Show AT HOME AND ABROAD Just before and at aLthe the h outbreak of the he Spanish war continental Europe was so frankly anti-American anti that all aU sorts of people even even those of prominence prominence nence in various countries confidently predicted forcible Intervention In case the he United States should proceed to ex ex- The European pi press ess with few exceptions laughed at us for presuming presuming pre pro suming to put In an appearance as a war pow power r In the presence o of Spain's large arge and veteran army and sup superior navy and when war leally came the continental military experts were quite assured that the bottom would be knocked out of Yankee insolence But Dewey at Manila and Schley at Santiago San San- tiago produced a revolutionary change in n all this and now the nations In whose capitals Americans were hissed and hooted In the s and all but mobbed in 1893 1699 are tumbling over one one another's heads to worship the AmerIcan American Amer- Amer Ican can rising sun and to swear wild oaths that they were always ys good and had haded led ed a different life Uie from the time they were vere weaned It Is the amiable satisfaction satisfaction satis satis- faction of the British press to be able to o compare the present European attitude attitude attitude at at- toward the United States with that of four years ago and to worry I Powers across the channel with statements statements statements state state- ments to the effect that whereas England England Eng- Eng land and permitted us to supply ourselves with ammunition from her ports Spain obtained the same courtesy ourt sy from neutrals neutrals neutrals neu neu- who now no re that they were our s sincere friends all th the time I It Is a pleasant and am amusing sing little controversy upon which we can afford to look with amused Indifference It only serves to accentuate the fact that that In the game of tag we played with the boys In 98 we became and are It In Austria even more offensively than thanIn In Germany th p the code oc e d duello llo reigns reigns supreme supreme su preme barbarous and unutterably brutaL bru bru- tal This proposition Is well Illustrated in n a case recently reported from Vien Vien- na For Eor alienating the affections of his wife a Viennese manufacturer Insulted a Lieutenant of Hussars The latter could not challenge a man in trade without defiling his nobility s so he al allow allowed allowed al- al low lowed d the the Injured injured husband to challenge him The civilian knew nothing whatever whatever whatever what what- ever about weapons The Hussar chose 1 pistols and they fought Two shots were exchanged without result At the third call the 1 nanta manufacturer fa who could not h have ve hit a flock of barns at ten tap paces if he had aimed at them raised his pistol and fired at random He lIe made a dead centre e by the merest ac accident accident accident ac- ac and Herr Hen Lieutenant ascended to glory with a hole right through his aristocratic heart Now here comes In Inthe Inthe inthe the element of Injustice in the prem pram Ies If the officer r had killed the man whose home he had ruined he would have have been tried by martial court and sentenced to hr or four months of honorable confinement within the limits limits' of or some fortress to enjoy the comforts and privileges of the garrison me mess s and nd t to b be Jf Regarded as a a fine ne tellow fel fellow tel tel- low who who had had 19 te 8 man In t the e case of the civilian is different If he had not tak taken n French leave almost undoubtedly he would he-would would have been given ten years at ha had d labor in a common pris prison n. n ThEY They have queer notions about equality quality before fi the law aw i In some coun coun- tries In his testimony s i before the House Hous Military committee a few days ago General William Willlam Crozier rozier Chief of Ord Ordnance Ordnance nance nance stated that that In the event event- of a great w war r this country would need a a supply of one million rifles and that at the present rate ate of pro production Jt it would take fifteen or twenty years to tose s se secure ur ure th them rn de might Ight have hav added that long before the end of either period the Krag Krag Jorgensen rifle now in use would be obsolete If It be not so already already already al- al ready Though a fairly effective weapon weapon wea wea- pon pori it is by no means an ideal small arm General Crozier admitted that In Sn Inthe the Krag J Jorgensen Krag-Jorgensen rg n en the metal is not symmetrically distributed ted and that th the magazine bein being on n one side the muzzle muzzle muzzle throws to the the left eft also als J that the arm shoots to the left at short range and to the right at nt long range It c cannot can cannot can can- n not be regarded as the equal of ot the Mauser the or the Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese Matsura One would think It about time for the Government to to be looking ab about ut for a rifle at least as asgood asgood asgood good goodas as any at the command of other countries The adoption pf of the Krag- Krag Jorgensen was hot effected without some suspicion that considerations other other other oth oth- er than the bald merits of the weapon were involved Whether they were or not the next American rifle should be excellent and superior and the methods should resemble Caesars Caesar's Caesars Caesar's Caesars Caesar's Cae Cae- of its acquisition sars sar's wife as Julius thought she ought to be Far away Cape Nome Is Ss the terminus of the northernmost railway in the world It runs from the Cape fi five e miles back in the country Last ye year r Its profits profits profits prof prof- its amounted to Box car passage is a dollar and the freight rate is forty dollars a ton The name of this Interesting interesting interesting Inter inter- esting trunk line is the Wild Goose rail rall- way |