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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1901. WROTETHE LETTERS But Delegate Wilcox Says He Knew No Better. THEN AN ENEMY OF AMERICA Since He Learned This Country's In tentions, He Has Changed His Mind and Xotf Swears by the Constitution. "WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. The charges against Delegate Wilcox, of Hawaii, were taken up today by House committee on elections No. L Mr. Wilcox was present accompanied by Representative "Robinson, of Indiana, who appeared as his friend and counsel. Mr. Robinson stated at the outeet that as Mr. Wilcox was unfamiliar with the procedure in election contests, he had consented to appear in behalf of the delegate. The written answer of Mr. Wilcox was submitted. He claims that many of the charges preferred against him are without merit. In regard to the letters he is ac cused of having written, dated respective ly January 31, 1S99, and March 8, 1899, he suggests that the conditions prevailing at that time, and the legal status of the Hawaiian Islands with respect to the United States were entirely different from those existing later, and at the time of his election. He claims to be now sincere ly and thoroughly an American, believing in and heartily supporting the Constitu tion. Mr. Robinson added that the delegate had received no notice of contest, as pro vided by tbe rules. He asked under the circumstances that 10 days be allowed for preparation on the merits if the commit tee proposed to conduct a formal contest. George D. Gear, who made the charge, was asked to produce one of the originals of the letters, and until these could be secured, the committee went into execu tive session to determine its course of ac tion. At the afternoon session Representative Robinson presented the following specific answer of Mr. Wilcox to the charges con tained in the letters submitted: "That he (Wilcox) is a native Hawaiian; that he shared with the native people their loyalty to the former Queen LUluokalani during her reign, and was not In sympathy with the reigning power Immediately succeeding her reign; that after the annexation of Hawaii, he did not understand the intentions or the feel ings of the United States, but all doubts were dispelled when the Congress gave to the people of Hawaii a splendid sys tem of organic laws; that. In common with the people, he at all times, with genuine patriotism, supported the United States and its institutions, and is now and has been a loyal supporter of the Constitution, laws and Government of the United States. "He admits that January 31, 1899, and March 8, 1S99, he wrote letters appearing in the petition; that said letters were of a personal and confidential nature, and sent to one whom he supposed was a friend, and whom he thought would not betray his confidence. He further says that said letters were written by him under an entire misconception of the real attitude of the Government of the United States toward the people of Hawaii. That under the laws of the United States, and fair and free election, he was elected as a delegate from Hawaii, and no Tea sen exists or has existed disqualifying him." The additional letters written by Mr. Wilcox were submitted, and he mnde the same answer to them. These letters were written In 1899. and criticise the American course In the Philippines. Mr. Gear then contended that the elec tion of Wilcox was Irregular and void, as the requirements of the United States statutes were not complied with. On be ing cross-questioned, Mr. Gear said he had made speeches In Hawaii favoring the election as delegate of Mr. Parker, the opponent of Mr. Wilcox, and In these speeches he had not questioned the right of Hawaii to have a delegate. Mr. Gear stated Dtiat in Wilcox' campaign speeches he had said he would restore Queen LUluokalani. When the witness said Wil cox had "eternally damned the Ameri cans," the delegate uttered "He," but was restrained by his counsel. After Mr. Gear had presonted his evidence, he made an extended argument arraigning the delegate. During the anrument. Mr. Mann inter jected the statement that certain letters written by public men came quite as near treason as those of Wilcox, referring to the Filipinos. Mr. Robinson made a brief closing argument in behalf of Wilcox, seerely criticising those who had be trayed the confidence of private letters and had made them the basis of these charges. A brief on the law points will be submitted next Tuesday. AOMIXATIOXS HELD UP. No Action on Those of Wood, Grant and Dell. WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. The Senate committee on military affairs today agreed to report favorably the nomina tion of Major-General Miles to be Lieu-tenant-General. and also the three nomi nations of Major-Generals under the Armv reorganization bill. All the nominations to be Brigadiers were also favorably acted upon, except those of General Leon ard Wood, General Frederick D. Grant and General J. Franklin Bell. These three were held up In order to permit further investigation. It is said that in the committee there was no disagree ment as to the action taken. The feel ing which prevailed was that Generals Wood, Bell and Grant had not seen suffi cient military service to entitle them to promotion ahead of many older and more experienced officers. While It was stated that the action of the committee was net final, there was an impression that the confirmation of the other nomi nations should be made first. Confirmed by the Senate. WASHINGTON. Feb. S. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the following nominations: Carroll D. Wright, Massa chusetts, to be Commissioner of Labor; Oscar Marlross. of Minnesota, to be Con sul at Colon, Colombia. The Senate also confirmed the promotions in the civil, ar tiUery. infantry and staff appointments made February 4. under the new Army re organization law, also some other mill tar' and naval promotions. Decline In British Metal Industry. WASHINGTON. Feb. S. A report re ceived at the State Department from United States Consul Fleming, at Edin burgh. Scotland, sets forth an alarming decline in the metal Industry of Great Britain; calls attention to the lamentable ack of thorough technical education among British engineers, and discusses the mooted question as to whether the heavy exportation of coal from Great Britain should continue. The depression Is attributed In part to a fall in prices of metals all along the line, but chiefly to offers of American iron and steel at reduced prices, which the Consul states came upon the market last Autumn with crushing effect What made the difficulty worse for British producers, he continues, was that Germany, having bought largely from America in the Spring and Summer, became alarmed and resold in England at reduced figures, also placing iron and steei on the market In competition with American manufacturers. The press In general, says Mr. Fleming, blames the manufacturers for not adopting labor saving machinery In all branches of pro duction where it can be introduced, and blames the workmen for their undis guised hostility to all labor-saving devices. OUR INTERESTS IN CHINA. General J. H. Wilson's Speech at a New Yorlc Bang.net. NEW YORK, Feb78. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce General James H. Wilson, upon the Invitation of the ex ecutive committee, made an interesting address on the subject, "American Inter ests in China," President -Jesup intro duced General Wilson, who spoke as fol lows: "There are many interesting aspects in which we may look at the crisis in China. The whole of the progress of China from the time of its first visitation of Europeans down to the present time has clustered around and been promoted by trade and commerce. It has been broken in upon by wars, but each one of these wars, not excepting the Infamous opium war, had Its origin in the commer cial spirit and in the determination of foreigners to force trade upon China. The present war, the late war, the Boxer rev olution, in a measure, may have been also due to the same cause and to tho same pressure. "The people of China, you must under stand, are desperately poor. Their per capita output Is, perhaps, less than that of any civilized nation in the world. But the American, the English, the French and the Germans all nationalities have been pressing upon them for trade. The poor people themselves nave not known what was the matter, why they were in this distressed condition, why things seemed to be so bad with them, why they were so poor; and, knowing that they were poor, they have not appreciated why foreigners were so eager to establish com mercial and closer relations with them. I will not undertake to dwell upon the causes of that poverty or of the changes that have been brought about in China, but I say to you, comprehensively, that the cause of the difficulty in China is the distressful condition which has sur rounded the people, and in their anxiety to find some cause of explanation of it they have taken the first thing that pre sented itself." Speaking of the present difficulties in China, General Wilson continued: "There Is going to be a settlement of these difficulties and that settlement is going to be exactly what the foreign powers agree among themselves they are going to demand, for there Is no organiza tion, no power, no government, no means of resisting the foreign demands, and the Chinese are going to yield exactly what is asked of them, and if all hands agree they will get exactly what will be asked. They have pretty well made up their minds and the demands have been pub lished to the world, and they will be yielded to, not only because the Chinaman must yield, but because the next step which would be taken if he did not yield is so full of danger In the direction which VIr. Hewitt Intimated awhile ago of uni versal war that the foreigners them selves will be slow to undertake to in flict any other terms upon the Chinese than those that have already been de manded. "In my judgment, the whole of China is now open and will be open for com merce because the first proposition that the nations will lay down after they have settled the indemnity for the past trouble will be a demand of assurance that there are to be no troubles in tbe future, and perfect freedom of trade, and everybody who has got a concession or who thinks that he would like to have a concession had better ge out for it Just as soon as he can." General Wilson then spoke somewhat at length on China's payment of indemni ties. Continuing, he said: "I do not take the slightest stock in any effort to acquire territory on the con tinent of Asia. It is not necessary. We have never got any business out there on any other principle than the plain, simple principle on which you gentlemen do bus iness with each other. If you cannot fur nish goods of a better quality or at an earlier delivery or at a lower price, you do not sell them. "We, being the closest of all the nations to China, with a stralgt route over, there is no reason in the world why with tho open door for which our Administration is standing so strenuously and nobody will dare to close It in our faces there is not the slightest reason In the world why the United States should not have a greater advantage than any other nation will get by the changes that will take place in China. "The Nicaragua Canal will help, but It will not cut any figure in the case imme diately, because you will not have the canal immediately, and you have got to use the boats sailing from San Francisco. I have no doubt that the United States will have a continuing and growing trade. We can rest perfectly assured that while our Administration will probably not get us into a war and while it will maintain the dignity and the force of our position, we will get our share of the growing bus iness. "You must remember the Chinese Em pire is beginning to consume Immense quantities of wheat and the finest wheat area in the world circles around Puget Sound, and the shortest and best line of steamboats in the world connecting with China goes from there, and we will get more than our share of that, for nobody else will get anything out of that line of business. In timber Puget Sound has the finest in the world, and there will not be 100 feet of lumber sold by others, where we will sell hundreds of millions of feet. I think we will get our full share. Of course, we have got to cheapen the pro duct as much as we can. We have got to do as ambitious, enterprising and spirited merchants do to meet competi tion. Do not trust open doors giving you anything, for there Is nobody out there who is going to give away a cent. Every fellow is thinking he Is getting something in the bargain he makes, and no Euro pean nation Is going to help us to one dollar's worth of trade that they can fur nish themselves." The New Queen's Tvro Great Talents. London Through all the years that she has held a position of greatest distinc tion and Influence the woman who has Just become Queen has never been known to express opinion, display a prejudice, or go back upon her word. She has opened hospitals, fairs, etc., by the dozen and distributed thousands of prizes, but she never made a speech. Multitudes of guests have been entertained at Sand rlngham, untold numbers of famous or humble men and women have kissed or taken her hand in theirs, received her polite greetings, attention or ready char ity, and yet nobody has ever been found ready to vouch for what the Queen felt on any subject. What every visitor to the country home of this royal lady has never failed to notice has been the marvelous order that prevailed: the perfect attention given by the accomplished servants, and If they only knew it the superior talent that has directed this extensive housekeeping has been exercised by her alone. Not only has she known what every one of her 65 servants should do, but hers has been the most economically conducted royal es tablishment in Europe. Even to the food given daily to her pet dogs 70 in all, her monkeys and her doves, every ounce has been accounted for in her faultlessly kept books, and wastage at Sandrlngham was utterly unknown. Not alone was carelessness never practiced, but the smallest effort to elude or deceive the chatelaine of the mansion would not be ventured upon, for Alexandra is famous for her truth-compelling eyes. They are large, peculiarly clear, directly-gazing, gray' blue eyes, and when an offending employe or child was sent to be inter viewed by Alexandra in her boudoir, the confession, made under the Influence of their steady gaze, is Invariably without reservation. MORE MEN FOR KITCHENER REIN FORCEMEATS FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN ARMY. Rumor of the Pending? Recall of Mil- ner la Denied Boers Held Up a Natal Train. LONDON, Feb. 9. Public attention has again been turned toward South Africa by the dispatch of reinforcements and the publication of Lord Roberts' dis patches. Rumor has been in circulation that Mr. Chamberlain had reconsidered his South African policy, and was con templating a round-table conference with John Morley and Sir William Vernon Har court, and the recall of Sir Alfred Mil ner. The Dally Mail, however, says it is able to assert, on Mr. Chamberlain's au thority, that the whole story is a fabri cation, and that the government retains the most absolute confidence in Sir Alfred Milner. Lord Roberts' dispatches are not re garded as giving any .further elucidation of the conduct of the war, but they are interesting as proving that throughout the campaign he never had sufflcierit men, horses or supplies to cover such a vast field of operations. Lord Roberts as serted deliberately that the permanent tranquility of the republic "depends upon the comple disarmament of their inhabi tants; difficult, I admit, but attainable with time and patience." Looking at all the circumstances, Lord Roberts says the campaign is "unique in the annals of war," and he pays the highest tribute to the gallantry of the troops, declaring that "no finer force ever took the field under the British flag." The appearance of the bubonic plague at Cape Town seems likely to add to the difficulties of the situation. The authori ties there have decided Dpon a wholesale extermination of rats. Should the dis ease spread, it will necessitate changes in the military arrangements. Today Sir Alfred Milner makes another earnest appeal to employers to allow as many men as possible to enroll in the colonial mounted defense forces. The Boers held up a Natal mail train near Vlakfonteln. The few soldiers on board exhausted their cartridges, and the Boers then robbed the passengers, after wards allowing the train to proceed. Lord Roberts detailed mall dispatches ranging from February 6 to November 15, 1900, as gazetted this evening, fill 157 quarto pages and make up the official history of the war, although without throwing new light upon several inter esting subjects, such as the Sannas post affair. Hundreds of officers, non-commissioned officers and men are favorably mentioned, including Lord Kitchener, who is referred to In warm terms. General Buller comes In for criticism. The first dispatch gives an account of the state of affairs in South Africa on his arrival, January 10. It describes the forces as much scattered. He decided to leave General Buller with a free hand in Natal, but otherwise to remain on the de fensive until reinforcements arrived, and until the transport had been organized. He found no transport corps existing. The colonial forcos had not been sufficiently used. Cape Colony was restless. Writing from Jakobsdahl February 16, Lord Roberts says: "General Buller, Feb ruary 6, wired that he had pierced the enemy's lines, but to give his artillery access to the Ladysmlth plain would cost from 2000 to 3000 men. I replied that he must relieve Ladysmlth, even at that cost. Buller telegraphed February 9 that he was not strong enough to relieve Ladysmlth without reinforcements, and regarded the operation in which he was engaged as impracticable. I replied that my instructions must hold." The marches to Johannesburg and Pre toria were uneventful, as described by Lord Roberts, his chief concern being to provision the army. , "We were practically living from hand to mouth," he wrote, "and at times had not even one day's rations to the good." Writing from Johannesburg, November 15, he said: "With the occupation of Koomatipoort and the dispersal of Louis Botha's army, the organized resistance of the two republics may be said to have ceased, but there still remains much for the army in South Africa to do to meet the conditions of guerrilla warfare with forces broken up into small columns and operating over an area larger than France, Germany and Austria combined." Belgians Want to Arbitrate. BRUSSELS, Feb. 8. In the Chamber of Deputies today a petition inviting Bel glum to offer to arbitrate between Great Britain and the Transvaal was debated at some length. The Foreign Minister, M. de Favereau, said the government did not object to the petition being referred to a committee, but considered that the auth ors of the petition mistook the meaning of article 27 of The Hague convention, under which It was desired to act. The petition was approved unanimously. Cartvrrlght Arraigned. CAPE TOWN, Feb. 8. Albert Cart wright, editor of the South African News, who was arrested yesterday charged with criminal and seditious libel, contained in a letter accusing General Kitchener of se cretly Instructing his troops to take no prisoners, was formally arraigned In Po lice Court here this morning and remand ed in 2000 ball. A Boer force pressing southward has been repulsed at Reddersburg. The losses were Insignificant. Kitchener's Report. LONDON. Feb. 8. Lord Kitchener re ports to the War Office, under date of Pretoria, February 7, as follows: "The British column destroyed supplies at Petresburg and brought 200 horses and cattle. Dewet Is reported still north of Smlthfleld, moving eastward, with a de tached force, which crossed the line at Pompl Siding. Methuen reports from Llll fonteln, east of Vryburg, that he scattered the enemy there and captured 12 wagons and cattle. French 1b near Ermelo." Transports Requisitioned. LONDON, Feb. 8. The government has requisitioned three Castle liners to trans port reinforcements to South Africa. The remount department is uncommonly ac tive. Its agents buying largely In several parts of the world. Following yesterday's Wax Office announcement, recruiting to day was brisk. "Wood Will Not Supersede Kitchener. LONDON, Feb. 8. General Sir Evelyn Wood, the Adjutant-General, says the re ports that he Is to supersede General Kitchener In command of the British forces in South Africa, which are much discussed in the service clubs, are inaccu rate. Boer Refugee Camps. PRETORIA, Feb. 8. The Boer refugee camps are now administered by civilians. The refugees now total approximately 6000 men. SEMITIC QUESTION IN GERMANY. Minister of Justice Accused of In fringing: the Constitution. BERLIN, Feb. 8. In the lower house of the Prussian Diet today during the de bate on the estimates, Justice Herr Crue ger. Radical, charged the Minister of Jus tice, Dr. Schonsted, with infringing the constitution and imperial legislation In regard to the appointment of Jews as As sessors and Notaries. In replying, the Minister declared that it was those who contested the right of the King to fill all appointments in the administration who were guilty of a breach of the constitution. In regard to the criticism that his term of office had been marked by a superabundance of I charges of lese majeste. the Minister said that while Emperor William was above such attacks, it was the duty of the au thorities to enforce the law against sys tematic attacks in order to undermine all order and respect due to the sovereign. The number of charges of lese majeste in Prussia had been only 134 in 1900, as against 300 in 1898. Herr Porsish, Centrist, said that all who disagreed with the Jews were not anti Semites, but that it was still a fact that an overwhelming majority of the people strongly desired to live in a Christian country, governed In a Christian spirit. Count of Caserta Hooted. MADRID, Feb. 8. The Count of Caser ta, father of Prince Charles of Bourbon wno is to marry Jtrincess oi tne Asiunas, February 14, met with a hostile reception on his arrival here today. He was hoot ed by the crowd, and there were cries of "Spit on him." The hostility was due to the speeches made recently by many poli ticians and to articles In the newspapers against the marriage, on account of the part the count took in the Don Carlos uprising. The police had to interfere and disperse the crowd. Increase in British Foreign Trade. LONDON, Feb. 8. The statement of the Board of Trade for the month of Jan uary shows increases of 1,431,600 in im ports, and 1,169,800 in exports. The Treasury invites tenders for an is sue of 11,000,000 of exchequer bonds, with interest at 3 per cent. They will be dated March 7, 1901, and are repayable at par December 7, 1905. The list will open Feb ruary 11. Royal Astronomical Medal. LONDON, Feb. 8. The gold medal of tbe Royal Astronomical Society, awarded to Professor Pickering, of Harvard Uni versity, was today received by United States Ambassador Choate, In Professor Pickering's behalf. Foreism Notes. Ex-King Milan is ill with pneumonia. Queen Sophia, of Sweden, is recovering. Mrs. Katherine Coleman de Kay Bronson is dead at Venice. King Edward will visit Germany after the opening of Parliament. The Dowager Czarinena is going to Lon don to visit Queen Alexandra. Crown Prince Frederick William, of Prussia, will marry Princess Edna, of Bat tenburg, daughter of Princess Beatrice. For the coming season most of King Edward's horses in training will be leased to the Duke of Devonshire. A verdict was rendered in favor of Rev. Bernard Spink, who was sued in London for libel by Rev. T. C. Thomas, of Chi cago. New Zealand will oppose the concessions to the Eastern Cable Company, as preju dicial to the Pacific Cable Company, un less all the partners consent. DECLINE OF POPULISM. Senatorial Elections Afford Timely and Conclusive Evidence. Chicago Times-Herald. The election of J. R. Burton, Republi can, to succeed Luclen Baker as United States Senator from. Kansas and the elec tion of Robert J. Gamble, Republican, to succeed Pestiferous Pettlgrew as United States Senator from South Dakota are events of such far-reaching political sig nificance as to call for more than pass ing comment. The first and most Import ant occasion for general felicitation lies in the fact that these elections represent timely accessions of first-class material by the Upper House of the 57th Congress. Both are lawyers, have had wide experi ence in politics and each sustains an ex cellent reputation In the commonwealth which he will represent in the Senate for the next six years. The new Senator from South Dakota, who takes the place of Peppery Pettlgrew, ' is exceptionally well qualified by legal training for the duties of United States Senator. He Is a New Yorker by birth, graduate of Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis.; has been State Senator, United States District At torney, and was Renresentatlve from South Dakota in the lower house of two Congresses. Most Important to the politicians, how ever, is the fact that the election of these men sound the death knell of Populism in states where it had the rankest growth. Kansas, in fact, has been popularly re garded as "the cradle of Populism." It had its birth in such agricultural blights as grasshoppers, weavll, chinch bugs and drought, and was nourished by farm mort gages and foreclosures. Good times and good crops, with assurance of financial stability and business confidence, have brought about a political revolution In these states. Of course, no political party can stake Its future in good crops or busi ness prosperity. Hard times will come again, no doubt, but they will not be the fruits of uncertainty or doubt respecting the finances of the country. The people can recover from the effects of bad crops. but capital and Industry do not recover so easily from continued threats of rotten money. It is hardly probable, therefore, that an occasional crop failure or tem porary recurrence of Industrial depression will cause a revival of Populism In these states. The recovery from this form, of political Idiocy may be said to be com plete. The people have learned the fallacy and the utter hopelessness of a political creed that it written In disaster and Is based upon antagonism to industrial laws that are now recognized as immutable. Populism Is dead. Otis Contradicts Towne. Philadelphia Press. Chicago, Jan. 29. General Elwell S. Otis, now Commander of the Department of the Lakes, takes issue with Senator Towne's speech in the Senate on Philippine condi tions. "Nobody of any degree of intelligence who will go among the Filipinos and live for three months will come away think ing that they are capable of self-government," said General Otis today. "I believe that after a series of years it will be possible for this country to plan some stable form of government for the islands and then turn them over to the natives and let them have practical home rule. The backbone of the rebellion was broken before I left Manila, "The arguments offered In the Senate by those who are espousing the cause of the natives are full of misstatements and mislead the people of this country." Wreclc in i TRUCKEE, Cal., SnoTVShcd. Feb. 8. Spreading rails In the snowsheds just east of Blue Canon caused the wreck of a freight train last night. Several cars were piled up, part of them being thrown to the bottom of the hill and demolished. The snow shed was torn up for a distance of 300 feet. No. 4 Atlantic Express had passed the point but a few minutes before the wreck occurred. Woman Killed by a Constable. TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. & Mrs. Joe Burns, a sister of Frank M. King, a cattle broker of this city, was shot twice in the breast at her ranch, near Yuma, last night, by Constable Alexander, who went to serve papers in ejectment, Mrs. Burns had driven them off at the point of a Win chester. Crusade Against Billiard Tables. WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 8. Mrs. G. Brom well led 20 women In a crusade at Clear water, this county, today. All the jolnt ists purchased immunity by promising to abandon their business, which they did, but the women now demand that they give up their billiard and pool tables also. This they refuse to do, and the women threaten to smash them. Headache Vanquished. Headache leaves when you use Wright's Paragon Headache and Neuralgia Cure. ON LECTURE PLATFORM MRS. NATION SPOKE IS KANSAS CITY LAST NIGHT. She Will Not Wreclc the Saloons There Because the Place Is Too Larse. KANSAS CTTY, Mo., Feb. 8. Mrs. Car rie Nation, attended by a delegation of Topeka supporters and admirers, arrived here late this afternoon and tonight ad dressed a fair-sized audience at the Acad emy of Music E. W. Emerson, pastor of the First Christian Church of Topeka, Introduced Mrs. Nation as "the bravest and noblest woman in Kansas." Mrs. Nation made a characteristic talk. She justified her crusade against the sa loons by citing various passages from the Bible. She said she did not hate the jolntists; she loved them, but she hated the business In which they were engaged, and meant to destroy It. She said she had just as much right to destroy the joints in Missouri as she had to destroy those of Kansas. She declared that she would not molest the joints of Kansas City, Mo., because it is too large a city. "I don't propose to bite off more than I can chew," she said. She made a bitter attack upon the land lords of the joints, saying that they are as bad as the jolntists. At the conclusion of her speech, many persons rushed forward to shake hands with her. Many of her photographs were sold at the door. At 9:45 she took a' Bur lington train for Des Moines, la. She is accompanied by the five women who helped her wreck the Senate saloon at Topeka. SHOWED THE "WHITE FEATHER. Mrs. Nation's Proposed Raid in To peka Abandoned. TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 8. Mrs. Nation displayed tho white feather last night at a meeting of 30 of her followers, who, armed with hatchets, had gathered in se cret to arrange a night raid on Topeka Joints. Several male students at Wash burn College were to come to town armed after midnight and personally take part in the raid, and also see that the crusad ers were not molested. The excitement at the meeting was in tense, the women planning minutely for the raid. It was decided to saunter out at 3 o'clock in the morning and demolish every joint In town. Suddenly, when everything seemed satisfactorily arranged for a terrific onslaught, Mrs. Nation be gan putting on her wraps and said she was going home. Instantly her followers were In an uproar. Mingled with expres sions of surprise at her quick change of front, came words of condemnation. Finally one woman who had spent a gretiter part of the day collecting hatch ets and soliciting aid for the crusaders rushed to where Mrs. Nation stood in the center of a group, r.nd, shaking her fist in her face, shouted excitedly: "You are a coward, Mrs. Nation; you are a coward." "I am not a coward," said Mrs. Nation, with emphasis. "I will go this minute with any woman and .smash a joint." A dozen voices were raised: "I'll go; I'll go," and for a moment it looked as If an instantaneous raid would result. But Mrs. Nation, soon collecting herself, turned to bantering her followers, told them that she was tired, that the "Lord did not wish me to go tonight," and without further ado left the room. While the women waited to wonder at their leader's latest move, Mrs. Nation, accompanied alone by a reporter, maflb the rounds of the joints to satisfy her self that all were closed. Tho jolntists, apparently anticipating a raid, had closed and barricaded their doors, and at mid nisht Mrs. .Nation -went to her home. During the evening Mrs. Nation was questioned about her Chicago trip, which had been planned for next week, but she could tell nothing definite about it. "I will go when the Lord directs me," she said. "At present He wants me to remain here." Mrs. Nation was met at the Santa Fe depot this morning shortly before depart ing for Kansas City, where she lectured tonight. Regarding the discord In the ranks of the Home Defenders, she said: "The meeting we had last night was more than Inspiring. I actually never had my heart so full of joy as I did last night. It Is the first time since I started out on my crusade against these 'hell holes' that I ever had to exert all my Influence to get the women started. They are now, however, warmed up to the right pitch and will carry out their work with the Lord for their leader. At the meeting last night the women were sharpening up their nails and they are nearly In trim. I honestly feel com passion for those poor jolntists." Asked how long she would be away from Topeka, Mrs. Nation said: "Well, I can't tell just at this' time. I will lecture in Kansas City tonight, and I would like mighty well to visit their death shops while there, but have not the time. From Kansas City I go to Des Moines, then to Alton and possibly to Chicago. I will lecture at each place, then go home for a sufficient number of days to close up my affairs." Subsidiary Currency. Boston Herald. There is something practical In the rec ommendation of the committee on coin age of tho National House of Representa tives that a portion of the superfluous silver dollars of the Nation be recolned Into subsidiary currency. The dislike to them in their present form is such that there is an aversion to their use. But there is none too much of silver in the form of half and quarter dollars. It Is doubtful If there is enough of It in tbat shape. The committee furnishes a table showing the comparative use of sliver In fractional forms of a dollar In several of the more Important countries of tho world, which is interesting. We subjoin dt: Per capita of sub Subsidiary Sldlary Population. coinage. coin. United States . . . .76.000.000 $ 80.000.000 $1.05 Great Britain 40.700.000 111.000.000 2.7a, uermany B,aw,uw Trance 38,500.000 Austria-Hungary 40,300.000 Australasia 4,600,000 Canada 5,500,000 Denmark 2.300,000 Sweden 5,100,000 Switzerland 3,100,000 122,800.000 60.300.000 40,300.000 6.100,000 5,000,000 5,600.000 0,800,000 10.700,000 2 35 1.54 1.00 1.35 .00 2.43 1.33 3.45 This table shows that Great Britain and Germany each employs more than double the subsidiary coinage per capita than the United States Is using. It is quite possible that silver half dollars and quar ter dollars might be substituted to some extent for the one dollar bills now In the currency to advantage. We feel the con viction that sliver would be thus better employed than much of it now is in its unused dollar form. The Anti-Alum Crusade. New York Commercial. How well organized and how resource ful are the promoters and backers of the scheme to compel all baking powder man ufacturers of the United States to use cream of tartar or else get out of the business entirely Is manifest from the simultaneous appearance of practically the same "pure food" bill In most of the Legislatures now In session. New York, Tennessee and Texas are each among the states In which some lawmaker has lat terly been suddenly seized with a vir tuous Impulse to "protect the public health"; and In each Instance he would fine or imprison any man or woman so murderously Inclined as to use a grain of alum in a food preparation! Bah! Do the cream of tartar monopo lists imagine that tho Legislators In the various states of the Union are all Ig noramuses? Do they bank upon a con viction' that enough of them are suf ficiently corrupt to easily become parties to thi3 plot7 Have they forgotten that THE ONLY CU NERVOU I HHn1 1 CEEy! Ill fill I E2$!ii E& wuhf a I I 111 I I rmJlllil II I -JS wSIIlk Cf 1 UlMil EM Jill Bli j sH m li There is one and only one specific known to medicine for diseases arising from Impure blood and a debilitated nervous system, and that is Palne's celery compound. . It is the most remarkable remedy that the scientific research of this country has produced. . It 13 not a patent medicine. It is not foisted upon public attention by smart ad vertisement writers. Its proprietors claim nothing for it that it will not accom plish. It appeals to no prejudices, but relies absolutely upon its unparalleled rec ord for preventing and curing the diseases for which the greatest physician of modern times intended it. No remedy ever accomplished so much good; none ever achieved such univer sal attention. There Is no substitute for it, and there can be none. Palne's celery compound makes the sick well. the American people read the newspapers? Have they still a belief that the silence of the press has been purchased? Or that it is purchasable by their methods? A rude awakening is in store for the schemers who would corral the baking powder business of this country. "They can't fool all the people all the time." The Efficacy of Vaccinntion. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Although it has been settled by the uniform results of experience and by the concurrent testimony of medical science the world over that vaccination is a re liable preventive of smallpox, it is no more surprising that there are some peo ple who not only do not believe In its efficacy, but think it fraught with danger to the health, than that there are some people who believe that the sun revolves around the earth, or that Insan ity Is a diabolical possession. It la rather late In the day to dispute the efficacy of vaccination as a safeguard against small pox, but as, all theories on the subject aside, it is a simple question of fact, It will be Interesting to note the results of experience In a country where vaccina tion is made compulsory by law, and is therefore unusual, as compared with the state of facts In the same country before this law went into effect, and in other countries where vaccination was not com pulsory. German vaccination law, which requires the vaccination of children and all other persons at stated periods, went Into operation In 1875. The following figures show the comparative smallpox mortality per 100,000 Inhabitants In Prus sia before and after tho law went Into effect, and also In tho last column the smallpox mortality In Austria, which had no compulsory vaccination law during the period Indicated: -Prussia Before. After. 1875.. 1876.. 1877.. 1878.. 1879.. 1880.. 1831.. 1882.. 18S3.. 1884.. Austria. 57.6 40.2 54.5 ;805... 43.8 62.0 43.2 18.8 10.4 ...8.6... SCO... 807... ...3.1.... ...0.3. ... ...0.7.... ...1.3.... ...2.0.... ...3.6.... ...3.O.... ...2.0.... ...1.4.... .61.6 .51.7 .64.7 .81.4 .94.8 .50.2 .869. 870. 17.5 .871 243.2 872 202.4 .873 35.0 .874 9.5 50.8 "Ruf cmnllnn-r racss chleflv In cities. Therefore a comparison of smallpox mor tality in the German City of Dresden after the compulsory vaccination law went into effect with that In the Austrian Cjty of Prague, where there "was no compulsory vaccination during the same period, is still more decisive: Dresden. Prague 1875 .. 1876 .. 1877 .. 1878 .. 1870 .. 1880 .. 1881 .. .2.0 10.9 ..0.5 ..0.0 ..0.0 ..1.0 ..3.0 ..2.7 ..1.3 ..0.9 ..0.4 78.4 395.8 86.8 84.4 290.2 64.6 57.8 225.5 350.8 1882 1833 1884 tvi th rational mind these fltrures would seem to afford convincing proof of the 'efficacy of vaccination as a preventive of the smallpox contagion. The Cost of Tovrne. Omaha Bee. The swan song of 30-day Senator Towne, of Minnesota, delivered last Monday, con tained 20,000 words, and cost the United States $1000. A computation made by a correspondent of the New York Herald shows that Towne's salary as Senator amounted to $812. His mileage from Du Juth to Washington and return amounted to $288, so he will draw about $1000 for filling Cushmon K. Davis' seat for 56 days. His speech today contained 20,000 words. Thus Towne has been paid by the United States Just 5 cents a word for his speech. Towne had prepared another EFOR DISEASES speech, but did not deliver It, so it will not count in the calculation. The sup pressed speech attacked the entire policy of the Republican party, trusts, ship sub sidy, finances and imperialism, but the party leaders Induced Towne to devote his speech entirely to the Philippines. Two Drops of Lincoln's Blood. Topeka, Kan., Dispatch. Two drops of blood from, the body of Abraham Lincoln were given to the Kan sas Historical Society a few days ago by T. D. Bancroft, of Kansas City.. Kan. Mr. Bancroft was in Ford's Theater on the night of the assassination, and saw the President shot. Blood from the President spattered some theater programmes, and Mr. Bancroft secured one of them. Ho kept in his possession from that night until last week, when ho gave it to the Historical Society. The bloodstains are not red as they were when fresh. They are brown and faded like old Ink, but are perfectly plain. One may see on the paper little sprays of the blood that broke from the large drops and stained the pa per. The paper containing the blood stains is preserved In a brass picture frame. Statue of the Queen. WINDSOR, Feb. 8. The recumbent statue of the late Queen Victoria, chiselled 30 years ago. Is being prepared for its place on top of the sarcophagus by tho side of the Prince Consort's statue. 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