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Senator Piatt's Nerve. Senator Piatt deserves credit for his persistence in believing in the possibility of amending the senate rules of procedure by taking from the minority the power to hold up any legislation it pleases, by re - sorting to filibustering tactics. In 1001 the senator broached the sub ject, but his proposition was rejected with indignation. Piatt 's rule would permit any senator to demand that debate be closed, such demand not being debatable, and pending it, no other motion except one to adjourn could be made. If the demand to close debate be seconded by a majority of senators present, the question must be taken thereon without debate, and, if it is decided to close debate on any bill which has been discussed for a rea sonable, length of time, the measure shall take precedence of all other business and discussion limited to thirty minut es for each senator, and no senator can speak more than once. There is nothing very peremptory about .this proposition for cloture. Piatt 's proposition is the ninety-ninth of the kind which has been made in the senate during the past fifty-five years. The obstructive tactics used in the sen ate during the last and in the extra ses sion to defeat the treaties demonstrate to the public the necessity for cloture in the senate. After some, difficulty an agreement has been reached to vote on .the Panama canaP treaty Tuesday, but the Cuban reciprocity treaty is under the obstructive tactics of the beet sugar men of the western states and the cane sugar planters of Louisiana, while the Protec tive Tariff League is working to prevent such a reduction of the Dingley duties in the senate, although the Dingley tariff provides for 20 per cent reduction in the reciprocity clause. Th e filibustering ele ment propose to make the treaty subject to the approval of the house, yielding to the house's claim that any treaty affecting the tariff schedules must be submitted to the house. La st December the senate and house leaders had a meeting, at which it was agreed that to meet the apparently con flicting provisions of the constitution (Section 2, Article 2 and Section 7 of Article 1) the senate would ratify the treaty and the house would originate a bill carrying into effect the treaty's revenue-changing terms. This reioorted agreement should have been carried out and much valuable time would have been saved. If it is put in operation now, an extra session of the fifty-eighth con gress will have to be called, and the gov ernment's reputation for fair dealing with Cuba will be sadly impaired, as the Cuban senate has ratified the treaty by the necessary vote. The whole trouble as to the outcome of legislation by the last congress is due to the operation of the senate's code of pro cedure, under which the public will and the government 's will can be defied by a handful of filibusterers. Unlimited debate becomes a crime when a small miniori/ty can bring important public business to a standstill. Two men in the senate suc ceeded in killing the important Philippine tariff bill at the late session, and one senator held up the Panama canal treaty and compelled an extra session of the sena te against the public will. And this in the name of unlimited freedom of de bate! I About the meanest thing Speaker Bab - cock ever did was to ask Governor Va n "" Sant to escort Mr. Heatwole to the chair ' in the lower house of the legislature yes terday. Both the governor and the gen - tleman from Northfield aged perceptibly duri ng those trying moments. As Bad as Sackville-West. The consular bureau may be expected to send out any day now this sort of an order to American consuls: The bureau notes with alarm the tend ency of American consuls to compare the cookery of the nations they are assigned to with that of Missouri, Arkansas, Flori d a and other states. We regret the neces sity of -reminding American representa tives abroad that it is an act of marked discourtesy to assert in the public prints that the corn pone of Missouri is better than the most famous culinary concoc tions of the best cooks of other nations, or to make similar assertions. The fate of Consul General Bittinger of Montreal is a warning to all Americans to restrain their enthusiasm for the domestic bill of fare while they are serving their counti-y in a capacity that compels them to rely upon the foreign chef. Of course it 'is alleged that Bittinger has been .dis 1 connected with a salary of $6,000 be - cause in an interview' in a Montreal paper he spoke his mind and advocated the annexation of Canada to the United States.- That is no great offense in Canada. ' The real reason of the downfall of Bit tinger was his assertion, while spending a vacation in the wilds of Missouri, that the hotels of Montreal were something awful in respect to cuisine, and that Missouri wa.s full'of Smithvilles, Jonesvilfes a.nd all kin ds of cities of a tenth of the population of Montreal, where a man could pay for good grub and get It. Neither Montreal nor Canada could stand for that. On the quiet, the Canucks might admit to them selves that there are several things their hotels have yet to learn, but it passed the limit of endurance for the premier con sul of the United States in Canada to give the fame of his name to an indorsement of'the badness of the hotels. W e share the Canadian indignation at Bittinger. H e has done more to set back J . 8. McLAIN, EDITOK. {ChicaKYork New Office, Tribune Building. O Office. Tribune Building. SATURDAY EVENIKG,^ good relations between Canada and the United States than the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty of 1854. , How. wonderfully popular this increased rate oftaxatibn of railway gross earnings lms.beqome of late., .Here is the Pioneer ^ress iAdulgptiig in double?- colurn'j|?ve(iJtorf|| felicitations over the pt ospeet that the revenue from'.the railways will ggbi all state expenses. c e * 3.5 " The Senate's Trick. This sudden solicitude of the senate for' the constitutional rights of the house is touching. Of course, there is nothing strange about the fact that this solicitude came to the front with a jump just wh en the senate was in extra session and the house could-not be consulted. ". The more the public reflects .on this tenderness of the senate at this late hour for the sensitive feelings of the house, the more it begins to look as if the beet, sugar and high protection senators had success fully worked a bunco game on the presi- dent.* "Why(,- certainly, dear Mr. Presi- dent," they have said, "w e shall be de lighted to approve the reciprocity treaty with Cuba, and we do ratify it, but un fortunately this is a -measure involving revenue, and. we do not feel that' we should undertake to make such a,, treaty law without the consent of the. house." Whereupon the senators wink the other eye and-reflect how tiiey have taken the wind out pf the president's special ses sion sails. Well, they have, so far as the special session was made necessary by the Cuban treaty. They have mock of the extra session on that score.' They have made,it useless, by,adding to the treaty a proviso that it must be ap proved by the houseeight months heriee. What a good joke on the president! this president who is concerned' about h'onor in international relations, who thinks an amicable understanding -'with'- the Cuban republic an important matter'. Ha , ha, and again ha, ha ! 'v/.'! - ' There is just one answer to this shabby trick, which was probably: played with the connivance of the house leaders, and that is to call an: extra -session of the fifty-eighth Congress,, }h the fall if.that will do if not, thensoon.... Th e country can afford continuous 'extra sessions of congress -between regular sessions if necessary to instill into the minds of the national lawmake rs the necessity, of act ing in a statesmanlike manner on matters of the first importance. Former Mayor Ames seems tp have scooped the - political reporters. 'Nobody here ever realized what a power this pine land ring is, or how influential it was in overthrowing Ames. Can't Get Too Much Money. Some of the banking magazines are call ing attention to the fact that while Amer ican branch banks are forbidden by law, there is nothing to prevent Canadian branch banks from operating here. As a matter of fact they do the only surpris ing thing about it is that they haven't more generally tak en advantage of the privilege. It would seem as if there were here a golden opportunity for them. They can practically escape taxation, they do not need to carry locally much of a re - serve, and they can pay more for money and lend It cheaper than their local com petitors who are bothered with reserves and taxes. It is a wonder that some of our American capitalists haven 't got a bank charter in Canada principally for the purpose of _ operating branches in the United States. If the Canadians did not l-equire at home so much of thejr own banking capacity,,there can be little doubt that there would be far more branches of Canadian banks in this country than there really are. In some quarters American bankers are complaining that it is most unfair to them to permit foreign institutions to do what they can rot. In the state of Washing ton there is legislation on foot looking to restrictions on the Canadian branch banks that will put them on a footing of equal ity with the local banks. While it is true that it is not right to let the foreigner do what the native may not, it is not likely that there will be much legislation to keep money out of the country. So long as the Canadians want to lend money in the United Ststes they will probably not find much to discourage them in the way of legislation. A San Francisco dispatch says that if a boy with a two-stitch wound in his heart recovers, the case will be noteworthy. How surprising. The Coming of the Trolley. In McCluers's Magazie for March Samuel E. Moffett writes fascinatingly of "The War on the Locomotive." So well does he put the case of the trolley lines that one turns from the pages wondering how long it will be before those massive loco motives that so fascinate us to-day as the very t5-pe of modern industrial, power and man's mastery of the forces of nature, will be sent to jdin the old stage coaches. . A t present, except in passenger service and to some small degree In freight, the trol ley cars are feeders rath er than competlr tors of the steam railroads. But in certain parts of the country they have become serious competitors of the steam roads, and seeing the possibility of competition, the old roads have very generally opposed the extension of the trolley lines whenever they have crossed city limits. But the rural trolley lihe fills a long felt want and it has gone on growing into power in the land until to-day there are 20.000 miles of electric l'ailways In the United States, with systems here and there .that reach up to several hundreds of miles In length. Moreover, the cross-country elec tric lines are just beginning "t o feel their oats." . They realize now what possibili ties there are before them. They are for saking the country roads for their" own right-of-ways, they are building tracks of the heaviest steel a,nd rock ballast, and they are introducing perfect systems of management. I n hauling local freight to the satisfaction of their patrons, they much surpass- the steam roads." Th e trol leys stop at the farmer's door and take his milk to town without red tapei When lie wants to send his stock to market special cars are ready. In fact when he wants anything the trolley tries to get It for him. The trolley hauls passengers and freight cheaper than,the steam lines and mak es money doing It*. In speed It is creeping up so-that for spurts it is already as fast as the locomotive and is getting to rival j t for dally service. r^ w /-'' -?!- Whether we agree with Mr. Moffett or s .-...-..-. w"HT-fff""v ^^viv^y^'W','^t^| not that the electric motor is likely to drive out the steam lqpomotive altogether,, it is easy to see from the impresstyje group ing of facts he has given us that, the elec tric railway, so adaptable to the needs of the country $.$& the city, sfo flexible and accpnmddating is:bound to g6^ a: long way toward solving the problem! of'transpor jsjj|ion, of both freight and passengers for the shorter hauls at least. I t is too much to hope that the two kinds of transporta tion will long remain under separate and competitive ownership, as they largely have up to this time, but so long as they do, the trolley is the herald of a new reign of transportation competition:right under the eyes, of the greatest mergers. But in any event it will tend to lower rates. Af ter it has demonstrated the possibilities of cheap transportation on a profit-paying basis the future owner will not be able to raise rates. *'., ' %/ made a V . . It is gratifying to see,the capitol c*pm-, mission come through the investigation of Its affairs with.such flying colors. A t the same time .we could have wished the com-i mittee had-devoted some attention to a defense of the enormous fee paid the architect. ,, ".--V - : "The Criminal Police."" Police Justice Murphy,of Buffalo, in an nouncing that the inquest in the Burdick case would begin to-day,..said that every thing would be'done to take suspicion away from the innocent. It'is about time. Sovfax nothing has been done except to he$p suspicion on, innocent persons. The repu tations rof women have been "clouded by cruel carelessness and the personal rights of the citizens of Buffalo upon wh om any sort of-a circumstantial suspicion may have fallen have been outraged. . : Th e Buffalo police are not the only of fenders in this- disregard of personal rights pid the Burdick case is not an exception. There is scarcely a city in the United States -where the..monient a^grave, crime has been committed the police do not as su me a sort of ' temporary, dictatorship of the whole -town. -Illegal arrests are made right. and left, and. the unfortunate victims are thrown Into jail without war ranty or subjected, to the tortures of the sweatbox or the infamous'"third degree" without any consideration of the fact that they , are probably innocent. ' The p61ice need to. be reminded that their powers of arrest are scarcely: great er than those of private persons, and that In using them they must always be influ enced by the fact dhat they maybe ar - resting an innocent person. Except in case a felony, has been committed, a po liceman cannot make an arrest without a warrant, unless he has been, an eye-wit ness of the offense and in case of a felony) he may *mly arrest witho ut a warrant iii, case there is good reason to believe'that the identity of the offender is known. Americans are so good-natured and willing to pardon insult and infringe ment of personal rights that"they rarely make any : effective .protest against .thie habit of the' ihsolent^-pdlice of 'abusing: their powerslof arrest. The'police need to = be reminded that it Is often a crime in itself to attempt an arrest without a warrant, as'w&s recently demonstrated in. Jackson. MichvigWhere an innocejat^tnan. in resisting an unwarranted arrest kflieo? a policeman and was acquitted on the judge's charge to the jury that the homi cide was justifiable if In resistance of un warranted arrest. -- One crime does' not justify another. Even a horrible murder by a person un known does not justify police crime: against the rights of individuals. It would be interesting to know just why, as a contemporary asserts, the effect of the Tighe bill is to permit changes of charter at a general election by a ma jority of all votes cast on thq,t subject. The bill provides that charter amend ments must have three-fifths of all the votes cast at the election. This is pre cisely, so far as the specified majority goes, the provision of the home rule law on this subject from the start. It mig ht also interest our contemporary to know that the legislature of 1901 passed an act providing for the submission of charters at special as well as general elections. A city is not compelled to go to the expense of a special election to adopt or change a charter. I t may do so if it wishes. Manual Training as Mental Educa tion. A favorite line of attack upon modern school courses of study" Is that with their newfangled art.training and manual in struction they are ceasing to be practical. This criticism is curiously in conflict with the facts, because there is an Immense and growing demand for boys and young men who know something that will enable them to step into a trade or an occu pation without a long training by the em - ployer. A boy who may get the rudi ments of a skilled trade in the schools Is more practically Instructed than the boy who can read and write arid spell, but knows nothing about using his hands in useful ways. In San Francisco they have two schools that make trade teaching a regular part of the education of the boys and girls who take them. They teach trades but they teach them as manual training education along with the common studies. In the San Francisco Merchants' Asso ciation Review, George A. Merrill, prin cipal of the two schools explains the "manual training idea." I t is to develop the brain through physical activity. I t is not mere training of hands and fingers, which is all that many good people see in "fads," a training that of itself may not be easily turned to practical application. Mr. Merrill's remarks are worth quoting in part: I t is a very common error, also, to as su me that it (manual training) is intend ed merely to educate the hand it edu cates the brain through the-use of the hand, or the feet, or through any other form of physical action. I t is a training, not in, but by means bf, or through the agency of, exercises selected here and there from various industrial pursuits it Is a matter of the acquisition of intellect by means of instruction in toolwork, drawing, sewing, - cookery, or any other handiwork. \ No doubt more or less of this sort of discipline comes incidentally with a trade a skilled workman, for instance, is more intelligent than an unskilled laborer, be - cause he gets a certain amount of mental training with his trade. But in the main, skill and rapidity of workmanship are at tained by doing the same thing again and again until the process becomes auto matic, as in the case of the child who has become a proficient pedestrian. - - In a manual training school, on the p THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.. contrary, a continuous process of mental development is accomplished by a care ful pre-arrangement of the manual exer cises, constantly taxing the brain and nev er permitting a shifting of responsibility to the reflex system. Both are forms of industrial education, but in the one case the instruction given.Mn itself , the end soughtan industry end } the other case the industrial ir&inhig: serttea onlyas a mea.ns tova hlgner^M-^.-means?of educating. *--" . : , .# $- ' .- . . s "-: . .:.":"- ."-.. .v*".JA Gov. Cuntmins and theIowa Idea. Governor .Cummins ofl Idv^a made at Deis Moines torday another of those strong, vigorous candidv and: courageous speeches for which he is'noteij,'Governor Cummins has s"dme*Theodpre'Roosevelt abdut him. He.'ha!- convictions of his ,pwn and along %ylth them:-fcH.e courage to assert them, and thei ability tjQKdo it so that they are' b.6)ijdl , Jh'/--his"sp/Qfec^ the tariff, reciprQcity^^mon^oly^.: Gover nor Cummins is ^tTfe^lef b^uifient of the Iowa idea^the 1db-^}^''^ifi^^^^]dtil'es,are' made -ifor the bene'flj^ ^ thV^opie^s.aTid npt ^tha tfie people Ji^^-f#':' |^\ ^jisn 5fl.ti'''o'f the- ^schedules. abn^t^eir aries. For corrobo^^on of^fs contention that ,tbe schedules are not intended to be inflexible and unchangeable , but are to be adapted-to - conditions? Wliich might, and which, he contends, haiVe : changed for such corroboration %e refers to the' Dingley law Itself. : be brought about through reciprocal trea ties- or through ' general, taV-lff-K revision. The, means^of adjustment contained in the law itself provide far 'banging about tar iff changes:' witbT-the ileast possible busi ness disturbance. The process .ma y be gradual and the efffeet fgradUal. - As to whether the time has come for tariff changes, Mr. Cumrahts^ cites the theory upon ^hich-the basedthe theory that it is to afford the home producer an advantage, in his home market sufficient to^jpffset tlie, difference which his labor ops0 hinl'-oyer that of labor in similar lines? in. otfter" co'uhtries. In other words, the protective tariff is to equalize opportunity. Th e present sched ules were made six, years ago. Th e past six years have ' been ^ears of unprece dented progress and change and develop ment in industrial -undertakings, par ticularly in this country.) "improved ma chinery, improved processes'- and 'methods, together with great concentration of capi tal and energy, excused on the score of, and doubtless accompanied . by, great economies of operation haVe^giveri Ameri can manufacturer's,adxarit$Lges. not only in the home market, but in, the markets of the world, which they did not enjoy 'when these schedules were formed. If it he, true that these. fefajdUies are not in tended to give the, producer under advan tages^hen It Is tim& tfl Inquire-whether he" is,^Btitleci to aU. j|i% favor3 that were 'grantedvto equalize .conditions less fa vorable to him than those which now pre vail. . .. _^. . ' ..' , Governor- Cummh^ta^es the. position'in regard to reclprocit^tJ?$t :whert we can: make a trade of tha'j^fettfl, 'where we get ntoKe than we give, we should make it. Thai, Is. a business proposition and one %hlc^, l&guld prevail if our tariff policy Jv^re lot^jlargely dmed bytspejial^^^.-in- jter%ts-'-%nlf^ larger - ^^i^irAildit'.^I^H the general interest. The" 'ioverrior'^ refers-t^th,'abfogaLtion LJSO the Blaine reciprocity treaties by the dem ocrats as a gross political crime, and he does not want to see the republican party convicted of substantially the same of fense by persistent refusal to revive the policy of reciprocity. "'_, On the question whether the Iowa re - publicans have -accused the protective tariff of sheltering monopoly, the governor very cleverly turns the Hank of his critics. Monopoly, he contends, is insufferable and when it happens that an industry is con verted into a monopoly he cannot con cede that that monopoly is entitled to any favors at - As to whether such monopolies exist, he does not seem to feel called upon to show in this connection. That is a fact of the situation which it is the business of the government to determine. the hands of the government. The Heatwole influence in the legisla ture may succeed in crippling the work of the public examiner, but it cannot con ceal from the public the reason why it is done With $125,000 hitherto uncollected taxes to his credit as a result of the ex ercise of the power asked for by him to investigate railroad accounts, an act of the legislature taking away that power from the public examiner can never be explained except upon one. hypothesis. Features of the New Militia Law. The new militia law enacted at the re - cent session of congress very properly requires that a state in order to get the full benefit of the act must live up to the letter of the provisions set forth. Cer tainly there is a great inducement for a state to organize its militia up to the standard of equipment when the balance to its credit out of the annual allotment of $1,000,000 distributed among the states can be drawn In cash and used by the state toward" meeting the expense of th o annual encampme nt and When a military post or ca mp of the reg ular army is conveniently located, the state' troops can take part in the maneu vers and field instruction of the regulars and be paid, subsisted and transported by the federal government out of the army appropriations. The government has undertaken to se - lect sites for annu al encampments, which will be convenient for-most of the states, and when this work is completed the ex- pehsKpOf state cam ps will be obviated and the state troops will have the larger O Messasebe! majesty of waters! pulsing silently through the gre at heart of freedom Forever thy daughte rs bring forest leaves from the mountains of the east Forever th y daughters bring tribute of earth from the mountains of the west. And ever from Itasca-, pine sentineled in the north they silent sliding floods flow southward And ever through the centuries, winding and unwinding, coiling and uncoiling with the seasons, 'Ik Thou flowest througli perennial cypress glooms,*to mingle with eternal ocean tides. Lb, In the dark oblivion of the ages, came the low-browed peoples, they the unsung of legend, arid reared their sepulchers at th y side. With implements bf stone they builded their sepulch-lrs of earth, and their memory slept in the great oblivion. Lo, in the glory of the dawning, came the radiant sons of Empire. And singing. they crowned thee and they swift daughters with airy arches of steel. And their mighty songs of freedom echoed from the mountains of the - , east to the mountains of the west. * . * * Indian name meaning Mississippi river. - -- Th hore lines by Mr.' Bertand are taken from his "Songs of Empire," written, some time ngo. but are peculiarly appropriate and happily expressire in connection with this present undertaking to erect the great statue pt the rlrer god on the banks of the Mississippi in this city.Editor Journal. X --"^ /,, ' -V ** ^-Oiss-T^'s"^ "?"** c $* A : W^jp^vV.'a^^ng,. v ^i|ect']' benefici- This d$aptation may : : A! ^^y.M-yj?rip^^ g benefit of drilling and maneuvering un der professional military experts, bred to the field and barracks. -This is an ob vious advantage., / The militia bill, embodies the much needed reform of unifying militia and reg ulars so far as armai and,equipment, drill and discipline are concerned, leaving each state, to -decide whether it will accept the conditions of larger federal. appropria tion and more 'effective instruction. Th e conditions are that the organized militia of a state be fully equipped as required. '.A great gain for the militia under this new g:ct is th'at every state accepting the ter ms will have the Krag-Jorgensen rifle of the regular army, instead of the Spring fields, which are practically obsolete, as compared with the thirty-caliber smoke less powder magazhie weapon. The hew law in its provision for, en campments and field practice, carries out, hi the most practical manner, the recom mendations of George Washington, which the fifty-seventh congress was'/ the first national legislature to make effective, greatly to its credit. " ' ,.J ' - '-"'' proteptive' tariff is : Harper's Weekly. It was interesting to have*'"ex:-Mayor Ames of Minneapolis run dovhi, and to know what had become of him, but his further punishment seems hardly worth much effort or expenditure to accomplish. Fr om being the profligate robber-mayor of a large citythe man who laughed at prosecution and defied punishment'he has come in two-years to be a broken down refugee, prematurely aged, hiding in a Ne w Hampshire village, in the house of his wife's ministerial brother-in-law. H e has had his punishment, whether he goes to prison or not. A more brutal and dis gusting' scamp than Tweed, he has come to an end not unlike Tweed's.' His case, his present deplorable situation,.'and his prospects are commended to the consider ation of Mr. Addicks of Boston and Dela ware. Addicks Is still bold and confident. Justice has not got him on the rim yet. H e still presses his attacks. Hi s money still rolls out onJJelaware, and debauehed voters in that little state record his will. H e has not yet been proved to be a crim inal, but bribery is a crime, and it is only a few months since Ames of Minneapolis, with money in hand and years Of success ful turpitude behind him,/was as insolent ly confident as Addicks is still. The ice is pretty thin under Addicks.- As one thinks of him there, comes to mind the story of Ames after his indictment the. story of a man who had jumped his ball, riding all night in a smoking-car, his face gray, his head sunk on his chest, and an uusmoked cigar in his mouth, riding through the night with staring eyes, without stirring in his seat. , There-is an old dame, that Addicks ought to know about. He r name is Nemesis,- and she arrives when least ex - peete'd. -'- ..-'-. INSIDE STORY OF A SURRENDER This is the inside story of the sur render, during the Spanish war. of the town of Coamo, as given by Richard Hard ing Davis, in Collier's Household number for March. Itis written by the man to whom the town surrendered. Immediately after the surrender'this same man became military governor of Coamo. H e held of fice for fully twenty minutes. Before beginning this story the reader must forget all he may happen to know of this particular triumph of the Porto* Rican expedition. H e must forget that the taking of Coamo has always been credited to Major General James H. Wil son, who on that occasion commanded Captain Anderson's battery, the Sixteenth Pennsylvania, Troop C of Brooklyn, and the Second and Third Wisconsin volun teers, under General Ernst. H e must for get that in the records of the war depart ment all the praise, and It is of the high est, for this victory is bestowed upon General Wilson and his 4.00.0 soldiers. Even the writer of this, when he cabled an account of the event to his paper, gave, with every one else, the entire credit to General Wilson. And ever since his conscience has" upbraided him. Hi s only claim for tolerance as a war correspondent has been that he always has stuck to the facts, and now he feels that in the sacred cause of history his friendship and admiration for General Wilson, that hero of the civil, Philippine and Chinese wars, must no longer stand in the way of his duty as an accurate reporter. H e no longer can tell a lie. H e must at last own up that he himself captured Coamo. of field practice. One of them spoke to me the few words of Spanish with which I had an acquaint ance. H e told me he was the alcalde, and that he begged to surrender into my hands the town of Coamo. I led him instantly to one side. I was afraid that if I did not take him up he would surrender it to Pa get or to Jimmy. I bade him conduct me to his official residence. H e did so. and gave me the key to the cartel, a staff of office of gold and ebony, and the flag of the town, which he had hidden behind his writing desk. I t was a fine Spanish flag with the coat-of-arms embroidered in gold. I decided that, with whatever else 1 might part, that flag would always be mine, that the chance of my again receiv ing the surrender of a.town of 5,000 peo ple was slender, and that this token would be wrapped around me in my coffin. I accordingly hid it in my poncho and strapped it to my saddle. Then I ap pointed a hotelkeeper, who spoke a little English, as my official interpreter, and told the alcalde that I was now military governor, mayor and chief of police, and that I wanted the seals of the town. H e gave me a rubber stamp with a coat-of arms cut in it, and I wrote myself three letters, .which, to insure their safe ar - rival, I addressed to three different places, and- stamped them with the rubber seals. In time all three' reached me, and I now have them as documentary proof of the fact that for twenty minutes I was mili tary governor and mayor of Coamo. MESSASEBE* By George E. Bertrand. AT THE THEATERS .'' . "The Tempest" Twtee More. The Louis James and Frederick Warde cOmbinafton continues to present Wagen hals and Kemper 's beautiful production of "Th e Tempest" to large audiences at the". Metropolitan, the matinee to*day drawing forth one of the largest assem blages of the season. Th e engagement In this city ..will conclude with .performances to-night and tormoreow(Sunday) evening. - A WARNING TO ADDICKS. COMING TO IT. Baltimore American. -' - "I see there's talk of taking more of the Indians' lands. After awhile, suppose. they'll have nothing but the memory of their oiyce vast holdings." "That's so. They'll have nothing but mental reservations." A , , - V-T The .Nonpareil ManS $JM L , v _ " Casually- Observed. ' Z\ % W e can't hear what .the ice men are skying, but we are due shortly to "find out what it' was. , . . , ^ - . , . - y - * " s * Q Q $$ 8 . ' * - ' 1 "" .People are generally advised to practice what they preach, but the total absti* - nence bar tenders certainly will not preach what they practice. " * ^ ,*,- . * . ' * $$$$ " ' The Rochester Democrat complains of the telephone shouter who yells into -th# * phone in a high-pitched voice,- as if central had a tin ear. Th e fine instrument* of the day are as sensitive as the most perfect human ear, and one can make oneself easily understood a thousand miles away by talking in a low, natural tone of voice. You may tell the telephone shouter this, but it makes no difference. H will holler Into the receiver like a loon, just The same. It is a habit, and if you bav't * it central won't like you any more. '"''..'- -- ' . - ' $$$$ $ Anoka attorneys have: agreed to give no legal advice without fee,.. Th e other day a potato-digger called on an attorney regarding a trivial matter. ' After the client had been answered, he started to leave. "Hold on," said the shark. "Toa owe me a dollar." "What for?" asked the man of the soil. "For legal advice," said the attorney. Th e ox-walloper vowed he never would pay it, and went to see another legal leech, wh om he asked if the charge was just. Th e attorney $aid it was,, and'the questioner started to.leave. "Hold on," said the "attorney. "You ' owe me:a dollar/' An d he explained that he had also given legal advice. Tb farmer"j?aid both bills, but when he sees a lawyer's sign now he crosses his finger* and "ducks ," His.opinion of the law has been strangely modified. - P '..-' r-'/' - 3 .!$ '' '.-.-'. ~- ' . * : W e received by ./mail this week an old book catalogue of a Ne w York dealer, who said that in consequence of the prospective tearing down of his shop to build a gi'eat office block, he was having. a "removal sale" of "many items' otT gret value and interest offered at a reduction of former prices." There were two book* that any bibliophile might think of ordering until the prices casually caught the eye. Then most of us would He right down. Th e first,book was described as follows: EMERSON (Ralph Waldo). EFsays. Second Series, First Edition, 12mo., cloth, un- - cut (some 1 - Inscription o fly-leaf: "Joh n G. Whittles wit. h toe respects of R. W. Emerson , - Concord, Oct. 3 344." Many passages hare .eon marked by Mr. Whlttier as hjmg at- tracted his particular attention. Also ^'ith book-label signed by Whittier's executor certifying that the rolnme came yfrom Whittier's Library. A.book given by Emerson to Whittier is.certainly attractive, but the dealer, in his price, has seen to it that."the punishment fit the crime." , Th e other book is a first folio of Shakspere, 1623. I t is described thus: SHAKSPEEE FIRST. .-P'olto.'in a rich an: Old Englis h Cottag e rough t gilt edges , in the FINES T POSSIBL E , by RIVIERE, enclosed In a levant morocco slip case $3,500.00 f v ^These are two very interesting itemsbut we are worrying along without them for the present. . ' 3 3 $... The Deadwood Pioneer-Tmes, the Custer Chronicle and other sensible Black Hills papers are much disgusted over the "bad man" prominence given by eastern .reporters, to Seth Bullock of their locality. The publications are as annoying to Mr. Bullock as they are disgusting to his acquaintances in the Hills and other partfl of the northwest. Mr. Bullock has not sought notoriety nor posed as a bad man , nor has he killed anybody for sport or wantonness. It is true, however, that in his dress and speech he is a typical westerner, and for this reason, probably, ap- pealed to Best. 1844 bindingpattern,l of ful crimson lerftut morocco super extra, r eastern reporters as a dime novel hero. By the stories printed yqtr might think that when Mr. Bullock visited the White House he dashed down Pennsyl- vania avenue on a dead gallop with the bridle in his teeth, standing.in his stir- rups, shooting with pistols in each hand and yelling like a Sioux Indian charged full of drug store whisky and crazed with delirium. .Happily such was not at all the case. Mr. Bullock left Washington without killing a-mannot even a correspondent. When Robson and Crane acted the "Comedy of Errors" together, Mr. Crane'i Dromio was the most notable feature of the performance, for while Robson simply represented himself in the garb of the Syracuse servant. Crane gave an excellent exhibition of his mimetic powers by duplicating the Dromio of his associate. H e thus describes the opening night: "It was one of the most intensely exciting nights I ever experienced behind the scenes. In making up, Robson dropped a huge daub of grease paint on the - front of his tunlb. Out of pure consideration for art, I painted a similarly dirty device on my garment. But Robson nearly destroyed the fine fabric of consistency, to the construction of which I had sacrificed the cleanliness of my atttre. by walk- ing on absent mindedly in the second act with a smoking cigar protruding from his mouth. Just previous to his entrance in the first act he declaimed his speech in the wings, and from this I took the key, which I had to hold constantly in mind. My lines were only partly committed, so that between thinking of Robson'a peculiar, voice and mannerismswhich I was expected to imitate faithfullyand of my own speecheswhich should have been delivered with equal fidelity to ShakspereI sweltered in body and mind all night." It was at the time of the exhibition in 1867. A Japanese embassy weht to Pari to treat for three free ports in France, in return for which France was to have three in Japan. Th e negotiations proved short and amicable. "Make your choice," said Japan. "We will choose afterward." The minister of foreign affairs selected Yokohama, Yedo and Hanyang. The embassy made no objection they simply smiled and went their*way. Some time afterward Japan sent word that the three ports mentioned were agreed to, and in return Japan desired Havre, Marseilles and Southampton. This last named greatly amused the French officials. They never laughed *o much before, and certainly never since. Southampton a French port! Gently, but unmistakably they explained the situation. "Southampton is in England," they replied. "We know that," came the response, "bu t then Hanyang is in Korea." Whereupon the French officials were silent and thoughtful. JUSTUS MILES FORMA N , "THEgGARDEN OF LIES" * A BOOK OF EXTRAORDINARY ASSOCIATION'S. leavesnspotted), * Which will be published as a daily serial in The ^ Journal commencing Monday, March 16. This is . an exceedingly strong story, a very novel concep- "' , tion and thoroughly interesting. It is well written -- v and has already taken rank as one of the most popu- ^ * * .\ lar books of the day, though only recently published. ^V , HOW CRANE MIMICKED R0BS0N Leslie's Monthly. JAPANESE DIPLOMACY London Spare Moments. Author*of the Romance spMM^Mi&^. 4 ^ - i if t i V $525.00 ornatelyMANNERe tooled t . -"'.,-' : I - S * :. &J