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THE CHICAGO TBIBTjyFi rRII)AYj FEBRUARY 23, 1900. the conquest of the carrying trade of the I 20.000.000 tnna nf milk annually, which 1 is used in the creameries and butter iaciui Posed to impose such duties as these on American food products when shipped to destitute Torto Iticans. They must 'snorant also of the fact that there was world by the American merchant marine. Its promoters do not share Daniel Webster's wish that American ships might how ihe flair of their country in distant WHO'S WHO AND WHAVS WHAT. that nowadays do most of their work by machinery, the old-fashioned churn being nearly as archaic as the spinning-wheel.

which, instead of saying to him, Please do not. go in," knocks him down so he cannot go in, is illegal. The courts have said of strikers: They have a right to use fair persuasion to induce others to join them in their quitting. But when fair persuasion acii rejoicing nearly ton years ago when, the cj. de NEW FAD FOR FAT FOUNDED JUNE 10.

1847. THE TKANSVAAL SITUATION. General Roberts' plan of campaign is now but is exhausted they have no right to resort to sire to establish a stariie. tot niarkct was secured in Torto Kico onie. of the American products on It is mw tn imnnun tnvoc rather dire necessity has drieii t.

V. force or threats." as usually fairly well revealed. It has thus far resulted iu a considerable degree of British tha room practiced in Chicago, is illegal. It is the coat links, which ha wear pho There nm i duty of the Mayor to stop it without being success. The events of the week have tograph.

secretary and Lord Salisbury finished tr rescue by making him Under Secretary rt State for War. His good looks have nrt deterred him in the race of life, and heads in England say he has a future. ABANDONED A THRONE FOR LOVr Little Archduke Charles Francis, who but 13 years old. Is now the heir to th throne of Austria, though there are older men who have a better title than One of them, his father, Archduke Otto was forced seas." Their object is to subsidize lines already profitable traversing the ocean lanes between the eastern coast of the United States and the western coast of Europe mere ocean ferries already enormously profitable. The Atlantic apparently is the only ocean on which the promoters of this bill care to see the American flag, and then only when floating over a vessel which is abundantly able to take care of itself out of its large present earnings from mail, passengers, and freight.

changed the situation tnrouguout tne must come from the island, not from ine Lnitt-d Stat snrv. Tint tn H- For some livn asked, and it is in his power to do so. But he has failed to do his duty in the past because he saw a gain of votes by allowing certain citizens, while earning their living stretch of territory from Kiniberley to Ladysniitli. The retreat of General Cronje. years tne Prince has found it in lu revenue from the consumption an impoverished people the Boer commander, from the neighbor creasingly dif oum be th 'lawfully, to be maltreated by the roughs worst kind of political hood of Kiniberley and the Modder River economy, According to Oeneral Dnvis.

7." toward Bloemfonteiu has been accompanied vanquish his 1 who act as the avenging angels of the walking delegates. by a sympathetic movement of Boers from Pti cent of the mules over 21 are usually in a state of abject poverty. A few may own a machete or a hoe. but more have tm Ladysuiith to reinforce him. Ibis leaves SEASONABLE DEALINGS WITH SALOONKEEPERS.

The Tribune does not desire that un worldly whatever Their f00(, fruit if m.e tie rice and t. General Buller a better opportunity to relieve Ladysuiith, but his work seems to be the weakest point in the British operations. It is hard to understand why be does not reasonable requirements shall be made or- hi i on. li mnmtv The latest method of advertising the Nethersole Involves the use of considerable machinery, but it is effective. It was never the original design, anyhow, that the L.

A. W. should be the League of American Scorchers. As distinguished from mere grabs, it is entitled to be called the South Town salary loot. the saloonkeepers as regards paying for press the Boers so energetically as to keep demands that tlK.y i.

No political party t.an their licenses. The requirements it favors given untaxed food, suffer by doing that. are those which meet the views of almost ficult to button his frock-coat without seriously disturbing the symmetry that garment. The coat links are a compromise c-tween an unbuttoned coat and increasing girth, and will doubtless hailed with satisfaction by all men who like to preserve the niceties of dress and are at the same time eligible for ad them from joining Cronje. Inatneisnor doing this is apparent from the way iu all the brewers.

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syndicate. Nobody is proposing that the ill to aid the retreating Boer commander during the week. Miss Nether-sole, her manager and "leading man," for the vioation tUat yearly charge of $500 shall be paid in ad mim oecause 'f the life of I 1 1 patioa vhich he has d. Th lher, the real rown Prince, frranz Ferc nand, volun. arily gave 'is title because he pre.

ferred thelov-e of a pretty woman to th8 crown. Eight years ago he fell in iov, win th8 Lountess Cha-tek, a member of the Aus-trlan nobility ut by no1 means regard-ed as a tit match for a future King and Emperor AH that the royal house of The suddenness and effectiveness with vance. That would be unreasonable and which Cronje turned upon his harassing unfair. The law does not require it and tion of the penal code which forbids anv offense against public decency, it should first be insisted, and will be bv every well pursuer at Paardeberg on Sunday indicate the framers of the law did not contemplate II IV that the place was already prepared for that purpose. The Boer commander seems regulated person, that Sapho is an unfit play for representation on the nnl.lin it.

If a saloonkeeper chooses to pay $500 in advance for a license for a full year the City Collector should not refuse his money. But to have been ready for just such an Stage. Miss 'ethernl mv mission to the Wearing New a a n's Prince of Wales. emergency as that in which he found him Coat Links. if he prefers instead to pay $1C6, and tak? out a license for one of the three periods into club.

doomsday that "Sapho" is" a sermon on the text the wages of sin is death," but the fact still remains it is a semmn tw "When the sum needed for the Philadelphia convention lacks only a few dollars of being complete Mr. Wanamaker will be expected to give himself a finishing touch. Porto Rico's wishes are known, but there are several persons in Congress who have not been heard from yet. The children are submitting with entire resignation to the necessity that threatens to shorten their school terms this year. At the same time, we are prepared to be equally angry if the Boers open any of our Consuls' letters.

As an experiment Kentucky might try repealing the Goebel law. There should be no discourtesy in the treatment of General Otis when he lands in this country. It might drive him back. If KINOB KEY. which the license year is divided, he has done all the law demands of him.

self. He simply fell back from the strong but now untenable position on the Modder River to a perhaps equally strong position on the road to Bloemfontein. The result should not be nrem-hwi The links worn by the Prince are of gold, set with jewels, and are much like cuff links, except that they are necessarily heavier and stronger. As a result of the adoption of links in the place of buttons, the heir to England's throne now has his coat made a size smaller than formerly. No more can be asked than that the sum uiuiai J.H.T" sons need such preaching; no immoral per was a costly battle at Paardeberg, iu which due for the period for which the license is Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

sons win turned from the error of their taken out shall be paid with a reasonable ways by it. Ihe play is more Kntrirextivo the British appear to hare lost more heavily than the Boers. degree of promptness. But this has not TWELVE NEW BOOKS ON THE PHIL than the novel, but Daudet cautioned his sons, to whom it is dedicated, not to read been the rule. Many saloonkeepers who Perceiving that he could not take the Boer position without ruinous loss.

Lord Roberts have influence do not pay until the last it until the age of 21 riiiKca1 ATI or. chose the alternative of partially surround day until the time comes to take out a Nethersole and her manager are not so IPPINES. Father Jose Algue, for the last six years director of the Manila observatory, the largest institution of its kind in the Orient, is now in this country with his associate. Father Clos. They are both men of liberal edu- license for the next period.

l.nis is FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1900. true of some of the most important solicitous for the moral welfare of those under that age who attend the theater. Those who have passed that age are probably qualified to regulate their own morals. dealers in Chicago. Instead of there being 250 who are far behind in Clarifying Hlmaelf.

I understand you are playing to full houses," said the hotel clerk. You are the leadmg man. "apsbur could do to break off the match done. The Crown Prince was sent tn travel around the world in the that travel would cure his passion ul came back more in love than ever with th beautiful Countess. Three months ago both he and his brother, the Archduke otto made formal relinquishment of their rieht of succession to the throne.

Then Frar.i Ferdinand and the Countess Chatek were married. Franz Ferdinand is rich In his own right, and he and the woman for whom he gave up an empire will live ln a beautiful castle ln the Austrian Alps. HOW GOVERNOR SMITH TRAVELS When Governor Smith of Vermont orders out his special train no time Is lost in switch ing or coupling together cars. He is one of the few men in the country who own a private locomotive, which is fitted up at Both the source and animus of this their payments, probably there are nearer 1,000 who have not at this moment paid the cation and Speak a number of languages fluently. They bring with them from Manila, "No.

I am the misleading man," replied "THE BEST IN THE W0 ELD." From Printer's Ink, New York, Feb. 14: Thb Chicago Tribune would be the favorite medium with many advertisers, even If its total issue were not one-quarter what It Is today. Many Americans assert that It la, and has for many years been, the best daily newspaper In the world. fees that were due under the law on Jan. prosecution, however, are open to criticism.

It originated with two newspapers in New York for what advertising they can get out of it. For several davs thev Iidvp 1, 1900. Nobody knows how many saloon the heavy villain of the company, wno wa ing gloomily about the hotel office. Anything but TUat. wi-ori hov!" exclaimed the elderly worn keepers there are whose delinquencies pass of years of an.

horrorstruck. What are you pounding that scientific work been exploiting the suggestive passages of unheeded through favoritism on the part of police officials or neglect on the part of If r1.1mK brlltf. for?" done in the the play and dilating upon its alleged in hrm ma'am?" said the boy, turning 1 1 i ppines. the City Collector's subordinates. There linr.n ka In TIG astonishment.

Dumb? decent character, with the natural result the a u- is need of reform in the present mode of of crowding the theater. One of them has script of Jesuit Scholars from Manila. conducting the saloon license business. twelve large One of the Sanitary Dis-Lobbying trict trustees offered a reso-for Deep W'i luUon directing an appro-ter prlatlon of $5,000 to be ex-ilon. pended along with an equal sum to be raised by the miTwia vfliipv association, in.

lobbying at brought the prosecution, which, it is safe This is a donkey, ma'am!" The Wicked Vestryman. The principal thing charged against me, then," said the clergyman, after listening to the is that I make too long prayers, is it?" The revenue which the city derives from ing the Paardeberg laager and of fighting the Boer reinforcements as they arrived in detachments. This measure proved effective, notably in the case of a force under Commandant Botha, which attempted on Wednesday to relieve Cronje and was itself defeated and scattered. Lord Roberts appears to have prevented all attempts to relieve the main Boer force. It is evident, however, that the British losses during the week's fighting have run high into the hundreds, if they have not passed the 1,000 mark, while Cronje's army is still to be, encountered.

A view of the general situation in the Orange Free State shows that the British have the advantage in numbers and that at last accounts they held Cronje on the defensive. On the other hand, the Boers still have the advantage of possessing the inside lines. The railroad that runs through Bloemfontein and Pretoria can pour in troops from the north and south, while partial railways connections with Ladysuiith will enable the besiegers to reach the new center of danger in less than two days. That they are doing this is shown by Lord Roberts' report of the capture of fifty prisoners, who said they had just arrived from Ladysmith. But if the besieging to say, will fail, and the theater will be this source is so large and of so much im more crowded than ever.

The two news 'i papers will have the benefit of their- ad Ves sir answered one of the vestry men. Washington for a appropriation portance tnat not only should no unreasonable requirements be made of those who pay it, but it any changes can be made in vertising scheme and the manager inci th drainaee channel as That Is the grave-ajnen of the Varying the Old Excuse. dentally will enjoy the same benefit, but th Mississippi. That resolu oaiuc lime as an observation car. On the' same W'heels are carried both the motive power and most luxurious for eight passengers.

Besides serving as Governor of the Green Mountain State, Mr. Smith is at the in larger degree, which will not be consid the mode of collecting it which, while depriving the city of no revenue, will be a hsBinm sharoly demanded Mrs. Karaoo, aa he came in at 1 :30 a. m. and made a persistent but unsuccessful effort to hang his hat on a figure ln tion, has been voted down, and properly so.

The trustees have no authority to spend money to induce Congress to make an appropriation! for the purpose mentioned. Furthermore, anv sum thev might expend at Wash convenience to the saloonkeepers, those ered in the light of a misfortune by him or by Miss Nethersole, since all they care for is the money that is in Sapho." nanur have vou been?" changes should be made. The water taxes of householders in different divisions are S-slttlngr up wltn tn- sick, oer, ue re treatises pertaining to the climate, botany, ethnology, geography, and geology of the islands. In addition, they have a large number of photographs, drawings, charts, and diagrams, illustrating the subjects discussed. It is the desire of the two Jesuit fathers that the works be published by the government as a contribution to the popular and scientific knowledge of the Philippines.

Father Jose Algue studied and taught in Germany, France, and England before he came to the United States, where he was for two years a professor at Georgetown University. He Is an expert on the typhoons which rage during certain seasons in the Philippines, while Father Clos has spent years collecting and classifying data regarding the earthquakes, which are almost as prevalent on the islands. ATHLETIC VIGOR AND PERSONAL BRAVERY That athletic vigor has something to do with personal valor Is illustrated r.aaa cf Lieutenant de Crespigny, plied. If the public sentiment of New York made payable on different dates. If it will With the has been outraged by Sapho," as the Tesh.

m' dear. Been h-helpin' nurse weak Governor Smith's Private Locomotive. be any advantage to the saloon men or to the ington in promoting or lobbying for the work, which the valley people have so much at heart will be wasted. Congress never will sanction, for reasons often given, any loou." prosecution maintains, it is singular that city officials to have license payments regu it has not been outraged also by such plays lated after the same fashion, doubtless that scheme to extend deep water navigation to Excess of Loyalty. The shin had entered the Lesser Antilles.

as Z.aza, ihe Uegenerates, the can be managed. the Mississippi. It can be persuaded, how The Captain, who was a stickler for form, turned Tree of Knowledge," The Conquerors," and numerous others which have been pro casually to the pilot. ever, to give seven-foot navigation from the terminus of the drainage channel to the mouth of the Illinois River. The valley peo force in Natal is being thus extensively Puert your helm." he said, about two points." weakened there should be less difficulty in ple should limit their efforts to securing relieving the beleagured town, unless Gen KANSAS CITY.

JULY 4. The Democratic national convention is to be held at Kansas City. When it came to a vote Milwaukee had less than one-fifth of the committeemen. The beer and lake breezes of that ambitious city did not Ktone of His Bnslaess. duced there without a scintilla of objection.

The moral sensibility of a community which can tolerate The Conquerors," for instance, which even London would not endure, and the scores of out and out eral Buller's repeated excursions back and What have you got your flag at half mast for?" same time President of the Vermont Central railroad company, and it was in the latter capacity that the combination locomotive and observation car was presented to him by Dr. W. Seward Webb of New York. Governor Smith finds his private engine of the greatest use in making flying political trips about the State, and he has entertained on it many distinguished visitors. It was on this locomotive that Admiral Dewey rode when he visited his old home Jn Montpelier last fall.

LI HUNG CHANG'S GRANDSONS HERE AS STUDENTS. Among the most distinguished young men of foreign birth who are now studying in the United States are T. and Y. Sung, the grandsons of Li Huns Chang, the grand old man of China. The two tt eldest son of Sir Claude de urespigny, who, according to the gossip now going the rounds of the London clubs, is down on the list forth across the Tugela have rendered him Inquired somebody from across the way.

That too timid to play his part in a game in that. Iowa is unusually prosperous, the estimate sub- Jowa'i mitted by the Committee on Budget. Ways and Means of the isn't the appropriate thing for George washing-ton's birthday." for a Victorian cross, as a reward lor gal equal the attractions of the packing-houses which thus far he has gained no glory. indecent exhibitions made nightly in vaudevilles, theaters, and concert halls in the Maybe you know more about it than I do," lantry in south Africa. The Lieutenant is said the janitor of the building, in his haughtiest known among his fellows as Creepy, Be of the flourishing Missouri town.

This may be a sore blow to Milwaukee, for no city manner. George Washington dead, isn he? Twentieth District and up and down the 0F WHAT SEX IS HONESTY cause of tne sinuous sirengin After the obtrusive caller had gone away, how House and Senate showing the available revenue from all sources for the biennial cles. He is one of the cracK atnietes or ever, the janitor slightly unbent. Taking the word honesty iu its broadest feels justified in calling itself a metropolis until it has had at least one national conven London. At Eton he distinguished himseir Something was the matter with the tackle," period ending June 30, IStOl, to be approximately 55,018,143.

The expenditures for the in athletic sports, taking no end of swim he said, and I couldn't run It any higher, but meaning, of sincerity, truthfulness, and fair dealing, can it be said that women are 1 A. A I a tion, but Chicago's Wisconsin neighbor has wasn't going to take the trouble to tell that ming prizes, sculling over the race course in record time, winning foils in the junior same period are estimated at $3,742,007, leav fellow so." not in reality lost anything. Its failure men are 21 and steeplechase, and earning the fame of being more uonest man men: Are they more straightforward in their dealings, truer to ing an excess of $1,275,448. The estimate is made on the basis of a reduction in Stale taxation of from 2.9 mills to 2.5 mills. The 18 years oid res pectively.

to get the convention is a blessing in dis guise. able to ride any Kind or a steed, we noias the record as the best all-around athlete in their promises, more punctual in their" ap and are said to Meantime. Though Cronje, hard pressed. Flees from kepje to kopje, He gives them the best He has got In the shopje. his brigade the Household Cavalry and Is pointments? Are they quicker than men It is said that the Populist national con surplus, together with a reduction of taxes differ from one of the best swordsmen tne to press their fares upon neglectful con vention will not be held at Sioux Falls, their illustri- army.

He is also an adept at football and jus grand ductors and more zealous in rectifying fa but will be changed to whatever place is a most gratifying showing, and is due largely to the increased prosperity of the Slate, which has added to the taxable property. The sum remaining will be sufficient is no mean boxer. Creepy says that much tobacco is a bad thing for an athlete vorable errors in change? For a long time the Democrats select. Wherever the lat So Immediate Hope for Him. But don't you think, Millie," pleaded father in political faith.

They are fully and a soldier, and as to wine and spirits the women have competed with men in bust ter go the silver Republicans intend to young man. you could learn to love me Mww ness, have they earned the reputation of to pay for most of the schemes now before the Legislature, and on this account the go, also tagging at the heels of the Demo 1 sympathy of Not till tight trousers have gone out being straighter Is the woman dress fashion, Henry." she sadly replied. crats, as Ruth did at those of Naomi friends of the various plans for spending with the Chi-n reform tn nt. Whither thou goest I will go and where tnuncy have gained new courage. The Legis maker truer to her appointments than the man tailor and more reliable in the matter PEESOXALS.

he is almost a total abstainer. POVERTT-STRICKEN DESCENDANT OF MARTHA WASHINGTON. Yesterday, while in a hundred cities the birthday of George Washington was being celebrated, a blind old woman, who is the grand-niece of Martha Washington, lay helpless and poverty- thou lodgest I will lodge." If the Demo of bills? crats had gone to Milwaukee the hapless The Sultan of Langkat (Sumatra) has ordered an automobile voiturette in Paris. citizens would have been crowded off their Bowery, compared with which Sapho is a moral lecture, is not intelligible. Such one-sided discrimination as this throws suspicion upon the sincerity of public sentiment, and the method of the prosecution suggests that there is something behind it all besides solicitude for the moral welfare of the community.

A crusade against evil which only results in a boom for that evil' is not a wise or healthy proceeding. The only remedy for such an evil as this is to avoid it. If the respectable people of New York are shocked by Sapho," they should not go to see it. They are in danger not only of contaminating themselves but of creating a furore in other cities to see the play, thereby spreading the area of contagion. It is safe to say they have done that already in New York, and that it will not be many days before money-making and conscienceless publishers will have flooded the local market with cheap books of the play and editions of the original novel itself.

The Tribune has no sympathy with this play. It and all of its kind should be banished from the stage. But it has still less sympathy with the manner of the prosecution and its cunningly contrived advertising project. There is much sound sense in the publicly recorded criticism of Dr. Julia Holmes Smith of this city: "If persons would spend more time in trying to purify them-" selves and less time in trying to -elevate own street cars and out of their own saloons by throngs of men holding financial lature should resist the temptation to spend the money merely because it has it to spend.

It should be remembered that the standards of appropriations now made will remain the criterion in years perhaps less prosperous. Thus, if an institution is given an increase this year it would consider Itself much aggrieved if its appropriation were ever restored to the original amount. stricken in her theories they despise and will repudiate again next fall. and will study Western civilization with a view of lessons they learn when they return to China. They are now students at VanderbUt i rsity, Nashville, and expect to spend four or five vears there.

tumble down cottage at Burnt Flat, Placer County, Cal. Eighty years ago the old woman It is much more in accordance with the fitness of things that the Democratic con vention and its side shows should be held Of the twenty-five men who have filled the Governor's chair in Indiana Governor Mount is the only one living. Count Tolstoi declared recently that he takes up his newspaper every morning with the hope of seeing British defeat in south Africa. April 1 next will mark the 200th anniversary of the day when the ancestors of Lord Rosebery, the family of Primrose, became ennobled under the title of Rosebery. The family of Robert Bromley, who Is to be married to Miss Lilian Pauncefote, was originally named Smith.

In 1778 an ancestor, George Smith, assumed the name of Bromley. The London Sphere is authority for the statement that Colonel Villebois de Mareuil, the French adviser of the Boers, receives 250 Kruger sovereigns a month for his services, or the equivalent of $15,000 a year. Lord Dundonald, one of the heroes of the Acton Homes fight in south Africa, has a curious in Missouri than in Wisconsin. The former ii 1 1 These are the natural queries that rise in response to that frequent demand that the pure streams of feminine honesty be turned into the turbid pools of the business world. If charity covers a multitude of sins, honesty embraces an army of virtues, and among these it includes sincerity in speech and thought Are women more candid in conversation than men and more truthful in thought? Of course, honesty carried to an extreme, to the point where one is too honest to be rich or too truthful to be polite, is called crankiness, yet this, too, Js esteemed a virtue.

Perhaps the extremist in honesty is more apt to be a woman than a man, but, on the whole, one is inclined to believe that this rarest of all virtues is an individual matter and is not the exclusive privilege of either sex. is nearer the Populist country than the T. Sung, LI Hung Chang's Grandson. latter is. There will be more local enthusi asm for Bryan in Kansas City than in Milwaukee and the delegates to the Demo cratic convention will feel more at home with the unfaltering Democracy of was born in Kentucky.

Her grandmother was a a n-drldge, own sister of that Martha Dan-dridge who became the wife of the father of his country. From Kentucky Martha a shlngton's gran dnlece she was Min Missouri than they can feel anywhere in notion that a military peer should never take part Wisconsin. in the debates of the House of Lords while hold The committee, meeting on Washington's ing the ijueen's commiion, and he never broke his rule. birthday, decided to keep up patriotic ap the stage, it would be found that the pearances and hold the convention on July stage would come up to their higher level Minerva Connor. Martha INDUSTRIAL NEWS NOTES.

An Iowa concern is making farm wagons wholly of steel. 4. That is not an auspicious day for the Democracy. It is the one on which the Washington's convention of 18G8 which nominated Sey THE LAWFULNESS OF "PICKETING." The President of the Building Trades The consumption of cotton per head has more than doubled in Germany since lsia. mour met.

It has been understood that Council, who is also a Civil Service Com Electrical power'can be transmitted with profit eighty miles and used as steam is used. missioner, a job given him by the Mayor The Secretary of State has The Censored Informed the House of Letter to Representatives that the Macrum. late Consul at Pretoria did not while there report any instance of a violation of his official mail by the British censor at Durban nor did he do so either on his way home or when he reported to the department In person. But there has appeared In various papers a facsimile of an envelope on which was printed State Department. U.

S. mailed, it is Understood, by the American Consul at Cape Town, which was opened by the British censor at Durban, its contents examined, and then forwarded approved." Evidently Mr. Macrum saw fit to hold this envelope back to serve as the basis of an attack on the department. Instead of sending It or handing It to the Secretary, as he should have done. It Is stated by a correspondent that the State department has made Inquiries about this matter, and has learned that the British government had no knowledge of any Interference with Mr.

Macrum's mall, and that 'if any such interference did take place it was contrary to instructions. It is more than Ukely that the censor at Durban, like the naval officers who seised American flour and searched German vessels near Lourenao Marquex, acted on the assumption that because he was a British official he could do about as he pleased without reflecting that he might embarrass his government. If the British government has disavowed the act of the censor by explaining that acted contrary to Instructions there Is not much more to do about the matter until Mr. Macrum hands over to the btate department the evidence of the violation of his official mail. Then the British eovernmencanbe called apology.

TVi a During the month of January Clyde shipbuilders Bryan desired an early convention as early as June 6 at least so as to got the start of the Republicans and shorten the period of waiting for the expected nomination because he is a labor leader, has given his launched 32,740 tons of shipping, the largest since ltsvu. opinion respecting picketing," of heh there may be a good deal if the building con Nearly all the progressive railroads are aban on his part. If such were his wishes the doning w-ooden cars and adopting the steel built erva Connor then was taken by her family to Illinois. From Illlnols'they went West to California, and there misfortune in the shape of ill-health and poverty came upon them. For twenty years Mrs.

Minerva Abbottshe married before the family left Illinois has lived alone in. her little cabin in the foothills of California. For the last five years she has been blind. REPAIRING MASON AND DIXON'S LINE. One hundred and twenty-three years ago two surveyors, named Charles Mason and James Dixon, were sent over from England to lay out and mark the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland.

They did their work tractors go to work with a considerable committee disregarded them and decided structures. number of non-union men. Mr. Carroll The advanced price of turpentine, resin, and naval stores is making hundreds of Florida pro to keep him in suspense a month longer than he desired. The delegates will re says the Supreme Courts of Illinois.

Indi ana, and New York have held that laboring ducers rlcn. In Great Britain last year there were ill strikes. gret that the committee did so when they men may resort to picketing to protect and it is estimated that 15,000,000 days were lost to workmen. are broiling in ivansas City next July. CHEAP FOOD FOR PORTO RICANS.

their rights and the Mayor cannot pi-event it. Mr. Carroll might have added that the A WORD FOR TRAMP STEAMERS. Mr. Osborne Howes of Boston recently gave the House Committee on Merchant Marine his views concerning the shipping subsidy bill.

He explained his interest in the question by saying that for two hundred nnd fifty years, up to about fifteen years ago, my ancestors and myself have been either American mariners or American shipowners." He said he was opposed to the bill because The growth of commerce, Mr. Chairman, is not to be determined by the running of a few large steamers. You have asked about the St. Paul and the St. Louis.

I do not wish to decry their merits; but if there were to be added 000.000 tons of shipping to the merchant marine of the United States next year I would far rather that that amount should be made up of tramp steamers steamers of from 1,000 to 4.000 tons, steamers going all over the world than to have that tons made up of high-speed passenger vessels of S.ooo. 10.UOO. 12.000, or 14.000 tons running across the Atlantic Ocean. It Is the tramp steamer which constitutes the greatness of the Knglish commerce: it Is not the steamers of the Cunard, or the White Star, or the Peninsular and Oriental line. They are line lines, but England's commercial greatness does not rust upon them.

Her commercial supremacy comes from the opportunity she offers to every man who has a little capital, who. with a few or his friends, can get together $40,000 or $.10,000 or $70,000. build a steamer, and send it out Into the world to do what he can with It. The subsidy bill is not framed to aid the Pennsylvania factory inspectors report 2.228 ac cidents last year, three-fourth of which were due Mayor does not wish to prevent it or any to carelessness. When Sir Robert Peel had to resign office in consequence of the repeal of the corn ughly.

From England they brought thing else, lawful or unlawful, that walking A syndicate has been formed to build a single return rail high-speed electric railway between Liverpool delegates favor. and Manchester. over with! 1 1 law laws he consoled himself with the thought that perhaps he should leave a name, sometimes remembered with expressions of good The Supreme Courts of the States men Cooperative factories in Great Britain last year made profits a cremating over 11,000,000 on a tioned and of other States have held that capital of $11,000,000. In Virginia a company has been formed to make strikers have a right to station men near a factory or shop, so as to see what men go to work there. It is permissible for the artificial marble of milk of lime, salt, and marsh- Neither of them speaks English with facility, though both studied the language for a vear before leaving China.

In addition, they have been thoroughly educated in the classic branches of Chinese learning philosophy, art, ethics, and poetry. Their father is a Chinese nobleman, ana the Sungs themselves are rich In their own right. CHAIR MADE OF THE "vV0PH WALLS OF EN GLAND. the BodleM Library at Oxford, England, is a chair whlcr. attracts the attention of visitors.

made of the wood of the ship in which bir Francis Drake sailed around the world, on his voyage of discovery. The ship was known as the Golden Hind, and the visitor who closely notices the wood from whlcn the chair is made will easily recognize what is meant by the old wooden walls of England," an expression we are too apt not really to comprehend in these days of Iron and steel warships and steamers. But be will see from the old tough oak of this chair what must have been the strength of these wooden walls in days gone by." As an article of furniture, too, the chair is we a worthy- of its fame. It is beautifully carved, the back and legs of it being especially fine. Above a scroll on Its back is carved an angel, and two other faces adorn the sides of tne back-supports.

Below the scroll has been placed a shield bearing an inscription not decipherable in the photograph. The pretty arching of the carving of the back, ln two tiers, and of the front portion of the les supports, should be noticed. The Bodielan Library has had this famous chair for some generations, and many celebrated men have sat in it. If a list of these sitters could be given, it would probably prove nearly as interesting as the fine old relic Itself. TOUCHING TALES.

Thorne Jack Gladhand says he has sworn of borrowing money." Bramble" He bad to. AU Ms friends have sworn off lending bim money. New York Journal. Perry Patettlc Mister, kin you help me wltn a little money? I ain't got a friend on earth. Mudge If you have no friends, thers 1 no re' eon why you should not be able to keep 7 money.

Go on away from here." Indianxll Press. Briggs Do you believe that the world 1 divided into two classes, those who borrow sj those who lend?" Griggs No. sir! My nence is that two other classes are much more prevalent those who want to borrow ana tnoe who won't lend." Life. Poor old Snubbins has had a hard time of It. He has been sick for a year, his baby died is week, and the furniture man has called in parlor suit.

He told me his story this morning-He was sad. Snubbins was, and his story ucdm me deeply." How much did you sayt" Baiu-more News. Grafter" I have tLat fivs you Eezymark." Eezymark (who never expeotWJ get it) "Good!" Graf tetw" Kow I going maki yon a proposition. I need $10. but 1 11 ask you for five.

Then I'll have ten. and UP" you credit for the five of yours I now havs. -w Ktata Journal. Pardon me," said the native with the Uun carving knife, approaching the cavs of ths captive, but could I boae you for a dollar innate courtesy. It appeared, which cloths unpleasant detlii in humorous hyPr was not altogether inconsistent with sdvsrtwtr ment of tiia prevailing chef rates per cMVW.

New York. Press, mallow root, together with cement. Preparations are being made for an expansion pickets to tell those men that the union has in rice culture in Texas. In one county alone the ordered a strike to secure higher wages or win oy tuose wuo earned their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recreate their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened with a sense of injustice." If Congress passes and the President signs a bill imposing on all imports into Porto Rico, whether from the United States Ecreage will De Increased by 7,000 this year. In consequence of the dearness of coal through shorter hours, and to plead ith them not out Europe the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean to take sides with the employer by workinj railway company has contracted for 75,000 tons them hundreds of stone pillars, with a big engraved on one side of each and an on the other.

After they had eur-veyed the boundary they set up one of these stones at the end of each mile, withmore elaborate monuments at intervals five miles. Not since the stones et first set in tho for him. It is permissible to argue with non-unionists that it is for their interest to or American coai tor use. upon its system. "What's the IVews what is the news from Dekel's Drift, Or the news from Slingersfontelnt join the union and work with it in its effort small fry but the multi-millionaires.

It will to secure uetier terms for labor, it is permissible to plead with non-unionists not to take the jobs of men who claim they are seeking to benefit labor generally. Two Old Stones from Mason and Dixon's Line. All this is legitimate. The Mayor cannot interfere with picketing where ingress or egress is not obstructed and where only vvuteiHiua oi outter-makers that has been lnlintterntaUers session at Lincoln. America, represents one of the roost Qf men ln th United Slates.

1 he extent of their interests was fchown by the attendance of 4.000 delegate, Lac year the convention has grown ln size and influence. IarSely through the belief that united effort on the part of the buttermakers Is necessary to check the increased production of oleomargarine. It may be consid- th! MfUl hethr th efforts against the imitation cf butter products have had effect Certainly, It is true that the production of oleomargarine is Increasing largely. At the same time, the dairy Interests gain in J.O.OW.OW; last year the production was not far from JooO.oOu.Ooo. The farmers ln IS'19 owned 13.0510,113 milch cows, and.

although this is less than during some previous years their value was 174.2X5.SC5. which is much greater than ever before In the history of the United States. In fact, the last ten years has seen a steady annual increase In value, in spite of the competition of Imitation dairy products. The dairy Interests of the rest of the world do not compare with those of the United States. Mulhall estimates that the American production is about one-fourth that of the world.

The Americas cowa pro- moral suasion is used. But picketing," as practiced by earnest strikers, speedily discards soft words of entreaty for threats and bludgeons. The non-union man who or ioreign countries, duties which are one-fourth of those set forth in the Dingley tariff schedules, no expressions of good will will be heard from Porto Ricans when thev are compelled to eat taxed food leavened with a sense of injustice." Several delegates from the island, now at Washington send to a New York paper a letter in which they say: ZV fIl0Win6 of articles of food supplies now admitted to Porto Rico "free" which, under the imposition of the 25 per cent tariff," would pay duty, and any duty upon the rood cf a starving people approaches cruelty: Flour would to pay 6 per cent ad valorem. Rice would have to pay one-half a cent per pound. Codfish would have to pay about one-quarter of a cent per pound.

Pork would have to pay one-half cent per pound. Bacon would have to pay 1 cents per pound. Oornmeal would have to pay 5 cents per bushel. Fresh beef would have to pay one-half cent per pound. assist the men who have a capital of Subsidies are not for them, but are reserved for individuals and corporations whose incomes are $20,000,000 a year or more.

The small capitalists are to be taxed so the tig ones may be subsidized, for whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath." Mr. Howes said further: I should much prefer to know that rlcs was being carried from Rangoon to the Persian Gulf, coal from Sydney. New South 'Wales, to Hongl kmig. deal? from up the Mediterranean In vessels sailin uivier the American flag, than that a line of American steamers had been established between Boston and Liverpool- because in the former case I should know that we had established a clutch on the commerce cf the warld which could not be shaken off. whils in the latter 1 should consider that the enterprise was hkely due to fortuitous circumstances, which might at any time be changed.

The shipping subsidy bill does not aim at persists in going to work is first blackguarded, then warned that something will happen to him if he ventures to "take another Is Honey Nest Kloof still on tha lift. Or Koodoosberg ln lineT Is Majesnciie or Jaeobsdal Still held by the Brits or Boers? Has Potgieter's been captured yet By the men of wiles and lures? Has Buller quite recovered from That day at Spion Kop tell mef Are the British Or the Dutchmen still on top Indianapolis Journal. Analysis. There's no use in trying to tell me that politics ts on the decline." said Senator Sorghum. But.

There's no use of talking. I don't believe that success in politics lies in declining. It depends on accepting." Washington Star. Old Institutions. This world, they say, is growing wise.

A century behold its dawn! Yet green-goods people advertise And still the bunko-game goes on! Washington Star. Possible Solntton. Philadelphia has raised twenty-five thousand dollars of the one-hundred-thousand-convention fund. Wby does she not start an endless chain? Baltimore American. man's job," and then is knocked down and ground have they been repaired, though Mason and Dixon's line has grown famous as an historic if almost intangible, barrier at one time between slave and free territory.

Many of the original stones have been almost destroyed by the elements. Others have been taken up and are used as fence posts or stepping blocks. Now the Legislature Of Pennsylvania has appropriated $5,000 and that of Maryland the same amount for the preparation and placing of new stones, which shall mark Mason and Dixon's line for the next 100 years. ADONIS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Adonis of the House is a title which has been thrust upon Mr.

George Wyndham by his political friends in the British War office and in the House of Commons because of his good looks. He began his career as a man of fashion in London, hut Mr. Balfour turned him Into a private kicked, while the police, if there are any around, look resolutely and firmly the other way. They take notice of what is going on only, -when the non-unionist is getting the better of an assailant. Then they arrest the to pay one-half cent per foriiier for disorderly conduct.

Mutton would have pound. This picketing which meets the non It must be assumed that Congressmen are unaware of the fact thit it ia pro- unionman at the threshold of the shop for whose owner he has agreed to work, and.