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THE PENNY POSTAGE PLAN.
New ZeaIand's Rates Win Garry lette
to This Country

New Zealand's Rates Win Garry Letters
to This Country.
w. u. Curtis, In Chicago Record.
The Uuitet States postal authorities
have sot refused to dellp,r letters bearing
tho penny postage of New Zealand, and
persons making complaints TO that effect
do not understand the laws and customs
OF the service. The United States have
never been requested hy New Zealand to
do anything under the penny postage plan.
mere has been no correspondence on the
subject, and none Is necessary. The post
master at San Francisco or any other mort
viii receive and forward all letters from
New Zealand bearing penny postage
stamps without question unless the enycl
opes are marked short paid" before they
come within the postal jurisdiction OF this
country. Then the additional postage VIII
be colleeted and forwarded 70 the proper
authorities In New Zealand.
lhutr the rules OF the Universal Postal
Union the nation in which mail originates
eau hN It's own postage. IL pays all the
expenses OF transportation aud enjoys the
revenues from all mail sent outside its ter.
utory. When this mail reaches the United
states o. any other foreign country the
postal authorities OF that country take
charge or II and deliver II without f,Irther
cost TO New Zealand This ARRANGEMENT
is universal. II New Zealand or amy ether
country sees ut 70 adopt z penny rate Tor
without reference TO the United States or
any other country. Al the same time the
lultol states claim the right to nix the
rats OF postage upon letters TO New Zealan /
ahd other foreign countries. Without an
thority from congress the present rates
eau NOT be changed
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terrell Texas, April 5.-Tcrreu ls nov,
ehdeavoring to secure cotton mill Man,
ana other manufactures, Tho sewage n,ant
Is about assured and many other ,nsttcrs
OF enterprise are talked of Apotho. 80
ipert Is thnt Terrell is 10 have another cn,
,oh compress An effort Is also IN Ky ,,, ~ ~
sch SSgg'e e, one or more large dcnominationol
Ioast so ~ STATE reputation. TerralI has n
east eOuO population now and Is ran r1 a, a..
srowins' without any apparent effort, "p'u'F
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Sponsors Ns,,aa

rort worth, Texas, April 7.-Rr,rod,e,
e'np' northwestern Division United Con.
iederatc Veterans OF Wichita Fails bos ~
nMG aeed the appointment Of sponsors 90 -.
~. MhNhlhnis and Waco reunions 10 rT, ~ We
af g,y soss y, as follows Miss asgp c9p
say to S Waco % Memphis dtI and Miss Ida Lind
crawford chapter ef Bowie OF Mrs
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Suit for Ten Tbous.,a 90

a. s,o Shrlsti, Texas, April ia s,,,
!, r siroo damages was nled here hv
80. "llhps Yesterday against Tho s,,
ILL., ana Aransns Pass raIlwar p,a,n,ir
serloys IN his petition that h. .,.,., $500.
fendsnts ' tTn,n while en- route here on leo
him. -s Househcld goods falling on
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Mr., Green's Laboratory RIo,.,, ~.

Terrell Texas, April 5.-rhe wilma ~.
opeu blowing gale since YESTERDAY n,ar,
ing ana until about 3 o'clock this me-"
i1e was from the south. Aftar ~
fra ynsn geo and came from the north n rSa
labor ,o WORK OF Manager L. IL. n Grec Inc
was hurt was Ths blown down, but no one
going on, "''A "a reconstruction is
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-08
DESTROYER OF THE APHlS.
A Small Black Bug Is an Enemy OF the
Wheat Pest

- 1prbiio evan
lining the little green bug wheat DESTROYER
under the microscope today, r. NJ. Wilson
discovered an enemy Of the little pest IN
the shane of n small black bug While
under the glass this little black creature
killed twenty-five green bugs within hVe
,,,in,,t,r, ~, 1,ho destroyer has wings
az, ~. IT, .ha sar,o os the green
ana MES III tue a'r Tue sii"' 10 80
ones. Under the warm sunshine the buss
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lnorease b rI,.irlo Liaht pIan.s.

Fort wo,th. Texas April III. r. Iohn
son, representing the wcstipchosc Electric
Manufacturing company ~ Pit,shnrs, was
hero yesterday. He states that many clec
trio lIHht plants In Texas and the Terrttcr.
les are enlsrglns and Increasing their busl.
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Serious Difficult

Marlin. Texas. April 1'-a e ,ssis'
entity occurred on Blue h'us '..sls Y
whereby Tom Kelly was sei ',ssa "a
several places and Joe. Woe"'Buf =,
u gun-shoi wound In his Sinys for y,
heavy clothes Kelly wore ss' Ncs<'
let striking the button on 10 p
pants and causing II 20 TEA
have been MORALLY wounosu
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Yoakun loo,,s

,,s,o Sum, reSas, April 7--speclal services
y, s,m az the various churches today
~ s ee,s'ra'i@n n Easter, Al tho catsouc
saa.su q very large congregation par,lcl.
sr... ~ me services The subject dis.
su''ea ~ Rev. ]. Robertson a, the Pres.
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10 Gel coed pdoea tor ool,on-

10 the Editor Of The Post
Norsicana, Texas, March 80, In the years
lsaI and iss's there was produced in the
United states not less ihHp 2s,ooo,0oo bales
OF cotton, 100000 OF which were market.
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IL must be admitted that Kansas Is the
home Of faddlsts and the hotbed OF all
the isms extant. nevertheless Its inhnb
itanss are among the most active ana
versatile Of any people Oh the globe. It's
population can add 10 the gaiety OF nations
and never half try. The entire program OF
the emotions can be found in the Sunhowcr
state. Trngcdy, melodrama, buriesque and
farce comedy are as natural to kansans as
mint Julep to a Kentucky colonel Neither
Dickens. Balzac nor Dumas have been able
to create In hction moro striking aud pic
turcsque characters than John Brown,
Jim" Lane, Quantrell John j. Ingalls,
Mary Lease, Carrie Nation, William A.
PETER and Fred Funston.
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r. M JOHNSTON, PRESIDENT.
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II the New York business men want to
see Texas wonders they shouldn't be In a
hurry. rhey might remain IN the state a
yenr and then know very little Of It's won
derful possibilities. Even residents OF the
State do not know half there Is to know
about the Lone Star OF the imperial south.
west
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-08

Good morningl Have you brought IN"
another oil gusher;
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And now II does look like the Texas
solons were In 'bt OF hurry"
The wicked paragrapher OF the Denver
Post observes that joaquin Miller has
purchased tract of land In Texas and VIII
hereafter reside there, where the mules and
mockingblrds sing" lie might have added
also. where the roses bloom and the oil
gurgles. These beat ccles the year around.
II Is debatable, after all, whether the
British bull is extraordinarily headstrong.
News dispatches convey the information
that Mr.. Mckinley had to do some dpio.
matte 'argufying" to get MIR. Alien to re-
turn to Porto Rico as governor. Can IL be
possible that this Porto Ricun official de-
sires to reflect on the Ohio idea by resign
Ing an office?
Already any number Of embryonic military
genluses are making double.quck rush
for the political firing line OF 1904
1t Is estimated that Fred Funston win
reach the head of the army in twenty
years. a rather good endowment, this.
aud 1t mny be gathered in before the ex-
piratIon of that time Funston is both nm
expert swimmer and very rapid Splinter.
II Mr.. Little Brccchcs Is 10 disposed, n
considerable number Of American citizens
would be very glad To have Il late Jingle
ancnt that open door in China.
with about all the unfortunate republican
statesmen drawing 5000 per year and
gate rccclpts' MS worlds fair comms,
sioners. ;hc probability is that the Hon.
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s.M. JOHNSTON, W., Ps sEsIDssr
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And now 1t does look like the Texas
solons were In a "bt OF a hurry"
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A NEW OKLAHOMA TOWN.

Secretary $. A. & A. r r R {: K Im. Hst
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on yes, the United states are getting TO
bc a world power all right. Fraud IN
the Philippines is now added to large scan
dals In Cuba and we are yet youngl
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It is debatabe after ALL whether the
British bull Is extraordinarily headstrong.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-27
PERSONAL.

Rev. John Herr of Lima, ILL.,, is the
owner of the oldest Bible in the United
States. 1t was printed in 1858 at Zurich.
and has been in Mr.. Herr's family for
IL generations.
w. r. Sutton, an Englishman who died
recently, left about SIC. .OO0. 900 in trust to
provide model dwellings for working peo-
pie. The trustees may make the rents as
low as they like, provided no one lives
entirely free Of charge.
-
Ex-Mayor Samuel A. Green of Boston
has given to the Harvard art museum
some gorgeous articles of wearing ap-
parel worn by Harvard students of his
ancestors upon their graduation in the
eighteenth century. DR.. Green's grand
father graduated in 1854.
-
Prince Carl. Princess Ingeborg and
Prince Eugene of Sweden are soon to
visit the United States. Prince Carl is
the second son Of King Oscar. Princess
Ingeborg, his wife, is the daughter of the
crown prince of Denmark and Prince Eu-
gene is King Oscars youngest son.
-
Monsignor Scalabrini Of Placenza,
Italy. who is reported as the probable
successor of Cardinal Martinelli as the
papel delegate to this country is re-
garded as one Of the ablest ecclesiastics
of the church in Italy, and for number
Of years has been in charge Of his pres
ent diocese in Placenza.
-
In order to evade the Inheritance tax
law william Riley Of Medford. N. j.. put
SIS, 900 in each of four envelopes and di-
hat at iS 1,a
handed to each of his four children. This
was done. Riley was an undertaken ana
las estate was composed principally of
government bonds and bank stocks.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-27
How the President ApDOintS.
(Harper' s Weekly.)

The manner in which the president pro-
ceeds has been thoroughly illustrated
during the short time he has been in
Office. The country is familiar with the
reasons for his selection of Judge Jones
in Alabama. Ee could not find repub-
lican for the Office, and therefore ap-
pointed democrat. whose selection is
generally accepted as admirable. He has
followed this by the appointment of
thoroughly good man in Virginia. Henry
Uay Mcdowell is a republican, and is
the leading lawyer of Southwestern Vir-
ginia. He is the son of the late Henry
Clay Mcdowell. once United States mar
shall, who married the daughter of Henry
Clay, Jr., and lived and died In the
Henry Clay homestead. Ashland, in the
neighborhood OF Lexington. Ky. So the
new judge is a graduate of Yale and a
young man Of the very highest character
The Virginia organization did not select
him, but the evident purpose Of the pres
ident to find the best judge possible
brought the organization into line with
him, and the Endorsement Of Mcdowell
was literally forced out of the leaders
by a wholesale moral pressure. Judge
Mcdowell will be a distinct acquisition to
the federal bench in the South. if we can
take the Judgment of the best lawyers OF
Virginia Of both, parties. ~es --S
The collector and postmaster At VIII
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-27

C.. followed in the order named in the
quantities of last years crop exported
through the various customs districts of
the country. During the first quarter
OF last year there were % customs dis
tricts, each of which exported more cot
top than passed through the customs dis
tf1ct OF Puget sound. For the first quar-
ter of the present year only II customs
districts have handled more cotton than
tAe district Of Puget sound. As Amer
lean trade in the Orient develops the de-
mand for cotton from that quarter will
materially increase. which will. of course
make more foreign cargoes to be handled
at the Tacoma and Seattle wharves. The
says that the Japanese
liner Shinano Maru took from Seattle
yesterday q cargo consisting Of cotton
valued at $344.691. This cargo proba bly,
breaks the record for single shipments of
cotton from either of the leading ports
OF Puget sound. President Hill of the
Great Northern has his eye on the long
haul Of cotton by rail to Puget sound and
the transportation of it to the Oriental
market by steamships. A rapid develop
ment in cotton exports from this district
may be expected.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-27
Tnt COPPER MARKET.

The misfortunes which have recently
pvertaken Germany, paralyzing her i'll
dustries and decreasing her ability to
tions. strike at copper production IN the
United states with telling force. Indus
trial depression in Europe has had
far-rea ching effect. and its influence IS
felt to a surprising extent in the copper
market on this side of the ocean, The
monthly consumption of copper in Ger
many year ago was 14.717,2S0 pounds.
exclusive of pyrites. For the first nine
months of this year the average has been
10.259, 200. This falling off in consump-
ton is fairly representative of the re-
stricted demand throughout Europe. The
worlds estimated production of copper
for the past ten years was about 3,S6s.ooo
tons and during this period the estimated
production was S,113000 tons. The sup
ply was never equal to the demand and
the disparity was made up chiefly by
using metal which had once gone through
the process of manufacture.
The condition of the foreign demand
mas eNaDle prOuuCllOli " oNeItdhe So!i-
sumption this year for the first time in
q decade. There is every indication at
present that a change for the better is
near at hand and its benefits will be as
widely felt as the influences of recent
disasters have extended. 1t is said upon
good authority that should there be
movement among the largest producers
of copper looking to higher prices the
present stock would be consumed in a
weeks time and the production now
going on would barely suffice to supply
the demand. In the hope of lower prices,
buyers are holding off and the recent
decline in the market has made purchas-
ers wary and a bull movement hard to
handle. In any event, copper will domi-
mate the stock market until a solution
of the present difficulty is found. Before
many months, under normal conditions,
the visible supply will be reduced to al
most nothing. the clouds will lift and
brightness will take the place of gloom.
Copper is just now furnishing the most
interesting market with which buyers
have had to deal in many a day. There
is nothing slow about the fight the conf
modify is making for first place.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-27
Congressman William Alden Smith

Congressman William Alden Smith of
Michigan has introduced bill making
January %, the birthday of William
Mckinley, national holiday. 1t may
be doubted IL such action would meet
with general approval at this time. At
best the plan is not adapted to give ex-
preston to the nations reverence for the
late president, and some other form Of
memorial will doubtless be devised.
Neither Washington nor Lincoln were
given such signal honors until years
after their death. When the fruits of
William McKinleys craftsmanship shall
have ripened, posterity viii turn to the
history of his day and make his birth
day a national holiday. This is the
usual process by which memorials Of
such nature are given place on the
calendar.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-27
EXPORTS OF COTTON.
(Tacoma News.)

Mention has been made in the news
columns of the large increase in the re-
ceipts by rail and shipments to the ORR
ent Of cotton through this port. For
the first three months of the cotton year,
which is considered in the trade to be-
gin on September l. 1897 bales Of cotA
ton. containing 9.511,223 pounds ana
valued at $l.035.3SO were exported
through the Puget sound collection dis-
trict as compared with $50 bales. cons
tanning 1s0.246 pounds and valued at
$lS.2S5. during the corresponding period
of the year 1900. Over one million dol.
lars Of the increase in the exports from
the Sound during the last three months
Is to be credited to the cotton Of the
South which is brought to Tacoma and
Seattle over the Burlington road and its
connections.
Cotton Is the most valuable single pro-
duct which is exported from the United
States. During the last cotton year
New Orleans and Galveston handled for
export nearly 50 per cent of the entire
expectation Of cotton. Savannah Ca,
is the third port in Importance in cotton
shipments. New York. Boston, Whining
ton. N. c., Baltimore and Charleston, s.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-27

mington happen to be anti-Addicks men.
Their appointment was not made because
of this. for the president has refused to
take any part in the faction struggle He
early notified the postmaster general
that he wanted him to find the best man
for postmaster, and the two men were Sc
lected entirely on their merits.
In still another case, that of the COL
lectorship at Louisville. the president has
forced good men out of apparently un-
propitious conditions. The appointment
of Joseph A. Croft as collector at Louis
vile is set down as a victory for ex-
Governor Bradley over Senator Deboe,
there being two factions in the republican
party of Kentucky, also. 1t is nothing
of the kind. The old collector. Sapp, had
violated the civil service laws. and was
about to be punished. He resigned in a
hurry. but not in such a hurry that the
acceptance was not quicker than the res
ignation. Then Deboe presented the
name Of Mr.. Stone, ex-auditor of the
state, but he was promptly and decidedly
informed that Mr.. Stone could not be
appointed. Then the two factions were
asked to. get together and agree on a
good man. and there was such hostility
between them that they could not unite
on any one Of either faction: therefore
they presented Mr.. Croft.
So 1t goes. The presidents philosophy
of appointments is simple and logical
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-27
the NEW SECRETARY.

Good words are being said of Gov.
second cabinet officer chosen under the
new regime at the white house, and his
selection meets with approval in every
quarter. Among Iowas weH-known pub
lic men since he became prominent in
the politics of the state, Governor Shaw
has been we'll esteemed. He ranks high
in national politics, and he has an inti-
mate practical knowledge of the duties
of the position he is called to FILL 1t is
mot surprising, then, that at the men
tion of the presidents choice of a sue
cessor to Secretary Gage general ap-
proval should be voiced from every
quarter. While not regarded as the most
jmportant cabinet position, the place
Governor Shaw will fill commands the
widest range Of public affairs of any de-
partment of the government. Besides
the treasury, there are the mints, GUS
toms, the bureau of statistics, light
houses and life-saving stations, public
nue., secret service and immigrat tion
comptroller of the currency, and the
bureau of engraving and printing. All
these the secretary must attend to and
they are sufficiently numerous and COM
plicated to keep his hands full. Almost
everybody comes in contact at some
time during the year with one or more
branches of the government over which
the secretary of the treasury presides,
and he must he a good man who can
please every one. Governor Shaw will
come as near filing the bill, it is be-
2ieved, as any man who can be selected
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-27
Advocates of cheap labor who hay

Advocates of cheap labor who have
raised a prolonged howl over the salary
list in the Philippines. find upon inquiry
that salaries of American officials there
are petty compared with what other
governments pay. Governor Taft's salary
is $4,000, the pay of the governor Of
Java is s160oOo, and representatives of
other Dutch and English governments
ruling insignificant Malay provinces are
paid in like proportion. Another burn
ing issue has gone UP in smoke.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-12-27
A STATES REPUTATION.

That a state which Is known to nave
lawless element in its populat'o"
suffers from the bad reputation this con-
dition produces is a fact too well known
to require supporting argument. re-
cent issue of the Louisville Courier
Journal complained that capital Stunned
Kentucky "Lawlessness and the inse-
curity of human life Is responsible Tor
the states loss of standing" said the
Courier Journal in decrying the lack Oh
progress in the Blue Grass region III
reply to this. the Louisville Commercial
reviews the losses Kentucky has sus-
tanned, and makes singing comment
upon the course that has brought the
state into it's present plight. The edi-
torial utterance of the Commercial is
applicable to other states where the
evils which have injured Kentucky
threaten. 1t is as follows:
But these are minor causes of the de-
cadence in the industrial interests OF
Kentucky. Organized political black
mailing of the corporations. the over
throw of free ballot system, the spec
tacle of legally elected governor rob5ed
of his Office and driven forth an exile
from the state of his birth, and in which
the people have chosen him for their
chief magistrate, are enough to make
men of capital and enterprise hesitate
to come here to build homes and engage
in business.
1T is not for the Courier-Journal.
which has counseled and apologized for
all the lawlessness of the Goebelite party
these three years past, to affect an air
of hypocritical surprise that the state is
suffering not only in character but in
national interests. The people of the
United States stand aghast at the spec
tacle of political brigandage that IS up
held by such papers as this champion Of
Goebelism. With the public treasures
looted by dishonest officials, elections
made mockery, public offices usurped.
and courts of justice prostituted to the
purpose of political persecution. there is
little in this garden spot Of Gods beau
tiful world to attract capital or immi-
grafton, and the lessons Of the last few
years are but half learned by the people
who do the voting in Kentucky"