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THUH8DAY, JULI If?, 1??7.
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THE VMW? THIS MOR?ISO.
FOREIGN.?The Fourteenth of July was cele?
brated in Parla; special precautions were taken
to protect President Faure. z^=i In the Henley
regatta. Dr. McDowell, of Chicago, easily beat
the Hon. E. A. Guinness, and the Winnipeg
crew ou tro wed the crew from Utrecht Uni?
versity. . ' According to advices from
Harnerfest. Andr?e vis to be ready to start for
the North Pole to-day. asses The Judicial Com?
mittee of the Privy Council has refused to al?
low an appeal in the COM of Mrs. Carew, sen?
tenced to life imprisonment for poisoning her
husband. ? ?'? The tei m of Imprisonment of
Lady Scott for criminally libelling Earl Rus?
sell, her son-in-law, expires to-day.
CONGRESS.?Roth branches In session. ???- ?
Senate- Business was at a .standstill most of the
day, through wok of a quorum; Senator Harris's
Pacific Railroad resolution was discussed. : ' -
House: The Senate amendments to the General
Deficiency bill were disagreed to, and the bill
was sent to conference.
DOMESTIC?President McKinley made a
large number of nomination?, including those of
Robert A. Sharkey to be Naval Officer and
Thomas Fltchie to be Commissioner of Immi?
gration at this port, amas Ths Senate Foreign
Relation? Committee adopted a resolution au?
thorizing the President to obtain the release of
the Competitor prisoners still held in Cuba; a
favorable report on the Hawaiian annexation
treaty wan als ? made, sa-The President re?
voked Mr. Cleveland's order directing a con?
solidation of pension agencies. Mana L. J. Craw?
ford, Of Newpott, Ky., was elected president of
the National League of Republican Clubs. ?:?
Two reservoirs near Flshkill, N. Y., burst, the
sweep of water carrying away a laborers' board
In:-house and drowning eight people; a brick?
yard was washed away, anil the New-York Cen?
tral tracks \\e-e badly damaged. ??? Many
floods and freshets from remarkably heavy rain?
fall WOT? reported from New-England and
Northern New-York: several vessels were
wrecked on the coast.
CITY. -Father Zabogllo and two other men
veie badly hurt by an explosion of gas in the
base'vent <jf the Church of Our Lady of the
P.osary at Pi.mpell. =r-=rr Some dr.mage was
d<>ne in this city and in Brooklyn by a severe
thunderstorm. :- The Momo Ar.toned first
in the second >f th?? series of Bonwnnhnkn-CO'
rlnthian trial meen, for th?? selection of the
challengr. off Oyster Bay. ----- Winners at
Brighton Bench: Kstaca. Sanders. Harry Reed,
toda, Hanlon, Successful. ., ; i Stocks were
stn ng and active.
??1G, WKATHKR.?Forecast for to-day: Fair
and warmer. The temperature yesterday: High
in, M degrees; lowest, "?''?; average, "N'g.
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A MEPVBLWAR POLICT.
The d ?termination of flat Pos?ottice Depart?
ment M select the tlfst set of l?*tt*T-< :iri iers in
lew !i.c ilclivt ry unices, hoitead of intrusting
that iliiry tu postmasters, thereby avoiding the
possibility of politic?! and penano?] favorii ism,
may in? regarded as notice, ?f such arare needed.
t?i:it ili?? merit system will not bi fflodMM in
farur of spoilsmen. Any changes in the Clt!l
ierrice rules which Ike President may con
fclllde l? make will evidently be based on his
Coavl -tion that they will promote administrative
e:li<?',?ttcjr, and not nt all on a deolK to supply
the quadivnnl.il demand for placea. This will
doubt)**? lie ;i greal ?lisapjroiiitttxnt to spoils?
men. They bare tat*? telling how on Novelli
ber 2 Mr. Cleveland exiended the classification
to protect his appointees and declaring that
Democrat? stuffed Into the service by favor
should make way for them. If there is any
inni: in the charge of Improper appointments, it
Is rfdsoaahle to suppose that the wrongs will
I., gated, not by llmrlflg tli** way for another
Inclusion, but by applying Just rules to the re?
placing of nny officers found subject to re
pi'n.i???!;. Rectlflcatkol on sui h lines may pos
sii?!;. be needed on a large scale, experience
nay even show lint some classifications have
l ci ??? sarcophagi but no revis!.?tis that a eoa>
Thiced t'ivil Service reformer like Secretary
Gage may propage will give comfort to the
profpoaioaal pi,ice-seekers.
??? ? r attach ? on the merit system In goii
er.il. .'fid their demands, though taking the form
<>:' compMim agatnai Dem?crata ami prayers to
a ItepobUcaa Administration, are in reality
gppeflla for a reversal of consistent Repub?
lican policy. Competitive examinations vere
first introduced in the Federal service by Presi?
dent <liant i:?. 18TS, but failure of appropria?
tions prevented their continilhnee. President
l?avi s i< vlved the sy'em. and Presidents (?nr
t'iciil and Artbar continued and extended if. IJaV?
<li?:? Mr. Artlmr the Civil Sen Ice Commission
was eat tbllshed, and he left 15*000 inrsons In
th?? etaanlfled service. Mr. Cleveland In his first
term :: '?ed I&000 to this iiumlter. Mr. Har?
ris ?n extended the classification to over IU.'mni
ttore, and in his second term Mr. Cleveland
tiaaelfM?! about 11,000 before his final extension
of the rules to 90,000 new psBCe?, leaving only
?boni EOO snaetaaatfeed officers, other than mere
hbnrers and Presidential appotttmeotf requir?
ing Senate confirmation. That final extension
O/ai Betti r a midnight ouler nor was it taken
on the ?ve of ele?"?on. It was made on May P..
?8T0, and me? with the general commendation
of the press of both parties. Including The Tril>
une. which then said. "If all the ottlces In the
"conntry except those the occupants of which
"have to do with fixing policies were taken
"from the domain of polities both parties would
"be s-rmger. would more perfectly fulfil the
"purpose of their existence, and give the coun
"try a bolter government."
Of the exact condition of tie? departments now
it Is impossible for an outsider to judge. The
enemies of the Administration will declare that
nil Is perfection, and thai the change of a single
rule will be treason to refoip? The place-hunt?
er? will say that the service I* fu!l of corruption
and favoritism, and that the only thing to do li
to turn the rascals out. Tbe truth rests with
neither extreme. The Oovernmeut Printing J
Office, which was put under tin? rule? a* early j
as IStt, seems to give the moot grouud for com- \
plaint. Nearly live-sixths of the employes are i
said to bo Democrats, while I small majority !
were Republicans when Mr. Cleveland took ?
ofiioe in 1803. It Is only fair to say that most |
of the changes are said to have l*?on made by :
the present Public Printer before his removal
lu 1N04 from the office he received tinder Pros- ,
iiient Harrison. Such Inequality in a classified
office naturally excites itttack. but the power to !
dismise men and All their places by impartial j
examination?thus at once rebuking favoritism
Bad vindicating the merit system-may give ? j
satisfactory solution of the difficulty. Chief? of ?
divisions previous to the? passage of the Civil
Service law were generally promoted from the
ranks, and were Included In the Arst draft of
the original classification. Secretary Kolger,
however, preferred to test the classification on
a smaller scale, but after repeated flecommendn
tlon by the Civil Service Commission they were
Anally classified. The only thing that would
pmmpt their exemption now would he the as?
surance that a considerable body of them were
using their protected places to thwart, the policy
of their superiors because of political difference.
Any such opposition would warrant dismissals
and might argue that these men had enough
to do with policy fo make their politics impor?
tant.
The depirtments may be expected to deal
With that subject In accord with" the actual
facts In the same spirit in which the carriers
question has been considered, and not at all
for the purpose of making vacanc'.es. The ex?
tension of the merit system is a Republican
policy, and spoilsmen might as well reconcile
themselves fc> the fact. The party is hurt rather
than helped by patronage. Men who cry for
the correction of partisan abuses by the sub?
stitution of new ones are entitled to no consid?
eration. The test of merit Is the only substi?
tute which Republican principles nnd Repub?
lican pledges permit.
THE DOUBT ABOUT THE SUGAR SCHEDULE.
Speaker Reed is said to have Informed the
Senate conferrees that he will have uo part in
fastening upon the Republican party the dis?
favor which would be produced, In his opinion,
by the adoption of the Senate echednle as to
sugar. If the report is tru?? many Senators will
presumably rejoice, for they could not have
known when they voted for the schedule that
It could l>e made the basis of nn advance In
sugar stock from llrt June 1, before its Anal
form was Axed, to 13G at the close on Tuesday,
when It was still supposed that the Senate
schedule as modified would be adopted. A
rise of twenty points In a stock of $70,000,1)00
does not directly benefit any persons to the
minium of Sl.'.ooo.OOo, as some Imagine, because
the holders of most tf the certificates do not
sell at nil on current Auctuations. But it does
rellect n business estimate of the benefit con?
ferred spas the company through legislation
pfOponed, although that legislation doubtless
seemed to th*? Senators who favored It a need?
ful measure for protection. It Is probable that
o any of them would not have approved it if
results in the stock market had berti foreseen.
With men whose character predisposes then
to expect corruption S?d dish uiesty In others It
is the fashion to attribute every decision which
result? in especial benefit to niivbody. not to an
unbiassed Judgment, but to sellisi) motives.
There arc in the Senate, among tlios-? who favor
the schedule adopted, many Senators of char?
acter so nigh and of personal Integrity so well
proved nnd spotless that not even a politics]
opponent could think them personally capable
of corrupt acts. The course Which such men
did take, no one can doubt With honorable mo?
tives, cannot form I presumption of dishonor
as reaped? other Senators less thoroughly
Known and tested. The problem was a compli?
cated and (liliicult one. and the fad that a Sena?
tor Judged a certain differential necessary to
pievi-in the swamping of American refiners by
German bonntlei Is not In the least a reason
for in pugnine Shi integrity. Those who do not
agree with the Judgment of Republican Sena?
tors In this particular may with good sense and
decency refrain from attributing to them im
proper motives without reason.
The movement in the stock market has shown
what those who know most of the refining busi?
ness think the schedule, as modified by infor?
mal understanding, would be worth to the bold?
er? of Btock. It is safe to ."ssuine that many
Republican Senators desire not to support u
settlement which will UVTlte public disfavor.
It is not their wish to espone Republican prin?
cipie? to popular prejudice nor the prosperity of
the country to any risk of another Democratic
reaction. Kv ? if they are not sure thai a meas?
ure is unjust, ? hey may Jttdge it most Inexpedi?
ent. From current ?CCOUUt? this appears to be
the feeling of many Republican Representatives,
who bare fresh knowledge of the feeling of their
constituents, and it is not hard to believe that
many Senators agree with them.
One fat t is frequently overlooked in consid?
ering this problem, namely, that the regular
session of Congrega next winter can speedily
remedy any defect which results In harm to an
American industry, but cannot as easily reduce
a duty which cannot be proved to be higher
than safety requires. If a low differential In
favor of refining should be followed by In?
creased Importation of bounty-paid refined
sugar, as some apprehend, that fact would
prove Ihe need of a higher duly and the possi?
bility of raising ? larger revenne. A spedai
ret to remedy such a defect, nfter definite
pfOSf, Could be passed without much doubt or
difficulty. But If the duty should be fixed
somewhat higher than Is necessary or wise, It
would be practically impossible to obtain defi?
nite proof of the fact, and the attempt to re?
duce a duty by special act would be attended
With the utmost difficulty. ?11 things consid?
ered. It Is lietier for the Republican? to err on
the side o* safety, as respecls public opinion of
their action, and It will hardly be denied that
there Is some risk of disfavor and loss in adopt?
ing I measure which add? more than a sixth
to the market value of sngnr stock.
JUDGMENT OX CECIL RHODES.
That which was expected lias come to pass.
The Parliamentary South Africa Committee
has Cenaured Cecil Rhodes. It declares, as the
outcome of Its Investigations, that he was
chiefly reepeneJble for the Jsmeeon Raid, with
its gross broach of international comity and con?
sequent embarrassment of the imperial nnd co?
lonial governments, that he misused the great
triti repasad Is him, and thnt he deceived his
associates and political superiors. Some of his
comrade? are also censured, but the chief blame
falls upon him. Mr. Chnmlx-rlaln, Lord Ros
mesd, and the (lovernmeni generally, are de?
clared to be entirely blameless In the matter.
And there Ihe committee proposes to let the
case rest. Mr. Lnbouchere. as was also ex?
pected, makes ? minority report of his own, In
which he leaves "not even Lancelot brave, nor
Calahad clean." Thnt Is a characteristic per?
formance of the Commissioner who published
? prejudgment of the case on which he wns sit?
ting, and of the Journalist who, while printing
daily tirades against South African millionaires,
made of himself the foremost "tout" of Rama?
to'? "Kaffir circus." It may well be dismissed
as a hot-weather vagary of a spectacular cynic.
The cvnmlttee'a report commends Itself to the
Sehet judgment of discriminating men.
What further will be done in Kngland mny
probably ??? expressed in th?? one word nothing.
The Imperial and col-r'. ?arernment? bar?
vindicated their own homo?. The chief con?
spirator and his comrades haw already been
severely punished; far more severely than is ap?
preciated by those who nr*? clamoring for their
further pros? ? ut ion. No good panTBOM Is to be
served by adding further |>onalties. Indeed, so
doing would almost certainly result In harm.
The snpremely Important aim now is to restore
and cultivate cordial mlatauiahlps between the
Cape and the Transvaal ajid the Empire, and
baCweaa the two white rares In South Africa.
That Is not to be done by Inflicting exemplary
pnnlshment. even upon so givnt an offender as
Mr. Rhodes. On the ?oaitracy. to do the latter
would certainly revive the animosities which
are now dying, and seriously net back the whole
work of reconciliation. It w?uld be a practical
Injury to the Boers as well as to the Rrlttsh
In South Africa, and wtntld gratify nobody but
those who would nrroptte to themselves the
supreme dispensation of retributive Justice.
What judgment South Africa will pass upon
Mr. Rhodes is a most Interesting question. A
few years ago he could have got himself elected
almost unanimously to anv otfice. He Is now
out of public lif.?. and may be compelled to re?
main out for some time. If not forever. Vet his
great wealth and his strong personal following
and his marvellous force of will must make him
an Important ligure there. lie does not hoard
his wealth, nor spend It in London and Paris,
but scatters It freely about In th" country from
which he drnws It. There are few social nrd
educational institutions in South Africa that
have not been materially aided by him, and
there are thousands of individuals arfeo have en?
joyed his bounty. Moreover, while he is the
hero of the nggres.dvo party among the British.
he has always been strongly commended to the
Boers by his agrarian policy. "Protection for
agricultura, free trade In manufactured goods,"
Is his programme, and It Is Identical with that
of the Boers. It will not ba surprising, there?
fore, to fimi the Afrikander Bond presently abat?
ing Its hostility toward him. If not actually
giving him Its support The wrath aroused by
the Johannesburg conspiracy will perish; the
principles on which the people expect to base
their permanent prosperity will abide, and their
champion will come to the fore. Mr. Rhodes
to-day bears the mark of a great transgressor.
But to-morrow may see him again the lender of
a united South Africa.
GREAT BHITAIS A Mi THE SEALS.
The American side of tbe sealing controversy
with (?reat Britain Is now set forth. It appears
lr. the letter of Instructions sent by the Secre?
tary of State at Washington to the United
States Ambassador at London, which was made
public yesterday exclusively in the coin uns
of The Tribune. The presentation is authori?
tative and, whoever may or may not be con?
vinced by Its logic, must be regarded by all as
comprehensive and explicit. There can be no
mistaking Its meaning, nor complaint of eva?
sions or omissions. Kvery essential point thus
far raised Is dealt with fully and straightfor?
wardly. Technical details are not dlsregip'ded,
but neither are they permitted to cramp tin? ar?
gument within petty and inconsequential liin'ts.
The American case ?a based upon the manifeal
spirit as well as the letter of the Paris award,
ami comprehend! broad principles of commet*?
cial, political and human Harlan policy, as ?fell
as mere local and temporary advantage.
That part of the discussion which will be
least pleasing to the Rrltlsh florernmetit is
probably that which relates to the report? cf
Professor Thompson and Dr. Jordan. Tinse
were supposed t<> be purely scientific reports"
on the condition of the seal herds, furni-.i? d to
the respective governments simultaneously, er
practically so. ami early enough to aeree as
bases for action during the present .???.??G. l>r.
Jordan'? report was thus fnrnlohed to the
United states GoTernmeot But Professor
Thompson's was held back until a later dale,
and then took largely the form of a controver?
sial reply to I>r. Jordan's. It thus became more
a bit of special pleading than a identifie ie
port. and appeared nt ,?? ?lute too iato to be re?
plied to by I>r. Jordan or to serve as a basis
of action this year. This Is not an agreeable
characterization to make of a British (iovem
ment report, but the Secretary deems it Instilled
by the date and text of the document in ijUee
t ion.
Even thus. Professor Thompson's report does
not seem to warrant a refusal by the British
Government to entertain propesili for more
perfect regulation of the sealing industry. It
explicitly declare? "there is abundant need lor
"care and for prudent measures of conserva
"lion. ... It is not difficult to believe (lint
"the margin of safety is a narrow one. if it Ih>
"not already In some measure overstepped.-'
What is thai "margin Of safety"? Not that of
biological safety agSlnel extermination. That
has not yet been reached, nor sighted. It is the
margin of safety of commercial profit In a great
Industry: the industry of pelagic sealing, if you
will, as well as of culture at the rookeries. How
i,arrow that margin Is statistics demonstrate.
In 18M the average catch of pelagic seal -is
was 8.":{ for each vessel. In lS?l? It was 74*. In
1800 it was only 440. The decline from 18M
to ISO." was more than 12 per cent, from 1600
to 1806 more than 41 per cent, and from ism to
1S?M? more than 4K per cent. This reduced av?
erage is psitly explained by the increased num?
ber of vessels engaged. Rut it is a significant
fact that the total number of seals taken, even
by the Increased number of vessels, Is rapidly
decreasing. In 180G? It wos 44.100 and in 1000
only 20,000, | decrease of more than 42 per ???.
Surely at such a rate the "margin of safety"
Is in danger of total elimination.
A strong case Is also made ngalnst the Brit?
ish Government for its failure to furnish ade?
quate patrols in Behring Sea for the enforce?
ment of Its own regulations. In 1S04 this coun?
try furnished twelve patrol ships and Greet
Rritnin only on??. Suppose the United States
also had sent only one, is it suppostile that
the two ships could ndeipiately have patrolled
those waters? if, as the British Government
says, "the force employed has been sufficient,"
that Is because the 1'nlted States has provided
the force far beyond the letter of Its obligation.
Kor t lie obligation rests equally upon both coun?
tries. If the United States had furnished no
more patrols than fjrcal Britsbj has, the Brit?
ish Government could Karcely have said that
"th?? force employed has been sufficient." Com?
plain' is also made of the British failure or re?
fusal to enforce the prohibition of the use of
firearms in sealing. The Peril award forbade
such use, and for one year the British OoV?
eminent co-operalcd with this in placing arms
and ammunition under seal; In;: It now declines
to do so, or even to'Inspect the skins taken, to
determine whether firearms have been need or
not. In brief, then. Its policy seems to be to
I itlHilish patrols and to permit free use of lire
arms -1tint is. to abrogate every reetntlel regu?
lation for the conservation of the seal herds.
No wonder, then, that the Secretary of State
deems Gres) Britain to have "brought to naught
"the patient labors and well-niennt conclusions
"of the Tribunal of Arbitration." The award
of that tribunal was In the main adverse to
the claims of the T'ulted Stales. Yet it was
loyally accepted by this country, and this Gov?
eminent has ever since It was made been sin?
cerely ami energetically endeavoring to enforce
It in letter ami in spirit. It Is strange. Indeed,
nnd unfortunate, that the d'overnnient which
won the case before the tribunal should now
appeSff In Ihe attitude of repudiating or nulli?
fying the award. Thai each an aitiiude is de?
liberately assumed and will be persisted In Is
not to 1k> believed. On the simple ground of
J pecuniary profit Great Britain will acarcely
"kill the goose that lays golden eggs." On the
higher grounds of International comity and good
failli she will surely show herself, as hitherto,
nmenable to the appeals of friendship, reasou
and justice.
TALES FROM THE SEA.
If the crowded condition of our advertising
columns devoted to setting forth In picturesque
and truthful language the mnnifold advantages
of seashore and mountain resorts were BOt suffi?
cient evidence that tiie summer season is well
under way we should only, In order to convince
ourselves of the fact, have to examine some of
our dear contemporaries, who, unable to fur?
nish their readers, as we do ours, with informa?
tion peculiarly valuable at this time of the year
?at reasonable rates, too, as will be seen by
reference to another pane In this Issue, or upon
application at the business oltioe-f eel them?
selves celled upon, apparently, to supply the
want of this Informal ion by tales which, if not
entirely fresh, can be said, without putting too
fine a point upon It. to be r.tartling and sensa?
tional, and to be a reminder of the heated term
Bi well. Th" sea serperti, it Is true, has not yet
made its appearance; when last seen in October.
1800, it was making Its way slowly eastward
out of the neighborhood of Buzzard's Bay. leav?
ing the field -or should we say the water??to
UM hell grummet and such other bait as could
not conveniently be bottled or disposed of on
the spot. Pending Its advent, however, we are
being treated to a variety of yarns, the quality
of which leaves little If anything to be desired.
The most exacting collecter Of Ashy curiosi?
ties certainly could find no fault In them.
Foremost amom? these tales is that of the
skipper and crew of the American ship ?. ?
Oraoe. from San Francisco. The skipper got U
the bar-name and location not mentioned?on
Monday night and "anchored." There Is said
to have been a "mighty file" running at the
time. The skipper's ship, at nny rate, tugged
at her cable and was laboring hard. as. indeed,
becomes anything anchored to a bar, when sud?
denly "a big swell" name again omitted -board?
ed her. and with him, or it, a school of bluefish
which "tumbled on deck," where It was caught
by the sailors an.l disposed of the next day by
them at breakfast. Why. instead of using
some discretion and saving the skipper,
who, as already stated, was laboring hard at
the bar. and the crew, who were presumably
tired out assisting him. the trouble of catching
it, the school did not jump into the frying-pan.
winch was waiting to give It a warm reception
in the galley, we are unable to say. It seems
to leave an otherwise fully artistic tale Incom?
plete. We trust, however, that In a revision
thereof, which no doubt will Is? undertaken
later in the season, this defect will be remedied.
Scarcely less entrancing. 1 hough decidedly
more Idyllic than this bluefish narrative, is the
experien.>f Captain James, of the Neptune
liner Delano, which arrived in the harbor of
Baltimore from Rotterdam early In the week.
Among the passengers of the Delano was a
pair of pigeon?, They occupied a loft in rhe
forecastle, where they were carefully tended by
tbe sailors, due day the sailors discovered eggs
pigeon eggs, of course in the nest. So far.
-?? good. The pigeon? behaved as all well-regu
lated pigeons should. However, when the "bar"
oh, that accursed "bar"! -was reached the
sailors discovered that, Instead of attending
strictly io business the business of raising a
yming family in a decent and orderly manner
the female would "catch her better half by
the collar." drag him into the nest to keep the
place ararm, while she, "in the early hours of
lie do?.' watch," would go. goodness only knows
where, and stuy out until all hours in the morn?
ing. Among tlie sailors are said to have been
a number of married men, and being all Rrltons
it is easy to believe that, as the chronicler of
this blotory soys, not one of them would have
Mood llmllaf treatment from his spouse without
"complaining lo the British Consul or to the
Board of Trade." We believe it; we believe It
and sympathise with them: for at last accounts.
Hie ship siili being at the "bar." this artful
m!ttl of a pigeon had dragged her mate once
more into the nest to take his place on the eggs,
while she deliberately spruced her plumage in
front of a looking-glass hanging over the cook's
bunk preparatory to another excursion, from
which she has not yet returned. Captain James
Is said to be worrying as to what lit? shall do
?ritta the orphan? in case the father follows the
mother's example. We should advise him, as
a preliminary step, to weigh anchor; "bars have
destroyed more happy homes than one."
We are giving these tales as samples merely
of what our ??nterprlslng contemporaries are able
to do. or may be expei led to do. during the hot
spell. Their iinacinafion is not by any means
exhausted. In fact, it may tie depended upon
to remala on tap Indefinitely. We might, if
circumstances permitted, dwell upon the terrific
combat In the waters of South Amboy between
a swordflsh and a bather, whose leg was "sawed
to the bone" by the "infuriated animal." Or
we might discuss- as we. Indeed, feel tempted
to-the remarkable case of Dr. A. B. (liles, of
Baltimore, who turns on the spigot In the
kitchen of his home whenever he desires a mess
of perch for breakfast. Rut, we forbear, at
least for the present In comparison with such
phenomena the tale of the rise and fall at in?
tervals of ten minutes of the sen in the harbor
of Barcelona and the plaints of Long Island's
South Side residents that they get more than
their share of the good things which are taken
out to sea by Hip dumping-scows of this city
seem like frivolous chatter
Free-traders point with prlrle to the prompt
and scientific way In which a Canndinn tnrlff
bill Is prepared In ee ret by a Ministry and
passed almost on the day It is mad?? public If
by any change in procedure a bin could b<*
drafted by the majority leaders In Washington
nnd Immediately passed, thepe same people
would denounce the process as Czar rule, gov?
ernment ander ? blanket, corrupt conspiracy
and other awfol things.
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Thrt Turk Is in near'y as warlike a mood as
"The London Globe " which is engineering a
fiere?? conflict between Spain and Japan and the
United States. The Sultan finds dealing with
the Powers so tame that he threaten? to neglect
all other matters and lick the Persians if they
do not get ofT his territory.
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People who think that sham battles do not re?
quire courage should revise t'nelr Judgment. On
Tuesday a North Carolina militiaman was killed
by a volley supposed to be of blank cartridges.
and on the rame day in France two bodies of
cavalry got mixed In their man?uvres, and en?
gaged in what became an actual charge, result?
ing In one death and many s.-rlous or fatal In?
juries. Somebody can blunder with deadly ef?
fect In pea^e as well as war.
It Is rafe to assume that If the Guldensuppe
head Is not already found It will be. when
plnst? r of paris Is so cheap and heads not Im?
possible of aCQUlrement. Ingenuity that turns
up three rUShON of bead? a week can surely In
time turn up the real thin?
-a
The cost of catching, trying, convicting and
deporting each Chinaman trying to get unlaw?
fully acros?? eur frontiers (forth and South la
| found to be about f.VWl. Three hundred of them
are now on the Mexican border, their Immediate
objective point being fillfnrnla, the fact that
their room thef is preferable to their rcnipuny
having no perceptible weight with them.
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A short time ego Ireland wanted the whiskey
tag lightened, because that form of ambrolla ??
more freely Imbiber! there than in the country
of the Sassenach. Now a demand is made for
the repeal of the tobacco tax, In order that there
may he a "free dudecn."
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It appenrs thet John Y. Mt-Kane's accounts as |
Supervisor of (ira vorsend are short by $4'>S,
4'27 ?17. And ye? ever since he went to prison
misguided and sentimental persons have been
urging that he was a good man, who wai led by
the fever of political excitement to high-handed
and unlawful courses, but one whose heart was
nevertheless In the right place.
PERSONAL?
First Assistant Postmastcr-Oeneral Perry S.
Heath has never lost the habit of putting a clrclo
?round his periods, which he learned as a news?
paper man. His signature never appears wl'.hout
this mark after It.
President D. C. Oilman of Johns Hopkins Uni?
versity has accepted an Invitation from the Board
of Trustees of Washington and Lee University to
deliver an addres? on September 15, tbe occasion
being the Inauguration of William L. Wilson M
president of Waehlngton and Lee University.
Alfred Walter, the new president of the Lehlgh.
Val.ey Railroad, was born In Brooklyn In tfCt, RnU
began hla career In the engineer corps of the Alle?
gheny Valley Railroad. In 1892 he became generel
ntnnager of the Erie Railroad, and In 1884 he took
the management of tbe coal estate of Coxe Broth?
ers.
Governor Bradley of Kentucky, who, on his re?
cent outing trip In the woods, shaved off ale beard,
was called back home before he had time to chango
his old camp clothes, and hi? office boy. who had
always seen him with neat clothes and long beard,
did not know him and refused to let him In. It wan
several minutes before ho could gain admission to
his own office.
In his addreas before the National Education
Convention last week Dr. Lyman Abbott laid: "I
vote against the reading of the Bible as a part of
the school exercise. It Is not the function of the
State to carry on public worship, and where there
Is objection to Bible reading It should be taken out
of the schools. I do not pieu for the perfunctory
reading of the Bible In a place where much of the
work Is In danger of becoming perfunctory."
Of the lato Jamen Barclay Jcrmain, the philan?
thropist, of Albany. "The Evening Journal" of that
city says: "Mr. Jermatn Inherited groat wealth,
and If there be enjoyment In Its possession he
must have enjoyed It as few men have done, for
It gave him the opportunity to dispense large
means In a manner r.reatly to benefit his fe.low
creatures. He wns a philanthropist In the Not
sense of the term, his gifts being practical and
beneficent. He gave away large sums of money;
he erected buildings designed for the general good;
through nil his life he showed a spirit only too
rarely found."
"Announcement Is made," saya "The Boston
Transcript," "of the enticement of Sir John Alns
worth, Her Majesty's Special commissioner In Brit?
ish East Africa, to Ml*? Ina Scott, formerly of
W.-st Philadelphia. Mis* Scott is a slater of the
late Rev. P. Cameron Scott, who was director and
founder of tbe African Iniand Mission. She went
out to Africa under the auspices of the Phila?
delphia Missionary Council a little more than a
year ago, with her father and mother, her sister,
Miss Margaret, being already on the missionary
field. Sir John Alnswor?h took a deep Interest in
the work of ?he mission, and aided materially in
the foundation of mission stations. He formed a
close attachment for the earnest young missionary,
tin- Rev. I'. Cameron Scot?, wtio died on tbe mis?
sionary field last winter. Sir John and Lady Airu
worth will probablv not remain In British East
Africa. They are now ut Moehahi. but It is ex?
pected thai Mir John will return to England at th?
dose of bis special govrnmental mission In
Africa."
THE TALK Of THE filY*.
A robin recently caught in Medina. N. T., by a
schoolboy had tied to It? '.eg a paper asking:
"Where will lilis robtn build its tvst the coming
?prlngr und ?Igned, without date, N. Jules Ferdi?
nand. Box lit, Tampa. F?. The whoolkof wrote
to Tamp?, giving the information ?iked for.
A Lewi-ton ladv recently conceived the Idea that
nie- had ?wallowed something hard and thnt it
had lodged In her stoma? li. and she Insisted Ml
having Ml X-ray picture taken In order that the
foreign Rubatane? might be located. When the ?
plate was developed, to her horror ? larg* ?haw.pln
was discovered apparently lodged In the bowels.
Attor a great deal .if worry on her part It was dis?
covered that the pin was not In her body, hot had
been used to pin a sheet about her before the '
picture was taken..-(Lewiston Evening Journal.
?The Emporta (Kan.) Gazette" says this is the
way In which V. (?. Met'ray secured an appoint?
ment at the hands of (???vernor Leedy. They WCM ;
talking ov?r the S hoo' ( 'onimlssloi.ers when Mr.
Mel'ray said: "Governor. If I were you I'd appoint
for the Republican member? of tnnt Commission ;
the two orneriest. meanest, stinklngest Republi?
cans I could find." "What are your initia..?, Mr.
Mel'ray'?" asked the Governor.
S. 3. Teacher?I read In the papers of some
naughty boys who cut off a cat's tail, ('an any of
you tell me why It's wrong to do such a thing?
Wlllf?'Cause the Bible says, "What God hath
joined together let no man put asunder."?(Brook
l>ii Life.
A new cure for rheumatism has been discovered
In Shelbyvllle. Ind A constable who attempted to
eject a woman In default for rent was chased from
the premises by the Irate female, who was throwinj
boiling water at him. But the constable was badly
crippled with rheumatism, and his rheumatism hus
left him.
As he finished drinking his soda he laid his hands
upon the fountain In an unobtrusive way and re?
marked, "i suppose this is charged?"
"Yes," salii the drawer, reaching under the coun?
ter for a pistol; "so is this."
"The money's yours," said the drinker, throwing
down a dime.?(Boston Transcript.
In the towns of Charleston. Wheeling. Parkers
burg. W. Va.; Blooini'igton. Deca'.ur, Gakslutrg.
lil.; Columbi'.?, ZnnesviUJe, BtabcavUI?, Ohio; Bur?
lington, Iowa, nnd Memphis, Tenn., vitrified brick
pavements have been suecessfu'.ly used for many
years, and now Bhrovport, La., and Meridian,
Miss., have decided to use them.
Bowser (reading telegram be lias prepared)?How
does this BUll you! "Cannot come to-,lay. Expect
us next week. Mother Is ill." There's Just ten
words.
Mrs. Bowser?That'? all right; only why not say
"Mother Is Indisposed?"
Mr. Bowser?That wouldn't make it any cbarer.
Mrs. Bowser?1 know; but It Is a longer word
than "111." and v/e might as well get our money':?
worth while we are about it.-(Boston Transcript.
Once when he was asked If he was not afraid
of a temperature of 10 degrees he'.ow zero, the late
Tohnaa Vfffley, of Boston, said: "Where I was
born, sir. my fat.ier DM Sunday took me Into a
meeting-house which sat on four st.ine poste with
no other underpinning. I sat In that church and
listened to u serm<>n on hell for sixty minutes, with
the wind howling underneath the ch'.irch and blow?
ing forty mil,?? ? minute, with no fire in the stove
end the mercury 40 degree? below 7.?t?. Oo you
think I was born In a sugar-box and c.ursed on
hellotro?;"s?"
TB SUMMBB girli;.
Ye fa\re ftfiyd? 1", ye Stasile satte
A Baya? the?? Word?? to Me:
"l feefe moat? Happie, gentle Sir?
ve reaaonh? ?? ahar.? bo?.
"Ve Scriptures t'll t's 'tis a Conde
t? Most?? becoming Thing
If happinewi Cnto re Henris
(if l-Vllnemen we Bring.
"A Pine thai I have Walked these Pandes"
(Mere she Indulged In Mirth)
"Ten Meno? bave myde thai I made Them
Y?? happiest Menu.? on Earth."
A Mud..? I wondered What ye Mnyde
Could Mean by ta king BOe,
Her good? Intent was naught, for I
l'roposed, A She :-ayde "No."
?(Chicago News.
John Bacon, of Easton. Penti., has in his pooeao?
slon a cony of "The Weakly Museum." of Mai eh t.
Uff, in irhteh is related th? following an.lot?;
"At the e.inclusion of the war Or Franklin, the
English Ambassador and the French Minister,
Vergente, dining together nt Versatile?, ft toast
from each whs called for and agreed to. The Brit?
ish Minister baSSE with, 'George III. who. like the
sun In Us m?ridien, spreads a lustre throughout
j and enlighten? the world.' The French Mbthter
J fo'lowed with 'The illustrious Louis XVI. who.
| like th?? moon sheds mild and benignant ray? ???
? ni.d Infiuer.ces the glob?.' Our American Franklin
j then give. George Washington, eommnodor of
the armies, who. like Joshua of Old, commanded
the sun and the moon to ?tand itili, a.id the*
obeyed Mm.' "
"That whole PoapOUaa trouble ml*ht have boon
avoided, observed DtOCBOd to Oser, ss the two
?aloe the banks of the 8(>x, talking about t??,.
misfortune which befe',: that cttv. if we'd only l.ud
un etti, lent city government.' *
?'Bah?'? ??ut Cmoar. -To? . ouldti't have made
\emivlu* <4Ult with an ordinance.
"Didn't ray we could.' retorted ?????-d. UBM if
the Hi reel, ('leaning Department had Keen to vl.c
removal of the ashes promptly"-~
"Ahl" uttd Ctaaar; "quit? ?o."-<Harper'? Lu*a
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
Washington, July 11
BRYAN'S SPLENDI ? TP.AIT3.-ln u group of
men in a commit tee-room at the Capitol to-day
th^ penatasi finalities of the late Popotratic cea?
didato for the Pro !!. ri"y arSfS dl?< u**ed. On?
voted htm "an amiable bat shallow man." Other
opinions even more unfavorable were <wpr?s?ed.
At la?t the silent man, with hi? chair tilted back
afalnsf the bookcase, spoke, ani he said:
"You may lay what yon like about Bryan, bat ho
posse.'?.se? at least four splendid trjlts."
"What are they?" asked a !is;en??.
"Well, he doesn't drlPK, he doesn't smoke?, he
doesn't swear and he doesn't get himself elected
President."
And tuen a deep silente prevailed. None of the
others had a worn to yay.
SPEAKER REED'S PERPLEXING TASK.-The
biennial task of committee-making by the Speaker
of the House of Reprojen'ntivea is now in order,
and Mr. Reed la tu^y with it. There hive be?n
Speakers wihln the memory of men et.11 living
who have made it one of rewards and punishments
and thus avoided some of its d?ficublcs; but Mr.
Reed la not that kind of a Speaker. This year ha
finds hie tank even more perplexing In some re?
spects than he did that of two year? -?go. although
the njmher of new and untried members is imillir
now than It waa th* ?t. He lue proceded so far as
to form a tentative or skeleton ?cheme of the pro?
posed cotnrr.ltiee assignment?, ar.d It has already
become a veritable "skeleton In the closet" of the
Speaker. Day after day and night after night now
laoaaaa arise which cai?e him to transfer a name
from one place to another, and that frequently
makes it necessary to anlft the names of half a
dozen other members. And when the last chantre
has been made he will he conscious that s fair
proportion of the members will be dissatisfied with
the p| tee? to which he has assigned them, although
some of them have been placed exactly where they
had asked to be placed. Mr. Reed Is always reel/
to give? a reason for bis action In any given case
and everybody knows that he doesn't lack courage,
an 1 yet he bai been hoard to remark that It may ba
prudent for him to withhold the announcement of
the committees until the ?ast hour of the sesi?n
und then hurry to the first fast railway train that
la to leave Wasnlngton, after the adjournment.
A PRESIDENTIAL VETO. -When Cenerai Oar?
field was President an elevator was placed In th?
residence portion of the Ex?", utive Mansion. Thers
has been considerable talk recently In favor of
providing the same convenience for that portion
of the building the second story of which is used
for official purposes, and It goes without saying
that tho proposition has found enthusiastic advo?
cates among Senators and Representatives and
their ofllce-seeklng constituents, some scores or
hundreds of whom climb the long flight of stair?
dally. There is one man, however, who Is said to
have made It understood that he is not In favor of
the scheme, and as he Is the President of the
I'nlted States It will probably fall through, or at
least be postponed to a more convenient and duller
season, when the calls of ofttcs ssahori and their
sponsors are f"wor .;nd ?ess frequent. Mr. McKin?
ley Is a man of exceeding amiability, and withal
one of ?troni? and robust physique. While the for?
mer does not appear to have beer, overtaxed at sny
time In the last four months, the latter has been
at times unable to stand tho stra.n placed upon It.
A RAILROAD MAN'S CHEERfUL PROPHECY.
?P.. B. I*. Pierce, of Indiana pott?, who served as a
Republican m er.: ber of Congress sixteen years
ago. now the receiver of the ('lover Leaf Rail?
road and regarded as one of the ablest railroad
men in the West, takes a decidedly optimistic view
of the boolneu situation throughout the country.
"There Is, ' he said to-day. "an undeniable im?
provement In tbe business world. It la visible In
Indiana and everywhere else that I have been.
I am sure the the finiti passage of the Tariff bill
will be followed by a ooelded Improvem? ?it. I do
no: mean that 'here will be such an impetua to
trade ai will ip'i.te a boom, but th?? improvement
Will go on gradually and in a he.ilihy way until
the country will be M prosperous sa It ever was.
For one. 1 have n? doubt that President afcKtn
lev's Administration will mark an era of Rood time*
?nd great activity 'n all Hues of business. The
country ha? ?>???? ?io? to recover because It was
like s man who ha.' been enfeebled by long illness.
t:..? process of recuperation, with s nation, ?s an
individual, is often t llouo' bul once the ?.?<??
?.?eis started ur. th? road to eonrslescencs that? U
r.o doubt ?f ;' complet.? ? ure."
A PERSISTENT SENATOR.-At tbe White
House this morning Senator Mason toil?<1 u;? the
long Might of steps to the President'; room. R> aefc?
Ing the room, he found that and all other rooms
tilled with visitors. Senator MoOM wal;? I a wiille,
but finally departed without talking to ;lie Pretti
dent. "It's nimply awful," he said. "It's an act
Of inhumanity to press tbe President In this fash
Ion, and I'm going to quit It, no matter b.o*A many
mea yet mad at me." Senator IsOsoa has tra*
qusntly expre?id the opinion that something ought
to be done. He would not make so many vises
himself, hut hundreds of Illinois candidat . are
beseeching him to do something for them, to tntr.>
duce them to the President He Is big-hearted, and
dislikes to refuse any request. This morning h-i
started io the Whit?? Kouaw v. ith one friend, think?
ing he wou'd be able to escape t!??? others who srs
pursuing him. As be drew up to the White House
there stood eicht Illinois men uniting for hi.a.
They bad taken chances on aeelng lilm and h.? 1
won. It is said that there are mere tillnota appu
? ants for eonsu??r places than from an, two other
States in the country.
JOSEPH ./. O'DOXOHIES WILL.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITIES BENEFIT RY
MIS GENEROSITY.
The law firm of W. P. ft R. ? Prenti:c filed in
the Surrogate's office yesterday the will of Jos? ; a
J. O'Donohue, who died on June 2."> at No. 5 East
Sixty-nlntb-.-t. The petition says that the eatl
mated asooasad value of the realty Is |UMfa\ and
of the personal property tS.O?*).
The will, which Is dated January fi, UH leaves
the family home at No. ?? East Sixty-nlnth-st , with
all of Its contents and the horses and carriages, to
the widow, Mrs. Teresa M. J. O'Donohue. to whom
Is also loft ;?n annuity of ??? a year, to be paid
In monthly Instalments. Alter making some char?
itable bequests, the residue of the estate la equally
divided between the testnfor's BO?)?, Jesi nh J.
O'Donohue, Thomas J. O'Donohue,, sod his daugh?
ters, Teresa and Mary Irene O'Donohue. The
testator. In a codicil, says that as he gave hta
children $10,OOU each on attaining their majority, he
directs his executors to pay a like sin? to Mary
Irene on her reaching her twenty-fit si year.
The following charitable and other bequests are
mads: The Roman Catholic orphan Asylum. IS.S0?;
Blatera of St. Joseph, Flushing, ISO: Hoass ,'or th?
Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor, of this city,
tf.Staj the saoM home of Brooklyn, ISM; St. vin ? it
d? Paul Society, interest on fifoo; St. Fran.l?
Roman Catholic Hospital, $."00: to the testator'?
wire's nephew. Hugh O'Donohue, tlO.OOo: Itatsra of
tbe Poor of St. Francis, $."n; St. Hen.'diet's ??>???
for Colored Children, at Rye, ?. Y? IMO; Robert
F. Grlflln, UN, and a like sum to Robert Holmes,
Air. O'Donohue's coachman.
Tho executors of th? estate are the widow of the
testator, his sorts, Joseph anil Thomas, and hie
daughter, Teresa, to each of whom tho sum of
11,01 is alio left.
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HENRY HAVEMEYERS WILL FILED
Jennie Rinnche Havemeycr Campbell, of Rrowley,
Alexandria, .Dumbartonshire, Scotland, yesterday
obtained from Surrogate Arnold letters testa?
mentary on the estate of her brother, Henry Have?
meycr. who died Intestate at Paris, Frunce, on
May 1 last. The value of the decedent's real estate
is sa! 1 to be nothing, and that of his personal prop?
erty Is plated at till.???. BsOtOO? Mrs. Campbell,
the other heirs-nt-tnw of Henry HavtfaOysr are
Wl.llam M llavemevcr, of Villa ConatltU Ion. in
the Republic of Argentine, a brother; William F.
Havemeyer. Pillan* Met. Bengal. India, S
brother; Edytbe Havemeyer, Browley, Alexandria.
Dumbartonshire. See land, sister and Cordon \a
Roy Rurnham. of Parts, s nephew. The attorneys
for the ?dmlnlatratrti are swing, Whitman &
'< EWtng, of No. 41 Wall-st.
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i MR. KILHRETH'S ESTATE WORTH tVOrtO.
Surrogate Kitzacrald y,?-teidiy erantcd letters of
' administration to James T. Kllbreth. son of the
tate Collect,.r of the Port. The valso of the es?
tate Is pia ed at Ili.OOO In r?al, nnd $1',.;?? m par
tonal propei tj.
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THE WOOF GARDER CONCERT.
It lias been a pretty bad wash faff roof garden?
| so far. The Metropolitan Pei niMi-nt orchestro
will make another attempt to give ? concert on
the roof of the Modal ? fsgOJHrt ?????? thai even?
ing, sad the faUowtag win be tk . -? am:
OfSOd' M.ir^h. J hi? C. JWOt
i)'. enure, "ladt?".?, , *
Two Hungarian dance?.2 .'. .
?'.?. Paloma" , . t'?'!?
?vlectim. "Carmes"..?'i
c. .-?? '?>. "DI? Melaurslnajer1 . ?????
"Ripan?ta" . ?T?
? A(r .uva
'-Miipin nie poein, "Phaet n".SMnt **-'??
T'irr?F?lMIrl .'.**??*
lOr.lWtra'ti.ui by ? ' W. IaUenthal ?
Overture. "Raymond" .:,. '.. ??
Walts. "Ritem of Spring'. ."?',? , l *'
?Dane? a' '?i* Horn?" fr. n "Copprtl? .-,";'. ?
: v,.r.-h. "Css&atttes . .Paaaaam
MOTE Foil COVOREl COCKER.
8sn Francisca, July it. - ch-irVs I*. Crocker I?
? making a bard Jtraggll f-?r life. After witching
1 for four top? al the oeaunf? of too rtoa president
I cf the Southern Pacific rqaopoOT to? attending
phvslcliin? are al?!.? te SOaOUOOl today Dr <???
lirst lime that there l.? a alight lir.pr? k-emenl la hie
? condition. Th" fact tb.nl Colonel Crocker has not
suffered ? second ?trok? of paralysis or ?itop?exl
???.? ? the vliyalclana bop?