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Wilson has introduoed a bill in the senate allowing mineral propeotors and claims on Colville reservation the same as on other publio lands, Chief Engineer Craigbill, in a letter to Squire, estimates the 'cost for Paget sound defenses at 13,823,000, not in cluding torpedo sites. Washington, Jan. 18. There was no session of the senate today. Washington, Jan. 23. The silver bond bill was laid aside temporarily by the senate today, as no senator was ready to speak. Piatt asked Jones of Arkansas when a vote wonld be had. Jones said he was unable to state, for there were sevearl speeches yet to be heard. ' Piatt said there was no opposi tion from those favoring the measure; that the majority was evidently ob structing its consideration, and that there should be a time set for a vote. Jones replied that the original bond bill was now a silver measure, and its friends would take due time to present its merits and would fix a time for a vote. Bouse. Washington, Jan. 17. In the house today the speaker announoed the ap pointment of Allen of Utah to the com mittee on publio lands, in plaoe of Curtis of Kansas, resigned. "A free home bill," making aotual residence on railroad land grants unnecessary where the lands have been fenced and improved, was passed. Grow opposed the idea of communications being sent to the house by the president and cabi net officers for the purpose of creating legislation, and referred to the letter sent by the president to Mr. Catohings, adding: "This house should resent any attempt by the president or his olerks to dictate legislation to the house." The rest of the day -was con sumed in discussion of the pension ap propriation bilL Washington, Jan. 18. The house to day passed the pension appropriation bill, to the consideration of which it has devoted the entire week, and ad journed. The olause in the bill chang ing the existing laws so as to allow widows to obtain pensions nnder the act of 1890, whose net inoome did not exceed $500, per annum was stricken out. The provisions nnder the aot of 1890, rejeoting, suspending and dis missing applications were allowed .to date from their first application. It was announoed that bills covering the amendments ruled out would be re ported from the invalid pension oom mittee. The pension bill as passed oarries $141,825,820, about $50,000 less thnn the estimate. The bill was passed fifty days ahead of any previous pen sion appropriation bill. Washington, Jan. 22. The session of the house today was devoid of pub lio interest. Quite a number of bills of local importance were passed, as well as the military academy appropriation bill. The president's message, in reply to the resolution of the house oalling on him lor information as to what ps, if any, had been taken in rela tion to the Bayard speeohes at Boston, England, and Edinburgh, Sootland, was laid before the house. . The mes sage and correspondence were referred to the committee on foreign relations. Grosvenor presented a joint resolution which was adopted, directing the sec retary of the treasury to destroy all in come-tax returns and papers relative thereto in possession of the treasury. CAMPOS IS INDIGNANT. A a Private Citlsen and Mot as Gov ernor-General. New York, Jan. 21. A dispatch to the World from Havana says: . "General Martinez Campos, after surrendering the supreme command in Cnba to General Marin, made an in dignant statement to the World. The censor forbids its transmission by oable, and I send it by messenger to Key West." General Campos' statement is: "I speak because I am now a private citizen and not the governor-general. Be it known that I have not resigned; the government has removed me, and has done well. "I feel a great resentment, caused by tbe conduct of the parties in Cnba. Nations exercise their ' sovereignty in various ways, but the head should al ways role. The principle of authority should rise superior to all else. "I have been opposed, because, while I may break, yet I never bend. I have prevented a repetition of the sad scenes of tbe last war, and this has been distasteful to the mob. "The situation is this: Here is a province, distant from the mother country, where the political parties, by the attitude they are taking, think to shape the policy of Spain. If they had not this idea, I could speedily show what the necessities of the situation are. But they known that they wonld find me in the way if they should ask me to shoot 1.700 students (an allusion to the massacre of students in the last war), and because of this knowledge they conspire behind my back. "Yes, this justifies tbe troe saying that Spain has lost the Americas be cause of the Spaniards themselves. "This is a country of shopkeepers who want to govern, and it is they who are sweeping the country to ruin. Time will tell if this be not so." THE CUBAN REBELLION. Insurgents Are Ilrlnglng Mature to a Viisls-Kdltorlal Cowmeut. ICbicago Record.) Making all due allowance for dos sible errors in the latest reports of the suution in Cuba, it is still not im probable that the insnrgeuU are on the eve of a stroke which will bring the warfare to a crisis. During the last few weeks the fight has been waged steadily, the insurgents being gonorally the gainers. General Campos seems to have been unable to make any head way against his opponents, who, aside from the advantgae of a complete fami liartiy with the topography of their oountry, are inured to its climate and have abundant refuges in whioh to take shelter. Unless the Spaniards have been resorting to a rase, and leading the insurgents on simply for the pur pose of trapping them, the fall of Ha vana is within reasonable probability. Wo Must Acknowledge Them. Chicago Inter Ocean. We are nnder no obligations of courtesy toward Spain. She was one of the few powers that acknowledged tne Deuigerenoy of the Confederate states during the war for the Union. She hastened to assure Great Britain of the paltry aid of her feeble foroe In insistence to our application of the Monroe doctrine to the Venezuela issue. Nor are we under any obligation of sestiment The Spanish government is the most illiberal, tbe most hope lessly nnprogresslve, in Europe. Cuba has borne impositions tenfold more aggravated than those whioh forced the thirteen American- colonies of Great Britain into successful revolu tion. A congressional declaration in favor of acknowledgement of the Cuban repnblio will be approved from Maine to Florida and from the Atlantic to the Paoifio. Insurrection or Revolution, Whioh? New York Independent Shall we call it a revolution or a mere insurrection? "Revolutions" have been numerous in Cuba, as Senor Ponce de Leon tell onr readers this week, and he ought to know, for he has bad lively experience in them. But somehow the Spainsh power has not been overthrown. Senor Palma, who is the chief representative of the "Cuban Repnblio, " tells our readers this week why Cuba ought to be free; and he and Mr. Crosby and Senors Pierra and De Quesada appeal with muoh eloquence and earnestness for American sympathy, dwelling bitterly upon the wrongs and cruelties and op pressions of Spanish government, and their words cannot but exolte sym pathy. How Spain Treated America. (Pituburg Dispatch. If a third of the provinces of Spain were to declare that they had seceded and this country should recognize them as belligerents in less than three months the proceeding would be an exaot parallel to Spain's action when the Southern Confederacy was pro olalmed. Cuba is Spain's distant ool ony and our neighbor, and yet we have not imitated the unfriendly Spanish example nnder the greater provocation Our National Interest, New York World. We have a national interest in the independence of Cuba whioh bas no parallel in the oase of any European oountry. If we were aggressively dis posed we might find both reason and precedent for a muoh more active sym pathy with the Cuban insurgents than any body at present proposes to extend to them. All that they ask for la a recognition of their right to do battle for liberty and independence. So muoh every American ought to stand ready to grant. Before Tbey Are Wiped Out. Atlanta Constitution. Let the Amerioan people hasten to demand belligerent rights at onoe be fore Spain oan gather her forces to wipe the Cubans out. Let these rights be granted them at onoe so that the struggling Cubans may have this ad vantage in their efforts to secure self government A I'unllng Matter. Boston Traveller. The most puzzling thing about the Cuban rebellion just now is why, if the insurgents are numerically as strong as they are represented to be, they do not concentrate enough to seize and hold some town or city on or near the coast, and make a strenuous effort to maintain some kind of communica tion with the outside world. Until they make some effort of this kind they can hardly ask any of the established nations of the world to recognize them, however much they may have popular sympathy for their straggle for free dom. The Time Not Tet Come. Indianoplls News. The people of this oountry certainly wish tbe people of Cnba success in their war for independence. They hope the time will come when it will be advisable for the government to recognize not simply the belligerent rights of the insurgents, but tbe in dependence of the island. But it may be doubted whether that time bas yet oome. England Wants to Trade. Boston Globe. It is said that England is trying to trade Gibraltar for Cuba. If this bar gain is made Spain should see that it is carried through with more prompti tude than international bargains usually are. If she waits too long she may have no Cuba to dispose of. Spain Is a Fakir. Washington Star.) Spain bas been in business long enough to know j that there is no use in her publishing display announce ments of victories unless she is able to deliver the goods. POULTRY INTERESTS THE RECENT SHOWS AND FINE BREEDING. The Largest Chicken Ranch on Karth A New Method of (letting llreoders Early on the Market-Valuable Uinta to Chicken Kaisers. Thore bas been a decided interest In the poultry industry of the North west revived by the reoent poultry shows. Speaking of the Oregon poul try show just olosed in Portland, Theo dore Sternberg, the offloicl judge, said: "Fanciers should train their birds for exhibition; namely, reader them docile and aooustom them to being handled, so that, when they are brought before tbe judge, the birds will readily stand at attention, thus showing themselves off to the best pos sible advantage. In a olose show, it is tbe oareful attention to all these details that secure prizes for the owners." On the question of breeding, Mr. Sternberg talked Intelligently, as fol lows: "There is no bird in the proper breeding of which all the skill and intelligence of our best people are not brought into aotion. It Is no child's play to breed a fine specimen of any kind, and there is no man whose posi tion in life or intellectual endowments are so great bnt that be oan find ample use for them in the poultry fanoy. "Breeding fine fowls is not only science, but an art as welL While like prodnoes like, like appeaernoes do not always produoe like appearances, but like combinations of blood and an cestral lines are necessary (or oertain results. "No person can really have his yards in hand until he has bred fowls long enough to know the oolor beauties and the oolor defects, the shape exoellenoies and shape defects, for five or six gen erations. Then he will begin to have some knowledge of what one bird mated to another will produoe, by rea son of his knowledge of the ancestry of the birds. "The true fanoier will keep a record of the birds he breeds from, carefully noting the oolor, shape, defects, bean- ties auu proportions of each mating." Winter Laying Qualities. That certain breeds are better equipped with winter-laying qualities than others, has time and again been proved, says Farm Poultry. Bnt tnat those qualities will amount to naught anises proper conditions are oomplied with, has been equally well settled. We know that the Brahmas, Lang shans, Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Houdans, and some others, will, If in the proper oondltlon, and with good care, lay a good many eggs right through the worst kind of winter. So will the Leghorns, Minoroas, or any ot the heavy layers; but the latter require warmer quarters, and muoh better care than the first lot we named. The whole matter of eggs in winter can only be settled by proper food and care. No breed oan give eggs if they have not warm housing, and such foods as make eggs. During rainy, snowy and windy wheater, bens must have protection. The farmer who never bothers about sheltering hi: fowls dnr ing winter, and who is satisfied that corn is the best egg food, is the very man who is oontinually oomplalning about poultry being a dead loss. And some of this very class write to know whioh breed oan be relied upon to give us eggs in winter. So that the only reply to give is the best winter layer is the hen (no matter to what class she belongs) that has the best housing and the best food. If one studies the natures of the breed on hand, he will soon learn what is most needed. The Largest Chicken Ranch, At this period of the year when the old hens are still molting and half naked, and the nights and morning quite wintry, they should have a warm bouse and extra care, and es pecially a clean plaoe to roost, says the Argus, of Petaluma, Cal., whioh is one of the great poultry centers of the coast. A few days since the writer had the pleasure of looking through the great chicken ranch of Sprockets & Co., the largest one on earth, situated about twelve miles north of this city, and we are now more than ever con vinced that cleanliness, proper food and attention is what makes healthy chickens. On this ranch of 200 acres there are tens of thousands cf chiokens, big and little, young and old, and we walked for miles through long lanes of bouses and yards oritically looking for sick or delicate chickens and did not see one. Not over 150 chickens were confined together in any one yard, and each lot had a warm house that was kept as clean as a pin. Chickens, like all other animals, en joy a change, and a hot breakfast these cold mornings is actually necessary if you expect any profit from hens during autumn and winter. Bran or meal scalded with boiling water and mixed with scraps or boiled potatoes, which at present prices are the cheapest and best food, are also good for a change. Chickens that bave a large range re quires less feed, but always remember that it takes liberal feeding to bring eggs in paying quantities. Those which bave grown their new plumage and are in good order are laying, but some animal food must be given to seen re the best resluts. In a suburb of Macon, Oa., last week, a house took fire daring the night and the neighbors gathered to help the inmates in saving their effects. Four women carried a large upright piano from the parlor all the way into tbe middle of the street, unassisted. Belt Spllolng. The cement splice is, according to s writer in The Wood Worker, the most perfectly satisfactory method of joining together tbo ends of a belt In leather bolting such a splice is comparatively easy to make, as the ends of the belt muy be scarfed to a thin edge with an ordinary iron bench plane, but before rubber belts can be thus treated it Is necessary to cut them down in steps, or sections. A fonr ply bolt may bave three sections, one thickness of the canvas being cut book several inches, another thickness out back two-thirds of tbe dis tance, a third thickness cut back one third of tbe distance, while a thickness of canvas is left untouched at the bot tom, the other end of the belt being treated in the samo mannor, so that whon the ends are btougbt together tbe sections loft on one end will replace those cut on the other end of the belt To obtain the best results it If reoorri mended that the belt be put into a press after the operation of oementing, bnt in the absence of that tool the belt may be laid flat upon a board and fastened by driving a number of shoe pegs through the belt into the board, allowing It to remain thus until the oement bas set and then closely cutting off the pegs. Austin Corbln Embarrassed. The biggest man identified with New York's prinoipal seaside resort is Austin Corbin, the head and front of the Man hattan Beaoh company. He is a hard worker and probably sees less of bis own profitable pleasure grounds than lota of the clerks who hold down desks in the offices of the Corbin Banking company, Jlr. Corbin 'a name came up during a talk with some gentlemen in the corridoT of tbe Fifth Avenue, and one of the groups remarked that, while Corbin was a hustler, he wasn't much of an after dinner orator. "At a Clover club dinner," said the story teller, "Corbin, who was then president of Reading, was called upon to make a speech. He unwillingly arose, stam mered and finally remarked, 'Mr. Chair man, as I am not accustomed to speech making I am greatly embarrassed' 'And,' uttered a deep voiced gnest at the banquet board, 'so is your blanked old road I' This completely paralyzed Mr. Corbin, but it let him out of a bad hole and introduoed him to the customs and follies of Cloverites. " Pittsburg? Dispatch. The Banging. Young folks are apt to judge of words by their literal meaning, without any attempt to reason upon the subject The descendant of a celebrated general of the Revolution, quite a small boy, was visit ing Independence hall with his mother, when she pointed to an oil portrait and said: ' ' There Is a picture of your great-greatgrandfather, hung by General Washing ton." . . The boy took little notioe of what she said at the time, apparently being more interested in tbe Liberty bell and other curious relics in the hall But some weeks Bftozwoid,' when' distinguished' guestswere dining at his father's table, ho bioke an interval of Bileuoe fay ask- "Mamma, what' did you tell me in Philadelphia about my great-great grandfather being hung?" '.' " ; The question was a startling one, but it was soon explained to the entire sat isfaction of the guests. Exchange. Watch the Thumbs. A physician in obarge of a well known asylum for the care of the insane recently said : "There is one infallible test either for tbe approach or the presence of lun acy. If the person whose oase is being examined is seen to make no use of his thumb, if he lets it stand out at right angles from the hand and employs it neither in salutation, writing nor any other manual exercise, yon may set it down as a fact that that person's men tal balance is gone. He or she may con verse intelligibly, may in every respect be guarding tbe secret of a mind dis eased with the utmost care and cun ning, but the telltale thumb will in fallibly betray tbe lurking madness which is concealed behind a plausible demeanor. "New York JournaL A German Custom. One of the most interesting Junctions of the up to date betrothal is the shop ping expedition, where the two mothers and fathers-in-law to be, with their re spective son and daughter, go out on an appointed morning and bring home a broom, a carving knife and fork, a salt cellar, a Bible, a brass door knocker, a candlestiok, a pair of bellows. This is a revival of an old German custom of presenting a young pair with what they consider tbe seven emblems of those virtues that go to make up a perfect household. Tbe shopping party is con cluded by a luncheon of tbe united fam ilies. Put to Strange Use. The old bell whioh in early days stood on Belfry bill, north of the town of Council Grove, Kan., and was rung to warn the settlers of the approach of In dians, is now used by a citizen as a flowerpot in bis gardon. For many years after its original purpose was gone it was the common property of the various roligious denominations of the town and was rung to call the peoplo to devotions. One day it was blown down in a storm and broken. This destroyed its usefulness as a bell, and the citizen sat it inverted In his garden and planted flowers in it Philadelphia Ledger. "Mr. Speaker," exclaimed a member of the New South Wales parliament, "my colleague taunts me with a desire for fame. I scorn the imputation, sir I Fame, sir! What is fame? It is a shaved pig with a greased tail, which slips through the hands of thousands and then is accidentally caught by some lucky fellow who happens to hold on to it I let the greasy tailed quadru ped go by me without an effort to clutch. it, sir!" London Tit-Bits.