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j( Obaptor Ono of MoKinlejr.
$ The period between the Inauguration of
, President MoKlNXirr and his departure
&-, from 'Washington for a vacation after tho
S?s ' lint five months of hard work, constitutes
? Chapter Ono of his Administration's his-
X tory. This is a distinct period of trial and
BY' achievement, and it is worth while to see
V what tho record Is.
." Between the time when Major MoKiirurr
sM ' took bold and tho time when he lets go tern-
j' porarllj for rest, these things, among others,
Iff ' hare happened:
w, L The tariff question has been removed
j from politics. The pledge of tho party
K which nominated MoKiklet that it would
giro tho country a squarely protective
""' , tariff as a settlement of the question, and
thus giro the country rest, has been hon-
futl; redeemed.
IL The Administration during these fire
months has organized for four years. The
If President has mot and sustained the tre-
tf mendous strain consequent upon the lcgltl-
J mate competition for office. He has mado
;A- most of tho principal appolntmonta In a
M manner generally satisfactory to citizens o;
S all parties I and, what Is to be noted espo-
fh ololly about this, ho has preserved harmo-
m nlous relations with the members of his
v. party la both houses of Congress, and has
tmade, perhaps, as fow enemies outside as
i any President ever mode during the corre-
Ji apondlng period.
BIIL The Administration has definitely
committed Itself to tho American policy of
" Hawaiian annexation, and Is proceeding
ish vigorously and In good faith to remove that
if question also from politics.
W n TV. Mr. McKinlet has succeeded In win-
iE' -' nlng for his Administration and for himself
( the respect and good will of a vast majority
Fs of his fellow citizens. His personality at-
jjj tracta Instead of repelling; and It Is his
fe good fortune to have created, at the very
W start, friendly and favoring conditions of
public sentiment, hard to define precisely
'- but likely to bo of Immense value to him
K ' all through his term.
jA Is there anything on the other side of the
j: account I Yes, there are some things of
:?., minor Importance, which It Is necessary to
$ mention In any Impartial exhibit :
L Ho h as shown some lock of delicacy In
'v' the appointment of near relatives of his
l own to office, and in the repayment of purely
f personal obligations at the cost of tho Gov-
J, emment's service.
$. H. To some extent he has manifested a
., disposition to follow the example of his
&'- predecessor In the misuse of publlo prop-
j ertyfor private convenience or economy.
:M Fortunately, this has not gone far yet, and
,- perhaps It will go no further.
j. TTT. He has groped and wabbled on the
?Si question of currency reform, so called.
Pb " JTrom an initial error of judgment and a
IE ., hasty, ill-considered utterance on the sub-
Ject,he has proceeded with uncertain steps
i to a futile and fruitless demonstration
g which has counted more against his reputa-
(P-J. tlon, probably, than any other event of his
sJJM term up to date.
?fe i We wish a pleasurable season of mental
dP rest and physical recuperation to the Hon.
liaL; William MoKmLBT, Jr. On the whole,
m , he has nobly earned his August vacation.
&. Another English Newspaper Corre-
W& spondent In Cuba.
'XL; For about a year we got a good deal of lm-
gfe,' portant and trustworthy information about
affairs In Cuba from the letters of the Ha-
SKf1 vans correspondent of the London Timet.
ifife; Some months ago that correspondent was
SK assigned to duty In another part of the
'M ' world, so that he ceased to send Cuban let-
Csj rter and despatches to the Timet. "We had
'Si spoken of his boldness as a teller of truth
rwt out Spain's performances In Cuba. Ho
'tPf f described the situation as It came under his
)fi- view, and made" report of the occurrences In
the war, the campaigns of both armies, tho
Stji course of the revolution, the deeds of Wkt-
iW" Lsn, and his experiences of life In Cuba.
&' "While "Wbyleh expelled from Cuba many
kf -of the reporters sent there by American
P$' Journals, and subjected all despatches de-
'i. signed for this country to a rigid censorate,
i he never Interfered with tho outspoken cor-
i respondent of the London Timet, who dealt
jP " Hh him according to his deserfs, while
living safely under the protection of the
Mj", British Consul at Havana. Some of his
&' letters which we printed In The Son were
y of a character fitted to Btlr up the fury of
&J 'WEYT.En, who, however, never laid hands
jtf upon the offender.
gib' The London Chronicle has now a corre-
S spondent In Cuba, who sends to It letters
Jf which aro not less Instructive than those
$f : that were sent from there to the Timet, or
np" than those that are sent from there to Tim
mU Self, and In which tho Spanlnh butcher
lb stands amid tho carnage of his rule In Cuba.
jIa, Jn a number of tho Chronicle that came to
lm- ' us In the latest mall from Kuropc, this cor-
(If1 respondent affirms that Weylicii's attempts
ti to repress the Cuban revolution uro charac-
Urlzed by unspeakable cruelty. Ho says
h that for the Insurgents there Is neither
If" mercy nor quarter. Every day prisoners
jjjlv aro executed; and they are often sub-
Jected to Inquisitorial tortures for tho
5E. purpose of extracting Information from
w them. The doomed men aro bound, they
Ty , are placed In a kneeling position, fac-
& Ing a wall; the band plays a Spanish
S quickstep, and then for tho official mur-
'm der Bom8 of tho patriots die bravely,
V, shouting "Cuba Libre I" and others are
fk broken down by 111 treatment, so that they
M have to be carried to tho wall of execution.
mw The correspondent describes western Cuba
C: v M howling waste, whero, ns he snjs, the
t Insurgents roam, wheiu tho puclflcos perish
$& of hunger or the plague, and whero tho
fl conditions of existence aro heartrending.
, Ho cannot find u redeeming featuro In the
Vr barbarous order which compels the ponce.
ful peasants, under pnln of dentil, to aban
don their homes to tho Spnnluh torch. y
this order of Captain-General WiiLiu,
ff under which thousands of pcoplo buiTlt
'& compulsory starvation, another bint in put
f upon the bloody escutcheon of Spain, 'ilm
V correspondent tells of the utterly revolting
jfc scenes that are dally witnessed In tho foul
t and reeking settlements of the reconcen-
U tradot, and that affect even the hardened
mJ
Kb.
l )
1
Spanish troops who carry out WSYXXR'a
orders. " Yet thero Is no hope for them, no '
ohanco that the suffering from famine will
be assuaged." The Insurgents, driven to
desperation by aggression, their homes de
stroyed, their women wronged, must yet
fight against the power of Spain. The cor
respondent also tells of the wretched con
dition of the Spanish soldiers, who perish
under tho hardships of Weylsii's rule.
The London Chronicle follows the ex
amplo that was set by tho London Timet In
giving Information of this kind to the world.
No such Information could have been fur
nished to mankind during the brief war of
this year botween Turkey and Greece.
Where has there been another modern war
like that In Cuba, ths third year of which Is
now passing awayt
We havo quoted soma statement from
our London contemporary, though Tim
Suit has printed letters from Its own
correspondents In Cuba ever since the
war began there, or, at least, ever
slnco Wkylbr took command, contain
ing reports of a similar character. We
quote them because they have appeared In
a foreign journal which cannot be charged
with publishing thorn from Interested mo
tives, or on account of any prejudice against
Spain, or from any desire for the annexa
tion of Cuba to England. The Chroniclt
obtained them from a trustworthy English
man in Its own service aa a correspondent
In Cuba. They confirm tho most painful
accounts we have ever printed about tho
horrors of Weylertsm, as exemplified
during tho past eighteen months.
How can the American people look upon
these horrors without a quickening of the
pulse and an irresistible desire to put a
stop to them I
No Other Currency Commission.
Mr. Secretary Gaob said, in his speech at
Boston on Tuesday, referring to the failure
of Congress to provide for the appointment
of a " currency commission," that " what
might have been accomplished through a
commission may be achieved without one."
Ho might have said that the refusal
of the Senate to consider the subject
would make no difference whatever, for
thero would have been no chance of accom
plishing anything through the proposed
commission. Nor could such a commis
sion add anything of value to the great
mass of material, suggestions, theories, and
patent remedies already gathered during
the long discussion of the currency question
In this country. That material Is within
the easy reach of the finance committees of
Congress, and it Is abundant. The subject
has been thrashed out thoroughly. The
writings upon It would make a large libra
ry, of unimportant documents almost
wholly. The Sun office has been bom
barded with them, and there would now be
no room In It for really valuable literature,
If they had not been carted away to make
new paper, upon a very considerable part of
which, doubtless, more currency essays will
be printed, to tho weariness of mankind.
The commission Intrusted by the Consti
tution and the people with tho duty of
dealing with the currency Is tho Congress
of the United States, each of the two
houses of which commits the special con
sideration of the subject to a committee,
whose reports and recommendations are
put before the great Congress commission,
representing all the people In all parts of
the Union. A third commission, with no
legislative authority and no title to con
sideration equaling in consequence that of
the Congress committees themselves, would
only produce troublesome complication.
The suggestion of such a commission In
volved on Implication characteristically
Mugwumplan. It Is that our popular Gov
ernment Is not to be trusted, and should be
turned over to Mugwump bosses.
The people of the United States, however,
do not feel the need of that sort of bossing.
They prefer to trust the business of Govern
ment to the men they elect to attend to It,
and not to any little knot of money chang
ers Mr. Gaob may select. If they have read
history they know that rarely has a great
financier come from out of the banking
community.
The currency question Is already settled
far more advantageously to the public In
terest thonltcouldbe settled bysuch bank
ers. Tho currency Issues of the Govern
ment aro all as good as gold. So long as
the note Is a Government note, every man
is satisfied with It. It Is good throughout
the Union, and of the same value every
where. It Is as sound as the republic. The
republic's credit Is behind It. Bonks may
prefer to Issue the notes, but the people
prefer to have their money Issued by tho
Government.
Thero Is no occasion for a currency com
mission. There is no excuse for its appoint
ment, and Congress was wise In adjourning
without having provided for It.
Klondike and Other Names.
Tho newspapers are printing, nowadays,
an unusual number of place names In
Alaska and tho adjoining regions. Some
of the most prominent names appear under
a variety of spellings, for which, In most
cases, there Is really no good reason ; for
the orthography of Alaskan place names
has, In recent years, received much atten
tion from our geographers, and especially
from our Government Board on Geographlo
Names, which, in all our Government maps
and other publications at least, has brought
order out of the great confusion In Alaskan
nomenclature.
Mr. GooDincn of our Geological Survey
party, which studied the Yukon gold fields
last year, has written to The Sun that tho
still unpublished report of the party gives
"Clondlko" as the name of the river that
In now tho centre of Interest. When the
editor of the Geological Survey documents
has tho report ready for publication, It Is
safe to say the name will not begin with a
cupltal C. Klondike Is the white man's
version of an Indian expression, and In the
hundreds of Indian and foreign names In
Alaska and elsewhere upon whoso spellings
tho Board on Geographic Names has passed
slnco 1800, there Is not one name In which
tho letter C has been used except to repre
sent the soft sound of that letter. The or
thographic rules of tho board, printed on
pngo 0 of Its first report, say that In foreign
and aboriginal names " O Is always soft
and has nearly tho sound of S, as In
Celebes," and "K should always be used
forthu haul C."
Some of our newspapers spell the namo
"Kloudyke," using "y"asavowel. This
. entirely contrary to tho precept and prac
t Ice of all the leading geographical societies
nud of our board. In none of tho spellings
of tlio hundreds of Indlon names which
hao In recent years been unified In our
Government publications has the letter Y
been employed as a vowel ; and tho rule of
tho board says that " Y Is always a conso
nont, as In yard,' and therefore should not
be used for the vowel L"
The purpose in all proper spelling of
V
ii es m ii i m
aboriginal worda I to convey, approxi
mately, the native sound. In accordance
with tho beat geographlo usage at home
and abroad, the namo of the river which Is
now on overy one's tongue should be spelled
"Klondike,"
The rule with regard to the letter O of
course applies in the case ot suoh names as
Chllkoot Pass and ChllkatPass, these spell
ings being the prescribed usage lb all our
official publications, though Just now, both
names aro being widely misspelled In the
newspaper press.
For about eight years tho orthographlo
rules adopted by tho leading geographical
societies have agreed in rejecting the pos
sessive case In many names. Baffin's Bay
and Hudson's Bay, for Instance, no longer
appear In geographical periodicals nor on
the best maps. Baffin Bay and Hudson
Bay Is the accepted usage. The rulo apply
ing to this matter, adopted by our Board on
Geographlo Names 1b: " Tho posaeaslvo form
should be avoided whenever It can be dono
without destroying the euphony of tho
name, or changing Its descriptive applica
tion." So "Cook Inlofand "St. Michael"
now appear In all our Government publica
tions, though "Cook's Inlet" and "St.
Michael's " aro still current In many news
papers. The rules adopted by the various sources
of geographical authority havo, within a
few years, greatly lessoned the confusion
due to various spellings of the same place
names. The evil Is by no means abolished
yet, but the tendency Is toward uniformity
In geographical orthography based upon
common sense principles.
Tho Outrage In Bronx Park.
At their meeting last Monday tho Park
Commissioners braced themselves to reply
to publlo condemnation of their mal
administration In connection with tho
Botanical Society and Bronx Pork.
Thereby they did at the loaat the service, of
showing with greator clearness and pre
cision their lack of fitness to be Park Com
missioners, for the function of considering
either matters Involving art or questions
of common sense and law. Their making
usoof an Intelligent discourse upon parks
published recently In QartUn and Forett,
with which, addressing tho Fine Arts Fed
eration, Commissioners McMillan, Cru
der, and Ely sought to credit them
selves with genuine knowledge and
sympathy with parks, was a minor fault.
Our neighbor, the Timet, ascribes this
plagiarism to Commissioner Cruoer, we
do not know on what authority. It was a
silly parade of false feathers, but possibly
well Intended. But their deliverance,
showed that they aro still as far from un
derstanding the issue which called the Fine.
Arts Federation to action as they were
before that body spoke.
" The Commissioners," say these Commis
sioners, " thoroughly appreciato the work
and purposo of tho Fine Arts Federation ot
New York, and for that reason all tho more
regret that Its council should have passed
resolutions condemning tho action of this
board, which were not In accordance with
the facta In the case." The Fine Arts Fed
eration, upon the understanding that
the Botanical Garden ought not to be
permitted needlessly to'"detract from tho
artistlo effect of tho surrounding land
scape," and that the Sargent committee re
ported the Botanical Society's plans so to
detract, specifying In what respects, re
solved that they "strongly deprecate the
action of the Pork Board In rejecting the
recommendation of their commission of ex
perts, to whom It had referred the plans for
mulated by the Board of Management of the
Botanical Garden." This was passed after
the Park Board had adopted the plan of the
Botanical Society, modified In accordance
with the views of the Sargent committee
to a slight extent only, without referring
this modified or new plan to that com
mittee again. Tho Park Board had no
ground for charging the Federation
either with Ignorance or disregard
of the facts. In accepting a part
only ef the advice of the experts,
the Park Board rejected their advice. In
adopting a new plan offered by tho Botan
ical Society without reference to these ex
perts, the Park Board went further than to
reject their advice ; It discharged them.
And so this costly and Important publlo
work, Instituted, In spite of Its promlso of
much that Is desirable of Its kind, at unde
niable sacrifice of much that tho public
regrets to lose, Is to be begun on a design
approved by threo untrained citizens
representing the city, without the
countersign of any expert student of
Its problems whose name Is a guaran
tee of qualification for criticism. Two
hundred and fifty acres of Bronx Park,
belonging to tho city of New York, are
being treated as an upstart who had
got rich over night would treat tho land he
was about to lay out for bis country place.
He would send for a gardener and
a road maker, and through their Info
rlor and unresisting assistance put upon
the ground the Imprint of his own fancies.
Park Commissioners McMillan, Cruder,
and Ely, together with the members of
the Botanical Society, are at liberty so
to make a place on their own ground,
but they are not at liberty to enter
tain themselves In that way with
publlo property. And wo aay freely
to the excellent gentlemen of tho Botani
cal Society who In truth enjoy some per
sonal relation to things higher than tho cru
dities of business, that the Botanical
Garden plan brought to the Park Depart
ment, and substantially adopted for tho
city to build on, smacks In Its preparation
more of the upstart than of the gentleman.
Mr. Ely happened to be the Commis
sioner to exhibit himself and colleagues as
without adequate understanding even of
the law under which this transaction Is
carried on. It Is woll to hive the whole
business shown up and understood. Com
missloner Ely, referring to the critics of
the Park Board, nald t
"From whet I reed I Infer that eomo friende of
thcer. gentlemen think that ths Perk Board ahould
compel tho Botanical Hoctetr tnuteea to put aalde
their carefully atudted plana and hare otaera pre
pared bjr tho Doeton ezperta. ThJe la unreaaonable.
The Board of Truiteea la charged with the cotutruo
tlon and permanent care of tho garden, and trill ha
held reepon-lhle for rrrora. I am unwilling- to relievo
them from that rreoonilblllty br forcing them to
adopt plana which they unanlntouily dliapprore."
Instead of tho Board of Trustees being
"charged with tho construction of tho gar
den," tho law establishing the Barae, ob
serving tho city's custom of having a
hand In managing Its own business,
declares that "the said Board of
Commissioners (Park Board) is hereby
authorized and directed to construct and
equip within the said ground so allotted
according to plans approved by them and
by said Board of Managers, u suitable build
ing," &c. And the Park Board has exclusive
jurisdiction as to " the laying out of tho
same" (the said grounds) and the "construc
tion of proper roads and walks." Doubtless
this lurking notion' that the Park Board's
. i , . "
part was half perfunctory led It law aban
doning its expert so cavalierly, and Into
turning on lta critics with tho silly retort
that in employing the experts originally It
" did not Buvronder tho right of final judg
ment." Of course It didn't. Under tho
law tho Park Board Is absolute. If It de
sires to display tho full extent of lta
authority It can plough up Central Park to
morrow and let experts and all lovers ot
tho town's decency and dignity go hang.
The trouble with Commissioner Ely, as
It was originally, in all probability, with
tho managers of the Botanical Garden, Is
this: Ho didn't know that the Park Commis
sion had tho final power and hence the final
duty to plan and build this garden. And
his Instinct as a publlo offloer didn't
tell him that, In arranging the control of
this half-public, half-private enterprise, no
city government or no legislature would
think of loavlng the publlo rights and In
terest In It uncared for and unprotected.
Bight under Mr. Ely's noso was a thon
timely and now very Illuminating opinion
of tho Counsel to the Corporation, Mr.
Turner, acting In Mr. Scott's absence,
given to remove the doubt which hod arisen
as to where tho powers and responsibilities
In the Botanical Garden finally rested :
"The point upon whloh sdrtoa la desired la as to
whether or not It la alio the duty of tho Oommlealoa
era to paaa upon tho location or each buUdtnge, and
generally upon the laying out of the grounda at a
place of publlo reaort. The query la aleo made aa to
whether It would be your duly to eiolade any build
Inge whloh you conalder unneoeeaarv for ths oars
and culture ot tender or other planta, or which yon
might deem uneullable to be trtoted oa publlo
grounda.
" It la ths obrtoua Intention of toll act to leave to ths
Park Gommlatloners auoh authority with raf erenos to
both grounda and buildings aa may be neoeaaary to
preierrs harmony between both. Thua It will be
noted that It la for the Commlaatonera to est apart
and appropriate upon auoh condition! ai ths board
may deem expedient ths portion of ths park In
queitlon. It la for them to oonetruct and equip
within ths grounda allotted according to plana
approred by them the aultabls fireproof building
for the purpoie Indicated aa well aa other eult
able buildings for ths oars and culture ot tender or
other planta, lndlgenoua or exotlo. ths only limitation
on luih powsr being that the plana ahall be approred
by the Board of Manage re and by the latter amo
tion not only la jnrlidlctlon reserved to them
orer the grounda after completion ot ths work
tor polios purpoaea and for maintenance of proper
roada and walks, which la Intended by the
act to bs permanent, but the aultabls laying
out of auch grounds and ths oonitructlon of
auch roam end walka la wholly left to ths judgment
of your board In the tint Initanoe. Thla construction
aeema to be within the atrlct letter ot ths statute Itaslt,
but STen If there were a doubt, that doubt of necessity
would hare to be raolred In f aror of ths Park Com
mlasloners or otherwise ths harmonious relation of
the grounda devoted to thta ipeolflo pnrpoas with ths
rest of the park aa laid out and developed by your
board might be Interrupted.
' It la clear, that without your approval such build
ings could not be erected."
The same conflict was raised not long ago
In connection with another Institution In
which one of tho garden trustees was also
prominent, namely, tho Natural History
Museum. Tho trustees of the museum hod
a power not possessed by the Botanical
Society trustees. Inasmuch that'they could
appoint an architect and prepare plans,
and tho Issue that arose was Identical In
its nature. Yet no sane lawyer will dis
pute the soundness of the opinion of Cor
poration Counsel Clark, given to meet the
situation, this extract explaining Itself:
"Ths power of the trustees to select the architect
does not In any way limit the power ot the Park
Board to criticise the plana aubsequently submitted,
and to reject them In case they deem It beet to do ao.
There Is no limitation upon the Park Departments
power ot veto.
"Ae between the Park Department and ths tnuteea.
It was the Intention of the Legislature sa evldenoed
by the act In question and tho act originally establish
ing ths mnaeum, that the former ahall be ths final
arbiter of plans for adding to ths museum build
ing, and that the business ot designing and ereotlng
tola particular municipal building sbsll remain eub
Ject to the control of the clty'a official reprrsentaUvea.
"The Park Commissioners are Hill responsible for
the building In every respect."
Responsibility for tho construction of tho
garden is not upon the gentlemen of the
Botanical Society, but upon the officers of
the city Intrusted with It, the Pork Com
mission. And what does Commissioner
Ely mean by talking of his unwillingness
to relieve the trustees of their Imaginary
responsibility "by forcing them to adopt
plans which they unanimously disap
prove r What docs he know of such dis
approval t Has he before him any resolution
by the trustees that they do not like certain
plans, or that they would not accept certain
plans! We Imagine not. He Is talking In
the air. And, moreover, we must still re
frain from thinking that the private citi
zens concerned In promoting tho Botanical
Garden would, when they consider the mat
ter seriously and soberly, undertake their
share In a spirit of antagonism to any plans
which the representatives of the city should
conclude would do the least damage to the
land as a public place, or best keep It In
harmony with the standard desired for the
city's publlo parks. Thero Is more in this
affair than the Botanical Garden.
Can They Be Allies?
The question has been raised, whether the
Governments of Madrid and Toklo, In cer
tain contingencies, might not join forces
actively against the United States.
Wo cannot see that such a combination,
If formed, would accomplish tho purposes
of either nation, or would prevent our
country from carrying out Its own policy In
regard to Cuba and Hawaii. But the alli
ance itself Is Inconceivable.
Spain, Indeed, In her present despera
tion, might welcome, an Oriental ally, In
lack of a European, forretrlevlng her fallen
fortunes In the Antilles. But what ad
vantage could Japan expect from such a
coalition! What has eho to gain which
Spain could assist her In achieving!
She disclaims any purpose of annexing
Hawaii, and even If she had auch a pur
pose, Spain's cooperation In getting It
would be too Inefficient, and would cost too
much In tho quid pro quo tor her to think
of asking it,
Japan Is too wise to couple her Interests
with thoso of Spain. The latter passed the
zenith of her power as a controlling ele
ment In tho world's affairs centuries ago,
whereos Japan has yet to reach her climax,
A rising empire might well hesitate
to link Its fortunes with those of a decadent
kingdom. Japan till now has found a
warm friend In tho United States, her
earliest friend, Indeed, among tho
Western powers, and when the Ha
waiian affair has been arranged she
will again so regard her. Tho difference,
as to attitude toward her, between our
country and Russia, England, and France,
who aro her neighbors and rivals Jn Asia,
must bo apparent, and she knows that we
havo no designs upon her territory.
With Spain, ou tho other hand, Japan
has no natural affiliations, nor does she see
in her any promise whatover. In fact,
thero Is far more ground for jealousy
and suspicion on Spain's part thon on
ours. Tho next Islands beyond Formosa
are the Philippines, and Japan's acquisition
of tho former produced for tho time a scare,
or at least a crop of excited rumors, as to her
moving ot southward against the Spanish
colonies. We distinctly recall the putting In
circulation of charges, which seem to hare
had no basis, that Japan had either insti
gated or aided the current rebellion in the
Philippines.
In short, the speculation that Japan's
dissatisfaction with our treaty for annex
ing Hawaii might lead her to join forces
with Spain, should tho latter bo fool
ish enough to attack us, Beoms wholly
fanciful. If Japan Is a believer In
the manifest destiny of nations, as
her laid Inspiring experience may well
lncllno her to be, she will recognize the
more easily, from sympathy, that It Is our
destiny to make Hawaii our Pacific out
post, and Spain's destiny to relinquish her
last foothold in the New World.
Hot to Help tho Now Tariff.
The now Tariff bill, as finally agreed
upon by tho conference committee and
passed by Congress, prohibits travellers
from bringing Into the United States, duty
free, more than $100 worth of wearing np
parel and personal effects purchased abroad.
This chango In tho law will work a de
cided alteration in tho duties of tho Custom
House Inspectors whoso function It Is to
examine the baggage of Incoming possen-.
gers on tho transatlantic steamship lines.
Hitherto they have had only to ascertain
whether a passenger's wearing apparel and
personal effects were really such, and not
merchandise, and whether the quantity
and value could bo deemed suitable to his
occupation and station In life. If bo, tho
goods were passed, although they repre
sented hundreds or even thousands of dol
lars In value. It was the exception when
anything dutiable was discovered.
Now, howover, a large majority of those
who return during tho season of crowded
travel will bring more than enough per
sona) effects to exceed the $100 limit of
the free list. Most passengers will, there
fore, have to pay some duty. The revenue
officers can make the paymont of this duty
difficult or easy.
Provision should be mado for tho conven
ient and speedy adjustment and payment
of all duties upon the wearing apparel and
personal effects of passengers upon tho
wharf where their baggago Is examined, bo
that they can take all auch property away
with them without any anney ing detention
or delay. As the payment of duty upon
property of this kind is now to bo tho rule
Instead of the exception, It should bo facili
tated by the authorities of the Treasury
Department, who, by tho exercise of a llttlo
common sense and tact In this matter, can
prevent a good deol of dissatisfaction and
exasperation which might otherwise arise
out of tho operation of the tariff In Its appli
cation to Americans returning from abroad.
The Mugwump papers are egging on tho
Citizens' Union out of a pure splto against the
Republican party which they do not attempt to
conceal. Ono of the examples of yellow Journal
Ism is patronizing Low as a " Rood man." The
other Is eorrlng the Interests of Tammany Tiall
and Bryanlsm by lending all tho assistance It
can to his frantic efforts to got nominated. Tho
Goo Goos despise Low, but they aro trying lo
help him along with a view to making mischief.
It Is a curious combination ot heterogeneous
elements, but It Is inspired by a common hatred
of tho Republican party and a common desire
for the success of Tammany Hall.
Ohio Is to be aroused and shaken from
centre to circumference and pit to dome next
fall. There Is to be a Popocratlo camp meeting
at Springfield. The happiness In store for that
town Is due probably to the fact that Qovernor
BusinfKLL Urea there. The camp moetlng
Is Intended to frighten him as well as
to startle the State. Brown ot Cincin
nati has been In consultation with Jones
of Arkansas and Washington about the
details of ths stupendous demonstration. Tho
present plan Is to have It Inst n week, but ns
one of tho orators on the programmo Is the Hon.
WrLUAM Vincext Allen of Nebraska, tho
show cannot be concluded In less than threo
months and twenty-one days. It takes Mr.
Allen at least a week to get fairly Btarted In
his Introductory remarks. Other men of memor
able namo and power aro to bo proscnt. Tho
lion. Jaues K. Jones of Arkansas himself will
be in full eruption; and a full eruption of htm
Is no one-day's Job. The Hon. Mahiov Botleii,
the dearest foo of tho Hon. Tom Watson, will
spread himself over the occasion, and fow men
are capable of being spread thinner. Governor
Bon Taylor, tho fiddler statesman, will give
one of his Tennessee political entertainments.
The Hon. William J adderwoce Stone, former
ly Qovernor of Missouri and still a master
of the conglomerate style of metaphor,
will harpoon tho cormorant corporations which
are slowly drinking ths llfoblood ot " tho toiling
masses" with their poisoned tentacles, and he
will pursue the octopus to Its lair and thrust a
silver sword Into Its golden gills and plutocratto
and envenomed breath. " Probably Mr. Brtan
will be there," but Mr. Rrtan may bo wise
enough to avoid tho excessive competition to
which be would be exposed.
Assuredly the recent gush of our Tories
In London has placed old Sulnt Swithin undor
tho delusion that wo aro all English now, and
the result Is that we aro drenihcd by rains and
blinded by fogs that turn all our peaceably dis
posed mosquitoes into hostllo hosts, howling for
blood. But the saint's views of equal benefits
and burdens are too radically British. Under
his administration we get all tho rain and tho
other fellows get no mosquitoes. This makes a
great many citizens come to the conclusion that
old Bwrrnw's claim to tho right of Interfering
with tho wenther hereabouts will not hold
water. He should be sent back to his own coun
try as an undesirable Immigrant. His Influence
with the disturbers of our rest Is pernicious and
loudly manifest, especially after sunset.
Indianapolis has a poor opinion of tho Federal
Judiciary. Judge Suowaltcb has reaffirmed hla rul
ing that the threeent street car fare Is unconatltu
tlonal Frankfort LYetoenl.
It was to be expected that the calm philoso
phers of tho Bryanito school In Indianapolis
would rage at a Judgo who Is witling that an
accursed corporation should not bo compelled to
give them a ride for three cents. What could bo
more high-banded than such a decision I It Is
believed that tho Hon. BrjaAnooQAUZEof tho
mffartopolfs Sentinel will demand that Judge
Siiowalter be Impeached. Meanwhile the In
dianapolis Domocrats have begun thotr munic
ipal campaign on a Socialist platform, and Mr.
Qauzb Is calling for cheap gas with a vigor
whloh shows. If anything wore needed to show,
that he foars no rivalry.
Many theories of many men havo been
put forth for the purpose of explaining why the
roln It lulnoth every day. The truo cause of
these continuing aspersions has boen found.
Nnturally It has been found In Massachusetts, a
colony of Inquisitors of the mind. Htuilontsof
greatness in this town havo not forgotton tho
Hon. Tim Coakley of Boston, who spoito at n
Brjan mooting in Tmnmany Hall lust jcar.
Thoso who know Mr. Coaki.kv either stayed
away from that mooting or went to It In fear
and mackintoshes. They knew him as a mag
nctlo orator who is sure to cnuso electrical dis
turbances. They knew him as a man of loan
and thundor, whoso affocting speech has never
yet failed to mako all Nature blubber. They
knew him as u flaming tribune, upon whom tho
cloudo distil showers whenever his tern
peraf ru shows that It Is time to put
him out. Woll, tills accomplished rain
water speaker spoke at this Tammany out-i
pouring ar.d brought on a tempest of rain. A
rain not ot cats and dogs, but of whales and
lephc at. The Irrigation Congress at once en-i
fcd Mr. Oo AKlsrr to make MS secJie, and no
territory which he visited escaped rain. He la In
Boston again, making speechw whloh are Justly
desorlbed as brilliant. They catch Ore and down
comes the water. Down it will come as long as
Mr. Coakley Is at the plcnlo or on the stump.
Some persons profess to be grlovod by the seem
ing excess ot rain, but nobody can complain that
there is too much ot Tim Coakley,
It Is reported from Topokn that tho Hon.
Wen MoNall, tho distinguished Superintend
ent of Insurance In Kansas, Is bound to have ths
Eastern Ufa and fire Insurance companies In
vestigated from top to bottom. He wants to dis
satisfy himself that their financial condition l
good. Mr. MoNall Is the thinker who refused
to allow three great life Insurance companies
of the East to do business In Kansas. They had
been guilty of declining to pay what they be
lieved to bo a fraudulent claim, a claim about
which Juries havo disagreed, although Mr. Mo
Nall la positive. The courts havo not held the
same high view ot his power to ourb tho Insur
ance companies ns he holds, but he keeps on his
way, undaunted and unabated. Ho objects to
having so much Kansas money go out, of the
State as premiums, an objoctlon which might be
removed If Kansas policyholders wero patrlotlo
enough not to llvo so long. Probably the real
avorston of this eminent man to the Eastern
llfo Insurance companies Is that they are crea
tures of the Money Powor, a thing which ho can
not abide. Kansas In general appears to be be
coming very well reconciled to It.
In every Presidential election from 1800,
the first In which the Republican party, as such,
encaged, until that of last year, the city of Now
York gave a Democratlo majority, a consider
able share ot the credit for that result being due
to the superior organization ot Tammany Hall.
The Democratlo national ticket, with Tammany
Hall supporting It, has never, until last year,
been dofeated in New York, and a powerful
causo ot that roverso was ths growth In Influ
ence and eOlcIoncy of the Republican organiza
tion, which has now an enrolled membership of
more than 60,000 In this city. In the Twenty
seventh Assembly district. In ono ot the election
districts, at the last election, tho Bryan vote
was 2. In another It was 4, while in tho Twenty
ninth Assembly district the Bryan vote in one
election district was 0. Tho fact Is that tho
Republican organization in the city has been
making rapid Inroads since Tammany ceased to
be a conservative and became a radical and dis
sentient political organization.
The strongest political organization In Now
York city to-day is the organization of the Re
publican party.
Itudrard Klpllaa.
To rn Editob or Tub Sox Sir: Oblige a sub
scriber by answering this queitloni
" On the way to llandalay.
Where the flying tubes play.
And the dawn oomes up like thunder, fto."
The above Is a quotation from Budyard Kipling.
Please tell me what ho means by the dawn coming up
like thunder. K. S. F.
North Middlxtowk, Ky,
Ourvlowot this Is that Mr, Kipling means
Just what he says, namely, that "the dawn
comes up like thunder." While we speak of Mr.
Kipling It Is Interesting to notice that in his last
flfty-rallo-an-hour story, published In Scr6ner',
In which we are mado acquainted with the Loco
motive Jungle, the only touch of Mr. Kipling's
foreign nationality Is his mention of "iced
water." To find an obsorrer of his extraordi
nary geniuB thus mlfslng an American habit of
speech and misquoting the motto of every hotel
Ice pitcher is more remarkable even than tho
story Itself.
The Colored Man In Politic.
To tnx Editor of Tbi Str Sir: The Republican
party la alienating the colored vote; many colored
American! have long questioned tho partya consist
ency as to principles that are primarily dear to them:
they concede the honeity ot many of lta adberenta.
Tho late delegating by certain Influential parties ot
certain Individuals to go South and confer with
white bouthemers to the end of their support
ing a Republican candidate for the Presidency,
on the condition that the negro be relegated,
even more than he haa been, to the rear, with
the policy, which up to tLe preeent haa marked
the Administration, haa created Increased In
dignation and more dlitruit. The queitlon with many
colored otrrsu. what is to be done!' They leo that
thecontrrlllng contlJeratlon with parties to-day la
the personal liferent of It! leaden, more than prin
ciple. They are ronnlderlng. would It be wiietoact
In the IlKht of thli fact to the end of enjoying an In
creased amount of due consideration. Ilaj It been
for years wine to adhere blindly to the Republican
party? If the colored vote henceforth ahall serve
the white south and It! loaI Interest, aa devot
edly at It has the Republican party, will not
that white South be more comltuut In Us treatment
of the colored people than the Republican party baa
been since the Union haa been assured? There U a
close alliance In Interest twtwoen the white and
Mack in the South. May not all parties be Induced to
be more considerate aa to thla black force? The Re
publican party hai before It a rough road, much to
encounter. )our columna are sought because they
are so widely penned by white and black voters.
. . X Black ISDrrxxnxirr.
NlW YOBK, July 24, 1887.
The netsttnr Engineers and Bishop Patter.
To tub Editor or Tnx Sot sir : In Tmt Sen of last
Friday I find an editorial headed, "X Question Asked
ot Ulshop Potter." I wish to Inform you that the
" United Portable Ilolstlng Engineers," which I have
the honor of representing In the Beard ot Delegates,
have not asked the Bishop any such question.
The fact Is that at a meeting of tba board on last
Wednesday I lntroduoed the question you quote for
Iti consideration. You say It la a " new problem for
religious discussion." I brought the matter up, be
lieving It In be a question far wage-workers to decide
Theologlana have any number of old problems on
their hauds that are yet unsolved.
The Ulthop hai been selected as an arbitrator be
tween unions and employers on a few oocaslona
where he wa not directly Interested.
The fact that the work performed on his cathedral
tip to the present time Is nonunion proves that tho
ulshop Ii not prejudiced against employers. What
he may do when we ask him to use hit Influence to
leo that none but union men are employed on tho
new catbe Ira) time alone will tell.
As I am more familiar with the monkey-wrench
than with the pen. 1 am not Jit to criticise an editorial
In Tub Sex, but I wish to say that, tf opposition to
" cruel oonietlt!on " is. according toyourconcltislnu,
"indefensible tinder the law and the apirit of the
teachings of Jesus" the people that build cathedrals
and support nou producers are not acquainted with
the fact When the Abolitionist! opposed human
slavery they had to answer the same clasa of argu
ments that are now being used agalust labor organisa
tions In their eirorta to destroy wage slavery,
Pbtbr (iiBnoxs, Delegate Ilolstlng Engineers.
Nbw Yobx, July Stl.
Taxing tbVMIner.
To tot Editor or Tub Scn-SIr; In regsrd to ths
report thst the Canadian Government will demand
royalties from Klondike miners. It Is very probable
that Mr. Fielding, Canadian Minister ot Finance, will
apply the same rule to this business aa he had In
operation when he was l'remlor of Nova Scotia, and
which still prevails thero to exact a royalty of D per
e-nt. on all itold or coal mined
The rule In tho Canad au provinces la to leave the
control of mlhcs and minerals lo each aeparate pro
vlmlal (lovcrnmeni, but a! there It no provincial
tlo erument over Klondike, It being almply part of a
Territory, the matter will corns uuder the Jurisdic
tion of the Federal ilm erument at Ottawa, to Is en
forced by Uov. Mackintosh of tho Northwest Terri
tories, wlih Hip aid of the Northwest Mounted Police
Tho milling laws of .Nova Scotia have been round to
work cvcellentlj.anil In r turn for the reyalty ex
acted tho miners are ghen absoliito protection In
jmsaeaslou of thelrrlalma (forthe surrey of whloh a
small fen Is also charKed). besides regular Inspection
by qualified oITU lals to guard against accidents. c
KsBriTK Htiiext. j y,'
Telephone filrla and Subscribers.
To tub Editor or tub Sok sir: I agree with
"Fair Play" that the telephone girl hai a hard time of
It. But so do the subsiTlteni. For Instance), when
one has a number of people to "call up" on the tele
phone, and as soon aa hu la finished with one ring! off
aud calls Central for another uuraber.lt Is most try
lag to hat nine first party a iswer every ring for sev
eral minutes, slmv. In t that your "ring off" has l.i en
il srrimnled by central, and you aro not only wasilnc
your own time, hut bothering tho parly run ure
through lalMiiunlt I Thli fullurn todlnotmeit lto
in mind line of tho long surfcrlug Cintral's grnal.st
faults It Is ursine, too. for every few seconds rtur
lug the conversation she la apt toluterrupt with the
luiiulry, "Ani you through?" F
Hut my heartfelt sympathy, and my a-lmlratlon.
.SnVJiui V!"10""' I'""f ""'I Klrli who .lt.ill.lsv
long with their cars glued to tho telephono an 1 have.
"! "'.' ' '" V "I- nerve taxing occ upatlon
Nxw York, July Kd, 1H07. -"i """'r
Columbia.
To tub Fditor or TUB Bux .sir ; I have read the
letters of " George V.J.swreute, '01," "Twiuty Years
Ago,' and "Alumnus," complaining about heth I.uw
as l'reildent of Columbia One saya ho Is iiudlo. re,
another Hut ho apiolula mtdlocre men prof, aaura,
tueolberthathels-imugl" Hut I would like, to auk
If there are any more ilolightf ul short sturh a lu Vur
Jier .Viiuutlne than those written by Prof Matthews?
whether there was ever a mure p.x Heal address de
livered on dialect than thatdollwml 1.) Prof. Price?
aud whether any collrgo President has over tltcn
moro than H.OOO.uuu to Lulld a library for arol-
'&' ., . ASUTUSB AWaUJOi, 'U7.
FaxwooD, U. J.
CHOKKX A1TD TJLMXAHY HAZU
Tho Badleai Cfeaaga In the reeling r Tarn.
many Taward Its Former lender.
To tim Editor or Tna Son Sir: Your re
marks to-day upon Mr. Croker and Tammany
Hall are to tho point and Just. Yott hat u left
unmentloned, howover, certain facts well knon n
to thoso Intlmato with that organization, nhtch
aro Important In viow of Mr. Crokor's reported
Intention of returning to New York In tho course
of a fow weeks.
The fcollng of tho Tammany rank nnd flic, and
even of tho district leaders, toward Mr. Croker
has changed totally during tho last two years.
It was not possible that he could abandon New
York and substantially expatriate himself with
out overstraining tho loyalty of the organiza
tion to him. Tho Idea of bavlngTammsny man
aged from London Is repulsive to Its devoted
members, and thoro are many auch. It is not
merely that tho country to which" Mr. Croker
has chosen to remove himself is not held In affec
tion by them, but that. In full health and the
primp of llfo and strength, ho, tholr lender,
should have desertod It at a tlmo ulicn
it was under trial and In humiliation.
llo did not loave thom In tholr prospirlty,
but In tholr adversity. Ho was tiroxpe
ous, but tliey wtro bankrupted politically.
Tammany Hall had boen driven from power and
was poor. Ho .was rich, and Tammany hnd
brought to him his w wilth, or. moro strict fy. hnd
helped him to tho opportunities which had given
him wealth. Yet ho turnod tho cold shoulder
oa. ?'i.'r'.0.nda anJ wcnt to London to hobnob
with Englishmen.
The Tammany people, to tmt it In short, look
on Illchard Croker ns n deserter, and a deserter
In tho very face of tho emmy. His running
away from the Ore of tho last campaign was
especially exasperating to them. When they
most needed bolp ha left them to tako euro of
themselves, to be reviled and to be dofoiitod.
Mr. Crokcr's business nssoclRt Ions with Whit
ney, Crlmmins, nnd other gold Democrats of tho
rich corporations nro also obnoxious to tho great
majority of the Tammany t oters. Ho Is hand
and glove with a crowd which reprosonts overj
thing against which they fought last year, nnd
which they still distrust and opposo. Their war
cry is " Down with trusts and monopolies," j ot ho
Is confederated Willi tho "monoy Dower." It is
"Municipal ownership of franchises." yet ho
represents tho very corporations ngaiiiBt which
thoy want to fight. When, then, tho report is
circulated that Mr. Croker Is coming buck to
take charge of tho Tammany campaign, tlio
feeling arousod in Its rank and file Is bitter; la
plain words, it Is ugly. They look upon such a
suggestion as impertinent to tho last degree
" How can Croker oxpeet us to follow him after
his desertion of us mat year I " Is tho question
they are asking each other angrily.
I agTco with you, accordingly, that Mr. Croker
can havo no Intention of visiting New York thli
foal for tho purpose of undertaking to mcddlo In
tho Tammany campaign. If ho comes bnck, t
feol confident. It will bo for n short visit only,
and that he will return to Englnnd, ns he did lhso
year, too cnrly to bo nblo to vote at tho election.
I do not bollet oho would risk an encounter with
the feeling of animosity against him as nn In
gram and a deserter now prevailing so un
questionably In Tnmmanv Hall.
hiw York. July 28. Foorteexth Street.
TOOK jL HAT1I XX THE CAPITOL.
The Coventor er Ilanias Promised: si Conatltn
ent Wash, nnd Ue Called to CSet It.
from the Toptka Slate Journal.
"Where Is tho Governor I" timidly Inquired a
venerable-looking man, as ha wnlkcil into tho
executive olfice Saturday afternoon and, wllb
his hat In his hand, approached tho desk occu
pied by Major A. P. Shrove.
"The Governor has gono home to spend Sun
day," replied tho Major, scarcely looking up
from the writing which ho was doing.
"That's too bad," remarked tho visitor, walk
ing uneasily about tho office.
Tho etrango visitor did not make his wishes
known, but continued staring vacantly nt tho
pictures on the wall.
Finally the visitor approached Major Shrovo'e
desk and said:
" You know the Governor, don't tou J '
"Well, I guess I do." unswerod Major Shreve.
Sc s a great fellow."
"es; a very clcrcr man," rejoined thoMaJor.
Know about the fat or be offered me t" asked
tho visitor.
"No, I don't." was tho answer.
The old man then occupied ton minutes in a
baltlng.disconncctcd announcement of the f.ico I
that when the Governor recently tlsltcrt his sec
tion of the Stale, the conversation turning upo i
bathtubs, thn old man hnd been promised u, bata j
In the Governor's office.
.."Well, well!" exclaimed Major Shreve.
"We vo got tho bathtubs."
" Is that possible 1"
" I'll show 'em to you." slid Shrevo.
Ho opened tho door leading lo tho bathroom
nnd told his isltor to go in nnd k'O lo work. 1 ha
old fellow tiptoed in on tho tiled floor, looked
around In a dazed sort of way for so mo time,
asked how to lock nnd unlock the door, nnd
finally announced his readiness to tackle the job.
Major Shrevo retired and for half on hour
llBloned to sounds resembling tho roar of Niag
ara emerging from the room.
At tho cud of that time tho old man again
made his appearance, having completed wins
ho himself Bald was "the first bath I have had
for years. Thafa mighty fine in there, ain't
It I ho said. "Well, I do declare, I netcr
thought thero was really a bathtub in the office,
but Its a great thing, ain't it 1"
As Major Shrove resumed his work the old
man, with his cheeks aglow, ambled out of the
office and s tld :
.."Give my regards to the Governor, nnd tell
him tbatlcamo and got the hath he promised
me.
Kittens In the Church Orsnan.
From the Pttteourg Mipalck.
The more dovout of tho parishioners of St.
Mary's Catholic Church. Forty-sixth street,
Lanrencevlllc, who attended vespers on Sunday
evening, had a special musical treat In store for
them.
As Mrs. Charles Mitchell, tbo organist, took
her scat at the organ and began to piny one ot
the vcaperol psalms, a strange quartet respond- I
ed, not in tho solemn str.iiiiBof the Gregorian I
chant, but "Mew, mew, mew."
Tho whole choir wero dumfounded. There
wero no feline musicians in sight, still the mew
ing kept time to tho strains of the organ. In i
few minutes a largo tat crawled out from !.
neath tho pedals of the organ, much to tho dis
may of the organist, as she had her foot on tho
poanls at the tlmo. and the glaring lire in tho
eyes of the ferocious feline mother in a way e
pl nlncd who tho new musicians were.
Howover. no effort was made to find them
until aftor vespore, but then a soarch was mado
under the direction of Father Tobln. Deep In
the bowels of tho organ wero found four llttlo
kittens about two hours old. Thev could nne
hao been any older, as they wore surely noo
thoro while high nines was sung and ployed la
tho morning. The mother was allowed ton
turn to her young, who wero not disturbed, ns
they wero very comfortably quartered In ths
new $1,&00 organ.
Uathertog Prrrume from Living Plants.
lYom the nttiburg Ditpateh.
Carjt.Smco has discovered n mothod of gather
ing tbo scent of (lowers as the plant is growing.
He takes a glass funnel and hralt the thin mi
o era spirit lamp. Ho then draws out tin uttm
too Uno point. This accomplished, the funml
is filled with Ice and plmed on n retoil utaiul.
the pointed end being placed In a ninill glass
bottle, without touching it. Aftirthls the stun I
and the funnel are plat el in a greenhouse lunumr
the flowers whose odors it Is dcslnd Incollnt.
Gradually the tapor rites from tho How erf. ami.
In meeting tbo colder surface of the funnel, con
denses Into drops ou I ho outside of IIiokIo.-.
From tho point ot condensation It trickles !c
until It drops into thn Ixjltlo. In iiHUrtirisim,
short time n laruo amount of porfumo In ol- 1
lected.nnd It Isiliiiinnil that 110 per rent, of tho
contents of tlio botilo Is pcrfuuio; the n -t is
water. Strange tnmiy. thlscssriuoof the (lower
needs to lie adulterated with spirits of ulna.
Otherwise it would become sour and listless.
llronned Inn Post Hole. J
Prom the Chioago Journal,
Irvine Alberdmg, a soven-year old boy, who
lhcil with his parents at Harrington, w is
drowned In u post hulu jestordu) afternoon an 1
hhihoili wrb not dlstntcrod until n search ul
eeorul hours had Iicen inailo by anxious fritmls.
An I'lvctrlo lighting (oniiian) hnd been renin,'
poles during tlio da) , nnd ono of tho largo hull s
una left uncotcrod. It Is thought tho lad ti I
Into tlio bolo and was drowned In tho wai r,
which iJiuost llllod It, before he could make uny
outcry for help.
Well, Old It Italn Yesterday!
from Yeterday Tribune.
Finally, an 1 most totho There li no doubt t'ist
present point, Bt Bwlth- St. Bwlthln Is pruvlim h s
In's Day this year waa not right to his name f
rainy. It was one of tho rainy day prc !'
most con.plcuoudy rain- rained ou hli lai U
less doyi of this whole 1Mb, and It bus p.m. '1
year, every day iluce
The lood nan's tlrnaonablc Itequest
From the Diilctri'llle Hixitv
The Rev. A J McClanahan requests us to ti h
hoi afflicted with tho meaalos, and iloln f - -able
to all parties concerned, to postponi n
tracted meeting which wai announced firii i '
buu lay In July,
llendy to Compromise.
From the ChUaao Foil
"Thli It too much!" he rxclalimd when I - fit
appeared In her uew bathing suit for his lu-i " "
"Uoyou think ao?" she asked. " Well, 1 1 lake efl
six Inchea mors of the skirt."