Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1902 — Page 4

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It seems absurd for the tobacco raisers of the United States, who raise a large part of the world's supply and export it by shiploads, to set up opposition to the reduction of the duty on Cuban tobacco. The announcement that the railroads will spend $2X).0"oCO in betterments the next reason would indicate that in the opinion of their managers the period of prosperity will extend over several years. It was Artemas Ward whose patriotism took the form of willingness to send all his wifys relatives to the war. Almost every protected interest Is entirely willing that reciprocity shall bo tried on some other one. Prince Henry is in very great demand in this country, not because we are inclined to the imperialism which the prince represents, but because the American people desire to be good friends with a great nation. The architects employed in the building of the edifices for the St. Louis exposition are certalt that everything will bo ready by the appointed day in lf03. And yet work will not be in progress until the middle of next month. The story wired to Berlin that Prince Henry would be in danger from Anarchists At Chicago was entirely incredible and Fhould not have been sent. The Anarchists in this country will lie very low for a good while to come. The beet-sugar Industry having been developed !i twelve years to a point where it raised about 125.0O0 tons of sugar last year, how many years will it take at that rate to produce the 2.2CO.ooo tons required to supply the American people? American missionaries recently returned from the Hawaiian Islands re-ort that while the natives are still dissatisfied with the way annexation was brought about, they are satisfied with the results. The latter is the essential point. A Democratic paper declares that "the jrreat prosperity of the country is shown jy the statement of the condition of the national banks, whoso resources reach the magnificent total of SVTT-VUitf." Why not te satisfied with such prosperity instead of plotting for a change? It Ii thought in Chicago that Secretary Gag will accept the presidency of a title and trust company which has been offered Jilm in that city. It is said that many 'financial institutions have sought his services, but he prefers an engagement that Will bring him back to his home city. A bill haa been introduced in Congress providing for the increase of the pay of the rural free delivery carriers. At present they receive $0 a year, and as they have to keep two horses this compensation is clearly inadequate. Th" service require a responsible class of men. and the pay ought to be made fairly compensator-. Governor Taft thinks that by the end of the present fear the fori e of American troops in the Philippine can be reduced to 17.00) men. to N stationed In garrisons at Convenient p hits, and that even these will only be needed for a show of authority and In case of emergency. For the rest he thinks the native constabulary will be equal to all demands. Quite a number of Republican papers peak favorably of Mr. Babeock's bill for the modification of the tariff duties on pig Iron and the simpler forms of steel. Insisting almply that a reduction of duties, while retaining the principle of protection, will bo wlae action. They do not explain fully, but urge the passage of the bill upon th usumptlon that lower duties are favored by h people. If the cut In the duty should

force a reduction of price at home In order to keep out foreign goods of the same kind the consumer might gain something; tut no reduction in the tariff could prevent the large producers in this country from selling their surplus abroad at lower prices than prevail at home. To get rid of a surplus or to keep mills running full time, Great Britain and all other nations sell for lower prices abroad than at home.

Jl'DtsK TAFT ON TIIK PH I LI 111 SR SITUATION. Judge Taft, who has Just returned to the United States after two years' service in the Philippines, gives a very encouraging report regarding conditions in the islands. He went to the Philippines as president of the commission, in 1900, and has been Civil Governor since June, 1001. He is a very able man, and his opportunities for learning the true conditions In the islands have been the best. There are, of course, many things which he cannot say in an interview before making his report to the President, but what hs does say is altogether encouraging. Briefly, his statement is to the effect that the insurrection In the Philippines is now narrowed down to a small compass, which Is growing smaller every day; that a large majority of the people are in favor of peace and civil government; that the most influential men among the Filipinos are laboring to that end, and that, excepting In the small area where trouble still exists, civil government in the Islands is already so well established that it may be pronounced a success. "I wish to impress upon everybody," says Judge Taft, "that civil government is a success." Again, he says: "I have never been so encouraged as to the prospects of the Philippines as I have been within the past three months." And finally he declared that "there has never been a time since the United States became interested in the islands that the attitude of the Filipino people, as a whole, has been so friendly to the civil government established by the United States as now." These statements, from such a man as Judge Taft, leave no doubt that very satisfactory progress has been made in pacifying the Island and establishing oivil government, and that the complete success of the woik is not far distant. Read between the lines. Judge Taft's statement seems to be a plea for civil government in the islands as against military government. For this reason It may be antagonized in some quarters, but if he is right In his facts, as he i3 pretty sure to be, the country will Indorse his conclusions. There is every reason why the use of force and military authority in the Philippines should be lessened as rapidly as possible and civil government established Instead. The army of occupation should be reduced and military government subordinated to civil as fast as circumstances will permit. Judge Taft evidently thinks that as events are now moving this can soon be done throughout the entire archipelago. The encouraging and almost optimistic statement of Judge Taft is In marked contrast with one made a few days ago by Professor Schurman, of Cornell University, president of the first Philippine Commission. Professor Schurman spent most of the year 1S03 in the Philippines and reurned from there more than two years ago. He admits that he was always an anti-expansionist, and he accepted a place on the commission in the belief that tho United States would eventually give the people Independence. In a speech delivered in Boston a few nights ago he argued that the United States ought to withdraw from the Philippines and declared that "from past and present conditions he saw nothing ahead but growing liberty culminating In Independence." In other words, he not only believed it wrong for the United States to try to establish Its sovereignty over the islands, but he believed it impossible. The United States has the same rights in the Philippines that it has In Porto Rico, and no anti-expansionist favors (he abandonment of Porto Rico. As to the other branch of the question, the opinion of Judge Taft, who has spent two years on the islands and knows how little there is left of the insurrection, is much better than that of Professor Schurman, who spent less than one year in the islands and who left there more than two years ago, when the insurrection was at its height with Agulnaldo at its head. The trouble with Professor Schurman is he Is wedded to his original opinions and ignores the great progress that has been made in pacifying the islands and establishing civil government during the last two years. Judge Taft's report to the President will be full of information for Congress and the country regarding the true situation in the Philippines. Mi:irnxu of township tuistkks. There will be no more important meeting in this city this year than that of the township trustees. It is cause for genidne congratulation that nearly seven hundred of the one thousand trustees in the State are attending the meeting. There are po more important officers in Indiana than the men who have charge of the financial affairs of a township. The trustee should be a man of practical business capacity and force of character. A man may be very useful to his party and yet lack the special qualifications which will make him an efficient township trustee. Indeed, it may be said that there is no position In which there is greater need for all-around efficient men than the township trusteeship. There Is reason to believe that the taxpayers themselves are slowly coming to the conclusion that the best men among them are needed for that oflice. It can be added that during the past ten years there is good reason to believe that a better class of men have been elected trustees than before that time. While many excellent trustees were opposed to the township reform bill while it was pending, most of them must now see that the law has proved salutary. It is due to the great body of township trustees to say that during the past four years they have rendered most elllcient service in reducing that most pernicious pauperism known as the out-door poor because they are not kept in the county poorhouse. The addres-r. of Governor Durbin to the trustees Is that of a man who believes that there is no place where there is a better field for the application of strict business principles than in the affairs of township. city, county and State. One of the points which Clovernor Durbin emphasized Is that the volume of local taxation for township, municipal and county affairs constitutes th bulk of taxation and that economical and emeient government depends largely upon the township trustee and other local officers. Hie experieuca with the business

affairs of the State and no executive idiana'ever had has given more Jealous attention to public affairs than Governor Durbin qualifies him to assert that "by ignoring old customs, by inaugurating more businesslike methods and Insisting on judicious economy a large amount of money can be saved without detriment to the efficiency of the service." Governor Durbin emphasized the fact that the reform legislation has destroyed a pernicious system and that better things may be expected; not so much because better men are elected as because the State now has a businesslike and rational system for the management of township affairs furnished by the so-called reform township law. HIHIti:si:NTATION ANI DISFHANCIIISi:.MKNT. There are indications that a caucus of Republicans in Congress may be called very soon, perhaps within a day or two, to consider the question of reducing the "representation in the House of Southern States whose election laws disfranchise American citizens. The suggestion has been made many times, but it remained for Representative Crumpacker, of this State, to bring It to the point of party action. He has been working on the matter for some time, and has now, it is said, got more than eighty signatures to a petition for a caucus, which insures the calling of one. It is understood to be Mr. Crumpacker's purpose to present to the caucus a resolution lequesting the House committee on the census to report a bill amending the apportionment act passed by the last Congress so as to provide for reduction of representation in Congress from States where voters are disfranchised by State constitutions and laws. The proposition is in strict accordance with the constitutional provisions regarding representation. Section 2, Article XIV, of the Constitution says: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State. But when the right to ote at any election for President and Vice President of the United States or representatives in Congress is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in anyway abridged, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. This provision is mandatory and Congress Is given power to enforce it by- appropriate legislation. Under the circumstances it is difficult to see how Congress can escape the duty thus imposed upon it of making the

representation from each State conform to its voting population. The Constitution gives each State the right to prescribe the qualifications of its voters. Congress cannot dictate or change the qualifications of the voters in the several States, but it can and the Constitution says it must make the representation in Congress from each State conform to Its voting population. The equity of the proposition to reduce the reprenentation of those States which have disfranchised a large number of citizens of voting age is apparent on its face, and the more so because when slavery was abolished the basis of representation from all the Southern States was increased by the difference between three-fifths of the negroes, under the old rule, and the whole number under the new rule. The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution was enacted to meet the case of the disfranchisement of this new class of citizens. No State has a right to expect that any class of citizens shall be counted in the apportionment who are not counted in the voting. From a constitutional point of view, therefore, there is no question as to the legality and equity of the proposed reduction Jn the representation of States that have disfranchised large classes of voters, and it may almost be said that the duty of doing so is obligatory on Congress. Yet the contrition has existed to. a greater or less degree ever since the war without the remedy being applied. As President Harrison wrote not long before his death, "This provision of the Constitution has never been put into operation in the case of any State." It remains to be seen whether it will be thought expedient to try to enforce it now. The Democrats in the City Council voted unanimously last night against an appropriation for construction of a house of detention for smallpox patients. The building now used for this purpose already contains double the number of patients that can be comfortably accommodated, and the outlook for a speedy spread of the malady is more alarming than at any time for several years. Under these conditions the Democrats of the City Council vote unanimously against steps necessary to preserve the city from what may prove an epidemic of a dangerous disease. Terhaps they can give satisfactory reasons for their action, but people not members of the Council regard it as inexcusable and inexplicable. Surviving members of the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians have recently laid claim to valuable lands in Chicago, and now it is said that descendants of several tribes which once inhabited Ohio are about to lay claim to lands lying along Lake Krle, including Presque island. If the aboriginal title to the continent is going to be revived and asserted there may be lively times in real-estate circles. The annual reports of tho officers of the miners' union devote considerable space to discussing "government by injunction," but they do not show that any order of court has interfered with any personal right except that of Interfering with the rights of others. Government by injunction is simply the enforcement by legal process of principles as old as the common law. Democrats in Congress ate said to be discussing the advisability of opposing a.i a party all pending bills for the punishment of Anarchists and person who attempt to kill the President on the ground that such legislation would be an invasion of state's rights. That position would be worthy of a party that forgets nothing and learns nothing. During the month of December, last, six lntcrurban electric linos centering at Dayton, O., brought to that city an aggregate of 103.CÖ3 passengers. The lowest number brought by any road was 1S.S.3 and the highest 30.376. The figures show the great possibilities of interurban lines and the Importance of encouraging them. The St. Louis Republic says the Duke of Abruzzi, cousin of the King of Italy, would be an acceptable representative at the world's fair in 1003, and adds: "We have no dukes over here, but Missouri colonels are nature's own noblemen and they would gle Abruzzi the gladdest of glad hands."

But suppose that Colonel Champ Clark, who the other day declared himself "teetotally opposed to paying a cent for representatives to the coronation of his sacred Majesty, King Kdward VII." should take a notion to tell Abruzzi what he thinks of dukes?

THE HUMORISTS. A Spellbinder. Jude. First Citizen Talkaway is a born orator. Second Citizen Yes, indeed. It Is only when you see his speeches in cold type that you realize that he hasn't anything to say. Hetter Still. Philadelphia Press. "I thought she was going to marry Tom?" "No, Jack." "Why. she told me Tom was willing to die for her and " "Yes, but Jack offered to make a good living for her." Trouble of the Rich. Judge. Mrs. Cobwipger I surpo?e yu nn,l your social duties much more onerous since you became so rich? Mrs. Tarvenue Yes, indeed, my dear. I have had to cultivate an entirely new set of acquaintances. Jim'K Position. Baltimore American. "They tell mo that Jim Muggins Is one of the directors in a big city corporation now," said the grocer. "Yes, I seen him las' time I was down to town." fata Mr. MedJergrass. "He directs the envelopes f'r the firm." Cnught On. Chicago Tribune. "Walter," sal J. the rrcfespor, "your cook has been guilty of a sin of omission." "Ah, yes," pleasantly replied the waiter, who had seen better days. "He has left undone a steak that he ought to have done. I will have to take it back to him." I'nongh. Puck. Eookseller (a new salesman) Can you give opinions about historical novels without reading them? Salesman Why, certainly! ' Bookseller Put suppose you ar asked about the plot and construction? Salesman Iiut I've read one! CRIMINALS AS INVENTORS. Ilenuirknhle Contrivances First Made for Wrong; I'ueu. The Tatent Record. It is a remarkable fact that some of the greatest inventions have been brought forth by men of the under world. At the present time the principal European countries are using a coin-making machine in their mints which was invented and used with large profit-making results by a Manchester (England) coiner known as Henry Harvey, who is at present in Portland prison. If his coin-maker had not been so perfect he might still be living handsomely on its earnings. The attention of Scotland Yard was attracted by some beautifully made coins in circulation which far surpassed those turned out by the mint, with the result that Henry Harvey was soon after lodged at public expense. But his coin-maker was so perfect the continental powers all adopted it, and if Mr. Harvey had only patented his invention instead of working it himself he would now be elrawlng over ten thousand a year In royalties. The discoverer of thermite was Fritz von Schwldt, known to the European police as Count Ether, because he was a scientist who, when wanted for burglary, always vanished as quickly as that volatile spirit. During the early part of 198 nearly I2.UO0,000 was stolen from the strong rooms of the London. Paris and Berlin banks. In every case the burglar attained his object by melting holes large enough to pass either his body or hands first through the metal eloor of the strong room and then to the safe inside. No noise was made and no tools were necessarj- except a small heating apparatus such as painters use to warp old paint, but by using thermite in place of the ordinary spirit such a heat was obtained that the best steel melted like wax. Von Schmidt was discovered by his efforts to patent his invention. He explained to a patent agent in Berlin what his thermite would do, and half an hour later was under arrest. The hypodermic syringe was Invented by a medical genius named Du Challlon, whose criminal tendencies barred him from all intercourse with self-respecting men. He sank lower and lower and Anally founded a school of crime where he taught and employed the Paris gamins to do the dirty work. Stimulated by the aid of the hypodermic syringe and while under its influence they accomplished wonderful feats that require great daring and nerves of steel. The medical world afterwards adopted the syringe and thousands of lives are now saved annually by its aid. Divers are enabled by the aid of the Johnsen pump and helmet, to not only descend to great depths in the sea, but also to explore caves and turn six or seven consecutive sharp corners while under the water, which was impossible before the tliscovery of this invention. Arthur JohnSon was a burglar and invented his pump and helmet to enable him to enter one of the largest London banks. He rented a house near the bank and set to work. He discovered that a small spring ran under the bank's strong room. His plan was to work tlurlng the night in this spring which had been walled in and made to act as a sewer. From this tunnel he meant to chisel his way up into the strong room above; but it was impossible to stop long in the sewer without some safeguard against drowning. He then invented his pump and helmet, and although he failed in his attempt to rob the bank, his invention has enabled men td explore depths which were before unknown. , The Siamese Minister. Washington Letter. For the first time in history there is a Siamese minister permanently stationed in Washington. Heretofore the envoy to the British court trom Siam has been ex-ofticio minister to the United States, but now the land of the white elephant has sent a representative especially to Uncle Sam. Ills title is "His Excellency Phya Akharajvaradhara," but his actual name is not divulged, as Siamese customs forbid the general use of a nobleman's name. His Immediate family may handle it with impunity, but the outside world is supposed to be content with referring to the individual merely by title. Phya, it may be said, means marquis. The remainder of the formidable title not even the marquis' secretary who !s an Englishman named Loftus can translate satisfactorily. The Siamese minister resides at the Arlington, and so lar has not mingled much in society. He is about forty-five years old, and always appears in public wearing a gorgeous uniform covered with gold lace. Pearson's Break. Roswell Field, in Chicago Post. Greatly as we admire Professor Pearson for his scho'e.rly attainment and his moral worth, it pains us to see him speaking almost disrespectfully of our old friends Elijah and Elisha, to say nothing of the three human salamanders, Shadrach, Meshac and Abednego. We could net have been mere grieved and shocked had he talked lightly of Daniel or ilippantly of Jonah. Northwestern University has been distinguished for its unswerving allegiance to the aboslute verity of the scriptures, and we firmly believe that Dr. Hollister ould not permit any young gentleman to play on a university team who for one moment tlor.bted the athletic supremacy of Daniel or Shadrach in any sportsmanlike contest. We deplore Professor Pearson's outbreak, and we think It is the duty of the worthy citizens of Evanrton to labor and pray with him, and th-t without ceasing. Not the Same Kentucky. Cleveland Plain Dealer. I-et us give Kentucky its due not Iti mountain dew. either. Out of its 110 counties forty-eight are dry, twenty-one have but one liquor dealer each and seventeen cave two such dealers each. This isn't the Kentucky cf tradition and the paragraphers, but It will not lose in popular appreciation on that accounL

TUTUILA AND ITS PEOPLE

CHARACTERISTIC S OF I NCLH SAM'S FAHAAVA Y ISLAND SUBJECTS. Canned Salmon, Salt Beef nml Ship's Biscuits Regarded as Luxuries L'nihrcllas and Lanterns. Washington Letter. Ernest R. Gayler, assistant engineer in the United States navy, has returned after an absence of two and a half years in Samoa, where he has been engaged upon government improvements in Pago Pago harbor. He has gathered many curios illustrative of the life and customs of these faraway subjects of Uncle Sam. He was one of a colony of twenty-live Americans who went to Pago Pago when the work on the improvements began there. Mr. Gayler talked interestingly yesterday about the island and the people. "We have some very erroneous ideas here about our Samoan possessions," said Mr. Gayler, "in respect to the size and commercial importance of the islands and the character of the people. We were at Tutuila, which is the largest of the American group of islands. Pago Pago is one of the cities of this island. Tutuila is about the area of the ground covered by my home, the city of St. Louis. The island is rough and mountainous. There is one mountain 2,4-n) f-et high in the interior. Thi5 is very rough and precipitous, and is covered with a dense growth of trees, bushes, ferns and vines. In the center Tutuila is utterly uninhabitable, and only on the shore, on the e'dges of the coves made by the spurs of the hills, is there any chance of habitation. There are many of these coves in the islands, and there the natives dwell and cultivate the soil. They live in villages, from 00 to 800 in each, in fertile spots of half a mile square on the edge of a sandy beach, where fish are plenty. What they raise on the farms and the fish they catch in the sea give them subsistence. "The entire population of the American Islands is about 2.5V. These are all Samoans except a few traders and the missionaries who have gone there to instruct the natives. There are six or seven foreigners who have set up stores at different points on the island. One of these is an American sailor who deserted long &o. CALICO PREFERRED TO BARK. "The traders' stores offer a good opportunity of studying the character of the Samoan. The most desirable article of traffic is calico. This the native buys to take the place of the rough bark garments which they wore before Americans came. Men and women buy it. The men wear it wrapped around their waist, but the women have learned to use it as a dress. Except in the remote towns now it is not common to see a Samoan woman in native elress. "Next to calico the most desirable thing in Samoa is canned salmon. The traders carry a good supply of this, and the natives, who have plenty of fresh fish from the sea. are eager to get it. They eat it as a great luxury. Salt beef is next in favor. They buy this in kegs for festal occasions. When they are going to have a feast they get a keg of salt beef and a case of ship's biscuit, and then, with their fresh fish and other native foods, they go in for a good time. Umbrellas and lanterns come next in favor. It is strange that they should want umbrelias, for they go arounrl with bare legs, and many of them with bare bodies except the cloth wrapped around their loins. If any people could elo without umbrellas it would be the Samoans, but they have taken a great fancy to them. 1 suppose the reason is that they do not like to get their heads wet. They wear their hair plastered up well with cocoanut oils, and perhaps a wetting would spoil the effect. "They buy lanterns to keep off the ghosts. They stand in great dread of the ghosts of their ancestors, who, they say, visit them to Inflict punishment for wrongs done. I recall a case of a girl who had an awful pain in her hip. which was due to a slap she had received from one of her dead ancestors. The ship doctor examined her and called it sciatica, but the friends of the girl knew well enough what caused it. They bury their dead near the villages, so that they are within the circle of liht from their homes at night. Then, with a lantern to protect them, they are safe, for no ghost can come near a light. They buy the common tin lantern. Once, when we were in a boat at night, the native rowers were greatly disturbed at a will-o'-the-wisp, which we could see on shore. They thought it was the eye of a ghost. HOW MONEY IS SECURED. "The natives get money to buy those things from the sale of curios to tourists. As soon as a ship enters the harbor they flock around it In boats, offering fans, na tive weapons and trinkets of every kind. They are quick at bargaining, and as there are about six steamers a month they get good prices. They also prepare and ship dried cocoanut, or copra, as it is called. They crack the cocoanuts and then by a few skillful strokes of the knife get out the meat, which they expose for a few days in the sun. The sun is very hot and the meat dries quickly. These are the chief sources of income for the Samoan, but what he gets from them is not used for his rubsistence. He lives on green bananas, bread fruit, yams, etc., which are raised on the family farms. The money he spends for luxuries calico, lanterns, umbrellas, etc. The natives at work on the improvements earned a dollar a day. They usually turned this money into the family funcls, perhaps reserving a little for personal wants. The Samoans are communistic that is, they live in families under a chief, and all the relatives share in a common fund and live on the products of a common farm. "The Samoans are very fond of Americans. They are not eager to work for us, as they do not regard that kind of labor as dignified. They are not lazy by any means, for they show much energy in their own affairs. Still, there are many of them at work on improvements. Chiefs as well as the ordinary natives work side by side; there is no laboring class. They do not learn our language readily, as the consonant endings bother them. They speak of our language as stuttering. When asked if they can speak English they answer: 'No. I do not stutter.' They have adopted our religion and are very zealous, esiecially as to the observance of Sunday. They attend the meetings of the Ixuidon MissionarySociety and everybody goes. They put on their best and the women, who never wear anything on the'r heads at other times, all put on hats. These are woven hats, decorated with dyed fibers woven into bands, and are bright and picturesque. If they have some old garment given to them by a sailor they treasure it carefully to wear to church on Sunday. "The Samoan is tall and striking in appearance, and many of the women are handsome. Lately the Mormon missionaries have been working among them. They are voung women who follow the lead of the other missionaries and open schools. There is no teaching of polygamy, and it is well, too for the Samoans are very strict as to their family relations, and they would not tolerate such teaching if it were attempted. They are honest, polite and dignified. They do not drink alcoholic liquors of any kind. Since th-- prohibition by the government of the tariff at Samoa there bus? been no liquor pold on the islands ard the r.ativcs make i.o alcoholic drinks themselves." Sailed n Million Mile at Sea. New York Press. One of the largest sailing vessels in the world is the California clipper Roanoke, which sails out of thta port. Her captain is J. A. Amesbury, one of the oldest merchant Fkippcrs sailing the sea, but ttlll hale and hearty and good for many years more. For nearly forty years he has been a captain, sailing under the American flag. Since first going to sea he has sailed in American vessels "one million rriles of sra. four times the span from earth to mocn." the record, it will be remembered, of Kipling's "dour Scotch engineer," McAndrews. And he never once has been wrecked! Captain Amesbury comes of an old Maine se-afartng family. One of h'-s brothers is captain of the ship ß. 1). Carleton. of which ehip another brother is mate. When Capt. Amesbury first went to sea his two brothers were in tne same ship with him. The brother who is now mate of the Carletoa was

captain, the one who is now captain of the Carleton was mate, and he himself officiated as cook. Captain Amesbury hr.s circumr.avigated the globe. thirty times. Certainly hero is a record, 'a million miles of voyaging, thirty circumnavigations of the globe and ne ver once a shipwreck.

SHOULD VIEW BOTH SIDES. Daty of Labor Unions in Industrial Economic Affairs. Brooklyn Eagle. A situation that has been growing Intolerable is to be relieved, it is hoped, by the international board of arbitration, to which disputes between mechanics and emrloyeis can be referred. This board is re- j markable in that it presents nearly all phases of Industrial life, and beside a tlczcn employers and an equal number of heads of mechanics unions, it Includes men of weight in other departments who stand for those wider interests of government, law, commerce, education, religion, finance and society, that are unaffected by forced or willing memberships in trade associations. It is a committee, then, to which both sides in a dispute can look with an expectancy of fair hearing and an honest verdict. But are there not many disputes which can be settled out of this court? Most of its members are busy men, who have important interests in their trust, and cannot spare time from their offices and their colleges and their professional practice to listen to disputes. involving frequently matters of discipline and individual encroachment, or loss, rather than "of principle or the welfare of numbers. The capitalists are doing something to secure a iK-tUr feeling on the part of their employes, and within a few days there have been distributions of gifts and shares in the year s proiit; wages have teen raised, hours have been shortened, and, in many shops, mills and factories the employers have installed such things as baths, libraries, dining-rooms, dispensaries and recreation halls. Nothing can be more false than the allegation of certain labor disturber professional agitators, anarchists, ne'er-do-weels, vrho live by assessments on men who really work that capital is an enemy of labor. The most and worst that capital eloes is to be indifferent. That it is trying to injure the men on whom it must rely to make its goods and mine its coal and run its trains is a statement too silly to refute, yet this cry sounds up and down the land, wherever the professional agitator can lind an audience to listen to it. It is well enough known that gentle methods succeed where stern and exacting ones fail. This is obvious in the disciplinary practices of armies, navies and prisons, and it is so in industries. Harsh and oppressive ways meet with a response in kind and beget treachery where they cannot be met with open force. Yet the leaders of labor rebellions have been slow . to learn this lesson. They are always for sevcro and lawless modes of correction. In hardly a known instance have they shown to their employers an inkling of that generosity which they are constantly demanding that employers shall show to them. If they do not got what they want there is immediately a threat of violence. If a man remains out of a union he is to be driven into it by force, or else driven away from the place where he has earned his bread. The wonder is that employers have kept so calm a temper, in view of the interferences with their business and with the liberties of their employes. Now, cannot the mechanics meet the employers in a better spirit? Can they not prove that they are willing to extend an occasional kindness, as well as to ask one? If an employer is in straits, in order to finish a contract, and will suffer a loss if It remains unfinished according to schedule, is It possible that every man in his employ will drop his hammer on the blowing of the whistle fearful lest he should work for one second over time? There is, to bo sure, a law a wonderful law In this State that orders the punishment of any employer who obliges an employe to work for more than ten hours. The fine for that crime is $1.0. Whenever, in his turn, a mechanic is willing to break this law he is disciplined by his union and fined for doing it. In a recent Instance, a painter was punished by his union for painting his fence in the only time he had to do it, namely, after his regular working hours, and in several Instances mechanics who undertook to do needed jobs 'about their own premises were warned that the work must be given to others, so that they might confine their labors to the stipulated eight hrjurs a day. There are ways of getting around these regulations, however, and if the labor unions would thrive in the esteem of the public as they are constantly exacting to thrive in pecuniary gains and the increase of leisure and ease, they might occasionally show an appreciation of what Is done for them by their employers, and desist from the belief that every one not a mechanic is trying in some way to "do" them. Ten thousand employes of the American Express Company had Christmas presents last year. Will one of the 10.000 offer to do a minute of extra work? He may have to do it. but will he offer to? A hundred thousand mechanics and laborers in the employ of the United States Steel Corporation will share profits with their stockholders this winter. Will one of that hundred thousand offer to give a few minutes of his leisure for the good of the business by which he lives? The mechanic has lost something of his independence if hn takes an attitude of continual supplication and demand, and ac cepts the statement of hi.s leaders that all obligation is toward, and never from him. ITS POLITICAL ASPECT. Trlnce Henry's A'NIt of Great Importance in World Comity. Springfield Republican. The Vienna newspaper that says the coming visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to this country has a political object is correct. There need be no misapprehension on that point. And simply because the visit has a political object. It merits more attention from Americans than could be paid to the ordinary tourist of a European royal family. The object of the prince's coming to America is to bring the United States and Germany into more harmonious International relations and to make their respective peoples more cordial In their feelings toward each other. To effect or to further such an object is politics in the very highest sense; and, inasmuch as effort along this line, however undertaken, must help to sustain the peace of the world, by soft enlng international asperities, it deserves to be regarded with the utmost approval by the people of America. This country is highly fortunate In hav ing so large a number of citizens of Oerman e xtraction scattered over its vast territory, since by their solid worth the charr.cter of the (Jerman nation may be made known. Although Germany is ruled under a system which does not excite an American's admiration, it is a familiar fact in every American town that no European coming to the United States takes moreleadily to republican institutions than a German. The large German element in our population is really a safeguard of the Republic. But, internationally considered. It is also a valuable ass. t in that it brings the two nations into closer popular touch and sympathy with each other. Just as there may be buffer states between great empires, so our population of German antecedents may be said to act the part of a buffer between the United States and Germany in any period of international irritation. Americans have a great advantage over tha British in this respect. During our late war with Spain, when friction between Dewey ar.d the .German admiral was re. ported in Manila bay. the situation was tempered to an important degree by th mere f-ict of our large German population and our widelv circulated German prefs of New York, St. Iouis and Chicago. Their whole influence was Inevitably conservative in sucn a cri?is. And so. too. in Germany the r-otives of the people of this country in going to war with Spain were better understood because of the statements made directly to the ejerman people by such men as Carl Schurz. But there is no influential German element In Great Brilain. and the ie-sult is that the peoples of those countries are p.ss able to underFtand eich other. Th bitterness against England now manifest In Germany and the bitterness cgalnst Germany now manifest in England might have been powerfully mitigated bad England been the homo of a Hrge and influential CJerman population. Dig at Democrats. It Is solemnly announced in Washington that the Democrats are to have a poMcy. Either they must do that or keep on studying astronomy. Brooklyn Eagle rPem.) The Ohio Democrats, we are informe-d. have got together. We trust th police will not be needed to pull them apart, as In Chicago. Atlanta Constitution (Dem.)

GOOD WEATHER PROPHET

NIIAA' JERSEY C;illL AVIIO IS A CA PAULE .METEOROLOGIST. Her Predictions, However, Are All Based on Reports Sent to the Forecaster at AYashliiKtou. New York Letter. Weather making in the great State of New Jersey, by rights the function of gods and goddesses rather than of mere mortals, is now, strangely enough, in the fair, but strong, firm hands ef a woman. A woman a girl it Is now who whistles up the sea winds that sweep the eoa.-t from Sandy Hook to CaiK May. A girl it is who marshals the unruly and undisciplined forces of the mighty storm kings, swirling ia from the north and the west, and gives for a guerdon soft gulf stream zephyrs. For seven wee;ks Miss Laura M. Dcy baa thus been in league with Aeolus as tho official rain and sunshine niakr of thi Mosquito State. The fact that she is dealing out weather at wholesale for the guidance of the big commonwealth is a matter of accident rather than design. Miss De has long been the assistant of Mr. E. W. McCann, section director of tho weather service under Mr. Willis E. Moore, at Washington. Seven weeks ago Mr. McCann fell ill with pneumonia, and it was a serious question who should take charge of the antral station at New Brunswick. Nobody was available from headquarters at Washington, and the duties of the ciSce naturally fell upon Miss De-y. "Why, what else could I do?" said Miss Dey. "There was Mr. McCann III and the whole station in danger of not having any weather fur dear only knows how lor.. So I just took hold and am doing the best that 1 can. and a goddess cannot do moru than that, can she; ' Nor could a goddess do more than the slip of a girl is eiedng up the-ie in her eyrie, which towers above the campus of Rutgers College at New Brunswick. And. what is more, gods and godelesst-s, even these- omniscent deities of Greek mythology, never knew a tenth as much about the wind and weather as this matter-of-fact Jersey girl. From 10 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon the weather prophetess sits in heT eyrie, surrounded by multitudinous instruments with long Cre-ek und litin names. Unlike the average woman. Miss Dey does not rely at all upon her intuitions for weather signs. Despite the grumbdng and misgivings of the old-fashioned New Jersey farmers, who don't like the idea of a woman running the weather for them. Miss Dey makes all her calculations in A thoroughly scientific manner. NEVER GUESSES ABOUT SITUATION. There is no guess work alout it. hz handles anemometers, thermographs, rain gaug-es, barometers, maximum and minimum thermometers with dexterity which comes of long usage. She plots her own isotherms with precision that would give an ordinarv woman nervous headache. Moreover, Miss Dey is a comely young woman. She is tall and slender, with dark eyes and a broad, high forehead bespeaking keen intellect. , , . . Since her assumption of the duties of her slbyline oflice. Miss Dey has been quite the most conspicuous and most talked about young woman in New Jersey. She lias likewise been tormented to death with letters and cranks of all descriptions. Requests for signed articles for magazines and newspapers have poured in to her, with two offers from museum managers. The consensus of opinion among JerseyRes Is that a woman Is out of her sphere when she begins to monkey with the weather. "Weather is variable enough." they growl, "without a woman getting mixed up in it." "Woman and walhcr," snarl the farmeis, dubiously casting their eyes to the sky; "woman and weather! What does a woman know about weather, anyway?" "Woman and weather! Woman and weather!" sign the beaux, all the way fre;in Deckertown to Cape May. "Woman and weather! They're well mated, that's sure enough." "A fine combination of Inconstancy, say the facetious. "You can't place any more dependence in one than in the other, and mighty little in either." And so it goes, the merry jesting and gibes over the serious little weather sharp working .away lor dear life in her eyrie, and doing the best she can to give everybody just the kind of weather he wants. It is no easy task to serve New Jersey In this capacity, and Jt is not to be wondered at, therefore, that the weather prophetess should be without honor in her own country. No State in the Union has a more variable climate. No State in the Union de mands a greater variety of weathers or olfers such obstacles to th"ir attainment. Especially is this true in winter. FARMER WANTS EXACT DATA For instance, there is a hard, crusty, old-fashione-New Jersey farmer. He raises sweet potatoes, and weather is everything to him. He pins his faith to the weather forecasts which are sent out dally frem the New Brunswick observation tower and posted in the village store or postofliec. Now, It doesn't matter so much, the farmer eays, but when spring comes and planting time arrives he must have exact data as to the rains. Will a woman continue in charge of the ecntral bureau, and can he depend vpon h?r forecasts? Such questions agitate him exceedingly. "I see the finish of the sweet potato crop," a Ilackensack farmer Is juoled as saying last week. "I see the finish of the sweet potato crop, for with a mere woman running the weather down there in Brunswick. Even men make mistakes about tlie weather sometimes, and they're natural-bom weather prophets, and women ain't. Look at the mistake she made day before yesterday. All turned out wrong, predicted rain, and it snowed." Then, there are the peanut growers and the market gardeners and the general farmers, all more or less dubious, and all ajparently under the delusion that Miss Dey t is mrely amusing herself at their expense. Another class of patrons equally hard to convince are the beaux and belles, especially those of the country district. John Honeysweet. who lives at Stltn, is courting a girl who lives in New Brunswick. It is just a nice drive from place to place, and John has two traps. It is John s custom to take his sweetheart driving, but she will not go out with him when he cornes in his top buggy, because, she says, top buggiea have fone out of fashion. John, Ahile an ardent admirer of the sex, has little faith In their powers of prophecy. So the eventful evening come s. Miss Day has predicted, perhaps, clear, cold winds from the north, with steady lowering of temperature. John starts off in bis new vehicle, with its shiny red wlie-U. rubber-tired and seat just wide enough for two to squeeze into comfortably. John is the happiest man in Middlesex county as he rolls noiselessly along the smooth country road. He pictures thj splurge he and she will be making shortly throuRh the streets of New Brunswick, ths envy of all beholders. Suddenly John feels a sprinkle. At firt he tries not to believe It. May tu it's only the; dew. But. no; that's a pretty heavy dew. reasons John, as the drop grow larger and more freque nt, and before he can pronounce a blessing upon the head i of th falfe prophetess the rain is falling steadily, steadily, a regular old-fashioned New Jersey rain, likely to lt all nii;ht er po.s-dLly turn to snow before John has i ei:ded h'.s evening call. Such Is being the experience of Johns anl Williams and Henrys all over the State, each and all forgetting that Miss pey'i predecessors have sometime uttered false prophecies and evtry one; of them ignorant of the fact that, after all. Miss Dey doesn't really make the forecasts at all. but that they are forwarded to her from Washington, based upon tho reports which shs ends to that ofaee. Your I nele Iluss. New York Times. "We may freely accord Russell Sage the distinction of belnf one of the mini unpretentious of our great men," said Mr. J. EJ ward Simmons. "Nevertheless 1 once waw him in Nassau street with just the pup!oion of a swagger. Ah be came out of hla oflice builellng an Irrepressible street urchla ran along the curb, howling to a comrade: " 'Hi. Pinny, your Uncle Rurs Is wearin a new hat!" "Mr. Sage straightened up perceptibly doubt with secret pride."

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