest a little money in the new government bonds will be accommodated beforo the millionaires and the banking institutions may purchase these desirable- securities Small investors regard the new bonds as first class securities and unless all present indications are misleading the en tire issue will be placed before the larger banking institutions will be permitted to subscribe The people want the bonds and are not a whit backward about asking for them The sub treasury the banks postofiice stations and express offices in New York Chicago Philadelphia Bos ton St Louis Cincinnati and other large cities as well as many of the smaller ones were besieged the first day with requests for information and for the ap plication bhinks prescribing the form in which subscriptions must be made Con servative estimates place the first days small subscription totals at 3000000 In Chicago the days subscription reach ed GS5SG0 Experts say more than 10 000000 will be subscribed in small sums in New York alone These bonds bear interest at 3 per cent payable quarterly The denominations of the coupon bonds are 20 S100 500 and S1000 of registered bonds 20 100 500 1000 5000 and 10000 Iu terms they are precisely like all other United States bonds outstanding that is they ate payable in coin Secretary Gages letter of instructions- reveals the precautions taken by the ad ministration and the Treasury Depart ment to make this a popular loan in the strictest sense to insure the small invest ors getting the bonds if they want them Until 3 oclock p m July 14 no subscrip tion will be honored that cals for uiore than 500 All others will he pigeon holed If the subscriptions for 500 or less exhaust the entire issue of 200000 000 the others will stay pigeon holed Whatever of the total issue if any re main will be allotted after July 14 and again the small banks and the man or money The allotment of what remains will commence with tje smallest subscrib erthat is the man who wants 000 or 1000 worth of bonds will have his appli cation honored before that of the man who asks for 1200 or 2000 and so on It is therefore practically impossible fQr tllf limits nnil mm - rn l v ritf r viwww to Let any of tliosi ll - the peoplf of modest means take advantae f 3 month of tic- b by the ban- which some have appeared to fear is out of the question since two dnnimies would be needed for every 1 000 of bonus and to get a block of 100 000 the botfd seekers would need a whole regiment of 4mmies The bonds are nAte soId t0 the peo pie at a fixed price or uiJar This is another safeguard for tmaulfia ture of the loan No fear is entertameu of a too rapid absorption of the nations currency by the bond purchasers It is figured that most of the money to be put into bonds will be idle capital When the small investors have had their fill if there be anything left for the big bidders and banks they will be permitted to re ceive their allotments in installments of 20 per cent at intervals of forty days to guard against rapid absorption of the cur rency -If tlicr national banks were able to get hold of large blocks there might be an inflation of the currency by an issue of national bank notes against the new bonds but this is not a real danger on ac count of the restrictions against the banks already noticed Government Out a Million A well known banking- house made a proposition to the Secretarv of the to -subscribe for 100000000 of the new bonds at 101 Under the law the bonds must be sold at par and allotted to the subscribers for the smaller amounts first hence the offer could not be enter tained Subscriptions for 20 bonds or multiples of that amount up to 500 will be awarded as fast as received 3 UjUItuW EOT DSHHEHt Sampson solves the problem The way to open the Santiago bottle is to smash it Philadelphia Ledger I suppose there is no danger of Cer vera breaking out Not unless be gets the measles Cleveland Plain Dealer Apparently by the time Santiago San Juan and other places fall obstinate Madrid-may tumble Philadelphia Times The Americans were generous enough to sink one of their own ships when they found Spain couldnt do it St Paul Dis patch Acting Admiral Sampsons opinion of the management of those Cuba bound troops is probably wholly unfit for publi cation Boston Globe If Cerveia sinks that fleet that is soon to become ours we will place it oi the ex pense account when we come to set tie up St Paul Dispatch Come to think of it Dewey is a name to conjure with Philadelphia Press This floating population was never larger than it is now but it will be still larger when tLe next expedition starts Boston Ierald It is not true that the troous at Tampa are waiting for the gulf of Mexico to freeze over so that they can cros to Cuba on the ie Boston Globe The Government has been urged to adopt worsted- as the material for uni forms but in battle onr trenps must hot be worsted Boston Globe -V -a r r r i k i