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No News from Johannc.burg.

Cape Town. January 15.No news has
been received from johannesburg since
yesterday afternoon, when word was re-
ceived that public meeting of British
residents, convened with the object Of
protesting against the grievances of the
uitlanders, having broken up In free
fight. Telegraphic communication is closed
down and there is much uneasiness here.
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AyaI.ncI,ea Eenred

Berne, Switzerland, January ia
heavy gale is blowing today. accompanied
in different parts Of Switzerland by tor
rental rains and snow. Great damage has
been done
Many OF the mountain passes are blocked
and 1t Is feared that there win be serious
avalanche disasters.
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ATTACHED ny NATIVES.

Serious Fighting with the Franco
Brazilian Com misstOn.
London, January 15.-The Cayenne COR
respondent of the Daily Telegraph says:
Rumors are current here that the Franco
Brazilian mission now engaged in settling
the frontier disputes between French
Guiana and Brazil, has been attacked by
the natives at Counani and that serious
lighting has taken place. No further de-
tails have been received here.
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FOREIGN MARKETS.
Firmness In Most Stocks-A Revival
In Cloths md ysrr.

London. January 1.-THE close Of tbs
week showed hrmness in most of the de.
par'ments of the stock exchange and a
more extensive buying movement deyel-
oped all around, in view of the improving
political and monetary outlook. Ccnsid-
cradle investment is reported and spennis. .
ton has been stimulated by The rand and
continuous dealings Ia Americans. which
Of iate have constituted by far the most
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should nnd Americans 1t the end Of the
Nineteenth ccntury less frcsSin the exer-
else OF the cher prcrosativc Of the cit
izens OF a Republic than were Ensiishmeh
a hundred and twenty years ago under The
rule OF a king so narrowmindcd and OBJ
stinatc as George m
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on Min for mount pleaa.nt.

Mount Pleasant. Texas January l4.--At
the citizens meetiLs last night an oil
mill was organized with an authorized
capital OF $4,000. Fourteen thousand dol
lars OF stock was subscribed and II is
thought the balance will be taken by home
people. r. W. Fitzpatrick was president
and Q. L. Duncan was secretary OF the
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-16
SHOWED HER SPIRIT.
An American Heiress Leaves Her
Mercenary Titled Husband.

MerCennry TftIed HusbHhu'
London, January 1e.-The Vienna corre-
spondent of the Daily Mail says: Countess
Rosemonte DeRouge Haix, daughter of Mr..
Steward, Boston millionaire, has been
living in this city incognito as q governess
in a gentlemans house. 1t appears that
within few minutes after her wedding
she learned by chance that the count had
only married her because her father had
promised to pay his debts. amounting to
Sco, 900 pounds sterling She ran away as a
protest against being sold In this way and
she intends to earn her living here until
she can divorce her mercenary husband.
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Another Army scandal.

Santiago. January discharges OF very
serious character have been brought
against An officer OF the Third immune
regiment In the Santiago district. More
than $4,000 is involved. The officer is un-
der arrest.
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correepondtnt Of the Standard as to inc
issuance ~ n circtiar from st. Petersburg
20 the powers establishing a programme
TO be considered at the proposed conference
on the Limitation Of armaments asser.s
that the suggested basis Of discussion 80
Sibition az the use Of explosive bullets.
euinarine boats, etc, in war.
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yarMcrs' N..ionaI Of HilI.boro.

Hiilsboro. Texas, January 1.-THE d.
rsctors Of the Farmers National bank
elected the following officers: u. NJ. Tur-
ner, president; John 8. Casey. vicc presI-
eent; leiection Of cashier deferred: w.
Wilitsms assistant cashier; Nelson
Fhillips, attornsy.
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L,rElsAMY NOTES.

DR.. Weir Mitchell was es whom he wrote
s'Hupa, wynnc," lbs hrst important novel
David Gray. author OF that clever and
amusing nook, ''Gallops," is young jour-
naist Of Buffalo.
A new editton OF Lillian Whltings po-
ems. ''F'ron, DreamlAnd Sent with axldl-
tional verse. will be shortly issued by
Little. Brown \ Co.
'.His Brothers Crime new American
novel by John r. Ausick. suhor Of ths
''Colunbian Historical Nevels," dcals - .
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The Csar'. Peace Prono..,.

~, naop' January is,The ST. Fsiers-
s.'s correspondent Of the Times, who con-
- fridays statement hy the vleans
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THE LATE MAGAZINES.

ordinary interest, among them finely IL +
Illustrated description OF Making Stained
Glass Windows, by Theodore Dresser. In
The Coming Electric Railway Sidney
Short, well known inventor and electrician.
discusses the advantages of the third rail
system. Samuel G. Blythe tells Of the
,mportent part money plays in Erecting
Governor" and the editor opens, in this
%ng eo Do sSay With e the a nssi
In politics. Two deliberately il,ustrat-
cd articles are On THE Jews in
Jerusa1smp and Irish Leaders in Many
l.an6s' the latter containing many fine
portraits of @ we'll known r1en. Charles
Chailie Long has an interesting account OF
the Princes OF Egypt" and Harry Thurs
ton Peck has q word 10 say about tho
"Oyertaught Woman
Several features Of striking interest will
be found In the opening numbers OF The
Living Age for the new year. The number
for January contains. among other things,
a pungent and who,e!one lecture OF Art
and Morality" by IA. Ferdinand Brunetiere.
whioa Is translated for the magazine anSi
copyrighted by II; the first instaiinent OF
.''Ibe rockingham Letters" which are at
tracing wide notice in "Ths CornhilP' by
their cieSerness; and the beginning OF a
short serial. Tho number for January Ia
! gives this full text OF Lord I,oseherys recant
address on Literary Statesmen, which
has been the subject of general comment.
In a finely illustrated article In the jan
nary number of the New England Magazine
!! tho life and works OF j. b. Carpcaux, the
great French sculptor, receive admirable
ftrcat,ncnt at the hands OF Camille Thnr-
1 al relations I'm
| with this great arls, during Carpeaux' 3
later years. "a genius among modern
sculptors," Thurwanger says Of him. car
peeux left behind. I'm spite OF the previty
| NJ his career works which will gain for nam
I, jhs universal admiration OF postfrlty. NO
one else has been able, as he has been, by
4 displuciug muscle, ny drnplng told, py
bringing sinew into relief, 10 give TO l aJi
! cold, hard marble the appsar6nce ~ "'o
, and movement"
The special features of the Review OF Re-
, views for january are the editors review
Of the events Of the past year, and MI.
s.ead,s interview with the car of Russia
tho latter OF which is illustrated Laura
J Deris has an appreciative account OF the
caietr o, the young sculptor, George Ger
lnarA whoEe work Is attraotlng so muv nav.
. attention Just now. George Keno cohtrtp-
u.sH S,.tan nat,tot' ana Margaretta Ha,nm
sHy a very complete and suecnct account
SIN. ,,nrl done by the Red Cross in Cuba
. o. '"0 WIN
. The Woman's Homo Companion IS lu'
OF matters o. 49,. ~ snoa noner on
rick hoyd s.epn."s ,s.. IT, :. Mia Norris
When Ma'u " .,,,. 49, !,
q kretschner gives some Naiu''D'e A''o ~
e the subject OF diet; Elaine Eastman writes
/ ~ "Caild Culture in the Home. ana Saiiit
. 10y White tells how to cook fish IN diner,
ont ways. The departments are iuli Of
helpful information. besides which, are
numpei 10 OF Mira s,s'e burton Harrison and ons
!. eisn travel.
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l,vvu.sn y s,,s poSyorrce Al HOUSTON. rnxAs.
Is secoSp CLASS mArrm
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Qsreseu Offices--Ess,ern business once IS Tribune
tuiidnr. New York THE S: C. Beckwth sps-
eiai Ageneyl; Weste,t. tos kfhes Rcokefy, Sn'-
eaeo. lThe S {. Beckwh Special Agency.
travelling Asents--C- S. G. Holland. Travelling
Auditor; &. r. Holland. 3. p Throop Travelling
AeAnts.
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re Day sess ss :.s sy 2 "a c sCsr
se,sisWGnkLv posr. "a Gels. VI wssk.
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ssasesiptisa BY Mail Daily and Sunday Post. ons
vesr. $500; SIX months. 5000 three months
Ss,oo; me month. $s.oc.
fNn SUNDAY Posi-, one year. $3.50.
TN SSMi-WHnKLy Posi- mondays and Thursdsysl
~ yesr. $500; six months. 80 cents; 'hres
aenths. ~ cents.
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II tho present legislature can devise some
means for DISCRIMINATING whltecapism In
rexes. II will have enough to BIO proud OF
regardless of all other considerations.
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Houston Just can't afford to have Its splen-
did Auditorium diverted to other uses-and
that is all there Is to It,
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We have an Idea that Governor sayors' in
augural address will be conducive to dry
grins In certain directions,
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Tho country is in fair way TO be deluEsd
With evidence that embalmed beef Is the
only kind that can be safely eaten and that
man takes his life in his mouth when hs
..tno onv other.
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II Is 10 be expected that certain class who
are wiling to SEQ the people OF the State taxed
10 continue the present ontrageously ex-
penslyc Judiciary system will oppose the CALL
~. NJ n constitutional convention.
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Why would not a canning factory prove a
paying investment In Hoastong
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Tho Hon. Hyde jennings of Fort Worth IL
out In an Interview against constitutional
This will cause no surprise. but
wo may BIO partoned for suggesting that
the gentleman should at least have besu
cnref,I of his statement of facts
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There is no end Of money In New York
City, and the rates demanded for It arc lower
than were ever before known. But the peo-
Pile Will not borrow Why? The Times Of
New York city tells why. says the only
borrower 10 right in Wall street. III Is be-
cause of lingering hesitation to make bust
ness inyestments,r and il adds: THE ten-
dency toward low money rates is directly due
to the relative decline in profitable industrial
and commercial employment for capital The
old ghost keeps returning
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-07

The Vanderbilt Morgan Rockefeller
people announce that over $4,000 miles
Of railroad will be concentrated under
one management! And right on the
heels of this comes the announcement
that all the telegraph, cable and tele-
phone systems will be consolidated! /!
That will mean that the few controlling
men in these combines will have the
power to make and unmake cities and
even states, destroy any business man
whom they do not like or whose COM
petitor is a friend of the managers of
the combine by the system of rebates
Compared to which the power of kings
and mobiles is Insignificant. And the
American people are sitting down and
permitting the coils of tyranny to en-
trench themselves with all the power of
the government and expect they will
not use that power! Never were a peo-
pie - the power of few that it was
not used SO that it became oppressive
beyond endurance and the greed of the
modern millionaires has shown itself
gula. There is a fine time just ahead
of us, people, and you will feel it. II
you will not listen to reason you will
listen to something more coarse but
more effective with stupid, bigoted
minds.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-07
CASE OF ROBERTS.
Indications Are That Committee Will
Take Considerable Time With 1t.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Representative
Taylor (Ohio), chairman of the special COM
mittee to investigate the case OF Mr. Rob-
erts, of Utah, has called meeting of the
committee for II o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. Mr.. Taylor says the initial matter
will be to determine upon a general line
Of action. He could not say how soon
the committee would be able to report.
While the chairman would not speak for
the committee, he said he had no doubts
that Mr.. Roberts would be represented by
counsel if he desired and would be afforded
the usual facilities to have his side pre-
sented. There are a number Of witnesses
in Washington and some in Utah, but it is
probable that the committee will not leave
Washington.
Mr.. Taylor said he had some doubt as
to whether the hearings, particularly such
parts as involved family matters, should
be open to the public.
Mr.. Roberts was about the house during
the day. There was no session and he
was engaged most of the time in chatting
with groups OF members and visitors who
showed friendly disposition toward him.
He said he had no comment to make on the
course of the house. He will probably
look after his interests in person before the
committee of inquiry
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-07
<fThe Cipher in the Plays
and on the TombStone''
Mr.. DONNELLY'S New Book.
|AFreeCopy aCubof Five Annual Cash Subscribers

popular institutions, than to set them
on by themselves. In this way they can
reach large number of prepared and
influential students sooner than in any
other way. The study of finance and
public economy infringes on the ques-
tion of human rights An6 as moral
principles depend for their power to
make vivid and lasting Impressions on
religious sanctions, it must follow that
those schools in which ethics OF Christ
ianity find a place are best suited to
teach the rights and wrongs of financial
policies and economic systems"
1t takes no keen insight to say what
sort of financial teaching the American
Bankers association proposed for these
schools to be established in colleges,
by gifts of 100000 each, and for which
church colleges were to be preferred.
Another of the numerous letters from
college presidents, published in the
same pamphlet, with approval, says
that every college should have an en-
dowed school of finance under the provi-
dence of the American Bankers associa-
tion, and adds: Wealth could not be
better employed than in the endowment
of schools of finance;' and another
says. 1T seems to me they are the most
efficient antidOte against heresies on
currency questions" 1t is hardly neces-
sary to point out that these gentlemen
deem as ''hersies" any theory concern
Ing currency. taxation or government
that in any way menaces the monopo-
llzation of capital and natural privi-
leges.
Thus, as in the scripture parable,
while the people slept the enemy is
busy sowing tares. AS far back as $780,
as this pamphlet shows, the banker,
aided and abetted by certain colleges,
were laying deliberate plans to capture
the financial education of college youth
How far this plan has been carried out
we do not know, as the reports on this
matter have been suppressed since 1890.
But we do know that donations to col
schools have been frequent, and an
nounced with intense laudation, as we'll
by the newspapers that are controlled
by the money power as by those that
are honest, but deceived at to the real
motives of these gifts.
The Turkish Janizaries were Christ
ain boys taken from their parents when |
young, reared and drilled as Moham-
medans, and then used as select body
Of troops to repress the aspirations for
liberty of those of their own blood. We !
want no imitation of that policy in the |
colleges of this land
WALTER CLARK.
Raleigh, N. C.
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One HOss Jags.
From Appeal to Reason:

TAOu kppCdl " ICdSOu.
Ex-senator Reagan, of Texas, gave it
as his opinion before the United States
senate commission, that public owner
ship Of railroads would destroy the re-
public! He is the man whom the foolish
people of Texas elevated to their high
est position and who faithfully served
the railroads while they skinned the
cotton planters and everybody else He
rides on passes, is therefore opposed to
public ownership, which would make
him pay his fare like other people Yes,
there is hardly doubt that public own
ership of railroads would destroy the
country! To have the people own some
thing instead of having the corporations
own everything would be too awful q
condition to contemplate! To have all
the millions that have made a lot of
millionaires go into the public treasury,
or remain in the peoples pocket by low
ering the rates, would bring on a reign
of terror. sure! It has been govern
ment by such people as Reagan that has
produced the crop q trusts that ar
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-07
UNJUST
Roberts Says the Rights Of
a Sovereign State Have
Been Denied.


The World publishes the following signe
Roberts
The action of the house in my case
was not surprise to me. The whole
matter was evidently prejudiced and
the minds of members made up to
follow the course that had been out
lined. When the question comes to be
considered by members of the house
after the pressure of public opinion is
removed. think the case will stand as
vicious violation of the well estab-
lished precedents which have fixed the
rules OF the house. The foundation is
now laid for confusion. chaos and reyo-
luton in the organization of the house
and the rights of members therein A
precedent has been established which
will yet excuse the same denial CT rights
to Roman Catholic, a Presbyterian.
an agnostic or anyone who may be un-
fortunate enough to stand under con-
demnation Of a popular sentiment lashed
into frenzy by inisapprehensca and
falsehood, as in my instance I was
met at the very bar Of the house and
denied the protection granted by the
rules of that body and the constitution
OF the United States, because | was a
member OF an unpopular church against
which there rests sectarian hate
The matter Of denying me the right
to be sworn in is in itself not very
important matter, SO far as affecting
me personally is concerned, but it is a
fact that the right of representation of
sovereign state has been denied by
this action today | have not yet formed
any plans concerning what course l will
follow before the committee. l shall
devote my attention to it assiduously
for by no means do l consider my case
lost. BRIGHAM H. ROBERTS,
Representative elect From Utah
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-07

The annual report of Postmaster General
Charles Emory Smith was made public last
night It's chief feature is plea for con-
gressional action to stop the abuse of Sec
ond class mail privileges which, he says,
results In an annual waste of upwards Of
$2O.000O0O The financial exhibit for the
fiscal year shows total expenditures Of
s101, ,631 ,051, and total receipts OF $95 O21 1884,
the deficiency being $2,422.747 less than last
year. The postmaster general says:
The most urgent need of the postal
service is the rectification of the enorm-
Gus wrongs which have grown up in the
perversion and abuse of the privilege
accorded by law to second class matter.
For this costly abuse, which drags on
the department and weighs down the
service, trammels it's power and means
OF effective advancement in every di-
rection, involves sheer wanton waste
of $20,000,000 or upward year. The
postal deficit for the current year is
$500, 776. But for this wrongful ap-
plication of the second class rate, in
stead of deficit there would be clear
surplus of many millions. 1t is not
proposed to restrict the privileges OF
legitimate publications or to modify the
design Of the law, but only to bring
back it's application, its original and just
scope.
1t Is believed that fully one half of all
the matter mailed as second class and
paid for at the pound rate is not prop
erly second class within the intent of the
law, and ought justly be paid for at the
third class rate
II there is to be a favored class let il
embrace all the people. With this class
paying properly, even penny postage.
with reasonable limitations, could be
applied to letters without entailing a
deficit larger than that of the last few
years, and possibly with none at all.
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ed in the Philippines and the body was
ordered home in pomp and at great
expense to the people. Why not the
bodies of other mothers sons? Was he
of finer clay? Why are "sons of their
fathers '-so-much more considered? How
long will men be foolish enough to fight
and die when, they are no more consid-
cred than horses? Logan and his son
have been kept at the public expense
for a generation,y the mother draws a
princely> nepsion. while so far as his
tory tells US they have done nothing
for the people out of whose sweat they
draw the hohey Of labor. I believe in
a system 'that.would treat all alike, that
would pension men and women who
had served. in the industries of the ma
ton as we'll as those, who had served
In the destructive forces Of the nation
better INTACT. r-@One has produced
wealth and-the- other LAS only destroyed
wealth.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-07

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