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The Press an;! Banner. | BY HUGil WILSON. AltlKI^VII.I.i:. s. i'. v on fo Havana" SOME INTERESTING POINTS AS TO THE TWO ARMIES. The Frl?n?l<? of in tJ<I>? Country :ire Spurulu*lug as to Wliiit MrKinloy will I)o Wlicn llo TnkPit Chni'RA of Tlilngx, Nkw York, Nov. 12.?New ihat McKinley lias been elected President of the United Slates, Cuban sympathizers are beginning to ask what strps he will take to put an end Jo the bloody struggle nov? going on in that unhappy island. There was no uncertain ritig to (he Kepublican platform adopted it) St. Louis, and the very least the new President can do when he takes the " ' ? ? -? ill ^ 4 l> a i'resiuenuai cnair win w unn^ mo matter before a sympathizing con gr ess. In the meantime, what are the Cubans going to do to help themselves? For the last six months they have remained practically idle as far as effective warfare is concerned. They have burned several towns and have fought several battles, but nothing strategically important has been effected. A great deal of ihis idleness has been imposed by the rainy season. It is no easy matter to move troops over a country that is knee deep in water and reeking with fever and ma laria. Another thing mat nampers iuu Cubans just now is their lack of horses. Thousands of animals were rid den to death on that lon$ z\z\s. march down the island to Piuar del Rio, and thousands more were shot by the Spaniards. At present the Cubans are in a bad way for horses, and without horses they cannot move with a celerity sufficient to circumvent mounted forces such as the Spaniards have. This, according to reliable Cuban information, is why nothing has been heard from Gomez in such a long time and why Maceo has remained s ) quiet in Pinar del Rio. The latter has done almost all the fighting during the last summer, but he has done the most of it with his foot soldiery. At present it is said that he has bareiy sutlieient horses to transport his camp equipages. All this, however, is to be remedied at an early diy. Until then the Cubans will remain quietly in the mountainous districts, avoiding open en gagements and confining themselves: to occasional sorties on the Spanish Jines. I am told that arrangements have i been made to land between 4,000 and j : 5,000 horses in the Yuelta Abajo dis-j trict at an early day, and an equal: number will be landed in the vicinity I of Cape Maisi. Then tfie patriots will J Degin their old scheme of marches and | counter marches and their quick attacks on the Spanish positions. ^ These horses will practically drain the Cuban treasury, but if they can be safely landed the wornout soldiers will welcome them with far more satisfaction than they would welcome guns and ammunition. i It is not likely that 10,000 horses would last the Cubans over a season at most. Unacclimated horses are inevitably stricken with fever?a sort of equine yellow fever in fact?which carries them off in great numbers. wunin iwo monins, nowever, his expected that the Cubans will make a decided move in the direction of Ha vana province. Maceo has already demonstrated that he can cross the rocha when and where he pleases, and as soon as Gomez gets his horses he will move westward from Puerto Principe. Will they attack Havana? Most certainly, if the Spariierds do not beat them back before they reach that city. Not that they would have any chance of capturing the placs. Such a thing without seize guns would be nracticallv impossble, but an hour's dash through the streets of Cuba's capital and a possible dynamite attack on the palace of the Governor General is by I no means an impossibility. The Cuban Junta says that such a thing will happen within the next three months. It would be a serious thing indeed if Havana, the Jast * stronghold of the Spaniards in this I hemisphere, should be attacked by the Cubans. As for the Spaniards themselves, they would not hesitate to bombaru their own city in their elForts to oust the Cubans. From the Moro Castle, the Cabanas and the Punta there 1-1 - 1 1 #! . * ' wuuiu come a. sieauy ram 01 btioi aua shell. It is doubtful, however, if such a bombardment would do much damage to the invading forces. Havana streets are so narrow and the houses are so strongly made that hitting an invader would be a work of art. Most of the forts are exceedingly antiquated. The guns on tbe bastions of Moro Castle are all of the ancient Dahlgren pattern. Two or three shots from a modern battleship would utterly dismantle the fortification. The Moro stands at the mouth of the bay. In the olden times?that is, hundreds of years age when it was built, the fort might have been formidable. At present it is not worthy of the name. J ust behind the Moro is the Cubanas, n liMlft mr?r#? mnrlprn a lilf l? mnpp I roomy and a little more formidable. I At the same time, both of these forts, a even assisted by the low stone fortiii I cations of the Punta or La lleina, K could not stop a modern battle ship 011 her way up the bay, provided there M were enough water for her to proceed. W The fort on the Punta is just oppoH site of the Moro Castle, and it is quite as futile in the matter of defence. lu UumI U Ait AMAiind n 4 It A AAAnn a</1 a 1 r. 4 HI ttici aiuunu uu iuu ucrau siuc id the Balera la liaeina, at the foot of Calle del Belascoin. It is a rickety structure of stone and will probably prove quite as dangerous as old Fort William, on Governor's Island. These three forts, without ever catching a sight of the invading Cubans, would probably bombard the town in a blind way, without doing other damage than tearing down buildings and playing into the insurgents' hands by setting fire to the city. Far more effective would be the two forts Santo Domingo de Atares and Castillo del Principe, on the Southern and Southwestern borders of the city. J?be former fort is situated at the head ^"of the Western arm of the bay and commands the country to the South in the direction of Cerro and Je3us del Monte. The relative importance of the forts around Havana can only be judged by the rank of the commanding otlicer of each. According to this basis the Castillo del Principe and the Cabanas ' i - ' < ' . . * : come first. The list is 3s follows: Castillo del Principe. brigadier general; Castillo de la Cabana, brigadier 1 general; Fuerte de San Diego, first lieutenant; Castillo del M^ro, major of infantry ; Fnrrte del l'unta, captain j of infantry; Fuerte de Alares, first s lieutenant of infantry; Fuerte de la e Ueina, cantai 11 n? artillery; Fuerte de ^ ia Siiula Clara, captain of arlilleay. r At present the (.luardia Civil in 1.1a- e vana, which corresponds somewhat j with our militia, numbers about 000. s These soldiers could be relied upon to v repel a Cuban infan.ry attack with Tar 0 greater certainty than the forts, be ^ cause tbe Cubans would not be foolish enough to attack the city by daylight. v It is not generally known that once a before during tbe present war the Cu- j( bans were upon the verge of attacking K Havana. It was during the insurgent! g raids in the neighborhood of K"glfl|tl and Marianao. a 4 J it. WfiS I t* UU1IIC alivi vti-Kv - - . ?_ v saiii that the Cubans had bribed the |j commandant of Fort Atares and that n the pates were to be opened to the in \ surgents at a eiven hignal. Had this 0 b en (Ioqo Havana would certainly ? been laid waste before Atares could t| have been demolished. It is said t:\at g the plot wes discovered and that the a, c6mman ding oflicer of Atares was sent jt back to Spain in disgrace. j? If the insurgents contemplate an a'.tack on Havana during the present d winter tie very best thej can expect j, will b3 to make a destructive dash ? into the city at night by way of the 0 Calzada del Cerro, work their way ai swiftly up into the Calle de la Reina and out toward Vedado without a j pause. n It is a daring scheme, and if accomplished will only be another proof of t, the utter impotency of the Spanish jf forces. it "They will never see Havana," say the Spanish officials. "Such a thing n is impossible. We have too many ei soldiers." a, It does not seem impossible, howev- a er, to capable non conpbatants who 0 have studied the situation carefully, g although such an attack might prove ^ practically fruitless. There are not a t| hundred regular Spanish soldiers in Havana, and all the defensive fight- tl ing would have to be done by the 5,000 men of the Guardia Civil. w The Spaniards are supposed to have 150,326 soldiers scattered about at va- b rious points on the island. There is a no doubt that this number of men has * 11 ? i~i 1 .?;4u aciuany lanaeu on m? jsiocu, mm ri the purpose of lighting for Spain, but j it is doubtful if more than 125,000 can jr be accounted for at the present time. r< Altogether eleven expeditions have w been sent over from Spain. They aro as follows: o' March 15, 1895 8,59." g Apnl 1?), ly 1)5. ?? ? ? /,*!// ^ April 21, 1895 1.008 n May 20, 1895 2,962 lj Jane 10, 1895 9,601 c< J uly 20, 1895 20,055 0 October 14, 1895 26,639 w January 1, 1896. 9,033 vs February 15, 1896 .22,132 h September 20, 1896 9,000 ti Chasseurs from Port Kico...... 1,526 This gives a total of 150,326 men. ti Of this number the Spanish officials in it Cuba say they have lost only 1,271. al These they account for as follows: p; Killed in action 311 Ci i>ieu ot wounus iw ti Yellow fever 3,500 ]i Other diseases ............. 200 g( A FEW SPANIARDS KILLED. u This is according to the records of the Spanish medical corps, and is up c< to and including the month of Sep tember. ? An estimate made by a prominent Cuban physician, and which is proba- * bly far nearer the truth, is as follows: ' Killed in action 0,500 Died of wounds 1,000 P Yellow fever........ 10,000 . Died of other diseases......... 3,000 This gives a total of 23,500. There ! is no doubt, according to the best obtainable authority, that the Spanish P ollicials in Cuba are drawing money on the basis of 145,000 men, but this P proves nothing. Spain lost nearly ^ 100,000 men in the last war, but this ^ she would never admit. It was known simply because the men never returned to their homes in Spain. Against P the probable 115,000 soldiers which Spain now has in Cuba,the insurgents ^ have about 30,000men,divided among n the leaders as follows: f. Gom(z..., 5.000 : / i a nrm VyaiiAiu vjai uia* ? %* ? -*fvw Maceo 4,000 ^ Lscret....v** *.. ..2,500 Nunez . 1,000 Rabi 2,500 ? Cortina 1,000 Quintin Bandera 1,000 Zajas.... 500 Ruen 200 ? Suarez 200 l< Garcia 000 ,, Cardenos <r>00 .. Carillo 100 " Bermudez 500 Perez 800 _ Diaz 500 I Guerra 800 , Lino Perez 700 ? Castillo 500 J Vidal COO ? Cabreco 500 Rafael Socorro 200 Miro 400 * Bravo 200 ; Chapolin 400 J Roban 500 t Munoz 400 ^ This gives a total of .'50,900, which probably falls short of the mark. It is easy to be seen that, with a coalition of the forces of tbrea or four leaders, y a rapid march on Havana would be 1 extremely possible. But will they do it? Nooody knows. -New York Jier- o aid. f< t: In Spanish llnmliirafl. S1 Augusta, Nov. 10.? J. Berrien c Walker, the absconding cashier of p the Port Koval railway, has been lo- a cated in Spanish Honduras. There is n no existing extradition treaty between g this countrv and that, and consequent- n lv, though discovered there, he can b not legally be brought back to the t United Sates. It was further learned yesterday that a near and dear friend o of-Mr. Walker's has spent several days I in Augusta last week trying to ell'ect a a compromise in order that Mr. Walk- t er might return there. ? A Fatal Mistake. f A AT in 11UV, XV/. iur. UUI1U ^ 22 years of age,was killed,by thoOoast J Line train due at Montmorenci at 3:.'}() c this afternoon. II? was standing on j the main line looking at the Richard- t son (jmarus wno were fixing to leave ^ for Columbia on the 4:30 train. lie ^ evidently thought he was on the side s track. His body was badly bruised ^ and his neck broken. Mr. Taylor lived about two miles out of Montmo- j renci.?State. ~ _'-v *. ' FARMER'S CONGRESS. declaration for IllmetnlliHm unci TarJIl'for Farm Product*. Indianapolis, Ind , Nov. 11.?The farmers National Congress at its sesion to day, b.v resolution, requested x-President Harrison to address the lody. Tim president of the Congress, nforrinnr fn 51 hi I! llPTldi nff ill tll6 Unit d States Senate, providing for an inlustrial commission, said that action hould be taken by the farmers couention looking to Ihe appointment f one or perhaps two of the (i vememitr ; of the commission from the memlerslup of this congress. The session ras largely devoted to resolutions, nd they were referred to the commitee on resolutions as follows: Sugesting S. W. Wallerton of Illinois as iecretary of Agriculture; requesting lie Congress of the United States to ppoint a corps of civil engineers to xamine and report as 10 the practicality of constructing a ship canal contacting the Atlantic with the Great iikes by way of rivers and the Gulf f Mexico; that it is the sense of this -'ongvess that women should be given ie right of suffrage; that the Conress of the United States skould take dive measures to restrict undesirable nniigration; discouraging class Jegis:tion and discouraging sectionalism. W. II. Hoffman of Illinois introuct'd a resolution to the effect that aasmuch as the Supreme Court of the Fnited States had decided that the tax n incomes is constitutional and wheres the farmers' income includes all le products of the farm, all farm pro1 11 V- L t UCIS snouill D0 exempt irum assessient or taxation. Mr. Stahl, of Illinois: Whereas usts are annually robbing the Amer:an people of millions of dollars, be ) Kesolved, That this congress delands that the laws against trusts be a forced and such laws as are now inJequate be strengthed. The comlittee on locating the next meeting f the congress reported in favor of t. Paul, Minn., and suggested that it e held at least two months earlier in le year than the present congress. A resolution was olferred favoring le initiative and referendum. J. Adam Bede of St. Paul said ha ras a Democrat, but he knew that siler could be mined by the wealthy, v orrp?t. rv?rnnrations and that thev lone could get any proGt out of it. A resolution with a decided silver :ng, introduced by Mr. OlFutt of Iniana, was substituted by the Jollow)g resolution from the committee on ^solutions and adopted against the arm protest of Mr. OfFutt: "Whereas, the general concensus of pinion of the people of the United tates in that, gold and silver coin on just parity of value should be equally loney of ultimate redemption without mit, in which this farmers national ingress concurs, but dilferences of pinion exist as to the methods by hich this policy can be secured; ?ind, hereas, the recent election resulted 1 favor of bimetallism by internaonal commercial nations; therefore. ''Unsolved, That the Farmers Naonal Congress urgently requests the icoming administration of the nation[ government to speedily adopt all racticable methods to obtain the conirrence of a sufficient number of naons to secure international bimetalsm with the unlimited coinage of uiu udu silver us uquany muucj ui ltimate redemption and thereby to istore bimetallic prices for the world's jmmerce " Mr. Lawrence, chairman of tbe jmmittee, said the committee with ne exception were of the opinion lat the resolutions expressed the pinion of a vast majority ol tha Unit1 States and the substitute was a roper one. The afternoon session was devoted > the reading of papers of interest to ijriculturists. The following committea was apointed to Congress the memorial of le Farmers Congress under course of reparation: Messrs. 13. F. Clayton f Iowa, T. J. Clardy of Kentucky, y. B. Powell of Pensylvania and Vm. Lawrence of Ohio. The memorial which is to be preresented to Congress and which will e adopted without change is being written by Judge Lawrence, chairlan of the committee. The memori I covers the whole subject of protecve duties relating to agricultural insrests. It says that in order to give Hect to the policy of protection three lings are to be observed: First, that American farmers can jpply nearly all farm products in jllicient amounts to meet the needs f the American people. Second, as to farm products there an be no combination or monopoly > exact exorbitant prices. Third, it results from those facts lat as to such farm products the dues should be such as to secure to Lmerican farmers the whole Amerian market. Among the products rhere such duties are to be required re cotton, hemp, llax, wheat, corn, arley; oats, potatoes, hops, dairy roducts, garden vegetables, poultry, ggs, livestock for food, many kinds f tobacco, apples and other orchard ruits. As to sugar, wool and rice, rhich the American farmer cannot ufliciently produce to supply all our eeds, the duties should not be prohib ,ory, but they should be amply projctive, so that in due time we shall e enabled to supply an. Addrens to the Farmers. The following address was issued esterday. 'o the Farmers of the Cotton States: During the past year we have been ppressed by a merciless trust that has orced up the price of cotton ties until heir use was becoming a question of erious consideration. The fact of a ombinatiou existing was not made iublic until it was too late to materilly aid ourselves for the season now learly past, but we made some process looking to the adoption of other aeans with which to bind cotton iales;our sole and only object being o defeat the cotton tie trust. And, whereas, through the efforts if Mr. William W. Bierce of New Oreans, the trust has been forced to bandon its purpose and the price of les is iasi oeiug resioreu 10 meir lomiaal value. We entreat and urge upon all the aimers of the Southern States to give o Mr. Bierce their earnest support in lis further endeavors to keep up the campaign against the truat by insistng that their merchants handle lies lot heretofore alliliated with any rust, and we for our own State do ake the initial step by pleiging ourelves to give to Mr. Bierce the worhy support he deserves. Fraternally, I). P. Duncan, Manager Farmers' Alliance Exchange, of South Carolina. ~ . _ SHOWS HIS HAM WATSON TRIES TO MAKE CAPITAL OUT OF BRYAN'S DEFEAT. A SPDSf-lrPB Arraignment of tlio Demoor:itlr LrniUr for Not. Allowing Win to ItosN Tliom-lln I fan a HI|?U Idea of His Ocrn Importance. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 11.?The letter of acceptance written by Tom Watson accepting tho Populist nomination for Vice President was today made public. Seyen columns of Watson's People's Partj- Paper are devoted to it. The letter is supplemented bv four columns of advice to Populists to "sit steady in the boat and hold their party together." The editorial tone of the paper is one of fulfilled prophecy. Watson declares that the faiture of the Populists to support Bryan in the close^States brought about McKinley's olection. He goes into a Ion i review of the circumstances leading to his nomination at St. Louis nn/1 o/tnnrtfc f Via Afi'/in Pwaoulanlial wn. <*uu iiiiu T JL icoiuuubiai uw mination "because I said I would." He declares lhat if the St. Louis Populist convention had nominated a straight Populist ticket it would have been elected. It would, he said, have driven the Hills and Gormans where they belong?in the Republican ranks?and the Bryans and Blands would have joined with the Populists. He complains bitterly of the treatment he has received at the hands of the Populist leaders and addreses himself particularly to Senator Bdtlefin this way: "Senator, a reform party has no right to exist if it has no valid complaint to make. Populists cannot denounce the sins of the two old parties and yet go into political copartnership with them. The moment we make a treaty the war must ceaso. And when we cease our war upon the old parlies we have no longer any excuse for living. "Whenever right compromises with wrong it is the right which suffers. The Democratic managers seem to resent as a strange piece of impertinence the fact that tne Populists decided to nominate a ticket differing at the rear end from theirs. Coming to them with the 2,000,000 votes they were begging for and piteously needing. I can say with a perfect assurance of telling the unqualified truth that my arrival on the field of battle was not welcomed as heartily as Blucher was received by Wellington at Waterloo. They want my reinforcement, but they do not, want me to lead them. Thev need Blucher's troops, but they draw the line at Blucher. That is hardly fair either to Blucher or his troops nor is it the best way to defeat Napoleon. For this attitude upon the part of the Democratic managers I believe that you. Senator, are largely responsible. You made no effort to have me recognized. You publicly stated that I would not be notified of my nomination. You went into the fusion policy, over my written protest, with all the zeal of a man who wanted to elect the Democratic ticket. In this I think you were wrong. As chairman of the Populist committee the party certain1 A--1 -11 ...1*1 I* I jy expecLeu you iu uu an jruu uuuiu iu elect the Populist ticket, "Had you demanded Mr. Sawall's withdrawal from the ticket, he would have been withdrawn. I have a letter of yours in which you state that the Democratic committee expected you to make a demand, but that you did not make it. From the perversity of temper with which the Democratic managers have refused to do the right thing by the Populists it would seem that they prefer McKinleyism to any thing which might seem to be partly a Populist triumph. Their subtle purpose is to couple the Brjan election with the complete destruction of the Populist party. The position taken in this letter will be bitterly assailed. Would that the pathway of duty were alwajs carpeted with Jlowers. It rarely is. By making myself and the great party I represent a mere footmat for the Democratic politicians to wipa their feet * * V 1 # upon 1 couiu win mucn uppiause irom that quarter. But if I were now lacking in the loyalty which was expected of mo when chosen I would grieve the men who have honored me, trusted me and defended and loved me. "No one regrets more profoundly than I do that the Democratic managers have so shaped the campaign that the South has again been told that she must grovel inl the dust and let an Eastern pluocrat put his^foot upon her neck. Nor does any one regret more than I do that the Democratic managers in shaping their fusion deals have considered those Populists only who were getting loaves and fishes. They have lost sight of the great army of privates whose honest hearts and sincere souls from the^trength of the reinforcement Mr. Bryan needs. These Populists of the rank and file have the spirit of the crusaders, and they would die for a principle more quickly than tney wotlld sell it. These men will not vote for Sewall nor for Sewall electors. If Senators Jones and Gorman really wish to defeat McKinley let them lose no time in roalizing this truth." Mr. Jtryau'd Program. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 12.?In a speech to be delivered before the Lincoln Traveling Men's Bryan club and other local organizations favorable to free silver, next Saturday evening, W. J. Bryan, it is expected, will, in a measure, outline his future program and the policy of the bimetallists of the country. " This will be the first formal utterance of the Democratic candidate from the rostrum since the election, and there is much speculation as to the trend of his remarks. In the afternoon of the same day Mr. Bryan will address the Ladies' Mary Bryan Silver club, which was quite a factor in the late campaign. Next week Mr. Bryan intends to visit southern Missouri and northern Arkansas in company with Governor Stone and Senators Jones, but the trip is expected to be more of an outing than a speech-making tour. From the southern states he will go to Denver, makea few addresses probably and spend a number of days with peronal and political friends. Ilorae Show .Senaatlon. New York. Nov. 13.?The aristo ? :~ crauc norse suow proTiucu u m?u aousaliou to those in attendance tonight. A music hall artiste now performing in this city had entered a white stallion and the entry list being open to all, her entry was received. Tonight the lady appeared ready to mount and ride in the rink, when it was discovered that the horse was equipped with a 1 ~1lntrAdlirrofiAn lUUU S SilUUie. ianuvi iuTugiiga>iuii showed that the lady was picturesquely attired in a long drab paddock coat, which only partially disguised a pair of top-boots surmounted by pink fleshlings. ' TILLMAN ON THE RESULT. We Would Not Have Curried aStateon a Gold Platform. Senator Tillman in an interview says that Bryan will be the nominee of the Democratic party in 1900. "The battle has been the most heated and hardest fought political contest in our history and the Democrlic party has never shown to better advantage," said Senator Tillman. "Ihe issues have been clearly defined and bravely sustained, while our great leader, Bryan, has covered himself with fflorv and is the idol of the Demorcalic masses." "To what causes do you attribute McKinley's triumph?" "There were several causes, all of them makiDg a combination that it was impossible to overcome. In the first place, the odium attaching to Democracy from Cleveland is more and all that it implies drove from us hundreds of thousands of men. Hard times; the issue of bonds in time of Seace; the so called free trade tariir ill; the loss of employment; all these were charged to the Democratic party and the Democratie speakers and the few Northern newspapers which reached the masses in the Northern cities were powerless to obliterate the impression. The Democratic party suffered. although it had renudiated both Cleveland and bis policy. "Then the unblushing use of money in unlimited quantities controlled many thousands of the votes. The campaign of the Republicans was conducted by the Republicans with great vigor by a large corps of well trained speakers, many of them men of national repute, while the Democracy, with out means, relied upon volunteer speakers and these could not cover the field thoroughly as their opponents. "A third factor was the threat open or implied, by thousands of owners of manufactories and workshops that Bryan's election meant the closing down of work. The army of the idle were promised work if McKinley should triumph. The Republican masses in the country or agricultural districts were promised a return of good prices and prosperous limes under a Republican tariff policy and with a restoration of confidence. The natural alliance of the South and West, though not complete, has received an impetus which. cannot be stopped or prevented. The issue of I 1U. 4 : unancim reiuriu auu me rcsiuiauuu of the money of the Constitution is not dead and will not down. "We have broken the solid North, while the South is practically solid. The tyranny of the Federal judiciary and the greed of the plutocrats will drive the masses by the million to our support in the next great stuggle. Jefferson lost his first battle in ]796, but won in 1800. The Republican party was overwhelmingly defeated in 1856 and Lincoln was defeated for the Senate in 1858, but he was elected President in 18G0. We will win in 1900. McKinley cannot give relief or restore prosperity unless the law of supply and demand, as it effects money, has been repealed." "Will the policy of the party leaders look to conciliating the gold Democrats?" "No; they hive got in the party to which they belong and are a good riddance. There can be no step backward. The Southern people and the Eastern Democrats are separated by an impass;*~S barrier. They are our task-mast , and we know it. We have turned t? ihe West and must look and work ; j that direction. If the Democrats had put up a gold platform, we would not have carried a single State. The men which claimed to be gold Democrats voted for McKinley almost solidly. There may be a spasmodic rise in prices and a resumption of business activity, but it cannot last." "What do you thins ot David B. Hill's future?" "Hill's a dead duck and will never again rise to the surface," wa? the emphatic declaration of Senator Tillman. Increase of Tariff Rate*. Nkw York, Nov. 11.?S9nator John Sherman of Ohio, in an interview today, said it will be necessary for Con gress to pass a tanil measure at once. "The Dingley bill," he said, "with som9 changes, will do for the present. The Democrats made a great mistake in not permitting that bill to pass in the last Congress. It was only a temporary measure intended to raise the revenue that the government absolutely needed, and if tli9 Democrats had let it go through there would have been no necessity for bond issues and the Democratic administration would have escaped a greatdeal of the censures and criticism that was heaped upon it, 'I doubt'" the Senator continued, "if the Democrats in the Senate will opDose the bill. I think they, like the silver Senators, would not obstruct legislation. I understand all the silver men except Teller and Dubois are opposed to a policy of obstruction, if the Dingley bill is passed at the coming session of Congress there will be no necessity for an extraordinary session after March 4. Considering everything, I think that the outlook for the passage of the bill if bright." The Venezuela Dispute. Washington, D. C., Nov. 10.?The arbitration of the Venezuela dispute is settled fairly. All arrangements have hp#?n r?nmnWe<l and all details of the arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain arranged. The final terms of treaty of arbitration were arranged in this city last night, cabled to London today and have been accepted. The treaty covers Venezuela only and does not include a general treaty of arbitration. The Venezuelan arbitration commission will consist of five arbitrators, two to be named by the United States, two by Great Britain and these l'our to select a fifth. The term of occupancy necessary to exempt the British settled in the disputed territory from arbitration, is fixed at sixty years. In other words the British government has agreed to the unrestrained arbitration of all territory in dispute with a period for acquisition of title by prescription fixed by agreement of parties in advance at sixty years. The PopullstM are Learning. Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 11.?When tho Kansas legislature convenes this winter the first thing on the program after the election of a United states senator to succeed Pelfer is to push a congressional district reapportionment through. The plan of the democraticpopulist members, who will control the legislature, is to divide the State into eight districts instead of seven as at present, and to so arrange the districts as to make seven of them safely populist. -rC-"'.". ' r-' ' \' . - . LOOKING INTO 1 HE FUTURE. Wbnt An Old Man Pre dicta 'Will Happen In the Fnture. "You can depend upon it," said an old gentleman who has seen the frosts of many -winters, "thai we have some rough weather ahead. I have noticed /-..i 11.-i. iur juny years uiul tue ut-st uiuiutnivn as to the coming weather is furnished by the peeling of apples. I live in the apple section of North Carolina, and we can always judge when the winter is going to be severe, the peeling is thick and very tough. I have naver seen it tougher or thicker than ' it is this year. Take a limber twig or < pippin and the peeling is as thick this 1 year as the King apple of ordinary years. You may depend upon it, we ' are going to have some rough weatn- ' er." i Thi3 old gentleman's observations may not be accurate, but they are strangely in accord with a rccent as- 1 tronomical forecast, which says that 1 the coming winter will be the severest since 1813, and colder than can be re called by the oldest inhabitant. This forecast makes the still further unpromising prediction that the South and West will especially suffer; that we are to have unusual rain and snow ' storms and many meteors will fall. , But this noted astrologer, who sees such terrible weather in the stars, sees more wonderful things. He bases his predictions on the fact that during this month the majority of the planets are centering in ihe mystic and ac- I cursed sign Scorpio. As a result, we 1 are to have one surprise after another i until the world is stirred from centre < to circumference, the catastrophes coming directly after the lunation of the moon. Political upheavals will sweep the land at home and abroad. England is to mourn the death of her noble Queen, who will not survive the winter, and the passing away of this wonderful woman will mark the greatest change in the annals of the English Parliament siace the days of King George III. War will be rampant. The downfall of Spain and the freedom of Cuba are to come. Turkey will be disposed of and Russia will assume a dictatorial front, with the result that the English government will lose some of its valuable concessions. There will be more unrest among the great foreign powers than for many years. Deaths of prominent people will occur, and under peculiar circumstances. Daring robberies will take place, and there will be an avalanche of crime of a shocking and heinous natuie. During this month of Novembsr stocks will advance rapidly and commodities of all kinds will command higher prices, but will recede again and trade will not revive until after April, 1897. New and startling discoveries will be made in science, and with the incoming of spring we will have made wonderful strides in the modes of traveling on land, water and in the air. Besides the Queen, the planets fore tell the death of England's brightest man and the mortality among the learned men of the world will.be severe. In this month of November will be born a ruler whose power will bj long and mighty. There will be extreme suffering among the poor in the cities, and acts of lawlessness and deperation from them will be fre quent; never in the history of living man will theie be recorded in so short a time such carnage, wreck and ruin as this present year will live to tell, with the worst yet to come. Making Children Happy, The rearing of children is a subject which always has been and always will be a source of much discussion. We shall never arrive at the point when the application of labeled rules will meet each day's experience; but there are general principles which ought to give definite aim to our government. We assume that all good mothers wish to see their children obedient, truthful, intelligent, but do all teach them to be happy? Some may say: 4 'This is too evasive a thing to be controlled, children are naturally happy." Thank God, the dear little ones do start upon life's pathway with hearts ready to absorb all the sunshine that comes to them, and now is the opportunity to make their world so rich, so beautiful, that its rays may stream over into mature life, and carry with it some of the freshness and enthusiasm that gladden childhood's days. No hardships or trials can so paralyz9 the will or make existence such a treadmill that life is not worth living. We believe that through the period of ViAaytt- Qn/1 infollppj; tuuuuuuu IUU liuai y HUU be so trained and interests so multiplied that however dark the days may be which follow, the feeling will never come that it is not worth while striving. As to the plan to be pursued in this education, we would put first and above all the forc9 of example. Let the home atmosphere be bright and cheerful, and all disagreeable things kept in the background. This will far outweigh all desired teaching. Make your children feel that you regard ill temper and being cross as very serious faults, and making those about them nappy, the right expression of a right spirit. |The cultivation of love for animals is an important element in a child's education. Nature in all its varied forms should be a daily lesson, and impressed upon the sensitive mind, will be through life a source of joy. Try to keep them from looking upon their tasks as disagreeable duties, [and encourage them to feel.that there is great satisfaction in being useful. Children so trained are the ones who push forward and make a career of usefulness and honor. What the Indiana Cosr. Washington, Nov. 12.- The estimates for the entire Indian service for the fiscal year ending June .'JO, 18HS, ho aiihrmtfjul fn Congress at the opening: of the session, call for an appropriation of $7,200,000 in round numbers. Tbis is 100,000 more than the appropriation for the current fiscal year. The increase is due to the policy of the government adopted at the last session of congress to abolish ! gradually contract Indian schools and place all Indian schools absolutely under government control. One-half of the number of Indian pupils are now attending schools within twelve months from the end of the present fiscal year. The additional expenditure is further necessitated by the in* nf 1.000 Indian pupils a year, estimated by the Indian bureau. Of the total estimates, the detailed items of expenses for the support of schools and for the fulfillment of ready stipulations of various tribes make up ' $5,000,000. I Y> A SUGGESTIVE JOY. 1 > THE MONEY KINGS OF THE WORLD REJOICE AT BRYAN'S DEFEAT. A Timely Artlclo on the Rrjolclng of tba ??"rrKitropftin M? ney Kings op Account of McKlnley'n Election from th? New York Journal. The continuing joy in Europe over the defeat of the Democratic party in the United States ought, it seems to us, to move all Americans to sober thought The dispatches have told us Df the satisfaction of the London press, the anxiety with which the royal family awaited the returns, and smiled with gladness as they came in ,1 :? 4u> ?u suuwiug i lie mumpu <jl juuaiuiov and the grold standard. Premier 8ak isbury has announced the readiness of England to take "common action in defence of the common heritage of society" in case the Democracy should happen to win a Presidential election hereafter on a platform unfavorable to the fleecing privileges of the plutocracy. His phrase at the Lord v Mayor's banquet, in an address folowlowing Ambassador Bayard's unpatriotic and disgraceful speech, means just that or nothing. The bourses of Paris and Berlin and of all other Continental cities, as well as the newspapers which sp:ak in the interests,?! -? the ruling classes, have expressed a happiness as great as that of Wall 9treet itself. To judge by the dispatches, one would think tnat Europe is solid for McKin?y, the gold standard and non-interference with the exploi- p tation of the masses by the predatory . rich. But the people of Europe, the . m multitude who do not operate in the bourses and have no influence with the respectable commercial press, have not been heard from at all. What they think about the American election has not been thought worth ascertaining and telegraphing That which we have learned with certainty is that the aristocracy and the rich of the Old World are in the most cordi- . al arid intimate sympathy with their brethren of America. They feel that the earth is theirs, and that the small est attack anywhere upon their exclusive ownership must be repelled with their whole strength?that the assailants must be crushed into the dust, lest the tiniest victory should encourage them to more formidable assaults . That is the spirit of the plutocracy everywhere. Progress of any ,'r~ kind is regarded with suspicion and intense avertion. They would, as Emerson said, nail the stars to tue sky, if they could. They know nothing of the wisdom of statesmanship, which yields a little in order to retain much. Always they fear the deluge, and always they encourage its coming by their dull opposition to everything that is proposed for the benefit <?f others than themselves. The conservative instinct of great bodies of the American people were artfully appealed to by the Republi cans in the late canvass, ana inese bodies, who have no community of interest with the forces of greed, were induced to vote with the party of the trusts. They were alarmed into the belief tbat the moderate, constitutional and American proposals of the Democratic platform concealed sinister purposes hostile to property and the national honor. Reflection must cause these patriotic, if timid, Americans to ask themselves if a cause that draws to its ardent support not alone' the money power of their own country, but of the whole world, can be a cause the triumph of which is good for the people of the United States as a whole. If a political party in this country may not propose any reform without being reviled as if it designed the destruction of civilized society, what is to become of the Republic? If no party may propose the slightest curtailment of the privileges of the preying rich without being accused of loving lawlessness and anarchy, what progress in the government can be made? If opposition to the political as well as the industrial rule of the trusts is to be ranked as disguised treason, what has the future in store ' 1 ITniiftH ior popular puvcruuiuub *u fcuo v/u><rwM States? No matter what any man may think about our currency, whether its basis should be one of the precious metals or both, none can deny that the result of the Presidential election has given gratification to and increased the sense of security of every trust in the country. Neither is it to be denied that the plutoracy and aristocracy of every European monarcv hails that result with joy. Can it be held by the thoughtful that a victory which strengthens the trusts and cheers the privileged classes around the globe is one that should please the pride and encourage the hope of the patriotic American, whatever his party may be? Teller la Cautions. Denver, Col., Nov. 12.?"It would hA rrerv impolitic for us to show our hands now and make our intent plain to the opposition," said Senator Teller when asked if it would ba possible to pass a tariff bill through tne coming Senate without a silver rider. "I have received several telegrams from the Eastern press requesting an answer to that same question," the Senator continued, "but I have refrained from making a definite reply. Speaking for myself, I can s<?y frankly that I have not as yet made up my mind regarding the comparative strength of the parties in the Senate. When the silver forces meet at the convening of Congress I anticipate that a caucus will develop a plan. No, the Republicans will not urge or push a tariff bill when Congress opens. It would be useless, for in case such a bill should be passed, President Cleveland would veto it. If the Republicans are sincere, however, as they assert they are, a special session will be called and the Dingly tarill* bill or some other one will be passed, in case such a thing is possible. I do not care to talk of the plans of the silver forces until I am fully advised." Weyler Met Defeat. T.f m\r TXrwom ^T/\rr 19. Honfflill IV Hi I T r lUkJ X , 1WY. AV? V/Mf/WMtlk vtwa* eral Weyler has at last met the Cubans on the field and has suffered a repulse, according to the advices per steamer Olivette, from Havana, last night. Weyler, it is said, was attacked while encamped in the Gobernadora hills, in l'inar del Rio, by the Cubans under l'erico Delgado and Perico Diaz. The Cubans surprised the Span ish outposts and for a time great confusion prevailed in Weyler's camp. Weyler is said to have fallen back about eight miles. During the retreat the Cubans killed thirty-four Spanards and wounded sixty officers. / /