Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 125, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1899 — Page 4

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If the President deems it essential to the public welfare to convene Congress In October ho will not hesitate to do so, but the latest reports from Washington indicate that the anxiety for an extra session is confined to a few members of the House. Populism is dead in Kansas, and the rark end file of that organization "are crawling back under the tents of the old parties," Is the opinion of Mr. Curtis, of the Chicago Record, who Is now traveling in that State. This means a large Republican majority in that State next year. A brief dispatch from Cairo says that a force sent by General Lord Kitchener as an, escort for a special envoy to the Sultan of Darfour was attacked and 120 out of 150 men killed. If thl3 is true it will doubtless ba followed by swift retribution of the kind that General Lord Kitchener deals in. The failure of the peace negotiations in the Philippines has been followed by a new aggressive movement of the American forces and the gaining of important advantages. From the way In which they are closing around the Insurgents the crushing defeat or surrender of the latter seems close at hand. The report cf the board of surgeons reCarding sickness in the various army camps last summer discloses that it was largely due to bad policing of the camps and disregard of sanitary rules. Some of the volunteer surgeons seem to have been very Inefficient both In suggesting measures for the prevention of disease and in the correct diagnosing and treatment of 1L It will not be wise to expend much local energy upon the proposition to mave White river navigable, for the reason that Congress has tried the experiment upon above a hundred rivers of that class without satlsfactory results. No method of improvement has yet been discovered which will furnish an abundance cf water to make all the river beds of the country navigable. The recent advance of U of a cent per pound in the price of all sugars, made first by the trust and then by the independent refineries, is said to have begun, in London, where refined sugar prices have been hardening for some days, owing to the firmness in raw sugars. The advance is not much to consumers, but it represents an enormous sura to those who control the market. -. Senator McMillan, of Michigan, according to Washington gossip, may find it necessary to be a candidate for re-election against the secretary of war In order to secure a delegation for the President In the next Republican national convention, since the support of General Algar by Governor Pingree may Involve the selection of a delegation of the Tingree stripe to the Republican convention. The Denver Times rrints a cartoon In which appears a stalwart Republican erasing the word "silver" before "Republican" a process which that paper asserts is rapidly going on in the prosperous State of Colorado. In this State those who called themselves sliver Republicans in ISM are 25-to-l Democrats now. The last pretense faded out in this locality in the right upon Representative Overstreet. The recent payment of J20.O0O.O0O in gold to Spain was made without any inconvenience to the government or causing the s'.ijhtest ripple in the money market. It could not have been done at any time during the Cleveland administration without a dangerous disturbance of the money market, and If the country were now on a silver basis, where the Bryanltcs tried to put it, the payment would have represented more than $10,000,000 In silver. The armed strikers In Idaho who were going to wipe the colored regulars off the face of the earth as seen as they should appear seem to have changed their minds. The telegram which reports the arrest of mere than a hundred of the strikers says: "A few of them made a show of resistance, but the bayonets of the soldiers soon brought them into line." 'Tls ever thus. A loaded gun with a bayonet at one end and a "regular" at the other is a very convincing argument. Paris telegrams state that the new President, M. Loubet, gTows more popular every day and mere completely master of the situation. His wily premier, Dupuy, who winked at the insults put upon the Pre!dent at the beginning of his term, and was ruspected cf an Intention to worry him, lute rtziinlns. has been given to understand

that the present President is the head of the administration and Intends to be while he remains In office. All of which in a general way recalls the fact that when Abraham Lincoln was elected President a few wily statesmen undertook to run the administration for him, until he gave thm to understand that while he liked advisers he would have no boss.

XO "NEW OFFICIAL THEORY." Those newspapers which seem delighted with any bit of intelligence from Manila which may be adverse to the interests of the United State?, and a few others whose general policy is to find fault with the administration, begin to show signs of indignation because the pamphlets of Edward Atkinson and others have been thrown out of the mall for the Philippine?. In that act they behold the spirit of imperialism. The historic "man on horseback" will soon appear on the horizon. One of them, which for a year before the war with Spain criticised the administration for not interfering In Cuba, mournfully remarks: The new official theory is that American soldiers must not be permitteri to hear both sides of a que?tion. or think fr themselves. They can have only the official view of what their duty 1?. The next development will probably be to deny him th right to decide for himself whether he shall serve his country in the field. From that it is only a step to the assumption that a citizen i not a free agent, but a mere clod to be directed by superior intelligence or the divine inspiration of a ruler. It is no "new official theory" to intercept the transmission of matter through the mails which 13 calculated, if not designed, to Impair the discipline and row the seeds of discontent and doubt in an army. It was the practice during the war for the Union. Editions of some newspapers were not allowed to go to the troops by mall or express. Further, editions of papers were seized and destroyed by the Lincoln government. All that is now Intended, these people say, is to afford the soldiers the opportunity to "hear both sides for themselves, which means that they shall be permitted to read arguments to prove that they have no right to be In Luzon, that the government has no right to keep them in the service, and anything else In that line intended to change zealous and obedient soldiers into discontented and mutinous men. Of course, these newspapers will deny any such design, but that such is their design is shown when they say that without arguments, appeals and advice to leave the service, such as constitutes the literature of the so-called anti-expansion side, the soldiers ''can have only the official view of what their duty is." This. If it means anything, means that the soldiers should read articles leading them to believe that a large majority of the people at home would end the war, that they are engaged in a war which makes them murderers, that It is their right to be mustered out at once, and that they should throw down their arms if their, demand for muster out Is not compiled with. The little coterie of supporters of Aguinaldo may try to make it appear otherwise, but people of average Intelligence will regard such conduct as inspired by a purpose to defeat our army in Luzon and to bring disgrace to the country and its flag. Practical people will ask these men v. ho have put their mischievous documents Into the malls for the soldiers in Manila, "What Is your aim if not to bring defeat by creating dissatisfaction?" As all the circumstances go to prove that such is their purpose, they cannot escape by a show of indignation because the right to try to demoralize the army has been denied them. In 1S3, C. L. Vallandlgham, of Ohio, was going up and down the country denouncing the war for the Union as unholy, as a useless sacrifice cf life, and urging the peop'.e to resist the draft. By order of Abraham Lincoln he was sent beyond the Union lines. Some of his friends appealed to the President, setting forth that the act was in violation of the constitutional rights of the citizen. In response Abraham Lincoln said: Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who Induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father or a brother or a friend into a public meeting and there working upon his feelings till lie Is persuaded to write the boy that he is fighting for a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptible government. The Atkinsons and others who have attempted to send anti-war literature to our soldiers In Manila were Inspired by the same motive as the man whom Abraham Lincoln banished. It is probable that the man who banished Vallandlgham would, if alive and In power, order Atkinson's tracts Intended for soldiers to be thrown out of the mails. And he would now be denounced as he was then, and for the same reason. The old phrase used then "the divine inspiration of a ruler" would be used against him now as it is against his successor by the Pittsburg Dispatch. AX ODJECTIOXAI1LE PROPOSITION. The Washington Post says that the lady who for some time past has had charge of the juvenile department of the Boston Public Library is now in Washington and has had a conference wltn Mr. Putnam, librarian of congress, presumably in regard to establishing such a department in the National Library. It seems that tho late Librarian Young had already taken some steps in that direction, having mapped out plans for a room well stocked with Juvenile literature and set apart from the main reading room, for the special use of children. He had even gone so far as to provide furniture suitable for children, which is now stored in the basement of the library. Under the circumstances it is quite natural that the visit to Washington of the Boston lady referred to should be construed as having relation to the establishment of a Juvenile department in the Library of Congress, though no authoritative announcement has been made to that effecL The proposition will hardly strike the public favorably at least that considerable portion of the public outside of Washington. The Library of Congress Is not a Washington, but an American institution. It belongs to the people of the Nation, not to those of the national capital. Therefore, the people of the country at large have a right to expect that the library will be carried on according to its original plan and kept up to a high standard. The original plan contemplated making it primarily a library of reference, a storehouse of literature and a place for students and investigators. It was never contemplated that it should be a circulating library, a popular library in the ordinary sense, or a place of resort and amusement for children. It could not be made so without departing to some extent from its original purpose and interfering with the accomplishment of more important objects than the entertainment of children. This should be accomplished In some other way. Washington has a public library of its own, to which Andrew Carnegie has recently made a liberal donation, and the residents of the city are able to glre it liberal support. That is a circulating library, and is the proper place 'for a reading room for Washington children. Because the Juvenile

department plan has worked well in the Bostan Public Library is no reason why it should be Introduced in the Library of Congress. FOOD ABt'LTERATIOX. It did not take the senatorial pure-food Investigating committee long to strike the trail in the matter of food adulterations. The testimony of the first witness. Dr. Wiley, chief chemist of the United States Department of Agriculture, is calculated to make U3 wonder where "we are at" both in respect of national honesty and national health. Dr. Wiley, by the way, is a native of Indiana, a graduate of Hanover College and of the Indiana Medical College, and in the early seventies teacher of science In the Indianapolis High School and later professor at Purdue University. For some years past he has ranked among the leading scientists of the country and as a high authority in technology, especially In relation to food products. . His testimony, based on personal Investigations and analyses, shows that a majority of the food products of daily consumption, including some of the most important, are adulterated or counterfeited with various degrees of injurious results. That imitation eoff ee berries made of molasses and flour molded Into nature's shape are mixed with the genuine and sold as high-grade- coffee, or that "Vermont maple sugar" is manufactured on a large scale In a Western State out of common brown sugar and an extract of hickory bark, may be creditable to American inventiveness and ingenuity, but it is not very creditable to American honesty nor agreeable to contemplate from a dietetic point of view. According to Dr. Wiley, fully 90 per cent, of the articles of fned and drink manufactured in the United States are more or less adulterated or tainted with frauds. The adulteration of lard with vegetable oils, of hony, syrups and sugars with glucose, of coffee with chicory and of chicory itself with other articles, of baking powder with alum, of cheap sugars with ground stone, of buttter with oleomargarine, and of wines and liquors with all sorts of poisonous Ingredients, are but a Tew of the many phases of The evil. There is some 'satisfaction in knowing that we are not exceptional in this regard, although in no other country is the evil as unrestrained as it is in the United States. For many years it has been recognized in European countries as a matter calling for stringent legislation. Before the present law on the subject In Germany was passed there was a humorous story current there illustrating the extent of adulteration. It was to the effect that three flies feasted, the first co flour, the second on sugar and the third on fly poison, and the last was the only one that survived. That the evil has reached such dimensions in the United States as to call for repression there can be no doubt. There is no greater crime against the public than the adulteration of foods and drinks. It robs the stomach as well as the purse, and either starves or poisons rich and poor, young and o!d. Several States have already enacted laws on the subject, and all should do so. But in the absence of state laws, and especially of uniformity in their provisions and enforcement, it is the opinion of many that Congress should pass a law on the subject that will be of uniform application throughout the United States. The senatorial investigation Just begun Is Intended to obtain facts and lay 'the foundation for such legislation. Such a law would be somewhat of a new departure In federal legislation, but Congress has already made a beginning in that direction by laws regulating the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine and filled cheese. As one of the declared objects of the Constitution Is to "promote the general welfare," it would seem that Congress may legislate to prevent the adulteration of articles of food that are of daily and universal consumption.

The Memphis Appeal makes Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, a member of the Home Market Club of New England and the statistician of the "tariff barons." In fact, Mr. Atkinson has been an out and out freetrader thirty years and has been a thorn in the flesh of the manufacturers who constitute the Home Market Club ever since it was organized. Mr. Atkim-on's invention of the coal oil stove and the recipes for meals for six. or seven persons costing 13 cents were discovered in the interest of free trade to the end that by cheap living the United States could compete with Europe without a protective tariff. As protectionists we cannot have Mr. Atkinson charged to us now. General Merritt is now receiving the criticisms of the Aguinaldo press, not more for his recent declaration regarding the secretary of war than for what those papers claim he did not do in Manila, His failure in Manila seems to have been that he did not consult the natives, meaning Aguinaldo. General Merritt was sent to Manila to fight the Spanish., lie put his small army in excellent condition before he left San Francisco and did the work assigned him up to the time Spain sued for peace, when he returned, with orders to report to the peace commissioners at Paris, which he did. He had no orders to consult the natives, but he sized up Aguinaldo with mathematical accuracy. Speaking of spheres of influence, there Is reason to believe that Mr. Edward Atkinson has greatly curtailed the scope of his. Heretofore he has been respectfully quoted as a statistician, and his alleged improvements in cooking stoves and kitchen utensils have been treated as the work of a well meaning, if somewhat cranky, person. Having shown, himself to be a sympathizer with the enemies of the United States and a traitor at heart, he will never be mentioned or referred to hereafter respectfully. His sphere of influence is narrowed to one of contempt. HUDDLES I. THE AIR. Betrayed. She Why haven't you told me that you had been married? He Who said I was married? She I can tell by the way you take all the umbrella for yourself. Got sit 'the Laat House. Householder Say, plumber, that seems to be a remarkably fine cigar you are smoking. What Is the brand?. number I didn't have time to find out. He como in before I'd got only one and put the box' If way. , The Changes of Time. Hungry Hlggins Seems -like I am smarter than. I was at school. Weary WatklnsWhat a chump of a kid you 'must of been! "Oh, I dunno. I got 100 every now and then. But now I ginerally git from 150 to iw." The Cheerful Idiot.' "Don't you think said the shoe-clerk boarder, "that the "savage is guided in his

worship more by his heart than the civilized man?" "It has been my impression," said the Cheerful Idiot, "that the heathen was prone to worship according to his lights." A Metropolis That Didn't Doom. Kansas Letter. Up in the northeastern part of the State of Kansas was once a famous and flourishing town which has entirely disappeared. Its name no longer appears upon even the county map; every vestige of Its existence has been effaced, and the poll upon which it stood is now planted every spring to wheat, corn and potatoes. - It was Intended to be the world's metropolis. Many cities have been founded with that ambition, but I do not know of one that has disappeared so completely as this. It was founded in 1S55 by New England colonists and was named in honor of Charles Sumner. It was the object of prayer and praise In the heart of many a pious Abolitionist and humanitarian, and churche?, Sunday schools, sewing societies, literary clubs, Dorcas circles and other gatherings in New England sent boxt s or clothing and food regularly to its residents ifthere were any who could, not provide for themselves. At one .time, there a population cf 2.5CO. and they were of the best class of citizens. Their homes were perhaps superior to any others that could be found at that time west of the Mississippi river, and certainly surpassed any west of the Missouri. They had a notable coat of arms, and its motto was appropriate. It was "Pro Lege et Grege" "For the Law and the People" and they sent over the country innumerable lithographs to advertise the place, copies of which preserve a glimpse of the classic architecture and the landscape gardening that was the source of so much pride. Albert D. Richardson, the correspondent of the New York Trlbunte in the West, was one of the founders, an Owen Love joy preached and prayed in the Congregational Church. John J. Ingalls stopped at Sumner when he came West from Williams College to grow up with the country, but decided to move on to Atchison. Not only is the city of Sumner extinct, -but its memory has almost faded from the minds of men, and I have questioned a dozen prominent citizens who never heard of it. The Peasant of Torto Rico. Harper's Weekly. The life of the peasant, the peon, of Porto Rico is not a dream of ease and luxury: neither has he ever passed through the nightmare cf wretched hunger and biting cold which adds so vitally to the hardships of the poverty-stricken of northern climes. In squalor and filth, in crudity and ignorance, the larger number of the inhabitants go through their comparatively short lives: for one does not see many aged people among them. They die off from fevers, contagious diseases, and troubles handed down from sickened forefathers, at a comparatively early age. At no period of the poor man's existence can he sufter the tortures of starvation because his Job of work has given out. for, while during whole months of the year he may not earn a single centavo. he still has his little plot of vegetables on the hill: then, if worst comes to worst, or the land-owner turns him out, he may live on the profusion of fruits and roots of the forert, or, as is a common practice of the country, upon the fruits filched from his more opulent neighbor. In the dry season he complains of the cold of the early morning, yet he needs but the merest rags to cover his nakedness, for on no day in the year Is It colder than our mildest of autumnal weather. Shoes are a useless burden to his bare and sole-leather-lined feet, which have trodden the rocky, briery trails in their nakedness from infancy: and a hat. if he must have it. he makes in his own house from the grass grown around the doorway. The house In which he is domiciled he builds in a few short days from poles and thatch and bark rolls of the royal palm; and a good house it Is in spite of its primitive appearance, for it screens him from the colder winds of night, and sheds the water of the driving rains like a duck's back. Gold Deposits in the Philippine. Dr. D. T. Day. in Engineering Magazine. At this distance and with the slight exploratory work 'Which ' has been carried on in the Philippine islands, the minerals that can be profitably exported are best known. Mr. George F. Becker in his recent Investigation has given a very clear view of the present mineral exploration in the Philippines, and has shown that gold is found In a great numbtrr of localities in the archipelago, from northern Luzon to central Mindanao. In most cases the gold is detrltal, and is found either in existing water courses or in deposits now deserted by the current. It is said that in Mindanao some of the gravels are in an elevated position and adapted to hydraulic mining. There are no data at hand which Indicate decisively the value of any of the placers, but the fact that ther are washed largely with coeoanut' shells" for pans by the natives is an indication of either rich deposits or quite coarse goid. In the province of Abra. at the northern end of Luzon, there are placers, and the river Abra Itself yields auriferous gravel. In Le Planto there are goldquartz veins as well as gravels, and here also is the best developed deposit of copper ores, although these are also reported from a great number of localities in the islands of Luzon. Mlndoro. Capul, Masbate, Panay and Mindanao. This last Island Is practically unexplored and full of possibilities. Inconsistent Thomas Jefferson. Leslib's Weekly. While our ' Democratic friends in New York have been competing with each other in the art of dinner-giving, and questioning whether Jefferson would have favored a one or a ten-dollar-a-plate entertainment, the student of early American politics will be inclined to believe that if Jefferson had heen living he would have been in favor of both dinners. Much as Jefferson has been written and tail ed about, he was, perhaps, the most inconsistent of all American statesmen. He constantly said one thing and did another. He was called an Infidel, yet he responded to every call in behalf of Christianity. He wrote the Declaration of Independence, and declared that government must rest upon the, consent of the governed, yet he closed the Constitution a few years later, when it was necessary to purchase Louisiana, and made the purchase without consulting or considering the wishes of its people. He has been quoted botn for and against free trade and protection. He wrote on every subject, personal and political, and his writings are so volum'nous. and cover such a range of thought, that nearly every one can find something in them with which to agree or disagree, as occasion may seem to require. rienty of Gold Bricks. Washington Special. Not a month passes, that the United States treasurer and superintendents of the mints do net hear of a gold-brick game having been successfully played. The victims almost Invariably make their appearance at the mints or assay offices with their metallic bars carefully wrapped in canton flannel and stowed away in a capacious gripsack. The experts are able to detect the fraudulent character of the bars at a glance, although in many cases they are cleverly plated with, the genuine metal. Th9 weight always gives them away, however. A week or two ago the purchaser of a noble gold brick about a yard long turned up at the Philadelphia mint, and the officials of that institution had a hard time convincing him that he had been swindled. To satisfy him a number of gold bars were brought in which, combined, were about the size of the fictitious chunk of plated iron. The fraudulent brick weighed about eighty pounds, while the real gold occupying the same space weighed over two hundred pounds. To still further convince the victim the bar was broken up and a portion of it pulverized. It was not until then that he would acknowledge that he had bought a bunch of experience for $?,000.

An Isthmian Canal Assured. Engineering Magazine. The severance of the American Isthmus seems assured, and with the completion of an adequate and easily navigable ship canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific will come changes and expansions in the commerce of the world which can as yet scarcely be conjectured. Experience has amply proved that increased facilities create new traffic, greater as the gain in time and safety in facility becomes more considerable. In a case where the change is so great and far reaching as that which will be made by the completion of a transLsthmlan water route data of existing- tonnage carried are of little value as a guide to an estimation of the traffic or the financial profit of the undertaking. Some suggestions, however, may be found by the study of other works of similar character, bearing always in mind that ocean f?-ight carrying Is not much benefited by small savings in time of transit, especially when effected at the cost of more difficult navigation, while the gain from a large saving rises in rapid ratio,, German Women' Patriot lam. New York Evening Sun. A German woman has sent a subscription of $25 to a German newspaper, with the following note: "Manifesto to Germany's women. Germany's honor has been tramBled in the dust by America and England. o you want more Samoas. more Zanzibars, more .broken treaties? We have not the power to use energetic language, because v;e have not the fleet. Arise, all of you! Collect for the German fleet! Pledge yourselves faithfully not to think of any pleasure as long as this disgrace has not been wiped out! This explosion has not been received with enthusiasm, one journal saying: "The last time the women of Germany

tried to get up a naval subscription they got about enough money to purchase a life belt." Germans don't approve of feminine Interference In what they regard as masculine business. One of Funston Feats. W. G. Nicholas, in Chicago Post. General Funston. of Kansas, the star hero of the Philippine war. is well known in Washington. He was here a great deal while his father, "Farmer" Funston. was in Congress, and while in the city acquired quite a standing as a sport. He never had much money, but during the infrequent periods when he was flush he was very free with his dollars. It is related of him that on one occasion, after quite a season cf financial famine, he went across the Potomac river and brought back $1,700. which he deposited in a hotel safe. It was the result of an afternoon's campaign on the race track. The particular race track at which he made the winning is described by horsy people as the toughest proposition in a gambling line ever heard of, and those who recall the circumstances of Funston's big winning at St. Asaph's say his attack on the pool box on that occasion was more heroic than his swim across the Elver Bagbag in the face of Filipino sharpshooters. For a man to come away from St. Asaph's track with $1,700 and bring It safely to Washington beats any exploit on record. It shows the stuff General Funston is made of. It also goes to confirm General MacArthur's statement that he is a born leader of men. He led the Virginia brigands on that eventful afternoon all the way across the long bridge, although heavily handicapped by the weight of a fat roll. Celebrities. New York Commercial Advertiser. Mrs. George Is going to write a book, and Grover Cleveland is about to enter the faculty of Princeton. There is nothing like becoming thoroughly well known to give a person business chances. A woman may hardly go on the stage now without divorce or some specious scandal, and for the saloon business bridge-jumping or pugilism or some such preparation is almost essential for a man if he would make a brilliant success. Mr. Cleveland managed to get his name pretty prominently before the public at one time, and he would doubtless be a good advertisement for Princeton. A priori he would not seem very well suited to professorship. He is strong but not intellectual: still, perhaps, his knowledge of affairs will really be more useful to the students under him than mere scholarship. It has been the reproach of colleges that they are too theoretical and not practical enough. Mr. Cleveland will certainly be practical, whether his views agree with the majority of his fellowcitizens cr not on certain important topics. Deluded Men. Washington Special. j. Men are constantly coming to the government mint and assay offices with specimens of what they believe to be gold or silver, but which on analysis prove worthless. It i3 no uncommon thing for parties to travel hundreds of miles to secure a government assay on samples of iron pyrites or pieces of yellow or white mica. One man came all the way from Kentucky only a short time ago with a few shavings of mica which he supposed to be silver. The experts in the office of the director of the mint did not entirely convince him that he was wrong, and as he left the treasury building he was heard to express regret that he had told any one of the location of his "silver mine."

Fitzsimmons on the Avenue. New York Commercial Advertiser. Mr. Robert Fitzsimmons, the prize fighter, is said to be earning new laurels as an amateur musician, having progressed so far as to be able to perform a Bach fugue with one finger. Mr. Fitzsimmons has been seen on Fifth avenue several mornings of late in a white broadcloth overcoat, boutonnlere of violets, skintight plaid continuations and a pearly billycock hat. If he Is in the habit of striking his. piano half as violently as his sartorial effects strike the people his tuner must have a good thing of it. Was It Worth' While f Philadelphia Record. Was It worth while to stop the Atkinson pamphlets on their way to Manila? The boys at the front have been used to that sort of thing since they learned to spell. . They cannot be instructed from Boston as to the situation under their own eyes. And the boys at home are ready to go to the front if need be. Why not let the pamphleteers rage and nip and snort, instead of bringing them into much-desired notoriety? Mrs. George's Acquittal. Kansas City Star. The agility with which certain of the Jurors In the George-Saxton murder case at Canton. O., hopped about between murder in the first degree, manslaughter and finally acquittal, is only another illustration of the eccentricities of that great factor in the vindication of Justice, the American jury system, which seems to involve the time-honored idea that it is only a fool that will not change his opinion. A Wedding Gift. Detroit Free Press. Belmont-Sloane At Greenwich, Conn., on the 2Mb inst., Mr. Perry Belmont and Mrs. Jessie A. Sloane, all of New York, the Rev. Walter M. Barrows officiating. The presents were numerous and costly, among them being an absolute divorce from Justice Cheever for the bride. . Same Principle. Chicago Post. Edward Atkinson's excuse is that his unpatriotic pamphlets were a part of the Congressional Record. The man who sends other kinds of poison through the mails might explain with equal plausibility that his arsenic came out of a drug store. The Drawback. Washington Post. The price of gas in New York has been reduced to 65 cents a thousand, but the poor consumers will have to suffer at the hands of the editors of the . yellow newspapers, who will be sure to claim all the credit for the reduction. Obviously Improbable. Washington Post. It Is now asserted that a Georgia man planned Admiral Dewey's campaign for him. This assertion is weakened somewhat by the fact that the plans didn't call for a little burning at the stake. Value Received. Philadelphia North American. If the estimate that the war cost $300,000,000 Is correct, the United States Is Just that much richer In prestige, power and the respect of the world to-day. Atkinson's Offense. Detroit Tribune. Even if it can't be proved that Edward Atkinson wrote treasonable letters, he is confessedly guilty of advising people how to live on 16 cents a day. The Crowd. . Chicago Record. "What's that crowd across the street?" "That? Why. the widows that General Wheeler is to marry are holding a convention." Dewey's Wealth. Chicago Record. ' Dewey is reported to have remarked to an Interviewer that "silence is golden." This being the case, Dewey must be a very rich man. Important If True. Philadelphia Times. No longer is it correct to say that the bride entered the church on the arm of her father she was brought In by her father. Another Matter. Washington Post. Secretary Alger Is candid enough to admit that a retirement via the United States Senate would be quite a different thing. Sail Not Needed. Chicago Post. An Evanston man has Invented a sail for a bicycle. Most people, however, can capsize a bicycle easy enough now. Job for Atkinson Philadelphia North American. If the Filipinos insist on peace, Atkinson and his gang might find occupation inciting the Indians to an uprising. Why Xctf Chicago Post. Why does not Edward Atkinson go off Into a corner by himself and establish his own government? In the Jersey Wilderness. Washington Post. Rudyard Kipling's stay In Jersey ought to enable him to produce a fresh batch of Jungle stories. Xot Spectacular. Detroit Tribune. Being a regular. General Lawfon keeps on advancing without attracting any special attention. .

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WIIERD RICH CO M3IERCIAL DISTRICTS IX CHINA ARE LOCATED. Valleys of the Weat and Yangtae-Kiang-Development of the Territory Grabbed by Germany. WASHINGTON. May 4. Recent statements indicating an agreement between the English and Russian governments touching their future course with reference to the trade of certain sections of China lends interest to a publication just issued by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics entitled "Commercial China in 1SW." A part of the publication which discusses the commerce of the Yangtze Kiang and West river valleys is of especial interest at this moment because of the recently published assertion that an agreement has been made between the British and Russian governments by which the latter confines its commercial ambitions for the present at least to northern China. The valleys of the Yangtze Kiang and West river, which occupy central and southern China, are shown by this report to be the great commercial section of the empire. Not only so. but their importance has been greatly increased by recent events. One of these events is an agreement by the Chinese government that no section of the Yangtze valley shall be "alienated" to any foreign government so far as relates to trade privileges, while another of equal Importance is the opening of the West river to the commerce of all nations free from any "alienation" or special privileges to any. That the Yangtze and West river valleys are by far the most important part of China from a commercial standpoint is quite apparent. Two-thirds of the foreign commerce of China passes through Shanghai, located at the mouth of the Yangtze, which is the Mississippi river of China, extending westwardly from the Pacific to the extreme boundary of the empire proper and penetrating an extremely fertile, productive, and densely populated area. Next in importance to Shanghai from a commercial standpoint are Canton and the British possession of Hong-Kong, which lies adjacent, both of them being practically at the mouth of the West liver, which is also an extremely Important waterway and route of commerce to the interior. A recent edict by the Chinese government adds very greatly to the Importance of these two rivers. This (edict permits foreign steam vessels to ply upon the navigable waters of practically all inland streams, this privilege being extended to small steam vessels which may go to the very head of navigation in all treaty port provinces. Another edict recently Issued permits foreigners to visit all parts of the empire for business or trade purposes. The Importance of these three agreements by which the commerce of the Yangtze and west river valleys remain open to all nations desiring to compete for it: second, by which foreign steam vessels may penetrate for business purposes to the very head of navigation upon these and other streams, carrying with them foreigners for pleasure or business purposes, coupled with the further fact that foreign manufactures and the machinery which manufactures them are much more freely admitted than formerly can scarcely be overrated. A report Just issued by the German government and received at the embassy here concerning the development of the German possessions in China is also of special interest. According to the report the naval administration of Klao-Chou was due chiefly to economical considerations, it being held that aside from the importance of the place as a naal station, its future would be found in its development as a commercial colony and as a strong base of the German trade In East Asia for the opening of a vast hinternland. From this leading thought were deduced, es to the administration, the following principles: To make the government as independent as possible from the home government, to encourage in every possible way self-government; and to impose upon all official organs the greatest reserve in measures regarding trade and industry to facilitate these by granting exemption from customs duties and dc'.ng away with all unnecessary restrictions. The German territory leased from China conprises 510 square kilometers with sixty thousand to eighty thousand Chinese inhabitants. The report adds that of the greatest Importance, but at the same time of the greatest difficulty, were the conditions of the Chinese landed property. Before the German lease there existed in Klao-Chou. as well as everywhere in China, theoretically, a feudal right of the Emperor to the whole soil. Practicallj-, however, the ownership of the cultivated land was recognized if he paid a ground rent. There were no registers of landed property, but only tax lists. In order to bring about a Just solution of the land question, a proclamation was issued on the very day of the Germans taking possession of Kiao-Chou forbidding the sales of landed property which were replaced through voluntary contracts with the Chinese to the effect that the inhabitants of the various villages received the double amount of the annual Chinese ground tax as a kind of premium in consideration of which they bound themselves to sell their land to nobody but the German government. In case the land should be bought by the government the local price before the German lease was to be paid. In the meanwhile the owners continue to hold and till their ground. It was an extremely difficult task to conclude these agreements, but the German government has now secured the option to the greater part of the territory necessary for the erection of streets, squares, cniays. public buildings and fortifications. On Spt. 2. 1S93. Kiao-Chou was declared a free port and opened to the trade of all nations. TRIBUTE TO SOLDIERS. Governor Candler'a Speech at Dedication of Monnment to Georclans. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 4. The handsome monument erected by the State of Georgia to commemorate the deeds of gallant Georgians wrho fought at Chlckamauga was dedicated this morning. Governor Candler, his staff and other distinguished Georgians participated in the exercises. The exercises began at the monument on the Lafayette road shortly after 10 o'clock. After, stirring music by a military band prayer was offered by Dr. William E Boggs. chancellor of the University of Georgia. Hon. Gordon Lee, a member of the Georgia commission, tendered the monument to the Governor. Governor Candler in an eloquent address accepted the monument and tendered it to the government. In the course of his speech Governor Candler paid the following tribute to the valor of soldiers, both Federal and Confederate, who fought in the civil war: "Waiving all inquiry as to who was right and who was wrong in the fratricidal conflict of 1S61. where is the American who is not proud of the names of Lee. the cavalier; Stonewall Jackson, the Puritan; Albert Sidney Johnston, the Chevalier Bayard of the South; Joseph Johnston, the Fabius of the Confederacy, and J. E. B. Stuart, the Marshal Ney of the lost cause? Who does not honor our own illustrious Georgians Longstreet. and Gordon, and Wheeler, and Walker, who perished in front of Atlanta. All men from Maine to Texas and from the lakes to the gulf respect and admire and honor them for their chivalrous bearing and sturdy manhood, as all unprejudiced men must, and do. honor the illujtrious Grant and the Indefatigable Sherman and the gallant McClellan for their deeds of valor and heroic devotion to the cause each believed to be right. All of these, no matter under which flag they fought, were Americans, and the deeds of daring and heroic achievement of all of them reflect glory on the American name. We in Georgia honor all of them alike because they were all Americans and are worthy of honor, but we will be pardoned for according equal honor and more love to the sons of Georgia, children of the empire State of the South. For this reason we erect this monument and inscribe on it the names of Georgia's gallant sons, immortal names that were not born to die." Gen. H. V. Boyntcn, president of the National Park commission, accepted the monument on behalf of the government, his acceptance being short but Impressive. The oration of the day was delivered by Hon. J. C. C. Black, of Augusta, one of Georgia's leading lawyers. The exercises closed with music and the benediction. The shaft is of Georgia granite, flanked by four large bronzo tablets modeled with appropriate symbolic figures and bearing inscriptions of names of the commanding officers of the Georgia troops that took part In the engagement. The apex of the shaft

is surmounted by a heroic figure of a Confederate soldier holdinjc in one hand a furled flag of the Confederacy. CHARGES TOO INDEFINITE

Standard OH Attorneys Want Mr, Monnett to Be More Explicit. COLUMBUS. O.. May 4.-Hon. Virgil P. Kline and iL F. Elliot, es attorneys lor the Standard Oil Company, filed in the Supreme Court this evening a motion to compel Attorney General Monnett to make more specific the statement recently filed by him alleging that he had been approached by persons offering bribes if he would dismiss the suits against the Standard Oil Company. The ruotloa asks the court to require ths names of all persons who are alleged to have been connected with the attempted bribery, not only of Mr. Monnett. bit a!? of former Attorney General D. K. Watson, to be given. It further asked: "That a commissioner be appointed to take all legal testimony which bears upon the truth or falsity of the charges contained in the attorney general's statement to the Supreme Court, and that a disinterested attorney appointed to conduct the examination upo:t the part of the court." In support of the requests contained in the motion, the attorneys lor the defendant make the following statements upon information and belief: "That all the facts set forth in said papers, so far as they connect the defendant with any attempt at bribery or undue influence, are false; that while Attorney General Monnett iuay have hal conversations with some person unconnected with and unknown to the defendant nothing therein occurred which gave the attorney general any reason to believe that the defendant had any knowledge of or connection with the matter; that the attorney general has filled the newspapers with false and libelous reports of attempts at bribery on the part of the defendanL well knowing there was no foundation for the same; that, until the attorney general gives the name of his friend, defendant cannot prepare to meet the.e charges, and by reason of these facts alleged it is evident that both F. S Monnett and S. W. Bennett must be witnesses in the case; that the attorney general is not disinterested and can only acquit himself of false and libelous statements and free himself from suspicion by proving defendant guilty of the charges he has preferred. Wherefor it is highly improper and unjust that he. as representative of the court, should conduct the investigation." . WILL MARRY A PRINCE MISS JULIA DEXT GRAXT BETROTHED TO A RUSSIAN XOBLEMAX. Will Wed Prince Michel Cantacusene, of the Oar's Guard Reception by Mrs. Potter Palmer. CHICAGO, May 4.-Miss Julia Dent erick D. Grant, is engaged to Prince Cantacuzir.e, of Russia, late military attache of his country's embassy at Rome. The report reached Chicago yesterday. General Grant,' who is in the city with his wife for a brief visit among friends before he departs for the Philippines to serve on GeneVal Otis's staff, confirmed it last night when seen at the residence of II. H. Hcnore, 2103 Michigan avenue lid, A UVltCtC ItlO M liUC UC1I. Grant said, with a quiet twinkle in his eye. "I received a cablegram from Paris three days ago asking consent to the engagement, and replied that no objections would be made to it. I have known Prince Cantacuzine's family for over twenty years, and. while I have never seen him, I know him to be a highly accomplished young man of excellent character. I believe there is nothing more to be said on the subject." .Miss Grant has been abroad with her aunt, Mrs. Potter . Palmer, for several months, and both are now stopping In Paris with the intention of returning to America in a few weeks. Her engagement marks the end of the first chapter of a pretty romance which began not more than three months ago in Rome. Prince Cantacuzine was at that time with the Russian embassy, and with several other young officers was attracted by the handsome American girl. They showered her with attentions, and made her stay at Rome as delightful as they knew how. When Mrs. Palmer took her fair charge to Caens the prince followed, after obtaining a special leave of absence on the plea that he wished to Join the party which Grand Duke Sergius had with him. Just when the happy moment came which began the engagement Is not known, but it is surmised that the prince asked for Miss Grant's hand since she reached Paris. Prince Cantacuzine is twenty-five years old, and a lieutenant in the Imperial Guards. His family is one of the greatest and oldest in Russia, and he became th head of the house with the death of his father. He 'owns vast estates Just east of Moscow, where he maintains a magnificent chateau. He is said to be unusually talented and a young man of fine character. Miss Grant is twenty-three yeirs old and strikingly handsome. She has numerous friends and relatives In Chicago, to whom the news of her engagement will give th greatest pleasure. It is probable that when she returns to this country she will accompany Mrs. Palmer to Chicago, although her norne is in Jsew lora. PARIS, May 4. Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, gave a brilliant reception this evening at the Hotel Rltz in honor of th mother of Prince Michel Cantacuzene. of the Russian Imperial Guard, at which, formal announcement was made of the betrothal to the prince of Miss Julia Dent Grant, daughter of Brig. Gen. Frederick: Dent Grant, U. S. A The company Included Gen. Horace Porter, the United States embassador, and Mrs. Porter, Ferdinand W. Peck, United States commissioner general to the Paris exposition of 1$KV. and Mrs. Peck, as well as other prominent members of the American colony in Paris. Princess Betrothed to av Prince. LONDON. May 4. The betrothal of Princess Margaret of Connaught to Prince Frederick William, son of Prince Albert of Prussia. Is announced. The princess Is tho eldest daughter and second child of the Duke of Connaught, the third son of Queen Victoria. She is seventeen years old, but looks a mere child. She is a beauty in a childish fashion and Is much admired. Prince Frederick William is a second cousin of the German Emperor, and is a large and soldierly-looking man. "The little princess." as she ?s known at Bagshot, was christened Margaret Victoria Augusta Charlotte Norah. Ste was born on March 11, li2. In appearance she resembles her father, the handsomest member of the royal family, rather than her mother, the Princess Louise of Prussia. Prince Frederick William was born in Siles a on July 12, 1&0. He is a lieutenant of the First Regiment of Guards and a chevalier of the Order of the Black Eagle. His father Is Frederick William Nicholas Albert, a cousin of the Kaiser. LIKE A GOLD CERTIFICATE First or Spain's ft.t.OOO.OOO Warrants Deposited In a v York Dank. NEW YORK. May 4. The first of the four treasury warrants of $5,000,000 to pay the Spanish Indemnity was delivered to-day to President James Stillman, of the National City Bank, by M. Olivier Talgny, s,cretary of the French embassy, Washington. It Is expected that next Wednesday two more warrants will be delivered to the National City Bank, and that the final $3.0u0,00i) warrant will follow pome days later. The warrant, which Is styled "diplomatlo settled warrant No. 40)." resembles in size and color a gold certificate. The warrant will pass through the bank clearing house to-morrow and should give the City Bak a record credit balance and the subtreasury a large debit balance, which will probably be pettled in gold coin. The other three warrants will from time to time be deposited at the City Bank, which lat Monday had $15,000,000 of the $.0lC.uU Philippine Indemnity at the disposition of the Spanish government through the bank's arrangement with the Deutsche Bank of Berlin. The City Bank transacted the business without disturbing the money or exchange market or causing fold exports. As an exchange transaction iu success has hardly o parallel.