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'fl ' T,' Inoomo Tax Bn1 Tammnnr.
''I ill Ir MortoAM reminded the Republican
'H f of the Sonntc last Friday of what he
till h called "a remarkable omission" In tho
VH ! fj Tariff bill. It contains no provision tor the
iH I I repeal of tho Income tax law. Though
4H j? " tho Supremo Court has set aside the law,"
PH said Mr. Mono an, " yet It is left on the
VH1 f "$ statute book, so that In tlmo, with a
; ;H change of tho Court, the unrepealed larr
; M; f ft' can be sustained.''
.H" 'I ' j The law should be repealed, for there is
fBi (- $ lumber enough In the statutes without In-
', as eluding laws of known unconstitutionality
l'B xr' 'n them. Repealed or unrepealed, the In
BC I ' J' v come tax lavr remains In the Popooratlo
l Hk I ! u' platform and the Popocratlo heart. lb Is
B ' an Important part of the groat Chicago so-
fB I p clallstlo and rerolntlonary programme. To
JBC i l A doctor tho Supreme Court so that It trill
m 1 !' hold the Income tax constitutional is still
tH,v W f, a Bryantte plan. One hundred and thirty-
:. I , Ave thousand men roted for it In this town
tBah I $ last November. Every man trill rote for it
JM '.I g who votes the Tammany ticket next No-
Bn tif Tember.
iBV'- , S? Tammany would prefer that neither Mr.
;Bt ji fi Moiwah nor anybody else should say any-
iB V II' L n thing about the income tax until af tor the
IIHy fl Wj municipal election.
ISsaTsBib' V
jBBf ' g Why Cuba Can Prolong tbe War.
jaBf , One of the elements In the success of the
BH, I ' S'' Cuban patriots, which has become clearer
Bflr I ' f with the progress of the strugcle, Is the
BB ! ' H comparatlre ease with which they obtain
iBB I X supplies of arms.
'iflBj ' Cargo af Ur cargo ot war munitions lands
BBs $ on t0 Island without hindrance, and finds
BB"' I i -ts way surely and swiftly to the insurgent
B' R t lines. Bren small parties of men go to
BH I -J fight In Cuba; and a case of capture like
BB S ! thxb of the Competitor Is a rcry rare excep-
Bl -" X X ' tlon. Considering that the patriots do not
Bjl' H i hold a single port, that Spain has done her
BBj I utmost to patrol the Island waters with her
jBBl 9 i, cruisers and gunboats, and that the re-
SsBJ i " I," sources of our own nary and revenue marine
(BB j H V hma been so largely drawn upon to prevent
jBBl'' 1 unlawful expeditions from our shores, the
BBl.i D f success achieved In blockade running has
BBB 1 ?' been extraordinary, and must have a great
K 8 - effect upon the Cuban cause.
BjK. j) From the first the Insurgent leaders took
HM i Z. the ground that, while Tolunteers were
BBB S f, welcome to their ranks, the only real need
B I ,',. was that of military supplies, with which
BBW" i !' c4ulP their troops In the field. By the
BBBvl V plan of campaign adopted, it was believed
BBbJ" , ;A lat there would be enough men to
jBBV '' ' k wear down the Spanish columns by con-
5,1 jBBsi , -j- tlnually harassing them, provided there
s IBBB' ? was an abundance of arms and ammunition.
'" JBBft '-V Now for two years we have become accus-
1 BBS i' tomed to the story of cargo after cargo of
, BB supplies finding Its way to Cuba, and still
"-" BVAp !i the work goes on.
. flBVj, ; ?" ThIa ls an Important tact to be kept In
i SBB ' mind in considering whether the Insurrec-
i 9Bpl; S? tlon against Spanish authority can possibly
h BB ' ta Put down. The proximity ot Cuba to us,
BbB- & ne 'act Ua e shipment of arms and
BBpjII L ammunition ls, In itself, lawful, and the
4 , jBBjl ji almost uniform success with which the risk
" BK'l' f' ' K overhauled in Spanish waters
i jBjl' I Is run, go to show that the patriots can
bBK' -g keep up their struggle Indefinitely, even
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l, BBB 9 Not New Policy.
HHS'S 8 I'onon Chronicle, in commenting
Bj f upon the Hawaiian Annexation treaty,
SB I . says that " the United States has entered
BB I i upon the thorny path ot colonial ex-
. 9l -I k panslon. We wish the new experiment,
& iBBf 1 g though with some misgivings, all sue-
'- BBf i fV cess." The Times of London shares the
' BBf I same notion, saying that "tbe United
BH I States Government has made a new depar-
L flJB E f , turn from its historical policy," and that
, MB 8 f "tho acquisition of foreign dependencies
fl 6 , will bring a new and serious foreign pol-
(V HjB 4 Icy," asking, finally : "WIUAmerlcapursue
HB Y;. tho colonizing course upon which she hat
flJB- f nowenteredr .
4" BH f' American expansion Is not colonial, and
&5IBJB 'f It is not a new experiment, but an old and
BhWBB) - familiar policy, begun almost with tbe
BBkBI ' foundation ot the Government. In the early
BflBBl '? Aajs of the republic, under JEFrznsotf, we
BBJuBBE i annexed, by purchase from France, the vast
BEKfrflJB 1 srea stretching from the Gulf north-
BPSftBBf ward to the Canadian line and west-
BSB t ward to the Pacific, known as Loulat-
BEfeBiB 4, "na- This greatest ot all our expansions
X"r,BjB i, WU3 accomplished in 1803, ninety-four
HBJS ' years ago, and only twenty after the deflnl-
BwjB tlve treaty of peace with Great Britain.
Bf'BB! 5 Next, nearly fourscore years ago, under
BBl&BiB,' .' MoNnou's Administration, we acquired
BBFy mB ' Florida by purchase from Spain. Ourthlrd
BJBB fF great expansion brought in Texas, that also
BbW Iflr J' being more than half a century ago, while
BBip BIB j the ensuing war with Mexico gave us Call-
BBi.WB ' ' fomia and Now Mexico. These by the force
BB' ,. JflUji ; of onus were then pieced out by the Gads-
BfllHflS , den purchase. Finally from Russia we to
BBSfBB'l '' quired by purchase In 1887 the great Ter-
BBp'BB, X ritoryof Alaska, this latest of our six great
BBa'BB'B ; acquisitions being thirty years old.
BI'BIb ' In what possible sense can tho annexation
BB'-vnBB B 4 of Hawaii be called a new departure! Obvl-
BBmflBi Wm 'X ously tho only one is that of stepping off
BBr'flH U " from the mainland. But the project of insu-
BM'LBB' "'"' loranncxationwasfamlllartocarllerAmorl-
IB WW '" can 8tatcsmcn- JtirrKnsoK declared Cuba
BBU'BI ' to bo the "most Interesting addition" that
BBlSBBl ' '? could bo made to our domains. Edwaho
BBT-IvBb ?' Kveiiett looked forward to the day when
BB'iBHl V "tho isles of tho sea" should be under our
BBllflB' U "B' ea--rcmemtjcr-l.ttheGovemment
BBlV-BB IJ completed a treaty with Denmark during
BBfv'JBB Grant's Administration for the acquisition
BBrBV'i li tue l5lauds ot st Thomas and St. John,
BBpBH- I although tho Senate did not ratify It,
BBr!Ii BB i It '" cear therefore, that a distinction
BB BB" Kr between mainland and Insular possessions
BH BHJ H . vtt3 novcr made by leading American
BB. IBJB Btf$'" statesmen. Franklin, at the outset ot
HM IBB flK ue nolut'011! wa3 or trying to have the
BHI :;jW Brf Bte'ttv Bermudas as well as Canada join us in
BJ i'-IBBJ Blf lli, throwing off tho British yoke. We now
BBr?' sBB.lBfl fsli- -hold, in fact, some islets In the Gulf
BHJ'. 'BB Bi ai ' Moxlco sucu " Navassa. President
BH IrnBr'i'r, Sonnsov, nearly thirty years ago, In n mrs
B IIIbBu ,L eag0 Congress, expressly resented the
BB' aMiBjJ'S1 ' '.Idea "that our political Bystcm cannot sue-
BB 9 BKB ' ' " (ssfully be applied to an area more ex-
BB H H BB v ''jdcd than our own continent," and he
BB 1 .i'BlABl "L-tefwlng at that time to the Sandwich
flr IBBb ' ';k
Islands. With much good sense he pointed
out that " tho Increased faollltles for Inter
communication" between countries should
chango adverso notions on that point. In
deed, what "new departure" Is there In
the annexation of Hawaii, compared with
that of Alaska, so far removed from the
rest of our domalnn, and even with a foreign
country Intervening t
Thus the European notion that we are
undertaking u novel experiment Is all
wrong. Tho Pall Mall Gazette's dictum
that " it is an undoubted departure In the
colonizing sense" Is imaginary, Hawaii
will be no more a colony than Alaska Is, no
more than Louisiana and Florida were.
Wo are still marching along tho rotd on
which tho fathom of the republic started,
and extending, as they did, the sway of the
Stars and Stripes.
Tho Kentnoky Wheat Trust.
The farmers of Woodford county In Ken
tucky have determined to form a wheat
trust, and they have called a convention of
the wheat growers of their State for tho
purpose. They hope to persuade tho wheat
raisers of Kentucky and the neighboring
States to keep tholr wheat from tho market
until high prices can be obtained for It.
Similar efforts to form a "combine" and
force up prices have been made at various
times In other States, especially in tho
South and West. They have failed because
the combination could not be made tight
enough. Too many producers remained
on the outside. The trust Idea, however,
teems to be a favorite among many of the
Southern and Western farmers, especially
among those of them who are Populists.
No set of men is more activo in bellowing
against trusts than theso Populist farmers
are, yet they hanker for a trust which
will leave tho prices of their own products
unaffected by free competition. Tho demon
ot plutocracy rages unexorclsed even In
agricultural bosoms; and even the nolty
necks of Populist sages are gripped by the
universal claws of the Octopus.
It la only Just to the trust-bulldlng farm
ers of Woodford county, and to all other
trust-bulldlng farmers, to say thatcomblna
tlons ot farmers to raise prices are not sup
posed to be trusts. Neither are such com
binations when made by laborers. To be
sure, these exceptions are matters of cour
tesy rather than of law, yet who can forget
that Texas did make these exceptions law
and solemnly exempted farmers and labor
ers from the pains and penalties of her
anti-Trust law! That law was declared
unconstitutional. Such are the prejudices
ot courts, but the exemptions which Texas
provided are otlll grateful to remember. It
Is safe to say that there are no sterner foes
of other than agricultural trusts than
the farmers of Woodford county. They
will not make an exception of labor trusts
even, and would be horrified If their hired
men should combine to ratso wages.
We mention these facts simply for the
sake ot Illuminating once more the sweet
unselfishness of the scourgers of trusts.
Training for the Squadron.
The announcement that Admiral SiOAitD
will assemble his squadron at Hampton
Roads In August, for drill and manoeuvres
during the rest of the summer and in the
early autumn, must gratify those who have
tho interests ot the navy at heart.
From the days of Actlum to those of the
Yalu, engagements of great fleets have been
the most momentous events In naval war
faro. Famous single combats between ves
sels, such as those of the Constitution and
the Guerrltre, the United States and tbe
Macedonian, the Monitor and tho Mer
rlmac, the Kearsarge and the Ala
bama, abound In our history, as In
tbe history of other naval powers, but
there are also squadron engagements re
corded, like those of Perry and Mao
DoNOCon, while British annals are full of
ouch encounters from Blake to Nelson. It
Is worth noting, too, that Perry, who cap
tured a British fleet when not much more
than a youth, had been noted for his study
of squadron drill and ordnance practice.
The North Atlantic squadron needs fre
quent training in tactics, not only because
It mny be called into active servico as a body,
but also because It is tho school whence
ships are drawn for foreign station duty as
required. It Is therefore Important that
its opportunities for squadron manoeuvres
should be Improved before such ships are
sent away for what may bo long absences.
This is also true to a great extent of our
Paclfla squadron, of which, accordingly,
tbe part available In home waters was
engaged last year In tactical training,
while even on the Asiatlo station the same
system was carried out.
No sooner was our new steel fleet well
started than an effort was made to give
It the required drills. Under Admiral
Walker four of our earlier vessels were
united as a squadron ot evolution, and Its
work was of great service. But not until
Commodore Bunce took command of the
North Atlantic station was It practicable
to assemble a fleet of tho numbers and
power desired for manoeuvres.
It Is therefore most desirable that, with a
new flag officer, and with so many new
commanders of vessels, tho drill of tbe last
year should be resumed and, If need be, am
plified. Several new ships that have taken
no part In previous squadron manoeuvres,
need tho experience, while there Is no
danger that the others will bo too familiar
with this Important work.
Hitherto presentations of gifts to new
ships by namesakes and details to take part
In public shows and celebrations of various
sorts havo scattered the command. But
after the Fourth ot July, at least, Buch calls
should be rarer; and if the assembling ot
tbe squadron for training should also ren
der It more quickly available In case some
foreign power should try to make trouble
for us, that will beau additional advantage.
How liong Will tho Forests Last?
The assertion ot Mr. D. R, Francis at
tho National Convention of Nurserymen, in
St. Louis, that " If the present rate of de
struction continues for tbe next twenty
five years the United States will be
practically bereft of forests" may be
commended to the attention of Congress.
That body has been considering lately the
views, on tbe one hand, of eminent experts
In forestry, like Prof. Giiaules S. Sarqunt,
and, on the other, those of lumbermen and
sheep herders who deslro to work their
will on the public woodlands.
Perhaps to an earlier generation the
forests of this continent appeared abso
lutely exhaustless. But after a time
the existence of the vast treeless
plains became known, while the axes
of the pioneers made ravages far aud
wide. For many years, therefore, the need
of protecting the publlo forests from
fire aud the axe has been manifest. In the
Rocky Mountain and Pacific slope region
alone, toVht census year 1880, the number
( J .v
of aerea burnt! over wat reported In an
official document as 050,609, and the value
destroyed as $8,528,171. We have no
reason to supposo that this was an extraor
dinary year for fires.
Then there Is the enormous destruction
of trees for various uses. The Chief of tho
Forestry Division, In one of his reports, has
estimated our annual consumption of wood
for various purposes at between 20,000,
000,000 and 25,000,000,000 cublo feet.
He thought that, with the most lib
eral allowanco for all possible wooded
areas, such a rato of consumption would
exhaust our supplies In from fifty to
sixty years, supposing that there wero no
growth mcnnwhllo to replace them. Ho
found that tho supplies of certain kinds of
tlmbor wero waning, that "tho white pine
of the North shows signs of exhaustion, tho
white ash has becomo scarco In many local
ities, the tulip poplar will not last long, and
the walnut has ceased to be abundant."
Mr. Francis's estimate ot a quarter of a
century as tho limit of tlmo for our forests
apparently has reference to the great forests
of the country rather than to tho total sup
ply of merchantable timber. But by any
reckoning It is clear that, under the pres
ent system, tho publlo woodlands aro
In danger. The greatest step ever
taken to preserve them was the act of
March 8, 1801, authorizing tho President
to set apart csrtaln areas from settlement.
Under that act nearly 40,000,000 acres
have been reserved, but the present Con
gress has suspended until next spring tbe
reservation ot one-half of this area.
It may be hoped, therefore, that before
tho subject again cornea up for considera
tion next year, the friends of forest preser
vation will make a thorough study of the
problem, so as to bo able to know the dan
gers which threaten the forests, and tho
best methods of avoiding them.
The Constitution and Non-Partisanship.
Tho Hon. William Brookfteld has a
Republican organization or County Com
mittee of his own, doubtless an excellent
Institution and comforting to its proprietor
and Its members. At Its meeting In Lyrlo
Hall last week, however, it passed a reso
lution which docs not chime with facts.
It resolved:
"That tho IUpubltcan prty ot thlt Btata, bj lr
edilni tti oontrol of tho recant ComtltuUonU Conrtn
tton to propota to ths paopia a ComjUtotlonal amend
ment exproulj atparatlnc mnnlelpal from national
and State aleotloni, and by aeoarlnc for that amend
ment formal continuation bj the people, has de
clared 1U hlghtet Judgment that In municipal affalri
non partUanthlp U for tho public rood and ihonld be
an MlablUhcd rule."
This is the view of that Constitutional
amendment that ls taken by the Citizens'
Union, which Mr. Brookfteld's committee
" recommends and urges to nominate the
Hon. Seth Low for Mayor." The Citizens'
Union does not need any such recommend
ing and urging, but the Citizens' Union,
Mr. Brookfield's committee, and various
Mugwump apouters do need to be reminded
that they are not sticking to the ever
lasting truth when they try to read their
absurd flimflam of non-partisanship Into
the Constitution. The object of separating
municipal from State and national elec
tions was to prevent the voter from being
overwhelmed by the multiplicity of tickets,
to allow him full time and opportunity to
study tho situation, to give the municipal
canvasses tholr Just Importance, and keep
them from being slurred over and obscured
by the State or national canvasses. To as
sert that the people In voting for that
amendment voted that non-partisanship
should control in municipal affairs ls con
siderably further away from the truth than
it would be to assert that the people voted
that tho world ls flat and that the Goo
Goos are wise.
In short and in long, there never has
been, is not now, and never will be such a
thing as non-partisanship in municipal af
fairs. It Is a mere Mugwump abstraction,
a toy of tho Mugwump mind, a quillet of
novices who have neglected to stay in
Jericho until their beards have grown, a
vision of political Bomnnmbulhts. Tho
most breathless, perspiring, and crazy par
tisans in tho world are the very persons
who are exhibiting this constitutional
amendment as a C. U. badge and yowling
deliriously for non-partisanship. As for
erring Brother BnooKFiELD, he Is unusually
handsome and he Is pretty good; but he
would be as mum as a mausoleum In regard
to non-partisanship If he had won In tbe
Republican primaries ot which he has not
ceased to complain.
Non-partisanship In Its practical and
actual meaning Is the partisanship of tho
fellow who Is In the minority.
The Yantlo and the Treaty.
The proposal that the Yantlo shall be
turned over to the use of the Michigan
naval militia acquires an additional Interest
from tho question that has arisen as to
whether this transfer would violate the
provlslonsof the Rush-Bsgot treaty of 1817.
That treaty contains this stipulation re
garding tho building and maintenance of
war vessels upon tho great lakes:
"The naral force to be maintained upon the Ameri
can lakee by hie Majratjr and the Oorernmen! of the
United Btaiei tbalt thenceforth be confined to the
following reueli on each elde, that In
" On Lake Ontario, to one reaiel. not exoeedlng 100
tone burden, and armed with one eighteen pound
cannon. Oa the upper lake, to two veawla. not ax
ceedlnsllko burden eaoh and armed with like force.
On the wateri ot Lake Cbamplaln, to one veuel, not
xocedlnc like burden and armed with Ilk fore.
"All other armed vreaelt on theaelake shall be
forthwith dismantled, and no other vessel ot war
shall then be built or armed."
Our Government has been most scrupu
lous In regard to this treaty, and while
Secretary Tracy had charge of the Navy
Department It declined to accept the bid of
F. W. WnEELKR & Co. of West Bay City,
In Michigan, for building the Bancroft,
they being the lowest bidders, nltlimmli
the Bancroft was not to be maintained on
tho Iskes and presumably not oven to be
armed there, since she was to serve as a
practice ship for the cadots at Annapolis.
About flvo years later, under Secretary
Herbert, the same ground was taken In
regard to the bid of the Detroit Dry Dock
Company to build one or more of tho com
posite gunboats. And now Michigan for
tho third time furnishes the parties in In
terest a question regarding this treaty of
fourscore years ago.
We have no warship on Lnke Champlaln
and none on Lake Ontario; but on Lake
Erie we have the old Michigan, which cer
tainly does not conform closely to tho
treaty requiremente, for she Is of 400 Urns
measurement and 085 tons displacement,
and carries, wo believe, four small guns
Instead of one. However, with a tingle
naval vessel on the lakes, whero we might
have a total of four, no objection has ever
been modo officially, so far as we recall, to
the slzo or ths battery ot tho Michigan,
neither ot which Is alarming.
The Yantlc, however, would make a
second vessel on the upper lakes, and It
A f , e. a av ' ,f , .
larger than the Michigan. She it not for
midable, being an old wooden craft, built
by the Government at Philadelphia thirty
three years ago, during the civil war. Sho
used to cruise about our waters here, like
tho Dispatch and tho Dolphin. On tho South
Atlantic station she has dono good work,
and now that sho is to giro way to a moio
modern gunboat on that station and has
como North, she would prolong" her use
fulness by serving as a naval mltltla craft
Still, sho Is certainly not within tho
treaty specifications. Sho Is a bark-rlggcd
vessel, with a length between perpendicu
lars ot 180 feet, a breadth of 30, and a mean
draught of 12.2, having a displacement of
000 tons. Again, her battery Is certainly
not tho "ono 18-pound cannon" of tho
treaty. It consists ot two 0-inch smooth
bores, an 8-Inch muzzle-loading rifle, and a
00-poundcr breech-loader, besides a im
pounder Bmooth-boro howitzer, a Gatltng,
and a Jl-lnch breech-loader, In the secondary
battery. Her bunker capacity Is 130 tons,
and her ordinary complement It 20 officers
and 134 men.
Howovor, tho despatches say that the
Judgo Advocate-General of the Navy, after
studying tho question, has given tho opin
ion that tho Yantlc's employment for State
naval militia on Lako Michigan will not bo
a violation of the treaty of 1817. It Is cer
tain that wo have other armed vessels on
the lakes besides naval vessels, namoly,
revenue cutters, and that theso are recog
nized by both sides as not coming under the
treaty restrictions. Nevertheless, tho Yan
tlc's appearance on the lakes would pre
sumably bring out Canadian oomment. But
just now tho question ls whether, with her
draught, she could go safely through tho
Welland canal.
"Jefferson Still litres."
Mr. Bryan, the late Democratic and Pop
ocratlc candidate for the Presidency, made
an address before the literary societies of the
University of Virginia last week, which ho
entitled "Jefferson Still Lives." These
threo words wero part of the devout and
patriotic exclamation ot JonN Adams as
belay dying in Massachusetts on the Fourth
of July, 1820, not knowing, when ho spoko
them, that the eyes of his great colleague In
nearly all the scenes ot the Revolution and
his successor In the Presidency, were at al
most the samo moment closing In death.
Fortunate ls It, indeed, for the country
that Jefferson's pure political principles
are still the most potent forces In the direc
tion of the republic. Were they not, Mr.
Bryan would now be President, and, under
tho name of a spurious Democracy, we
should bo embarked, as a nation, on an un
known and shoreless sea of tociallstlo and
anarchistic revolution.
In the lost campaign neither Mr. Bryan
nor any of his adherents was able to find a
line In tho teachings ot Jefferson to sus
tain tho dishonest financial plank ot the
Chicago platform. On the contrary, In
those teachings the condemnation of it
stood out, cold, clear, conclusive. And so
It was with all the other Popullstlc quack
cries set forth in that monstrous document
under tho label of Democracy. Tried by
the Jcffcrsonian test they were, each and
all, heretical, and at tho polls the people
so stamped them.
That verdict was majestic proof of the
great truth that "Jefferson still lives."
If Mr. Bryan had learned It at last, the
lesson would be of priceless value to him ;
but his words were evidently only parrot
chatter, for he continues on a course which
runs counter to the spirit and precept of
the political teachings and philosophy of
Thomas Jefferson.
A correspondent asks elsewhere If the
English newspaper orcan tn New York, the
Evening t'ott. Is working up a scheme to pre
sent this republic, to Knglnnd as tbe most brll
llnnt incident of the Quean's jublleoyear. In
the Evening Pott of Saturday there was pub
lished conspicuously on the editorial pane an
asinine letter, which probably BUfrg-ested the Idea
to him. The writer, after desrrlblne how low,
vulgar, and lncapablo of (rorernlnir ourselves we
are. goes on to say. In discussing the remedy for
this dreadful state of things: "There would
seem to be no historic reasons that would Justify
a return to the old forms of aristocracy." By
that, of course, he means that there are other
reasons than historic why we should Ret a King,
preferably a Queen, to rule over us. Hut neither
our correspondent nor anybodr else should take
such manifestations of the Evening Pott seri
ously. They are simply the childish efforts of
the boys brought up In Godeik'b nursery to imi
tate his old tricks, now that he hrs left them to
themselves.
A "mass meeting of Democrats" was
held In Jefforeon Club Hall, Gt. Louis, Saturday,
and was thrilled by the outpourings of the Hon.
Wiluam Jawbreaker Stone, the greatest liv
ing mixer of metaphor. Col. Nick Bei l, and
other men of might. " The Intention of this
meeting," said tho Invitations, " Is to bring
Democrats together and cornor the market on
harmony. It ls expocted, too, that the first
big battery for the campaign of 1000
will be fired, and a policy and plan
outlined whereby Dcmooracy, on tho Chicago
platform, can effect an organization, cound the
Keynote and sweep tho country." With all this
firing, soundlng.and sweeping in prospect, why
wan It necessary for tho Invitation! to holdout
the bribe ot "muslo and refreshments I" Is
not the Hon. Bill Stone a whole band and a
calliope I Is not Col. Nick Bell mors filling
than a whole eating houso I
The non. Knutb Nelson, Senator In
Congress from Minnesota, has an anti-trust
amendment to tbe Tariff bill. Indeed, an anti
trust amendment seem to be as necessary as
stntlonory to many Senator, aud tbo Govern
ment ought to provide a great grass of such
amendments for each Sonator at its owu ex
ponas. Mr. Ncusot propose to punish by a
line of from ?S00 to $10,000 or Imprisonment at
hard labor for irom six months to two years, or
both, " every porson, Arm, or corporation who
hall monopolies or engross, or attempt
to monopolise or engross, or who shall
combine or consplro with nny person, firm,
, or corporation to monopollxo or cnirross
tlio trade or commerro In raw or refined
Bugarof any kind, among tho several States or
with foreign nations, for tbe purposo of unduly
enhancing tho price ot such sugar." But sup
pose the monopolists, i ho are nil the time re
ducing the cost of production, combine to reduce
the price of sugar I And bow much of a rise Is
to be considered an unduo enhancing! And
supposo the demand for sugar should Increase
unduly! Cloarl) it would bo bet tor or tbo Gov
ernment to furnUh anti-trust amondmonts to
tbo Senators. Thosj made by ths Senators are
badly made,
Sx-Mayor Hewitt will preside over an
interesting meeting at Chickcrlni; Hall to-morrow
night. It will be u grcttlng mid a f are ell
to IIku Cuatklain, who Is on tho evo of start
ing for Africa with tbe first party of teachers to
stt on foot tho unlquo work of the I'lillafi lean
League. It I tho original scheme for philan
thropic effort which Mr. Ciiatzlain proposed
last year, and which soiuo of our broad-mlndod
cltlsens lire helping him to carry out. Nothing
like it has been tried before, and tho plan Is
peoullar, too, In tho commendation it ha re
ceived from all the Governments Interested In
Africa. They have offered large areas of land to
Mr. Ouatelain for the stations where hi Ideas
will bo carried out, and our State Department
and the Portuguese Minister at Washington
have boon actively promoting the Interests of
his first expedition.
His work villi bo among the myriads ot slaves
In Africa, freed by the agents of the eighteen
power which decrcod at Brussels thst slave
raiding and tho slave trade should cease. Ho
will gather them Into settlements, whore tho
harmful Influences of tho vrhlto rnto may not
enter, and thoy will have to holp mnko them
self-supporting, more useful, and more com
fortable and tho experiment will bo first mado
among the highland of eastern Angola, where
tho cllmato Is comparatively hoalthtul.
Tnn Sun has already described in some dotal!
ths features ot Mr. Ciiatklaim b plan, which
many Afrluvnlits boltovo ls tho most practical
schoine for philanthropic work yet dovisod for
Africa. It Is tho outgrowth of his years of
oxperlonco In tho dark continent. There will
bo distinguished speakers at tho mooting, but it
will be natural if tho chief lntorest of tho occa
sion centres in the author and manager ot this
enterprise, ho, of all Amorican citizens, holds
tho highest placo as an Africanlst, whose philo
logical and ethnological studies in Africa aro
everywhere acceptod na authoritative, and
whose whole life Is absorbed, as fow lives havo
been, in devotion to the work of lifting the
African native to a higher plane ot existence.
Tho annual report ls made that certain
Americans who believe themselves to be de
scendants of Sir Francis Drake havo formed
an association for the purposo of prosecuting a
claim to some wholly mythical DnAKB millions
in England. It ls quoer that some thrifty persons
have not formed an association to raise funds
for the purpose of recovering the value ot
Adam's equity in the Garden ot Eden.
At a tremendous demonstration by thirty
Goo Goos at Good Government Club 11, on Satur
day evening, a rapturously applauded address
containing this paragraph wat road t
"The Immense power of the Independent vot
within the limits of the Oreater New York was amply
demonstrated at the last election. To aeesr the
whole of that tot, without whJoh no anti-Tammany
combination oan b successful, tho candidate for
Mayor must be primarily not the candidate of any of
the old poUtteal organisations, but the nomine ot aa
Independent movement "
How happened it, then, that "tht Immense
power of the Independent vote " was demon
strated last year at an election when the candi
date who brought out "the whole of that vote"
was the candidate of one of " tbe old political
organizations I"
The Democracy can reaffirm the principle ot
the Chicago Convention without laying speoial em
phasis upon tbem. EUJOT DixroaTH.
The Democracy can affirm, reaffirm, or straddle
as much as it likes. It can't prevent the voters
from laying special emphasis upon the revolu
tionary platform "d whacking with special
emphasis tho pa, . . bat Is responsible for It.
Mr. James Bartlett Wiooin of Cam
midgoport writes to the lloiton Advertittr that
be has "always wished that Harvard Uni
versity had a chime of bells of her own." Ho
thinks that " such a chime would be the finishing
touch of beauty and poetry, so he puts it In this
form," namely, these tinkling verses:
- Fair Harvard Uvea at eat
Among her claulo tree.
Aad sat a voloe to break her sleepy spensi
Bat how her song would ring.
And her memory would sing.
It Harvard had soma sweet chime balls.
Build a tower fair and high,
Itanc the chimes toward the sky.
Chat to winds may har the story that ah tells i
We shall hear the welcome voloe.
We ahaU listen and rejoloe.
When Harvard gets her sweet ehlm belU."
There are trolley bell enough around Har
vard square already, and there ls a bell in tho
cupola of Harvard Hall which used to have a
pernicious habit ot breaking the sleepy spells of
the undergraduates and summoning them to
morning prayers at Inhuman hours, and which
still croaks for recitations and examination.
There are also chimes near enough to tho yard.
There are bicycle bells innumerable. Sweetest
of all, there are now the sweet chime bells of Mr.
Wioorx of Cambridgeport, ohimes which no man
will wish to hang.
Lost week the Providence First Light In
fantry attempted to conquer those unconquera
ble trenchermen, tho members of the Putnam
Phalanx of Hartford. On Thursday morning the
Light Infantry men loaded the Phalanx upon a
steamer and took it down Narragansett Bay.
Light refreshments were served on the trip,
and the Newport folks, hearing the corks shoot,
believed that the torpedo station had blown up.
At 1:15 the Phalanx charged upon " a genuine
clam dinner" at Crescent Park, near Providence,
and took possession of the following stores:
" Clam chowder, salmon from the Penobscot, soup
from Newport, eels from Narragansett Bay, bluecsh
from Montauk. crabs from Chesapeake Bay. olara frit
ters, baked clams, sausage. Little Neck olama, Indian
pudding with cream, watermelon. Ice cream, old Eng
Uh cheese and craokert."
Tbe commanders of the Ericsson and Gush
ing are very grateful that it did not occur to
the phalanglsts to eat up all the torpedoes. They
could have done It without an effort.
It ls only when thore ls a combination ot capi
tal In tbe nature of a conspiracy to prevent tbe work
ing of the law of oompeUtlon and butd up prloes un
natural ly thst such an aggregation of capital become
Inimical to pubUo Interests. LtwUton Journal.
Thl appears to be common sense, and must
therefore be rejected when the attempt to apply
it to trusts 1 made. Combinations to put prices
down are Just a wicked and injurious from the
point of view of tho trust smashers aa combina
tlons to put prices up. As the majority of the
Supreme Court holds, the power to put down
implies the power to put up. The essential
theory ot the harpooners of the octopus is that
trusts aro necessarily and lnovltably deceitful
above all thing and desperately wicked. In
fact, cheapening goods is supposed to be one of
the worst of tho trust crimes. What right have
the trusts to make things cheap I
Xfblle til Doclor Went to Bo Married aa or
noer Paid Ul rine.
iVom tht Denv4r Timtt.
Colorado Srnihos, June 15. A prominent
th) slcian. Dr. GUdea, was arrested this morn
ing for leaving his horses on the streot without
hitching t hem. When taken to court the J udco
ordered (tho doctor to appoar at 0 o'clock to
morrow niornln.r to plead to the charge. Turn
ing to the City Marshal tho doctor said:
" I can't bo hero to morrow."
" Why not I" asked the Marshal.
" Because 1 am to be married to-night and am
going away." was the reply.
" All right." said tho Marshal. 'Til appear
for you and plead guilty to-morrow."
"Very well," said the doctor; "you do that
and pay my tine. Bond the blU to my office and
I win pay It on my return."
The Marshal assented and the doctor loft the
court room greatly relieved.
Veil on Ilia Vt'roas; End.
TYom tht Stonrot AdvtrtUtr,
On Monday nftornoon Mr. H. T. Shaw, tho
eflltlont ciiBhier of the Bunk of Madison, wa
Iilniiluir along on hi wheel whon suddenly
turning Hunter & Brooks's cornor he collldod
with a ema 1 negro girl, knocking her down and
throwing himself from his wheel. In the good
nessnf his heart Mr. Hlinw picked Ilia child un
took hor Into a drug store, and callod for l)r
l0ll". The doctor wu out, and Mr. Shaw
sent for Dr. Stono. As tho mes-cngor started
otr tho wann-hoartod uishlcr looV-od down tho
street and saw that hla victim had escaped and
was tripping along as thliiper i.s you ploase.
more nuxlous to get homo than to see u doctor
whose attentions wero entirely unnecessary, as
tho hud filitu on hor head. !
Tli Most rtogular Sunday tebosl Puall B
America,
from tht Ilnlttmori Amtrtoan.
nlSif? EmmaCorbetof Carlisle. Pa., won for the
Bldde Mission ho credit of huUng tbo most
regular scholar In America, as well as winning
a handsome Ulblo Worth SliD. Tho prize wm
,e1rby Ab0. C." "''", &rUl of New York!
Sr.i.?ir.' c2rbt record won tho prize, having
attended Sunday school every Sunday for
twenty-four yoare. ' ' ,or
A orty.TCo-reHn(l Catfish Caught ta a Trap.
Jrom tlnZlbtrton Tribune.
A Stranger Who Has Commented t'rea the
Main Entrance Mw Visits the Park Itseir.
To the KmTon or The BvsStr t In my last
I ha1 proccodod In my explorations of Brooklyn
as far as tho main cntrnnco to Prospect Park,
concerning: which I wrote that It Is more Impos
ing than tbo main entrance to Central Pork at
Fifth ovenuo and Fifty-ninth street In Now York.
I hnvo now been over somo portions of tho park
itself. 1 find Proapect Park loss varied, striking,
and bald in Its features than Central Park, It
I in parts moro llko a lovely stretch ot a boauti
ful pastoral country, with woodod sections
added. I did not aoc a rock in tho park.
Tho great, ironlly undulating, treo bordered
meadows aro indcod beautiful; and people walk
across them freely und without tho slightest
constraint of tnnnnor. In somo places I saw
benches on tho grass. I should lmaglno that
the grass Is freer hero than in Control Park;
certainly the people nppcnroJ to more upon It
with a freodom born of familiar occupation. In
this portion of tho park I saw no statues what
ever, and this was something to bo grateful for,
because, whatever tholr merits might be, they
could not do otherwise then mar the slmplo
betuty of this perfect eceno. In other and more
artificial, or, rather, artificially Improved parts
of tbe park, thero are, howovcr, statues.
Prospect Pnrk embraces an area of something
moro thun 500 acres, being about three-fourths
the area Included in tho limits of Central Park.
Ithasoxpauscsot water, lakes and pools, and
thore are the park bridges and steps and so on,
as thoy may be required; but In architectural
Improvement and adornment, excepting as to
tho main entrance. Prospect Park Is far less
elaborate than Central Park. It ls ot a milder
beauty, and It ls left more as nature mado It.
While Central Park 1 of considerably
groatcr area, yet Its shapo ls such, being long
and comparatively narrow, that ono may very
llko ly, if be look, see the buildings outside; dis
tant, hut there. In Prospect Park, however,
there are noble spaces where one may see only
the meadows, far-reaching, tho distant treos,
and the overarching sky; a beautiful country.
Following the people, 1 came to w hero the band
was playing. Here 1 found tho arrangemsnts
admirable. There are in Prospect Park a num
ber ot flower gardens. In front of the largest of
theso gardons there It alovel space, upon which,
with aisles between the lections, thero aro ar
ranged, with tho general outline of a great fan,
seats for I should say 5,000 people. The space
upon which these seats are plaoed la sparsely
wooded; the troe trunks interfore but llttlo with
sight or sound; the overarching branches and
foliage ot the trees afford ample pro
tection from tho sun. At tho front,
upon which tho sections of this fan
shaped mass of seats converge, there is a promo
node, skirting a bight of the lake, upon whoso
shoro theso soats are situated; there are also
brood spaces on elthor side of the mass of
soats. In tho lake, at tho mouth of tho night
upon which tho seats front, 1 a llttlo Island,
and upon this Island the band stand ls placed, a
structure In the simplest possible form, its
back curving forward to form a sounding board.
At one side of tho promenade running around In
front of the seats there ls a lawn space set apart
for bicyclists.
It was on a Sunday that I visited tht park.
The seats on the shoro of the lako were filled
with listeners and tho adjacent promenades
were thronged. Bicycles were strewn upon the
grass in the space reserved for them, and the
bicyclists themselves sat or rocllned In various
attitudes. Upon the lako two men among the
many rowing there had grounded the bow of
their boat upon the little island on which the
band stand Is placed, and wero resting to listen
to the music. The whole made a scene that was
picturesque and attractive to a high degree.
Prospect Park ls a noble and beautiful park.
I suppose that Brooklyn must bo very proud of
it,ns It has certainly ample reason to be, and
I should say that the Manhattan Islander, who,
satisfied with hi own, has never seen Prospect
Park, could scarcely spend a day to better ad
vantage than by visiting it.
New Zealakdeb.
biotcze coAsrnro.
Parttcalar Dlreetleaa a t It try sua Expert
no4 Wheeler.
To m Esrroa or Tax BvnSIr: Tour editorial of
the 17th. "Coasting Bleyole Instructor." Is senitbl
and to the point. Aa a rider of ten years' experience
allow me to add a tew pointer on braking that may
save a brokrn Umb or two.
First, a rear brake u ot little or no uses to test this
statement clog your rear wheel and see how easily
you can pull your bicycle along try tho same experi
ment with the front wheel and yon will
seed no one to tell yon where the brake
should be applied. A brake Is absolutely
necessary for safe city riding. One of the keenest en
Joym nti of cycling is coasting, and the greatest ele
ment of dangvr la removed If you know that you can
stop your wheel when you see danger looming up In
the course ot your Dying trip down a hill. You can
stop your wheel anywhere on a hill by braking
wltb your foot. Ton can learn this In half an hour,
and knowing how few of the thousands of riders use
the foot aa a brake has prompted me to make thla
communication.
After you have learned to coast aeleot a hill with an
easy drecent: when started nloely, with your feet on
the coasters, slowly draw haefc your right root, keep
ing a Arm hold of the handles, your left foot on the
coaiter. and your wheel steady. Keep your ey, a
ahead, only glancing at your right foot to see that It
Is not low enougn to get Into the spokes, turn
tho toe of your shoe to the left, feeling your
way under the backbone and back of the
forksi don't pres your foot down until you are
sure your toe U acroea both forks, then presi down
gently at nrit. Increasing the prruura until you bring
jour wheel to a full stop Repeat this untU you havo
full control of your wheel and can snub or stop It at
your pleasure, taking care, however, not to holdyour
toot so straight with the wheel as to have your toe
drawn In between the forkt. and thus Jam your wheel
suddenly and throw you If easier, use your left foot
In place of the right aa the brake.
I weigh ICO pounds, and have stopped a 37-pound
wheel on a hill so steep using my foot aa a brake
that back pedalling and brake combined did not pre
viously stop. A rubber sole on your ahoe ls more ef
fective than leather. A. W. IUtwood.
lmoon.iv, June ID.
Bicycle Brake.
TomiEDiToaovTiriStnt sir: I have read with a
good deal ot Interest and aatlaf action your article In
to-day's Sen respecting bicycle coasting and the us of
tbe brake. You say:
"If a person It able to wheel at all, power to oon
trol his machine certainly dependa on his ability to
stop quickly. And the brake enables him to do so."
Thlils absolutely true, although the average bicy
cle Instructor, dealer or agent will say otherwise if
questioned on tbe subject. The cycle trade every
where discourage th use ot brakes, and for a purely
business reason. It probably ooeta a dollar to equip
a bicycle with a reliable brake. Hupposlnj; the an
nual output of a manufacturer to be BO.000 machines,
the brake Item alone would tik. s.n nnn ,M t.71
I.Uw..v .... -.. ..wun. ,,, ,ju,uuu mm nis
profit If every cyclist demanded this accessory, which,
from the standpoint of the thoroughly practical rider!
ls absolutely necessary. The riding pubUo has been
systematically tauvht to believe that tht brake U an
appliance nt only for women or effeminate men Yet
I tblnk It could be easily proven thst fully 75 per
rent, of all cycling aoildenu would be avoided If all
wheels were nttnfnlih brakis. Evidently the mat
"r i uf. ,unli:1:nt Importance to nier.t tbo
consideration of law makers. The stock argu
mrnts of the dealer and subsidised Instructor
aro that th brake Is In th way, and that It In
lure the tire. This It arrant nonsense. Th brake Is
In the way of nothing. If usrd constantly when un
necessary It would very likely spoil the front tire in
time, but It U rarely that tbe competent rider finds it
neceuary to use It. He reserves his brake for eruer
s?"1Cl..;0Tn".P',en., writer had ridden constantly
since 18So and provided himself with anew bicycle an
nually. For one year he tried the exerlmeniot going
braketess, and round thai the extra watchfulness re
quired, the Inability to ooatt. and tbe general lack of
that feeling of security wbloh goes with the con
sciousness of being able to atop Instantly at any time,
took away much ot tbe pleasure of riding. It Is a
ract that riders who have once accustomed them
selves to the use or the brake are never known to
Xt?? Tb ?li0Titl I "beelmen who rid
without brakes are those who began without them. In
the belief that they were unsightly, oumbersomeand
of no practical use. Ilinim
Hew Yoaic, June 18. ' ,D"-
Beet Sugar.
To rns Enrroa o Tub Bok lln The question of
producing sugar profitably from bests In the United
States ls lately again agitated, and while rearing very
much from what I hava aeon In print that It might
com to a disastrous craxo, Ilka th sorghum eras, I
have hesitated about writing to Tat Bos or to you.
The recent publication in Tin Suv of a ststemrnt that
sixty to eighty tons of beets can be grown upon an
acre of laud-a perfectly rldUulous statement-Induces
me tn call your attention to the translation of
the agricultural part of I,oult WalkboiT'a work,
trlni.i ,u tho volume or Transactions of tho New
York Stat Agricultural Society for 1H71." Walkhoff
glvos ths jroduct or UwU per l'russlan niorgon.
(moreen, s, or , ,) , oermauy 120 to
jbo centners, and In Iruuce ns rrom ISO to SHO
centners. Taking 880 centners, the hlgbeat. It Is 8 'J 4 1
short tons erncre. It may bo urged that high ma
nuring may greatly Ininas-. the rirndMot. but hlkh
msnurlnir, i-nYitlta only with nitrogenous manures,
such ax frm urd manure ami guano, spoils the boots
for sugar iiuUngfeje WalklioiT).
In my own glowing nr suar lieetsror stock ft eillng,
under favnriilne conditions, I round Uini Imtliel.
HB.uuu pounds a larjo average per aorc Hat I would
refer you to lr. James u. Bbeldon. whom I ptvsunie
you Lnnvt.who, when he had his grand herd of
shorthorn cattli, pcrtlsteutly grew for them sugar
beets, tn preferi'ime to any oilier roots
I'.eosi refer alio to Prof, t. A. tloessniaa'i1 report on
experiments In the i ultlvallon of tl e tugur beet root
In th btatu of New Vork (Now York Agricultural
Society, ibli ), Very respectfully,
T. 8. IUrisov.
P. B The history nf tbe Mutne beet sugar menu
ractory Is quite Interesting There the inanulac
turers round that they could not afford to pay tho
farmers $1 per ton for tbo beets delivered at the fac
tory, an I the f armi-rs found that they ould not grow
the beet profitably at that price, so that enterprise
failed. liEris.
MoBLsr,N.Y.,Junell.
Cheap excursion from all points Jersey oomoll
dated line to the crest Huburlmu Hay and Coney Isl
and race meeting beginning Tuesday. Kxc. tlekits
from Jersey city. wins by troU-yi !IS cuts by I-1.
road rrom all Annex IwaUt both routes laud at track
satoa. Laiider'a Hand, l'ain'a nr works, Sousa'e
eoaceru. Adv.
v I ' i S.j.u -
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xns Bitmsn ojioax j.v jvEir rojig I
A Cerretnendent Ash Some Questions Abosi, I
.rwinner Defhmer or America. I
To Tim KutTOit OF Thk Su.v Sir: Onnjon 1
inform mo whether any of tho responsible ed? K
torlai writers of tho Evening Pout aro Amen sV
i cans or not I Is it oditod hero, anyhow, or d"
' Its editorial utterances como from lionfloM
Take that paper of to-day, for oxamplo. ltd!
1 rides tho policy of our Government, the p
poses and acts of tho President, tho good faith
and honor of the Secretary of State and of ths
Chairman of tho Commlttoo on Foreign Affair.
not from a decent partisan point of view, but
from a strictly British point of rlow. Whit U
tho Evening Pott after t Is it getting ready ta
start a movement to mako tho Amorican peon).
and tholr Govornmontto tho English tattab.
bringing nbout tho return of the revolted pror
lncos to their old British allegiance as a flttlng
Incident In this year ot Jubilee! Perhaps tier
are soreral kinds of Americans, and perhtpi
there is a kind that enjoys the Eventno p0lti
If any considerable number of specimens of that
spociesbave settled here it shows a radical de
foct in the laws governing immigration. Ths
kind of Americanism which belongs to thoti 1
who aro descendants of the men who ha1 a part
in the battles of the Revolution or tho civil war
seems to be peculiarly obnoxious to that paper.
The comments of the i'ost on tho approaching
boat raco are characteristically cockney. .Should
Harvard loso tho raco It Is evldont that no on.
will bo to blame except tho poor devils in ths
Harvard boat, Thl make it doubly Important
to tho Harvard oarsmen. Harvard, you see has
an English coach. He, of oourso, knows mors
about racing than Bob Cook orany other Amer
ican could possibly know. Tho Hartard coach
ls not only English, but ho ls "a litterateur of
some mark." Ill J flrst name Is Robert, hut It i
not told by tho Evening Pott that he ls com.
monly known as ' Bob." Tho point Is obvlont.
It desires Harvard to win the race, so that tha'r
coach may bo the hero of the hour. I, too. hons
Harvard will win. If she has tho best trow and
best stroke nnd best luck, and not otherwise.
Fvery American college man will agree to thst
am willing the .Harvard tralnor should havs
"fair play and half tbo road." I don't want
Harvard to lose because she has an English
coach. It she does lose, sho will feel bad enough.
anyhow,
Has the cockney Pott made an arrangement
with Tammany Hull to destroy all chance of Re
publican success in the Greater Now York thli
fall I Does it want a return to Democratic rule I
How are English Interests involved In this I I
live In the woods, and I never heard of " Secre
tary Clark" or " Chairman Reynolds." Who art
thoy, anyhow f Are they running for some
office ! What divine flatulency do theypossesj
which enables them to speak for tho people of
New orkn bo desire good government! I'pin
HU Lawrence county we havo heard of John rl
Sbeehan and tbe long-haired nnd Inexhaustible
Sulzer. We have anlmpression almost amount
ing to an ldoa of Thomas C. Piatt and L.E.
Qulgg. But who are Clark and Reynolds I Is
Jt possible that they ore representatives of that
type of human buzzard known as the Mugwump I
I assume tbat they nro superior beings who
have condescended for once to point the w ay for
reform. They evidently know all about what
the people want, and, like tbe Presbyterian minis
ter's child ot six brief summers, "know the
whole plan ot salvation." Why ls theA'wniM
Pott ao anxious that the Republican organiza
tion shall not be consulted about a candidate for
Mayor! If the odltor does not actually hare
Mb office in Snow Hill or tbe Strand, he non
know that a great many Republicans look upon
tbe refusal to consult their trusted loaders as an
insult to the whole party, and. being only human
beings and not demi-gods or Encllfhmm, they
resent the insult- Enwur A, Mkiuutt, Jr.
New Yonc June 19.
How at Coleay ef Use Bellamy Type TTerkt.
To Tim EDrrott or Titb Suit Sir: Certala
tatcments have been made of late by John K.
Rodgers. signing himself as Governor of Wazh
lngton, to the effect that the Debs-Bellamy col
ony will find a Joyous welcome in Washington
State. Ho celebrates the resources of that lusty
young giant of the Pociflo Northwest, " point
ing with pride" to her dormant resources, her
unrivalled position for foreign commerce, as an
unusual field for the enterprise of man. Thli
may all be true. la an unguarded moment ths
people of Washington State, groaning under
the yoke of unusual times, made the fatal ex
periment of Populism, but now, from all re
ports, the majorit of that people, with return
ing prosperity, aro admitting with chagrin tad
sorrow that lc was a grievous mistake.
If this pretentious Governor would only study
the history of h's own State with some care, hi
wonld remember an experiment of a llelliar
type attempted at Port Atureles; a striUn;,T
similar undertaklc. It was during another
hard-times period, in 1885 or 1880. that a lot of
fool beads banded themselves together, soma
with their little all, some with nothing, and a
few with considerable, hoping to enrich them
selves at the expense of the many. It was a
failure as a cooperative colony, for the very sin
plo reason tbat all would not cooperate. Some
Joined tbe colony with lofty ideals which thtr
were really anxious to put in practice. Others
were wholly mercenary and looked upon the
sincere idealists as gulls to be gulled, and thrv
proceeded to work tbe Held for all there was In
it. It became a gathering place for every
cracked and hare-brained achemer who hai
failed to come up to the moral and commercial
standard ot his age. and had some brand new
plan for revolutionizing old and tried methods,
which he was certain would work, for the rea
son that it had never been tried, and. moreore-,
offered him as auj Individual a means of living
without work, and very often of gratifying his
baser instincts. Tbe place became so morally
rotten tbat the more self-respecting bad to get
out with their families. It ls onl a step from a
community ot industrial interests to a commu
nity of wives. And when one restraint and safe
guard, whi'h is the result of human experience,
is removed, it ls hard to keep the others from
following. Fred W. Morris.
New Yokk, June 10.
H
rerelga Xetea of Beat latere. ,
Grand Dnohess Victoria Hell' of Betie Darts- 1
stadt, whs ta a daughter of rrtnc Alfred of tag 1
land, recently fled from her husband and eouiln,
th Grand Duke, who Is a son of th late Princess
Alice, aad took refuge with her sister, the Crevs
Princess of Itoumanla, at Bucharest, but was In
duced to return to her husbaad br the Intervention
ot her family. Though the Grand Dueheu Its
Ouelph, brought up at the British court, the reatot
given for her escapade Is that Darmstadt Is toe
deadly dreary for her.
Since 1707 there have been 1,100 thsatrsnrsi
with 10.000 fatalities, according to 11 r. Bschi s
'Tire and Publlo Entertainment," just publlibsd.
Ot the 408 took place In the United Statu 13V la
Oreat Britain, aad 101 tn Oermany, France nartm
nearly the aame number. London has nal itlr.y
Ave fires and Paris twenty-eight. Out of 343 tftr
tret destroyed by flr,'.on half were burned within
ten year alter they wer. constructed, forty et
tnsm within th flrst year.
An Interesting feature of the yachting exhlblUea
now being held In London, is th set of cups won
by th old Arrow.whlch competed with the America
tn 1H01 for the Queen's Cup aud It probably ths
oldest British yacht In commission, being originally
built In 18ta. It has been practically rebnlli
era! times without losing Its Identity. Among the
prizes are a later Queen's Cup, the first and last
cups glrsn by th Prince Contort, and (he first ont
(Ivan by th Prlnoe of Wales.
An Italian actress named xtarlanl tnowed;an un
professions quality or pluck recently at the Teatr
del Vail at Rome. A three act farce by it. Saba
tiro Lopes waa being performed for the first time.
In which th principal femal part was taken by
her understudy. Urns. Marlanl being HU Th audi
nca biased from the start, and th undtrstuay
fainted at th end of It.e flrst few sosnea, when
Mm. Uarlanl took up her part and kept It te tht
nd, amid th howls of the spectators.
Paris, afier rsglog Impotently boaus th City
Council hat allowed street railroads to cross Its
avenue des Champs Elysees, Is now horrified at ths
plan piopoted for the temporary quarters to te
used for the two Salons till th txhlbltlon build
logs are completed. One story bulldlags are to hs
reeled around the little gardens In the Louvre,
that extend from th Gambatta monument to ths
galleries of Egyptian antlqultlar. Th sheds will
be let for other show when not used for the pic
turn exhibitions.
A play whose heroin I Aims Desclse, ths
I'rrmh actress, written by an Italian aulhoreM,
Oemtna Fsrrugla, and recently prouueed at the
Tealro Htnzonl In Ullan, has aroused much un
favorable comment, as persons; only recently lead
or still living are presented on tbe stage. Tl'.s
lover, though his name Is chaoeed, Is plslol) P"u
da Itentls, now Italian Ambassador at Maitll
while Alexandre bumas Ills, tn whoso plaisf"
clee made her last appearances In Paris, Is rrp"
sen ted under hta own name.
M, Bertbelot, the chemist, who wat foreign Xln
liter la I. Bourgeois's Government, reports t" '"
Academic dt Sciences that the copper ot r "
found at Kegedah aud Abydos In Fgjpt by M "
Morgan are of pure topper and not of tiruir
Among them are an axehead, n curiously ! !"'
pair of scissors, aud some needles. The lim'il ll0J
found on the tombs are so old that the liar n"'
yet been declpnered and are believed to date frets
tne Hrst Dynatty or earlier, tl, Bertnrlot tldnts
that th rtdnc fr a copper age it ooncluslr.
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