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i;V "Will There Bo a Scaling Conference ?
& There Is ft curious parallel between our
if Venezuela dispute with England yenrbe-
fc fore lost and tho present Bchring Sea con-
'hi troversy. Each case has shown that John
jl ' Bull's hide Is not absolutely Impenetrable.
if- although sharp thrusts aro needed to make
him take notice. In each case, too, tho Brit-
i. Ish newspapers have In advance indemnified
H . themselves for any yloldlng of their Govern-
ment to American demands by roundly
2 abusing what thoy consider an unman-
;'" nerly way of presenting our views. And
ft, L Anally, If wo do not mistake, the parallel
f Is already pushed to tho extent of osub-
1' v stantial diplomatic success on the part of
i ' our Behrlng Sea negotiators.
if It Is asserted very positively that a con-
- forenco of the nations most Interested In
the sealing business will bo held within a
few months, and that It will bo held at
( Washington. That Is one of tho points for
r which our Goverment has been laboring,
' and it lias insisted that wo ought not to
E wait until tho expiration of the flvo years'
s-J period of the Paris award beforo surh a con-
ferenco should be called. Tho news that
J Great Britain has consented to It is broken
$A gently to the British public by tho state
'b , ' ment that this Is to bo a preliminary
H gathering, which will not mako now rules,
$ but only collect and sift tho facts, and ar
fk rive at conclusions upon which tho revision
? ,. of the rules can proceed.
y ' Yet thut Is quite enough for tho business
i& ' In hand, since no new regulations can pos
it albly be made for the present year; and with
t - this practical result of Mr. FosTKn'H mission,
fS ,-th fllnirs of the British newspapers at " di
t plomacy in shirt sleeves" and "Yankee
S" Insolence," as well as their vaporing upon
S the advantages of teaching us a lesson be
5, fora our navy grows stronger, becomo of
! llttlo importance. This sort of talk relieves
(V them and docs not prevent us from reaching
i; the result aimed at.
$C Tho language employed in our later de
ft snatches on the sealing dispute, as on the
!$ Venezueladlsputc, was undoubtedly sharper
"0 than is desirable In diplomacy, where it can
SJT be avoided ; but years of experience have
$ anxKCBtcd that nothing less than sharp
1 words can bo relied upon to secure British
L attention to a distasteful subject.
SS" Tho Frodifral Sons.
BThe Brooklyn Eagle is one of those 80
ca.llcd gold Democrats that feci lonely and
- unhappy in belonging to a minority and
' are preparing, consciously or unconsciously,
& for a return to tho regular Democracy by
g means of a reunion with It during the
fe municipal campaign. The Eagle begins its
l backsliding with the usual but not plausl-
St bio pretence that municipal and national
K issues are not only separable, but unrelated.
it " A mfrh can lo for free silver and for good
3 government," It says. "Municipal govern-
m - ment has nothing to do with monometnl-
ft lsm or bimetallism. A man can be for
SHI. free silver and bo for honest administration."
fA roan who Is for free silver wishes tho
Government and people of the United
jP States to do a dishonest act. Ho shows
J thereby that ho is in favor of dishonest
, government. It Is all very well to Bay, as
, the Eagle says, that his free-silver views
'M are "economic error" merely, but men with
Jt that economic error are not likely to bo
?fi t men whose notions of administration are
M acceptable to the pcoplo of this town, aside
Kt from tho disgrace of letting the greatest
commercial city of tho country fall a
' prey to politicians preaching dishonest
I currency and proscription of wealth. To
Sfe make more easy its way back into the
bosom of reunion, the Eagle assumes
,ii; that free silver Is the Chicago nlat-
'i ' form. Thero are other things in that plat-
' form which Xow York cannot forget or
.4. learn to stomach ; the income tax, for ex-
?) 1 ample, and the protest against government
;' ' by Injunction. The party which nominates
3 t municipal candidates on the Chicago plat-
form nominates them on a platform opposed
1 to the accumulation of money, to the pres-
:J'. ervatton of good order as against tho labor
trusts, and to the growth of great business
v enterprises. Not merely free silver, "an
- economic error," but tho revolutionary
B"i fanaticism of Socialists and Populists will
be approved by any Democratic organ Iza-
& Hon which approves the Chicago platform.
( ' Municipal government, so far as the city
$ ,, of New York is concerned, has a great
Ji deal to do with monometallism or blmet-
i alllsm. If the silver monometalllstfl (for
they are no more bimetallism than they are
fe eeraphlm) carry the city of New York,
n . they will get thereby a good purchase, for
h their efforts to carry the State. Moreover,
f- their victory will give an immense Impulse
s 1 to Bryanlsm all over tho country. Every.
yi body will agree that thero was nothing
K ' municipal and local about tho campaign It
S the Bryanltcs win It. Only In case thoy
f ' should be licked will they consent to spare
R, the feelings of tho Brooklyn Eagle and the
j 1 other brethren with a passion for harmony,
fc. and say that no national issues were In.
& volved. If they win, thoy will admit that
h? they were fighting for tho triumph of Bry-
;, aniam In 1808 and 1000.
A i'
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to Oen. "Woodford's Instructions.
!r
In directing Minister WoonvonD to pro.
; - sent and press a claim of $70,000 for in-
j demnlfylng the family of Dr. Ruiz, our
f. Government notifies Spain that, under
the treaty of 1705, the protocol of 1877,
,V and the Spanish law of 1821, tho pro-
p , ceedlngs taken against Dr. Ruiz, after
'A notice of his American citizenship was
f- ' given, "wero illegal, wrongful, arbitrary,
tfj,' and In violation of his treaty rights, and
H resulted in his death."
W ' It Is generally understood that the Span.
te' Ish authorities sought to compromise this
, case by dealing directly with Mrs. nuiz,
m and that sho refused the small sum offered,
ij- saying that the Government had taken"
kj charge of tho matter, Ono advantago to
R Spain of dealing with her would have been
Ki j that nothing nefdhave been known publicly
B a, to the ground of grouting the Indemnity.
Kr ' Bot the Government's claim expressly sets
mf forth the violation of treaty rights as the
Kr' basis of tbo claim, and this may become a
KKtirmaabiaTikmmiamUuui ' 'l-iW'?'lj3iW;'
precedent for similar claims, In which
death did not result from tho deprivation
of treaty privileges.
Will Spain deny the validity of our
views regarding treaty rights, and en
deavor to keep that matter in abeyance,
whilo coming to some agreement In regard
to tho amount of the indemnity! Even
such a devlco might not prevent tho Ilulz
settlement from having an Influence on
other outrages, based on similar grounds,
although followed by a less terrible re
sult. But tho Ruiz Indemnity must be tho
least of Spain's causes of anxiety on to
tho instructions of Gen. Woodford. A
profound sensation bos been caused in
Madrid by a despatch from Minister
Dni'DT dr Lome, relating to these instruc
tions, "which purport to bo that tho
Cuban war has continued long enough."
The Madrid story Is that a near period has
been fixed, at which tho United States
will interfere, unless tho war Is ended. No
wonder that tho Spaniards aro showing ac
tivity in tho Island In splto of tho rainy
season, and that tho Cubans aro taking
fresh hope. Wo Incllno to bellovo that
when tho Instructions to Gen. WooDFonD,
which Spain seeks to forecast, are officially
made known to her, sho will seo in them
the omen that tho end Is at hand, and that
end must be Cuban Independence
Trade with Hawaii.
Although no defence of the right of
the United States to annex Hawaii Is
needed, tho Government has caused official
statistics to be made of our commercial
transactions with the Islands for the last
ten years.
It appears from these figures that Ha
waii's combined exports and Imports last
year were the largest sho has ever had. Tho
amount, $U1,B78,222, exceeded by nearly
$1,474,000 that of tho highest previous
year, and by nearly one-third the avcrogo
of the ten years. Tho exports exceeded tho
imports In the ratio of much more than two
to one, in value, and tho story for the ten
years Is the same, although the average ex
cess of tho exports is not so great as it was
last year. Finally, our country absorbs
fully nine-tenths of all the trado of tho
islands, Great Britain coming next, with
not quite one-twentieth, and the rest being
divided among other countries.
Tho trado statistics alono show the over
whelming superiority of our claims upon
Hawaii and the absurdity of representing
Japan as our rival In the Islands on the
ground that an outlet for her contract labor
Is there furnished.
Christians Under Mohammedan Rule.
Some unfavorable comments have been
made on the declaration uttered by Sir
Philip CunniE, when replying to the de
mand of Tewfik Pasha for a part of Thcs
saly, that "England could not agree to
restore a Christian population to Moham
medan rule." He ought to have said, it was
asserted, "Turkish rule," for, if Europe ob
jects to placing Christians under the sway
of tho Osmanli, It Is not because the latter
are Mohammedans, but because thoy are
Turks ; that In to say, Mohammedans of a
particular typo who aro given to read their
religious obligations In a particular way.
The distinction thus attempted betrays
Ignorance of facts and confusion of thought,
as was clearly shown tho other day by an
unusually well-informed and acute corre
spondent of the London Guardian.
The truth Is that tho question raised by
tho demand of Tetvfik Pasha Is, in the
strictest sense, a religious and not an ethnic
one. In the first place, it is doubtful if a
thousand Turks of puro Ottoman descent
on both sides could be found in the Turk
ish empire. Slavery and polygamy are
everywhere and at all times fatal to purity
of breed. This is emphatically true of the
Turkish empire, and especiallv of Its offi
cial classes, from the Sultan downward. For
five hundred years no Sultan of Turkey has
had a Turkish mother. Since the time of
Bajazkt I. tho mothers of Turkish Sultans
have been slaves, in most coses enslaved
Christians. The mother of tho present
Sultan was an enslaved Armenian, and
the belief is widespread among tho Mos
lems of Constantinople that his father
also was an Armenian in the service of
AnnuL Medjid. This explains the shiv
ering suspiciousness with which ho Is1
incessantly haunted, and the fury with
which, after the fashion of renegades, ho
assails his Armenian kinsmen In order to
disarm tho jealousy of his Mohammedan
subjects. Tho Osmanli, considered as a
whole, are tho most mixed people within
the bounds of their heterogeneous empire.
The process of deraclallzing the Turks has
been accomplished mainly through Inter
marriage and concubinage with the subject
populations, but it has also been power
fully accelerated by two facts. -Thd first of
these was the tribute of children formerly
levied by tho Sultan on bis Christian sub
jects, and amounting to ono boy In Ave at
the ago of eight. These children bad tho
sign of the cross Indolibly branded on tho
soles of their feet, so that they might
always trample on it; out of them was
formed tho famous corps of Janiza
ries. The official civil service of Tur
key was also administered by trib
ute children ; of the forty-eight per
sons who became Grand Viziers after tho
conquest of Constantinople, only twelve
wero native Turks. This yearly Infusion
of a large stream of Christian blood long
ago dominated tho Osmanli element, and
alongside of It came another stream which
still continues to flow Into tho Turkish sys
tem. Wo now refer to tho compulsory con
version of Christians, which goes on In
cessantly. Dr. Lepsius, after a careful In
vestigation of recent ovents In Armenia,
overs that in addition to the 100,000 Ar
menians massacred by order of tho Sultan,
at least another 100,000 have In their
despair been forced to becomo Mohamme
dans. In tho next generation tho descend
ants of these men will become fanatical
Moslems.
So much for tho ethnological question; It
is evident that those who oppose the sub
jection of Christians to Turks must object
to the latter as Mohammedans, and not as
men of puro Ottoman descent. Now let us
inquire whether Mohammedan rule Is or
can bo in any country or In the hands of
any race tolerable for a subject Christian
population. In the belief of orthodox
Moslems the Koran Is the final revelation
of God to man, and everything ordered
therein Is Immutable. The Koran places
Christians under an irrevocable tan. The
Koran, however, Is not practically, though
it Is in theory, tho ultimate tribunal of ap
peal In tho Mohammedan world. A body of
jurisprudence has grown up around it, called
the Sherlut or "sacred law," which bears
much tho same relation to the Koran that
the decrees of oecumenical councils bear
to tho Bible in Catholic theology. In those
codes are laid down tho ordinances that
govern the relations between the Moham
medan subject of a Mussulman power
and the raya, or non-Mussulman subject.
These relations are absolutely unchange
able; they nro articles of faith In tho oyes
of every orthodox Mohammedan. Some of
theso lmmutablo laws aro tho following:
Tho raya must not possess arms; ho can
not glvo evidence against Mussulmans ; ho
is obliged to pay a yearly ransom for per
mission to llvo during that year; ho pays
all tho taxes levied on a Mussulman and a
great many mora, tho total amounting for
tho Christians of Turkoy to 07 per cent, of
tholr income Though not allowed to servo
In tho army, a Christian Is obliged to
pay for a substitute. In Turkoy tho
obligation begins at tho end of thrco
months and continues until death. Islamic
law pursues the Christian to the grave
and makes him pay for a burial
certificate thus worded: "Wo certify to
tho priest of tho Church of Maiit that tho
corrupt, putrid, stinking body of Zaiiid,
damned . e., dead yesterday, may bo con
cealed under ground." It Is obvious that
theso laws put Christians throughout tho
Mohammedan world In nstato of outlawry.
Deprived of arms, thoy cannot dofond
themselves. Neither havo thoy any redress
for injuries at low, for tholr evidence will
not bo taken against a Mussulman, and no
Mussulman will give ovidenco on behalf of
a Christian against a follow Moslem. The
result is that no crlmo is ever punished
when committed by a Mohammedan
against a Christian. These, wo repeat, aro
not Turkish laws alono; they are also tho
laws of Morocco, Persia, and Afghanistan;
thoy havo prevailed In all Mohammedan
countries from Mohammed's tlmo to our
own. Tho Sultan himself is under tho do
minion of tho so-called " sacred law," and
cannot alter it in any particular without
thereby forfeiting his throne in tho eyes of
tho faithful. The moment, however, that
ho receives nn ultimatum from any power
which ho has no rco&onablo liopo of over
coming, ho is bound to yield by the sacred
law, which forbids him to yield other
wise. Ilcnco tho significance of Lord
Salisbuky's despatch of Oct. 20, 1800,
in which ho eventually got the other
powers to ogrco to tho principle of
coercion, before they proposed any mora re
forms for Turkey Without coercion re
forms In Turkey aro simply Impossible ; It
Is the religious duty of every Mohammedan,
from tho Sultan downward, to resist until
coercion is certain on refusal. Actual co
ercion, however, need never bo applied if
tho Sultan be convinced that tho applica
tion Is inevitable in the event of contumacy.
Then it is his duty to yield, "lest damage
should ensue to Islam."
Tho whole question, therefore, about
handing back a part of tho Christian in
habitants of Turkey to tho Sultan's rule is
a religious one, and Sir Pinr.ip CunniE
hit the nail on tho head when ho called
attention to tho fact.
Tho Regnlnr Socialists Ahead of tho
Citizens' Socialists.
The Socialist Labor party, a compact but
not formidable organization of political
lrreconcilablcs, has nominated its candi
dates for tho three municipal offices to bo
filled this year, the Mayor, Comptroller, and
President of tho Municipal Council.
The Socialists, in making their nomina
tions, havo Bhown tho soma wilful disre
gard of existing conditions which tho Cit
izens' Union, another organization of polit
ical sentimentalists, having some points of
resemblance to tho Socialists, shows In
many matters. For the office of Mayor
their party has nominated one of Its peren
nial candidates, Monsieur Lucien Sanial
of the borough of tho Bronx. Mr. Sanial
was last a candidate for memberof Congress
in the Sixteenth district, and has been de
feated for sundry offices on tho Socialist
ticketformany years. His present nomina
tion appears to havo been due to tho small
following of tho Socialist party In the
borough of the Bronx, smaller relatively
than In other sections of tho Greater New
York. For tho two other offices, candidates
resident in what is now tho city of Brook
lyn, have been chosen. Peteu Freburq
has been selected to run for Comp
troller, and Ciiaiilks II. Matciiett for
President of tho Municipal Council. Fhk
nuita has no particular record as a pro
fessional candidate, but Matciiett lias
been often in tho field. Last year he was
a candidate for President of tho United
States, an honor somewhat diminished by
the fact that, running on tho ticket of tho
Socialist party, ho did not receive a solitary
electoral vote, though the popular vote for
him was 33,000, more than one-half of which
was cast In the State of New York.
In the territory to bo Included In the en
larged New York tho Socialist vofo at last
year's election was 14,000, but tho most
populous part of tho municipality and tho
one in which the Socialist party was most
largely represented last year has no candi
date upon the ticket of Saturday.
Tho Socialists, liko tho paternalist poli
ticians of tho Citizens' Union, are for
claiming all the support which they can
get for their candidates by a platform
" large enough to includo everybody." Tho
Citizens' Union is for baths and lavatories
and laundries at the public expense, rapid
transit and arbitration, tho referendum,
progressive civil scrvlco, tho divorcement
of municipal from State affairs, hut not tho
State from national politics, workfngmen's
assembly halls, municipal control of publia
franchises, cheap postage, and more light
houses. The Socialists, another and better
organized group of sentimentalists, aro for
tho election by city employees of depart
ment foremen, tho condemning of vacant
lauds, and tho erection thereon of cheap
houses, municipal drug stores, tho public
support and pay of men on strike, employ
ment of all Idle persons on tho public
works, monthly elections, tho recovery,
operation, and ownership of car and tele
graph Hues, municipal coal yards, and pen
sions for city marshals.
The Socialists and tho Citizens represent,
each group, about 15,000 votes In the en
larged Now York, a constituency of raoro
than half a million.
The Printers' Idea.
Tho Typographical Union of this city
has concolvcd a plan for enabling such of
the printers as may bo unable to find em
ployment at their trado to earn a liveli
hood otherwise. The plan Is to lease
a tract of laud near this city upon
which tho men can raise thoso vege
tables, fruits, and other farm products
that are always in demand In the New
York markets, and that can always bo sold
at profitable prices for cash. The good
amount of success gained within the past
two or three years by the workers upon
"vacant lot" lands has led the printers to
believe In tho practicability of the plan that
has been devised for the benefit of the unem
ployed men in their ranks. If many of the
vacant-lot agronomists have done well, and
made good money out of their crops, print
ers ought to do yet better In the oamo lino
MJiiBtf.p'fn''W'ii.i.!.V-.
of labor. They are likely to be possessed of
more than ordinary Intelligence, and aro
generally of an ambitious disposition. Lots
of them rise in tho world, and lots of them
have money In tho bank.
How much less chafing It Is to raise
vegetables and othor markotablo things in
tho country than to set typo In town. Out
In tho open air; out in the genial sun
shlno; out with tho hoe; out sowing
or harvesting; that's life for a man.
It's a great thing, too, for a man to market
his crops and get tho currency for them.
Cash for tho potatoes; tho samo for the
cabbages, and more of it for the green peas
in their season. Think of it, yo dally papor
typos, as you stand at tho "case," long
after midnight, struggling with manu
script that would drl vo a farmer mad l
But will tho out-of-work printers go to
tho fields, where thoy can, at the least,
ralso their own provender anyhow t Wo
cannot soy. It will probably bo hard to
lnduco tho veterans to go ; for plenty of
them would rather llvo on short commons
In tho over-enticing city than spend their
days anywhere outsldo of Now York.
Perhaps thoso of tho younger men,
too, who have great expectations,
would rcfuso to go from tho city
to tho country, or, for that matter, to
tho Garden of Eden, evon when hard up.
But thero must, wo should think, bo hun
dreds of printers between thirty and fifty
years of ago, men neither too fresh nor too
rusty, who, in times when the trade Is
slack, would like to try their hand In tho
fields where fodder grows, and where, when
tickled with a hoc, thoy laugh with a har
vest. Wo shall see whether there are such
beforo tho next planting season.
Thero is plenty of untitled land within a
hundred miles of this city. Thero aro
abundant facilities for transporting tho
crops to tho consumers. There Is a great
and insatiate market here. Why should
any able-bod led printer stay Idle, moping
all day long? It Is bad to bo dependent
upon money drawn from the treasury of
the printers' organization.
If tho typesetters mako a success of the
project nowly formed among them, they
will present to tho mon of other trados one
of thoso "object lessons" which aro so
often described as valuable for Instruction.
Those of tho carpenters, builders, tailors,
and other craftsmen who cannot get work
at their trades will havo good reason for
following tho printers' example. There
ought to be no ldlo men, so long as there
arc opportunities for labor within reach.
Back Homo Again.
Last week tho People's Party Paper, of
Georgia, the organ of tho straight-out anti
fusion Populists, or Mlddle-of-the-Roaders,
personally conducted, like the aforesaid
Populist faction, by the Hon. TnouAS E.
Watson, confessed tho following :
" In the breaking up of the Pfoplo'i part j, which Mr.
BuTLcn has done so much to bring about, manj other
old time Rvpubllcana will be round doing Juit what
Druii'o did. If we cannot arrnt the falling to
pltccfl of our party, those who were once Democrats
will be Democrats again, and those who were Repub
licans will bo Republicans again. Fusion Is dissolv
ing Populism back Into Its original elements."
So Populism, the motto of which, accord
ing to a vehement Iowa upholder, Is "Rip
'era up tho back," Is Itself ripped, and
the pieces will bo sent home. The circum
stances of the two prodigals after their re
turn, however, will be radically different.
The Republican elementot Populism will
find tho Republican party essentially tho
same as they left it. But five years ago tho
Democratic candidate led the campaign for
President crying that tho "Iron heel" of
capital was trampling on the neck of labor,
and that the workingmen were oppressed,
defrauded, and justly discontented. That
howling demagogue was not sobered even
by the crime of Homestead, but, when the
Homestead murders wero done, he raised
his campaign voico in pitying sympathy for
the murderers, and almost tho entire Demo
cratic press applauded. By last year the
communistic spirit of 1802 became bold and
threw aside disguise, and it was Bryanlsm.
Democrats now abandoning Populism
will find' in the place of a sober, American
and JefTersonian alliance, holding to tho
doctrine of equal rights and even justice, a
shrieking mob of fanatics in which ore
present and influential every disorderly,
lawless, and anti-thrift demagogue living
in tho country.
The silver party In the states has unquestion
ably beootne emboldened by the failure of toe MoKln
ley Administration to take any action toward a mon
etaiy reform. London "oimui(.
This Is the unfortunate effect of the Irrospon
slbto clamor and tho misleading statements of
our currency reformers. American Interests in
England ars damaged by the persistent
falsehood that tho Republican victory last fall
carried with it a prorulso to tinker with the cur
rency and to surrender to tho banks tho govern
mental function of issuing the national money.
It Is a happiness to record that tho Hon.
noinTifs I.KONinAS CiiArsuw, the plutocratic
I'opocrnttc camlldato for Governor of Ohio, Is
trjlrnr to do something to show that he Is
nrthy of tho distinction of representing the
Chicairo platform. According to the Columbus
correspondent of tho J'lltsburo IHtpatch, Mr.
Chapman used to "help out his short Inches
with a silk headpiece, but he has discarded
that for the derby and slouch of commerce,
and is footing It In tho rcmoto districts,
trying to explain away his great wealth." Tho
slouch hat Is a brilliant idea, and it is probable
that tho campaign fund will explain away some
of the wealth. It Is well for CandldatoCnAPUiK
to " foot it," and It would he still better If he
would barefoot It. Still, bo has not yet dis
proved me charge that ho has never nrtea nis
volco for the poor man." Neither slouch hats
nor bare feot will avail btm until he takes his
volco in both hands and lifts it, bard and high,
for " tho poor man."
The first day of tho Trans-Mississippi
Congress was Irrigated by remarks from two
statesmen of tho first rang, IIiivan and Moses.
Moses comes from Kansas, although it has
been tho general belief that ho came from Lin
coln, Neb. It must havo boon somewhat con
fusing to tho dolcgatos to And both I) It VAN and
Moses in the convention. Bryan Is known to
be tho Ponocratio Moses; gu&rantond. And none
other genuine. Hut If HitTAN of Nebraska la
the real Moses, who and what Is the Kansas
Moses t It Diivan Is Moses, Moses must be
Drvan. This twlnsblp of genius Is perplexing.
Tho Cincinnati Commercial Tribune sug
gests thaw the Hon. Freii White, the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Iowa, who has
proclaimed his devotion to cheap money, and
tbo choaper tho batter, should receive some
practical ilnancial Instruction.
"Ills grocer l liable to take him at bis word and
glre hlra Confederate money In change when he
squares bis account at the end of the month."
It is a mistake to suppose that Mr. White
wants cheap dollars himself. He Is not known
to havo any objection to a valuable dollar, and
the dearer It is the better be will like It.
He thinks that under the sway of 10 to 1 a diver
dollar might be worth ten cents, and be think
that there are thousands of Democrats and Pop
ulists in Iowa who want that sort of dollar to
pay their debts with. It does not follow that he
pines to have debts which are due him paid in
ten-cent dollar. Altruism does not extend so
far. It Is cruel to propojo to put Mr, WuiTie'i,
principles to the test. Like many other finan
cial and eeonomla chllosopbers of the modem
school, ho thinks that nothing li too bad for
"the tolling masses." Qlvo them the worst
money there can be. And yet It is not likely
that ho his any rooted objection to having good
money In his own prlvato collection.
What Is to become of tho Popocrats and
Populists of Kansas in this year of a tremendous
wheat crop In tho Sunflower State 1 Millions on
millions of bushols, and evory ono of thorn a
buffet In the facoot the drooplng-Jawed sons of
calamity. It Is hard work to bo a Democrat or a
Populist in those days. Hero you are standing
up and shouting to the spheres that there never
can be any prosperity until tho country is
permitted to have free sliver, tho income
tax, graduated or ungrnduatod, Government
railroads and telegraphs, the Initiative and ref
erendum, and what not. Here you are, purclo
in the face and howling marvellously, an earnest
and a conscientious advocate of calamity, and
the first you know hero aro these great, big, fat
crops all over the country; and folks begin to
make money and leavo you to howl to the silver
moon. Thore is no doubt about It, Tho crops
are an outrage. They should be denounced In
tho fiercest terms by the Democratlo and Popu
list conventions noxt fall
Thero was a senso of gontlo stowing in tho
warm water around one's rubber boots, the deep
starry sphagnum. Into whloh one's steps sank so
softly, and the myriad lush growths that find their
rooting and blooming In it SprtnvfltlA republican.
So sinks a Mugwump poet Into the elemental
ooze of the swamp, no unwelcome addition to
its myriad lush Growths. Sinks softly amid
gentle stewing, starry sphagnum, and copious
rubber boots, in hot water to the last, and roots
and blooms no mora.
.The qualities which are designated by the word
plutocracy belong to human nature. St. uul Globe.
What of it I Human nature must be abol
ished. In 'fact, human nature has been abol
ished. By tho Ocala platform, tho Omaha plat
form, tho Chicago platform, and other good and
Bumciont declarations of thlnkors In tholr high
est altitudes. Human nature must consldor
Itself abolished, and plutocracy ought to
have tho civility to fall down. Thero must
always bo plutocracy enough loft, however, to
furnish tho candidates of the wcalth-destrorors
and to fatten campaign chests. Not all pluto
crats aro to bo regarded as wicked. Tho pluto
crats who want to got omco by bombarding the
Money Power are allowed to survive even tho
wreck of human nature. They aro found neces
sary and useful. Thoro are good plutocrats as
there aro good trusts.
At the meeting of tho mombcrs of tho
Reform Press In Emporia this week this ques
tion is to bo discussed: "With what classes of
matter should a Reform papor be Ailed I" Judg
ing from the Populist papers which mako tholr
way into theso realms of the Money Power, all
Populist newspaper matter Is divided Into flvo
classes: Wail, Yawp, Flubdub, SUbber-Slabbcr,
and Initiative and Referendum.
Great Hen on American Independence.
To Tint Enrroa or Tmt Stn Str: As affecting the
question whether or not the sentiment In faTor of
Independence wai Isolated or general In 1 TVS, let me
venture the heresy that expression of that senti
ment could not always be sincere In some eminent
rases, and that the Declaration of Independence Itself
was not candid. On Sunday last J. P V. quoted John
Adams as saying In 1773 that "there U not a man In
the province among the Whigs, nor ever was, who
harbors a wlih of Independence " Privately both
Adamses were for separation. In a letter to a friend
In 17SB Schoolmaster John Adams expressed himself
thus: "Uay transfer the seat of empire to America.
Our rteonlo will In another inttif-v tw.nmn
more numerous than In England Itself. The united
force or Europe will not be able to subdue us. The
only way to keep us from setting up for ourselves Is
to disunite us."
Lankier the heads of Samuel Adanu. John nan
cock and Thomas Jefferson, the Tower of London has
never been complete in Its exterior architecture.
Hancock was Impressive rather In the Influence his
abundant meant commanded than In his personality.
The man who made blm ally to the cause was Sam
uel Adams. In some respects the mightiest force In
the Revolutionary period of nearly twenty yean.
Privately, he was out for tndependenoj when. In
17110. Richard Bland of Virginia advocated It in
print. This was nine years before Tom Pal no was so
effectively heard from on that bead not flrt In
"Common Sense." as Is generallr suppoted but In
articles In the Vntuitlranto Jupurfne. It may
be thst there Is no earlier record of public
advocacy than Bland's. Per contra. It was
as late as 177S that another Virginian declared
to the always cautious John Dlcklnton In Philadel
phia: "There Is not In all tho Brltltb empire a man
who more cordially desires a union with Groat
Drltatn than I dot but. by the (3od that mad me, I
will cease to exlat before I yield to a connection on
such terms as the British Parliament propose; and in
this I speak the s-ntlments of America." At this
period, also. Franklin was not In favor of Inde
pendence, despite tho story as to his earlier vow
never again to wear his homely suit until England
was degraded and America free. Nor dors It signify
much that be helped to prepare the Declaration of
Independence an'f signed It. It bears the signatures
of those who favored It and toted for It. of those who
dared not vote for It even If they personally ap
proved, of those who voted against It. and of those
who would not have voted for It but for receiving a
secret guarantee. Dosiiasu.
The Wheel DevIL
From the Xedioal Ittcord.
Another note of warning has been sounded In re
gard to the possible evils of cycling. Under the
somewhat ambiguous title of "The Hidden Dangers
of Cycling," an alarmist article recently appeared In
tho National letieu-, pointing out some of tbo risks
of Injury to beslth to which bloycllsts are liable, and
darkly hinting at others likely to to Incurred. The
hidden dangers of the exercise, In the opinion of Dr.
Bhadwcll. threaten women, and more particularly
young women, and the prediction Is made that In the
course of a year or two quite a different ttory will
be heard concerning the hoalth-glvlng properties of
cycling. A few cases of serious breakdown that came
under the author's notice are cited, one of a girl who
developed exophtbalmlo goitre as the result of a long
ride, and which became chronic. Appendicitis and
Internal Inflammation are also laid to the charge of
tho wheel. Bat the complaints to which the writer
In the A'affonal Review chiefly wishes to draw at
tention are tho various forms of 111 denned nervous
effects resulting from even a moderate use of the
bicycle. Tho contention Is msde that the harmful
ness of the exercise does not consist so much In excess
ss In the strain on the nervous system. The propo
sition Is laid down that overexertion Is qulto Inade
quate to explain the effects from which msny cyclists
suffer. The symptoms are casentlally nervous, and
point to a cerebral and not a muscular origin. The
theory brought forward as to the cause Is not the sad
dle, the vibration, or mechanical defects of the ma
chine, but Its Instability and the constant strain re
quired to keep It In an upright position. Dr. Shad
well holds that this Incessant tension Is that whloh
tells upon the nerves.
Bevelntlon In Steamships The Tnrblnla.
from Indu$trie and Iron.
The steam turbine now seems to denote an Impend-.
Ing revolution lu the mechanism of not only torpedo
vessels, but also those of larger craft.
From Engineering.
It would appear from tho results hitherto obtained
that the substitution of steam turbines la place of
reciprocating engines In vessels of the lsrgest sire
and of fast or moderately fast speeds presents advan
tages greater than those which have been realised In
the little vessel Turblnla, and It may be roughly
stated that for such vessels the speed of rotation
would be slow, from 2S0 to BOO revolutions per
minute, and the relative simplicity of the engines
would become still more marked tlmn Is the rase In
the Turblnla's engines, indicating t,i00 Imllcuted
horse power on Tuesday last, and giving her a
velocity of thirty five knots, or over forty mllos per
hour, with an expenditure of steam of 14 pounds
per Indicated horse power hour,
Cuini.is A. Paososs.
Perversion or is College.
From the Kantat Ctty Journal.
The announcement from Washington that Prof,
Oarleton, who has bad charge of the experimental
station at the Kansas State Agricultural College, Is to
be withdrawn will not be a source of aurprlso to peo
ple who are Informed of tbe action of the college re
gents In turning the Institution Into a kludergarten
for the propagation of populism, socialism, and a
dishonest systsm of fluanre. It appeared to the de
partment at Washington that It would be an Inexcus
able waste of time and money to continue experi
ments at a school that bad gone out of tbs business
of teaching agriculture Into that of teaching politics.
Will Miss AlfltlB L. Mczzet, a contributor of
poetry to Tint 8c, kindly tend her address to Tbb
aneffioif
TAiJtxs nsoKjsn.
Bis Tankee Type er Character tfee French
Cathallca.
To Tnn Kditor or Tnn Suk Sin It Is not
a littlo significant to note with what eagerness
many thinkers in Buropo aro watching the de
velopment of American thought, especially In
religious matters, and aro looking to tho fresh
vigor of our youngor civilization for their in
spirations. Loo XIII, has mado no secret of
tho fact that not a fow of his progressive ideas
M well as his broad humanitarian notions ho
has acquired from American sources. He
owns up to carefully reading a copy of tho Con
stitution of tho United States given to him by
Presldont Clevoland somo tlmo ago, ana it givos
him not a llttlo delight to buttonhole some
American prolate or publicist, and, while tell
ing him how much ho lovos America, to
gather all tho knowlcdgo ho can of American
ideas ana tho trend of American thought
Formorly tho wlso men camo from the East;
his wlso mon como from tho Wost. Leo in
this capacity represents a largo and growing
class among tho thinkers of Europe.
A notablo lnstanco of tho samo spirit is found
in tho publication latoly of two appreciative
articles on Father Hooker in Le Corrcspon
dant by tho Count do Chambrun, and now thoro
appears a translation into French of the life of
Fathor Hecker, apropos of tho publication.
Abb Klein, Professor at tho Catholic Institute
of Paris, summarizing the intellectual position
of Hooker, speaks of him as tho prophet of tho
future tho ono who has blazod the way to tho
best progress in religious matters.
Abbo Klein is ono of tho stoutest oxponents
of tho Loonlno policy In France, and, like Leo,
he is a strong bollovcr In tho vitality of ideas.
Ho says of Hockcr's "Llfo" that "no book
has appeared within fifty years which casta
tnoro vivid light upon tho prcsont condition of
humanity or tho rollgious evolution of tho
world, on tho lntimato relations of God with
tho modern Bouh or on tho existing conditions
of tho Church's progress."
Tho typo of Yankco chnracter ho finds in
Hecker Is so unconventional and at tho same
time so refreshing, bo full of straightforward
simplicity and guilolcssnoss, bo uttorly lack
ing In that peculiar French trait, diplomacy,
that ho foils In lovo with it at once. Still he
does not fall to oee tho far-reaching influences
of Hcckcr's Ideas and ho rcallzos that liko all
plonocrs in lntolloctttal or spiritual movements
Hecker will bo appreciated llfty yoara from
now far moro than he is today. He says:
' rsothiiur is bo nffoctlnir as to follow tbo Intel
lectual, moral, and religious evolution of this
freo and confident youth. As in a sort of in
terior drama ono beholds Ood taking irreslstl
blo possession of his soul and leading It by a
mnnlfeit inflnonco to tbo highest degree of De
fection. With tbo dlfforonco which bolongs to
tholr epochs ho reminds ono of St. Augustine.
Tlio latter was attracted to (lod firm a cor
runt life Hecker was profoundly moral, filled
wlih a strenuous desire for tho light, but with
out any model of the religious life, and ovon re
pelled from tho Church by the external appear
ances which Catholics retained from an ago
gono by. Ho 1ms trnvcrscd tho whole ftmco
w hlch to-day separates from tho Church a Yan
koo unembarrassed by tho accidental institu
tions of the past."
When tho Bciiri.hllKht of Romo was being
thrown on tho difficulties which ultimately cul
minated in tho Institution of the llrst American
religious community, now known as tho Paul
lets, ono of tho Canadian Ilisliops Bald to Pius
IX.: "Holy Father, I should not be at all sur
prised if you wero to canonize ono of these
Ynnkeo priests some day."
Tho applications of tho invcntlvo genius to
tho Industrial arts havo undoubtedly produced
moro changes in tbo world in the last lift;
years than wero formerly mado in several con
Ulrica. Such changes In tho social world do
not go on without reacting profoundly on the
moral condition of humanity. Tbey require,
and, in a certain measuro, they call into being
mora knowledge, mora energy, moro indepen
dence., moro Initiative and a greater change of
tho conditions under which ono lives; and all
this newness of environment creates new-ethical
problems which constantly demand solution
in public life ns well ns settlement In private
conscience The passivo spirit which was tho
honor of an epoch in which ono had only to
follow the current, must e cry where (rive way
beforo thoso uctito vlrtuos without which the
cuuso of morality cannot stand.
In these changing conditions Hecker had tbe
greatest confldenco in tho Inborn ability of hu
man nature to adjust Itself from a spiritual
sido to tho now order of things. He saw that
tho trend of all theso movements was In the
direction of larger liberty and greater intelli
gence, and that tho ofUco of religion was not to
curtail liberty and intelligence, lest perrhanco
they bo abused, but to encourage and direct
them. Not a few were possessed of the idea
that rollplon was a hugo central despotism in
tho hands of a hierarchy whose chief business
was to repress the legitimate migrations of the
heart for what are the idols of modern llfo
liberty and intelligence. Littlo wonder, thon,
that njrnosticlsm was tho full flowering of
such reputed antagonism. But tho system of
mysticihra of which Hecker was tho best ox
lament emphasized tho fact that tho "kingdom
of God Is within you." Every legitimate as
piration for what is good Is from tho intorior
spirit of Ood, and tho practical end of tho true
religion Is simply to Btibmlt each' soul Individ
ually to tho guidance of tho Holy Spirit. Tho
oxternal authority which alono has been en
dowed with tho prerogative of infallibility
must bo merely tho Btnndard by which wo
aro to moasure the rcctltudo of tho interior
action Uio track on which the train Is to run,
whilo tho motive power Is in tho engine. Tho
Initiative, to Individual perfection must not bo
tho principle, of authority outsldo of ono's self.
Whcro this is lookod to and depended upon
tho rosult la tho drying up of tho secret founts
of individual llfo. But tho growtb must bo
from within, as tho treo grows by a life all its
own. Tho action of tho priesthood must bo to
dig about and fcrtlllzo tho roots that tho tree
may get its best development. "Tbo better
tho mnn, tho better the Christian." "The in
dividuality' of tho man cannot bo too btrong,
or bis liberty too great when be is guided by
tho Spirit of God."
It Is not without its significance that these
very principles have been enshrined in the
latent encyclical letter of Leo on tho "Mission
of tho Holy Spirit," nnd too llttlo nottco has
been taken of these luminous animations of
tbo great watchman on the tower of Israel.
During the last 300 roars tbo polemic, effort
of the Church has been to defend tho outer
ramparts of the citadel of her pow er the exter
nal authority. This work found 1U logical
culmination in tho Vatican Council, whose
definitions placed tho coping stono on the forti
fied walls. Now, says Loo, tho battlo of three
centurlos is done; turn now to tbo Inner beauti
f)lng and Bancllncntlon of souls.
llocker's llfo had boon tho practical studying
out of nil those vital principles, nnd ho burned
with tho most lntcnso desire to tell his country
men that tho Catholic Church gives them a
night to God a thousand times moro direct than
they over dreamed of. Thoy think the author
ty of tho Church will cramp their limbs. Ho
was eugor to explain to them that It kcIh them
free, clears tho mind of doubt. Intensifies con
viction into instinctive rcrtltudo nnd quickens
tho intellectual factiltlos into nn activity
whoso force Is unknown nmong thoio who aro
always inquiring for nnd never gnlnlng tho
truth, Ana with his profound rontldrnro in
the fttturo of tho religious lifo In America, bo
belief ml that tho Latin raro w itli Us predilection
for external Institutions and monarchical forms
of irovernnicnt had crowned its religious work
in tho Vatican Council and that it was given to
other nil ex to load in tho duelopmont of tbo
interior lrtiies of relltrlon.
AMih Klein has nsslmilated theso new and
vlitorous Ideas in a wonderful way for n French
man, nnd his voicing of them in French for tho
rcllu'IoiiB thinkers of bin own pcoplo is like a
ptrnlu of Hweetest music from another land.
What is the matter with French Catholicism!
Why Is tho practice of religion m formal, obedi
ent o bo senile, nml the Church km sterile! Bo
ciitixu so Utile has been iiimle of tbo interior
spirit. Tbo wnlU of a duugion have been built
around and tho doors hnvo been shut upon tho
roligious spirit. .Souls onrn for tho light.
They gnsti for tbo fresh air. Hooker's spiritual
flews, which are, after all, but tho appnnod
teaching of Ibo bnt inyaliral writers, nro liko
a ilcop breathing of iu;eimted air into thoso
souls; thov brlns; a new light into their eyes and
a new vigor into Ihelr step. Uttlo wonder
that with yearning eyes tbo bust thinkers eager
ly cau tbo religious horizon of the Western
world for Ibis now light. Catiiolicub.
Nkw York, July 15,
Tho Girl mi the Hike" I I'nrody from m
i'orui by 1'erreinl (Jrnvre.
To tux Editoh or The hi ilr; The story whloh
appeared In Krlduy's HCf I, Indeed, a queer story."
Tho Chicago Journal's " pipe dreamer" hail better
change his "bunk" beroro he again essays "takln' a
twirl" with " The Olrl on the Dike. The " dope" sup
plied at tho" Joint" uu now froqucnts Is entirely be
yond his " hitting" (lowers.
The rfs'i CyclM, a weekly raper published In Dub
lin, was the first paper to print the parodied version
of the poem, urn! the American papers got It from this
source. In 1S7V sptieared a collection of poems en
titled "Bong of Klllamry," by Alfred Perceval
lrates.au Irish school luinectnr Included In the
book was a ioem enlltlod " An Irlih Spinning w hoel
bong," and this Is the poem thollarot tho Chicago
Journal attributes to ft. T W."
Mr Urates, the author of the poem, Is one of the
foremost Irish writers lu London to-dsy. Iteadrrs
of lined and the Spectator are familiar with bis
work. " Ould Docthor Mack," " Father 0'r'lynn"
" Molly lirnllegtisn," and several other of his dialect
poems are sung and recited all over Ireland.
Mr. Graves was bom In Dublin In 18tu. and is the
son of Dr. Orarea. the Illshop of Limerick, lie was
educated In Trinity College, and graduated la 1S70.
Ills first literary appearance was la the Dull In Uni
vent! Jfueatl'. when he was but is or 17 years of
. UP.lUAST,l(80Wttli!liVt.
MsxaxL'B coimmoir or xikd. I
tVaa m Tip to Bar agar Steek IaMt Week s I
ten of Mental AberntUea t .'
Charles' Frederick A. Melsel eraminlnj r, '
chemist in tho Custom House, was suspended 'j
from duty at tho Appraiser's oflloe on Friday, Kft.
and on tho following; day was removed, it Is :.2
said, from his homo at 44 Strong placo. Brook- KP
lyn, to a nrlvato sanitarium at Hartford, Conn. f , j
Ho Is only 22 years old, and three years ago k-
was graduated with hlh honors from the
School of Minos, Columbia Collogo. Two years j s?
afro ho was appointed to his responsible place k?
in tho Custom House, rtooently ho is reported ',
to havo shown unmistakable signs of mental i' ,
aberration, resulting, as supposed, from hard ' u
work during tho hot weathor.
Dr. Shorer, who Is at tho head of tbe chemi-
col department In tho Custom House, noticed a li-
marked chango In Mr. Melsol's manner about -1
a weok ago, and advlsod hltr to give up his i
official dutlos as soon as possible and go to
somo quiet country rosort. On Wodncsday an
Incident occurred which directed special often- .. .
tlon to Mr. Metsel's condition. On that day.
while in tho Woll street district, Mr. Melsel
rent a telogram to former Appraiser Uunn ad
vising him to lose no tlmo in going to the Stock
Exchange and Investing all tho money he could
ralso In Sugar securities.
Two days later tho suspension was ordered.
There was no cauto assigned for this action, v '
tbo objoot being to provent the fact of Mr. , '
Melsol's mental condition from beoomlntT '
public. it
Albert C. M. Molsol. tho young man's father, f .'
who is in tho chlnawaro business In Pars .
place, was seen by a reporter of Tnn Sun at i
his homo In Brooklyn, but ho positively df- '
cllnod to discuss his son s illness. "My son is
in tho country. I havo nothing further to
say," was tho only statement ho would mako,
A friend of tho young chemist said:
"If Mr. Melsel sent the sugar tip to Mr,
Bunn. I think it was an indication of
foresight nnd good Judgment rather than of " -
mental collapse. On Wednesday Sugar was sell
ing around 133. To-day It Is selling at 14S.
If Mr. Uunn had taken the Up and bought
1,000 shares of Sugar stock, he would be $10,
000 hotter off to-day."
It is expoctedZthat in a month or six weeks .
Mr. Melsol's health will be fully restored and '
he will bo ablo to rorume his official duties.
JjLCK TAJIS COSirZAIK. '
These cm the Brooklyn Do Mot like the sTsrsr
System or Catering.
There is growling among tho sallormen on the
cruiser Brooklyn because on the last trip they ,
did not get everything they wanted to eat. The T
Brooklyn arrived hero on Saturday from Eng .7
land, and tho sallormen, like all sallormen,
began complaining as soon as land was sighted.
Tho troublo is that tho Navy Department is
trying an experiment in feeding its men, and
tho Brooklyn was solectcd for tho trial. Here 'i
toforo the men aboard ship havo been divided . ,''
into messes, each-with its own cook and its own , '
caterer. Tho Government allows for each man's 'J
food 90 a month. Half Is drawn In provisions ' 4
and half in cash. The half In cash is paid to a . ,
fund. Each mess has Its own fund, and the
money is investod in shore provisions each trip.
The amount is small, and ordinarily the men in
thomosB havo mode up the amount needed to
llvo well by putting In on extra $3 or H each a "
month. 'Jne experiment being tried on the ,,.
Brooklyn bos been Intended to ascertain if the
mon could be as well fed without their contrib
uting tho extra money each month. Instead of
tho crow being dividod into messes with scpa
rnto commissary departments, ono biff commie-
ssry department was formed, and all tho money
was put in one fund.
As far as the officers are concerned, the ex
periment has worked all right. They like It,
and there has been no complaining among them.
Tho men, howovcr, say that they havo not had
tho variety of food that they had before. Under
tbe old system, if a man did not like what ha
got for dinner in his own mess he could ex
change places with a mnn in another mess whcro
there was a dinner to his liking, provided that , '
also a mnn In that mess wasdissatisSed, and did '.
not liko tho dinner which was being served to ,
hlra. Undor the new system the food on every ?
table has been the samo, so that there was no
uso in changing tables. Each eailorman, how
ever, has the money to his credit that ho would ,
have had to spend otherwise for food. This
fact, when tho sallormen realize It, may mako ;.
them think well of the new system. If It
doos not w ork satisfactorily it wUl not be adopted
generally.
JtAZZ'S IDEA. OF Z.ZTJS.
Sswot OS Cents a Par. Saved 0100,000, ststfl ;'
art nis Money to an Adopted Son. 1 "
The funoral of Ezcklol Cromwell Ball, one of ft , '
the oldest residents of Irvlngton, 17. X. was held ft"
on 8unday. Ho was born In Irvlngton seventy- f
nine years ago, and had lived In tho village all i
his life. By diligent work at the carpenter's I
trade and putting into practice a theory that no
man ought to spend moro than 25 cents a day
for living expenses, ho accumulated property J
worth over $100,000. Most of this. It Is bo- t
llevod. will go to Qeorgo Wooley, an adopted
son. Ball's wife and only child, a daugh- f
tor, died long ago. and Howard Smith, anoths I
adopted son, ran away. i
Why the Chickens Died. ' tf
JVorn the Christian at Trora-. F-
A professor at one of our universities Is the f ,
subject of a queer anecdote. Last winter he was n
married and went to housekeeping outside town. ' .
This spring ho thought he would add a few hens ..
to his stock; ho already had a dog. He seta ,
couplo of hens and In good time hod two large
broods of chickens. Ho was very proud of them,
but In a week or so the fowls began to die. Tho
professor called in a neighbor to look at the
chickons and offer advice. They were certainly 1 1
a dilapidated lot of chickens that the neighbor I
viowed. They w ere thin and apparently without i ;
ambition. ,'
" What do you feed them !" asked the neigh-
bor after n brief survoy. ,
"Feed thom!" responded the professor, as
though he didn't hear right. " Why, I don't feed
them nnythlng. I thought the old hens bad I -
enough milk for them." .
r
A Fish with alOUI Montis. .-
From th Ealtlmorl Sun.
Awondorful fish story comes from Port Tarn- ;
po, Flo. It is about a twelve-foot shark which ?
was caught In tho shallow waternenr the beach, J
a short distance from Port Tampa, His shark- f
ship appeared to be sick and waa an easy vie- ;
tint. Tho parties who captured tho priro no- t
tlced that his stomach was considerably dls- (
tended, while the lower portion of his body and
tail were quite thin. These facts excited tho (
curiosity of tho flehermon, and they decided to
dissect It, Upon opening his stomach a small
pork barrel with one head knocked out was
found. Tho mouth of tho barrel wns pointing
upward toward tho fish's throat, and was lit
erally filled with dead fish, but they could not
be digested, hence the shark was literally Btorv- .
Ing to death, yet he had a barrel of Ash In Ids '
stomach. ,
Statistics or a Long Policeman.
From the Chicago Timet-IteralS. '
John Dudley Is tho longest policeman inCht- ',
cago. It would take only 782 or him, placed
end to end, to reach a mile. A atack of twenty- '
six or blm would reach to tho eaves of tho
Monad nock building. A perpendicular lino of
two of him would make a festoon up one side of
tho patrol box, over the top ard half way down
tho other side. One of him bangs a foot over
the nverngo bed. A ladder of two of him would
reach to the celling of any drawing room in the ,
city, and, standing on tip-toe, one of him could A
blow down tho gas burner in moet any chnn- W
doner. Ho stoops to enter the average door,
...... ....v.. ,,y u.u.in u nriu uut sirnigninna
says his wife is about so high, an average man
can walk under tho arm and not got a dent la
bis hat.
Unconscious Humor.
From the Cleveland Leader.
"What aro you laughing ntl" said a man
with chin whiskers to a youth who stood beside
blm nt tbo corner of Superior and Sonoca streets
yesterday morning. .
" I'm laughing at what you said to that man T
who Just shook hands with joti," tho lwv replied. -' J-
Tho man thought for a moment and then saldi I
I don t remember saying anything funny to
him.
"()b. you didn't know It was funny." i
" ell, what was It, anyway!" t
..'!'. hen became up to jou nnd asked if you f
didn't know him. jou said; 'Your name Is fv L
mil nr. but I sw oar I rnn't recall your face.'" K
Then tbo mnn with tbo whiskers got mad and K."
Bald it wns "a blamed lto," tfc;
Cnn the Students Do It 1 Jp.
From the Daily Kennebec Journal. Ma
Several students from Ynlo nnd Amherst have UH
located on the lino of the II. and A. lu the cm- W
ploy of the tlmlier land owners to patrol melius HltJ
after trains nnd ciinril ngaiiiHt forest llrcs. The .)
part of the lino between Grlmhtono and Houl- E'v
ton Ib divided Inlo sections of soven miles eai.li, If -
nnd tho patrol has to mako two trips dally, 1
twenty-eight miles In all, except In rainy I
weather, when bo can loaf In his lonesome 1
camp. Though moro than a score of tho most '
bnrdy woudyiiun in this soctlon lmn under
taken tbo Job, all have been compelled lo isUet It
up. an) Ing that no mnn llvlntt can walk twi nty
eight miles a day and follow it up for a month.
An Oklahoma luillnn TruUltlou.
From the Oklahoma Timet Journal,
Tradition among the Caddo and othor Indian r
'VJ". ".' Oklahoma git es an account of u ran- ,
nlhnlistic tribe that onto existed In this localll).
Tho other tribes flnnlly agreed to annihilate
such undesirable neighbors, and at a time
agreed upon tbo cannibal village was eur- I B
rounded and every member of tbo tribe was do- I 3
stroyed not even a babo was spared. Chief 1 JJ
Ooorgo Washington of tho Caddo tribe often W I 1
latcathbj MV of tradition, j M