Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1899 — Page 4

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: THE - INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY ' 3, 1899.

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The time of mourning for Thomas Jefferson has passed, but it U sad to think that the anniversary of h!s birthday will come again before another presidential election. While there has not been great solicitude regarding the fate of Lieutenant Gllmore and his party, who were taken prisoners by the Filipinos. It is gratifying to learn that the men are safe. The purposa of Edward Atkinson's pamphlets intended for the soldiers in Manila that the men might be Influenced to mutiny is, in the general Judgment of the American people, about as disgraceful an offense as an . intelligent man could well le guilty of. . The trial of the voting machine in Irvington o pleased all the people that machine voting will be an early issue. The only objection there can be to such a change Is the first cost of the machines. It will be a time saver, which is not an idle conslderatioa the night of election. The prospect for the Immediate ending of the war in the Philippines is not quite as good as it was a few days ago, but if the insurgents want more fighting they will doubtless be accommodated. The position of the United States must be a fight to a finish end unconditional surrender. "Colorado does not get her share cf the material prosperity," says Hon. H. R. Wolcott, a leading business man, "because its legislature considers fool legislation, keeps up the l$-to-l agitation and assails Eastern capital." This Is reasonable, because capital will not betake itself to its declared enemies. . During the last Democratic administration the papers were filled with reports of factories closed, wages reduced and an ever Increasing' army of unemployed. Now they are filled with reports of new enterprises, voluntary advances of wages and constantly Improving relations between employers and employes. The public need not know the details of the,basls on which the strike of the plateglass workers at 'Alexandria was settled. Probably there were some concessions on fcoth sides, as there almost always should be. It is enough that several hundred men have resumed work at good wages and a large factory is. again in operation. The United States acquires its title to the Philippines from the same source and in the earne way that It acquired its title to Florida, namely, from Spain by conquest and purchase. After having practically conquered Florida, Spain, in 1S21. ceded it to the United States in consideration of the assumption by the latter of $5,000,000 of claims against the territory. The Judge of the Wells county Circuit Court has issued an order directing that all prisoners in the county Jail and those to be sentenced hereafter shall work on the roads within the county limits, under such regulations as the board of commissioners shall xcake. If it is competent for local authorities to make and enforce such an order it may be made to contribute materially to tho improvement of roads in many counties. The fee and salary act Is again before the Supreme Court at the instance of county officers, who know. that they could not repeal it, and who know that the people of the State are hostile to any law that will give county officers all the fees. These officers are unwise to keep up this agitation against the people. Not one of them now in office but knew what the compensation was, to that their acceptance of offices with existing salaries was in the nature of a contract. If this sort of thing is kept up by county officers each party will pledge its candidates to accept the salaries provided "by law. ' . The country has been exceedingly fortunate In the men who have been sent to represent and enforce American authority la the Philippines, Every man in the navy and array, from Admiral Dewey down to the humblest Jackie and from Major General Otis to the "high private in the rear rank," fcas proved to be the right man in the right place. As the representatives of American sovereignty, American interests and American civilization In a territory separated from the home government by thousands of miles of ocean and surrounded by the most trying conditions they have all acquitted themselves grandly. This has come to be understood as the American way, but credit must also be accorded to President tlcKlnley for the wisdom shown In selecting the right men for the work. The action of the government in excluding from the M-nlla malls the seditious paraphlets sent out by Edward Atkinson, vice pteslderrt '' of . the "Antl-lmperlaltstic League," will be heartily approved by all Xatriotlc Americans. This is as little as the government could be expected to do in selfdefense against the efforts of a few disloyal citizens to weaken Its hands In the Philipfines by sowing seeds of mutiny among the coidiers. The person who are doing this th'cs are too Intelligent not to know the Cravity cf their offense. .They can read the IiT7 cf thta tro cH cisusa to

remember how similar disloyal practices were regarded during the civil war. There is no excuse for them. The government would scarcely care to proceed against them crln.irully, but it certainly could not be expected to carry their seditious pamphlets to Manila in its own malls and distribute them among the soldiers at Its own expense. The order of exclusion from the malls does not apply to the United States, but it answers every practical purpose and adds an official stigma to the popular condemnation already passed upon the American Agulnaldists. GERMAN CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES.

The announcement from Berlin that the German merchants of Hollo will file large claims against the United States for damages sustained by the bombardment of that city is not surprising. Such claims, like war Indemnities, are cne of the outgrowths of modern warfare. The commerce of the world has become so widely distributed and trade relations so complicated that it Is scarcely possible for two nations to engage In war without in some way Incurring liabilities to the citizens or subjects of other nations. The United States will be fortunate If it does not have to contend with a large number of such claims growing out of its occupation of Cuba. Those that are Just and well founded will, of course, be ps.!d, but, rich and generous as the United States Is. other nations will find that In matters of business it knows its rights and will stand upon them. It will not be cajoled nor bluffed into paying any claims except such as are founded in justice, sustained by the law of nations and supported by good evidence. Events of the last year have shown that the United States Is not beaten in diplomacy any easier than in war. In the case of the German claims the dispatch says that when the German consul at Hollo and a number of German merchants presented the claims to General Otis for the destruction or Injury of German property during the bombardment, he replied that the United States would not pay them because Hollo at the time of the bombardment was still In possession of . the Spaniards. General Otls's action or decision In the matter Is not final, but his reply shows that he had a correct view, in a general way, of the rule of International law that governs such claims. In a war between two nations either may attack or bombard a city of the other without incurring any liability to the citizens or subjects of other nations domiciled or doing business in the city attacked. As a matter of courtesy and humanity it Is customary to give previous notice of an intended bombardment In order that women and non-combatants may remove to a place of safety, but even this Is not required, and it does not affect the question of liability for property, anyway. The German merchants we're in Hollo at their own risk. The war between the United States and Spain had ended, but the city was still held by the Spaniards. It is 350 miles from Manila and without cable communication. When the American expedition reached the place It was occupied by the Spanish and besieged by the insurgents, and the Germans were cultivating friendly relations with both and trying to make all the trouble they could for the United States. If they had recognized the ownership of the United States in the islands and placed themselves under American protection they would have been all right, but having elected to remain In the city and take their chances with the enemies of the United States they have no Just claim for the destruction of. their property. No doubt the claims will be presented and payment of them urged by the German government. They will furnish material for considerable diplomatic correspondence, but they will not be paid. CRIME I. THE SOUTH. A correspondent at Savannah, Ga., describes the intense excitement that prevails among the people of two or three counties where the recent lynchlngs occurred, end adds that In nearly every Instance the crimes that give rise to the lynchlngs can be traced to special Influences. Of the latest case he says: "The negroes in that section are thi sons and grandsons of imported Africans and .they are many degrees more lawless and difficult to control to-day than are the descendants of blacks brought to that region from the older slave States of the South Atlantic seaboard." Thus It would seem that the present generation of Southern whites are to some extent the Innocent sufferers for the sins of their ancestors. History records that the last cargo of negroes brought to the United States to be sold as slaves. In 1SG8, were landed at 'three points in the South. A part, about 150, went ashore near Savannah. Ga.; a second lot were landed In the district where the recent outrages have occurred, and the balance of the cargo was sold in Louisiana. They were mostly Congos, from the west coast of Africa, and entirely uncivilized. It could hardly be expected that the savagery of native Africans, stolen from their native homes and sold Into slavery, would be bred out of them In one or two generations. Such crimes as those which cause lynchlngs in the South are not common among the civilized negroes of the Northern States. If the sons and grandsons of the Congos Imported from 1S30 to ISM and sold In the fcouth as slaves are brutal and lawless It may be a part of the divine plan of visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children. A REMARKABLE CASE. The contest between the people of St. Clair county, Missouri, and the holders of certain bonds Issued by the County Commissioners nearly thirty years ago, as related In the Journal of yesterday, may well be called "the mort peculiar case that has ever arisen in the history of America," The country has been hearing of it at intervals for twentyfive years past, and the end seems as remote now as ever. It Is a contest between law on one side and equity on the other, between technical Justice and real injustice, between the "innocent" purchasers of county bonds and the Injured and defrauded people who were betrayed by faithless officials that Issued the bonds. Technically and legally the bonds are all right, and the United States Court could not do otherwise than decide that they must be paid and use every effort to enforce its decision, but In equity they constitute no Just claim against the outraged people, whose property would have to be confiscated in order to pay the principal and accrued Interest of the claim. This contest between the courts and the people has been going on for twenty-six years. During that time the United States Court has made decree after decree and issued mandamuses, bench warrants, orders of arrest for contempt and every other mandatory process known to the law, without, avail. Year after year and decade after decade boards of county commissioners have gone to Jail rather than levy the tax necessary to pay the bonds. Some of them have died in jail and their places have been taken by others willing to do so If necessary. The bondholders, est tttir Judjatnt Ion aso-thtr

was no trouble about that, because It was so nominated in the bond but they have not recovered a cent upon It, 'and from present appearances never wilL Of course, technically speaking, this is repudiation, but one cannot help sympathizing with a people who refuse, on principle, to pay a debf which has been put upon them dishonestly and from which they never received any. benefit. In this case the law in regard to "innocent" purchasers has been pushed to an extreme, every doubt having been construed in favor of those who purchased the bonds from the dishonest Board of County Commissioners that Issued them. It Is to be regretted that legal technicalities sometimes compel the courts to decide in favor of claims that were notoriously rotten In their origin. "Innocent" purchasers are not always as innocent as the rule of law makes them. IX COLONEL BRYAN'S STATE.

The report of the Labor Bureau of Nebraska, which has recently been Issued by an official of Colonel Bryan's faith, will not become a part of the 10-to-l literature of 1300. It deals with that mortgage question which Mr. Bryan never failed to turn to his advantage in his speeches In 1SD6, by telling farmers that they were being ground to death by the "money power" of Wall street, and by warning them that unless the country should get rid of the gold standard and adopt a 45-cent dollar, they would fall into hopeless bondage. The farmers of Nebraska believed Mr. Bryan, at least, a majority of them did, and gave him the electoral vote of that State, and the farmers of Kansas did likewise. With the rest of the country, the farmers of Nebraska now know that the ruin and perpetual bondage never came. Instead, Nebraslri Is one of the States which, to the amazement of the Populists, has been having a season of unusual prosperity. That such Is the, case the following table, giving the aggregate amounts of the mortgages filed and released each year In Nebraska from 1892 to 1595, both Included, shows: Filed. Released. 1802 $3$,M7.g3 J31.912.SJ7 m 34,601.318 2U7S.74 3l.tiSO.064 2.43S.(A0 1KK .. 2.',753,364 22. 48,517 1S irN474.6l 18,213.i.S3 17 15,830.7a 12,215,759 1S9S 21.303.So5 27,498,070 The foregoing figures embrace farm mortgages only. The annual amount of farm mortgages filed: exceeded the amount released by more than 523,000,000 during the years IKE, 1S93, 1SS1 and 1S93. During 1S9G the tide turned so that during the three years ending with 1S9S.' $14,000,000 more of mortgages were paid off than were filed. The same report shows that there is much more money in the banks now than ever before, and that those borrowing' money on farm mortgages get It at a much lower rate of Interest. Of all the men in the country who have been benefited by the defeat of Mr. Bryan In 1896, the farmers as a whole have had the largest share. The voters in' the newer West. and. indeed, in the West generally, gave Mr.' Bryan and 16-to-l the most cordial support, because many of them were deceived by his fallacies. The el .'Ctions of 189S showed a reaction in the agricultural portions of the country against the sllverlsm of Bryan. Suppose Mr. Bryan does not take note of the Improved condition of the farmers of Nebraska and other States and comes to them with his argument of 1S3& what will they say? The secretary of the County Officers' Association has, announced that the organization will not' bring suit to test the constitutionality of the county and township reform laws. Mr. Workman is an ex-county officer, but doubtless as one of the managers of the association his statement is authoritative, lie also declares that commissioners and township trustees generally will strive to comply with the requirements of the reform laws, which means that they,ill regard their oath of office to faithfully perform their duties. This is as it should be. Now let the county officials co-operate with the Legislature's committee on salaries to secure a fair revision such as wiliyleld a liberal compensation to officers who devote their time to the offices they hold. It may be added that if any county officer who !s not acting under the sanction of the association brings a suit to attempt to set aside the reform laws, which are needed and which the people demanded, he will open himself to suspicion that he Is opposed to the laws for the reason that they Interfere with what he regards as official prerogatives. It would seem that the experience of the association in question in the last three Legislatures would teach those county officers who are dissatisfied that nothing can be gained by arraying themselves against the wishes and the Interests of the people. The Venezuelan Herald of March 20, a copy of which has been received by the Journal, contains an editorial reviewing the latest phase of .the silver question in that country. The Herald la published at Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, partly in Spanish and partly in English. It says that the government having recently communicated with the banks and! the Board of Trade for the purpose of ascertaining their opinion on the advisability of issuing four million silver piastres, a meeting took place at the house of the President. It was the unanimous opinion of those present that the issue should not be made, and the President gave his promise to that effect. The Herald adds: We highly applaud this decision, for whenever Venezuela indulges tn the luxury of becoming bixnetalllst, : the commercial ruin of the country will be brought about. Let us leave silver to the countries which producer it. and let us hope that Venezuela will never change her gold standard. Through the various crises which she has passed, her gold standard alone has been her salvation. What would these progressive people of a South American Republic think ofN the United States if the Bryanltes should succeed In abolishing the gold etandard here? CURRENT -MAGAZINES.

Cassell's Magazine for May has a gayly illustrated cover, and. within, a number of very good short stories, Robert Barr, William L. Queux and Gertrude Atherton being among the contributors. College students will be Interested In an illustrated article cn "Rooms at Oxford," showing how English college men live. St. Nicholas just at present Is largely made up of serial matter In fiction and history, the stories of the kind that makes young readers very expectant of the next number, and the history almost as interesting as fiction. Amelia Barr, Carolyn Wells and Laura E. Richards are the respective authors of the stories. With the multiplication of periodicals it is Impossible for one to read them all, hence It Is that the Eclectic, offering the cream of the English magazlnca fills a real want. The selections am well made, especially slr.ee 'this magazine was united with the Living Age. The Nineteenth Century. Blackwood. - MacMillan.. : Cornhlll, Longman, Chambers's Journal. Temple Bar, London Times, the Spectator, Good Words and the Academy are ail represented in the May number. Tho Coming Age, edited by B. O. Flower, formerly of the Arena. Is much like the latter magazine In character. Advocates of all the curious modern Issues are admitted to Its column, with, perhaps, especial attention given to psychological studies and rr-jrci:!c i&traeM la th) current cunitr

are essays entitled, "A Study In Social Evolution." "The Present Aspect of Experimental Psychology," "The New Education" "The Social Ethics of Jesus," "The Poems of Emerson." -Why I am a Baptist." "Social Democratic Ideas and the Church" and "The State and the Citizen, with Special Reference to Municipal Problems." Grant Allen Is much more interesting, not to say instructive, in his studies of natural history In the Strand Magazine than In his "hilltop" novels. He writes of butterflies, bees, hornets and other Insects like a true lever of nature. "The world about us." he says, "teems with unobtrusive, skulking life, and this skulking life, in many ways the most curious and interesting of all, is unknown save to the naturalist. I hope I may have succeeded here in unmasking the disguises of some few among these countless natural masqueraders. and that a proportion of my readers at least may be led by my remarks to look a little more closely into that glorious and profoundly absorbing panorama which nature unfolds, free of charge, before our eyes every morning. Barnum's show, indeed! Why. nature can give Mr. Barnum. his heirs, executors and assignees ninety-nine points in every game and 'beat him easy!' " A writer in the Saturday Review, the article being reproduced in the Eclectic Magazine, says some unflattering things of women artists and advises them, not, to have separate exhibits of their own work, because, by so doing they emphasize its Inferiority. He goes on to say cruelly: "The disappointing nature of the prospect is very much disguised for women and those about them by the fact that, exactly in measure as a woman lacks the originating Inventive power of design, she makes an admirable art student, eager, industrious, docile. The first steps are delightful. To get away from an ungrateful social routine at home into the amusing society of a band of students, with the prospect of the business-like setting up in a studio later on, is. in itself, tempting. Add the halo that hangs about the word 'art. rapid progress in the early stages of rendering the appearance of models, the emulations and admirations of the art school, and it is easy to understand its seduction. Above all. the instincts of the woman prompt her to mold her efforts upon the teacher's IdeSs with a devotee's ardor; where the boy of character kevps something of obstinate suspicion under direction, tho girl Is plastic to a hint. Hence an astonishing progress in the gchcol of a quite deceptive kind, a burst ,of precocious imitative production upheld by example and precept, and when both are-withdrawn, nothing more. The imitation weakens or hardens, or the pupil tumbles about among new influences on emerging from the first." THE STATE PRESS.

Nebraska can rast happy In the glorious fact that her soldiers In the Philippines are more than overcoming the bad reputation the State is getting by the mouth of Bryan. Richmond Item. It would appear from the recent cables from Manila that men like Lawton. MacArthur and Funston have done more to secure peace in the Philippines than all the peace conventions that ever met in Boston. Fort Wayne Gazette. Seme of the Democratic leaders think they see a good thing in the. trust question for next campaign.. It ls.wh.en out of power that the party fights the trusts the hardest. The Democrats have been in power, but the record doesn't tell r-f any herculean or very effective work against the trusts. Franklin Republican. There are forebodings of more things than one that may block the feverish tendency of forming trusts ' In industries. Laws to curb them are needed, and legislators should lose no time in seeking out a remedy, but whether this or not most of them will in time fall of their own weight, and with such a crash that it will be heard around the world. Anderson Herald. We do not need to be told that these are Republican times. ., We can see It on the smiling face of the happy farmer as he feeds his sheep and calves; we can hear it at 7 o'clock in the morning in dozens of steam whistles: we can feel it In the hearty handshake of the day laborer as he greets you on his way to the factory: you can taste it in the big fat turkey on Thanksgiving day. Bloorafleld News. Events multiply to establish the truth that Admiral George Dewey. is the big man of the American navy. He never loses his equilibrium. His head is always level. No speeches or letters have come from him to annoy or embarrass. His every act commends Itself to his country and to the world. No ' occasion for ' apology or diplomacy to help him out of a hole. He never gets in a hole. Kokomo Tribune. .Attorney General Taylor gives It as his opinion that all unskilled labor on public work In the county must be paid at the rate of 13 cents an hour, according to the provisions of the act passed by the late Legislature. This will have one effect. It will cause much harder work to be done on the road tax worked out In a rather lazy fashion. The man who worked out his road repairs at a shilling an hour didn't die from overexertion. At the increased rate the supervisor is likely to -put on the steam. Kendallvllle Standard. There Is more Industrial expansion going on In the Indiana gas belt this year than at any time since the close of the last Republican administration. What is going on, and what has been going on since election day 1896 Is the phenomenal of an industrial resurrection. More factories are adding to their capacity, more men have steady and profitable employment, more houses and business blocks are being built than at any time since 1X92. No one stops to inquire at this time concerning the whereabouts of the promised McKlnley prosperity. Peru Republican. ' r- " y Dewey's greatest victory was not his annihilation of the Spanish fleet, but in the success of his humane and peaceful, though tedious plan of taking Manila without the fearful results of a bombardment. Dewey's course In the war in the Philippines has been singularly correct, and. as it has been said, no man can lay his finger upon any point, and pay: "Here Dewey made a mistake." The plan of the battle one year ago was not his own, other officers having persuaded him to pass Corregldor in line ahead instead of in line, abreast, but the determination to enter the bay to fight was Dewey's. Evansville Courier (Pern.) BUBBLES IN THE AHl. The Cornfed Fhllonopher. "I should like 'to be Informed," said the Cornfed Philosopher "of the whyness of the fact thattherrnore sisters a young fellow has the less reverence he has for woman?" Time Change. Mrs. Watts-rGoodness me! This Is the third time you' have been here this week! Dismal Dawson Madam, they was a time once when the wlmrhern didn't make any objection to my callin' so often. Compensation. "It must have been a terrible shock to lose all your fortune," said the sympathizing friend. "Well, ye?," said thj ex-plutocrat, "but anyway. I don't have to pretend to like olives any more." . Getting Ready. "Say." said tho farmer's wife. "I hear your old man ain't doing nothing nowadays but read poetry books and stories." "I don't care if he ain't," said the other farmer's wife, Incensed at the Implication of Indolence. "He has to study up his dialect to get ready to talk to the summer boarders." Anarchist Atkinson. Philadelphia Press. Edward Atkinson, of "War Is Hell" fame, follows Tolstoi In believing that war can best be suppressed by individual mutiny and deKrtlon on the part of those in ths service and by refusal to serve on the part of those called on to aid their country. As there is no reason why this individual refusal to be bound by society and government should stop at militia work or soldiering, it is clear that Atkinson will soon be as much of an Anarchist as any of those who view law and order as an example of the repression of the individual for the benrit of the community, and hence violate law and disturb order. If logical. Atkinson cannot stop where he Is. Tolstoi cheerfully bolts the whole thing, and fo must his followers. But what a spectacle of derangement they present. caMaaaaBBBaBBMMMHaaaaaaHBWBBvMaaMSMSiaBBiBBiaMSBaav ' Indian Courts Washington Post. "The result of the labors of the Dawes commission in the Indian Territory is bouni to prove of enormous benefit to the Indians." said Mr. p. F. Dlckerson, who if engaged In business in the Cherokee Nation t the lilggs. "For one thln. ths abolition cX tha ttl courts, fa&s tzzz tts Cricta

no small degree cf good, for they not only save thereby at least 540.000 a year. but. as they themselves admit, the dispensation of Justice is far more efficlentlv conducted under. United States courts. There is one thing, however, about the courts of Justice run by the Indians they have no such system of procrastination as obtains among white men. The 'law's delay' Is not known to the redmen, for whenever a prisoner is convicted of a crime he is Immediately taken from the scene of trial to a convenient spot, and the punishment Is Inflicted then and there. There are no appeals, no hung Juries, no setting aside of the verdict. The Indian, in this respect, at least, sets a precedent which the paleface might well copy." TRIPLER'S THEORY IS ABSURD.

Professor Freer Talks of the Poaslbllltles of Liquid Air. Detroit Letter In Western Electrician. In an Interview on the probable application of liquid air to the street-railway and electrical business. Prof. Freer, the leading authority on chemistry at the University of Michigan, says: "It will have a great effect on electricity, although no man can yet figure out the result. It may entirely change our system of electrical conductors. You know, at a certain point of low temperaUure one conductor is as good as another; lead Is as good as iron, steel as good a3 copper; the intense cold makes all metals of equal value as conductors. Now, heretofore our chemistry of low temperatures has been developed on a basis of only 70 degrees below zero, but liquid air Is at least 212 degrees below." "Do you think," he was asked, "that liquid air will supplant electricity?" "It is extremely unlikely." he replied, "because liquid air cannot be made commercially efficient unless we burn coal to produce It. I think its use commercially Is restricted to free, natural sources of power, as water power, where it can be made cheaply. I do not take any stock in Tripler's exaggerations as to the whole world being run In the near future with liquid air." "What about Trlpler's statement that three gallons of air can produce ten gallons of liquid air. and son on, continually?" "It s like trying to pull yourself up with your boot straps. It Is absurd. It is a physical Impossibility. It is the old dream of perpetual motion In a new, pleasing form. If three would produce ten we might go on forever and eventually liquefy all the air about the earth. There is nothing in the theory." Whom Do You Briber W. V. Pettit, in May Atlantic. Beside the difficulties arising from native depravity and American indiscretion In Porto Rico, we shall find ourselves confronted by an ugly assortment of problems relative to the civil administration of the island. It will be no easy task to undo the mischief wrought by centuries of Spanish misrule. A single instance of the intolerable abuses awaiting remedy at our hands is the present system of levying taxes. Once, in conversation with a wealthy, native planter, I happened to speak of the methods in use here at home, lie listened with unmistakable Interest, and when I had finished he pressed me for further Information. "Ah, yes, senor," paid he, "I understand all you have said, but you leave out the main point. Tell me, whom do you have to bribe?" The Madrid taxes maintained the general government, supported the army, navy and church of the island, and remitted a surplus to Spain. The chief power of the local autocrat came into play in the system of levying these various taxes. To show how the system operated, I will take, for example, a sugar estate. The value of the crop was sworn to by the owner. -If he did not stand in the good grace of the officials, he was obliged to submit to an excessive valuation; on the other hand, if he was close to the local autocracy, he could swear his crop for half what it was worth. Official favoritism meant all the difference between wealth and bankruptcy. The Cat Came Back. Kansas City Journal. At Osage City, Mrs. C. A. Stodard was cleaning up her garret when, by some means, the family cat got Into art old trunk filled with clothing and was shut in tight and fast. Just twenty days later Mrs. Stodard was In the garret again and heard the cat's feeble cry from the trunk. When the lid was lifted the cat had Just strength enough to climb out. It had torn thv clothing in the trunk all to pieces In its clawing and had gnawed the sides nearly through in several places. But, perhaps, the most Eingular circumstance was found in - the manner In which the cat took care of Itself after securing liberty. Mrs. Stodard set before it a big dish of milk and a big dish of water. It would lap a little of each and then lie down for a few minutes, when again it would partake sparingly of the milk and water, and this proceeding it continued through the whole afternoon. If the cat had been a human doubtless he would have swallowed all that was placed before him at one gulp and before dark the undertaker would have been pumping embalming fluid In him. Which teaches us. dear children, that a cat in a trunk sometimes knows more than a man in a joint. Unique Description. Kansas City Journal. Supposing your wife should run off with a handsomer man and you were called upon to give her description to the police do you think you could do it any better than was done by a Coffey ville man who communicated as follows with the officers at Wichita: "My wife left here last night at 10:30 on the Missouri Pacific railroad, and she wore a white straw hat and a black dress, but she has got a lot of other dresses with her. They are green, plush, striped and two silk waists, one is red and the other is pink. She Is with a fellow named A. M. W., a traveling man for some binder company, and if you find them I wish you would hold them and put them both under arrest and wire me at once and I will come on first train. Do all you can and you will be paid for It. I am yours, E. S. "P. S. Excuse poor writing. She Is a small like woman, weighing about 120 pounds and a fair looker." Longr-Ranse Flrlns. Philadelphia Retord. No one who reads about the desperate fighting going on in these long-range, quickfiring days could have failed to be amazed at the small number of resulting casualties. As a matter of fact, the firing begins when the combatants are miles apart and ends before they can see the whites of each other's eyes. There is no "hand-to-hand" business as of yore. What killing is done is miscellaneous and accidental. This is particularly true with respect to the warfare now In progress In the Philippines. The fatalities among our troops mainly result from the fire of sharpshooter?, who pick their victims off from the safe cover of the jungle. The Filipinos have learned to protect themselves by keeping out of range. Two or three severe lessons sufficed. Springtime at Cleveland. Cleveland Plain Dealer. It was a pleasing combination of business Interest and sentiment that prompted somebody to decorate the suburban cars with a legend announcing that the vicods are full of wild flower?. The man who reads this statement and doesn't feel a tugging at his heartstrings must be a decidedly hardened old fossil. And if the tugging Is too mild to move him personally, is he so calloused that he forgets the little hearts that revel In such delights? If he has no use for the woods In springtime will he see that his place Is filled by somebody who can gratefully appreciate the delightful opportunity? Then all aboard for the wild flowers' lair! Horrible Charge Agra Inst "Dooley." Literature. It Is. unfortunately, the fact that a goodly half of the "purposes' that are attributed to authors are the vain Imaginings of overclever critics, and It is. therefore, not to be wondered at that these sometimes appear to be disadvantageous. We believe that even Mr. Dooley has been set down as a person of "motives." We hope he will be able to Krove an alibi. He is too exquisite a bit of umor to be spoiled by such wiseacres as the critic of the Spectator, for instance, who recently Insinuated that the sage of Chicago was a popularized embodiment f the editorial page of the New York Evening Post. A Sarlnff Grace. Philadelphia Pre a. The Kaiser Is said to have laughed over that lively bit of doggerel. "Myself-und Gott." There Is no reason he should not enjoy It, and his good humor might be Imitated by some of the German-Americans who seem unnecessarily distressed over a little fun. As a war lord the Kaiser stands to win If he keeps his sense of the ridiculous in good order. It Is a saving grace. The Brave Funston. Washington Post Reports of Col. Fred Funston's bravery are accumulating at a wonderful rate. It Is now claimed that he at one time edited a Republican newspaper In Arkansas. Pleasant Sutrsrestlon. Philadelphia North American. It may Interest the new Mrs. Belmont to learn that Pattl Is still very happy with her third. " In Faro Parlance. Cleveland Plain Dealer. ; -The copper trust appears to have coppered eU ti:j QXtzr trusts.

THE COLOR LINE IN CUBA

THE SPAMSH PUT 7VEGROES OX .1 EQUALITY WITH WHITES. Industrial and Social Freedom MaintainedCauses That Have Led to This Result. Havana Letter in New York Tribune. It is perhaps one of the graces of the Spanish civilization in America that it has drawn with so lenient and wavering a finger the line which, according to our severer Anglo-Saxon standards, separates the Caucasian from his fellows of darker skin and race. Tropical suns and tropical passions are, of course, great levelers, and an immemorial mixture of bloods has doubtless smoothed the way to that partial obliteration of race prejudice which to the American mind Is one of th.- oscurest and least intelligible traits of the Spanish-American character. Spanish rule in"the Western Hemisphere has much to answer for. Its crimes and blunders are spread on every page of history. It was corrupt, rapacious, cruel and selfishly oppressive. !iut in its social tolerance of the dark races Spanish policy seems to have breathed a milder and humaner spirit than Anglo-Saxon civilization has? so far been capable of, and the fruits of this spirit are to be seen to-day in the comparatively unhampered role which the black man plays In Cuba In war, politics, industry, the liberal arts and social life. In opportunity which is the real test of freedom the negro's lot In Spanish America is far less restricted than it Is In the United States. Here in Cuba practically all employments are open to him, and he enjoys without question those civil privileges which so many States In the Union have already wrested from him, and' which In many others he retains only as a fiction of law. No contrast In Cuban life is, therefore, brought home more sharply to the American observer than the sudden fading out of that barrier of race intolerance toward whose extension and solidification popular opinion seems now to be tending more and more in the United States. DISTRUST IN PROVINCES. Not that Cuba has escaped entirely the racial frictions and jealousies which crop out on any soil where differing bloods and complexions meet. In Santiago and in the eastern provinces generally, where the black population outnumbers the white, and where the African-Indian strain is purer and stronger, the white minority shows an unmistakable distrust of the darker race, and deprecates its possible domination under any scheme of popular sovereignty. Haytl and San Domingo, the two so-called republics across the Windward Passage, are a constant menace dangled before Oriental eyes. In a political sense the two races live, therefore. In the east in a state of halfacknowledged truce. But In the western half of the Island, where the whites are largely In the majority, and where the negro blood has been liberally diluted, apprehensions of political friction have little or no foundation, and the good-natured tolerance granted the negro extends to every phase of life. Industrially the black Is fre to enter any trade or occupation for which his capacity fits him, and there are no labor unions to exclude him from the more skilled and remunerative employments. In the cigar factories, the shops, the newspaper offices. In domestic service and in all branches of public administration white men and women work side by side with black ones, and where the employer, following the social bent of Latin civilization, furnishes the two dally meals, all eat together at the common table. At the theater one sees negro musicians In every orchestra, and dark-skinned performers can be found on the Havana stage. Racial equality Is enforced, moreover. In the use of all public conveniences and the enjoyment of all popular privileges. An American who came to Havana last winter to open an hotel and bar undertook the experiment of applying some of the prescriptive customs to which he had been educated at home, and told some friends privately that the American drinks he advertised would be dispensed "to white men only." Before long a negro customer dropped into the cafe and gave an order, which the proprietor ostentatiously refused to fill. The rejected applicant happened to be a general In the Cuban army and a prominent members of the Military Assembly, and on his complaint to the military authorities the cafe proprietor's license was suspended for two weeks. Since then his hospitality has known no fastidious distinctions of race or complexion. EQUALITY ON A STEAMER. Making a trip the other day from Clenfuegos to Santiago, I found almost opposite me at the captain's table the celebrated guerrilla chieftain Qulntln Bandera, a veteran of both the last Insurrection and of the ten years' war. Hardly had the first meal begun when the general, who Is an African of the purer Eastern type, pulled out a cardcase and passed a dozen cards to the nearest passengers, a number cf whom were American army officers. Their Identity thus established, the general and his staff three men and one woman, who wore a lieutenant's uniform and had seen active field service maintained a friendly and unembarrassed conversation with the captain and the rest of the company all the way-to Santiago. The situation did not prss without comment, however, from the ship's Interpreter, a small Cuban, hailing from Tampa, who remarked cne day when the dusky general and his staff were out of hearing: "That makes one laugh. We do not think to eat with black people In the United States." But the equality of the races In Cuba goes deeper than the mere exchange of social civilities and social recognition. It does not stop short, indeed, of the free and acknowledged mixture of bloods. For there are hundreds of recent cases on record of marriage between whites and blacks, and it is no unusual thing to see together In the Havana parks or theaters highly respectable couples whose skins are. in the anthropological sense, the whole range of the color spectrum apart. Reasons for the freer and more equal life of the races in Cuba are not difficult to find. The Cuban blacks are, as a whole, decidedly superior in character and attainments to their fellows in the United States. A dark skin is not here the badge of hopeless inferiority and isolation. There are no "Jim Crow" cars on the Cuban railroads. The Island schools, such as they are, are open Impartially to all complexions. The field of industry Is equally free, and for the solace and discipline of religion the negro is not forced to depend, as in most States cf the Union, on a self-constructed establishment, reflecting In the main only the cruder ana more primitive religious fancies of the race. It is not surprising, therefore, to discover black men of all shades who have risen to positions of influence through personal merit and ability, and not by the mere weight of racial pressure, expressing Itself through a "colored vote." In the Insurrection just ended no leader stood higher In the affections of the revolutionary party than the brilliant and dashing mulatto general, Antonio Maceo. In the now defunct Cuban Military Assembly no orator spoke with greater effect and eloquence or exercised greater Influence than- Juan Gualberto Gomez. The revolution, indeed, such as it wan. was. In the main, a negro revolution. For the blacks furnished. perhaDs. fourfifths of Its fighting strength and fully half of Its military leaders. It Is a common Jest In Cuba that no one ever saw a white Cuban in the ranks of the "Army of Liberation." and it Is to the endurance of its darkskinned soldiery more than to any other cause that Cuba owes to-day the altered future guaranteed to It by the American intervention. NEGROES IN THE ARMY. The preponderance of the negro element in the army has led to certain jealousies and apprehensions in the eastern half of Cuba, as I have already stated. Probably at the first resort to popular sovereignty an attempt will be made in Santiago province to introduce the color line Into polltics, and the administration of that province would fall Into the hands of one of the negro generals who took to the woods three years ago when the Insurrection was proclaimed. But the experiment of provincial government by popular suffrage Is, as most well-wishers of Cuba hope, still several years distant, and in the mean time, with the dispersion of the Cuban army, more wholesome divisions than those of race and color are likely to develop. In the rest of Cuba, where the black race is of more mixed blood and far. less aggressive temper, no color line in life or politics can be successfully drawn. There are no conditions which force upon the black race a political or social solidarity. Colored leadera tart a put la very political catcrpriss.

Some uphold the policies of Ihe now defunct assembly: some are pledged to the political fortunes of General Gomez; some are prominent in th organization of the new National Cuban party in this citj'. Segregation of the negro vote, when popular suffrage comes. Is therefore a rather shadowy probability. Only one influence would be powerful enough to bring about such a result, and that influence would be the propagation, here of that spirit of racial intolerance which has made a burlesque and fiction of the rights presumably bestowed by Congress on the black man as the corollary of his elevation to citizenship in the United States. Such a spirit, foreign to SpanishAmerican traditions and customs. shou!d be checked here from the. very outset. Cuba Is Just recovering from the effects of a military recon cent rat Ion whese barbarity shocked the world. It is no time to experiment now with those other methods truly or falsely American-p-which In so many States of the Union are making political and social reconcentrados of the black race, HOW IT FEELS TO BE PRESIDENT.

Two Interesting Versions of Remarks by Ex-President Cleveland. New York Sun From out-of-the-way places, such, for instance, as the dining rooms and smoking rooms of clubs and the so-called "lecture rooms" of churches In small towns In the interior, there sometimes come utterances of magnitude and consequence, which would be entirely overlooked by the general public but for the accidental presence of a reporter. It is due to the enterprise of the Lewiston Journal that the Hon. Grover Cleveland's theory of his own success In life, and of the moral principles governing Ms career, as imparted by him in a comidential mood to Dr. Lorettus S. Metcalf. formerly editor of the Forum, is not lost to that larger part of the world-which lies outside the walls of the Bates-street Universalist Church In Lewiston. Dr. Metealfs subject was "Some People That I Have Met." His lecture consisted of anecdotes of famous Individuals, and accounts of conversations held with the great by the doctor himself. Passing by Henry Ward Beecher. Wendell Phfflip?. General Grant, General Sherman, Edwin " Booth; Madame Blavatsky and others, we shall quote what Dr. Metcalf had to say to his audience concerning Mr. Cleveland, a statesman who once honored him with a few minutes of real soul-talk. The following is the Lewlston Journal's report of this part of, the lecture: "I once asked President Cleveland how it felt to be President of the United States. He looked down a long time and when he looked up there were tears In his eyes, and he said: '1 grew up in a home with a good father and mother, and they taught me the right and the wrong, and when I grew to be a man I am sorry to say I did not always do the right. But one. day a very remarkabio' thing happened. I was elected mayor of Buffalo. I said that I was not worthy to fill the place. I felt I was not capable, but I was elected, and I said to myself. "I know what Is right and what Is wrong because my father and mother taught me, and thanks to them I will be mayor, and will try to do what Is right." " I went ahead doing 'what was right. And one day a still stranger thing happened. I was elected Governor of New York. Then I was afraid. I said surely there is some mistake. I am not worthy for this great place. I cannot fill- It. But I thought It over, ard I again determined to do right and fear not. And I went ahead and did what I thought was right. And still a freater surprise awaited me. 1 was mde resident of the United States, and I wes the most surprised man you ever saw. But I have tried to stick closely to what I know Is right, and I have done it in spite of what others say to me. Committees come to me and ask me to do things because it will advance the selfish interests of someone. They never ask me to do a thing because it la right " Here Is One of the finest pictures in history. The chief executive of the United States weeps when Dr. Metcalf asks him how It feels to be President, and then he proceeds to explain the principles of right action as applied to the practical affairs of statesmanrhip, and explains the same In a manner which would have reflected credit vpon the preceptor of Sandford and of Merton. nay, even upon Mr. George, the eminent uncle of Rollo. There will be no question that the sentiments attributed to Mr. Cleveland were really uttered by him. Not only Is Dr. Metcalf a truthful gentleman. IncapaMe of using n great man s tears ana intimate confessions factitiously, or of deceiving in any way the people of the Bates-street Universal Church, but there is also in the narrative Intrinsic evidences of its substantial accuracy. The delicate allusion to that period of his life anterior to his election at mayor of Buffalo, when Mr. Cleveland "did not always do the right;" the conversion wrought in his methods by the sudden recollection of his boyhood's teachings at the time when he was unexpectedly confronted with municipal responsibilities; the spirit of humility with which he entered the executive mansion at Albany, and, later, the White House: the ever-present sense of personal unworthlness accompanying a determination to do right "in spite of what others say to me" all these features led up to the concluding and unmistakably Clevelandesque declaration that he was never once approached when President by any committee Inspired by the same noble and unselfish ( principles as Influenced his own acts and decisions. Dr. Metcalf could not have invented this if he had tried. When we say that Mr. Cleveland's speech, as printed above, is misreported, we mean .ne form of it, and not the p'bf.tance. It would be Impossible for Mr. Cleveland to use the exact language attributed to him In the Lewlston Journal s report. There Is not a single sentence which he could have uttered as It is printed. This statement does not impugn the veracity either of Dr. Metcalf or of the Lewlston reporter. Either the lecturer or the reporter, or both, have unconsciously and ' Innocently translated Mr. Cleveland's remarks into ordinary English. Everybody that has studied his speeches and writings knows that what he actually said to the doctor after he had wiped away his etars was more like this: "The moral discrimination which distinguishes readily and surely between the disinterested public service which is consecrated by a steadfast adherence to principle and a fearless advocacy of right, and the prostitution of political opportunity to ignoble purposes was implanted in me by early domestic education. It was only temporarily obscured by the temptation Incident to youth under circumstances destructive of the sense of personal responsibility and fatal to the happiness and contentment which are the fruits of improving study and well regulated thought. I recall -with patriotic satisfaction with what an earnest appreciation of the moral gTandeur of fidelity and sinister influences of selfish and partisan interests, I consecrated myself to details of local government In Buffalo. The consclousners of Individual shortcomings tild not Intimidate a determination to demonstrate my loyalty and devotion to thoe same early and well-grounded convictions to which I have already referred- Elevated to the highest trust within the bestowal of the people of my State, I was nevertheless profoundly conscious that the management of the diverse interests of a great commonwealth was not an easy matter unless supported by a fearless and firm regard for the scrupulous redemption of pledges and a constant remembrance that diligence and faithfulness are the measure of public duty. Called, to my great surprise and embarrassment, by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens to the essentially executive office of chief executive of the Nation, I was not insensible to the consideration that the sure path to administrative success must continue to rest upon the cultivation of that spirit of calm, deliberate and intelligent fidelity to principle which had characterized my former administration of less exalted trusts. To these vital and essential truths I hav constantly adhered. In spite of the efforts of tho?e who are actuated by a sordid disregard of all but personal Interests: in hort, my whole official career has been guided and controlled by a pure conscience, an unalterable devotion to duty, and a thoughtful. Intelligent and Independent Judgment In public affairs," etc. It was in some such Impressive form at this, we are very sure, that the Hon. Grover Cleveland, after wiping away his not discreditable tears, responded to Dr. Metctlf's sympathetic question as to how It felt to be President. A Story of Missouri. Harper's Weekfy. The tale was told to the present writer by a native of Missouri of the tlx men -who In the course of a smoking-car conversation upon a railroad train fell to questioning one another as to the States cf their nativity. "I was bom in Ohio." boasted one. "And I in Illinois." "And I in Kentucky." "And I in Georgia." "And I in Maine." The sixth man was somewhat deliberate, but as they looked towards him he put his hand behind him. and grasping the handle of a gun which stuck out of his rear pocket, raid: "Wll. I was born in Missouri. Now, d n ye, don't one cf ye laugh!" The Great Trouble. Chicago Post. He quoted the old chestnut. "In the srrlng a young man's fir.cy lightly turns to thoughts of love." he said. She sighed and shook her head. That's the trouble." she replied. "They turn lightly Instead of seriously." For she was a girl who had been through several spring engagements. - Who He Was. Washington 8tar. "Are you tho defendant In this casc?M asked the Judge, sharply. "No, suh." answered the ml!d-eyed prisoner. "I has a lawyer hired fer to do ds defendln'. Use do man dat done stola d9 thtlclcs."