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TIE "ROUND-ROBIN."

The responsible officials of the War De
partment declare that the "round-robin'
of the Manila correspondents is now a
closed incident. Although Gen. Otis has
full plenary power to deal with his critics,
the President having declined to interfere
in the matter, it is understood that his
negative action was the result of n cOnYic-
zion ON his part that Gen. Otis would do
nothing rash and would make no unneces-
sary issues at this juncture. IL is believed
that the President, however, has set on
foot a quiet investigation of the situation
for his own information, as it is said he
never fails to investigate important COM
plants in some manner.
Gen. Otis, under date of July 20, says
that the correspondents demanded per-
mission TO cable that official reports sent
misrepresented conditions. This was de-
clined. They then demanded the privilege
of sending without reservation facts found
by them and their opinion. This was
granted if public interests were not i'm
periled. The answer was not satisfactory,
and they therefore sent by mail to Hong
Kong. Gen. Otis says he is not conscious
of having sent Misrepresentation, but
thinks his dispatches at times have been
too conservative. Gen. Otis says the
charges made by the correspondents are
untrue, and adds that the most harmonious
relations exist between the army and the
navy.
SAMOAN AFFAIRS.
A statement has been made in the press
dispatches that Chief Justice Chambers
has resigned his Office The State Depart
ment has received no advices from Mr..
Chambers to that effect from Apia. 1t is
said, however, that the adyices would cause
no surprise, inasmuch as Chambers's posi-
ton was untenabie after the conclusion of
the arrangement by the Samoan Commits
GI mo NJ ttx,
respecting the succession of the Chief
Justiceship are not known here The
officials here, anyway, are convinced that
all the important matters relative to the
Samoan situation remain to be settled by
negotiation between the three treaty powers
after the Commission shall have submitted
its report as a basis.
THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE.
Some hope of renewal of the conference
with England and Canada over the Alas
kan boundary dispute was aroused last
week as result OF correspondence between
Senator Fairbanks, of the Joint High Com
mission, and Sir Wilfred Laurier; the Gov
ernment decided to grant no concessions,
but, If necessary, to send troops into the
territory to preserve American rights
there. In the Canadian House of Commons,
on July %, Sir Charles Tupper brought up
the question Of the Alaskan boundary,
and said that the United States, in refusing
to subject the question to arbitration, well
justified the decision Great Britain and
Canada had reached in declining to allow
the question TO go before the Joint High
Commission. Premier Laurier said he had
little hope now of compromise and that
the position had not advanced at all since
last January The alternatives, he Sravely
stated, were arbitration or war, but no one
seriously entertained the idea that the
latter would be the outcome He thought
Canada's wisest course was further for
bearance and patience. A proposition by
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COMPLETE
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RECENT LITERATURE.

The July issue of the Near ENGLAND
Magazine contains several articles which
will especially appeal to the Summer So
]ourner, and much OF the illustrative ma
terial Is of unusual excellence. The Lake
Champlain country is treated by Rev. John
Wright Buckham, an enthusiastic admirer
OF the region, and thoroughly versed in its
history.
The August Century will be Midsum-
mer and Travel Number, containing many
artices of seasonable interest. Among
its contents OF another character will be a
brief paper by Maj-Gen. Leonard Wood,
Military Governor of the Province of San
tlago, terseiy setting forth The Present
Situation in Cuba" and the outlook for the
future.
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A Novel Ride

''The most novel ride I ever experienced"
said Count Cassini Russian ambassador TO
the United States, was a journey of about
$500 miles through Mongolia in October
and November 1897, just after closed my
term as ambassador at Peking. / had
decided to travel overland through China
and Russia to st. Petersburg. a distance OF
5000 or 10000 miles. Two thousand five
hundred miles Of this was through Mon
golia, and the Chinese officials planned my
Journey They provided so changes Of
horses. and at each changing point they
had 60 horses, making in all $500 for my
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personal use. At the end Of each portion Of
the route elaborate preparations were made
for my entertainment. The roads of Mon
golia are excellent, and we made remark
ably quick time TO the Russian frontier
My hardest experience was in crossing the
River Oby, one of the great rivers of Siberia.
The thermometer marked so degrees below
zero, and the river was full of floating ice
I shudder yet at the thought of that river
trip. don't know how we ever got across,
for thought | should die with the cold.
/ afterward learned that October and No
vember were the worst months in the year
to make such trip"
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are going. The transports could thus be
kept busy, so that by the time the enlist
ments were completed, a large number of
troops would already have been landed In
the Philippines.
President Mckinley has sent cable
gram to Otis at Manila, thanking in warm
terms the Volunteers and Regulars of the
Eighth Corps for their willing service
through severe campaigns and battles
against the insurgents in Luzon. when un-
der the terms of their enlistment they would
have been entitled to their discharge upon
the ratification Of the treaty of peace with
SPAIN" He will recommend to Congress
that a special medal of honor be given to
the officers and privates of the corps.
Otis reports that Capt. Il. A. Byrne, 9Th
U. s., with 20 men, surprised the united
robber bands Of Negros Island, numbering
45O, killed 115, wounded many, and Byrne' S
loss was one killed, one wounded. The
dispatch was dated July 81.
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An Ambiguous Invitation.

An Ambiguous Invitation.
Cleueldnd Plain Dealer.
Briggs and his family are living in a
houseboat."
"A houseboat?"
"Yes. Briggs rented an old canalboat
and had it fitted up. They pole it along the
bank when they want to change locations
Briggs wrote me that all they needed to
make it seem like a real canal life was a
pair of fiea-bitten mules"
What else did he say?"
''He wanted to know if you and wouldn't
come up"
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To the President.
EXECUTIVE MANSION.

Hon. r. A. ALCER, Secretary of War.
DEAR SIR: Your resignation Of the
Office of Secretary of War, under date OF
July 10, is accepted to take effect the list of
August. 1899.
IN thus severing the, official relation
which has continued for more than two
years desire 10 thank you for the faithful
service you have rendered the country at a
most exciting period and to wish you a long
and happy life. 7".'
With assurances of high regard and
esteem, am, yours sincerely,
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
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Little Jacks Home Thrust.
TjLRiIc

Il am out of all patience with you, Jack.
should Just like to know why George
Jones is always at the head of the class,
while you are always at the FOOT"
Jack hesitated for a moment, and then.
looking his mother squarely in the face,
he said, innocently:
You forget that Jones has very clever
parents"
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later united with the Republican party
His speech nominating Blaine at the Ma
tional Convention of 1876 made his fame
as a campaign orator. He became very
prominent lawyer and was associated with
some of the most famous cases. He lived
in Washington, d. c., from 1870 to 1888
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Practical Sympathy.

Cobwigger-He must have appealed
very strongly to your sympathy to have
borrowed hundred.
Henpeck-He did. 1t was to keep his
wife away in the country for another month.
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Popular Excursions to Niagara Falls Saturday. Angus.
Thursday, August IL.
$1,000. Round Trip. 5000.

A Ten (10) Day Tour to America S
Greatest Natural Wonder, via B. & o.
Royal Blue Line and the Lehigh Valley
Route, through the Lehigh and Wyom-
ing Valleys-the Switzerland of America.
A through train of elegant day coaches
and parlor cars will be run on above dates,
on following schedule:
Lv. Washington. ID. c.. $50 a. Lii
Baltimore, Nd, Camden
" Baltimore, Md, ont. Royal
OldtlOIlt. ........... 3-Zt
Wilmington, Del. 10 81
Chester, Pa. a................. Hoo
Ar. Philadelphia. .11.27 a. m.
Ar. Niagara Falls. IL. 90 p. m.
Stop overs allowed on return trip al
Buffalo, Rochester, Geneva. Burdette
Watkins Glen) aud Mauch Chunk.
Side Trip to Thousand Islands from
Rochester only $3.50 Round Trip.
Tickets good five days. bat within re-
turn limit of Niagara Falls ticket.
Special arrangements for dinner and
supper en- route at very reasonable rates.
Call on Ticket Agents, Baltimore & Ohio
r. r., for full particulars.
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I-EAN RENOIITIONlSTS.

Sir Charles Tupper to refuse to license any
but Canadians to mine III the Yukon will be
considered by the Canadian Government.
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A dispatch from Havana says that a
regular revolutionary party has been es-
tablished, with headquarters at Havana.
its object being 10 ineite Cubans through
out the country. II has agents IN every
large city and junta in Mexico. Ii issues
iuflammatory addresses, which are OF
course h-Irtful To the peace of the country,
but it is generally considered that it would
work more harm to arrest the leaders OF the
movement. who would undoubtedly pose as
martyrs, than to permit them TO agitate:
The opinion of many is that the fanatical
IDEAS advanced are producing the opposite
effect of what is intended.
DEATH OF INGERSOLL.
Col Robert G.. Ingersoll died at Dobb's
Ferry. n. Y, July 21, of apoplexy. He
was born in Dresden. N. Y, Aug. II, 1888.
His father was a Congregational clergy
man of very broad views. Roberts boy
hood was spent in Wisconsin and Illinois.
He began practicing law in Shawneetown,
ILL.,, engaged in politics. and moved to
Peoria, i'm 1860 was defeated in his candi-
dacv for Congress, in 1862 became Colonel
of the 11th Ill. Cav, and year and half
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An Unfriendly Move.

Does iler father encourage you?"
Il don't think so. He's just had electro
lights put on their piazza"
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She Kaew Charley.

Maude-Charley threatened to kiss me
last night and 1 told him if he did I'd
scream"
Ethel-Did anyone hear you.
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He was perhaps Lest known to the masses
of the people as an opponent of the Christian
religion, but stood high in the opinion of
those who We're well acquainted with him.
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BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.

Go be continued.)
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-07-06

similar proposal has been made,
and is duly supported by some of
the great powers.
The past week has truly been a
notable one at the peace conference
at the Hague, in which satisfactory
progress has been made and it is
also true that the Russians have
at last produced their project for
arresting the increase of arma-
ments, which some had said would
never see the light. England has
however done her part nobly and
it is hoped that this conference,
begun under such singular aus
pices may eventually produce good
results.
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supreme power of this nation, and
the building up of great national
navy is a necessity, if we hope to,
and we do all hope, to see our
native land the fair Queen of
liberty, that she is depicted to
be. We consider differences of
opinion among our leaders as a
hamrful thing, because it only goes
to divide public opinion and it
makes necessary useless argum ont
What president Mckinley his
done cannot be undone, and tie
growth of our mpire is so vast
and glorious Under his admins
tration, that it's benefits for future
prosperity cannot be questioned,
but to hold the vantage ground
we have obtained by conquest we
must have the necessary army and
navy, and also a merchant marine.
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IT appears that a new syndicate
with capital of $1O0,0OO,OOO has
been organized to buy up all the
cattle in the state of Texas, their
idea is to corner the cattle market
and SO place England in control
of all meat supplies or at least a
very large portion Of them in this
country. Mr.. George B. Loving
Of Fort Worth is the active
agent, and that in the Panhandle
and west Texas, he has secured
options on hundreds of thousands
Of cattle, these options are for 80
days, and include cattle Of all clas-
ses, as we'll as ranch properties.
The total number of cattle in
Texas are 100000, and their
asserted value is $6O,OOO,OOO.
When we consider the vast
amount of English capital out on
investment in this country, we
must stand almost in wonderment
at the gigantic proportions of
English operations. We know
that 9 dollars in every ten of in
vestment in Railroad Systems are
supposed to be, either direct or
indirect English money, and many
Of our great financial concerns,
namely, Beer, Whiskey, Insurance,
Banking, Coal, Iron and grain
lands, are controlled by English
capital, we must say that these two
great powers, England and Amer
lea, are indeed to firmly joined in
mercantile operations that a diff
ference of opinion upon any inter-
national question could not be
entertained.
These facts go to prove that
England and America - America
and England, are the two great
powers of the present day, and
Germany is also so closely allied
that they form natural triple
alliance.
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Read and pass THE MIRROR to a friend.

ONE of the most important polit-
ical undertakings that will startle
Europe and make the pillow Of
the King uncanny, is the new
waterway which is to be twenty
eight feet deep, and running north
and south across western Russia,
and connecting the Black Sea
with the Baltic. That this STRAIT
egic enterprise is of the greatest
Importance, only those who under
stand the geography Of the state
can imagine. Any person looking
over the map of Russia will see
that this movement means the
overthrow of certain European
powers, and the aggrandizement
of Russian power.
This canal will do for the Rus
sian navy what the transiberian
railway is doing for the army. 1t
will make Russia the absolute
master of it's own waters, and
bring St. Petersburg thousand
miles nearer to the Black Sea-, and
place Constantinople at the mercy
of the Gar.
There is also no reason why
this colossal canal should not pay
as a financial undertaking. It will
also build up new towns andjcities;
it will give employment for thous--
ands of workingmen; andin fact it
will change the face of the Russian
Empire by building up new GEN.
tiers of political importance. The
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peoples business, and if they neg
lect it government and people both
suffer. Interest in public affairs,
national, state and city, should be
ever present and active, and not
abated from one years end to the
other. No American citizen is
too good and none too humble
to be exempt from any civil duty,
however subordinate. Every pub
lie duty is honorable.
"The business man cannot stand
aloof from public affairs without
prejudice to his own business and
without neglecting the grave du-
ties which he owes the state. In
terest in public affairs by spurts
is probably better than no interest
at all, but the steady uninter-
rupted, everyday interest is the
crying need Of the hour, and the
only path Of safety. You cannot
hope to improve public affairs by
with holding your own good
Offices
The Hon. Mr.. Mckinley in the
above speech, clearly defined mans
duty to man, share the heat and
burden Of the day, do not leave
for others to do, what we ought
to do ourselves. That his refer
renee to duty was truthful, none
can gainsay, and therefore his
opinion was an oracle Of God, hence
it was divine, because it was the
truth.
Now to sum up the entire argu-
ment, there are two principles
in existence-the one is the prin-
ciple of Goodness, which is divine
because it emanates from God
and the other principle is Evil
because it emanates from the op-
posite of God, and when a man
tells that which is false and un-
true, then he stands arrayed
against Lis creator, but when a
man tells the truth, then he is at
peace with his creator, to try and
do this, is to reform, to try and to
do this, is the only sure way, by
which our condition may be i'm
proved.
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The peace conference at the
Hague, is still trying to do some
good before it disbands, our
American Delegates have made
one of the most human proposals
that could possibly be presented.
They have asked that the high
seas be made neutral, and that
private property be exempt from
Naval Seizure, that this is a
reasonable and worthy request
cannot be gainsaid, and if carried
into effect will produce one Of the
best and happiest results. The
ancient and barbaric usage of
taking merchant ships for prize
money and killing in cold blood
the unprotected sea-faring men,
just because he sails under the
flag of a nation with whom we
may be at war, is a thing to horrid
for civilized countries to coun-
tenance any longer All those
who have "gone to sea- will readily
recognize the awfulness of a pri-
vateer barring down on merchant
man, unwarned and unable to
defend themselves, the death doom
is before them; they are like flies
on a stickum paper, they must
die the death of martyrs, at the
hands of a merciless foe. This
seems to have been one of the
dreams of the Cars of Russia,
for the proposal was first made in
1855 by one of them, and it comes
down to 1871, recalling the fact
that the Count Nesselrode had
declared that the then Emperor
of Russia had said such an ex-
tension Of international law would
be crown Of honor to modern
diplomacy. Eminent authorities
on international law, great states
men, and diplomatists have de-
clared in it's favor, and various
governments have at times init
mated their rediness to enter into
arrangements exempting private
property from seizure on the high
seas. And now be it recorded to
the credit of our America that d