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their Judgment The American side or
the issue was granted no hearing in
France. Our explanations Of American
positions were secuted and given no
consideration. Even outside Of polit1-
cal walks and the press, life for Ameri-
cans in France was made a burden
There was to some extent social ostra-
cism of our citizens, and in not a small
number of cases the prejudices of the
French against us were so outspoken
that Americans were compelled to leave
France to retain self-respect. On the
other hand, the English, without ex-
Mbiting animosity toward the Spanish,
heard our case and pronounced it just.
They commended our humane course,
and. with English frankness, extended
to us cordial sympathies. Nor did the
English people falter in this. With the
tenaotty for which they are provelb ial
they adhered to the position they as
sumed, and remained throughout the
unmistakable friend of the cause of
America All which is to say that hui
man nature had it's way. On the one
hand, its promptings were just and
generous, on the other they were biased,
unreasonable and unjust.
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DIR. GIBBoN

OH. GIBBON.
This old reliable and the
most successful Special
list in San Francisco, still
continues to cure all sex
nal and Seminal
Disc nses, Skin
Diseases, Nervous
Debility. the conse-
quence of excuses pro-
ducing the following
symptoms: sa1low coun-
tenance, dark spots under
the eyes, pain in the head,
ringing in the ears, loss oil
confidence, diffidence In
approaching strangers,
w~aI.x 49,
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Sir Thomas Lipton's latest scheme
for giving meals to the millions is still
being criticised by the small trades
men and shopkeepers.
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POLITICAL CARDS.

AolALFRED ]. JOHNSTON "
Republican, United Labor Party -
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The rural mail delivery in Bartholomew
county and other localities where it has
been on trial as an experiment will be dis
continued, it is reported, at early day.
1t will not be discontinued because it has
in any sense been 9. failure, but simply be-
cause the appropriation set apart for the
experiment has been exhausted. In Bar
tholomew county the experiment has been
unqualified success. The increase in the
volume of mail matter since the estab-
lishnent of rural delivery in the Bartholo-
cient to defray the extra expense of the
service.
The rural mail service is the next i'm
portant extension of the postal system.
However, with an annual deficit of ten or
twelve millions of dollars in the postal serv-
ice it seems impossible to undertake such
an extension at the present time. If the
House had passed the Loud bill last week
instead of defeating it, and the Senate had
followed suit, the money necessary to give
a large part of the more populous portions
of the agricultural sections of the country
an effective rural delivery would have been
available. But few publishers of advertis-
ing papers and dispensers of trash in the
East were able to influence a few Repub-
licans, while the Democratic and Populist
representatives, whose constituents need
the rural delivery, voted solidly against it,
to the end that imitation newspapers may
distribute sample copies of campaign lit
erature by the carload. Mr.. Griffith, who
represents the district in which Bartholo-
NOW belongs was paired against the Loud
bill, and the other three Indiana Democratic
members either voted against it or were
paired on a measure which would save the
postal service ten or twelve millions year.
The postal management for years has paid
railroads for cars about third more than
individuals and corporations doing a large
and regular business pay for rapid service.
Why this must be so TO one has attempted
to explain. Perhaps it be explained,
but, if it can, the abuse of second-class
mail matter, which causes the government
to carry for one cent a pound that which
costs it eight cents, would have been ended
if Congress had passed a measure like the
Loud hill
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NOT TO BE THRILLED WITH.

The proposition of Representative Cannon
to appropriate $5O,O0OOOO to national defense
is the result of conference with the Pres
ident. 1t is not declaration that war with
Spain is probable, but that the administra-
ton of the Nation viii not take the risk of
being unprepared in the event that it does
come. In so far as the voting of money
shows that Congress and the President are
in earnest in regard to the matter, the ap-
preparation may tend to avert rather than
to bring on war Further, if the money
shall not be needed, it will not be expended.
There is every reason to believe that the
appropriation will be made by Congress
with unanimity which will prove to the
nations that the American people are prac-
tically as one man for the maintenance of
the national honor and the national author
ity in this quarter of the world. This unan-
unity will mean that seventy millions of
people, with ample resources and unlimited
credit, marching in the front rank of the
worlds progress, do not propose to permit
the turbulence misrule and cruelty which
have marked the Spanish policy in Cuba to
be continued indefinitely at our doors. The
verdict of the American people is that their
government is no longer bound by interna-
tional law to recognize the right of Spain to
suppress the insurrection in Cuba by de-
populating the island by starvation. The
country will applaud that appropriation
bill, not because it means war but because
the people believe that it means the end of
the years of wrong and outrage in Cuba
What response the Spanish government
will make to this action of Congress cannot
be predicted. The populace will be angry,
and may proceed to violence. Without rev.
enGes, without credit, unable now to pay
interest due on it's obligations, paroxysms
of rage are the only resource of a people
who have been left behind by the world in
its onward march, Broken into factions,
divided in council, nothing but a fantastic
devotion to what Spaniards regard as hon.
or can lead them to seek war, now that the
purpose of the United States has been man.
ifested by the action Congress is certain
to take in regard to this appropriation bill.
Seventy millions against seventeen, and
ample resources against bankruptcy it
would seem that Spain, if it had discretion,
would recognize the right of the United
States to restore tranquility in Cuba, which
it has worse than failed to do after three
wears of war
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S5O.OOO.O00.


ington. III all its branches and without dis
tifcuon or parties or persons, is and will
pc solldly united in everything that per-
maintenance OF just relations with our fell
loW-men and the upholding of the national
dignity and honor"
representative Savers. of Texas the
ranking minority member of the appropria-
t1ohs committee, says that in the stress of
Impending war he would, and he believes
all other Democrats in Congress- would sink
all political considerations and vote for any
measures deemed necessary for the protec-
uoh OF the country and the maintenance of
It's dignity and honor.
Representative Livingston Of Georgia, a
minority member of the appropriation COM
nittee, and Mr.. Bodine, minority member
81 the naval affairs committee both de-
clared that they would vote for anything
the President asked. Congress ought to be
Sofdly behind the President now" said Mr..
Livingston. This is no time for criticism
or pickering of any kind In the face of an
impending foreign war party lines should be
forgotten We, are Americans first, parti-
sans afterward.'
1t can be stated on the highest authority
that the attitude of Speaker Reed and some
of the other Republican leaders, who have
sought to keep down the lingo" spirit in
the House, has been misunderstood by the
public. Their purpose in delaying action on
the bill creating two additional regiments
of artillery was to prevent, as far as posi-
BILE, any Undue alarm. While it is not gem
orally known, it is nevertheless true that
the Republican leaders of the House have
given the administration assurances that
any emergency action which may be
deemed necessary to uphold the dignity of
the country will be promptly ratified,' The
whole aim of the Republican leaders, finder
the leadership of the speaker, has been, and
is, to avoid hasty action or the possibility
so far as possible, of incendiary utterances
on the floor, which might make diplomatic
settlement of the controversy more difficult.
But the administration understands that the
majority in the House is behind it. and that
money and men will be voted without stint
when they are called for.
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General Butler, who was on his way to the
James river, and exhibited the battery to
him. He was most enthusiastic. and pur-
chased twelve guns and carriages and
thousand rounds of ammunition for each
for $1,000
1t has only been within the past year or
so that DR.. Calling has devoted his atten-
ton to heavy caliber ordnance. The Cat
ling rapid-tire gun is his pet and his hobby.
He refers to it almost as one would refer
to a favorite son and he delights to be-
lieve that the gun has done more for hui
manity than it has done in the way of de-
struction.
In that belief DR.. Calling has much to
bear him out, for he refers to many cases
where the mere presence of the Calling
guns has ended troubles after the bullets
of troops have failed only recently" said
DIR. Calling, General Miles told me of an
experience on the 6rontier-in Utah, be-
ieYe it was. A certain chief threatened to
create disturbance and he had braves
enough on the war path to do a great deal
of damage. Under flag of truce General
Miles got him to come to his camp and
see his power. One of the battery of Cat
lngs was charged and turnd on a distant
tree. After about eight hundred shots had
been fired, the chief, whose name was Crow
Day, threw up his hands and left. He re-
ported that the white man had devil gum
and straightway he and his braves picked
up their blankets and walked. The chief
never stopped to see whether the tree had
been hit or not"
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Guns for Mnr Sims.

NEW YORK, March 7.-Thrty-two new
rapid-fire guns were received to-day at the
Brooklyn navy yard. They were sent from
the government works at Washington five
days ago. Some of the guns will be placed
on the dispatch boat Dolphin, which has
been ordered into commission April 1. Six
of them will go to the cruisers Atlanta and
Chicago, which are now being overhauled
at the navy yard. A consignment of twelve
five and six-inch gun mounts has also been
received at the yard. These mounts are
all of the latest pattern. The eighteen CONS
remaining at Jersey City will be taken to
the navy yard Tomorrow A large amount
of five and siX-inch projecties was recently
received at the yard and Immediately trans
ferred to Fort Lafayette, where the ammu
milton for naval ordnance is stored The
work of sending large consignments of
eight, ten, twelve and thirteen-inch projec-
tiles and the large amounts of powder from
Lafayette to Key West is still going on.
'From the Florida posts these shells and
the powder will be distributed among the
vessels of Admiral Sicard's fleet
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CUBA AND IT'S RESOURCES.

While we are talking much of Cuba and
it is so near us-only ninety miles or so
from Key West, Florida-we seem to have
but vague idea of the island it's people
and its traffic The island is $50 miles from
east to west, and has an average breadth
of eighty miles. The last census was taken
in 1887, when the island had total popu-
lation of 1861 900, of whom $4,000 were
blacks. The total population is now est-
mated at about 100000 one-fourth being
negroes.
For the purposes of government Cuba is
divided into six provinces. 1t has four cities
Havana, with about 100000 inhabitants;
Matanzas, Puerto Principe and Santiago de
Cuba, each of which has about 10000 in
habitants The rural population is esti-
mated at 100000 and the urban at 77S00O.
The island has a thousand miles of rail-
road track. Cuba has been regarded as a
very unhealthy land. but it is said to be
less so than are other lands of the same
temperature, the mortality being SS per
cent. less than in Naples. Rio de Janeiro
and Valparaiso.
Considering population and area, the COM
merce of Cuba is almost without an equal.
In 1894 the 600 people produced and ex-
ported to the United States products val
ued at $9S,OOO0OO. Its exports to the rest
of the world were not third as much. but
that makes the total of products for export
very remarkable. In 1894 we purchased
81, 81, s75 worth of sugar of Cuba, which
was more than three-fourths of our total
import. 1t also sold us $1s,6O46S4 worth OF
tobacco. On the other hand. we sold Cuba
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Loud Bills Defeat.

Special New York Mail and Express.
The defeat of the Loud bill to amend the
postal laws relating to second-class mail
matter in the House. this week, was rather
unexpected, but the tablng of the measure
can be directly traced to the bad manner in
which it was handled in the House by Rep
resentative Loud. There was a big lobby
in Washington opposing the bill, but as
things turned out the paying of these at
tOrneys was a waste of money. The bill
was Killed by the way Mr.. Loud made enc
mics for the measure during its three days
debate in the House. He lost votes almost
every hour by his aggressive and almost
unbearable conduct towards wouldbe
friends. The bill, had it been drawn and
presented TO cover the abuses OF the postal
service, as desired by the Postoffice De-
partment, would have undoubtedly gone
through but it was so amended and
changed by members who seemed to be lg-
norant of what was really needed that it's
defeat will not be greatly deplored by the
postal officials. Ever had it passed the
travel in the SENATE. and It is very doubtful
if it could have ever got through that body.
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Golfers Weekly.
Captain SigSbee deserves a medal. There
is none for him and there should be- Edi-
torial praise is very nice and general APP
plause delightful. But the one evaporates
the other subsidies. In the march of events
both are lost. History alone remembers,
yet negligently, with that indifference which
is the characteristic of the tired old gossip
that she is In the monograph of our an
nails his name for a while will squeak. A
hero deserves better by a nation than that
From the cornucopia of Congress honors
should flow. The Constitution may inhibit
but it was drawn in a simpler epoch and
should be made elastic enough to cover
complex days and deeds. With treachery
on one side. hysteria or the other and a
ship blown up between. Captain Sigsbee
though in flesh and blood, suggested a stat
Tie in stone. 1t is splendid to be brave, 1t is
glorious to conquer and sometimes very
easy, but in the circumstances in which he
stood and withstood the hero stood as well
That there are others like him, no one
doubts. Yet a little encouragement might
draw them out. Over the way the Victoria
Cross has been serviceable in revealing
quite number. To get it men have baked
the grave 1t is a toy, perhaps; but in its
sawdust are small letters which spell great
deeds. They are honorable to the recipient.
They are honorable to the giver, too. 1t
would be becoming on the part of Congress
to institute a Mckinley Cross and authorize
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COAL FOR EMERGENCY.
MIR. Long Asks Money for Erection of
Sheds and Purchase of Fuel.

WASHINGTON, March 7.-Secretary
Long sent to Congress to-day for inclusion
in the urgent deficiency bill an estimate of
an appropriation of $780, 900 to be immedi-
ately available for the equipment of vessels
in the navy for the present fiscal year and
for the immediate supply of 10000 tons of
coal at Key West. The report accompany
ing the estimates shows the bunker ca
pacity of the ships of the navy now in the
vicinity of Dry Tortugas and Key West is
about 1000 tons, and the storage capacity
of the coal sheds at Key West is 400 tons.
The larger vessels of the fleet. the secretary
says, cannot approach nearer than seven
miles of Key West. At present they coal
from the schooners at Tortugas and at other
places near by. when weather permits.
There is one fiat lighter with capacity of
500 tons now at Key West. This is not suit
able for use at any distance from the port.
The report concludes as follows: 1.-THE
bureau believes 1t for Athe interest of the
service that additional temporary coal sheds
should be constructed ON government land
at Key West. will increase the storage
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$s2 ,210 worth of our products. We could
sisted on selling Cuba inferior breadstuffs
By imposing an enormous duty upon those
of the United States. The Harrison adj
nlinistration induced the Spanish govern
ment to take off portion of our duties,
to our great advantage but the Congress
which repealed the Mckinley law threw
away the trade treaties. Cuba's trade is
important to this part Of the country, since
one-half of the exports to Cuba in 1894 were
products of the farm. If left to itself, Cuba
would trade almost exclusively with this
country, and her purchases would be
doubled when the island should have
period of tranquility. 1t is worth while to
note, in this connection, that Spain's ex-
ports to Cuba and imports from the island
were only $4O9OO,OOO in 1894 The merchan-
disc that the Cubans were forced to pur-
chase of Spain is such as we could supply,
largely agricultural products.
The fertility Of the soil is remarkable
every kind of vegetation peculiar to the
tropics growing in extraordinary luxuriance
and many of the products of the temperate
zones being profitably grown. Sugar and to-
bacco are it's leading staples, the sugar
crop having reached 100000 tons a year.
The island is rich in minerals, having cop
per, iron, plumbago, asphalt and other val
liable minerals. These, however, have never
been developed.
Since the discovery Of America the island
has been under the dominion of Spain,
and has been sacrificed to that decaying
power Its local rulers have been Span
iards, sent thither to live upon the land
Every kind of tax for the benefit of Spain
has been laid upon the people and their in
dustries. The larger part of it's people
cannot read, but the more influential and
intelligent of the Cubans regard New York
as much their metropolis as do the business
men OF this country. What independence
would effect no one can predict, but if a
government could be formed in Cuba, and
the United States, by some ARRANGEMENT.
could guarantee its bonds, the Cubans could
afford to pay $500 200, 900 or $500 900 900 to be
freed from the domination of SPAIN
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A ehild's slate pencil is evidently a vision
of horror to the scientific gentlemen of the
Board of Health such as few persons of
normal mind would care to have before
them. To their microbe-haunted minds a
pencil must be a mass of bacteria of the
most evil antecedsnts and dlabolscal counte-
nance-a hideous spectacle whose like is
only seen by the victim of Jim-jams. No
wonder the board insists or having those
pencils roasted, though it costs the public
q mint of money. Their own mental peace
calls for the destruction of the awful or
ganisms that infest these school imple-
ments. even if other interests were not in
volyed. Roasted these germs will have to
be, no doubt, in patent roasters especially
designed for them, but what a curious and
unscientifc public would like TO know Is
why school books are not roasted, too.
Books are common property in many
schools and afford much larger space for
the nefarious microbes repose than do PEN
ellis. Why isn't there book roaster, too?
Or how would it do to put each child in a
properly sterilized glass case?
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SAN FRANCISCO, March flowing to-
the strike of the steel molders at the Pa
cifc rolling mills in this city work upon
the battle ship Wisconsin, which was re-
Gently ordered rushed has been delayed
very materially. The contract for the steel
holdings has been sublet by the Union
works to the Pacific rolling mills for the
purpose of expediting matters. but when
the men wera asked to work overtime they
struck for extra wages, which was consid-
cred exorbitant by the officials of the rolling
mills. The result was that almost the en-
tire force of molders went out on Feb. %.
and the places of the strikers have not
yet been filled The foundrymen are now
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of shipping the
plans for the necessary casting East to
some one of the large works there.
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WASHINGTON, March 7.-Without delay
the officers of the adjutant generals depart
ment to-day gave the necessary orders for
the recruiting of the new artillery regi-
ments authorized by Congress. The pur-
pose is to enlist such men as have had
service in the artillery wherever possible
and no doubt is entertained that plenty of
material OF the right kind will offer The
names of the officers of the new regiments
are now being selected. AS for the men, it
is the plan to assign fifteen soldiers from
existing artillery regiments as the nucleus
of each new company TO take hold of and
break in the new men who are enlisted
and it is expected that in a very short time
Uncle Sam will have two good regiments
The headquarters of one of these regiments
will be established at Fort sSlocum, in Long
Island sound, commanding New York as
there are suitable quarters available there
The destination of the other regiment has
not been decided on
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ARMsTRoNGs mAvE cRuIsERs.
May Sell Them to Spain IL French
Financiers Put Up the Money.


Financiers Put Up the Money.
NEW YORK. March IA copyrighted
cable from London TO the Evening Post
says: Special Inquiries in official and finan-
cial circles to-day show that of the many
grave international difficulties pending in
China, Japan, West Africa, the Nile and
elsewhere. the most serious view is taken
of the American-Spansh tension. At the
United States and Spanish embassies the
utmost retieence, of course, is observed.
They pretend to know nothing, and it is
noteworthy in view of reports that the Arm
strongs have sold cruisers to Spain, that
the Armstrong; board has given express
directions that no questions are to be an
swered regarding their dealings with Brit
ish or foreign governments. Varying con-
cluslons are drawn from this refusal to
connrm the denial of the Spanish purchase
denied is that the Armstrong; have had re-
lationS with Spain since 1885, have built sew
eral cruisers to SPANS order, and now have
vessels on the stocks that could be sold IL
the money were forthcoming.
Is French money helping Spain? Two OF
the first financial houses were asked this
question this afternoon. Their replies may
be grouped thus: Nothing of the kind has
been definitely arranged, and obviously, see
ing the large French financial interests in
Spain, French fnanciers will be most anx-
ious to keep Spain from war; but 1t Is
equally certain that II Spain did decide that
war, however desperate, was the only es-
cape from the growing financial trouble at
home, Paris. and not London, would be the
quarter whence money would be sought
and beyond doubt obtained. AS yet how
ever, nothing has been definitely settled"
The fact probably is that Spain is anxious
to buy ships and that the Armstrong; are
ready to sell If they can see the money.
The French financierS are not eager to adj
vance the necessary money so long as by
holding back they can assist the cause of
q N pr1 hq hp "A
ton in naval circles of being the best armed
and protected cruisers in the world.