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"Outside OF Chicago and Colorado there
is a little disturbance in the labor mar
ket. Organizations are adjusting them
selves TO changed conditions with less re-
sistance than before and in some In
stances accepting reductions Locally. sea-
sonable weather has stimulated retail
trade TO some extent. Railway earnings
are / per cent higher than at this time
last year Construction work is decreasing
and in the steel market structural mate
rial has felt the reaction more severely
than machinery and hardware. Mime
apolis Times.
''If Senator German becomes the candi-
date of his party for president of the
United States he would leave the senate,
I'm case of his election, at the beginning or
1906, Just before Mr.. Rayner would take
his seat should he be elected next jan
uary. Then IL would be Senator German
ambition to leave In the senate Mary
lander who measures UP TO the place ana
can do credit to the state. baltimore
Sun.
'Yet Professor Wigmore believes that
the mischief and evil will some time In
some manner come to an end here, as 1t
has come TO an end In Great Britain.
where the whole odious practice of mis-
using the rules Of evidence as petty
strategems In litigious tactics has passed
away, so that In the reports OF decisions
there now occur annually not more than
five rulings upon points OF evidence, as
against more than five hundred In the re-
ports OF the United states, and that In
community almost half as populous as
ours. but more than twice as litigtous. ="
Boston Herald.
"Of the Moros OF Sulu encountered by
Woods force more than three hundred
dead are reported to have been left on
the field and many more carried away
whereas on the side OF socalled ciyiliza-
tion five persons were wounded--a major
and four privates. IL was the old story so
often repeated in India Egypt and Africa,
and latterly I'm Samar and Mindanao-a
massacre OF frenzied but practically help
less mi-savages. opposing spears to
modern rifles. buffalo Courier.
''such is the attractive power OF that
$40 000. 600 I'm gold that, II allowed. not
merely the two departments mentioned
but all the rest of Colombia would annex
Itself to Panama and take away all the
money The isthmian Republic abounds in
commercial wisdom and will divide the
contents OF it's treasure chest with no
body."-Chicago Daily Tribune.
M Delcasse, the fTench minister or
foreign affairs. referred 10 the
notorious fact that the blackmailing Co
lombian politicians had several months
ago begun To question the validity of the
extension OF the Panama company's fran
chise. which was granted by President
Sanclemente I'm 1873 i'm consideration OF
the payment OF an additional sum OF one
million dollars This extension was
for six years. from 1901 to 1910, and the
Bogota freebooters argued that II IL were
set aside they would be I'm a position next
year 10 declare the forfeiture OF the
French franchise and TO enforce that
clause OF the contract which empowered
the Colombian government TO confscate
tho French company's property failing
the completion Of the canal within the pc
riod originally named. philadelphia In
quirer.
by way OF London we learn that the