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Amusements.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC— S— The Prince of Fllßen.
ALHamiira —i — — Vaudeville
ASTOR— f.:3l»— Before and After.
BELASCO— v;:. The R ne .f the Rancho.
BIJ< U 8:20 I'omtesae ( •ju*-ttr
BROADWAY— S:1O— The Parisian Model.
CASINO— 0:15— The White Hen.
COI>JNIAI>— 2 — h— Vaudeville
EDEN MT.-KI. World In Wax.
EMPIRE— 830 Cousin Kate.
GARRIOK— Caught In the Rain.
HACKKTT— S:3A— The (horuo I>adv.
HAMIIEKFTEIVS VICTORIA- 2:i. r v— Vaudeville.
HLHALD SQUARE— B:IS—The Orchid.
HIPPODROME 2 K— WiM West. »ptune's I'atiphtcr
and Pioneer Days.
HUDSON B:ls— UrewFtefs Miiil' •■«
IRVINO PLACE H Faittt
KNICKKHBOCKF.R— K:ls— The Red Mill.
LIBERTY— «:IS— -Salon-. y Jane.
LINCOLN SQUARE Mrs. Temple's Telegram.
LYCEUM— H:a»-Tli« Boys of Company B.
LYRIC— 8:15— The Road to Yesterday.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN- 2— B— Wild West.
MAJESTIC— i:IS I>rlmrn*e Path.
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE— to 6 P. M.
7:30 to n.idnlrht— Actore- Fund Fair
NEW AMSTERDAM— S:1O— P.Srhe lieu.
SAVOT--«:ir. Tt,e Man of the Hour.
WALI^CK'S— K:IS— Dlvortons.
WEST END— R— II Trovatore.
Index to AivertiaemenU.
Pa*e .Col. I Pago.Col.
Amnffmenti 12 «' Financial M.-ptlnge. . .11 3
Bar.krr* g. Broker*.. H> 1 ! Furnished Houses to
Board and Ror.in«. 9 li Uet, Country 11 3
Brooklyn Property to 1 Hotels and Hestau
l>t || 3 ramf i S 0
BrooVlj-n Property for Instruction 11 4
8»!« 11 Sliest and Found 11 B
Carpet a r,:ii(; fi 1 Machinery . » 1
City Hotels 11 4 Varrlaßes &- Deaths. . 7 5-6
Cltr Property for ! Xutlc* to Organize... 11 4
Fa J^ 11 S.O •:'.:. learners (• 8
Country Property for I Proposals . IT21 T 2 4
Sale II 3 Purchase* Exchange » 1
CVjntry Property to Railroad* . . . '.< 7
t«t 11 Sißeal Estate ...11 8
I>*Fk« ar.d OJScs Fur- ■ School Igenclei 11 4
"tture ft 1 ' Spring Re*orts 11 «-S
PJvi«ien«l Kotlesa....ll 2 : Steamboats « 7
r>om*iitic Situation* I Surroaata's Notices... 11 B--6
Wanted 8 The Turf 12 8
Employment Ag-en- iTo Let for Buslnes*
Cl** A 1| rnrpiiw 11 3
Financial 10 I' Tribune Subscription
Furnished Apart- I Rates 7 6
m»nts to I^t 11 2lTrust Companies . 11 3
Furnished Rm-tis to '■ Work Wanted .... • 2-4
Let 8 li
IWtD-TloTkCnib Srihwu.
MONDAY. MAY .'.. 1907.
THE XEWB 7 His MORXIXG.
FOREIGX.— Tt was reported From Load n that
Mr. Asquith had threatened to leave the Cabinet
if a full measure of me rule were granted to
Ireland, and it is believed that the bill which
Mr. Birrell will expain before the Hou?e on
May 7 will provide for a council controlling ex
penditures only. -■ Conservative Interests in
France are troubled over th<=- spread of social
ism and the Cabinet's attitude toward the labor
unions; there seems to be a possibility that M.
Clemenceau may be defeated on some one of the
questions which will ho brought before the
Deputies. ===== The ice blocka le has been lifted
from Northumberland Strait, and the l'JO.Otn)
persons on Prince Edward Island again, have
communication with NVv Brunswick. tho inl
anders express great dissatisfaction with the
Dominion government. — : a large nutn of
manuscripts of Ibson. including an epic poem
of 20.000 words, will be published In Norway;
the writings were left in Rome and were be
lieved to have been destroyed. . Great
Britain, according to a dispatch from London,
placed America in a position to obtain the
demands regarding schools in Turkey by giving;
this country a share in the decision on the In
. crease in Turkish customs. ===== A demand for
the release of the Nicaraguan and Honduran
prisoners on the Marietta was refused by the
American commander.
DOMESTlC— Secretary Taffs decision on the
demands of certain classes of employes on tn»i
canal zone regarding hours of labor and wages
was made public at Washington. ===== The in
terstate Commerce Commission, acting under
the new law-, ordered a reduction In the United
Htates Express Company's rates on rut flowers.
' — — ~ Pennsylvania officials decided to bring
both ivil and criminal suits against men con
nected with the Capitol scandal. r_-^r_: As the
result of a strike on the street railroads of Ban
Francisco no cars were run in that city.
Counsel for both sides In the case of \v. D.
Haywood announced at Boise. Idaho, that there
would be no more delay. ===== A'oout ten thou-
Fanfi persons took part in a Moyer-Haywood-
Peuibone parade in Boston. ===== Italians in
parade at Buffalo caused a riot by Interfering
with car traffic. ===== It was said at Buffalo
r.nd Detroit that navigation oh the Great Lakes
had opened under most promising conditions.
= It was learned that the ibero of the
PfCtsbarg Orchestra would attempt to lnvok<
the Contract L«abor law against any soloists
that Herr Paur mieht engage abroad. ' ■
General Joseph K. Hudson died at his home, in
Topeica, Kan.
CITY. — City Chamberlain Patrick Keenan
died. = Tho body of J. Henry Smith arrived
from Japan; by his will a nephew will get %l<> -
000,000 and the widow 13.000.000 ■ Andrew
Carnepie. It was announced, had a plan to pacify
the South American republics. : ===== William T
Stead outlined a now peace plan by which -i
party is to wander all over tho world and preach
the doctrine. ===== Justice Blanchards son was
held for automobile speeding. - Socialists
were defeated in the C. F. U. meeting on the
Moyer-Haywond issue. == A canvass con
ducted bj the Republican League of ciuhs
showed that .-S per cent of voters who answered
letters were in favor of the President's policies.
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. A DUTY OF TIIE ASSEMBLY.
In the midst of exciting politics at the Capi
tol there is grave danger that an apparently
trivia! bill, really important to New York's
welfare, may perish In the Rules Committee
of the Assembly. The measure Is that intro
duced by Senator Agnew providing for two au
ditional city magistrates and four additional
clerks, for the purpose <»f establishing a night
session of the magistrate's court. The bill has
already passed the Senate unanimously, but
it Is questionable whether the startling favor
of being passed without dissent was not merely
s ruse to lull the friends of the measure Into a
state of confident Inactivity. At any rate, tha
Rules Committee has thus far failed to report
the bill, though it is hard to see for what ren
eon; there is virtually nothing debatable in
the proposition; It enjoys the unqualified ap
proval of the whole New York press and
Dearly every city magistrate, and the system
of night courts it «eeks to establish has already
been put to a successful practical test In Chi
cago.
The only persons interested In the defeat of
the bill, which was drawn up by Magistrate
Whitman, are those who somehow or other prey
upon the criminal and depraved classes. The
parasite who thrives as a professional ball
r-ver, the corrupt police official who assists
the parasite for a percentage, and the knavish
politician who protects the "system" from
outside Interference are naturally fighting the
bllL For its enactment will mean that persons
arrested between sundown and sunup will be
taken directly to the new night court for imme
diate hearing, instead of being confronted with
the alternatives of a night In a station house
cell or a fat fee to a Ehylock for freedom. The
bill will protect the Innocent from unnecessary
humiliation and the guilty from extortion. And,
what is perhaps of greatest significance at the
present moment, it will help materially to
relieve the dangerous congestion of the* day
courts, which Is declared by Judges and at
torneys to prevent the working of Justice by
necessitating hasty hearings, excessively lenient
ball and liomlnal punishments. .' .;"
As crooks do not l>elong in reality to either
the Republican or the Democratic party, but to
the great, ever popular Party of the First Part,
Whose perpetual platform is "Private I»ro!it."
It is to the Interest of every well meaning leg
islator, whatever his party, to prove his re
speetabUlty by forcing the passage of measures
Hk«> the present one, against which only a man
who has been hoodwinked or purchased can
vot* Itie criminal problem la Kvw. York City.
is Fiieh a grave one, moreover, that the Wlilt
m.'tn bill cannot he called trivial. It is one of
half a dozen or more needed to take our
metropolis out of the class of Shanghai, Val
paraiso, Rio Janeiro and the other breeding
grounds of human bcuju and. inhuman lawless
ness. I»<> the Rules Committee and the As
sembly wish t<> help the city or its freebooters?
The fate of Senator Agnew's bill will answer
this question unequivocally.
Til E (1 ,7.1/ . t V TA R IFF A Q E E M EXT.
The new tariff agreement with Germany, the
text of which has just been mado public, goes
much further than the modus vivendi of 1896,
soon to expire by limitation. It offers, in fact,
a i»nsis for a permanent trade understanding
between Germany and the United States; for
it should be noticed that provision is clearly
made for an indefinite eoutimrahce, should the
new arrangement work satisfactorily. The con
vention is to become operative on July 1 next
and continue in effect for one year. Hut if
neither country £ gives notice of denunciation
before Januarj 1. 1908, IT shall remain in force
until six months after such uotice is given. In
other Ay mis, a wide latitude is secured for fur
ther negotiations, should such negotiations ap
pear desirable to either signer of the mpact.
So far as concessions in rates are concerned,
Germany gets a renewal of those she vow has,
with the addition of a reduction on champagne.
The United States secures the admission to
Germany at conventional rates of 07% I"' 1 "
cent of the articles now enjoying that [irivilejje.
General machinery and typewriters are to pay
maximum charges after .Inly 1. The United
States stipulates to simplify some of the ad
ministrative customs rules of which complaint
lias been made by foreign producers. These
simplifications relate to the determination <>f
market value for purposes of appraisement, the
opening of reappraisement hearings when prac
ticable and the accrediting diplomatically of
Treasury agents sent abroad to Investigate con
ditions of manufacture, s:tic and appraisement.
These regulations will apply to all imports and
are thus not a special concession to German ex
porters. Finally, the President promises to
recommend legislation allowing a more liberal
margin of doubt In contested undervaluations.
The agreement >v;n remove sources of frl •-
tion which have been more unnoylng to German
commerce than the Diuglej duties tliemselves
and will do no injury to American prot
A way will be opened for the enlargement of
our trade with Germany on terms of amity
and mutual advantage. There never was any
good reason for commercial hostilities, and tin*
people of both nations will rejoice t J s ■:* t good
judgment and good temper have smoothed out
the difficulties occasioned by Germany's adop
tion of tlif dual tariff system to foster !i r own
ends in Eastern and Central Europe.
THE GOOD U.WS IiURpEX.
In the lauicntabie death of Dean Huffcut a
pathetic »iXiini|il(> is found of the evil tendency
of our times to cast too heavy ii burden w>oii the
few high class citizens who do the drudgery of
government. Dean Iluffeut \\;is one <>i' those
men who combined high talents and tremendous
energy with unwillingness to exploli their pow
ers for mere personal profit Long a hard work
ing instructor in the Cornell Law School and for
tho last four years its dean, he displayed just
that blend of ability and unselfish civic con
science which qualified him for the honorable
slavery of public work. When the labors of
drawing up the public utilities bill confronted
Governor Hughes and his friends, the unremit
ting toil Dean Huffcut, the Governor's legal ad
viser, devoted to tho- measure seems to have
overtaxed his strength, precipitating a nervous
collapse and suicide.
Many citizens are doubtless now honoring the
dead man's memory because his work for good
government killed him. Bui might it not 1.0
well, before ho is forgotten in the hurry and
clamor of politics, to ask whether more time
ought not be spent in making overwork impos
sible In the public service than in weeping over
those whoso nerves bave been, wrecked for the
common weal? Is it not a fault of our political
system that the majority of citizens, either
through ignorance or carelessness or on prin
ciple, expect a small number of gifted, patriotic
men to carry on the hard work of progressive
government? Nothing is more familiar than the
cry against the "machinery of the juliiiiiiistra
tlon," and the average man finds no trouble In
proving to his own satisfaction that there are
twice as many men on government payrolls a*
there ought to be But, though there are super
fluous servants here and there in routine posi
tions, the Dumber of men engaged in the con
structive, progressive work of conservative r<
form is almost nlwa_vs far too small. True, citi
z'-ns leagues and similar organizations are tend
ing-somewhat to overcome the difficulties of this
shortage by persuading men of ability to tender
their services unofficially lor good government
But there still remains much that only officials
in whom public trust and government authority
are definitely reposed can do.
In a state so wealthy and aspiring as Now
York there should be no necessity of compelling
high officials to work sU;<-e ; , or eighteen boms
a day for a long period, ns Dean Huffcut and
some others «r<- reported to bave done. In con
nection with tho public utilities bill. There is
something ridiculously unjust in zealously
guarding street sweepers and oightdollar-a-wock
clerks from the horrible overstrain of a nine
hour workday, while Ht the same time the men
guarding our political destiny are allowed to
work themselves into Inwinitv.
THE IM)l\\ TROUBLES.
The troubles in the Punjab and other parts
of India Increase. Agitation has provoked riot-
Ing, and there is danger that rioting may be
aggravated Into something like Insurrection.
That the government will bo able to maintain its
authority and to suppress all disturbances is not
to be doubted. But it is jin unpleasant thing for
it to be compelled to use any degree of force,
and memory of the past and knowledge of the
potentialities of the present In India inevitably
cause some anxiety.
It may be stated without hesitation that the
trouble has no adequate cause, but is of purely
artificial origin. There are no grievances, not
even wich as provoked the great Mutiny. There
has simply arisen a vague desire for a change
In the constitution of tho empire. The Hindoos
want to vote for a parliament and have under
their own hands all the Intricate machinery of
representative government They are unmind
ful of the fact that never iv all their history
have they been a united nation or a self-govern
ing nation. They forget that when last left to
themselves they were Incessantly In a state of
chaos, and that all that has been gained for
good government and civilization among them
has been given by British rule.
One of the most hopeful features of the situa
tion Is the attitude of the Mahometans, who
comprise a very large minority of the people of
India and perhaps a majority of Intelligence and
substance. They are taking no part In the fn
natical agitation, but, on the contrary, have set
their faces strongly against it and have given
assurances of their loyalty and devotion to the
Imperial cause. It may be that their motive for
doing so Is selfish. They arc- afraid to trust
themselves to the rule of the Hindoo rnajorlty
but believe that their only guarantee of protect
tion lies in continued British supremacy. Even
so, that very fact is itself an argument for such
supremacy, the validity of which every thought
ful observer must realize. Without ImpewJal
British rule, Hindoos and Mahometans "•.-.rid
be at swords' points, and even the various tribe*
of Hindoos would be at war among themselves
as they wero before the British conquest
It might; be easy for some cynic to say that
they should ba permitted thus to "stew la their
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own Juice," hut such is not the sober and hu
mane Judgment of the world. It would be a
discreditable thing for strong civilized powers
to stand idly by and see minor tribes and nations
butcher and oppress one another at their savage.
will. A few idealists and visionaries may ex
ploit the notion of "India for the Indians," but
the world knows it to be Impracticable, for the
reason that the Indians are not a nation and
show no capacity or inclination for becoming
one. Any one of a number of Indian states
might make a successful self-governing nation
if !t wen- isolated from its neighbors and left
to work out Its own destiny. Set together, as
all the states are, and permeated with the most
ineradicable animosities of race and tongue and
creed, a united India is Impossible and an har
mouious India is equally so." Have under the
stress of Rome extraneous dominance too great
to be resisted.
.1 WORD FOB THE MINER.
Every force that hinders the ripening of good
American citizenship may be found at work In
the mining regions of Pennsylvania. In the
villages of thes.j districts live the vast majority
of nun and boys who fwd the furnaces and
crucibles <>f the country. In these villages lift?
is not only primitive, but rough, and the bizarre
Intermingling of twenty nationalities has thus
far .iimiist totally prevented the development of
a healthy communal spirit. The two Institutions
bi-si succeeding In bringing the workingmen to
gether are the labor union hikl the saloon. In
spite of i lie efforts of religious and philanthropic
organisations, the majority of Pennsylvania
mining villages are still without true social life.
And t!.:tt signifies without the means of training
young men in citizenship.
It is not fair to censure the villagers for all
this neglect of their youths. Unlike the average
and normal American community, tho mining
town is made up of three widely separated
classes rank iin>! fll»- of laborers, foreign,
poor and ignorant, ns a nile; a small number
of fairly well to do operators and office men.
and finally a strong, though small, clique of
gamblers, saloonkeepers and crooks. Town sen
timent and local pride cannot thrive bo long as
the two former classes are not In active, ear
nest sympathy with each other. In the absence
of co-operation between employers and em
ployes, tli<' third class will continue to educate
young men according to its own fatal tastes.
The villagers are too poor to suppress unaided
the vice about them, and usually too ignorant
ami divided among themselves b.y tongue, re
ligion and prejudice to agree on the proper
course of action. Material aid and friendly ad
vice from employers must be secured. If the
children of miners are to have a fair chance of
beeomlng worthy citizens.
it is reasonable to suppose that the begin
nings of civic education and It.s necessary ai
companiineut, moral education, can best bo
made through Institutions like the Young Men's
Christian Association, wrbicb have already
proved tlieir efliciency and built up a wlde
reucliing organization. Kmplojen of the men
living In milling villages owe it to themselves
and to the general public to uunex Pennsylvania
to, 'the l'nit<il Nt:it«>s l>y making Its hundreds of
thousands of laborers true compatriots of the
men who have built and governed the grand
old villages of New England and tlieir copies
elsewhere. If the same spirit shown by th»»
Pennsylvania Railroad In helping Its employes
to establish Young Men's Christian Association
branches is displayed by the hundreds of coal
oi>eratorß ! n the anthracite region, Pennsylvania
mining towns might cease to be nurseries of
ignorance and disorder. Let the well to do
mine owners prove by tlieir actn thru they aro
not Ifisbly interested In keeping the Croatian
a Croatian and in letting his sons fall eftsy prey
to the saloon and the dive.
—
Tlil. MS HERE AM) ELBEWBEME.
Justice Gaynor is always Interesting when be
discusses the administration of the law, for he
■ is a man of unusual tiindor and <>n«* who never
into ii professional rut. Me is outspoken
I In his c-oudtMimatlou of criminal trials a* con
ducted In New York County, and point! with
some justice to the better results obtained in
! the oilier counties <-r the city and In the rest of
I the Btate. Bui we doubt whether this Is. as
Justice Gny'nor thinks, the fault of New York
•.iinty's Jtldg< s so luucll as It Is the result of dif
i ferent conditions prevailing here. \Vi» question,
too, whether the difference is really so great as
It seems between the conduct of criminal trials
in general in this county and their Conduct In
the rest of the state, or that the renson for th»»
difference Is so simple as the Brooklyn justice
thinks.
Does n Brooklyn or a Queens Judge understand
i "thai be is no mere automaton, required to sit
, "on the bench looking meek and wise or itupiu,
"quite helpless, and limited In his powers to rule
"on objections made by the lawyers, while they
"do as they please." while a New York County
judge has the opposite and Belf-effaclng concep
tion of his role? Are not the Inconspicuous
eases conducted In this county with just as much
expedition and just as much assertion from the
bench ns those in the neighboring counties? We
think it highly probable. The real difference
seems to be that sensational cases get a dif
ferent treatment from the ordinary eases, and
in New York County we have a dozen eases
which are either In themselves sensational or
which newspapers make sensational to one such
In Kings or Queens. The Impression of New
York County's conduct of criminal trials is
formed from the publicity attending these fre
quent sensational eases.
In an ordinary trial, which will lill only a few
lines in the newspapers, the Jury Is obtained In
a few hours, just as It is In Kings, Queens or
Itichniond. But when a sensational ease comes
up the lawyers for the defence and for the state
conduct a trial of each talesman who is called.
They are under no temptation to do this In cases
unlikely to be described In the newspapers.
Prospective publicity Invites the lawyers to pose
and show off their subtlety and their extraordi
nary discriminattf.n In the selection of Jurymen.
So it is with cross-examination; It is conducted
with an eye to tho headline that will announce
"Mr. So-and-So fails to break Blank's story" or
the reverse.
"If a medical witness, for instance," gays Jus
tice Gaynor, "is cross-examined for four days
"instead of for half an hour, and the time taken
"up day after day with harangues, bickerings,
•'long arguments of elementary propositions',
rltling adjournments and so ou. It Is because
"the trial Judge permits it." Undoubtedly this
is so, but such cross-examinations take place
only in the Sensational cases. AttonieVH are
under no temptation to make such wonderful ex
amlnations and cross-examinations except In
cases being exploited by the newspapers, and as
such cases are relatively uncommon In other
counties compared to this county the Judges
elsewhere are not subjected to 60 severe a test
as to their ability to restrain counsel within
•proper bounds. As a Scotch attorney said of
this prominence of lawyers In a recent caso:
You make too much of the counsel It is
really Jerome's and Delmas'a acts thut' ar» on
trial, with Thaw's future as a kind of by-urod
uct of the experiment. This. I think, la wrong
It la the facts that are great or little and the !
more room you leave for diplomacy arid tactics '
the more you swell the lawyers' heads and be
111tie the law.
There is too much room for the exhibition of
lawyers' tactics. It is, however, only when they
are sure of big headlines la the newspapers that
counsel treat a trial an a mere opportunity to
exhibit to tho iiduiirlug world their wonderful
forensic and legal prowess, and when they wish
so to pose and strut the courts seem powerless
to prevent It. If trials attended bf great pub
licity wero as common in the other counties of
the state as in Kew. lork, and If tlie opportune
ties for attitudinizing in the press were as great
elsewhere as here, and if, under these circum
stances, the judges elsewhere held counsel within
proper bounds. It would be evidence that the
faults iv this county were with the judges and
not with the system. As it is, we believe that
the rules of evidence nre too full of technicalities
and that they keep Judges sitting constantly uu
der the shadow of a reversal and that they
enable counsel to disport themselves very much
as they please. The trial judges have too little
final authority, and therefore counsel are free
to swagger and strut and waste time with exhi
bitions of their eloquence, their subtlety and
their skill In cross-examination, and justice be
comes a mere by-product of a histrionic display.
MONEY AND BUBINBBB.
Sales of securities still compare most unfavora
bly with the corresponding period last year, yet
1 there Is a slight Improvement in the undertone,
prices holding exceptionally firm in the face of
adverse crop reports that might be expected to
produce much liquidation. During the months
of sagging prices it Is probable that stocks were
absorbed i>y powerful Interests, who ure too ex
perienced to be frightened by the customary
spring stories of disaster on the farms. Support
was conspicuous last week In I'nton Pacific,
which has occupied a prominent position In the
market ever Since its sensational lt» per cent
dividend wns announced. Even those who pre
dict an early return to a lower rate do not seem
desirous of taking a position on the short side
at present prices. While the quarterly state-
I ment of the New York Central showed a large
decrease In net earnings nn Recount of heavy
, expenses, there were many favorable statements,
notably by the Steel Corporation and the Erie
Railroad, and all net earnings available for this
year thus far exceed even the good record estab
; llshed in l'.HK', A Stock Exchange membership
! sold at $7D,r><K>. an advance of |6,800 from tho
j low record for many years recently recorded,
; but the volume of business Is still so liuht thai
| expenses are being reduced. Many branch
offices and private wires have been abandoned,
; and the numerous changes in Wall Sti^et firms
Indicate that a dull summer is anticipated.
To this fact is largely due the easier call
money rate, interior correspondents being very
willing to have balances put out In this market
] on almost any terms, provided withdrawals may
he made quickly when home demands appear.
Ught speculative demands render the call rate
| Steady at about 2 per cent, and short term time
loans are little higher, but the real financial
situation is shown when longer periods are
considered. An example is the latest Atchison
issue ;tt par of ten year bonds paying .""> percent.
l'ressur*- nt Parts to replenish Its gold supply
has withdrawn more specie from London, and
lower French exchange probably prevented the
expected reduction In discount rate by the Hank
<.f England. Foreign Inventmenta ir. this coun
try of a permanent nature, especially British,
jiih Increasing, but temporary loans through
sates of foreign exchange are being settled as
th.y mature. Both these transactions are favor
able lv tlieir Influence on the future monetary
situation ln-re. permanent Investors assisting the
development of the country, while the menace
of a sudden diain on account of finance Mils is
being removed in a gradual manner that causes
no embarrassment. Gold has gone to Canada
from New York, and cash movements of the
wt-fk wen- adverse to loi al hanks on the whole.
but the official statement of total money in >-\v
culation for the entlr* on Maj I sur
passed all records, averaging s'-'-l Irt for each of
the Bft.BSS.OOO Inhabitants, or 'J«» cents higher
than ever before, notwithstanding the Increased
population.
All other events of. the last week were of less
significance than the weather as a factor of In
fluence not only on current business, but as an
Indication of the future. Retail Stocks of spring
nnd rummer merchandise have not g.,ne Into
consumption at tho enormous rate anticipated,
and active travie cannot be expected until warm
weather Is general throughout the country. A
few <!t!.s have «-n'i>yed fairly satisfactory con
ditions, but mOSI sections are several weeks
backward, anil the probability of fully regain
ing lost ground decreases every day. Collec
tions retlect the gloon^,' weather, although pay
ments ar«« much more prompt than could be the
case If previous years of prosperity had not
put .i.alerH In position to meet most obliga
tions without waiting for current sales. On
tills account It may i»> possible to carry over to
next year part of tho stock without serious re
sults, except that producers will then feel the
smaller demand. A week of seasonable weather
would do much to change the situation, however,
and there is no occasion for anxiety until con
ditions are more definitely establlsho*!.
Weather on the farms la attracting much at
tention also, because that affects tho future
most vitally. Hig crops thin year mean con
tinued prosperity without a doubt; average pro
duction on tho farms would probably maintain
national activity, but crop failures would have
widespread Influence of a most deleterious char
acter. Railways would not have tho tonnage
of grain to haul, nor the return freights of other
goods that the farmers purchase. Tho manu
facturer would tlnd machinery" Idle, and all
classes would feel the baneful effect. Hence
every dispatch la closely scanned and the sharp
riso In wheat quotations was viewed with alarm.
The erratic movement of prices Indicated that
much of the early advance was due to aggres
sive speculation, and hasty profit taking often
checked tho rise. Drouth was relieved by ample
precipitation, but It was often in tho form of
snow, and the average temperature waa much
too low for b» st results. Some extravagant
estimates reduce tho winter wheat crop 100,000,
<hn» bushels, but conservative experts do not
anticipate any such severe loss unless the
weather continues unfavorable for some time
longer.
Cotton also advanced considerably, activity
being most conspicuous In the July option,
which waa supported by \ho leading operator.
ostensibly because ..f a belief that tile Old crop
was practically exhausted. Stat istl.-s of supply
Bhow that recent weeks h.ive caused laißcr re
ductions than in previous years, but i>>>rt re
ceipts are still of size, and exports are not
expected to continue at the rate of a million
bales monthly. Much replanting may be neces
sary, and the cost of seed will make the opera
tion expensive, while the lateness of this part
of the crop may expose It to unusual danger,
but. on the whole, there Is no certainty that
the cotton production this year will not be ample
for all needs, even if domestic mills continue as
busy as they have been of late, other manu
facturers iin; also well occupied, except where
strikes Interfere, several unexpected troubles
having been added to those pending before May
1. Struct mat and shipping work feels the effect
Of labor controversies most seriously, but the tui
tion's activities are not extensively handlcappod.
The Steel Corporation's quarterly report indi
cates that conditions are most encouraging in
that industry, especially the 8,000.000 tons of
unfilled orders.
The "baroness" recently convicted »f man
slaugiiter need no laager despair; she has been
acquitted of being a baroness by her Massa
chusetts relatives. That mom th:m compensates
for the previous verdict.
The Tribum is surpris.-d and delimited to find
that the new head of the detective bureau has
adopted the reform methods used by the Italian
Ladles' Society for Civic Keform. which were
exclusively reported In yesterday's Tribune.
Captain McCafferty has gone back to the good
old method of suppressing pickpockets by drub
bias thorn. ; Th* Itollaa colony may W oU rojolo*
at the speed with which tt If educating- the long
slothful American in the gentle art of getting
his rights.
Attractive as was the Poulson plan for reliev
ing congestion at the bridge terminal. It had
two weak points. It threatened to render the
derailment »t trains at switches more common
than is now possible, and it did not Insure tho
use of the same platform for loading trains of
the same elevated line. For seven roads only
four "pockets" were provided. The engineers
whose judgment In the matter had been Invited
having agreed in an adverse report, the Board
of Estimate could not well have done otherwise
than reject the scheme as it did.
Senator Grady protested an unwillingness to
blacken his record by voting against Kelsey.
Can anything blacken night? We almost wish
that the mysterious "T. <i.." otherwise known
U "Sen. ii.," were a member of the Senate—
as. of course, he is not— that we might enjoy
his views, too, on the blackening of his record.
How these English do rave over the supposed
achievements of their countrymen. In total ob
llvlousness to progress made elsewhere! London
is shouting these days over the announcement
that Sir William Ramsay has succeeded in mak
ing copper artificially— "by the combination
process." ai-cording to reports. All this hulla
baloo in going on Just as if the art of making
artificial copper by combinations had not long
since been discovered and practised by eminent
money artists In Boston and New York financial
laboratories! Here in America, too, the "disin
tegration process" has been used.
I'EHSUS'AI.
Fliza OrM Ropes, of Salem. Mass., who died re
cently, left to Harvard University all her Boston &
Mains common stock (value not given) to endow a
professorship to tw» known as the Nathaniel Ropes
chair of polttteal economy, the surplus of the in
come It any to go to the Peabody Museum of Ar
chi»»olotry and EthnoloKy. Her half Interest In th«
Massachusetts Hospital Ufe Insurance Company
was also left to Harvard for a Bcholarnhln to b»
known as tho National Ropes, Jr., ttcholarsh ; fund.
Paiif>r<»\v.-ki. the pianist. Is a keen poultry fan-
•ler. his wife being: equally enthusiastic over the
fad. They have a blj; poultry farm at Morjiea.
I^ake Geneva, nrid Msse. Pailerewskl Is president of
the poultry club of Switzerland.
At a BpecM meeting of the board of trust^s of
the Itoxb-.iry (Masa.) I.atln School iho resignation
of the h< mi master, William Coe Collar, was ac
cepted, to tako efT>ct at the close of th«» school
year, and fh-" 1 R*»v. Theodore Chlrkerlng Williams.
of New York City, was elected, to flit the vacancy.
Dl Collar, who la b) ill health, presented hl3 resig
natlon at the lnst regular mrrttns of the trustees
on March Urn. He had completed flfty y»-ur9 of eer
vice In the hool.
There is an Interestlne romance In the family
history of Queen bootee "f Deassark. Her grand
mother, who <!!>-.] In 1860 as Queen of Sweden and
Norway, wjis born plain Mile, ruslita Clary, daugh
ter of a Marseilles stock broker. She- refused the
hnnd of the grftxi Napoleon to accept that of M.
Bernadotte, who subsequently became the frr^at
Krvnc-h general and ho was adopted as heir to
the Swedish throne by the chlkDesl King Charles
*
T A Jaggar. Jr.. professor of ajsowajy In the
M issacbusetts Institute of Technology, is al th«
heed of a party that left Seattle last week for
points In Alaska, where a study will be made of
seismic aiu^ volcanic condition:* In the Aleutian
Islam!.".
Through tt-i*- ng-eney of thr T'nlted States Consul
General. Mr. Watts, a train of twenty-nine Siberian
sledge doRK has be»>n obtained in St. Petersburg for
the Wellman Arctic «xp*4ltloa. Th»» <loks will be
■hipped via ArcliaiiK>>l to Mr Wellmaa'a base In
Norway.
THE TALK OF TUT. DAY
What Is the most common Instrument f.>r carry
lrnr out the death sentence? It appears to be the
guillotine, which Is employed publicly In France,
Belgfuin, Denmark, Hanover and two cantons of
Switzerland, and privately In Bavaria. Saxony (and
also in two cantons of Switzerland. The gallows
come* next, says "Tha Chicago NVws." and is fj
vored publicly In Austria. Portugal and Russia, ar.l
privately In Qreat Britain and the United States.
Death t»y the sword obtains in fifteen cantons of
Switzerland, In China and Russia subUciy, hh,i tn
Prussia privately. Ecuador. Oldenbuig nd Rsessa
have adopted the musket, all publicly. in China,
too, they h.i\e etrangnlatton by the cord, and In
Spain the gmrrote, both public. In Brunswlch there
Is death b* the a\e. and by the electric chair In
N.w York. In Italy there I.s no capital punishment.
"Bodkin says be has discovered a new asthma
cure."
"He ought to experiment with It on so-ne of those
wheesy old Jokes of his."— Cleveland Plain Dealer.
rrom the Slmmenthal region of the Canton Berno
comeS a story which shows that tn ■■Hauitmd
ruettc^y and good physique do not necessarily go
together. The district Is famous throughout the
Alps for Its One largo breed of cattle and Its brand
of milk, both of which are highly valued. It is
otherwise, with the human population. They are
■poken of as "cofTeo faced and flat chested." At
the Ust military draft eighteen youngj Slmmenthal
mountaineers we-.» called'up. and of these all but
four were rejected. This result is said to he not
nt all uncommon In these Swiss valleys, wher«
cattle Hnd milk are the main sources of Income.
Th« peasant feeds himself too much on th« latter
and grudges himself the former.
"His wife says he drinks something terrlhle
"She miirtt he wrong; I n«ver -aw him drink any
thing but twenty-year-old whiskey."— Houston Post.
At the Government House. In Poona. India, every
cat Which may happen to pass out of the front door
inter dark Is saluted by the sentry, who presents
arms to DOSSy. Tradition relates that In IS3S Sir Rob
ert Grant. Governor of Bombay, dlid in the (lov
ernment House. On the evenasg of the day of his
death c cat was seen to leave the house by th.»
front door and to walk up and down a particular
path where the bite Governor had be»>n in the
liablt of Strolling after sunset. A Hindoo sentry
Observed this, and told ■ priest, who declared that
in the cat was Governor Grant's soul, nnd it
should be saluted. As the particular cat could not
be Identlaed by the sentry it was detlflld to pr<>
sent vi ms to all the cats.
Dins Smith's wife l« deaf and dumb.
Riggl Does she talk with her fingers?
Dlna I think so. Smith hasn't a doze n hairs left
In his heud.— Philadelphia Inquirer.
Writing to "The Boston Transcript" of eoenea In
Moiivta the Hermit Republic— the Rev. i>r. Francis
E. Clark, of hristlan JTlldeaiWl fume, tells of the
llamas, th.- principal bSSJStS Of burden of the coun
try. "They are a little larger than a donkey,'
suys Dr. t'lark. "nnd are of almost ull shades-butt,
btack, white, reddish and mixed colors. They par
take of the natures el the camel and the sheep, for
their wool Is good for clotlilug and their backs are
easily bent to the burden. They will plod along at
the rate of tlfteen miles a day for weeks, with a
load of a hundred pounds tied to their backs, never
asking for a drink of water, und content to board
themselves pa the grass and moss and leaves they
can tlnd l.v the roudstde. Their only vice Is an iin
pleasaht habit of spitting un evil smelling saliva
when provoked or frightened, bnt even this habit
they tadubje In SSIdSBS. und. on the whole, are
among the most 'gentle, attractive and beautiful
creatures I have ever aeen. They are almost as
useful as the. reindeer to the Laps, for the tlesh Is
good for food, tho wool for clothing, the hide for
footwear, and the bones for looms and spindles.
A llama can be bought for $8 tn gold, ar.d is writ
worth the price.
Motor Owner- What proof have I that you man
aged your late employer's oar succe«sfullv»
Weekly' V " r " " *'"' a " VV ''- aln ' I? -»»n»er's
Rotten telegraph and telephone poles and loos*
wires have become such a menace to life and limb
In York. Perm.. that the chief of police has In
structed all patrolmen to make a detailed report
once a month of the condition of all poles, cross
bars and wires on their respective beats.. These re
ports will be furnished to all the companies using
v.ii.s. ;uid th-y will be compelled to replace tho
bad poles and correct other defects, as prescribed
by city ordinance. .
"Miss Pechis." said Mr. Timmld. at the other
end of the sofa, If I were to throw you a klVs i
wonder what you'd say." " l
.v" 'Y*!l''L replla( i Mlas Pec 'T.J mar you wer«
the laaleet m*a X evec s»w."-srTUi*jelp W Preii.
COLO.MAOEWS BUREAU
Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Confidence
in Downing Street.
London, AMI %L
Bureaucracy has triumphed at the color, t
conference. The states or the empire ZZ
been decorated with titular dignities and leTt
under the supervision of the permanent official*
of the Colonial Office. The conference , 3to^
known hereafter as an imperial body and la ta
assemble once in four years; the British Prim
Minister is to be the honorary chairman
the Secretary for the Colonies as the worida.
proxy; and it Is to be nominally a consultation
between governments. These are formal con
cessions tv new a,nd progressive ideas of eiaplrJ'
The colonial premiers may be knighted or ma 4»
members of the Privy Council, with tho prtvt,
lege of being addressed as Klght Honorable!
and when they meet In London tho Britlal,
Prime Minister may refer to them as colleagues*
with the benevolent smile with which tha Arch*
blßhop of Canterbury greets his brethren, ihej
bishops, at a pan- Anglican conference; but
business with them will continue t.» be con
ducted at the old stand In tho Colonial Office,
There will be an information bureau, with a>
permanent secretary and selected deram; but It
will be nothing more than another wheel in th»
mechanism of the Colonial Osnte. If the British
government makes an alliance, lik^ the treaty
with Japan, which may Involve the states of tha
empire hi a war of tremendous magnitude, thera
will be no representative council where it can b«
discussed or sanctioned. Neither in International
affairs nor in matters of trade within tha
empire will the new bureau be anything more>
than a mirror for reflecting the traliti r. 3 and
opinions of the Colonial Office. There will bee*
few more department spools for coiling and un
coiling red tape. There will be no ay.raoh to)
a real council of the hbj
A writer in "The Qaastevty Review" for April
made a remarkable forecast of what has oc
curred at the conference. "The bolder policy,**
he said, "is the creation of a department fos>
civil affairs In thy dire- t service of the confer
ence, the cautious policy !s a slight development
Inside tha Colonial Office. The cautious pollcjr
meets the exact n«e«is of the nraetss moment;
the larger p 4tey is in arrnrismrs with the truo
Idea of the empire. Probably the conjunctlou
Of the circumspect Scottish mind dominant la
our present government with the wary French
mind now ruling In Canada will make the slower?
policy prevail in this conference." This pas
eage. written ta advance of the arrival of tha
premiers. Is an epitome of the proceedings. Mr.
D^akln, the eloquent ur. •: progressive Premie?
of the Australian Commonwealth, assumed tha
leadership of the Imperial movement, empha
sized the idea of equality of rights in a c>mrnon
partnership and sought to release the bureau/
or secretariat, from dependence upon the Colo-'
nlal Office. The premiers of New Zealand. Ca.p%
Colony and Natal supported him heartily; and
when the Prime Minister expn bsumsbj
to become the presiding officer of the miMiital
conference there was an excellent opening for;
the creation of a colonial staff responsible to
him and Independent of the Colonial Office and
analogous to the imperial fence committee.
It would have represented the self- governing
colonies and have contained the promise of tha
potency of a sovereign council of the empire.
Lord Elgin evidently thought thai the premiers
were getting out of hand and. raised objections
based on the offices of the colonial governors.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier supported him. and General
Botha was equally cautious. The Austrailaa
proposals were narrowed and adapted to tha
traditions of the Colonial ■ >mVe. The national-
Ism of groups of Mtf-governiasj states was not
recognized and enlarged. Caaa| had "rmed
the old idea of colonial dependence upon Down-
Ing Street, and with assistance from the Trans
vaal had left I^ord Elgin and thy.- bureaucracy in.
possession of the field.
The practi operation of the new mechanism
may be Illustrated by the principal question
which Interests the colonies. This is preferential
trade— a systematized effort to take up imperial
federation on the hnjtaesa side. The conferenca
is allowed to discuss the matter, but the futility
of debate has been conceded in arlvar.ee. White
the premiers are in accord in favoring a defir.ita
policy of imperial reciprocity, by which partner
nations can be admitted to favored relations in
dealing with th« mother country and with ona
another. Lord Elgin has not been able to sanc
tion the movement, as. i the Chancellor of th<»
Kxche.ju. r. who has reinforced him in the dis
raasdum of fiscal questions, has interposed tss]
Free Trade government's veto. The margin al
lowed by the wine duties is too narrow to perrai:
any material extension of reciprocity to Austra
lia. New Zealand and Cape Colony; and no re
turn can be offered to Canada for the srsnssj
granted to Brttlsa trade. The Liberal govern
ment has not been warranted in reversing tfca
verdict of the general electorate against pref
erential trade, nor has It boen disposed to en
courage compacts between colonial governments.
The debates have be*fl smothered as far a3 pos
sible and the goncral question is left open for
future consideration. By formal resolution it
will be the duty of the new secrvtai staff to
keep the colonial gorenuiM . Informed on thl3
subject of preferential trade during tho next four
years. If they were directly represented in tha
staff there would be an assurance that they
would receive full and unprejudiced information.
The bureau will be under tho direction of of
■Mais of the Colonial Otoee.and statistics will ba
compiled, news selected and public documents
edited and revised in accordance with the polit
ical views Of Lord Elgin and the Liberal gov
ernment. The point of view, from which tha
operations of this bureau will be conducted will
be hostile to the policy of Imperial reciprocity
which the colonies advocate.
Probably there was ma better expert In tha
conference on this subject of UM ptejudfces of
.bureaucracy than Sir Wilfrid I-turier himsst
It was he who set the example of preferential re
lations In colonial trade with the mother state,
and he must have bawn ssusasialsil when ths
Board of Trade rnssslTsd statistics and at
tempted to prove that his COBMBSSJBSBBSI were of
no Importance to Hrltish manufacturers. Cana<&
had voluntarily reduced its tariff schedules so
as to favor England, and this was tha ungra
cious return that was made, even under a>
Unionist government, when Mr. Chamberlain
was in the Colonial Office. What sort of treat
ment can he expect from the D*W Information
bureau, when the Secretary and his staff are.
employed by Le«tl Elgin and are required to put
on their green Free Trade spectacles whenever
they add up a column of commercial statistics
or edit a report from the Board of Trad© Initiated
by Mr. Lloyd- George? Perhaps he Is indifferent
to results, so long as Australia, in the person
of Its protectionist- labor Premier, Mr. DeaMR, ,
does not become too prominent In the leadership
of the conference. Sir Wilfrid Laurier. whOs)
committed to the maintenance al the tariff policy
of tho Dominion. Is at hoart a Free Trader on
abstract principles and would be one If he wera
In English public life. When Mr. Asquith rea«
sons as a convinced Cobdenlte about the eco
nomics of prcducti and exchange and con
tends that preferential arransements cannot b»
fairly applied between colonies the Canadian
Premier nods h s bead approvingly. It Js what
he believes in his heart. Mr. Ivakin. on thO
other hand, frowns. He i.s an aggressive pro
tectionist, who knows that no progress will b#
made in the direction of preferential trade so
long as the colonies are played with by perma
nent >-.fncla!s In Downing Street.
Cheek by Jowl at Uia conference wt Px. J»s**