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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-03

wees The secretary OF war declaea
that under this regulation the practice
Of announcing the retirement n gen
eral orders of general officers ana
chiefs of war department bureaus De
discontinued ard that hereafter re-
tirement of such officers shall be an
ucunced in special orders as was the
Practice prior to 1892.
That defense only makes the matter
worse. 1t simply prohibited the an
rouncement of general officers III gen
eral orders and that the announcement
should be made in special orders,
y hich enlarge5 the opportunity Ios
eUlogizing such officers instead OF re-
stricting it. Even if that order in
plies what this gang Of imperiallsts
claim. it has been disregarded time
ard again. When General Otis was re-
tired, Secretary Root said in the order:
General Otis goes to his retll ement
with consciousness of duty well done
during forty years of continuous and
exceptionally meritorious services,
which entitle him to the gratitude and
| best wishes of his cOuntrymen."
| When General Miles was retired, at
| ter nearly fifty years Of service-a SER
| Vice which was very large factor IN
preserving the Union. and whose BODY
was covered with wounds in defending
/ this government when these modern
military upstairs were pulling infants,
the following order was issued:
Washington, Aug. s, l903.-The re-
tirement from active service Ey the
b. esident, Aug, st 8, 1903, of Lieut..
Gen. Nelson A Miles, q. S. A., by oper-
alton of law, under the provisions OF
the act of congress approved June
80, 1882. is announced. Lieutenant
General Miles will proceed to his
home. The travel enjoined is neces-
sary for the public service. BY order
of secretary of war.
H. c. CORBIN,
/ "Adjutant General, U. S. A."
That is the form used in announce
, ment of the retirement of second
! lieutenant. The words, Lieutenant
, General Miles will proceed TO his
home" were intended as an insult. ant
) the other words, 'The travel enjoinec
{ is necessary for the public service,
, was a still further insult. General
Miles lives in Washington, AMI tbs
, words were inserted so as to follow
: the second lieutenant form.
The smallness, the despicable mean
ess, the want of all dignity, whicf
the president has displayed in this
: matter shows UP side Of his charac
t ter of which all Americans ar
: ashamed. They can now begin to un
- derstand how censorship was place.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-03

on news from the Philippines, how i'm
poItant public reports were sup
II essed and how he came to declare
that the protests against inhuman
cruelty practiced on the priests and
people in the Philippines was an at
tack on the army"
Always mention The Independent
when writing to our advertisers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30
ONE OF HER RIGHTS.

A just judge in St. Louis has decided that a wife has a right to replenish her stock of money from her husbands pocketbook while he is. asleep. and without notifying him os the abstrae- ton. This modern Daniel declares that f a woman needs money and her hus- band refuses to furnish it. he is not en- titled to divorce because she surrep- titiously takes small change from his pockets whenever she has the oSpor- tunity. It is the husbands business to provide his wife with spending money and if he disapproves of her manner of spending it, he must protect his pocket book from her depredations or suffer the consequences without redress.
 We don't know how good law this is. but it is good sense. When a man mar ries a woman he endows her with all his worldly goods. or if he doesn't he ought to. Attempts to keep any of them out of her reach deserve reproba- ton, and it is cheering that the St. Louis judge reprobated the attempt that came to his notice. .... i.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30
sunday Morning.

 A hissful peace brooks OCT the scene, The eiang and roar have died away; The city lies at rest; serene, '' Despite the strife of yesterday; The Warlike sDarrOws cen have ceased To raise their shrill, defiant cries, And, far off, in the purple east, -'-, The long waves gently. fall and rise. The breeze that comes to softly stir The drowsy leaves and sway the vine Is like tagging messenger
 From realms far distant and divine; The pealing of the matin bell
 Falls sweetly, gently on the ear; The mellow tones recede and swell, '-''' By turns afar and near and clear. !. Beyond the limits of the town Across the fields long shadows lie; - The scarecrow's arms droop humbly down That yesterday were held so high; The spotted cow gets up behind And then in front and views with scorn The fr0wsy calf and is inclined To lick it clean-'tis Sabbath morn. The former rude, sarcastic, jay l. Sits meekly op the swaying limb; The brook that murmured yesterday Now sings sacred hopeful hymn; Peace broods OCT all the scene save where The pig half in the shadow lies And fiercely hips one ear to scare
 Away the Sabbathrbreaking flies. E -S. E. Riser in Chicago Record -HeSaA
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30
nIAMoNps.

Talk about diamonds is perhaps not very appropriate just now when so many have lost the diamonds they were going to get out of Wall street. Still, it may be mildly encouraging to know that when the people get able to buy diamonds again there will be some to buy The South African diamond mines are holding out well. Last year the value of the output of the consolidated De Beers and Kimberley properties was s20. 100000. Several new mines have been developed and promise to give rich yields. The Premier and the Bultfon- tein are among them. but neither ap- breaches to the famous Kimberley and De Beers mines. More than S5O,ooo loads of diamond bearing ground were taken out of the Bultfontein mine last year. yielding an average of one-fifth of carat per load, The Premier yield- ed nearly 100000 loads. averaging one third os a carat per load. One of the main troubles that now confront the mine managers is the scarcity of labor. AttemDts. are being made to get men from zulnland and from Barotseland in Rhodesia. but with little success and a good deal of expense. Last year s1sO,oOo alone was expended in sending for na- tives. paying their railroad fares and feeding them on the journey to the mines. The natives have been spoiled by the high wages and good living pro- vided by the military authorities during the. war and are slow to return to the former rates of pay.
 The indications are that diamonds will be high. but they can be had. Let us strive for them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30

There are two thousand Chinese youths in the schools and universities of Japan. Some of them are girls. The Japanese are now numerous in Peking and in other Chinese cities. They are making persistent efforts to establish more intimate and Sympathetic rela- tfons with the Chinese.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30

gains between the ninth or June and the date when they will be needed.
 There are also some assurances of the negative sort. The recent ex- tensive process of liquidation and the restrictions put on speculative activi- ties must tend to ease the coming demands on the banks; so, too, must the special efforts that have been made in the south and west to de serve MT. Cannon's loudly expressed confidence in the ability of those sec tions to meet their own emergencies. They will not be able to do that alto gether this year; but the southern and western banks will be much more nearly equal to their duty than they have commonly been in the past, In the south and the middle west, though not in the remoter west. bank reserves were somewhat larger in June of this year than they were in July of last. Of course there will be some monetary stringency this fall, as there must always be till the national banking laws are radically changed; but it is not likely to be much more severe than it was last fall, and there is fairly good chance that it may be less severe.-Providence Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30
4 SURPRISING sHoWISG.

The State os, New York isn't feeling particularly proud over the fact that she has within her borders more saloons than there are in all the States south of the Ohio river and Pennsylvania, in- cluding Arkansas and Louisiana. The figuring is that New York has 34,O0O saloons. and the other territory men, toned has 27,00O. Prohibition, under To- cal option laws, has been gaining rapid ly in the South. In Mississippi 65 coun- ties out ofs75 have prohibition; in Texas 1S3 out of 248. with sales restricted in many parts of 62 others; in Kentucky 47 out of 119. while S5 other counties have licensed town each, and 19 coun- ties ? licensed towns each; in Georgia
 1os out os 137: in Arkansas 54 out of 85, with partial prohibition in two other counties: and in Virginia 50 out of 100,
 with expectations of adding 25 counties to the prohibition column soon. In Tennessee of the $500 cities and towns only 8 have the unrestricted sale of licuor; in North Carolina 20 per cent.
 of the saloons have been closed since the
 passage of a local option bill last spring; in West Virginia a considerable
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30
1RA DI I7ION.aL.

Bad man-Haye you killed your man Cholly Gotrox-Aw. no. Me chauffeur attends to all that, ye know.-Judge.
 Grandpa. what is a morgantic mar riage?"
 A inorganic marriage? Hm. That must be a marriage for money.-Life, Casey-Kelly hasn't tn price av a dhrink, Costigan How do yez know thot?
 Casey-He ain't dhrinkin' Judge.
 Farmer Hayfield--It must be derned expensive living in New York. s,.s.
 Farmer Oatbinn Gust baekl It Is. But not so expensive ez living in Moodus and visiting New York. Puck.
 To Rise in the World. - Books that have helped me!' chuckfed Tommy as he piled enough bound volumes of the Congressional Record on chair to en- able him to reach the shelf where his mother kept the marmalade Chicago Tribune.
 Yes" said the bank official, Eve need a runner for the bank. Have you had any eXperienee?' 2
 Well, sir replied the applicant, I've lved at Lonesomehurst for years, and I've caught the 7:S9 train to the city regularly each day. philadelphia Press.
 Yes" said the old native of the Ken lucky mountains, them Birdseye boys are pretty bitter, but they had some heart in deaiin' with my boy Hank"
 Spare his life?" queried the tourist.
 No, but they passed him the deni- john before the shootin'. Chicago Daily News.
 But your country is so new, said the foreigner; you have no traditions" ,"
 "Oh, dunno. We've got old enough to have men here who can hold their grandchildren on their knees and tell of experiences they had when they were |lprofessional baseball players. Chica- go Record Herald.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30
:.lINADhoUA4Is.

Much is said about the decay of re- ligion" in civilized lands, and it is in teresting to notice that there is also a decayiof religion in at least one heathen land. Careful observers in China speak of the decay of Confucianisnl. Its sway over the minds of the Chinese lit- erati is by no means what it was even as recently as thirty years ago It is true that there Is apparently no marked diminution in the number of ancestral halls. the existence of which all over the land serves as an indication of the vitality of the state religion. Yet, rlev- ertheIess, the more the country is per- meated with western knowledge the more are the minds of the educated class becoming alienated from the teachings to which before unquestion- ing obedience was accorded. The North China Herald makes this explanation:
 It is gradually daWning upon the edu- cated young men of China that knowI- edge of the Confucian classics is no longer what it was from commercial point of view. And the comprehension of this fact is sufficient to account for the diminishing interest that is being taken in the acquisition of Confucian learning. It must also be admitted that, as the broader and deeper knowledge introduced and inculcated by western scholars is becoming assimilated, there is an ever-increasing realization of how inadequate Confucianism is, notwith- standing it's merits, to meet the require- ments of the present day. " It is claimed for the Christian relig- ion that it is adequate to the religious requirements of the whole world. Time will tell,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30

extent of territory has been brought under local prohibition. and in Alabama a movement is>on foot for State pro- hibition law. Two reasons are assigned for this rapid closing of the saloons one. the increasing feeling that liquor mus. be kept away from the absolute negro. the movement thus being one of self-Droteetion on the part of the whites; the other. that prohibition sem timent receives practical expression. because in the supremacy of one polit- ical party the saloon interests cannot trade one party off against another.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30
BANKING STRENGTH. 1, :.

The Comotroller os the Gurrency's completed synopsis of the inforna- tior. secured by the June call for re- Torts of condition of the national banks does not give much help in an- swering the question as to whether there will be a troublesome monetary. stringency next fall. One reason Is that the custom of the government of calling for reports at irregular dates necessarily detracts from the value of such information as is of fered through comparisons of the con- ditions of one year with those of other years This year., for example, the banks were asked to state their condition on the ninth of June, while last years report of most nearly cor responding date was that for the six teenth of July. The more than a months difference in time might con siderably invalidate the argument from comparison, though the error can in measure be corrected by simultaneous comparison with the last preceding report of this year.
 WILL SuCIl dlipWdllCES# 4 IlIduG, tIlS most that can safely be said is that if the strengthening of the banks since the ninth of June has continued at the rate of the two months imme- diately preceding that date, then the probability is that the crops can be moved this year with somewhat less difficulty than they were last year; but If the strengthening has not been and is not being kept up, then there is threatened more trouble in the money market this year than was met last year. These rather unsats- flying conclusions follow from the facts that the banks were not in quite as good condition in June of this year as in July of last year, but that they were considerably stronger in June than they were last April.
 Between the sixteenth of last July and the ninth of last month the banks by more than a hundred and ninety three million dollars, while their de- posits increased only about hun dred and two millions and their re-
 serves slightly decreased. But the latter were generally higher in June of this year than they were in April, which may be taken to mean that special efforts have been making to prepare for the fall currency and loan demands. If these efforts are con- tinuing, the outlook may be really much better than it seems from such comparative figures as are now available. Account should be taken. too, of the increase since last July of nearly hundred millions in capi- tai and surplus and of fifty mil lions in circulation. 2, These are lia- bilities, to be sure, but they of course add to the resources of the banks for loaning purposes. As for the small decrease in reserves, that is not espe- cially alarming; summer is the sea- son when these naturally increase, and there is time for substantial
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30
NEW JERSEYS cUMBRoUs JUDI
 '5 CARY

..s4&4 CIAh1.
 New Jersey has the most elaborate, cumbrous and expensive judiciary sys- tenn in the country. Some constitu-
 tional amendments are to be voted on at special eIction on September 2 re- casting to some extent it's system of courts. We should suppose the change would be in the direction of greater simplicity, but apparently there is no such intention.
 There are nine kinds of courts in New Jersey at the present time above the municipal or justices courts, These nine courts, as we find recorded in the Trenton True American, are: Oyer and Terniner, Quarter Sessions, Common Pleas, Orphans, Circuit, Supreme. Pre- rogative, Chancery, and Erors and Ap- peals. Until recently Pennsylvania got along very comfortably with a Su- preme Court, Common Pleas, Orphans. Oyer and Terminer, and Quarter Ses- sions of the Peace. The two last-nalll- ed are practically. one, court for the trial of criminal cases. A Superior Court was added several years ago to relieve the Supreme Court of some of it's work of review. This makes six courts at the outside, our Common Pleas Court exercising equity jurisdic- ton. It is simple, complete, and satis- factory, and justifies the New Jersey compaint that their state has more courts than are needed.
 MT. Charles H. Hartshorne in the Trenton True American makes strong indictment against the amendments. He claims that they confirm and aggravate conditions that make litigation expen- sive, tedious, and uncertain. He shows that the system is survival of bar barous age, and that it has been aban- doned in England and her colonies and by every state of the union except New Jersey, and that by these amendments 1t is proposed to5 make the system in New Jersey worse,
 They have a Court of Errors and Ap- peals in New Jersey, consisting of the Justices of the Supreme Court, the Chancellor. and six special Judges, who till recently were, laymen. One anlend- ment proposes to make the Court of Errors and Appeals consist of a chief judge and four associate judges, and eliminate the Supreme Judges altogeth- CT; make them subordinate, in fact, though supreme in name. This contra diction iii terms ought not to be coun- tenanced in judiciary system. There can be nothing superior to supreme. ex- cept where language is used loosely and 
 | Constitutional amendments do not as a rule excite very deep popular inter-. est, but the method fixed for voting on these New Jersey amendments is fa- vorable to their adoption. It is evil dently framed with this design. Those favoring the amendments merely hand in their ballot as it is printed, and it counts as vote. To vote no, one must write the word against the amendments. he does not favor. One must be able to read, discriminate, and write to vote against any or all of these amendments, but an illiterate mute can vote for them without making mark or mistake.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30

These New Jersey judiciary amend ments are in the wrong direction. Her court system should be simpIifed and litigation made less expensive. The amendments promise no relief of this character but rather aggrayate the sit .uation and put off the day of real ju- dietary reform in that state.-Philadel- phia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30
ApvERTrs1Nc RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each IT. serrlon. Five Cents Word for full week
 Display advertisements. per Inch. one in' sertion. s1-20; each subsequent insertion, 70 cents; one week. ss.2o; one month. sio: ons year. so
 Obituary Notices. In prose or verse. 15 cents per line. Notices of Births. Marri- ages, Deaths. and Funeral. 50 cents eacn. Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30

The Moscow Gazette warns the. Rus sian government against allowing Eng lishmen to settle in the oil districts of the Caucasus, as the situation may be- come the same as that in the Transvaal before the war. ...f #.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-30

It is believed that there are now at least five hundred deer in the Massa-' chusetts woods.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-28
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-28

"The Consolidated Ency-
clopedic Library is something 50
startlingly unique that the old
fogy publishers of so-called. en-
cyclopedias will have to wake up
very decidedly or take a back
seat, an expression which has
been made very popular of late.
In twenty volumes it covers
nearly everything that is Of inter-
est to any one, and the books,
beautifully bound, are simply
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-05
PER SONAL.

DIR. Maurice Bloomfield, professor
of Sanskrit and comparative philolo-
gy at Johns Hopkins. is spending his
vacation in reading the proof of a
glossary of words found in the ancient
Vedas of the Babylonians.
Charles Dumas, who has been
honored by the Society of Men of Let
ters of Paris with the Sully-Prud-
hcmme prize, which is equivalent to
being made a poet laureate of France,
is a young man just out of his teens.
A Chicago lawyer tells of weird
break he witnessed in London last
year. Over shop door a man had
placed the motto: Mems Conscia
Recti' Ga mind conscious of right.
The next day rival tradesman across
the street, not to be outdone, flashed
the following sign: MEMS and Wom-
ems Conscia Recti."
-Ex-Sheriff Tom" Dunn of New
York has long since won a reputation
as a wit. In consequence a number
of alleged witticisms are tackled to his
name that were never perpetrated by
him. Dunn" said a friend to him
the other day, what is the cleverest
thing you ever said?' II don't KNOW
sighed the ex-sheriff, "but it was prob
ably said by someone else"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-05
The Fascination of Trains,

It's funny how quickly a man will
adopt the customs of a place that is
strange to him." said a man who has
just returned from his vacation, ac-
cording to the Philadelphia Press.
60 ahead" said his friend. Spin
your yarn"
Wen, it isn't exactly yarn. You
know 1 live out at EIkins during the
winter. Our house is within a hundred
yards of the railroad and we have hun
dreds of trains laundering past each
day, but we have become so accus-
toned to it that they don't annoy us.
In fact, if I ann reading out there I
don't hear the trains at ALL
We'll. about month ago my family
took cottage down at little town
where the trains run through at the
rate Of about half a dozen a day. T
went down there to spend my vacation
with them.
THE first day was there we were
sitting on the back porch when we
heard a train coming. Immediately
the whole family-wife and all-made
rush for the front of the house and
stayed there until the train had gone
on its way. When my wife came back
1 asked:
g Expecting some one?'
" NO.
" Any one on the train that you
knew?
" NO.
Then why on earth did you rush to
the windows to see the train come in ?,
" oh, I don't know. We ALWAYS do
Il said nothing, but it struck me as
ridiculous that a woman who was as
used to trains as she is should act like
a village gossip every time a train pull
ed into the station. And l found out
that one of the children was invariably
at the station to meet each train and
collected enough small talk to last a
sewing circle for an hour or more.
1T made me mad at first, but. bv
gum, do you know, l hadn't been in
that place three days before 1 found
myself doing the same thing. The
station is a sort of bulletin board
where you read the latest news of the
day"