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MONDAY, AUGUST 6, lIXXS.
THE SEWS THIS' 3IORMXG.
FOREIGN. — Three hundred persons were
drowned In the wreck of the Italian steamer
Gttrlo. which foundered after striking a reef off
Honnlgas Island, near Cape Palos; most of
those lost were Italian and Spanish emigrants
to South America: the captain committed sui
dde. - ■ Advices from St. Petersburg proph
esy the failure of the strike; the railroad em
ployes show reluctance to leave work; the
.workmen's council has decided to take desperate
measure* to prevent traffic. ' The wires be
tween Sevastopol and Odessa have been cut, and
there are Indications in the latter city of
preparation for grave disorder. . Condi
tions In the provinces, as far ;is can be gathered
from fragmentary dispatcher, seem serious; a
general strike of miners In the Don region is
probable; civil war lias been renewed in the
Caucasus, and a number of minor outrages are
reported from various districts. ■ A memo
rial service for Admlrii Train was held at Che-
Foo, after which the <ihlo palled with the body
for Yokohama. The British Admiralty has
abandoned efforts to save the battleship Mon
tagu. — — William J. Bryan and his party
spent the day In Venice; they were entertained
At luncheon by Ambassador White.
DOMESTIC. — A Washington lawyer was ar
rested by secret service men on the President's
grounds at Oyster iiay. - A Scotchman
found his daughter, who eloped many years
ago, In Patereon. X. J. ■ Joseph Likens, Jn
Mount Holly. N. J., oaid Charles Ross was liv
ing under the name of William Yon Hoge. and
wa* employed as a clerk by the Union Pacific
Railroad. . Newport, R. 1., was in readiness
for the carnival week. ■■ Two seamen fought
at Newport for the fleet championship; the Ala
bama's representative won. ■ It was said
Sit Hanover, Mass, that the case of James A.
Garland had been pronounced hopeless. '
Harry H. Bender, State Fiscal Supervisor at
Albany, replied to the report of the State Ci%-ll
Service Commission regarding his alleged col
lection of funds for ciection purposes.
CITY.— A new witness who appeared in the
Thaw case eal4 he saw Mrr. Thaw and White
together about two weeks before the tragedy.
:' ' Cornelius Vanderl.ilt, it as said, .would
refuse to serve as a trustee of the Mutual Life
IT re-elected on the administration ticket. -
An automobile was wrecked by a 14th street
c*r «t the Brooklyn entrance to the WUUams
•» Bjirs; Bridge. A young wonfltß wa9 thrown
from a car on a switchback at Fort George and
dragged ti'.l dead in the sight of thousands of
people. ===== Tne Central Federated Union
adopted the platform a.nd amendments of the
Independent Labor party and will call a meeting
Thursday to organize. = An Italian track
walker was killed by a subway train and his
body rolled along its roof till it struck an auto
matic brake and stopped it. =r^n-- Two auto
mobiles were in collision in West End avenue.
r Staten Island was without street lights.
-. , A woman before Magistrate Wahle. who
accused her husrand of abandonment, said ehe
was a Russian baroness. :== Several liners
were delayed in docking because of fog.
THE WEATHER.— lndications for to-day:,
Local rain and not so warm. The temperature
yesterday: Highest. 90 depress; lowest, 73.
We desire to remind our readers who are
shout to leave the city that The Tbibuxe will
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or abroad, and address changed as often as de
sired. Subscriptions may he given to your rec
ular dealer before leaving, or, if more convert
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See opposite page for subscription -rates.
THE FREE ALCOHOL LAW.
In the latest issue of "The Manufacturers'
Record" misgivings are expressed relative to the
effect of changes made in the free alcohol law
before its final passage. As originally drawn
and. as approved- by the House of Representa
tives, the measure provided that the' process of
denaturing should be conducted "before with
drawal from the bonded warehouse." In the
Senate an amendment was adopted which re
quires denaturing in "special^ designated"
warehouses. Although "The' Manufacturers'
Record" has the good sense to refrain from
hasty conclusions, it is evidently disturbed by
the "possibility" that the Senate's action will
ECrvo to restrict the number both of the dis
tilleries which will .. manufacture alcohol for
Industrial purposes and of the "places where it
will be denatured, in other words, it fears
that a monopoly will be created and that there
will be no such reduction in price us the pub
lic expects. \:."'
-Perhaps the phraseology of the bill as passed
by the House is open to the objection that it
is obscure and indefinite.' Since there was no
specific • direction that denaturing should be
conducted at any and every bonded warehouse,
there Is some difficulty in determining just what
was intended. Some modification of the .lan
goage, therefore, was apparently needed. There
la not, however, the slightest uncertainty a 1 tout
the purpose of the chief advocates of the bill.
They hoped that the country might, sooner or
later.' have a supply of untaxed alcohol which,
if not absolutely unlimited, should be go abun
dant that It could and would compete with
kerosene and gasolene. If it is discovered, after
a thorough trial of Its workings, that the law
dc>es not realize this expectation. It "is. safe to
My that a demand will be made upon Congress
for legislation that will giro the country what
It wants. We are not convinced that there was
any mischievous attempt to -thwart; the people
Id ibis matter, but If there was the people will
eventually triumph. : ;'.. ... \ • '?.
Nevertheless it will not do to ignore the fact
that the United States is about to make a colos
sal experiment. The venture has been made with
success abroad, and it should be successful here,
bat there is everything in beginning' right. Not
for many years has the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue been called upon ;to assume such
responsibilities as have now , been Imposed on
bun by Congress. Elaborate end Jngenious ef
forts to defraud the government will unquestion
ably be made, and the more thoroughly these are
anticipated and guarded against the smaller
will be the Treasury's loss. The utmost caution
Is required in potting into effect the new law,
end it is . fortunate that laqge discretionary
tower is !o2*ea y.l;'a- XL': .Coinii'UsJonor end tho
Secretary of tho Treasury. If the exercise of
tli:« power eliould Involve a little -delay at th»
outect, wo :ire Mir.' that all right minded-per
sons, Including the constituency which "The
Manufacturers' Record" alms to serve, ;would
submit with patience. The manifestation of any
olhcr -spirit would bo a poor. compensation for
the boon which ultimately, and wo believe at Ml
distant day, they are to enjoy.
IMMEDIATE BRIDGE RELIEF.
Bridge Commissioner Stevenson does well to
urge upon the New York City Railway Com
pany an increase in the number of cars which
it runs over the Williamsburg Bridge. That
structure is not used to anything like its full
capacity, and something should be done imme
diately to divert to it some of the traffic which
now congests tbe Brooklyn Bridge. Especially
urgent is the establishment of surface lines from
the City Hall to and across the Williamsburg
Bridge, in order to Induce the crowds working
downtown in Manhattan and living In Williams
burg to take that road home.
A great deal of attention is being given to the
problem of an elevated or underground bridge
loop which, it is hoped, will take a considerable
part of the present Brooklyn Bridge traffic over
the Williamsburg Bridge. But the most san
guine do not hope for any relief by such means
for two years at least. Surface cars could give
some aid at once. It would not be all that Is
desired, but every little helps. Tracks already
exist, we believe, on which cars can run from
tbe Postoflice to the Brooklyn plaza of the
Williamsburg Bridge, and Commissioner Steven
son holds that such a Hue could be operated
without causing congestion on the Manhattan
crosstown lines, whose tracks would be chiefly
used. Why does not Mr. Vreeland try it? He
sends cars from the Postoffice to the upper West
Side, why not to Williamsburg? Then if there
is need of new tracks it would be easy to build
them speedily. A new surface franchise might
be granted through East Side streets to the
Williamaburg Bridge from the neighborhood of
the City Hall. If a single track ran down Pearl
or Gold or William street to Maiden Lane and
back on one of the others, making a loop, the
line could pick up a large traffic which now
crowds tbe Brooklyn Bridge, but which would
be better accommodated by the Williamsburg
Bridge if only convenient access could be had
to that structure. It is folly to wait two or
more years for the relief of elevated or subway
tracks, when surface lines could be made imme
diately useful. »
CRCISIXG FOR DERELICTS.
The excellent work in destroying a danger
ous derelict last week, begun by the Tacoma
and completed by tbe Columbia, gives renewed
point to the suggestion hitherto made in these
columns that vessels of the navies of the world
might with peculiar profit be employed in track
ing and destroying the abandoned hulks which
dot the seas and which present one of the most
serious dangers to navigation.
Of tbe need that derelicts shall be destroyed
as speedily as possible there can be no ques
tion. Many known accidents and disasters have
been due to them, and there is reason for sup
poping that many, perhaps most, ot the mys
terious disappearances of vessels might truly
be explained on the ground iliat they had come
into collision with those wandering destroyers.
Carrying no lights, making no noise, giving no
signal of any kind, often lying so low in the
water as to be scarcely perceptible, and heavy
and solid almost as a rock, a derelict is some
tliiuss against which a vessel can scarcely be
guarded in the dark, and collision with which
is always serious and often disastrous.
Derelicts are oftenest sighted and reported,
of cotirse, by merchant vessels. But these can
only report them. They have no means of de
stroying them without much delay and peril.
But naval vessels, even tbe light, swift cruisers,
are at all times equipped with engines of de
struction, witb which they can quickly dispose
of a hulk without danger, and, Indeed, with
pome actual advantage to themselves. For the
derelict affords an admirable target for prac
tice with gun«., with torpedoes and with mines,
the nearest approach to the target of an enemy's
ship that seamen can have.
Nor would it be in any sense an Ignoble occu
pation, but rather one of the worthiest for the
most gallant of our sea fighters. Navies exist
largely for the purpose of protecting the mer
cantile marine from harm, and it is just as well
and certainly as needful to protect it from these
blind, remorseless destroyers as from the ships
of a foeman.
DARKEST RUSSIA.
There is probably no more judicious comment
to be made upon Russian affairs than that of
Count Witte a few weeks ago. He was asked
—shortly before the imperial coup d'etat—
gire his views of the future in Russian politics.
"I am." be replied, "unable to make a forecast.
•"There are no X-rays for penetrating the veil
"of futurity, especially in contemporary Russia.
•The utmost one can say without fear of being
"speedily contradicted by events is that from
"time and from men almost anything may be
"expected." It would scarcely be rash to drop
the "almost" from that last clause. The most
daring and ingenious imagination could hardly
have pictured in advance more astonishing
things than those which have actually occurred
in Russia in these last few years. It would be
rash to predict anything for the coming months
and years, or even for to-morrow. But It would
lie equally rash to deny the possibility of any
thing which any one might predict.
There was peculiar significance In Count
Witte's phrase 'especially in contemporary Rus
sia." The future is uncertain in every land, but
it is far more so in Russia than in other coun
tries, for at least three major reasons. One is
the astounding lack of constancy in the head
of the government. Under a ruler who knows
his own mind and asserts his will and has a
definite policy some forecast at least of proba
bilities is possible. The future may bo In a
measure judged from the past. But the Rus
sian Emperor is so given to hesitation and vacil
lation that any such judgment of his doings is
impossible. The fact that he pursued a certain
policy yesterday is no reason for expecting him
to pursue the same policy to-day. One day he
turns toward Count Heyden, and the next tow
ard Mr. Pobiedonostseff. On the third he may
join hands with Mr. Alladin. Who knows?
A second reason Is that Russia as a whole is
not understood, if, indeed, it is understandable,
by Occidental minds. It has long been a truism
that the Asiatic mind, in China, Japan or India,
has different processes from those of the minds
of Europe and America. Its observation is dif
ferent, its ratiocination is different, its conclu
sions are different. Its estimates of ways and
means and ends are all different. Well, the
Russian mind is an Asiatic mind, and Is not to
be Interpreted, as it is not governed, by the
principles which apply to the other minds of
the civilized world. A combination of condi
tions, circumstances, Iniluences and trains of
incidents which in England or France or Amer
ica would almost inevitably produce a certain
result might In Russia produce an exactly op
posite result. A motive which would impel Ger
many or Italy or Brazil in a certain direction
might move Russia in an exactly opposite di
rection.
. Again, for the third reason, there is the no
torious fact that the outside world is not per
mitted to know what is really going on in Rus
sia. Now and then the veil is lifted a trifle,
but each glimpse is different from every other.
Voices are heard from behind it, but they are
discordant and contradictory. Even while the
Douma was in existence and Russia was nomi
nally free, • we were permitted .to know little,
compared, .witii what Is easily- learned of all
NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. MONDAY. AUGUST 6. 1906.
other lands. But now tho censorship is restored,
stricter than ever, newspapers nre suppressed,
tlio malls are searched by the police. Russia-is
not permitted to know what the outside wurld
is saying, and to tho outside world Russia Is
involved in an. all but^impenetrable veil of
darkness arid of silence— a- veil in. ire dense
than the sinolce ,pall over Welssnlchtwo, be
ncnth which a stranger medley of deeds exists
than that which .was pictured. In the 'imagina
tion, of the watcher on the tower. For the
rending of that veil and. th.- coming of light
and . knowledge 'to • -Russia and .'to the world
concerning \ Russia, wo; can only watch and
wait, remembering that "anything may be cx«
STItIKI\G AT TEE HTM).
The latest move In the anti-smoke campaign
is ,:us ■■ i" i- and •■:,■ ■ uniu-ii «. It f..11..\vs the.
sound precedent set In i Tifwhste ■mlslisl» Ihs
other day in an automobile case In Imposing rh"
maximum penalty, not ujh.ii the flattta chJMtf
feur who actually ran the machine, but upon
the owner and employer, who mnir.'lled Mm- run
ning of the machine. The present culprit in the
anti-smoke campaign Is the Long Island Bell
road. Hitherto engfncea tvm hesji urn sfcsi
for letting their locomotives emit black smoke.
But upon the urgent suggestion of a magistrate,
who professed to be tired of seeing mere engi
neers arraigned, one after another, without ef
fect, the policy of the Health Board has been
changed, and no less a man than the president
of the railroad company has been made the ob
ject of arrest and prosecution.
This change of policy is to. be commended
from all points of view, excepting, perhaps, tbe
purely personal one of the prosecuted president
himself. It is logical, and is likely to be effec
tive, one way or the other. The engineers were
presumably not at fault. They did not pre
scribe the type of locomotive to be used, or the
kind of fuel to be burned, or the system of stok
ing to be followed.. They were hired by the
company to run such engines as the company
provided, with such fuel and with such stoking
as the company provided. Of course, it may be
said the president of the company did not him
self personally do those things either. Never
theless, he is the supreme executive officer of
the company, and the stfpreine official represent
ative of it, and is technically to be accounted re
sponsible for all tbat his subordinates, agents
and employes do in the management of the com
pany's affairs.
As for the general principle Involved, it would
certainly be unreasonable and unjust to let loco
motives disregard the anti-smoke law while
other engines nnd furnaces of all kinds are re
quired under penalty to obey it. In gome re
spects the smoking locomotive is more offensive
than a stationary engine which smokes, because
It moves about from place to place, distributing
its offensive output widely. There are some Im
portant railroads whose engines are entirely
free from black smoke, and there seems to be
no convincing reason why all should not be sim
ilarly free, at least In and near New York,
through the use of smokeless fuel. At any rate,
the Health Board will do well to see to It that
tbe railroad lines and yards and stations in this
city are kept as free from smut smoke as all
other places.
A COLOSSAL SODA FOV.\TAIN.
One of the latest monographs of the United
States Geological Survey is devoted to what is
in a certain sense a new mineral industry. Not
so very long ago manufacturers of soda water
and others who wanted carbonic acid gas ob
tained it by artificial means. They treated
pounded limestone with sulphuric add. passed
the fumes of burning coke through potash lye
or made other chemical combinations which
would produce the same general result. There
are, however, large natural stores of this use
ful commodity, as Is shown by the effervescent
quality of the water from mineral springs.
Beneath the surface of the earth In and near
Saratoga, for instance, is an immense reservoir
of carbon dioxide, and the business of utilizing
Its contents, independently of the bottling of
the waters for which that locality has long
been famous. Is now conducted on a large scale.
The L^lly output of tbe gas wells is not far
from twenty thousand pounds, and fully half o!
that amount is recovered and marketed, first
going through a process which robs it of its
moisture and then being compressed enormously
for shipment in steel cylinders.
A picturesque interest is imparted to this
story by the speculations of the author of the
monograph relative to the origin of the gas.
Carbon dioxide might be formed, he shows. In
any one of a number of ways, and there is not
enough evidence yet to indicate conclusively
which method nature employed In the present
case. Still, some of these processes seem to be
excluded from consideration because the con
ditions favorable to their operation have ap
parently been lacking. On the whole, perhaps
the most credible suggestion is that the genera
tion of tbe gas was promoted directly or indi
rectly by volcanic influences a long time ago and
that it has since remained in storage.
An abundant, if not unlimited, supply of cheap
carbonic acid gas will doubtless promote some of
the more l-ecent applications of that useful agent
to Industry. Its service is by no means limited
to the production of soda water and the im
parting of an effervescent quality to other bev
erages. It Is being substituted for compressed
air in the working of block signals on railways,
possibly because it is more economical in certain
localities to rely on cylinders of gas than to
iustall a compressor plant. Again, in Europe
It is employed more extensively than in the
United States for mechanical refrigeration. The
machinery in which it is used is much more
compact than tbat required with ammonia.
Pressures of 1,000 or 1.200 pounds to the inch
are deemed not only feasible but safe with car
bon dioxide, while 150 and 200 pounds represent
the common practice with ammonia. Besides,
when an explosion suddenly liberates a large
quantity of ammonia vapor the effect is not in
frequently fatal to those who are near enough
to inhale it No such consequences attend the
escape of carbon dioxide.
MONEY AND BUSINESS.
A further advance was recorded last week In
the general level of the security market, the
sixty most active railway shares rising to the
highest point within six weeks and showing a
gain of about 56 compared with the low point,
about the middle of July. This upward move
ment continued with scarcely any setback, and
yet it is by no means a vigorous market or one
«n which enthusiasm extends to any large num
ber of securities. Various specialties have taken
the lead from day to day. Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific and the coal stocks attracting
the attention of manipulators, but the ease of
call money and the quiet condition of the ma
jority of the commission houses indicate that
comparatively a few traders have supplied most
of the business, although it has risen above a
million shares daily. Splendid reports of rail->
way earnings and Industrial conditions supply
ammunition for those who seek plausible ex
planations of higher prices, but it 13 noteworthy
that after each sharp advance In a specialty
there is heavy liquidation by the room traders,
who hasten to take profits, and the proportion
of each day's business that represents invest
ment or even speculative buying by the general
public is exceedingly small.
Money markets have been uneventful of late,
rates rating steady at a little over 2 per cent
for call loans and &Vi per cent for accommoda
tion extending beyond the end of the year, and
it Is somewhat surprising that the material ad
vance In the stock market did not causa more
pressure in money. This was fortunate for t:..< <.
who counted upon further imports of gold, as
the ■ exchange market roso nbova tho-. point at
which engagements could lie profitably arranged.'
the strength in exchange beirig due to Bales of
stocks by London. Domestic- rotes of exchange
do not show' the discount on New York which In
dicates heavy interior demands, but th — - crop
mpving requirements will soon appear, and it i?
only because- of confidence in Treasury nil That
local banks do not prepare for the inevitable.
Th." Treasury deficit In. July was about 10 per
cent less than expected, owing to large customs
receipts, and tbe total stock of gild attains s>
new high record nearly every day. It is doubt
ful whether many people nppreciate tho Increase
in government stocks of gold during th ■ : i ■;•
year. A year ago all previous records were sur
passed with an aggregate of about $720,000,000.
while the high water mark is now 9100,000.000
larger.
}'■• 11.-v.-rs In th ; ■-' !l lt> ■ ' il in.;;!- h -■ !li
naive been looking- for some tune for a check to
the marvellous prosperity of the nation ar* be
ginning to get discouraged. This Is especially
noticeable now that the year's agricultural re
sults are assured. Signs are numerous and all
point the same way. Not only have savings
banks deposits Increased, but withdrawals were
heavy during- the last year, which probably
signifies that homes have been purchased by the
thrifty depositors, and still the splendid earn
ings of the year more than replace the unpre
cedented sum taken out. The common stock of
the greatest Industrial corporation In the world
has been restored to the dividend list because
net earnings warranted such action, the highest
previous quarterly record being surpassed by
about $2,500,000, and after making all proper
allowances for development and maintenance of
the property over $5,000,000 was added to the
surplus, raisins; that sum close to $00,000,000.
These are large figures and testify to the recent
unprecedented activity of trade, while some idea
of the future may be found In the statement that
there are now about seven million tons of un
filled orders on the books.
One of the most interesting developments In
the commodity markets was the sharp advance
In coffee, which can be attributed only to the suc
cessful progress of the "valorisation" bill In the
Brazilian Congress. Within a month an advance
of one cent a pound has occurred, and a further
rise of two cents seems to be threatened by this
artificial support provided by the government
of Brazil. In connection with the possible cur
tailment of consumption. It Is Interesting to note
that imports in the fiscal year ended June 30
were almost 20 per cent smaller than the aver
age for the two preceding years. Yet the domes
tic visible supply is by no means exhausted,
and. w-hatever the result, holders of the present
stock of over three million bags have already
seen their market value rise over $4,000,000.
Cotton has ruled remarkably steady, encourag
ing crop prospects in the Southwest being neu
tralized by decreasing supplies, a better foreign
demand and too mu«h rain In Atlantic states.
Holders of options have suffered by the
gradual settling of wheat prices to a much lower
level, but the nation as a whole will benefit,
since it means not only assurance of large crops
to the producers, but cheaper flour to the con
sumer and a better International trade balance
through a return to more normal exports than
have gone out during the last two years.
Scarcity of labor Is still retarding progress In
some manufacturing Industries, the most serious
feature pertaining to the coke industry, because
it is particularly desirable at this time to have
a large supply of fuel for pig Iron furnaces.
With so much business In sight at the steel mills
and resumption taking: place at iron furnaces
as fast as repairs can be made, all records of
production will soon be surpassed, provided the
coke can be delivered. Shoe factories continue
to eciipse all previous records as to weekly ship
ments, and there is good reason to anticipate
long continued activity, as supplementary fall
and winter orders are already followed by pre
liminary spring business, and the leather market
is readily maintained by the certainty that con
sumption will continue heavy. Current business
for both hides and leather is not large, but hold
ers are so confident that the only changes in
prices are upward. If it v.ere possible for cot
ton mills to accept all orders for immediate de
livery it is probable that there would be a large
volume of business, but most spinners are sup
plied with contracts for the immediate future.
and as this is gradually being realized by the
distributing trade there is more willingness to
place forward orders.
The International Polar Congress is to be held
in Brussels in September. That is no place for
it. It should show Its faith by its works, and
meet at least within the Arctic Circle.
A poor clerk writes to a newspaper to say
that he is the owner of a bond of the Brooklyn
Ferry Company, which has defaulted on Its in
terest, owing to subway competition. He thinks
the public should reimburse him, which, of
course, is not Its duty; but his plight brings to
attention the frequently forgotten fact that
many of the corporations which poor people are
so glibly taught to regard as their enemies and
urged to ruin are in largo part owned by those
same poor people.
As a political boss Mr. Bryan is the real thing.
He isn't a bit afraid to say who may and who
may not have a voice In a truly good, unbossed
Democracy.
The English government has spent much time
and money in planning agricultural schemes for
the London poor, and offers them opportunities
to become farmers. The landless cockney, how.
ever, seems to prefer to do his farming as a
squatter rather than to occupy the fields which
the government would supply. That sort of
socialism is not acceptable even to a Radical
Ministry, and the West Ham socialists have been
evicted.
If the city could only enter into a contract
with General Humidity to condense his surplus
stock of moisture in its reservoirs, there would
he no need to build new dams in the Catskills.
Politics makes many strange and misfit bed
fellows. The Hon. Thomas K. Watson, Populist
candidate for Vice-President in 1896. and for
President in 1904. has now turned Democrat and
become the political righthand man in Georgia
of a former pillar of President Cleveland's sec
ond Cabinet, the Hon. Hoko Smith.
Parisians who are inclined to depreciate the
beauty of the visiting Kentucky girls would do
well first to make sure no Kentucklan ts present.
It is a pleasure to know that ex-Representa
tive Robert Baker is still with us politically. He
hasn't fulminated for so long that the public
may have got the idea that he waa tired of
fulminating. At Mr. Bryan's homecoming, it is
now announced, he will serve as a committee-man
and undertake the task of harmonizing himself
with the fifty-six other known varieties of neo-
Bryanltes.
lowa Democrats are said to have "hope."
Hope springs eternal in the human breast, and
with all their faults the lowa Democrats are
men.
Arrests have been made In Chlcaeo for water
ing and adulterating milk in restaurants. The
commission of these offences is by no means
limited to the shops where dairy products are
sold or to the dairies themselves. The tempta
tions to such frauds are especially strong in
lumpier, when the demand occasionally exceeds
the supply.
The w essvea I run for automobiles Imm '■ ■ mm
an inbtltutloii. Aj f^r le-JeaUluua, their run as
they set out for a half holiday on Saturday la
usually for an umbrella.
PERSONAL.
The Rev. Frederick 11. Page, of Lawr«ZCe,'Ma3S.,
li" to becomo pastor of- tho First Congregational
Church, of Waltharo, MiiS*. Mr Page was a
i ;v | •,'' man before entering trie ministry, iv
ri,T r been mrtnncrlru; oilltor of "ThQ . Com
mercial' Bulletin" and an editorial writer 03 "Tlie
Boston Advertiser."
Th« Kmporor of Austria' was the first royalty to
have a new?pnper sp*:clallj* conrlrnsoil nail tv-rlrtpn
out ior hi' prl\*ato rfaOincr. T! Is was starts sonr»
thirty yerirs urn Nr.tniriir which" rancrns Mm.
wiitthar ;:...-■. • or the reverse. 13 omitted.
The Interstate Commerce Com:.. is tr>i ■ -
to employ Professor Henry C. Adams, of the
University of Mlchlenn, to devise a uniform gjps>
tern of bookkeeping for railroads. Be wttl accept
the task If he can obtain a two years' leave of
absence from the university.
The Rev. J. Harry it olden. pastor of St. Paul's
Unlversallst Church, at Merlden. Conn., has't*-
slgned to bocorao pastor of UM First Unlversallst
Church, at Roxbi:r>. Km
. M. • i-elcasse. ex-Minister of Foreign Affatrs ta
France. Intends to visit the United States soon.
The. Rev. J. -i;.<.:McLaughlln. -who receives] his
theological training at the Boston University
School of Theoloary. frrailiintlnst In l£». as been
appointed Philippine agent of the American Bible
Society.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to a sssskasßgasaJl
ornithologist, and his knowledge of the science of
birds is equalled by very few In Europe. Ho de
votes a good deal of time to the subject, and to •
member of the Ornithological Society \>f Vienna.
Professor K. C. Math— on has bean wbbbbbbsjbbJbj
elected president of the Georgia School of Tech
nology at Atlanta, to succeed the late Captain Ly
man Hall.
Bowman H. McCalla, recently retired as a rear
admiral in the United States navy, was a strict
disciplinarian. In the Spanish- American War some
marines from the Marblehead signalled: "Come
and take us off; we are getting the worst of It
here." "The only kind of marines I win take on
ray ship will be dead marines." McCalla answered,
and the marines stayed and won.
An Italian court has awarded Pletro Mascagnl.
the composer, damages against the Rossini Ly
ceum, the musical conservatory at Pesaro. for bar-
Ing deprived him of the directorship of the Lyceum
In the summer of 1902. In consequence of his having
undertaken a concert tour in the United States.
Miss Mary Ann Lincoln, of Leomtnater. Mass..
celebrated her 100 th birthday a few days ago In
the same house in which she was born, and In
which she has passed her entire life.
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
Two curiously Inscribed stones by the wayside
have been noted by correspondents of "The Man
chester Guardian." One Is about a mile from the
village of Hope.- In Flintshire, and reads: "Here
my God did spare my life. For the tenement was
the strife— l 777." One would think that the incident
the stone commemorates must be well known in
the neighborhood, but the correspondent waa not
successful In finding any one who could tell the
story- The other stone Is by the side of a lonely
road In the neighborhood of Jenktn Chapel, and
bears the following Inscription: "Here John Turner
was cast away In a heavy snowstorm In the night
on or about the year 1735. The print of a woman's
shoe was found by his side In the snow were (sic)
he lay dead."
THE ORDEAL OF CHOICE.
(A golfing soliloquy by a Junior partner. >
Round comes July, and with it comes the need.
_ Ordained by custom, of my annual flitting—
My senior partner having so decreed—
But e'er I start, it first of all Is fitting
To settle whither I Intend to speed-
And I have no compunction In admitting
That each successive year the task of choosing
Becomes more difficult and more confusing.
Golf summons me afield: yet who am I
To weigh the claims of Gullane versus Tantallon?
To judge between Deal. Limestone and Rye?
Portmarnock. Rosapenna and Port Salon?
Fain would I see Strathpeffer ere I die.
And quaff Its healing waters by the gallon:
Or view the lambent lights of the aurora
Amid the bunkers and the bents of Brora.
Some pens wax lyrical on Westward Ho!
Spite of its rushes loudly execrated.
St. Andrews is supreme; yet some I know :
Pronounce It overrun and overrated. • • •
Sandwich Is sleepless In the dog star's glow.
And by stockbrokers somewhat devastated.
Lahlnch allures, albeit somewhat windy:
And there are varying views about Kilsplndle.
Nor are my hours of slumber docked at night
By musing merely on the choice of scene
The choice of ball, its "carry" and its flight.
Its subsequent behavior on the green
Claim anxious thought. Last week it was ftte
Kit© * i
« But -. now « omcs Horace— Hutchtason. I mean—
And fills me. in the Friday W. G..
with hopes of Haskells costing on e-and- three!
Again, shall I adopt the disks of Scalfe
Or stud my solid soles with nails of metal?
Alas! here too the cracks no clew vouchsafe
But differ each from each, like pot and BJsHsSj
While I. in search of guidance, fret and chafe
Beneath a load of problems none can settle.
I cannot even find which rule Is Cocker's—
To golf In trousers or In knickerbockers!
When the acknowledged experts disagree—
Taylor with Braid, and Sandy Herd with Vardon—
The indecision that bewilders me.
A foozling layman, surely merits pardon.
Were It not safer, then, to shun the sea
And drive a captive ball in my back garden.
Arranging with my housekeeper to say
To callers that I've gone to— Cruden Bay?
Stay. what Is that I hear, what ancient lilt?
"The Campbells," so the organ grinds, "are com
ing."
Shall I. then, In these sultry chambers wilt
With Scotia's spell In all my pulses drumming?
I had the omen. Jenkins, pock my kilt!
Farewell to Fashion's thraldom soul-benumbing!
The die is cast: my doubts lnstanter vanish;
I'm off to Campbeltown and Machrlhanish.
—Punch, j
Bishop Mandell Creighton was once asked the
difference between a Cambridge man and an Ox
ford man. The professor, as he was at the time,
replied: "An Oxford man looks as If the world be
longed to him; a Cambridge man as If he didn't
care to whom the world belonged."
As They Do with Potatoes.— Hay field: That
stuff growing over there Is cattails. ~
Miss Summergirl: Do they have to pull them cd
to get the cats?— Life. "
As a chip was nearlng the harbor of Athens a
woman passenger approached the captain, and j
pointing to distant hills covered with snow, asked: i
"What Is that white stuff on the hills, captain I
"That Is snow, madam," answered the captain. "Is !
it, really?" remarked the woman. "I thought so:
but a gentleman has just told me that it was
Greece!"
A VILLANELLE.
••Winifred.
-Stat eight":
So It read.
Overhead.
Just the date:
"Winifred."
Then— "The dead
Will await":
So It read.
As If. led
From her mate,
"Winifred!"
One had raid
At some fete.
So It read.
"Come! To bed!
It grows late.
Winifred!"
So It read.
-Pall MaU Gazette.
STEALING SE^ WATER.
Prom The London Mail.
A very curious case has occurred at Paris Plage,
near Boulogne-sur-Mer. A woman who drew two
buckets of water from the sea In order to give her
children a v.-arm *ea water bath, as ordered by
the doctor, was threatened with a fine for doing so
by two passing customs officers. She was obliged
to writ* on a sheet of paper what she wanted the
water for, and- obtain permission from the authori
ties, before she was allowed to take water from
the sea. " "
It appears that in the reign of Louis XIV a de
cree was passed forbidding people I*o take sea wa
ter without special permission lest they should ex
tract the salt from It and so defraud the revenue.
THE INDISPENSABLE "WELL."
From Ths London Chronicle.
Across the club luncheon table a man looked up
from hi 3 grilled sole* and proclaimed that no man
in England can carry on a conversation without
saying 1 "well." The usual bet was mads. For a
week the two friends glared at each other, know
ing that "well" Is the beginning; of moat casual
sentences. . -. . You may not nave noticed thatl
Dumbly they parted day by day. with a handshake,
and th* word "well " frozen on their lips. Af
ter a week on* of the two had to confess that the
language had trot the better of him. "Well." ho
said. ''I'd rather drop a sovereign over that dln
n*:r than encke that 'wet!.* 1 can't ta!k without
US"' ' ■ ■ - - .
READY FOR CAR.MvJ
NEWPORT IS GALA (rr/fin
Attractive Programme 'Arranged f '
: : the Week— "Auto .Races To-da^
[27 Telejrapa to The TV. 1 - ,-, •
Newport. It. 1., Acs. it — Newport tot- .„
I I the carnival weak, which ata-t» 5? ***
morelag and which will conttaoa tt^w?*"
Week. AD that la needed now to '' "''* *»
snrtssaful celebration la good weather a" * "*•
tha affairs arranged for tha weak «a-, vv B '* <
cut or doors. It is expected that ft* - k» KB
crowded and on tha go from roomtn* f■* Vj *
Tha committee which arranged for cwT r 0^
to make It the moat elaborate affair « #»"•'•"
given In tha East, and they feel t ,- *•'.% **"
weather their hopes win be realised. * ' -***
Tha husrasas section of the city is 0-*0 -* a
btmttng. and even In tha residential eS*^*-".'
a generous display of red. white and tte"a77^' *
entered Into th« spirit of tha eelebratmi *". "*»
working for one end. It to hoped that "•"«,
the beginning of an annual fixture of t£»\- " a
summer season. The finishing toueneVC
put on until to-day, and this evaatn* ma-» 3
tors and electricians who have bat« '£***'!
weeks had completed their work, and wara r '** "*
a rest until It to time to take down SSg^l
and the thousands of lights which have bee- Si ■
buildings and suspended across tha e*-^~,'-" *'" A
When tha celebration was arrange
thought by the committee that the nefl-V* "*
would come would do so from day to «a» r fe^
in? to their homes at night, but it *£, —
in this Idea, as there has been a demand for "^
which has exceeded the supply, and ma» w < |fi
to return to their homes each night All t' SS
tels have disposed of all their rooms, acd * ~°"
have even set up cots. All the boarding atuj-r 0 *
already filled to overflowing, and hundreds c* .V*
townspeople have placed . rooms at the Cs*so«i*~!
the committee, so the Indication Is tit- '.C-vJ*
breaking crowd will be In the city. An the s^i
are on the bay will run to Newport, tad i-w
excursion trains will be run from Bost - ere— •
returning late at night, while the Mew Btv°- r^'
has also made arrangements for exennton* •--
points aa far west as New Haven, special rates w
Ing made for the week.
THE PROGRAMME OF THE.WEHTi ■
The committee In arranging the eelsajaroc «.
lected attractions which it knew would a?p«i] •
all classes, and that it has done so to ecl^:«d S
the Interest which Is taken by aIL As aa toaa
ment to get societies from out of town to c >-, -^
Newport the committee set apart different da. » •,
the various organizations. The committee ha^ .j,
arranged to have the emblems of these cr>:s i v
played about the city on the various days, ■**>-,
will add to the effect and will let the people £■»
to whom the day Is dedicated. The program:-.?
the week is as follows:
■Monday: 2 p. m. — Automobile and motor -■-*
races at Sachuest Beach. Evening— f£~
nation of the city and yachts and battleshlis b •-»
harbor, the fleet of the New York Yacht C. Y : l
arrive in the afternoon.
Tuesday: 10 a. m.— Astor Cup race; start c"
Brenton's Reef lightship, ip. m.— Parade of stksa*
boys, followed by the crowning of tha oitotoj
queen. Miss Mar}- Gill's, at Touro Park. ip. - -
Navy cutter races, in which a crew has sssi *-.
tered from each of the eight battleships la t.e hi.%
bor for money prizes offered by the coir.rr.i-'r*.
$130 for first and JIOO for second. This is to ss M
lowed by the slxteen-oared barge race far ts*
I'rincQ of Battenburg Cup by crews from th- *!.-.
ships. This feature was arranged by Rear sbbbbb
Evans, and he requested that it be put on tie :~
gramme. In the evening there will be a gBMBj
illumination.
Wednesday: 10 a. Race for the King's Dfj
start off Brenton's Reef Lightship. It a. m sat
loon ascension at the beach. 2 p. m.— Mßkarv azi
naval . parade. Evening — General lUiimlnat;.:-. ani
harbor parade of decorated boats.
■ Thursday: 10 a. m. — Races under the assplci g]
the Narragar.sett Bay Yacht Racing Aasoetadan. kt
the lower bay. 2:» p. m.— Trades' carnival |M
4 p. m.— Automobile floral parade. 8 p. m.— a>
nival parade of decorated and tllumtoated i-iu,
with Illumination of the city.
Friday: Motor boat races in the bay.
" REGULAR MARZ>I GRAB EXPECTED.
In addition to the above there will toj gajj cos*
certs In two of the city parks each events, »i*-5
the exception of Thursday evening, when SSI SB)
nival parada will bo tha ccatre of attractive: aa4
mm all are requested to appear ta tii r.r»« a
masks, there to every reason to believe tha: it wiu
be a regular Mardt Gras. ■ In -this carnival gsmp
sixteen floats have been entered, and it sk~ M SS
one of the most elaborate- affairs of ths ktoa snv
witnessed in New England, some of ths sodetks
having worked for weeks. The processica {3 ts s>
headed by the float on which will ride ths car- il
queen. It being decorated by the gardeners ci B>
port, and those who have seen the dtsten SB] I
will be a most elaborate affair, costing tho':3^la
of dollars. The various organizations whlcz |ggj
entered floats In this parade are as Mloast
Training Station, torpedo station. mart* >S»
racks, Bradford coaling station. Newport SSSBaSj
Newport Horticultural Society, with anier. £--
maids of honor; Father Mat hew Total Asst:ner.c»
Society. Benevolent and Protective Order «.' £•**•
Independent Order of Red Men. Fores-^rs ■
America. Fraternal Order of Eagles. Andeai Cr
der of Hibernians. Newport Carnival Club SBS ■
Mlddletown Cavalcade.
Probably no affair of th- week will attract SSSS
interest than will the cutter races «n TteSßSs?
afternoon, when eight crews from the BBtnaßSgS
tn the harbor will pull over a two-mile comas *»
money prises offered by the carnival coc~:v**.
Some years ago the race' crews of the various •■I
had especially built racirisr cutters, but whea Jm>
miral Evans took command of the fleet he SSSS
them discard these cutters, telling the mes> ■■
they must race in regulation cutter?, which pat*
crews on an equal footing. Following this ISIS
there wtll be a race between I^-oared barg^ •*
the cup offered by the P-ir.ce of Battaajsm
which has never been won by the crews *».■>
fleet. This Is the only contest of tha wee« ■•■
the men from the ships win take part, as B»
ships leave too early for the men to take SSWP
the naval and military parade on Wednesday ■■
noon.
INTERESTING CONTEST EXPECTED.
The automobile races to-morrow afterr." I »t
the second beach, the opening contests of tht Wa
promise to be good ones, and although t&9 •*■»
mlttee has as yet not made known the nuaaisrst
machines entered. It states that they are awscissi
In number to insure good racing. In the class ■■
motor cycles alone it la known that there aw
twenty-two entries, and a most interesting «sssss
Is looked for in thin class. _• __
The carnival yacht race, which Is to be «auec **
Thursday morning, promises to be interesting •- *
good wind prevails, as a number of entries Wg
been received by the committee in charge or t—-»
affair. The prizes for th*> races, as well *s if*
prizes for the other contests for the week, ext*
been exhibited in Providence and Fall River. .
are now on exhibition In one of the store window
in Thames street and attracting much attentwa.
The decorations %re worthy of note, and are tae
most elaborate ever seen In Newport, there 6eu»
nothing but color as far as the eye can reach. *J
matter how the city Is entered, the red. wait* *--
blue greets the eye at every hand. Buildings .aw
completely covered with flags and bi::itin»\ J"*"
across the streets are streteh»-d streamers twMP
A bail.. .a? which attracts much attention ■ «a»
City Hall, which has been profusely decors**
while hundreds of electric Items outline th« ssj
stone structure at night. Other buildings ••'
decorated In a like manner, and while they sr*w»
splendent with color during the day. at nigat w«
will be a glow of electricity. Coming down »»f. r,
tnglon Square, one Imagines he has suddenly •J'Jff
into daylight from night, us at the foot or JP
square at the old City Hall Is a powerful *&&'
light which casts Its glow up the square anajg
and down Thames street. Acrow the street &•;,
been stretched wires, from which are suspeßC-
hundreds of varl-colored lights. mak!n« a ■**
pleasing effect. whf.e lbs Mall In Washlsgtss
Square Is similarly treated, the wires Ulng L, ln r*'
woven among the trees and branches. masinsj •
most striking effect.
GOVERNMENT STATIONS ILLUMINATED.
While all of the coTor is to be seen In th* «-tty. £'
Illumination Is not confined to the city, but ♦xtssfl"
to the government stations and out In th« out*
harbor to the big battleships wMch swing at •nchd
off the Jamestown shore. At th* torpedo •tmtiootj
electrical s« t piece surmounts every cottags- ■■■
building, while at nljrht the powerful 9 ** r **9Kj
of the station constantly plays on the American
(Inc. which waves high In the air on the OaSP«»£
riving th« effect of a flag waving In space. '\j*"^»
liar effect I.* < »rrU«l out at tri<» forts an.l on kwiv
the ships, while th.* warship* hare set <"«?*■*■*»;
th* hulls are outlined in light*. Resinning t*-«»»
row night, en ihe arrival of the yacht club " e *~ i^S
yacht* will add to the illumination, ana lb * "^E
on the water may excel anything ever seen *»**
country. It is doubtful If there has *ver »*S«,
time when so large a fleet of yachts and w *f"^K
has been gathered together In on* harbor m *--•
country. . ■ _-<*
An affair of the week which Is »£2 n « JjS
attention In Newport Is the trades process***. ££;:£
take* place on Thursday afternoon, and t»JL"SJ
something like four hundred teams have 'teen «•
tered. All of the business men have tak— —^
Interest In this feature of the week, and i« Jfj T°;;
Ises to be one of the most complete affair? «*;-,•
kind ever held in this country. All kinds •*"■"*«.
will be shown In floats. The right of line JV^S
slven to the physicians of th* city, wt» vrl. •■■■
in their buggies. . : : .. _. _.«■
Thoaa who com* to Newport for CM***- «**"
iv"* see Newport at Its Lt.t. •