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j : SATURDAY, DEC. 27, 1902. '
VENEZUELA AT THE HAGUE.
The settlement of the existing- Venezuela difficulty
through the agency of The Hague tribunal will represent
a great advance among the nations toward a true Chris
tian civilization. The Globe has on more occasions than
one directed attention to the evident unwillingness of the
greater of the European powers to have recourse to The
Hague tribunal in the adjustment of their difficulties with
other peoples. The prevalence of the trouble in Venezuela
and the reputed unwillingness of Germany and England
to submit the matters in issue to The Hague has directed
the attention of the world toward the practical disregard
to which that tribunal has been subjected since its or
ganization by these two and other nations.
In the light of these facts the announced purpose of
Baron d'Estournelles de Constant to interpolate the French
government on the reassembling of the chamber concern-*
ing the disregard of article 7 of The Hague convention by
the allied powers will be received with pleasure by all
who wish that the peace tribunal shall be an actual agen
cy for the settlement of international disputes. If the two
European nations should finally agree upon the unreserved
submission of their nations to The Hague convention all
misgivings as to the view which those powers entertain of
peaceful arbitration as an agency for the settlement of in
ternational trouble will be dissipated, and friends of peace
everywhere will indeed have much cause to rejoice.
England's attitude in refusing to submit the matters
in controversy in South Africa to such form of adjust
ment might find palliation in her claim that the difficulty
was a purely internal one with which outside nations
should not be allowed to interfere. There is nothing
whatever which will justify the two nations interested
in refusing to submit their claims upon Venezuela to the
arbitrament of The Hague convention where those claims
are disputed. On the contrary, as Baron de Constant
points out, nations are no more at liberty to disregard
obligations toward each other which they have volun
tarily entered into than ar,e individuals, and if the signa
ture of The Hague convention by those powers was not a
purely farcical proceeding they ought in some way to be
held at least to the moral responsibility of passing by the
door of The Hague tribunal on occasions when they have
bound themselves as nations to enter and submit their dis
puted claims to its arbitrament.
The action of President Roosevelt in taking the initia
tive in this case cannot be too highly commended. It is
the act of a true lover of international peace. It places
the obligation squarely upon the shoulders of the nations
involved either to recognize or repudiate their obligations
as signatories to The Hague convention. German and
English diplomats are.very evidently realizing the force of
this position, and it will not be at all surprising if the
expected submission of the case to The Hague arbitration
commission should soon'be in practical operation.
It is announced that John L. Sullivan is broke again.
He has evidently lost everything except his bad habits.
When he can break these off, too, and gathers the pieces
together, there is a possibility that the many compound
fractures of different kinds which he has suffered may yet
be healed.
A JUDICIAL INQUISITION.
There is now in progress in the city of New York a
criminal proceeding which will probably result in the set
tlement of a grave question as to the constitutional rights
of the citizen.
The district attorney of New York county some time
ago, with the assistance of the police department, made a
number of sensational raids on reputed gambling pla'ees.
Among the other places visited by him was that said to be
maintained by one Richard Canfieid, in the heart of the
fashionable business residence district. The evidence se
cured as the result of this particular raid appears not to
have been adequate to secure the conviction of its reputed
proprietor. Accordingly, the district attorney has recourse
to a provision of the penal code of New York which au-
thorizes him in gambling cases to subject private citizens
to inquiry as to their knowledge of the existence of gam
bling: at a given place. - The refusal to answer questions
Submitted in such an inquisitorial inquiry is punishable
as contempt of court under the provisions of the New
York statutes.
The district attorney has had subpoenaed a number of
prominent men living in the vicinity of the reputed gam
bling- house who are believed to have gambled in Caniield's
place. | The first of these whom he has undertaken to ex
amine with a view to securing the necessary testimony re
fused peremptorily to answer the questions put to him, on
the two grounds that the answers might tend to criminate
him and that the privilege of having counsel represent
him was being denied him in the proceeding.
The disposition shown thus far in the proceedings on
the part of the court below is decidedly to sustain the
legality of the statute and to compel the witness to answer
the questions put to him concerning his visits to the
gambling house or his knowledge of the gambler and his
operations, under the penalty of being punished for con
tempt of court for refusal.
The assumed right of the state to compel a citizen to
thus surrender in a gambling inquiry personal rights which
ore recognized as unimpeachable in any other form of ju
dicial inquiry involves a question of the gravest import
affecting personal liberty. It is cc-rtain in this case to be
tested to the utmost.
There is a disposition shown to criticise District At
torney Jerome for his enforcement of the law in this case,
but the criticisms are utterly unfounded. He has, if any
thing, done a public service in putting this extraordinary
provision of law to the test. It possesses the deepest pub
lic interest and concern to have the question settled,
whether, under any circumstances whatever, a citizen dur
ing a secret inquiry and without the aid of counsel can be
forced by law to answer questions relating to his individ
ual conduct when no crime is charged against him and
when by so answering he may put himself in jeopardy.
What a blissful circumstance it is for that Minneapolis
machinist that his belief that he is a great composer is
nothing more than a delusion. If it were a reality, he
might turn out to be as unfortunate a mortal as the
Italian gentleman of that calling, Mascagni by name.
Misfortunes never come singly, 'tis said. The legisla
ture will be in seMfcon before the effects of New Year's day
are overcome, •
THE ST. PAUL GLOB "5, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1902.
ITS PROBABLE CAUSE.
It is a shameful perversion of all the privileges and
obligations attending the expression of the public senti
ment of this people that the question should be raised con
cerning the extent of the earnings of Dr. Lorenz during his
stay in this country. While the press dispatches do not
indicate how such a question came to be raised it is a
fair assumption that the practice of yellow journalism will
be found underlying the scandalous attitude taken toward
Dr. Lorenz.
It is unfortunate for this country that men are rarely
to be found in the ranks of professional or business life
who will place the accomplishment of public results in the
pursuit of their calling above the mere money gain. Such
men are ta*4>e found in great numbers in other lands, in
cluding that from which Dr. Lorenz comes. His public
labors while here, aside altogether from his private pro
fessional pursuit, ought to so endear him to the profes
sion of medicine and to all who can appreciate the nature
of his services to surgical art and medical science as to
render such inquiries concerning him or his private income
from his professional work while here or otherwise utter
ly impossible.
This case simply furnishes another illustration of the
degradation to which public sentiment and public taste are
being subjected day after day through the debasing influ
ences of the yellow type of journaiism. It is not only a
discourtesy, it is an insult Which is involved in the impu
tation cast upon Dr. Lorenz of having made his trip to the
United States purely with reference to the pecuniary gain
which would come to him as its result. His career while
here has from the outset given the lie directly to any such
view of his presence among us.
Well, indeed, may Dr. Lorenz sayjthat his trip has been
the grand success of his life. It could not have been
materially too successful, so far as he is concerned, in the
estimation of any clean-minded person. That it has been,
as he declares, ethically successful is beyond dispute. Few
men of his generation have rendered greater service to the
members of the medical profession than Dr. Lorenz, and
to no one are they more immediately and sensibly indebted
than they are in connection with the doctor's experiments
conducted before them for purely educational purposes,
and resulting in such a vast acquisition of surgical knowl
edge to every physician who witnessed them.
Either England wants the island badly—or else the
risk attending getting it by the usual process is great—
when she offers a sum of money for that plot of land in
the Pacific ocean, near Honolulu, which her government
is now negotiating for. By the way, does the Monroe doc
trine admit of the acquisition by foreign nations of ter
ritory on this hemisphere, by purchase?
BLEEDING KANSAS.
It is safe to say that no more murderous transaction
has ever occurred in a Southern community involving a
member of the negro race than that the report of which
comes Pittsburg, Kan. The lawless spirit never found
more brutal or more bloodthirsty expression than was
furnished in that instance by a Kansas mob. There was
no evidence whatever, so far as the press reports show,
that the negro who was thus murdered under such re
volting circumstances was guilty of the crime charged
against him. The murder of the policeman for which he
was killed was the deed of a drunken and irresponsible
negro. It was not a crime of anything like^the enormity
of those for which negroes are made the victims of mob
law in Southern states, and there was no attempt made
on the part of the mob or .its members to produce any
measure of proof whatever of the commission of the of
fense by the murdered negro. Yet among the residents
of an otherwise peaceable Kansas community were found
miscreants so abandoned to all their obligations as mem
bers of society and so utterly divested of human feeling
as that they could batter in a public jail, drag out their
victim, try to hang him, and, failing, cut his throat, with
out having taken any precaution whatever to establish
his identity as the author of the crime for which they
made him suffer.
If there is law in Kansas the blood of those men, white
or black, who thus did their fellow creature to death will
surely be shed. Their crime was not alone against the
murdered man or against the state of Kansas; it was a
crime against the good name of the American people, as
unprovoked and as barbarous as any which the history
of the country presents.
It is a rather cheap bid at notoriety which that Chi
cago school teacher makes who professes to be ready to
travel to Hongkong at a cost of $5,000 to win a bet of $20.
If the Hongkong in this case were the one to which angry
people seek to have others go when they wish to be rid
of the>n, the public would evidently be well rid of this
notoriety-hunting pedagogue.
There is one good thing about the men who devote
themselves so numerously these days to putting their
wives and sweethearts out of the way by the shotgun
route, and that is that they almost always choose the same
route for themselves at as nearly the same time as pos
sible.
Turkey is not regarded as being especially digestible;'
but neither did that fact, nor the other —that the price wag
set at from 22 to 25 cents a pound — operate to keep a
notoriously dyspeptic people from indulging themselves to
excess in its delights.
The Elks are*the good people, sure enough. Any order
of men who will make the enjoyment of the little ones
their care at Christmas without regard to the personal or
family obligations of its members in that regard is cer
tainly entitled to be enrolled as among the good onea.
Considering the prices which now prevail for anthra
cite coal, unless we assume that all the excess g6es into
the pocket of the retailer, it would seem reasonably cer
tain that the Pennsylvania coal barons will not be the
chief sufferers from the late strike.
When a man is offered hard coal at $7 a ton these
days, he is not to be too severely blamed if he does not
take pains to satisfy himself as to the quality of the arti
cle. It is after all only mythical anthracite which anyone
could be .expected to offer at any such figures just now.
An echo from the woods: "See you again in 1903."
SOME SELECTED OPINIONS.
"* Becoming a Learned Professor.
From the New York Sun.
Year by year the profession of the barber-surgeon
grows more scientific and difficult. Aid. Hart, of Chicago,
has prepared a barber-elevating ordinance which requires
that the barber must not only be expert in antiseptic treat
ment and the ordinary lore of his profession, but must
understand "the nature and effect of diseases of the skin
and scalp." That is, he must be a dermatologist as well as
a trichologist and pogonologist. And he can't practice if
he is "in the habit of using intoxicating liquors in excess."
This last part of the ordinance seems to be merely a
vicious slap of the unlearned at the learned. The dignity
of barbering needs no bolstering; and the barbers them
selves must regret any new means of emphasizing their
superiority to their clients.
Critic Should Be Consistent.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
"All novels," we are told from one of the pulpits, "set
up false standards of life," and in the next breath it is
added that "of course there are works of fiction that all
should recommend." Perhaps it would be too exacting to
demand greater consistency in a critic who decrees that
a true estimate of a book cannot be made except as based
on its "utility" and that a book whose only purpose is to
divert and entertain Is not To be tolerated.
—————AT ST. PAUL
THEATRES
"Ben Hur" will close ", the most suc
cessful, engagement in the history of
the Metropolitan opera house : with two
performances today, the usual! matinee
at 2 o'clock this afternoon arid fare
well performance at !8 ; o'clock: tonight.
This jj magnificent, production has § not :
only played to record-breaking busi
ness, but has given: both management;
and patrons- of the ■ theater the £ most
complete " satisfaction lin " every respect.
The advance'sale is very large for both
performances today, and the • big j show
will undoubtedly " play :to "standing
room .only";for.foo;th'matinee-atid even
ing, v! ;•■" iSg-^-sa. -r.:. l ;T.srr:>. "... ■■■■: re:}-;
■■".'■.•' ■':■;■'Of: c ■ •■ - --'■ ■ „ -t: .•_-•..
: : . In theseTd^yS \shen tnu'sical comedies
and comic ogera?' are enjoying so much :
popularityi:.«:i^Bsical production i with
a tangibler-plotrisfa rarity; "The Prince
of Pilsen," Henry W. Savage's latesf
success, xis-jsri'e of the l#:'fe\v.- musical
pieces of ths. da*^ it is said, that has a
genuine plot.'" '"The Prince of Pilsen"
is the latest ie^QTt of Frank : Pixleyarid
Gustav Luders,who ,wrote "King Dodo"
and "The Burgomaster." "The Prince;
of Pilsen" will be at ; the Metropolitan
tomorrow night v and all next week,
with matinees Wednesday, ; New Year's
day and Saturday. :;^^ rr -. . ..v'. ■■'■[
A matinee today at -5:30 and a per
formance tonight will^nd the engage
ment \of George Sidney .in "Busy Izzy"
•at the^Gtvui*';the current t week. Mr.
Sidney has proven himself a comedian
of much worth. . One, pleasing thing
about Sidney's characterization of a
Hebrew is that there is nothing in it
that can possibly, be of r offense to \ the
race he depicts. The music and spec
ialties are up to date" and the ; scenery
elaborate.
|The Brothers Kennard, acrobats and
pantomimists, have been engaged by
Charles H. Yale and Sidney R. Ellis
to interpret the dumb brothers "Nid
and Nod" in "The Evil Eye," , the spec
tacular extravaganza : which comes to
the Grand next week. They will intro
duce their acrobatic specialty, which
during the summer - has been augment
ed with a number of new tricks never
before exhibited in this city. ,
Sam Devere and his big company
continue to entertain the- patrons of
the Star theater. Next week's attrac
tion will be- the 1 Bowery Burlesquers
rom. Hurley r & Leainon's music hall.
The company is Jieaded by the comed
ians- Gilberti and Goldie. -
Ada Rehan, despite her oft-declared
declaration that she had forsaken the
stage forever, will be seen this win
ter in a new "play by Haddon Chambers.
Klaw and \ J2rlaisger i will manage her'
again. Miss fteiian declared that she
has retired after a sad, sad experience
in "Sweet $TeU -of Old Drury." She
had many difficulties before her tour
was closed. She. gave the excuse that
she could not bear one-night stands.
: - Mrs. Piske is geported to ;be contem
; plating revivals ; .of . "Macbeth" and
"Much Ado About Nothing" in the not
distant future, in which she will play
the roles of Lady Macbeth and Beat
rice. ' A 1 wider range could hardly be
selected in the Elizabethan- drama, and
if Mrs. Fiske can 1 successfully imper
sonate . both characters it will be ; a
crowning achievement. ;
- The rumor "bobs up again that George
Primrose will form an alliance with
Mclntyre and Heath .next season and
take out one of the biggest minstrel
shows he - ever was connected \ with.
There is also talk of securing an op
position theater in the metropolis and
opening up ■%■ merrry minstrel war to
the Klaw and Erla'nger minstrels head
ed by Lew Dockstader. ~
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TO HELP "THE LOUISIANA
PURCHASE EXPOSITION ALONG
Chief of Sculpture and Head Gardener
Appointed.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 26.—Carl Theo
dore Francis Bitter has been appointed
chief of sculpture of the Louisiana pur
chase exposition, taking the place ol
Frederick W. Ruckstuhl, resigned.
Mr. Bitter's early home was in
Vienna, Austria, where he attended art
schools.and studied sculpture. He was
commissioned to make the sculptural
decoration for the administration
building and the manufacturers' and
liberal art buildings of the Columbian
exposition. He was the director of
sculpture for the Pan-American ex
position. His residence is on the Hud
son, opposite New York city.
J. H. Atkinson, of Omaha, has been
appointed head gardener for the depart
ment of horticulture. He had charge
of the gardening at the Omaha exposi
tion and Nebraska's horticultural ex
hibit at the" PaTh-American exposition.
SUIT WHOSE OBJECT IS TO
MERGE TWO CORPORATIONS
Utah Fuel Company Proceeds Against
i Fuel & Iron.
DENVER, Col., Dec. 26. —Suits rep
resenting $§,000^000 have been filed in
the United States land office at Pueblo
by attorneys for the Utah Fuel com
pany against the Colorado Fuel & Iron
company. These suits are forty in
number and involve title to 5,000 acres
of coal land on the western slope valued
at $1,000 an, acre.
It is alleged that the Colorado Fuel &
Iron company Fs holding the land as
agriculture land, and that the Utah
company will lose heavily in c6al minea
already opened unless the titles ob
tained by the Colorado company are
set aside.
The suits are filed, it is believed, as
a preliminary step to the merging of
the two corporations, the action being
taken to clear titles.
TODAY'S WEATHER.
Minnesota—Fair; warmer Saturday;
Sunday, fair in south, probably snow in
north portion; warmer in east portion;
winds becomir.g southeast and increasing.
Upper Michigan —Fair; continued cold
Saturday; Sunday, increasing cloudiness
and warmer, probably snow in west por r
tion; north winds, shifting to east, Increas
Ing in force Saturday night.
Montana —Rain or snow in north and
west; fair and warmer in southeast por
tion Saturday Sunday, fair in east, prob
ably snow and colder in west portion.
North Dakota—lncreasing cloudiness and
warmer Saturday, probably snow at night
or Sunday.
South Dakota—Fair; warmer Saturday;
Sunday, fair.
Wisconsin —Fair Saturday; not so cold
in west portion; Sunday, warmer, with
fair in south, probably snow in north por
tion; variable winds, becoming southeast
and increasing.
lowa —Fair; not so cold Saturday; Sun
day, fair and warmer.
St. Paul — Yesterday's temperatures,
taken by the United States weather bu
ieau. St. Paul. W. E. Oliver, observer, for
the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock
last night—Barometer corrected for tem
perature and elevation. Highest tempera
ture, —4; lowest temperature, —16.9;
average tenjpera.ture, —10; daily range,
12.9; barometer, 30.57; humidity, 84; 7
p. m., temjserature, —4; 7p. m., wind,,
north; precipitation, 0; weather, cloudy.
Yesterdy'sr Temperatures—
*BpmHigh| *SpmHigh
Alpena 14-14 Kansas City . .14 14
Battleford . „.2<L 34 Marquette 14 16
Bismarck .... ? 8 Memphis 20 2C
Buffalo .ifT' 24 Medicine Hat.36 40
Boston ....:-..53--1 32 Milwaukee ...14 16
Calgary ....'}..32: 42 Minnedosa .... 2 2
Cheyenne 4Jt 56 Montreal :... .20 22
Chicago .. ,'7. .121-16 New Orleans..44 48
Cincinnati .... 10 20 (New York 2S 2S
Cleveland .-.-. 2%~ 24O.maha 6 8
Denver ... n .v3S 56] Philadelphia ..22 30
Dcs Moines „ 6, B|Pittsburg 16 18
Duluth ...:?.. ff,,! ' 3u"Appelle .... 8 S
Edmonton . ...20' 24!3an Francisco.s2 56
3alveston .?. .50" 62|3t. Louis .....14 16'
drand Haven.lS 13|Salt Lake City:s4 54
Gre<n Bay ?. .14" 16Rte: Marie .... 2 fi
Helena .. .7. .48'" 50l Washington . .24 26
Huron ....'?.. 0, OiWlnnipek „'...& 0
Jacksonville*^:^ 401
•Washington time (7 p.- m. St. Paul).
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ioo2==Your Case Will Have to Go to My Successor.
RELATED TO KITCHENER
EXTRACTS FROM THE REMINIS
CENCES OF A STAFF OFFICER
In the Soudan Lord Kitchener Treated
All Failures With Unbending Sever
ity, Which Fact "Helps to Account for
His Success —He Looks on a Battle
as a Necessary but Vulgar Brawl.
"A Staff Officer" writes in Black
wood's Magazine one of those intimate
sketches of men and things which are
characteristic of Maga. "Campaigning
With Kitchener" is full of good things,
and is obviously written by an officer
who has enjoyed unique opportunities
for studying the new commander-in
chief in India. He remembers meeting
Viscount Kitchener in 1897 and asking
him when The Event —the reconquest
of the Sudan —was due to happen.
"Thirteen months hence," was the an
swer. "Thirteen months! That is a
long time to wait." "Yes, it is," said
Kitchener; "but remember that some
of us have been waiting for it for thir
teen years." "A Staff Officer" attrib
utes the gift of overcoming apparently
insuperable difficulties which the sir
dar's officers possessed in such a
marked degree in the Sudan campaign
very largely to the unbending severity
with which he treated all failures,
whether high or low were responsible
for them. "A thing was ordered: it
had#to be done, and consequently it
was done; no excuses prevailed for an
instant. * • • Much of Kitchener's
success was no doubt due to his wise
choice of the tools he used —they really
were tools rather than men; and no
finer body of young fellows ever wore
sword than those splendid officers who
worked and slaved for him, day after
day, in those God-forsaken, sand-swept
wastes. But no one knows, no one
perhaps will ever fully know, the ex
tent to which Kitchener was implored,
beseeched, cajoled by the highest in
the land to employ A or B or C on his
staff, or anywhere. Kitchener was ad
amant to such • requests. * * * No
general has ever been more entirely
independent of the help of those im
mediately around him; not one of his
tools was indispensable, nor even a
dozen of them, though many did not
realize the fact. 'Are you going to
bring up Gen. X for this campaign?' I
once asked him. 'No, I don't think so,'
Kitchener replied; 'he is doing very
well where he is* and on my staff he
always makes a channel.' +
"Kitchener hated channels, hated
any straight-waistcoat which hamper
ed and confined him, and here is an in
stance. This same X. had been very
well brought up, and he liked to issue
a sealed pattern daily order which was
anathema to Kitchener, and the more
as it was quite unnecessary when the
army was all under his hand, and or
ders were best conveyed verbally.
However, X. was so importunate that
at last, out of sheer weariness, Kitche
ner dictated an order, and X., full of a
new and blissful sense of importance,
Hiurried off to get it duly copied, regis
tered, duplicated, sealed, signed and
delivered in the good old style. Mean
while Kitchener* strolls out, and acci
dentally meets Broadwood, his oav
alry commander. 'Oh, Broadwood,'
says Kitchener, in that soft and al
most deprecating drawl which some of
his subordinates could mimic to the
life, 'will you kindly take four squad
rons and a couple of guns and push on
forty miles to clear up the situation,
and start in half an hour.' 'Very good,
sir,' says BroadwoojJ, who was a man
of few words. As the cavalry were
jingling out of camp X. comes out of
his tent with his orders hot from the
press, and meets them. 'Where are you
off to?' exclaimed X. Mutual explana
tions follow, when it is found that
Kitchener's verbal orders are entirely
different from those he dictated, and
poor X. went back to his tent, and
thenceforth gave up the issue of the
daily order as a hopeless task."
With all his aloofness and self-suf
ficiency, Kitchener had one excellent
custom in the Sudan —he lived "in one
mess with the whole of his very small
staff, perhaps eight or nine men al
together, and was always accessible
to information and opinions of all sorts.
He was thereby placed in close touch
with that strange, uncanny will-o'-the
wisp, the spirit of the army, which
some generals who live too much
apart from and above their men never
count with and never understand —to
their own infinite loss and the army's."
At the same time "no man ever kept
his own counsel better than Kitchener'
when fighting was afoot; there was
never any leakage of information, be-
cause there was never any information
to leak. Once when the enemy threat
ened our line of communications I ex
pressed some anxiety about our wires,
which were laid, for all the world to
see, as a ground-line along the desert,
glistening in the sun and Bearing a
meaning even to a dervish, which is
saying a good deal.. Kitchener told me
to ride down to the river bank and
say if I felt happier. Cown I went,
and after diligent search discovered
a second wire cunningly laid under the
bush and sedges. As I Was about to
ride back I saw a steamer pushing off,
and asked the young engineer officer
on board what he was about; it turned
out that he had personal instructions
from Kitchener to lay a third line of
telegraph on the other bank of the
Nile, and no one in the army but the
chief and this young officer had wind
of the matter. Assurance was made
not doubly but trebly sure.
"I always ieel a confidence amounting
to certainty that when Kitchener arrives
on the bank of the Styx he will saunter
up with a Berthon boat under his arm;
to think of his being dependent on the
good will of an 111-conditioned ferryman
in the passage of an unfordable river is
not an idea that one's mind is able to
contemplate for a moment." Lord Kitch
ener's state of mind on the eve of a
battle was not the least like most gen
erals, according to "A Staff Officer," who
lends no color to the popular view of
Lord Kitchener's bloodthirstiness." I
think he looked on a battle as a neces
sary but exceedingly vulgar and noisy
brawl, and that the intellectual part of
him always regretted when he could not
strangle or starve the enemy out with
out a crude appeal to brute force. If he
could have been induced to issue an order
for battle, it would have read somewhat
as follows if it had come from his heart:
'Here you are, O troops! and there is
your enemy. I have clothed you, fed you,
cared for you, placed you in the most
advantageous tactical and strategical po
sition possible, £0 now please go and fight I
it out, and let me know when it is all
over.' He Knew his fighting, generals
and trusted them, and his trust was
never misplaced; and if he is not the
hawk-eyed battle-chief that Wellington
was, he is this much the more, that he
places his own men in positions where
they cannot lose, and the enemy in posi
tions where they cannot win. Can one
ask for more?
Lord Kitchener enjoyed some marvelous
escapes in the Sudan; he never seems to
have had much thought for his personal
safety. "The Atbara was a stiff fight, and
rather a dangerous fight to boot, for at
one moment everybody who held a rifle,
friend and foe alike, was firing towards
every point of the compass. Into that hell
Kitchener rode almost alone, and quite un
armed, holding up his hand to stop the
firing, and offering pardon to the still liv
ing remnant of the vanquished, who rushed
out from trench and hut to throw them
selves and their arms at his feet, as
though recognizing the master spirit, and
seeking safety under his shadow. Yet there
were some who did not hesitate to accuse
him afterwards of every crime against
humanity, and I recall that scene and
wonder at the little wisdom and less jus
tice of bis worthless detractors." "A Staff
Officer" records a curious instance of the
manner in which the eternal feminine en
tered into Lord Kitchener's calculations.
"When Mahmud marched to the Atbara
Kitchener raised his camp and placed
himself between Mahmud and the Nile,
settled himself down twenty miles from his
foe and waited. No matter which line of
advance the dervishes selected they were
bound to be met, bound to be fought. But
to most of us the one consuming dread
through all these long days of waiting
was that Mahmud should escape, up the
Atbara or back across the desert the way
he had come, for both roads were abso
lutely open to him. At last I mentioned
our-fears to the chief. 'They dare not go
back without fighting now.' he said; 'they
dare not; they would never be able to
face their women.' It was perfectly true,
and perfectly just." Lord Kitchener had
not studied the dervish at home for noth
ing.
COURT PUNISHED ASSAILANT
OF ONE OF ITS OFFICERS
Point Is Made That the Judge Exceed-
Ed His Jurisdiction.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 26.—A
case was filed in the United States
supreme court today which involves the
question whether a court may punish
for contempt for assault upon one of
its officers. The case is that of W.
C. O'Neal, of Fensacola, Fla., who is
charged with having assaulted A.
Greenhut, of the same place, a trustee
in bankruptcy proceedings against
Scarrftt Moreno.
O'Neal is president of a bank which
is involved in the proceedings and he
fell into an altercation with Greenhut
last October and cut him with a
knife. He was summoned before the
judge of the United States district
court for the Northern district of Flor
ida and sentenced to sixty days' im
prisonment The case has been brought
to the supreme court on the ground
that the judge exceeded his jurisdic
tion and that O'Neal's offense was not
one punishable by contempt proceed
ings. _
HISTORIANS AND ECONOMISTS
HOLD A JOINT SESSION
American Associations Begin Annual
Sessions in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 26.—The
American Historical Society and the
American Economic association, each
of which will be in session in this city
until Tuesday, formally opened their
annual sessions tonight by holding a
joint meeting in the Drexel institute.
Beginning tomorrow the organizations
will hold separate sessions. There is a
large attendance of professors from
many of the educational institutions of
the country.
The president of each society deliver
ed his annual address. Capt. A. *T.
Mahan, U. S. N., retired, president of
the Historical society, spoke on "Sub
ordination in Historical Treatment,"
and E. R. A. Seligman, professor 6f
economics' in. Columbia university,
president of the Economical associa
tion, had for his subject "Economic and
Social Progress."
GUAM NEEDS A BOOST
FINANCES OF SCHROEDER'S BAIL.
IWICK IN A BAD WAY
This Is Because Congress Failed to
Appropriate the Sum Asked for Last
Year —Governor's Annual Report
Gives An Exposition of the Island's
Affairs and People.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 26.—The
annual report of Coftkiii'afld^if Seaton
Schroeder, governor of the Island of
Guam, indicates a rather serious con
dition in the island finances owing to
the failure of congress to appropriate
the sum asked for last year. The re
ceipts last year were in round num
bers $66,000, and the expenditures $57,
--000, leaving a balance of $8,000, which,
however, is a decrease of over $13,000
in the cash balance for the preceding
year. This loss is due largely to the
unexpected expenses incident to the
establishment of the leper colony and
the decrease of over $10,000 in import
duties. Commander Schroeder reports
that it has been deemed prudent to
stop all work on public improvements
until further appropriations are made.
The value of the exports and im
ports during the year have been, re
spectively, $35,545 and $35,165. The ex
ports consisted almost entirely of Mex
ican dollars. Not a pound of copper
has been exported and neither cocoa
nor coffee has been produced in suffi
cient quantities to supply the home
market, owing to the slow recoveries
from the effect of the hurricane of
1900. The governor suggests that it
would be well for the department of
agriculture to establish an £fperimen
tal station in the island.
The governor recommends that if a
Philippine dollar of fixed value is to
be coined under the laws of the United
States that it be made legal tender in
Guam in place of the present Mexican
dollar. The census of the island, taken
last autumn, shows the total popula
tion to be 9,676, of whom only forty
six are foreigners, fourteen being citi
zens of the United States. The latter
does not include officers and men of
the navy or other civil employes tem
porarily imported from the United
States. Above the age of seven 46 per
cent of the natives read and write
Spanish. The natives still continue to
refuse to allow the sick to receive med
ical attention, but conditions are im
proving, an excess of births over deaths
being shown for each of the last two
Commander Schroeder says that
there are now twenty-four lepers in
seclusion at Tumon bay. The gover
nor recommends improvements in fa
cilities for education and also that the
laws for the government of the island
should be remodeled and codified.
There is a desire for United States cit
izenship among persons domiciled in
the island.
The governor recommends an appro
priation of about $43,000 for public Im
provements.
OFFERED TO PAY DUTY
AND WAS REFUSED
Another Day's Testimony in the Porto
Rican Smuggling Case.
SAN JUAN, P. R., Dec. 26.—The
hearing before United States Commis
sioner Anderson of the cases against
Robert Giles and Lieutenant Comman
der George W. Mentz, who, with oth
ers, are charged with smuggling wines
and liquors from St. Thomas on board
government vessels, was continued
here today. Collector Cruzen testified
that Mr. Giles wanted to pay duty on
the cases of liquor in question and that
he refused to accept duty, as there is
no law permitting the entry of mer
chandise on government vessels.
The collector said he boarded the
lighthouse fender Laurel, where he saw
three cases of liquors addressed to the
captain of the Laurel: six cases were
marked "Robert Giles." One case was
opened and contained brandy. Collec
tor Cruzen demanded three times that
these goods be delivered to him. Upon
failing to secure them he allowed thir
ty minutes for the cases to be delivered.
They were then turned over. He said
that Mr. Giles and Lieutenant Com
mander Mentz wanted to return the
cases to St. Thomas.
Officer Cosgrove, of the Laurel, was
recalled. He said the quartermaster of
the tender had not reported the re
moval of any cases of liquor at Culebra.
Quartermaster Schultz and Chipchase
testified that nothing had been landed
at Culebra and the prosecution closed.
The defense will submit its brief on
Monday.^
The Arms and the Man.
"I hear, Mrs. Jones, that your husband
• has two revolvers t and a Winchester rifla
for any burglars who may call."
"He had, but they came the other right
and stole them."
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Hadn't Been Idle.
"Ha!" exclaimed the first flea. "Beeß
on a vacation, eh?"" -
"Well," returned the second flea. Iv«
been on a tramp for a month."—Phila
delphia Record.