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The German emperor fs getting pos
session of a lot of islands whose lan
guage is so peculiar that he cannot
tell whether lese majeste is being com
mitted or not.
During the year 1898 American
builders sent 580 locomotives to for
eign countries. This record proves
that if others will pay the freight the
Yankees will show them how to haul
it
In a search for a name for the "elec
trically propelled self-contained vehi
cle for roads and streets," the Elec
trical Review lias chosen "Electronic
bile" as the best of the thousands
suggested.
A writer in the American Cultivator
says: "A descendant of the Puritans
informs me that his aged mother al
ways resented the modern slang of
calling every active little child a kid.
Her own babies, she insisted, were
precious lambs, and if they lived
would grow up and be sheep, to he
God's especial favorites, while, she
said a young kid could never be any
thing but a goat. Rut,whatever their
reasons, the Puritans never took kind
ly to the goat. They preferred to
grow sheep."
Only the other day, in the terrible
wreck at Waterloo, la., the arm of a
traveling man was caught between im
movable and relentless beams. The
only seeming relief was the loss of
the arm, and with that loss were
counted 99 chances of death to one of
life. He accepted the one chance and
died, only whispering with his last
breath, "Break it to her tenderly."
He was en route to his own wedding.
There are heroes and heroes, and it is
not always the one who wins the dis
tinction in front of belching canuoi),
sputtering musketry, Hying shrapnel
and bursting shells that most deserves
the honor.
The petroleum output in Southern
California now amounts to about 45,-
000 barrels a day, and it is all consumed
apon the Pacific coast. It was dis
covered about ten years ago, and has
been in use for about five years. A
lank Hteamer runs regularly between
Santa Barbara and Sau Francisco,
carrying refined petroleum to the lat
ter market. The Southern I'acitic
runs its local trains by oil, and it is
>lso consumed as fuel iu several man
ufacturing establishments in this sec
tion. There is no smoke and no cin
ders. The locomotive tenders ou the
Santa Fe road are big tanks, nnd the
engineer feeds the fire with a key.
The "literary fellers" to whom the
late Hon. Zachariah Chandler applied
an epithet suggesting that they were
already dead aud worse, seem now to
be specially appreciated by our gov
ernment for public and particularly
diplomatic service. In former times
Ir ving, Hawthorne and Motley were
regarded as exceptional instances of
men of letters deemed lit for consular
or diplomatic place. Now the rule
seems to run along the lines of the
old exception, as is easily seen by a
reference to the just published mem
bership roll of the Authors' club of
New York city. There are only 152
members of the club. Y'et the list
includes John Hay, late ambassador
to England, and now secretary of
state; Horace Porter, ambassador to
France; Andrew D. White, ambassa or
loGermany; OscarS. Straus, minister
to Turkey,and Arthur Sherburne Har
dy, late minister to Persia ud aow
minister to (■ )
The Inr at Tea.
In an address at Fall River, Mass.,
Captain gigsbee, of the Texas, told the
following story illustrative of the fact
that rtaval men made no pretense at
being orators:
"It is a very difficult situation for
mo," said Captain Sigsbee, "to be re
quired to make a apoecb. and I am in
the situation of the old sailor who was
very fond of tea, und was devoted to
the people who served it. Rut this old
sailor had no society manners, and had
never attended an afternoon tea. He
was afraid of the ladies, but In some
way he was forced to an afternoon tea.
He went almost in despair, nnd when
he got back to his ship his mates said:
" 'Brown, did you go to the tea?'
" 'I did.'
" 'How did you feel there?*
"'I felt like a sperm w hale doln*
crochet work."
MANHOOD.
stan<l3 tho test where souls aro tried.
And truest honor flnds,
Who conquers, manfully, the pride
That rules In feobler minds;
Who seeks not rest in life's curoer.
Nor yet beyond the grave;
Whose heaven Is duty's noblest sphere-
Not that which idlers crave.
110 covets not the lordllng's place.
Nor vainly strives to scan
The Master's mind, but asks for grace
To do tho best he can.
His peace not torpor of the soul,
But harmony within—
Renouncing self to reach tho goal
And triumph over sin.
ORIGINAL OIRL.
G Romance of
weather is
tf 1 always prayed for
VL I on "steamer day"
at Nassau. If Nas
\ j\ . sau, like most oth
"r c ' v *'' ze( l places
. InUTM m in the nineteenth
! Mil™inl century, had tele
.l /3Bjlif?ll/lu K ni ph, or even
iU daily mail commu
—Zs3|BgaKßi3| nicatiou with the
1 —rest of the world,
"steamer day"
ik' would not mean so
much as it now
does to its inhab
itants and visitors,
j The passengers land. Waiting
i friends rush forward to greet some;
others walk through a row of curious
faces ou either side aud up toward the
hotel. Small native boys rush about
and besiege them with all manner of
requests: "Carry your bag, boss?"
"Drive for you, boss?" "Does you
want a boy, lady?"
By noon the excitement had moder
ated, and we strolled down to the
wharf and pitched silver coins into
the clear water thirty feet deep, to
see small boys dive aud bring them
from the white sand bottom, where
they lay clearly visible.
I strolled away from my compan
ions, and, passing several small
, schooners laden with sponges, lying
along the wharf—each with two or
three ragged children, a native or two,
| and perhaps a sallow-faced, scrawny
\ white man, lounging or chewing
! sugar cane—l came to one cleaner
looning than the rest. She was built
as all the Bahama schooners, with
line clipper bows, a rounded stern,
nnd small masts aud spars. Sho was
\ neatly painted, and on her stern were
i the words "Lillian," with her home
port, "Watliugs Island."
i As I stood looking at her, suddenly
a young woman came up the compan
ion way and said:
| "Good-day."
"Good-day," I answered. "You've
come some distance have you not?"
"Yes," she replied, "from the
furthest of tho out-islands. I sup
pose you're from across the sea?"
To my affirmative reply she, to my
surprise, said:
"And how was Irving's Faust? I
should so dearly love to seo Ellen
Terry as Marguerite."
After a moment's pause, during
which time I vainly sought to fathom
in my mind how a woman on a Bahama
Island schooner could have followed
! London theatrical matters so closely,
| I gave her my unbiased opinion of
the matter. She was then silent, and
I meanwhile had an opportunity to
study this Bahama curiosity.
| She was about tweuty-six years old,
I and was neatly dressed in an inex
j pensive light material. Her luxuriant
hair, of a dark brown color, was
tastefully arranged, aud she wore a
j large-brimmed, but not unbecoming,
straw hat, which had evidently seen
better days. Although much burnt,
; I could see licr skin was fair and her
j hands delicately formed. Her expres
sion was one of demure sadness, and
after my study I came to the conclu
sion that she was a more than ordin
arily handsome woman, I decided to
continue the conversation.
"May I come aboard?" I ventured
to say.
"Certainly," was the reply. "John's
gone out to the steamer and I'm keep
ing watch for him. I shall be glad to
have you tell me the news. We get
little except when we come to Nassau."
[ "Who is John?" I wondered, "and
j how much news can people get who
only lely on Nassau for it?"
i I stepped ou board, however, and
I my fair hostess, excusing herself for
fa moment, stepped down into the
cabin and returned a moment after
| with two small chairs, which *he
placed under a small awuing which
shaded half the cockpit.
She motioned for me to he seated,
I and I obeyed. There was silence for
a moment after we sat down and then
[ my hostess said, speaking very slowly
! and with evident effort:
j "You must think it very strange
• that I spoke to you and have allowed
you to talk to me, but I saw you were
I a gentleman, aud I do grow so lonely
and so anxious to see and talk with
someone from the great world now aud
then. The ladies up at the hotel, if I
jgo up there, I do not know, and I
] suppose i seem queer to them, for
they look askauce at me, and I haven't
tho courage to speak to them. John
doesn't seem to care for anything but
sponges and salt and wrecks."
"Sponges and salt and wrecks?" I
asked myself. "What maunerof man
may John be?"
"Yes," continued my hostess, "it's
very lonely on Watlings. You see
there are only G7speople on the whole
island, and of these only about 300
are white, while I don't suppose there
are forty I know. We're 180 miles
from Nassau, and although I'm teasing
John to bring me over there, he won't*
come but three times a i ear, unless
there's a wreck."
, Once on the plow Ms hand he layi,
His eye ne'er backward turns;
Fortune he seeks in virtue's ways.
111-bought success bo spurns.
Looking his fellow in tho face *
He sees Clod's image there;
Whate'er may help to lift the race.
His hand is quick to share;
Meekly he takes life'# daily tasks
As part of heaven's great plan;
This boon—aught else denied—he asks.
To be a manly man.
Angels attend on such an one.
And stars their courses move
To light his pathway to the throne
And garnish it with love.
—John Troland, in Springfield Republican.
"A wreck?" I asked.
"Yes," she went on nonchalantly,
"we don't have much luck now-a
days.
"Wo haven't had a good wreck since
the big Spanish steamer went down
on Eleuthera three years ago."
The situation dawned. My fair
friend was the wife, daughter or sister
of a Bahama wrecker—perhaps pirate.
"What's the mattor? You seem
disturbed."
I murmured ia a rambling way
something about wrecking being a
pleasant occupation.
"Oh, I see," and she laughed, and
a wonderfully musical laugh it was,
too. "You are shooked at John's be
ing a wrecker. John doesn't really
wreck ships. He merely helps to
strip them when they are wrecked."
I felt relieved, but dire memories of
childhood tales of false lights and
murdered crews would come iu my
mind.
"And who is John?" I asked.
"Ah, John is the dearest, sweetest,
noblest fellow living—that's John.
I'm sore you'd like him."
I tried again.
"Were you born ou Watlings?"
"Oh, dear, no. I was wrecked
there. Wasn't it romantic to be
wrecked on the island Columbus first
landed on?"
I mildly remarked that I had been
taugbt Columbus first landed on San
Salvador or Cat Island.
"Oh, my, no. You're quite wrong.
It's been proved he first came ashore
at Watlings. Why, I often, on fine
mornings, get John to drive me over
to the southeastern point of the island
where it is thought ho came ashore.
There's tho loveliest white beach
there, aud the broad blue ocean
stretches out and away before you as
you look eastward. I make John go
away, for John isn't romantic, you
know, and then I sit down and close
my eyes and I see the queer old
fashioned ships with their woru sails,
their high stern and the royal ban
ners waving, tossing at anchor be
yond the reef; I seo the line of boats
with flashing oars advancing; I see
the dusky Indian forms standing at
the edge of the wood, and just above
where the surf breaks on the beach I
see the old mariner kneel under the
banner of Spain, his sword uplifted
aud his eyes raised to heaven.
"Oh, it's a glorious picture, and I
never tiro of calling it forth. Life ou
Watlings, you see, has its compensa
tions."
As tho woman told thig story, she
unconsciously acted it out, rose from
her chair, aud with flaming eyes and
cheeks, a now and fair Columbus led a
fancied band. I had grown deeply
interested aud I determined to know
her history.
"Tell mo ahout yourself," I said,
"aud how it comes that you, with
your evident education and accom
plishments, choose to live on a plaoe
so remote and lonely as Watlings
Island."
She blnslred a little, was silent a
moment, and then in a low voioe
said;
"Well, I don't mind telling you.
It's not a long story. I see I've given
you a wrong impression, for, indeed,
although it is lonely at times, I'm
really very happy and I wouldn't
change places with any woman. lam
an English woman, and I was born
near London. My father was a civil
engineer in good oircumstanoes, and
with a twin sister I had every possible
advantage of education. My mother
died when I was about fifteen, and as
we had no near relatives we were much
with our father. We were near
enough to London to run in of an
evening to the theatres and the opera;
we had a pleasant society of our own;
we read much, sang and played a good
deal, and rode oontinnally.
"Ten years ago last autumn my
father met with a sudden busiuess re
verse. He was offered a remunerative
post in California, and decided to go
there. A ship belonging to a friend
of his was just about to sail for the
Isthmus; we werooflered a passage on
her at a low rate, aud in threo days'
time found ourselves at sea. I needn't
tell you of the voyage. It was all new
and strange to us, of course, and we
two girls were the pets of tho ship.
"I Baw with relief my father, who
had broken mnch under his losses, im
provo iu health and Hpirits, and as we
neared the tropics the glowing snuset
skies were emblematic of our hopes of
life in the new world.
"We had been out some thirty days
when one afteruoon as the sun set iu
a dark bonk of clouds aud the air was
close and sultry, I noticed tho captaiu
looked anxious and heard him Hay
something about the 'Bahama reefs'
to the mate.
"That night a hurricane struck us,
and for hours wo were in what seemed
a dull gray cavern of water and sky.
Tho ship plunged madly before the
gale, and with our father we sat in the
oabin, clasped in each others arms.
"The morning broke scarce less
dark than the night. Suddenly the
wind shifted and the ship righted and
seemed to stand quivering, like an
over-driven horse. A few minutes
passed when, with a wild roar, the
storm was on us onoe more, and we
drove madly in another direction.
There was a sudden crash, my father
sprang, half dragging us toward the
compr.uionway. X saw a huge wall of
water rolling down upon us—it fell
and ail grew dark. I remember a sen
sation of sinking, of being whirled
around, a dull, booming noise in my
ears, and I opened my eyes to find
myself lying on a sandy beach, two
rough men looking down on me, while
a third and youugcr one, kneeling be
side me, was chafing my hands. Fright
ened, but too weak to scream, I feebly
said:
" 'Where am I?'
" 'On Watlings Island, Miss,' said
the young man.
" 'Yes,' said one of the older men,
'nnd a narrow squeak you had for it,
too. If I hadn't thought it was
mighty queer Beaweed washing in over
yon reef, you wouldn't have been talk
ing now.'
" 'Where's my father?' I said.
" 'With all the rest,' was the reply.
" 'Hush!' said the younger man,
'see how weak she is?'
"Then I fainted.
"I awoke to find myself on a rude
cot in a small cottage, tended by a
native who only spoke a Spanish
patois. The wreckers, for such they
were, had carried me there. The sun
was shining brightly and the storm
was over. Days passed, and when I
could go about I learnt that I had
been the only one saved of the entire
bark's crew. The wave that had en
gulfed her and drowned all but my-
Belf had washed me over the coral reef
on which the bark had struck. The
wreckers on the shore had seen me,
and daring the waves, high even be
tween tho reef and the shore, had
rowed out. and rescued mo just as J
was sinking.
"Utterly crushed as I was, I did
not at first realize my position. Xwas
told I could go to Nassau on a
schooner in about a month, but I felt
no inclination to do auglit but stay
where fate had thrown me. The young
wrecker was very kind to me.
"Meanwhile I grew well and strong
in the soft warm air and under the
tropic skies. I learnt to like the wild
life, and the few white people and all
the natives half worshiped me. One
day a schooner brought some papers;
and I read our bark had been given
up as lost and my name was among
those drowned. These papers recalled
me to myself and I determined I
would go to Nassau, and, if I could,
thence to England.
"I told the young wrecker, who had
become my firm friend and companion,
and whom I had taught to read, of my
decision.
" 'Well, Miss,' he said, 'if you feel
it is so, I suppose you're right, but I
hate to think of losing you.'
"This and his evident sorrow touched
me, and made me think whether in
the world to which I was returning J
would find such simple, loyal devo
tion as had here been mine. When
the day came for my departure all the
inhabitants turned out to bid me fare
well. A queen could not have had a
more loyal leave-taking than the 'Eng
lish Miss,' as they called me. The
young wrecker went with me. He said
he had business in Nassau. That
night—a night so soft and sweet it
seemed as if storms had never brooded
there, the Southern Cross blazing low
on the horizon—the wrecker came to
where I sat on the deck of the little
schooner.
" 'Miss,' he said, 'I am nothing but
a "Conch," a poor ignorant Bahama
native, but I can't bear to have you
go away. We al l love you, and I more
than all. I nui-.t tell you. You know
our life is poo- and rude, that we are
far away from the world, but if you
won't blam j me for even daring to
hope, Miss, you know I have the
handsomest schooner of the Watlings
fleet and the best cottage on the .island.
I am sure I'd do my best to make you
forget your troubles, Miss, and the
sponge fishin* is better, Miss, and
there's a good many wrecks yet, Miss
—and I love you, Miss."
Here sho stopped and checked her
self and blnshed.
"Of course you spoke kindly to
him," I said, "and told him you were
sorry, but he musn't speak again "
"Of course I didn't. You're like
all men. What's the name of this
schooner?"
"Lillian," I replied wonderingly.
"Well, that's my name, and here,"
as a tall, broad-shouldered, roughly
dressed young man appeared on the
wharf, a bunch of ro3es in hi 3 hand,
and eyed mo curiously, "hero's my
wrecker, and his nam? is John."
A llnro Church OfTcrlnu.
An offertory bag in an English rural
church was recently found to contain
a very rare specimen of a seventeenth
century token made of copper, which
had apparently been dropped into the
receptacle in mistake for a farthing.
The curio was valued by a locnl dealer
at $3.50. A description of the article
and the circumstances under which it
was found were affixed to the church
porch, but the donor seemed ashamed
to turn up and explain matters. A
few days afterward tha clergyman re
ceived a typewritten letter from an ad
dress a long distance from the church,
stating that if the token were sent to
"X. Y. Z.," care of the householder,
a remittance of $2.50 would bo received
in exchange. It was duly sent in a
registered letter, and a postal order
arrived in return.
Inventors Itafll<l.
At the beginning of every summer
the wonder is renewed and increased
that, with all our modern improve
ments, jsome one does not invent a
practicable scheme for regulating the
temperature of our houses as effec
tively in the hot months as in winter,
—Providence Journal.
GOLD AT ITS WORST.
i RUINS OUR FOREICN COM
MERCE IN EXPORTS.
I
Gives to Sllver-I .In Countries n Vast
Advantage—Something About Value
us Related to Money Pointers for
Producers*
!
1 "In the trade of silver-using coun
tries among themselves there is still
a standard of values of remarkable sta
i blllty, but the value of gold coin has
I become so unstable, both In com-
I modities and silver, that there is no
longer a standard worthy of the name
for gold-using countries or the world
at large. This may be good for gam
blers, but means loss and sorrow for
men of business."—Toledo News.
There is no one point involved in the
silver controversy quite so unaccounta
ble as the idea which is lodged in
many minds that the gold standard is
based upon this fundamental error.
The color of a gold dollar is always
the same, its weight the same, the
marks upon it the same, the number
of cents in it the same; and therefore
the illogical and absurd conclusion
that its value is always the same.
Time and again the mistaken and
even ridiculous character of the claim
has been exposed, and in almost every
imaginable way, only to have it re
peated whenever the silver question is
the subject of debate. The difficulty
is to get people to understand that,
commercially speaking, "value" is
merely a term of relation or exchange.
The "value" of a thing is what it will
exchange for. Whether the article be a
gold dollar, a pound of putty, or a
bushel of clams, makes no difference.
Its value is what it will exchange for
in other things. A man can take 3
pound of gold to the mint, have it
stamped into coin, and get in return all
the dollars that it will make, but this
proves nothing with reference to the
value of gold. He simply gets the
same thing back in a different form.
Or the mint may give him other coin,
already struck, for his gold. In such
case he exchanges one pound of gold
for another pound of gold, and hence
It throws no light upon the question
of its "value." If the government
should establish public bakeries and
stand ready to bake all the wheat
flour offered into bread, without delay
and without charge, it is perfectly
plain that 100 pounds of flour would
be equal in value to all the bread it
would make, but it would give no in
dication whatever of the value of
either flour or bread compared with
pork or beef. That would depend upon
how much flour there was, how much
of the other things, and the relative
demand for each. Just so it is with
gold. The government coins it free
of charge, and a pound of crude gold
is for that reason of the same value
as the same gold in the form of coin.
But how much It is worth of other
things depends upon how much there
is of it, compared with the quantity
of other things to be exchanged for
it, and the strength of the desire for
each. If there were only a thousand
gold dollars in the world, any one will
admit that a gold dollar would buy
or exchange for more of other things
than it will now. If gold should be
come as plentiful as coal, 28 8-10 grains
of it would still be worth a "dollar,"
because it could be coined into a dol
lar, but It would require a great many
of them to buy a hundred pounds of
flour. A "dollar" is purely the creation
of law. Law makes the dollar, and de
termines the material of which it
shall be composed. But after it is
made its exchange value depends upon
the law of supply and demand, the
same as other things. It is the cir
cumstance that money is always ex
pressed in fixed denominations that
mystifies so many people and leads
them to the conclusion that when the
prices rise or fall the change is in tho
commodity alone; that the money
stands still. They overlook the sim
ple fact that an exenange of money
for goods involves exactly the same
principle as any other exchange. No
matter what kind of money may be in
use, this idea is'always prevalent. Iu
greenback days the paper note was the
universal money, except on the Pa
cific coast. At that time gold and
silver were regarded as doing all the
fluctuating, and were always quoted at
a premium. But in California, where
gold and silver were used exclusively,
the greenback was said to be at a
"discount." Every silver-standard
country today regards gold as being
at a premium—that is, as having ap
preciated—and there can be no ques
tion of the correctness of that view.
Their silver money will buy as much
as it ever would of most thlng3, while
gold will buy twice as much. The ex
tract given at the head of this araicie
states the situation as it actually is.
Gold ha 3 fluctuated wildly, but always
with a general upward movement, un
til it has doubled in value, thus cut
ting prices in two, doubling the bur
den of the long-time debtor, ruining
the producer for the benefit of the
annuitant and interest gatherer, and
giving silver-standard countries, with
their stable measure of values, an in
calculable advantage in the world's
commerce. When the masses of the
people come to understand this sim
ple proposition, they will be perfectly
amazed at their stupidity in not get
ting their eyes open sooner. Not only
this, but they will see that the mone
tary question in the United States is
by far the most economic and indus
trial issue that ever confronted any
people.
Griggs find the Trusts.
From the Chicago Chronicle: Gov
ernor Sayers of Texas wishes it to
be understood that there is nothing
partisan about his Invitation to the
governors and attorney generals of the
states to attend an anti-trust confer
ence In St. Louis on the 20th of Sep
tember. He states that the plan of a
conference of this kind occurred to
him when he read the letter of the at
torney general of the United States to
a Philadelpbian, In which he said that
the general government had not the
power to make and enforce effective
legislation against trusts. He made
up his mind that if such were tho case
the states would have to deal with
the subject, and that they could not
take it in hand any too quickly. But
he perceived that state legislation, in
order to be effective, must be enacted
by a large number of states, and must
be as nearly uniform as possible.
Hence the necessity for conference In
order to secure something like con
certed action. Having reached this
conclusion, he addressed his letter to
the governors of all the states, irre
spective or their party affiliations. He
wrote his letter on the sth of June,
and before the jJOth he had received
• sixteen replies," of which nine were
wholly favorable, four were noncom
mittal, and only three were positively
averse to the proposed conference.
Among the noncommittal governors
were Busknell of Ohio and Roosevelt
of New York, both of whom, however,
promised to lay the matter before the
attorney generals of their respective
states. Governor Dyer of Rhode Is
land was the only one who expressed
any doubt that trusts were an evil.
That Republican statesman said: "The
subject is one in which I am deeply
interested, but I am not prepared to
say that I consider it a great evil to
the country." The most remarkable
deliverance on the subject was that of
Goyernor Rogers of the young state of
Washington. That statesman ex
pressed doubts as to the sincerity of
many of those who were advocating
state legislation against trusts, and
suggested that they were merely con
structing a craft to carry them safely
through the next national campaign.
He also expressed his belief that state
legislation which would really curb
the power of trusts would be declared
unconstitutional by the United State 3
supreme court. His ground for this
belief was that most trusts were cor*
porations, and the courts would hold
that corporations, like individuals,
have a right to buy whatever is of
fered for sale in the market —to buy
all that is offered for sale if they
please, and so secure a monopoly, and
obtain the power to fix the price. He
did not say this as a champion of the
trusts, by any means, but because he
holds a special social and economic
theory, as appears when he says: "I
can see no remedy for the trust evil
save public ownership. This new
question of the trusts is really the
old one of capital vs. labor, or, stated
differently, the attempt of the al
mighty dollar to gain supremacy in
the affairs of men. There is in all
this an irrepressible conflict, which
will not down at the bidding of any
state legislature."
More Money untl LCRH Taxes.
From the Democracy (Nashville,
Tenn.): Representative Champ Clark
of Missouri says that nearly the en
tire theory of Democracy as to the
financial conduct of the government
may be condensed into the short, terse
phrase: "More money and less taxes." |
Champ Clark is right. There Is more
than that in the Chicago platform on
the subject of finance, but not very
much more. The Chicago platform de
clares for an income tax. The propo
sition is: More money and less taxes;
taxes to be levied upon surplus wealth
instead of upon the needs of the poor.
An overwhelming majority of the vot
ers are for that proposition. Only the
bosses of the Republican party, who
are controlled by the great moneyed
interests, are opposed to it; and those
bosses, and their newspaper organs,
do not dare to openly oppose the in
come tax doctrine of the Chicago plat
form Democrats. The following, from
a Republican paper, is about the way
Republicans handled the question in
congressional debates:
"Whatever may be said as to the
abstract merit of an income tax, it
cannot be had without an amendment
to the constitution, and that is a very
remote possibility."
Well, what obstacle is there to a
constitutional amendment, except the
Republican party? The people will not
hesitate to destroy the Republican
party, if that is the only way of get
ting what they want. Another and
easier way out is to elect a Demo
cratic president, who will appoint un
plutocratic justices of the United
States supreme court. Next year will ;
be a good time to try this plan.
Double-Edged Censorship.
From the New York World: It if 1
now in evidence that the administra-1
tion has been and is operating two J
"censorships"—one at Manila for sup
pressing the truth in newspaper ca
bles, the other at Washington for in- j
jecting into garbled official dispatches
such false and misleading sentences a",
"situation improving daily" and "signs!
of insurgent weakness more and more!
apparent." As we have possession of!
the only telegraphic outlet to the Phil- j
ippines, as the insurgents could not
possibly benefit by any news which'
might be cabled from Hongkong and
sent by boat from there, the two cen- j
sorships can have but one meaning: j
If the truth about the conditions in tho i
Philippines were laid before the Amer- j
ican people the outcry would be so
tremendous that the administration
would be compelled to repudiate its
policy and to repudiate itself. No; the
censorship at Manila, the falsifications
at Washington, were not established
and are not in operation to keep newi
from the Filipinos, but to keep th !
truth from the American people.
ODD FEDERAL EXPENSES.
UNFAMILIAR PURPOSES FOR WHICH
THOUSANDS ARE PAID ANNUALLY.
Expends a Hundred I>ollarfl a Year to
Suppress the Slav.* Trade—Cost of
American Convicts In Foreign Prisons
—Use of the Secret Fund.
The United States Government pays
out annually thousands of dollars for
purposes which not one citizen in a
thousand knows anything about. Ap
propriations for some of these pur
poses have been regularly made for
years and will probably continue to
be made for many more to come, says
the Sun.
Although slave trading is generally
supposed to bo a thing of the past,
the Government does not think so.
This is shown by the faot that this
country contributes annually SIOO as
its share of the expense of keeping up
at Brussels an institution known as
the International Bureau for the Re
pression of the African Slave Trade.
Uncle Sam is deeply interested in
ascertaining the size of the earth over
which he recently stretched out his
mighty hand. With a view of gaining
the desired information he pays SISOO
annually, through the American Em
bassy at Berlin, as his quota as mem
ber of the International Geodetic As
sociation for the Measurement of the
Earth. The records do not show what
progress the association is making
toward reducing the size of this planet
to cold figures, but the SISOO is paid
every year.
In Brussels there is an International
Bureau for the Publication of Cus
toms Tariffs. It costs money to main
tain the bureau, and the United States
pay sl3lß annually as their propor
tionate share of the expenses. More
expensive still is the annual member
ship fee of the United States in an
other institution with headquarters in
Brussels. Every year $2270 is paid
by this Government as a contribution
to the maintenance of the International
Bureau of Weights and Measures.
It costs tho United States no less
than $14,000 annually to provide
prisons for American couviots in for
eign countries. These prisons are
nnder the jurisdiction of the consular
officers in various cities in China,
Corea, Japan and Turkey. They are
seldom used, but they must he main
tained, nevertheless. The locations
of the prisons with the coßt of rent
and salary of keepers are as follows:
Bankok, $1000; Shanghai, $1550;
Yokohama, $1550; Turkey, SIOOO.
For keeping and feeding such prison
ers as may from time to time be con
fined in these prisons S9OOO is set
aside every year.
The Secretary of the Treasury would
doubtless experience no difficulty in
finding plenty of mon about Washing
ton who would, without remuneration,
spend a day watching the destruction
by macerntion of United States secur
ities. But to save the Secretary any
possible embarrassment, Congress has
provided that he may pay the repre
sentative of the publio, who the law
says shall he one of a committee, to
witness the reduction of the securities
to pulp, $5 a day for each day he may
be so employed.
On the coast of Morocco, at Tau
giers and Cape Spartel, mariners used
to experience great difficulty in avoid
ing disaster on account of the absence
of warning night signals on the shore.
Lighthouses were sadly needed, and
as the Government of Morocco would
not provido them, tho great powers
took the matter in hand. Lighthouses
were established and the powers are
assessed so much annually for their
maintenance. The share of the United
States in this expense is $325.
It is sometimes necessary for the
United States to bring hack to thiß
country from abroad persons charged
with crime. It is rather expensive
work, and for it there is an annual
appropriation of SSOOO.
This Government is over grateful
for any service rendered to its oitizens
in case of marine disasters by people
of foreign countries. Such services
are usually substantially remembered
and there is a special provision for
them. An annual appropriation of
$4500 is made for "expenses incurred
in the acknowledgment of the services
of masters and crews of foreign ves
sels in rescuing American seamen and
oitizens from shipwreck." The Gov
ernment also pays SSOO a year toward
maintaining hospitals in Panama in
order that American sailors may en
joy the benefits of those institutions
whenever necessary.
The people of Alaska, who inhabit
the islands of St. Paul and St.George,
receive special consideration at the
hands of the Government. Congress
authorizes the Secretary of the Treas
ury to furnish them food, fuel and
clothing, and for this purpose $19,500
is appropriated.
The Washington Monument comes
in for a good-sized appropriation every
year. In order that it may be kept
open to the publio and receive the
necessary repairs, Congress allows the
AVar Department an annual appropria
tion of $11,520. The same department
receives $547,275 annually to be ex
pended in providing artificial limbs
for soldiers, and an additional sum of
S2OOO is appropriated for surgical ap
pliances for the veterans.
The State Department has a secret
fund which is used for diplomatic pur
poses. The publio knows absolutely
nothing about this fund, and every
thing concerning it is surrounded with
the greatest air of secrecy. Out of it
are paid the bills for entertaining for
eign visitors who may be the guests
of the Government from time to time.
High cheekbones always indicate
great force of character in come direc
tion.
Projectiles for modern big and rapid
fire guns require about half their
weight in powder to fire them.