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tection.
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It Is possible Hint 1'rof. A ml roc 1ms
solved the problem of how to reach tin
North pole , but the problem of how t <
yet back npnln Is llanlpr.
Now that we know what Bryan thinks
oC Alexander Hamilton It Is really ton
bad that we cannot know what Hamil
ton would have thought of the boy era
tor.
It is no longer proper to refer to the
business outlook fur 1WIS as unusually
good. The outlook has already become
partly a retrospect without disappoint
ment.
Oratory Is tunjrht In every class of the
Kansas State Agricultural college imdei
populist management. According to the
Kansas creed , oralory Is ow of the most
useful brandies of agriculture.
Nearly n week without a telephonic
ebullition from the long distance archi
tect. If the telephone wires are not
promptly put in good working order the
success of the exposition will be jeopar
dized.
Niearaguan plotters are accused of
.making an attempt to kidnap 1'rince
Clarence , the Mosquito chief. It seems
that the people who have the most
trouble are the ones always searching
after more.
The great reform police board seems
io take the proposal to fund the floating
Indebtedness created by its 1807 deficit
as free license to contract a new deficit
of still greater proportions for 1SS. ! As
deficit makers the police board and the
school board arc close competitors.
The great cry of the popocrats Is for
the populists anil democrats to get to
gether if they hope to lay their hands
on the spoils of 1SS. ! ) In the getting to
gether the bill of the play provides for
the democrats the role of the lion and
for the populists the role of the lamb.
Consul General Lee Is to become
father to all the orphan children of Cuba
and an American religious Journal Is to
pay the expenses of maintaining an or
phanage In Havana. If this doesn't con
vince the -uban Insurgents that they
have the sympathy of the American people
ple In their unequal struggle for liberty ,
then they are not open to conviction.
With no one responsiblu In charge of
the exposition work , no wonder plans ,
Kpi'clllcations and similar papers con
stantly disappear. No wonder , too , that
these documents nre always just those
that would be of utmost Importance to
exposition contractors who might want
advance Information about contracts or
lenient enforcement of their own agree
ments.
The exposition has made uiKpiestlon-
able progress under its present haphaz
ard management , which seems thus far
to have had luck with It , The question
Is , however , Is It wise , prudent or safe
to continue to tempt the fates by main
taining a headless Institution which If
done for a private business corporation
would be everywhere characterized as a
piece of .stupendous follyV
The Idea that the schools can teach
anything without cost to the taxpayers
Is lee ridiculous to be entertained for
a moment. If all the educational fads
and frills could l > i > added without addi
tional expense , why Is It they are not a
part of every school system In the conn-
try ? 'When the raxpayer.s ever get any
thing of value for nothing It will bo time
for ( iaurlel to blow his trump.
When n city contractor undertakes to
carry out a street Improvement that en
tails tlio practical blocking of the street
during the progress of ( ho work , he
should bu compelled to execute his con
tract with all possible .speed ami with
least possible. Inconvenience to the pub
lic. The contractor who persists In keepIng -
Ing streets torn up nnd delays his work
on all sorts of flimsy pretexts should be
liarred from further competition on pub
lic work. Hecuuso the contract Is en-
tercel Into with the city Is no reason why
the contractor should fuel free to treat
tlio public as If It had uo rights whatever
In the streeta.
ron n-A.it.
Those who would have the government
talco action In reffnrd to Cuba which
could hardly fall to bring on war with
.Spain are Ignorant or unmindful of the
fact that this country Is not prepared
for a war. We hlivo a navy , but It Is said
there Is not now on hand fiiifllclcnt war
supplies to last n week In the event of
war , while there Is not a single dry dock
In condition to receive a battleship If
disabled In a fight. Then our coast de
fenses , which would receive prompt at
tention from nn enemy's licet , are not
generally so equipped either with guns
or men as to successfully resist nn at
tack. Some of them might do BO , but
others would probably be easily reduced
and of course a well Informed enemy
would strike at the- weak spots. There
would be no dltllculty In raising what
ever army might be needed , but wo
could not nt once eaulp a large army ,
though perhaps no very great addition
to the regular army would be necessary.
Having the money we could of cotirso
buy supplies , but to provoke war and
provide for prosecuting It afterwards
would be madness. Those congressmen
who are disposed to urge the administra
tion to aggressive action ought to be
familiar with these conditions , though
their course would Imply that they are
not. They profess to believe , however ,
that Spain would not go to war , but that
Is an exceedingly unsafe theory. There
Is not a reasonable doubt that If the
United States should recognize the Inde
pendence of Cuba .Spain would promptly
declare war.
In the debate on a Cuban resolution
In the United States senate a few days
ago Senator Halo declared his belief that
the American people do not want war
and there Is no doubt he was right. "It
Is too Intolerable that today , " said the
Maine senator , "with our industries re
viving , with the demand everywhere for
peace , the American people want war. "
If there were any such .sentiment , ho
declared , It would have displayed Itself
In better fashion than lighting over the
battles of Cuba on the Moor of the United
States senate. "Wo are less than 100
miles from Cuba , " said the Maine sena
tor , "there are 100 places where thou
sands of men interested and determined
to help the Insurrection might have
landed In Cuba and joined the insurgent
army and none have gone there. There
are today lioO.OOO soldiers of thp great
war of the rebellion upon both sides un
der the age of "iO and not one of
them has gone to Cuba. There are said
to be 1,000,000 unemployed men In this
country , with nothing to do , and not
one of them has gone to Cuba. " Mr.
Hale challenged any senator on the Iloor
to give him the name of one single citi
zen of the United States , with an En
glish name , who is today lighting in the
ranks of the Insurgents and he got no
i'ply. That was a conclusive answer to
the assumption that the American pee
pie want their government to interfere
u Cuba at the risk of war.
The jingoism that finds expression on
the llo'ors of congress docs not voice the
general sentiment of the American peo-
lie. Strongly and earnestly as they
sympathize with the efforts of the Cu-
lans to free themselves from Spanish
lominatlon , gladly ns they would wel
come the achievement of Cuban inde
pendence , greatly as they deplore the
errlble conditions in that island , the
nore intelligent and conservative among
he American people do not want their
government to take any course that
night involve war. Even if the country
were fully prepared for war the In-
vitiibie unsettling and disturbing effects
> f a conflict with Spain admonish
against It.
THK DUTY ON 111DKS ,
The crusade against the duty on hides
vhich is being made by the shoe manu
facturers of New England will prob-
ibly have no practical result , but It Is
i matter that Is certain to command
mbllc attention. The chief argument
of those who are urging a repeal of the
luty Is that the law affords no benefit
o the cattle raisers , while It is a direct
lenellt to the buyers of cattle nnd that
he consumers that Is , the buyers of
shoes are compelled to pay the duty.
The advocates of a repeal of the duty
ircscnt figures to show how the con-
umers nre victimized , but we are un-
ible to see that these figures are at all
oneluslve , the fact being that shoes are
t present as cheap , If not cheaper , than
vhen hides were admitted free of duty.
Of course the advocates of a repeal of
lie duty claim that by reason of It shoes
re higher , but the market quotations
lo not iK-ar them out , the fact being
hat .shoes were never on the whole
hcaper than they are today.
The placing of a duty on hides was
one at the Instigation of the cattle pro-
neon * of the country. It is possible
liat tluy have not reaped the full bene-
t from It they expected , but It can be
sserted with absolute certainty that the
resent congress will not repeal the duty.
FOltKSrilY f.V TII'O XTATKS.
The problem of forest preservation
Itlmately becomes a question of forest
ulture. This stage has already been
cached in New York , where the slate
s spending vast sums of money for pur-
laso of the Adirondack forests. Already
IIP state owns 800,000 acres nnd this
ear the forest preserve board will have
. " 00,000 at Its dbposal with which to
ontlnue the purchases. Not only this ,
nit a bill has been Introduced in the leg-
slaturo on suggestion of the governor
rovldlng that 115,000 acres of forest bo
; lvcn In trust to Cornell university for
wenty-flvo years for purposes of exper-
ment In forest preservation ami culture.
The governor , It Is stated , desires to con-
luce the people of the state that with
roper carp the forests can be made
source of profit to the- state , and that
he state will bo able to keep Its grand
orests and at the same time sell wood
ml lumber each year suillclent to pay
ere than the cost of keeping. The
uceess of such an experiment wouhl un-
uestlonably bo of Incalculable value to
lie cause of American forestry.
In Colorado the forestry problem Is
till to be c > alt with in Its primary
ag ( s. Tlio state association Is on record
s favoring federal control of the for-
sta , with military protection for the
reservations and general revision of the
laud laws to make them applicable to
conditions In the mountainous and arid
regions. Not even n beginning has been
made In. forestry In the forest regions of
the west where preservation of tlio trees
will be of greatest value. It Is therefore
not surprising that those Interested In
Colorado should deslro that the start
should bo made right. The Intimate re
lation between the forests and the arid
lands suggests that they shall bo dealt
with by uniform laws.
The proposed experiment In forest cul
ture In New York , if carried out , will bo
watched with special Interest by the
people of the forest states of the trans-
mlsslsslppl region , for whom Its lessons
will have equal application.
CA A'A DA'S THE A Tl KiS.
According to a report from the capital
of the Dominion covernment , the Par
liament Is to bo asked to change the
customs law by alxjllshing the reciprocal
clause and making the minimum tariff
apply solely to Great Urltnln and pos
sibly to colonies. It Is stated that this
has been made necessary by the dis
covery that even with the German and
Belgian treaties out of the way , the
preferential tariff would apply to nearly
all the world. It will be remembered
that only a. short time ago the British
government , at the urging of Canada ,
denounced the commercial treaties be
tween England and Germany and be
tween England and Belgium , In order
to allow for new treaties , which would
put Canada upon * a bettor plane. All
this effort appears to have been for
naught if tiie Ottawa report is authentic ,
since the step which Canada Is repre
sented as about to take will be In the
direction of the Imperial customs unloi
which has been urged by the British
secretary for the colonies , Mr. Josepl
Chamberlain.
This matter has an Interest for the
United States for the obvious reasoi
that It means an abandonment on the
part of Canada of all purpose or desire
in respect to reciprocity with this conn
try. It Is clearly impossible that an >
reciprocal agreement or arrangement
can bo made between Canada and the
United States when the former proposes
to make its minimum tariff apply solelj
to Great Britain and there Is hardly a
possibility that the Canadian govern
ment will ever consent to anything dif
ferent from this. It may be that the
report from Ottawa does not correctly
represent the position of the Dominion
government , but the probability is thai
the attitude of that government is not
friendly , in a commercial way , to the
United States.
A CIJIKF OK I'UUCK.
The chief of police has sent In a com-
mi-ulcntton asking the jyollce board for
the appointment of forty additional
patrolmen and twenty additional detec
tives to enable him to give the city ade
quate police protection during the com
ing year. This Is .substantially a request
that the police force be doubled and
the expenses of maintenance Increased
in proportionate degree.
The question Is whether increasing
the police force under Its present man
agement would improve the ellicloncy
of the department. Never since Omaha
was provided with a metropolitan police
has the force been in such a helpless
and ineffective condition as it is today.
To ascribe this either to the smnllness
of the force or to the incompetency of
the rank and file would be closing the
eyes to actual facts. The.ro is no ques
tion that the existing deb of thugs and
thieves and reign of nnsupprossed law
lessness and licentiousness is due al
most wholly to the Imbecility of the
ofliccrs in control and the examples of
outlawry set by the members of the po
lice commission. When the chiefship
is given ns the political prize to inexperi
ence and an ex-chief whose olllclal
misconduct has deserved only summary
and ignominious dismissal Is rewarded
with a premium of retention in idleness
at captain's pay , what reason is there
to look for faithfulness from subordi
nates ? When the police board Itself
condones lawbrcaklng and openly as
sures law-doflers of police protection ,
what can be expected of the policeman
who takes his cue from his superiors ?
Enlarging the police force cannot meet
the emergency. It must bo preceded by
a thorough reorganization of the depart
ment through the replacement of the
Incompetents now in charge with men
of tried experience and ascertained re
liability. A first-class man as chief
of police would be worth forty police
men to the citizens and taxpayers.
With their eyes firmly fixed upon the
cotton mills of New England , where the
operatives and workmen are unable to
agree on wages , the popocrats of the
country are absolutely blind to the fact
that 200,000 coal miners have received
in Increase of wages in pursuance of an
agreement readied last January , that
there was a0 per cent advance In
wages In a largo number of woolen mills
not long ago , that there has been an ad
vance of 1. per cent In wages to men in
the strnc'tural iron mills and a substan
tial Increase In the wages paid to the
workers In the glass factories. These
ire n few Instances whore the ivturn of
irosperlty lias brought substantial bene-
Its to the American worklngmon , and
me does not need to look far to see many
other evidences of the same fact.
Whlio the United States Is In the relief
business It might be well to send nn ex
pedition to relieve the band of popo-
cratle conspirators who moved on Col
umbus , O. , a few weeks ago , where
they attracted great attention for a
short time by the profusion of their
iromlses nnd the extravagance of tholr
political predictions. It Is understood
ihey were thrown upon the rocks by
a rough political sea.
There Is great hurrying and scurry-
lifg of the feet of leaders of the fuslon-
ist wing of the populist party in order
that they may keep up appearances In
their Kham "union of reform forces. "
llryan , Butler , Dubols and Ilnrtnmn
have gone to Minnesota to tell the Mln-
lesotu populUU what they must do , and
that , too , with Ignatius Donnelly still a
resident of Minnesota and ready to sup
ply nil necdcit-nklVlce.
Wlillo the fr ll ; growers of other state
nro making greiit preparations for tils
plays nt the 'nlnsinlsslsslppl Expos !
tlon , the horticulturists of Nebraska
must bo bestirring themselves. Nebraska
braska fruit , .though not as well knowi
In the inarkoU 'ns ' the fruit of some
neighboring states , Is much finer than I
Is given credl't ' 'fW ' and this fact cai
easily be mnle | plain at the exposition
WheretTrntlt. . Hurt * .
Olobe-Uemocrnt.
M. Zola's attempt to analyze truth In tlio
presence of a mob makes all the otlio
novelists willing to stick to their Btudlca.
Tlu > One i\ropllon. :
Hnn Vranolwo Chronicle.
IX dlseaso called foot rot has broken ou
In Nebraska and U Is the only kind of rose
so far noticed In that state which tlio popu
list press Isn't responsible ( or.
on,1 tlu * "IVor-liP *
Philadelphia I Jsor.
The war scare In China 1ms brought largo
orders -for American provisions from nil the
governments principally concerned. England
llussla , Germany anil Franco have nil callci
upon the packers of the United States for
meat and canned goods. This Is emphatic
testimony to the fact thnt America Is the
great provision storehouse of the world
When extra supplies are wanted they are
sought In this country. In view ot this
stnto ot things U seems foolish to talk abou
other nations boycotting American products
They nro not likely to starve themselves bj
way of working out n grudge ngalnst us.
Cimd Sinokliii ; Material.
New York SInll mid Express.
President Grant , In his first kmugura
message , said : "Lot It be tmdcrstooJ : that
no ropudlator of one farthing of our public
debt will bo trusted with a public ? ) lacc
nnd It will go far toward strengthening a
credit which ought to IJQ the best In the
world. " This doctrine , uttered nt a tlmo
when the national credit was weak , when
our currency was Insecure and all values
demoralized , struck the Iteynoto of the hcri-
ornblo policy which the republican party
has ever since faithfully pursued In Its dealIngs -
Ings with financial aff&trs. The proposi
tion Is juat as good smoking material for
tinkers and rcpudiators now as It was then.
Onti'l ! , < > < < SnvorolKH.
New York Sun.
The Hon. J6hn Hodomont Sovereign has
resumed his accustomed place upon the In
tellectual throne. Ho has devised a new
means of boosting the cause of 10 to 1. Ho
has founded n necessarily Important organ
ization , which ho describes as "secret
politico-labor. " .Its aim Is "to prevent the
coercion and Intimidation of the workingman -
man at elections , " and It Is to have "raml-
Ilcatlons In every stato. " This Illustrious
thinker wouldn't have anything that wasn't
laden with ramifications. Ho Is a whole
forest himself. Ills "secret politico-labor"
concern will bo worthy of its founder , but
It will not keep him secret. No other man
can utter ns much "politico-labor" sound
as ho can , but secrecy Is not for him. Ho
knows that an admiring country cannot
afford to lose him oven for a week.
Trtillis I norcil by I'nitocrntn.
St. I'dtil ' Jl'ionoer Press.
So far we lia'yo failed to hear any popo-
cratlc explanation of the increase In the
wages of 200,000 coal minors agreed upon
last January. Nor. of the 20 per cent ad
vance in the woolen mills not long ago. Nor
to the in per o.ent advance In the structural
mills. Nor to..the .advance in the glass In
dustries. The New England cotton mills
situation has kept 'them so busy that they
have not had much tlmo to" allude to such
matters. Nor 'ito the 10 per cent advance
on the Gogebto , ' and so on and so forth
through a lonff ' list of Industries , not to
mention the diminution in the number ot
the unemployed and the Increase in the ag
gregate wages paid to the worklngmcn whom
tbo popocratio demagogues profess to be
friend , but whdse dollar Teller and his crow
would cut In two , If they could have their
way. . ,
IIouiiil to lit ; a SIII-OONX.
"WnshltiKton Post.
"The Omaha exposition la going to be n
magnificent success. " eald Mr. G. A. Hrnley
of Nebraska at the Ebbltt. "I was recently
In that city and was surprised at the amount
ot work that had been accomplished , and
the beauty ot the buildings. Whatever the
success of the fair financially , from au ar
tistic and architectural standpoint , It will
take rank among the great expositions of
the day. To my mad ! , tlio arrangements of
the grounds and the designs of the buildings
are superior to the Chicago exposition ,
though , of course , not en so grand a scale.
The buildings are prettier , more attrapt.lvr. .
and artistic than the structures of the White
City , nnd that is saying a great deal. The
Agriculture building Is finished , the skeleton
framework of the Government building Is
up , the Fine Arts building is quite well
along , and Mines end Mining practically
finished. ThereIs a tremendous demand for
space from people who want to exhibit from
every section ot the country , and over ten
times the space at the disposal ot the au
thorities could easily be apportioned. "
'M ItorriMvril 'I'oeiti. '
Ciilcnfjo Trlbuno.
A poem entitled "Plant Trers , " purportIng -
Ing to have been wrltton by Hen. J. ster
ling Morton , has , recently had aia extensive
circulation , likewise a charge laid at Mr.
Morion's door that ho had purloined the
poem and passed It oft as his own. The
charge was an uajust one , as Is shown by
the following letter from Mr. Morton him
self :
"AIinOR LODGE , NEBRASKA CITY , Feb.
7. 1898. Charles J. Brown , Rochester , N. Y.
My Dear Sir : I have received your letter
containing a ccpy of a tree-planting poem ,
which fieems to have been sworn on to me ,
Hut the fact is , I do not know who the
author of these verses may have been , but
enow that I have not the right to claim
their pateimity , although I had them struck
oft on cardboard , , and circulated quite gen
erally amons school teachers for use at
Arbor day plantings throughout the United
States. As the originator ot Arbor day , I
mvo of course endeavored to utilize overy-
hlng which would encourage tree-planting
a this country , cither on that anniversary
or at any other time ,
"J. STERLING MORTON. "
Tlio poem In question was written several
years ago by Mr. Henry Abbey of Kingston ,
N' . Y. , for the use ot the school children
ot that city on the occasion of their first
observance of Arbor day.
A.Y ixciiMi'iuiii\.sniM : ; MA.V.
VIUINCII'H DlMllUi- fur I.rc'lurliiKT mill
Hit1' .Money In H ,
Tutton Transcript.
Money and nojbrlety the almighty dollar
and i > opular . . erional descriptions in the
mblln prlnlsaje so highly regarded hi
his free land o ( , ours that Dr. Nnasen's
attitude toward us Is scarcely understood.
Il.j self-rcspectlng boredom In lecturing Is
considered affectation , rod his every-day
manly homesickness 13 looked upcn by many
icoplo as a lack < if appreciation of his op-
mrtunlties. It , is , as Impcsslblo for many
of our citizens to understcind how n man
could Joyously dispenae with thousands of
dollars which ho might have gained by
golag cm talking , lu public , as It U how any
body , except for this very purpcsa of mak'ng
a lecture tour'-a'ftoTward , should try to reach
the north polo wliilo acknowledging , as Dr.
Xansen has dpiiq. that no commercial use
could bo mad < j ( if his explorations In the
arctic.
Yet , as a matter of fact , Nanecn has done
us n good turn by going home. Ho has setup
up once more before Amerlcens the ideal
of a man who likes something else even
better than the heaping up ot money. Nan-
eon's preference for Icebergs to our lileam-
heatcd houses and trains U genuine , Thou-
eandu ot Americans find themselves rlot-
oosly delighted cci returning to their own
native shores , and who will begrudge Nan.
eon his pleasure of shaking the dust ot tbU ,
to him , foreign country from bla shoes , and
returning to his own native land. It Is
customary to gird at foreigners who come
over hero id carry away too many thou
sands of our dollars for singing , acting or
lecturing. 'Then why not , merely on a coah
basU , admlro Dr. Nanscn for leaving some
behind which he might have carried home
In his chequebook If ho had consented longer
to be bored I
1.KTTKIIS THAT KII.U
I'ulillo Men IVho Have Wrlllcu Their
1'olHlrnl lrn li AViirrniitn.
St. I < cnil niobo-Domocrftt.
"Killed by n Letter" Is the slgnlf.cnnt
heading ot ft Havana newspaper over an arti
cle telling of ex-Mlnlstcr do Lome's fait ,
This legend wouhl be an appropriate cpltsph
over the political graves ot many public
men. The rivalry between Hamilton , the
lender de facto of tlio federalist party , and
Adams , tbo leader do jure , Incited Hamil
ton's letter during the campaign ot 1800 , ar
raigning Adams , which was ono of the causes
of the mpturo nnd overthrow of that party
and the triumph ot Jefferson nnd the democ
racy. Hamilton's letters attacking Jlurr
wcro the cnueo of the duel In which Ham
ilton lost his life. Jefferson's letter to his
old neighbor , Mazzcl , in 179(3 ( , In which , by
pretty plain Implication , ho traduced Wash
ington and other men whom the American
people honored , kept Jefferson denying and
explaining for many years his historic letter
to Von Huron on this subject having been
written shortly before his death and twenty-
eight years nftcr the Mozzcl epistle was
penned. The preservation and publication of
JeerffBon's "Anns , " or diary , which Is really
a sort ot letter to posterity , with Its splto-
Jill assaults on the memory of Hamilton and
other eminent men , showed an amazing lack
of discernment on Jefferson's part , and has
called out from all his editors and blograph
era excuses which accuse.
"Never write a letter , " said Talleyrand ,
"and never burn ono that you receive. " If
Nicholas Diddle had observed the first part
of this Injunction the fate of the United
States bonk over which ho presided would
probably have been different , Jackson would
not have been able to perform that second
labor ot 'Hercules In slaying the bank
"hydra. " and the politics of the " 30s" would
have lost ono of Its most picturesque epi
sodes. An interesting and usually levcl-
l.cadcd personage , 'Diddle ' had what Juvenal
called ah " 'Incurable Itch for writing , " and
this led him and his Institution to their
doom , defeated Clay and the national re
publican party In 1832 , and. as ono of the
consequences of the bank's overthrow ,
brought on the panic of 1S37. The "Rhca
letter" precipitated the contest In 1830 be
tween Jackson nnd Calhoun which put Calhoun -
houn out ot the line of succession to Jack
son In the presidency , made Van Huron Jack
son's political heir , dwarfed Cnlhoun from a
national to a local flguro and turned him
to the partisan metaphysics out of which
wcro evolved nullification and that morbid
and wire-drown political philosophy In de
fense of slavery that brought on the war
which destroyed slavery.
There is a line touch of poetic Irony In
the circumstance that Van Huron , the- nun
who said ho would rather walk forty mlle.J
to tell a person something thaii to Intrust
Ills thoughts to a letter , met his doom
through the medium of a letter. It was a
letter , however , which ho was absolutely
forced to write , and It was called out In the
spring of 1S44 by the necessity ot declaring
iilmselt on the burning Irene of Texas nn-
nexatlcu. That letter , In which he mildly
Tiid tentatively oppcscd nninexattrn , defeated
: ilm for the nomination for the presidency
a few weeks later , and gave the candidacy
to the dark horse , Polk , an outspoken nn-
lexatlonlst. Everybody remembers the
wreck which letter writing inflicted on
Blalno's fortunes by defeat In the conven
tions of 1S7G and 1SSO and at the polls in
ISS1. Ills fatal readiness with his pen
irought an Iliad of woes to Clay. "I am the
most unfortunate man In American hlsory , "
exclaimed Clav. after one of his reverses.
: o Henry A. Wise. "I get the nomination
n the years when no whig can bo elected ,
and In thn years when any Whig can win
ho candidacy goes to somebody else. " In
the year , however , in which his success
seemed certain. 1S44 , ho was defeated by
ils campaign letters on the Texas ques-
lon. " \Vo are beaten , " exclaimed Joshua
1. Glddlngs to Cassias M. Clay , as somebody
nit into his hand a paper containing one of
> Iay's letters Juat before both of them
mounted the stand at a. Clay mass meeting
nt which they wore to speak. Ho was right.
The letter which made a surrender on the
slavery question , sent enough anti-slavery
Whiga over to Dirney , the liberty party's
candidate , in the decisive state ot New York
o give that state and the presidency to
Polk. "Tho chlet qualification which I
shall require ot a whig presidential candt-
late hereafter , " said Meredith P. Gentry a
ew days after Clay's defeat , "Is that ho
hall bo able to neither read nor write. "
I'KUSOX.VI , , AXIJ OTHI3UXV1SE.
The Finns have ordered twenty-two Amor-
cnn locomotives , Vhich stamps { hem as
'Inn-dc-siecle.
A bill to tax .bachelors . $2 a. year , intro-
uced In the New Jersey house , 'was referred
o the committee on lunatic asylum.
The re-election of Paul Kruger Indicates
liat the voters of the Transvaal place a
ilgher value on horse sense than on con
ditional whiskers.
Walter Ralston , who travels for the Smlth-
onlan Institution , hasi made a special study
f poisonous insects and reptiles and has
een fungcd over 200 times.
Poughkcopsle , N. Y. , has a girl phenom ,
who , at the age of 2 years , played the piano.
No wonder the New York rush to the ? Klon-
Ike has become menacing.
In Atlanta a policeman hereafter must be
presentable person. The rule has been laid
own that the guardians of the public peace
mist shave three times a week or lose their
obs.
obs.Tho
The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia ha
warded to Herman C. Mueller , the artist of
ancsvlllo , O. , the John Scott premium
and medal "to the most deserving" for Ma
process for manufacturing morales.
John E , Pannier of Chlppewa Falls , WIs. ,
recently elected county Judge , Is the young
est Judge In the United States. Ho is only
21 years old , and is the first republican to
occupy that particular office In sixteen yearn.
Major Curtis of Doston , who has Just passed
away , was among the few adherents to the
Wcbsterlan blue swallow-tall co-it with brass
buttons. It was a garb 'that ' belonged to the
oratorical period In the history of the re
public. It was identified with the statesman's
era.
John S. Fudge of Albany chewed tobacco
for .fifty years and then decided to quit. The
lack of the narcotic caused cicrvoUH pros
tration and thedoctors , eay Mr. Fudge will
die , if ho decs not resume the habit. It Is
a novel situation a chew ot tobacco or
death.
When a young hunter of Cumberland , Me. ,
failed to come homo at night a searching
parly net out and found his iboJy lying be
side a "big trco that had fallen. It was sup
posed that ho had stumbled In climbing over
the log and In some way caused the acci
dental disdiai-go of his gun. IHDs two < 1ogs
stood btxldo the 'body. ' It was their howlIng -
Ing 'that guided the searchers to the spot.
The kaiser's example is Infectious , The
burgomaster of Schkendltz has recently In-
sued an order requiring the townspeople to
wear their boat clothes on Sunday. A sta
bleman nan beeci lined for violation of the
order , although he proved that ho had been
grooming and feeding his master's ' lioroo
and wo.3 en his way homo. Instead of
dressing up , It looks as though there should
be u general drcaslng-down lu the Vater-
luml.
luml.When
When woman wills she will. When Papa
Sprcckels objected to his daughter's choice
of a husband the dutiful glc-l resented paternal
advice by deeding back to Spreckela property
ho had given her. Hut there was a string to
the deed. The husband thinks she acted
hastily In giving up a good thing In a huff ,
and , as ho acquired an equity In the property
by marriage and did not sign a waiver , ho
has cited the governor to appear In court and
show by what right ho holds the property.
It is feared the proceedings will Insinuate
Into Papa Sprcckelu' mind the idra that liU
aon-lR-law did not marry the daughter for
herself alone.
WHY is it that the
great Missionary
Societies supply to
their missionaries
abroad ROYAL
Baking Powder
exclusively ?
THAT DIPLOMATfO IIIIKMC.
Philadelphia Press ! Spain Is n country
whcro no letter is over siteIn the malls
Besides what the police open , letters are so
habitually tampered with In the search ot
officials for valuables that the Kngllsh ( lib
raltar walls go through Spain In closed bug *
Spanish Indignation over the theft ot a let
ter flft r it has gone through the mall , no
before , rests on Spanish familiarity with pos
tal robberies ,
Clnclnnntl Enquirer : The people of this
country have been told frequently that their
way ot appointing ministers and ambassa
dors Is weak ; that they pick men up. nt hap-
haswrd nnd put them at Important foreign
etntlons , while the governments of Utiropo
educate their diplomats specially and keep
them In the harness constantly. Still , wo
notice that our representatives abroad get
along ns well as the "educated" ministers
and ambassadors sent from Ktiropo to this
country.
Globe * Democrat The ' "
: 'niroiks" made b >
Do Lome. Sackvlllo-West , Catncar.y. Crimp-
ton , Yrugo , Citizen Gcnc-t and other diplo
matic representatives ot foreign govern
ments ISpaln , Kngland , Uussla and France
In the United States ought to make Kuro-
pcun writers cautious about speakingof
"shirt sleeves" dispatches nnd American "po
litical manners. " Diplomacy Is not n pro
fession In the United States , but this coun
try's envoys observe the proprieties rather
better on the whole than Uo their Uuropoan
congeners ,
UUffalo Express : Minister WoDdfonl's
forethought In feeding the Spanish ministry
at this crucial tlmo deserves the highest
recognition by his countrymen. It was n di
plomatic , n brave and a patriotic thing to do.
instead of throwing n firebrand Into the
official dti ) of lions at Madrid , ho wont among
thum with a plato of soup In one liniirt and
a cigarette in the other , nnd ID , the dove ot
peace hovers down with the United States
under emu wing and Spain under the other.
The Incident suggests the lmportcico of
state banquets , nt critical tlmra. ctid makes
pertinent the Inquiry whether It may not be
possible to abolish war by Judiciously enter
taining the enemy ?
Chicago Post : U Is needless to say that
the people ot the United States arc entirely
sat.lofled with the course of President Me-
Klnley In this crisis , ns they have been
throughout all his dealings with the Cuban
question. They know that he faces n situa
tion which demands a stern assertion of the
national will for n full apology from Spain
or a severance of friendly relations. The
people are thoroughly nwaro of the consequences
quences , but they ureter to accept thorn.
Spain has exhausted the patience of this
continent. We have come to the end of the
crooked lane of Spanish diplomacy. Here
after our mutual relations must bo on
straight American terms , It matters not what
becomes of Cuba.
Anicrlriiii Pollllc.H inn ] IiisU ItitloiiN
Ulillciilcil ! > Literary CuilN.
Washington 1'ost.
It Is not only in the matter of American
politic ? and institutions that Hrltlsh writers
are offensively and persistently Ignorant.
There is perhaps no direction in which they
make themselves GO ridiculous ns that of
our alleged colloquialisms. One rarely en
counters a Urlllsh novelist nowadays who
dees not think It neccs'sary , in tbo Interest
of truth , to make Americans ot both soxrn
talk like so many uncouth and illiterate
rustics. lEvcn such writers as Hall Calno
nnd Grant 'Allen ' , who ought to know bet
ter , keep ever before them an American
typo which is grotesquely absurd and ex
travagantly false.
In Mr. Hall Calne's latest book , "The
Christian , " ho introduces an American
mother and daughter , belonging to the
wealthy class , and makes them both , oven
the daughter , use language which the aver
age servant girl In any of our largo cities
would not dream of using. Such expressions
ns "do tell ! " "I want to know , " "that'll bo
real nice. " and other outlandish and ob
solete forms of speech are made to charac
terize the American style ot conversation
and differentiate It from the 'British. ' Mr.
Caino cannot bring himself to admit that
a Yankee girl , however wealthy , ever by any
chance talks like an English girl who lias
had the same means ot obtaining a polite
education. In his philosophy the Yankee
girl must needs be a rude and unrefined
rustic , full of vulgar idioms nnd ejacula
tions. Grant Allen , too. Is afflicted In the
same stupid and Incomprehensible way. In
ono of. his books , "The S llywag , " ho also
introduces an American mother nnd daughter
They nro Phlladclplilans and are described as
belonging to the wealthiest family of the
city. Yet under ( Mr. Grant Allen's manipula
tion they are put on a rhetorical level with |
Now England peasants and Georgia crack
ers. Kven their constant and intimate as
sociation with highly cultivated English
gentlemen and ladles avails them nothing.
They remain hopeless and incurable clod
hoppers to the end.
Wo often wonder whether Calne , Allen j
omd the rest of ifiem pvnr Ininclnn wlint. I
asses they make ot themselves In these
stupid caricatures. It Is safe to say that
they only amuao intelligent Americans ;
but wo should think they would make the
English authors blush It they really under
stood the facts. Wo are ready to confess
to the American papa and mamma or a cretaln
class the class which , unfortunately , is most
obstruslvely conspicuous abroad but even in
the worst instances of these It rarely happens
that the daughter can be Included In the
criticism , nich persons in this country ,
whatever may bo their o\\a defects of
culture , Invariably give their children the
most careful and complete education that
mcney can procure , and HICBO children use
Just as pure and elegriit English In their
conversation as can bo heard In the mast
exclusive drawing rooms of London or In the
best country houses throughout the king
dom. Anyone with tha smallest knowledge
ot American life should bo aware of this
notorious truth. Certainly , men who write
books and undertake to put American char
acters In them , must bo deliberate cads or
Inconceivable Ignoramuses to persist In the
laborious misrepresentation which charac
terizes the novelists wo arc discussing ,
Ot the thousands of well born , well bred
and hlgljly cultured Americans who fncnd
much of their tlmo In England , and who , redoubt
doubt , frequently society into which Meosrs.
Calne and Allen have not yet penetrated , we
need say nothing , Hut even the poor snobs
and toadies whom these writers have In
view , and of whom nothing too centemptuous
can be said , from our point of view oven
these are entitled to fair dealing In the
matter of their children. The latter maybe
bo probably are if they abase themselves
for lirltlsh notice the meat servlla climbers
In the world at heart. They speak pure
Kngllah , however , and are much freer from
vtilRfirltlcB of speech thftn people of their
own class In Great Hritnln. It in porting
true that neither Mr , Cnlno nor Mr. Allen
has ever known n typical American. Either
thnt. or they are vicious nnd ofTenslv *
slanderers.
THOUGHTS THAT TICKI.K.
Somervlllo Journal : Hoarding1 house bcof-
atonic may be luml to cat , but It la great
for soling shoes ,
Washington Stun " 1 has noticed , " snld
Uncle Hben , "dnt do men who sticks tcr
sot' drinks nln" do ones dnt Kln'rully hab do
mos' tcr tell 'bout Imhd luck. "
Indianapolis Journal : "Well , how nro the
markets ? " asked the snroastlo boarder , who
knew that tbo Cheerful Idiot hud been
guessing1 wrong lately on wheat.
"Window blinds , " replied the Cheerful
Idiot , "closed n shade lower. "
Detroit Free Press : "I think Humply Is
about the moat tluont liar 1 ever met. HP'S
Just been telling' me that he's n regular
caller on nil families In the most aristo
cratic part of the city. "
"It's the truth. Uumply'fl a postman , you
know. "
New York Weekly : She 1 ctould hnvo
married i-ltber Whlpper or Snapper If I'd
wnnteit to , nnd both of those inrii whiitu
I refused Imvo slnco got rich , while you
are still ns poor na n church mouse.
lie Of oourso. I've been supporting you
nil these years. They liuven't.
Chicago Record : "Tell me , CSeorgc , was
It my bcnuly or Koodncss that won your
love ? "
"Well , to be lionpst , It was that currant
Jelly you sent mother , "
Cincinnati Enquirer : "I'll never forget Ilia
tlmo I took my good old mint from the
country to see n Shakeupcnrcnn revival nt
om > of the theaters. " "Old HH > like It ? "
"Like It ? I found out that she would never
have gone at nil but for the Impression she
had that 'revival' meant something roll-
pious , "
PlttsburR- Chronicle : "Mrs , lllgglna la at 111
wildly In love with her husband. " "Does
Hlie put the buttons on bin shirts for him
yet ? " "No. but he told hotho sat up nil
night playing cards without nny strikes
and she belleVH him. "
Detroit Journal : Policeman You are sell
ing liquor afU-r tuurs.
Proprietor of Saloon No ; those men nro
burglars , and they are holdingmo up for
drinks.
Policeman Ah ! In .that event I owe you
an apology. Pardon my intrusion. Good
night , all.
Chicago Tribune : "How docs that Idea
of nbollshlng' the 'J' strike you ? " Inquired (
the reporter.
The coiiRrcs.xm.in who had been oloctPil
In a free .silver district by a majority ot '
about -I.OCO Bhlftfd his quiil to the other
chei'k ' and shook his head.
"My constituents , " ho said , "would prob
ably be agin It. ' . '
TKUTII IS MIOHTY.
Detroit 1'iw liosa.
Jly dearest friend and I ono day ,
While In a truthful spell ,
Agreed on this , that come what may ,
Kach other's faults we'd tell.
-f
We pointed out the facts nnd fears r *
Kor less than 'half a week ; , (
And now It's quite a dozen years
Since we were known to speak.
uV.AIICTIO VIS10\ .
lirct Hiirlo (1SG7. )
( Current Uternturn repuhltatios this thlr-
y-year-old poem , with tne comment that It
will surprise many to llnd so clear n pre
diction oC the value of Alaska as is drawn
In this poem of more than a
ago. )
Where the short-legged Esquimaux
Waddle in the Ice and snow ,
And Uie playful polar hear
Nips the nuntor unaware :
Where by day they track the ermine.
And by night another vermin
Segment of the frigid zone.
Where the temperature alone
Warms on St. Ellas' cone ;
Polar dock , where Nature slips
From the ways ihor Icy ships ;
Land of fox and , deer and sable ,
Shore end of our western cable-
Lot the news that Hying goes
Thrill through all your arctic floes ,
And reverberate tin boast .
From the clifCs of Iloecliey's coast ,
Till the tidings , circling round
Every bay of Norton sound ,
Throw the vocal lldr w.ivo back
To the Isles of Kodlac.
Let the ctutely polar bears
Waltz around thu pole In pairs ,
And the walrus In his glue ,
Hare his tusk ! of ivory ;
While the bold sea unicorn
Calmly tnltcs an extra horn ;
All yo polar sUIcs. reveal your
Very rarest of parhelia ;
Trip it , all ye merry dancers ,
In the airiest of lancers ;
Slide , ye solemn glaciers , slide ,
One Inch farther to the tide.
Nor In rash precipitation ,
Upset Tyndall's calculation.
ICnow you not what fate awaits you ,
Or to whom the future mates you ?
All yo Icebergs make salaam
You belong to Uncle Sam ! .
On tlui spot where Eugene Sue
Led the wretched Wandering- .
Stands a form whose features strike
HUSH and Esquimaux alike.
IIu It Is whom Skalds of old
In their Iluiilc rhymes foretold ;
Loan of flank and lank , of jaw ,
See the real Northern Thor !
See the awful Yankee leering1
Just across thn Straits of Iterlng ;
On the drifted snow , too plain , '
Sinks hla fresh tobnc-co stain
Just behind the deep Indcn-
Tation of ihis number 10.
Leaning on his icy hammer
Stands the hero of the drama ,
And above the wild duck's chimer ,
In his own peculiar prammar
With its linguistic disguises ,
Lo , the Arctic prologue rises :
"Wall , I icckon 't ain't BO bad ,
Sceln' cz 'twas all they had ;
True , thn springs are rather late
And early falls predominate ;
Jiul the Ice prop's pretty sure ,
And the air Is kind o' pure ;
'Tnln't BO very mean a trade.
When the land Is all surveyed.
There's a right amnrt chance for fur-chaso.
All alonjr this recent purchase ,
And , unless the stories fall ,
Every llsh , from cod to whale ;
Itocks. too ; mtbbo quartz ; lot's nee
'Twolild he strange if there should he-
Seems I've hoprd such Htorlos told ;
Eh ! Why , bless uw ; yes , It's gold ! "
While the blows are falling thick
From his California pl < ! k.
You may reooffnlzo the Thor
Of the vision that I saw.
Freed from legendary glamour ,
Sea the real magician's hummer.
Saturday we offered every 50c Necktie in our store ( except
black ) for 25c each. Did you get one ? Many dozen were sold
but not all. We are anxious to dispose of the entire lot and
the sale will continue as long as they last.
50c NECKTIES 25c.
There are plenty of beauties yet left among the assortment.
Those who did purchase no doubt want more and those who
did not no doubt missed a "good thing/ ' and are sure of a splen
did selection if they come at once. SEE OUR WINDOWS.
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