Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 43, Number 49, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 August 1901 — Page 3

Weeklu Courier.

C. IMM-:. PtililUhrr. JASPSti I i INDI A X.Y. COMPENSATION. I ,tt Bloat with my heart to t nht , i ., tee Binom In dark und Urep, rosi the portals the shadow fail, ,. i,. i . irUh tU k'Hef I weep; j mi ins Mtf heart's da rkn s Kti ill a radiance rich and rare, i loag ao, mW n a ehUd at pig, I hid a sunln a mi there. I iirp U silent, the chord are d a4 music was all too It' i t. d 1 listen In vain for the silver str . in , , made my Ute compute; j iK ajro. wh-n a t arc-free child, I, i i UiouKlit of i adder thlnirs, ; ; d a m)1ik I'lrd to my breast. i d there It sines and sinaw. X i irlMtf sre 'sd-d and old and sesr. And lbs Uurcls that came with the years j with Id' dreams .ii. d the per- : Ii d hopes 1 i in I' d them all with tears; 1 ut in the garden of my soul rows bloom so fair. 1 i K SCO, when a little child, i i. d a rojie tree there. - Uuiicl ytrode, in Chlsnaa Brealni Post. : The jobber's Cross By David Ker. 1 5 'f lli:V call Spain the land of adTUEY vent tire," muttered Harry iv lie htrolled before breakfast i the outskirts of a laiall Bpan;iivn on the southern lnpc of the ra Morcna; "and I've been in it wreaks, and not had one ndvenr. A man pels no show at afl .ii ling nowadays. Hello! hire v i nobody in a hurry!" much in a hurry, certainly, ; the sturdy Spanish peasant had just appeared on the top of leep ridpe above the boy's head. was Icapinp from crap to crap Llilyasa wildcat, a tu! at times , -winging himself over some deep by the hough of n tree, as if in bait that he had no time to f such a tritle as the chance of I ra neck. ii this case it was "m ha-te. a f speed," for all at once a larpe :.avc way beneath the Spanfeet, and he came tumbling down into the road amid a v rlwl ud of dust. rj whose sympathies were alr PnUatod in favor of a man capnf such feats of strength and Rff flew to the spot, feeling as if ' id really met with something 1 ke an "adventure"at last, Hut when ' at bed the fallen man he stopped ii sheer amazement. Ktet he night, The man whom I ' t en bounding along the rliu'e had lng pray hair and beurd; as quite sure of that for he renliered wondering that an old man HIM I P A VnOEP BOXACI PATH. Id be so active. The hair of the before him was short, thick, and ;h night, and he had n. beard tlean white, the stranger had man10 sit. up, and was- wiping the ! from a bad cut .-i his forehead. I oing so, he discovered the lo-s of ' false hair and beard, and met ys eyes fixed wonderingly upon iVeu, asked he, fiercely, answerlie boy's glance with a defiant "do you know me?" N . and I don't want to know you," II ' try. in broken Spanish, rather I at the man's imperious tone, pose you're a smugpler hjr your ing yourself that way." I am." replied the other, with n inge smile. "Are you going to ' ' np to the police?" ' II!" cried Harry. "It's not the ' us Americans to give away in who ean't stand up for him- '':'." "h, you're an American, then?" the smuggler, loohlstg enrionslj 11 "Well, if yoti are wiiiin- to We, I'll tell you how you can do Hire me your arm hi far as the ' St. .lames, about half a mile road for i lad I've sprained too badly to walk alone and I'm all right." ' 1: long, then." rejoined HorT ,1( H?g his arm. v I 'he strangely assorted pair set ' h our hero told his new wh seened in too mneh pain liims-lf, that he was traveling BpatU with his father, that P'ehed up in Mexico what little lie knew; that fcll tour hnd r' 1 beea profohingfj bare f ad"i"' that the one thing in 1 li eh he mot desired wn IH a pang of real Spanish 1 ''tills. I 'hey reached the chapel, and 1 peculiar rhiatle from the " He, wild looking h.itMMtii'ii, n9 guns on their shoulder-, ' " d ! t the encirclina' thicketa.

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black horse, on which fhej at ai e mounted the crippled Kpefthud, not without cj-iin:' nwji Mi. m on.- i::zz!ed mill spielotu look at the wondering boj "TW th faff . or v .od deed," aid the tali wngfler, uh ug a mall silver rm from his Oeeh aol giving it In Harry. "It ,., :., .fuse to you if mit v . riu-et again And, as you seem anxious to meet with some Spanish brigands, it nay "lease you to learn that you have ieeu half a dozen of 'lie:!) t..-day." So iy : he spurred his hore and raatiaktd into the forest with his prim cunt a : . while Harry turned slowly bbsfe ta the town, hardly knowing Whether he was awake or only dreaming. ".Tum Ifks my luck! I've lost my way, sure enough! And this strikes, nie as the very place to fall in witb that nice man, I'edro Gonsalvez, the bripaml enpta'n. who seems to be terrorizing the whole country at this time." The speaker Wi no "'her than our friciu!, Harry White, now grow n into a tall lyottog man, and revisiting, after I Sve-yeara' absence beyond the Atlant :c, his former haunts in southern Spain. He ha I eertalnly good eau'P to feel uncomfortable jut then. To lose one's way in a gloomy forest, among the Spanish mountains, with night at hand and a storm coining on, is not a pleasant experience in ayv ca--; but "hen toali llr- i- added a very -trong probability of falling In with a band of robbers, whose nual mode of detnand ng ran-om f r a captive ia to mail his ears or nose to his anxious 'i . nds as a hint that "speedy payment is requested," he must indeed b a brave man who can face the situation without flinching. What Harry feared came only too soon. A hoarse shout was suddenly heard among the bushes, and before he could draw his revolver he was surrounded by a eang of fierce-looking men. whose grim, ruffianly faces and KOWllng eyes boded him M good. A smart stroke from the butt of ITarry White's heavy whip felled the foremost man, but the rest at once dragged him fron his horse, and. in spite of his furious struggles, bound him hand and foot. "Let me kill the dop!" roared the injured robber, whose head was bleeding freely. "He hall never strike a Spaniard again!" 'Wot so fast. Hrother Juan." said another. "He looks like an Knirli-h-mm. ard the English are a!l rich. We'll make him pay a fat ransom." "And if he don't pay it q.iickly." put in a third, with a significant whisk of his knife, close to the prisoner" ear, "his friends won't find him quite so handsome the next time they see him." Harry shuddered at the horrible threat and the roar of brutal laughter that followed. He was not enmp'efe- . i -enchanted, for the brilliant and chivalrous bandits of his boyish Ireams were utterly different from these ragged, hangdog ruffians, who Slnoal ch ked him with the Stirling odor of garlic and bad tobacco. Then his horror turned to rage at the thought of lieing plundered and insulted by these brutal rascals, nnd he inwardly vowed that when he did get free lie would spend all the money he had in hunt ing them down. I'ut.aswe hall see, be never got the chance of doing so. The robbers laid their pr'-or.er on the hore and led him up a steep, zig air path to a kind of rocky platform walled in on three sides by unscalable cliffs, while on the fourth lay a precipice of several hundred feet. Here about 20 more brigands were encamped: and Harry White, suddenly remembering his silver cross, looked eagerly to see if the man who had given it to him was one of the band; but he could see no one in the leat like him. "Has Capt. Gonsalvf come back yet?" asked one of his conductors. "No," was the reply, "but we arc expecting him every moment." Jut then a hasty step was heard below, and a tall, dark figure, springing up the rock as nimbly a a mountain goat, came bounding on to the p at form. "Up with you. comrades!" shouted the newcomer, who was no other than the formidable Pedro Consalvez himself. "We have been betrayed, and all the soldiers from La Redonda are upon ottr trail. We nttnl retreat at once. Ha' who is this a prisoner?" "We took h:m in the valley y.mder, and haW hi pt him for ran-um." replied one of the tnmdts. "There is no time to think of ransoms now. when our very lives ore at stake," said the robber chief, sternly. "Take what money he has on him. and then fling him over the precipice." Instantly a dozen eager hands were rifling Harry's pockets, and the brave youth, giving himself up for lost, prepared to die like a man. Hut. as his watch was dragged forth by the robbers, the silver cross that hung to its chain caught the eye of Gonsalvez, who prang forward and aleJ. hurriedly: "Where did you get that cross?" "It was given to ne five years age by a smuggler of these part. wh m I helped to escape when he was crippled by a. talk" replied Harry, looking fixedly at him. ' nd I am the man who gave it." said fJonsnlvez, grasping his hand warmly; "and for that pood deed you lhali depart free snd unharmed. Cumrvics. give him back all that you have taken. Follow that path. Si nor Americano, which will lead O0 to the village of San Tomas; and when you tell this tory 10 your frie: ds. tell them also thst kindness fs never thrown awar. even u;un a bi igand.MGoldea DHs

INTELLIGENCE OF MONKEYS.

la Wat,) nsnpeeta . Umil, llars "niuj Hrsi-Hililuiii'r I Mhh k Iml. A s.-ries of careful experiments with monkeys ha recently been condnetod by Trof. Edward L Thorn, like ! ' ' rtaiu the .oucr ami prOOSM l which tbee saina soquire knowledge. He h.i reached the conknkssti says a scientific paper, that there i to warrant for the popular idea that monkey and other animals leant from human example und by the prm t .-t followed l man. Hut, the i pi I illieiitel !a-, the fact that Monkeys do not p.iv... ... the human tyjies of idea- mu-t not be taken aa evidence that they are no nearer relatives to ii- awatallj thun are the other lower animal-. On the conti. ny. titej eeetipg ai intermediate position in every main psychological feature Let ween bVMNMIs ! general Snd the human sjx-cies. The BjBoatthsta in an inventory of sn nuiinar mental capacities are its seam pOWOes the kinds of movementit can make and their delicacy. complexity ami nvnber, its Inttineca or the iim of thOSC tendencies to feel Slid act which it hat apart from experience or learning and its method of learning or of modifying it.s behavior to suit the multitudinous circums t anccs of life. In each of these respeetS the monkeys show kin-hip with man. In their motor equipment monkeys posse.-s first of all the muscular coordinations necessary to -u-tain an upright position and consequently the Use of the forelimbs. The movement of these forelimb- are more in number anil suited to more complex and varied ta.-ks than are those of l over animals. Tbc attractivene-s of the monkey cape in a zoological garden is larpely due to the similarity of the monkeys' movements and our own. The monkey not only has n body like a man's, but he also uses it like a man. Our native tendencies are so metamorphosed by the education of a civilized environment that in adult age they aekkean appear in recognizable form. BnJ if vve take human U-ings at from six month.- to three years of I age or Inter we find plenty of traits 1 . . , V A I. . appear in trie moiiKcy.-. in laci, the human instinct which is perhaps of prime importance in human mentality, the instinct, which perhapsJs the real cau-e of many of our most boaatcd powers, has its clear prototype and homologue in the monkey. 1 refer to the instinctive enjoyment of physical and mental activity in general, to the tendencies to act and feel as much as possible, regardless of any ulterior practical con-idera-tion-. which w-e sometimes call deSt motive nnH or con-tructivencss and curiosity. I.v.-n th easnal observer, if he has any psychological insight, will be struck by the general, annles, intriusically salnable (to the animal's feelings) hyieal activities of a monkey compared with the specialLired. d'finitelv aroused, utilitarian activities of a dog or cat. Watch the latter and he does but few things, doe them in re.-ponse to obvious sen- presentations, does them with practical 1 PMH qniilSt S S of food, sex indulgence, preparation for adult battle-, etc. If nothing that appeals to his secial organiat in comes up he does nothing. Watch a monkey end you cannot enumerate the thing he doe-, cannot discover the stimuli to which he react, cannot conceive, the raison d'etre of his pursuits, livery thing Bieals to him. He likes to lie nett for the sake of activity. The ob-erver who has proper opportunities and takes proper pain will find this intrinsic interest to hoid true of mental activity as well. Finally, in their method of learninir. although monkeys do not reach the human Stage of a rich life of Idsste. yet they carry the animal method of learning, by the selection of impulses and associations of them with the different sense impressions, to a point beyond that reached by any other of the lower animals. In thi. too. they resemble man. for he differs from the lower animals not only in the possession of a new sort of intelligence, but also in the tremendous extensions of that sort which he has in common with them. A fish learns slowly a few simple habits. Man learns quickly an infinitude of habits that may be highly complex. Dogs and cats learn more than the fish, while monkeys learn more than they. In the numlver of things he learns, the complex habits he can form, the variety of lines along which he can learn them and in their permanenQi when once formed the monkey ju-tities his inclusion with man in a nepamte mental genus. Ma KiKfrnrl.lns Jsp. A Yokokans eorrespoiideal sends Ihe following Irndesnnn's card as showing hvv the modern .lap assimilates Anerteeja methods: "Jewelry maker, fine-t in town. Whiaky-hoy. No. IT Alotcho Itchorue. Show this card to jin rfkshaJBtan. Our shop ia best and obliging worker that has everybody known and having articles genuine Japanese ( rystals and all kind- of Curios. Gold or silver plate in electroplate or plain mending. ( . g in La ,!. work own name or m nogram or sny design according, to orders we can work how much difficult Job vsith lowest prices insure, pleace try. once try. Don't forget tiame Whisky !" Chicago Chronicle. rnel f nqsrlte, Lnetads Coonlej Mose Mokington am aw fallj M Hih. Kph Ysllerby Indeed! How's dat? "Why. fo de past two we ks he'- bin beggin' me to make him de happiest uu .artJiJ"- Tuck.

PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Tm glad we don't live at the no.Sh pole!" "Why J We lboaSda'1 have any niinimr vacation there." Luatige Welt. tne of my anion 11 ted to be wo. and my gram! mot lie r died at 05." "That' nothing; my mot her in-law Un't deud JOt.MPlsUndelpkvJa Times. by .4 ander "Who tmeh fhe man? His face is all covered with blovol." liikopp "He niu't hurt. somebody hit him with a cherry pie I " -Indian-apoli News. "lhat actor-photographer probably thinks he improves on Shakespeare." ilow'.'" "By holding the camera up to nature." Cleveland Plain Denier "Here's a Ktory about a surgeon who amputated his own hand. Do you belie VI it'.'" "I suppose it's pos- : ible. 1'erliap.s he took ether first." Philadelphia Boootd, Blnton "8o your wn has pradunted from college. What la he going to do?" Iloiden "Well, for the present he is go:ng to sit 'round and tell the rest of ii- all he thinks he knows." Boston Transcript. She -"I don't lieiieve you're telling the truth." Ha ' i'ou are most annoying sometimes. I suppose you think you can read me like a book " She "Oh, no! hike a paragraph, I should say." Philadelphia Tress. "Ma." said a little four-year-old. MI saw something run across the kitchen floor this morning without any legs. What !o .ni think it was?" The mother gWCSsed various legless vv.rms and 1 1 1 i 1 1 u -. and them gave it up. when the little fellow Eaid: "Why, ma, it was water!" Contemporary Review, NIAGARA WILL NOT RUN DRY. For the Rrimi That There Ar 'Ihrer w Hourreit i)(HslrSpl fur ihrllreulUkri, The Sun on the 30th ult. contained an article with the caption: "Will Niagara l!un Dry'.'" In reply I Leg to say no. Why? writes Fran, is Wayland t.Ien. in the New York Sun. First Because when the (icorgian bay and Ottawa river canal is constructed with 23 feel of water over the lock sills the waters of Lake Nippissing, Trout lake and Lake Talon Will discharge into tieorgian bay and therefore raise the water level of Lake Huron. Trout lake in 3u feet deep, and ia fed by the perpetual snow and ice of the upper part of the valley of the Ottawa. Second A canal can be cut from Lake KipegOSj to Lake Superior. Nipegon is a lare and deep lake, and is also fed from many streams which rise in the region of perpetual snow and ice. Third When a ship canal is constructed through Kainy lake and ltainy river to Lake of the Woods, another large body of wcter would discharge into I.akc Superior. These three sources of supply will more than counterbalance the discharge of water through n ship canal from Chicago to deep water upon the Illinois river. The Canadian Ocwrnmet is proteathag against our building the ( bieage drainage canal, although Lake Michigan is entirely- within United States territory. If Canada has' any rights in Lake Michigan which we are bound to respect, then we have rights in Ooorgiaa bay which Canada is hound to respect. We have the same right to protest against constructing a ship canal from the Georgian lay to Montreal for the admi.sftinn of war vessels into the upper lakes that she has to object to our construct ing a canal from Lake Michigan through tin- Illinois riv. r for drainage purposes. Hon. Andrew II. Green, with his ml foresight, has lieen urging the creation of an international commission for the purpose of dealing with international Waters, and also for the purpose of suggest "mg a continental system of international deep-sea canals. There is no more important ipiestion for the electors of this republic than ÜM i t. .i ' ion of that commission. ,

speeily merl ennls t Ion. Nothing pleased lue more in the states than to 'go into one of the public schools and watch America Americanizing. The Americans take hold of the immigrant's children and I flatten out whatever may le loo tinAmerican in t heir mental make up beneath the steam roller of the Kngli.sh language, with the result that no citicus are more ebullient ly loyal than the second generation of aliens. Nor an it be long before the introduction of the American public school system into uha and I'ortn Rico driven a stiff wedge lato Um dominion of Spanish and makes Knglish the necessary language for an ambitious colonial. American policy is. and always lias ln-.-n. of the hard-headed Biannrekiaa type, rarely to be swayed by sentiment; they believe in education aa we believe in cricket, nnd it is no great rashness to prophesy that within a few years Spanish will Is- leading at moat a furtive, twilight aort of existence in the highlands of Spain's nncient colonies, and that a Cuban or a l'orto Kiean of the towns and seaports who does not apeak Knglish will be ss rnre aa a Welshman who knows only WeUh. Sydney Brooks, in National Re view. Australian Apples. Farts of Australia are becoming lively rivals ! Canada ami the United States in the KnrepMI spfJM trade. I Tasman i. ; ' y. Iris been found : a first-class apple -raisuig cmntry. ' There are ;7.! acres in apple wreharde there and the product ia lfc9 was 30J,dil bushels. -M. i. 8

STILL A FIGHT AHEAD. She Cslinbii Coaveatlass 1)1 Rot Settle Kverrlhlaa o I lie Parts' Satisfaction.

The democratic convention of Ohio was coot rolled by the McLean element and those leaders who bolted the ticket in l'Jrt and gave but a perfunctory support to Mr. Bryan in 1900. To placate the fusion element of the party and to aid the candidacy of Col. Kilbourne for governor, the railroad taxation planks demanded by the friends of Tom Johnson were included in the platform, but any mention of the leadership of Mr. Bryan or the national plat forma of 1896 and 1900 was studiously avoided. This unpardonable rudeness and ineonnaivahte folly of ignoring the national platform and candidate, who in two of the greatest campaigns in the history of the party had polled more votes than were ever before recorded, has led to the calling of another Konvention at Columbus on July 8L The McLean ring have long dominated the democratic party in Ohio, and the mote complete their rule the worse the condition the party has attained until the last election for governor, when McLean himself was a candidate, he was disastrously defeated, but .still controlled the partv machinery. McLean's Interest in t Oiio politics has always been of a personal nature, and if he was nol a candidate the v tanoe he rendered wns lukewarm, to say the least, and yet by his control of the party machinery it has been impossible to clear the organization of this Old Man of t he S. a . The republican and trust-controlled newspapers pretend to take great M tief action at the acvion of the convention. They call it a defeat of Mr. Bryan. Of this Mr. llryan says: "Mr. Bryai is not a candidate for any nfliee, and a mention of hin mlptot have been construed by some as an indorsement of him for ofTice. The vote should have been upon the naked proposition to indorse the platform of last year, and then no one could have excused his abandonment of democratic principles by pleading his dislike for Mr. I'.ryan." Referring to the platform, he continues: "The convention not onlyfailed, but refused to indorse the Kansas City platform, and. from the manner in which the gold element has rejoiced over this feature of the convention, one would suppose that the main object of the convention was not to write a new platform, but to repudiate the one upon which the last national campaign was fought. The gold papers assume that the fonvention refused to adopt the Kansas City platform because it contained a silver plank. If ao, it would have been more courageous to have declared openly for the gold stnndard. If the gold standard is good, it ought to have been indorsed if had it ought to have been denounced. To ignore the subject entirely was inexcusable. The money question is not yet out of politics. livery session of congress will have to deal with it. llepublicans declare that it is dead, bat they keep working at it. Mr. Bryan comments on parts nf the platform, especially those referring to state nnd municipal affairs. 11" indorses the nominees of the convention and urges their support. Heferring SO the senatorial fight and the reported candidncy of John H. McLean, he says: "Did the leaders ignore the money question in order to please those who bolted? Or does Mr. McLenn want to be left free to affiliate with the republicans on financial questions in case of his election?'' He concludes as follows: "If any of the Ohio democrats feel aggrieved because the reorganizing element of the party triumphed at the convention, let them not visit their disappointment upon the state ticket, but rather see to the nomination of senators and representatives who will select a trustworthy senator. Let them see to it also that the state platform is made at the primaries next time rather than at the convention." COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. Mark Hanna does not seem to be standing by the Kansas and Nebraska corn crop like he might, to. There will be another election there Boon, and that republican prosperity will be needed. The sheep shearers of Wyoming are enjoying the fruits of their support of the republican party hy a reduction in the price of shearing sheep from seven to six cents a head, nnd this under the highest wool tariff ever imposed. The Hanna soft coal combine has been formed, with Daniel 1! Hanna, son of Senator Hanna, as president. Democrats nnd rcpabUcaM alike will have to suffer when winter comes and the trust begins to get in its work. The Kansas farmer is in the midst of republican prosperity. Hay is $20 a ton and corn SS cents a bushel, and Ire is buying at these golden prices to keep his stock from starving. Wheat, of which he has some to sell, ia only 60 cents a bushel. The gross earnings of all the railroads in the United States for ths past year are estimated st f l,fi'J8.o00,000 an increase of nearly flfiü.OOO.OOO over the year previous. This enormous increase has been mainly brought about by raising the rates throagh reclassification. Ask your dry goods merchant or grocer and he will tell you. And yet the railroad combine says the consolidations are not to raise rntu but reduce expenses. The octopus seems to catch us going and eoming,

MANUFACTURERS' TROUBLES. Ths Coast la Wot Altogether Irar Mature lb ii at- I-a tore hy wm-tertlwa.

Even the protected manufacturers have their troubles. They hsv al ways taken it for granted that those who vote for McKiuley and Dingley tariffs believe in high price and are entirely willing to pay them. There, fore the protected manufacturers have always had two or more price lists and have reserved their highest prices for Americans and the lowest for the benighted foreigners, who, presumably, believe in cheapness. Ordinarily the American pays about 40 per cent, more than does the foreign er for American-made goods. This method of selling our goods was working with the smoothness of well-oiled machinery when the Hawaiian islands were annexed to this country. Then the trouble began. As the Hawaiian has never voted on ths McKinley and Dingley bills, how could our manufacturers tell whether these Pacific islanders preferred high or low price-.' As a result some manufacturers kept on selling goods to the Hawaiian just as if they were still foreigners, while other manufacturers treated the Bawaiians aa fullHedged Americans and entitled to genuine. American prices. Chaos followed. As our western tariff wall does not stop at the Pacific coast, but has been extended around the Hawaiian islands, American goods sold in Honolulu at low prices were brought back to Ran Francisco and sold at a profit, at less than ths prices fixed by the manufacturers on the same goods in alifornia. As it is contrary to one of the fundamental laws of political economy to have the same goods selling at the same time and in the same market at two prices, the consternation of the manufacturers may be imagined. They began to blame each other and to apply harsh names to those who were not prompt in extending the blessings of high prices to all under the folds of the American flag. The discussion of this question has been raging among ths manufacturers for a year. One of the latest contributions to this discussion is in the Iron Age of June IT, 1101, and ia signed by a ' Western Manufacturer." It is in part as follows: "It so happens that at present the price of our goods is about 25 per cent, higher for domestic connnption than the export prices. 'We hnd an inquiry for export prices, which we quoted. The order now comes in to be shipped to Honolulu. Is it fair to consider the Hawaiin islands entitled to export prices? "Our own opinion is that they have become a part of the United States and should be consiaered domestio territory as much as Alaska. Also, we understand our tariff applies to this territory, so thut they are prohibited from buying outside snd we are thus enabled to get domestio prices." BTRON W HOL.T FIASCO IN THE PHILIPPINES. hnm Civil Government Jlve War nuti HfMtnrtsTT Mnl Hold vrmy. The repnblicsn party has brought us to a pretty pass in the Philippines. On Jnly 4 they yet up a sham civil government in all but three provinces and pri thil a month are obliged to withdraw even this semblance of freedom from nearly all over the island and give the military full swing again. The ( baffea reforms and proposed consolidation of troops at three points in the islands is obliged to be a-bandoned. The reduction of the army there by one-half, which was announced wi th a great flourish, is also now found to lie impracticable and will be impossible until an indefinite time in the future. Thus the expense that this country is paying to hold the islands is likely to be "prolong, d indefinitely, which in round figures amounts to the enormous sum of $100,000,000 a year. Ths profit on the trade we are now doing wii! not pay one-tenth of one per cent, on the $0.(M0.000 we paid Spain to quit claim the islands to us. let alone the vast amount beingyearly added. Then we have the future of the republic at stake, of which the St. Lotdt Republic says: "It will repay Americans to contemplate the changed attit ude of their country as bearing upon their own and their children's safety and liberty. We are on dangerous ground in most dangerous frame of national thought. We are abandoning a creed that preserved our own rights and respected the rights of others. The final abandonment of this creed means more of calamity to ug than ever to those weaker than us'whom we may conquer, despoil and forcibly govern" This is due to the fact that we are destroying the foundation of the fabric of free government and that it is we ourselves who will be crushed by the collapse of the splendid structure. The gloating of the republican newspapers last year over the superabundance of the crops in the westem states as a sign of returned prosperity will now have to explain how it is that iianna and McKinley can't keep the good thing continually going, l'robably they will blame ths drought on the democrats and populists. ; The "community of interests" plan will work very well until one of the interests thinks it is not getting its full share of the swag or until the people combine and force congress to amend the interstate commerce law so that combinations cannot raise rates beyond a fair tariff. "Cuba is, and of right should be, free and independent," and yet it is said to he the purpose of the administration to hold IfotTO csstla, whioh 1ft ths key to Cub.