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Only two American powers signed the arbitration convention, the United States and Mexico.

President McKinley's political stomach would no longer retain Alger, but it experience no retching over platt.

Chicago with her busy way has invited Admiral Cervera to attend the Dewey reception in that city. He will scarcely be there,  but he might come for the sake of breaking the heads of those who extended the invitation.

The supreme court of Colorado has declared the eight hour law which was indirectly the cause of the miners strike last spring, unconstitutional. This is in accordance with decisions generally in this country relative to acts limiting the labor of male adults.

General Leonard Wood is an equally good fighter whether his enemies be Spaniards or vellow fever. Though the Santiago campaign against the Spaniards was a very short one, General Wood has downed the yellow fever there in less time - two weeks.

The tide of opposition to Gen. Otis is constantly rising. Evidence accumulates that the results of his doings there are small and that his campaign has been unsatisfactory. He is evidently a man of small things, given to petty details to the neglect of more important things he is expected to do.

If the new minister of war in France maintains himself in the position he has taken of enforcing discipline in the army at all hazards, no matter who is humbled, he will place the republic on a stable basis and establish the supremacy of the civil over the military power. His beginning argures well for this accomplishment.

Senator Burrows has returned to Kalamazoo and in another interview expressed himself as in favor of terminating the Philippine difficulty speedily and before many more lives have been needlessly wasted. This is  pretty strong language for a protegee of Senator McMillan who is understood to be a staunch advocate of the president's Philippine policy.

State Treasurer Steele and Land Commissioner Frenen, a majority of the board of state auditor which passes on bills against the State, say the tax commission has no right to employ clerks. Attorney-General Oren says just the opposite. These two men wanted to be members of the tax commission. l'his opinion of theirs looks as though they want to cripple the tax commission.

It would have been but ordinary business discretion in Governor Pingree, after all the scandal which the country has passed through relative to canned goods, to inspect the canned speech which he inflicted upon a long suffering public at the Alger reception, before reading it. Then he would do well to pat himself in the hands of some primary teacher of reading for instruction in that useful art.

The special commission which was created by the legislature, consisting of Secretary of State Stearns, State Treasurer Steele and Railroad Commissioner Osborne, to negotiate with the special charter railroads to determine on what terms they will surrender their charters, has just discovered that a report is required in November next. Up to the present time not a thing has been done. Not a particle of information has been gathered. This is illustrative of the slovenly way in which public business is done.

It was thought that these would be no fighting in the Philippines during the rainy season, but the Filipinos seem to be keeping our forces from experiencing ennui. It appears that the Americans are compelled to fight all along the line in order to maintain themselves. There appears also to be but a very small portion of Juzon in American hands. The greater part of the railroads running out of Manila and most of the locomotives are still in the hands of the natives.Of course the Filipinos are driven off every time they make an attack, but each time they return supplied with ammunition of American manufacture and kill a few more Yankee soldiers.

Secretary Alger: Though he crucify me, yet will I trust in him.

It indicatea nothing out of character to say the Shamrock is swift, or that the Columbia is swifter.

A Cuban committee gives good  advice to Cubans in urging them to get a , move on themselves for their own regeneration.

The Iowa republican convention declared unequivocally for the gold standard and legislation which will assure its permanency.

Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Ambassador to "Washington, is now Lord Pauncefote. He will continue at Washington until next spring. He is one of the most popular Washington diplotmats.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier says he cannot attend the Chicago Day exercises, Oct. 9, next. He is afraid in the present state of public opinion in this country. as voiced by the press, some indignity might be put "upon him. Why, bless yon, Sir Wilfrid, there is no more danger than in your own capitol. The talk in the press over your recent bluff words, is simply stuff to fill up with during the dull mid-summer month when it is hard to get real live news.

The United States should see to it while our finger is in the pie that no such thing as a black republic is set up in Cuba under American protection. The lesson we have had with universal manhood suffrage in the south where the blacks predominate should be sufficient. A black republic at our doors would be after the style of Haiti and San Domingo and would be a greater nuisance than was Spanish. control in Cuba.

According to State Treasurer Steele the total receipts of the state last year were $4,576,874.98, and the disbursements amounted to $4,391,021.71. He has on hand $1, 402, 056.88 which includes last year's balance and that of the year before. During the year $500, 000 war bonds were issued and are still outstanding. The total trust funds of the various educational institutions amounting to $6,120,003.56. During the year the state received from general taxation $2,322,845.75, and from specific taxes $1,415,210.22.

It is said that President McKinley and Secretary of War Root will have a conference Tuesday and will formulate a policy relative to Philippine matters and will also discuss matters relating to Cuba and Porto Rico. It is to be hoped that Secretary Root may bring the president to some policy. He has had none apparently up to date. His measures have been tentative and faint hearted, indicating that he has been more concerned with what the effect of any decided policy might be upon his chances for re-election that with a speedy termination of' the war in the Philippines. Having entered upon the war the country would stultify itself should it withdraw without some satisfactory passification in the Phlippines. The war should have been pushed, therefore, with such force as was necessary to terminate it speedily or some other means should have been found for passifying the Filipinos. But the timid, half-hearted, ear to the ground plan has accomplished neither. Secretary Root has the reputation of being an able and positive man. May he succeed in causing the president to take some decided stand.