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In the Dresent state of knowledge con cerning the disaster at Ladysmith and the present desperate situation of the British garrison, every lover of fair plaj and jus tice should protest against a tc'ilenc), which seems to mark professional criti cisms in London, to make a scapegoat of Sir George Stewart White He may b- in ded, blamablc for sending the fated ''itsil-ler-. Gloucesters, and the mojntain battery into n Boer trap. The full tustorv of the affair may prove that he committed a frightful blunder in so doing But, on the other hand, it Is bv no means certain that his action was not dictated bj what ap peared to be an obvious necessity. To say the least, his chivalric acceptance of the whole blame entitles him to tinmunit) from nersonal attack until he can full) lev left and explain his tactical reasons fo" acting as he did Whatever ie ma) be taken of the in cident it must be re"ognizd that the gen eral responsibility for the lmpossille Brit ish campaign on the Natal front! -r rests with the government. Political considera tions influenced the establishment o' a weal, lire of defence forty mile.- Io-is and extendi-:? all the va) from Ladysmith to Dundee, the latter paint being defended b) a ndici,lei.s.y small force of 4 O.'fc n cu lo prcte-t" the neighboring ccal fields We need not stop to consider the reijlts of that foil) since the n.o lights at Du'i ca followcd by General lule's clcve- refcat I crnment is bent Lpon effecting an arrange have full) infdrmed us on the point It ' ment, to include Russia, German), Italy, all comes back to this that the a.tioii ties in Loudon are soakel in blool-g i ti iitss for not being prepared far a struggle which they and the whole worId know to be inevitable and imminent We read the expert criticisms or militarv men in London with much interest and some astonishment. Naturall) they differ broad!) as to causes, effects, and possibll'- ties This Is a matter of course since cone i of their opinions appear to be based upon I sound knowledge of the vital conditions to which the British general has been or l expoed All of them, as far as we can see ignore a factor which to our mind is a dominating one In the situation, and tnat is the p?cullar difficulty of defending I.ad) smltb with a force materiall) inferior to that of the enem). The rule, which as sumes an advantage to troops operating on interior lines and behind entrenchments, is but sllghtl), and we think not at all, appli cable to the case of Ladysmith That place Itself is not to be regarded as defensible by such a bodr as Sir George White com mands, without heavy guns, and outnum bered two to one at least. The topography of the position and its surroundings would seem to negative any such idea. Ladysmith occupies a flat on the Klip River' It Is surrounded by broken country. Detached Kopjes flank It, and these, in the circum stances, represent the means of defence. It is also dominated b) ridges from which the town Is at the mercy of guns of long range. Under such conditions it must be apparent that the British commander cannot retire within fortifications and merely depend on his abllit) to repulse direct assaults He has no fortifications If he had, he is with out guns capable of reaching tha positions from which he would be bombarded. His tactics are rendered mandatory by his situ ation, he cannot choose alternatives; he Is confined to one simple, desperate, and, we fear, hopeless line of action. He must keep his whole command ceaselessly under arms mobile and alert. He mustdivide it be tween the covering points, and concentrate in directions of attack. We believe that these tactics, which seem to be Sir George White's sole dependence, will fail, should he elect or be compelled to fight it out, refusing or being unable to retreat. We have seen enough of Joubert's strategy and tactics to be convinced that it would not be many days before a part or the whole of White's command would be cut off from the Ladysmith camp, and forced to suffer annihilation or capture. All the supplies are at Ladysmith. The enemy has an army large enough, with adequate artillery, to strike White on front, flanks, and rear simultaneously; at each point In numbers sufficient to compel the engage ment of his whole force. He would not be able to hold out long against such condi tions. In the course of a week or so, it no actual disaster befell in the meantime, his command would be worn out and de moralized by sheer fatigue. Still, such Is the pluck, morale, and de motion of the British army, we must admit a possibility that, favored by the acci dents of war. Sir George White might fight the Boers off until the arrival of help, or until a diversion in some other direction operated to raise the siege. But, arguing; only on the basis of probabilities, suggest ed by the facts of the situation as they have developed, a successful defence At Lad) smith does not seem to be -a reason able expectation. This view- is a revision of an opinion formed on a misunderstanding of the natural defenshe possibilities of the Ladysmith position. It was assumed that a place selected for the heart of the British resistance to the Boer Invasion would be one not difficult of fortification, and would be supplied with long range ar tillery. What information has come to hand since the opening of the war is of a character to dispel all such ideas. The next consideration, and It Is one which Is agitating England, is the ability or otherwise, of Sir George White to effect a retreat. Telegraphic communication iUi the front is cut off. This would Indicate that Joubert has succeeded in getting in the British rear. The movement of the Free State forces in that direction from Dew drop, southwest of Lad) smith, noted yesterday, was In progress at latest sd iccs and may have been accomplished. By a short detour, by wa) of Onderbroek, I 'ne enemy cculd probably strike the : ail- way at or near Colenso without encounter ing resistance. Assuming that the gate has not been shut upon the garrison, opinions differ as to the feasibility of a retreat. One English critic thinks that Sir George White might retire to Colenso taking po sition behind the Tugelo Rier, and offer effective opposition to the enemy's advance toward Pietermarltzburg; but at Colenso he would be open to attack in flank, since the river is fordable both to the east and west, and the south bank Is not regarded as furnishing defensible positions A movement of retreat would involve abandonment of supplies, the heavier ar tillery, wounded, and prisoners, and in view of tfio s present disposition of the enemy's forces, TOuld not be effected with-" -out continued" harassment on flanks and rear. It Is even probable that now it would be only feasible after an encounter with and the defeat of a strong Boer or Free State force In the wa). There is no room for doubt that the pocsib'lity of an evacuation has been carefully considered and provided for in General Joubert's p'an of investment. It is even not improbable that the Transvaal commander has been pla)irjg to promote such a result, wi;b the Idea that it would afford him his most fa vorable opportunity to give his gal ant an tagonist the coup de grace. Anterli-n for KnLrJniiil. The French Government and people ap pear to be engaged at the present time in affording the world renewed evidences of political paresis and national decadence. Hatred of Great Britain, and of the whole Anglo-Saxon race Is intense enough In France to blind public opinion to facts, and to the evil consequences of iguorlng them. One would think that the idiotic sacrifice of American friendship which had been active for a century and a quarter, during the Spanish war, would have been a warn ing to the government at I'aris and to the people at large, that they would do well to avoid the tame mistake in connection with England But they are just as rabid no.v against the elder of the Anglo-Saxon powers as thev were a year and a half ago against the )ounger. In the ease of the former we might expect that there would be some feeling of unfriendliness amuaj the French people, on historical grounds, but it la rather surprising to observe the governmental tendency to anno) and af front tile British, in the absence of any tangible prospect that such tactics will amount to more than the putting of a rod In pickle for use at some convenient season in the future. According to reports from Europe, fail ing to incite a direct movement of Inter- vection in South Africa, the French Gov- Austria, and Holland, in virtue of which joint squadrons of all these states would make a naval demonstration at Delagoa Ba). The Trench position, as it is stoned, is that the neutralit) of that piece of water is r.3Cessary to the Interests of the powers, and that it is threatened b) Great Britain. The flagrant foolishness of the proposed j movement renders it highly improbable that any of the governments said to have been approached will give it serious consideration. This, in deed is inevitable, unless the cabi nets of Berlin, St Petersburg, and Vienna were to decide upon a general conflagra tion, and that, we are sure, they do not want. The appearance of an international fleet off Lourenco Marques would act upon England exactly as the appearance of the Fame fleet off the Cuban coast would have acted upon the American people in June, 1S9S. By way of parenthesis, it may be proper to remark that, if such a thing had occurred, the European battleships and cruisers would have found themselves con fronted by the joint navies of the United States and Great Britain Perhaps the same thing might happen in Delagoa Bay. It should be said in justice to Germany that there is not any conceivable possi bility that the Kaiser would do more than dismiss such an overture from France with contemptuous politeness. The situation of the British forces in South Africa is un favorable enough to fan the flames of dis like and jealouslv on the continent; but the statesmen of even the most Inimical countries arc wise enough to know that these conditions cannot last, albeit they may become worse before they can be bettered; and, barring France, where common sense is not to be assumed, it is Improbable that any of the powers would care to take the chances that would be involved in an openly hostile demonstra tion at the present time. The proposition to demonstrate in Delagoa Bay would pre cipitate the greatest naval war in history. If the nations, other than Germany, con templated in the reported French pro gramme, were to undertake it, it might well chance that there would be a counter naval demonstration by the navies of Great Britain, America, Germany, and Japan. At present it is hard to escape the conviction that the balance of Inter national power is heavily In the scale of friendly neutrality, non-intervention, and the peace of the world. The Choate-llarrlsou Mtery. It Is with much regret that we feel com pelled to mention a matter which cannot fail to cause grief In the highest circles of our Government. It Is one at present Involved in much mystery which, we are afraid, may never be thoroughly dispelled. Wo refer to the unpleasant1 Choate-Harrl-soa Incident in London. The facts, as so far reported, seem to be that the London Chamber of Commerce, desiring to do gracious honor to a former President of the United States, invited the Hon. Benjamin Harrison to take pot luck with it; and, being further desirous to take the chill off, also invited the Hon. Joseph B. Choate, American Ambassador, to warm up the occasion. Both gentlemen accepted, and then Choate backed out. It Is alleged that Mr. Harrison pleaded with him not to engage In such a monohlpplc exhibition of his anti-refrigerator feelings; tut It was of no use, and the banquet bad to get along with only one star performer. Now it is- said that the ambassador ex cused himself on the ground that bis Gov ernment had forbidden him to eat In public It so the Inhibition must have come sud denly by cable, else be would not have promised to attend, a day or two before the date of his withdrawal. The question naturally arises: Why should Mr. Choate be not permitted to feed in the light of court ly or commercial publicity? The answer may be something not at all la derogation of tha Harrisonian dignity. Perhaps the distinguished diplomatist may have been accused of knife swallowing or of drinking out of finger glasses. As for ourselves, we scout such & reproach. Mr. Choate Is as cultivated a personage as ever graced a board or cracked a bottle. A story Is In circulation to the effect that, shortly after his election, Mr. McKin ley declared that Benjamin Harrison would not get any honors at the hands of the Hanna Administration, and that Ambassa dor Choate, who had been previously igno rant of this Important branch of national policy, was advised regarding It just in time to prevent his breaking bread with the illustrous man who for four long and weary years blundered through a most un pleasant quadrennate, mounted on bis fa mous icicle. In the absence of the most resistless proof, we will not believe this of Mr. McKinley. We will rather adhere to the opinion that Mr. Choate had opportunities to make the acquaintance of Mr. Harri son, before declining to dine in his com pany. People who enjoyed a chance to know the latter "while he occupied the mansion, which during his reign, became, world-famous as the "Ice House," will be much Inclined to exonerate both the Am bassador and the President. They may be wrong, but they would be more than hu man not to take this view. Senator Mason's threat to resign his seat in the Senate because of his party's attitude on the subject of "criminal ag gression" has not created the panic among his Illinois constituents that he seems to have expected. On the contrary, they hall the idea with joy remarkably speakable. The Republican press and various politi cal organlzatlons"of the "State are urging him to cany his threat into effect at once, without waiting for theJegjslature to meet. It is not regarded as probable that Mr. Mason will resign. Hfsr"chances for "vindication" are hardly to be regarded as good enough for thatl Great Britain also seems to have suffered from a touch of Algerism Lord Wolseley, Commander-in-Chief of the British army charges that, as early as last July, be urged the Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War. to send an army corps to Natal, as the Boers were not then-ready to Invade and the despatch of so large a force would prevent the outbreak of war. Wolse ley's advice was Ignored, with the bloody and humiliating consequences before us. Lansdowne, probably, will have to resign Algerism and Otisism are cot protected by the British crown as sometimes hey are in America. As the niipinos in front of General Young's advance are sending their women and children to Manila, to be taken care by Otis, it is to be presumed that they ex pect to develop a very strong resistance to our forces They do not appear in the least discouraged as to their prospects, and, of course, will not despair of ulti mate success while Mr. McKinley sup ports the Administration favorite In power, against the protests of all competent sol diers and the great majority of Americans. GENEHAi WOOD'S BEPOKT. He Tells 1A luil Una Hern none In Santiago 1'roiincc. The annual report of Brigadier General Leonard Wood, commanding the Depart ment of Santiago, Cuba, was received by the War Department today. The principal part of the report is taken up with reciting the removal of the Spanish troops and the sending home of the volunteers of thl: country. Speaking of Improvements made since the military occupation of Santiago, the report states that the towns of Santiago, Guantanamo, Barroca, Hol guin, Gibara, San Luis, Mayor! and the small villages, have been improved in this streets, good sewerage established and hospitals, jails and other buildings put in good repair. The wagon roads through the province are In very bad shape, but are being im proved. The report Tecommends that troops be withdrawn from all seacoast towns where there has been yellow fever. Regarding the khaki uniforms. It says. It is very desirable that a uniform color or khaki he used, as at present the soldiers present a variegated appearance, several colors of uniform being worn. The rations as a whole are satisfactory. There has been J,71I trials by court martial, forfeitures to the amount of $18. 12610 have been imposed by fines. The report deplores the impossibility to Impose the death penalty for murder. The munici pal Improvements are progressing. MEDICAL COBPS VACANCIES. The Xavr Department Ilecelics Ap plications for Examination. Six vacancies in the medical corps of the navy were announced today. There will be six additional vacancies within the coming six months. Within the last ten days twenty-five applications have been made for permission to undergo the examina-' tions for the position of assistant surgeon. The examinations will be held from time to time. An assistant surgeon has the rank of en sign, and a salary of $1,540 on sea duty and for shore duty, $1,309. Importlnsr Turtles. (From the Philadelphia Record.) Fourteen hendreds pounds of turtle, alire and kicking, were included in the cargo of the Ger man steamship Erna, wliich reached thu port on Wednesday It wasn't all one turtle, to be ure, but that made it twelve times as interesting; to the crew. An even dozen of the bis; fellows, each weighing more than a hundred pounds, were unloaded from the Erna, and some of them are undoubtedly in the soup by thu time. They came rrom nam ana ainio e-ominjro, wnere xaty arc plentiful. The crews of tramp steamers catch them at night, when ther are asleep, turn them over on their backs, and the rest u comparatively easr. Tanks filled with sea water are arranged on the vessels, and the turtles are thus carried to the northern ports alive. As they are not sub ject to duty they constitute a considerable source ol revenue as a nue lsroe. Intomoblles la the Army. .(Home Letter to the Pall Mall Gazette) Want of initiative, at least, cannot be ch-ured against the Italian army, especially con-jdenng the comparatively limited means at the disposal of it chiefs. For feme time there has been a bicjele corps a satisfactory experiment and the authorities are now studying the advisability of introelucinc the automobile. It is thought the motor car might serve for the transport of am mnnitlon, to carry the wounded to the camp, or to the nearet hospital in the city, or to train hospital. When the roads are comparatively free a velocity can. of course, be obtained with a motor car impossible with a horse, and as the cars are perfected it confidently expected that many other uses win be- found for them. How. ever, there is no thought of applying the auto mobile to artillery, as so far no car has been beult which could draw field guns over rough places, as it required of the artillery horse. THE NATIONS flRM DUTY. I'ostmnsler (irnej-a! Jlmlth on Amer ica's OIm lofts Alliratlonn. NEW YORK, llov;? 1. Two hundred members of the Pennsylvania Society sat down at the first annual dinner of the or ganization last night at the Waldorf-Astoria and celebrated ttte anniversary of the landing of William Penn at New Castle Z10 years ago. In the"absence of Bishop Potter, who is president, Henry. Robinson, the first vice president, .presided. At his right sat Postmaster -General Smith, who was the guest of honor. Mr. Smith responded to the toast: "The Presi dent of the United States." Mr. Townes' announcement of the toast brought out a burst of applause. Every one got on his feet and drank the toast standing. Mr. Smith said 'that while he could not extol the President's personality he would without impropriety speak of the momen tous movements with which he was identi fied . "The war with Spain," he Bald, "was beyond human foresight and Its conse quences and obligations are above mere human skill. Who, exulting in thp glory of its success, would falter in the duty of the new relation or shirk the responsibil ity of the new national position?' To haul down the flag would" dry the moral influ ence and heightened respect of that sudden revelation over the world and would make our country an object of derision among mankind. We cannot retreat without prov ing recreant to our greater trust. We stand pieagea to the world and to our new- wards, to fulfill the obligations of national duty which have come with our victory. Our marvelous growth has spanned the conti nent from ocean to ocean, our wonderful productive capacity indicated by our Indus trial supremacy has outstripped our own needs. Shall we, then, stop our Industrial and commercial growth or shall we find new outlets and broader markets? "Foremost, however, in this problem. Is the command of duty and the obligation of civilization. Some men confuss that demand by pointing to'the Declaration of Indpendence and asking what right wo have to impose government without the ccneent of the governed. By tha rame r'febt that Jefferson himself, at onte tte author of the Declaration and the first great expansionist, made the Louisiana purchase without stopping to ask the con sent of the governed, and Imposed ou. gov ernment on a territory larger than that of the former thirteen States. Did we ask the consent of the Cubans to save them from starvation? Must we ask the con sent of the Filipinos to save them from anarchy? "It Is less than 1 per cent that are in revolt. The great body of those are rule people; they .accept our authority, and our flag floats there by the high commission of civilization. The President has extended the kindly hand and made the most liberal offers. He has proffered the largest meas ure of self-government of which these people a-e capable. There reiualns noth ir.r; fcr the present but to suppress the n-s'lrirt-il&n. It will Be" suppressed, nnd the d gnltj of the flag maintained." HANNA'S SPEBCH'TO WOHKHEN. He !sna;ers( to iAborlnir Men How to Cniit Tneli- Vote-. CLEVELAND, Nov. 1. Senator Hanna spoke to the laboring men here last night Among other things, he Baid: "If jou feel that President McKinley has done the best he could and that the people of the coun try have confidence in' him, you should not vote against him by voting against Nash. , "Mr. McKinley has, and jou know he has, the confidence of the people of this land. There is no man in this audience but knows in his heart that the President is dolnir ovprethincr rhrtt Ha thine- i, .. , the country, and I make jou a proposi- e ' el,,., a,t i, i ,i.i . c.. ,. ., uU ,fc i uiii.i ruiure generations will point to President McKinley as one of the best Presidents the United States ever had. If you are satisfied with Mc Kinle). wh) refrain from supporting him and the part) which gave him to you? Certain!) )ou do not want to slap at him by voting for a man like Jones, who s'ands for nothing, or for McLean, who Is a non resldent. "Fellow-worklngmen, Judge Nash has been )our friend for years. As attorney for labor organizations for years, his best efforts have been put forth to fight your battles. Look up his record." The Senator took up the Democratic can didate, and said of him: "McLean does not care a straw to be Governor of Ohio. He wants the ofllce only to use it as the stepping stone to somethlne hlrher. Hi. he contributed an) thing toward the devel opment of this State? Not a penny. He has done much to beautify Washington, but even his paper Is published in the old disused schoolhouse where it was printed ) ears ago. LIVED MORE THAN A CENTTJBY. The Death of a Remarkable Woman In 31assachusetts. NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Nor. 1. Mrs. Phebe Williams died here yesterday, aged 102 jears, 11 months, and 8 days. Mrs. Williams was a remarkable woman, and had all her faculties up to the last 5Le took daily walks up to within a short time ago, when a fall resulted In confining her to the house. Mrs. Williams had none of the hair-raising experiences so often re lated by old persons. She reared a iam lly of thirteen children, all but three reach ing maturity. Mrs. Williams was born in Co'cheater, Conn , November 23, 1897, and was a daughter of Ebenezer Hill, who was a Revolutionary pensioner. He lived to the age of 110 years, and up to within a short time it was expected Mrs. Williama might break this record. Her walk was erect, and she had remarkable powers of endur ance. She came to New Bsdford in IS it, and kept a boarding-house. She lived in New York after 1876, where she leinained nearly twenty years, coming here four or five years ago to spend the rest of her Ufa with her daughter, Mrs. Jame3 Mun roe. On her 100th birthday Mrs. Williams greatly enjoyed a party, when a large num ber of friends 'called to congratulate her on her wonderful longevity. ARRANGED HJS OWN EUNERAI.. i I! The Suicide of Caiculntins; 3fan at AJtoona. ALTOONA, Pa., Novijl.-"-Some time dur ing last night Ferdinand L. Patterson, a painter of this city, committed suicide by sending a bullet through his heart His bodv was discovered by a fellow-workman, whom he told that if he did not show up to work to give his remains to a certain undertaker firm for burial and have his body taken to the cemetery by a livery firm which he named. Before committing the rash act Patter son put on his best clothes. Patterson was fifty-four years of age, and Is said to have been driven, to the crime through family troubles. At the time of the trage dy his wife was visiting In Pittsburg, who, with three children, survives him. Cardinal Rlchellea and Oom Paul. (From the London Academy) Cardinal Richelieu and President KniErer! The association ma) seem far to 6eek. Yet President Kruger is, by his mamag-r, actually connected with the great cardinal, whose name, as every one knows was Du Plecsi. Kroger was a young man when he met and married a member of the Du PIckis familiy the descendant of a French surgeon (the near relative of the cardinal) who went to the Cape in the seventeenth century In the employment of the Dutch East India Com pany. An early death speedily deprived the President of his firt wife, who was immediately followed to the grave by her only son. A little later he chose a second wife from the same family. The jiccond Mrs. Kroger was, in fact, the niece of the first, the Dopper creed not dis allowing marriages within these degrees of con sanguinity. It was apropos of this marriage that General Joubert. who at one time had a keen dislike for President . Kroner, made a jest in hi imperfect English. The President i he said, was a man of double "du pleasity.!.' By hbr second and still reigning wife the President is the father-of sixteen children. MOHMONS IN BAXTIMOEE. Elder WhltinUer Tnlks of Ills Creed and the Election of-Roberts. BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. l.-EWef John M. Whlttaker, one of the presidents of the Eastern States Mission of the Mormon Church, and Elder Charles A. Hardy, pres ident of the Maryland Conference, are in Baltimore In the Interest of their church. They will remain here until Saturday, El der Hardy leaving the city to continue his duties as president of . the Maryland Con ference, and Eldar Whlttaker going to Charleston, W. Va , to continue his lecture tour. His lecture is on the causes of the anti-Mormon agitation. For about a year Mormon elders, have been at work in the countles.of northwest Virginia and south ern and eastern Maryland. Elder Whit taker's tour will Include Parkersburg, W. Va.; Wheeling. W. Va.; Pittsburg. Pa.; Scranton, Pa.; New York State and New England. In discussing their work Elder Whlt taker said yesterday that while It had not been as successful as he wished there was a general tendency to give the Mormons the same rights accorded to other denomi nations. He thought It strange, he said, that so small a community as the Mormons should create such a stir In the religious' world. "This agitation," he continued, "Is not due to the cause attributed to It by its enemies. It did not have Its Inception in the election of Heprescntatlve-clect Rob erts, of Utah, to Congress, nor was the Church responsible in the least for that action. Jn Utah the people are divided on national Issues into the two great par ties. Democratic and Republican. The Democrats, not the Morman Church, elect ed Mr. Roberts, with a full knowledge of all his marital relations. He was the choice of the- Democratic party, and the Church cannot be made responsible in the least for his election, nor will his re taining his seat or being rejected affect polygamy In the least That Is a dad Issue, and has been since 1890, when Pres ident Woodruff issued his manifesto, and not one plural marriage has been contract-. ed since, but men' who had more than one wife at that time, as Mr. Roberts did, were not asked Indeed, it was not ex pected they would tear asunder ties formed In love and welded together by lives of purity and devotion. It was a re ligious obligation. Those-who enterel Into It now feel they are bound by It. But no more plural marriages are possible under the Inhibition of the Church and by State and national enactment" "Women In Utah have the elective fran chise, have the same right for education, for the profession, for all the avenues of progress and enlightenment as men or women In the most favored communities in this land. They are public Instructors, hold State and county positions, and in the home she reigns as queen. "As a rule the homes of the Latter Day Saints are noted for their purity, love, kindness, their devotion to re'lgtous sanc tity; the people are noted for their Integ rity, their frugality. Industry, morality. virtue, their patriotism, their charity to- wara ail, meir mauce lowura none, alu woman among the Latter Day Saints Is quite as free, quite as highly respected and honored, quite as happy and contented, and does as much to make home the sa cred circle of unity and purity as any place in this broad land. "To be married by the laws of the Church a person must be exceedingly cir cumspect In life, must bear an honored name, or he would not be permitted to en ter into unions by the law- of the Church. But there Is no force, no compulsion; and it Is a remarkable thing that divorces among the Mormon people are exceedingly rare. "There are good and bad among the Mormons. There are some unions that are not the wisest as there are In the world; but the discipline of the Church requires the most cartful life one of purity, high aspirations, noble deeds, honor for the country, devotion to God. love for all man- kind that is making for the Fatherhood of God. the brotherhood of man. They strive to make their home life simple but perfect, and are striving to train their boys to be pure; their girls to be spotless. They are taught that right living, not profession, alone is what makes the Christian." Elder Whlttaker said he bad but one wife and that there were perhaps no more than 2 per cent of the Mormons who ever went into polygamy, and those only be cause they believed It a most sacred, a divine command. ' Those who say that the Mormons are going back to polygamy," he continued, "willfully misrepresent us. There is a well-defined policy being pursued to de stroy the liberty of the Mormon people in I their civil and religious rights, and I feel sure that when the facts are presented, showing conditions as. they really exist. the people will see the Mormons in their true light Let us be judged in the light of all the evidence. Let the principles we teach stand or fall in proportion to their merits or demerits. MANGLED BY A TROLLEY CAR. News of a Hoy's Drnth I.ltclj- to Kill Ills Mother. NEW YORK. Nov. 1. Frank Fredericks, eight years old, was crushed to death by a trolley car, near Rockaway Avenue and Fulton Street, Brooklyn, yesterday morn ing. The news of his death was carried to his mother, and It Is feared that she Is dying. Mrs. Fredericks was 111, and the shock may result fatally. The motorman, Philip Kissam, who was arrested after he had wandered long and aimlessly In the rain, was almost demented. The boy lived at 1221 Pacific Street. He was stealing a ride on a wagon yesterday morning. The driver discovered him at Rockaway Avenue, near Fulton Street and menaced him with his whip. Fredericks sprang off in front of a car of the Hamburg Avenue line, which was approaching at high speed, and in spite of the frantic ef forts of Kissam the car passed over the boy, and was stopped only when it was twenty feet beyond his mangled body. Kissam seized the body and bore it into a drug store. "For God's sake, send for a doctor!" he cried, and then he ran like a madman to his car, re versed the power, and backed rapidly toward the Canarsie car barns, a mile away. A policeman told the new3 to Mrs. Fredericks in her husband's absence. She screamed and fell senseless. Detectives who sought Kissam were told at the Can arsie barns that he left his car there and went away like one demented. They found him near his home, at Fifty-ninth Street and New Utrecht Avenue, wandering aim lessly and soaked w ith the rain. His con dition was pitiable. He said the shock had unhinged his mind, and he found him self on the meadows five miles from the car sheds. He Is only twenty-two years old. He was locked up in the Brownsville station, and will appear In the Gates Ave nue police court charged with homicide. INVESTIGATING MOSQUITOES. Looking for the Mnlnrinl Specimen nt Jfewport ews. NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. Nov. 1 Among the Interesting visitors In the city at the present time Is Dr. W. F. Thayer, of Johns Hopkins Hospital, who Is the guest of Dr. J. K. Corss. Dr. Thayer Js said to be one of the best-Informed physicians In the country in regard to the various forms of malaria, and at the recent session of the State Medical Society of Virginia, held In Richmond, be read an interesting paper on "Malaria.' l During bis stay here Dr. Thayer has been investigating the antecedents of the mosquitoes In this section in order to see If any of the pestiferous little insects here are of the breed which has been con victed of spreading and propagating the germs of malaria. After diligent research and the untimely demise of a large, number of the enterprising and vigorous specimens of the Newport News genus. Dr. Thayer announces that be has discovered a number Of the genuine malarial mosquitoes. This announcement will, no doubt; be received with Interest by the physicians of this section, who have been following the re cent.costly and extensive Investigation and research In this direction. ELECTBOCUTED IN THE STBEET. Helpless Crowds Witness a Boy's Terrible Death. NEW YORK, Nov. L Several hundred men, women, and children stood powcrlees last night In Graham Avenue, Brooklyn, while a boy was burned to deith on tte sidewalk In a most honlble manner by a live electric wire. Graham Avenue Is lighted by big arc lights operated by power from the Withers Street plant of the Edi sou Electric Light Company. The high wind of last evening caused the supply wire on the west side of the avenue to break close to one of the poles, which are about sixty feet apart The long string of wire fe'l to the side walk. It was just before 7 o'clock, and there were many persons on both sides tf the street going home from work. In falling the wire struck a seventeen-year-old boy, believed to be Louis Berzgler. Those who witnessed the accident said the wire seemed to coll itself about its victim, circling his neck. He raised his hands, but fell to the ground without uttering a word. It is believed be died as he fell. Policeman James Toland, of the Stags Street station, was standing a short dis tance away at the corner of McKibbcn Street- He heard the yells of the crowd, and. seeing the boy entangled with the wire, rushed up, and, regardless of the risk, caught hold of the victim by his clothing. Intending to pull him away from the wire. The Instant his hands touched the boy the policeman fell back uncon scious, so great was the current in the body of the victim. Toland had rubber boots on, and he said later that to this fact be owes his life. John Seidel. a marine in the navy yard. was passing at the time He saw the bo) and policeman and ran up to rescue them. He tried to push away the wile, and was terribly burned about the hands and wr sts before he fell to the sidewalk uncocs.ioui. By that time the flesh on the boy's neck was burning. Toland sent a messenger to the statlouhouse for the reserves and a cnll to,.SL Catherine's Hospital for an am bulance. The reserves formed safety lines and kept the crowds from sppioicbing the deadly wire. When Surgeon Helcamac, of St Catherine's, arrived he said the boy's death had been Instantaneous. Seidel, the marine, was taken to the hos pital. His burns are serious, and the shock to his system when the current passed through his body was terrible. It is believed he will recov.er. The boy's body was taken to the stattonhouse. The only clew to his Identity was a card found in his pocket showing that be attended the Baron de Hirsch evening primary school in Brownsville. TKUSTS ENKICH NEW JEKSEY. 1 Balance of 13,1.,.42 In the State Treasury. TRENTON, N. J.. Nov. 1 The fiscal year of the State ended yesterday, and It has piles of money. The report of State Comptroller Hancock shows that there Is the comfortable balance of J1,233,1j3.4I In the treasury, the" biggest balance New Jersey ever smiled over, and nearly all of it from the trusts and other corporations. Last ) ear's balance was $1.001,521 13. Near ly a million, or ?73S,000, comes from in corporation fees, which have increased from S152.1S0 90, received during 189S; taxes on incorporations, brings In another , round million, while the taxes on other ' State propert) adds a third million. Ex , penses over last year have increased $500,- 000. The legislature Is coming soon, and the balance may be dissolved. I Among the companies incorporated yes ! terday were the following: j The Alaska , $10,000,000 to The Alaska Industrial Company, capital operate mines and mills and . to do a timber and general contracting t business. The Ohio Mining and Milling Company. capital $500,000, to do a general milling business. The J. F. Budd Shoe Company, capital $200,000, to manufacture shoes at Burling ton. N. J. The Pittsburg Coal Company, Incorpor ated recently wltl an authorized capital of $64,000,000, fllei a certificate today set ting forth that $53,993,000 of the authorized capital stock has been paid in. Of this amount $2,500,000 Is In cash, and the bal ance In the purchase of property. The Federal Telephone Company also filed a certificate that its entire $10,000,000 of au thorized capital stock has been issued, $2,000 In cash and the balance in the pur chase of property. The Monmouth Traction Company filed a certificate changing its name to the Cam den and Trenton Railway Company. Dur ing the month 155 companies were charter ed and $43,577 60 received as filing fees. A SEMINARY BTJRNED. Destruction of the Collegiate Insti tute at llackcttstown. HACKETTSTOWN, N. J., Nov. 1. The beautiful building of the Centenary Col legiate Institute, which was the pride of this section of New Jersey, is now a mass of smoldering ruins. About 12.15 a. m. smoke was detected by the janitor and some of the professors. The fire was in the boiler room, and spread rapidly. It raged for five hours The two gymnasium buildings were saved. The fire department of the town was unable to cope with the flames, and, although every effort was made, no help could be had from nearby places. One of the students, R." Orville Mat thews, of Paterson. N. J , was somewhat affected by the smoke in trying to recover the articles of the students. He is im proving. The institute was a handsome five-story brick building, 250 feet in length and 100 feet wide. The loss will amount to $350,000, while the insurance on the structure and contents will not reach half that amount The building was owned by the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. TIN-PLATE MILLS CLOSE. Thousands or Workmen Thrown Out of Employment. PITTSBURG, Nov. 1. Officials of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers announce that the Amer ican Tin Plate Company, which ntrols the tin plate Industry of the United fcta es. has shut down 106 mills within the rast few weeks. Thousands of tin workers have been, thrown Into idleness, and many of them have turned to other industries. The mill managers say they know noth ing further than that they were ordered by the officers In Chicago to shut down tre plants. The main reason for the shut down, it is thought by officials of the union. Is the high pri;e of sheet and tin (late bars. The Industrial trusts are so inter woven that the tin plate people find It more profitable to sell steel than to rrake it up into tin plate. A TRAIN ROBBERY IN TEXAS. The Express ieiscnircr Mortally AVonnded by the Thieves. DALLAS. Tex., Nov. L -A bulletin from Denison to headquarters announces the rob bing of a Missouri, Kansas and Texas train last night between Sherman and Denison. The express messenger is said to be wound ed mortally and $10,000 Is reported to have been stolen. The robbery occurred between E and 7 o'clock. - The train was the northbound Denison and Sherman branch train. It was delayed a few minutes about 600 yards from the station while some switching was done Railroad men at the station and in the yards saw Messenger Concannon standing In the express car doorway while waiting for the switching to be finished. When the train reached the depot. Messenger Concan- non was lying on the car floor, covered with blood, his skull crushed In and his cat I robbed ot all the money It had contained. NOTES OP THE DAY. Dynamite used in large quantities In the ex tenure minlrtjr industries of the Transvaal, wa imported to the value- $1,100,000. It Is exciuirely itnported by the government The heaviest rainfall to far observed with scientific accuracy occur in Irdia. At Cberra punjl. In the Khai hilN, in Auam, the mean annual precipitation Is 39 feet G inches, at De bundJA M feet 13 inches, and Jt Uibunui 3t feet 4 Inches. Doth the latter station are on the sea coa4, and at a much lower level than Cher rapunju London is having trouble with that remarkable Tower llrldgc, which was to allow ships to pafs, like draabtidge but without interrupting land traffic Instead of swinging to one side, the draw goes far up into the air, and while it u ip Jou tan either cilmb the stairs or take the elevator and croo. But the elevators built at a cost to the public of S400,cW), are not wonting, their cap-city (thirty per-ens) being found -o ridicuoufcly inadequate, and pedefetriaiu strongly object to ehmbin 207 step-, c-ru&ln ur uiiuf. and coming don the tame number of steps. N as a matter of fact there i no great coherence from an ordinary drawbridge except that the service U less prompt, perbap bee-iese prompt-nr-d U deemed less necc-stary. The ba-cules are not supposed to remain up more than seven min ute, but complaint is nude that tratSe Is in terrupted for twenty minutes or mure, while aeven or eight ship- pa.-s in succession The Navy Department ha i--Hied an order to place metal furniture on the .cruiser Atlanta. The placirg of metal furniture on a United States cruier is an experiment which grows out ol the experience of the navy during the Spanr-h-Ameri-can w.r. It was found that the presence of the wooden furniture aboard the warhip during the late war wa a most serious menace to the men. More injury was done by the hying splinter tnsa wa-i done direct!) by the shells of the enemy. dmiral Dewey had a thorough app-rcutkn of th- danger from this source, and before ordering his sejiadron into the battle of Manila ttay be had every piece of wooden furniture on the vessels ca-t overboard. ihe rcYommencutton to put metal furniture abrard the warships to take lh? plaic of wooden furniture wa mad- bv Construc tor Bowles. The trial will be made on the At lanta, and if the experiment proves aucve-t metal furniture will supplant the wooden furni ture on all the vmencan warship. One of the greatest novelties at the Paris Ex position, says the "Bosten Herald," will be the giant vwing that will be erected in the Champs Klrtee near the Liffel Tower. Beside it the tower will receive quite a setback, for the supports of the great swing will overtop it b) nearly 2tJ feet, their exacsv height being l,l7et feet The structural urcrk ill all be ol iron, riveted to gether to insure the greatest strength. Tuere will be no element of canger whatever in the huge skeleton. The tops of the two supp rts wilt De bolted together. lrom them huge pendulums will hand, each supporting a car. these will swing at a height of 4UO feet Irom the ground from a. point narly OX) feet awa) from one side of the huge supports to a point equally distant bevond the supports. In other words, the total distance covered in the swinging will be nearly a quarter of a mile. The cars derive their peed from huge motors beneath the structure, ana arc slopped at intervals of three minutes to permit loadimr and nnloadirg. Each tar will carry forty p-ople. As a result of the epidemic of rabies which be gan in hrie count) early last rammer, the Statefc Legislature of New York will be petitioned by the board of aldermen of Buffalo to appropriate money poebly $3,000 for the payment of the espensrs of the dog bitten pdtients sent to th Pasteur Institute for treatment. One of them died there, Jrd now there are no Ie- than six cases on the hand of the health department and the superintendent of the oor. rive will be sent to the Pasteur In-titute at the expense of the ccuntv. for the supervisors committee on the Ioor becoming tired of the dilatory methods ot the ali'erm n in falling to nronde for the muz zling of dogs gave the superintendent ot the poor full authority to act. The Hipervi-org are appalled at the rapidity uith which the cases ot persons bitten by rabid dogs are collecting. Al readv the -iw people tent to the Pajtcur Insti tute hate co-t hne count) about $1.7119. s the &upeiii-or understand the situation, there is no question of the count)'s liability, and they will petition the legislature in hope ot getting even. At the Devon Great Consols mine in the south of hngLind. copper mining has been abandoned mant ears because it proved unprofitable, but now the ore, mundic copper pyrites, is being treated for the extraction of the ar-enic it con tains, titer crushing, the ore is washed and then put in rua-ting furnaces where it is heated up to jiKHit 3W drgrees Fahrenheit. The heat causes chemical elect mpoltion, setting free the dense fume of arscnious acid. Thee fumes pass through series of long dues before reaching the stacs. and are alino-t . complete deposited -u arsenic root. At errtain intervals this is -craped off tne interior of the flues and again roasted, and when tlus depo-iu its vapors in the flues there u found a now white. crtstalUne eubstance, which ij refined arsenic. It is ground in a mill, and convened through leather hosepipe to barrels, in which It is -hipped for sale. An immense quanti ty of refu-e from th former day of copper work ing; at this nane is now alo being treated in the manner ih-M.-noed above, and it is said will le!d at least i0,000 as refined arsenic, which now commands about ??- a ton. The ' P.ll MU Gazette' approves the American f sy-tem of naming -hips ot war as better than the Lnli-h. The magnificent class, for instance, contains not only a Majestic and a ictonoos, but al-o a Caeiar and a Hannibal. The Gazette" therefore advocates copying our method of giv ing the name of a state to a battles! ip. the name of a large city to a first c'a-s erui.r, cf a smaller eilv to a ei-ond-clas cruiser, and of a naval hero to a torpedo boat. Tim method reveals by tlie name of the class to when aur hip lieloncs. Tlie great divisions of the Untitu empire, V-ia, Vfrica, mcnca, India, etc, would furni'h the name fcr the largest cattlesuip. Tien there might be an Irish cla-s the Ire land. Donegal. Limerick, ConnjLght, LUter, Munter, Tvrone, and so on. vext would come the names ot tne counties ot England, and we should hear of the Northumberland, Lancashire. v orkhin-, bussex, Kent and other-, vnd how nae would be the names of a lot of first-Ci.ass cruisers called afier the great cities of toe empire . London. Livenool. f-Tdinburgh, Melbourne, Singa pore, and Calcutta! Since the recent promulgation of the Imperial ukae forbidding further convict transportation to Siberia, the penal dsiartment has been easticg about for a new field for criminal colonization m order to obviate an undesirable conge-tion in the great crntral pn-ons and penitentiaries of Eu roncan ltu-sia, without at the same time over croudirg tho far eastern penal ls'and of Sag hahen It has now been practically decided, seio jret, of coure, to the Imperial exequatur, to con vert the remote district ot Okhotsk hamtschaUa into a new p-nal province. The ministerial de partment points out that this region possesses no indigenous population worth speaking of to be corrupted by the deportees, and it has the ad vantage of being so distantly situated and rigidl; isolated frcm Luropean Russia that the escape of convicts, so common from Mberian sett-ements, will be well nigh imrsstsible. Okhotsk hamtschat ka is further rre-oramended as a penal colony by the fact that nth god deposits have lately been dueovered there, and they will be worked en tirely b convict labor, thus enabling the gov ernment to reduce considerablv the annual ex chequer credit of ll,0UO,0U0 roubles for penal ex-ien-t. Under date of July 29 Consul Monaglian of Chemnitz c.nds the following: rtiflcial pavin stones arc being succe-sfully prcduced in this em pire. Tlie demand in large cities is so great and the expense attached to their prod-iction under former methods is so large that any improvement -on the older svtcm, whether saving money cr in producing a better stone, will be welcomed by almost all countries. The newest f r-ce-s heri is to mix coal tar with sulphur and warm thor oushlv , to the r-sulting semi iquid ma s ehlo aie of lime (chlorkalk) is added. Vfter cvoling the mass is broken anto small pieces and mix"d with glass or blast furnace glass slag Oiofeng!a.ss cliaum). This powder is then subjected to a cress ure of 200 atmospheres and reduced to the form or forms wanted. The specific weight of these stons is i-. the resistance aga n't crusting it, US kilo grams (313 pounds) to the sqjare centimetre (13 1 2 square inches). The resi-tance to wear and tear in use is 'fully half as great as that tf Swedish granite. Ti-us it cimmends its If tiro gv durjbilit, enual to that of many stne roads, resisttrce to changes of temperature, rough ies of surface giving horses a good foothold and finally non transmission of sound. Inasmuch as the joinings are very small, mrt is avoided and cleaning is very easy. Prof. William C. Day, of Swarthmore College, and former!) of Baltimore, has been experiment ing in the production ot artificial asphalt and by distilling in an iron retort a mixture of her rings and fat pine wood he has produced a shining black mass closely resembling one species of asplialt, sa)s the "Baltimore Sun." Using fish only, another variety of asphalt was pro duced. A third set of experiments has been mad.3 with wood alone, with the result of producicg a black phmv ma's, very brittle, with a shell like fracture, bumming up his results. Professor Day, as quoted by the "Engineering liecord," sajs: "Three asphaltic substances haye been obtained bysoperations of distillation, primarily m presence of steam, from natural animal and vegetable ma terial, both sepante and combined. The ma terial obtained firm the mixture of fish and wood, called artificial gilsonite, so closely resembles the gilsonite from Utah that it is impossible by in spection lo tell the two materials apart. The material obtained from fish alone ato resembles what has been calleef (with questionable pro priety) claterite from Ltah. While these two pain of substance differ from each other to a greater or less extent in respect to the various parallel treatments to which they have been subieeted. and while thev also differ somewhat In chemical composition as well as In solubility. .ifl- -,.,.,,' .t. ,.,. . ....- .!,,-..-;; I all in degree and not In any single case la sind." I' ,, stikmetstff- T-";JiilS!bifs"-g y-&g ?&&ii!f2$&p&g& imsm.