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Show 1 1 TALK. WITH UHE GTE AT A A STEEL STTIICE MACA'R&HV'R tlaas there commits Uepiedatloas on American and natiies alike, thou', the latter aufferihe most severely "The natives are eagerly seeking the establishment of civil government Tlhat they may root out these hands of erha. Inals. There is every reason to hell eve that the whole country will sooa be perfectly safe for travelers. War has the rhtllpplnt and laid waste whole districts. Tht people in many districts have relapsed into barbarism. The best conditloai You may prevail Ityrokhern say that the whole territory is pacifist but not Ifcanqyilfzed, but It will be many motrrhs before law and order are observed everywhere. sw f, "At presept theif , is still 'scii trouble in Samar, but Generai,Httghe with a large force, ha gone after the insurgents and soon bring them to their senses Samar is the worst section, but tb trouble l not .interfering, with tb1 coast business. In Cebu and Bohai and occasionally in southern there is a slight outbreak, confined to the Criminal element. .The civil commission wnsmbOurtc put in- - force some excellent Ideas foi the municipal government., of Manila when left. The city l&rin excellent condition, especially limits, sanitary departments, ami itgrawthia, ness has been enormous. -- . tea.,, ', ! t ' GEN. General MacArthur, who has Just "returned from the Philippine, Exover his presses great satisfaction work In the islands. Te says: ' , "While the condition is not perfect, It ta gratifying. A few groups of armed insurgents are still at large, hut they must surrender, " as their power is broken and they are not be- - Cht Lift of a LocomotbCt. The English engine, built in 1870, has run 4,000,000 miles and is still in service. The managers of the road to which it belongs are proud of this record. In the United States a first-cla- ss engine makes from 100,000 to 110,000 miles a year, and at the end of twenty years is supposed to be ready for the scrap heap. Seemingly, Americans are more extravagant than British railway managers, but the former do not think they are. They believe their policy is the more economical .one. A soon as a locomotive Is put In service in this country H W pushed as hard as is possible In doing profitable work on the assumption that by -- the time It has been driven to death there will be so many Improvements In locomotives that it will be uneconomical to keep the old one in service even If itcan be rehuHtO0usT when Slavey were cheap' a Cuban . planter would reason that it was more economic to work 'a slave to death and buy a hew one than fib exact less labor from a Slave mnd 'thus Jbave his services for a longer time. In England an engine is taken gcegtxara of.- It' rested occasionally.) tys- - HfeV is prolonged as much as possible. .Hence it Is that atf engine can be kept In service for thirty year. The jnen at the head of American railways contend that so old an engine must be an expensive one because It cannot do the modern engine. Is cheaper work, American' policy is capable of. vindicated by its, results. Freight rates on American roads have gqne down because of the fearlecs Use of mechanical improvements by their managers ..Freight rate In England are high, and do not come down. One reason is that the managers of English roads have false ideae of economy.,. passenger L MAETHUR. fn Much to the regret of many of hit subjects. King Edward is rapidly doinj away with many customs to whldh'hh every week with mother was attached Her Hindoo attendants, were sent back to India at soon as tbe f uneral waover ad now surrectlon has been over for some a stop has been put to the services If? time and there is much freedom of German-J- n. the, German Chapel Royal1, movement. Still, s large criminal whic date balk to the early George N generally ai4ed These natives have surrender does not they are coming in their rifles. by the natives. come to sue that mean death, and dences of Indebtedness, Just as if prom issory notes Instead of kank bills were thrown into the fire If the administrator should be allowed to obey instructions, and 6hould burn up $50,-00- 0 in United States currency of any kind this is the amount in bank to the credit of the estate then the United States Treasury would be $50,000 better off than before. Practically the national government would be the heir. If national bank notes were burnt up the banks which Issued them would be the gainers. Therefore, if the will, shall be sustained it will be in the power of the bank where thq money it deposited to determine who shall be the legates. It can hand over to the administrator its own notes, If It have iny In circulation, the bills of other hanks, or United States notes. Or it may hand over gold coin and Invitfe tig administrator to burn that to ashes. The court before which Uls will is to he contested may well set. It aside on the ground that tie jtestatpr practically left if to the hank to determine the real legatees.- - If the court does not care to do that, it can set the will SSlde, because' the testator was not of sound' disposing 'mind, reach that 'Conclusion. It is easy i I PICTURE JOYING Mrs. Tom Moore, or of Zeeke," is oni the oldest Indians on the Pacifl coast The JVcta, Torpedo 'Boat Destroyers. three the s Makah Indian woman born and raised al Neah Bay agency, and Is without douM more than 100 old. The first thing she wiiTas'k a bacco, which she eats with great relish. She la nearly blind and can just tell daylight from! night Her husband has ,bbefl jdsad iforiowr thirty jrnr and ahg has no 'relatives living Mini supported bj ratloas 1'furnished b tbs 1 "" gevernnfont She is of Washington, ILLUSTRATING THE KIND OF HARP WORK FROM WHICH THE STRIKERS HAVE BEEN ENTHE TEMPERATURE IN A ROLLING MILL GENERALLY RANGES FROM115TO130. A VACATION The 1 strMgWdVtj tklly - ' work; and in destroyer torpedo-bo-at typical of the whole class of six-tw- n authorized; by Congress In 1898, Just' after thA declaration of war with y f$)n. The country at largq Was thal provision, hut had It wft that three Years would Pas ere of them' should he ready for trial Uhi doubtful that the appropriation woe Id havecarrled with it a present Besides writing s number at stand- WJfcei5raecurity. Strikes and the dif-ard legal works. General Stillman F. oil tv la getting t rurtu eel ; h s v? K j Viti tie vieiaid loot.pir KnepUiUp.Njw Y)rkfJajvyey,-flithe destroyer? glass time tot bis yra nobbles, piloting aftl tf cf all violin Ipl a yiqjh i In i, hi a fofflte are two the'wrlgthal time limit of eighteen months, but the newness of that,, marines which he has painted. type of work has also been a considJames Angus, a collector of curios erable handicap. The torpedo-boBritish destroyer, residing at WesKFarms N.T., has represents a good many years given to Roger Williams park at Provexpert- idence, It I., a collection of corals and of toilsome and ' polished agates valued at $15,000. om-b- fl C'-u- speed in every line. successful manage- When ready fo at the yard of the Maryland ment of such a vessel, her whole com- actual service they will represent a Work- s- recently are essea- - plement from the skipper down to the dead weight or total displacement of launched rW ko tV at y, heart-breaki-ng humblest stoker must take a very active and a very skillful hand. To keep these boilers working at their topmost demands a constant, weary, wearing attention, and to hold to a given course a creation that travels with the speed of a startled deer la something demanding grip, a clear bead and tha steadiest of eyes and nerves. , ; , The torpedo-bodestroyer la only the torpedo-bomagnified; the mosquito multiplied into the gadfly, with all that euch aa increase would naturally carry in the way of speed, endurance and wickedness of possible per' . formance. When just launched were conceived the official mind, was still full of the recollection of those Span- at at the-boa- ts 420 tons, and it will be possible tot them to operate in waters not exceeding nine feet In depth. Their relatively shallow draugh gives them a particularly wide range of action, and promisee to make them ' especially effective in safeguarding the broad reaches of many of our hays and rivers and the land-lockwaters of certain portions of e'ir ''rrn , , t, ,. t f.Oj . Ul li service, our boats are not built with a turtle back forward, but. instead, the hows are carried straight up, the purpose being, first, to prevent the boats buryiag their head in a seaway, and then to provide more commodious quarters for the crew of some 60 odd persona. This may seem to he a minor matter, hut it is really of prime ed Sties Infanta Eulalias At Man to Man. President John Mitchell of the Mine Workers argues cogently in the current Independent inf favor of the frank recognition by employers of the trSdea' union as the agent of their 'employes. Into the details of Mr. hUtcbells argument it is needless to go farther. than to cite one striking fact; In the bituminous coal Industry, where the union is recognised, there has been peace for three and fears. In the anthracite branch, where the union is not recognized there are frequent strikes and constant uncertainty. .. More interesting to (hose who seek one-ha- lf ' to find general principles upon which the relations at capital and labor may equitably and easily be adjusted is a remark near the close of Mr. Mitchell's article. "I have never known an Instance, N he says, "where the representatives of capital and labor, have failed to agree When the twf sat down together, put their feet under the table, and told one another the absolute truth. I am confident that every great strike which has taken place in opr country could have been avoided If each side had been reasonable and hottest with the other." Tiarntnj a i lpmanTaptr Monty. - A cranky old in Minnesota has directed in his will that his administrators shall gatheftup all his cash la bank and burn it till nothing is left bat ashes. He wished to spite his heirs brother, sister, and nephew. His heirs do not wish to be spited, and they are going to fight the will. They are going to contend, among 'other things, that an administrator has no more right to destroy money by fire than to destroy buildings or crops. There is a material difference. The bnrning up of buildings Is destruction of values. It takes something from tbs wealth of the community. !Whn paper money is burned there is no destruction of values. There is evi- merely the wiping out of certain A TYPE OF THE NEW TORPEDO meriting, combined with a money outlay mounting way up in the millions, hacked by a record of failure such, perhaps, aa only a phlegmatic English publte-wrm- ia COtlhtCnafice. From an engineering standpoint, the destroyer is the very exemplification of the present climax of the art; she ie the racehorse of the sea, and, in performance, her screws far outdo the record of the fleetest of locomotives, t In form of hull contributive to speed and seaworthiness, within the limited compass of such a modest-size- d craft, the destroyer likewise typifies the sufast-movi- WHO INVOKES THE LAW'S AID TO SECURE SOME DRESSES SHE HAS ORDERED AND WERE PURCHASED BY THE INFANTA EULALIA. MRS. CHARLES T. .YERKES, that Infanta a thing or exclaimed Mrs, Charles T. Terkes, when the Paris correspondent of an American paper called to inquire into the meaning of the legal proceedings she had ordered instituted la the French capital Jointly against the Infanta Eulalia of Spain and ths noted Paris man dressmaker, MAr ' - ' mand. York New and visited The infanta other cities of America. It will be remembered, during the Columbian exposition as representative of the Spanish royal family and acquired something of a reputatlon-fo- r her eccentricities. . Mrs. Yerkee la the wife of the American traction magnate who is about to start an electric underground railway In London. Mrs. Yerkes declined to talk much about the case,, but the cor "111 teach two!" ' respondent learned that the princes the dressmaker are charged with conspiring to prevent the delivering to Mrs. Yerkes of a number of dresses aha had ordered and had tried on several times. seems that when Mr. Yerkes' gowns, eight in number, 'were ready they were shown to the infanta as specimens of the firm, work. The princess fell In love with two of th offered to buy them M. Annand would not duplicate teem for the American millionaires. M, Armand promised and offered Mrs. Yerkes two other modes gratis. But the Americn woman rebelled vlo- 2H?s!!!freft,,td t0 ,FMft F of the the le original lot her Immediately. V.Z teVered back and forth .iT a dfJJ to eeek legal radresa. pro-vid- ed preme cunning-o- f 5 the nival architects A Httintd Qruittr. 'After the navy department had decided (o stop using the old Vermont as a receiving ship at the Brooklyn navy-yar- d it concluded to use the cruiser Columbia for that purpose. The vessel was towed from the League Island navy yard, where It had been laid up for the last two years to Brooklyn. After Us arrival there an officer was quoted as saying that the machinery of the Columbia, which cost $L300,000, was covered with rust, that not a Steam pump would work, and that only the use of hand pumps kept the vessel afloat The Columbia was built about ten years ago, its total cost being $5,000,-00- 0. It was designed as A commerce BOAT DESTROYERS BEING CONSTRUCTED FOR THE U. S, NAVY. ish destroyers the finest products of. importance, for the endurance ef a deBritish ship yards, that had filled the stroyer setting aside for the nouncs whole nation and no small number of the question of coal and water supour fleet with a goodly sense of ap- ply is in direct' ratio to the physical prehension; and the Whipple and her endurance of the crew. mates may best be termed the Spanish At full speed, and under the stress of Terror Improved. warfare, the nervous tax upon the These vessels have greatly outgrown complement of a torpedo boat destroythe Cushing, thq first of our torpedo er is something eiosely akin to the tencraft, and a boat that has very recent- sion upon an engineer making record ly gone through a pretty thrilling ex- time over a roadway suspected ot perience in a stormy un from Nor- weakness; .and anything that may confolk to New York. Hie Whipple and tribute to rest and physical recovery la her mates are 245 feet long, with a a consequent promise of better permaximum beam of only 23 feet; their formance In the hours of sorest trial. long, fine, clean cut hulls bespeaking They may be in commission by 1902. destroyed, and was extremely swift crossing the ocean once at an average speed of 22.8 knots per hour. It cost too much money and was too good a ship to have been allowed to degenerate into Its present unserviceable condition. The New York, Texas, Detroit, the same and Machlas, built-abo, time, are still in active service. ut : ; r -- r Trttidtnl Cattro'i S'taitmtnt . President Castro of Venezuela evidently has a wholesome regard for the opinion of the American people. Though not absolutely unprecedented, It is rather unusual for the head of a government to address to the citizens of a foreign nation an explanation of his conduct. Yet President Castro In a I message from his secretary Just published has practically done thla unusual thing. - Secretary Cardenas, speaking for his chief, asserts that the present government of Colombia has been fomenting insurrection in Venezuela, and that Venezuela has been Invaded by Colombian troops. He avers that these charges are confirmed by official Colombian publications, and not denied by the Colombian envoy at Caracas. He says Venezuela has repulsed the Invasion, And massed troops on her frontier to prevent its recurrence. "Venezuela has not," he adds, accepted the invasion as an International attack by the people of Colombia, but b tames only the present Colombian govern- ment ' |