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TIIE DES 3I0IXES LEADER, SUNDAY JIORXIXG. OCTOBER 7, 1900. 15 "V'VV' 'V W- GROWTH OF COLONIALISM Let Us Furnish Your Home al Hie mn ran mmi Walnut SO After a prolonged absence, cool Jthis time.) It suggesls Uib laying of eneral refurnishing of the house. I All lovers of handsome headgear are invited to examine oar display of fie furnishing, loti can get everything you want here aud pay for it a ttlo at a tiin as gou earn the money, weekly or monthly. For the com- cAutumn sionaries bred liberal and at length the moment came when th- magazina of economic hate was fired by the Moslem fanatic passion and the de-fire of the government to crush liberal sentiment, dangerous to its sway, by the only repressive method known to Ottoman administration.

The ex-pnrinieut cained to Its bitter end in Turkey has varying t-tag-s over ail th? rest of the EverywhereI cpeak from a wide personal experience and a knowledge secured by study not without its "diligence over alt the area opened to trade sixty or nity years ago. there has come the same collapse ct native industry, the same destruction of the old order, the same inability under an oppressive government. Cuba can grow sugar cheaper than Germany. If Spanish administration had been as good as Gerrr.a.'-y the improvement in beet-root would have met by still gi- improvements in cane sugar in Cuba, but a Sranish vt i nuK-nt whose ad-minirftration was corruption and whose taxation destruction, made it impossible to improve the sugar industry of Cuba. The island passed from one economic crisis to another, and we were at isl forced to an Interference which would never have been necessary, if a rotten government had not made impossible a sound industry.

The Philippine islands have passed through the same changes as their hemp, jute, tobacco, sugar and indigo came Into competition with the better administered islands under English and Dutch When Spain was first In the east and these islands were savage, in the middle of last century, Manila was prosperous out of all proportion to its present blight, but when its competitor enjoyed a better administration its doom was sealed, and it was certain in due time for it to pass into the hands of some power better able to administer it and furnish its. Industries with the only condition under which industries can develop a sound ailminetration. The colonial system had its faults; the civilized worwld stood to abandon it. For two generations an attempt was made to give semi-civilized nations the opportunity to improve. Nowhere has this experiment been on a larger scale or with more absolute good faith than In the protection of our southern neighbors from European colonization by the.

United States. But the economic competition of the industries carried on under civilized administrations rendered inevitable the social, industrial and administrative collapse of all semi-civilized lands, unless the government Itself was able, as Japan has been, to furnish an improved government; and Japan, you will notice, is the only country holding unchallenged a place both in the industry and the diplomacy of the day. When the government cannot furnish this improved government the only alternative is annexation, which has gone on during the last twenty-five years upon an unparalleled scale, and upon which we were at last forced to enter with reference to islands which, under the Monroe doctrine, we refused to allow any sound government to take, and whose burden we were, therefore, forced to assume. lStrlet: PR ETd weather is to be with us again (to stay carpets, a putting up of stoves aud a lie easy way to do this is to let ua do if you need them at all you cannot This elegant solid oak Sideboard, like cut, having a French plate mirror, finely carved wilh raised carving on every drawer a Side board that sells for $15.00 we'll sell for $10.95 WE mm 3SQi2w. '4 yal cMillinery Co 6t0 Walnut Street, ring week we offer two leaders which, i possibly afford to ignore.

This finely-polished Rocker in either Oak or Mahogany finish, with cither upholstered wood or cobbler fort Sl.83 MVS ox Since writing tliis "ad'' we liave been notified by It he weather bureau to ri ovnprt mlrl weatlipr 1 VERY SOON, and we 3 particularly wish to call a your, attention to A I It I 3 jCcidies JCcittcrs and Sftonnct 9fakers, (LARGEST STOVE PLANTIN TCEWqSh OUR SPLENDID LINE OF Jewel Stoves and Ranges cmbrarings six different lines of Stoves, and everywhere acknowledged I he BES I- for the past 35 years we'll sell for as low a price as you have to pay for an inferior make elsewhere, on account of our buying Four Car Loads at one time. ti-Semite journals are to be believed, he is now as strong an anti-Semite as she is, and would be the leader of the anti-Semite party were he not a soldier. Meanwhile the countess had gained unbounded influence over the present kaiserin, to whom liter first husband was related; she had gained, too, the firm friendship of the present kaiser, the Prince William. She is the only woman, indeed, to whom his majesty has ever been known either to listen with serious attention, or to appeal for advice. In those troublous day that followed tihe old kaiser's death hardly a day passed without his paying her a vls4t he would discuss social problems with her for the hour together and whenever he appeared in public her husband was by his side.

Naturally enough, Prince Bismarck had, from the first, regnrded the friendship between Prince William and the Waldersees with scant approval; he went out of his way, indeed, more thP.n once, to treat the countess with marked rudeness. When he took to hurling sarcasms, she was one of his favorite targets. It was not, however, until Prince William was kaiser that the old chancellor realized how formidable a "rival he had. Then he soon became thoroughly alarmed, for not only did his majesty continue to lavish marks of his favor on the count, but on more than one oecnsion be turned pointedly fwirn Bismarck to him for advice, and he insisted on taking him with him on a long yachting expedition. To make matters worse, certain papers began to speak openly of Count Waldersee as the future chancellor.

This was the battle signal; during the months that followed there was war to the death between Bismarck on the one side nnd the Waldersees on the other, and Bismarck carried the day. The kaiser, at his request, issued a decree forbidding soldiers to meddle in politics, and this, as all the world knew, was aimed al his chief of the staff. Officially. Count Waldersee was in disgrace, although, oddly enough, he stood us high as ever in the favor of the sovereign, who continued to give him proofs of his friendship. When Bismarck fell, it was generally expected that Count Waldersee would step into his place at once; but It The most men.

He was carrying his life in his hands, in fact, the whole time was there, and he knew it; and the dangers by which he was surrounded seemed only to give life an extra zest, for never was he quite so nonchalant and happy as at this time, never quite so courteously and ruthlessly skillful in his dealings with others. Before he was ever sent to France, Count von Waldersee had already. won his spurs in the open field as a soldier, for he had distinguished himself by his skill as a strategist, as wel las by his personal bravery, both in the Danish war and in the Austrian. Moltke, whose favorite pupil he was, had singled him out for special praise, and had spoken of him publicly as one who had in him the making of a great general. It was at Moltke's personal request that the count was appointed first his coadjutor as chief of the staff, and later his successor.

Up to the time of his marriage, Count Waldersee devoted himself entirely to his military duties; under the influences of his wife, however, he began gradually to an active interest in politics. Countess Waldersee is an American by birth, is one of the cleverest and most audaciously ambitious women in all Europe, and in the early eighties tihe was one of the most attractive. Even now, av hough well advanced In years, she ii'ineularly charming, at once brilliant and If rumor is to hp relied upon, no sooner was she married to Count Wa'dersee than she made up her mind that he should be installed in Prince Bismark's place as imperial chancellor. Be this as it may, she certainly threw herself eagerly into every movement that had for its object the tihwarting of Bismark; and she chose out his bitterest enemies for her special friends. Dr.

Stocker, the famous court chaplain whom Bismark dismissed from his oflice, was her coadjudtor and advisor in all sihe did. As time passed she founded a salon, the first and last salon Berlin has ever yet seen; and a perfect hotbed of anti-Bismarck intrigues it was, of anti-Semite intrigues, too, for the countess hates the Jews only one degree less bitterly than she used to hate Bismark. She lias imbued her husband too, with iher feelings on this point; Indeed, if the an SHOWING WORK 4 FREIGHT TRAIN. hotel I shown. The groups in the foreground stand near the of the cellar excavation.

Two children of John Lovelady, the proprietor, were killed. Th'-ir bodies found In the wreckage about feet to the northwest. roof and west one-third of the I'Jiicaeo, Milwaukee St. Paul depot were carried away and two large beams MMfm I SMI iC INGENIOUS ARGUMENT IN JUSTI-FICATION OF LAND GRAEBING. T.Irolt William of Thlladelphia CUiwt Jt I Necpusarjf to Permit Backward Tenpla to Maintain In-, dustrial Kquilibtiuin.

Talcott Wiliam in Chicago Kecord: The American is apt to feci that the I'nited Stales has taken its place the Congo Free State and another lished, but the last twenty-live years has sen Germany gather all its colonies 1,000,000 equure miles in area; France has added to its previous colonics square miles; Hus-sia, equate miles, all habitable, while the larger part of its previous pos-es-f-kms were within the arctic circle, and England, square miles, with the Congo Free State and another 1,000,000. Even the letter states of Europe, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands, have added square miles to their possessions, and, extraordinary as it may seem, the area to-day claimed by Spain, even after the los of the islands ceded to the United States, is only 30,000 square miles less than twenty-five years ago. In other words, Spain has added in the last twenty-live years to her eolonial responsibilities in Africa a mere area and epaee as large within 30,000 square miles as she held twenty-five years ago. England has to-day the one old colonial empire, and if from the 12.S0O.00O of English possessions we exclude British North America, most of which is not Inhabitable, of the remaining 8,000,000, 4000,000, or one-half, are the acquisitions of the last twenty-tlve years. Neither Europe nor North or South America are, for different reasons, open to colonial acquisition or the sway of protectorates.

Of the 32,000,000 square miles in Asia, Africa and the islands of the eea, 22,000,000 are now held by European powers. China, 3,000,000 more, is on the way toward annexation, almost half of the ret--t is desert, and the real independent powers of the world to-day hold of the earth's surface only 2,500,000 square miles of the 32,000,000 6quare miles in Africa, Asia and the islands of the sea. The world is parceled by Europe, with the exception of the two continents over which the United States has thrown the aegis of the Monroe doctrine, and these colonies, instead of being the fruit of previous acquisitions, are more than one-half of them the result of annexation and protectorates. In four centuries the world has never known such a partition but once. That was In the period immediately after the simultaneous discovery of a new route to a new world by Columbus and of an old path to the old world by Vasco da Gama.

The struggle over this partition lasted to the middle of the eighteenth century. When the congress of Berlin came to divide the colonists, as well as the territory of Europe, the eober opinion of the world had altered In Its estimate of the value of dependencies. France had remained great in spite of their loss, Spain had been ruined by their possession, the Netherlands and Portugal had not been prevented from sinking into insignificant powers through their colonies. For Great Britain, from Edmund Burke to John Bright, the voice of her ablest orators had ben raised against the possession of India. The opening of the century saw the general conviction that it was the more profitable plan to open semi-civilized and uncivilized regions by treaties or commerce than to adopt the most costly responsibilities of conquest, annexation and administration.

Speeches, dispatches, pamphlets and books, from 1820 to 1860, teemed with declarations that the day of colonization was past, and that European powers were bound to use their influence and authority to support native governments in the path of civilization and progress, in which most of their native rulers professed. themselves anxious to enter. Turkey, by a series of treaties, was taken to the commercial system of, Europe as the "sublime porte" had been earlier initiated into its diplomacy. Trade replaced piracy in the ports of North America, and along all the coast of the continent trade agreements with native chiefs took the place of acquisition. China was opened by treaties, and a decade later Japan.

Not an Asiatic or an African power, not an island or port, but was forced to receive the trader of civilization instead of the flag of some civilized power. This experiment begun, with such hope three generations ago, has ended with complete collapse and the assumption of the responsibility of rule over these nations, once opened only to trade. A great change like this in history is never due to the lesser greed of men, but always to the higher economic force which determines history. As a boy in a little Asiatic town in southern Turkey I saw the beginnings of the causes which have ended in the events that, with other journalists, I have chronicled in years more mature. It was Mosul, which has given to us the word muslin, because of the skill pf Us mediaeval weavers.

As I came back to my father from visits to the houses of the starving weavers, ruined by the cheap prints of Manchester, he comforted me, for he believed in the policy whose wisdom was then universally accepted with the assertion that this was but a step in a development, painful but necessary, which in due time would set up cotton manufactures in this Asiatic town and raise the entire population to a new level; but the factory has never been built in any of the towns which I lived. Instead I sat in my quiet Philadelphia home and from week to week read the accounts of the massacre and torture of those whom I had known, at school, and of friends and families with whom I had lived intimately for weeks in my boyhood-all visited with that awful catastrophe, the Armenian massacre, a tragedy economic in its cause, though affected by political and fanatic conditions. The full waking of a civilized trade on a soml-civilized community I had never fully realized until my visit to Morocco, when for a few weeks residing in an African town slill untoched by Europeans, I understood the devastation which was caused by the commercial policy of this century. The old Asiatic system in which, let us say, a potter could make three pots a day, a shirtmaker three shirts and a blacksmith, rudely working with unending toil, shape three picks, was rude and simple, but it was balanced by the fact that if the potter could only make three pots the shirtmaker and blacksmith only wanted two, and so Qn through the whole circle and cycle of industry; but when the cheap goods of a better Industrial system were introduced, all went down together in a common industrial ruin. No one of them knew to what the disaster was due.

but it fell on all alike. The remedy which was expected for this competition sixty years ago was the creaticn of domestic manufactures on a civilized scale, but the reason why this never came was because it is itr.pofl-ble to have civilized industries without a civilized government. The workman under a bad government is at a hopeless economic disadvantage as compared with the workman under a good government. The factory- was never built in the Asiatic towns of which I have spoken because a factory needs a government which enforces contracts, which protects the person of the laborer from administrative oppression and whose taxation 'is not plunder. The Asiatic government supplied none of th'e needs.

The introducti'vj of cheap European goods Fteadily destroyed the economic eystcm of the and "nothing came to replace ii. The trade by which these good were supplied in Armenia was in Armenian hands, traders all: their contact wiih Europe and their teaching by our mU- THWAKTKD IHK COUNTESS. Her Deliberate Scheme to Put Count Waldenee In BUmnrck'g Place. Pall Mall Gazette: In the critical days that preceded the Franco-Prussian war Count von Waldersee was military attache in Paris. Prince Bismarck sent him to France for the express purpose of spying out the nakedness of the land; and so well did he do his work that, in the course of a very few months, he learned more about the true state of the French army than either the French emperor or his war minister ever learned in their lives.

It speaks well for his circumspection, for his savoire vivre, too, that at the very time he was sending home to Prince Bismarck the most damaging reports ever penned, perhaps, by a military attache, he was exceedingly popular among the very people, whose heedless ways he'was criticising, d'p to the day war was declared. Indeed, he was not only the warm personal friend of almost every member of the French staff, but personna gratissima alike to the emperor and the empress. With the empress he was at one time a quite special favorite, for he can, when he chooses, be most amusing; and amusing Germans are always at a premium in Paris. Ugly rumors were, it is true, afloat with regard to some of the count's proceedings at this time, and "espion" was one of the unpleasant epithets hurled at him; but these things troubled him not one whit, and at the conclusion of the war he returned to Paris as charge d'affaires. The reception he met with was none too flattering, it must be confessed; the glances cast at him sometimes as he rode about the city would have sorely ruffled the nerves of I PHOTOGRAPHS I it chanced that, for some reason, the whys and wherefores of which havi never been explained, the kaiser was on none too good terms either wit it him or his wife just then.

According to one account, his majesty was annoyed with the countess, owing to some display she had made of her influence over the kaiserin; according to another, his susceptibilities had been ruffled by the tone certain journals that drewi their inspiration from the fliW according to a third, he was angry with both the count and the countess for having brought on him the suspicion of being in sympathy with anti-Semitism. Some anti-Semites whom he had met at their house had boasted that he an the kaiserin were at heart as stoutly opposed to the Jews as they were. Whatever be the truth of the matter, one thing is certain: at the autumn maneuvers that year the kaiser treated the count with marked coldness nay, upon one occasion with pointed rudeness. A few months later, without a word of explanation, he removed him from his post as chief of the staff, and appointed him to the command of an army corps at Altona. The count, wh resented the change as an Insult, refused to accept his new appointment, and to this the kaiser's reply was a curt command to start at once for Altona.

And at Altona the Waldersees lived ever since, althoi tuev lone ago made thetv i majesty, just as thi made it v4 marck before'tie died. Quite recently the kaiser made the count a field marshal, and at the very time when h. appointed him to the command of allied armies there were rumors that he was about to give him the chancellorship. It Wouldn't Work. Harper's Bazar: Catterson Look here, old man! Let me tell you how I manage my wife.

I always give her money when she doesn't want It, and when she does I refer to the time wjien I offered it to her. Ilatterson That's a fine scheme, but It wouldn't work in my case. hy not "Well, I've never yet seen the ft when my wile dldu want money." 5 5- v', 1 i- fourth track to the right. It Was lifted! from ks rucks, hurled over the top- of three strings Of box cfcrs and dc i posited, as shown in the picture. A freight train wis caught on a sic ng and overturned by the wind.

narrow path of the storm is indicat by the uninjured condition of the c( in me buck ground. Mtllmer OF THE TORNADO AT FERGUSON 5 rs jrJ 'tT'1, i i 5 y-e rtl i i -v i Jt. E55I2 Ely K'tt a rhythmic sense of excessive recti tude; a sensuous loucn, yet a loucit inaL contains an inlinity of colorings; supreme musicianship Chopin was a musician, poet afterward; a big nature, overflowing with milk and honey; and last of all you must Jiave suffered the tribulations of life and love until the nerves are whittled away to a thin, sensitive edge and the- soul is aflame with the joy of death. A cablegram to Rudolph Aronson announces that Heir F.duard Strauss and his famous orchestra will leave Vienna October 7, reaching Premen in time for sailing per steamer Aller on October 9, arriving in New York tor Uhe Waldorf-Astoria gala concert and reception, Saturday evening, October 20. Arrangements are now under way for a grand serenade to be tendered Heir Strauss on the evening of his arrival by combined military bands.

Sousa, with his usual good nature, and as a compliment to Kduard Strauss, will on the evening of October 20, at the Pittsburg Kxposition, arrange his program so that the major part thereof will consist of the compositions of the Strauss family. Sousa regrets his inability to be In New York and serenade liis illustrious confrere. FUEL GAS FROM WOOD. A Frenchman's Cheap and Powerful Substitute for Coal-New York Post: A scientific problem that has been attracting attention for over a century Is the manufacture of Kas from wood. It is believed now that it has been successfully solved In an invention of H.

Diche of Paris, first announced In 1894, and since that time improved and perfected. Previous attempts in tihis direction had resulted only In the production of a bad smelling, impure and weak gas, that did not possess any great practical advantages, and was also expensive to generate. Wood distilled by ordinary methods breaks up into various gases and vapors, as well as produces charcoal, but in the Itiche apparatus the volatile products pass through a bed of hot charcoal, which decomposes the more complex vapors. There is, in the first place, a kiln of ordinary red and lire bricks, reinforced by an iron ring, which contains the retorts, heated by fire boxes at the end of the kiln. The fire boxes are so arranged that the heat can be turned on or off at a moment's notice.

The retort is first charged with charcoal, and the hot gases from the fire box are allowed to play around it until it becomes cherry red. Wood Is then introduced, nearly filling- the retort, and it immediately begins to decompose into volatile compounds, owing to Bhe high temperature. The gases, which arise to the top, can find no outlet, and are driven downward and over the surface of the charcoal below, where they are decomposed and form the permanent gas) which passes out to the gasomenter. The process Is quite economical, as one ton of wood will produce over 25,000 cubic feet of gas and about 400 pounds of good wood charcoal. With wood at $3 a per ton, and not taking into consideration uhe charcoal produced, this would make the cost of the gas 14 cents per thousand cubic feet.

Likewise a horsepower hour can be obtained at a cost of less-than one-half cent. The gas produced by this system is used in France in a number of mechanical operations where heat is desired, as well as for motive power. It does not burn with a bright flame, so that for purposes of illumination Incandescent mantels must be employed. It gives a powerful heat and can be ysed in mining and smelting operations wihere coke and coal are not obtainable. erebroOastiie.

Spare Moments: Petted Pa tighter They asked me to play at Mrs. Hfghup's this evening, and I did; but. Fond Mother (proudly Were they not entranctr.l? Petted UiiigMer Hum When I played the Ocean Wave, with varla- of them left the room. her (ectatleaUyi That's won-y must have been seasick. Oil niK Fond derful! II zsssstzsz Ths Ladies' Musical guild has engaged Mr.

Frederic Howard to direct it? chorus pludy this winter. Tho guild will study composers. No one lll be admit-1 i-a to Urn class without passing an examination, it being the desire of the ladies to confine membership of the horus to persons who have competent voices and a considerable knowledge of the rudiments of music. A committee omposed of Mrs. McCain.

Miss Thompson, Mrs. Emily Mcvioun Miller, and Mr. Frederic Howard will try voices of applicants Wednesday and Saturday afternoons for two weeks. The requirements 3 iir membership are exacting. Former numbers and new applicants alike will be required to take examinations.

Several soloists, members of the. guild, who iiave been seen, are heartily in sympathy -wltli the idea and plans of study, and will themselves sing in tne enorus. Mr. Frederic Howard, director of the. hoir of the Central Christian church, is already secured nity-seven voices lor church chorus.

Jt is nis intention increase the number to seventy-live, ppllcations are so numerous, however, iat Mr. Howard lias decided that all ho enter the chorus from this time list pass an examination and give sal-factory evidence of musical talent, following is the personnel of the double lartette which leas the chorus at tho ntrnl Christian church: Miss Delmedge hd Miss Wagner, soprano; Mrs. Parks id Mrs. Travers. alto; Mr.

Baylor and r. Long, tenor; Mr. Silverstein and Mr. ravers, bass. The choir of the Plymouth Congrega-onal church, Mr.

Grant Hadley, director, -vill give a Thanksgiving concert some ime the latter part or rovemoer. inrs. idith Adron Thompson, formerly a of the choir, well known among Des loinea musicians, has been engaged as oloUt. An invitation recital will be given un-ler the auspices of tho Highland Park 'onservatory of Music Friday evening icxt. The recital will be held in the own town music hall, located in the iights of Pvtbias building, corner of -tith and Jocust.

The programme will I as follows: 1 1 in, minor Mendelssohn I Messrs. Heft, Nagel and Ileighlon. l'fction Scene Shakespeare 1 Miss Ij oulse M. Smith, price dt Concert Musln Mr. Arthur Hen.

rri.iiiifU Grunteld ST Mr. Wendell Helghton. "In Arcadia." Nevln Urant Maniey, uarnone; air. roam Kagel, piano. Ilss Louise M.

Smith, reader, assisted a. ouartelte comnosed of Miss Grace ivinla Clark, Miss Fannie Wilkins, Mr. m. Beaser ana Mr. v.

unrreii. The first choir of the nymoutn congre gational church will give Harnby's can- rjta. "Rebekah." the last Sunday even- ng in October. Admission freu by tick-is onlv. Miss Clark carries the soprano ole; Miss Wilkins.

the alto; Mr. II. H. H. 'onnor, tenor; Mr.

Grant Hadley, bari-iiue, and Mr. Will Ryan, bass. One hundred and fifty persons have en-iiilled In the chorus clasn, which meets very Monday evening at the First M. hurch, and is instructed by Hr. M.

Applications for membership re so numerous that it has become, nec-ssary to refuse to enroll unless the appli-ant passes an examination. The chorus new practically made up, and very few v4pllcatioti9 for admission to the class Vl be considered. The "Messiah" will I given about December 1. Several it-of-town soloists, who have not yet -lll QUsiul LOU, "1 evening at rehearsal Mr. Fred-c Howard was presented a handsome ton by the numbers of the choir of the Mitral Church of Christ.

The baton is winy, trimmed with ivory and silver, id bespeaks loyalty to tiie director and ithusiasm In choir work. To play Chopin, writes Heineker In the usical Course, one must have aci'te rsibilitlps, a versatility of mood, a pfr-ct mechanism, the heart of a woman, the brain of a man. He is not all eant languors and melancholy simpef- s. A capricious, even morbid, tem-nment i.4 demanded and there must hi' ire that kindles and tile power that Lcea; a fluctuating, wavennjj MUSIC. I ALL.

THAT WAS LEFT OF THE HOT EI "WRECK OF MILWAUKEE DEPOT. -i 4 Lik r- -r-l CAR CARRIED 300 FEET. AN OVERTURNED The accompanying illustrations are reproduced from photogi aohs taken by D. Chappel. of the United Staffs Weather bureau, of the wreck left by the tornado at Ferguson, Iowa, Septem-bei LTi.

The nhotographa were takn on the following day and before Ili debris ami wreckage was cleared away. All thai was left of the Lovelady drlve entirely through the main build-In. Agent Robinson and family, wh occupied the second story escaped injury. A nisht operator woiking in the lower part of the building was struck by one of the beams that was hurled through the of the building and seriously -ed. A loaded freljiit car on the.