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Hr.tr > .TF.Y THE OMAHA DAILY HflTS : SUNDAY , MAY 15 , 1808. OUR FLAG AND ITS PROGRESS Historical Eeview of the Foreign Wars Fought Under the Starry Banner.- TRIUMPHANT MARCH OF A CENTURY How the Slant on the l-'ltiK llnvr Mul tiplied from Due Wnr to An- nlher KnnrmntiN StrciiKtli nml of tbc Country. If the revolutionary BtrtiKKlo be climcd ai a contest with a foreign power the pres ent conflict with Spain Isthe , fourth Impor tant foreign wdr In which the United States bus been cngiiReil. In addition there have been three other foreign contests , one with Franco during the .Adams- administration unrt two with the Darbarr states , the first when Jefferson was president mid the second end under Madluon. In all these conflicts , extending In the aggregate over u period of nearly thirteen years , the national emblem came out crowned with victory. The stars and Btrlpe * . In fact , la the only one of the world's great flags which 1ms never been sullied by na tional defeat , lloth on land and s n It hits flown triumphant since that Juno day In 1777 , on which Mrs. Itoss of Philadelphia showed Oeorgo Washington , who had taken her the design for the flag , agreed on by , congress , how to clip out a flvo-polnted star with one clip of her patriotic scissors. The stars on the coinage arc all six-pointed , the Ilrltlsh style In stars , and. so tradition nays , Washington drew them for Mrs. Uoss , but nho stuck to the five-pointed Gallic star and In that form they have ever since remained. The resolution of the continental congress creating the ling read as follows : "That the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes , alternate red and while , that the union be thirteen stars , white , In n blue fleld , representing a new constella tion. " When Kentucky and Vermont were admitted , as states. In 1701 , two now stars were added , nnd In 1793 the stripes were increased to fifteen. By 1818 , when the number of states had run up to twenty , the Inartistic effect of adding to the number of stripes vVas perceived and congress enacted that the flag for the future should ho thirteen stripes with a star for each state. Briefly this Is the history of the flag and Its development. The fact that stars . . . . . BANKRUPT ORIOINAIj FLAG OF TUB UBVOLUTION. form part of the heraldic emblazoning of the Washington coat of arms docs not ap pear to have had anything to do with their adoption for the flag. CurloUH Finir * Ilpfore 1TT6. Before the adoption of the Stars and Stripes , however , Americans fought under many different flags. At Lexington , the em battled farmers had neither ilag nor uni form , but at Bunker Hill several ensigns made their appearance. They were of dif ferent patterns. Ono of them waT entirely blue , bearing the motto : "Come If You Dare. " Another was blue with a white rib bon , quartered by a red St. George's cross nnd a plno tree In the Inner corner at the top. When Washington was besclglns the British forces at Boston his floating batter ies flow a white banner bearing a green pine tree nnd the words : "The Appeal. to Heaven. " A famous flag of 1775 was the blue ensign of South Carolina with a white cres cent In the upper corner. Sometimes It bore the word "Liberty" In white letters. While the basic principles of nationhood which the flag represented one hundred and twcnty-flvo years ago , Independence , Lib erty and Union and those .which It typifies today are Identical , the material resources essential to the maintenance and preserva tion of them have become so colossal that they arc the marvel of the world. It was Mr. Gladstone who said : "The United States have a national base for the greatest continuous empire ever established by man , " and ho added , "Tho distinction between a continuous empire severed and dispersed ov < y sea Is vital. " That "continuous" empire Is today a reality. When Washing ton led "Tho Old Continentals In their ragged regimentals" the treasury was' often without means to buy the poor food that fed them. The slender pay of men and ofll- cers was far In arrears. Desperate expedi ents were requ'lred to maintain the public credit. Our diplomatic representatives were suppliants for advances of money wherever there was the faintest hope of obtaining It. They were petitioners for clothes nnd arms and ammunition , for almost everything re quired by an army In the fleld. But the courage of the people never faltered through 1'AUL JOKES' FIRST FLAG. it - - _ _ . the awlul ordeal and In the blackest hours of the struggle they defiantly sang : "Vain HrltnUH , boait no longer with uroud Indignity , By land your conquering legions , your strength ut sou. " of III ifoI nlt > N. At the outbreak of the revolutionary war the population of the colonies wan about 2.000,000 whites and 5OT.OOO negroes. Agri culture nnd commerce were the two leading Industries. Third In Impottrnco wcro the fisheries. Despite the hatih restrictions Im posed on all the articles of export ami the absolute prohibition gf mcaufaciiires , the colonists were doing fairly well. Allowed fair play , they would have bctomo the most prosperous , as they were undoubtedly at the time the most virtuous , people In the world. In all the colonies there wore only six cities having a population of over S.OOO. Pauperism , as It is understood today , was unknown ; so nlso was vice. This is mainly why , when the struggle came , they were enabled to muUo BO desperate a resistance gainst the best soldiers and Bailers of the old world. With their trade practically an nihilated , their agriculture nearly destroyed , hostile flrcts on their seaboard , n.td savage Indian * In HIP renr , they never quailed. How they exulted when victory camel Sara toga Inspired the rude chant ! "Sucre * * unto the congrcs of tin-no Unlteil \Vlio Klnry In Iho comiucslH of Wnthlngtoii nnd t-'atfx ; To nil , both land nnd seamen , who Glory In the dnr When we Mhnll all be freemen In North Aruerlcn. " Another ropulnr bnllud of thu day wan pitched on tlila Idfty key which wna almost prophetic : "Prowl Franco should view with terror nnd hniiKhly Hpnln revere. While r-very wnrlllso nutlnti should court nlllunre hero ; And Oeorfse. liU inlnlnn * trembling round. i1e coiiulnr from his throne Pay homage to America nnd glorious WiiMhlnutnn. " During the war upwards of sixty 1m lortttit battles and engagements wVre 'ought Tno numlrer of aoMInM and fallen - on ivf'iuil by Grrnt BrlfaH ' .vjs nlm it : : . " > , M > ; To them the Colonists opposed l"'v 71 * . n" ; . i trs and lC-1,080 voli.iiteuM nnd inlll- STATES . . - POPUUT10N..flJOOO,000 SURPLUS , $10.000/300. / OUR FLAO IN 1812 15 STARS AND 15 STU1PES. .1.1. raakicr n total In round numbers of iilO.OCO iDen. According to other returns , however , the nnntcr cl the revolutionary fort-03 Is much arger. Thi- cost of the war * D the Colonies wan over $135,000,000. AVIiitt the I-11 n ir Covered In J.Slli. Whtn thr- war of 1812 bdin there were on'y fifteen stars In the flag although Ihe Union comprised eighteen States. The ii'im- tipr of stripes was fifteen. The principles for which the flag then stood \veru tersely embodied In the flvo words : "J-'ri'o Trmlo nnd Sailors' Rights , " which mean' the sur render by Great Britain of hev assumed lower on the ocean and the abandonment of doctrines on the questions of allegiance and citizenship to which she resolutely adhered. In the thirty-six years since the Declara tion of Independence the country had grown enormously. The national debt had been re duced to $13,000,000. The population was over eight millions. In matt-rial wealth the Increase had surpassed all expectations. Bui still the nation was only In Its In fancy. It was the era of the stage coach ; the first locomotive had not yet been made by Stephenson In England. Agriculture nnd navigation were the two leading Industries ; manufactures , In a small way , having barely started Into existence. A second war with England was a tremend ous risk ; but Its Insults and injuilrs had become Intolerable nnd resistance was a duty. The first step toward wur was the authorization of a loan of $11.000,000 , nn Insignificant sum now , but In those days one of almost startling proportion * , 'fho regular army , which consisted of not more than 3,000 mcri , was IncreasuJ to "o.OuO , nnd provision was made for the enrollment of DO.OOO volunteers. In the way of a navy there were about twenty frigates and sloops of war , together with 150 contrivances called gunboats , which , It was supposed , would be fairly adequate for harbor defense. Measures were taken to Increase this force , but little hope was entertained that the country would bo able to win any advan tages on the sea. Great Britain at the time had 1,000 ships of war of all classes. STATES. . . : , . 4ft POPULATION 71.000000 WCALTH.4 70POO.OOO 000. "OLD GLORY" OF TODAY AND WHAT IT REPRESENTS. She was , In the words of Jefferson , the "leviathan of the ocean ; " Franco ' under Napoleon being the "mammoth of the land. " According to figures on file at Washington the "leviathan" had Impressed 0,000 American sailors ! n the years imme diately preceding the war. Twenty-flve hundred of them patriotically-refused to servo against their country nnd hnd been thrown Into Dartmoor and other English prisons , when hostilities were commcnceil.- The achievements of the American navy In the war won for It the love of the country and the admiration of , the world. The loss of life In battle and from disease was about 30,000 men ; the expenditure of money $100- 000,000. And though In the treaty of peace nothing was said about the cause for which the war was waged Great Britain-afterward refrained fr ( exercising her theoretic right of search and Impressment During the war , which lasted three years , the regular army , at one period , was' ns high as 85,000 officers and men , while the militia and volunteer forces amounted to 31,000 ofllcera and 471C22 men , making a total of 576,622. Tie Mexlfuii War. When President Polk , in May , 1SIG , noti fied congress that Mexico "hnd Invadcil our territory and shed the blood of our citizens on our own soil , " there were twenty-eight stars In the Hag and the population had grown to be 20,000,000 people. These fig ures mark mi Imperial march In Industrial development. The lone star of Texas In the flag meant the acquisition of an empire In Itself. True , she brought war with her , but she was worth It , and the same war closed with another vast extension of the boundaries of the republic by the acquire ment of California nnd New Jlexlco. But preceding Texas there wcro added to the sisterhood of states Louisiana , Indiana , Mis sissippi. Illinois , Alabama , Maine , Missouri , Arkansas. Michigan and Florida. And what did their Incoming mean ? Well , among other things , that we grow the magnificent crop of 2,100,537 bales of cotton In that history-mak ing year of 1810 , , and exported products worth within n fraction of $110,000,000. All other Industries flourished In a proportionate degree. The youngest of the nations was beginning to enter the lists with the oldest and the greatest of old monarchies ; Indeed , It had Bald to them years before that they would bo relieved of the burden of attend ing to the political concerns of'this con- ! tlncnt , almost as emphatically as wo have notified Spain to pack her trunk and get out of Cubx The expenditure that year of $20.- 413,450 for tin purpose of national govern ment was heavy , but to ofUet It them was i nn Income of nearly $30,000,000 , which left n comfortable surplus of over 13,000,000 to put up a flght with misguided Mexico. Congress responded to the Polk call to arms by placing $10,000,000 at his disposal and authorizing him to accept the services of 60,000 volunteers. Tho'military cnlhiut- nsm df the country was aroused to eo great n pitch that more than 300.0CO men pre sented themselves for enrollment , although for political reaming the war wn i not popu lar with a largo portion of the people , who condemned It ns In the InUrcst of the ex tension of Hie stare power. l > 9N'it < i of the Mexican Wnr. But nil that Is now 30111 nnd the genera tion of today reads the story of the Mi1 * I- can wpr with a fecHng of prldo because c > f the deeds of heroism performeJ by their fathers. H covered the Amerlejn army , regular and \olunteer , .vlth on Imperishable : renown. Although thu Hexlcntis fought with the utmost bravery nnd very great skill on the part of their lommuinlors they failed to win n single Important buttle nnd were unable to make any headway against the far Inferior but Indomitable forces of Taylor nnd Scott. The Anglo-Saxon blcod told against' ' the Spanish In every encoun ter. ter.Tho The war provided Eomo of the best pa triotic poetry In our history. Charles Feuno Hoffman sang of Monterey : Wo wcro not many , wo who prejupj Beside the bnive who fell that day Jt'it ho of us has not confessed He'd rnther Bhnro their warriors' rtHt Than not have been nt Monterc ) 7 Bucnn Vista , . Inspired two noble poema , ono by Whlttler nnd another by Albert Pike , beginning with the lines : Krorn the Illo Grande waters to the Icy lakes of Mil I no , Let m exult ; for wo have met the enemy nculn : ncncath their stern old mountains we have met them In their in-lde. And rolled from llilena Vlstiv back the bnt- tln M bloody tide. And then there Is the Immortal "Bivouac of the Dead , " to bo found In every collec tion of patriotic poetry. Tito XnUott Toilnjr. In Us fourth foreign war the republic un furls a banner of six and forty stars , with nt least 72,000,000 of people to defend It , not only against Spain , but against nil the world. If need bo these forty-six common wealths , ' bound In Indissoluble union , cau put 14,000,000 of fighting men In the field and nt the same time tarry on all the agencies and Instrumentalities of their vast and manifold Industries. The resources of money and credit arc practically limitless. Impoverished , bankrupt , decrepit Spain Is a pigmy as compared with the nation against which she has. In true Don Quixote fashion , chosen to measure swords. The total foreign trade nlono of the United States last year reached the enormous pro portions of $1,841,000,000. Spain's foreign * trade Is less than one-sixth this amount. Her railroad mileage Is only 6,708 miles , as against 178,000 miles of the United States In 1S93. The statistics of the postoffico fur nish a good gauge of the enlightenment nnd prosperity of n people. In 1897 our post- office expenditures were $01,077,212. S.win expended for the same purpose $4,612,820 , or $1,000,000 less than Japan. Mulhall , the eminent British statistician , drew up n table three years ago , In which he measured the strength of the natlom , "by the number of foot tons of effective enoicy devoted to the creation of wealth. " In that table the United Stnten led the worlj tvith the enormous figures of 129,300,000,0(10. ( Great Britain followed with 56,110,600,000 and be hind Germany , Frence , Austria and Italy comes Spain with the pitiful showing of 10- 040,000,000. The revenue of the United States Is two nnd one-half times that of Spain. At the present time the United States manu factures one-half the steel of the worldf'it produces more than two-thirds of Iho rotten - ton , nearly nlnc-tentha of the corn , ( Mid , leaving out wool , almost one-half of the great staples of the earth. In n word , the flag today represents the strongest , richest , freest and most n sou je- ful nation of 'all the centuries , "P'-r . , ' . , , , WIIITTIBIl TO A TOUMI3NT. 1,1 iii-M Ili > Wrote | ii the Album of 11 YOIIIIK Wuimm Who TfHxvil Him. When Whlttler was 30 years old , some what trained in newspaper work by editing the Hnvcrhlll ( Mass. ) Gazette , he was elected secretary of the American AntiSlavery - Slavery society , relates , the New York Sun. The next year he removed to Philadelphia , where he edited the Pennsylvania Freeman during the years 1838-9. While living In a boarding house in Philadelphia a young woman fellow boarder was a great torment to him , because he was possessed of an ex ceedingly shy nnd sensitive temperaments When she went away Whlttler complied with the request to write In her album. A friend of the woman who owned the album has transcribed the lines from memory : Thou art going hence. God bless thee ! Thou art going hence , farewell ! May the devil ne'er distress thee. May the wide world use thee well. Thou art going hence forever. An thou sheddest not a tear ; 'TIs well , for tears shall never Lament thy leaving here. Yet some will not forget thee , A torment na thou art ; And homo will e'en regret thee Who do not weep to part. They will mls thy merry laughter , AH Iho HChoolboy docs his rod , And the Jokes which followed ufter Thy visiting abroad. Farewell ; the Lo'rd be with theo In thy future goings on , And the nlous shun and fear thee As thy Quaker friend hath donei Thy life , mny nothing vex It , Thy years be not n few , And nt thy final exit , aitiy thu devil miss his due. TOM ) OUT 9F COUHT. Over In Missouri the other day , says the Chicago Law Journal , n coroner's Jury re turned a verdict that "the decedent came to his death by "being struck by a railroad train In the hands of a receiver. " A California Judge recently fined an at torney $10 for contempt of court and forced him to pay It by threatening otherwlno to pay It himself. No one Is required .to believe - lievo this. Chief Justice Dohcrty of the Irish court of common pleas , who hold office from 1330 to 1846 , was on ono occasion talking to u friend , when a lady passed them wearing a very low-cut dress. "Did you over see the llko of that before ? " Remarked the friend. "Never since I was weaned , " responded the chief Justice. A Washington lawyer recently appeared as counsel In a case before a Justice of the peace , says the Albany Law Journal , and found It necessary to mnko frequent objec tions to the evidence the opposing counsel was attempting to Introduce. The Justice looked first annoyed and then Indignant at these frequent Interruptions. Finally he could contain himself no longer and roared out : "What kind of a lawyer arc you , any way ? " "I nm a patent lawyer , " replied the attorney with dignity. " "Well , " retorted the Justice scornfully , "when the patent ex pires you will have a hard time getting It renewed. Go on with the case. " The Irish papers tell us that nt the Kll- larney quarter sessions the other day a laughable Incident occurred. A prisoner was charged with assault , but the solicitor was temporarily absent when his case was called. Judge Shaw , however , decided to proceed with the swearing In of the Jury , telling the accused he could challenge any one ho objected to. When the sixth Juror was called the prisoner , who evidently thought it was time to exercise his prerog ative , objected to his serving , whereupon the challenged Juror , with a look of con temptuous disgust , called out : "Yerra , Tim , bad cess to ye , what d'ye mane ? Shuro I'm fur ysl" ° if The War Olon&'s # ilver Lining for Oamera l0liTtiab. LOVE AND LOYALTY HELPS BUSINESS I'nit lip motwrnpli rin > in the > 'ntloimH < | t * llr i Arontiil the Flnn * M fl li < ft In the il'Jrtnrr Mnis The photographers are Inclined to think Hint oven a war .nloud . has Its silver lining. Since the president called the National Quard and asked for volunteers the camera artists have been struggling \vlth an over whelming patronage. Every now made sol dier must have his picture taken , to leave behind as a souvenir with a sweetheart , wife or sister , and not only baa nearly all the equipped fighting force of the country passed In review before the lenses , hut thu feminine friends and relatives of the war riors have also gone and.done It ngatn. Vows and tears nnd an exchange of photo graphs play a part nt every leave-taking be tween the army and navy men and their families , and a photographer , who was In terviewed on this question , readily admitted that every man > vho poses In hU studio wears a full dress uniform. Usually they order two sizes of print ono giving the figure on a boudoir or cabinet card and dis playing the mnrftal figurent full length. These are tor dissemination among families and frlenda. Bui there Is another size called for , a print not bigger than a dollar , showing Just head _ nnd .bust and struck off for framing In lockets , , bangles , etc. The women nil prefer to have their likenesses taken In thc.wntch case size , too , and while the men who conTe to pose ore one nnd alt a very Jolly , cheerfully bellicose crew , the feminine patrons are In u peculiarly moist nnd melancholy state. Two of n Kind. ' . 'Still they come , " sighed the photogra pher , "and you can Invariably tell the young married touples , or those Just engaged , by their penchant for small double profile prints. You know such a print shows the two heads close togethcr , the woman's to the outside and a trlffe tr > the i-ear of thi man's , and whorq there Is time my patrols always Insist .on * little tinting judiciously put Into the face and uniform , Among the women It Is a .fancy Juat now-to have these little pictures taken In the dresses their husbands or sweethearts most admire , and In Eome of theseowna It Is next to Impos sible to make -Woman look her best. "Now let mo allow ydu some of the ways we are framlqg the men's pictures In lockets chiefly'and In the form of merged double hearts raoAe-of gun metal. These lockets are not > fojfj.i xterlor wear ; the sentl ment of the th" tomands their being .slung about the nee .if1' "ne Bo'd ' chajn , and some of them ejijcculiarly beautiful and costly. One I | nt national guardsman chose a gun i [ heart , with a cupldl Ip. brilliants on lutsltie. Master Cupid stood In the nt j of 'present Arms. ' The majority usua 'Mder , engraved pr out * lined In Jewels I Kc lockets' covers , special dates or Krone lijln or German i " full of such set t as ' 'plou vpus ; "Fla'o et Amo tu. , c'tc. Some1'of th.e , pictures we m T not larger'than * a 10- cent"plecq "and are put Into tiny gold hearts to hang gold chain bangles , i . , "Hair or fou : lovers occupy ( uo Sides of these ilockc JUj the plcttifes they contain , though a good' many -women prefer In place of lockets to have their husbands' or lovers' pictures fitted in little frames woven of gold military lace. To put on their writing desks and dressing tables are little easel frames , having the shape and decoration of an' epaulette , and now "let me show you some of the things women give their lovers , for cspeqial wear in that inside vest pocket that Is supposed to extend Just over the heart. "Hero are round bachelor pin cushions wltj ) one sldo of silver engraved with a date and motto ; on. the othcr ( side Is framed the ' . A wife fair lady's .miniature photograph. puts Into one of these cushions a pin for ever year of her married life and a popular Iccket for men Is woven In gold or silver wire that Is very elastic and that , when lying In the hand , most resembles a closely curled tress of feminine hair. .By taking up the locket at ono side the metal curl sprlnga up and shows a photographed face on a thin ' gold disk. " llnckllii' * Arnica Salve. THE BEST SALVE In the world for Cut * . Bruises , Sorce , Ulcers , Salt Hheum , Fever Sores Tetter , Chapped Hands , Chilblains. Corns and all Skin Eruptions , and positively curyj Piles , or no pay required. It Is guar- intced to slve perfect satUfactlon or money refunded. Price 23 cents per box. For sale ' v Kuhn & Co. GETTING NEWS OUT OP MADRID. Einniicrntlnjy DelnyN nml the Uncer tain Whliim of CeiiHorw. Spain's remarkable success In concealing the movements of her navy Is not BO sur prising In view of the censorship maintained on newspapers and all avenues of news. The details of this system , given by a Madrid correspondent of the London Telegraph , are of particular interest Just now and will en lighten American readers on the difficulty of tracing the Cape Verde armada. The correspondent says : * There Is but one post dally both ways to and from Madrid. It leaves at 8 p. m. and n letter confided to the letter box stands no better criancc of reaching the addressee than does one posted In Constantinople , Erzer- oum or Treblzond. Indeed , the odds are strongly In favor of the latter. I am speak ing In the light of numerous and significant facts. Of course one may register one's cor respondence and then the letter may arrive or It may not. If It does not you- enjoy the right of demanding compensation ; but be fore you have < "flon * with petitioning , de manding , visiting , ) ii.'plalnlng , calling again , etc. , you will htivie'l ' worn out more boots , spent moro moU < Jyln pens , Ink and paper and sacrificed more of your time than the damages fixed rfor'ithe lost letters would compensate , and i you give up the enterprise in despair long < bbfore you see the color of the money of tact ( administration. Besides , you cannot rcgltJU-n a letter after 5 p. m. , so that from thfttlbour your correspondence Is practically at nn > end. If a packet U sent to you bynpotjti you do not receive It at your house , Uut are favored with an In voice Instead , wlilqUllnforms you that there Is but one houiiff..the twenty-four during which you may cjalu\tho { package and wait till it. you get % 1C But by far t\ufn \ pi/fat / interesting process Is that of telegr'gpjiug ) political news to a foreign journal. Hero , you pick up original nnd quaint Ideas as to the "Way How Not to Do It" which are bracing and refresh ing to English speaking people. First of all , of course , you must get your Informa tion , then write your telegram , and , lastly , hand it in. Tbo mere act of forwarding It seems n trifle , Inasmuch as Spain and Eng land are connected by a direct cable. Now It is extremely difficult to obtain any In formation worth having before 3 or 4 o'clock In the afternoon ; for the Spaniards those at least who make history are by uo means early risers , and ministerial councils and other state gatherings occur generally be tween S and 6 p. m. Yet n telegraphic mes sage to London , handed In at the head of- flco In Madrid at 3:30 : o'clock In the after noon , frequently reaches London at the same hour next morning , when U Is abso lutely worthless. And the direct cable be- ORCHARD & WILIIIIM CARPET CO. 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The royal Inquisitor , known as the censor , Is the man mainly responsible for this woe ful waste of time. Ho Is not always at homo , nor Is he. perhaps , always In the humor for censuring and criticising , and the messages must wait until he Is disen gaged and In the mood. But why should there not be many cen sors ? First of all , Indeed , one wonders why there should be any. Spain Is a-constitu tional country , and at present It Is governed by the liberal party , which holds high the honor of freedom and fraternity , nnd makes war upon all the old world abuses of despotIsm - Ism , conservatism , etc. Yet , for all that , there Is a censure nay , such a strict cen sure .as baa been unknown In Russia since the days of Nicholas I , nnd Is paralleled only In the Turkish empire of today. A .mere word , to which the censor reasonably or unreasonably objects Is enough to ruin a telegram of a thousand words to which he assents. Thus I forwarded n most Impor tant message yesterday , which with the ut most difficulty I was enabled to hand In at * 3p. m. The facts It contained dealt with the resolutions adopted by the cabinet coun cil. At the end there was one short sentence to the effect that , according to a rumor current In Journalistic circles of the capital , It was expected that the Spanish officers would meet In the Puerta del Sol that evenIng - Ing and walk home In silence by way of a patriotic demonstration. This was abso lutely true. The rumor was current every where. I sent off the message at 3 p. m. sharp , and mentioned the time In the tele gram. Shortly after 1 o'clock next morning I received a communication from the chief of the telegraph to the effect that , owing to the sentence about the projected manifes tation , he had detained my message , but that If , on reflection. I considered that I could modify that particular passage the telegram would bo duly sent ! After , ten hours bad elapsed and the news was become como utterly worthless ! Of course a censor Is only a man and can not , therefore , do the work of ten men at once. What ten censors could do in one hour one censor needs ten , and It may be twelve hours , to do it In. This would bo obviated If the government employed several officials to read the messages of correspondents to their journals. Out Spaniards who under stand , nay , who have an Inkling even of any foreign tongue , are Incredibly few. Even French Is Greek to most of the educated classes of officials , journalists and politi cians. Still , there are several who know French , but very few Indeed who have even a smattering of English , hence the length of time It takes to censure an English mes sage. In general , therefore , the matter stands thus : There Is little news to bo had befoie 3 p. m. and a telegram handed In at 3:30 : p. m. will most likely reach London too late for the morrow's paper. That Is one aspect of the matter. The Germans , however , are much better off. Their lan guage Is given up as a bad job by all Span ish officials and no attempt whatever Is made to censure telegrams In that language. To prove this the following experiment wa lately resorted to In my presence. Two Iden tical tclgrams were handed In at the office , the ono In German and the other In French. Next day the latter was returned as stopped by the censor , while the other was for warded and duly appeared. Lest there should be any doubt on the subject the ex periment was repeated , with the same re sult , another day ; and on a third occasion an acoualntance of mine forwarded a most sensational message In German to the effect that the position of the queen regent wns become precarious and the censor passed It on without a remark ! The Spanish ceremonies which accompany the handing In of a telegram would be amusing were they not so Irksome and time- killing. You approach a little window In the one office In tbo city , and when your turn comes , hand In your message. The clerk counts the words a couple of times over , adds up the result of each page , refers to th < Saxony Rugs There really ia nothing more deHirublo in heavy long nap ruga than the real Ger man Saxony elegant in the only thing that can be said of them. Our present line is the largest we have ever shown we have im ported them ourselves and they are a little late , but at the prices they should go readily enough a loop hole in the tnriiE bill lets them in much cheaper than the Turkish the class ia above the same , these are real hand made Saxony Kensington Art Squares 9xOf it.-.48c-quX 9.x7ifect..6.00 " 9x71 feet 3.75 , ; ; ; 9x9 feet 7.20 quality lest 9x9 feet 4.50 $ j $ 9x13 feet..9.00JjSX 9x12 feet..6.00 . written tariff and finds out what the cost Is ' In francs. Then ho takes another slip of paper , finds out what the rate of exchange Is at the moment , and reduces the francs to Spanish pesetas. Finally , ho reads out the result say , D97 pesetas 33 centimes ( $119.47. ) You engrave these figures on your memory , and , leaving the hall , go out there await your turn , repeating always the to another window In a passage outside , and number 597.35 till the clerk asks you what you want. Then you explain that you are come to purchase Spanish stamps for the sum of 597 pesetas 35 centimes , and you take out n note for 1,000 pesetas. The pas sage Is dark on the brightest day , nnd you accept the stumps and your change In a spirit of true religious faith , for you ECO not even darkly as In a glass. When you re turn to the Inner sanctuary and help to make queue , awaiting your turn again , the chances are that you will find yourself short of stamps , In consequence of a mis take on the part of the clerk outside. This happened twice to me , but I am bound to say the Individual discovered'and rectified his error , so that my only loss was of about thirty-five minutes more. Dut the most curious thing of all Is the process of recovering your money If the tel egram be suppressed. There Is no way of obtaining It speedily. You must wait. Mes sages of mine to the value of several hun dred pesetas wcro stopped and I called at the office for the money. In Russia , Ger many , Turkey , Austria everywhere In fact the money Is refunded nt once , nut not EO In Spain. Here you have to make various pilgrimages , from post to pillar , Interview ing officials , dignitaries , clerks , porters. All shako their heads , shrug their shoulders , purse their lips nnd assure you that the gov crnment allows them no special funds for the purpose. "Yes , but If you do not for ward my message , for which I paid you ! n advance , you have no right to keep my money. " "Oh , of course not. Wo are not t6 blame , you know. You had better see our chief. He Is very busy now , but If you call tomorrow I am sure you can sec him. " I spent four days Journeying from chief to subordinate and from subordinate to chief and at last I received the following satisfac tory promise : "If you wrlto a petition to the chief of the telegraph , asking that the money be refunded you for the suppressed messages , ho will deal with it In duo time. " "What Is due time ? " I ventured to Inquire. "Well , we cannot promise anything , " said my Informant , Scnor Perez , "except that , when the funds allow It , you shall have your money back. " "But could you , per haps , say approximately when ? " Ho could not , but another official could nnd did "Any time between two and four months. " Such Is the specimen n tame , humdrum specimen of the methods of procedure In the constitutional kingdom of Spain , under the most liberal of liberal governments , in the cultured capital of Madrid. Spain has truly fallen upon evil days. 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