Show I i Qmoriw aoIi PATHS TO FAME The London Saturday Review for January jjlvoa an Interesting study of the change going on In the avenues by e which fapic is reached The study Is confined to Great Britain and It covers cov-ers only the thirty years past but with wih n few modifications It Is applicable tooter to-oter countries The authorities arc Dr Galton3 Hereditary Genius which gives a comparative table of tho r I professions of the men who reached distinction a generation back and the latest Issue of the wellknown English publication Whos Who which un dertakes to give a roll of tho mimes of those who had gained some particular patcular titln fn fnmn In 1S99 tiio ome A comparison of the results reached by these authorities Is contained In the following table the figures being per each million of population Gal Whos I ton Who Actors 21 f i Agriculturists 2 0 Antiquaries 2 4 Architects 6 4 I Artists 41 SO Athletes 0 0 Authors 3H5 2 Col LosJsla 0 18 Commerce 12 J 1 Contractors 0 8 t Coun genilemn 0 2 Diplomatic and Consular service 0 Z Divines 130 74 Educational 0 51 I Engineers 13 10 Kngravcrs S 0 Finance 0 21 lawyers 4 f 71 jl 1 Medicals SI 3 Military E 112 Miscellaneous o C I Metaphysics 3 t Musicians li 22 Natural Seined 2 0 Naval I 12 21 OHlclul 0 f Philanthropists 0 C PlillogollstH 13 0 Political career 0 51 Political Economists 2 0 Uallwnv 0 C Hclentillc 51 12 J5culptos 10 o Huverelsjns 21 u Statesmen 123 7 I I Titular 0 111 I Travelers 2 8 I S I needs only a glance at the table to I I show tho changes made In the paths by which men gain distinction According I I to tho compilation of Dr Gallon prepared pre-pared thirty years ago the leading I avenue to fame was authorship Per I I each million of the English speaking Inhabitants In-habitants of Great Britain 316 had I xained enough prominence In that way I to b nut down In his Jst But In 1S99 Wiles Who found only 120 authors to the million whom It thought worthy of notice Next to authorship the most popular route to fame a generation back was the pulpit each million of population showing 130 clergymen who had acquired fame in the pulpit hut i Whon Who thinks that only seventy J four ministers to a million of population gained any special reputation In 1805 r And statesmen 125 to L million of whom L where considered distinguished by Dr Galton contribute only seven to the list y compiled last year a remarkable r r shrinkage If the authority Is to be taken t aa trustworthy J Somo avenues to fame appear to have become blocked Agriculture meta jf physics philology and political ccono l my apparently no longer lead to dls t unction In England But more avenues have been opened than have gone out out f of use For Instance athletics con t tractors educational finance phllan thropy and railways No one of these pursuits seems to have offered the 4 means of gaining prominence thirty years ago although it may be doubted it the table Is entirely correct In this I respect but they are all open now One of the chief lessons taught by thc table I Is the growing practicality of the age Thoyfdoajof it man gaining fame as a oontraclorVoura have been considered I absurd not many years back but today the names of great contractors arc as well known as those of Congressmen Railways phllathropy and education rue ahlo among the best known avenues for gnintngfame in these days A similar compilation made in this Country would present more striking striking contrasts than the English table Amore A-more radical and rapid change has gone on In American than In Europe In the popularity of the different avenues for reaching fame The I United States coUld furnish more than three con tractors per million of population who have gained a wide reputation and I more than twentyone financiers or six i philanthropists or six railway men But the English study Is Interesting j and in the absence of the material for a similar study In this country It fur nishes some valuable data from which f II comparison can be made Philadel phia Press A UNIQUE MILLIONAIRE c In tho genus millionaire Cecil Ceci Rhodes Is unique On tho face of the earth today there Is probably no other rich man who would use his private fortune to build a railroad In n savage country or defray the t1Q expenses of a > 0 vmv not knowing whether there shall to 11 > 1 reimbursement I in shal illla unusual orl In an age when money Is king that commands the tul P2 inlratton of statesman and mechanic I Ukt while capitalists from very won densest are constrained to give aid This explains why through tho lenth AJd breadth of South Africa L you cannot find 3 man that envies Hhodcg his fortune wince he neither spends money on himself nor does he I r hoard It for posterity I I fled a son lie would get no legacy from me1 says I this worldunique millionaire I like I f to sec a young man begin poor I will i bring out the best that la In him i I r To I Zloekefcller Gould or Vander I 1 bill such disinterested use of millions f I must seem like Insanity Here Is 1 a man I j that husbands hlH fortune with one hand and lavlalie It with the other I much a Napoleon kept the recruiting sergeant busy at one end of the seal while he neer hesitated to fling n few thousand men to certain death at the F other He lives n plainer life than his i associates He owns no steam yachts I or private earn and consistently de 1 dines all titles and peerage honors lie HhunB society anti hunl Icct nltl prefer knocking rH about on the veldt in n khaki suit to attending u court reception Ho ban anent n million dollars to provide Cape town a zoological garden and beautiful I park yet he lives himself for the most iwirt In a thached hut In MMftbeleland Three times have incendiaries burned l g1n his vlllii ai Groot Schur On each I I Tfiion ho has rebuilt it at Kroaler I t KNler 1Dns though he la l seldom there toy ti I to-y its luxuries I la a good way to distribute money to the workingman working-man lie says Allen San rec In Alns 7 Uca Magazine to t INDIAS COLOSSAI TAK The famine In India Is I assuming ap I pftllmg proportions and the Govern intnt has on Its hands n task of mng f t nitude In times past Great Britain Wtt raUy has rendered material aaalst nc in the way of contributions for tlr > 1 a the Queens starving subject but this year England Is i too busy e MBMlnjf I money and blood A well in south Africa to U able to furnish any wo and 1 there wU bi no Mansion 1 house fund despite the fact that It IVer before was s badly needed Fortunately the Indian Government having had to deal with these terrible te llne 1 often hns the work of r let thoroughly organized and thus IR enabled to mae a minimum of fodd g much farther than wagthe cue b tore system took the place of haphazard haphaz-ard the assistance Nevertheless na tivis who at t 1st are Poorly nurtured ar vrlll dl by thouMands An idea of the extent of the famine can be gained from the statement made in Calcutta the other day by the VIce w of inflliu Lord Curzon wttl t that > white the crtatwtt number oC persons to hon relief had been granted In any vrOonlR CsLzbt w a 1ua0 thar J J were already on the relief list thin year over 3000000 When It Is realized that realzd this number must be largely increased before fresh crops can bo raid and that there are nearly 50000000 people In the districts affected it becomes ap parent that a calamity of a colossal i nature Is Impending I Past experience shows that the num her of deaths from starvation will be considerably augmented by the disin r clination of persons to make known their condition Too proud to ask for l I assistance In man case they slowly die by Inches unless their needs are accidentally une discovered Chicago Trib I HIS CONFESSION Ethel said Jack Smart as he placed his arms around his wife and looked down Into her eyes HI have a confession to make to you and I want you to promise before I begin it that bebln J you will forgive me A wild fear took possession of her She placed a little white hand upon her heart and would have fallen if her hus band had not held her up Her face became livid and she could only gasp Tell metell gp TeJ mctel me the worst I did a man out of n cold hundred today he said fr confess I took ad vantage of him but I ontalo I trust my darling will make allowances In view darlng sore temptation The color came back Into her cheeks I her lips parted In a glad sweet smile she rested her head against his breast and looking fondly up Into his eyes said HOh Jack dear how you fright ened me I thought you were going to tell me that you had kissed some horrid woman Colliers Weekly I LUXURIOUS SOLDIERS A good deal of fun Is being poked at some oC the Irregular troops which Great Rritaln baa been sending to South Africa The London newspapers remark that some of the volunteers from the city are Including In their thei army outfits such things as airpillows a alrpJows cork mattresses corl canvas buckets wa terfilters boxes of candles pajamas clothesbrushes and writing portfolios Imagine the American volunteer In the Philippines burdened with such imped imenta How they would be laughed at Imagine the sharpshooting Boers secure in their trenches being besieged by an army accoutered with besleCed jamas filters and canvas bathtubs canva Leslies Weekly WHITE AND BLACK IN CUBA But in Cuba as with us the colored man is the laborer and the white man Is the employer and the fact that a great many white men arc no bettor off I than the negroes does not alter this or lation in Cuba any more than it does In America I have been told by those who ought to know that most of tho money in Havana today is owned by Spaniards The cause of this considering the state of the Island for the last few years Is too evident to need much comment I People who owned large estates have been reduced to the possession of land I hat brings them nothing for the Insurgent In-surgent and Spanish troops alike burned everything on the plantations on the other hand those who had their money invested in Havana did not lose so much and some of them gained groat profits during the war Span iards l largely constituted this class as they did the shopkeeping class I is I true that not only Industrially but socially I so-cially the lowclass Cuban or Span iard l associates on terms of evident I equality with the negro a thing which Is l never seen in our Southern States but as soon a youget above the lowest low-est stratum the white mans attitude atttude toward the black Is precisely that of the individual Southerner toward the Individual i negrothe kindly feeling oran or-an Intelligent man for L simple Ignorant Igno-rant goodnatured human being From The Social Life of Havana belng T Bentley Molt United States army in the February Scribners IMPARTIAL A Baptist and a Methodist minister were by accident dining at the same house h Aa they took their seats there was an embarrassed pause the hoste snot s-not knowing how to nsk one minister to ask grace without offending the other The small son quickly grasped the situation sit-uation and half rising in his chair moved his finger rapidly around the table reciting ISny mono miny mo Catch n niBKcr by tho toe He ended by pointing his finger at the Baptist minister and shouting Youre it The reverend gentleman accepted the decision and said grace but l it lacked the usual solemnity grce Tho Columbian solenmfTho THE GREATNESS OF TACITUS We approach Tacitus with respect says James Ford Rhodes In the February Febru-ary Atlantic We rise from reading his Annals his History and Germany with reverence Wo know that we have been In the society ot aKcntlemau who had a high standard a of morality and honor Vv e feel that our guide was a serious student I solid thinker and a man of the world lhat he expresses his opinions and delivers his Judgments with a remarkable freedom from preju dice Ho draws us to him with sympa thy He sounds the same mournful note which we detect In Thucydides TacltUH deplores the folly and dissolute ness of the rulers of his nation he be walls the misfortunes of nnlon country The merits we ascribe to Thucydldos diligence accuracy love of truth Im parllamy arc his The desire to quote from Tacitus la irresistible The more I meditate be writes on the events of ancient and modern times the more I am struck with the capricious uncer tainty which mocks the calculations of men In all their calculatons tansactons From a thinker who doomed the time decniec out of Joint a Tacitus lme did and who had Tacius Jl possessed obviously great strength of mind and character might have lapsed Into a gloomy charcter pessi mism what pcsl noble words are these This I regard as historys highest > function to let no worthy action be un commemorated and to hold out the reprobation of Posterity aa a terror to evil words and deeds The modesty of the Roman what 1 have is related fascinating he Much ot says aud Hliull Jiavo to relate may perlmpS T am aware seem petty awae trllles to record pely a a S M author and unproductv My moors ° ar renown circumscribed to the thorTRYR THAYER AND BRYAN Mr Bran told a good story at the banquet He said Years ago when I first Ne aEo 1rt came lo bn1 I was young poor und anxious for to get ahead Thayer vas a candidate Governor and the opposition find I lug t that I could talk n little engaged me to Utte cngbe make speeches agaInst him I took to 1 the Work like a duck to water 1 made fifty speeches against Thayer and often said aglnlt el iin ftensaltL some pretty severe thinS against him I am willing to ad mlt wilng 8c that since then rhave often hm oren thought that X sId tnlnS about him j thT thlnS abut that I ought not to have said But I J did and that WQ all there was to It the haer Governors waa elected After he took I rnor8 chair he wa called to WM be toostmaster at n banquet to which Ji was Invited and at which I was stOl st-Ol for a speech I did not wish tone to-ne et tho Governor I rmmbere all that I had wild of htm and I felt cheap lel cheall I had also no doubt but that he knew what I had said and would show that he did when we met face to face But I went and WHS given n place near the Governor and I Jt there through the curly proceedings quit uncomfortable VJTlnally It jam tlm for the Oov I ornor to call upon me He rose from his seat with the programme before him and slowly said Mr Bryan Bryan i Then he slowly turned his eyes upon I up-on me and addressed me i Do you speak or sing That was as much as asking me what my turn was and Inwardly j shriveled to tho size of a pinhead I never felt more humiliated In my life but I lived through it and that kiail I ever heard from Coy Thayer a to what ho thought of my campaign speeches against h1inChi1thtgo TimesHerald I MORE RESPECTFUL i Among the stories told of Charles Lever the witty novelist Is ono which concerns the days when he was British Consul at Trieste He had accompanied his daughter to I I London for n little social enjoyment J and had neglected to go through the j formality of asking for a leave of absence f ab-sence On his arrival In London ho wns Invited to dinner by Lord Lytlon who I was delighted to see him I f When he arrived at Lord Ly lions I 1 house his host said Im so glad you I I could come You will meet your chief a Clarendon the Minister of Foreign Affairs I The novelist much embarrassed began be-gan to give reasons why he must tear himself away but before he could I j make his escape Lord Clarendon was i announced him and almost at once espied I I himAh I Ah air Lever he said blandly I didnt know you were In England In fact I was not even aware that you had asked for leave from Trieste Xoo my lord stammered the novelist disconcerted for a second but I no more than that no my lord I i thought It would be more respectful to your lordship to come and ask orlt In person Youths Companion I COURTS AND COUNCIL I S Growing out of the proceedings for contempt against the Mayor and Al dermen or Milwaukee for passing a street car ordinance in violation of n court injunction a new complication I appears The Constitution of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin contains a clause which gives the Supreme court of the State supervision j of other courts I says The SuPreme Su-Preme court shall have a general superintending super-intending control overal Inferior courts We believe that no other Slate has a similar constitutional provision This power was Invoked for the first time In the notorious Planklnglon bank suits where a Circuit Judge refused to I appoint as receiver a person chosen by j I 1 the majority of the creditors in number num-ber and amount oC their claims The I Supreme court look Jurisdiction and ordered I or-dered the Circuit Judge to remove his own appointee and appoint the person chosen by the creditors In the present pres-ent contempt proceedings against the Mayor and Aldermen of Milwaukee o for violating the court injunction the Judge of the local court found the defendants I I de-fendants guilty and announced that ho would give the sentence a day or two later l While the sentence was pending the City Attorney on behalf of the Mayor and Aldermen applied to the Supreme court to exercise Its supervIsory super-visory power and enjoin the local Judge i I I I against sentencing them for the con j tempt of which Ihey had been found I guilty guitI In supervising inferior courts many more Insolvent bank and contempt con-tempt cases arc taken up by the Supreme I Su-preme court of our neighboring Stale that eminent trlhunal will find itself overwhelmed with the burdens of petty I pet-ty litigation in which It will be called I to Intervene But on tho other hand 1C I the attempt of the local Judge to control municipal legislation shall be defeated It will be worth all the labor imposed i on the Supreme court J a local l court may prohibit a legislative body from exercising its to exercsing Is powers pass an ordinance why may the court not exercise Its power to compel the municipal muni-cipal leglslalurc to pass an ordinance I the court can stop the passage of an ordinance the court exercises legislative legisla-tive power destroying the constitutional constitution-al balances of government Chicago Chronicle WAR WIDOW PENSIONERS The war widows to be credited on the pension roll to the SpanishAmerican struggle will bo a large compan ID all applications of this class shall be granted Nearly 15000 widows about CO per cent of the total number of applicants ap-plicants have already put in claims for pensions on account of our lat st International passageatarms or the Civil war pensioners loss than I 25 per cent are widows but as tho records go farther back the proportion of this class of beneficiaries is vastly increased The number of Invalid pensioners sloners is fixed whereas there has been practically no legal limit until quite recently to the creation of war widows There are SiTS widows on the pension roll credited to the Mexican war and only 9201 surviving soldiers oC that con fet The Indian wars from 1832 to 1842 show 3900 widows and 1G5G surviving surviv-ing soldiers There is but ono living soldier of the war of 1812 but there are 1998 widows of that war on the pension rolls lolhEvcn Even the Revolutionary war has four widows on the list some of whom may be drawing pensions ten or fifteen years hence Under existing laws It would be Impossible to continue the race of phenomenally I nomenally longlived war widows in tho liberal measure of the past but In all probability the dawn of the twenty I first century will find some survivOrs of this class as notable as the Revolutionary I Revolu-tionary war recipients of Government I bounty who now figure on the pension roll Philadelphia Record DANGER IN THE CHURCH Not long since tho bishop of L was n guest at a dinner party in Birmingham Birming-ham when n lady noted for her witty remarks who was n guest said Do you know that there are times when It Is dangerous to enter a church What Is that madam 1 Inquired lh < j bishop with great dignity straightening straighten-ing himself in his chair That there are times when It IM positively posi-tively dangerous to enter a church was the ladys reply That cannot be madam said the bishop pray explain Why said the lady It is when there Is a canon at the reading desk n big gun in the pulpit when the bishop is charging his clergy the choir murdering mur-dering the anthem and the organist Penny trying to drown the cholrThe Golden 1 SOME HELPS There is an old firm In this city that makes much profit annually out of the credulity of the countryman and the youth of the small village There 1 hardly n swain of IS that has not I copy of How to Woo and Win or The Lovers Guide to Courtship and Mnrrlntce or Courtship Made Easy or The Art of Making Love Fully Explained Ex-plained Many have slyly hidden under mattress or behind bureau The Dictionary of Love containing a definition zillion of all the terms used In the history his-tory of the tender passion etc After love and courtship business Money must b made The farmer boy that Is coming to town to settle down as clerk in n store at 3 R week has 8p nt his last cent for the Golden ReadyReckoner or the Commercial j Letter Writer and Book of Business Forms or the Log and Lumber Measurer Meas-urer or MaJ Vhlttn tone Compendium Compen-dium of Commercial Sueees Tbx I youngster who Is going In to society buys thw Ballroom Guide and Complete 1 Com-plete Dancer the Quadrille Call Hook and How to Lead the German j I lndlspelblft Such OM venture Into I the bog of Journalism purchase The Young Reporter or From Office Boy to Editor The stagestruck youngster obtains by hook or crook a copy of Burtons Amateur Actor or Tam bos EndMens Minstrel Gags Jam Y Press CAPT CLARKS DESERTS The Brooklyn Eagle calls to public I publc attention the tact that nothing has been done lo show the cono appreciation the coun I try has for the services rendered by j Captain Clark of the 1 battleship Oregon Ore-gon He resigned the command of his I ship on account of his health when J I the Spanish war was over and has since i almost passed out of public notice i publc notce This Is not justice I justce or the American i peoples way of requiting a greal servIce I I ser-vice done at exactly the right lime and in the right way When the history oC I the Spanish war comes to be written wrIlen no Incident will command moro praise I than the voyage of the Oregon from I San Francisco around Cape Horn to I Jupiter Inlet In Florida That long tour waa watched with tho most Intense In crest not only In this country but allover over the civilized world And It almost surpasses belief that the Captain i i through whose skill and endurance the feat was accomplished has received no suitable recognition from the Nation In fact through the promotion of others j j apl Clark stands two numbers lower now on the list of promotions than he I did before the war began This is a cry I I ing injustice and the House Naval com mltlee which his the matter before it mater should seo that It is righted with as lit rightet lt Press tie delay as possible Philadelphia I I lOUR GREAT EXPORT TRADE The great growth of our export trade I in the lasl few years has made us close rivals with Great Britain for the supremacy su-premacy in the worlds export trade In 1S9S our exports were nearly 100 OCO 000 greater than those of Great Britain Brlaln In 1S99 however Great Britain again resumed the lead The following table showing the exports of domestic merchandise I chandise from the two countries during the last twentyfive years shows the I great progress our export trade has made In that period Exports chandlso of Domestic from Met I linked United I Tear Slates Kingdom 1815 5 107203737 1GS7 97000 1727 lt4tl O 1S76 57G735S < 07 UOKO 1877 W7K6ia5 9S7M3WO X J 1878 723256521 03SMMOOO 2G81 t GO 187D 754Ga57ofi tt2Vot 00 t z7 1Ol j 1550 T S7o5C507o 1055521000 1551 S1UG293L 112SS730C4 1852 719811309 11700000 7W813 117OIO 1853 777523718 11C60SVOO is 7337CS7I 1151010000 737G7GI 1131010 18S5 r7393WW 1037121000 S C99519l3il 1033220100 69519131 1l2 1SS7 703319C92 107901 1 U < I 3SSS 79G97477 li13Il00 95ii J13fiOO I lsO SllSlSil 1 1211112000 12120 1890 815939003 1282 174 000 1S91 57333S5l 1203 1G3000 1892 23237315 11 717000 1S23 SilTEMM OialC2iKX JS91 807312110 IOM193000 m S077J2I15 1100 62000 18W OIGSMOSO 1105071000 ISO 1079312 < X 1139S32000 1S03 1233CIS2S 1135012000 1E9 1253ISCOOO 1257871039 Our export trade Is more than two and a half times greater than it was twentyfive years ago while Great Brit ains trade has grown less than 20 percent per-cent In the same period Moreover we are experiencing great expansion In our foreign trade at the present time while h Great Britains prospects are marred by the present disastrous war in South Africa I looks n though In the future the Britons would have to be content with second place Milwaukee Sentinel i THE BOER WOMEN By Sannie Kruger Grandniece of President Kruscrj Boer women are strong They hunt with their brothers sitting their horses with superb case disdaining a saddle shooting game big or little with un faltering aim falerlnS Gen Joubcrts wife can be taken a the type oC Boer woman who does not fear the whiz of bullets ready to risk life that her children may enjoy liberty In peace or war Mrs Joubert is alwajs at her hus bands side I have often heard her tell that during the last war she drove sixty mileg Ir a Capo cart accompanied only by I little negro girl I was n very dark night and the enemy fringed frlnged the way but the men gallantly fighting at the front were in sore straits for food and her cart was freighted with a precious load of rusks and bread So Mrs Joubert forgetting the dangers lhat beset the way drove on to the starving soldiers The women are ready to play any part that necessity demands Not love of carnage but devotion to her country steadies her aim and slllls her pity The Boer woman does not fire upon an In dividual but upon the vandal who would drag freedom soiled and bleed ing from her high estate Now for the Boer girl of the rising generation The discovery of the rich mines and consequent Influx of strang ers has naturally broadened her horizon hori-zon and taken her out of the rigid groove of Boer custom Her actions are largely governed by her elders but her ideas are Iconoclastic to Boer tra dition She may obey the letter but not the t spirit of the laws She Is bred lnlhebone I religious and industrious but contact with foreigners has made her more cosmopolitan than her ancestors ances-tors The townbrod girl of today Is given a modern education She goes to school with the foreign children learns both English and Dutch and loses much of the Boer clannishness Her people frown on AngloBoer marriages mar-riages but ofltlmes the Boer girl braves these prejudices and marries the Englishman of ficr choice The best Boer families are connected by one sometimes two or three tics owing to Intermarrying jhe Boer swain who goes awooing chooses either Friday or Saturday night to visit the maiden lo whom he would pay his addresses It is understood that these two nights are set apart for courting calls and courtng n visit on either night Is practically the equivalent of a proposal Many of the Boer girls arc lightly accomplished ac-complished studying music and dancing danc-ing with French and German Instructors Instruc-tors They are many oC them very prepossessing with l flashing black eyes and olive complexions The Boer girl is equally at homo in kitchen or draw ingroom and a nervous temperament kindled by foreign conlact promises to save her from becoming the colossus of fat that is the phlegmallc Boers fate The Boer girls wear n short skirt and simple bodice for riding and hunting for dress occasions they pattern their gowns after the English choosing rather rath-er Harpers gayer colors Bazar tlfan the English wear AN ASTUTE DOG F I1 t a one evening not long ago when everybody had been trying to outdo I everybody else In telling of the won derful sagacity of animals he had I known or seen or heard of that Rev I Dr Herrlck United States army re Urea told thIs story In the presence of a iYa8nmton Post man On any less authority r confess I should have had my doubts as to the truth of It but Dr Herrick actually knew the man to whom the thing happened I was about a dog Of course The town I believe although I am not quite sure I I was Atlanta Dr Hexricks friend was drivinE drlnc wlone > pcachtree street when he met the man who owned the dog on I toot Dr flerricics friend Immediately Invited him to Jump In and take D ride The dogs owner said he would go with great Pleasure Jr he only had his Sloven with him Shall I drive around to your ofllce and K et themr > oCce friends tem r asked Dr Herrlcks I I send Oh my no dol said for them lhe other Ill just J I I so he cl d that wonderful dog thAt I Made stna t hm showed him hiM C hands and sent the Intelligent animal f I I otT to thp othlce to Inlelgent fetch ofc what was most fOr gioes In of cQntnct course with The wn dog hands waa I V U gone only a reW minutes When he carne back he had something in his mouth and he was wagging hiD tail wnbblnS ti merrily He had brmight the belt from the stenographers waist 1 I TOO MUCH FAITH I The London Dally News says Our I military experts story of the Transvaal j Boer who believed that the Bible was originally written In Dutch reminds a correspondent of another one which he understands Is generally credited N In South Africa A Dutch minister i lately arrived from Holland was re I buked by an old farmer for having ex 1 pressed doubls of the reality of a personal per-sonal devil I can show you his por 1 trait said the Boer and taking down f laking his family Bible which was adorned with woodcuts of an antique type he i turned to a presentment of the conven tlonal There evil exclaimed one with the horns Boer and triumph tail nnlly you have doubts about thc ex Hence I o the devil There is a picture of him and itfnt is the Word of God Tho Boor had fully believed tho artist I I ns spired well as the writers to have been in l STATUS OP PORTO RICO t Wo find the following inquiry lo our address In the Washington Times We are edified uhinbton 0 wise and ponderous argument Indulged in by the New York Tribune In connection with the appeal of Porto conneclon relief I from the desolation of DIngleylsm reler Tribune takes these gentlemen to task on the ground that Porto Rico is not i a part of tho United Stales and as such entitled to domestic free trade I but I is merely a bit of II outlying national j nalonal property It Hence that It Is not entitled to consideration In matters of consideraIon moters o tariff i xcept as laws may be passed by Con gress for Its benefit or oppression I would be highly Interesting to know upon what constitutional or olher reasoning Ihe Tribune bases Us opinion that Porto RIco Is not an integral part of the United States at least to as groat ka an extent na Oklahoma or Alas Without wasting further wise and ponderous arguments of our own we shall trust to Interest our courteous contemporary in the following remarks by Daniel Webster made in the first quaiter of thc century in a case before Mr Chief Justice Taney which It will find reported in the Jaw books under the title Am Ins Co vsJ Canter What Is Florida I Is no part of Iho United Stales How can It be How Is It represented Do the laws of the United States reach Florida Not unless by particular provisions The Territory and all within It arc to be governed by tho acquiring powor except ex-cept where there sire reservations by reservatons the treaty Florida was to be governed by Congress as she thought proper What has Congress done She might have done nnylhing she might have refused a trial by jury and re fused a Legislature And lest it should be thought that thIs was a hasty opinion of the wise and ponderous Mr Webster we ven ture to quote from his debate with Mr Calhoun in the United State Senate over a quarter of n century later In February 1849 when Mr Webster said What Is the Constitution of thc United States Is not Its very first principle that nil within Its infiuenco and comprehension shall be represented In i the Legislature which it estab lishes with not only 0 right of debate and a right to vote In both houses of Congress but a right to partake in the 1 choice of President and VicePresident a a a Thc President of the United States shall govern this territory as ho sees fit till Congress makes further provision pro-vision a We have never had a territory governed as the United States is governed 0 S I do not say that while we sit here to make laws for those territories we are not bound by every one of those great principles which are Intended as general securi ties for public liberty But they do not exist In Territories till Introduced by the authority oC Congress I appears therefore to have been the deliberate and longmaintained Judgment Judg-ment of Mr Daniel Webster that territorial terri-torial properly situated like Porto Rico only far more vitally connected with the continent on which the Amer lean Union is established Is not a part oC Ihc United States I Is only need ful to add that substantially thc same doctrIne has been maintained In an un broken line of opinions of the Supreme court of the United States and of subordinate sub-ordinate courts from that day to this New York Tribune GOVERNORGENERAL WOOD The arrival of MajGen Wood In Havana for the purpose of assuming the functions of GovernorGeneral In Cuba has been and should have been accepted by all Intelligent Cubans al Intelgent asa as-a conclusive proof oC the intention announced an-nounced In the Presidents third annual message to prepare the Island as quickly quick-ly as possible for independence No man had a harder task than was set before him in Santiago which has always al-ways been the most disorderly tho least tractable and tho most suspicious province in Cuba j and the skill with which he performed it Is evident from the respect confidence and affection which ho there elicited For the prison pris-on reforms which ho Instituted In Son lingo there Is grievous need in the other provinces and those who know something about the treatment of prisoners pris-oners in Cuba under the old regime will learn with a thrill of relief that this was the first matter to which Gen Wood directed his attention A pecu liarity or this man Is that he uses his own eyes and ears he does not delegate dele-gate to subordinates the duty of Inves ligailon The monstrous outrages to outrscs which prisoners have been immemorially Immemo-rially subjected In the island will not long survive his entrance upon the duties du-ties of a GovernorGeneral Neither will the sanitary precautions hitherto Imperfectly provided In the cities of central and western Cuba be any longer long-er neglected At the same time it Is possible that Gen Woods IOpularlty may be for a time diminished In Havana Ha-vana as I It was temporarily In Santiago ago for ho will not a moment tolerate the allpervasive peculation with which the business of taxgathering has been time out of mind Infected In Cuba Naturally thc Havana customhouse haM always been the chief nest of corruption cor-ruption because there cheating is most lucrative For generations It ban been time custom for Importers to conspire with customhouse inspectors to undervalue under-value their goods and to share with the dishonest ofilcfals the money of which tim Government has been robbed The same knavery was practiced prac-ticed on a small scale In Santiago but It was stopped by Gen Wood and tho tricky Ilavanesc will soon discover that tho day for cheating the treasury Is over Gen Wood believes in paying I n fair salary but ho expects honest work in return When the bulk of Cuban Cu-ban taxpayers learn how greatly the revenues accruing from the Havana cuslomhouse may be increased by u rigorous enforcement of honesty they will thank the new GovernorGeneral for setting an example which the Island Isl-and when Independent should be ashamed not to follow Passing from economical to political innovations we may take for granted that Gen Woods experience In Santiago has qualified him to prepare the inhabitants of the other provinces for Independence From I the outset of his occupation of his Corm Cor-m r ofllce he acted upon the assumption I assump-tion that If there were local political work to do n Cuban should be employed j em-ployed to do It If possible Now that he has been transferred to the post of supreme authority at Havana we may undoubtedly take for granted that a ter f ca ha elapsed from the exchange ex-change of the ratifications of the treaty jvlth Spain local selfgovernment will 0 established In 1 nil the Cuban municipalities muni-cipalities and measures will b forthwith forth-with taken to elect a convention for the purpose of framing a constitution Colliers for the independent Weekly Cuban republic I |