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Opposing a treaty or a legislative measure because two or three senators are members of the commission negotiating or preparing it comes very near hair-splitting. As both classes of measures come before the Senate it seems an advantage to have members on the commission. The fatal weakness of the limitless support which seems to rally about the senatorial cundidacy of the Hon. Henry C. Adams is that no part of it will have seats in the next Legislature. Such aw arbitrary requirement of the Constitution us devolves the election df senator Upon the Legislature deprives Mr. Adams of the honor. From present appearances the Cuban educational movement, originated by General Wheeler, will prove an important factor in the regeneration of Cuba. The idea of civilizing and building up a country by educating its intelligent young men and sending them back to become propagandists of education and republican principles is unique In the history of nations and peculiarly American. Within a few days shortages by two city officers in Indiana have been reported, due •ither to the carelessness or inefficiency of the officers rather than to dishonest intent. It may not be so in these cases, but when the facts are discovered in most such oases It is found that the officials are not familiar with keeping accounts and have loaned money to friends who helped to elect them, who have never paid it. Fitness for the positions men aspire to is not inquired into ns it should be. The state librarian has reported to the Governor that there are tons of books in the basement of the Statchouse which cannot be disposed of. One of these is a huge volume entitled “Documentary Journal,” six inches thick. If printed at all two hundred copies would be sufficient. There are hundreds of copies of the Senate and House journals, covering several sessions of the Legislature, which cannot bo disposed of except as Junk. By cutting down the number of such books to be printed several thousand dollars a yt ir can be saved. The Louisville Courier-Journal sneers at Controller of the Currency Dawes’s report and says he had no training as a financier and no qualifications for the office before he was appointed, except that he was a McKinley man. How about Mr. Cleveland’s Controller Eckels? He was a country lawyer, had had no experience in practical finance and nobody knew anything about him when he was appointed, yet he made one of the best controller* of the currency tho country has ever had. It turned out that he had an excellent theoretical knowledge of finance ami banking, that his ideas were eminently sound, and that he knew how to put them in practice. Mr. Dawes is said to possess precisely the same kind of qualifications, and. perhaps, it would be best to wait a while before pronouncing him a failure. Representative Bailey, of Texas, has notified General Wheeler that if he attempts to exercise any of the functions of a representative ho, Bailey, will protest on the ground that when General Wheeler accepted A commission as an officer in the volunteer army lie forfeited his seat in the House. If the Texas man does tilts he wilt run against some well established precedents. During the civil war Gen. Frank I’. Blair, of Missouri, and General Baker, of Oregon, both served in Congress while officers in the army, one as a representative and the other as a senator. General Sickles was a representative at the tame time that he held a commission as major general on the retired list. W’hllo General Wheeler will claim the right to act an representative while holding a commission tie has not accepted a dollar of his salary as representative since his appointment to the army, and by his direction it has been covered back into the treasury. making it impossible for him to draw

it. Under these circumstances it would be very small to object to his serving as a representative of a constituency who elected him without opposition, especially as his military service will end in a very short time. SENATOR HOAR’S HAD IIHKAK. lii his anxiety to place himself at the head of the anti-expansion movement Senator Hoar seems quite reckless as to tho extent of the injury he may inflict on public interests or of the embarrassment lie may cause tho President. It is a ririgular fact that, while Massachusetts has always been foremost in her support of political, so. :al and educational reforms, she has invariably furnished strong opposition to national expansion and generally to the wars which made expansion necessary or possible. To say that she has done this in defense of her own interests does not alter the fact, though one is at a loss to see why a manufacturing State should oppose the extension of old markets or the acquisition of new ones. OpjKXsition to the purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1103 emanated mainly from Massachusetts, and was continued against the admission of Louisiana as a State in 1811. Though she led gloriously in tho war for independence, Massachusetts was the center of opposition to the war of 1812, furnished fourteen out of twen-ty-six members of the famous Hartford convention, which was called by the action of her Legislature, and made a factious opposition to the war from its beginning to its end. No better men or truer patriots ever lived than the delegates to the Hartford convention, but they allowed local prejudice and personal interest to carry them to the extent of proposing to curtail the powers of Congress to declare and make war, to admit new States into the Union and to lay embargoes. A year after the war began the Legislature of Massachusetts, acting on a hint in the Governor’s message, adopted a remonstrance against the further prosecution of the war and demanding that the questions at issue be adjusted by peaceful negotiation. Massachusetts opposition to the war with Mexico was almost as violent and factious as that against the war of 1812, and the acquisition of Texas, California and New Mexico was strongly disapproved. Now, after having responded nobly to the call of the President for volunteers in the Spanish war and done her full share in its prosecution to a successful issue, she again comes to the front as the birthplace and center of opposition to national expansion. It is somewhat remarkable that a State which is so progressive in many respects should be so conservative and reactionary in the matter of rational territorial growth. The position taken by Senator Hoar involves much more than opposition to the acquisition of the Philippines. There are reasons against annexation of the Philippines which do not apply to Hawaii or Porto Rico. But Senator Hoar goes still further. By denying the constitutional right of the President tq appoint United States senators on commissions he would invalidate the action of the Paris peace commission and of the high joint commission created to adjust differences between the United States and Canada. Charles Lamb tells a story of a man who burned a house to roast a pig. In order to cook the Philippine goose Senator Hoar would set fire to several treaties, throw away the results of the war and sow the seeds for anew crop of troubles with Canada and Great Britain. This is carrying factious opposition to an extreme. One can oppose the acquisition of the Philippines without throwing away Porto Rico and tying the hands of President McKinley as those of no previous President have ever been tied. The practice of appointing senators and representatives on special commissions has prevailed from time immemorial. It is true the Constitution does not expressly authorize it, but the President may and does do many executive acts not specifically named in the Constitution. Os the five American commissioners appointed by President Madison to negotiate a treaty of peace with England after the war of ISI2, James Bayard was a senator and Henry Clay was a member and speaker of the House. There are many other cases in which representatives and senators have been appointed as members of special commissions. The assumption that by accepting such an appointment a senator becomes a tool and mouthpiece of the President, and, therefore, Unfitted to pass upon the work as a senator, is insulting to the appointing power as well as to the person who accepts the appointment. The country will not regard with any degree of patience the factious opposition inaugurated by Senator Hoar to the President’s appointments and the. acts of his commissioners. The people want to see national questions settled and national interests conserved, and thus far they approve the acts of the President in that behalf. Without questioning the honesty of Senator Hoar's convictions it may be said that he does not represent American sentiment. Let the question of the acquisition of the Philippines be considered on its merits, but let us have no attempt to tie the hands of the President or undo the results of tho war.

POLITICAL ACTIVITY IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. The fact that First Assistant Postmaster General Heath was sharply criticised by an interpretation of th proclamation made by ex-President Cleveland in July, 1886, relating to the political activity of federal officeholders has led him to present bis views on the subject in an article in the Forum. After giving the proclamation in full Mr. Heath goes on to explain that it was called out by conditions nor existing at the present time. For years the federal officeholder had devoted much of his time to political management, from the manipulation of conventions to the management of campaigns. Tho postoffices and other federal offices were party headquarters: postmasters were largely the chairmen of party committees, and the mail service was operated with a view to party advantage. The civil-service law was designed to put an end to the turning of the whole public service into a political machine. The law was passed while General Arthur was President. He had great difficulty in preventing zealous partisans in office from violating tho law, and he was criticised because he did not yield. When Mr. Cleveland came into office his appointees w r cre disposed to engage in that “pernicious activity” which he denounced. In his proclamation the activity he condemned was that which caused the officeholder to lie a leader because he held office. It was the exercise of the influence which the holding of a federal office confers in the manipulation of primaries and conventions which Mr. Cleveland declared to be “unfair and indecent," but he explained that “individual interest and activity in political affairs are by no means condemned.” The course which Mr. Heath has adopted is that so long as an official in the classified

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service does not neglect his duties and conducts himself in an orderly way as a good citizen there can be no objection to his taking an active interest in political matters. For instance, it was complained of a Democrat holding a postoffice in Ohio that he was a member of the county cehtral committee. Mr. Heath inquired of those making the complaint against the Democratic postmaster, whose term had not expired, if lie did not faithfully discharge his duties. The complainants replied that he was popular and a very efficient postmaster, but when he closed his office at night he usually went to the Democratic headquarters. Mr. Heath decided that such partisanship was not “pernicious,” but in accord with the “activity in political affairs” which Mr. Cleveland commended. Mr. Heath condemns tho forbidding an official taking such interest in politics on the ground that it deprives him of the rights of citizenship and of obligation to its duties. To show that such was the opinion of Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Heath quotes from his last message to Congress, in December, 1896, as follows: While they (classified employes) should be encouraged to decently exercise their rights of citizenship and to support through their suffrages the political beliefs they honestly profess, the noisy, pestilent and partisan employe, who loves political turmoil and contention, and who renders lax and grudging service to an administration not representing his political views, should be promptly and fearlessly dealt with in such a way as to furnish warning to others who may be likewise disposed. Those who know the first assistant postmaster general as he is known in Indiana will not attribute to him any of the symptoms of mugwumpery, consequently what he as a sturdy partisan has to say of the results of the civil-service law is of interest. It is us follows: 1. cannot find language sufficiently strong to satisfy me in denouncing some of the conditions that existed in official life prior to the enactment of the civil-service law, when postoffices were made clearing houses for political corruption as well as assembling points for political runners, and when drunkenness, corruption and had government lurked in the very official atmosphere —in other words, when postmasters unflinchingly and without conscience or self-respect debased their offices and wielded their official power in the interests of political candidates. There has been a wide reformation, however, in official life since the enactment. of the civil-service law, and I am glad to say that all of the more objectionable elements have been permanently eradicated. The worst charge I ever entertained against any posteffice employe did not approach the improprieties that wore common prior to 1886, and which existed to a large degree at the time President Cleveland issued his proclamation more than twelve years ago. The report comes from Paris that, after the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain is signed, France will take up the Cuban bond question and endeavor to iasten responsibility for their payment on the United. States, on the ground that the treaty forced upon Spain compelled her to repudiate the bonds. As most of the bonds are held in France the report of French intervention in the matter may he true. Its only result* would be a long diplomatic correspondence ending in a victory for the United States. The contention that the L’nited States is liable for the Cuban bonds cannot possibly succeed. If the Cubans had gained their independence unaided the bonds would, of course, have been worthless. It is true the United States aided the Cubans to gain their independence, but it does not take over the island nor profit pecuniarily by Cuban independence. The fact that the war and our terms of peace have impoverished Spain does not make us responsible for her debts, nor for those of Cuba. The French contention will not do.

The following is part of a special dispatch from New York to the Cincinnati Enquirer, relating to the large increase of the stock of gold in this country during the past five years: Money rates all over the country are undoubtedly the lowest on record. The abundance of money is explained by the payments of foreign countries to this country on balance of trade. It is also known that a great deal of money is due from abroad which could be collected, but which is profitably employed abroad, and in the present stringency of money on the other side its collection might embarrass friends and debtors*. It further states thfit the net export of gold during the three fiscal years which ended June 30, 1896. was $116,102,040. During the two fiscal years which ended June 30, 1898, the net Imports of gold were $146,283,894. The increase of gold in this country the past five years has been $222,000,000. These facts prove that the free and unlimited coinage of silver is not needed to increase the stock of money in the United States, or to reduce the rate of interest. Gold has made us a creditor country already. If all reports are true, Emperor William is something of an Adam-Zad himself. After giving advice that resulted in increasing the Turkish cavalry twenty-five thousand men, he return# home and swears fealty to the Czar’s disarmament proposition. The opening of the new Opera Comique of Paris with a free-for-all factional tight confirms the right of the French people to the medal they already hold as the prize seriocomic nation of the world. If Great Britain is to be asked to co-oper-ate in the Nicaragua canal scheme, care should be exercised to make sure that the co-operation begins before all the bills are paid. A noted palmist declares that a woman with a long thumb will have her own way. He is right. So will a short-thumbed woman. Among veterinarians the synonym for “anti-expansionist” is “hide-bound.” 11l RULES IN THE AIII. Ilotv titlin'. Cholly, as the smoke from Brown’s cigar comes toward him—The old pwoverb is proved again—" Beauty dwaws smoke." Brown—You’ve got it wrong. “Nature abhors a vacuum.” Happy Man. “You can’t make me believe he is married to one of those intellectual women. His clothes are too neat.” “On that very account, my bo>\ She lets him take them to the tailor for all repairs.” Touch Ing. The Sweet Y’oung Thing—l just had a lovely time at the matinee. The Elderly Person—Had a good cry, eh? “Yes, I cried over the play in the first act and then cried through the other acts because I had made my nose red.” \t It Vanin. She Who Hail Been Abroad—And what do you think? At Monte Carlo I placed a five-franc piece on the number of my age on the roulette board and won! She Who Had Not Been Abroad—But. dear, there are only thirty-six numbers in roulette. ABOUT PEOPI.E AND THINGS. “Most of my boyhood.” says F. Marion Crawford, “was spent under a French governess. From her I learned, in her language, geography and arithmetic, so that now I write French as easily as English.” Speaker Reed was in a Boston & Maine smoking car the other day. while two men beside him were loudly discussing the Philippines question. “Well, I know how to solve ft, said one. Mr. Reed reached over and tapped him on the shoulder. "Young man,"

said lie. “I want jour address. The information you have will be worth a fortune to the next Congress.” A unique will, just probated in Washington, Pa., is that of Jerome Plummer. His entire estate, valued at $75,000, after the death of his wife, is to be sold and the income used exclusively for the cause of temperance in Washington county. New York has found Joan de Reszke's successor in Salcza, the new tenor, who appeared Friday night In “Romeo and Juliet.” No other singer has made such a triumph since Jean de Reszke came and conquered, and there is said to be much resemblance between their voio< s. A San Francisco friend of Admiral Dewey, who sent him an account of Hobson’s osculatory experience and the dire prophecies for Dewey’s fate upon returning, received this answer from the admiral: "The clippings you send do not seem possible. The threats you make persuade me to rema'n forever in Manila.” The word sirdar, which has been so frequently seen since the exploits of Lord Kitchener, of Khartum, is. according to the Paris Figaro, a contraction of the Arabic words “sayer ed dar.” Sayer means inspector or watcher: dar means palace. Sayer ed dar would therefore mean "inspector of the palace." •Secretary of State Hay sajs: “I never before heard of Captain Lamoth, the river captain said to be the original of ‘Jim Bludsoc.’ The real original was Oapt. Oliver Fairchild, who was burned to death on the steamer Fashion, on the Mississippi, two or three years ago." Colonel Hay's denial is due to the assertion in an Alton (111.) dispatch that the late Captain Lamoth was the Jim Bludsoe of the colonel’s famous poem. While President McKinley was in Chicago a little barelegged boy made his way into the President’s presence, bearing an American Beauty rose. "I came to see j'ou." he said, “and my name is Herbert Simon Strausser. of 3920 Lake avenue.” "Is that rose tor me?” kindly inquired the President. Herbert suddenly walked to the side of the President’s wife and held the rose up to her. Mrs. McKinley was so pleased at being favored with the gift for which the President had asked that she presented young Mr. Strausser with a photograph of herself, of the President and of the While House. Herbert Simon Strausser wiped the picture off on his trouser leg to make it more shiny, and unceremoniously ran out of the room and down the steps. Deftlj l she dresses Ihe turkej', She murmurs a song of joy, She carefully stuffs the fowl—and then She recklessly stuffs her boy. —Chicago Tribune. "They say we didn't know enough,” the Spaniard sighed with pain, “To follow natural Instinct and come in out of the rain. And ail of us are sail as on the consequence we think, And gaze upon tho map and watch our territory shrink.” , —Washington Star. MAGAZINES OF THE MONTH. Another prize story by Walter Wellman, the Arctic explorer, is. the leading attraction of the Black Cat for December. The daily menus for the month, which are a feature of Table Talk, muke that magazine especially attractive to the housekeepers who find the planning of the meals troublesome. The December number has, in addition, a variety of suggestions for the holiday social season. The complete novel in the November Lippincott is entitled “Mrs. Russell's Sister.” Its author is Ann Eliza Brand.. The scene of the story is London, and it Is a pretty love tale. Among other contributions to the number is a plea by Alfred Balch for signatures to newspaper articles in justice to the writers. Charlotte Adams, in “Six Weeks on the Stage.” gives an account of a brief and unprofitable theatrical experience. A short time ago the Indianian, a monthly publication of this city, inaugurated a movement in the direction of having a systematic study of the local and general history of the State. Professor Henry, the state librarian, has formulated an outline for tho study of local history covering the lives and experiences of the pioneer settlers arid the growth of the locality in every way. The design is to have this matter taken up as a part of the school exercises, thus getting teachers, children and parents interested. A popular feature of Recreation is its correspondence department. Hundreds of brief letters are printed each month on hunting and hunting grounds, fish and fishing, natural history, etc. The Deyfjntjer number contains special articles on “Flagging Antelope on the San Luis,” “Hunting, and Hunted.” an Indian story; “A Great Battle Between the Elements,” "St. Hubert, the First Game Protector,” a sketch by Marguerite Tracy; “How to Mount a Deer Head” and "A Boy’s First Buffalo,” besides many other subjects of interest to sportsmen.

The Ladies’ Home Journal contains an interesting page of pictures showing Gen. Lew Wallace at his home in Crawfordsville. Several glimpses of the interior of General Wallace’s house are given, besides views of his studio and lawn. A feature of interest in the latter is the picture of the tree under which, the author says, “I wrote all but the last book of ‘Ben Hur.' ” A photograph also shows General Wallace at work under the spreading branches of the "Ben Ifur” tree, engaged in some literary work that may soon be given to the public. A page of portraits showing Mary Anderson in her English home is also an attraction of the number. A portrait of the former actress shows her a very beautiful woman still. F. Hopkinson Smith, Mary Wilkins and Paul Laurence Dunbar are among the contributors to the number. The American Monthly Review of Reviews for December has for its most notable article one describing the work of J. James Tissot, the French artist, who spent ten years of life in Palestine, studying the landscape and people, preparhtory to the execution of an illustrated history of Jesus. The paintings in water colors and the pen drawings are now in New York and are attracting the greatest attention of artists and biblical scholars, who pronounce this one of the most excellent of graphic histories. Many of the pictures are reproduced in half-tone in the Review, but these evidently hardly do justice to the original. Mr. W. T. Stead writes about European politics as seen through a Russian atmosphere, and he tells some truths that we can w r ell ponder over here in America. Lieut. Jno. H. Parker, of the United States army, has a thoughtful article on the needs of the army, making many suggestions for reorganization, as the result of his experience in the late war. The other features are up to the standard. The Critic for December is a mine of good reading and pictorial attractions. There is the "Lounger’s” pleasant chapter of literary gossip, a number of portraits of authors and actors taken from a volume of “English Portraits” drawn by Will Rothenstein, with a brief biographical sketch accompanying each. There are eight of these portraits, among them Thomas Hardy and Henry James, and a very different idea is given of the two men named from that gained from tho usual photographic reproductions. There is a study of Puvis de Chavannes, the French painter, and his work, by Roger Riordan, and an estimate by Maurice Thompson of James Whitcomb Riley's i>oetry. There is an essay on “Mr. Kipling as an Artist.” a glimpse at the art exhibitions and leading plays of the season, and the usual profusion of book reviews. Most striking feature of alt is a reproduction entire of Fitzgerald’s translation of the "Rubaiyat.” Accompanying is the address made on Omar Khayyam at the Khayyam Club, in London, last year. Kipling's "Truce of the Bear” is also given in full. Altogether, this number of the Critic is one that no magazine reader can afford to pass by. Tho December Scribner has a very holi-day-llke look, with the Christmas angel on the cover, the special features within and the mass of advertising that lends bulk to the book. The article that first attracts attention is a version, by F. J. Stimson, of Wagner's story of "The Ring of the Nibelung,” witli its grotesque illustrations, in color, after drawings by Max field Parrish, showing dwarfs and gnomes and borders of curious and artistic design. A paper of especial interest to art lovers is by M. H. Spielman and treats of John Ruskin as an artist, with illustrations from his paintings and sketches. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, the British colonial secretary, discusses recent developments of policy in the United States, and expresses tne belief that the United States can carry on a colonial service as free from party bias and personal greed as is the similar service In the United Kingdom. or the naval and military service in this country. “There was a time in English history,” he says, “when corruption was rife in politics and in the public service; but with the extension of empire and the increased sense of responsibility, the conscience of the nation was stirred against the

scandal, and both at home and abroad public life has been freed from this blighting pet for many years.” He points cut. however. that occupants of important positions in colonial service are paid salaries which would be considered high according to the American scale, but which make it possible to secure good men. It would, he says, he the worst economy to tix these salaries so low that good men would be unwilling to accept them, while bad men would be willing to make them up by illicit gains at the expense of the people governed. Richard Harding Davis continues his account of the hattle of Santiago, and Captain Mott, United States army, aid to General Merritt, describes the l attle of Manila that occurred Aug. 13. If Robert Louis Stevenson had known how the rubbish of his desk would have been made literary merchandise of after his death, he would probably have burned every scrap of paper. Lloyd Osbourne offers an account of battles played with lead soldiers at a time when the novelist was seeking recreation in anything that came to hand. He may have had an idea of utilizing these mimic battles later in descriptions of real warfare, but the reader must be an ardent Stevenson worshiper Indeed before he can find interest In the original record. Henry Cabot Dodge's "History of the Revolution” ends with this Issue. Three short stories are in the number. One by Miss Jewett, dealing with Irish characters. is hardly equal to her studies of New England natives. A newspaper story by Jesse Dynch Williams is clever, esj>eclally when read between the lines, Lessons to Wife Heaters. Chicago Post. There may have been no law, but there was certainly justice In the punishment meted out to a wife beater at Wilkesbarre, la. The offender was brought before Aiderman John F. Donahue, who was called to pass judgment upon him. The alderman knew of only one thing that he thought would do the wife beater any good, and that was a thrashing. He ordered the doors closed, took off his coat, called on the prisoner to stand up and defend himself, and then proceeded to give him one of the most satisfactory and effective punishments ever inflicted upon that kind of an offender. It may not have been exactly according to the law, but it was a good thing. It will have a beneficial effect on the man. it relieved the feelings of the alderman and it must have made the spectators feel better. It would raise the spirits of anyone to see that kind of a brute get what he deserves. Not a Winning Issue. St. Douis Globe-Democrat. That anti-expansion can never he a winning issue is plain. The Philippines will be American territory, for no reasonable being really believes that the treaty will be rejected. Porto Rico Is ours already. Cuba will probably be annexed, by the consent of the Cubans, before the national conventions meet in I9(M. As all the territory in controversy will be in our hands before the next presidential canvass opens the settlement of the ultimate status of the territory will be a mere matter of detail which the Democracy cannot attack with the faintest hope of success. The American people are not in the habit of assailing accomplished facts. A Big Fleet. Philadelphia Record. When the battle ships Oregon and lowa and the gunboat Helena, now on their way to Manila, shall have joined Admiral Dewey's fleet that gallant officer will have under his command fourteen powerful fighting ships, not including the three Spanish vessels of war recently raised in Manila harbor. This naval ltirce is far superior in offensive and defensive power lo any Asiatic squadron flying European colors, that of Great Britain alone excepted. More and bigger guns and more and better ships will afford the surest guaranty of noninterference with federal plans in the far East.

Rule Works Only One Way. New York Tribune. “It is impossible to impugn the patriotism of such men as H,oar and Bailey,” says the Detroit Journal. Os course it is. Nobody thinks of impugning it. But it is strange how easy it is for those who do not agree with him to impugn the patriotism of the President of the United States. But, of course, he is not entitled to the consideration rightly demanded for a senator or representative. Not Pleasant for Them. New York Sun. Mr. Bailey, of Indianapolis, says that Mr. Croker told him recently that Tammany would accept whatever platform was adopted by the Democratic convention in 1900. This was a foregone conclusion. But the intelligence will be pleasant for the gold Democrats who are now friendly to the Four-teenth-tstreet organization. A Hopeful Editor. Rising Sun Local. It is stated that a Sanctified Band will strike Rising Sun about Jan. 1. If they come we hope some of our delinquent subscribers will 'iecome sanctified long enough to pay their subscription accounts. .There isn't a bit cf religion in a man or woman who beats the printer out of a year’s sub% eription. f Adjustable. New York Mail and Express^ Ex-Minister Hannis Taylor, who. at the outset of the war, fairly, yearned to put on his cowhide hoots and kick haughty Spain off the face of the earth, now declares that this government is treating her much too harshly. It appears ’.hat Mr. Taylor curries a set of reversible convictions. / Discrediting- Eminent Citizens. Kansas City Journal. Grover Cleveland was found guilty of drunkenness in the Atchison Police Court the other day. This is always the way with old topers. When arrested they never fail to give the name of some eminent citizen who was never known to taste, touch nor handle. A Mystery. Chicago Inter Ocean. They are arresting girls in Luzon, U. S. A., for carrying concealed cameras. Why the girls should conceal them it is difficult to explain. How they can conceal them, if the pictures of Luzon girls we see in the papers are faithful, is a mystery. Lesson of the New York Fire. Philadelphia Record. Fire-proof buildings cannot be regarded as entirely safe until all neighboring tinder boxes of old style architecture shall have been finally removed or replaced by structures of slow-burning construction. Not the Whole Thing. Detroit Tribune. A great many mugwumps will be deeply pained at Mr. McKinley’s message. He talks just as if the executive were not the only department of the government. , The Wny of It. Philadelphia North American. It's the air of confidence with which Tom Reed surrounds himself at all times that causes the enemy always to take the opposite side of the street. A Combination. Washington Post. The Earl of Stafford was married to the wealthy Mrs. Colgate yesterday. This is one of the greatest transactions in royalty and soap on record. The President's Limitations. Kansas City Journal. Every man has his limitations. President McKinley is a success as President, but he would hardly give satisfaction as an editorial paragrapher. Godkin's Grievance. New York Evening Sun. Mr. Larry Godkin is disappointed with Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, because—he has some of the attributes of a successful American politician. AVltnt, Indeed f Philadelphia North American. What is to become of literature when authors like Dewey and Kitchener refuse to take up the pen and write for the magazines? Inconsistent*). Philadelphia North American. People who tolerate six-day bicycle rates grow livid in their protests at the manner in which the troops were treated during the war. Chatter'll Mistake. Washington Post. General Shatter made the awful mistake of getting between Admiral Sampson and another bunch of prize money. \ Chicago Thought. Chicago Post. For a time it must have looked as if that New York sky scraper that was destroyed had scraped th*> other place. All la Not boat. Philadelphia Inquirer. it is true, as the Oil City Tornado says, that the football season has passed away.

It is likewise true that baseball is for this year, nothing but a memory, and not too fragrant a memory at that. It is also true that no one could now find a summer girl and that sealskin coats are more to the point than the swinging hammock. But what of that? Death and the tax collector remain with us and are doing their best to keep us, interested. There’s always something to enchain our thought. T HE SAME OLD STORY. Anti-Expansionists of the Past and Those of the Present. New York Tribune. The Little American changes not from one generation to another. He has the same lack of constructive imagination and the same narrow national vision when Josiah (Juincy denounced the “imperialism" threatening in our possession of the land where St. Louis now stands as when Carl Schurz weeps over the destruction of American ideas and of the American Constitution in the extension of our authority over Honolulu and Manila. There is not anew argument in the whole anti-expansion armory. The men who now use them say that never before was the question presented of governing far-removed territories and alien peoples and establishing special tariffs not uniform with those for the States. These questions are new only as they have been forgotten. Every one of them, in slightly different form, but to the mind of earlier statesmen involving the same principles, has been presented in the halls of Congress and decided in favor of the dreaed "imperialists.” New Orleans, St. Augustine and Pensacola had their special tariffs, which were denounced as unconstitutional for years after they were in United States territory. Their people were 'governed as colonists, sometimes with no home rule, sometimes with an advisory power over which the representative of the President exercised an absolute veto. Plans for governing our outlying Territories were denounced by the early Little Americans in exactly tne same tone that the present day Little Americans employ. The lands were too far away; their trade was not worth the expense of occupation; they never oottld be part of our system. If they did they would destroy the Nation: if thev were held outside our system they wouid destroy it even more certainly. In 1824 President Monroe, in his message to Congress, advised the occupation of Oregon, and in accordance with his suggestion a bill was drawn authorizing the establishment of a post on the Columbia river. It was opposed by Senator Dickerson, of New Jersey, and in the course of_ his speech in the Senate, on Feb. 2d, 1825, he made the following remarks: "As yet, we have extended our laws to no Territories but such as were or are to become States of the Union. We have not adopted a system of colonization, and it is to be hoped we never shall. Oregon can never be one of the United States. If we extend our laws to it we must consider it as a colony. * * ♦ As yet, we have sent no military force there. What is the immediate pressure for such a force at this time. To protect our ships engaged in the whaling and fishing, and in the fur trade, and taking of sea otters. The whales are caught in the southern latitudes, and all the sea otters we shall ever take upon the coast of Oregon Territory would not pay the expense ot marching a single company across the Rockv mountains. * * * "But is this Territory of Oregon ever to become a State, a member of the Union? Never. The Union is already too extensive —and we must make three or four new States from the Territories already formed. (There were then twenty-four Mates.) * * The distance from the mouth of the Columbia to the mouth of the Missouri is 3,555 miles—from Washington to the mouth of the Missouri is 1,160 miles—making the whole distance from Washington to the mouth of the Columbia river 4,703 miles—but say 4,650. The distance, therefore, that a member of Congress of this State of Oregon would be obliged to travel In coming to the seat of government and returning home would be 9,300 miles; this, at the rate of $8 for every twenty miles, would make his traveling expenses amount to $3,720. Every member of Congress ought to see his constituents once a year. This is already very difficult for those in the most remote parts of the Union. * * * At the rate which the members of Congress travel according to law, that is twenty miles per day, it would require, to come to the seat of government' from Oregon and return, 465 days. Yet a young, able-bodied senator might travel from Oregon to Washington and back once a year, but he could 'no nothing else. It would be more expeditious, how’ever, to come by water round Cape Horn, or to pass through Bering’s straits, round the north coast of this continent to Baffin’s bay, thence through Davis’s straits to the Atlantic, and so on to Washington. It is true, this passage is not yet discovered, except upon our maps—but it will be as soon as Oregon shall be a State. “If we plant a colony at Oregon we must protect it. and at an enormous expense. And what advantage can we expect in return? Surely none. We form a vulnerable point where our enemy can easily reach us, and where it will be very difficult to defend ourselves.” Does not that sound just as if it came out of yesterday’s "anti-imperialist?” Change Oregon to Hawaii and the resemblance is complete. Everything that you see in to-day’s dire predictions and smart sneers is there. Notice in that speech the impossibility of our governing colonies which are not to be States. It presaged the calculations that the trade of the Philippines will never be worth the cost of occupation. It foresaw the extension of the Union till it broke to pieces. The military weakness which springs from far-off possessions was as perfectly understood by Mr. Dickerson as by Gamaliel Bradford; and that delicious touch about the undiscovered Northwest passage by which we might reach our "colony” is worthy of the best sarcasm current about the Nicaragua canal. Dear old Little Americans! How wise you were day and generation! How ungrateful your successors are to pretend that they discover new dangers to the state and to neglect to give you credit for having Jong ago anticipated all their fears and brought forward all thei( arguments and saved the country at every stage of its uevelopment from the unconstitutional expansion which would have destroyed it and left nothing for the latterday Little Americans to save!

v CATTLE PAPER. Ilunka That Suffered ly Glllett Paper Were Warned. New York Financier. “I told you so's” come very easily, but without any pretension of superior knowledge on our part we Invite the readers of this paper who may have become involved in the failure of Gillett, the "cattle king" to go over their Financier files for some months past, and satisfy themselves that the warnings published time after time as to the methods of cattle plungers, were not exaggerationa It is almost incredible that men supposedly shrewd should have been made the dupes in a game where they stood to gain little or nothing, and to lose everything. but the facts at hand go to show that they occupy no enviable position. The Financier has repeatedly warned the banks of this country that they were pursuing a disastrous policy in buying Cattle paper without investigation and with no knowledge of the technicalities surrounding the business. We are sorry that ocr predictions have come true, but it is a matter of deeper regret that the latest crash will discredit the millions of good cattle paper on the market and the large amounts which are making from time to time. Conservative bankers in Kansas City estimate the net losses growing out of the Gillett failure at not less than one million dollars. This is a very large sum of money, but. fortunately, it is distributed through so many channels that no one institution seems to be crippled. An estimate showing the proportion of Gillett’s paper carried in the East, and purchased primarily because of indorsements, would be interesting. As an occasional correspondent writes, in commenting on the failure. “One would be safer in loaning money upon a flock of wild geese at full liberty titan in trusting to tiie Integrity of such a plunger." Yet outside banks had no hesitation in buying Gillett’s jiaper itt large amounts. That they have lost is to be deplored, but when all'is said and done, they cannot claim that they went into this venture uncautioned. LiektnK Stamps. New York Press. One of the larger business houses in the United States, doing a tremendous mail-or-der business, says to its customers at a distance: "Do not lick stamps and attach to letters of inquiry, as at some future date we may want to use them, and tHe* government foolishly requires a whole stamp.” It is one of the questions of the hour—how to send postage stamps without sticking them to the letter. If licked on one corner the corner is gone, unless the paper and stamp are soaked, iti which ease the latter, when it drops off. must b>- dried between blotting papers and re-museilaged. AM this requires time and trouble. A few thoughtful persons with hours and hours to burn, to whom object is no time, as the reverse phrase goes, make two slits in the lett*r and place tho stamps underneath tlie intervening strip, which is an excellent plan, though antique. tail Defy Danger. Chicago Post. A medical journal has discovered that there is poison in clothing. The discovery is all right for tropical countries, but in this < limate we shall continue to wear It Just tho same. Children and Pets. The Humane Alliance. Give the children pets. Teach them to he kind and gentle to these pets; to love them and care for'them regularly and tenderly. It will help mold a perfect character.

LEGALIZED PHYSICIANS. A Defense of tlie State Iloaril and of the Profession in General. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; Apropos of a recent editorial. "The State as a Medical Director,” I shall lie pleased to say a few words In defense of the Stat® Board of Medical Registration and Examination, and of the medical profession in general. I am aware that there is a very considerable number of people who share with the Journal the idea that the medical profession, in its efforts to secure legislation looking to higher standard of medical education. is actuated solely by mercenary reasons. They also share with the Journal th® belief that there is between the so-called schools of medicine a conscienceless warfare iq perpetual progress, a warfare that hoodwinks reason and stifles truth. Nothing could be more erroneous. Why do these mercenaries devote themselves to the improvement of sanitary conditions, the discovery of methods for the prevention of disease and means for staying the onward march of the pestilence? And having made such discoveries, why do they give them to the world? Would it not be more profitable for them to invite the epidemic? Why do these sordid mortals give to the poor in medical services each year the equivalent ;of a sum ten times greater thun that bestowed by any other profession? As to th® so-called schools of medicine, these arose at a time when empiricism was universal. Now that the causation and progress of disease have been studied in the light of modern science, and step by step great problems solved, we have no "schools," but have Instead the science of medicine, the one bearing to the other the name relation that astrology bears to astronomy. Every socalled regular physician numbers among his friends homeopaths, eclectics and physiomedicals, for whom he has a high professional regard. They may apply different remedies from those he selects, but their knowledge of disease and their skill in diagnosis is such as to command his respect. Now. those who advocated the recent medical legislation ask only that tie who practices the healing art have a sufficient scientific training to enable him to discover the nature of his patient’s ills. He may make use of medicine, massage, fumigation, or even faith, so long as lie applies them intelligently. The trained artisan acquainted with every detail of the delicate mechanism of a watch may effect a repair by the aid of a tool which he improvises in a moment—a thing the unskilled laborer could not do with a watch maker’s kit at hi® command. The Journal asks: “What provision of the Constitution, or what principle of government makes it the duty of the State * • * to protect the people against medical ignoramuses?” By what authority is the rickety tenement condemned after it has been declared unsafe? Js it not an interference with personal rights to deny tho owner the privilege of renting his building to any one who is willing to subject himself to the dangers incident to a residence in such quarters? Is it a simpler matter for the public to determine the professional qualifications of a physician than it is to ascertain for itself the safety of a prospective residence? When one has it in his power to carry upon his garments the germs of diphtheria to a hundred innocents, and beneath his finger nails bear the seeds of death to as many mothers as he has lyingin cases, it becomes a matter of vital importance to the State that such a one should have a degree of medical knowledge that will enable him to recognize the contagious disease when he sees it, and to appreciate the danger to which he is subjecting every patient that he subsequently visits. Tito law has required for several years that the physician placard the residences of those of his patients who are suffering from contagious diseases. If the State has authority to do this it certainly has the authority to demand of the physician the ability to recognize such diseases when they come under his observation. Relative to the "theological ignoramuses who undertake to minister to sick souls.” it is a fact that the law does not interfere with tnem, hut let a Mormon elder attempt to practice his polygamous creed and lie finds himself in th# clutenes of the law, based upon the Constitution,.which guarantees to him religious liberty. Personal liberty is inconsistent with good government when such liberty becomes a menace to public safety. HENRY MILLER. M. D. National Military Home, Indiana, Dec. 8.

Ilelievc* in Osteopathy. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I have been deeply interested in the discussion through your columns of the rights of osteopaths. I greatly dislike the spirit of egotism which so distinctly characterizes the modern M. D. The memory of my own suffering and almost unendurable torture at their hands from earliest childhood prevents my keeping quiet while this unjust accusation of ignorance is heaped upon the osteopaths. At two and one-half years of age I suddenly lost the use of my right lower limb. My parents took me to the best M. D.’s, who wisely shook their heads and spoke of paralysis, spinal disease, etc. They agreed that my spine and lower limbs should be braced. My father, under the instructions of an Indianapolis physician full of wisdom, gave the order with cash for the iron case which proved the bane of my early years, and now, though I am grown to womanhood. I never think'of my childhood . but the woeful picture of a little girl sitting with her hands folded in her lap when not busy trying to loose the ugly hinges so she could move her tired limbs, looms up before me and it is then I want to tell that it took an • ignorant osteopath” to see at a glance that my hip was dislocated; that my spine was perfect. I spent six months in Kirksviile, where they told me "there is a chance only, if you get well it will require from three to five years' treatment.” This dislocation could have been reduced easily had it been taken in tins#. Now, I know they spoke truly, but how were the M. D.'s to reduce a dislocation that they did not know existed? A friend of mine went to Kirksviile to investigate the merits of the college there, promising me if its claims proved true I should havfe as many years’ care as my case required. . Ridiculed by many of the M. D.’s of her acquaintance she entered upon the course of study. Being with her during the first term and meeting many of the students, I wish to say that he who pronounces the osteopaths Ignorant knows nothing of their course of study and undoubtedly has confined his acquaintance to quacks, for it is a well-known fact that there are a number of diploma mills where, the wise can get an osteopathic diploma for cash on ten minutes’ notice. Prof. Smith, M. IX. D. O. of the American school, proved this by buying one in Kansas City last year for |250; then the mill moved. 1 am Informed by a member of the American Association of Osteopaths that there is one diplomate of osteopathy in our cantal city, also that none of the regular osteopaths is licensed by the State. When 1 read I>r. Gcitt’s statement that the board has licensed many M. D. s to practice osteopathy I wondered H the osteopath would carry a pill box in his pocket if the board would not on equal grounds license him to practice medicine A FRIEND OF OSTEOPATHY. Frankfort, Ind.. Dpc. 8. ('ongreMiiiaii lent* In Court. Washington Special in Chicago Post. Members of Congress ure shaking their sides 1 over a story on Representative Lentz, which lloats in from Columbus. O. M> - . Lentz is a self-imporlant party of the put-fer-plgeon style of architecture who imagines himself a child of destiny He was counsel in t case which come up for trial in Columbus last week, end without consulting the attorneys on the other side he asked the court for a continuance on the ground that Ids duties as a member of Cotigress required his presence in Washington. One of the opposition attorneys, replying to Mr. ixntzs motion, gravely addressed the court to this effect: He acknowledged the value of Mr. f.-ntz as a member of Congress and admitted that without him in Washington Congress would do no business. Continuing, be said: "He will remain In Washington on* year and upon his return to Ohio will receive the Democratic nomination for Governor and be elected. Ilia duties as Governor will prevent him from appearing in this case for two years longer. He will then Ik* re-elected to that office, which will take two years more of his time. That will carry him nearly to 1904. The strain on his constitution will compel him to take a rest for a while, but a grateful people will again drag him into the public service and lie will be nominated for the presidency and will be triumphantly elected. After four years devoted to ids country he will be reelected without opposition. That takes us up to 1912. Now. may it please your honor, I suggest that it is hardly right to ask my clients to put off a trial of this case for fourteen years, and ask that we be permitted to go on.” Without relaxing a muscle the court gravely said, ”lsM the trial proceed,” axal it did. Maybe So. * Philadelphia Times. Among other reviving amusements it* said roller skating again promises to get otc Its feet.