r Zbt Qaw MOKMNG tVEMNO AND SLMUY T1IL TIMKS COSIPAM W UTKK STllfiOS IIUTCIIINS President rcucATio orncr THE HITCHIKS lUILMXO ContEn Tcvrn and D frx Xohthwest iMioscrllitlon IEtes 11 v M Ail One Trvn Morning K cnlng ami Sunday Morning and unda KvenlngandJ unday frunday only noo 400 400 100 MovmLT B GAitniEn Morning KvenlngatidSundar Tifty cents MonilniraiidMinday Thirty 11 o cents Evening and Sunday Thirty live cents 1 Editorial Hoom 480 TrM UTJlZ 1 Hulnesa Olllco 1040 Circulation Department 03 CIHCULATION STATEMENT Tin emulation of The Times for the ending January 2T I was as folio bundav January 21 Mondaj January 22 Tuesday January 23 Wednesday January 21 Thursday January 25 rriiij January Ji Saturday January 27 Total week 30210 414 H 41TM llcM 41716 4MU5 2712M lljih ascrage undai 00110 excepted llNs The Adierttscn Guarantee Company of Chi cum hereby crrtihes that it has In iti expert examiners proirn and attested the circulation of Till TIMhS ot Washington I a The daily atcrigc IAII circulation for the month of ho vrlnber 18OT was 40WS copies Tlii it guaranteed to the advertisers of the countn by a boad of MP00 In the Fidclitv and Deposit Ccaipsnv of Maryland deposited with the Northwest fvrtional IllnV ot Chicago ADiEiITIsEitb CUAI1VVTEE COMPAXY Iy J It MMtON President SUNDAY JANUARY 2S 1W0 Great llrltnln nml the Cminl The London Spectator one ot the bes t exponents ot Intelligent and liberal opinion In the United Kingdom lias ccme out Equarely for an abandonment of the treaty contention by Great Britain and urges the desirability of a trans Isthmian canal to bo built owned and controlled exclusively by the United States As far as the subject matter is coLcerned this evidence of dawning sense on the part of our British relative is in teresting rather than Important because whatever may be the Insular lien on the question the fact is that the treat ceased to exist as an agree ment upon the violation of Its most vital condition and consideration within a very few years after it was written and the price ot perfidy paid to the American re sponsible for its Imposition upon the coun try So at least since 1653 the treaty in question has been waste psper by its terms and has been so regarded by the American Goernment and people Any attempt to revive it for the purpose ot obstructing our progress In acquiring territory for canal uses In Costa Ricj and Nicaragua cr in the construction of the waterway and its fortification at the present time could only be regarded asjan unfriendly act on the part of Great Britain If the wboe British nation were to adopt the truculent and stupid attitude of the London Chron icle the leading Yankeephcbe paper of the empire and should try to present the treaty to us as an impasse it would not make one lota of difference We should go on leasing building controlling and pre paring defences Just the same Nevertheless we are glad to see a start made in the direction of educating John Bull In the facts and philosophy of the canal situation and hence the people of this country should feel kindly disposed to the Spectator for lis missionary efforts Its editor argues both sensibly and ably that the United States could not build the canal conjointly with any one European power without inviting protest and hos tility from all the remaining powers Con sequently there Is nothing for the great Western Republic to do but to undertake the work alone It will be admitted ob serves the Spectator by all who take the trouble to look Into the matter that tho British Empire will benefit greatly by the canal That being so the sooner we come to a frank generous and sensible under standing with America the better These are words at once manly and wise If Lord Salisbury only knew it there Is rot a solitary thing his government could do at this hour of the empires peril to cement friendship between the United States and England which would be as use ful or valuable as a notice to our State Department that Her Majesty considers the Clayton Bulwcr treaty in tbe light of a lapsed and abandoned agreement lltmlcliiK Teaching A great deal has been said in ridicule of tbe late John Rusklns theories of political economy and also his theories of art but at any rate no one cin say of him that he was a mere theorist unwilling to make sacrifices to prove his faith in his ideas Most of his fortune was spent in the pur suance of various enterprises founded on what he regarded as the only Just and cor rect laws for the conduct of business and lie retained for his own use only an Income of IL800 a year on which he said a gen tleman ought to be able to live The trouble with Rusklns theories was that they were in advance of his time often no far in advance that they seemed im possible ot fulfillment But It Is Interest ing to note that tbe intelligent public Is gradually coming around to some of them though more or less unconsciously as in the case in all great movements Some forty or fifty years ago much Joy ful ado was made over the sudden progress of Invention In various mechanical busi nesses All sorts of things were made more abundantly and cheaply than ever before It was the time of veneere chromo lilhographs and machine made things of all kinds which replaced the old handwork This was called progress and we have not quite gotten rid of that Idea of progress yet The theory so far as there wss any seemed to be that ornament was always better than a plain surface and imitation finery better than a simple but genuine article The great middle class was waking up to the possibility ot discarding its old limitations An Eng lishman would perhaps say that the trades people were dreaming that they might bo gentlefolk The grocer tho carpenter the wheelwright had ambitions for his son and daughter above these which bis father had entertained for him The wife of tho mechanic found that she could buy vcl Tet and silk of a sort whereas her mother could only afford homespun The result of all this was a glorious confusion of really beautiful things bad imitations and a mixture of designs and traditions which was frankly hideous This sort of thing Jarred on the sensitive beauty loving na ture ot Ruskln and the moral aspect of the imitation theory as It might be called tn to him quit as uneadurabc Hence his fen Id denunciations of sorno ot tho manners end customs of his time mixed most crlously with tbunderlngs against actual vice and criminal abuse of power One case In particular may serve to illustrate this A wrought Iron fen o rlx feet high sas put around a public building at a space ct I two or three feet from the wall This was considered by the perverted taste of that time to be an adornment RusMn took that fence and metaphorically brandlshcl it aloft for tbe derision ot the nation He pointed out the fact that it served no le usful purpose and in architecture tho useless ifc rarely beautiful He then men tioned the likelihood that the average Kngllsh citizen would fill the space be tween fence and wall with banana skins cigar end1 torn paper and other rubbish which would be bard to dislodge and a continual eyesore to the passer by ITnal ly he reminded his readers that enough hard work had been put Into the fence by the mechanic miner laborer and de signer to make a reall usefu and beauti ful article and that in short the peoples money had been dishonestly spent in estab lishing a nuisance Nowadays we are com ing to sec that such a contention is just that money spent for public buildings should be so expended as to educate the esthetic taste of the people and that ugly things are just as expensive as those which are artistic It Ruskln had had his way the hutnbest laborer should have owned furniture and utensils as beautiful in their waj as these in the possession of tbe rich the girls of England whether rich or poor shojld have had the fullest opportunities to de velop a womanly wise and beautiful char acter At a time when womans sphere was resolutely narrowed down to very lim ited space he advocated such an education of girls as should make household duties delightful and household woik artistic em ployment He believed that no cleverness no depth feeling no wisdom was too great for use In the home His whole teaching was only an expounding of that easing of Keats that beauty is truth and truth is beauty Ierhap3 as nations ad vance in civilization we shall find the two things are Indeed absolutely one Clilnnn Cntlirrlne lie Medici Events in China which In ordinary times would excite Intense Interest throughout the civilized world are consid erably obscured by the smoke and noise of the tragedy in South Africa Even as It Is public attention has been arrested by the dethronement if not the murder of the young and unhappy Chinese Emperor by that vicious and terrible savage th9 Empress Dowager Tsl An The change denotes a determination on the part of the ruling faction in China to make a final attempt to stop the encroach ments of modern civilization with Its Western methods and appliances upon the ancient barbaric organization of the em pire and its society Evidences are not wanting that the most powerful among the higher functionaries and Influential men of the country are in sympathy with and are backing the hand of this Mongo lian murderess The whole situation goes to show that the endeavors which have been made during the past half century to bring enlightenment to tho teeming mil lions of China and to educate the Impe rial government into something worthy to be called that of a State have been simply wasted This is true to such an extent that it would seem about time for the great civil ized powers to forego the farce of main taining formal diplomatic relations with such a tribe of savages and that the best thing that could happen for tbe world and for the unfortunate people of Chinese Asia would be the partition of the empire among the states of Europe Tsl An and her butchering mandarins are no more to be considered in the matter than would be an equal number of Malays running amuck The Empress Dowager together with her counsel deserve the halter for any one of a thousand crimes committed by them Jointly and severally and they should all get It We do not think It would be well for the United States to become a party bene ficiary In the partition All we probably would care to ask would be guarantees that the open door would be maintained for the benefit of our commerce That be ing arranged we should be glad to see the Chinese Empire with Its stupidity Ignorance and crime disappear forever from the political map of the world The Private Tronlilcsi of Cleric iiirn A clergyman In an Illinois town has been ousted from his pulpit for wearing clothes too fashionable for a minister of the gospel at least bis congregation thought they were It was declared that it was not fit ting that tbe pastor of a church should ap pear on the streets in golf trousers even if he happened to be addicted to tbe bicy cle The modern clergyman has a hard time of it Between the old fashioned people of his congregation who desire him to con form to tho old traditions of speech and conduct and the younger and more frisky members ot the flock who decline to listen to old fogies his lot Is Indeed far from pleasant If he wears fashionable cloth ing he Is accused ot extravagance It he does not he Is thought seedy and old fashioned The same restrictions apply with even greater force to his wife if he has one It might be a comfort to the average pas tor if his costume could be prescribed and he could be ordered to wear clerical garb on certain occasions and left to his own devices on others On the other hand some of the fraternity object emphatically to being labeled arguing that they can do more good by going among their people as plain ordinary men without any distin guishing badge On the whole it seeing as If the fault lay with the congregation It ought to be fully understood that the church does not own its pastor body soul and and that It has no definite claim on his wife or children There Is too Much inclination on the part of the average bedy of communicants to find fault with the pastor for doings perfectly insignificant and in no way connected with his usefulness as a man or a clergyman Such an attitude uemorallzcs both the critic and the criticised A great deal of fault has been found with the modern clergyman but it should bo romembered that he Is in a measure made by his church Under the present system it must be so His livelihood and that of his fam ily depend upon his success In bis profes sion and this success depends absolutely on his pleasing his congregation The con gregation Jhould not lay upon him burdens too heavy for mortal man to bear It has no right to criticise his wardrobe or that of his wife it has no right to complain if the parlors wife docs not take an active part In the work of tho church nor has It the slightest claim on his children It pays him a salary for conducting certain work Sometimes this work Includes little more than the preaching of sermons onco or twice a week and the serving on certain committee Sometimes it includes a vasl amount ot visiting entertaining and doc toring ot sick souls in general Every conscientious clergyman feels that In order to discharge his responsibilities he mast make his sermons Inspiring and uplifting and his personality a stronj force for good mi I IE TliMMS WASIIINlTION 8INIMV JANUARY 2i 1900 in the church He also feels that he inual be ready to give helpful counsel or otufnrt to those in perplexity or trouble If be does this it Is really all that ho can be expected to ilo and he should be allowed to accomplish It unhampered by pett criticisms of personal matters which do not affect his usefulness It la time that the average communicant should under stand that a clergyman has some right and that first and foremost among these rights is that of the possession of lilt uun conscience and his own personality The only thing which can reasonably bo asked a clcrgjraan is that he shall be honest and consistent If he preaches against dancing card plavlng and theatre going he should not Indulge In these amusements himself that goes with out saying He should not preach against the love of mone and then go scheming for a larger salary He should not preach glowing sermons about the ancient mar tvrs and then refrain from the exnession of his own honest convictions because It will be disastrous to him And In most cases whtro clergymen are not thus honest and outspoken it Is because if they were there would be no place for them In their profession In many cases It is a question of giving up the only life for which the thinker has any training and In which he feels that he can be useful or of stifling his doubts and being silent about his real views It Is a hard position for the aver age man and the congregation should be liberal enough not to force him into It Oom lnuln Mntiie A statue of President Kruger is to be erected in Tretoria and It is unique in at least two respects In the first place it is the first time in the history of sculpture that any statue has worn a hat of the plug variety In the second place ow ing to the kindly and thoughtful suggestion of Frau Kruger that hat is hollow so that the little birds can drink out of the pool of rainwater which will accumulate It would be a picturesque thing If some day a buzzard should perch upon the head of the sculptured President and sit preening himself while taking occasional sips from the top ef the Presidents hat It Is safe to say that no ruler has ever been exhibited to the public with this particular variety of water on the brain This incident may suggest to the fertile Imagination of Inventors still other devices for making a statue earn Its living There might be a little door In the pedestal which when opened would reveal loaves ot bread or bushels ot coal stacked away there for the hungry The pedestal Itself might rest In tbe middle of a pool from which not only the little birds but dogs cats horses and cattle could drink Or In the case of a mercenary ruler the statue Intended to do him honor might be ar ranged as a sort of ma chine which would be profitable to both the public and tbe government There Is no end to the original devices that might be discovered for making statuar useful as well as ornamental Nevertheless most people v III be con tent to do w Illicit such invenions They will not consider that a pool of water In the hat of a bronze or marble figure Is an addition from either an esthetic or moral point of view nor will they consider the statue beautified by a fringe of little birds perched upon the rim of the headgear It Is reported that Secretary Gage is bit terly mortified by the snub he has received at the hands of the United States Senate so much so that if it were not for private or business reasons he would resign As It is however his present position could not be sacrificed very well without interfering with plans for the future whicr have been made with much care and forethought The probability seems to be that Mr Gage will not leave the Cbinet except as the result of a most prcssng Invitation The proposition to proclaim Agulnaldos roaming bands of cut ihroats banditti ought to furnish pabulum for a number of fiery speeches by members of the McKinley Walkover Club In Congress The Idea of treating Malay murderers ts such must naturally be repugnant to philanthropic minds like those owned and operated by Pettlgrew Wellington Mason Hale and Hoar The test of strength between the parties In the Kentucky Legislature has como at last showing that the Democrats can count upon fifty one or fifty two votes against the Republicans forty five or forty six It Is therefore assumed that when a vote on the Coebel Taylor contest Is reached the sitting governor will be ousted There ought to bo war news from Frankfort very soon Mr Montagu White it appears has de cided that he does not desire recognition as a diplomatic agent of Hie Boer Republic in this country He Is reported to regard It as more important for him to remain In a private station of life and do what be can agilnst his native lend on the side so to spea1 Hjafrrln ami lie Coiiatllntlun From the Ne York ivenine Post The House of Itcprtfentatlres yesterday vindi cated the sanctity of the American home by action ublch prevents a polygamiit from serving as a national lawmaier Unfortunately unneces carily and unjustly It did violence to the Con stitution of the United Statej In accomplishing this result when the same end might have been reached in a much more imrrenvc manner by compliance with the fundamental law of the land Itobcrts ouffht not to tenc aa a Congressman Ivcibud cirtpt Huberts tales tLIs view llut the man uhom the people of ttah elected as their Itepresentithc and ttbo met the Constitutional tests was as much entitled to be sworn in as a member of the House on the first VIonday of De cember as nas Itepresentatlrc Tayler of Ohio h led the movement for exclusion This plain light having been granted the House might then hsvc proceeded to his expulsion without a momenla delay beyond what a fair consideration of the charge against his character should demand ot only would he hate been expelled by more than the requisite two thuds Tote but there is no reason to suppose that a sin le ltepreentative vtould hue favored keeping him In his seat I he Iloer Ilrltlnli luiirr l From the Indianapolis News We are to be strictly neutral in this contest in the nature of things The greXest customer we have is Creat llntaln The best friend we have Is Great Britain We should be exceedingly foolish not to maintain a decent neutrality Any other course will hamper us In the future Vc ought to be sufficiently American to forbid the intrusion of foreign prejudice of any kind Indi v Idually wc may sympathize as e please and all we please Dut in public expression we oujht to be strictly neutral else we do our selrcs great wrong by making a record that will rise up against us Texnns He Coot From tie Calveston Nevn If Teians will itar shoulder to shoulder and do nothing rash or foolish this year the if ate will lead In railroad building In factory build log in the erection of pickeries and canneries in industrial progress and in general prosperity If the present movement toward better limes it hindered ever thing posihle should I done to fasten the responsibility right where it belong The people of Texas now mean lu Ines and not politics I POLITICAL NOTES AVI GOSSIP i llritiilillintm fm f lalliK Of course the Republicans unlike the Democrats are nlwnts organized But to the end of ngreeing deflnltelyiupon the details for the management of the next Congressional campaign n joint caticlis of Senate nnd House Republicans will be held In the hall of the House Tuesday evening Senator Al lison will preside and ihc secretarial duties will be divided belnreii Senator Kean and Representative Loudrnslnger both of New Jersey It Is understood that the chief business to be transacted is the elec tion of Chairman of the National Con gressional Campaign Committee There Is apparently no opposition to the re election of Representative Ilabcock of Wisconsin The only point of doubt is whether or not Mr Ilihcock Is willing to again accept the positiou He has served at the head of the committee continuously for six years and has conducted three successful campaigns By the rule of averages It Is about time for the Democrats to regain control of the House Aside from the arduous duties and thanklessness of the position this may de ter Mr Babcock from desiring to undertake a fourth campaign At the same time no body lias come forward with an offer to re lieve him of the task and it may be that it will be forced upon him In such a way that he cannot shirk It The Democrats still arc undecided as to the organization of their Congressional Campaign Committee The name of Representative Slayden ot Texas is the only one frequently mentioned for the chairmanship since Senator Cock rell has informed his friends In positive terms of his unwillingness to accept the position Mr Slayden Is young vigorous and brOad gauged He Is In thorough har mony with the dominent clement ot hla party and enjoys the confidence of Colonel Bryan as well as that of Andrew Carnegie who It Is generally understood Is anxious to contribute liberally to the Democratic campaign fund provided the leaders commit the party to his policy of contraction llnuht ns ti Iorlo Itlen It appears certain that tho threat of the Connecticut tobacco magnates to create trouble for the Administration if the Payne bill giving free trade to Porto Rico Is adopted is hav ing a deterrent influence on the party leaders all down the line from the White House to the Hall of Representatives It Is claimed In some quarters that the Pres ident is still friendly to the Pavne bill but this it Is thought Is put forward for purely political effect It is known that Mr McKinley has been very carefully en quiring Into the situation In Connecticut since the protest was made from that State against free trade with Torto Rico and it Is thought that not until he satis fies himself that the passage of thp Payne measure will not endanger the electoral ticket In the Nutmeg State will ho Insist upon the adoption of tbe measure at this session It Is considered not Improbable that the outcome of the whole business will be the postponement of final deter mination of the issues Involved to the next session of Congresp when the Presidential election is over and the Administration will feel free to adopt a definite and vig orous policy on this as well as the ship subsldv scheme It Is argued that should I the President assent to the passage of the i Pavne bill now hewould thereby give deft- niteness to a programme which political wisdom demands should be vague and In decisive for at least nine months or until the ballots have been cast and counted In November Meantime the Porto Rlcan heathen having no vote can rage and pull bis hair Pnjn SiirccuMir Governor Roosevelt has announced for the nlxteentn time that be has definitely and Irrevocably made up his mind to relieve himself of his Old Man of the Sea the profane and obnoxious I011 Payn The governor declares that on Monday afternoon he will send to the sen ate at Albany tbe nomination ot former State Senator Francis Hendricks of Syra cuse for superintendent ot Insurance Coupled with this bold declaration of the Rough Rider Is the announcement that the Piatt machine has dropped Payn and will not oppose the confirmation of Hendricks And still the pertinacious Payn laslsts that he will not be ousted presumably meaning thereby that there Is a surprise In store for the governor The relations between Piatt and Payn have been so close for twenty years or more that those con versant with them are inclined to believe that If the crafty Piatt has dropped Payn It Is onlj for the purpose of making worse trouble for Roosevelt than Pavns retention of office could cause him ThU view of the case takes cognizance of the probability that the Piatt machine will either defeat Roosevelt for renomlnatlon or consenting to renomlnatlon will let the governor flounder around by himself In the campaign for re election with the esult that he will be elected to retire to Ojster Bay after even tho Vice Presidency has slipped from bis grasp Ilfinrlr tlieLrnns Heturii The po litical onics In Washington are more amused than amazed at the latest gym nastic feat of the Hon W Bourke Cockran in leaping at one bound from the plnnacla of monometallism to the Chicago platform That Is what Mr Cockrans avowed sup port of Colonel Bryan Is interpreted as meaning however much the New Yorker may attempt to disguise it with ambigu ous verbiage It Is recalled that only a few months ago Colonel Bryan and Mr Cockran were rival attractions at an anti trust conference In Chicago and that on that occasion the New York orator In ef fect characterized as a pigment of an In flamed Imagination the existence of tho myrlad tentacled octopus which the Ne braskan was striving valiantly to kill Mr Cockrans declaration at this time that there can be no objection to Colonel Bry an Is accepted as Indicating tho recogni tion by blm of Bryans Indisputable lead ership and a keen desire to get In the bandwagon before Richard Croker returns from Europe and debars him from a seat in that vehicle There are some persons who believe that Mr Cockran even Is bid ding for the Vice Presidency but It Is con sidered not very likely that Croker would permit him to go on tho ticket at any price Ij neli Iniv Ireerilenl r rom thei Raltnnore Sun lieprewntalhr lie Armond of Jtlouri In his admirable sh agalnt the exclusion of Mr Itoberts of Utah frem the House without per initting him to tak the oath said The argument ot the msjorlly that the method of turning Mr Itoherti out of the House matters ot is the argument of Judge Lynch The vote on tho exclusion oj Mr Roberts shows that three fourtln of the inemben of the House re corded thenvehes aSjn favor cf Judge Lynch methods The Democrat who voted with the majority may have cause some day to regret that they assisted in establishing a precedent ased upon lynch law 1 I he Independent Aerie ultiirlol From the Detroit Free Press Who can sit out under the apple tree and smote a dudeen gather his dinner from his own vines and send for a fig tree if he wants itf Who can drir down to the corners when he feels like it hunt rabbits for the cost of ammunition tale nuts and elder in his shirt aleeveo and flippers order the hired man around wltliout fear of a strike feast from his own hen roost gossip outside the church whi the women hear the sermon and shave Just when he wants tot The farmer TVe is flo sense In wrangling alwut it He is It most Independent member of the human family and alwavs more independent this year than he was last If everjlwdj was a farmer there would lw no use for dairies Mficrilin From the Chicago Times Herald In cold fact he is a renegade consul with no diplomatic status whatsoever tilled upon to iL for UrilHi subjects in the Transvaal what llritish consuls luJ done for American subjects In Cuba he lietrajed his trust and ignored all tho o considerations of International comity which were lnqwsed upon him by lis government in deference not to He Hnllsh alone but to a common cutom THE BRITISH EMPIRES PERIL From Harpera Weekly The exultation and derision In the con tinental capitals nnd press over Great Brit ains reverses In South Africa are no reve lation to the well informed but only con firm extended observation as to anti British feeling It Is Idle to enquire why this is so Intense or whether It should be ascribed to manner to success In govern ment and commerce to the longest reach In land grabbing or to tho alleged pre tence of pious interest In civilizing In ferior peoples It has helped to concen trate critical attention upon the supposed weak points In the fabric of British Em pire presumably with the object of po litical aggrandizement There is no tell ing what secret negotiations may be going on In the chancelleries It would seem that the Anglo Boer war has only well be gun and that for some time yet possible eventualities will be matter of delightful contemplation for hostile powers It may be assumed that the French Foreign Of fice expects further British reverses and that Russian strategists have traced with nicer calculation tho lines of advance that would open the Persian Gulf to Russian commerce or make India a Russian cat rapy This is an old story but the possi bility of seeing It realized will accentuate its interest for Englands enemies and cause solicitude to her friends Continen tal European powers arc more than Inter ested In any probable partition of the out lying British estate and any serious deca dence of British military power will speed the preparation for it The beginning of tho end may have come some of tfem think But has it come What is the measuro of the fighting strength ot the British Empire and how can it be known when power ot resisting a hostile combina tion has been hopeessly weakened If as a German military critic has recently said British tactics teach nothing and tho n glish soldier as compared with bis Scotch and Irish companions In arms is begin ning to show that something Is wrong with him that state ot things may lead to the discovery of unsuspected defects Id tho other branch of the service and somi are already asking whether the British Nfcry i3 really as strong as commonly supposed If so then the final breaking up may go on apace Iru the meantime however expert military opinion will weigh the present British difficulties ot campaigning In South Of course the naval arm has the chie powers of both offence and defence It needs to be so as Great Britains chief peril is her assailable lines of ocean com merce But if as Mr Gladstone once said the difference between continuous empire and empire dispersed over sea is vital that difference Is not necessarily adverse to the defenslbllity of widely scattered maritime possessions It Is yet to be proved wheth er under present conditions of naval war fare the wide dispersion ot British power is not a source ot strength rather than weakness Many maritime points to de fend have assured many bases from which to attack On the other hand the eleven or tntlve millions of square miles of tho ments In International relations These have been less due to treaties and macy than to an awakening to this con sciousness of race among English speaking peoples and are aiding the moral reunion of two great nations politically divided and to some extent estranged for more than a century tal Europe In regard to the Spanish war and British friendship for this country showed that the English speaking peoples have been grouped as one by foreign opin ion that they are supposed to stand for the same fundamental principles and may be expected to act jointly in presence ot a common peril ThU great change has dis turbed the former balance of power In Eu rope and may detach certain prudential friendships Notwithstanding the Triple Alliance Germany has never quite gi n up tho Blsmarckian doctrine of the neces sity ot maintaining good relations with Russia but the Anglo American under standing Is well calculated to enable Ger many to dispense with any such necessity If tho future of his empire points to the sea as tho Kaiser has publicly declared It Is not to be presumed that he will slght the advantage ot a friendly understanding s 1th a power best able to Impart the se cret of profitable colonizing Germanys present attitude in foreign affairs has rn doubtedly been influenced by the friendly feeling between this country and Orvat Britain Among the dangers asserted to threaten the British Empire In tbe present crisis this country and Germany could not be Included Nor In default of any sign of Russian advance on India Is th e spe cial reason tor alarm from that source In view ot the deep absorption ot Russian en ergy In the building of the Trans Slberlin Railway development of Interests In Chi na and financial reconstruction at home there could hardly be a less auspicious time for an attempt on British supremacy In India The army officers Impatient of advancement and perhaps alive to the op portunities of peculation would no doubt favor such an attempt but weighty rea sons of state are In their way Besides Russia Is watched by Japan and any seri ous diversion of Russian military strength might result In a Japanese Invasion of Korea Nor can It be denied that the Anglo-American understanding Is a new fac tor In political calculations at St Peters burg The real strength of the British Empire in warfare is measured by sea powir and the protection It affords to transport ot troops to the coasts of an enemy I or this reason statistics of the military strength ot other nations ns compared with that of the empire are not specially Illuminating As already noted no large army of a great power could Invade British territory from a land base except on the Canadian and Northwest Indian frontiers Elsewhere the war would be naval and on tho British side would be carried on under conditions quite unequaled for aggressive operations Any hostllo power posseted ot colonies would bo subject to risk of their loss The ocean says Sir Charles Dllke is In fact a Brltliih possession not Indeed a British property conveyed or settled by treaties or title deeds but English In the sense that Engllsh nen Incomparably more than oth ers usi It and occupy It This occupan cy has Indeed attained a settled cinclencj unique among maritime nations Its naval aspect Is expressed by fortified coiling sta tions established where strategic colonial seaports can be defended and British oeean trade routes can be best commanded Each of the more Important stations Is fitted to be an Independent centre of naval opera tions It Is Interesting to quote here the opinion ot M Lockroy the former French Minister ot Marine In a recently publish ed Interview In the Figaro As tbe French fleet ranks next to the British in size and conslderab exceeds either ths Russian or Italisn tbe comparison will servo a double purpose M Lockroy says The English are more than twice as strong as we They have nearly six hun dred warships ot every tonnage and form to which they can add three or four hun dred steamer ready to be armed for war They are strong enough to confront France and the Triple Alliance combined Tho number ot their vessels is not only vastly more formidable than ours and th tr per sonnel more numerous but their organiza tion Is lncontestably superior to tbst of all the other fleets in the world On all the seas our fleet finds Itself before an English fleet double or triple In number and commanded by young officers In all the seas the English have pointsa appui have added that the more Important ot these stations are also practically Impreg nable fortresses In the present urgency ot competitive world commerce British sea power has a greater Importance than ever before In the last resort the weaker navy means the weaker maritime commerce and there Is an eager watch to grasp precarious trade from thoae unable to hold It France for example Is now bending renewed energy upon the improvement of her colonial em pire Into paying returns But if she had staked a war upon Fashoda her army would have been useless and her navy in adequate Nor could the naval power ot Russia have been an efficient aid s It consists of four distinct fleets three of which are tied up In part for local opera tions In the Baltic Black and Caspian seas respectively while tho fourth pro tects Port Arthur and Vladivostok Had war been declared the French colonial empire would have been attacked at once No more favorable opportunity could have been desired for tbe settlement ot the Newfoundland west shore difficulty by the capture Ot St Pierre and Mlquelon Hall- fax and St Johns Newfoundland would have served for naval bases Operations could have ben simultaneously directed against Martinique and Gaudeloupe In the west mates wnere two strongly lortltleo Africa with a care and judgment quite le- naval stations Kingston Jamaica nnd the moved from ready propecy and Its j Island of St Lucia are within easy strik pralsemcnt of British fightlns quality and Inf distance Then again Madagascar uI1 ve been attacked from the I power- win nrrhhW tv n mrrln for new military problems suggested by recent iui naval station of Mauritius a lively short distance to the east- To the battles and which are too perplexing jt southwest on the African coast Is the Brlt to yield safe conclusions I I11 Port of Durban New Caledonia could nave Deen auacKeu ironi ayuney or uris i bane on the east coast of Australia The Asian possessions and protectorates ot France are within reach ot Hongkong Singapore and Trlncomalee in Ceylon all fortified naval and coaling stations ot tbe tlrst Importar ce This Is not a complete i enumeration of the naval bases available against France Such an enumeration would show that the whole colonial empire of that country would be endangered in the event of war with Great Britain And the French colonial empire Is with the ex ception ot the British far more extensive than any other In view of these facts what special peril can be said to rteuace the British Empire on account of tb war In South Africa An i eminent American naval designer writing on this topic said recently that the whole continent of Europe could not land one earths land area under British rule or pro- soldier In South Africa or anywhere else tectorate could be endangered by only two JS31 the wl ot Egndi aad that f England wants to crush the Transvaal she i formldabl bases of attack by a largo In- d K smpIy gDd soej bjr Trtue of vadlng army without first reckoning with her overmastering sea power That does 1- W 1 I a t Anw en in n a wl 1 t I n 1 me uteusive Liuve ul uio aituuAok uk i uvi nfticv mm luc luituiduuua ui lumt In the world If the Government ot the United States should ever again declare war against Great Britain it could send an army across a Canadian border line un protected for many hundreds ot miles Or If Russia braving tho difficulties of trani portatlonr should attempt aa invasion of India by way ot Afghan Turkestan and Cabul British naval power would be use less In checking tbe Russian advance But It would hardly be too much to say who stake the Integrity of the British Em pire on recent or future reverses In this war As long as sea mastery remains to one ot the belligerents a steady supply of troops and munitions of war can be poured into South Africa until the last man will ing to fight there for British supremacy has been enrolled Undoubtedly the loss of Imperial pres tige will have a bad effect upon the dark skinned populations under British rule In South Africa a black rising either for or against tho British would be disastrous that both these contingencies have been j J Progress of the war thus JTar has made more remote br recent fanatic ir I a Moslem population among the tills of northern India that has the temper of revolt There Is another In Central touch But any weakening In the allegi ance of subject races has been more than counteracted by the support of the self Kovemlng colonies This has been given a heartiness that has already solved In part Tho attitude of he P10011 of Imperial unity for purposes cu ueieiice uuu points unmisuiKaDiy 10 further consolidation of the empire The Australian and Canadian contingents have done more for that great cause than many years of political agitation could do From the military as well as the naval point of view the nction of these colonies has dis covered for the mother country a now re cruiting ground jealously guarded of course by local control yet promptly of- lerea in a grave crluls or the empire It would be hard to Imagine any serious Brit ish war of the future in which the prece dent of loyalty will not be followed If the colonies have not yet counted the cost of this significant departure they have at least revealed a temper that will be srenu mis to fight for the maintenance of the whole empire That result alone balances the temporary loss of prestige from a few repulses In South Africa It may also help to explain why no continental government wets although press and people may revile and threaten Probably none of them deems It expedient for the present to be more than an Interested spectator of Brit ish armies fighting under cover of the na vys guns There is no real encourage ment for them in Magarsfonteln and Co lenso A dozen repulses of that kind would not shorten the striking distance of a sin gle British ship of war John W Russell without reference to the mcliviuuvt views or its members on the question cf who should be United States Senator ft is easy to see where Incompetent men might be ent to the legisla ture on the popularity of the canJidate they espotred for bwted States Senator and com petent men kept at liome to the serious dis advantage of the State at large Saved n Trench Army Corps From the New York Tribune In the list of the Cluncellerie of the Legion of Honor appears the name of Juliette Dodu the only woman who has been awarded the Cross ot the Lesion In addition to the military medal In H70 Juliette Dodu was a telegraphic clerk at Ilthivirrs and on the Cerman3 taking possession of that place during the Franco Herman war a message was given to her to send to once Charl Frederick Kerluing Hat this meant do atter to a portion of the trench Army she tore up the message instead of sending it and for thla act was condemned to be shot However whn the Prince arrived she wis released and complt men led on her courage for her daring act had sjied J whole French Army corps Tevhiilenl Schoeil eeiletl From the New Orleans Picayune What is necessary to any great progress iti man uficturing in the Southern States is that there slnll he Southern men who are competent to take positions of responsibility in various lines of man utactures It Ls the lack of information on these subjects that makf3 Southern men with capital averse to embarking it in Industries of which they are wholly ignorant What the South needs to supplv this moit serious want Ls schools for tech nial instruction in all sorts of spinning and waving and in the making and handling f ma chinery for such purposes The State of Low laiu has provided for two industrul school ae jlled lut nothing tha his the s pe and ahliiv fo usefulness that will be found a a prop r p v -on for instruction tn textiles SEEN AND HEARD ATTHE CAPITOL A veiled statue of General Grant stands in the rotunda ot the Capitol It Is a gift to the nation from the Grand Army ot the Republic It has not been viewed by the Joint Committee on the Library of the Senate and House of Representatives and when this shall have been done the statue will be unveiled without formal ceremony It is said that there U no doubt as to its acceptance by the committee On one side ot the pedestal Is inscribed Presented by the ff A It On the front of the pedestal is a great bronze Grand Army badge Tha sculptor Is Franklin Simmons In tho er ctlon of monuments and statues at Washington Grant has been neglected None has been reared to him In the Capi tal City though a Joint resolution was re cently Introduced In Congress providing for the erection at Washington of an equestrian statue ot the great soldier This resolution will probably be adonted It Is said that there la not even a portrait that la tn sav rvnrt whr shovr ran of General Grant lnthe Capitol The new Plenlsb their coal reoalr damaces and find i statue stands In the rotunda with thoae of both food and munitions We have noth ing or altost nothing In comparison Today to have a fleet Is nothing It is merely a thing for show The thing neces sary Is to have for that fleet coaling sta tions in all parts of the World A fleet without such stations Is as Admiral Vat Icn said like a goat tied to a stake The cord that holds her may be more or lass strong but there she Is tied He might Jefferson Hamilton Lincoln and Baker It is the understanding that statues given to the Government by societies if found worthy shall be placed In the rotunda while those presented by States are S3 heretofore to find a lodgment In Statuary Hall Senator Perkins of California recently received a communication from some per sons In a California small town address ed Hon George Perkins President of tha United States Washington D C Senator Elklns of West Virginia was one of the most Interested spectators In the MeGraw -Scott election case before the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the Senate yesterday He was In the com mittee room when the hearing was begun and he was there at the close He looked encouragingly at former Senator Faulk ner while he was arguing the cause ot Sen ator Scott The statue ot the late Senator Kenna of West Virginia still stands In Statuary Hall with Its shroud on Tbe Committee on the Library has declined to accept the statuo as a work ot art and the sculptor claims that his work was given a poor position with regard to the light Tbe fate of the Image has not been determined e The contested election case of Senator Scott ot West Virginia which was argued yesterday before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections furnishes an ex ample ot the manner In which politics may be entirely forgotten even In a political contest Former Senator Faulkner of West Virginia who Is attorney for Senator Scott was succeeded In the Senate by the latter Senator Scott Is a Republican while Mr Faulkner is a Democrat as is also John T McGraw who Is the claimant for Senator Scotts seat and Is therefore opposed to Mr Faulkner Thus Mr Faulkner Is working to have his successor retained In the Senata In opposition to his own party A meeting of the House Committee on Mileage will be called In a few days to de cide the claim of Brlgham II Roberts On a motion of a member of this committee Mr Roberts mileage account was laid aside early tn the session but now that he has been excluded a decision must be reached as to whether or not he Is entitled to the mileage allowed by law to a member of Congress When the Attorney General was asked his opinion on the subject he sug gested that It be referred to the Comp troller of the Treasury but the Comptroller stated that he would be guided entirely by the decision of the Committee on Mileage Mr Barham Chairman of this committee when asked hi3 opinion as to whethor or not Mr Roberts is entitled to mileage said that he should be glad to have him re ceive it that he came to Washington ex pecting to receive not only his salary but also the perquisites belonging to the office of Representative He stated however that having studied the law on the sub ject he could not see how the committee would be justified in paying him though when brought before them they might d clde otherwise MersjeiithrtlerM Lust AVork From the PhlLdelohia Record In the summer ot 1393 Ottmar Mergen thaler the Inventor ot the linotype ma chine who died in Baltimore recenfy spent two days at Palnesvllle Ohio study ing the working ot a basket machine which he afterwarilmmodlned and improved and which was tne last work rompleted just before his death This machine as com pleted Is as much a revolution in basket making as the linotype has proven to to in typesetting Where an expert operator formerly produced 300 grape baskets dally i1 KltCICr by hand the same operator with the lrinuirs Kleetlnii From the Houston Post Tlir primary election is the safest and most UtI factory way of getting at the public wish It not only secures a free repression of the pub lic will incapable ot corruption or of defeat but leaves the various representative and Sena torial districts to create the Mate legislature chine with greater ease can now prc duca lfiOi baskets dally and these machine made baskets are said to be superior In every way to the hand made article The machine 13 of one horse power ard can easily be attended by a girl It3 ca pacity being the same as that of twelve band operaturs It Is practically a self feeding machine as the supplies of bot toms strips for the sides and bands ata placed In stocks near enough for the won derful Iron hands to reach out and seize and while one watches these wonderful hands reach out for the material the basket Is finished and the machine as it vere holds its breath or rather Its hands for a second while the basket Is delivered when it Immediately begins again its wonderful performance The Popes Klntlnens at Henrt From the Pall Jfall Gazette Leo XIII life has been rich in good works the hundredth part of which is not and never will b known as one ot his chief characteristics Is wide benevclence which refuses to bear a grudge and to adiTtise itself Apropos of the letter in the Pall Mall Gazette of October 3 relative to the kindheartedness of Sutus V and the fishermans rirg a story somewhat similar about Leo Xltl ww related to me by one in high quarters Our Pope he said reads character at a glance and is rarely deceived One evemna when Nuncio at Brussels he was entering his carriage to go to dinner at the house of Count de Daillet when just as his toot was on the carriage step a workman wretchedlv dressed rushed forward insulted him and attacked him personally Ilia servants ready in hi defence seized the agresor and pros ceded to make things hot for him but tie Pontiff then simple Monsignor Peccv stopped them and calm ly and kindly addressing the man said lly friend 1 bear you nr malice for what you have done are you in necdf Come to see me some other time and let a 5 frane piece slip into his hand Jiccdlrsjs to sav the workmin after much encouragement went to see him and went so oftej that the Xuncio eventually took him into his service as 3 domestic ana even now ceo em retains a benevolent recollection of him and re counts that he never had a aervant more respectful and more to be trusted Itellirlon anil ews Frem the InJianapolU Press The experiment of running the Topeka Capl tal for a week as a Christian Daily recalls the fact that the Xew York World was started in ISCO on that line It kept It up less than 3 year The Christian Witness also of New ork was another failure Tills assumption of recullar virtue Is always offensive Men shoutd put Christianity into business but not p trade their profession as a distinctive chum What would he thought pf a Christian grocery or a Christian shoe store The inevitable dissatisfac tion and criticism every business enoimters would tiring reproach upon the cause it professed to serve Caiimit AlvTiiys Tell From the Cincinnati Enquirer MUNC1E Ind Jan I2 L I Manley a revl estate agent of Albany was arrested as a vagrant yesterday by a constable the charge being pre feired by a man who had m grudge against tie defendant In court the prisoner flduced a roll of bills amounting to several thousand dollars and displaved a certificate of deposit In a local bank for SW00O You cant alwavs tcI a nan by his dress Judge said Slvnley as he walked out of the court room tbreush a crowd of astonished spectators Press Assents fur Senntirs From the Providence Journal The tricks of the theatrical pros agent are ap pinntly copied In Washington Tints it is that w ith the advance cope of the pee h of s nai ir Koss of Vermont delivered in tK Senate r tent It umc tiu important statement that 1 n mud him If h v t liu matin 1 lim am it- n a vot t uw us at tune to uu it t ll ult hi ar him