Show 4 I Cormworrw 1I p CONSTITUTION AND FLAG The doctrine of the day Is that wherever I wher-ever Ihc flag goes the IonslUutlon goes with It If this Is not lru tllen It is said Bring back the flap Leaving out of consideration the legality tho natcmont that the Constitution without with-out legislation goes wherever the Hag gws let us look at the facts Wo exercise sovereignty today over I about seventy Islands or groups of islands which are called guano islands We rule them by virtue of the art of Congress of August IX JS56 Never has there been the slightest pretense Jn the world that tin Constitution Consti-tution extends to those islands Residents Resi-dents there are under the control of such of our laws as are applicable to their condition and that U I the whole nf the matte Other examples of the ling going where the Constitution does I not go are to he found in all the countries r a11 coun-tries In which wo exercise extraterritorial extraterri-torial Jurisdiction Under title 47 sections sec-tions 50S3 to 4130 of the Revised Statutes Stat-utes of the United States we now have consular courts In China Korea Mas kal Morocco Persia Samoa Slam Tonga Turkey and Zanzibar Until J the 17th of July 3S99 we had such courts In Japan Men arc tried by the consular courts without Indictment by a grand Jury and by Assessors Instead t of a petit jury Murder discs ire Irleil t hv 1 the Consul and four Assessors oth cases felonies and mlrvmeauors er are tried by the Conmil and iwo Asscc tried by the Con W > rs Civil cases are sul If he phases or ho may call two Assessors and BO there is neither grand l jury nor petit Jury In the framing of the statutes giving jurisdiction to the consular courts the Constitution is Ignored The Ministers l In most of the countries named above an appellate Judges but they arc removable J re-movable at the will of the Executive which in contrary 10 the Constitution in the case of Federal Judges for the 1 States The right of legisjatlon as exercised r ex-ercised by us In foreign countries Is not treated by treaties 11 is Inherent in government and there are many cases in which governments exercise jurisdiction juris-diction over their subjects found In other countries than their own whore there arc no treaties granting the right r to do so To some extent treaties ivg 4 ulate the right The Supreme ypurt of the 1nlted Slates has passed < m every constitutional point that legal Ingcnul ty can raise as affecting extratcrrl tonality In both criminal and civil law For the benefit of the bar 1 cite a fcv 4 t S The floss case Is the leading criminal caw Ross was charged with committing commit-ting murder on board of an American r ship lying In the harbor of Yokohama Japan Tie was tried before the united States ConsulGeneral at Yokohama There was no Indictment by a grand Jury He was tried by the fonsul General and four Assessors He was sentenced to be hanged but the sentence sen-tence was commuted to imprisonment 1 4 for life and he was confined In the penitentiary at Albany N Y After ten yearn had elapsed he brought a writ of habeas corpus before the United States Circuit court Appeal was had to the Supreme court Its Judgment sustained the Jurisdiction and procedure The court held that the Constitution can have no operation opera-tion In another country Xnw I am well aware that my critics will say that this is exactly the point that our recentlyacquired Islands are not another country etc but let us go on step by step It has been shown conclusively that the Constitution does not go with the nag always and everywhere and that will do for a beginning be-ginning Continuing to state facts and keeping away from the discussion of constitutional law for the present we have the following resolution passed by the Senate at the time the Paris treaty was ratlllcd Resolved by the Senate and ITpuse Representatives of thcUnlted S lutes In Congress assembled That by the ratification of the treaty of peace with Spain it Is not Intended to Incorporate the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands into citizenship of the United 1 States nor Is it Intended to permanently perma-nently annex said Islands as an integral in-tegral part of the territory of the I United States but It Is the Intention of the United StuU to establish on wild Islands a government suitable to the ants and conditions of the Inhabitants Inhab-itants of said Inlands to prepare them t for local selfgovernment and In due time to make such disposition of said Islands as will best promote the interests in-terests of the citizens of the United Stales and the Inhabitants of said islandsTlie Constitution and the Flag by the lion Charles Denby In the May Forum THE POINT IN SOUTH AFRICA The Fall Hlver Mass Evening Xows publishes a letter to a prolfoer sympathiser from Miss Eunice A Ly man an American woman who Is a school teacher In Worcester Cape Colony She strongly sympathises with the British She Hays that one of the Dutch girls In her school Is a staunch Loyalist although her brother fell fighting for Mi I Boers If she adds you are seeking the side which will give the greatest freedom to the greatest great-est number of people you are on the wrong side If you arc proBoer Their Government has been conducted by de c celt and by Ignorant selfishness The most enlightened among their own people peo-ple admit It Gen Joubortu side think President Kruger and hIs clique de nerve all they are getting Not all Dutch people agree with the anti British side Families are divided allover all-over the colony All this proves that Uu question in not plainly one o1 all I right on the Boer side If It proves nothing else PORTO BICOS GOVERNOR t I It IF easy to see that ns Governor nf I Porto Rico the siuno kind of work and In the name spirit I that has made I Mr Allens two years In tho Navy department de-partment so successful will barring S Unforeseen circumstances give him r great success Mr Allen already knows something of Porto Klco through Ji brief visit last year aiyl a wi refill study of what ban been written about It and la entirely sympathetic with the T hcst aspirations of Ha people and de S Hlrous above all things to give them good government and to promote thelrt S prosperity My efforts will be he Paid when his appointment was announced an-nounced to administer the government S govern-ment provided by Congress in such a bflaaner aH to command and hold the Jonfideiicc of the people to help them FO Car as I may to realize thc bent there Is In thorn and to assist them In the development of thc Island along the linen which have made us such a Prosperous nation Awl everybody 3 t who knows Mr Allen knows that ho was as slnci re in this as In saying My own Inclination and my personal 4 Interests urge me to decline thc ap 1olntmcnt but one Hhould not always S choose the easy way there Is a pa triotic duty sometimes to be per S formed rho very fact that he has undertaken I a this patriotic duty In a patriotic spirit and at the sacrlllce of personal feel imjH and Interests will impress the pea utA itle of Porto Ulco as It will strengthen cUr him In the dlfncuUlea ahsacl of him I and particularly In resisting unuiTUpu 5 I IOUB schemers who will try to use the Government to exploit the Island for y bL their Personal advantage From c Charles H Allen tho First Governor or T orto Hlqo by Henry MaeFarland m t l ie American Monthly Review of ii cJr Reviews for May l I T1n SERVANT GIRL IS HUMAN il ill C In looking after your servant do not overlook the fact that she IH a woman to E iiiJinVCry mnil with all the Ultra and Xct Uie love of Pleasure rent and LOC creation poHKfwsod by ollmr human 15 k beings writes Mrs S T Rorer In the May Ladles Home Journal If sIte has not had the advantages of education educa-tion and knows but little of the world member that she Is so mtith the more to be pilled Women as a class from lack of proper training are not businesslike busi-nesslike The housewife retains the responsibility of all the detail work rather than give It over to her servant hence the luck of Interest and responsibility respon-sibility on the part of the average maid If the housewife would but allow al-low her servant to become responsible for thp great bulk of the detail work much confusion would be avoided Persona Per-sona become responsible only by having responsibility placed upon them and servants as a rule feel the importance of their work according to the trust which Is reposed In them and thc responsibility re-sponsibility which Is placed on them I CHEMISTRY IN MODEtBN LIFE The disinfection of the sickroom and the antiseptic methptls which po far toward thc creation of modern surgery all depend upon chemical products whoso long Hat Increases year by year Crude drugs ore now replaced by active principles discovered In the laboratory morphine quinine and the like and instead of the bulky nauseous draughts of olden lime the invalid Is given tasteless capsules of gelatin or compressed tablets of uniform strength and more accurately graded power A great part of physiology consists of the study of chemical processes the transformation trans-formation of compounds txtthln thc living liv-ing organism and practically all this advance Is the creation of the nineteenth I nine-teenth century Modern bacteriology ut least In Its practical applications began with a chemical discussion between be-tween Lilebig and Pasteur as to the nature of fermentation step by step the Held of exploration hits enlarged as the result of the Investigations we have preventive medicine more perfect sanitation and antiseptic surgery The I ptomaines which cause disease and thc antitoxins which prevent It are alike chemical In their nature and were discovered dis-covered by l chemical methods Physiology Physi-ology without chemistry could not exist ex-ist ever the phenomena of respiration were meaningless I before the discovery of oxygen The human body is a chemical I chem-ical laboratory and without the aid of the chemist Its mysteries cannot be unraveled From A Hundred Years of Chemistry by Prof FW Clarke In Applttons1 Popular Science Monthly for May HEAL CAUSE OFSTRIKE On the other hand the root of the whole trouble In this Croton reservoir strike Is not with the contractors but lies In the Inexcusable neglect of Congress Con-gress to stop the Immigration of this low grade of labor By allowing them to come In without limit we practically Invite contractors to hire them on the cheapest possible terms When the usual effort Is made to beat down and get the advantage of Ignorant laborers and they finally break out Into a violent vio-lent revolt we proceed to send soldiers to suppress them by force perhaps with loss of life on both sides Strikes among this grade of laborers when they do occur are always of a vicious mid Dangerous nature and for the public pub-lic safety to say nothing of common Justice to thc Immigrant laborers already al-ready here any further Influx should be prohibited Contractors would then be obliged to choose a higher grade of help and if this meant largely Increased In-creased expense It would force the use of new kinds of laborsaving machinery machin-ery thus removing some of thc more degrading features of rough physical labor Furthermore If ontractors were not able to go to the barge office and fill strikers places Indefinite the laborers la-borers might be able to maintain a de cenUTcale of wages without having to stake their cause periodically on yb io lencc and Intimidation Guntons Magazine Mag-azine WERE WITH HOI ANYWAY Sometimes It Is thc constituent not the member who causes the funin Congressional Con-gressional circles says a paragraphcr in the May Issue of Success Thc other mbrnlng a Western member exhibited letter which he had just received from his homo town It vas during the controversy con-troversy over the Porto Rican tariff and It ran thus Things is quiet now except a good deal of kicking and opposition but the majority of your friends aland with you How do you stand THE POMPOM Tho pompom which has been used by the enemy on the Muddcr river Splon koj and elsewhere Is a most interesting weapon It Is an automatic Maxim gun firing a onepound shell at the rate of about 300 a minute It differs only from the ordinary rllle caliber Maxim In being be-ing larger In having a hydraulic cylinder cylin-der to control the energy of recoil and In having two springs Instead of one to return the recoiling portions of the gun to their place The front half of the gun beyond the shield Is the barrel casing This is kept full I of water in order to keep the barrel cool Tho remainder re-mainder of the gun behind the shield is known na the breech casing It contains the feed block through which the cartridges car-tridges which are held crossways In a belt are fed one by ono Into the gun rue force that does all the work is the recoil which drives the barrel back and also forces the lock to the rear While doing this work the recoil compresses two springs one of whieh forces the barrel to the front again and thc other the lock The force of the recoil is able to do far moro work than Is entailed In unloading un-loading and reloading the gun so If it were not given some other occupation it would abuse Its strength by knocking the gun to bits Therefore to control the recoil and to give it a harmless Job to do the barrel when it recoils Is made to force a loosely lilting piston In a cylinder full of liquid This compels tho liquid to squeeze past the edge of the piston and the cylinder which Is so constructed that all the spare energy of the recoil is used up In doing this work Tho little cylinder which thus uses up the surplus recoil Is at thc rear end of thin breech cosing The cartridges are like overgrown rifle cartridges they are about six inches long but Instead of having bullets they each have an Iron shell loaded with powder and provided with a percussion fuse which explodes the missile uhen It strikes anything teach shell breaks up Into from ten to twenty pieces so that a mluutoH continuous firing would cause at least throe thousand whizzing jagged bits of Iron to ily about the erie mys position Our only experience of the gun on service has been to act as a target for it In the nrofient war This eminently practical trial has taught ua that when used at moderate ranges say within three thousand yards the moral effect Is Immense and the material mate-rial damage done Is considerable There 5s no weapon our men have a greater respect for Shells from Held guns give you a little breathing time between their bursts at any particular place but the pompom sends a stream of shell five a second to the same destination Some of these guns have been sent out recently for our army In South Africa London Public Opinion PULPIT REFORM NEEDED The pulpit must not unduly tax faith It should not minister to that vice and sin of weak minds credulousness It should adopt the mood and the method be It said of the lawyer talking to the Jury or to the bench It should irlve to the human reason of our day thirsting for truth the water of thought and not the foam of emotional exultation Come oh ministers let us reason We are constrained to believe that the ministers of this city of New York and of other cities who are addressing the reason of their congregations are having larger congregations as well as more Intelligent Intelli-gent than those who are content with the presentation of truth In picturesque forms S The minister Is inclined at the present time to underestimate rather than to overestimate the intellectual caliber and condition of his hearers Many of tho auditors In an Intellectual congregation I congre-gation are us well educated In general i ns Is their clergyman and have a knowledge of their own calling as adequate ade-quate as Is that possessed by thIr minister min-ister of his calling Tho college gradu late abounds Therefore the minister may be assured that In giving to his congregation the most Intellectual feast If only It be properly served he Is ministering min-istering to the highest needs of humanity human-ity Leslies Weekly MR MARKLES OBLIGING WIFE Louise Markle Is suing John G Mar kIte for a judgment of separation on the ground of desertion and she has applied for alimony and counsel feet The husband hus-band denies desertion and swears that I his wife loft him because ho wanted to move from the vicinity of Main und I Forrv streets He claims that he Is In I debt that he has all he can do to support sup-port himself and Ills lUteenycarold daughter and that his wife is comfortably comfor-tably provided for In opposing thc motion for alimony Mr Markle submits the following letter which ho Bays ho received through I he mall from his wife Tills Is to certify that I Louise Mar kle the legally wedded wife of John G Markle do hereby permit my husband to go where ho pleases drink what he pleases and when ho pleases and I I furthermore permit him to keep and en I joy the company of any lady or ladles ho sees lit as I know lie Is a good Judge 1 want him to enjoy life ns he will bo along a-long time dead Buffalo Commercial HEALTH BY RULE The man who lives by J rule and think health a matter of lictetic formula for-mula will stitaln a rude Jar in read ing the health rules laid down by I John Flslc the historical writer Mr Flak is GO years old weighs 210 pounds and measures fortysix inches around thc I chest He has never harXi headache or physical Illness and Is a constant worker as his literary output shows Now what are the habits of life to which he refers such a splendid condition condi-tion Let him answer for himself First Always sit in a draught when I can Und one Second Wear the thinnest clothes I can find winter and summer Third Work In a cold room 55 to 60 degrees Fourth Work the larger part of each twentyfour hours and by day or night Indifferently Fifth Eat when hungry Sixth Drink two or three quarts of beer each day and smoke a pipe all the time when at work It is apparent at once that this course of treatment abruptly taken up would wend the average man literary or any other kind to his grave But slowly accustomed to It he might be the better bet-ter We shun draughts because we are used to a superheated atmosphere We catch colds because we dress too warmly warm-ly We work In too hot rooms Most of us sleep too much and all of us eat when we are not hungry It should be added that Mr Fisk rarely tastes coffee cof-fee or wine or smokes a cigar But individual rules for health are never destined to lit every one The best plan Is O find out what the body is capable of and give It the minimum of food sleep und stimulants and thc maximum of work exercise and air A perusal of Mr Flsks rules will show that this Is exactly what he has done New York Press VESUVIUS SPOILED THE RAIN I The Inhabitants of thc district of u Somma Vosuviana on the northern slopes of Vesuvius have just had an unpleasant reminder of the properties of the mountain on which they dwell On ordinary calm days the head of Vesuvius Ve-suvius Is adorned with a plume of dark smoke which when the wind blows from the south laden with moisture Is carried northward over the slopes of the mountain During Ihn I last long spell of south wind It rained heavily heav-ily without interruption The rain in passing through the sulphurous smoke became Impregnated with caustic salts which have destroyed the flowers and young buds on all the trees and have ruined all the young plants The vines alone escaped damage because on account ac-count of the cold season their buds arc still in a backward condition The phenomenon phe-nomenon is not new though it Is extremely ex-tremely rare Rome Correspondence of thc London Post THE NATIONAL GUARD Charles Sydney Clark who served both as a private and as an afllcer In tho National Guard discusses in an instructive In-structive and suggestive article in the North American Review for May the future of that organization Mr Mark brings to notiii a surprising number oC defects in I our volunteer army as It I Is tat t-at present constituted which aeilously Impair its entFleiicy and he reiom mends measures by which these may be remedied especially I Ihe t reorganization reorgani-zation of the force by Congress as a national volunter reserve which shall be maintained and controlled by the national Government Mr Clark Condemns Con-demns the practice of having In lie Guard civil uoKOciutioiis whose membership mem-bership Is identical with that of the company or regiment These civil orgnnbatlons levied dues and lines and occasional assessments From these dues lines and assessments deficiencies were ma < u rood Slate laws in many places make payment of dues and lines compulsory This syu tem while effective ia unmilltury and destructive of discipline It places on listed men on an absolute equality with officers In civil meetings allows them to dictate the policy of the company elect disbursing ofTlcers control expenditure ex-penditure of funds and in meetings freely criticise the acts of superiors It obliges olllcers to see that the revenue reve-nue of the company is collected and makes them debt collectors compelled to sacrifice all dignity In demanding and enforcing payment it compels officers of-ficers and men to pay n tax and In ease men do not pay compelsofficers to make up the dcllciency rather than discharge enlisted men who are out of employment or unable to pay it sometimes some-times results in the selection of officers who are able to support tile position rather than of officers distinguished for ability or soldierly qualities THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS No theologian has put forth cleverer theories than has Prof Harnuk of Berlin Ber-lin but his last theory Is little less than startling In the Zeitschrift fur die neutestamentllcho Wlssensehuft he suggests a new solution of a problem which has troubled all Biblical students from OrlgenS day to our ownnianiety the authorship of the Epistle to limo Hebrews Dr Ilarnack declares that j the epistle must be the work of semite wellknown teacher of Christianity who was In closo companionship with Paul and Timothy Internal evidence shpwH that the author must actually have I lived among1 those whom he addressed his letter to them being written while he was absent for a tljne from them The epistle was evidently written just after one of the Koman persecutions 7 In which the martyrs are supposed to have been Peter and Paul Who then IB the author Prof ITarnacks conditions condi-tions would rule out Luke Barnabas Apollos and Clement No pqsslljle thor remains of whom he have any knowledge but ihowj whom Paul saluted sa-luted as follow Greet Prlscllla and Aqulla my helpers in Christ Jesus who have for my life laid down their own necks This hmbund and wife I were probably IniluenttaJ and expe rienced Christian ttachers for through them Apollos a man of culture was so won over to Christianity that he mightily convinced the Jews Pris cllla and Aqulla were evidently Intimately Inti-mately nueofUfled with Paul and probably proba-bly survived him since In the last part of tho last letter ever written by him wo find a message to them Salute Prlsca and AquIIa Prlsca or Prls cilIa and Aquila undoubtedly had a littlo ehurch In their houso tn Rome as they had had In 1 Ephesus and to the congregation worshiping there i i must have addressed this epistle if they wetQ its authors An indication that they vorc Its authors Is found in tIne frequent interchange of the personal i per-sonal pronoun from we to I and from I to wo As Prlcas name Is generally mentioned before Aqullas she was perhaps a more Important personage per-sonage than her husband Prof Har nncks theory that she was the author of the epistle Is as ingenious as It Is daring New York Outlook lad Excerpt Ex-cerpt MISTAKEN Wife with a determined alrI want to see that letter Husband What letter Wife That one you Just opened 1 know by lie handwriting that It Is from n woman and you turned pale when you read It 1 will see It Give it to me sir Husband JTere it is It is your milliners mil-liners bill Christian Advocate POPULISMS FLOWER BLIGHTED TIme Kansas railroad law was thc perfect flower of Popullsllc legislation It was the culmination of Popullstle effort in State government It was framed In a Populist caucus of the State Legislature It was rushed through a special session of the Legislature Legis-lature called after the Populists had lost control of the State government The law created a special court wIth judicial legislative and executive powers pow-ers rho court was not only empowered empow-ered to fIx ratrs at its own discretion and wholly regardless of whether the rates so fixed were sufficient to pay expenses but It could even oust the officers of-ficers chosen bv the owners of a railroad rail-road and put its own men In charge It had power to make absolute rules for the construction of stations stockyards stock-yards and switches and to regulate the running of trains Jt could enforce lie use of any appliance for safety or other purposes that Its members might care to adopt It could settle strikes and Its I decision was binding upon both employer and employed It was the most drastic and comprehensive act ever passed In this countiy for the government gov-ernment of public corporations It was this measure that the Kansas Supremo court on Saturday declared contrary to the fundamental principles of Amerlcail government That legislative legis-lative Judicial and executive powers must be separated Is a rule which permeates per-meates organic law The Kansas railroad rail-road law gave all these powers to the same men These men could praptl cally legislate to deprive the owners ot a railroadof their property decide asa as-a court that their own act was valid and then proceed to put that act In force rime American system of civil government never contemplated that powers so vast unrestrained and despotic des-potic should be lodged In any man or body of men So when the Supreme court got at It the railroad law had togo to-go Eventhe Populist members of the Supreme court remembered that they were lawyers before they were partisans parti-sans and that they had sworn to support sup-port the Constitution of the United States and of Kansas Chicago Inter Ocean A MILITAHY BICYCLE A bicycle has been Invented that Is a model of military usefulness In addition addi-tion to enabling the soldierwheelman to cover ground quickly it affords a temporary protection for two men Incase In-case thc skirmishing party Is surprised and also a refuge for them In the night and during bad weather In front of the handlebars is fitted a hardened plate of nickel steel which serves not only as a means of defciiie when thc bicycle Is thrown tu the ground but a platform for carrying equipments and rations while on the march A similar attachment Is erected back of the saddle sad-dle On these platforms outfits for two men can be transported during military mili-tary operation Where roads are too bad for wheeling the soldier will find It much easier to push seventylive or i hundred pounds of baggage on a wheel than to carry it on his back uring an attack these shields furnish considerable protection from rifle lire at a fair range When the bicycle infantry in-fantry comes to a halt for the night an ordinary tent may be l rigged over the machine which is kept rigid by guy ropes this will give shelter for two men Tin rifles are carried under the top bar of tho diamond frame Wo mans Home Companion NATIONS SUPERFLUOUS Where there Is plain wrong there must be a remedy says Henry D Sedgwiek Jr In the May Atlantic It Is Impossible to believe that men < rca lurt 3 of reason and of experience painfully pain-fully bought will leave blind nations to the blind guidance of rude instincts which spring like maggots from cheese out nC the union of many men We muni shunt these guides The surest sur-est although the slowest and the clumsiest r clum-siest way Is tn do away with this system sys-tem of the division of mankind Into nations na-tions Nations are organisms which liavo already servod their purpose in the worlds history they lag superfluous superflu-ous like belated mogalherla The purpose pur-pose that they were contrived to serve the union of people of one blood and the preservation of time purity of that blood I boy have not served There la nut one nation of pure blood and native blood and people of the same race are divided Into different nations England and the United States Spain and Mexico Mex-ico Portugal and Brazil France and the Province oC Quebec Germany and Austria The nations occupation is gone They wore mere temporary makeshifts to bridge a gap while mankind man-kind prepared some better means of serving its Interests There are plenty of signs that this system of nations Is breaking up to make way for ji cosmopolitan cosmo-politan system Science with its locomotive loco-motive forces commerce with its maxim max-im ubl confortas ibi patria democracy with Ha brotherhood of man are daily undermining the national system Worlds fairs pence conferences international inter-national labor societies drawings of Latins together and jf AngloSaxons all are Indications of the coming of a cosmQpolltan system That new system sys-tem without need of weapons of offense of-fense and defense tvl lth no national belly to be llliod shows bv Its ever Increasing tonduncy to identify Itself with thc great teachings of ethics how true the deepest experience of mankind Is how fit to nil the affairs of men are thc commandments of religion A SERENADE OF WOLVES In the May Century Ernest Seton Thomnson who used to bo known ns Wolf Thompson from his familiarity With this particular form of wild anl j inal tells how he started a wolf serenade at the National Zoo in Washington i Whllo making these notes among the animals of the Washington Zoo I used to go at all hours to see them Late one I evening I sat down with some friends by the wolfcages in the light of a full moon 1 said Lot us see whether they have forgotten the music of the West I put up my hands to my mouth and I howled the huntingsong of the pack The first to respond was a coyote from I Uie plains Hi remembered the wild music that used to mean pickings for him lie put yi his muzzle and yap I yapped und liowled Next an old wolf i from Colorado came running out Ipoked and llKened earnestly and raising her snout to the proper angle she tdok up i the wiM Jilraln Then air tho others = came running out and Joined in each according to his voice but all singing that wild wolf huntingsong howling yelling rolling and swelling high and low In the cadence of the hills They Bang mo their aong of the West tho Vostt They set nil my feelings aglow Thay stirred up my heart with their art linus mum And iliilr song of Ito longago Again and again heyrained I the cry and sang In chorus till the whole moonlit moon-lit wood around was ringing with Iho I grim refrain until the Inhabitants In the near oily must have thought all the beasts broken loose But at length their clamor died away and time wolves returned slunk back to their dens silently si-lently sadly I thought as though they realized that they could indeed Join In time huntingsong as of old but their huntingdays were forever done INSULT TO INJURY Stupor Heres a nice letter for a man to receive The scoundrel who wrote It calls me a blithering Idiot Teeplo Whats his name Stuper Thats Just what Id like to I find out but theres no signature Tceple Dont you recognize the writing writ-ing It must be somebody who knows I youLife i SEVERE ON THE GENERALS No one would have grudged the heavy losses of the Highland brigade at Maagcrsfonteln If they lund led to any thing It is the senseless plan of attack that made tIme men sick at heart for many days afterward and makes the spectator sure that we need new methods meth-ods In tho British army And we have no lack of intelligent men In the army The onictMH of the younger school love their profession and study it its they would any other profession In which they hoped to succeed Thore are still a number oC boys who gto into time army because they have money and must do something or who covet tIme social standing which military rank implies But on Iho whole the younger men are not only Inordinately brave soldiers but they are as Intelligent and as zealous In the study of their profession ns any ofll cons German or otherwise can be For that reason they had been driven to regard re-gard their Generals in South Africa until un-til Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener arrived ar-rived with an air of amused contempt Such a glaring want of resource or knowledge or commonsense as was displayed at Madder river Mnagersfon teln Stromberg and Colenso cannot be passed over in silence Discipline will carry a man a long Aay and close his eyes to many things which the ordinary civilian Inbound to notice but you cannot can-not close your eyes forever At Colenso Gen Duller made a direct frontal attack against a tremendously strong position without the slightest attempt to turn it n He further chose two reentrant angles I for the exact places to be assaulted and this in spite of the fact that the eJif mys left extended across the Tugola and was therefore vulnerable to a Hank attack It does not seem as If lack of commonsense to use no harsher term could possibly go further War teaches us many timings and among others that a knowledge of tactics la more to be recommended rec-ommended in a General than bravery and commonsense more than either From The Intermediate Stage of the Boer War by H J Whighnm In the May Scribners ROUGH ON SIMPSON During the extra session of Congress early last year says Cyrus Patterson Jones in the May Issue of Success Jerry Simpson kept objecting every little lit-tle while to the execution of the purpose of the session the changing of the tariff tar-iff from the Wilson to the Dlngley schedules of rates Simpson would fan the air tuithi his arms and bore every body with his tirades The big Speaker would on such occasions recline Ills head on the back of his chair and close his eyes Im not alone In this Simpson was vociferating one afternoon there are many members hero who share the same views I have My learned and distinguished dis-tinguished friend from Texas Mr Bailey fully agrees with me Mr Bailey who detested Simpson arose and said sharply I object to being cited as an authority author-ity I do not agree with the gentleman from Kansas He should Inform himself him-self sehfrime The Speaker woke up and rapped for order In a drawling tone he ruled Time gentleman from Texas should not make an unreasonable request of the gentleman from Kansas |