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OUR WEEKLY LETTER
FROM WASHINGTON.
( From Our Regular Correspondent )
Washington, D. C. Jan. 3, 1903.
A serious menace to the Monroe
doctrine has appeared on the hori
zon of American affairs, as a result
of the casuistic diplomacy of Secre
taiy of .State Hay. Senor Concha,
former Colombian minister to the
United States, has returned to his
country and is there promoting a
campaign against the ratification
of the canal treaty which his suc
cessor, Dr. Herrara, is endeavoring
to negotiate with the United States.
Colombia claims that she is now
receiving an annual income of
$500,000 from the zone of land
which the United States demands
as a sine qua non to the completion
of the canal. This amount may
be somewhat exaggerated, but it
is known that the Panama Railway
pays the C dotnbian government an
annuity of $250,000 and from ex
orbitant charges made for every
privilege accorded to commerce it
is reasonable to assume that the
exaggeration is not great. Secre
tary Hay is endeavoring to secure
the leasehold at a much lower
figure. It has already been decid
ed that the amount fixed in the
treaty is to slat’d indefinitely and
that the United States is to receive
a century lease with the privilege
of renewal at its pleasure, the only
question remaining to be determin
ed being the annual compensation.
The menace to the Monroe doc
trine lies in the following argument
with Senor Concha is advancing.
He urges the sale of the canal
privilege to Germany, who already
controls a large portion of the trade
of South America, and who would
be greatly benefitted by the owner
ship of the canal. He says this
course could not be construed as a
violation of the Monroe doctrine
because, when it was urged that
the Colombian constitution forbade
the relinquishment of any portion
of her territory, Secretary Hay
pointed out that there was no re
linquishment of territory in the
granting to the United States of a
perpetual lease. Colombia, accord
ing to Secretary Hay, would still
be the owner of the territory. The
same argument must apply equally
to Germany and there is little rea
rou to believe that Germany would
be as loth to pay a fair value for
the privilege as is the United
States. It may be said that the
United States will build the canal
along the Nicaraguan route, argues
Senor Concha, but that would not
prevent Germany’s completing the
Panama canal which offers many
advantages among them the sus
ceptibility of completion years be
fore the Nicaragua canal. Colom
bia would, of course, cede no terri
tory to Germany, only lease it, and
so there would be no violation of
the Monroe doctrine. Thus it
would seem that further delay on
the part of the secretary of state or
of congress might result in the
former’s being “hoisted by his own
petard.”
After days of anxious and pain
staking labor, the president is be
ing forced to a realization of the
utter impracticability of expecting
statesmanship from the leaders of
his party. After concluding a
treaty wity Cuba which, however
unfairly its benefits may be distri
buted in the United States, cer
tainly secures - for this country
benefits out of all proportion to
the concessions allowed to Cuba,
the president is learning that it is
not injustice to any American in
dustries that is at the bottom of
republican opposition to Cuban
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tion not to permit the lowering of
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Senator Aldrich, the present high
priest of extreme protection, there
is a coterie of senators which is
determined to defeat the new treaty
and every other which lowers a
single tariff schedule, and as no
reciprocity is possible without
some tariff reduction the reciprocity
policy of Blaine and McKinley and
Roosevelt is to be relegated to a
“campaign talking point” by the
servitors of tne piotected interests
of the country.
An examination of some of the
crop statistics of the year throws
an interesting light on the claims
of republican prosperity. Accord
ing to the government statistics,
the farmers of the United States
have taken from the soil crops
having a value of $2,557,895,416
during the past year. These are
the largest crops ever garnered in
the United States. Wheat, corn,
oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, pota
toes, etc., have all contributed their
share to this magnificent yield and
as a result the farmers of the coun
try are prosperous, they have
money to buy and are buying and
the manufacturers are prosperous
and the administration officials
are giving it out as a sort of
new years statement that this
is the result of “republican
prosperity,” have almost copy
wnted the term, in fact. When
the administration can demonstrate
that a republican weather-bureau
provides good crop weather, the
whole of the argument will doubt
less he received as sound by think
ing men—hut not till then.
The Roosevelt administration
has at last succeeded in ridding it
self of the unwelcome services of
General O. L. Spaulding, Assist
ant Secretary of the treasury, and
has replaced him with Mr Robert
B. Armstrong, at present private
secretaiy to Secretary Shaw. Mr.
Shaw was connected with a Chica
go newspaper. General Spaulding
is recognized as an authority on
customs duties and laws but he is
not young and under his adminis
tration there have been numerous
scandals such as the New York
silk frauds, etc., with none of which
General Spaulding was for a mo
ment supposed to be connected but
which the president believes could
not have occurred with a younger
and more alert mar at the head of
the service.
One of the most amazing propo
sitions ever made to congress is
contained in a report submitted
through the secretary of state by the
international coffee congress, wh>ch
met recently in New York. The
programme of the congress which
it is proposed shall be ratified by
treaty between the United States
and most of the other coffee pro
ducing countries, has for its object
the establishment of an interna
tional trust which shall limit the
production and thus iucresse the
price receiyed by the producer and
paid by the consumer. Further
provisions of the proposed treaty
would prohibit the importation of
low grade coffee and would legis
late out of existence all substitues
for coffee. The proposition was
submitted during the last days of
the anti-holiday session and has
not yet received the consideration
of congress.
Take care of the stomach and
the health will take care of itself.
If people only realized the souno
ness of that statement the majority
might live to a good old age like
Moses, “the eye undimmed, the nat
ural force unabated.” It is from the
stomach that the blood is made. It
is from the stomach that nourish
ment is dispensed to nerve and
music. If the stomach is “weak”
it can’t do its whole work for each
part of the body. If it is disease
the disease will taint the nourish
ment which is distributed, and so
spread disease throughout the body.
It was the realization of the impor
tance of the stomach as the very
center of health and the common
source of disease, which led Dr.
Pierce to prepare his “Golden
Medical Discovery.” “Diseases
which originate in the stomach.
The soundness of this theory is
proved every day by cures of dis
eases organs, heart, liver, lungs,
blood —by the use of the “Discov
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medicine for the blood and organs
of digestion and nutrition. It is a
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alcohol, whiskey or other intoxi
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HE SOUGHT LEGAL ADVICE.
Yet This Butcher Is Wondering What
to Do About It.
Astor is a lawyer who lives in
Englewood, says the Chicago Trib
une. He was walking from liis
house to the suburban train when
the butcher on the corner opposite
the station called to him. xkstor
had bought his meat from that
butcher for twenty years.
“Mr. Astor,” asked the butcher,
“what can 1 do if a dog runs into
the shop and carries off a roast of
beef worth f2 ?”
“Do you know whose dog it is?”
asked the lawyer.
“Oh, yes,” the butcher answered.
“I know who owns the dog all
right.”
“Then all you’ve got to do is to
send the owner a bill for the stolen
meat. You can collect it without
any doubt.”
Then Mr. Astor started to hurry
for his train.
“Mr. Astor,” the butcher called
after him —“Mr. Astor, that was
your dog. I’ll send you the bill this
afternoon.”
Next morning the bill came to
Mr. Astor’s otiice. But the butcher
had unfortunately forgotten that
his victim was a lawyer.
By the next mail he got his an
swer. With it came a bill for $lO
for legal advice in the matter of a
“thieving dog,” leaving a balance
of $8 due Mr. Astor. And now the
butcher is wondering what he had
better do about it.
Bridging a Chasm.
Dr. Alexander McKenzie in one
of his sermons tells a pretty anec
dote of the early life of Louis Agas
siz, the great scientist. Asa child
Agassiz lived in Switzerland, on the
border of a lake. He had a younger
brother, and one day the two lads
started to cross the lake. It was
frozen, and the ice looked safe
enough, but their mother watched
them.
The boys got on very well until
they came to a crack in the ice per
haps a foot wide. The mother could
not call to them, although her heart
failed her as she thought, “Louis
will get over well enough, but his
little brother will try to step over
and will fall in.”
As she watched she saw Louis get
down on the ice, his feet on one
side of the crack, his hands on the
other side, making a bridge of his
body, and the little brother crept
over him to the other side. Then
Louis got up and they went on their
way.
“We!! Begun !s Hs!f Done.”
Thus says the proverb. But it is
a melancholy fact that half the fail
ures in life are due to leaving un
finished what lias been started well.
It is never wise to dissipate one’s
energy by leaving a well begun task
in order to take up a fresh one, for
doing so is likely to result in a
promising piece of work being left
unfinished forever and aye and also
have a very bad effect on the mind
and character of the worker. Noth
ing really worth doing was ever
done without inconvenience, and it
is an excellent plan to train oneself
in perseverance and self sacrifice by
making a rule always if possible to
finish the work in hand before at
tempting anything else.
A Sharp Passage.
The English marriage service was
the subject of conversation. Lowe
said in bis dashing way that it was
full of nonsense. “Why,” he ex
claimed, turning to his wife, “it
made me say ‘with all my worldly
goods 1 thee endow’ when I had no
worldly goods wherewith to endow
you.”
“Ah, Robert,” she replied, “but
there were your brains!”
“Well,” he said, “all the world
knows that I did not endow you
with them.” —“Life and Letters of
Viscount Sherbrooke.”
His Bootjack.
A well known lawyer and writer,
a resident of Oneida county, N. Y.,
who has long since passed away,
used to tell a joke on himself, says
a Utica paper. Ilis story was to
the effect that he called for a boot
jack at a country hotel a* which he
stopped. Now, this lawytw and writ
er had very large feet, and the
hostler to whom he made the re
quest, after casting a glance at the
big boots, exclaimed: “Why, man,
it isn’t a bootjack you want for
those. You need the fork of the
road!”
Persian Peculiarities.
Persia has been described as “con
sisting of two parts—one, a desert
with salt; another, a desert with
out salt.” This is rather an exag
geration, but the general appear
ance of the country is extremely
barren. Where irrigation is car
ried on this wilderness is made to
“blossom like a rose.” The low
houses of Persian cities are built of
unburned, unpainted brick and have
no windows on the street. They are
usually more inviting within than
without.
It not^*n j* seems
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NATIONAL BISCUIT OOMPANV ' v
When Ruskin Talked Nonsense.
In a lecture at Oxford when he
was Slade professor Sir William
Richmond defended the fame which
the world had accorded to Michael
Angelo and . Raphael. Formerly
Ruskin had denounced Michael An
gelo, and he was not very well
pleased with Sir William for hold
ing forth on the other side. When
Ruskin recovered from the ill health
which had caused him to give up
the Slade professorship, Sir Wil
liam retired so that he might fill i:
again. Touched by this, Ruskin
asked if lie might dine with hi?
young friend. The latter ' rs de
lighted, and they spent a pk: nit
evening. When Ruskin rose to go
he said, “Willie, why did you make
that violent attack upon me about
Michael Angelo?” “Mr. Ruskin,
because you talked nonsense,” was
the uncompromising reply. “You
are quite right,” was the parting
word of the great hearted master,
“it was nonsense.”
Floating Gardens.
On the rivers of Cashmere arc
thousands of floating gardens,
formed by long sedges which are
woven together in the form of a
gigantic mat. These sedge grasses,
flags, stalks and lilies are woven on
the river or lake banks while their
roots are still growing in the slime
underneath. The required amount
of earth is then superimposed upon
the mat, the stalks are then cut, and
the mat and its load are a full
fledged “floating garden.” They are
usually about twenty by fifty yards
in extent, seldom larger, the full
depth of the mat and its earthy cov
ering being about three feet. A dis
honest Cashmiri will someL; -i tow
his neighbor’s garden away ! n its
moorings and sell the produce of
the other’s toil.
A Suspected Visiter.
“Is the author in ?”
“Who wants to see him?” asked
the boy who answered the bell.
“J ust say a friend.”
“lie ain’t got none,” said the
boy, and then he poured forth the
following in a volley: “An’ he’s
done seen the man about the rent,
an’ the groceryman has given him
time, an’ the coalman’s in the ban’s
of a receiver, anyhow, an’ the bailiff
broke liis leg coinin’ to levy on him,
an’ he’s sick in bed from a yard of
plasterin’ that fell on him whilst he
wuz a-writin’ obituaries on his cred
itors, an’ you’d better go ’long ’bout
yer business an’ let him alone!” —
Atlanta Constitution.
The Single Thought and Two Souls.
“Smoking on the car!” exclaimed
the disgusted woman as Dennis
Flaherty, with his long stemmed
pipe, took his seat beside her.
“Oi am,” rejoined Dennis between
long and determined puffs. “And
av ye don’t loike ut go wan up
froont. These sates is resairved for
smokhers.”
“If you were my husband, I’d
give you poison.”
“Would ye now?” Puff, puff.
“Oi think av ve wor me woife”—
puff, puff—“Oi would take ut.”—
Lippincott’s.
Every Mother Knows
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covered up at night. They will
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Do not give them medicine con
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Balsam, free from narcotic drugs,
is never more useful than when it
rids the children of cold and saves
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ISarsr Mane Corelli
T is Ptucrotrcf Z:r.da, Anlftaay Hope
A LibSy o’ w-iulity,
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S.’iiiey J. Wcytaaa
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Marcella, Mrs. Humphry Ward
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Tiie New Rector, Stanley J. Vie)man