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The contention OF Secretary Cage
friends that whatever he has done in the
course OF his relations with the Ma
tional City Bank OF New York has
been with the advice and consent Of Mr
Mckinley and the Cabinet may be entirely
correct II so. then responsibility for
transactions Of character open to cues
iion does not rest entirely upon the
shoulders of one man. but is to be divided
among several individuals of exalted Of
fetal position.
Mr.. Gage has announced his willingness
to be investigated by Congress. aud the
latter should not waste any time in offer
ing him an opportunity to explain his
conduct. We have no disposition to pre-
judge him. OF any of his coparceners in the
dead, if there has been deal and if there
are coparceners. We must say. however.
that the ugliness Of the charges made in
some quarters, unless the same be conclu-
sively and quickly disproved. will proba-
bly, constitute a serious menace 10 the
peace Of mind of the Administration. 1t
is true that what is alleged as having been
done by one Of the great executive DEPART
ments. in violent il not corrupt contraven-
tion Of law. is no worse than other ac-
tions previously committed by sister de-
partments. The country has grown used
10 the subversion of both Constitution and
law. through the practices of the party in
power during the past three years, and it
would be difficult. therefore, for anything
TO happen in the nature OF a public sur
prise. That pure and patriotic statesman.
John J. ingalls,. writing Of Republican party
methods and achievements, SAYS that IF
the Constitution stands across the path
why so much The worse for the
Constitution"
But somebody viii have to account to the
American people for the astonishing trans
action connected with the sale Of the old
New York custom house to the National
CITY Bank. As statements in the metropoli
san press read On July =. 1899. the Gov
erument sold the property in question for
three million. two hundred and sixty-five
thousand dollars. The president Of TIE
hank handed Secretary Gage a certified
check FOR the amount, less forty thou
sand dollars, kept back for a pur-
pose. The check was Immediately re-
turned. No money actually passed. No
money resulting from the sale was turned
into The Treasury in accordance with the
law. The National City Bank, it is said.
kept the purchase price in it's vaults and
Ias had the free use Of il ever since. 1t is
alleged that the National City Bank. not
Wi tbs anIinu all Fhfe hac h1nr. nhor
and collecting from the Government rent
for the building at the rate of four per cent,
or about one hundred and thirty thousand
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One War Settled, AnNHYnN.

We are now at the beginning of the last
year of the Nineteenth Century, and the
hosts of sin, Satan, and false chronology,
who declared that today we would be def
nitely in the swim of the Twentieth Cen
tury. are scattered. routed and gone.
The Roman Church, which has been in
existence long enough to know, and has
settled the same question every hundred
years since the year 4. d. eco, if not for
ages before, has decided that the next CEN
tury will begin Immediately after midnight
Of December 31, of this present year of
grace and Presidential struggle Camille
Flammarion, astronomer and litterateur, is
still living in the Nineteenth. So are We;
but we do not lay too much stress upon
The point because, as Prof Moore of
this city, justly holds. the eclipse
CT the moon, which occurred on the night
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dollars per annum. Finally it is said that
the dummy payment was made incomplete
in order that the property for which the
Government regularly pays rent could be
carried on its property list and the Ma
tional City Bank thereby saved from pay
ing taxes TO the city of New York.
Rather a serious state of affairs, We
should say, Ii is to be remarked that ii is
one which is calling down denunciations
even from Republican organs not usually
soueamish about the legality or honesty of
things done by or in the interest of the Ad
ministration and its financial associates.
Every leading journal in Chicago, with one
exception, joins in the note of general in
dignation. and. in shcrt an impression has
been created which neither Mr.. Hanna nor
FIR. Mckinley viii venture to ignore. Con-
gresS certainly viii have TO take some no
tice of the matter Or members will be
afraid to face their constituents next sum
meT 1t is a bad business. and fog the rep
utation of the country We are sincerely
sorry that anything OF the kind has hap
pened, or could happen.
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THE DINNER TO MR.. BRYAN.
The NebrnsLan to Re the Guest OF o..
II. u. Hepmnuf

II. u. belmont.
NEW YORK, Jan. I.--Oliver H. p Bel
mont is arranging for a dinner at he
Democratic Club at which William Jen-
nngs Bryan is to be the chief guest. II
will not be club affair. but simply a din
ner given at the club by member. SIR.
Bryan is expected to reach the city on
January 15
There are a great many members of the
club who are gold Democrats. and nearly
every one of them voted against Bryan in
1895. While they cannot object to Mr.
Bryan's presence at the club as the guest
OF a member, they would probably find
fault if it were sought TO turn the private
linner to him into a club affair
Other friends of Mr. Bryan are prepar
ing to give him a great reception when he
reaches the city. There has been some talk
OF arranging for demonstration in mis-
honor in Madison Square Garden. but so
far his proposition has not assumed def
mite shape.
The Chicago platform Democrats who
are opposed to sidetracking the free silver
issue. may organize a separate reception
for Mr.. Bryan. They are now organizing
throughout the State for the purpose of
sending delegation to the National Con
vention They will contest the rights of
the Democratic machine delegation from
New York having seats in the convention.
After leaving New York Mr.. Bryan will
make a tour OF the New England States
1t is said that the Democrats of Massachu
setts who recognize him as the national
leader and next nominee for President in
tend to give him a royal welcome in Bos
ton.
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MONDAY. JANUARY !. 1900.
NashInston's Happy New Year

1t is to be observed with cheerful salts
faction that as far as the city Of Washing
ION is concerned. the last year of the cen
fury has made its bow to us with sunny
smiles and all the bright. crisp heartiness
of ideal winter Seldom has it happene
hat the first day of the year has dawned
so royalty and comfortably seasonable.
New Year Day in America is q
pleasant and ennobling institution. espe-
cidliy if people will live up to its old spirit
OF good fellowship and neighborly kind
ness. In The days of our fathers and
grandfathers. il was the one day in the
wear upon which people who had been es-
tranged could meet each other ana make
up without embarrassment or loss of dig
nifty. II was. and ought to he always. a
day Of charity and forgiveness. and. where
such thing may be necessary. a day Of
good resolutions. According to a popular
fallaey. the Feast OF Resolutions is as
signed to the second of January. 1t should
be the first day OF the year. as il always
has been since Pope Joan. or course.
where the ceremony is overlooked by mis-
take the next day viii do. on the broad
principle Thar it is never too Iate.to mend
While the New Year Day is a festival Of
family reunion and jollity everywhere
throughout the land it is particularly a
red letJer occasion in The National CAPITAL
where all good citizens and strangers hock
40 the White House year by year 10 offer
the President OF the United states and
his wife the compliments OF the season.
and earnest wishes for their health ana
prosperity. Indeed tho New Year func-
zion may De said to be The chief one Of all
1t our modest republican court To-day IL
should be d memorable one. for the Presi-
dent in raJuming the greetings OF his
friends and the representatives Of sister
nations. not only can accept their Congrat-
ulations on the fact that America is al
peace with all mankind. and on terms OF
cordial amity with every other land. but
that within two years. our country has
been able 10 break out from lis old chrysa-
lis Of provincial segregation and assume
its proper place as great imperial world
power. and to be everywhere recognized
as such. without even straininC its AMIGA
hle relations with any civilized power.
The year 1900 viii give the President and
his advisers, and the Congress. golden
opportunity to place our national affairs
in order for the undertaking Of the new and
grave duties and responsibilities Of the
Twentieth Century. Altogether, the happy
day is pregnant of promise for American
peace, progress, and prosperity And so
We are well justified in predicting as well
as wishing for Presidsnt and Mrs. Mckin-
ley and for all other Americans and
friends Of America, 4 Happy New Year,
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Now that the District Health Department
has succeeded in saving the Capital from
an epidemic of hydrophobia by compelling
the thousands of intelligent dogs of the city
to wear muzzIes in midwinter it might
proftably turn its attention 10 the matter
of sanitary milk tickets. which was sug
gested some time ago il is said. and ap-
pasteboard milk ticket, passed from house
hold to household, gathering grease and
dirt. if not the germs Of disease, has all
the qualities necessary 10 make OF il a
prime breeder of contagion These tickets,
too. in many instances, are red and green.
and the coloring matter used in thus or
namenting them is very likely to be of a
more or less poisonous character. Thought
less domestics put them in the bottles and
other receptacles used for the milk, and
oftentimes they freeze to the bottom of
these dishes. which frequently contain mois-
ture thus leaving the coloring matter on
the bottom Perhaps this poisonous color
ing matter is removed before the tactical
fluid is poured into the bottle or pail; per-
haps it is not At any rate. it is certain
that some method can be devised to pre-
vent the distribution of soiled and colored
tickets. thus removing a pregnant source
of danger 1t is glaring inconsistency to
allow the unsanitary milk ticket to exist
when such rigid precautions are taken in
other directions.
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BRYANT WILL GET HIS MONEY.
Resignation of Nebraska's Insurance
fommis issioner Agreed Upon.

LINCOLN. Neb.. Jan. 1.-The chaotic
state which the administration Of Ne
braska insurance affairs has been in for
six months or more is at an end. Re
Gently the Supreme Court held that the
new Weaver insurance law was unconsti-
tutional, the effect being TO relieve In
surance Commissioner Bryant appointed
by the Governor. under the new law. from
the care of the Office. This was victory
for State Auditor Cornell who was still
maintaining a rival insurance department
under the old law
A compromise has now been effected
whereby the auditor agrees to allow the
claims for salary Of Commissioner Bryant
and his assistants. the commissioner in
turn pledging to make no effort TO secure
a rehearing of the case before the Supreme
Court.
The Attorney General has decided that
the funds appropriated by the Legislature
are available for use by the auditor in
administering insurance affairs. the same
as by Commissioner Bryant under the
Weaver law. Mr.. Bryant Will turn his
records over to the auditor tomorrow. re-
Ceiye the salary warrants for himself and
assistants and retire frCm office
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FTREBUGS ACTIVE.
InceHdiarieS at work ia n New der
SPN Town.

FLEMINCTON. y. J., Jan. 1.-Frighten-
ed away from Three Bridges by detectives
and night wat5hmeu. the inceudiaries who
repeatedly 5ried TO burn the town are now
working in Pennington Two buildings
have already been burned, and the citizens
are worked up to a fsrvor of excitement.
Saturday night the large barn belonging
to Assessor Charles AIpaugh was destroyed.
with It's contents, including a lot CT poultry
The live stock was rescued. The tirebugs
started the flames in the hay NOV.
II is now a certainty that the large pot
terry plant which was destroyed on Wednes-
day night was fired by iGcendiaries- The
authorities are working upon the theory
that il is the Three Bridges gang OF fire
bugs The fires in Three Bridges occurred
just one month ago. and all OF the cOnHa-
grati0ns were started between I:S9 and S
o'clock in the evening.
reward Of $5g0 has been offered by the
Fire Underwriters Association, which will
be increased by the CitiLsns Of Pennington
and Three Bridges. The residents Of this
place expect more and large confldgratiOns
and are preparing for all emergencies.
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QUAY'S NEW RESIDEN CE.
The Citizens of West Chester Want
Him for NeiGhbor.

WEST CHESTER, Pa. Jan. 1.-The
proposition made on behalf OF Senator N. S.
Quay to purchase the Stephen Darlington
property here, to be occupied as his peFma
nent residence. has started the politicians
10 talking. and the Republicans in this sec
ton are hoping that the deal will be con-
summated. and that the Senator will make
his home in this place Il is said there are
fair prospects Of the purchase being made.
The property is one OF the finest in this
place and the Republican workers will
welcome Mr. Quay with open arms If he
comes here. 1t is stated that If he gets the
place extensive improvem snts will be made.
and that he Will remove his extensive Ii
braTy here entire. IL is now scattered
through several States.
Mr.. Quay has large number of friends
among the Republican leaders here and viii
be given a royal welcome to the healthy
borough.
The evening times., 1900-01-01

Herod died, is conclusive evidence that.
when one comes down to dead cold fact
this is the first month of 1896, which goes
to show that President Mckinley was a
premature birth by three years.
But then there is no reason why affec-
tion or chronology should weep over lit
tie thing like that. Whether the present
year ought properly to be labeled 1900. or
1896, matters not. There are people here
and in other countries who have rot be-
gun TO think of touching the threshold OF
the Nineteenth Century yet. Senator Hoar.
for example, is still in the Colonial period
of the Seventeenth. and hardly up to the
light of his times at that. His friend
Aguinaldo exists in the Paleolithic age,
whatever its date was-perhaps about
22S, ,0C0 B. c. And then there is his other
friend Dom Paul, who swears that the
earth is fiat and that negroes are without
souls. We should put him down as of
about \. ID. 1852, if not of an earlier vint-
age.
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Our Filipino Near Year Greeting.

The compliments of the season are due
/ TO Messrs Most. Hoar, Pulitzer, Schurz,
Mason. and Atkinson, on the occasion of
the latest evidence that their Tagal as
| Sociates are still able TO strike a blow
or. at least. attempt one-in the holy
cause Of liberty mixed with trust sugar.
II the noble effort TO dynamite the foreign
consuls in Manila. while they were paying
honor TO the dead General Lawton's mem
DRY, by following his body TO the funeral
ship, signally failed. We must ackno owledge
that it was not for the want of appropriate
spirit or preparation. No member of the
domestic Filipino Junta, not even Herr
Most himself. could have planned revo
lutionary celebration with finer regard
for the unities. or with more conscientious
attention to details
Being, for our own part, largely imbued
with peaceful, not to say Quaker princi-
plies. we are glad that the provost mar
shal discovered and discouraged the plan,
and that the general massacre intended by
our adored Tagal Washingtons, Lafayettos.
and Lincolns did not occur according II
programme. However, as We know frcm
the evidence gathered, and the large quan
tity of explosives found on the premises
which were TO be the fortalices of the de-
stroyers, the full extent of the enterprise,
the episode is capable of furnishing us with
adequate food for thought upon the kind
and degree of devotion and holy patriot
ism necessary TO excite the admiration and
Nf NH onfh hrn 81
when great and highly yirtuOls
and intelligent tribe of Malay cut
throats appeals TO them 10 remember how
exactly similar were cur own aspirations.
motions. and conduct, when we, too. made
our battle for liberty against the tyrannical
and invading Cherokee Nation, and blei
fer freedom under the sainted Shays, in
the whisky rebellion Of that grand liberia
tor against an internal and internal reve-
nue. law-worse than the stamp act, and
anproximating the antitrust Law in despot-
ic oppression.
Hitherto We have been al a loss TO un-
derstand the particular features of Agui-
naldo's mutiuy, which have SO deeply af-
iected and so powerfully excited the ap-
proving 2Tdcr OF Our idSdl SthttoiS anu
Representative. and the monopolistic and
anarchistic associates on the outside. But
evidently they have known better than we
or any American fer that matter what
th.ir separated brothers in arms were. and
were capable of. and We can understand
now why they have treated the alleged
suppression of the insurrection with con
tempt and have continually warned us
that the end vas not yet. Just as the at
tempted massacre in Manila nearly year
ago. was awaited in anxious suspense by
the people in this country who had contrib
uted means and material to promote its
success. so. it is not to be doubted that the
plot against the foreign consuls has been
ANYTHING but a secret to many Filipino
svmpathizers in the United States. Its
failure will cast a gloom over not more
than a dozen households. whose heads
ought to view with alarm the prospect Of
an increased importation of Manila hemp.
The evening times., 1900-01-01

(FrCm the New York Hcrsld.J
Herat il the fifty times besiegcd city " the
sieges are accurately counted, the result Is fifty
two. 1t was the capital Of Timur; it was fought
for by the Mohammodans. by the PcrSians, by
the kmeers of KabuI and there was always an
Amecr at Herst anxious to regain his patrimouy.
The years when lIerat has not fighting have
been rare and Herat is a very old town.
During the present ccntGrr il has bcCL unsTc.
cessfully besieged in 1851 and 1888 BY the PeFsdns
and taken by them in IsIG; Tcgaincd by DCst
Mohammed. Amcer OF kabul. in 1868; lost by
him to an ArneeT OF iICrdt and Iegained by kabU
in lssi under the present Ameer, A5durrahman
Khan.
And why is IIerat ''the key TO India when it
is situated in the extreme northwest of Aghlnis
tan. nearly 600 miles as the crow flies, from the
Indian frontier? Because IIerat is the coptroiing
point of the approaches TO the only two passes
into India that are travCrsed by railroads
One highway, that goes eastward from Herat
keeps south of the Hindoo kEsh and reaches
Kabul whence there is n short route through
Kahul pass TO Peshawar Here tat PestaWdr)
commences one of the important railways Ot
India, a great trunk linc. it connects at La
horc for all points in the Indian peninsula
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incompetent Mule Drivers.



ANY SoUtherner could F3va informed the British
Government that waCHtvCr white man u=dCr-
takes 10 hardies a mule lac is bound to come to
-rief sooner or later. There is affinity he
tween them. But between the American negro
and tho mule there j. subtle understanding
which is beyond the comprehension OF the Can
casian 1t is a kind of teiepathy. and singulI
feature OF the case i that the familiarity thgs
cngeEdCred never brrcds contempt or either stc.
The mule takes no liberties with his dlSky drive
and he never loses sisht of the fact that the
seeming mcekuess OF his charge j as little 10
be trusted as the quietude 0f a cotton-m0uth
moccasin in coil. The relation between them
is that OF armed HcUtTaitt. Both are con
stantiy on the alert, and the animal will no
more presume upon the uodding OF the driver
than the driver upon the air Of peaceful r.edi
taton which is the distinguishing Characteristic
Of TIE animal In reposn.
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The Latest Snake story.
(From the Memphis Scimitar.)

ITIUIii IIIIIIf" .
One day last week Mr.. Berry and Miss Caldwell.
of Sioux City, his niece, strolling along the
river bottom east of the house through beautiful
natural grove, when all at once they discoA
cred by the warning whirr of hundreds OF
horny tails that they were in the midst of a
congress of Tattlesnakes that seemed to be in
session as a committee of the whole for executive
business. Mr.. Berry happened to have a spade
in his hand. and with it laid about him Wig.
orousy right and left. Miss Caldwell assisted
with a club When the battle over they
counted 2j6 dead rattlesnakes and has as many
blue racers. great many of the snakes had
as high as e!cycn rattles. They were an eXtraOr-
dinarily vicious lot, and instead of attempting to
escape came savagely at the intTuders and fought
doggedly until the last one was exterminated.
The rattles, which will fill an ordinary cigSr
box they cut off end prize very highly as me-
mentos of an exceedingly perilous position.
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4 Monument for Betsy Ross.

(From the Army and Navy Journal1
The American Flag House and Betsy Ross
Memorial Association has in twelve months, by
the sale OF 10cent certificates OF membership,
raised Sl3, go toward the fund for the purchase
and preservation of the birthplace Of Old Glory
and the erection of a suitable national memorial
in honor of Betsy Ross. Upon the roll of honor
the names Of 500,000 people have been recorded as
members of this association. Twenty-fv thou
sand dollars is the total required The as
sOciation has secured the legal right to erect a
suitable monument over the grave of Betsy Ross
in Mount Morish Cemetery, Philadelphia. from
her descendants, who hold the deed to the family
los
The evening times., 1900-01-01

The matter of the cession OF Denmark S
West Indian possessions to the United
States is again brought to public attention,
through a despatch from Copenhagen,
which alleges that a Danish representative
is On his way here to assist the movement.
For reasons, this particular story needs a
grain of salt on its tail. 1t is stated that
the emissarys name is Christmas, which
is probably a cable sender's substitution for
Santa Claus. Our friend the King would
hardly send that character over here. un-
less he meant to make us a present of the
islands and put them in our STOCKING.
Obviously it is late in the season for such
action. But even il we have to pay. we
ought to take over St. Thomas, and particu-
larly Santa Cruz if only to hear the howl
of horror that would go up from the New
England rum districts.
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Two Kinds of American Wheat.
CFrom MeClure's Magazine.)

The wheat grown in the United States is OF
two general kinds. One is the old-fashioned
plump kernel winter wheat, grown through all the
Central and Southern States; and the other Is
the hard spring wheat-the ''Scotch Fife and the
''Blue Stem OF Minnesota and the two DakOtaS
for many purposes the best wheat grown in the
world and the kind that has made the fame Of
Minneapolis -four. For the of 1899, the pro-
duct of the hard, spring, wheat sections of the
country will amount TO upward of 2i0 900
bushels. about two-ffths OF the entire production
OF the United States
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(From the Newcastle IEug.l chronicle)
The longest bridge in the World is it is re-
corded, the Lion Bridge, near Sangang, in China
Ii extends five and one-quaTter miles over an area
Of Tie Yellow Sea, and is supported by 500 huge
stone arches. The roadway is seventy feet above
the water, and is enclosed in an iron network A
marble lion, twentyone feet long, rests on the
crown OF each pillar. The bridge was built at
the command Of the Emperor keng Long.
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Pigiron and RogirOn.

VFIVTI IIlt 8ICHPIiIs aCIHIIIdIJ
Negroes are sometimes very original in their
dealings with white men," said the foreman Of
a North Memphis iron foundry. "A coup!e OF ne
groes unloading pigiron for ne the ether
day ard as il comes in pretty good-sized chunks
one chunk is u heavy load One of the negroes
came to a lump which was twice the usual size,
being two chunks that had together He
stopped work the minute he caught sight OF IT,
% What you stopping for!' yelled. Pick
it up!
'Bo-<. | doan rhine onloadin' pigiron' said
he but when il comes to hogiron, 1 quits