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THE MORNING OEEGONIAN, SATURDAY MARCH 9, 1901. TWO SEATS VACANT Delaware Legislature Failed to Elect Senator. A RIOTOUS CLOSING SESSION Antl - Addict Republicans Voted "With tbe Democrat to Adjourn the Joint Session Forty-five Ballots Taken. DOVER, Del., March S. The last day of ihe present session of the Legislature brought a large crowd to Dover. Prompt ly at 12 o'clock the Senate entered the House chamber, where the Joint session of the two houses were held. There was Intense excitement when the presiding officer called for the ballot on United States Senator. The vote for the full term resulted: Kenney, Dem 23Dupont, Reg. Rep..7 Addlcks. Un. Rep.l6Hicgins, Reg. Rep.,6 Necessary to choice, 27. The ballot for the short term resulted: Saulsbury 23Rlchards, Reg. Rep.7 Addlcks 22 The two houses, at 12:22 o'clock, sep arated by a vote of 30 to 32. and the Senatorial balloting was at an end with a double deadlock as the result. On motion to .separate, the seven regular Re publicans who have steadfastly refused to vote for Addlcks, voted -with the 23 Dem ocrats. The motion, which was made by Senator Knox (Reg. Rep.), of Wilmington, was a complete surprise to the Union Republicans. "Vote It down" was shouted from their section of the chamber. Amid the greatest confusion the roll was called and s the Democrats and Regular Republicans were solidly "together, the motion was carried. When President Ellison's gavel fell and the announcement was made that the joint session was ended there was a roar of excitement and wild cheers from the Democrats and Regular Republicans fol lowed. The crowds rushed, about In an almost frenzied manner, shouting out the nametf of the seven Republicans who refused to vote for Addlcks Senators Knox and Ellison and Representatives Clark, Chandler, Flynn, Hodgson and Pilling. The other side cheered for Ad dlcks at the same time, and altogether the scene was one that has not been equaled here since the fight began In 169S. Representatives Shallcross and Healy, Democrats, locked arms and led the Dem ocratic side of the House around the room, singing "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." A crowd of Addlcks sympathizers swarmed around Representative Chand ler, one of the Regular Republican lead ers, who was cheering vigorously. "Shoot him, stick a knife in him," they shouted, and Colonel Morrow, Major Mitchell and several detectives crowded around Chandler, -who kept on cheering. A Union Republican Senator approached Chandler and jumped on a chair, yelling: "Three groans for the d Republican traitors." Friends urged the men to desist. As President Ellison walked out he was hissed by the Addlcks men, who cried "Old Maid" and "Traitor," but he was cheered to the echo from the other side of the House. Speaker McCommons, in about half an hour, had restored order and quietly ad- J Journed the House. At 2 o'clock the Legislature adjourned sine die. Forty-five ballots have been taken In joint session since the balloting began, January 16. "Delaware has not had a full representation In the United States Sen ate since the expiration of ex-Senator Anthony Higgins' term. In 1895. Mr. Hig gins was a candidate for re-election, but was opposed by J. Edward Addlcks, who had recently moved to Delaware from Philadelphia. Mr. Addlcks deadlocked the Legislature and made the threat that the Senator would be "Addlcks or no body." The deadlock has existed ever since, and the factional fight has been perhaps the biterest in the history of American politics. Governor Hunn declared this afternoon that he will not appoint n United States Senator. The Nebraska Deadlock. 2MNCOLN, Neb.. March S. The follow ing vote was taken on the United States Senatorship today: Allen 42Currle 13 Hitchcock 6MeikIejohn 26 W. H. Thompson.. 41 Hinshaw 21 D. E. Thompson... 35 Rosewater. 16 Crounse 9Scatterlng ll Plans of Republican Leaders. NEW YORK, March S. The World says: Senator Hanna, chairman of the .Republi can National committee; Henry C. Payne, Perry S. Heath and "R. B. Schneider, were In conference nearly all yesterday after noon and evening at the Waldorf-Astoria. They came here to consult about the deadlocks over the election of United States Senators in Nebraska, Delaware and Montana. Late last evening Senator Hanna said: "The object of the conference is to pre vent the Legislators of Nebraska, Dela ware and Montana adjourning without electing Senators. Unless the deadlocks are broken, our party will suffer, and it Is our desire to have the three states rep resented In the Senate by Republicans duly elected by the Legislatures." "What Is the result of the conference?" "We have every reason to think that the deadlocks in two, if not In all three of the states will be broken." Regarding the Montana deadlock. It Is said Senators Hanna and Payne had re solved to advise a Republican fusion with the anti-Clark Legislators. In the hope that Senator Carter might be re-elected. Bryan at Buffalo. BUFFALO. March 8. W. J. Bryan ar rived this morning and went to the home of Norman Mack, by whom he'was met at the station. He said his visit to Buffa lo was solely in the interest of his paper. During the afternoon. Mr. Bryan 'visited the Pan-American Exposition grounds, accompanied by Mr. Mack and several ex position officials. He left for New York at 8:30. Another Candidate Appears. DES MOINES. la., March 8. Ex State Treasurer John Herrlott, of Stuart, announces through the columns of the Stuart Locomotive that he Is a candi date for the Republican nomination for Governor, subject to the will of the state convention. This makes the fifth formal announcement since the campaign opened. Maryland Election Bill. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 8. The House today passed to Ite third reading the elec tion bill prepared b- the Democrats. It disqualifies a large number of voters. VETOED BY TOQLE. 'Montana Governor Opposed to the Change of Venue Bill. HELENA, Mont., March S. Governor Joseph K. Toole today vetoed the bill commonly known as the "change of venue bill." It provides that when "Judicial prejudice" could be shown on the part of a presiding Judge, such prejudice to be shown by oral testimony, a change of venue could be demanded and If refused by the Judge himself, appeal could be taken to the Supreme Court and that body could grant such change of venue. The Amal gamated Copper Company , and others were commonly recognized as the men urging the bill. The Helnze Interests were opposing It Its purpose, according to general understanding, was to enable the Amalgamated Copper to get a change of venue from Silver Bow County, where It has an Innumerable number of law suits with the Helnze people on the dockets. In the course of his reasons for vetoing the bill. Governor Toole says: "In my opinion such a statute Is an In vitation to the unscrupulous and design ing to prostitute It to unworthy and Ig noble purposes, .and singles out the Dis trict Judges as the special marks for the character assassin. Of late years it has become quite the thing for Irresponsible parties, by innuendo, If not by open charges, to Impugn the motives and attack the Integrity of those in political and of ficial life. The avenues that lead to this should be circumscribed rather than en larged. In the main this has been con fined -to Representatives in the State Leg islature and, the National Congress. For tunately, however. It has cbme to be rec ognized that there Is scarcely anything more harmless than political malice, but when avarice and greed, robed In the disguise of injured Innocence, open up a new highway by which they may destroy personal and official reputations. It Is time for public sentiment to assert Itself and uncompromisingly set Its face against them." SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY. Its Relation to Foreign Trade of the United States. WASHINGTON, March 8. "The ship building industry of the United States and its relation to the foreign trade,' is the title of a document just Issued by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics. It discusses the. economic conditions which surround the present state of the ship building industry In this country In both their historical and Industrial aspects. Historically It finds that the useof iron clads In the Civil War sounded the doom of wooden ships as instruments of na tional defense, and thenceforth turned over maritime ascendancy to the iron producing nations, in which Great Britain had then held the leadership. But with the ascendancy of the United States in Iron and stoel production and the advent V "SEEN THROUGH EYES OF THE TOWER DREAMER," A WORD PAINTING. BY "M." IN TOMORROWS PAPER. READ IT. ' - of this country into the new era - of oceanic responsibility, both commercially and politically, the present period of our maritime progress Is clearjy marked off from all that has preceded It. Histor ically our development in shipbuilding has reached the point at which the economic outlook Is based upon the most favorable Industrial and commercial conditions ever known in the history of our merchant marine. These conditions are shown first In the Internal development of the ship building industry. Thi Influence of the naval policy on merchant shipbuilding has developed shipbuilding plants to a point of equipment with tools and ma chinery, and to a scale of production which, with a larger demand for ships, would almost put the best American shipbuilders on the same plane as Brit ish shipbuilders as to cost of production. The use of electricity In the operation of shipbuilding plants, the employment of pneumatic tools and the services of cranes and derricks In handling heavy materials at every stage have revolution ized shlpmaklng methods In the United States to such an extent that the best shipyards In America are even better equipped than those of Europe. The chief obstacle to shipbuilding in competition with foreign shipbuilders Is the lack of sufficient orders at our shipyards to keep tfiem busy on a sufllclentlj' uniform volume of work. The difference in the labor cost of pro duction In foreign and American ship yards Is conceded to be about 25 per cent greater on the hull, and 50 per cent greater on the machinery In the Ameri can yard. This difference. If accepted as correct, It Is held, must be overcome by the introduction of piecework methods of labor, and ,the standardizing of types and parts. The report finds that as com pared with British ships, comparatively little progress has been made In this country In eight of these respects, except In those located upon the Lakes. The Lake shipyards have turned out a vol ume of tonnage, which has enabled them to utilize Europeon methods of reducing cost more generally than is the case on the Atlantic seaboard. The progress on the Lakes In produc tive economics has arisen largely from consolidation of plants, whereby special izing could be more generally develoned and uniformity in type of construction in troduced. The consolidation of shipbuild ing plants with steelmaklng establish ments seems to be another direction in which economics in productive cost of ships must be realized. Shipbuilders com plain that the fluctuations of prices In the steel market have been dmong the great est hindrances to the development of steel shipbuilding In the United States, as com pare! with European prices, which are more stable. , The second part of the inquiry Is de voted to the study of the merchant ma rine as a part of the National distribu tive system. It cites the fact shown by statistics that with the growth In the volume of ocean commerce an Increasing prepcrtion of our surplus wealth has been handled by sea. so that the National In terest has been forced to avail Itself of agencies not of its own control in order to reach and maintain foreign markets, subject to the discrimination of shipping lines organized In the service of our com petitors. The growth In the volume of ou- foreign commerce "Is mainly respon sible for the fact that American capital has practically overcome lta timidity for Inestment in either shipbuilding or shipping. Under existing conditions, how ever, distribution by sea between the United States and the outside world Is In foreign control. For the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1900, Imports and exports by sea aggregated $2,0S9,52S,6$6, only 9.3 per cent of which value was carried In Amer ican vessels. Numerous tables are given, showing the growth In our foreign com merce and the decline In our foreign ship ring. Emperor William's Condition. BERLIN. March 8. The following bul letin was issued this morning: "The Kaiser's condition yesterday was satisfactory. His Majesty slept well last night, and whpn the bandage was changed his wound presented no inflammatory symptoms. There Is some swelling of the right eyelid and cheek. He has no fever. "LEUTHOLD, "BERGMANN, "ILBERG." Emperor William wired today to Prince ;Henry of Prussia: "I look hs if I had just come from China." Mnc Arthur's Casualty List. WASHINGTON. March 8. General MacArthur's latest casualty list follows: Killed September 20. San Mlgifel de Mayumo, Luzon, Thlrty-flfth Infantry, Charles A. Baker; March 3, neaf'Sllang, Luzon, Forty-sixth Infantry, Sergeant Walter A. Gllmore. Wounded January i. Mount Isaxog, Luzon, Forty-seventh Infantry, Corporal James L. Casey, arm, serious; February. 24, San Vincente, Luzon, Troop F, Third Cavalry, Charles Larzlock, wounded In thigh, moderate. RADICALS IN MAJORITY NOT A BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR THE PLATT AMENDMENT. Cuban Convention Referred It to a Committee of Which Only Two Members Are Conservatives. HAVANA, March 8. The committee on relations of the Cuhan Constitutional Con vention, to which was referred he 'Piatt 1 amendment, is made up of three Radicals Sllva, Vlllanuenda and Gualberto Gomez and two Conservatives Tamayo and Quesada. Tamayo, It Is understood, is now In favor of accepting the amendment In its entirety. He Intends taking a firm stand on this position, and will send a minority report to the convention. If nec essary. His political influence and posi tion are expected to have a good effect with the others. Senor Tamayo Is chair man of the committee on foreign relations' of the convention. The committee held a short secret session this afternooif and appointed Gomez secretary. , Political demonstrations have ceased, and there is absolute quiethess through out the island. The strike has been settled, the steve- AA 1IV ... . I uu.es, jisuierjaen anu carmen returning to work this afternoon. The " stevedore:, agreed to compromise on 52 50 American money for a day's work, and U for night work. The Ward Line agent agrees to send home the American longshoremen. CHINA'S RESPONSIBILITY. Exnctlons, Hostility and Corruption Played a Prominent Part. New York Journal of Commerce. There is no evidence "of a disposition to take seriously the Jeremiad in which Mark Twain, in the North American Re view, liberates his soul In. regard to the sins of our civilization. It is not a pro duction calling for much comment, and might be entirely Ignored but for the evi dence it gives that some absolutely false views about, the origin of the Chinese struggle are already being accepted as history. To some of these Sir Robert Hart has Jent the weight of his deserved ly great authority, which makes it the less to be wondered at that so hasty a commentator as Mr. Clemens should un hesitatingly adopt them. It Is the theory of the latter that the beginning of the whole trouble was the German occupa tion of Klaochou. He says that .the Kaiser lost a couple of missionaries In a riot In Shantung, and that a very ex travagant Indemnity was exacted for the outrage hence the succeeding troubles. It does not greatly alter the case, but It happens that the two German priests who were murdered in Shantung were the victims of midnight assassins who had been hired by a rich man to kill an old priest at whose house they were staying. The rich man's grievance against the priest was that having a suit in the courts against a native Catholic convert. the cause of the latter was espoused by his spiritual fa ther to the discomfiture of the wealthy litigant. Assuming the grievance to have been a substantial one, the way of right ing It was manifestly ill-chosen and had the additional objection of costing the lives of two qultcnnocent men. That the Kaiser was waiting for a pretext to se cure a footing in Shantung Is extremely probable, and that he demanded a pen alty for the outrage on his subjects out of all -proportion to the magnitude of tho offense must also be conceded. But It was, nevertheless, an offense clearly traceable to the supine toleration by the governor and the imperial authorities of anti-foreign disorder in Shantung. The Futai of that province Is directly responsi ble to Pekln, having practically no Initia tive similar to that of the great Viceroys, and Li Plng-heng, under whose rule the German priests were murdered, was one of the most narrow-minded and ignorant of the agents of Manchu rule. It was in 1S94 that his governorship be gan, and Its character has thus been sum marized by a competent authority: "Ex actions of every sprt became the rule; hostility to foreign residents was encour aged, the better disposed officials were re placed by creatures of his own, the money raised for Yellow River embankments was squandered among the officeholders, and disorders of every sort were permitted to increase unchecked. The conservation works commenced by Chang-Yeo were neglected everywhere, and, as a conse quence, the Yellow River burst Its. banks ahd floods and consequent famines were the result. Secret societies, the natural outcome of mlsgovernment, arose on all sides, and, unable or careless to repress them, their members were given to under stand that if they turned their energies against the Christians and foreigners no notice would be taken." The responsi bility of Li for the murder of the mission aries was too direct to be evaded, and his dismissal was very properly demanded. As a matter of detail, It may be remarked that indefensible as was the demand for a lease of Klaochou Bay and a strip of land around it, the territory did not contain several millions of Inhabitants and was not worth 520,000,000, as Mr. Clemens some what hastily declares It was. The Impe rial government yielded to the demand for the removal of til Pingheng, but made haste to show Its symjjathy with the antl forelgn movement by appointing as his successor the notorious Yu, Hslen a more Ignorant, more fanatical and more reck less specimen of Manchu officialdom than his predecessor. It was he who, as gov ernor of ShansI, was responsible for the nameless atrocities committed on defense less men, women and children in thht province last Summer, and who, by the consent alike of the foreign representatives and the Chinese Gov ernment has been adjudged to de serve death. During his brief In cumbency of the governorship of Shan tung he deliberately encouraged the antl forelgn movement, and, in a memorial to the throne, he advocated the employment of the Boxers as an agency for driving every foreigner out of the province. In January of last year Mr. -Conger wrote: "There can be little doubt that the late Governor Yu Hslen, Is very largely, if not wholly, responsible for the whole deplo rable situation In Shantung." It Is open to anybody to claim that the coup d'eta by which the Empress Dow ager usurped the functions of the Empe ror In September. 1S9S, and the series of anti-foreign decrees which followed, was merely part of a great patriotic movement which had been provoked by the rapacity of the foreigner In China. t Is certain that the revolution was not three months old before the Pekln government began to spend large sums, of money on arsenals, on the manufacture of firearms and the accumulation of munitions of war. The favorite General of the Empress, Tung Fuh-slang, publicly boasted a few weeks after the coup d'etat that the object of these preparations was to drive all for eigners Into the Yellow Sea. But he must be a particularly Ill-informed person who states, as Mr. Clemens does, that It was the Kaiser's "bad play" In Shan tung which produced the Chinese revolt, "the Indignant uprising of China's tra duced patriots, the Boxers." As a matter of fact, these "traduced patriots" were paid out of the imperial funds to massa cre native and foreign Christians, and they left nothing undone In the way of cold-bloode4 and Inhuman atrocity In their execution of the task. Their motive was not patriotism, but pay and plunder, and as soon-as-the pay ceased, and robbery was no longer safe, they disbanded. Had the Boxer -movement been part of a pro test by patriotic Chinamen against for eign dictation, it would hardly have been confined to a relatively small portion of the empire. Assuming that patriotism in our sense exists in China at all, and that the Boxers were Its sincere but mis guided exponents, It must be regarded i as singular that except in the northeast the B6xer movement was non-existent. The fact Is that China defied the civil ized -world last Summer because her rul ers were so Inconceivably ignorant as to believe themselves stronger than all the rest of the world combined, and because they reclamed on the great Viceroy's being of the same way of thinking. The Generals who commanded the Imperial troops knew as little about the task they had undertaken as the rest of the reac tionary clique about the Empress Dow ager, and the one thing than can be said to the credit of the whole corrupt and bloodthirsty gang Is that they have ren dered possible the return 'to power of the reformers whom they have for the last two years hunted down, proscribed and slaughtered. COMMITTEE VACANCIES.- Tlaces Mitchell Will Hpve When the Senate Is Organised. WASHINGTON, March 5. As there will be no extra session of Congress, the reor ganization of the Senate committees will go over to the regular session of Decem ber. To Oregon the most Important feat ure of reorganization will be the dispo sition of the places that Senator McBride leaves vacant. The most Important com mittee for Oregon, is commerce, and next In order are public lands, the Philippines and interoceanic canals. McBride was chairman of coast defenses, and a member of forest reservations and protection of game. Neither of these committees ever do anything that is of any particular Im portance. Coast defense matters are handled in the fortifications bill, which al ways goes to the committee on appropria tions, and forest reserves are properly public land matter, although it sometimes reports bills of more or less Importance. Naturally either Senator Simon or Sen ator Mitchell will be able to obtain all of the places made vacant by Senator Mc Bride. Under the ordinary rules of the Senate, which have always been heeded, Senator Simon would be entitled to the commerce committee, and It Is almost sure that either he or Senator Mitchell will secure It. Senator Mucnell could have had It at the time he gave It to McBride, but he preferred to remain on the com mittees that ho x then had. Senator Mitch ell was chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, which deals with important legal questions, and handles a proposition in which he has always been Interested very much; that is, the propo sition to elect Senators by the direct vote of the people. He was also on the Ju diciary committee, a thoroughly legal committee; claims, a committee of which he was once chairman; postofflces and post roads, and the Nicaragua Canal. The Nicaragua Canal committee has now been made interoceanic canals. Senator Simon secured the vacancy on judiciary, a place that he would be un willing to relinquish. It was the choice place of Senator Mitchell when he went out of the Senate. Senator Mitchell will no doubt become a member of privileges and elections, but cannot hope to become chairman of. It. He will probably also go on claims and postofflce and post roads and the Interoceanic canals and Philip pines. This Is probable unless he should be made a member of commerce, in which event Senator Simon would no doubt share some of the other committees of which McBride has been a member. In addition to the committees which Senator Simon holds, the McBride committees and the places of Importance which Senator Mitchell held are no doubt open to tho Oregon Senators If they agree upon a di vision and work together. Senator Mitchell haa more personal friends in the Senate than almost any other man In that body, and his 18 years' former service, together with the fact that he has got six years ahead of him, will give him a considerable pull, although the seniority rule has always been en forced. In this connection, however. It Is probable that if he should put In a strong claim for the commerce committee, and Simon should oppose it with his own claim, there Is danger that It might be taken away from Oregon. This plum has got to be agreed upon between the Sena tors. It was known that when Senator Mitch ell was In Congress before, he had no de sire for a place on the commerce commit tee, but Insisted that Oregon should be represented. It was for that reason that he placed McBride on that committee. If McBride could not have obtained the place. Mitchell would have taken It him self rather than Oregon should lose It. He may have that same feeling in regard to Senator Simon, and be willing that, so long as Oregon has the place. It could fie held by Senator Simon. The latter is very anxious to take the place, and would give it the attention and hard work which is necessary for any Senator to be suc cessful with a committee of that import ance. Foreign relations belonged to Oregon in tho time of Senator Dolph. Senator Mitchell could have had that place had he not sacrificed it in order to place Mc Bride on commerce. But he would have been obliged to give up some of the good committee places he held himself, and he did not think that the foreign rela tions committee was of sufficient Import ance to the state or to him to mako the sacrifices of places on committees which are of lesser rank; but of greater import ance to the Pacific Coast. It is almost necessary for Oregon to Lamps Oil Heaters Agateware Jardiniers China Crockery Glassware inner Sets oilet Sets Artware Great Eastern Tea Co. ;C(; WaIi. St.. bet. Sixth and Seventh U23 First Street, near Salmon. PORTLAND. DR.BURKRARTSWONDERFUL OFFER, The announcement comes from every nation on the rlobe that Dr. Burkhart's Vegetable Compound Is the best remedy known. It cures Poor Appetite, Sour Bloated Stomach, Pim ples, Blotches, Dizziness. Catarrh. Tired Feel ing In the Morning. 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Insist upon Its place on public lands; but even this committee could be given up to some Western man who would no doubt look after Oregon Interests. It is not known whether Senator Mitchell would like the place on foreign relations, and It Is doubtful If he would care for the pub lic lands committee. If Senator Simon goes on commerce. Senator Mitchell may feel compelled to take the public lands committee in order to have Oregon repre sented. If Mitchell should take commerce, Senator Simon will take the McBride va cancy on public lands. The two other committees which Sen ator McBride has held, Interoceanic ca nals and Philippines, are both bound to be of more or less importance to the Pa cific Coast, and they will no doubt be di vided between the Oregon Senators. In fact, McBrlde's places, while Important to the Pacific Coast, have not that great Im portance In the Senate, save the commit tee on commerce alone, which attracts many Senators, and therefore the Oregon Senators, If they reach ah understanding and do not contest with each other for the places, can control all of the vacancies between them. The English Secretary of War. Contemporary Review. The Secretary of State for "War is gen erally a' civilian. Here, it Is said. Is an absurdity at the outset; either the Sec retary of State should be a soldier or he should be merely the mouthpiece of the Cammander-In-Chlef in Parliament, not his official superior. Now, so long as Eng land is governed on the party system, the fact that the Secretary of State must be Identified with some one political party excludes the most eminent soldiers of the day from that office. The Duke of. "Wel lington's political career, following his military career, was altogether exception al. And If the Secretary of State Is to bo supreme over the Commander-in-Chief, it Is better that he should be a civilian, with no pretense to be an au thority on military questions, than a sol dier of the second or third degree of emi nence, who mfljht be tempted to set up his own Judgment on technical points against that of his responsible military advisers. The Secretary of State Is not called upon to decide for himself questions of strat egy or designs of artillery; such moder ate acquaintance with military technicali ties as he requires is not beyond the reach of a civilian; and it Is a mistake to suppose that a more or less distant recol lection of regimental life, such as a mem ber of Parliament may occasionally pos sess, is of any appreciable value In ad ministrative affairs. If, on the other hand, the Secretary of State Is to be merely the mouthpiece of the Commander-in-Chief, the ultimate su premacy of the civil over the military pow er In the state must be asserted In the Cabinet Itself. Is It to be expected that the K'tary needs of the country will com mand iv Je attention from the Chancellor I k PICTURflPGDnEHIHEIIT f APRIL AND MAY! Compound the Bes Medicine in All the as Nothing Else Can Do, Makes Nerves, Cures Disease! This is why the demand for Paine's cel ery compound as a Spring medicine so far exceeds today the demand for all other remedies put together. Paine's celery compound, taken during the early Spring days, has even more than its usual remarkable efficacy in making people welL It makes short work of all diseases of debility and nervous exhaus tion. It rapidly drives out neuralgia, sleeplessness, dyspepsia, and rheumatism from the system. It removes that lassi tude, or "tired feeling," which betokens weakened nerves and poor blood. Overworked and tired women are but one class of persons who are In urgent need of the wonderful remedy to make and keep them well. Business men who are not sleeping soundly, shop girls made pale and sickly by long hours of Indoor work, and the countless sufferers from dyspepsia, kidney and liver trouble, need of the Exchequer and the Government generally, when expounded by a soldier or civilian of lnferfor standing, than they do when a statesman of the first rank and authority has his reputation staked on the efficiency of the army? Moreover, If It Is necessary that the Government of the country should be dominated by the fight ing services, wo ought to begin with tho navy; but it does not appear tha efficien cy in the navy Is Impossible with a civ ilian FJrst Lord, or that the First Lord j should be merely the Parlamentary mouth- . piece of the First Sea Lord. I The Permanent Under Secretary should have a long, continuous and Intimate ac quaintance with the Internal history of the "War Office and with Its staff. Com ing, as he does, between the Secretary of State and his responsible military advis ers; it is not his duty to advise on mili tary questions, but to co-ordinate the working of the whole machine. It was definitely recommended by Lord North brook's commlttte, in 1ST0, that he should be a civilian. t NevrHpaper Engllnh. Kansas City Star. Newspaper English, which has been the object of so much flippant and sarcastic comment from all sorts of people, has at last found a champion in an unexpected place. Professor T. R. Lounsbury, of Yale, who, as the author of an admirable history of the English language. Is quail fled to speak, In a recent address op posed the hackneyed theory that news papers are chiefly responsible for the corruption of the English language. He recognized the fact that there are news papers and newspapers, and that much hurried writing is necessarily done. "But," he went on, "the writers connect ed with the more Important journals are a picked body of men. They are Invaria bly under an Influence which tends, to promote perspicuity and energy of ex pression. In education and ability news paper men are, as a class, far superior to those who set out to be their critics and censors." Certain newspapers, it must be admit ted, have given cause for the censorious reamrks about "newspaper English." Persons who read without discrimination, make no 'distinction between these public ations and others, which strive consci entiously and successfully to keep their columns free from trite and slipshod ex pressions. There are journals which do not care for facts. For the sins of these the whole press Is not to be Indiscrim inately condemned. In all of the better newspapers, simplicity and directness are constantly sought for. "Fine writing" is held as an abomination. Their dispatches do not refer to battle ships as "steel thunderers of the deep," or to a dancing party as a "terpslchorean function." Such things fixe minor matters, but they go a long waytoward good style. In writing, as in any other line of work, practice makes perfect. It Is only reason- 1 able to expect men who make a business t Sorina World. tho invigorating effect of Paine's celery compound now that Spring, with all its' dangers, Is at hand. Its pre-eminence as a health-maker comes from Its extraor dinary powers of supplying appropriate nutriment to the blood, nerves, and brain. There Isn't a family so rich or so poor as to afford to be without a bottle of Paine's celery compound In these early Spring days, when the human system needs every assistance to carry It through, the depressing effects of the season when nature makes It easiest to replenish the blood with new, healthful material, and feed the nervous system with, strength, for future work. What Paine's celery compound has done for thousands of others It will do for the reader, and once this great medicine is given a trial, another person will bo added to the multitude who praise it3 wonderful virtues. of writing about things they see to do it well. During a week any first-class news paper contains a dozen bits of description or narration which, In vigor and life, ex cel much of the composition in tne popu lar novel of the day. The value of the newspaper as a training school for wri ters Is shown by the careers of tho men whose books are most read. Clemens. Kipling, Eugene Field, Richard Harding Davis, Stephen Crane.. George W. Cable. Howells, and scores of others have served their apprenticeship as reporters. Much, of their anonymous work for newspapers was as good as that which later won them fame. Yet indiscrlminatlng critics doubtless have condemned their earlier writing as "newspaper English." A newspaper is not a monthly maga zine. In hurried work lapses are sure to be made. A correspondent writing a des cription of a national convention, at tho rate of 1200 words an hour, cannot stop to consider whether he has split an In finitive or put hfe "only" in the right place. But his account will give a vivid description of the scene. The reader will see all the life and color, of an exciting moment. He will hear the confused din of the shouting and will follow the pro cession of the standards of tho states around the hall. Yet a few persons will arise from reading such an article with tho sole comment that newspapers con tinually use the pernicious "is being" form of the verb. To such critics as these Professor Lounsbury's remarks are addressed. The RiRht "Way. Chicago Inter Ocean. v "Such undue freedom, sir," I said, "I cannot understand." But he looked deep Into my eyes ' And simply kept my hand. "Merely a friend you are." I said, "And liberties like this I never will permit." But he He only took the kiss. "My lover? Nonsense, sir!" I said. "I never can lovo you." But he ho took me In his arms. And said, "You do, you do!" "I cannot marry you." I said. And Hvo with you for life," He simply said, "You will, you will'. And now I am his wlfo. Rewards for Gallant Service. NEW YORK, March 8. A Washington dispatch to the Herald says that adequate rewards will' be given by Secretary Long to the officers who distinguished them selves in China, the Philippines and Samoa. Captain B. H. McCalla, who fig ured In the Seymour expedition for tho relief of the besieged legatloners in Pe kln; Captain John T. Myers, who com manded the American Legation guard in Pekln: Major L. T. Waller and many ju nior officers will be advanced In their re spective grades.