The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-05

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 we have shown our hand to be against every weak people where we can find a pretext for occupation" says the Boston Transcript. Not yet, pessi- mistic contemporary, but some think we are going to act that way.
 If the proposed trans-Pacific cable is laid it will be long one. From San Francisco to Honolulu, 2,0S9 miles; from Honolulu to Ualan, one of the Strong islands, 2,51S miles; from Ualan to Guam island, 1,2OO miles; from Guam to Manila, 1,200 miles: total, 7,007 miles.
 SSANa man, as he has already shown. He now says: q will kick any sheriff out of my office who comes to arrest me on that indictment I will not be arrested. No one has authority to do so, and no grand jury can constitute itself judge of my acts as governor"
 Women will be interested in recent decision by Magistrate Poole of New York. Miss Nellie Matthews gave Jo- seph Finkelstein, at tailor, some cloth with which to make cape for her. When it was completed she objected to 1t because it was not becoming. She refused to take it and the tailor refused to make another for her. Then she had him arrested. The magistrate decided that the tailor must make another cape for her.
 < Consul Lyons of Hiago says that nothing illustrates the progressive char acter of the Japanese than their anxiety for the introduction of foreign capital Efforts in this direction by their busi- ness classes are supplemented by the press and by the chamber of commerce. For the benefit of American exporters the consul adds: "The average Jap anese are very suspicious of small wares that are not backed up with fancy trade marks. They buy goods much more readily that carry device or an emblem, or that bear a seal, and many a good article is in danger of re- jection because not put up fancifully" The superiority of American goods in many lines is readily admitted.
 Vegetarians will not be pleased with the report made by a Puerto Rican phy- sician who has been making a careful Investigation of the mental and physi- cal condition of his fellow-islanders. Dr. Amadeo found the effects of insuffi- cient nutrition, extending through the whole working class-that is, through the whole class which, thanks to Span- ish tariffs, was forced to live on roots and fruits. He implores his new rulers to avoid the murderous policy of their predecessors, and to put within the reach of the toiling thousands in Puerto Rico the very food which so horrifies and digusts the vegetarian monoma- niacs. Meat, he says, is the remedy for wasted muscles and inactive brains.
 Major Laurie who fought with Kitch- ener in the Soudan, says he owes his life to the spider. The spider made a nest in the top of his helmet just be- fore the battle of Atbara He recogniz- ed at once that the spider had chosen to constitute itself his mascot. Accord ingly, he left the insect undisturbed, and went through the battle without a wound Grateful for the protection thus clearly given by the spider, he al- lowed it to remain in his helmet, and consequently was able to pass through the battle of Omdurman without injury. He then shipped helmet and spider home and followed in person to tell the story to his fancee. His prospective mother-in-law was so impressed by it that she made his bride a wedding present of diamond spider.
 A manifest evil in criminal jurispru- dence in Alabama is pointed out by the Montgomery Advertiser in the hope ot securing a remedy from the Legisla- ture which is now in session. The evil exists all over the state, but examples of the resultant injustice and hardship are cited from the capital city in re- port of the proceedings of the City Court. The evil is in the matter of re- quiring jail prisoners to work out the costs of prosecution. In each of fourteen cases recently before the court the punishment was only ten days ir jail, but an average of over ninety days was added to each imprisonment or