Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 43, Number 41, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 June 1901 — Page 7

Weeklu Courier.

c. uo a.m: .JASPKK. I I'tiltllsurr. : INDIANA. HER ANSWER. ThfV Witt old frli-iuH, but they hadn't miIn many, many years; and the tide f j r had Barrl d on. With lis Juvh tad Bona l and fear: Put both the wmrn lia1 nu t at las:. play aas test one naaln. fhey i. ilk. J of girlhood a dreams, now past iin buoy i 'it tu iget, bow tl tin Ah. Kntr," an Id HawssSt, "you're not tha an mo gsu'v ioai your tharm of t n- , goti'vt law) your pretty, roay . h eks You've lost yowl f'irm of grace, four eheatmit hair l.lis turm-il t , pray, Y'Hir Hps have lost thflr rod! All thins? are changed and soon our day Will turn to nujht instead." "I.ir otic," Kate said, l'nr here's niy hair On Prue'a iii'iir bead Anl DM has imt g "I've nothing- lost, if brown my eldest born frown On nor tweet fare, tli it s Ju.-t like min. Of thirty year agone 7hlle Klttta'l blur eye dSBOa and shine T.ikc HiiullKlit In the morn. "MttM shone tn Jo -1 tha !i !f-fitnr way When you. dear, saw me last. A I Margaret's y nr.' Ju-t as red As mine In days long pa.-t N no, my dear, I've nothing lost. My life Is on the wane My child roa have m V own youth cost In them I live nuafnV - Mad Ulla K. Vat Pelt, In Success. x:v'XX'C"XXiO':::..v.':v Y . Ihe meeting of the Extremes. IIV KM till Ml Met KACKK.V VALERIE had been amply prepared, amply warned by John't numerous girl cousins by Kleanor. particularly- Mit when tn dreaded moment arrived she was alarmed. In rive minutes John would le onp, n tuallv pone, for the entire lav. and she would DO all alone ai't Dally with John's with her mot bor - ye. mother-in-law! She looked nt John very soberly, ami let him take Inr hand wader abetter of the table-cloth. John nailed fondly at her. They were haying breakfast. tiny atid John's mother, in their own homo for the firtt time. They bad been married exactly the week". rind they had come home from their wedding-trip on the previous evening. The home wa new only to Valerie. It had been for many years the home of John and of .John's widowed mother. John had explained to Valerie that he tniirht not leave his mother alone, and that she would lie loath to relinquish her home, and almost unable to adapt herself to a totally new environme'it. Valerie was quickly sympathetic. "She Deed not. John," she had said, reassuringly. "She is older than I, 1 I don't want to spoil any of her life for her. Of course we will go BDi live with her. I sha'n't be horrid, typical daughter-in-law I" she had w irmly coin hided. John did not know exactly what he meant by n typical daughterda law. but he assured her again and again thai she eaald not possibly be anything horrid. Their dlscUSSkMsS of the practical details of their future invariably ended in siieh personal irreleiaticies. Valerie certainly looked unlike anything horrid nsi she prmely returned lohn'i smile. Her rose-colon d muslin breakfast -ja ket. with its decoration f black velvet bows artistically Wed on at random, lighted charmingly her fresh young face, nnd harmonized prettily with the rose stuck artistically nt random in her rly, brown hair. John's mother, about whom theft was nothing nt random, glanced at Valerie occasionally with nn Inner lisqtilet almost eqttal to Valerie's ilann. In a moment John would be gone, actually gone, for the entire lay, and she would be left ;,il alone W ith John's wife yes, actually with !ier dnnphb .--in-law! Bh also had "en amply prepared and amply warned, touching the iaeri table einergency; hut sin also looked ao1 " rly at John. Re thought that his mother was thinking how beautiful it was to have Valerie permanently in the house; and again he smiled. His mother was gent le and tender leneath aQ the pewciaion nnd aetata concerning which John's eonata 51eanor had solemnly warned Valerie Valerie, whose theories of order were Undereloped and she had assured '"'in that his wife would be most h elconte. 1 bar no intention, my dear," lohn'i mother had said to him. "of leing a conventional mother-in-law ""I it will be sweet to have a daughter." 8ha had the geatleal IntentloBB; '"it as she looked at Valerie the relled vividly nil that her niece El "i"r. who had been in college with alerle, had said regarding th pirl's tendency to leave her hat on the piano, her umbrella on the library table, her overshoes on the stairs, or hef book on the floor. "Valerie is an nnpel." Eleanor hnd " dd, "but she thinks a house is made JUat to live in. She bos BUI h a pictnresqtte, disorderly w iv ..f beiiur orderly;" 3i lin's mother had had OCCBBloa to Ppreclatf the Jnattct ..f lüe.mor'a 'itieism. for X'aierie had viaittd her frr week before her mnrria-e. Toha'l mnther hnd given the CTi tint not eery Mach thonght; bid now Valerie was no hm-. r a guest; he was B pcrmnncneyl I he ivermnneni v wna ...... I ; t , t ;,, figon ha nnaatbitli nt mntmm mtt f a

and ) ndlng the day at htg oftlet. The ne. u.i he approached the tad of bis trnakfaat, the atora dearly -i.e re memiM'iid hla oeusin Kleanor'a contidjeaeaa eoaeemiag bet mother-in-law; wen, slie actually had OOtM into nejtataalati af a nother-la-bi w I What should she do uitl, her? Ideanor bail said, imp res.- i el : "My dear, John's mother is hoi ly, but she is the prtolBBtl person that ever exist, d. She has kept her silver teajiot in the Mathematically aama sjiot for ;", yea re; she told ma so bet sell' Bbt has a plaee f,)r every pin, ami she keeps the pin exactly in if." "Well," Valeria had said.'"! don't Bare. Bhe hus a perfect ritfht to keep her pins nnd her teapot where the likes. J don't ciue where thlagl ore kepi.' ' Vmi certainly don't'" Rleanor bad exclaimed. "That is the very point. Von are u dear, hut you never did Beet I real place for a thinj,'; and if you had, you probably wouldn't keep the thintr in it all the time. Would you Valerie?' "No, I suppose not." Valerie had re

turned, "but you know I've visited John's mother. I thocked her a little, I'm afraid, but she rat ttJIJI kind." "Wail until she is your mother-in-law." the well-latent ioned Eleanor had said. Valerie had waited so happily, hut now she thought of the silver teapot. Thirty-fire years! Thirty-fire minutes would be nearer the time I'd have kept it in one place!" Hhe reflected. She looked at John's mother curiously, almost forgetting that she had stayed in the house a for week with her and, presumably, with the silver tetipot; she had not noticed exactly where John's mother kept it. Her mot hci -in-law in turn looked at Valeric, almost forgetting, on her part, the isit during which Valeria had been so demure and sweet that her habit of dropping her mall personal belongings about the house had been all but forgiven. Eleanor! words gained weight. Dieorderly order might he plctnreaqae, but it wat cobtradictory, thought John'- ntotliJr. John serenely finished his breakfast, and methodically fold-d nis napkin. Ne wondered why his niollu-r and his wife were so silent. He even asked them, but they tmi led and did not tell him. Valerie followed him into the hall, dropping her handkerchief, two hairpins and the rose from her hair on the way. She detained him n long ns possible ; then she went to th gate with him. At the p-ate she told him five time, to come home early, very tarty, she lingered until he turned the corner; then, reatraining t wild impulse to run after him, she slowly returned to the house. "How absurd I ami" she told herself. "Hut I nm so afraid John's mother won't renlly he fond of me. She thinks I'm friviloua, I know." John's mother met her in the hall. She held Valerie's rose, her handkerchief and h'r hafrptna in her hand. She was a kind woman, hut her 1 i f e had followed for ninny years the selftante pattern, and the had acquired n cool, fixed demeanor that mitfht have made a les sensitive, impulsive daughter-in-law than Valerie shrink. "I think you dropped these?" she said, nnd V.aleno felt MBOOaifortebte, "Thank you," she anewered. She tucked the rose and the hairpins in her hair nnd pushed the handkerchief Into her sleeve. Her faep w.is so sei-;,, us that John's mother was dist ressed. "What shall I ever do With her?" she tthed herself. "I had rather hoped she might love me, but she evidently thinks me foollahly particular." She turned to go into the dining room nnd Valerie followed her. "Do let me help yon!" said Valerie, "I don't know very much about house. keeping but if you will tell dm how, I'd love to help tbout everything." She -, a s divided between a feeling that she renlly nullit to help nnd the fear that John's mother mlffhl not lettre her to help. She suddenly wondi red if fohn's mother eXDCCted her to attend to nil the household afTairs. she decided to w rite and Bah her own mother's opinion; but meanwhile she must carefully feel her way. "I'leanor says that you nre n wonderful housekeeper," she said, lifting her face to John's mother, engerlv. John' mother smiled: she was a trifle vain because the silver teapot had never, except when in actual use, left it appointed place. Valerie was Coming nearer. John's mother aocepted her help. Valeria did her best, but her heart sank "How shall I c er endure it?" she wondered, when John's mother explained to her that the cotT urn also In longed in a particular place, that the sugar bowl was not kept In the iee cheat and that soapy water made cut gltat dull. They spert a sober, restrained morning After luncheon Valerie, almost on the point of tears, took refuge In her room, "to write letter-." and John's mother patiently did Bgtdn the thing! that Valeric had aaelated her in doing. 'Tan 1 really endure tin- in my old nge?" she asked herself. Valerie found that her letters r fueed to be written. John would Dot he home for at least three hOUrw! She cast about in her mind for some Cheering occupation. John had mentioned that their wedding pretenta had arrived; that the boxet containing them were in the room at the end of the hall. She decided toa.-l, John's mother to help her arrange them. She went down-stairs, her gtOOQ Bomewhat lightened. It waa so pleasant to rem tnber that the wedding present t bad do accnatonied proper ptaeeal Valerie peeped into the dim parlor, with its chairs so preclttl set in place, its books si fKodly arranged en the table, which nai ao oanuatrUslllT placed in the center of i

the room John'a another was not to

the parlor, nnd Valeria wandered aiout the houae laoldng for her, "I si, all be nice to bet always, regardless -if I perish in the attempt!" she heroically reaolrtd. Yalerie'a ideas of order were perhaps chaotic, hut her sweetness of nat ore wua as fined as the plan- of her inothe4-in-law's silver teapot. John's mother was sitting in tha dinmg room, laemmlng an apron, leer tace looked fired and pale, and Valerie hesitated a little as she kUggettcd the arranging af her welding gifts. "Vau look a little tired." she said, gently. "Perhaps you'd rather not." she was aelaed with an impuh la sit in her mot tier in law's lap and l.i her. Her own mother found such limit man! re freaking when she was tired; but Valerie feared that a mother-in-law n, .-lit not find it even proper. Yet the mother in-law. who had seen Valerie wild her own mother, was Wlehlag that the pirl would sit in her lap Bad kl s her. She WDt MatiBg a little nearer her daUfht er-in-law . and she relic, ted that Valerie might have committed n greater Crime than the puttiag Of the siijfar howl into the iee ehett. John's mother was very gentle, and John's wife was very Bweet-nataredL They were doing their I. -t to surmount their nntllrrnirntoi and Eleanor's warnings. It was not eaty, but it was less dilbeuk than they tbouL'ht. They an pot Iced the wedding .-ifts nnd brought the majority of them down ttalrt, Valerie had expected to scatter them about the house. She had tXpOCted to display the eups. the little silver dishes and the pretty inbroiderics OB nn nfternoon tea tnhle; she had a college girl't fondness for a tea table. Bhe mentioned tentatively her expectation, but her mother-in-law said; "They will get so dttttj, my dear. Wouldn't it he better to keep such beautiful thing carefully in the china cloael nnd the silver drawer?" She made the suggestion kindly: she remembered that Valerie did not appreciate the degree of care needed by silver and glass and china; and Yaleri. 's gift s were too fine, she thought, to le dulled and tarnished by dust. The gfrlt disappointment was keen. The welding gifts were such cherished possessions, she wanted them in familiar confusion. She had determined, howevf r, not to be a typical daughter-in-law, and she smilingly allow. them to be arranged la orderly, ttrefghl lines, in places in which they would belong perhaps for 33 years' The Occupation lost its interest, but it helped the flight of time. "John will soon he here," thought Valerie. "If it were not for John, I would go straight home -without waiting to dress. I simply don't know bow to be orderly, and I'm really afraid that John's mother vvill i ever get used to me." In spite of this retlcetion. she thanked John's mother very charmingly, and went slowly nway to die s for dinner. John's mother looked after her. The girl's step seemed listless; her face, even with itssmile. hail been too wistful to escape her DOtlee. She remembered other things that Eleanor bad said. Suddenly she remembered 1 liat Valerie WM a girl a little girl, she gently amended her remembrance. "Valeric." she said, "come here, my dear child." Valerie gazed nt her in surprise She vent quickly to her side. John's mother took Imt hand nnd looked at its bright new wedding ring. Bhe looked up at the pill's sweet lace, at the disordered hair with its drooping roue, she remembered that she was older th in Valerie's mother, and the smiled, partly ! Valerie ami partly nt the recent dismay caused by ibis tangle-haired, womanly little girl. "My dear," she said, rery gCDtly, "are von tired?" Valerie quite forgot that this erat her mother-in-law, who wan preise, who had kept Iteff silver teapot in the same place f'ir years. She remembered that she was John's own mother, her own DCW mother. She sat on the trin of her chair nnd put her arms around her neck. "No. I'm not tited; I'm only afraid T I will he an awful trial to you. I've never kept, nny thing in the BUmt place for years!" It was ;i foolish little explanation, but it had a pleasant ctTrct upon John's mother. She mogfaed and patted Valerie's rosy cheek, T hadn't supposed so, my dear. 1 nm a reasonable woman, and as ou are only M " She interrupted heiself and said more tcrioualyi "Hut, my dear, you may ki ep your silver teapot in ns many plant as yen like. You know this is your home now, too, and you must be happy in it. I don't know bowgirls are accustomed to keeping thinu's. I was a girl so lone tgO " "If you will keep me in your heart, you may keep my teapot nnywhere yO like!" whispered Valerie, impulsively. "So may you. my dear, if you will he, p me in yours," replied John's mother. "You may move mine to some other plaee if you like." Valerie tlipped into her lnp. "Now that yOU ItnOW just where to keep me, for always, and I know where to keep ym for always. I think we can easily arrange for the silver teapots nnd such things." she said, with n contented laugh. And to the surprise of all the cousins -and particularly blearier -they did. with complete ru tit aal satinfaction. Youth't Companion. Bt. IMrmhiirt'i Prefect of I'olle. The lot of prefect of polit e in St. Petersburg can hardly ho happy. Aecorfling ta tha record of the last 40 year, a .Hsinntlon has Itft the position open for a new prefect upon the u'nuc auce iu abeut aix ycara.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

In the Inlrrnstluaal trrlsa fas Jiar lit, mm Jeaua Aanara tj John Tin: LSDaV M TEXT (Iteetttttaa Id HI t. I Jol.:; aha tl - mi ur brother, and i Hmaaaton in tribulation, and in the kingdom o ! p iti nee of Jeaua Christ, wai In the 11 (hat It Oallei i'atmua. fur tht word of Oed, and far the testimony ot Jeu.s i 't.rut. 10 I was In the Spirit or tl, I. ,t.l day and heard behind mc a ajreat votoa, s ot a trumpet. 11 K.tlt.g. I am Atph i at ' ur.. gi. th rat aial the l.st; ai.d, Wl.il i t. Writ' ii a Ii i k. a nd send it in t ) i h v n hun he.s which ire In Atta; unt- Kphesua, arul ui t i Smyri.i. u.d ur.io i'eraaiii'.i, aril Unto Thyatlra, and unto Bardls, ai.U ar.to Philadelphia, and unto Laod.era, It, And 1 turned to see tin- volco that iike with me. And hetag taraed, i auw nv 1 1. goldm car.dlitlcka; 13. Ar.d ir. th- aVhtat of the seven car.dleatu ks un like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a gerat r.t d iwn t tie- (not, tad girt tloi.t the :h a gohli ti Kirdle. 1 Iii- In a.J n i II - ! i.r - v. . i hit like wool, as white a snow; ar.d His eys W; re a., ., il i ru- tire. 15. Ar.d His fpet Ilk. urto fli.e brass at If tie Burned in a furnace; and Hla volet ta tl.e -oili il ol ii, ii, y w it ! - 16. And He B4 It. Itla rlaht l.ar.daeret si .rs: and out of Hi m nn . ! ,rp tar edged sword: and Hla countenance waa as tue uh thineth In hit itrenath 17. Ar.d when I saw Him. I f. :i at His f. f t as dead Ai d He laid Hi i ittht hand urmr. me, saying Bl I I me. Fear i.ut.Iam ihe llrst and the last; 18. 1 am lb- that liveth, ar.d wan d'ad; and, teholtf, I am alive for evermore, Am. n; and have tht- ke uf Bell and oi death. 19. Write the things which thou hast a, and tin- thtaga which are, and it) inn.gs wl:i, li !-ti.,ii be liereaft. r; 20. The myMery of the aeven st irs which thou haw st In My rii?M hand, and Iba even goldm car.dl. -sticks. The st ven atari are the nngiis uf the teeen charotwa; aad the teven candlaatlcka which thou saw-eat are the .-. veil c hurclii OOLOKa 'I : Jeaua (lirlal Ilia nine enl.-rilii) . tsfatny, and furrier due, IS a, NOT KS A Nix a )M M I'.NTS The hentoa can best be tudicj in three part., as follows: John T!Is tlie :rcun.!anea of the ViMon Va. t-U John L)ecnls tiie Man of His VIaioa v- 3 il Tie Man of the Vision H.assura John Va. 17-H 9. "John:" falle. 1 the Belowjal Author of the fourth Goapel, Brotber of .lames ami son of Zebedee. He ami Jaghet were called Kontiertes sons of thunder. For ears he lived at i'.phexus, a stalwart defender of the Chrietian faith against errors manifold. In the fourth Ooapel he Iocs not mention hia own nagte. It is different in the hook of !; velation, as shown by this eerta. "( ompanion:M He hail his share in that which heloneed to Jesus Christ and to his disciples, whether that be g t ' rr ill, jrlory or sufferimr. hope deferred or patient endurance. He was the hrother of other dieciplea, nnd, bg the ß-rac' of the Lorl. of JesUf Christ Himself. "Was:" Perbap luring the Xeronian persecution, but we lmve not certain knowledge an this point. "Patmos:" In being sent to rocky ratmos, perhaps to labor in the inarhle quarries, he w is treated more leniently than many Christians of that ajre. who scale, 1 their faith with their blood. "J'or Ihe word of Hod:" (rod is in nil his thought nnd not Jesus only. He realizes that he has been fJodS prophet, spcakini.' forth the Divine won!. "1'or ihe testimony of Jesus: He was true to the Saviour's commission. "Jesus Christ:" He thinhs af th Lord naturally as J sus Christ, the Messiah. 10. "In the Spirit : " He was in a state of spiritual exalta tion. "Lord's day;" Rlsswrher in the New Testament called the first lay of the week. "A preat veiee:" K oice loud, clenr, trumpet-like, was heard. II. "Alpha and Omega:" tmittcd from the rovlted cr-mn. "W rite in a b..ok:" No doubt John was prieved Wcause his pri-aehinty had Wen silenced Seren churches: These (bun lies were especially upon his heart. "Bphesnst (Kcal Acts 10. ) 'Thyntira:' Is of special inter"st as the home of Lydia, ihe purple sel'.er. whom Paul found nt Philipp! (AetS 1! 14). 12. "Turned:" This description shows that the voice was an objective renlity. nnd not imaginary, "t ändlest ick : " The menufng of the fireek word is lampstand. (Ccmp. ratt. :.:i5.) IB. "In the mitist:" Interest in them. "Like unto the Son of Man:" R. V., "Like unto a son of man. "t inrnient . . . p i r t : The parmi nt nnd trirdle are described lerause they impressed .lohn. They impressed him becanve they suppested the dignity and eminence af this tleinp. 14, 1": Purity, splentlor, majesty nre auggeated by the nutaphors employed by John (Eseh. 43:3. !". "In His right hand tewta stars: 11, - was Beading a meaaage to seven churches. He was Itandlng in the midst of secn cnndleatleka. "Hut of His mouth . . sword:" He who ttood there waa the Word, of whom John writes in the firt verse of his Gospel, "Countenance:" No marks of weariness there now. 17. "Fell as dead " If anifeatatloa of divinity terrified him. "Fear no1:" Jesus calmed his fe.ir- a- He had done on the stormy fitlileaa sea many years before 1 1, "Ali for evermore:" He has the eternal life of which in His preaehiag He spoke. heat and ( hat. Too much plea aar turns to pnin. A pooil resolution la a poo. I thing until it is broken. The man who is afraid of his akin will never snve his soul. Th' bei 1 I" "of of man'' character la tnken in 'he pre- of life. Eirry church ought to hnxa a eorrai for the kicker to nir his heels. A man' interest in religion etil l man 1 1 ding la the Braeuait of pr.neipit he has in it. I'sually a woman nipht i well go to hell to mm the rlcril as to marry a nan to reform him Ham's Horn.

DECISION OF SUPREME COURT.

It la A ( unplrlr tlraStlt- fro as Ike Mm ut ihr OrSiaary I-a asaa. To s layman the atoeltism of the lupreme c ourt in the Port a Wk m ?as ia rather wobbly aad prru-nts SOBS rather SSUrtoBtl anomalies. The eon-titution dM-s follow the flap, and then again it does not stay with it. The iland ia territory of the I nit. d htate., and yet the BaMaJUt there have ao free iradt with the country to whii-li they helong. Then again they beide that v--s,s tradinp with the letand are in the coastwise trade of the I'nited States, and yet when they hla any poixls by these coastwise vessela they cannot laud them in any of our ports without paymp a tanlT Juty on the same. Vet tl..- p.K.d, tl,. v shipped here rior to the paauuga of the Loruker act nhould not h ive paid duty, and it must bt- refunded to those who paid it. There ia only one clear mattet iliout the decisions -thai cei-r.-has the sole ripht to lepila!e as it pleases for these territories. Otherarlae, if President McKinley had himlelf written the decisions they could not have been a more complete straddle, from the view of an ordinary layBtan, No doubt the lawyers will Uli-I der-tand the exact status in time. That the court itself was not Tery s'car about some ,,f the points st issue can be seen by the remarks of Mie of the justices, who taunts his brother judges with reversing ihemsehes on one of the nine eases. Jus-' He Harlan, one of the four minority fudges, said: "I reject altogether the Iheory that eonpres. in its discretion, can exclude the constitution; from a territory which we have held to he a 'domestic territory of the The Constitution Doesn't Follow United States,' acquired, and which could only have been acquired, in virtue of the constitution. I cannot arree that it is a domestic territory of The United States for the purpose f preventing the application of the Dingley tariff act imposing duties upon imports from foreipn countries, out no i domestic terr.tory and part of the I'nited States for the purpose of enforcinp the constitutional requirement that 'all duties, imposts and excise,- unpo-ed by congress ahaU be uniform throughout the I'nited States.' I do n -.mderstand how l',trto Hieo can le a dometerritory of the I'nited State. a we have distinctly held io De Lima vs. Bid we 11, and yet that it u no, ta i-now-held, tmbraeed by the trordt 'throughout the I'nited Stat t.' I he 'expaading f ;ture of our count ry.' justifying the lelief that the IJaited States is to beconie what is called a 'world power' of which st rnm h w i heard at the argument doe not justify nny stich juaelinp with the words of the constitution as would authorise the courts to hold tint the wor i'throuphout the United S'ates In the taxinp clause of the constitution, do not embrace a 'territory of the Pn.'. ed States.' This is a di-tinction which I am unable to make, and which I do not think oupht to be tr.n b- when w.- are endeavorimr to Bscer'ain the meaninu of a preat InatrUJBUHM of gorerbment.' PORTO RICO'S PLIGHT. l,-jecli,tn nt I Ik- lalanalrra the gatpetiaalsn sd las lr rlnlivm. I mir r The news from Porta Rk says that the merchants there are dejected since they heard ')..it they have no rich' under the constitution and can be taxed to suit the pleasure of an American republican congreaa. One of them say I wlicu the llollan L-r bi.l comes into full force July ;Ae will lie under practically üble tsxation. The cheerful new . however, is given in the same Assoc::. tmi Press dispatch that "lioT. Ailen is pivinp his eartn-st consideration to -he practicability of securinp at an early date free trade relations letween Porto Kieo and tiermany." Is tiiat to be the end of our colonial system, free trade with all the world but the I'nited State; BDI perhaps this is necessary to protect the upar and toliacco trusts. No Avouier the Islanders are dejected. iit they must cheer up. When the demsrats control congress they will deal with them more riphteously. and the day is not fsr distant, or all political signs fsil. Of course the tariff muddle in the new islands acoiired feff the I'niierl etatei womM ha a much more serious affair than It Is if It were Dot for the certainty that within a fair yeirs gl BUSd the whole s- heme of protei rion will fail to e4eoea of its own we.i-h. :?nas fit .'ar.

Baa- Snssaaf

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PRESIDENT'S SOVEREIGNTY.

rrobablr (tsrtr ml Neklaley Da lUr arrar aar! Ilrrlalaa. The supreme court decision oi Porto Itico cases made consilerabla tluf.-r on the pres. dent's train, aoeordmjf to the corrrondeut of tha Washington l'ot, who accompanied the iarty on the trip. He fr-cists the SAtion of the admiuistratiou to meet the new conditions in the Philippines breaght ahasal by the deciaioa as follow : "The pre .; lent ill probably issue tn order afTtyiag vilely io the Philippines. imMsinp up,,u poods exported from Ihe-e l"lanita to the I'niteJ States a rate of duty e.,..a to .he tariff iniNiMd by the l)iii?leg law upon the same articles enteriiip the United States. This, it is bettete!, will close the door by a method certain to lie sustained by the supreme court if a test ca-e should be brought before thst tribunal for decision." me consideration was lmuq to the question whether the president had the power under the Spooner act to impose a duty in this country upon articles imported from the Philippinen. The general opinion wa that irrave doubt existed ss to whether he possessed the power, and it aeemcd to be accepted that the export duty plan offered the most feasible solution. The importance of j cedy action w., , uipSa - I. in view of the fact that if the matter i left unsettled until congress meets next Hecenjber there will be very lartre importations from the Philippines without the payment of duty. In addition to this, it was realized that the exporters of Chinese tea, which pays ten cents a pound duty, and t hineae silks, which are also sub ,0 Co ,ia the Flag It Belongs to Congress. jeeted to a high tariff, would send their poods to the Philippines, paying the slight du'y exacted there, and then have them forwarded to the I'nited States, where they would bo entered without additional cost. Japanese and oriental goods of all descriptions eouid also enter the United States by the roundabout but economical route. From this it will be seen that the triumph of imperialism also has its trials and tribulations, and the end is not vet. THE FLAG COVERING SLAVERY I'rrsldrat MrKlaley- Takes No Stras lu l.ibrrnlr IIU Island bis eta, When once mea have been enslaved, how- difficult it ia to reinstill thetu a th the love of freedom. The English foreign aaaa reports concerning '.he working of the decrees freeing ' the slaves of Zanzibar and Pemba. Fewer slaves BBSieartd for freedom in VMM) than in 1V9. Isecause, the llrit- . :-h coromissihner avers, most of tha -!ave- know that they are not likely to pain much present ad van tape, aee.ni: that those who were thrown on th ir own resources have a difficult time to make a livincTiie masters have leen kinder since the slave legislation was enacted, anl seek to make their service more atI Tractive. Perhaps this is the reason that President McKinley has not taken steps to free the slaves in our islands of the sea. but then our flag floats over republican institutions or has l until the new imperial policy was inaugurated and Britain is an empire. - .rely we should not be Whind tho Publish in at least attempting to fr BT slaves, especially as the constitution commands it. OPINIONS AND POINTERS. The trusts declare that free trade Brill have little or no effect upon them, but they do not want the tariffs abobohrd just the same. Indianaplis News (Ind.). Pierpont Moriran bought 20O,040 or $300.000 worth of curios on the continent, and then bethought himself of the fact thst it would cost half a .r.aeh more to get them past the customs officers in New York. So he gave the lot to the HritUh mi:- . ,ii 'I'h.s i ,r ;T . f our- is a great convenience at all times. Rochester Herald. The Filipinos can now rest assured that under our plan of "benevolent assimilation" they will get all lhat is coming to them. The supreme court has decided that those who ars not kille! can be allowed t live; those not dep.rted or imprisoned may retain their liberty, and those having property may keep it eubject to the right of congie to tske it away ffom them. In 1 aaspoüa N s tlnd.k.

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