Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-04-23

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 The schools of Brussels have beer closed and the buildings are used fo quartering troops.
 The national debt is now S997, ,732, 3S2, this being the first time it ha: gone below the billion dollar mari in years.
 Wealthy men have their uses. Lii braries, art collections and other ad vantages are made possible by their generosity.
 Mir. Dillon's remarks to Mir. Cham berlain in the British house of com mons indicate that Tilmanism has even invaded" England.
 The improvement in Spanish trade with this country shows that the re cent war served to make the two countries better acquainted.
 The Belgian socialists act very much like anarchists though it would probably make them very angry tc accuse them of being anarchists.
 Presidents veto of the bills to re- move charges of desertion show that to abandon the flag of ones country is "the unpardonable sin" in his eyes.
 The French government has just passed subsidy bill for her merchant marine similar to the shipping bill now before the United States con gress.
 Musicians say that the permanence of ragtime in music is assured, and, moreover, that it has always been known, Richard Wagner having been past master of it.
 A French agriculturist has discov- covered date palm whose fruit has no pit or stone, and an effort wifi be made toward a general introduction of the improved species.
 The death is announced in Spring field, Mass, of the man who invented the steam caliope. The caliope still lives and fourishes wherever a circus performance is on tap.
 An attempt on the part of the English tobacco trust to get the re- tailers to boycott American tobacco has failed, as the dealers are unwill- ing to give up their best selling brands,
 The Albuquerque Citizen notes the fact that "One of the Arizona papers is advocating the obsolete and for gotten notion of sixteen to one free coinage" but it does not state where the freak is located,
 Henry Watterson, in searching for the lost chord which will, Orpheus- like, lead the errant democrats back into the fold, struck the old string of ''the man on horseback" which was worn to frazzle in Grants time with out avail.
 James R. Garfield, whom the presi- dent has just selected as civil service commissioner, is a son of President James A. Garfield, and author of the recently repealed Ohio Corrupt prac- tices" law requiring candidates to file sworn statements of campaign expenses.
 The president raises the point in vetoing the bills to remove the charge of desertion from soldiers records, that the matter is wholly within the jurisdiction of the war department, and not with the legislative branch of the government.
 Funston has been charged with violating the laws of civilized warfare in his capture of Aguinaldo by dress ing some of his men as insurgents. He retorts that the newspaper edi- tors who make the charge know more about golf than war, where every. thing is lawful except using poison and violating flag of truce.
 It takes 16,000 newmail bags every year to keep up the supply used by the postofice. The worn out bags were sold last year for S6,OOO for the old leather, canvas, iron and brass in them.
 The Chinese government is estab- fishing legations in Italy, Austria and Spain, in pursuance of the new policy of closer relations with she outside world. Heretofore the ministers to England. Russia and the United States have looked after all foreign interests.
 The greatest victory that the American army has ever gained is that accomplished against the forces of disease in our insular possessions. In the case of Havana, once the hot bed of tropical epidemics, smallpox has been entirely stamped out and yellow fever practically so.
 A convention of the leading nc distes of the country, held in Chicago last week, decided that that city and not Paris London or New York should set the fashions for American women. This may cause disappointment to the superseded cities, but, coming from Chicago, it ought not to cause surprise.
 It is given out from Washington that the retirement of General Miles has been decided on. Troubles lead | ing up to it commenced during Cleve- lands administration. It is difficult | to place ones finger on anything that | Miles has ever done that has been of | special significance to either to the country at large or to the army. As 1 an ornamental figurehead for the