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THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1899. Washington Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone (alls. Dusirwss Office 238 j Editorial Rooms 86 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Daily only, one month $ ."0 Dally only, three months 2.00 Daily only, one year 8.00 Daily, including Sunday, one year KMX) Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, hy carrier 15 cts Sunday, single copy 5 cts Daily and Sunday, per week, by carrier 2o cts WEEKLY. Per year SI.OO Reduced Rates to Clubs. Subscribe with any of our numerous agent* or Bend subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. Persons sending the Journal through the malls In the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-CENT postage stamp; on a twelve 9f sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these rater. Ail communications intended for publication in this paper must, in order to receive ut.ention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. g—... ■ - , , 1 ' TT3 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following plaeei; NEW YORK—Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel/ and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 134 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Deering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 236 Fourth avenue. “ BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C.-Rlggs House, Ebbltt House and Willard’s Hotel. But one Democrat In the House voted In favor of the measure to Insure clean bookkeeping, but 19 Republicans voted with B 2 Democrats against it. Representative Cannon should have Sounded his alarm about large expenditures before the river and harbor appropriation omnibus bill was passed. The taxeaters about the House showed a great deal of elation on Thursday after the defeat of the bill to secure clear and honest bookkeeping. There may be another day. Tho taxpayers are a large majority over the taxeaters, but legislators sometimes overlook the fact because the latter are always about legislative lobbies when the former are at home at work. Mr. Eichliorn should be on his guard lest Mr. Reser fully supersede him as the leader Df the Democratic side of the House. On Thursday and Friday he was the Democratic leader, and Mr. Eichhorn a follower. Republican members of the Legislature ■who have congratulated themselves that Indiana is now solidly Republican had better be careful how they vote on the bills for reform in county and township government. When Representative Reser said, in the House, on Thursday, in effect that Mr. John C. New is the author of the township and county bills, he told what he should have known to be a falsehood. Mr. New has not so much as been consulted about the bills. Judging from the expressions of the papers which supported the peace treaty, tho sentiment is very general in favor of treating the Philippines the same as it is proposed to treat Cuba, which is to assist the people in establishing a stable and fair government. It was a painful necessity that required the Americans to mow down the Filipinos the way they did, but as the necessity existed there is reason for congratulation that the work was so well done. The march of civilization must go on, and the white man must bear his burden. • i The protracted cold season with bare wheat fields naturally causes considerable anxiety regarding the crop. The fear is reflected in the prices of wheat, but not to the extent that might have been expected in the exchanges, where slight causes are pretexts for wide fluctuations in prices. The anti-treaty organs are now declaring that the United States should make terms with Aguinaldo, and quote the declarations President in favor of pacification long Jjefore Aguinaldo made his attack on our forces at Manila. The situation has changed, but those papers seem not to see it. Americans who characterise the attempt to take and hold the Philippines as a tyrannical and enslaving movement Insult the flag and the principles of republican government. For a half-civilized people to be brought under the protection of the United States government and put in a position to enjoy its benefits is neither tyranny nor Slavery. The country storekeeper has no lobby fccre to look after his interests, but those who have the power should see to it that she pharmacy bill does not deprive him or *iny other dealer of the right to sell proprietary or patent medicines. The pending bill may not deprive the general retailer of the right to sell patent medicines, but there are those who express doubt, and there should be no doubt about it. It is often stated that the proposition to reform township and county governments bad Its origin in Indianapolis. That is a mistake; it had its origin in the Republican and Democratic state conventions. It was next indorsed by a business organization in Evansville and taken bp by the State Board of Commerce, which created a commission to draw the necessary bills. This railing lit Indianapolis is cheap demagogy. Mr. Canada’s bill, which makes the conviction of any officer for felony cause for removal from office, does not go far enough, if it is true, as is asserted, that township trustees have no power to compel road supervisors appointed by them to make the returns required by law and cannot remove them during the four years for which they are appointed. The officer who makes a subordinate should have authority to remove him for failure to discharge his duties. The Washington Post says, apparently on food information, that unless the army reorganization bih passes at this session of Congress the President will call an extra session. He certainly should, and the calling of an extra session on that account will Ih* a reflection on the intelligence and patriotism of this Congress. Instead of quib--1 ling over details Congress should recognize the situation as it exists and give tho President an army to deal with it. They should not require hlnr. to make bricks without straw. It seems better that the speaker, who has the casting vote in the committee on rules, should give his vote in favor of a day for consideration of the Hepburn bill for the construction of the Nicaragua canal than to have it attached to the river and harbor

bill as a rider. Whether wise or unwise, the sentiment of the country is in favor of the canal. As between the Senate bill and Representative Hepburn’s, the latter is far the better, as it gives the United States control over the construction and has nothing to do with any existing corporation. FOR THE TAXPAYERS OR TAVE VEERS—WHICH f What objection can there be on the part of the man who desires clean and economical local government to the bill designed to secure a uniform and correct system of keeping the accounts of county officers? No objections which should have weight with intelligent men were given in the debate in the House on Thursday. Mr. Reser, who seems to be the spokesman of the lobby of a few county officers and supply dealers, made some ridiculous assumptions, the most of which are too absurd to be considered by sensible men. One of these objections was that it would give the printing of a large amount of blanks to Indianapolis printers. This Is absurd. Section 1 authorizes the auditor of state “to prescribe blanks and forms necessary in his judgment to secure such uniform system of bookkeeping" as the rest of the act provides for. He shall “prescribe,” not furnish. When State Auditor Hart was questioned as to what he would do under this provision, he said that he would simply provide the forms in sheets, as the law gives him no authority to furnish sets of books. There is but one further allusion to blanks in connection with the state auditor, and that is in Section 3, which provides that returns made to the auditor’s office shall be made on blanks “furnished” by him. This would require the printing of about one thousand blanks by the state printer for the State. Mr. Reser declared that it would take ten clerks to aid the state auditor in doing the work required in his office by the bill. The state auditor says the clerks provided by the bill will be sufficient. Who knows best about this matter, the state auditor of long experience and of Recognized ability, or Mr. Reser? Those who oppose this and other reform bills have had much to say about the benefit which would accrue to Indianapolis printers, stationers and dealers in county supplies. Do those who make this objection not know that among the most effective lobbyists against all these measures are the proprietors and employes of one or more leading houses engaged in this business in this city? Such is the case, and the Journal has evidence that one of them has telegraphed a dealer in a distant county to come to the Statehouse and fight the reform bills. Most of the other opponents of this bill and others relative to township and county government are opposed by the lobbyists of those county officers who oppose every measure designed to abate abuses and secure good government. Those about the Statehouse now are in part the same men who fought the passage of the present fee and salary law. They are ex-county officers who have been defeated for re-election.

Is a law needed to secure uniform and full reports to the state auditor? If counties and townships are to be a law unto themselves, with officers free to make any sort of contracts and to withhold from the state treasury tens of thousands of dollars a year which belong there, no law making the township and county officers responsible is needed. In one county—that represented by Mr. Reser—the commissioners have been proceeded against for making a contract for printing because the price is exorbitant and there had been no call for bids. The editor of one of the Republican papers in Lafayette informs the Journal that he will furnish the supplies for half the amount for which the commissioners were about to make a contract. In another county in which a favored supply house had been getting $1,600 a year and above for several years the same firm furnished the same goods for S2OO a year w r hen the irregularity had been exposed. Is it possible that a majority of the members of the House want this sort of thing to continue in even a few counties? Are they representing the interests of taxpayers or the few men who desire to be allowed to waste public money if they choose to do so? Who can he harmed by a clear and concise system of bookkeeping—who but those who know that they cannot cover up extravagance and unlawful transactions? The State is at the head of a system of local governments. Counties exist by action of the Legislature—why should not the State, as the head of the system, exact uniform reports of the expenditures which affect State and county alike? Why should not county commissioners report to the State the objects to which they vote allowances and the amounts voted? The Journal has it from a state official that county officials are holding back several hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate of fees and dues of one kind and another belonging to the State. An adequate system of bookkeeping which would make it possible to compare collections, receipts and expenditures would show up the delinquents. Why not have it? Are a few officials of greater importance than hundreds of thousands of taxpayers? FILIPINOS AND INDIANS. Our brief experience in dealing with and fighting the Filipinos has led old army officers to note the resemblance between their methods and those of our Indians. There are no military men in the world who have had more exj>erience in savage warfare than some of our regular army officers. The country scarcely appreciates the value of the services rendered by some of them during many years of frontier life and Indian campaigning, and probably they little thought that the experience they were getting would prove valuable in a war between the United States and Spain. There seems to be a resemblance between Spanish and Indian methods of warfare. The tricks by which our troops before Santiago were ambushed, the manner in which the Spanish si arpshooters disguised themselves in leaves, hid themselves in trees, their fashion of fighting from behind cover, the digging of pits and the stretching of barbed wire w'ore all suggestive of Indian methods. Some of the best fighting done by Americans in Cuba was by officers and men who had had experience in Indian warfare which had taught them how to fight a treacherous foe and how to take care of themselves while inflicting punishment on the enemy. The Filipinos are even more like Indians than the Spanish are. They are not Half civilized, and what little civilization they have i3 derived from the Spaniards, and is consequently very crude. It is a thin veneering of poor quality over a savage nature. Moreover, If the North American Indians are of Asiatic origin, as many ethnologists believe, they may be racially related to the Filipinos, who are also of Asiatic origin. At all events, our brief experience with the Filipinos has shown that they possess some of the characteristics of Indians. They are wary, suspicious, treacherous, inaccessible to generous treatment, unable to discriminate between leniency and cowardice, and with not much respect for

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anything but force. Like the Indians they attack In the night and expect to take the enemy by surprise. They exaggerate their own prowess and underrate that of the enemy. AW those are Indian characteristics and doubtless very familiar to General Otis, who is an old Indian fighter. There are other regular army officers at Manila who probably understand the Indian character as well as General Otis does, and who therefore know hew to deal with the Filipinos. Directly bearing on this point is the statement of an old army officer at Washington, published in the Journal of Wednesday. He said: The Philippine natives are like all halfsavage people; they are governed in their own aggression by nothing but a fear of being whipped by their enemy; and they cannot understand any forbearance on the part of an opponent, except on the theory that he is afraid of them. We have had the same thing for thirty years in our own Indian wars. We lost more men and dfTfled more Indians in the West through the mild, temporizing and supposedly humane policy of successive administrations than we ever would have lost in a few sharp, sound thrashings administered in successive allopathic doses just to show the untutored savage that we meant business and would whip him first and treat him right afterwards. * * * The case is just the same to-day in the Philippines. It is unfortunate for them that the natives can’t understand a humane policy on the part of this government, or that we intend to deal honestly with them. Forbearance on our part, now simply means to them that we are afraid of them, and the quicker we whip them thoroughly and disabuse their minds the sooner we can enter on an era of peaceful reconstruction and reform. This is a wise and humane view of the case. We have as much right in the Philippines now as the white men had in America at the beginning, and a better right to subject the Filipinos to our rule than we had to subject the Indians. We are in the Philippines by the right of conquest and cession of the territory by an enemy fairly vanquished in w r ar. Assuming the treaty to be in force as it practically is, the insurgent Filipinos are rebelling against the United States. We are there to offer them liberty, stable government and home rule, and to start them in the path of modern progress, and while we are tendering the olive branch they attack us. They even fired on a flag of truce a few’ days ago. Having made war on the United States and adopted Indian methods they should be treated like Indians and whipped into submission. It is probable that an old Indian fighter like General Otis will know what to do and how to do it. Perhaps he has done it already. Those old campaigners are not apt to let the grass grow under their feet. Few: state officers have left behind them so good a record as has F. J. Scholz. w’ho retired from the office of state treasurer this week. The time covered by his administration has been a great debt-paying period for Indiana, and the operations of the state treasury have been large. In all the work involved Mr. Scholz has shown himself prompt, careful and always accurate to a penny. Indianapolis bankers agree in regarding him as one of the best financiers in the State, and the county treasurers have been pleased with the fact that their settlements were never delayed a moment and their communications have never waited a day for reply. The simple sj’stem of bookkeeping adopted by Mr. Scholz has always displayed at a glance the status of any of the numerous funds in his custody, and the work of his office has been as clean cut as that of the best bank in the city.

It is interesting to note that much of the good work in the recent fighting in the Philippines was done by regiments from States scarcely know'll in the civil war, or else admitted since. We read of a Kansas regiment deploying with the Third Artillery of regulars, of a Utah battery bombarding the insurgents from the land side, and that “a Montana regiment advanced on the jungle." The fact that all of these States were brought into the Union by expansion does r.ot seem l> detract from the Americanism of their soldiers. A bill providing for a convention to draft anew State Constitution has failed again in the Legislature. There is something admirable in the tenacity with which the American people cling to established form and written Constitutions. It is a phase of conservatism that argues well for general results. Every Legislature knows that we ought to have anew Constitution, and yet every one says “let us live under the old one a little longer.” Better that sort of conservatism than revolution. RUBBLES IN THE AIR. Mercenary XVreleh. “My face is my fortune, sir,” she said. “But I prefer figures,” said he, “instead.” Some Consolation. “At any rate,” said the cab horse as the automobile went by, ‘if I am correctly informed, at least they estimate those things as of so many horse power.” Pipe Dreaming. “Let me dream again!” said the troubadour. But they would not. There seemed to be something the matter with his pipes. The Cornfeil Philosopher. “Remember, young man,” said the Cornfed Philosopher, “that while the girl who wears the tight, thin shoes may make the best appearance on the street, it is the girl with the overshoes who is the least likely to have cold feet." A LIBERAL CORPORATION. A Great Trunk Railway Favors an Editor with a Puss. Greensburg (Ind.) Review. An editor's life is not always that bed of roses that some people picture. It is not every day that fills his soul with sunshine and causes his heart to sing the praises ot' his fellow-men. Some days are dark and cheerless—a time when great curtains of gloom sweep before him like black banners and obscure the good and beautiful. But to the stout heart these things are not always discouraging. The editor knows the inky clouds will some time be riven and he knows the golden glory of a brighter day will come streaming in. Such a realization came to us yesterday when w’e received the following letter, inclosing an “annual” over the Westport Stone Belt Railway, the trunk line between the Hollensbe Stone Company's quarries and Westport. The letter is from the president of the road and speaks for itself: "Westport, Ind.. Feb. 4. “Mr. A. M. Willoughby. Greensburg, Ind. "Dear Sir—lnclosed please find pass No. 399. over the most important line in the State. We can extend thia courtesy to only a very few of our most intimate friends. We have no Niagara Falls nor Indian Springs on our line, but we are ‘on the banks of the beautiful Sand creek,’ which in the long, sweltering days of summer time, are covered with real, live Indians, slinging their war paint and flourishing their battle axes while dancing around their chief, Samknarr,' from morning till night, keeping perfect time to their unearthly war whoop, causing the very hills to shiver and tha rocks to leave their resting places, and, disguised as pyramids, jails, courthouses, sewers, streets and bridges, take transport on the passing flats and slip away to Cincinnati, Indianapolis. Chicago and other quiet villages, where they may rest in peace for evermore. “When this line is completed to Millhousen our Sunday excursions will be the delight of the Boston Bowery and to the thirsty Dutchman over the Rhine a real Joy forever. Very truly. "THE HOLLENSBE STUNE CO.. “(Operating the W. P. S. B. Railway.) “Per Ira J. Hollensbe.” Talk about soulless corporations! It Is all stuff. Here is a great railroad company, without solicitation, freely bestowing its

favor upon a humble citizen without any hope or expectation of compensation or reward. Could there be a better example of the large-hearted liberality of oir great corporations? We should say not. HIE ELECTION'S OF 18118. A Total Vote of 11.257,302, IgainM 1 *.- 0T1.0J87 In 18044. The following election tabic, taken from the columns of the New York Sun. is a very complete and presumably accurate compilation and classification: States. Rep. Dem. Pop. I’ro. Alabama—No Republican state ticket. Arkansas 27.324 75,362 3.322 679 California 148,354 129,2*1 4,2''7 Colorado 50.880 94,274 2.677 Connecticut M. 315 64,227 1,4*0 Delaware 15,506 15,053 451 Florida 3,999 20,788 Georgia—No Republican state ticket. Idaho 1 j,974 19,407 5.371 1.175 Illlrois 418,940 405,490 7.893 11,7*2 Indiana 286,641 269.125 5.867 9.961 lowa 236.524 173.000 3,372 7.559 Kansas 149,292 134,157 1.092 Kentucky 116,329 125,463 6,967 Louisiana 2,021 27,629 2,572 Maine 54,266 29.497 662 2,333 Maryland 106,927 100,874 7.527 Massachusetts .... 191,146 107,960 4,734 Michigan 243.239 168,142 1,656 7.008 Minnesota 129,127 102,450 5,644 5.463 Mississippi 842 23,993 2.515 Missouri 255,428 285,770 9,937 2.933 Montana 14,825 23,315 11,605 ..... Nebraska 93,2.81 96.703 Nevada 3.54s 2,057 833 New Hampshire.. 44,730 35.653 104 1,335 New Jersey 164.051 158,552 491 6,893 New York 661.707 643,921 18,383 North Carolina... 159,511 177,449 North Dakota 27,308 19,496 891 Ohio 408.213 347,074 7,689 Oregon 45,104 34.530 2.866 2.213 Pennsylvania .... 511,175 359,307 6,321 67,750 Rhode Island 24.743 13,224 2,012 South Carolina.... 2,804 28.977 South Dakota 36 949 37,319 891 Tennessee 72,611 305,640 1,722 2,411 Texas—No Republican state ticket. Utah 29,631 35,296 2,878 Vermont 38,555 14,686 1,075 Virginia 62,492 108.308 559 Washington 40,362 32,339 West Virginia.... 80,251 72,997 Wisconsin 173.137 135,353 8,517 8,078 Wyoming 10,126 8,660 431 Totals 5,267,186 4,862,778 82,566 203.272 —States in Which Republicans Ran No Ticket.— Democrat. Populist. Prohibition. Alabama 113,113 52,844 1,611 Georgia 117,455 50.841 Texas 291,548 114,955 2,437 Totals 522,116 218,640 4,048 —Minor Parties. — Socialist: California. 5.142; Colorado, 1,569; Connecticut, 2.866; Illinois, 2,897; Indiana, 1,975; lowa. 1,081; Kansas, 635; Massachusetts, 10,063; Michigan, 1,101: Minnesota, 1,754: Missouri, 2.708: Nebraska, 248; New Hampshire, 613; New Jersey. 5,458; Ohio, 5,874; Pennsylvania, 4,488; Rhode Island, 2.877; Washington. 1,323: Wisconsin, 4,017; New York. 23,860; Kentucky, 395; Texas, 532? Total, 81.496. Single Tax, Delaware 935 National Democrat. Maine 320 Negro Republican. Alabama 2,429 Citizens’ Union. New York 2,105 Union Reform. Ohio i0,91t Silver Republican, Nevada 3.570 Total f;; 20,270 In Minnesota and Pennsylvania the vote for lieutenant governor is given: in Kentucky. Louisiana, Montana, Maryland. Mississippi, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and V est Virginia the vote is for congressmen, no state ticket having been voted for, except in South Carolina, where the election of the Democratic state ticket was unanimous. —Recapitulation.— Republican 5.257 206 Democratic 4,862 778 Democratic-Populist 522 116 Populist : 408,206 Prohibitionist 207.320 Socialist 81.496 Minor parties 20,270 Total .11,257.392 In four States. Colorado. Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, women voted on equal terms with men. At the Georgia state election the total vote cast was 170,000; for congressmen the total vote was 70.660. The vote in Alabama. in August, was 170,000 on Governor and state officers; for Congress, in November. only 75,C00. The increase in the Socialistic vote shown in the 1898 election was chiefly in Massachusetts. Rhode Island and Connecticut. By the national census of 1890 the number of male residents of the United States twenty-one years of age and upward was 16,940,311. The total vote at the presidential election of 1896 was 14,071,097.

SEATS ON ’C HANGE FOR $35,000. Highest Price Yet Paid for a Chance to Gamble in Stocks. New York Herald. Wall street's rising tide of speculation has created an unprecedented demand for Stock Exchange memberships, resulting in the prices of seats being forced up yesterdav to $35,000, the highest price on record. The highest previous figure was $34,500, in 1885. At the time of the great boom in 1881 the highest price touched was $32,000. There were several bidders for the seat that sold yesterday for $35,000. but John Henry Townsend. assistant secretary of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, son of the late John P. Townsend, president of the Bowery Savings Bank, got it. Mr. Townsend’s brother, Charles J. Townsend, of the firm of Townsend & Shera, has been a member since 1881. John Henry Townsend is about thirty-five years old, and is captain of Company A of the Seventh Regiment. He is also a member of the New York A*hletic Club. He is said to feel some little pride in paying the highest price up to date for a membership in the Exchange, but it is expected by the officers of the Exchange that seats will go on breaking records and that before long $35,000 will seem a small price to pay. At the close of business yesterday $38,0X) was bid for a seat and none was offered at that price, because, as one of the officers of the Exchange said, none of the eleven hundred members at present cares to sell. During dull periods there have frequently been seats for sale with no buyers in sight. One of the officials of the Exchange said yesterday that lie believed seats would be selling for $40,00) within ten days, and at $59,000 before spring. The. ranid rise in price is due to the tremendous transactions on the Exchange and the wave of speculation that is sweeping over the country, bringing largely increased business to the brokers. Every hundred shares sold means a commission of one-eighth of 1 per cent., or $12.50. to the broker who gets the order. On a million shares, the total dealt in yesterday, the commission would have been $125,000, if all of this had been regular commission business. In fact, however, a very large amount of this business is between the brokers themselves, on which the commission is only $2 a hundred shares. As showing how prosperity or depression affects the price of seats on the Exchange as well as the prices of securities, it may be noted that after the panic of 1893 the price gradually went down as transactions fell off until several years ago the price declined to $5,200. Two’ or three vears ago the price touched $17,500. The New' York Stock Exchange is not the onlv one to feel the benefit of the good times. Seats have gone up in Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia correspondingly. In Boston yesterday, the price touched $25,000. which is represented to be the highest on record. In Philadelphia two seats were sold last week at $6,500 each, and one at $6,000 earlier in the week. A year ago a seat on the Exchange was bought for $2,500. CUBAN WOMEN' AT HOME. ‘•Make Home Attractive” In Ways Not Entirely American. Gilson Willets. in International Magazine. As for formal entertainments, one may count upon the fingers of one hand the houses where parties and balls are given. Conversation, soon flags In a country where education is so backward, especially among the women, whose intellectual pabulum consists generally of the very worst French novels and of prayer books. The usual way of spending the evening is to place, a long, double row of rocking chairs opposite each other and sit there chatting, everybody, meanwhile, smoking the inevitable cigarette. Most of the women who appear on the streets in the daytime hood their faces with black mantillas, and use fans to protect their eyes from the sun. Often you see young women w’alking together dressed exactly alike: indeed, this is so frequent as to be noticeable to strangers. One Sunday afternoon I saw five women in front of a fashionable residence, probably members of the same family, all gowned precisely alike in a heliotrope fabric. It was suggested that the head of the family was so pleased with the goods that he bought the whole piece. This indifference to cleanliness extends ■ever to the person. A bath tub. even in the homes of the middle class, is unknown, and a daily face wash is rare. Perfume and face powder are used instead. The women, however, take some pride In their personal appearance, and they usually look neat and fresh, especially in the evening, when they dresS in light stuff, generally muslin or linen. White and blue is their favorite combination, and they have a style all their own. One commendable characteristic of the Uuban housewife is her absolute femininity. She does not care to mingle in the affairs of men, but is content to depend on them for everything. She realizes, perhaps, that sue can wield a wider sway at home, and by careful attention to her household duties

endeavors to make home as attractive a place as possible for husband, brother and friends. Your Chances In Cnltn. Gilson Millets, in Leslie's Weekly. People Cuba bound must remember that, while only one-tenth of the island is under cultivation, there are no large tracts of vacant public lands. Every inch of ground is owned by some individual. Cuba, therefore. offers but small opportunities for “boomers.” The opening of Cuba for colonization and investment is not like the opening of Oklahoma, where the first man to drive a stake has a “claim” on a portion of land. Cuba's acres may be eheaply acquired from the present impoverished owners, but nevertheless each acre must be paid for. A summing up of the chances for Americans in Cuba shoves that the opportunities arc of four classes: Employment for labor. Investments by capitalists in municipal and public improvements. Agricultural opportunities for small farmers. The establishment of winter homes and resorts for the leisure classes. Asa winter resort Cuba offers opportunities for making money in hotels and boarding houses. Before the war thousands of tourists visited Cuba where only hundreds went to California and Mexico. The sanitary improvements in the larger cities have encouraged Americans to resume their pleasure trips to Cuba, and it is estimated that fully thirty thousand people, in search of rest or pleasure, will have found their way to Cuba before the beginning of Bent. When proper sanitation has been established, and when the prejudice resulting from the reports of returning sick soldiers has been overcome Cuba is sure to become the American Riviera. If you have consumption or any pulmonary disease avoid Cuba, for to one thus aftiicted the atmosphere will prove fatal. The island is, indeed, a winter resort for the strong rather than a health resort for the weak. Mai. Russell Harrison. Leslie’s Weekly. By keeping the riotous elements among the Cubans and Spaniards well in hand and maintaining strict order among the troops, Maj. Russell B. Harrison, now the provost marshal of the Seventh Army Corps in Havana, is repeating there the excellent record he made in Jacksonville and Savannah before embarking with General Lee for Cuba. In the former city Major Harrison received the rare compliment and distinction of a resolution from the City Council commending him highly for his success in the difficult role of keeping order among a large body of idle troops in a big city. The Council also petitioned the President in its resolution to promote Major Harrison to the rank of lieutenant colonel, which action is made particularly noteworthy by the fact that it Is the only case during the war of a city asking for the promotion of an officer. In Savannah Major Harrison was the recipient of great praise from army officers, the press and people. Major Harrison has had years of military experience, and his efficiency is not a surprise to those who know him well. It more than justifies his appointment by President McKinley, and brings out. in strong light the unfairness of the adverse criticism this appointment aroused because Russell Harrison is “the son of somebody.” There is certainly no justice in attempts to keep young men out of positions they are eminently qualified to fill for the reason that they happen to lie sons of our ex-Presidents or of other distinguished men. Myron Reed and the Miners. Denver News. “Myron W. Reed see ins to have been highly popular in Denver,” remarked a mining man yesterday, “but his popularity in this city' is not a marker with the sentiment in which he lias been he’d for many years in the mining camps of Colorado. I lived for a numoer 01 months in a little camp where two copies of the News ordinarily came daily. On Monday twelve copies reached the camp. The extra ten were ordered on account of the sermon of Mr. Reed. Those copies were read by scores of miners during the week and they never tired of talking of that wonderful man. To them he was little short of a deity. The gentleman says a short time ago he met a mining man who was just beginning to strike it rich. The mail had been working for wages for years, but had at last becoi e a mine owner. “Weil,” remarked the Denver man, “I suppose you will soon be a wealthy man.” “It looks that way,” was the reply. “What are you going to do with your money?” “I will give the first $5,000 to Myron Reed,” was the reply. The new mine owner acknowledged that he had never met the great preacher, but lie had read his sermons for years and w r ae impressed with the idea that Reed was *he brightest preacher living. He felt that Reed would make good use of the money. Going to tl*o Theater. Philadelphia Press. She had kissed the baby for the last time until she returned, and then kissed him again. She had carefully locked every door in the house, and all the window's. She had turned the gas to the exact point at which it was to be left until her return. She attended to the grate and warned Bridget not to" meddle with it for fear of fire. She had explained to the maid the use of the burglar alarm, the fire alarm and the policeman's whistle. She had put the cat and dog in the cellar and had wrapped a newspaper around the canary’s cage. And then she was ready. She locked the inside door and tried it Then she locked the outside door and tried it. Then she opened the outside door and tried the inside door Then she locked the outside door again, tried it, and they started. They had proceeded tw'O streets, and her husband had just begun to congratulate himself that she really was ready' W'hen she suddenly stopped. “John.” she said, “I must go back and tell Bridget to be sure and not wake the baby up unless he w'akes himself.” The Librarian of Congress. Nicholas Murray' Butler, in the Independent. It is not necessary that a professional librarian be chosen; but it is necessary that the man selected shall surround himself with professional librarians. He should be a man of marked executive capacity, broad scholarship, a wide acquaintance with the representatives of the Nation's intellectual life, and, in training and natural refinement, a representative of whom the country may well be proud. In short, he should be a man of the type fit to be chosen to the presidency of a great university. He should take intellectual and social rank with the university presidents and with the scholars of the Nation. Such men, how'ever, will not become active candidates for any post, however conspicuous and dignified it may' be. The President must seek them out and urge the post upon one of their number.

A Xeodeil Reform. Philadelphia Record, The suppression by law of private letter boxes and depositories for mail matter, as recommended by the federal codification commission, has been urged upon Congress year after year by the post office officials, but no legislative action has ever been taken pursuant to such recommendations. The boycotting of postmasters in rural sections, the interchange of clandestine and immoral correspondence in cities, and—as appears from the history of the Adams murder case in New York—the nefarious ends of lawbreakers would be rendered vastly more difficult should the proposed section be retained in the new code. The End of the Qaeatinn. Kansas City Journal. The United States must at least keep control of the Philippines for several years, until the natives are fitted for seif-govern-ment. Bv that time the islands will have become pacified and reconciled, our commercial interests wifi be too well established to disturb, the rules will be suspended and the temporary organization made permanent. And this will be the end of the Philippine question. One of Reed's Supporters. Detroit Free Press. The death of Rev. Myron \V. Reed recalls the ardent support the popular preacher received from the newspapers of the mining towns in Colorado when he made his <>ongressional campaign. "Damn a cattish in a front country!” wrote the editor of the Solid Muldoon. of Ouray, Col.—“vote for the Rev. Myron W. Reed.” Something I p to l>ute. Washington Star. “I have invited several army officers,” said the hostess, “and I am anxious that the occasion shall he something unique and appropriate. I don't want anything commonplace, like a f> o'clock tea or a pink tea or a violet tea.” "Well,” suggested Miss Cayenne. after deliberation, "why not make it a beef tea.” Onr Varied Climate. Baltimore American. - A large order for mosquito bars has been given for the benefit of the soldiers doing garrison duty in our new dependencies. Mosquito bars in Cuba and Porto Rico are a great improvement on a consignment of overcoats. Februn r>. * • * February, a form Pale-vestured, wildly fair, One of the North Wind’s daughters With icicles in her hair. —Edgar Fawcett.

OFFICERS ARE SILENT REIT SE TO EXPRESS OPIMOX OX THE .MILES COIRT OF IXQI IRY. Roth Sides Prcpnring Evidence Concerning Run Illy f Beef—i’lle XVnr Com mission's Report. WASHINGTON. Feb. 10.—Next to nows from the Philippines, interest in the War Department centers on the 15th of February, when the court of inquiry to investigate General Miles’s “embalmed beef” charges will convene. All information, even as to the court routine, is jealously' guarded, and officers refrain from expressing any opinion or making any forecast in the case. It is well understood, however, that both General Miles and the commissary general’s department are preparing a mass of evidence which will be submitted to the court, the one tending to .sitstain General Miles’s statements as to the character of the meat furnished the army and the other discounting any criticism of the material bought, passed on and issued by the commissary department. Both the testimony of General Miles and of the commissary department will consist, in the main, of official reports, and both will be voluminous. General Eagan is still at the War Department, denying himself to all visitors except personal friends. He is now relieved of the routine work of his office, which is being transacted by' his assistants, and is free to devote himself to preparing all of the information in his possession for presentation to the court. Colonel We#ton, who was appointed acting commissary general when General Eagan was called to answer to the charges preferred against him before the court-martial, is still in New York. The last news of him received at the department was that he had recovered from a severe spell of illness that resulted from his exposure during the Cuban campaign, but was now on crutches, with a return of a severe attack of sciatica, contracted in active service long ago in the West. The war investigation commission’s quarters were dismantled to-day and everything made ready for the occupancy of the old rooms by the r.ew board of experts on insular affairs, which temporarily had taken other offices in the building. Most of the members of the war commission have left Washington, but two of them were about this morning for a little while preliminary to departure. Several of the attaches will be kept busy for several days, and Recorder Mills, of the commission, has taken an office on an adjoining floor, where he will be fcngaged in closing up the war commission's affairs for several months. All the important papers and documents are to be locked up in strong boxes and kept on file at the War Department, probably for several years before being disposed of altogether. The publication of the report ol the commission, save for official use and for the press, has not been arranged for, and copies for general use will have to be provided by act of Congress, if at all. At the Cabinet meeting to-day the President read brief extracts from the report of the war investigating commission and the matter was discussed informally. During the conversation a can of roast beef, had been taken from the commissary army stores, was brought in and opened. The members present examined it as well as could be done with the means at hand, and all declared that so far as they could determine it was in perfect condition, wholesome and sweet. The question of the transportation to Cuba of the $3,000,000 with which the insurgent army is to be paid off and the kinds of money to be sent was briefly' considered. It was agreed that the Cubans could have any kind of money' they wished, whether gold, silver or certificates, or a part of each. Shipments of $500.0c0 each probably will be made at intervals of a lew days as rapidly' as needed. The question of an extra session of Congress was also discussed, and it is the opinion of members of the Cabinet that in case of the failure of the army reorganization bill an extra session will be necessary. The President, during the meeting, called attention to the urgent necessity for an American cable across the Pacific and read the message to Congress which he had prepared on the subject. Members of the Cabinet declare the report of the war commission to be in no sense a whitewashing report. On the contrary, it is stated the commission has not failed to point where there was error or fault. For instance, it has not passed without criticism the arrangements made for transportation of the troops and it also has found some things to have been amiss in the supply of medical stores and assistance to the troops, though it has set out the palliating circumstances, such as the state of unpreparedness of the country and the difficulty of suddenly training green men to discharge heavy duties. Touching the much discussed question as to the character of the meat furnished to the army the committee declares that the food generally was of good quality' and censures General Miles for his alleged failure to acquaint the War Department with the faults said by him to have been discovered at Porto Rico.

A TITLE DISPUTED. A London Organ Grinder Claims to He an Earl's Son. Letter in Philadelphia Times. The death of William Henry Poulett, the sixth Earl Poulett, in his residence at St. John's Wood to-day, will precipitate a bitter contest over tne succession to the titles and estates of the dead earl, and will incidentally revive the scandals that have been repeated about I*ondon at various times of the profligacy of the earl’s youth. It will also settle in the court’s the question of the legitimacy of Viscount Hinton, the claimant to the succession. The latter is a wellknown street musician about London, an organ grinder by profession, who created a sensation some three or four years ago by claiming that he was Earl Poulett’s eldest son. These claims he persistently maintained and the earl as persistently denied, though it must be admitted the viscount had rather the better of the argument. The earl, in fact, admitted that the viscount was the son of his first wife, born after his marriage to her, but maintained that the birth of the son led to the disagreement between them which caused a separation within a year after his marriage. At the time the early claimed the viscount an illegitimate and discarded his wife therefor. She, on the other hand, said that the claim was a mere ruse to be rid of her, the earl tiring of her shortly after their marriage, which was itself the result of a drunken revel and a hasty bet. As the story goes, the young earl in his youth was a harum searum fellow who spent his time in roving about in a vain endeavor to spend the vast income which his father’s estate had imposed upon him. One of his many pleasures was his yacht, on which he made frequent cruises, traveling all over Europe with a party of congenial companions bent on nothing more or less than an endeavor to help him spend his money as rapidly and wildly as possible, In one of the many drunken carousals which the party enjoyed the earl made a bet with a fellow which decreed that the loser should upon his return to London marry the first woman he should meet on landing. The carl was the loser, and upon his return fulfilled the promises of his wager and married. after a shqrt courtship. Miss Elizabeth Virglna Newmdn, the daughter of si land port pilot, who'was the first to greet him upon his return to England. The couple lived together for scarcely eight months, during which time she gave birth to a son, whose paternity the earl immediately denied. After a quarrel and some bitter words they parted, the earl supplying his wife with mean3 to live until her death some time after. The two were never divorced, though it is likely that action would have been begun had not death intervened. Immediately upon her death the earl married again. choosing Miss Emma Sophia Johnson, who also died afte" a brief married life, leaving no issue. Ag -’t the earl became a benedict, marrying third time the daughter of Alfred Hugh ie Melville, Miss Rose de Melville, who here him a son twenty odd years ago. This boy, Hugh Poulett. is the generally accepted heir to the earl’s estate and title. There was no question of his rights till some four years ago. when Viscount Hinton first told his story. The earl denied it In its essential details, but the organ grinder persisted. refusng all offers ol money to sell his claim to the estates. The earl then swore that even should he he acknowledged by the courts after death the estates should profit him nothing. From that day the old nobleman began a prodigal expenditure that soon reduced even his large wealth materially. What he has retained unencumbered the courts must decide. He maintained his two residences, at St. John’s Wood and at Hinton Bt. George, near t’rewkerne, with lavish luxury. It is believed that the major portion of his estate that was supposed to be lost In gambling wms in reality transferred to some trustee, to be held for the recognized son, who would

be beggared by the old man’s death. However that may be, the contest will furnish some interesting gossip before the case is settled finally and forever by the courts of Great Britain. NICARAGUA’S REVOLUTION. Tnn Gunboats W ill Look After Interest* of tlie Lntteit States. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Senor Correa, the minister from Nicaragua, called at tho Stato Department to-day in reference to the revolution which has been in progress in east* rn Nicaragua for several days past. Tho exact cause of the uprising is riot known here, but it is supposed to be one .of tho first results of the recent rapid changes in the relations of tho States formerly united in form of the Greater Republic of Central America. As the revolutionary movement is so far confined entirely to tire eastern side of tho country, while Managua, tha capital and the seat of the governmental resources, is on the west slope of the mountains. the difficulty experienced by President Zelaya in his endeavors to suppress tha movement are multiplied. The ytate Department has been forehanded in looking after the Interests of the Vnited States anil of the American residents in the disturbed section. The gunboat Marietta was near the cast coast, and now, at the instanea of the State Department, she has been reinforced bv the gunboat Maehias. which; probably has arrived at Bluefields already. The political dissensions which led to the revolutionary outbreak are said to be complicated with labor troubles. LORD BERESFORD TALKS HE ARRIVES IX AMERICA \M) DISLT.SSES CHIXESE AFFAIRS. Hlx Reasons for Relieving This Country Should Support nit “Open-Door'’ Policy in the Orient. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10.—The now Japanese liner America Maru arrived here to-day' from China and Japan, via Honolulu, one day- ahead of time. On board the vessel was Lord Charles Beresford, admiral of the British navy. The America Maru was met at the heads by' a government tugboat, bearing a party of distinguished citizens, who went to welcome the visiting admiral, who comes to this country in a three-fold capacity, viz.—as a British statesman, au officer of the royal navy and a commissioner from the Associated Chambers of Commerce of England. The party' landed before the vessel docked, by special permission, and the admiral was driven to the Palace Hotel. Lord Beresforcl’s proposal of an “opendoor” policy in the Orient has been received with great attention throughout the world, and it will likely play a most important part in the settlement of the far East question. In an interview to-day Lord Beresford said: "It means simply that, instead of ‘spheres of influence,’ w’hich means the breaking up of the Chinese empire, that England, America, Germany and Japan shall by agreement maintain free and equal commercial relations for all in the Orient. It includes the reorganization of the Chinese army, officered both as to commissioned and nnocommissioned officers by Europeans; that the Chinese empire may be properly' policed and life and property made safe. As it is now, mobs and rebellions are liable at any time to destroy both lives and property, as actually happened not long ago, when about taels’ worth of property belonging to the French mission in western China was destroyed. “China must have a revenue, and the ‘open-door’ policy, by guaranteeing order and uniformity in customs regulations and tariffs, will provide it in greater abundance than it has ever been provided before, besides insuring that it shall not be w’asted, as it is now. It will mean the opening up of the empire in all its provinces and the development of its wonderful resources of mining and commerce. The returns from concessions of these natural resources now lying idle will be a source of great revenue to the empire. "If tho spheres of influence policy is allowed to be adopted Russia will, of course, become all powerful in the north, France in the south. England, of course, cannot get everything. Germany will get what she can. While America will probably get nothing, for though I think she is destined to be a great trading nation in the Orient, greater than Great Britain or any other country, her interests there are now comparatively slight and in the scamble it is not likely that the American people would feel their interests demanding a struggle for a portion of it at this time. But with the ’opendoor’ equal opportunity for alt nations, her commerce is bound to grow. With the spheres of influence, of course, Russia would put on preferential tariffs in the regions she dominated and France would do the same in her territory. I don’t know whether Germany and England would or not. Thus America would be cut out altogether. or practically’ so, from the China trade and England from all but that she dominated. So that America really has more interest in the ‘open door’ than England has. “I go from here to Chicago and New' York and Washington to get the sentiments of the boards of trade and chambers of commerce there on the proposal.” Lord Beresford will remain here for some time and many receptions have been planned for his entertainment. On next Monday the Chamber of Commerce will give the distinguished gentleman a reception and; he will probably be invited to give bis views on some of the questions of the day, particular of the condition of the commerce in the far East and an opporunity for investment of American money. Mayor Phelan will deliver the address of welcome and other well-known San Franciscoans will speak.

Havana’s Mtirro. Correspondence Collier’s Weekly. American tourists are now tramping over the Morro and the Cabanas making snapshots at hitherto mysterious and unpictured recesses. lass than three years ago a Cuban photographer was shot for taking merely the approaches to the Morro. Nothing In the fatal old fortress is now hidden. lut curious persons have discovered no oubliettes, no hidden chambers, no forgotten prisoners. The castles were begun in the re-entrant-angle manner of Vauban, master military engineer of the eighteenth century; they do not date further baek than 1765. after the English had occupied and left Havana. Their massive walls suggest so much of the cruel and mediaeval regime that has been only a month gone. Joined to the old, romantic stone forts are the new modern earthworks, which Ore no, more picturesque than any other up-to-date land defenses. The vandals are at work pulling down the tiles from Cabanas chapel s aitar, picking out the bullets from the dead wall where prisoners were shot, breaking off doorknobs and locks, chipping the walls and carrying away pieces of everything detachable. The forts are regarded by the army physicians as badly fever-infected, so they are not garrisoned. Two batteries of the Second Artillery live iri tents on the open space between the Morro and Cabanas; the artillerists keep the great guns clean and polished and mount slender guards at the entrances, but the k epers of Morro light, which flashes ten miles across the sea, art tlte only residents of the pile. \ Perpetual Study. Philadelphia Record. "The perpetual study of newspapers.” says Andrew Lang, “cannot fairly he called reading.” But tlte admission that the newspapers command perpetual study shows how latge an intellectual want they fill. The reading they offer may not cultivate the same set of faculties which Is developed by books; yet newspapers are as important as text-books in the estimation of some school authorities, and even the advertisements nowadays have an intellectual stimulus for many minds quite apart from the trade bearing of such announcements. Sure Death* Springfield Republican. A member of the Second regiment remarked yesterday as he stood in front of a bulletin leading the news from Manila, "if there is any embalmed beef aboard the transports on the way to Manila and the pirates tackle it l can sec their finish, all right, all tight,*’ When >1 ante red Oat. Don’t forget to get credentials Os your gallant deeds galore; They may make all your descendant* Daughters of the Spanish War. —New York Journal.