Mesa free press., 1898-12-02

to the college curriculum will be sure
toe be appreciated.
Says the Newark IN. J.) News: With
the worlds largest and most varied
supply of iron ore and of Goals; with
the most economic and ingenious
4 methods of production known to hui
man science, it seems logical GER
tainty that in iron and steel the Unit
ed States must not only lead the world,
but put tremendous gap between her
production and that of any rival.
| The right of the government to pros
ecute criminally persons grazing sheep
In all forest reservations, except In
Oregon and Washington was sustained
in decision rendered by the Attorney
General. Secretary Bliss recently
asked as to whether such prosecutions
would lie under one Of the series Of
regulations recently issued " for the
preservation of the forests, land the de-
cision holds that they will.
Osborne w. Deignan, who steered
the Merrimac has left his Iowa home
to return to the Resolute. On reaching
Des Moines he was banQueted by. the
Grant Club. A memorial to Congress
was read, asking that Deignan be adj
mitted to the Annapolis Academy in
1 spite of the age requirement. Instead
of making a speech, Deignan took his
boatswain's whistle, gave the various
signals and presented it to the club.
Milwaukee brewers are anxious that
when the battleship Wisconsin is
christened beer be used In place Of tho
customary champagne. Why cannotthis
continually recurring old quarrel be
settled for all time? asks the bucolic
New York Press. Why not used bottled
milk? 1t typiffes all that champagne,
whisky, beer and water stand for and
would be distinctively American, be-
cause 1t would be unique and unprece-
dented.
/ Ex-President Benjamin Harrison
has been retained by Venezuela to rep
resent that government before the Ar
bitration Commission that sits at Par
is within short time to settle the dis
pute between Great Britain and Ven-
ezuela over the boundary lines. Gen.
eral Harrison is said to have received
a retaining fee of 100000. Ex-Secre-
tary Tracy is said, to be an associate
| Will O6uGTdl cuu LID i q
tainer Is reported to be $50,000.
A dispatch from Havana says the
Cuban army will receive one years
pay on December TO- Notes for the
balance due, will be issued and the
troops will then be disbanded. This
information is gathered from an OFF,
Ger in Gen. Garcia's personal staff, on
whose word implicit confidence may
be placed From what source the
money will come cannot be learned,
but that the United States has guar
anteed the loan is said to be almost
certain.
The New York school board has de-
cided that married women shall not be
employed as teachers in the public
schools, and adds that "any intention
B Of marrying on the part Of a woman
teacher shall be regarded as a resigna-
tion." This will have no effect what
soever on the intentions except that
engagements henceforth will not be-
advertised quite so extensively. The
schoolma'am can't be excluded from
matrimony by resolution, declares the
Chicago Times-Herald.
The folly of placing negro officers
in command of negro soldiers was
demonstrated by mutiny by the men
of the Sixth Virginia negro regiment,
in camp at Knoxville, Tenn, says the
New Orleans Picayune Soldiers are
just what their officers make them. If
soldiers are good or bad Is it because
they have adopted the characteristics OF
their officers. The negro officers Of
L -11l
unworthy and only succeeded in de-
moralizing and corrupting their men.
If they had been worthy officers they
would have made good soldiers OF
their men.
There is an adopted faith which is
rather thoughtlessly proclaimed that
trade follows the flag Even a care
less observer of trade knows that trade
follows only one thing and that Is
profit Andrew Carnegie has just
been pointing with some epigrammatic
shrewdness the facts that trade scents
the lowest price current and is so dis
regardful of the movement OF the flag
that Canada buys three times in values
from the United States before she
buys once from the British isles. The
| A1Sl CA9I oily COIOAy WOOlQ p1ClCI W
buy from it's national market Is the
parent of the saying which is repeat
ed with the preference omitted, de-
clares the Philadelphia Times.
The movement of the United States
troops to Havana province will begin
within ten days. The exact date of
their arrival will be determined by
the reports of Major-General Greene.
who commands a division of the Sew
enth corps, and is now in Havana on
business connected with garrison
ing that province, and of General
Charles Humphrey and Colonel Heck
er of the quartermaster's department.
The conduct Of the volunteer regiment
in Santiago province may result in a
transfer of some of these troops to
corps where a more rigid discipline
can be enforced and where regiments
under command Of general officers can
be used to quell any disturbances of