Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-08

900, 900. The chief disagreement between
the members of the committee was as TO
the battleships, one proposal being that
they should be Of $4,000 tons displacement,
and another that they should be from 5000
to 10, 1000 tons. 1t is one thing TO lay the
keels of new ships and another to get them
ready for sea. or late the main trouble
with SPANS new men-of-war has been that
they were obsolete before they were
launched.
The Russians, judging from all ac-
counts, must have worked like beavers
during their occupation of Manchuria.
They have effected a complete transforma-
ton in the appearance of the country. AS
one correspondent expresses it, Siberia
seems to have extended southwards to the
railway line. Hallar, where Ave years
ago were a few Mongol tents, near a poor
Chinese settlement, is now a Russian town
with Russian shops, hotels and hospitals.
The correspondent counted twenty-five To-
comotives standing at the station. Hardin,
he says, is a Russian city, where five years
ago there were half a dozen Chinese mud
huts. 1t has a Russian civil population
OF 9,000, with river steamers on the Sun
Carl, with forests OF scaffold poles where
a new town is under construction, with en-
CINE shops of the best and engine sheds
with stalls for forty-two locomotives. At
H~antahotzu and other places In the forests
east of Hardin. where Ave years ago were
some robber huts, there are now large
Russian settlements, with home life and
women and children. At Pogranitchnaia,
on the eastern frontier, where there was
nothing. there is now a Russian town
with handsome brick buildings. electric
lights and water laid on, a public park, a
reading room and railway stalls for
twenty-one locomotives. Coming south
from Hardin Russian settlements are be-
ing built on Russian concessions alongside
all the great cities. At Mukden the rail-
way, which was fifteen miles away, now
passes the western wall. r Russian
concession round the railway station covers
ten square miles. Large barracks have
been built there and permanent m
dalton for railway oflcials and the ON
GERS OF the permanent garrison.
Efforts are being made thro 1ghout some
OF the larger cities of England, and espe-
cially in London, to put a stop to the habit
OF swearing on the public streets. There is
a law on the subject, but II is rarely en-
forced except, perhaps. in some small town
where the mayor may for the time get a
~virtuous streak. The trouble with the law
Is that it is only put into practice when
some citizen makes a complaint to a police
man, and that statistics Of the police courts
show that even when arrests are made the
prosecutor very seldom appears 10 press the
complaint the next morning. In Liverpool.
where there is a large proportion OF the
hoodlum in the population, the habit Of
cursing in public has been largely re-
strained recently. but that was because the
police received strict orders TO arrest any
person. male or female. who might be heard
using vile language on the streets without
waiting for a complaint from a citizen. The
habit OF swearing, too. It Is asserted. is not
confined to the lower classes, but has made
great inroads into society, especially among
the women. who do not hesitate TO empha-
size some remark with a big, big d.
sss
British residents OF Greece are much
wrought up over the action OF the govern,
ment in accepting the offer Of a foreign
capitalist to erect a gambling casino IN
the old British cemetery in Corfu. Wher
the Ionian islands we're ceded by England
to Greece In 1864 II was specifically pro.
vided that the cemeteries would remain
undisturb.d. The new scheme includes az
hydropathic Institution. concert hall anC
casino where a full Layout" Will be run