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went with It and loath. The war feeling -a the feeling rh private life. It waa like a

by which

mildew vanish under new ontpicuous illuetratlone of Were Fitahugh Lee and But now that etorxn and and honor* and emoluneral Lee takes second we repeat. It I* not that we Brooke lea*. He la a good aoldler. the civil war aa a Pennavlfrom private Ufa He for gallantry. At the war he was appointed to a

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army ever since. We abate tittle of the glory or reward due to.General .Brooke. And

has been abated.

of military record, exof eervlce, doea he overLee, who, moreover, Is a graduate. He fought with and abiUty through wax that tried men North Since then he has been In has necessarily an -cth which a man who Me In the Army can not been Governor of the great So he understands civil Moreover, by reason of residence in Cuba, he possesses

with Cuban af-

affalrs in that land. He President Cleveland tor admirable Qualities of to be consul-general at Havana i critical years that preceded icuous was his fitness

tion left him in

where, he acquitted himself

the last moment

during the war that

thing was more idealised Lee’s triumphant return to the crystallised sentiment people in this regard. Greatly credit waa It thus. It was an of the glow of patriotic feel-

ed and brightened and

ole country and fused It Wl, ich was It cherished, la-

the idealisation was an

felicitation that this man, the consul-general, and was

fitted to be the military

Cuba after the conflict, was

just aa the country waa glad that It was "Joe”

♦ho wa« the cavalry head In the campaign, and that Hobson came inctead of Massachusetts. Is more popular than Fitshugh Is honored by men high In staand lew. In the time that he has the general of the Seventh Corps he It conspicuously the beet in the army. The administration of was such as to call from the committee the encomium of and example that the scancampe were unnecessary, as a soldier In the field and his education at the best In the world; by bis exGovernor of Virginia; most unique experience aa conin Cuba, to say nothing of el head and heart, he one man beat qualified to be

governor of Cuba,

not know why General Lee

placed in the subordinate

4. We hope it waa not because he opposed to the admlnistrafrom the South. It may be r precedence, seniority, army S been the controlling princiwaa felt to be desirable to

officer of the regular

command. But If that Is so,

feeling that, with General fitness for the poet, and patriotic sentiment be-

Preeldent might well have

i army etiquette in this case. The

would have approved, applaud-

President for contributing thereby

m flew of national feeling.

srsTtrsTrsissK.tii- m • *'■ | X ENGLISH LIBERALS.

of Btr William Vernon

aa the leader of the BngUeh In the House of Commons is a to the liberal party, and t simply , because it dei party of an able and efficient also because it must be taken that that loader has eoaSM the future of the organisation

rt doss not hesitate to to his despair. He says, rfalch was addressed to

truth Is that Mr. Gladstone’s personality was so overwhelming that it seems to be Impossible for any other man to take his place. Gladstone was, in a sense, the Liberal party. He was. as he had been for years, the incarnation of Liberalism. His insistence on Irish borne rule did much, to be sure, to weaken the organisation by driving from it many of Its best and most efficient men. Tet it must not be forgotten that the Liberal party under Ms leadership won victories even after the great schism. While Gladstone was leader it was a powerful force In English politics. But Gladstone left no successor. One can hardly wonder at Harcourt's despair- For the future, not of Liberalism, but of the Liberal party, certainly seems to be gloomy. The truth Is that it has won Its great victories. Free trade, suffrage extension, disestablishment of the Irish church, removal of the disabilities of the Jews and the Roman Catholics, school reform —all these and many other distinctly Liberal measures have been en acted Into law. And. for the present, there seems to be nothing else for the party to do —at least tho people do not appear to be prepared for a further step In advance. On the Important questions of the day. which are colonial questions and questions of foreign policy, the party Is a

opposition not but to what

•eetn* to be the will of the people of England. . kuillvl. It will hot do to think that a party with such a past has no future. There are other battles for popular rights yet to be fought, and other victories to be won by Liberalism in England, as everywhere else. But just now tho people of England seem to have reached, as far ss their domestic affairs are concerned, a stationary stage. They are, for the present, content with what has been gained, and ro the cry of reform has lost its charm and power. But there will always be a liberal party, and when some great leader comes to the front, or some great cause arises whicb will appeal to the people, the Liberals will recover their strength and will again show their old capacity for serving the people of England.

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Col, William Jennings Bryan, late of the Third Regiment of Nebraska Volunteers, explains his resignation of his command as due to his belief that he “can be more useful to bis country as a civilian than a soldier.” We are not familiar with Col. Bryan’s military record, but we are not disposed to question his opinion. Howmuch depends upon himself. We would not reflect In any way on his patriotism, devotion to duty or efficiency. But giving him the fullest credit In this way, it is still true that he can, if he will, serve his country at least as well in civil life as he did while a soldier. And that is true of every American

citisen.

But, as we have said, it remains for him to show whether he has the capacity and the desire to serve his country. If he really wishes to play the part of a patriot, he will exert all his influence to unite the great party which he and his followers all but destroyed two years ago. On* would think that even he would see by this time that the people of the United State* wlU not have free silver, and that they are more strongly opposed than they ever were to the sectional and class Idea in politics. If, therefore, he will turn hie face to the future, frankly accepting the verdict of the people twice rendered with tremendous emphasis, it Is entirely possible that he may exert an influence in our politics that will be wholly good. We are glad to note that he seems disposed to do this. In bis statement to the public there is not even a suggestion of free silver. He Ignores It as completely as It waa ignored In the recent campaign by the Pemocrats of the Eastern States.

He says:

The people of the United States, having rescued Cuba from foreign control, may now resume discussion of the domestic problems which confront this nation, and proceed to consideration of the new questions arising out of the war. I may be In error, but in my Judgment our nation is in greater danger just now than Cuba. Our people defended Cuba against foreign arms; now they must defend themselves and their country against foreign ideas — the colonial idea of European nations. Heretofore greed has perverted the Government and used Its Instrumental Interferences for private gain, but now the very foundation principles of .our Government are assaulted. ? - Her* Is a live Issue — an Issue on which men may fairly differ. Many of Mr. Bryan’s bitterest opponents will sympathise with him in his view on the subject of colonial expansion. The new dlvisitm of political forces, which now seems imminent, will throw Mr. Bryan into the closest alliance with such men as Mr. Carnegie, Senator Hoar. Senator Hale, Professor Norton and Mr, Edward Atkinson, all of Whom antagonised him In IS96. If he proposes to make a fight against the colonial policy, he will, of course, if he hopes for the largest possible support, have to abandon the free silver issue — or at least subordinate It for the present It will be Impossible for him to fight two battles at the same time. He seems to see this, for, as we have shown, he thinks that we must now turn “to consideration of the new questions growing out of the war." We think Mr. Bryan la entitled to the credit of being the first to suggest a way In which to make a campaign against annexation without putting In Jeopardy the treaty soon to be submitted to Congress. He would not oppose the ratification of the treaty, for. aa he says, ’If the treaty la rejected, negotiations must be renewed, and Instead of settling the question according to our ideas we must settle It by diplomacy, with the possibility of International complications.” He would have Congress adopt a resolution declaring our policy with reference to Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, and that poltoy should. In his opinion, be the same as that outlined for Cuba in the declaration of war against Spain. Mr. Bryan to not nearly so radical on this subject as

‘ [ are those who have been conducting the

anti-expansion campaign. He would establish an Independent government In Cuba, and also In the Philippine*, which, be holds, “are too tar away, and their people too different from ours to be annexed to the United State*, even If they desired it.” Bat tn regard to Porto Rico he takas

a different view. He says:

IB the case of Porto Rico, where the people have as yet expressed no desire for an independent government, we might with propriety declare our willingness to annex the Mand If the ottlsens desire saThere are serious objections to his plan • tho »«*t Important being that the peo-

ple of the Philippine* are supposed to be entirely unfit for self-government But Mr. Bryan does not say that he would object to a military occupation until such time as it might be possible to establish a native government in the Islands. He only noea so far as to oppose the annexation of this territory. But ths main thing is that he seems to realise that henceforth our political struxRles must he on other lines than those on which the campaign of 1896 was fought And, indeed, one of the greatest blessings tbe war has brought in Its train la ths almost certain shifting of party lines. When such stanch Republicans as Senator Hoar and Mr. Carnegie can bring themselves to oppose a Republican administration on a matter of tbe very gravest importance, and when Mr. Bryan can give out an Interview, without mentioning free silver or saying anything about "the money sharks of Wall street,” It certainly does seem as though the country were getting out of the old ruts, and aa though the people were preparing to deal with living questions. -As the free sliver Issue permanently retired the “bloody shirt,” It Is not unlikely that the war will prove equally fatal to the new sectionalism. Mr. Bryan has outlined a genuine issue. It is the old voice — but the message is new.

There seem to be two sorts of expansionist* — those that would devour the Philippines now, and those that would lay them by and let them ripen first.

The aggregate value of Iowa’s crops for the last year la estimated at 1235,000,000. Of course, they want to be paid In the best money out there.

The Music Festival for 1899 has gone by the board, we are sorry to say. The ques tlon has been pretty thoroughly canvassed popularly, and we may be sure it has been very thoroughly canvassed financially by tbe gentlemen who have bo long made sacrifice in behalf of the festival, anu carried the burden of It. We had hoped that persistence would bring tbe prefect through. We still feel that were it possible to carry It past tbe holidays and then bring it to the attention of the people in a direct and personal way tQe response would be adequate. This Is only a feeling, however, and it may be wrong. Certainly the deficit of last year can not be cited in confirmation. Yet we feel sure that the abandonment of the festival will be a blow to Indianapolis. We shall feel It when the time comes much more than we do now. It will be in the nature of a backward step or halt, and in a negative, If not a positive, way a detriment to us. But if the gentlemen who have the project In charge decide at this juncture that they can go on with it no further, there seems to be nothing more to be said. Our hope now is that abandoning it for the year will so teach us that we shall return to it the following year with an increased sest and an Increased ability to realize it.

The proposition to admit Canadian lumber free, which was discussed by tbe Canadian and American commissioners, is not. going to find favor with Secretary Alger. We are about to issue a proclamation to the people of the Philippines. It might be well to hand Aguinaldo a duplicate copy. The Marion Club — training quarters for Candida tea for office. Motto: Keep your mputh shut, follow your leaders and charge on the pie counter at every opportunity. In the old days of wooden ships, when the American merchant service was the «qual of any In the world, it attained that position because Americans could build better and cheaper wooden ships than any other nation. In the change foom wood to Iron and ateel, our builders fell behind, but at last we have reached the place where our country produces the cheapest and best Iron and steel In the world, and only energy and the stimulus of competition Is needed to have this Iron and steel fashioned Into American ships. The few American shipbuilders of to-day rest content with their small but highly protected trade, building ships for the Government and coasting trade. It Is time to let down the bars, awaken competition and start the American flag to the seaports of the world, If not In American-built vessels, then In American-owned vessels, purchased In the open market. Secretary Bliss Is going to resign. There are probably others.

Andrew Carnegie is going to save the country If he can. He Is sure that everything 111 will happen if we take the Philippines. He h*s become a regular contributor of long-winded letters to the New York World on the subject.

for men that ogle and Insult unattended women. Unfortunately. Indianapolis is cursed with more than her share of these characters. A “strong woman” could find a field here for muscular missionary effort.

Too many hands spoil the canaL In the effort to establish a stable government in Cuba it should not be forgotten that Dr. Huidekoper has certain qualifications.

Mr. Ketcham is nothing If not vigorous. His latest brief to tbe Supreme Court for a reconsideration of the decision regarding tbe Appellate Court Judges is in his breeziest style. He laments that judges of courts of final resort should be affected, or seem to be affected, by political consideration*. He Is right in saying that the fact that they do appear to be so affected often brings courts into popular disrespect. But we are inclined to think that too much la made of this criticism.. If parties are based on fundamental question* of constitutional Interpretation, it to to be expected that political views will affect judges In their decisions. In other words, we ought to expect that Democratic Judges will be inclined to take very strict and literal views of the constitutional limitations, and that Republican judges will be loose constructionists. Men are Republicans or Democrats because they differ in just that wav.

Yerkes Is beaten, but It remains for Chicago to keep him beaten.

It Is encouraging to know that expansion is not a parly question. We may be able to get at the truth and wisdom of the matter.

In southern Minnesota sugar-beet cultivation has been attended with marked success this year. A sugar factory in that section has Just closed for the season, after a continuous night and day run of seventyfive days During this time 360 tons of beets were ground dally, resulting in a product of about 2,500,000 pounds of sugar. The beets were found to contain as large a percentage of sugar as those of any other State, except California, and their cultivation was very profitable to the farmer, who received for them an average of |4 a ton. Next year it is expected that a much larger area in that region will be devoted to beets. The Government report on sugarbeet culture, issued last year, showed that Indiana is in the sugar-beet belt, and this report has been amply verified by experiments conducted by Purdue University. There will be profit for farmers and capitalists of Indiana who enter the beet-sugar business. Young Joseph Leiter is dealing in air again, but it is compressed, this time.

The Marlon Club has instructed Mr. Ripley to keep his mouth'shut. And this is free speech in a free country in the year 1698!

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS.

Perhaps a larger number of people than usual are practicing “economy” with their gas supply to-day.

General Wheeler says he will not resign his army commission Just now, as “if hostilities should again break out,” he could take the field well up in the list of commanders, while If he resigned and was re-appointed he would go to the bottom of the list. Another reason not stated may be possibly that he now draws two Government salaries, while if he resigned from the army he would only draw one. ■ Springfield Republican. Tbe Springfield Republican has recently followed the lead of the New York Post in taking a querulous tone about everything connected with the late war~and the new responsibilities which that war has laid upon the nation. Still, the Republican has a reputation for decency to maintain, and such an unwarranted innuendo about Gen. Joe Wheeler, who prove^ himself one of the bravest and most capable soldiers of ths war, will add neither dignity nor honor to the Massachusetts disciple of grumbler Godkih. Suggest Nicaragua canal and get a speech from Senator Turple, and a good one. too! . If you don’t like the Indianapolis Gas Company’s way of doing business, take back your mixers and get your money back. Sounds reasonable and fair, doesn’t it? No coal in tbe shed, no arrangements made for burning R, and tbe thermometer hugging the aero point! Young Joseph W. Bailey posing aa the defender of the constitution makes a spectacle. : . In one of the New York Police Courts, the other day, a woman was summoned for having knocked down a man in the street. It appeared that the woman, though comely, waa, the champion weight-lifter and “strong woman” of a dime museum. Tbe man ahe knocked down belonged to the ’masher” class. H* tried to force his attentions on the “strong woman.” whereupon she shot out her fist and landed the m in the gutter. When the magistrate heard tbe story, he stepped from the bench and said to the prisoner: ’1 want to shake hands with you. I congratulate you. You are the woman this town has been looking for for a long time. This court has nothing ainst yon. Mere power to your right arm!” That judge had the correct view of the ease. No punishment to toe seven

The Indianapolis News utters a plain. If unpalatable truth when It aaya that “the pension bureau has been worked as a great political machine. Pensions have been allowed for the purpose at holding the soldier vote. Corrupt and rascally pension agents have besieged Congress with demands for liberal pension laws, and have tempted many men who had no shadow of right to apply for a pension In order that the agents might get their fee. It to time that the scandal were s topped.—Lafayette Journal The Indianapolis News voices the sentiments cf humane people all over Indiana when it says it is a great pity that demented and hopelessly insane people should be kept in the county poorhouses It would be better for these, wretched sufferers and more economical for the taxpayers, If the State would provide ample asylum room for all incurable Insane end take them away from the county-houses. New York State did that a few years ago, with altogether profitable results.—Lawrenceburg Press. The Indianapolis News says there will be a strong effort to repeal the Nicholson law at the coming session of the Legislature, and substitute a measure known as the Krats bill In Its stead. Any tampering with the Nicholson law. unless to strengthen It, will, and ought to bring the righteous indignation of the people upon the party responsible for It As the Republicans have control of both brancoee, there will be no excuse for them if they permit any measure originating with the brewers (they are said to be behind the Krats bill) becoming a law.—Huntington Herald. In the celebration of its thirtieth birthday The Indianapolis News should lay off long enough to shake hands with itself. It is a remarkable paper In more ways than one. To enumerate Its good qualities would cause It drowsiness, for at thirty years of age a newspaper has grown satiated with the chaff of the “provincial” editor. But the Bulletin desires to congratulate It on that truly independent attitude it has maintained so consistently, rendering unto Csesar what was coming him and giving the devil his dues in tire very beat grammar, no matter If he rode in a rubber-tired trap or shined shoes on the street corner. The News is one of the few papers which can take as its motto—“Justice and Consistency."—Anderson Bulletin. • ■ ■■ "—o- 1 — Appreciation of Shakespeare. (Public Opinion.] Four authentic examples. (1) At Miss Ellen Terry’s revival of. “Othello” at the Grand Theater, Fulham, a man In the gallery said to his wife, "I’ve heard that this •Othello’ is a very exciting play. I wish we could buy a book of the words.” (2) At Mr. Forbes Robertson’s production of "Macbeth” about a fortnight ago. a lady in the stalls remarked: “There seem to be some very sweet passages in this play.

Mr. Forbes Robertson’s recent revival of "Hamlet” stall-holder to the lady accompanying him: “You see, this is the plot of the piece. The king murdered Hamlet’s father, etc., etc. You’ll find it’s very funny later on, when the grave-digger comes on. * • • Yea, awfully long, Isn’t It? And rather monotonous.” (4) Apropos of Mr. Tree’s revival of "Juliiu: Caesar” at Her Majesty’s, tbe writer of "Pag5s from a Private Diary” recounts the following story: "It was only at’the beginning of the year that a certain Journal celebrated the solemn season by asking distinguished people for mottoes, and Sir Edward Arnold chose the desolate speech of Brutus: ’O that a man might know the end of this day’s business ere It come! But it suffleeth that the day will end, and then the end la known.’ On which a contemporary, which I will not name, commented thus. ‘We wonder from which of his fathom-deep Buddhist books Sir Edwin Arnold disinterred this cheery chirp.’ *•

Oom Jack.

[Anderson Bulletin.]

Your Uncle Jack Gowdy Is Investing his surplus cash In Rush county farms, and after his term of office is over he will return to his native haunts and “parleyvous” to his pet heifer; “aacre diable” to the breechy roan colt and “Mon Dieu” to tbe piglets. Hie sojourn in "furrin” lands has not rendered him cold and haughty, and he expects to take a hand In neighborhood butcherin’s and cornihuckin’s just as be did before his country celled him to the land of Danton. Murat and tri-weekly outbreaks. Hi* simple Booster nature refuses to be spoiled by the frivolity of the Champs

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or the adulation of the Tul-

A Small Octopl. (Terre Haute Express.] Indianapolis la nursing a couple of small octopl on its own account. The service of tbe street railway company is “disgraceful,” and tbe gas company is a licensed pirate.” If there to anything worse than the plain, old-fashioned pirate. It ie the licensed pirate. The former could be shot and his Ship scuttled; bat the latter can hold up the citisen* in the dark and In the daylight without fear or compunction. BUm • Yard Wide. [Chicago Record.) “Is your daogbtar happily married, Mrs. Plump?” ”0b, yes: her husband has bought her a sealskin cfaah which comes down to bar

0 like a queen’a her happy tread. And like a queen's her golden head: But, O, at tost, when ail is said. Her woman’s heart for me! We wandered where the river gleamed Neath oaks that muaed and pines that dreamed, A wild thing ef the woods she seemed. So proud sad pure sad free! All heaven drew nigh to hear her sing. When from her lips her soul took wing; The oaks forgot their pondering. The pine* their reverie. And, O, her happy, queenly tread. And, O. her queenly gulden head! But, O her heart when oil is said Her woman’s bean for me! —William Watson tn Spectator. The Pickle geeu Who haa heard th* cod line singing o’er the bow? Who has hauled the flashing prey across ths wale? Who has felt the wet brine stinging on the brow? When the boat is all a-etagger 'neatb th* gale? Who haa told him in the sagging of the sail While the masthead’* nodding sleepy to the moon. And ha* slumbered till the Mam grow dim and pale? Fill your bumpers! Join the chorus of my croon! Oh, the fickle, fuming, frolic-fretting sea! Oh. the limpid, lapping, laughter-loving seal We who love her fill our glasses To the best of ail the lasses. And we drink a briny bumper to tbe sea! Who has lain upon ths sloping deck a-wash? Who has hauled and clewed and chanted la the wind ? Who has watched the mainmast bending nigh a-emsh, While the rival boat’s a-dropping off behind T Who has leaned against the creaking. Jolting Through a moonlit summer night on Southera mu? Who has felt the old sea-longing that I feel? Fill your bumpers, men, and shout aloud with me! Oh, the singing, sighing, salty-scented sea! Oh, the rushing, roaring, ramping, raging On your feet and dash your glasses “To the beet beloved of lasses— Here’s a brimming, briny bumper to the —William Stillman Powell in the Criterion. “SCRAPS/* Good players on the harp are tbe scarcest of all masical performers. The temperature for December, taking the average for ten years in the Klondike is 40 degrees below zero. A scientist, looking for microbes, says there are absolutely none on tbe Swiss mountains at an altitude of 2,000 feet. Several Brooklyn capitalists have planned a monster cold-storage warehouse in which coolness will be manufactured for private consumption. Joseph H. Choate, who is spoken of as ambassador to England, took part In twenty-four public debates while at Harvard, and won them all. The natives of the Congo Free State are very particular about-their Sunday dress. They appear In the very gayest of clothing they can find. Twenty-five years ago the United States produced TO per cent of the cotton of the world; to-day she produces 85 per cent, of the world’s cotton. A woman dropped a memorandum on the street one day last week on which was written, among other things, the following: “Pay taxes; kill rooster; get dinner; come home.”—Syracuse Post Big game is said to be plentiful in thiregion of Fashoda. Tbe river swarms with crocodiles and hippopotami, while great herds of antelopes of various kindb and giraffes are frequently met with. At the battle of Atbara a number of Italian rifles were captured from the dervishes by the Egyptians. The Italians lost them to the Abyssinian* in 188? and the Abysslnians in turn to the dervishes in 1889. Herbert Maxwell, who acted as war correspondent for the London Standard during the campaign in the Soudan, has received a check for HO.QpO from his employers in recognition of his excellent service. Assistant—Here Is a testimonial which might be worth publishing. Patent Medicine Man—What fe it? Assistant (reads)— “Before taking your valuable specific. I was afflicted with weak lungs, but to-day 1 am a Populist orator.’’—Truth. “The hall is a most interesting structure. There is a wing which dates back to the year the first earl landed an army from Denmark.” “Yea?” "Yea, and another wing which datea back to the year the thirty-seventh earl landed an heiress from New York.”—Detroit Journal. When a traveler in the grand duchy of Baden wants to send a telegram while he Is on the train, he writes the message on a post-card, with the request that It be wired, puts on a stamp and drops it into the train letter-box. At the next station .the box is cleared and the message sent. ”We are crushed.” they moaned, "under the Iron heel of the invader!” Yet at that very moment the victorious captain, in his guarded tent, was being kept awake with chilblains. Ah, IFow easy is it not for persons related as conqueror and conquered to misunderstand each other!—Detroit Journal. Recent investigations have shown that the principal source of the Gulf stream is not the Florida channel, but the region between and beside the Islands of the West Indies. At Binioni the volume of this warm water is sixty times as great as the combined volume of all the rivers in the world at their mouths. In Pittsburg a decision was handed down the other day in the case of a colored man convicted of the murder of his wife to the effect that he must be sentenced again, because the judge had erred in omitting to ask the prisoner before sentence was pronounced if he had anything to say why the death sentence should not be declared. The pineapple crop in one district alone of Florida Is estimated at $50,000 before January L Owners of pineries realise as much from the sale of suckers as from the fruit. Each pineapple plant produces from five to six of these a year, and. separated from the parent plant and planted, they grow into new, strong plants. They sell for 10 cents apiece. Congressman Mercer has received from a lady who has evidently been impressed by the reputation he has acquired for being able to accomplish things, a letter In which the writer says: “I hear you are able to do anything you set out to do. I have three houses and a vacant lot that I want very much to dispose of. Now, won’t you please sell them for me?”—Philadelphia Times. Implicit belief in palmistry recently led a London governess to take her own life, leaving the following letter of explanation: ^‘Last night, as I lay in bed, miserable and hopeless, I took to studying my hands again, and I found out too plainly to misunderstand You know I told you 1 was born mad, with my fate line upside down. I found this line repeated on the other hand. * * • I am just coining to a fatality. * * • Rather than submit to it, I mean to be drowned.” At Rlvolto, near Arco, three persons recently died in the same house of pneumonia. Two parrots in the house died about the same time. Suspicions were aroused and careful examination was made. It was found that both the parrots had died of acute pneumonia, and there is no doubt in the minus of the medical men concerned that the three human victims took the disease from the birds. This to not the first occasion on which it has been established beyond doubt that men have taken the Infection of dangerous diseases from parrots.—New York Worii. Some cue has discovered that music has an effect on the growth of the hair, ana that while certain music prevents the hair from failing, other kinds have a disastrous effect. Composers lose their hair like ordinary people, but composers who perform their own works, it Is asserted, always have luxurious locks. Wind instruments, especially the cornet and trombone, are fatal to heavy heads of hair; the violoncello and harp keep the hair pretty well, but the flute can not be depended upon. It has not yet been decided what particular key is best for the prevention of baldness.—Philadelphia Record. The Vice-President says he is a direct gainer financially by the late war and the reason he gives is a decidedly novel one. From his coming to Washington up to the outbreak of the war an average of 109 babies a month were named after him, or at least their fond parents so informed him by letter. Other rich officials and Senators have been through the same experience, and, aa a rule, rather enjoy sharing their names and bestowing small checks until the aggregate sum of the latter obliged them to bait In this particular direction bis value has fallen off considerably, for the youngsters nowadays whose parents want to start them off under the halo of somebody else’a name are christened Dewey, Schley, Roosevelt, Hobson and all tbs rast of tbe recent heroes of land and saa.—Washington Latter Chicago Record. ;

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ARMAMENTS OF TIE CONTINENT, — [London Economist.] Is it possible that the standing armies of Europe, now enlarged beyond all precedent, are supping a little out of tbe hands of the kings and statesmen who should rule them Into the bands of the expert officers, who, under the general name of “the staff,” govern their dally Ufe? That seems possible, and, If It IS true, will produce important consequences. It is certainly true in France, where the prime minister. M. Dupuy, at his wit’s end to prevent a conflict between the civil and the military powers, has Just confessed that he hardly sees how an army, conterminous with the nation, can be made to act in harmony with democratic ideas, and has refused to employ the full powers placed in his hands lest the army perchance should be affronted. It Is possibly true In Austria, where the ideas of the central staff as to uniformity of discipUne now frequently embarrass the statesmen’s efforts to keep peace among the many nationalities of the empire, tbe staff insisting, for instance, that in the army there must be one dominant official language, while the people insist that each of their tongues shall be equally acknowledged. There are signs of official pressure Sven In Germany, where the imperial government is obviously urged by the staff to strain toward a perfection of equipment which overtaxes both ths patience of the people and their resources, and there are stories that in Russia the civil ministers of the imperial government find that the Incessant pressure of the military department is more than they can provide for without exhausting the general resources of the State, which, as they contend, should be more equally distrib-

uted.

Tbe process appears to be something like this: The great staff officers,, who are professionals devoted to their work, are perpetually studying tbs great instrument under their control, and finding at this corner or at that weak places needing repair. They point out in unanswerable "report*” that in certain contingencies there would not be enough men, or horses, or artiUery men, and ask for an “indispensable” in crease. The statesmen, who are either civilians or hall-trained soldiers, are afraid to dispute the Judgment of the experts, and afraid also to incur the responsibility of leaving the weak pieces weak, and they consent, with the result that their estimates become unmanageable and their demands on the populations annually more heavy. The German government, for Instance, next year is going to ask for a new division of all arms, with the result that some twenty thousand men must be added to the Imperial army. Austria will probably follow suit; France must keep pace with her opponents, and even in Russia, with her enormous forces, the staff to unwilling to be left behind. The czar, it is said, was in part provoked into isauing his recent rescript by a demand of this kind, which, as he saw clearly, would overweight his treasury, and perhaps arrest projects that are much nearer to his own

heart.

it may be said that there to a natural limit to these demands, and that it must now be nearly reached. You can not cut more hay from a field than there was grass in it, and it to impossioie, when toe entire youth of a nation has been absorbed, to obtain more soldiers for the barracks. That, however, though it seems a truism, is not strictly true. Except in France, the population of Europe to increasing at a great rate, and every Increase of a million allows 50,000 more men to be aoded to the number of the conscripts. Even In France, indeed, the number can be increased, the proportion of exemptions varying, as to quite understood, with the necessities of the state. Moreover there are other things in

an army besides conscripts

The staffs are perpetually advising, for sound reasons, increases in tbe proportion of artillery and cavalry, both of them very expensive arms; they ask for new barracks or fortifications, and they suggest improvements in diet and equipment. More officers, too, and non-commiasloned officers are needed, for more men, short eervice, implies strenuous work, which soon exhausts equipments, and behind alt these sources of an outlay which bewilders The treasuries, there is another, sometimes more expensive than alL Scientific discovery never ceases, some one is always Inventing more rapid cannon, or machine guns which will pour more bullets, or a rffie which will fire fifteen shots while the old one fires twelve, and the moment the new weapons are proved and testsd satis* factorily they have to be accepted. If not the power which does accept them may master the whole continent, for soldiers, however brave, will not stand to be shot down in masses by superior machines, to which their own machines can make no adequate reply. The Dervishes are among the bravest men in the world, but the slaughter caused by British Maxims end rifles cowed even them, and European soldiers in this respect are not more stanch than Arabs. There seems, indeed, to be no limit to the expenditure except the positive exhaustion of the treasuries, and If these huge armies are determined to spend all revenue upon their own organisation that may be a long way off yet, for though economists suspect, they do not yet know where the productive limit of taxation to. Prussia under Frederick the Great certainly bore and survived taxation of which in the recent history of Germany there is no example, and so did France at a time when her armies were supplied by requisition* made endurable

by the fear of death.

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fled by discontent among’ their peonies may insist that one should be dlsoovered. The debate at the conference started by the Czar will be much more earnest than is generally Imagined, especially L n ,S hI ? gantry, where tbe pinch is only half felt, but unfortunately there are two roads which the effort for imnrovement may ultimately take. One. no doubt, is the limitation of armaments suggested by the Czar, which, if honestly accepted, might avert, not indeed war, which can be made with a hundred thousand man as well as with half a million, but the excessive strain which the preparations against war are calculated to produce. That would be the best way. being the one which would destroy last but there is unhappily another way, and that is to force on the dreaded war. Two years of campaigning would settle most of the questions now afloat, and then there might be peace, the peace of exhaustion. for a generation. The idea will, we hope, seem shocking to most of our readers, but It is nevertheless a true one, and we do not question that It Is debated in the secret counsels of many governments. The soldiers of the continent are not very particular about an expenditure of human life, and the statesmen, besides wishing for victory, or as they phrase it for “a favorable settlement of disputed questions,” with a sort of passion, view the rapid increase of population with a kind of bewildered dismay. They can not see their way to plunder Great Britain of her possessions, or to occupy South America, and unless one of those two great enterprises can be accomplished, they can not see what the new swarms now pressing upon the old lands will, twenty years hence, find to eat. They doubt, therefore, If the check which a great war would give to population, and the great emigration which would follow it, would be altogether uncompensated evils. It is a frightful idea, but we are quite sure that tbe two main causes which just now tend to make war a subject of consideration with ruling men are the ever increasing demands of the great military staffs, and the difficulty they foresee in keeping their populations In a condition of economic content.

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An Effort to Condense. — [Washington Star.} “It is an unfortunate fact.” said the man who is inclined to waste time over his own opinions, “that the laboring men in this country seem to have lew and lew appreciation of economy, while there is a tendency on the part of wealth to retire itself for purposes of hoarding." “Yes,” answered the man who likes to get through with things in a hurry, “i think I follow you. You mean that the rich keep feeling poorer and the poor keep feeling richer,”

at English's Opera Houae laat night, the very large and brilliant audience and Its unusualy emphatic and prolonged signs of approval made up a good part of the total of the evening's enjoyment. It was a characteristic Sousa night, with a medley of music of the lighter order, th* greater part of it on a large, stirring scale, often working th* audience up to a climax emphasized by vocal expressions of approval, and with Interludes of grotesque

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Like Sousa himself, th* company was ready on the Instant to respond to * call for more of anything that was demanded. It la a capable company, with a large, well-drilled, well-costumed chorus, and a stage setting of unusual richness,, the scene, the island of Capri, admitting of

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Sousa to hardly to be taken seriously, even as a writer of comic opera. But it to futile to quarrel with the popularity of his music. The “Bride-Elect” to not remembered as an opera, but aa another of Sousa’s programs, served up with chorus and scenery. The words and the story are unimportant, and this may have led Sousa to think that he might aa well writ* them himself, otherwise it would have been well to adhere to the modern principle of a division of labor. People went away bumming the tune*, but nobody could remember a bright or witty thing that had been said or sung. The libretto was really stupid, but tbe glamour of other attractions kept this In the background. By the device of a song about a goat i which had swallowed the cylinders of a phonograph, Sousa managed to introduce a medley of old popular airs, much after the manner of one of bis

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