At the New York Dewey reception 2,500 ch...

At the New York Dewey reception 2,500 children's voices will greet the Admiral in appropriate songs of welcome. They will be placed upon a stand in such a way as to form in enormous letters the word Dewey.

Gen. Jiminez has arrived at Santiago and been received with open arms by the fickle Haytians. But in a month they are just as apt to be going wild over some other favorite. It will all depend on Jiminez power to overcome them.

It is said that Hawaii was never so prosperous as she has became since her annexation to the United States. If this be true so soon after annexation, what may the isalnds expect when they get into full swing under America?

The National Bankers association at its annual meeting declared that the republicans must pass legislation making the gold standard the statutory basis for our money or suffer at the hands of the people at the coming election.

The expected contest for the position of commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at Philadelphia did not occur.The withdrawal of Judge Rassiur, of St. Louis, in favor of Col. Shaw, led to the colonel's election by acclamation. The next meeting will be held in Chicago.

Now it is said a conference has been held at Washington and a decision reached to send Gen. Merritt back to the Philippines. Merritt is all right, and will do good work, if the correspondents succeed in getting him there. The only trouble with the matter is that by tomorrow the correspondents will have some other general selected. But almost any old general they can succeed in getting to Manila will be an improvement on the present incumbent of the chief command there.

Now it is said the renewal of fighting in the Philippines may begin a month earlier than has been previously expected. The administration desires to get this mighty job off its hands before the new year begins and the political caldron begins to boil. The restoration of peace there cannot be brought about too quick to please the American people.

It is said that Secretary Root proposes dividing the Philippines into several departments and making the general in charge of each department responsible for the conduct of military affairs there. There woudl probably be advantages in such a plan provided Gen. Otis was deprived of the power to interfere with the operations of the generals. That he is narrow and jealous of his subordinates is well known and the greater freedom they have from interference by him, the better results will be obtained.

President Col. Jonast, of the Dreyfus court martial, declined to have the evidence of col. Schwartzkappen and Maj. Panizzardi taken by a commission and so the trial is near its end. It was not deemed good public policy by the German and Italian governments to present the above named gentlemen to go to Rennes and hence their evidence will not be heard. At this distance all indications point tot he re-conviction of Dreyfus. Waht will come after conviction is difficult to prophecy. The conspiracy of the generals is too deep a laid plot and conditions in France are too peculiar to diviine what may or may not be done. That the world outside of France considers the accused innocent, is undoubtedly true, but that may and probably will have but little effect. That France will be a heavy loser in the good opinion of the world because of her deliberate and unpardonable malignity, should Dreyfus be recondemned, is true, nevertheless the army may be sufficiently powerful to compet the civil government to accept the odium and disgracce of such a national crime. Knowing the sensitive and chivalrous nature of the French people in their better moods, it seems almost impossible for them to permit the consummation of a crime of such an aggravated character and yet their past history shows how easily they pass from one extreme to the other.

President Schurman of the Philippine commission has brought his optimistic views of affairs there home with him and assured the adminstration that the end of the Philippine war is in sight. So mote it be but it will be remembered that Schurman thought he could bring peace through soft talk. It did not win however. We shall see what we shall see.

It is expected the world will soon witness the spectacle of the French senate sitting as a high court of justice to try certain persons accused of plotting against the security of the state. The senate sitting as a high court has unlimited discretionary powers in regard to its judicial action. there is no appeal from its verdict. At least one of the prisoners who will be tried is a member of the deputies. The trial will be a most interesting one because of the unusual court before which the trial will be held and the fact that there is but one precedent for resort to this extraordinary function of the senate.

Now comes President Kruger of the Transvaal and declares the Utlanders do not care a rap for the franchise, that is made the basis of their contention against the Boers. He declares they have been offered the franchise before but they preferred to remain aliens rather than assume the duties of citizenship. Of course the British residents and the British people care nothing about the franchise. The Transvaal contains much of the finest country in South Africa, and there are rich gold mines within its borders. England desires to possess the territory, and she simply makes the franchise an excuse. Right or justic cuts but a mighty little figure in the matter. While we do not like the bullying policies of Great Britain in every quarter of the globe, still it is this very aggressiveness which makes the Anglo-Saxon a leader in the world. While his acts are by no means always right, still he is the instrument of much of the advance of the world. He has probably worked out more of the moral and material progress of the world than any other.

The phonetic spelling fad being introduced into the Ypsilanti public schools is no new thing. it has been on earth for some time but has made comparatively little progress.If the language had been made to order, or if it could be unmade and then made anew there would be many advantages to phonetic spelling. But the language with its doubled letters, its silent letters, dipthongs and double dipthongs is with us, a growth and where is the authority to change it? Our dictionaries are all constructed to fit the language as it is said and whatever possible advantage can the phonetic speller have, therefore, in learning that particular method? Not one in a thousand outside of themselves will use it or even understand it when he uses it. It is artificial inthe same sense the so called volapuk, or world's speech, invented by John Martin Schleyor, of which we heard so much a few years ago, was artificial. A universal language would be greatly advantageous no doubt, but language never develops that way. Neither does spelling. As it was found extremely difficult to secure a foothold for volapuk, in fact impossible. so it will undoubtedly prove relative to the reformed spelling.