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: POSTAL BANKS BILL.

The Chicago Records postal saw
ings bank bill was introduced in the
house Of representatives on the open.
ing day of the congressional session
by Representative .LOrimer. the
Chicago membefof the house com.
mitteeH on postofices and postroads.
The bill was referred 10 once to the
postofiice committee, according to the
usual custom. It was introduced in
the senate day or, two later, by. Sena-
tor Mason, who is a member of the
senate:postofice committee. 1t is up
en- theae committees that attention
must center for the present of those in
terested in the passage of law for the
establishment of the postal savings
bank system. The earnest agitation
among the people has forced upon all
members of congress consideration OF
this subject, with the result that it is
discussed in Washington to an extent
that it never has been before. The
chairman of the house committee is an
opponent of the postal bank idea, but
other leading members are friendly to
the plan. The first, and indeed. the
severest test of strength. therefore,
must come in the postoffice committee.
If postal savings bank bill is reported
favorably by that committee and
brought to vote in the house, there
Ican be but little doubt of the outcome
on the floor. Fortunately, as result
OF popular. agitation, and because OF
aggressive spirit which the friends OF
the measure in congress are manifest
ing, the subject is one that cannot be
ignored or pigeonholed. Meyer before
has the number of members actively
interested in the success of this project
been so great. Sentiment in favor
of postal savings banks seems to be
even stronger in the senate than
among the members of the house. 1t
is expected that bill will be reported
from the senate committee without
great difficulty, with the chances good
for its passage though the senate.
The more that members of congress,
Ind especially of the postoffice COM
can. be made to feel in
the deep interest of the pub
in this matter, the more likely will |
hey be to take early action looking to
the establishment of the postal savings |
bank system.
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chivalry and romance as are centereG
in the great commander of Cuoa's
patriot army. He is one of the world s
Grand Old Men.
Spain's offer of autonomy to Cuba
r calls Dean Richmond's famous res
pons. when asked if the New York
Central freight cars could be painted
some ether color than the one then IL
vogue. You can paint them cars any
ID color you like" said he, so lou@
as you paint EN- red" Spain ,ays
that Cuba can have as much self gov
ernmeut as she likes, providt that
she is governed in accordance with
Spain's wishes. >
Havti fills onlya small space on the
map, buo she has had cabinet crisis
nevertheless. IL this particular she
gets her name coupisd with those ct
Spain. Austria and italy, in which
countries ministries have recently
been overthrown. Self-government
brings problems and perplexities to
little nations as we'll as great. Russia
has no cabinet crisis. nor has China
4 Absolutisms have no cabinets.
Another page has been written in
the history of William Henry Theo-
dore Durrant, and it is to be hoped il
will be the next to the last. Judge
Bahrs has sentenced the murderer to
be banged on January 9Th. Barring
the ability of Durrant's attorneys to
get another stay of proceedings on
some tech nicality. he will end his life
on that date. They will make last
effort to get the case brought up in the
Z. S. SUPP eme court, aud one of them
has gone to Washington for that pur-
pose, but it is not likely he will sue
ceed.
Already POLITICIANS and Office seek
ers are laying their plans for the cleo
tion to be held next year, but the peo-
pie are as yet taking but little interest
in the matter. This is wrong. The
people should take these matters in
hand, and inform such men as Starr,
Mitchell. Simon, Bourne and Young,
that their services are not necessary
in mapping out the slate for officials to
sarve the people as state officers the
next four years. Oregon has been
run by professional politicians long
enough. and it is time the people who
pay the taxes have some voice in nam
ing their official servants.
That unnecessary and more than USE
less and powerless body, known as the
state board of equalization, is still in
session at salem and costing the tax
payers of the state slOO a day. And
the alleged board of railroad commits
sianers continues in Office, sapping up
the hard earned dollars of the taxpay-
ers without giving one thing OF bere-
lit in return. When will the people
wake up to the fact that they are being
taxed to keep an army of useless otfic-
ers, and elect legislature that will
decapitate these commissions? We
trust it will be on the first Monday in
June, 1898.
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HOW PENSIONS MULTIPLY

About once in two years there is a
a spasm in congress on the subject of
pension profigacy, and cry goes up
that something must be done to reduce
5the awful roll of names and the ruin
|, GUS appropriation bills that go on in
) creasingsand multiplying the further
we .recede from the war upon which
the pension list is founded, says the
New York Evening Post. Such out
bursts of pension economy usually end
lin a new lot of private pension bills,
pr in some change in the general law
10 admit new class of applicants or
20 increase the rate of pension of those
already on the list.
One of the biennial spasms is son"
at this moment. The discovery has
been made that pensions are protracted
1 beyond the usual expectancy of life
by what is called the "widow busi-
ness" Thus an aged pensioner mar
ries a girl young enough to be his
granddaughter in order to heep the
pension in fine drawing condition after
he has passed to better world. This
peculiarity of our pension system is
not now noticed for the first time. 1t
was observed and commented on with
bitterness by the generation that sue
ceeded the Revolutionary war. Human
nature was much the same then that
II ia now, The idea that a pension
should die with the death of the pen.
sioner was just as abhorrent then as it
is today. The idea that a pension once
started should ever come to an end is
so unrAmerican, unpatriotic. snd gen.
orally loathsome that only the boldest
spirits in congress ever dared to en-
counter the appro obrium attaching to
it.ssThis is the reason why Our fore
fathers allowed the widow .business2 |
to 90 on unchecked, so that there are |
still a number Of widows of the Revo:i
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OUTBREAK IMMINENT
Territory Braves Ready TO go
on the Warpath.
C) 4 dlTT1) S ICDE
Ex-Seeretary Herbsrts Eldest Daugh.
ter Threw Herself From A
Window.
Prompt Eeparation for an InsuIt to An
smerIcan arship-3IansiauEhter
the Charge Upon which AIRS.
Mack VIII be arraigncd.

CHICAGO, Dec. PA special to the
Times Herald from Washington says:
Trouble in the Indian territory Is
expected by the commissioner of
Indian affairs ana By others who are
familiar with the condition of fairs
there. On Janua-y l the tribunal
courts will be abolished by an &C.
passed at the last session of congress
and :he Uuited States courts given full
jurisdiction over the territory: Ia
many quarters the officers of the
Indian courts have declared that they
will forcibly resist all efforts to pre-
vent them from doing business The
Uniteu States marshals have given
notice that any tribunal courts at
tempting to sit. and those assuming to
conduct them will be arrested.
A delegation of eight Cherokees.
seven of them full-bloods, is now in
the city. A few days ago they pre-
santed memorial to congress asking
that the law be rescinGed, but con-
gress has nov adjourned without
action, and when it again convenes
the Indian courts will be cut of ex-
istence.
Meanwhile the subcommittee of the
senate committee on Indian affairs,
appointed to consider the problem
presented in the territory, practically
decided to recommend an amendment
to the law applying to the apportion-
ment of all lands held by the five civil
lied tribes among the members of
these tribes, and also an amendment
providing that all valid leases shall be
recognized by the government of the
United States and the money paid on
account Of them covered into the
treasury OF the United States for the
benefit of the various tribes.
The Dawes commission has reported |
its failure to cone TO any conclusion |
with the Indians. Such agreements |
as have been concluded vary SO in |
their provisions, that, in view of tie
fact that eventually uniform system
of government must be provided for
Indian territory, it is questionable
any Of the agreements should
be definitely ratified by congress until
the desired and necessary uniformity
can be reached.
Secretary Bliss thinks no govern
ment will be satisfactory until con-
gress shall provide for single uni
form system of laws for the Indian
territory that shall place all its inhab-
Itants in possession of the rights of
American citizenship.
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DINGLEY'S APOLOGLST.

The NewsYork Sun confesses that
the Dingley pe:version was a merely
"tr1al and experiment." and declares
that the "pride of authorship and the
stubbornness that adheres to pred;c-
tion" will not influence the indtistri.
GUS and conscientious legislator who
framed it. In other words, Mr.. Ding
ley will acknowledge his fault when
confronted with figures. Six months
ago he believed himself an economic
impeccable; now he will confess i.npo-
tency and cheerfully set about the
emendation of the crazy structure on
which he expected to support con-
gress foresworn to liberal appropria
tions.
The assertion is no longer made that
the biennial billion will be forthcom-
ing as soon as importers have disposed
Of advance shipments and banked the
bonus assured them in McKinley's
election.
The Mckinley cult and its exaltation
did result in the raising of revenue to
be sure, but that revenue now lies
snugly deposited to the credit of fore
sighted buyers of foreign fabrics.
Meantime the man that wears the
cheap coat is still Cheap" as in Har-
rison's time, or at least he feels SO
when he reflects on the use he made of
his franchise thirteen months ago.
But the Suns comment carries with
it another confession. cloaked. Every
intelligent American knows that the
issue of 1895 was one of money stand
ards, tariff taxes not entering into
,he fight at all.
The ST. Louis Globe Democrat in
October. 1895, assuming to speak ex-
distinctively pledged it's
party to a conservative and cautious
ariff policy. And yet, in the face OF
III this, Congress was convened in ex-
session for the purpose of
orcing on the people what the Sun
allied ga measure for trial and expert
nent," while the present vicious and
nscientific currency conditions were
sft to shift for themselves.
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THE CoNsUL-GENERAL
Charles HemboId = High Roller Jailed in
London.

LONDON. Dec. % Charles Hembold
son of the well known patent medicine
proprietor of New York, has been
locked up, and is awaiting trial at Bow
street station on charge of threaten
ing to kill United States Consul Gen.
eral Osborne. During the last three
weeks he has been demanding money.
He told a story OF the seizure of his
clothes and effects by the Berlin con-
sui, and declared Mr.. Osborne was re-
sponsi5le for their surrender. Hem
bold became so importunate that last
Wednesday MIR. Osborne ordered him
to leave the premises, whereupon he
became violently enraged, and shouted:
--"Daun you, I'll come back and shoot
YOU"
Hembold returned yesterday, and
repeated his threat. Mr.. Osborne, re-
mem bered the Terriss case, summoned
a police officer, and had him arrested.
The physicians think him insane. He
has spent much time 10 London in re-
cent years, living high when his
family sent him money, and in the
deepest poverty between remittances.
1t is supposed the Berlin adventures
he described are imaginary. 1t is said
his father became insane before his
death.
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THE BLAME ON BLANCO
The Residents Say Ruiz Was
Driven to His Doom.

NEW YORK. Dec. 23.- Indignation
/ over the killing of Colonel Ruiz is in
tense in Havana. says the Herald cor
respondent. Many blame General
Blanco, alleging that he forced Cen
eral Ruiz to go, in spite of the latter's
protestations that it meant certain
death. All accounts agree that Col
onel Aranguen was p rsonally op-
posed to the infliction of the extreme
penalty, and would have saved Ruiz,
but his own life would have been sacci-
feed had he done SO, in opposition to
the orders of his superiors.
A cablegram has been received stat
ing that General Lee has been in
structed DO Secretary Sherman to no.
tify General Gomez and other rebel
leaders that they need expect no Amer
ican sympathy if they continued to
permit firing on flags of truce. Cen
eral Lee says he has received no in
structions, adding that he knew of no |
instance OF the display by the Span
iards of flag of truce during this war.
1t has never been claimed by the
Spanish authorities that Colonel Ruiz
was under a flag of truce, that institu-
tion being unknown to the Spanish
army in Cuba, its use being interdictcd
rs involving a recognition OF the in
as belligerents.
Much excitement was caused on
Sunday morniog when small whi
bearing strong resemblance
20 the U IiLed States gunbOat Annap-
olis. was seen approaching the harbor.
A rumor spread that an American
yarship was coming in, and the people
became frenzied when the strangers
runs opened in salute TO the forts,
many believing the city was being
,oa barded. 1t was soon apparent that
he vessel was tho German schooisbip
'tein, but several hours elapsed before
uiet was restored in the city.
All last night raging fires have been
isible southwest If Havana, only ten
lilies away. Standing cane on the
'oledo and Potugalete stations, which /,
as set on fire by the rebels and COM
letely destroyed. The fire caused ,
reat CONSERVATION in Havana. :,
VIII Wheat BE Cornereds !
CHICAGO, Dec, 23.-The possibility C
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that Letter and Armour will poo

that Letter and Armour will pool
their interests to corner May wheat is
stirring traders on change. The Post
says:
"Armour radi al change of front
in bulling May wheat is common
knowledge. AS IL to EN- mphasize the
bull talk, both Armour and Letters
men bought wheat today. May wheat
is long spot is the answer given by
commission men when approached by
customers. The winter wheat crop in
this country is not harvested until
July. and, according to the forecasters
on 'change the situation has never
been so favorable for a corner In May
wheat as it will be this season."
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be young because her heart is young and
there is rich, young blood circulating in her
veins. She doesn't need cosmetics and face.
powders and skin n-preservers. Pure blood
is the only true skin-preserveT.
But when woman's blood Is full of bill
ious impurities, she can neither look young
nor feel young. Her whole constitution is
poisoned with bad blood. It permeates ev-
weakens the stomach; irritates the heart,
preys upon the lungs and bronchial tubes.
1t reduces woman to a state of weakness,
nervousness, irritability, detection and mel
ancholy. Such a woman can't possibly be
youthful, no matter what her age may be-
She needs the youtffulness of highly vital
lied blood. Or. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery will give it to her 1t will help
any woman to get. back her youth and
freshness again.
1t gives the digestive and blood making
organs and the liver power to produce good,
pure, healthy blood. 1t gives color to the
cheeks, and sparkle to the eyes; drives away
pimples and blotches; wipes away wrinkles;
rounds out enaciated forms, and creates
firm, natural, healthy flesh.
Mrs. Rebecca F. Gardner of Grafton, York Co.,
Va, writes: when was married weighed Iz5
pounds. was taken sick and reduced in health
eczema. He treated my disease but failed to
do me any good, and fell away to 90 pounds.
begsu using DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery, and thank God and You, began to I'M
prove. Now weigh I4o pounds and have only
taken two bottles. cannot say too much about
the medicine. Ny husband says look younger
than did the first tine he SAW me- IS years ago"
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ENTIRELY TOO RADICAL.

! Americans generally favor restric'
tive measures being enforced against
the Importation of foreign paupers or
keontract labor, though but few desire
She ports of the United States closed to
Immigration. The spirit of America
ever has been and ever should be to
invite within the. nation such people
hs viii build up the country and assist
IN developing its industries, hence it
thai the bill introduced in congress
by Representative Barham, of Cali
fornia, will meet with very little favor,
and will probably never again be heard
of outside the rooms of the committee
to which it has been referred. That it
is one of the most radical measures
ever proposed to regulate immigration
sfdenced by the first section which
is as follows:
From and after the passage of this
act it shall be unlawful for any skilled
or unskilled manual laborer to enter
or come into the United States, its ter
ritories or the District Of Columbia;
and no such person shall ever be per-
mitted to enter, land or come into the
United States, its territories or the
District of Columbia. And any such
person found within the United States,
lits territories or the District Of
'Golum bia may be arrested by the
United States customs official, collec-
tor of internal revenue or his deputy,
United States marshal or bis deputy,
and taken before United States judge,
whose duty it shall be to order that he
be deported from the United States to
the country from whence he came at
the cost of the United States.'
Were there any probability of this
measure becoming law it might be
well to add few more sections, and
make it Ga penal offense for any
other person, not a skilled or unskilled
tabprer to come within the United
States, especially those who come
bvef here with foreign capital to. buy
up our bonds, and the class who
from across the Atlantic with
to their credit but lot of
debts and an empty title and marry our
heiresses. These two classes are det-
timental to the welfare Of the nation
IS are the men who come over here to
compete with our laborers for an op-
to earn a living, and if one |
lass is to be excluded, all should be.
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lutionary pensioners drawing the
monthly allowance. although that war
ended lis years ago.
When we come down to the war of
1872, we find the widow business very
flourishing. That war ended 80 years
ago. Anybody old enough to have
been a soldier then must he very close
to 100 years of age. Only 8 male sur
viyore remain, but there are still 5000
widow pensioners of that war. OBJ
viously, the crop will be as much
larger now as the civil war was larger
than that of 1872. That of the
Mexican war will show up we'll. no
doubt, Now it is actually proposed by
some daring spirits in congress to cur
tail the widow business by passing a
law providing that no pensions shall
be allowed TO the widows of soldiers
marrying after the passage of the act
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GREAT BRITAIN IS ovERMATCRED.
Therefore the Peace OF Europe VIII Prob
ably Remain intact.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 22.-In a
strongly anti-British article today the
Novosto says:
SIN consequence of the pretention
of England to compensate herself for
the Russian occupation of Port Arthur
by y,acquisltion of Port Hamilton or
LazarefT, and in view of the possibility
of disturbing action by Japan, Europe
stands on the brink of grave diplomatic
complications. 1t is therefore well to
recall that reinforcement of the Ger
man squadron in the Pacific permits
Russia, France and Germany to effect
lively prevent disturbance of the bal
ance of power between the three
powers on one hand and Great Britain
and Japan on the other, such. as
might be produced by violent seizures
of territory"
The Novosto expresses hope that
isolation of Great Britain in regard tC
the other European powers will par
alyze her action sufficiently to permit
the preservation of peace, for dangers
are threatening. it at the present
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A Missouri Town Burned.

DEIPAN, Mo-, Dec. 22-Fire has de-
stroyed the business portion of this
town. Twenty-six business houses
were burned, and the total loss is es-
timated at at 100000. with about
S33, 600 insurance The fire stated in
the warehouse of a drug store. but its
origin is unknown.
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The TURk APoLoGIZED.
Prompt ReparatIon for an Insult to a
Warabin


Prompt ReparatIon for an Insult to an
American Warship.
CoNSTANTINoPLE, Dec. q 1t ap
pears that when the United States
steamer Bancroft arrived at Smyrna
on the night of December 2, she was
greeted with blank cannon shot and
rifled bullets from the fort of Venikle.
A boat sent from the warship to ask
for an explanation was fred upoa ard
forced to return. Thereupon the
American admiral lodged protest
with the United States minister here,
DIR. Angel, who demanded the punish
ment of the guilty parties and the
apology from the Turkish government,
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| Both houses of congress adjourned
Saturday to January 5th. But before
adjournment the resolution appropria-
ting 5000, 900 for the relief of Klondike
sufferers was passed and signe1 by the
| president.
The wheat crop of 1897 in the United
States is footed up at 100000, 600
bushels. 1t is solid item of wealth
and stands on its own merits, regard
less of currency cranks.
1t was commendable 10 congress to
make an appropriation for the relief of
the Klondike miners, and now if the
money is spent furnishing relief and
not in some jobbery to make those
handling it rich, nobody will complain
at the expenditure.
Senator Turner of the state of Wash
hington, upon the eve of his departure
from Englrnd, npositiveiy declares that
there can be no legislation in congress
which discriminates against silver,
says the Mail and Express. Yet it is
not impossible that different arrange
ments have been made during Mr..
Turner's absence.
Platt is entirely willing to have re-
united party in New York. All he
asks is that the republicans that do
not approve of his leadership, that are
opposed to his methods, that want the
party rid of bossism, shall simply drop
their foolish opposition and come to
his support. Now, could anything be
more reasonable?
Gomez, at the age of 20, actively |
leading a vigorous and irresistible |
revolution for Cuban independence,
presents one of the picturesque and |
heroic figures of the age. One may
survey the whole field of human en-.
deavor without finding another man
who in his anteeedents, personality
and chosen avocation combines as
many of the dramatic qualities of
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Hunters FROZEN to Death.

LITTLE ROCK. Dec. 23.-From pas
sengers reaching here it Is learned
that PARTY OF four hunters were
found frozen to death by the roadside
near Dawes creek, Newton county,
Monday morning. II is believed that
they were w. Fughes, Fl Dolphin,
John Kreit and Samuel Severe, of
Chicago.
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Earthquakes in Mexico.

CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. 23.-The
national meteorological observatory
reports much seismic activity on The
western coast, where there were earth
quakes this morning at Salina Cruz,
the Pacific terminus of the Tehuau-
tepec railway, at Tehuantepec, Jilt
epec, Juchitlan and the city OF Oaxaca.
where there was q prolonged subter-
ranean roaring causing CONSERVATION.
The movement was both horizonta
and vertical.