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erans and the survivors OF those who
saved the union during the civil war
and then goes on to commend the
merit system OF making appointments.
In the public service, he holds. all
applicants should have fair field.
but no favor. Political affiliation
should have no bearing. When merit
alone is considered the results are
admirable. The navy yards and
the postal service are living up to
the merit system and show great gain
in economy, in efficiency and honesty
due to the enforcement of this prin-
ciple. In my judgment, says the mes
sage, the time has arrived when we
should definitely make up our minds
to recognize the Indian as an indlvi l.
ual. and not as a member of a tribe
The president urges the cordial
support of the congress of the coun-
try for the coming st. Louis expos-
tion.
He also has favorable word for the
Charleston exposition, and heartily
commends the Pan-American exposi-
ton at Buffalo. just closed He de-
clares these are all educational move
ments, and refers to the modern
public library. which he commends
saying there are now five thousand
public libraries in the United. States.
The president thinks the census of
fee should be made permanent pub
lie bureau.
He refers to the remarkable growth
of the postal service, its revenues
having doubled and it's expenditures
nearly doubled in the last twelve
years.
Owing to the rapid growth of our
power and our interest in the Pacif-
c, says the president, whatever hap
pens in China must be of the keenest
concern to us. He then gives a re
sumo of the recent events in the Ash
attic countries and commends the ac-
ton of the foreign powers recently
for acting in harmony with the Unit
ed States.
In conclusion the president views
with lively interest and keen hope
of beneficial results the proceedings
of the Pan-American congress con
voked at the invitation of Mexico and
now in session at the Mexican capital,
The delegates from the United States
are under the most liberal instruc-
tions to cooperate with their col
leagues in all matters promising ad-
vantage to the great family of Amer
lean commonwealths
1t having been shown and adjudg
ed by the highest courts that the
Weil-Laabra awards against Mexico
have been obtained through fraud and
perjury, the money remaining in the
hands of the secretary of state has
been returned to Mexico. Some of it
had been paid before the decision of
the courts was rendered The pres
ident says, my judgment is that the
congress should return to Mexico an
amount equal to the sums already
paid the claimants"
The presidents message ends with
glowing tribute to the virtues of
Queen Victoria.
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symptoms of varoloid that he destroy
ed them all. Flesh was taken to
Health Commissioner Wende for ex-
animation. He is an expert on the
disease of smallpox, and he pronounc-
ed the signs unmistakable. The an
mails We're shipped here from Louis
Vile, KY. by Swift & Co. There has
been considerable smallpox in Louis
Vile, and Health Commissioner
Wende thinks it probable that the
hogs brought the disease here. as the
slaughter house where the carcasses
We're seized is In the heart of the dis
trict where the smallpox has appear
ed here.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec. q
While delivering an address here to-
day Maud Ballington Booth was
stricken, owing to the altitude. She
is better this afternoon.
New York, Dec. All the gov
ernment buildings at Sandy Hook. In
cluding the huge stands on the prov
ing grounds. were destroyed by fre
this morning.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 2-The
ferryboat collision OF Saturday night
by which 1t was feared twenty or
thirty lives had been lost proves not
to have been so disastrous. Only
three persons were drowned and the
number of dead will come within half
a dozen The fog which has hung
like pail over the bay since the col
lision broke away this morning and
the actual results OF the disaster will
now be determined.
PEKIN, Dec. "A telegram re-
ceived here today from kaifengfu re-
ports that the empress dowager, the
emperor and the imperial court will
leave for Pekin. as arranged, tomor-
row, but they expect to make numer-
GUS stops en- route. The imperial Au.
| thorities have notified the Pekin ON
cials that the cburt will enter the
capital on Jan, 10.
The British, German and French
claims, as well as those Of other na-
tlons have been passed by the varf-
Gus governments. but Americans who
suffered losses during the late insur-
rection complain bitterly that Al-
though their claims were sent to
| Washington a year ago no word has
been received concerning their ad-
justmeDt
WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.-The de-
fense for Mrs. Bonine, sharged with
the murder of young Ayres, the cen
sus clerk, was begun today. The
witnesses today were boarders at the
hotel where the two people lived.
They testified that Mrs. Bonine was
real nice woman and wanted every
body to have a good time every even
ing and at the hotel dances Her
bearing toward Ayers was nothing
out OF the ordinary.
ROME, Dec, 3.-Rev. Father
O'Keefe and Rev. Father Malone OF
Denver had an audience with the
pope today and formally presented
complaints against Bishop Matz. OF
Colorado
! SANDUSKY. Ohio. Dec. 3.-Mat-
thew Buekland OF California, mar
ried and Woodman, committed sui
: eide on the Lake Shore train this
! morning by cutting his throat
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across the track to prevent the train
| from moving.
Discharged employees had secured
| the Judgment. Mr.. Yarnmen, the
treasurer of the road was In his pr
vate car attached to the train when
the incident occurred. He was in
| company with party of eastern cap
italists showing them the beauty of
the territory. After parley with
the sheriff. he paid the Judgment and
the train proceeded.
LONDON. Dec. 2.-The defaulting
clerk. the principal In the famous
Liverpool bank robbery. Thomas Pc
| terson Goudie was caught this morn
ing at Bootle, where he was In hid
ing He was Immediately arrested
and taken to the police court where
he was remanded. There was great
excitement and the prisoner was fol.
lowed by a large crowd of people.
The robbery was one OF the largest
of recent times.
| Goudie with Dick Berg and another
sporting man, a book-maker, forged
checks to the amount of three quar-.
ters of n million dollars. The con.
spiracy was cleverly arranged, and
the money was nearly all spent at
the race tracks. Goudie had less
than ten pounds when he was caught.
COPENHAGEN. Dec. 2.-This gov.
ernment has sold the Danish West
Indies to the United States for the
sum of $5,000.00o.
l UyhGIJJNCTnN nn, v,t,n ,,,
retary of the treasury submitted to
congress today his estimates of what
will be required for the support OF
the government for the year begin
ming on June / next The amount
will total six hundred and ten mil.
lions, sixteen millions less than the
estimates for the current year and
four millions more than the appropri
atoms for the current year.
NEW YORK. Dec. 2,-The World
this morning publishes cable from
Rev. DR., Hartzell, chief of the board
If American foreign missions. now ir
Bulgaria. Dr. Hartzell speaking oI
the reported death of Miss Stone re
marks: I'VE hope the d-epdful ~
port is not true, but there is mucl
to make us fear otherwise" TIL
doctor evidently thinks both the wo
men are dead.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-. Dec. 2.-Ernes
w. Harding. the missing cashier o
the German American bank. who dis
appeared several months ago has re
turned to st. Joseph. Harding mad
charges against his wife and hi
coachman. later clipping with Mis-
Elyira Kennedy. He had been liy
ing with her several weeks in Den
yer. after which they went to New
York Harding's wife secured di
force from him. and then Harding
and Miss Kennedy were married.
BUFFALO. N. Y. Dec. 2.-Dea
j.. showing all the characteristics of tn
smallpox were seized and destroye
here by the United States bureau O
. animal industry. Forty-seven cal
casses which had just come out q
; the scalding tanks of the Unite
: States Dressed Meat and Wool con
pany. were examined by lnspecto
+ link. who discovered such marke
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NoTE.-Avoid baking powders made from
alum. They look like pure powders.
and may raisc the cake, but alum
Is poison and no one can eat iood
mixed with it without injury to health.
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States in regard to foreign territory,
there existed an implication as strong
and as binding as words could con-
struct it,
The abrogation of the Clayton BuIwer
treaty and the substitution of the Hay
Pauncefote treaty with the Davis amend
ment, will shatter what little there is
left of the Monroe doctrine, by relieving
England from the only formal treaty
that acknowledged the principles of that
contention. The clause of the Hay
Pauncefote treaty that contemp ated the
consent of other nations to the neutrality
of the Nicaraguan canal and which was
SC viciously criticized was in direct line
with the Monroe doctrine and would
have been a fine diplomatic stroke to
secure the acquiescence of the other
powers to the doctrine of non-interfer-
ence. The Monroe doctrine Is negative
in its operation and does not contemplate
exclusive control by the United States.
The United States senate in its eager
ness to strengthen the American posi-
ton in dealing with the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty, has lost the essence of the very
thing for which it would contend-has
been hoisted with it's own petard.
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is now securely under one management
and that competition is practically non
existent at least in the immediate future
Whatever other attitude may be taken
IN the future by public agencies toward
such operations it as this, it is about
time that the people should insist that
they shall not be maintained with the
aid of the federal government; that the
peoples taxes sh kll not be expended for
their successful prosecution, and that
they shall be made. to stand on their in
dividual merits. With the steel indus
tries of the country-tthus in the control
of any one body of men, and to all in
tents private MONOPOLY, it is the very
essence of public injustice that tariff
snail be maintained which adds without
limit to the enormous profits which the
owners of such a combination must nee
essarily make R#at
If ever serious beginning is to be
made in either prohibiting or regulating
private monopolies in this country, the
opportunity is presented to do so with
greater advantage by repeating the du-
ties on the products dealt in by such
combinations than in any other avail
able way. -..- * g.
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THE BEST BEGINNING.

The information published In these col
umns yesterday indicating the transfer
CT the Carnegie iron and steel interests
to J. P. Morgan and associates is
doubtless authentic. The Tribune of
New York may safely be regarded in
such cases as having the means of ac-
curing inside knowledge while that
paper has never yet been identified, out
side of party politics, with sensational
news onging in any direction
The closing statement OF the press dis
patch is the most significant in the
announcement. 1t is that 1.-The object
aimed at by Mr.. Morgan and the inter-
ests allied with him when treating with
Mr.. Carnegie was the assurance of an
enduring peace in the steel industry of
the United States, and this condition
IS now believed to be obtained"
1t is but brief time since the as
surance was given that the Carnegie
company was about to engage in the
manufacture of steel piping and tubular
rized monopoly in that line of manufac-
ture. The facilities in control of the
Carnegie people were so complete and
so concentrated that the certainty eX-
listed that the opposition would be effec-
tive and that the public would be as
sured protection against such charges
as might be maintained when competi-
ton was practically non-existent.
1t would be hard to say that there is
any immediate connection between the
contemplated engagement of the Carne-
gle interests in the steel tubing manu-
facture and the absorption of those in
terests by Mr.. Morgan, although no
doubt many will be disposed to argue
| cause and consequence from the coinci-
dence. The public has become used to
seeing Just such transactions as are here
outlined carried to effect, and the large
| industries of the country thus pass one
after another into the control of a COM
mon management The question is yet
| practically undetermined, and will long
so remain, whether this movement in in
dustrial life is going to be attended by
gain or loss to the community as a
whole.
There can be no doubt but that the
country will be largely at the mercy of
such combinations when they have made
their control practically complete in the
directions in which they unite. The task
of rendering available the capital neces-
sary to engaging successfully in industry
in opposition to such organizations is
practically impossible of accomplishment.
Yet it is urged with much appearance OF
reason that we cannot hope to engage
successfully in competition with the
! manufacturers of the Old World without
having all the recognized advantages for
producing at reduced cost which are
recognized as involved in such large COM
binations.
If the transfer announced with such
decided appearance of authenticity has
really been made 1t means no doubt that
the steel industry of the United States
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THE WAY TO END TT.

The progress of affairs in Kansas in
connection with Mrs. Nations raiding
of the unlicensed saloons involves gr:ev-
Gus public scandal. 1t should not be al
lowed to continue one moment longer
than is necessary for public authority
to put an end to it, 1t is bringing the
good name of the American people into
disrepute, and is operating no doubt to
the serious detriment of the state of Kan
sas.
in the past seventy-two hours are IN
worthy any state of civilized society. No
matter from what point of view they are
regarded there is one fact which makes
itself plain to everybody, and that is
that public authority is in contempt, the
public peace is being disturbed and the
law is being violated, openly and with
impunity by every interest involved in
the low squabble.
1t is hard to regard such a situation
dispassionately, or, indeed otherwise
than with prejudice on either one side or
the other. Kansas is nom:nalIy a pro-
hibition state. The dives, so-ealled, are
maintained in Kansas cities in open vio-
lation of the state law, and no doubt in
open violation of the judgment ana will
of the majority of the people Of the state.
They would not exist unless there was a
public demand for Them. If they were
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CHAPTER III.
BENDIGo's THEORY

BENDlGO > THEORY.
Bendigo, if he had ever felt emotion Of
any kind, had long since ceased to feel It.
He expressed no sort of alarm now. but
inquired in the most conventional and
stolid manner:
Didn't the lootenant come ashore,
missy?"
yes, last night; but he never reached
his ship again. One of his brother OFF,
GERS called to see if he was at our house.
and I hurried here, thinking he might
have come on last night"
Never set eyes on him, missy! Bin
keeping watch this long time! Sumat
come to him What time did he leave
las night??'
cat ten e'cIock-on his bicycle. He
went to meet the launch at Falmouth
pier; but he never did, and the boat had
to leave without him
cMighn't he be at hotel, missy?"
eff he had he would have gone aboard
the Juno early this morning. Oh! No
rah jumped up with scream. Here
comes Teddy"
The red headed youth came at racing
speed across the waste lands. and dung
himself painting on the verandah. In her
frenzy Norah hardly gave him time to
recover his breath before she was crying
for news.
80 Teddy, Teddy, have you found him!
WISE shook his head, and his usually
merry face was as sober as that or a
Judge Searched all the hotels-no go.
The iaunc: waited half an hour; but as he
didn't show up she went off. Can't find
Jayne anywhere, or his bike either" He
hesitated, then came out with a burst:
1--WE told the police"
1.-THE police?" screamed Norah. white
with terror "Teddy, you don't think he
has been murdered?"
NO no, 1 don't. But he's gone under
so completely we must have wiser heads
than our own to look for him. Besides,
the captain will no doubt do the same
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when he finds Jayne does not turn up."
Teddy ran his fingers through his hair
greatly perplexed. ''Bendigo, you haven +
notion where he might be, have YOU?
mot a Bit Master Ted, sir I've been
expecting of him all the morning. -
Bendigo shifted his quid. when was in
Indy there was a midship officer of ours
lost just like that. He went ashore one
night and he never came back. We found
him week later
"Dead?'i
"As a herring. Master Ted. P'raps
we'll find the lootenant--''
mo. - cried Norah 1T won't hear
of it. But, oh, what can have become Of
him?"
The three looked at one another In con-
Stelnation. That an officer in her ma
jestys service should disappear so sid
denly and completely from a civilized
neighborhood was beyond belief. Even
in a novel the relation of SO untoward
an event would tax credulity. Yet it had
actually happened Jayne had vanished
as mysterious;y as though the earth had
opened her mouth to receive him. Ben
digo, with the pessimism Of old age, WAS
the first to break the silence
First the capn, now the lootenant,
said he, groaning.
Norah put her fingers in her ears to
shut out the voice which echoed her own
lIIOuSlIS
II won't believe It, People can't dis
appear in this way. 1 am sure Leonard
will come back.
''From where?" asked Vyse, significant
ly. where's he got to, that's the ques-
ton? Be left the villa at ten, and t. e
launch waited till quarter past. If he
met with an accident on his bike we'd
ha' heard of 1t, or the pieces would have
been picked up, but there isn't sign"
Teddy said Norah, suddenly, The
Boojpm.
What about 1t? You know unscrew-
ed the jar and tilted it out. Fancy has
put it in your bedroom"
Its not that-hut the Chinaman. Leon
ard did not want to give me that idol aft
er he had seen the Chinaman. He was
afraid"
eOf what?" Teddy looked puzzled.
81 don't know. He was going to tell
me some story OF the Boojum when you
came in, and he said no more. But he
talked about 1t being unlucky. A pirate
gave 1t to him, and he wondered why
TEDDY I believe there is some connection
between that Roojum and Leonard's dis .
appearance
81 don't see how there can be-" argued
Vyse. "He hadn't 1t with him. Fin,
what is it. Bendigo?" for the old man
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THE GOLDEN IDOL. ;"



had a look of considerations on his face.
"Hev you been in China waters, Mas
| ter Ted, sir? No, you amt but 1 hev,
and I knows them devils. Maybe you
! amt heard tell OF a soocide god?"
"A suicide god What or carth's
that?'
There's some as wants to git ont o.
life, and amt got no spunk to git; that
so. They ties the fgger of the soociGe
god round their necks and walks round
for their friends to kill them. What
wants to know, Master Ted, was it a
soocide god?''
Il don't know" stammered the boy.
paling. 30 Lord, what a beastiy idea!
The idol is sign that they want to DO
killed."
Bendigo nodded Where did he get
um?'
81 told you," cried Norah. from a
junk. Leonard wondered why the man
gave it to him"
81 knows. It's a snocide god that
what it is. If the lootenant met a pig
tail as you say, missy. that pigtail
know'd as head the soocide god, and
'elped EN- to"
no" shrieked Norah, 81 don't believe
it.
Bendigo took off his cap. May the
dear Lord ave mercy on my poor loo
tenants soul" said he. and said it with
the hardened composure of OH age.
You foo!' shouted Teddy, furiously.
Jayne hadn't the Idol with him An
how could the Chinaman know he had it.
If he had? Bosh Stuff! Don't you be-
lieve him, Norah.'
"Oh Teddy, it might be true" she Sob
bed. Leonard was afraid of That China
man. And why should the pirate no
killed have given it to him bat from
some horrible motive2 OH, Il he should
be dead"
81 tell you I don't believe it, insisted
Teddy, with clear torrnon sense. "a Chi
naman wouldn't wait to Kill Leonard
here. In China--%el! that's 4 differc1t
matter And IL he had been killed wo
should have found his body. He went
straight on HIS bicycle to the pier; Ta'Ist
have done So How could ChInaman
decoy him away from, the road. or m'r>
der him without attracting attention. or
hide the bike? People aren't put away
so easily, Leonard Is alive. BeDdigo,
you're fooiH'
IT hopes may be. Mastsr Ted; but
nl'eart misgives me. 1 knows these
wicked 'eathen as bows down &c etooks
and stones. You looks pale, n;issy. I'll
git you a glass of rum and we'll drink
TO IN. as Is gone
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HAS VAN SAINTS EYE.
j. w. ShndewaId's Recommendations
for an ADDOiutmeut

j. W. ShndewaId's Recommendation
for an Appointment
To the Editor of the Globe:
l find the following item in SATURDAYS
Pioneer Press:
j. w. Shadewald, of Minneapolis a
candidate for a position on the sta te
board Of equalization from Minneapolis
hled mis- application with the governor
yesterday. ShadewaId is one of the best
known Republican workers in Hennepin
county.
At the last session of the board Of
equalization Mr.. Shadewald was the lob
byist for the elevator and lumber In
terests of Minneapolis. He was vigiIant
and faithful in his efforts to convince
the board that these mllionaires should
be treated leniently in the matter of as
seSsment C T. N
Adrian, Mimi, Feb. 5, 1901
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THURSDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

Today, Feb. Z, is the anniversary of
the birth, in 1880, of Sir Thomas More,
ar eminent English philosopher. author
end statesman. He was author of the
famous Platonic fiction Utopia" and
succeeded Cardinal Wolsey as lord chan
oellor. He refused to sanction the di-
vorce of Henry VIII. from Queen Cath
crime, for which he was found guilty of
treason and beheaded. This is also the
birthday of Sidney E. Morse,in 1894, found
er IN 1915, of the Boston Recorder, the first
religious paper in this country He was
also founder of the New York Observer
Charles Dickens, one of the most popu-
lar of English noveIists, was born OH
Feb Z, 1872
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made this city what it is, and it is. a
Shame and disgrace to civilization. If
the women of New York city had a bal
lot, they would quickly drive all the cor
ruptlon out of it in short order It is
not the ballot that does the work. but
the possession of it, and if it were given
to women, each party would be compelled
to put up its best candidates to stand
any chance of winning"
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP
TIERS

The scene opens on Fletmouth pier,
where Norah Wharton is awaiting the
arrival of her lover Lieut.. Jayne. just
home from Chinese waters. Among
with him six-inch idol of beaten gold,
which Nora seizes eagerly to place on
the mantelpiece. Accidentally. however,
ii gets dropped into a tall Chinese jar,
where. for the time, the tale leaves it.
Next day Lieut. Jayne is missing.
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OF course, every old Republican wheel
horse, that worked 50 hard for the party
last fall as to ipqapacitate himself for
earning his own living, ought to get an
inspectorship, at Ieasq in order to keep
the wolf from tn" d6o~ for the next few
years.
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The Abyssinian instruction really
seems to be one of the bloodiest wars Of
modern times, yet it is not attracting
the least outside attention thus far There
are too many more prominent characters
on the stage just at present.
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The president has signed the army re-
organization bill and will now proceed to
distribute the patronage. Any son of an
old Republican wheelhorse may have an
officers commission for the asking. Just
step up and say what you'll have.