Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1902 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURXAL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1002.

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Fifteenth and Lawrence street. DAYTON. O.-J. V. YVllkle. 39 Bo. Jefferson street. COLUMBUS. O. Viaducc News Stand. 2SI High street. The Tillman family docs not figure in the functions now going on at Charleston. The only noticeable feature in the Ohio municipal elections is that "Golden Rule" Jones, of Toledo, seems to have been forgotten. There is a variety of theories regarding the cause of the high price of meat, but there is no difference of opinion as to the condition. Half the American people cannot remember the event at Appomattox, Va., thirty-seven years ago to-day, and most those who can remember the Incident forget it on Its anniversary. The congressional phrase meaning to relieve a deserter from the Union army from the stigma of his crime go that he can come up boldly for a pension Is "to correct the military record." President Roosevelt Is not in favor of such "corrections." That an Italian Anarchist should be convicted by an Italian court and Imprisoned for writing articles applauding the assassination of President McKinley is remarkable evidence of the universal detestation of anarchism and of the sympathetic feeling among nations on the subject. aaaaaaaaaaBaaaaaaaaMMMaawaMaaaaaaaaMaManaaaaBBMaai The New York Times says the hope of the Oxnard lobby is that Cuban reciprocity will be "talked to death la the Senate." "Talked to death in the Senate" la refreshing; coming from one of those who complain that the Reed rules have destroyed deliberative legislation in the House. Those who Intelligently favor the growth of Indianapolis are glad that the franchise for the Southern Railroad to enter the city has finally been granted. Time has been lost, but it is better late than never. Indianapolis needs cheap fuel tu take the place of the vanishing gas. and there is reason to believe that the Southern will aid In that direction. One day the Sentinel causes Ex-Warden Shidelcr to tay that if called upon to testify at the investigation he "will make some one's hair curl." The next day a News reporter declares that Mr. Shldeler says he never made ?uch a threat. In view of such statements and denials, will it not be better to wait until Mr. Shidcler speaks for himself under oath? The selection of such able and experienced men as Mr. John CI. Williams for directors and trustees of the State's Institutions is an earnest of a high business policy, and the acceptance of such positions by citizens whose time is valuable leads to the conclusion that there are thoe ho believe they owe an obligation to the Ctate when called upon to iTform an official duty. Maj. O. L. Pruden, assistant secretary to fae President, who is reiorted dangerously ill, is the olilest employe at the White House In length of service. He served as a private soldier during the war. and after a short service as a clerk in the War Department was transferred to the White House, where he has held an important and confidential position under every President since Gen. Grant's tlrst term. The country will witness an example of freedom of debate in the House when the Cuban reciprocity bill 1 umler discussion. Everything cite will be discussed except the merits of the projosltlon. Six yrars ago all the speeches on one side would have been devoted to free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. It would be desirable if some number could Inform himself so as to present the real status and prospects of the beet-sugar industry in this country, and whether u duty of nearly U) per cent, will be necessary during all the years to keep it alive. It U reported that even In Michigan the prorooters of the industry asked the last Legislature for a bonus to make it successful. Unlimited debate could bring out the facts on both sides, but it is not probable that such will be the case. While the Journal believes the time has come when natural gas should be sold here by meter measurement, it believes the rate hould be fair to both parties. Thi cannot !oe said of the provision In the ordinance Introduced Monday night that every person taking gas shall pay $1 for each month in which his consumption docs not exceed l.uju cubic feet, and ZZ cent per l.t) for all In excess of 4.'.X) feet. This provision is very objectionable. It would continue one of the condition that people have been protesting against for some years past, namely, re

quiring payment for gas that is not furnished. The very object of a meter is to enable people to pay only for what they get, but the ! minimum clause would require them to pay that sum monthly if they did not use more than Z cents' worth or none at all. The provision was probably intended as a means of reimbursing the companies the cost of the meters, but it is an offensive way of doing even that. STILL IllTI FOR AX ISSIK. Representative Zenor thinks the Democrats In this State will gain two or three congressmen in the next election owing to the administration's Philippine policy. "The Democratic party." he says, " is making a record In Congress upon which we can go before the people with confidence

In the result. I believe that the admlnls- j tratlon's Philippine policy will furnish the principal irsue in the pending congressional elections. The people are getting tired of the enormous appropriations incident to the Philippine policy, especially in view of the fact that this expenditure promises to continue indefinitely." Mr. Zenor is a member of the national Democratic campaign committee, and he probably reflects the views of other members of the committee regarding Democratic prospects. Other Democrats have recently expressed the opinion that the administration's Philippine policy would furnish the party with the much needed, greatly desired and long searched for winning issue. Editor Watterson wired his paper a few days ago regarding the Philippine issue that "here or hereabouts we have the paramount it-sue for l'MA." They seem to forget that they made it the paramount issue in r) and got beaten on it. The Kansas City platform said: "The burning issue of imperialism growing out of the Spanish war involves the very existence of the Republic and the destruction of our free Institutions. Wc regard it as the paramount issue of the campaign." The people responded by reelecting Mr. McKinley by an overwhelming majority. A paramount issue that has been passed upon and repud'. ited by the people once ought not to be -i ' cry attractive one for use a se on ? tin- , and would not lc to a party of ordinary intelligence. As Mr. Zenor undertakes to particularize as to the strength of the Democratic position it may be worth while to examine his claim. He says the people are getting tired of the enormous appropriations incidental to the administration's Philippine policy, especially in view of the fact that the expenditure promises to continue indefinitely. Whether the expense of putting down the Insurrection in the Philippines should be considered "enormous" or not depends largely on the point of view. The popular vote in lfX) would seem to indicate that a large number of Americans think no expense too great for establishing the authority of the government throughout its whole domain and upholding the flag wherever it has been once rightfully raised. But Air. Zenor seems to imply that the Democratic plan of dealing with the Philippines would stop what he calls the "enormous" expense incident to the Republican policy. It would not. It would neither stop nor reduce expenses. The main difference between the Republican and the Democratic plan of dealing with the Philippines is that one proposes to restore peace, establish American rule and retain possession of the islands, while the other proposes to relinquish all claims to sovereignty over the islands, occupy and govern them until the people have established a government of their own and then recognize their independence. In reality the Republican plan is the cheaper of the two. It will cost much less to go on and finish the work of pacification that is so nearly completed and establish civil government on American lines than it would to inaugurate a new policy by relinquishing our claims to sovereignty over the islands and occupying and governing them until the people should establish a government of their own. This view takes no account of the national humiliation and disgrace of admitting failure In one of the greatest works ever undertaken by any government and of surrendering our sovereignty after It has been finally asserted. It simply considers the question of the relative expense of the Republican policy' of establishing civil government under the American Hag and the Democratic policy of establishing an Independent government under the Filipino flag. The Democratic scuttling plan not only involves a policy of Infamy, but it would bo more expensive than the Republican plan. Mr. Zenor's paramount- issue will not win. If the Democratic party cannot find a better Issue than this for the next congressional elections and for 19Ö1 it is beaten In advance. ANOT11F.U DKAI1 1SSIE. The outcome of the movement to send relief to tho Boer women and children In the British concentration camps ought to make some persons very much ashamed of themselves. The occupants of these camps were brought in from the veldts to be taken care of by the British because the men had deserted their homes to go to the war and there was nobody else to care for them. They were not cruelly treated, but their concentration under such circumstances necessarily caused more or less sickness. and suffering. A few weeks ago. when, by the efforts of kind hearted people in Illinois, a fund of $.".000 was raised for their relief, a Dr. Thomas and wife, of Chicago, asked the secretary of state to procure them passes to tho British camps. They proposed to make the journey to South Africa and distribute the relief fund in person. Their expenses were to come out of the fund, and as the trip to South Africa would have cost a considerable sum the fund would have been materially reduced. Dr. Thomas and wife, however. would have had a sea voyage which might have proved beneficial. Secretary II. ly offered to give them passports the same as he did to other American citizens going abroad, but he declined to ask the British minister for passes through the British j lines on the ground that the request would doubtless be refused, and he did not think the President would approve it. At the same time the secretary offered to transmit the fund through the United States consul at Cape Town, who would see that it reached the Boers, but this was not what Dr. Thomas wanted. He wanted a sea voyage. Therefore he opened out in abuse of the secretary and certain pro-Boer papers became very indignant over what they termed the "infamous conduct" of the administration in blocking the way of re lief for Boer women and children. The outcome of the affair shows that instead of abusing tho administration they should praise it for adopting the most practical. direct and inexpensive method of relief

ever pursued by one government toward needy or suffering people In a foreign country. When the facts In the case were brought to the attention of Governor Yates, of Illinois, he opened correspondence with the secretary of state which ended In an arrangement by which President Roosevelt has forwarded to the United States consul general at Cape Town a certified check for $5.000. with instructions to the consul general to personally sup rintend the delivery and distribution of the amount. This will be done without any charge whatever and. of course, without drawing on the fund for the expenses of the Journey of Dr. Thomas and wife to Africa. It is the simplest, most direct, expeditious and economical mode of sending relief to suffering foreign

ers ever adopted. On other occasions we have sent shiploads of food to famine suf ferers in Ireland, in India and perhaps in other countries, but this is the first time that the President of the United States has ever become the trustee and transmitter of a relief fund for sufferers in another country. A certified check for $3,000 signed by Theodore Roosevelt is as good in South Africa as It is in New York, and it was a much better way of transmitting the fund than the way proposed by Dr. Thomas. The pro-Boer papers that have been trying to make an Issue out of the matter ought to be ashamed of themselves. AX A I PI-MI TO I N DI AN APOLIS. The appeal of the finance committee to raise funds to defray the expenses of the dedication of the soldiers' monument, and the proclamation of Governor Durbin mak ing May 13 a holiday, and requesting the people to join in the dedicatory ceremonies, are printed to-day. They appear on the anniversary of the event which practically marked the end of the war for the Union the surrender at Appomattox. The ap peal of the committee should need no exhortation in the columns of a newspaper. It sets forth the worth o the monument to Indianapolis as one of the most notable and the only attraction of the kind in this country, and, it may be said, In the world. It is a great tribute of a State to its sons who helped save the Union the Union worth so much to Indiana because of its lo cality the Union which makes this monu ment the center of the Nation's population. To the people of the State generally the monument is a glory to be thought of and to be visited, but to Indianapolis it is a glory to be witnessed every day with undiminished admiration. Indianapolis is asked to raise $S,000 to meet a part of the expense of dedication. On the basis of value received and value rendered that amount will pay but a small part of the expense of keeping up the greatest attraction to visitors that a city could possess. In view of what it is to Indianapolis the finance committee should have no difficulty in raising the money. It would be a reflection upon the patriotism and public spirit of the men who are proud of Indianapolis should the members of this committee be made to feel they are begging. It appeals to every man who has a spark of patriotism and civic pride in his heart. There has been no politics In the building of the monument and there will bo none in the exercises which crown its completion. It is the people's monument, so all the people should contribute to its dedication. For these and other reasons the Journal earnestly requests its readers to help tho finance committee raise the $5,000 and to enter into the spirit of the Governor's proclamation. A timorous person urged another to see the Journal and call it off from advocating the gas meter lest its advocacy of the meter injure the ticket. Fear not; the Journal has advocated the meter system since it discovered the beginning -of gas failure years ago. If Taggartism had not made the meter a question in municipal politics years ago, and mayors, city councils and other agencies had pushed tho adoption of the meter and forced the ga3 companies to the propositions they now make, there would be an abundance of fuel gas for years to come. Now, with bored mixtures, there is none when most is wanted. If tho intelligent welfare of the people had controlled instead of cheap demagogy, gas consumption would not have got into municipal politics. The Journal has never approved of political action against gas meters, and has never professed to do so. It has and always will reserve the right to discuss economic questions affecting the city's interests outside of politics, and as having nothing to do with politics. As to hurting the ticket, injury cannot come from a discussion of the meter proposition with the readers of this paper. The ways thf narties and tickets are "injured" are hi .lominatlons and appointments, lax and devious methods of administration, failure to enforce the laws and manage all public affairs upon business methods. Republicanism Is strong In Indiana because Republican administration has been along sound lines and legislation toward better thir.gs. Representative "Champ" Clark, of Missouri, has a queer Idea of protecting American labor. He would fight a protective tariff designed to prevent free competition. but ln the ocean carrying trade, where free trade exists, he would protect American sailors by making it impossible for the ship owners of the United States to employ Chinese or half Chinese at lower wages, as do the ships of other nations sailing the Pacific. The main reason now why American ships cannot compete In the ocean-carrying trade Is the higher-priced American labor, the wages paid by American ships being much higher than British, German and other European wages for sailors. Mr. Clark's amendment will draw the American flag from the Pacific because the American ship cannot pay $3 for the same labor that competitors get for $1. It seems that the letter of the secretary of state fully explaining that the State Department had no connection with Mr. Christmas in the Danish negotiations, as the latter alleged, did not satisfy Mr. Richardson, the Democratic House leader. who urged this remarkable Investigation, and so the secretary will appear in person. There would be much more Interest In an Inquiry into Mr. Richardson's copyr'ghting a government book, printing It from government plates and selling the book at a liberal profit. Mr. Richardson's testimony before a committee on this subject would be Intensely interesting. Vultie of Intelligent Voting. Detroit Free Press. There is nothing inherently sacred about dropping a slip of paper into a wooden box. Voting itself is valueless unless there is a definite. Intelligent principle behind it all.

When the citizen fails, through Ignorance or stupidity, or indifference, to perceive a real issue in the contest it can make no difference in the ultimate results whether he goes to the polls or remains at home. He will have contributed nothing but a meaningless slip of paper to the cause of popular sovereignty, and a meaningless slip of paper stuffed into a ballot box is no more potent for progress In a democracy than a meaningless slip of paper stuffed into a garbage box. THE HUMORISTS.

II in Preference. Chicago Po?t. "Iroprlty has ruined rr.any a :nan." "No dcubt: hut if I'm Riven any choice in the matter I'd rather be ruined by prosperity than by adversity. The process is more enjoyable." Different. Philadelphia Prcs. Cholly May babble tells me you said Gunie Gayboy and I would never find any girls to marry us because we are too fastidious. Miss Tepprey There was a slight misunderstanding there. I said you were "two last Idiots." Selfloli 3Inn. Boston Transcript. He Darling, what do you suppose I have done to-day. She I couldn't guess in a hundred years. He I have had my life insured. She That's Just like you. John Mann. All you seem to think of Is yourself. A Might Change. Tit-Hits. Kharpe On his birthday before their marriage she gave him a book entitled "A Perfect Gentleman." Whealton Any change after a year of married lite? Fharpe Yes; on his last birthday she gave him a book entitled "Wild Animals I Have Met." Ready for Anything. Baltimore American. "But why," we ask of the great Inventor, "do you have this huge balloon at tho top of your machine, and the large wheels and steering gear beneath it?" N "liecause." he answers with patient consideration for our Inability to grasp an idea when it juts out before us, "I am not sure whether thi3 will be an airship or an automoolle." The Spring; Editor. Youth's Companion. Tho youthful author pocketed his rejected verses, but he could not swallow the editor's criticism. "Sir," said he, not without dignity, "a poet is born, not made." "Young man," returned the editor blandly, "It, won't help your case to try to shift the blame ua to your parents!" As James Russell Lowell said: "There's a deal of solid kicking la the meekest looking mule." ALLIED PEOPLE'S PARTY. Ita Pint form a Hid for Extremist mid the Discontented. Memphis Commercial Appeal. The People's party has met in Louisville and adjourned. In the ruck there were some new entries, but the leaders were the same old reformers that have been party-building for many years and of whom we have heard so much. The reformers are progressive at least. They change the name of their party with the same regularity that a woman changes her Easter bonnet and in lieu of all other parties we have now before us the Allied People's party. The platform is practically the same as appeared at Ocala and Omaha, and contains some features which appeared in the Democratic platforms adopted at Chicago and Kansas City. It is a bid for all the discontented, all the extremists, all the Socialists and all those who are disturbed in mind and wearied in spirit. That there are many sincere men who believe that they will find in this new departure the solution of all the mysteries and perplexities of life cannot be denied. There i.re good men in all movements and there are selfish men in all movements, and the selfish men take the lead. In the great political parties the leaders seek public honor and public office with the attendant emoluments. With these new departures which must be looked upon as mere side shows, the leaders do not look for office, but they seek to give themselves political consequence and a market value which will make them sought by the leaders of other parties. If they can show to the campaign managers of the dominant parties that they have a considerable force behind them and that they are in a position to "deliver the goods," not only will they be exploited and sent out campaigning or given important positions In campaign headquarters, but they will be allowed liberal remuneration and money to spend in the cause, which they take good care not to spend. Under existing conditions no sane man who reflects will, for a moment, believe that any third party composed of odds and ends and rebellious fragments, and representing nothing but murmurings of discontent and the vagaries of politics, can hope to win a national campaign or elect any of its candidates to office. National campaigns are fought out in the open, on the broad arena, and those who retire to the cave of Adullam cannot hope to inspire confidence or attract many followers. Anything that can be accomplished by these would-be reformers is possible of accomplishment only through the ixmocratlc party, which, while not going to any radical extremities, seeks to benefit the masses generally, and this Is the paramount principle of the new organization. The Democratic party is the real party of reform, and all side Issues, such as the one we see organized in Louisville, means only a splintering off from the Democratic mass. While granting the rank and lile of those who assembled at Douisvllle the best of Intentions and all sincerity, their wisdom must be questioned in attempting to do the impossible with a handful of members when by uniting with the Democratic party they can render the accomplishment of much easily possible. POSTAGE STAMP POSSIBILITIES. Novel SncKonllon of Putting Out the Portrait of n. Woman. Baltimore Sun. The proposition before the Postofllce Department to further perpetuate the memory of some woman distinguished in American history is, to say the least, novel. But aside from the bare suggestion of thus honoring some one now gathered to her fathers a wide field is opened to give these postage stickers an educational and a news value. It is true Americans of the twentieth cen tury are prone to forget the women of more than a century ago who played a conspicuous part in American history, either through their own exertions or through sheer force of official standing. Hence, to give Martha Washington, or Betsy Ross, or other womf n w ho did their share in one wav or another to help make this great Republic po?.ible, a place on the postage stamp is a poetic and a patriotic suggestion. But. as has beit stated, a vast Held of an educational inaracter also is opened to the Postollire Department. For example, a steel-plate likeness of Mary Ellen Lease on a stamp of the denomination of 5 cents would be appropriate to carry legal documents through the mail. Another carrying an engraving of Miss Susan Ii. Anthony would be found in demand when the biennial avalanche of petitions in favor of woman suffrage tumbles In in Congress. The sale of these latter probably would be more or less sporadic, but even such a demand might s trike a fair average with the sale of other "woman-head" stamps in the course of a few yars. Then, taking up the news value of such stamps, there ought to be little trouble in flashing a portrait of the woman of the hour before the letter reader. Barring those conspicuous in court proceedings there Is a sufficient number of these individuals to provide a new issue of stamps each month, if not ofttner. Besides, the Postoffice Department might be made the oflic'al referee when newspaper artists disagree. In the event of a scarcity of subjects this idea is susceptible of further development. A well-engraved picture of the latest creation of the Paris modiste, or of the very newest hat worn by Miss Alice Roosevelt, doubtless would command an immediate and htavy sale. Altogether, the proposition before the Postoftlce Department opens almost Illimitable possibilities and might make letter writing even more oopular.

IMMIGRATION INCREASING.

Prosperous Times the Cause- of the Incoming Tide. Milwaukee Sentinel. During the prosperous years preceding the panic of '03 there was much comment among writers and public speakers upon the ability of the United States to receive and care for the constant stream of immigrants from foreign shores. These people came to work ami they found employment. The industries of the country could not only employ the wage-earners who were alreadjhere, but they were prepared to absorb those who came from abroad. It was during the campaign of 1SS that Benjamin Harrison, then the Republican candidate for the presidency, "struck twelve" by saying that the doors of Castle Garden swing inward to admit the workmen of all nations, but never outward for the American workman driven from his native land. Now that the prosperous conditions of that time have been restored, the tide of immigration has once more set this way. Imimgration at the port of New York has been increasing rapidly. The number of arrivals in the fourth quarter of U1 was as compared with 71,13- one year ago and So.-oö in the preceding quarter of limi. The increase was " per cent, over the fourth quarter of and 12 per cent, over the third quarter of IIa'I. The people from southern Italy retained the lead by contributing 26 per cent, of the immigration, the Hebrews following with 11 per cent., the Germans with 10 per cent, and the Poles with 9 per cent.. whose proportional increase since 1: was larger than that of any other nationality. It should be remembered that In absorbing these newcomers to our shores the industries of the United States are accomplishing a work that Is not required of those of any other nation on earth. None of the immigrants is burdened with large sums of ready money when he arrives. All have enough to bring them to this country, and some have suflicient funds to keep them for a time after their arrival while they are looking for employment or an opportunity to engage In business. But, in any event, they come here to make a living. That they do not fail of their object is a matter of common knowledge. The governmental policy that banished the conditions existing in lSln and brought about the industrial and commercial activity of the present is entitled to a respectful examination. The 3.tM),0yj laborers who were looking in vain for work during Mr. Cleveland's last term in the White House are all employed now. Then there was no "tide of immigration" worth considering, for we could not care for our own people. Now we are in a position to give work to all at living wages, and those who come from abroad And an opening in the New World. Y hile Germany, England, France and Italy are forced to see their subjects emigrate either to the colonies or to the United States because they cannot feed them at home, the Republican policy of protection to American industries has made it possible to develop the resources of this country and give work to all who are willing to work, and all who come here to find work. When free trade was threatened in 1&03 we lost this power. When protection was assured in 1M7 it was restored. The workingman who is asked to listen to the arguments of the tariff reformers should remember these facts and give them their due weight they are not difficult to understand. OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECONOMY. Government II n renn Consolidation to Prevent Duplication of Work. Washington Letter in New York Post. To prevent the duplication of work by various bureaus in Washington has become a serious study in connection with the creation of a new department of commerce. While it was originally planned to consolidate only those bureaus which might probably be put Into this new department, advantage has been taken of the occasion to plan a reclassification of all the scientific bureaus, as already related in those dispatches. It has been proposed to appoint a commission to study reclassification during the remainder of the fiscal year, and for Congress to give the President authority to act when he shall become sure what he wants to do. The task is a most difficult and delicate one. There are to-day three forestry bureaus. In the Land Office of the Interior Department there is a bureau having charge of the forest reserves, which were set off from the public domain about ten years ago. In the Geological Survey there is a bureau of timber classification work, and In the Agricultural Department an important bureau of general forestry. The work of these three necessarily overlaps very much, and Is accordingly a source of wasteful loss. Irrigation work similarly overlaps. The Weather Bureau has a system of water measurements for the purpose of studying Hoods and making predictions concerning them. The Geological Survey. In its hydrographic division, does this work on a very large scale, while the Agircultural Department, in its division of irrigation inquiry, again studies the water question. The Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Geological Survey necessarily overlap in many of their important measurements. It is obvious that the situation is very complex. Wherever there is a duplication each department is studying the question for a particular purpose; were one bureau to make the study alone, it would have to keep in mind the various aspects of inquiry which the different departments desired; and since a bureau could be in only one department, it might often be doing work wholly for another. But the greater trouble Is in the personal element. Each bureau chief, in case there Is to be a consolidation, desires to head the new and larger establishment, or else he Is opposed to any change. There is considerable variety in the estimates of various undertakings arising from personal considerations, and, of course, all these difficulties reflect themselves in Congress. It will be necessary to give the 1'resident his discretionary authority before a commission has undertaken its work, rather than after it has reported, for no report that it might make could fail to provoke much antagonism. It will be a far simpler matter to prevent the unnecessary duplication of property, such as lish commission boats and geodetic survey boats, and the stock and vehicles of the various bureaus doing similar work. The consolidation of statistical machinery, which is probably the most important of all. has been already alluded to in these dispatches. Tho prospect which a new department of commerce , affords of preventing the waste under this head Is really the greatest argument in its behalf. THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER. Ilia Tint I cm Itleiillr Dfflnfd by n MUsnnri Court. Macon (Mo.) Letter in St. Louis Republic. An engineer on duty has no right to administer a well-merited rebuke to fool hardy boys who happen to be standing dangerously close to the train. This reas oning is approved by the Supremo Court of Missouri in the action of Livingston vs. the Wabash Railroad, a Macon county case. the opinion having reached here to-day The reason for the drastic rule is that harm might occur if an engineer, even for an instant, fcuffered his eyes to be diverted from straight ahead. In this case Myrtle Livingston, a three and-a-hulf-year-old girl, was run over and killed by a northbound train at defendant's station here March 2. 1S. As Engineer William Ross, one of the oldest ami b.-t on the road, was pulling his train into the yards he was compelled to sound the danger whistle to warn some young men from the track. The nol.e frightened tho girl, who ran diagonally across the platform and Jumped on the rails a few feet ahead of the train. As the engineer approached the boys held to their dangerous position, and he was compelled to put his air In the "emergency." The speed was checked from twenty to six miles an hour. The young men left the rails just as the locomotive reached them, and as the engineer passed he turned his head toward them and said: "It's a wonder you fellows wouldn't get off the track!" At almost the same instant the little girl jumped on the track, and her head was severed from the body. The engineer never saw her at any tlr. but when told of the accident, got down and removed the little corpse from the rails and carried it over to the mother. The Jury were Instructed that If at the time he discovered the girl on the track, or could have discovered her on the track, the engineer could not have stopped the train, they must f.nd for the defendant. The jury io found and plaintiff, the girl's fatlur, appealed. The Supreme Court, In reversing the case, says it was a question for the jury to say whether the engineer could not have

stopped hi3 train if. instead of yielding to the impulse to rebuke the boys on the track, he had kept his eyes ahead and seen the little girl betöre she entered the track. It is held that no provocative words or actions are sufficient to justify an engineer in for an instant neglecting his eternal duty to look ahead while in motion, although the court admits that human nature was sorely tried by the youngsters, whose thoughtless action may have been responsible for the Child s death. WARSHIP'S PEACEFUL END.

Old Frigate Macedonian, Cnptnred by Derntur,1 In n Vlllatce Hotel. New York Herald. New Y'ork city's absorption of its suburbs has been fatal to the race of hardshell, brlne-incrustc-d dam-disgcrs that has for CoO years or more peopled the little dot of sand in Long Island sound, one mile long and half as wide, known as City Island, which has recently been swallowed up by the great metropolis. One by one the hunters of the bivalve are being laid away in the little cemetery overlooking the quiet waters of the sound. Those who have not yet succumbed to the hand of time are gradually drifting away, seeking other fields, or are accenting the gold of asso ciated capitalists who have within a month past seK-cted the island as a fruitful neia for speculation, or see in it golden return for investment. Only a few steps from the sandy shore where the clam digger pursues his vocation, and In the loneliest part of the island. stands the Macedonian Hotel. When the wreck of the famous British frigate and prison ship Macedonian was bleaching her hulk on the short-s of Hart's Island, directly across the water from City island, a native conceived the Idea of putting the solid and age-protected timbers to good use. With boats and asüij-tants he made many trips to the old hulk, gathering the timbers and towing them to the beach in front of u piece of property he owned close beside the shore. From the wreckage he erected what has ever since been known as the Macedonian Hotel, and on its side are inscribed these words, which tell the history of the famous old'house: : I i : This house is the remains of the : : Kngllsh frigate Macedonian, cap- : : tu red on Sunday, Oct. 25, 1S12. by : : the United States frigate United : : States, commanded by Captain : : Stephen Decatur, U. S. N. : : This action was fought in lati- : : tude 24 degrees north, longitude 29 : : degrees SO minutes west. That is : : about Goo miles northwest of the : : Cape de Verde Islands, off the west : : coast of Africa, and towed to Cow : : bay in 1S51. : The main room, tiscd as a bar. on the first floor. Is framed of the heaviest timbers from the old ship. To many of them are still fastened the old hooks to which the sailors of the British fighting ship hung their hammocks. An old cupboard from the galley of the ship serves as a bar, and the cabin used by the petty officers Is used as the place wherein mine host of the Macedonian keeps his stock of ripe old liquor for dispensation among his customers and the clam diggers who work along the beach in his neighborhood. On the second lloor is a "music room" that Is none other than the mala cabin of the Macedonia. In removing the lumber from the ship those who did the work took pains to preserve each piece and place it in its proper place in the Macedonian Hotel The old lS.24-inch iron-barred windows on the man-of-war were carefully preserved, and these now let in the light to the music room of this unique hotel. Timbers of Britain's vanquished warship also form part of the northerly fence line of the quaint village burying ground. MUNICIPAL BATHS. Cltlex of the Country That Have All-the-Vear Bathhonses. Engineering News. Within the past few years a number of municipalities in this country have established all-the-year-round municipal bathhouses, while others have added to the number of open bathing or swimming places, which, for some years past, have been maintained during the summer months. Information collected for our forthcoming "Municipal Year Book" shows that thirty-six cities and towns with 3.0 population and upward, by the United States census of 11)00, now have cither all-the-year or summer public baths. These places are as follows: Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Dedham, Holyoke, Newburyport, Quiney, Springfield, Watertown, Worcester, Mass.; Providence. R. I.; Hartford, Conn.; Albany. Buffalo. New Y'ork. Rochester, Syracuse, Troy, Utica, X. Y.; Hoboken, Newark. N. J.; Homestead. Philadelphia, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Baltimore. Md.; Greenwood, S. C. ; Newnan, Savannah, Ga.; Cleveland. O.; Muskegon. Mich.; Chicago, 111.; Milwaukee. Wis.; Des Moines, la.; Crookston. St. Paul, Minn.; San Jose, Cal. The thirty-six places in question are distributed over sixteen States, but Massachusetts has ten and New Y'ork seven of these cities and towns. Most of the other States are represented by one municipality only. Outside of the States of Massachusetts and New York most of the public baths are open only in the summer, and that is true of some of the places In Massachusetts. It is known that Newark, Chi cago and St. Paul have all-the-year bathhouses. In 1803 the Legislature of New Y'ork passed an act which permits any munici palities of that State to establish all-the year baths, and makes it compulsory for cities of 50.000 inhabitants and over to do so. Municipal baths, often combined with public wash-houses or laundries, are be coming more and more common in Eng land, and the signs of the times are that they will rapidly gain popular favor In this country. The laundry feature will. naturally, gain ground much more slowly than the baths. Thus far it has not been introduced in the United States further than to make provision for washing the personal clothing of the bathers. Drying closets are also provided, so an unfortunate man with no change of clothing may be insured of clean underclothes to put on after his bath. Sympathy for Colorado. Milwaukee Free Press. The State of Colorado Is in position to be commiserated because of her senators. Her man Patterson worked himself into a state of mind on Thursday over the violation of the rules of war by the little Kansas general, Funston, in his capture of Aguinaldo He says Funston. in entering Aguinaldo's camp as he did. was Haide to death as a fpy. Funston understood the chances he was taking. A soldier is liable to death any minute. Funston went after Aguinaldo and got him. and the people of the United States are getting pretty sick and tired of the kind of cackle they are treated to by men of the F'atterson stamp. Why doesn't Patterson introduce a resolution In the Senate to investigate Funston ' for having captured Aguinaldo at all? That would be an effective way to settle the question whether he did right. The Hoot Army VII 1 1. Army and Navy Journal. As the result of careful Investigation we are able to announce that at the present time the Senate committee on military affairs Is opposed to the bill as it was introduced, and. unless it is pressed by the secretary of war. the chances are that it v. ill never be reported by the committee. Senator Hawley. chairman of the committee, is particularly opposed to the measure and does not hesitate to say so. According to our information, obtained from the War Department, it I' still the secretary's intention to aiHocate the bill, and strenuous measures will be taken to overcome the Impression left upon the committee by the statements of General Miles. Feet In Africa. New York Press. Do you know why the Boers manage so much better in South Africa than the British? Because they have good feet. I wonder that our old foot passenger. MaJ. Edward Payson Weston, has not gone to the front for England, his native land. He. might have put such feet on the Britishers as would have enabled them to keep sume sort of pace with their doughty foes, it was Theodore Winthrop. I think, who declared that the first requisite of a good soldier i3 feet. Of whit use are all other good qualities if a oldler lacks the ability to get to the spot where he is wanted? Give Kitchener men with feet and there will boon be an end of the war.

Unglnnd at La) Ha Rernsnlied Thla Important Kaet. London News. Ought we to say "the United States is" or "the United States are?" Our regard for grammar pulls us in one direction; our desire to maintain the comity of nations inclines us to the other side. It 1 n us for a few of us to be pedantic in th face of the officially expressed opinion and determination of the citilens of the great Republic. A committee of the House cf Representatives at Washington has recently decided in favor of the singular number, and for the future we shall have the highest and most unimpeachable authority for saying "the rnited States It will not sound pretty, but then Americanism occasionally do to our effete and feudalized ears seem a little harsh. And the Imposition of our Ideas upon our American cousins is a policy which was abandoned la the year 17S2. If It had been attempted to write "is" instead of "are ' in the draft of tho Constitu

tion of the United States rather more than a hundred years ago that remarkable and venerable instrument might never have been enacted at all. A controversy of the most embittered kind raced in the early days of American liberty' round that very question. The Republicans of that time (whose direct political descendants are. curiously enough, the Democrats of to-day) carefully maintained the Idea of a loose union of sovereign States; in their hatred of centralisation they never allowed t ha idea of a nation to be uppermost, and 't was only a minority of their opponents, the Federalists, who would have thought of employing the word "is." The civil war, coming after sixty years of national development, may be said to have settled the question against the framers of the Consti tution. It is true that in that document there still appears one phrase, the only one, which perpetuates the ancient Republican idea: "Treason against the United States shall consist in levying war against them. or in adhering to their enemies. But at the present time. If the plural verb is used, it is only used in speaking of the States as a group of federated communities and not as a Nation. A ruling to this effect has. we Indieve. been made In the Supreme Court. The whole controversy is a charac teristic product of the only thoroughly artificial policy in the world. All other countries have plain and simple names "whereof the memory of a man runneth not to the contrary," most of them without any certain origin at all. to say nothing of etymology, traceable through several great languages. But the United States "is" unique in most ways a fact which the world Is beginning to recognize. REVOLTERS PROMOTED. cvr and Effective Movement In JVew Y'ork Police Control. Brooklyn Eagle. Commissioner Fartrldge has carried out the old Roosevelt theory in promoting' flv of the patrolmen who made the excise arrests on Sunday to be "wardmen," or detectives In plain clothes. The example will not be lost In the other station house and It reveals the first weapon to the commissioner's hand if he chooses to wake up and push the fight against Deverylsm In the force. What would have happened to any patrolman who, five months ago, had dared to arrest any man or woman who was paying protection money is easy to guess. In fact. It did happen so often to men who made such arrests ignorant! that the whole force was paralj-xed. No patrolman dared to arrest any man unless he knew how good the offender's . "pull" was. Commissioner Partridge's action means that pulls which used to be strong enough do not hold and it is a lesson that the force needs if it is ever to be. made decent. But patrolmen who expect to get promotion by making arrests would be wise to look out for other offenders than those Against the excise law. If the present Sunday closing spasm, which has develop! from the revolt in West Thirty-seventh street, should become permanent it would be a boomerang for the administration, and the disposition to promote men who brought it about would cool down. There are plenty of more serious Infringements against the law, and against good government as well, than selling beer on Sunday. Suppose ambitious patrolmen devote themselves to Arresting keepers of resorts whose existence is a violation of the law not only on Sundays but on week days? Suppose they should catch a few burglars and sneak thieves? Those are the things which the people as well as the commissioner would applaud. Promotions secured by promoting a dry Sunday are built on a bandy foundation. A NAVAL SCHOOL. Story of Mr. Cramp's Interview vrlth. the Cxar. Philadelphia Press. To a few friends at luncheon during the visit of Prince Henry to Philadelphia Chas. H. Cramp told about his visit to Alexander of Russia, father of the present Czar, when he got his contract for the first Russian battleship built at the Cramp yards. He was summoned to meet the Czar at a conference of the most celebrated naval experts In Europe. Mr. Cramp, unaccustomed to the ways of kings and courts, had asked a friend for a hint or two on deportment. "It all depends," was the reply, "on the manner in which the Crar receives you. Anything I tell you might be Jut the reverse of what you should do under the circumstances. Act Just as you would in the house of any American gentleman and you will not go far wrong." When Mr. Cramp entered the audience room the Czar wa standing rurrounded by a group of naval dignitaries. He received tfe American shipbuilder cordially and motioned him to a seat. If Mr. Cramp had been a European he would have remained standing while the Czar stood. Being an American, he sat down. In a few moments Alexander sat down beside him. After a brief talk the Czar suddenly asked: "Mr. Cramp, in what school of naval architecture were you educated?" The American shipbuilder was fo much startled by the question. that he arose. The Czar arose also, his great form towering over diminutive Mr. Cramp. Placing his hand on his chest the shipbuilder replied; "Your Hichness, I was educated In my father's shipyard. Me was educated 1n his father's shipyard. We founded a school of naval architecture." There was profound tdlence amid the group of naval dignitaries. Grasping Mr. Cramp's hand the Czar said: "Mr. Cramp, you were educated in the school that I am glad to have build ehlpa for my navy." One of Dnllhrr'i Storlea. New York Times. Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, tells this story on himself, which is expected to illustrate the difficulty a man of small means find in getting along at the national capital. As a representative he found little trouble, but when he became senator lie found h had a much more pretentious title to support. He was Invited to social functions, where he found the requirements of etiquette quite severe. "On one occasion." says Senator Dolüvrr, "I was invited to attend a social function given by a high official. I went and had a mo-t delightful time, concluding tht Washington social life was not a thing to be In the least afraid of. This conclusion was reached, by the way. Just as I was taking leave of the host. "A liveried servant approached me and psked if my carritse was waiting, and whether it was a single or double conveyance. Out of consideration for a lean porketbook I had ordered a cab rather than a two-horse carriage. As I was taking l'-ave of a. few of my friends outside the door I had the pleasure cf hearing the servant shouting to the carriage drlers: " S. nator Dolliver' s one-hos hack! Senator Dolliver' one-hoss hack!' "The man then came to me. and. with hii head high in the air. announced: 'Your hack'a waltln. Senator Dolliver." " Violent Supposition. Boston Globe. The children of F. Marion Crawford are legally the Marion-Crawford children now. If u Marlon-Crawford girl hhould ever marry a Thompson-Seton boy. und the ftrt arrival should te named after Hobsrt Chatfield Chattleld-Taylor. what a lovely vliting card he would have when he grew ul