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The suggestion regarding the possible pollution of White river by the location of an army post above the city Is no doubt groundless. The government is too careful lnMi'r-methods and too punctilious in ob serving public and private rights to justify any fear of that kind. Incoming tourists at New York took Sec retary Shaw's "baled hay" remark liter ally, and are much disconcerted on learn ing that he did not mean it. A large num ber of Indianapolis citizens would have realized at once that the term baled hay was a figure of speech. As this is the silly season when stories of the sea serpent arc in vogue there is no reason why Democratic papers like the New York World should not indulge in nominat ing tickets for the Republican party in lttl. They are liable to make some very gro tesque combinations, but fortunately no body is obliged to take them seriously. The story comes from Boston that Judge Holmes, of Massachusetts, has been a thorn in the flesh of corporation lawyers, and that they are delighted to have him transferred to the Supreme Court of the United States. Trobably the story is not true, but. true or false, it does not prevent tbe selection from being a first-class one. It might be remarked, to calm the anxiety of the Oxnard coterie, that the Republicans are not contemplating a general revision of the tariff, though many believe that two or three schedules could be improved. For In stance, if it were not a tax for revenue. and were not needed, the duty of about 100 per cent, on sugar could be cut 50 per cent.. to the relief of the people. If It is competent for the city to restrict passenger rates on the interurban lines it should be done. The control of these rates Is even more Important than that of freight, and this should not be left open to the changes and combinations of thirty year?. As the city has imposed other con dition? cn the grantees of the interurban frano'aises, and is really master of the sit uation ho far as entering the city is con cerned, it ought to make restriction of fares one of the conditions. It would be a great mistake to construe Mr. Bryan's announcement that he will not be an aspirant for President in 1004 as an act of modesty or self-abnegation. He knows as well as anybody that the election of a Democrat in R01 will be an impossi bility, and having been defeated in two successive elections he knows when he has had enough, at least for the time being. If he lives to see what he thinks a favor able opportunity he will prance to the front fast enough. ' There are so many goo. I lawyers In the United States that a President need never go amiss in appointing a Judge of the Uni-te-d States Supreme Court, and it Is a grat ifying fact that no mistake has ever been made. The new associate Justice. Oliver Wendell Holmes, of Masac husetts, bears a name made famous by his father as a brilliant and versatile author, and to which the ton has added luster as a lawyer. Hav ing served twenty years as a Judge of the "Supreme Court of Massachusetts, there can be no question of his fitness for the higher position to which he has been called. The commissioner of Internal revenue de cides that the use of palm oil in the manu facture of oleomargarine is an evasion of the new law against coloring that product, and therefore subjects the article to th special tax. The decision seems to be Xuunded in reason. As palm oil was iwvcr used Jn manufacturing oleomargarine until after the new law was passed it could hardly be claimed that it was introduced a? a nutriment, and as It possesses colorific 1 qualities it is fair to presume that it was J introduced for that purpose. Without ref ; erenoe to the merits of the law forbidding I the use of any coloring matter whatever in oleomargarine It seems quite clear that the use of palm oil comes under the law. The truth is the consumers as well as the manufacturers of oleomargarine should be educated up to the standard of using It uneolored. Anything else is a deception and therefore demoralizing to both manu facturers and users. EX. GHOSVENOIt AT CIIAlTAt'Qt'A. In his address at Chautauqua a few days ago Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio, spoke interestingly of our colonial and foreign relations. As to the Philippine question he paid it was practically elimi nated from our politics. This is true In a sense, yet not literally true. The ques tion? of expansion and imperialism, as they were raised In 1X, will never be raised n gain. No person now seriously questions our right to hold and govern the Philip pines, or. If a few persons do, they are insignificant In numbers and Influence. There is no longer any war in the Phil ippines. The army there has been re duced to a minimum, and the military force retained there Is merely to give backing and force to the civil authorities. So it is true that the Philippine question, as it existed two years ago, has been settled in favor of the United States, and is eliminated from our politics. There still remain, however, questions relating to thfi future govern ment and final disposition of the islands important enough to engage the attention of American statesmen for many years to come. On the principle of not crossing a bridge until one gets to it, these questions do not have to be decided at present, and can safely be postponed for settlement in the light of experience. Concerning Cuba, which, unlike the Phil ippines, is now a foreign country to us and entirely outside of our jurisdiction, Gen eral Grosvenor said: In the declaration of war was inserted a few words which ought never have been there, and I spoke and voted against them ret eatedlv. This declaration, known as the Teller resolution, declared that our purpose . in the war was not aggrandizement and that we did not want any territory. I did, and I had Cuba in mind. I believed then, and believe now, that she is too near and presents too great possibilities of trouble to permit her to wander away from us in any way. We ought then to have taken her on fair terms and planted our flag there to stay. But the declaration went in and we have done with Cuba just as we said we wrould do. While Mr. McKinely was President Gen eral Grosvenor was considered his spokes man, and If the former were still alive the above declaration would probably be re garded by many as representing his senti ment. General Grosvenor comes pretty near declaring In favor of the annexation of Cuba, and admits that he would have favored the acquisition of the island by war. Such a policy would have been out of the question when the war began. Pub lic opinion in this country would not have sanctioned it, and the civilized world would have condemned It. Our only excuse for intervention in the Cuban war vas the liberation of Cuba, and to have seized and annexed the island would have been in famous. The case was different with the Philippines. They came to us in the natur al course of events as a sort of war in demnity. The Teller resolution did not, as General Grosvenor seems to imply, declare against territorial expansion. It did not say we did not want any territory. It simply pledged the United States not to exercise any sovereignty or control over Cuba, ex cept for the purpose of pacifying the island, and "when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people." There was no allusion to the Philippines, because when the decla ration of war was made no person thought of them. In the light of events it is clear that the Teller resolution had an excellent effect In holding the United States to a fixed line of policy and excluding the idea of acquir ing Cuba by war. As General Grosvenor says, "the declaration went in and we have done with Cuba just what we said we would do." We have indeed, and have done it in a general way. Whatever the future may bring forth, it can never be said that we have not done our full duty by Cuba, and this is much better than to have seized and annexed it. Still, the Cu ban question la fully as pregnant of pos sibilities as is that of the Philippines. LAWLESS METHODS. In spite of the growing public sentiment against lynching and other like forms of lawlessness, such acts continue to be re peated. The lynching of two men at Lex ington, Mo., one a white and the other a colored man, seems to have been entirely uncalled for, even if mob law can ever be justified. The men were safely con fined in the county Jail with every reason to believe that they would receive their deserts in a legal way. The mob Is said to have been "orderly and well-directed," but the fact that every man of it was masked shows they knew they were violating the law and were too cowardly to face the con sequences of the crime they were willing to perpetrate from ambush. Every member of the mob is, of course, a murderer as much as if he had killed the victims singly with his own hand, and it is a pity they could not be made to feel the penalty of the law. Another phase of lawlessness nearer home Is reported from near Nashville, Brown county, where a mother and four sons are sleeping with loaded guns to repel a threatened attack of whitcappers. Some of the boys. Petro is their name, are ac cused of petty stealing, and on the strength j of thls they were warned by whit.cappers i to leave within ten days under the penalty of being, one after another, tied to a tree and whipped. Instead of leaving the boys provided themselves with guns and am munition, and they take turns standing watch for the whitecappers. The mother says: "We are going to stay right here." That they should do, and if the white cappers come they should give them a hot reception. If the Petro boys have been stealing there in a regular and legal way of proceeding against them quite different I from the white-cap method. If they are guilty of the charge brought against them, as they may or may not be, they are no worse violators of the law than thosc who assume to take its execution in their own hands. Until they are legally convicted of crime the Petro boys are justified in de fending their homo and persons against whitecappers. and If they should kill a few of the cowardly marauders it would tend to promote the cause of law and order. Those who resort to lawless methods of executing what they conceive to be justice should be treated as outlaws. Men who find an analogy in the growth of the tin-plate industry for the predicted growth of the beet-sugar industry forget one essential feature, namely, that the United States has had for years an abund ance of the iron and steel out of which tinued plates could be made. The difficulty was in the process of tinning the plates. That became easy with a higher duty on black than on tinned plates. The apparent trouble with the beet-sugar industry is to attain the quantity of beets necessary, which corresponds to the steel billets neces sary for the tin-plate Industry. If there were not an abundance of steel there could be no tin-plate industry. So long as there is not an abundance of beets there cannot be an extended beet-sugar industry. Be ginning in 13 the Agricultural Department has done everything it could to encourage farmers to raise beets, but the experiments which have been made have not aroused much enthusiasm- Much scandal and indignation has been caused by the fact that the rector of a London church has retained the proceeds from the sale of seats to view the corona tion procession of June 27, which did not take place, and refuses to give them up. Stands were erected around the building and afforded the best positions along the route and sold at high prices, the total amount received by the rector from the contractors who had leased the rights be ing $21,000. In the eye of the law this thrifty functionary has a freehold of the churchyard, and the contractors have no claim on him. Probably he argues that as it was not his fault that the coronation did not come off he is not responsible for any transactions relating to it. The fortieth anniversary of the battle of Cedar Mountain was celebrated a few days ago by a reunion on the battlefield of Union and Confederate veterans. Several thou sand persons were present, and interesting ceremonies were had. The battle was fought Aug. 9, 1SC2, and Indiana had two regiments and a battery in it, the Seventh and Twenty-seventh regiments of Infantry and the Sixteenth battery of light artil lery. The Elkhart Daily Review, which cele brated its thirtieth birthday yesterday, has a record of which it and its readers may well be proud. From the first it has stood for progress and the best interests of the community, and has taken a firm and high stand on public questions. The marked ability with which it has been conducted has not only made it an influence in its own State, but has attracted the attention of outside newspapers, which often quote from its columns. It has helped to estab lish and maintain the high standard of the Indiana press. The Review wras started by Messrs. Chase and Kent. Mr. Chase was with it until his death In since which time Mr. Kent has been in charge, the remarkably vigorous leading editorials which distinguish the paper being, it is understood, from his pen. Boston is trying to create a literary sensation by the announcement that a blind man "in its midst" has published Iiis first novel. That's nothing. Any number of New England people who don't know how to write have published novels. THE HUMORISTS. Hard Lines. Philadelphia Prets. "What did your old uncle leave?" "A lot ct disgusted relatives and a jubilant young widow we'd never heard of before." DinliiK Out. Life. Mr. Rabbit No, thanks; I never eat meat, as it makes one grow coaree. Mr. Lion Well, I have eaten a good deal, and It never dene me no harm. PlpiiiK the Pierian. Judge. "Is not this the Pierian spring?" we ask of the group of long-haired men about the spot. "It was," explains the leader of the group; "It was until Mr. Morgan organized a poetry trust and ran a pipe line from the spring to the main fctlicts." A SliKUt Confusion. Washington Star. "I suppose you made it a point not to miss the Campanile when you were abroad last sum- mer. "Oh, yrs," answered Mr. Cumrox, uneasily. conscious that his wife's eye was on him; "Mrs. C. and I always make it a point not to miss any of the great opera singers." Didn't Dare. Tunch. The Rector's Daughter My father feels it very much, Mrs. Barker, that you should leave the church every Sunday Just before the sermon. Lkn't you think you might try and stay in fu ture? Mrs. Barker I flursn t no It, miss. I do snore that dreaiful when I'm asleep. A'ecessary. Chicago Post. "You have ideas," said the man. "It is un usual." "Oh, I nave to have them," replied the frank girl. "Why la that?" "I am neither beautiful nor rich." Such Is femininity. While this seemed delight fully frank and unpremeditated, nevertheless the rich jfirl on on bide of her and the beauty on the other both straightened up suddenly as if something had hit them. Tracy Aot a Hero. Washington Post. Tracy will have thousands of admirers. His achievements will be enshrined in maudlin rapture. Hysterical women and half-licked cubs will celebrate him. Cheap and vicious romance will envelop the chap ter he made In history. All the same. Tracy was a mere brutal monster. He was about as heroic as a wild boar or a maddened bull. What the penny-a-liners hail as daring was only insensate barbarism. hat a lot of moonstruck gushers will hail as love of liberty was nothing more than a blind rage for slaugh ter. There are thousands of quiet, unos tentatious men In this country to-day any one of whom would if he had encountered Tracy on equal terms have vanquished him as easily as he would a half-grown bov. At no point in his career did he rise above the level of a bully and assassin. The first blow he received drove him to the cow ardice of suicide. He strove for no good end. He represented nothing high or no ble or unselfish. He threatened women and children as truculently as he did helpless men. He was a soulless ruffian, a survival of Beotia. He was a brutal anachronism who might have invaded the Roman Sen ate at the head of a Gorman horde or drenched himself with blood as did Tl- bcrius and Nero. Polyphemus and the Min otaur would have hailed him as a brother fiend. He was simply a devil in human shape. There is nothing more to be said of him He was an angry visitation. He bad no place in the scheme of Christendom. Hint to Advert Inem. Mahin's Monthly. "The honorable man loses his reputation by assot biting with dishonorable persons. An honest firm which advertises In a dis reputable sheet an.l brings its advertise ment into associations with advertisements of a disreputable character lays itself open to suspicion." SIMON Y ANDES. Xew England Tribute to nn Indianap olis Son of Harvard. Boston Globe. When the recording angel calls the roll of those who have done good deeds in the flesh, up n?ar the name of Abou Ben Adhem, who loved his fellow-men. will be that of Simon Yandes, of Indiana. Andrew Carnegie has given millions of dollars to found free public libraries, but he continues to receive sufficient dividends from steel stocks to pay for a first-class passage to his castle In Scotland, lie has millions left in his possession. John D. Rockefeller has contributed mag nificently to educational and religious in stitutions, yet never has he reduced his principal or his income to a point where he would lose his power and prestige in the financial world. The Indianapolis lawyer, however, has to aM intents and purposes stripped himself of an entire fortune, which h might to day have counted in seven figures, and is content to live among his bo-ks in a city block on plain food and clothed in raiment just fine enough to be respectable. Simon Yandes is a Harvard man. He was graduated from the law school in Cam bridge in 1S31. There he sat at the feet of such teachers as Judge Story and Simon Greenleaf, and among his classmates were E. Rockwood Hoar. William M. Evarts, William W. Story, Charles Theodore Rus sell, Nathanlal Holmes, James Russell Lowell. Charles Dever.s, Marcus Morton and Richard Henry Dana. Returning to his home in the middle West, admitted immediately to the bar, he practiced his profession successfully for half a century, and grew wealthy through investments in real estate, never marry ing. He Is now aged eighty-six. In a recent interview he said: 'When I became seventy years old I thought that I ought to be settling up my estate. In the course of a few years I have given $1M.(V'0 to Wabash College. At no time have I had $S).O"0 In a bunch, but I have given away from time to time JtOO.OOO to church and charities, and during the period from ISsS, when I was seventy years old. to the present moment, I have given to relatives that amount more. Meanwhile I was accumulating what I could and reducing my funds by the gifts." Simon andes has followed both tne let ter and the spirit of the advice of Jesus to the rich young man to go sell that he had and give to the poor, thereby laying up treasure in heaven. But he has acted in a practical way. He has not reduced him self to absolute want, lie has not become a pauper. In connection with his latest known ben efaction, the recent gift of JW.ooo to the New York Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, he has provided that he Is to receive an annuity of 5 per cent, on the $00,0 ) for the remainder of his life. Thus he has merely taken proper care that he shall not be left in extreme penury in his last days. The career of this Western attorney, in cluding the charity of his old age, not only sets an example for other wifeless and chil less men to copy, but it should teach the youth of the land a lesson of frugality and strict honesty. Here is a little story to illustrate the point. The lawyer went into a store a few weeks ago to purchase a new hat. He told the clerk that he wished for a hat that would wear well, but not an ex pensive one. The salesman replied that he had some cheap durable hats, but they were last year's style. Mr. Yandes said he wasn't particular about the fashions. He made a selection and paid the price asked. After he had gone to his room in the block he noticed that the price mark on the hat-band showed that It sold for $2.T0. With the hat under his arm he hasten ed back to the store and inquired of the clerk if a mistake had not been made. Mr. Yandes said he could not afford to pay $2.5C for a hat. but if there had been a misun derstanding he would rather spend the extra dollar than to cause the clerk any trouble. Would you, young man, be willing to wear a last summer's straw or a last win ter s derby? Would you, sir, be as quick to detect and try to correct a possible error in price or change whether in a hat store or at a theater ticket office? The Hooslcr philanthropist practiced economy as well as law, maintained his integrity, and has thereby been enable to help the poor, educate aspiring bovs and girls of parents who are strangers to him. spreading tne gospel at home end abroad. and without forgetting his own worthy relatives, making the world better and brighter. 'THE EAR TO THE GROUND" Should 'ot ne Influenced People AYho Write Letters. Minneapolis Journal. Harper's Weekly asks whether Congress really represents the people. It is moved to ask this question by the remarkable fact that the fiercest denunciation of the course of the "Insurgent" congressmen has come from the very States represented iy them. The Weekly seems to think that while con gressmen are very desirous, as a . rule, of keeping in close touch with public opinion. they take the wrong method of ascertaining it. The average congressman pays more at tention to the letters he receives from his constituents than he does to press reports or editorials as thermometers of public reeling, it he gets ten letters from con stituents in favor of some bill, and one or none against, he concludes that the people of his district are overwhelmingly In favor of it. Then the congressman goes home 1 A FT" T A l - . 1 and, is surprised to find that the majority is about ten to one against the aforesaid proposition It is easy to understand why a congress man s man is a poor reflector of public opinion as a l-cent thermometer is of the weather. It is only in great political crises, when the souls of men are intensely stirred, that they write personal letters or tele grams about public questions in which they have no direct personal business interest But the man who has a business Interest that is affected by proposed legislation writes early often and telegraphs fre quently. Take the question of the disposition of timber on Minnesota Indian reservations. The public may have some very pronounced notions about it, but the letter-writing, tel egraphing and lobbying largely came from persons interested directly, through busi ness considerations, on one side or the other. lake the beet sugar controversy. Our Minnesota congressmen tell us that their correspondence indicated that the people up nere were opposed to reciprocity with Cuba. The chances are that most of those letters were written by the owners or employes of beet sugar factories, farmers engaged or intending to engage in the cultivation of sugar beets, prospective sugar factory own ers or Dusiness men who figured some sort of a selfish interest to themselves. The general public didn't write letters that bur dened the mails nor did it send telegrams that burned tne wires. It "laid low" and thought. But the general public, not the letter-writers, make public opinion. SUCCESSFUL AT THE BAR. Women of the Huh Who Arc Accept- nhly Practicing: Law. Boston Advertiser. "There are a number of women lawyers in Boston wno have been very successful in special lines of practice, such as con veyanclng, probate, and corporation law. but I do not consider specialization essen tin! to success in the practice of law," said Miss Amy Acton, a member of the bar. In reply to a question asked by an Ad vertiser reporter. "I take everything that comes along, and it seems to come along all the time. I have been practicing law for the past eight years, and during that time have had a general practice. "It Is hardly time yet to institute com parisons that can be considered valuabl?, because there are not enough of us who have been practicing law long enough to allow a fair comparison to be made. Miss Bridges, who has an office here, has been in practice for two years, but has. enough to tlo. Among the women lawyers who have specialized is Miss Alline Marcy. who is engaged In conveyancing, ar.d examining titles for the metropolitan water board. She has a fine position. "Of course, some things are open to men lawyers that are not open to women, and vice versa, there are things open to women that are not open to men. Some lawyers think polith-s help a lawyer who Is trying to build up a practice. Politics do not aid a lawyer, certainly not from the finan cial point of view. Through politics a lawyer may get a good deal of business, but It is not always remunerative busi ness. A lawyer politician, who standi high in his party, has told me that h; had to do a lot of running around, and that it tcok a good deal of his time, for which there was no substantial return. "I don't And that I am handicapped in the practice of the law because 1 am a woman. I into court and try anything I have to try. I tried a divorce case in Middlesex county not long ago. and I trid two cases within two weeks of my - l:ijon to thfJ hr, and have been try ing cases ever since. in out way women have the advantage of men in practicing law. They have the confidence of women. I have women com ing in to see me all the time. Some of them come from Cape Cod. and some of them come from the western part of the State, and they all express their pleasure in finding that they can come to a woman to present their case for them. One of my first clients was an old gentleman from Cape Cod who had seen the announce ment of my admission to the bar in the Record. "It seems to me that any woman who will stick to it long enough will succeed in the law. assuming, of course, that she has the riRht preparation to start with. A man does not get a good law practice built up under five years, and it is hardly fair to ask a woman, who has been practicing less than that time, if she is doing well. Women lawyers are certainly making sub stantial progress. Property laws are be ing so ameliorated that women of means are enabled to handle their own property with more freedom than formerly, and these women are putting their business into the hands of women lawyers. You know that up to 1ST3, when the law was changed, married women had very little to say or do with property. The law of 1)2 equalizing property rights in deceased spouse's estates has widened the scope and Increased the power of women over prop erty. Then. too. more women are Kolng into business than formerly, and they are employing women lawyers." INSURING J. P. MORGAN. Speculators Protect Themselves by Taking Policies on His Life. New York Times. The Westminster Gazette announces that London speculators in American railroads have grown nervous of late, and in many instances have protected their financial holdings by insuring the life of J. Pierpont Morgan. A cable dispatch says that the premium paid is 0 per cent, per annum, but that some policies have been issued on Mr. Morgan's life for three months at a premium of 45s per 100. The Gazette sug gests as a possible sequence of cause and effect that "perhaps this fact accounts for the sensational rumor that Mr. Morgan is to be protected on his arrival in New York from the threats of Anarchists. But the real slgnincance of the message is that Mr. Morgan is probably the first man outside of the King of England who.se death is considered important enough uy the general public to be insured against. Not even the Rothschilds have been so honored. It elevates this notable Ameri can to a position in the eyes of the British more important even than any of their own puolic men. Not even the deaths of Earl Roberts or Lord Kitchener would anect the welfare of the British public seemingly as much as would the death of the great corporation organizer Ut course, large policies are camea on King Edward's life and formerly on the life of Queen Victoria, but there are cer tain usages In England that render this relatively imperative. The great expense incurred by many persons in preparing for the coronation led them to Insure the King's life, and the course of events proved the wisdom of the procedure. But no other man has been so honored. An official of one of the large New York in surance companies was asked If any other person had ever been insured by the public in general. He said "I know of no other man except Mr. Morgan upon whose life a general policy has been insured. W e do not insure pub lie lives In America not even that of the President of the United States. Hereto fore no one man's life has seemed to be Important enough to Insure except in fa vor of his Immediate relatives. You will remember when President Mo Kinley died it really made but little differ ence to the financial well-being of the coun try. There was a slight fall in prices, but the rally was Immediate. Besides we do not believe in that kind of insurance, and I be lieve it would be hard to introduce it over here. They do it in England, but only as the outgrowth of an old custom Dating from feudal times leases to prop erty were often made for the lifetime of the lessee or for as long as certain general conditions prevailed. Sometimes the names of an outsider would be put in the lease. merely to conform to the old custom of naming somebody "When insurance came in the leasholder sought to protect himself by having the person mentioned in the lease Insured, and the names of notable persons were selected merely because the notables were more eas ily traced. Tom, Dick or Harry might emi grate or become lost sight of in other ways, and his death might thus become a matter for dispute. But everybody in the realm would be sure to know when the King or Queen died, and there could be no dispute. "So the reigning sovereign became a fa vorite name for lease usage, and Queen Victoria was a much-insured person. When she died policies were Issued on the life of King Edward. But it became common to Issues policies on the King's life for other causes than leases. Linen drapers, for in stance, insured the King's life because having a stock of, say, white goods, on hand, his death would make mourning the only possible apparel, and the white goods would become a loss. "It is only where a man's death could involve widespread financial loss that a public policy would be issued on his life. even in England, and if British comnanies I . nave accepiea nsKs or Mr. Morgan's life it is a flattering estimate of the high and important place he has achieved in the world of finance." Lightening: the Stoker's Work. W. W. Christie, in Engineering Magazine ior August. The operative advantages to be expected from the substitution of mechanical stok ing for hand firing may be enumerated as lower cost of firing, greater uniformity in condition of fires and operation, readi ness for burning all grades of fuel, and less production of smoke. Considering the lower cost of firing, it must be realized that much harder firing is now required than was formerly necessary. From a de sire to get the greatest possible financial return out of a given plant, the rate of combustion has been increased until the maximum quantity of ioor fuel possible per square foot of grate per hour has been burned. This has been followed by the use of free-burning grades of bituminous coal, giving a still higher rate of combustion, until the work required of firemen has be come excessive both in amount and in cost. A full day's work for an able fire-man is the shoveling of not more than ten tons of coal In twelve hours, or about sufficient for 4M boiler horse power. If the same man is required to handle coal into hoppers lor mechanical stokers, he could take care of two units of 5") horse power each, while if the coal was fed into the hoppers au tomatically he could take care of four such units, or 2.0UQ horse power. Edwin Ahhey'M Disappointment. New- York Commercial. Among the many whose work has been disorganized by the illness of the King has been that of Mr. Edwin Abbey. R. A., who is to paint the coronation picture. He had already visited Westminster Abbey on several occasions, and made rough sketches with the object of working out a scheme of treatment for what he desires to be a historic picture, designed as it is for Buckingham Palace. Mr. Abbey tells me (writes our IDndon correspondent) that he was beginning to see his way to ac complishing what he wanted when the news come of the postponement of the coronation. At first, he sas, there was some confusion at the rehearsals. People naturally did not know their parts, and there was consequently much prompting. Gradually, howeved, order was evolving out of chaos, and things were going bet ter. Mr. Abby received hi3 commission to paint the coronation picture a year since direct from the King- himself. He does not expect to finish It for fully eight een months after he starts ujHn It. Wmkcs of Political Sin. Nebraska State Journal. Michigan was the acknowledged strong hold of the antl-reclprocutcrs. Whatever other constituencies might do. it was ex pected that Michigan would rejoice to honor the men who participated in the boxer festivities in Congress and helped down. Roosevelt. But the congresslon il conventions hive begun to come off in Michigan and already four of the Repub lican insurgents have bitten the dust. Tlx ir constituents love 'em too much to send 'em back to breathe the tainted air of the capital. CRIMES IN LIBERTY'S NAME. The Cnae of the Infortunate Woman nt Turkey Hun, Pa. New York Tribune. A great deal of eloquence is being devoted ' just now to the exposition of the rights I of labor. Mr. Bryan is indignant because ! a federal judge in West Virginia enjoined the right of "free speech," so far as that speech was being used to intimidate men who persisted in exercising their legal right to work in the coal mines. Others ar-3 equally exercised because troops are pro tecting "scabs" In Pennsylvania and rot allowing the strikers the enjoyment of their inalienable right of cutting off the ears of persons who work contrary to their man date. All of these defenders of liberty whose hearts beat so truly for the common people will, we doubt not. read with sym pathetic interest the letter which General Gobin received from a poor woman at Turkev Run. Pa. It is so striking an illustration of the sort of human rights which are being frequently ignored in tins country that we print the letter in full. She wrote: "I now take the opportunity of writing . . . i .. it . you these lew lines to let you Know m iur stands in danger and also tne nie oi m; husband. We stand in as much langer as any one can. The polanders threaten? to blow up my house with dynamite and they are firing shots around my nouse every night. 1 am afraid of my life to lay down to sleep. I call on vou for life protection. My bedroom windows was battered in with stones and my baby was in Pea it. wa- o'clock in the night and she was wiinin an inch of her life of being killed. One or the stones laid on the pillow at the side of her head, my child is sick, and I am nearly being confined. They are doing all sorts of planing and plotting in the night time, they are up and down the street all hours of the nignt. rsoi oni that they hung a black and white crape on my door when I got up in the morning, I seen it there. "Kind sir please give me some kind of answer or I am afraid of my life. It would be a blessing if the troops were here for they are needed here bad. The reason the fureifrnr nnlri mlrrs arft down Oil US SO much my husband started to work, he had to for we had no means of a living, we buried a little girl in March and we had not her funreal expenses paid yet when this strike took place. 1 was going down to the outh)Use last night and a shot was fired at me by a Polander." Here was a poor man with wife and a sick child, and another child expected, who had nothing with which to support them, lie went to work to keep them from starving, without the consent of John Mitchell, but in the exercise of a ritht guaranteed him by the laws of the United States and of Pennsylvania. The despots who held sway in that region, not content with threatening his life, attack his wife and sick baby, and it Is necessary for Gen eral Gobin to send out a platoon of cav alry and rescue and lodge in a hospital this woman whose only offense is that her husband did not leave her to starve to please a band of ruffians. Yet this is the sort of thing which we are told should not be enjoined and dealt with by summary process. Lawbreakers should not be for bidden to skulk about this woman's house and frighten her and her child. They should be left free to "rersuade" her to starve and only arrested after their stones have crushed the child's head or their bul lets killed the mother. It is "militarism" to call out troons and prevent free men from abusing this family. The troops are not needed. John Mitchell and his ad vice to his strikers to be law abiding are quite sufficient to keep the Polanders from taking pot shots at women and children. The Governor of Pennsylvania ought to remove the troops and accept the assur ance of the strikers that they themselves will preserve order. The "common people" of this country are being reduced to slavery, and are allowed to make a living only at the pleasure of their tyrants, are they? Indeed, it looks so. But just who are the tyrants? Sub ject to' whose will are the most funda mental human rights in Pennsylvania? Who is committing crime in the name of liberty? NEW CIVIL WAR STORY. "Stonewall" Jackson, the Profnne Private and n. Cannon. Detroit Free Press. Among the many quaint stories that are told in connection with Stonewall Jack son's brilliant campaign in the Shenandoah valley in 1SC2 there is one that always brings a smile to my face when I think of it as told by an old "ex-Confed" who was attached to one of the batteries of his command during that trying time. In the early spring of that year General Jackson had rushed his "Commissary Gen eral" Banks the commander of the Fed eral army In the valley through Winches ter and Martinsburg, across the Potomac into Maryland, with the loss to the latter cf many men and a large quantity of mili tary supplies, and then leisurely returned to Winchester, wher he was not permitted to remain long undisturbed by his enemies. Banks, Shields and Fremont, approaching from three sides (north, east and west), endeavored to cut off Stonewall's retreat up the valley. After leaving Winchester the Confed erates followed the turnpike a first-class road through Stroudsburg, Woodstock, Edenburg. Mt. Jackson and New Market to Harrisonburg, where they left the turn pike and struck out In the direction of the Blue mountains by way of Mt. Crawford. Between the condition of the pike and the red clay road on which Jackson's com mand now found itself there could be no comparison. Everything on wheels stuck fast in the mud, and the patiertce of officers and men were alike tried to the utmost. The Infantry and cavalry kept out of the mud road as much as possible, seeking the fields and threading their way through the woods, where the ground was not cut up so much. Notwithstanding the dis heartening condition of things, the toil some march was kept up in the direction of Port Republic, with Banks and Fremont hanging like bulldogs on the rear and Shields pushing with all his might up the Luray valley to keep Jackson from cross ing the river and reaching the protection of th "burly Blue Ridge" after his an ticipated defeat by the two first-named generals. At a point on the road where it was belly deep to the horses a twelve-pound howitzer was stuck fast, and the disgusted artillery men strove in vain with whip and spur, fence rails, strong English and every expe dient that disgusted men could think of to get out of the "slough of despond." At this time some cavalrymen sitting on their horses looked idly on. and congratu lated themselves upon having. four legs un der them instead of four wheels, and a heavy piece of artillery In tiKjr charge, which seemed to be possessed of the devil of obstinacy. While the cavalrymen were enjoying the situation, sitting high and dry unon their horses, and now and then cracking a Joke at tne expense of the mud-bedabbled gun ners, a rather quaint-looking officer with an old slouched hat "cocked Ter his eye askew," halted with his staff and quietly took in tbe situation. Then, turning to one of the cavalry offi cers in command of the troop on the road side, he directed him to order some of his men to dismount and help the gun out of its unfurtunite position. The response of the mounted men to the order was very slow indeed; but they rec ognized Stonewall as the officer who had come to the rescue of the gun, and knew there was no help for it. The struggle was apparently vain, and at length a thoroughly disgusted cavalryman, with a halt in his speech and covered with mud, turned with a reproachful look to his beloved general and said: "G-g-gc n-gen-eral, 1-1-let's take u-u-up a collection f-f-for the d-damn g-g-gun p-pay for it. and l-!eave it:" The "blue light elder" did not pay much attention to th suggestion of his profane follower, further than to give a few quiet orders to his subordinate offi cers, and the gun was soon lumbering along, ar.d was at Port Republic the next day in time for Its gunners to say: "That's Ran!;? he's fond of shll; Lord save his soul, we'll give him" well. That's "Stonewall Jackson's way." Coper Iinltivf. Mines and Minerals for August. There are mines in Utah producing cop per, silver and gold that can make copper for 4 to G cfnts per pund, counting gold and silver as by-products an I deducting their values from cost of making copper. These mints, while of importance, are rel ativ ly small, and their costs cannot great ly effect the general average. The Boston and Montana and Anaconda mines, of Butte, derive large silver values from thtir ores, and sundiy other American mines benefit greatly by gold and silver secured as by-products. It may be safely said, however, that there are no American mines that secure copper a a by-product, without cost, in caes where the copp.'i production Is of sulT'.ri.-nt size to .ntitie the mine lo rank among rrrrtifs of the f.rst. second or third class, measured by annual produc tion. A price cf IS to It ent per pound will enable all of th leading copper producers of the United States to run at a profit. Some of the mines now producing cat. not make oopper at f-urh figures, and many of the developing mine will find themselves unable to e rim profits unless hlgh-T prices can be secured. There are probably nouh mines, how Mr. capable of paying their way with coper at 13 to 14 rents to supply the norma! requitt-mer.ts of the market. The stimulus of hUh price? Is r fleeted verv plainlv ir. the figures of production of 1 1. NVrw.iv. Japan and South Africa are the only countri s producing coj p r to the extent of l.'t' tont or more in 1) that did not increase th'ir outputs In 1. 1. Can ada led th world in aciual ar.d In relative increase, and was followed by Australasia, Chili cvming third, w ith an inert ae of 5. tons. Annuig the new producers for 12 and 1 3 win be Argentina and eno-zuela. Time to Kill nUi. Charleston News and Courier. In a recent communication to the prf. Dr. Keirle. of the Pasteur Institute, urges people not to kill dog suspected of having the rabies. He points out the fact that with hydrophobia a log can live but a day or two at the most, and when death ensues the presence of the disease can be proved or disproved instantly and beyond doubt. On the other hand, killing a dog makes nec essary the inoculation of a rabbit, which may net develop rabies for weeks, the con dition of the patient belnc in doubt durlntc the period of delay. It should be romnrktd, however, that.it is always In order to kill a suspected animal before he can m ike a patient of anybody, so that it will not ba necessary to inoculate any rabbits. KaiunK Trnscd Kansas City Journal. A St. Joseph paper gives an account of an amusing little "tragedy" which it claims recently occurred there'. A man and hU wife were riding home on a street car. He was reading- his paper, when another lady got on. The car was crowded, and. without glancing up, ho arose and gave htr his scat, receiving a gracious smile la payment. The man's wife immediately got up. gave the bellrope a hard jtrk. and in vited her husband to get off. When ho looked around to learn the cause of lur anger, he discovered that the woman to whom he had given his seat was his first wife, whom he had divorced two years be fore. They walked the rest of the way home, and he is still explaining. Proftretve Hnllrond Company. j Minneapolis Tribune. The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad shows a good deal of courage In educat ing its train crew to give first aid to tho Injured. The general theory of railroad is that they are never going to have any more accidents. To load trains with medi cine chest and hospital stewards will look a little gruesome to passengers; but they will profit enormously when the inevitablo accident occurs. Railway surgeons say that more than half the deaths by train ac cidents could be prevented by prompt ban daging and dressing of wounds. This 1 particularly generous of the railroads, too, because damages for persons seriously dis abled are generally heavier than for those killed outright. 3Iore Tyranny. New York Sun. The Sun of yesterday printed this dis patch, black with sinister prophecy to ail true and properly blue Bryanltes: "Janesville. Wis.. Aug. !. John E. Gal lup, living near here, secured an injunction to-day from a court commissioner restrain ing Thomas Bockel, a neighbor, from asso ciating with Gallup's wife. This is said to be the first case of the kind." The first of a long and infamous line, 1J the friends of constitutional liberty don't rise as one man and yell, "Down with, government by injunction!" Why. the next thing you know, the tyrants will be en joining you from associating, with your own wife. Mr. Carnegie' Libraries. Philadelphia Inquirer. Mr. Carnegie's library proposition appears to have been hung up for repairs. In th most direct manner he has been made to understand that the conditions which h Imposes are too hard for the avfrage small community, but he has made no change in his plans, and, lelng of an obstinate turn, probably will not. And there the mat'er rests. On the steel king's part it is alleged that he went Into the subject thoroughly before he made his original offer, and that may be true. Meanwhile the fact remains that there is no vociferous demand for tho Carnegie libraries, and we are not surprised at the fact. Rights nf Street-Car Puencers. Minneapolis Tribune. Judge Otis of the district court in St. Taul has decided that crowded street cars need not stop to take on passengers, as tho passengers who have alrendy secured places in the car and paid for their passage have some rights. One of these rights Is free dom from crowding, and easy and conven ient egress by the platform and aisle. Tho conductors usually try to be accommodat ing, but there is a point beyond which -ic-commodation to the waiting pedestrian be comes cruelty to the sitting or standing passengers, and it Is well that the court has given the conductor a reasonable option. In the matter. They Are Opposing; the Pope. Detroit Free Press. Now that the friars in the Philippines have brought upon thcmrelves the open condemnation of the Vatican it will be In teresting to know how their champions in the church of America will meet the situ ation. Another thing that will tend to em barrass their activities is the fact that th manifesto of Archbishop Ireland has re ceived warm words of approval from the same high authority. Judging from the past, the- excellent iiicipllne of this great organization will quiet internal differences. SBBSBBVBBBSSBSBMHBHSMSSlBBBBBBmsSlSBBBBBBBBBBMa ' Wonder They Come. Philadelphia Press. A sad contrast to the abundant crop situation in this country is presented in Eastern Galicla, Austria, where about "t of the working clats have died within a year from starvation on account of poor crops. The men's wages average from eight to sixteen cents a day, and the women's from four to eight cents a iay. It is no wender that tho-jsands of working people are turning their steps from that country and swelling the tide of Immi gration to this country. Everything for the Coronation. London Ladies' Field. "A dainty red morocco case to hold your coronet, and In addition a pink s:itin ba? lined with oilskin, which will hold a packet of tin-foil'-'d sandwiches, tablets of choco late, a fiagon of II idsieck or CU-juot, & scent both, mirror, powd.-r puff, tiny ko dak, a patience rack, and hnuikd'-fs ciga rettes." N ei I say tliit it was an Ameri can inventor who plncej this wonderful thing on the markt. and called it the "cor onet lunch basket?" All Itiitht If They Are Unppy. Mahin's Magazine. Many of those who choose Illustrations for their advertisements follow the philos ophy of the Irish boy who sail that he llkd to stub his toe because It felt so good wh-n it stopped hurtinic. Many of us are unable to see how the boy had rnadj any gain after it was all over, but he was satisfied and that was sufSclent. (ood Iden. Baltimore American. There is rejoicing In the hay-fever dis tricts, as it i? clalmel that the heavy rains have washed the pollen from the ragweed, and the annoying disease is not to apiar this summer. If ragweed pollen 1 the cause ofthe trouble, it mishit be a good ld?a to apply tbe hoe early in tbe'sprlr.g and take no chances on rain. Polltlcnl MudftliiiKliiK. Baltimore Herald. The prtvehge of criticising candidates for office is held in Coffin vs. Brown (Md.) & L. R. A. 722. not to extend to falsely attacking the character of an officer ap pointed by the Governor, for the purpose of defeating the l-tter's re-clectlu to office.