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THE MOBBING TIMES, 3KTSTDAX, APRIL 5, 1897. tEtmcxs (Vousg, Eytsiag and suxdat) Bj THE WASHINGTON TIMES Co. HUl CHINS BUILDING iComnEAST coiinee Toth ax d Sts. U elophoues Editorial Roods, -JS1 l'usincs Offlco, 1040 ITW 10HK OFFICE, KH)" TltATT IJUILDrNO I "ct o ninjror Evening Edition, One Cent Bwcdiy Eiliuon ,....'lhrea Cents iJcutlilj, bv Carrier Knrnirc rnu bunflnv....Tliirrv-nvo Cents Evening.... .. Hurt' Cents Nonmijr. ) E cuing and Fiftt Cests fcuudaj. J BY MAIL POSTAGE PREPAID Morning. Evenlns and Sunday BOo Morning and Sunday ...., 35o ExcuUiQuU Sundav .... 3Go WASHINGTON. 1IOXDAI, APRIL 5. A Strait-Jncltctod House. In his vvell-reiuenibered Centurv Maga zine article, the Hon Thomas B. Reed wrote "The sjstcm of avoiding action on important measures, ov means or tliese clogging rules, lias done much to de moralize the House " In another place lie refers o them as "a species of straifc Jacket, which, though voluntarily 1m Iioed, is ao great a proof of unsound mind as if some asvlum had ordered it " From tliese apostolic utterances we feel comiiellud to muke the deduction that their distinguished author was unable to escape iniection bv Hie demoralization of the Douse of wlifcli lie nude meniion, and that lie must consider tlie humility with which the Republican majority now Rears his "strait-Jacket" to be quite as conclusive of mental alienation as if the restraining garment had l een ordered bj an asjlum instead of an Autocrat. In this ievr we think he has the country with him The leading journals of his party aie growling viciously over the P'cture of the popular assembly of the nation gagged and bound and unable to transact business, all in order that the elements and interests which failed to bciecta Presidential canuidate from Maine and preferred "some good Ohio man," may be cruelly punished for their innppie ciation. The Hartford Courant, whose Republicanism is below leproach, is not satisfied with a positiou -which stems to assume that, the Dingley bill having- been pi&sed, there la nothing more for the Houe to do It save "The assertion that noth ing lias ailed the country any of the time but the piescnt tariff is stupid Ignorance when it is not conscious and reckless mendacity "' So the Courant, and ninny other exponents q business interests, want to see the pndlocks taken from the mouths of members, and the door of legislation opened. They want borne general busine5-, since that is sup posed by the people and most Eepresenta ties in Congress to be about what the latter arc sent here for But the Autocratis a being of character nobly firm He may yield to the pressure, and the pi otestntkras f commerce, mnnu iaetuie and transportation, or he may not- "When he is in opposition -Me Is positive in antagonism to all wrongs, oppresons and rules "When in power and control ho is equallj as firm in their full and merciless application No overseer on a plantation down South in slaveiv dajs ever was firmer. Loid Pnuucefote. If the gossip of government circles In .London is to be believed, among the hon ors which are to be dealt around to cele orate the diamond jubilee of Queen Vic toria there will be a peerage for Sir Julian rauncefote The distinguished diplomat In question distinctly and richly deserves recognition and promotion at the hands of Ills sovereign Ilia tact and wisdom in handling the difficulties of his position in this countiy nav e been w onderful. During the second administration of Mr Cleve land, to all intentsand purposes, he was the American Secretary of State, directing the foreign policy of the United States and as much of itb internal policv a. he cared to, always consistently in the interests of the British government Circumstancea have rendered his task in this regard not easy, but feasible He has enjoyed the solid backing of the organ ized money power of Great Britain and Europe, and has worked efficiently in th.it connection for the subjection of the Ameri can people to financial slavery under its " 3oku. He has had the advantage of will ing agentsin thepereous of a nominal Presi dent and a nominal Secretary of State, both owned and controlled by that same power. But for all that his mission has been one requiring abilities of the highest order, and he has demonstrated their pos session in a degree amounting to genius Really we were afraid that the loss of the arbitration treatv might costSir Julian his promotion to the House of Lords, and are Idad to think we were mistaken Abide from that heartrending failure, he has ac complished quite enough to deserve a simple barony, winch we presume Is about -what he will get, and he has our congrat ulations iThe Salvntiou Army and Pauperiisru. Commander Booth-Tucker has written a little essay on the pauper policy of America, which ets forth in a clear and concise manner his ideas as to tilings -which should be done, and the way to do them He compares the various methods or religious work to the shingles on the roof of a house. They may overlap, but fcave the time, trouble and expense re quired to fit edge to edge with absolute exactness He doesn't think it is neces earj that people should all work alike, and recognizes the fact that in man's T ork, as in nature's, there is a tremendous amount of apparent waste. Thus he does not believe in tearing down the work of any other religious body; and this, It may be said, is a, strongr point of the Salvation Arm They have too much to do to waste a great deal of time in denouncing Other churches The plan of the Salvation Army for colonizing the pauper efement of the great cities has been much discussed. The commander gives as one of his reasons Jor the scheme, that the main cause of jpaupcrism and crime is the centripetal j force of the cities, by which certain dis tricts are overcrowded Thcie is tome thing in this The harder. Judges of the poor are often found among men and wo men brought up in the old fashioned coun try community. They are apt to take the view that there is no need of a man's being a pauper. In the countrv , food is more accessible, and there is no exorbitant rent to pax. On the other hand, work is harder to get The Salvation Armj would provide work in the countij, o that the idle man may be drawn out to the woods and fields, instead of into the slums Commander Booth-Tucker characterizes some or the present policies in a tercand forcible way. The ostrich policy, he says, is pursued by burying the head In the Sand and denjing that there is any trouble The football policy consists in kicking the tramp from one citv to the other, requir ing of him only that lie get out of town. The crucifixion policy treats the pauper as a criminal, and comes in loi Coinmaudei Booth's unqualified contempt. The in quibitoiiul policy lets n man starve while the philanthropist is finding out about his past life. It will cost, in this waj, 75 centb to get 25 dow n a nrnii's throat, and even then it will olten go down the wrong throut. The Salvation Aimv schemes are as many as the countries into w hlch the army goes. In the city it is found that cheap food and lodging houses sav ed ninny people from starvation or loss of self respect Another feature of Salvation Army vvorlr in London, and to some ex tent in America, is the Itcue Home for Fallen Women It is claimed hv the army that So per cent of the w omen who pasb through these homes are restored to lives of virtue The Prison Gate Homes, which receive the ex-criminal at the most dan gerous time in his life, when he is struggling witli temptntions within and without, are claimed to have been the means of saving SO per cent of their inmate. The hold which the Salvation Army has on the vvorldis due to the fact that it works among the very lowest and most down trodden dabs, the people w hoin no other organization has been able to reach. No platitudes or hjpocrisy 'vvlll go down with the professional criminal or piufessional vagrant "Whatever maj be thought of the peculiar doctrines of the Salvation Aims and their form of worship, their ideas on social problems are the result of soul searching experience, and should be lis tened to with respect "When a man hns gone where even the polite can liaidly keep order, and a woman has succeeded in winning the affection and respect of people who would never be suspected of feeling either when this man and this woman come to us and tell us what we can do forthe criminal classes, their opinion is worth something "Whatev erits faults, the Salv ation Armj is notxisionarv, and it has new:r been accused of getting rich at the expense of the public. Coining Home to ltoo-t. The Treasury is reported as issuing in structions to collectors of customs aiHior izmg them to collect and retain "sam ples'' of all goods imported, in order that thej may secure ev idence upon which to work the "retroactive" illegality in the future, should the Dingley bill ever become law II appears that this cool authorization to seize and sequester propcrtv belonging to inipoiters Is not universally relished by the latter. Indeed, some of Uietn have employed eminent counsel to ascer tain whether they ought to have the re taining collectors ai rested foi plain , ev crj dav larceny, or only proceed agtinsL them, in a more civil manner, for trespass The beauty of the whole thing is that the Treasury, the collectors and the importers all know that the so-called retro ictive clauso of the tariff bill has not the sllghte&x chance of passing the Senate, and that it would be utterly null and void, as bein unconstitutional, if it were pas-ed Hence, the brutal annojancc of the importers under the circumstances is almost incomprehensible to them. They represent and rorm a considerable portion of a class of people in this coun try who spent much time and more money to secure a Republican Administration. They are only getting what they bought. The Doom of Rivera. Although the proceedings of the court martial which tried Gen Ituis Rivera and Col. Bacallas, his chief of starf, at San Cristobal, have not been promulgated, there is no doubt that he has been sentenced to death, and It is probable that he. has been shot before this time If that should prove to be the fact, it will amount to one more evidence of our national disgrace. There never was a tune before in the history of the United States when the right of belligerency would have been withheld from a people struggling for llbertj nearly w ithia sight of us, under the conditions and circumstances that exist on the island of Cuba today. Wc are tired of arguing the question of nghfc or duty in the matter. Almost the entire weight of accepted authority on international law makes that recognition mandatory upon us, as a ques tion of common humanity. A dozen glorious American precedents stare us in tlie face and asJc usi f the nation has growncowardly aud heartless, in the last days of the cen tury whose earlier decades found govern menb and people ever hand in hand in the encouragement and support of any people of the Western hemisphere fighting Tor liberty against European despotism. What reasons and causes are at the bot tom of this bac degencraUon from the faith and courage of the Fathers? We still can grow rcasonablj mad about Turkish pillage and muidcr in Armenia or Crete, and we can raise money and food to send to famine-stricken India, How docs it hap pen, comcldently, that, with cool and 6ilent indirferciicc, we can witness the cold-blooded murder of gallant gentlemen, prisoners of war, or the burning aliv e of old ladles, the public auction or young girls, sold to allfeot shame;or thefiendish butchery of little babies in Cuban streets; all close to our shores, in the hemisphere we hypocritically claim to leadiu the paths of humanity and Christiau civ illzatlon? Is it because Lombard street and Wall street demand tlie crushing of the brave people of Cuba, and that we snould aid Spain in the atrocious work, all in order that inv cstments in Spanish bonds may be snveJ? Tli ere was too good reason for be lieving that to be the fnct while Cleve land and Olnev were in power. They arc not so now, and wc look with sustained confidence, but with growing impatience, to see a revolution toward the precepts an 1 practices of better American days; of dajs when the cry of outraged, tortured humanity could be heard above the clatter of the stock ticker. Are the Spanish sentiments of Sugarand Bonds to outweigh the national desire to give the poor heroic Cubans a fighting" chance by acknowledging their belliger encj? Does the Cleveland-Olney com plaeencj toward Spanish butchery still af fcel us that we should longer tolerate the atrocities or that creature Wcjler, whom Henri Roehcfort calls "a wild beast with a human face.''' What would England do If that power were in our shoes in relation to the ltivein cae. In 1S78 two brothers named Gue slioff werenrrested by the Ttirksin Eastern Roumelia and condemned to be hanged Lord Derby, then English foreign minister, promptly telegraphed the queen's nmb.w sador toaInform the sultan tliutif the pris oner were executed the British ileetthen neai Constantinople would takelnstant sat isfaction for their deaths. They were at once leleascd, and one of them todaj in the minister of finunc e of Bulgaria. The application of the story to the matter of Gen Rivera and Col Baca lias explains itself. Some of thepluikniul spliitof Lord Doiby would be a welcome manifestation to the American people if they should Imp. pen to seeitaround the State Depaitment It is the kind of spirit that makes men and nations great CotisJiiH mid llusliNB.ionlcw. While the armed Rashi-Bazouks employed bv the Christian admirals are massaoreing peaceful Cretan peasant families, with drawing to tlie interior under "safe conduct," and tlie Queen's "Jackie's" are engaged in the unwelcome task of seizing the food and deatrojing the dwell ings of Christlin villagers, on the conti nent, so the dispatches advise us, the money kings and tlie dynastic families belonging to them, aie making u heroic effort to avert the horrors of w.ir, .is far as their own Inti tests arc- severally con cerned, and to confine the theater of pil lage and murder to one unfortun ite Island of the Aegean Sea. Tuesdaj will be the nnnlv ersary of Greek independence, and European opinion Is to the effect that on that day the Greek XnUau.il Society, which Is far more pow erful than King George and his govern ment, may demand war, In which rase it will follow at once. Otherwise there are hopes foi peace One report has it that not all of the powers hav e-j et agreed to tlie blockade The general situation is more muddled than ever. Eastern Europe Is in the condition of a powder magazineln which anintoxlcated individual is hniokmg pipes and strlling matches Perhaps it maj not blow up, and perhaps otherwise. Just because the House voted to put copper on the free list nomc people sup pose it is there; but it is not The Dingley bill was "Jammed through" without the least refennce to what the House did, or did not, do with it It went to the Senate in the shape that the House of Reed, and not the suppressed House of Representativ es, wanted It, and copper was not put on the free list Officcseeking interest is hi ing trans ferred to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where launches, sloops and oyster boats are in great demand for use in intercepting the Dolphin Shepherd McKinley w ill not lose his faithful, bleating flork bj that little game unless he puts out to sea. Theu, If he lost his reckoning and got more than three murine league's from the cmst, he would be out of the country, and Mr. Hobart could belzc his Job With exceeding pain we note a new at tack upon a cherished American institu tion by the pro-foreign authorities ot New York city Pupils in the- public schools have Ik en forbidden to eat pic for their noon lunches. What wouldold Peter Cooper or Commodore Vanderbilt or Horace. Gree ley hav c said to a thing like that-: ilarch was a pretty good Wilson monWi for the Treasury. The receipts for the month aggregated S3G17,G(i2, compared Willi a total of $20,04.1, L49 in. March, 1S96, an increase of $10,170,313. Tiie expendi tures amounted to $27,212,097, against $27,271,993 in March, 1S90, a decrease of $G1,99G With more than ten milltonN Treasury surplus in a single month, the necessity for "jamming through'' the tariff oC course is obv ious. ,, The Republican legislature of New York, seems dcteimhied to compel the city clubs to take out saloon licenses, in which case the Metropolitan Republicans warn their country colleagues that the Democrats will sweep the city at the Ne.t State election Secretary Sherman is stated to have said that he did not believe that General Riviera would be killed. It is probable, therefore, that the President has made some effort to save him, as we felt sure he would The Hon. Benton McMlllIn has a way ot going straight to the point In the House on Saturday he said "The sad spectacle is presented to the world of our havjug to contribute charity to the sub jects of Great Britain in one part of the earth, while she Is Lombarding-Christians in another part of the earth " Mr. McMillin is right, and the contrast is as shameful to England as our national at titude in relation to Culm is disgraceful to vs How He Committed Suicide. (From the Chicago Chronicle ) Gen Thaddeus H. 3tanton, the paj master general of the army, called at old Fort Brjdgcr, in Wjomlng, about twenty 3 cars ago, to ste an old friend named Hast ings, w ho was one of the custodians of the abandoned post. He met a man named Will iams and inquiredfor Hastings. "Oh, Hast ings is dead," said Williams. "Dead! ' tald Stanton In surprise "What did he die of" "Committed suicide," said Williams ' The devil jou savl" responded Stanton. "How did he commit suicideZ" "He called me a liar," answered Williams. ALL ABOUT J. ADDISON PORTER Hfcnry 'Miiciuihuid Pronounces the Pi csidcnt'g Secretary n Success. Mr. Henrj MucrarJand, In the Phila delphia Rccoid, gives-his opinion of Presi dent McKJuloy'tj private secretary in the following interesting manner. Mr John Addison Porter is a success as the first stcietorv to the President. He promises to be as successful in his office as any of his predecessors, back to Col Timothv Lear, who held that le latlon to President Washington It may seem to be prcmutuic to record such an opinion, bcrore the first mouth of the new Administration is out, but It Is en llrelj safe to do to; for the first two or three weeks of service shows the ch Tr ader of the ilian who holdb this place, and his reputation rs usually made for good or ill In that time. Poor Private" Secietary Thinner's repu tation was made before he got here by that extraordinary interview pub lished in Detroit, w'hun he accepted Mr, Cleveland's offer of the place, in which he was quoted jik saving, in very grandiose language, that this proud honor would be his priceless hequest to his posterity There can be no doubt, 1 think, that ho was the most unpopular private secretary of our time, aijd qt it is hard foi me to realize this, because he seemed to me to hav e an agreeable manner and an obliging mind. He hnd m.irkcd self-respect, but I saw nothing of the arrogance and vain glory reported by others. His chief mis take was in guarding President Cleveland so closely and vviui so little dlHCriniinatloi. And not simply with newspapei men, most of whoi' did not expect to see the President, mirt many of whom, it must frankly be sa d, did not care to, although thnt wub because they did not know him; nor even with the leas well-known and Influential Senators, Representatives or othoL public men, but with men of the first rank in public- life, and men w ho wercMi. Cleveland's trusted and intimate friends 1 know , foi example, tli it Chief Justice Fuller was more than once turned awav by Private Secietary Thurber. Now, such instances (nad I know, Irom the lips of prominent men who were In timate with Mr. Cleveland, that they oc curred over and over ngaln, and with a number of diffeicnt individuals) showed a lack of Judgment, for In all the occasions that I have la mind Mr. Cleveland would have been as glad to see his callers as they would have beta to see him Tliese facts explode the theory some times advanced that Mr. Thurber, in these matters, was simply acting under Mr. Cleveland's orders and ought not to be held responsible. The truth Is, Mr. Cleve land probably never heard of auy of these instances, for the men who were turned aw ay hav e told me, in several of the cases, that tlie neser thought of speaking to Mr. Cleveland about it, but simply waited a more convenient season lor seeing him. But the contrast between Thurber and Poller Is as great us the contrast be tween Major Hnlford and Thurber, to bny nothing of Col. Lamont, hitherto the model of private secretaries Mr. Porter had tlie adv autage over all the other three men of having lived for several venrs lu Wash ington, and in the best circumstances for knowing public men and public affairs To know his uncle, the late William Walter Phelps, was a political as well as a lib eral education, and Mr. Porter saw Wash ington under his guidance, and this of It self w as the best preparation hecotild hav e possibly had for the work he Is now doing He came here know ing the principal men among the Senators, the Representatives and the Washington correspondents He had met them often and under the best auspices, and iiq knew their point of view and how things looked hi hiud the scenes New spaper men are, or course, thi best pri vnte secietarii's to Presidents and other public orricers, and ho the very fact thnt Porter is a newspiptr man was of the greitest service tp hiiiiT taken with his former experience In Washington Take the newspaper men, through whose eyes the country generally sees what goes on at Washington Mostly of them, lightly or wrongly, have for four j ears felt them selves tobeunwelcr meatthe Wiiite House, and have gone there as little as possible, and mini of them not at all. During tiie past three weeks th-" hav e been made to feel just the onpcsltc, so that when Presi dent McKhiIc invited them to an informal reception on Tuesday afternoon there were more of them present than had assembled together for any purpose In manv a day I do not suppose that as vet Mr Porter has been nbie to give out much news, except of a routine character, such as is given outeverv day at the White House un der all administrations, and he certainly has not been able to let manv of the news paper men talk privately with the Piesi dant. for there li is not been an opportunity for that; jet he has made them allfeelthut he Is their frii-nd and at their service - Senators, Representatives, the new Cabi net officers, and other public men who have come in contact with the new secre tary to the President, all give the same testimony. Everj day he has had to meet scores of prominent-men, each thinking much ot himseir;. munj or them with con stituents by their side, watching to see how thej are treated; and, although it has not been possible Tor him to let them all see the President promptly, or, in munj cacs, at the first call, I have jet to hear of the first word of complaint against his treatment of them. This or itself is a high tribute to his patience and politeness, but I have been hearing over and over again more positive praise from thoc who felt particularly pleased. Tlie secretary of the President under this Administration will be even more than any or the private secretaries have been the right hand or the President, for there is a xerj' Rpccial friendship be tween them, Mr JVorter said the other daj that he would not have undertaken a similar office for anv other man living, and Mr. McKlnlej "hows constantly his confidence in Mr Porter, and a certain affectionate feeling, like that of an cider brother. The office demands personal zeal as well as unflagging- industry- to meet all the re quirements and perform all the multi farious duties, fT the incumbent is Assist ant President all of the time and Acting President part of the time, at one-tenth of the salary and with none of the glory. Yet it has its compensations in the un rivaled opportunlt j-for seeinghistory made, and even for helping to make Iton a grand scale, in the sense or being an important part of the greatest Government in the world and in the enjojmenc of the ap preciation and confidence of the Presi dent, to saj- nothing of such social pleas ures as the White no'ife affords. 3Ir. Cleveland's Portrnlt. (From the New York Mail and Express ) It is always custoniarj- to hang the por trait of the ExXPresident in the White House, but, stiangc to say, although Mr. Cleveland served two terms, his roi trait docs not adorn the walls of the Executive Mansion, where those of the other Presi dents hang Tresidcpt Harrison's i icture is hung-in the Ted rarlor, but there is a vacant place awaiting that of Mi. Cleve land Not on nis Hack. (From the Atlanta Constitution.) Keep this in recollection And smooth ,the rugged track: The farmer wants protection, But not uporn ids back! Too heavy arelns burdens In country and in town. He wants protection from the trusts That grind the to'ilcrs downl RODE WITH GEN. SHERIDAN. Death of Major Miller at His Home in PittHburg. rittsburg.Pa .April 1 Major Ch irles II. Miller, a cousin of the lato Tranklin B: Gowan, formei president of the Phila delphia and Reading Railway, and who as a staff officer rode by Sheridan's side on that famous twentj-mlle ride to Win chester, died in Pittsburg some daj-s ago fiom injuries iccelved by a collision with a bicycle. At- the opening of the war Mr. Miller enlisted in the Fortj-elghth Pennsylvania Infantry, which played a conspicuous part in the dajs of the rebellion. This was the regiment that fired the mine at Peters burg. He was promoted-to second Iletitcuantr for braverj', and was stationed at Tort Clark, Ilatreras Inlet.la 1862. He resigned ids commission and on. Sep tember 1G of the same jear re-unlisted in the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalrj. He was promoted to assistant adjutint-gen-cral of the First Brigade, third division cavalry corps, Armj' or the Potomac, serv ing In the Wilson raid and in all the bat tles throughout the Shcnandoih Vallev'. During the Appomattox campaign lie was with Cuter, and In March, 1865, he was bre cited major for bravery on the field of battle. He was musteredoutot service in September of that jear. Since then he has" been engaged in mercantile pur suits Jib bowed of having been in all the important battles of the war, coming out of them safefj'. A week ago he was crossing the street at Keith and Irwin avenues, Allegheny, when Morton H. Morganstern, an (n grav er, of No 59 Fulton street, Allegheny, approached on a bicycle. He rang Ilia hell and Major Miller heard itaud paused The bicyclist slowed up, but, by a misunder standing, started ahead and collided with Major Miller. Major Miller was thrown to the rave ment and became unconscious lie was taken to the Allegheny General Hospital and was later removed to his home where he died. UHH DKU'IS Or CITIES. Combinative Population Seeing to Have Little to Do With It. New York, April I. The Greater New York will begin business as u. municipality, so to speak, on January 1, 1898, with a municipal debt la excess of $200,000,000, a debt larger than that of iay four other cities ot the country. There is a general opinion, for which, however, there Is no real warrant, that the debt of American municipalities Is based upon their popu lation, area, uge, and resources; but the fact is that while these elements regu late the running expenses of American cities, the, debt is rixed rather bj the form of gov eminent they have enjoved or suf fered from in the past Boston and St. Louis are cities of the same stee verj nearly ( the differenccin population between the two was less thnu .',000 by the last ceiiHiis), jet the munkipal debt of Bos ton is three times greater than that or St. Louis, while, on the other hand, the tax rate in St. Louis is 50 per cent greater per $1,000 of v aluatiou than it is in Boston. Louisville, a city of 200,000 jopulation, has a debt of nearly $9,000,000, but Covington, in the same State, with a population of 37,000, bj the last census, has a debt or $2,100,000, and Newport, Ky., a city or 24,000, has a elebt of $1,100,000 Chicago, which hasa ronula tion considerably in excess of 1,200,000, has a municipal debt or $17,000,000, whereas New Orleans, which has a popu lation of 250,000, onc-rifth ot Chicago's, has a debt of $15,000,000, and some local improvements under waj' will materially increase It Indianapolis, with a popu lation at the last census of more than 100,000, lias a debt of $1,108,000, where as Evansville, winch bj the last Federal cen-iish.id.ipapulvtIonofonlj 50,000, one half as large, has a debt or $2,100,000 Th munfclpil debt ot Kansas City is $4,000,000, and Sioux- City, Iowa, owes $1,200,000 The municipal debt or Phil adelph'a is $2,000,000, and or Pittsburg $12,000,000, but Providence, which has about one-half the population of Pittsburg-, has a municipal debt of $13,250,000 Mil waukee and Detroit arc two cities hav ing almost the some population 205,000 bj the census of 1890. Since then Detroit lias increased more rnpldlj in population, and the area included in it is somewhat larger than the urea of the Wisconsin cifcv-. Yet the debt or Detroit Is $J,a00,000, whereas the debt of Milwaukee is $0,200,000 San Antonio, Tex , an .inch nt town of less than 10.000 persons, has been wide awake enough to contract a. municipal debt ronsiderablv in excess of $2,000,000, whcieas the city of Fort Worth, which has be u generally alluded to as being a thriving and enter prising settlement, has adebt or$l ,300,000 onh. In New York State, Buffalo has a bonded debt of $12,000,000, Syracuse ot $o,S00,000, Troy or $1 ,200,000 onl-, Long Island Citj:' of $3,500,000, Yonkers or $3,000,000, Albany or $4,100,000, Roches ter of $8,100,000, Utica of $300,000, roughleepsiu of $1,700,000, Dunkirk of $275,000, and Mount Vernon, N. Y , of $800,000. FIVK HANCHMEN PEItlSIT. They Were CmiKlit in the "Wyom ing Hll77iird. Chejenne. Wjo , April 4. Five ranch men, names unknown, from Mitchell's Bottoms, western Nebraska, perished in the bliiourd which has been mging for the past two dajs, while attempting to drive to Chejenne. The bodies of two of the men w ere found jesterday, several miles from a sliced camp, which thej had uvidently tried to leach after unhitching their hores and abandoning their wagons in Tuesdaj night's storm. Itls feared many others, lunchmen and sheer -herders, have perished. Coutrems Predicts EarttiquaKes. Guanijuato, Mexico, April 4. Junn N. Contreras, the noted astronomer and earth quake piophct, has made the following prognostications. Earthquakes will occui during the first two weeks of April in the ione comprising Vera Cruz and Mexico and in Oaxnea, Guelro and Colima on April 10. Heav v northers will blow at Vera Cruz and Tampico from the 0th to the 7th, with a possibilltv- or rain from the 12th to the 14th. Earthquakes arc also announced for the second half ot April, superceded bj heavy gales and rains along the gulf coast. The Old Heroism and the New. (From the London Dailj Telegraph ) On one occasion Gordon tojd Cecil Rhodes the storj or the offei of a roomful of gold which had been made to him bj- the Chinese government after he had subdued treTal Ping rebellion. "What did jou do?" said Rhodes "Refused it, of ccuise." said Gor don, "what would jon have done?" "I would have taken it," said Rhodes-, "and as many more roomfuls as they would give t me It is no use for us to have big ideas if w e hav e nob got the monej' to carry them out." Mr. McMillin' Stroke. (From the New York Journal ) In his speech on the tariff question, Hon. Benton McMillin was so unkind an to h fer to the daj s when President McKinloj and Speaker Reed urged that sugar be placed on the free list. This thing of digging up the inconsistencies of our public men. will sooner or later cause the foimation of a. society for the prevention of cruelty to politicians. Mil. BA1ELY AT HOME. Vurylni; Opinions of His Constitu ents! as to the Man mid HJs Dress. Gainesville, Texas, April 3 There is nothing new in Representative Bailcj's re fusal to accept President McKlnley's invi tation to" dinner because lie would not wear a dress suit. Bets have been offereu here and accepted lu all seriousness Chat Bailey would give way to the demands of good breeding- and orrfcial etiquette before he lutd been long in Washington. Subsequent to his first election to Con gress, in 1890, Mr. B Uley openly boasted, when taunted by friends, that come what might ho would never wear a dress suit. He declared that he had lived in three unlversitj towns and had been a welcome guest in the best circles of Southern society without ever wearing clothes at once "dudidh" and "menial," and thafrhe would not go back, on his custom now that he was to enter public life in Washington. He has been watched closely bj' his friends since tils first election, but no wager lias tlus far been lost by any person who bet that he would not "put on a swallow tail " Many o fMr. Bailey's constituents have believed, however, tii.it lie would sig nalize his reception of the high honor of leader or his party in the House of Repre sentatives by casting aside hiff well grounded prejudice against the wearing ot a dress suit. They were not prepared for tlie shock w hlch has been given them by the young leader's refusal to atttnd a dinner giv en by the President becauseof his inability to comply witli a Pimple require mentof tiie etiquette of good breeding. Opinion differs here, as it Las differed ever since Mr Bailey became a citizen of Texas, as to whether his violation of the prescribed rules of society is due to demagogy oi pure eccentricity. He has firmer friends and rrore bitter enemies in this, his home city, than he has elsewhere In this Congressional district. Politically, he is eulogized on the one hand as a second Jefferson and on the otheris denounced as an arrant de-magogue It Is fair to iay that ail intelligent and observing persons believe that socially he roses for effect and courts the notoriety which his habitb of dress bring him. Bailey came to Gainesville iu 1885. He had boundless political ambition, and se lected this locality as a good one to grow up with. It was understood that he was to be backc d financially bj' a rich relative livhiglu Philadelphia, Pa., and such proved to be the case. Mr. Bailey receiv ed welcome assistance from his benefactor for fomc years ami made rapid progress in his political career. Within two years he be came known as the "young Demosthenes of the Texas Dcmocracj-." and in 1890 he was sent to Congress bv' a plurality of nearly 23,000 Aotes. His wilful disregard of the conventional rnlcs of socletj has uot Injured him in the estimation or his constituents. Out side of the larger towns very few dress suits are ever seen In the Tilth Con gressional district of Texas, and it is safe to predict that when it becomes gener ally known that Bailey "wouliln't get Inter a dress suit tcr go ter McKInlej's dlaner," as one man expressed it, his popularity iu the district will be Increased. There is a heavj Populist vote outside of the cities and they will be as proud of Ballcj- now as the Pops of the Medicine Lodge district of Kansas are or Jerry Simpson, because of their Itlier that he does not war socks in Washington During the aliuostdozen years Mr Bailey has lived in Gainesville his drcsn has been ever the same He has worn a long black coat, with trouers anil vest to match, an easv-'lttinjT turnover collar, a white lawn tie, and o plaited shirt, with expansive bosom of Immaculate whiteness, in which are tw o small diamond stutL. His head has alwaj'S been crowned with a black slouch hat, which he has tanen care should be of the best grade of wool He ha attended social functions manv times dressed as described, and the fact that evenlngclothes were generally worn by the gentlemen present has not seemed to disturb him at all New York Herald HIGH EXPEOSIVE TESTS. Experiments With Shells to Be Made at Indian Dead. Tests will shortly be made at the Indian Ilea. I proving station to determine to what extent high explosives in non-armor-pierc-Ing shells can be fired from modern rifles Some weeks ago the Navy experimented with a shell carrying 200 pounds or gun cotton, rired rrom a specially constructed 12 inch gun, but the results came near proving disastrous ro the piece on account ot the thinness of the walls of the shell They were then not over a quarter of an inch thick, and the shock- to the projectile by the tremct.doiis momentum given by the powder charge, caused one or thern to collapse in the rifle and a terrible explo sion was narrowly averted. Two or ttiree other shells were fired at heavj armor with some success, hut the work was altogether too dangerous and un certain to be repeated, and the tests were abandoned until improv emcnta were made in the method ot constructingthe projectile Capt. Sampson is having projectiles made with double tlie wall thickness, and when ready for testing they will be capable of carrying, he sajs, aOO pounds of gun cotton any distance, without danger of premature explosion or injury to the gun '1 lie forthcoming trials will be most com plete, and are to be conducted out of an appropriation or $50,000 made by the last Congress to settle the question whether gun cotton can be rired in projectiles rrom Navy guns The ordnince men are of the opinion that ir such a shell Is constrm'ed aerial torpedoes will supplant automobile torpedoes in effectiveness, and that the torpedo boat w ill no longer be needed The trials will be conducted in secret, and wit nessed onlj by the officers of the Ordnance Bureau No foreign naval or army at taches will be permitted to be present, as the trials are regarded as of so much consequence that it is not proposed to let the failure or success get abroad. Gen. Coppiujrer Hotnlns Command. Omaha. Neb., April 1 Gen. Coppinger replied jesterday to the telegram from the War Department asking him if he desired a transfer from the command of the Department of the Platte to the Depaitment of Dakota, with headquarters at St raul Gen. Coppinger replied that he had no desire to leav e his present com mand. A Poisonous Individual. (From Collier's Weekly.) "Henrj. jou look verj-paie. What's the trouble?" T was stung to the quick bj" an adder this afternoon." "How did it happen?" "Why, I dropped ni at the bank, and the bookkeeper told me mj accouut was over drawn." An Oiniihu Mystery. (From the Chicago Times-Herald.) Omaha ought to take something for her airship trouble. The correspondents down there are continually seeing things at night. Greek Snnsnces. (From the Chicago Times-Herald ) Before Greece permits the Cretans' to starve several European dogs of war prob ably will be made Into sausage meat. Sound Advice. (From the Chicago Tunes-Herald.) Boil the city water. And don't drink, it afterward. 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