| Show ill QIIU temporary g ciit i T THE FILIPINO SITUATION 1 TCo doubt Gen Schwan will now come I In for his jlmro of abuse from the antl Imp > rlallfits for presuming tosuy on Ills reuirn home that Die Jagil rc d C blion Is no longer u military organis t stroll that its entire collapse cannot he far distant and that armed iclNt t ance would have eased before this but I for the hope of the Tucal leaders that j thn nnLle pan lon or Democratic part would win In the approaching n I elections Gen Scliwan asserts thai the Totals believe that McKlnleyi defeat next fall would mean the withdrawal of the military from the Philippine thus allowing the rebel chiefs to helve their own way as the rulers of the islands I They are therefore encouraged encour-aged to continue their resistance to our authority pending the result of the elections 1 el-ections I I No man can give utterance to such sentiments these days or anything an I proachlnpr them no matter hmv true they may bi without KUbJoctlnj lilm 1 holf to a veritable Catling gun dlsj + lmrge of anlllmperiailst vinalctu < hes and the fact that Gen Schwap l returns homo disabled by his arduous campaigning Is not at all likely to save him from the calumnies of these l siayaihonie allies of AKulnaldo Nevertheless his official report should he read In full by every American for it Is a document that dears intelligently and I convincingly with a situation that cannot be too well understood Gen Schwan however is not they the-y object for abuse uncovered to antiImperialist eyes by the days news Col E J McClcrnand who did such excellent work in Cuba and who i has since been In the Philippines stationed sta-tioned nl Balamban Ccbu Islands writes in a personal letter in exactly the same strain as Gen Schwans report re-port to the War Department Ileie arc a few paragraphs from Col ltc Clernands letter Thc Presldents are now showing a disposition to unite their efforts with nure tQ advance the good of the people The towns have had such a cleansing as they never knew before the natives arc at work In the fields and upon the roads and freely I admit that In the six weeks of our occupation they have done more work than in the year and a half preceding towns where no troops are stationed are anxious for detachments to be quartered among them and the air of prosperity along the coast though small as yet certainly certain-ly exists We are perhaps not oversanguine In believing that ere the term of our enlistment June 30 1901 expires the robber bands here will have been driven into the towns to earn an honest liv InS and that the people will be on the high road to happiness and good times The Insurrection throughout the Islands Isl-ands Is dying out slowly In some sec Ions but surely this however will not be tho entire solution of the pro lent confronting us in the PhlJIpppincs Jl is no easy matter to take up the government of sonic eight millions pore or less of people with a different Civilisation from ours perhaps with onlj a KomlcivlIJaUon and Incorpor atothem lint J believe with those who hold that in lie I end our presence here will be mutually benellclal to the American Am-erican and Filipino To reach this I end lolr l countrymen must display good Judgment exercise Immense patience nnd never swerve from the path of Justice The American people are not likely to ncrniSt thcsa words of experience and observation to be outweighed by the venom and vaporlngs of the antiIm perlallsts We do not believe that they will clans our soldiers and their officers In the Philippines as liars and tyrants particularly when we find them writing and acting with the one purpose In view of bringing peace and contentment among the people there The campaign as these two veteran ofllcers report Is npw directed against scattered bands or marauders who are as much the en F j emies of the Filipinos themselves as i they arc aUlsN Y Mall and Express Ex-press THE WHITE NARCISSUS = 1n lace anti linen find silken slippers Anti ghee of satin they dressed the bride 11 ahu ftoi > Mumer veil and a wreath of I blossoms To crown hor beauty the day she died I With rich perfumes of the rose and lily They combed and plulied her lock of I gold And under llio tree where onco she tryjjlort They hid her down In the frozen mold With sn inland shadow and balmy breezes Came tho rfprlntf to her placo ot rest And a slender bludu llko an eme aid arrow ar-row ° lifted the clods above her breast Cyslaldows of tho purple twilight Silver rains of the morning cloud Coaxed the stem from Its leafy shelter Drew the bud from Its folded shroud Pnle and pure as a pearl of ocean Jt slipped iho rl1n of its dnlhty sheath Deep III Its heart a hint of yellow From tho bnildcd tresses that Icy bc Heath So It was born tho brides fair daughter Thc wtiito ntirclsjius that buds and blows Sweet and starry In silent places Over the grave of tho winter snows I Mlnqa Irving in Frank Leslies Popular Monthly for June I THE CAUSE OF THE FAMINE I India Is a country not quite half ns large as the United Stales with four times its population These 3001300000 people must be fed from their own crops as there Is relatively no manufacturing manu-facturing resource to buy food with There are parts of India with a population popu-lation of 1000 people to the square mile and there are millions upon millions of farm laborers vagrants gypsies and nondescript classes whose means of living even Hi times of plenty aro inscrutable in-scrutable In a normal year the country coun-try as a whole produces a little more food than Is actually necessary to support sup-port its people But the crops are dependent de-pendent on the monsoons the southwest south-west monsoon in the beginning of summer sum-mer and the northeast monsoon In the winter If these periodic rains are late or are Insufficient In quantity J trouble comes and the spring and winter win-ter crops of wheat barley and pulses In the north and of rice and millet In the t south begin to suffer When the 1 monsoons fall absolutely there is destitution des-titution in the affected district and when a persistent succession of failures = fail-ures and partial failures occurs there I comes a great and terrible famine like that the country Is now groaning under un-der Since the first great famine of which there are records devastated tho land In 1770 when 10000000 perished Itl Bengal I alone India has scarcely passed a decade free from scarcity of grain In one district or another The British Government expects a drought about twice In every nine years a famine once In every eleven or twelve years and a great famine like the present about twice In a century From The Progress of the W rld7 Jn I the American Monthly Review of Reviews Re-views for June I AMERICA IN CHINA I J I rl America has a magnificent oppor tunity in the Orient It she will only reach out and take It A people which has done so much and has taken ad vanlage of so many chances will sure ly not fall to reap for its commerce tho benefits which it has earned by its bravery The possession of the Philip pine islands brings the United States I close up to the greatest markets In the worldmarkets which have only Just I begun to be developed but which have already shown a capacity for development I develop-ment that a great commercial people will understand There are many mll lions of people In China and they arc I ready to buy from other nations the things which they can use Some In America seem to think that the Chinese now manufacture practically all that Is sufficient for their own needs Far I froni It Of course It IB true that for centuries before China was open to foreign I trade Its people made the goods they used and this siemcd sufficient but now China Is I open to foreign trade and manufactured goods come from America and JOuropc We buy them readily America can Bell us goods more cheaply than our inoplc could manufacture them This Is true especially espe-cially of cotton cloth That 1 which we manufacture ourselves we weave with our own hands and It Is very durable but the American product Is very fine in comparison and nbw it has come to be In common mw with us In some parts of the empire American and English En-glish cottons have aken almost cji tlrely the place of our native manufacture manufac-ture With finer dresses silks and that sort of thing it Is not yet true but with cheaper articles It Is China takes kindly to Improvements We barn not only the railroad but the telegraph and the telephone The telegraph tele-graph lines extend throughout the length and breadth of China There Js not a province now without the telegraph tele-graph The lust cable in China was laid by the Danish company and our principal telegraph company Is I now superintended by a Danish engineer The l first telegraph company Avas organized or-ganized by an official named Sheng llsuan Hun commonly known as Sheng Taotal He induced the I Chinese merchants to subscribe and built the line under Qovernment protection The line extended from 1lenl Tientsin for a short distance then lt was continued to Shanghai then to Pekln and so branched out rein north to south from I east to west This was twenty years ago aid the telegraph built by private enterprise under Government control with Danish operatives tin the main now covers a wide extent of tercltory I When It came to extending the system to more remote parts l of the country the private commercial company did I not llko to undertake the construction and so the Government has built these lines itself Thus there are practically two systems one semiolllclal the other solely under Government control The telephone has been introduced more recently The first telephones were brought In by foreigners for their own convenience and their use spread gradually The first line was put up at Shanghai and others followed in different dif-ferent treaty ports They are all managed man-aged by different private companies We have no longdistance telephone as yet but that Alll come in time With the railroad the telegraph the telephone tele-phone and a great population thickly settling a vast extent of territory the future possibilities of the Chinese trade mpst appeal to the commercial instincts of the Tnited States With a foothold In the Philippines America will have a great > 1 advaptnpe over other nations which lack possessions In that part of the world If Americans know how to turn this to good account they will bo able to do wonders Minister Wu Ting Fang In Alnslccs A STRIKE WISELY SETTLED As an illustration of wise policy incases In-cases where the dispute has passed into a strike a very notable case has lately late-ly I occurred on the New York Central system at Buffalo The car repairers employed by that company although many of them had within sixty days received an increase of wages went on a strike late In April for a further increase In-crease Instead of arbitrarily refusing refus-ing io consult with the strikers about the merits of the case the Centrals superintendent of motive power went to Buffalo on purpose to meet and confer con-fer with a committee of the men This reasonable and enlightened policy yielded Hie good results that it can I almost always be counted upon to do 1 It proved that when laborers are 1 treated with respcct and their unions recognised dealings with them can be i i as satisfactory and honorable as be I I t wen any socalled business men f and with no more dancer of violence A wage scalp was agreed upon which 1gate I gave the men nearly all they asked I while on the othec hand they conceded I I I points which it appeared the company I could not consistently grant The superintendent of motive power stated after the conference that In some j I casts the rate of Increase over tho j I original pay previous to March 16th Is I In the vicinity of tOper cent In other CHHCH It is I only 10 or J2 It was clearly I understood between myself and the committee that the company would always al-ways be ready to give a hearing to any I I committee of Its employees that the men might select on any grievance that I may arise If at such meeting they wish to have an advisor who Is not an I employee there will bo no objection to I that but the company will deal with its employees directly t Evidently wisdom has been learned since the great Central strike of a decade I de-cade ago fought in large part on exactly ex-actly this issue 1 of recognition and conference From Review of the Month Cuntons Magazine June I A PERSIAN GAZELLE Jam I Tnl nIght when my tired eyes sere closed In sleep T saw tho ciif I love and heard her speak Heard 1 In tho listening wutclics or the plht Tho sweet words molting from her sweeter lips But what she said or seemed to guy to 1 I n1e I have forgotten though till morning broke I strove lo remember her melodious words liOne long may Jamla eyes be blest with sleep I Jjiko that which stolo from hlmgelC last night Thor perfect real which closing hls tired lids i Disclosed llio hidden beauty of his love Andy loodlng his soul wllb music all tho while I Imposed forgetfulness Instructing him That sllcnco Is more slgnltlcant of love Thun all the burning words In lovers songs n 1L Sloddartl t n Harpers Magazine I for Junc I THE BOER OUTLOOK I Just what amount of truth Is therein there-in the Insistent howl that England is i about to deprive the Boers of their liberty j I lib-erty One would think the Transvaal I and the Free State were to be made Polands or Flnlands or AlsaceLor I raljies Tlvjse makebelieve republics will fullthere Is not a shadow of doubt I about that but England Is not in the I business of absorbing lands for revenues reve-nues What she takes she makes self supporting and free Whcie she goes sho carries constitutional privileges trial by Jury habeas corpus free speech free press religious tOliW lion and unbarred and honest suffrage These things she will carry inle South Africa The Boers will remain selfrespecting freemen They will not be robbed of n lust share In the GovornmenL They will be able lo write or speak as they please without lese maj < te They will not ba put under abhorrent police supervision su-pervision Their personal land hclOmgs will not be confiscated They will suffer suf-fer no conscription There will be no I compulsory military service for them j either in regular army or inUandvebr I I They can stay if they choose QV trek whllheisoever they will The things I they cannot do under Englands rule arc I the things no enlightened free ptoplo I I could wish to doto ensUve the blacks I monopolize franchises persecute pall pal-l titular sects and deny his natural rights to the Outlander This Is what the Boers have to c pcct from defeat at the hands of England This is all The riches of the 1oer Government will suffer that riches of the Individual Boer not at all it is I to Englands Interest to win Tt IH to the worlds interest and lo our interest i I that England win Most of all it Is lo the Interest oC the Boers As a clf 1 respecting colony l they have a future I As the misled tools of a blgotod and op a > s I P yes Ive oligarchy centered at Pretoria they have nothing before them In the world The world the free hart 01 it I has done with such thlhjjs New York Press I 1 ALLENS NEWEST STORY John Allen whose career in Congress t has made the little town of Tu I ielu famous fa-mous knows more good stories than any other member of the Jfouse One of the best in his repertory Is the tale of the durky and the poaaum which was told In the Senate cloaKrojm the other day apiopos of the patronage Senator Sen-ator Depew IB supposed U tnjuy but which is I quietly absorbed by his senior I I colleague A negro epicure iaught a fine large possum skinned dressed and hung It before a blazing fire under u spreading tree and while it was I baking to a delectable brown lay down 1 on the ground and wont to sleep I beside It About the time the noi MtllI1 was t I done a slick little darky happening that way stole the possum and ate It I all up Then he took the bones and laid i I them down in front of his sleeping I I brother greased his lips with possum 1 grease and smeared possum grease j i over his fingers When the owner of I I the possum awoke lie looked about j I dazed and surprised to find his piece dot p do-t gone but the bones lay In front of him and he saw the grease1 I upon lls fingers and tasted it upon I I hit lips Js It posble he said I dun cat dat possum when I was sleep I smell possum I tas possum an 1 dar is do bones It sartalnly do look Ilk I mus 1mb eat him but To God dat dar possum dun 1mb less feet on I my constutlon dan cnny ole possum 1 ever did eat befo That Is I the way with Depcw said the man who repeated repeat-ed thin story lie should have patronage patron-age Jt look as if he did have patronage patron-age but fo1 God dat dur patronage has less feet on his constutlon dan enny ole patronage he ever did have befo r Washington Correspondent of Jjcslies Weekly THE RHYME THAT NEVER CAME Pcnnlngton Bardsley the poet sat In his study thinking He had Just written writ-ten the lineMan line-Man If thou dlast but know thyself and was trying to find something besides be-sides shelf or pelf that would rhyme with It After he had struggled for along a-long time he became conscious of the sound of voices fn the parlor His wife was entertaining a caller and without Intending to do so he listened to what the ladles were saying By the way he heard the visitor jay 1 saw a book the other day that was about the unhappy wives of men I of genius and I have often heard that geniuses are so erratic so peculiar In their habits dont you know that living liv-ing with them becomes almost Impossl ble Yes Mrs Bardsley sighed Its a good deal that way or at least I have found it so The woman who is wedded to a genius may smile when the world scco her but back of it her heart is I often breaking The poet drew a long breath and brushed the tumbled hair l back from his marble brow resolving the while to try to be In future more considerate of his darling than he had been In tho pastPoor Poor bruised bird he said to himself him-self With my fancies in cloudlund 1 I have failed to see her wistful looks I have broken her heart by my neglect i I must make amends I will bring I 1 i myself down to her level again ana cheer her up with words of love Then the caller exclaimed I Im so surprised to hear that you and Mr Bardsloy aro not happily mated Everybody thinks you arc such a contented couple Oh we are was the reply Dear I old Pennington Is the easiest man In the world to get along with I was I thinking of my first husband Your reference to men of genius curried roe hack to tlc unhappy hours he gave roe You know IV was through his Invention of it clotheswringer that we became wealth A Jarring noise as If some one fallIng fall-Ing In her husbands study + lcrttnetl hnr to break off suddenly and run to see what wow the matter Pennlngton Bardsley had fainted and In his hand as he lay on the floor wus clutched 1 a sheet of paper with this line written across It t Man if thou < ll lsl but know thyself Chicago TImcaIIerald THOMAS B REED ON LIFE You arc well experienced In this worlds affairs t ventured What do you take to be the object of life Money No I Individual happiness 7 I Not wholly KlBht action A man should tnl < apart In the affairs of his I fellowmen and live up to the dictates 1 of conscience In acting He should I be of some use If ho has desires all 1 the better A desire for anything that will help others and satisfy you Is a i good thing A man has a right to de I sire money or place or public praise but he hay no right to any selfish feel ing in tin mutter He mrgjit lo desire I to be nherai and earn his reward by I service of some kind JDo you think the world offers as much to individuals as it ever did 7 Tf we can trust history It does The literature ot earlier times seems more complaining than our own Men were Just ns dissatisfied a thousand years ago as they are now Man seems always way to have craved great deal more than he could obtain Individually I think the age Is richer with oppor tunities than for ages The system un der which we live 1 Is somewhat defec lIe and many suffer by It but it la I changing and the world grows better The unselfish man will find enough I fancy If he honestly fulfills his duty to his fellowmen It ia all a question of peace of mind and that can be obtained i ob-tained in various ways the best one by doing right Success J I A BOER SHARPSHOOTER Tn all tho fighting the Boer sharpshooter sharp-shooter plays an Important part Keep an eye on one of these marksmen marks-men and you will get an object lesson In Boer tactics When an action begins be-gins the sharpshooter will separrtto from the main body and proceed cautiously cau-tiously until he secures a position within easy range for the average Boer 300 yards is an easy range of tho enemy There he will construct a schanze or cover Tn this schanze ho will stretch himself and prepare for the business of the day which is to kill I ar many Englishmen as he can without with-out betraying hIs I own whereabouts i He has provided himself with a water bottle some hard bread and biltong I and generally carries a pair of field glasses Nor has he forgotten his pipe and tobacco If It Is possible to effect I it I a shade for at least a part of his body Is arranged Thus ensconced the sharpshooter patiently waits for the opportunity to get to work The Boor lines begin fo crawl forward the British artillery breaks out angrily and fleeting glimpses of khaki show along the English Eng-lish positions Disposing his body comfortably com-fortably the sharpshooter fixes a perfect per-fect rest for his rifle adjusts the sight and skims tho barrel with his eye Presently ho marks down a Tommy But he doesnt fire Not yet He waits I until he gets the man right on the bead Then bang and the marked man collapses in a heap His comrades com-rades see him go down but can not tell whonce came the bullet which slew him The tiny puff of smokeless powder powd-er has been wafted away before the missile reaches Its mark and not oven the stirring of a leaf gives a clue to the markamans whereabouts A sharpshooter will keep this UP all day occasionally regaling himself with a I r lunch of blltbng and a puff at his pipe I blowing the smoke carefully away along the ground Cool collected hlu I I nerves quiet his pulse normal one oft of-t these men will do an appalling execution execu-tion In the tourse of a prolonged light f From With the Boer Army by I Thomas F Mlllard I In tho June Scrlb ners THE WORLD MARKET j Local markets have been merged Into U world market says Charles A Co nant In the June Atlantic whcr6 the operator In goods money or securities I can place orders or make sales at his I will in London Paris Vienna or New York according as the news brought by telegraph telephone or cable indicates indi-cates that he can buy cheaper or sell > dearer at any given moment It Is in this world market that the manufacturers and capitalists of the United States as well as those of England Eng-land and Continental Europe must hereafter compete with each other Powerful Influences have swept away the natural barriers to competition by making It possible to transfer goods at small cost from the place of production to the remote corners of the world The reduction of railway charges and ocean freights has followed the multiplication multiplica-tion of lines of transportation and economics in railway management and steamship construction Cars of steel are replacing those of wood and cars carrying fifty tons are hauled almost as cheaply as those carrying twenty tons a Cow years ago One of the most serious seri-ous pioblcms of railway competition today to-day Is the adjustment of rates which shall be fair between communities which at widelyvarying distances claim the right to lay down their products pro-ducts upon equal terms In tho same market The difference of a few cents per box may determine whether California Cali-fornia or Florida or Jamaica shall control con-trol the market for oranges in New York A similar difference on freight from the West as between New York or Newport News may determine which city shall be the commercial emporium em-porium of tho Western world The breadth of the Atlantic is made a negligible quantity by export rates which impost the same charges upon freight from the Mississippi to Europe which are charged from the Mississippi to New York CYNICISM A CURSE r tIn I t Si = I In a paper on political reform in the June Century Gov Roosevelt advises reformers to disregard fanatics It is vital that every man who Is in politics as a man ought to be with I a disinterested purpose to serve the public should strive steadily for reform re-form that lift should have the highest I ideals He must lead only he must lead in tho right direction and normally nor-mally he must be lii sight of his followers fol-lowers Cynicism In public life is IU curse and when it man has lost the power of enthusiasm for righteousness it will bo better for him and the country coun-try if he abandon public life Abovo all the political reformer must not permit himself to be driven from his duty of supporting what Is right by l any irritation at the men who while nominally supporting the same objects and even ridiculing him as a backslider or an opportunist yet by their levity or fanaticism do damage to the causes which lie really serves and whloh they profess to serve Let him disregard I them for though they are according to their ability the foes of decent poll tics yet after all they are but weaklings I weak-lings and tho real and dangerous enemies en-emies of the cause ho holds dear are those sinister beings who fatten on the I evils of our political system and both profit by its existence and by their own existence tend to perpetuate and increase It Wa must col be diverted from our Warfare with these powerful and efficient corruptlonlsts by irritation i at the vain prattlers who think Ll1t Yare Y-are at the head of the reform tore is > whereas they Fare really wandarms in bypaths In the rear i |
